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ALUMNU Fa ll 1993

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Until six years ago most Canadians did nolhing more lhan Lake pictures of emus - across a moat atlhe city zoo or lhrough the car window at a wildlife reserve

Today however farmers across lhe country arc taking a more serious look at these long-necked birds wilh skinny legs and fleshy bodies And many - like University of Guelph graduate Stephen Thomsonshyhave opted to raise emus for lhe commercial meat market So many in fact lhatlhe em u industry is now one of the fastes t-growing segments of Canadian agriculture despite lhe facl lhat not a kilogram of emu meal has ever made iL~ way to a supermarket shelf

Enthusiastic newcomers are paying as much as $45000 for a pair of birds lO start their own emushybreeding operations Theyre betting lhat consumers will one day relish the beefy taste and the low-fat lowshycholesterol nutrition of emu meat

On page IS you ll find out why lhese fl ightless birds from Australia have caused the entrepreneurial spirit to soar over Canada

UNIVERSITY 9fGUELPH

ALUMNUS Fall 1993

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Why are these people 0 happy Because theyre first in line for LI dip in G ue lphs long-awaited eight- lane wimming pool

The pool party s tarts with the oftkialopening OCI 1 a t II am Holding the umbrella is Gryphon swimming coach Alan Fairweather and dod wise re tired botany chair H ugh Dale microbiology profes~or Fred Rampra~had graduate studen t and head lifeguard Dawn Kelk alumni affairs dir ctor Trish W a lJer varsity swimmer Stev Sweetnam and student liaison

director Chuck Cunni ngham Cuver phlllltl b Russ Davilbun-Pilon 1(1)1 IIltcsurie coune of Eaton Canada

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How much time does it taJc - and ta lent andSwimming money and commitment - to become one of the against time fastest in Canadian waters

Emu ranching Some say ir~ ltl way for CanadianTry it farmers to make money and comumers to eat

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Profile 18 Campus 5 LeRoy Blake b a guy w ho plays to winOpinion 12

A proven leader Deborah Poll says Alumni 24 were losing control of our country

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AN IDEAL SETTING FOR RESEARCH AND BUSINESS Many research-oriented corporations and corporate headquarters are now located in the University of Guelph Research Park

This 30-acre Park also accommodates new tenants who choose to construct their own office or laboratory facil ities Leased space is available in the Research Park Centre Phase I and the proposed Phase II

Join the following prestigious tenants Agriculture Canada Agri-Food Network Compusense George Morris Centre GSW Inc Hart Chemical Company Lipid Analytical Laboratories Ontario Dairy Herd Improvement Corporation Stewardship Information Bureau and Tremco Limited

Take advantage of exceptional growth opportunities in a high-profile and ideal business setting For leasing information contact Matteis Realty Ltd Research Park Centre Suite 310 (519) 836-8060 or for general information about the Park (519) 767-5003

7he Research Park is a project of the Office of Research and the Unilersirys Rea Estate Division

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ove opens learning centre

OVes new Lifetime Learning Centre was officially opened during Alumni Weekend an appropri ate occasion beshycause college alumni have been major donors to the $49- million project and wi ll be primary users of the facility

The learning centre boasts a ISO-seat lec ture thea tre a 44-seat seminar room two interact ive classrooms six breakshyout rooms a lounge a ca fet eria and a food service area The centre is exshypected to welcome 10000 to 15000 visitors a year for educational programs alumni gatherings and meeti ngs of speshycial-interest groups

Long-range plans inc I ude a second phase of construction that will more than double the space of the existing OVC library and will add computer labs case-study rooms office space for student groups and rental space for Lifelearn V Inc a new campus-based company th at wi Jl be contracted to develop and market OVes continuing education programs

Co-founded by Jim Stowe OVC 69 former head of veterinary con tinuing ed ucati on and Chas Povey former head of the co llege development group Lifelearn V is a co llaboration of academic institutions individual veterinarians professional groups and industry with U of G as a major shareholder

Environmental safety focus of new complex

The impact of genetically engineered plants on the environment is a focal point of the new $15-lllillion Guelph Transgenic Plant Research Comple

Officially opened in May the 7000shysquare-foot complex offers unpreceshydented opportunities to safe ly develop and evaluate new plant varieti es developed through genetic eng ineer ing says crop science professor Bryan McKersi e The complex will help universities and industry meet stringent federal protocols without any potential environ mental risk he says

The heart of the complex is a comshyputer-controlled greenhouse - deshysigned by horticu ltural sc ience professor Mike Dixon - that regulates its own atshymospheric ~onditions Two growth

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rooms eight ca binet-type grow th chamshybers and a preparatory fa ci lit y make up the rest of the facility

It was built with an $875000 grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineershying Research Council and contributions trolllthe Ont ar io Mini stry of Agriculshyture and Food and the Uni versi ty

Transgenic plants have been modified in the lab to contain a sma ll ponion of the genetic code of ano ther olmiddotganism T hi s results in new traits not normally assoc iated with their specie s such as disease resistance and stress tolerance Guelph has been active in transgenic plant research for nearl y a decade

On with the show

U of G s th eatre archives whic h house the archives of major Canadian theatres actors playwrights and even a lock of George Bernard Shaws beard turned 10 this spring Located in the library the archives are home to 79 separate colshylecti ons wi th emphas i ~ on Canadian theatre

Housed in the archives are the wor ldshyrenowned Sha w collection which inshycludes the Shaw Festiva l arclli ves and the Dan H Laurence Collection the source of the strands of Shaws beard Othcr theatres represented include Theatre Passe Muraille the Blyth Fesshytival Native Earth Pcrforming Arts the

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Royal Alexandra Theatrc and London s Grand Theatre

Recognizing the Scots

In cOlljunction wi th it~ annual series of Scottish workshops Guelph s Scottish Studies Program will award an annLlal pri ze in Scottish history The pli ze is named for FranK Watson ltJ regular parshyticipa nt in the Scotti~ h workshop series

II will be awarded for the first lime next spring to the best book monoshygraph dissertation or edited set 01 papers on Scottish studies publ ished since Jan 1 199 1 Preference will be given to ori ginal works on ear ly Scotshytiih hi story or to any area of Scottish hisshytory that is still largely unexplored The recipient wi ll be in vited to present a lecshyture and seminar at Guelph Entries must be submitted by Nov 30 1993 to Ihe chair of Scotti sh Studies Depart shyment of History University of Guelph Guelph Ont N I G 2W I

U of G is known internationally for its program in Scot tish studies and its library col lection of Scotti sh materialshythe largest outside Scotland The Departshyment o t Hi sto ry otlers Scottish literature and history courses at the undergraduate level as well as MA and PhD programs It also promotes student exchange programs with th e University of Abershydeen and Strathel yde

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dents gradshyuated at spring convoc ation ce remonies in June Honorary cioc tor of scishyence degrees we nt to nutritionIst Joyce Beare- LeUIl Sallldr

Rogers former chief of nutri shytion research with Health and Welfare Canada Unishyversityof Western Onshytario engineer Alan Da ve nshyport a consul- Helen Abell

tant on many of the world s larges t enshygineering struc tures and ve terinary pathologist Leon Saunders OVC 43 whose distingu ished ca ree r has included research teac hin g and writing

Honorary doctor of luws degrees went to Helen Abell Mac 38 0 a former OAC fa culty member and international consultant on nutrition rural ex tens ion and socio logy in the Third World and agriculturi st George Morri s whose many contributions [0 U of G ha ve inshycluded establ ishment of the George Morris Centre a think tank for agriculshytural policy resea rch and education

Honorary doctor of letters degrees went to literary scholar Gilles Marcotte a professor of French studies at the University of Mont real and renowned economist Richard Lipsey a professor at Simon Fraser Uni vers ity and director of the economic growth and resea rch program at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Resea rch

Three retired Guelph faculty members we re also honored at convocation The title of Uni versi ty professor emeritus was bestowed on botanist Donald Britto n and eng inee r Walter Bilansk i Pathologist Tom Hullancl received a meda l of merit

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European program unique in Canada

A unique new degree program in European studies co uld be just the ticket for stucients looking ~or international careers The BA program combines European culture and business studies with language courses and a year of study abroad

The 40-course honors major will inshyclude a core o f six language courses anci four European culture and civili za tion courses There will be two areas of emshyphas is - European culture and civili za shytion or European business studies

In thei r third yea r students will study abroad as part of Guel ph s exc hange programs with universities in Germany France Italy ane Spain

Squirrelling away for the future

After a hal f-centurys abse nce southern fl ying squirre ls have re turned to Point Pelee National Park thanks to U of G reshysea rchers and Parks Canaela

This spr ing zoo logy professor Tom Nudds gradua te studen t Ian Adam s and an entourage of Parks Canada officials and media watchecl anxiously as 17 southern flying sq uirre ls - chipmunkshysized rodents capab le of spread-eagled leaps and glides of 30 to 40 feet shy

emerged inqui siti ve ly from nes ting boxes wired [ 0 treeraquo in ~ ]n iso lated pari of Point Pe lee NatIonal P~]rk

The animals had been transported from the Long Po int area to Point Pelee the southernmost point of Canada where the mall mammal was WIped out in the 1930s The relocation project is part of a general movement at the park to res tore the Caro linian ecosystem that crumbl ed there in the rclce of a booming cOllage l(lutry ubsequent habitat devastc]tion and cl concerted pclrk policy to e rad ica te ceria III mammals conshysidered pests Adams and N udds hope to re introduce 100 raquoouthern flying sq uirshyrels to the park

Career services for alumni

Remember the Counselling clnd Student Reso urce Centre Its alo an allll7lni

resource cen tre that ()~lers career workshyshops a job-referral ervice and a recruiting service

On Ocr 7 the CSRC wil l host a ca ree r fair in the UnI ve rsit y Centre fmm 10 am to 3 pl11 There IS a S225 charge for employers who want to se t up a booth but admision for vis itors is irce For more information call Bonnie Patteson at SI9-824-4120 Ext 2394 The annual fa ir draws up to 50 emshyployerraquo - gove rnment anci private-sec shytor companies franchise organia ti ons and educational institutions

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CSRC resources on campus are availshyable to alumni without charge including career counse lling for six mon ths aFter graduation In add ition the centre offers a fall and winter series of workshops on res ume writing intervie w skills career planning and teachers co llege Mos t workshops are free or carry a minimum charge of $10 Pick up a sc hedule of wo rkshops at Alumni House or the CSRC office or call Ext 2214

Alumni can also participate as employer or employee in a job-referral service There is no charge to employshyers but job hun te rs pay $60 to enrol then receive notices of all job openings received by the CSRC including posishytion s at U of G and within the public sector Call Ext 2394 for informa ti on

OMAFGuelph agreement under review

For almost a yea r U of G has been in shyvolved in an exe rci se to restructure its research agreement with the Ontario Mini st ry of Agric ulture and Food (OMAF) Inter im program leaders apshypointed by the University are working

out details for structu ring operating and implementing ne w research programs

The more than 20 program s that make up the long-standing agreement are being consolidated into six programs shyrural communities plants animals food sys tems and resou rcese nvironshyment - to help streamline operations and address fi nancia l issue

The restructuring process was prompted by OMAFs announcement last year that it would cut core funding in the research agreement by $15 milshylion - an e ffol1 to reduce the ministrys operating budget by three per cent This was in line with a budget-cutting direc shytive sen t out to all govelllJl1ent minis shytri es and included the provisi on of another $500000 reduction in funding for the research ag reement in I993jl)4

Current discussions centre aro und the relati onships between the new program areas and the way OMAF-supported re shysearch projects will ht in The restrucshyturing exercise is designed to enhance flexibility responsiveness and efficienshycy in the management and deployment of agreeme nt fund says research vice shypresident Larry Milligan

This ye[1r the agreement will provide $30 JllilJi on to agri-food research and ed ucation at Guelph the single largest external source of researc h support

Faculty briefs

vir Prof Leonard Conoll y acting academic vice-presidenr wi ll beshycome president of Trent Uni vers ity Jan I 1994 Conolly who came 10

U ofG in 19R1 aschailoftheDepartshyment of Drama has abo se rved as ac shyting dean of the College of Arts and associate vice-president

L1 lt1 Prof Jim Taylor is the new direc tor of the School of Landscape Architecshyture He has been acting di rec tor and undergrad uate co-ord inator has chaired the Cruickston Park Farm Advisory Committee and has served on the Arboretum committee

t-Y Pmf Murray Brown OAC 51 MSA 53 retired this sp rin g after 27 years in the Department of Land Resou rce Science The first to link ag ronomy with meteorology Brown was the founder of the Canad ianshySociety of Agro met eorology

Steve Sweetnam leamed to swi m long before he could tell time But the clock has been hi s

taskmaste r ever since Each practice each swim meet he tries to beat the c lock tries to swim faster than the day before

All competitive swimmers are clock watc hers At the end of every race they look fo r the time cJock s verdict before they check the coac hs face The clock doesn t lie and it doesnt accept exshycuses

Ranked among the top 100 male swimmers in the world Sweetnam ca n cross a 2S-metre pool eight times in two minutes and 4R seconds He s faster than Alberta swimmer Graham Smith who became a national hero when he won six go ld medals at the J978 COillshy

monwealth Games but Sweetnams time is still eight seconds off the current world record fo r the 200-metre inshydividual medley

That s the story of competiti ve sport Yesterdays unbelievable performances are tomorrows routine practice times

Gryphon swim coach Alan Fairshyweather HK 7S was a nat ional finalist

in the early 1970s but even his best time in the spri nt freestyl e event would make him only an average swimmer among todays Gryphons The IS -year difference in speed is the result of trainshying efficiency says Fairweather Plus a better understanding of the relationship among body mechanics physiology nutrition and psychologi ca l preparation

Fairweather was a top-rank ed uni vershysity swimmer and a stude nt of physiolshyogy but he didnt connec t the two di sc iplines until after he began coachshying His plans for medical sc hool evaporated shon ly after he signed on with the Gryphons in the fall of 1975 but hes st ill using hi s degree in human kinetics to train the human bod y to go faster And each year he continues to learn more

What he learns he shares He says an educated sw immer is a more comshymitted athlete and a better performer

Fairweather frequently consu lts his former physiology professor Jack Barclay and other Guelph faculty He refers swimmers to nutrition consultant Marg Hedley Mac 64 and MSc 8 1 to Prof Evelyn Birds relaxation clinic

Srori ls hy Mary Dicfiesull

and to Gryphon ath letic therapist Gunner Oberascous

Sports psychology has a tloating posishytion on Fairweather s coac hing hierarshychy Its an ongoi ng part of the coac h-athlete relationship not a quick fi x yo u can buy in a two-hour workshop he says His approacllto swim training is all encompass ing geared to producing athletes who are bo th phys ically and mentally fit

For Fairweathe r a train ing regimen is second in importance only to stroke mechanics Why train for months or yea rs to take a second off your time if one slight change in the pitch of your hand will accomplish the same thing

Guelph swimmers will see even more emphasi s on stroke mechanics in the com ing season because of the addi tion of two part-time coac hes Anne Ottenbrite 1984 Olympic gold medallist in the 200-metre breasts troke joined the Guelph swim team in August and Guelph Marlins coach Kevin Auger will be helping out thi s fall in a reciprocal agreement with Fairweather

With at least two coac hes on deck the team s 60 swimmers will get more inshydividual attention They ll al so have more room following the opening of Gue lph s new eight-lane pool

The Gryphons have been ranked among the top 10 university swim teams in Canada for the past four yea rs and the J 99192 varsity team included eight sw immers who made it to the last Olymshypic trials But Fairweather says this newshyfound success has more to do with the University s academic programs than it does with his coach ing skills Guelph is no w one of the first three choices for most Ontario high sc hool graduates he says and that means more swimmers are being attrac ted to campus

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How swimmers go faster During physical exertion the body Uie~ both aerobic and anaerobic energy sysshytems Sprinlergt rely on anacrobi( energy for quick stans and top speed over a shon distance Long-distance runners and swimmer push their bodies illlo the aerobic energy system enabling them to go farther longer

The body fatigues quickly when using anaerobic energy You may have a lot uf speed but you cant maintain it for more than a few sc(onds With exercise your body become more fit and tretches its aerobic energy capacity so you can hold that speed for a longer period before fatigue sets in

Fatigue can push the body into the anaerobic lystem for a last surge of trength before e haustiun sets in Stretchshy

ing the limits of your aerobic energy sysshytem (an mean even greater speed when your body calls on the anaerobic system during the linalmoments of a race

Even -pecific muscle) can bc trained to work in the aerobic or anaerobic end of the energy sy~tem

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Fairweather hates rec ruiting J rea lly think students - including w immers shyshould choose a university because of it s degree programs I want to coach people who ha ve made a considered dec isi on to come here not because J sold them a bill of goods

He says his team is heavily indebted to other coaches in Ontarios club sy stem and to former Gryphon swimmers who are now rhe parents teachers and coaches of a new generation of athletes Sweetnam came from thc Lindsay Ont Li ghtningbolt s where he was coac hed by Canadas 1990 swim coach of the yea r hi s mother Marian a 1965 nutliri on graduate of Macclo llakl [n ~ titute 11 i father (eorge OAC 66 anu

grandmother al so have Guelph degrees That s why he kn ew about Guelph he ays but it s not why he chose it More imshyportant was hi s plan to pursue a ca reer in ergonomics

Gryphon teammate Jeff Sumner won a Pres idents Scholarship to U of G and Jill Lutz came after seei ng how much fun her older brothe r Mark hld a a Grypl10n sw immer Most varsity sw immers develop -their tal ent s in the ir home town pool but a notabl e exception i Anne Marie Shrouder who walked into U of G pool a poor Iecreational swimmer and grad shyuated thi s spring a national finalist Watchshying he r compere last March in the CIAU championship was one of my proudes t moments w a coach says Fairweather

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U of G swim coach Alan Fairweather says muscle fatigue is often the greatest calise of swim injurie~ - the result of overuse and repetition A wimmer covering 5500 metres in a pratmiddottice will complete more than 2100 aml movements inshycluding both internal and external rotation of the shoulder joint

Most of Wi have far greater strength in our intershynal rotators so swimmcrs use weight training to build strength in external rotator muscles Premashyture fatigue in the external rotators can cause muscle strain or tendonitis Other preventive measure~ include a lengthy wannup before and after practice

Fairweather tells athletes not to force themshyselves to work at thc extremes of their flexibility every time And if it starts to hUl1 he tells them to look after the injury quickly

A swim coachs bug of tricks includes another technique that fools the body sO that it overshycompensates for muscle fatigue Mike Gurgol head coach at the North York Aquatics Club in Toronto says this strategy moved a 16-yearshyold female swimmer from 150th to 50th place in the world in one competition

During peak truining time lhis 400-metre freestyler

spends 24 hours a week in training - I I sessions in the pool dry-land weight training to build upper body and leg ~trcngth 200 to 300 abshydominal exercise a d~y massage therapy weekly to help muscles recover from the heavy workload and maybel pot check on her diet to verify a ballOced intake of 35-pcr-ccnt protein 60-pcrshycent carbohydrates and five-per-cent fat

Early in the sea on shell swim 20 kilometres a week building up to 80 km ( 120 at spring-break training camp in Florida) and dropping back to 10 or 12 km the hltt week before a major meet This technique drops the fatigue level but foob the body into thinking it is still in heavy training ays Gurgol As a result the body overcompenshy

sates and give the swimmer an etra hoost of energy and strength when it counts mosl 0

Like Fairwea ther Marian Sweetnam never intended to be a swimming coach But if you want somethin g done in a small town you have to do it yourself she says Both she and George a dentist who is currently pres ident of the Ontario Dental Associ ashytion are boating enthusiasts who believed their chi ldren should know how to swim for their own snfety They enrolled Steve in a leanHo-swim program more than 17 years ago

Around the same time Marian volunteered to coach the fiveshyyenr-olds at the Lindsay pool and eventually followed Steve and her other children Nancy and Peter all the way up the competishytive ranks As they learned she lea rned She read articles and books and took coaching cershytification courses to try to stay ahead of the kids

The challenge got greater when Nancy broke into the na shyt ional sw i m scene at age 12 I didnt want her to leave home to train says Marian so I worked harder too

One step at a time they worked their way to the 1992 Olympic Games Nancy now trains at Laurentian University and Marian is still a volunteer coach for 84 members of the Lindsay Lightningbolts

[n August she was assi stant coac h for the Ontario womens tcam at the Canada Games in Kamloops BC Head Ontario coac h was Mike Gurgol a 1979 graduate of Guelphs human kinetics program who coaches full time at the North York Aquatics Club in Toronto

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Guelph vars ity team was Fairweathers last He was later coached by Fairweather and served as his assistant coach

G urgol coached at Queens University for two yea rs while atshytending teac hers college then coached for the Prince George BC Barracudas and the Trent Swim Club in Peterborough Ont before joining the North York c lub as youth coach in 1986

He is now head coach at North York perennially one of the top five clubs in Canada It is also Ontario s larges t swim club with 180 competitive and 120 preshycompetitive swimmers three fullshyti me and 16 part-time sta ff and an annual budget of $300000 The club runs two major internashytional meets every year and comshypetitive swimmers travel several ti mes a year

Gurgol estimates the total cost for a competitive swimmer who is an Ontario finali st is about $5000 a yea r Most swimmers in Lind say spend about a ten th of that yet both clubs have produced Olympic contenders

The differences between the two clubs Jie in quantity rather than quality Talented swimmers will surface in any pool but the larger swim clubs have more talent to draw on

Despite the obvious differenshyces in their clubs Gurgol and Marian Sweetnam have surprisshyingly SImilar ieleas about how to coach sw immers Both are oriented towards excellence both believe in goal setting and both say the real key to success is a committed swimmer and supportshyive parents

Sweetnam claims she can tell when a new member walks on to the pool deck whether he or she will drop out or become a good swimmer And Gurgol tells swimshymers that missing three training sessions a week means theyre happy to be at 70 per cent of their capacity

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We try to get kids going and go ing fast says Gurgol He moti vates swimshymers by highlighting ach ievements on a wall cha rt posti ng an inspirational quote each day and telling bad jokes when someone needs a littl e nudge

In Lindsay - where the population is sma ll er than the U of G student body shythe res Jess pressu re on individual swimshymers and more emphasis on serving the recreat ional needs of the community Swimmers are encouraged to partic ipate in other sports and coach Sweetnam doesnt compl ai n if they miss practice to study for exams Shes proud of the fac t that the Lindsay Li gh tningbo lts have produced several university swimshymers She says some of them actu ally do better when they move away fro m home and discover how im portant swimming rea ll y is to them

Fairweather knows how important swimming is to most of them - its third on thei r priority li st behind schoo lshywork and soc ial li fe As a coach hes a re laxed disciplinarian He never holds tryouts and seldom cu ts anyone from the team Im work ing with young adu lts who have to dec ide for themsel shyves how much practice time is enough

The pool is open fo r 16 practices a week Mos t of the women swim 12 to 14 hours a week the men average nine And the cl ock determines lane ass ignshyments Eve ryone knows whos the slowest in the pool says Fairweather and a swimmer who wants to move up a

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lane works harder At Gue lph we try to stress team

spiri t but swi mming is still basically an individual sport And its the individual who wants to get faster

A successfu l Gryphon sw immer has commitment So do successful club swimmers but theyre getting harde r to find

Gurgol says worl d record times may be getting faster bu t there are fewer and fewer challengers As a group Canadian swimmers are slower than they were in the 1980s and he blames society The demands of training - telling yo un gshysters to work harder and harder - go against the grain of a society that exshypec ts everything to come eas ier and easier he says Kid s are used to com shyputer games and remote controls and a new stimulation every 30 seconds In sport you have to do thin gs over and over again

All three coac hes try to ma ke ch aracshyter trai ning a pa rt of thei r program They teach that there are no sho rtcuts to success and hope to develop athletes who will become responsib le ad ults Swimmers lea rn that if you fa il you try to fig ure out why then try again The highs and lows of competitive swimshyming - like any sport - arc phenomshyenal Within one one-hundredth of a second two swimmers can experience the grea tes t thrill and the mos t devastatshying dIsappointment of a lifetime

Still the coac hes dont overlook the fact that swimming should be fun Both the North York and Guelph teams enjoy a regu lar off- season train ing camp in Florida For that one week sw imming is num ber one says Fairweather

We get a lot of work do ne and it builds team sp irit and some of thc best swimming memories 0

Life after sWImmIng

As a shivering tive-year-old Steve Sweetnam got into the Lindsay pool for his first swimming lesson only hecause his mother made him But after he eros ed that first hurshydle he swam because h~ wanted to

More inten ive training might have pushed him into national finals at a younger age but he thinks things havc been timed pretshyty well Last year he won the OUAA gold medal and a silver in the 50-metre butterfly at the Canadian University-thampionshymiddothips He was also a member or Canada s Olympic development

team and a finalist at the May 1992 Olympic trials

Now 22 Sweetnam is in his last ycar of eligibility for the univershysity swim progrtm and says hes ready to try something else Recentshyly he s become intershyIsted in the triathlon adventures of his Guelph teammate Jeff Krar a member of Guelph s OUAA silver medll relay teanl md Canadian Junior Champion in the triathlon

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Until six years ago most Canadians did nolhing more lhan Lake pictures of emus - across a moat atlhe city zoo or lhrough the car window at a wildlife reserve

Today however farmers across lhe country arc taking a more serious look at these long-necked birds wilh skinny legs and fleshy bodies And many - like University of Guelph graduate Stephen Thomsonshyhave opted to raise emus for lhe commercial meat market So many in fact lhatlhe em u industry is now one of the fastes t-growing segments of Canadian agriculture despite lhe facl lhat not a kilogram of emu meal has ever made iL~ way to a supermarket shelf

Enthusiastic newcomers are paying as much as $45000 for a pair of birds lO start their own emushybreeding operations Theyre betting lhat consumers will one day relish the beefy taste and the low-fat lowshycholesterol nutrition of emu meat

On page IS you ll find out why lhese fl ightless birds from Australia have caused the entrepreneurial spirit to soar over Canada

UNIVERSITY 9fGUELPH

ALUMNUS Fall 1993

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Why are these people 0 happy Because theyre first in line for LI dip in G ue lphs long-awaited eight- lane wimming pool

The pool party s tarts with the oftkialopening OCI 1 a t II am Holding the umbrella is Gryphon swimming coach Alan Fairweather and dod wise re tired botany chair H ugh Dale microbiology profes~or Fred Rampra~had graduate studen t and head lifeguard Dawn Kelk alumni affairs dir ctor Trish W a lJer varsity swimmer Stev Sweetnam and student liaison

director Chuck Cunni ngham Cuver phlllltl b Russ Davilbun-Pilon 1(1)1 IIltcsurie coune of Eaton Canada

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How much time does it taJc - and ta lent andSwimming money and commitment - to become one of the against time fastest in Canadian waters

Emu ranching Some say ir~ ltl way for CanadianTry it farmers to make money and comumers to eat

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Profile 18 Campus 5 LeRoy Blake b a guy w ho plays to winOpinion 12

A proven leader Deborah Poll says Alumni 24 were losing control of our country

ul 26 No J The Gllelph All111m is publi-hcd in April Augut and December hy Ihe Editor Mary Dick on Uncrity llrGu~lph in clt-(Ilxnnion wilh the Univcrll nfGudph Execulhe Editur Sundra Wehster CSS 75 Alumn Association Cllpyrighl 1943 ltkn and oplllions c)prcssed dn 11111

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AN IDEAL SETTING FOR RESEARCH AND BUSINESS Many research-oriented corporations and corporate headquarters are now located in the University of Guelph Research Park

This 30-acre Park also accommodates new tenants who choose to construct their own office or laboratory facil ities Leased space is available in the Research Park Centre Phase I and the proposed Phase II

Join the following prestigious tenants Agriculture Canada Agri-Food Network Compusense George Morris Centre GSW Inc Hart Chemical Company Lipid Analytical Laboratories Ontario Dairy Herd Improvement Corporation Stewardship Information Bureau and Tremco Limited

Take advantage of exceptional growth opportunities in a high-profile and ideal business setting For leasing information contact Matteis Realty Ltd Research Park Centre Suite 310 (519) 836-8060 or for general information about the Park (519) 767-5003

7he Research Park is a project of the Office of Research and the Unilersirys Rea Estate Division

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ove opens learning centre

OVes new Lifetime Learning Centre was officially opened during Alumni Weekend an appropri ate occasion beshycause college alumni have been major donors to the $49- million project and wi ll be primary users of the facility

The learning centre boasts a ISO-seat lec ture thea tre a 44-seat seminar room two interact ive classrooms six breakshyout rooms a lounge a ca fet eria and a food service area The centre is exshypected to welcome 10000 to 15000 visitors a year for educational programs alumni gatherings and meeti ngs of speshycial-interest groups

Long-range plans inc I ude a second phase of construction that will more than double the space of the existing OVC library and will add computer labs case-study rooms office space for student groups and rental space for Lifelearn V Inc a new campus-based company th at wi Jl be contracted to develop and market OVes continuing education programs

Co-founded by Jim Stowe OVC 69 former head of veterinary con tinuing ed ucati on and Chas Povey former head of the co llege development group Lifelearn V is a co llaboration of academic institutions individual veterinarians professional groups and industry with U of G as a major shareholder

Environmental safety focus of new complex

The impact of genetically engineered plants on the environment is a focal point of the new $15-lllillion Guelph Transgenic Plant Research Comple

Officially opened in May the 7000shysquare-foot complex offers unpreceshydented opportunities to safe ly develop and evaluate new plant varieti es developed through genetic eng ineer ing says crop science professor Bryan McKersi e The complex will help universities and industry meet stringent federal protocols without any potential environ mental risk he says

The heart of the complex is a comshyputer-controlled greenhouse - deshysigned by horticu ltural sc ience professor Mike Dixon - that regulates its own atshymospheric ~onditions Two growth

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rooms eight ca binet-type grow th chamshybers and a preparatory fa ci lit y make up the rest of the facility

It was built with an $875000 grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineershying Research Council and contributions trolllthe Ont ar io Mini stry of Agriculshyture and Food and the Uni versi ty

Transgenic plants have been modified in the lab to contain a sma ll ponion of the genetic code of ano ther olmiddotganism T hi s results in new traits not normally assoc iated with their specie s such as disease resistance and stress tolerance Guelph has been active in transgenic plant research for nearl y a decade

On with the show

U of G s th eatre archives whic h house the archives of major Canadian theatres actors playwrights and even a lock of George Bernard Shaws beard turned 10 this spring Located in the library the archives are home to 79 separate colshylecti ons wi th emphas i ~ on Canadian theatre

Housed in the archives are the wor ldshyrenowned Sha w collection which inshycludes the Shaw Festiva l arclli ves and the Dan H Laurence Collection the source of the strands of Shaws beard Othcr theatres represented include Theatre Passe Muraille the Blyth Fesshytival Native Earth Pcrforming Arts the

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Royal Alexandra Theatrc and London s Grand Theatre

Recognizing the Scots

In cOlljunction wi th it~ annual series of Scottish workshops Guelph s Scottish Studies Program will award an annLlal pri ze in Scottish history The pli ze is named for FranK Watson ltJ regular parshyticipa nt in the Scotti~ h workshop series

II will be awarded for the first lime next spring to the best book monoshygraph dissertation or edited set 01 papers on Scottish studies publ ished since Jan 1 199 1 Preference will be given to ori ginal works on ear ly Scotshytiih hi story or to any area of Scottish hisshytory that is still largely unexplored The recipient wi ll be in vited to present a lecshyture and seminar at Guelph Entries must be submitted by Nov 30 1993 to Ihe chair of Scotti sh Studies Depart shyment of History University of Guelph Guelph Ont N I G 2W I

U of G is known internationally for its program in Scot tish studies and its library col lection of Scotti sh materialshythe largest outside Scotland The Departshyment o t Hi sto ry otlers Scottish literature and history courses at the undergraduate level as well as MA and PhD programs It also promotes student exchange programs with th e University of Abershydeen and Strathel yde

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dents gradshyuated at spring convoc ation ce remonies in June Honorary cioc tor of scishyence degrees we nt to nutritionIst Joyce Beare- LeUIl Sallldr

Rogers former chief of nutri shytion research with Health and Welfare Canada Unishyversityof Western Onshytario engineer Alan Da ve nshyport a consul- Helen Abell

tant on many of the world s larges t enshygineering struc tures and ve terinary pathologist Leon Saunders OVC 43 whose distingu ished ca ree r has included research teac hin g and writing

Honorary doctor of luws degrees went to Helen Abell Mac 38 0 a former OAC fa culty member and international consultant on nutrition rural ex tens ion and socio logy in the Third World and agriculturi st George Morri s whose many contributions [0 U of G ha ve inshycluded establ ishment of the George Morris Centre a think tank for agriculshytural policy resea rch and education

Honorary doctor of letters degrees went to literary scholar Gilles Marcotte a professor of French studies at the University of Mont real and renowned economist Richard Lipsey a professor at Simon Fraser Uni vers ity and director of the economic growth and resea rch program at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Resea rch

Three retired Guelph faculty members we re also honored at convocation The title of Uni versi ty professor emeritus was bestowed on botanist Donald Britto n and eng inee r Walter Bilansk i Pathologist Tom Hullancl received a meda l of merit

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European program unique in Canada

A unique new degree program in European studies co uld be just the ticket for stucients looking ~or international careers The BA program combines European culture and business studies with language courses and a year of study abroad

The 40-course honors major will inshyclude a core o f six language courses anci four European culture and civili za tion courses There will be two areas of emshyphas is - European culture and civili za shytion or European business studies

In thei r third yea r students will study abroad as part of Guel ph s exc hange programs with universities in Germany France Italy ane Spain

Squirrelling away for the future

After a hal f-centurys abse nce southern fl ying squirre ls have re turned to Point Pelee National Park thanks to U of G reshysea rchers and Parks Canaela

This spr ing zoo logy professor Tom Nudds gradua te studen t Ian Adam s and an entourage of Parks Canada officials and media watchecl anxiously as 17 southern flying sq uirre ls - chipmunkshysized rodents capab le of spread-eagled leaps and glides of 30 to 40 feet shy

emerged inqui siti ve ly from nes ting boxes wired [ 0 treeraquo in ~ ]n iso lated pari of Point Pe lee NatIonal P~]rk

The animals had been transported from the Long Po int area to Point Pelee the southernmost point of Canada where the mall mammal was WIped out in the 1930s The relocation project is part of a general movement at the park to res tore the Caro linian ecosystem that crumbl ed there in the rclce of a booming cOllage l(lutry ubsequent habitat devastc]tion and cl concerted pclrk policy to e rad ica te ceria III mammals conshysidered pests Adams and N udds hope to re introduce 100 raquoouthern flying sq uirshyrels to the park

Career services for alumni

Remember the Counselling clnd Student Reso urce Centre Its alo an allll7lni

resource cen tre that ()~lers career workshyshops a job-referral ervice and a recruiting service

On Ocr 7 the CSRC wil l host a ca ree r fair in the UnI ve rsit y Centre fmm 10 am to 3 pl11 There IS a S225 charge for employers who want to se t up a booth but admision for vis itors is irce For more information call Bonnie Patteson at SI9-824-4120 Ext 2394 The annual fa ir draws up to 50 emshyployerraquo - gove rnment anci private-sec shytor companies franchise organia ti ons and educational institutions

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CSRC resources on campus are availshyable to alumni without charge including career counse lling for six mon ths aFter graduation In add ition the centre offers a fall and winter series of workshops on res ume writing intervie w skills career planning and teachers co llege Mos t workshops are free or carry a minimum charge of $10 Pick up a sc hedule of wo rkshops at Alumni House or the CSRC office or call Ext 2214

Alumni can also participate as employer or employee in a job-referral service There is no charge to employshyers but job hun te rs pay $60 to enrol then receive notices of all job openings received by the CSRC including posishytion s at U of G and within the public sector Call Ext 2394 for informa ti on

OMAFGuelph agreement under review

For almost a yea r U of G has been in shyvolved in an exe rci se to restructure its research agreement with the Ontario Mini st ry of Agric ulture and Food (OMAF) Inter im program leaders apshypointed by the University are working

out details for structu ring operating and implementing ne w research programs

The more than 20 program s that make up the long-standing agreement are being consolidated into six programs shyrural communities plants animals food sys tems and resou rcese nvironshyment - to help streamline operations and address fi nancia l issue

The restructuring process was prompted by OMAFs announcement last year that it would cut core funding in the research agreement by $15 milshylion - an e ffol1 to reduce the ministrys operating budget by three per cent This was in line with a budget-cutting direc shytive sen t out to all govelllJl1ent minis shytri es and included the provisi on of another $500000 reduction in funding for the research ag reement in I993jl)4

Current discussions centre aro und the relati onships between the new program areas and the way OMAF-supported re shysearch projects will ht in The restrucshyturing exercise is designed to enhance flexibility responsiveness and efficienshycy in the management and deployment of agreeme nt fund says research vice shypresident Larry Milligan

This ye[1r the agreement will provide $30 JllilJi on to agri-food research and ed ucation at Guelph the single largest external source of researc h support

Faculty briefs

vir Prof Leonard Conoll y acting academic vice-presidenr wi ll beshycome president of Trent Uni vers ity Jan I 1994 Conolly who came 10

U ofG in 19R1 aschailoftheDepartshyment of Drama has abo se rved as ac shyting dean of the College of Arts and associate vice-president

L1 lt1 Prof Jim Taylor is the new direc tor of the School of Landscape Architecshyture He has been acting di rec tor and undergrad uate co-ord inator has chaired the Cruickston Park Farm Advisory Committee and has served on the Arboretum committee

t-Y Pmf Murray Brown OAC 51 MSA 53 retired this sp rin g after 27 years in the Department of Land Resou rce Science The first to link ag ronomy with meteorology Brown was the founder of the Canad ianshySociety of Agro met eorology

Steve Sweetnam leamed to swi m long before he could tell time But the clock has been hi s

taskmaste r ever since Each practice each swim meet he tries to beat the c lock tries to swim faster than the day before

All competitive swimmers are clock watc hers At the end of every race they look fo r the time cJock s verdict before they check the coac hs face The clock doesn t lie and it doesnt accept exshycuses

Ranked among the top 100 male swimmers in the world Sweetnam ca n cross a 2S-metre pool eight times in two minutes and 4R seconds He s faster than Alberta swimmer Graham Smith who became a national hero when he won six go ld medals at the J978 COillshy

monwealth Games but Sweetnams time is still eight seconds off the current world record fo r the 200-metre inshydividual medley

That s the story of competiti ve sport Yesterdays unbelievable performances are tomorrows routine practice times

Gryphon swim coach Alan Fairshyweather HK 7S was a nat ional finalist

in the early 1970s but even his best time in the spri nt freestyl e event would make him only an average swimmer among todays Gryphons The IS -year difference in speed is the result of trainshying efficiency says Fairweather Plus a better understanding of the relationship among body mechanics physiology nutrition and psychologi ca l preparation

Fairweather was a top-rank ed uni vershysity swimmer and a stude nt of physiolshyogy but he didnt connec t the two di sc iplines until after he began coachshying His plans for medical sc hool evaporated shon ly after he signed on with the Gryphons in the fall of 1975 but hes st ill using hi s degree in human kinetics to train the human bod y to go faster And each year he continues to learn more

What he learns he shares He says an educated sw immer is a more comshymitted athlete and a better performer

Fairweather frequently consu lts his former physiology professor Jack Barclay and other Guelph faculty He refers swimmers to nutrition consultant Marg Hedley Mac 64 and MSc 8 1 to Prof Evelyn Birds relaxation clinic

Srori ls hy Mary Dicfiesull

and to Gryphon ath letic therapist Gunner Oberascous

Sports psychology has a tloating posishytion on Fairweather s coac hing hierarshychy Its an ongoi ng part of the coac h-athlete relationship not a quick fi x yo u can buy in a two-hour workshop he says His approacllto swim training is all encompass ing geared to producing athletes who are bo th phys ically and mentally fit

For Fairweathe r a train ing regimen is second in importance only to stroke mechanics Why train for months or yea rs to take a second off your time if one slight change in the pitch of your hand will accomplish the same thing

Guelph swimmers will see even more emphasi s on stroke mechanics in the com ing season because of the addi tion of two part-time coac hes Anne Ottenbrite 1984 Olympic gold medallist in the 200-metre breasts troke joined the Guelph swim team in August and Guelph Marlins coach Kevin Auger will be helping out thi s fall in a reciprocal agreement with Fairweather

With at least two coac hes on deck the team s 60 swimmers will get more inshydividual attention They ll al so have more room following the opening of Gue lph s new eight-lane pool

The Gryphons have been ranked among the top 10 university swim teams in Canada for the past four yea rs and the J 99192 varsity team included eight sw immers who made it to the last Olymshypic trials But Fairweather says this newshyfound success has more to do with the University s academic programs than it does with his coach ing skills Guelph is no w one of the first three choices for most Ontario high sc hool graduates he says and that means more swimmers are being attrac ted to campus

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How swimmers go faster During physical exertion the body Uie~ both aerobic and anaerobic energy sysshytems Sprinlergt rely on anacrobi( energy for quick stans and top speed over a shon distance Long-distance runners and swimmer push their bodies illlo the aerobic energy system enabling them to go farther longer

The body fatigues quickly when using anaerobic energy You may have a lot uf speed but you cant maintain it for more than a few sc(onds With exercise your body become more fit and tretches its aerobic energy capacity so you can hold that speed for a longer period before fatigue sets in

Fatigue can push the body into the anaerobic lystem for a last surge of trength before e haustiun sets in Stretchshy

ing the limits of your aerobic energy sysshytem (an mean even greater speed when your body calls on the anaerobic system during the linalmoments of a race

Even -pecific muscle) can bc trained to work in the aerobic or anaerobic end of the energy sy~tem

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Fairweather hates rec ruiting J rea lly think students - including w immers shyshould choose a university because of it s degree programs I want to coach people who ha ve made a considered dec isi on to come here not because J sold them a bill of goods

He says his team is heavily indebted to other coaches in Ontarios club sy stem and to former Gryphon swimmers who are now rhe parents teachers and coaches of a new generation of athletes Sweetnam came from thc Lindsay Ont Li ghtningbolt s where he was coac hed by Canadas 1990 swim coach of the yea r hi s mother Marian a 1965 nutliri on graduate of Macclo llakl [n ~ titute 11 i father (eorge OAC 66 anu

grandmother al so have Guelph degrees That s why he kn ew about Guelph he ays but it s not why he chose it More imshyportant was hi s plan to pursue a ca reer in ergonomics

Gryphon teammate Jeff Sumner won a Pres idents Scholarship to U of G and Jill Lutz came after seei ng how much fun her older brothe r Mark hld a a Grypl10n sw immer Most varsity sw immers develop -their tal ent s in the ir home town pool but a notabl e exception i Anne Marie Shrouder who walked into U of G pool a poor Iecreational swimmer and grad shyuated thi s spring a national finalist Watchshying he r compere last March in the CIAU championship was one of my proudes t moments w a coach says Fairweather

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U of G swim coach Alan Fairweather says muscle fatigue is often the greatest calise of swim injurie~ - the result of overuse and repetition A wimmer covering 5500 metres in a pratmiddottice will complete more than 2100 aml movements inshycluding both internal and external rotation of the shoulder joint

Most of Wi have far greater strength in our intershynal rotators so swimmcrs use weight training to build strength in external rotator muscles Premashyture fatigue in the external rotators can cause muscle strain or tendonitis Other preventive measure~ include a lengthy wannup before and after practice

Fairweather tells athletes not to force themshyselves to work at thc extremes of their flexibility every time And if it starts to hUl1 he tells them to look after the injury quickly

A swim coachs bug of tricks includes another technique that fools the body sO that it overshycompensates for muscle fatigue Mike Gurgol head coach at the North York Aquatics Club in Toronto says this strategy moved a 16-yearshyold female swimmer from 150th to 50th place in the world in one competition

During peak truining time lhis 400-metre freestyler

spends 24 hours a week in training - I I sessions in the pool dry-land weight training to build upper body and leg ~trcngth 200 to 300 abshydominal exercise a d~y massage therapy weekly to help muscles recover from the heavy workload and maybel pot check on her diet to verify a ballOced intake of 35-pcr-ccnt protein 60-pcrshycent carbohydrates and five-per-cent fat

Early in the sea on shell swim 20 kilometres a week building up to 80 km ( 120 at spring-break training camp in Florida) and dropping back to 10 or 12 km the hltt week before a major meet This technique drops the fatigue level but foob the body into thinking it is still in heavy training ays Gurgol As a result the body overcompenshy

sates and give the swimmer an etra hoost of energy and strength when it counts mosl 0

Like Fairwea ther Marian Sweetnam never intended to be a swimming coach But if you want somethin g done in a small town you have to do it yourself she says Both she and George a dentist who is currently pres ident of the Ontario Dental Associ ashytion are boating enthusiasts who believed their chi ldren should know how to swim for their own snfety They enrolled Steve in a leanHo-swim program more than 17 years ago

Around the same time Marian volunteered to coach the fiveshyyenr-olds at the Lindsay pool and eventually followed Steve and her other children Nancy and Peter all the way up the competishytive ranks As they learned she lea rned She read articles and books and took coaching cershytification courses to try to stay ahead of the kids

The challenge got greater when Nancy broke into the na shyt ional sw i m scene at age 12 I didnt want her to leave home to train says Marian so I worked harder too

One step at a time they worked their way to the 1992 Olympic Games Nancy now trains at Laurentian University and Marian is still a volunteer coach for 84 members of the Lindsay Lightningbolts

[n August she was assi stant coac h for the Ontario womens tcam at the Canada Games in Kamloops BC Head Ontario coac h was Mike Gurgol a 1979 graduate of Guelphs human kinetics program who coaches full time at the North York Aquatics Club in Toronto

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Guelph vars ity team was Fairweathers last He was later coached by Fairweather and served as his assistant coach

G urgol coached at Queens University for two yea rs while atshytending teac hers college then coached for the Prince George BC Barracudas and the Trent Swim Club in Peterborough Ont before joining the North York c lub as youth coach in 1986

He is now head coach at North York perennially one of the top five clubs in Canada It is also Ontario s larges t swim club with 180 competitive and 120 preshycompetitive swimmers three fullshyti me and 16 part-time sta ff and an annual budget of $300000 The club runs two major internashytional meets every year and comshypetitive swimmers travel several ti mes a year

Gurgol estimates the total cost for a competitive swimmer who is an Ontario finali st is about $5000 a yea r Most swimmers in Lind say spend about a ten th of that yet both clubs have produced Olympic contenders

The differences between the two clubs Jie in quantity rather than quality Talented swimmers will surface in any pool but the larger swim clubs have more talent to draw on

Despite the obvious differenshyces in their clubs Gurgol and Marian Sweetnam have surprisshyingly SImilar ieleas about how to coach sw immers Both are oriented towards excellence both believe in goal setting and both say the real key to success is a committed swimmer and supportshyive parents

Sweetnam claims she can tell when a new member walks on to the pool deck whether he or she will drop out or become a good swimmer And Gurgol tells swimshymers that missing three training sessions a week means theyre happy to be at 70 per cent of their capacity

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styler who achieves a li fe time best is congratulated but if shes still swimshyming at the same speed a week later then shes only average

We try to get kids going and go ing fast says Gurgol He moti vates swimshymers by highlighting ach ievements on a wall cha rt posti ng an inspirational quote each day and telling bad jokes when someone needs a littl e nudge

In Lindsay - where the population is sma ll er than the U of G student body shythe res Jess pressu re on individual swimshymers and more emphasis on serving the recreat ional needs of the community Swimmers are encouraged to partic ipate in other sports and coach Sweetnam doesnt compl ai n if they miss practice to study for exams Shes proud of the fac t that the Lindsay Li gh tningbo lts have produced several university swimshymers She says some of them actu ally do better when they move away fro m home and discover how im portant swimming rea ll y is to them

Fairweather knows how important swimming is to most of them - its third on thei r priority li st behind schoo lshywork and soc ial li fe As a coach hes a re laxed disciplinarian He never holds tryouts and seldom cu ts anyone from the team Im work ing with young adu lts who have to dec ide for themsel shyves how much practice time is enough

The pool is open fo r 16 practices a week Mos t of the women swim 12 to 14 hours a week the men average nine And the cl ock determines lane ass ignshyments Eve ryone knows whos the slowest in the pool says Fairweather and a swimmer who wants to move up a

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spiri t but swi mming is still basically an individual sport And its the individual who wants to get faster

A successfu l Gryphon sw immer has commitment So do successful club swimmers but theyre getting harde r to find

Gurgol says worl d record times may be getting faster bu t there are fewer and fewer challengers As a group Canadian swimmers are slower than they were in the 1980s and he blames society The demands of training - telling yo un gshysters to work harder and harder - go against the grain of a society that exshypec ts everything to come eas ier and easier he says Kid s are used to com shyputer games and remote controls and a new stimulation every 30 seconds In sport you have to do thin gs over and over again

All three coac hes try to ma ke ch aracshyter trai ning a pa rt of thei r program They teach that there are no sho rtcuts to success and hope to develop athletes who will become responsib le ad ults Swimmers lea rn that if you fa il you try to fig ure out why then try again The highs and lows of competitive swimshyming - like any sport - arc phenomshyenal Within one one-hundredth of a second two swimmers can experience the grea tes t thrill and the mos t devastatshying dIsappointment of a lifetime

Still the coac hes dont overlook the fact that swimming should be fun Both the North York and Guelph teams enjoy a regu lar off- season train ing camp in Florida For that one week sw imming is num ber one says Fairweather

We get a lot of work do ne and it builds team sp irit and some of thc best swimming memories 0

Life after sWImmIng

As a shivering tive-year-old Steve Sweetnam got into the Lindsay pool for his first swimming lesson only hecause his mother made him But after he eros ed that first hurshydle he swam because h~ wanted to

More inten ive training might have pushed him into national finals at a younger age but he thinks things havc been timed pretshyty well Last year he won the OUAA gold medal and a silver in the 50-metre butterfly at the Canadian University-thampionshymiddothips He was also a member or Canada s Olympic development

team and a finalist at the May 1992 Olympic trials

Now 22 Sweetnam is in his last ycar of eligibility for the univershysity swim progrtm and says hes ready to try something else Recentshyly he s become intershyIsted in the triathlon adventures of his Guelph teammate Jeff Krar a member of Guelph s OUAA silver medll relay teanl md Canadian Junior Champion in the triathlon

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Why are these people 0 happy Because theyre first in line for LI dip in G ue lphs long-awaited eight- lane wimming pool

The pool party s tarts with the oftkialopening OCI 1 a t II am Holding the umbrella is Gryphon swimming coach Alan Fairweather and dod wise re tired botany chair H ugh Dale microbiology profes~or Fred Rampra~had graduate studen t and head lifeguard Dawn Kelk alumni affairs dir ctor Trish W a lJer varsity swimmer Stev Sweetnam and student liaison

director Chuck Cunni ngham Cuver phlllltl b Russ Davilbun-Pilon 1(1)1 IIltcsurie coune of Eaton Canada

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How much time does it taJc - and ta lent andSwimming money and commitment - to become one of the against time fastest in Canadian waters

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Profile 18 Campus 5 LeRoy Blake b a guy w ho plays to winOpinion 12

A proven leader Deborah Poll says Alumni 24 were losing control of our country

ul 26 No J The Gllelph All111m is publi-hcd in April Augut and December hy Ihe Editor Mary Dick on Uncrity llrGu~lph in clt-(Ilxnnion wilh the Univcrll nfGudph Execulhe Editur Sundra Wehster CSS 75 Alumn Association Cllpyrighl 1943 ltkn and oplllions c)prcssed dn 11111

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AN IDEAL SETTING FOR RESEARCH AND BUSINESS Many research-oriented corporations and corporate headquarters are now located in the University of Guelph Research Park

This 30-acre Park also accommodates new tenants who choose to construct their own office or laboratory facil ities Leased space is available in the Research Park Centre Phase I and the proposed Phase II

Join the following prestigious tenants Agriculture Canada Agri-Food Network Compusense George Morris Centre GSW Inc Hart Chemical Company Lipid Analytical Laboratories Ontario Dairy Herd Improvement Corporation Stewardship Information Bureau and Tremco Limited

Take advantage of exceptional growth opportunities in a high-profile and ideal business setting For leasing information contact Matteis Realty Ltd Research Park Centre Suite 310 (519) 836-8060 or for general information about the Park (519) 767-5003

7he Research Park is a project of the Office of Research and the Unilersirys Rea Estate Division

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ove opens learning centre

OVes new Lifetime Learning Centre was officially opened during Alumni Weekend an appropri ate occasion beshycause college alumni have been major donors to the $49- million project and wi ll be primary users of the facility

The learning centre boasts a ISO-seat lec ture thea tre a 44-seat seminar room two interact ive classrooms six breakshyout rooms a lounge a ca fet eria and a food service area The centre is exshypected to welcome 10000 to 15000 visitors a year for educational programs alumni gatherings and meeti ngs of speshycial-interest groups

Long-range plans inc I ude a second phase of construction that will more than double the space of the existing OVC library and will add computer labs case-study rooms office space for student groups and rental space for Lifelearn V Inc a new campus-based company th at wi Jl be contracted to develop and market OVes continuing education programs

Co-founded by Jim Stowe OVC 69 former head of veterinary con tinuing ed ucati on and Chas Povey former head of the co llege development group Lifelearn V is a co llaboration of academic institutions individual veterinarians professional groups and industry with U of G as a major shareholder

Environmental safety focus of new complex

The impact of genetically engineered plants on the environment is a focal point of the new $15-lllillion Guelph Transgenic Plant Research Comple

Officially opened in May the 7000shysquare-foot complex offers unpreceshydented opportunities to safe ly develop and evaluate new plant varieti es developed through genetic eng ineer ing says crop science professor Bryan McKersi e The complex will help universities and industry meet stringent federal protocols without any potential environ mental risk he says

