GUELPH ALUMNUS Alumni Weekend 84

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UNI VERSIT Y O F GUELPH

GUELPH ALUMNUS S ummer 1984 Vol 17 No3

UNIVERS ITY OHUElPtl AlUMNI SSOC IATION

HO NO RARY PRESIDENT- Dr Bun Mallhcws OAC n

PR ES IDENT Glenn Powe ll OAC 62

PAST PRESID ENT Barry Sta hlbaum C PS 74

SEN IOR VICE-PRES IDE ltT Ross Parry CSS SO

SECRETA R Y linda McKcnLic-Cordick Arts 8 1

ASSOCIATES ECR ETARY RoernaryCla rk Mac 59

T REAS URER James J Elmslie

V ICE-PRESID E TS Sue (Beatty) DaVidson CS5 84 Dr Ron Downey OVC 6 1 Jean (Fuller) Humc Mac 64 Brllcc Richa rd so n CPS S2 Gary (Kozak ) Selby Arts 79 Jan Watson CBS 75

DIRECTORS Dave Barrie OAC 5 30 Rob Ba rron CSS 78 LO rTI e (Rolston) Cosens CBS 79 Pete r Fane C PS PhD 74 Ma rie (HoMson) Hunt gtlac 59 Ginty Jocius OAC 70 Bill Macdonald Art s ~ 78 Rob M ilne CBS ~I Dr Harold Reed OVC 55 Rosemary (Schmidt) Smith FACS 79 Jim Thomson C PS 79 Dr Don Wil so n OVC 66

EX-OFFICIO DIRECTORS John Babcock O AC 54 Director Ocpart m ent of Alu mni Affairs and Ocve lopment John Currie CSS 70 P r esiden t ollege of Social Science Alumni Asociation Connl c (Hauka) JaSinskas H K 76 President Human Kinetics Alumni Association Ginty Jocius O AC 70 President OAC Alumni Association John King President Central Student Association Gail Murray FACS 78 President MlIc-f ACS Alumni Association Dr Wendy Parker OVC 71 President OVC Alumni Association Brian Rennie Presiden t G raduate St udents Assoc iation Margo Shoemaker Arts 79 President College of Arts Alumni Assoc iation Lucas Van Vee n CPS 74 President CPS Alumni Association Will Walker HAFA ~O President Hotel and Food Adminis tration Alumni Association Chris Wren CBS Ph D 83 President College of Biological Science Alumni Association

The Cuelph Alumus is published by the Departmen t of Alumni Affairs and Development In co -operatIon WIth [nformation Services Uni versity of Guelph

E DITOR Derek J Wing Publicat ion s Manager Depanme nt of Alumni Affairs and Developmenl

The EdJlon a l Co mmi ttee IS compri sed o f the Ed itOr Derek Wing Direc to r Jo hn Babcock OAC 54 Rose mary Clark Mac 59 Ass istant Direc to r Alumni Programs a ll With the Depa rtme nt o f Alumni Affairs and Devel o pment and Eric h Banh Art Director Donald Jose OAr 49 Press -Publici ty and DirectOr Douglas Waterslo n all with Info rma tion Se rvices

The Edit o ri a l AdVi so ry Boa ru o f the Universi ty o f Gue lph Alumni ASSOC ia ti o n is co mprISed of Ross Parry CSS 80 cha irman Dr O

Bnan Allen C PS 72 Dr A llan Austi n Dr Donald Barnum OVC 41 Richard MOCCia CBS 76 Janice (Robenson ) Partlow Ans 70 Oli ve (T hompson) Tho mpson Mac 35 Sa ndra Webster CSS 75 Ex -o ffic io John Aabcock OAC 54 Barry Stahlbaum CPS 74

Undeli vered copies should be returned 10 the Depart ment of Al umni Affair s and Development University of Guelph Guelph Ontario N IG2WI

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Building HenalDed To Honour U of Gs First President

Dr John Douglas MacLachlan

O ne of the o ldes t buildings on campus the Agricu Itural Economi cs and ExtenSion EducatIOn Buddtng on Stadium Walk was renamed

Ih e J D MacLac hl an Building when a plaque was unveiled during Alumni Weekend 84

Cecil Franklin chairman of the Board of Go ve rnors said in making Ihe announcement earlier Ihis year The Board wholeheartedly cndorsed thi s proposal to recognize thc invaluable leadership provided by ou r founding president and vice-chancellor

Dr Maclachlan who came to Guclph in 1939 was president of the University from its founding in 1964 until 1967 when he retired and beshyca me an education consultant with thc government of Jamaica He was president of the OAC from 1950 to 1962 whcn he was appointed pres ishydent of the Federated Colleges of the Ontario Department of Agri cullure th e predecessor of the University Dr MacLachlan joined the faculty of th e OAC in 1939 as assistant professor of Botany becoming associate professor in 1944 and professor in 1946 and head of the Department in 1948

Unlil 1961 the building named in Dr MacLac hl ans hono ur wa s Ih e Biology Building in which the Departme nt of Botany was localcd It was renamed Agricultural Economi cs and Extension Education when the curshyrenl Biology Building was co nstru cted

A clear and inspirin g teacher Dr Mac l achlan was an equa lly 7ea lshyous and meticulous researcher stud ying physiological diseases of crop plants The soundness of plans wh ich he drafted is evidenced by the rapid growth hi gh academic standin g and exce ll en t r~puta ti o n of Ihe University said President Burt Matt hews OAC 47 in prese nting the proposal to the Boa rd

Born in Burritt s Rapids Ontario In 1906 Dr MacLac hl an comshypleted high schoo l in Kempt ville and normal sc hoo l in O ttawa For -three yea rs he taught in Ottawa and Carp whil e tak in g ex tramural courses at Queen s University from which he graduated in 193 I with an Honours BA

He did postgraduate research spec iali zing in planl pathology at [ larshyva rd Uni versity and rece ived an M A in 1934 and a Ph D in 1935 l3e shyfore joi ning the OAC in 1939 he worked in Jama ica and at Clemso n College South Carolina USA 0

A Message From

Glenn PoweU OAC 62 New UGAA President Hcy do you remember the night

we It is perhaps to be exshy

pected that alumni gatherings or meetings find most of the group recalling the days (or nights)

spent as undcrgraduates The period on camshypus was an experience of learning sharing and

living that we would neither trade nor sell for

all the tea in China Oh sure there were some disappointments and some things best left forgotten But for most of us the days

spent on campus at Guelph were days of good timcs and now good memories

Thc University of Guelph Alumni Asshysociation is I believe the link between the

good old days the present and the future A strong alumni association will ensure those

precious links will not be broken and the strength of the Association will depend on the support it receives from alumni

Thc UGAA is proud of the support it has received from alumni across the country and indeed around the world Today and in the

future we need that support Few if any institutions of higher learnshy

ing can match the achievements of the U nivershysity of Guelph It is a campus with unique and wcll-recognized qualities As alumni we are part of a community that has a track record of

which we can be justly proud Now we must

usc this strong foundation to look to the future Through this publication the Guelph

Alumnus we endeavour to keep you abreast of activities both on and off campus that are of

particular interest to alumni We trust you will find these activities of interest and benefit but to make the programs successful we need your participation We need to know what you as

alumni want your Association to be doing

Comments suggestions yes even critishycisms are welcome Please make your opinshy

ions known I f we are to maintain a vibrant Association it will be because of the members

who actively participate But participation goes beyond the orshy

ganized activities of the Association We alumni can playa vital role as the eyes and cars of the University of Guelph We can

with both business contacts and friends be the unofficial public relations arm of the Univershysity

As alumni there is a great opportunity to make sure that students planning a university

education are aware of what our University has to offer And in the process of making others aware of the University of Guelph we will no

doubt receive information in return that will be

of assistance to those on campus who are involved in establishing future directions or new initiatives for the University As alumni

Glenn Powell OAC 62

we can provide the communication link beshy

tween the University and the community however far-reaching that community may

be To complain about the so-called ivory tower is to admit that we have not done our part

Fund-rais ing campaigns have and wi II continue to be an integral part of the UGAA

program Rcsponse in the past has been heartshy

ening Our a lumni have enthusiastically shown a desire to ensure the continued deshy

velopment of the University As we look to the future one can predict the need will continue to grow If we each do a little together we can

do a lot As president of the UGAA for 1983-84

I would like to acknowledge and thank all those who have in the pas t given so much of their time and energy to the development and growth of the Association ) look forward to

the challe nge of maintaining the momentum in

the year ahead Together with our Board of Directors and the support and participation of the alumni body I am confident we will move forward with the spirit that has characterized the University of Guelph Alumni Association

since its formation We have I believe an obligation as

alumni to maintain and enhance the status of

our Alma Mater Future generations will judge

us by our actions and deeds Let us not disapshypoint them

Glenn Powell O AC62 President Univers ity of G uelph Alumni Association 0

From the Immediate Past President

At Alumni Weekend 84 my term of office as president of the University of

Guelph Alumni Association ended ) would like to reminisce if I may for a few moments

The Associations position of Honorary President has been filled by three participants

during the past year Professor Donald Forster commenced the year and we were all saddened

by his sudden death Dr Howard Clark as acting president then joined us and his eagerness to get involved with the Association was most appreciated

At the March meeting of our Board of

Directors Dr Burt Matthews OAC 47 attended and spoke on many matters of

interest We must all be proud to have one of our own (i e graduate of Guelph) as our new

president Welcome Dr Matthews from all Guelph alumni

Although attendance in general has

been somewhat down at most of our special

events during the course of the past year the quality of the programs has not suffered

Everything from the wine symposium to the winter carnival to the leadership conference continue to be of the highest cal ibre The Special Events Committee deserves many thanks for a job well done

Our financial position remains good thanks in part to the new Finance Subshy

committee On their behalf I would like to highlight the efforts of Jim Elmslie assistant

director for development Department of

Alumni Affairs and Development for keeping such a watchful eye on our finances

To everyone who has participated in the many and varied committees that exi st within

the structure of the University of Guelph

Alumni Association I say Thank You Without you your ideas your energy your

time your consideration and your support the Association would amount to very little As president I appreciate your support specifically for the previous year and I know that it will continue to grow well into

the future

To my predecessor Jane (Yolliek)

Webster FACS 75 I can only say how much I appreciated her honesty and enthusiasm during

the last 12 months To my successor G lenn Powell OAC 62 [ have every confidence that under his leadership the next year will be productive for the Association

[n closing I would really like to thank

John Babcock O AC 54 director and Rosemary Clark Mac 59 assistant director

alumni program s and the entire staff of the -Department of Alumni Affairs and Developshyment for the continuous support and tireless

efforts that they put into this Association All too often we fail to recognize their significant contribution to the viability of this Association

Barry Stahlbaum CPS 74 Immediate Past President

University of G uelph Alumn i Association 0

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SkiDs and knowledge Are a Form of Capital bull bull

Its Growth May Well Be the Most Distinctive Fe ature of the Economic System

Published in Briefing Notes a publica lion of Ihe Council ofOntario Universities (COU) the following brief was submirted to the Treasurer ofOntario theHon Larry Grossman asa contribution to the consultative process adopted by the Treasurer in the preparation of a provincial budget

The universi ti es of O ntario have a large

and important miss ion which touches the lives of all Ontario citizens contributing not

only to their economic but also and as signifishycantly to their social and cultural well-being

O ur universities stand as an intellectual

resource from which industry and business can

draw for adaptation of scientific and social theory to the realities o f today s marketplace

from which governments can draw for the development of new soc ial and economic

policy and from which individuals can draw for greater understanding of their place and context in the hi storical evolution of manshy

kind (Once More With Feeling COU 1982)

The richness and uniqueness of the intelshylectual well from which we draw sustenance

results from th e unifying role of universities in

the creation preservation and transmission of knowledge

Notwithstanding this broad mission universities are clearly generators of economic

growth American studies have shown educashytion historically to be a highly significant

factor in the improvement of productivity in

the United States Similar conclusions were

reached by the Economic Council of Canada

relative to the performance of the Canadian

economy

In 1979 Theodore Schultz Nobel Laureate in Economics noted Although it is obvious that people acquire use ful skills and

knowledge it is not obvious that these skills and knowledge are a form of capi tal that this

capital is in substantial part a product of delibshyerate investment that it has grow n in Western

societies at a much faster rate than convenshytional (non-human) capital and that its growth

may well be the most distinctive feat ure of the economic system

In 1982-83 universiti es in Ontario

awarded over 37000 undergraduate degrees

an increase of almost 9200 or 25 per cent during the past ten years Of that increase 17

per cent was attributable to growth in arts and

science output and 83 per cent to output in profess ional and semi-professional fields

Degree Holdels Doubled The number of degree-holders in Onshy

tario s population has more than doubled during the last decade Yet there is no evishy

dence of oversupply University graduates

continue to demonstrate a higher rate of la bour

force participation as well as a significantly lower overall unemployment rate than the general population as a whole

University graduates also con tinue to

demonstrate ability to attract significantly above-average salaries a reflection of the

value employers place on the importance of

such highly qualified manpower to overall

productivity About eight per cent of the student body

at Ontario universities is drawn here from

outside Canada Given the heavy depe ndence of Ontario on international markets the ro le of

our universities in providing an Ontario pershyspective to future business and government Icaders ab road is s ignificant for the economic potenti a l of this province

Univers ities play an important role in the

re trai ning and upgrading of large numbers of profess ional s In 1981-82 total non-credit

continuing ed ucation registration in Ontario universities was over 123000 and 55 per cent of these registrations were in professionallyshy

related programs Ontario universities also contribute to the

development of human capital through the

highly unique role they play in the formation

of research skills among graduate students in

all disc iplines Some 41 pcr cent of the graduate students in C anada were e nroBed in

Ontario universit ies in 1981-82 In engineershying management and computer sc ience these

proportions were 44 per cent 47 pe r cent and 48 per cent respectively

Ontario universities have assigned priorshy

ity to the development of graduate studies and provided the province with a rich and diverse

range of graduate programs many of which

ha ve earned interna tiona l dis tinc tion The Ontario univers ity community attaches great

importance to basic research and scholars hip and to the necessary interrela tio nship between vigorous research programs capacity to train

graduate students and the vitality of the unishyversity as a whole

Since the mid-1970s the proportion of research revenue relative to total revenue at

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Ontario universities ha$ increased by ovcr 50 per cent By 1982-83 total research revenue reached $275 million Within the Canadian

university community Ontario now attracts over 40 per cent of federal research money

60 per cent of foreign government money and 50 per cent of non-government research expenditure

Contract Research Growing A new and important element of the

research enterprise is the ex tent to which

university personnel are becoming involved in

rcscarch applications It is estimated that contract research now comprises some 12 per cent of total research activity Contract reshysearch takes many forms involving the acti vshyity of indiv idua l faculty the activity of groups of faculty and students under the umbrella of

industrial rcseareh offices and with growing frequenc y the creation of research institutes de ve loped to foster the univers ity-indu stry

interface

C anada in general and Ontario in

particular face enormous challenges in confronting the accelerating pace of scientific and technological change O ntario must

undertake a major readjustment of its economic infrastruc tu re if it wants to maintain anything approaching its present standard of liv ing

The uni ersities of this province have an enormous potentia l to contribute to this adaptation Indeed many wo uld argue that without conti nuing strong suppo rt of the

uni versi ty sector Onta rio w ill not make the

adaptation successfully As wai noted recent ly by W alte r Light

chairman and chief executi ve office r o f

orthern Telecom Limited Unless we are prepared to come to grips with our currcn t cri s is in education unle ss we arc pre pared to invest in highe r education at leveb comparabk to or higher than such inves tments being

made by other countries wc run the a im st

certa in risk ot preclud ing any rea l long-t Im productivity improvcment in Canada

T he greatest im pact of technologica l change on future manpower needs w ill be fe ll by those occupy ingjob~ requ iring a m iddle range o f occ upational skill s _ H ighly skilled and lower sk illed personne l wi ll continue in

demand regardless of the direction of change The pacc and direction of change however arc c rit icl lly dependent on O ntario s having

ace ss to a large pool of wel l-trained

uni versity graduates Demand for access to higher education in

O ntario is present ly at record high levels and continues to grow When this continuing high demand is combined with the prospect of additional numbers resulting from the

restructuring of Ontarios secondary school curriculum that is now under way the arlier

forecast of an almost certain decrease in

applications during the remainder of the 80s become unlikely

Ontario must not take an assumptio n of declining enrolments at the university level as

an excuse for reducing government support to

the universi ty sector Instead we should be examining means of enhancing accessibility to ensure that the flow of highly qualified manpower does not decline to dangerous ly

low levels

In particul ar we must protect the richness and vitality of the graduate enterprise in Ontario Ontarios graduate programs and

basic research and scholarly activity must be carefully tended and nourished if Ontario is to operate at the leading edge of a technological change

No other research institutions give as

much return on investment as

universities in the long term No other

institutions produce both knowledge

and people

Research and Scholarship the Key A strong program of basic research and

scho larship in a ll di scipl ines is O ntario s key

into the fo refront of the international in te llec shytual tide It will allow rapid adaptation of inte llectual developments e lsewhere to

O ntarios particular c ircumstances_ It will

ensure a relevance to graduate tra ining in th is province that can be a cOOlplished in no other way nd it wi ll ensure that ind ustrial innovation in O ntario can draw from intelshy

lectua l resources that extend beyond our boundaries

As George Keyworth science advisor to U S Presi dent Reagan recen tly noted No other research institutions give as mueh return on investment as universities in the long term - not federal labs not non-profit organiashytions not industry No other institutions

produce both knowledge and people In a similar vein a report publishcd by

the Roya l Institute for International Affairs in

the United Kingdom has noted that in one particular sector instead of paying subsidies to

pharmaceutical companies in Britain the government there might do better to give the

University Gran ts Commission equivalent resources to help maintain and expand o ur intellectual effort in biotechnology and reshylated studies

The adaptations which have been required of universities in recent years to cope with demand for grad uates of vocationallyshy

oriented programs to undertake a major shift of activity toward the research functi on and to

significantly enhance the university-industry interface have placed an enonnous strain on our unive rsity institutions M uch of this adaptation has been accomplished in an era of severely constrained funding

While questions of ba lance loom large universities recognize that further adaptation is not only desirable but vital if the university community in th is province is to fulfill it s

potential for easing O ntarios transition into the post-industrial age With continuing financial constraint however our capacity for further change is severely limited_

O ntario universities need injections of new operating and capital funds

bull to permit new hiring of young academics

bull to allow replenishment of equipment stocks to s tate ot the art leve ls bull to maintain the very considerable in vestment in physical plant

bull and to permi t adaptation and selecti ve expan ion of ex isting uni vers ity space such that it more effecti vely com plements new

objectives In the 60s Ontario made a major

comm itment to the hi gher education enterpri se in order to allow all those inte llec tually capable of it the righ t of access to univers ity level study A new o mm itment [0 hi gher educat ion is now needed - to ensure that our

intellec tual well remains fu ll and to a llow private and corporate c itizens a like the righ t to d raw from its wate rs 0

Erratum- It has corne to our attenshytion that the article An Agricultural Policy fort he Yukon in the Guelph AlumllUl S ummer issue 1982 Vol 15 No 3 referred to bull the Re shy

sources Planning Branch of the Can adi an Gove rnment It should

have read the Resources Planning Branch 01 the T e rritorial Governshyment T hc draft submi tted did not

indicate the level of government reshysponsible for its preparation No

slight was intended to those res ponsi shy

ble for its prepara tion

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Farming in orthern Ontario - 1903 By Adam Graham OAC 23

I n the spring of 1903 my father a widower since the previous August obtained a halfshy

section of land not far from Lake Nipissing some ten miles west of Sturgeon Falls The north 160 acres was pre-emption land The south half through which the Yeuve River flowed had also been obtained that way but abandoned some years previously

Adam Graham OA C 23

About the Writer

Lasl March 25 Adam Jam es Graham OAC

23 celehrated hiI 90lh hirlhday He was born in Carllon Place nearOffaW(I in 1894

Raisedrom agl 9 on ajimn in Northern Ontario he finish ed public school There hut did nOl ha ve Ih e opporlunily to affend high

school Fullowing graduUlionfrom Ihe OAC he worked on insect reearch al the Vineland

Experimental Farm and in 1925 allended the

College of EduCUlion Toronto lu uhwin 0_

teaching certificate HI ~-tarted teaching al Bean)Sville HS_ 111

1926 married Evelyn Slephenson in 1927 and moved 10 Walford DiSlriCI H S in 1929 where

Jar Ihe next 18 years he taught Botany Zoology Chemislry Agricultural Science and

Music During Ihat lime one ahis star pupils I(I 1I00Ie olher Ihull Unilersirl aGuelph

preli(ent-lO-iJe Bllrt MUllhel lOf er OAC 47 _ Adam joined Ih e sldjfat Leaminglon H S

in 1947 and moved on 10 Blenhen DiSlrict H_S in 1950 His wife died in 1951 and he

married Grace Curbin in 1952 He swrled whal was 10 be his lasl leaching POSI al R H _

King Collegiale Inslilule in Smrburuugh in 1955 and relired in 1961

Adam is currently wriling a book - Tbe Geneology of the Grahams of Lymek i Ins and Kottochside Scotland His family records

dutl back 101647 0

Dad s lot was separated from the neighshybours by the rudiments of a roadway between the river and a main road about two miles north Along this roadway on Dad s side were three loose strands of barbed wire that dangled from wobbly fence posts some of which were nearly horizontal

A few acre s along the ri ver bank had been cleared of trees but not stumped or cultivated The ruins of a small log cabin was the only sign of former occupation I remember seeing my first garter snake while watching grasshopshypers being caught in spiders webs along the base of its walls Such was the place where Dad settled to raise hi s boys to manhood

There were four of us - Jack 19 Bob 14 myself 9 and Bill 7 Jack went north with Dad quite early to help him get started but we three younger ones were left in Carlton Place near Ottawa to fini sh out our school terms at the end of June_

By that time a good start had been made on a frame house about an acre of potatoes was mady to be hilled up and a few acres of mixed oats and peas were a few inches high For a few weeks we were lodged at a neighshybours place_

Jack and Bob accompanied by our little fox terrier slept in the hou se after they came north with the furniture but Bill and I did not move in till some time in August The hou se had one room below and one above which was reached by climbing an almost perpendicular ladder The cracks in its floor admitted enough light from the lamp below to see to go to bed

Baching it presented many problems Jack had often helped Mother prepare mea-Is and could make a cake or bake the simpler food dishes such as rice pudding soda stones

johnny-cake etc but the art Dr bread-making with the old type of slow-rising dry ycast cakes had to be learned from scratch Both Dad and Jack tried their hands at it For some time at first we never knew what to expect but we were always hungry enough to eat anything that even resembled a loaf But after some sticky slithery messes caused by the soft spongy mixture overflowing its container and learning that proper temperatures and plenty of kneading were as important as the ingredients Dad became quite expert at it

Of necessity our bill-of-fare had to be simple Potatoes were the only food crop the farm produced that year We had them boiled or fried twice a day except Sundays Dad often made potato scones in which mashed potatoes were mixed with the flour before rolling They were browned on both sides on top of the stove in cast iron frying pans They were somewhat cloggy but good with a smear of molasses

With no refrigeration salt pork and baeon were the main types of meat used but when cold weather came Dad bought the frozen carcass of a whole pig and sawed a pieee off whenever pork was wanted _We rarel y had apples but Dad bought some oranges and lemons for marmalade that winter Cutting the well-soaked skins into thin slices was the basis of a family party one winter evening

When we were settled in the house and it was made habitable a small temporary stable was started and Dad went back to Carlton Place where his brother-in-law a veterinary surgeon selected a horse and a cow for him It was an eventful day when he drove home with the three-year-old Suffolk Punch gelding pulling a democrat The horse was quiet and well suited for handling by greenhorns The cow was a four-year-old Ayrshire-Shorthorn cross not milking but supposed to have a ealf in January Fortunately for us even an apology for a fence would keep her in

Once we became established in the house we started a major project in which anyone not otherwise engaged took part It was the digging of a root-cellar in the back of a nearby gully

Adam Graham Snr Adam Graham Jnr Bob cousin Jean Bill and Jack in 1908

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I well remember the peculiar subsoil which consisted of alternating layers of fine dark and light clay each about one-quarter of an inch thick and that when dried the layers seemcd to disappear The walls and ceiling were supported by poles cut from the bush and carth was piled up on top to a depth of about two feet The outer end had an air space between two doors lined with fe lt paper for insulation The interior was divided into bins but no special provision was made for ventilashytion and the potatoes sweated badly In the depth of winter long frost crystals were formed Some of the outer potatoes were frozen solidly but in spite of their unnatural sweetish taste and soggy texture we ate them anyway

Potato harvesting was another family affair It was the only harvest because with such poor fencing the oats and peas proved too tempting for neighbouring cattle

At Christmas time Dad took Bill and me back to Carlton Place to be with our relatives but Jack and Bob were left at home to care for the horse cow and dog With so much unexshypected cold weather they had a tough time of it

The house had very little insulation and was distinctly drafty Temperatures must have dipped to _400 Fahrenheit or lower because when a small bottle of mercury was put out it froze into a solid lump There were two stoves but when the fire went out at night ice formed on the water in the kettle and on the top and sides of the water pail It would be nearly an inch thick Jack declared he could not bake bread because the sponge froze during the night Fortunately neighbours asked them over for Christmas dinner and the evening

One cold night in early March the cow gave birth to a calf that was dead when discovshyered Dad called the colostrum milk beestings and made bee sty-cheese of it by mixing in a little salt and cooking it in a boiling water bath When coagulated he cut it into thick slices to be eaten with bread

In the summer of 1904 a trio of weaned Berkshire pigs was bought by mail order Bill and I made pets of them and often herded them

The farmhouse and temporary stable

while they dug for roots or grubs in places where no crop had been planted

Dad was an ardent reader of agricultural bulletins and farm magazines and vowed that no scrub bull would ever be used on his place Since there were no purebreds in the vicinity he ordered an elven-month-old dual-purpose Shorthorn with a registered pedigree Neighshybours thought it rather extravagant when he had only one cow The bull was supposed to be of serviceable age but when it was turned out to pasture it was morc interested in sucking milk from the cow than in anything else

There were only 13 English-speaking families in our Veuve River settlement and when our local school opened in January 1906 only eight pupils attended Classes were held in a room separated from the balance of a private farm dwelling by a thin temporary partition and the family on the other side could hear all that went on Desks were home-made and seats were simple benches without backs

By September of 1907 I was ready to start my entrance class to high school but no teacher had been found even when a new school building with plastered walls had been erected Shortly before that Dad had someshyhow become acquainted with an old man a former seaman from Georgian Bay who had to retire because of paralysis in both arms and legs

When the seaman learned of my desire to continue at school he suggested that Dad let me go to live with him in Sturgeon Falls where he had a couple of rooms so that I could go to school in return for my help I was left to choose and though I had never met the old man I accepted the challenge

Of course a rather bashful counrry boy starting in a strange school in town became the butt of a number of harmless jokes and pranks but when I bested the champion arm-wrestler of the cass three times in succession without much difficulty I won their respect

But my real problems came from another source I soon found that the old man was living off the generosity of anyone whom he could persude to help him In about a month he had to move to a house at the far end of the

town and by that time food supplies were becoming increasingly scarce

Late in October when Dad learned of my predicament he thought I should go home But I was getting along well at school and my teacher the principal had informed me that I had a good chance of winning thc school medal for highest marks on the high school entrance examination next June so I decided to stick with it

Looking baek at the situation now I really dont know how I could possibly have managed had not Jack soon after his return from a survey party in the far north obtained a job in the pulp mil] in town and eome to live with us He brought a bed from home and then I could sleep with my own brother His wage was $150 for a ten-hour day six days a week with day and night shifts alternating weekly Out of this he paid the rent of $7 monthly bought our fuel lamp oil and all our food supplies except potatoes which he brought from home

I finished my term at school wrote the departmental examinations to enter high school won the medal for top marks in the school but was never awarded it My princishypal did his best to obtain it for me A lame excuse given was the shortage of funds but I think the real reason was that I was from out of town and of course the school board did not know how much financial help my brother Jack had given the old man in those eight months

To my great disappointment I never had the opportunity or the privilege to attend high school as a pupil

During my following five years on the farm I became keenly interested in dairy cattle and dairying Our pure-bred Ayrshires won many prizes at Vernor and Sturgeon Falls fall fairs as did my dairy butter By using milk scales and the Babcock test I knew what each cow produced

As some of my classmates of Year 23 may know I enrolled in two dairy shortshycourses at the OAC in the winter and early spring before we all came together in Sepshytember 1919 With no high schooling at all and only four years of public school attenshydance though I did have my entrance certifishycate to high school I felt I was lucky to be admitted

At that time I planned to speciali ze in Dairy Husbandry but by the time I finished my first year of studies I realized that the study of life had greater educational appeal to shyme than what was offered in the Dairy Husshybandry option So in my final years I specialshyized in Biology and ever after became known to classmate Ted Hutt as Chcnopodium album

In all my 35 years of teaching high school pupils chiefly in Agricultural and General Science Botany and Zoology I have never had cause to regret that choice 0

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At the noon picnic The OAC wine tastillg

At Alumni Weekend 84

fllcominll UGAA Presidenl Glenn Puwell OAC 62 and olllgoiflg presshyidelll [Jarr) SlahbaulII CPS 74

Leon Claus OAC 22 at the UGAA (Ifflaa meeting asked Du Y UIi slill grow IlImips at Guelph

Couldnt be thele but

Dear Dr and Mrs Mat thews

Thank-you very much for your invitation to the reception at the Presidents Rcsidence on June 24 during Alumni Weekend As a Ccnshy

tury Club member I feel a little guilty that this is for our be nefit only and not for all the other donors to the Alma Mater Fund I m sure it

will be well attended and it would be an excelshylent time for me to meet some of my classshymates aga in

nfortunately time and distance just don t pe rmit me the privilege of attending I rea lize it wasnt nee ssary for me to write but

I wo uld like to take this opportun ity to welshycome you to the University of Guel ph and exte nd my best wishes fo r your stay at the University

As an Alu mnus of G uelph I am o nly too happy to contribute my small part to the AMF with the knowledge that I m helping someshy

bod y else ac hieve as fi ne an education as I received I am proud or G uelph and its fine reputation as a learning inst itution and to conshytribute to it is the least I can do after the four great ycars it gave me

Thank you again for your invitation Im

sorry I wont make it but Im sure it will be a fi ne afternoon for all there r

Yours trul y

Peter F Walsh OAC 81 C lear Range Farm

Box 97 Marwayne Alberta TOB 2XO

Full marksor this hat Ir ick

Banquel tables lVere g roaning

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Class ofOAC 49 perused their year book OVC open hOLise displayed some AMF equipment purchases

Three old cronies Arboretum tours

Dr HUlVard Clark vice-presidell t acashydemic left ald Presiderzt Burl Malhews OAC 47 dedicated a sugar maple to the memory of the late Presiderzt Donald F Forstllr

The Donald F flirs tt daliwtion plulllt

COMING EVENTS September 6 Fall Semester - classes commence

10middot12 Aggie Wee k

14 OAC golf tournament

16 Alumni Harvest Fair Fill o ut the orde r form below a nd c()m~ to tilt fair

a family day katuring 1880 style acti vitie s at the O ntario

Agric ultural Muse um at M ilto n Ticke t prices include e nshy

trance fee and a chicken barbe cue w ith corn on the cnh

baked potato salad de ssert a nd beve rage

22 HOMECOMING

October 5 Fall Convocation

November 15 Toronto alumni VISA group hosts a Night at the Royal

Alumni Harvest Fair Ticket Order Form (See details above)

NAME College amp Year -Pleac pnnlJ

MAILING ADDRESS (PIC d ~ (Will i )

PI usc r middotg is ter the following fo r the fa ir Adults C hildren

M ai l with your chequc ($9 pe r adult $5 50 per child under 13) payable to the ni versity

of G uelph Alumni Assoc iation to Alumni Harves t Fair Alumn i Office Johnston Ha ll

Unive rsity of G ue lph Guelph Ontar io N I G 2W I not latcrthan Septcmocr4 1984

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Income Tax And the Part-time Farmer

By Professor J Gary Hutchison OAC 58 School of Agricultural Economics and Extension Education OAC University of Guelph

There has been considerable discussion in the media and among part-time farmshy

ers farm organizations and politicians regardshying part-time farming and Revenue Canada What is causing the problems It would appear that Revenue Canada has increased its audit on all taxpayers and particularly those filing as farmers with other sources of income

There have always beenrandom audits and reassessments of part-time farmers The concerns are greater now only because of numbers and the occasional unreasonable assessments as well as the tactics used in some cases The following comments will attempt to clarify part-time farming and the controversy with RevenueCanada

Thousands of taxpayers have moved to the country over the past 15 years or more These country dwellers have many of the same expenses as farmers such as building and fence repair water pumps balky tractors or even feed and veterinary expenses Since a taxpayer is not required to qualify as a farmer before filing as a farmer many began deductshying farm losses against other income

Farming is the only business allowed to file on the cash method of accounting This means expenses of livestock and crops are deductible but the inventory build-up is not taxable until sold All other businesses would have similar expenses but the inventory buildshyup would be subject to tax Cash accounting allows expansion to take place creating cash losses even though the farm may be profitable using accrual accounting The tax referrals created are the equivalent of an interest-free loan

False Impressions

Revenue Canada has been assessing the taxpayer based on information submitted not whether or not a legitimate farm was being operated Such assessment and refunds often have continued for several years giving taxshypayers a false impression of their farming activities and tax position In some cases brought to my attention at the University of Guelph Revenue Canada appears to have been over-zealous and unfair However in most cases that government department is perfectly within the law in disallowing some losses

entirely and reducing others There are basically three classes of taxshy

payers filing as farmers the hobbyist although many do not claim to be such those with a reasonable expectation of profit but preshyoccupied with other employment and full shytime farmers with or without off-farm income

The first group constitute a wide range of country dwellers Some may have two riding horses and even harvest crops for their liveshystock According to the tax regulations such taxpayers have no reasonable expectation of profit and none of the costs are deductible against other sources of income

Others file as farmers because they feel they are really farming The farm work-load costs and frustrations are considered sufficient to qualify them as farmers They are the taxshypayers with 15 beef cows or 40 ewes two mediocre race horses or 40 acres of hay writshying off operating expenses and depreciation of $10000 a year plus $10000 mortgage intershyest on an operation with a maximum cash and

or accrued income of $7500 per year Again these taxpayers do not have a

reasonable expectation of profit based on the expenses being charged for tax purposes Therefore according to the tax rules these taxpayers should not be allowed any deducshytions against other sources of income

The tax rules should not be changed to accommodate these people They have a hobby not unlike skiing travelling or collectshying stamps All hobbies come at a cost few ever make money and the costs must be covered with after tax dollars If these same people rented land and used custom operators they might qualify because their costs would be reduced substantially

Another group of farmers do have a reasonable expectation of profit but their chief source of income is not farming or a combination of farming and some other source of income The major part of these taxshypayers time and effort is spent doing someshything other than farming Such taxpayers are allowed to deduct against other income the first $2500 of cash losses plus 50 per cent of the next $5000 Any balance must be carried ahead up to ten years or back three years against net farm income

Limiting Loss Deductions

Many of these taxpayers however have not restricted themselves to the $5000 maximum They have been deducting unshylimited losses against other income for several years even though off-farm employment controls their time and effort Revenue Canada under the present law has every right to limit

their loss deductions Likewise merely having gross income from farming in excess of inshycome from other sources does not automatishycally qualify a taxpayer for unlimited farm losses against other income

All raxpayers who have filed as farmers are also eligible to deduct the full amount of the investment tax credit when new qualifying machinery or buildings are purchased This credit reduces federal tax payable not taxable income by $7000 in southern Ontario or shy$20000 in the Maritimes on a new bam costshying $100000 It soon becomes obvious why Revenue Canada is concerned about part-time farming

The third classification filing tax returns as farmers involves taxpayers whose chief source of income is indeed farming or a combination of farming and some other source of income Such taxpayers many deduct

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unlimited farm cash losses against other inshy Then anyone who could prove an accflI al prices W hat chance would a beginning famler come in a given year It is expected that farmshy profit should be allowed unlim ited losses with no o ff-farm income have in competing for ing produces the bulk of income or is the centre against other sources of income regardless of land The established farmer would also have of work routine and is the taxpayer s major th size of operation For example a person difficulty attempting to expand in competition preoccupation A farmer dri vi ng a school bus purchasing one or two dairy heifers each year with the non-faml dollars should easily qual ify Many fanners who have working for thei r feed and housing them in It would also be logical with more dolshytaken full- or part-t ime jobs because of fi nan shy rented quarters could likely show a profit lars at stake for Revenue Canada to step up its cial difficulty should be able to work full- time using accrual methods Their tax liability is audits It has also been suggested that the for several years without losing their el igibilshy only deferred dcpartment shou ld hir agricultu rally trained ity provided they had a history of full-time Many taxpayers are lobbying for inshy auditors My experience would ind icate that a fanning creases in the $5000 li mit The limit has not profcssional agricultural auditor could easily

In my opinion any taxpayer who could changed since its inception in the early 1950s testify in court that the majori ty of part-time not show a profit using accrual methods should Such an increase may be justified in light of fanners have no reasonable expectat ion of not be allowed any tax rel ief regardless of the infl ation over time However an increase in profit using aecmal accou nting methods scale of operation All othe r businesses must the limit would not necessarily be o f benefit to Th is would mean that many taxpayers now file on the accrual method Part-time farmers agriculture limited to $5 000 would get nothing As a wou ld only be required to prove on audit that In the first place encouraging more part-ti me farme r and Professor of Agricultural they could show a profit using accrual capital into agriculture may not be desirable Economics and Extens ion Edlleation at the acc unting T he city money would put pressure on land Un iversity o f Gue lph I rest my case 0

Table I- Farm Taxfilers Average Income from Farm and Off-farm Sources by County 1981

Di stricts Farm

Tax filers

Average Net Farm Income

Taxfilers Reporting O ff-Farm Income

Av erage Net

Off-Fann Income

Tax fi lers Reporting Wages and

Salaries

Average Income from W ages and

Salaries

Average Net Income from All Sources

Net arm Income as

a of Total Net Income

no $ no $ no $ $

Brant 1695 5293 1584 12620 631 63 13 17914 29 6 Elgin 3425 3812 3204 10256 1248 4838 14068 27 1 Essex 4905 3395 4769 15857 2 409 9002 19252 176 Hald imand-Nrfolk 5 955 4441 5542 9724 2083 4 745 14 165 314 Hamilton-Wentworth 1960 262 1887 21 999 1084 13184 22 261 12 Ken t 6295 6 279 6063 II 610 2530 5583 17889 351 Lambton 4250 3130 4086 14 618 1944 8723 17 748 176 Middlesex 5485 3486 5198 14450 2410 7651 17936 194 Niagara 4625 1063 4 437 18011 2445 11130 19074 5 6 Oxford 4440 5273 4158 10350 1480 4625 15623 33 8

SOUTHERNONTARlO 43035 3855 40928 13454 18 263 7231 17 309 22 3

Bruce 4 470 -168 4242 10 931 1942 6243 10763 Dufferin 1365 - 180 1301 15 315 704 9220 15134 Grey 3725 363 3519 11 032 1718 6361 11395 32 Halton 1675 - 165 1628 27976 953 16 2 11 27811 Huron 4520 3388 4219 9055 1626 4416 12443 272 Peel 1715 -431 167 1 31243 1013 180[7 30812 Perth 4685 4 935 4323 8789 1514 3891 [3724 360 Simcoe Waterloo Wellington

4515 3330 4425

115 3692 1537

4318 3137 4099

14188 15034 12850

2265 1405 1968

8637 7872 8187

14303 18726 14387

08 197 107

WESTERN ONTARIO 34 430 1667 32462 13481 15108 7566 15148 110

CENTRAL ONTARIO

EA STERN ONTARIO

19455

17375

88

1427

18820

16 325

22874

14716

10476

7885

12524

9045

22962

16 143

04

88 -NORTHERN ONTARIO 4665 - 139 4430 15404 2731 10 898 15265

THE PROVINCE 118970 2095 J 12975 15 263 54468 8602 17 358 12 1

1980 118035 2172 111119 13 00 53481 7619 15271 142

No tes A farm tax filer is a taxfil er who reported positive gross income or non-zero net income from unincorporated self-employed farming activity Figures may not add due to rounding Source Data are derived from the administrative records of Re venue Canada

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crown Roth Gav in Carrow and Pe te r Domarshy

In Touch With the Gryphon chuk took Cl AU titles in the ir respec tive weight classcs

Athletics Scene athered for thc annual Intercollegiate Athletic Banquet the people making up

the traditional full house in Peter Clark Hall had good reason to celebrate The reason

Another annual tradition - the conclusion of a highly successful season

National and provincial champions plus Ontario and Canadian all-stars received recognition and four deserving athletes were rewarded with special awards for their outshy

stand in g e fforts

The Uni versi ty of Guelph Male Athlete of the Year Award went to Sam Benincasa

HAFA 84 A fifth-year football team linebacker he was se lected as an All-Canadian

for the second consecuti ve year and was a nominee as outstand ing defensive player in the country

A Hamilton native he culminated hi s

career by returning an intercepted pass for a touchdown during the final home game Earshy

lier in the year Sam was the recipient of the Wildman Trophy awarded annually to the outstanding graduating player who has comshy

bined sportsmanship and leadership with sc ho lastic achievement

The Uni versity of Guelph Female Athlete of the Year Award went to Silvia Ruegger

FAC 84 of O shawa who was delcared the Canadian Inter-unive rsi ty Athletic Union

Cross-country Running C hampion for the

second time in her career Her previous triumph was in 1980

The W F Mitchell Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year Award s went to

Gav in Carrow Arts 84 and Karen McBride FACS 84 These awards named after Bill

Mitchell OAC 38 lo ng-ti me director of athletics are given to students in their graduatshy

ing year who demonstrate outstanding talcnt and ability in their sport combined with leadershyship and involvement in athletics

Gavin Carrow who won the CIA U Wres tling title in the 86-kilogram class for a

second time was an inspiration to his teamshymates according to coach Lo ndo Iacovelli

Karen McBride was a member of both the Fie ld Hockey and Ice Hockey teams and also served on the Athletics Advi sory Council and the Wome ns Intcrcollegiate Cou ncil

Of course it was a success ful year for

Grypho n teams as well The football team had a 5-2 record highli gh ted by the demolition of

the University of Wes tern Ontario 36-11 and the routing of the numbcr-one ranked Wilfrid Lau rie r University team by a score of 27-9 before large crowds No less than s ix

Grypho ns were accorded league all-star honours

The Wrestling Gryphons won an unpreshy

cedented fifth consccutive OUAA title and

narrowly missed out on a third st raight C IAU

President Burt Matthe ws OAC 47 centre with athletes of the year Sam Benincasa left and Silvia Ruegger

The mens hockey tcam ran a seven-game winning stretch in January to finish fou rth in the

13-tea m 0 A A league After ousting Laurenshytian University of Sudbury in quarter fina l play they were e liminated in the semis by thc Uni shyversity of Toronto Blucs the eventual national

champion Defenceman Bruce Kilgour earned the respect of league eoachcs to earn a firstshy

team OU AA all-star selec tio n The womens basketball team saved the ir

best effort for the cnd of the year as they won

the consolatio n title at the OW IAA championshyships Cindy McMastcr was sclected as a firstshyteam Icague all-star while Joanne Hurd was

named to the All-Tournament team at the championshi p tournament

The womens swimming team had the ir

most successful yea r placing fifth in Ontario

Shannon Smith won the gold medal in the 100shymeter back stroke

Barb Jonak won the individual title as the Gryphons regained thei r OW IAA archery crown and Judy Richardson took top honours in leading the Alpine Ski team to the chamshy

pionship of the Can-Am Challenge at Mont Gabriel Que

With only a few athletes gradu ating fro111

the University this year prospects look even be tte r for 1984-85 0

198384 MAJO R NTERCOUEGlAlli AWAROS

Archery Trophy Bltl rh Jonk rIO f Improved l3a ~kc lbJlI Award t kll) Joh n r araght r A d ll)irTl~onMen1onJlMVY Iruphy

Puul Flack An[hClIl Y SICWirt Mo~tlmpro ld Ba kC-Ibltl1l AwarJ (WtllllC II) Shelky Robcn M V P B~J e lba ll Award (Wo men) JOlun e Ilurd

M V P Oaom inlo n Award (WIJI lc n) Darle ne II (Ju~ c

M V P Badmi n1 0 n Award (M en) Manno Mekhlnrn v1V P C rt)Counlry Awa rd (Wumcn) Sil Vi a Rucg~c r

Art HachlTrophy Mlll uel SJ al i 1-1 VY CUrlil lg ~warJ Chri Harber M CP held lI ocke) warc1 Ann MldJklon MV P Fll~ l d I-Iockty WIlJ J ulie II nn1c y

M IP Foolbull A wa rd Ml nlO D imu lo Thl Prc-idc lli r)r~ l e r M V P rOOlhdll Trophy Je d Tommy Foolball Rook ie Award S( olll nJy Jeff Vo lpe M 1 P ICl llock ty Awmj (Wom( n) An n WeIL1I M I P COtJc hc~ Icc Hockey l rophy T ina Vld Walter Rickard Mcmon lluokie Awaru Roy RUltOl 1I Jack [l os M VP Hodl~Y AWdrd~ Hrul C K IIour T Hll Burton

kU 1I1 FvansM V P Ru glc r ward Je rrB il lrJo d

Oill M ~All u ff St)cc r Trophy M lklM il k r MI P Swimm 1l1 wClrd ( Wulllcn) Siobhan S mnh M V P Swimming Award~ (Women )

Janice Ptu Ann Mcn ic M IY Swimmillg AwmJ ( Mcnl Ilowaru T hw aitcl

C M Ki nncar MClnonal MVPAwarJ Jcl f Wadgc M P Syndml ili cd S wi mming Award I klcnc C ana u M I P VOllcyhal1 Award(Men) Sam Mallhn MV P Vollcyoall Award (Me n) Vil07JI M 1 P Vnl le yhoJll Award (Wumen) I clune ~kKcc

MV P Volleyball Award (Women) J(lC li e fl narr

1IP WrC llin l Award bull Ken Pull -MVP Wre~111I1 pound Awltl rd Ga IIICarroW

S PECIAL AW AROS - MEN AoIO WOME oI Cath y Rowe Manlge rH ra iner o fthc Year Awlrd Cu lin Silll ret W lldmlIl Trophy Sall1 [kninct J Or Mary Beve rl ey-Burton Iookie of lhc Year Award

L111e PrJce Don r JllJeron Tro phy tvl l fTlO Di nHII l(l W t- Muche ll Sponltowoman Award Karen M c Bride W F M ilChcll Sr)(m mm Award Gavin Carro FcnMk Alhl e te oft he Yeara SilV ia Rucg l1r Male Athlete nflhc Year Sam BcmnCiJltI

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UNI VERSIT Y O F GUELPH

GUELPH ALUMNUS S ummer 1984 Vol 17 No3

UNIVERS ITY OHUElPtl AlUMNI SSOC IATION

HO NO RARY PRESIDENT- Dr Bun Mallhcws OAC n

PR ES IDENT Glenn Powe ll OAC 62

PAST PRESID ENT Barry Sta hlbaum C PS 74

SEN IOR VICE-PRES IDE ltT Ross Parry CSS SO

SECRETA R Y linda McKcnLic-Cordick Arts 8 1

ASSOCIATES ECR ETARY RoernaryCla rk Mac 59

T REAS URER James J Elmslie

V ICE-PRESID E TS Sue (Beatty) DaVidson CS5 84 Dr Ron Downey OVC 6 1 Jean (Fuller) Humc Mac 64 Brllcc Richa rd so n CPS S2 Gary (Kozak ) Selby Arts 79 Jan Watson CBS 75

DIRECTORS Dave Barrie OAC 5 30 Rob Ba rron CSS 78 LO rTI e (Rolston) Cosens CBS 79 Pete r Fane C PS PhD 74 Ma rie (HoMson) Hunt gtlac 59 Ginty Jocius OAC 70 Bill Macdonald Art s ~ 78 Rob M ilne CBS ~I Dr Harold Reed OVC 55 Rosemary (Schmidt) Smith FACS 79 Jim Thomson C PS 79 Dr Don Wil so n OVC 66

EX-OFFICIO DIRECTORS John Babcock O AC 54 Director Ocpart m ent of Alu mni Affairs and Ocve lopment John Currie CSS 70 P r esiden t ollege of Social Science Alumni Asociation Connl c (Hauka) JaSinskas H K 76 President Human Kinetics Alumni Association Ginty Jocius O AC 70 President OAC Alumni Association John King President Central Student Association Gail Murray FACS 78 President MlIc-f ACS Alumni Association Dr Wendy Parker OVC 71 President OVC Alumni Association Brian Rennie Presiden t G raduate St udents Assoc iation Margo Shoemaker Arts 79 President College of Arts Alumni Assoc iation Lucas Van Vee n CPS 74 President CPS Alumni Association Will Walker HAFA ~O President Hotel and Food Adminis tration Alumni Association Chris Wren CBS Ph D 83 President College of Biological Science Alumni Association

The Cuelph Alumus is published by the Departmen t of Alumni Affairs and Development In co -operatIon WIth [nformation Services Uni versity of Guelph

E DITOR Derek J Wing Publicat ion s Manager Depanme nt of Alumni Affairs and Developmenl

The EdJlon a l Co mmi ttee IS compri sed o f the Ed itOr Derek Wing Direc to r Jo hn Babcock OAC 54 Rose mary Clark Mac 59 Ass istant Direc to r Alumni Programs a ll With the Depa rtme nt o f Alumni Affairs and Devel o pment and Eric h Banh Art Director Donald Jose OAr 49 Press -Publici ty and DirectOr Douglas Waterslo n all with Info rma tion Se rvices

The Edit o ri a l AdVi so ry Boa ru o f the Universi ty o f Gue lph Alumni ASSOC ia ti o n is co mprISed of Ross Parry CSS 80 cha irman Dr O

Bnan Allen C PS 72 Dr A llan Austi n Dr Donald Barnum OVC 41 Richard MOCCia CBS 76 Janice (Robenson ) Partlow Ans 70 Oli ve (T hompson) Tho mpson Mac 35 Sa ndra Webster CSS 75 Ex -o ffic io John Aabcock OAC 54 Barry Stahlbaum CPS 74

Undeli vered copies should be returned 10 the Depart ment of Al umni Affair s and Development University of Guelph Guelph Ontario N IG2WI

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Building HenalDed To Honour U of Gs First President

Dr John Douglas MacLachlan

O ne of the o ldes t buildings on campus the Agricu Itural Economi cs and ExtenSion EducatIOn Buddtng on Stadium Walk was renamed

Ih e J D MacLac hl an Building when a plaque was unveiled during Alumni Weekend 84

Cecil Franklin chairman of the Board of Go ve rnors said in making Ihe announcement earlier Ihis year The Board wholeheartedly cndorsed thi s proposal to recognize thc invaluable leadership provided by ou r founding president and vice-chancellor

Dr Maclachlan who came to Guclph in 1939 was president of the University from its founding in 1964 until 1967 when he retired and beshyca me an education consultant with thc government of Jamaica He was president of the OAC from 1950 to 1962 whcn he was appointed pres ishydent of the Federated Colleges of the Ontario Department of Agri cullure th e predecessor of the University Dr MacLachlan joined the faculty of th e OAC in 1939 as assistant professor of Botany becoming associate professor in 1944 and professor in 1946 and head of the Department in 1948

Unlil 1961 the building named in Dr MacLac hl ans hono ur wa s Ih e Biology Building in which the Departme nt of Botany was localcd It was renamed Agricultural Economi cs and Extension Education when the curshyrenl Biology Building was co nstru cted

A clear and inspirin g teacher Dr Mac l achlan was an equa lly 7ea lshyous and meticulous researcher stud ying physiological diseases of crop plants The soundness of plans wh ich he drafted is evidenced by the rapid growth hi gh academic standin g and exce ll en t r~puta ti o n of Ihe University said President Burt Matt hews OAC 47 in prese nting the proposal to the Boa rd

Born in Burritt s Rapids Ontario In 1906 Dr MacLac hl an comshypleted high schoo l in Kempt ville and normal sc hoo l in O ttawa For -three yea rs he taught in Ottawa and Carp whil e tak in g ex tramural courses at Queen s University from which he graduated in 193 I with an Honours BA

He did postgraduate research spec iali zing in planl pathology at [ larshyva rd Uni versity and rece ived an M A in 1934 and a Ph D in 1935 l3e shyfore joi ning the OAC in 1939 he worked in Jama ica and at Clemso n College South Carolina USA 0

A Message From

Glenn PoweU OAC 62 New UGAA President Hcy do you remember the night

we It is perhaps to be exshy

pected that alumni gatherings or meetings find most of the group recalling the days (or nights)

spent as undcrgraduates The period on camshypus was an experience of learning sharing and

living that we would neither trade nor sell for

all the tea in China Oh sure there were some disappointments and some things best left forgotten But for most of us the days

spent on campus at Guelph were days of good timcs and now good memories

Thc University of Guelph Alumni Asshysociation is I believe the link between the

good old days the present and the future A strong alumni association will ensure those

precious links will not be broken and the strength of the Association will depend on the support it receives from alumni

Thc UGAA is proud of the support it has received from alumni across the country and indeed around the world Today and in the

future we need that support Few if any institutions of higher learnshy

ing can match the achievements of the U nivershysity of Guelph It is a campus with unique and wcll-recognized qualities As alumni we are part of a community that has a track record of

which we can be justly proud Now we must

usc this strong foundation to look to the future Through this publication the Guelph

Alumnus we endeavour to keep you abreast of activities both on and off campus that are of

particular interest to alumni We trust you will find these activities of interest and benefit but to make the programs successful we need your participation We need to know what you as

alumni want your Association to be doing

Comments suggestions yes even critishycisms are welcome Please make your opinshy

ions known I f we are to maintain a vibrant Association it will be because of the members

who actively participate But participation goes beyond the orshy

ganized activities of the Association We alumni can playa vital role as the eyes and cars of the University of Guelph We can

with both business contacts and friends be the unofficial public relations arm of the Univershysity

As alumni there is a great opportunity to make sure that students planning a university

education are aware of what our University has to offer And in the process of making others aware of the University of Guelph we will no

doubt receive information in return that will be

of assistance to those on campus who are involved in establishing future directions or new initiatives for the University As alumni

Glenn Powell OAC 62

we can provide the communication link beshy

tween the University and the community however far-reaching that community may

be To complain about the so-called ivory tower is to admit that we have not done our part

Fund-rais ing campaigns have and wi II continue to be an integral part of the UGAA

program Rcsponse in the past has been heartshy

ening Our a lumni have enthusiastically shown a desire to ensure the continued deshy

velopment of the University As we look to the future one can predict the need will continue to grow If we each do a little together we can

do a lot As president of the UGAA for 1983-84

I would like to acknowledge and thank all those who have in the pas t given so much of their time and energy to the development and growth of the Association ) look forward to

the challe nge of maintaining the momentum in

the year ahead Together with our Board of Directors and the support and participation of the alumni body I am confident we will move forward with the spirit that has characterized the University of Guelph Alumni Association

since its formation We have I believe an obligation as

alumni to maintain and enhance the status of

our Alma Mater Future generations will judge

us by our actions and deeds Let us not disapshypoint them

Glenn Powell O AC62 President Univers ity of G uelph Alumni Association 0

From the Immediate Past President

At Alumni Weekend 84 my term of office as president of the University of

Guelph Alumni Association ended ) would like to reminisce if I may for a few moments

The Associations position of Honorary President has been filled by three participants

during the past year Professor Donald Forster commenced the year and we were all saddened

by his sudden death Dr Howard Clark as acting president then joined us and his eagerness to get involved with the Association was most appreciated

At the March meeting of our Board of

Directors Dr Burt Matthews OAC 47 attended and spoke on many matters of

interest We must all be proud to have one of our own (i e graduate of Guelph) as our new

president Welcome Dr Matthews from all Guelph alumni

Although attendance in general has

been somewhat down at most of our special

events during the course of the past year the quality of the programs has not suffered

Everything from the wine symposium to the winter carnival to the leadership conference continue to be of the highest cal ibre The Special Events Committee deserves many thanks for a job well done

Our financial position remains good thanks in part to the new Finance Subshy

committee On their behalf I would like to highlight the efforts of Jim Elmslie assistant

director for development Department of

Alumni Affairs and Development for keeping such a watchful eye on our finances

To everyone who has participated in the many and varied committees that exi st within

the structure of the University of Guelph

Alumni Association I say Thank You Without you your ideas your energy your

time your consideration and your support the Association would amount to very little As president I appreciate your support specifically for the previous year and I know that it will continue to grow well into

the future

To my predecessor Jane (Yolliek)

Webster FACS 75 I can only say how much I appreciated her honesty and enthusiasm during

the last 12 months To my successor G lenn Powell OAC 62 [ have every confidence that under his leadership the next year will be productive for the Association

[n closing I would really like to thank

John Babcock O AC 54 director and Rosemary Clark Mac 59 assistant director

alumni program s and the entire staff of the -Department of Alumni Affairs and Developshyment for the continuous support and tireless

efforts that they put into this Association All too often we fail to recognize their significant contribution to the viability of this Association

Barry Stahlbaum CPS 74 Immediate Past President

University of G uelph Alumn i Association 0

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SkiDs and knowledge Are a Form of Capital bull bull

Its Growth May Well Be the Most Distinctive Fe ature of the Economic System

Published in Briefing Notes a publica lion of Ihe Council ofOntario Universities (COU) the following brief was submirted to the Treasurer ofOntario theHon Larry Grossman asa contribution to the consultative process adopted by the Treasurer in the preparation of a provincial budget

The universi ti es of O ntario have a large

and important miss ion which touches the lives of all Ontario citizens contributing not

only to their economic but also and as signifishycantly to their social and cultural well-being

O ur universities stand as an intellectual

resource from which industry and business can

draw for adaptation of scientific and social theory to the realities o f today s marketplace

from which governments can draw for the development of new soc ial and economic

policy and from which individuals can draw for greater understanding of their place and context in the hi storical evolution of manshy

kind (Once More With Feeling COU 1982)

The richness and uniqueness of the intelshylectual well from which we draw sustenance

results from th e unifying role of universities in

the creation preservation and transmission of knowledge

Notwithstanding this broad mission universities are clearly generators of economic

growth American studies have shown educashytion historically to be a highly significant

factor in the improvement of productivity in

the United States Similar conclusions were

reached by the Economic Council of Canada

relative to the performance of the Canadian

economy

In 1979 Theodore Schultz Nobel Laureate in Economics noted Although it is obvious that people acquire use ful skills and

knowledge it is not obvious that these skills and knowledge are a form of capi tal that this

capital is in substantial part a product of delibshyerate investment that it has grow n in Western

societies at a much faster rate than convenshytional (non-human) capital and that its growth

may well be the most distinctive feat ure of the economic system

In 1982-83 universiti es in Ontario

awarded over 37000 undergraduate degrees

an increase of almost 9200 or 25 per cent during the past ten years Of that increase 17

per cent was attributable to growth in arts and

science output and 83 per cent to output in profess ional and semi-professional fields

Degree Holdels Doubled The number of degree-holders in Onshy

tario s population has more than doubled during the last decade Yet there is no evishy

dence of oversupply University graduates

continue to demonstrate a higher rate of la bour

force participation as well as a significantly lower overall unemployment rate than the general population as a whole

University graduates also con tinue to

demonstrate ability to attract significantly above-average salaries a reflection of the

value employers place on the importance of

such highly qualified manpower to overall

productivity About eight per cent of the student body

at Ontario universities is drawn here from

outside Canada Given the heavy depe ndence of Ontario on international markets the ro le of

our universities in providing an Ontario pershyspective to future business and government Icaders ab road is s ignificant for the economic potenti a l of this province

Univers ities play an important role in the

re trai ning and upgrading of large numbers of profess ional s In 1981-82 total non-credit

continuing ed ucation registration in Ontario universities was over 123000 and 55 per cent of these registrations were in professionallyshy

related programs Ontario universities also contribute to the

development of human capital through the

highly unique role they play in the formation

of research skills among graduate students in

all disc iplines Some 41 pcr cent of the graduate students in C anada were e nroBed in

Ontario universit ies in 1981-82 In engineershying management and computer sc ience these

proportions were 44 per cent 47 pe r cent and 48 per cent respectively

Ontario universities have assigned priorshy

ity to the development of graduate studies and provided the province with a rich and diverse

range of graduate programs many of which

ha ve earned interna tiona l dis tinc tion The Ontario univers ity community attaches great

importance to basic research and scholars hip and to the necessary interrela tio nship between vigorous research programs capacity to train

graduate students and the vitality of the unishyversity as a whole

Since the mid-1970s the proportion of research revenue relative to total revenue at

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Ontario universities ha$ increased by ovcr 50 per cent By 1982-83 total research revenue reached $275 million Within the Canadian

university community Ontario now attracts over 40 per cent of federal research money

60 per cent of foreign government money and 50 per cent of non-government research expenditure

Contract Research Growing A new and important element of the

research enterprise is the ex tent to which

university personnel are becoming involved in

rcscarch applications It is estimated that contract research now comprises some 12 per cent of total research activity Contract reshysearch takes many forms involving the acti vshyity of indiv idua l faculty the activity of groups of faculty and students under the umbrella of

industrial rcseareh offices and with growing frequenc y the creation of research institutes de ve loped to foster the univers ity-indu stry

interface

C anada in general and Ontario in

particular face enormous challenges in confronting the accelerating pace of scientific and technological change O ntario must

undertake a major readjustment of its economic infrastruc tu re if it wants to maintain anything approaching its present standard of liv ing

The uni ersities of this province have an enormous potentia l to contribute to this adaptation Indeed many wo uld argue that without conti nuing strong suppo rt of the

uni versi ty sector Onta rio w ill not make the

adaptation successfully As wai noted recent ly by W alte r Light

chairman and chief executi ve office r o f

orthern Telecom Limited Unless we are prepared to come to grips with our currcn t cri s is in education unle ss we arc pre pared to invest in highe r education at leveb comparabk to or higher than such inves tments being

made by other countries wc run the a im st

certa in risk ot preclud ing any rea l long-t Im productivity improvcment in Canada

T he greatest im pact of technologica l change on future manpower needs w ill be fe ll by those occupy ingjob~ requ iring a m iddle range o f occ upational skill s _ H ighly skilled and lower sk illed personne l wi ll continue in

demand regardless of the direction of change The pacc and direction of change however arc c rit icl lly dependent on O ntario s having

ace ss to a large pool of wel l-trained

uni versity graduates Demand for access to higher education in

O ntario is present ly at record high levels and continues to grow When this continuing high demand is combined with the prospect of additional numbers resulting from the

restructuring of Ontarios secondary school curriculum that is now under way the arlier

forecast of an almost certain decrease in

applications during the remainder of the 80s become unlikely

Ontario must not take an assumptio n of declining enrolments at the university level as

an excuse for reducing government support to

the universi ty sector Instead we should be examining means of enhancing accessibility to ensure that the flow of highly qualified manpower does not decline to dangerous ly

low levels

In particul ar we must protect the richness and vitality of the graduate enterprise in Ontario Ontarios graduate programs and

basic research and scholarly activity must be carefully tended and nourished if Ontario is to operate at the leading edge of a technological change

No other research institutions give as

much return on investment as

universities in the long term No other

institutions produce both knowledge

and people

Research and Scholarship the Key A strong program of basic research and

scho larship in a ll di scipl ines is O ntario s key

into the fo refront of the international in te llec shytual tide It will allow rapid adaptation of inte llectual developments e lsewhere to

O ntarios particular c ircumstances_ It will

ensure a relevance to graduate tra ining in th is province that can be a cOOlplished in no other way nd it wi ll ensure that ind ustrial innovation in O ntario can draw from intelshy

lectua l resources that extend beyond our boundaries

As George Keyworth science advisor to U S Presi dent Reagan recen tly noted No other research institutions give as mueh return on investment as universities in the long term - not federal labs not non-profit organiashytions not industry No other institutions

produce both knowledge and people In a similar vein a report publishcd by

the Roya l Institute for International Affairs in

the United Kingdom has noted that in one particular sector instead of paying subsidies to

pharmaceutical companies in Britain the government there might do better to give the

University Gran ts Commission equivalent resources to help maintain and expand o ur intellectual effort in biotechnology and reshylated studies

The adaptations which have been required of universities in recent years to cope with demand for grad uates of vocationallyshy

oriented programs to undertake a major shift of activity toward the research functi on and to

significantly enhance the university-industry interface have placed an enonnous strain on our unive rsity institutions M uch of this adaptation has been accomplished in an era of severely constrained funding

While questions of ba lance loom large universities recognize that further adaptation is not only desirable but vital if the university community in th is province is to fulfill it s

potential for easing O ntarios transition into the post-industrial age With continuing financial constraint however our capacity for further change is severely limited_

O ntario universities need injections of new operating and capital funds

bull to permit new hiring of young academics

bull to allow replenishment of equipment stocks to s tate ot the art leve ls bull to maintain the very considerable in vestment in physical plant

bull and to permi t adaptation and selecti ve expan ion of ex isting uni vers ity space such that it more effecti vely com plements new

objectives In the 60s Ontario made a major

comm itment to the hi gher education enterpri se in order to allow all those inte llec tually capable of it the righ t of access to univers ity level study A new o mm itment [0 hi gher educat ion is now needed - to ensure that our

intellec tual well remains fu ll and to a llow private and corporate c itizens a like the righ t to d raw from its wate rs 0

Erratum- It has corne to our attenshytion that the article An Agricultural Policy fort he Yukon in the Guelph AlumllUl S ummer issue 1982 Vol 15 No 3 referred to bull the Re shy

sources Planning Branch of the Can adi an Gove rnment It should

have read the Resources Planning Branch 01 the T e rritorial Governshyment T hc draft submi tted did not

indicate the level of government reshysponsible for its preparation No

slight was intended to those res ponsi shy

ble for its prepara tion

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Farming in orthern Ontario - 1903 By Adam Graham OAC 23

I n the spring of 1903 my father a widower since the previous August obtained a halfshy

section of land not far from Lake Nipissing some ten miles west of Sturgeon Falls The north 160 acres was pre-emption land The south half through which the Yeuve River flowed had also been obtained that way but abandoned some years previously

Adam Graham OA C 23

About the Writer

Lasl March 25 Adam Jam es Graham OAC

23 celehrated hiI 90lh hirlhday He was born in Carllon Place nearOffaW(I in 1894

Raisedrom agl 9 on ajimn in Northern Ontario he finish ed public school There hut did nOl ha ve Ih e opporlunily to affend high

school Fullowing graduUlionfrom Ihe OAC he worked on insect reearch al the Vineland

Experimental Farm and in 1925 allended the

College of EduCUlion Toronto lu uhwin 0_

teaching certificate HI ~-tarted teaching al Bean)Sville HS_ 111

1926 married Evelyn Slephenson in 1927 and moved 10 Walford DiSlriCI H S in 1929 where

Jar Ihe next 18 years he taught Botany Zoology Chemislry Agricultural Science and

Music During Ihat lime one ahis star pupils I(I 1I00Ie olher Ihull Unilersirl aGuelph

preli(ent-lO-iJe Bllrt MUllhel lOf er OAC 47 _ Adam joined Ih e sldjfat Leaminglon H S

in 1947 and moved on 10 Blenhen DiSlrict H_S in 1950 His wife died in 1951 and he

married Grace Curbin in 1952 He swrled whal was 10 be his lasl leaching POSI al R H _

King Collegiale Inslilule in Smrburuugh in 1955 and relired in 1961

Adam is currently wriling a book - Tbe Geneology of the Grahams of Lymek i Ins and Kottochside Scotland His family records

dutl back 101647 0

Dad s lot was separated from the neighshybours by the rudiments of a roadway between the river and a main road about two miles north Along this roadway on Dad s side were three loose strands of barbed wire that dangled from wobbly fence posts some of which were nearly horizontal

A few acre s along the ri ver bank had been cleared of trees but not stumped or cultivated The ruins of a small log cabin was the only sign of former occupation I remember seeing my first garter snake while watching grasshopshypers being caught in spiders webs along the base of its walls Such was the place where Dad settled to raise hi s boys to manhood

There were four of us - Jack 19 Bob 14 myself 9 and Bill 7 Jack went north with Dad quite early to help him get started but we three younger ones were left in Carlton Place near Ottawa to fini sh out our school terms at the end of June_

By that time a good start had been made on a frame house about an acre of potatoes was mady to be hilled up and a few acres of mixed oats and peas were a few inches high For a few weeks we were lodged at a neighshybours place_

Jack and Bob accompanied by our little fox terrier slept in the hou se after they came north with the furniture but Bill and I did not move in till some time in August The hou se had one room below and one above which was reached by climbing an almost perpendicular ladder The cracks in its floor admitted enough light from the lamp below to see to go to bed

Baching it presented many problems Jack had often helped Mother prepare mea-Is and could make a cake or bake the simpler food dishes such as rice pudding soda stones

johnny-cake etc but the art Dr bread-making with the old type of slow-rising dry ycast cakes had to be learned from scratch Both Dad and Jack tried their hands at it For some time at first we never knew what to expect but we were always hungry enough to eat anything that even resembled a loaf But after some sticky slithery messes caused by the soft spongy mixture overflowing its container and learning that proper temperatures and plenty of kneading were as important as the ingredients Dad became quite expert at it

Of necessity our bill-of-fare had to be simple Potatoes were the only food crop the farm produced that year We had them boiled or fried twice a day except Sundays Dad often made potato scones in which mashed potatoes were mixed with the flour before rolling They were browned on both sides on top of the stove in cast iron frying pans They were somewhat cloggy but good with a smear of molasses

With no refrigeration salt pork and baeon were the main types of meat used but when cold weather came Dad bought the frozen carcass of a whole pig and sawed a pieee off whenever pork was wanted _We rarel y had apples but Dad bought some oranges and lemons for marmalade that winter Cutting the well-soaked skins into thin slices was the basis of a family party one winter evening

When we were settled in the house and it was made habitable a small temporary stable was started and Dad went back to Carlton Place where his brother-in-law a veterinary surgeon selected a horse and a cow for him It was an eventful day when he drove home with the three-year-old Suffolk Punch gelding pulling a democrat The horse was quiet and well suited for handling by greenhorns The cow was a four-year-old Ayrshire-Shorthorn cross not milking but supposed to have a ealf in January Fortunately for us even an apology for a fence would keep her in

Once we became established in the house we started a major project in which anyone not otherwise engaged took part It was the digging of a root-cellar in the back of a nearby gully

Adam Graham Snr Adam Graham Jnr Bob cousin Jean Bill and Jack in 1908

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I well remember the peculiar subsoil which consisted of alternating layers of fine dark and light clay each about one-quarter of an inch thick and that when dried the layers seemcd to disappear The walls and ceiling were supported by poles cut from the bush and carth was piled up on top to a depth of about two feet The outer end had an air space between two doors lined with fe lt paper for insulation The interior was divided into bins but no special provision was made for ventilashytion and the potatoes sweated badly In the depth of winter long frost crystals were formed Some of the outer potatoes were frozen solidly but in spite of their unnatural sweetish taste and soggy texture we ate them anyway

Potato harvesting was another family affair It was the only harvest because with such poor fencing the oats and peas proved too tempting for neighbouring cattle

At Christmas time Dad took Bill and me back to Carlton Place to be with our relatives but Jack and Bob were left at home to care for the horse cow and dog With so much unexshypected cold weather they had a tough time of it

The house had very little insulation and was distinctly drafty Temperatures must have dipped to _400 Fahrenheit or lower because when a small bottle of mercury was put out it froze into a solid lump There were two stoves but when the fire went out at night ice formed on the water in the kettle and on the top and sides of the water pail It would be nearly an inch thick Jack declared he could not bake bread because the sponge froze during the night Fortunately neighbours asked them over for Christmas dinner and the evening

One cold night in early March the cow gave birth to a calf that was dead when discovshyered Dad called the colostrum milk beestings and made bee sty-cheese of it by mixing in a little salt and cooking it in a boiling water bath When coagulated he cut it into thick slices to be eaten with bread

In the summer of 1904 a trio of weaned Berkshire pigs was bought by mail order Bill and I made pets of them and often herded them

The farmhouse and temporary stable

while they dug for roots or grubs in places where no crop had been planted

Dad was an ardent reader of agricultural bulletins and farm magazines and vowed that no scrub bull would ever be used on his place Since there were no purebreds in the vicinity he ordered an elven-month-old dual-purpose Shorthorn with a registered pedigree Neighshybours thought it rather extravagant when he had only one cow The bull was supposed to be of serviceable age but when it was turned out to pasture it was morc interested in sucking milk from the cow than in anything else

There were only 13 English-speaking families in our Veuve River settlement and when our local school opened in January 1906 only eight pupils attended Classes were held in a room separated from the balance of a private farm dwelling by a thin temporary partition and the family on the other side could hear all that went on Desks were home-made and seats were simple benches without backs

By September of 1907 I was ready to start my entrance class to high school but no teacher had been found even when a new school building with plastered walls had been erected Shortly before that Dad had someshyhow become acquainted with an old man a former seaman from Georgian Bay who had to retire because of paralysis in both arms and legs

When the seaman learned of my desire to continue at school he suggested that Dad let me go to live with him in Sturgeon Falls where he had a couple of rooms so that I could go to school in return for my help I was left to choose and though I had never met the old man I accepted the challenge

Of course a rather bashful counrry boy starting in a strange school in town became the butt of a number of harmless jokes and pranks but when I bested the champion arm-wrestler of the cass three times in succession without much difficulty I won their respect

But my real problems came from another source I soon found that the old man was living off the generosity of anyone whom he could persude to help him In about a month he had to move to a house at the far end of the

town and by that time food supplies were becoming increasingly scarce

Late in October when Dad learned of my predicament he thought I should go home But I was getting along well at school and my teacher the principal had informed me that I had a good chance of winning thc school medal for highest marks on the high school entrance examination next June so I decided to stick with it

Looking baek at the situation now I really dont know how I could possibly have managed had not Jack soon after his return from a survey party in the far north obtained a job in the pulp mil] in town and eome to live with us He brought a bed from home and then I could sleep with my own brother His wage was $150 for a ten-hour day six days a week with day and night shifts alternating weekly Out of this he paid the rent of $7 monthly bought our fuel lamp oil and all our food supplies except potatoes which he brought from home

I finished my term at school wrote the departmental examinations to enter high school won the medal for top marks in the school but was never awarded it My princishypal did his best to obtain it for me A lame excuse given was the shortage of funds but I think the real reason was that I was from out of town and of course the school board did not know how much financial help my brother Jack had given the old man in those eight months

To my great disappointment I never had the opportunity or the privilege to attend high school as a pupil

During my following five years on the farm I became keenly interested in dairy cattle and dairying Our pure-bred Ayrshires won many prizes at Vernor and Sturgeon Falls fall fairs as did my dairy butter By using milk scales and the Babcock test I knew what each cow produced

As some of my classmates of Year 23 may know I enrolled in two dairy shortshycourses at the OAC in the winter and early spring before we all came together in Sepshytember 1919 With no high schooling at all and only four years of public school attenshydance though I did have my entrance certifishycate to high school I felt I was lucky to be admitted

At that time I planned to speciali ze in Dairy Husbandry but by the time I finished my first year of studies I realized that the study of life had greater educational appeal to shyme than what was offered in the Dairy Husshybandry option So in my final years I specialshyized in Biology and ever after became known to classmate Ted Hutt as Chcnopodium album

In all my 35 years of teaching high school pupils chiefly in Agricultural and General Science Botany and Zoology I have never had cause to regret that choice 0

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At the noon picnic The OAC wine tastillg

At Alumni Weekend 84

fllcominll UGAA Presidenl Glenn Puwell OAC 62 and olllgoiflg presshyidelll [Jarr) SlahbaulII CPS 74

Leon Claus OAC 22 at the UGAA (Ifflaa meeting asked Du Y UIi slill grow IlImips at Guelph

Couldnt be thele but

Dear Dr and Mrs Mat thews

Thank-you very much for your invitation to the reception at the Presidents Rcsidence on June 24 during Alumni Weekend As a Ccnshy

tury Club member I feel a little guilty that this is for our be nefit only and not for all the other donors to the Alma Mater Fund I m sure it

will be well attended and it would be an excelshylent time for me to meet some of my classshymates aga in

nfortunately time and distance just don t pe rmit me the privilege of attending I rea lize it wasnt nee ssary for me to write but

I wo uld like to take this opportun ity to welshycome you to the University of Guel ph and exte nd my best wishes fo r your stay at the University

As an Alu mnus of G uelph I am o nly too happy to contribute my small part to the AMF with the knowledge that I m helping someshy

bod y else ac hieve as fi ne an education as I received I am proud or G uelph and its fine reputation as a learning inst itution and to conshytribute to it is the least I can do after the four great ycars it gave me

Thank you again for your invitation Im

sorry I wont make it but Im sure it will be a fi ne afternoon for all there r

Yours trul y

Peter F Walsh OAC 81 C lear Range Farm

Box 97 Marwayne Alberta TOB 2XO

Full marksor this hat Ir ick

Banquel tables lVere g roaning

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Class ofOAC 49 perused their year book OVC open hOLise displayed some AMF equipment purchases

Three old cronies Arboretum tours

Dr HUlVard Clark vice-presidell t acashydemic left ald Presiderzt Burl Malhews OAC 47 dedicated a sugar maple to the memory of the late Presiderzt Donald F Forstllr

The Donald F flirs tt daliwtion plulllt

COMING EVENTS September 6 Fall Semester - classes commence

10middot12 Aggie Wee k

14 OAC golf tournament

16 Alumni Harvest Fair Fill o ut the orde r form below a nd c()m~ to tilt fair

a family day katuring 1880 style acti vitie s at the O ntario

Agric ultural Muse um at M ilto n Ticke t prices include e nshy

trance fee and a chicken barbe cue w ith corn on the cnh

baked potato salad de ssert a nd beve rage

22 HOMECOMING

October 5 Fall Convocation

November 15 Toronto alumni VISA group hosts a Night at the Royal

Alumni Harvest Fair Ticket Order Form (See details above)

NAME College amp Year -Pleac pnnlJ

MAILING ADDRESS (PIC d ~ (Will i )

PI usc r middotg is ter the following fo r the fa ir Adults C hildren

M ai l with your chequc ($9 pe r adult $5 50 per child under 13) payable to the ni versity

of G uelph Alumni Assoc iation to Alumni Harves t Fair Alumn i Office Johnston Ha ll

Unive rsity of G ue lph Guelph Ontar io N I G 2W I not latcrthan Septcmocr4 1984

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Income Tax And the Part-time Farmer

By Professor J Gary Hutchison OAC 58 School of Agricultural Economics and Extension Education OAC University of Guelph

There has been considerable discussion in the media and among part-time farmshy

ers farm organizations and politicians regardshying part-time farming and Revenue Canada What is causing the problems It would appear that Revenue Canada has increased its audit on all taxpayers and particularly those filing as farmers with other sources of income

There have always beenrandom audits and reassessments of part-time farmers The concerns are greater now only because of numbers and the occasional unreasonable assessments as well as the tactics used in some cases The following comments will attempt to clarify part-time farming and the controversy with RevenueCanada

Thousands of taxpayers have moved to the country over the past 15 years or more These country dwellers have many of the same expenses as farmers such as building and fence repair water pumps balky tractors or even feed and veterinary expenses Since a taxpayer is not required to qualify as a farmer before filing as a farmer many began deductshying farm losses against other income

Farming is the only business allowed to file on the cash method of accounting This means expenses of livestock and crops are deductible but the inventory build-up is not taxable until sold All other businesses would have similar expenses but the inventory buildshyup would be subject to tax Cash accounting allows expansion to take place creating cash losses even though the farm may be profitable using accrual accounting The tax referrals created are the equivalent of an interest-free loan

False Impressions

Revenue Canada has been assessing the taxpayer based on information submitted not whether or not a legitimate farm was being operated Such assessment and refunds often have continued for several years giving taxshypayers a false impression of their farming activities and tax position In some cases brought to my attention at the University of Guelph Revenue Canada appears to have been over-zealous and unfair However in most cases that government department is perfectly within the law in disallowing some losses

entirely and reducing others There are basically three classes of taxshy

payers filing as farmers the hobbyist although many do not claim to be such those with a reasonable expectation of profit but preshyoccupied with other employment and full shytime farmers with or without off-farm income

The first group constitute a wide range of country dwellers Some may have two riding horses and even harvest crops for their liveshystock According to the tax regulations such taxpayers have no reasonable expectation of profit and none of the costs are deductible against other sources of income

Others file as farmers because they feel they are really farming The farm work-load costs and frustrations are considered sufficient to qualify them as farmers They are the taxshypayers with 15 beef cows or 40 ewes two mediocre race horses or 40 acres of hay writshying off operating expenses and depreciation of $10000 a year plus $10000 mortgage intershyest on an operation with a maximum cash and

or accrued income of $7500 per year Again these taxpayers do not have a

reasonable expectation of profit based on the expenses being charged for tax purposes Therefore according to the tax rules these taxpayers should not be allowed any deducshytions against other sources of income

The tax rules should not be changed to accommodate these people They have a hobby not unlike skiing travelling or collectshying stamps All hobbies come at a cost few ever make money and the costs must be covered with after tax dollars If these same people rented land and used custom operators they might qualify because their costs would be reduced substantially

Another group of farmers do have a reasonable expectation of profit but their chief source of income is not farming or a combination of farming and some other source of income The major part of these taxshypayers time and effort is spent doing someshything other than farming Such taxpayers are allowed to deduct against other income the first $2500 of cash losses plus 50 per cent of the next $5000 Any balance must be carried ahead up to ten years or back three years against net farm income

Limiting Loss Deductions

Many of these taxpayers however have not restricted themselves to the $5000 maximum They have been deducting unshylimited losses against other income for several years even though off-farm employment controls their time and effort Revenue Canada under the present law has every right to limit

their loss deductions Likewise merely having gross income from farming in excess of inshycome from other sources does not automatishycally qualify a taxpayer for unlimited farm losses against other income

All raxpayers who have filed as farmers are also eligible to deduct the full amount of the investment tax credit when new qualifying machinery or buildings are purchased This credit reduces federal tax payable not taxable income by $7000 in southern Ontario or shy$20000 in the Maritimes on a new bam costshying $100000 It soon becomes obvious why Revenue Canada is concerned about part-time farming

The third classification filing tax returns as farmers involves taxpayers whose chief source of income is indeed farming or a combination of farming and some other source of income Such taxpayers many deduct

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unlimited farm cash losses against other inshy Then anyone who could prove an accflI al prices W hat chance would a beginning famler come in a given year It is expected that farmshy profit should be allowed unlim ited losses with no o ff-farm income have in competing for ing produces the bulk of income or is the centre against other sources of income regardless of land The established farmer would also have of work routine and is the taxpayer s major th size of operation For example a person difficulty attempting to expand in competition preoccupation A farmer dri vi ng a school bus purchasing one or two dairy heifers each year with the non-faml dollars should easily qual ify Many fanners who have working for thei r feed and housing them in It would also be logical with more dolshytaken full- or part-t ime jobs because of fi nan shy rented quarters could likely show a profit lars at stake for Revenue Canada to step up its cial difficulty should be able to work full- time using accrual methods Their tax liability is audits It has also been suggested that the for several years without losing their el igibilshy only deferred dcpartment shou ld hir agricultu rally trained ity provided they had a history of full-time Many taxpayers are lobbying for inshy auditors My experience would ind icate that a fanning creases in the $5000 li mit The limit has not profcssional agricultural auditor could easily

In my opinion any taxpayer who could changed since its inception in the early 1950s testify in court that the majori ty of part-time not show a profit using accrual methods should Such an increase may be justified in light of fanners have no reasonable expectat ion of not be allowed any tax rel ief regardless of the infl ation over time However an increase in profit using aecmal accou nting methods scale of operation All othe r businesses must the limit would not necessarily be o f benefit to Th is would mean that many taxpayers now file on the accrual method Part-time farmers agriculture limited to $5 000 would get nothing As a wou ld only be required to prove on audit that In the first place encouraging more part-ti me farme r and Professor of Agricultural they could show a profit using accrual capital into agriculture may not be desirable Economics and Extens ion Edlleation at the acc unting T he city money would put pressure on land Un iversity o f Gue lph I rest my case 0

Table I- Farm Taxfilers Average Income from Farm and Off-farm Sources by County 1981

Di stricts Farm

Tax filers

Average Net Farm Income

Taxfilers Reporting O ff-Farm Income

Av erage Net

Off-Fann Income

Tax fi lers Reporting Wages and

Salaries

Average Income from W ages and

Salaries

Average Net Income from All Sources

Net arm Income as

a of Total Net Income

no $ no $ no $ $

Brant 1695 5293 1584 12620 631 63 13 17914 29 6 Elgin 3425 3812 3204 10256 1248 4838 14068 27 1 Essex 4905 3395 4769 15857 2 409 9002 19252 176 Hald imand-Nrfolk 5 955 4441 5542 9724 2083 4 745 14 165 314 Hamilton-Wentworth 1960 262 1887 21 999 1084 13184 22 261 12 Ken t 6295 6 279 6063 II 610 2530 5583 17889 351 Lambton 4250 3130 4086 14 618 1944 8723 17 748 176 Middlesex 5485 3486 5198 14450 2410 7651 17936 194 Niagara 4625 1063 4 437 18011 2445 11130 19074 5 6 Oxford 4440 5273 4158 10350 1480 4625 15623 33 8

SOUTHERNONTARlO 43035 3855 40928 13454 18 263 7231 17 309 22 3

Bruce 4 470 -168 4242 10 931 1942 6243 10763 Dufferin 1365 - 180 1301 15 315 704 9220 15134 Grey 3725 363 3519 11 032 1718 6361 11395 32 Halton 1675 - 165 1628 27976 953 16 2 11 27811 Huron 4520 3388 4219 9055 1626 4416 12443 272 Peel 1715 -431 167 1 31243 1013 180[7 30812 Perth 4685 4 935 4323 8789 1514 3891 [3724 360 Simcoe Waterloo Wellington

4515 3330 4425

115 3692 1537

4318 3137 4099

14188 15034 12850

2265 1405 1968

8637 7872 8187

14303 18726 14387

08 197 107

WESTERN ONTARIO 34 430 1667 32462 13481 15108 7566 15148 110

CENTRAL ONTARIO

EA STERN ONTARIO

19455

17375

88

1427

18820

16 325

22874

14716

10476

7885

12524

9045

22962

16 143

04

88 -NORTHERN ONTARIO 4665 - 139 4430 15404 2731 10 898 15265

THE PROVINCE 118970 2095 J 12975 15 263 54468 8602 17 358 12 1

1980 118035 2172 111119 13 00 53481 7619 15271 142

No tes A farm tax filer is a taxfil er who reported positive gross income or non-zero net income from unincorporated self-employed farming activity Figures may not add due to rounding Source Data are derived from the administrative records of Re venue Canada

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crown Roth Gav in Carrow and Pe te r Domarshy

In Touch With the Gryphon chuk took Cl AU titles in the ir respec tive weight classcs

Athletics Scene athered for thc annual Intercollegiate Athletic Banquet the people making up

the traditional full house in Peter Clark Hall had good reason to celebrate The reason

Another annual tradition - the conclusion of a highly successful season

National and provincial champions plus Ontario and Canadian all-stars received recognition and four deserving athletes were rewarded with special awards for their outshy

stand in g e fforts

The Uni versi ty of Guelph Male Athlete of the Year Award went to Sam Benincasa

HAFA 84 A fifth-year football team linebacker he was se lected as an All-Canadian

for the second consecuti ve year and was a nominee as outstand ing defensive player in the country

A Hamilton native he culminated hi s

career by returning an intercepted pass for a touchdown during the final home game Earshy

lier in the year Sam was the recipient of the Wildman Trophy awarded annually to the outstanding graduating player who has comshy

bined sportsmanship and leadership with sc ho lastic achievement

The Uni versity of Guelph Female Athlete of the Year Award went to Silvia Ruegger

FAC 84 of O shawa who was delcared the Canadian Inter-unive rsi ty Athletic Union

Cross-country Running C hampion for the

second time in her career Her previous triumph was in 1980

The W F Mitchell Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year Award s went to

Gav in Carrow Arts 84 and Karen McBride FACS 84 These awards named after Bill

Mitchell OAC 38 lo ng-ti me director of athletics are given to students in their graduatshy

ing year who demonstrate outstanding talcnt and ability in their sport combined with leadershyship and involvement in athletics

Gavin Carrow who won the CIA U Wres tling title in the 86-kilogram class for a

second time was an inspiration to his teamshymates according to coach Lo ndo Iacovelli

Karen McBride was a member of both the Fie ld Hockey and Ice Hockey teams and also served on the Athletics Advi sory Council and the Wome ns Intcrcollegiate Cou ncil

Of course it was a success ful year for

Grypho n teams as well The football team had a 5-2 record highli gh ted by the demolition of

the University of Wes tern Ontario 36-11 and the routing of the numbcr-one ranked Wilfrid Lau rie r University team by a score of 27-9 before large crowds No less than s ix

Grypho ns were accorded league all-star honours

The Wrestling Gryphons won an unpreshy

cedented fifth consccutive OUAA title and

narrowly missed out on a third st raight C IAU

President Burt Matthe ws OAC 47 centre with athletes of the year Sam Benincasa left and Silvia Ruegger

The mens hockey tcam ran a seven-game winning stretch in January to finish fou rth in the

13-tea m 0 A A league After ousting Laurenshytian University of Sudbury in quarter fina l play they were e liminated in the semis by thc Uni shyversity of Toronto Blucs the eventual national

champion Defenceman Bruce Kilgour earned the respect of league eoachcs to earn a firstshy

team OU AA all-star selec tio n The womens basketball team saved the ir

best effort for the cnd of the year as they won

the consolatio n title at the OW IAA championshyships Cindy McMastcr was sclected as a firstshyteam Icague all-star while Joanne Hurd was

named to the All-Tournament team at the championshi p tournament

The womens swimming team had the ir

most successful yea r placing fifth in Ontario

Shannon Smith won the gold medal in the 100shymeter back stroke

Barb Jonak won the individual title as the Gryphons regained thei r OW IAA archery crown and Judy Richardson took top honours in leading the Alpine Ski team to the chamshy

pionship of the Can-Am Challenge at Mont Gabriel Que

With only a few athletes gradu ating fro111

the University this year prospects look even be tte r for 1984-85 0

198384 MAJO R NTERCOUEGlAlli AWAROS

Archery Trophy Bltl rh Jonk rIO f Improved l3a ~kc lbJlI Award t kll) Joh n r araght r A d ll)irTl~onMen1onJlMVY Iruphy

Puul Flack An[hClIl Y SICWirt Mo~tlmpro ld Ba kC-Ibltl1l AwarJ (WtllllC II) Shelky Robcn M V P B~J e lba ll Award (Wo men) JOlun e Ilurd

M V P Oaom inlo n Award (WIJI lc n) Darle ne II (Ju~ c

M V P Badmi n1 0 n Award (M en) Manno Mekhlnrn v1V P C rt)Counlry Awa rd (Wumcn) Sil Vi a Rucg~c r

Art HachlTrophy Mlll uel SJ al i 1-1 VY CUrlil lg ~warJ Chri Harber M CP held lI ocke) warc1 Ann MldJklon MV P Fll~ l d I-Iockty WIlJ J ulie II nn1c y

M IP Foolbull A wa rd Ml nlO D imu lo Thl Prc-idc lli r)r~ l e r M V P rOOlhdll Trophy Je d Tommy Foolball Rook ie Award S( olll nJy Jeff Vo lpe M 1 P ICl llock ty Awmj (Wom( n) An n WeIL1I M I P COtJc hc~ Icc Hockey l rophy T ina Vld Walter Rickard Mcmon lluokie Awaru Roy RUltOl 1I Jack [l os M VP Hodl~Y AWdrd~ Hrul C K IIour T Hll Burton

kU 1I1 FvansM V P Ru glc r ward Je rrB il lrJo d

Oill M ~All u ff St)cc r Trophy M lklM il k r MI P Swimm 1l1 wClrd ( Wulllcn) Siobhan S mnh M V P Swimming Award~ (Women )

Janice Ptu Ann Mcn ic M IY Swimmillg AwmJ ( Mcnl Ilowaru T hw aitcl

C M Ki nncar MClnonal MVPAwarJ Jcl f Wadgc M P Syndml ili cd S wi mming Award I klcnc C ana u M I P VOllcyhal1 Award(Men) Sam Mallhn MV P Vollcyoall Award (Me n) Vil07JI M 1 P Vnl le yhoJll Award (Wumen) I clune ~kKcc

MV P Volleyball Award (Women) J(lC li e fl narr

1IP WrC llin l Award bull Ken Pull -MVP Wre~111I1 pound Awltl rd Ga IIICarroW

S PECIAL AW AROS - MEN AoIO WOME oI Cath y Rowe Manlge rH ra iner o fthc Year Awlrd Cu lin Silll ret W lldmlIl Trophy Sall1 [kninct J Or Mary Beve rl ey-Burton Iookie of lhc Year Award

L111e PrJce Don r JllJeron Tro phy tvl l fTlO Di nHII l(l W t- Muche ll Sponltowoman Award Karen M c Bride W F M ilChcll Sr)(m mm Award Gavin Carro FcnMk Alhl e te oft he Yeara SilV ia Rucg l1r Male Athlete nflhc Year Sam BcmnCiJltI

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A Message From

Glenn PoweU OAC 62 New UGAA President Hcy do you remember the night

we It is perhaps to be exshy

pected that alumni gatherings or meetings find most of the group recalling the days (or nights)

spent as undcrgraduates The period on camshypus was an experience of learning sharing and

living that we would neither trade nor sell for

all the tea in China Oh sure there were some disappointments and some things best left forgotten But for most of us the days

spent on campus at Guelph were days of good timcs and now good memories

Thc University of Guelph Alumni Asshysociation is I believe the link between the

good old days the present and the future A strong alumni association will ensure those

precious links will not be broken and the strength of the Association will depend on the support it receives from alumni

Thc UGAA is proud of the support it has received from alumni across the country and indeed around the world Today and in the

future we need that support Few if any institutions of higher learnshy

ing can match the achievements of the U nivershysity of Guelph It is a campus with unique and wcll-recognized qualities As alumni we are part of a community that has a track record of

which we can be justly proud Now we must

usc this strong foundation to look to the future Through this publication the Guelph

Alumnus we endeavour to keep you abreast of activities both on and off campus that are of

particular interest to alumni We trust you will find these activities of interest and benefit but to make the programs successful we need your participation We need to know what you as

alumni want your Association to be doing

Comments suggestions yes even critishycisms are welcome Please make your opinshy

ions known I f we are to maintain a vibrant Association it will be because of the members

who actively participate But participation goes beyond the orshy

ganized activities of the Association We alumni can playa vital role as the eyes and cars of the University of Guelph We can

with both business contacts and friends be the unofficial public relations arm of the Univershysity

As alumni there is a great opportunity to make sure that students planning a university

education are aware of what our University has to offer And in the process of making others aware of the University of Guelph we will no

doubt receive information in return that will be

of assistance to those on campus who are involved in establishing future directions or new initiatives for the University As alumni

Glenn Powell OAC 62

we can provide the communication link beshy

tween the University and the community however far-reaching that community may

be To complain about the so-called ivory tower is to admit that we have not done our part

Fund-rais ing campaigns have and wi II continue to be an integral part of the UGAA

program Rcsponse in the past has been heartshy

ening Our a lumni have enthusiastically shown a desire to ensure the continued deshy

velopment of the University As we look to the future one can predict the need will continue to grow If we each do a little together we can

do a lot As president of the UGAA for 1983-84

I would like to acknowledge and thank all those who have in the pas t given so much of their time and energy to the development and growth of the Association ) look forward to

the challe nge of maintaining the momentum in

the year ahead Together with our Board of Directors and the support and participation of the alumni body I am confident we will move forward with the spirit that has characterized the University of Guelph Alumni Association

since its formation We have I believe an obligation as

alumni to maintain and enhance the status of

our Alma Mater Future generations will judge

us by our actions and deeds Let us not disapshypoint them

Glenn Powell O AC62 President Univers ity of G uelph Alumni Association 0

From the Immediate Past President

At Alumni Weekend 84 my term of office as president of the University of

Guelph Alumni Association ended ) would like to reminisce if I may for a few moments

The Associations position of Honorary President has been filled by three participants

during the past year Professor Donald Forster commenced the year and we were all saddened

by his sudden death Dr Howard Clark as acting president then joined us and his eagerness to get involved with the Association was most appreciated

At the March meeting of our Board of

Directors Dr Burt Matthews OAC 47 attended and spoke on many matters of

interest We must all be proud to have one of our own (i e graduate of Guelph) as our new

president Welcome Dr Matthews from all Guelph alumni

Although attendance in general has

been somewhat down at most of our special

events during the course of the past year the quality of the programs has not suffered

Everything from the wine symposium to the winter carnival to the leadership conference continue to be of the highest cal ibre The Special Events Committee deserves many thanks for a job well done

Our financial position remains good thanks in part to the new Finance Subshy

committee On their behalf I would like to highlight the efforts of Jim Elmslie assistant

director for development Department of

Alumni Affairs and Development for keeping such a watchful eye on our finances

To everyone who has participated in the many and varied committees that exi st within

the structure of the University of Guelph

Alumni Association I say Thank You Without you your ideas your energy your

time your consideration and your support the Association would amount to very little As president I appreciate your support specifically for the previous year and I know that it will continue to grow well into

the future

To my predecessor Jane (Yolliek)

Webster FACS 75 I can only say how much I appreciated her honesty and enthusiasm during

the last 12 months To my successor G lenn Powell OAC 62 [ have every confidence that under his leadership the next year will be productive for the Association

[n closing I would really like to thank

John Babcock O AC 54 director and Rosemary Clark Mac 59 assistant director

alumni program s and the entire staff of the -Department of Alumni Affairs and Developshyment for the continuous support and tireless

efforts that they put into this Association All too often we fail to recognize their significant contribution to the viability of this Association

Barry Stahlbaum CPS 74 Immediate Past President

University of G uelph Alumn i Association 0

3

SkiDs and knowledge Are a Form of Capital bull bull

Its Growth May Well Be the Most Distinctive Fe ature of the Economic System

Published in Briefing Notes a publica lion of Ihe Council ofOntario Universities (COU) the following brief was submirted to the Treasurer ofOntario theHon Larry Grossman asa contribution to the consultative process adopted by the Treasurer in the preparation of a provincial budget

The universi ti es of O ntario have a large

and important miss ion which touches the lives of all Ontario citizens contributing not

only to their economic but also and as signifishycantly to their social and cultural well-being

O ur universities stand as an intellectual

resource from which industry and business can

draw for adaptation of scientific and social theory to the realities o f today s marketplace

from which governments can draw for the development of new soc ial and economic

policy and from which individuals can draw for greater understanding of their place and context in the hi storical evolution of manshy

kind (Once More With Feeling COU 1982)

The richness and uniqueness of the intelshylectual well from which we draw sustenance

results from th e unifying role of universities in

the creation preservation and transmission of knowledge

Notwithstanding this broad mission universities are clearly generators of economic

growth American studies have shown educashytion historically to be a highly significant

factor in the improvement of productivity in

the United States Similar conclusions were

reached by the Economic Council of Canada

relative to the performance of the Canadian

economy

In 1979 Theodore Schultz Nobel Laureate in Economics noted Although it is obvious that people acquire use ful skills and

knowledge it is not obvious that these skills and knowledge are a form of capi tal that this

capital is in substantial part a product of delibshyerate investment that it has grow n in Western

societies at a much faster rate than convenshytional (non-human) capital and that its growth

may well be the most distinctive feat ure of the economic system

In 1982-83 universiti es in Ontario

awarded over 37000 undergraduate degrees

an increase of almost 9200 or 25 per cent during the past ten years Of that increase 17

per cent was attributable to growth in arts and

science output and 83 per cent to output in profess ional and semi-professional fields

Degree Holdels Doubled The number of degree-holders in Onshy

tario s population has more than doubled during the last decade Yet there is no evishy

dence of oversupply University graduates

continue to demonstrate a higher rate of la bour

force participation as well as a significantly lower overall unemployment rate than the general population as a whole

University graduates also con tinue to

demonstrate ability to attract significantly above-average salaries a reflection of the

value employers place on the importance of

such highly qualified manpower to overall

productivity About eight per cent of the student body

at Ontario universities is drawn here from

outside Canada Given the heavy depe ndence of Ontario on international markets the ro le of

our universities in providing an Ontario pershyspective to future business and government Icaders ab road is s ignificant for the economic potenti a l of this province

Univers ities play an important role in the

re trai ning and upgrading of large numbers of profess ional s In 1981-82 total non-credit

continuing ed ucation registration in Ontario universities was over 123000 and 55 per cent of these registrations were in professionallyshy

related programs Ontario universities also contribute to the

development of human capital through the

highly unique role they play in the formation

of research skills among graduate students in

all disc iplines Some 41 pcr cent of the graduate students in C anada were e nroBed in

Ontario universit ies in 1981-82 In engineershying management and computer sc ience these

proportions were 44 per cent 47 pe r cent and 48 per cent respectively

Ontario universities have assigned priorshy

ity to the development of graduate studies and provided the province with a rich and diverse

range of graduate programs many of which

ha ve earned interna tiona l dis tinc tion The Ontario univers ity community attaches great

importance to basic research and scholars hip and to the necessary interrela tio nship between vigorous research programs capacity to train

graduate students and the vitality of the unishyversity as a whole

Since the mid-1970s the proportion of research revenue relative to total revenue at

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Ontario universities ha$ increased by ovcr 50 per cent By 1982-83 total research revenue reached $275 million Within the Canadian

university community Ontario now attracts over 40 per cent of federal research money

60 per cent of foreign government money and 50 per cent of non-government research expenditure

Contract Research Growing A new and important element of the

research enterprise is the ex tent to which

university personnel are becoming involved in

rcscarch applications It is estimated that contract research now comprises some 12 per cent of total research activity Contract reshysearch takes many forms involving the acti vshyity of indiv idua l faculty the activity of groups of faculty and students under the umbrella of

industrial rcseareh offices and with growing frequenc y the creation of research institutes de ve loped to foster the univers ity-indu stry

interface

C anada in general and Ontario in

particular face enormous challenges in confronting the accelerating pace of scientific and technological change O ntario must

undertake a major readjustment of its economic infrastruc tu re if it wants to maintain anything approaching its present standard of liv ing

The uni ersities of this province have an enormous potentia l to contribute to this adaptation Indeed many wo uld argue that without conti nuing strong suppo rt of the

uni versi ty sector Onta rio w ill not make the

adaptation successfully As wai noted recent ly by W alte r Light

chairman and chief executi ve office r o f

orthern Telecom Limited Unless we are prepared to come to grips with our currcn t cri s is in education unle ss we arc pre pared to invest in highe r education at leveb comparabk to or higher than such inves tments being

made by other countries wc run the a im st

certa in risk ot preclud ing any rea l long-t Im productivity improvcment in Canada

T he greatest im pact of technologica l change on future manpower needs w ill be fe ll by those occupy ingjob~ requ iring a m iddle range o f occ upational skill s _ H ighly skilled and lower sk illed personne l wi ll continue in

demand regardless of the direction of change The pacc and direction of change however arc c rit icl lly dependent on O ntario s having

ace ss to a large pool of wel l-trained

uni versity graduates Demand for access to higher education in

O ntario is present ly at record high levels and continues to grow When this continuing high demand is combined with the prospect of additional numbers resulting from the

restructuring of Ontarios secondary school curriculum that is now under way the arlier

forecast of an almost certain decrease in

applications during the remainder of the 80s become unlikely

Ontario must not take an assumptio n of declining enrolments at the university level as

an excuse for reducing government support to

the universi ty sector Instead we should be examining means of enhancing accessibility to ensure that the flow of highly qualified manpower does not decline to dangerous ly

low levels

In particul ar we must protect the richness and vitality of the graduate enterprise in Ontario Ontarios graduate programs and

basic research and scholarly activity must be carefully tended and nourished if Ontario is to operate at the leading edge of a technological change

No other research institutions give as

much return on investment as

universities in the long term No other

institutions produce both knowledge

and people

Research and Scholarship the Key A strong program of basic research and

scho larship in a ll di scipl ines is O ntario s key

into the fo refront of the international in te llec shytual tide It will allow rapid adaptation of inte llectual developments e lsewhere to

O ntarios particular c ircumstances_ It will

ensure a relevance to graduate tra ining in th is province that can be a cOOlplished in no other way nd it wi ll ensure that ind ustrial innovation in O ntario can draw from intelshy

lectua l resources that extend beyond our boundaries

As George Keyworth science advisor to U S Presi dent Reagan recen tly noted No other research institutions give as mueh return on investment as universities in the long term - not federal labs not non-profit organiashytions not industry No other institutions

produce both knowledge and people In a similar vein a report publishcd by

the Roya l Institute for International Affairs in

the United Kingdom has noted that in one particular sector instead of paying subsidies to

pharmaceutical companies in Britain the government there might do better to give the

University Gran ts Commission equivalent resources to help maintain and expand o ur intellectual effort in biotechnology and reshylated studies

The adaptations which have been required of universities in recent years to cope with demand for grad uates of vocationallyshy

oriented programs to undertake a major shift of activity toward the research functi on and to

significantly enhance the university-industry interface have placed an enonnous strain on our unive rsity institutions M uch of this adaptation has been accomplished in an era of severely constrained funding

While questions of ba lance loom large universities recognize that further adaptation is not only desirable but vital if the university community in th is province is to fulfill it s

potential for easing O ntarios transition into the post-industrial age With continuing financial constraint however our capacity for further change is severely limited_

O ntario universities need injections of new operating and capital funds

bull to permit new hiring of young academics

bull to allow replenishment of equipment stocks to s tate ot the art leve ls bull to maintain the very considerable in vestment in physical plant

bull and to permi t adaptation and selecti ve expan ion of ex isting uni vers ity space such that it more effecti vely com plements new

objectives In the 60s Ontario made a major

comm itment to the hi gher education enterpri se in order to allow all those inte llec tually capable of it the righ t of access to univers ity level study A new o mm itment [0 hi gher educat ion is now needed - to ensure that our

intellec tual well remains fu ll and to a llow private and corporate c itizens a like the righ t to d raw from its wate rs 0

Erratum- It has corne to our attenshytion that the article An Agricultural Policy fort he Yukon in the Guelph AlumllUl S ummer issue 1982 Vol 15 No 3 referred to bull the Re shy

sources Planning Branch of the Can adi an Gove rnment It should

have read the Resources Planning Branch 01 the T e rritorial Governshyment T hc draft submi tted did not

indicate the level of government reshysponsible for its preparation No

slight was intended to those res ponsi shy

ble for its prepara tion

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Farming in orthern Ontario - 1903 By Adam Graham OAC 23

I n the spring of 1903 my father a widower since the previous August obtained a halfshy

section of land not far from Lake Nipissing some ten miles west of Sturgeon Falls The north 160 acres was pre-emption land The south half through which the Yeuve River flowed had also been obtained that way but abandoned some years previously

Adam Graham OA C 23

About the Writer

Lasl March 25 Adam Jam es Graham OAC

23 celehrated hiI 90lh hirlhday He was born in Carllon Place nearOffaW(I in 1894

Raisedrom agl 9 on ajimn in Northern Ontario he finish ed public school There hut did nOl ha ve Ih e opporlunily to affend high

school Fullowing graduUlionfrom Ihe OAC he worked on insect reearch al the Vineland

Experimental Farm and in 1925 allended the

College of EduCUlion Toronto lu uhwin 0_

teaching certificate HI ~-tarted teaching al Bean)Sville HS_ 111

1926 married Evelyn Slephenson in 1927 and moved 10 Walford DiSlriCI H S in 1929 where

Jar Ihe next 18 years he taught Botany Zoology Chemislry Agricultural Science and

Music During Ihat lime one ahis star pupils I(I 1I00Ie olher Ihull Unilersirl aGuelph

preli(ent-lO-iJe Bllrt MUllhel lOf er OAC 47 _ Adam joined Ih e sldjfat Leaminglon H S

in 1947 and moved on 10 Blenhen DiSlrict H_S in 1950 His wife died in 1951 and he

married Grace Curbin in 1952 He swrled whal was 10 be his lasl leaching POSI al R H _

King Collegiale Inslilule in Smrburuugh in 1955 and relired in 1961

Adam is currently wriling a book - Tbe Geneology of the Grahams of Lymek i Ins and Kottochside Scotland His family records

dutl back 101647 0

Dad s lot was separated from the neighshybours by the rudiments of a roadway between the river and a main road about two miles north Along this roadway on Dad s side were three loose strands of barbed wire that dangled from wobbly fence posts some of which were nearly horizontal

A few acre s along the ri ver bank had been cleared of trees but not stumped or cultivated The ruins of a small log cabin was the only sign of former occupation I remember seeing my first garter snake while watching grasshopshypers being caught in spiders webs along the base of its walls Such was the place where Dad settled to raise hi s boys to manhood

There were four of us - Jack 19 Bob 14 myself 9 and Bill 7 Jack went north with Dad quite early to help him get started but we three younger ones were left in Carlton Place near Ottawa to fini sh out our school terms at the end of June_

By that time a good start had been made on a frame house about an acre of potatoes was mady to be hilled up and a few acres of mixed oats and peas were a few inches high For a few weeks we were lodged at a neighshybours place_

Jack and Bob accompanied by our little fox terrier slept in the hou se after they came north with the furniture but Bill and I did not move in till some time in August The hou se had one room below and one above which was reached by climbing an almost perpendicular ladder The cracks in its floor admitted enough light from the lamp below to see to go to bed

Baching it presented many problems Jack had often helped Mother prepare mea-Is and could make a cake or bake the simpler food dishes such as rice pudding soda stones

johnny-cake etc but the art Dr bread-making with the old type of slow-rising dry ycast cakes had to be learned from scratch Both Dad and Jack tried their hands at it For some time at first we never knew what to expect but we were always hungry enough to eat anything that even resembled a loaf But after some sticky slithery messes caused by the soft spongy mixture overflowing its container and learning that proper temperatures and plenty of kneading were as important as the ingredients Dad became quite expert at it

Of necessity our bill-of-fare had to be simple Potatoes were the only food crop the farm produced that year We had them boiled or fried twice a day except Sundays Dad often made potato scones in which mashed potatoes were mixed with the flour before rolling They were browned on both sides on top of the stove in cast iron frying pans They were somewhat cloggy but good with a smear of molasses

With no refrigeration salt pork and baeon were the main types of meat used but when cold weather came Dad bought the frozen carcass of a whole pig and sawed a pieee off whenever pork was wanted _We rarel y had apples but Dad bought some oranges and lemons for marmalade that winter Cutting the well-soaked skins into thin slices was the basis of a family party one winter evening

When we were settled in the house and it was made habitable a small temporary stable was started and Dad went back to Carlton Place where his brother-in-law a veterinary surgeon selected a horse and a cow for him It was an eventful day when he drove home with the three-year-old Suffolk Punch gelding pulling a democrat The horse was quiet and well suited for handling by greenhorns The cow was a four-year-old Ayrshire-Shorthorn cross not milking but supposed to have a ealf in January Fortunately for us even an apology for a fence would keep her in

Once we became established in the house we started a major project in which anyone not otherwise engaged took part It was the digging of a root-cellar in the back of a nearby gully

Adam Graham Snr Adam Graham Jnr Bob cousin Jean Bill and Jack in 1908

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I well remember the peculiar subsoil which consisted of alternating layers of fine dark and light clay each about one-quarter of an inch thick and that when dried the layers seemcd to disappear The walls and ceiling were supported by poles cut from the bush and carth was piled up on top to a depth of about two feet The outer end had an air space between two doors lined with fe lt paper for insulation The interior was divided into bins but no special provision was made for ventilashytion and the potatoes sweated badly In the depth of winter long frost crystals were formed Some of the outer potatoes were frozen solidly but in spite of their unnatural sweetish taste and soggy texture we ate them anyway

Potato harvesting was another family affair It was the only harvest because with such poor fencing the oats and peas proved too tempting for neighbouring cattle

At Christmas time Dad took Bill and me back to Carlton Place to be with our relatives but Jack and Bob were left at home to care for the horse cow and dog With so much unexshypected cold weather they had a tough time of it

The house had very little insulation and was distinctly drafty Temperatures must have dipped to _400 Fahrenheit or lower because when a small bottle of mercury was put out it froze into a solid lump There were two stoves but when the fire went out at night ice formed on the water in the kettle and on the top and sides of the water pail It would be nearly an inch thick Jack declared he could not bake bread because the sponge froze during the night Fortunately neighbours asked them over for Christmas dinner and the evening

One cold night in early March the cow gave birth to a calf that was dead when discovshyered Dad called the colostrum milk beestings and made bee sty-cheese of it by mixing in a little salt and cooking it in a boiling water bath When coagulated he cut it into thick slices to be eaten with bread

In the summer of 1904 a trio of weaned Berkshire pigs was bought by mail order Bill and I made pets of them and often herded them

The farmhouse and temporary stable

while they dug for roots or grubs in places where no crop had been planted

Dad was an ardent reader of agricultural bulletins and farm magazines and vowed that no scrub bull would ever be used on his place Since there were no purebreds in the vicinity he ordered an elven-month-old dual-purpose Shorthorn with a registered pedigree Neighshybours thought it rather extravagant when he had only one cow The bull was supposed to be of serviceable age but when it was turned out to pasture it was morc interested in sucking milk from the cow than in anything else

There were only 13 English-speaking families in our Veuve River settlement and when our local school opened in January 1906 only eight pupils attended Classes were held in a room separated from the balance of a private farm dwelling by a thin temporary partition and the family on the other side could hear all that went on Desks were home-made and seats were simple benches without backs

By September of 1907 I was ready to start my entrance class to high school but no teacher had been found even when a new school building with plastered walls had been erected Shortly before that Dad had someshyhow become acquainted with an old man a former seaman from Georgian Bay who had to retire because of paralysis in both arms and legs

When the seaman learned of my desire to continue at school he suggested that Dad let me go to live with him in Sturgeon Falls where he had a couple of rooms so that I could go to school in return for my help I was left to choose and though I had never met the old man I accepted the challenge

Of course a rather bashful counrry boy starting in a strange school in town became the butt of a number of harmless jokes and pranks but when I bested the champion arm-wrestler of the cass three times in succession without much difficulty I won their respect

But my real problems came from another source I soon found that the old man was living off the generosity of anyone whom he could persude to help him In about a month he had to move to a house at the far end of the

town and by that time food supplies were becoming increasingly scarce

Late in October when Dad learned of my predicament he thought I should go home But I was getting along well at school and my teacher the principal had informed me that I had a good chance of winning thc school medal for highest marks on the high school entrance examination next June so I decided to stick with it

Looking baek at the situation now I really dont know how I could possibly have managed had not Jack soon after his return from a survey party in the far north obtained a job in the pulp mil] in town and eome to live with us He brought a bed from home and then I could sleep with my own brother His wage was $150 for a ten-hour day six days a week with day and night shifts alternating weekly Out of this he paid the rent of $7 monthly bought our fuel lamp oil and all our food supplies except potatoes which he brought from home

I finished my term at school wrote the departmental examinations to enter high school won the medal for top marks in the school but was never awarded it My princishypal did his best to obtain it for me A lame excuse given was the shortage of funds but I think the real reason was that I was from out of town and of course the school board did not know how much financial help my brother Jack had given the old man in those eight months

To my great disappointment I never had the opportunity or the privilege to attend high school as a pupil

During my following five years on the farm I became keenly interested in dairy cattle and dairying Our pure-bred Ayrshires won many prizes at Vernor and Sturgeon Falls fall fairs as did my dairy butter By using milk scales and the Babcock test I knew what each cow produced

As some of my classmates of Year 23 may know I enrolled in two dairy shortshycourses at the OAC in the winter and early spring before we all came together in Sepshytember 1919 With no high schooling at all and only four years of public school attenshydance though I did have my entrance certifishycate to high school I felt I was lucky to be admitted

At that time I planned to speciali ze in Dairy Husbandry but by the time I finished my first year of studies I realized that the study of life had greater educational appeal to shyme than what was offered in the Dairy Husshybandry option So in my final years I specialshyized in Biology and ever after became known to classmate Ted Hutt as Chcnopodium album

In all my 35 years of teaching high school pupils chiefly in Agricultural and General Science Botany and Zoology I have never had cause to regret that choice 0

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At the noon picnic The OAC wine tastillg

At Alumni Weekend 84

fllcominll UGAA Presidenl Glenn Puwell OAC 62 and olllgoiflg presshyidelll [Jarr) SlahbaulII CPS 74

Leon Claus OAC 22 at the UGAA (Ifflaa meeting asked Du Y UIi slill grow IlImips at Guelph

Couldnt be thele but

Dear Dr and Mrs Mat thews

Thank-you very much for your invitation to the reception at the Presidents Rcsidence on June 24 during Alumni Weekend As a Ccnshy

tury Club member I feel a little guilty that this is for our be nefit only and not for all the other donors to the Alma Mater Fund I m sure it

will be well attended and it would be an excelshylent time for me to meet some of my classshymates aga in

nfortunately time and distance just don t pe rmit me the privilege of attending I rea lize it wasnt nee ssary for me to write but

I wo uld like to take this opportun ity to welshycome you to the University of Guel ph and exte nd my best wishes fo r your stay at the University

As an Alu mnus of G uelph I am o nly too happy to contribute my small part to the AMF with the knowledge that I m helping someshy

bod y else ac hieve as fi ne an education as I received I am proud or G uelph and its fine reputation as a learning inst itution and to conshytribute to it is the least I can do after the four great ycars it gave me

Thank you again for your invitation Im

sorry I wont make it but Im sure it will be a fi ne afternoon for all there r

Yours trul y

Peter F Walsh OAC 81 C lear Range Farm

Box 97 Marwayne Alberta TOB 2XO

Full marksor this hat Ir ick

Banquel tables lVere g roaning

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Class ofOAC 49 perused their year book OVC open hOLise displayed some AMF equipment purchases

Three old cronies Arboretum tours

Dr HUlVard Clark vice-presidell t acashydemic left ald Presiderzt Burl Malhews OAC 47 dedicated a sugar maple to the memory of the late Presiderzt Donald F Forstllr

The Donald F flirs tt daliwtion plulllt

COMING EVENTS September 6 Fall Semester - classes commence

10middot12 Aggie Wee k

14 OAC golf tournament

16 Alumni Harvest Fair Fill o ut the orde r form below a nd c()m~ to tilt fair

a family day katuring 1880 style acti vitie s at the O ntario

Agric ultural Muse um at M ilto n Ticke t prices include e nshy

trance fee and a chicken barbe cue w ith corn on the cnh

baked potato salad de ssert a nd beve rage

22 HOMECOMING

October 5 Fall Convocation

November 15 Toronto alumni VISA group hosts a Night at the Royal

Alumni Harvest Fair Ticket Order Form (See details above)

NAME College amp Year -Pleac pnnlJ

MAILING ADDRESS (PIC d ~ (Will i )

PI usc r middotg is ter the following fo r the fa ir Adults C hildren

M ai l with your chequc ($9 pe r adult $5 50 per child under 13) payable to the ni versity

of G uelph Alumni Assoc iation to Alumni Harves t Fair Alumn i Office Johnston Ha ll

Unive rsity of G ue lph Guelph Ontar io N I G 2W I not latcrthan Septcmocr4 1984

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Income Tax And the Part-time Farmer

By Professor J Gary Hutchison OAC 58 School of Agricultural Economics and Extension Education OAC University of Guelph

There has been considerable discussion in the media and among part-time farmshy

ers farm organizations and politicians regardshying part-time farming and Revenue Canada What is causing the problems It would appear that Revenue Canada has increased its audit on all taxpayers and particularly those filing as farmers with other sources of income

There have always beenrandom audits and reassessments of part-time farmers The concerns are greater now only because of numbers and the occasional unreasonable assessments as well as the tactics used in some cases The following comments will attempt to clarify part-time farming and the controversy with RevenueCanada

Thousands of taxpayers have moved to the country over the past 15 years or more These country dwellers have many of the same expenses as farmers such as building and fence repair water pumps balky tractors or even feed and veterinary expenses Since a taxpayer is not required to qualify as a farmer before filing as a farmer many began deductshying farm losses against other income

Farming is the only business allowed to file on the cash method of accounting This means expenses of livestock and crops are deductible but the inventory build-up is not taxable until sold All other businesses would have similar expenses but the inventory buildshyup would be subject to tax Cash accounting allows expansion to take place creating cash losses even though the farm may be profitable using accrual accounting The tax referrals created are the equivalent of an interest-free loan

False Impressions

Revenue Canada has been assessing the taxpayer based on information submitted not whether or not a legitimate farm was being operated Such assessment and refunds often have continued for several years giving taxshypayers a false impression of their farming activities and tax position In some cases brought to my attention at the University of Guelph Revenue Canada appears to have been over-zealous and unfair However in most cases that government department is perfectly within the law in disallowing some losses

entirely and reducing others There are basically three classes of taxshy

payers filing as farmers the hobbyist although many do not claim to be such those with a reasonable expectation of profit but preshyoccupied with other employment and full shytime farmers with or without off-farm income

The first group constitute a wide range of country dwellers Some may have two riding horses and even harvest crops for their liveshystock According to the tax regulations such taxpayers have no reasonable expectation of profit and none of the costs are deductible against other sources of income

Others file as farmers because they feel they are really farming The farm work-load costs and frustrations are considered sufficient to qualify them as farmers They are the taxshypayers with 15 beef cows or 40 ewes two mediocre race horses or 40 acres of hay writshying off operating expenses and depreciation of $10000 a year plus $10000 mortgage intershyest on an operation with a maximum cash and

or accrued income of $7500 per year Again these taxpayers do not have a

reasonable expectation of profit based on the expenses being charged for tax purposes Therefore according to the tax rules these taxpayers should not be allowed any deducshytions against other sources of income

The tax rules should not be changed to accommodate these people They have a hobby not unlike skiing travelling or collectshying stamps All hobbies come at a cost few ever make money and the costs must be covered with after tax dollars If these same people rented land and used custom operators they might qualify because their costs would be reduced substantially

Another group of farmers do have a reasonable expectation of profit but their chief source of income is not farming or a combination of farming and some other source of income The major part of these taxshypayers time and effort is spent doing someshything other than farming Such taxpayers are allowed to deduct against other income the first $2500 of cash losses plus 50 per cent of the next $5000 Any balance must be carried ahead up to ten years or back three years against net farm income

Limiting Loss Deductions

Many of these taxpayers however have not restricted themselves to the $5000 maximum They have been deducting unshylimited losses against other income for several years even though off-farm employment controls their time and effort Revenue Canada under the present law has every right to limit

their loss deductions Likewise merely having gross income from farming in excess of inshycome from other sources does not automatishycally qualify a taxpayer for unlimited farm losses against other income

All raxpayers who have filed as farmers are also eligible to deduct the full amount of the investment tax credit when new qualifying machinery or buildings are purchased This credit reduces federal tax payable not taxable income by $7000 in southern Ontario or shy$20000 in the Maritimes on a new bam costshying $100000 It soon becomes obvious why Revenue Canada is concerned about part-time farming

The third classification filing tax returns as farmers involves taxpayers whose chief source of income is indeed farming or a combination of farming and some other source of income Such taxpayers many deduct

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unlimited farm cash losses against other inshy Then anyone who could prove an accflI al prices W hat chance would a beginning famler come in a given year It is expected that farmshy profit should be allowed unlim ited losses with no o ff-farm income have in competing for ing produces the bulk of income or is the centre against other sources of income regardless of land The established farmer would also have of work routine and is the taxpayer s major th size of operation For example a person difficulty attempting to expand in competition preoccupation A farmer dri vi ng a school bus purchasing one or two dairy heifers each year with the non-faml dollars should easily qual ify Many fanners who have working for thei r feed and housing them in It would also be logical with more dolshytaken full- or part-t ime jobs because of fi nan shy rented quarters could likely show a profit lars at stake for Revenue Canada to step up its cial difficulty should be able to work full- time using accrual methods Their tax liability is audits It has also been suggested that the for several years without losing their el igibilshy only deferred dcpartment shou ld hir agricultu rally trained ity provided they had a history of full-time Many taxpayers are lobbying for inshy auditors My experience would ind icate that a fanning creases in the $5000 li mit The limit has not profcssional agricultural auditor could easily

In my opinion any taxpayer who could changed since its inception in the early 1950s testify in court that the majori ty of part-time not show a profit using accrual methods should Such an increase may be justified in light of fanners have no reasonable expectat ion of not be allowed any tax rel ief regardless of the infl ation over time However an increase in profit using aecmal accou nting methods scale of operation All othe r businesses must the limit would not necessarily be o f benefit to Th is would mean that many taxpayers now file on the accrual method Part-time farmers agriculture limited to $5 000 would get nothing As a wou ld only be required to prove on audit that In the first place encouraging more part-ti me farme r and Professor of Agricultural they could show a profit using accrual capital into agriculture may not be desirable Economics and Extens ion Edlleation at the acc unting T he city money would put pressure on land Un iversity o f Gue lph I rest my case 0

Table I- Farm Taxfilers Average Income from Farm and Off-farm Sources by County 1981

Di stricts Farm

Tax filers

Average Net Farm Income

Taxfilers Reporting O ff-Farm Income

Av erage Net

Off-Fann Income

Tax fi lers Reporting Wages and

Salaries

Average Income from W ages and

Salaries

Average Net Income from All Sources

Net arm Income as

a of Total Net Income

no $ no $ no $ $

Brant 1695 5293 1584 12620 631 63 13 17914 29 6 Elgin 3425 3812 3204 10256 1248 4838 14068 27 1 Essex 4905 3395 4769 15857 2 409 9002 19252 176 Hald imand-Nrfolk 5 955 4441 5542 9724 2083 4 745 14 165 314 Hamilton-Wentworth 1960 262 1887 21 999 1084 13184 22 261 12 Ken t 6295 6 279 6063 II 610 2530 5583 17889 351 Lambton 4250 3130 4086 14 618 1944 8723 17 748 176 Middlesex 5485 3486 5198 14450 2410 7651 17936 194 Niagara 4625 1063 4 437 18011 2445 11130 19074 5 6 Oxford 4440 5273 4158 10350 1480 4625 15623 33 8

SOUTHERNONTARlO 43035 3855 40928 13454 18 263 7231 17 309 22 3

Bruce 4 470 -168 4242 10 931 1942 6243 10763 Dufferin 1365 - 180 1301 15 315 704 9220 15134 Grey 3725 363 3519 11 032 1718 6361 11395 32 Halton 1675 - 165 1628 27976 953 16 2 11 27811 Huron 4520 3388 4219 9055 1626 4416 12443 272 Peel 1715 -431 167 1 31243 1013 180[7 30812 Perth 4685 4 935 4323 8789 1514 3891 [3724 360 Simcoe Waterloo Wellington

4515 3330 4425

115 3692 1537

4318 3137 4099

14188 15034 12850

2265 1405 1968

8637 7872 8187

14303 18726 14387

08 197 107

WESTERN ONTARIO 34 430 1667 32462 13481 15108 7566 15148 110

CENTRAL ONTARIO

EA STERN ONTARIO

19455

17375

88

1427

18820

16 325

22874

14716

10476

7885

12524

9045

22962

16 143

04

88 -NORTHERN ONTARIO 4665 - 139 4430 15404 2731 10 898 15265

THE PROVINCE 118970 2095 J 12975 15 263 54468 8602 17 358 12 1

1980 118035 2172 111119 13 00 53481 7619 15271 142

No tes A farm tax filer is a taxfil er who reported positive gross income or non-zero net income from unincorporated self-employed farming activity Figures may not add due to rounding Source Data are derived from the administrative records of Re venue Canada

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crown Roth Gav in Carrow and Pe te r Domarshy

In Touch With the Gryphon chuk took Cl AU titles in the ir respec tive weight classcs

Athletics Scene athered for thc annual Intercollegiate Athletic Banquet the people making up

the traditional full house in Peter Clark Hall had good reason to celebrate The reason

Another annual tradition - the conclusion of a highly successful season

National and provincial champions plus Ontario and Canadian all-stars received recognition and four deserving athletes were rewarded with special awards for their outshy

stand in g e fforts

The Uni versi ty of Guelph Male Athlete of the Year Award went to Sam Benincasa

HAFA 84 A fifth-year football team linebacker he was se lected as an All-Canadian

for the second consecuti ve year and was a nominee as outstand ing defensive player in the country

A Hamilton native he culminated hi s

career by returning an intercepted pass for a touchdown during the final home game Earshy

lier in the year Sam was the recipient of the Wildman Trophy awarded annually to the outstanding graduating player who has comshy

bined sportsmanship and leadership with sc ho lastic achievement

The Uni versity of Guelph Female Athlete of the Year Award went to Silvia Ruegger

FAC 84 of O shawa who was delcared the Canadian Inter-unive rsi ty Athletic Union

Cross-country Running C hampion for the

second time in her career Her previous triumph was in 1980

The W F Mitchell Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year Award s went to

Gav in Carrow Arts 84 and Karen McBride FACS 84 These awards named after Bill

Mitchell OAC 38 lo ng-ti me director of athletics are given to students in their graduatshy

ing year who demonstrate outstanding talcnt and ability in their sport combined with leadershyship and involvement in athletics

Gavin Carrow who won the CIA U Wres tling title in the 86-kilogram class for a

second time was an inspiration to his teamshymates according to coach Lo ndo Iacovelli

Karen McBride was a member of both the Fie ld Hockey and Ice Hockey teams and also served on the Athletics Advi sory Council and the Wome ns Intcrcollegiate Cou ncil

Of course it was a success ful year for

Grypho n teams as well The football team had a 5-2 record highli gh ted by the demolition of

the University of Wes tern Ontario 36-11 and the routing of the numbcr-one ranked Wilfrid Lau rie r University team by a score of 27-9 before large crowds No less than s ix

Grypho ns were accorded league all-star honours

The Wrestling Gryphons won an unpreshy

cedented fifth consccutive OUAA title and

narrowly missed out on a third st raight C IAU

President Burt Matthe ws OAC 47 centre with athletes of the year Sam Benincasa left and Silvia Ruegger

The mens hockey tcam ran a seven-game winning stretch in January to finish fou rth in the

13-tea m 0 A A league After ousting Laurenshytian University of Sudbury in quarter fina l play they were e liminated in the semis by thc Uni shyversity of Toronto Blucs the eventual national

champion Defenceman Bruce Kilgour earned the respect of league eoachcs to earn a firstshy

team OU AA all-star selec tio n The womens basketball team saved the ir

best effort for the cnd of the year as they won

the consolatio n title at the OW IAA championshyships Cindy McMastcr was sclected as a firstshyteam Icague all-star while Joanne Hurd was

named to the All-Tournament team at the championshi p tournament

The womens swimming team had the ir

most successful yea r placing fifth in Ontario

Shannon Smith won the gold medal in the 100shymeter back stroke

Barb Jonak won the individual title as the Gryphons regained thei r OW IAA archery crown and Judy Richardson took top honours in leading the Alpine Ski team to the chamshy

pionship of the Can-Am Challenge at Mont Gabriel Que

With only a few athletes gradu ating fro111

the University this year prospects look even be tte r for 1984-85 0

198384 MAJO R NTERCOUEGlAlli AWAROS

Archery Trophy Bltl rh Jonk rIO f Improved l3a ~kc lbJlI Award t kll) Joh n r araght r A d ll)irTl~onMen1onJlMVY Iruphy

Puul Flack An[hClIl Y SICWirt Mo~tlmpro ld Ba kC-Ibltl1l AwarJ (WtllllC II) Shelky Robcn M V P B~J e lba ll Award (Wo men) JOlun e Ilurd

M V P Oaom inlo n Award (WIJI lc n) Darle ne II (Ju~ c

M V P Badmi n1 0 n Award (M en) Manno Mekhlnrn v1V P C rt)Counlry Awa rd (Wumcn) Sil Vi a Rucg~c r

Art HachlTrophy Mlll uel SJ al i 1-1 VY CUrlil lg ~warJ Chri Harber M CP held lI ocke) warc1 Ann MldJklon MV P Fll~ l d I-Iockty WIlJ J ulie II nn1c y

M IP Foolbull A wa rd Ml nlO D imu lo Thl Prc-idc lli r)r~ l e r M V P rOOlhdll Trophy Je d Tommy Foolball Rook ie Award S( olll nJy Jeff Vo lpe M 1 P ICl llock ty Awmj (Wom( n) An n WeIL1I M I P COtJc hc~ Icc Hockey l rophy T ina Vld Walter Rickard Mcmon lluokie Awaru Roy RUltOl 1I Jack [l os M VP Hodl~Y AWdrd~ Hrul C K IIour T Hll Burton

kU 1I1 FvansM V P Ru glc r ward Je rrB il lrJo d

Oill M ~All u ff St)cc r Trophy M lklM il k r MI P Swimm 1l1 wClrd ( Wulllcn) Siobhan S mnh M V P Swimming Award~ (Women )

Janice Ptu Ann Mcn ic M IY Swimmillg AwmJ ( Mcnl Ilowaru T hw aitcl

C M Ki nncar MClnonal MVPAwarJ Jcl f Wadgc M P Syndml ili cd S wi mming Award I klcnc C ana u M I P VOllcyhal1 Award(Men) Sam Mallhn MV P Vollcyoall Award (Me n) Vil07JI M 1 P Vnl le yhoJll Award (Wumen) I clune ~kKcc

MV P Volleyball Award (Women) J(lC li e fl narr

1IP WrC llin l Award bull Ken Pull -MVP Wre~111I1 pound Awltl rd Ga IIICarroW

S PECIAL AW AROS - MEN AoIO WOME oI Cath y Rowe Manlge rH ra iner o fthc Year Awlrd Cu lin Silll ret W lldmlIl Trophy Sall1 [kninct J Or Mary Beve rl ey-Burton Iookie of lhc Year Award

L111e PrJce Don r JllJeron Tro phy tvl l fTlO Di nHII l(l W t- Muche ll Sponltowoman Award Karen M c Bride W F M ilChcll Sr)(m mm Award Gavin Carro FcnMk Alhl e te oft he Yeara SilV ia Rucg l1r Male Athlete nflhc Year Sam BcmnCiJltI

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SkiDs and knowledge Are a Form of Capital bull bull

Its Growth May Well Be the Most Distinctive Fe ature of the Economic System

Published in Briefing Notes a publica lion of Ihe Council ofOntario Universities (COU) the following brief was submirted to the Treasurer ofOntario theHon Larry Grossman asa contribution to the consultative process adopted by the Treasurer in the preparation of a provincial budget

The universi ti es of O ntario have a large

and important miss ion which touches the lives of all Ontario citizens contributing not

only to their economic but also and as signifishycantly to their social and cultural well-being

O ur universities stand as an intellectual

resource from which industry and business can

draw for adaptation of scientific and social theory to the realities o f today s marketplace

from which governments can draw for the development of new soc ial and economic

policy and from which individuals can draw for greater understanding of their place and context in the hi storical evolution of manshy

kind (Once More With Feeling COU 1982)

The richness and uniqueness of the intelshylectual well from which we draw sustenance

results from th e unifying role of universities in

the creation preservation and transmission of knowledge

Notwithstanding this broad mission universities are clearly generators of economic

growth American studies have shown educashytion historically to be a highly significant

factor in the improvement of productivity in

the United States Similar conclusions were

reached by the Economic Council of Canada

relative to the performance of the Canadian

economy

In 1979 Theodore Schultz Nobel Laureate in Economics noted Although it is obvious that people acquire use ful skills and

knowledge it is not obvious that these skills and knowledge are a form of capi tal that this

capital is in substantial part a product of delibshyerate investment that it has grow n in Western

societies at a much faster rate than convenshytional (non-human) capital and that its growth

may well be the most distinctive feat ure of the economic system

In 1982-83 universiti es in Ontario

awarded over 37000 undergraduate degrees

an increase of almost 9200 or 25 per cent during the past ten years Of that increase 17

per cent was attributable to growth in arts and

science output and 83 per cent to output in profess ional and semi-professional fields

Degree Holdels Doubled The number of degree-holders in Onshy

tario s population has more than doubled during the last decade Yet there is no evishy

dence of oversupply University graduates

continue to demonstrate a higher rate of la bour

force participation as well as a significantly lower overall unemployment rate than the general population as a whole

University graduates also con tinue to

demonstrate ability to attract significantly above-average salaries a reflection of the

value employers place on the importance of

such highly qualified manpower to overall

productivity About eight per cent of the student body

at Ontario universities is drawn here from

outside Canada Given the heavy depe ndence of Ontario on international markets the ro le of

our universities in providing an Ontario pershyspective to future business and government Icaders ab road is s ignificant for the economic potenti a l of this province

Univers ities play an important role in the

re trai ning and upgrading of large numbers of profess ional s In 1981-82 total non-credit

continuing ed ucation registration in Ontario universities was over 123000 and 55 per cent of these registrations were in professionallyshy

related programs Ontario universities also contribute to the

development of human capital through the

highly unique role they play in the formation

of research skills among graduate students in

all disc iplines Some 41 pcr cent of the graduate students in C anada were e nroBed in

Ontario universit ies in 1981-82 In engineershying management and computer sc ience these

proportions were 44 per cent 47 pe r cent and 48 per cent respectively

Ontario universities have assigned priorshy

ity to the development of graduate studies and provided the province with a rich and diverse

range of graduate programs many of which

ha ve earned interna tiona l dis tinc tion The Ontario univers ity community attaches great

importance to basic research and scholars hip and to the necessary interrela tio nship between vigorous research programs capacity to train

graduate students and the vitality of the unishyversity as a whole

Since the mid-1970s the proportion of research revenue relative to total revenue at

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Ontario universities ha$ increased by ovcr 50 per cent By 1982-83 total research revenue reached $275 million Within the Canadian

university community Ontario now attracts over 40 per cent of federal research money

60 per cent of foreign government money and 50 per cent of non-government research expenditure

Contract Research Growing A new and important element of the

research enterprise is the ex tent to which

university personnel are becoming involved in

rcscarch applications It is estimated that contract research now comprises some 12 per cent of total research activity Contract reshysearch takes many forms involving the acti vshyity of indiv idua l faculty the activity of groups of faculty and students under the umbrella of

industrial rcseareh offices and with growing frequenc y the creation of research institutes de ve loped to foster the univers ity-indu stry

interface

C anada in general and Ontario in

particular face enormous challenges in confronting the accelerating pace of scientific and technological change O ntario must

undertake a major readjustment of its economic infrastruc tu re if it wants to maintain anything approaching its present standard of liv ing

The uni ersities of this province have an enormous potentia l to contribute to this adaptation Indeed many wo uld argue that without conti nuing strong suppo rt of the

uni versi ty sector Onta rio w ill not make the

adaptation successfully As wai noted recent ly by W alte r Light

chairman and chief executi ve office r o f

orthern Telecom Limited Unless we are prepared to come to grips with our currcn t cri s is in education unle ss we arc pre pared to invest in highe r education at leveb comparabk to or higher than such inves tments being

made by other countries wc run the a im st

certa in risk ot preclud ing any rea l long-t Im productivity improvcment in Canada

T he greatest im pact of technologica l change on future manpower needs w ill be fe ll by those occupy ingjob~ requ iring a m iddle range o f occ upational skill s _ H ighly skilled and lower sk illed personne l wi ll continue in

demand regardless of the direction of change The pacc and direction of change however arc c rit icl lly dependent on O ntario s having

ace ss to a large pool of wel l-trained

uni versity graduates Demand for access to higher education in

O ntario is present ly at record high levels and continues to grow When this continuing high demand is combined with the prospect of additional numbers resulting from the

restructuring of Ontarios secondary school curriculum that is now under way the arlier

forecast of an almost certain decrease in

applications during the remainder of the 80s become unlikely

Ontario must not take an assumptio n of declining enrolments at the university level as

an excuse for reducing government support to

the universi ty sector Instead we should be examining means of enhancing accessibility to ensure that the flow of highly qualified manpower does not decline to dangerous ly

low levels

In particul ar we must protect the richness and vitality of the graduate enterprise in Ontario Ontarios graduate programs and

basic research and scholarly activity must be carefully tended and nourished if Ontario is to operate at the leading edge of a technological change

No other research institutions give as

much return on investment as

universities in the long term No other

institutions produce both knowledge

and people

Research and Scholarship the Key A strong program of basic research and

scho larship in a ll di scipl ines is O ntario s key

into the fo refront of the international in te llec shytual tide It will allow rapid adaptation of inte llectual developments e lsewhere to

O ntarios particular c ircumstances_ It will

ensure a relevance to graduate tra ining in th is province that can be a cOOlplished in no other way nd it wi ll ensure that ind ustrial innovation in O ntario can draw from intelshy

lectua l resources that extend beyond our boundaries

As George Keyworth science advisor to U S Presi dent Reagan recen tly noted No other research institutions give as mueh return on investment as universities in the long term - not federal labs not non-profit organiashytions not industry No other institutions

produce both knowledge and people In a similar vein a report publishcd by

the Roya l Institute for International Affairs in

the United Kingdom has noted that in one particular sector instead of paying subsidies to

pharmaceutical companies in Britain the government there might do better to give the

University Gran ts Commission equivalent resources to help maintain and expand o ur intellectual effort in biotechnology and reshylated studies

The adaptations which have been required of universities in recent years to cope with demand for grad uates of vocationallyshy

oriented programs to undertake a major shift of activity toward the research functi on and to

significantly enhance the university-industry interface have placed an enonnous strain on our unive rsity institutions M uch of this adaptation has been accomplished in an era of severely constrained funding

While questions of ba lance loom large universities recognize that further adaptation is not only desirable but vital if the university community in th is province is to fulfill it s

potential for easing O ntarios transition into the post-industrial age With continuing financial constraint however our capacity for further change is severely limited_

O ntario universities need injections of new operating and capital funds

bull to permit new hiring of young academics

bull to allow replenishment of equipment stocks to s tate ot the art leve ls bull to maintain the very considerable in vestment in physical plant

bull and to permi t adaptation and selecti ve expan ion of ex isting uni vers ity space such that it more effecti vely com plements new

objectives In the 60s Ontario made a major

comm itment to the hi gher education enterpri se in order to allow all those inte llec tually capable of it the righ t of access to univers ity level study A new o mm itment [0 hi gher educat ion is now needed - to ensure that our

intellec tual well remains fu ll and to a llow private and corporate c itizens a like the righ t to d raw from its wate rs 0

Erratum- It has corne to our attenshytion that the article An Agricultural Policy fort he Yukon in the Guelph AlumllUl S ummer issue 1982 Vol 15 No 3 referred to bull the Re shy

sources Planning Branch of the Can adi an Gove rnment It should

have read the Resources Planning Branch 01 the T e rritorial Governshyment T hc draft submi tted did not

indicate the level of government reshysponsible for its preparation No

slight was intended to those res ponsi shy

ble for its prepara tion

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Farming in orthern Ontario - 1903 By Adam Graham OAC 23

I n the spring of 1903 my father a widower since the previous August obtained a halfshy

section of land not far from Lake Nipissing some ten miles west of Sturgeon Falls The north 160 acres was pre-emption land The south half through which the Yeuve River flowed had also been obtained that way but abandoned some years previously

Adam Graham OA C 23

About the Writer

Lasl March 25 Adam Jam es Graham OAC

23 celehrated hiI 90lh hirlhday He was born in Carllon Place nearOffaW(I in 1894

Raisedrom agl 9 on ajimn in Northern Ontario he finish ed public school There hut did nOl ha ve Ih e opporlunily to affend high

school Fullowing graduUlionfrom Ihe OAC he worked on insect reearch al the Vineland

Experimental Farm and in 1925 allended the

College of EduCUlion Toronto lu uhwin 0_

teaching certificate HI ~-tarted teaching al Bean)Sville HS_ 111

1926 married Evelyn Slephenson in 1927 and moved 10 Walford DiSlriCI H S in 1929 where

Jar Ihe next 18 years he taught Botany Zoology Chemislry Agricultural Science and

Music During Ihat lime one ahis star pupils I(I 1I00Ie olher Ihull Unilersirl aGuelph

preli(ent-lO-iJe Bllrt MUllhel lOf er OAC 47 _ Adam joined Ih e sldjfat Leaminglon H S

in 1947 and moved on 10 Blenhen DiSlrict H_S in 1950 His wife died in 1951 and he

married Grace Curbin in 1952 He swrled whal was 10 be his lasl leaching POSI al R H _

King Collegiale Inslilule in Smrburuugh in 1955 and relired in 1961

Adam is currently wriling a book - Tbe Geneology of the Grahams of Lymek i Ins and Kottochside Scotland His family records

dutl back 101647 0

Dad s lot was separated from the neighshybours by the rudiments of a roadway between the river and a main road about two miles north Along this roadway on Dad s side were three loose strands of barbed wire that dangled from wobbly fence posts some of which were nearly horizontal

A few acre s along the ri ver bank had been cleared of trees but not stumped or cultivated The ruins of a small log cabin was the only sign of former occupation I remember seeing my first garter snake while watching grasshopshypers being caught in spiders webs along the base of its walls Such was the place where Dad settled to raise hi s boys to manhood

There were four of us - Jack 19 Bob 14 myself 9 and Bill 7 Jack went north with Dad quite early to help him get started but we three younger ones were left in Carlton Place near Ottawa to fini sh out our school terms at the end of June_

By that time a good start had been made on a frame house about an acre of potatoes was mady to be hilled up and a few acres of mixed oats and peas were a few inches high For a few weeks we were lodged at a neighshybours place_

Jack and Bob accompanied by our little fox terrier slept in the hou se after they came north with the furniture but Bill and I did not move in till some time in August The hou se had one room below and one above which was reached by climbing an almost perpendicular ladder The cracks in its floor admitted enough light from the lamp below to see to go to bed

Baching it presented many problems Jack had often helped Mother prepare mea-Is and could make a cake or bake the simpler food dishes such as rice pudding soda stones

johnny-cake etc but the art Dr bread-making with the old type of slow-rising dry ycast cakes had to be learned from scratch Both Dad and Jack tried their hands at it For some time at first we never knew what to expect but we were always hungry enough to eat anything that even resembled a loaf But after some sticky slithery messes caused by the soft spongy mixture overflowing its container and learning that proper temperatures and plenty of kneading were as important as the ingredients Dad became quite expert at it

Of necessity our bill-of-fare had to be simple Potatoes were the only food crop the farm produced that year We had them boiled or fried twice a day except Sundays Dad often made potato scones in which mashed potatoes were mixed with the flour before rolling They were browned on both sides on top of the stove in cast iron frying pans They were somewhat cloggy but good with a smear of molasses

With no refrigeration salt pork and baeon were the main types of meat used but when cold weather came Dad bought the frozen carcass of a whole pig and sawed a pieee off whenever pork was wanted _We rarel y had apples but Dad bought some oranges and lemons for marmalade that winter Cutting the well-soaked skins into thin slices was the basis of a family party one winter evening

When we were settled in the house and it was made habitable a small temporary stable was started and Dad went back to Carlton Place where his brother-in-law a veterinary surgeon selected a horse and a cow for him It was an eventful day when he drove home with the three-year-old Suffolk Punch gelding pulling a democrat The horse was quiet and well suited for handling by greenhorns The cow was a four-year-old Ayrshire-Shorthorn cross not milking but supposed to have a ealf in January Fortunately for us even an apology for a fence would keep her in

Once we became established in the house we started a major project in which anyone not otherwise engaged took part It was the digging of a root-cellar in the back of a nearby gully

Adam Graham Snr Adam Graham Jnr Bob cousin Jean Bill and Jack in 1908

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I well remember the peculiar subsoil which consisted of alternating layers of fine dark and light clay each about one-quarter of an inch thick and that when dried the layers seemcd to disappear The walls and ceiling were supported by poles cut from the bush and carth was piled up on top to a depth of about two feet The outer end had an air space between two doors lined with fe lt paper for insulation The interior was divided into bins but no special provision was made for ventilashytion and the potatoes sweated badly In the depth of winter long frost crystals were formed Some of the outer potatoes were frozen solidly but in spite of their unnatural sweetish taste and soggy texture we ate them anyway

Potato harvesting was another family affair It was the only harvest because with such poor fencing the oats and peas proved too tempting for neighbouring cattle

At Christmas time Dad took Bill and me back to Carlton Place to be with our relatives but Jack and Bob were left at home to care for the horse cow and dog With so much unexshypected cold weather they had a tough time of it

The house had very little insulation and was distinctly drafty Temperatures must have dipped to _400 Fahrenheit or lower because when a small bottle of mercury was put out it froze into a solid lump There were two stoves but when the fire went out at night ice formed on the water in the kettle and on the top and sides of the water pail It would be nearly an inch thick Jack declared he could not bake bread because the sponge froze during the night Fortunately neighbours asked them over for Christmas dinner and the evening

One cold night in early March the cow gave birth to a calf that was dead when discovshyered Dad called the colostrum milk beestings and made bee sty-cheese of it by mixing in a little salt and cooking it in a boiling water bath When coagulated he cut it into thick slices to be eaten with bread

In the summer of 1904 a trio of weaned Berkshire pigs was bought by mail order Bill and I made pets of them and often herded them

The farmhouse and temporary stable

while they dug for roots or grubs in places where no crop had been planted

Dad was an ardent reader of agricultural bulletins and farm magazines and vowed that no scrub bull would ever be used on his place Since there were no purebreds in the vicinity he ordered an elven-month-old dual-purpose Shorthorn with a registered pedigree Neighshybours thought it rather extravagant when he had only one cow The bull was supposed to be of serviceable age but when it was turned out to pasture it was morc interested in sucking milk from the cow than in anything else

There were only 13 English-speaking families in our Veuve River settlement and when our local school opened in January 1906 only eight pupils attended Classes were held in a room separated from the balance of a private farm dwelling by a thin temporary partition and the family on the other side could hear all that went on Desks were home-made and seats were simple benches without backs

By September of 1907 I was ready to start my entrance class to high school but no teacher had been found even when a new school building with plastered walls had been erected Shortly before that Dad had someshyhow become acquainted with an old man a former seaman from Georgian Bay who had to retire because of paralysis in both arms and legs

When the seaman learned of my desire to continue at school he suggested that Dad let me go to live with him in Sturgeon Falls where he had a couple of rooms so that I could go to school in return for my help I was left to choose and though I had never met the old man I accepted the challenge

Of course a rather bashful counrry boy starting in a strange school in town became the butt of a number of harmless jokes and pranks but when I bested the champion arm-wrestler of the cass three times in succession without much difficulty I won their respect

But my real problems came from another source I soon found that the old man was living off the generosity of anyone whom he could persude to help him In about a month he had to move to a house at the far end of the

town and by that time food supplies were becoming increasingly scarce

Late in October when Dad learned of my predicament he thought I should go home But I was getting along well at school and my teacher the principal had informed me that I had a good chance of winning thc school medal for highest marks on the high school entrance examination next June so I decided to stick with it

Looking baek at the situation now I really dont know how I could possibly have managed had not Jack soon after his return from a survey party in the far north obtained a job in the pulp mil] in town and eome to live with us He brought a bed from home and then I could sleep with my own brother His wage was $150 for a ten-hour day six days a week with day and night shifts alternating weekly Out of this he paid the rent of $7 monthly bought our fuel lamp oil and all our food supplies except potatoes which he brought from home

I finished my term at school wrote the departmental examinations to enter high school won the medal for top marks in the school but was never awarded it My princishypal did his best to obtain it for me A lame excuse given was the shortage of funds but I think the real reason was that I was from out of town and of course the school board did not know how much financial help my brother Jack had given the old man in those eight months

To my great disappointment I never had the opportunity or the privilege to attend high school as a pupil

During my following five years on the farm I became keenly interested in dairy cattle and dairying Our pure-bred Ayrshires won many prizes at Vernor and Sturgeon Falls fall fairs as did my dairy butter By using milk scales and the Babcock test I knew what each cow produced

As some of my classmates of Year 23 may know I enrolled in two dairy shortshycourses at the OAC in the winter and early spring before we all came together in Sepshytember 1919 With no high schooling at all and only four years of public school attenshydance though I did have my entrance certifishycate to high school I felt I was lucky to be admitted

At that time I planned to speciali ze in Dairy Husbandry but by the time I finished my first year of studies I realized that the study of life had greater educational appeal to shyme than what was offered in the Dairy Husshybandry option So in my final years I specialshyized in Biology and ever after became known to classmate Ted Hutt as Chcnopodium album

In all my 35 years of teaching high school pupils chiefly in Agricultural and General Science Botany and Zoology I have never had cause to regret that choice 0

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At the noon picnic The OAC wine tastillg

At Alumni Weekend 84

fllcominll UGAA Presidenl Glenn Puwell OAC 62 and olllgoiflg presshyidelll [Jarr) SlahbaulII CPS 74

Leon Claus OAC 22 at the UGAA (Ifflaa meeting asked Du Y UIi slill grow IlImips at Guelph

Couldnt be thele but

Dear Dr and Mrs Mat thews

Thank-you very much for your invitation to the reception at the Presidents Rcsidence on June 24 during Alumni Weekend As a Ccnshy

tury Club member I feel a little guilty that this is for our be nefit only and not for all the other donors to the Alma Mater Fund I m sure it

will be well attended and it would be an excelshylent time for me to meet some of my classshymates aga in

nfortunately time and distance just don t pe rmit me the privilege of attending I rea lize it wasnt nee ssary for me to write but

I wo uld like to take this opportun ity to welshycome you to the University of Guel ph and exte nd my best wishes fo r your stay at the University

As an Alu mnus of G uelph I am o nly too happy to contribute my small part to the AMF with the knowledge that I m helping someshy

bod y else ac hieve as fi ne an education as I received I am proud or G uelph and its fine reputation as a learning inst itution and to conshytribute to it is the least I can do after the four great ycars it gave me

Thank you again for your invitation Im

sorry I wont make it but Im sure it will be a fi ne afternoon for all there r

Yours trul y

Peter F Walsh OAC 81 C lear Range Farm

Box 97 Marwayne Alberta TOB 2XO

Full marksor this hat Ir ick

Banquel tables lVere g roaning

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Class ofOAC 49 perused their year book OVC open hOLise displayed some AMF equipment purchases

Three old cronies Arboretum tours

Dr HUlVard Clark vice-presidell t acashydemic left ald Presiderzt Burl Malhews OAC 47 dedicated a sugar maple to the memory of the late Presiderzt Donald F Forstllr

The Donald F flirs tt daliwtion plulllt

COMING EVENTS September 6 Fall Semester - classes commence

10middot12 Aggie Wee k

14 OAC golf tournament

16 Alumni Harvest Fair Fill o ut the orde r form below a nd c()m~ to tilt fair

a family day katuring 1880 style acti vitie s at the O ntario

Agric ultural Muse um at M ilto n Ticke t prices include e nshy

trance fee and a chicken barbe cue w ith corn on the cnh

baked potato salad de ssert a nd beve rage

22 HOMECOMING

October 5 Fall Convocation

November 15 Toronto alumni VISA group hosts a Night at the Royal

Alumni Harvest Fair Ticket Order Form (See details above)

NAME College amp Year -Pleac pnnlJ

MAILING ADDRESS (PIC d ~ (Will i )

PI usc r middotg is ter the following fo r the fa ir Adults C hildren

M ai l with your chequc ($9 pe r adult $5 50 per child under 13) payable to the ni versity

of G uelph Alumni Assoc iation to Alumni Harves t Fair Alumn i Office Johnston Ha ll

Unive rsity of G ue lph Guelph Ontar io N I G 2W I not latcrthan Septcmocr4 1984

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Income Tax And the Part-time Farmer

By Professor J Gary Hutchison OAC 58 School of Agricultural Economics and Extension Education OAC University of Guelph

There has been considerable discussion in the media and among part-time farmshy

ers farm organizations and politicians regardshying part-time farming and Revenue Canada What is causing the problems It would appear that Revenue Canada has increased its audit on all taxpayers and particularly those filing as farmers with other sources of income

There have always beenrandom audits and reassessments of part-time farmers The concerns are greater now only because of numbers and the occasional unreasonable assessments as well as the tactics used in some cases The following comments will attempt to clarify part-time farming and the controversy with RevenueCanada

Thousands of taxpayers have moved to the country over the past 15 years or more These country dwellers have many of the same expenses as farmers such as building and fence repair water pumps balky tractors or even feed and veterinary expenses Since a taxpayer is not required to qualify as a farmer before filing as a farmer many began deductshying farm losses against other income

Farming is the only business allowed to file on the cash method of accounting This means expenses of livestock and crops are deductible but the inventory build-up is not taxable until sold All other businesses would have similar expenses but the inventory buildshyup would be subject to tax Cash accounting allows expansion to take place creating cash losses even though the farm may be profitable using accrual accounting The tax referrals created are the equivalent of an interest-free loan

False Impressions

Revenue Canada has been assessing the taxpayer based on information submitted not whether or not a legitimate farm was being operated Such assessment and refunds often have continued for several years giving taxshypayers a false impression of their farming activities and tax position In some cases brought to my attention at the University of Guelph Revenue Canada appears to have been over-zealous and unfair However in most cases that government department is perfectly within the law in disallowing some losses

entirely and reducing others There are basically three classes of taxshy

payers filing as farmers the hobbyist although many do not claim to be such those with a reasonable expectation of profit but preshyoccupied with other employment and full shytime farmers with or without off-farm income

The first group constitute a wide range of country dwellers Some may have two riding horses and even harvest crops for their liveshystock According to the tax regulations such taxpayers have no reasonable expectation of profit and none of the costs are deductible against other sources of income

Others file as farmers because they feel they are really farming The farm work-load costs and frustrations are considered sufficient to qualify them as farmers They are the taxshypayers with 15 beef cows or 40 ewes two mediocre race horses or 40 acres of hay writshying off operating expenses and depreciation of $10000 a year plus $10000 mortgage intershyest on an operation with a maximum cash and

or accrued income of $7500 per year Again these taxpayers do not have a

reasonable expectation of profit based on the expenses being charged for tax purposes Therefore according to the tax rules these taxpayers should not be allowed any deducshytions against other sources of income

The tax rules should not be changed to accommodate these people They have a hobby not unlike skiing travelling or collectshying stamps All hobbies come at a cost few ever make money and the costs must be covered with after tax dollars If these same people rented land and used custom operators they might qualify because their costs would be reduced substantially

Another group of farmers do have a reasonable expectation of profit but their chief source of income is not farming or a combination of farming and some other source of income The major part of these taxshypayers time and effort is spent doing someshything other than farming Such taxpayers are allowed to deduct against other income the first $2500 of cash losses plus 50 per cent of the next $5000 Any balance must be carried ahead up to ten years or back three years against net farm income

Limiting Loss Deductions

Many of these taxpayers however have not restricted themselves to the $5000 maximum They have been deducting unshylimited losses against other income for several years even though off-farm employment controls their time and effort Revenue Canada under the present law has every right to limit

their loss deductions Likewise merely having gross income from farming in excess of inshycome from other sources does not automatishycally qualify a taxpayer for unlimited farm losses against other income

All raxpayers who have filed as farmers are also eligible to deduct the full amount of the investment tax credit when new qualifying machinery or buildings are purchased This credit reduces federal tax payable not taxable income by $7000 in southern Ontario or shy$20000 in the Maritimes on a new bam costshying $100000 It soon becomes obvious why Revenue Canada is concerned about part-time farming

The third classification filing tax returns as farmers involves taxpayers whose chief source of income is indeed farming or a combination of farming and some other source of income Such taxpayers many deduct

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unlimited farm cash losses against other inshy Then anyone who could prove an accflI al prices W hat chance would a beginning famler come in a given year It is expected that farmshy profit should be allowed unlim ited losses with no o ff-farm income have in competing for ing produces the bulk of income or is the centre against other sources of income regardless of land The established farmer would also have of work routine and is the taxpayer s major th size of operation For example a person difficulty attempting to expand in competition preoccupation A farmer dri vi ng a school bus purchasing one or two dairy heifers each year with the non-faml dollars should easily qual ify Many fanners who have working for thei r feed and housing them in It would also be logical with more dolshytaken full- or part-t ime jobs because of fi nan shy rented quarters could likely show a profit lars at stake for Revenue Canada to step up its cial difficulty should be able to work full- time using accrual methods Their tax liability is audits It has also been suggested that the for several years without losing their el igibilshy only deferred dcpartment shou ld hir agricultu rally trained ity provided they had a history of full-time Many taxpayers are lobbying for inshy auditors My experience would ind icate that a fanning creases in the $5000 li mit The limit has not profcssional agricultural auditor could easily

In my opinion any taxpayer who could changed since its inception in the early 1950s testify in court that the majori ty of part-time not show a profit using accrual methods should Such an increase may be justified in light of fanners have no reasonable expectat ion of not be allowed any tax rel ief regardless of the infl ation over time However an increase in profit using aecmal accou nting methods scale of operation All othe r businesses must the limit would not necessarily be o f benefit to Th is would mean that many taxpayers now file on the accrual method Part-time farmers agriculture limited to $5 000 would get nothing As a wou ld only be required to prove on audit that In the first place encouraging more part-ti me farme r and Professor of Agricultural they could show a profit using accrual capital into agriculture may not be desirable Economics and Extens ion Edlleation at the acc unting T he city money would put pressure on land Un iversity o f Gue lph I rest my case 0

Table I- Farm Taxfilers Average Income from Farm and Off-farm Sources by County 1981

Di stricts Farm

Tax filers

Average Net Farm Income

Taxfilers Reporting O ff-Farm Income

Av erage Net

Off-Fann Income

Tax fi lers Reporting Wages and

Salaries

Average Income from W ages and

Salaries

Average Net Income from All Sources

Net arm Income as

a of Total Net Income

no $ no $ no $ $

Brant 1695 5293 1584 12620 631 63 13 17914 29 6 Elgin 3425 3812 3204 10256 1248 4838 14068 27 1 Essex 4905 3395 4769 15857 2 409 9002 19252 176 Hald imand-Nrfolk 5 955 4441 5542 9724 2083 4 745 14 165 314 Hamilton-Wentworth 1960 262 1887 21 999 1084 13184 22 261 12 Ken t 6295 6 279 6063 II 610 2530 5583 17889 351 Lambton 4250 3130 4086 14 618 1944 8723 17 748 176 Middlesex 5485 3486 5198 14450 2410 7651 17936 194 Niagara 4625 1063 4 437 18011 2445 11130 19074 5 6 Oxford 4440 5273 4158 10350 1480 4625 15623 33 8

SOUTHERNONTARlO 43035 3855 40928 13454 18 263 7231 17 309 22 3

Bruce 4 470 -168 4242 10 931 1942 6243 10763 Dufferin 1365 - 180 1301 15 315 704 9220 15134 Grey 3725 363 3519 11 032 1718 6361 11395 32 Halton 1675 - 165 1628 27976 953 16 2 11 27811 Huron 4520 3388 4219 9055 1626 4416 12443 272 Peel 1715 -431 167 1 31243 1013 180[7 30812 Perth 4685 4 935 4323 8789 1514 3891 [3724 360 Simcoe Waterloo Wellington

4515 3330 4425

115 3692 1537

4318 3137 4099

14188 15034 12850

2265 1405 1968

8637 7872 8187

14303 18726 14387

08 197 107

WESTERN ONTARIO 34 430 1667 32462 13481 15108 7566 15148 110

CENTRAL ONTARIO

EA STERN ONTARIO

19455

17375

88

1427

18820

16 325

22874

14716

10476

7885

12524

9045

22962

16 143

04

88 -NORTHERN ONTARIO 4665 - 139 4430 15404 2731 10 898 15265

THE PROVINCE 118970 2095 J 12975 15 263 54468 8602 17 358 12 1

1980 118035 2172 111119 13 00 53481 7619 15271 142

No tes A farm tax filer is a taxfil er who reported positive gross income or non-zero net income from unincorporated self-employed farming activity Figures may not add due to rounding Source Data are derived from the administrative records of Re venue Canada

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crown Roth Gav in Carrow and Pe te r Domarshy

In Touch With the Gryphon chuk took Cl AU titles in the ir respec tive weight classcs

Athletics Scene athered for thc annual Intercollegiate Athletic Banquet the people making up

the traditional full house in Peter Clark Hall had good reason to celebrate The reason

Another annual tradition - the conclusion of a highly successful season

National and provincial champions plus Ontario and Canadian all-stars received recognition and four deserving athletes were rewarded with special awards for their outshy

stand in g e fforts

The Uni versi ty of Guelph Male Athlete of the Year Award went to Sam Benincasa

HAFA 84 A fifth-year football team linebacker he was se lected as an All-Canadian

for the second consecuti ve year and was a nominee as outstand ing defensive player in the country

A Hamilton native he culminated hi s

career by returning an intercepted pass for a touchdown during the final home game Earshy

lier in the year Sam was the recipient of the Wildman Trophy awarded annually to the outstanding graduating player who has comshy

bined sportsmanship and leadership with sc ho lastic achievement

The Uni versity of Guelph Female Athlete of the Year Award went to Silvia Ruegger

FAC 84 of O shawa who was delcared the Canadian Inter-unive rsi ty Athletic Union

Cross-country Running C hampion for the

second time in her career Her previous triumph was in 1980

The W F Mitchell Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year Award s went to

Gav in Carrow Arts 84 and Karen McBride FACS 84 These awards named after Bill

Mitchell OAC 38 lo ng-ti me director of athletics are given to students in their graduatshy

ing year who demonstrate outstanding talcnt and ability in their sport combined with leadershyship and involvement in athletics

Gavin Carrow who won the CIA U Wres tling title in the 86-kilogram class for a

second time was an inspiration to his teamshymates according to coach Lo ndo Iacovelli

Karen McBride was a member of both the Fie ld Hockey and Ice Hockey teams and also served on the Athletics Advi sory Council and the Wome ns Intcrcollegiate Cou ncil

Of course it was a success ful year for

Grypho n teams as well The football team had a 5-2 record highli gh ted by the demolition of

the University of Wes tern Ontario 36-11 and the routing of the numbcr-one ranked Wilfrid Lau rie r University team by a score of 27-9 before large crowds No less than s ix

Grypho ns were accorded league all-star honours

The Wrestling Gryphons won an unpreshy

cedented fifth consccutive OUAA title and

narrowly missed out on a third st raight C IAU

President Burt Matthe ws OAC 47 centre with athletes of the year Sam Benincasa left and Silvia Ruegger

The mens hockey tcam ran a seven-game winning stretch in January to finish fou rth in the

13-tea m 0 A A league After ousting Laurenshytian University of Sudbury in quarter fina l play they were e liminated in the semis by thc Uni shyversity of Toronto Blucs the eventual national

champion Defenceman Bruce Kilgour earned the respect of league eoachcs to earn a firstshy

team OU AA all-star selec tio n The womens basketball team saved the ir

best effort for the cnd of the year as they won

the consolatio n title at the OW IAA championshyships Cindy McMastcr was sclected as a firstshyteam Icague all-star while Joanne Hurd was

named to the All-Tournament team at the championshi p tournament

The womens swimming team had the ir

most successful yea r placing fifth in Ontario

Shannon Smith won the gold medal in the 100shymeter back stroke

Barb Jonak won the individual title as the Gryphons regained thei r OW IAA archery crown and Judy Richardson took top honours in leading the Alpine Ski team to the chamshy

pionship of the Can-Am Challenge at Mont Gabriel Que

With only a few athletes gradu ating fro111

the University this year prospects look even be tte r for 1984-85 0

198384 MAJO R NTERCOUEGlAlli AWAROS

Archery Trophy Bltl rh Jonk rIO f Improved l3a ~kc lbJlI Award t kll) Joh n r araght r A d ll)irTl~onMen1onJlMVY Iruphy

Puul Flack An[hClIl Y SICWirt Mo~tlmpro ld Ba kC-Ibltl1l AwarJ (WtllllC II) Shelky Robcn M V P B~J e lba ll Award (Wo men) JOlun e Ilurd

M V P Oaom inlo n Award (WIJI lc n) Darle ne II (Ju~ c

M V P Badmi n1 0 n Award (M en) Manno Mekhlnrn v1V P C rt)Counlry Awa rd (Wumcn) Sil Vi a Rucg~c r

Art HachlTrophy Mlll uel SJ al i 1-1 VY CUrlil lg ~warJ Chri Harber M CP held lI ocke) warc1 Ann MldJklon MV P Fll~ l d I-Iockty WIlJ J ulie II nn1c y

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MV P Volleyball Award (Women) J(lC li e fl narr

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Ontario universities ha$ increased by ovcr 50 per cent By 1982-83 total research revenue reached $275 million Within the Canadian

university community Ontario now attracts over 40 per cent of federal research money

60 per cent of foreign government money and 50 per cent of non-government research expenditure

Contract Research Growing A new and important element of the

research enterprise is the ex tent to which

university personnel are becoming involved in

rcscarch applications It is estimated that contract research now comprises some 12 per cent of total research activity Contract reshysearch takes many forms involving the acti vshyity of indiv idua l faculty the activity of groups of faculty and students under the umbrella of

industrial rcseareh offices and with growing frequenc y the creation of research institutes de ve loped to foster the univers ity-indu stry

interface

C anada in general and Ontario in

particular face enormous challenges in confronting the accelerating pace of scientific and technological change O ntario must

undertake a major readjustment of its economic infrastruc tu re if it wants to maintain anything approaching its present standard of liv ing

The uni ersities of this province have an enormous potentia l to contribute to this adaptation Indeed many wo uld argue that without conti nuing strong suppo rt of the

uni versi ty sector Onta rio w ill not make the

adaptation successfully As wai noted recent ly by W alte r Light

chairman and chief executi ve office r o f

orthern Telecom Limited Unless we are prepared to come to grips with our currcn t cri s is in education unle ss we arc pre pared to invest in highe r education at leveb comparabk to or higher than such inves tments being

made by other countries wc run the a im st

certa in risk ot preclud ing any rea l long-t Im productivity improvcment in Canada

T he greatest im pact of technologica l change on future manpower needs w ill be fe ll by those occupy ingjob~ requ iring a m iddle range o f occ upational skill s _ H ighly skilled and lower sk illed personne l wi ll continue in

demand regardless of the direction of change The pacc and direction of change however arc c rit icl lly dependent on O ntario s having

ace ss to a large pool of wel l-trained

uni versity graduates Demand for access to higher education in

O ntario is present ly at record high levels and continues to grow When this continuing high demand is combined with the prospect of additional numbers resulting from the

restructuring of Ontarios secondary school curriculum that is now under way the arlier

forecast of an almost certain decrease in

applications during the remainder of the 80s become unlikely

Ontario must not take an assumptio n of declining enrolments at the university level as

an excuse for reducing government support to

the universi ty sector Instead we should be examining means of enhancing accessibility to ensure that the flow of highly qualified manpower does not decline to dangerous ly

low levels

In particul ar we must protect the richness and vitality of the graduate enterprise in Ontario Ontarios graduate programs and

basic research and scholarly activity must be carefully tended and nourished if Ontario is to operate at the leading edge of a technological change

No other research institutions give as

much return on investment as

universities in the long term No other

institutions produce both knowledge

and people

Research and Scholarship the Key A strong program of basic research and

scho larship in a ll di scipl ines is O ntario s key

into the fo refront of the international in te llec shytual tide It will allow rapid adaptation of inte llectual developments e lsewhere to

O ntarios particular c ircumstances_ It will

ensure a relevance to graduate tra ining in th is province that can be a cOOlplished in no other way nd it wi ll ensure that ind ustrial innovation in O ntario can draw from intelshy

lectua l resources that extend beyond our boundaries

As George Keyworth science advisor to U S Presi dent Reagan recen tly noted No other research institutions give as mueh return on investment as universities in the long term - not federal labs not non-profit organiashytions not industry No other institutions

produce both knowledge and people In a similar vein a report publishcd by

the Roya l Institute for International Affairs in

the United Kingdom has noted that in one particular sector instead of paying subsidies to

pharmaceutical companies in Britain the government there might do better to give the

University Gran ts Commission equivalent resources to help maintain and expand o ur intellectual effort in biotechnology and reshylated studies

The adaptations which have been required of universities in recent years to cope with demand for grad uates of vocationallyshy

oriented programs to undertake a major shift of activity toward the research functi on and to

significantly enhance the university-industry interface have placed an enonnous strain on our unive rsity institutions M uch of this adaptation has been accomplished in an era of severely constrained funding

While questions of ba lance loom large universities recognize that further adaptation is not only desirable but vital if the university community in th is province is to fulfill it s

potential for easing O ntarios transition into the post-industrial age With continuing financial constraint however our capacity for further change is severely limited_

O ntario universities need injections of new operating and capital funds

bull to permit new hiring of young academics

bull to allow replenishment of equipment stocks to s tate ot the art leve ls bull to maintain the very considerable in vestment in physical plant

bull and to permi t adaptation and selecti ve expan ion of ex isting uni vers ity space such that it more effecti vely com plements new

objectives In the 60s Ontario made a major

comm itment to the hi gher education enterpri se in order to allow all those inte llec tually capable of it the righ t of access to univers ity level study A new o mm itment [0 hi gher educat ion is now needed - to ensure that our

intellec tual well remains fu ll and to a llow private and corporate c itizens a like the righ t to d raw from its wate rs 0

Erratum- It has corne to our attenshytion that the article An Agricultural Policy fort he Yukon in the Guelph AlumllUl S ummer issue 1982 Vol 15 No 3 referred to bull the Re shy

sources Planning Branch of the Can adi an Gove rnment It should

have read the Resources Planning Branch 01 the T e rritorial Governshyment T hc draft submi tted did not

indicate the level of government reshysponsible for its preparation No

slight was intended to those res ponsi shy

ble for its prepara tion

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Farming in orthern Ontario - 1903 By Adam Graham OAC 23

I n the spring of 1903 my father a widower since the previous August obtained a halfshy

section of land not far from Lake Nipissing some ten miles west of Sturgeon Falls The north 160 acres was pre-emption land The south half through which the Yeuve River flowed had also been obtained that way but abandoned some years previously

Adam Graham OA C 23

About the Writer

Lasl March 25 Adam Jam es Graham OAC

23 celehrated hiI 90lh hirlhday He was born in Carllon Place nearOffaW(I in 1894

Raisedrom agl 9 on ajimn in Northern Ontario he finish ed public school There hut did nOl ha ve Ih e opporlunily to affend high

school Fullowing graduUlionfrom Ihe OAC he worked on insect reearch al the Vineland

Experimental Farm and in 1925 allended the

College of EduCUlion Toronto lu uhwin 0_

teaching certificate HI ~-tarted teaching al Bean)Sville HS_ 111

1926 married Evelyn Slephenson in 1927 and moved 10 Walford DiSlriCI H S in 1929 where

Jar Ihe next 18 years he taught Botany Zoology Chemislry Agricultural Science and

Music During Ihat lime one ahis star pupils I(I 1I00Ie olher Ihull Unilersirl aGuelph

preli(ent-lO-iJe Bllrt MUllhel lOf er OAC 47 _ Adam joined Ih e sldjfat Leaminglon H S

in 1947 and moved on 10 Blenhen DiSlrict H_S in 1950 His wife died in 1951 and he

married Grace Curbin in 1952 He swrled whal was 10 be his lasl leaching POSI al R H _

King Collegiale Inslilule in Smrburuugh in 1955 and relired in 1961

Adam is currently wriling a book - Tbe Geneology of the Grahams of Lymek i Ins and Kottochside Scotland His family records

dutl back 101647 0

Dad s lot was separated from the neighshybours by the rudiments of a roadway between the river and a main road about two miles north Along this roadway on Dad s side were three loose strands of barbed wire that dangled from wobbly fence posts some of which were nearly horizontal

A few acre s along the ri ver bank had been cleared of trees but not stumped or cultivated The ruins of a small log cabin was the only sign of former occupation I remember seeing my first garter snake while watching grasshopshypers being caught in spiders webs along the base of its walls Such was the place where Dad settled to raise hi s boys to manhood

There were four of us - Jack 19 Bob 14 myself 9 and Bill 7 Jack went north with Dad quite early to help him get started but we three younger ones were left in Carlton Place near Ottawa to fini sh out our school terms at the end of June_

By that time a good start had been made on a frame house about an acre of potatoes was mady to be hilled up and a few acres of mixed oats and peas were a few inches high For a few weeks we were lodged at a neighshybours place_

Jack and Bob accompanied by our little fox terrier slept in the hou se after they came north with the furniture but Bill and I did not move in till some time in August The hou se had one room below and one above which was reached by climbing an almost perpendicular ladder The cracks in its floor admitted enough light from the lamp below to see to go to bed

Baching it presented many problems Jack had often helped Mother prepare mea-Is and could make a cake or bake the simpler food dishes such as rice pudding soda stones

johnny-cake etc but the art Dr bread-making with the old type of slow-rising dry ycast cakes had to be learned from scratch Both Dad and Jack tried their hands at it For some time at first we never knew what to expect but we were always hungry enough to eat anything that even resembled a loaf But after some sticky slithery messes caused by the soft spongy mixture overflowing its container and learning that proper temperatures and plenty of kneading were as important as the ingredients Dad became quite expert at it

Of necessity our bill-of-fare had to be simple Potatoes were the only food crop the farm produced that year We had them boiled or fried twice a day except Sundays Dad often made potato scones in which mashed potatoes were mixed with the flour before rolling They were browned on both sides on top of the stove in cast iron frying pans They were somewhat cloggy but good with a smear of molasses

With no refrigeration salt pork and baeon were the main types of meat used but when cold weather came Dad bought the frozen carcass of a whole pig and sawed a pieee off whenever pork was wanted _We rarel y had apples but Dad bought some oranges and lemons for marmalade that winter Cutting the well-soaked skins into thin slices was the basis of a family party one winter evening

When we were settled in the house and it was made habitable a small temporary stable was started and Dad went back to Carlton Place where his brother-in-law a veterinary surgeon selected a horse and a cow for him It was an eventful day when he drove home with the three-year-old Suffolk Punch gelding pulling a democrat The horse was quiet and well suited for handling by greenhorns The cow was a four-year-old Ayrshire-Shorthorn cross not milking but supposed to have a ealf in January Fortunately for us even an apology for a fence would keep her in

Once we became established in the house we started a major project in which anyone not otherwise engaged took part It was the digging of a root-cellar in the back of a nearby gully

Adam Graham Snr Adam Graham Jnr Bob cousin Jean Bill and Jack in 1908

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I well remember the peculiar subsoil which consisted of alternating layers of fine dark and light clay each about one-quarter of an inch thick and that when dried the layers seemcd to disappear The walls and ceiling were supported by poles cut from the bush and carth was piled up on top to a depth of about two feet The outer end had an air space between two doors lined with fe lt paper for insulation The interior was divided into bins but no special provision was made for ventilashytion and the potatoes sweated badly In the depth of winter long frost crystals were formed Some of the outer potatoes were frozen solidly but in spite of their unnatural sweetish taste and soggy texture we ate them anyway

Potato harvesting was another family affair It was the only harvest because with such poor fencing the oats and peas proved too tempting for neighbouring cattle

At Christmas time Dad took Bill and me back to Carlton Place to be with our relatives but Jack and Bob were left at home to care for the horse cow and dog With so much unexshypected cold weather they had a tough time of it

The house had very little insulation and was distinctly drafty Temperatures must have dipped to _400 Fahrenheit or lower because when a small bottle of mercury was put out it froze into a solid lump There were two stoves but when the fire went out at night ice formed on the water in the kettle and on the top and sides of the water pail It would be nearly an inch thick Jack declared he could not bake bread because the sponge froze during the night Fortunately neighbours asked them over for Christmas dinner and the evening

One cold night in early March the cow gave birth to a calf that was dead when discovshyered Dad called the colostrum milk beestings and made bee sty-cheese of it by mixing in a little salt and cooking it in a boiling water bath When coagulated he cut it into thick slices to be eaten with bread

In the summer of 1904 a trio of weaned Berkshire pigs was bought by mail order Bill and I made pets of them and often herded them

The farmhouse and temporary stable

while they dug for roots or grubs in places where no crop had been planted

Dad was an ardent reader of agricultural bulletins and farm magazines and vowed that no scrub bull would ever be used on his place Since there were no purebreds in the vicinity he ordered an elven-month-old dual-purpose Shorthorn with a registered pedigree Neighshybours thought it rather extravagant when he had only one cow The bull was supposed to be of serviceable age but when it was turned out to pasture it was morc interested in sucking milk from the cow than in anything else

There were only 13 English-speaking families in our Veuve River settlement and when our local school opened in January 1906 only eight pupils attended Classes were held in a room separated from the balance of a private farm dwelling by a thin temporary partition and the family on the other side could hear all that went on Desks were home-made and seats were simple benches without backs

By September of 1907 I was ready to start my entrance class to high school but no teacher had been found even when a new school building with plastered walls had been erected Shortly before that Dad had someshyhow become acquainted with an old man a former seaman from Georgian Bay who had to retire because of paralysis in both arms and legs

When the seaman learned of my desire to continue at school he suggested that Dad let me go to live with him in Sturgeon Falls where he had a couple of rooms so that I could go to school in return for my help I was left to choose and though I had never met the old man I accepted the challenge

Of course a rather bashful counrry boy starting in a strange school in town became the butt of a number of harmless jokes and pranks but when I bested the champion arm-wrestler of the cass three times in succession without much difficulty I won their respect

But my real problems came from another source I soon found that the old man was living off the generosity of anyone whom he could persude to help him In about a month he had to move to a house at the far end of the

town and by that time food supplies were becoming increasingly scarce

Late in October when Dad learned of my predicament he thought I should go home But I was getting along well at school and my teacher the principal had informed me that I had a good chance of winning thc school medal for highest marks on the high school entrance examination next June so I decided to stick with it

Looking baek at the situation now I really dont know how I could possibly have managed had not Jack soon after his return from a survey party in the far north obtained a job in the pulp mil] in town and eome to live with us He brought a bed from home and then I could sleep with my own brother His wage was $150 for a ten-hour day six days a week with day and night shifts alternating weekly Out of this he paid the rent of $7 monthly bought our fuel lamp oil and all our food supplies except potatoes which he brought from home

I finished my term at school wrote the departmental examinations to enter high school won the medal for top marks in the school but was never awarded it My princishypal did his best to obtain it for me A lame excuse given was the shortage of funds but I think the real reason was that I was from out of town and of course the school board did not know how much financial help my brother Jack had given the old man in those eight months

To my great disappointment I never had the opportunity or the privilege to attend high school as a pupil

During my following five years on the farm I became keenly interested in dairy cattle and dairying Our pure-bred Ayrshires won many prizes at Vernor and Sturgeon Falls fall fairs as did my dairy butter By using milk scales and the Babcock test I knew what each cow produced

As some of my classmates of Year 23 may know I enrolled in two dairy shortshycourses at the OAC in the winter and early spring before we all came together in Sepshytember 1919 With no high schooling at all and only four years of public school attenshydance though I did have my entrance certifishycate to high school I felt I was lucky to be admitted

At that time I planned to speciali ze in Dairy Husbandry but by the time I finished my first year of studies I realized that the study of life had greater educational appeal to shyme than what was offered in the Dairy Husshybandry option So in my final years I specialshyized in Biology and ever after became known to classmate Ted Hutt as Chcnopodium album

In all my 35 years of teaching high school pupils chiefly in Agricultural and General Science Botany and Zoology I have never had cause to regret that choice 0

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At the noon picnic The OAC wine tastillg

At Alumni Weekend 84

fllcominll UGAA Presidenl Glenn Puwell OAC 62 and olllgoiflg presshyidelll [Jarr) SlahbaulII CPS 74

Leon Claus OAC 22 at the UGAA (Ifflaa meeting asked Du Y UIi slill grow IlImips at Guelph

Couldnt be thele but

Dear Dr and Mrs Mat thews

Thank-you very much for your invitation to the reception at the Presidents Rcsidence on June 24 during Alumni Weekend As a Ccnshy

tury Club member I feel a little guilty that this is for our be nefit only and not for all the other donors to the Alma Mater Fund I m sure it

will be well attended and it would be an excelshylent time for me to meet some of my classshymates aga in

nfortunately time and distance just don t pe rmit me the privilege of attending I rea lize it wasnt nee ssary for me to write but

I wo uld like to take this opportun ity to welshycome you to the University of Guel ph and exte nd my best wishes fo r your stay at the University

As an Alu mnus of G uelph I am o nly too happy to contribute my small part to the AMF with the knowledge that I m helping someshy

bod y else ac hieve as fi ne an education as I received I am proud or G uelph and its fine reputation as a learning inst itution and to conshytribute to it is the least I can do after the four great ycars it gave me

Thank you again for your invitation Im

sorry I wont make it but Im sure it will be a fi ne afternoon for all there r

Yours trul y

Peter F Walsh OAC 81 C lear Range Farm

Box 97 Marwayne Alberta TOB 2XO

Full marksor this hat Ir ick

Banquel tables lVere g roaning

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Class ofOAC 49 perused their year book OVC open hOLise displayed some AMF equipment purchases

Three old cronies Arboretum tours

Dr HUlVard Clark vice-presidell t acashydemic left ald Presiderzt Burl Malhews OAC 47 dedicated a sugar maple to the memory of the late Presiderzt Donald F Forstllr

The Donald F flirs tt daliwtion plulllt

COMING EVENTS September 6 Fall Semester - classes commence

10middot12 Aggie Wee k

14 OAC golf tournament

16 Alumni Harvest Fair Fill o ut the orde r form below a nd c()m~ to tilt fair

a family day katuring 1880 style acti vitie s at the O ntario

Agric ultural Muse um at M ilto n Ticke t prices include e nshy

trance fee and a chicken barbe cue w ith corn on the cnh

baked potato salad de ssert a nd beve rage

22 HOMECOMING

October 5 Fall Convocation

November 15 Toronto alumni VISA group hosts a Night at the Royal

Alumni Harvest Fair Ticket Order Form (See details above)

NAME College amp Year -Pleac pnnlJ

MAILING ADDRESS (PIC d ~ (Will i )

PI usc r middotg is ter the following fo r the fa ir Adults C hildren

M ai l with your chequc ($9 pe r adult $5 50 per child under 13) payable to the ni versity

of G uelph Alumni Assoc iation to Alumni Harves t Fair Alumn i Office Johnston Ha ll

Unive rsity of G ue lph Guelph Ontar io N I G 2W I not latcrthan Septcmocr4 1984

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Income Tax And the Part-time Farmer

By Professor J Gary Hutchison OAC 58 School of Agricultural Economics and Extension Education OAC University of Guelph

There has been considerable discussion in the media and among part-time farmshy

ers farm organizations and politicians regardshying part-time farming and Revenue Canada What is causing the problems It would appear that Revenue Canada has increased its audit on all taxpayers and particularly those filing as farmers with other sources of income

There have always beenrandom audits and reassessments of part-time farmers The concerns are greater now only because of numbers and the occasional unreasonable assessments as well as the tactics used in some cases The following comments will attempt to clarify part-time farming and the controversy with RevenueCanada

Thousands of taxpayers have moved to the country over the past 15 years or more These country dwellers have many of the same expenses as farmers such as building and fence repair water pumps balky tractors or even feed and veterinary expenses Since a taxpayer is not required to qualify as a farmer before filing as a farmer many began deductshying farm losses against other income

Farming is the only business allowed to file on the cash method of accounting This means expenses of livestock and crops are deductible but the inventory build-up is not taxable until sold All other businesses would have similar expenses but the inventory buildshyup would be subject to tax Cash accounting allows expansion to take place creating cash losses even though the farm may be profitable using accrual accounting The tax referrals created are the equivalent of an interest-free loan

False Impressions

Revenue Canada has been assessing the taxpayer based on information submitted not whether or not a legitimate farm was being operated Such assessment and refunds often have continued for several years giving taxshypayers a false impression of their farming activities and tax position In some cases brought to my attention at the University of Guelph Revenue Canada appears to have been over-zealous and unfair However in most cases that government department is perfectly within the law in disallowing some losses

entirely and reducing others There are basically three classes of taxshy

payers filing as farmers the hobbyist although many do not claim to be such those with a reasonable expectation of profit but preshyoccupied with other employment and full shytime farmers with or without off-farm income

The first group constitute a wide range of country dwellers Some may have two riding horses and even harvest crops for their liveshystock According to the tax regulations such taxpayers have no reasonable expectation of profit and none of the costs are deductible against other sources of income

Others file as farmers because they feel they are really farming The farm work-load costs and frustrations are considered sufficient to qualify them as farmers They are the taxshypayers with 15 beef cows or 40 ewes two mediocre race horses or 40 acres of hay writshying off operating expenses and depreciation of $10000 a year plus $10000 mortgage intershyest on an operation with a maximum cash and

or accrued income of $7500 per year Again these taxpayers do not have a

reasonable expectation of profit based on the expenses being charged for tax purposes Therefore according to the tax rules these taxpayers should not be allowed any deducshytions against other sources of income

The tax rules should not be changed to accommodate these people They have a hobby not unlike skiing travelling or collectshying stamps All hobbies come at a cost few ever make money and the costs must be covered with after tax dollars If these same people rented land and used custom operators they might qualify because their costs would be reduced substantially

Another group of farmers do have a reasonable expectation of profit but their chief source of income is not farming or a combination of farming and some other source of income The major part of these taxshypayers time and effort is spent doing someshything other than farming Such taxpayers are allowed to deduct against other income the first $2500 of cash losses plus 50 per cent of the next $5000 Any balance must be carried ahead up to ten years or back three years against net farm income

Limiting Loss Deductions

Many of these taxpayers however have not restricted themselves to the $5000 maximum They have been deducting unshylimited losses against other income for several years even though off-farm employment controls their time and effort Revenue Canada under the present law has every right to limit

their loss deductions Likewise merely having gross income from farming in excess of inshycome from other sources does not automatishycally qualify a taxpayer for unlimited farm losses against other income

All raxpayers who have filed as farmers are also eligible to deduct the full amount of the investment tax credit when new qualifying machinery or buildings are purchased This credit reduces federal tax payable not taxable income by $7000 in southern Ontario or shy$20000 in the Maritimes on a new bam costshying $100000 It soon becomes obvious why Revenue Canada is concerned about part-time farming

The third classification filing tax returns as farmers involves taxpayers whose chief source of income is indeed farming or a combination of farming and some other source of income Such taxpayers many deduct

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unlimited farm cash losses against other inshy Then anyone who could prove an accflI al prices W hat chance would a beginning famler come in a given year It is expected that farmshy profit should be allowed unlim ited losses with no o ff-farm income have in competing for ing produces the bulk of income or is the centre against other sources of income regardless of land The established farmer would also have of work routine and is the taxpayer s major th size of operation For example a person difficulty attempting to expand in competition preoccupation A farmer dri vi ng a school bus purchasing one or two dairy heifers each year with the non-faml dollars should easily qual ify Many fanners who have working for thei r feed and housing them in It would also be logical with more dolshytaken full- or part-t ime jobs because of fi nan shy rented quarters could likely show a profit lars at stake for Revenue Canada to step up its cial difficulty should be able to work full- time using accrual methods Their tax liability is audits It has also been suggested that the for several years without losing their el igibilshy only deferred dcpartment shou ld hir agricultu rally trained ity provided they had a history of full-time Many taxpayers are lobbying for inshy auditors My experience would ind icate that a fanning creases in the $5000 li mit The limit has not profcssional agricultural auditor could easily

In my opinion any taxpayer who could changed since its inception in the early 1950s testify in court that the majori ty of part-time not show a profit using accrual methods should Such an increase may be justified in light of fanners have no reasonable expectat ion of not be allowed any tax rel ief regardless of the infl ation over time However an increase in profit using aecmal accou nting methods scale of operation All othe r businesses must the limit would not necessarily be o f benefit to Th is would mean that many taxpayers now file on the accrual method Part-time farmers agriculture limited to $5 000 would get nothing As a wou ld only be required to prove on audit that In the first place encouraging more part-ti me farme r and Professor of Agricultural they could show a profit using accrual capital into agriculture may not be desirable Economics and Extens ion Edlleation at the acc unting T he city money would put pressure on land Un iversity o f Gue lph I rest my case 0

Table I- Farm Taxfilers Average Income from Farm and Off-farm Sources by County 1981

Di stricts Farm

Tax filers

Average Net Farm Income

Taxfilers Reporting O ff-Farm Income

Av erage Net

Off-Fann Income

Tax fi lers Reporting Wages and

Salaries

Average Income from W ages and

Salaries

Average Net Income from All Sources

Net arm Income as

a of Total Net Income

no $ no $ no $ $

Brant 1695 5293 1584 12620 631 63 13 17914 29 6 Elgin 3425 3812 3204 10256 1248 4838 14068 27 1 Essex 4905 3395 4769 15857 2 409 9002 19252 176 Hald imand-Nrfolk 5 955 4441 5542 9724 2083 4 745 14 165 314 Hamilton-Wentworth 1960 262 1887 21 999 1084 13184 22 261 12 Ken t 6295 6 279 6063 II 610 2530 5583 17889 351 Lambton 4250 3130 4086 14 618 1944 8723 17 748 176 Middlesex 5485 3486 5198 14450 2410 7651 17936 194 Niagara 4625 1063 4 437 18011 2445 11130 19074 5 6 Oxford 4440 5273 4158 10350 1480 4625 15623 33 8

SOUTHERNONTARlO 43035 3855 40928 13454 18 263 7231 17 309 22 3

Bruce 4 470 -168 4242 10 931 1942 6243 10763 Dufferin 1365 - 180 1301 15 315 704 9220 15134 Grey 3725 363 3519 11 032 1718 6361 11395 32 Halton 1675 - 165 1628 27976 953 16 2 11 27811 Huron 4520 3388 4219 9055 1626 4416 12443 272 Peel 1715 -431 167 1 31243 1013 180[7 30812 Perth 4685 4 935 4323 8789 1514 3891 [3724 360 Simcoe Waterloo Wellington

4515 3330 4425

115 3692 1537

4318 3137 4099

14188 15034 12850

2265 1405 1968

8637 7872 8187

14303 18726 14387

08 197 107

WESTERN ONTARIO 34 430 1667 32462 13481 15108 7566 15148 110

CENTRAL ONTARIO

EA STERN ONTARIO

19455

17375

88

1427

18820

16 325

22874

14716

10476

7885

12524

9045

22962

16 143

04

88 -NORTHERN ONTARIO 4665 - 139 4430 15404 2731 10 898 15265

THE PROVINCE 118970 2095 J 12975 15 263 54468 8602 17 358 12 1

1980 118035 2172 111119 13 00 53481 7619 15271 142

No tes A farm tax filer is a taxfil er who reported positive gross income or non-zero net income from unincorporated self-employed farming activity Figures may not add due to rounding Source Data are derived from the administrative records of Re venue Canada

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crown Roth Gav in Carrow and Pe te r Domarshy

In Touch With the Gryphon chuk took Cl AU titles in the ir respec tive weight classcs

Athletics Scene athered for thc annual Intercollegiate Athletic Banquet the people making up

the traditional full house in Peter Clark Hall had good reason to celebrate The reason

Another annual tradition - the conclusion of a highly successful season

National and provincial champions plus Ontario and Canadian all-stars received recognition and four deserving athletes were rewarded with special awards for their outshy

stand in g e fforts

The Uni versi ty of Guelph Male Athlete of the Year Award went to Sam Benincasa

HAFA 84 A fifth-year football team linebacker he was se lected as an All-Canadian

for the second consecuti ve year and was a nominee as outstand ing defensive player in the country

A Hamilton native he culminated hi s

career by returning an intercepted pass for a touchdown during the final home game Earshy

lier in the year Sam was the recipient of the Wildman Trophy awarded annually to the outstanding graduating player who has comshy

bined sportsmanship and leadership with sc ho lastic achievement

The Uni versity of Guelph Female Athlete of the Year Award went to Silvia Ruegger

FAC 84 of O shawa who was delcared the Canadian Inter-unive rsi ty Athletic Union

Cross-country Running C hampion for the

second time in her career Her previous triumph was in 1980

The W F Mitchell Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year Award s went to

Gav in Carrow Arts 84 and Karen McBride FACS 84 These awards named after Bill

Mitchell OAC 38 lo ng-ti me director of athletics are given to students in their graduatshy

ing year who demonstrate outstanding talcnt and ability in their sport combined with leadershyship and involvement in athletics

Gavin Carrow who won the CIA U Wres tling title in the 86-kilogram class for a

second time was an inspiration to his teamshymates according to coach Lo ndo Iacovelli

Karen McBride was a member of both the Fie ld Hockey and Ice Hockey teams and also served on the Athletics Advi sory Council and the Wome ns Intcrcollegiate Cou ncil

Of course it was a success ful year for

Grypho n teams as well The football team had a 5-2 record highli gh ted by the demolition of

the University of Wes tern Ontario 36-11 and the routing of the numbcr-one ranked Wilfrid Lau rie r University team by a score of 27-9 before large crowds No less than s ix

Grypho ns were accorded league all-star honours

The Wrestling Gryphons won an unpreshy

cedented fifth consccutive OUAA title and

narrowly missed out on a third st raight C IAU

President Burt Matthe ws OAC 47 centre with athletes of the year Sam Benincasa left and Silvia Ruegger

The mens hockey tcam ran a seven-game winning stretch in January to finish fou rth in the

13-tea m 0 A A league After ousting Laurenshytian University of Sudbury in quarter fina l play they were e liminated in the semis by thc Uni shyversity of Toronto Blucs the eventual national

champion Defenceman Bruce Kilgour earned the respect of league eoachcs to earn a firstshy

team OU AA all-star selec tio n The womens basketball team saved the ir

best effort for the cnd of the year as they won

the consolatio n title at the OW IAA championshyships Cindy McMastcr was sclected as a firstshyteam Icague all-star while Joanne Hurd was

named to the All-Tournament team at the championshi p tournament

The womens swimming team had the ir

most successful yea r placing fifth in Ontario

Shannon Smith won the gold medal in the 100shymeter back stroke

Barb Jonak won the individual title as the Gryphons regained thei r OW IAA archery crown and Judy Richardson took top honours in leading the Alpine Ski team to the chamshy

pionship of the Can-Am Challenge at Mont Gabriel Que

With only a few athletes gradu ating fro111

the University this year prospects look even be tte r for 1984-85 0

198384 MAJO R NTERCOUEGlAlli AWAROS

Archery Trophy Bltl rh Jonk rIO f Improved l3a ~kc lbJlI Award t kll) Joh n r araght r A d ll)irTl~onMen1onJlMVY Iruphy

Puul Flack An[hClIl Y SICWirt Mo~tlmpro ld Ba kC-Ibltl1l AwarJ (WtllllC II) Shelky Robcn M V P B~J e lba ll Award (Wo men) JOlun e Ilurd

M V P Oaom inlo n Award (WIJI lc n) Darle ne II (Ju~ c

M V P Badmi n1 0 n Award (M en) Manno Mekhlnrn v1V P C rt)Counlry Awa rd (Wumcn) Sil Vi a Rucg~c r

Art HachlTrophy Mlll uel SJ al i 1-1 VY CUrlil lg ~warJ Chri Harber M CP held lI ocke) warc1 Ann MldJklon MV P Fll~ l d I-Iockty WIlJ J ulie II nn1c y

M IP Foolbull A wa rd Ml nlO D imu lo Thl Prc-idc lli r)r~ l e r M V P rOOlhdll Trophy Je d Tommy Foolball Rook ie Award S( olll nJy Jeff Vo lpe M 1 P ICl llock ty Awmj (Wom( n) An n WeIL1I M I P COtJc hc~ Icc Hockey l rophy T ina Vld Walter Rickard Mcmon lluokie Awaru Roy RUltOl 1I Jack [l os M VP Hodl~Y AWdrd~ Hrul C K IIour T Hll Burton

kU 1I1 FvansM V P Ru glc r ward Je rrB il lrJo d

Oill M ~All u ff St)cc r Trophy M lklM il k r MI P Swimm 1l1 wClrd ( Wulllcn) Siobhan S mnh M V P Swimming Award~ (Women )

Janice Ptu Ann Mcn ic M IY Swimmillg AwmJ ( Mcnl Ilowaru T hw aitcl

C M Ki nncar MClnonal MVPAwarJ Jcl f Wadgc M P Syndml ili cd S wi mming Award I klcnc C ana u M I P VOllcyhal1 Award(Men) Sam Mallhn MV P Vollcyoall Award (Me n) Vil07JI M 1 P Vnl le yhoJll Award (Wumen) I clune ~kKcc

MV P Volleyball Award (Women) J(lC li e fl narr

1IP WrC llin l Award bull Ken Pull -MVP Wre~111I1 pound Awltl rd Ga IIICarroW

S PECIAL AW AROS - MEN AoIO WOME oI Cath y Rowe Manlge rH ra iner o fthc Year Awlrd Cu lin Silll ret W lldmlIl Trophy Sall1 [kninct J Or Mary Beve rl ey-Burton Iookie of lhc Year Award

L111e PrJce Don r JllJeron Tro phy tvl l fTlO Di nHII l(l W t- Muche ll Sponltowoman Award Karen M c Bride W F M ilChcll Sr)(m mm Award Gavin Carro FcnMk Alhl e te oft he Yeara SilV ia Rucg l1r Male Athlete nflhc Year Sam BcmnCiJltI

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Farming in orthern Ontario - 1903 By Adam Graham OAC 23

I n the spring of 1903 my father a widower since the previous August obtained a halfshy

section of land not far from Lake Nipissing some ten miles west of Sturgeon Falls The north 160 acres was pre-emption land The south half through which the Yeuve River flowed had also been obtained that way but abandoned some years previously

Adam Graham OA C 23

About the Writer

Lasl March 25 Adam Jam es Graham OAC

23 celehrated hiI 90lh hirlhday He was born in Carllon Place nearOffaW(I in 1894

Raisedrom agl 9 on ajimn in Northern Ontario he finish ed public school There hut did nOl ha ve Ih e opporlunily to affend high

school Fullowing graduUlionfrom Ihe OAC he worked on insect reearch al the Vineland

Experimental Farm and in 1925 allended the

College of EduCUlion Toronto lu uhwin 0_

teaching certificate HI ~-tarted teaching al Bean)Sville HS_ 111

1926 married Evelyn Slephenson in 1927 and moved 10 Walford DiSlriCI H S in 1929 where

Jar Ihe next 18 years he taught Botany Zoology Chemislry Agricultural Science and

Music During Ihat lime one ahis star pupils I(I 1I00Ie olher Ihull Unilersirl aGuelph

preli(ent-lO-iJe Bllrt MUllhel lOf er OAC 47 _ Adam joined Ih e sldjfat Leaminglon H S

in 1947 and moved on 10 Blenhen DiSlrict H_S in 1950 His wife died in 1951 and he

married Grace Curbin in 1952 He swrled whal was 10 be his lasl leaching POSI al R H _

King Collegiale Inslilule in Smrburuugh in 1955 and relired in 1961

Adam is currently wriling a book - Tbe Geneology of the Grahams of Lymek i Ins and Kottochside Scotland His family records

dutl back 101647 0

Dad s lot was separated from the neighshybours by the rudiments of a roadway between the river and a main road about two miles north Along this roadway on Dad s side were three loose strands of barbed wire that dangled from wobbly fence posts some of which were nearly horizontal

A few acre s along the ri ver bank had been cleared of trees but not stumped or cultivated The ruins of a small log cabin was the only sign of former occupation I remember seeing my first garter snake while watching grasshopshypers being caught in spiders webs along the base of its walls Such was the place where Dad settled to raise hi s boys to manhood

There were four of us - Jack 19 Bob 14 myself 9 and Bill 7 Jack went north with Dad quite early to help him get started but we three younger ones were left in Carlton Place near Ottawa to fini sh out our school terms at the end of June_

By that time a good start had been made on a frame house about an acre of potatoes was mady to be hilled up and a few acres of mixed oats and peas were a few inches high For a few weeks we were lodged at a neighshybours place_

Jack and Bob accompanied by our little fox terrier slept in the hou se after they came north with the furniture but Bill and I did not move in till some time in August The hou se had one room below and one above which was reached by climbing an almost perpendicular ladder The cracks in its floor admitted enough light from the lamp below to see to go to bed

Baching it presented many problems Jack had often helped Mother prepare mea-Is and could make a cake or bake the simpler food dishes such as rice pudding soda stones

johnny-cake etc but the art Dr bread-making with the old type of slow-rising dry ycast cakes had to be learned from scratch Both Dad and Jack tried their hands at it For some time at first we never knew what to expect but we were always hungry enough to eat anything that even resembled a loaf But after some sticky slithery messes caused by the soft spongy mixture overflowing its container and learning that proper temperatures and plenty of kneading were as important as the ingredients Dad became quite expert at it

Of necessity our bill-of-fare had to be simple Potatoes were the only food crop the farm produced that year We had them boiled or fried twice a day except Sundays Dad often made potato scones in which mashed potatoes were mixed with the flour before rolling They were browned on both sides on top of the stove in cast iron frying pans They were somewhat cloggy but good with a smear of molasses

With no refrigeration salt pork and baeon were the main types of meat used but when cold weather came Dad bought the frozen carcass of a whole pig and sawed a pieee off whenever pork was wanted _We rarel y had apples but Dad bought some oranges and lemons for marmalade that winter Cutting the well-soaked skins into thin slices was the basis of a family party one winter evening

When we were settled in the house and it was made habitable a small temporary stable was started and Dad went back to Carlton Place where his brother-in-law a veterinary surgeon selected a horse and a cow for him It was an eventful day when he drove home with the three-year-old Suffolk Punch gelding pulling a democrat The horse was quiet and well suited for handling by greenhorns The cow was a four-year-old Ayrshire-Shorthorn cross not milking but supposed to have a ealf in January Fortunately for us even an apology for a fence would keep her in

Once we became established in the house we started a major project in which anyone not otherwise engaged took part It was the digging of a root-cellar in the back of a nearby gully

Adam Graham Snr Adam Graham Jnr Bob cousin Jean Bill and Jack in 1908

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6

I well remember the peculiar subsoil which consisted of alternating layers of fine dark and light clay each about one-quarter of an inch thick and that when dried the layers seemcd to disappear The walls and ceiling were supported by poles cut from the bush and carth was piled up on top to a depth of about two feet The outer end had an air space between two doors lined with fe lt paper for insulation The interior was divided into bins but no special provision was made for ventilashytion and the potatoes sweated badly In the depth of winter long frost crystals were formed Some of the outer potatoes were frozen solidly but in spite of their unnatural sweetish taste and soggy texture we ate them anyway

Potato harvesting was another family affair It was the only harvest because with such poor fencing the oats and peas proved too tempting for neighbouring cattle

At Christmas time Dad took Bill and me back to Carlton Place to be with our relatives but Jack and Bob were left at home to care for the horse cow and dog With so much unexshypected cold weather they had a tough time of it

The house had very little insulation and was distinctly drafty Temperatures must have dipped to _400 Fahrenheit or lower because when a small bottle of mercury was put out it froze into a solid lump There were two stoves but when the fire went out at night ice formed on the water in the kettle and on the top and sides of the water pail It would be nearly an inch thick Jack declared he could not bake bread because the sponge froze during the night Fortunately neighbours asked them over for Christmas dinner and the evening

One cold night in early March the cow gave birth to a calf that was dead when discovshyered Dad called the colostrum milk beestings and made bee sty-cheese of it by mixing in a little salt and cooking it in a boiling water bath When coagulated he cut it into thick slices to be eaten with bread

In the summer of 1904 a trio of weaned Berkshire pigs was bought by mail order Bill and I made pets of them and often herded them

The farmhouse and temporary stable

while they dug for roots or grubs in places where no crop had been planted

Dad was an ardent reader of agricultural bulletins and farm magazines and vowed that no scrub bull would ever be used on his place Since there were no purebreds in the vicinity he ordered an elven-month-old dual-purpose Shorthorn with a registered pedigree Neighshybours thought it rather extravagant when he had only one cow The bull was supposed to be of serviceable age but when it was turned out to pasture it was morc interested in sucking milk from the cow than in anything else

There were only 13 English-speaking families in our Veuve River settlement and when our local school opened in January 1906 only eight pupils attended Classes were held in a room separated from the balance of a private farm dwelling by a thin temporary partition and the family on the other side could hear all that went on Desks were home-made and seats were simple benches without backs

By September of 1907 I was ready to start my entrance class to high school but no teacher had been found even when a new school building with plastered walls had been erected Shortly before that Dad had someshyhow become acquainted with an old man a former seaman from Georgian Bay who had to retire because of paralysis in both arms and legs

When the seaman learned of my desire to continue at school he suggested that Dad let me go to live with him in Sturgeon Falls where he had a couple of rooms so that I could go to school in return for my help I was left to choose and though I had never met the old man I accepted the challenge

Of course a rather bashful counrry boy starting in a strange school in town became the butt of a number of harmless jokes and pranks but when I bested the champion arm-wrestler of the cass three times in succession without much difficulty I won their respect

But my real problems came from another source I soon found that the old man was living off the generosity of anyone whom he could persude to help him In about a month he had to move to a house at the far end of the

town and by that time food supplies were becoming increasingly scarce

Late in October when Dad learned of my predicament he thought I should go home But I was getting along well at school and my teacher the principal had informed me that I had a good chance of winning thc school medal for highest marks on the high school entrance examination next June so I decided to stick with it

Looking baek at the situation now I really dont know how I could possibly have managed had not Jack soon after his return from a survey party in the far north obtained a job in the pulp mil] in town and eome to live with us He brought a bed from home and then I could sleep with my own brother His wage was $150 for a ten-hour day six days a week with day and night shifts alternating weekly Out of this he paid the rent of $7 monthly bought our fuel lamp oil and all our food supplies except potatoes which he brought from home

I finished my term at school wrote the departmental examinations to enter high school won the medal for top marks in the school but was never awarded it My princishypal did his best to obtain it for me A lame excuse given was the shortage of funds but I think the real reason was that I was from out of town and of course the school board did not know how much financial help my brother Jack had given the old man in those eight months

To my great disappointment I never had the opportunity or the privilege to attend high school as a pupil

During my following five years on the farm I became keenly interested in dairy cattle and dairying Our pure-bred Ayrshires won many prizes at Vernor and Sturgeon Falls fall fairs as did my dairy butter By using milk scales and the Babcock test I knew what each cow produced

As some of my classmates of Year 23 may know I enrolled in two dairy shortshycourses at the OAC in the winter and early spring before we all came together in Sepshytember 1919 With no high schooling at all and only four years of public school attenshydance though I did have my entrance certifishycate to high school I felt I was lucky to be admitted

At that time I planned to speciali ze in Dairy Husbandry but by the time I finished my first year of studies I realized that the study of life had greater educational appeal to shyme than what was offered in the Dairy Husshybandry option So in my final years I specialshyized in Biology and ever after became known to classmate Ted Hutt as Chcnopodium album

In all my 35 years of teaching high school pupils chiefly in Agricultural and General Science Botany and Zoology I have never had cause to regret that choice 0

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At the noon picnic The OAC wine tastillg

At Alumni Weekend 84

fllcominll UGAA Presidenl Glenn Puwell OAC 62 and olllgoiflg presshyidelll [Jarr) SlahbaulII CPS 74

Leon Claus OAC 22 at the UGAA (Ifflaa meeting asked Du Y UIi slill grow IlImips at Guelph

Couldnt be thele but

Dear Dr and Mrs Mat thews

Thank-you very much for your invitation to the reception at the Presidents Rcsidence on June 24 during Alumni Weekend As a Ccnshy

tury Club member I feel a little guilty that this is for our be nefit only and not for all the other donors to the Alma Mater Fund I m sure it

will be well attended and it would be an excelshylent time for me to meet some of my classshymates aga in

nfortunately time and distance just don t pe rmit me the privilege of attending I rea lize it wasnt nee ssary for me to write but

I wo uld like to take this opportun ity to welshycome you to the University of Guel ph and exte nd my best wishes fo r your stay at the University

As an Alu mnus of G uelph I am o nly too happy to contribute my small part to the AMF with the knowledge that I m helping someshy

bod y else ac hieve as fi ne an education as I received I am proud or G uelph and its fine reputation as a learning inst itution and to conshytribute to it is the least I can do after the four great ycars it gave me

Thank you again for your invitation Im

sorry I wont make it but Im sure it will be a fi ne afternoon for all there r

Yours trul y

Peter F Walsh OAC 81 C lear Range Farm

Box 97 Marwayne Alberta TOB 2XO

Full marksor this hat Ir ick

Banquel tables lVere g roaning

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Class ofOAC 49 perused their year book OVC open hOLise displayed some AMF equipment purchases

Three old cronies Arboretum tours

Dr HUlVard Clark vice-presidell t acashydemic left ald Presiderzt Burl Malhews OAC 47 dedicated a sugar maple to the memory of the late Presiderzt Donald F Forstllr

The Donald F flirs tt daliwtion plulllt

COMING EVENTS September 6 Fall Semester - classes commence

10middot12 Aggie Wee k

14 OAC golf tournament

16 Alumni Harvest Fair Fill o ut the orde r form below a nd c()m~ to tilt fair

a family day katuring 1880 style acti vitie s at the O ntario

Agric ultural Muse um at M ilto n Ticke t prices include e nshy

trance fee and a chicken barbe cue w ith corn on the cnh

baked potato salad de ssert a nd beve rage

22 HOMECOMING

October 5 Fall Convocation

November 15 Toronto alumni VISA group hosts a Night at the Royal

Alumni Harvest Fair Ticket Order Form (See details above)

NAME College amp Year -Pleac pnnlJ

MAILING ADDRESS (PIC d ~ (Will i )

PI usc r middotg is ter the following fo r the fa ir Adults C hildren

M ai l with your chequc ($9 pe r adult $5 50 per child under 13) payable to the ni versity

of G uelph Alumni Assoc iation to Alumni Harves t Fair Alumn i Office Johnston Ha ll

Unive rsity of G ue lph Guelph Ontar io N I G 2W I not latcrthan Septcmocr4 1984

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Income Tax And the Part-time Farmer

By Professor J Gary Hutchison OAC 58 School of Agricultural Economics and Extension Education OAC University of Guelph

There has been considerable discussion in the media and among part-time farmshy

ers farm organizations and politicians regardshying part-time farming and Revenue Canada What is causing the problems It would appear that Revenue Canada has increased its audit on all taxpayers and particularly those filing as farmers with other sources of income

There have always beenrandom audits and reassessments of part-time farmers The concerns are greater now only because of numbers and the occasional unreasonable assessments as well as the tactics used in some cases The following comments will attempt to clarify part-time farming and the controversy with RevenueCanada

Thousands of taxpayers have moved to the country over the past 15 years or more These country dwellers have many of the same expenses as farmers such as building and fence repair water pumps balky tractors or even feed and veterinary expenses Since a taxpayer is not required to qualify as a farmer before filing as a farmer many began deductshying farm losses against other income

Farming is the only business allowed to file on the cash method of accounting This means expenses of livestock and crops are deductible but the inventory build-up is not taxable until sold All other businesses would have similar expenses but the inventory buildshyup would be subject to tax Cash accounting allows expansion to take place creating cash losses even though the farm may be profitable using accrual accounting The tax referrals created are the equivalent of an interest-free loan

False Impressions

Revenue Canada has been assessing the taxpayer based on information submitted not whether or not a legitimate farm was being operated Such assessment and refunds often have continued for several years giving taxshypayers a false impression of their farming activities and tax position In some cases brought to my attention at the University of Guelph Revenue Canada appears to have been over-zealous and unfair However in most cases that government department is perfectly within the law in disallowing some losses

entirely and reducing others There are basically three classes of taxshy

payers filing as farmers the hobbyist although many do not claim to be such those with a reasonable expectation of profit but preshyoccupied with other employment and full shytime farmers with or without off-farm income

The first group constitute a wide range of country dwellers Some may have two riding horses and even harvest crops for their liveshystock According to the tax regulations such taxpayers have no reasonable expectation of profit and none of the costs are deductible against other sources of income

Others file as farmers because they feel they are really farming The farm work-load costs and frustrations are considered sufficient to qualify them as farmers They are the taxshypayers with 15 beef cows or 40 ewes two mediocre race horses or 40 acres of hay writshying off operating expenses and depreciation of $10000 a year plus $10000 mortgage intershyest on an operation with a maximum cash and

or accrued income of $7500 per year Again these taxpayers do not have a

reasonable expectation of profit based on the expenses being charged for tax purposes Therefore according to the tax rules these taxpayers should not be allowed any deducshytions against other sources of income

The tax rules should not be changed to accommodate these people They have a hobby not unlike skiing travelling or collectshying stamps All hobbies come at a cost few ever make money and the costs must be covered with after tax dollars If these same people rented land and used custom operators they might qualify because their costs would be reduced substantially

Another group of farmers do have a reasonable expectation of profit but their chief source of income is not farming or a combination of farming and some other source of income The major part of these taxshypayers time and effort is spent doing someshything other than farming Such taxpayers are allowed to deduct against other income the first $2500 of cash losses plus 50 per cent of the next $5000 Any balance must be carried ahead up to ten years or back three years against net farm income

Limiting Loss Deductions

Many of these taxpayers however have not restricted themselves to the $5000 maximum They have been deducting unshylimited losses against other income for several years even though off-farm employment controls their time and effort Revenue Canada under the present law has every right to limit

their loss deductions Likewise merely having gross income from farming in excess of inshycome from other sources does not automatishycally qualify a taxpayer for unlimited farm losses against other income

All raxpayers who have filed as farmers are also eligible to deduct the full amount of the investment tax credit when new qualifying machinery or buildings are purchased This credit reduces federal tax payable not taxable income by $7000 in southern Ontario or shy$20000 in the Maritimes on a new bam costshying $100000 It soon becomes obvious why Revenue Canada is concerned about part-time farming

The third classification filing tax returns as farmers involves taxpayers whose chief source of income is indeed farming or a combination of farming and some other source of income Such taxpayers many deduct

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unlimited farm cash losses against other inshy Then anyone who could prove an accflI al prices W hat chance would a beginning famler come in a given year It is expected that farmshy profit should be allowed unlim ited losses with no o ff-farm income have in competing for ing produces the bulk of income or is the centre against other sources of income regardless of land The established farmer would also have of work routine and is the taxpayer s major th size of operation For example a person difficulty attempting to expand in competition preoccupation A farmer dri vi ng a school bus purchasing one or two dairy heifers each year with the non-faml dollars should easily qual ify Many fanners who have working for thei r feed and housing them in It would also be logical with more dolshytaken full- or part-t ime jobs because of fi nan shy rented quarters could likely show a profit lars at stake for Revenue Canada to step up its cial difficulty should be able to work full- time using accrual methods Their tax liability is audits It has also been suggested that the for several years without losing their el igibilshy only deferred dcpartment shou ld hir agricultu rally trained ity provided they had a history of full-time Many taxpayers are lobbying for inshy auditors My experience would ind icate that a fanning creases in the $5000 li mit The limit has not profcssional agricultural auditor could easily

In my opinion any taxpayer who could changed since its inception in the early 1950s testify in court that the majori ty of part-time not show a profit using accrual methods should Such an increase may be justified in light of fanners have no reasonable expectat ion of not be allowed any tax rel ief regardless of the infl ation over time However an increase in profit using aecmal accou nting methods scale of operation All othe r businesses must the limit would not necessarily be o f benefit to Th is would mean that many taxpayers now file on the accrual method Part-time farmers agriculture limited to $5 000 would get nothing As a wou ld only be required to prove on audit that In the first place encouraging more part-ti me farme r and Professor of Agricultural they could show a profit using accrual capital into agriculture may not be desirable Economics and Extens ion Edlleation at the acc unting T he city money would put pressure on land Un iversity o f Gue lph I rest my case 0

Table I- Farm Taxfilers Average Income from Farm and Off-farm Sources by County 1981