The heart of the complex is a comshyputer-controlled greenhouse - deshysigned by horticu ltural sc ience professor Mike Dixon - that regulates its own atshymospheric ~onditions Two growth

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rooms eight ca binet-type grow th chamshybers and a preparatory fa ci lit y make up the rest of the facility

It was built with an $875000 grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineershying Research Council and contributions trolllthe Ont ar io Mini stry of Agriculshyture and Food and the Uni versi ty

Transgenic plants have been modified in the lab to contain a sma ll ponion of the genetic code of ano ther olmiddotganism T hi s results in new traits not normally assoc iated with their specie s such as disease resistance and stress tolerance Guelph has been active in transgenic plant research for nearl y a decade

On with the show

U of G s th eatre archives whic h house the archives of major Canadian theatres actors playwrights and even a lock of George Bernard Shaws beard turned 10 this spring Located in the library the archives are home to 79 separate colshylecti ons wi th emphas i ~ on Canadian theatre

Housed in the archives are the wor ldshyrenowned Sha w collection which inshycludes the Shaw Festiva l arclli ves and the Dan H Laurence Collection the source of the strands of Shaws beard Othcr theatres represented include Theatre Passe Muraille the Blyth Fesshytival Native Earth Pcrforming Arts the

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Royal Alexandra Theatrc and London s Grand Theatre

Recognizing the Scots

In cOlljunction wi th it~ annual series of Scottish workshops Guelph s Scottish Studies Program will award an annLlal pri ze in Scottish history The pli ze is named for FranK Watson ltJ regular parshyticipa nt in the Scotti~ h workshop series

II will be awarded for the first lime next spring to the best book monoshygraph dissertation or edited set 01 papers on Scottish studies publ ished since Jan 1 199 1 Preference will be given to ori ginal works on ear ly Scotshytiih hi story or to any area of Scottish hisshytory that is still largely unexplored The recipient wi ll be in vited to present a lecshyture and seminar at Guelph Entries must be submitted by Nov 30 1993 to Ihe chair of Scotti sh Studies Depart shyment of History University of Guelph Guelph Ont N I G 2W I

U of G is known internationally for its program in Scot tish studies and its library col lection of Scotti sh materialshythe largest outside Scotland The Departshyment o t Hi sto ry otlers Scottish literature and history courses at the undergraduate level as well as MA and PhD programs It also promotes student exchange programs with th e University of Abershydeen and Strathel yde

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dents gradshyuated at spring convoc ation ce remonies in June Honorary cioc tor of scishyence degrees we nt to nutritionIst Joyce Beare- LeUIl Sallldr

Rogers former chief of nutri shytion research with Health and Welfare Canada Unishyversityof Western Onshytario engineer Alan Da ve nshyport a consul- Helen Abell

tant on many of the world s larges t enshygineering struc tures and ve terinary pathologist Leon Saunders OVC 43 whose distingu ished ca ree r has included research teac hin g and writing

Honorary doctor of luws degrees went to Helen Abell Mac 38 0 a former OAC fa culty member and international consultant on nutrition rural ex tens ion and socio logy in the Third World and agriculturi st George Morri s whose many contributions [0 U of G ha ve inshycluded establ ishment of the George Morris Centre a think tank for agriculshytural policy resea rch and education

Honorary doctor of letters degrees went to literary scholar Gilles Marcotte a professor of French studies at the University of Mont real and renowned economist Richard Lipsey a professor at Simon Fraser Uni vers ity and director of the economic growth and resea rch program at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Resea rch

Three retired Guelph faculty members we re also honored at convocation The title of Uni versi ty professor emeritus was bestowed on botanist Donald Britto n and eng inee r Walter Bilansk i Pathologist Tom Hullancl received a meda l of merit

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European program unique in Canada

A unique new degree program in European studies co uld be just the ticket for stucients looking ~or international careers The BA program combines European culture and business studies with language courses and a year of study abroad

The 40-course honors major will inshyclude a core o f six language courses anci four European culture and civili za tion courses There will be two areas of emshyphas is - European culture and civili za shytion or European business studies

In thei r third yea r students will study abroad as part of Guel ph s exc hange programs with universities in Germany France Italy ane Spain

Squirrelling away for the future

After a hal f-centurys abse nce southern fl ying squirre ls have re turned to Point Pelee National Park thanks to U of G reshysea rchers and Parks Canaela

This spr ing zoo logy professor Tom Nudds gradua te studen t Ian Adam s and an entourage of Parks Canada officials and media watchecl anxiously as 17 southern flying sq uirre ls - chipmunkshysized rodents capab le of spread-eagled leaps and glides of 30 to 40 feet shy

emerged inqui siti ve ly from nes ting boxes wired [ 0 treeraquo in ~ ]n iso lated pari of Point Pe lee NatIonal P~]rk

The animals had been transported from the Long Po int area to Point Pelee the southernmost point of Canada where the mall mammal was WIped out in the 1930s The relocation project is part of a general movement at the park to res tore the Caro linian ecosystem that crumbl ed there in the rclce of a booming cOllage l(lutry ubsequent habitat devastc]tion and cl concerted pclrk policy to e rad ica te ceria III mammals conshysidered pests Adams and N udds hope to re introduce 100 raquoouthern flying sq uirshyrels to the park

Career services for alumni

Remember the Counselling clnd Student Reso urce Centre Its alo an allll7lni

resource cen tre that ()~lers career workshyshops a job-referral ervice and a recruiting service

On Ocr 7 the CSRC wil l host a ca ree r fair in the UnI ve rsit y Centre fmm 10 am to 3 pl11 There IS a S225 charge for employers who want to se t up a booth but admision for vis itors is irce For more information call Bonnie Patteson at SI9-824-4120 Ext 2394 The annual fa ir draws up to 50 emshyployerraquo - gove rnment anci private-sec shytor companies franchise organia ti ons and educational institutions

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Alumni can also participate as employer or employee in a job-referral service There is no charge to employshyers but job hun te rs pay $60 to enrol then receive notices of all job openings received by the CSRC including posishytion s at U of G and within the public sector Call Ext 2394 for informa ti on

OMAFGuelph agreement under review

For almost a yea r U of G has been in shyvolved in an exe rci se to restructure its research agreement with the Ontario Mini st ry of Agric ulture and Food (OMAF) Inter im program leaders apshypointed by the University are working

out details for structu ring operating and implementing ne w research programs

The more than 20 program s that make up the long-standing agreement are being consolidated into six programs shyrural communities plants animals food sys tems and resou rcese nvironshyment - to help streamline operations and address fi nancia l issue

The restructuring process was prompted by OMAFs announcement last year that it would cut core funding in the research agreement by $15 milshylion - an e ffol1 to reduce the ministrys operating budget by three per cent This was in line with a budget-cutting direc shytive sen t out to all govelllJl1ent minis shytri es and included the provisi on of another $500000 reduction in funding for the research ag reement in I993jl)4

Current discussions centre aro und the relati onships between the new program areas and the way OMAF-supported re shysearch projects will ht in The restrucshyturing exercise is designed to enhance flexibility responsiveness and efficienshycy in the management and deployment of agreeme nt fund says research vice shypresident Larry Milligan

This ye[1r the agreement will provide $30 JllilJi on to agri-food research and ed ucation at Guelph the single largest external source of researc h support

Faculty briefs

vir Prof Leonard Conoll y acting academic vice-presidenr wi ll beshycome president of Trent Uni vers ity Jan I 1994 Conolly who came 10

U ofG in 19R1 aschailoftheDepartshyment of Drama has abo se rved as ac shyting dean of the College of Arts and associate vice-president

L1 lt1 Prof Jim Taylor is the new direc tor of the School of Landscape Architecshyture He has been acting di rec tor and undergrad uate co-ord inator has chaired the Cruickston Park Farm Advisory Committee and has served on the Arboretum committee

t-Y Pmf Murray Brown OAC 51 MSA 53 retired this sp rin g after 27 years in the Department of Land Resou rce Science The first to link ag ronomy with meteorology Brown was the founder of the Canad ianshySociety of Agro met eorology

Steve Sweetnam leamed to swi m long before he could tell time But the clock has been hi s

taskmaste r ever since Each practice each swim meet he tries to beat the c lock tries to swim faster than the day before

All competitive swimmers are clock watc hers At the end of every race they look fo r the time cJock s verdict before they check the coac hs face The clock doesn t lie and it doesnt accept exshycuses

Ranked among the top 100 male swimmers in the world Sweetnam ca n cross a 2S-metre pool eight times in two minutes and 4R seconds He s faster than Alberta swimmer Graham Smith who became a national hero when he won six go ld medals at the J978 COillshy

monwealth Games but Sweetnams time is still eight seconds off the current world record fo r the 200-metre inshydividual medley

That s the story of competiti ve sport Yesterdays unbelievable performances are tomorrows routine practice times

Gryphon swim coach Alan Fairshyweather HK 7S was a nat ional finalist

in the early 1970s but even his best time in the spri nt freestyl e event would make him only an average swimmer among todays Gryphons The IS -year difference in speed is the result of trainshying efficiency says Fairweather Plus a better understanding of the relationship among body mechanics physiology nutrition and psychologi ca l preparation

Fairweather was a top-rank ed uni vershysity swimmer and a stude nt of physiolshyogy but he didnt connec t the two di sc iplines until after he began coachshying His plans for medical sc hool evaporated shon ly after he signed on with the Gryphons in the fall of 1975 but hes st ill using hi s degree in human kinetics to train the human bod y to go faster And each year he continues to learn more

What he learns he shares He says an educated sw immer is a more comshymitted athlete and a better performer

Fairweather frequently consu lts his former physiology professor Jack Barclay and other Guelph faculty He refers swimmers to nutrition consultant Marg Hedley Mac 64 and MSc 8 1 to Prof Evelyn Birds relaxation clinic

Srori ls hy Mary Dicfiesull

and to Gryphon ath letic therapist Gunner Oberascous

Sports psychology has a tloating posishytion on Fairweather s coac hing hierarshychy Its an ongoi ng part of the coac h-athlete relationship not a quick fi x yo u can buy in a two-hour workshop he says His approacllto swim training is all encompass ing geared to producing athletes who are bo th phys ically and mentally fit

For Fairweathe r a train ing regimen is second in importance only to stroke mechanics Why train for months or yea rs to take a second off your time if one slight change in the pitch of your hand will accomplish the same thing

Guelph swimmers will see even more emphasi s on stroke mechanics in the com ing season because of the addi tion of two part-time coac hes Anne Ottenbrite 1984 Olympic gold medallist in the 200-metre breasts troke joined the Guelph swim team in August and Guelph Marlins coach Kevin Auger will be helping out thi s fall in a reciprocal agreement with Fairweather

With at least two coac hes on deck the team s 60 swimmers will get more inshydividual attention They ll al so have more room following the opening of Gue lph s new eight-lane pool

The Gryphons have been ranked among the top 10 university swim teams in Canada for the past four yea rs and the J 99192 varsity team included eight sw immers who made it to the last Olymshypic trials But Fairweather says this newshyfound success has more to do with the University s academic programs than it does with his coach ing skills Guelph is no w one of the first three choices for most Ontario high sc hool graduates he says and that means more swimmers are being attrac ted to campus

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How swimmers go faster During physical exertion the body Uie~ both aerobic and anaerobic energy sysshytems Sprinlergt rely on anacrobi( energy for quick stans and top speed over a shon distance Long-distance runners and swimmer push their bodies illlo the aerobic energy system enabling them to go farther longer

The body fatigues quickly when using anaerobic energy You may have a lot uf speed but you cant maintain it for more than a few sc(onds With exercise your body become more fit and tretches its aerobic energy capacity so you can hold that speed for a longer period before fatigue sets in

Fatigue can push the body into the anaerobic lystem for a last surge of trength before e haustiun sets in Stretchshy

ing the limits of your aerobic energy sysshytem (an mean even greater speed when your body calls on the anaerobic system during the linalmoments of a race

Even -pecific muscle) can bc trained to work in the aerobic or anaerobic end of the energy sy~tem

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Fairweather hates rec ruiting J rea lly think students - including w immers shyshould choose a university because of it s degree programs I want to coach people who ha ve made a considered dec isi on to come here not because J sold them a bill of goods

He says his team is heavily indebted to other coaches in Ontarios club sy stem and to former Gryphon swimmers who are now rhe parents teachers and coaches of a new generation of athletes Sweetnam came from thc Lindsay Ont Li ghtningbolt s where he was coac hed by Canadas 1990 swim coach of the yea r hi s mother Marian a 1965 nutliri on graduate of Macclo llakl [n ~ titute 11 i father (eorge OAC 66 anu

grandmother al so have Guelph degrees That s why he kn ew about Guelph he ays but it s not why he chose it More imshyportant was hi s plan to pursue a ca reer in ergonomics

Gryphon teammate Jeff Sumner won a Pres idents Scholarship to U of G and Jill Lutz came after seei ng how much fun her older brothe r Mark hld a a Grypl10n sw immer Most varsity sw immers develop -their tal ent s in the ir home town pool but a notabl e exception i Anne Marie Shrouder who walked into U of G pool a poor Iecreational swimmer and grad shyuated thi s spring a national finalist Watchshying he r compere last March in the CIAU championship was one of my proudes t moments w a coach says Fairweather

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U of G swim coach Alan Fairweather says muscle fatigue is often the greatest calise of swim injurie~ - the result of overuse and repetition A wimmer covering 5500 metres in a pratmiddottice will complete more than 2100 aml movements inshycluding both internal and external rotation of the shoulder joint

Most of Wi have far greater strength in our intershynal rotators so swimmcrs use weight training to build strength in external rotator muscles Premashyture fatigue in the external rotators can cause muscle strain or tendonitis Other preventive measure~ include a lengthy wannup before and after practice

Fairweather tells athletes not to force themshyselves to work at thc extremes of their flexibility every time And if it starts to hUl1 he tells them to look after the injury quickly

A swim coachs bug of tricks includes another technique that fools the body sO that it overshycompensates for muscle fatigue Mike Gurgol head coach at the North York Aquatics Club in Toronto says this strategy moved a 16-yearshyold female swimmer from 150th to 50th place in the world in one competition

During peak truining time lhis 400-metre freestyler

spends 24 hours a week in training - I I sessions in the pool dry-land weight training to build upper body and leg ~trcngth 200 to 300 abshydominal exercise a d~y massage therapy weekly to help muscles recover from the heavy workload and maybel pot check on her diet to verify a ballOced intake of 35-pcr-ccnt protein 60-pcrshycent carbohydrates and five-per-cent fat

Early in the sea on shell swim 20 kilometres a week building up to 80 km ( 120 at spring-break training camp in Florida) and dropping back to 10 or 12 km the hltt week before a major meet This technique drops the fatigue level but foob the body into thinking it is still in heavy training ays Gurgol As a result the body overcompenshy

sates and give the swimmer an etra hoost of energy and strength when it counts mosl 0

Like Fairwea ther Marian Sweetnam never intended to be a swimming coach But if you want somethin g done in a small town you have to do it yourself she says Both she and George a dentist who is currently pres ident of the Ontario Dental Associ ashytion are boating enthusiasts who believed their chi ldren should know how to swim for their own snfety They enrolled Steve in a leanHo-swim program more than 17 years ago

Around the same time Marian volunteered to coach the fiveshyyenr-olds at the Lindsay pool and eventually followed Steve and her other children Nancy and Peter all the way up the competishytive ranks As they learned she lea rned She read articles and books and took coaching cershytification courses to try to stay ahead of the kids

The challenge got greater when Nancy broke into the na shyt ional sw i m scene at age 12 I didnt want her to leave home to train says Marian so I worked harder too

One step at a time they worked their way to the 1992 Olympic Games Nancy now trains at Laurentian University and Marian is still a volunteer coach for 84 members of the Lindsay Lightningbolts

[n August she was assi stant coac h for the Ontario womens tcam at the Canada Games in Kamloops BC Head Ontario coac h was Mike Gurgol a 1979 graduate of Guelphs human kinetics program who coaches full time at the North York Aquatics Club in Toronto

Gurgols first yearon the

Guelph vars ity team was Fairweathers last He was later coached by Fairweather and served as his assistant coach

G urgol coached at Queens University for two yea rs while atshytending teac hers college then coached for the Prince George BC Barracudas and the Trent Swim Club in Peterborough Ont before joining the North York c lub as youth coach in 1986

He is now head coach at North York perennially one of the top five clubs in Canada It is also Ontario s larges t swim club with 180 competitive and 120 preshycompetitive swimmers three fullshyti me and 16 part-time sta ff and an annual budget of $300000 The club runs two major internashytional meets every year and comshypetitive swimmers travel several ti mes a year

Gurgol estimates the total cost for a competitive swimmer who is an Ontario finali st is about $5000 a yea r Most swimmers in Lind say spend about a ten th of that yet both clubs have produced Olympic contenders

The differences between the two clubs Jie in quantity rather than quality Talented swimmers will surface in any pool but the larger swim clubs have more talent to draw on

Despite the obvious differenshyces in their clubs Gurgol and Marian Sweetnam have surprisshyingly SImilar ieleas about how to coach sw immers Both are oriented towards excellence both believe in goal setting and both say the real key to success is a committed swimmer and supportshyive parents

Sweetnam claims she can tell when a new member walks on to the pool deck whether he or she will drop out or become a good swimmer And Gurgol tells swimshymers that missing three training sessions a week means theyre happy to be at 70 per cent of their capacity

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We try to get kids going and go ing fast says Gurgol He moti vates swimshymers by highlighting ach ievements on a wall cha rt posti ng an inspirational quote each day and telling bad jokes when someone needs a littl e nudge

In Lindsay - where the population is sma ll er than the U of G student body shythe res Jess pressu re on individual swimshymers and more emphasis on serving the recreat ional needs of the community Swimmers are encouraged to partic ipate in other sports and coach Sweetnam doesnt compl ai n if they miss practice to study for exams Shes proud of the fac t that the Lindsay Li gh tningbo lts have produced several university swimshymers She says some of them actu ally do better when they move away fro m home and discover how im portant swimming rea ll y is to them

Fairweather knows how important swimming is to most of them - its third on thei r priority li st behind schoo lshywork and soc ial li fe As a coach hes a re laxed disciplinarian He never holds tryouts and seldom cu ts anyone from the team Im work ing with young adu lts who have to dec ide for themsel shyves how much practice time is enough

The pool is open fo r 16 practices a week Mos t of the women swim 12 to 14 hours a week the men average nine And the cl ock determines lane ass ignshyments Eve ryone knows whos the slowest in the pool says Fairweather and a swimmer who wants to move up a

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lane works harder At Gue lph we try to stress team

spiri t but swi mming is still basically an individual sport And its the individual who wants to get faster

A successfu l Gryphon sw immer has commitment So do successful club swimmers but theyre getting harde r to find

Gurgol says worl d record times may be getting faster bu t there are fewer and fewer challengers As a group Canadian swimmers are slower than they were in the 1980s and he blames society The demands of training - telling yo un gshysters to work harder and harder - go against the grain of a society that exshypec ts everything to come eas ier and easier he says Kid s are used to com shyputer games and remote controls and a new stimulation every 30 seconds In sport you have to do thin gs over and over again

All three coac hes try to ma ke ch aracshyter trai ning a pa rt of thei r program They teach that there are no sho rtcuts to success and hope to develop athletes who will become responsib le ad ults Swimmers lea rn that if you fa il you try to fig ure out why then try again The highs and lows of competitive swimshyming - like any sport - arc phenomshyenal Within one one-hundredth of a second two swimmers can experience the grea tes t thrill and the mos t devastatshying dIsappointment of a lifetime

Still the coac hes dont overlook the fact that swimming should be fun Both the North York and Guelph teams enjoy a regu lar off- season train ing camp in Florida For that one week sw imming is num ber one says Fairweather

We get a lot of work do ne and it builds team sp irit and some of thc best swimming memories 0

Life after sWImmIng

As a shivering tive-year-old Steve Sweetnam got into the Lindsay pool for his first swimming lesson only hecause his mother made him But after he eros ed that first hurshydle he swam because h~ wanted to

More inten ive training might have pushed him into national finals at a younger age but he thinks things havc been timed pretshyty well Last year he won the OUAA gold medal and a silver in the 50-metre butterfly at the Canadian University-thampionshymiddothips He was also a member or Canada s Olympic development

team and a finalist at the May 1992 Olympic trials

Now 22 Sweetnam is in his last ycar of eligibility for the univershysity swim progrtm and says hes ready to try something else Recentshyly he s become intershyIsted in the triathlon adventures of his Guelph teammate Jeff Krar a member of Guelph s OUAA silver medll relay teanl md Canadian Junior Champion in the triathlon

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This 30-acre Park also accommodates new tenants who choose to construct their own office or laboratory facil ities Leased space is available in the Research Park Centre Phase I and the proposed Phase II

Join the following prestigious tenants Agriculture Canada Agri-Food Network Compusense George Morris Centre GSW Inc Hart Chemical Company Lipid Analytical Laboratories Ontario Dairy Herd Improvement Corporation Stewardship Information Bureau and Tremco Limited

Take advantage of exceptional growth opportunities in a high-profile and ideal business setting For leasing information contact Matteis Realty Ltd Research Park Centre Suite 310 (519) 836-8060 or for general information about the Park (519) 767-5003

7he Research Park is a project of the Office of Research and the Unilersirys Rea Estate Division

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ove opens learning centre

OVes new Lifetime Learning Centre was officially opened during Alumni Weekend an appropri ate occasion beshycause college alumni have been major donors to the $49- million project and wi ll be primary users of the facility

The learning centre boasts a ISO-seat lec ture thea tre a 44-seat seminar room two interact ive classrooms six breakshyout rooms a lounge a ca fet eria and a food service area The centre is exshypected to welcome 10000 to 15000 visitors a year for educational programs alumni gatherings and meeti ngs of speshycial-interest groups

Long-range plans inc I ude a second phase of construction that will more than double the space of the existing OVC library and will add computer labs case-study rooms office space for student groups and rental space for Lifelearn V Inc a new campus-based company th at wi Jl be contracted to develop and market OVes continuing education programs

Co-founded by Jim Stowe OVC 69 former head of veterinary con tinuing ed ucati on and Chas Povey former head of the co llege development group Lifelearn V is a co llaboration of academic institutions individual veterinarians professional groups and industry with U of G as a major shareholder

Environmental safety focus of new complex

The impact of genetically engineered plants on the environment is a focal point of the new $15-lllillion Guelph Transgenic Plant Research Comple

Officially opened in May the 7000shysquare-foot complex offers unpreceshydented opportunities to safe ly develop and evaluate new plant varieti es developed through genetic eng ineer ing says crop science professor Bryan McKersi e The complex will help universities and industry meet stringent federal protocols without any potential environ mental risk he says

The heart of the complex is a comshyputer-controlled greenhouse - deshysigned by horticu ltural sc ience professor Mike Dixon - that regulates its own atshymospheric ~onditions Two growth

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rooms eight ca binet-type grow th chamshybers and a preparatory fa ci lit y make up the rest of the facility

It was built with an $875000 grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineershying Research Council and contributions trolllthe Ont ar io Mini stry of Agriculshyture and Food and the Uni versi ty

Transgenic plants have been modified in the lab to contain a sma ll ponion of the genetic code of ano ther olmiddotganism T hi s results in new traits not normally assoc iated with their specie s such as disease resistance and stress tolerance Guelph has been active in transgenic plant research for nearl y a decade

On with the show

U of G s th eatre archives whic h house the archives of major Canadian theatres actors playwrights and even a lock of George Bernard Shaws beard turned 10 this spring Located in the library the archives are home to 79 separate colshylecti ons wi th emphas i ~ on Canadian theatre

Housed in the archives are the wor ldshyrenowned Sha w collection which inshycludes the Shaw Festiva l arclli ves and the Dan H Laurence Collection the source of the strands of Shaws beard Othcr theatres represented include Theatre Passe Muraille the Blyth Fesshytival Native Earth Pcrforming Arts the

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Royal Alexandra Theatrc and London s Grand Theatre

Recognizing the Scots

In cOlljunction wi th it~ annual series of Scottish workshops Guelph s Scottish Studies Program will award an annLlal pri ze in Scottish history The pli ze is named for FranK Watson ltJ regular parshyticipa nt in the Scotti~ h workshop series

II will be awarded for the first lime next spring to the best book monoshygraph dissertation or edited set 01 papers on Scottish studies publ ished since Jan 1 199 1 Preference will be given to ori ginal works on ear ly Scotshytiih hi story or to any area of Scottish hisshytory that is still largely unexplored The recipient wi ll be in vited to present a lecshyture and seminar at Guelph Entries must be submitted by Nov 30 1993 to Ihe chair of Scotti sh Studies Depart shyment of History University of Guelph Guelph Ont N I G 2W I

U of G is known internationally for its program in Scot tish studies and its library col lection of Scotti sh materialshythe largest outside Scotland The Departshyment o t Hi sto ry otlers Scottish literature and history courses at the undergraduate level as well as MA and PhD programs It also promotes student exchange programs with th e University of Abershydeen and Strathel yde

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dents gradshyuated at spring convoc ation ce remonies in June Honorary cioc tor of scishyence degrees we nt to nutritionIst Joyce Beare- LeUIl Sallldr

Rogers former chief of nutri shytion research with Health and Welfare Canada Unishyversityof Western Onshytario engineer Alan Da ve nshyport a consul- Helen Abell

tant on many of the world s larges t enshygineering struc tures and ve terinary pathologist Leon Saunders OVC 43 whose distingu ished ca ree r has included research teac hin g and writing

Honorary doctor of luws degrees went to Helen Abell Mac 38 0 a former OAC fa culty member and international consultant on nutrition rural ex tens ion and socio logy in the Third World and agriculturi st George Morri s whose many contributions [0 U of G ha ve inshycluded establ ishment of the George Morris Centre a think tank for agriculshytural policy resea rch and education

Honorary doctor of letters degrees went to literary scholar Gilles Marcotte a professor of French studies at the University of Mont real and renowned economist Richard Lipsey a professor at Simon Fraser Uni vers ity and director of the economic growth and resea rch program at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Resea rch

Three retired Guelph faculty members we re also honored at convocation The title of Uni versi ty professor emeritus was bestowed on botanist Donald Britto n and eng inee r Walter Bilansk i Pathologist Tom Hullancl received a meda l of merit

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European program unique in Canada

A unique new degree program in European studies co uld be just the ticket for stucients looking ~or international careers The BA program combines European culture and business studies with language courses and a year of study abroad

The 40-course honors major will inshyclude a core o f six language courses anci four European culture and civili za tion courses There will be two areas of emshyphas is - European culture and civili za shytion or European business studies

In thei r third yea r students will study abroad as part of Guel ph s exc hange programs with universities in Germany France Italy ane Spain

Squirrelling away for the future

After a hal f-centurys abse nce southern fl ying squirre ls have re turned to Point Pelee National Park thanks to U of G reshysea rchers and Parks Canaela

This spr ing zoo logy professor Tom Nudds gradua te studen t Ian Adam s and an entourage of Parks Canada officials and media watchecl anxiously as 17 southern flying sq uirre ls - chipmunkshysized rodents capab le of spread-eagled leaps and glides of 30 to 40 feet shy

emerged inqui siti ve ly from nes ting boxes wired [ 0 treeraquo in ~ ]n iso lated pari of Point Pe lee NatIonal P~]rk

The animals had been transported from the Long Po int area to Point Pelee the southernmost point of Canada where the mall mammal was WIped out in the 1930s The relocation project is part of a general movement at the park to res tore the Caro linian ecosystem that crumbl ed there in the rclce of a booming cOllage l(lutry ubsequent habitat devastc]tion and cl concerted pclrk policy to e rad ica te ceria III mammals conshysidered pests Adams and N udds hope to re introduce 100 raquoouthern flying sq uirshyrels to the park

Career services for alumni

Remember the Counselling clnd Student Reso urce Centre Its alo an allll7lni

resource cen tre that ()~lers career workshyshops a job-referral ervice and a recruiting service

On Ocr 7 the CSRC wil l host a ca ree r fair in the UnI ve rsit y Centre fmm 10 am to 3 pl11 There IS a S225 charge for employers who want to se t up a booth but admision for vis itors is irce For more information call Bonnie Patteson at SI9-824-4120 Ext 2394 The annual fa ir draws up to 50 emshyployerraquo - gove rnment anci private-sec shytor companies franchise organia ti ons and educational institutions

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Alumni can also participate as employer or employee in a job-referral service There is no charge to employshyers but job hun te rs pay $60 to enrol then receive notices of all job openings received by the CSRC including posishytion s at U of G and within the public sector Call Ext 2394 for informa ti on

OMAFGuelph agreement under review

For almost a yea r U of G has been in shyvolved in an exe rci se to restructure its research agreement with the Ontario Mini st ry of Agric ulture and Food (OMAF) Inter im program leaders apshypointed by the University are working

out details for structu ring operating and implementing ne w research programs

The more than 20 program s that make up the long-standing agreement are being consolidated into six programs shyrural communities plants animals food sys tems and resou rcese nvironshyment - to help streamline operations and address fi nancia l issue

The restructuring process was prompted by OMAFs announcement last year that it would cut core funding in the research agreement by $15 milshylion - an e ffol1 to reduce the ministrys operating budget by three per cent This was in line with a budget-cutting direc shytive sen t out to all govelllJl1ent minis shytri es and included the provisi on of another $500000 reduction in funding for the research ag reement in I993jl)4

Current discussions centre aro und the relati onships between the new program areas and the way OMAF-supported re shysearch projects will ht in The restrucshyturing exercise is designed to enhance flexibility responsiveness and efficienshycy in the management and deployment of agreeme nt fund says research vice shypresident Larry Milligan

This ye[1r the agreement will provide $30 JllilJi on to agri-food research and ed ucation at Guelph the single largest external source of researc h support

Faculty briefs

vir Prof Leonard Conoll y acting academic vice-presidenr wi ll beshycome president of Trent Uni vers ity Jan I 1994 Conolly who came 10

U ofG in 19R1 aschailoftheDepartshyment of Drama has abo se rved as ac shyting dean of the College of Arts and associate vice-president

L1 lt1 Prof Jim Taylor is the new direc tor of the School of Landscape Architecshyture He has been acting di rec tor and undergrad uate co-ord inator has chaired the Cruickston Park Farm Advisory Committee and has served on the Arboretum committee

t-Y Pmf Murray Brown OAC 51 MSA 53 retired this sp rin g after 27 years in the Department of Land Resou rce Science The first to link ag ronomy with meteorology Brown was the founder of the Canad ianshySociety of Agro met eorology

Steve Sweetnam leamed to swi m long before he could tell time But the clock has been hi s

taskmaste r ever since Each practice each swim meet he tries to beat the c lock tries to swim faster than the day before

All competitive swimmers are clock watc hers At the end of every race they look fo r the time cJock s verdict before they check the coac hs face The clock doesn t lie and it doesnt accept exshycuses

Ranked among the top 100 male swimmers in the world Sweetnam ca n cross a 2S-metre pool eight times in two minutes and 4R seconds He s faster than Alberta swimmer Graham Smith who became a national hero when he won six go ld medals at the J978 COillshy

monwealth Games but Sweetnams time is still eight seconds off the current world record fo r the 200-metre inshydividual medley

That s the story of competiti ve sport Yesterdays unbelievable performances are tomorrows routine practice times

Gryphon swim coach Alan Fairshyweather HK 7S was a nat ional finalist

in the early 1970s but even his best time in the spri nt freestyl e event would make him only an average swimmer among todays Gryphons The IS -year difference in speed is the result of trainshying efficiency says Fairweather Plus a better understanding of the relationship among body mechanics physiology nutrition and psychologi ca l preparation

Fairweather was a top-rank ed uni vershysity swimmer and a stude nt of physiolshyogy but he didnt connec t the two di sc iplines until after he began coachshying His plans for medical sc hool evaporated shon ly after he signed on with the Gryphons in the fall of 1975 but hes st ill using hi s degree in human kinetics to train the human bod y to go faster And each year he continues to learn more

What he learns he shares He says an educated sw immer is a more comshymitted athlete and a better performer

Fairweather frequently consu lts his former physiology professor Jack Barclay and other Guelph faculty He refers swimmers to nutrition consultant Marg Hedley Mac 64 and MSc 8 1 to Prof Evelyn Birds relaxation clinic

Srori ls hy Mary Dicfiesull

and to Gryphon ath letic therapist Gunner Oberascous

Sports psychology has a tloating posishytion on Fairweather s coac hing hierarshychy Its an ongoi ng part of the coac h-athlete relationship not a quick fi x yo u can buy in a two-hour workshop he says His approacllto swim training is all encompass ing geared to producing athletes who are bo th phys ically and mentally fit

For Fairweathe r a train ing regimen is second in importance only to stroke mechanics Why train for months or yea rs to take a second off your time if one slight change in the pitch of your hand will accomplish the same thing

Guelph swimmers will see even more emphasi s on stroke mechanics in the com ing season because of the addi tion of two part-time coac hes Anne Ottenbrite 1984 Olympic gold medallist in the 200-metre breasts troke joined the Guelph swim team in August and Guelph Marlins coach Kevin Auger will be helping out thi s fall in a reciprocal agreement with Fairweather

With at least two coac hes on deck the team s 60 swimmers will get more inshydividual attention They ll al so have more room following the opening of Gue lph s new eight-lane pool

The Gryphons have been ranked among the top 10 university swim teams in Canada for the past four yea rs and the J 99192 varsity team included eight sw immers who made it to the last Olymshypic trials But Fairweather says this newshyfound success has more to do with the University s academic programs than it does with his coach ing skills Guelph is no w one of the first three choices for most Ontario high sc hool graduates he says and that means more swimmers are being attrac ted to campus

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How swimmers go faster During physical exertion the body Uie~ both aerobic and anaerobic energy sysshytems Sprinlergt rely on anacrobi( energy for quick stans and top speed over a shon distance Long-distance runners and swimmer push their bodies illlo the aerobic energy system enabling them to go farther longer

The body fatigues quickly when using anaerobic energy You may have a lot uf speed but you cant maintain it for more than a few sc(onds With exercise your body become more fit and tretches its aerobic energy capacity so you can hold that speed for a longer period before fatigue sets in

Fatigue can push the body into the anaerobic lystem for a last surge of trength before e haustiun sets in Stretchshy

ing the limits of your aerobic energy sysshytem (an mean even greater speed when your body calls on the anaerobic system during the linalmoments of a race

Even -pecific muscle) can bc trained to work in the aerobic or anaerobic end of the energy sy~tem

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He says his team is heavily indebted to other coaches in Ontarios club sy stem and to former Gryphon swimmers who are now rhe parents teachers and coaches of a new generation of athletes Sweetnam came from thc Lindsay Ont Li ghtningbolt s where he was coac hed by Canadas 1990 swim coach of the yea r hi s mother Marian a 1965 nutliri on graduate of Macclo llakl [n ~ titute 11 i father (eorge OAC 66 anu

grandmother al so have Guelph degrees That s why he kn ew about Guelph he ays but it s not why he chose it More imshyportant was hi s plan to pursue a ca reer in ergonomics

Gryphon teammate Jeff Sumner won a Pres idents Scholarship to U of G and Jill Lutz came after seei ng how much fun her older brothe r Mark hld a a Grypl10n sw immer Most varsity sw immers develop -their tal ent s in the ir home town pool but a notabl e exception i Anne Marie Shrouder who walked into U of G pool a poor Iecreational swimmer and grad shyuated thi s spring a national finalist Watchshying he r compere last March in the CIAU championship was one of my proudes t moments w a coach says Fairweather

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U of G swim coach Alan Fairweather says muscle fatigue is often the greatest calise of swim injurie~ - the result of overuse and repetition A wimmer covering 5500 metres in a pratmiddottice will complete more than 2100 aml movements inshycluding both internal and external rotation of the shoulder joint

Most of Wi have far greater strength in our intershynal rotators so swimmcrs use weight training to build strength in external rotator muscles Premashyture fatigue in the external rotators can cause muscle strain or tendonitis Other preventive measure~ include a lengthy wannup before and after practice

Fairweather tells athletes not to force themshyselves to work at thc extremes of their flexibility every time And if it starts to hUl1 he tells them to look after the injury quickly

A swim coachs bug of tricks includes another technique that fools the body sO that it overshycompensates for muscle fatigue Mike Gurgol head coach at the North York Aquatics Club in Toronto says this strategy moved a 16-yearshyold female swimmer from 150th to 50th place in the world in one competition

During peak truining time lhis 400-metre freestyler

spends 24 hours a week in training - I I sessions in the pool dry-land weight training to build upper body and leg ~trcngth 200 to 300 abshydominal exercise a d~y massage therapy weekly to help muscles recover from the heavy workload and maybel pot check on her diet to verify a ballOced intake of 35-pcr-ccnt protein 60-pcrshycent carbohydrates and five-per-cent fat

Early in the sea on shell swim 20 kilometres a week building up to 80 km ( 120 at spring-break training camp in Florida) and dropping back to 10 or 12 km the hltt week before a major meet This technique drops the fatigue level but foob the body into thinking it is still in heavy training ays Gurgol As a result the body overcompenshy

sates and give the swimmer an etra hoost of energy and strength when it counts mosl 0

Like Fairwea ther Marian Sweetnam never intended to be a swimming coach But if you want somethin g done in a small town you have to do it yourself she says Both she and George a dentist who is currently pres ident of the Ontario Dental Associ ashytion are boating enthusiasts who believed their chi ldren should know how to swim for their own snfety They enrolled Steve in a leanHo-swim program more than 17 years ago

Around the same time Marian volunteered to coach the fiveshyyenr-olds at the Lindsay pool and eventually followed Steve and her other children Nancy and Peter all the way up the competishytive ranks As they learned she lea rned She read articles and books and took coaching cershytification courses to try to stay ahead of the kids

The challenge got greater when Nancy broke into the na shyt ional sw i m scene at age 12 I didnt want her to leave home to train says Marian so I worked harder too

One step at a time they worked their way to the 1992 Olympic Games Nancy now trains at Laurentian University and Marian is still a volunteer coach for 84 members of the Lindsay Lightningbolts

[n August she was assi stant coac h for the Ontario womens tcam at the Canada Games in Kamloops BC Head Ontario coac h was Mike Gurgol a 1979 graduate of Guelphs human kinetics program who coaches full time at the North York Aquatics Club in Toronto

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Guelph vars ity team was Fairweathers last He was later coached by Fairweather and served as his assistant coach

G urgol coached at Queens University for two yea rs while atshytending teac hers college then coached for the Prince George BC Barracudas and the Trent Swim Club in Peterborough Ont before joining the North York c lub as youth coach in 1986

He is now head coach at North York perennially one of the top five clubs in Canada It is also Ontario s larges t swim club with 180 competitive and 120 preshycompetitive swimmers three fullshyti me and 16 part-time sta ff and an annual budget of $300000 The club runs two major internashytional meets every year and comshypetitive swimmers travel several ti mes a year

Gurgol estimates the total cost for a competitive swimmer who is an Ontario finali st is about $5000 a yea r Most swimmers in Lind say spend about a ten th of that yet both clubs have produced Olympic contenders

The differences between the two clubs Jie in quantity rather than quality Talented swimmers will surface in any pool but the larger swim clubs have more talent to draw on

Despite the obvious differenshyces in their clubs Gurgol and Marian Sweetnam have surprisshyingly SImilar ieleas about how to coach sw immers Both are oriented towards excellence both believe in goal setting and both say the real key to success is a committed swimmer and supportshyive parents

Sweetnam claims she can tell when a new member walks on to the pool deck whether he or she will drop out or become a good swimmer And Gurgol tells swimshymers that missing three training sessions a week means theyre happy to be at 70 per cent of their capacity

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styler who achieves a li fe time best is congratulated but if shes still swimshyming at the same speed a week later then shes only average

We try to get kids going and go ing fast says Gurgol He moti vates swimshymers by highlighting ach ievements on a wall cha rt posti ng an inspirational quote each day and telling bad jokes when someone needs a littl e nudge

In Lindsay - where the population is sma ll er than the U of G student body shythe res Jess pressu re on individual swimshymers and more emphasis on serving the recreat ional needs of the community Swimmers are encouraged to partic ipate in other sports and coach Sweetnam doesnt compl ai n if they miss practice to study for exams Shes proud of the fac t that the Lindsay Li gh tningbo lts have produced several university swimshymers She says some of them actu ally do better when they move away fro m home and discover how im portant swimming rea ll y is to them

Fairweather knows how important swimming is to most of them - its third on thei r priority li st behind schoo lshywork and soc ial li fe As a coach hes a re laxed disciplinarian He never holds tryouts and seldom cu ts anyone from the team Im work ing with young adu lts who have to dec ide for themsel shyves how much practice time is enough

The pool is open fo r 16 practices a week Mos t of the women swim 12 to 14 hours a week the men average nine And the cl ock determines lane ass ignshyments Eve ryone knows whos the slowest in the pool says Fairweather and a swimmer who wants to move up a

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lane works harder At Gue lph we try to stress team

spiri t but swi mming is still basically an individual sport And its the individual who wants to get faster

A successfu l Gryphon sw immer has commitment So do successful club swimmers but theyre getting harde r to find

Gurgol says worl d record times may be getting faster bu t there are fewer and fewer challengers As a group Canadian swimmers are slower than they were in the 1980s and he blames society The demands of training - telling yo un gshysters to work harder and harder - go against the grain of a society that exshypec ts everything to come eas ier and easier he says Kid s are used to com shyputer games and remote controls and a new stimulation every 30 seconds In sport you have to do thin gs over and over again

All three coac hes try to ma ke ch aracshyter trai ning a pa rt of thei r program They teach that there are no sho rtcuts to success and hope to develop athletes who will become responsib le ad ults Swimmers lea rn that if you fa il you try to fig ure out why then try again The highs and lows of competitive swimshyming - like any sport - arc phenomshyenal Within one one-hundredth of a second two swimmers can experience the grea tes t thrill and the mos t devastatshying dIsappointment of a lifetime

Still the coac hes dont overlook the fact that swimming should be fun Both the North York and Guelph teams enjoy a regu lar off- season train ing camp in Florida For that one week sw imming is num ber one says Fairweather

We get a lot of work do ne and it builds team sp irit and some of thc best swimming memories 0

Life after sWImmIng

As a shivering tive-year-old Steve Sweetnam got into the Lindsay pool for his first swimming lesson only hecause his mother made him But after he eros ed that first hurshydle he swam because h~ wanted to

More inten ive training might have pushed him into national finals at a younger age but he thinks things havc been timed pretshyty well Last year he won the OUAA gold medal and a silver in the 50-metre butterfly at the Canadian University-thampionshymiddothips He was also a member or Canada s Olympic development

team and a finalist at the May 1992 Olympic trials

Now 22 Sweetnam is in his last ycar of eligibility for the univershysity swim progrtm and says hes ready to try something else Recentshyly he s become intershyIsted in the triathlon adventures of his Guelph teammate Jeff Krar a member of Guelph s OUAA silver medll relay teanl md Canadian Junior Champion in the triathlon

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OVes new Lifetime Learning Centre was officially opened during Alumni Weekend an appropri ate occasion beshycause college alumni have been major donors to the $49- million project and wi ll be primary users of the facility

The learning centre boasts a ISO-seat lec ture thea tre a 44-seat seminar room two interact ive classrooms six breakshyout rooms a lounge a ca fet eria and a food service area The centre is exshypected to welcome 10000 to 15000 visitors a year for educational programs alumni gatherings and meeti ngs of speshycial-interest groups

Long-range plans inc I ude a second phase of construction that will more than double the space of the existing OVC library and will add computer labs case-study rooms office space for student groups and rental space for Lifelearn V Inc a new campus-based company th at wi Jl be contracted to develop and market OVes continuing education programs

Co-founded by Jim Stowe OVC 69 former head of veterinary con tinuing ed ucati on and Chas Povey former head of the co llege development group Lifelearn V is a co llaboration of academic institutions individual veterinarians professional groups and industry with U of G as a major shareholder

Environmental safety focus of new complex

The impact of genetically engineered plants on the environment is a focal point of the new $15-lllillion Guelph Transgenic Plant Research Comple

Officially opened in May the 7000shysquare-foot complex offers unpreceshydented opportunities to safe ly develop and evaluate new plant varieti es developed through genetic eng ineer ing says crop science professor Bryan McKersi e The complex will help universities and industry meet stringent federal protocols without any potential environ mental risk he says

The heart of the complex is a comshyputer-controlled greenhouse - deshysigned by horticu ltural sc ience professor Mike Dixon - that regulates its own atshymospheric ~onditions Two growth

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rooms eight ca binet-type grow th chamshybers and a preparatory fa ci lit y make up the rest of the facility

It was built with an $875000 grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineershying Research Council and contributions trolllthe Ont ar io Mini stry of Agriculshyture and Food and the Uni versi ty

Transgenic plants have been modified in the lab to contain a sma ll ponion of the genetic code of ano ther olmiddotganism T hi s results in new traits not normally assoc iated with their specie s such as disease resistance and stress tolerance Guelph has been active in transgenic plant research for nearl y a decade

On with the show

U of G s th eatre archives whic h house the archives of major Canadian theatres actors playwrights and even a lock of George Bernard Shaws beard turned 10 this spring Located in the library the archives are home to 79 separate colshylecti ons wi th emphas i ~ on Canadian theatre

Housed in the archives are the wor ldshyrenowned Sha w collection which inshycludes the Shaw Festiva l arclli ves and the Dan H Laurence Collection the source of the strands of Shaws beard Othcr theatres represented include Theatre Passe Muraille the Blyth Fesshytival Native Earth Pcrforming Arts the

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Royal Alexandra Theatrc and London s Grand Theatre

Recognizing the Scots

In cOlljunction wi th it~ annual series of Scottish workshops Guelph s Scottish Studies Program will award an annLlal pri ze in Scottish history The pli ze is named for FranK Watson ltJ regular parshyticipa nt in the Scotti~ h workshop series

II will be awarded for the first lime next spring to the best book monoshygraph dissertation or edited set 01 papers on Scottish studies publ ished since Jan 1 199 1 Preference will be given to ori ginal works on ear ly Scotshytiih hi story or to any area of Scottish hisshytory that is still largely unexplored The recipient wi ll be in vited to present a lecshyture and seminar at Guelph Entries must be submitted by Nov 30 1993 to Ihe chair of Scotti sh Studies Depart shyment of History University of Guelph Guelph Ont N I G 2W I

U of G is known internationally for its program in Scot tish studies and its library col lection of Scotti sh materialshythe largest outside Scotland The Departshyment o t Hi sto ry otlers Scottish literature and history courses at the undergraduate level as well as MA and PhD programs It also promotes student exchange programs with th e University of Abershydeen and Strathel yde

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dents gradshyuated at spring convoc ation ce remonies in June Honorary cioc tor of scishyence degrees we nt to nutritionIst Joyce Beare- LeUIl Sallldr

Rogers former chief of nutri shytion research with Health and Welfare Canada Unishyversityof Western Onshytario engineer Alan Da ve nshyport a consul- Helen Abell

tant on many of the world s larges t enshygineering struc tures and ve terinary pathologist Leon Saunders OVC 43 whose distingu ished ca ree r has included research teac hin g and writing

Honorary doctor of luws degrees went to Helen Abell Mac 38 0 a former OAC fa culty member and international consultant on nutrition rural ex tens ion and socio logy in the Third World and agriculturi st George Morri s whose many contributions [0 U of G ha ve inshycluded establ ishment of the George Morris Centre a think tank for agriculshytural policy resea rch and education

Honorary doctor of letters degrees went to literary scholar Gilles Marcotte a professor of French studies at the University of Mont real and renowned economist Richard Lipsey a professor at Simon Fraser Uni vers ity and director of the economic growth and resea rch program at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Resea rch

Three retired Guelph faculty members we re also honored at convocation The title of Uni versi ty professor emeritus was bestowed on botanist Donald Britto n and eng inee r Walter Bilansk i Pathologist Tom Hullancl received a meda l of merit

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European program unique in Canada

A unique new degree program in European studies co uld be just the ticket for stucients looking ~or international careers The BA program combines European culture and business studies with language courses and a year of study abroad

The 40-course honors major will inshyclude a core o f six language courses anci four European culture and civili za tion courses There will be two areas of emshyphas is - European culture and civili za shytion or European business studies

In thei r third yea r students will study abroad as part of Guel ph s exc hange programs with universities in Germany France Italy ane Spain

Squirrelling away for the future

After a hal f-centurys abse nce southern fl ying squirre ls have re turned to Point Pelee National Park thanks to U of G reshysea rchers and Parks Canaela

This spr ing zoo logy professor Tom Nudds gradua te studen t Ian Adam s and an entourage of Parks Canada officials and media watchecl anxiously as 17 southern flying sq uirre ls - chipmunkshysized rodents capab le of spread-eagled leaps and glides of 30 to 40 feet shy

emerged inqui siti ve ly from nes ting boxes wired [ 0 treeraquo in ~ ]n iso lated pari of Point Pe lee NatIonal P~]rk

The animals had been transported from the Long Po int area to Point Pelee the southernmost point of Canada where the mall mammal was WIped out in the 1930s The relocation project is part of a general movement at the park to res tore the Caro linian ecosystem that crumbl ed there in the rclce of a booming cOllage l(lutry ubsequent habitat devastc]tion and cl concerted pclrk policy to e rad ica te ceria III mammals conshysidered pests Adams and N udds hope to re introduce 100 raquoouthern flying sq uirshyrels to the park

Career services for alumni

Remember the Counselling clnd Student Reso urce Centre Its alo an allll7lni

resource cen tre that ()~lers career workshyshops a job-referral ervice and a recruiting service

On Ocr 7 the CSRC wil l host a ca ree r fair in the UnI ve rsit y Centre fmm 10 am to 3 pl11 There IS a S225 charge for employers who want to se t up a booth but admision for vis itors is irce For more information call Bonnie Patteson at SI9-824-4120 Ext 2394 The annual fa ir draws up to 50 emshyployerraquo - gove rnment anci private-sec shytor companies franchise organia ti ons and educational institutions

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Alumni can also participate as employer or employee in a job-referral service There is no charge to employshyers but job hun te rs pay $60 to enrol then receive notices of all job openings received by the CSRC including posishytion s at U of G and within the public sector Call Ext 2394 for informa ti on

OMAFGuelph agreement under review

For almost a yea r U of G has been in shyvolved in an exe rci se to restructure its research agreement with the Ontario Mini st ry of Agric ulture and Food (OMAF) Inter im program leaders apshypointed by the University are working

out details for structu ring operating and implementing ne w research programs

The more than 20 program s that make up the long-standing agreement are being consolidated into six programs shyrural communities plants animals food sys tems and resou rcese nvironshyment - to help streamline operations and address fi nancia l issue

The restructuring process was prompted by OMAFs announcement last year that it would cut core funding in the research agreement by $15 milshylion - an e ffol1 to reduce the ministrys operating budget by three per cent This was in line with a budget-cutting direc shytive sen t out to all govelllJl1ent minis shytri es and included the provisi on of another $500000 reduction in funding for the research ag reement in I993jl)4

Current discussions centre aro und the relati onships between the new program areas and the way OMAF-supported re shysearch projects will ht in The restrucshyturing exercise is designed to enhance flexibility responsiveness and efficienshycy in the management and deployment of agreeme nt fund says research vice shypresident Larry Milligan

This ye[1r the agreement will provide $30 JllilJi on to agri-food research and ed ucation at Guelph the single largest external source of researc h support

Faculty briefs

vir Prof Leonard Conoll y acting academic vice-presidenr wi ll beshycome president of Trent Uni vers ity Jan I 1994 Conolly who came 10

U ofG in 19R1 aschailoftheDepartshyment of Drama has abo se rved as ac shyting dean of the College of Arts and associate vice-president

L1 lt1 Prof Jim Taylor is the new direc tor of the School of Landscape Architecshyture He has been acting di rec tor and undergrad uate co-ord inator has chaired the Cruickston Park Farm Advisory Committee and has served on the Arboretum committee

t-Y Pmf Murray Brown OAC 51 MSA 53 retired this sp rin g after 27 years in the Department of Land Resou rce Science The first to link ag ronomy with meteorology Brown was the founder of the Canad ianshySociety of Agro met eorology

Steve Sweetnam leamed to swi m long before he could tell time But the clock has been hi s

taskmaste r ever since Each practice each swim meet he tries to beat the c lock tries to swim faster than the day before

All competitive swimmers are clock watc hers At the end of every race they look fo r the time cJock s verdict before they check the coac hs face The clock doesn t lie and it doesnt accept exshycuses

Ranked among the top 100 male swimmers in the world Sweetnam ca n cross a 2S-metre pool eight times in two minutes and 4R seconds He s faster than Alberta swimmer Graham Smith who became a national hero when he won six go ld medals at the J978 COillshy

monwealth Games but Sweetnams time is still eight seconds off the current world record fo r the 200-metre inshydividual medley

That s the story of competiti ve sport Yesterdays unbelievable performances are tomorrows routine practice times

Gryphon swim coach Alan Fairshyweather HK 7S was a nat ional finalist

in the early 1970s but even his best time in the spri nt freestyl e event would make him only an average swimmer among todays Gryphons The IS -year difference in speed is the result of trainshying efficiency says Fairweather Plus a better understanding of the relationship among body mechanics physiology nutrition and psychologi ca l preparation

Fairweather was a top-rank ed uni vershysity swimmer and a stude nt of physiolshyogy but he didnt connec t the two di sc iplines until after he began coachshying His plans for medical sc hool evaporated shon ly after he signed on with the Gryphons in the fall of 1975 but hes st ill using hi s degree in human kinetics to train the human bod y to go faster And each year he continues to learn more