Di stricts Farm

Tax filers

Average Net Farm Income

Taxfilers Reporting O ff-Farm Income

Av erage Net

Off-Fann Income

Tax fi lers Reporting Wages and

Salaries

Average Income from W ages and

Salaries

Average Net Income from All Sources

Net arm Income as

a of Total Net Income

no $ no $ no $ $

Brant 1695 5293 1584 12620 631 63 13 17914 29 6 Elgin 3425 3812 3204 10256 1248 4838 14068 27 1 Essex 4905 3395 4769 15857 2 409 9002 19252 176 Hald imand-Nrfolk 5 955 4441 5542 9724 2083 4 745 14 165 314 Hamilton-Wentworth 1960 262 1887 21 999 1084 13184 22 261 12 Ken t 6295 6 279 6063 II 610 2530 5583 17889 351 Lambton 4250 3130 4086 14 618 1944 8723 17 748 176 Middlesex 5485 3486 5198 14450 2410 7651 17936 194 Niagara 4625 1063 4 437 18011 2445 11130 19074 5 6 Oxford 4440 5273 4158 10350 1480 4625 15623 33 8

SOUTHERNONTARlO 43035 3855 40928 13454 18 263 7231 17 309 22 3

Bruce 4 470 -168 4242 10 931 1942 6243 10763 Dufferin 1365 - 180 1301 15 315 704 9220 15134 Grey 3725 363 3519 11 032 1718 6361 11395 32 Halton 1675 - 165 1628 27976 953 16 2 11 27811 Huron 4520 3388 4219 9055 1626 4416 12443 272 Peel 1715 -431 167 1 31243 1013 180[7 30812 Perth 4685 4 935 4323 8789 1514 3891 [3724 360 Simcoe Waterloo Wellington

4515 3330 4425

115 3692 1537

4318 3137 4099

14188 15034 12850

2265 1405 1968

8637 7872 8187

14303 18726 14387

08 197 107

WESTERN ONTARIO 34 430 1667 32462 13481 15108 7566 15148 110

CENTRAL ONTARIO

EA STERN ONTARIO

19455

17375

88

1427

18820

16 325

22874

14716

10476

7885

12524

9045

22962

16 143

04

88 -NORTHERN ONTARIO 4665 - 139 4430 15404 2731 10 898 15265

THE PROVINCE 118970 2095 J 12975 15 263 54468 8602 17 358 12 1

1980 118035 2172 111119 13 00 53481 7619 15271 142

No tes A farm tax filer is a taxfil er who reported positive gross income or non-zero net income from unincorporated self-employed farming activity Figures may not add due to rounding Source Data are derived from the administrative records of Re venue Canada

II

crown Roth Gav in Carrow and Pe te r Domarshy

In Touch With the Gryphon chuk took Cl AU titles in the ir respec tive weight classcs

Athletics Scene athered for thc annual Intercollegiate Athletic Banquet the people making up

the traditional full house in Peter Clark Hall had good reason to celebrate The reason

Another annual tradition - the conclusion of a highly successful season

National and provincial champions plus Ontario and Canadian all-stars received recognition and four deserving athletes were rewarded with special awards for their outshy

stand in g e fforts

The Uni versi ty of Guelph Male Athlete of the Year Award went to Sam Benincasa

HAFA 84 A fifth-year football team linebacker he was se lected as an All-Canadian

for the second consecuti ve year and was a nominee as outstand ing defensive player in the country

A Hamilton native he culminated hi s

career by returning an intercepted pass for a touchdown during the final home game Earshy

lier in the year Sam was the recipient of the Wildman Trophy awarded annually to the outstanding graduating player who has comshy

bined sportsmanship and leadership with sc ho lastic achievement

The Uni versity of Guelph Female Athlete of the Year Award went to Silvia Ruegger

FAC 84 of O shawa who was delcared the Canadian Inter-unive rsi ty Athletic Union

Cross-country Running C hampion for the

second time in her career Her previous triumph was in 1980

The W F Mitchell Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year Award s went to

Gav in Carrow Arts 84 and Karen McBride FACS 84 These awards named after Bill

Mitchell OAC 38 lo ng-ti me director of athletics are given to students in their graduatshy

ing year who demonstrate outstanding talcnt and ability in their sport combined with leadershyship and involvement in athletics

Gavin Carrow who won the CIA U Wres tling title in the 86-kilogram class for a

second time was an inspiration to his teamshymates according to coach Lo ndo Iacovelli

Karen McBride was a member of both the Fie ld Hockey and Ice Hockey teams and also served on the Athletics Advi sory Council and the Wome ns Intcrcollegiate Cou ncil

Of course it was a success ful year for

Grypho n teams as well The football team had a 5-2 record highli gh ted by the demolition of

the University of Wes tern Ontario 36-11 and the routing of the numbcr-one ranked Wilfrid Lau rie r University team by a score of 27-9 before large crowds No less than s ix

Grypho ns were accorded league all-star honours

The Wrestling Gryphons won an unpreshy

cedented fifth consccutive OUAA title and

narrowly missed out on a third st raight C IAU

President Burt Matthe ws OAC 47 centre with athletes of the year Sam Benincasa left and Silvia Ruegger

The mens hockey tcam ran a seven-game winning stretch in January to finish fou rth in the

13-tea m 0 A A league After ousting Laurenshytian University of Sudbury in quarter fina l play they were e liminated in the semis by thc Uni shyversity of Toronto Blucs the eventual national

champion Defenceman Bruce Kilgour earned the respect of league eoachcs to earn a firstshy

team OU AA all-star selec tio n The womens basketball team saved the ir

best effort for the cnd of the year as they won

the consolatio n title at the OW IAA championshyships Cindy McMastcr was sclected as a firstshyteam Icague all-star while Joanne Hurd was

named to the All-Tournament team at the championshi p tournament

The womens swimming team had the ir

most successful yea r placing fifth in Ontario

Shannon Smith won the gold medal in the 100shymeter back stroke

Barb Jonak won the individual title as the Gryphons regained thei r OW IAA archery crown and Judy Richardson took top honours in leading the Alpine Ski team to the chamshy

pionship of the Can-Am Challenge at Mont Gabriel Que

With only a few athletes gradu ating fro111

the University this year prospects look even be tte r for 1984-85 0

198384 MAJO R NTERCOUEGlAlli AWAROS

Archery Trophy Bltl rh Jonk rIO f Improved l3a ~kc lbJlI Award t kll) Joh n r araght r A d ll)irTl~onMen1onJlMVY Iruphy

Puul Flack An[hClIl Y SICWirt Mo~tlmpro ld Ba kC-Ibltl1l AwarJ (WtllllC II) Shelky Robcn M V P B~J e lba ll Award (Wo men) JOlun e Ilurd

M V P Oaom inlo n Award (WIJI lc n) Darle ne II (Ju~ c

M V P Badmi n1 0 n Award (M en) Manno Mekhlnrn v1V P C rt)Counlry Awa rd (Wumcn) Sil Vi a Rucg~c r

Art HachlTrophy Mlll uel SJ al i 1-1 VY CUrlil lg ~warJ Chri Harber M CP held lI ocke) warc1 Ann MldJklon MV P Fll~ l d I-Iockty WIlJ J ulie II nn1c y

M IP Foolbull A wa rd Ml nlO D imu lo Thl Prc-idc lli r)r~ l e r M V P rOOlhdll Trophy Je d Tommy Foolball Rook ie Award S( olll nJy Jeff Vo lpe M 1 P ICl llock ty Awmj (Wom( n) An n WeIL1I M I P COtJc hc~ Icc Hockey l rophy T ina Vld Walter Rickard Mcmon lluokie Awaru Roy RUltOl 1I Jack [l os M VP Hodl~Y AWdrd~ Hrul C K IIour T Hll Burton

kU 1I1 FvansM V P Ru glc r ward Je rrB il lrJo d

Oill M ~All u ff St)cc r Trophy M lklM il k r MI P Swimm 1l1 wClrd ( Wulllcn) Siobhan S mnh M V P Swimming Award~ (Women )

Janice Ptu Ann Mcn ic M IY Swimmillg AwmJ ( Mcnl Ilowaru T hw aitcl

C M Ki nncar MClnonal MVPAwarJ Jcl f Wadgc M P Syndml ili cd S wi mming Award I klcnc C ana u M I P VOllcyhal1 Award(Men) Sam Mallhn MV P Vollcyoall Award (Me n) Vil07JI M 1 P Vnl le yhoJll Award (Wumen) I clune ~kKcc

MV P Volleyball Award (Women) J(lC li e fl narr

1IP WrC llin l Award bull Ken Pull -MVP Wre~111I1 pound Awltl rd Ga IIICarroW

S PECIAL AW AROS - MEN AoIO WOME oI Cath y Rowe Manlge rH ra iner o fthc Year Awlrd Cu lin Silll ret W lldmlIl Trophy Sall1 [kninct J Or Mary Beve rl ey-Burton Iookie of lhc Year Award

L111e PrJce Don r JllJeron Tro phy tvl l fTlO Di nHII l(l W t- Muche ll Sponltowoman Award Karen M c Bride W F M ilChcll Sr)(m mm Award Gavin Carro FcnMk Alhl e te oft he Yeara SilV ia Rucg l1r Male Athlete nflhc Year Sam BcmnCiJltI

12

I well remember the peculiar subsoil which consisted of alternating layers of fine dark and light clay each about one-quarter of an inch thick and that when dried the layers seemcd to disappear The walls and ceiling were supported by poles cut from the bush and carth was piled up on top to a depth of about two feet The outer end had an air space between two doors lined with fe lt paper for insulation The interior was divided into bins but no special provision was made for ventilashytion and the potatoes sweated badly In the depth of winter long frost crystals were formed Some of the outer potatoes were frozen solidly but in spite of their unnatural sweetish taste and soggy texture we ate them anyway

Potato harvesting was another family affair It was the only harvest because with such poor fencing the oats and peas proved too tempting for neighbouring cattle

At Christmas time Dad took Bill and me back to Carlton Place to be with our relatives but Jack and Bob were left at home to care for the horse cow and dog With so much unexshypected cold weather they had a tough time of it

The house had very little insulation and was distinctly drafty Temperatures must have dipped to _400 Fahrenheit or lower because when a small bottle of mercury was put out it froze into a solid lump There were two stoves but when the fire went out at night ice formed on the water in the kettle and on the top and sides of the water pail It would be nearly an inch thick Jack declared he could not bake bread because the sponge froze during the night Fortunately neighbours asked them over for Christmas dinner and the evening

One cold night in early March the cow gave birth to a calf that was dead when discovshyered Dad called the colostrum milk beestings and made bee sty-cheese of it by mixing in a little salt and cooking it in a boiling water bath When coagulated he cut it into thick slices to be eaten with bread

In the summer of 1904 a trio of weaned Berkshire pigs was bought by mail order Bill and I made pets of them and often herded them

The farmhouse and temporary stable

while they dug for roots or grubs in places where no crop had been planted

Dad was an ardent reader of agricultural bulletins and farm magazines and vowed that no scrub bull would ever be used on his place Since there were no purebreds in the vicinity he ordered an elven-month-old dual-purpose Shorthorn with a registered pedigree Neighshybours thought it rather extravagant when he had only one cow The bull was supposed to be of serviceable age but when it was turned out to pasture it was morc interested in sucking milk from the cow than in anything else

There were only 13 English-speaking families in our Veuve River settlement and when our local school opened in January 1906 only eight pupils attended Classes were held in a room separated from the balance of a private farm dwelling by a thin temporary partition and the family on the other side could hear all that went on Desks were home-made and seats were simple benches without backs

By September of 1907 I was ready to start my entrance class to high school but no teacher had been found even when a new school building with plastered walls had been erected Shortly before that Dad had someshyhow become acquainted with an old man a former seaman from Georgian Bay who had to retire because of paralysis in both arms and legs

When the seaman learned of my desire to continue at school he suggested that Dad let me go to live with him in Sturgeon Falls where he had a couple of rooms so that I could go to school in return for my help I was left to choose and though I had never met the old man I accepted the challenge

Of course a rather bashful counrry boy starting in a strange school in town became the butt of a number of harmless jokes and pranks but when I bested the champion arm-wrestler of the cass three times in succession without much difficulty I won their respect

But my real problems came from another source I soon found that the old man was living off the generosity of anyone whom he could persude to help him In about a month he had to move to a house at the far end of the

town and by that time food supplies were becoming increasingly scarce

Late in October when Dad learned of my predicament he thought I should go home But I was getting along well at school and my teacher the principal had informed me that I had a good chance of winning thc school medal for highest marks on the high school entrance examination next June so I decided to stick with it

Looking baek at the situation now I really dont know how I could possibly have managed had not Jack soon after his return from a survey party in the far north obtained a job in the pulp mil] in town and eome to live with us He brought a bed from home and then I could sleep with my own brother His wage was $150 for a ten-hour day six days a week with day and night shifts alternating weekly Out of this he paid the rent of $7 monthly bought our fuel lamp oil and all our food supplies except potatoes which he brought from home

I finished my term at school wrote the departmental examinations to enter high school won the medal for top marks in the school but was never awarded it My princishypal did his best to obtain it for me A lame excuse given was the shortage of funds but I think the real reason was that I was from out of town and of course the school board did not know how much financial help my brother Jack had given the old man in those eight months

To my great disappointment I never had the opportunity or the privilege to attend high school as a pupil

During my following five years on the farm I became keenly interested in dairy cattle and dairying Our pure-bred Ayrshires won many prizes at Vernor and Sturgeon Falls fall fairs as did my dairy butter By using milk scales and the Babcock test I knew what each cow produced

As some of my classmates of Year 23 may know I enrolled in two dairy shortshycourses at the OAC in the winter and early spring before we all came together in Sepshytember 1919 With no high schooling at all and only four years of public school attenshydance though I did have my entrance certifishycate to high school I felt I was lucky to be admitted

At that time I planned to speciali ze in Dairy Husbandry but by the time I finished my first year of studies I realized that the study of life had greater educational appeal to shyme than what was offered in the Dairy Husshybandry option So in my final years I specialshyized in Biology and ever after became known to classmate Ted Hutt as Chcnopodium album

In all my 35 years of teaching high school pupils chiefly in Agricultural and General Science Botany and Zoology I have never had cause to regret that choice 0

7

At the noon picnic The OAC wine tastillg

At Alumni Weekend 84

fllcominll UGAA Presidenl Glenn Puwell OAC 62 and olllgoiflg presshyidelll [Jarr) SlahbaulII CPS 74

Leon Claus OAC 22 at the UGAA (Ifflaa meeting asked Du Y UIi slill grow IlImips at Guelph

Couldnt be thele but

Dear Dr and Mrs Mat thews

Thank-you very much for your invitation to the reception at the Presidents Rcsidence on June 24 during Alumni Weekend As a Ccnshy

tury Club member I feel a little guilty that this is for our be nefit only and not for all the other donors to the Alma Mater Fund I m sure it

will be well attended and it would be an excelshylent time for me to meet some of my classshymates aga in

nfortunately time and distance just don t pe rmit me the privilege of attending I rea lize it wasnt nee ssary for me to write but

I wo uld like to take this opportun ity to welshycome you to the University of Guel ph and exte nd my best wishes fo r your stay at the University

As an Alu mnus of G uelph I am o nly too happy to contribute my small part to the AMF with the knowledge that I m helping someshy

bod y else ac hieve as fi ne an education as I received I am proud or G uelph and its fine reputation as a learning inst itution and to conshytribute to it is the least I can do after the four great ycars it gave me

Thank you again for your invitation Im

sorry I wont make it but Im sure it will be a fi ne afternoon for all there r

Yours trul y

Peter F Walsh OAC 81 C lear Range Farm

Box 97 Marwayne Alberta TOB 2XO

Full marksor this hat Ir ick

Banquel tables lVere g roaning

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8

Class ofOAC 49 perused their year book OVC open hOLise displayed some AMF equipment purchases

Three old cronies Arboretum tours

Dr HUlVard Clark vice-presidell t acashydemic left ald Presiderzt Burl Malhews OAC 47 dedicated a sugar maple to the memory of the late Presiderzt Donald F Forstllr

The Donald F flirs tt daliwtion plulllt

COMING EVENTS September 6 Fall Semester - classes commence

10middot12 Aggie Wee k

14 OAC golf tournament

16 Alumni Harvest Fair Fill o ut the orde r form below a nd c()m~ to tilt fair

a family day katuring 1880 style acti vitie s at the O ntario

Agric ultural Muse um at M ilto n Ticke t prices include e nshy

trance fee and a chicken barbe cue w ith corn on the cnh

baked potato salad de ssert a nd beve rage

22 HOMECOMING

October 5 Fall Convocation

November 15 Toronto alumni VISA group hosts a Night at the Royal

Alumni Harvest Fair Ticket Order Form (See details above)

NAME College amp Year -Pleac pnnlJ

MAILING ADDRESS (PIC d ~ (Will i )

PI usc r middotg is ter the following fo r the fa ir Adults C hildren

M ai l with your chequc ($9 pe r adult $5 50 per child under 13) payable to the ni versity

of G uelph Alumni Assoc iation to Alumni Harves t Fair Alumn i Office Johnston Ha ll

Unive rsity of G ue lph Guelph Ontar io N I G 2W I not latcrthan Septcmocr4 1984

9

Income Tax And the Part-time Farmer

By Professor J Gary Hutchison OAC 58 School of Agricultural Economics and Extension Education OAC University of Guelph

There has been considerable discussion in the media and among part-time farmshy

ers farm organizations and politicians regardshying part-time farming and Revenue Canada What is causing the problems It would appear that Revenue Canada has increased its audit on all taxpayers and particularly those filing as farmers with other sources of income

There have always beenrandom audits and reassessments of part-time farmers The concerns are greater now only because of numbers and the occasional unreasonable assessments as well as the tactics used in some cases The following comments will attempt to clarify part-time farming and the controversy with RevenueCanada

Thousands of taxpayers have moved to the country over the past 15 years or more These country dwellers have many of the same expenses as farmers such as building and fence repair water pumps balky tractors or even feed and veterinary expenses Since a taxpayer is not required to qualify as a farmer before filing as a farmer many began deductshying farm losses against other income

Farming is the only business allowed to file on the cash method of accounting This means expenses of livestock and crops are deductible but the inventory build-up is not taxable until sold All other businesses would have similar expenses but the inventory buildshyup would be subject to tax Cash accounting allows expansion to take place creating cash losses even though the farm may be profitable using accrual accounting The tax referrals created are the equivalent of an interest-free loan

False Impressions

Revenue Canada has been assessing the taxpayer based on information submitted not whether or not a legitimate farm was being operated Such assessment and refunds often have continued for several years giving taxshypayers a false impression of their farming activities and tax position In some cases brought to my attention at the University of Guelph Revenue Canada appears to have been over-zealous and unfair However in most cases that government department is perfectly within the law in disallowing some losses

entirely and reducing others There are basically three classes of taxshy

payers filing as farmers the hobbyist although many do not claim to be such those with a reasonable expectation of profit but preshyoccupied with other employment and full shytime farmers with or without off-farm income

The first group constitute a wide range of country dwellers Some may have two riding horses and even harvest crops for their liveshystock According to the tax regulations such taxpayers have no reasonable expectation of profit and none of the costs are deductible against other sources of income

Others file as farmers because they feel they are really farming The farm work-load costs and frustrations are considered sufficient to qualify them as farmers They are the taxshypayers with 15 beef cows or 40 ewes two mediocre race horses or 40 acres of hay writshying off operating expenses and depreciation of $10000 a year plus $10000 mortgage intershyest on an operation with a maximum cash and

or accrued income of $7500 per year Again these taxpayers do not have a

reasonable expectation of profit based on the expenses being charged for tax purposes Therefore according to the tax rules these taxpayers should not be allowed any deducshytions against other sources of income

The tax rules should not be changed to accommodate these people They have a hobby not unlike skiing travelling or collectshying stamps All hobbies come at a cost few ever make money and the costs must be covered with after tax dollars If these same people rented land and used custom operators they might qualify because their costs would be reduced substantially

Another group of farmers do have a reasonable expectation of profit but their chief source of income is not farming or a combination of farming and some other source of income The major part of these taxshypayers time and effort is spent doing someshything other than farming Such taxpayers are allowed to deduct against other income the first $2500 of cash losses plus 50 per cent of the next $5000 Any balance must be carried ahead up to ten years or back three years against net farm income

Limiting Loss Deductions

Many of these taxpayers however have not restricted themselves to the $5000 maximum They have been deducting unshylimited losses against other income for several years even though off-farm employment controls their time and effort Revenue Canada under the present law has every right to limit

their loss deductions Likewise merely having gross income from farming in excess of inshycome from other sources does not automatishycally qualify a taxpayer for unlimited farm losses against other income

All raxpayers who have filed as farmers are also eligible to deduct the full amount of the investment tax credit when new qualifying machinery or buildings are purchased This credit reduces federal tax payable not taxable income by $7000 in southern Ontario or shy$20000 in the Maritimes on a new bam costshying $100000 It soon becomes obvious why Revenue Canada is concerned about part-time farming

The third classification filing tax returns as farmers involves taxpayers whose chief source of income is indeed farming or a combination of farming and some other source of income Such taxpayers many deduct

10

unlimited farm cash losses against other inshy Then anyone who could prove an accflI al prices W hat chance would a beginning famler come in a given year It is expected that farmshy profit should be allowed unlim ited losses with no o ff-farm income have in competing for ing produces the bulk of income or is the centre against other sources of income regardless of land The established farmer would also have of work routine and is the taxpayer s major th size of operation For example a person difficulty attempting to expand in competition preoccupation A farmer dri vi ng a school bus purchasing one or two dairy heifers each year with the non-faml dollars should easily qual ify Many fanners who have working for thei r feed and housing them in It would also be logical with more dolshytaken full- or part-t ime jobs because of fi nan shy rented quarters could likely show a profit lars at stake for Revenue Canada to step up its cial difficulty should be able to work full- time using accrual methods Their tax liability is audits It has also been suggested that the for several years without losing their el igibilshy only deferred dcpartment shou ld hir agricultu rally trained ity provided they had a history of full-time Many taxpayers are lobbying for inshy auditors My experience would ind icate that a fanning creases in the $5000 li mit The limit has not profcssional agricultural auditor could easily

In my opinion any taxpayer who could changed since its inception in the early 1950s testify in court that the majori ty of part-time not show a profit using accrual methods should Such an increase may be justified in light of fanners have no reasonable expectat ion of not be allowed any tax rel ief regardless of the infl ation over time However an increase in profit using aecmal accou nting methods scale of operation All othe r businesses must the limit would not necessarily be o f benefit to Th is would mean that many taxpayers now file on the accrual method Part-time farmers agriculture limited to $5 000 would get nothing As a wou ld only be required to prove on audit that In the first place encouraging more part-ti me farme r and Professor of Agricultural they could show a profit using accrual capital into agriculture may not be desirable Economics and Extens ion Edlleation at the acc unting T he city money would put pressure on land Un iversity o f Gue lph I rest my case 0

Table I- Farm Taxfilers Average Income from Farm and Off-farm Sources by County 1981

Di stricts Farm

Tax filers

Average Net Farm Income

Taxfilers Reporting O ff-Farm Income

Av erage Net

Off-Fann Income

Tax fi lers Reporting Wages and

Salaries

Average Income from W ages and

Salaries

Average Net Income from All Sources

Net arm Income as

a of Total Net Income

no $ no $ no $ $

Brant 1695 5293 1584 12620 631 63 13 17914 29 6 Elgin 3425 3812 3204 10256 1248 4838 14068 27 1 Essex 4905 3395 4769 15857 2 409 9002 19252 176 Hald imand-Nrfolk 5 955 4441 5542 9724 2083 4 745 14 165 314 Hamilton-Wentworth 1960 262 1887 21 999 1084 13184 22 261 12 Ken t 6295 6 279 6063 II 610 2530 5583 17889 351 Lambton 4250 3130 4086 14 618 1944 8723 17 748 176 Middlesex 5485 3486 5198 14450 2410 7651 17936 194 Niagara 4625 1063 4 437 18011 2445 11130 19074 5 6 Oxford 4440 5273 4158 10350 1480 4625 15623 33 8

SOUTHERNONTARlO 43035 3855 40928 13454 18 263 7231 17 309 22 3

Bruce 4 470 -168 4242 10 931 1942 6243 10763 Dufferin 1365 - 180 1301 15 315 704 9220 15134 Grey 3725 363 3519 11 032 1718 6361 11395 32 Halton 1675 - 165 1628 27976 953 16 2 11 27811 Huron 4520 3388 4219 9055 1626 4416 12443 272 Peel 1715 -431 167 1 31243 1013 180[7 30812 Perth 4685 4 935 4323 8789 1514 3891 [3724 360 Simcoe Waterloo Wellington

4515 3330 4425

115 3692 1537

4318 3137 4099

14188 15034 12850

2265 1405 1968

8637 7872 8187

14303 18726 14387

08 197 107

WESTERN ONTARIO 34 430 1667 32462 13481 15108 7566 15148 110

CENTRAL ONTARIO

EA STERN ONTARIO

19455

17375

88

1427

18820

16 325

22874

14716

10476

7885

12524

9045

22962

16 143

04

88 -NORTHERN ONTARIO 4665 - 139 4430 15404 2731 10 898 15265

THE PROVINCE 118970 2095 J 12975 15 263 54468 8602 17 358 12 1

1980 118035 2172 111119 13 00 53481 7619 15271 142

No tes A farm tax filer is a taxfil er who reported positive gross income or non-zero net income from unincorporated self-employed farming activity Figures may not add due to rounding Source Data are derived from the administrative records of Re venue Canada

II

crown Roth Gav in Carrow and Pe te r Domarshy

In Touch With the Gryphon chuk took Cl AU titles in the ir respec tive weight classcs

Athletics Scene athered for thc annual Intercollegiate Athletic Banquet the people making up

the traditional full house in Peter Clark Hall had good reason to celebrate The reason

Another annual tradition - the conclusion of a highly successful season

National and provincial champions plus Ontario and Canadian all-stars received recognition and four deserving athletes were rewarded with special awards for their outshy

stand in g e fforts

The Uni versi ty of Guelph Male Athlete of the Year Award went to Sam Benincasa

HAFA 84 A fifth-year football team linebacker he was se lected as an All-Canadian

for the second consecuti ve year and was a nominee as outstand ing defensive player in the country

A Hamilton native he culminated hi s

career by returning an intercepted pass for a touchdown during the final home game Earshy

lier in the year Sam was the recipient of the Wildman Trophy awarded annually to the outstanding graduating player who has comshy

bined sportsmanship and leadership with sc ho lastic achievement

The Uni versity of Guelph Female Athlete of the Year Award went to Silvia Ruegger

FAC 84 of O shawa who was delcared the Canadian Inter-unive rsi ty Athletic Union

Cross-country Running C hampion for the

second time in her career Her previous triumph was in 1980

The W F Mitchell Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year Award s went to

Gav in Carrow Arts 84 and Karen McBride FACS 84 These awards named after Bill

Mitchell OAC 38 lo ng-ti me director of athletics are given to students in their graduatshy

ing year who demonstrate outstanding talcnt and ability in their sport combined with leadershyship and involvement in athletics

Gavin Carrow who won the CIA U Wres tling title in the 86-kilogram class for a

second time was an inspiration to his teamshymates according to coach Lo ndo Iacovelli

Karen McBride was a member of both the Fie ld Hockey and Ice Hockey teams and also served on the Athletics Advi sory Council and the Wome ns Intcrcollegiate Cou ncil

Of course it was a success ful year for

Grypho n teams as well The football team had a 5-2 record highli gh ted by the demolition of

the University of Wes tern Ontario 36-11 and the routing of the numbcr-one ranked Wilfrid Lau rie r University team by a score of 27-9 before large crowds No less than s ix

Grypho ns were accorded league all-star honours

The Wrestling Gryphons won an unpreshy

cedented fifth consccutive OUAA title and

narrowly missed out on a third st raight C IAU

President Burt Matthe ws OAC 47 centre with athletes of the year Sam Benincasa left and Silvia Ruegger

The mens hockey tcam ran a seven-game winning stretch in January to finish fou rth in the

13-tea m 0 A A league After ousting Laurenshytian University of Sudbury in quarter fina l play they were e liminated in the semis by thc Uni shyversity of Toronto Blucs the eventual national

champion Defenceman Bruce Kilgour earned the respect of league eoachcs to earn a firstshy

team OU AA all-star selec tio n The womens basketball team saved the ir

best effort for the cnd of the year as they won

the consolatio n title at the OW IAA championshyships Cindy McMastcr was sclected as a firstshyteam Icague all-star while Joanne Hurd was

named to the All-Tournament team at the championshi p tournament

The womens swimming team had the ir

most successful yea r placing fifth in Ontario

Shannon Smith won the gold medal in the 100shymeter back stroke

Barb Jonak won the individual title as the Gryphons regained thei r OW IAA archery crown and Judy Richardson took top honours in leading the Alpine Ski team to the chamshy

pionship of the Can-Am Challenge at Mont Gabriel Que

With only a few athletes gradu ating fro111

the University this year prospects look even be tte r for 1984-85 0

198384 MAJO R NTERCOUEGlAlli AWAROS

Archery Trophy Bltl rh Jonk rIO f Improved l3a ~kc lbJlI Award t kll) Joh n r araght r A d ll)irTl~onMen1onJlMVY Iruphy

Puul Flack An[hClIl Y SICWirt Mo~tlmpro ld Ba kC-Ibltl1l AwarJ (WtllllC II) Shelky Robcn M V P B~J e lba ll Award (Wo men) JOlun e Ilurd

M V P Oaom inlo n Award (WIJI lc n) Darle ne II (Ju~ c

M V P Badmi n1 0 n Award (M en) Manno Mekhlnrn v1V P C rt)Counlry Awa rd (Wumcn) Sil Vi a Rucg~c r

Art HachlTrophy Mlll uel SJ al i 1-1 VY CUrlil lg ~warJ Chri Harber M CP held lI ocke) warc1 Ann MldJklon MV P Fll~ l d I-Iockty WIlJ J ulie II nn1c y

M IP Foolbull A wa rd Ml nlO D imu lo Thl Prc-idc lli r)r~ l e r M V P rOOlhdll Trophy Je d Tommy Foolball Rook ie Award S( olll nJy Jeff Vo lpe M 1 P ICl llock ty Awmj (Wom( n) An n WeIL1I M I P COtJc hc~ Icc Hockey l rophy T ina Vld Walter Rickard Mcmon lluokie Awaru Roy RUltOl 1I Jack [l os M VP Hodl~Y AWdrd~ Hrul C K IIour T Hll Burton

kU 1I1 FvansM V P Ru glc r ward Je rrB il lrJo d

Oill M ~All u ff St)cc r Trophy M lklM il k r MI P Swimm 1l1 wClrd ( Wulllcn) Siobhan S mnh M V P Swimming Award~ (Women )

Janice Ptu Ann Mcn ic M IY Swimmillg AwmJ ( Mcnl Ilowaru T hw aitcl

C M Ki nncar MClnonal MVPAwarJ Jcl f Wadgc M P Syndml ili cd S wi mming Award I klcnc C ana u M I P VOllcyhal1 Award(Men) Sam Mallhn MV P Vollcyoall Award (Me n) Vil07JI M 1 P Vnl le yhoJll Award (Wumen) I clune ~kKcc

MV P Volleyball Award (Women) J(lC li e fl narr

1IP WrC llin l Award bull Ken Pull -MVP Wre~111I1 pound Awltl rd Ga IIICarroW

S PECIAL AW AROS - MEN AoIO WOME oI Cath y Rowe Manlge rH ra iner o fthc Year Awlrd Cu lin Silll ret W lldmlIl Trophy Sall1 [kninct J Or Mary Beve rl ey-Burton Iookie of lhc Year Award

L111e PrJce Don r JllJeron Tro phy tvl l fTlO Di nHII l(l W t- Muche ll Sponltowoman Award Karen M c Bride W F M ilChcll Sr)(m mm Award Gavin Carro FcnMk Alhl e te oft he Yeara SilV ia Rucg l1r Male Athlete nflhc Year Sam BcmnCiJltI

12

At the noon picnic The OAC wine tastillg

At Alumni Weekend 84

fllcominll UGAA Presidenl Glenn Puwell OAC 62 and olllgoiflg presshyidelll [Jarr) SlahbaulII CPS 74

Leon Claus OAC 22 at the UGAA (Ifflaa meeting asked Du Y UIi slill grow IlImips at Guelph

Couldnt be thele but

Dear Dr and Mrs Mat thews

Thank-you very much for your invitation to the reception at the Presidents Rcsidence on June 24 during Alumni Weekend As a Ccnshy

tury Club member I feel a little guilty that this is for our be nefit only and not for all the other donors to the Alma Mater Fund I m sure it

will be well attended and it would be an excelshylent time for me to meet some of my classshymates aga in

nfortunately time and distance just don t pe rmit me the privilege of attending I rea lize it wasnt nee ssary for me to write but

I wo uld like to take this opportun ity to welshycome you to the University of Guel ph and exte nd my best wishes fo r your stay at the University

As an Alu mnus of G uelph I am o nly too happy to contribute my small part to the AMF with the knowledge that I m helping someshy

bod y else ac hieve as fi ne an education as I received I am proud or G uelph and its fine reputation as a learning inst itution and to conshytribute to it is the least I can do after the four great ycars it gave me

Thank you again for your invitation Im

sorry I wont make it but Im sure it will be a fi ne afternoon for all there r

Yours trul y

Peter F Walsh OAC 81 C lear Range Farm

Box 97 Marwayne Alberta TOB 2XO

Full marksor this hat Ir ick

Banquel tables lVere g roaning

-

8

Class ofOAC 49 perused their year book OVC open hOLise displayed some AMF equipment purchases

Three old cronies Arboretum tours

Dr HUlVard Clark vice-presidell t acashydemic left ald Presiderzt Burl Malhews OAC 47 dedicated a sugar maple to the memory of the late Presiderzt Donald F Forstllr

The Donald F flirs tt daliwtion plulllt

COMING EVENTS September 6 Fall Semester - classes commence

10middot12 Aggie Wee k

14 OAC golf tournament

16 Alumni Harvest Fair Fill o ut the orde r form below a nd c()m~ to tilt fair

a family day katuring 1880 style acti vitie s at the O ntario

Agric ultural Muse um at M ilto n Ticke t prices include e nshy

trance fee and a chicken barbe cue w ith corn on the cnh

baked potato salad de ssert a nd beve rage

22 HOMECOMING

October 5 Fall Convocation

November 15 Toronto alumni VISA group hosts a Night at the Royal

Alumni Harvest Fair Ticket Order Form (See details above)

NAME College amp Year -Pleac pnnlJ

MAILING ADDRESS (PIC d ~ (Will i )

PI usc r middotg is ter the following fo r the fa ir Adults C hildren

M ai l with your chequc ($9 pe r adult $5 50 per child under 13) payable to the ni versity

of G uelph Alumni Assoc iation to Alumni Harves t Fair Alumn i Office Johnston Ha ll

Unive rsity of G ue lph Guelph Ontar io N I G 2W I not latcrthan Septcmocr4 1984

9

Income Tax And the Part-time Farmer

By Professor J Gary Hutchison OAC 58 School of Agricultural Economics and Extension Education OAC University of Guelph

There has been considerable discussion in the media and among part-time farmshy

ers farm organizations and politicians regardshying part-time farming and Revenue Canada What is causing the problems It would appear that Revenue Canada has increased its audit on all taxpayers and particularly those filing as farmers with other sources of income

There have always beenrandom audits and reassessments of part-time farmers The concerns are greater now only because of numbers and the occasional unreasonable assessments as well as the tactics used in some cases The following comments will attempt to clarify part-time farming and the controversy with RevenueCanada

Thousands of taxpayers have moved to the country over the past 15 years or more These country dwellers have many of the same expenses as farmers such as building and fence repair water pumps balky tractors or even feed and veterinary expenses Since a taxpayer is not required to qualify as a farmer before filing as a farmer many began deductshying farm losses against other income

Farming is the only business allowed to file on the cash method of accounting This means expenses of livestock and crops are deductible but the inventory build-up is not taxable until sold All other businesses would have similar expenses but the inventory buildshyup would be subject to tax Cash accounting allows expansion to take place creating cash losses even though the farm may be profitable using accrual accounting The tax referrals created are the equivalent of an interest-free loan

False Impressions

Revenue Canada has been assessing the taxpayer based on information submitted not whether or not a legitimate farm was being operated Such assessment and refunds often have continued for several years giving taxshypayers a false impression of their farming activities and tax position In some cases brought to my attention at the University of Guelph Revenue Canada appears to have been over-zealous and unfair However in most cases that government department is perfectly within the law in disallowing some losses

entirely and reducing others There are basically three classes of taxshy

payers filing as farmers the hobbyist although many do not claim to be such those with a reasonable expectation of profit but preshyoccupied with other employment and full shytime farmers with or without off-farm income

The first group constitute a wide range of country dwellers Some may have two riding horses and even harvest crops for their liveshystock According to the tax regulations such taxpayers have no reasonable expectation of profit and none of the costs are deductible against other sources of income

Others file as farmers because they feel they are really farming The farm work-load costs and frustrations are considered sufficient to qualify them as farmers They are the taxshypayers with 15 beef cows or 40 ewes two mediocre race horses or 40 acres of hay writshying off operating expenses and depreciation of $10000 a year plus $10000 mortgage intershyest on an operation with a maximum cash and

or accrued income of $7500 per year Again these taxpayers do not have a

reasonable expectation of profit based on the expenses being charged for tax purposes Therefore according to the tax rules these taxpayers should not be allowed any deducshytions against other sources of income

The tax rules should not be changed to accommodate these people They have a hobby not unlike skiing travelling or collectshying stamps All hobbies come at a cost few ever make money and the costs must be covered with after tax dollars If these same people rented land and used custom operators they might qualify because their costs would be reduced substantially

Another group of farmers do have a reasonable expectation of profit but their chief source of income is not farming or a combination of farming and some other source of income The major part of these taxshypayers time and effort is spent doing someshything other than farming Such taxpayers are allowed to deduct against other income the first $2500 of cash losses plus 50 per cent of the next $5000 Any balance must be carried ahead up to ten years or back three years against net farm income

Limiting Loss Deductions

Many of these taxpayers however have not restricted themselves to the $5000 maximum They have been deducting unshylimited losses against other income for several years even though off-farm employment controls their time and effort Revenue Canada under the present law has every right to limit

their loss deductions Likewise merely having gross income from farming in excess of inshycome from other sources does not automatishycally qualify a taxpayer for unlimited farm losses against other income

All raxpayers who have filed as farmers are also eligible to deduct the full amount of the investment tax credit when new qualifying machinery or buildings are purchased This credit reduces federal tax payable not taxable income by $7000 in southern Ontario or shy$20000 in the Maritimes on a new bam costshying $100000 It soon becomes obvious why Revenue Canada is concerned about part-time farming

The third classification filing tax returns as farmers involves taxpayers whose chief source of income is indeed farming or a combination of farming and some other source of income Such taxpayers many deduct

10

unlimited farm cash losses against other inshy Then anyone who could prove an accflI al prices W hat chance would a beginning famler come in a given year It is expected that farmshy profit should be allowed unlim ited losses with no o ff-farm income have in competing for ing produces the bulk of income or is the centre against other sources of income regardless of land The established farmer would also have of work routine and is the taxpayer s major th size of operation For example a person difficulty attempting to expand in competition preoccupation A farmer dri vi ng a school bus purchasing one or two dairy heifers each year with the non-faml dollars should easily qual ify Many fanners who have working for thei r feed and housing them in It would also be logical with more dolshytaken full- or part-t ime jobs because of fi nan shy rented quarters could likely show a profit lars at stake for Revenue Canada to step up its cial difficulty should be able to work full- time using accrual methods Their tax liability is audits It has also been suggested that the for several years without losing their el igibilshy only deferred dcpartment shou ld hir agricultu rally trained ity provided they had a history of full-time Many taxpayers are lobbying for inshy auditors My experience would ind icate that a fanning creases in the $5000 li mit The limit has not profcssional agricultural auditor could easily

In my opinion any taxpayer who could changed since its inception in the early 1950s testify in court that the majori ty of part-time not show a profit using accrual methods should Such an increase may be justified in light of fanners have no reasonable expectat ion of not be allowed any tax rel ief regardless of the infl ation over time However an increase in profit using aecmal accou nting methods scale of operation All othe r businesses must the limit would not necessarily be o f benefit to Th is would mean that many taxpayers now file on the accrual method Part-time farmers agriculture limited to $5 000 would get nothing As a wou ld only be required to prove on audit that In the first place encouraging more part-ti me farme r and Professor of Agricultural they could show a profit using accrual capital into agriculture may not be desirable Economics and Extens ion Edlleation at the acc unting T he city money would put pressure on land Un iversity o f Gue lph I rest my case 0

Table I- Farm Taxfilers Average Income from Farm and Off-farm Sources by County 1981

Di stricts Farm

Tax filers

Average Net Farm Income

Taxfilers Reporting O ff-Farm Income

Av erage Net

Off-Fann Income

Tax fi lers Reporting Wages and

Salaries

Average Income from W ages and

Salaries

Average Net Income from All Sources

Net arm Income as

a of Total Net Income

no $ no $ no $ $

Brant 1695 5293 1584 12620 631 63 13 17914 29 6 Elgin 3425 3812 3204 10256 1248 4838 14068 27 1 Essex 4905 3395 4769 15857 2 409 9002 19252 176 Hald imand-Nrfolk 5 955 4441 5542 9724 2083 4 745 14 165 314 Hamilton-Wentworth 1960 262 1887 21 999 1084 13184 22 261 12 Ken t 6295 6 279 6063 II 610 2530 5583 17889 351 Lambton 4250 3130 4086 14 618 1944 8723 17 748 176 Middlesex 5485 3486 5198 14450 2410 7651 17936 194 Niagara 4625 1063 4 437 18011 2445 11130 19074 5 6 Oxford 4440 5273 4158 10350 1480 4625 15623 33 8

SOUTHERNONTARlO 43035 3855 40928 13454 18 263 7231 17 309 22 3

Bruce 4 470 -168 4242 10 931 1942 6243 10763 Dufferin 1365 - 180 1301 15 315 704 9220 15134 Grey 3725 363 3519 11 032 1718 6361 11395 32 Halton 1675 - 165 1628 27976 953 16 2 11 27811 Huron 4520 3388 4219 9055 1626 4416 12443 272 Peel 1715 -431 167 1 31243 1013 180[7 30812 Perth 4685 4 935 4323 8789 1514 3891 [3724 360 Simcoe Waterloo Wellington

4515 3330 4425

115 3692 1537

4318 3137 4099

14188 15034 12850

2265 1405 1968

8637 7872 8187

14303 18726 14387

08 197 107

WESTERN ONTARIO 34 430 1667 32462 13481 15108 7566 15148 110

CENTRAL ONTARIO

EA STERN ONTARIO

19455

17375

88

1427

18820

16 325

22874

14716

10476

7885

12524

9045

22962

16 143

04

88 -NORTHERN ONTARIO 4665 - 139 4430 15404 2731 10 898 15265

THE PROVINCE 118970 2095 J 12975 15 263 54468 8602 17 358 12 1

1980 118035 2172 111119 13 00 53481 7619 15271 142

No tes A farm tax filer is a taxfil er who reported positive gross income or non-zero net income from unincorporated self-employed farming activity Figures may not add due to rounding Source Data are derived from the administrative records of Re venue Canada

II

crown Roth Gav in Carrow and Pe te r Domarshy

In Touch With the Gryphon chuk took Cl AU titles in the ir respec tive weight classcs

Athletics Scene athered for thc annual Intercollegiate Athletic Banquet the people making up

the traditional full house in Peter Clark Hall had good reason to celebrate The reason

Another annual tradition - the conclusion of a highly successful season

National and provincial champions plus Ontario and Canadian all-stars received recognition and four deserving athletes were rewarded with special awards for their outshy

stand in g e fforts

The Uni versi ty of Guelph Male Athlete of the Year Award went to Sam Benincasa

HAFA 84 A fifth-year football team linebacker he was se lected as an All-Canadian

for the second consecuti ve year and was a nominee as outstand ing defensive player in the country

A Hamilton native he culminated hi s

career by returning an intercepted pass for a touchdown during the final home game Earshy

lier in the year Sam was the recipient of the Wildman Trophy awarded annually to the outstanding graduating player who has comshy

bined sportsmanship and leadership with sc ho lastic achievement

The Uni versity of Guelph Female Athlete of the Year Award went to Silvia Ruegger

FAC 84 of O shawa who was delcared the Canadian Inter-unive rsi ty Athletic Union

Cross-country Running C hampion for the

second time in her career Her previous triumph was in 1980

The W F Mitchell Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year Award s went to

Gav in Carrow Arts 84 and Karen McBride FACS 84 These awards named after Bill

Mitchell OAC 38 lo ng-ti me director of athletics are given to students in their graduatshy

ing year who demonstrate outstanding talcnt and ability in their sport combined with leadershyship and involvement in athletics

Gavin Carrow who won the CIA U Wres tling title in the 86-kilogram class for a

second time was an inspiration to his teamshymates according to coach Lo ndo Iacovelli

Karen McBride was a member of both the Fie ld Hockey and Ice Hockey teams and also served on the Athletics Advi sory Council and the Wome ns Intcrcollegiate Cou ncil

Of course it was a success ful year for

Grypho n teams as well The football team had a 5-2 record highli gh ted by the demolition of

the University of Wes tern Ontario 36-11 and the routing of the numbcr-one ranked Wilfrid Lau rie r University team by a score of 27-9 before large crowds No less than s ix

Grypho ns were accorded league all-star honours

The Wrestling Gryphons won an unpreshy

cedented fifth consccutive OUAA title and

narrowly missed out on a third st raight C IAU

President Burt Matthe ws OAC 47 centre with athletes of the year Sam Benincasa left and Silvia Ruegger

The mens hockey tcam ran a seven-game winning stretch in January to finish fou rth in the

13-tea m 0 A A league After ousting Laurenshytian University of Sudbury in quarter fina l play they were e liminated in the semis by thc Uni shyversity of Toronto Blucs the eventual national

champion Defenceman Bruce Kilgour earned the respect of league eoachcs to earn a firstshy

team OU AA all-star selec tio n The womens basketball team saved the ir

best effort for the cnd of the year as they won

the consolatio n title at the OW IAA championshyships Cindy McMastcr was sclected as a firstshyteam Icague all-star while Joanne Hurd was

named to the All-Tournament team at the championshi p tournament

The womens swimming team had the ir

most successful yea r placing fifth in Ontario

Shannon Smith won the gold medal in the 100shymeter back stroke

Barb Jonak won the individual title as the Gryphons regained thei r OW IAA archery crown and Judy Richardson took top honours in leading the Alpine Ski team to the chamshy

pionship of the Can-Am Challenge at Mont Gabriel Que

With only a few athletes gradu ating fro111

the University this year prospects look even be tte r for 1984-85 0

198384 MAJO R NTERCOUEGlAlli AWAROS

Archery Trophy Bltl rh Jonk rIO f Improved l3a ~kc lbJlI Award t kll) Joh n r araght r A d ll)irTl~onMen1onJlMVY Iruphy

Puul Flack An[hClIl Y SICWirt Mo~tlmpro ld Ba kC-Ibltl1l AwarJ (WtllllC II) Shelky Robcn M V P B~J e lba ll Award (Wo men) JOlun e Ilurd

M V P Oaom inlo n Award (WIJI lc n) Darle ne II (Ju~ c

M V P Badmi n1 0 n Award (M en) Manno Mekhlnrn v1V P C rt)Counlry Awa rd (Wumcn) Sil Vi a Rucg~c r

Art HachlTrophy Mlll uel SJ al i 1-1 VY CUrlil lg ~warJ Chri Harber M CP held lI ocke) warc1 Ann MldJklon MV P Fll~ l d I-Iockty WIlJ J ulie II nn1c y

M IP Foolbull A wa rd Ml nlO D imu lo Thl Prc-idc lli r)r~ l e r M V P rOOlhdll Trophy Je d Tommy Foolball Rook ie Award S( olll nJy Jeff Vo lpe M 1 P ICl llock ty Awmj (Wom( n) An n WeIL1I M I P COtJc hc~ Icc Hockey l rophy T ina Vld Walter Rickard Mcmon lluokie Awaru Roy RUltOl 1I Jack [l os M VP Hodl~Y AWdrd~ Hrul C K IIour T Hll Burton

kU 1I1 FvansM V P Ru glc r ward Je rrB il lrJo d

Oill M ~All u ff St)cc r Trophy M lklM il k r MI P Swimm 1l1 wClrd ( Wulllcn) Siobhan S mnh M V P Swimming Award~ (Women )

Janice Ptu Ann Mcn ic M IY Swimmillg AwmJ ( Mcnl Ilowaru T hw aitcl

C M Ki nncar MClnonal MVPAwarJ Jcl f Wadgc M P Syndml ili cd S wi mming Award I klcnc C ana u M I P VOllcyhal1 Award(Men) Sam Mallhn MV P Vollcyoall Award (Me n) Vil07JI M 1 P Vnl le yhoJll Award (Wumen) I clune ~kKcc

MV P Volleyball Award (Women) J(lC li e fl narr

1IP WrC llin l Award bull Ken Pull -MVP Wre~111I1 pound Awltl rd Ga IIICarroW

S PECIAL AW AROS - MEN AoIO WOME oI Cath y Rowe Manlge rH ra iner o fthc Year Awlrd Cu lin Silll ret W lldmlIl Trophy Sall1 [kninct J Or Mary Beve rl ey-Burton Iookie of lhc Year Award

L111e PrJce Don r JllJeron Tro phy tvl l fTlO Di nHII l(l W t- Muche ll Sponltowoman Award Karen M c Bride W F M ilChcll Sr)(m mm Award Gavin Carro FcnMk Alhl e te oft he Yeara SilV ia Rucg l1r Male Athlete nflhc Year Sam BcmnCiJltI

12

Class ofOAC 49 perused their year book OVC open hOLise displayed some AMF equipment purchases

Three old cronies Arboretum tours

Dr HUlVard Clark vice-presidell t acashydemic left ald Presiderzt Burl Malhews OAC 47 dedicated a sugar maple to the memory of the late Presiderzt Donald F Forstllr

The Donald F flirs tt daliwtion plulllt

COMING EVENTS September 6 Fall Semester - classes commence

10middot12 Aggie Wee k

14 OAC golf tournament

16 Alumni Harvest Fair Fill o ut the orde r form below a nd c()m~ to tilt fair

a family day katuring 1880 style acti vitie s at the O ntario

Agric ultural Muse um at M ilto n Ticke t prices include e nshy

trance fee and a chicken barbe cue w ith corn on the cnh

baked potato salad de ssert a nd beve rage

22 HOMECOMING

October 5 Fall Convocation

November 15 Toronto alumni VISA group hosts a Night at the Royal

Alumni Harvest Fair Ticket Order Form (See details above)

NAME College amp Year -Pleac pnnlJ

MAILING ADDRESS (PIC d ~ (Will i )

PI usc r middotg is ter the following fo r the fa ir Adults C hildren

M ai l with your chequc ($9 pe r adult $5 50 per child under 13) payable to the ni versity

of G uelph Alumni Assoc iation to Alumni Harves t Fair Alumn i Office Johnston Ha ll

Unive rsity of G ue lph Guelph Ontar io N I G 2W I not latcrthan Septcmocr4 1984

9

Income Tax And the Part-time Farmer

By Professor J Gary Hutchison OAC 58 School of Agricultural Economics and Extension Education OAC University of Guelph

There has been considerable discussion in the media and among part-time farmshy

ers farm organizations and politicians regardshying part-time farming and Revenue Canada What is causing the problems It would appear that Revenue Canada has increased its audit on all taxpayers and particularly those filing as farmers with other sources of income

There have always beenrandom audits and reassessments of part-time farmers The concerns are greater now only because of numbers and the occasional unreasonable assessments as well as the tactics used in some cases The following comments will attempt to clarify part-time farming and the controversy with RevenueCanada

Thousands of taxpayers have moved to the country over the past 15 years or more These country dwellers have many of the same expenses as farmers such as building and fence repair water pumps balky tractors or even feed and veterinary expenses Since a taxpayer is not required to qualify as a farmer before filing as a farmer many began deductshying farm losses against other income

Farming is the only business allowed to file on the cash method of accounting This means expenses of livestock and crops are deductible but the inventory build-up is not taxable until sold All other businesses would have similar expenses but the inventory buildshyup would be subject to tax Cash accounting allows expansion to take place creating cash losses even though the farm may be profitable using accrual accounting The tax referrals created are the equivalent of an interest-free loan

False Impressions

Revenue Canada has been assessing the taxpayer based on information submitted not whether or not a legitimate farm was being operated Such assessment and refunds often have continued for several years giving taxshypayers a false impression of their farming activities and tax position In some cases brought to my attention at the University of Guelph Revenue Canada appears to have been over-zealous and unfair However in most cases that government department is perfectly within the law in disallowing some losses

entirely and reducing others There are basically three classes of taxshy

payers filing as farmers the hobbyist although many do not claim to be such those with a reasonable expectation of profit but preshyoccupied with other employment and full shytime farmers with or without off-farm income

The first group constitute a wide range of country dwellers Some may have two riding horses and even harvest crops for their liveshystock According to the tax regulations such taxpayers have no reasonable expectation of profit and none of the costs are deductible against other sources of income

Others file as farmers because they feel they are really farming The farm work-load costs and frustrations are considered sufficient to qualify them as farmers They are the taxshypayers with 15 beef cows or 40 ewes two mediocre race horses or 40 acres of hay writshying off operating expenses and depreciation of $10000 a year plus $10000 mortgage intershyest on an operation with a maximum cash and

or accrued income of $7500 per year Again these taxpayers do not have a

reasonable expectation of profit based on the expenses being charged for tax purposes Therefore according to the tax rules these taxpayers should not be allowed any deducshytions against other sources of income

The tax rules should not be changed to accommodate these people They have a hobby not unlike skiing travelling or collectshying stamps All hobbies come at a cost few ever make money and the costs must be covered with after tax dollars If these same people rented land and used custom operators they might qualify because their costs would be reduced substantially

Another group of farmers do have a reasonable expectation of profit but their chief source of income is not farming or a combination of farming and some other source of income The major part of these taxshypayers time and effort is spent doing someshything other than farming Such taxpayers are allowed to deduct against other income the first $2500 of cash losses plus 50 per cent of the next $5000 Any balance must be carried ahead up to ten years or back three years against net farm income

Limiting Loss Deductions

Many of these taxpayers however have not restricted themselves to the $5000 maximum They have been deducting unshylimited losses against other income for several years even though off-farm employment controls their time and effort Revenue Canada under the present law has every right to limit

their loss deductions Likewise merely having gross income from farming in excess of inshycome from other sources does not automatishycally qualify a taxpayer for unlimited farm losses against other income

All raxpayers who have filed as farmers are also eligible to deduct the full amount of the investment tax credit when new qualifying machinery or buildings are purchased This credit reduces federal tax payable not taxable income by $7000 in southern Ontario or shy$20000 in the Maritimes on a new bam costshying $100000 It soon becomes obvious why Revenue Canada is concerned about part-time farming

The third classification filing tax returns as farmers involves taxpayers whose chief source of income is indeed farming or a combination of farming and some other source of income Such taxpayers many deduct

10

unlimited farm cash losses against other inshy Then anyone who could prove an accflI al prices W hat chance would a beginning famler come in a given year It is expected that farmshy profit should be allowed unlim ited losses with no o ff-farm income have in competing for ing produces the bulk of income or is the centre against other sources of income regardless of land The established farmer would also have of work routine and is the taxpayer s major th size of operation For example a person difficulty attempting to expand in competition preoccupation A farmer dri vi ng a school bus purchasing one or two dairy heifers each year with the non-faml dollars should easily qual ify Many fanners who have working for thei r feed and housing them in It would also be logical with more dolshytaken full- or part-t ime jobs because of fi nan shy rented quarters could likely show a profit lars at stake for Revenue Canada to step up its cial difficulty should be able to work full- time using accrual methods Their tax liability is audits It has also been suggested that the for several years without losing their el igibilshy only deferred dcpartment shou ld hir agricultu rally trained ity provided they had a history of full-time Many taxpayers are lobbying for inshy auditors My experience would ind icate that a fanning creases in the $5000 li mit The limit has not profcssional agricultural auditor could easily

In my opinion any taxpayer who could changed since its inception in the early 1950s testify in court that the majori ty of part-time not show a profit using accrual methods should Such an increase may be justified in light of fanners have no reasonable expectat ion of not be allowed any tax rel ief regardless of the infl ation over time However an increase in profit using aecmal accou nting methods scale of operation All othe r businesses must the limit would not necessarily be o f benefit to Th is would mean that many taxpayers now file on the accrual method Part-time farmers agriculture limited to $5 000 would get nothing As a wou ld only be required to prove on audit that In the first place encouraging more part-ti me farme r and Professor of Agricultural they could show a profit using accrual capital into agriculture may not be desirable Economics and Extens ion Edlleation at the acc unting T he city money would put pressure on land Un iversity o f Gue lph I rest my case 0

Table I- Farm Taxfilers Average Income from Farm and Off-farm Sources by County 1981

Di stricts Farm

Tax filers

Average Net Farm Income

Taxfilers Reporting O ff-Farm Income

Av erage Net

Off-Fann Income

Tax fi lers Reporting Wages and

Salaries

Average Income from W ages and

Salaries

Average Net Income from All Sources

Net arm Income as

a of Total Net Income

no $ no $ no $ $

Brant 1695 5293 1584 12620 631 63 13 17914 29 6 Elgin 3425 3812 3204 10256 1248 4838 14068 27 1 Essex 4905 3395 4769 15857 2 409 9002 19252 176 Hald imand-Nrfolk 5 955 4441 5542 9724 2083 4 745 14 165 314 Hamilton-Wentworth 1960 262 1887 21 999 1084 13184 22 261 12 Ken t 6295 6 279 6063 II 610 2530 5583 17889 351 Lambton 4250 3130 4086 14 618 1944 8723 17 748 176 Middlesex 5485 3486 5198 14450 2410 7651 17936 194 Niagara 4625 1063 4 437 18011 2445 11130 19074 5 6 Oxford 4440 5273 4158 10350 1480 4625 15623 33 8

SOUTHERNONTARlO 43035 3855 40928 13454 18 263 7231 17 309 22 3

Bruce 4 470 -168 4242 10 931 1942 6243 10763 Dufferin 1365 - 180 1301 15 315 704 9220 15134 Grey 3725 363 3519 11 032 1718 6361 11395 32 Halton 1675 - 165 1628 27976 953 16 2 11 27811 Huron 4520 3388 4219 9055 1626 4416 12443 272 Peel 1715 -431 167 1 31243 1013 180[7 30812 Perth 4685 4 935 4323 8789 1514 3891 [3724 360 Simcoe Waterloo Wellington

4515 3330 4425

115 3692 1537

4318 3137 4099

14188 15034 12850

2265 1405 1968

8637 7872 8187

14303 18726 14387

08 197 107

WESTERN ONTARIO 34 430 1667 32462 13481 15108 7566 15148 110

CENTRAL ONTARIO

EA STERN ONTARIO

19455

17375

88

1427

18820

16 325

22874

14716

10476

7885

12524

9045

22962

16 143

04

88 -NORTHERN ONTARIO 4665 - 139 4430 15404 2731 10 898 15265

THE PROVINCE 118970 2095 J 12975 15 263 54468 8602 17 358 12 1

1980 118035 2172 111119 13 00 53481 7619 15271 142

No tes A farm tax filer is a taxfil er who reported positive gross income or non-zero net income from unincorporated self-employed farming activity Figures may not add due to rounding Source Data are derived from the administrative records of Re venue Canada

II

crown Roth Gav in Carrow and Pe te r Domarshy

In Touch With the Gryphon chuk took Cl AU titles in the ir respec tive weight classcs

Athletics Scene athered for thc annual Intercollegiate Athletic Banquet the people making up

the traditional full house in Peter Clark Hall had good reason to celebrate The reason

Another annual tradition - the conclusion of a highly successful season

National and provincial champions plus Ontario and Canadian all-stars received recognition and four deserving athletes were rewarded with special awards for their outshy

stand in g e fforts

The Uni versi ty of Guelph Male Athlete of the Year Award went to Sam Benincasa

HAFA 84 A fifth-year football team linebacker he was se lected as an All-Canadian

for the second consecuti ve year and was a nominee as outstand ing defensive player in the country

A Hamilton native he culminated hi s

career by returning an intercepted pass for a touchdown during the final home game Earshy

lier in the year Sam was the recipient of the Wildman Trophy awarded annually to the outstanding graduating player who has comshy

bined sportsmanship and leadership with sc ho lastic achievement

The Uni versity of Guelph Female Athlete of the Year Award went to Silvia Ruegger

FAC 84 of O shawa who was delcared the Canadian Inter-unive rsi ty Athletic Union

Cross-country Running C hampion for the

second time in her career Her previous triumph was in 1980

The W F Mitchell Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year Award s went to

Gav in Carrow Arts 84 and Karen McBride FACS 84 These awards named after Bill

Mitchell OAC 38 lo ng-ti me director of athletics are given to students in their graduatshy

ing year who demonstrate outstanding talcnt and ability in their sport combined with leadershyship and involvement in athletics

Gavin Carrow who won the CIA U Wres tling title in the 86-kilogram class for a

second time was an inspiration to his teamshymates according to coach Lo ndo Iacovelli

Karen McBride was a member of both the Fie ld Hockey and Ice Hockey teams and also served on the Athletics Advi sory Council and the Wome ns Intcrcollegiate Cou ncil

Of course it was a success ful year for

Grypho n teams as well The football team had a 5-2 record highli gh ted by the demolition of

the University of Wes tern Ontario 36-11 and the routing of the numbcr-one ranked Wilfrid Lau rie r University team by a score of 27-9 before large crowds No less than s ix

Grypho ns were accorded league all-star honours

The Wrestling Gryphons won an unpreshy

cedented fifth consccutive OUAA title and

narrowly missed out on a third st raight C IAU

President Burt Matthe ws OAC 47 centre with athletes of the year Sam Benincasa left and Silvia Ruegger

The mens hockey tcam ran a seven-game winning stretch in January to finish fou rth in the

13-tea m 0 A A league After ousting Laurenshytian University of Sudbury in quarter fina l play they were e liminated in the semis by thc Uni shyversity of Toronto Blucs the eventual national

champion Defenceman Bruce Kilgour earned the respect of league eoachcs to earn a firstshy

team OU AA all-star selec tio n The womens basketball team saved the ir

best effort for the cnd of the year as they won

the consolatio n title at the OW IAA championshyships Cindy McMastcr was sclected as a firstshyteam Icague all-star while Joanne Hurd was

named to the All-Tournament team at the championshi p tournament

The womens swimming team had the ir

most successful yea r placing fifth in Ontario

Shannon Smith won the gold medal in the 100shymeter back stroke

Barb Jonak won the individual title as the Gryphons regained thei r OW IAA archery crown and Judy Richardson took top honours in leading the Alpine Ski team to the chamshy

pionship of the Can-Am Challenge at Mont Gabriel Que

With only a few athletes gradu ating fro111

the University this year prospects look even be tte r for 1984-85 0

198384 MAJO R NTERCOUEGlAlli AWAROS

Archery Trophy Bltl rh Jonk rIO f Improved l3a ~kc lbJlI Award t kll) Joh n r araght r A d ll)irTl~onMen1onJlMVY Iruphy

Puul Flack An[hClIl Y SICWirt Mo~tlmpro ld Ba kC-Ibltl1l AwarJ (WtllllC II) Shelky Robcn M V P B~J e lba ll Award (Wo men) JOlun e Ilurd

M V P Oaom inlo n Award (WIJI lc n) Darle ne II (Ju~ c

M V P Badmi n1 0 n Award (M en) Manno Mekhlnrn v1V P C rt)Counlry Awa rd (Wumcn) Sil Vi a Rucg~c r

Art HachlTrophy Mlll uel SJ al i 1-1 VY CUrlil lg ~warJ Chri Harber M CP held lI ocke) warc1 Ann MldJklon MV P Fll~ l d I-Iockty WIlJ J ulie II nn1c y

M IP Foolbull A wa rd Ml nlO D imu lo Thl Prc-idc lli r)r~ l e r M V P rOOlhdll Trophy Je d Tommy Foolball Rook ie Award S( olll nJy Jeff Vo lpe M 1 P ICl llock ty Awmj (Wom( n) An n WeIL1I M I P COtJc hc~ Icc Hockey l rophy T ina Vld Walter Rickard Mcmon lluokie Awaru Roy RUltOl 1I Jack [l os M VP Hodl~Y AWdrd~ Hrul C K IIour T Hll Burton

kU 1I1 FvansM V P Ru glc r ward Je rrB il lrJo d

Oill M ~All u ff St)cc r Trophy M lklM il k r MI P Swimm 1l1 wClrd ( Wulllcn) Siobhan S mnh M V P Swimming Award~ (Women )

Janice Ptu Ann Mcn ic M IY Swimmillg AwmJ ( Mcnl Ilowaru T hw aitcl

C M Ki nncar MClnonal MVPAwarJ Jcl f Wadgc M P Syndml ili cd S wi mming Award I klcnc C ana u M I P VOllcyhal1 Award(Men) Sam Mallhn MV P Vollcyoall Award (Me n) Vil07JI M 1 P Vnl le yhoJll Award (Wumen) I clune ~kKcc

MV P Volleyball Award (Women) J(lC li e fl narr

1IP WrC llin l Award bull Ken Pull -MVP Wre~111I1 pound Awltl rd Ga IIICarroW

S PECIAL AW AROS - MEN AoIO WOME oI Cath y Rowe Manlge rH ra iner o fthc Year Awlrd Cu lin Silll ret W lldmlIl Trophy Sall1 [kninct J Or Mary Beve rl ey-Burton Iookie of lhc Year Award

L111e PrJce Don r JllJeron Tro phy tvl l fTlO Di nHII l(l W t- Muche ll Sponltowoman Award Karen M c Bride W F M ilChcll Sr)(m mm Award Gavin Carro FcnMk Alhl e te oft he Yeara SilV ia Rucg l1r Male Athlete nflhc Year Sam BcmnCiJltI

12

Income Tax And the Part-time Farmer

By Professor J Gary Hutchison OAC 58 School of Agricultural Economics and Extension Education OAC University of Guelph

There has been considerable discussion in the media and among part-time farmshy

ers farm organizations and politicians regardshying part-time farming and Revenue Canada What is causing the problems It would appear that Revenue Canada has increased its audit on all taxpayers and particularly those filing as farmers with other sources of income

There have always beenrandom audits and reassessments of part-time farmers The concerns are greater now only because of numbers and the occasional unreasonable assessments as well as the tactics used in some cases The following comments will attempt to clarify part-time farming and the controversy with RevenueCanada

Thousands of taxpayers have moved to the country over the past 15 years or more These country dwellers have many of the same expenses as farmers such as building and fence repair water pumps balky tractors or even feed and veterinary expenses Since a taxpayer is not required to qualify as a farmer before filing as a farmer many began deductshying farm losses against other income

Farming is the only business allowed to file on the cash method of accounting This means expenses of livestock and crops are deductible but the inventory build-up is not taxable until sold All other businesses would have similar expenses but the inventory buildshyup would be subject to tax Cash accounting allows expansion to take place creating cash losses even though the farm may be profitable using accrual accounting The tax referrals created are the equivalent of an interest-free loan

False Impressions

Revenue Canada has been assessing the taxpayer based on information submitted not whether or not a legitimate farm was being operated Such assessment and refunds often have continued for several years giving taxshypayers a false impression of their farming activities and tax position In some cases brought to my attention at the University of Guelph Revenue Canada appears to have been over-zealous and unfair However in most cases that government department is perfectly within the law in disallowing some losses

entirely and reducing others There are basically three classes of taxshy

payers filing as farmers the hobbyist although many do not claim to be such those with a reasonable expectation of profit but preshyoccupied with other employment and full shytime farmers with or without off-farm income

The first group constitute a wide range of country dwellers Some may have two riding horses and even harvest crops for their liveshystock According to the tax regulations such taxpayers have no reasonable expectation of profit and none of the costs are deductible against other sources of income

Others file as farmers because they feel they are really farming The farm work-load costs and frustrations are considered sufficient to qualify them as farmers They are the taxshypayers with 15 beef cows or 40 ewes two mediocre race horses or 40 acres of hay writshying off operating expenses and depreciation of $10000 a year plus $10000 mortgage intershyest on an operation with a maximum cash and

or accrued income of $7500 per year Again these taxpayers do not have a

reasonable expectation of profit based on the expenses being charged for tax purposes Therefore according to the tax rules these taxpayers should not be allowed any deducshytions against other sources of income

The tax rules should not be changed to accommodate these people They have a hobby not unlike skiing travelling or collectshying stamps All hobbies come at a cost few ever make money and the costs must be covered with after tax dollars If these same people rented land and used custom operators they might qualify because their costs would be reduced substantially

Another group of farmers do have a reasonable expectation of profit but their chief source of income is not farming or a combination of farming and some other source of income The major part of these taxshypayers time and effort is spent doing someshything other than farming Such taxpayers are allowed to deduct against other income the first $2500 of cash losses plus 50 per cent of the next $5000 Any balance must be carried ahead up to ten years or back three years against net farm income

Limiting Loss Deductions

Many of these taxpayers however have not restricted themselves to the $5000 maximum They have been deducting unshylimited losses against other income for several years even though off-farm employment controls their time and effort Revenue Canada under the present law has every right to limit

their loss deductions Likewise merely having gross income from farming in excess of inshycome from other sources does not automatishycally qualify a taxpayer for unlimited farm losses against other income

All raxpayers who have filed as farmers are also eligible to deduct the full amount of the investment tax credit when new qualifying machinery or buildings are purchased This credit reduces federal tax payable not taxable income by $7000 in southern Ontario or shy$20000 in the Maritimes on a new bam costshying $100000 It soon becomes obvious why Revenue Canada is concerned about part-time farming

The third classification filing tax returns as farmers involves taxpayers whose chief source of income is indeed farming or a combination of farming and some other source of income Such taxpayers many deduct

10

unlimited farm cash losses against other inshy Then anyone who could prove an accflI al prices W hat chance would a beginning famler come in a given year It is expected that farmshy profit should be allowed unlim ited losses with no o ff-farm income have in competing for ing produces the bulk of income or is the centre against other sources of income regardless of land The established farmer would also have of work routine and is the taxpayer s major th size of operation For example a person difficulty attempting to expand in competition preoccupation A farmer dri vi ng a school bus purchasing one or two dairy heifers each year with the non-faml dollars should easily qual ify Many fanners who have working for thei r feed and housing them in It would also be logical with more dolshytaken full- or part-t ime jobs because of fi nan shy rented quarters could likely show a profit lars at stake for Revenue Canada to step up its cial difficulty should be able to work full- time using accrual methods Their tax liability is audits It has also been suggested that the for several years without losing their el igibilshy only deferred dcpartment shou ld hir agricultu rally trained ity provided they had a history of full-time Many taxpayers are lobbying for inshy auditors My experience would ind icate that a fanning creases in the $5000 li mit The limit has not profcssional agricultural auditor could easily

In my opinion any taxpayer who could changed since its inception in the early 1950s testify in court that the majori ty of part-time not show a profit using accrual methods should Such an increase may be justified in light of fanners have no reasonable expectat ion of not be allowed any tax rel ief regardless of the infl ation over time However an increase in profit using aecmal accou nting methods scale of operation All othe r businesses must the limit would not necessarily be o f benefit to Th is would mean that many taxpayers now file on the accrual method Part-time farmers agriculture limited to $5 000 would get nothing As a wou ld only be required to prove on audit that In the first place encouraging more part-ti me farme r and Professor of Agricultural they could show a profit using accrual capital into agriculture may not be desirable Economics and Extens ion Edlleation at the acc unting T he city money would put pressure on land Un iversity o f Gue lph I rest my case 0

Table I- Farm Taxfilers Average Income from Farm and Off-farm Sources by County 1981

Di stricts Farm

Tax filers

Average Net Farm Income

Taxfilers Reporting O ff-Farm Income

Av erage Net

Off-Fann Income

Tax fi lers Reporting Wages and

Salaries

Average Income from W ages and

Salaries

Average Net Income from All Sources

Net arm Income as

a of Total Net Income

no $ no $ no $ $

Brant 1695 5293 1584 12620 631 63 13 17914 29 6 Elgin 3425 3812 3204 10256 1248 4838 14068 27 1 Essex 4905 3395 4769 15857 2 409 9002 19252 176 Hald imand-Nrfolk 5 955 4441 5542 9724 2083 4 745 14 165 314 Hamilton-Wentworth 1960 262 1887 21 999 1084 13184 22 261 12 Ken t 6295 6 279 6063 II 610 2530 5583 17889 351 Lambton 4250 3130 4086 14 618 1944 8723 17 748 176 Middlesex 5485 3486 5198 14450 2410 7651 17936 194 Niagara 4625 1063 4 437 18011 2445 11130 19074 5 6 Oxford 4440 5273 4158 10350 1480 4625 15623 33 8

SOUTHERNONTARlO 43035 3855 40928 13454 18 263 7231 17 309 22 3

Bruce 4 470 -168 4242 10 931 1942 6243 10763 Dufferin 1365 - 180 1301 15 315 704 9220 15134 Grey 3725 363 3519 11 032 1718 6361 11395 32 Halton 1675 - 165 1628 27976 953 16 2 11 27811 Huron 4520 3388 4219 9055 1626 4416 12443 272 Peel 1715 -431 167 1 31243 1013 180[7 30812 Perth 4685 4 935 4323 8789 1514 3891 [3724 360 Simcoe Waterloo Wellington

4515 3330 4425

115 3692 1537

4318 3137 4099

14188 15034 12850

2265 1405 1968

8637 7872 8187

14303 18726 14387

08 197 107

WESTERN ONTARIO 34 430 1667 32462 13481 15108 7566 15148 110

CENTRAL ONTARIO

EA STERN ONTARIO

19455

17375

88

1427

18820

16 325

22874

14716

10476

7885

12524

9045

22962

16 143

04

88 -NORTHERN ONTARIO 4665 - 139 4430 15404 2731 10 898 15265

THE PROVINCE 118970 2095 J 12975 15 263 54468 8602 17 358 12 1

1980 118035 2172 111119 13 00 53481 7619 15271 142

No tes A farm tax filer is a taxfil er who reported positive gross income or non-zero net income from unincorporated self-employed farming activity Figures may not add due to rounding Source Data are derived from the administrative records of Re venue Canada

II

crown Roth Gav in Carrow and Pe te r Domarshy

In Touch With the Gryphon chuk took Cl AU titles in the ir respec tive weight classcs

Athletics Scene athered for thc annual Intercollegiate Athletic Banquet the people making up

the traditional full house in Peter Clark Hall had good reason to celebrate The reason

Another annual tradition - the conclusion of a highly successful season

National and provincial champions plus Ontario and Canadian all-stars received recognition and four deserving athletes were rewarded with special awards for their outshy

stand in g e fforts

The Uni versi ty of Guelph Male Athlete of the Year Award went to Sam Benincasa

HAFA 84 A fifth-year football team linebacker he was se lected as an All-Canadian

for the second consecuti ve year and was a nominee as outstand ing defensive player in the country

A Hamilton native he culminated hi s

career by returning an intercepted pass for a touchdown during the final home game Earshy

lier in the year Sam was the recipient of the Wildman Trophy awarded annually to the outstanding graduating player who has comshy

bined sportsmanship and leadership with sc ho lastic achievement

The Uni versity of Guelph Female Athlete of the Year Award went to Silvia Ruegger

FAC 84 of O shawa who was delcared the Canadian Inter-unive rsi ty Athletic Union

Cross-country Running C hampion for the

second time in her career Her previous triumph was in 1980

The W F Mitchell Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year Award s went to

Gav in Carrow Arts 84 and Karen McBride FACS 84 These awards named after Bill

Mitchell OAC 38 lo ng-ti me director of athletics are given to students in their graduatshy

ing year who demonstrate outstanding talcnt and ability in their sport combined with leadershyship and involvement in athletics

Gavin Carrow who won the CIA U Wres tling title in the 86-kilogram class for a

second time was an inspiration to his teamshymates according to coach Lo ndo Iacovelli

Karen McBride was a member of both the Fie ld Hockey and Ice Hockey teams and also served on the Athletics Advi sory Council and the Wome ns Intcrcollegiate Cou ncil

Of course it was a success ful year for

Grypho n teams as well The football team had a 5-2 record highli gh ted by the demolition of

the University of Wes tern Ontario 36-11 and the routing of the numbcr-one ranked Wilfrid Lau rie r University team by a score of 27-9 before large crowds No less than s ix

Grypho ns were accorded league all-star honours

The Wrestling Gryphons won an unpreshy

cedented fifth consccutive OUAA title and

narrowly missed out on a third st raight C IAU

President Burt Matthe ws OAC 47 centre with athletes of the year Sam Benincasa left and Silvia Ruegger

The mens hockey tcam ran a seven-game winning stretch in January to finish fou rth in the

13-tea m 0 A A league After ousting Laurenshytian University of Sudbury in quarter fina l play they were e liminated in the semis by thc Uni shyversity of Toronto Blucs the eventual national

champion Defenceman Bruce Kilgour earned the respect of league eoachcs to earn a firstshy

team OU AA all-star selec tio n The womens basketball team saved the ir

best effort for the cnd of the year as they won

the consolatio n title at the OW IAA championshyships Cindy McMastcr was sclected as a firstshyteam Icague all-star while Joanne Hurd was

named to the All-Tournament team at the championshi p tournament

The womens swimming team had the ir

most successful yea r placing fifth in Ontario

Shannon Smith won the gold medal in the 100shymeter back stroke

Barb Jonak won the individual title as the Gryphons regained thei r OW IAA archery crown and Judy Richardson took top honours in leading the Alpine Ski team to the chamshy

pionship of the Can-Am Challenge at Mont Gabriel Que

With only a few athletes gradu ating fro111

the University this year prospects look even be tte r for 1984-85 0

198384 MAJO R NTERCOUEGlAlli AWAROS

Archery Trophy Bltl rh Jonk rIO f Improved l3a ~kc lbJlI Award t kll) Joh n r araght r A d ll)irTl~onMen1onJlMVY Iruphy

Puul Flack An[hClIl Y SICWirt Mo~tlmpro ld Ba kC-Ibltl1l AwarJ (WtllllC II) Shelky Robcn M V P B~J e lba ll Award (Wo men) JOlun e Ilurd

M V P Oaom inlo n Award (WIJI lc n) Darle ne II (Ju~ c

M V P Badmi n1 0 n Award (M en) Manno Mekhlnrn v1V P C rt)Counlry Awa rd (Wumcn) Sil Vi a Rucg~c r

Art HachlTrophy Mlll uel SJ al i 1-1 VY CUrlil lg ~warJ Chri Harber M CP held lI ocke) warc1 Ann MldJklon MV P Fll~ l d I-Iockty WIlJ J ulie II nn1c y

M IP Foolbull A wa rd Ml nlO D imu lo Thl Prc-idc lli r)r~ l e r M V P rOOlhdll Trophy Je d Tommy Foolball Rook ie Award S( olll nJy Jeff Vo lpe M 1 P ICl llock ty Awmj (Wom( n) An n WeIL1I M I P COtJc hc~ Icc Hockey l rophy T ina Vld Walter Rickard Mcmon lluokie Awaru Roy RUltOl 1I Jack [l os M VP Hodl~Y AWdrd~ Hrul C K IIour T Hll Burton

kU 1I1 FvansM V P Ru glc r ward Je rrB il lrJo d

Oill M ~All u ff St)cc r Trophy M lklM il k r MI P Swimm 1l1 wClrd ( Wulllcn) Siobhan S mnh M V P Swimming Award~ (Women )

Janice Ptu Ann Mcn ic M IY Swimmillg AwmJ ( Mcnl Ilowaru T hw aitcl

C M Ki nncar MClnonal MVPAwarJ Jcl f Wadgc M P Syndml ili cd S wi mming Award I klcnc C ana u M I P VOllcyhal1 Award(Men) Sam Mallhn MV P Vollcyoall Award (Me n) Vil07JI M 1 P Vnl le yhoJll Award (Wumen) I clune ~kKcc

MV P Volleyball Award (Women) J(lC li e fl narr

1IP WrC llin l Award bull Ken Pull -MVP Wre~111I1 pound Awltl rd Ga IIICarroW

S PECIAL AW AROS - MEN AoIO WOME oI Cath y Rowe Manlge rH ra iner o fthc Year Awlrd Cu lin Silll ret W lldmlIl Trophy Sall1 [kninct J Or Mary Beve rl ey-Burton Iookie of lhc Year Award

L111e PrJce Don r JllJeron Tro phy tvl l fTlO Di nHII l(l W t- Muche ll Sponltowoman Award Karen M c Bride W F M ilChcll Sr)(m mm Award Gavin Carro FcnMk Alhl e te oft he Yeara SilV ia Rucg l1r Male Athlete nflhc Year Sam BcmnCiJltI

12

unlimited farm cash losses against other inshy Then anyone who could prove an accflI al prices W hat chance would a beginning famler come in a given year It is expected that farmshy profit should be allowed unlim ited losses with no o ff-farm income have in competing for ing produces the bulk of income or is the centre against other sources of income regardless of land The established farmer would also have of work routine and is the taxpayer s major th size of operation For example a person difficulty attempting to expand in competition preoccupation A farmer dri vi ng a school bus purchasing one or two dairy heifers each year with the non-faml dollars should easily qual ify Many fanners who have working for thei r feed and housing them in It would also be logical with more dolshytaken full- or part-t ime jobs because of fi nan shy rented quarters could likely show a profit lars at stake for Revenue Canada to step up its cial difficulty should be able to work full- time using accrual methods Their tax liability is audits It has also been suggested that the for several years without losing their el igibilshy only deferred dcpartment shou ld hir agricultu rally trained ity provided they had a history of full-time Many taxpayers are lobbying for inshy auditors My experience would ind icate that a fanning creases in the $5000 li mit The limit has not profcssional agricultural auditor could easily

In my opinion any taxpayer who could changed since its inception in the early 1950s testify in court that the majori ty of part-time not show a profit using accrual methods should Such an increase may be justified in light of fanners have no reasonable expectat ion of not be allowed any tax rel ief regardless of the infl ation over time However an increase in profit using aecmal accou nting methods scale of operation All othe r businesses must the limit would not necessarily be o f benefit to Th is would mean that many taxpayers now file on the accrual method Part-time farmers agriculture limited to $5 000 would get nothing As a wou ld only be required to prove on audit that In the first place encouraging more part-ti me farme r and Professor of Agricultural they could show a profit using accrual capital into agriculture may not be desirable Economics and Extens ion Edlleation at the acc unting T he city money would put pressure on land Un iversity o f Gue lph I rest my case 0

Table I- Farm Taxfilers Average Income from Farm and Off-farm Sources by County 1981

Di stricts Farm

Tax filers

Average Net Farm Income

Taxfilers Reporting O ff-Farm Income

Av erage Net

Off-Fann Income

Tax fi lers Reporting Wages and

Salaries

Average Income from W ages and

Salaries

Average Net Income from All Sources

Net arm Income as

a of Total Net Income

no $ no $ no $ $

Brant 1695 5293 1584 12620 631 63 13 17914 29 6 Elgin 3425 3812 3204 10256 1248 4838 14068 27 1 Essex 4905 3395 4769 15857 2 409 9002 19252 176 Hald imand-Nrfolk 5 955 4441 5542 9724 2083 4 745 14 165 314 Hamilton-Wentworth 1960 262 1887 21 999 1084 13184 22 261 12 Ken t 6295 6 279 6063 II 610 2530 5583 17889 351 Lambton 4250 3130 4086 14 618 1944 8723 17 748 176 Middlesex 5485 3486 5198 14450 2410 7651 17936 194 Niagara 4625 1063 4 437 18011 2445 11130 19074 5 6 Oxford 4440 5273 4158 10350 1480 4625 15623 33 8

SOUTHERNONTARlO 43035 3855 40928 13454 18 263 7231 17 309 22 3

Bruce 4 470 -168 4242 10 931 1942 6243 10763 Dufferin 1365 - 180 1301 15 315 704 9220 15134 Grey 3725 363 3519 11 032 1718 6361 11395 32 Halton 1675 - 165 1628 27976 953 16 2 11 27811 Huron 4520 3388 4219 9055 1626 4416 12443 272 Peel 1715 -431 167 1 31243 1013 180[7 30812 Perth 4685 4 935 4323 8789 1514 3891 [3724 360 Simcoe Waterloo Wellington

4515 3330 4425

115 3692 1537

4318 3137 4099

14188 15034 12850

2265 1405 1968

8637 7872 8187

14303 18726 14387

08 197 107

WESTERN ONTARIO 34 430 1667 32462 13481 15108 7566 15148 110

CENTRAL ONTARIO

EA STERN ONTARIO

19455

17375

88

1427

18820

16 325

22874

14716

10476

7885

12524

9045

22962

16 143

04

88 -NORTHERN ONTARIO 4665 - 139 4430 15404 2731 10 898 15265

THE PROVINCE 118970 2095 J 12975 15 263 54468 8602 17 358 12 1

1980 118035 2172 111119 13 00 53481 7619 15271 142

No tes A farm tax filer is a taxfil er who reported positive gross income or non-zero net income from unincorporated self-employed farming activity Figures may not add due to rounding Source Data are derived from the administrative records of Re venue Canada

II

crown Roth Gav in Carrow and Pe te r Domarshy

In Touch With the Gryphon chuk took Cl AU titles in the ir respec tive weight classcs

Athletics Scene athered for thc annual Intercollegiate Athletic Banquet the people making up

the traditional full house in Peter Clark Hall had good reason to celebrate The reason

Another annual tradition - the conclusion of a highly successful season

National and provincial champions plus Ontario and Canadian all-stars received recognition and four deserving athletes were rewarded with special awards for their outshy

stand in g e fforts

The Uni versi ty of Guelph Male Athlete of the Year Award went to Sam Benincasa

HAFA 84 A fifth-year football team linebacker he was se lected as an All-Canadian

for the second consecuti ve year and was a nominee as outstand ing defensive player in the country

A Hamilton native he culminated hi s

career by returning an intercepted pass for a touchdown during the final home game Earshy

lier in the year Sam was the recipient of the Wildman Trophy awarded annually to the outstanding graduating player who has comshy

bined sportsmanship and leadership with sc ho lastic achievement

The Uni versity of Guelph Female Athlete of the Year Award went to Silvia Ruegger

FAC 84 of O shawa who was delcared the Canadian Inter-unive rsi ty Athletic Union

Cross-country Running C hampion for the

second time in her career Her previous triumph was in 1980

The W F Mitchell Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year Award s went to

Gav in Carrow Arts 84 and Karen McBride FACS 84 These awards named after Bill

Mitchell OAC 38 lo ng-ti me director of athletics are given to students in their graduatshy

ing year who demonstrate outstanding talcnt and ability in their sport combined with leadershyship and involvement in athletics

Gavin Carrow who won the CIA U Wres tling title in the 86-kilogram class for a

second time was an inspiration to his teamshymates according to coach Lo ndo Iacovelli

Karen McBride was a member of both the Fie ld Hockey and Ice Hockey teams and also served on the Athletics Advi sory Council and the Wome ns Intcrcollegiate Cou ncil

Of course it was a success ful year for

Grypho n teams as well The football team had a 5-2 record highli gh ted by the demolition of

the University of Wes tern Ontario 36-11 and the routing of the numbcr-one ranked Wilfrid Lau rie r University team by a score of 27-9 before large crowds No less than s ix

Grypho ns were accorded league all-star honours

The Wrestling Gryphons won an unpreshy

cedented fifth consccutive OUAA title and

narrowly missed out on a third st raight C IAU

President Burt Matthe ws OAC 47 centre with athletes of the year Sam Benincasa left and Silvia Ruegger

The mens hockey tcam ran a seven-game winning stretch in January to finish fou rth in the

13-tea m 0 A A league After ousting Laurenshytian University of Sudbury in quarter fina l play they were e liminated in the semis by thc Uni shyversity of Toronto Blucs the eventual national

champion Defenceman Bruce Kilgour earned the respect of league eoachcs to earn a firstshy

team OU AA all-star selec tio n The womens basketball team saved the ir

best effort for the cnd of the year as they won

the consolatio n title at the OW IAA championshyships Cindy McMastcr was sclected as a firstshyteam Icague all-star while Joanne Hurd was

named to the All-Tournament team at the championshi p tournament

The womens swimming team had the ir

most successful yea r placing fifth in Ontario

Shannon Smith won the gold medal in the 100shymeter back stroke

Barb Jonak won the individual title as the Gryphons regained thei r OW IAA archery crown and Judy Richardson took top honours in leading the Alpine Ski team to the chamshy

pionship of the Can-Am Challenge at Mont Gabriel Que

With only a few athletes gradu ating fro111

the University this year prospects look even be tte r for 1984-85 0

198384 MAJO R NTERCOUEGlAlli AWAROS

Archery Trophy Bltl rh Jonk rIO f Improved l3a ~kc lbJlI Award t kll) Joh n r araght r A d ll)irTl~onMen1onJlMVY Iruphy

Puul Flack An[hClIl Y SICWirt Mo~tlmpro ld Ba kC-Ibltl1l AwarJ (WtllllC II) Shelky Robcn M V P B~J e lba ll Award (Wo men) JOlun e Ilurd

M V P Oaom inlo n Award (WIJI lc n) Darle ne II (Ju~ c

M V P Badmi n1 0 n Award (M en) Manno Mekhlnrn v1V P C rt)Counlry Awa rd (Wumcn) Sil Vi a Rucg~c r

Art HachlTrophy Mlll uel SJ al i 1-1 VY CUrlil lg ~warJ Chri Harber M CP held lI ocke) warc1 Ann MldJklon MV P Fll~ l d I-Iockty WIlJ J ulie II nn1c y

M IP Foolbull A wa rd Ml nlO D imu lo Thl Prc-idc lli r)r~ l e r M V P rOOlhdll Trophy Je d Tommy Foolball Rook ie Award S( olll nJy Jeff Vo lpe M 1 P ICl llock ty Awmj (Wom( n) An n WeIL1I M I P COtJc hc~ Icc Hockey l rophy T ina Vld Walter Rickard Mcmon lluokie Awaru Roy RUltOl 1I Jack [l os M VP Hodl~Y AWdrd~ Hrul C K IIour T Hll Burton

kU 1I1 FvansM V P Ru glc r ward Je rrB il lrJo d

Oill M ~All u ff St)cc r Trophy M lklM il k r MI P Swimm 1l1 wClrd ( Wulllcn) Siobhan S mnh M V P Swimming Award~ (Women )

Janice Ptu Ann Mcn ic M IY Swimmillg AwmJ ( Mcnl Ilowaru T hw aitcl

C M Ki nncar MClnonal MVPAwarJ Jcl f Wadgc M P Syndml ili cd S wi mming Award I klcnc C ana u M I P VOllcyhal1 Award(Men) Sam Mallhn MV P Vollcyoall Award (Me n) Vil07JI M 1 P Vnl le yhoJll Award (Wumen) I clune ~kKcc

MV P Volleyball Award (Women) J(lC li e fl narr

1IP WrC llin l Award bull Ken Pull -MVP Wre~111I1 pound Awltl rd Ga IIICarroW

S PECIAL AW AROS - MEN AoIO WOME oI Cath y Rowe Manlge rH ra iner o fthc Year Awlrd Cu lin Silll ret W lldmlIl Trophy Sall1 [kninct J Or Mary Beve rl ey-Burton Iookie of lhc Year Award

L111e PrJce Don r JllJeron Tro phy tvl l fTlO Di nHII l(l W t- Muche ll Sponltowoman Award Karen M c Bride W F M ilChcll Sr)(m mm Award Gavin Carro FcnMk Alhl e te oft he Yeara SilV ia Rucg l1r Male Athlete nflhc Year Sam BcmnCiJltI

12

crown Roth Gav in Carrow and Pe te r Domarshy

In Touch With the Gryphon chuk took Cl AU titles in the ir respec tive weight classcs

Athletics Scene athered for thc annual Intercollegiate Athletic Banquet the people making up

the traditional full house in Peter Clark Hall had good reason to celebrate The reason

Another annual tradition - the conclusion of a highly successful season

National and provincial champions plus Ontario and Canadian all-stars received recognition and four deserving athletes were rewarded with special awards for their outshy

stand in g e fforts

The Uni versi ty of Guelph Male Athlete of the Year Award went to Sam Benincasa

HAFA 84 A fifth-year football team linebacker he was se lected as an All-Canadian

for the second consecuti ve year and was a nominee as outstand ing defensive player in the country

A Hamilton native he culminated hi s

career by returning an intercepted pass for a touchdown during the final home game Earshy

lier in the year Sam was the recipient of the Wildman Trophy awarded annually to the outstanding graduating player who has comshy

bined sportsmanship and leadership with sc ho lastic achievement

The Uni versity of Guelph Female Athlete of the Year Award went to Silvia Ruegger

FAC 84 of O shawa who was delcared the Canadian Inter-unive rsi ty Athletic Union

Cross-country Running C hampion for the

second time in her career Her previous triumph was in 1980

The W F Mitchell Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year Award s went to

Gav in Carrow Arts 84 and Karen McBride FACS 84 These awards named after Bill

Mitchell OAC 38 lo ng-ti me director of athletics are given to students in their graduatshy

ing year who demonstrate outstanding talcnt and ability in their sport combined with leadershyship and involvement in athletics

Gavin Carrow who won the CIA U Wres tling title in the 86-kilogram class for a

second time was an inspiration to his teamshymates according to coach Lo ndo Iacovelli

Karen McBride was a member of both the Fie ld Hockey and Ice Hockey teams and also served on the Athletics Advi sory Council and the Wome ns Intcrcollegiate Cou ncil

Of course it was a success ful year for

Grypho n teams as well The football team had a 5-2 record highli gh ted by the demolition of

the University of Wes tern Ontario 36-11 and the routing of the numbcr-one ranked Wilfrid Lau rie r University team by a score of 27-9 before large crowds No less than s ix

Grypho ns were accorded league all-star honours

The Wrestling Gryphons won an unpreshy

cedented fifth consccutive OUAA title and

narrowly missed out on a third st raight C IAU

President Burt Matthe ws OAC 47 centre with athletes of the year Sam Benincasa left and Silvia Ruegger

The mens hockey tcam ran a seven-game winning stretch in January to finish fou rth in the

13-tea m 0 A A league After ousting Laurenshytian University of Sudbury in quarter fina l play they were e liminated in the semis by thc Uni shyversity of Toronto Blucs the eventual national

champion Defenceman Bruce Kilgour earned the respect of league eoachcs to earn a firstshy

team OU AA all-star selec tio n The womens basketball team saved the ir

best effort for the cnd of the year as they won

the consolatio n title at the OW IAA championshyships Cindy McMastcr was sclected as a firstshyteam Icague all-star while Joanne Hurd was

named to the All-Tournament team at the championshi p tournament

The womens swimming team had the ir

most successful yea r placing fifth in Ontario

Shannon Smith won the gold medal in the 100shymeter back stroke

Barb Jonak won the individual title as the Gryphons regained thei r OW IAA archery crown and Judy Richardson took top honours in leading the Alpine Ski team to the chamshy

pionship of the Can-Am Challenge at Mont Gabriel Que

With only a few athletes gradu ating fro111

the University this year prospects look even be tte r for 1984-85 0

198384 MAJO R NTERCOUEGlAlli AWAROS

Archery Trophy Bltl rh Jonk rIO f Improved l3a ~kc lbJlI Award t kll) Joh n r araght r A d ll)irTl~onMen1onJlMVY Iruphy

Puul Flack An[hClIl Y SICWirt Mo~tlmpro ld Ba kC-Ibltl1l AwarJ (WtllllC II) Shelky Robcn M V P B~J e lba ll Award (Wo men) JOlun e Ilurd

M V P Oaom inlo n Award (WIJI lc n) Darle ne II (Ju~ c

M V P Badmi n1 0 n Award (M en) Manno Mekhlnrn v1V P C rt)Counlry Awa rd (Wumcn) Sil Vi a Rucg~c r

Art HachlTrophy Mlll uel SJ al i 1-1 VY CUrlil lg ~warJ Chri Harber M CP held lI ocke) warc1 Ann MldJklon MV P Fll~ l d I-Iockty WIlJ J ulie II nn1c y

M IP Foolbull A wa rd Ml nlO D imu lo Thl Prc-idc lli r)r~ l e r M V P rOOlhdll Trophy Je d Tommy Foolball Rook ie Award S( olll nJy Jeff Vo lpe M 1 P ICl llock ty Awmj (Wom( n) An n WeIL1I M I P COtJc hc~ Icc Hockey l rophy T ina Vld Walter Rickard Mcmon lluokie Awaru Roy RUltOl 1I Jack [l os M VP Hodl~Y AWdrd~ Hrul C K IIour T Hll Burton

kU 1I1 FvansM V P Ru glc r ward Je rrB il lrJo d

Oill M ~All u ff St)cc r Trophy M lklM il k r MI P Swimm 1l1 wClrd ( Wulllcn) Siobhan S mnh M V P Swimming Award~ (Women )

Janice Ptu Ann Mcn ic M IY Swimmillg AwmJ ( Mcnl Ilowaru T hw aitcl

C M Ki nncar MClnonal MVPAwarJ Jcl f Wadgc M P Syndml ili cd S wi mming Award I klcnc C ana u M I P VOllcyhal1 Award(Men) Sam Mallhn MV P Vollcyoall Award (Me n) Vil07JI M 1 P Vnl le yhoJll Award (Wumen) I clune ~kKcc

MV P Volleyball Award (Women) J(lC li e fl narr

1IP WrC llin l Award bull Ken Pull -MVP Wre~111I1 pound Awltl rd Ga IIICarroW

S PECIAL AW AROS - MEN AoIO WOME oI Cath y Rowe Manlge rH ra iner o fthc Year Awlrd Cu lin Silll ret W lldmlIl Trophy Sall1 [kninct J Or Mary Beve rl ey-Burton Iookie of lhc Year Award

L111e PrJce Don r JllJeron Tro phy tvl l fTlO Di nHII l(l W t- Muche ll Sponltowoman Award Karen M c Bride W F M ilChcll Sr)(m mm Award Gavin Carro FcnMk Alhl e te oft he Yeara SilV ia Rucg l1r Male Athlete nflhc Year Sam BcmnCiJltI

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John Musselman Appointed

New Head Football Coach

John Musselman

E arlier this year Director of Athletics David Copp announced the appointment of John Musselman as the new head football coach of thc Univcrsity of Guelph Gryphons John succeeds Tom Dimitroff who has returned to the Ottawa Rough Riders of the Canadian Football League

In making the announcement Dave Copp says that he was pleased to bc able to obtain the services of John Musselman We had a number of outstanding applicants for the job which made the decision a tough one We are very happy to have John on our staff and we fee l he will do an excellent job in building the strength and reputation of the Gryphon footshyball program which has flourished in recent years Tom Dimitroff built the football proshygram here to the point wh re wc are ju middott onc step away from a national championship and under John Musselman we hope to take that next step

Th 34-year-old coach comes to Guelph after six years as head coach of the St Francis Xavier X-Men in Antigonish N S where he won thrce conference championships incJlId shying titles in the past two seasons and compiler an overall record of 35 win 17 losses and onc tie John wa the Atlanti Universities Athletic Association Coach of thc Year three ti mcs

Before assuming the head coaching posit ion at St Francis Xavier he spent two years as the defen sive co-ordinator at that school His playing background began in Windsor when he attended Rivers ide High School and was sclected as an All-City offenshysivc lineman He then went on to play fo r the Duke University Blue Devils of the Atlantic Coast Conference but returned to finish his career with the University of Windsor Lanshy

cers He was a team captain and OUA A alJshystarin 1972 and 1973

While at SI Francis Xavier he was involved in coaching the wrestling team and taught a Sociology of Sport course in the School of Physical Fducation

John a native of Windsor has both Bachelor and Master of Human Kinetics deshygrees from the Universi ty of Windsor

The new coach was asked to comment on A Canadian Championship - I hope no one expects miracles That next step is a big one but Im looking forw ard to tak ing it with the Gryphons The Challenge - It might be easier if the Gryphons hadnt won a game in 30 years Then they would only have to win one and I d be a hero Its a little tougher coming in after a coach with the reputation of Tom Di mitroff but Im looking forward to the challenge and as a native ofOntano its great to be back home again The Game of Football - Theres no point in hav ing a lot of fancy theories on the game you have to adapt your game to the talent you have It s easier for me to adapt to them than it is for them to try and adapt to me and try and do th ings they arent capable of doing

Certa inly anybody that plays for me had better be aggressi ve both on offence and defence You have to have some degree of balance on offence but whether you run a litt le more or pass a little more depends on the players you have Then too you have to take whatever the opposition defence will give you The Current Gryphons - I haven t had much of a chance to study game fi lrns but Ive been impressed wi th what Ive seen so far and Im impressed wi th the credentials of the players Guelph has been recruiting Losing players of the calibre of Sam Benincasa leaves some big holes t be filled but Guelph now has a winning tradition and it a tradition that I plan to keep alive I m just excitcd to be here New Prospects - There are a number of good players who have indicated they re interested in coming to Guelph and I have to talk to them Ill be discussing this with Tom Dimitroff and the assistant coaches as well

Hugh Bowman sports editor of the Guelph Daily Mercury commented If John Musselman can translate his excitement and his level-headed approach to football to his players the winning tradition appears to be in good hands for another exciting season at Alumni Stadium 0

Gryphon Club Sports Hall

ofFame

T he G ryphon Club in conj unction with the Department of Athletics is pleased to anshynounce the creation of a Sports Hall of Fame at the University of Guelph The inaugural inshyductees will be honoured at a dinner Friday September 21 1984 at the Arboretum Centre T ickets for the evening cost $30 and are availshyable at the Athletics Centre

In mak ing the announcement president of the G ryphon Club Kim Mi les CBS 76 exuded a strong sense of pride At last outstanding individuals who have represented the Un iversity of Guelph in intercollegiate sport will have their places etched in history Members of the Hall will have their pictures and accomplishments entered into a display on the Wall of Fame in the newly renovated Class of 1909 Lounge at the Athletics Centre

The initial list of inductees incl udes 13 competitors and six members in the Buildi ng Category The following athletes will be inducted

Mike Chepesuik OAC 30 - Football and Wrestling WF Bill Mitchell OAC 38- Footba ll and Director of Athletics Bob Steclde OAC 52- W restling G rant McLaren CBS 70 - C ross-countryt Track Gerry Organ CBS 71 - Football Ken Lockett CSS 72 - Hockey Wayne Morgan CSS 72- Basketball Anne (Walton) Grape Arts 74 shySwimming Bruce Morris OAC 77 - Footbal l Bob Sharpe CSS 77 - Basketball Linda Ka7ienko OAC 78 - Arc hery Brad Pirie CSS 79 - Hockey Richard Deschatelets Arts 8~Wrestling

In the Bui ldi ng Category arc Fred Baldwin Professor Bill Blackwood Professor A W Baker OACl1j Professor Ross Cavers OAC29 j Valerie (Milla-) Freeman CBS70 and Mildred McQueen

To be el igible for the Hall of Fame nom inees must have graduated at least fi ve years prior to nomi nation Pcrformance recshyords must be so outstandi ng that there is no question as to their qualifying for recognit ion

In lauding the init ia l selection Kim Miles proudly pointed out that all 13 athletes were graduates of the University and had gone on either to national representation or to the professional sport ranks The quality of their performances gives instant crcdibility and stature to our Hall of Fame 0

13

NEWS - ON AND OFF CAMPUS

Newly Elected as

AluDlni Senators Following the annual election ror three of the nine alumni seat on Senate at the University the rollowing three alumni have been elected to replace those who will fulfill three-year terms on August 31 1984

H Clark Adams OAC 56 is a lawyer wi th a private practice in Orangeville He was appointed Queen s Counsel in 1974

He is chairman o f the Dufferin County Board of Education and is a past president of the Duffe ri n County Bar Assoc iation and the Dufferin C ounty Canadian Cancer

Society He is a pas t member of the Orangeshyvil le Plannin g Board the Duffe rin Area Hospital Board and was vice preside nt of the Dufferin Assoc ia tio n for the Me ntally

Re ta rded He and his wife Gwen have a family of four

John Jack George OAC 48 is senior partner of George Murray amp Shipley Barshyri sters and Solicitors Sarnia He is the imshy

med iate pas t president Sarni a Ro tary C lub

pres ident of the Sarnia Rotary Foundation

H C lark Adams OAC 56

and the Al cohol Countermeasure Systems Inc chairman of the Bluewater Bridge

Commission and a memb r of the advi sory board of the Vi ctor ia and Grey Trust Comshypany O ne of the founding members or the Univers ity o f Guelph Ima Mater Fu nd s Century Club he is a mem ber o f the first

g radu ating class In Agricultural Ecoshynomics orthe O AC

Patricia Grenier Arts 72 graduated with an honors degree in Political Science and French She earned a Master o f Li brary Science dcgrec at thc Unive rsity of Wcstern

Onta rio in 1973 workcd for o nc year with the London Publi c Library Systcm and then spcnt five yca rs at the Univers it y Library as a reference librarian Docume ntati on Centre She is co-ord inator of Informatio n

Parriciu G renier Arts 72

Jack George OAC 48

Services Information Centre M ini stry o f Education S he and band Alan C avell (SS 71 0 76 live in Peterburough

O ntario her husshy

M Se

Janet Jan Watson BS 75 w il l serve the unexpired time or Royden Ritz OAC 72 who has resi gned from Se nate H is

term would have ex p ired August 31 15 Janet lives in Toronto and is market man shy

ager for blood collec ti o n and labware prodshyucts with 13eeto n Dic kinso n C anada Inc As a stll ucnt she was vicc-president of the CBS Student Counc il and later was inshyvolved with the fOnllatio n of the CBS Alumni Association and was It s first presi shy

dent She is a vice-prc s ident o f the UG AA and chairman of its S pec ial Events Commitshytee 0

Disbrowe OAC23 Does it Again

A regul ar and valued contributor of feature articles to the Guelph AumnLls Harold B Disbrowe OAC 23 has authored his secshyond book A Schoomail s Odyssey a 183shypage paperback publi shed by the Publicashytions Office o f the Faculty of Educa tio n Univers ity of Western Ontario

He reports that hi s fir st book Down all the Farm a 67-page paperback pubshy

lished in 1981 a nostalgic glimpse of farm life in western Ontario during the first quarshyter of the 20th Century was well received by alumni and the general public (See Gueph AumnLis Summer Issue Vol 14 No3)

A Schoomalls Odyssey is both unshyusual and refreshing - unu sual in the sense

that it is one of the ve ry few books descri bshying with verve and considerable charm the

growth and deve lopment of a profess io nal

Presidell BLirt Matthews OAC 47 left alld author Harold Disbrowe OAC 23

educator and refreshing in its eandour and

honesty Harold takes us from his beginning

in the rural area of Canada to a brief but important period of teaching serv ice ove rshyseas and then back to a distingu ished career

as a teacher and a principal Haro ld retired in 1965 after 20 ye ars as principal or El shymira District Hi gh Schoo l in Waterloo Co unty

The book gives a personal- and very forthri ght - acco unt of his re ac tions to the major cducational dev e lopments of the

last 60 yea rs And what s morc it s very well written

Priced at $)95 pos tpaid A SchooshymalI Odnmiddot emiddot ca n be obta i ned by writing

to The University of Western Ontari o Facshyulty of Ed ucati on Publicati o ns Office 1137 Wcstern Road London Ont N6G IG7 Or write to the autho r Harold B Disbrowe 17 Farm Manor Court Lonshy

don Ont N6H 4J2 Priced at $5 postpaid

Down 01 h e Farm can only be obtained

by writing to thc author 0

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Passages by Kosso Eloul in the DonaldForster Sculpture Park

The full development of the Donald Forster Sculpture Park will take place over

The Donald Forster Sculpture Park

T he Macdonald Stewart Art Ce ntre has received the go-ahead to begi n landscaping part of the Donald Forster Sculpture Park adjacent to the south of the Centre

Art Centre Dircctor Judy Nasby says phase one of the plan developed by Toronto landscape architect Walter Kchm began in August and will be completed by early November at a cost of$1 00000

The plans call for a landscaped setting in which existing and newly acquired works reflecting the forefront of sculptural activity in Canada from the 1980s can be exhibited to advantage Step one will proshyvide a main entrance to the park paved areas a trellis-covered courtyard the Donald Forster memorial plaque and the tirstofa large number of trees and shrubs

L to r Janet (Lackner) Boyle CSS 76 medal

winner Brian Boyle OAC 76 and UGAA

Immediate Past President Barry

StahLbaum CPS 74

1984 Alumni Medal of Achievement D uring a ceremony performed during Alumni Weekend 84 Brian David Boyle OAC 76 was presented with the 1984 Alumni Medal of Achievement for his outshystanding contributions in the field of Onshytario youth leadership

With the Ontario Mini stry of Agriculshyture and Food (OMAF) Brian has been Agricultural Representative in Lambton County since early 1983 Hc covers an area of more than a half-million acres of cropland

The oldest of a family of six and born on the 250-acre family beef and crop farm near Ripley in Bruce County Brian became involved with 4-H clubs at age 12 and his acquired skills are evident in the success of 4-H programs that he later supervised He doubled the number of 4-H clubs shyfrom II to 22 - in Peterborough County in seven years started a 4-H T V Star pmshygram - using the Reaeh for the Top

concept but translated to agriculture shywhich rapidly became a province-wide invishytational event-

In Beef Extension Brian developed thc Weaning Weight program in Petershyborough County developed the annual Summer Field Day program and estabshylished the Peterborough Beef Bull Test Station

He was awarded the OMAF-sponsored Junior Farmer of Ontario United Kingdom trip in 1976 was a member of the Rotary Internatiunal group study exchange to Australia and in 1983 was chairman of the Provincial O rganization Committee for Rural Seminars for Vita l People

Brian and his wife Ja net (Lackner) CSS 76 live in the country on the shore of Lake Huron ncar Forest- With the help of Bri ans dad Francis they maintain 50 head of beef cattle on 100 ac res of leased land close to the home farm near Ripley 0

a five-year period to allow gradual acquisishytion of major sculpture th rough purchase commission and donation A series of loan ex hibitions will serve to produce the various styles and concepts current in contemporary sculpture As the collection grows the two and a half-acre park will be further deshyveloped by adding such features as a water e lement additional display areas and lightshying appropriate to the overall design

The Donald Forster Sculpture Park is expectcd to become a major attraction for visitors to Ontarios Festival Country With its attractive plantings and seating areas it will serve as a people place for outdoor art classes performances and talks by artshyists It will also take its place as an imporshytant sculpture collection to be visited by serious students of this aspect of Canadian art history 0

Memo From the President

T he evaluation of Guelphs programs and departments should be an annual exercise and viewed as an opportuni ty President Burt Matthews OAC 47 said in his first Memo from the President to all faculty staff and students

He said the findings of the Presidential Working Group on Budget Priorit ies Working Group [ are not intended to proshyvide a basis for decisions on phasing out any program or department Each of the departmen ts placed in the special category in the report were req uired to submit to the dean of the ir College steps taken or to be taken to improve quality The reports w ill be reviewed by Working Group I w hich will report to the president the viceshypresident academic and the Senate Comshymittee on University Planning

Working Group [ should be seen as only one step in an on-going process that will help to ensure that the University conshytinues to grow in academic quality and strength and that the fin ancial and other resources avai lable to us will be wisely al loshycated and effectively applied said Dr Matthews

Working Group 2 which is review ing the programs a nd resources of the nonshyteaching units o f the Universi ty is expected to report in the fal l

Dr Matthews plans to use the Memo from the President fomlat from time to time to communicate directly with faculty staff and students on matte rs of special conshycern or importance 0

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AppointJDents

Dr Janel Wardlaw Margaret Beckman Dr John Black

Dr Stan BleIcher Dr Alan Meek

OVC7I Dr Richard Miller

ove 58

Dr Janet Wardlaw has been named asshysociate vice-prcsident academic effective

August I for a five-year term The appointshyment approved by President Burt Matshy

thews OAC 47 was announced in May by Vice-President Academic Dr Howard

Clark

Dr Wardlaw will fill a position

changed from assistant vice-president academic which was approved by Senate

last November She will be responsible for the detailed content and administration of Guelphs academic programs will organize

and co-ordinate liaison programs and will

be responsible for allocation of academic

space on campus The director of the Officc for Educashy

tional Practice and the registrar will report directly to the associate vice-president academic

Dr Wardlaw who served as acting vice-president academic last year was dean of the College of Family and Conshy

sumer Studies for 13 years During that

time she planned and canied out a major transition in the teaching and research roles of the College

A nutritionist and professional dietishytian Dr Wardlaw has been a member of

Guelphs faculty since 1966 Previously she was on the faculty of Food Science at the

University of Toronto with the Michigan Department of Health and with the Canashy

dian Red Cross A graduate of the University of Toshy

ronto Dr Wardlaw has a Masters degree from the University of Tennessee and a PhD degree from Pennsylvania State Unishy

versity She is past-chairman of the Canashydian Dietetic Associations special commitshy

tee on education and internship a former member of Guelphs Board of Governors

and past-chairman of a number of other

professional committees

Margaret Beckman has been seconded to the position of executive director of inforshy

mation technology at the University for a three-year term Vice-President Academshy

ic Howard Clark has announced Chief Lishy

brarian at the University for the past 13 years she took up her new post on July I

The University has committed itself

to achieving a leadership role in the applicashytion of information technology in its

academic programs Dr Clark pointed out that the plans approved by the University Senate were intended not to increase the

amount of computing on campus but rather to apply the new technology to enhance the efforts of faculty members in every disshy

cipline The emphasis he said would be on creative application of information techshynology in all scholarly activity

The role of the executive director for

information technology will include both

co-ordination and management responsibilshy

ities Margaret Beckman will be responsishyble for overall planning co-ordinating and

stee ring the furth e r deve lopment of inforshy

mation technology in the teaching research

and outreach programs of the University This will include advising on priorities reshy

source allocation and eo-ordinating the roles and responsibilities of information

technology service organizations and user groups and individuals on the campus

She was appointed to the staff of the

University of Guelph Library in 1966 and played an active role with the architects

in the p lanning of the Universitys Mcshy

Laughlin Library building She later beshycame systcms librarian and in that ro le contributed to the development of the UflIshy

versitys widely acclaimed automated

library systems

She is chairman of the Advisory Board

on Scientific and Technological Informashytion of the National Research Council and

has been widely sought as a consultant on library design and operation She is a

graduate of the University of Western Ontario and of the University of Toronto

Dr John Black has been appointed chief

librarian University of Guelph for a threeshy

year term which began July I He sucshyceeded Margaret Beckman who was named

executive director of information technolshyogy at the University

Dr Black has been associate librarian

since 1974 and for three years before that was assistant Iibrarian for services He also

holds an associate professorship in the Deshy

partment of Political Studies of which he has been a member since coming to the

University in 1966 Previous to that he was a member of the Department of Political Science University of Western Ontario of which he is a graduate He holds a docshy

toral degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science Univershy

sity of London

The new chief librarian has taught as

a visiting lecturer in the School of Library

Science University of Western Ontario Dr Black recently served as the only

academic on the Canadian delegation to the 1984 World Administrative Radio Confershy

ence in Geneva which dealt among other topics with a reallocation of short wave

radio frequencies

-Dr Stan R Blecher became director of the School of Human Biology at the Univershy

sity of Guelph effective August I He holds medical degrees from both the University of Witwatersrand Johannesburg South Afshy

rica and the University of Copenhagen Dcnmark Previously he was professor of

anatomy Dalhousie University and a conshysultant in clinical genetics at the Izaak Walshy

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ton Killam hildrcns Hospital Halifa x N S He is a Fellow orthe Canadian College of Medical Geneticists

He has lectured at the universities in

both Johannesburg and Copenhagen and held this rece nt post at Da lhou s ic Unishyversity since 1978 For 12 years he was

ex ternal examiner in medical genetics in the Institute of Medical Genetics Univershysity of Copcnhagen In Canada he has sc rvcd as a membcr of the Grants Commitshy

tee of the Medical Research Council of Canada as a member of the accreditation

committec of the Canadian College of Medshyical G~ncticists and as chairman of the Scishyence Policy Committee of the Canadian Asshysociation of Anatomi sts

D r Alan Meek OVC 71 and 74 has

been appointed chainnan of the OVe s Deshypartment of Veterinary Microbiology and

Immunology He took up hi s position July I

He holds a Ph D 1977 from the Unishyversity of Melbourne Australia He has been a mcmber of faculty in the Department since 1978 and between 1979 and 1983

was also cross-appointed to the Department of Animal and Poultry Science OAC

As co-ordinator since 1980 of the OVC Computer Group Dr Meek has been responsible for a feasibility study and for sevcn staff whose task has been to develop

and maintain an integrated computer-based system to assist with the research teaching and hospital functions of the College Thi s

systcm called the Veterinary Medical Inshyformation Management System is now operating in approximately 75 per cent of thc functional areas in the OVes Ve te rishynary Teaching Hospital and is considered to be one of the most advanced of its kind in the world

He has served as consultant for the University of MichiganM ichigan State Deshy

partment of Agriculture with respect to a 1978 epidemiological investigation of PBB recontamination in Michigan dairy cattle and for the University of Wiscon sin in 1979 concerning the economic impac t of swine influenza

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Dr Richard B Miller OVC 58 has been appointed chainnan of the OVes Departshy

ment of Pathology He took up his position July I

Following completion of a B Sc deshygree in Agriculture at the University of AIshybcrta in 1960 he owned and operated a

cattle ranch in northeastern Alberta During his four years at the OVC he proved to

be one of the Colleges distinguished scholshyar winning the Andrew Smith Memorial

Gold Medal the Second Proficiency Prize the Small Animal Medicine and Surgcry Award and the Holstein-Friesian Prize at

graduation In 1980 he received a Ph D in reproshy

ductive pathology from Cornell Univers ity and in 198 I board certification in morphoshylogic pathology from the Amcrican College of Veterinary Pathologists

Grant Misener Honoured

Dr A Grant Misener OAC 35

andOVC 38

During the third day of Spring Convoshy

cation Dr Grant Mi sener OAC 35 OVC 38 one of the University S most ac tive alumn i members urged graduands to join their rcspective alumni assoc iations and take an active part in activities Dr Misshy

ener a key figure in thc Friends of Univcrshy

sity of Guelph Inc was named an Honorshyary Fellow of the University of Guelph

The reputation of the University is

He joined the faculty in the Departshyment of Pathology in j 969 as assistant proshy

fessor and became associate professor in 1976 During the past seven years his skills as an excellent teacher have been recogshynized and he was nominated for the Norden

Di stinguished Teaching Award three times ( 1978 1981 and 1982) before fi nally winshyning the award in 1983 0

largely the rcflection of the collective standshy

ing of its graduates said Dr Misener

As the prestige and reputation of the Unishyversity grow so do the pre stige and reputashytion of its individual a lumni This is one

reason why alumni support the Alma Mater Fund with gifts that prov ide continued

e nrichmcnt of programs and facilities at the Uni versity This is why you will be invited

to support thc Fund When you contribute you are certain to have a feeling of he lping repay what the U niversity has given you

At the same ceremony Dr Donald Barnum OVC41 Department of Veterishy

nary Microbiology and Immunology was named Professor Emeritus of the Unive rshysity Dr Bcrnard McSherry O VC 42 Deshy

partment of Pathology was also to have been named Professor Emeritus but hblth reasons prevented him from attending

Degrces granted that day wcrc Doctor of Philosophy Master of Arts Master of Science Master of Landscape Architecshy

ture Graduate Diploma Bachelor of Science in Human Kinetics Bachelor of

Sciencc- General Program and Doctor of Veterinary Medicine 0

University Wins Photography Award

T he University of Guelph received

fu ll marks in photography recently

winning an international award for the best use of photography in unishyversity publications

Fifteen universities includiog three Canadian universities comshypeted for this honour at the annual

conference of the Un iversity Photogshyraphers Association of America held

recently in San D iego Calif USA

The Presidents Award for best use of photography--quantity and quality-in a university publ ication was presented to Ted Carter manshyager Department of Illustration Services Office for Educational

Practice who received the trophy on

behalf of the University of G uelph and who in tum presented the

trophy to President Burt Matthews OAC 47 atGuelph

Ted s submission to the sixshymember selection committee inshycluded a pack age of Universi ty of Guelph promotional brochures as well as copies of the Guelph Alumnus and the University News Bulletin

Ted who offered a powerful presentation package to attract the Association to Guelph tells us that the Associations 1985 Annual Conshyference will be held at the University of Guelph July 10 to 13 This wi ll be the first time that the Conference

has been held outs ide of the US Ted will act as co-ordinator

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The College of Physical Science Alumni Association

SCIMP Editor Bob Winke l

MSc in Computer Science Gets Preliminary Approval By ADD MiddietoD

A new Master s Program in computer scishyence has received preliminary approval from Senate The new M Sc will be an

applied program which Computing and Inshyformation Science C hairman Jay Majithia expects will relate closely to other discishyplines on campus

It is hoped that the program will clear local and government hurdles in time for five to ten students to enrol in the fall of

1985 New graduate program proposal s in Ontario go to the Ontario ouncil of Graduate Studies for appraisal of quality and then to a relatively new committee of the Ontario Council on University Affairs (OCUA) for funding approval

It is this group that decides how the proposed program fits into the Ontario unishyversity system and whether thu is actushy

ally a need for such a program The unique aspect of each proposal or alternatively the justification for duplication is then conshysidered as is the question of whether the graduate program fits the traditions and

strengths of the institution in question Dcan of G raduate Studies Carlton

Gyles O vC 64 explains that the new proshy

cedure for considering justification for the funding of new graduate programs was inishytiatcd at the recommendation of a Council of O ntario Universities committee chaired by former University of G uelph president the late Donald Forster The evaluation sysshy

tem has been operating for about 18 months and is just catching up with the backlog of unfunded programs

Profe~sor Majithia points out that the

Guelph program should satisfy the qualifishycations of the OC UA committee It will meet an increasing demand for research and deve lopment people in the industry while

simultaneously dovetailing with Guelph s

existing programs Computer applications related to the

traditional strengths of this campus as well as such topics as office automation and of course information technology in genshy

eral could all come within the scope of the degree program which will require at least four graduate-level courses and a

thesis

The proposed courses will re present the mainstream areas of practical computer science where there is still a lot of material to master beyond the Bachelors degree For this reason the Senate report points out it seems more appropriate to develop

this expertise than to venture into more exo shytic areas

One thing the new program will not do Professor Majithia says is produce massive software programs It will howshyever have a beneficia l if intangible impact on the quality of the undergraduate proshygram Professor Majithia spent I I years at the University of Waterloo before coming to Guelph two years ago The Masters

degree will change the outlook of undershygraduatcs in thi s Department he explains They will ex perience the enthusiasm asshysociated with the teaching of advancedshylevel courses and profit from an enriched curriculum

The Senate re port explains that there is a need for computer sc ience professionals

w ith advanccd training in C anada to work with the producers of computing hardware

computer system integrators developers of software systems and in commerc ial applishycations as well as with use r organizations applying computer sys tems for their mainshystream and deci sion-support needs

T he proposal comes at an important time in the ex pansion of the 13-year-old

Department In the last five years the faculty has grown by SO per cent research activity has expanded significantly and student numbers have more than doubled

The document presented to Senate explains that graduate students will have

a strong base of undergraduate teaching and faculty research to build on since the Deshy

partment is already strong in the areas of humancomputer interaction arlificial 10shy

telligencc and machine architecture 0

Bruce Ramsay 80

Our Futurist

A vision of the future where collector units in space beam e nergy back to earth and advances in genetic e ngineering allow hu shy

man s to regenerate entire li mbs has earned graduate student Bruce Ramsey 80 Bioshychemistry a $500 prize in the first Honshyey well Futurist Awards Competition

Joel Braverman spokesman for Honshy

eywell Ltd says that more than 1500 reshyquests for entry material were received from

full-time univers ity and college students across Canada The students were asked to submit a two-page essay on any two of

the five suggested subject areas predicting the technolog ical changes of the next 25 years and the ir impact on society Entries were judged for creativity plaus ibility clarity of exposition and leg ibility

A futurist Bruce has ambitions to

write science fiction and books on popular

science His submission was an imaginative ex trapolation of present trends in space

technolog~ organ transplant techniques and current research in genetics

The sponsors of the competition attach great imporlance to the competition which is now in its second year in the USA

and will be extended to Europe next year As winner of a second prize Bruce

was invited with the five other prize winners to a reception in Toronto a tour of Honeyshywell facilitie s and an awards banquet atshy

tended by senior management of the Comshypany as well as a di sti nguished judging pane l representing educational institutions scientific media and government T he keyshynote address was given by Dr Ian Mac shydonald president York Univers ity and of

the IDEA Corporation a provincial governshyment initiative to promote technological inshynovation 0

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Whats in a Name Change T he Department of Chemistry has changed its name to the Department of C hemistry and Bioc hemistry The new name reflects more accurately the range of activity in the Department Chemistry and biochemistry degrees have been offered in the Departshyment for many years

Chairman Ed Janzen observes One shythird of our faculty members are bioshychemists one- third of the Department s undergraduate students arc registered in biochemistry courses and one-third of our off-campus grant money last year went into biochem istry research

T he close association between ehemisshy

try and biochemistry on this campus influshyences the nature of biochemistry here Proshyfessor Janzen say~ the biochemists in this Department tend to be more phys ically oriented They use more physical techshyniques such as light scattering mass specshytrometry and magnetic resonance because the instnlmentation is close at hand and because their colleagues in the College of Physical Science have a wealth of experishyence in these techniques Their research tends to be less physiologically oriented than it might be with biochemists who are associated with med ical school s

Given Guelphs concentration of ex-

Chem and Biochem Awards The Department of Chemistry and Bioshychemis try along with the Biochemistry Chemistry C lub held its first annual awards dinner at the Col John McCrae Royal Canadian Legion Hall in Guelph

Following a buffet dinner awards and scholarships were presented to the followshyin g first-semester in-course and recently graduated students

College of Physical Science Award semester 6 a nd 7 Kevin Wang

Entrance Scholarships niversi ty Award - Steven Wong The Mc Arthur Humphries Award- Kevin Wood The Alumni Asshysociation Award- Catherine French The E B MacNaughton Award- James Noel Honours Applied Chemistry Scholarshys hip Michelle Moore Society of Chemical Ind ustry Prize C hemistry Margaret Hyland Biochemisshytry Susan Bishop Graham Applied Chemistry Nancy Ha ll

Chemical I nstitute of Canada Silver Medal and Prize Kevin Wang Demonstrato r Award Barbara Ruhl and Don Stephenson

ChemistryBiochemist ry Undergraduate Awards-Prize for top grades in Chemistry 19- 100 Scott Jcrmey Chrisshytopher OCa liaghan and Dirk Vanderwall

Prize for Excellence in C hemis try 19shy100 Twel ve top students in WS3 S S_ F 83 semester Kent Ackerman Yee Lai Chan Donna Faekoury Scott Jenney Matthew Kingswood Joe Kozar Jennifer Lazar Chun Wah Lin Ellen Morito De shyborah Nunn Christopher O Caliaghan and Dirk Vanderwalt

Undergraduate Awa rd in Ana lytical Chemistry Susan Post Weston Research C entre Book Prize Dwayne Barber 0

Recipients of the Prize for Excellence in Fundamental Chemistry included Back row Matthew Kingswood Kent Ackerman Scali Jenney and Christopher O Callaghan Front row Joe Kozar Yee Lai Chan andJennifer Lazar and Professor Elmer Alyea

pertise in the biologia l sciences it is natural that the bioehemi IS have forged links with many differe nt departments on campus he says Collaborati ve research is in progress with faculty members in the O VC and in the Departments of Nutrition Bot ny and Genetics Crop Science and Microbiology Bioc hemists and chem ists will also be prominent in the Canadian Centre for

ToxiCOlogy We have an unusually broad range

of chemical expertise for a department of this size says the chairman In the Guelph- Waterloo Centre for Graduate Work in Chemistry (and Biochemi stry ) (GWC)2 the biochemists occupy an imporshytant part of the research spectrum In fact about one third of the I 17 (GWC )2 graduate students study biochemistry 0

Grad News George C racknell BA 71 of Guelph is a financial analyst with O ntario Hydro

Susan Ingrams BA 72 MSc 73 is currently a se nior methodologist with Statistic s Canada in Ottaw a

E laine Hoskins B A 72 MSc 73 is a statistici an with Revenue Canada in Otshytawa

Larry Mark BSc 73 is practising medicine in Newmarket

Andy Orr BSc 75 o fVancouvcr B C has rene wed his studies at Simon Fraser Universi ty in Burnaby

J ennifer (T homson) jackman BSc 76

MSc 78 PhD 83 and hu sband Torn BSc 72 MSc 74 Ph D SO arc both employed at the Chalk River Research Labshyoratories in Deep River

Allan johnston MSc 79 PhD 82 is continuing his work in chemistry as a post doctoral fellow at the Universi ty or Victoria BC

-Norma (Wilson) Hykaway BSc 79 of Vancouver is a research assistant at Simon Frase r Univers ity in Burnaby B C

Mark Leonard BSc 80 li ves in Toshyronto where he is account representative fo r the First National Bank of Chicago

Alana Kerr BSc SO lives in Richmond Hill and is a statistician with the Ministry of Nationa l Resources in Maple 0

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The College of Arts Alumni Association

DELPHA Editor Debbie (Nash) Chambers 77

From the Dean

Dean David Murray

On several previous occasions I have had the privilege of a column in DELPHA to bring you our alumni up to date on wh at has been happening in the College of Ans I am grateful to editor Debbie (Nash) Chamshybers 77 for another opportunity Thi s has been a bitter-sweet year for the College of Art s We mourned the loss of two very close friend s of the College President Donald Forster and Secretary of Senate Walter Vaughan Each will be missed grea tshyly within the College as in the rest of the University

We have also had a number of occashysions to celebrate One was the very sucshycessful conference on Strategies for Peace and Security in the Nuclear Age orshyganized by Professors Gunnar Boehnert History and Henry Wiseman Political Studies The conference highlight was the kick-off of Primc Minister Trudeaus peace initiative

Other noteworthy conferences during the year included a major gathering of Commonwealth writers and academics hosted by professor Dougl as Killam chairshyman o f the Department of English Lanshyguage and Literature and his colleagues in the Department and a conference on key issues of contemporary philosophy which brought some 200 philosophers from Canada Britain and the United States to Guelph During May and June the Univershysity hosted the Learned Societies a major undertaking which has involved extensive preparat ions for over a year

Both faculty and students in the Colshylege have won significant honours recently Professor Marguerite Andersen fonner chainnan of the Department of Languages

and Literatures won the prestigious Prix du journal de Montreal for her novel entishytled De M emoi re de Femme

The College of Arts medallist Nicole Didicher 83 who graduated with disti ncshytion in English was awarded the Winegard Medal in June 1983 the Universitys highshyest academic award This is only the second time a College of Arts graduate has won the Winegard Medal so we are very proud of Nicole s accomplish ment Michelle Urshyquhart who is majoring in Fine Art and Classics won a national class ics translation competition

Through the efforts of Professor Leonard Conolly the McLaughlin Library has acquired on permanent loan a number of archivcs fro m Ontario theat res Thc colshylection includes the Shaw f estiva l archives and the archivcs of the Tarragon and Young Pcople s Theatre fro m Toronto and archives from two theatres that havc closcd the Opcn Circle and th~ Phocnix

The College of Arts has also become more active in international development Professor Douglas Killam and Elizabeth Cockburn are managi ng a major ClDA projshyect in Cameroon assisting teachers there to develop new learning materials

Closer to home our liaison programs have been reaching out to secondary schools in the region We have consciously tried to ass ist teachers working with gifted children To that end Professor James Harshyrison and colleagues in the Department of English Language and Literature have mounted a creative writing contest for a number of years with the winning entries being publi shed in Focus

We have held a Creati ve Arts Day for gifted students in Wellington County givshying these students opportunities through work shops to learn from professors teachshying in Fine Art Drama and Music Professhysor Pare and his colleagues in Frenc h Studies in conjunction with the Canadian Parents for Frenc h sponsored a public speaking contes t for students in French imshymersion programs Entitled Exchanges it too proved to be very successful Faculshyty members spend a great deal of time in these and other liai son programs which help to reduce the barriers between secondary

and post secondary education In closing I want to pay a special trishy

bute to Debbie Chambers who has edited DELPHA for five years and will be retiring with this issue She has done a first-rate job in her editorial role and has displayed a deep loyalty to thc College ancl its alumni Thank you very much Debbic for ajob well clone 0

An Editors Farewell

J ust a short notc to wish Terry Ayer 84 well and to say thank you to the many many people who have made the DELPHA editors job such a rewarding task over the last five years Thank you for your mail and the article sugge stions over the past many iss ucs of the G uelph AlumllllS

It has been very interesting to follow the career paths of fellow alumni while preshyparing the grad news section for each issue It has also been grati fying to witness the coming of age of the College of Arts Alumni Association

When I succeeded Judy (Main) Carshyson 75 and Pete r Vaughan 78 as editor in 1978 the Association was in its infanC) Now five years later the Board of Direcshytors is continually ex panding and its memshybers have undertaken three annual projects and a variety of new sc holarship programs

I think that the early stalwarts such as Evelyn Williams 73 Edi th LeLacheur 72 Janice (Robertson) Partlow 70 Anne (Hewat) Vaughan 78 and Judy and Peter would share my opinion that we have been very forrunate to attract such dedicated Board members over the past few years

The presidencies of Julie (Russell) -Thur 78 and Margo Shoemaker 79 have been tenns full of innovation careful planning and hard work However the number of active Arts alumni remains relashytively small Why not back a winner and make a personal time commitment to our Association Hope to see you at a future alumni event

Debbie (Nash) Chambers 77

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NEWS - ON AND OFF CAMPUS

Newly Elected as

AluDlni Senators Following the annual election ror three of the nine alumni seat on Senate at the University the rollowing three alumni have been elected to replace those who will fulfill three-year terms on August 31 1984

H Clark Adams OAC 56 is a lawyer wi th a private practice in Orangeville He was appointed Queen s Counsel in 1974

He is chairman o f the Dufferin County Board of Education and is a past president of the Duffe ri n County Bar Assoc iation and the Dufferin C ounty Canadian Cancer

Society He is a pas t member of the Orangeshyvil le Plannin g Board the Duffe rin Area Hospital Board and was vice preside nt of the Dufferin Assoc ia tio n for the Me ntally

Re ta rded He and his wife Gwen have a family of four

John Jack George OAC 48 is senior partner of George Murray amp Shipley Barshyri sters and Solicitors Sarnia He is the imshy

med iate pas t president Sarni a Ro tary C lub

pres ident of the Sarnia Rotary Foundation

H C lark Adams OAC 56

and the Al cohol Countermeasure Systems Inc chairman of the Bluewater Bridge

Commission and a memb r of the advi sory board of the Vi ctor ia and Grey Trust Comshypany O ne of the founding members or the Univers ity o f Guelph Ima Mater Fu nd s Century Club he is a mem ber o f the first

g radu ating class In Agricultural Ecoshynomics orthe O AC

Patricia Grenier Arts 72 graduated with an honors degree in Political Science and French She earned a Master o f Li brary Science dcgrec at thc Unive rsity of Wcstern

Onta rio in 1973 workcd for o nc year with the London Publi c Library Systcm and then spcnt five yca rs at the Univers it y Library as a reference librarian Docume ntati on Centre She is co-ord inator of Informatio n

Parriciu G renier Arts 72

Jack George OAC 48

Services Information Centre M ini stry o f Education S he and band Alan C avell (SS 71 0 76 live in Peterburough

O ntario her husshy

M Se

Janet Jan Watson BS 75 w il l serve the unexpired time or Royden Ritz OAC 72 who has resi gned from Se nate H is

term would have ex p ired August 31 15 Janet lives in Toronto and is market man shy

ager for blood collec ti o n and labware prodshyucts with 13eeto n Dic kinso n C anada Inc As a stll ucnt she was vicc-president of the CBS Student Counc il and later was inshyvolved with the fOnllatio n of the CBS Alumni Association and was It s first presi shy

dent She is a vice-prc s ident o f the UG AA and chairman of its S pec ial Events Commitshytee 0

Disbrowe OAC23 Does it Again

A regul ar and valued contributor of feature articles to the Guelph AumnLls Harold B Disbrowe OAC 23 has authored his secshyond book A Schoomail s Odyssey a 183shypage paperback publi shed by the Publicashytions Office o f the Faculty of Educa tio n Univers ity of Western Ontario

He reports that hi s fir st book Down all the Farm a 67-page paperback pubshy

lished in 1981 a nostalgic glimpse of farm life in western Ontario during the first quarshyter of the 20th Century was well received by alumni and the general public (See Gueph AumnLis Summer Issue Vol 14 No3)

A Schoomalls Odyssey is both unshyusual and refreshing - unu sual in the sense

that it is one of the ve ry few books descri bshying with verve and considerable charm the

growth and deve lopment of a profess io nal

Presidell BLirt Matthews OAC 47 left alld author Harold Disbrowe OAC 23

educator and refreshing in its eandour and

honesty Harold takes us from his beginning

in the rural area of Canada to a brief but important period of teaching serv ice ove rshyseas and then back to a distingu ished career

as a teacher and a principal Haro ld retired in 1965 after 20 ye ars as principal or El shymira District Hi gh Schoo l in Waterloo Co unty

The book gives a personal- and very forthri ght - acco unt of his re ac tions to the major cducational dev e lopments of the

last 60 yea rs And what s morc it s very well written

Priced at $)95 pos tpaid A SchooshymalI Odnmiddot emiddot ca n be obta i ned by writing

to The University of Western Ontari o Facshyulty of Ed ucati on Publicati o ns Office 1137 Wcstern Road London Ont N6G IG7 Or write to the autho r Harold B Disbrowe 17 Farm Manor Court Lonshy

don Ont N6H 4J2 Priced at $5 postpaid

Down 01 h e Farm can only be obtained

by writing to thc author 0

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Passages by Kosso Eloul in the DonaldForster Sculpture Park

The full development of the Donald Forster Sculpture Park will take place over

The Donald Forster Sculpture Park

T he Macdonald Stewart Art Ce ntre has received the go-ahead to begi n landscaping part of the Donald Forster Sculpture Park adjacent to the south of the Centre

Art Centre Dircctor Judy Nasby says phase one of the plan developed by Toronto landscape architect Walter Kchm began in August and will be completed by early November at a cost of$1 00000

The plans call for a landscaped setting in which existing and newly acquired works reflecting the forefront of sculptural activity in Canada from the 1980s can be exhibited to advantage Step one will proshyvide a main entrance to the park paved areas a trellis-covered courtyard the Donald Forster memorial plaque and the tirstofa large number of trees and shrubs

L to r Janet (Lackner) Boyle CSS 76 medal

winner Brian Boyle OAC 76 and UGAA

Immediate Past President Barry

StahLbaum CPS 74

1984 Alumni Medal of Achievement D uring a ceremony performed during Alumni Weekend 84 Brian David Boyle OAC 76 was presented with the 1984 Alumni Medal of Achievement for his outshystanding contributions in the field of Onshytario youth leadership

With the Ontario Mini stry of Agriculshyture and Food (OMAF) Brian has been Agricultural Representative in Lambton County since early 1983 Hc covers an area of more than a half-million acres of cropland

The oldest of a family of six and born on the 250-acre family beef and crop farm near Ripley in Bruce County Brian became involved with 4-H clubs at age 12 and his acquired skills are evident in the success of 4-H programs that he later supervised He doubled the number of 4-H clubs shyfrom II to 22 - in Peterborough County in seven years started a 4-H T V Star pmshygram - using the Reaeh for the Top

concept but translated to agriculture shywhich rapidly became a province-wide invishytational event-

In Beef Extension Brian developed thc Weaning Weight program in Petershyborough County developed the annual Summer Field Day program and estabshylished the Peterborough Beef Bull Test Station

He was awarded the OMAF-sponsored Junior Farmer of Ontario United Kingdom trip in 1976 was a member of the Rotary Internatiunal group study exchange to Australia and in 1983 was chairman of the Provincial O rganization Committee for Rural Seminars for Vita l People

Brian and his wife Ja net (Lackner) CSS 76 live in the country on the shore of Lake Huron ncar Forest- With the help of Bri ans dad Francis they maintain 50 head of beef cattle on 100 ac res of leased land close to the home farm near Ripley 0

a five-year period to allow gradual acquisishytion of major sculpture th rough purchase commission and donation A series of loan ex hibitions will serve to produce the various styles and concepts current in contemporary sculpture As the collection grows the two and a half-acre park will be further deshyveloped by adding such features as a water e lement additional display areas and lightshying appropriate to the overall design

The Donald Forster Sculpture Park is expectcd to become a major attraction for visitors to Ontarios Festival Country With its attractive plantings and seating areas it will serve as a people place for outdoor art classes performances and talks by artshyists It will also take its place as an imporshytant sculpture collection to be visited by serious students of this aspect of Canadian art history 0

Memo From the President

T he evaluation of Guelphs programs and departments should be an annual exercise and viewed as an opportuni ty President Burt Matthews OAC 47 said in his first Memo from the President to all faculty staff and students

He said the findings of the Presidential Working Group on Budget Priorit ies Working Group [ are not intended to proshyvide a basis for decisions on phasing out any program or department Each of the departmen ts placed in the special category in the report were req uired to submit to the dean of the ir College steps taken or to be taken to improve quality The reports w ill be reviewed by Working Group I w hich will report to the president the viceshypresident academic and the Senate Comshymittee on University Planning

Working Group [ should be seen as only one step in an on-going process that will help to ensure that the University conshytinues to grow in academic quality and strength and that the fin ancial and other resources avai lable to us will be wisely al loshycated and effectively applied said Dr Matthews

Working Group 2 which is review ing the programs a nd resources of the nonshyteaching units o f the Universi ty is expected to report in the fal l

Dr Matthews plans to use the Memo from the President fomlat from time to time to communicate directly with faculty staff and students on matte rs of special conshycern or importance 0

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AppointJDents

Dr Janel Wardlaw Margaret Beckman Dr John Black

Dr Stan BleIcher Dr Alan Meek

OVC7I Dr Richard Miller

ove 58

Dr Janet Wardlaw has been named asshysociate vice-prcsident academic effective

August I for a five-year term The appointshyment approved by President Burt Matshy

thews OAC 47 was announced in May by Vice-President Academic Dr Howard

Clark

Dr Wardlaw will fill a position

changed from assistant vice-president academic which was approved by Senate

last November She will be responsible for the detailed content and administration of Guelphs academic programs will organize

and co-ordinate liaison programs and will

be responsible for allocation of academic

space on campus The director of the Officc for Educashy

tional Practice and the registrar will report directly to the associate vice-president academic

Dr Wardlaw who served as acting vice-president academic last year was dean of the College of Family and Conshy

sumer Studies for 13 years During that

time she planned and canied out a major transition in the teaching and research roles of the College

A nutritionist and professional dietishytian Dr Wardlaw has been a member of

Guelphs faculty since 1966 Previously she was on the faculty of Food Science at the

University of Toronto with the Michigan Department of Health and with the Canashy

dian Red Cross A graduate of the University of Toshy

ronto Dr Wardlaw has a Masters degree from the University of Tennessee and a PhD degree from Pennsylvania State Unishy

versity She is past-chairman of the Canashydian Dietetic Associations special commitshy

tee on education and internship a former member of Guelphs Board of Governors

and past-chairman of a number of other

professional committees

Margaret Beckman has been seconded to the position of executive director of inforshy

mation technology at the University for a three-year term Vice-President Academshy

ic Howard Clark has announced Chief Lishy

brarian at the University for the past 13 years she took up her new post on July I

The University has committed itself

to achieving a leadership role in the applicashytion of information technology in its

academic programs Dr Clark pointed out that the plans approved by the University Senate were intended not to increase the

amount of computing on campus but rather to apply the new technology to enhance the efforts of faculty members in every disshy

cipline The emphasis he said would be on creative application of information techshynology in all scholarly activity

The role of the executive director for

information technology will include both

co-ordination and management responsibilshy

ities Margaret Beckman will be responsishyble for overall planning co-ordinating and

stee ring the furth e r deve lopment of inforshy

mation technology in the teaching research

and outreach programs of the University This will include advising on priorities reshy

source allocation and eo-ordinating the roles and responsibilities of information

technology service organizations and user groups and individuals on the campus

She was appointed to the staff of the

University of Guelph Library in 1966 and played an active role with the architects

in the p lanning of the Universitys Mcshy

Laughlin Library building She later beshycame systcms librarian and in that ro le contributed to the development of the UflIshy

versitys widely acclaimed automated

library systems

She is chairman of the Advisory Board

on Scientific and Technological Informashytion of the National Research Council and

has been widely sought as a consultant on library design and operation She is a

graduate of the University of Western Ontario and of the University of Toronto

Dr John Black has been appointed chief

librarian University of Guelph for a threeshy

year term which began July I He sucshyceeded Margaret Beckman who was named

executive director of information technolshyogy at the University

Dr Black has been associate librarian

since 1974 and for three years before that was assistant Iibrarian for services He also

holds an associate professorship in the Deshy

partment of Political Studies of which he has been a member since coming to the

University in 1966 Previous to that he was a member of the Department of Political Science University of Western Ontario of which he is a graduate He holds a docshy

toral degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science Univershy

sity of London

The new chief librarian has taught as

a visiting lecturer in the School of Library

Science University of Western Ontario Dr Black recently served as the only

academic on the Canadian delegation to the 1984 World Administrative Radio Confershy

ence in Geneva which dealt among other topics with a reallocation of short wave

radio frequencies

-Dr Stan R Blecher became director of the School of Human Biology at the Univershy

sity of Guelph effective August I He holds medical degrees from both the University of Witwatersrand Johannesburg South Afshy

rica and the University of Copenhagen Dcnmark Previously he was professor of

anatomy Dalhousie University and a conshysultant in clinical genetics at the Izaak Walshy

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ton Killam hildrcns Hospital Halifa x N S He is a Fellow orthe Canadian College of Medical Geneticists

He has lectured at the universities in

both Johannesburg and Copenhagen and held this rece nt post at Da lhou s ic Unishyversity since 1978 For 12 years he was

ex ternal examiner in medical genetics in the Institute of Medical Genetics Univershysity of Copcnhagen In Canada he has sc rvcd as a membcr of the Grants Commitshy

tee of the Medical Research Council of Canada as a member of the accreditation

committec of the Canadian College of Medshyical G~ncticists and as chairman of the Scishyence Policy Committee of the Canadian Asshysociation of Anatomi sts

D r Alan Meek OVC 71 and 74 has

been appointed chainnan of the OVe s Deshypartment of Veterinary Microbiology and

Immunology He took up hi s position July I

He holds a Ph D 1977 from the Unishyversity of Melbourne Australia He has been a mcmber of faculty in the Department since 1978 and between 1979 and 1983

was also cross-appointed to the Department of Animal and Poultry Science OAC

As co-ordinator since 1980 of the OVC Computer Group Dr Meek has been responsible for a feasibility study and for sevcn staff whose task has been to develop

and maintain an integrated computer-based system to assist with the research teaching and hospital functions of the College Thi s

systcm called the Veterinary Medical Inshyformation Management System is now operating in approximately 75 per cent of thc functional areas in the OVes Ve te rishynary Teaching Hospital and is considered to be one of the most advanced of its kind in the world

He has served as consultant for the University of MichiganM ichigan State Deshy

partment of Agriculture with respect to a 1978 epidemiological investigation of PBB recontamination in Michigan dairy cattle and for the University of Wiscon sin in 1979 concerning the economic impac t of swine influenza

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Dr Richard B Miller OVC 58 has been appointed chainnan of the OVes Departshy

ment of Pathology He took up his position July I

Following completion of a B Sc deshygree in Agriculture at the University of AIshybcrta in 1960 he owned and operated a

cattle ranch in northeastern Alberta During his four years at the OVC he proved to

be one of the Colleges distinguished scholshyar winning the Andrew Smith Memorial

Gold Medal the Second Proficiency Prize the Small Animal Medicine and Surgcry Award and the Holstein-Friesian Prize at

graduation In 1980 he received a Ph D in reproshy

ductive pathology from Cornell Univers ity and in 198 I board certification in morphoshylogic pathology from the Amcrican College of Veterinary Pathologists

Grant Misener Honoured

Dr A Grant Misener OAC 35

andOVC 38

During the third day of Spring Convoshy

cation Dr Grant Mi sener OAC 35 OVC 38 one of the University S most ac tive alumn i members urged graduands to join their rcspective alumni assoc iations and take an active part in activities Dr Misshy

ener a key figure in thc Friends of Univcrshy

sity of Guelph Inc was named an Honorshyary Fellow of the University of Guelph

The reputation of the University is

He joined the faculty in the Departshyment of Pathology in j 969 as assistant proshy

fessor and became associate professor in 1976 During the past seven years his skills as an excellent teacher have been recogshynized and he was nominated for the Norden

Di stinguished Teaching Award three times ( 1978 1981 and 1982) before fi nally winshyning the award in 1983 0

largely the rcflection of the collective standshy

ing of its graduates said Dr Misener

As the prestige and reputation of the Unishyversity grow so do the pre stige and reputashytion of its individual a lumni This is one

reason why alumni support the Alma Mater Fund with gifts that prov ide continued

e nrichmcnt of programs and facilities at the Uni versity This is why you will be invited

to support thc Fund When you contribute you are certain to have a feeling of he lping repay what the U niversity has given you

At the same ceremony Dr Donald Barnum OVC41 Department of Veterishy

nary Microbiology and Immunology was named Professor Emeritus of the Unive rshysity Dr Bcrnard McSherry O VC 42 Deshy

partment of Pathology was also to have been named Professor Emeritus but hblth reasons prevented him from attending

Degrces granted that day wcrc Doctor of Philosophy Master of Arts Master of Science Master of Landscape Architecshy

ture Graduate Diploma Bachelor of Science in Human Kinetics Bachelor of

Sciencc- General Program and Doctor of Veterinary Medicine 0

University Wins Photography Award

T he University of Guelph received

fu ll marks in photography recently

winning an international award for the best use of photography in unishyversity publications

Fifteen universities includiog three Canadian universities comshypeted for this honour at the annual

conference of the Un iversity Photogshyraphers Association of America held

recently in San D iego Calif USA

The Presidents Award for best use of photography--quantity and quality-in a university publ ication was presented to Ted Carter manshyager Department of Illustration Services Office for Educational

Practice who received the trophy on

behalf of the University of G uelph and who in tum presented the

trophy to President Burt Matthews OAC 47 atGuelph

Ted s submission to the sixshymember selection committee inshycluded a pack age of Universi ty of Guelph promotional brochures as well as copies of the Guelph Alumnus and the University News Bulletin

Ted who offered a powerful presentation package to attract the Association to Guelph tells us that the Associations 1985 Annual Conshyference will be held at the University of Guelph July 10 to 13 This wi ll be the first time that the Conference

has been held outs ide of the US Ted will act as co-ordinator

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The College of Physical Science Alumni Association

SCIMP Editor Bob Winke l

MSc in Computer Science Gets Preliminary Approval By ADD MiddietoD

A new Master s Program in computer scishyence has received preliminary approval from Senate The new M Sc will be an

applied program which Computing and Inshyformation Science C hairman Jay Majithia expects will relate closely to other discishyplines on campus

It is hoped that the program will clear local and government hurdles in time for five to ten students to enrol in the fall of

1985 New graduate program proposal s in Ontario go to the Ontario ouncil of Graduate Studies for appraisal of quality and then to a relatively new committee of the Ontario Council on University Affairs (OCUA) for funding approval

It is this group that decides how the proposed program fits into the Ontario unishyversity system and whether thu is actushy

ally a need for such a program The unique aspect of each proposal or alternatively the justification for duplication is then conshysidered as is the question of whether the graduate program fits the traditions and

strengths of the institution in question Dcan of G raduate Studies Carlton

Gyles O vC 64 explains that the new proshy

cedure for considering justification for the funding of new graduate programs was inishytiatcd at the recommendation of a Council of O ntario Universities committee chaired by former University of G uelph president the late Donald Forster The evaluation sysshy

tem has been operating for about 18 months and is just catching up with the backlog of unfunded programs

Profe~sor Majithia points out that the

Guelph program should satisfy the qualifishycations of the OC UA committee It will meet an increasing demand for research and deve lopment people in the industry while

simultaneously dovetailing with Guelph s

existing programs Computer applications related to the

traditional strengths of this campus as well as such topics as office automation and of course information technology in genshy

eral could all come within the scope of the degree program which will require at least four graduate-level courses and a

thesis

The proposed courses will re present the mainstream areas of practical computer science where there is still a lot of material to master beyond the Bachelors degree For this reason the Senate report points out it seems more appropriate to develop

this expertise than to venture into more exo shytic areas

One thing the new program will not do Professor Majithia says is produce massive software programs It will howshyever have a beneficia l if intangible impact on the quality of the undergraduate proshygram Professor Majithia spent I I years at the University of Waterloo before coming to Guelph two years ago The Masters

degree will change the outlook of undershygraduatcs in thi s Department he explains They will ex perience the enthusiasm asshysociated with the teaching of advancedshylevel courses and profit from an enriched curriculum

The Senate re port explains that there is a need for computer sc ience professionals

w ith advanccd training in C anada to work with the producers of computing hardware

computer system integrators developers of software systems and in commerc ial applishycations as well as with use r organizations applying computer sys tems for their mainshystream and deci sion-support needs

T he proposal comes at an important time in the ex pansion of the 13-year-old

Department In the last five years the faculty has grown by SO per cent research activity has expanded significantly and student numbers have more than doubled

The document presented to Senate explains that graduate students will have

a strong base of undergraduate teaching and faculty research to build on since the Deshy

partment is already strong in the areas of humancomputer interaction arlificial 10shy

telligencc and machine architecture 0

Bruce Ramsay 80

Our Futurist

A vision of the future where collector units in space beam e nergy back to earth and advances in genetic e ngineering allow hu shy

man s to regenerate entire li mbs has earned graduate student Bruce Ramsey 80 Bioshychemistry a $500 prize in the first Honshyey well Futurist Awards Competition

Joel Braverman spokesman for Honshy

eywell Ltd says that more than 1500 reshyquests for entry material were received from

full-time univers ity and college students across Canada The students were asked to submit a two-page essay on any two of

the five suggested subject areas predicting the technolog ical changes of the next 25 years and the ir impact on society Entries were judged for creativity plaus ibility clarity of exposition and leg ibility

A futurist Bruce has ambitions to

write science fiction and books on popular

science His submission was an imaginative ex trapolation of present trends in space

technolog~ organ transplant techniques and current research in genetics

The sponsors of the competition attach great imporlance to the competition which is now in its second year in the USA

and will be extended to Europe next year As winner of a second prize Bruce

was invited with the five other prize winners to a reception in Toronto a tour of Honeyshywell facilitie s and an awards banquet atshy

tended by senior management of the Comshypany as well as a di sti nguished judging pane l representing educational institutions scientific media and government T he keyshynote address was given by Dr Ian Mac shydonald president York Univers ity and of

the IDEA Corporation a provincial governshyment initiative to promote technological inshynovation 0

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Whats in a Name Change T he Department of Chemistry has changed its name to the Department of C hemistry and Bioc hemistry The new name reflects more accurately the range of activity in the Department Chemistry and biochemistry degrees have been offered in the Departshyment for many years

Chairman Ed Janzen observes One shythird of our faculty members are bioshychemists one- third of the Department s undergraduate students arc registered in biochemistry courses and one-third of our off-campus grant money last year went into biochem istry research

T he close association between ehemisshy

try and biochemistry on this campus influshyences the nature of biochemistry here Proshyfessor Janzen say~ the biochemists in this Department tend to be more phys ically oriented They use more physical techshyniques such as light scattering mass specshytrometry and magnetic resonance because the instnlmentation is close at hand and because their colleagues in the College of Physical Science have a wealth of experishyence in these techniques Their research tends to be less physiologically oriented than it might be with biochemists who are associated with med ical school s

Given Guelphs concentration of ex-

Chem and Biochem Awards The Department of Chemistry and Bioshychemis try along with the Biochemistry Chemistry C lub held its first annual awards dinner at the Col John McCrae Royal Canadian Legion Hall in Guelph

Following a buffet dinner awards and scholarships were presented to the followshyin g first-semester in-course and recently graduated students

College of Physical Science Award semester 6 a nd 7 Kevin Wang

Entrance Scholarships niversi ty Award - Steven Wong The Mc Arthur Humphries Award- Kevin Wood The Alumni Asshysociation Award- Catherine French The E B MacNaughton Award- James Noel Honours Applied Chemistry Scholarshys hip Michelle Moore Society of Chemical Ind ustry Prize C hemistry Margaret Hyland Biochemisshytry Susan Bishop Graham Applied Chemistry Nancy Ha ll

Chemical I nstitute of Canada Silver Medal and Prize Kevin Wang Demonstrato r Award Barbara Ruhl and Don Stephenson

ChemistryBiochemist ry Undergraduate Awards-Prize for top grades in Chemistry 19- 100 Scott Jcrmey Chrisshytopher OCa liaghan and Dirk Vanderwall

Prize for Excellence in C hemis try 19shy100 Twel ve top students in WS3 S S_ F 83 semester Kent Ackerman Yee Lai Chan Donna Faekoury Scott Jenney Matthew Kingswood Joe Kozar Jennifer Lazar Chun Wah Lin Ellen Morito De shyborah Nunn Christopher O Caliaghan and Dirk Vanderwalt

Undergraduate Awa rd in Ana lytical Chemistry Susan Post Weston Research C entre Book Prize Dwayne Barber 0

Recipients of the Prize for Excellence in Fundamental Chemistry included Back row Matthew Kingswood Kent Ackerman Scali Jenney and Christopher O Callaghan Front row Joe Kozar Yee Lai Chan andJennifer Lazar and Professor Elmer Alyea

pertise in the biologia l sciences it is natural that the bioehemi IS have forged links with many differe nt departments on campus he says Collaborati ve research is in progress with faculty members in the O VC and in the Departments of Nutrition Bot ny and Genetics Crop Science and Microbiology Bioc hemists and chem ists will also be prominent in the Canadian Centre for

ToxiCOlogy We have an unusually broad range

of chemical expertise for a department of this size says the chairman In the Guelph- Waterloo Centre for Graduate Work in Chemistry (and Biochemi stry ) (GWC)2 the biochemists occupy an imporshytant part of the research spectrum In fact about one third of the I 17 (GWC )2 graduate students study biochemistry 0

Grad News George C racknell BA 71 of Guelph is a financial analyst with O ntario Hydro

Susan Ingrams BA 72 MSc 73 is currently a se nior methodologist with Statistic s Canada in Ottaw a

E laine Hoskins B A 72 MSc 73 is a statistici an with Revenue Canada in Otshytawa

Larry Mark BSc 73 is practising medicine in Newmarket

Andy Orr BSc 75 o fVancouvcr B C has rene wed his studies at Simon Fraser Universi ty in Burnaby

J ennifer (T homson) jackman BSc 76

MSc 78 PhD 83 and hu sband Torn BSc 72 MSc 74 Ph D SO arc both employed at the Chalk River Research Labshyoratories in Deep River

Allan johnston MSc 79 PhD 82 is continuing his work in chemistry as a post doctoral fellow at the Universi ty or Victoria BC

-Norma (Wilson) Hykaway BSc 79 of Vancouver is a research assistant at Simon Frase r Univers ity in Burnaby B C

Mark Leonard BSc 80 li ves in Toshyronto where he is account representative fo r the First National Bank of Chicago

Alana Kerr BSc SO lives in Richmond Hill and is a statistician with the Ministry of Nationa l Resources in Maple 0

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The College of Arts Alumni Association

DELPHA Editor Debbie (Nash) Chambers 77

From the Dean

Dean David Murray

On several previous occasions I have had the privilege of a column in DELPHA to bring you our alumni up to date on wh at has been happening in the College of Ans I am grateful to editor Debbie (Nash) Chamshybers 77 for another opportunity Thi s has been a bitter-sweet year for the College of Art s We mourned the loss of two very close friend s of the College President Donald Forster and Secretary of Senate Walter Vaughan Each will be missed grea tshyly within the College as in the rest of the University

We have also had a number of occashysions to celebrate One was the very sucshycessful conference on Strategies for Peace and Security in the Nuclear Age orshyganized by Professors Gunnar Boehnert History and Henry Wiseman Political Studies The conference highlight was the kick-off of Primc Minister Trudeaus peace initiative

Other noteworthy conferences during the year included a major gathering of Commonwealth writers and academics hosted by professor Dougl as Killam chairshyman o f the Department of English Lanshyguage and Literature and his colleagues in the Department and a conference on key issues of contemporary philosophy which brought some 200 philosophers from Canada Britain and the United States to Guelph During May and June the Univershysity hosted the Learned Societies a major undertaking which has involved extensive preparat ions for over a year

Both faculty and students in the Colshylege have won significant honours recently Professor Marguerite Andersen fonner chainnan of the Department of Languages

and Literatures won the prestigious Prix du journal de Montreal for her novel entishytled De M emoi re de Femme

The College of Arts medallist Nicole Didicher 83 who graduated with disti ncshytion in English was awarded the Winegard Medal in June 1983 the Universitys highshyest academic award This is only the second time a College of Arts graduate has won the Winegard Medal so we are very proud of Nicole s accomplish ment Michelle Urshyquhart who is majoring in Fine Art and Classics won a national class ics translation competition

Through the efforts of Professor Leonard Conolly the McLaughlin Library has acquired on permanent loan a number of archivcs fro m Ontario theat res Thc colshylection includes the Shaw f estiva l archives and the archivcs of the Tarragon and Young Pcople s Theatre fro m Toronto and archives from two theatres that havc closcd the Opcn Circle and th~ Phocnix

The College of Arts has also become more active in international development Professor Douglas Killam and Elizabeth Cockburn are managi ng a major ClDA projshyect in Cameroon assisting teachers there to develop new learning materials

Closer to home our liaison programs have been reaching out to secondary schools in the region We have consciously tried to ass ist teachers working with gifted children To that end Professor James Harshyrison and colleagues in the Department of English Language and Literature have mounted a creative writing contest for a number of years with the winning entries being publi shed in Focus

We have held a Creati ve Arts Day for gifted students in Wellington County givshying these students opportunities through work shops to learn from professors teachshying in Fine Art Drama and Music Professhysor Pare and his colleagues in Frenc h Studies in conjunction with the Canadian Parents for Frenc h sponsored a public speaking contes t for students in French imshymersion programs Entitled Exchanges it too proved to be very successful Faculshyty members spend a great deal of time in these and other liai son programs which help to reduce the barriers between secondary

and post secondary education In closing I want to pay a special trishy

bute to Debbie Chambers who has edited DELPHA for five years and will be retiring with this issue She has done a first-rate job in her editorial role and has displayed a deep loyalty to thc College ancl its alumni Thank you very much Debbic for ajob well clone 0

An Editors Farewell

J ust a short notc to wish Terry Ayer 84 well and to say thank you to the many many people who have made the DELPHA editors job such a rewarding task over the last five years Thank you for your mail and the article sugge stions over the past many iss ucs of the G uelph AlumllllS

It has been very interesting to follow the career paths of fellow alumni while preshyparing the grad news section for each issue It has also been grati fying to witness the coming of age of the College of Arts Alumni Association

When I succeeded Judy (Main) Carshyson 75 and Pete r Vaughan 78 as editor in 1978 the Association was in its infanC) Now five years later the Board of Direcshytors is continually ex panding and its memshybers have undertaken three annual projects and a variety of new sc holarship programs

I think that the early stalwarts such as Evelyn Williams 73 Edi th LeLacheur 72 Janice (Robertson) Partlow 70 Anne (Hewat) Vaughan 78 and Judy and Peter would share my opinion that we have been very forrunate to attract such dedicated Board members over the past few years

The presidencies of Julie (Russell) -Thur 78 and Margo Shoemaker 79 have been tenns full of innovation careful planning and hard work However the number of active Arts alumni remains relashytively small Why not back a winner and make a personal time commitment to our Association Hope to see you at a future alumni event

Debbie (Nash) Chambers 77

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Passages by Kosso Eloul in the DonaldForster Sculpture Park

The full development of the Donald Forster Sculpture Park will take place over

The Donald Forster Sculpture Park

T he Macdonald Stewart Art Ce ntre has received the go-ahead to begi n landscaping part of the Donald Forster Sculpture Park adjacent to the south of the Centre

Art Centre Dircctor Judy Nasby says phase one of the plan developed by Toronto landscape architect Walter Kchm began in August and will be completed by early November at a cost of$1 00000

The plans call for a landscaped setting in which existing and newly acquired works reflecting the forefront of sculptural activity in Canada from the 1980s can be exhibited to advantage Step one will proshyvide a main entrance to the park paved areas a trellis-covered courtyard the Donald Forster memorial plaque and the tirstofa large number of trees and shrubs

L to r Janet (Lackner) Boyle CSS 76 medal

winner Brian Boyle OAC 76 and UGAA

Immediate Past President Barry

StahLbaum CPS 74

1984 Alumni Medal of Achievement D uring a ceremony performed during Alumni Weekend 84 Brian David Boyle OAC 76 was presented with the 1984 Alumni Medal of Achievement for his outshystanding contributions in the field of Onshytario youth leadership

With the Ontario Mini stry of Agriculshyture and Food (OMAF) Brian has been Agricultural Representative in Lambton County since early 1983 Hc covers an area of more than a half-million acres of cropland

The oldest of a family of six and born on the 250-acre family beef and crop farm near Ripley in Bruce County Brian became involved with 4-H clubs at age 12 and his acquired skills are evident in the success of 4-H programs that he later supervised He doubled the number of 4-H clubs shyfrom II to 22 - in Peterborough County in seven years started a 4-H T V Star pmshygram - using the Reaeh for the Top

concept but translated to agriculture shywhich rapidly became a province-wide invishytational event-

In Beef Extension Brian developed thc Weaning Weight program in Petershyborough County developed the annual Summer Field Day program and estabshylished the Peterborough Beef Bull Test Station

He was awarded the OMAF-sponsored Junior Farmer of Ontario United Kingdom trip in 1976 was a member of the Rotary Internatiunal group study exchange to Australia and in 1983 was chairman of the Provincial O rganization Committee for Rural Seminars for Vita l People

Brian and his wife Ja net (Lackner) CSS 76 live in the country on the shore of Lake Huron ncar Forest- With the help of Bri ans dad Francis they maintain 50 head of beef cattle on 100 ac res of leased land close to the home farm near Ripley 0

a five-year period to allow gradual acquisishytion of major sculpture th rough purchase commission and donation A series of loan ex hibitions will serve to produce the various styles and concepts current in contemporary sculpture As the collection grows the two and a half-acre park will be further deshyveloped by adding such features as a water e lement additional display areas and lightshying appropriate to the overall design

The Donald Forster Sculpture Park is expectcd to become a major attraction for visitors to Ontarios Festival Country With its attractive plantings and seating areas it will serve as a people place for outdoor art classes performances and talks by artshyists It will also take its place as an imporshytant sculpture collection to be visited by serious students of this aspect of Canadian art history 0

Memo From the President

T he evaluation of Guelphs programs and departments should be an annual exercise and viewed as an opportuni ty President Burt Matthews OAC 47 said in his first Memo from the President to all faculty staff and students

He said the findings of the Presidential Working Group on Budget Priorit ies Working Group [ are not intended to proshyvide a basis for decisions on phasing out any program or department Each of the departmen ts placed in the special category in the report were req uired to submit to the dean of the ir College steps taken or to be taken to improve quality The reports w ill be reviewed by Working Group I w hich will report to the president the viceshypresident academic and the Senate Comshymittee on University Planning

Working Group [ should be seen as only one step in an on-going process that will help to ensure that the University conshytinues to grow in academic quality and strength and that the fin ancial and other resources avai lable to us will be wisely al loshycated and effectively applied said Dr Matthews

Working Group 2 which is review ing the programs a nd resources of the nonshyteaching units o f the Universi ty is expected to report in the fal l

Dr Matthews plans to use the Memo from the President fomlat from time to time to communicate directly with faculty staff and students on matte rs of special conshycern or importance 0

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AppointJDents

Dr Janel Wardlaw Margaret Beckman Dr John Black

Dr Stan BleIcher Dr Alan Meek

OVC7I Dr Richard Miller

ove 58

Dr Janet Wardlaw has been named asshysociate vice-prcsident academic effective

August I for a five-year term The appointshyment approved by President Burt Matshy

thews OAC 47 was announced in May by Vice-President Academic Dr Howard

Clark

Dr Wardlaw will fill a position

changed from assistant vice-president academic which was approved by Senate

last November She will be responsible for the detailed content and administration of Guelphs academic programs will organize

and co-ordinate liaison programs and will

be responsible for allocation of academic

space on campus The director of the Officc for Educashy

tional Practice and the registrar will report directly to the associate vice-president academic

Dr Wardlaw who served as acting vice-president academic last year was dean of the College of Family and Conshy

sumer Studies for 13 years During that

time she planned and canied out a major transition in the teaching and research roles of the College

A nutritionist and professional dietishytian Dr Wardlaw has been a member of

Guelphs faculty since 1966 Previously she was on the faculty of Food Science at the

University of Toronto with the Michigan Department of Health and with the Canashy

dian Red Cross A graduate of the University of Toshy

ronto Dr Wardlaw has a Masters degree from the University of Tennessee and a PhD degree from Pennsylvania State Unishy

versity She is past-chairman of the Canashydian Dietetic Associations special commitshy

tee on education and internship a former member of Guelphs Board of Governors

and past-chairman of a number of other

professional committees

Margaret Beckman has been seconded to the position of executive director of inforshy

mation technology at the University for a three-year term Vice-President Academshy

ic Howard Clark has announced Chief Lishy

brarian at the University for the past 13 years she took up her new post on July I

The University has committed itself

to achieving a leadership role in the applicashytion of information technology in its

academic programs Dr Clark pointed out that the plans approved by the University Senate were intended not to increase the

amount of computing on campus but rather to apply the new technology to enhance the efforts of faculty members in every disshy

cipline The emphasis he said would be on creative application of information techshynology in all scholarly activity

The role of the executive director for

information technology will include both

co-ordination and management responsibilshy

ities Margaret Beckman will be responsishyble for overall planning co-ordinating and

stee ring the furth e r deve lopment of inforshy

mation technology in the teaching research

and outreach programs of the University This will include advising on priorities reshy

source allocation and eo-ordinating the roles and responsibilities of information

technology service organizations and user groups and individuals on the campus

She was appointed to the staff of the

University of Guelph Library in 1966 and played an active role with the architects

in the p lanning of the Universitys Mcshy

Laughlin Library building She later beshycame systcms librarian and in that ro le contributed to the development of the UflIshy

versitys widely acclaimed automated

library systems

She is chairman of the Advisory Board

on Scientific and Technological Informashytion of the National Research Council and

has been widely sought as a consultant on library design and operation She is a

graduate of the University of Western Ontario and of the University of Toronto

Dr John Black has been appointed chief

librarian University of Guelph for a threeshy

year term which began July I He sucshyceeded Margaret Beckman who was named

executive director of information technolshyogy at the University

Dr Black has been associate librarian

since 1974 and for three years before that was assistant Iibrarian for services He also

holds an associate professorship in the Deshy

partment of Political Studies of which he has been a member since coming to the

University in 1966 Previous to that he was a member of the Department of Political Science University of Western Ontario of which he is a graduate He holds a docshy

toral degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science Univershy

sity of London

The new chief librarian has taught as

a visiting lecturer in the School of Library

Science University of Western Ontario Dr Black recently served as the only

academic on the Canadian delegation to the 1984 World Administrative Radio Confershy

ence in Geneva which dealt among other topics with a reallocation of short wave

radio frequencies

-Dr Stan R Blecher became director of the School of Human Biology at the Univershy

sity of Guelph effective August I He holds medical degrees from both the University of Witwatersrand Johannesburg South Afshy

rica and the University of Copenhagen Dcnmark Previously he was professor of

anatomy Dalhousie University and a conshysultant in clinical genetics at the Izaak Walshy

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ton Killam hildrcns Hospital Halifa x N S He is a Fellow orthe Canadian College of Medical Geneticists

He has lectured at the universities in

both Johannesburg and Copenhagen and held this rece nt post at Da lhou s ic Unishyversity since 1978 For 12 years he was

ex ternal examiner in medical genetics in the Institute of Medical Genetics Univershysity of Copcnhagen In Canada he has sc rvcd as a membcr of the Grants Commitshy

tee of the Medical Research Council of Canada as a member of the accreditation

committec of the Canadian College of Medshyical G~ncticists and as chairman of the Scishyence Policy Committee of the Canadian Asshysociation of Anatomi sts

D r Alan Meek OVC 71 and 74 has

been appointed chainnan of the OVe s Deshypartment of Veterinary Microbiology and

Immunology He took up hi s position July I

He holds a Ph D 1977 from the Unishyversity of Melbourne Australia He has been a mcmber of faculty in the Department since 1978 and between 1979 and 1983

was also cross-appointed to the Department of Animal and Poultry Science OAC

As co-ordinator since 1980 of the OVC Computer Group Dr Meek has been responsible for a feasibility study and for sevcn staff whose task has been to develop

and maintain an integrated computer-based system to assist with the research teaching and hospital functions of the College Thi s

systcm called the Veterinary Medical Inshyformation Management System is now operating in approximately 75 per cent of thc functional areas in the OVes Ve te rishynary Teaching Hospital and is considered to be one of the most advanced of its kind in the world

He has served as consultant for the University of MichiganM ichigan State Deshy

partment of Agriculture with respect to a 1978 epidemiological investigation of PBB recontamination in Michigan dairy cattle and for the University of Wiscon sin in 1979 concerning the economic impac t of swine influenza

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Dr Richard B Miller OVC 58 has been appointed chainnan of the OVes Departshy

ment of Pathology He took up his position July I

Following completion of a B Sc deshygree in Agriculture at the University of AIshybcrta in 1960 he owned and operated a

cattle ranch in northeastern Alberta During his four years at the OVC he proved to

be one of the Colleges distinguished scholshyar winning the Andrew Smith Memorial

Gold Medal the Second Proficiency Prize the Small Animal Medicine and Surgcry Award and the Holstein-Friesian Prize at

graduation In 1980 he received a Ph D in reproshy

ductive pathology from Cornell Univers ity and in 198 I board certification in morphoshylogic pathology from the Amcrican College of Veterinary Pathologists

Grant Misener Honoured

Dr A Grant Misener OAC 35

andOVC 38

During the third day of Spring Convoshy

cation Dr Grant Mi sener OAC 35 OVC 38 one of the University S most ac tive alumn i members urged graduands to join their rcspective alumni assoc iations and take an active part in activities Dr Misshy

ener a key figure in thc Friends of Univcrshy

sity of Guelph Inc was named an Honorshyary Fellow of the University of Guelph

The reputation of the University is

He joined the faculty in the Departshyment of Pathology in j 969 as assistant proshy

fessor and became associate professor in 1976 During the past seven years his skills as an excellent teacher have been recogshynized and he was nominated for the Norden

Di stinguished Teaching Award three times ( 1978 1981 and 1982) before fi nally winshyning the award in 1983 0

largely the rcflection of the collective standshy

ing of its graduates said Dr Misener

As the prestige and reputation of the Unishyversity grow so do the pre stige and reputashytion of its individual a lumni This is one

reason why alumni support the Alma Mater Fund with gifts that prov ide continued

e nrichmcnt of programs and facilities at the Uni versity This is why you will be invited

to support thc Fund When you contribute you are certain to have a feeling of he lping repay what the U niversity has given you

At the same ceremony Dr Donald Barnum OVC41 Department of Veterishy

nary Microbiology and Immunology was named Professor Emeritus of the Unive rshysity Dr Bcrnard McSherry O VC 42 Deshy

partment of Pathology was also to have been named Professor Emeritus but hblth reasons prevented him from attending

Degrces granted that day wcrc Doctor of Philosophy Master of Arts Master of Science Master of Landscape Architecshy

ture Graduate Diploma Bachelor of Science in Human Kinetics Bachelor of

Sciencc- General Program and Doctor of Veterinary Medicine 0

University Wins Photography Award

T he University of Guelph received

fu ll marks in photography recently

winning an international award for the best use of photography in unishyversity publications

Fifteen universities includiog three Canadian universities comshypeted for this honour at the annual

conference of the Un iversity Photogshyraphers Association of America held

recently in San D iego Calif USA

The Presidents Award for best use of photography--quantity and quality-in a university publ ication was presented to Ted Carter manshyager Department of Illustration Services Office for Educational

Practice who received the trophy on

behalf of the University of G uelph and who in tum presented the

trophy to President Burt Matthews OAC 47 atGuelph

Ted s submission to the sixshymember selection committee inshycluded a pack age of Universi ty of Guelph promotional brochures as well as copies of the Guelph Alumnus and the University News Bulletin

Ted who offered a powerful presentation package to attract the Association to Guelph tells us that the Associations 1985 Annual Conshyference will be held at the University of Guelph July 10 to 13 This wi ll be the first time that the Conference

has been held outs ide of the US Ted will act as co-ordinator

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The College of Physical Science Alumni Association

SCIMP Editor Bob Winke l

MSc in Computer Science Gets Preliminary Approval By ADD MiddietoD

A new Master s Program in computer scishyence has received preliminary approval from Senate The new M Sc will be an

applied program which Computing and Inshyformation Science C hairman Jay Majithia expects will relate closely to other discishyplines on campus

It is hoped that the program will clear local and government hurdles in time for five to ten students to enrol in the fall of

1985 New graduate program proposal s in Ontario go to the Ontario ouncil of Graduate Studies for appraisal of quality and then to a relatively new committee of the Ontario Council on University Affairs (OCUA) for funding approval

It is this group that decides how the proposed program fits into the Ontario unishyversity system and whether thu is actushy

ally a need for such a program The unique aspect of each proposal or alternatively the justification for duplication is then conshysidered as is the question of whether the graduate program fits the traditions and

strengths of the institution in question Dcan of G raduate Studies Carlton

Gyles O vC 64 explains that the new proshy

cedure for considering justification for the funding of new graduate programs was inishytiatcd at the recommendation of a Council of O ntario Universities committee chaired by former University of G uelph president the late Donald Forster The evaluation sysshy

tem has been operating for about 18 months and is just catching up with the backlog of unfunded programs

Profe~sor Majithia points out that the

Guelph program should satisfy the qualifishycations of the OC UA committee It will meet an increasing demand for research and deve lopment people in the industry while

simultaneously dovetailing with Guelph s

existing programs Computer applications related to the

traditional strengths of this campus as well as such topics as office automation and of course information technology in genshy

eral could all come within the scope of the degree program which will require at least four graduate-level courses and a

thesis

The proposed courses will re present the mainstream areas of practical computer science where there is still a lot of material to master beyond the Bachelors degree For this reason the Senate report points out it seems more appropriate to develop

this expertise than to venture into more exo shytic areas

One thing the new program will not do Professor Majithia says is produce massive software programs It will howshyever have a beneficia l if intangible impact on the quality of the undergraduate proshygram Professor Majithia spent I I years at the University of Waterloo before coming to Guelph two years ago The Masters

degree will change the outlook of undershygraduatcs in thi s Department he explains They will ex perience the enthusiasm asshysociated with the teaching of advancedshylevel courses and profit from an enriched curriculum

The Senate re port explains that there is a need for computer sc ience professionals

w ith advanccd training in C anada to work with the producers of computing hardware

computer system integrators developers of software systems and in commerc ial applishycations as well as with use r organizations applying computer sys tems for their mainshystream and deci sion-support needs

T he proposal comes at an important time in the ex pansion of the 13-year-old

Department In the last five years the faculty has grown by SO per cent research activity has expanded significantly and student numbers have more than doubled

The document presented to Senate explains that graduate students will have

a strong base of undergraduate teaching and faculty research to build on since the Deshy

partment is already strong in the areas of humancomputer interaction arlificial 10shy

telligencc and machine architecture 0

Bruce Ramsay 80

Our Futurist

A vision of the future where collector units in space beam e nergy back to earth and advances in genetic e ngineering allow hu shy

man s to regenerate entire li mbs has earned graduate student Bruce Ramsey 80 Bioshychemistry a $500 prize in the first Honshyey well Futurist Awards Competition

Joel Braverman spokesman for Honshy

eywell Ltd says that more than 1500 reshyquests for entry material were received from

full-time univers ity and college students across Canada The students were asked to submit a two-page essay on any two of

the five suggested subject areas predicting the technolog ical changes of the next 25 years and the ir impact on society Entries were judged for creativity plaus ibility clarity of exposition and leg ibility

A futurist Bruce has ambitions to

write science fiction and books on popular

science His submission was an imaginative ex trapolation of present trends in space

technolog~ organ transplant techniques and current research in genetics

The sponsors of the competition attach great imporlance to the competition which is now in its second year in the USA

and will be extended to Europe next year As winner of a second prize Bruce

was invited with the five other prize winners to a reception in Toronto a tour of Honeyshywell facilitie s and an awards banquet atshy

tended by senior management of the Comshypany as well as a di sti nguished judging pane l representing educational institutions scientific media and government T he keyshynote address was given by Dr Ian Mac shydonald president York Univers ity and of

the IDEA Corporation a provincial governshyment initiative to promote technological inshynovation 0

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Whats in a Name Change T he Department of Chemistry has changed its name to the Department of C hemistry and Bioc hemistry The new name reflects more accurately the range of activity in the Department Chemistry and biochemistry degrees have been offered in the Departshyment for many years

Chairman Ed Janzen observes One shythird of our faculty members are bioshychemists one- third of the Department s undergraduate students arc registered in biochemistry courses and one-third of our off-campus grant money last year went into biochem istry research

T he close association between ehemisshy

try and biochemistry on this campus influshyences the nature of biochemistry here Proshyfessor Janzen say~ the biochemists in this Department tend to be more phys ically oriented They use more physical techshyniques such as light scattering mass specshytrometry and magnetic resonance because the instnlmentation is close at hand and because their colleagues in the College of Physical Science have a wealth of experishyence in these techniques Their research tends to be less physiologically oriented than it might be with biochemists who are associated with med ical school s

Given Guelphs concentration of ex-

Chem and Biochem Awards The Department of Chemistry and Bioshychemis try along with the Biochemistry Chemistry C lub held its first annual awards dinner at the Col John McCrae Royal Canadian Legion Hall in Guelph

Following a buffet dinner awards and scholarships were presented to the followshyin g first-semester in-course and recently graduated students

College of Physical Science Award semester 6 a nd 7 Kevin Wang

Entrance Scholarships niversi ty Award - Steven Wong The Mc Arthur Humphries Award- Kevin Wood The Alumni Asshysociation Award- Catherine French The E B MacNaughton Award- James Noel Honours Applied Chemistry Scholarshys hip Michelle Moore Society of Chemical Ind ustry Prize C hemistry Margaret Hyland Biochemisshytry Susan Bishop Graham Applied Chemistry Nancy Ha ll

Chemical I nstitute of Canada Silver Medal and Prize Kevin Wang Demonstrato r Award Barbara Ruhl and Don Stephenson

ChemistryBiochemist ry Undergraduate Awards-Prize for top grades in Chemistry 19- 100 Scott Jcrmey Chrisshytopher OCa liaghan and Dirk Vanderwall

Prize for Excellence in C hemis try 19shy100 Twel ve top students in WS3 S S_ F 83 semester Kent Ackerman Yee Lai Chan Donna Faekoury Scott Jenney Matthew Kingswood Joe Kozar Jennifer Lazar Chun Wah Lin Ellen Morito De shyborah Nunn Christopher O Caliaghan and Dirk Vanderwalt

Undergraduate Awa rd in Ana lytical Chemistry Susan Post Weston Research C entre Book Prize Dwayne Barber 0

Recipients of the Prize for Excellence in Fundamental Chemistry included Back row Matthew Kingswood Kent Ackerman Scali Jenney and Christopher O Callaghan Front row Joe Kozar Yee Lai Chan andJennifer Lazar and Professor Elmer Alyea

pertise in the biologia l sciences it is natural that the bioehemi IS have forged links with many differe nt departments on campus he says Collaborati ve research is in progress with faculty members in the O VC and in the Departments of Nutrition Bot ny and Genetics Crop Science and Microbiology Bioc hemists and chem ists will also be prominent in the Canadian Centre for

ToxiCOlogy We have an unusually broad range

of chemical expertise for a department of this size says the chairman In the Guelph- Waterloo Centre for Graduate Work in Chemistry (and Biochemi stry ) (GWC)2 the biochemists occupy an imporshytant part of the research spectrum In fact about one third of the I 17 (GWC )2 graduate students study biochemistry 0

Grad News George C racknell BA 71 of Guelph is a financial analyst with O ntario Hydro

Susan Ingrams BA 72 MSc 73 is currently a se nior methodologist with Statistic s Canada in Ottaw a

E laine Hoskins B A 72 MSc 73 is a statistici an with Revenue Canada in Otshytawa

Larry Mark BSc 73 is practising medicine in Newmarket

Andy Orr BSc 75 o fVancouvcr B C has rene wed his studies at Simon Fraser Universi ty in Burnaby

J ennifer (T homson) jackman BSc 76

MSc 78 PhD 83 and hu sband Torn BSc 72 MSc 74 Ph D SO arc both employed at the Chalk River Research Labshyoratories in Deep River

Allan johnston MSc 79 PhD 82 is continuing his work in chemistry as a post doctoral fellow at the Universi ty or Victoria BC

-Norma (Wilson) Hykaway BSc 79 of Vancouver is a research assistant at Simon Frase r Univers ity in Burnaby B C

Mark Leonard BSc 80 li ves in Toshyronto where he is account representative fo r the First National Bank of Chicago

Alana Kerr BSc SO lives in Richmond Hill and is a statistician with the Ministry of Nationa l Resources in Maple 0

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The College of Arts Alumni Association

DELPHA Editor Debbie (Nash) Chambers 77

From the Dean

Dean David Murray

On several previous occasions I have had the privilege of a column in DELPHA to bring you our alumni up to date on wh at has been happening in the College of Ans I am grateful to editor Debbie (Nash) Chamshybers 77 for another opportunity Thi s has been a bitter-sweet year for the College of Art s We mourned the loss of two very close friend s of the College President Donald Forster and Secretary of Senate Walter Vaughan Each will be missed grea tshyly within the College as in the rest of the University

We have also had a number of occashysions to celebrate One was the very sucshycessful conference on Strategies for Peace and Security in the Nuclear Age orshyganized by Professors Gunnar Boehnert History and Henry Wiseman Political Studies The conference highlight was the kick-off of Primc Minister Trudeaus peace initiative

Other noteworthy conferences during the year included a major gathering of Commonwealth writers and academics hosted by professor Dougl as Killam chairshyman o f the Department of English Lanshyguage and Literature and his colleagues in the Department and a conference on key issues of contemporary philosophy which brought some 200 philosophers from Canada Britain and the United States to Guelph During May and June the Univershysity hosted the Learned Societies a major undertaking which has involved extensive preparat ions for over a year

Both faculty and students in the Colshylege have won significant honours recently Professor Marguerite Andersen fonner chainnan of the Department of Languages

and Literatures won the prestigious Prix du journal de Montreal for her novel entishytled De M emoi re de Femme

The College of Arts medallist Nicole Didicher 83 who graduated with disti ncshytion in English was awarded the Winegard Medal in June 1983 the Universitys highshyest academic award This is only the second time a College of Arts graduate has won the Winegard Medal so we are very proud of Nicole s accomplish ment Michelle Urshyquhart who is majoring in Fine Art and Classics won a national class ics translation competition

Through the efforts of Professor Leonard Conolly the McLaughlin Library has acquired on permanent loan a number of archivcs fro m Ontario theat res Thc colshylection includes the Shaw f estiva l archives and the archivcs of the Tarragon and Young Pcople s Theatre fro m Toronto and archives from two theatres that havc closcd the Opcn Circle and th~ Phocnix

The College of Arts has also become more active in international development Professor Douglas Killam and Elizabeth Cockburn are managi ng a major ClDA projshyect in Cameroon assisting teachers there to develop new learning materials

Closer to home our liaison programs have been reaching out to secondary schools in the region We have consciously tried to ass ist teachers working with gifted children To that end Professor James Harshyrison and colleagues in the Department of English Language and Literature have mounted a creative writing contest for a number of years with the winning entries being publi shed in Focus

We have held a Creati ve Arts Day for gifted students in Wellington County givshying these students opportunities through work shops to learn from professors teachshying in Fine Art Drama and Music Professhysor Pare and his colleagues in Frenc h Studies in conjunction with the Canadian Parents for Frenc h sponsored a public speaking contes t for students in French imshymersion programs Entitled Exchanges it too proved to be very successful Faculshyty members spend a great deal of time in these and other liai son programs which help to reduce the barriers between secondary

and post secondary education In closing I want to pay a special trishy

bute to Debbie Chambers who has edited DELPHA for five years and will be retiring with this issue She has done a first-rate job in her editorial role and has displayed a deep loyalty to thc College ancl its alumni Thank you very much Debbic for ajob well clone 0

An Editors Farewell

J ust a short notc to wish Terry Ayer 84 well and to say thank you to the many many people who have made the DELPHA editors job such a rewarding task over the last five years Thank you for your mail and the article sugge stions over the past many iss ucs of the G uelph AlumllllS

It has been very interesting to follow the career paths of fellow alumni while preshyparing the grad news section for each issue It has also been grati fying to witness the coming of age of the College of Arts Alumni Association

When I succeeded Judy (Main) Carshyson 75 and Pete r Vaughan 78 as editor in 1978 the Association was in its infanC) Now five years later the Board of Direcshytors is continually ex panding and its memshybers have undertaken three annual projects and a variety of new sc holarship programs

I think that the early stalwarts such as Evelyn Williams 73 Edi th LeLacheur 72 Janice (Robertson) Partlow 70 Anne (Hewat) Vaughan 78 and Judy and Peter would share my opinion that we have been very forrunate to attract such dedicated Board members over the past few years

The presidencies of Julie (Russell) -Thur 78 and Margo Shoemaker 79 have been tenns full of innovation careful planning and hard work However the number of active Arts alumni remains relashytively small Why not back a winner and make a personal time commitment to our Association Hope to see you at a future alumni event

Debbie (Nash) Chambers 77

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AppointJDents

Dr Janel Wardlaw Margaret Beckman Dr John Black

Dr Stan BleIcher Dr Alan Meek

OVC7I Dr Richard Miller

ove 58

Dr Janet Wardlaw has been named asshysociate vice-prcsident academic effective

August I for a five-year term The appointshyment approved by President Burt Matshy

thews OAC 47 was announced in May by Vice-President Academic Dr Howard

Clark

Dr Wardlaw will fill a position

changed from assistant vice-president academic which was approved by Senate

last November She will be responsible for the detailed content and administration of Guelphs academic programs will organize

and co-ordinate liaison programs and will

be responsible for allocation of academic

space on campus The director of the Officc for Educashy

tional Practice and the registrar will report directly to the associate vice-president academic

Dr Wardlaw who served as acting vice-president academic last year was dean of the College of Family and Conshy

sumer Studies for 13 years During that

time she planned and canied out a major transition in the teaching and research roles of the College

A nutritionist and professional dietishytian Dr Wardlaw has been a member of

Guelphs faculty since 1966 Previously she was on the faculty of Food Science at the

University of Toronto with the Michigan Department of Health and with the Canashy

dian Red Cross A graduate of the University of Toshy

ronto Dr Wardlaw has a Masters degree from the University of Tennessee and a PhD degree from Pennsylvania State Unishy

versity She is past-chairman of the Canashydian Dietetic Associations special commitshy

tee on education and internship a former member of Guelphs Board of Governors

and past-chairman of a number of other

professional committees

Margaret Beckman has been seconded to the position of executive director of inforshy

mation technology at the University for a three-year term Vice-President Academshy

ic Howard Clark has announced Chief Lishy

brarian at the University for the past 13 years she took up her new post on July I

The University has committed itself

to achieving a leadership role in the applicashytion of information technology in its

academic programs Dr Clark pointed out that the plans approved by the University Senate were intended not to increase the

amount of computing on campus but rather to apply the new technology to enhance the efforts of faculty members in every disshy

cipline The emphasis he said would be on creative application of information techshynology in all scholarly activity

The role of the executive director for

information technology will include both

co-ordination and management responsibilshy

ities Margaret Beckman will be responsishyble for overall planning co-ordinating and

stee ring the furth e r deve lopment of inforshy

mation technology in the teaching research

and outreach programs of the University This will include advising on priorities reshy

source allocation and eo-ordinating the roles and responsibilities of information

technology service organizations and user groups and individuals on the campus

She was appointed to the staff of the

University of Guelph Library in 1966 and played an active role with the architects

in the p lanning of the Universitys Mcshy

Laughlin Library building She later beshycame systcms librarian and in that ro le contributed to the development of the UflIshy

versitys widely acclaimed automated

library systems

She is chairman of the Advisory Board

on Scientific and Technological Informashytion of the National Research Council and

has been widely sought as a consultant on library design and operation She is a

graduate of the University of Western Ontario and of the University of Toronto

Dr John Black has been appointed chief

librarian University of Guelph for a threeshy

year term which began July I He sucshyceeded Margaret Beckman who was named

executive director of information technolshyogy at the University

Dr Black has been associate librarian

since 1974 and for three years before that was assistant Iibrarian for services He also

holds an associate professorship in the Deshy

partment of Political Studies of which he has been a member since coming to the

University in 1966 Previous to that he was a member of the Department of Political Science University of Western Ontario of which he is a graduate He holds a docshy

toral degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science Univershy

sity of London

The new chief librarian has taught as

a visiting lecturer in the School of Library

Science University of Western Ontario Dr Black recently served as the only

academic on the Canadian delegation to the 1984 World Administrative Radio Confershy

ence in Geneva which dealt among other topics with a reallocation of short wave

radio frequencies

-Dr Stan R Blecher became director of the School of Human Biology at the Univershy

sity of Guelph effective August I He holds medical degrees from both the University of Witwatersrand Johannesburg South Afshy

rica and the University of Copenhagen Dcnmark Previously he was professor of

anatomy Dalhousie University and a conshysultant in clinical genetics at the Izaak Walshy

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ton Killam hildrcns Hospital Halifa x N S He is a Fellow orthe Canadian College of Medical Geneticists

He has lectured at the universities in

both Johannesburg and Copenhagen and held this rece nt post at Da lhou s ic Unishyversity since 1978 For 12 years he was

ex ternal examiner in medical genetics in the Institute of Medical Genetics Univershysity of Copcnhagen In Canada he has sc rvcd as a membcr of the Grants Commitshy

tee of the Medical Research Council of Canada as a member of the accreditation

committec of the Canadian College of Medshyical G~ncticists and as chairman of the Scishyence Policy Committee of the Canadian Asshysociation of Anatomi sts

D r Alan Meek OVC 71 and 74 has

been appointed chainnan of the OVe s Deshypartment of Veterinary Microbiology and

Immunology He took up hi s position July I

He holds a Ph D 1977 from the Unishyversity of Melbourne Australia He has been a mcmber of faculty in the Department since 1978 and between 1979 and 1983

was also cross-appointed to the Department of Animal and Poultry Science OAC

As co-ordinator since 1980 of the OVC Computer Group Dr Meek has been responsible for a feasibility study and for sevcn staff whose task has been to develop

and maintain an integrated computer-based system to assist with the research teaching and hospital functions of the College Thi s

systcm called the Veterinary Medical Inshyformation Management System is now operating in approximately 75 per cent of thc functional areas in the OVes Ve te rishynary Teaching Hospital and is considered to be one of the most advanced of its kind in the world

He has served as consultant for the University of MichiganM ichigan State Deshy

partment of Agriculture with respect to a 1978 epidemiological investigation of PBB recontamination in Michigan dairy cattle and for the University of Wiscon sin in 1979 concerning the economic impac t of swine influenza

=

Dr Richard B Miller OVC 58 has been appointed chainnan of the OVes Departshy

ment of Pathology He took up his position July I

Following completion of a B Sc deshygree in Agriculture at the University of AIshybcrta in 1960 he owned and operated a

cattle ranch in northeastern Alberta During his four years at the OVC he proved to

be one of the Colleges distinguished scholshyar winning the Andrew Smith Memorial

Gold Medal the Second Proficiency Prize the Small Animal Medicine and Surgcry Award and the Holstein-Friesian Prize at

graduation In 1980 he received a Ph D in reproshy

ductive pathology from Cornell Univers ity and in 198 I board certification in morphoshylogic pathology from the Amcrican College of Veterinary Pathologists

Grant Misener Honoured

Dr A Grant Misener OAC 35

andOVC 38

During the third day of Spring Convoshy

cation Dr Grant Mi sener OAC 35 OVC 38 one of the University S most ac tive alumn i members urged graduands to join their rcspective alumni assoc iations and take an active part in activities Dr Misshy

ener a key figure in thc Friends of Univcrshy

sity of Guelph Inc was named an Honorshyary Fellow of the University of Guelph

The reputation of the University is

He joined the faculty in the Departshyment of Pathology in j 969 as assistant proshy

fessor and became associate professor in 1976 During the past seven years his skills as an excellent teacher have been recogshynized and he was nominated for the Norden

Di stinguished Teaching Award three times ( 1978 1981 and 1982) before fi nally winshyning the award in 1983 0

largely the rcflection of the collective standshy

ing of its graduates said Dr Misener

As the prestige and reputation of the Unishyversity grow so do the pre stige and reputashytion of its individual a lumni This is one

reason why alumni support the Alma Mater Fund with gifts that prov ide continued

e nrichmcnt of programs and facilities at the Uni versity This is why you will be invited

to support thc Fund When you contribute you are certain to have a feeling of he lping repay what the U niversity has given you

At the same ceremony Dr Donald Barnum OVC41 Department of Veterishy

nary Microbiology and Immunology was named Professor Emeritus of the Unive rshysity Dr Bcrnard McSherry O VC 42 Deshy

partment of Pathology was also to have been named Professor Emeritus but hblth reasons prevented him from attending

Degrces granted that day wcrc Doctor of Philosophy Master of Arts Master of Science Master of Landscape Architecshy

ture Graduate Diploma Bachelor of Science in Human Kinetics Bachelor of

Sciencc- General Program and Doctor of Veterinary Medicine 0

University Wins Photography Award

T he University of Guelph received

fu ll marks in photography recently

winning an international award for the best use of photography in unishyversity publications

Fifteen universities includiog three Canadian universities comshypeted for this honour at the annual

conference of the Un iversity Photogshyraphers Association of America held

recently in San D iego Calif USA

The Presidents Award for best use of photography--quantity and quality-in a university publ ication was presented to Ted Carter manshyager Department of Illustration Services Office for Educational

Practice who received the trophy on

behalf of the University of G uelph and who in tum presented the

trophy to President Burt Matthews OAC 47 atGuelph

Ted s submission to the sixshymember selection committee inshycluded a pack age of Universi ty of Guelph promotional brochures as well as copies of the Guelph Alumnus and the University News Bulletin

Ted who offered a powerful presentation package to attract the Association to Guelph tells us that the Associations 1985 Annual Conshyference will be held at the University of Guelph July 10 to 13 This wi ll be the first time that the Conference

has been held outs ide of the US Ted will act as co-ordinator

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The College of Physical Science Alumni Association

SCIMP Editor Bob Winke l

MSc in Computer Science Gets Preliminary Approval By ADD MiddietoD

A new Master s Program in computer scishyence has received preliminary approval from Senate The new M Sc will be an

applied program which Computing and Inshyformation Science C hairman Jay Majithia expects will relate closely to other discishyplines on campus

It is hoped that the program will clear local and government hurdles in time for five to ten students to enrol in the fall of

1985 New graduate program proposal s in Ontario go to the Ontario ouncil of Graduate Studies for appraisal of quality and then to a relatively new committee of the Ontario Council on University Affairs (OCUA) for funding approval

It is this group that decides how the proposed program fits into the Ontario unishyversity system and whether thu is actushy

ally a need for such a program The unique aspect of each proposal or alternatively the justification for duplication is then conshysidered as is the question of whether the graduate program fits the traditions and

strengths of the institution in question Dcan of G raduate Studies Carlton

Gyles O vC 64 explains that the new proshy

cedure for considering justification for the funding of new graduate programs was inishytiatcd at the recommendation of a Council of O ntario Universities committee chaired by former University of G uelph president the late Donald Forster The evaluation sysshy

tem has been operating for about 18 months and is just catching up with the backlog of unfunded programs

Profe~sor Majithia points out that the

Guelph program should satisfy the qualifishycations of the OC UA committee It will meet an increasing demand for research and deve lopment people in the industry while

simultaneously dovetailing with Guelph s

existing programs Computer applications related to the

traditional strengths of this campus as well as such topics as office automation and of course information technology in genshy

eral could all come within the scope of the degree program which will require at least four graduate-level courses and a

thesis

The proposed courses will re present the mainstream areas of practical computer science where there is still a lot of material to master beyond the Bachelors degree For this reason the Senate report points out it seems more appropriate to develop

this expertise than to venture into more exo shytic areas

One thing the new program will not do Professor Majithia says is produce massive software programs It will howshyever have a beneficia l if intangible impact on the quality of the undergraduate proshygram Professor Majithia spent I I years at the University of Waterloo before coming to Guelph two years ago The Masters

degree will change the outlook of undershygraduatcs in thi s Department he explains They will ex perience the enthusiasm asshysociated with the teaching of advancedshylevel courses and profit from an enriched curriculum

The Senate re port explains that there is a need for computer sc ience professionals

w ith advanccd training in C anada to work with the producers of computing hardware

computer system integrators developers of software systems and in commerc ial applishycations as well as with use r organizations applying computer sys tems for their mainshystream and deci sion-support needs

T he proposal comes at an important time in the ex pansion of the 13-year-old

Department In the last five years the faculty has grown by SO per cent research activity has expanded significantly and student numbers have more than doubled

The document presented to Senate explains that graduate students will have

a strong base of undergraduate teaching and faculty research to build on since the Deshy

partment is already strong in the areas of humancomputer interaction arlificial 10shy

telligencc and machine architecture 0

Bruce Ramsay 80

Our Futurist

A vision of the future where collector units in space beam e nergy back to earth and advances in genetic e ngineering allow hu shy

man s to regenerate entire li mbs has earned graduate student Bruce Ramsey 80 Bioshychemistry a $500 prize in the first Honshyey well Futurist Awards Competition

Joel Braverman spokesman for Honshy

eywell Ltd says that more than 1500 reshyquests for entry material were received from

full-time univers ity and college students across Canada The students were asked to submit a two-page essay on any two of

the five suggested subject areas predicting the technolog ical changes of the next 25 years and the ir impact on society Entries were judged for creativity plaus ibility clarity of exposition and leg ibility

A futurist Bruce has ambitions to

write science fiction and books on popular

science His submission was an imaginative ex trapolation of present trends in space

technolog~ organ transplant techniques and current research in genetics

The sponsors of the competition attach great imporlance to the competition which is now in its second year in the USA

and will be extended to Europe next year As winner of a second prize Bruce

was invited with the five other prize winners to a reception in Toronto a tour of Honeyshywell facilitie s and an awards banquet atshy

tended by senior management of the Comshypany as well as a di sti nguished judging pane l representing educational institutions scientific media and government T he keyshynote address was given by Dr Ian Mac shydonald president York Univers ity and of

the IDEA Corporation a provincial governshyment initiative to promote technological inshynovation 0

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Whats in a Name Change T he Department of Chemistry has changed its name to the Department of C hemistry and Bioc hemistry The new name reflects more accurately the range of activity in the Department Chemistry and biochemistry degrees have been offered in the Departshyment for many years

Chairman Ed Janzen observes One shythird of our faculty members are bioshychemists one- third of the Department s undergraduate students arc registered in biochemistry courses and one-third of our off-campus grant money last year went into biochem istry research

T he close association between ehemisshy

try and biochemistry on this campus influshyences the nature of biochemistry here Proshyfessor Janzen say~ the biochemists in this Department tend to be more phys ically oriented They use more physical techshyniques such as light scattering mass specshytrometry and magnetic resonance because the instnlmentation is close at hand and because their colleagues in the College of Physical Science have a wealth of experishyence in these techniques Their research tends to be less physiologically oriented than it might be with biochemists who are associated with med ical school s

Given Guelphs concentration of ex-

Chem and Biochem Awards The Department of Chemistry and Bioshychemis try along with the Biochemistry Chemistry C lub held its first annual awards dinner at the Col John McCrae Royal Canadian Legion Hall in Guelph

Following a buffet dinner awards and scholarships were presented to the followshyin g first-semester in-course and recently graduated students

College of Physical Science Award semester 6 a nd 7 Kevin Wang

Entrance Scholarships niversi ty Award - Steven Wong The Mc Arthur Humphries Award- Kevin Wood The Alumni Asshysociation Award- Catherine French The E B MacNaughton Award- James Noel Honours Applied Chemistry Scholarshys hip Michelle Moore Society of Chemical Ind ustry Prize C hemistry Margaret Hyland Biochemisshytry Susan Bishop Graham Applied Chemistry Nancy Ha ll

Chemical I nstitute of Canada Silver Medal and Prize Kevin Wang Demonstrato r Award Barbara Ruhl and Don Stephenson

ChemistryBiochemist ry Undergraduate Awards-Prize for top grades in Chemistry 19- 100 Scott Jcrmey Chrisshytopher OCa liaghan and Dirk Vanderwall

Prize for Excellence in C hemis try 19shy100 Twel ve top students in WS3 S S_ F 83 semester Kent Ackerman Yee Lai Chan Donna Faekoury Scott Jenney Matthew Kingswood Joe Kozar Jennifer Lazar Chun Wah Lin Ellen Morito De shyborah Nunn Christopher O Caliaghan and Dirk Vanderwalt

Undergraduate Awa rd in Ana lytical Chemistry Susan Post Weston Research C entre Book Prize Dwayne Barber 0

Recipients of the Prize for Excellence in Fundamental Chemistry included Back row Matthew Kingswood Kent Ackerman Scali Jenney and Christopher O Callaghan Front row Joe Kozar Yee Lai Chan andJennifer Lazar and Professor Elmer Alyea

pertise in the biologia l sciences it is natural that the bioehemi IS have forged links with many differe nt departments on campus he says Collaborati ve research is in progress with faculty members in the O VC and in the Departments of Nutrition Bot ny and Genetics Crop Science and Microbiology Bioc hemists and chem ists will also be prominent in the Canadian Centre for

ToxiCOlogy We have an unusually broad range

of chemical expertise for a department of this size says the chairman In the Guelph- Waterloo Centre for Graduate Work in Chemistry (and Biochemi stry ) (GWC)2 the biochemists occupy an imporshytant part of the research spectrum In fact about one third of the I 17 (GWC )2 graduate students study biochemistry 0

Grad News George C racknell BA 71 of Guelph is a financial analyst with O ntario Hydro

Susan Ingrams BA 72 MSc 73 is currently a se nior methodologist with Statistic s Canada in Ottaw a

E laine Hoskins B A 72 MSc 73 is a statistici an with Revenue Canada in Otshytawa

Larry Mark BSc 73 is practising medicine in Newmarket

Andy Orr BSc 75 o fVancouvcr B C has rene wed his studies at Simon Fraser Universi ty in Burnaby

J ennifer (T homson) jackman BSc 76

MSc 78 PhD 83 and hu sband Torn BSc 72 MSc 74 Ph D SO arc both employed at the Chalk River Research Labshyoratories in Deep River

Allan johnston MSc 79 PhD 82 is continuing his work in chemistry as a post doctoral fellow at the Universi ty or Victoria BC

-Norma (Wilson) Hykaway BSc 79 of Vancouver is a research assistant at Simon Frase r Univers ity in Burnaby B C

Mark Leonard BSc 80 li ves in Toshyronto where he is account representative fo r the First National Bank of Chicago

Alana Kerr BSc SO lives in Richmond Hill and is a statistician with the Ministry of Nationa l Resources in Maple 0

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The College of Arts Alumni Association

DELPHA Editor Debbie (Nash) Chambers 77

From the Dean

Dean David Murray

On several previous occasions I have had the privilege of a column in DELPHA to bring you our alumni up to date on wh at has been happening in the College of Ans I am grateful to editor Debbie (Nash) Chamshybers 77 for another opportunity Thi s has been a bitter-sweet year for the College of Art s We mourned the loss of two very close friend s of the College President Donald Forster and Secretary of Senate Walter Vaughan Each will be missed grea tshyly within the College as in the rest of the University

We have also had a number of occashysions to celebrate One was the very sucshycessful conference on Strategies for Peace and Security in the Nuclear Age orshyganized by Professors Gunnar Boehnert History and Henry Wiseman Political Studies The conference highlight was the kick-off of Primc Minister Trudeaus peace initiative

Other noteworthy conferences during the year included a major gathering of Commonwealth writers and academics hosted by professor Dougl as Killam chairshyman o f the Department of English Lanshyguage and Literature and his colleagues in the Department and a conference on key issues of contemporary philosophy which brought some 200 philosophers from Canada Britain and the United States to Guelph During May and June the Univershysity hosted the Learned Societies a major undertaking which has involved extensive preparat ions for over a year

Both faculty and students in the Colshylege have won significant honours recently Professor Marguerite Andersen fonner chainnan of the Department of Languages

and Literatures won the prestigious Prix du journal de Montreal for her novel entishytled De M emoi re de Femme

The College of Arts medallist Nicole Didicher 83 who graduated with disti ncshytion in English was awarded the Winegard Medal in June 1983 the Universitys highshyest academic award This is only the second time a College of Arts graduate has won the Winegard Medal so we are very proud of Nicole s accomplish ment Michelle Urshyquhart who is majoring in Fine Art and Classics won a national class ics translation competition

Through the efforts of Professor Leonard Conolly the McLaughlin Library has acquired on permanent loan a number of archivcs fro m Ontario theat res Thc colshylection includes the Shaw f estiva l archives and the archivcs of the Tarragon and Young Pcople s Theatre fro m Toronto and archives from two theatres that havc closcd the Opcn Circle and th~ Phocnix

The College of Arts has also become more active in international development Professor Douglas Killam and Elizabeth Cockburn are managi ng a major ClDA projshyect in Cameroon assisting teachers there to develop new learning materials

Closer to home our liaison programs have been reaching out to secondary schools in the region We have consciously tried to ass ist teachers working with gifted children To that end Professor James Harshyrison and colleagues in the Department of English Language and Literature have mounted a creative writing contest for a number of years with the winning entries being publi shed in Focus

We have held a Creati ve Arts Day for gifted students in Wellington County givshying these students opportunities through work shops to learn from professors teachshying in Fine Art Drama and Music Professhysor Pare and his colleagues in Frenc h Studies in conjunction with the Canadian Parents for Frenc h sponsored a public speaking contes t for students in French imshymersion programs Entitled Exchanges it too proved to be very successful Faculshyty members spend a great deal of time in these and other liai son programs which help to reduce the barriers between secondary

and post secondary education In closing I want to pay a special trishy

bute to Debbie Chambers who has edited DELPHA for five years and will be retiring with this issue She has done a first-rate job in her editorial role and has displayed a deep loyalty to thc College ancl its alumni Thank you very much Debbic for ajob well clone 0

An Editors Farewell

J ust a short notc to wish Terry Ayer 84 well and to say thank you to the many many people who have made the DELPHA editors job such a rewarding task over the last five years Thank you for your mail and the article sugge stions over the past many iss ucs of the G uelph AlumllllS

It has been very interesting to follow the career paths of fellow alumni while preshyparing the grad news section for each issue It has also been grati fying to witness the coming of age of the College of Arts Alumni Association

When I succeeded Judy (Main) Carshyson 75 and Pete r Vaughan 78 as editor in 1978 the Association was in its infanC) Now five years later the Board of Direcshytors is continually ex panding and its memshybers have undertaken three annual projects and a variety of new sc holarship programs

I think that the early stalwarts such as Evelyn Williams 73 Edi th LeLacheur 72 Janice (Robertson) Partlow 70 Anne (Hewat) Vaughan 78 and Judy and Peter would share my opinion that we have been very forrunate to attract such dedicated Board members over the past few years

The presidencies of Julie (Russell) -Thur 78 and Margo Shoemaker 79 have been tenns full of innovation careful planning and hard work However the number of active Arts alumni remains relashytively small Why not back a winner and make a personal time commitment to our Association Hope to see you at a future alumni event

Debbie (Nash) Chambers 77

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ton Killam hildrcns Hospital Halifa x N S He is a Fellow orthe Canadian College of Medical Geneticists

He has lectured at the universities in

both Johannesburg and Copenhagen and held this rece nt post at Da lhou s ic Unishyversity since 1978 For 12 years he was

ex ternal examiner in medical genetics in the Institute of Medical Genetics Univershysity of Copcnhagen In Canada he has sc rvcd as a membcr of the Grants Commitshy

tee of the Medical Research Council of Canada as a member of the accreditation

committec of the Canadian College of Medshyical G~ncticists and as chairman of the Scishyence Policy Committee of the Canadian Asshysociation of Anatomi sts

D r Alan Meek OVC 71 and 74 has

been appointed chainnan of the OVe s Deshypartment of Veterinary Microbiology and

Immunology He took up hi s position July I

He holds a Ph D 1977 from the Unishyversity of Melbourne Australia He has been a mcmber of faculty in the Department since 1978 and between 1979 and 1983

was also cross-appointed to the Department of Animal and Poultry Science OAC

As co-ordinator since 1980 of the OVC Computer Group Dr Meek has been responsible for a feasibility study and for sevcn staff whose task has been to develop

and maintain an integrated computer-based system to assist with the research teaching and hospital functions of the College Thi s

systcm called the Veterinary Medical Inshyformation Management System is now operating in approximately 75 per cent of thc functional areas in the OVes Ve te rishynary Teaching Hospital and is considered to be one of the most advanced of its kind in the world

He has served as consultant for the University of MichiganM ichigan State Deshy

partment of Agriculture with respect to a 1978 epidemiological investigation of PBB recontamination in Michigan dairy cattle and for the University of Wiscon sin in 1979 concerning the economic impac t of swine influenza

=

Dr Richard B Miller OVC 58 has been appointed chainnan of the OVes Departshy

ment of Pathology He took up his position July I

Following completion of a B Sc deshygree in Agriculture at the University of AIshybcrta in 1960 he owned and operated a

cattle ranch in northeastern Alberta During his four years at the OVC he proved to

be one of the Colleges distinguished scholshyar winning the Andrew Smith Memorial

Gold Medal the Second Proficiency Prize the Small Animal Medicine and Surgcry Award and the Holstein-Friesian Prize at

graduation In 1980 he received a Ph D in reproshy

ductive pathology from Cornell Univers ity and in 198 I board certification in morphoshylogic pathology from the Amcrican College of Veterinary Pathologists

Grant Misener Honoured

Dr A Grant Misener OAC 35

andOVC 38

During the third day of Spring Convoshy

cation Dr Grant Mi sener OAC 35 OVC 38 one of the University S most ac tive alumn i members urged graduands to join their rcspective alumni assoc iations and take an active part in activities Dr Misshy

ener a key figure in thc Friends of Univcrshy

sity of Guelph Inc was named an Honorshyary Fellow of the University of Guelph

The reputation of the University is

He joined the faculty in the Departshyment of Pathology in j 969 as assistant proshy

fessor and became associate professor in 1976 During the past seven years his skills as an excellent teacher have been recogshynized and he was nominated for the Norden

Di stinguished Teaching Award three times ( 1978 1981 and 1982) before fi nally winshyning the award in 1983 0

largely the rcflection of the collective standshy

ing of its graduates said Dr Misener

As the prestige and reputation of the Unishyversity grow so do the pre stige and reputashytion of its individual a lumni This is one

reason why alumni support the Alma Mater Fund with gifts that prov ide continued

e nrichmcnt of programs and facilities at the Uni versity This is why you will be invited

to support thc Fund When you contribute you are certain to have a feeling of he lping repay what the U niversity has given you

At the same ceremony Dr Donald Barnum OVC41 Department of Veterishy

nary Microbiology and Immunology was named Professor Emeritus of the Unive rshysity Dr Bcrnard McSherry O VC 42 Deshy

partment of Pathology was also to have been named Professor Emeritus but hblth reasons prevented him from attending

Degrces granted that day wcrc Doctor of Philosophy Master of Arts Master of Science Master of Landscape Architecshy

ture Graduate Diploma Bachelor of Science in Human Kinetics Bachelor of

Sciencc- General Program and Doctor of Veterinary Medicine 0

University Wins Photography Award

T he University of Guelph received

fu ll marks in photography recently

winning an international award for the best use of photography in unishyversity publications

Fifteen universities includiog three Canadian universities comshypeted for this honour at the annual

conference of the Un iversity Photogshyraphers Association of America held

recently in San D iego Calif USA

The Presidents Award for best use of photography--quantity and quality-in a university publ ication was presented to Ted Carter manshyager Department of Illustration Services Office for Educational

Practice who received the trophy on

behalf of the University of G uelph and who in tum presented the

trophy to President Burt Matthews OAC 47 atGuelph

Ted s submission to the sixshymember selection committee inshycluded a pack age of Universi ty of Guelph promotional brochures as well as copies of the Guelph Alumnus and the University News Bulletin

Ted who offered a powerful presentation package to attract the Association to Guelph tells us that the Associations 1985 Annual Conshyference will be held at the University of Guelph July 10 to 13 This wi ll be the first time that the Conference

has been held outs ide of the US Ted will act as co-ordinator

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The College of Physical Science Alumni Association

SCIMP Editor Bob Winke l

MSc in Computer Science Gets Preliminary Approval By ADD MiddietoD

A new Master s Program in computer scishyence has received preliminary approval from Senate The new M Sc will be an

applied program which Computing and Inshyformation Science C hairman Jay Majithia expects will relate closely to other discishyplines on campus

It is hoped that the program will clear local and government hurdles in time for five to ten students to enrol in the fall of

1985 New graduate program proposal s in Ontario go to the Ontario ouncil of Graduate Studies for appraisal of quality and then to a relatively new committee of the Ontario Council on University Affairs (OCUA) for funding approval

It is this group that decides how the proposed program fits into the Ontario unishyversity system and whether thu is actushy

ally a need for such a program The unique aspect of each proposal or alternatively the justification for duplication is then conshysidered as is the question of whether the graduate program fits the traditions and

strengths of the institution in question Dcan of G raduate Studies Carlton

Gyles O vC 64 explains that the new proshy

cedure for considering justification for the funding of new graduate programs was inishytiatcd at the recommendation of a Council of O ntario Universities committee chaired by former University of G uelph president the late Donald Forster The evaluation sysshy

tem has been operating for about 18 months and is just catching up with the backlog of unfunded programs

Profe~sor Majithia points out that the

Guelph program should satisfy the qualifishycations of the OC UA committee It will meet an increasing demand for research and deve lopment people in the industry while

simultaneously dovetailing with Guelph s

existing programs Computer applications related to the

traditional strengths of this campus as well as such topics as office automation and of course information technology in genshy

eral could all come within the scope of the degree program which will require at least four graduate-level courses and a

thesis

The proposed courses will re present the mainstream areas of practical computer science where there is still a lot of material to master beyond the Bachelors degree For this reason the Senate report points out it seems more appropriate to develop

this expertise than to venture into more exo shytic areas

One thing the new program will not do Professor Majithia says is produce massive software programs It will howshyever have a beneficia l if intangible impact on the quality of the undergraduate proshygram Professor Majithia spent I I years at the University of Waterloo before coming to Guelph two years ago The Masters

degree will change the outlook of undershygraduatcs in thi s Department he explains They will ex perience the enthusiasm asshysociated with the teaching of advancedshylevel courses and profit from an enriched curriculum