What he learns he shares He says an educated sw immer is a more comshymitted athlete and a better performer

Fairweather frequently consu lts his former physiology professor Jack Barclay and other Guelph faculty He refers swimmers to nutrition consultant Marg Hedley Mac 64 and MSc 8 1 to Prof Evelyn Birds relaxation clinic

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and to Gryphon ath letic therapist Gunner Oberascous

Sports psychology has a tloating posishytion on Fairweather s coac hing hierarshychy Its an ongoi ng part of the coac h-athlete relationship not a quick fi x yo u can buy in a two-hour workshop he says His approacllto swim training is all encompass ing geared to producing athletes who are bo th phys ically and mentally fit

For Fairweathe r a train ing regimen is second in importance only to stroke mechanics Why train for months or yea rs to take a second off your time if one slight change in the pitch of your hand will accomplish the same thing

Guelph swimmers will see even more emphasi s on stroke mechanics in the com ing season because of the addi tion of two part-time coac hes Anne Ottenbrite 1984 Olympic gold medallist in the 200-metre breasts troke joined the Guelph swim team in August and Guelph Marlins coach Kevin Auger will be helping out thi s fall in a reciprocal agreement with Fairweather

With at least two coac hes on deck the team s 60 swimmers will get more inshydividual attention They ll al so have more room following the opening of Gue lph s new eight-lane pool

The Gryphons have been ranked among the top 10 university swim teams in Canada for the past four yea rs and the J 99192 varsity team included eight sw immers who made it to the last Olymshypic trials But Fairweather says this newshyfound success has more to do with the University s academic programs than it does with his coach ing skills Guelph is no w one of the first three choices for most Ontario high sc hool graduates he says and that means more swimmers are being attrac ted to campus

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How swimmers go faster During physical exertion the body Uie~ both aerobic and anaerobic energy sysshytems Sprinlergt rely on anacrobi( energy for quick stans and top speed over a shon distance Long-distance runners and swimmer push their bodies illlo the aerobic energy system enabling them to go farther longer

The body fatigues quickly when using anaerobic energy You may have a lot uf speed but you cant maintain it for more than a few sc(onds With exercise your body become more fit and tretches its aerobic energy capacity so you can hold that speed for a longer period before fatigue sets in

Fatigue can push the body into the anaerobic lystem for a last surge of trength before e haustiun sets in Stretchshy

ing the limits of your aerobic energy sysshytem (an mean even greater speed when your body calls on the anaerobic system during the linalmoments of a race

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He says his team is heavily indebted to other coaches in Ontarios club sy stem and to former Gryphon swimmers who are now rhe parents teachers and coaches of a new generation of athletes Sweetnam came from thc Lindsay Ont Li ghtningbolt s where he was coac hed by Canadas 1990 swim coach of the yea r hi s mother Marian a 1965 nutliri on graduate of Macclo llakl [n ~ titute 11 i father (eorge OAC 66 anu

grandmother al so have Guelph degrees That s why he kn ew about Guelph he ays but it s not why he chose it More imshyportant was hi s plan to pursue a ca reer in ergonomics

Gryphon teammate Jeff Sumner won a Pres idents Scholarship to U of G and Jill Lutz came after seei ng how much fun her older brothe r Mark hld a a Grypl10n sw immer Most varsity sw immers develop -their tal ent s in the ir home town pool but a notabl e exception i Anne Marie Shrouder who walked into U of G pool a poor Iecreational swimmer and grad shyuated thi s spring a national finalist Watchshying he r compere last March in the CIAU championship was one of my proudes t moments w a coach says Fairweather

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U of G swim coach Alan Fairweather says muscle fatigue is often the greatest calise of swim injurie~ - the result of overuse and repetition A wimmer covering 5500 metres in a pratmiddottice will complete more than 2100 aml movements inshycluding both internal and external rotation of the shoulder joint

Most of Wi have far greater strength in our intershynal rotators so swimmcrs use weight training to build strength in external rotator muscles Premashyture fatigue in the external rotators can cause muscle strain or tendonitis Other preventive measure~ include a lengthy wannup before and after practice

Fairweather tells athletes not to force themshyselves to work at thc extremes of their flexibility every time And if it starts to hUl1 he tells them to look after the injury quickly

A swim coachs bug of tricks includes another technique that fools the body sO that it overshycompensates for muscle fatigue Mike Gurgol head coach at the North York Aquatics Club in Toronto says this strategy moved a 16-yearshyold female swimmer from 150th to 50th place in the world in one competition

During peak truining time lhis 400-metre freestyler

spends 24 hours a week in training - I I sessions in the pool dry-land weight training to build upper body and leg ~trcngth 200 to 300 abshydominal exercise a d~y massage therapy weekly to help muscles recover from the heavy workload and maybel pot check on her diet to verify a ballOced intake of 35-pcr-ccnt protein 60-pcrshycent carbohydrates and five-per-cent fat

Early in the sea on shell swim 20 kilometres a week building up to 80 km ( 120 at spring-break training camp in Florida) and dropping back to 10 or 12 km the hltt week before a major meet This technique drops the fatigue level but foob the body into thinking it is still in heavy training ays Gurgol As a result the body overcompenshy

sates and give the swimmer an etra hoost of energy and strength when it counts mosl 0

Like Fairwea ther Marian Sweetnam never intended to be a swimming coach But if you want somethin g done in a small town you have to do it yourself she says Both she and George a dentist who is currently pres ident of the Ontario Dental Associ ashytion are boating enthusiasts who believed their chi ldren should know how to swim for their own snfety They enrolled Steve in a leanHo-swim program more than 17 years ago

Around the same time Marian volunteered to coach the fiveshyyenr-olds at the Lindsay pool and eventually followed Steve and her other children Nancy and Peter all the way up the competishytive ranks As they learned she lea rned She read articles and books and took coaching cershytification courses to try to stay ahead of the kids

The challenge got greater when Nancy broke into the na shyt ional sw i m scene at age 12 I didnt want her to leave home to train says Marian so I worked harder too

One step at a time they worked their way to the 1992 Olympic Games Nancy now trains at Laurentian University and Marian is still a volunteer coach for 84 members of the Lindsay Lightningbolts

[n August she was assi stant coac h for the Ontario womens tcam at the Canada Games in Kamloops BC Head Ontario coac h was Mike Gurgol a 1979 graduate of Guelphs human kinetics program who coaches full time at the North York Aquatics Club in Toronto

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Guelph vars ity team was Fairweathers last He was later coached by Fairweather and served as his assistant coach

G urgol coached at Queens University for two yea rs while atshytending teac hers college then coached for the Prince George BC Barracudas and the Trent Swim Club in Peterborough Ont before joining the North York c lub as youth coach in 1986

He is now head coach at North York perennially one of the top five clubs in Canada It is also Ontario s larges t swim club with 180 competitive and 120 preshycompetitive swimmers three fullshyti me and 16 part-time sta ff and an annual budget of $300000 The club runs two major internashytional meets every year and comshypetitive swimmers travel several ti mes a year

Gurgol estimates the total cost for a competitive swimmer who is an Ontario finali st is about $5000 a yea r Most swimmers in Lind say spend about a ten th of that yet both clubs have produced Olympic contenders

The differences between the two clubs Jie in quantity rather than quality Talented swimmers will surface in any pool but the larger swim clubs have more talent to draw on

Despite the obvious differenshyces in their clubs Gurgol and Marian Sweetnam have surprisshyingly SImilar ieleas about how to coach sw immers Both are oriented towards excellence both believe in goal setting and both say the real key to success is a committed swimmer and supportshyive parents

Sweetnam claims she can tell when a new member walks on to the pool deck whether he or she will drop out or become a good swimmer And Gurgol tells swimshymers that missing three training sessions a week means theyre happy to be at 70 per cent of their capacity

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We try to get kids going and go ing fast says Gurgol He moti vates swimshymers by highlighting ach ievements on a wall cha rt posti ng an inspirational quote each day and telling bad jokes when someone needs a littl e nudge

In Lindsay - where the population is sma ll er than the U of G student body shythe res Jess pressu re on individual swimshymers and more emphasis on serving the recreat ional needs of the community Swimmers are encouraged to partic ipate in other sports and coach Sweetnam doesnt compl ai n if they miss practice to study for exams Shes proud of the fac t that the Lindsay Li gh tningbo lts have produced several university swimshymers She says some of them actu ally do better when they move away fro m home and discover how im portant swimming rea ll y is to them

Fairweather knows how important swimming is to most of them - its third on thei r priority li st behind schoo lshywork and soc ial li fe As a coach hes a re laxed disciplinarian He never holds tryouts and seldom cu ts anyone from the team Im work ing with young adu lts who have to dec ide for themsel shyves how much practice time is enough

The pool is open fo r 16 practices a week Mos t of the women swim 12 to 14 hours a week the men average nine And the cl ock determines lane ass ignshyments Eve ryone knows whos the slowest in the pool says Fairweather and a swimmer who wants to move up a

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spiri t but swi mming is still basically an individual sport And its the individual who wants to get faster

A successfu l Gryphon sw immer has commitment So do successful club swimmers but theyre getting harde r to find

Gurgol says worl d record times may be getting faster bu t there are fewer and fewer challengers As a group Canadian swimmers are slower than they were in the 1980s and he blames society The demands of training - telling yo un gshysters to work harder and harder - go against the grain of a society that exshypec ts everything to come eas ier and easier he says Kid s are used to com shyputer games and remote controls and a new stimulation every 30 seconds In sport you have to do thin gs over and over again

All three coac hes try to ma ke ch aracshyter trai ning a pa rt of thei r program They teach that there are no sho rtcuts to success and hope to develop athletes who will become responsib le ad ults Swimmers lea rn that if you fa il you try to fig ure out why then try again The highs and lows of competitive swimshyming - like any sport - arc phenomshyenal Within one one-hundredth of a second two swimmers can experience the grea tes t thrill and the mos t devastatshying dIsappointment of a lifetime

Still the coac hes dont overlook the fact that swimming should be fun Both the North York and Guelph teams enjoy a regu lar off- season train ing camp in Florida For that one week sw imming is num ber one says Fairweather

We get a lot of work do ne and it builds team sp irit and some of thc best swimming memories 0

Life after sWImmIng

As a shivering tive-year-old Steve Sweetnam got into the Lindsay pool for his first swimming lesson only hecause his mother made him But after he eros ed that first hurshydle he swam because h~ wanted to

More inten ive training might have pushed him into national finals at a younger age but he thinks things havc been timed pretshyty well Last year he won the OUAA gold medal and a silver in the 50-metre butterfly at the Canadian University-thampionshymiddothips He was also a member or Canada s Olympic development

team and a finalist at the May 1992 Olympic trials

Now 22 Sweetnam is in his last ycar of eligibility for the univershysity swim progrtm and says hes ready to try something else Recentshyly he s become intershyIsted in the triathlon adventures of his Guelph teammate Jeff Krar a member of Guelph s OUAA silver medll relay teanl md Canadian Junior Champion in the triathlon

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Close to 2000 graduate Some 1958 stu- -~~

dents gradshyuated at spring convoc ation ce remonies in June Honorary cioc tor of scishyence degrees we nt to nutritionIst Joyce Beare- LeUIl Sallldr

Rogers former chief of nutri shytion research with Health and Welfare Canada Unishyversityof Western Onshytario engineer Alan Da ve nshyport a consul- Helen Abell

tant on many of the world s larges t enshygineering struc tures and ve terinary pathologist Leon Saunders OVC 43 whose distingu ished ca ree r has included research teac hin g and writing

Honorary doctor of luws degrees went to Helen Abell Mac 38 0 a former OAC fa culty member and international consultant on nutrition rural ex tens ion and socio logy in the Third World and agriculturi st George Morri s whose many contributions [0 U of G ha ve inshycluded establ ishment of the George Morris Centre a think tank for agriculshytural policy resea rch and education

Honorary doctor of letters degrees went to literary scholar Gilles Marcotte a professor of French studies at the University of Mont real and renowned economist Richard Lipsey a professor at Simon Fraser Uni vers ity and director of the economic growth and resea rch program at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Resea rch

Three retired Guelph faculty members we re also honored at convocation The title of Uni versi ty professor emeritus was bestowed on botanist Donald Britto n and eng inee r Walter Bilansk i Pathologist Tom Hullancl received a meda l of merit

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European program unique in Canada

A unique new degree program in European studies co uld be just the ticket for stucients looking ~or international careers The BA program combines European culture and business studies with language courses and a year of study abroad

The 40-course honors major will inshyclude a core o f six language courses anci four European culture and civili za tion courses There will be two areas of emshyphas is - European culture and civili za shytion or European business studies

In thei r third yea r students will study abroad as part of Guel ph s exc hange programs with universities in Germany France Italy ane Spain

Squirrelling away for the future

After a hal f-centurys abse nce southern fl ying squirre ls have re turned to Point Pelee National Park thanks to U of G reshysea rchers and Parks Canaela

This spr ing zoo logy professor Tom Nudds gradua te studen t Ian Adam s and an entourage of Parks Canada officials and media watchecl anxiously as 17 southern flying sq uirre ls - chipmunkshysized rodents capab le of spread-eagled leaps and glides of 30 to 40 feet shy

emerged inqui siti ve ly from nes ting boxes wired [ 0 treeraquo in ~ ]n iso lated pari of Point Pe lee NatIonal P~]rk

The animals had been transported from the Long Po int area to Point Pelee the southernmost point of Canada where the mall mammal was WIped out in the 1930s The relocation project is part of a general movement at the park to res tore the Caro linian ecosystem that crumbl ed there in the rclce of a booming cOllage l(lutry ubsequent habitat devastc]tion and cl concerted pclrk policy to e rad ica te ceria III mammals conshysidered pests Adams and N udds hope to re introduce 100 raquoouthern flying sq uirshyrels to the park

Career services for alumni

Remember the Counselling clnd Student Reso urce Centre Its alo an allll7lni

resource cen tre that ()~lers career workshyshops a job-referral ervice and a recruiting service

On Ocr 7 the CSRC wil l host a ca ree r fair in the UnI ve rsit y Centre fmm 10 am to 3 pl11 There IS a S225 charge for employers who want to se t up a booth but admision for vis itors is irce For more information call Bonnie Patteson at SI9-824-4120 Ext 2394 The annual fa ir draws up to 50 emshyployerraquo - gove rnment anci private-sec shytor companies franchise organia ti ons and educational institutions

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CSRC resources on campus are availshyable to alumni without charge including career counse lling for six mon ths aFter graduation In add ition the centre offers a fall and winter series of workshops on res ume writing intervie w skills career planning and teachers co llege Mos t workshops are free or carry a minimum charge of $10 Pick up a sc hedule of wo rkshops at Alumni House or the CSRC office or call Ext 2214

Alumni can also participate as employer or employee in a job-referral service There is no charge to employshyers but job hun te rs pay $60 to enrol then receive notices of all job openings received by the CSRC including posishytion s at U of G and within the public sector Call Ext 2394 for informa ti on

OMAFGuelph agreement under review

For almost a yea r U of G has been in shyvolved in an exe rci se to restructure its research agreement with the Ontario Mini st ry of Agric ulture and Food (OMAF) Inter im program leaders apshypointed by the University are working

out details for structu ring operating and implementing ne w research programs

The more than 20 program s that make up the long-standing agreement are being consolidated into six programs shyrural communities plants animals food sys tems and resou rcese nvironshyment - to help streamline operations and address fi nancia l issue

The restructuring process was prompted by OMAFs announcement last year that it would cut core funding in the research agreement by $15 milshylion - an e ffol1 to reduce the ministrys operating budget by three per cent This was in line with a budget-cutting direc shytive sen t out to all govelllJl1ent minis shytri es and included the provisi on of another $500000 reduction in funding for the research ag reement in I993jl)4

Current discussions centre aro und the relati onships between the new program areas and the way OMAF-supported re shysearch projects will ht in The restrucshyturing exercise is designed to enhance flexibility responsiveness and efficienshycy in the management and deployment of agreeme nt fund says research vice shypresident Larry Milligan

This ye[1r the agreement will provide $30 JllilJi on to agri-food research and ed ucation at Guelph the single largest external source of researc h support

Faculty briefs

vir Prof Leonard Conoll y acting academic vice-presidenr wi ll beshycome president of Trent Uni vers ity Jan I 1994 Conolly who came 10

U ofG in 19R1 aschailoftheDepartshyment of Drama has abo se rved as ac shyting dean of the College of Arts and associate vice-president

L1 lt1 Prof Jim Taylor is the new direc tor of the School of Landscape Architecshyture He has been acting di rec tor and undergrad uate co-ord inator has chaired the Cruickston Park Farm Advisory Committee and has served on the Arboretum committee

t-Y Pmf Murray Brown OAC 51 MSA 53 retired this sp rin g after 27 years in the Department of Land Resou rce Science The first to link ag ronomy with meteorology Brown was the founder of the Canad ianshySociety of Agro met eorology

Steve Sweetnam leamed to swi m long before he could tell time But the clock has been hi s

taskmaste r ever since Each practice each swim meet he tries to beat the c lock tries to swim faster than the day before

All competitive swimmers are clock watc hers At the end of every race they look fo r the time cJock s verdict before they check the coac hs face The clock doesn t lie and it doesnt accept exshycuses

Ranked among the top 100 male swimmers in the world Sweetnam ca n cross a 2S-metre pool eight times in two minutes and 4R seconds He s faster than Alberta swimmer Graham Smith who became a national hero when he won six go ld medals at the J978 COillshy

monwealth Games but Sweetnams time is still eight seconds off the current world record fo r the 200-metre inshydividual medley

That s the story of competiti ve sport Yesterdays unbelievable performances are tomorrows routine practice times

Gryphon swim coach Alan Fairshyweather HK 7S was a nat ional finalist

in the early 1970s but even his best time in the spri nt freestyl e event would make him only an average swimmer among todays Gryphons The IS -year difference in speed is the result of trainshying efficiency says Fairweather Plus a better understanding of the relationship among body mechanics physiology nutrition and psychologi ca l preparation

Fairweather was a top-rank ed uni vershysity swimmer and a stude nt of physiolshyogy but he didnt connec t the two di sc iplines until after he began coachshying His plans for medical sc hool evaporated shon ly after he signed on with the Gryphons in the fall of 1975 but hes st ill using hi s degree in human kinetics to train the human bod y to go faster And each year he continues to learn more

What he learns he shares He says an educated sw immer is a more comshymitted athlete and a better performer

Fairweather frequently consu lts his former physiology professor Jack Barclay and other Guelph faculty He refers swimmers to nutrition consultant Marg Hedley Mac 64 and MSc 8 1 to Prof Evelyn Birds relaxation clinic

Srori ls hy Mary Dicfiesull

and to Gryphon ath letic therapist Gunner Oberascous

Sports psychology has a tloating posishytion on Fairweather s coac hing hierarshychy Its an ongoi ng part of the coac h-athlete relationship not a quick fi x yo u can buy in a two-hour workshop he says His approacllto swim training is all encompass ing geared to producing athletes who are bo th phys ically and mentally fit

For Fairweathe r a train ing regimen is second in importance only to stroke mechanics Why train for months or yea rs to take a second off your time if one slight change in the pitch of your hand will accomplish the same thing

Guelph swimmers will see even more emphasi s on stroke mechanics in the com ing season because of the addi tion of two part-time coac hes Anne Ottenbrite 1984 Olympic gold medallist in the 200-metre breasts troke joined the Guelph swim team in August and Guelph Marlins coach Kevin Auger will be helping out thi s fall in a reciprocal agreement with Fairweather

With at least two coac hes on deck the team s 60 swimmers will get more inshydividual attention They ll al so have more room following the opening of Gue lph s new eight-lane pool

The Gryphons have been ranked among the top 10 university swim teams in Canada for the past four yea rs and the J 99192 varsity team included eight sw immers who made it to the last Olymshypic trials But Fairweather says this newshyfound success has more to do with the University s academic programs than it does with his coach ing skills Guelph is no w one of the first three choices for most Ontario high sc hool graduates he says and that means more swimmers are being attrac ted to campus

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How swimmers go faster During physical exertion the body Uie~ both aerobic and anaerobic energy sysshytems Sprinlergt rely on anacrobi( energy for quick stans and top speed over a shon distance Long-distance runners and swimmer push their bodies illlo the aerobic energy system enabling them to go farther longer

The body fatigues quickly when using anaerobic energy You may have a lot uf speed but you cant maintain it for more than a few sc(onds With exercise your body become more fit and tretches its aerobic energy capacity so you can hold that speed for a longer period before fatigue sets in

Fatigue can push the body into the anaerobic lystem for a last surge of trength before e haustiun sets in Stretchshy

ing the limits of your aerobic energy sysshytem (an mean even greater speed when your body calls on the anaerobic system during the linalmoments of a race

Even -pecific muscle) can bc trained to work in the aerobic or anaerobic end of the energy sy~tem

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Fairweather hates rec ruiting J rea lly think students - including w immers shyshould choose a university because of it s degree programs I want to coach people who ha ve made a considered dec isi on to come here not because J sold them a bill of goods

He says his team is heavily indebted to other coaches in Ontarios club sy stem and to former Gryphon swimmers who are now rhe parents teachers and coaches of a new generation of athletes Sweetnam came from thc Lindsay Ont Li ghtningbolt s where he was coac hed by Canadas 1990 swim coach of the yea r hi s mother Marian a 1965 nutliri on graduate of Macclo llakl [n ~ titute 11 i father (eorge OAC 66 anu

grandmother al so have Guelph degrees That s why he kn ew about Guelph he ays but it s not why he chose it More imshyportant was hi s plan to pursue a ca reer in ergonomics

Gryphon teammate Jeff Sumner won a Pres idents Scholarship to U of G and Jill Lutz came after seei ng how much fun her older brothe r Mark hld a a Grypl10n sw immer Most varsity sw immers develop -their tal ent s in the ir home town pool but a notabl e exception i Anne Marie Shrouder who walked into U of G pool a poor Iecreational swimmer and grad shyuated thi s spring a national finalist Watchshying he r compere last March in the CIAU championship was one of my proudes t moments w a coach says Fairweather

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U of G swim coach Alan Fairweather says muscle fatigue is often the greatest calise of swim injurie~ - the result of overuse and repetition A wimmer covering 5500 metres in a pratmiddottice will complete more than 2100 aml movements inshycluding both internal and external rotation of the shoulder joint

Most of Wi have far greater strength in our intershynal rotators so swimmcrs use weight training to build strength in external rotator muscles Premashyture fatigue in the external rotators can cause muscle strain or tendonitis Other preventive measure~ include a lengthy wannup before and after practice

Fairweather tells athletes not to force themshyselves to work at thc extremes of their flexibility every time And if it starts to hUl1 he tells them to look after the injury quickly

A swim coachs bug of tricks includes another technique that fools the body sO that it overshycompensates for muscle fatigue Mike Gurgol head coach at the North York Aquatics Club in Toronto says this strategy moved a 16-yearshyold female swimmer from 150th to 50th place in the world in one competition

During peak truining time lhis 400-metre freestyler

spends 24 hours a week in training - I I sessions in the pool dry-land weight training to build upper body and leg ~trcngth 200 to 300 abshydominal exercise a d~y massage therapy weekly to help muscles recover from the heavy workload and maybel pot check on her diet to verify a ballOced intake of 35-pcr-ccnt protein 60-pcrshycent carbohydrates and five-per-cent fat

Early in the sea on shell swim 20 kilometres a week building up to 80 km ( 120 at spring-break training camp in Florida) and dropping back to 10 or 12 km the hltt week before a major meet This technique drops the fatigue level but foob the body into thinking it is still in heavy training ays Gurgol As a result the body overcompenshy

sates and give the swimmer an etra hoost of energy and strength when it counts mosl 0

Like Fairwea ther Marian Sweetnam never intended to be a swimming coach But if you want somethin g done in a small town you have to do it yourself she says Both she and George a dentist who is currently pres ident of the Ontario Dental Associ ashytion are boating enthusiasts who believed their chi ldren should know how to swim for their own snfety They enrolled Steve in a leanHo-swim program more than 17 years ago

Around the same time Marian volunteered to coach the fiveshyyenr-olds at the Lindsay pool and eventually followed Steve and her other children Nancy and Peter all the way up the competishytive ranks As they learned she lea rned She read articles and books and took coaching cershytification courses to try to stay ahead of the kids

The challenge got greater when Nancy broke into the na shyt ional sw i m scene at age 12 I didnt want her to leave home to train says Marian so I worked harder too

One step at a time they worked their way to the 1992 Olympic Games Nancy now trains at Laurentian University and Marian is still a volunteer coach for 84 members of the Lindsay Lightningbolts

[n August she was assi stant coac h for the Ontario womens tcam at the Canada Games in Kamloops BC Head Ontario coac h was Mike Gurgol a 1979 graduate of Guelphs human kinetics program who coaches full time at the North York Aquatics Club in Toronto

Gurgols first yearon the

Guelph vars ity team was Fairweathers last He was later coached by Fairweather and served as his assistant coach

G urgol coached at Queens University for two yea rs while atshytending teac hers college then coached for the Prince George BC Barracudas and the Trent Swim Club in Peterborough Ont before joining the North York c lub as youth coach in 1986

He is now head coach at North York perennially one of the top five clubs in Canada It is also Ontario s larges t swim club with 180 competitive and 120 preshycompetitive swimmers three fullshyti me and 16 part-time sta ff and an annual budget of $300000 The club runs two major internashytional meets every year and comshypetitive swimmers travel several ti mes a year

Gurgol estimates the total cost for a competitive swimmer who is an Ontario finali st is about $5000 a yea r Most swimmers in Lind say spend about a ten th of that yet both clubs have produced Olympic contenders

The differences between the two clubs Jie in quantity rather than quality Talented swimmers will surface in any pool but the larger swim clubs have more talent to draw on

Despite the obvious differenshyces in their clubs Gurgol and Marian Sweetnam have surprisshyingly SImilar ieleas about how to coach sw immers Both are oriented towards excellence both believe in goal setting and both say the real key to success is a committed swimmer and supportshyive parents

Sweetnam claims she can tell when a new member walks on to the pool deck whether he or she will drop out or become a good swimmer And Gurgol tells swimshymers that missing three training sessions a week means theyre happy to be at 70 per cent of their capacity

He expec ts swimmers to put in 100 per cent every day A free-

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styler who achieves a li fe time best is congratulated but if shes still swimshyming at the same speed a week later then shes only average

We try to get kids going and go ing fast says Gurgol He moti vates swimshymers by highlighting ach ievements on a wall cha rt posti ng an inspirational quote each day and telling bad jokes when someone needs a littl e nudge

In Lindsay - where the population is sma ll er than the U of G student body shythe res Jess pressu re on individual swimshymers and more emphasis on serving the recreat ional needs of the community Swimmers are encouraged to partic ipate in other sports and coach Sweetnam doesnt compl ai n if they miss practice to study for exams Shes proud of the fac t that the Lindsay Li gh tningbo lts have produced several university swimshymers She says some of them actu ally do better when they move away fro m home and discover how im portant swimming rea ll y is to them

Fairweather knows how important swimming is to most of them - its third on thei r priority li st behind schoo lshywork and soc ial li fe As a coach hes a re laxed disciplinarian He never holds tryouts and seldom cu ts anyone from the team Im work ing with young adu lts who have to dec ide for themsel shyves how much practice time is enough

The pool is open fo r 16 practices a week Mos t of the women swim 12 to 14 hours a week the men average nine And the cl ock determines lane ass ignshyments Eve ryone knows whos the slowest in the pool says Fairweather and a swimmer who wants to move up a

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lane works harder At Gue lph we try to stress team

spiri t but swi mming is still basically an individual sport And its the individual who wants to get faster

A successfu l Gryphon sw immer has commitment So do successful club swimmers but theyre getting harde r to find

Gurgol says worl d record times may be getting faster bu t there are fewer and fewer challengers As a group Canadian swimmers are slower than they were in the 1980s and he blames society The demands of training - telling yo un gshysters to work harder and harder - go against the grain of a society that exshypec ts everything to come eas ier and easier he says Kid s are used to com shyputer games and remote controls and a new stimulation every 30 seconds In sport you have to do thin gs over and over again

All three coac hes try to ma ke ch aracshyter trai ning a pa rt of thei r program They teach that there are no sho rtcuts to success and hope to develop athletes who will become responsib le ad ults Swimmers lea rn that if you fa il you try to fig ure out why then try again The highs and lows of competitive swimshyming - like any sport - arc phenomshyenal Within one one-hundredth of a second two swimmers can experience the grea tes t thrill and the mos t devastatshying dIsappointment of a lifetime

Still the coac hes dont overlook the fact that swimming should be fun Both the North York and Guelph teams enjoy a regu lar off- season train ing camp in Florida For that one week sw imming is num ber one says Fairweather

We get a lot of work do ne and it builds team sp irit and some of thc best swimming memories 0

Life after sWImmIng

As a shivering tive-year-old Steve Sweetnam got into the Lindsay pool for his first swimming lesson only hecause his mother made him But after he eros ed that first hurshydle he swam because h~ wanted to

More inten ive training might have pushed him into national finals at a younger age but he thinks things havc been timed pretshyty well Last year he won the OUAA gold medal and a silver in the 50-metre butterfly at the Canadian University-thampionshymiddothips He was also a member or Canada s Olympic development

team and a finalist at the May 1992 Olympic trials

Now 22 Sweetnam is in his last ycar of eligibility for the univershysity swim progrtm and says hes ready to try something else Recentshyly he s become intershyIsted in the triathlon adventures of his Guelph teammate Jeff Krar a member of Guelph s OUAA silver medll relay teanl md Canadian Junior Champion in the triathlon

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C ltelph AIIIlltIII

CSRC resources on campus are availshyable to alumni without charge including career counse lling for six mon ths aFter graduation In add ition the centre offers a fall and winter series of workshops on res ume writing intervie w skills career planning and teachers co llege Mos t workshops are free or carry a minimum charge of $10 Pick up a sc hedule of wo rkshops at Alumni House or the CSRC office or call Ext 2214

Alumni can also participate as employer or employee in a job-referral service There is no charge to employshyers but job hun te rs pay $60 to enrol then receive notices of all job openings received by the CSRC including posishytion s at U of G and within the public sector Call Ext 2394 for informa ti on

OMAFGuelph agreement under review

For almost a yea r U of G has been in shyvolved in an exe rci se to restructure its research agreement with the Ontario Mini st ry of Agric ulture and Food (OMAF) Inter im program leaders apshypointed by the University are working

out details for structu ring operating and implementing ne w research programs

The more than 20 program s that make up the long-standing agreement are being consolidated into six programs shyrural communities plants animals food sys tems and resou rcese nvironshyment - to help streamline operations and address fi nancia l issue

The restructuring process was prompted by OMAFs announcement last year that it would cut core funding in the research agreement by $15 milshylion - an e ffol1 to reduce the ministrys operating budget by three per cent This was in line with a budget-cutting direc shytive sen t out to all govelllJl1ent minis shytri es and included the provisi on of another $500000 reduction in funding for the research ag reement in I993jl)4

Current discussions centre aro und the relati onships between the new program areas and the way OMAF-supported re shysearch projects will ht in The restrucshyturing exercise is designed to enhance flexibility responsiveness and efficienshycy in the management and deployment of agreeme nt fund says research vice shypresident Larry Milligan

This ye[1r the agreement will provide $30 JllilJi on to agri-food research and ed ucation at Guelph the single largest external source of researc h support

Faculty briefs

vir Prof Leonard Conoll y acting academic vice-presidenr wi ll beshycome president of Trent Uni vers ity Jan I 1994 Conolly who came 10

U ofG in 19R1 aschailoftheDepartshyment of Drama has abo se rved as ac shyting dean of the College of Arts and associate vice-president

L1 lt1 Prof Jim Taylor is the new direc tor of the School of Landscape Architecshyture He has been acting di rec tor and undergrad uate co-ord inator has chaired the Cruickston Park Farm Advisory Committee and has served on the Arboretum committee

t-Y Pmf Murray Brown OAC 51 MSA 53 retired this sp rin g after 27 years in the Department of Land Resou rce Science The first to link ag ronomy with meteorology Brown was the founder of the Canad ianshySociety of Agro met eorology

Steve Sweetnam leamed to swi m long before he could tell time But the clock has been hi s

taskmaste r ever since Each practice each swim meet he tries to beat the c lock tries to swim faster than the day before

All competitive swimmers are clock watc hers At the end of every race they look fo r the time cJock s verdict before they check the coac hs face The clock doesn t lie and it doesnt accept exshycuses

Ranked among the top 100 male swimmers in the world Sweetnam ca n cross a 2S-metre pool eight times in two minutes and 4R seconds He s faster than Alberta swimmer Graham Smith who became a national hero when he won six go ld medals at the J978 COillshy

monwealth Games but Sweetnams time is still eight seconds off the current world record fo r the 200-metre inshydividual medley

That s the story of competiti ve sport Yesterdays unbelievable performances are tomorrows routine practice times

Gryphon swim coach Alan Fairshyweather HK 7S was a nat ional finalist

in the early 1970s but even his best time in the spri nt freestyl e event would make him only an average swimmer among todays Gryphons The IS -year difference in speed is the result of trainshying efficiency says Fairweather Plus a better understanding of the relationship among body mechanics physiology nutrition and psychologi ca l preparation

Fairweather was a top-rank ed uni vershysity swimmer and a stude nt of physiolshyogy but he didnt connec t the two di sc iplines until after he began coachshying His plans for medical sc hool evaporated shon ly after he signed on with the Gryphons in the fall of 1975 but hes st ill using hi s degree in human kinetics to train the human bod y to go faster And each year he continues to learn more

What he learns he shares He says an educated sw immer is a more comshymitted athlete and a better performer

Fairweather frequently consu lts his former physiology professor Jack Barclay and other Guelph faculty He refers swimmers to nutrition consultant Marg Hedley Mac 64 and MSc 8 1 to Prof Evelyn Birds relaxation clinic

Srori ls hy Mary Dicfiesull

and to Gryphon ath letic therapist Gunner Oberascous

Sports psychology has a tloating posishytion on Fairweather s coac hing hierarshychy Its an ongoi ng part of the coac h-athlete relationship not a quick fi x yo u can buy in a two-hour workshop he says His approacllto swim training is all encompass ing geared to producing athletes who are bo th phys ically and mentally fit

For Fairweathe r a train ing regimen is second in importance only to stroke mechanics Why train for months or yea rs to take a second off your time if one slight change in the pitch of your hand will accomplish the same thing

Guelph swimmers will see even more emphasi s on stroke mechanics in the com ing season because of the addi tion of two part-time coac hes Anne Ottenbrite 1984 Olympic gold medallist in the 200-metre breasts troke joined the Guelph swim team in August and Guelph Marlins coach Kevin Auger will be helping out thi s fall in a reciprocal agreement with Fairweather

With at least two coac hes on deck the team s 60 swimmers will get more inshydividual attention They ll al so have more room following the opening of Gue lph s new eight-lane pool

The Gryphons have been ranked among the top 10 university swim teams in Canada for the past four yea rs and the J 99192 varsity team included eight sw immers who made it to the last Olymshypic trials But Fairweather says this newshyfound success has more to do with the University s academic programs than it does with his coach ing skills Guelph is no w one of the first three choices for most Ontario high sc hool graduates he says and that means more swimmers are being attrac ted to campus

L IIi1 1(111middot 1(11 (rk 01 Iii I Florida rrain shyillg (umpor IiiI( Gryplion smiddotimrlers

Facing JugI SI(Ie SWIrlIarJI begins a 50shymerre hUllelfll aliiif 1993 CIAU cwrlpionshyships H e lllisllCeI wirh a sihmiddot(II1I rdal

Pharos counesy of Tile O If(r iOI7

CI ellh Aillmnlls

How swimmers go faster During physical exertion the body Uie~ both aerobic and anaerobic energy sysshytems Sprinlergt rely on anacrobi( energy for quick stans and top speed over a shon distance Long-distance runners and swimmer push their bodies illlo the aerobic energy system enabling them to go farther longer

The body fatigues quickly when using anaerobic energy You may have a lot uf speed but you cant maintain it for more than a few sc(onds With exercise your body become more fit and tretches its aerobic energy capacity so you can hold that speed for a longer period before fatigue sets in

Fatigue can push the body into the anaerobic lystem for a last surge of trength before e haustiun sets in Stretchshy

ing the limits of your aerobic energy sysshytem (an mean even greater speed when your body calls on the anaerobic system during the linalmoments of a race

Even -pecific muscle) can bc trained to work in the aerobic or anaerobic end of the energy sy~tem

Cmilllllri II [lugl to

Fairweather hates rec ruiting J rea lly think students - including w immers shyshould choose a university because of it s degree programs I want to coach people who ha ve made a considered dec isi on to come here not because J sold them a bill of goods

He says his team is heavily indebted to other coaches in Ontarios club sy stem and to former Gryphon swimmers who are now rhe parents teachers and coaches of a new generation of athletes Sweetnam came from thc Lindsay Ont Li ghtningbolt s where he was coac hed by Canadas 1990 swim coach of the yea r hi s mother Marian a 1965 nutliri on graduate of Macclo llakl [n ~ titute 11 i father (eorge OAC 66 anu

grandmother al so have Guelph degrees That s why he kn ew about Guelph he ays but it s not why he chose it More imshyportant was hi s plan to pursue a ca reer in ergonomics

Gryphon teammate Jeff Sumner won a Pres idents Scholarship to U of G and Jill Lutz came after seei ng how much fun her older brothe r Mark hld a a Grypl10n sw immer Most varsity sw immers develop -their tal ent s in the ir home town pool but a notabl e exception i Anne Marie Shrouder who walked into U of G pool a poor Iecreational swimmer and grad shyuated thi s spring a national finalist Watchshying he r compere last March in the CIAU championship was one of my proudes t moments w a coach says Fairweather

ltj

and faster ClIfllillllldjnml pug j

U of G swim coach Alan Fairweather says muscle fatigue is often the greatest calise of swim injurie~ - the result of overuse and repetition A wimmer covering 5500 metres in a pratmiddottice will complete more than 2100 aml movements inshycluding both internal and external rotation of the shoulder joint

Most of Wi have far greater strength in our intershynal rotators so swimmcrs use weight training to build strength in external rotator muscles Premashyture fatigue in the external rotators can cause muscle strain or tendonitis Other preventive measure~ include a lengthy wannup before and after practice

Fairweather tells athletes not to force themshyselves to work at thc extremes of their flexibility every time And if it starts to hUl1 he tells them to look after the injury quickly

A swim coachs bug of tricks includes another technique that fools the body sO that it overshycompensates for muscle fatigue Mike Gurgol head coach at the North York Aquatics Club in Toronto says this strategy moved a 16-yearshyold female swimmer from 150th to 50th place in the world in one competition

During peak truining time lhis 400-metre freestyler

spends 24 hours a week in training - I I sessions in the pool dry-land weight training to build upper body and leg ~trcngth 200 to 300 abshydominal exercise a d~y massage therapy weekly to help muscles recover from the heavy workload and maybel pot check on her diet to verify a ballOced intake of 35-pcr-ccnt protein 60-pcrshycent carbohydrates and five-per-cent fat

Early in the sea on shell swim 20 kilometres a week building up to 80 km ( 120 at spring-break training camp in Florida) and dropping back to 10 or 12 km the hltt week before a major meet This technique drops the fatigue level but foob the body into thinking it is still in heavy training ays Gurgol As a result the body overcompenshy

sates and give the swimmer an etra hoost of energy and strength when it counts mosl 0

Like Fairwea ther Marian Sweetnam never intended to be a swimming coach But if you want somethin g done in a small town you have to do it yourself she says Both she and George a dentist who is currently pres ident of the Ontario Dental Associ ashytion are boating enthusiasts who believed their chi ldren should know how to swim for their own snfety They enrolled Steve in a leanHo-swim program more than 17 years ago

Around the same time Marian volunteered to coach the fiveshyyenr-olds at the Lindsay pool and eventually followed Steve and her other children Nancy and Peter all the way up the competishytive ranks As they learned she lea rned She read articles and books and took coaching cershytification courses to try to stay ahead of the kids

The challenge got greater when Nancy broke into the na shyt ional sw i m scene at age 12 I didnt want her to leave home to train says Marian so I worked harder too

One step at a time they worked their way to the 1992 Olympic Games Nancy now trains at Laurentian University and Marian is still a volunteer coach for 84 members of the Lindsay Lightningbolts

[n August she was assi stant coac h for the Ontario womens tcam at the Canada Games in Kamloops BC Head Ontario coac h was Mike Gurgol a 1979 graduate of Guelphs human kinetics program who coaches full time at the North York Aquatics Club in Toronto

Gurgols first yearon the

Guelph vars ity team was Fairweathers last He was later coached by Fairweather and served as his assistant coach

G urgol coached at Queens University for two yea rs while atshytending teac hers college then coached for the Prince George BC Barracudas and the Trent Swim Club in Peterborough Ont before joining the North York c lub as youth coach in 1986

He is now head coach at North York perennially one of the top five clubs in Canada It is also Ontario s larges t swim club with 180 competitive and 120 preshycompetitive swimmers three fullshyti me and 16 part-time sta ff and an annual budget of $300000 The club runs two major internashytional meets every year and comshypetitive swimmers travel several ti mes a year

Gurgol estimates the total cost for a competitive swimmer who is an Ontario finali st is about $5000 a yea r Most swimmers in Lind say spend about a ten th of that yet both clubs have produced Olympic contenders

The differences between the two clubs Jie in quantity rather than quality Talented swimmers will surface in any pool but the larger swim clubs have more talent to draw on

Despite the obvious differenshyces in their clubs Gurgol and Marian Sweetnam have surprisshyingly SImilar ieleas about how to coach sw immers Both are oriented towards excellence both believe in goal setting and both say the real key to success is a committed swimmer and supportshyive parents

Sweetnam claims she can tell when a new member walks on to the pool deck whether he or she will drop out or become a good swimmer And Gurgol tells swimshymers that missing three training sessions a week means theyre happy to be at 70 per cent of their capacity

He expec ts swimmers to put in 100 per cent every day A free-

Lejl 199J CBS graduate SCOff Sumller is a IIIshy

ljlr specialist - tite aquatic variety Pholo courtesy of The O1lariall

Cuelp AIUnllIlIS 10

bull bull

Kal11 MOlriSOIl swam ill Ihe 993 CAUfin als in Ihe ()O-melrcrecsIle Iprim A gradual slUd1I1 il1 ngineeri llg Morri)()7 is aso a mel1liJer oConadas no iollol woler polo leam

styler who achieves a li fe time best is congratulated but if shes still swimshyming at the same speed a week later then shes only average

We try to get kids going and go ing fast says Gurgol He moti vates swimshymers by highlighting ach ievements on a wall cha rt posti ng an inspirational quote each day and telling bad jokes when someone needs a littl e nudge

In Lindsay - where the population is sma ll er than the U of G student body shythe res Jess pressu re on individual swimshymers and more emphasis on serving the recreat ional needs of the community Swimmers are encouraged to partic ipate in other sports and coach Sweetnam doesnt compl ai n if they miss practice to study for exams Shes proud of the fac t that the Lindsay Li gh tningbo lts have produced several university swimshymers She says some of them actu ally do better when they move away fro m home and discover how im portant swimming rea ll y is to them

Fairweather knows how important swimming is to most of them - its third on thei r priority li st behind schoo lshywork and soc ial li fe As a coach hes a re laxed disciplinarian He never holds tryouts and seldom cu ts anyone from the team Im work ing with young adu lts who have to dec ide for themsel shyves how much practice time is enough

The pool is open fo r 16 practices a week Mos t of the women swim 12 to 14 hours a week the men average nine And the cl ock determines lane ass ignshyments Eve ryone knows whos the slowest in the pool says Fairweather and a swimmer who wants to move up a

Ph oto cou rtesy of Til( OlllOlioll

lane works harder At Gue lph we try to stress team

spiri t but swi mming is still basically an individual sport And its the individual who wants to get faster

A successfu l Gryphon sw immer has commitment So do successful club swimmers but theyre getting harde r to find

Gurgol says worl d record times may be getting faster bu t there are fewer and fewer challengers As a group Canadian swimmers are slower than they were in the 1980s and he blames society The demands of training - telling yo un gshysters to work harder and harder - go against the grain of a society that exshypec ts everything to come eas ier and easier he says Kid s are used to com shyputer games and remote controls and a new stimulation every 30 seconds In sport you have to do thin gs over and over again

All three coac hes try to ma ke ch aracshyter trai ning a pa rt of thei r program They teach that there are no sho rtcuts to success and hope to develop athletes who will become responsib le ad ults Swimmers lea rn that if you fa il you try to fig ure out why then try again The highs and lows of competitive swimshyming - like any sport - arc phenomshyenal Within one one-hundredth of a second two swimmers can experience the grea tes t thrill and the mos t devastatshying dIsappointment of a lifetime

Still the coac hes dont overlook the fact that swimming should be fun Both the North York and Guelph teams enjoy a regu lar off- season train ing camp in Florida For that one week sw imming is num ber one says Fairweather

We get a lot of work do ne and it builds team sp irit and some of thc best swimming memories 0

Life after sWImmIng

As a shivering tive-year-old Steve Sweetnam got into the Lindsay pool for his first swimming lesson only hecause his mother made him But after he eros ed that first hurshydle he swam because h~ wanted to

More inten ive training might have pushed him into national finals at a younger age but he thinks things havc been timed pretshyty well Last year he won the OUAA gold medal and a silver in the 50-metre butterfly at the Canadian University-thampionshymiddothips He was also a member or Canada s Olympic development

team and a finalist at the May 1992 Olympic trials

Now 22 Sweetnam is in his last ycar of eligibility for the univershysity swim progrtm and says hes ready to try something else Recentshyly he s become intershyIsted in the triathlon adventures of his Guelph teammate Jeff Krar a member of Guelph s OUAA silver medll relay teanl md Canadian Junior Champion in the triathlon

I

-

Steve Sweetnam leamed to swi m long before he could tell time But the clock has been hi s

taskmaste r ever since Each practice each swim meet he tries to beat the c lock tries to swim faster than the day before

All competitive swimmers are clock watc hers At the end of every race they look fo r the time cJock s verdict before they check the coac hs face The clock doesn t lie and it doesnt accept exshycuses

Ranked among the top 100 male swimmers in the world Sweetnam ca n cross a 2S-metre pool eight times in two minutes and 4R seconds He s faster than Alberta swimmer Graham Smith who became a national hero when he won six go ld medals at the J978 COillshy

monwealth Games but Sweetnams time is still eight seconds off the current world record fo r the 200-metre inshydividual medley

That s the story of competiti ve sport Yesterdays unbelievable performances are tomorrows routine practice times

Gryphon swim coach Alan Fairshyweather HK 7S was a nat ional finalist

in the early 1970s but even his best time in the spri nt freestyl e event would make him only an average swimmer among todays Gryphons The IS -year difference in speed is the result of trainshying efficiency says Fairweather Plus a better understanding of the relationship among body mechanics physiology nutrition and psychologi ca l preparation

Fairweather was a top-rank ed uni vershysity swimmer and a stude nt of physiolshyogy but he didnt connec t the two di sc iplines until after he began coachshying His plans for medical sc hool evaporated shon ly after he signed on with the Gryphons in the fall of 1975 but hes st ill using hi s degree in human kinetics to train the human bod y to go faster And each year he continues to learn more

What he learns he shares He says an educated sw immer is a more comshymitted athlete and a better performer

Fairweather frequently consu lts his former physiology professor Jack Barclay and other Guelph faculty He refers swimmers to nutrition consultant Marg Hedley Mac 64 and MSc 8 1 to Prof Evelyn Birds relaxation clinic

Srori ls hy Mary Dicfiesull

and to Gryphon ath letic therapist Gunner Oberascous

Sports psychology has a tloating posishytion on Fairweather s coac hing hierarshychy Its an ongoi ng part of the coac h-athlete relationship not a quick fi x yo u can buy in a two-hour workshop he says His approacllto swim training is all encompass ing geared to producing athletes who are bo th phys ically and mentally fit

For Fairweathe r a train ing regimen is second in importance only to stroke mechanics Why train for months or yea rs to take a second off your time if one slight change in the pitch of your hand will accomplish the same thing

Guelph swimmers will see even more emphasi s on stroke mechanics in the com ing season because of the addi tion of two part-time coac hes Anne Ottenbrite 1984 Olympic gold medallist in the 200-metre breasts troke joined the Guelph swim team in August and Guelph Marlins coach Kevin Auger will be helping out thi s fall in a reciprocal agreement with Fairweather

With at least two coac hes on deck the team s 60 swimmers will get more inshydividual attention They ll al so have more room following the opening of Gue lph s new eight-lane pool

The Gryphons have been ranked among the top 10 university swim teams in Canada for the past four yea rs and the J 99192 varsity team included eight sw immers who made it to the last Olymshypic trials But Fairweather says this newshyfound success has more to do with the University s academic programs than it does with his coach ing skills Guelph is no w one of the first three choices for most Ontario high sc hool graduates he says and that means more swimmers are being attrac ted to campus

L IIi1 1(111middot 1(11 (rk 01 Iii I Florida rrain shyillg (umpor IiiI( Gryplion smiddotimrlers

Facing JugI SI(Ie SWIrlIarJI begins a 50shymerre hUllelfll aliiif 1993 CIAU cwrlpionshyships H e lllisllCeI wirh a sihmiddot(II1I rdal

Pharos counesy of Tile O If(r iOI7

CI ellh Aillmnlls

How swimmers go faster During physical exertion the body Uie~ both aerobic and anaerobic energy sysshytems Sprinlergt rely on anacrobi( energy for quick stans and top speed over a shon distance Long-distance runners and swimmer push their bodies illlo the aerobic energy system enabling them to go farther longer

The body fatigues quickly when using anaerobic energy You may have a lot uf speed but you cant maintain it for more than a few sc(onds With exercise your body become more fit and tretches its aerobic energy capacity so you can hold that speed for a longer period before fatigue sets in

Fatigue can push the body into the anaerobic lystem for a last surge of trength before e haustiun sets in Stretchshy

ing the limits of your aerobic energy sysshytem (an mean even greater speed when your body calls on the anaerobic system during the linalmoments of a race

Even -pecific muscle) can bc trained to work in the aerobic or anaerobic end of the energy sy~tem

Cmilllllri II [lugl to

Fairweather hates rec ruiting J rea lly think students - including w immers shyshould choose a university because of it s degree programs I want to coach people who ha ve made a considered dec isi on to come here not because J sold them a bill of goods

He says his team is heavily indebted to other coaches in Ontarios club sy stem and to former Gryphon swimmers who are now rhe parents teachers and coaches of a new generation of athletes Sweetnam came from thc Lindsay Ont Li ghtningbolt s where he was coac hed by Canadas 1990 swim coach of the yea r hi s mother Marian a 1965 nutliri on graduate of Macclo llakl [n ~ titute 11 i father (eorge OAC 66 anu

grandmother al so have Guelph degrees That s why he kn ew about Guelph he ays but it s not why he chose it More imshyportant was hi s plan to pursue a ca reer in ergonomics

Gryphon teammate Jeff Sumner won a Pres idents Scholarship to U of G and Jill Lutz came after seei ng how much fun her older brothe r Mark hld a a Grypl10n sw immer Most varsity sw immers develop -their tal ent s in the ir home town pool but a notabl e exception i Anne Marie Shrouder who walked into U of G pool a poor Iecreational swimmer and grad shyuated thi s spring a national finalist Watchshying he r compere last March in the CIAU championship was one of my proudes t moments w a coach says Fairweather

ltj

and faster ClIfllillllldjnml pug j

U of G swim coach Alan Fairweather says muscle fatigue is often the greatest calise of swim injurie~ - the result of overuse and repetition A wimmer covering 5500 metres in a pratmiddottice will complete more than 2100 aml movements inshycluding both internal and external rotation of the shoulder joint

Most of Wi have far greater strength in our intershynal rotators so swimmcrs use weight training to build strength in external rotator muscles Premashyture fatigue in the external rotators can cause muscle strain or tendonitis Other preventive measure~ include a lengthy wannup before and after practice

Fairweather tells athletes not to force themshyselves to work at thc extremes of their flexibility every time And if it starts to hUl1 he tells them to look after the injury quickly

A swim coachs bug of tricks includes another technique that fools the body sO that it overshycompensates for muscle fatigue Mike Gurgol head coach at the North York Aquatics Club in Toronto says this strategy moved a 16-yearshyold female swimmer from 150th to 50th place in the world in one competition

During peak truining time lhis 400-metre freestyler

spends 24 hours a week in training - I I sessions in the pool dry-land weight training to build upper body and leg ~trcngth 200 to 300 abshydominal exercise a d~y massage therapy weekly to help muscles recover from the heavy workload and maybel pot check on her diet to verify a ballOced intake of 35-pcr-ccnt protein 60-pcrshycent carbohydrates and five-per-cent fat

Early in the sea on shell swim 20 kilometres a week building up to 80 km ( 120 at spring-break training camp in Florida) and dropping back to 10 or 12 km the hltt week before a major meet This technique drops the fatigue level but foob the body into thinking it is still in heavy training ays Gurgol As a result the body overcompenshy

sates and give the swimmer an etra hoost of energy and strength when it counts mosl 0

Like Fairwea ther Marian Sweetnam never intended to be a swimming coach But if you want somethin g done in a small town you have to do it yourself she says Both she and George a dentist who is currently pres ident of the Ontario Dental Associ ashytion are boating enthusiasts who believed their chi ldren should know how to swim for their own snfety They enrolled Steve in a leanHo-swim program more than 17 years ago

Around the same time Marian volunteered to coach the fiveshyyenr-olds at the Lindsay pool and eventually followed Steve and her other children Nancy and Peter all the way up the competishytive ranks As they learned she lea rned She read articles and books and took coaching cershytification courses to try to stay ahead of the kids