The Senate re port explains that there is a need for computer sc ience professionals

w ith advanccd training in C anada to work with the producers of computing hardware

computer system integrators developers of software systems and in commerc ial applishycations as well as with use r organizations applying computer sys tems for their mainshystream and deci sion-support needs

T he proposal comes at an important time in the ex pansion of the 13-year-old

Department In the last five years the faculty has grown by SO per cent research activity has expanded significantly and student numbers have more than doubled

The document presented to Senate explains that graduate students will have

a strong base of undergraduate teaching and faculty research to build on since the Deshy

partment is already strong in the areas of humancomputer interaction arlificial 10shy

telligencc and machine architecture 0

Bruce Ramsay 80

Our Futurist

A vision of the future where collector units in space beam e nergy back to earth and advances in genetic e ngineering allow hu shy

man s to regenerate entire li mbs has earned graduate student Bruce Ramsey 80 Bioshychemistry a $500 prize in the first Honshyey well Futurist Awards Competition

Joel Braverman spokesman for Honshy

eywell Ltd says that more than 1500 reshyquests for entry material were received from

full-time univers ity and college students across Canada The students were asked to submit a two-page essay on any two of

the five suggested subject areas predicting the technolog ical changes of the next 25 years and the ir impact on society Entries were judged for creativity plaus ibility clarity of exposition and leg ibility

A futurist Bruce has ambitions to

write science fiction and books on popular

science His submission was an imaginative ex trapolation of present trends in space

technolog~ organ transplant techniques and current research in genetics

The sponsors of the competition attach great imporlance to the competition which is now in its second year in the USA

and will be extended to Europe next year As winner of a second prize Bruce

was invited with the five other prize winners to a reception in Toronto a tour of Honeyshywell facilitie s and an awards banquet atshy

tended by senior management of the Comshypany as well as a di sti nguished judging pane l representing educational institutions scientific media and government T he keyshynote address was given by Dr Ian Mac shydonald president York Univers ity and of

the IDEA Corporation a provincial governshyment initiative to promote technological inshynovation 0

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Whats in a Name Change T he Department of Chemistry has changed its name to the Department of C hemistry and Bioc hemistry The new name reflects more accurately the range of activity in the Department Chemistry and biochemistry degrees have been offered in the Departshyment for many years

Chairman Ed Janzen observes One shythird of our faculty members are bioshychemists one- third of the Department s undergraduate students arc registered in biochemistry courses and one-third of our off-campus grant money last year went into biochem istry research

T he close association between ehemisshy

try and biochemistry on this campus influshyences the nature of biochemistry here Proshyfessor Janzen say~ the biochemists in this Department tend to be more phys ically oriented They use more physical techshyniques such as light scattering mass specshytrometry and magnetic resonance because the instnlmentation is close at hand and because their colleagues in the College of Physical Science have a wealth of experishyence in these techniques Their research tends to be less physiologically oriented than it might be with biochemists who are associated with med ical school s

Given Guelphs concentration of ex-

Chem and Biochem Awards The Department of Chemistry and Bioshychemis try along with the Biochemistry Chemistry C lub held its first annual awards dinner at the Col John McCrae Royal Canadian Legion Hall in Guelph

Following a buffet dinner awards and scholarships were presented to the followshyin g first-semester in-course and recently graduated students

College of Physical Science Award semester 6 a nd 7 Kevin Wang

Entrance Scholarships niversi ty Award - Steven Wong The Mc Arthur Humphries Award- Kevin Wood The Alumni Asshysociation Award- Catherine French The E B MacNaughton Award- James Noel Honours Applied Chemistry Scholarshys hip Michelle Moore Society of Chemical Ind ustry Prize C hemistry Margaret Hyland Biochemisshytry Susan Bishop Graham Applied Chemistry Nancy Ha ll

Chemical I nstitute of Canada Silver Medal and Prize Kevin Wang Demonstrato r Award Barbara Ruhl and Don Stephenson

ChemistryBiochemist ry Undergraduate Awards-Prize for top grades in Chemistry 19- 100 Scott Jcrmey Chrisshytopher OCa liaghan and Dirk Vanderwall

Prize for Excellence in C hemis try 19shy100 Twel ve top students in WS3 S S_ F 83 semester Kent Ackerman Yee Lai Chan Donna Faekoury Scott Jenney Matthew Kingswood Joe Kozar Jennifer Lazar Chun Wah Lin Ellen Morito De shyborah Nunn Christopher O Caliaghan and Dirk Vanderwalt

Undergraduate Awa rd in Ana lytical Chemistry Susan Post Weston Research C entre Book Prize Dwayne Barber 0

Recipients of the Prize for Excellence in Fundamental Chemistry included Back row Matthew Kingswood Kent Ackerman Scali Jenney and Christopher O Callaghan Front row Joe Kozar Yee Lai Chan andJennifer Lazar and Professor Elmer Alyea

pertise in the biologia l sciences it is natural that the bioehemi IS have forged links with many differe nt departments on campus he says Collaborati ve research is in progress with faculty members in the O VC and in the Departments of Nutrition Bot ny and Genetics Crop Science and Microbiology Bioc hemists and chem ists will also be prominent in the Canadian Centre for

ToxiCOlogy We have an unusually broad range

of chemical expertise for a department of this size says the chairman In the Guelph- Waterloo Centre for Graduate Work in Chemistry (and Biochemi stry ) (GWC)2 the biochemists occupy an imporshytant part of the research spectrum In fact about one third of the I 17 (GWC )2 graduate students study biochemistry 0

Grad News George C racknell BA 71 of Guelph is a financial analyst with O ntario Hydro

Susan Ingrams BA 72 MSc 73 is currently a se nior methodologist with Statistic s Canada in Ottaw a

E laine Hoskins B A 72 MSc 73 is a statistici an with Revenue Canada in Otshytawa

Larry Mark BSc 73 is practising medicine in Newmarket

Andy Orr BSc 75 o fVancouvcr B C has rene wed his studies at Simon Fraser Universi ty in Burnaby

J ennifer (T homson) jackman BSc 76

MSc 78 PhD 83 and hu sband Torn BSc 72 MSc 74 Ph D SO arc both employed at the Chalk River Research Labshyoratories in Deep River

Allan johnston MSc 79 PhD 82 is continuing his work in chemistry as a post doctoral fellow at the Universi ty or Victoria BC

-Norma (Wilson) Hykaway BSc 79 of Vancouver is a research assistant at Simon Frase r Univers ity in Burnaby B C

Mark Leonard BSc 80 li ves in Toshyronto where he is account representative fo r the First National Bank of Chicago

Alana Kerr BSc SO lives in Richmond Hill and is a statistician with the Ministry of Nationa l Resources in Maple 0

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The College of Arts Alumni Association

DELPHA Editor Debbie (Nash) Chambers 77

From the Dean

Dean David Murray

On several previous occasions I have had the privilege of a column in DELPHA to bring you our alumni up to date on wh at has been happening in the College of Ans I am grateful to editor Debbie (Nash) Chamshybers 77 for another opportunity Thi s has been a bitter-sweet year for the College of Art s We mourned the loss of two very close friend s of the College President Donald Forster and Secretary of Senate Walter Vaughan Each will be missed grea tshyly within the College as in the rest of the University

We have also had a number of occashysions to celebrate One was the very sucshycessful conference on Strategies for Peace and Security in the Nuclear Age orshyganized by Professors Gunnar Boehnert History and Henry Wiseman Political Studies The conference highlight was the kick-off of Primc Minister Trudeaus peace initiative

Other noteworthy conferences during the year included a major gathering of Commonwealth writers and academics hosted by professor Dougl as Killam chairshyman o f the Department of English Lanshyguage and Literature and his colleagues in the Department and a conference on key issues of contemporary philosophy which brought some 200 philosophers from Canada Britain and the United States to Guelph During May and June the Univershysity hosted the Learned Societies a major undertaking which has involved extensive preparat ions for over a year

Both faculty and students in the Colshylege have won significant honours recently Professor Marguerite Andersen fonner chainnan of the Department of Languages

and Literatures won the prestigious Prix du journal de Montreal for her novel entishytled De M emoi re de Femme

The College of Arts medallist Nicole Didicher 83 who graduated with disti ncshytion in English was awarded the Winegard Medal in June 1983 the Universitys highshyest academic award This is only the second time a College of Arts graduate has won the Winegard Medal so we are very proud of Nicole s accomplish ment Michelle Urshyquhart who is majoring in Fine Art and Classics won a national class ics translation competition

Through the efforts of Professor Leonard Conolly the McLaughlin Library has acquired on permanent loan a number of archivcs fro m Ontario theat res Thc colshylection includes the Shaw f estiva l archives and the archivcs of the Tarragon and Young Pcople s Theatre fro m Toronto and archives from two theatres that havc closcd the Opcn Circle and th~ Phocnix

The College of Arts has also become more active in international development Professor Douglas Killam and Elizabeth Cockburn are managi ng a major ClDA projshyect in Cameroon assisting teachers there to develop new learning materials

Closer to home our liaison programs have been reaching out to secondary schools in the region We have consciously tried to ass ist teachers working with gifted children To that end Professor James Harshyrison and colleagues in the Department of English Language and Literature have mounted a creative writing contest for a number of years with the winning entries being publi shed in Focus

We have held a Creati ve Arts Day for gifted students in Wellington County givshying these students opportunities through work shops to learn from professors teachshying in Fine Art Drama and Music Professhysor Pare and his colleagues in Frenc h Studies in conjunction with the Canadian Parents for Frenc h sponsored a public speaking contes t for students in French imshymersion programs Entitled Exchanges it too proved to be very successful Faculshyty members spend a great deal of time in these and other liai son programs which help to reduce the barriers between secondary

and post secondary education In closing I want to pay a special trishy

bute to Debbie Chambers who has edited DELPHA for five years and will be retiring with this issue She has done a first-rate job in her editorial role and has displayed a deep loyalty to thc College ancl its alumni Thank you very much Debbic for ajob well clone 0

An Editors Farewell

J ust a short notc to wish Terry Ayer 84 well and to say thank you to the many many people who have made the DELPHA editors job such a rewarding task over the last five years Thank you for your mail and the article sugge stions over the past many iss ucs of the G uelph AlumllllS

It has been very interesting to follow the career paths of fellow alumni while preshyparing the grad news section for each issue It has also been grati fying to witness the coming of age of the College of Arts Alumni Association

When I succeeded Judy (Main) Carshyson 75 and Pete r Vaughan 78 as editor in 1978 the Association was in its infanC) Now five years later the Board of Direcshytors is continually ex panding and its memshybers have undertaken three annual projects and a variety of new sc holarship programs

I think that the early stalwarts such as Evelyn Williams 73 Edi th LeLacheur 72 Janice (Robertson) Partlow 70 Anne (Hewat) Vaughan 78 and Judy and Peter would share my opinion that we have been very forrunate to attract such dedicated Board members over the past few years

The presidencies of Julie (Russell) -Thur 78 and Margo Shoemaker 79 have been tenns full of innovation careful planning and hard work However the number of active Arts alumni remains relashytively small Why not back a winner and make a personal time commitment to our Association Hope to see you at a future alumni event

Debbie (Nash) Chambers 77

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The College of Physical Science Alumni Association

SCIMP Editor Bob Winke l

MSc in Computer Science Gets Preliminary Approval By ADD MiddietoD

A new Master s Program in computer scishyence has received preliminary approval from Senate The new M Sc will be an

applied program which Computing and Inshyformation Science C hairman Jay Majithia expects will relate closely to other discishyplines on campus

It is hoped that the program will clear local and government hurdles in time for five to ten students to enrol in the fall of

1985 New graduate program proposal s in Ontario go to the Ontario ouncil of Graduate Studies for appraisal of quality and then to a relatively new committee of the Ontario Council on University Affairs (OCUA) for funding approval

It is this group that decides how the proposed program fits into the Ontario unishyversity system and whether thu is actushy

ally a need for such a program The unique aspect of each proposal or alternatively the justification for duplication is then conshysidered as is the question of whether the graduate program fits the traditions and

strengths of the institution in question Dcan of G raduate Studies Carlton

Gyles O vC 64 explains that the new proshy

cedure for considering justification for the funding of new graduate programs was inishytiatcd at the recommendation of a Council of O ntario Universities committee chaired by former University of G uelph president the late Donald Forster The evaluation sysshy

tem has been operating for about 18 months and is just catching up with the backlog of unfunded programs

Profe~sor Majithia points out that the

Guelph program should satisfy the qualifishycations of the OC UA committee It will meet an increasing demand for research and deve lopment people in the industry while

simultaneously dovetailing with Guelph s

existing programs Computer applications related to the

traditional strengths of this campus as well as such topics as office automation and of course information technology in genshy

eral could all come within the scope of the degree program which will require at least four graduate-level courses and a

thesis

The proposed courses will re present the mainstream areas of practical computer science where there is still a lot of material to master beyond the Bachelors degree For this reason the Senate report points out it seems more appropriate to develop

this expertise than to venture into more exo shytic areas

One thing the new program will not do Professor Majithia says is produce massive software programs It will howshyever have a beneficia l if intangible impact on the quality of the undergraduate proshygram Professor Majithia spent I I years at the University of Waterloo before coming to Guelph two years ago The Masters

degree will change the outlook of undershygraduatcs in thi s Department he explains They will ex perience the enthusiasm asshysociated with the teaching of advancedshylevel courses and profit from an enriched curriculum

The Senate re port explains that there is a need for computer sc ience professionals

w ith advanccd training in C anada to work with the producers of computing hardware

computer system integrators developers of software systems and in commerc ial applishycations as well as with use r organizations applying computer sys tems for their mainshystream and deci sion-support needs

T he proposal comes at an important time in the ex pansion of the 13-year-old

Department In the last five years the faculty has grown by SO per cent research activity has expanded significantly and student numbers have more than doubled

The document presented to Senate explains that graduate students will have

a strong base of undergraduate teaching and faculty research to build on since the Deshy

partment is already strong in the areas of humancomputer interaction arlificial 10shy

telligencc and machine architecture 0

Bruce Ramsay 80

Our Futurist

A vision of the future where collector units in space beam e nergy back to earth and advances in genetic e ngineering allow hu shy

man s to regenerate entire li mbs has earned graduate student Bruce Ramsey 80 Bioshychemistry a $500 prize in the first Honshyey well Futurist Awards Competition

Joel Braverman spokesman for Honshy

eywell Ltd says that more than 1500 reshyquests for entry material were received from

full-time univers ity and college students across Canada The students were asked to submit a two-page essay on any two of

the five suggested subject areas predicting the technolog ical changes of the next 25 years and the ir impact on society Entries were judged for creativity plaus ibility clarity of exposition and leg ibility

A futurist Bruce has ambitions to

write science fiction and books on popular

science His submission was an imaginative ex trapolation of present trends in space

technolog~ organ transplant techniques and current research in genetics

The sponsors of the competition attach great imporlance to the competition which is now in its second year in the USA

and will be extended to Europe next year As winner of a second prize Bruce

was invited with the five other prize winners to a reception in Toronto a tour of Honeyshywell facilitie s and an awards banquet atshy

tended by senior management of the Comshypany as well as a di sti nguished judging pane l representing educational institutions scientific media and government T he keyshynote address was given by Dr Ian Mac shydonald president York Univers ity and of

the IDEA Corporation a provincial governshyment initiative to promote technological inshynovation 0

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Whats in a Name Change T he Department of Chemistry has changed its name to the Department of C hemistry and Bioc hemistry The new name reflects more accurately the range of activity in the Department Chemistry and biochemistry degrees have been offered in the Departshyment for many years

Chairman Ed Janzen observes One shythird of our faculty members are bioshychemists one- third of the Department s undergraduate students arc registered in biochemistry courses and one-third of our off-campus grant money last year went into biochem istry research

T he close association between ehemisshy

try and biochemistry on this campus influshyences the nature of biochemistry here Proshyfessor Janzen say~ the biochemists in this Department tend to be more phys ically oriented They use more physical techshyniques such as light scattering mass specshytrometry and magnetic resonance because the instnlmentation is close at hand and because their colleagues in the College of Physical Science have a wealth of experishyence in these techniques Their research tends to be less physiologically oriented than it might be with biochemists who are associated with med ical school s

Given Guelphs concentration of ex-

Chem and Biochem Awards The Department of Chemistry and Bioshychemis try along with the Biochemistry Chemistry C lub held its first annual awards dinner at the Col John McCrae Royal Canadian Legion Hall in Guelph

Following a buffet dinner awards and scholarships were presented to the followshyin g first-semester in-course and recently graduated students

College of Physical Science Award semester 6 a nd 7 Kevin Wang

Entrance Scholarships niversi ty Award - Steven Wong The Mc Arthur Humphries Award- Kevin Wood The Alumni Asshysociation Award- Catherine French The E B MacNaughton Award- James Noel Honours Applied Chemistry Scholarshys hip Michelle Moore Society of Chemical Ind ustry Prize C hemistry Margaret Hyland Biochemisshytry Susan Bishop Graham Applied Chemistry Nancy Ha ll

Chemical I nstitute of Canada Silver Medal and Prize Kevin Wang Demonstrato r Award Barbara Ruhl and Don Stephenson

ChemistryBiochemist ry Undergraduate Awards-Prize for top grades in Chemistry 19- 100 Scott Jcrmey Chrisshytopher OCa liaghan and Dirk Vanderwall

Prize for Excellence in C hemis try 19shy100 Twel ve top students in WS3 S S_ F 83 semester Kent Ackerman Yee Lai Chan Donna Faekoury Scott Jenney Matthew Kingswood Joe Kozar Jennifer Lazar Chun Wah Lin Ellen Morito De shyborah Nunn Christopher O Caliaghan and Dirk Vanderwalt

Undergraduate Awa rd in Ana lytical Chemistry Susan Post Weston Research C entre Book Prize Dwayne Barber 0

Recipients of the Prize for Excellence in Fundamental Chemistry included Back row Matthew Kingswood Kent Ackerman Scali Jenney and Christopher O Callaghan Front row Joe Kozar Yee Lai Chan andJennifer Lazar and Professor Elmer Alyea

pertise in the biologia l sciences it is natural that the bioehemi IS have forged links with many differe nt departments on campus he says Collaborati ve research is in progress with faculty members in the O VC and in the Departments of Nutrition Bot ny and Genetics Crop Science and Microbiology Bioc hemists and chem ists will also be prominent in the Canadian Centre for

ToxiCOlogy We have an unusually broad range

of chemical expertise for a department of this size says the chairman In the Guelph- Waterloo Centre for Graduate Work in Chemistry (and Biochemi stry ) (GWC)2 the biochemists occupy an imporshytant part of the research spectrum In fact about one third of the I 17 (GWC )2 graduate students study biochemistry 0

Grad News George C racknell BA 71 of Guelph is a financial analyst with O ntario Hydro

Susan Ingrams BA 72 MSc 73 is currently a se nior methodologist with Statistic s Canada in Ottaw a

E laine Hoskins B A 72 MSc 73 is a statistici an with Revenue Canada in Otshytawa

Larry Mark BSc 73 is practising medicine in Newmarket

Andy Orr BSc 75 o fVancouvcr B C has rene wed his studies at Simon Fraser Universi ty in Burnaby

J ennifer (T homson) jackman BSc 76

MSc 78 PhD 83 and hu sband Torn BSc 72 MSc 74 Ph D SO arc both employed at the Chalk River Research Labshyoratories in Deep River

Allan johnston MSc 79 PhD 82 is continuing his work in chemistry as a post doctoral fellow at the Universi ty or Victoria BC

-Norma (Wilson) Hykaway BSc 79 of Vancouver is a research assistant at Simon Frase r Univers ity in Burnaby B C

Mark Leonard BSc 80 li ves in Toshyronto where he is account representative fo r the First National Bank of Chicago

Alana Kerr BSc SO lives in Richmond Hill and is a statistician with the Ministry of Nationa l Resources in Maple 0

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The College of Arts Alumni Association

DELPHA Editor Debbie (Nash) Chambers 77

From the Dean

Dean David Murray

On several previous occasions I have had the privilege of a column in DELPHA to bring you our alumni up to date on wh at has been happening in the College of Ans I am grateful to editor Debbie (Nash) Chamshybers 77 for another opportunity Thi s has been a bitter-sweet year for the College of Art s We mourned the loss of two very close friend s of the College President Donald Forster and Secretary of Senate Walter Vaughan Each will be missed grea tshyly within the College as in the rest of the University

We have also had a number of occashysions to celebrate One was the very sucshycessful conference on Strategies for Peace and Security in the Nuclear Age orshyganized by Professors Gunnar Boehnert History and Henry Wiseman Political Studies The conference highlight was the kick-off of Primc Minister Trudeaus peace initiative

Other noteworthy conferences during the year included a major gathering of Commonwealth writers and academics hosted by professor Dougl as Killam chairshyman o f the Department of English Lanshyguage and Literature and his colleagues in the Department and a conference on key issues of contemporary philosophy which brought some 200 philosophers from Canada Britain and the United States to Guelph During May and June the Univershysity hosted the Learned Societies a major undertaking which has involved extensive preparat ions for over a year

Both faculty and students in the Colshylege have won significant honours recently Professor Marguerite Andersen fonner chainnan of the Department of Languages

and Literatures won the prestigious Prix du journal de Montreal for her novel entishytled De M emoi re de Femme

The College of Arts medallist Nicole Didicher 83 who graduated with disti ncshytion in English was awarded the Winegard Medal in June 1983 the Universitys highshyest academic award This is only the second time a College of Arts graduate has won the Winegard Medal so we are very proud of Nicole s accomplish ment Michelle Urshyquhart who is majoring in Fine Art and Classics won a national class ics translation competition

Through the efforts of Professor Leonard Conolly the McLaughlin Library has acquired on permanent loan a number of archivcs fro m Ontario theat res Thc colshylection includes the Shaw f estiva l archives and the archivcs of the Tarragon and Young Pcople s Theatre fro m Toronto and archives from two theatres that havc closcd the Opcn Circle and th~ Phocnix

The College of Arts has also become more active in international development Professor Douglas Killam and Elizabeth Cockburn are managi ng a major ClDA projshyect in Cameroon assisting teachers there to develop new learning materials

Closer to home our liaison programs have been reaching out to secondary schools in the region We have consciously tried to ass ist teachers working with gifted children To that end Professor James Harshyrison and colleagues in the Department of English Language and Literature have mounted a creative writing contest for a number of years with the winning entries being publi shed in Focus

We have held a Creati ve Arts Day for gifted students in Wellington County givshying these students opportunities through work shops to learn from professors teachshying in Fine Art Drama and Music Professhysor Pare and his colleagues in Frenc h Studies in conjunction with the Canadian Parents for Frenc h sponsored a public speaking contes t for students in French imshymersion programs Entitled Exchanges it too proved to be very successful Faculshyty members spend a great deal of time in these and other liai son programs which help to reduce the barriers between secondary

and post secondary education In closing I want to pay a special trishy

bute to Debbie Chambers who has edited DELPHA for five years and will be retiring with this issue She has done a first-rate job in her editorial role and has displayed a deep loyalty to thc College ancl its alumni Thank you very much Debbic for ajob well clone 0

An Editors Farewell

J ust a short notc to wish Terry Ayer 84 well and to say thank you to the many many people who have made the DELPHA editors job such a rewarding task over the last five years Thank you for your mail and the article sugge stions over the past many iss ucs of the G uelph AlumllllS

It has been very interesting to follow the career paths of fellow alumni while preshyparing the grad news section for each issue It has also been grati fying to witness the coming of age of the College of Arts Alumni Association

When I succeeded Judy (Main) Carshyson 75 and Pete r Vaughan 78 as editor in 1978 the Association was in its infanC) Now five years later the Board of Direcshytors is continually ex panding and its memshybers have undertaken three annual projects and a variety of new sc holarship programs

I think that the early stalwarts such as Evelyn Williams 73 Edi th LeLacheur 72 Janice (Robertson) Partlow 70 Anne (Hewat) Vaughan 78 and Judy and Peter would share my opinion that we have been very forrunate to attract such dedicated Board members over the past few years

The presidencies of Julie (Russell) -Thur 78 and Margo Shoemaker 79 have been tenns full of innovation careful planning and hard work However the number of active Arts alumni remains relashytively small Why not back a winner and make a personal time commitment to our Association Hope to see you at a future alumni event

Debbie (Nash) Chambers 77

20

Whats in a Name Change T he Department of Chemistry has changed its name to the Department of C hemistry and Bioc hemistry The new name reflects more accurately the range of activity in the Department Chemistry and biochemistry degrees have been offered in the Departshyment for many years

Chairman Ed Janzen observes One shythird of our faculty members are bioshychemists one- third of the Department s undergraduate students arc registered in biochemistry courses and one-third of our off-campus grant money last year went into biochem istry research

T he close association between ehemisshy

try and biochemistry on this campus influshyences the nature of biochemistry here Proshyfessor Janzen say~ the biochemists in this Department tend to be more phys ically oriented They use more physical techshyniques such as light scattering mass specshytrometry and magnetic resonance because the instnlmentation is close at hand and because their colleagues in the College of Physical Science have a wealth of experishyence in these techniques Their research tends to be less physiologically oriented than it might be with biochemists who are associated with med ical school s

Given Guelphs concentration of ex-

Chem and Biochem Awards The Department of Chemistry and Bioshychemis try along with the Biochemistry Chemistry C lub held its first annual awards dinner at the Col John McCrae Royal Canadian Legion Hall in Guelph

Following a buffet dinner awards and scholarships were presented to the followshyin g first-semester in-course and recently graduated students

College of Physical Science Award semester 6 a nd 7 Kevin Wang

Entrance Scholarships niversi ty Award - Steven Wong The Mc Arthur Humphries Award- Kevin Wood The Alumni Asshysociation Award- Catherine French The E B MacNaughton Award- James Noel Honours Applied Chemistry Scholarshys hip Michelle Moore Society of Chemical Ind ustry Prize C hemistry Margaret Hyland Biochemisshytry Susan Bishop Graham Applied Chemistry Nancy Ha ll

Chemical I nstitute of Canada Silver Medal and Prize Kevin Wang Demonstrato r Award Barbara Ruhl and Don Stephenson

ChemistryBiochemist ry Undergraduate Awards-Prize for top grades in Chemistry 19- 100 Scott Jcrmey Chrisshytopher OCa liaghan and Dirk Vanderwall

Prize for Excellence in C hemis try 19shy100 Twel ve top students in WS3 S S_ F 83 semester Kent Ackerman Yee Lai Chan Donna Faekoury Scott Jenney Matthew Kingswood Joe Kozar Jennifer Lazar Chun Wah Lin Ellen Morito De shyborah Nunn Christopher O Caliaghan and Dirk Vanderwalt

Undergraduate Awa rd in Ana lytical Chemistry Susan Post Weston Research C entre Book Prize Dwayne Barber 0

Recipients of the Prize for Excellence in Fundamental Chemistry included Back row Matthew Kingswood Kent Ackerman Scali Jenney and Christopher O Callaghan Front row Joe Kozar Yee Lai Chan andJennifer Lazar and Professor Elmer Alyea

pertise in the biologia l sciences it is natural that the bioehemi IS have forged links with many differe nt departments on campus he says Collaborati ve research is in progress with faculty members in the O VC and in the Departments of Nutrition Bot ny and Genetics Crop Science and Microbiology Bioc hemists and chem ists will also be prominent in the Canadian Centre for

ToxiCOlogy We have an unusually broad range

of chemical expertise for a department of this size says the chairman In the Guelph- Waterloo Centre for Graduate Work in Chemistry (and Biochemi stry ) (GWC)2 the biochemists occupy an imporshytant part of the research spectrum In fact about one third of the I 17 (GWC )2 graduate students study biochemistry 0

Grad News George C racknell BA 71 of Guelph is a financial analyst with O ntario Hydro

Susan Ingrams BA 72 MSc 73 is currently a se nior methodologist with Statistic s Canada in Ottaw a

E laine Hoskins B A 72 MSc 73 is a statistici an with Revenue Canada in Otshytawa

Larry Mark BSc 73 is practising medicine in Newmarket

Andy Orr BSc 75 o fVancouvcr B C has rene wed his studies at Simon Fraser Universi ty in Burnaby

J ennifer (T homson) jackman BSc 76

MSc 78 PhD 83 and hu sband Torn BSc 72 MSc 74 Ph D SO arc both employed at the Chalk River Research Labshyoratories in Deep River

Allan johnston MSc 79 PhD 82 is continuing his work in chemistry as a post doctoral fellow at the Universi ty or Victoria BC

-Norma (Wilson) Hykaway BSc 79 of Vancouver is a research assistant at Simon Frase r Univers ity in Burnaby B C

Mark Leonard BSc 80 li ves in Toshyronto where he is account representative fo r the First National Bank of Chicago

Alana Kerr BSc SO lives in Richmond Hill and is a statistician with the Ministry of Nationa l Resources in Maple 0

19

The College of Arts Alumni Association

DELPHA Editor Debbie (Nash) Chambers 77

From the Dean

Dean David Murray

On several previous occasions I have had the privilege of a column in DELPHA to bring you our alumni up to date on wh at has been happening in the College of Ans I am grateful to editor Debbie (Nash) Chamshybers 77 for another opportunity Thi s has been a bitter-sweet year for the College of Art s We mourned the loss of two very close friend s of the College President Donald Forster and Secretary of Senate Walter Vaughan Each will be missed grea tshyly within the College as in the rest of the University

We have also had a number of occashysions to celebrate One was the very sucshycessful conference on Strategies for Peace and Security in the Nuclear Age orshyganized by Professors Gunnar Boehnert History and Henry Wiseman Political Studies The conference highlight was the kick-off of Primc Minister Trudeaus peace initiative

Other noteworthy conferences during the year included a major gathering of Commonwealth writers and academics hosted by professor Dougl as Killam chairshyman o f the Department of English Lanshyguage and Literature and his colleagues in the Department and a conference on key issues of contemporary philosophy which brought some 200 philosophers from Canada Britain and the United States to Guelph During May and June the Univershysity hosted the Learned Societies a major undertaking which has involved extensive preparat ions for over a year

Both faculty and students in the Colshylege have won significant honours recently Professor Marguerite Andersen fonner chainnan of the Department of Languages

and Literatures won the prestigious Prix du journal de Montreal for her novel entishytled De M emoi re de Femme

The College of Arts medallist Nicole Didicher 83 who graduated with disti ncshytion in English was awarded the Winegard Medal in June 1983 the Universitys highshyest academic award This is only the second time a College of Arts graduate has won the Winegard Medal so we are very proud of Nicole s accomplish ment Michelle Urshyquhart who is majoring in Fine Art and Classics won a national class ics translation competition

Through the efforts of Professor Leonard Conolly the McLaughlin Library has acquired on permanent loan a number of archivcs fro m Ontario theat res Thc colshylection includes the Shaw f estiva l archives and the archivcs of the Tarragon and Young Pcople s Theatre fro m Toronto and archives from two theatres that havc closcd the Opcn Circle and th~ Phocnix

The College of Arts has also become more active in international development Professor Douglas Killam and Elizabeth Cockburn are managi ng a major ClDA projshyect in Cameroon assisting teachers there to develop new learning materials

Closer to home our liaison programs have been reaching out to secondary schools in the region We have consciously tried to ass ist teachers working with gifted children To that end Professor James Harshyrison and colleagues in the Department of English Language and Literature have mounted a creative writing contest for a number of years with the winning entries being publi shed in Focus

We have held a Creati ve Arts Day for gifted students in Wellington County givshying these students opportunities through work shops to learn from professors teachshying in Fine Art Drama and Music Professhysor Pare and his colleagues in Frenc h Studies in conjunction with the Canadian Parents for Frenc h sponsored a public speaking contes t for students in French imshymersion programs Entitled Exchanges it too proved to be very successful Faculshyty members spend a great deal of time in these and other liai son programs which help to reduce the barriers between secondary

and post secondary education In closing I want to pay a special trishy

bute to Debbie Chambers who has edited DELPHA for five years and will be retiring with this issue She has done a first-rate job in her editorial role and has displayed a deep loyalty to thc College ancl its alumni Thank you very much Debbic for ajob well clone 0

An Editors Farewell

J ust a short notc to wish Terry Ayer 84 well and to say thank you to the many many people who have made the DELPHA editors job such a rewarding task over the last five years Thank you for your mail and the article sugge stions over the past many iss ucs of the G uelph AlumllllS

It has been very interesting to follow the career paths of fellow alumni while preshyparing the grad news section for each issue It has also been grati fying to witness the coming of age of the College of Arts Alumni Association

When I succeeded Judy (Main) Carshyson 75 and Pete r Vaughan 78 as editor in 1978 the Association was in its infanC) Now five years later the Board of Direcshytors is continually ex panding and its memshybers have undertaken three annual projects and a variety of new sc holarship programs

I think that the early stalwarts such as Evelyn Williams 73 Edi th LeLacheur 72 Janice (Robertson) Partlow 70 Anne (Hewat) Vaughan 78 and Judy and Peter would share my opinion that we have been very forrunate to attract such dedicated Board members over the past few years

The presidencies of Julie (Russell) -Thur 78 and Margo Shoemaker 79 have been tenns full of innovation careful planning and hard work However the number of active Arts alumni remains relashytively small Why not back a winner and make a personal time commitment to our Association Hope to see you at a future alumni event

Debbie (Nash) Chambers 77

20

The College of Arts Alumni Association

DELPHA Editor Debbie (Nash) Chambers 77

From the Dean

Dean David Murray

On several previous occasions I have had the privilege of a column in DELPHA to bring you our alumni up to date on wh at has been happening in the College of Ans I am grateful to editor Debbie (Nash) Chamshybers 77 for another opportunity Thi s has been a bitter-sweet year for the College of Art s We mourned the loss of two very close friend s of the College President Donald Forster and Secretary of Senate Walter Vaughan Each will be missed grea tshyly within the College as in the rest of the University

We have also had a number of occashysions to celebrate One was the very sucshycessful conference on Strategies for Peace and Security in the Nuclear Age orshyganized by Professors Gunnar Boehnert History and Henry Wiseman Political Studies The conference highlight was the kick-off of Primc Minister Trudeaus peace initiative

Other noteworthy conferences during the year included a major gathering of Commonwealth writers and academics hosted by professor Dougl as Killam chairshyman o f the Department of English Lanshyguage and Literature and his colleagues in the Department and a conference on key issues of contemporary philosophy which brought some 200 philosophers from Canada Britain and the United States to Guelph During May and June the Univershysity hosted the Learned Societies a major undertaking which has involved extensive preparat ions for over a year

Both faculty and students in the Colshylege have won significant honours recently Professor Marguerite Andersen fonner chainnan of the Department of Languages

and Literatures won the prestigious Prix du journal de Montreal for her novel entishytled De M emoi re de Femme

The College of Arts medallist Nicole Didicher 83 who graduated with disti ncshytion in English was awarded the Winegard Medal in June 1983 the Universitys highshyest academic award This is only the second time a College of Arts graduate has won the Winegard Medal so we are very proud of Nicole s accomplish ment Michelle Urshyquhart who is majoring in Fine Art and Classics won a national class ics translation competition

Through the efforts of Professor Leonard Conolly the McLaughlin Library has acquired on permanent loan a number of archivcs fro m Ontario theat res Thc colshylection includes the Shaw f estiva l archives and the archivcs of the Tarragon and Young Pcople s Theatre fro m Toronto and archives from two theatres that havc closcd the Opcn Circle and th~ Phocnix

The College of Arts has also become more active in international development Professor Douglas Killam and Elizabeth Cockburn are managi ng a major ClDA projshyect in Cameroon assisting teachers there to develop new learning materials

Closer to home our liaison programs have been reaching out to secondary schools in the region We have consciously tried to ass ist teachers working with gifted children To that end Professor James Harshyrison and colleagues in the Department of English Language and Literature have mounted a creative writing contest for a number of years with the winning entries being publi shed in Focus

We have held a Creati ve Arts Day for gifted students in Wellington County givshying these students opportunities through work shops to learn from professors teachshying in Fine Art Drama and Music Professhysor Pare and his colleagues in Frenc h Studies in conjunction with the Canadian Parents for Frenc h sponsored a public speaking contes t for students in French imshymersion programs Entitled Exchanges it too proved to be very successful Faculshyty members spend a great deal of time in these and other liai son programs which help to reduce the barriers between secondary

and post secondary education In closing I want to pay a special trishy

bute to Debbie Chambers who has edited DELPHA for five years and will be retiring with this issue She has done a first-rate job in her editorial role and has displayed a deep loyalty to thc College ancl its alumni Thank you very much Debbic for ajob well clone 0

An Editors Farewell

J ust a short notc to wish Terry Ayer 84 well and to say thank you to the many many people who have made the DELPHA editors job such a rewarding task over the last five years Thank you for your mail and the article sugge stions over the past many iss ucs of the G uelph AlumllllS

It has been very interesting to follow the career paths of fellow alumni while preshyparing the grad news section for each issue It has also been grati fying to witness the coming of age of the College of Arts Alumni Association

When I succeeded Judy (Main) Carshyson 75 and Pete r Vaughan 78 as editor in 1978 the Association was in its infanC) Now five years later the Board of Direcshytors is continually ex panding and its memshybers have undertaken three annual projects and a variety of new sc holarship programs

I think that the early stalwarts such as Evelyn Williams 73 Edi th LeLacheur 72 Janice (Robertson) Partlow 70 Anne (Hewat) Vaughan 78 and Judy and Peter would share my opinion that we have been very forrunate to attract such dedicated Board members over the past few years

The presidencies of Julie (Russell) -Thur 78 and Margo Shoemaker 79 have been tenns full of innovation careful planning and hard work However the number of active Arts alumni remains relashytively small Why not back a winner and make a personal time commitment to our Association Hope to see you at a future alumni event

Debbie (Nash) Chambers 77

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From Your Association President The past year has been a busy one for the directors of the Coilege of Arts Alumni Assoc iation

In November our second annual Cashyreers Night was held for in-cou rse students We werc assured by the students who atshytended the evening that the professionalism and the diverse experiences of our panel members ensured the success of our proshygram Your participation in a future Careers Night would be greatly appreciated Any Arts grads who would like to be involved ean contact the Arts Careers Night Commitshytee co the Department of Alumni Affairs and Development Johnston Hall Univershysity of Guelph or phone (519) 824-4120 Extension 2122 Your interest is most welcome

We launched a new venture in March with our first Transitions reception for graduating Arts students See accompanyshying anicle fordetails

The directors were also busy arranging the third annual art show-DIMENSIONS 84 Our DIMENSIONS project has been successful in encouraging alumni to submit work to the show and in raising the awareshyness of alumni from other colleges to the excellence of our program in Fine Art

Four new scholarships have been esshytablished by our Association through the generosity of the Alma Mater Fund Two of the awards are to be presented to Fine Art students one for Art History and one for Studio The first winner of the Studio prize is Renata Fitzgerald

The two remaining new awards will bc presented to outstanding drama students The Departments of Fine Art and Drama have extended their appreciation to us for cnabling them to recognize the academic achievements of their students

I would like to extend a personal invishytation to College of Arts alumni to become involved in their Association We need your help Volunteers are needed to serve on the Board and we would be pleased to reshyceive any future suggestions for the DELshyPHA section of the Guelph Alumnus We are always an xious to have your ideas for events that alumni would be interested in attending With your help we can keep the lines of communication open and better serve both you and our Alma Mater

Due to the pre ssure of her doctoral studies Debbie (Nash) Chambers 77 has tendered her resignation as editor of DELshyPHA We accept her resignation with reshygret and we extend our appreciation to her and congratulate her on a job well done Debbie we wish you all the best in your Ph D studies

Terry Ayer 84 has agreed to replace Debbie as DELPHA editor and the directors wish to express their sincere thanks to Terry for her interes t in undertaking this demandshying position We know that she will do a superb job and will maintain the exeepshytional4ual ity of our publication

In closing I would like to acknowlshyedge the assistance that has been offered to our Board of Directors over the past year Dean David Murray as always has been a valued advisor I would also like to thank the chairmen of the departments in the Colshylege of Arts for their support of our proshygrams and I would like to extend a special note of appreciation to Professor George Todd chairman Department of Fine Art for his hclp in pl an ning DIM EN SIO NS 84

My final words of appreciation are in recogn ition of the time and effort of the members of the Board of Directors They all worked very hard to make this a successshyful year

The term of 1983-84 has been a very gratifying one for all the members of the Board We look forward to 1984-85 and hope that you our fe llow Arts alumni will contact us with great new ideas

Yours truly MargoShoemaker 79

Transitions 84 During the past Winter Semester the Colshylege of Arts Alumni Association sponsored a new development project A reception dubbed Transition 84 was convened to recognize the pending graduations of fi nal semester Arts undergraduates

The get-together was designed as a forum for future alumni to meet other gradshyuating students and to become acquainted with their own College of Arts Alumni Asshysociation Representatives from the office of the dean of the College of Arts and faculty representatives from departments within the College helped to welcome and entertain the guests

The Directors of the College of Arts Alumni Association are very grateful for the support and assistance offered by Dean David R Murray department chairman and individual faculty members We would also like to offer our thanks to Janice (Robertson) Partlow 70 and Linda Mac Bell 72 for their efforts as alumni conshyvenors A special thank you is also extended to Rosemary Clark Mac 59 assistant dishyrector alumni programs Department of Alumni Affairs and Development 0

Grad New s J oan Fowler 68 is a case management offiecr employed by Correctional Services Canada at the Collins Bay Institution

Vikki Macdonald 70 has been teaching fo r the Depanment of National Defense Schools in Belleville

Jenry Kozak 71 is the principal of a school in the County of Vennilion River Alta

Linda (Durra nd) Huff 72 is an employshyment counsellor for the fed eral government and resides in Brantford

Brian Thackray 72 is vice-president of The Me rlin Group in Oakville

Bar bara (WiJliams) Wilson M A 73 lives in Toronto where she is working as a free-lance wri ter

Nadia Smy lski 73 lives in Mississauga

and is pursuing a career as a high school teacher

Mary Lang 74 is nursing at St Michael s Hospital in Toronto

James Stone 75 is vice-principal Harry J Clarke Public School Belleville

Colin Puttock 76 is a captain (navigator) in the Canadian Armed Forces and is curshyrently stationed in Comox BC with his wi fcJulie (Gerrcd) 79

Catherine Guthrie-McNa ughton 77 is working in Toronto as an associate librarian at the Royal Ontario Museum

Jerry Steinber g 77 lives in Vancouver BC where he is free-lancing as a language education consultant

Anne (Hewat) Vaughan 78 is enrolled in graduate studies at the School of Social Work University of Manitoba

Dr Peter Vaughan MA 78 is a flight surgeon stationed in Winnipeg Man and is with the Canadian Armed Forces at base shyhospital CFB Winnipeg

Heidy Steinback 79 has written to say that she has moved to Georgetown and is enjoying her new full-time job looking after her new son [an

Wendy Izatt 79 resides in Uxbridge and is a free-lance artist 0

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The Ontario Veterinary College Alumni Association

ALUMNI Editor Dr Cliff Barker 41

BULLETIN $200000 for OVC Study Assurances of support for the lt(udy to asshysess the physical needs of the OVC became reality last April when cheques for SiIOOOOO eac h were delivered from the fedshyeral and provincial governments

Agriculture Minister Eugene Whelan presented the federal conuibution to Chanshycello r William A Stewart LLD 76 and Vice- j)resident Academic Dr Howard Clark Thc minister exprcssed hi s pleasure at being able to mak e the presentation and noted thc distinct contributions that OVC graduates have made to food production in Canada and around the world

Bill Stewart said the study would be the first tep tovmiddotards making the OV again what it has always bcen in thc hearls and mind s of the public and of agric ulture He notcd that thc co ntributions towards ceding the world such as those made by OVC graduates arc often taken for granted

Dr J Clare Ren nic O AC 47 assi sshytant deputy minister Ag riculture and Food ptcscntcd the provincial share

Both k eb of government have COI11shy

mitted ~ 250 ()()O towards th e ove stud y and Dr C lark noted that these first contribu -

Research on th e Royal Canadian Army Veteri nary Corps has bcen in progress for several years by your OVC Alumni Bulerin editor Many items ha ve been collected for the OVC museum e g badges photos instruments with the latest being a Webley pistol used by Captain L A Donovan 16 donated to the mushyseum by his so n Dr Larry A Donoshyvan S2 Sussex N B

If you know of any First World War item s co ncerning the RCA YC (letters diaries names of surviving officers equipment er al) I would apprec iate word of these Please send your letter to CA V Barker O YC Muscum Workshop Ontario Veterishynary College Univer ity of Guelph Guelph Ontariu N IG 2W I

tions will pcrmit the work to begin quickly While the fcderal government has not

yct made a formal commitme nt towards funding the cap ital cost of the renovations Eugene Whelan hinted that we all know

Mailbag Dear Cliff

The 111(-lialt~e slJrea( or nells ill rhe Win IeI

84 edirion of the Guelph Alumnus 01

grulelillir receied (lnd el1jmmiddoted I sincl reir

IWjJe Ilwr olrhough retiring rou II ill callmiddot

rlllI l Oil (11 ediul I SlilipOle it a sigl1

of ugl to remenber so much of the pusr

(IS I do bur the picrure of the class of 4 I

I rememher lik e (s tel(lmmiddot Onl rhe latest piclllres of rou ol1d Don Barnum 4 I on

those pages iJring one Jack ru reality

Anorher picrure of rhose who

worked with rhe lare Joe Johnson 19

brought back pleasanr memories ro see

again cassmores who I havent seen since

graduarion Dolr Docksreader 41 Clem

Reeds 42 Gtorge Boyce 42 and Russ

Mc Donald 45 The enclosed snapshor was raken on

rhe sreps of rhe AVM A headquarzers in

Schaunburg Ill by Don Price ediror of

the Journal Ir involves a toral of 136 years

of acrive vererinary p racr ice None of us

hos o r Hill he rerired Th ors an erample

or IUiH gr((lr it fws bee[ iJl us ro be (I

Imoll parr orrhis projt-Ision

Lei to righl Federu MinlSler ojAMriculrure Eugene Whrun Vice-Presishy

dUll Acude1lic Dr HUII ard Cork onc Dr Jim Schroder 42 MP

thlt things can change Dr Rennie undershylined the provincial governments commitshyment saying that it has every intention of making available the capita l expenditures necessary to bring the OVC up to the ful l accred itation stage 0

In the fronr ro w is M ildred (Taylor)

Misener Mac 36 from Burlington my

wife G racefrom Hamilton and June BOlle

of Chicago In rhe back row those characshy

ters you know very well-Ken Bone 38 Granr Misener 38 and DC Pete

Masr er 40 Although deponed in 39 ar Derroir

like so many orhers over rhe years rhe

ironic rhing about ir now is rhar Im a citizen

of the country rhar deporred me and have

been rhe mayor of rhe Ciry ofCharles Town

Wesr Virginiajor 16 years

Warmesr regards ro you and yours and

ALL thoseorhers ofour vinrage

Sinc(I yaurs

DonId(afleOn Per( Master 40 Muwr Charles Towli

West Virginia 25414 USA

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The Ontario Veterinary College Alumni Association

ALUMNI Editor Dr Cliff Barker 41

BULLETIN $200000 for OVC Study Assurances of support for the lt(udy to asshysess the physical needs of the OVC became reality last April when cheques for SiIOOOOO eac h were delivered from the fedshyeral and provincial governments

Agriculture Minister Eugene Whelan presented the federal conuibution to Chanshycello r William A Stewart LLD 76 and Vice- j)resident Academic Dr Howard Clark Thc minister exprcssed hi s pleasure at being able to mak e the presentation and noted thc distinct contributions that OVC graduates have made to food production in Canada and around the world

Bill Stewart said the study would be the first tep tovmiddotards making the OV again what it has always bcen in thc hearls and mind s of the public and of agric ulture He notcd that thc co ntributions towards ceding the world such as those made by OVC graduates arc often taken for granted

Dr J Clare Ren nic O AC 47 assi sshytant deputy minister Ag riculture and Food ptcscntcd the provincial share

Both k eb of government have COI11shy

mitted ~ 250 ()()O towards th e ove stud y and Dr C lark noted that these first contribu -

Research on th e Royal Canadian Army Veteri nary Corps has bcen in progress for several years by your OVC Alumni Bulerin editor Many items ha ve been collected for the OVC museum e g badges photos instruments with the latest being a Webley pistol used by Captain L A Donovan 16 donated to the mushyseum by his so n Dr Larry A Donoshyvan S2 Sussex N B

If you know of any First World War item s co ncerning the RCA YC (letters diaries names of surviving officers equipment er al) I would apprec iate word of these Please send your letter to CA V Barker O YC Muscum Workshop Ontario Veterishynary College Univer ity of Guelph Guelph Ontariu N IG 2W I

tions will pcrmit the work to begin quickly While the fcderal government has not

yct made a formal commitme nt towards funding the cap ital cost of the renovations Eugene Whelan hinted that we all know

Mailbag Dear Cliff

The 111(-lialt~e slJrea( or nells ill rhe Win IeI

84 edirion of the Guelph Alumnus 01

grulelillir receied (lnd el1jmmiddoted I sincl reir

IWjJe Ilwr olrhough retiring rou II ill callmiddot

rlllI l Oil (11 ediul I SlilipOle it a sigl1

of ugl to remenber so much of the pusr

(IS I do bur the picrure of the class of 4 I

I rememher lik e (s tel(lmmiddot Onl rhe latest piclllres of rou ol1d Don Barnum 4 I on

those pages iJring one Jack ru reality

Anorher picrure of rhose who

worked with rhe lare Joe Johnson 19

brought back pleasanr memories ro see

again cassmores who I havent seen since

graduarion Dolr Docksreader 41 Clem

Reeds 42 Gtorge Boyce 42 and Russ

Mc Donald 45 The enclosed snapshor was raken on

rhe sreps of rhe AVM A headquarzers in

Schaunburg Ill by Don Price ediror of

the Journal Ir involves a toral of 136 years

of acrive vererinary p racr ice None of us

hos o r Hill he rerired Th ors an erample

or IUiH gr((lr it fws bee[ iJl us ro be (I

Imoll parr orrhis projt-Ision

Lei to righl Federu MinlSler ojAMriculrure Eugene Whrun Vice-Presishy

dUll Acude1lic Dr HUII ard Cork onc Dr Jim Schroder 42 MP

thlt things can change Dr Rennie undershylined the provincial governments commitshyment saying that it has every intention of making available the capita l expenditures necessary to bring the OVC up to the ful l accred itation stage 0

In the fronr ro w is M ildred (Taylor)

Misener Mac 36 from Burlington my

wife G racefrom Hamilton and June BOlle

of Chicago In rhe back row those characshy

ters you know very well-Ken Bone 38 Granr Misener 38 and DC Pete

Masr er 40 Although deponed in 39 ar Derroir

like so many orhers over rhe years rhe

ironic rhing about ir now is rhar Im a citizen

of the country rhar deporred me and have

been rhe mayor of rhe Ciry ofCharles Town

Wesr Virginiajor 16 years

Warmesr regards ro you and yours and

ALL thoseorhers ofour vinrage

Sinc(I yaurs

DonId(afleOn Per( Master 40 Muwr Charles Towli

West Virginia 25414 USA

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Meet the Newest Authors T wo more O VC alumni have joined a growing number of graduates who have aushythored popular non-scientific books Dr Charlie Goodwin 28 of Picton now over 80 years of age and Alan R Capon are co-authors of 50 Years A Country Veerinashy

rian published by Mika Publishing Co 200 Stanley Street Belleville

Charlie prac tised for over 50 years in the town of Pi ton treating large and small animals From this life as a small -town practitioner he has re lated in an enjoyable manner many anecdotes well worth readshying T itles of some of the ch apters 27 in all are The Maidens Blush The Bear in the Haymow The Constipated Gelding Where is the Calf- lots of inte resting mashyteri al

Dr Bruc Fogle 69 of London Engshyland is the author of P els and their People

publi shed by Viking Penguin Inc 40 West 23 Street New York Y 10010 Bruce orig inally from Toronto has been a smallshyani mal practitioner in London Engl and for almost 15 years He is the editor of the textbook inerreiaionships Beween Peoshy

ple and Pels and has become well known as a guest speaker at scientific meetings in several countries

Pels and their People is dcscribed as a lively and comprehensive look at one of mans most complicated and gratifying relationships Some well known animal lovers have said that the humour and com-

T he OVC Teaching Hospital has isshysued two brochures Referral Policy

and Admissions Procedure Copies may be obtained by writing to the Veterinary Teaching Hospital Onshytario Veterinary College University ofGuelphOnt NIG 2Wl

Burnout B urnout can occur in di fferent degrees and at different times in your life It occurs when excessive demands on you cause a general erosion of spirit One of the first signs is when it gets harder and harder to get up and go to work

Various signs of burnout include laek of interest in your job decreased interest in personal appearance insecurity and paranoia quick temper etc These signs are expressed in various ways ineluding alcoholism rigidity to changc and frequent

passion of Bruce Fogle for both pets and their people makcs absorbing reading We suggest you read this book 0

Dr Bruce Fogle 69

Dr Charlie G oodwin 28

job changes Things that can bring out burnout are

high patient load family stress lack ofsoshycial contacts lack of professional support and laek of training opportunities Avoiding burnout involves the ability to recognize the signs Be wise enough to seek support from those around you

Recognize that you cannot be all things to all people Develop hobbies rotate Job functions do different tasks and limit workshying hours Take time off Help others

This information appeared in Vol 38 No4 October 1983 issue of the AWV Bullelin (Association for Women Veterinashyrians) 0

Some Change

This letter came to light during a desk clean-out following your editor s recent reshytircment from the OVe How times have changed

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Sir Ma l II 191 8

I have Ihe honour 0 ackno wledg e he

receipl of your lerrer of Ihe 91h iillIOnl enshy

closing Ihe SlIn uf $3 00 and asking Ihal

a supply o(blackleg vaccine he senl 11

fn Ihis cOllneclion I would poinl oul

Ihal blackleg vaccin e is pur up in luh -middot

in 10 doses Ihe cos I of which is 50 c Is

per lube and Ih e injeClor is so ld al 7 CIS I am he nfllre sending YOli 40 doses

uf va ccine and an injeeor Ihe COSI oj lich

is $2 75 (lnd I am placing Ih e exIra 25

CIS ro vour credil for furrher slIl)f)lies of

vaccine I hale Ihe honour 10 be Sir

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Velerinary Direclor General

In Memoriam Dr R Vern L Walker 26 died on April 10 1984 Last address 956 Killeen Avshyenue Ottawa

Dr WL Bendix 28 Date of death not reported Last addrcss 6924 Lakeside Avshyenue 205 Richmond Va USA

Dr William J Stoneman 31 died on October 22 I n1 Last known addrcss RO Devon Strcct Brantford

Dr Theodor e A Kragness 39 died on April 7 1984 Last address 6031 Wentshyworth Avenue Chicago Ill US A

Dr T Sheppard 43 died on March 24 1984 Last address 45 Cloverdale Cresshycent Kitchcner

Dr Joe Elmes 79 died on April 8 1984 Last address Fort Erie Animal Hospital 315 Walden Boulevard Fort Erie 0

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The College of Social Science Alumni Association

PEGAS-US CSS Awards T he College of Social Science held a wine and cheese reception to honour its 1984 scholarship winners and those students namcd to the Deans Honour List

Alma Mate r BA In-course Scholarshyship recipients were Rene Juraschka of Freelton and Jay Whetstone of Guelph Economics Nicola Linnell of Toronto Geography Gina Gianetto of Midland Political Studies Rosemarie Schmidt of Delhi and David Langlotz of Guelph Psyshychology and Patricia Tigchclaar Guclph Sociology and Anthropology

College of Social Sc ience Alumni Asshysoc iation In-course Sc holarships were awarded to Laurie Ross of Fergus Economics John McColl of Kitchener Geography Joan Taffe of Guelph Political Studies Anita Maiste of Brantford Psyshychology and Melissa Reynolds of Nepean Sociology and Anthropology

Christopher Heap of Guelph Psycholshyogy was the recipient of the J W Skinner Honours Scholarshi p in Social Science 0

Political Studies prufessur Bill Christian presented Cino C ianello ith an Ama Mater Bk In-course Scwarship

Economics From High School to University

H igh schools are in a transition stage when it comes to economics according to Professhysor Doug Auld chairman Department of Economics

High school teachers can be quite flexible in thei r approach which results in some Grade 13 stude nts working successshyfully on material that is a close approximashytion to what we gi ve them as freshmen he says

On the other hand this is by no means universa l and it could be ano ther two years or more before we know whether the material will be standardized provinceshywide as an Ontario Academic Credit When that happens if the natu re of the curriculum

justifies it it may be possible to pass high school economics studen ts straight into secshyond year as is now done at one O ntario university

Dr Auld and three other Department of Economics facult y membcrs me t recently with II area high school teachers to exshychange information about teaching econshyomics and manag ment economics at thc Grade 13 and firs t-year university leve ls

T he meeti ng provided an open forum for discussion on thi s and other topics and helped both high school teachers and Guelph faculty arrive at a better understandshying of one anothers problems

We have not done this before comshyments Professor Auld but we certainly plan to do it again The high school particishypants were unanimou s in their enthusiasm for the exchange of ideas and we gained a great deal from the dia logue 0

The portraits of two former deans were hung during a special gathering held in (he 9th floor Arts building office of the dean of the Cullege uf Social Science Murdo MacshyKinnon left was the only Dean of Wellington College and the first dean of the Colege ofArts Jack Skinner third from left was the first Dean of the College of Social Scien e Also attending the ceremony wue CSS dean John Vanderkamp and right John Currie 70 president of the College of Social Science Alumni Association Wellington College was established as the College of Arts and Science when the University was founded in 1964 It existed until the present seven-college structure evolved in 1970

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They believe his major fail accompli was or fund raisingliaison and as an admisshy

Jirccting a $25 million capital fund raising sions counsellor

campaign for the Toronto French School In 1982 John joined thc Ontario C rafts John received his secondary education Council as its exceutivc director Thc Counshy

in Toronto graduating from Victoria Park cil which is a non-profit organization rcshy

Sccondary in 1965 Fro m 1965 to 1967 ce ivin g 20 per ecnt government fundin g John was enrolled in the Journali sm course IS a multi-faceted operations gallcry which at Bowling Green State University O hio pre se nts 12 publications annually U SA and from there it was but a short At the Ontario Crafts Council he deshy

John D journey to Gue lph veloped prog rams that incrcased membershyMahley 70 John returned to Bowling G reen State ship by one third incrcased fund raising

to obtain a Masters degree He majored rcsults twentyfold and in stitutcd corporatc in outreach in higher education and from sponsors hip for the first timc in the CounshyOur TraveUing thcre went on to the Universi ty of Northern cils ex tens ive exhibitions program Co lorado U S A receiving an E DS Hi s Hc helped to found the Southcastern Graduate major was HumanCommunity Relation s Michi gan Association of Alumni Directors O rganizational Behaviour We understand in 1977 served as vice-president of the O nshy

W hen we heard from John D Mabley Joh n also visited Cleveland Ohi o U S A tario Assoc iation o f Alumni Administrators 70 he had been newly appointed to the for a time where he was an intern with in 1978 was a mem ber o f the Board of positi on of director of developmcnt the Community Services Division of Director ofmiddot the National Socie ty of Fund Dalhousie University NS However that C ayuga Community College Cleveland Raising Lxecutives (Can ada) in 1981 and is not to say he will still be there when Back at the University of Guelph in 1982 and has chaired committces for the

this article is in print John has done much 1975 he held the position of development Canadian Ccntrc for Phil anthropy

travelling and made many moves in his officer with the Department of Alumni Afshy John has do nc much travelling to arshycarcer path since he graduated with a degree fairs and Deve lopment for just over a year rivc at h is current status in fact you could in Sociology and Political Science He assisted in setting up fund raising projshy call him a ro lling stone But unlike the

Dalhousie University feels John will ects beques ts and commemorative giving stone which gathers no moss John has

be a strong asset to them with his extensive Most of Johns working experience has gathcred cxpericnccs and used thcm to grcat

and impress ive background in fund raising been in alumni relations and development advantagc Congratulations John 0

family including the dog have travelledResponding tomiddota Call in pursuit of his new field of cndeavo ur Furthcr training took him wcst thcn back

The Reverend Donald M Prince 77 was to Ohlano and Emmanucl College where responding to a call when he enrolled at he achievcd a Mastcr o f Di vinity dc~ree Guelph to follow Christ in the ordai ned and cxperienced ful fi Ilment of his drealllsshy

ministry Don has a back ground of working ordination by the Toronto Conference of for what he wants and applying his talents Thc United Church ofCanada in order to achieve his goals In this he This was succeeded by more travelling was successful by Don and family on placements in Sasshy

Don did not complete his G rade 13 katchewan Man and it was during theirThe Reverend

prior to leaving schoo l Instead he entered thrce-year stay in that province that they Donald M

the wo rkforce and became invol ved with Icarned to appreciate its beauty wondersPrice 77 the big three auto manufacturers A total and the hospitality which enhanced their of 12 years were spent in that worki ng lives further

environment and during this time Don very positi ve but none the less somewhat Don shares with us the fulfillment also successful I y completed his Grade 13 at frightening Do n sums it up simplistica lly of a boyhood dream when he expericnced night school and spent three years in the by saying Univers ity was an adjustment the ca ttlc drives and round-ups cowboyshy

Royal Canadian Army Signal C orps First came the reality of once again being style It was in ~askatchcwcn where I was Havi ng completed G rade 13 Don then a student I remember standing on the steps introdu ced to ~ hristian Cowboys an asshy

applied for entry to G uelph specifically beshy by the McLaughlin Library looking towards soc iati on of Athletes in Action

cause of the value of the three-semester the University Centre and thinking LORD Don and Judy the girls and the dog system His aim was to quickly attain an I must be crazy to be here -an oblique are now residing in Fleshenon-split rail undergraduate degree before entering Emshy cry for help and reassurance If it was country-serving 5t Johns United Church

manuel College Toronto to pursue a deshy Don ccrtainly had the answer in the support and Eugenia United Church They are hopeshy shygree in theology Once more Dons goals of the strength given to him by Judy his ful of a more permanent stay in Flesheno n were established- to take two years to fami ly friends and professors and hope to see their children study at complete his Bachelor s degree then on to Don believes the most significant inshy Guelph Don was pleased to share with us funher studies flu ence of the University upo n his life was his experiences and concludes with For

By thi s time Do n was married to Judy being forced to think systematically write students and academics at Guelph I have a University of Toronto grad and was the appropriately and to express my faith in these words o f Jesus With man it is imposshyfather of two young daughters so it must Jesus through academic channe ls sible but not with God for all things are have been a gigantic step to make the decishy Hc concluded hi s studies at Emmanuel poss ible with God Mark 1027 I share sion he did Obvio usly the ca ll he had was College in 1978 and since then he and his with you the joy of our li ves 0

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Annual Meeting 84

The 1984 CBSAA Annual Meeting openshyed with Dr Gcorge Dixon PhD 80 prcsidcnt who welcomed everyone Five undergraduate scholarships were awarded

as follows Madeline Austen Zoology Liz Hazlett Botany and Tracey Robinson Human Biology were recIpIents of CBSAA-AMF scholarships Mark Chanshydler Wildlife and James Kurucz Unshyspecialized were recipients of CBSAA scholarships

Dr Bruce Sells dean CBS was the guest speaker He opened his address by stating that we the alumni are in effect ambassadors of our University and of the College of Biological Science As ambasshysadors we contribute by being representashytives of our Colleges achievements in the work force by recruiting new members by making potential students aware of our academic programs and by developing means of providing financial aid

Dr Sells advised us that the College in addition to maintaining its traditional strengths will change its direction to enshycompass many of the new developments that have taken place in biology during the past few years A new Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics will proshyvide a higher profile for molecular science

in our College in addition to addressing thc necd for cell biology The meeting was followed by a buffet lunch 0

Change of Editor Editor of the BIO-ALUMNI NEWS since the summer of 1981 Dr John T Powell who retired from the College last June has with regret tumed in his editorial pen following three years of dedicated service as our CBSAA scribe We offer our grateful thanks to John for ajob well done

We extend a very warm welcome to our new editor Marie (Boissonneault) Rush B Sc 80 Marine Biology a reshysearch technician and part-time lab instrucshytor with the Department of Zoology Marie was CBSAA president for 1982- 1983

In 1965 Dr Powell was invited to

the University to form a School of Physical Education He is the creator of the Human Kinetics concept and soon instituted an

From Our President

The College of Biological Science was first identified as a separate college of the University of Guelph in 1971 making it one of the newest of the newer colleges on campus Because of this the CBS

Alumni Association is one of the more reshycent alumni groups to be established at Guelph and is the smallest Since the first organizational meeting of the CBSAA on December 2 1975 our various boards of directors have worked to establish a place for the CBSAA within the University sysshytem

At the time of our March 1984 annual general meeting there were 583 members

of the CBSAA representing just over 14 per cent of our 4130 known alumni This proportion is up from about 95 per cent the previous year but there is lots of room for growth As the CBSAA becomes more established and its membership continues to grow we will be in a better position to serve both alumni and currently enrolled students in the CBS

Last year we launched the first issue of the Zygote Plus The newsletter was well received and will in the future be sent to all members of the CBSAA I n addition to bringing you up to date on current issues and news within the CBS Im sure the 7ygole PLus will bring back many memories of tramping through the halls of BGampZ

Other activities of the CBSAA include

academic department Human Kinetics within the School

Although he has always been active and intense in his involvement with physshyical activity he is proud of the creation of the academic atmosphere in what is now the School of Human Biology with its three science degrees and of the pioneering steps taken for the establishment of the discipline devoted to human movement

Indicators of his participation in the University Community are shown in the

recent honours he has received In 1980 The Community Service Award in 1981 the University Achievement Award for Outstanding Contributions to Athletics in 1983 the first Special Merit A ward from the Faculty Association in three categories excellent teaching through the years curshyricular development and involvement with student advising In 1984 a scholarship in

his name was instituted by the Human Kineshytics Alumni Association

the sponsoring of fi ve undergraduate scholshyarships and one graduate scholarship and this year for the first time we will be

proudly presenting the Keith Ronald Fellowship to an eligible graduate student

Two items of change are in the wind for the coming year Firstly your Board of Directors will be making a motion at the next annual general meeting to increase membership fees The current fees of $4

per year for annual membership and $40 for life membership have remained unshychanged since the CBSAA was established in 1975 As costs have risen we must inshycrease our income to meet demands

Secondly we are looking into estabshy

lishing across the country a network of alumni to act as regional contacts for the

CBSAA There are enclaves of CBS grads in almost every biological institute from Victoria BC to St Johns Nfld and from Windsor Ont to Yellowknife in the Yukon Territories These contacts would act as a physical link between the CBSAA and alumni living and working in various locations throughout Canada

If anyone is interested in acting as a

regional contact person for the CBSAA please let us know Chances are good that many of you are in your present position because of the education you received while at the CBS Now might be the right time to consider giving a little something in reshytum-become involved with your Alumni Association

r would very much welcome hearing options news and ideas from alumni whershyever you may be Christopher Wren BSc 77 PhD 83

President CBSAA

Mention must be made of Dr Powell s involvement in the Olympic movcment

which is a source of immense pride for him He has been an Olympic coach in 19521956 and 1960 is a life member of the British Olympic Association and is a member of the Canadian Olympic Associashytion where he is a national selector

In 1972 1976 and 1980 he was present in ancient Olympia at official torch-lighting ceremonies and has been a lecturer at the

Intemational Olympic Academy seven times He has been named as colshy -laborateur by the Academy and his big moment was in 1981 when the President of Greece presented him with the Academy s silver medal for devoted sershyvice to the Olympic movement

He has always enjoyed his involveshyment in Alumni Affairs and has been a repshyresentative for many years We regret the resignation of our enthusiastic news editor Dr John T Powell D

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The Ontario Agricultural College Alumni Association

ALUMNI NEWS Editor Dr Harvey W Caldwell 51

IlDproving the Strain Reprinted from the OMAF News

Asparagus prized for its delicate flavour and considered to be somewhat of a luxury food commands an excellent price in both fresh and processing markets

Consumer demand for this delicacy often exceeds locally-grown supplies In 1981 for example Ontario imported about 16 million kilos of asparagus worth almost $3 million in the same year the provinces growers produced about 13 million kilos of asparagus also worth about 53 million

To help Ontarios growers expand into this lucrative market high-yielding asshyparagus varieties suited to Ontarios growshying conditions are bei ng developed and tested at the University of Guelph s Deshypartmental Horticultural Sc ience

Funding for this research which has gone on at the Ministry for a decade has becn provided by the Ontario Mi nistry of Agriculture and Food Agricul ture Canada and private industry

In 1981 OMAF also int roduced the $ 1 S III ill ion O ntario Asparagus Produc tion Incent ive Program which granted new and prc se nt growers $ 1200 per hec tare over a three-year period for new plan tings

To date almost $ 1 million has been aW(l rded As a result of th is support proshygram IOtal land plan ted in asparagus has increased from 971 hec tares in 1980 to 1905 hectares in 1983 An addit ional 12 14 hecshytares shou ld be added this year

Many of the asparagus varidi s grown at present in O ntario such as Vik ing Vi shyking 2K and Viking 2G arc hardy but do not produce yiclds comparable to varshyiet ies grown in o the r countries says Unishyversity of G uelph hort iculturist Professor Herman T iessen S 1

But tri als of variet ies and lines from all over the world set up in 1979 arc beginshyning to show promise he says

or example the German lines LueulshyIus and Sehwetzinger Mcisterschus yielded 70 to 80 per cen t better than the Viking 2K at the Simcoe Research St(ltion in the first two harves ts the results from Camshy

bridge Research Stations older trials corshyroborate these results while the new trials there show a number of new Rutgers hyshybrids to have considerable promise

O ne in particular Ce ntennial deshyveloped at Rutgers University in the US A is high yielding and more tolerant of O ntario s en vironmcnt than varieties now grown here

Yi elds of Centennial can be up to 30 to 40 per cent more than Viking in some locations Centennial will now be used as Ontario s standard variety future new varishyeties will have to exceed Centennial in performance

By agreement with Rutgers Univershysity the Univers ity of Guelph is now developing commercial seed s tock for Centennial f he male and female plants provided were ti ssue-cultured at Guelph and in 1983 one hectare of these parent plants was set out at the Un iversityS Cruiekston Park Farm Commercial seed should be available in 1986

New crosses from superior plants obshytained from all over the world are a lso being bred and more than 100 lines arc now be ing assessed as pote nt ial varieties for O ntario

Dr T iesscn warns that seed costs for these new hybrids are much higher Old-va-

Dr Herman Tiesscn 5

riety seed costs about $66 to $ 110 per kilo but prices range from $440 to $880 for the new hybrids

But this must be put in context An asparagus bed lasts IS to 20 years and the newer var ie ties can produce 4S0 to 900 kilos per hectare per year more than the older ones Considering that the selling price of asparagus is about $2 S0 or more per ki lo the extra price of the seed could be recovered easily in the first fe w years of production

Asparagus has been grown commershycially in O ntario for more than 7S years with the original sites on well-drained sandy soi l close to cities and then in the Burshylington Niagara Collingwood Leamshyington and Delhi -S imcoe areas

Production has shifted rece ntly to Halshydimand-Norfolk Kent Essex and Elgin counties all of which border on Lake Erie

Dr Tiessen says many farmers have expressed interes t in grow ing the crop but there still r mains plenty of room for expansion 0

Appointment K enneth R Farrell SO fo rmer adminisshytrator of the Economics and Statistics Sershyvice of USDA Washington D C US A has been chosen to head a Nat iona l Center for Food and Agricul tural Po licy The Censhyter is supported by a $4 S million grant fro m the W K Kellogg Foundation

Accord ing to Farrc ll the Center will develop fu ture ag ricultural pol icy leadcrs by o ff ring fell owsh ips in ternsh ips and worhhops for young profession al s and will examine and evaluat e exi st ing and al shyte rnative agricu l ~ural policie t ass ss the ir k~y economic social and instit ut ional imshypl ications

The Center wi ll a lso im prove public understanding by periodic reports on issues in agricultu re natural resources food nutrition and international tracle and will support policy analysi s projects at other inshystitutions by making research grants 0

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Land Resource Science Honours Prof Jack Ketcheson

P rofessor John Wi lliam Jack Ketc heshyson 44 has fo rmally retired a fte r a long teaching and re~earch career at the U nivershysity of G uclph However the soi l scienti st has no intention o f g iving up hi s interest in the fk ld He will presid 0 e r the IntershynatIonal Soil T illage Research Organi7ashytions 10th conference to be he ld in Guelph

in 1985 fo r an expec ted 300 scientists lack is also conti nu ing his Hasti ngs Coun ty fa rmi ng operation in preparation for an eve ntual move to that area

Both Jac k and his wife Betty Arts 83 come o f pio neer stock and gre w up on Hastings County farm s in the same area as the fa rm they now own in Frankford Jack farmed with hi s father before entering the O ntar io Agricultural Co llege in 1940

and took up so il fertility field plot work at the Co llege after his graduation He late r worked as a soils fie ldman with agricultural representat ives throughout central O ntario frolll York to North umberland Count ies until in 1949 he took a leave to complete M Sc and PhD degrees at the University of Illinois

He returned to the O AC in 1950 to the then Soils Department now the Departshyment of Land Resource Science where he has been a facult y member since In more recent years he has spent periods of time on a soil management project for the Internashytional Atomic Energy Agcncy

Btlly and Ja ck Ketchesun 4 lef t were royallv fetcd (l a rctiremelfl party Sh(rin ~

their table is OAC Dean Freeman McEwen

Over the years the Ketchesons have played an active role in church and commushynity activities in G uelph with Jac k servin g on the Board of Education and the executive uf the Waverley Masonic Lodge and in organizations including the On tario In~t ishy

tutc of Agrolog ists the S igma Xi Resea rch

Society the Internat iona l Soil Till age Reshyearch Association and the Univers ity Facshy

ul ty Association The Kctcheson s plan to retain their

home in Guelph but will sp nd time devcloping a crops program on thei r farm

Jack was honouree at a recent party where he was presented with a captain s

All You Need to Know About By Penny Clelland

If hothouse tomatoes depress you if the arrival of the first seed cata logue fill s you with glee if your thumb has the slightest green ti nge you may have the makings of

a super-gardener Super-gardene rs transform seeds and

soil into baske ts of big fresh beautiful vegshyetables They save money (about 13 per cent of the ave rage food budge t goes for

fruit and vegetables) and they are always searching for a new strawberry variety a better cold fram e design or the ultimate zucshychini recipe

Fortunately super-gardeners are made not born according to the Univershysitys Independent Study division A home study course offered by Independent Study was written specifically with green thumbs in mind

Plant care in the Home Garden is

a complete garden guide with practical

ideas and tips T he tex t describes the activities of each

season wi th schedules flir plan ting fertil i7shying spraying and har esting More than 500 colour sl ides in fil mstrips accomshypanied by the authors commentary on casshysette tape explain planting pruning and identifying varieties disorders and pests

O ther courses inc lude Plant Usc in the Home Landscape Landscape Deshysign and Installation and Plant Propagashytion There are also mini-courses in Growing Roses Deciduous Trees and Propagation of Tropical Plants

Prices range from $20 to $140 for the courses For more information contact Inshydependent Study University School of Part-Time Studies and Continuing Educashy

tion South House Univers ity of Guelph Guelph Ontario N I G 2W I or phone (519) 824-4120 Ext 3375 3400 0

chair a lit hograph by Brian Lowry Illus trashytion Se rvices and a book of le ttCfs from former graduate students who now live as lar away as Africa and the Ph ilipp ines 0

Mailbag OAC Alumni Association University ofGuelph Guelph Oll1 NI G 2WI

DearSirorMadam

I would like to thank you Jor helping us keep in touch through your publications They were most helpflll during (he three and a half years I was posted in the Caribshybean where information and telephones were not easily obtailled The articles ill the G uelph Alumnus proved helpjill ill more than one ilfJ tance in obtainillg edllcatiollal information much Ileeded in a country like Ha iti

I would appreciate ifyou would report theJollowing in yourOAC grad flews

Jim Hamilton 77 has returned 10

Brockville Oll lpoundlrio after three and a half years in the Caribbean workin g with Maple Leaf Mills He is now working as territory manager Jor their Feed Division in eastern Ontario

Thank you once again for your fine

work Sincerely Jim Hamilton B Sc( Agr) 77 57 Bartholomew Street Brockville Onl K6V 2R5

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U of Gs Yellow Potato Takes Market by Storm

A unique yellow-fl eshed potato deshyveloped at the University of Guelph has taken the us market by storm

US buyers particularly in Michigan are buying all of the seed they can some are disappointed that more seed is not availshyable

The potato variety known as Yukon Gold was devcloped by the Department of Horticultural Science and released four years ago by potato breeder Gary Johnston now retired from Agriculture Canada and University professor Geoff Rowberry 55

[t is the first yellow-fleshed potato to be developed and licensed in Canada

Gary Johnstons successor at Agricul shyture Canada Robert Coffin says the Amershyican s received sample seed as part of an on-going exchange program among breedshyers They tested it and liked it

The Americans liked Yukon Gold s buttered appearance saw a marketing opshyportunity in it s golden colour found it grew well under their growing conditions and now package and sell it under the trade mark Michigan Golden Bake Robert said One American market survey shows consumers like the potato s fla vo ur vershysatility and colour fleshed species from Peru and the variety growers to capitalize on Yukon Golds

Growers al so like this new variety beshy Katahdin unique properties But it does take promoshycause it gives good yield s ha s high solids Yukon Gold IS ideal for boiling and tion and consumer awareness and matures early so it can be harvested baking and makes superb french fries But The University S breeding program is in mid-July to fetch a prcmium price it does not chip well This limitation has now concentrating efforts on finding an imshy

Yukon Gold was first developed in partially prevented it from being widely proved chipping variety Such breeding 1966 in respon se to reque sts from Euroshy grown in Ontario up to 50 per cent of the programs usually start between 40000 and pean immigrants to Canada who were potatoes grown in Ontario are used for makshy 50000 new seedlings every year accustomed to eating yellow-fleshed potashy ing potato chips We graduaJly eliminate the inferior toes [n Europe Brazil and the Caribbean Robert Coffin is pleased that Yukon seedlings until we get down to very low yellow-fleshed potatoes arc preferred Gold is being well received in the United numbers and hopefully after 12 to 15

Gary Johnston created Yukon Gold by States and he hopes for increased recogni shy years we co me up with superior attributes crossing Norgleam a variety from North tion for this new variety here in Ontario compared to those varieties already on the Dakota with a hybrid of a wild yellow- The opportunity is here for Ontario market say s Robert Coffin 0

Robert Coffin left and Professor GeoffRowberry 55 with Yukon Cold

He Was the Prairie Gardner Reprinted from The Prairie Garden

There arc fcw horti culturists who ha vc contributed as much and for as long a timc to horticultural education and ck ve lopment ofthe pra iricsas l R Bob Almcy 21

Th Prairie Garden first published as thc Winllipeg Flower Cardell in 1937 knew him both as a frequent contributor of articles and al so as a long-timc board me JJ1bcr of the publish i ng co mm i tee

Bob Almcy was 16 when he accomshypanicd hi s parcnts to Canada from Le iccs shy

te r England On his arrival hc started a long carcer in his chosen field with Johnson Brothcrs orchardists ncar Forest Ontario Hc soon becamc a student of horticu I tUfe at the Ontario Agricultural Collcge at Guelph During his summer holidays spent with the Horticultural [)(partment of the OAC he worked alongside Isabclla Preshyston noted origi nator of many new plant varieties

In September 1917 during his third year of studies at Guelph he joined the Royal Flying Corps as an air cadet and was

discharged with th e rank of Second Lieutenshyant in December 1918

He returned to th e OAC and graduated in 1921 with the degree of Bachelor of Scishyence in Agriculture

The Manitoba Department of Agriculshyture created the position of extension hortishy -culturist in 1921 and hired Bob Almey that year He filled that position from 1921 to 1928 His dutics in the first year included the distribution of two carloads of certified Irish Cobbler seed potatoes to farmc rs He worked closdy with market gardeners and the hobby horticulturists of the Manitoba Horticultural Association (MHA)

He left the Manitoba Department of

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Agriculture to become chici horticu lturist Weste rn Lines- T hunder Bay to Vanshy

couver Islanu- of the Canadian Pac ific

Rail way As such he was in charge of the

railway s park and garden work advising officials and empl oyees o n stat ion garden plantings and o n tree shelter belts along the rai Iroad s right-of-way

Oldtimers will reme mber the we ll landscapeu prairi e stations and the beautiful

parks in large r centres that resulted from his work Bob was made ge neral agriculshytural agen t combining both ho rticul ture

and agriculture and continued in that post until his retirement in 1960

Rob Almey was an organi zation man

Hc Joined the MHA as soon as he came to Manitoba and was its secretarytreasurer

from 1922 to 1928 In 193 I hc becamc a director of that Assoc iation and served in th at capac ity for man y years In 1938

he became president of the MHA In 1956 he was made an honorary life member Bob is a life member of the Stevenson Memorial

Boare

For many years he was a judge of the Provincial Home Grounds Competition and

also the Prov incial Slide Co mpetiti o n Bob al so served the Association as ex -offic io director and finally as honorary preside nt

a pos it ion he re linqui shed in 1981 The Winnipeg Hort icultural Society

and the Winnipeg Gladiolus Society value his contributi ons to the ir programs He served as director and preside nt of both o rshy

ganizations and was honoured with ho norshyary life membersh ip by both

He is a charter member of thc Western

Canadian Society for Horticulture it s presishy

dent in J952 an d rec ip ie nt of its honorary life membershi p in 1961 Th e Man itoba In shystitute of Ag rologis ts and the Agricultural Institute o f Canada both honoured him with

honorary life memberships In 1972 the

anadian Ho rticultural Co uncil Fesented him with a merit award

Three awa rds are espeL ially dear to Bob and hi s wife Olive In 1970 the Hon

Philip Petu rrson Mini ster of Cultural Afshy

fairs made Bob a captain of the Order of

A Pioneer of the 4-8 Program Frederick Waldemar Waldo Walsb 22 MB E F A IC LLD formerly of Palmeter Avenue Kentville N S and ltl Ia ng-t ime res ident of Hal ifax NS died at the Weste rn King s Memorial Hospita l Berwick NS on February II He was

86 years o ld

Born in Monc to n N B Dr Walsb will be remembered as being one of Canadas outstanding agriculturists who

served in many capacities and many offishyces throughout a distinguished caree r spanshyning some 51 years

At the time of his retirement as Deputy

Minister of Agricu lture and Marketing for Nova Scotia in 1962 a pos itio n he had

held for 17 years he was the lo ngest serving Deputy Minister of Agriculture in Canada

Upon g raduation from th e Nova Scotia Agricultura1 College in 191 7 he en lis ted in the Royal Flying Corps with the rank of second lieutenant and was in training

as a pilot when the war ended Upon di-sshycharge he joined the staff of the New Bru-nsshy

wick Department of Agricu lture Livestock Division with whtch he remained until

1920 when he entered the OAC

In 1922 he joined Jhe staff of the Ca nada Departmen t of Agriculture as sheep and sw-ine promoter at Truro NS where

he remained until 1926 whe n he was apshypointed professor of Animal Husbandry and

director of Live stock M arketing at the Nova Scotia Agricultural Collcge

In 1927 Waldo became eastern supershy

intenden t of agriculture for the Can ad ian Nationa l Ra ilway s and in 1929 superinshytendent of ag ricultu re over the entire C R system

He rejoi ned the staff of the N S De shypartment of Agri culture in 1933 as director

of marketing a position he he ld until his appointment as De(1Uty Mini ster in 1945

Following his fonnal retirement he

served for several months as specia l marshy

kets adv isor and then for seven years as director of Co-operative Advisory Serv shyices Maritime Co-operative Services Moncton NB

Waldo was the last surviving member

of a g roup of three which was responsible

for the creation and developmen t of the

Canadian Council on Boys and Girls Club Work (now 4-H Clubs) and the las t survivshyin g member of the first Maritime Livestock

Marketing Board which eventua ll y became Maritime Co-operative Servi ces and now Co-op Atlantic

He was recognized by St Franc is Xavier Universi ty which confetTed the deshy

gree of Docto r of Law honoris causa in 1953 Oth er honours included being named a Member of the Order of the Briti sh Empire in the 1945 New Years Ho no urs li st being elected to the Atlantic Prov ince s Agricu lshy

tu ra l Hall ofFame a Fe llo w of the Agriculshytural Institute of Canada an honorary life

membe r of the Nova Sco tia Fruit Growers Associatio n a member of the Senate of

the Nova Scotia Federation of Agriculture

the Buffalo Hunt This order was instituted in 1957 spec ially to honou r those who have

made dist inct ive contributions to life in the

provin ce of Manitoba The wi dely famed Almey Rosybloom crabapple was fittin gly

named in Bob Almey s hono ur Just reshycently the American Gladio lu s Society ho noured Bob with its Gold Meda l Award

Despite all the activities in whi ch he was invo lved Bo b and Olive found time

to garden This gladio lus ex pert grew 1000 and more g lads at his little farm in Libau

Man He named several varieties He loved

to grow potatoes and Spanish onions But both of them also loved to show at the anshynual flower shows winnin g many prizes

and ribbons Today Bob an d Olive live in the ir

com fort ab le home in Winni peg Both an alert and we ll They still attend horticul tural

meetings and Bob still prescnts an oceashysiona llectu re

The Prairie Garden sa lutes thi s grand old hort icultu ris t and his wife All of us prairie gardeners arc indebted to the m 0

and a life member of the Canadian C lub Council on 4-H Cl ubs

During the past ten years he was inst rushymental in obtaini ng services for alcoho l and d rug dependency peopl e in the An napoli s Vallcy Reg ion and was a member of the Advisory Council of the Valley Health Sershy

vices Association Alcohol Dependency Program sin ce its inception He was a great

source of comfort and assis tance to many individuals in this prog ram

He was a member of the Kentvillc Ro shytary Club and for many years an acti ve and enthu siastic membe r of the Ha lifax

Curling Club 0

Fellowship J Edward Brubaker 49 manager Onshyta rio Ministry of Agriculture and Food ene rshygy centre in Guelph has been nam ed a Fellow of the Agr icultura l Insti tute of Canada (AIC)

He is among fivc AIC members to reshyceive the fe llowship honou r this year An

honorary life membership has also been -awarded to George Price a CBC radio agshyriculture reporter who covers Parlmiddotiamcnt Hill

Former pres idcnt Art Guitard was given the Ale recogni tion award for work on a c rop production and the environment

publication

The awards will be made during the annual meeting sc hed uled for Winnipeg Man in August 0

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Grad News Wilfrid Holtma nn MSA 62 is direcshytor of marketing CIAQ Inc SI HyashycintheQue

jurgen Koch Ph D 74 is a research as shysociate Departnw nt of Land Reso urce Sci shyencc Cn ivc ri ty ofG uelph

Marcel Couture MSc 76 a farm manshyagement speciali st was appoi nted as direcshytor of cxte nsio n senicc at Macdona ld Colshykgc McGil l Uni verity Que effective anuary I 19X4

A na tive of th e eastern towns hips he is a I 91i5 graduate of lacdonal d s Dip loma Pmgrall1 in Agricu ltu re an d earned a HSc(Agr) there in 1 ~72 be fore cnteri ng the nivcrsity of Guelph in th e fie ld 01 Agric ultural Economi cs and Extens ion Ed ucation

He was a~s is t a nt director of Mac shydona ld s Dipl oma ProgrJill in Agric ulture before hi prescnt appointment and will contin ue with hi s tCltJeh ing and ad mi nistrashytivc duti es in thc Dipl oma Pro[r~ lill

Gail (Tuumanen ) and Nei l Dolson both gradultJ tc s of 77 arc now ow neroperators of FJ inbrook FaInl Supply Binbrook

Kathr)n ( 1cLcod) Harrison 77 and husband Wayne 79 arc li ving in Guc[ph Waync is credit officer wi th the Toronto Dominion Bank Guelph The y have a daughte r M gha n lea n born November 15 I l)X)

john Tucker BSc ( En~) 78 is a cusshytOIllS investiga tor Revenll e Canada Cusshytoms and Excise Il amilton His wife Anna Mae Shelton-Tucker is J graduate of 79

Glen I1cRuer 79 is a rn al(ster Canada MI [ting Cn C li glry A[ta

Steven Vlnkatarayappa M Sc 79 PhD S3 is an assoc iate profe ssor of Hort icul ture Unive rs ity of Agrieu [tural Scie nce Ra ngal orc Indi a

joan (Elder) Weller SO i an ass istant CilCllli t Pops iclc Indu trics Burl ington Husband Tim also SO i dislt-ict s a [e~

m1I1agcr Pionee r II i-Bred Ltd Clla tham

Rogcr SI Pierre SI i a grai n me rchant wi th Jalllcs Rich ardson amp Sons Ltd Toshyronto His ik Stephanie (Weedle) is a graduatc of 82

Sophia Dinnisscn S2 is a studen t I t Wil shyfr id Lau rier Uni versity Wate rl oo

Nicholas Groot 82 is milk superv isor Ontario Da iry Herd improvement Assoc iashytion Toronto

Rober t Hack ney 82 is head wi nemaker Chara l Wi nery and Vi neyards Inc B[enheim

Frederick j amieson 82 is a quality as shysurance inspec tor J M Schneide r Inc Kitchener

Geollrey Jones S2 I S man ager of the UCO Elmwood branch

Susan Kelner 82 is a technica l a ~~ is tant

Chip man Inc SlOney Creek

Ca rolinc Kennedy S2 is a graduate stushydent Uni vcrsi ty of Manitoba Win nipeg

Jannette Leask 82 is territory sales repshyresentati ve Ral ston Purina Canada In c Whit by

Christopher McLean 82 IS a reseJrch technolog iq Ca mpbell So up Co Ltd Toron to

Lloyd Mitchell 82 is territory manJge r Ralston Purina Canada Inc Woodstock

R Ramirez Nathan 82 is an agronomist promoter Communidad Por Los Inos Antiolj ui a Colombia Sout h Am erica

Eileen (Richards) johnson MSc 83 is an executive assi stan t Ontar io olll mu shynity De vc lllpment Associa tion Uni ve rsity of Guc[ph

Diploma Gaduates

Keith Sinclair S4A has reccntly been appoi nt d vice-president and treasurer ofmiddot the United Co-ope ratives of Onllrio lie hi been wit h l jCO to r 21 years

David Thorton 64A is a [ocomot ive enshyg ineer Canadian aliona[ Rai lways Toshym nlO

Larry Inglis 66A i ~ purchasing man shyage r Canadian Canners Ltd Hamilton

Wa)ne Waugh 68A is an age ncies sale s and deve lopme nt representati ve Petro shyCanad a Prod ucts Don Mills

Eugene McDonald 77A is a mec han ic with Motorways Edmonton A[ta

j ames Slingerland 79A is an inspector Ontario Ministry of Agricultu re and Food liagara Fal[ s

In Me moriam Donald Risebrough 77 immed iate past preside nt of thc OAC Alumni Assoc iat ion d ied on June 30 1984 The news of his tragic death brought a great sensc of sad ness and almost di sbe li ef to his man y fri ends Don had presided a wee k prev ioUsly at many ac tiv ities during Alumni Weekend 84 celebrations He was killed when his ca r went out of control on a Hi ghway 40 I off-ram p He was on his way to visit his parents at their farm ncar Markham Don was di stri ct rep resentative Ontari o Holshystc in Branch Holstein-Fri es ian Associashyti on Brantford

William J Cohoe 03A died on March 19 1984 ilt Norvi[[ a ursing Homc Norshywich He had becn one of the oldes t gradshyuates of the OA

Dr Lloyd G Herman 34 a micro shybio log ist who retired from the US Nashytiona l Institutes of Health (NIH) in 1)7l) dicd February I 1984 at his home in Bet hesda Md Us A

He received his doc torate in Mic ro shybio logy from McG i[[ Uni versity in 1948 and after working at severa l private labora shytori es in the US A joined th e sta fr of IH in I lti 1i8

In 21 years lJi service he publi shed and lectured extensively and aec umu[ated vario Lis honours in his fie ld He was the first to ide nti fy a strain of ye llow-pig me nted waterborne bacteria th at the Centers of Dis shyease C()ntrol named f~s(I(r(h (l hall(III

in his honour in 19X2

Dr Herm an was vc ry active in the American Sl1ci ety fo r Mi robiology (ASM) and its Washi ngton bra nch Ill held JII offi shyces in the Washingto n branch of ASM in shycl ud ing pres idcnt Jnd continual[y held branch posts un til his death He was also a paS pres iden t 01 th Canadian Club of Washingtoll and lfthe Envi ronlllcnta[ Man-3cment Association

He WJs one of the incorporators or the Fricnds of ni ve rsit y ofGuclph Inc

George C McLaren 35 on February 10 1984 in Ollawa I Ie had retired fro ill the Dcpart ment of Na tional lJe fence

Robert Karl Allison 75 BSc(Eng) on Novcmber 6 1910 in London He had been -product io n manager for Modornckan LId

Alison Lyn (Geddes) L1nyck iz 7S in a car acc ident in January 19X4 Her two-yearshyo ld daughte r Jess ica and her mother we re also killed in the accidcnt in Norfolk County Her husband Peter a lso a gradshyuate of 78 is cmp[oyed at anadian Can shyners Simcoe 0

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Macdonald InstituteCollege of Family and Consumer

Studies Alumni Association

ALUMN NEWS Editor Joan (Anderson) Jenkinson 66

From the Dean Dr Richard Barham

There is seldom an issue of the Mac-FACS Alumni News that goes by without there being a special interest item or two about our faculty On this occasion I want to draw your attention to the announecment in this iss ue of the appointment of Dr Brucc Ryan to the chairmanship of the Department of Family Studies

I ex tend our congratulations to Dr Ryan on hi s success in winning this appointshyment in the open competition which was he ld across Canada for the position At the samc time I want to extcnd my very warm thanks 10 Dr Eli za bcth Miles who has been serving the Department and indeed the College so well over this past year through her rcsponsiblities as the Departments act shying chairman

I know that you will be interested to learn too that Dr Powerss appointment as Director of the School of Hotel and Food Admini stration has been renewed for a furth er term We wish Tom and his eolshyleaglle s a continuation of the distinction and successes which have marked the life of the hotel school to date

And while referring to the hotel school J also want to ask you to read thc article in thi s iss ue on Professor George Bedell the School s first director George has made a remarkable contribution while he has been at Guelph most particularly of course in a ll matters relating to the HAFA program and its students J want to thank George on behalf of us all for his vision and commitment over the years and for the interest and care he has for the HAFA grads

We had a spendid alumni retirement celebration for George at the King Edward Hotel in Toronto in May In the best tradishytion of our HAFA alumni and the hospitality industry it was a superb occas ion and fully expressive of the affection and respect which we all feel towards George Many

many thanks George We wish you and Louise a long and happy retirement

As I prepare the draft for this newsletshyter the Annual Mae-FACS Alumni Seminar has just been held The topic this year was Aging Myths and Realities and this ocshycasion too was a resound1l1g sueecss r am sure that I express the sentiments of the many alumni and friend s who were there in extending our congratulations and thanks to Gail Murray 78 and the members of her organizing committce

By the way if you have not yet made a contribution to the MAC 38 Gerontology Scholarship please do support the vision of this wonderfully energetic group of grads right now They reall y need your contribushytions to build up the scholarship fund and we have an urgcnt need to support students in this ncw and humanly important area of sc holarship

Many of you and others who arc not among our alumni have been ask ing us to organize courses which ill help you keep up to date in your profess ional fie lds Some of our conferences of course along with the Alumni Seminar arc intended to do just thi s But we now also have a number of our credit courses specially designed and developed for what we call dis tance teachshying

Already we have eomscs on Human Development Marital and amily Dynamshyics Family Economics Human Sex uality and the Exceptional Child The se courses are ava ilable to you on a correspondence basis and usc a comprehensive and carefully prepared study guide They in volve tests and ass ignments of course and the course in structors respond to questions either through mailed memos or by phone

You can take the final exam here in Guelph or possibly at a centre either in or near your own home town Write to Profes shysor Sam Luker chairman Part-Time and General Studie s if you want to find ou t more about our distance teaching program

You might want to note the fACS Sheel order form on page 34 of thi s issue Ifon the mailing list for FACS Sheel publishycations you will sec topics which interest you Keep in loueh with us by sending for eopics D

Appointment Dr Bruce A Ryan took up his appointshyment as chairman of the Department of Family Studies on July I of this year He has become known to many of our alumni over the years s ince his first appointment to that department as an assistant professor and director of the Laboratory Schools in 1975 He was promoted to the rank of asshysociate professor in 1980

Dr Ryan had hi S BA in Psychology eonfelTed by the University of Alberta (1964) He obtained both the M Ed (1969) and PhD (1971) degrees in Educational Psychology from the same university He has held the position of Psychomotrist at the Alberta Hosp ital in Edmonton and a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Centrc for the Study of Mental Retardation at the Unishyversity of Alberta Before moving to Guel ph in the mid- 70s Dr Ryan held his first university teaching and research post at Victoria University in Wellington New Zealand

Irokssiona l and co mmunity service activities figure significantly among Dr Ryans involvements He is first vice-presishydent of the Canad ian Association for Educashytional Psychology and vice-president also of the Ontario Association of Family Se rshyvice Agencie s He is on the editorial board of the publication Canadas iInlal Heallh and among other sc holarly and professhysional bodies a member of the Canadian Association for the Treatment and Study of Families

The primary focus of Dr Ryans teachshying research and academic publications has been upon the ecology of human (and particularly child) development and learnshying He has a special interes t in person-envishy shyronment interactions particularly within the context of family system s and with reshygard to possible impacts upon children s learningdiffieulties in school

Dr Ryans wife Nancy is a librarian with special interests in childrens books and school libraries Bruce and Nancy have two delightful daughters Keri and Jenny both of whom are at elementary school D

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End of an Era The editor wishes 0 extend a sincere thank you to Joe Van Koe verdel 75 BComm editor oJthe Hotel and Food Administration

Alumni News Jor permission to reprint this article wrillen by D Kanzler and pubshylished in April

W hen retiring Professor George Bedell

close s his office door behind him for the

las t lime on September I and hangs out The Mac-FACS Alumni Seminar attracted 175 to the Guelph Campus in April The the GONE FISH ING sign hell close topic was Aging Myths and Realities Leaders oj the interest sessions were I to the door on an era in the Canadian hospiality r Dr John Powell Leslie (Good) Snell 64 Smuly Forbes 82 Gail Murray 78 education indu stry seminar committee chairman Donna Woolcott 69 Rev Lance Woods and Grella

And hell open the door to a flood Riddell-Dixon of tributes from the hospitality industry as

the man who spearheaded the development

of Canadas first school of hotel and food

admini stration They will remember him

as the mentor who set high standards shy

the man who made hospitality manageme nt

a profess ion The students now 650 graduates

strong will remember him as the man who

gave hospitality cducation credibility - the

man who made them professionals His facshy

ulty peers will prai se George Bedell s pershy

severance in building a degree-granting sc hool at a time when such an institution

was unheard of on Canadian university

campuses

All will point to his many awards

Participants a the Seminar included Alumni in Action members I to r Jack Palmer OAC 38 Elsie (Hume) Pettit 34 Harvey Pettil OAC 32 Do (Stuari) Paitner 36 and Jim Baker OAC 28

chief among which were the 1975 Queens you hope you ha ve made a lasting contribushy Hotel Adminis tration at Michigan State Jubilee Meda l the 1981 Member CRA tioll And I hope my leade rship with the University but in 1942 draft papers took Foundation College of Diplomates and the help of others has ensured this program s priority He served with the United States 1983 Jack C Sim Man of the Year success he says Army until 1946 when disc harged as a Award as confirmation of Pro fe ssor Beshy Connec ticut-born George Bedell credshy Captain and continued as a reserve officer dell s outstanding contributions its an itinerant father for developing his until 1962 when he was discharged with

T he tribute s would make Geo rge interests in the industry He used to bring thc rank of Major SOli Ie perhaps blush and prompt a throaty back all kinds of fascinating brochures from The post-war years saw him work as chuckle because when all is said and done hotels across the USA - thats what got manager of scveral Connccticut inns and he would s imply like to be remembered me started hotel s before being asked to join Michigan for who he is When you leave something George completed his BA studies in Statc s Faculty of Continuing Education in

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1953 It proved to be a turning point in hi s career

By 1959 George had been appointed director o f Man agement T rainin g Proshygrams and director of Business and Tcchn ishycal Advisory Service for the National Re~shytaurant Association in Chicago He held that position until 1969 when he was in shyvited by thc Uni versit y of Gue lph to take ove r as director of Canada s first School of Hotel and Food Administration H~ re shyma ined director until 1979 fo llowing whi ch he continued teaching at th e School

I knew lots of peop le in industry here and saw the opportunity to help the hospitalit y industry he says of hi s deci shys ion to move to Guelph [ saw thi s as a rea l chall enge But [ always knew we would succeed I decidcd from day o ne that we would make a go of it he adds with characteri stic determi nation

If his first years were frustrating it was mainl y because of thc students skeptishycism They we re so worried about th e Schools reputation and whether there d be Jobs waiting for them I had to build Iheir confidence - ove r and over again I look now at what our gradu ates ha ve accomshyplished and I feel good about hav ing played a role in their su ccess II mea ns the proshygram s have grown the way we thought they should and proves th at we ha ve bcen doing somethin g right here at Guelph

Professor Bede ll is particularly proud of the new Advanced Management Program for the Hospita lit y Indu stry (AMPHI ) estabshyli shed by Pro fe ssor Tom Po we rs the preshysent director of the Schoo l last ye ar to help train and de ve lop top level manage rs No other uni versity in the world is do ing this type of ed ucation al training for the hospitalshyity industry he points out Moreover AMPHI is th e kind of program that s vi tal to the future of the hos pit alit y industry The industry is still ex pand ing all forecasts po int to mo re people ca ti ng out more peop le travelling - and that means a growshying need for facilitie s and trained people

Corne September I George Bedcl l wi ll monitor th at growth - and his Schools successes - from afa r Hi s re shytiremenl caree r in cludes so rnc travel lots of fishing tinle to get a little fun out ot life and pl~tnS to build a hOllle on the coast of Maine tor his wife Loui se and himse lf But distance won t keep hi thoughtgt from Willin g back to Guc I ph

Fifteen yea rs ago he says he was given the chal len ge to get Guelphs Schoo l of Hotel and Food Admini st ration off th e gro und lto w on the e ve of hi s retirement he issues hi s ow n chall enge to the Schoo l Ten years from now [ wa nt to be abl e to say - Look how that School has grown ho w its progressing how its getting better al l the time 0

Grad News Foods amp Nutrition

LornI Dixon 83 is a die tetic intern at the Health Science Centre in Winni peg Man

Lori M Farr 79 is empl oyed with the Nutri tion Department Cen tenary Hospi ta l West Hill

Pat Faber 78 is pati ent food services co-ordinator with Roya l Jubliee Hospital Victoria BC

Elaine (Dashner) Robichaud 80 i food service director Saga Ca nad ian v1anageshyment Services Susse x Health Centre NB

Karen (Seib) Webber 78 is an outpati ent dietiti an at Van couver Ge neral Hospital BC

Libb~ (Lewis ) Logan 74 is a clin ical di etitian with the hildren s Hospi tal 01 Ealern Ontario Ottawa

Educa tion

fngl id ( ppell ) larsh 69 i 1 l e~tC llcr

Wentworth Count) Fl(l~lnl Drhlucatioll

Lolly (Robinson) Bartkew 62 is a supshypl y teacher with the Waterloo County Board () f Education

Kathi Ayers 73 is an in~dructo r with Grande Prairie Regiona l College Grande Prairi e Alta

Lauric (Watson) Goorts 79 is a Family Stud ie teache r with th e Waterloo County Board of Educati on

Ta mm) (Hryhorenko) Warren 75 is de partm~nt head Famil y Studies Westdale SS Hamilton

Josie (Lohuis) Schneider 80 is te aching at the Catholic Central High School LonshydonOnt

Social Services

Judi th Tansley 69 is a counsellor with Sunstar House Saskatoo n Sask

Rev Kay (Finlay) Hagey 37 is wilh th e Ang lican Church of Ca nada SI Andre ws Church Grim sby

Christine (Brady) MacPhee 78 is a unit le ade rsocial worker with Famil y and Chilshydrens Services Goderich

Eileen (Derynck) O ls thoorn 78 is a 0shy

cial worker with Halton Childrens Aid Oak vill e

Donna (Rose ) Allen 70 is a compl ianee officer with the Hea lth Protection Branch Health and Welfare Canada Otta wa

Janine Jones 82 is a developm ntal Inshystructor with Si rTI eoc Habi I i tative Sen ICC)

Business and Industry

-arion (Kerr ) I1ennenrent 7 1 11Sc 76 is employed wit h Gary S Hcn nn k nt Insurance Services Ltd Vancou cr BC

Edna (Hay ) Jarrell 36 is presiden t Edna Jarrc I I Rcal rstatc h lingto n

Ann (McClure ) Keller 78 is a denta l tec hnician with J PO Ir()CCor~ Inc Gue lph

Sharon Salm-ltrose 82 is an advert isi ng consultant wi th WS Marketi ng AlnlC 0

Meeting Notice

Guelph Branch MacmiddotFACS Alumni

Association Annual Membership

Coffee Party 730 p _m to 1000 pm_

September 2 51984

At the home of Margaret (Hamilton) Bates 53

303 Edinburgh Road South Guelph Ontalio

In Memoriam Margaret (Blac kh am ) Elliott 350 R R I Blenheim date ordelt h unknown

Edith (Hubbard ) Garrison 320 Janu shyary 19K4 inCenterLine Mich US

Susan lIem i ngwa~ 31D February 1 -19R4 inTnronto

J u ne (Van Someren ) Van Wyck 47 D Februa ry 12 1984 in Hamilton

Velma (Balkwill) Stuck 210 February J 19R4 at R R if fgt Woodstoc k Her husshyband th e late Fred W Stock was an OAC 21 grad Her son Oa id JB Stock QC isan OAC 59 grad U

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AI mnos of

Honotlr 1984

Elliott Mac McLoughry OAC 22

With the Ontario Department of Agrishy

culture (ODA) as Agricultu ra l Represhyse ntative in Vi ctoria Dundas and W aterloo Counties Ellio lllrwin McLo ughry was a

pioneer d uri ng a time o f greattechnicaJ advance in Fann practices

A h ighly respec ted ge nt le man who

ga ined the confide nce o f the Menno nite people

o f Waterloo Co unty hi s accomplishments inc lude the introduc tio n o f short-courses for farmers and a soil conservatio n program the es tab lishment of Bacon Hog Fa irs and the Waterloo callie breeding unit and co-ope rashytio n w ith the OAC in the first nematode

program

Aged 90 last Jul y Mac througho ut hi s worki ng li fe made s ign ificant contributio ns to Canadian agric ultu re and to socie ty and ill

1964 re tired from his positi o n as d irector o f extens io n DA He lives at the Presto n Springs Gardens Retirement Ho me J 02 f o untain tree t So uth Cambridge Ontario 0

The College of Social Science Alumni Association

PEGAS-US CSS Awards T he College of Social Science held a wine and cheese reception to honour its 1984 scholarship winners and those students namcd to the Deans Honour List

Alma Mate r BA In-course Scholarshyship recipients were Rene Juraschka of Freelton and Jay Whetstone of Guelph Economics Nicola Linnell of Toronto Geography Gina Gianetto of Midland Political Studies Rosemarie Schmidt of Delhi and David Langlotz of Guelph Psyshychology and Patricia Tigchclaar Guclph Sociology and Anthropology

College of Social Sc ience Alumni Asshysoc iation In-course Sc holarships were awarded to Laurie Ross of Fergus Economics John McColl of Kitchener Geography Joan Taffe of Guelph Political Studies Anita Maiste of Brantford Psyshychology and Melissa Reynolds of Nepean Sociology and Anthropology

Christopher Heap of Guelph Psycholshyogy was the recipient of the J W Skinner Honours Scholarshi p in Social Science 0

Political Studies prufessur Bill Christian presented Cino C ianello ith an Ama Mater Bk In-course Scwarship

Economics From High School to University

H igh schools are in a transition stage when it comes to economics according to Professhysor Doug Auld chairman Department of Economics

High school teachers can be quite flexible in thei r approach which results in some Grade 13 stude nts working successshyfully on material that is a close approximashytion to what we gi ve them as freshmen he says

On the other hand this is by no means universa l and it could be ano ther two years or more before we know whether the material will be standardized provinceshywide as an Ontario Academic Credit When that happens if the natu re of the curriculum

justifies it it may be possible to pass high school economics studen ts straight into secshyond year as is now done at one O ntario university

Dr Auld and three other Department of Economics facult y membcrs me t recently with II area high school teachers to exshychange information about teaching econshyomics and manag ment economics at thc Grade 13 and firs t-year university leve ls

T he meeti ng provided an open forum for discussion on thi s and other topics and helped both high school teachers and Guelph faculty arrive at a better understandshying of one anothers problems

We have not done this before comshyments Professor Auld but we certainly plan to do it again The high school particishypants were unanimou s in their enthusiasm for the exchange of ideas and we gained a great deal from the dia logue 0

The portraits of two former deans were hung during a special gathering held in (he 9th floor Arts building office of the dean of the Cullege uf Social Science Murdo MacshyKinnon left was the only Dean of Wellington College and the first dean of the Colege ofArts Jack Skinner third from left was the first Dean of the College of Social Scien e Also attending the ceremony wue CSS dean John Vanderkamp and right John Currie 70 president of the College of Social Science Alumni Association Wellington College was established as the College of Arts and Science when the University was founded in 1964 It existed until the present seven-college structure evolved in 1970

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They believe his major fail accompli was or fund raisingliaison and as an admisshy