The challenge got greater when Nancy broke into the na shyt ional sw i m scene at age 12 I didnt want her to leave home to train says Marian so I worked harder too

One step at a time they worked their way to the 1992 Olympic Games Nancy now trains at Laurentian University and Marian is still a volunteer coach for 84 members of the Lindsay Lightningbolts

[n August she was assi stant coac h for the Ontario womens tcam at the Canada Games in Kamloops BC Head Ontario coac h was Mike Gurgol a 1979 graduate of Guelphs human kinetics program who coaches full time at the North York Aquatics Club in Toronto

Gurgols first yearon the

Guelph vars ity team was Fairweathers last He was later coached by Fairweather and served as his assistant coach

G urgol coached at Queens University for two yea rs while atshytending teac hers college then coached for the Prince George BC Barracudas and the Trent Swim Club in Peterborough Ont before joining the North York c lub as youth coach in 1986

He is now head coach at North York perennially one of the top five clubs in Canada It is also Ontario s larges t swim club with 180 competitive and 120 preshycompetitive swimmers three fullshyti me and 16 part-time sta ff and an annual budget of $300000 The club runs two major internashytional meets every year and comshypetitive swimmers travel several ti mes a year

Gurgol estimates the total cost for a competitive swimmer who is an Ontario finali st is about $5000 a yea r Most swimmers in Lind say spend about a ten th of that yet both clubs have produced Olympic contenders

The differences between the two clubs Jie in quantity rather than quality Talented swimmers will surface in any pool but the larger swim clubs have more talent to draw on

Despite the obvious differenshyces in their clubs Gurgol and Marian Sweetnam have surprisshyingly SImilar ieleas about how to coach sw immers Both are oriented towards excellence both believe in goal setting and both say the real key to success is a committed swimmer and supportshyive parents

Sweetnam claims she can tell when a new member walks on to the pool deck whether he or she will drop out or become a good swimmer And Gurgol tells swimshymers that missing three training sessions a week means theyre happy to be at 70 per cent of their capacity

He expec ts swimmers to put in 100 per cent every day A free-

Lejl 199J CBS graduate SCOff Sumller is a IIIshy

ljlr specialist - tite aquatic variety Pholo courtesy of The O1lariall

Cuelp AIUnllIlIS 10

bull bull

Kal11 MOlriSOIl swam ill Ihe 993 CAUfin als in Ihe ()O-melrcrecsIle Iprim A gradual slUd1I1 il1 ngineeri llg Morri)()7 is aso a mel1liJer oConadas no iollol woler polo leam

styler who achieves a li fe time best is congratulated but if shes still swimshyming at the same speed a week later then shes only average

We try to get kids going and go ing fast says Gurgol He moti vates swimshymers by highlighting ach ievements on a wall cha rt posti ng an inspirational quote each day and telling bad jokes when someone needs a littl e nudge

In Lindsay - where the population is sma ll er than the U of G student body shythe res Jess pressu re on individual swimshymers and more emphasis on serving the recreat ional needs of the community Swimmers are encouraged to partic ipate in other sports and coach Sweetnam doesnt compl ai n if they miss practice to study for exams Shes proud of the fac t that the Lindsay Li gh tningbo lts have produced several university swimshymers She says some of them actu ally do better when they move away fro m home and discover how im portant swimming rea ll y is to them

Fairweather knows how important swimming is to most of them - its third on thei r priority li st behind schoo lshywork and soc ial li fe As a coach hes a re laxed disciplinarian He never holds tryouts and seldom cu ts anyone from the team Im work ing with young adu lts who have to dec ide for themsel shyves how much practice time is enough

The pool is open fo r 16 practices a week Mos t of the women swim 12 to 14 hours a week the men average nine And the cl ock determines lane ass ignshyments Eve ryone knows whos the slowest in the pool says Fairweather and a swimmer who wants to move up a

Ph oto cou rtesy of Til( OlllOlioll

lane works harder At Gue lph we try to stress team

spiri t but swi mming is still basically an individual sport And its the individual who wants to get faster

A successfu l Gryphon sw immer has commitment So do successful club swimmers but theyre getting harde r to find

Gurgol says worl d record times may be getting faster bu t there are fewer and fewer challengers As a group Canadian swimmers are slower than they were in the 1980s and he blames society The demands of training - telling yo un gshysters to work harder and harder - go against the grain of a society that exshypec ts everything to come eas ier and easier he says Kid s are used to com shyputer games and remote controls and a new stimulation every 30 seconds In sport you have to do thin gs over and over again

All three coac hes try to ma ke ch aracshyter trai ning a pa rt of thei r program They teach that there are no sho rtcuts to success and hope to develop athletes who will become responsib le ad ults Swimmers lea rn that if you fa il you try to fig ure out why then try again The highs and lows of competitive swimshyming - like any sport - arc phenomshyenal Within one one-hundredth of a second two swimmers can experience the grea tes t thrill and the mos t devastatshying dIsappointment of a lifetime

Still the coac hes dont overlook the fact that swimming should be fun Both the North York and Guelph teams enjoy a regu lar off- season train ing camp in Florida For that one week sw imming is num ber one says Fairweather

We get a lot of work do ne and it builds team sp irit and some of thc best swimming memories 0

Life after sWImmIng

As a shivering tive-year-old Steve Sweetnam got into the Lindsay pool for his first swimming lesson only hecause his mother made him But after he eros ed that first hurshydle he swam because h~ wanted to

More inten ive training might have pushed him into national finals at a younger age but he thinks things havc been timed pretshyty well Last year he won the OUAA gold medal and a silver in the 50-metre butterfly at the Canadian University-thampionshymiddothips He was also a member or Canada s Olympic development

team and a finalist at the May 1992 Olympic trials

Now 22 Sweetnam is in his last ycar of eligibility for the univershysity swim progrtm and says hes ready to try something else Recentshyly he s become intershyIsted in the triathlon adventures of his Guelph teammate Jeff Krar a member of Guelph s OUAA silver medll relay teanl md Canadian Junior Champion in the triathlon

I

-

How swimmers go faster During physical exertion the body Uie~ both aerobic and anaerobic energy sysshytems Sprinlergt rely on anacrobi( energy for quick stans and top speed over a shon distance Long-distance runners and swimmer push their bodies illlo the aerobic energy system enabling them to go farther longer

The body fatigues quickly when using anaerobic energy You may have a lot uf speed but you cant maintain it for more than a few sc(onds With exercise your body become more fit and tretches its aerobic energy capacity so you can hold that speed for a longer period before fatigue sets in

Fatigue can push the body into the anaerobic lystem for a last surge of trength before e haustiun sets in Stretchshy

ing the limits of your aerobic energy sysshytem (an mean even greater speed when your body calls on the anaerobic system during the linalmoments of a race

Even -pecific muscle) can bc trained to work in the aerobic or anaerobic end of the energy sy~tem

Cmilllllri II [lugl to

Fairweather hates rec ruiting J rea lly think students - including w immers shyshould choose a university because of it s degree programs I want to coach people who ha ve made a considered dec isi on to come here not because J sold them a bill of goods

He says his team is heavily indebted to other coaches in Ontarios club sy stem and to former Gryphon swimmers who are now rhe parents teachers and coaches of a new generation of athletes Sweetnam came from thc Lindsay Ont Li ghtningbolt s where he was coac hed by Canadas 1990 swim coach of the yea r hi s mother Marian a 1965 nutliri on graduate of Macclo llakl [n ~ titute 11 i father (eorge OAC 66 anu

grandmother al so have Guelph degrees That s why he kn ew about Guelph he ays but it s not why he chose it More imshyportant was hi s plan to pursue a ca reer in ergonomics

Gryphon teammate Jeff Sumner won a Pres idents Scholarship to U of G and Jill Lutz came after seei ng how much fun her older brothe r Mark hld a a Grypl10n sw immer Most varsity sw immers develop -their tal ent s in the ir home town pool but a notabl e exception i Anne Marie Shrouder who walked into U of G pool a poor Iecreational swimmer and grad shyuated thi s spring a national finalist Watchshying he r compere last March in the CIAU championship was one of my proudes t moments w a coach says Fairweather

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U of G swim coach Alan Fairweather says muscle fatigue is often the greatest calise of swim injurie~ - the result of overuse and repetition A wimmer covering 5500 metres in a pratmiddottice will complete more than 2100 aml movements inshycluding both internal and external rotation of the shoulder joint

Most of Wi have far greater strength in our intershynal rotators so swimmcrs use weight training to build strength in external rotator muscles Premashyture fatigue in the external rotators can cause muscle strain or tendonitis Other preventive measure~ include a lengthy wannup before and after practice

Fairweather tells athletes not to force themshyselves to work at thc extremes of their flexibility every time And if it starts to hUl1 he tells them to look after the injury quickly

A swim coachs bug of tricks includes another technique that fools the body sO that it overshycompensates for muscle fatigue Mike Gurgol head coach at the North York Aquatics Club in Toronto says this strategy moved a 16-yearshyold female swimmer from 150th to 50th place in the world in one competition

During peak truining time lhis 400-metre freestyler

spends 24 hours a week in training - I I sessions in the pool dry-land weight training to build upper body and leg ~trcngth 200 to 300 abshydominal exercise a d~y massage therapy weekly to help muscles recover from the heavy workload and maybel pot check on her diet to verify a ballOced intake of 35-pcr-ccnt protein 60-pcrshycent carbohydrates and five-per-cent fat

Early in the sea on shell swim 20 kilometres a week building up to 80 km ( 120 at spring-break training camp in Florida) and dropping back to 10 or 12 km the hltt week before a major meet This technique drops the fatigue level but foob the body into thinking it is still in heavy training ays Gurgol As a result the body overcompenshy

sates and give the swimmer an etra hoost of energy and strength when it counts mosl 0

Like Fairwea ther Marian Sweetnam never intended to be a swimming coach But if you want somethin g done in a small town you have to do it yourself she says Both she and George a dentist who is currently pres ident of the Ontario Dental Associ ashytion are boating enthusiasts who believed their chi ldren should know how to swim for their own snfety They enrolled Steve in a leanHo-swim program more than 17 years ago

Around the same time Marian volunteered to coach the fiveshyyenr-olds at the Lindsay pool and eventually followed Steve and her other children Nancy and Peter all the way up the competishytive ranks As they learned she lea rned She read articles and books and took coaching cershytification courses to try to stay ahead of the kids

The challenge got greater when Nancy broke into the na shyt ional sw i m scene at age 12 I didnt want her to leave home to train says Marian so I worked harder too

One step at a time they worked their way to the 1992 Olympic Games Nancy now trains at Laurentian University and Marian is still a volunteer coach for 84 members of the Lindsay Lightningbolts

[n August she was assi stant coac h for the Ontario womens tcam at the Canada Games in Kamloops BC Head Ontario coac h was Mike Gurgol a 1979 graduate of Guelphs human kinetics program who coaches full time at the North York Aquatics Club in Toronto

Gurgols first yearon the

Guelph vars ity team was Fairweathers last He was later coached by Fairweather and served as his assistant coach

G urgol coached at Queens University for two yea rs while atshytending teac hers college then coached for the Prince George BC Barracudas and the Trent Swim Club in Peterborough Ont before joining the North York c lub as youth coach in 1986

He is now head coach at North York perennially one of the top five clubs in Canada It is also Ontario s larges t swim club with 180 competitive and 120 preshycompetitive swimmers three fullshyti me and 16 part-time sta ff and an annual budget of $300000 The club runs two major internashytional meets every year and comshypetitive swimmers travel several ti mes a year

Gurgol estimates the total cost for a competitive swimmer who is an Ontario finali st is about $5000 a yea r Most swimmers in Lind say spend about a ten th of that yet both clubs have produced Olympic contenders

The differences between the two clubs Jie in quantity rather than quality Talented swimmers will surface in any pool but the larger swim clubs have more talent to draw on

Despite the obvious differenshyces in their clubs Gurgol and Marian Sweetnam have surprisshyingly SImilar ieleas about how to coach sw immers Both are oriented towards excellence both believe in goal setting and both say the real key to success is a committed swimmer and supportshyive parents

Sweetnam claims she can tell when a new member walks on to the pool deck whether he or she will drop out or become a good swimmer And Gurgol tells swimshymers that missing three training sessions a week means theyre happy to be at 70 per cent of their capacity

He expec ts swimmers to put in 100 per cent every day A free-

Lejl 199J CBS graduate SCOff Sumller is a IIIshy

ljlr specialist - tite aquatic variety Pholo courtesy of The O1lariall

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styler who achieves a li fe time best is congratulated but if shes still swimshyming at the same speed a week later then shes only average

We try to get kids going and go ing fast says Gurgol He moti vates swimshymers by highlighting ach ievements on a wall cha rt posti ng an inspirational quote each day and telling bad jokes when someone needs a littl e nudge

In Lindsay - where the population is sma ll er than the U of G student body shythe res Jess pressu re on individual swimshymers and more emphasis on serving the recreat ional needs of the community Swimmers are encouraged to partic ipate in other sports and coach Sweetnam doesnt compl ai n if they miss practice to study for exams Shes proud of the fac t that the Lindsay Li gh tningbo lts have produced several university swimshymers She says some of them actu ally do better when they move away fro m home and discover how im portant swimming rea ll y is to them

Fairweather knows how important swimming is to most of them - its third on thei r priority li st behind schoo lshywork and soc ial li fe As a coach hes a re laxed disciplinarian He never holds tryouts and seldom cu ts anyone from the team Im work ing with young adu lts who have to dec ide for themsel shyves how much practice time is enough

The pool is open fo r 16 practices a week Mos t of the women swim 12 to 14 hours a week the men average nine And the cl ock determines lane ass ignshyments Eve ryone knows whos the slowest in the pool says Fairweather and a swimmer who wants to move up a

Ph oto cou rtesy of Til( OlllOlioll

lane works harder At Gue lph we try to stress team

spiri t but swi mming is still basically an individual sport And its the individual who wants to get faster

A successfu l Gryphon sw immer has commitment So do successful club swimmers but theyre getting harde r to find

Gurgol says worl d record times may be getting faster bu t there are fewer and fewer challengers As a group Canadian swimmers are slower than they were in the 1980s and he blames society The demands of training - telling yo un gshysters to work harder and harder - go against the grain of a society that exshypec ts everything to come eas ier and easier he says Kid s are used to com shyputer games and remote controls and a new stimulation every 30 seconds In sport you have to do thin gs over and over again

All three coac hes try to ma ke ch aracshyter trai ning a pa rt of thei r program They teach that there are no sho rtcuts to success and hope to develop athletes who will become responsib le ad ults Swimmers lea rn that if you fa il you try to fig ure out why then try again The highs and lows of competitive swimshyming - like any sport - arc phenomshyenal Within one one-hundredth of a second two swimmers can experience the grea tes t thrill and the mos t devastatshying dIsappointment of a lifetime

Still the coac hes dont overlook the fact that swimming should be fun Both the North York and Guelph teams enjoy a regu lar off- season train ing camp in Florida For that one week sw imming is num ber one says Fairweather

We get a lot of work do ne and it builds team sp irit and some of thc best swimming memories 0

Life after sWImmIng

As a shivering tive-year-old Steve Sweetnam got into the Lindsay pool for his first swimming lesson only hecause his mother made him But after he eros ed that first hurshydle he swam because h~ wanted to

More inten ive training might have pushed him into national finals at a younger age but he thinks things havc been timed pretshyty well Last year he won the OUAA gold medal and a silver in the 50-metre butterfly at the Canadian University-thampionshymiddothips He was also a member or Canada s Olympic development

team and a finalist at the May 1992 Olympic trials

Now 22 Sweetnam is in his last ycar of eligibility for the univershysity swim progrtm and says hes ready to try something else Recentshyly he s become intershyIsted in the triathlon adventures of his Guelph teammate Jeff Krar a member of Guelph s OUAA silver medll relay teanl md Canadian Junior Champion in the triathlon

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U of G swim coach Alan Fairweather says muscle fatigue is often the greatest calise of swim injurie~ - the result of overuse and repetition A wimmer covering 5500 metres in a pratmiddottice will complete more than 2100 aml movements inshycluding both internal and external rotation of the shoulder joint

Most of Wi have far greater strength in our intershynal rotators so swimmcrs use weight training to build strength in external rotator muscles Premashyture fatigue in the external rotators can cause muscle strain or tendonitis Other preventive measure~ include a lengthy wannup before and after practice

Fairweather tells athletes not to force themshyselves to work at thc extremes of their flexibility every time And if it starts to hUl1 he tells them to look after the injury quickly

A swim coachs bug of tricks includes another technique that fools the body sO that it overshycompensates for muscle fatigue Mike Gurgol head coach at the North York Aquatics Club in Toronto says this strategy moved a 16-yearshyold female swimmer from 150th to 50th place in the world in one competition

During peak truining time lhis 400-metre freestyler

spends 24 hours a week in training - I I sessions in the pool dry-land weight training to build upper body and leg ~trcngth 200 to 300 abshydominal exercise a d~y massage therapy weekly to help muscles recover from the heavy workload and maybel pot check on her diet to verify a ballOced intake of 35-pcr-ccnt protein 60-pcrshycent carbohydrates and five-per-cent fat

Early in the sea on shell swim 20 kilometres a week building up to 80 km ( 120 at spring-break training camp in Florida) and dropping back to 10 or 12 km the hltt week before a major meet This technique drops the fatigue level but foob the body into thinking it is still in heavy training ays Gurgol As a result the body overcompenshy

sates and give the swimmer an etra hoost of energy and strength when it counts mosl 0

Like Fairwea ther Marian Sweetnam never intended to be a swimming coach But if you want somethin g done in a small town you have to do it yourself she says Both she and George a dentist who is currently pres ident of the Ontario Dental Associ ashytion are boating enthusiasts who believed their chi ldren should know how to swim for their own snfety They enrolled Steve in a leanHo-swim program more than 17 years ago

Around the same time Marian volunteered to coach the fiveshyyenr-olds at the Lindsay pool and eventually followed Steve and her other children Nancy and Peter all the way up the competishytive ranks As they learned she lea rned She read articles and books and took coaching cershytification courses to try to stay ahead of the kids

The challenge got greater when Nancy broke into the na shyt ional sw i m scene at age 12 I didnt want her to leave home to train says Marian so I worked harder too

One step at a time they worked their way to the 1992 Olympic Games Nancy now trains at Laurentian University and Marian is still a volunteer coach for 84 members of the Lindsay Lightningbolts

[n August she was assi stant coac h for the Ontario womens tcam at the Canada Games in Kamloops BC Head Ontario coac h was Mike Gurgol a 1979 graduate of Guelphs human kinetics program who coaches full time at the North York Aquatics Club in Toronto

Gurgols first yearon the

Guelph vars ity team was Fairweathers last He was later coached by Fairweather and served as his assistant coach

G urgol coached at Queens University for two yea rs while atshytending teac hers college then coached for the Prince George BC Barracudas and the Trent Swim Club in Peterborough Ont before joining the North York c lub as youth coach in 1986

He is now head coach at North York perennially one of the top five clubs in Canada It is also Ontario s larges t swim club with 180 competitive and 120 preshycompetitive swimmers three fullshyti me and 16 part-time sta ff and an annual budget of $300000 The club runs two major internashytional meets every year and comshypetitive swimmers travel several ti mes a year

Gurgol estimates the total cost for a competitive swimmer who is an Ontario finali st is about $5000 a yea r Most swimmers in Lind say spend about a ten th of that yet both clubs have produced Olympic contenders

The differences between the two clubs Jie in quantity rather than quality Talented swimmers will surface in any pool but the larger swim clubs have more talent to draw on

Despite the obvious differenshyces in their clubs Gurgol and Marian Sweetnam have surprisshyingly SImilar ieleas about how to coach sw immers Both are oriented towards excellence both believe in goal setting and both say the real key to success is a committed swimmer and supportshyive parents

Sweetnam claims she can tell when a new member walks on to the pool deck whether he or she will drop out or become a good swimmer And Gurgol tells swimshymers that missing three training sessions a week means theyre happy to be at 70 per cent of their capacity

He expec ts swimmers to put in 100 per cent every day A free-

Lejl 199J CBS graduate SCOff Sumller is a IIIshy

ljlr specialist - tite aquatic variety Pholo courtesy of The O1lariall

Cuelp AIUnllIlIS 10

bull bull

Kal11 MOlriSOIl swam ill Ihe 993 CAUfin als in Ihe ()O-melrcrecsIle Iprim A gradual slUd1I1 il1 ngineeri llg Morri)()7 is aso a mel1liJer oConadas no iollol woler polo leam

styler who achieves a li fe time best is congratulated but if shes still swimshyming at the same speed a week later then shes only average

We try to get kids going and go ing fast says Gurgol He moti vates swimshymers by highlighting ach ievements on a wall cha rt posti ng an inspirational quote each day and telling bad jokes when someone needs a littl e nudge

In Lindsay - where the population is sma ll er than the U of G student body shythe res Jess pressu re on individual swimshymers and more emphasis on serving the recreat ional needs of the community Swimmers are encouraged to partic ipate in other sports and coach Sweetnam doesnt compl ai n if they miss practice to study for exams Shes proud of the fac t that the Lindsay Li gh tningbo lts have produced several university swimshymers She says some of them actu ally do better when they move away fro m home and discover how im portant swimming rea ll y is to them

Fairweather knows how important swimming is to most of them - its third on thei r priority li st behind schoo lshywork and soc ial li fe As a coach hes a re laxed disciplinarian He never holds tryouts and seldom cu ts anyone from the team Im work ing with young adu lts who have to dec ide for themsel shyves how much practice time is enough

The pool is open fo r 16 practices a week Mos t of the women swim 12 to 14 hours a week the men average nine And the cl ock determines lane ass ignshyments Eve ryone knows whos the slowest in the pool says Fairweather and a swimmer who wants to move up a

Ph oto cou rtesy of Til( OlllOlioll

lane works harder At Gue lph we try to stress team

spiri t but swi mming is still basically an individual sport And its the individual who wants to get faster

A successfu l Gryphon sw immer has commitment So do successful club swimmers but theyre getting harde r to find

Gurgol says worl d record times may be getting faster bu t there are fewer and fewer challengers As a group Canadian swimmers are slower than they were in the 1980s and he blames society The demands of training - telling yo un gshysters to work harder and harder - go against the grain of a society that exshypec ts everything to come eas ier and easier he says Kid s are used to com shyputer games and remote controls and a new stimulation every 30 seconds In sport you have to do thin gs over and over again

All three coac hes try to ma ke ch aracshyter trai ning a pa rt of thei r program They teach that there are no sho rtcuts to success and hope to develop athletes who will become responsib le ad ults Swimmers lea rn that if you fa il you try to fig ure out why then try again The highs and lows of competitive swimshyming - like any sport - arc phenomshyenal Within one one-hundredth of a second two swimmers can experience the grea tes t thrill and the mos t devastatshying dIsappointment of a lifetime

Still the coac hes dont overlook the fact that swimming should be fun Both the North York and Guelph teams enjoy a regu lar off- season train ing camp in Florida For that one week sw imming is num ber one says Fairweather

We get a lot of work do ne and it builds team sp irit and some of thc best swimming memories 0

Life after sWImmIng

As a shivering tive-year-old Steve Sweetnam got into the Lindsay pool for his first swimming lesson only hecause his mother made him But after he eros ed that first hurshydle he swam because h~ wanted to

More inten ive training might have pushed him into national finals at a younger age but he thinks things havc been timed pretshyty well Last year he won the OUAA gold medal and a silver in the 50-metre butterfly at the Canadian University-thampionshymiddothips He was also a member or Canada s Olympic development

team and a finalist at the May 1992 Olympic trials

Now 22 Sweetnam is in his last ycar of eligibility for the univershysity swim progrtm and says hes ready to try something else Recentshyly he s become intershyIsted in the triathlon adventures of his Guelph teammate Jeff Krar a member of Guelph s OUAA silver medll relay teanl md Canadian Junior Champion in the triathlon

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Kal11 MOlriSOIl swam ill Ihe 993 CAUfin als in Ihe ()O-melrcrecsIle Iprim A gradual slUd1I1 il1 ngineeri llg Morri)()7 is aso a mel1liJer oConadas no iollol woler polo leam

styler who achieves a li fe time best is congratulated but if shes still swimshyming at the same speed a week later then shes only average

We try to get kids going and go ing fast says Gurgol He moti vates swimshymers by highlighting ach ievements on a wall cha rt posti ng an inspirational quote each day and telling bad jokes when someone needs a littl e nudge

In Lindsay - where the population is sma ll er than the U of G student body shythe res Jess pressu re on individual swimshymers and more emphasis on serving the recreat ional needs of the community Swimmers are encouraged to partic ipate in other sports and coach Sweetnam doesnt compl ai n if they miss practice to study for exams Shes proud of the fac t that the Lindsay Li gh tningbo lts have produced several university swimshymers She says some of them actu ally do better when they move away fro m home and discover how im portant swimming rea ll y is to them

Fairweather knows how important swimming is to most of them - its third on thei r priority li st behind schoo lshywork and soc ial li fe As a coach hes a re laxed disciplinarian He never holds tryouts and seldom cu ts anyone from the team Im work ing with young adu lts who have to dec ide for themsel shyves how much practice time is enough

The pool is open fo r 16 practices a week Mos t of the women swim 12 to 14 hours a week the men average nine And the cl ock determines lane ass ignshyments Eve ryone knows whos the slowest in the pool says Fairweather and a swimmer who wants to move up a

Ph oto cou rtesy of Til( OlllOlioll

lane works harder At Gue lph we try to stress team

spiri t but swi mming is still basically an individual sport And its the individual who wants to get faster

A successfu l Gryphon sw immer has commitment So do successful club swimmers but theyre getting harde r to find

Gurgol says worl d record times may be getting faster bu t there are fewer and fewer challengers As a group Canadian swimmers are slower than they were in the 1980s and he blames society The demands of training - telling yo un gshysters to work harder and harder - go against the grain of a society that exshypec ts everything to come eas ier and easier he says Kid s are used to com shyputer games and remote controls and a new stimulation every 30 seconds In sport you have to do thin gs over and over again

All three coac hes try to ma ke ch aracshyter trai ning a pa rt of thei r program They teach that there are no sho rtcuts to success and hope to develop athletes who will become responsib le ad ults Swimmers lea rn that if you fa il you try to fig ure out why then try again The highs and lows of competitive swimshyming - like any sport - arc phenomshyenal Within one one-hundredth of a second two swimmers can experience the grea tes t thrill and the mos t devastatshying dIsappointment of a lifetime

Still the coac hes dont overlook the fact that swimming should be fun Both the North York and Guelph teams enjoy a regu lar off- season train ing camp in Florida For that one week sw imming is num ber one says Fairweather

We get a lot of work do ne and it builds team sp irit and some of thc best swimming memories 0

Life after sWImmIng

As a shivering tive-year-old Steve Sweetnam got into the Lindsay pool for his first swimming lesson only hecause his mother made him But after he eros ed that first hurshydle he swam because h~ wanted to

More inten ive training might have pushed him into national finals at a younger age but he thinks things havc been timed pretshyty well Last year he won the OUAA gold medal and a silver in the 50-metre butterfly at the Canadian University-thampionshymiddothips He was also a member or Canada s Olympic development

team and a finalist at the May 1992 Olympic trials

Now 22 Sweetnam is in his last ycar of eligibility for the univershysity swim progrtm and says hes ready to try something else Recentshyly he s become intershyIsted in the triathlon adventures of his Guelph teammate Jeff Krar a member of Guelph s OUAA silver medll relay teanl md Canadian Junior Champion in the triathlon

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She passed the test of future leaders

Spinning between extremes in Northern Ireland Guelph graduate Deborah Poff

discovered her own naivete and developed the ability to negotiate with people

Th mnu Debnh Pnrr~rived in Northern Ireland she was spirshyited to the roof of the BBC building in Be lfast to watch the Orange Day parade

In the heady compony of other potential leaders from 29 Commonshywea lth countries the university adshyministrator and U of G graduate spent 10 days in the summer of 1992 spinning be tween Irish extremes

The re as part of the Duke of Edinburgh s Seventh Commonwealth Study Conference Poff and 15 others in he r g roup were bused to different locashytions daily reminded at every turn of the sectarian violence that wracks the Briti s h protectorate It was an intense and sometimes uncomfortabl e ex shyperience designed to shake up old pe rspectives and spark creative new ones in people who had been iden tifi ed as future leaders

Treated like VIPs they began thei r odyssey with a five-cours e banquet in a castle near Belfast The stately candl e lit affair cast an unreal light on the polarishyties they would witness during the ir subshysequent travels throughout the troubled colony

Pofrs study group toured state-of-theshyart industries and stepped into textile

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factories remini scent of Dickenss 19thshycentury workhouses They visited univ e rsities ancl met with officials of the Briti sh inte lli gence se rvice in Northern Ire land In County Armagh the most violent arena for tensions they exshyam ined confiscated bombs and equipshyment supplied to outlawed organizations by Libya s Moammar Khadafy

They vis ited political prisoners in a maximum-security prison and met vicshytims o f vio le nce They saw a Londondershyry Catho lic whose son died in the violence ltlnd who has devoted the pas t 12 years to rebuilding his devas tated city In Be lfast they learned that 50 pe r cent of men under 25 are unemployed

Poff came away from the experience stimulated inspired exhausted and wiser

She was nominated to attend the s tudy conference by the president of Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax where she was associate professhysor of womens studies and director of th e Institute for the Study of Women Less than a year after the Iri sh ex shypelience she was named professor and dean of arts and sciences at the new University of Northern Briti sh Col umshybia in Prince George

Poff ea rn ed a BA in psyc hology in J974 and a PhD in the philosophy of science in 1987 from U of G She went to Halifax in 1984 but maintains her Guelph ties through her husband Alex M icholos who is a professo r in the Department of Philosophy

Some 230 de legates from Africa India A s ia and Austr81 ia attended the Commonwea lth conrerence which is held every s ix years in different countri es Participants we re welcomed at O xfo rd University by Prince Philip who initiated the confe rence in 1956 And they hea rd e minent speakers exshypound on the theme of finding local solutions to problems ari s ing in a g lobal shyly vulnerable economy

Divided into groups of 16 delegates then fanned out across the British Isl es for intensive 19-hour days tourin g ond talking to people involved in business industry construction community and government projects They retumed to Ox ford to present their findings

pofr travelled with a mostly male group that included an engineer lawyer doctor academic civil servant trade unionist business executive author and aspiring politician - oil people she didnt know and with whom she hod litshy

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tie in common Inevitably there were clashes

Im sure they found me a pushy lefty feminist she says but we got so tbat we actually liked each other It was a lesson in diplomacy I learned to be more tol erant and to negotiate with people I adamantly disagreed with

Tension could hardly be avoided Poft was up at 7 am each day off to a new city for another round of tours and talks followed by a formal dinner then bed by 2 am Confe rence organizers packed the schedule for maximum stress and press ure - all part of the leadership exshype rtence

Poff also sensed her own nai vete as a Canadian colonia The protocol was all rather stal11ing and nothing J parshyticularly think Ill need It included fiv e-course dinners and changing three times a day for formal and semi-formal

occas ions None of this was part of my expe rience

From the beginning Poft disagreed with conference pllndits She didnt acshycept tbat downsizing had to mean a PCIshymanentthreshold displacementshypermanent unemployment - of 20 per cent of the workforce Back at home in Halifax she plepared her counter offenshysive She spent months reading everyshything she could on the North American Free Trade Agreement for instance anel is now far more engaged in the deshybate The res ult was a cautionary paper on how democracy can be eroded if citishyzens don t gel a handl e on how nations are bargaining away theil bJsic rights A condensed version of that paper follows

This is Poffs area of political not acashydemic interes l I came away thinking this is the critical issue to be adshydressed 0

Reconciling the irreconcilable the global economy and the environment

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For the past decade we have been li sshytening to a number of inconsistent recommendations for solving the serious economic and environmental problems in Canada and around the world Although government s profess to support environmentalmeaslIIes many business ent erprises seem to be tell ing us that environmental sustainability is a barrier 10 competitiveness

This paper will examine the policies and practices of todays new breed of capitalists - who first look ed to the world s democracies for bread and are now turning to bite the hand that fed them

A capitalist as defined by 18th-censhytury economist Adam Smith is one who is committed to investing in his or her own domestic economy But in recent yeilrs domes tic inves tmcnt has been eroded by transnationil 1 companies and international money managers who ha ve received limited liability and apparent immortaltty - the gi ft of governments to whom they give no national alshyIcgiance

These capitalists move their investshyments abroad for even a smal) increase in th e rate of return Globalt zation has left us wondering if national cconomies are mere ly remnants of an earlier inshydustrial period or agents for globa I economic negotiation

Those familiar with the literature on the current economic crisis know that a complete picture starts with the Bretton Wood s conference of 1SJ44 which set guidelines for what was to become the International Monetary Fund and the prec ursor of the World Bank Bretton Wooels also guaranteed the dominance shyorthe United States in the world economy and recognized the US dollar - linked to gold - as the wOIlcIs most important reserve cmrency

What occ urred in the nex t 40-plus years is too complex to examine here But Japan and Germany rebuilt The

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United Sta tes [ltlced with growi ng trade and budget de ficits abandoned the go ld standard And an unprecedented ex shychange of world currency as comshymodi ties ensued This WltlS followed by ex tensive loans to Third World countries ca rrying the condi tion of economic and politicltll re structuring within the borrow ing nation

Structural adjustment as it is ca ll ed was a natural byproduct of the Reaga nfThatcher Mul roney era It comes from ltl fa ith in the rat ionali zi ng effect of globa l market forces ltlnd involshyves a number of complementary actions targe ted to prod uc ing a so-called level plltl ying field These actions include priv ati zation deregu latio n and liberali zati on of national economies

Much of thi s is famili ar to Canadians because th is is precisely what th e Canltldian govel11ment has been pursushying in concert with the CanadianshyAmerican and North American free trade agree ments

It is assumed that the impact of strucshytural adjustment will remove the artifishyc ial bltlrriers to natural mark et fo rces But part of the adjustment to create a level playing fi e ld means a weakened labor force with lower ex pectations And part of the restructu ring for globa l compatitiveness has meant deregulating uni ons in th e United Kin gdom New Zealand and elsewhere in the developed world

In the developing world it has meant deva lued domestic currenc ies high unshyemployment increased poverty and starshyvation in flat ion and the establ ishmen t of free trade zones

WHAT DOES STRUCTURAL adj ustment mean for env ironmenta l susshyrainability) Any attempt to remain competitive in such a global market is almost imposs ible for a Thi rd World country and increas ingly difficult for developed nations like Canada Environshymental protecti on is a rel ati ve ly recent phenome non and even within the bounshydaries of a nation state where a conflict arises between busi ness inte rests and enshyvironmental protection business wi ns When we add to this the power of transnationltll co rporations to change both law and qU ltllity of life within a country we begin to rea lize the res isshytance that any attempt to protect the enshyvironment meets

In deve lop ing countries the situation is exacerbated by the very nature of their so-called competitive edge i e

chcap labor an d lltl x environmental regulations With heavy debt loads and depressed economies most Third World countri es cannot put the environment before economic surviva l So they are caught li p in a desperate and vicious process of destroying their natu ra l re sources to servi ce debt and a ll ow short-term surviv al And they are doing so beca use the y have lost control of nashytional se lf-gove rnance

The environmental damage brings to mind images of the pollution that was endemic to the Indus trial Revol uti on The di fference here is that the negot iashyti ons and damages incurred by developshyment are global in nature and go beyond the capacity of nation states to effec tiveshyly control This is not just a difference in scale but a difference in kind

Multinational companies are responshysible for many hazardous ventures in the Third Wor ld of which mining and mineral process ing are among the most lucrative And many coun tri es are so desperate to attract investment that they provide an open door for companies to disregard hea lth Clnd safety regulat ions and meas ures of env ironmental proshytection

FOR THOSE CONCERNED WITH Canada s involvement in free trade agreements and the protection of the countrys natural resources in those agreements the quest ion of Canad ian sovereignty is central Some economi sts be l ieve that the emerging global economy has rendered nationa I economi es irre levant Many also believe that true sovereign ty is lost as we rep lace political debate and dec ision making for communi ty goals with the absolute rule of the market

But when we look at th e literature on the loss of national economic autonomy and sovereignty its important to remember that nations are the key agents in negoti ating deregulation and free trade deal s Nation states th at in liberal democracies are viewed as protectors of basic rights are in fact inshyvolved in global regulati ons that may erode the very principles they are based on This not onl y affects ri ght s meant to ensure the qual ity o f life within given nati ons but al so diminishes the posshysibility fo r the growth o f democracy and democra ti c rights on a globaJ sca Ie

Forward-looking principles of human rights get undermined as nat ion arkr nashyti on position s for a com petitive ltld shyvan tage The result is the lowest

common denominator and a bottomshyrun g pos ition for the environment and social programs We re see ing unbridled corruption and crime in deve loped countri es and Th ird World nations willshying to accept toxic waste in cont rave nshyti on of intcrnation all aw

So does all of thi s mean that the noshytion of statehood has been eroded ) [ would say unequivocally not What has been eroded here is not statehood but democracy and the ability of c it izens within democratic states to exercise democratic righ ts Not on ly is Canada less democratic to the ex tent that deregulation pri va tization and economic liberalization have been acshycomp li shed but also 10 the ex tent that nation s are willing to use such fac tors as economic bargaining chips Environshymenta l sustainability has become one more barr ier to competi tiveness

ASSUMING THAT DEM OCR ACY is a good thing what should be done abo ut this Esse nti a ll y all nations need to negotiate intematio nally from a posishytion where they can set th ei r own nationshyal priori ti es This is something that has increas ingly been given up even in nashylions like Canada where there is still the possibility of exe rcising co ll ec tive politishyca l will Transnati ona l corporations have an und emocrat ic message th at citizens in all nati ons have to become more compe titive by di smantling nati onshyal institutions and programs The facl that compe ti t i ven es~ wi thout the protecshytion of natural resources in fras tructure and soc ial programs amounts to mass suicide is rarely conside red

This may sound remini scent of the cultural imperialism of a former era but it behooves those of LIS with th e privilege to still resist the erosion of en shyvironment and human freedoms to do so and not all ow our nations to bargain away the world

As John Maynard Keynes said in 1933 The divorce between ownership and the rea l responsibility of manageshyment is serious within a count ry when ownershi p is broken up between inshydividuals who buy their inte rest toclay and sell it tomorrow and lack altogether both knowledge and res ponsibility towards what th ey monetaril y own

The soluti on to the prob lem of divorce here is reconciliation rather than re signation - and res istance to the fal se and alarming rhetoric of global greed that has benumbed our better senshysibiliti es 0

ClieII~l1l7 nll 4

Try it you II like it Story hy Mary Dickiesol1

isappointed with the financial returns from traditional farming

operations many Canadian fanners are looking for alternashyD

bull tive commodities to help imshyrnJ prove their bottom line Paul

Witmer OAC 73 is one of them After se lling the family dairy herd in 1990

Witmer looked at several new ventures includshying mushrooms and deer before turning hi s Cambridge OnL farm into an emu ranch

We felt the re was a lot of potential in these birds he says They produce a red meat similar in taste to beef with fat and cholesterol levels comparable to chicken In addition to its meat each bird produces a hide for leather and oil that has commercial potenti a l for use in hypoalJ ergenic cosmetics sunscreens and pharshymaceuticals or as a lubricating oiL

A lot of other farmers al so see the potentia l in thi s Australian bird In fact the emu industry in Ontario is booming despite the fact that there is no commercial marke t for the birds and not likely to be for several years Nevertheless the val ue of emu breeding stock has increased sevenshyfold since the birds were first introduced in Onshytari o about 1989 Just over a year ago Witmer bought hi s first pair of breeding birds for $15000 Today theyre worth almost $45000

These stock prices are the envy of Bay Street But like paper stocks in 1987 this marke t is headed for a crash Tony ten Westeneind OAC 81 is a business adv iser with the Ontario Minisshytry of Agriculture and Food (OMAF) He says low supply and hi gh demand for birds have pushed emu prices to artifi c ial heights But evenshytually the breed ing-stock marke t will become saturated and producers will be forced to sell birds at lower prices or wont be able to sell Emu can he prelly choosy when it comes to selecting a mate Blit after handing together a them at all breeding pair can he expected to produce more than 20 flJtile Iggs each Slason and may

The industrys future depends on the developshy live lip to 30 years Photo by Vel11 McGrath

ment of a consumer market for emu meat and byshyproducts To this end Ontario breeders have formed the Ontario Ratite Assoc iation (ORA) - ratites are flightl ess birds - with Stephen Thomson OAC 78 as its first president They ll aim their marke ting strategy at the resshytaurant industry and speci a lty meat marke ts hoping to ensure that your first taste of emu will be at the hands of a competent chef Because of its low fat content the meat must be roasted or seared to retain moisture and tenderness And they think youll get a chance to order it before the year 2000

The ORA is following the lead of emu producers in

Guelph Aumnlls

Western Canada and in the United States where Texas ranchers were among the first to promote ratites as mea t birds

The ostrich a nat ive of Africa is the largest of the flightless birds followed by the emu the South American rhea the casshysowary of New Guinea and Au stralia and the ki wi of New Zea land Ostriches were commercially domesti cated in So uth America in the mid-19th century first for feathers and late r for leather and meat Despite a sizeable industry in South A frica there is littl e international trade in ostrich products beshycause of economic sanctions against the country

5

Gettingmiddotmiddotmiddotstartedmiddotmiddotmiddotmiddotmiddot Li ke many other livestock op~nlli(jns [(nake alocik inside the ~gggtOstrich rais ing emlJs looks easy to tti~ lIni- eggs can be candled tp see ifthe click

middotmiddotmiddot nit iated blit don underestiIllHtethe isgrowillg normally outellllJcggs riskorthc alTiountof work Involved ctreopaqlie so incubatiollis a waitshy

In te rms offime comiliitment ILlii- and~seepriiposilion ning anerTllt~bteedingoperation i middotYoungeml chicks havebrmvl1und similar to a cowcalf or sheep firni beige feitllers middotthatlic in ast6iJed COI1-

There s a lot of activity during the figLlJafion A ndthey makY ll1 odd middot breeding seas6nwhichrunsfromOc - vhistling sound so[tofl~ke wind roberto ApriL bIOVingthmLJgha~rack in thedQor

)n likc mo~t d()t1l e~ tic Iivestock Adult birds have molted plumage emll~ ~re middotmoI16gamolls They bond Ol1ebreedclsays nn alillltetnu ji)oks togethei as ycar ings and begin l)lay lIk-ea IIOpolliid (five-kilograril)

eggs a t two or threcyearsor age feathe red l11uslir()oiilwith slickclike Some emus are known tofive 30 skirinylegs and along slender neck yeaimiddotsandlay upio 50 eggs ljei- QthersessiOlisar the JUlle sea on butmost ncw breeders con- work~~9P i nc(ucled denl()nsljmiddotatiOilS of s ider 20 a good yeat- sexing (makandfem1tle bildshitve

At a workshop held ()n Gil rnpusiri iQ~i1ti( d pltlIn~tge) alldhbw lohQkl June for members of thcOnLario tijjd~forvaccii1atioilsandnLgging At Ratiie Association Woodst()ck middot il(oreight w~ksan enmhas the leg breedefStephen Thomson OAC 78 st rength ofafu1JgrOWl1I1Jiiliso ex- bull

descri bed the hatching process T he perienced ilatidersahvu)s w()rkhotll emus dark green eggsme removed middot behindthebicb away from theirfecentt from the nest and inc ubated for 48 10 Oi1C~ theyre pastlheclickstage 62 days T he eggs an positioned 1 1 emusJiaveJew health pmblenls and 45-degree a ngle carerully tumyct doweHin ~tlmosku1yenvironmenl every tWQ hours f()rthe firstthiee says Canlbridge Veterinarian Peter we~klt and monitored in thelerilper~- RlchOVC 81 Jusf like his ntrmer ttire - aild hUln~dityccolitrolledin~ clients R ichteamed aboutennis on cubator With a neweggheillglaid the job - first attic Ileaiby Arrican ev~ry three to five dayslcHching re LiolrSafarilhenOli einufanllSslJread

middot quires acc urate record keeping The Hsfarapart s the Ni~poundantand Btllce procedure is similar for other ratite peninsulas Tt)day emusaccouritfor Jf the chioks dontenlerge a abciurl5 percent of his pra(tiq

middot scheduled ThoillSOIl gets out the sur- F()rm6~ttifRichs clientsernus are middot gical sci SOlS tweezers aiiliantlseplicent secondarYlivestock TI~cyre gel)eial~

IYcol11patitile with other specentiesbufheadvises

farmers to Isohlleemllsfroill poultrY(lsu precalltioi) ngaii1t disease He offers his ciienrsapreventiveJletlth

progia(11 Richwa~ oil hand a the

JfiiIllIIItl~ (iuelphworks-hbptolrispect birds that verc s()ldal ~HlC-

tioIiMay newcomeTs to the emLI ihdllstryshyavay from

th~ $45000 price ragofa middot prQvenbreecling pair infavoi ofyehftings i)r ohicks Yeitr

1i t1g females sold at top prices of $ J3(J()0~ chicks rangeQfr()ll1$3 OUOt() $5400 J

A lewly hatcbed emu cric in SI~pJ(n Tholn 000 v illClibal iol1 to)I1

j

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The interest in ratites began to mu shshyroom in the United States tn the early 1980s spread into Western Canada abo ut six years ago and exploded into Ontario by 1989 The re are now an es shytimated 100 ratite owners in Ontario and Albe rta with small er numbers in British Columbia Saskatchewan and Manitoba There is also g row ing interest in eastern parts of the country

Ironically Australians didnt start culshytivating emu s unti I th ey saw what was happening in the United States but the indu stry down under is now the largest aided by native populations of emus For more than 30 years Austral ia has enforced a ban on the export of emus and their eggs so the birds in North America are all derived from zoo stocks imported before 1960

Thomson and Witmer attended the American Emu Association s annual convention in Jul y and came ho me conshyvinced that theyre in the right business This is the business for farming tod ay and for the future says Thomson They spent three days in Dal las in the comshypany of 3000 American emu producers and 160 secondary agricultural indusshytries - feed manufacturers equipment dealers consultants and research comshypanies work ing in product development

They inspected emu lea ther prod ucts cosmetics made from emu oil and samples of meat processed and packshyaged in plastic for sale in spec ialty meat markets And the y were cou rted by comshypanies looking for di stributors for Austral ian emu meat and byproducts Witmer thinks imported products may help develop a consumer market in Canada while the domestic industry is building numbers for commercia l proshyduction

T en Westenei nd says producers have th e advantage of a con sumer trend toward the consumption of ethnic food s and exotic cuisine Peop le like to try difshyferent foods he says and an aggress ive marke ting program could carve o ut a sma ll niche market But it will take more time than the seven years preshydicted by the ORA he says He thinks its more like ly that his g randchildren if anyone wiJl see emu meat ga in popular -acceptance

His OMAF co lleague Robert Wright OAC 73 and OVC 78 is more skeptical As program manager for equine and alternative livestock he s well aware of the slow progress of ot her ventures to rai se deer wild boar and bi son These commodities have some

Guelph Alumnus

Deblll(ji Pott

tie in common Inevitably there were clashes

Im sure they found me a pushy lefty feminist she says but we got so tbat we actually liked each other It was a lesson in diplomacy I learned to be more tol erant and to negotiate with people I adamantly disagreed with

Tension could hardly be avoided Poft was up at 7 am each day off to a new city for another round of tours and talks followed by a formal dinner then bed by 2 am Confe rence organizers packed the schedule for maximum stress and press ure - all part of the leadership exshype rtence

Poff also sensed her own nai vete as a Canadian colonia The protocol was all rather stal11ing and nothing J parshyticularly think Ill need It included fiv e-course dinners and changing three times a day for formal and semi-formal

occas ions None of this was part of my expe rience

From the beginning Poft disagreed with conference pllndits She didnt acshycept tbat downsizing had to mean a PCIshymanentthreshold displacementshypermanent unemployment - of 20 per cent of the workforce Back at home in Halifax she plepared her counter offenshysive She spent months reading everyshything she could on the North American Free Trade Agreement for instance anel is now far more engaged in the deshybate The res ult was a cautionary paper on how democracy can be eroded if citishyzens don t gel a handl e on how nations are bargaining away theil bJsic rights A condensed version of that paper follows

This is Poffs area of political not acashydemic interes l I came away thinking this is the critical issue to be adshydressed 0

Reconciling the irreconcilable the global economy and the environment

Collcell cdti()Il ( JOP( prepared b DeiJomh Pottc)r a 1l0iOIlO SI7IH)silll7l

Oil grogtlt1h rode and ellir()IIn1Cl1wi

milles Fehmory 993

For the past decade we have been li sshytening to a number of inconsistent recommendations for solving the serious economic and environmental problems in Canada and around the world Although government s profess to support environmentalmeaslIIes many business ent erprises seem to be tell ing us that environmental sustainability is a barrier 10 competitiveness

This paper will examine the policies and practices of todays new breed of capitalists - who first look ed to the world s democracies for bread and are now turning to bite the hand that fed them

A capitalist as defined by 18th-censhytury economist Adam Smith is one who is committed to investing in his or her own domestic economy But in recent yeilrs domes tic inves tmcnt has been eroded by transnationil 1 companies and international money managers who ha ve received limited liability and apparent immortaltty - the gi ft of governments to whom they give no national alshyIcgiance

These capitalists move their investshyments abroad for even a smal) increase in th e rate of return Globalt zation has left us wondering if national cconomies are mere ly remnants of an earlier inshydustrial period or agents for globa I economic negotiation

Those familiar with the literature on the current economic crisis know that a complete picture starts with the Bretton Wood s conference of 1SJ44 which set guidelines for what was to become the International Monetary Fund and the prec ursor of the World Bank Bretton Wooels also guaranteed the dominance shyorthe United States in the world economy and recognized the US dollar - linked to gold - as the wOIlcIs most important reserve cmrency

What occ urred in the nex t 40-plus years is too complex to examine here But Japan and Germany rebuilt The

13

United Sta tes [ltlced with growi ng trade and budget de ficits abandoned the go ld standard And an unprecedented ex shychange of world currency as comshymodi ties ensued This WltlS followed by ex tensive loans to Third World countries ca rrying the condi tion of economic and politicltll re structuring within the borrow ing nation

Structural adjustment as it is ca ll ed was a natural byproduct of the Reaga nfThatcher Mul roney era It comes from ltl fa ith in the rat ionali zi ng effect of globa l market forces ltlnd involshyves a number of complementary actions targe ted to prod uc ing a so-called level plltl ying field These actions include priv ati zation deregu latio n and liberali zati on of national economies

Much of thi s is famili ar to Canadians because th is is precisely what th e Canltldian govel11ment has been pursushying in concert with the CanadianshyAmerican and North American free trade agree ments

It is assumed that the impact of strucshytural adjustment will remove the artifishyc ial bltlrriers to natural mark et fo rces But part of the adjustment to create a level playing fi e ld means a weakened labor force with lower ex pectations And part of the restructu ring for globa l compatitiveness has meant deregulating uni ons in th e United Kin gdom New Zealand and elsewhere in the developed world

In the developing world it has meant deva lued domestic currenc ies high unshyemployment increased poverty and starshyvation in flat ion and the establ ishmen t of free trade zones

WHAT DOES STRUCTURAL adj ustment mean for env ironmenta l susshyrainability) Any attempt to remain competitive in such a global market is almost imposs ible for a Thi rd World country and increas ingly difficult for developed nations like Canada Environshymental protecti on is a rel ati ve ly recent phenome non and even within the bounshydaries of a nation state where a conflict arises between busi ness inte rests and enshyvironmental protection business wi ns When we add to this the power of transnationltll co rporations to change both law and qU ltllity of life within a country we begin to rea lize the res isshytance that any attempt to protect the enshyvironment meets

In deve lop ing countries the situation is exacerbated by the very nature of their so-called competitive edge i e

chcap labor an d lltl x environmental regulations With heavy debt loads and depressed economies most Third World countri es cannot put the environment before economic surviva l So they are caught li p in a desperate and vicious process of destroying their natu ra l re sources to servi ce debt and a ll ow short-term surviv al And they are doing so beca use the y have lost control of nashytional se lf-gove rnance

The environmental damage brings to mind images of the pollution that was endemic to the Indus trial Revol uti on The di fference here is that the negot iashyti ons and damages incurred by developshyment are global in nature and go beyond the capacity of nation states to effec tiveshyly control This is not just a difference in scale but a difference in kind

Multinational companies are responshysible for many hazardous ventures in the Third Wor ld of which mining and mineral process ing are among the most lucrative And many coun tri es are so desperate to attract investment that they provide an open door for companies to disregard hea lth Clnd safety regulat ions and meas ures of env ironmental proshytection

FOR THOSE CONCERNED WITH Canada s involvement in free trade agreements and the protection of the countrys natural resources in those agreements the quest ion of Canad ian sovereignty is central Some economi sts be l ieve that the emerging global economy has rendered nationa I economi es irre levant Many also believe that true sovereign ty is lost as we rep lace political debate and dec ision making for communi ty goals with the absolute rule of the market

But when we look at th e literature on the loss of national economic autonomy and sovereignty its important to remember that nations are the key agents in negoti ating deregulation and free trade deal s Nation states th at in liberal democracies are viewed as protectors of basic rights are in fact inshyvolved in global regulati ons that may erode the very principles they are based on This not onl y affects ri ght s meant to ensure the qual ity o f life within given nati ons but al so diminishes the posshysibility fo r the growth o f democracy and democra ti c rights on a globaJ sca Ie