Jirccting a $25 million capital fund raising sions counsellor

campaign for the Toronto French School In 1982 John joined thc Ontario C rafts John received his secondary education Council as its exceutivc director Thc Counshy

in Toronto graduating from Victoria Park cil which is a non-profit organization rcshy

Sccondary in 1965 Fro m 1965 to 1967 ce ivin g 20 per ecnt government fundin g John was enrolled in the Journali sm course IS a multi-faceted operations gallcry which at Bowling Green State University O hio pre se nts 12 publications annually U SA and from there it was but a short At the Ontario Crafts Council he deshy

John D journey to Gue lph veloped prog rams that incrcased membershyMahley 70 John returned to Bowling G reen State ship by one third incrcased fund raising

to obtain a Masters degree He majored rcsults twentyfold and in stitutcd corporatc in outreach in higher education and from sponsors hip for the first timc in the CounshyOur TraveUing thcre went on to the Universi ty of Northern cils ex tens ive exhibitions program Co lorado U S A receiving an E DS Hi s Hc helped to found the Southcastern Graduate major was HumanCommunity Relation s Michi gan Association of Alumni Directors O rganizational Behaviour We understand in 1977 served as vice-president of the O nshy

W hen we heard from John D Mabley Joh n also visited Cleveland Ohi o U S A tario Assoc iation o f Alumni Administrators 70 he had been newly appointed to the for a time where he was an intern with in 1978 was a mem ber o f the Board of positi on of director of developmcnt the Community Services Division of Director ofmiddot the National Socie ty of Fund Dalhousie University NS However that C ayuga Community College Cleveland Raising Lxecutives (Can ada) in 1981 and is not to say he will still be there when Back at the University of Guelph in 1982 and has chaired committces for the

this article is in print John has done much 1975 he held the position of development Canadian Ccntrc for Phil anthropy

travelling and made many moves in his officer with the Department of Alumni Afshy John has do nc much travelling to arshycarcer path since he graduated with a degree fairs and Deve lopment for just over a year rivc at h is current status in fact you could in Sociology and Political Science He assisted in setting up fund raising projshy call him a ro lling stone But unlike the

Dalhousie University feels John will ects beques ts and commemorative giving stone which gathers no moss John has

be a strong asset to them with his extensive Most of Johns working experience has gathcred cxpericnccs and used thcm to grcat

and impress ive background in fund raising been in alumni relations and development advantagc Congratulations John 0

family including the dog have travelledResponding tomiddota Call in pursuit of his new field of cndeavo ur Furthcr training took him wcst thcn back

The Reverend Donald M Prince 77 was to Ohlano and Emmanucl College where responding to a call when he enrolled at he achievcd a Mastcr o f Di vinity dc~ree Guelph to follow Christ in the ordai ned and cxperienced ful fi Ilment of his drealllsshy

ministry Don has a back ground of working ordination by the Toronto Conference of for what he wants and applying his talents Thc United Church ofCanada in order to achieve his goals In this he This was succeeded by more travelling was successful by Don and family on placements in Sasshy

Don did not complete his G rade 13 katchewan Man and it was during theirThe Reverend

prior to leaving schoo l Instead he entered thrce-year stay in that province that they Donald M

the wo rkforce and became invol ved with Icarned to appreciate its beauty wondersPrice 77 the big three auto manufacturers A total and the hospitality which enhanced their of 12 years were spent in that worki ng lives further

environment and during this time Don very positi ve but none the less somewhat Don shares with us the fulfillment also successful I y completed his Grade 13 at frightening Do n sums it up simplistica lly of a boyhood dream when he expericnced night school and spent three years in the by saying Univers ity was an adjustment the ca ttlc drives and round-ups cowboyshy

Royal Canadian Army Signal C orps First came the reality of once again being style It was in ~askatchcwcn where I was Havi ng completed G rade 13 Don then a student I remember standing on the steps introdu ced to ~ hristian Cowboys an asshy

applied for entry to G uelph specifically beshy by the McLaughlin Library looking towards soc iati on of Athletes in Action

cause of the value of the three-semester the University Centre and thinking LORD Don and Judy the girls and the dog system His aim was to quickly attain an I must be crazy to be here -an oblique are now residing in Fleshenon-split rail undergraduate degree before entering Emshy cry for help and reassurance If it was country-serving 5t Johns United Church

manuel College Toronto to pursue a deshy Don ccrtainly had the answer in the support and Eugenia United Church They are hopeshy shygree in theology Once more Dons goals of the strength given to him by Judy his ful of a more permanent stay in Flesheno n were established- to take two years to fami ly friends and professors and hope to see their children study at complete his Bachelor s degree then on to Don believes the most significant inshy Guelph Don was pleased to share with us funher studies flu ence of the University upo n his life was his experiences and concludes with For

By thi s time Do n was married to Judy being forced to think systematically write students and academics at Guelph I have a University of Toronto grad and was the appropriately and to express my faith in these words o f Jesus With man it is imposshyfather of two young daughters so it must Jesus through academic channe ls sible but not with God for all things are have been a gigantic step to make the decishy Hc concluded hi s studies at Emmanuel poss ible with God Mark 1027 I share sion he did Obvio usly the ca ll he had was College in 1978 and since then he and his with you the joy of our li ves 0

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Annual Meeting 84

The 1984 CBSAA Annual Meeting openshyed with Dr Gcorge Dixon PhD 80 prcsidcnt who welcomed everyone Five undergraduate scholarships were awarded

as follows Madeline Austen Zoology Liz Hazlett Botany and Tracey Robinson Human Biology were recIpIents of CBSAA-AMF scholarships Mark Chanshydler Wildlife and James Kurucz Unshyspecialized were recipients of CBSAA scholarships

Dr Bruce Sells dean CBS was the guest speaker He opened his address by stating that we the alumni are in effect ambassadors of our University and of the College of Biological Science As ambasshysadors we contribute by being representashytives of our Colleges achievements in the work force by recruiting new members by making potential students aware of our academic programs and by developing means of providing financial aid

Dr Sells advised us that the College in addition to maintaining its traditional strengths will change its direction to enshycompass many of the new developments that have taken place in biology during the past few years A new Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics will proshyvide a higher profile for molecular science

in our College in addition to addressing thc necd for cell biology The meeting was followed by a buffet lunch 0

Change of Editor Editor of the BIO-ALUMNI NEWS since the summer of 1981 Dr John T Powell who retired from the College last June has with regret tumed in his editorial pen following three years of dedicated service as our CBSAA scribe We offer our grateful thanks to John for ajob well done

We extend a very warm welcome to our new editor Marie (Boissonneault) Rush B Sc 80 Marine Biology a reshysearch technician and part-time lab instrucshytor with the Department of Zoology Marie was CBSAA president for 1982- 1983

In 1965 Dr Powell was invited to

the University to form a School of Physical Education He is the creator of the Human Kinetics concept and soon instituted an

From Our President

The College of Biological Science was first identified as a separate college of the University of Guelph in 1971 making it one of the newest of the newer colleges on campus Because of this the CBS

Alumni Association is one of the more reshycent alumni groups to be established at Guelph and is the smallest Since the first organizational meeting of the CBSAA on December 2 1975 our various boards of directors have worked to establish a place for the CBSAA within the University sysshytem

At the time of our March 1984 annual general meeting there were 583 members

of the CBSAA representing just over 14 per cent of our 4130 known alumni This proportion is up from about 95 per cent the previous year but there is lots of room for growth As the CBSAA becomes more established and its membership continues to grow we will be in a better position to serve both alumni and currently enrolled students in the CBS

Last year we launched the first issue of the Zygote Plus The newsletter was well received and will in the future be sent to all members of the CBSAA I n addition to bringing you up to date on current issues and news within the CBS Im sure the 7ygole PLus will bring back many memories of tramping through the halls of BGampZ

Other activities of the CBSAA include

academic department Human Kinetics within the School

Although he has always been active and intense in his involvement with physshyical activity he is proud of the creation of the academic atmosphere in what is now the School of Human Biology with its three science degrees and of the pioneering steps taken for the establishment of the discipline devoted to human movement

Indicators of his participation in the University Community are shown in the

recent honours he has received In 1980 The Community Service Award in 1981 the University Achievement Award for Outstanding Contributions to Athletics in 1983 the first Special Merit A ward from the Faculty Association in three categories excellent teaching through the years curshyricular development and involvement with student advising In 1984 a scholarship in

his name was instituted by the Human Kineshytics Alumni Association

the sponsoring of fi ve undergraduate scholshyarships and one graduate scholarship and this year for the first time we will be

proudly presenting the Keith Ronald Fellowship to an eligible graduate student

Two items of change are in the wind for the coming year Firstly your Board of Directors will be making a motion at the next annual general meeting to increase membership fees The current fees of $4

per year for annual membership and $40 for life membership have remained unshychanged since the CBSAA was established in 1975 As costs have risen we must inshycrease our income to meet demands

Secondly we are looking into estabshy

lishing across the country a network of alumni to act as regional contacts for the

CBSAA There are enclaves of CBS grads in almost every biological institute from Victoria BC to St Johns Nfld and from Windsor Ont to Yellowknife in the Yukon Territories These contacts would act as a physical link between the CBSAA and alumni living and working in various locations throughout Canada

If anyone is interested in acting as a

regional contact person for the CBSAA please let us know Chances are good that many of you are in your present position because of the education you received while at the CBS Now might be the right time to consider giving a little something in reshytum-become involved with your Alumni Association

r would very much welcome hearing options news and ideas from alumni whershyever you may be Christopher Wren BSc 77 PhD 83

President CBSAA

Mention must be made of Dr Powell s involvement in the Olympic movcment

which is a source of immense pride for him He has been an Olympic coach in 19521956 and 1960 is a life member of the British Olympic Association and is a member of the Canadian Olympic Associashytion where he is a national selector

In 1972 1976 and 1980 he was present in ancient Olympia at official torch-lighting ceremonies and has been a lecturer at the

Intemational Olympic Academy seven times He has been named as colshy -laborateur by the Academy and his big moment was in 1981 when the President of Greece presented him with the Academy s silver medal for devoted sershyvice to the Olympic movement

He has always enjoyed his involveshyment in Alumni Affairs and has been a repshyresentative for many years We regret the resignation of our enthusiastic news editor Dr John T Powell D

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The Ontario Agricultural College Alumni Association

ALUMNI NEWS Editor Dr Harvey W Caldwell 51

IlDproving the Strain Reprinted from the OMAF News

Asparagus prized for its delicate flavour and considered to be somewhat of a luxury food commands an excellent price in both fresh and processing markets

Consumer demand for this delicacy often exceeds locally-grown supplies In 1981 for example Ontario imported about 16 million kilos of asparagus worth almost $3 million in the same year the provinces growers produced about 13 million kilos of asparagus also worth about 53 million

To help Ontarios growers expand into this lucrative market high-yielding asshyparagus varieties suited to Ontarios growshying conditions are bei ng developed and tested at the University of Guelph s Deshypartmental Horticultural Sc ience

Funding for this research which has gone on at the Ministry for a decade has becn provided by the Ontario Mi nistry of Agriculture and Food Agricul ture Canada and private industry

In 1981 OMAF also int roduced the $ 1 S III ill ion O ntario Asparagus Produc tion Incent ive Program which granted new and prc se nt growers $ 1200 per hec tare over a three-year period for new plan tings

To date almost $ 1 million has been aW(l rded As a result of th is support proshygram IOtal land plan ted in asparagus has increased from 971 hec tares in 1980 to 1905 hectares in 1983 An addit ional 12 14 hecshytares shou ld be added this year

Many of the asparagus varidi s grown at present in O ntario such as Vik ing Vi shyking 2K and Viking 2G arc hardy but do not produce yiclds comparable to varshyiet ies grown in o the r countries says Unishyversity of G uelph hort iculturist Professor Herman T iessen S 1

But tri als of variet ies and lines from all over the world set up in 1979 arc beginshyning to show promise he says

or example the German lines LueulshyIus and Sehwetzinger Mcisterschus yielded 70 to 80 per cen t better than the Viking 2K at the Simcoe Research St(ltion in the first two harves ts the results from Camshy

bridge Research Stations older trials corshyroborate these results while the new trials there show a number of new Rutgers hyshybrids to have considerable promise

O ne in particular Ce ntennial deshyveloped at Rutgers University in the US A is high yielding and more tolerant of O ntario s en vironmcnt than varieties now grown here

Yi elds of Centennial can be up to 30 to 40 per cent more than Viking in some locations Centennial will now be used as Ontario s standard variety future new varishyeties will have to exceed Centennial in performance

By agreement with Rutgers Univershysity the Univers ity of Guelph is now developing commercial seed s tock for Centennial f he male and female plants provided were ti ssue-cultured at Guelph and in 1983 one hectare of these parent plants was set out at the Un iversityS Cruiekston Park Farm Commercial seed should be available in 1986

New crosses from superior plants obshytained from all over the world are a lso being bred and more than 100 lines arc now be ing assessed as pote nt ial varieties for O ntario

Dr T iesscn warns that seed costs for these new hybrids are much higher Old-va-

Dr Herman Tiesscn 5

riety seed costs about $66 to $ 110 per kilo but prices range from $440 to $880 for the new hybrids

But this must be put in context An asparagus bed lasts IS to 20 years and the newer var ie ties can produce 4S0 to 900 kilos per hectare per year more than the older ones Considering that the selling price of asparagus is about $2 S0 or more per ki lo the extra price of the seed could be recovered easily in the first fe w years of production

Asparagus has been grown commershycially in O ntario for more than 7S years with the original sites on well-drained sandy soi l close to cities and then in the Burshylington Niagara Collingwood Leamshyington and Delhi -S imcoe areas

Production has shifted rece ntly to Halshydimand-Norfolk Kent Essex and Elgin counties all of which border on Lake Erie

Dr Tiessen says many farmers have expressed interes t in grow ing the crop but there still r mains plenty of room for expansion 0

Appointment K enneth R Farrell SO fo rmer adminisshytrator of the Economics and Statistics Sershyvice of USDA Washington D C US A has been chosen to head a Nat iona l Center for Food and Agricul tural Po licy The Censhyter is supported by a $4 S million grant fro m the W K Kellogg Foundation

Accord ing to Farrc ll the Center will develop fu ture ag ricultural pol icy leadcrs by o ff ring fell owsh ips in ternsh ips and worhhops for young profession al s and will examine and evaluat e exi st ing and al shyte rnative agricu l ~ural policie t ass ss the ir k~y economic social and instit ut ional imshypl ications

The Center wi ll a lso im prove public understanding by periodic reports on issues in agricultu re natural resources food nutrition and international tracle and will support policy analysi s projects at other inshystitutions by making research grants 0

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Land Resource Science Honours Prof Jack Ketcheson

P rofessor John Wi lliam Jack Ketc heshyson 44 has fo rmally retired a fte r a long teaching and re~earch career at the U nivershysity of G uclph However the soi l scienti st has no intention o f g iving up hi s interest in the fk ld He will presid 0 e r the IntershynatIonal Soil T illage Research Organi7ashytions 10th conference to be he ld in Guelph

in 1985 fo r an expec ted 300 scientists lack is also conti nu ing his Hasti ngs Coun ty fa rmi ng operation in preparation for an eve ntual move to that area

Both Jac k and his wife Betty Arts 83 come o f pio neer stock and gre w up on Hastings County farm s in the same area as the fa rm they now own in Frankford Jack farmed with hi s father before entering the O ntar io Agricultural Co llege in 1940

and took up so il fertility field plot work at the Co llege after his graduation He late r worked as a soils fie ldman with agricultural representat ives throughout central O ntario frolll York to North umberland Count ies until in 1949 he took a leave to complete M Sc and PhD degrees at the University of Illinois

He returned to the O AC in 1950 to the then Soils Department now the Departshyment of Land Resource Science where he has been a facult y member since In more recent years he has spent periods of time on a soil management project for the Internashytional Atomic Energy Agcncy

Btlly and Ja ck Ketchesun 4 lef t were royallv fetcd (l a rctiremelfl party Sh(rin ~

their table is OAC Dean Freeman McEwen

Over the years the Ketchesons have played an active role in church and commushynity activities in G uelph with Jac k servin g on the Board of Education and the executive uf the Waverley Masonic Lodge and in organizations including the On tario In~t ishy

tutc of Agrolog ists the S igma Xi Resea rch

Society the Internat iona l Soil Till age Reshyearch Association and the Univers ity Facshy

ul ty Association The Kctcheson s plan to retain their

home in Guelph but will sp nd time devcloping a crops program on thei r farm

Jack was honouree at a recent party where he was presented with a captain s

All You Need to Know About By Penny Clelland

If hothouse tomatoes depress you if the arrival of the first seed cata logue fill s you with glee if your thumb has the slightest green ti nge you may have the makings of

a super-gardener Super-gardene rs transform seeds and

soil into baske ts of big fresh beautiful vegshyetables They save money (about 13 per cent of the ave rage food budge t goes for

fruit and vegetables) and they are always searching for a new strawberry variety a better cold fram e design or the ultimate zucshychini recipe

Fortunately super-gardeners are made not born according to the Univershysitys Independent Study division A home study course offered by Independent Study was written specifically with green thumbs in mind

Plant care in the Home Garden is

a complete garden guide with practical

ideas and tips T he tex t describes the activities of each

season wi th schedules flir plan ting fertil i7shying spraying and har esting More than 500 colour sl ides in fil mstrips accomshypanied by the authors commentary on casshysette tape explain planting pruning and identifying varieties disorders and pests

O ther courses inc lude Plant Usc in the Home Landscape Landscape Deshysign and Installation and Plant Propagashytion There are also mini-courses in Growing Roses Deciduous Trees and Propagation of Tropical Plants

Prices range from $20 to $140 for the courses For more information contact Inshydependent Study University School of Part-Time Studies and Continuing Educashy

tion South House Univers ity of Guelph Guelph Ontario N I G 2W I or phone (519) 824-4120 Ext 3375 3400 0

chair a lit hograph by Brian Lowry Illus trashytion Se rvices and a book of le ttCfs from former graduate students who now live as lar away as Africa and the Ph ilipp ines 0

Mailbag OAC Alumni Association University ofGuelph Guelph Oll1 NI G 2WI

DearSirorMadam

I would like to thank you Jor helping us keep in touch through your publications They were most helpflll during (he three and a half years I was posted in the Caribshybean where information and telephones were not easily obtailled The articles ill the G uelph Alumnus proved helpjill ill more than one ilfJ tance in obtainillg edllcatiollal information much Ileeded in a country like Ha iti

I would appreciate ifyou would report theJollowing in yourOAC grad flews

Jim Hamilton 77 has returned 10

Brockville Oll lpoundlrio after three and a half years in the Caribbean workin g with Maple Leaf Mills He is now working as territory manager Jor their Feed Division in eastern Ontario

Thank you once again for your fine

work Sincerely Jim Hamilton B Sc( Agr) 77 57 Bartholomew Street Brockville Onl K6V 2R5

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U of Gs Yellow Potato Takes Market by Storm

A unique yellow-fl eshed potato deshyveloped at the University of Guelph has taken the us market by storm

US buyers particularly in Michigan are buying all of the seed they can some are disappointed that more seed is not availshyable

The potato variety known as Yukon Gold was devcloped by the Department of Horticultural Science and released four years ago by potato breeder Gary Johnston now retired from Agriculture Canada and University professor Geoff Rowberry 55

[t is the first yellow-fleshed potato to be developed and licensed in Canada

Gary Johnstons successor at Agricul shyture Canada Robert Coffin says the Amershyican s received sample seed as part of an on-going exchange program among breedshyers They tested it and liked it

The Americans liked Yukon Gold s buttered appearance saw a marketing opshyportunity in it s golden colour found it grew well under their growing conditions and now package and sell it under the trade mark Michigan Golden Bake Robert said One American market survey shows consumers like the potato s fla vo ur vershysatility and colour fleshed species from Peru and the variety growers to capitalize on Yukon Golds

Growers al so like this new variety beshy Katahdin unique properties But it does take promoshycause it gives good yield s ha s high solids Yukon Gold IS ideal for boiling and tion and consumer awareness and matures early so it can be harvested baking and makes superb french fries But The University S breeding program is in mid-July to fetch a prcmium price it does not chip well This limitation has now concentrating efforts on finding an imshy

Yukon Gold was first developed in partially prevented it from being widely proved chipping variety Such breeding 1966 in respon se to reque sts from Euroshy grown in Ontario up to 50 per cent of the programs usually start between 40000 and pean immigrants to Canada who were potatoes grown in Ontario are used for makshy 50000 new seedlings every year accustomed to eating yellow-fleshed potashy ing potato chips We graduaJly eliminate the inferior toes [n Europe Brazil and the Caribbean Robert Coffin is pleased that Yukon seedlings until we get down to very low yellow-fleshed potatoes arc preferred Gold is being well received in the United numbers and hopefully after 12 to 15

Gary Johnston created Yukon Gold by States and he hopes for increased recogni shy years we co me up with superior attributes crossing Norgleam a variety from North tion for this new variety here in Ontario compared to those varieties already on the Dakota with a hybrid of a wild yellow- The opportunity is here for Ontario market say s Robert Coffin 0

Robert Coffin left and Professor GeoffRowberry 55 with Yukon Cold

He Was the Prairie Gardner Reprinted from The Prairie Garden

There arc fcw horti culturists who ha vc contributed as much and for as long a timc to horticultural education and ck ve lopment ofthe pra iricsas l R Bob Almcy 21

Th Prairie Garden first published as thc Winllipeg Flower Cardell in 1937 knew him both as a frequent contributor of articles and al so as a long-timc board me JJ1bcr of the publish i ng co mm i tee

Bob Almcy was 16 when he accomshypanicd hi s parcnts to Canada from Le iccs shy

te r England On his arrival hc started a long carcer in his chosen field with Johnson Brothcrs orchardists ncar Forest Ontario Hc soon becamc a student of horticu I tUfe at the Ontario Agricultural Collcge at Guelph During his summer holidays spent with the Horticultural [)(partment of the OAC he worked alongside Isabclla Preshyston noted origi nator of many new plant varieties

In September 1917 during his third year of studies at Guelph he joined the Royal Flying Corps as an air cadet and was

discharged with th e rank of Second Lieutenshyant in December 1918

He returned to th e OAC and graduated in 1921 with the degree of Bachelor of Scishyence in Agriculture

The Manitoba Department of Agriculshyture created the position of extension hortishy -culturist in 1921 and hired Bob Almey that year He filled that position from 1921 to 1928 His dutics in the first year included the distribution of two carloads of certified Irish Cobbler seed potatoes to farmc rs He worked closdy with market gardeners and the hobby horticulturists of the Manitoba Horticultural Association (MHA)

He left the Manitoba Department of

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Agriculture to become chici horticu lturist Weste rn Lines- T hunder Bay to Vanshy

couver Islanu- of the Canadian Pac ific

Rail way As such he was in charge of the

railway s park and garden work advising officials and empl oyees o n stat ion garden plantings and o n tree shelter belts along the rai Iroad s right-of-way

Oldtimers will reme mber the we ll landscapeu prairi e stations and the beautiful

parks in large r centres that resulted from his work Bob was made ge neral agriculshytural agen t combining both ho rticul ture

and agriculture and continued in that post until his retirement in 1960

Rob Almey was an organi zation man

Hc Joined the MHA as soon as he came to Manitoba and was its secretarytreasurer

from 1922 to 1928 In 193 I hc becamc a director of that Assoc iation and served in th at capac ity for man y years In 1938

he became president of the MHA In 1956 he was made an honorary life member Bob is a life member of the Stevenson Memorial

Boare

For many years he was a judge of the Provincial Home Grounds Competition and

also the Prov incial Slide Co mpetiti o n Bob al so served the Association as ex -offic io director and finally as honorary preside nt

a pos it ion he re linqui shed in 1981 The Winnipeg Hort icultural Society

and the Winnipeg Gladiolus Society value his contributi ons to the ir programs He served as director and preside nt of both o rshy

ganizations and was honoured with ho norshyary life membersh ip by both

He is a charter member of thc Western

Canadian Society for Horticulture it s presishy

dent in J952 an d rec ip ie nt of its honorary life membershi p in 1961 Th e Man itoba In shystitute of Ag rologis ts and the Agricultural Institute o f Canada both honoured him with

honorary life memberships In 1972 the

anadian Ho rticultural Co uncil Fesented him with a merit award

Three awa rds are espeL ially dear to Bob and hi s wife Olive In 1970 the Hon

Philip Petu rrson Mini ster of Cultural Afshy

fairs made Bob a captain of the Order of

A Pioneer of the 4-8 Program Frederick Waldemar Waldo Walsb 22 MB E F A IC LLD formerly of Palmeter Avenue Kentville N S and ltl Ia ng-t ime res ident of Hal ifax NS died at the Weste rn King s Memorial Hospita l Berwick NS on February II He was

86 years o ld

Born in Monc to n N B Dr Walsb will be remembered as being one of Canadas outstanding agriculturists who

served in many capacities and many offishyces throughout a distinguished caree r spanshyning some 51 years

At the time of his retirement as Deputy

Minister of Agricu lture and Marketing for Nova Scotia in 1962 a pos itio n he had

held for 17 years he was the lo ngest serving Deputy Minister of Agriculture in Canada

Upon g raduation from th e Nova Scotia Agricultura1 College in 191 7 he en lis ted in the Royal Flying Corps with the rank of second lieutenant and was in training

as a pilot when the war ended Upon di-sshycharge he joined the staff of the New Bru-nsshy

wick Department of Agricu lture Livestock Division with whtch he remained until

1920 when he entered the OAC

In 1922 he joined Jhe staff of the Ca nada Departmen t of Agriculture as sheep and sw-ine promoter at Truro NS where

he remained until 1926 whe n he was apshypointed professor of Animal Husbandry and

director of Live stock M arketing at the Nova Scotia Agricultural Collcge

In 1927 Waldo became eastern supershy

intenden t of agriculture for the Can ad ian Nationa l Ra ilway s and in 1929 superinshytendent of ag ricultu re over the entire C R system

He rejoi ned the staff of the N S De shypartment of Agri culture in 1933 as director

of marketing a position he he ld until his appointment as De(1Uty Mini ster in 1945

Following his fonnal retirement he

served for several months as specia l marshy

kets adv isor and then for seven years as director of Co-operative Advisory Serv shyices Maritime Co-operative Services Moncton NB

Waldo was the last surviving member

of a g roup of three which was responsible

for the creation and developmen t of the

Canadian Council on Boys and Girls Club Work (now 4-H Clubs) and the las t survivshyin g member of the first Maritime Livestock

Marketing Board which eventua ll y became Maritime Co-operative Servi ces and now Co-op Atlantic

He was recognized by St Franc is Xavier Universi ty which confetTed the deshy

gree of Docto r of Law honoris causa in 1953 Oth er honours included being named a Member of the Order of the Briti sh Empire in the 1945 New Years Ho no urs li st being elected to the Atlantic Prov ince s Agricu lshy

tu ra l Hall ofFame a Fe llo w of the Agriculshytural Institute of Canada an honorary life

membe r of the Nova Sco tia Fruit Growers Associatio n a member of the Senate of

the Nova Scotia Federation of Agriculture

the Buffalo Hunt This order was instituted in 1957 spec ially to honou r those who have

made dist inct ive contributions to life in the

provin ce of Manitoba The wi dely famed Almey Rosybloom crabapple was fittin gly

named in Bob Almey s hono ur Just reshycently the American Gladio lu s Society ho noured Bob with its Gold Meda l Award

Despite all the activities in whi ch he was invo lved Bo b and Olive found time

to garden This gladio lus ex pert grew 1000 and more g lads at his little farm in Libau

Man He named several varieties He loved

to grow potatoes and Spanish onions But both of them also loved to show at the anshynual flower shows winnin g many prizes

and ribbons Today Bob an d Olive live in the ir

com fort ab le home in Winni peg Both an alert and we ll They still attend horticul tural

meetings and Bob still prescnts an oceashysiona llectu re

The Prairie Garden sa lutes thi s grand old hort icultu ris t and his wife All of us prairie gardeners arc indebted to the m 0

and a life member of the Canadian C lub Council on 4-H Cl ubs

During the past ten years he was inst rushymental in obtaini ng services for alcoho l and d rug dependency peopl e in the An napoli s Vallcy Reg ion and was a member of the Advisory Council of the Valley Health Sershy

vices Association Alcohol Dependency Program sin ce its inception He was a great

source of comfort and assis tance to many individuals in this prog ram

He was a member of the Kentvillc Ro shytary Club and for many years an acti ve and enthu siastic membe r of the Ha lifax

Curling Club 0

Fellowship J Edward Brubaker 49 manager Onshyta rio Ministry of Agriculture and Food ene rshygy centre in Guelph has been nam ed a Fellow of the Agr icultura l Insti tute of Canada (AIC)

He is among fivc AIC members to reshyceive the fe llowship honou r this year An

honorary life membership has also been -awarded to George Price a CBC radio agshyriculture reporter who covers Parlmiddotiamcnt Hill

Former pres idcnt Art Guitard was given the Ale recogni tion award for work on a c rop production and the environment

publication

The awards will be made during the annual meeting sc hed uled for Winnipeg Man in August 0

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Grad News Wilfrid Holtma nn MSA 62 is direcshytor of marketing CIAQ Inc SI HyashycintheQue

jurgen Koch Ph D 74 is a research as shysociate Departnw nt of Land Reso urce Sci shyencc Cn ivc ri ty ofG uelph

Marcel Couture MSc 76 a farm manshyagement speciali st was appoi nted as direcshytor of cxte nsio n senicc at Macdona ld Colshykgc McGil l Uni verity Que effective anuary I 19X4

A na tive of th e eastern towns hips he is a I 91i5 graduate of lacdonal d s Dip loma Pmgrall1 in Agricu ltu re an d earned a HSc(Agr) there in 1 ~72 be fore cnteri ng the nivcrsity of Guelph in th e fie ld 01 Agric ultural Economi cs and Extens ion Ed ucation

He was a~s is t a nt director of Mac shydona ld s Dipl oma ProgrJill in Agric ulture before hi prescnt appointment and will contin ue with hi s tCltJeh ing and ad mi nistrashytivc duti es in thc Dipl oma Pro[r~ lill

Gail (Tuumanen ) and Nei l Dolson both gradultJ tc s of 77 arc now ow neroperators of FJ inbrook FaInl Supply Binbrook

Kathr)n ( 1cLcod) Harrison 77 and husband Wayne 79 arc li ving in Guc[ph Waync is credit officer wi th the Toronto Dominion Bank Guelph The y have a daughte r M gha n lea n born November 15 I l)X)

john Tucker BSc ( En~) 78 is a cusshytOIllS investiga tor Revenll e Canada Cusshytoms and Excise Il amilton His wife Anna Mae Shelton-Tucker is J graduate of 79

Glen I1cRuer 79 is a rn al(ster Canada MI [ting Cn C li glry A[ta

Steven Vlnkatarayappa M Sc 79 PhD S3 is an assoc iate profe ssor of Hort icul ture Unive rs ity of Agrieu [tural Scie nce Ra ngal orc Indi a

joan (Elder) Weller SO i an ass istant CilCllli t Pops iclc Indu trics Burl ington Husband Tim also SO i dislt-ict s a [e~

m1I1agcr Pionee r II i-Bred Ltd Clla tham

Rogcr SI Pierre SI i a grai n me rchant wi th Jalllcs Rich ardson amp Sons Ltd Toshyronto His ik Stephanie (Weedle) is a graduatc of 82

Sophia Dinnisscn S2 is a studen t I t Wil shyfr id Lau rier Uni versity Wate rl oo

Nicholas Groot 82 is milk superv isor Ontario Da iry Herd improvement Assoc iashytion Toronto

Rober t Hack ney 82 is head wi nemaker Chara l Wi nery and Vi neyards Inc B[enheim

Frederick j amieson 82 is a quality as shysurance inspec tor J M Schneide r Inc Kitchener

Geollrey Jones S2 I S man ager of the UCO Elmwood branch

Susan Kelner 82 is a technica l a ~~ is tant

Chip man Inc SlOney Creek

Ca rolinc Kennedy S2 is a graduate stushydent Uni vcrsi ty of Manitoba Win nipeg

Jannette Leask 82 is territory sales repshyresentati ve Ral ston Purina Canada In c Whit by

Christopher McLean 82 IS a reseJrch technolog iq Ca mpbell So up Co Ltd Toron to

Lloyd Mitchell 82 is territory manJge r Ralston Purina Canada Inc Woodstock

R Ramirez Nathan 82 is an agronomist promoter Communidad Por Los Inos Antiolj ui a Colombia Sout h Am erica

Eileen (Richards) johnson MSc 83 is an executive assi stan t Ontar io olll mu shynity De vc lllpment Associa tion Uni ve rsity of Guc[ph

Diploma Gaduates

Keith Sinclair S4A has reccntly been appoi nt d vice-president and treasurer ofmiddot the United Co-ope ratives of Onllrio lie hi been wit h l jCO to r 21 years

David Thorton 64A is a [ocomot ive enshyg ineer Canadian aliona[ Rai lways Toshym nlO

Larry Inglis 66A i ~ purchasing man shyage r Canadian Canners Ltd Hamilton

Wa)ne Waugh 68A is an age ncies sale s and deve lopme nt representati ve Petro shyCanad a Prod ucts Don Mills

Eugene McDonald 77A is a mec han ic with Motorways Edmonton A[ta

j ames Slingerland 79A is an inspector Ontario Ministry of Agricultu re and Food liagara Fal[ s

In Me moriam Donald Risebrough 77 immed iate past preside nt of thc OAC Alumni Assoc iat ion d ied on June 30 1984 The news of his tragic death brought a great sensc of sad ness and almost di sbe li ef to his man y fri ends Don had presided a wee k prev ioUsly at many ac tiv ities during Alumni Weekend 84 celebrations He was killed when his ca r went out of control on a Hi ghway 40 I off-ram p He was on his way to visit his parents at their farm ncar Markham Don was di stri ct rep resentative Ontari o Holshystc in Branch Holstein-Fri es ian Associashyti on Brantford

William J Cohoe 03A died on March 19 1984 ilt Norvi[[ a ursing Homc Norshywich He had becn one of the oldes t gradshyuates of the OA

Dr Lloyd G Herman 34 a micro shybio log ist who retired from the US Nashytiona l Institutes of Health (NIH) in 1)7l) dicd February I 1984 at his home in Bet hesda Md Us A

He received his doc torate in Mic ro shybio logy from McG i[[ Uni versity in 1948 and after working at severa l private labora shytori es in the US A joined th e sta fr of IH in I lti 1i8

In 21 years lJi service he publi shed and lectured extensively and aec umu[ated vario Lis honours in his fie ld He was the first to ide nti fy a strain of ye llow-pig me nted waterborne bacteria th at the Centers of Dis shyease C()ntrol named f~s(I(r(h (l hall(III

in his honour in 19X2

Dr Herm an was vc ry active in the American Sl1ci ety fo r Mi robiology (ASM) and its Washi ngton bra nch Ill held JII offi shyces in the Washingto n branch of ASM in shycl ud ing pres idcnt Jnd continual[y held branch posts un til his death He was also a paS pres iden t 01 th Canadian Club of Washingtoll and lfthe Envi ronlllcnta[ Man-3cment Association

He WJs one of the incorporators or the Fricnds of ni ve rsit y ofGuclph Inc

George C McLaren 35 on February 10 1984 in Ollawa I Ie had retired fro ill the Dcpart ment of Na tional lJe fence

Robert Karl Allison 75 BSc(Eng) on Novcmber 6 1910 in London He had been -product io n manager for Modornckan LId

Alison Lyn (Geddes) L1nyck iz 7S in a car acc ident in January 19X4 Her two-yearshyo ld daughte r Jess ica and her mother we re also killed in the accidcnt in Norfolk County Her husband Peter a lso a gradshyuate of 78 is cmp[oyed at anadian Can shyners Simcoe 0

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Macdonald InstituteCollege of Family and Consumer

Studies Alumni Association

ALUMN NEWS Editor Joan (Anderson) Jenkinson 66

From the Dean Dr Richard Barham

There is seldom an issue of the Mac-FACS Alumni News that goes by without there being a special interest item or two about our faculty On this occasion I want to draw your attention to the announecment in this iss ue of the appointment of Dr Brucc Ryan to the chairmanship of the Department of Family Studies

I ex tend our congratulations to Dr Ryan on hi s success in winning this appointshyment in the open competition which was he ld across Canada for the position At the samc time I want to extcnd my very warm thanks 10 Dr Eli za bcth Miles who has been serving the Department and indeed the College so well over this past year through her rcsponsiblities as the Departments act shying chairman

I know that you will be interested to learn too that Dr Powerss appointment as Director of the School of Hotel and Food Admini stration has been renewed for a furth er term We wish Tom and his eolshyleaglle s a continuation of the distinction and successes which have marked the life of the hotel school to date

And while referring to the hotel school J also want to ask you to read thc article in thi s iss ue on Professor George Bedell the School s first director George has made a remarkable contribution while he has been at Guelph most particularly of course in a ll matters relating to the HAFA program and its students J want to thank George on behalf of us all for his vision and commitment over the years and for the interest and care he has for the HAFA grads

We had a spendid alumni retirement celebration for George at the King Edward Hotel in Toronto in May In the best tradishytion of our HAFA alumni and the hospitality industry it was a superb occas ion and fully expressive of the affection and respect which we all feel towards George Many

many thanks George We wish you and Louise a long and happy retirement

As I prepare the draft for this newsletshyter the Annual Mae-FACS Alumni Seminar has just been held The topic this year was Aging Myths and Realities and this ocshycasion too was a resound1l1g sueecss r am sure that I express the sentiments of the many alumni and friend s who were there in extending our congratulations and thanks to Gail Murray 78 and the members of her organizing committce

By the way if you have not yet made a contribution to the MAC 38 Gerontology Scholarship please do support the vision of this wonderfully energetic group of grads right now They reall y need your contribushytions to build up the scholarship fund and we have an urgcnt need to support students in this ncw and humanly important area of sc holarship

Many of you and others who arc not among our alumni have been ask ing us to organize courses which ill help you keep up to date in your profess ional fie lds Some of our conferences of course along with the Alumni Seminar arc intended to do just thi s But we now also have a number of our credit courses specially designed and developed for what we call dis tance teachshying

Already we have eomscs on Human Development Marital and amily Dynamshyics Family Economics Human Sex uality and the Exceptional Child The se courses are ava ilable to you on a correspondence basis and usc a comprehensive and carefully prepared study guide They in volve tests and ass ignments of course and the course in structors respond to questions either through mailed memos or by phone

You can take the final exam here in Guelph or possibly at a centre either in or near your own home town Write to Profes shysor Sam Luker chairman Part-Time and General Studie s if you want to find ou t more about our distance teaching program

You might want to note the fACS Sheel order form on page 34 of thi s issue Ifon the mailing list for FACS Sheel publishycations you will sec topics which interest you Keep in loueh with us by sending for eopics D

Appointment Dr Bruce A Ryan took up his appointshyment as chairman of the Department of Family Studies on July I of this year He has become known to many of our alumni over the years s ince his first appointment to that department as an assistant professor and director of the Laboratory Schools in 1975 He was promoted to the rank of asshysociate professor in 1980

Dr Ryan had hi S BA in Psychology eonfelTed by the University of Alberta (1964) He obtained both the M Ed (1969) and PhD (1971) degrees in Educational Psychology from the same university He has held the position of Psychomotrist at the Alberta Hosp ital in Edmonton and a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Centrc for the Study of Mental Retardation at the Unishyversity of Alberta Before moving to Guel ph in the mid- 70s Dr Ryan held his first university teaching and research post at Victoria University in Wellington New Zealand

Irokssiona l and co mmunity service activities figure significantly among Dr Ryans involvements He is first vice-presishydent of the Canad ian Association for Educashytional Psychology and vice-president also of the Ontario Association of Family Se rshyvice Agencie s He is on the editorial board of the publication Canadas iInlal Heallh and among other sc holarly and professhysional bodies a member of the Canadian Association for the Treatment and Study of Families

The primary focus of Dr Ryans teachshying research and academic publications has been upon the ecology of human (and particularly child) development and learnshying He has a special interes t in person-envishy shyronment interactions particularly within the context of family system s and with reshygard to possible impacts upon children s learningdiffieulties in school

Dr Ryans wife Nancy is a librarian with special interests in childrens books and school libraries Bruce and Nancy have two delightful daughters Keri and Jenny both of whom are at elementary school D

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End of an Era The editor wishes 0 extend a sincere thank you to Joe Van Koe verdel 75 BComm editor oJthe Hotel and Food Administration

Alumni News Jor permission to reprint this article wrillen by D Kanzler and pubshylished in April

W hen retiring Professor George Bedell

close s his office door behind him for the

las t lime on September I and hangs out The Mac-FACS Alumni Seminar attracted 175 to the Guelph Campus in April The the GONE FISH ING sign hell close topic was Aging Myths and Realities Leaders oj the interest sessions were I to the door on an era in the Canadian hospiality r Dr John Powell Leslie (Good) Snell 64 Smuly Forbes 82 Gail Murray 78 education indu stry seminar committee chairman Donna Woolcott 69 Rev Lance Woods and Grella

And hell open the door to a flood Riddell-Dixon of tributes from the hospitality industry as

the man who spearheaded the development

of Canadas first school of hotel and food

admini stration They will remember him

as the mentor who set high standards shy

the man who made hospitality manageme nt

a profess ion The students now 650 graduates

strong will remember him as the man who

gave hospitality cducation credibility - the

man who made them professionals His facshy

ulty peers will prai se George Bedell s pershy

severance in building a degree-granting sc hool at a time when such an institution

was unheard of on Canadian university

campuses

All will point to his many awards

Participants a the Seminar included Alumni in Action members I to r Jack Palmer OAC 38 Elsie (Hume) Pettit 34 Harvey Pettil OAC 32 Do (Stuari) Paitner 36 and Jim Baker OAC 28

chief among which were the 1975 Queens you hope you ha ve made a lasting contribushy Hotel Adminis tration at Michigan State Jubilee Meda l the 1981 Member CRA tioll And I hope my leade rship with the University but in 1942 draft papers took Foundation College of Diplomates and the help of others has ensured this program s priority He served with the United States 1983 Jack C Sim Man of the Year success he says Army until 1946 when disc harged as a Award as confirmation of Pro fe ssor Beshy Connec ticut-born George Bedell credshy Captain and continued as a reserve officer dell s outstanding contributions its an itinerant father for developing his until 1962 when he was discharged with

T he tribute s would make Geo rge interests in the industry He used to bring thc rank of Major SOli Ie perhaps blush and prompt a throaty back all kinds of fascinating brochures from The post-war years saw him work as chuckle because when all is said and done hotels across the USA - thats what got manager of scveral Connccticut inns and he would s imply like to be remembered me started hotel s before being asked to join Michigan for who he is When you leave something George completed his BA studies in Statc s Faculty of Continuing Education in

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1953 It proved to be a turning point in hi s career

By 1959 George had been appointed director o f Man agement T rainin g Proshygrams and director of Business and Tcchn ishycal Advisory Service for the National Re~shytaurant Association in Chicago He held that position until 1969 when he was in shyvited by thc Uni versit y of Gue lph to take ove r as director of Canada s first School of Hotel and Food Administration H~ re shyma ined director until 1979 fo llowing whi ch he continued teaching at th e School

I knew lots of peop le in industry here and saw the opportunity to help the hospitalit y industry he says of hi s deci shys ion to move to Guelph [ saw thi s as a rea l chall enge But [ always knew we would succeed I decidcd from day o ne that we would make a go of it he adds with characteri stic determi nation

If his first years were frustrating it was mainl y because of thc students skeptishycism They we re so worried about th e Schools reputation and whether there d be Jobs waiting for them I had to build Iheir confidence - ove r and over again I look now at what our gradu ates ha ve accomshyplished and I feel good about hav ing played a role in their su ccess II mea ns the proshygram s have grown the way we thought they should and proves th at we ha ve bcen doing somethin g right here at Guelph

Professor Bede ll is particularly proud of the new Advanced Management Program for the Hospita lit y Indu stry (AMPHI ) estabshyli shed by Pro fe ssor Tom Po we rs the preshysent director of the Schoo l last ye ar to help train and de ve lop top level manage rs No other uni versity in the world is do ing this type of ed ucation al training for the hospitalshyity industry he points out Moreover AMPHI is th e kind of program that s vi tal to the future of the hos pit alit y industry The industry is still ex pand ing all forecasts po int to mo re people ca ti ng out more peop le travelling - and that means a growshying need for facilitie s and trained people

Corne September I George Bedcl l wi ll monitor th at growth - and his Schools successes - from afa r Hi s re shytiremenl caree r in cludes so rnc travel lots of fishing tinle to get a little fun out ot life and pl~tnS to build a hOllle on the coast of Maine tor his wife Loui se and himse lf But distance won t keep hi thoughtgt from Willin g back to Guc I ph

Fifteen yea rs ago he says he was given the chal len ge to get Guelphs Schoo l of Hotel and Food Admini st ration off th e gro und lto w on the e ve of hi s retirement he issues hi s ow n chall enge to the Schoo l Ten years from now [ wa nt to be abl e to say - Look how that School has grown ho w its progressing how its getting better al l the time 0

Grad News Foods amp Nutrition

LornI Dixon 83 is a die tetic intern at the Health Science Centre in Winni peg Man

Lori M Farr 79 is empl oyed with the Nutri tion Department Cen tenary Hospi ta l West Hill

Pat Faber 78 is pati ent food services co-ordinator with Roya l Jubliee Hospital Victoria BC

Elaine (Dashner) Robichaud 80 i food service director Saga Ca nad ian v1anageshyment Services Susse x Health Centre NB

Karen (Seib) Webber 78 is an outpati ent dietiti an at Van couver Ge neral Hospital BC

Libb~ (Lewis ) Logan 74 is a clin ical di etitian with the hildren s Hospi tal 01 Ealern Ontario Ottawa

Educa tion

fngl id ( ppell ) larsh 69 i 1 l e~tC llcr

Wentworth Count) Fl(l~lnl Drhlucatioll

Lolly (Robinson) Bartkew 62 is a supshypl y teacher with the Waterloo County Board () f Education

Kathi Ayers 73 is an in~dructo r with Grande Prairie Regiona l College Grande Prairi e Alta

Lauric (Watson) Goorts 79 is a Family Stud ie teache r with th e Waterloo County Board of Educati on

Ta mm) (Hryhorenko) Warren 75 is de partm~nt head Famil y Studies Westdale SS Hamilton

Josie (Lohuis) Schneider 80 is te aching at the Catholic Central High School LonshydonOnt

Social Services

Judi th Tansley 69 is a counsellor with Sunstar House Saskatoo n Sask

Rev Kay (Finlay) Hagey 37 is wilh th e Ang lican Church of Ca nada SI Andre ws Church Grim sby

Christine (Brady) MacPhee 78 is a unit le ade rsocial worker with Famil y and Chilshydrens Services Goderich

Eileen (Derynck) O ls thoorn 78 is a 0shy

cial worker with Halton Childrens Aid Oak vill e

Donna (Rose ) Allen 70 is a compl ianee officer with the Hea lth Protection Branch Health and Welfare Canada Otta wa

Janine Jones 82 is a developm ntal Inshystructor with Si rTI eoc Habi I i tative Sen ICC)

Business and Industry

-arion (Kerr ) I1ennenrent 7 1 11Sc 76 is employed wit h Gary S Hcn nn k nt Insurance Services Ltd Vancou cr BC

Edna (Hay ) Jarrell 36 is presiden t Edna Jarrc I I Rcal rstatc h lingto n

Ann (McClure ) Keller 78 is a denta l tec hnician with J PO Ir()CCor~ Inc Gue lph

Sharon Salm-ltrose 82 is an advert isi ng consultant wi th WS Marketi ng AlnlC 0

Meeting Notice

Guelph Branch MacmiddotFACS Alumni

Association Annual Membership

Coffee Party 730 p _m to 1000 pm_

September 2 51984

At the home of Margaret (Hamilton) Bates 53

303 Edinburgh Road South Guelph Ontalio

In Memoriam Margaret (Blac kh am ) Elliott 350 R R I Blenheim date ordelt h unknown

Edith (Hubbard ) Garrison 320 Janu shyary 19K4 inCenterLine Mich US

Susan lIem i ngwa~ 31D February 1 -19R4 inTnronto

J u ne (Van Someren ) Van Wyck 47 D Februa ry 12 1984 in Hamilton

Velma (Balkwill) Stuck 210 February J 19R4 at R R if fgt Woodstoc k Her husshyband th e late Fred W Stock was an OAC 21 grad Her son Oa id JB Stock QC isan OAC 59 grad U

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AI mnos of

Honotlr 1984

Elliott Mac McLoughry OAC 22

With the Ontario Department of Agrishy

culture (ODA) as Agricultu ra l Represhyse ntative in Vi ctoria Dundas and W aterloo Counties Ellio lllrwin McLo ughry was a

pioneer d uri ng a time o f greattechnicaJ advance in Fann practices

A h ighly respec ted ge nt le man who

ga ined the confide nce o f the Menno nite people

o f Waterloo Co unty hi s accomplishments inc lude the introduc tio n o f short-courses for farmers and a soil conservatio n program the es tab lishment of Bacon Hog Fa irs and the Waterloo callie breeding unit and co-ope rashytio n w ith the OAC in the first nematode

program

Aged 90 last Jul y Mac througho ut hi s worki ng li fe made s ign ificant contributio ns to Canadian agric ultu re and to socie ty and ill

1964 re tired from his positi o n as d irector o f extens io n DA He lives at the Presto n Springs Gardens Retirement Ho me J 02 f o untain tree t So uth Cambridge Ontario 0

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They believe his major fail accompli was or fund raisingliaison and as an admisshy

Jirccting a $25 million capital fund raising sions counsellor

campaign for the Toronto French School In 1982 John joined thc Ontario C rafts John received his secondary education Council as its exceutivc director Thc Counshy

in Toronto graduating from Victoria Park cil which is a non-profit organization rcshy

Sccondary in 1965 Fro m 1965 to 1967 ce ivin g 20 per ecnt government fundin g John was enrolled in the Journali sm course IS a multi-faceted operations gallcry which at Bowling Green State University O hio pre se nts 12 publications annually U SA and from there it was but a short At the Ontario Crafts Council he deshy

John D journey to Gue lph veloped prog rams that incrcased membershyMahley 70 John returned to Bowling G reen State ship by one third incrcased fund raising

to obtain a Masters degree He majored rcsults twentyfold and in stitutcd corporatc in outreach in higher education and from sponsors hip for the first timc in the CounshyOur TraveUing thcre went on to the Universi ty of Northern cils ex tens ive exhibitions program Co lorado U S A receiving an E DS Hi s Hc helped to found the Southcastern Graduate major was HumanCommunity Relation s Michi gan Association of Alumni Directors O rganizational Behaviour We understand in 1977 served as vice-president of the O nshy

W hen we heard from John D Mabley Joh n also visited Cleveland Ohi o U S A tario Assoc iation o f Alumni Administrators 70 he had been newly appointed to the for a time where he was an intern with in 1978 was a mem ber o f the Board of positi on of director of developmcnt the Community Services Division of Director ofmiddot the National Socie ty of Fund Dalhousie University NS However that C ayuga Community College Cleveland Raising Lxecutives (Can ada) in 1981 and is not to say he will still be there when Back at the University of Guelph in 1982 and has chaired committces for the

this article is in print John has done much 1975 he held the position of development Canadian Ccntrc for Phil anthropy

travelling and made many moves in his officer with the Department of Alumni Afshy John has do nc much travelling to arshycarcer path since he graduated with a degree fairs and Deve lopment for just over a year rivc at h is current status in fact you could in Sociology and Political Science He assisted in setting up fund raising projshy call him a ro lling stone But unlike the

Dalhousie University feels John will ects beques ts and commemorative giving stone which gathers no moss John has

be a strong asset to them with his extensive Most of Johns working experience has gathcred cxpericnccs and used thcm to grcat

and impress ive background in fund raising been in alumni relations and development advantagc Congratulations John 0

family including the dog have travelledResponding tomiddota Call in pursuit of his new field of cndeavo ur Furthcr training took him wcst thcn back

The Reverend Donald M Prince 77 was to Ohlano and Emmanucl College where responding to a call when he enrolled at he achievcd a Mastcr o f Di vinity dc~ree Guelph to follow Christ in the ordai ned and cxperienced ful fi Ilment of his drealllsshy

ministry Don has a back ground of working ordination by the Toronto Conference of for what he wants and applying his talents Thc United Church ofCanada in order to achieve his goals In this he This was succeeded by more travelling was successful by Don and family on placements in Sasshy

Don did not complete his G rade 13 katchewan Man and it was during theirThe Reverend

prior to leaving schoo l Instead he entered thrce-year stay in that province that they Donald M

the wo rkforce and became invol ved with Icarned to appreciate its beauty wondersPrice 77 the big three auto manufacturers A total and the hospitality which enhanced their of 12 years were spent in that worki ng lives further

environment and during this time Don very positi ve but none the less somewhat Don shares with us the fulfillment also successful I y completed his Grade 13 at frightening Do n sums it up simplistica lly of a boyhood dream when he expericnced night school and spent three years in the by saying Univers ity was an adjustment the ca ttlc drives and round-ups cowboyshy

Royal Canadian Army Signal C orps First came the reality of once again being style It was in ~askatchcwcn where I was Havi ng completed G rade 13 Don then a student I remember standing on the steps introdu ced to ~ hristian Cowboys an asshy

applied for entry to G uelph specifically beshy by the McLaughlin Library looking towards soc iati on of Athletes in Action

cause of the value of the three-semester the University Centre and thinking LORD Don and Judy the girls and the dog system His aim was to quickly attain an I must be crazy to be here -an oblique are now residing in Fleshenon-split rail undergraduate degree before entering Emshy cry for help and reassurance If it was country-serving 5t Johns United Church

manuel College Toronto to pursue a deshy Don ccrtainly had the answer in the support and Eugenia United Church They are hopeshy shygree in theology Once more Dons goals of the strength given to him by Judy his ful of a more permanent stay in Flesheno n were established- to take two years to fami ly friends and professors and hope to see their children study at complete his Bachelor s degree then on to Don believes the most significant inshy Guelph Don was pleased to share with us funher studies flu ence of the University upo n his life was his experiences and concludes with For

By thi s time Do n was married to Judy being forced to think systematically write students and academics at Guelph I have a University of Toronto grad and was the appropriately and to express my faith in these words o f Jesus With man it is imposshyfather of two young daughters so it must Jesus through academic channe ls sible but not with God for all things are have been a gigantic step to make the decishy Hc concluded hi s studies at Emmanuel poss ible with God Mark 1027 I share sion he did Obvio usly the ca ll he had was College in 1978 and since then he and his with you the joy of our li ves 0

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Annual Meeting 84

The 1984 CBSAA Annual Meeting openshyed with Dr Gcorge Dixon PhD 80 prcsidcnt who welcomed everyone Five undergraduate scholarships were awarded

as follows Madeline Austen Zoology Liz Hazlett Botany and Tracey Robinson Human Biology were recIpIents of CBSAA-AMF scholarships Mark Chanshydler Wildlife and James Kurucz Unshyspecialized were recipients of CBSAA scholarships

Dr Bruce Sells dean CBS was the guest speaker He opened his address by stating that we the alumni are in effect ambassadors of our University and of the College of Biological Science As ambasshysadors we contribute by being representashytives of our Colleges achievements in the work force by recruiting new members by making potential students aware of our academic programs and by developing means of providing financial aid

Dr Sells advised us that the College in addition to maintaining its traditional strengths will change its direction to enshycompass many of the new developments that have taken place in biology during the past few years A new Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics will proshyvide a higher profile for molecular science

in our College in addition to addressing thc necd for cell biology The meeting was followed by a buffet lunch 0

Change of Editor Editor of the BIO-ALUMNI NEWS since the summer of 1981 Dr John T Powell who retired from the College last June has with regret tumed in his editorial pen following three years of dedicated service as our CBSAA scribe We offer our grateful thanks to John for ajob well done

We extend a very warm welcome to our new editor Marie (Boissonneault) Rush B Sc 80 Marine Biology a reshysearch technician and part-time lab instrucshytor with the Department of Zoology Marie was CBSAA president for 1982- 1983

In 1965 Dr Powell was invited to

the University to form a School of Physical Education He is the creator of the Human Kinetics concept and soon instituted an

From Our President

The College of Biological Science was first identified as a separate college of the University of Guelph in 1971 making it one of the newest of the newer colleges on campus Because of this the CBS

Alumni Association is one of the more reshycent alumni groups to be established at Guelph and is the smallest Since the first organizational meeting of the CBSAA on December 2 1975 our various boards of directors have worked to establish a place for the CBSAA within the University sysshytem

At the time of our March 1984 annual general meeting there were 583 members

of the CBSAA representing just over 14 per cent of our 4130 known alumni This proportion is up from about 95 per cent the previous year but there is lots of room for growth As the CBSAA becomes more established and its membership continues to grow we will be in a better position to serve both alumni and currently enrolled students in the CBS

Last year we launched the first issue of the Zygote Plus The newsletter was well received and will in the future be sent to all members of the CBSAA I n addition to bringing you up to date on current issues and news within the CBS Im sure the 7ygole PLus will bring back many memories of tramping through the halls of BGampZ

Other activities of the CBSAA include

academic department Human Kinetics within the School

Although he has always been active and intense in his involvement with physshyical activity he is proud of the creation of the academic atmosphere in what is now the School of Human Biology with its three science degrees and of the pioneering steps taken for the establishment of the discipline devoted to human movement

Indicators of his participation in the University Community are shown in the

recent honours he has received In 1980 The Community Service Award in 1981 the University Achievement Award for Outstanding Contributions to Athletics in 1983 the first Special Merit A ward from the Faculty Association in three categories excellent teaching through the years curshyricular development and involvement with student advising In 1984 a scholarship in

his name was instituted by the Human Kineshytics Alumni Association

the sponsoring of fi ve undergraduate scholshyarships and one graduate scholarship and this year for the first time we will be

proudly presenting the Keith Ronald Fellowship to an eligible graduate student

Two items of change are in the wind for the coming year Firstly your Board of Directors will be making a motion at the next annual general meeting to increase membership fees The current fees of $4

per year for annual membership and $40 for life membership have remained unshychanged since the CBSAA was established in 1975 As costs have risen we must inshycrease our income to meet demands

Secondly we are looking into estabshy

lishing across the country a network of alumni to act as regional contacts for the

CBSAA There are enclaves of CBS grads in almost every biological institute from Victoria BC to St Johns Nfld and from Windsor Ont to Yellowknife in the Yukon Territories These contacts would act as a physical link between the CBSAA and alumni living and working in various locations throughout Canada

If anyone is interested in acting as a

regional contact person for the CBSAA please let us know Chances are good that many of you are in your present position because of the education you received while at the CBS Now might be the right time to consider giving a little something in reshytum-become involved with your Alumni Association

r would very much welcome hearing options news and ideas from alumni whershyever you may be Christopher Wren BSc 77 PhD 83

President CBSAA

Mention must be made of Dr Powell s involvement in the Olympic movcment

which is a source of immense pride for him He has been an Olympic coach in 19521956 and 1960 is a life member of the British Olympic Association and is a member of the Canadian Olympic Associashytion where he is a national selector

In 1972 1976 and 1980 he was present in ancient Olympia at official torch-lighting ceremonies and has been a lecturer at the

Intemational Olympic Academy seven times He has been named as colshy -laborateur by the Academy and his big moment was in 1981 when the President of Greece presented him with the Academy s silver medal for devoted sershyvice to the Olympic movement

He has always enjoyed his involveshyment in Alumni Affairs and has been a repshyresentative for many years We regret the resignation of our enthusiastic news editor Dr John T Powell D

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The Ontario Agricultural College Alumni Association

ALUMNI NEWS Editor Dr Harvey W Caldwell 51

IlDproving the Strain Reprinted from the OMAF News

Asparagus prized for its delicate flavour and considered to be somewhat of a luxury food commands an excellent price in both fresh and processing markets

Consumer demand for this delicacy often exceeds locally-grown supplies In 1981 for example Ontario imported about 16 million kilos of asparagus worth almost $3 million in the same year the provinces growers produced about 13 million kilos of asparagus also worth about 53 million

To help Ontarios growers expand into this lucrative market high-yielding asshyparagus varieties suited to Ontarios growshying conditions are bei ng developed and tested at the University of Guelph s Deshypartmental Horticultural Sc ience

Funding for this research which has gone on at the Ministry for a decade has becn provided by the Ontario Mi nistry of Agriculture and Food Agricul ture Canada and private industry

In 1981 OMAF also int roduced the $ 1 S III ill ion O ntario Asparagus Produc tion Incent ive Program which granted new and prc se nt growers $ 1200 per hec tare over a three-year period for new plan tings

To date almost $ 1 million has been aW(l rded As a result of th is support proshygram IOtal land plan ted in asparagus has increased from 971 hec tares in 1980 to 1905 hectares in 1983 An addit ional 12 14 hecshytares shou ld be added this year

Many of the asparagus varidi s grown at present in O ntario such as Vik ing Vi shyking 2K and Viking 2G arc hardy but do not produce yiclds comparable to varshyiet ies grown in o the r countries says Unishyversity of G uelph hort iculturist Professor Herman T iessen S 1

But tri als of variet ies and lines from all over the world set up in 1979 arc beginshyning to show promise he says

or example the German lines LueulshyIus and Sehwetzinger Mcisterschus yielded 70 to 80 per cen t better than the Viking 2K at the Simcoe Research St(ltion in the first two harves ts the results from Camshy

bridge Research Stations older trials corshyroborate these results while the new trials there show a number of new Rutgers hyshybrids to have considerable promise

O ne in particular Ce ntennial deshyveloped at Rutgers University in the US A is high yielding and more tolerant of O ntario s en vironmcnt than varieties now grown here

Yi elds of Centennial can be up to 30 to 40 per cent more than Viking in some locations Centennial will now be used as Ontario s standard variety future new varishyeties will have to exceed Centennial in performance

By agreement with Rutgers Univershysity the Univers ity of Guelph is now developing commercial seed s tock for Centennial f he male and female plants provided were ti ssue-cultured at Guelph and in 1983 one hectare of these parent plants was set out at the Un iversityS Cruiekston Park Farm Commercial seed should be available in 1986

New crosses from superior plants obshytained from all over the world are a lso being bred and more than 100 lines arc now be ing assessed as pote nt ial varieties for O ntario

Dr T iesscn warns that seed costs for these new hybrids are much higher Old-va-

Dr Herman Tiesscn 5

riety seed costs about $66 to $ 110 per kilo but prices range from $440 to $880 for the new hybrids

But this must be put in context An asparagus bed lasts IS to 20 years and the newer var ie ties can produce 4S0 to 900 kilos per hectare per year more than the older ones Considering that the selling price of asparagus is about $2 S0 or more per ki lo the extra price of the seed could be recovered easily in the first fe w years of production

Asparagus has been grown commershycially in O ntario for more than 7S years with the original sites on well-drained sandy soi l close to cities and then in the Burshylington Niagara Collingwood Leamshyington and Delhi -S imcoe areas

Production has shifted rece ntly to Halshydimand-Norfolk Kent Essex and Elgin counties all of which border on Lake Erie

Dr Tiessen says many farmers have expressed interes t in grow ing the crop but there still r mains plenty of room for expansion 0

Appointment K enneth R Farrell SO fo rmer adminisshytrator of the Economics and Statistics Sershyvice of USDA Washington D C US A has been chosen to head a Nat iona l Center for Food and Agricul tural Po licy The Censhyter is supported by a $4 S million grant fro m the W K Kellogg Foundation

Accord ing to Farrc ll the Center will develop fu ture ag ricultural pol icy leadcrs by o ff ring fell owsh ips in ternsh ips and worhhops for young profession al s and will examine and evaluat e exi st ing and al shyte rnative agricu l ~ural policie t ass ss the ir k~y economic social and instit ut ional imshypl ications

The Center wi ll a lso im prove public understanding by periodic reports on issues in agricultu re natural resources food nutrition and international tracle and will support policy analysi s projects at other inshystitutions by making research grants 0

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Land Resource Science Honours Prof Jack Ketcheson

P rofessor John Wi lliam Jack Ketc heshyson 44 has fo rmally retired a fte r a long teaching and re~earch career at the U nivershysity of G uclph However the soi l scienti st has no intention o f g iving up hi s interest in the fk ld He will presid 0 e r the IntershynatIonal Soil T illage Research Organi7ashytions 10th conference to be he ld in Guelph

in 1985 fo r an expec ted 300 scientists lack is also conti nu ing his Hasti ngs Coun ty fa rmi ng operation in preparation for an eve ntual move to that area

Both Jac k and his wife Betty Arts 83 come o f pio neer stock and gre w up on Hastings County farm s in the same area as the fa rm they now own in Frankford Jack farmed with hi s father before entering the O ntar io Agricultural Co llege in 1940

and took up so il fertility field plot work at the Co llege after his graduation He late r worked as a soils fie ldman with agricultural representat ives throughout central O ntario frolll York to North umberland Count ies until in 1949 he took a leave to complete M Sc and PhD degrees at the University of Illinois

He returned to the O AC in 1950 to the then Soils Department now the Departshyment of Land Resource Science where he has been a facult y member since In more recent years he has spent periods of time on a soil management project for the Internashytional Atomic Energy Agcncy

Btlly and Ja ck Ketchesun 4 lef t were royallv fetcd (l a rctiremelfl party Sh(rin ~

their table is OAC Dean Freeman McEwen

Over the years the Ketchesons have played an active role in church and commushynity activities in G uelph with Jac k servin g on the Board of Education and the executive uf the Waverley Masonic Lodge and in organizations including the On tario In~t ishy

tutc of Agrolog ists the S igma Xi Resea rch

Society the Internat iona l Soil Till age Reshyearch Association and the Univers ity Facshy

ul ty Association The Kctcheson s plan to retain their

home in Guelph but will sp nd time devcloping a crops program on thei r farm

Jack was honouree at a recent party where he was presented with a captain s

All You Need to Know About By Penny Clelland

If hothouse tomatoes depress you if the arrival of the first seed cata logue fill s you with glee if your thumb has the slightest green ti nge you may have the makings of

a super-gardener Super-gardene rs transform seeds and

soil into baske ts of big fresh beautiful vegshyetables They save money (about 13 per cent of the ave rage food budge t goes for

fruit and vegetables) and they are always searching for a new strawberry variety a better cold fram e design or the ultimate zucshychini recipe

Fortunately super-gardeners are made not born according to the Univershysitys Independent Study division A home study course offered by Independent Study was written specifically with green thumbs in mind

Plant care in the Home Garden is

a complete garden guide with practical

ideas and tips T he tex t describes the activities of each

season wi th schedules flir plan ting fertil i7shying spraying and har esting More than 500 colour sl ides in fil mstrips accomshypanied by the authors commentary on casshysette tape explain planting pruning and identifying varieties disorders and pests

O ther courses inc lude Plant Usc in the Home Landscape Landscape Deshysign and Installation and Plant Propagashytion There are also mini-courses in Growing Roses Deciduous Trees and Propagation of Tropical Plants

Prices range from $20 to $140 for the courses For more information contact Inshydependent Study University School of Part-Time Studies and Continuing Educashy

tion South House Univers ity of Guelph Guelph Ontario N I G 2W I or phone (519) 824-4120 Ext 3375 3400 0

chair a lit hograph by Brian Lowry Illus trashytion Se rvices and a book of le ttCfs from former graduate students who now live as lar away as Africa and the Ph ilipp ines 0

Mailbag OAC Alumni Association University ofGuelph Guelph Oll1 NI G 2WI

DearSirorMadam

I would like to thank you Jor helping us keep in touch through your publications They were most helpflll during (he three and a half years I was posted in the Caribshybean where information and telephones were not easily obtailled The articles ill the G uelph Alumnus proved helpjill ill more than one ilfJ tance in obtainillg edllcatiollal information much Ileeded in a country like Ha iti

I would appreciate ifyou would report theJollowing in yourOAC grad flews

Jim Hamilton 77 has returned 10

Brockville Oll lpoundlrio after three and a half years in the Caribbean workin g with Maple Leaf Mills He is now working as territory manager Jor their Feed Division in eastern Ontario

Thank you once again for your fine

work Sincerely Jim Hamilton B Sc( Agr) 77 57 Bartholomew Street Brockville Onl K6V 2R5

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U of Gs Yellow Potato Takes Market by Storm

A unique yellow-fl eshed potato deshyveloped at the University of Guelph has taken the us market by storm

US buyers particularly in Michigan are buying all of the seed they can some are disappointed that more seed is not availshyable

The potato variety known as Yukon Gold was devcloped by the Department of Horticultural Science and released four years ago by potato breeder Gary Johnston now retired from Agriculture Canada and University professor Geoff Rowberry 55

[t is the first yellow-fleshed potato to be developed and licensed in Canada

Gary Johnstons successor at Agricul shyture Canada Robert Coffin says the Amershyican s received sample seed as part of an on-going exchange program among breedshyers They tested it and liked it

The Americans liked Yukon Gold s buttered appearance saw a marketing opshyportunity in it s golden colour found it grew well under their growing conditions and now package and sell it under the trade mark Michigan Golden Bake Robert said One American market survey shows consumers like the potato s fla vo ur vershysatility and colour fleshed species from Peru and the variety growers to capitalize on Yukon Golds

Growers al so like this new variety beshy Katahdin unique properties But it does take promoshycause it gives good yield s ha s high solids Yukon Gold IS ideal for boiling and tion and consumer awareness and matures early so it can be harvested baking and makes superb french fries But The University S breeding program is in mid-July to fetch a prcmium price it does not chip well This limitation has now concentrating efforts on finding an imshy

Yukon Gold was first developed in partially prevented it from being widely proved chipping variety Such breeding 1966 in respon se to reque sts from Euroshy grown in Ontario up to 50 per cent of the programs usually start between 40000 and pean immigrants to Canada who were potatoes grown in Ontario are used for makshy 50000 new seedlings every year accustomed to eating yellow-fleshed potashy ing potato chips We graduaJly eliminate the inferior toes [n Europe Brazil and the Caribbean Robert Coffin is pleased that Yukon seedlings until we get down to very low yellow-fleshed potatoes arc preferred Gold is being well received in the United numbers and hopefully after 12 to 15

Gary Johnston created Yukon Gold by States and he hopes for increased recogni shy years we co me up with superior attributes crossing Norgleam a variety from North tion for this new variety here in Ontario compared to those varieties already on the Dakota with a hybrid of a wild yellow- The opportunity is here for Ontario market say s Robert Coffin 0

Robert Coffin left and Professor GeoffRowberry 55 with Yukon Cold

He Was the Prairie Gardner Reprinted from The Prairie Garden

There arc fcw horti culturists who ha vc contributed as much and for as long a timc to horticultural education and ck ve lopment ofthe pra iricsas l R Bob Almcy 21

Th Prairie Garden first published as thc Winllipeg Flower Cardell in 1937 knew him both as a frequent contributor of articles and al so as a long-timc board me JJ1bcr of the publish i ng co mm i tee

Bob Almcy was 16 when he accomshypanicd hi s parcnts to Canada from Le iccs shy

te r England On his arrival hc started a long carcer in his chosen field with Johnson Brothcrs orchardists ncar Forest Ontario Hc soon becamc a student of horticu I tUfe at the Ontario Agricultural Collcge at Guelph During his summer holidays spent with the Horticultural [)(partment of the OAC he worked alongside Isabclla Preshyston noted origi nator of many new plant varieties

In September 1917 during his third year of studies at Guelph he joined the Royal Flying Corps as an air cadet and was

discharged with th e rank of Second Lieutenshyant in December 1918

He returned to th e OAC and graduated in 1921 with the degree of Bachelor of Scishyence in Agriculture

The Manitoba Department of Agriculshyture created the position of extension hortishy -culturist in 1921 and hired Bob Almey that year He filled that position from 1921 to 1928 His dutics in the first year included the distribution of two carloads of certified Irish Cobbler seed potatoes to farmc rs He worked closdy with market gardeners and the hobby horticulturists of the Manitoba Horticultural Association (MHA)

He left the Manitoba Department of

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Agriculture to become chici horticu lturist Weste rn Lines- T hunder Bay to Vanshy

couver Islanu- of the Canadian Pac ific

Rail way As such he was in charge of the

railway s park and garden work advising officials and empl oyees o n stat ion garden plantings and o n tree shelter belts along the rai Iroad s right-of-way

Oldtimers will reme mber the we ll landscapeu prairi e stations and the beautiful

parks in large r centres that resulted from his work Bob was made ge neral agriculshytural agen t combining both ho rticul ture

and agriculture and continued in that post until his retirement in 1960

Rob Almey was an organi zation man

Hc Joined the MHA as soon as he came to Manitoba and was its secretarytreasurer

from 1922 to 1928 In 193 I hc becamc a director of that Assoc iation and served in th at capac ity for man y years In 1938

he became president of the MHA In 1956 he was made an honorary life member Bob is a life member of the Stevenson Memorial

Boare

For many years he was a judge of the Provincial Home Grounds Competition and

also the Prov incial Slide Co mpetiti o n Bob al so served the Association as ex -offic io director and finally as honorary preside nt

a pos it ion he re linqui shed in 1981 The Winnipeg Hort icultural Society

and the Winnipeg Gladiolus Society value his contributi ons to the ir programs He served as director and preside nt of both o rshy

ganizations and was honoured with ho norshyary life membersh ip by both

He is a charter member of thc Western

Canadian Society for Horticulture it s presishy

dent in J952 an d rec ip ie nt of its honorary life membershi p in 1961 Th e Man itoba In shystitute of Ag rologis ts and the Agricultural Institute o f Canada both honoured him with

honorary life memberships In 1972 the

anadian Ho rticultural Co uncil Fesented him with a merit award

Three awa rds are espeL ially dear to Bob and hi s wife Olive In 1970 the Hon

Philip Petu rrson Mini ster of Cultural Afshy

fairs made Bob a captain of the Order of

A Pioneer of the 4-8 Program Frederick Waldemar Waldo Walsb 22 MB E F A IC LLD formerly of Palmeter Avenue Kentville N S and ltl Ia ng-t ime res ident of Hal ifax NS died at the Weste rn King s Memorial Hospita l Berwick NS on February II He was

86 years o ld

Born in Monc to n N B Dr Walsb will be remembered as being one of Canadas outstanding agriculturists who

served in many capacities and many offishyces throughout a distinguished caree r spanshyning some 51 years

At the time of his retirement as Deputy

Minister of Agricu lture and Marketing for Nova Scotia in 1962 a pos itio n he had

held for 17 years he was the lo ngest serving Deputy Minister of Agriculture in Canada

Upon g raduation from th e Nova Scotia Agricultura1 College in 191 7 he en lis ted in the Royal Flying Corps with the rank of second lieutenant and was in training

as a pilot when the war ended Upon di-sshycharge he joined the staff of the New Bru-nsshy

wick Department of Agricu lture Livestock Division with whtch he remained until

1920 when he entered the OAC

In 1922 he joined Jhe staff of the Ca nada Departmen t of Agriculture as sheep and sw-ine promoter at Truro NS where

he remained until 1926 whe n he was apshypointed professor of Animal Husbandry and

director of Live stock M arketing at the Nova Scotia Agricultural Collcge

In 1927 Waldo became eastern supershy

intenden t of agriculture for the Can ad ian Nationa l Ra ilway s and in 1929 superinshytendent of ag ricultu re over the entire C R system

He rejoi ned the staff of the N S De shypartment of Agri culture in 1933 as director

of marketing a position he he ld until his appointment as De(1Uty Mini ster in 1945

Following his fonnal retirement he

served for several months as specia l marshy

kets adv isor and then for seven years as director of Co-operative Advisory Serv shyices Maritime Co-operative Services Moncton NB

Waldo was the last surviving member

of a g roup of three which was responsible

for the creation and developmen t of the

Canadian Council on Boys and Girls Club Work (now 4-H Clubs) and the las t survivshyin g member of the first Maritime Livestock

Marketing Board which eventua ll y became Maritime Co-operative Servi ces and now Co-op Atlantic

He was recognized by St Franc is Xavier Universi ty which confetTed the deshy

gree of Docto r of Law honoris causa in 1953 Oth er honours included being named a Member of the Order of the Briti sh Empire in the 1945 New Years Ho no urs li st being elected to the Atlantic Prov ince s Agricu lshy

tu ra l Hall ofFame a Fe llo w of the Agriculshytural Institute of Canada an honorary life

membe r of the Nova Sco tia Fruit Growers Associatio n a member of the Senate of

the Nova Scotia Federation of Agriculture

the Buffalo Hunt This order was instituted in 1957 spec ially to honou r those who have

made dist inct ive contributions to life in the

provin ce of Manitoba The wi dely famed Almey Rosybloom crabapple was fittin gly

named in Bob Almey s hono ur Just reshycently the American Gladio lu s Society ho noured Bob with its Gold Meda l Award

Despite all the activities in whi ch he was invo lved Bo b and Olive found time

to garden This gladio lus ex pert grew 1000 and more g lads at his little farm in Libau

Man He named several varieties He loved

to grow potatoes and Spanish onions But both of them also loved to show at the anshynual flower shows winnin g many prizes

and ribbons Today Bob an d Olive live in the ir

com fort ab le home in Winni peg Both an alert and we ll They still attend horticul tural

meetings and Bob still prescnts an oceashysiona llectu re

The Prairie Garden sa lutes thi s grand old hort icultu ris t and his wife All of us prairie gardeners arc indebted to the m 0

and a life member of the Canadian C lub Council on 4-H Cl ubs

During the past ten years he was inst rushymental in obtaini ng services for alcoho l and d rug dependency peopl e in the An napoli s Vallcy Reg ion and was a member of the Advisory Council of the Valley Health Sershy

vices Association Alcohol Dependency Program sin ce its inception He was a great

source of comfort and assis tance to many individuals in this prog ram

He was a member of the Kentvillc Ro shytary Club and for many years an acti ve and enthu siastic membe r of the Ha lifax

Curling Club 0

Fellowship J Edward Brubaker 49 manager Onshyta rio Ministry of Agriculture and Food ene rshygy centre in Guelph has been nam ed a Fellow of the Agr icultura l Insti tute of Canada (AIC)

He is among fivc AIC members to reshyceive the fe llowship honou r this year An

honorary life membership has also been -awarded to George Price a CBC radio agshyriculture reporter who covers Parlmiddotiamcnt Hill

Former pres idcnt Art Guitard was given the Ale recogni tion award for work on a c rop production and the environment

publication

The awards will be made during the annual meeting sc hed uled for Winnipeg Man in August 0

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Grad News Wilfrid Holtma nn MSA 62 is direcshytor of marketing CIAQ Inc SI HyashycintheQue

jurgen Koch Ph D 74 is a research as shysociate Departnw nt of Land Reso urce Sci shyencc Cn ivc ri ty ofG uelph

Marcel Couture MSc 76 a farm manshyagement speciali st was appoi nted as direcshytor of cxte nsio n senicc at Macdona ld Colshykgc McGil l Uni verity Que effective anuary I 19X4

A na tive of th e eastern towns hips he is a I 91i5 graduate of lacdonal d s Dip loma Pmgrall1 in Agricu ltu re an d earned a HSc(Agr) there in 1 ~72 be fore cnteri ng the nivcrsity of Guelph in th e fie ld 01 Agric ultural Economi cs and Extens ion Ed ucation

He was a~s is t a nt director of Mac shydona ld s Dipl oma ProgrJill in Agric ulture before hi prescnt appointment and will contin ue with hi s tCltJeh ing and ad mi nistrashytivc duti es in thc Dipl oma Pro[r~ lill

Gail (Tuumanen ) and Nei l Dolson both gradultJ tc s of 77 arc now ow neroperators of FJ inbrook FaInl Supply Binbrook

Kathr)n ( 1cLcod) Harrison 77 and husband Wayne 79 arc li ving in Guc[ph Waync is credit officer wi th the Toronto Dominion Bank Guelph The y have a daughte r M gha n lea n born November 15 I l)X)

john Tucker BSc ( En~) 78 is a cusshytOIllS investiga tor Revenll e Canada Cusshytoms and Excise Il amilton His wife Anna Mae Shelton-Tucker is J graduate of 79

Glen I1cRuer 79 is a rn al(ster Canada MI [ting Cn C li glry A[ta

Steven Vlnkatarayappa M Sc 79 PhD S3 is an assoc iate profe ssor of Hort icul ture Unive rs ity of Agrieu [tural Scie nce Ra ngal orc Indi a

joan (Elder) Weller SO i an ass istant CilCllli t Pops iclc Indu trics Burl ington Husband Tim also SO i dislt-ict s a [e~

m1I1agcr Pionee r II i-Bred Ltd Clla tham

Rogcr SI Pierre SI i a grai n me rchant wi th Jalllcs Rich ardson amp Sons Ltd Toshyronto His ik Stephanie (Weedle) is a graduatc of 82

Sophia Dinnisscn S2 is a studen t I t Wil shyfr id Lau rier Uni versity Wate rl oo

Nicholas Groot 82 is milk superv isor Ontario Da iry Herd improvement Assoc iashytion Toronto

Rober t Hack ney 82 is head wi nemaker Chara l Wi nery and Vi neyards Inc B[enheim

Frederick j amieson 82 is a quality as shysurance inspec tor J M Schneide r Inc Kitchener

Geollrey Jones S2 I S man ager of the UCO Elmwood branch

Susan Kelner 82 is a technica l a ~~ is tant

Chip man Inc SlOney Creek

Ca rolinc Kennedy S2 is a graduate stushydent Uni vcrsi ty of Manitoba Win nipeg

Jannette Leask 82 is territory sales repshyresentati ve Ral ston Purina Canada In c Whit by

Christopher McLean 82 IS a reseJrch technolog iq Ca mpbell So up Co Ltd Toron to

Lloyd Mitchell 82 is territory manJge r Ralston Purina Canada Inc Woodstock

R Ramirez Nathan 82 is an agronomist promoter Communidad Por Los Inos Antiolj ui a Colombia Sout h Am erica

Eileen (Richards) johnson MSc 83 is an executive assi stan t Ontar io olll mu shynity De vc lllpment Associa tion Uni ve rsity of Guc[ph

Diploma Gaduates

Keith Sinclair S4A has reccntly been appoi nt d vice-president and treasurer ofmiddot the United Co-ope ratives of Onllrio lie hi been wit h l jCO to r 21 years

David Thorton 64A is a [ocomot ive enshyg ineer Canadian aliona[ Rai lways Toshym nlO

Larry Inglis 66A i ~ purchasing man shyage r Canadian Canners Ltd Hamilton

Wa)ne Waugh 68A is an age ncies sale s and deve lopme nt representati ve Petro shyCanad a Prod ucts Don Mills

Eugene McDonald 77A is a mec han ic with Motorways Edmonton A[ta

j ames Slingerland 79A is an inspector Ontario Ministry of Agricultu re and Food liagara Fal[ s

In Me moriam Donald Risebrough 77 immed iate past preside nt of thc OAC Alumni Assoc iat ion d ied on June 30 1984 The news of his tragic death brought a great sensc of sad ness and almost di sbe li ef to his man y fri ends Don had presided a wee k prev ioUsly at many ac tiv ities during Alumni Weekend 84 celebrations He was killed when his ca r went out of control on a Hi ghway 40 I off-ram p He was on his way to visit his parents at their farm ncar Markham Don was di stri ct rep resentative Ontari o Holshystc in Branch Holstein-Fri es ian Associashyti on Brantford

William J Cohoe 03A died on March 19 1984 ilt Norvi[[ a ursing Homc Norshywich He had becn one of the oldes t gradshyuates of the OA

Dr Lloyd G Herman 34 a micro shybio log ist who retired from the US Nashytiona l Institutes of Health (NIH) in 1)7l) dicd February I 1984 at his home in Bet hesda Md Us A

He received his doc torate in Mic ro shybio logy from McG i[[ Uni versity in 1948 and after working at severa l private labora shytori es in the US A joined th e sta fr of IH in I lti 1i8

In 21 years lJi service he publi shed and lectured extensively and aec umu[ated vario Lis honours in his fie ld He was the first to ide nti fy a strain of ye llow-pig me nted waterborne bacteria th at the Centers of Dis shyease C()ntrol named f~s(I(r(h (l hall(III

in his honour in 19X2

Dr Herm an was vc ry active in the American Sl1ci ety fo r Mi robiology (ASM) and its Washi ngton bra nch Ill held JII offi shyces in the Washingto n branch of ASM in shycl ud ing pres idcnt Jnd continual[y held branch posts un til his death He was also a paS pres iden t 01 th Canadian Club of Washingtoll and lfthe Envi ronlllcnta[ Man-3cment Association

He WJs one of the incorporators or the Fricnds of ni ve rsit y ofGuclph Inc

George C McLaren 35 on February 10 1984 in Ollawa I Ie had retired fro ill the Dcpart ment of Na tional lJe fence

Robert Karl Allison 75 BSc(Eng) on Novcmber 6 1910 in London He had been -product io n manager for Modornckan LId

Alison Lyn (Geddes) L1nyck iz 7S in a car acc ident in January 19X4 Her two-yearshyo ld daughte r Jess ica and her mother we re also killed in the accidcnt in Norfolk County Her husband Peter a lso a gradshyuate of 78 is cmp[oyed at anadian Can shyners Simcoe 0

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Macdonald InstituteCollege of Family and Consumer

Studies Alumni Association

ALUMN NEWS Editor Joan (Anderson) Jenkinson 66

From the Dean Dr Richard Barham

There is seldom an issue of the Mac-FACS Alumni News that goes by without there being a special interest item or two about our faculty On this occasion I want to draw your attention to the announecment in this iss ue of the appointment of Dr Brucc Ryan to the chairmanship of the Department of Family Studies

I ex tend our congratulations to Dr Ryan on hi s success in winning this appointshyment in the open competition which was he ld across Canada for the position At the samc time I want to extcnd my very warm thanks 10 Dr Eli za bcth Miles who has been serving the Department and indeed the College so well over this past year through her rcsponsiblities as the Departments act shying chairman

I know that you will be interested to learn too that Dr Powerss appointment as Director of the School of Hotel and Food Admini stration has been renewed for a furth er term We wish Tom and his eolshyleaglle s a continuation of the distinction and successes which have marked the life of the hotel school to date

And while referring to the hotel school J also want to ask you to read thc article in thi s iss ue on Professor George Bedell the School s first director George has made a remarkable contribution while he has been at Guelph most particularly of course in a ll matters relating to the HAFA program and its students J want to thank George on behalf of us all for his vision and commitment over the years and for the interest and care he has for the HAFA grads

We had a spendid alumni retirement celebration for George at the King Edward Hotel in Toronto in May In the best tradishytion of our HAFA alumni and the hospitality industry it was a superb occas ion and fully expressive of the affection and respect which we all feel towards George Many

many thanks George We wish you and Louise a long and happy retirement

As I prepare the draft for this newsletshyter the Annual Mae-FACS Alumni Seminar has just been held The topic this year was Aging Myths and Realities and this ocshycasion too was a resound1l1g sueecss r am sure that I express the sentiments of the many alumni and friend s who were there in extending our congratulations and thanks to Gail Murray 78 and the members of her organizing committce

By the way if you have not yet made a contribution to the MAC 38 Gerontology Scholarship please do support the vision of this wonderfully energetic group of grads right now They reall y need your contribushytions to build up the scholarship fund and we have an urgcnt need to support students in this ncw and humanly important area of sc holarship

Many of you and others who arc not among our alumni have been ask ing us to organize courses which ill help you keep up to date in your profess ional fie lds Some of our conferences of course along with the Alumni Seminar arc intended to do just thi s But we now also have a number of our credit courses specially designed and developed for what we call dis tance teachshying

Already we have eomscs on Human Development Marital and amily Dynamshyics Family Economics Human Sex uality and the Exceptional Child The se courses are ava ilable to you on a correspondence basis and usc a comprehensive and carefully prepared study guide They in volve tests and ass ignments of course and the course in structors respond to questions either through mailed memos or by phone

You can take the final exam here in Guelph or possibly at a centre either in or near your own home town Write to Profes shysor Sam Luker chairman Part-Time and General Studie s if you want to find ou t more about our distance teaching program

You might want to note the fACS Sheel order form on page 34 of thi s issue Ifon the mailing list for FACS Sheel publishycations you will sec topics which interest you Keep in loueh with us by sending for eopics D

Appointment Dr Bruce A Ryan took up his appointshyment as chairman of the Department of Family Studies on July I of this year He has become known to many of our alumni over the years s ince his first appointment to that department as an assistant professor and director of the Laboratory Schools in 1975 He was promoted to the rank of asshysociate professor in 1980

Dr Ryan had hi S BA in Psychology eonfelTed by the University of Alberta (1964) He obtained both the M Ed (1969) and PhD (1971) degrees in Educational Psychology from the same university He has held the position of Psychomotrist at the Alberta Hosp ital in Edmonton and a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Centrc for the Study of Mental Retardation at the Unishyversity of Alberta Before moving to Guel ph in the mid- 70s Dr Ryan held his first university teaching and research post at Victoria University in Wellington New Zealand

Irokssiona l and co mmunity service activities figure significantly among Dr Ryans involvements He is first vice-presishydent of the Canad ian Association for Educashytional Psychology and vice-president also of the Ontario Association of Family Se rshyvice Agencie s He is on the editorial board of the publication Canadas iInlal Heallh and among other sc holarly and professhysional bodies a member of the Canadian Association for the Treatment and Study of Families

The primary focus of Dr Ryans teachshying research and academic publications has been upon the ecology of human (and particularly child) development and learnshying He has a special interes t in person-envishy shyronment interactions particularly within the context of family system s and with reshygard to possible impacts upon children s learningdiffieulties in school

Dr Ryans wife Nancy is a librarian with special interests in childrens books and school libraries Bruce and Nancy have two delightful daughters Keri and Jenny both of whom are at elementary school D

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End of an Era The editor wishes 0 extend a sincere thank you to Joe Van Koe verdel 75 BComm editor oJthe Hotel and Food Administration

Alumni News Jor permission to reprint this article wrillen by D Kanzler and pubshylished in April

W hen retiring Professor George Bedell

close s his office door behind him for the

las t lime on September I and hangs out The Mac-FACS Alumni Seminar attracted 175 to the Guelph Campus in April The the GONE FISH ING sign hell close topic was Aging Myths and Realities Leaders oj the interest sessions were I to the door on an era in the Canadian hospiality r Dr John Powell Leslie (Good) Snell 64 Smuly Forbes 82 Gail Murray 78 education indu stry seminar committee chairman Donna Woolcott 69 Rev Lance Woods and Grella

And hell open the door to a flood Riddell-Dixon of tributes from the hospitality industry as

the man who spearheaded the development

of Canadas first school of hotel and food

admini stration They will remember him

as the mentor who set high standards shy

the man who made hospitality manageme nt

a profess ion The students now 650 graduates

strong will remember him as the man who

gave hospitality cducation credibility - the

man who made them professionals His facshy

ulty peers will prai se George Bedell s pershy

severance in building a degree-granting sc hool at a time when such an institution

was unheard of on Canadian university

campuses

All will point to his many awards

Participants a the Seminar included Alumni in Action members I to r Jack Palmer OAC 38 Elsie (Hume) Pettit 34 Harvey Pettil OAC 32 Do (Stuari) Paitner 36 and Jim Baker OAC 28

chief among which were the 1975 Queens you hope you ha ve made a lasting contribushy Hotel Adminis tration at Michigan State Jubilee Meda l the 1981 Member CRA tioll And I hope my leade rship with the University but in 1942 draft papers took Foundation College of Diplomates and the help of others has ensured this program s priority He served with the United States 1983 Jack C Sim Man of the Year success he says Army until 1946 when disc harged as a Award as confirmation of Pro fe ssor Beshy Connec ticut-born George Bedell credshy Captain and continued as a reserve officer dell s outstanding contributions its an itinerant father for developing his until 1962 when he was discharged with

T he tribute s would make Geo rge interests in the industry He used to bring thc rank of Major SOli Ie perhaps blush and prompt a throaty back all kinds of fascinating brochures from The post-war years saw him work as chuckle because when all is said and done hotels across the USA - thats what got manager of scveral Connccticut inns and he would s imply like to be remembered me started hotel s before being asked to join Michigan for who he is When you leave something George completed his BA studies in Statc s Faculty of Continuing Education in

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1953 It proved to be a turning point in hi s career

By 1959 George had been appointed director o f Man agement T rainin g Proshygrams and director of Business and Tcchn ishycal Advisory Service for the National Re~shytaurant Association in Chicago He held that position until 1969 when he was in shyvited by thc Uni versit y of Gue lph to take ove r as director of Canada s first School of Hotel and Food Administration H~ re shyma ined director until 1979 fo llowing whi ch he continued teaching at th e School

I knew lots of peop le in industry here and saw the opportunity to help the hospitalit y industry he says of hi s deci shys ion to move to Guelph [ saw thi s as a rea l chall enge But [ always knew we would succeed I decidcd from day o ne that we would make a go of it he adds with characteri stic determi nation

If his first years were frustrating it was mainl y because of thc students skeptishycism They we re so worried about th e Schools reputation and whether there d be Jobs waiting for them I had to build Iheir confidence - ove r and over again I look now at what our gradu ates ha ve accomshyplished and I feel good about hav ing played a role in their su ccess II mea ns the proshygram s have grown the way we thought they should and proves th at we ha ve bcen doing somethin g right here at Guelph

Professor Bede ll is particularly proud of the new Advanced Management Program for the Hospita lit y Indu stry (AMPHI ) estabshyli shed by Pro fe ssor Tom Po we rs the preshysent director of the Schoo l last ye ar to help train and de ve lop top level manage rs No other uni versity in the world is do ing this type of ed ucation al training for the hospitalshyity industry he points out Moreover AMPHI is th e kind of program that s vi tal to the future of the hos pit alit y industry The industry is still ex pand ing all forecasts po int to mo re people ca ti ng out more peop le travelling - and that means a growshying need for facilitie s and trained people

Corne September I George Bedcl l wi ll monitor th at growth - and his Schools successes - from afa r Hi s re shytiremenl caree r in cludes so rnc travel lots of fishing tinle to get a little fun out ot life and pl~tnS to build a hOllle on the coast of Maine tor his wife Loui se and himse lf But distance won t keep hi thoughtgt from Willin g back to Guc I ph

Fifteen yea rs ago he says he was given the chal len ge to get Guelphs Schoo l of Hotel and Food Admini st ration off th e gro und lto w on the e ve of hi s retirement he issues hi s ow n chall enge to the Schoo l Ten years from now [ wa nt to be abl e to say - Look how that School has grown ho w its progressing how its getting better al l the time 0

Grad News Foods amp Nutrition

LornI Dixon 83 is a die tetic intern at the Health Science Centre in Winni peg Man

Lori M Farr 79 is empl oyed with the Nutri tion Department Cen tenary Hospi ta l West Hill

Pat Faber 78 is pati ent food services co-ordinator with Roya l Jubliee Hospital Victoria BC

Elaine (Dashner) Robichaud 80 i food service director Saga Ca nad ian v1anageshyment Services Susse x Health Centre NB

Karen (Seib) Webber 78 is an outpati ent dietiti an at Van couver Ge neral Hospital BC

Libb~ (Lewis ) Logan 74 is a clin ical di etitian with the hildren s Hospi tal 01 Ealern Ontario Ottawa

Educa tion

fngl id ( ppell ) larsh 69 i 1 l e~tC llcr

Wentworth Count) Fl(l~lnl Drhlucatioll

Lolly (Robinson) Bartkew 62 is a supshypl y teacher with the Waterloo County Board () f Education

Kathi Ayers 73 is an in~dructo r with Grande Prairie Regiona l College Grande Prairi e Alta

Lauric (Watson) Goorts 79 is a Family Stud ie teache r with th e Waterloo County Board of Educati on

Ta mm) (Hryhorenko) Warren 75 is de partm~nt head Famil y Studies Westdale SS Hamilton

Josie (Lohuis) Schneider 80 is te aching at the Catholic Central High School LonshydonOnt

Social Services

Judi th Tansley 69 is a counsellor with Sunstar House Saskatoo n Sask

Rev Kay (Finlay) Hagey 37 is wilh th e Ang lican Church of Ca nada SI Andre ws Church Grim sby

Christine (Brady) MacPhee 78 is a unit le ade rsocial worker with Famil y and Chilshydrens Services Goderich

Eileen (Derynck) O ls thoorn 78 is a 0shy

cial worker with Halton Childrens Aid Oak vill e

Donna (Rose ) Allen 70 is a compl ianee officer with the Hea lth Protection Branch Health and Welfare Canada Otta wa

Janine Jones 82 is a developm ntal Inshystructor with Si rTI eoc Habi I i tative Sen ICC)

Business and Industry

-arion (Kerr ) I1ennenrent 7 1 11Sc 76 is employed wit h Gary S Hcn nn k nt Insurance Services Ltd Vancou cr BC

Edna (Hay ) Jarrell 36 is presiden t Edna Jarrc I I Rcal rstatc h lingto n

Ann (McClure ) Keller 78 is a denta l tec hnician with J PO Ir()CCor~ Inc Gue lph

Sharon Salm-ltrose 82 is an advert isi ng consultant wi th WS Marketi ng AlnlC 0

Meeting Notice

Guelph Branch MacmiddotFACS Alumni

Association Annual Membership

Coffee Party 730 p _m to 1000 pm_

September 2 51984

At the home of Margaret (Hamilton) Bates 53

303 Edinburgh Road South Guelph Ontalio

In Memoriam Margaret (Blac kh am ) Elliott 350 R R I Blenheim date ordelt h unknown

Edith (Hubbard ) Garrison 320 Janu shyary 19K4 inCenterLine Mich US

Susan lIem i ngwa~ 31D February 1 -19R4 inTnronto

J u ne (Van Someren ) Van Wyck 47 D Februa ry 12 1984 in Hamilton

Velma (Balkwill) Stuck 210 February J 19R4 at R R if fgt Woodstoc k Her husshyband th e late Fred W Stock was an OAC 21 grad Her son Oa id JB Stock QC isan OAC 59 grad U

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AI mnos of

Honotlr 1984

Elliott Mac McLoughry OAC 22

With the Ontario Department of Agrishy

culture (ODA) as Agricultu ra l Represhyse ntative in Vi ctoria Dundas and W aterloo Counties Ellio lllrwin McLo ughry was a

pioneer d uri ng a time o f greattechnicaJ advance in Fann practices

A h ighly respec ted ge nt le man who

ga ined the confide nce o f the Menno nite people

o f Waterloo Co unty hi s accomplishments inc lude the introduc tio n o f short-courses for farmers and a soil conservatio n program the es tab lishment of Bacon Hog Fa irs and the Waterloo callie breeding unit and co-ope rashytio n w ith the OAC in the first nematode

program

Aged 90 last Jul y Mac througho ut hi s worki ng li fe made s ign ificant contributio ns to Canadian agric ultu re and to socie ty and ill

1964 re tired from his positi o n as d irector o f extens io n DA He lives at the Presto n Springs Gardens Retirement Ho me J 02 f o untain tree t So uth Cambridge Ontario 0

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Annual Meeting 84

The 1984 CBSAA Annual Meeting openshyed with Dr Gcorge Dixon PhD 80 prcsidcnt who welcomed everyone Five undergraduate scholarships were awarded

as follows Madeline Austen Zoology Liz Hazlett Botany and Tracey Robinson Human Biology were recIpIents of CBSAA-AMF scholarships Mark Chanshydler Wildlife and James Kurucz Unshyspecialized were recipients of CBSAA scholarships

Dr Bruce Sells dean CBS was the guest speaker He opened his address by stating that we the alumni are in effect ambassadors of our University and of the College of Biological Science As ambasshysadors we contribute by being representashytives of our Colleges achievements in the work force by recruiting new members by making potential students aware of our academic programs and by developing means of providing financial aid

Dr Sells advised us that the College in addition to maintaining its traditional strengths will change its direction to enshycompass many of the new developments that have taken place in biology during the past few years A new Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics will proshyvide a higher profile for molecular science

in our College in addition to addressing thc necd for cell biology The meeting was followed by a buffet lunch 0

Change of Editor Editor of the BIO-ALUMNI NEWS since the summer of 1981 Dr John T Powell who retired from the College last June has with regret tumed in his editorial pen following three years of dedicated service as our CBSAA scribe We offer our grateful thanks to John for ajob well done

We extend a very warm welcome to our new editor Marie (Boissonneault) Rush B Sc 80 Marine Biology a reshysearch technician and part-time lab instrucshytor with the Department of Zoology Marie was CBSAA president for 1982- 1983

In 1965 Dr Powell was invited to

the University to form a School of Physical Education He is the creator of the Human Kinetics concept and soon instituted an

From Our President

The College of Biological Science was first identified as a separate college of the University of Guelph in 1971 making it one of the newest of the newer colleges on campus Because of this the CBS

Alumni Association is one of the more reshycent alumni groups to be established at Guelph and is the smallest Since the first organizational meeting of the CBSAA on December 2 1975 our various boards of directors have worked to establish a place for the CBSAA within the University sysshytem

At the time of our March 1984 annual general meeting there were 583 members

of the CBSAA representing just over 14 per cent of our 4130 known alumni This proportion is up from about 95 per cent the previous year but there is lots of room for growth As the CBSAA becomes more established and its membership continues to grow we will be in a better position to serve both alumni and currently enrolled students in the CBS

Last year we launched the first issue of the Zygote Plus The newsletter was well received and will in the future be sent to all members of the CBSAA I n addition to bringing you up to date on current issues and news within the CBS Im sure the 7ygole PLus will bring back many memories of tramping through the halls of BGampZ

Other activities of the CBSAA include

academic department Human Kinetics within the School

Although he has always been active and intense in his involvement with physshyical activity he is proud of the creation of the academic atmosphere in what is now the School of Human Biology with its three science degrees and of the pioneering steps taken for the establishment of the discipline devoted to human movement

Indicators of his participation in the University Community are shown in the

recent honours he has received In 1980 The Community Service Award in 1981 the University Achievement Award for Outstanding Contributions to Athletics in 1983 the first Special Merit A ward from the Faculty Association in three categories excellent teaching through the years curshyricular development and involvement with student advising In 1984 a scholarship in

his name was instituted by the Human Kineshytics Alumni Association

the sponsoring of fi ve undergraduate scholshyarships and one graduate scholarship and this year for the first time we will be

proudly presenting the Keith Ronald Fellowship to an eligible graduate student

Two items of change are in the wind for the coming year Firstly your Board of Directors will be making a motion at the next annual general meeting to increase membership fees The current fees of $4

per year for annual membership and $40 for life membership have remained unshychanged since the CBSAA was established in 1975 As costs have risen we must inshycrease our income to meet demands

Secondly we are looking into estabshy

lishing across the country a network of alumni to act as regional contacts for the

CBSAA There are enclaves of CBS grads in almost every biological institute from Victoria BC to St Johns Nfld and from Windsor Ont to Yellowknife in the Yukon Territories These contacts would act as a physical link between the CBSAA and alumni living and working in various locations throughout Canada

If anyone is interested in acting as a

regional contact person for the CBSAA please let us know Chances are good that many of you are in your present position because of the education you received while at the CBS Now might be the right time to consider giving a little something in reshytum-become involved with your Alumni Association

r would very much welcome hearing options news and ideas from alumni whershyever you may be Christopher Wren BSc 77 PhD 83

President CBSAA

Mention must be made of Dr Powell s involvement in the Olympic movcment

which is a source of immense pride for him He has been an Olympic coach in 19521956 and 1960 is a life member of the British Olympic Association and is a member of the Canadian Olympic Associashytion where he is a national selector

In 1972 1976 and 1980 he was present in ancient Olympia at official torch-lighting ceremonies and has been a lecturer at the

Intemational Olympic Academy seven times He has been named as colshy -laborateur by the Academy and his big moment was in 1981 when the President of Greece presented him with the Academy s silver medal for devoted sershyvice to the Olympic movement

He has always enjoyed his involveshyment in Alumni Affairs and has been a repshyresentative for many years We regret the resignation of our enthusiastic news editor Dr John T Powell D

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The Ontario Agricultural College Alumni Association

ALUMNI NEWS Editor Dr Harvey W Caldwell 51

IlDproving the Strain Reprinted from the OMAF News

Asparagus prized for its delicate flavour and considered to be somewhat of a luxury food commands an excellent price in both fresh and processing markets

Consumer demand for this delicacy often exceeds locally-grown supplies In 1981 for example Ontario imported about 16 million kilos of asparagus worth almost $3 million in the same year the provinces growers produced about 13 million kilos of asparagus also worth about 53 million

To help Ontarios growers expand into this lucrative market high-yielding asshyparagus varieties suited to Ontarios growshying conditions are bei ng developed and tested at the University of Guelph s Deshypartmental Horticultural Sc ience

Funding for this research which has gone on at the Ministry for a decade has becn provided by the Ontario Mi nistry of Agriculture and Food Agricul ture Canada and private industry

In 1981 OMAF also int roduced the $ 1 S III ill ion O ntario Asparagus Produc tion Incent ive Program which granted new and prc se nt growers $ 1200 per hec tare over a three-year period for new plan tings

To date almost $ 1 million has been aW(l rded As a result of th is support proshygram IOtal land plan ted in asparagus has increased from 971 hec tares in 1980 to 1905 hectares in 1983 An addit ional 12 14 hecshytares shou ld be added this year

Many of the asparagus varidi s grown at present in O ntario such as Vik ing Vi shyking 2K and Viking 2G arc hardy but do not produce yiclds comparable to varshyiet ies grown in o the r countries says Unishyversity of G uelph hort iculturist Professor Herman T iessen S 1

But tri als of variet ies and lines from all over the world set up in 1979 arc beginshyning to show promise he says

or example the German lines LueulshyIus and Sehwetzinger Mcisterschus yielded 70 to 80 per cen t better than the Viking 2K at the Simcoe Research St(ltion in the first two harves ts the results from Camshy

bridge Research Stations older trials corshyroborate these results while the new trials there show a number of new Rutgers hyshybrids to have considerable promise

O ne in particular Ce ntennial deshyveloped at Rutgers University in the US A is high yielding and more tolerant of O ntario s en vironmcnt than varieties now grown here

Yi elds of Centennial can be up to 30 to 40 per cent more than Viking in some locations Centennial will now be used as Ontario s standard variety future new varishyeties will have to exceed Centennial in performance

By agreement with Rutgers Univershysity the Univers ity of Guelph is now developing commercial seed s tock for Centennial f he male and female plants provided were ti ssue-cultured at Guelph and in 1983 one hectare of these parent plants was set out at the Un iversityS Cruiekston Park Farm Commercial seed should be available in 1986

New crosses from superior plants obshytained from all over the world are a lso being bred and more than 100 lines arc now be ing assessed as pote nt ial varieties for O ntario

Dr T iesscn warns that seed costs for these new hybrids are much higher Old-va-

Dr Herman Tiesscn 5

riety seed costs about $66 to $ 110 per kilo but prices range from $440 to $880 for the new hybrids

But this must be put in context An asparagus bed lasts IS to 20 years and the newer var ie ties can produce 4S0 to 900 kilos per hectare per year more than the older ones Considering that the selling price of asparagus is about $2 S0 or more per ki lo the extra price of the seed could be recovered easily in the first fe w years of production

Asparagus has been grown commershycially in O ntario for more than 7S years with the original sites on well-drained sandy soi l close to cities and then in the Burshylington Niagara Collingwood Leamshyington and Delhi -S imcoe areas

Production has shifted rece ntly to Halshydimand-Norfolk Kent Essex and Elgin counties all of which border on Lake Erie

Dr Tiessen says many farmers have expressed interes t in grow ing the crop but there still r mains plenty of room for expansion 0

Appointment K enneth R Farrell SO fo rmer adminisshytrator of the Economics and Statistics Sershyvice of USDA Washington D C US A has been chosen to head a Nat iona l Center for Food and Agricul tural Po licy The Censhyter is supported by a $4 S million grant fro m the W K Kellogg Foundation

Accord ing to Farrc ll the Center will develop fu ture ag ricultural pol icy leadcrs by o ff ring fell owsh ips in ternsh ips and worhhops for young profession al s and will examine and evaluat e exi st ing and al shyte rnative agricu l ~ural policie t ass ss the ir k~y economic social and instit ut ional imshypl ications

The Center wi ll a lso im prove public understanding by periodic reports on issues in agricultu re natural resources food nutrition and international tracle and will support policy analysi s projects at other inshystitutions by making research grants 0

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Land Resource Science Honours Prof Jack Ketcheson

P rofessor John Wi lliam Jack Ketc heshyson 44 has fo rmally retired a fte r a long teaching and re~earch career at the U nivershysity of G uclph However the soi l scienti st has no intention o f g iving up hi s interest in the fk ld He will presid 0 e r the IntershynatIonal Soil T illage Research Organi7ashytions 10th conference to be he ld in Guelph

in 1985 fo r an expec ted 300 scientists lack is also conti nu ing his Hasti ngs Coun ty fa rmi ng operation in preparation for an eve ntual move to that area

Both Jac k and his wife Betty Arts 83 come o f pio neer stock and gre w up on Hastings County farm s in the same area as the fa rm they now own in Frankford Jack farmed with hi s father before entering the O ntar io Agricultural Co llege in 1940

and took up so il fertility field plot work at the Co llege after his graduation He late r worked as a soils fie ldman with agricultural representat ives throughout central O ntario frolll York to North umberland Count ies until in 1949 he took a leave to complete M Sc and PhD degrees at the University of Illinois

He returned to the O AC in 1950 to the then Soils Department now the Departshyment of Land Resource Science where he has been a facult y member since In more recent years he has spent periods of time on a soil management project for the Internashytional Atomic Energy Agcncy

Btlly and Ja ck Ketchesun 4 lef t were royallv fetcd (l a rctiremelfl party Sh(rin ~

their table is OAC Dean Freeman McEwen

Over the years the Ketchesons have played an active role in church and commushynity activities in G uelph with Jac k servin g on the Board of Education and the executive uf the Waverley Masonic Lodge and in organizations including the On tario In~t ishy

tutc of Agrolog ists the S igma Xi Resea rch

Society the Internat iona l Soil Till age Reshyearch Association and the Univers ity Facshy

ul ty Association The Kctcheson s plan to retain their

home in Guelph but will sp nd time devcloping a crops program on thei r farm

Jack was honouree at a recent party where he was presented with a captain s

All You Need to Know About By Penny Clelland

If hothouse tomatoes depress you if the arrival of the first seed cata logue fill s you with glee if your thumb has the slightest green ti nge you may have the makings of

a super-gardener Super-gardene rs transform seeds and

soil into baske ts of big fresh beautiful vegshyetables They save money (about 13 per cent of the ave rage food budge t goes for

fruit and vegetables) and they are always searching for a new strawberry variety a better cold fram e design or the ultimate zucshychini recipe

Fortunately super-gardeners are made not born according to the Univershysitys Independent Study division A home study course offered by Independent Study was written specifically with green thumbs in mind

Plant care in the Home Garden is

a complete garden guide with practical

ideas and tips T he tex t describes the activities of each

season wi th schedules flir plan ting fertil i7shying spraying and har esting More than 500 colour sl ides in fil mstrips accomshypanied by the authors commentary on casshysette tape explain planting pruning and identifying varieties disorders and pests

O ther courses inc lude Plant Usc in the Home Landscape Landscape Deshysign and Installation and Plant Propagashytion There are also mini-courses in Growing Roses Deciduous Trees and Propagation of Tropical Plants

Prices range from $20 to $140 for the courses For more information contact Inshydependent Study University School of Part-Time Studies and Continuing Educashy

tion South House Univers ity of Guelph Guelph Ontario N I G 2W I or phone (519) 824-4120 Ext 3375 3400 0

chair a lit hograph by Brian Lowry Illus trashytion Se rvices and a book of le ttCfs from former graduate students who now live as lar away as Africa and the Ph ilipp ines 0

Mailbag OAC Alumni Association University ofGuelph Guelph Oll1 NI G 2WI

DearSirorMadam

I would like to thank you Jor helping us keep in touch through your publications They were most helpflll during (he three and a half years I was posted in the Caribshybean where information and telephones were not easily obtailled The articles ill the G uelph Alumnus proved helpjill ill more than one ilfJ tance in obtainillg edllcatiollal information much Ileeded in a country like Ha iti

I would appreciate ifyou would report theJollowing in yourOAC grad flews

Jim Hamilton 77 has returned 10

Brockville Oll lpoundlrio after three and a half years in the Caribbean workin g with Maple Leaf Mills He is now working as territory manager Jor their Feed Division in eastern Ontario

Thank you once again for your fine

work Sincerely Jim Hamilton B Sc( Agr) 77 57 Bartholomew Street Brockville Onl K6V 2R5

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U of Gs Yellow Potato Takes Market by Storm

A unique yellow-fl eshed potato deshyveloped at the University of Guelph has taken the us market by storm

US buyers particularly in Michigan are buying all of the seed they can some are disappointed that more seed is not availshyable

The potato variety known as Yukon Gold was devcloped by the Department of Horticultural Science and released four years ago by potato breeder Gary Johnston now retired from Agriculture Canada and University professor Geoff Rowberry 55

[t is the first yellow-fleshed potato to be developed and licensed in Canada

Gary Johnstons successor at Agricul shyture Canada Robert Coffin says the Amershyican s received sample seed as part of an on-going exchange program among breedshyers They tested it and liked it

The Americans liked Yukon Gold s buttered appearance saw a marketing opshyportunity in it s golden colour found it grew well under their growing conditions and now package and sell it under the trade mark Michigan Golden Bake Robert said One American market survey shows consumers like the potato s fla vo ur vershysatility and colour fleshed species from Peru and the variety growers to capitalize on Yukon Golds

Growers al so like this new variety beshy Katahdin unique properties But it does take promoshycause it gives good yield s ha s high solids Yukon Gold IS ideal for boiling and tion and consumer awareness and matures early so it can be harvested baking and makes superb french fries But The University S breeding program is in mid-July to fetch a prcmium price it does not chip well This limitation has now concentrating efforts on finding an imshy

Yukon Gold was first developed in partially prevented it from being widely proved chipping variety Such breeding 1966 in respon se to reque sts from Euroshy grown in Ontario up to 50 per cent of the programs usually start between 40000 and pean immigrants to Canada who were potatoes grown in Ontario are used for makshy 50000 new seedlings every year accustomed to eating yellow-fleshed potashy ing potato chips We graduaJly eliminate the inferior toes [n Europe Brazil and the Caribbean Robert Coffin is pleased that Yukon seedlings until we get down to very low yellow-fleshed potatoes arc preferred Gold is being well received in the United numbers and hopefully after 12 to 15

Gary Johnston created Yukon Gold by States and he hopes for increased recogni shy years we co me up with superior attributes crossing Norgleam a variety from North tion for this new variety here in Ontario compared to those varieties already on the Dakota with a hybrid of a wild yellow- The opportunity is here for Ontario market say s Robert Coffin 0

Robert Coffin left and Professor GeoffRowberry 55 with Yukon Cold

He Was the Prairie Gardner Reprinted from The Prairie Garden

There arc fcw horti culturists who ha vc contributed as much and for as long a timc to horticultural education and ck ve lopment ofthe pra iricsas l R Bob Almcy 21

Th Prairie Garden first published as thc Winllipeg Flower Cardell in 1937 knew him both as a frequent contributor of articles and al so as a long-timc board me JJ1bcr of the publish i ng co mm i tee

Bob Almcy was 16 when he accomshypanicd hi s parcnts to Canada from Le iccs shy

te r England On his arrival hc started a long carcer in his chosen field with Johnson Brothcrs orchardists ncar Forest Ontario Hc soon becamc a student of horticu I tUfe at the Ontario Agricultural Collcge at Guelph During his summer holidays spent with the Horticultural [)(partment of the OAC he worked alongside Isabclla Preshyston noted origi nator of many new plant varieties

In September 1917 during his third year of studies at Guelph he joined the Royal Flying Corps as an air cadet and was

discharged with th e rank of Second Lieutenshyant in December 1918

He returned to th e OAC and graduated in 1921 with the degree of Bachelor of Scishyence in Agriculture

The Manitoba Department of Agriculshyture created the position of extension hortishy -culturist in 1921 and hired Bob Almey that year He filled that position from 1921 to 1928 His dutics in the first year included the distribution of two carloads of certified Irish Cobbler seed potatoes to farmc rs He worked closdy with market gardeners and the hobby horticulturists of the Manitoba Horticultural Association (MHA)

He left the Manitoba Department of

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Agriculture to become chici horticu lturist Weste rn Lines- T hunder Bay to Vanshy

couver Islanu- of the Canadian Pac ific

Rail way As such he was in charge of the

railway s park and garden work advising officials and empl oyees o n stat ion garden plantings and o n tree shelter belts along the rai Iroad s right-of-way

Oldtimers will reme mber the we ll landscapeu prairi e stations and the beautiful

parks in large r centres that resulted from his work Bob was made ge neral agriculshytural agen t combining both ho rticul ture

and agriculture and continued in that post until his retirement in 1960

Rob Almey was an organi zation man

Hc Joined the MHA as soon as he came to Manitoba and was its secretarytreasurer

from 1922 to 1928 In 193 I hc becamc a director of that Assoc iation and served in th at capac ity for man y years In 1938

he became president of the MHA In 1956 he was made an honorary life member Bob is a life member of the Stevenson Memorial

Boare

For many years he was a judge of the Provincial Home Grounds Competition and

also the Prov incial Slide Co mpetiti o n Bob al so served the Association as ex -offic io director and finally as honorary preside nt

a pos it ion he re linqui shed in 1981 The Winnipeg Hort icultural Society

and the Winnipeg Gladiolus Society value his contributi ons to the ir programs He served as director and preside nt of both o rshy

ganizations and was honoured with ho norshyary life membersh ip by both

He is a charter member of thc Western

Canadian Society for Horticulture it s presishy

dent in J952 an d rec ip ie nt of its honorary life membershi p in 1961 Th e Man itoba In shystitute of Ag rologis ts and the Agricultural Institute o f Canada both honoured him with

honorary life memberships In 1972 the

anadian Ho rticultural Co uncil Fesented him with a merit award

Three awa rds are espeL ially dear to Bob and hi s wife Olive In 1970 the Hon

Philip Petu rrson Mini ster of Cultural Afshy

fairs made Bob a captain of the Order of

A Pioneer of the 4-8 Program Frederick Waldemar Waldo Walsb 22 MB E F A IC LLD formerly of Palmeter Avenue Kentville N S and ltl Ia ng-t ime res ident of Hal ifax NS died at the Weste rn King s Memorial Hospita l Berwick NS on February II He was

86 years o ld

Born in Monc to n N B Dr Walsb will be remembered as being one of Canadas outstanding agriculturists who

served in many capacities and many offishyces throughout a distinguished caree r spanshyning some 51 years

At the time of his retirement as Deputy

Minister of Agricu lture and Marketing for Nova Scotia in 1962 a pos itio n he had

held for 17 years he was the lo ngest serving Deputy Minister of Agriculture in Canada

Upon g raduation from th e Nova Scotia Agricultura1 College in 191 7 he en lis ted in the Royal Flying Corps with the rank of second lieutenant and was in training

as a pilot when the war ended Upon di-sshycharge he joined the staff of the New Bru-nsshy

wick Department of Agricu lture Livestock Division with whtch he remained until

1920 when he entered the OAC

In 1922 he joined Jhe staff of the Ca nada Departmen t of Agriculture as sheep and sw-ine promoter at Truro NS where

he remained until 1926 whe n he was apshypointed professor of Animal Husbandry and

director of Live stock M arketing at the Nova Scotia Agricultural Collcge

In 1927 Waldo became eastern supershy

intenden t of agriculture for the Can ad ian Nationa l Ra ilway s and in 1929 superinshytendent of ag ricultu re over the entire C R system

He rejoi ned the staff of the N S De shypartment of Agri culture in 1933 as director

of marketing a position he he ld until his appointment as De(1Uty Mini ster in 1945

Following his fonnal retirement he

served for several months as specia l marshy

kets adv isor and then for seven years as director of Co-operative Advisory Serv shyices Maritime Co-operative Services Moncton NB

Waldo was the last surviving member

of a g roup of three which was responsible

for the creation and developmen t of the

Canadian Council on Boys and Girls Club Work (now 4-H Clubs) and the las t survivshyin g member of the first Maritime Livestock

Marketing Board which eventua ll y became Maritime Co-operative Servi ces and now Co-op Atlantic

He was recognized by St Franc is Xavier Universi ty which confetTed the deshy

gree of Docto r of Law honoris causa in 1953 Oth er honours included being named a Member of the Order of the Briti sh Empire in the 1945 New Years Ho no urs li st being elected to the Atlantic Prov ince s Agricu lshy

tu ra l Hall ofFame a Fe llo w of the Agriculshytural Institute of Canada an honorary life

membe r of the Nova Sco tia Fruit Growers Associatio n a member of the Senate of

the Nova Scotia Federation of Agriculture

the Buffalo Hunt This order was instituted in 1957 spec ially to honou r those who have

made dist inct ive contributions to life in the

provin ce of Manitoba The wi dely famed Almey Rosybloom crabapple was fittin gly

named in Bob Almey s hono ur Just reshycently the American Gladio lu s Society ho noured Bob with its Gold Meda l Award

Despite all the activities in whi ch he was invo lved Bo b and Olive found time

to garden This gladio lus ex pert grew 1000 and more g lads at his little farm in Libau

Man He named several varieties He loved

to grow potatoes and Spanish onions But both of them also loved to show at the anshynual flower shows winnin g many prizes

and ribbons Today Bob an d Olive live in the ir

com fort ab le home in Winni peg Both an alert and we ll They still attend horticul tural

meetings and Bob still prescnts an oceashysiona llectu re

The Prairie Garden sa lutes thi s grand old hort icultu ris t and his wife All of us prairie gardeners arc indebted to the m 0

and a life member of the Canadian C lub Council on 4-H Cl ubs

During the past ten years he was inst rushymental in obtaini ng services for alcoho l and d rug dependency peopl e in the An napoli s Vallcy Reg ion and was a member of the Advisory Council of the Valley Health Sershy

vices Association Alcohol Dependency Program sin ce its inception He was a great

source of comfort and assis tance to many individuals in this prog ram

He was a member of the Kentvillc Ro shytary Club and for many years an acti ve and enthu siastic membe r of the Ha lifax

Curling Club 0

Fellowship J Edward Brubaker 49 manager Onshyta rio Ministry of Agriculture and Food ene rshygy centre in Guelph has been nam ed a Fellow of the Agr icultura l Insti tute of Canada (AIC)

He is among fivc AIC members to reshyceive the fe llowship honou r this year An

honorary life membership has also been -awarded to George Price a CBC radio agshyriculture reporter who covers Parlmiddotiamcnt Hill

Former pres idcnt Art Guitard was given the Ale recogni tion award for work on a c rop production and the environment

publication

The awards will be made during the annual meeting sc hed uled for Winnipeg Man in August 0

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Grad News Wilfrid Holtma nn MSA 62 is direcshytor of marketing CIAQ Inc SI HyashycintheQue

jurgen Koch Ph D 74 is a research as shysociate Departnw nt of Land Reso urce Sci shyencc Cn ivc ri ty ofG uelph

Marcel Couture MSc 76 a farm manshyagement speciali st was appoi nted as direcshytor of cxte nsio n senicc at Macdona ld Colshykgc McGil l Uni verity Que effective anuary I 19X4

A na tive of th e eastern towns hips he is a I 91i5 graduate of lacdonal d s Dip loma Pmgrall1 in Agricu ltu re an d earned a HSc(Agr) there in 1 ~72 be fore cnteri ng the nivcrsity of Guelph in th e fie ld 01 Agric ultural Economi cs and Extens ion Ed ucation

He was a~s is t a nt director of Mac shydona ld s Dipl oma ProgrJill in Agric ulture before hi prescnt appointment and will contin ue with hi s tCltJeh ing and ad mi nistrashytivc duti es in thc Dipl oma Pro[r~ lill

Gail (Tuumanen ) and Nei l Dolson both gradultJ tc s of 77 arc now ow neroperators of FJ inbrook FaInl Supply Binbrook

Kathr)n ( 1cLcod) Harrison 77 and husband Wayne 79 arc li ving in Guc[ph Waync is credit officer wi th the Toronto Dominion Bank Guelph The y have a daughte r M gha n lea n born November 15 I l)X)

john Tucker BSc ( En~) 78 is a cusshytOIllS investiga tor Revenll e Canada Cusshytoms and Excise Il amilton His wife Anna Mae Shelton-Tucker is J graduate of 79

Glen I1cRuer 79 is a rn al(ster Canada MI [ting Cn C li glry A[ta

Steven Vlnkatarayappa M Sc 79 PhD S3 is an assoc iate profe ssor of Hort icul ture Unive rs ity of Agrieu [tural Scie nce Ra ngal orc Indi a

joan (Elder) Weller SO i an ass istant CilCllli t Pops iclc Indu trics Burl ington Husband Tim also SO i dislt-ict s a [e~

m1I1agcr Pionee r II i-Bred Ltd Clla tham

Rogcr SI Pierre SI i a grai n me rchant wi th Jalllcs Rich ardson amp Sons Ltd Toshyronto His ik Stephanie (Weedle) is a graduatc of 82

Sophia Dinnisscn S2 is a studen t I t Wil shyfr id Lau rier Uni versity Wate rl oo

Nicholas Groot 82 is milk superv isor Ontario Da iry Herd improvement Assoc iashytion Toronto

Rober t Hack ney 82 is head wi nemaker Chara l Wi nery and Vi neyards Inc B[enheim

Frederick j amieson 82 is a quality as shysurance inspec tor J M Schneide r Inc Kitchener

Geollrey Jones S2 I S man ager of the UCO Elmwood branch

Susan Kelner 82 is a technica l a ~~ is tant

Chip man Inc SlOney Creek

Ca rolinc Kennedy S2 is a graduate stushydent Uni vcrsi ty of Manitoba Win nipeg

Jannette Leask 82 is territory sales repshyresentati ve Ral ston Purina Canada In c Whit by

Christopher McLean 82 IS a reseJrch technolog iq Ca mpbell So up Co Ltd Toron to

Lloyd Mitchell 82 is territory manJge r Ralston Purina Canada Inc Woodstock

R Ramirez Nathan 82 is an agronomist promoter Communidad Por Los Inos Antiolj ui a Colombia Sout h Am erica

Eileen (Richards) johnson MSc 83 is an executive assi stan t Ontar io olll mu shynity De vc lllpment Associa tion Uni ve rsity of Guc[ph

Diploma Gaduates

Keith Sinclair S4A has reccntly been appoi nt d vice-president and treasurer ofmiddot the United Co-ope ratives of Onllrio lie hi been wit h l jCO to r 21 years

David Thorton 64A is a [ocomot ive enshyg ineer Canadian aliona[ Rai lways Toshym nlO

Larry Inglis 66A i ~ purchasing man shyage r Canadian Canners Ltd Hamilton

Wa)ne Waugh 68A is an age ncies sale s and deve lopme nt representati ve Petro shyCanad a Prod ucts Don Mills

Eugene McDonald 77A is a mec han ic with Motorways Edmonton A[ta

j ames Slingerland 79A is an inspector Ontario Ministry of Agricultu re and Food liagara Fal[ s

In Me moriam Donald Risebrough 77 immed iate past preside nt of thc OAC Alumni Assoc iat ion d ied on June 30 1984 The news of his tragic death brought a great sensc of sad ness and almost di sbe li ef to his man y fri ends Don had presided a wee k prev ioUsly at many ac tiv ities during Alumni Weekend 84 celebrations He was killed when his ca r went out of control on a Hi ghway 40 I off-ram p He was on his way to visit his parents at their farm ncar Markham Don was di stri ct rep resentative Ontari o Holshystc in Branch Holstein-Fri es ian Associashyti on Brantford

William J Cohoe 03A died on March 19 1984 ilt Norvi[[ a ursing Homc Norshywich He had becn one of the oldes t gradshyuates of the OA

Dr Lloyd G Herman 34 a micro shybio log ist who retired from the US Nashytiona l Institutes of Health (NIH) in 1)7l) dicd February I 1984 at his home in Bet hesda Md Us A

He received his doc torate in Mic ro shybio logy from McG i[[ Uni versity in 1948 and after working at severa l private labora shytori es in the US A joined th e sta fr of IH in I lti 1i8

In 21 years lJi service he publi shed and lectured extensively and aec umu[ated vario Lis honours in his fie ld He was the first to ide nti fy a strain of ye llow-pig me nted waterborne bacteria th at the Centers of Dis shyease C()ntrol named f~s(I(r(h (l hall(III

in his honour in 19X2

Dr Herm an was vc ry active in the American Sl1ci ety fo r Mi robiology (ASM) and its Washi ngton bra nch Ill held JII offi shyces in the Washingto n branch of ASM in shycl ud ing pres idcnt Jnd continual[y held branch posts un til his death He was also a paS pres iden t 01 th Canadian Club of Washingtoll and lfthe Envi ronlllcnta[ Man-3cment Association

He WJs one of the incorporators or the Fricnds of ni ve rsit y ofGuclph Inc

George C McLaren 35 on February 10 1984 in Ollawa I Ie had retired fro ill the Dcpart ment of Na tional lJe fence

Robert Karl Allison 75 BSc(Eng) on Novcmber 6 1910 in London He had been -product io n manager for Modornckan LId

Alison Lyn (Geddes) L1nyck iz 7S in a car acc ident in January 19X4 Her two-yearshyo ld daughte r Jess ica and her mother we re also killed in the accidcnt in Norfolk County Her husband Peter a lso a gradshyuate of 78 is cmp[oyed at anadian Can shyners Simcoe 0

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Macdonald InstituteCollege of Family and Consumer

Studies Alumni Association

ALUMN NEWS Editor Joan (Anderson) Jenkinson 66

From the Dean Dr Richard Barham

There is seldom an issue of the Mac-FACS Alumni News that goes by without there being a special interest item or two about our faculty On this occasion I want to draw your attention to the announecment in this iss ue of the appointment of Dr Brucc Ryan to the chairmanship of the Department of Family Studies

I ex tend our congratulations to Dr Ryan on hi s success in winning this appointshyment in the open competition which was he ld across Canada for the position At the samc time I want to extcnd my very warm thanks 10 Dr Eli za bcth Miles who has been serving the Department and indeed the College so well over this past year through her rcsponsiblities as the Departments act shying chairman

I know that you will be interested to learn too that Dr Powerss appointment as Director of the School of Hotel and Food Admini stration has been renewed for a furth er term We wish Tom and his eolshyleaglle s a continuation of the distinction and successes which have marked the life of the hotel school to date

And while referring to the hotel school J also want to ask you to read thc article in thi s iss ue on Professor George Bedell the School s first director George has made a remarkable contribution while he has been at Guelph most particularly of course in a ll matters relating to the HAFA program and its students J want to thank George on behalf of us all for his vision and commitment over the years and for the interest and care he has for the HAFA grads

We had a spendid alumni retirement celebration for George at the King Edward Hotel in Toronto in May In the best tradishytion of our HAFA alumni and the hospitality industry it was a superb occas ion and fully expressive of the affection and respect which we all feel towards George Many

many thanks George We wish you and Louise a long and happy retirement

As I prepare the draft for this newsletshyter the Annual Mae-FACS Alumni Seminar has just been held The topic this year was Aging Myths and Realities and this ocshycasion too was a resound1l1g sueecss r am sure that I express the sentiments of the many alumni and friend s who were there in extending our congratulations and thanks to Gail Murray 78 and the members of her organizing committce

By the way if you have not yet made a contribution to the MAC 38 Gerontology Scholarship please do support the vision of this wonderfully energetic group of grads right now They reall y need your contribushytions to build up the scholarship fund and we have an urgcnt need to support students in this ncw and humanly important area of sc holarship

Many of you and others who arc not among our alumni have been ask ing us to organize courses which ill help you keep up to date in your profess ional fie lds Some of our conferences of course along with the Alumni Seminar arc intended to do just thi s But we now also have a number of our credit courses specially designed and developed for what we call dis tance teachshying

Already we have eomscs on Human Development Marital and amily Dynamshyics Family Economics Human Sex uality and the Exceptional Child The se courses are ava ilable to you on a correspondence basis and usc a comprehensive and carefully prepared study guide They in volve tests and ass ignments of course and the course in structors respond to questions either through mailed memos or by phone

You can take the final exam here in Guelph or possibly at a centre either in or near your own home town Write to Profes shysor Sam Luker chairman Part-Time and General Studie s if you want to find ou t more about our distance teaching program

You might want to note the fACS Sheel order form on page 34 of thi s issue Ifon the mailing list for FACS Sheel publishycations you will sec topics which interest you Keep in loueh with us by sending for eopics D

Appointment Dr Bruce A Ryan took up his appointshyment as chairman of the Department of Family Studies on July I of this year He has become known to many of our alumni over the years s ince his first appointment to that department as an assistant professor and director of the Laboratory Schools in 1975 He was promoted to the rank of asshysociate professor in 1980

Dr Ryan had hi S BA in Psychology eonfelTed by the University of Alberta (1964) He obtained both the M Ed (1969) and PhD (1971) degrees in Educational Psychology from the same university He has held the position of Psychomotrist at the Alberta Hosp ital in Edmonton and a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Centrc for the Study of Mental Retardation at the Unishyversity of Alberta Before moving to Guel ph in the mid- 70s Dr Ryan held his first university teaching and research post at Victoria University in Wellington New Zealand

Irokssiona l and co mmunity service activities figure significantly among Dr Ryans involvements He is first vice-presishydent of the Canad ian Association for Educashytional Psychology and vice-president also of the Ontario Association of Family Se rshyvice Agencie s He is on the editorial board of the publication Canadas iInlal Heallh and among other sc holarly and professhysional bodies a member of the Canadian Association for the Treatment and Study of Families

The primary focus of Dr Ryans teachshying research and academic publications has been upon the ecology of human (and particularly child) development and learnshying He has a special interes t in person-envishy shyronment interactions particularly within the context of family system s and with reshygard to possible impacts upon children s learningdiffieulties in school

Dr Ryans wife Nancy is a librarian with special interests in childrens books and school libraries Bruce and Nancy have two delightful daughters Keri and Jenny both of whom are at elementary school D

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End of an Era The editor wishes 0 extend a sincere thank you to Joe Van Koe verdel 75 BComm editor oJthe Hotel and Food Administration

Alumni News Jor permission to reprint this article wrillen by D Kanzler and pubshylished in April

W hen retiring Professor George Bedell

close s his office door behind him for the

las t lime on September I and hangs out The Mac-FACS Alumni Seminar attracted 175 to the Guelph Campus in April The the GONE FISH ING sign hell close topic was Aging Myths and Realities Leaders oj the interest sessions were I to the door on an era in the Canadian hospiality r Dr John Powell Leslie (Good) Snell 64 Smuly Forbes 82 Gail Murray 78 education indu stry seminar committee chairman Donna Woolcott 69 Rev Lance Woods and Grella

And hell open the door to a flood Riddell-Dixon of tributes from the hospitality industry as

the man who spearheaded the development

of Canadas first school of hotel and food

admini stration They will remember him

as the mentor who set high standards shy

the man who made hospitality manageme nt

a profess ion The students now 650 graduates

strong will remember him as the man who

gave hospitality cducation credibility - the

man who made them professionals His facshy

ulty peers will prai se George Bedell s pershy

severance in building a degree-granting sc hool at a time when such an institution

was unheard of on Canadian university

campuses

All will point to his many awards

Participants a the Seminar included Alumni in Action members I to r Jack Palmer OAC 38 Elsie (Hume) Pettit 34 Harvey Pettil OAC 32 Do (Stuari) Paitner 36 and Jim Baker OAC 28

chief among which were the 1975 Queens you hope you ha ve made a lasting contribushy Hotel Adminis tration at Michigan State Jubilee Meda l the 1981 Member CRA tioll And I hope my leade rship with the University but in 1942 draft papers took Foundation College of Diplomates and the help of others has ensured this program s priority He served with the United States 1983 Jack C Sim Man of the Year success he says Army until 1946 when disc harged as a Award as confirmation of Pro fe ssor Beshy Connec ticut-born George Bedell credshy Captain and continued as a reserve officer dell s outstanding contributions its an itinerant father for developing his until 1962 when he was discharged with

T he tribute s would make Geo rge interests in the industry He used to bring thc rank of Major SOli Ie perhaps blush and prompt a throaty back all kinds of fascinating brochures from The post-war years saw him work as chuckle because when all is said and done hotels across the USA - thats what got manager of scveral Connccticut inns and he would s imply like to be remembered me started hotel s before being asked to join Michigan for who he is When you leave something George completed his BA studies in Statc s Faculty of Continuing Education in

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1953 It proved to be a turning point in hi s career

By 1959 George had been appointed director o f Man agement T rainin g Proshygrams and director of Business and Tcchn ishycal Advisory Service for the National Re~shytaurant Association in Chicago He held that position until 1969 when he was in shyvited by thc Uni versit y of Gue lph to take ove r as director of Canada s first School of Hotel and Food Administration H~ re shyma ined director until 1979 fo llowing whi ch he continued teaching at th e School

I knew lots of peop le in industry here and saw the opportunity to help the hospitalit y industry he says of hi s deci shys ion to move to Guelph [ saw thi s as a rea l chall enge But [ always knew we would succeed I decidcd from day o ne that we would make a go of it he adds with characteri stic determi nation

If his first years were frustrating it was mainl y because of thc students skeptishycism They we re so worried about th e Schools reputation and whether there d be Jobs waiting for them I had to build Iheir confidence - ove r and over again I look now at what our gradu ates ha ve accomshyplished and I feel good about hav ing played a role in their su ccess II mea ns the proshygram s have grown the way we thought they should and proves th at we ha ve bcen doing somethin g right here at Guelph

Professor Bede ll is particularly proud of the new Advanced Management Program for the Hospita lit y Indu stry (AMPHI ) estabshyli shed by Pro fe ssor Tom Po we rs the preshysent director of the Schoo l last ye ar to help train and de ve lop top level manage rs No other uni versity in the world is do ing this type of ed ucation al training for the hospitalshyity industry he points out Moreover AMPHI is th e kind of program that s vi tal to the future of the hos pit alit y industry The industry is still ex pand ing all forecasts po int to mo re people ca ti ng out more peop le travelling - and that means a growshying need for facilitie s and trained people

Corne September I George Bedcl l wi ll monitor th at growth - and his Schools successes - from afa r Hi s re shytiremenl caree r in cludes so rnc travel lots of fishing tinle to get a little fun out ot life and pl~tnS to build a hOllle on the coast of Maine tor his wife Loui se and himse lf But distance won t keep hi thoughtgt from Willin g back to Guc I ph

Fifteen yea rs ago he says he was given the chal len ge to get Guelphs Schoo l of Hotel and Food Admini st ration off th e gro und lto w on the e ve of hi s retirement he issues hi s ow n chall enge to the Schoo l Ten years from now [ wa nt to be abl e to say - Look how that School has grown ho w its progressing how its getting better al l the time 0

Grad News Foods amp Nutrition

LornI Dixon 83 is a die tetic intern at the Health Science Centre in Winni peg Man

Lori M Farr 79 is empl oyed with the Nutri tion Department Cen tenary Hospi ta l West Hill

Pat Faber 78 is pati ent food services co-ordinator with Roya l Jubliee Hospital Victoria BC

Elaine (Dashner) Robichaud 80 i food service director Saga Ca nad ian v1anageshyment Services Susse x Health Centre NB

Karen (Seib) Webber 78 is an outpati ent dietiti an at Van couver Ge neral Hospital BC

Libb~ (Lewis ) Logan 74 is a clin ical di etitian with the hildren s Hospi tal 01 Ealern Ontario Ottawa

Educa tion

fngl id ( ppell ) larsh 69 i 1 l e~tC llcr

Wentworth Count) Fl(l~lnl Drhlucatioll

Lolly (Robinson) Bartkew 62 is a supshypl y teacher with the Waterloo County Board () f Education

Kathi Ayers 73 is an in~dructo r with Grande Prairie Regiona l College Grande Prairi e Alta

Lauric (Watson) Goorts 79 is a Family Stud ie teache r with th e Waterloo County Board of Educati on

Ta mm) (Hryhorenko) Warren 75 is de partm~nt head Famil y Studies Westdale SS Hamilton

Josie (Lohuis) Schneider 80 is te aching at the Catholic Central High School LonshydonOnt

Social Services

Judi th Tansley 69 is a counsellor with Sunstar House Saskatoo n Sask

Rev Kay (Finlay) Hagey 37 is wilh th e Ang lican Church of Ca nada SI Andre ws Church Grim sby

Christine (Brady) MacPhee 78 is a unit le ade rsocial worker with Famil y and Chilshydrens Services Goderich

Eileen (Derynck) O ls thoorn 78 is a 0shy

cial worker with Halton Childrens Aid Oak vill e

Donna (Rose ) Allen 70 is a compl ianee officer with the Hea lth Protection Branch Health and Welfare Canada Otta wa

Janine Jones 82 is a developm ntal Inshystructor with Si rTI eoc Habi I i tative Sen ICC)

Business and Industry

-arion (Kerr ) I1ennenrent 7 1 11Sc 76 is employed wit h Gary S Hcn nn k nt Insurance Services Ltd Vancou cr BC

Edna (Hay ) Jarrell 36 is presiden t Edna Jarrc I I Rcal rstatc h lingto n

Ann (McClure ) Keller 78 is a denta l tec hnician with J PO Ir()CCor~ Inc Gue lph

Sharon Salm-ltrose 82 is an advert isi ng consultant wi th WS Marketi ng AlnlC 0

Meeting Notice

Guelph Branch MacmiddotFACS Alumni

Association Annual Membership

Coffee Party 730 p _m to 1000 pm_

September 2 51984

At the home of Margaret (Hamilton) Bates 53

303 Edinburgh Road South Guelph Ontalio

In Memoriam Margaret (Blac kh am ) Elliott 350 R R I Blenheim date ordelt h unknown

Edith (Hubbard ) Garrison 320 Janu shyary 19K4 inCenterLine Mich US

Susan lIem i ngwa~ 31D February 1 -19R4 inTnronto

J u ne (Van Someren ) Van Wyck 47 D Februa ry 12 1984 in Hamilton

Velma (Balkwill) Stuck 210 February J 19R4 at R R if fgt Woodstoc k Her husshyband th e late Fred W Stock was an OAC 21 grad Her son Oa id JB Stock QC isan OAC 59 grad U

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AI mnos of

Honotlr 1984

Elliott Mac McLoughry OAC 22

With the Ontario Department of Agrishy

culture (ODA) as Agricultu ra l Represhyse ntative in Vi ctoria Dundas and W aterloo Counties Ellio lllrwin McLo ughry was a

pioneer d uri ng a time o f greattechnicaJ advance in Fann practices

A h ighly respec ted ge nt le man who

ga ined the confide nce o f the Menno nite people

o f Waterloo Co unty hi s accomplishments inc lude the introduc tio n o f short-courses for farmers and a soil conservatio n program the es tab lishment of Bacon Hog Fa irs and the Waterloo callie breeding unit and co-ope rashytio n w ith the OAC in the first nematode

program

Aged 90 last Jul y Mac througho ut hi s worki ng li fe made s ign ificant contributio ns to Canadian agric ultu re and to socie ty and ill

1964 re tired from his positi o n as d irector o f extens io n DA He lives at the Presto n Springs Gardens Retirement Ho me J 02 f o untain tree t So uth Cambridge Ontario 0

The Ontario Agricultural College Alumni Association

ALUMNI NEWS Editor Dr Harvey W Caldwell 51

IlDproving the Strain Reprinted from the OMAF News

Asparagus prized for its delicate flavour and considered to be somewhat of a luxury food commands an excellent price in both fresh and processing markets

Consumer demand for this delicacy often exceeds locally-grown supplies In 1981 for example Ontario imported about 16 million kilos of asparagus worth almost $3 million in the same year the provinces growers produced about 13 million kilos of asparagus also worth about 53 million

To help Ontarios growers expand into this lucrative market high-yielding asshyparagus varieties suited to Ontarios growshying conditions are bei ng developed and tested at the University of Guelph s Deshypartmental Horticultural Sc ience

Funding for this research which has gone on at the Ministry for a decade has becn provided by the Ontario Mi nistry of Agriculture and Food Agricul ture Canada and private industry

In 1981 OMAF also int roduced the $ 1 S III ill ion O ntario Asparagus Produc tion Incent ive Program which granted new and prc se nt growers $ 1200 per hec tare over a three-year period for new plan tings

To date almost $ 1 million has been aW(l rded As a result of th is support proshygram IOtal land plan ted in asparagus has increased from 971 hec tares in 1980 to 1905 hectares in 1983 An addit ional 12 14 hecshytares shou ld be added this year

Many of the asparagus varidi s grown at present in O ntario such as Vik ing Vi shyking 2K and Viking 2G arc hardy but do not produce yiclds comparable to varshyiet ies grown in o the r countries says Unishyversity of G uelph hort iculturist Professor Herman T iessen S 1

But tri als of variet ies and lines from all over the world set up in 1979 arc beginshyning to show promise he says

or example the German lines LueulshyIus and Sehwetzinger Mcisterschus yielded 70 to 80 per cen t better than the Viking 2K at the Simcoe Research St(ltion in the first two harves ts the results from Camshy

bridge Research Stations older trials corshyroborate these results while the new trials there show a number of new Rutgers hyshybrids to have considerable promise

O ne in particular Ce ntennial deshyveloped at Rutgers University in the US A is high yielding and more tolerant of O ntario s en vironmcnt than varieties now grown here

Yi elds of Centennial can be up to 30 to 40 per cent more than Viking in some locations Centennial will now be used as Ontario s standard variety future new varishyeties will have to exceed Centennial in performance

By agreement with Rutgers Univershysity the Univers ity of Guelph is now developing commercial seed s tock for Centennial f he male and female plants provided were ti ssue-cultured at Guelph and in 1983 one hectare of these parent plants was set out at the Un iversityS Cruiekston Park Farm Commercial seed should be available in 1986

New crosses from superior plants obshytained from all over the world are a lso being bred and more than 100 lines arc now be ing assessed as pote nt ial varieties for O ntario

Dr T iesscn warns that seed costs for these new hybrids are much higher Old-va-

Dr Herman Tiesscn 5

riety seed costs about $66 to $ 110 per kilo but prices range from $440 to $880 for the new hybrids

But this must be put in context An asparagus bed lasts IS to 20 years and the newer var ie ties can produce 4S0 to 900 kilos per hectare per year more than the older ones Considering that the selling price of asparagus is about $2 S0 or more per ki lo the extra price of the seed could be recovered easily in the first fe w years of production

Asparagus has been grown commershycially in O ntario for more than 7S years with the original sites on well-drained sandy soi l close to cities and then in the Burshylington Niagara Collingwood Leamshyington and Delhi -S imcoe areas

Production has shifted rece ntly to Halshydimand-Norfolk Kent Essex and Elgin counties all of which border on Lake Erie

Dr Tiessen says many farmers have expressed interes t in grow ing the crop but there still r mains plenty of room for expansion 0

Appointment K enneth R Farrell SO fo rmer adminisshytrator of the Economics and Statistics Sershyvice of USDA Washington D C US A has been chosen to head a Nat iona l Center for Food and Agricul tural Po licy The Censhyter is supported by a $4 S million grant fro m the W K Kellogg Foundation

Accord ing to Farrc ll the Center will develop fu ture ag ricultural pol icy leadcrs by o ff ring fell owsh ips in ternsh ips and worhhops for young profession al s and will examine and evaluat e exi st ing and al shyte rnative agricu l ~ural policie t ass ss the ir k~y economic social and instit ut ional imshypl ications

The Center wi ll a lso im prove public understanding by periodic reports on issues in agricultu re natural resources food nutrition and international tracle and will support policy analysi s projects at other inshystitutions by making research grants 0

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Land Resource Science Honours Prof Jack Ketcheson

P rofessor John Wi lliam Jack Ketc heshyson 44 has fo rmally retired a fte r a long teaching and re~earch career at the U nivershysity of G uclph However the soi l scienti st has no intention o f g iving up hi s interest in the fk ld He will presid 0 e r the IntershynatIonal Soil T illage Research Organi7ashytions 10th conference to be he ld in Guelph

in 1985 fo r an expec ted 300 scientists lack is also conti nu ing his Hasti ngs Coun ty fa rmi ng operation in preparation for an eve ntual move to that area

Both Jac k and his wife Betty Arts 83 come o f pio neer stock and gre w up on Hastings County farm s in the same area as the fa rm they now own in Frankford Jack farmed with hi s father before entering the O ntar io Agricultural Co llege in 1940

and took up so il fertility field plot work at the Co llege after his graduation He late r worked as a soils fie ldman with agricultural representat ives throughout central O ntario frolll York to North umberland Count ies until in 1949 he took a leave to complete M Sc and PhD degrees at the University of Illinois

He returned to the O AC in 1950 to the then Soils Department now the Departshyment of Land Resource Science where he has been a facult y member since In more recent years he has spent periods of time on a soil management project for the Internashytional Atomic Energy Agcncy

Btlly and Ja ck Ketchesun 4 lef t were royallv fetcd (l a rctiremelfl party Sh(rin ~

their table is OAC Dean Freeman McEwen

Over the years the Ketchesons have played an active role in church and commushynity activities in G uelph with Jac k servin g on the Board of Education and the executive uf the Waverley Masonic Lodge and in organizations including the On tario In~t ishy

tutc of Agrolog ists the S igma Xi Resea rch

Society the Internat iona l Soil Till age Reshyearch Association and the Univers ity Facshy

ul ty Association The Kctcheson s plan to retain their

home in Guelph but will sp nd time devcloping a crops program on thei r farm

Jack was honouree at a recent party where he was presented with a captain s

All You Need to Know About By Penny Clelland

If hothouse tomatoes depress you if the arrival of the first seed cata logue fill s you with glee if your thumb has the slightest green ti nge you may have the makings of

a super-gardener Super-gardene rs transform seeds and

soil into baske ts of big fresh beautiful vegshyetables They save money (about 13 per cent of the ave rage food budge t goes for

fruit and vegetables) and they are always searching for a new strawberry variety a better cold fram e design or the ultimate zucshychini recipe

Fortunately super-gardeners are made not born according to the Univershysitys Independent Study division A home study course offered by Independent Study was written specifically with green thumbs in mind

Plant care in the Home Garden is

a complete garden guide with practical

ideas and tips T he tex t describes the activities of each

season wi th schedules flir plan ting fertil i7shying spraying and har esting More than 500 colour sl ides in fil mstrips accomshypanied by the authors commentary on casshysette tape explain planting pruning and identifying varieties disorders and pests

O ther courses inc lude Plant Usc in the Home Landscape Landscape Deshysign and Installation and Plant Propagashytion There are also mini-courses in Growing Roses Deciduous Trees and Propagation of Tropical Plants

Prices range from $20 to $140 for the courses For more information contact Inshydependent Study University School of Part-Time Studies and Continuing Educashy

tion South House Univers ity of Guelph Guelph Ontario N I G 2W I or phone (519) 824-4120 Ext 3375 3400 0

chair a lit hograph by Brian Lowry Illus trashytion Se rvices and a book of le ttCfs from former graduate students who now live as lar away as Africa and the Ph ilipp ines 0

Mailbag OAC Alumni Association University ofGuelph Guelph Oll1 NI G 2WI

DearSirorMadam

I would like to thank you Jor helping us keep in touch through your publications They were most helpflll during (he three and a half years I was posted in the Caribshybean where information and telephones were not easily obtailled The articles ill the G uelph Alumnus proved helpjill ill more than one ilfJ tance in obtainillg edllcatiollal information much Ileeded in a country like Ha iti

I would appreciate ifyou would report theJollowing in yourOAC grad flews

Jim Hamilton 77 has returned 10

Brockville Oll lpoundlrio after three and a half years in the Caribbean workin g with Maple Leaf Mills He is now working as territory manager Jor their Feed Division in eastern Ontario

Thank you once again for your fine

work Sincerely Jim Hamilton B Sc( Agr) 77 57 Bartholomew Street Brockville Onl K6V 2R5

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U of Gs Yellow Potato Takes Market by Storm

A unique yellow-fl eshed potato deshyveloped at the University of Guelph has taken the us market by storm

US buyers particularly in Michigan are buying all of the seed they can some are disappointed that more seed is not availshyable

The potato variety known as Yukon Gold was devcloped by the Department of Horticultural Science and released four years ago by potato breeder Gary Johnston now retired from Agriculture Canada and University professor Geoff Rowberry 55

[t is the first yellow-fleshed potato to be developed and licensed in Canada

Gary Johnstons successor at Agricul shyture Canada Robert Coffin says the Amershyican s received sample seed as part of an on-going exchange program among breedshyers They tested it and liked it

The Americans liked Yukon Gold s buttered appearance saw a marketing opshyportunity in it s golden colour found it grew well under their growing conditions and now package and sell it under the trade mark Michigan Golden Bake Robert said One American market survey shows consumers like the potato s fla vo ur vershysatility and colour fleshed species from Peru and the variety growers to capitalize on Yukon Golds

Growers al so like this new variety beshy Katahdin unique properties But it does take promoshycause it gives good yield s ha s high solids Yukon Gold IS ideal for boiling and tion and consumer awareness and matures early so it can be harvested baking and makes superb french fries But The University S breeding program is in mid-July to fetch a prcmium price it does not chip well This limitation has now concentrating efforts on finding an imshy

Yukon Gold was first developed in partially prevented it from being widely proved chipping variety Such breeding 1966 in respon se to reque sts from Euroshy grown in Ontario up to 50 per cent of the programs usually start between 40000 and pean immigrants to Canada who were potatoes grown in Ontario are used for makshy 50000 new seedlings every year accustomed to eating yellow-fleshed potashy ing potato chips We graduaJly eliminate the inferior toes [n Europe Brazil and the Caribbean Robert Coffin is pleased that Yukon seedlings until we get down to very low yellow-fleshed potatoes arc preferred Gold is being well received in the United numbers and hopefully after 12 to 15

Gary Johnston created Yukon Gold by States and he hopes for increased recogni shy years we co me up with superior attributes crossing Norgleam a variety from North tion for this new variety here in Ontario compared to those varieties already on the Dakota with a hybrid of a wild yellow- The opportunity is here for Ontario market say s Robert Coffin 0

Robert Coffin left and Professor GeoffRowberry 55 with Yukon Cold

He Was the Prairie Gardner Reprinted from The Prairie Garden

There arc fcw horti culturists who ha vc contributed as much and for as long a timc to horticultural education and ck ve lopment ofthe pra iricsas l R Bob Almcy 21

Th Prairie Garden first published as thc Winllipeg Flower Cardell in 1937 knew him both as a frequent contributor of articles and al so as a long-timc board me JJ1bcr of the publish i ng co mm i tee

Bob Almcy was 16 when he accomshypanicd hi s parcnts to Canada from Le iccs shy

te r England On his arrival hc started a long carcer in his chosen field with Johnson Brothcrs orchardists ncar Forest Ontario Hc soon becamc a student of horticu I tUfe at the Ontario Agricultural Collcge at Guelph During his summer holidays spent with the Horticultural [)(partment of the OAC he worked alongside Isabclla Preshyston noted origi nator of many new plant varieties

In September 1917 during his third year of studies at Guelph he joined the Royal Flying Corps as an air cadet and was

discharged with th e rank of Second Lieutenshyant in December 1918

He returned to th e OAC and graduated in 1921 with the degree of Bachelor of Scishyence in Agriculture

The Manitoba Department of Agriculshyture created the position of extension hortishy -culturist in 1921 and hired Bob Almey that year He filled that position from 1921 to 1928 His dutics in the first year included the distribution of two carloads of certified Irish Cobbler seed potatoes to farmc rs He worked closdy with market gardeners and the hobby horticulturists of the Manitoba Horticultural Association (MHA)

He left the Manitoba Department of

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Agriculture to become chici horticu lturist Weste rn Lines- T hunder Bay to Vanshy

couver Islanu- of the Canadian Pac ific

Rail way As such he was in charge of the

railway s park and garden work advising officials and empl oyees o n stat ion garden plantings and o n tree shelter belts along the rai Iroad s right-of-way

Oldtimers will reme mber the we ll landscapeu prairi e stations and the beautiful

parks in large r centres that resulted from his work Bob was made ge neral agriculshytural agen t combining both ho rticul ture

and agriculture and continued in that post until his retirement in 1960

Rob Almey was an organi zation man

Hc Joined the MHA as soon as he came to Manitoba and was its secretarytreasurer

from 1922 to 1928 In 193 I hc becamc a director of that Assoc iation and served in th at capac ity for man y years In 1938

he became president of the MHA In 1956 he was made an honorary life member Bob is a life member of the Stevenson Memorial

Boare

For many years he was a judge of the Provincial Home Grounds Competition and

also the Prov incial Slide Co mpetiti o n Bob al so served the Association as ex -offic io director and finally as honorary preside nt

a pos it ion he re linqui shed in 1981 The Winnipeg Hort icultural Society

and the Winnipeg Gladiolus Society value his contributi ons to the ir programs He served as director and preside nt of both o rshy

ganizations and was honoured with ho norshyary life membersh ip by both

He is a charter member of thc Western

Canadian Society for Horticulture it s presishy

dent in J952 an d rec ip ie nt of its honorary life membershi p in 1961 Th e Man itoba In shystitute of Ag rologis ts and the Agricultural Institute o f Canada both honoured him with

honorary life memberships In 1972 the

anadian Ho rticultural Co uncil Fesented him with a merit award

Three awa rds are espeL ially dear to Bob and hi s wife Olive In 1970 the Hon

Philip Petu rrson Mini ster of Cultural Afshy

fairs made Bob a captain of the Order of

A Pioneer of the 4-8 Program Frederick Waldemar Waldo Walsb 22 MB E F A IC LLD formerly of Palmeter Avenue Kentville N S and ltl Ia ng-t ime res ident of Hal ifax NS died at the Weste rn King s Memorial Hospita l Berwick NS on February II He was

86 years o ld

Born in Monc to n N B Dr Walsb will be remembered as being one of Canadas outstanding agriculturists who

served in many capacities and many offishyces throughout a distinguished caree r spanshyning some 51 years

At the time of his retirement as Deputy

Minister of Agricu lture and Marketing for Nova Scotia in 1962 a pos itio n he had

held for 17 years he was the lo ngest serving Deputy Minister of Agriculture in Canada

Upon g raduation from th e Nova Scotia Agricultura1 College in 191 7 he en lis ted in the Royal Flying Corps with the rank of second lieutenant and was in training

as a pilot when the war ended Upon di-sshycharge he joined the staff of the New Bru-nsshy

wick Department of Agricu lture Livestock Division with whtch he remained until

1920 when he entered the OAC

In 1922 he joined Jhe staff of the Ca nada Departmen t of Agriculture as sheep and sw-ine promoter at Truro NS where

he remained until 1926 whe n he was apshypointed professor of Animal Husbandry and

director of Live stock M arketing at the Nova Scotia Agricultural Collcge

In 1927 Waldo became eastern supershy

intenden t of agriculture for the Can ad ian Nationa l Ra ilway s and in 1929 superinshytendent of ag ricultu re over the entire C R system

He rejoi ned the staff of the N S De shypartment of Agri culture in 1933 as director

of marketing a position he he ld until his appointment as De(1Uty Mini ster in 1945

Following his fonnal retirement he

served for several months as specia l marshy

kets adv isor and then for seven years as director of Co-operative Advisory Serv shyices Maritime Co-operative Services Moncton NB

Waldo was the last surviving member

of a g roup of three which was responsible

for the creation and developmen t of the

Canadian Council on Boys and Girls Club Work (now 4-H Clubs) and the las t survivshyin g member of the first Maritime Livestock

Marketing Board which eventua ll y became Maritime Co-operative Servi ces and now Co-op Atlantic

He was recognized by St Franc is Xavier Universi ty which confetTed the deshy

gree of Docto r of Law honoris causa in 1953 Oth er honours included being named a Member of the Order of the Briti sh Empire in the 1945 New Years Ho no urs li st being elected to the Atlantic Prov ince s Agricu lshy

tu ra l Hall ofFame a Fe llo w of the Agriculshytural Institute of Canada an honorary life

membe r of the Nova Sco tia Fruit Growers Associatio n a member of the Senate of

the Nova Scotia Federation of Agriculture

the Buffalo Hunt This order was instituted in 1957 spec ially to honou r those who have

made dist inct ive contributions to life in the

provin ce of Manitoba The wi dely famed Almey Rosybloom crabapple was fittin gly

named in Bob Almey s hono ur Just reshycently the American Gladio lu s Society ho noured Bob with its Gold Meda l Award

Despite all the activities in whi ch he was invo lved Bo b and Olive found time

to garden This gladio lus ex pert grew 1000 and more g lads at his little farm in Libau

Man He named several varieties He loved

to grow potatoes and Spanish onions But both of them also loved to show at the anshynual flower shows winnin g many prizes

and ribbons Today Bob an d Olive live in the ir

com fort ab le home in Winni peg Both an alert and we ll They still attend horticul tural

meetings and Bob still prescnts an oceashysiona llectu re

The Prairie Garden sa lutes thi s grand old hort icultu ris t and his wife All of us prairie gardeners arc indebted to the m 0

and a life member of the Canadian C lub Council on 4-H Cl ubs

During the past ten years he was inst rushymental in obtaini ng services for alcoho l and d rug dependency peopl e in the An napoli s Vallcy Reg ion and was a member of the Advisory Council of the Valley Health Sershy

vices Association Alcohol Dependency Program sin ce its inception He was a great

source of comfort and assis tance to many individuals in this prog ram

He was a member of the Kentvillc Ro shytary Club and for many years an acti ve and enthu siastic membe r of the Ha lifax

Curling Club 0

Fellowship J Edward Brubaker 49 manager Onshyta rio Ministry of Agriculture and Food ene rshygy centre in Guelph has been nam ed a Fellow of the Agr icultura l Insti tute of Canada (AIC)

He is among fivc AIC members to reshyceive the fe llowship honou r this year An

honorary life membership has also been -awarded to George Price a CBC radio agshyriculture reporter who covers Parlmiddotiamcnt Hill

Former pres idcnt Art Guitard was given the Ale recogni tion award for work on a c rop production and the environment

publication

The awards will be made during the annual meeting sc hed uled for Winnipeg Man in August 0

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Grad News Wilfrid Holtma nn MSA 62 is direcshytor of marketing CIAQ Inc SI HyashycintheQue

jurgen Koch Ph D 74 is a research as shysociate Departnw nt of Land Reso urce Sci shyencc Cn ivc ri ty ofG uelph

Marcel Couture MSc 76 a farm manshyagement speciali st was appoi nted as direcshytor of cxte nsio n senicc at Macdona ld Colshykgc McGil l Uni verity Que effective anuary I 19X4

A na tive of th e eastern towns hips he is a I 91i5 graduate of lacdonal d s Dip loma Pmgrall1 in Agricu ltu re an d earned a HSc(Agr) there in 1 ~72 be fore cnteri ng the nivcrsity of Guelph in th e fie ld 01 Agric ultural Economi cs and Extens ion Ed ucation

He was a~s is t a nt director of Mac shydona ld s Dipl oma ProgrJill in Agric ulture before hi prescnt appointment and will contin ue with hi s tCltJeh ing and ad mi nistrashytivc duti es in thc Dipl oma Pro[r~ lill

Gail (Tuumanen ) and Nei l Dolson both gradultJ tc s of 77 arc now ow neroperators of FJ inbrook FaInl Supply Binbrook

Kathr)n ( 1cLcod) Harrison 77 and husband Wayne 79 arc li ving in Guc[ph Waync is credit officer wi th the Toronto Dominion Bank Guelph The y have a daughte r M gha n lea n born November 15 I l)X)

john Tucker BSc ( En~) 78 is a cusshytOIllS investiga tor Revenll e Canada Cusshytoms and Excise Il amilton His wife Anna Mae Shelton-Tucker is J graduate of 79

Glen I1cRuer 79 is a rn al(ster Canada MI [ting Cn C li glry A[ta

Steven Vlnkatarayappa M Sc 79 PhD S3 is an assoc iate profe ssor of Hort icul ture Unive rs ity of Agrieu [tural Scie nce Ra ngal orc Indi a

joan (Elder) Weller SO i an ass istant CilCllli t Pops iclc Indu trics Burl ington Husband Tim also SO i dislt-ict s a [e~

m1I1agcr Pionee r II i-Bred Ltd Clla tham

Rogcr SI Pierre SI i a grai n me rchant wi th Jalllcs Rich ardson amp Sons Ltd Toshyronto His ik Stephanie (Weedle) is a graduatc of 82

Sophia Dinnisscn S2 is a studen t I t Wil shyfr id Lau rier Uni versity Wate rl oo

Nicholas Groot 82 is milk superv isor Ontario Da iry Herd improvement Assoc iashytion Toronto

Rober t Hack ney 82 is head wi nemaker Chara l Wi nery and Vi neyards Inc B[enheim

Frederick j amieson 82 is a quality as shysurance inspec tor J M Schneide r Inc Kitchener

Geollrey Jones S2 I S man ager of the UCO Elmwood branch

Susan Kelner 82 is a technica l a ~~ is tant

Chip man Inc SlOney Creek

Ca rolinc Kennedy S2 is a graduate stushydent Uni vcrsi ty of Manitoba Win nipeg

Jannette Leask 82 is territory sales repshyresentati ve Ral ston Purina Canada In c Whit by

Christopher McLean 82 IS a reseJrch technolog iq Ca mpbell So up Co Ltd Toron to

Lloyd Mitchell 82 is territory manJge r Ralston Purina Canada Inc Woodstock

R Ramirez Nathan 82 is an agronomist promoter Communidad Por Los Inos Antiolj ui a Colombia Sout h Am erica

Eileen (Richards) johnson MSc 83 is an executive assi stan t Ontar io olll mu shynity De vc lllpment Associa tion Uni ve rsity of Guc[ph

Diploma Gaduates

Keith Sinclair S4A has reccntly been appoi nt d vice-president and treasurer ofmiddot the United Co-ope ratives of Onllrio lie hi been wit h l jCO to r 21 years

David Thorton 64A is a [ocomot ive enshyg ineer Canadian aliona[ Rai lways Toshym nlO

Larry Inglis 66A i ~ purchasing man shyage r Canadian Canners Ltd Hamilton

Wa)ne Waugh 68A is an age ncies sale s and deve lopme nt representati ve Petro shyCanad a Prod ucts Don Mills

Eugene McDonald 77A is a mec han ic with Motorways Edmonton A[ta

j ames Slingerland 79A is an inspector Ontario Ministry of Agricultu re and Food liagara Fal[ s

In Me moriam Donald Risebrough 77 immed iate past preside nt of thc OAC Alumni Assoc iat ion d ied on June 30 1984 The news of his tragic death brought a great sensc of sad ness and almost di sbe li ef to his man y fri ends Don had presided a wee k prev ioUsly at many ac tiv ities during Alumni Weekend 84 celebrations He was killed when his ca r went out of control on a Hi ghway 40 I off-ram p He was on his way to visit his parents at their farm ncar Markham Don was di stri ct rep resentative Ontari o Holshystc in Branch Holstein-Fri es ian Associashyti on Brantford

William J Cohoe 03A died on March 19 1984 ilt Norvi[[ a ursing Homc Norshywich He had becn one of the oldes t gradshyuates of the OA

Dr Lloyd G Herman 34 a micro shybio log ist who retired from the US Nashytiona l Institutes of Health (NIH) in 1)7l) dicd February I 1984 at his home in Bet hesda Md Us A

He received his doc torate in Mic ro shybio logy from McG i[[ Uni versity in 1948 and after working at severa l private labora shytori es in the US A joined th e sta fr of IH in I lti 1i8

In 21 years lJi service he publi shed and lectured extensively and aec umu[ated vario Lis honours in his fie ld He was the first to ide nti fy a strain of ye llow-pig me nted waterborne bacteria th at the Centers of Dis shyease C()ntrol named f~s(I(r(h (l hall(III

in his honour in 19X2

Dr Herm an was vc ry active in the American Sl1ci ety fo r Mi robiology (ASM) and its Washi ngton bra nch Ill held JII offi shyces in the Washingto n branch of ASM in shycl ud ing pres idcnt Jnd continual[y held branch posts un til his death He was also a paS pres iden t 01 th Canadian Club of Washingtoll and lfthe Envi ronlllcnta[ Man-3cment Association

He WJs one of the incorporators or the Fricnds of ni ve rsit y ofGuclph Inc

George C McLaren 35 on February 10 1984 in Ollawa I Ie had retired fro ill the Dcpart ment of Na tional lJe fence

Robert Karl Allison 75 BSc(Eng) on Novcmber 6 1910 in London He had been -product io n manager for Modornckan LId

Alison Lyn (Geddes) L1nyck iz 7S in a car acc ident in January 19X4 Her two-yearshyo ld daughte r Jess ica and her mother we re also killed in the accidcnt in Norfolk County Her husband Peter a lso a gradshyuate of 78 is cmp[oyed at anadian Can shyners Simcoe 0

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Macdonald InstituteCollege of Family and Consumer

Studies Alumni Association

ALUMN NEWS Editor Joan (Anderson) Jenkinson 66

From the Dean Dr Richard Barham

There is seldom an issue of the Mac-FACS Alumni News that goes by without there being a special interest item or two about our faculty On this occasion I want to draw your attention to the announecment in this iss ue of the appointment of Dr Brucc Ryan to the chairmanship of the Department of Family Studies

I ex tend our congratulations to Dr Ryan on hi s success in winning this appointshyment in the open competition which was he ld across Canada for the position At the samc time I want to extcnd my very warm thanks 10 Dr Eli za bcth Miles who has been serving the Department and indeed the College so well over this past year through her rcsponsiblities as the Departments act shying chairman

I know that you will be interested to learn too that Dr Powerss appointment as Director of the School of Hotel and Food Admini stration has been renewed for a furth er term We wish Tom and his eolshyleaglle s a continuation of the distinction and successes which have marked the life of the hotel school to date

And while referring to the hotel school J also want to ask you to read thc article in thi s iss ue on Professor George Bedell the School s first director George has made a remarkable contribution while he has been at Guelph most particularly of course in a ll matters relating to the HAFA program and its students J want to thank George on behalf of us all for his vision and commitment over the years and for the interest and care he has for the HAFA grads

We had a spendid alumni retirement celebration for George at the King Edward Hotel in Toronto in May In the best tradishytion of our HAFA alumni and the hospitality industry it was a superb occas ion and fully expressive of the affection and respect which we all feel towards George Many

many thanks George We wish you and Louise a long and happy retirement

As I prepare the draft for this newsletshyter the Annual Mae-FACS Alumni Seminar has just been held The topic this year was Aging Myths and Realities and this ocshycasion too was a resound1l1g sueecss r am sure that I express the sentiments of the many alumni and friend s who were there in extending our congratulations and thanks to Gail Murray 78 and the members of her organizing committce

By the way if you have not yet made a contribution to the MAC 38 Gerontology Scholarship please do support the vision of this wonderfully energetic group of grads right now They reall y need your contribushytions to build up the scholarship fund and we have an urgcnt need to support students in this ncw and humanly important area of sc holarship

Many of you and others who arc not among our alumni have been ask ing us to organize courses which ill help you keep up to date in your profess ional fie lds Some of our conferences of course along with the Alumni Seminar arc intended to do just thi s But we now also have a number of our credit courses specially designed and developed for what we call dis tance teachshying

Already we have eomscs on Human Development Marital and amily Dynamshyics Family Economics Human Sex uality and the Exceptional Child The se courses are ava ilable to you on a correspondence basis and usc a comprehensive and carefully prepared study guide They in volve tests and ass ignments of course and the course in structors respond to questions either through mailed memos or by phone

You can take the final exam here in Guelph or possibly at a centre either in or near your own home town Write to Profes shysor Sam Luker chairman Part-Time and General Studie s if you want to find ou t more about our distance teaching program

You might want to note the fACS Sheel order form on page 34 of thi s issue Ifon the mailing list for FACS Sheel publishycations you will sec topics which interest you Keep in loueh with us by sending for eopics D

Appointment Dr Bruce A Ryan took up his appointshyment as chairman of the Department of Family Studies on July I of this year He has become known to many of our alumni over the years s ince his first appointment to that department as an assistant professor and director of the Laboratory Schools in 1975 He was promoted to the rank of asshysociate professor in 1980

Dr Ryan had hi S BA in Psychology eonfelTed by the University of Alberta (1964) He obtained both the M Ed (1969) and PhD (1971) degrees in Educational Psychology from the same university He has held the position of Psychomotrist at the Alberta Hosp ital in Edmonton and a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Centrc for the Study of Mental Retardation at the Unishyversity of Alberta Before moving to Guel ph in the mid- 70s Dr Ryan held his first university teaching and research post at Victoria University in Wellington New Zealand

Irokssiona l and co mmunity service activities figure significantly among Dr Ryans involvements He is first vice-presishydent of the Canad ian Association for Educashytional Psychology and vice-president also of the Ontario Association of Family Se rshyvice Agencie s He is on the editorial board of the publication Canadas iInlal Heallh and among other sc holarly and professhysional bodies a member of the Canadian Association for the Treatment and Study of Families

The primary focus of Dr Ryans teachshying research and academic publications has been upon the ecology of human (and particularly child) development and learnshying He has a special interes t in person-envishy shyronment interactions particularly within the context of family system s and with reshygard to possible impacts upon children s learningdiffieulties in school

Dr Ryans wife Nancy is a librarian with special interests in childrens books and school libraries Bruce and Nancy have two delightful daughters Keri and Jenny both of whom are at elementary school D

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End of an Era The editor wishes 0 extend a sincere thank you to Joe Van Koe verdel 75 BComm editor oJthe Hotel and Food Administration

Alumni News Jor permission to reprint this article wrillen by D Kanzler and pubshylished in April

W hen retiring Professor George Bedell

close s his office door behind him for the

las t lime on September I and hangs out The Mac-FACS Alumni Seminar attracted 175 to the Guelph Campus in April The the GONE FISH ING sign hell close topic was Aging Myths and Realities Leaders oj the interest sessions were I to the door on an era in the Canadian hospiality r Dr John Powell Leslie (Good) Snell 64 Smuly Forbes 82 Gail Murray 78 education indu stry seminar committee chairman Donna Woolcott 69 Rev Lance Woods and Grella

And hell open the door to a flood Riddell-Dixon of tributes from the hospitality industry as

the man who spearheaded the development

of Canadas first school of hotel and food

admini stration They will remember him

as the mentor who set high standards shy

the man who made hospitality manageme nt

a profess ion The students now 650 graduates

strong will remember him as the man who

gave hospitality cducation credibility - the

man who made them professionals His facshy

ulty peers will prai se George Bedell s pershy

severance in building a degree-granting sc hool at a time when such an institution

was unheard of on Canadian university

campuses

All will point to his many awards

Participants a the Seminar included Alumni in Action members I to r Jack Palmer OAC 38 Elsie (Hume) Pettit 34 Harvey Pettil OAC 32 Do (Stuari) Paitner 36 and Jim Baker OAC 28

chief among which were the 1975 Queens you hope you ha ve made a lasting contribushy Hotel Adminis tration at Michigan State Jubilee Meda l the 1981 Member CRA tioll And I hope my leade rship with the University but in 1942 draft papers took Foundation College of Diplomates and the help of others has ensured this program s priority He served with the United States 1983 Jack C Sim Man of the Year success he says Army until 1946 when disc harged as a Award as confirmation of Pro fe ssor Beshy Connec ticut-born George Bedell credshy Captain and continued as a reserve officer dell s outstanding contributions its an itinerant father for developing his until 1962 when he was discharged with

T he tribute s would make Geo rge interests in the industry He used to bring thc rank of Major SOli Ie perhaps blush and prompt a throaty back all kinds of fascinating brochures from The post-war years saw him work as chuckle because when all is said and done hotels across the USA - thats what got manager of scveral Connccticut inns and he would s imply like to be remembered me started hotel s before being asked to join Michigan for who he is When you leave something George completed his BA studies in Statc s Faculty of Continuing Education in

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1953 It proved to be a turning point in hi s career

By 1959 George had been appointed director o f Man agement T rainin g Proshygrams and director of Business and Tcchn ishycal Advisory Service for the National Re~shytaurant Association in Chicago He held that position until 1969 when he was in shyvited by thc Uni versit y of Gue lph to take ove r as director of Canada s first School of Hotel and Food Administration H~ re shyma ined director until 1979 fo llowing whi ch he continued teaching at th e School

I knew lots of peop le in industry here and saw the opportunity to help the hospitalit y industry he says of hi s deci shys ion to move to Guelph [ saw thi s as a rea l chall enge But [ always knew we would succeed I decidcd from day o ne that we would make a go of it he adds with characteri stic determi nation

If his first years were frustrating it was mainl y because of thc students skeptishycism They we re so worried about th e Schools reputation and whether there d be Jobs waiting for them I had to build Iheir confidence - ove r and over again I look now at what our gradu ates ha ve accomshyplished and I feel good about hav ing played a role in their su ccess II mea ns the proshygram s have grown the way we thought they should and proves th at we ha ve bcen doing somethin g right here at Guelph

Professor Bede ll is particularly proud of the new Advanced Management Program for the Hospita lit y Indu stry (AMPHI ) estabshyli shed by Pro fe ssor Tom Po we rs the preshysent director of the Schoo l last ye ar to help train and de ve lop top level manage rs No other uni versity in the world is do ing this type of ed ucation al training for the hospitalshyity industry he points out Moreover AMPHI is th e kind of program that s vi tal to the future of the hos pit alit y industry The industry is still ex pand ing all forecasts po int to mo re people ca ti ng out more peop le travelling - and that means a growshying need for facilitie s and trained people

Corne September I George Bedcl l wi ll monitor th at growth - and his Schools successes - from afa r Hi s re shytiremenl caree r in cludes so rnc travel lots of fishing tinle to get a little fun out ot life and pl~tnS to build a hOllle on the coast of Maine tor his wife Loui se and himse lf But distance won t keep hi thoughtgt from Willin g back to Guc I ph

Fifteen yea rs ago he says he was given the chal len ge to get Guelphs Schoo l of Hotel and Food Admini st ration off th e gro und lto w on the e ve of hi s retirement he issues hi s ow n chall enge to the Schoo l Ten years from now [ wa nt to be abl e to say - Look how that School has grown ho w its progressing how its getting better al l the time 0

Grad News Foods amp Nutrition

LornI Dixon 83 is a die tetic intern at the Health Science Centre in Winni peg Man

Lori M Farr 79 is empl oyed with the Nutri tion Department Cen tenary Hospi ta l West Hill

Pat Faber 78 is pati ent food services co-ordinator with Roya l Jubliee Hospital Victoria BC

Elaine (Dashner) Robichaud 80 i food service director Saga Ca nad ian v1anageshyment Services Susse x Health Centre NB

Karen (Seib) Webber 78 is an outpati ent dietiti an at Van couver Ge neral Hospital BC

Libb~ (Lewis ) Logan 74 is a clin ical di etitian with the hildren s Hospi tal 01 Ealern Ontario Ottawa

Educa tion

fngl id ( ppell ) larsh 69 i 1 l e~tC llcr

Wentworth Count) Fl(l~lnl Drhlucatioll

Lolly (Robinson) Bartkew 62 is a supshypl y teacher with the Waterloo County Board () f Education

Kathi Ayers 73 is an in~dructo r with Grande Prairie Regiona l College Grande Prairi e Alta

Lauric (Watson) Goorts 79 is a Family Stud ie teache r with th e Waterloo County Board of Educati on

Ta mm) (Hryhorenko) Warren 75 is de partm~nt head Famil y Studies Westdale SS Hamilton

Josie (Lohuis) Schneider 80 is te aching at the Catholic Central High School LonshydonOnt

Social Services

Judi th Tansley 69 is a counsellor with Sunstar House Saskatoo n Sask

Rev Kay (Finlay) Hagey 37 is wilh th e Ang lican Church of Ca nada SI Andre ws Church Grim sby

Christine (Brady) MacPhee 78 is a unit le ade rsocial worker with Famil y and Chilshydrens Services Goderich

Eileen (Derynck) O ls thoorn 78 is a 0shy

cial worker with Halton Childrens Aid Oak vill e

Donna (Rose ) Allen 70 is a compl ianee officer with the Hea lth Protection Branch Health and Welfare Canada Otta wa

Janine Jones 82 is a developm ntal Inshystructor with Si rTI eoc Habi I i tative Sen ICC)

Business and Industry

-arion (Kerr ) I1ennenrent 7 1 11Sc 76 is employed wit h Gary S Hcn nn k nt Insurance Services Ltd Vancou cr BC

Edna (Hay ) Jarrell 36 is presiden t Edna Jarrc I I Rcal rstatc h lingto n

Ann (McClure ) Keller 78 is a denta l tec hnician with J PO Ir()CCor~ Inc Gue lph

Sharon Salm-ltrose 82 is an advert isi ng consultant wi th WS Marketi ng AlnlC 0

Meeting Notice

Guelph Branch MacmiddotFACS Alumni

Association Annual Membership

Coffee Party 730 p _m to 1000 pm_

September 2 51984

At the home of Margaret (Hamilton) Bates 53

303 Edinburgh Road South Guelph Ontalio

In Memoriam Margaret (Blac kh am ) Elliott 350 R R I Blenheim date ordelt h unknown

Edith (Hubbard ) Garrison 320 Janu shyary 19K4 inCenterLine Mich US

Susan lIem i ngwa~ 31D February 1 -19R4 inTnronto

J u ne (Van Someren ) Van Wyck 47 D Februa ry 12 1984 in Hamilton

Velma (Balkwill) Stuck 210 February J 19R4 at R R if fgt Woodstoc k Her husshyband th e late Fred W Stock was an OAC 21 grad Her son Oa id JB Stock QC isan OAC 59 grad U

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AI mnos of

Honotlr 1984

Elliott Mac McLoughry OAC 22

With the Ontario Department of Agrishy

culture (ODA) as Agricultu ra l Represhyse ntative in Vi ctoria Dundas and W aterloo Counties Ellio lllrwin McLo ughry was a

pioneer d uri ng a time o f greattechnicaJ advance in Fann practices

A h ighly respec ted ge nt le man who

ga ined the confide nce o f the Menno nite people

o f Waterloo Co unty hi s accomplishments inc lude the introduc tio n o f short-courses for farmers and a soil conservatio n program the es tab lishment of Bacon Hog Fa irs and the Waterloo callie breeding unit and co-ope rashytio n w ith the OAC in the first nematode

program

Aged 90 last Jul y Mac througho ut hi s worki ng li fe made s ign ificant contributio ns to Canadian agric ultu re and to socie ty and ill

1964 re tired from his positi o n as d irector o f extens io n DA He lives at the Presto n Springs Gardens Retirement Ho me J 02 f o untain tree t So uth Cambridge Ontario 0

Land Resource Science Honours Prof Jack Ketcheson

P rofessor John Wi lliam Jack Ketc heshyson 44 has fo rmally retired a fte r a long teaching and re~earch career at the U nivershysity of G uclph However the soi l scienti st has no intention o f g iving up hi s interest in the fk ld He will presid 0 e r the IntershynatIonal Soil T illage Research Organi7ashytions 10th conference to be he ld in Guelph

in 1985 fo r an expec ted 300 scientists lack is also conti nu ing his Hasti ngs Coun ty fa rmi ng operation in preparation for an eve ntual move to that area

Both Jac k and his wife Betty Arts 83 come o f pio neer stock and gre w up on Hastings County farm s in the same area as the fa rm they now own in Frankford Jack farmed with hi s father before entering the O ntar io Agricultural Co llege in 1940

and took up so il fertility field plot work at the Co llege after his graduation He late r worked as a soils fie ldman with agricultural representat ives throughout central O ntario frolll York to North umberland Count ies until in 1949 he took a leave to complete M Sc and PhD degrees at the University of Illinois

He returned to the O AC in 1950 to the then Soils Department now the Departshyment of Land Resource Science where he has been a facult y member since In more recent years he has spent periods of time on a soil management project for the Internashytional Atomic Energy Agcncy

Btlly and Ja ck Ketchesun 4 lef t were royallv fetcd (l a rctiremelfl party Sh(rin ~

their table is OAC Dean Freeman McEwen

Over the years the Ketchesons have played an active role in church and commushynity activities in G uelph with Jac k servin g on the Board of Education and the executive uf the Waverley Masonic Lodge and in organizations including the On tario In~t ishy

tutc of Agrolog ists the S igma Xi Resea rch

Society the Internat iona l Soil Till age Reshyearch Association and the Univers ity Facshy

ul ty Association The Kctcheson s plan to retain their

home in Guelph but will sp nd time devcloping a crops program on thei r farm

Jack was honouree at a recent party where he was presented with a captain s

All You Need to Know About By Penny Clelland

If hothouse tomatoes depress you if the arrival of the first seed cata logue fill s you with glee if your thumb has the slightest green ti nge you may have the makings of

a super-gardener Super-gardene rs transform seeds and

soil into baske ts of big fresh beautiful vegshyetables They save money (about 13 per cent of the ave rage food budge t goes for

fruit and vegetables) and they are always searching for a new strawberry variety a better cold fram e design or the ultimate zucshychini recipe

Fortunately super-gardeners are made not born according to the Univershysitys Independent Study division A home study course offered by Independent Study was written specifically with green thumbs in mind

Plant care in the Home Garden is

a complete garden guide with practical

ideas and tips T he tex t describes the activities of each

season wi th schedules flir plan ting fertil i7shying spraying and har esting More than 500 colour sl ides in fil mstrips accomshypanied by the authors commentary on casshysette tape explain planting pruning and identifying varieties disorders and pests

O ther courses inc lude Plant Usc in the Home Landscape Landscape Deshysign and Installation and Plant Propagashytion There are also mini-courses in Growing Roses Deciduous Trees and Propagation of Tropical Plants

Prices range from $20 to $140 for the courses For more information contact Inshydependent Study University School of Part-Time Studies and Continuing Educashy

tion South House Univers ity of Guelph Guelph Ontario N I G 2W I or phone (519) 824-4120 Ext 3375 3400 0

chair a lit hograph by Brian Lowry Illus trashytion Se rvices and a book of le ttCfs from former graduate students who now live as lar away as Africa and the Ph ilipp ines 0

Mailbag OAC Alumni Association University ofGuelph Guelph Oll1 NI G 2WI

DearSirorMadam

I would like to thank you Jor helping us keep in touch through your publications They were most helpflll during (he three and a half years I was posted in the Caribshybean where information and telephones were not easily obtailled The articles ill the G uelph Alumnus proved helpjill ill more than one ilfJ tance in obtainillg edllcatiollal information much Ileeded in a country like Ha iti

I would appreciate ifyou would report theJollowing in yourOAC grad flews

Jim Hamilton 77 has returned 10

Brockville Oll lpoundlrio after three and a half years in the Caribbean workin g with Maple Leaf Mills He is now working as territory manager Jor their Feed Division in eastern Ontario

Thank you once again for your fine

work Sincerely Jim Hamilton B Sc( Agr) 77 57 Bartholomew Street Brockville Onl K6V 2R5

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U of Gs Yellow Potato Takes Market by Storm

A unique yellow-fl eshed potato deshyveloped at the University of Guelph has taken the us market by storm

US buyers particularly in Michigan are buying all of the seed they can some are disappointed that more seed is not availshyable

The potato variety known as Yukon Gold was devcloped by the Department of Horticultural Science and released four years ago by potato breeder Gary Johnston now retired from Agriculture Canada and University professor Geoff Rowberry 55

[t is the first yellow-fleshed potato to be developed and licensed in Canada

Gary Johnstons successor at Agricul shyture Canada Robert Coffin says the Amershyican s received sample seed as part of an on-going exchange program among breedshyers They tested it and liked it

The Americans liked Yukon Gold s buttered appearance saw a marketing opshyportunity in it s golden colour found it grew well under their growing conditions and now package and sell it under the trade mark Michigan Golden Bake Robert said One American market survey shows consumers like the potato s fla vo ur vershysatility and colour fleshed species from Peru and the variety growers to capitalize on Yukon Golds

Growers al so like this new variety beshy Katahdin unique properties But it does take promoshycause it gives good yield s ha s high solids Yukon Gold IS ideal for boiling and tion and consumer awareness and matures early so it can be harvested baking and makes superb french fries But The University S breeding program is in mid-July to fetch a prcmium price it does not chip well This limitation has now concentrating efforts on finding an imshy

Yukon Gold was first developed in partially prevented it from being widely proved chipping variety Such breeding 1966 in respon se to reque sts from Euroshy grown in Ontario up to 50 per cent of the programs usually start between 40000 and pean immigrants to Canada who were potatoes grown in Ontario are used for makshy 50000 new seedlings every year accustomed to eating yellow-fleshed potashy ing potato chips We graduaJly eliminate the inferior toes [n Europe Brazil and the Caribbean Robert Coffin is pleased that Yukon seedlings until we get down to very low yellow-fleshed potatoes arc preferred Gold is being well received in the United numbers and hopefully after 12 to 15

Gary Johnston created Yukon Gold by States and he hopes for increased recogni shy years we co me up with superior attributes crossing Norgleam a variety from North tion for this new variety here in Ontario compared to those varieties already on the Dakota with a hybrid of a wild yellow- The opportunity is here for Ontario market say s Robert Coffin 0

Robert Coffin left and Professor GeoffRowberry 55 with Yukon Cold

He Was the Prairie Gardner Reprinted from The Prairie Garden

There arc fcw horti culturists who ha vc contributed as much and for as long a timc to horticultural education and ck ve lopment ofthe pra iricsas l R Bob Almcy 21

Th Prairie Garden first published as thc Winllipeg Flower Cardell in 1937 knew him both as a frequent contributor of articles and al so as a long-timc board me JJ1bcr of the publish i ng co mm i tee

Bob Almcy was 16 when he accomshypanicd hi s parcnts to Canada from Le iccs shy

te r England On his arrival hc started a long carcer in his chosen field with Johnson Brothcrs orchardists ncar Forest Ontario Hc soon becamc a student of horticu I tUfe at the Ontario Agricultural Collcge at Guelph During his summer holidays spent with the Horticultural [)(partment of the OAC he worked alongside Isabclla Preshyston noted origi nator of many new plant varieties

In September 1917 during his third year of studies at Guelph he joined the Royal Flying Corps as an air cadet and was

discharged with th e rank of Second Lieutenshyant in December 1918

He returned to th e OAC and graduated in 1921 with the degree of Bachelor of Scishyence in Agriculture

The Manitoba Department of Agriculshyture created the position of extension hortishy -culturist in 1921 and hired Bob Almey that year He filled that position from 1921 to 1928 His dutics in the first year included the distribution of two carloads of certified Irish Cobbler seed potatoes to farmc rs He worked closdy with market gardeners and the hobby horticulturists of the Manitoba Horticultural Association (MHA)

He left the Manitoba Department of

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Agriculture to become chici horticu lturist Weste rn Lines- T hunder Bay to Vanshy

couver Islanu- of the Canadian Pac ific

Rail way As such he was in charge of the

railway s park and garden work advising officials and empl oyees o n stat ion garden plantings and o n tree shelter belts along the rai Iroad s right-of-way

Oldtimers will reme mber the we ll landscapeu prairi e stations and the beautiful

parks in large r centres that resulted from his work Bob was made ge neral agriculshytural agen t combining both ho rticul ture

and agriculture and continued in that post until his retirement in 1960

Rob Almey was an organi zation man

Hc Joined the MHA as soon as he came to Manitoba and was its secretarytreasurer

from 1922 to 1928 In 193 I hc becamc a director of that Assoc iation and served in th at capac ity for man y years In 1938

he became president of the MHA In 1956 he was made an honorary life member Bob is a life member of the Stevenson Memorial

Boare

For many years he was a judge of the Provincial Home Grounds Competition and

also the Prov incial Slide Co mpetiti o n Bob al so served the Association as ex -offic io director and finally as honorary preside nt

a pos it ion he re linqui shed in 1981 The Winnipeg Hort icultural Society

and the Winnipeg Gladiolus Society value his contributi ons to the ir programs He served as director and preside nt of both o rshy

ganizations and was honoured with ho norshyary life membersh ip by both

He is a charter member of thc Western

Canadian Society for Horticulture it s presishy

dent in J952 an d rec ip ie nt of its honorary life membershi p in 1961 Th e Man itoba In shystitute of Ag rologis ts and the Agricultural Institute o f Canada both honoured him with

honorary life memberships In 1972 the

anadian Ho rticultural Co uncil Fesented him with a merit award

Three awa rds are espeL ially dear to Bob and hi s wife Olive In 1970 the Hon

Philip Petu rrson Mini ster of Cultural Afshy

fairs made Bob a captain of the Order of

A Pioneer of the 4-8 Program Frederick Waldemar Waldo Walsb 22 MB E F A IC LLD formerly of Palmeter Avenue Kentville N S and ltl Ia ng-t ime res ident of Hal ifax NS died at the Weste rn King s Memorial Hospita l Berwick NS on February II He was

86 years o ld

Born in Monc to n N B Dr Walsb will be remembered as being one of Canadas outstanding agriculturists who

served in many capacities and many offishyces throughout a distinguished caree r spanshyning some 51 years

At the time of his retirement as Deputy

Minister of Agricu lture and Marketing for Nova Scotia in 1962 a pos itio n he had

held for 17 years he was the lo ngest serving Deputy Minister of Agriculture in Canada

Upon g raduation from th e Nova Scotia Agricultura1 College in 191 7 he en lis ted in the Royal Flying Corps with the rank of second lieutenant and was in training

as a pilot when the war ended Upon di-sshycharge he joined the staff of the New Bru-nsshy

wick Department of Agricu lture Livestock Division with whtch he remained until

1920 when he entered the OAC

In 1922 he joined Jhe staff of the Ca nada Departmen t of Agriculture as sheep and sw-ine promoter at Truro NS where

he remained until 1926 whe n he was apshypointed professor of Animal Husbandry and

director of Live stock M arketing at the Nova Scotia Agricultural Collcge

In 1927 Waldo became eastern supershy

intenden t of agriculture for the Can ad ian Nationa l Ra ilway s and in 1929 superinshytendent of ag ricultu re over the entire C R system

He rejoi ned the staff of the N S De shypartment of Agri culture in 1933 as director

of marketing a position he he ld until his appointment as De(1Uty Mini ster in 1945

Following his fonnal retirement he

served for several months as specia l marshy

kets adv isor and then for seven years as director of Co-operative Advisory Serv shyices Maritime Co-operative Services Moncton NB

Waldo was the last surviving member

of a g roup of three which was responsible

for the creation and developmen t of the

Canadian Council on Boys and Girls Club Work (now 4-H Clubs) and the las t survivshyin g member of the first Maritime Livestock

Marketing Board which eventua ll y became Maritime Co-operative Servi ces and now Co-op Atlantic

He was recognized by St Franc is Xavier Universi ty which confetTed the deshy

gree of Docto r of Law honoris causa in 1953 Oth er honours included being named a Member of the Order of the Briti sh Empire in the 1945 New Years Ho no urs li st being elected to the Atlantic Prov ince s Agricu lshy

tu ra l Hall ofFame a Fe llo w of the Agriculshytural Institute of Canada an honorary life

membe r of the Nova Sco tia Fruit Growers Associatio n a member of the Senate of

the Nova Scotia Federation of Agriculture

the Buffalo Hunt This order was instituted in 1957 spec ially to honou r those who have

made dist inct ive contributions to life in the

provin ce of Manitoba The wi dely famed Almey Rosybloom crabapple was fittin gly

named in Bob Almey s hono ur Just reshycently the American Gladio lu s Society ho noured Bob with its Gold Meda l Award

Despite all the activities in whi ch he was invo lved Bo b and Olive found time

to garden This gladio lus ex pert grew 1000 and more g lads at his little farm in Libau

Man He named several varieties He loved

to grow potatoes and Spanish onions But both of them also loved to show at the anshynual flower shows winnin g many prizes

and ribbons Today Bob an d Olive live in the ir

com fort ab le home in Winni peg Both an alert and we ll They still attend horticul tural

meetings and Bob still prescnts an oceashysiona llectu re

The Prairie Garden sa lutes thi s grand old hort icultu ris t and his wife All of us prairie gardeners arc indebted to the m 0

and a life member of the Canadian C lub Council on 4-H Cl ubs

During the past ten years he was inst rushymental in obtaini ng services for alcoho l and d rug dependency peopl e in the An napoli s Vallcy Reg ion and was a member of the Advisory Council of the Valley Health Sershy

vices Association Alcohol Dependency Program sin ce its inception He was a great

source of comfort and assis tance to many individuals in this prog ram

He was a member of the Kentvillc Ro shytary Club and for many years an acti ve and enthu siastic membe r of the Ha lifax

Curling Club 0

Fellowship J Edward Brubaker 49 manager Onshyta rio Ministry of Agriculture and Food ene rshygy centre in Guelph has been nam ed a Fellow of the Agr icultura l Insti tute of Canada (AIC)

He is among fivc AIC members to reshyceive the fe llowship honou r this year An

honorary life membership has also been -awarded to George Price a CBC radio agshyriculture reporter who covers Parlmiddotiamcnt Hill

Former pres idcnt Art Guitard was given the Ale recogni tion award for work on a c rop production and the environment

publication

The awards will be made during the annual meeting sc hed uled for Winnipeg Man in August 0

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Grad News Wilfrid Holtma nn MSA 62 is direcshytor of marketing CIAQ Inc SI HyashycintheQue

jurgen Koch Ph D 74 is a research as shysociate Departnw nt of Land Reso urce Sci shyencc Cn ivc ri ty ofG uelph

Marcel Couture MSc 76 a farm manshyagement speciali st was appoi nted as direcshytor of cxte nsio n senicc at Macdona ld Colshykgc McGil l Uni verity Que effective anuary I 19X4

A na tive of th e eastern towns hips he is a I 91i5 graduate of lacdonal d s Dip loma Pmgrall1 in Agricu ltu re an d earned a HSc(Agr) there in 1 ~72 be fore cnteri ng the nivcrsity of Guelph in th e fie ld 01 Agric ultural Economi cs and Extens ion Ed ucation

He was a~s is t a nt director of Mac shydona ld s Dipl oma ProgrJill in Agric ulture before hi prescnt appointment and will contin ue with hi s tCltJeh ing and ad mi nistrashytivc duti es in thc Dipl oma Pro[r~ lill

Gail (Tuumanen ) and Nei l Dolson both gradultJ tc s of 77 arc now ow neroperators of FJ inbrook FaInl Supply Binbrook

Kathr)n ( 1cLcod) Harrison 77 and husband Wayne 79 arc li ving in Guc[ph Waync is credit officer wi th the Toronto Dominion Bank Guelph The y have a daughte r M gha n lea n born November 15 I l)X)

john Tucker BSc ( En~) 78 is a cusshytOIllS investiga tor Revenll e Canada Cusshytoms and Excise Il amilton His wife Anna Mae Shelton-Tucker is J graduate of 79

Glen I1cRuer 79 is a rn al(ster Canada MI [ting Cn C li glry A[ta

Steven Vlnkatarayappa M Sc 79 PhD S3 is an assoc iate profe ssor of Hort icul ture Unive rs ity of Agrieu [tural Scie nce Ra ngal orc Indi a

joan (Elder) Weller SO i an ass istant CilCllli t Pops iclc Indu trics Burl ington Husband Tim also SO i dislt-ict s a [e~

m1I1agcr Pionee r II i-Bred Ltd Clla tham

Rogcr SI Pierre SI i a grai n me rchant wi th Jalllcs Rich ardson amp Sons Ltd Toshyronto His ik Stephanie (Weedle) is a graduatc of 82

Sophia Dinnisscn S2 is a studen t I t Wil shyfr id Lau rier Uni versity Wate rl oo

Nicholas Groot 82 is milk superv isor Ontario Da iry Herd improvement Assoc iashytion Toronto

Rober t Hack ney 82 is head wi nemaker Chara l Wi nery and Vi neyards Inc B[enheim

Frederick j amieson 82 is a quality as shysurance inspec tor J M Schneide r Inc Kitchener

Geollrey Jones S2 I S man ager of the UCO Elmwood branch

Susan Kelner 82 is a technica l a ~~ is tant

Chip man Inc SlOney Creek

Ca rolinc Kennedy S2 is a graduate stushydent Uni vcrsi ty of Manitoba Win nipeg

Jannette Leask 82 is territory sales repshyresentati ve Ral ston Purina Canada In c Whit by

Christopher McLean 82 IS a reseJrch technolog iq Ca mpbell So up Co Ltd Toron to

Lloyd Mitchell 82 is territory manJge r Ralston Purina Canada Inc Woodstock

R Ramirez Nathan 82 is an agronomist promoter Communidad Por Los Inos Antiolj ui a Colombia Sout h Am erica

Eileen (Richards) johnson MSc 83 is an executive assi stan t Ontar io olll mu shynity De vc lllpment Associa tion Uni ve rsity of Guc[ph

Diploma Gaduates

Keith Sinclair S4A has reccntly been appoi nt d vice-president and treasurer ofmiddot the United Co-ope ratives of Onllrio lie hi been wit h l jCO to r 21 years

David Thorton 64A is a [ocomot ive enshyg ineer Canadian aliona[ Rai lways Toshym nlO

Larry Inglis 66A i ~ purchasing man shyage r Canadian Canners Ltd Hamilton

Wa)ne Waugh 68A is an age ncies sale s and deve lopme nt representati ve Petro shyCanad a Prod ucts Don Mills

Eugene McDonald 77A is a mec han ic with Motorways Edmonton A[ta

j ames Slingerland 79A is an inspector Ontario Ministry of Agricultu re and Food liagara Fal[ s

In Me moriam Donald Risebrough 77 immed iate past preside nt of thc OAC Alumni Assoc iat ion d ied on June 30 1984 The news of his tragic death brought a great sensc of sad ness and almost di sbe li ef to his man y fri ends Don had presided a wee k prev ioUsly at many ac tiv ities during Alumni Weekend 84 celebrations He was killed when his ca r went out of control on a Hi ghway 40 I off-ram p He was on his way to visit his parents at their farm ncar Markham Don was di stri ct rep resentative Ontari o Holshystc in Branch Holstein-Fri es ian Associashyti on Brantford

William J Cohoe 03A died on March 19 1984 ilt Norvi[[ a ursing Homc Norshywich He had becn one of the oldes t gradshyuates of the OA

Dr Lloyd G Herman 34 a micro shybio log ist who retired from the US Nashytiona l Institutes of Health (NIH) in 1)7l) dicd February I 1984 at his home in Bet hesda Md Us A

He received his doc torate in Mic ro shybio logy from McG i[[ Uni versity in 1948 and after working at severa l private labora shytori es in the US A joined th e sta fr of IH in I lti 1i8

In 21 years lJi service he publi shed and lectured extensively and aec umu[ated vario Lis honours in his fie ld He was the first to ide nti fy a strain of ye llow-pig me nted waterborne bacteria th at the Centers of Dis shyease C()ntrol named f~s(I(r(h (l hall(III

in his honour in 19X2

Dr Herm an was vc ry active in the American Sl1ci ety fo r Mi robiology (ASM) and its Washi ngton bra nch Ill held JII offi shyces in the Washingto n branch of ASM in shycl ud ing pres idcnt Jnd continual[y held branch posts un til his death He was also a paS pres iden t 01 th Canadian Club of Washingtoll and lfthe Envi ronlllcnta[ Man-3cment Association

He WJs one of the incorporators or the Fricnds of ni ve rsit y ofGuclph Inc

George C McLaren 35 on February 10 1984 in Ollawa I Ie had retired fro ill the Dcpart ment of Na tional lJe fence

Robert Karl Allison 75 BSc(Eng) on Novcmber 6 1910 in London He had been -product io n manager for Modornckan LId

Alison Lyn (Geddes) L1nyck iz 7S in a car acc ident in January 19X4 Her two-yearshyo ld daughte r Jess ica and her mother we re also killed in the accidcnt in Norfolk County Her husband Peter a lso a gradshyuate of 78 is cmp[oyed at anadian Can shyners Simcoe 0

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Macdonald InstituteCollege of Family and Consumer

Studies Alumni Association

ALUMN NEWS Editor Joan (Anderson) Jenkinson 66

From the Dean Dr Richard Barham

There is seldom an issue of the Mac-FACS Alumni News that goes by without there being a special interest item or two about our faculty On this occasion I want to draw your attention to the announecment in this iss ue of the appointment of Dr Brucc Ryan to the chairmanship of the Department of Family Studies

I ex tend our congratulations to Dr Ryan on hi s success in winning this appointshyment in the open competition which was he ld across Canada for the position At the samc time I want to extcnd my very warm thanks 10 Dr Eli za bcth Miles who has been serving the Department and indeed the College so well over this past year through her rcsponsiblities as the Departments act shying chairman

I know that you will be interested to learn too that Dr Powerss appointment as Director of the School of Hotel and Food Admini stration has been renewed for a furth er term We wish Tom and his eolshyleaglle s a continuation of the distinction and successes which have marked the life of the hotel school to date

And while referring to the hotel school J also want to ask you to read thc article in thi s iss ue on Professor George Bedell the School s first director George has made a remarkable contribution while he has been at Guelph most particularly of course in a ll matters relating to the HAFA program and its students J want to thank George on behalf of us all for his vision and commitment over the years and for the interest and care he has for the HAFA grads

We had a spendid alumni retirement celebration for George at the King Edward Hotel in Toronto in May In the best tradishytion of our HAFA alumni and the hospitality industry it was a superb occas ion and fully expressive of the affection and respect which we all feel towards George Many

many thanks George We wish you and Louise a long and happy retirement

As I prepare the draft for this newsletshyter the Annual Mae-FACS Alumni Seminar has just been held The topic this year was Aging Myths and Realities and this ocshycasion too was a resound1l1g sueecss r am sure that I express the sentiments of the many alumni and friend s who were there in extending our congratulations and thanks to Gail Murray 78 and the members of her organizing committce

By the way if you have not yet made a contribution to the MAC 38 Gerontology Scholarship please do support the vision of this wonderfully energetic group of grads right now They reall y need your contribushytions to build up the scholarship fund and we have an urgcnt need to support students in this ncw and humanly important area of sc holarship

Many of you and others who arc not among our alumni have been ask ing us to organize courses which ill help you keep up to date in your profess ional fie lds Some of our conferences of course along with the Alumni Seminar arc intended to do just thi s But we now also have a number of our credit courses specially designed and developed for what we call dis tance teachshying

Already we have eomscs on Human Development Marital and amily Dynamshyics Family Economics Human Sex uality and the Exceptional Child The se courses are ava ilable to you on a correspondence basis and usc a comprehensive and carefully prepared study guide They in volve tests and ass ignments of course and the course in structors respond to questions either through mailed memos or by phone

You can take the final exam here in Guelph or possibly at a centre either in or near your own home town Write to Profes shysor Sam Luker chairman Part-Time and General Studie s if you want to find ou t more about our distance teaching program

You might want to note the fACS Sheel order form on page 34 of thi s issue Ifon the mailing list for FACS Sheel publishycations you will sec topics which interest you Keep in loueh with us by sending for eopics D

Appointment Dr Bruce A Ryan took up his appointshyment as chairman of the Department of Family Studies on July I of this year He has become known to many of our alumni over the years s ince his first appointment to that department as an assistant professor and director of the Laboratory Schools in 1975 He was promoted to the rank of asshysociate professor in 1980

Dr Ryan had hi S BA in Psychology eonfelTed by the University of Alberta (1964) He obtained both the M Ed (1969) and PhD (1971) degrees in Educational Psychology from the same university He has held the position of Psychomotrist at the Alberta Hosp ital in Edmonton and a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Centrc for the Study of Mental Retardation at the Unishyversity of Alberta Before moving to Guel ph in the mid- 70s Dr Ryan held his first university teaching and research post at Victoria University in Wellington New Zealand

Irokssiona l and co mmunity service activities figure significantly among Dr Ryans involvements He is first vice-presishydent of the Canad ian Association for Educashytional Psychology and vice-president also of the Ontario Association of Family Se rshyvice Agencie s He is on the editorial board of the publication Canadas iInlal Heallh and among other sc holarly and professhysional bodies a member of the Canadian Association for the Treatment and Study of Families

The primary focus of Dr Ryans teachshying research and academic publications has been upon the ecology of human (and particularly child) development and learnshying He has a special interes t in person-envishy shyronment interactions particularly within the context of family system s and with reshygard to possible impacts upon children s learningdiffieulties in school

Dr Ryans wife Nancy is a librarian with special interests in childrens books and school libraries Bruce and Nancy have two delightful daughters Keri and Jenny both of whom are at elementary school D

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End of an Era The editor wishes 0 extend a sincere thank you to Joe Van Koe verdel 75 BComm editor oJthe Hotel and Food Administration

Alumni News Jor permission to reprint this article wrillen by D Kanzler and pubshylished in April

W hen retiring Professor George Bedell

close s his office door behind him for the

las t lime on September I and hangs out The Mac-FACS Alumni Seminar attracted 175 to the Guelph Campus in April The the GONE FISH ING sign hell close topic was Aging Myths and Realities Leaders oj the interest sessions were I to the door on an era in the Canadian hospiality r Dr John Powell Leslie (Good) Snell 64 Smuly Forbes 82 Gail Murray 78 education indu stry seminar committee chairman Donna Woolcott 69 Rev Lance Woods and Grella

And hell open the door to a flood Riddell-Dixon of tributes from the hospitality industry as

the man who spearheaded the development

of Canadas first school of hotel and food

admini stration They will remember him

as the mentor who set high standards shy

the man who made hospitality manageme nt

a profess ion The students now 650 graduates

strong will remember him as the man who

gave hospitality cducation credibility - the

man who made them professionals His facshy

ulty peers will prai se George Bedell s pershy

severance in building a degree-granting sc hool at a time when such an institution

was unheard of on Canadian university

campuses

All will point to his many awards

Participants a the Seminar included Alumni in Action members I to r Jack Palmer OAC 38 Elsie (Hume) Pettit 34 Harvey Pettil OAC 32 Do (Stuari) Paitner 36 and Jim Baker OAC 28

chief among which were the 1975 Queens you hope you ha ve made a lasting contribushy Hotel Adminis tration at Michigan State Jubilee Meda l the 1981 Member CRA tioll And I hope my leade rship with the University but in 1942 draft papers took Foundation College of Diplomates and the help of others has ensured this program s priority He served with the United States 1983 Jack C Sim Man of the Year success he says Army until 1946 when disc harged as a Award as confirmation of Pro fe ssor Beshy Connec ticut-born George Bedell credshy Captain and continued as a reserve officer dell s outstanding contributions its an itinerant father for developing his until 1962 when he was discharged with

T he tribute s would make Geo rge interests in the industry He used to bring thc rank of Major SOli Ie perhaps blush and prompt a throaty back all kinds of fascinating brochures from The post-war years saw him work as chuckle because when all is said and done hotels across the USA - thats what got manager of scveral Connccticut inns and he would s imply like to be remembered me started hotel s before being asked to join Michigan for who he is When you leave something George completed his BA studies in Statc s Faculty of Continuing Education in

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1953 It proved to be a turning point in hi s career

By 1959 George had been appointed director o f Man agement T rainin g Proshygrams and director of Business and Tcchn ishycal Advisory Service for the National Re~shytaurant Association in Chicago He held that position until 1969 when he was in shyvited by thc Uni versit y of Gue lph to take ove r as director of Canada s first School of Hotel and Food Administration H~ re shyma ined director until 1979 fo llowing whi ch he continued teaching at th e School

I knew lots of peop le in industry here and saw the opportunity to help the hospitalit y industry he says of hi s deci shys ion to move to Guelph [ saw thi s as a rea l chall enge But [ always knew we would succeed I decidcd from day o ne that we would make a go of it he adds with characteri stic determi nation

If his first years were frustrating it was mainl y because of thc students skeptishycism They we re so worried about th e Schools reputation and whether there d be Jobs waiting for them I had to build Iheir confidence - ove r and over again I look now at what our gradu ates ha ve accomshyplished and I feel good about hav ing played a role in their su ccess II mea ns the proshygram s have grown the way we thought they should and proves th at we ha ve bcen doing somethin g right here at Guelph

Professor Bede ll is particularly proud of the new Advanced Management Program for the Hospita lit y Indu stry (AMPHI ) estabshyli shed by Pro fe ssor Tom Po we rs the preshysent director of the Schoo l last ye ar to help train and de ve lop top level manage rs No other uni versity in the world is do ing this type of ed ucation al training for the hospitalshyity industry he points out Moreover AMPHI is th e kind of program that s vi tal to the future of the hos pit alit y industry The industry is still ex pand ing all forecasts po int to mo re people ca ti ng out more peop le travelling - and that means a growshying need for facilitie s and trained people

Corne September I George Bedcl l wi ll monitor th at growth - and his Schools successes - from afa r Hi s re shytiremenl caree r in cludes so rnc travel lots of fishing tinle to get a little fun out ot life and pl~tnS to build a hOllle on the coast of Maine tor his wife Loui se and himse lf But distance won t keep hi thoughtgt from Willin g back to Guc I ph

Fifteen yea rs ago he says he was given the chal len ge to get Guelphs Schoo l of Hotel and Food Admini st ration off th e gro und lto w on the e ve of hi s retirement he issues hi s ow n chall enge to the Schoo l Ten years from now [ wa nt to be abl e to say - Look how that School has grown ho w its progressing how its getting better al l the time 0

Grad News Foods amp Nutrition

LornI Dixon 83 is a die tetic intern at the Health Science Centre in Winni peg Man

Lori M Farr 79 is empl oyed with the Nutri tion Department Cen tenary Hospi ta l West Hill

Pat Faber 78 is pati ent food services co-ordinator with Roya l Jubliee Hospital Victoria BC

Elaine (Dashner) Robichaud 80 i food service director Saga Ca nad ian v1anageshyment Services Susse x Health Centre NB

Karen (Seib) Webber 78 is an outpati ent dietiti an at Van couver Ge neral Hospital BC

Libb~ (Lewis ) Logan 74 is a clin ical di etitian with the hildren s Hospi tal 01 Ealern Ontario Ottawa

Educa tion

fngl id ( ppell ) larsh 69 i 1 l e~tC llcr

Wentworth Count) Fl(l~lnl Drhlucatioll

Lolly (Robinson) Bartkew 62 is a supshypl y teacher with the Waterloo County Board () f Education

Kathi Ayers 73 is an in~dructo r with Grande Prairie Regiona l College Grande Prairi e Alta

Lauric (Watson) Goorts 79 is a Family Stud ie teache r with th e Waterloo County Board of Educati on

Ta mm) (Hryhorenko) Warren 75 is de partm~nt head Famil y Studies Westdale SS Hamilton

Josie (Lohuis) Schneider 80 is te aching at the Catholic Central High School LonshydonOnt

Social Services

Judi th Tansley 69 is a counsellor with Sunstar House Saskatoo n Sask

Rev Kay (Finlay) Hagey 37 is wilh th e Ang lican Church of Ca nada SI Andre ws Church Grim sby

Christine (Brady) MacPhee 78 is a unit le ade rsocial worker with Famil y and Chilshydrens Services Goderich

Eileen (Derynck) O ls thoorn 78 is a 0shy

cial worker with Halton Childrens Aid Oak vill e

Donna (Rose ) Allen 70 is a compl ianee officer with the Hea lth Protection Branch Health and Welfare Canada Otta wa

Janine Jones 82 is a developm ntal Inshystructor with Si rTI eoc Habi I i tative Sen ICC)

Business and Industry

-arion (Kerr ) I1ennenrent 7 1 11Sc 76 is employed wit h Gary S Hcn nn k nt Insurance Services Ltd Vancou cr BC

Edna (Hay ) Jarrell 36 is presiden t Edna Jarrc I I Rcal rstatc h lingto n

Ann (McClure ) Keller 78 is a denta l tec hnician with J PO Ir()CCor~ Inc Gue lph

Sharon Salm-ltrose 82 is an advert isi ng consultant wi th WS Marketi ng AlnlC 0

Meeting Notice

Guelph Branch MacmiddotFACS Alumni

Association Annual Membership

Coffee Party 730 p _m to 1000 pm_

September 2 51984

At the home of Margaret (Hamilton) Bates 53

303 Edinburgh Road South Guelph Ontalio

In Memoriam Margaret (Blac kh am ) Elliott 350 R R I Blenheim date ordelt h unknown

Edith (Hubbard ) Garrison 320 Janu shyary 19K4 inCenterLine Mich US

Susan lIem i ngwa~ 31D February 1 -19R4 inTnronto

J u ne (Van Someren ) Van Wyck 47 D Februa ry 12 1984 in Hamilton

Velma (Balkwill) Stuck 210 February J 19R4 at R R if fgt Woodstoc k Her husshyband th e late Fred W Stock was an OAC 21 grad Her son Oa id JB Stock QC isan OAC 59 grad U

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AI mnos of

Honotlr 1984

Elliott Mac McLoughry OAC 22

With the Ontario Department of Agrishy

culture (ODA) as Agricultu ra l Represhyse ntative in Vi ctoria Dundas and W aterloo Counties Ellio lllrwin McLo ughry was a

pioneer d uri ng a time o f greattechnicaJ advance in Fann practices

A h ighly respec ted ge nt le man who

ga ined the confide nce o f the Menno nite people

o f Waterloo Co unty hi s accomplishments inc lude the introduc tio n o f short-courses for farmers and a soil conservatio n program the es tab lishment of Bacon Hog Fa irs and the Waterloo callie breeding unit and co-ope rashytio n w ith the OAC in the first nematode

program

Aged 90 last Jul y Mac througho ut hi s worki ng li fe made s ign ificant contributio ns to Canadian agric ultu re and to socie ty and ill

1964 re tired from his positi o n as d irector o f extens io n DA He lives at the Presto n Springs Gardens Retirement Ho me J 02 f o untain tree t So uth Cambridge Ontario 0

U of Gs Yellow Potato Takes Market by Storm

A unique yellow-fl eshed potato deshyveloped at the University of Guelph has taken the us market by storm

US buyers particularly in Michigan are buying all of the seed they can some are disappointed that more seed is not availshyable

The potato variety known as Yukon Gold was devcloped by the Department of Horticultural Science and released four years ago by potato breeder Gary Johnston now retired from Agriculture Canada and University professor Geoff Rowberry 55

[t is the first yellow-fleshed potato to be developed and licensed in Canada

Gary Johnstons successor at Agricul shyture Canada Robert Coffin says the Amershyican s received sample seed as part of an on-going exchange program among breedshyers They tested it and liked it

The Americans liked Yukon Gold s buttered appearance saw a marketing opshyportunity in it s golden colour found it grew well under their growing conditions and now package and sell it under the trade mark Michigan Golden Bake Robert said One American market survey shows consumers like the potato s fla vo ur vershysatility and colour fleshed species from Peru and the variety growers to capitalize on Yukon Golds

Growers al so like this new variety beshy Katahdin unique properties But it does take promoshycause it gives good yield s ha s high solids Yukon Gold IS ideal for boiling and tion and consumer awareness and matures early so it can be harvested baking and makes superb french fries But The University S breeding program is in mid-July to fetch a prcmium price it does not chip well This limitation has now concentrating efforts on finding an imshy

Yukon Gold was first developed in partially prevented it from being widely proved chipping variety Such breeding 1966 in respon se to reque sts from Euroshy grown in Ontario up to 50 per cent of the programs usually start between 40000 and pean immigrants to Canada who were potatoes grown in Ontario are used for makshy 50000 new seedlings every year accustomed to eating yellow-fleshed potashy ing potato chips We graduaJly eliminate the inferior toes [n Europe Brazil and the Caribbean Robert Coffin is pleased that Yukon seedlings until we get down to very low yellow-fleshed potatoes arc preferred Gold is being well received in the United numbers and hopefully after 12 to 15