Forward-looking principles of human rights get undermined as nat ion arkr nashyti on position s for a com petitive ltld shyvan tage The result is the lowest

common denominator and a bottomshyrun g pos ition for the environment and social programs We re see ing unbridled corruption and crime in deve loped countri es and Th ird World nations willshying to accept toxic waste in cont rave nshyti on of intcrnation all aw

So does all of thi s mean that the noshytion of statehood has been eroded ) [ would say unequivocally not What has been eroded here is not statehood but democracy and the ability of c it izens within democratic states to exercise democratic righ ts Not on ly is Canada less democratic to the ex tent that deregulation pri va tization and economic liberalization have been acshycomp li shed but also 10 the ex tent that nation s are willing to use such fac tors as economic bargaining chips Environshymenta l sustainability has become one more barr ier to competi tiveness

ASSUMING THAT DEM OCR ACY is a good thing what should be done abo ut this Esse nti a ll y all nations need to negotiate intematio nally from a posishytion where they can set th ei r own nationshyal priori ti es This is something that has increas ingly been given up even in nashylions like Canada where there is still the possibility of exe rcising co ll ec tive politishyca l will Transnati ona l corporations have an und emocrat ic message th at citizens in all nati ons have to become more compe titive by di smantling nati onshyal institutions and programs The facl that compe ti t i ven es~ wi thout the protecshytion of natural resources in fras tructure and soc ial programs amounts to mass suicide is rarely conside red

This may sound remini scent of the cultural imperialism of a former era but it behooves those of LIS with th e privilege to still resist the erosion of en shyvironment and human freedoms to do so and not all ow our nations to bargain away the world

As John Maynard Keynes said in 1933 The divorce between ownership and the rea l responsibility of manageshyment is serious within a count ry when ownershi p is broken up between inshydividuals who buy their inte rest toclay and sell it tomorrow and lack altogether both knowledge and res ponsibility towards what th ey monetaril y own

The soluti on to the prob lem of divorce here is reconciliation rather than re signation - and res istance to the fal se and alarming rhetoric of global greed that has benumbed our better senshysibiliti es 0

ClieII~l1l7 nll 4

Try it you II like it Story hy Mary Dickiesol1

isappointed with the financial returns from traditional farming

operations many Canadian fanners are looking for alternashyD

bull tive commodities to help imshyrnJ prove their bottom line Paul

Witmer OAC 73 is one of them After se lling the family dairy herd in 1990

Witmer looked at several new ventures includshying mushrooms and deer before turning hi s Cambridge OnL farm into an emu ranch

We felt the re was a lot of potential in these birds he says They produce a red meat similar in taste to beef with fat and cholesterol levels comparable to chicken In addition to its meat each bird produces a hide for leather and oil that has commercial potenti a l for use in hypoalJ ergenic cosmetics sunscreens and pharshymaceuticals or as a lubricating oiL

A lot of other farmers al so see the potentia l in thi s Australian bird In fact the emu industry in Ontario is booming despite the fact that there is no commercial marke t for the birds and not likely to be for several years Nevertheless the val ue of emu breeding stock has increased sevenshyfold since the birds were first introduced in Onshytari o about 1989 Just over a year ago Witmer bought hi s first pair of breeding birds for $15000 Today theyre worth almost $45000

These stock prices are the envy of Bay Street But like paper stocks in 1987 this marke t is headed for a crash Tony ten Westeneind OAC 81 is a business adv iser with the Ontario Minisshytry of Agriculture and Food (OMAF) He says low supply and hi gh demand for birds have pushed emu prices to artifi c ial heights But evenshytually the breed ing-stock marke t will become saturated and producers will be forced to sell birds at lower prices or wont be able to sell Emu can he prelly choosy when it comes to selecting a mate Blit after handing together a them at all breeding pair can he expected to produce more than 20 flJtile Iggs each Slason and may

The industrys future depends on the developshy live lip to 30 years Photo by Vel11 McGrath

ment of a consumer market for emu meat and byshyproducts To this end Ontario breeders have formed the Ontario Ratite Assoc iation (ORA) - ratites are flightl ess birds - with Stephen Thomson OAC 78 as its first president They ll aim their marke ting strategy at the resshytaurant industry and speci a lty meat marke ts hoping to ensure that your first taste of emu will be at the hands of a competent chef Because of its low fat content the meat must be roasted or seared to retain moisture and tenderness And they think youll get a chance to order it before the year 2000

The ORA is following the lead of emu producers in

Guelph Aumnlls

Western Canada and in the United States where Texas ranchers were among the first to promote ratites as mea t birds

The ostrich a nat ive of Africa is the largest of the flightless birds followed by the emu the South American rhea the casshysowary of New Guinea and Au stralia and the ki wi of New Zea land Ostriches were commercially domesti cated in So uth America in the mid-19th century first for feathers and late r for leather and meat Despite a sizeable industry in South A frica there is littl e international trade in ostrich products beshycause of economic sanctions against the country

5

Gettingmiddotmiddotmiddotstartedmiddotmiddotmiddotmiddotmiddot Li ke many other livestock op~nlli(jns [(nake alocik inside the ~gggtOstrich rais ing emlJs looks easy to tti~ lIni- eggs can be candled tp see ifthe click

middotmiddotmiddot nit iated blit don underestiIllHtethe isgrowillg normally outellllJcggs riskorthc alTiountof work Involved ctreopaqlie so incubatiollis a waitshy

In te rms offime comiliitment ILlii- and~seepriiposilion ning anerTllt~bteedingoperation i middotYoungeml chicks havebrmvl1und similar to a cowcalf or sheep firni beige feitllers middotthatlic in ast6iJed COI1-

There s a lot of activity during the figLlJafion A ndthey makY ll1 odd middot breeding seas6nwhichrunsfromOc - vhistling sound so[tofl~ke wind roberto ApriL bIOVingthmLJgha~rack in thedQor

)n likc mo~t d()t1l e~ tic Iivestock Adult birds have molted plumage emll~ ~re middotmoI16gamolls They bond Ol1ebreedclsays nn alillltetnu ji)oks togethei as ycar ings and begin l)lay lIk-ea IIOpolliid (five-kilograril)

eggs a t two or threcyearsor age feathe red l11uslir()oiilwith slickclike Some emus are known tofive 30 skirinylegs and along slender neck yeaimiddotsandlay upio 50 eggs ljei- QthersessiOlisar the JUlle sea on butmost ncw breeders con- work~~9P i nc(ucled denl()nsljmiddotatiOilS of s ider 20 a good yeat- sexing (makandfem1tle bildshitve

At a workshop held ()n Gil rnpusiri iQ~i1ti( d pltlIn~tge) alldhbw lohQkl June for members of thcOnLario tijjd~forvaccii1atioilsandnLgging At Ratiie Association Woodst()ck middot il(oreight w~ksan enmhas the leg breedefStephen Thomson OAC 78 st rength ofafu1JgrOWl1I1Jiiliso ex- bull

descri bed the hatching process T he perienced ilatidersahvu)s w()rkhotll emus dark green eggsme removed middot behindthebicb away from theirfecentt from the nest and inc ubated for 48 10 Oi1C~ theyre pastlheclickstage 62 days T he eggs an positioned 1 1 emusJiaveJew health pmblenls and 45-degree a ngle carerully tumyct doweHin ~tlmosku1yenvironmenl every tWQ hours f()rthe firstthiee says Canlbridge Veterinarian Peter we~klt and monitored in thelerilper~- RlchOVC 81 Jusf like his ntrmer ttire - aild hUln~dityccolitrolledin~ clients R ichteamed aboutennis on cubator With a neweggheillglaid the job - first attic Ileaiby Arrican ev~ry three to five dayslcHching re LiolrSafarilhenOli einufanllSslJread

middot quires acc urate record keeping The Hsfarapart s the Ni~poundantand Btllce procedure is similar for other ratite peninsulas Tt)day emusaccouritfor Jf the chioks dontenlerge a abciurl5 percent of his pra(tiq

middot scheduled ThoillSOIl gets out the sur- F()rm6~ttifRichs clientsernus are middot gical sci SOlS tweezers aiiliantlseplicent secondarYlivestock TI~cyre gel)eial~

IYcol11patitile with other specentiesbufheadvises

farmers to Isohlleemllsfroill poultrY(lsu precalltioi) ngaii1t disease He offers his ciienrsapreventiveJletlth

progia(11 Richwa~ oil hand a the

JfiiIllIIItl~ (iuelphworks-hbptolrispect birds that verc s()ldal ~HlC-

tioIiMay newcomeTs to the emLI ihdllstryshyavay from

th~ $45000 price ragofa middot prQvenbreecling pair infavoi ofyehftings i)r ohicks Yeitr

1i t1g females sold at top prices of $ J3(J()0~ chicks rangeQfr()ll1$3 OUOt() $5400 J

A lewly hatcbed emu cric in SI~pJ(n Tholn 000 v illClibal iol1 to)I1

j

16

The interest in ratites began to mu shshyroom in the United States tn the early 1980s spread into Western Canada abo ut six years ago and exploded into Ontario by 1989 The re are now an es shytimated 100 ratite owners in Ontario and Albe rta with small er numbers in British Columbia Saskatchewan and Manitoba There is also g row ing interest in eastern parts of the country

Ironically Australians didnt start culshytivating emu s unti I th ey saw what was happening in the United States but the indu stry down under is now the largest aided by native populations of emus For more than 30 years Austral ia has enforced a ban on the export of emus and their eggs so the birds in North America are all derived from zoo stocks imported before 1960

Thomson and Witmer attended the American Emu Association s annual convention in Jul y and came ho me conshyvinced that theyre in the right business This is the business for farming tod ay and for the future says Thomson They spent three days in Dal las in the comshypany of 3000 American emu producers and 160 secondary agricultural indusshytries - feed manufacturers equipment dealers consultants and research comshypanies work ing in product development

They inspected emu lea ther prod ucts cosmetics made from emu oil and samples of meat processed and packshyaged in plastic for sale in spec ialty meat markets And the y were cou rted by comshypanies looking for di stributors for Austral ian emu meat and byproducts Witmer thinks imported products may help develop a consumer market in Canada while the domestic industry is building numbers for commercia l proshyduction

T en Westenei nd says producers have th e advantage of a con sumer trend toward the consumption of ethnic food s and exotic cuisine Peop le like to try difshyferent foods he says and an aggress ive marke ting program could carve o ut a sma ll niche market But it will take more time than the seven years preshydicted by the ORA he says He thinks its more like ly that his g randchildren if anyone wiJl see emu meat ga in popular -acceptance

His OMAF co lleague Robert Wright OAC 73 and OVC 78 is more skeptical As program manager for equine and alternative livestock he s well aware of the slow progress of ot her ventures to rai se deer wild boar and bi son These commodities have some

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United Sta tes [ltlced with growi ng trade and budget de ficits abandoned the go ld standard And an unprecedented ex shychange of world currency as comshymodi ties ensued This WltlS followed by ex tensive loans to Third World countries ca rrying the condi tion of economic and politicltll re structuring within the borrow ing nation

Structural adjustment as it is ca ll ed was a natural byproduct of the Reaga nfThatcher Mul roney era It comes from ltl fa ith in the rat ionali zi ng effect of globa l market forces ltlnd involshyves a number of complementary actions targe ted to prod uc ing a so-called level plltl ying field These actions include priv ati zation deregu latio n and liberali zati on of national economies

Much of thi s is famili ar to Canadians because th is is precisely what th e Canltldian govel11ment has been pursushying in concert with the CanadianshyAmerican and North American free trade agree ments

It is assumed that the impact of strucshytural adjustment will remove the artifishyc ial bltlrriers to natural mark et fo rces But part of the adjustment to create a level playing fi e ld means a weakened labor force with lower ex pectations And part of the restructu ring for globa l compatitiveness has meant deregulating uni ons in th e United Kin gdom New Zealand and elsewhere in the developed world

In the developing world it has meant deva lued domestic currenc ies high unshyemployment increased poverty and starshyvation in flat ion and the establ ishmen t of free trade zones

WHAT DOES STRUCTURAL adj ustment mean for env ironmenta l susshyrainability) Any attempt to remain competitive in such a global market is almost imposs ible for a Thi rd World country and increas ingly difficult for developed nations like Canada Environshymental protecti on is a rel ati ve ly recent phenome non and even within the bounshydaries of a nation state where a conflict arises between busi ness inte rests and enshyvironmental protection business wi ns When we add to this the power of transnationltll co rporations to change both law and qU ltllity of life within a country we begin to rea lize the res isshytance that any attempt to protect the enshyvironment meets

In deve lop ing countries the situation is exacerbated by the very nature of their so-called competitive edge i e

chcap labor an d lltl x environmental regulations With heavy debt loads and depressed economies most Third World countri es cannot put the environment before economic surviva l So they are caught li p in a desperate and vicious process of destroying their natu ra l re sources to servi ce debt and a ll ow short-term surviv al And they are doing so beca use the y have lost control of nashytional se lf-gove rnance

The environmental damage brings to mind images of the pollution that was endemic to the Indus trial Revol uti on The di fference here is that the negot iashyti ons and damages incurred by developshyment are global in nature and go beyond the capacity of nation states to effec tiveshyly control This is not just a difference in scale but a difference in kind

Multinational companies are responshysible for many hazardous ventures in the Third Wor ld of which mining and mineral process ing are among the most lucrative And many coun tri es are so desperate to attract investment that they provide an open door for companies to disregard hea lth Clnd safety regulat ions and meas ures of env ironmental proshytection

FOR THOSE CONCERNED WITH Canada s involvement in free trade agreements and the protection of the countrys natural resources in those agreements the quest ion of Canad ian sovereignty is central Some economi sts be l ieve that the emerging global economy has rendered nationa I economi es irre levant Many also believe that true sovereign ty is lost as we rep lace political debate and dec ision making for communi ty goals with the absolute rule of the market

But when we look at th e literature on the loss of national economic autonomy and sovereignty its important to remember that nations are the key agents in negoti ating deregulation and free trade deal s Nation states th at in liberal democracies are viewed as protectors of basic rights are in fact inshyvolved in global regulati ons that may erode the very principles they are based on This not onl y affects ri ght s meant to ensure the qual ity o f life within given nati ons but al so diminishes the posshysibility fo r the growth o f democracy and democra ti c rights on a globaJ sca Ie

Forward-looking principles of human rights get undermined as nat ion arkr nashyti on position s for a com petitive ltld shyvan tage The result is the lowest

common denominator and a bottomshyrun g pos ition for the environment and social programs We re see ing unbridled corruption and crime in deve loped countri es and Th ird World nations willshying to accept toxic waste in cont rave nshyti on of intcrnation all aw

So does all of thi s mean that the noshytion of statehood has been eroded ) [ would say unequivocally not What has been eroded here is not statehood but democracy and the ability of c it izens within democratic states to exercise democratic righ ts Not on ly is Canada less democratic to the ex tent that deregulation pri va tization and economic liberalization have been acshycomp li shed but also 10 the ex tent that nation s are willing to use such fac tors as economic bargaining chips Environshymenta l sustainability has become one more barr ier to competi tiveness

ASSUMING THAT DEM OCR ACY is a good thing what should be done abo ut this Esse nti a ll y all nations need to negotiate intematio nally from a posishytion where they can set th ei r own nationshyal priori ti es This is something that has increas ingly been given up even in nashylions like Canada where there is still the possibility of exe rcising co ll ec tive politishyca l will Transnati ona l corporations have an und emocrat ic message th at citizens in all nati ons have to become more compe titive by di smantling nati onshyal institutions and programs The facl that compe ti t i ven es~ wi thout the protecshytion of natural resources in fras tructure and soc ial programs amounts to mass suicide is rarely conside red

This may sound remini scent of the cultural imperialism of a former era but it behooves those of LIS with th e privilege to still resist the erosion of en shyvironment and human freedoms to do so and not all ow our nations to bargain away the world

As John Maynard Keynes said in 1933 The divorce between ownership and the rea l responsibility of manageshyment is serious within a count ry when ownershi p is broken up between inshydividuals who buy their inte rest toclay and sell it tomorrow and lack altogether both knowledge and res ponsibility towards what th ey monetaril y own

The soluti on to the prob lem of divorce here is reconciliation rather than re signation - and res istance to the fal se and alarming rhetoric of global greed that has benumbed our better senshysibiliti es 0

ClieII~l1l7 nll 4

Try it you II like it Story hy Mary Dickiesol1

isappointed with the financial returns from traditional farming

operations many Canadian fanners are looking for alternashyD

bull tive commodities to help imshyrnJ prove their bottom line Paul

Witmer OAC 73 is one of them After se lling the family dairy herd in 1990

Witmer looked at several new ventures includshying mushrooms and deer before turning hi s Cambridge OnL farm into an emu ranch

We felt the re was a lot of potential in these birds he says They produce a red meat similar in taste to beef with fat and cholesterol levels comparable to chicken In addition to its meat each bird produces a hide for leather and oil that has commercial potenti a l for use in hypoalJ ergenic cosmetics sunscreens and pharshymaceuticals or as a lubricating oiL

A lot of other farmers al so see the potentia l in thi s Australian bird In fact the emu industry in Ontario is booming despite the fact that there is no commercial marke t for the birds and not likely to be for several years Nevertheless the val ue of emu breeding stock has increased sevenshyfold since the birds were first introduced in Onshytari o about 1989 Just over a year ago Witmer bought hi s first pair of breeding birds for $15000 Today theyre worth almost $45000

These stock prices are the envy of Bay Street But like paper stocks in 1987 this marke t is headed for a crash Tony ten Westeneind OAC 81 is a business adv iser with the Ontario Minisshytry of Agriculture and Food (OMAF) He says low supply and hi gh demand for birds have pushed emu prices to artifi c ial heights But evenshytually the breed ing-stock marke t will become saturated and producers will be forced to sell birds at lower prices or wont be able to sell Emu can he prelly choosy when it comes to selecting a mate Blit after handing together a them at all breeding pair can he expected to produce more than 20 flJtile Iggs each Slason and may

The industrys future depends on the developshy live lip to 30 years Photo by Vel11 McGrath

ment of a consumer market for emu meat and byshyproducts To this end Ontario breeders have formed the Ontario Ratite Assoc iation (ORA) - ratites are flightl ess birds - with Stephen Thomson OAC 78 as its first president They ll aim their marke ting strategy at the resshytaurant industry and speci a lty meat marke ts hoping to ensure that your first taste of emu will be at the hands of a competent chef Because of its low fat content the meat must be roasted or seared to retain moisture and tenderness And they think youll get a chance to order it before the year 2000

The ORA is following the lead of emu producers in

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Western Canada and in the United States where Texas ranchers were among the first to promote ratites as mea t birds

The ostrich a nat ive of Africa is the largest of the flightless birds followed by the emu the South American rhea the casshysowary of New Guinea and Au stralia and the ki wi of New Zea land Ostriches were commercially domesti cated in So uth America in the mid-19th century first for feathers and late r for leather and meat Despite a sizeable industry in South A frica there is littl e international trade in ostrich products beshycause of economic sanctions against the country

5

Gettingmiddotmiddotmiddotstartedmiddotmiddotmiddotmiddotmiddot Li ke many other livestock op~nlli(jns [(nake alocik inside the ~gggtOstrich rais ing emlJs looks easy to tti~ lIni- eggs can be candled tp see ifthe click

middotmiddotmiddot nit iated blit don underestiIllHtethe isgrowillg normally outellllJcggs riskorthc alTiountof work Involved ctreopaqlie so incubatiollis a waitshy

In te rms offime comiliitment ILlii- and~seepriiposilion ning anerTllt~bteedingoperation i middotYoungeml chicks havebrmvl1und similar to a cowcalf or sheep firni beige feitllers middotthatlic in ast6iJed COI1-

There s a lot of activity during the figLlJafion A ndthey makY ll1 odd middot breeding seas6nwhichrunsfromOc - vhistling sound so[tofl~ke wind roberto ApriL bIOVingthmLJgha~rack in thedQor

)n likc mo~t d()t1l e~ tic Iivestock Adult birds have molted plumage emll~ ~re middotmoI16gamolls They bond Ol1ebreedclsays nn alillltetnu ji)oks togethei as ycar ings and begin l)lay lIk-ea IIOpolliid (five-kilograril)

eggs a t two or threcyearsor age feathe red l11uslir()oiilwith slickclike Some emus are known tofive 30 skirinylegs and along slender neck yeaimiddotsandlay upio 50 eggs ljei- QthersessiOlisar the JUlle sea on butmost ncw breeders con- work~~9P i nc(ucled denl()nsljmiddotatiOilS of s ider 20 a good yeat- sexing (makandfem1tle bildshitve

At a workshop held ()n Gil rnpusiri iQ~i1ti( d pltlIn~tge) alldhbw lohQkl June for members of thcOnLario tijjd~forvaccii1atioilsandnLgging At Ratiie Association Woodst()ck middot il(oreight w~ksan enmhas the leg breedefStephen Thomson OAC 78 st rength ofafu1JgrOWl1I1Jiiliso ex- bull

descri bed the hatching process T he perienced ilatidersahvu)s w()rkhotll emus dark green eggsme removed middot behindthebicb away from theirfecentt from the nest and inc ubated for 48 10 Oi1C~ theyre pastlheclickstage 62 days T he eggs an positioned 1 1 emusJiaveJew health pmblenls and 45-degree a ngle carerully tumyct doweHin ~tlmosku1yenvironmenl every tWQ hours f()rthe firstthiee says Canlbridge Veterinarian Peter we~klt and monitored in thelerilper~- RlchOVC 81 Jusf like his ntrmer ttire - aild hUln~dityccolitrolledin~ clients R ichteamed aboutennis on cubator With a neweggheillglaid the job - first attic Ileaiby Arrican ev~ry three to five dayslcHching re LiolrSafarilhenOli einufanllSslJread

middot quires acc urate record keeping The Hsfarapart s the Ni~poundantand Btllce procedure is similar for other ratite peninsulas Tt)day emusaccouritfor Jf the chioks dontenlerge a abciurl5 percent of his pra(tiq

middot scheduled ThoillSOIl gets out the sur- F()rm6~ttifRichs clientsernus are middot gical sci SOlS tweezers aiiliantlseplicent secondarYlivestock TI~cyre gel)eial~

IYcol11patitile with other specentiesbufheadvises

farmers to Isohlleemllsfroill poultrY(lsu precalltioi) ngaii1t disease He offers his ciienrsapreventiveJletlth

progia(11 Richwa~ oil hand a the

JfiiIllIIItl~ (iuelphworks-hbptolrispect birds that verc s()ldal ~HlC-

tioIiMay newcomeTs to the emLI ihdllstryshyavay from

th~ $45000 price ragofa middot prQvenbreecling pair infavoi ofyehftings i)r ohicks Yeitr

1i t1g females sold at top prices of $ J3(J()0~ chicks rangeQfr()ll1$3 OUOt() $5400 J

A lewly hatcbed emu cric in SI~pJ(n Tholn 000 v illClibal iol1 to)I1

j

16

The interest in ratites began to mu shshyroom in the United States tn the early 1980s spread into Western Canada abo ut six years ago and exploded into Ontario by 1989 The re are now an es shytimated 100 ratite owners in Ontario and Albe rta with small er numbers in British Columbia Saskatchewan and Manitoba There is also g row ing interest in eastern parts of the country

Ironically Australians didnt start culshytivating emu s unti I th ey saw what was happening in the United States but the indu stry down under is now the largest aided by native populations of emus For more than 30 years Austral ia has enforced a ban on the export of emus and their eggs so the birds in North America are all derived from zoo stocks imported before 1960

Thomson and Witmer attended the American Emu Association s annual convention in Jul y and came ho me conshyvinced that theyre in the right business This is the business for farming tod ay and for the future says Thomson They spent three days in Dal las in the comshypany of 3000 American emu producers and 160 secondary agricultural indusshytries - feed manufacturers equipment dealers consultants and research comshypanies work ing in product development

They inspected emu lea ther prod ucts cosmetics made from emu oil and samples of meat processed and packshyaged in plastic for sale in spec ialty meat markets And the y were cou rted by comshypanies looking for di stributors for Austral ian emu meat and byproducts Witmer thinks imported products may help develop a consumer market in Canada while the domestic industry is building numbers for commercia l proshyduction

T en Westenei nd says producers have th e advantage of a con sumer trend toward the consumption of ethnic food s and exotic cuisine Peop le like to try difshyferent foods he says and an aggress ive marke ting program could carve o ut a sma ll niche market But it will take more time than the seven years preshydicted by the ORA he says He thinks its more like ly that his g randchildren if anyone wiJl see emu meat ga in popular -acceptance

His OMAF co lleague Robert Wright OAC 73 and OVC 78 is more skeptical As program manager for equine and alternative livestock he s well aware of the slow progress of ot her ventures to rai se deer wild boar and bi son These commodities have some

Guelph Alumnus

Try it you II like it Story hy Mary Dickiesol1

isappointed with the financial returns from traditional farming

operations many Canadian fanners are looking for alternashyD

bull tive commodities to help imshyrnJ prove their bottom line Paul

Witmer OAC 73 is one of them After se lling the family dairy herd in 1990

Witmer looked at several new ventures includshying mushrooms and deer before turning hi s Cambridge OnL farm into an emu ranch

We felt the re was a lot of potential in these birds he says They produce a red meat similar in taste to beef with fat and cholesterol levels comparable to chicken In addition to its meat each bird produces a hide for leather and oil that has commercial potenti a l for use in hypoalJ ergenic cosmetics sunscreens and pharshymaceuticals or as a lubricating oiL

A lot of other farmers al so see the potentia l in thi s Australian bird In fact the emu industry in Ontario is booming despite the fact that there is no commercial marke t for the birds and not likely to be for several years Nevertheless the val ue of emu breeding stock has increased sevenshyfold since the birds were first introduced in Onshytari o about 1989 Just over a year ago Witmer bought hi s first pair of breeding birds for $15000 Today theyre worth almost $45000

These stock prices are the envy of Bay Street But like paper stocks in 1987 this marke t is headed for a crash Tony ten Westeneind OAC 81 is a business adv iser with the Ontario Minisshytry of Agriculture and Food (OMAF) He says low supply and hi gh demand for birds have pushed emu prices to artifi c ial heights But evenshytually the breed ing-stock marke t will become saturated and producers will be forced to sell birds at lower prices or wont be able to sell Emu can he prelly choosy when it comes to selecting a mate Blit after handing together a them at all breeding pair can he expected to produce more than 20 flJtile Iggs each Slason and may

The industrys future depends on the developshy live lip to 30 years Photo by Vel11 McGrath

ment of a consumer market for emu meat and byshyproducts To this end Ontario breeders have formed the Ontario Ratite Assoc iation (ORA) - ratites are flightl ess birds - with Stephen Thomson OAC 78 as its first president They ll aim their marke ting strategy at the resshytaurant industry and speci a lty meat marke ts hoping to ensure that your first taste of emu will be at the hands of a competent chef Because of its low fat content the meat must be roasted or seared to retain moisture and tenderness And they think youll get a chance to order it before the year 2000

The ORA is following the lead of emu producers in

Guelph Aumnlls

Western Canada and in the United States where Texas ranchers were among the first to promote ratites as mea t birds

The ostrich a nat ive of Africa is the largest of the flightless birds followed by the emu the South American rhea the casshysowary of New Guinea and Au stralia and the ki wi of New Zea land Ostriches were commercially domesti cated in So uth America in the mid-19th century first for feathers and late r for leather and meat Despite a sizeable industry in South A frica there is littl e international trade in ostrich products beshycause of economic sanctions against the country

5

Gettingmiddotmiddotmiddotstartedmiddotmiddotmiddotmiddotmiddot Li ke many other livestock op~nlli(jns [(nake alocik inside the ~gggtOstrich rais ing emlJs looks easy to tti~ lIni- eggs can be candled tp see ifthe click

middotmiddotmiddot nit iated blit don underestiIllHtethe isgrowillg normally outellllJcggs riskorthc alTiountof work Involved ctreopaqlie so incubatiollis a waitshy

In te rms offime comiliitment ILlii- and~seepriiposilion ning anerTllt~bteedingoperation i middotYoungeml chicks havebrmvl1und similar to a cowcalf or sheep firni beige feitllers middotthatlic in ast6iJed COI1-

There s a lot of activity during the figLlJafion A ndthey makY ll1 odd middot breeding seas6nwhichrunsfromOc - vhistling sound so[tofl~ke wind roberto ApriL bIOVingthmLJgha~rack in thedQor

)n likc mo~t d()t1l e~ tic Iivestock Adult birds have molted plumage emll~ ~re middotmoI16gamolls They bond Ol1ebreedclsays nn alillltetnu ji)oks togethei as ycar ings and begin l)lay lIk-ea IIOpolliid (five-kilograril)

eggs a t two or threcyearsor age feathe red l11uslir()oiilwith slickclike Some emus are known tofive 30 skirinylegs and along slender neck yeaimiddotsandlay upio 50 eggs ljei- QthersessiOlisar the JUlle sea on butmost ncw breeders con- work~~9P i nc(ucled denl()nsljmiddotatiOilS of s ider 20 a good yeat- sexing (makandfem1tle bildshitve

At a workshop held ()n Gil rnpusiri iQ~i1ti( d pltlIn~tge) alldhbw lohQkl June for members of thcOnLario tijjd~forvaccii1atioilsandnLgging At Ratiie Association Woodst()ck middot il(oreight w~ksan enmhas the leg breedefStephen Thomson OAC 78 st rength ofafu1JgrOWl1I1Jiiliso ex- bull

descri bed the hatching process T he perienced ilatidersahvu)s w()rkhotll emus dark green eggsme removed middot behindthebicb away from theirfecentt from the nest and inc ubated for 48 10 Oi1C~ theyre pastlheclickstage 62 days T he eggs an positioned 1 1 emusJiaveJew health pmblenls and 45-degree a ngle carerully tumyct doweHin ~tlmosku1yenvironmenl every tWQ hours f()rthe firstthiee says Canlbridge Veterinarian Peter we~klt and monitored in thelerilper~- RlchOVC 81 Jusf like his ntrmer ttire - aild hUln~dityccolitrolledin~ clients R ichteamed aboutennis on cubator With a neweggheillglaid the job - first attic Ileaiby Arrican ev~ry three to five dayslcHching re LiolrSafarilhenOli einufanllSslJread

middot quires acc urate record keeping The Hsfarapart s the Ni~poundantand Btllce procedure is similar for other ratite peninsulas Tt)day emusaccouritfor Jf the chioks dontenlerge a abciurl5 percent of his pra(tiq

middot scheduled ThoillSOIl gets out the sur- F()rm6~ttifRichs clientsernus are middot gical sci SOlS tweezers aiiliantlseplicent secondarYlivestock TI~cyre gel)eial~

IYcol11patitile with other specentiesbufheadvises

farmers to Isohlleemllsfroill poultrY(lsu precalltioi) ngaii1t disease He offers his ciienrsapreventiveJletlth

progia(11 Richwa~ oil hand a the

JfiiIllIIItl~ (iuelphworks-hbptolrispect birds that verc s()ldal ~HlC-

tioIiMay newcomeTs to the emLI ihdllstryshyavay from

th~ $45000 price ragofa middot prQvenbreecling pair infavoi ofyehftings i)r ohicks Yeitr

1i t1g females sold at top prices of $ J3(J()0~ chicks rangeQfr()ll1$3 OUOt() $5400 J

A lewly hatcbed emu cric in SI~pJ(n Tholn 000 v illClibal iol1 to)I1

j

16

The interest in ratites began to mu shshyroom in the United States tn the early 1980s spread into Western Canada abo ut six years ago and exploded into Ontario by 1989 The re are now an es shytimated 100 ratite owners in Ontario and Albe rta with small er numbers in British Columbia Saskatchewan and Manitoba There is also g row ing interest in eastern parts of the country

Ironically Australians didnt start culshytivating emu s unti I th ey saw what was happening in the United States but the indu stry down under is now the largest aided by native populations of emus For more than 30 years Austral ia has enforced a ban on the export of emus and their eggs so the birds in North America are all derived from zoo stocks imported before 1960

Thomson and Witmer attended the American Emu Association s annual convention in Jul y and came ho me conshyvinced that theyre in the right business This is the business for farming tod ay and for the future says Thomson They spent three days in Dal las in the comshypany of 3000 American emu producers and 160 secondary agricultural indusshytries - feed manufacturers equipment dealers consultants and research comshypanies work ing in product development

They inspected emu lea ther prod ucts cosmetics made from emu oil and samples of meat processed and packshyaged in plastic for sale in spec ialty meat markets And the y were cou rted by comshypanies looking for di stributors for Austral ian emu meat and byproducts Witmer thinks imported products may help develop a consumer market in Canada while the domestic industry is building numbers for commercia l proshyduction

T en Westenei nd says producers have th e advantage of a con sumer trend toward the consumption of ethnic food s and exotic cuisine Peop le like to try difshyferent foods he says and an aggress ive marke ting program could carve o ut a sma ll niche market But it will take more time than the seven years preshydicted by the ORA he says He thinks its more like ly that his g randchildren if anyone wiJl see emu meat ga in popular -acceptance

His OMAF co lleague Robert Wright OAC 73 and OVC 78 is more skeptical As program manager for equine and alternative livestock he s well aware of the slow progress of ot her ventures to rai se deer wild boar and bi son These commodities have some

Guelph Alumnus

Gettingmiddotmiddotmiddotstartedmiddotmiddotmiddotmiddotmiddot Li ke many other livestock op~nlli(jns [(nake alocik inside the ~gggtOstrich rais ing emlJs looks easy to tti~ lIni- eggs can be candled tp see ifthe click

middotmiddotmiddot nit iated blit don underestiIllHtethe isgrowillg normally outellllJcggs riskorthc alTiountof work Involved ctreopaqlie so incubatiollis a waitshy

In te rms offime comiliitment ILlii- and~seepriiposilion ning anerTllt~bteedingoperation i middotYoungeml chicks havebrmvl1und similar to a cowcalf or sheep firni beige feitllers middotthatlic in ast6iJed COI1-

There s a lot of activity during the figLlJafion A ndthey makY ll1 odd middot breeding seas6nwhichrunsfromOc - vhistling sound so[tofl~ke wind roberto ApriL bIOVingthmLJgha~rack in thedQor

)n likc mo~t d()t1l e~ tic Iivestock Adult birds have molted plumage emll~ ~re middotmoI16gamolls They bond Ol1ebreedclsays nn alillltetnu ji)oks togethei as ycar ings and begin l)lay lIk-ea IIOpolliid (five-kilograril)

eggs a t two or threcyearsor age feathe red l11uslir()oiilwith slickclike Some emus are known tofive 30 skirinylegs and along slender neck yeaimiddotsandlay upio 50 eggs ljei- QthersessiOlisar the JUlle sea on butmost ncw breeders con- work~~9P i nc(ucled denl()nsljmiddotatiOilS of s ider 20 a good yeat- sexing (makandfem1tle bildshitve

At a workshop held ()n Gil rnpusiri iQ~i1ti( d pltlIn~tge) alldhbw lohQkl June for members of thcOnLario tijjd~forvaccii1atioilsandnLgging At Ratiie Association Woodst()ck middot il(oreight w~ksan enmhas the leg breedefStephen Thomson OAC 78 st rength ofafu1JgrOWl1I1Jiiliso ex- bull

descri bed the hatching process T he perienced ilatidersahvu)s w()rkhotll emus dark green eggsme removed middot behindthebicb away from theirfecentt from the nest and inc ubated for 48 10 Oi1C~ theyre pastlheclickstage 62 days T he eggs an positioned 1 1 emusJiaveJew health pmblenls and 45-degree a ngle carerully tumyct doweHin ~tlmosku1yenvironmenl every tWQ hours f()rthe firstthiee says Canlbridge Veterinarian Peter we~klt and monitored in thelerilper~- RlchOVC 81 Jusf like his ntrmer ttire - aild hUln~dityccolitrolledin~ clients R ichteamed aboutennis on cubator With a neweggheillglaid the job - first attic Ileaiby Arrican ev~ry three to five dayslcHching re LiolrSafarilhenOli einufanllSslJread

middot quires acc urate record keeping The Hsfarapart s the Ni~poundantand Btllce procedure is similar for other ratite peninsulas Tt)day emusaccouritfor Jf the chioks dontenlerge a abciurl5 percent of his pra(tiq

middot scheduled ThoillSOIl gets out the sur- F()rm6~ttifRichs clientsernus are middot gical sci SOlS tweezers aiiliantlseplicent secondarYlivestock TI~cyre gel)eial~

IYcol11patitile with other specentiesbufheadvises

farmers to Isohlleemllsfroill poultrY(lsu precalltioi) ngaii1t disease He offers his ciienrsapreventiveJletlth

progia(11 Richwa~ oil hand a the

JfiiIllIIItl~ (iuelphworks-hbptolrispect birds that verc s()ldal ~HlC-

tioIiMay newcomeTs to the emLI ihdllstryshyavay from

th~ $45000 price ragofa middot prQvenbreecling pair infavoi ofyehftings i)r ohicks Yeitr

1i t1g females sold at top prices of $ J3(J()0~ chicks rangeQfr()ll1$3 OUOt() $5400 J

A lewly hatcbed emu cric in SI~pJ(n Tholn 000 v illClibal iol1 to)I1

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The interest in ratites began to mu shshyroom in the United States tn the early 1980s spread into Western Canada abo ut six years ago and exploded into Ontario by 1989 The re are now an es shytimated 100 ratite owners in Ontario and Albe rta with small er numbers in British Columbia Saskatchewan and Manitoba There is also g row ing interest in eastern parts of the country

Ironically Australians didnt start culshytivating emu s unti I th ey saw what was happening in the United States but the indu stry down under is now the largest aided by native populations of emus For more than 30 years Austral ia has enforced a ban on the export of emus and their eggs so the birds in North America are all derived from zoo stocks imported before 1960

Thomson and Witmer attended the American Emu Association s annual convention in Jul y and came ho me conshyvinced that theyre in the right business This is the business for farming tod ay and for the future says Thomson They spent three days in Dal las in the comshypany of 3000 American emu producers and 160 secondary agricultural indusshytries - feed manufacturers equipment dealers consultants and research comshypanies work ing in product development

They inspected emu lea ther prod ucts cosmetics made from emu oil and samples of meat processed and packshyaged in plastic for sale in spec ialty meat markets And the y were cou rted by comshypanies looking for di stributors for Austral ian emu meat and byproducts Witmer thinks imported products may help develop a consumer market in Canada while the domestic industry is building numbers for commercia l proshyduction

T en Westenei nd says producers have th e advantage of a con sumer trend toward the consumption of ethnic food s and exotic cuisine Peop le like to try difshyferent foods he says and an aggress ive marke ting program could carve o ut a sma ll niche market But it will take more time than the seven years preshydicted by the ORA he says He thinks its more like ly that his g randchildren if anyone wiJl see emu meat ga in popular -acceptance

His OMAF co lleague Robert Wright OAC 73 and OVC 78 is more skeptical As program manager for equine and alternative livestock he s well aware of the slow progress of ot her ventures to rai se deer wild boar and bi son These commodities have some

Guelph Alumnus

Ahove Like many other ratite producers Paul Witmer prefers emus to their more aggressive ostrich cousins Below right Emu chicks and adult hirds are held from hehind to protect the handler from heing

Perhaps a better way to predict success is to look at the experience of other altemative livestock species in Ontario And there are many to choose from including deer elk bison wild boar squab and pheasants The deer industry began expandshying about 1986 and there are now an estimated 16000 red and fallow deer on Ontario farms The price of breedin g stock peaked in 1991 when a fallow doe sold for $1 200 Today those prices are on par with the market value of deer sold for meat

Primal cuts now sell for $12 to $17 a pound twice the retail price pred icted for emu meat The farm-gate value of deer sold in Ontario in 1992 was about $2 million while Canada still imshyports venison

The elk industry al so makes an interesting comparison beshycause it too is on the upswing with prices for breeding stock

kicked Photos by Vern McGralh and Mary Dickieson ranging from $8000 to $15000

familiarity to segments of the North American population he says but emus have no cultural or ethnic following anywhere in the world Even Australians hadn t considered eating emus until the idea hatched in the United States he says

Emu producers also have to clear the hurdles of slaughter meat inspection and process ing The birds are too large for conventional poultry facilities and most abbatoirs are not equipped to hand Ie feathers The ORA has approva l for proshyvincial meat inspection but to sell meat outside the province members must gain approval for federal meat inspection

ORA members believe the uniqueness of their product will be its advantage If you try rati te meat once youll keep buying it predicts Thomson He says emu ostrich and rhea offer everything consumers want - red meat taste and lower fat and cholesterol than any other meat on the market Producers hope to provide this new product at a retail cost of $6 to $7 a pound ($13 to $15 a kilogram)

Despite the inevitable downward adjustment in breedingshystock prices Thomson and Witmer predict a viable long- term future They say ratite producers who stick with the industry can expect a ne t profit of about $200 per chick

Estimates on the value of product in a single bird range from $500 to $1000 but Witmer says some US breeders are already receiving up to $700 each for cull birds

If you have one breeding pair that produces 20 chicks a year thats a $4000 profit he says That looks good when compared with a beef operation where overhead is greater and each cow produces only one calf that might se ll for $500

The problem with this estimate is that its based on prices US emu producers are paying themselves Almost all the birds are purchased by a ranchers co-operative or by private research companies which use them for end-product resea rch and development

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per animal Elk are not sold in Canada for meat but there is an expanding export market for velve t - antlers re moved in the soft stage of growth (within the first 60 days) Most Canadian velvet eventually ends up in the Orient for use in herbal medic ines

Ten Westeneind advises emu producers to pursue an aggres shysive marketing plan As hard as it is to come up with a great idea he says the idea always turns out to be the eas iest part of any new business

The ORA will hold its annual convention at Rid getown Colshylege in Kemptville Nov 6 It won t have the numbers Thomson saw in Dallas but he says the enthusiasm will be there Everyone is welcome to attend the ORA meeting production seminars trade fair and banquet The cost is $60 for the whole day $45 for lunch and seminars and $5 to vi ew exhibits To register call the ORA office at 519-662-4271 0

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Uof Gwas his launch pad

LeRoy Blake admits hes no rocket scientist But since graduating from Guelph he has launched into his own luminous orbit at work and in his comshymunity

The 1982 chemistry grad sets sales records wherever he works and has been applauded by his church for his work with youth His most recent win was a Canada 125 prize for an essay on What Canada Means To Me

Canada he wrote is a country where an adult can dream like a child In his essay to celebrate the nations l25th anshyniversary B lake described hi s imshymigrant mothers odyssey from Jamaica to Canada via Britain in search of posshysibilities She found them in Toronto where she spent six years upgrading her Grade 6 education at night school and another three at college learning to be a nurse Her determination has been Blake s inspiration

As a child Blake and hi s sister Jean moved with their divorced mother to Southampton England Unhappy with the lack of prospects in Britain she left to take her chances in Canada but Blake stayed on with an uncle to comshyplete elementary school He then joined his mother in Toronto and attended Bloor Collegiate On graduation he was offered a soccer scholarship at Laurenshytian University but turned it down to

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come to Guelph - so he could be close to Toronto and Moms fridge

He didn t stop playing soccer At Guelph he played varsity football and soccer was on the Lettermen s Club exshyecutive and coached the Powderpuffs a womens tackle football team that pl ayed annual charity matches against York and University of Toronto stushydents

To pay for his education Blake spent hi s summers playing semi-professional soccer with two National Soccer League teams Toronto Italia and Hamilton Italia looking after parking at a Toronto yacht club and working as a lab techshynician During the school year he barshytended in W ateroo

Prospects were bleak for graduates in recession-plagued 1982 More than 100 resumes failed to land him a job in the chemistry and biochemistry fields so Blake turned to bartending again He was serv ing drinks at Jake s Boathouse in Toronto one day when a customer noticed hi s flare for mixing Singapore Slings

LeRoy you

ments (Canada) Inc scooped him up to sell analytical instruments for biomedishycal research to corporations univers ities and government laboratories throu ghout the Maritimes He rose to the challenge becoming the top sales performer for Beshyckman in Canada for 1987 and 1988

In 1991 Blakejoined Hew lett-Packshyard Company to market analytical instrushyments to an expanded clientele that included petroleum and environmental industries In his second year with the inshyternational conglomerate he rocketed into the 100-Per-Cent Club ac hi ev ing his quota in a year marked by bankruptcies

Blake likes to succeed I play to win Ive always driven myself that way That drive comes from hi s mothers exshyample and from the ego-building adrenalin rush of competitive sports But it s hi s persona lity that really gives him the winning edge I m a people person he says Good sa les people I believe have to relate to people And building re lationships tends to make the

selling side eas ier

make that drink While Blake s just like a I play to win career has been chemist he said I am a chemist responded Blake The cusshytomer was Frank Golden of British Drug Houses and three days later Blake was on a plane to the Maritimes hired to sell research chemicals in Newshyfoundland and Nova Scotia

Four years later Beckman Instrushy

taking off his family has been

taking root in Sackville NS A year after he started work in Halifax his fianshycee Janet Lilliman HAFA 83 arrived and immediately took over as food and beverage controller at the Nova Scotian Hotel She later became auditor of the Halifax Sheraton

Guelph Alumnus

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The two met while Blake was training the Powderpuffs on Johnston Green He spotted Lilliman and a friend sauntering across the field and tried to recruit them for the team Re luctant at first but inshytrigued by the invitation they eventualshyly signed on

Married in 1985 Bl ake and Lilliman have three chi ldren Janson 6 Jane lle 4 and Lia May 2 Blake calls Lilliman who comes from Winona Ont his pershyfect match Her reserve and restraint complement hi s own intrepid spirit and life-of-the-party natu re he says

They bought a house two years ago in the Halifax suburb where they have beshycome active members of the local Catholic church Throughout hi s life the church has been a constant for Blake Wherever hes li ved hes been comforted by the famili arit y of Sunday

mass and has embraced the church s reverence for family values

As a youth director at the church and for the churc h-affili ated Knights of Columbus Blake can relate to the darkshyness in hav ing pa rents who are not togeth er whe n he ta l ks to young people Emergi ng from his own rootless childhood he believes his ex perience is a good example of how a person can overcome the odds And he delivers a powerful message about respecting who s rais ing you Thats his payback to a ca ring mother he says Kids li sten to messages 1 ike that

In hi s work with teenagers Blake enshycourages peer interac ti on organi zes food dri ves and projects to help the disshyadvantaged schedules tournaments and administers scholarships and bursaries Las t year he was dubbed Knight of the

LeRoy and Janet Blake with Janson Lia May and Janele

Cueph Alumnus

Year the highes t honor bestowed by the Kni ghts of Columbus for hi s work with the Halifax Youth Commiss ion setting up retreats and Bible and music camps

Until three years ago Blake played soccer with the men s senior league in Hali fax Although I like team sports and I a lways like to win hes learning to substitute team activiti es with homeshyori ented interes ts like gardening on hi s 1 14-acre lot But he continues to coach children including hi s son in the Sackshyv ille Saints and expects hi s older dau ghte r to start kic king the ball next yea r

Blake recentl y s ig ned up for seminars on time m anagement because his stellar orbit has become crowded w ith sate lshylites My weakness is that I tend not to say no when I sho uld I like to help I enjoy living 0

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by Mary Dickieson

A fri end of mine who has teenage children once told me that a university

scholarship is money that someone elses child wins His kids arent hookshy

worms so he thinks they II need the luck of the Iri sh to win a scholarship

Th ere are a lot of things wronft with this parent s point of view heg inning

with his perception of who really wins when scholarship dollars are

handed out LeI me tell you a story to explain what I mean

ACs spiri ted sen io r class

O hos ted a victory ce lebrati on for the Redme n ru gby team in Nove mber 1932- a dance he ld at the Roya I Yo rk Hote lin

T oronto on the Saturday ni ght of the Royal Agri cultural Win te r Fair They c harged $2 a coup le and danced aJi ni ght to the music of Leo Romanelli

By the fo ll owing November those se ni or students were new O AC grad uates so the Class of 33 turned the dance in to a re union and it became an annua l e vent Revenue f rom those da nces sent pac kages to all OAC men overseas during the Second World W ar and in 1948 estabshyli shed an endowment fund th at has since prov ided 47 schola rships fo r OAC gradu ate stude nts

At its 60th-annive rsary reunion thi s sumshymer the C lass of 33 ann o unced tha t the endow ment fund now totals more th an $40000 and is still cl imb ing

The first scho larships we re $200 each shyno t a large amoun t but an inva luable sum to Henry Ive OAC 48 whose na tive Jamaica wouldn t a ll ow him to bring money into Canada and to 1949 winne r Thomas Angus w ho was re lying on ve te rans benefits to attend grad uate school

The scholarships are now $ 1000 each bu t OAC 33 al umni plan to inc rease th at amou nt as the ir endow ment fund grows

T his c lass has turned comradeshi p into comm itme nt Theyve gotten toge th er every year fo r the pas t 6 I yea rs and have neve r fa il ed to promote th e ir c lass project

In those Depression years studen t loans came out of the o ld man s poc ket says c lass pres ident Gord Wright Going to coll ege was a pri v il ege and dee p down everyone of us knew it

The 47 graduate stud ents they ve he lped a lso fee l privileged Man y say the do ll ar va lue of the ir scholarship has been overshyshadowed by th e recogni tion Cl nd the conshytac ts th at acco mpa ni ed th e awa rd

Says 196 1 wi nner David Hume It gave me a rea l fee ling of confide nce to know tha t the re were people w illing to supshypo rt stud ents like me as we ve ntured into the uncha rted wate rs of g raduate studi es The first fema le winner was Mary Ruth McDonald in 1978 The money was imshyport ant of course but I think the recogni shyti on was even more va luable

Stephen Miller the 1993 rec ipie nt says he stands in awe of the accompli shment s of hi s predecessors As he begi ns a grad uate program in animal breed ing and genetics he knows that 18 othe rs before h im have used the ir gradu ate degrees to prope l themse lves into academic resea rch and teac hing Eve n more have became re shysearch sc ienti sts in government and in shydu stry and th e othe rs have ventured into profess ions li ke bank ing and real estate

Who are th e wi nners he re Certa in ly lve McDona ld and Mill er Bu t what abo ut Wright and hi s c lass mates T hey share a fee ling of c lass pride and the sati sfact ion yo u ge t fro m ex tending a help ing hand

And the Uni vers it y o f G ue lph Sc ho la rshyshi ps he lp recruit the most ta le nted stu shydents A nd those stud ents attract good

GUIh Alulllnus

A message to the alumni of the

()ntario Agricultural College Alwnni Association Alwmn ASSOCIation

Dear fellow graduate

We are members of an elite group - theISODO living alumni ofOAC

OAC graduates occupyleadelship positions in al1 parts of the Canadian agri-food system and ~ral society Many of our fellow alumni have move~ into occupations outside agriculture and are

to be foundmatdng major contributions in all branches of Canadian society and indeed around the world

Whatever your chosen profession youi career andyourvallieshave been influenced by the time youspenr at OAC

We alumni are the most important product ofOAC Weare also its best hope for thefuture

Throughout its 120cY~arhjstory the college has maintained its leadership position in agricultural education andreseaich by successfully responding to the challenges and opportunities of changing times It has cons~antly bro~dened the range of soCietal is ues it programs addressed equipped its graduates withappr()priate technical competencies and enduring values and built

effective partnerships with a widening group of constituencies in Ontario and beyond

OAC has always looked to its alumnior guidance and support

The high expectations and informed counsel of the alumni have helped drive the constaIit earch bull forexcellence and relevance inthe college s programs

OAC is ploning its course for the next century The challenges facing the college are many The need for the experience and insights of alumni in helping the college manage change and design its future has never been gr ater

Ifyou care about the future of your alma mater there s never been a better time to become involved Please take the few minutes necessary to read the attached There will be more to come

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Sincer ty

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Bob Murray (OAC 49) Presid~nt OAC Alumni Association

TbeQntarioAgricllltllralCollegegt I _

t prQudp~St For almost 120 yearsOAC hasbeen anintegral part of theCanadianagri-food system and Ontariosrurat

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~ Thelargest agriculturalcoUege in the CommQi~ bull wealth

Since itsf01Joding in 1874 some 25000 young people have chosen tOg ettheir postsecolidaryediJCa~ middot

tion at OAC The professjonal trainin~ providedby the college has equippeditsgraduares to occupy leadership positions in all segments of the agricultural

and food systeni TheJjberaI education receivedmid the work habits and values developed allowed graduates to move intomany occupations uldto make

major contributions ina HwalkS oflife

middotAworld leader In technology development aAg bull transfer OACwas orieof the first educational institutionsto

A unique partnership with the OntarioMinl~try of offer faculty expertisdn food~lI1dagricu ltlrre to less shy Agriclllture ai1(l FoOd (bMAFYenabl~ OAC faclllty developed c()untries Nowthe intein ~ti()flaI focus Of to becomew orld leaders in technology developll1ent bull the colleges progranis hasbroadened toincIude heJp- in agriculture and food ThecJose relationship aTilOrig

faclilty farmers and agribusinessallowed the rapid bull adoption of jniproved techllologjesand~nSut~dlhe

bull competitiveness of the agri-food sector in Ontario The OMAFJOAC relaiionshiphas enabled the Univershymiddot sityof Guelph to beone ofCanada s mostresearch- intensive universities

in~ the Onthrioagri ~foodjndustry prosper in COlTipeti~ middottive global f ood i11(lrkets and giVing OACstudents an

inrernational perspecti~e

Graduate education

J3ecauseof the beadth ofthesubject matt~r covejed +A key player in the development ofthe Unjversity in its programs and the depth of its facu lty expertise

ofGuelph OAC offers unparalleled opportunities for graduate

The contributionsOAC has madetothe University middot educatibn ~mostonltHhirdofGl1elphOs graduate stu extend far beyond thebigh staridardof its profeSSionaL dents are regIstered in OACdepartments

programs and the distinction and depth of its scholarly research The clarity of purpose and dedicadon of its Interdependen~e and growth middot faculty the spirit of its students the devotion and ~

generosityoi its alumni its buildings its alt ~ol1ectj()n Sice th~ fonnalion of the Univ~rsity OAC has relied _ all have contributed to tbe UniversitYof GueLphs on th~ ot~~ colleges t~ ~rovide its stude~ts wi th in- distinctive personality bull struCtlQnul thehumamuesandthe basic physidtland

vibrant presefllfmiddot

middotToday aLthough OAC is stillat the forefroiltof agricultural education and research it has lJroadened its mandate and the nillge of clientgroups it serves It

has al so forged close relationships with other partsbf middot the University

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OACs traditioJ)al dedication lothe advancement oiprimary ~gri~ulluie in Ontario has beeT1 e~shyIJandedto iTIcLude the interests of all stakeholtters in the agri-foodsystem The college s prograrI1S

reachfromgate to plate~

-+ The historical cQn~ern wilh~oi l arid wateririfood productionhaSwidenCdinto the sr~wafdship of

natural re~ources and prot~ctionf the envit~on~ ment

-+ bullbullbull The commitment to improvi ng the economic statllsoffarmershas broadened [0 include a con cernfor the e~onoJ11ic viability ofrlli~al com~ munities 3nd tbevitaIity of rural society

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The iriternational dimension

social sCiences Iutumthe college has shal~ed its ex ~ peTtise inagriculture resources enVirOnnlent and bus i ~

nesswith the iderUniversity community

Thebtoaderiing subject-maWf mandate of OAC and thegrowlng iriteldependence between the college and the rest ofthe University isevidenL in the factthat

bull tociays OAc students graduate noton]y~ith degrees tmd diplomas in agnculture but also wlthdeTees in ~

Uof Gwas his launch pad

LeRoy Blake admits hes no rocket scientist But since graduating from Guelph he has launched into his own luminous orbit at work and in his comshymunity

The 1982 chemistry grad sets sales records wherever he works and has been applauded by his church for his work with youth His most recent win was a Canada 125 prize for an essay on What Canada Means To Me

Canada he wrote is a country where an adult can dream like a child In his essay to celebrate the nations l25th anshyniversary B lake described hi s imshymigrant mothers odyssey from Jamaica to Canada via Britain in search of posshysibilities She found them in Toronto where she spent six years upgrading her Grade 6 education at night school and another three at college learning to be a nurse Her determination has been Blake s inspiration

As a child Blake and hi s sister Jean moved with their divorced mother to Southampton England Unhappy with the lack of prospects in Britain she left to take her chances in Canada but Blake stayed on with an uncle to comshyplete elementary school He then joined his mother in Toronto and attended Bloor Collegiate On graduation he was offered a soccer scholarship at Laurenshytian University but turned it down to

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I

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come to Guelph - so he could be close to Toronto and Moms fridge

He didn t stop playing soccer At Guelph he played varsity football and soccer was on the Lettermen s Club exshyecutive and coached the Powderpuffs a womens tackle football team that pl ayed annual charity matches against York and University of Toronto stushydents

To pay for his education Blake spent hi s summers playing semi-professional soccer with two National Soccer League teams Toronto Italia and Hamilton Italia looking after parking at a Toronto yacht club and working as a lab techshynician During the school year he barshytended in W ateroo

Prospects were bleak for graduates in recession-plagued 1982 More than 100 resumes failed to land him a job in the chemistry and biochemistry fields so Blake turned to bartending again He was serv ing drinks at Jake s Boathouse in Toronto one day when a customer noticed hi s flare for mixing Singapore Slings

LeRoy you

ments (Canada) Inc scooped him up to sell analytical instruments for biomedishycal research to corporations univers ities and government laboratories throu ghout the Maritimes He rose to the challenge becoming the top sales performer for Beshyckman in Canada for 1987 and 1988

In 1991 Blakejoined Hew lett-Packshyard Company to market analytical instrushyments to an expanded clientele that included petroleum and environmental industries In his second year with the inshyternational conglomerate he rocketed into the 100-Per-Cent Club ac hi ev ing his quota in a year marked by bankruptcies

Blake likes to succeed I play to win Ive always driven myself that way That drive comes from hi s mothers exshyample and from the ego-building adrenalin rush of competitive sports But it s hi s persona lity that really gives him the winning edge I m a people person he says Good sa les people I believe have to relate to people And building re lationships tends to make the

selling side eas ier

make that drink While Blake s just like a I play to win career has been chemist he said I am a chemist responded Blake The cusshytomer was Frank Golden of British Drug Houses and three days later Blake was on a plane to the Maritimes hired to sell research chemicals in Newshyfoundland and Nova Scotia

Four years later Beckman Instrushy

taking off his family has been

taking root in Sackville NS A year after he started work in Halifax his fianshycee Janet Lilliman HAFA 83 arrived and immediately took over as food and beverage controller at the Nova Scotian Hotel She later became auditor of the Halifax Sheraton

Guelph Alumnus

-

The two met while Blake was training the Powderpuffs on Johnston Green He spotted Lilliman and a friend sauntering across the field and tried to recruit them for the team Re luctant at first but inshytrigued by the invitation they eventualshyly signed on

Married in 1985 Bl ake and Lilliman have three chi ldren Janson 6 Jane lle 4 and Lia May 2 Blake calls Lilliman who comes from Winona Ont his pershyfect match Her reserve and restraint complement hi s own intrepid spirit and life-of-the-party natu re he says

They bought a house two years ago in the Halifax suburb where they have beshycome active members of the local Catholic church Throughout hi s life the church has been a constant for Blake Wherever hes li ved hes been comforted by the famili arit y of Sunday

mass and has embraced the church s reverence for family values

As a youth director at the church and for the churc h-affili ated Knights of Columbus Blake can relate to the darkshyness in hav ing pa rents who are not togeth er whe n he ta l ks to young people Emergi ng from his own rootless childhood he believes his ex perience is a good example of how a person can overcome the odds And he delivers a powerful message about respecting who s rais ing you Thats his payback to a ca ring mother he says Kids li sten to messages 1 ike that

In hi s work with teenagers Blake enshycourages peer interac ti on organi zes food dri ves and projects to help the disshyadvantaged schedules tournaments and administers scholarships and bursaries Las t year he was dubbed Knight of the

LeRoy and Janet Blake with Janson Lia May and Janele

Cueph Alumnus

Year the highes t honor bestowed by the Kni ghts of Columbus for hi s work with the Halifax Youth Commiss ion setting up retreats and Bible and music camps

Until three years ago Blake played soccer with the men s senior league in Hali fax Although I like team sports and I a lways like to win hes learning to substitute team activiti es with homeshyori ented interes ts like gardening on hi s 1 14-acre lot But he continues to coach children including hi s son in the Sackshyv ille Saints and expects hi s older dau ghte r to start kic king the ball next yea r

Blake recentl y s ig ned up for seminars on time m anagement because his stellar orbit has become crowded w ith sate lshylites My weakness is that I tend not to say no when I sho uld I like to help I enjoy living 0

-

Photo by Ted Misztela

19

cholarships bullbull

~~~

20

by Mary Dickieson

A fri end of mine who has teenage children once told me that a university

scholarship is money that someone elses child wins His kids arent hookshy

worms so he thinks they II need the luck of the Iri sh to win a scholarship

Th ere are a lot of things wronft with this parent s point of view heg inning

with his perception of who really wins when scholarship dollars are

handed out LeI me tell you a story to explain what I mean

ACs spiri ted sen io r class

O hos ted a victory ce lebrati on for the Redme n ru gby team in Nove mber 1932- a dance he ld at the Roya I Yo rk Hote lin

T oronto on the Saturday ni ght of the Royal Agri cultural Win te r Fair They c harged $2 a coup le and danced aJi ni ght to the music of Leo Romanelli

By the fo ll owing November those se ni or students were new O AC grad uates so the Class of 33 turned the dance in to a re union and it became an annua l e vent Revenue f rom those da nces sent pac kages to all OAC men overseas during the Second World W ar and in 1948 estabshyli shed an endowment fund th at has since prov ided 47 schola rships fo r OAC gradu ate stude nts

At its 60th-annive rsary reunion thi s sumshymer the C lass of 33 ann o unced tha t the endow ment fund now totals more th an $40000 and is still cl imb ing

The first scho larships we re $200 each shyno t a large amoun t but an inva luable sum to Henry Ive OAC 48 whose na tive Jamaica wouldn t a ll ow him to bring money into Canada and to 1949 winne r Thomas Angus w ho was re lying on ve te rans benefits to attend grad uate school

The scholarships are now $ 1000 each bu t OAC 33 al umni plan to inc rease th at amou nt as the ir endow ment fund grows

T his c lass has turned comradeshi p into comm itme nt Theyve gotten toge th er every year fo r the pas t 6 I yea rs and have neve r fa il ed to promote th e ir c lass project

In those Depression years studen t loans came out of the o ld man s poc ket says c lass pres ident Gord Wright Going to coll ege was a pri v il ege and dee p down everyone of us knew it

The 47 graduate stud ents they ve he lped a lso fee l privileged Man y say the do ll ar va lue of the ir scholarship has been overshyshadowed by th e recogni tion Cl nd the conshytac ts th at acco mpa ni ed th e awa rd

Says 196 1 wi nner David Hume It gave me a rea l fee ling of confide nce to know tha t the re were people w illing to supshypo rt stud ents like me as we ve ntured into the uncha rted wate rs of g raduate studi es The first fema le winner was Mary Ruth McDonald in 1978 The money was imshyport ant of course but I think the recogni shyti on was even more va luable

Stephen Miller the 1993 rec ipie nt says he stands in awe of the accompli shment s of hi s predecessors As he begi ns a grad uate program in animal breed ing and genetics he knows that 18 othe rs before h im have used the ir gradu ate degrees to prope l themse lves into academic resea rch and teac hing Eve n more have became re shysearch sc ienti sts in government and in shydu stry and th e othe rs have ventured into profess ions li ke bank ing and real estate

Who are th e wi nners he re Certa in ly lve McDona ld and Mill er Bu t what abo ut Wright and hi s c lass mates T hey share a fee ling of c lass pride and the sati sfact ion yo u ge t fro m ex tending a help ing hand

And the Uni vers it y o f G ue lph Sc ho la rshyshi ps he lp recruit the most ta le nted stu shydents A nd those stud ents attract good

GUIh Alulllnus

A message to the alumni of the

()ntario Agricultural College Alwnni Association Alwmn ASSOCIation

Dear fellow graduate

We are members of an elite group - theISODO living alumni ofOAC

OAC graduates occupyleadelship positions in al1 parts of the Canadian agri-food system and ~ral society Many of our fellow alumni have move~ into occupations outside agriculture and are

to be foundmatdng major contributions in all branches of Canadian society and indeed around the world

Whatever your chosen profession youi career andyourvallieshave been influenced by the time youspenr at OAC

We alumni are the most important product ofOAC Weare also its best hope for thefuture

Throughout its 120cY~arhjstory the college has maintained its leadership position in agricultural education andreseaich by successfully responding to the challenges and opportunities of changing times It has cons~antly bro~dened the range of soCietal is ues it programs addressed equipped its graduates withappr()priate technical competencies and enduring values and built

effective partnerships with a widening group of constituencies in Ontario and beyond

OAC has always looked to its alumnior guidance and support

The high expectations and informed counsel of the alumni have helped drive the constaIit earch bull forexcellence and relevance inthe college s programs

OAC is ploning its course for the next century The challenges facing the college are many The need for the experience and insights of alumni in helping the college manage change and design its future has never been gr ater

Ifyou care about the future of your alma mater there s never been a better time to become involved Please take the few minutes necessary to read the attached There will be more to come

~

Sincer ty

-~~ ~ -------shy

~--

Bob Murray (OAC 49) Presid~nt OAC Alumni Association

TbeQntarioAgricllltllralCollegegt I _

t prQudp~St For almost 120 yearsOAC hasbeen anintegral part of theCanadianagri-food system and Ontariosrurat

- - ~ SOCielYmiddot

~ Thelargest agriculturalcoUege in the CommQi~ bull wealth

Since itsf01Joding in 1874 some 25000 young people have chosen tOg ettheir postsecolidaryediJCa~ middot

tion at OAC The professjonal trainin~ providedby the college has equippeditsgraduares to occupy leadership positions in all segments of the agricultural

and food systeni TheJjberaI education receivedmid the work habits and values developed allowed graduates to move intomany occupations uldto make

major contributions ina HwalkS oflife

middotAworld leader In technology development aAg bull transfer OACwas orieof the first educational institutionsto

A unique partnership with the OntarioMinl~try of offer faculty expertisdn food~lI1dagricu ltlrre to less shy Agriclllture ai1(l FoOd (bMAFYenabl~ OAC faclllty developed c()untries Nowthe intein ~ti()flaI focus Of to becomew orld leaders in technology developll1ent bull the colleges progranis hasbroadened toincIude heJp- in agriculture and food ThecJose relationship aTilOrig

faclilty farmers and agribusinessallowed the rapid bull adoption of jniproved techllologjesand~nSut~dlhe

bull competitiveness of the agri-food sector in Ontario The OMAFJOAC relaiionshiphas enabled the Univershymiddot sityof Guelph to beone ofCanada s mostresearch- intensive universities

in~ the Onthrioagri ~foodjndustry prosper in COlTipeti~ middottive global f ood i11(lrkets and giVing OACstudents an

inrernational perspecti~e

Graduate education

J3ecauseof the beadth ofthesubject matt~r covejed +A key player in the development ofthe Unjversity in its programs and the depth of its facu lty expertise

ofGuelph OAC offers unparalleled opportunities for graduate

The contributionsOAC has madetothe University middot educatibn ~mostonltHhirdofGl1elphOs graduate stu extend far beyond thebigh staridardof its profeSSionaL dents are regIstered in OACdepartments

programs and the distinction and depth of its scholarly research The clarity of purpose and dedicadon of its Interdependen~e and growth middot faculty the spirit of its students the devotion and ~

generosityoi its alumni its buildings its alt ~ol1ectj()n Sice th~ fonnalion of the Univ~rsity OAC has relied _ all have contributed to tbe UniversitYof GueLphs on th~ ot~~ colleges t~ ~rovide its stude~ts wi th in- distinctive personality bull struCtlQnul thehumamuesandthe basic physidtland

vibrant presefllfmiddot

middotToday aLthough OAC is stillat the forefroiltof agricultural education and research it has lJroadened its mandate and the nillge of clientgroups it serves It

has al so forged close relationships with other partsbf middot the University

bull -

An expanded agenda bullbullbull

OACs traditioJ)al dedication lothe advancement oiprimary ~gri~ulluie in Ontario has beeT1 e~shyIJandedto iTIcLude the interests of all stakeholtters in the agri-foodsystem The college s prograrI1S

reachfromgate to plate~

-+ The historical cQn~ern wilh~oi l arid wateririfood productionhaSwidenCdinto the sr~wafdship of

natural re~ources and prot~ctionf the envit~on~ ment

-+ bullbullbull The commitment to improvi ng the economic statllsoffarmershas broadened [0 include a con cernfor the e~onoJ11ic viability ofrlli~al com~ munities 3nd tbevitaIity of rural society

- ~

The iriternational dimension

social sCiences Iutumthe college has shal~ed its ex ~ peTtise inagriculture resources enVirOnnlent and bus i ~

nesswith the iderUniversity community

Thebtoaderiing subject-maWf mandate of OAC and thegrowlng iriteldependence between the college and the rest ofthe University isevidenL in the factthat

bull tociays OAc students graduate noton]y~ith degrees tmd diplomas in agnculture but also wlthdeTees in ~

The two met while Blake was training the Powderpuffs on Johnston Green He spotted Lilliman and a friend sauntering across the field and tried to recruit them for the team Re luctant at first but inshytrigued by the invitation they eventualshyly signed on

Married in 1985 Bl ake and Lilliman have three chi ldren Janson 6 Jane lle 4 and Lia May 2 Blake calls Lilliman who comes from Winona Ont his pershyfect match Her reserve and restraint complement hi s own intrepid spirit and life-of-the-party natu re he says

They bought a house two years ago in the Halifax suburb where they have beshycome active members of the local Catholic church Throughout hi s life the church has been a constant for Blake Wherever hes li ved hes been comforted by the famili arit y of Sunday

mass and has embraced the church s reverence for family values

As a youth director at the church and for the churc h-affili ated Knights of Columbus Blake can relate to the darkshyness in hav ing pa rents who are not togeth er whe n he ta l ks to young people Emergi ng from his own rootless childhood he believes his ex perience is a good example of how a person can overcome the odds And he delivers a powerful message about respecting who s rais ing you Thats his payback to a ca ring mother he says Kids li sten to messages 1 ike that

In hi s work with teenagers Blake enshycourages peer interac ti on organi zes food dri ves and projects to help the disshyadvantaged schedules tournaments and administers scholarships and bursaries Las t year he was dubbed Knight of the

LeRoy and Janet Blake with Janson Lia May and Janele

Cueph Alumnus

Year the highes t honor bestowed by the Kni ghts of Columbus for hi s work with the Halifax Youth Commiss ion setting up retreats and Bible and music camps

Until three years ago Blake played soccer with the men s senior league in Hali fax Although I like team sports and I a lways like to win hes learning to substitute team activiti es with homeshyori ented interes ts like gardening on hi s 1 14-acre lot But he continues to coach children including hi s son in the Sackshyv ille Saints and expects hi s older dau ghte r to start kic king the ball next yea r

Blake recentl y s ig ned up for seminars on time m anagement because his stellar orbit has become crowded w ith sate lshylites My weakness is that I tend not to say no when I sho uld I like to help I enjoy living 0

-

Photo by Ted Misztela

19

cholarships bullbull

~~~

20

by Mary Dickieson

A fri end of mine who has teenage children once told me that a university

scholarship is money that someone elses child wins His kids arent hookshy

worms so he thinks they II need the luck of the Iri sh to win a scholarship

Th ere are a lot of things wronft with this parent s point of view heg inning

with his perception of who really wins when scholarship dollars are

handed out LeI me tell you a story to explain what I mean

ACs spiri ted sen io r class

O hos ted a victory ce lebrati on for the Redme n ru gby team in Nove mber 1932- a dance he ld at the Roya I Yo rk Hote lin

T oronto on the Saturday ni ght of the Royal Agri cultural Win te r Fair They c harged $2 a coup le and danced aJi ni ght to the music of Leo Romanelli

By the fo ll owing November those se ni or students were new O AC grad uates so the Class of 33 turned the dance in to a re union and it became an annua l e vent Revenue f rom those da nces sent pac kages to all OAC men overseas during the Second World W ar and in 1948 estabshyli shed an endowment fund th at has since prov ided 47 schola rships fo r OAC gradu ate stude nts

At its 60th-annive rsary reunion thi s sumshymer the C lass of 33 ann o unced tha t the endow ment fund now totals more th an $40000 and is still cl imb ing

The first scho larships we re $200 each shyno t a large amoun t but an inva luable sum to Henry Ive OAC 48 whose na tive Jamaica wouldn t a ll ow him to bring money into Canada and to 1949 winne r Thomas Angus w ho was re lying on ve te rans benefits to attend grad uate school

The scholarships are now $ 1000 each bu t OAC 33 al umni plan to inc rease th at amou nt as the ir endow ment fund grows

T his c lass has turned comradeshi p into comm itme nt Theyve gotten toge th er every year fo r the pas t 6 I yea rs and have neve r fa il ed to promote th e ir c lass project

In those Depression years studen t loans came out of the o ld man s poc ket says c lass pres ident Gord Wright Going to coll ege was a pri v il ege and dee p down everyone of us knew it

The 47 graduate stud ents they ve he lped a lso fee l privileged Man y say the do ll ar va lue of the ir scholarship has been overshyshadowed by th e recogni tion Cl nd the conshytac ts th at acco mpa ni ed th e awa rd

Says 196 1 wi nner David Hume It gave me a rea l fee ling of confide nce to know tha t the re were people w illing to supshypo rt stud ents like me as we ve ntured into the uncha rted wate rs of g raduate studi es The first fema le winner was Mary Ruth McDonald in 1978 The money was imshyport ant of course but I think the recogni shyti on was even more va luable

Stephen Miller the 1993 rec ipie nt says he stands in awe of the accompli shment s of hi s predecessors As he begi ns a grad uate program in animal breed ing and genetics he knows that 18 othe rs before h im have used the ir gradu ate degrees to prope l themse lves into academic resea rch and teac hing Eve n more have became re shysearch sc ienti sts in government and in shydu stry and th e othe rs have ventured into profess ions li ke bank ing and real estate

Who are th e wi nners he re Certa in ly lve McDona ld and Mill er Bu t what abo ut Wright and hi s c lass mates T hey share a fee ling of c lass pride and the sati sfact ion yo u ge t fro m ex tending a help ing hand

And the Uni vers it y o f G ue lph Sc ho la rshyshi ps he lp recruit the most ta le nted stu shydents A nd those stud ents attract good

GUIh Alulllnus

A message to the alumni of the

()ntario Agricultural College Alwnni Association Alwmn ASSOCIation

Dear fellow graduate

We are members of an elite group - theISODO living alumni ofOAC

OAC graduates occupyleadelship positions in al1 parts of the Canadian agri-food system and ~ral society Many of our fellow alumni have move~ into occupations outside agriculture and are

to be foundmatdng major contributions in all branches of Canadian society and indeed around the world

Whatever your chosen profession youi career andyourvallieshave been influenced by the time youspenr at OAC

We alumni are the most important product ofOAC Weare also its best hope for thefuture

Throughout its 120cY~arhjstory the college has maintained its leadership position in agricultural education andreseaich by successfully responding to the challenges and opportunities of changing times It has cons~antly bro~dened the range of soCietal is ues it programs addressed equipped its graduates withappr()priate technical competencies and enduring values and built

effective partnerships with a widening group of constituencies in Ontario and beyond

OAC has always looked to its alumnior guidance and support

The high expectations and informed counsel of the alumni have helped drive the constaIit earch bull forexcellence and relevance inthe college s programs

OAC is ploning its course for the next century The challenges facing the college are many The need for the experience and insights of alumni in helping the college manage change and design its future has never been gr ater

Ifyou care about the future of your alma mater there s never been a better time to become involved Please take the few minutes necessary to read the attached There will be more to come

~

Sincer ty

-~~ ~ -------shy

~--

Bob Murray (OAC 49) Presid~nt OAC Alumni Association

TbeQntarioAgricllltllralCollegegt I _

t prQudp~St For almost 120 yearsOAC hasbeen anintegral part of theCanadianagri-food system and Ontariosrurat

- - ~ SOCielYmiddot

~ Thelargest agriculturalcoUege in the CommQi~ bull wealth

Since itsf01Joding in 1874 some 25000 young people have chosen tOg ettheir postsecolidaryediJCa~ middot

tion at OAC The professjonal trainin~ providedby the college has equippeditsgraduares to occupy leadership positions in all segments of the agricultural

and food systeni TheJjberaI education receivedmid the work habits and values developed allowed graduates to move intomany occupations uldto make

major contributions ina HwalkS oflife

middotAworld leader In technology development aAg bull transfer OACwas orieof the first educational institutionsto

A unique partnership with the OntarioMinl~try of offer faculty expertisdn food~lI1dagricu ltlrre to less shy Agriclllture ai1(l FoOd (bMAFYenabl~ OAC faclllty developed c()untries Nowthe intein ~ti()flaI focus Of to becomew orld leaders in technology developll1ent bull the colleges progranis hasbroadened toincIude heJp- in agriculture and food ThecJose relationship aTilOrig

faclilty farmers and agribusinessallowed the rapid bull adoption of jniproved techllologjesand~nSut~dlhe

bull competitiveness of the agri-food sector in Ontario The OMAFJOAC relaiionshiphas enabled the Univershymiddot sityof Guelph to beone ofCanada s mostresearch- intensive universities

in~ the Onthrioagri ~foodjndustry prosper in COlTipeti~ middottive global f ood i11(lrkets and giVing OACstudents an

inrernational perspecti~e

Graduate education

J3ecauseof the beadth ofthesubject matt~r covejed +A key player in the development ofthe Unjversity in its programs and the depth of its facu lty expertise

ofGuelph OAC offers unparalleled opportunities for graduate

The contributionsOAC has madetothe University middot educatibn ~mostonltHhirdofGl1elphOs graduate stu extend far beyond thebigh staridardof its profeSSionaL dents are regIstered in OACdepartments

programs and the distinction and depth of its scholarly research The clarity of purpose and dedicadon of its Interdependen~e and growth middot faculty the spirit of its students the devotion and ~

generosityoi its alumni its buildings its alt ~ol1ectj()n Sice th~ fonnalion of the Univ~rsity OAC has relied _ all have contributed to tbe UniversitYof GueLphs on th~ ot~~ colleges t~ ~rovide its stude~ts wi th in- distinctive personality bull struCtlQnul thehumamuesandthe basic physidtland

vibrant presefllfmiddot

middotToday aLthough OAC is stillat the forefroiltof agricultural education and research it has lJroadened its mandate and the nillge of clientgroups it serves It

has al so forged close relationships with other partsbf middot the University

bull -

An expanded agenda bullbullbull

OACs traditioJ)al dedication lothe advancement oiprimary ~gri~ulluie in Ontario has beeT1 e~shyIJandedto iTIcLude the interests of all stakeholtters in the agri-foodsystem The college s prograrI1S

reachfromgate to plate~

-+ The historical cQn~ern wilh~oi l arid wateririfood productionhaSwidenCdinto the sr~wafdship of

natural re~ources and prot~ctionf the envit~on~ ment

-+ bullbullbull The commitment to improvi ng the economic statllsoffarmershas broadened [0 include a con cernfor the e~onoJ11ic viability ofrlli~al com~ munities 3nd tbevitaIity of rural society

- ~

The iriternational dimension

social sCiences Iutumthe college has shal~ed its ex ~ peTtise inagriculture resources enVirOnnlent and bus i ~

nesswith the iderUniversity community

Thebtoaderiing subject-maWf mandate of OAC and thegrowlng iriteldependence between the college and the rest ofthe University isevidenL in the factthat

bull tociays OAc students graduate noton]y~ith degrees tmd diplomas in agnculture but also wlthdeTees in ~