Gary Johnston created Yukon Gold by States and he hopes for increased recogni shy years we co me up with superior attributes crossing Norgleam a variety from North tion for this new variety here in Ontario compared to those varieties already on the Dakota with a hybrid of a wild yellow- The opportunity is here for Ontario market say s Robert Coffin 0

Robert Coffin left and Professor GeoffRowberry 55 with Yukon Cold

He Was the Prairie Gardner Reprinted from The Prairie Garden

There arc fcw horti culturists who ha vc contributed as much and for as long a timc to horticultural education and ck ve lopment ofthe pra iricsas l R Bob Almcy 21

Th Prairie Garden first published as thc Winllipeg Flower Cardell in 1937 knew him both as a frequent contributor of articles and al so as a long-timc board me JJ1bcr of the publish i ng co mm i tee

Bob Almcy was 16 when he accomshypanicd hi s parcnts to Canada from Le iccs shy

te r England On his arrival hc started a long carcer in his chosen field with Johnson Brothcrs orchardists ncar Forest Ontario Hc soon becamc a student of horticu I tUfe at the Ontario Agricultural Collcge at Guelph During his summer holidays spent with the Horticultural [)(partment of the OAC he worked alongside Isabclla Preshyston noted origi nator of many new plant varieties

In September 1917 during his third year of studies at Guelph he joined the Royal Flying Corps as an air cadet and was

discharged with th e rank of Second Lieutenshyant in December 1918

He returned to th e OAC and graduated in 1921 with the degree of Bachelor of Scishyence in Agriculture

The Manitoba Department of Agriculshyture created the position of extension hortishy -culturist in 1921 and hired Bob Almey that year He filled that position from 1921 to 1928 His dutics in the first year included the distribution of two carloads of certified Irish Cobbler seed potatoes to farmc rs He worked closdy with market gardeners and the hobby horticulturists of the Manitoba Horticultural Association (MHA)

He left the Manitoba Department of

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Agriculture to become chici horticu lturist Weste rn Lines- T hunder Bay to Vanshy

couver Islanu- of the Canadian Pac ific

Rail way As such he was in charge of the

railway s park and garden work advising officials and empl oyees o n stat ion garden plantings and o n tree shelter belts along the rai Iroad s right-of-way

Oldtimers will reme mber the we ll landscapeu prairi e stations and the beautiful

parks in large r centres that resulted from his work Bob was made ge neral agriculshytural agen t combining both ho rticul ture

and agriculture and continued in that post until his retirement in 1960

Rob Almey was an organi zation man

Hc Joined the MHA as soon as he came to Manitoba and was its secretarytreasurer

from 1922 to 1928 In 193 I hc becamc a director of that Assoc iation and served in th at capac ity for man y years In 1938

he became president of the MHA In 1956 he was made an honorary life member Bob is a life member of the Stevenson Memorial

Boare

For many years he was a judge of the Provincial Home Grounds Competition and

also the Prov incial Slide Co mpetiti o n Bob al so served the Association as ex -offic io director and finally as honorary preside nt

a pos it ion he re linqui shed in 1981 The Winnipeg Hort icultural Society

and the Winnipeg Gladiolus Society value his contributi ons to the ir programs He served as director and preside nt of both o rshy

ganizations and was honoured with ho norshyary life membersh ip by both

He is a charter member of thc Western

Canadian Society for Horticulture it s presishy

dent in J952 an d rec ip ie nt of its honorary life membershi p in 1961 Th e Man itoba In shystitute of Ag rologis ts and the Agricultural Institute o f Canada both honoured him with

honorary life memberships In 1972 the

anadian Ho rticultural Co uncil Fesented him with a merit award

Three awa rds are espeL ially dear to Bob and hi s wife Olive In 1970 the Hon

Philip Petu rrson Mini ster of Cultural Afshy

fairs made Bob a captain of the Order of

A Pioneer of the 4-8 Program Frederick Waldemar Waldo Walsb 22 MB E F A IC LLD formerly of Palmeter Avenue Kentville N S and ltl Ia ng-t ime res ident of Hal ifax NS died at the Weste rn King s Memorial Hospita l Berwick NS on February II He was

86 years o ld

Born in Monc to n N B Dr Walsb will be remembered as being one of Canadas outstanding agriculturists who

served in many capacities and many offishyces throughout a distinguished caree r spanshyning some 51 years

At the time of his retirement as Deputy

Minister of Agricu lture and Marketing for Nova Scotia in 1962 a pos itio n he had

held for 17 years he was the lo ngest serving Deputy Minister of Agriculture in Canada

Upon g raduation from th e Nova Scotia Agricultura1 College in 191 7 he en lis ted in the Royal Flying Corps with the rank of second lieutenant and was in training

as a pilot when the war ended Upon di-sshycharge he joined the staff of the New Bru-nsshy

wick Department of Agricu lture Livestock Division with whtch he remained until

1920 when he entered the OAC

In 1922 he joined Jhe staff of the Ca nada Departmen t of Agriculture as sheep and sw-ine promoter at Truro NS where

he remained until 1926 whe n he was apshypointed professor of Animal Husbandry and

director of Live stock M arketing at the Nova Scotia Agricultural Collcge

In 1927 Waldo became eastern supershy

intenden t of agriculture for the Can ad ian Nationa l Ra ilway s and in 1929 superinshytendent of ag ricultu re over the entire C R system

He rejoi ned the staff of the N S De shypartment of Agri culture in 1933 as director

of marketing a position he he ld until his appointment as De(1Uty Mini ster in 1945

Following his fonnal retirement he

served for several months as specia l marshy

kets adv isor and then for seven years as director of Co-operative Advisory Serv shyices Maritime Co-operative Services Moncton NB

Waldo was the last surviving member

of a g roup of three which was responsible

for the creation and developmen t of the

Canadian Council on Boys and Girls Club Work (now 4-H Clubs) and the las t survivshyin g member of the first Maritime Livestock

Marketing Board which eventua ll y became Maritime Co-operative Servi ces and now Co-op Atlantic

He was recognized by St Franc is Xavier Universi ty which confetTed the deshy

gree of Docto r of Law honoris causa in 1953 Oth er honours included being named a Member of the Order of the Briti sh Empire in the 1945 New Years Ho no urs li st being elected to the Atlantic Prov ince s Agricu lshy

tu ra l Hall ofFame a Fe llo w of the Agriculshytural Institute of Canada an honorary life

membe r of the Nova Sco tia Fruit Growers Associatio n a member of the Senate of

the Nova Scotia Federation of Agriculture

the Buffalo Hunt This order was instituted in 1957 spec ially to honou r those who have

made dist inct ive contributions to life in the

provin ce of Manitoba The wi dely famed Almey Rosybloom crabapple was fittin gly

named in Bob Almey s hono ur Just reshycently the American Gladio lu s Society ho noured Bob with its Gold Meda l Award

Despite all the activities in whi ch he was invo lved Bo b and Olive found time

to garden This gladio lus ex pert grew 1000 and more g lads at his little farm in Libau

Man He named several varieties He loved

to grow potatoes and Spanish onions But both of them also loved to show at the anshynual flower shows winnin g many prizes

and ribbons Today Bob an d Olive live in the ir

com fort ab le home in Winni peg Both an alert and we ll They still attend horticul tural

meetings and Bob still prescnts an oceashysiona llectu re

The Prairie Garden sa lutes thi s grand old hort icultu ris t and his wife All of us prairie gardeners arc indebted to the m 0

and a life member of the Canadian C lub Council on 4-H Cl ubs

During the past ten years he was inst rushymental in obtaini ng services for alcoho l and d rug dependency peopl e in the An napoli s Vallcy Reg ion and was a member of the Advisory Council of the Valley Health Sershy

vices Association Alcohol Dependency Program sin ce its inception He was a great

source of comfort and assis tance to many individuals in this prog ram

He was a member of the Kentvillc Ro shytary Club and for many years an acti ve and enthu siastic membe r of the Ha lifax

Curling Club 0

Fellowship J Edward Brubaker 49 manager Onshyta rio Ministry of Agriculture and Food ene rshygy centre in Guelph has been nam ed a Fellow of the Agr icultura l Insti tute of Canada (AIC)

He is among fivc AIC members to reshyceive the fe llowship honou r this year An

honorary life membership has also been -awarded to George Price a CBC radio agshyriculture reporter who covers Parlmiddotiamcnt Hill

Former pres idcnt Art Guitard was given the Ale recogni tion award for work on a c rop production and the environment

publication

The awards will be made during the annual meeting sc hed uled for Winnipeg Man in August 0

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Grad News Wilfrid Holtma nn MSA 62 is direcshytor of marketing CIAQ Inc SI HyashycintheQue

jurgen Koch Ph D 74 is a research as shysociate Departnw nt of Land Reso urce Sci shyencc Cn ivc ri ty ofG uelph

Marcel Couture MSc 76 a farm manshyagement speciali st was appoi nted as direcshytor of cxte nsio n senicc at Macdona ld Colshykgc McGil l Uni verity Que effective anuary I 19X4

A na tive of th e eastern towns hips he is a I 91i5 graduate of lacdonal d s Dip loma Pmgrall1 in Agricu ltu re an d earned a HSc(Agr) there in 1 ~72 be fore cnteri ng the nivcrsity of Guelph in th e fie ld 01 Agric ultural Economi cs and Extens ion Ed ucation

He was a~s is t a nt director of Mac shydona ld s Dipl oma ProgrJill in Agric ulture before hi prescnt appointment and will contin ue with hi s tCltJeh ing and ad mi nistrashytivc duti es in thc Dipl oma Pro[r~ lill

Gail (Tuumanen ) and Nei l Dolson both gradultJ tc s of 77 arc now ow neroperators of FJ inbrook FaInl Supply Binbrook

Kathr)n ( 1cLcod) Harrison 77 and husband Wayne 79 arc li ving in Guc[ph Waync is credit officer wi th the Toronto Dominion Bank Guelph The y have a daughte r M gha n lea n born November 15 I l)X)

john Tucker BSc ( En~) 78 is a cusshytOIllS investiga tor Revenll e Canada Cusshytoms and Excise Il amilton His wife Anna Mae Shelton-Tucker is J graduate of 79

Glen I1cRuer 79 is a rn al(ster Canada MI [ting Cn C li glry A[ta

Steven Vlnkatarayappa M Sc 79 PhD S3 is an assoc iate profe ssor of Hort icul ture Unive rs ity of Agrieu [tural Scie nce Ra ngal orc Indi a

joan (Elder) Weller SO i an ass istant CilCllli t Pops iclc Indu trics Burl ington Husband Tim also SO i dislt-ict s a [e~

m1I1agcr Pionee r II i-Bred Ltd Clla tham

Rogcr SI Pierre SI i a grai n me rchant wi th Jalllcs Rich ardson amp Sons Ltd Toshyronto His ik Stephanie (Weedle) is a graduatc of 82

Sophia Dinnisscn S2 is a studen t I t Wil shyfr id Lau rier Uni versity Wate rl oo

Nicholas Groot 82 is milk superv isor Ontario Da iry Herd improvement Assoc iashytion Toronto

Rober t Hack ney 82 is head wi nemaker Chara l Wi nery and Vi neyards Inc B[enheim

Frederick j amieson 82 is a quality as shysurance inspec tor J M Schneide r Inc Kitchener

Geollrey Jones S2 I S man ager of the UCO Elmwood branch

Susan Kelner 82 is a technica l a ~~ is tant

Chip man Inc SlOney Creek

Ca rolinc Kennedy S2 is a graduate stushydent Uni vcrsi ty of Manitoba Win nipeg

Jannette Leask 82 is territory sales repshyresentati ve Ral ston Purina Canada In c Whit by

Christopher McLean 82 IS a reseJrch technolog iq Ca mpbell So up Co Ltd Toron to

Lloyd Mitchell 82 is territory manJge r Ralston Purina Canada Inc Woodstock

R Ramirez Nathan 82 is an agronomist promoter Communidad Por Los Inos Antiolj ui a Colombia Sout h Am erica

Eileen (Richards) johnson MSc 83 is an executive assi stan t Ontar io olll mu shynity De vc lllpment Associa tion Uni ve rsity of Guc[ph

Diploma Gaduates

Keith Sinclair S4A has reccntly been appoi nt d vice-president and treasurer ofmiddot the United Co-ope ratives of Onllrio lie hi been wit h l jCO to r 21 years

David Thorton 64A is a [ocomot ive enshyg ineer Canadian aliona[ Rai lways Toshym nlO

Larry Inglis 66A i ~ purchasing man shyage r Canadian Canners Ltd Hamilton

Wa)ne Waugh 68A is an age ncies sale s and deve lopme nt representati ve Petro shyCanad a Prod ucts Don Mills

Eugene McDonald 77A is a mec han ic with Motorways Edmonton A[ta

j ames Slingerland 79A is an inspector Ontario Ministry of Agricultu re and Food liagara Fal[ s

In Me moriam Donald Risebrough 77 immed iate past preside nt of thc OAC Alumni Assoc iat ion d ied on June 30 1984 The news of his tragic death brought a great sensc of sad ness and almost di sbe li ef to his man y fri ends Don had presided a wee k prev ioUsly at many ac tiv ities during Alumni Weekend 84 celebrations He was killed when his ca r went out of control on a Hi ghway 40 I off-ram p He was on his way to visit his parents at their farm ncar Markham Don was di stri ct rep resentative Ontari o Holshystc in Branch Holstein-Fri es ian Associashyti on Brantford

William J Cohoe 03A died on March 19 1984 ilt Norvi[[ a ursing Homc Norshywich He had becn one of the oldes t gradshyuates of the OA

Dr Lloyd G Herman 34 a micro shybio log ist who retired from the US Nashytiona l Institutes of Health (NIH) in 1)7l) dicd February I 1984 at his home in Bet hesda Md Us A

He received his doc torate in Mic ro shybio logy from McG i[[ Uni versity in 1948 and after working at severa l private labora shytori es in the US A joined th e sta fr of IH in I lti 1i8

In 21 years lJi service he publi shed and lectured extensively and aec umu[ated vario Lis honours in his fie ld He was the first to ide nti fy a strain of ye llow-pig me nted waterborne bacteria th at the Centers of Dis shyease C()ntrol named f~s(I(r(h (l hall(III

in his honour in 19X2

Dr Herm an was vc ry active in the American Sl1ci ety fo r Mi robiology (ASM) and its Washi ngton bra nch Ill held JII offi shyces in the Washingto n branch of ASM in shycl ud ing pres idcnt Jnd continual[y held branch posts un til his death He was also a paS pres iden t 01 th Canadian Club of Washingtoll and lfthe Envi ronlllcnta[ Man-3cment Association

He WJs one of the incorporators or the Fricnds of ni ve rsit y ofGuclph Inc

George C McLaren 35 on February 10 1984 in Ollawa I Ie had retired fro ill the Dcpart ment of Na tional lJe fence

Robert Karl Allison 75 BSc(Eng) on Novcmber 6 1910 in London He had been -product io n manager for Modornckan LId

Alison Lyn (Geddes) L1nyck iz 7S in a car acc ident in January 19X4 Her two-yearshyo ld daughte r Jess ica and her mother we re also killed in the accidcnt in Norfolk County Her husband Peter a lso a gradshyuate of 78 is cmp[oyed at anadian Can shyners Simcoe 0

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Macdonald InstituteCollege of Family and Consumer

Studies Alumni Association

ALUMN NEWS Editor Joan (Anderson) Jenkinson 66

From the Dean Dr Richard Barham

There is seldom an issue of the Mac-FACS Alumni News that goes by without there being a special interest item or two about our faculty On this occasion I want to draw your attention to the announecment in this iss ue of the appointment of Dr Brucc Ryan to the chairmanship of the Department of Family Studies

I ex tend our congratulations to Dr Ryan on hi s success in winning this appointshyment in the open competition which was he ld across Canada for the position At the samc time I want to extcnd my very warm thanks 10 Dr Eli za bcth Miles who has been serving the Department and indeed the College so well over this past year through her rcsponsiblities as the Departments act shying chairman

I know that you will be interested to learn too that Dr Powerss appointment as Director of the School of Hotel and Food Admini stration has been renewed for a furth er term We wish Tom and his eolshyleaglle s a continuation of the distinction and successes which have marked the life of the hotel school to date

And while referring to the hotel school J also want to ask you to read thc article in thi s iss ue on Professor George Bedell the School s first director George has made a remarkable contribution while he has been at Guelph most particularly of course in a ll matters relating to the HAFA program and its students J want to thank George on behalf of us all for his vision and commitment over the years and for the interest and care he has for the HAFA grads

We had a spendid alumni retirement celebration for George at the King Edward Hotel in Toronto in May In the best tradishytion of our HAFA alumni and the hospitality industry it was a superb occas ion and fully expressive of the affection and respect which we all feel towards George Many

many thanks George We wish you and Louise a long and happy retirement

As I prepare the draft for this newsletshyter the Annual Mae-FACS Alumni Seminar has just been held The topic this year was Aging Myths and Realities and this ocshycasion too was a resound1l1g sueecss r am sure that I express the sentiments of the many alumni and friend s who were there in extending our congratulations and thanks to Gail Murray 78 and the members of her organizing committce

By the way if you have not yet made a contribution to the MAC 38 Gerontology Scholarship please do support the vision of this wonderfully energetic group of grads right now They reall y need your contribushytions to build up the scholarship fund and we have an urgcnt need to support students in this ncw and humanly important area of sc holarship

Many of you and others who arc not among our alumni have been ask ing us to organize courses which ill help you keep up to date in your profess ional fie lds Some of our conferences of course along with the Alumni Seminar arc intended to do just thi s But we now also have a number of our credit courses specially designed and developed for what we call dis tance teachshying

Already we have eomscs on Human Development Marital and amily Dynamshyics Family Economics Human Sex uality and the Exceptional Child The se courses are ava ilable to you on a correspondence basis and usc a comprehensive and carefully prepared study guide They in volve tests and ass ignments of course and the course in structors respond to questions either through mailed memos or by phone

You can take the final exam here in Guelph or possibly at a centre either in or near your own home town Write to Profes shysor Sam Luker chairman Part-Time and General Studie s if you want to find ou t more about our distance teaching program

You might want to note the fACS Sheel order form on page 34 of thi s issue Ifon the mailing list for FACS Sheel publishycations you will sec topics which interest you Keep in loueh with us by sending for eopics D

Appointment Dr Bruce A Ryan took up his appointshyment as chairman of the Department of Family Studies on July I of this year He has become known to many of our alumni over the years s ince his first appointment to that department as an assistant professor and director of the Laboratory Schools in 1975 He was promoted to the rank of asshysociate professor in 1980

Dr Ryan had hi S BA in Psychology eonfelTed by the University of Alberta (1964) He obtained both the M Ed (1969) and PhD (1971) degrees in Educational Psychology from the same university He has held the position of Psychomotrist at the Alberta Hosp ital in Edmonton and a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Centrc for the Study of Mental Retardation at the Unishyversity of Alberta Before moving to Guel ph in the mid- 70s Dr Ryan held his first university teaching and research post at Victoria University in Wellington New Zealand

Irokssiona l and co mmunity service activities figure significantly among Dr Ryans involvements He is first vice-presishydent of the Canad ian Association for Educashytional Psychology and vice-president also of the Ontario Association of Family Se rshyvice Agencie s He is on the editorial board of the publication Canadas iInlal Heallh and among other sc holarly and professhysional bodies a member of the Canadian Association for the Treatment and Study of Families

The primary focus of Dr Ryans teachshying research and academic publications has been upon the ecology of human (and particularly child) development and learnshying He has a special interes t in person-envishy shyronment interactions particularly within the context of family system s and with reshygard to possible impacts upon children s learningdiffieulties in school

Dr Ryans wife Nancy is a librarian with special interests in childrens books and school libraries Bruce and Nancy have two delightful daughters Keri and Jenny both of whom are at elementary school D

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End of an Era The editor wishes 0 extend a sincere thank you to Joe Van Koe verdel 75 BComm editor oJthe Hotel and Food Administration

Alumni News Jor permission to reprint this article wrillen by D Kanzler and pubshylished in April

W hen retiring Professor George Bedell

close s his office door behind him for the

las t lime on September I and hangs out The Mac-FACS Alumni Seminar attracted 175 to the Guelph Campus in April The the GONE FISH ING sign hell close topic was Aging Myths and Realities Leaders oj the interest sessions were I to the door on an era in the Canadian hospiality r Dr John Powell Leslie (Good) Snell 64 Smuly Forbes 82 Gail Murray 78 education indu stry seminar committee chairman Donna Woolcott 69 Rev Lance Woods and Grella

And hell open the door to a flood Riddell-Dixon of tributes from the hospitality industry as

the man who spearheaded the development

of Canadas first school of hotel and food

admini stration They will remember him

as the mentor who set high standards shy

the man who made hospitality manageme nt

a profess ion The students now 650 graduates

strong will remember him as the man who

gave hospitality cducation credibility - the

man who made them professionals His facshy

ulty peers will prai se George Bedell s pershy

severance in building a degree-granting sc hool at a time when such an institution

was unheard of on Canadian university

campuses

All will point to his many awards

Participants a the Seminar included Alumni in Action members I to r Jack Palmer OAC 38 Elsie (Hume) Pettit 34 Harvey Pettil OAC 32 Do (Stuari) Paitner 36 and Jim Baker OAC 28

chief among which were the 1975 Queens you hope you ha ve made a lasting contribushy Hotel Adminis tration at Michigan State Jubilee Meda l the 1981 Member CRA tioll And I hope my leade rship with the University but in 1942 draft papers took Foundation College of Diplomates and the help of others has ensured this program s priority He served with the United States 1983 Jack C Sim Man of the Year success he says Army until 1946 when disc harged as a Award as confirmation of Pro fe ssor Beshy Connec ticut-born George Bedell credshy Captain and continued as a reserve officer dell s outstanding contributions its an itinerant father for developing his until 1962 when he was discharged with

T he tribute s would make Geo rge interests in the industry He used to bring thc rank of Major SOli Ie perhaps blush and prompt a throaty back all kinds of fascinating brochures from The post-war years saw him work as chuckle because when all is said and done hotels across the USA - thats what got manager of scveral Connccticut inns and he would s imply like to be remembered me started hotel s before being asked to join Michigan for who he is When you leave something George completed his BA studies in Statc s Faculty of Continuing Education in

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1953 It proved to be a turning point in hi s career

By 1959 George had been appointed director o f Man agement T rainin g Proshygrams and director of Business and Tcchn ishycal Advisory Service for the National Re~shytaurant Association in Chicago He held that position until 1969 when he was in shyvited by thc Uni versit y of Gue lph to take ove r as director of Canada s first School of Hotel and Food Administration H~ re shyma ined director until 1979 fo llowing whi ch he continued teaching at th e School

I knew lots of peop le in industry here and saw the opportunity to help the hospitalit y industry he says of hi s deci shys ion to move to Guelph [ saw thi s as a rea l chall enge But [ always knew we would succeed I decidcd from day o ne that we would make a go of it he adds with characteri stic determi nation

If his first years were frustrating it was mainl y because of thc students skeptishycism They we re so worried about th e Schools reputation and whether there d be Jobs waiting for them I had to build Iheir confidence - ove r and over again I look now at what our gradu ates ha ve accomshyplished and I feel good about hav ing played a role in their su ccess II mea ns the proshygram s have grown the way we thought they should and proves th at we ha ve bcen doing somethin g right here at Guelph

Professor Bede ll is particularly proud of the new Advanced Management Program for the Hospita lit y Indu stry (AMPHI ) estabshyli shed by Pro fe ssor Tom Po we rs the preshysent director of the Schoo l last ye ar to help train and de ve lop top level manage rs No other uni versity in the world is do ing this type of ed ucation al training for the hospitalshyity industry he points out Moreover AMPHI is th e kind of program that s vi tal to the future of the hos pit alit y industry The industry is still ex pand ing all forecasts po int to mo re people ca ti ng out more peop le travelling - and that means a growshying need for facilitie s and trained people

Corne September I George Bedcl l wi ll monitor th at growth - and his Schools successes - from afa r Hi s re shytiremenl caree r in cludes so rnc travel lots of fishing tinle to get a little fun out ot life and pl~tnS to build a hOllle on the coast of Maine tor his wife Loui se and himse lf But distance won t keep hi thoughtgt from Willin g back to Guc I ph

Fifteen yea rs ago he says he was given the chal len ge to get Guelphs Schoo l of Hotel and Food Admini st ration off th e gro und lto w on the e ve of hi s retirement he issues hi s ow n chall enge to the Schoo l Ten years from now [ wa nt to be abl e to say - Look how that School has grown ho w its progressing how its getting better al l the time 0

Grad News Foods amp Nutrition

LornI Dixon 83 is a die tetic intern at the Health Science Centre in Winni peg Man

Lori M Farr 79 is empl oyed with the Nutri tion Department Cen tenary Hospi ta l West Hill

Pat Faber 78 is pati ent food services co-ordinator with Roya l Jubliee Hospital Victoria BC

Elaine (Dashner) Robichaud 80 i food service director Saga Ca nad ian v1anageshyment Services Susse x Health Centre NB

Karen (Seib) Webber 78 is an outpati ent dietiti an at Van couver Ge neral Hospital BC

Libb~ (Lewis ) Logan 74 is a clin ical di etitian with the hildren s Hospi tal 01 Ealern Ontario Ottawa

Educa tion

fngl id ( ppell ) larsh 69 i 1 l e~tC llcr

Wentworth Count) Fl(l~lnl Drhlucatioll

Lolly (Robinson) Bartkew 62 is a supshypl y teacher with the Waterloo County Board () f Education

Kathi Ayers 73 is an in~dructo r with Grande Prairie Regiona l College Grande Prairi e Alta

Lauric (Watson) Goorts 79 is a Family Stud ie teache r with th e Waterloo County Board of Educati on

Ta mm) (Hryhorenko) Warren 75 is de partm~nt head Famil y Studies Westdale SS Hamilton

Josie (Lohuis) Schneider 80 is te aching at the Catholic Central High School LonshydonOnt

Social Services

Judi th Tansley 69 is a counsellor with Sunstar House Saskatoo n Sask

Rev Kay (Finlay) Hagey 37 is wilh th e Ang lican Church of Ca nada SI Andre ws Church Grim sby

Christine (Brady) MacPhee 78 is a unit le ade rsocial worker with Famil y and Chilshydrens Services Goderich

Eileen (Derynck) O ls thoorn 78 is a 0shy

cial worker with Halton Childrens Aid Oak vill e

Donna (Rose ) Allen 70 is a compl ianee officer with the Hea lth Protection Branch Health and Welfare Canada Otta wa

Janine Jones 82 is a developm ntal Inshystructor with Si rTI eoc Habi I i tative Sen ICC)

Business and Industry

-arion (Kerr ) I1ennenrent 7 1 11Sc 76 is employed wit h Gary S Hcn nn k nt Insurance Services Ltd Vancou cr BC

Edna (Hay ) Jarrell 36 is presiden t Edna Jarrc I I Rcal rstatc h lingto n

Ann (McClure ) Keller 78 is a denta l tec hnician with J PO Ir()CCor~ Inc Gue lph

Sharon Salm-ltrose 82 is an advert isi ng consultant wi th WS Marketi ng AlnlC 0

Meeting Notice

Guelph Branch MacmiddotFACS Alumni

Association Annual Membership

Coffee Party 730 p _m to 1000 pm_

September 2 51984

At the home of Margaret (Hamilton) Bates 53

303 Edinburgh Road South Guelph Ontalio

In Memoriam Margaret (Blac kh am ) Elliott 350 R R I Blenheim date ordelt h unknown

Edith (Hubbard ) Garrison 320 Janu shyary 19K4 inCenterLine Mich US

Susan lIem i ngwa~ 31D February 1 -19R4 inTnronto

J u ne (Van Someren ) Van Wyck 47 D Februa ry 12 1984 in Hamilton

Velma (Balkwill) Stuck 210 February J 19R4 at R R if fgt Woodstoc k Her husshyband th e late Fred W Stock was an OAC 21 grad Her son Oa id JB Stock QC isan OAC 59 grad U

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AI mnos of

Honotlr 1984

Elliott Mac McLoughry OAC 22

With the Ontario Department of Agrishy

culture (ODA) as Agricultu ra l Represhyse ntative in Vi ctoria Dundas and W aterloo Counties Ellio lllrwin McLo ughry was a

pioneer d uri ng a time o f greattechnicaJ advance in Fann practices

A h ighly respec ted ge nt le man who

ga ined the confide nce o f the Menno nite people

o f Waterloo Co unty hi s accomplishments inc lude the introduc tio n o f short-courses for farmers and a soil conservatio n program the es tab lishment of Bacon Hog Fa irs and the Waterloo callie breeding unit and co-ope rashytio n w ith the OAC in the first nematode

program

Aged 90 last Jul y Mac througho ut hi s worki ng li fe made s ign ificant contributio ns to Canadian agric ultu re and to socie ty and ill

1964 re tired from his positi o n as d irector o f extens io n DA He lives at the Presto n Springs Gardens Retirement Ho me J 02 f o untain tree t So uth Cambridge Ontario 0

Agriculture to become chici horticu lturist Weste rn Lines- T hunder Bay to Vanshy

couver Islanu- of the Canadian Pac ific

Rail way As such he was in charge of the

railway s park and garden work advising officials and empl oyees o n stat ion garden plantings and o n tree shelter belts along the rai Iroad s right-of-way

Oldtimers will reme mber the we ll landscapeu prairi e stations and the beautiful

parks in large r centres that resulted from his work Bob was made ge neral agriculshytural agen t combining both ho rticul ture

and agriculture and continued in that post until his retirement in 1960

Rob Almey was an organi zation man

Hc Joined the MHA as soon as he came to Manitoba and was its secretarytreasurer

from 1922 to 1928 In 193 I hc becamc a director of that Assoc iation and served in th at capac ity for man y years In 1938

he became president of the MHA In 1956 he was made an honorary life member Bob is a life member of the Stevenson Memorial

Boare

For many years he was a judge of the Provincial Home Grounds Competition and

also the Prov incial Slide Co mpetiti o n Bob al so served the Association as ex -offic io director and finally as honorary preside nt

a pos it ion he re linqui shed in 1981 The Winnipeg Hort icultural Society

and the Winnipeg Gladiolus Society value his contributi ons to the ir programs He served as director and preside nt of both o rshy

ganizations and was honoured with ho norshyary life membersh ip by both

He is a charter member of thc Western

Canadian Society for Horticulture it s presishy

dent in J952 an d rec ip ie nt of its honorary life membershi p in 1961 Th e Man itoba In shystitute of Ag rologis ts and the Agricultural Institute o f Canada both honoured him with

honorary life memberships In 1972 the

anadian Ho rticultural Co uncil Fesented him with a merit award

Three awa rds are espeL ially dear to Bob and hi s wife Olive In 1970 the Hon

Philip Petu rrson Mini ster of Cultural Afshy

fairs made Bob a captain of the Order of

A Pioneer of the 4-8 Program Frederick Waldemar Waldo Walsb 22 MB E F A IC LLD formerly of Palmeter Avenue Kentville N S and ltl Ia ng-t ime res ident of Hal ifax NS died at the Weste rn King s Memorial Hospita l Berwick NS on February II He was

86 years o ld

Born in Monc to n N B Dr Walsb will be remembered as being one of Canadas outstanding agriculturists who

served in many capacities and many offishyces throughout a distinguished caree r spanshyning some 51 years

At the time of his retirement as Deputy

Minister of Agricu lture and Marketing for Nova Scotia in 1962 a pos itio n he had

held for 17 years he was the lo ngest serving Deputy Minister of Agriculture in Canada

Upon g raduation from th e Nova Scotia Agricultura1 College in 191 7 he en lis ted in the Royal Flying Corps with the rank of second lieutenant and was in training

as a pilot when the war ended Upon di-sshycharge he joined the staff of the New Bru-nsshy

wick Department of Agricu lture Livestock Division with whtch he remained until

1920 when he entered the OAC

In 1922 he joined Jhe staff of the Ca nada Departmen t of Agriculture as sheep and sw-ine promoter at Truro NS where

he remained until 1926 whe n he was apshypointed professor of Animal Husbandry and

director of Live stock M arketing at the Nova Scotia Agricultural Collcge

In 1927 Waldo became eastern supershy

intenden t of agriculture for the Can ad ian Nationa l Ra ilway s and in 1929 superinshytendent of ag ricultu re over the entire C R system

He rejoi ned the staff of the N S De shypartment of Agri culture in 1933 as director

of marketing a position he he ld until his appointment as De(1Uty Mini ster in 1945

Following his fonnal retirement he

served for several months as specia l marshy

kets adv isor and then for seven years as director of Co-operative Advisory Serv shyices Maritime Co-operative Services Moncton NB

Waldo was the last surviving member

of a g roup of three which was responsible

for the creation and developmen t of the

Canadian Council on Boys and Girls Club Work (now 4-H Clubs) and the las t survivshyin g member of the first Maritime Livestock

Marketing Board which eventua ll y became Maritime Co-operative Servi ces and now Co-op Atlantic

He was recognized by St Franc is Xavier Universi ty which confetTed the deshy

gree of Docto r of Law honoris causa in 1953 Oth er honours included being named a Member of the Order of the Briti sh Empire in the 1945 New Years Ho no urs li st being elected to the Atlantic Prov ince s Agricu lshy

tu ra l Hall ofFame a Fe llo w of the Agriculshytural Institute of Canada an honorary life

membe r of the Nova Sco tia Fruit Growers Associatio n a member of the Senate of

the Nova Scotia Federation of Agriculture

the Buffalo Hunt This order was instituted in 1957 spec ially to honou r those who have

made dist inct ive contributions to life in the

provin ce of Manitoba The wi dely famed Almey Rosybloom crabapple was fittin gly

named in Bob Almey s hono ur Just reshycently the American Gladio lu s Society ho noured Bob with its Gold Meda l Award

Despite all the activities in whi ch he was invo lved Bo b and Olive found time

to garden This gladio lus ex pert grew 1000 and more g lads at his little farm in Libau

Man He named several varieties He loved

to grow potatoes and Spanish onions But both of them also loved to show at the anshynual flower shows winnin g many prizes

and ribbons Today Bob an d Olive live in the ir

com fort ab le home in Winni peg Both an alert and we ll They still attend horticul tural

meetings and Bob still prescnts an oceashysiona llectu re

The Prairie Garden sa lutes thi s grand old hort icultu ris t and his wife All of us prairie gardeners arc indebted to the m 0

and a life member of the Canadian C lub Council on 4-H Cl ubs

During the past ten years he was inst rushymental in obtaini ng services for alcoho l and d rug dependency peopl e in the An napoli s Vallcy Reg ion and was a member of the Advisory Council of the Valley Health Sershy

vices Association Alcohol Dependency Program sin ce its inception He was a great

source of comfort and assis tance to many individuals in this prog ram

He was a member of the Kentvillc Ro shytary Club and for many years an acti ve and enthu siastic membe r of the Ha lifax

Curling Club 0

Fellowship J Edward Brubaker 49 manager Onshyta rio Ministry of Agriculture and Food ene rshygy centre in Guelph has been nam ed a Fellow of the Agr icultura l Insti tute of Canada (AIC)

He is among fivc AIC members to reshyceive the fe llowship honou r this year An

honorary life membership has also been -awarded to George Price a CBC radio agshyriculture reporter who covers Parlmiddotiamcnt Hill

Former pres idcnt Art Guitard was given the Ale recogni tion award for work on a c rop production and the environment

publication

The awards will be made during the annual meeting sc hed uled for Winnipeg Man in August 0

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Grad News Wilfrid Holtma nn MSA 62 is direcshytor of marketing CIAQ Inc SI HyashycintheQue

jurgen Koch Ph D 74 is a research as shysociate Departnw nt of Land Reso urce Sci shyencc Cn ivc ri ty ofG uelph

Marcel Couture MSc 76 a farm manshyagement speciali st was appoi nted as direcshytor of cxte nsio n senicc at Macdona ld Colshykgc McGil l Uni verity Que effective anuary I 19X4

A na tive of th e eastern towns hips he is a I 91i5 graduate of lacdonal d s Dip loma Pmgrall1 in Agricu ltu re an d earned a HSc(Agr) there in 1 ~72 be fore cnteri ng the nivcrsity of Guelph in th e fie ld 01 Agric ultural Economi cs and Extens ion Ed ucation

He was a~s is t a nt director of Mac shydona ld s Dipl oma ProgrJill in Agric ulture before hi prescnt appointment and will contin ue with hi s tCltJeh ing and ad mi nistrashytivc duti es in thc Dipl oma Pro[r~ lill

Gail (Tuumanen ) and Nei l Dolson both gradultJ tc s of 77 arc now ow neroperators of FJ inbrook FaInl Supply Binbrook

Kathr)n ( 1cLcod) Harrison 77 and husband Wayne 79 arc li ving in Guc[ph Waync is credit officer wi th the Toronto Dominion Bank Guelph The y have a daughte r M gha n lea n born November 15 I l)X)

john Tucker BSc ( En~) 78 is a cusshytOIllS investiga tor Revenll e Canada Cusshytoms and Excise Il amilton His wife Anna Mae Shelton-Tucker is J graduate of 79

Glen I1cRuer 79 is a rn al(ster Canada MI [ting Cn C li glry A[ta

Steven Vlnkatarayappa M Sc 79 PhD S3 is an assoc iate profe ssor of Hort icul ture Unive rs ity of Agrieu [tural Scie nce Ra ngal orc Indi a

joan (Elder) Weller SO i an ass istant CilCllli t Pops iclc Indu trics Burl ington Husband Tim also SO i dislt-ict s a [e~

m1I1agcr Pionee r II i-Bred Ltd Clla tham

Rogcr SI Pierre SI i a grai n me rchant wi th Jalllcs Rich ardson amp Sons Ltd Toshyronto His ik Stephanie (Weedle) is a graduatc of 82

Sophia Dinnisscn S2 is a studen t I t Wil shyfr id Lau rier Uni versity Wate rl oo

Nicholas Groot 82 is milk superv isor Ontario Da iry Herd improvement Assoc iashytion Toronto

Rober t Hack ney 82 is head wi nemaker Chara l Wi nery and Vi neyards Inc B[enheim

Frederick j amieson 82 is a quality as shysurance inspec tor J M Schneide r Inc Kitchener

Geollrey Jones S2 I S man ager of the UCO Elmwood branch

Susan Kelner 82 is a technica l a ~~ is tant

Chip man Inc SlOney Creek

Ca rolinc Kennedy S2 is a graduate stushydent Uni vcrsi ty of Manitoba Win nipeg

Jannette Leask 82 is territory sales repshyresentati ve Ral ston Purina Canada In c Whit by

Christopher McLean 82 IS a reseJrch technolog iq Ca mpbell So up Co Ltd Toron to

Lloyd Mitchell 82 is territory manJge r Ralston Purina Canada Inc Woodstock

R Ramirez Nathan 82 is an agronomist promoter Communidad Por Los Inos Antiolj ui a Colombia Sout h Am erica

Eileen (Richards) johnson MSc 83 is an executive assi stan t Ontar io olll mu shynity De vc lllpment Associa tion Uni ve rsity of Guc[ph

Diploma Gaduates

Keith Sinclair S4A has reccntly been appoi nt d vice-president and treasurer ofmiddot the United Co-ope ratives of Onllrio lie hi been wit h l jCO to r 21 years

David Thorton 64A is a [ocomot ive enshyg ineer Canadian aliona[ Rai lways Toshym nlO

Larry Inglis 66A i ~ purchasing man shyage r Canadian Canners Ltd Hamilton

Wa)ne Waugh 68A is an age ncies sale s and deve lopme nt representati ve Petro shyCanad a Prod ucts Don Mills

Eugene McDonald 77A is a mec han ic with Motorways Edmonton A[ta

j ames Slingerland 79A is an inspector Ontario Ministry of Agricultu re and Food liagara Fal[ s

In Me moriam Donald Risebrough 77 immed iate past preside nt of thc OAC Alumni Assoc iat ion d ied on June 30 1984 The news of his tragic death brought a great sensc of sad ness and almost di sbe li ef to his man y fri ends Don had presided a wee k prev ioUsly at many ac tiv ities during Alumni Weekend 84 celebrations He was killed when his ca r went out of control on a Hi ghway 40 I off-ram p He was on his way to visit his parents at their farm ncar Markham Don was di stri ct rep resentative Ontari o Holshystc in Branch Holstein-Fri es ian Associashyti on Brantford

William J Cohoe 03A died on March 19 1984 ilt Norvi[[ a ursing Homc Norshywich He had becn one of the oldes t gradshyuates of the OA

Dr Lloyd G Herman 34 a micro shybio log ist who retired from the US Nashytiona l Institutes of Health (NIH) in 1)7l) dicd February I 1984 at his home in Bet hesda Md Us A

He received his doc torate in Mic ro shybio logy from McG i[[ Uni versity in 1948 and after working at severa l private labora shytori es in the US A joined th e sta fr of IH in I lti 1i8

In 21 years lJi service he publi shed and lectured extensively and aec umu[ated vario Lis honours in his fie ld He was the first to ide nti fy a strain of ye llow-pig me nted waterborne bacteria th at the Centers of Dis shyease C()ntrol named f~s(I(r(h (l hall(III

in his honour in 19X2

Dr Herm an was vc ry active in the American Sl1ci ety fo r Mi robiology (ASM) and its Washi ngton bra nch Ill held JII offi shyces in the Washingto n branch of ASM in shycl ud ing pres idcnt Jnd continual[y held branch posts un til his death He was also a paS pres iden t 01 th Canadian Club of Washingtoll and lfthe Envi ronlllcnta[ Man-3cment Association

He WJs one of the incorporators or the Fricnds of ni ve rsit y ofGuclph Inc

George C McLaren 35 on February 10 1984 in Ollawa I Ie had retired fro ill the Dcpart ment of Na tional lJe fence

Robert Karl Allison 75 BSc(Eng) on Novcmber 6 1910 in London He had been -product io n manager for Modornckan LId

Alison Lyn (Geddes) L1nyck iz 7S in a car acc ident in January 19X4 Her two-yearshyo ld daughte r Jess ica and her mother we re also killed in the accidcnt in Norfolk County Her husband Peter a lso a gradshyuate of 78 is cmp[oyed at anadian Can shyners Simcoe 0

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Macdonald InstituteCollege of Family and Consumer

Studies Alumni Association

ALUMN NEWS Editor Joan (Anderson) Jenkinson 66

From the Dean Dr Richard Barham

There is seldom an issue of the Mac-FACS Alumni News that goes by without there being a special interest item or two about our faculty On this occasion I want to draw your attention to the announecment in this iss ue of the appointment of Dr Brucc Ryan to the chairmanship of the Department of Family Studies

I ex tend our congratulations to Dr Ryan on hi s success in winning this appointshyment in the open competition which was he ld across Canada for the position At the samc time I want to extcnd my very warm thanks 10 Dr Eli za bcth Miles who has been serving the Department and indeed the College so well over this past year through her rcsponsiblities as the Departments act shying chairman

I know that you will be interested to learn too that Dr Powerss appointment as Director of the School of Hotel and Food Admini stration has been renewed for a furth er term We wish Tom and his eolshyleaglle s a continuation of the distinction and successes which have marked the life of the hotel school to date

And while referring to the hotel school J also want to ask you to read thc article in thi s iss ue on Professor George Bedell the School s first director George has made a remarkable contribution while he has been at Guelph most particularly of course in a ll matters relating to the HAFA program and its students J want to thank George on behalf of us all for his vision and commitment over the years and for the interest and care he has for the HAFA grads

We had a spendid alumni retirement celebration for George at the King Edward Hotel in Toronto in May In the best tradishytion of our HAFA alumni and the hospitality industry it was a superb occas ion and fully expressive of the affection and respect which we all feel towards George Many

many thanks George We wish you and Louise a long and happy retirement

As I prepare the draft for this newsletshyter the Annual Mae-FACS Alumni Seminar has just been held The topic this year was Aging Myths and Realities and this ocshycasion too was a resound1l1g sueecss r am sure that I express the sentiments of the many alumni and friend s who were there in extending our congratulations and thanks to Gail Murray 78 and the members of her organizing committce

By the way if you have not yet made a contribution to the MAC 38 Gerontology Scholarship please do support the vision of this wonderfully energetic group of grads right now They reall y need your contribushytions to build up the scholarship fund and we have an urgcnt need to support students in this ncw and humanly important area of sc holarship

Many of you and others who arc not among our alumni have been ask ing us to organize courses which ill help you keep up to date in your profess ional fie lds Some of our conferences of course along with the Alumni Seminar arc intended to do just thi s But we now also have a number of our credit courses specially designed and developed for what we call dis tance teachshying

Already we have eomscs on Human Development Marital and amily Dynamshyics Family Economics Human Sex uality and the Exceptional Child The se courses are ava ilable to you on a correspondence basis and usc a comprehensive and carefully prepared study guide They in volve tests and ass ignments of course and the course in structors respond to questions either through mailed memos or by phone

You can take the final exam here in Guelph or possibly at a centre either in or near your own home town Write to Profes shysor Sam Luker chairman Part-Time and General Studie s if you want to find ou t more about our distance teaching program

You might want to note the fACS Sheel order form on page 34 of thi s issue Ifon the mailing list for FACS Sheel publishycations you will sec topics which interest you Keep in loueh with us by sending for eopics D

Appointment Dr Bruce A Ryan took up his appointshyment as chairman of the Department of Family Studies on July I of this year He has become known to many of our alumni over the years s ince his first appointment to that department as an assistant professor and director of the Laboratory Schools in 1975 He was promoted to the rank of asshysociate professor in 1980

Dr Ryan had hi S BA in Psychology eonfelTed by the University of Alberta (1964) He obtained both the M Ed (1969) and PhD (1971) degrees in Educational Psychology from the same university He has held the position of Psychomotrist at the Alberta Hosp ital in Edmonton and a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Centrc for the Study of Mental Retardation at the Unishyversity of Alberta Before moving to Guel ph in the mid- 70s Dr Ryan held his first university teaching and research post at Victoria University in Wellington New Zealand

Irokssiona l and co mmunity service activities figure significantly among Dr Ryans involvements He is first vice-presishydent of the Canad ian Association for Educashytional Psychology and vice-president also of the Ontario Association of Family Se rshyvice Agencie s He is on the editorial board of the publication Canadas iInlal Heallh and among other sc holarly and professhysional bodies a member of the Canadian Association for the Treatment and Study of Families

The primary focus of Dr Ryans teachshying research and academic publications has been upon the ecology of human (and particularly child) development and learnshying He has a special interes t in person-envishy shyronment interactions particularly within the context of family system s and with reshygard to possible impacts upon children s learningdiffieulties in school

Dr Ryans wife Nancy is a librarian with special interests in childrens books and school libraries Bruce and Nancy have two delightful daughters Keri and Jenny both of whom are at elementary school D

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End of an Era The editor wishes 0 extend a sincere thank you to Joe Van Koe verdel 75 BComm editor oJthe Hotel and Food Administration

Alumni News Jor permission to reprint this article wrillen by D Kanzler and pubshylished in April

W hen retiring Professor George Bedell

close s his office door behind him for the

las t lime on September I and hangs out The Mac-FACS Alumni Seminar attracted 175 to the Guelph Campus in April The the GONE FISH ING sign hell close topic was Aging Myths and Realities Leaders oj the interest sessions were I to the door on an era in the Canadian hospiality r Dr John Powell Leslie (Good) Snell 64 Smuly Forbes 82 Gail Murray 78 education indu stry seminar committee chairman Donna Woolcott 69 Rev Lance Woods and Grella

And hell open the door to a flood Riddell-Dixon of tributes from the hospitality industry as

the man who spearheaded the development

of Canadas first school of hotel and food

admini stration They will remember him

as the mentor who set high standards shy

the man who made hospitality manageme nt

a profess ion The students now 650 graduates

strong will remember him as the man who

gave hospitality cducation credibility - the

man who made them professionals His facshy

ulty peers will prai se George Bedell s pershy

severance in building a degree-granting sc hool at a time when such an institution

was unheard of on Canadian university

campuses

All will point to his many awards

Participants a the Seminar included Alumni in Action members I to r Jack Palmer OAC 38 Elsie (Hume) Pettit 34 Harvey Pettil OAC 32 Do (Stuari) Paitner 36 and Jim Baker OAC 28

chief among which were the 1975 Queens you hope you ha ve made a lasting contribushy Hotel Adminis tration at Michigan State Jubilee Meda l the 1981 Member CRA tioll And I hope my leade rship with the University but in 1942 draft papers took Foundation College of Diplomates and the help of others has ensured this program s priority He served with the United States 1983 Jack C Sim Man of the Year success he says Army until 1946 when disc harged as a Award as confirmation of Pro fe ssor Beshy Connec ticut-born George Bedell credshy Captain and continued as a reserve officer dell s outstanding contributions its an itinerant father for developing his until 1962 when he was discharged with

T he tribute s would make Geo rge interests in the industry He used to bring thc rank of Major SOli Ie perhaps blush and prompt a throaty back all kinds of fascinating brochures from The post-war years saw him work as chuckle because when all is said and done hotels across the USA - thats what got manager of scveral Connccticut inns and he would s imply like to be remembered me started hotel s before being asked to join Michigan for who he is When you leave something George completed his BA studies in Statc s Faculty of Continuing Education in

Request Form for FACS Sheets Name (please print) Grad Year ___

Address Postal Code

Please send me the FACS Sheet(s) indicated o The SchoolFamily Connection -o The Senses (Should) Steer Product Development o Social Policy and the Aged

o Dual Income Familes Pressure and Payoffs

o Fast Food A Reflect ion o f Changing Consumer Demand Please send FACS Sheets to my colleague indicated below

o Day Care An Essential Resource for Families Name (please print)

Address ______________________________________o Vegetarians Enjoy Some Health Benefits

o Consumer Education -- A C anadian Original Special interests andor occupation

Return to Dean College of Family and Consumer Studies University of G uelph G uelph O ntario NI G 2W I

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1953 It proved to be a turning point in hi s career

By 1959 George had been appointed director o f Man agement T rainin g Proshygrams and director of Business and Tcchn ishycal Advisory Service for the National Re~shytaurant Association in Chicago He held that position until 1969 when he was in shyvited by thc Uni versit y of Gue lph to take ove r as director of Canada s first School of Hotel and Food Administration H~ re shyma ined director until 1979 fo llowing whi ch he continued teaching at th e School

I knew lots of peop le in industry here and saw the opportunity to help the hospitalit y industry he says of hi s deci shys ion to move to Guelph [ saw thi s as a rea l chall enge But [ always knew we would succeed I decidcd from day o ne that we would make a go of it he adds with characteri stic determi nation

If his first years were frustrating it was mainl y because of thc students skeptishycism They we re so worried about th e Schools reputation and whether there d be Jobs waiting for them I had to build Iheir confidence - ove r and over again I look now at what our gradu ates ha ve accomshyplished and I feel good about hav ing played a role in their su ccess II mea ns the proshygram s have grown the way we thought they should and proves th at we ha ve bcen doing somethin g right here at Guelph

Professor Bede ll is particularly proud of the new Advanced Management Program for the Hospita lit y Indu stry (AMPHI ) estabshyli shed by Pro fe ssor Tom Po we rs the preshysent director of the Schoo l last ye ar to help train and de ve lop top level manage rs No other uni versity in the world is do ing this type of ed ucation al training for the hospitalshyity industry he points out Moreover AMPHI is th e kind of program that s vi tal to the future of the hos pit alit y industry The industry is still ex pand ing all forecasts po int to mo re people ca ti ng out more peop le travelling - and that means a growshying need for facilitie s and trained people

Corne September I George Bedcl l wi ll monitor th at growth - and his Schools successes - from afa r Hi s re shytiremenl caree r in cludes so rnc travel lots of fishing tinle to get a little fun out ot life and pl~tnS to build a hOllle on the coast of Maine tor his wife Loui se and himse lf But distance won t keep hi thoughtgt from Willin g back to Guc I ph

Fifteen yea rs ago he says he was given the chal len ge to get Guelphs Schoo l of Hotel and Food Admini st ration off th e gro und lto w on the e ve of hi s retirement he issues hi s ow n chall enge to the Schoo l Ten years from now [ wa nt to be abl e to say - Look how that School has grown ho w its progressing how its getting better al l the time 0

Grad News Foods amp Nutrition

LornI Dixon 83 is a die tetic intern at the Health Science Centre in Winni peg Man

Lori M Farr 79 is empl oyed with the Nutri tion Department Cen tenary Hospi ta l West Hill

Pat Faber 78 is pati ent food services co-ordinator with Roya l Jubliee Hospital Victoria BC

Elaine (Dashner) Robichaud 80 i food service director Saga Ca nad ian v1anageshyment Services Susse x Health Centre NB

Karen (Seib) Webber 78 is an outpati ent dietiti an at Van couver Ge neral Hospital BC

Libb~ (Lewis ) Logan 74 is a clin ical di etitian with the hildren s Hospi tal 01 Ealern Ontario Ottawa

Educa tion

fngl id ( ppell ) larsh 69 i 1 l e~tC llcr

Wentworth Count) Fl(l~lnl Drhlucatioll

Lolly (Robinson) Bartkew 62 is a supshypl y teacher with the Waterloo County Board () f Education

Kathi Ayers 73 is an in~dructo r with Grande Prairie Regiona l College Grande Prairi e Alta

Lauric (Watson) Goorts 79 is a Family Stud ie teache r with th e Waterloo County Board of Educati on

Ta mm) (Hryhorenko) Warren 75 is de partm~nt head Famil y Studies Westdale SS Hamilton

Josie (Lohuis) Schneider 80 is te aching at the Catholic Central High School LonshydonOnt

Social Services

Judi th Tansley 69 is a counsellor with Sunstar House Saskatoo n Sask

Rev Kay (Finlay) Hagey 37 is wilh th e Ang lican Church of Ca nada SI Andre ws Church Grim sby

Christine (Brady) MacPhee 78 is a unit le ade rsocial worker with Famil y and Chilshydrens Services Goderich

Eileen (Derynck) O ls thoorn 78 is a 0shy

cial worker with Halton Childrens Aid Oak vill e

Donna (Rose ) Allen 70 is a compl ianee officer with the Hea lth Protection Branch Health and Welfare Canada Otta wa

Janine Jones 82 is a developm ntal Inshystructor with Si rTI eoc Habi I i tative Sen ICC)

Business and Industry

-arion (Kerr ) I1ennenrent 7 1 11Sc 76 is employed wit h Gary S Hcn nn k nt Insurance Services Ltd Vancou cr BC

Edna (Hay ) Jarrell 36 is presiden t Edna Jarrc I I Rcal rstatc h lingto n

Ann (McClure ) Keller 78 is a denta l tec hnician with J PO Ir()CCor~ Inc Gue lph

Sharon Salm-ltrose 82 is an advert isi ng consultant wi th WS Marketi ng AlnlC 0

Meeting Notice

Guelph Branch MacmiddotFACS Alumni

Association Annual Membership

Coffee Party 730 p _m to 1000 pm_

September 2 51984

At the home of Margaret (Hamilton) Bates 53

303 Edinburgh Road South Guelph Ontalio

In Memoriam Margaret (Blac kh am ) Elliott 350 R R I Blenheim date ordelt h unknown

Edith (Hubbard ) Garrison 320 Janu shyary 19K4 inCenterLine Mich US

Susan lIem i ngwa~ 31D February 1 -19R4 inTnronto

J u ne (Van Someren ) Van Wyck 47 D Februa ry 12 1984 in Hamilton

Velma (Balkwill) Stuck 210 February J 19R4 at R R if fgt Woodstoc k Her husshyband th e late Fred W Stock was an OAC 21 grad Her son Oa id JB Stock QC isan OAC 59 grad U

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AI mnos of

Honotlr 1984

Elliott Mac McLoughry OAC 22

With the Ontario Department of Agrishy

culture (ODA) as Agricultu ra l Represhyse ntative in Vi ctoria Dundas and W aterloo Counties Ellio lllrwin McLo ughry was a

pioneer d uri ng a time o f greattechnicaJ advance in Fann practices

A h ighly respec ted ge nt le man who

ga ined the confide nce o f the Menno nite people

o f Waterloo Co unty hi s accomplishments inc lude the introduc tio n o f short-courses for farmers and a soil conservatio n program the es tab lishment of Bacon Hog Fa irs and the Waterloo callie breeding unit and co-ope rashytio n w ith the OAC in the first nematode

program

Aged 90 last Jul y Mac througho ut hi s worki ng li fe made s ign ificant contributio ns to Canadian agric ultu re and to socie ty and ill

1964 re tired from his positi o n as d irector o f extens io n DA He lives at the Presto n Springs Gardens Retirement Ho me J 02 f o untain tree t So uth Cambridge Ontario 0

Grad News Wilfrid Holtma nn MSA 62 is direcshytor of marketing CIAQ Inc SI HyashycintheQue

jurgen Koch Ph D 74 is a research as shysociate Departnw nt of Land Reso urce Sci shyencc Cn ivc ri ty ofG uelph

Marcel Couture MSc 76 a farm manshyagement speciali st was appoi nted as direcshytor of cxte nsio n senicc at Macdona ld Colshykgc McGil l Uni verity Que effective anuary I 19X4

A na tive of th e eastern towns hips he is a I 91i5 graduate of lacdonal d s Dip loma Pmgrall1 in Agricu ltu re an d earned a HSc(Agr) there in 1 ~72 be fore cnteri ng the nivcrsity of Guelph in th e fie ld 01 Agric ultural Economi cs and Extens ion Ed ucation

He was a~s is t a nt director of Mac shydona ld s Dipl oma ProgrJill in Agric ulture before hi prescnt appointment and will contin ue with hi s tCltJeh ing and ad mi nistrashytivc duti es in thc Dipl oma Pro[r~ lill

Gail (Tuumanen ) and Nei l Dolson both gradultJ tc s of 77 arc now ow neroperators of FJ inbrook FaInl Supply Binbrook

Kathr)n ( 1cLcod) Harrison 77 and husband Wayne 79 arc li ving in Guc[ph Waync is credit officer wi th the Toronto Dominion Bank Guelph The y have a daughte r M gha n lea n born November 15 I l)X)

john Tucker BSc ( En~) 78 is a cusshytOIllS investiga tor Revenll e Canada Cusshytoms and Excise Il amilton His wife Anna Mae Shelton-Tucker is J graduate of 79

Glen I1cRuer 79 is a rn al(ster Canada MI [ting Cn C li glry A[ta

Steven Vlnkatarayappa M Sc 79 PhD S3 is an assoc iate profe ssor of Hort icul ture Unive rs ity of Agrieu [tural Scie nce Ra ngal orc Indi a

joan (Elder) Weller SO i an ass istant CilCllli t Pops iclc Indu trics Burl ington Husband Tim also SO i dislt-ict s a [e~

m1I1agcr Pionee r II i-Bred Ltd Clla tham

Rogcr SI Pierre SI i a grai n me rchant wi th Jalllcs Rich ardson amp Sons Ltd Toshyronto His ik Stephanie (Weedle) is a graduatc of 82

Sophia Dinnisscn S2 is a studen t I t Wil shyfr id Lau rier Uni versity Wate rl oo

Nicholas Groot 82 is milk superv isor Ontario Da iry Herd improvement Assoc iashytion Toronto

Rober t Hack ney 82 is head wi nemaker Chara l Wi nery and Vi neyards Inc B[enheim

Frederick j amieson 82 is a quality as shysurance inspec tor J M Schneide r Inc Kitchener

Geollrey Jones S2 I S man ager of the UCO Elmwood branch

Susan Kelner 82 is a technica l a ~~ is tant

Chip man Inc SlOney Creek

Ca rolinc Kennedy S2 is a graduate stushydent Uni vcrsi ty of Manitoba Win nipeg

Jannette Leask 82 is territory sales repshyresentati ve Ral ston Purina Canada In c Whit by

Christopher McLean 82 IS a reseJrch technolog iq Ca mpbell So up Co Ltd Toron to

Lloyd Mitchell 82 is territory manJge r Ralston Purina Canada Inc Woodstock

R Ramirez Nathan 82 is an agronomist promoter Communidad Por Los Inos Antiolj ui a Colombia Sout h Am erica

Eileen (Richards) johnson MSc 83 is an executive assi stan t Ontar io olll mu shynity De vc lllpment Associa tion Uni ve rsity of Guc[ph

Diploma Gaduates

Keith Sinclair S4A has reccntly been appoi nt d vice-president and treasurer ofmiddot the United Co-ope ratives of Onllrio lie hi been wit h l jCO to r 21 years

David Thorton 64A is a [ocomot ive enshyg ineer Canadian aliona[ Rai lways Toshym nlO

Larry Inglis 66A i ~ purchasing man shyage r Canadian Canners Ltd Hamilton

Wa)ne Waugh 68A is an age ncies sale s and deve lopme nt representati ve Petro shyCanad a Prod ucts Don Mills

Eugene McDonald 77A is a mec han ic with Motorways Edmonton A[ta

j ames Slingerland 79A is an inspector Ontario Ministry of Agricultu re and Food liagara Fal[ s

In Me moriam Donald Risebrough 77 immed iate past preside nt of thc OAC Alumni Assoc iat ion d ied on June 30 1984 The news of his tragic death brought a great sensc of sad ness and almost di sbe li ef to his man y fri ends Don had presided a wee k prev ioUsly at many ac tiv ities during Alumni Weekend 84 celebrations He was killed when his ca r went out of control on a Hi ghway 40 I off-ram p He was on his way to visit his parents at their farm ncar Markham Don was di stri ct rep resentative Ontari o Holshystc in Branch Holstein-Fri es ian Associashyti on Brantford

William J Cohoe 03A died on March 19 1984 ilt Norvi[[ a ursing Homc Norshywich He had becn one of the oldes t gradshyuates of the OA

Dr Lloyd G Herman 34 a micro shybio log ist who retired from the US Nashytiona l Institutes of Health (NIH) in 1)7l) dicd February I 1984 at his home in Bet hesda Md Us A

He received his doc torate in Mic ro shybio logy from McG i[[ Uni versity in 1948 and after working at severa l private labora shytori es in the US A joined th e sta fr of IH in I lti 1i8

In 21 years lJi service he publi shed and lectured extensively and aec umu[ated vario Lis honours in his fie ld He was the first to ide nti fy a strain of ye llow-pig me nted waterborne bacteria th at the Centers of Dis shyease C()ntrol named f~s(I(r(h (l hall(III

in his honour in 19X2

Dr Herm an was vc ry active in the American Sl1ci ety fo r Mi robiology (ASM) and its Washi ngton bra nch Ill held JII offi shyces in the Washingto n branch of ASM in shycl ud ing pres idcnt Jnd continual[y held branch posts un til his death He was also a paS pres iden t 01 th Canadian Club of Washingtoll and lfthe Envi ronlllcnta[ Man-3cment Association

He WJs one of the incorporators or the Fricnds of ni ve rsit y ofGuclph Inc

George C McLaren 35 on February 10 1984 in Ollawa I Ie had retired fro ill the Dcpart ment of Na tional lJe fence

Robert Karl Allison 75 BSc(Eng) on Novcmber 6 1910 in London He had been -product io n manager for Modornckan LId

Alison Lyn (Geddes) L1nyck iz 7S in a car acc ident in January 19X4 Her two-yearshyo ld daughte r Jess ica and her mother we re also killed in the accidcnt in Norfolk County Her husband Peter a lso a gradshyuate of 78 is cmp[oyed at anadian Can shyners Simcoe 0

32

Macdonald InstituteCollege of Family and Consumer

Studies Alumni Association

ALUMN NEWS Editor Joan (Anderson) Jenkinson 66

From the Dean Dr Richard Barham

There is seldom an issue of the Mac-FACS Alumni News that goes by without there being a special interest item or two about our faculty On this occasion I want to draw your attention to the announecment in this iss ue of the appointment of Dr Brucc Ryan to the chairmanship of the Department of Family Studies

I ex tend our congratulations to Dr Ryan on hi s success in winning this appointshyment in the open competition which was he ld across Canada for the position At the samc time I want to extcnd my very warm thanks 10 Dr Eli za bcth Miles who has been serving the Department and indeed the College so well over this past year through her rcsponsiblities as the Departments act shying chairman

I know that you will be interested to learn too that Dr Powerss appointment as Director of the School of Hotel and Food Admini stration has been renewed for a furth er term We wish Tom and his eolshyleaglle s a continuation of the distinction and successes which have marked the life of the hotel school to date

And while referring to the hotel school J also want to ask you to read thc article in thi s iss ue on Professor George Bedell the School s first director George has made a remarkable contribution while he has been at Guelph most particularly of course in a ll matters relating to the HAFA program and its students J want to thank George on behalf of us all for his vision and commitment over the years and for the interest and care he has for the HAFA grads

We had a spendid alumni retirement celebration for George at the King Edward Hotel in Toronto in May In the best tradishytion of our HAFA alumni and the hospitality industry it was a superb occas ion and fully expressive of the affection and respect which we all feel towards George Many

many thanks George We wish you and Louise a long and happy retirement

As I prepare the draft for this newsletshyter the Annual Mae-FACS Alumni Seminar has just been held The topic this year was Aging Myths and Realities and this ocshycasion too was a resound1l1g sueecss r am sure that I express the sentiments of the many alumni and friend s who were there in extending our congratulations and thanks to Gail Murray 78 and the members of her organizing committce

By the way if you have not yet made a contribution to the MAC 38 Gerontology Scholarship please do support the vision of this wonderfully energetic group of grads right now They reall y need your contribushytions to build up the scholarship fund and we have an urgcnt need to support students in this ncw and humanly important area of sc holarship

Many of you and others who arc not among our alumni have been ask ing us to organize courses which ill help you keep up to date in your profess ional fie lds Some of our conferences of course along with the Alumni Seminar arc intended to do just thi s But we now also have a number of our credit courses specially designed and developed for what we call dis tance teachshying

Already we have eomscs on Human Development Marital and amily Dynamshyics Family Economics Human Sex uality and the Exceptional Child The se courses are ava ilable to you on a correspondence basis and usc a comprehensive and carefully prepared study guide They in volve tests and ass ignments of course and the course in structors respond to questions either through mailed memos or by phone

You can take the final exam here in Guelph or possibly at a centre either in or near your own home town Write to Profes shysor Sam Luker chairman Part-Time and General Studie s if you want to find ou t more about our distance teaching program

You might want to note the fACS Sheel order form on page 34 of thi s issue Ifon the mailing list for FACS Sheel publishycations you will sec topics which interest you Keep in loueh with us by sending for eopics D

Appointment Dr Bruce A Ryan took up his appointshyment as chairman of the Department of Family Studies on July I of this year He has become known to many of our alumni over the years s ince his first appointment to that department as an assistant professor and director of the Laboratory Schools in 1975 He was promoted to the rank of asshysociate professor in 1980

Dr Ryan had hi S BA in Psychology eonfelTed by the University of Alberta (1964) He obtained both the M Ed (1969) and PhD (1971) degrees in Educational Psychology from the same university He has held the position of Psychomotrist at the Alberta Hosp ital in Edmonton and a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Centrc for the Study of Mental Retardation at the Unishyversity of Alberta Before moving to Guel ph in the mid- 70s Dr Ryan held his first university teaching and research post at Victoria University in Wellington New Zealand

Irokssiona l and co mmunity service activities figure significantly among Dr Ryans involvements He is first vice-presishydent of the Canad ian Association for Educashytional Psychology and vice-president also of the Ontario Association of Family Se rshyvice Agencie s He is on the editorial board of the publication Canadas iInlal Heallh and among other sc holarly and professhysional bodies a member of the Canadian Association for the Treatment and Study of Families

The primary focus of Dr Ryans teachshying research and academic publications has been upon the ecology of human (and particularly child) development and learnshying He has a special interes t in person-envishy shyronment interactions particularly within the context of family system s and with reshygard to possible impacts upon children s learningdiffieulties in school

Dr Ryans wife Nancy is a librarian with special interests in childrens books and school libraries Bruce and Nancy have two delightful daughters Keri and Jenny both of whom are at elementary school D

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-------------

End of an Era The editor wishes 0 extend a sincere thank you to Joe Van Koe verdel 75 BComm editor oJthe Hotel and Food Administration

Alumni News Jor permission to reprint this article wrillen by D Kanzler and pubshylished in April

W hen retiring Professor George Bedell

close s his office door behind him for the

las t lime on September I and hangs out The Mac-FACS Alumni Seminar attracted 175 to the Guelph Campus in April The the GONE FISH ING sign hell close topic was Aging Myths and Realities Leaders oj the interest sessions were I to the door on an era in the Canadian hospiality r Dr John Powell Leslie (Good) Snell 64 Smuly Forbes 82 Gail Murray 78 education indu stry seminar committee chairman Donna Woolcott 69 Rev Lance Woods and Grella

And hell open the door to a flood Riddell-Dixon of tributes from the hospitality industry as

the man who spearheaded the development

of Canadas first school of hotel and food

admini stration They will remember him

as the mentor who set high standards shy

the man who made hospitality manageme nt

a profess ion The students now 650 graduates

strong will remember him as the man who

gave hospitality cducation credibility - the

man who made them professionals His facshy

ulty peers will prai se George Bedell s pershy

severance in building a degree-granting sc hool at a time when such an institution

was unheard of on Canadian university

campuses

All will point to his many awards

Participants a the Seminar included Alumni in Action members I to r Jack Palmer OAC 38 Elsie (Hume) Pettit 34 Harvey Pettil OAC 32 Do (Stuari) Paitner 36 and Jim Baker OAC 28

chief among which were the 1975 Queens you hope you ha ve made a lasting contribushy Hotel Adminis tration at Michigan State Jubilee Meda l the 1981 Member CRA tioll And I hope my leade rship with the University but in 1942 draft papers took Foundation College of Diplomates and the help of others has ensured this program s priority He served with the United States 1983 Jack C Sim Man of the Year success he says Army until 1946 when disc harged as a Award as confirmation of Pro fe ssor Beshy Connec ticut-born George Bedell credshy Captain and continued as a reserve officer dell s outstanding contributions its an itinerant father for developing his until 1962 when he was discharged with

T he tribute s would make Geo rge interests in the industry He used to bring thc rank of Major SOli Ie perhaps blush and prompt a throaty back all kinds of fascinating brochures from The post-war years saw him work as chuckle because when all is said and done hotels across the USA - thats what got manager of scveral Connccticut inns and he would s imply like to be remembered me started hotel s before being asked to join Michigan for who he is When you leave something George completed his BA studies in Statc s Faculty of Continuing Education in

Request Form for FACS Sheets Name (please print) Grad Year ___

Address Postal Code

Please send me the FACS Sheet(s) indicated o The SchoolFamily Connection -o The Senses (Should) Steer Product Development o Social Policy and the Aged

o Dual Income Familes Pressure and Payoffs

o Fast Food A Reflect ion o f Changing Consumer Demand Please send FACS Sheets to my colleague indicated below

o Day Care An Essential Resource for Families Name (please print)

Address ______________________________________o Vegetarians Enjoy Some Health Benefits

o Consumer Education -- A C anadian Original Special interests andor occupation

Return to Dean College of Family and Consumer Studies University of G uelph G uelph O ntario NI G 2W I

34

1953 It proved to be a turning point in hi s career

By 1959 George had been appointed director o f Man agement T rainin g Proshygrams and director of Business and Tcchn ishycal Advisory Service for the National Re~shytaurant Association in Chicago He held that position until 1969 when he was in shyvited by thc Uni versit y of Gue lph to take ove r as director of Canada s first School of Hotel and Food Administration H~ re shyma ined director until 1979 fo llowing whi ch he continued teaching at th e School

I knew lots of peop le in industry here and saw the opportunity to help the hospitalit y industry he says of hi s deci shys ion to move to Guelph [ saw thi s as a rea l chall enge But [ always knew we would succeed I decidcd from day o ne that we would make a go of it he adds with characteri stic determi nation

If his first years were frustrating it was mainl y because of thc students skeptishycism They we re so worried about th e Schools reputation and whether there d be Jobs waiting for them I had to build Iheir confidence - ove r and over again I look now at what our gradu ates ha ve accomshyplished and I feel good about hav ing played a role in their su ccess II mea ns the proshygram s have grown the way we thought they should and proves th at we ha ve bcen doing somethin g right here at Guelph

Professor Bede ll is particularly proud of the new Advanced Management Program for the Hospita lit y Indu stry (AMPHI ) estabshyli shed by Pro fe ssor Tom Po we rs the preshysent director of the Schoo l last ye ar to help train and de ve lop top level manage rs No other uni versity in the world is do ing this type of ed ucation al training for the hospitalshyity industry he points out Moreover AMPHI is th e kind of program that s vi tal to the future of the hos pit alit y industry The industry is still ex pand ing all forecasts po int to mo re people ca ti ng out more peop le travelling - and that means a growshying need for facilitie s and trained people

Corne September I George Bedcl l wi ll monitor th at growth - and his Schools successes - from afa r Hi s re shytiremenl caree r in cludes so rnc travel lots of fishing tinle to get a little fun out ot life and pl~tnS to build a hOllle on the coast of Maine tor his wife Loui se and himse lf But distance won t keep hi thoughtgt from Willin g back to Guc I ph

Fifteen yea rs ago he says he was given the chal len ge to get Guelphs Schoo l of Hotel and Food Admini st ration off th e gro und lto w on the e ve of hi s retirement he issues hi s ow n chall enge to the Schoo l Ten years from now [ wa nt to be abl e to say - Look how that School has grown ho w its progressing how its getting better al l the time 0

Grad News Foods amp Nutrition

LornI Dixon 83 is a die tetic intern at the Health Science Centre in Winni peg Man

Lori M Farr 79 is empl oyed with the Nutri tion Department Cen tenary Hospi ta l West Hill

Pat Faber 78 is pati ent food services co-ordinator with Roya l Jubliee Hospital Victoria BC

Elaine (Dashner) Robichaud 80 i food service director Saga Ca nad ian v1anageshyment Services Susse x Health Centre NB

Karen (Seib) Webber 78 is an outpati ent dietiti an at Van couver Ge neral Hospital BC

Libb~ (Lewis ) Logan 74 is a clin ical di etitian with the hildren s Hospi tal 01 Ealern Ontario Ottawa

Educa tion

fngl id ( ppell ) larsh 69 i 1 l e~tC llcr

Wentworth Count) Fl(l~lnl Drhlucatioll

Lolly (Robinson) Bartkew 62 is a supshypl y teacher with the Waterloo County Board () f Education

Kathi Ayers 73 is an in~dructo r with Grande Prairie Regiona l College Grande Prairi e Alta

Lauric (Watson) Goorts 79 is a Family Stud ie teache r with th e Waterloo County Board of Educati on

Ta mm) (Hryhorenko) Warren 75 is de partm~nt head Famil y Studies Westdale SS Hamilton

Josie (Lohuis) Schneider 80 is te aching at the Catholic Central High School LonshydonOnt

Social Services

Judi th Tansley 69 is a counsellor with Sunstar House Saskatoo n Sask

Rev Kay (Finlay) Hagey 37 is wilh th e Ang lican Church of Ca nada SI Andre ws Church Grim sby

Christine (Brady) MacPhee 78 is a unit le ade rsocial worker with Famil y and Chilshydrens Services Goderich

Eileen (Derynck) O ls thoorn 78 is a 0shy

cial worker with Halton Childrens Aid Oak vill e

Donna (Rose ) Allen 70 is a compl ianee officer with the Hea lth Protection Branch Health and Welfare Canada Otta wa

Janine Jones 82 is a developm ntal Inshystructor with Si rTI eoc Habi I i tative Sen ICC)

Business and Industry

-arion (Kerr ) I1ennenrent 7 1 11Sc 76 is employed wit h Gary S Hcn nn k nt Insurance Services Ltd Vancou cr BC

Edna (Hay ) Jarrell 36 is presiden t Edna Jarrc I I Rcal rstatc h lingto n

Ann (McClure ) Keller 78 is a denta l tec hnician with J PO Ir()CCor~ Inc Gue lph

Sharon Salm-ltrose 82 is an advert isi ng consultant wi th WS Marketi ng AlnlC 0

Meeting Notice

Guelph Branch MacmiddotFACS Alumni

Association Annual Membership

Coffee Party 730 p _m to 1000 pm_

September 2 51984

At the home of Margaret (Hamilton) Bates 53

303 Edinburgh Road South Guelph Ontalio

In Memoriam Margaret (Blac kh am ) Elliott 350 R R I Blenheim date ordelt h unknown

Edith (Hubbard ) Garrison 320 Janu shyary 19K4 inCenterLine Mich US

Susan lIem i ngwa~ 31D February 1 -19R4 inTnronto

J u ne (Van Someren ) Van Wyck 47 D Februa ry 12 1984 in Hamilton

Velma (Balkwill) Stuck 210 February J 19R4 at R R if fgt Woodstoc k Her husshyband th e late Fred W Stock was an OAC 21 grad Her son Oa id JB Stock QC isan OAC 59 grad U

35

AI mnos of

Honotlr 1984

Elliott Mac McLoughry OAC 22

With the Ontario Department of Agrishy

culture (ODA) as Agricultu ra l Represhyse ntative in Vi ctoria Dundas and W aterloo Counties Ellio lllrwin McLo ughry was a

pioneer d uri ng a time o f greattechnicaJ advance in Fann practices

A h ighly respec ted ge nt le man who

ga ined the confide nce o f the Menno nite people

o f Waterloo Co unty hi s accomplishments inc lude the introduc tio n o f short-courses for farmers and a soil conservatio n program the es tab lishment of Bacon Hog Fa irs and the Waterloo callie breeding unit and co-ope rashytio n w ith the OAC in the first nematode

program

Aged 90 last Jul y Mac througho ut hi s worki ng li fe made s ign ificant contributio ns to Canadian agric ultu re and to socie ty and ill

1964 re tired from his positi o n as d irector o f extens io n DA He lives at the Presto n Springs Gardens Retirement Ho me J 02 f o untain tree t So uth Cambridge Ontario 0

Macdonald InstituteCollege of Family and Consumer

Studies Alumni Association

ALUMN NEWS Editor Joan (Anderson) Jenkinson 66

From the Dean Dr Richard Barham

There is seldom an issue of the Mac-FACS Alumni News that goes by without there being a special interest item or two about our faculty On this occasion I want to draw your attention to the announecment in this iss ue of the appointment of Dr Brucc Ryan to the chairmanship of the Department of Family Studies

I ex tend our congratulations to Dr Ryan on hi s success in winning this appointshyment in the open competition which was he ld across Canada for the position At the samc time I want to extcnd my very warm thanks 10 Dr Eli za bcth Miles who has been serving the Department and indeed the College so well over this past year through her rcsponsiblities as the Departments act shying chairman

I know that you will be interested to learn too that Dr Powerss appointment as Director of the School of Hotel and Food Admini stration has been renewed for a furth er term We wish Tom and his eolshyleaglle s a continuation of the distinction and successes which have marked the life of the hotel school to date

And while referring to the hotel school J also want to ask you to read thc article in thi s iss ue on Professor George Bedell the School s first director George has made a remarkable contribution while he has been at Guelph most particularly of course in a ll matters relating to the HAFA program and its students J want to thank George on behalf of us all for his vision and commitment over the years and for the interest and care he has for the HAFA grads

We had a spendid alumni retirement celebration for George at the King Edward Hotel in Toronto in May In the best tradishytion of our HAFA alumni and the hospitality industry it was a superb occas ion and fully expressive of the affection and respect which we all feel towards George Many

many thanks George We wish you and Louise a long and happy retirement

As I prepare the draft for this newsletshyter the Annual Mae-FACS Alumni Seminar has just been held The topic this year was Aging Myths and Realities and this ocshycasion too was a resound1l1g sueecss r am sure that I express the sentiments of the many alumni and friend s who were there in extending our congratulations and thanks to Gail Murray 78 and the members of her organizing committce

By the way if you have not yet made a contribution to the MAC 38 Gerontology Scholarship please do support the vision of this wonderfully energetic group of grads right now They reall y need your contribushytions to build up the scholarship fund and we have an urgcnt need to support students in this ncw and humanly important area of sc holarship

Many of you and others who arc not among our alumni have been ask ing us to organize courses which ill help you keep up to date in your profess ional fie lds Some of our conferences of course along with the Alumni Seminar arc intended to do just thi s But we now also have a number of our credit courses specially designed and developed for what we call dis tance teachshying

Already we have eomscs on Human Development Marital and amily Dynamshyics Family Economics Human Sex uality and the Exceptional Child The se courses are ava ilable to you on a correspondence basis and usc a comprehensive and carefully prepared study guide They in volve tests and ass ignments of course and the course in structors respond to questions either through mailed memos or by phone

You can take the final exam here in Guelph or possibly at a centre either in or near your own home town Write to Profes shysor Sam Luker chairman Part-Time and General Studie s if you want to find ou t more about our distance teaching program

You might want to note the fACS Sheel order form on page 34 of thi s issue Ifon the mailing list for FACS Sheel publishycations you will sec topics which interest you Keep in loueh with us by sending for eopics D

Appointment Dr Bruce A Ryan took up his appointshyment as chairman of the Department of Family Studies on July I of this year He has become known to many of our alumni over the years s ince his first appointment to that department as an assistant professor and director of the Laboratory Schools in 1975 He was promoted to the rank of asshysociate professor in 1980

Dr Ryan had hi S BA in Psychology eonfelTed by the University of Alberta (1964) He obtained both the M Ed (1969) and PhD (1971) degrees in Educational Psychology from the same university He has held the position of Psychomotrist at the Alberta Hosp ital in Edmonton and a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Centrc for the Study of Mental Retardation at the Unishyversity of Alberta Before moving to Guel ph in the mid- 70s Dr Ryan held his first university teaching and research post at Victoria University in Wellington New Zealand

Irokssiona l and co mmunity service activities figure significantly among Dr Ryans involvements He is first vice-presishydent of the Canad ian Association for Educashytional Psychology and vice-president also of the Ontario Association of Family Se rshyvice Agencie s He is on the editorial board of the publication Canadas iInlal Heallh and among other sc holarly and professhysional bodies a member of the Canadian Association for the Treatment and Study of Families

The primary focus of Dr Ryans teachshying research and academic publications has been upon the ecology of human (and particularly child) development and learnshying He has a special interes t in person-envishy shyronment interactions particularly within the context of family system s and with reshygard to possible impacts upon children s learningdiffieulties in school

Dr Ryans wife Nancy is a librarian with special interests in childrens books and school libraries Bruce and Nancy have two delightful daughters Keri and Jenny both of whom are at elementary school D

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End of an Era The editor wishes 0 extend a sincere thank you to Joe Van Koe verdel 75 BComm editor oJthe Hotel and Food Administration

Alumni News Jor permission to reprint this article wrillen by D Kanzler and pubshylished in April

W hen retiring Professor George Bedell

close s his office door behind him for the

las t lime on September I and hangs out The Mac-FACS Alumni Seminar attracted 175 to the Guelph Campus in April The the GONE FISH ING sign hell close topic was Aging Myths and Realities Leaders oj the interest sessions were I to the door on an era in the Canadian hospiality r Dr John Powell Leslie (Good) Snell 64 Smuly Forbes 82 Gail Murray 78 education indu stry seminar committee chairman Donna Woolcott 69 Rev Lance Woods and Grella

And hell open the door to a flood Riddell-Dixon of tributes from the hospitality industry as

the man who spearheaded the development

of Canadas first school of hotel and food

admini stration They will remember him

as the mentor who set high standards shy

the man who made hospitality manageme nt

a profess ion The students now 650 graduates

strong will remember him as the man who

gave hospitality cducation credibility - the

man who made them professionals His facshy

ulty peers will prai se George Bedell s pershy

severance in building a degree-granting sc hool at a time when such an institution

was unheard of on Canadian university

campuses

All will point to his many awards

Participants a the Seminar included Alumni in Action members I to r Jack Palmer OAC 38 Elsie (Hume) Pettit 34 Harvey Pettil OAC 32 Do (Stuari) Paitner 36 and Jim Baker OAC 28

chief among which were the 1975 Queens you hope you ha ve made a lasting contribushy Hotel Adminis tration at Michigan State Jubilee Meda l the 1981 Member CRA tioll And I hope my leade rship with the University but in 1942 draft papers took Foundation College of Diplomates and the help of others has ensured this program s priority He served with the United States 1983 Jack C Sim Man of the Year success he says Army until 1946 when disc harged as a Award as confirmation of Pro fe ssor Beshy Connec ticut-born George Bedell credshy Captain and continued as a reserve officer dell s outstanding contributions its an itinerant father for developing his until 1962 when he was discharged with

T he tribute s would make Geo rge interests in the industry He used to bring thc rank of Major SOli Ie perhaps blush and prompt a throaty back all kinds of fascinating brochures from The post-war years saw him work as chuckle because when all is said and done hotels across the USA - thats what got manager of scveral Connccticut inns and he would s imply like to be remembered me started hotel s before being asked to join Michigan for who he is When you leave something George completed his BA studies in Statc s Faculty of Continuing Education in

Request Form for FACS Sheets Name (please print) Grad Year ___

Address Postal Code

Please send me the FACS Sheet(s) indicated o The SchoolFamily Connection -o The Senses (Should) Steer Product Development o Social Policy and the Aged

o Dual Income Familes Pressure and Payoffs

o Fast Food A Reflect ion o f Changing Consumer Demand Please send FACS Sheets to my colleague indicated below

o Day Care An Essential Resource for Families Name (please print)

Address ______________________________________o Vegetarians Enjoy Some Health Benefits

o Consumer Education -- A C anadian Original Special interests andor occupation

Return to Dean College of Family and Consumer Studies University of G uelph G uelph O ntario NI G 2W I

34

1953 It proved to be a turning point in hi s career

By 1959 George had been appointed director o f Man agement T rainin g Proshygrams and director of Business and Tcchn ishycal Advisory Service for the National Re~shytaurant Association in Chicago He held that position until 1969 when he was in shyvited by thc Uni versit y of Gue lph to take ove r as director of Canada s first School of Hotel and Food Administration H~ re shyma ined director until 1979 fo llowing whi ch he continued teaching at th e School

I knew lots of peop le in industry here and saw the opportunity to help the hospitalit y industry he says of hi s deci shys ion to move to Guelph [ saw thi s as a rea l chall enge But [ always knew we would succeed I decidcd from day o ne that we would make a go of it he adds with characteri stic determi nation

If his first years were frustrating it was mainl y because of thc students skeptishycism They we re so worried about th e Schools reputation and whether there d be Jobs waiting for them I had to build Iheir confidence - ove r and over again I look now at what our gradu ates ha ve accomshyplished and I feel good about hav ing played a role in their su ccess II mea ns the proshygram s have grown the way we thought they should and proves th at we ha ve bcen doing somethin g right here at Guelph

Professor Bede ll is particularly proud of the new Advanced Management Program for the Hospita lit y Indu stry (AMPHI ) estabshyli shed by Pro fe ssor Tom Po we rs the preshysent director of the Schoo l last ye ar to help train and de ve lop top level manage rs No other uni versity in the world is do ing this type of ed ucation al training for the hospitalshyity industry he points out Moreover AMPHI is th e kind of program that s vi tal to the future of the hos pit alit y industry The industry is still ex pand ing all forecasts po int to mo re people ca ti ng out more peop le travelling - and that means a growshying need for facilitie s and trained people

Corne September I George Bedcl l wi ll monitor th at growth - and his Schools successes - from afa r Hi s re shytiremenl caree r in cludes so rnc travel lots of fishing tinle to get a little fun out ot life and pl~tnS to build a hOllle on the coast of Maine tor his wife Loui se and himse lf But distance won t keep hi thoughtgt from Willin g back to Guc I ph

Fifteen yea rs ago he says he was given the chal len ge to get Guelphs Schoo l of Hotel and Food Admini st ration off th e gro und lto w on the e ve of hi s retirement he issues hi s ow n chall enge to the Schoo l Ten years from now [ wa nt to be abl e to say - Look how that School has grown ho w its progressing how its getting better al l the time 0

Grad News Foods amp Nutrition

LornI Dixon 83 is a die tetic intern at the Health Science Centre in Winni peg Man

Lori M Farr 79 is empl oyed with the Nutri tion Department Cen tenary Hospi ta l West Hill

Pat Faber 78 is pati ent food services co-ordinator with Roya l Jubliee Hospital Victoria BC

Elaine (Dashner) Robichaud 80 i food service director Saga Ca nad ian v1anageshyment Services Susse x Health Centre NB

Karen (Seib) Webber 78 is an outpati ent dietiti an at Van couver Ge neral Hospital BC

Libb~ (Lewis ) Logan 74 is a clin ical di etitian with the hildren s Hospi tal 01 Ealern Ontario Ottawa

Educa tion

fngl id ( ppell ) larsh 69 i 1 l e~tC llcr

Wentworth Count) Fl(l~lnl Drhlucatioll

Lolly (Robinson) Bartkew 62 is a supshypl y teacher with the Waterloo County Board () f Education

Kathi Ayers 73 is an in~dructo r with Grande Prairie Regiona l College Grande Prairi e Alta

Lauric (Watson) Goorts 79 is a Family Stud ie teache r with th e Waterloo County Board of Educati on

Ta mm) (Hryhorenko) Warren 75 is de partm~nt head Famil y Studies Westdale SS Hamilton

Josie (Lohuis) Schneider 80 is te aching at the Catholic Central High School LonshydonOnt

Social Services

Judi th Tansley 69 is a counsellor with Sunstar House Saskatoo n Sask

Rev Kay (Finlay) Hagey 37 is wilh th e Ang lican Church of Ca nada SI Andre ws Church Grim sby

Christine (Brady) MacPhee 78 is a unit le ade rsocial worker with Famil y and Chilshydrens Services Goderich

Eileen (Derynck) O ls thoorn 78 is a 0shy

cial worker with Halton Childrens Aid Oak vill e

Donna (Rose ) Allen 70 is a compl ianee officer with the Hea lth Protection Branch Health and Welfare Canada Otta wa

Janine Jones 82 is a developm ntal Inshystructor with Si rTI eoc Habi I i tative Sen ICC)

Business and Industry

-arion (Kerr ) I1ennenrent 7 1 11Sc 76 is employed wit h Gary S Hcn nn k nt Insurance Services Ltd Vancou cr BC

Edna (Hay ) Jarrell 36 is presiden t Edna Jarrc I I Rcal rstatc h lingto n

Ann (McClure ) Keller 78 is a denta l tec hnician with J PO Ir()CCor~ Inc Gue lph

Sharon Salm-ltrose 82 is an advert isi ng consultant wi th WS Marketi ng AlnlC 0

Meeting Notice

Guelph Branch MacmiddotFACS Alumni

Association Annual Membership

Coffee Party 730 p _m to 1000 pm_

September 2 51984

At the home of Margaret (Hamilton) Bates 53

303 Edinburgh Road South Guelph Ontalio

In Memoriam Margaret (Blac kh am ) Elliott 350 R R I Blenheim date ordelt h unknown

Edith (Hubbard ) Garrison 320 Janu shyary 19K4 inCenterLine Mich US

Susan lIem i ngwa~ 31D February 1 -19R4 inTnronto

J u ne (Van Someren ) Van Wyck 47 D Februa ry 12 1984 in Hamilton

Velma (Balkwill) Stuck 210 February J 19R4 at R R if fgt Woodstoc k Her husshyband th e late Fred W Stock was an OAC 21 grad Her son Oa id JB Stock QC isan OAC 59 grad U

35

AI mnos of

Honotlr 1984

Elliott Mac McLoughry OAC 22

With the Ontario Department of Agrishy

culture (ODA) as Agricultu ra l Represhyse ntative in Vi ctoria Dundas and W aterloo Counties Ellio lllrwin McLo ughry was a

pioneer d uri ng a time o f greattechnicaJ advance in Fann practices

A h ighly respec ted ge nt le man who

ga ined the confide nce o f the Menno nite people

o f Waterloo Co unty hi s accomplishments inc lude the introduc tio n o f short-courses for farmers and a soil conservatio n program the es tab lishment of Bacon Hog Fa irs and the Waterloo callie breeding unit and co-ope rashytio n w ith the OAC in the first nematode

program

Aged 90 last Jul y Mac througho ut hi s worki ng li fe made s ign ificant contributio ns to Canadian agric ultu re and to socie ty and ill

1964 re tired from his positi o n as d irector o f extens io n DA He lives at the Presto n Springs Gardens Retirement Ho me J 02 f o untain tree t So uth Cambridge Ontario 0

------------------- ------------------------------------------ ------------------------

-------------

End of an Era The editor wishes 0 extend a sincere thank you to Joe Van Koe verdel 75 BComm editor oJthe Hotel and Food Administration

Alumni News Jor permission to reprint this article wrillen by D Kanzler and pubshylished in April

W hen retiring Professor George Bedell

close s his office door behind him for the

las t lime on September I and hangs out The Mac-FACS Alumni Seminar attracted 175 to the Guelph Campus in April The the GONE FISH ING sign hell close topic was Aging Myths and Realities Leaders oj the interest sessions were I to the door on an era in the Canadian hospiality r Dr John Powell Leslie (Good) Snell 64 Smuly Forbes 82 Gail Murray 78 education indu stry seminar committee chairman Donna Woolcott 69 Rev Lance Woods and Grella

And hell open the door to a flood Riddell-Dixon of tributes from the hospitality industry as

the man who spearheaded the development

of Canadas first school of hotel and food

admini stration They will remember him

as the mentor who set high standards shy

the man who made hospitality manageme nt

a profess ion The students now 650 graduates

strong will remember him as the man who

gave hospitality cducation credibility - the

man who made them professionals His facshy

ulty peers will prai se George Bedell s pershy

severance in building a degree-granting sc hool at a time when such an institution

was unheard of on Canadian university

campuses

All will point to his many awards

Participants a the Seminar included Alumni in Action members I to r Jack Palmer OAC 38 Elsie (Hume) Pettit 34 Harvey Pettil OAC 32 Do (Stuari) Paitner 36 and Jim Baker OAC 28

chief among which were the 1975 Queens you hope you ha ve made a lasting contribushy Hotel Adminis tration at Michigan State Jubilee Meda l the 1981 Member CRA tioll And I hope my leade rship with the University but in 1942 draft papers took Foundation College of Diplomates and the help of others has ensured this program s priority He served with the United States 1983 Jack C Sim Man of the Year success he says Army until 1946 when disc harged as a Award as confirmation of Pro fe ssor Beshy Connec ticut-born George Bedell credshy Captain and continued as a reserve officer dell s outstanding contributions its an itinerant father for developing his until 1962 when he was discharged with

T he tribute s would make Geo rge interests in the industry He used to bring thc rank of Major SOli Ie perhaps blush and prompt a throaty back all kinds of fascinating brochures from The post-war years saw him work as chuckle because when all is said and done hotels across the USA - thats what got manager of scveral Connccticut inns and he would s imply like to be remembered me started hotel s before being asked to join Michigan for who he is When you leave something George completed his BA studies in Statc s Faculty of Continuing Education in

Request Form for FACS Sheets Name (please print) Grad Year ___

Address Postal Code

Please send me the FACS Sheet(s) indicated o The SchoolFamily Connection -o The Senses (Should) Steer Product Development o Social Policy and the Aged

o Dual Income Familes Pressure and Payoffs

o Fast Food A Reflect ion o f Changing Consumer Demand Please send FACS Sheets to my colleague indicated below

o Day Care An Essential Resource for Families Name (please print)

Address ______________________________________o Vegetarians Enjoy Some Health Benefits

o Consumer Education -- A C anadian Original Special interests andor occupation

Return to Dean College of Family and Consumer Studies University of G uelph G uelph O ntario NI G 2W I

34

1953 It proved to be a turning point in hi s career

By 1959 George had been appointed director o f Man agement T rainin g Proshygrams and director of Business and Tcchn ishycal Advisory Service for the National Re~shytaurant Association in Chicago He held that position until 1969 when he was in shyvited by thc Uni versit y of Gue lph to take ove r as director of Canada s first School of Hotel and Food Administration H~ re shyma ined director until 1979 fo llowing whi ch he continued teaching at th e School

I knew lots of peop le in industry here and saw the opportunity to help the hospitalit y industry he says of hi s deci shys ion to move to Guelph [ saw thi s as a rea l chall enge But [ always knew we would succeed I decidcd from day o ne that we would make a go of it he adds with characteri stic determi nation

If his first years were frustrating it was mainl y because of thc students skeptishycism They we re so worried about th e Schools reputation and whether there d be Jobs waiting for them I had to build Iheir confidence - ove r and over again I look now at what our gradu ates ha ve accomshyplished and I feel good about hav ing played a role in their su ccess II mea ns the proshygram s have grown the way we thought they should and proves th at we ha ve bcen doing somethin g right here at Guelph

Professor Bede ll is particularly proud of the new Advanced Management Program for the Hospita lit y Indu stry (AMPHI ) estabshyli shed by Pro fe ssor Tom Po we rs the preshysent director of the Schoo l last ye ar to help train and de ve lop top level manage rs No other uni versity in the world is do ing this type of ed ucation al training for the hospitalshyity industry he points out Moreover AMPHI is th e kind of program that s vi tal to the future of the hos pit alit y industry The industry is still ex pand ing all forecasts po int to mo re people ca ti ng out more peop le travelling - and that means a growshying need for facilitie s and trained people

Corne September I George Bedcl l wi ll monitor th at growth - and his Schools successes - from afa r Hi s re shytiremenl caree r in cludes so rnc travel lots of fishing tinle to get a little fun out ot life and pl~tnS to build a hOllle on the coast of Maine tor his wife Loui se and himse lf But distance won t keep hi thoughtgt from Willin g back to Guc I ph

Fifteen yea rs ago he says he was given the chal len ge to get Guelphs Schoo l of Hotel and Food Admini st ration off th e gro und lto w on the e ve of hi s retirement he issues hi s ow n chall enge to the Schoo l Ten years from now [ wa nt to be abl e to say - Look how that School has grown ho w its progressing how its getting better al l the time 0

Grad News Foods amp Nutrition

LornI Dixon 83 is a die tetic intern at the Health Science Centre in Winni peg Man

Lori M Farr 79 is empl oyed with the Nutri tion Department Cen tenary Hospi ta l West Hill

Pat Faber 78 is pati ent food services co-ordinator with Roya l Jubliee Hospital Victoria BC

Elaine (Dashner) Robichaud 80 i food service director Saga Ca nad ian v1anageshyment Services Susse x Health Centre NB

Karen (Seib) Webber 78 is an outpati ent dietiti an at Van couver Ge neral Hospital BC

Libb~ (Lewis ) Logan 74 is a clin ical di etitian with the hildren s Hospi tal 01 Ealern Ontario Ottawa

Educa tion

fngl id ( ppell ) larsh 69 i 1 l e~tC llcr

Wentworth Count) Fl(l~lnl Drhlucatioll

Lolly (Robinson) Bartkew 62 is a supshypl y teacher with the Waterloo County Board () f Education

Kathi Ayers 73 is an in~dructo r with Grande Prairie Regiona l College Grande Prairi e Alta

Lauric (Watson) Goorts 79 is a Family Stud ie teache r with th e Waterloo County Board of Educati on

Ta mm) (Hryhorenko) Warren 75 is de partm~nt head Famil y Studies Westdale SS Hamilton

Josie (Lohuis) Schneider 80 is te aching at the Catholic Central High School LonshydonOnt

Social Services

Judi th Tansley 69 is a counsellor with Sunstar House Saskatoo n Sask

Rev Kay (Finlay) Hagey 37 is wilh th e Ang lican Church of Ca nada SI Andre ws Church Grim sby

Christine (Brady) MacPhee 78 is a unit le ade rsocial worker with Famil y and Chilshydrens Services Goderich

Eileen (Derynck) O ls thoorn 78 is a 0shy

cial worker with Halton Childrens Aid Oak vill e

Donna (Rose ) Allen 70 is a compl ianee officer with the Hea lth Protection Branch Health and Welfare Canada Otta wa

Janine Jones 82 is a developm ntal Inshystructor with Si rTI eoc Habi I i tative Sen ICC)

Business and Industry

-arion (Kerr ) I1ennenrent 7 1 11Sc 76 is employed wit h Gary S Hcn nn k nt Insurance Services Ltd Vancou cr BC

Edna (Hay ) Jarrell 36 is presiden t Edna Jarrc I I Rcal rstatc h lingto n

Ann (McClure ) Keller 78 is a denta l tec hnician with J PO Ir()CCor~ Inc Gue lph

Sharon Salm-ltrose 82 is an advert isi ng consultant wi th WS Marketi ng AlnlC 0

Meeting Notice

Guelph Branch MacmiddotFACS Alumni

Association Annual Membership

Coffee Party 730 p _m to 1000 pm_

September 2 51984

At the home of Margaret (Hamilton) Bates 53

303 Edinburgh Road South Guelph Ontalio

In Memoriam Margaret (Blac kh am ) Elliott 350 R R I Blenheim date ordelt h unknown

Edith (Hubbard ) Garrison 320 Janu shyary 19K4 inCenterLine Mich US

Susan lIem i ngwa~ 31D February 1 -19R4 inTnronto

J u ne (Van Someren ) Van Wyck 47 D Februa ry 12 1984 in Hamilton

Velma (Balkwill) Stuck 210 February J 19R4 at R R if fgt Woodstoc k Her husshyband th e late Fred W Stock was an OAC 21 grad Her son Oa id JB Stock QC isan OAC 59 grad U

35

AI mnos of

Honotlr 1984

Elliott Mac McLoughry OAC 22

With the Ontario Department of Agrishy

culture (ODA) as Agricultu ra l Represhyse ntative in Vi ctoria Dundas and W aterloo Counties Ellio lllrwin McLo ughry was a

pioneer d uri ng a time o f greattechnicaJ advance in Fann practices

A h ighly respec ted ge nt le man who

ga ined the confide nce o f the Menno nite people

o f Waterloo Co unty hi s accomplishments inc lude the introduc tio n o f short-courses for farmers and a soil conservatio n program the es tab lishment of Bacon Hog Fa irs and the Waterloo callie breeding unit and co-ope rashytio n w ith the OAC in the first nematode

program

Aged 90 last Jul y Mac througho ut hi s worki ng li fe made s ign ificant contributio ns to Canadian agric ultu re and to socie ty and ill

1964 re tired from his positi o n as d irector o f extens io n DA He lives at the Presto n Springs Gardens Retirement Ho me J 02 f o untain tree t So uth Cambridge Ontario 0

1953 It proved to be a turning point in hi s career

By 1959 George had been appointed director o f Man agement T rainin g Proshygrams and director of Business and Tcchn ishycal Advisory Service for the National Re~shytaurant Association in Chicago He held that position until 1969 when he was in shyvited by thc Uni versit y of Gue lph to take ove r as director of Canada s first School of Hotel and Food Administration H~ re shyma ined director until 1979 fo llowing whi ch he continued teaching at th e School

I knew lots of peop le in industry here and saw the opportunity to help the hospitalit y industry he says of hi s deci shys ion to move to Guelph [ saw thi s as a rea l chall enge But [ always knew we would succeed I decidcd from day o ne that we would make a go of it he adds with characteri stic determi nation

If his first years were frustrating it was mainl y because of thc students skeptishycism They we re so worried about th e Schools reputation and whether there d be Jobs waiting for them I had to build Iheir confidence - ove r and over again I look now at what our gradu ates ha ve accomshyplished and I feel good about hav ing played a role in their su ccess II mea ns the proshygram s have grown the way we thought they should and proves th at we ha ve bcen doing somethin g right here at Guelph

Professor Bede ll is particularly proud of the new Advanced Management Program for the Hospita lit y Indu stry (AMPHI ) estabshyli shed by Pro fe ssor Tom Po we rs the preshysent director of the Schoo l last ye ar to help train and de ve lop top level manage rs No other uni versity in the world is do ing this type of ed ucation al training for the hospitalshyity industry he points out Moreover AMPHI is th e kind of program that s vi tal to the future of the hos pit alit y industry The industry is still ex pand ing all forecasts po int to mo re people ca ti ng out more peop le travelling - and that means a growshying need for facilitie s and trained people

Corne September I George Bedcl l wi ll monitor th at growth - and his Schools successes - from afa r Hi s re shytiremenl caree r in cludes so rnc travel lots of fishing tinle to get a little fun out ot life and pl~tnS to build a hOllle on the coast of Maine tor his wife Loui se and himse lf But distance won t keep hi thoughtgt from Willin g back to Guc I ph

Fifteen yea rs ago he says he was given the chal len ge to get Guelphs Schoo l of Hotel and Food Admini st ration off th e gro und lto w on the e ve of hi s retirement he issues hi s ow n chall enge to the Schoo l Ten years from now [ wa nt to be abl e to say - Look how that School has grown ho w its progressing how its getting better al l the time 0

Grad News Foods amp Nutrition

LornI Dixon 83 is a die tetic intern at the Health Science Centre in Winni peg Man

Lori M Farr 79 is empl oyed with the Nutri tion Department Cen tenary Hospi ta l West Hill

Pat Faber 78 is pati ent food services co-ordinator with Roya l Jubliee Hospital Victoria BC

Elaine (Dashner) Robichaud 80 i food service director Saga Ca nad ian v1anageshyment Services Susse x Health Centre NB

Karen (Seib) Webber 78 is an outpati ent dietiti an at Van couver Ge neral Hospital BC

Libb~ (Lewis ) Logan 74 is a clin ical di etitian with the hildren s Hospi tal 01 Ealern Ontario Ottawa

Educa tion

fngl id ( ppell ) larsh 69 i 1 l e~tC llcr

Wentworth Count) Fl(l~lnl Drhlucatioll

Lolly (Robinson) Bartkew 62 is a supshypl y teacher with the Waterloo County Board () f Education

Kathi Ayers 73 is an in~dructo r with Grande Prairie Regiona l College Grande Prairi e Alta

Lauric (Watson) Goorts 79 is a Family Stud ie teache r with th e Waterloo County Board of Educati on

Ta mm) (Hryhorenko) Warren 75 is de partm~nt head Famil y Studies Westdale SS Hamilton

Josie (Lohuis) Schneider 80 is te aching at the Catholic Central High School LonshydonOnt

Social Services

Judi th Tansley 69 is a counsellor with Sunstar House Saskatoo n Sask

Rev Kay (Finlay) Hagey 37 is wilh th e Ang lican Church of Ca nada SI Andre ws Church Grim sby

Christine (Brady) MacPhee 78 is a unit le ade rsocial worker with Famil y and Chilshydrens Services Goderich

Eileen (Derynck) O ls thoorn 78 is a 0shy

cial worker with Halton Childrens Aid Oak vill e

Donna (Rose ) Allen 70 is a compl ianee officer with the Hea lth Protection Branch Health and Welfare Canada Otta wa

Janine Jones 82 is a developm ntal Inshystructor with Si rTI eoc Habi I i tative Sen ICC)

Business and Industry

-arion (Kerr ) I1ennenrent 7 1 11Sc 76 is employed wit h Gary S Hcn nn k nt Insurance Services Ltd Vancou cr BC

Edna (Hay ) Jarrell 36 is presiden t Edna Jarrc I I Rcal rstatc h lingto n

Ann (McClure ) Keller 78 is a denta l tec hnician with J PO Ir()CCor~ Inc Gue lph

Sharon Salm-ltrose 82 is an advert isi ng consultant wi th WS Marketi ng AlnlC 0

Meeting Notice

Guelph Branch MacmiddotFACS Alumni

Association Annual Membership

Coffee Party 730 p _m to 1000 pm_

September 2 51984

At the home of Margaret (Hamilton) Bates 53

303 Edinburgh Road South Guelph Ontalio

In Memoriam Margaret (Blac kh am ) Elliott 350 R R I Blenheim date ordelt h unknown

Edith (Hubbard ) Garrison 320 Janu shyary 19K4 inCenterLine Mich US

Susan lIem i ngwa~ 31D February 1 -19R4 inTnronto

J u ne (Van Someren ) Van Wyck 47 D Februa ry 12 1984 in Hamilton

Velma (Balkwill) Stuck 210 February J 19R4 at R R if fgt Woodstoc k Her husshyband th e late Fred W Stock was an OAC 21 grad Her son Oa id JB Stock QC isan OAC 59 grad U

35

AI mnos of

Honotlr 1984

Elliott Mac McLoughry OAC 22

With the Ontario Department of Agrishy

culture (ODA) as Agricultu ra l Represhyse ntative in Vi ctoria Dundas and W aterloo Counties Ellio lllrwin McLo ughry was a

pioneer d uri ng a time o f greattechnicaJ advance in Fann practices

A h ighly respec ted ge nt le man who

ga ined the confide nce o f the Menno nite people

o f Waterloo Co unty hi s accomplishments inc lude the introduc tio n o f short-courses for farmers and a soil conservatio n program the es tab lishment of Bacon Hog Fa irs and the Waterloo callie breeding unit and co-ope rashytio n w ith the OAC in the first nematode

program

Aged 90 last Jul y Mac througho ut hi s worki ng li fe made s ign ificant contributio ns to Canadian agric ultu re and to socie ty and ill

1964 re tired from his positi o n as d irector o f extens io n DA He lives at the Presto n Springs Gardens Retirement Ho me J 02 f o untain tree t So uth Cambridge Ontario 0

AI mnos of

Honotlr 1984

Elliott Mac McLoughry OAC 22

With the Ontario Department of Agrishy

culture (ODA) as Agricultu ra l Represhyse ntative in Vi ctoria Dundas and W aterloo Counties Ellio lllrwin McLo ughry was a

pioneer d uri ng a time o f greattechnicaJ advance in Fann practices

A h ighly respec ted ge nt le man who

ga ined the confide nce o f the Menno nite people

o f Waterloo Co unty hi s accomplishments inc lude the introduc tio n o f short-courses for farmers and a soil conservatio n program the es tab lishment of Bacon Hog Fa irs and the Waterloo callie breeding unit and co-ope rashytio n w ith the OAC in the first nematode

program

Aged 90 last Jul y Mac througho ut hi s worki ng li fe made s ign ificant contributio ns to Canadian agric ultu re and to socie ty and ill

1964 re tired from his positi o n as d irector o f extens io n DA He lives at the Presto n Springs Gardens Retirement Ho me J 02 f o untain tree t So uth Cambridge Ontario 0