cholarships bullbull

~~~

20

by Mary Dickieson

A fri end of mine who has teenage children once told me that a university

scholarship is money that someone elses child wins His kids arent hookshy

worms so he thinks they II need the luck of the Iri sh to win a scholarship

Th ere are a lot of things wronft with this parent s point of view heg inning

with his perception of who really wins when scholarship dollars are

handed out LeI me tell you a story to explain what I mean

ACs spiri ted sen io r class

O hos ted a victory ce lebrati on for the Redme n ru gby team in Nove mber 1932- a dance he ld at the Roya I Yo rk Hote lin

T oronto on the Saturday ni ght of the Royal Agri cultural Win te r Fair They c harged $2 a coup le and danced aJi ni ght to the music of Leo Romanelli

By the fo ll owing November those se ni or students were new O AC grad uates so the Class of 33 turned the dance in to a re union and it became an annua l e vent Revenue f rom those da nces sent pac kages to all OAC men overseas during the Second World W ar and in 1948 estabshyli shed an endowment fund th at has since prov ided 47 schola rships fo r OAC gradu ate stude nts

At its 60th-annive rsary reunion thi s sumshymer the C lass of 33 ann o unced tha t the endow ment fund now totals more th an $40000 and is still cl imb ing

The first scho larships we re $200 each shyno t a large amoun t but an inva luable sum to Henry Ive OAC 48 whose na tive Jamaica wouldn t a ll ow him to bring money into Canada and to 1949 winne r Thomas Angus w ho was re lying on ve te rans benefits to attend grad uate school

The scholarships are now $ 1000 each bu t OAC 33 al umni plan to inc rease th at amou nt as the ir endow ment fund grows

T his c lass has turned comradeshi p into comm itme nt Theyve gotten toge th er every year fo r the pas t 6 I yea rs and have neve r fa il ed to promote th e ir c lass project

In those Depression years studen t loans came out of the o ld man s poc ket says c lass pres ident Gord Wright Going to coll ege was a pri v il ege and dee p down everyone of us knew it

The 47 graduate stud ents they ve he lped a lso fee l privileged Man y say the do ll ar va lue of the ir scholarship has been overshyshadowed by th e recogni tion Cl nd the conshytac ts th at acco mpa ni ed th e awa rd

Says 196 1 wi nner David Hume It gave me a rea l fee ling of confide nce to know tha t the re were people w illing to supshypo rt stud ents like me as we ve ntured into the uncha rted wate rs of g raduate studi es The first fema le winner was Mary Ruth McDonald in 1978 The money was imshyport ant of course but I think the recogni shyti on was even more va luable

Stephen Miller the 1993 rec ipie nt says he stands in awe of the accompli shment s of hi s predecessors As he begi ns a grad uate program in animal breed ing and genetics he knows that 18 othe rs before h im have used the ir gradu ate degrees to prope l themse lves into academic resea rch and teac hing Eve n more have became re shysearch sc ienti sts in government and in shydu stry and th e othe rs have ventured into profess ions li ke bank ing and real estate

Who are th e wi nners he re Certa in ly lve McDona ld and Mill er Bu t what abo ut Wright and hi s c lass mates T hey share a fee ling of c lass pride and the sati sfact ion yo u ge t fro m ex tending a help ing hand

And the Uni vers it y o f G ue lph Sc ho la rshyshi ps he lp recruit the most ta le nted stu shydents A nd those stud ents attract good

GUIh Alulllnus

A message to the alumni of the

()ntario Agricultural College Alwnni Association Alwmn ASSOCIation

Dear fellow graduate

We are members of an elite group - theISODO living alumni ofOAC

OAC graduates occupyleadelship positions in al1 parts of the Canadian agri-food system and ~ral society Many of our fellow alumni have move~ into occupations outside agriculture and are

to be foundmatdng major contributions in all branches of Canadian society and indeed around the world

Whatever your chosen profession youi career andyourvallieshave been influenced by the time youspenr at OAC

We alumni are the most important product ofOAC Weare also its best hope for thefuture

Throughout its 120cY~arhjstory the college has maintained its leadership position in agricultural education andreseaich by successfully responding to the challenges and opportunities of changing times It has cons~antly bro~dened the range of soCietal is ues it programs addressed equipped its graduates withappr()priate technical competencies and enduring values and built

effective partnerships with a widening group of constituencies in Ontario and beyond

OAC has always looked to its alumnior guidance and support

The high expectations and informed counsel of the alumni have helped drive the constaIit earch bull forexcellence and relevance inthe college s programs

OAC is ploning its course for the next century The challenges facing the college are many The need for the experience and insights of alumni in helping the college manage change and design its future has never been gr ater

Ifyou care about the future of your alma mater there s never been a better time to become involved Please take the few minutes necessary to read the attached There will be more to come

~

Sincer ty

-~~ ~ -------shy

~--

Bob Murray (OAC 49) Presid~nt OAC Alumni Association

TbeQntarioAgricllltllralCollegegt I _

t prQudp~St For almost 120 yearsOAC hasbeen anintegral part of theCanadianagri-food system and Ontariosrurat

- - ~ SOCielYmiddot

~ Thelargest agriculturalcoUege in the CommQi~ bull wealth

Since itsf01Joding in 1874 some 25000 young people have chosen tOg ettheir postsecolidaryediJCa~ middot

tion at OAC The professjonal trainin~ providedby the college has equippeditsgraduares to occupy leadership positions in all segments of the agricultural

and food systeni TheJjberaI education receivedmid the work habits and values developed allowed graduates to move intomany occupations uldto make

major contributions ina HwalkS oflife

middotAworld leader In technology development aAg bull transfer OACwas orieof the first educational institutionsto

A unique partnership with the OntarioMinl~try of offer faculty expertisdn food~lI1dagricu ltlrre to less shy Agriclllture ai1(l FoOd (bMAFYenabl~ OAC faclllty developed c()untries Nowthe intein ~ti()flaI focus Of to becomew orld leaders in technology developll1ent bull the colleges progranis hasbroadened toincIude heJp- in agriculture and food ThecJose relationship aTilOrig

faclilty farmers and agribusinessallowed the rapid bull adoption of jniproved techllologjesand~nSut~dlhe

bull competitiveness of the agri-food sector in Ontario The OMAFJOAC relaiionshiphas enabled the Univershymiddot sityof Guelph to beone ofCanada s mostresearch- intensive universities

in~ the Onthrioagri ~foodjndustry prosper in COlTipeti~ middottive global f ood i11(lrkets and giVing OACstudents an

inrernational perspecti~e

Graduate education

J3ecauseof the beadth ofthesubject matt~r covejed +A key player in the development ofthe Unjversity in its programs and the depth of its facu lty expertise

ofGuelph OAC offers unparalleled opportunities for graduate

The contributionsOAC has madetothe University middot educatibn ~mostonltHhirdofGl1elphOs graduate stu extend far beyond thebigh staridardof its profeSSionaL dents are regIstered in OACdepartments

programs and the distinction and depth of its scholarly research The clarity of purpose and dedicadon of its Interdependen~e and growth middot faculty the spirit of its students the devotion and ~

generosityoi its alumni its buildings its alt ~ol1ectj()n Sice th~ fonnalion of the Univ~rsity OAC has relied _ all have contributed to tbe UniversitYof GueLphs on th~ ot~~ colleges t~ ~rovide its stude~ts wi th in- distinctive personality bull struCtlQnul thehumamuesandthe basic physidtland

vibrant presefllfmiddot

middotToday aLthough OAC is stillat the forefroiltof agricultural education and research it has lJroadened its mandate and the nillge of clientgroups it serves It

has al so forged close relationships with other partsbf middot the University

bull -

An expanded agenda bullbullbull

OACs traditioJ)al dedication lothe advancement oiprimary ~gri~ulluie in Ontario has beeT1 e~shyIJandedto iTIcLude the interests of all stakeholtters in the agri-foodsystem The college s prograrI1S

reachfromgate to plate~

-+ The historical cQn~ern wilh~oi l arid wateririfood productionhaSwidenCdinto the sr~wafdship of

natural re~ources and prot~ctionf the envit~on~ ment

-+ bullbullbull The commitment to improvi ng the economic statllsoffarmershas broadened [0 include a con cernfor the e~onoJ11ic viability ofrlli~al com~ munities 3nd tbevitaIity of rural society

- ~

The iriternational dimension

social sCiences Iutumthe college has shal~ed its ex ~ peTtise inagriculture resources enVirOnnlent and bus i ~

nesswith the iderUniversity community

Thebtoaderiing subject-maWf mandate of OAC and thegrowlng iriteldependence between the college and the rest ofthe University isevidenL in the factthat

bull tociays OAc students graduate noton]y~ith degrees tmd diplomas in agnculture but also wlthdeTees in ~

A message to the alumni of the

()ntario Agricultural College Alwnni Association Alwmn ASSOCIation

Dear fellow graduate

We are members of an elite group - theISODO living alumni ofOAC

OAC graduates occupyleadelship positions in al1 parts of the Canadian agri-food system and ~ral society Many of our fellow alumni have move~ into occupations outside agriculture and are

to be foundmatdng major contributions in all branches of Canadian society and indeed around the world

Whatever your chosen profession youi career andyourvallieshave been influenced by the time youspenr at OAC

We alumni are the most important product ofOAC Weare also its best hope for thefuture

Throughout its 120cY~arhjstory the college has maintained its leadership position in agricultural education andreseaich by successfully responding to the challenges and opportunities of changing times It has cons~antly bro~dened the range of soCietal is ues it programs addressed equipped its graduates withappr()priate technical competencies and enduring values and built

effective partnerships with a widening group of constituencies in Ontario and beyond

OAC has always looked to its alumnior guidance and support

The high expectations and informed counsel of the alumni have helped drive the constaIit earch bull forexcellence and relevance inthe college s programs

OAC is ploning its course for the next century The challenges facing the college are many The need for the experience and insights of alumni in helping the college manage change and design its future has never been gr ater

Ifyou care about the future of your alma mater there s never been a better time to become involved Please take the few minutes necessary to read the attached There will be more to come

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Sincer ty

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Bob Murray (OAC 49) Presid~nt OAC Alumni Association

TbeQntarioAgricllltllralCollegegt I _

t prQudp~St For almost 120 yearsOAC hasbeen anintegral part of theCanadianagri-food system and Ontariosrurat

- - ~ SOCielYmiddot

~ Thelargest agriculturalcoUege in the CommQi~ bull wealth

Since itsf01Joding in 1874 some 25000 young people have chosen tOg ettheir postsecolidaryediJCa~ middot

tion at OAC The professjonal trainin~ providedby the college has equippeditsgraduares to occupy leadership positions in all segments of the agricultural

and food systeni TheJjberaI education receivedmid the work habits and values developed allowed graduates to move intomany occupations uldto make

major contributions ina HwalkS oflife

middotAworld leader In technology development aAg bull transfer OACwas orieof the first educational institutionsto

A unique partnership with the OntarioMinl~try of offer faculty expertisdn food~lI1dagricu ltlrre to less shy Agriclllture ai1(l FoOd (bMAFYenabl~ OAC faclllty developed c()untries Nowthe intein ~ti()flaI focus Of to becomew orld leaders in technology developll1ent bull the colleges progranis hasbroadened toincIude heJp- in agriculture and food ThecJose relationship aTilOrig

faclilty farmers and agribusinessallowed the rapid bull adoption of jniproved techllologjesand~nSut~dlhe

bull competitiveness of the agri-food sector in Ontario The OMAFJOAC relaiionshiphas enabled the Univershymiddot sityof Guelph to beone ofCanada s mostresearch- intensive universities

in~ the Onthrioagri ~foodjndustry prosper in COlTipeti~ middottive global f ood i11(lrkets and giVing OACstudents an

inrernational perspecti~e

Graduate education

J3ecauseof the beadth ofthesubject matt~r covejed +A key player in the development ofthe Unjversity in its programs and the depth of its facu lty expertise

ofGuelph OAC offers unparalleled opportunities for graduate

The contributionsOAC has madetothe University middot educatibn ~mostonltHhirdofGl1elphOs graduate stu extend far beyond thebigh staridardof its profeSSionaL dents are regIstered in OACdepartments

programs and the distinction and depth of its scholarly research The clarity of purpose and dedicadon of its Interdependen~e and growth middot faculty the spirit of its students the devotion and ~

generosityoi its alumni its buildings its alt ~ol1ectj()n Sice th~ fonnalion of the Univ~rsity OAC has relied _ all have contributed to tbe UniversitYof GueLphs on th~ ot~~ colleges t~ ~rovide its stude~ts wi th in- distinctive personality bull struCtlQnul thehumamuesandthe basic physidtland

vibrant presefllfmiddot

middotToday aLthough OAC is stillat the forefroiltof agricultural education and research it has lJroadened its mandate and the nillge of clientgroups it serves It

has al so forged close relationships with other partsbf middot the University

bull -

An expanded agenda bullbullbull

OACs traditioJ)al dedication lothe advancement oiprimary ~gri~ulluie in Ontario has beeT1 e~shyIJandedto iTIcLude the interests of all stakeholtters in the agri-foodsystem The college s prograrI1S

reachfromgate to plate~

-+ The historical cQn~ern wilh~oi l arid wateririfood productionhaSwidenCdinto the sr~wafdship of

natural re~ources and prot~ctionf the envit~on~ ment

-+ bullbullbull The commitment to improvi ng the economic statllsoffarmershas broadened [0 include a con cernfor the e~onoJ11ic viability ofrlli~al com~ munities 3nd tbevitaIity of rural society

- ~

The iriternational dimension

social sCiences Iutumthe college has shal~ed its ex ~ peTtise inagriculture resources enVirOnnlent and bus i ~

nesswith the iderUniversity community

Thebtoaderiing subject-maWf mandate of OAC and thegrowlng iriteldependence between the college and the rest ofthe University isevidenL in the factthat

bull tociays OAc students graduate noton]y~ith degrees tmd diplomas in agnculture but also wlthdeTees in ~

TbeQntarioAgricllltllralCollegegt I _

t prQudp~St For almost 120 yearsOAC hasbeen anintegral part of theCanadianagri-food system and Ontariosrurat

- - ~ SOCielYmiddot

~ Thelargest agriculturalcoUege in the CommQi~ bull wealth

Since itsf01Joding in 1874 some 25000 young people have chosen tOg ettheir postsecolidaryediJCa~ middot

tion at OAC The professjonal trainin~ providedby the college has equippeditsgraduares to occupy leadership positions in all segments of the agricultural

and food systeni TheJjberaI education receivedmid the work habits and values developed allowed graduates to move intomany occupations uldto make

major contributions ina HwalkS oflife

middotAworld leader In technology development aAg bull transfer OACwas orieof the first educational institutionsto

A unique partnership with the OntarioMinl~try of offer faculty expertisdn food~lI1dagricu ltlrre to less shy Agriclllture ai1(l FoOd (bMAFYenabl~ OAC faclllty developed c()untries Nowthe intein ~ti()flaI focus Of to becomew orld leaders in technology developll1ent bull the colleges progranis hasbroadened toincIude heJp- in agriculture and food ThecJose relationship aTilOrig

faclilty farmers and agribusinessallowed the rapid bull adoption of jniproved techllologjesand~nSut~dlhe

bull competitiveness of the agri-food sector in Ontario The OMAFJOAC relaiionshiphas enabled the Univershymiddot sityof Guelph to beone ofCanada s mostresearch- intensive universities

in~ the Onthrioagri ~foodjndustry prosper in COlTipeti~ middottive global f ood i11(lrkets and giVing OACstudents an

inrernational perspecti~e

Graduate education

J3ecauseof the beadth ofthesubject matt~r covejed +A key player in the development ofthe Unjversity in its programs and the depth of its facu lty expertise

ofGuelph OAC offers unparalleled opportunities for graduate

The contributionsOAC has madetothe University middot educatibn ~mostonltHhirdofGl1elphOs graduate stu extend far beyond thebigh staridardof its profeSSionaL dents are regIstered in OACdepartments

programs and the distinction and depth of its scholarly research The clarity of purpose and dedicadon of its Interdependen~e and growth middot faculty the spirit of its students the devotion and ~

generosityoi its alumni its buildings its alt ~ol1ectj()n Sice th~ fonnalion of the Univ~rsity OAC has relied _ all have contributed to tbe UniversitYof GueLphs on th~ ot~~ colleges t~ ~rovide its stude~ts wi th in- distinctive personality bull struCtlQnul thehumamuesandthe basic physidtland

vibrant presefllfmiddot

middotToday aLthough OAC is stillat the forefroiltof agricultural education and research it has lJroadened its mandate and the nillge of clientgroups it serves It

has al so forged close relationships with other partsbf middot the University

bull -

An expanded agenda bullbullbull

OACs traditioJ)al dedication lothe advancement oiprimary ~gri~ulluie in Ontario has beeT1 e~shyIJandedto iTIcLude the interests of all stakeholtters in the agri-foodsystem The college s prograrI1S

reachfromgate to plate~

-+ The historical cQn~ern wilh~oi l arid wateririfood productionhaSwidenCdinto the sr~wafdship of

natural re~ources and prot~ctionf the envit~on~ ment

-+ bullbullbull The commitment to improvi ng the economic statllsoffarmershas broadened [0 include a con cernfor the e~onoJ11ic viability ofrlli~al com~ munities 3nd tbevitaIity of rural society

- ~

The iriternational dimension

social sCiences Iutumthe college has shal~ed its ex ~ peTtise inagriculture resources enVirOnnlent and bus i ~

nesswith the iderUniversity community

Thebtoaderiing subject-maWf mandate of OAC and thegrowlng iriteldependence between the college and the rest ofthe University isevidenL in the factthat

bull tociays OAc students graduate noton]y~ith degrees tmd diplomas in agnculture but also wlthdeTees in ~

~at-iarge and

sue~orient~d

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plant animal and ioodsci~nce commetc~ env iron~ Excitirig times lie ahead for OAC and its graduates mentalstudies~md landscape architecture AU these prograrTIs are offered and administeredjoint~y by OAC and ther acade mic units on campus Key issues

Th~ iss~es the college will help societyLeaders)lip bull particentula~ clientgmups resolve include

bull helping tbe Canadian agri -food system compete The origi ns of some of~hein6st e~cj ting dey Iop- uccessfuUy in cqrnpetitiveglobalmarkets ments in teaching research and service at Guelph can bull developing anmiddot~ffordableandeffective national be traced to the progn1ms of OAC C o-operative and strategy for growth in the ector distance education businessstudies international addressin g consumers concems about nutlitiondevelopme~t bioteclmology resOlirce d ~eloplllent food afet and health environmerltirl prot~cti()n n~tritiOli toxicology food

d signingecologicalJy soundethiallyacceptable safety middot these are aU middot xamples of leading-edge an l economjcally viable agricultural productionUniversity-wide progralT1s that wenpioI1eered by

sys tems OAC

bull translating adVances in baic sc ience into usable Similarly OAC faculty cataJysed thef~rmitionof technologies

such campus-wide mechanism f6r collaborative re~ responding tothe pressures on ru ral resources and search and service as the Fo()d Council the Blisiness promotihg siable rural communitiesand ~ estheti - Council theGll Iph Food Te~hno16gy Centre the cally pleasing c(mntryside bull Cenrre f of lirtemational lTograms the Centre forT()Xlshyco logy the C entre lot Resources Develo pmentandmiddot Pn~paringstudents most recentl y the Fa ulty of Environn1enialScience~

In short while maintaini~g its histor icaldedlcation Thes~ are also t~e kind of issues thecolI~gemust to Ontario agricul ture OAC has sl)ccessflllly adapted middot equip its stud~nts to address The college ill con its teaching and reseaich ptogranis to eryethe inter- tinue to offcentr a raIlge oteducationalopportunities __ests of all stakeholders in the agri food system and bull diplomaanddegre~programs distance education and rural society It has ltllso successfllUy extended the middotoncatnpus shOlt~collrses ~ designed to produce the bullbull domain o(itsschoJarship into areas of growing con ~ techniCa11y lt()mpelentand issue~attuned gTaduates cernto all CanadiaR such asnlItritiol1 and health needed by the agri -food indutry and rural satiety

rural developmeot res()urc~s management and eii ~ Equally importantOAC)s updatirig its teaching vironmenlalprotection programs to put more elnphasls on the deveiopment

ofcommunication problem-solving and interpersonafIn the proce $ the toLlegepioneered _-middot~d now

skiHs~thjs l11eansa nlbre ~-eJf-directe I i ptays acelltral role in - many of theconstructive

teal1J~centredand holislicapproach to learning devetopments that have given lJof G its highstaridlng middot among Canadas centres Qfadvanced learning bull

Balancing the budget

Creatin the future OAC faces financiar const~ints from two dhections - thesustained underfundingofJifghereducarion in bull

For the college the challenge j to 11larrytraditioQ and Cru)acia and the inability ofOMAF to mainlain it innovation Teaching llrogramswill have to combinemiddot level of funding for the strat gicresearch program it

the attributes o[a li~eraleduGation withrhe profes~ supports at Guelph sional abilities needed to fUI1ction in a rap idlycharig~

The college is responding tlt)lh ischililenge The useing world of innovative instructionaLmethodsand a shift in enl-middot

The task in research is to focus frontier science on phasis frQm teach ingto Iearningcan offset apart the real-worldproblems ofclient group lnle~o~r of tneshoitage in educatiollaJ resources The college times the college lTIust learn 10make better use of1) also developing new sources ofresearchsuptJOrl by available teaching and research resolrrces andro tap fbrging trategic alliances with other public agencies new sources of supportfor itsexpMding mission i ndustrygroups and private businessesmiddotmiddot

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Where do AC alumni tit in OAC allmrii have a key role in the

colleges future

Asky()urself these questions Do I care about the fu shytiJfe ormy alma mater Does its mandate address my hopes for the agri-food industry and for ruralpeople Can we who have benefited so greatly from our as~ sociation with OAC - collectively and as indishyviduals - declIne the invitation toheJp shape its future

The college needs the advice encourageshy mentandinvolvement of its alumni

No one is bett~r placed than we are as OAC alum- ni to help the college design teaching programsthat wiIlbest prepare todays young people to be rhein- dustry leaders of tomorrow Our experience and in- sights are needed to help the college target the priorityissles on which it should focus its scarce reshy

searchresources

The keyvehiclefor getting involved is the OACAlurpni Association

OAe alumni alreadyplayan important role in governing the University as members of the Bo~rd of G()vernors and Senate Alumni inake up a majority

oflhe members ofthe OAC Advisory Council

Association members provide sustained support for college scholarships through the OAC Alumni Foun dation Individual OAC classes have financed a numshyber of important projects The as ociation recently sponsored a think tllilk on lhe future mi sion of OAe And in a crucial and exciting initiative the OACAlumni Foundation has developed a vehicle for commercializing the scientific discoveries and technological advance made in the University

These involvements - along with the networking and social functions of the as ociation - will remain impOltant But now as the college moves into a new era that will see further changes in its

role its programs and its funding there i an opporshytunity for the creation of an even stronger relation shyship between the college and its alumni

The college is asking the OAC Alumni Association to be an active partner in the redefinition of its misshy

sion~ in the redesign of i~s teaching research and sershy vice programs and in the creation of innovative new sources ofexternaJ funding

Ifyoure not already a member of the association this is a wonderful time to get involved

You are invited to bec()tDean active participant in the strengthened alliance betw-een the OAC Alumni Association and your alma mater by completing the membership form and returning it to Alumni House

f)ACAA Membership Form

Name ----=-o~------____c~----- Year of Graduation __~____~_

Address ____ ------__~~_--~--~--- Postal Code ______

Telephon Home ( ) ---_____---__ Bu iness (

I wish to become a m mber of the Association by purcha ing

o Life Membership $150

o Life Membershi p Instalment Plan with initial payment of $55 followed by two additional payments of $55

Please make cheque or muney order payable to OAC Alumni Association

D VISA D MasterCard Expiry Date

Ret1Jrn to OAC Alum ni Association 411~mfli HOllse University ofGllelph Gllelph Ontario N IG 2W1

AlumniAssociatiOlJ

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Where do AC alumni tit in OAC allmrii have a key role in the

colleges future

Asky()urself these questions Do I care about the fu shytiJfe ormy alma mater Does its mandate address my hopes for the agri-food industry and for ruralpeople Can we who have benefited so greatly from our as~ sociation with OAC - collectively and as indishyviduals - declIne the invitation toheJp shape its future

The college needs the advice encourageshy mentandinvolvement of its alumni

No one is bett~r placed than we are as OAC alum- ni to help the college design teaching programsthat wiIlbest prepare todays young people to be rhein- dustry leaders of tomorrow Our experience and in- sights are needed to help the college target the priorityissles on which it should focus its scarce reshy

searchresources

The keyvehiclefor getting involved is the OACAlurpni Association

OAe alumni alreadyplayan important role in governing the University as members of the Bo~rd of G()vernors and Senate Alumni inake up a majority

oflhe members ofthe OAC Advisory Council

Association members provide sustained support for college scholarships through the OAC Alumni Foun dation Individual OAC classes have financed a numshyber of important projects The as ociation recently sponsored a think tllilk on lhe future mi sion of OAe And in a crucial and exciting initiative the OACAlumni Foundation has developed a vehicle for commercializing the scientific discoveries and technological advance made in the University

These involvements - along with the networking and social functions of the as ociation - will remain impOltant But now as the college moves into a new era that will see further changes in its

role its programs and its funding there i an opporshytunity for the creation of an even stronger relation shyship between the college and its alumni

The college is asking the OAC Alumni Association to be an active partner in the redefinition of its misshy

sion~ in the redesign of i~s teaching research and sershy vice programs and in the creation of innovative new sources ofexternaJ funding

Ifyoure not already a member of the association this is a wonderful time to get involved

You are invited to bec()tDean active participant in the strengthened alliance betw-een the OAC Alumni Association and your alma mater by completing the membership form and returning it to Alumni House

f)ACAA Membership Form

Name ----=-o~------____c~----- Year of Graduation __~____~_

Address ____ ------__~~_--~--~--- Postal Code ______

Telephon Home ( ) ---_____---__ Bu iness (

I wish to become a m mber of the Association by purcha ing

o Life Membership $150

o Life Membershi p Instalment Plan with initial payment of $55 followed by two additional payments of $55

Please make cheque or muney order payable to OAC Alumni Association

D VISA D MasterCard Expiry Date

Ret1Jrn to OAC Alum ni Association 411~mfli HOllse University ofGllelph Gllelph Ontario N IG 2W1

AlumniAssociatiOlJ

Who are the winners professors who bring in more researc h grants Good faculty and research dolshy

i lars help a unive rsity maintain the qu a lity of its teaching programs Univershy

l sities ore al so rewarded later on by the prestige of being the alma moter of suc shycessful a lumni

We all win when a talented young stushydent is helped alon g the way to becomshying an educated and contributing membe r of society

The OAC 3 3 graduate scholarship has done just what scho larship programs are supposed to do - promote exce lshylence But don t think thi s class is unique U of G gives several hundred awards each year bac ked by the finanshycial support of thou sands o f alumni

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The Mac 38 class for exampl e has inves ted almost $50000 in an endowshyment fund that provides two annual graduate scholarships in gerontology Las t year alone a lumni and fri e nds of th e University gave more tha n $283 000 towards scholarships And Guelphs $ 15shymillion scholarship endowment fund continues to grow because of just thi s kind of gene rosity

So how do you win some of this sc holarship money Again le t s look at the concept of w inning Universities dont run lotteries And scholarships are awarded to stude nts who eom them

U ofGs 13 Pre sidents Scholarships are the most valuable awa rds offe red by thi s unive rsity - $ 16000 eac h ove r

four years The se lection committee looks for good marks but equall y imporshytant a re high motivation and leade rship qualitie s

T he re s more to a unive rsity than c lassrooms and U of G wants to attract students who will contrihutc to the overall life of the campus

So the best advice for scholarship hopefuls is olso the hest advicc for any high school student - - ge t involved You won t see man y locker lea ners co lshylecting scholarships at commenccment The winners will be the students who made the most of their high school years

To sec how well thi s rrogram works turn to page 31 w here yo ull read ahout 1988 Pres ident s Sc ho lar Tim Mall CSS 92 ond MA 93 who was an all shystar student in many wlys and rece ivcd this year s Winegard Mecld

U of G also se lec ts ahout 90 stude nts each yeor as recipic nts of $10000 Canada Scholarsh ips Sponsored by Inshydustry Science and Technology Canada th ese awards are designed to enshycourage yo ung Canadians to ex plore careers in sc ience Rec ipient s mu st e nrol in a sc ience or engincering program and mai ntain an flO-pe r-cent average In reolity says Pete r Lancloni assistant regi strar student financ e and awlrds a 90-pe r-ce nt average is more typical It Guelph ond he believes the cutoff for Canada Scholarships on thi s campus could rise to 92 per cent this f1I1

In addition to these hig-mo ney awards up to 400 other first-year stushydents rece ive U of G entra nce scholarshyships each year - - I total value of I hout $2 million

The Council of Ontario Unive rsitie s se ts g uid e lines that limit the numbcr of e ntronee scholarships a unive rsity can offer to 10 per cent of its tirst-yeal- stushydent hody There Ire no limits on thc dollar value of those ltIwarci s howe ver and Gue lph ranks third in Ontario in the number of e ntrance scho larsh i ps over $31 00

No ap plica tion is neceSSltl I-Y If yo ur hi gh school average puts yo u in the top

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400 applicants to Guelph you 11 probabshyly be offered an entrance scholarship

In -course awards are gi ven at the end of a students first second or third year U of G offers more than 400 in-course awards totalling $750000 a year Many are sponsored by private-sector comshypanies and indiv iduals who want to enshycourage a particular di scipline The Kenneth W Hammond A ward for exshyample goes to the student who writes the best essay for the environmental course The 5000 Days And the Onshytario Food Protec tion Assoc iation prov ides scholarships for outstanding students in da iry science food sc ience or applied microbiology In most cases applications aren t required here e ither

Students who need financi al assistshyance can also apply for a hUJsary any time afte r the ir first yea r at univershysity U of G has a budget of $75000 eac h year to provide bursaries Recipients also qua li fy for student loans under the Ontario Student Ass istance Program (OSAP)

Dont wait un til your son or daugh ter gets into univers ity to find out about OSAP Ask your high school guidance counsellor for inform ation on how to apply for student loans

nd whil e youre in the guidance offi ce ask about scho larships that aren t tied to a partic ul ar universi ty Youll find some un us ual opshy

portuni ties Millions of dollars are g iven away each year by service clubs comshymunity groups businesses and specialshyinterest groups Most are awarded on the basis of high school marks and comshymunity invo lvement

Tim Near of Chath am Ont came to Gue lph with a scholarship from Tall

Clubs International He qualified beshycause he s 66 ta ll and he won because of hi s academic record and leadership abilities Nicole Gaudet of Brampton Ont recei ved a scholarship from the local Rotary Club to pursue environmenshytal studies at Guelph

Scholarship programs are also offered by groups like the Canadian Labor Conshygress Petro Canada Inc the Canadian Figure Skating Assoc iation Mensa Canada the Canadian Nati ve Arts Founshydation the Knights of Columbus Flowers Canada and the Registered Nurshyses Association of Ontario And there are many more You just have to ask about them

Because I work for U of G any of my children who apply to Guelph will be e li gible for a staff scholarship and bu rshysa ry fund Your employer may have a similar fund or your inquiry might stimulate the company to start one

Most scholarship and university apshyplications are due in February or March so the summer before a student s OAC yea r is a good time to deve lop a comshyplete resume and line up some refershyences Tell your kids to include all extracurricular activiti es - music and sports awards summer and after-school employment volunteer work c lub memshyberships Some scholarship application forms may also ask for an essay that can be drafted we ll ahead of deadline dates

Pay close attention to those deadlines espec ially if you re not the person who s going to drop your application in the mail Gryphon swimming coach Al an Fairwea the r relates the story of a Gue lph swimmer who has all the atshytributes of a President s Scholar but wasn t even considered because her high schoo l principal missed the deadshyline

This is the one th ing scholarships have in common with lotte ries You cant win if you dont buy a ticke t

More enlightened princ ipals enshycourage students to apply for several scholarships Even if a stude nt isn t ofshyfered a big-money university award the application can still be a winner

Murray Froebe is a fourth -year stushydent in agric ultural econo mics He s from Homewood Man and Gue lph was only one of fo ur universities he apshyplied to He liked what he saw when he came to visit the campus ta lked to alumshyni and applied for scholarships

He says hi s te ntative decision to come here became definite when he was ofshyfe red an Alma Mater Fund entrance

scholarship It made me fee l as if they really wanted me at Guel ph that I might not be just a number

It s been a happy decision all around Last year Froebe was College Royal vice-pres ident for public relations Hes involved in several student organizashytions and will serve as a student senator this year He s met many alumni by atshytending OAC college fun ctions and says thats how he landed his summer job in the sales and marketing division of Funk Seeds

His scholarship and job opportunities mean he will fini sh his undergraduate degree without having to rely on stude nt loans

C anadian students may also find scho larship opportunities outside the country Most notable are the many Canadian athletes who accept sports scholarships at univershy

sities in the United States These are great opportunities fo r some athletes but students Who accept them must remember that they will be expec ted to perfo rm at a certa in level If their performance drops or they are injured and cannot compete they may ri sk losing the scholarship

Gryphon swimmer Steve Sweetnam says he turned down several US scholarships because he realized his career in competitive swimming was not as important as hi s life s work - and the program he wanted in human biol shyogy was at Guelph

Sports scholarships are stric tl y regushylated at Ontario universities and colshyleges to limit the power of sports fan s and the institutional desire for trophies The Ontario Colleges Athletic Associashytion enforces regulations that limit the

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amount of athletic scholarships to the cost of tuition and prohibits other types of inshyduc ements or player privileges

he cost of education is rising

T Most undergraduates at Guelph spend between $9000 and $10000 a year whether they live on campus or off

Kirsten a first-year environmental science student pays out $1230 a semester for residence $1260 for a meal plan

$1189 for tuition and fee s and $350 for book s and supplies That add s up to $4029 and doesnt even include clothing entershytainment or eating out

Jeff is a third-year veterinary student who lives off campus in a small apartment within walking distance of OVe His exshypenses run $3160 a semester for rent and groceries $1 220 for tuition and fees and $350 for books and supplies Total $4730

Because of rising costs some financial planners are suggesting that tomorrows students will need to enter university or colshylege with a well-developed financial portfolio that includes parents savings stushydent earnings grants loans bursa ries and scholarships (See Tax Tips for more inshyformation on educational savings plans)

Scholarships are clearly an avenue of opshyportunity for students There are no limits on the amount of scholarship money an Onshytario student can accumulate The first $500 of scholarship earnings is ta x exempt so its beneficial to have scholarship funds paid out over severa l years If your son or daughter is a scholarship winner who also holds down a lucrative summer job you might want to talk to a financial advise r about how to minimize taxable income

Scholarships are also an opportunity to make postsecondary education available to more people But it s an avenue Canadians havent fully explored Scholarship opporshytunities are much greater in countries like the United States where people generally give twice what the average Canadian

gi ves to charity

Some people -like the OAC Class of 33 - are trying to change that Scholarshyships are a priority for Guelphs Alma Mater Fund which has increased its level of support by 25 per cent since 1991 And Don Stephenson manager of bequests and planned giving has helped many senior alumni who want to share part of thcir wealth with future generations of Guelph students 0

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by Don Slephensol1 Ul1ilcrsity Aflairs and Delco711l(l1 t

Paying for education

As a university graduate you know that a postsecondary educashytion is vitally important for people who want to lead rewarding lives and compete in our globally exshypanding info-tech world The cost of acquiring a universi ty or col shylege education is increasing anshynually Studies indicate th at your one-year-old child will face an anshynual cost - including tuition room and board - of $25000 by age 18

Planning ahead and taking acshytion are the keys to being in a posishytion to help your children or grandchildren financially There are a number of financial vehicles you can use family allowance cheques registered ed ucation sav ings plans or an informal nonshyregistered education trust A full discu ss ion of each is beyond the scope of this column so the focu s wilJ be limited to tax implications

Family allowance cheques If you receive monthly family alshylowance payments under the new Child Benefits Program (effective Jan 1 1993 ) you can simply set aside these fund s in a separate sav ings account in the ch ilds name or in the nam e of a parent as trustee The latter applies if equity investments are used The annual investment income is declared by the child which normally results in tax-free growth

Registered education savings plans Companies like the Canadian Scholarship Trust Fund Heritage Scholarship Trust Founshydation and University Scholarship Foundation offcr RESPs More fle xible versions are marketed by investment dealers and insurance companies Investigate these careshyfully with the help of a professhysional adviser No tax deduction is

allowed for each annual deposit but RESPs accumulate income on a tax-sheltered basis Income from RESPs not including any return of capital is taxable to the child on rece ipt In for mal non-registered educashytion trust Investing in a mutual fund owned by the parent on beshyhalf of the child ofters an attracshyti ve option to R sPs because there are no annual deposit limits and no restrictions on investments or final use In addition if capitalshygains income is earned exc lusiveshyly as in an equity fund the investment income is attributed to the child not back to the parents

Scholarships

Scholarships offered by educashytiomil institutions are another source of money to help fund your child s education Vjichael Howell has written an exce llent book ca ll ed Winning ScholorshifJs A SItcenls Guide 10 Entl(lnU A wards at Ontorio Unilersilies and Coleges which offers 257 pages of information on what scholarships are ava ilable how to apply and much more To order call the Albert Britnell Bookshop 1-100-387-1417 Cost is $ 1995 plus tax

More free information

Univers ity Affairs and Developshyment publishes it s own financialshyplanning newslette r called Pariners which aims to benefit readers financially through arshyticles services and addi tional material s that are available on reshyquest If youd like to receive POill1 ers write to DOll Stephenshyson Alumni House University of Guelph Guelph Ont N I G 2W I or call 519-824-4120 Ex t 649g

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Jean Sleckle is congratuloted hy memllers ofher Mac 52 class Front row IeI 10 ri ghi are Jean (Davis) Norry Sfeckle alld leun (K ellough) King middle ro w Lenore (C ornish) Woods Edylh Bray and Helen (Sh ow) Mc Pherson hack row Jacqueline (Heyland) Moir Eileen (Ma cL eod) Dolson Dorothy (Allan) Switzer and Leith (Crozier) Whilfy

Taylor named distinguished alumnus

When the OvC Class of 1943 got together at Alumni Weekend they realshyly had something to celebrate shy the 50th anniversary of the ir year and the naming of classmate Ian Taylor as Oves Dis tin gui shed Alumnus for 1993

Taylor grew up in Hamilton Ont and says he raised some skeptical eyebrows at OvC because he wanted to work with cats and dogs After graduation he moved to Detroit to do antihistamine reshysearch for the pharmaceuti cal company Parke-Davi s In 1947 he joined a sma ll animal prac tice in Chicago then worked for the Anti-Cruelty Socie ty and evenshytually opened his own ve te rinary cl inic in the Chicago suburb o f Wheeling

Over the nex t 32 years T ay lo r treated cats and dogs for three generatio ns o f some famili es who came to know him

Mac 52 grad honored

Jean Steck Ie Mac 52 is a leader in he r fi e ld of household science an innovator and a humanita ri an - adm irable qualifi cations fo r the A lumnus of Ho nour award presented to her during Alumni W eekend 1993

Steckles role at the forefro nt of househo ld science began in 1948 when she enro lled in the first deg ree class a t Macdonald Institute She went on to earn graduate deg rees at Cornell Univershysity and the University of Reading in England then began a distin gui shed caree r that led her to affect th e lives of many people parti cularl y in West Africa and the C anadian North

Working primaril y with the Food and Agric ulture O rga nization of the United Nations she spent 18 years se rvin g the people of Wes t Afri ca developing po lic ies material s and techniq ues to imshyprove nutrition In 1976 she re turned to Can~da to work with Health and We lshyfare Canadas Indian and Northern Health Serv ices

She recogni zed the problem o f diabetes among nati ve people c haired the Natio na l Native Diabe tes Educati on Working G roup and was a key member o f the fi rs t international conference on

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diabe tes and native people in 1990 Under her direc tion one of the most th orough databases on infant-feedin g prac tices of native women was compiled

Steckle was appointed Canadian represhysentati ve to the US Administrati ve Committee on Nutrition held in Paris in 1980 and in Washington in 1987 Recogshyni zed inte rnationally for her work in Africa she has al so been recognized in Canada by the C anadian Home Ecoshynomics Association and the Assembly of First Nations

Steckle now lives in retirement on the 1 Steckle Heritage Homestead near Kitchener where she has established a children s international cultu ral centre to promote gardening crafts and pershyformin g arts among children

She was elec ted to the Gryphon Hall of Fame in 1988 to recognize her undershygraduate contributions to the estabshyli shment o f intercollegiate sports for women on campus She and her brothe r John OAC 52 sponsored a fe llows hip for graduate students in memory of their pa rents Susan Chase OAC 21 and John SteckIe OAC 20 and have donated sculptu res honoring Chase as the first fem a le gradua te of OAC and four generations o f Guelph graduates in the Steckle famil y

as a pe t s best fri end He re tired in 1990 which gave him more time to pursue his other li fes work - being the wo rld s 1110St dedicated Lion

A le tter of commendation fro m former US President George Bush tes shytifies to the significance of T a ylor s work with Lions Club Inte rna tion al He has attended meetin gs in 57 countries has a 33-year record of perfect attendshyance and is a fund rai ser ex traord inaire

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fo r Lions projec ts inc luding an eye reshysearch cen tre at the University of Ilshylinois No wonder he was named goodwi ll ambassador by Whee ling Lions and the Town of Wheeling

OAC alumni spearhead research foundation

The OAC Alumni Foundation is lay ing the ground work fo r establ ishment of an alu mni research fo undation that wo uld take respons ibility for commercializing U of G research developments The alumni foundation will give $ 10000 a year for the nex t fi ve years to develop the new orga ni zation says chair Tom Sawyer OAC 64 and 59A

Although OAC alumni - Sawyer Bob Murray 49 Tom Cowan 51 and OAC Dean Rob McLaughlin 69 and PhD 77 - are spearhead ing the inshyiti at ive the proposed resea rch fou ndashytion wo uld be separate from the OAC Alumni Associati on and Foundation and would function as an ambassador for University-wide resea rch acti vities

The concept is modelled after a 60shyyear-old research foundation at the University of Wi sconsin which has put more th an $200 million back int o reshysearch programs on that ca mpus

Guelph alumni can look fo rward to more news on the progress of this projec t in the next few months

UGAA names first honorary member

At its annual meeti ng June 20 th e UGAA prese nted its first honorary membership to Paulette Samshyson associate direc tor of anshynua l giving and support services

Samson has PallcUe Sal7l50n

worked in Guelph s alumni office since 1974 and manages financial affa irs fo r the Alma Mater Fund the OAC Alumni Foundation and scholarship fund s She has also been a strong personal supshyporter of Guelph scholarsh ip programs

The honorary designation was made possible by rev isions to UGAA bylaws enacted in 1992

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OAC alumni support college spirit

The OAC Class of 1938 has spent $ 18000 to redecorate and furni sh a boa rdroom on the second floor of Johnston Hall to be used as a meeting place for student groups The boardroom is part of a suite that inshyc ludes a lounge area and office space for the OAC student assoc iation And the stairwe ll lead ing up to the suite has been adorned with murals painted by students from the School of Land scape Architecture

Alumni support student initiatives

Four U of G stude nt initi ati ves wil l share $ I 0000 from the Alma Mater Fund (AM F) The awa rds wiJI benefit a lale-n ight bus se rvice prov ided by the CSS student government support a helpshyand-safety hotl ine and prov ide seed money to launch an environmental theme hOll se in East Residences and a lecture seri es on leadership training

These are the first projects suppo rted by al umni through the Gordon Nixon Leadership Award es tab lished by the AMF to honor Ni xon for hi s longtime in volvement with the University A 1937 gradu ate of OAC Nixon is honorary chair of the A MF

Chapter news

The first alumni gathering ever held in Victoria BC attracted 50 Guelph alumni to an eveni ng reception June 15 The event was hosted by Stephen Burchert HAFA 79 at Somerset House a se niors res idence where he is general manager Among the alumni atshytend ing were fonner OVC dean Trevor Lloyd Jones OVC 34 and Evelyn Williams Arts 73 fonn er pres iden t of the College of Arts Alumni Association

The Edmonton chapter held a barbec ue June 26 The event was organized and hosted by Paul Valentine OAC 67 and MSc 69 and his wife Anne (Baker) CBS 69

The Ottawa-Carleton alumni chapte r hosts a mi xed bridge eve ry yea r beshytween September and April The 1993 shyJ994 season wiJl begin Sept 25 with a 6 pm potluck at the Kingsway United

Brenda Warson FACS 87 incoming prlsishydll1I oflhe Moc-FACS Aumni AssociOlioll fjt accepls IiiI gmc li-o1 rei iring presi shydenl Chery (Grf(nels) BeITI FACS 86

Church Hall 630 Is land Park Dr at the Queensway Couples singles and players of all leve ls are welcome To RSVP ca ll Marga ret and John McGowa n at 6 13-828-7038

UGAA report

At the UGAA an nual meeting in June Ric Jordan CSS 75 was elec ted to a second term as chair His report ou tlines the organiza ti on s current programs and future plans ([( The UGAA has establi shed a volunshy

teer award to recognize the con tribushytions of alumn i The first presenshytation wi ll be made in April 1994

1amp In June the UGAA he ld a strltltegicshyplanning works hop attended by retir shying and incoming boards Thi s is the beginning of an ongoing planning process to map out the associl tions fu ture acti v i ties

neil Landscape arc hitecture professor Cece li a Paine in co-operation with the UGAA the Department of Physi shyca l Resources and the OAC dean s office will cond uct a su rvey of alum shy shyni to identi fy places of historic and nosta lgic va lue on campus

11if College and sc hool assoc iations report an increase in membershi p partly due to the COl1proluariol1s packages handed out by alu mni I t convoca tion

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r Alumni continue to be represented on the University Senate Board of Governors and the University Centre

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board And new this year Janice Partlow Arts 70 is rep resenting alumni on the Universitys commitshytee on academic restructuring

Active alumni meet

Alumni-in-Action volunteers met U of Gs new presid ent Mordechai Rozanski at their annual meeting last spring A lumni are the bedrock of an

institution sa id Rozanski You ve made us proud by your success and we owe it to you to continue to build thi s institution further

Spec ial guest Herbert Axelrod DSc 78 spoke about hi s adventures as an explorer in Brazil and the di scovery of I I O-mi lIion-year-old fish fossils He donated many of those fossil s to the University in 1989 and has continued to support development of the Ichthyology Institute 0

Alumni Career Planning Weekend Workshop November 12 13 amp 14 1993

~ The Program This highly successful workshop dcveloped by Dr Sharon Crozier University Counselling Services University of Calgary is the first step for an a lumnus who is considering a career move Discussion structured exercises and experiential activities will lead alumni to gain insight into a personal careerlifestyle analysis and assessment career information resources networking skills and much more

The Wcekend Workshop [Friday evening through Sunday afternoon) will be facilitated by professional counsellors from the University of Guelph Counselling and Student Resource Centre

No matter what their agc career stage or reason for transition each participan t will find this workshop to be an excellent opportunity to devclop a pe rsonal action plan shyand chart their ncxt move

~ Pre-Testing In order to provide individualizcd carecr information rcgistran ts arc requircd to attend one of two pre -testi ng sessions The Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory and thc Myers-Briggs Type Indicator will be administc rcd and rcsults tabulated prior to the workshop Pre-testing dates arc as follows

Toronto Wedncsday October 13 1993 700-830 pm Guelph Thursday October 21 1993 700-830 pm

Pre -test locations will be confirmed at registration

~ Fee The registration fec of $225 includes administration a nd tabul ation of the Strong-Campbell Interest Inve ntory a nd the Mycrs-Briggs Type Indicator materials two lunches and rcfrcshmen t brcaks

Tuition fees in cxeess of $100 are income tax dcductible

Enrolment is limited Rcgister early

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deli lie (McKinney) Misener Mac 6K adshy

A miis that Guelph wan t hr fir t choice for un iversity - she really wanted to ~tudy math at the nier ity of Western Ontario ~ bUllhe s k ills she leamed inGuelph s fUlJ1ily studies program are today the basis

()f her $2-million-a-year business M isener is pre ldent o r JOT (Job Oriented T raining Inc ) in Fredericton B a company t hat caters to the needs of school dropouts Slarted in 198910T

was the quickes t route Misener could find 10 tu m her ideas into practical proorams She was w orkshying for the John Howard Society developing proshygnlms for young offendshyers when she decided to start he r own vocational school that would com- bine life skiUs w ith job lrairiing I landed a small contr~ct for a baking COUfje It the Legion and took o ff from there s h says Hercompany offers training programs in baking and food service and JOT employs 15

people who feed 250 ITlilitary personnel daily under a military contract

You can upgrade your elementaryor secondary schooi educ~ltion with JOT Of leam English as a second language It offers trade programs in eve ry shything from we lding und

coming a home economics teacher Todaythe University plays a big role in the 11crilOries

she shares with her husband IerryOAC 08 and M c 69 After they were married AJeline taught 111 Gue lph While Jeny finished his inlster sdegree They moved to FrederictOli in 1969 when Jerry accepted i research p()si~ ti on with Agriculture Canadabutlaler lived in Ul iilOis illld Michiganwhile hecompleted doctoral iildpos tt1oltWral work EVeimiddotywhcnithcy

went AdClin ~ ke pi teachshying

[nNew Brunswick she w~s the milk lilarkdilig board sM ilk Ladf for 10 years anu wtis the first lu - derlf from IheUnivcrsity or New Brunswick l Facuity of Ed ucilti llll 16 cOJllpie te a masters degrce in horn~

ecollolnicsThats wheri he real ized that honic economics should be plac~~ ing rnore emphasis on life skills and less on leltldlil)l the bas ic skills middotOieof th~ lIndedying prill~ipres of JOT is that employable people are those wroc anmiddot seilthemselves as we ll as their skills

JeiTY is still with AgriCiil- t11fe Canada utn ies(arch station in Fredericton His work invorves harlcsiing and storage research and de~elopll~cnt andl1a~ lcd

The Mis(wramiy hack row eJi to right VIIollica Ierry (ltIl him into iillernatioilltil col ~ Adeline Ont O il drllIglltcr-in-ol Jil(v with Ielsilta CaUlan middot laboration 1ith sci~nlisI S llandBecky

carp ntry to auto-body repair and uphol stery Computer irai ning cour es f()Ipeople with d i abilities tour ism and hospitality programs and workshops in communication and management kills round Qutthe repertoire

Born in Ire lmid Misener grew lip on Olilario ~ Bruce Peninsulll the daug hter of a Presbyterian minister Her pu ntS per uadeclher to come to Gu lph because it was the school that accepted her into residencefor her fin year Her difappointment a l not bing to Wetern was

short-lived because he soon hitched on to the idea of be-

Russia BrazilPeru Britain the Ncthcrlands

and can~linavia Hes abo pUlt cif the JOT team as ~ re middot tWo ofrhe Misenerchildren Orrll1ait and VeroniGL Daughter Becky is inscriior public sciJool

JOT has 45 employees who lcachresearch devdopand market the (ompany s progntl11s One of Ihe mO-r SiICCCSSshyfuLvenures to dateis~1 computer program called lath Made Easy Developed wi~h lhehclp of UN B educl1 iOli e x - pert it teaches basic math skill s and is the Hagship proc gn-tmthat w iU soon e xpand JOT into Qtiler Canadw rl provinces iuys Adelilie n

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400 applicants to Guelph you 11 probabshyly be offered an entrance scholarship

In -course awards are gi ven at the end of a students first second or third year U of G offers more than 400 in-course awards totalling $750000 a year Many are sponsored by private-sector comshypanies and indiv iduals who want to enshycourage a particular di scipline The Kenneth W Hammond A ward for exshyample goes to the student who writes the best essay for the environmental course The 5000 Days And the Onshytario Food Protec tion Assoc iation prov ides scholarships for outstanding students in da iry science food sc ience or applied microbiology In most cases applications aren t required here e ither

Students who need financi al assistshyance can also apply for a hUJsary any time afte r the ir first yea r at univershysity U of G has a budget of $75000 eac h year to provide bursaries Recipients also qua li fy for student loans under the Ontario Student Ass istance Program (OSAP)

Dont wait un til your son or daugh ter gets into univers ity to find out about OSAP Ask your high school guidance counsellor for inform ation on how to apply for student loans

nd whil e youre in the guidance offi ce ask about scho larships that aren t tied to a partic ul ar universi ty Youll find some un us ual opshy

portuni ties Millions of dollars are g iven away each year by service clubs comshymunity groups businesses and specialshyinterest groups Most are awarded on the basis of high school marks and comshymunity invo lvement

Tim Near of Chath am Ont came to Gue lph with a scholarship from Tall

Clubs International He qualified beshycause he s 66 ta ll and he won because of hi s academic record and leadership abilities Nicole Gaudet of Brampton Ont recei ved a scholarship from the local Rotary Club to pursue environmenshytal studies at Guelph

Scholarship programs are also offered by groups like the Canadian Labor Conshygress Petro Canada Inc the Canadian Figure Skating Assoc iation Mensa Canada the Canadian Nati ve Arts Founshydation the Knights of Columbus Flowers Canada and the Registered Nurshyses Association of Ontario And there are many more You just have to ask about them

Because I work for U of G any of my children who apply to Guelph will be e li gible for a staff scholarship and bu rshysa ry fund Your employer may have a similar fund or your inquiry might stimulate the company to start one

Most scholarship and university apshyplications are due in February or March so the summer before a student s OAC yea r is a good time to deve lop a comshyplete resume and line up some refershyences Tell your kids to include all extracurricular activiti es - music and sports awards summer and after-school employment volunteer work c lub memshyberships Some scholarship application forms may also ask for an essay that can be drafted we ll ahead of deadline dates

Pay close attention to those deadlines espec ially if you re not the person who s going to drop your application in the mail Gryphon swimming coach Al an Fairwea the r relates the story of a Gue lph swimmer who has all the atshytributes of a President s Scholar but wasn t even considered because her high schoo l principal missed the deadshyline

This is the one th ing scholarships have in common with lotte ries You cant win if you dont buy a ticke t

More enlightened princ ipals enshycourage students to apply for several scholarships Even if a stude nt isn t ofshyfered a big-money university award the application can still be a winner

Murray Froebe is a fourth -year stushydent in agric ultural econo mics He s from Homewood Man and Gue lph was only one of fo ur universities he apshyplied to He liked what he saw when he came to visit the campus ta lked to alumshyni and applied for scholarships

He says hi s te ntative decision to come here became definite when he was ofshyfe red an Alma Mater Fund entrance

scholarship It made me fee l as if they really wanted me at Guel ph that I might not be just a number

It s been a happy decision all around Last year Froebe was College Royal vice-pres ident for public relations Hes involved in several student organizashytions and will serve as a student senator this year He s met many alumni by atshytending OAC college fun ctions and says thats how he landed his summer job in the sales and marketing division of Funk Seeds

His scholarship and job opportunities mean he will fini sh his undergraduate degree without having to rely on stude nt loans

C anadian students may also find scho larship opportunities outside the country Most notable are the many Canadian athletes who accept sports scholarships at univershy

sities in the United States These are great opportunities fo r some athletes but students Who accept them must remember that they will be expec ted to perfo rm at a certa in level If their performance drops or they are injured and cannot compete they may ri sk losing the scholarship

Gryphon swimmer Steve Sweetnam says he turned down several US scholarships because he realized his career in competitive swimming was not as important as hi s life s work - and the program he wanted in human biol shyogy was at Guelph

Sports scholarships are stric tl y regushylated at Ontario universities and colshyleges to limit the power of sports fan s and the institutional desire for trophies The Ontario Colleges Athletic Associashytion enforces regulations that limit the

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amount of athletic scholarships to the cost of tuition and prohibits other types of inshyduc ements or player privileges

he cost of education is rising

T Most undergraduates at Guelph spend between $9000 and $10000 a year whether they live on campus or off

Kirsten a first-year environmental science student pays out $1230 a semester for residence $1260 for a meal plan

$1189 for tuition and fee s and $350 for book s and supplies That add s up to $4029 and doesnt even include clothing entershytainment or eating out

Jeff is a third-year veterinary student who lives off campus in a small apartment within walking distance of OVe His exshypenses run $3160 a semester for rent and groceries $1 220 for tuition and fees and $350 for books and supplies Total $4730

Because of rising costs some financial planners are suggesting that tomorrows students will need to enter university or colshylege with a well-developed financial portfolio that includes parents savings stushydent earnings grants loans bursa ries and scholarships (See Tax Tips for more inshyformation on educational savings plans)

Scholarships are clearly an avenue of opshyportunity for students There are no limits on the amount of scholarship money an Onshytario student can accumulate The first $500 of scholarship earnings is ta x exempt so its beneficial to have scholarship funds paid out over severa l years If your son or daughter is a scholarship winner who also holds down a lucrative summer job you might want to talk to a financial advise r about how to minimize taxable income

Scholarships are also an opportunity to make postsecondary education available to more people But it s an avenue Canadians havent fully explored Scholarship opporshytunities are much greater in countries like the United States where people generally give twice what the average Canadian

gi ves to charity

Some people -like the OAC Class of 33 - are trying to change that Scholarshyships are a priority for Guelphs Alma Mater Fund which has increased its level of support by 25 per cent since 1991 And Don Stephenson manager of bequests and planned giving has helped many senior alumni who want to share part of thcir wealth with future generations of Guelph students 0

TAX TIPS

by Don Slephensol1 Ul1ilcrsity Aflairs and Delco711l(l1 t

Paying for education

As a university graduate you know that a postsecondary educashytion is vitally important for people who want to lead rewarding lives and compete in our globally exshypanding info-tech world The cost of acquiring a universi ty or col shylege education is increasing anshynually Studies indicate th at your one-year-old child will face an anshynual cost - including tuition room and board - of $25000 by age 18

Planning ahead and taking acshytion are the keys to being in a posishytion to help your children or grandchildren financially There are a number of financial vehicles you can use family allowance cheques registered ed ucation sav ings plans or an informal nonshyregistered education trust A full discu ss ion of each is beyond the scope of this column so the focu s wilJ be limited to tax implications

Family allowance cheques If you receive monthly family alshylowance payments under the new Child Benefits Program (effective Jan 1 1993 ) you can simply set aside these fund s in a separate sav ings account in the ch ilds name or in the nam e of a parent as trustee The latter applies if equity investments are used The annual investment income is declared by the child which normally results in tax-free growth

Registered education savings plans Companies like the Canadian Scholarship Trust Fund Heritage Scholarship Trust Founshydation and University Scholarship Foundation offcr RESPs More fle xible versions are marketed by investment dealers and insurance companies Investigate these careshyfully with the help of a professhysional adviser No tax deduction is

allowed for each annual deposit but RESPs accumulate income on a tax-sheltered basis Income from RESPs not including any return of capital is taxable to the child on rece ipt In for mal non-registered educashytion trust Investing in a mutual fund owned by the parent on beshyhalf of the child ofters an attracshyti ve option to R sPs because there are no annual deposit limits and no restrictions on investments or final use In addition if capitalshygains income is earned exc lusiveshyly as in an equity fund the investment income is attributed to the child not back to the parents

Scholarships

Scholarships offered by educashytiomil institutions are another source of money to help fund your child s education Vjichael Howell has written an exce llent book ca ll ed Winning ScholorshifJs A SItcenls Guide 10 Entl(lnU A wards at Ontorio Unilersilies and Coleges which offers 257 pages of information on what scholarships are ava ilable how to apply and much more To order call the Albert Britnell Bookshop 1-100-387-1417 Cost is $ 1995 plus tax

More free information

Univers ity Affairs and Developshyment publishes it s own financialshyplanning newslette r called Pariners which aims to benefit readers financially through arshyticles services and addi tional material s that are available on reshyquest If youd like to receive POill1 ers write to DOll Stephenshyson Alumni House University of Guelph Guelph Ont N I G 2W I or call 519-824-4120 Ex t 649g

23Guelph Alumnus

Jean Sleckle is congratuloted hy memllers ofher Mac 52 class Front row IeI 10 ri ghi are Jean (Davis) Norry Sfeckle alld leun (K ellough) King middle ro w Lenore (C ornish) Woods Edylh Bray and Helen (Sh ow) Mc Pherson hack row Jacqueline (Heyland) Moir Eileen (Ma cL eod) Dolson Dorothy (Allan) Switzer and Leith (Crozier) Whilfy

Taylor named distinguished alumnus

When the OvC Class of 1943 got together at Alumni Weekend they realshyly had something to celebrate shy the 50th anniversary of the ir year and the naming of classmate Ian Taylor as Oves Dis tin gui shed Alumnus for 1993

Taylor grew up in Hamilton Ont and says he raised some skeptical eyebrows at OvC because he wanted to work with cats and dogs After graduation he moved to Detroit to do antihistamine reshysearch for the pharmaceuti cal company Parke-Davi s In 1947 he joined a sma ll animal prac tice in Chicago then worked for the Anti-Cruelty Socie ty and evenshytually opened his own ve te rinary cl inic in the Chicago suburb o f Wheeling

Over the nex t 32 years T ay lo r treated cats and dogs for three generatio ns o f some famili es who came to know him

Mac 52 grad honored

Jean Steck Ie Mac 52 is a leader in he r fi e ld of household science an innovator and a humanita ri an - adm irable qualifi cations fo r the A lumnus of Ho nour award presented to her during Alumni W eekend 1993

Steckles role at the forefro nt of househo ld science began in 1948 when she enro lled in the first deg ree class a t Macdonald Institute She went on to earn graduate deg rees at Cornell Univershysity and the University of Reading in England then began a distin gui shed caree r that led her to affect th e lives of many people parti cularl y in West Africa and the C anadian North

Working primaril y with the Food and Agric ulture O rga nization of the United Nations she spent 18 years se rvin g the people of Wes t Afri ca developing po lic ies material s and techniq ues to imshyprove nutrition In 1976 she re turned to Can~da to work with Health and We lshyfare Canadas Indian and Northern Health Serv ices

She recogni zed the problem o f diabetes among nati ve people c haired the Natio na l Native Diabe tes Educati on Working G roup and was a key member o f the fi rs t international conference on

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diabe tes and native people in 1990 Under her direc tion one of the most th orough databases on infant-feedin g prac tices of native women was compiled

Steckle was appointed Canadian represhysentati ve to the US Administrati ve Committee on Nutrition held in Paris in 1980 and in Washington in 1987 Recogshyni zed inte rnationally for her work in Africa she has al so been recognized in Canada by the C anadian Home Ecoshynomics Association and the Assembly of First Nations

Steckle now lives in retirement on the 1 Steckle Heritage Homestead near Kitchener where she has established a children s international cultu ral centre to promote gardening crafts and pershyformin g arts among children

She was elec ted to the Gryphon Hall of Fame in 1988 to recognize her undershygraduate contributions to the estabshyli shment o f intercollegiate sports for women on campus She and her brothe r John OAC 52 sponsored a fe llows hip for graduate students in memory of their pa rents Susan Chase OAC 21 and John SteckIe OAC 20 and have donated sculptu res honoring Chase as the first fem a le gradua te of OAC and four generations o f Guelph graduates in the Steckle famil y

as a pe t s best fri end He re tired in 1990 which gave him more time to pursue his other li fes work - being the wo rld s 1110St dedicated Lion

A le tter of commendation fro m former US President George Bush tes shytifies to the significance of T a ylor s work with Lions Club Inte rna tion al He has attended meetin gs in 57 countries has a 33-year record of perfect attendshyance and is a fund rai ser ex traord inaire

Ian Taylor

Guelph Alumnus

fo r Lions projec ts inc luding an eye reshysearch cen tre at the University of Ilshylinois No wonder he was named goodwi ll ambassador by Whee ling Lions and the Town of Wheeling

OAC alumni spearhead research foundation

The OAC Alumni Foundation is lay ing the ground work fo r establ ishment of an alu mni research fo undation that wo uld take respons ibility for commercializing U of G research developments The alumni foundation will give $ 10000 a year for the nex t fi ve years to develop the new orga ni zation says chair Tom Sawyer OAC 64 and 59A

Although OAC alumni - Sawyer Bob Murray 49 Tom Cowan 51 and OAC Dean Rob McLaughlin 69 and PhD 77 - are spearhead ing the inshyiti at ive the proposed resea rch fou ndashytion wo uld be separate from the OAC Alumni Associati on and Foundation and would function as an ambassador for University-wide resea rch acti vities

The concept is modelled after a 60shyyear-old research foundation at the University of Wi sconsin which has put more th an $200 million back int o reshysearch programs on that ca mpus

Guelph alumni can look fo rward to more news on the progress of this projec t in the next few months

UGAA names first honorary member

At its annual meeti ng June 20 th e UGAA prese nted its first honorary membership to Paulette Samshyson associate direc tor of anshynua l giving and support services

Samson has PallcUe Sal7l50n

worked in Guelph s alumni office since 1974 and manages financial affa irs fo r the Alma Mater Fund the OAC Alumni Foundation and scholarship fund s She has also been a strong personal supshyporter of Guelph scholarsh ip programs

The honorary designation was made possible by rev isions to UGAA bylaws enacted in 1992

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OAC alumni support college spirit

The OAC Class of 1938 has spent $ 18000 to redecorate and furni sh a boa rdroom on the second floor of Johnston Hall to be used as a meeting place for student groups The boardroom is part of a suite that inshyc ludes a lounge area and office space for the OAC student assoc iation And the stairwe ll lead ing up to the suite has been adorned with murals painted by students from the School of Land scape Architecture

Alumni support student initiatives

Four U of G stude nt initi ati ves wil l share $ I 0000 from the Alma Mater Fund (AM F) The awa rds wiJI benefit a lale-n ight bus se rvice prov ided by the CSS student government support a helpshyand-safety hotl ine and prov ide seed money to launch an environmental theme hOll se in East Residences and a lecture seri es on leadership training

These are the first projects suppo rted by al umni through the Gordon Nixon Leadership Award es tab lished by the AMF to honor Ni xon for hi s longtime in volvement with the University A 1937 gradu ate of OAC Nixon is honorary chair of the A MF

Chapter news

The first alumni gathering ever held in Victoria BC attracted 50 Guelph alumni to an eveni ng reception June 15 The event was hosted by Stephen Burchert HAFA 79 at Somerset House a se niors res idence where he is general manager Among the alumni atshytend ing were fonner OVC dean Trevor Lloyd Jones OVC 34 and Evelyn Williams Arts 73 fonn er pres iden t of the College of Arts Alumni Association

The Edmonton chapter held a barbec ue June 26 The event was organized and hosted by Paul Valentine OAC 67 and MSc 69 and his wife Anne (Baker) CBS 69

The Ottawa-Carleton alumni chapte r hosts a mi xed bridge eve ry yea r beshytween September and April The 1993 shyJ994 season wiJl begin Sept 25 with a 6 pm potluck at the Kingsway United

Brenda Warson FACS 87 incoming prlsishydll1I oflhe Moc-FACS Aumni AssociOlioll fjt accepls IiiI gmc li-o1 rei iring presi shydenl Chery (Grf(nels) BeITI FACS 86

Church Hall 630 Is land Park Dr at the Queensway Couples singles and players of all leve ls are welcome To RSVP ca ll Marga ret and John McGowa n at 6 13-828-7038

UGAA report

At the UGAA an nual meeting in June Ric Jordan CSS 75 was elec ted to a second term as chair His report ou tlines the organiza ti on s current programs and future plans ([( The UGAA has establi shed a volunshy

teer award to recognize the con tribushytions of alumn i The first presenshytation wi ll be made in April 1994

1amp In June the UGAA he ld a strltltegicshyplanning works hop attended by retir shying and incoming boards Thi s is the beginning of an ongoing planning process to map out the associl tions fu ture acti v i ties

neil Landscape arc hitecture professor Cece li a Paine in co-operation with the UGAA the Department of Physi shyca l Resources and the OAC dean s office will cond uct a su rvey of alum shy shyni to identi fy places of historic and nosta lgic va lue on campus

11if College and sc hool assoc iations report an increase in membershi p partly due to the COl1proluariol1s packages handed out by alu mni I t convoca tion

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r Alumni continue to be represented on the University Senate Board of Governors and the University Centre

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board And new this year Janice Partlow Arts 70 is rep resenting alumni on the Universitys commitshytee on academic restructuring

Active alumni meet

Alumni-in-Action volunteers met U of Gs new presid ent Mordechai Rozanski at their annual meeting last spring A lumni are the bedrock of an

institution sa id Rozanski You ve made us proud by your success and we owe it to you to continue to build thi s institution further

Spec ial guest Herbert Axelrod DSc 78 spoke about hi s adventures as an explorer in Brazil and the di scovery of I I O-mi lIion-year-old fish fossils He donated many of those fossil s to the University in 1989 and has continued to support development of the Ichthyology Institute 0

Alumni Career Planning Weekend Workshop November 12 13 amp 14 1993

~ The Program This highly successful workshop dcveloped by Dr Sharon Crozier University Counselling Services University of Calgary is the first step for an a lumnus who is considering a career move Discussion structured exercises and experiential activities will lead alumni to gain insight into a personal careerlifestyle analysis and assessment career information resources networking skills and much more

The Wcekend Workshop [Friday evening through Sunday afternoon) will be facilitated by professional counsellors from the University of Guelph Counselling and Student Resource Centre

No matter what their agc career stage or reason for transition each participan t will find this workshop to be an excellent opportunity to devclop a pe rsonal action plan shyand chart their ncxt move

~ Pre-Testing In order to provide individualizcd carecr information rcgistran ts arc requircd to attend one of two pre -testi ng sessions The Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory and thc Myers-Briggs Type Indicator will be administc rcd and rcsults tabulated prior to the workshop Pre-testing dates arc as follows

Toronto Wedncsday October 13 1993 700-830 pm Guelph Thursday October 21 1993 700-830 pm

Pre -test locations will be confirmed at registration

~ Fee The registration fec of $225 includes administration a nd tabul ation of the Strong-Campbell Interest Inve ntory a nd the Mycrs-Briggs Type Indicator materials two lunches and rcfrcshmen t brcaks

Tuition fees in cxeess of $100 are income tax dcductible

Enrolment is limited Rcgister early

Sponsored by University oj Guelph Alumni Association

REGISTRATION FORM ~ Alumni Career Planning Weekend Workshop o Regi ster me for the Alumni Career Planning Weekend Workshop Nove mber 12-14 1993

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deli lie (McKinney) Misener Mac 6K adshy

A miis that Guelph wan t hr fir t choice for un iversity - she really wanted to ~tudy math at the nier ity of Western Ontario ~ bUllhe s k ills she leamed inGuelph s fUlJ1ily studies program are today the basis

()f her $2-million-a-year business M isener is pre ldent o r JOT (Job Oriented T raining Inc ) in Fredericton B a company t hat caters to the needs of school dropouts Slarted in 198910T

was the quickes t route Misener could find 10 tu m her ideas into practical proorams She was w orkshying for the John Howard Society developing proshygnlms for young offendshyers when she decided to start he r own vocational school that would com- bine life skiUs w ith job lrairiing I landed a small contr~ct for a baking COUfje It the Legion and took o ff from there s h says Hercompany offers training programs in baking and food service and JOT employs 15

people who feed 250 ITlilitary personnel daily under a military contract

You can upgrade your elementaryor secondary schooi educ~ltion with JOT Of leam English as a second language It offers trade programs in eve ry shything from we lding und

coming a home economics teacher Todaythe University plays a big role in the 11crilOries

she shares with her husband IerryOAC 08 and M c 69 After they were married AJeline taught 111 Gue lph While Jeny finished his inlster sdegree They moved to FrederictOli in 1969 when Jerry accepted i research p()si~ ti on with Agriculture Canadabutlaler lived in Ul iilOis illld Michiganwhile hecompleted doctoral iildpos tt1oltWral work EVeimiddotywhcnithcy

went AdClin ~ ke pi teachshying

[nNew Brunswick she w~s the milk lilarkdilig board sM ilk Ladf for 10 years anu wtis the first lu - derlf from IheUnivcrsity or New Brunswick l Facuity of Ed ucilti llll 16 cOJllpie te a masters degrce in horn~

ecollolnicsThats wheri he real ized that honic economics should be plac~~ ing rnore emphasis on life skills and less on leltldlil)l the bas ic skills middotOieof th~ lIndedying prill~ipres of JOT is that employable people are those wroc anmiddot seilthemselves as we ll as their skills

JeiTY is still with AgriCiil- t11fe Canada utn ies(arch station in Fredericton His work invorves harlcsiing and storage research and de~elopll~cnt andl1a~ lcd

The Mis(wramiy hack row eJi to right VIIollica Ierry (ltIl him into iillernatioilltil col ~ Adeline Ont O il drllIglltcr-in-ol Jil(v with Ielsilta CaUlan middot laboration 1ith sci~nlisI S llandBecky

carp ntry to auto-body repair and uphol stery Computer irai ning cour es f()Ipeople with d i abilities tour ism and hospitality programs and workshops in communication and management kills round Qutthe repertoire

Born in Ire lmid Misener grew lip on Olilario ~ Bruce Peninsulll the daug hter of a Presbyterian minister Her pu ntS per uadeclher to come to Gu lph because it was the school that accepted her into residencefor her fin year Her difappointment a l not bing to Wetern was

short-lived because he soon hitched on to the idea of be-

Russia BrazilPeru Britain the Ncthcrlands

and can~linavia Hes abo pUlt cif the JOT team as ~ re middot tWo ofrhe Misenerchildren Orrll1ait and VeroniGL Daughter Becky is inscriior public sciJool

JOT has 45 employees who lcachresearch devdopand market the (ompany s progntl11s One of Ihe mO-r SiICCCSSshyfuLvenures to dateis~1 computer program called lath Made Easy Developed wi~h lhehclp of UN B educl1 iOli e x - pert it teaches basic math skill s and is the Hagship proc gn-tmthat w iU soon e xpand JOT into Qtiler Canadw rl provinces iuys Adelilie n

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amount of athletic scholarships to the cost of tuition and prohibits other types of inshyduc ements or player privileges

he cost of education is rising

T Most undergraduates at Guelph spend between $9000 and $10000 a year whether they live on campus or off

Kirsten a first-year environmental science student pays out $1230 a semester for residence $1260 for a meal plan

$1189 for tuition and fee s and $350 for book s and supplies That add s up to $4029 and doesnt even include clothing entershytainment or eating out

Jeff is a third-year veterinary student who lives off campus in a small apartment within walking distance of OVe His exshypenses run $3160 a semester for rent and groceries $1 220 for tuition and fees and $350 for books and supplies Total $4730

Because of rising costs some financial planners are suggesting that tomorrows students will need to enter university or colshylege with a well-developed financial portfolio that includes parents savings stushydent earnings grants loans bursa ries and scholarships (See Tax Tips for more inshyformation on educational savings plans)

Scholarships are clearly an avenue of opshyportunity for students There are no limits on the amount of scholarship money an Onshytario student can accumulate The first $500 of scholarship earnings is ta x exempt so its beneficial to have scholarship funds paid out over severa l years If your son or daughter is a scholarship winner who also holds down a lucrative summer job you might want to talk to a financial advise r about how to minimize taxable income

Scholarships are also an opportunity to make postsecondary education available to more people But it s an avenue Canadians havent fully explored Scholarship opporshytunities are much greater in countries like the United States where people generally give twice what the average Canadian

gi ves to charity

Some people -like the OAC Class of 33 - are trying to change that Scholarshyships are a priority for Guelphs Alma Mater Fund which has increased its level of support by 25 per cent since 1991 And Don Stephenson manager of bequests and planned giving has helped many senior alumni who want to share part of thcir wealth with future generations of Guelph students 0

TAX TIPS

by Don Slephensol1 Ul1ilcrsity Aflairs and Delco711l(l1 t

Paying for education

As a university graduate you know that a postsecondary educashytion is vitally important for people who want to lead rewarding lives and compete in our globally exshypanding info-tech world The cost of acquiring a universi ty or col shylege education is increasing anshynually Studies indicate th at your one-year-old child will face an anshynual cost - including tuition room and board - of $25000 by age 18

Planning ahead and taking acshytion are the keys to being in a posishytion to help your children or grandchildren financially There are a number of financial vehicles you can use family allowance cheques registered ed ucation sav ings plans or an informal nonshyregistered education trust A full discu ss ion of each is beyond the scope of this column so the focu s wilJ be limited to tax implications

Family allowance cheques If you receive monthly family alshylowance payments under the new Child Benefits Program (effective Jan 1 1993 ) you can simply set aside these fund s in a separate sav ings account in the ch ilds name or in the nam e of a parent as trustee The latter applies if equity investments are used The annual investment income is declared by the child which normally results in tax-free growth

Registered education savings plans Companies like the Canadian Scholarship Trust Fund Heritage Scholarship Trust Founshydation and University Scholarship Foundation offcr RESPs More fle xible versions are marketed by investment dealers and insurance companies Investigate these careshyfully with the help of a professhysional adviser No tax deduction is

allowed for each annual deposit but RESPs accumulate income on a tax-sheltered basis Income from RESPs not including any return of capital is taxable to the child on rece ipt In for mal non-registered educashytion trust Investing in a mutual fund owned by the parent on beshyhalf of the child ofters an attracshyti ve option to R sPs because there are no annual deposit limits and no restrictions on investments or final use In addition if capitalshygains income is earned exc lusiveshyly as in an equity fund the investment income is attributed to the child not back to the parents

Scholarships

Scholarships offered by educashytiomil institutions are another source of money to help fund your child s education Vjichael Howell has written an exce llent book ca ll ed Winning ScholorshifJs A SItcenls Guide 10 Entl(lnU A wards at Ontorio Unilersilies and Coleges which offers 257 pages of information on what scholarships are ava ilable how to apply and much more To order call the Albert Britnell Bookshop 1-100-387-1417 Cost is $ 1995 plus tax

More free information

Univers ity Affairs and Developshyment publishes it s own financialshyplanning newslette r called Pariners which aims to benefit readers financially through arshyticles services and addi tional material s that are available on reshyquest If youd like to receive POill1 ers write to DOll Stephenshyson Alumni House University of Guelph Guelph Ont N I G 2W I or call 519-824-4120 Ex t 649g

23Guelph Alumnus

Jean Sleckle is congratuloted hy memllers ofher Mac 52 class Front row IeI 10 ri ghi are Jean (Davis) Norry Sfeckle alld leun (K ellough) King middle ro w Lenore (C ornish) Woods Edylh Bray and Helen (Sh ow) Mc Pherson hack row Jacqueline (Heyland) Moir Eileen (Ma cL eod) Dolson Dorothy (Allan) Switzer and Leith (Crozier) Whilfy

Taylor named distinguished alumnus

When the OvC Class of 1943 got together at Alumni Weekend they realshyly had something to celebrate shy the 50th anniversary of the ir year and the naming of classmate Ian Taylor as Oves Dis tin gui shed Alumnus for 1993

Taylor grew up in Hamilton Ont and says he raised some skeptical eyebrows at OvC because he wanted to work with cats and dogs After graduation he moved to Detroit to do antihistamine reshysearch for the pharmaceuti cal company Parke-Davi s In 1947 he joined a sma ll animal prac tice in Chicago then worked for the Anti-Cruelty Socie ty and evenshytually opened his own ve te rinary cl inic in the Chicago suburb o f Wheeling

Over the nex t 32 years T ay lo r treated cats and dogs for three generatio ns o f some famili es who came to know him

Mac 52 grad honored

Jean Steck Ie Mac 52 is a leader in he r fi e ld of household science an innovator and a humanita ri an - adm irable qualifi cations fo r the A lumnus of Ho nour award presented to her during Alumni W eekend 1993

Steckles role at the forefro nt of househo ld science began in 1948 when she enro lled in the first deg ree class a t Macdonald Institute She went on to earn graduate deg rees at Cornell Univershysity and the University of Reading in England then began a distin gui shed caree r that led her to affect th e lives of many people parti cularl y in West Africa and the C anadian North

Working primaril y with the Food and Agric ulture O rga nization of the United Nations she spent 18 years se rvin g the people of Wes t Afri ca developing po lic ies material s and techniq ues to imshyprove nutrition In 1976 she re turned to Can~da to work with Health and We lshyfare Canadas Indian and Northern Health Serv ices

She recogni zed the problem o f diabetes among nati ve people c haired the Natio na l Native Diabe tes Educati on Working G roup and was a key member o f the fi rs t international conference on

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Photos by Mary Dick ieson

diabe tes and native people in 1990 Under her direc tion one of the most th orough databases on infant-feedin g prac tices of native women was compiled

Steckle was appointed Canadian represhysentati ve to the US Administrati ve Committee on Nutrition held in Paris in 1980 and in Washington in 1987 Recogshyni zed inte rnationally for her work in Africa she has al so been recognized in Canada by the C anadian Home Ecoshynomics Association and the Assembly of First Nations

Steckle now lives in retirement on the 1 Steckle Heritage Homestead near Kitchener where she has established a children s international cultu ral centre to promote gardening crafts and pershyformin g arts among children

She was elec ted to the Gryphon Hall of Fame in 1988 to recognize her undershygraduate contributions to the estabshyli shment o f intercollegiate sports for women on campus She and her brothe r John OAC 52 sponsored a fe llows hip for graduate students in memory of their pa rents Susan Chase OAC 21 and John SteckIe OAC 20 and have donated sculptu res honoring Chase as the first fem a le gradua te of OAC and four generations o f Guelph graduates in the Steckle famil y

as a pe t s best fri end He re tired in 1990 which gave him more time to pursue his other li fes work - being the wo rld s 1110St dedicated Lion

A le tter of commendation fro m former US President George Bush tes shytifies to the significance of T a ylor s work with Lions Club Inte rna tion al He has attended meetin gs in 57 countries has a 33-year record of perfect attendshyance and is a fund rai ser ex traord inaire

Ian Taylor

Guelph Alumnus

fo r Lions projec ts inc luding an eye reshysearch cen tre at the University of Ilshylinois No wonder he was named goodwi ll ambassador by Whee ling Lions and the Town of Wheeling

OAC alumni spearhead research foundation

The OAC Alumni Foundation is lay ing the ground work fo r establ ishment of an alu mni research fo undation that wo uld take respons ibility for commercializing U of G research developments The alumni foundation will give $ 10000 a year for the nex t fi ve years to develop the new orga ni zation says chair Tom Sawyer OAC 64 and 59A

Although OAC alumni - Sawyer Bob Murray 49 Tom Cowan 51 and OAC Dean Rob McLaughlin 69 and PhD 77 - are spearhead ing the inshyiti at ive the proposed resea rch fou ndashytion wo uld be separate from the OAC Alumni Associati on and Foundation and would function as an ambassador for University-wide resea rch acti vities

The concept is modelled after a 60shyyear-old research foundation at the University of Wi sconsin which has put more th an $200 million back int o reshysearch programs on that ca mpus

Guelph alumni can look fo rward to more news on the progress of this projec t in the next few months

UGAA names first honorary member

At its annual meeti ng June 20 th e UGAA prese nted its first honorary membership to Paulette Samshyson associate direc tor of anshynua l giving and support services

Samson has PallcUe Sal7l50n

worked in Guelph s alumni office since 1974 and manages financial affa irs fo r the Alma Mater Fund the OAC Alumni Foundation and scholarship fund s She has also been a strong personal supshyporter of Guelph scholarsh ip programs

The honorary designation was made possible by rev isions to UGAA bylaws enacted in 1992

Guelph Alumnus

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OAC alumni support college spirit

The OAC Class of 1938 has spent $ 18000 to redecorate and furni sh a boa rdroom on the second floor of Johnston Hall to be used as a meeting place for student groups The boardroom is part of a suite that inshyc ludes a lounge area and office space for the OAC student assoc iation And the stairwe ll lead ing up to the suite has been adorned with murals painted by students from the School of Land scape Architecture

Alumni support student initiatives

Four U of G stude nt initi ati ves wil l share $ I 0000 from the Alma Mater Fund (AM F) The awa rds wiJI benefit a lale-n ight bus se rvice prov ided by the CSS student government support a helpshyand-safety hotl ine and prov ide seed money to launch an environmental theme hOll se in East Residences and a lecture seri es on leadership training

These are the first projects suppo rted by al umni through the Gordon Nixon Leadership Award es tab lished by the AMF to honor Ni xon for hi s longtime in volvement with the University A 1937 gradu ate of OAC Nixon is honorary chair of the A MF

Chapter news

The first alumni gathering ever held in Victoria BC attracted 50 Guelph alumni to an eveni ng reception June 15 The event was hosted by Stephen Burchert HAFA 79 at Somerset House a se niors res idence where he is general manager Among the alumni atshytend ing were fonner OVC dean Trevor Lloyd Jones OVC 34 and Evelyn Williams Arts 73 fonn er pres iden t of the College of Arts Alumni Association

The Edmonton chapter held a barbec ue June 26 The event was organized and hosted by Paul Valentine OAC 67 and MSc 69 and his wife Anne (Baker) CBS 69

The Ottawa-Carleton alumni chapte r hosts a mi xed bridge eve ry yea r beshytween September and April The 1993 shyJ994 season wiJl begin Sept 25 with a 6 pm potluck at the Kingsway United

Brenda Warson FACS 87 incoming prlsishydll1I oflhe Moc-FACS Aumni AssociOlioll fjt accepls IiiI gmc li-o1 rei iring presi shydenl Chery (Grf(nels) BeITI FACS 86

Church Hall 630 Is land Park Dr at the Queensway Couples singles and players of all leve ls are welcome To RSVP ca ll Marga ret and John McGowa n at 6 13-828-7038

UGAA report

At the UGAA an nual meeting in June Ric Jordan CSS 75 was elec ted to a second term as chair His report ou tlines the organiza ti on s current programs and future plans ([( The UGAA has establi shed a volunshy

teer award to recognize the con tribushytions of alumn i The first presenshytation wi ll be made in April 1994

1amp In June the UGAA he ld a strltltegicshyplanning works hop attended by retir shying and incoming boards Thi s is the beginning of an ongoing planning process to map out the associl tions fu ture acti v i ties

neil Landscape arc hitecture professor Cece li a Paine in co-operation with the UGAA the Department of Physi shyca l Resources and the OAC dean s office will cond uct a su rvey of alum shy shyni to identi fy places of historic and nosta lgic va lue on campus

11if College and sc hool assoc iations report an increase in membershi p partly due to the COl1proluariol1s packages handed out by alu mni I t convoca tion

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r Alumni continue to be represented on the University Senate Board of Governors and the University Centre

CHART YOUR NEXT MOVE

ALUMNI

board And new this year Janice Partlow Arts 70 is rep resenting alumni on the Universitys commitshytee on academic restructuring

Active alumni meet

Alumni-in-Action volunteers met U of Gs new presid ent Mordechai Rozanski at their annual meeting last spring A lumni are the bedrock of an

institution sa id Rozanski You ve made us proud by your success and we owe it to you to continue to build thi s institution further

Spec ial guest Herbert Axelrod DSc 78 spoke about hi s adventures as an explorer in Brazil and the di scovery of I I O-mi lIion-year-old fish fossils He donated many of those fossil s to the University in 1989 and has continued to support development of the Ichthyology Institute 0

Alumni Career Planning Weekend Workshop November 12 13 amp 14 1993

~ The Program This highly successful workshop dcveloped by Dr Sharon Crozier University Counselling Services University of Calgary is the first step for an a lumnus who is considering a career move Discussion structured exercises and experiential activities will lead alumni to gain insight into a personal careerlifestyle analysis and assessment career information resources networking skills and much more

The Wcekend Workshop [Friday evening through Sunday afternoon) will be facilitated by professional counsellors from the University of Guelph Counselling and Student Resource Centre

No matter what their agc career stage or reason for transition each participan t will find this workshop to be an excellent opportunity to devclop a pe rsonal action plan shyand chart their ncxt move

~ Pre-Testing In order to provide individualizcd carecr information rcgistran ts arc requircd to attend one of two pre -testi ng sessions The Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory and thc Myers-Briggs Type Indicator will be administc rcd and rcsults tabulated prior to the workshop Pre-testing dates arc as follows

Toronto Wedncsday October 13 1993 700-830 pm Guelph Thursday October 21 1993 700-830 pm

Pre -test locations will be confirmed at registration

~ Fee The registration fec of $225 includes administration a nd tabul ation of the Strong-Campbell Interest Inve ntory a nd the Mycrs-Briggs Type Indicator materials two lunches and rcfrcshmen t brcaks

Tuition fees in cxeess of $100 are income tax dcductible

Enrolment is limited Rcgister early

Sponsored by University oj Guelph Alumni Association

REGISTRATION FORM ~ Alumni Career Planning Weekend Workshop o Regi ster me for the Alumni Career Planning Weekend Workshop Nove mber 12-14 1993

o [ am inlcres ted in allending lhis workshop but am unabk to attend on the date offered Please inform me of future workshops

Name __________________________________________________________ ___

Col lege _ _ ______________________________ Graduation Year _______ _

Address

__________________________ ~s~~de _______________Ciry

Home Telephone _______________ Business Telephone ________________

(IIrrent emplo) nem Sta IUS fu llmiddottime [J pan-lime 0 unemployed u

I will alend the premiddottes ting dale Toronto 0 Guelph 0

Register by mail telephone or racsimik Office or Con tinu ing Education 160 J ohnstOn Hajj UnIversity ofCuelph Guelph Onta rio NIG 2WI Teiephone 1519) 824middot4 120 Facsimileo [5 19) 767 ~ 114

Ac(om mudalJon inform ation will he sent to al l regsu-ants

2) Cuelph Aillmnus

Method of Payment MasterClrd 0 Visa 0 Cheque 0 (Please rnake cheque payable LO the Universiry or Guelph)

Card No _ ___________

Expiry Dale ___________ _

sigoawre -------------- shy

UNIVEO SITY 1 ~9flGUELPH

UofG

was hersecondcholce

deli lie (McKinney) Misener Mac 6K adshy

A miis that Guelph wan t hr fir t choice for un iversity - she really wanted to ~tudy math at the nier ity of Western Ontario ~ bUllhe s k ills she leamed inGuelph s fUlJ1ily studies program are today the basis

()f her $2-million-a-year business M isener is pre ldent o r JOT (Job Oriented T raining Inc ) in Fredericton B a company t hat caters to the needs of school dropouts Slarted in 198910T

was the quickes t route Misener could find 10 tu m her ideas into practical proorams She was w orkshying for the John Howard Society developing proshygnlms for young offendshyers when she decided to start he r own vocational school that would com- bine life skiUs w ith job lrairiing I landed a small contr~ct for a baking COUfje It the Legion and took o ff from there s h says Hercompany offers training programs in baking and food service and JOT employs 15

people who feed 250 ITlilitary personnel daily under a military contract

You can upgrade your elementaryor secondary schooi educ~ltion with JOT Of leam English as a second language It offers trade programs in eve ry shything from we lding und

coming a home economics teacher Todaythe University plays a big role in the 11crilOries

she shares with her husband IerryOAC 08 and M c 69 After they were married AJeline taught 111 Gue lph While Jeny finished his inlster sdegree They moved to FrederictOli in 1969 when Jerry accepted i research p()si~ ti on with Agriculture Canadabutlaler lived in Ul iilOis illld Michiganwhile hecompleted doctoral iildpos tt1oltWral work EVeimiddotywhcnithcy

went AdClin ~ ke pi teachshying

[nNew Brunswick she w~s the milk lilarkdilig board sM ilk Ladf for 10 years anu wtis the first lu - derlf from IheUnivcrsity or New Brunswick l Facuity of Ed ucilti llll 16 cOJllpie te a masters degrce in horn~

ecollolnicsThats wheri he real ized that honic economics should be plac~~ ing rnore emphasis on life skills and less on leltldlil)l the bas ic skills middotOieof th~ lIndedying prill~ipres of JOT is that employable people are those wroc anmiddot seilthemselves as we ll as their skills

JeiTY is still with AgriCiil- t11fe Canada utn ies(arch station in Fredericton His work invorves harlcsiing and storage research and de~elopll~cnt andl1a~ lcd

The Mis(wramiy hack row eJi to right VIIollica Ierry (ltIl him into iillernatioilltil col ~ Adeline Ont O il drllIglltcr-in-ol Jil(v with Ielsilta CaUlan middot laboration 1ith sci~nlisI S llandBecky

carp ntry to auto-body repair and uphol stery Computer irai ning cour es f()Ipeople with d i abilities tour ism and hospitality programs and workshops in communication and management kills round Qutthe repertoire

Born in Ire lmid Misener grew lip on Olilario ~ Bruce Peninsulll the daug hter of a Presbyterian minister Her pu ntS per uadeclher to come to Gu lph because it was the school that accepted her into residencefor her fin year Her difappointment a l not bing to Wetern was

short-lived because he soon hitched on to the idea of be-

Russia BrazilPeru Britain the Ncthcrlands

and can~linavia Hes abo pUlt cif the JOT team as ~ re middot tWo ofrhe Misenerchildren Orrll1ait and VeroniGL Daughter Becky is inscriior public sciJool

JOT has 45 employees who lcachresearch devdopand market the (ompany s progntl11s One of Ihe mO-r SiICCCSSshyfuLvenures to dateis~1 computer program called lath Made Easy Developed wi~h lhehclp of UN B educl1 iOli e x - pert it teaches basic math skill s and is the Hagship proc gn-tmthat w iU soon e xpand JOT into Qtiler Canadw rl provinces iuys Adelilie n

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27Guelph Alumnus

Jean Sleckle is congratuloted hy memllers ofher Mac 52 class Front row IeI 10 ri ghi are Jean (Davis) Norry Sfeckle alld leun (K ellough) King middle ro w Lenore (C ornish) Woods Edylh Bray and Helen (Sh ow) Mc Pherson hack row Jacqueline (Heyland) Moir Eileen (Ma cL eod) Dolson Dorothy (Allan) Switzer and Leith (Crozier) Whilfy

Taylor named distinguished alumnus

When the OvC Class of 1943 got together at Alumni Weekend they realshyly had something to celebrate shy the 50th anniversary of the ir year and the naming of classmate Ian Taylor as Oves Dis tin gui shed Alumnus for 1993

Taylor grew up in Hamilton Ont and says he raised some skeptical eyebrows at OvC because he wanted to work with cats and dogs After graduation he moved to Detroit to do antihistamine reshysearch for the pharmaceuti cal company Parke-Davi s In 1947 he joined a sma ll animal prac tice in Chicago then worked for the Anti-Cruelty Socie ty and evenshytually opened his own ve te rinary cl inic in the Chicago suburb o f Wheeling

Over the nex t 32 years T ay lo r treated cats and dogs for three generatio ns o f some famili es who came to know him

Mac 52 grad honored

Jean Steck Ie Mac 52 is a leader in he r fi e ld of household science an innovator and a humanita ri an - adm irable qualifi cations fo r the A lumnus of Ho nour award presented to her during Alumni W eekend 1993

Steckles role at the forefro nt of househo ld science began in 1948 when she enro lled in the first deg ree class a t Macdonald Institute She went on to earn graduate deg rees at Cornell Univershysity and the University of Reading in England then began a distin gui shed caree r that led her to affect th e lives of many people parti cularl y in West Africa and the C anadian North

Working primaril y with the Food and Agric ulture O rga nization of the United Nations she spent 18 years se rvin g the people of Wes t Afri ca developing po lic ies material s and techniq ues to imshyprove nutrition In 1976 she re turned to Can~da to work with Health and We lshyfare Canadas Indian and Northern Health Serv ices

She recogni zed the problem o f diabetes among nati ve people c haired the Natio na l Native Diabe tes Educati on Working G roup and was a key member o f the fi rs t international conference on

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diabe tes and native people in 1990 Under her direc tion one of the most th orough databases on infant-feedin g prac tices of native women was compiled

Steckle was appointed Canadian represhysentati ve to the US Administrati ve Committee on Nutrition held in Paris in 1980 and in Washington in 1987 Recogshyni zed inte rnationally for her work in Africa she has al so been recognized in Canada by the C anadian Home Ecoshynomics Association and the Assembly of First Nations

Steckle now lives in retirement on the 1 Steckle Heritage Homestead near Kitchener where she has established a children s international cultu ral centre to promote gardening crafts and pershyformin g arts among children

She was elec ted to the Gryphon Hall of Fame in 1988 to recognize her undershygraduate contributions to the estabshyli shment o f intercollegiate sports for women on campus She and her brothe r John OAC 52 sponsored a fe llows hip for graduate students in memory of their pa rents Susan Chase OAC 21 and John SteckIe OAC 20 and have donated sculptu res honoring Chase as the first fem a le gradua te of OAC and four generations o f Guelph graduates in the Steckle famil y

as a pe t s best fri end He re tired in 1990 which gave him more time to pursue his other li fes work - being the wo rld s 1110St dedicated Lion

A le tter of commendation fro m former US President George Bush tes shytifies to the significance of T a ylor s work with Lions Club Inte rna tion al He has attended meetin gs in 57 countries has a 33-year record of perfect attendshyance and is a fund rai ser ex traord inaire

Ian Taylor

Guelph Alumnus

fo r Lions projec ts inc luding an eye reshysearch cen tre at the University of Ilshylinois No wonder he was named goodwi ll ambassador by Whee ling Lions and the Town of Wheeling

OAC alumni spearhead research foundation

The OAC Alumni Foundation is lay ing the ground work fo r establ ishment of an alu mni research fo undation that wo uld take respons ibility for commercializing U of G research developments The alumni foundation will give $ 10000 a year for the nex t fi ve years to develop the new orga ni zation says chair Tom Sawyer OAC 64 and 59A

Although OAC alumni - Sawyer Bob Murray 49 Tom Cowan 51 and OAC Dean Rob McLaughlin 69 and PhD 77 - are spearhead ing the inshyiti at ive the proposed resea rch fou ndashytion wo uld be separate from the OAC Alumni Associati on and Foundation and would function as an ambassador for University-wide resea rch acti vities

The concept is modelled after a 60shyyear-old research foundation at the University of Wi sconsin which has put more th an $200 million back int o reshysearch programs on that ca mpus

Guelph alumni can look fo rward to more news on the progress of this projec t in the next few months

UGAA names first honorary member

At its annual meeti ng June 20 th e UGAA prese nted its first honorary membership to Paulette Samshyson associate direc tor of anshynua l giving and support services

Samson has PallcUe Sal7l50n

worked in Guelph s alumni office since 1974 and manages financial affa irs fo r the Alma Mater Fund the OAC Alumni Foundation and scholarship fund s She has also been a strong personal supshyporter of Guelph scholarsh ip programs

The honorary designation was made possible by rev isions to UGAA bylaws enacted in 1992

Guelph Alumnus

ALUMNI

OAC alumni support college spirit

The OAC Class of 1938 has spent $ 18000 to redecorate and furni sh a boa rdroom on the second floor of Johnston Hall to be used as a meeting place for student groups The boardroom is part of a suite that inshyc ludes a lounge area and office space for the OAC student assoc iation And the stairwe ll lead ing up to the suite has been adorned with murals painted by students from the School of Land scape Architecture

Alumni support student initiatives

Four U of G stude nt initi ati ves wil l share $ I 0000 from the Alma Mater Fund (AM F) The awa rds wiJI benefit a lale-n ight bus se rvice prov ided by the CSS student government support a helpshyand-safety hotl ine and prov ide seed money to launch an environmental theme hOll se in East Residences and a lecture seri es on leadership training

These are the first projects suppo rted by al umni through the Gordon Nixon Leadership Award es tab lished by the AMF to honor Ni xon for hi s longtime in volvement with the University A 1937 gradu ate of OAC Nixon is honorary chair of the A MF

Chapter news

The first alumni gathering ever held in Victoria BC attracted 50 Guelph alumni to an eveni ng reception June 15 The event was hosted by Stephen Burchert HAFA 79 at Somerset House a se niors res idence where he is general manager Among the alumni atshytend ing were fonner OVC dean Trevor Lloyd Jones OVC 34 and Evelyn Williams Arts 73 fonn er pres iden t of the College of Arts Alumni Association

The Edmonton chapter held a barbec ue June 26 The event was organized and hosted by Paul Valentine OAC 67 and MSc 69 and his wife Anne (Baker) CBS 69

The Ottawa-Carleton alumni chapte r hosts a mi xed bridge eve ry yea r beshytween September and April The 1993 shyJ994 season wiJl begin Sept 25 with a 6 pm potluck at the Kingsway United

Brenda Warson FACS 87 incoming prlsishydll1I oflhe Moc-FACS Aumni AssociOlioll fjt accepls IiiI gmc li-o1 rei iring presi shydenl Chery (Grf(nels) BeITI FACS 86

Church Hall 630 Is land Park Dr at the Queensway Couples singles and players of all leve ls are welcome To RSVP ca ll Marga ret and John McGowa n at 6 13-828-7038

UGAA report

At the UGAA an nual meeting in June Ric Jordan CSS 75 was elec ted to a second term as chair His report ou tlines the organiza ti on s current programs and future plans ([( The UGAA has establi shed a volunshy

teer award to recognize the con tribushytions of alumn i The first presenshytation wi ll be made in April 1994

1amp In June the UGAA he ld a strltltegicshyplanning works hop attended by retir shying and incoming boards Thi s is the beginning of an ongoing planning process to map out the associl tions fu ture acti v i ties

neil Landscape arc hitecture professor Cece li a Paine in co-operation with the UGAA the Department of Physi shyca l Resources and the OAC dean s office will cond uct a su rvey of alum shy shyni to identi fy places of historic and nosta lgic va lue on campus

11if College and sc hool assoc iations report an increase in membershi p partly due to the COl1proluariol1s packages handed out by alu mni I t convoca tion

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r Alumni continue to be represented on the University Senate Board of Governors and the University Centre

CHART YOUR NEXT MOVE

ALUMNI

board And new this year Janice Partlow Arts 70 is rep resenting alumni on the Universitys commitshytee on academic restructuring

Active alumni meet

Alumni-in-Action volunteers met U of Gs new presid ent Mordechai Rozanski at their annual meeting last spring A lumni are the bedrock of an

institution sa id Rozanski You ve made us proud by your success and we owe it to you to continue to build thi s institution further

Spec ial guest Herbert Axelrod DSc 78 spoke about hi s adventures as an explorer in Brazil and the di scovery of I I O-mi lIion-year-old fish fossils He donated many of those fossil s to the University in 1989 and has continued to support development of the Ichthyology Institute 0

Alumni Career Planning Weekend Workshop November 12 13 amp 14 1993

~ The Program This highly successful workshop dcveloped by Dr Sharon Crozier University Counselling Services University of Calgary is the first step for an a lumnus who is considering a career move Discussion structured exercises and experiential activities will lead alumni to gain insight into a personal careerlifestyle analysis and assessment career information resources networking skills and much more

The Wcekend Workshop [Friday evening through Sunday afternoon) will be facilitated by professional counsellors from the University of Guelph Counselling and Student Resource Centre

No matter what their agc career stage or reason for transition each participan t will find this workshop to be an excellent opportunity to devclop a pe rsonal action plan shyand chart their ncxt move

~ Pre-Testing In order to provide individualizcd carecr information rcgistran ts arc requircd to attend one of two pre -testi ng sessions The Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory and thc Myers-Briggs Type Indicator will be administc rcd and rcsults tabulated prior to the workshop Pre-testing dates arc as follows

Toronto Wedncsday October 13 1993 700-830 pm Guelph Thursday October 21 1993 700-830 pm

Pre -test locations will be confirmed at registration

~ Fee The registration fec of $225 includes administration a nd tabul ation of the Strong-Campbell Interest Inve ntory a nd the Mycrs-Briggs Type Indicator materials two lunches and rcfrcshmen t brcaks

Tuition fees in cxeess of $100 are income tax dcductible

Enrolment is limited Rcgister early

Sponsored by University oj Guelph Alumni Association

REGISTRATION FORM ~ Alumni Career Planning Weekend Workshop o Regi ster me for the Alumni Career Planning Weekend Workshop Nove mber 12-14 1993

o [ am inlcres ted in allending lhis workshop but am unabk to attend on the date offered Please inform me of future workshops

Name __________________________________________________________ ___

Col lege _ _ ______________________________ Graduation Year _______ _

Address

__________________________ ~s~~de _______________Ciry

Home Telephone _______________ Business Telephone ________________

(IIrrent emplo) nem Sta IUS fu llmiddottime [J pan-lime 0 unemployed u

I will alend the premiddottes ting dale Toronto 0 Guelph 0

Register by mail telephone or racsimik Office or Con tinu ing Education 160 J ohnstOn Hajj UnIversity ofCuelph Guelph Onta rio NIG 2WI Teiephone 1519) 824middot4 120 Facsimileo [5 19) 767 ~ 114

Ac(om mudalJon inform ation will he sent to al l regsu-ants

2) Cuelph Aillmnus

Method of Payment MasterClrd 0 Visa 0 Cheque 0 (Please rnake cheque payable LO the Universiry or Guelph)

Card No _ ___________

Expiry Dale ___________ _

sigoawre -------------- shy

UNIVEO SITY 1 ~9flGUELPH

UofG

was hersecondcholce

deli lie (McKinney) Misener Mac 6K adshy

A miis that Guelph wan t hr fir t choice for un iversity - she really wanted to ~tudy math at the nier ity of Western Ontario ~ bUllhe s k ills she leamed inGuelph s fUlJ1ily studies program are today the basis

()f her $2-million-a-year business M isener is pre ldent o r JOT (Job Oriented T raining Inc ) in Fredericton B a company t hat caters to the needs of school dropouts Slarted in 198910T

was the quickes t route Misener could find 10 tu m her ideas into practical proorams She was w orkshying for the John Howard Society developing proshygnlms for young offendshyers when she decided to start he r own vocational school that would com- bine life skiUs w ith job lrairiing I landed a small contr~ct for a baking COUfje It the Legion and took o ff from there s h says Hercompany offers training programs in baking and food service and JOT employs 15

people who feed 250 ITlilitary personnel daily under a military contract

You can upgrade your elementaryor secondary schooi educ~ltion with JOT Of leam English as a second language It offers trade programs in eve ry shything from we lding und

coming a home economics teacher Todaythe University plays a big role in the 11crilOries

she shares with her husband IerryOAC 08 and M c 69 After they were married AJeline taught 111 Gue lph While Jeny finished his inlster sdegree They moved to FrederictOli in 1969 when Jerry accepted i research p()si~ ti on with Agriculture Canadabutlaler lived in Ul iilOis illld Michiganwhile hecompleted doctoral iildpos tt1oltWral work EVeimiddotywhcnithcy

went AdClin ~ ke pi teachshying

[nNew Brunswick she w~s the milk lilarkdilig board sM ilk Ladf for 10 years anu wtis the first lu - derlf from IheUnivcrsity or New Brunswick l Facuity of Ed ucilti llll 16 cOJllpie te a masters degrce in horn~

ecollolnicsThats wheri he real ized that honic economics should be plac~~ ing rnore emphasis on life skills and less on leltldlil)l the bas ic skills middotOieof th~ lIndedying prill~ipres of JOT is that employable people are those wroc anmiddot seilthemselves as we ll as their skills

JeiTY is still with AgriCiil- t11fe Canada utn ies(arch station in Fredericton His work invorves harlcsiing and storage research and de~elopll~cnt andl1a~ lcd

The Mis(wramiy hack row eJi to right VIIollica Ierry (ltIl him into iillernatioilltil col ~ Adeline Ont O il drllIglltcr-in-ol Jil(v with Ielsilta CaUlan middot laboration 1ith sci~nlisI S llandBecky

carp ntry to auto-body repair and uphol stery Computer irai ning cour es f()Ipeople with d i abilities tour ism and hospitality programs and workshops in communication and management kills round Qutthe repertoire

Born in Ire lmid Misener grew lip on Olilario ~ Bruce Peninsulll the daug hter of a Presbyterian minister Her pu ntS per uadeclher to come to Gu lph because it was the school that accepted her into residencefor her fin year Her difappointment a l not bing to Wetern was

short-lived because he soon hitched on to the idea of be-

Russia BrazilPeru Britain the Ncthcrlands

and can~linavia Hes abo pUlt cif the JOT team as ~ re middot tWo ofrhe Misenerchildren Orrll1ait and VeroniGL Daughter Becky is inscriior public sciJool

JOT has 45 employees who lcachresearch devdopand market the (ompany s progntl11s One of Ihe mO-r SiICCCSSshyfuLvenures to dateis~1 computer program called lath Made Easy Developed wi~h lhehclp of UN B educl1 iOli e x - pert it teaches basic math skill s and is the Hagship proc gn-tmthat w iU soon e xpand JOT into Qtiler Canadw rl provinces iuys Adelilie n

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27Guelph Alumnus

fo r Lions projec ts inc luding an eye reshysearch cen tre at the University of Ilshylinois No wonder he was named goodwi ll ambassador by Whee ling Lions and the Town of Wheeling

OAC alumni spearhead research foundation

The OAC Alumni Foundation is lay ing the ground work fo r establ ishment of an alu mni research fo undation that wo uld take respons ibility for commercializing U of G research developments The alumni foundation will give $ 10000 a year for the nex t fi ve years to develop the new orga ni zation says chair Tom Sawyer OAC 64 and 59A

Although OAC alumni - Sawyer Bob Murray 49 Tom Cowan 51 and OAC Dean Rob McLaughlin 69 and PhD 77 - are spearhead ing the inshyiti at ive the proposed resea rch fou ndashytion wo uld be separate from the OAC Alumni Associati on and Foundation and would function as an ambassador for University-wide resea rch acti vities

The concept is modelled after a 60shyyear-old research foundation at the University of Wi sconsin which has put more th an $200 million back int o reshysearch programs on that ca mpus

Guelph alumni can look fo rward to more news on the progress of this projec t in the next few months

UGAA names first honorary member

At its annual meeti ng June 20 th e UGAA prese nted its first honorary membership to Paulette Samshyson associate direc tor of anshynua l giving and support services

Samson has PallcUe Sal7l50n

worked in Guelph s alumni office since 1974 and manages financial affa irs fo r the Alma Mater Fund the OAC Alumni Foundation and scholarship fund s She has also been a strong personal supshyporter of Guelph scholarsh ip programs

The honorary designation was made possible by rev isions to UGAA bylaws enacted in 1992

Guelph Alumnus

ALUMNI

OAC alumni support college spirit

The OAC Class of 1938 has spent $ 18000 to redecorate and furni sh a boa rdroom on the second floor of Johnston Hall to be used as a meeting place for student groups The boardroom is part of a suite that inshyc ludes a lounge area and office space for the OAC student assoc iation And the stairwe ll lead ing up to the suite has been adorned with murals painted by students from the School of Land scape Architecture

Alumni support student initiatives

Four U of G stude nt initi ati ves wil l share $ I 0000 from the Alma Mater Fund (AM F) The awa rds wiJI benefit a lale-n ight bus se rvice prov ided by the CSS student government support a helpshyand-safety hotl ine and prov ide seed money to launch an environmental theme hOll se in East Residences and a lecture seri es on leadership training

These are the first projects suppo rted by al umni through the Gordon Nixon Leadership Award es tab lished by the AMF to honor Ni xon for hi s longtime in volvement with the University A 1937 gradu ate of OAC Nixon is honorary chair of the A MF

Chapter news

The first alumni gathering ever held in Victoria BC attracted 50 Guelph alumni to an eveni ng reception June 15 The event was hosted by Stephen Burchert HAFA 79 at Somerset House a se niors res idence where he is general manager Among the alumni atshytend ing were fonner OVC dean Trevor Lloyd Jones OVC 34 and Evelyn Williams Arts 73 fonn er pres iden t of the College of Arts Alumni Association

The Edmonton chapter held a barbec ue June 26 The event was organized and hosted by Paul Valentine OAC 67 and MSc 69 and his wife Anne (Baker) CBS 69

The Ottawa-Carleton alumni chapte r hosts a mi xed bridge eve ry yea r beshytween September and April The 1993 shyJ994 season wiJl begin Sept 25 with a 6 pm potluck at the Kingsway United

Brenda Warson FACS 87 incoming prlsishydll1I oflhe Moc-FACS Aumni AssociOlioll fjt accepls IiiI gmc li-o1 rei iring presi shydenl Chery (Grf(nels) BeITI FACS 86

Church Hall 630 Is land Park Dr at the Queensway Couples singles and players of all leve ls are welcome To RSVP ca ll Marga ret and John McGowa n at 6 13-828-7038

UGAA report

At the UGAA an nual meeting in June Ric Jordan CSS 75 was elec ted to a second term as chair His report ou tlines the organiza ti on s current programs and future plans ([( The UGAA has establi shed a volunshy

teer award to recognize the con tribushytions of alumn i The first presenshytation wi ll be made in April 1994

1amp In June the UGAA he ld a strltltegicshyplanning works hop attended by retir shying and incoming boards Thi s is the beginning of an ongoing planning process to map out the associl tions fu ture acti v i ties

neil Landscape arc hitecture professor Cece li a Paine in co-operation with the UGAA the Department of Physi shyca l Resources and the OAC dean s office will cond uct a su rvey of alum shy shyni to identi fy places of historic and nosta lgic va lue on campus

11if College and sc hool assoc iations report an increase in membershi p partly due to the COl1proluariol1s packages handed out by alu mni I t convoca tion

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r Alumni continue to be represented on the University Senate Board of Governors and the University Centre

CHART YOUR NEXT MOVE

ALUMNI

board And new this year Janice Partlow Arts 70 is rep resenting alumni on the Universitys commitshytee on academic restructuring

Active alumni meet

Alumni-in-Action volunteers met U of Gs new presid ent Mordechai Rozanski at their annual meeting last spring A lumni are the bedrock of an

institution sa id Rozanski You ve made us proud by your success and we owe it to you to continue to build thi s institution further

Spec ial guest Herbert Axelrod DSc 78 spoke about hi s adventures as an explorer in Brazil and the di scovery of I I O-mi lIion-year-old fish fossils He donated many of those fossil s to the University in 1989 and has continued to support development of the Ichthyology Institute 0

Alumni Career Planning Weekend Workshop November 12 13 amp 14 1993

~ The Program This highly successful workshop dcveloped by Dr Sharon Crozier University Counselling Services University of Calgary is the first step for an a lumnus who is considering a career move Discussion structured exercises and experiential activities will lead alumni to gain insight into a personal careerlifestyle analysis and assessment career information resources networking skills and much more

The Wcekend Workshop [Friday evening through Sunday afternoon) will be facilitated by professional counsellors from the University of Guelph Counselling and Student Resource Centre

No matter what their agc career stage or reason for transition each participan t will find this workshop to be an excellent opportunity to devclop a pe rsonal action plan shyand chart their ncxt move

~ Pre-Testing In order to provide individualizcd carecr information rcgistran ts arc requircd to attend one of two pre -testi ng sessions The Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory and thc Myers-Briggs Type Indicator will be administc rcd and rcsults tabulated prior to the workshop Pre-testing dates arc as follows

Toronto Wedncsday October 13 1993 700-830 pm Guelph Thursday October 21 1993 700-830 pm

Pre -test locations will be confirmed at registration

~ Fee The registration fec of $225 includes administration a nd tabul ation of the Strong-Campbell Interest Inve ntory a nd the Mycrs-Briggs Type Indicator materials two lunches and rcfrcshmen t brcaks

Tuition fees in cxeess of $100 are income tax dcductible

Enrolment is limited Rcgister early

Sponsored by University oj Guelph Alumni Association

REGISTRATION FORM ~ Alumni Career Planning Weekend Workshop o Regi ster me for the Alumni Career Planning Weekend Workshop Nove mber 12-14 1993

o [ am inlcres ted in allending lhis workshop but am unabk to attend on the date offered Please inform me of future workshops

Name __________________________________________________________ ___

Col lege _ _ ______________________________ Graduation Year _______ _

Address

__________________________ ~s~~de _______________Ciry

Home Telephone _______________ Business Telephone ________________

(IIrrent emplo) nem Sta IUS fu llmiddottime [J pan-lime 0 unemployed u

I will alend the premiddottes ting dale Toronto 0 Guelph 0

Register by mail telephone or racsimik Office or Con tinu ing Education 160 J ohnstOn Hajj UnIversity ofCuelph Guelph Onta rio NIG 2WI Teiephone 1519) 824middot4 120 Facsimileo [5 19) 767 ~ 114

Ac(om mudalJon inform ation will he sent to al l regsu-ants

2) Cuelph Aillmnus

Method of Payment MasterClrd 0 Visa 0 Cheque 0 (Please rnake cheque payable LO the Universiry or Guelph)

Card No _ ___________

Expiry Dale ___________ _

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was hersecondcholce

deli lie (McKinney) Misener Mac 6K adshy

A miis that Guelph wan t hr fir t choice for un iversity - she really wanted to ~tudy math at the nier ity of Western Ontario ~ bUllhe s k ills she leamed inGuelph s fUlJ1ily studies program are today the basis

()f her $2-million-a-year business M isener is pre ldent o r JOT (Job Oriented T raining Inc ) in Fredericton B a company t hat caters to the needs of school dropouts Slarted in 198910T

was the quickes t route Misener could find 10 tu m her ideas into practical proorams She was w orkshying for the John Howard Society developing proshygnlms for young offendshyers when she decided to start he r own vocational school that would com- bine life skiUs w ith job lrairiing I landed a small contr~ct for a baking COUfje It the Legion and took o ff from there s h says Hercompany offers training programs in baking and food service and JOT employs 15

people who feed 250 ITlilitary personnel daily under a military contract

You can upgrade your elementaryor secondary schooi educ~ltion with JOT Of leam English as a second language It offers trade programs in eve ry shything from we lding und

coming a home economics teacher Todaythe University plays a big role in the 11crilOries

she shares with her husband IerryOAC 08 and M c 69 After they were married AJeline taught 111 Gue lph While Jeny finished his inlster sdegree They moved to FrederictOli in 1969 when Jerry accepted i research p()si~ ti on with Agriculture Canadabutlaler lived in Ul iilOis illld Michiganwhile hecompleted doctoral iildpos tt1oltWral work EVeimiddotywhcnithcy

went AdClin ~ ke pi teachshying

[nNew Brunswick she w~s the milk lilarkdilig board sM ilk Ladf for 10 years anu wtis the first lu - derlf from IheUnivcrsity or New Brunswick l Facuity of Ed ucilti llll 16 cOJllpie te a masters degrce in horn~

ecollolnicsThats wheri he real ized that honic economics should be plac~~ ing rnore emphasis on life skills and less on leltldlil)l the bas ic skills middotOieof th~ lIndedying prill~ipres of JOT is that employable people are those wroc anmiddot seilthemselves as we ll as their skills

JeiTY is still with AgriCiil- t11fe Canada utn ies(arch station in Fredericton His work invorves harlcsiing and storage research and de~elopll~cnt andl1a~ lcd

The Mis(wramiy hack row eJi to right VIIollica Ierry (ltIl him into iillernatioilltil col ~ Adeline Ont O il drllIglltcr-in-ol Jil(v with Ielsilta CaUlan middot laboration 1ith sci~nlisI S llandBecky

carp ntry to auto-body repair and uphol stery Computer irai ning cour es f()Ipeople with d i abilities tour ism and hospitality programs and workshops in communication and management kills round Qutthe repertoire

Born in Ire lmid Misener grew lip on Olilario ~ Bruce Peninsulll the daug hter of a Presbyterian minister Her pu ntS per uadeclher to come to Gu lph because it was the school that accepted her into residencefor her fin year Her difappointment a l not bing to Wetern was

short-lived because he soon hitched on to the idea of be-

Russia BrazilPeru Britain the Ncthcrlands

and can~linavia Hes abo pUlt cif the JOT team as ~ re middot tWo ofrhe Misenerchildren Orrll1ait and VeroniGL Daughter Becky is inscriior public sciJool

JOT has 45 employees who lcachresearch devdopand market the (ompany s progntl11s One of Ihe mO-r SiICCCSSshyfuLvenures to dateis~1 computer program called lath Made Easy Developed wi~h lhehclp of UN B educl1 iOli e x - pert it teaches basic math skill s and is the Hagship proc gn-tmthat w iU soon e xpand JOT into Qtiler Canadw rl provinces iuys Adelilie n

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r Alumni continue to be represented on the University Senate Board of Governors and the University Centre

CHART YOUR NEXT MOVE

ALUMNI

board And new this year Janice Partlow Arts 70 is rep resenting alumni on the Universitys commitshytee on academic restructuring

Active alumni meet

Alumni-in-Action volunteers met U of Gs new presid ent Mordechai Rozanski at their annual meeting last spring A lumni are the bedrock of an

institution sa id Rozanski You ve made us proud by your success and we owe it to you to continue to build thi s institution further

Spec ial guest Herbert Axelrod DSc 78 spoke about hi s adventures as an explorer in Brazil and the di scovery of I I O-mi lIion-year-old fish fossils He donated many of those fossil s to the University in 1989 and has continued to support development of the Ichthyology Institute 0

Alumni Career Planning Weekend Workshop November 12 13 amp 14 1993

~ The Program This highly successful workshop dcveloped by Dr Sharon Crozier University Counselling Services University of Calgary is the first step for an a lumnus who is considering a career move Discussion structured exercises and experiential activities will lead alumni to gain insight into a personal careerlifestyle analysis and assessment career information resources networking skills and much more

The Wcekend Workshop [Friday evening through Sunday afternoon) will be facilitated by professional counsellors from the University of Guelph Counselling and Student Resource Centre

No matter what their agc career stage or reason for transition each participan t will find this workshop to be an excellent opportunity to devclop a pe rsonal action plan shyand chart their ncxt move

~ Pre-Testing In order to provide individualizcd carecr information rcgistran ts arc requircd to attend one of two pre -testi ng sessions The Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory and thc Myers-Briggs Type Indicator will be administc rcd and rcsults tabulated prior to the workshop Pre-testing dates arc as follows

Toronto Wedncsday October 13 1993 700-830 pm Guelph Thursday October 21 1993 700-830 pm

Pre -test locations will be confirmed at registration

~ Fee The registration fec of $225 includes administration a nd tabul ation of the Strong-Campbell Interest Inve ntory a nd the Mycrs-Briggs Type Indicator materials two lunches and rcfrcshmen t brcaks

Tuition fees in cxeess of $100 are income tax dcductible

Enrolment is limited Rcgister early

Sponsored by University oj Guelph Alumni Association

REGISTRATION FORM ~ Alumni Career Planning Weekend Workshop o Regi ster me for the Alumni Career Planning Weekend Workshop Nove mber 12-14 1993

o [ am inlcres ted in allending lhis workshop but am unabk to attend on the date offered Please inform me of future workshops

Name __________________________________________________________ ___

Col lege _ _ ______________________________ Graduation Year _______ _

Address

__________________________ ~s~~de _______________Ciry

Home Telephone _______________ Business Telephone ________________

(IIrrent emplo) nem Sta IUS fu llmiddottime [J pan-lime 0 unemployed u

I will alend the premiddottes ting dale Toronto 0 Guelph 0

Register by mail telephone or racsimik Office or Con tinu ing Education 160 J ohnstOn Hajj UnIversity ofCuelph Guelph Onta rio NIG 2WI Teiephone 1519) 824middot4 120 Facsimileo [5 19) 767 ~ 114

Ac(om mudalJon inform ation will he sent to al l regsu-ants

2) Cuelph Aillmnus

Method of Payment MasterClrd 0 Visa 0 Cheque 0 (Please rnake cheque payable LO the Universiry or Guelph)

Card No _ ___________

Expiry Dale ___________ _

sigoawre -------------- shy

UNIVEO SITY 1 ~9flGUELPH

UofG

was hersecondcholce

deli lie (McKinney) Misener Mac 6K adshy

A miis that Guelph wan t hr fir t choice for un iversity - she really wanted to ~tudy math at the nier ity of Western Ontario ~ bUllhe s k ills she leamed inGuelph s fUlJ1ily studies program are today the basis

()f her $2-million-a-year business M isener is pre ldent o r JOT (Job Oriented T raining Inc ) in Fredericton B a company t hat caters to the needs of school dropouts Slarted in 198910T

was the quickes t route Misener could find 10 tu m her ideas into practical proorams She was w orkshying for the John Howard Society developing proshygnlms for young offendshyers when she decided to start he r own vocational school that would com- bine life skiUs w ith job lrairiing I landed a small contr~ct for a baking COUfje It the Legion and took o ff from there s h says Hercompany offers training programs in baking and food service and JOT employs 15

people who feed 250 ITlilitary personnel daily under a military contract

You can upgrade your elementaryor secondary schooi educ~ltion with JOT Of leam English as a second language It offers trade programs in eve ry shything from we lding und

coming a home economics teacher Todaythe University plays a big role in the 11crilOries

she shares with her husband IerryOAC 08 and M c 69 After they were married AJeline taught 111 Gue lph While Jeny finished his inlster sdegree They moved to FrederictOli in 1969 when Jerry accepted i research p()si~ ti on with Agriculture Canadabutlaler lived in Ul iilOis illld Michiganwhile hecompleted doctoral iildpos tt1oltWral work EVeimiddotywhcnithcy

went AdClin ~ ke pi teachshying

[nNew Brunswick she w~s the milk lilarkdilig board sM ilk Ladf for 10 years anu wtis the first lu - derlf from IheUnivcrsity or New Brunswick l Facuity of Ed ucilti llll 16 cOJllpie te a masters degrce in horn~

ecollolnicsThats wheri he real ized that honic economics should be plac~~ ing rnore emphasis on life skills and less on leltldlil)l the bas ic skills middotOieof th~ lIndedying prill~ipres of JOT is that employable people are those wroc anmiddot seilthemselves as we ll as their skills

JeiTY is still with AgriCiil- t11fe Canada utn ies(arch station in Fredericton His work invorves harlcsiing and storage research and de~elopll~cnt andl1a~ lcd

The Mis(wramiy hack row eJi to right VIIollica Ierry (ltIl him into iillernatioilltil col ~ Adeline Ont O il drllIglltcr-in-ol Jil(v with Ielsilta CaUlan middot laboration 1ith sci~nlisI S llandBecky

carp ntry to auto-body repair and uphol stery Computer irai ning cour es f()Ipeople with d i abilities tour ism and hospitality programs and workshops in communication and management kills round Qutthe repertoire

Born in Ire lmid Misener grew lip on Olilario ~ Bruce Peninsulll the daug hter of a Presbyterian minister Her pu ntS per uadeclher to come to Gu lph because it was the school that accepted her into residencefor her fin year Her difappointment a l not bing to Wetern was

short-lived because he soon hitched on to the idea of be-

Russia BrazilPeru Britain the Ncthcrlands

and can~linavia Hes abo pUlt cif the JOT team as ~ re middot tWo ofrhe Misenerchildren Orrll1ait and VeroniGL Daughter Becky is inscriior public sciJool

JOT has 45 employees who lcachresearch devdopand market the (ompany s progntl11s One of Ihe mO-r SiICCCSSshyfuLvenures to dateis~1 computer program called lath Made Easy Developed wi~h lhehclp of UN B educl1 iOli e x - pert it teaches basic math skill s and is the Hagship proc gn-tmthat w iU soon e xpand JOT into Qtiler Canadw rl provinces iuys Adelilie n

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UofG

was hersecondcholce

deli lie (McKinney) Misener Mac 6K adshy

A miis that Guelph wan t hr fir t choice for un iversity - she really wanted to ~tudy math at the nier ity of Western Ontario ~ bUllhe s k ills she leamed inGuelph s fUlJ1ily studies program are today the basis

()f her $2-million-a-year business M isener is pre ldent o r JOT (Job Oriented T raining Inc ) in Fredericton B a company t hat caters to the needs of school dropouts Slarted in 198910T

was the quickes t route Misener could find 10 tu m her ideas into practical proorams She was w orkshying for the John Howard Society developing proshygnlms for young offendshyers when she decided to start he r own vocational school that would com- bine life skiUs w ith job lrairiing I landed a small contr~ct for a baking COUfje It the Legion and took o ff from there s h says Hercompany offers training programs in baking and food service and JOT employs 15

people who feed 250 ITlilitary personnel daily under a military contract

You can upgrade your elementaryor secondary schooi educ~ltion with JOT Of leam English as a second language It offers trade programs in eve ry shything from we lding und

coming a home economics teacher Todaythe University plays a big role in the 11crilOries

she shares with her husband IerryOAC 08 and M c 69 After they were married AJeline taught 111 Gue lph While Jeny finished his inlster sdegree They moved to FrederictOli in 1969 when Jerry accepted i research p()si~ ti on with Agriculture Canadabutlaler lived in Ul iilOis illld Michiganwhile hecompleted doctoral iildpos tt1oltWral work EVeimiddotywhcnithcy

went AdClin ~ ke pi teachshying

[nNew Brunswick she w~s the milk lilarkdilig board sM ilk Ladf for 10 years anu wtis the first lu - derlf from IheUnivcrsity or New Brunswick l Facuity of Ed ucilti llll 16 cOJllpie te a masters degrce in horn~

ecollolnicsThats wheri he real ized that honic economics should be plac~~ ing rnore emphasis on life skills and less on leltldlil)l the bas ic skills middotOieof th~ lIndedying prill~ipres of JOT is that employable people are those wroc anmiddot seilthemselves as we ll as their skills

JeiTY is still with AgriCiil- t11fe Canada utn ies(arch station in Fredericton His work invorves harlcsiing and storage research and de~elopll~cnt andl1a~ lcd

The Mis(wramiy hack row eJi to right VIIollica Ierry (ltIl him into iillernatioilltil col ~ Adeline Ont O il drllIglltcr-in-ol Jil(v with Ielsilta CaUlan middot laboration 1ith sci~nlisI S llandBecky

carp ntry to auto-body repair and uphol stery Computer irai ning cour es f()Ipeople with d i abilities tour ism and hospitality programs and workshops in communication and management kills round Qutthe repertoire

Born in Ire lmid Misener grew lip on Olilario ~ Bruce Peninsulll the daug hter of a Presbyterian minister Her pu ntS per uadeclher to come to Gu lph because it was the school that accepted her into residencefor her fin year Her difappointment a l not bing to Wetern was

short-lived because he soon hitched on to the idea of be-

Russia BrazilPeru Britain the Ncthcrlands

and can~linavia Hes abo pUlt cif the JOT team as ~ re middot tWo ofrhe Misenerchildren Orrll1ait and VeroniGL Daughter Becky is inscriior public sciJool

JOT has 45 employees who lcachresearch devdopand market the (ompany s progntl11s One of Ihe mO-r SiICCCSSshyfuLvenures to dateis~1 computer program called lath Made Easy Developed wi~h lhehclp of UN B educl1 iOli e x - pert it teaches basic math skill s and is the Hagship proc gn-tmthat w iU soon e xpand JOT into Qtiler Canadw rl provinces iuys Adelilie n

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Show your spirit

Join your fellow alumni at the SkyshyDome and see yourself on the

JUMBOTRON during the Vanie r Cup Parade or Colors Nov 20 3 pm

Mee t Gryphon football coaching sta ff and wave the Gue lph colors

For information call Alumni House 51 9-824-41 20 Ex t 2 122

To order ticke ts ca ll the Vanie r Cup Hotl ine 416-288-9546

Alumni build kiosk

The Arbore tum is sportin g a new in forshymation kiosk built with funds from the Alma Mater Fund Locilted at the Arshyboretum entrance the kiosk is open from 830 am to 8 pm seven days a wee k Stop by on your next visit to get

r informati on on current ac tiviti es programs and seasonal highlights on the grounds

In addition to its regular Sunday aftershynoon fa mily walks the Arboretum has scheduled the following workshops for fall 1993 Ferns of Ontario Sept 15 Restoration and Grow in g of Native Plants from Seed Sept 14 J 621 or 25 Gourmet Delights for Birds Oct 20 and Practical Home Gardening Dec I amp 2 Ca ll 5 19-824-4120 Ext 2 113 for info rm at ion on workshop fees and times

Check the attic

( College Royal w ill celebrate its 70th anshyniversary in 1994 and its popular

fashion show will be 40 yea rs old The College Royal co mmittee is planning a retrospec tive fa sh ion show to depict clothing worn on campus in the Jast 70 years If you have fo rmal wear sc hool wear or athletic uniforms th at you cou ld lend for th e fashion sho w call College Royal pres ident Karen Doug laS at 519shy766-4 146 o r write to the Coll ege Royal offi ce Box 4153 Unive rsity Centre Univers ity of Guelph Guelph Ontario NIG 2WI

Be a mentor

The Engineerin g Alumni Association is developing a mentor program that will pair rece nt graduates with a lumni who have IS or more years of professional ex pe rience If you re one of those exshyperienced alumni ca ll Jim Feilders Eng 70 for more info rmati on at 416shy225-864 1

COMING EVENTS Aug 18 to Sept 6 - Watch for a U of

G display at the CNE in Toronto and learn all about nutritional pizza

Sept 16 - Canadian University Night in Milan Italy Call Trish Walker at Alumni House 519-824-4120 Ext 2122 for details in Italy call Leonarshydo OGrady 39-2-809816

Sept 17 - OAC alumni annual golf tournament Victoria West Golf Club in Guelph To register call 519-824shy4120 Ext 6533

Sept 18 - OVCs Pet Trust SupershyMatch dog show will be held on colshylege grounds - 700 show dogs demonstrations by professional groups free clinics for eyes skin blood and heart For information call the SuperMatch Hotline at 519-824shy4120 Exl 6880

Sept 26 - First Sunday in the Arboshyretums fall and winter program of family nature walks 2 pm free Topics for the 199394 season inshyclude creepy crawlies autumns rainshybow seeds for survival and paw prints and tail trails Call 519-824-4120 Ext 2133 for complete details

Sept 30 - New student barbecue kicks off Homecoming 530 pm Alumni House patio sponsored by the UGAA and Student Alumni Asshysociation

Oct 1 to 3 - HOMECOMING Friday Hall of Fame dinner 6 pm

tickets $50 (includes $25 tax-deductshyible receipt) call 519-824-4120 Ext 6133

Inner tube water polo tournament 6 to 9 pm $20 registration per team call Ext 2160

Saturday Alumni Welcome Wagon all day in the UC courtyard

Alumni swim meet and brunch 9 am to 2 pm call Alan Fairweather Ext 2220 to register

Human Kinetics Alumni Association anshynual meeting 9 am Human Biology faculty lounge

Engineering Alumni Association annual meeting 10 am Thornbrough 100

Pool opening with 1984 Olympic gold medallist Anne Ottenbrite 11 am

Inner tube water polo tournament noon to 2 pm

Mills Hall reunion barbecue noon call Brad Whittich at Ext 77825 for inforshymalion

Walking parade gather at noon on Johnston Green ends at the stadium at 2 pm

Gryphons vs Windsor Lancers 2 pm Alumni Stadium Get tickets in adshyvance for student price of $3 each at Alumni House or Welcome Wagon

Coffee and cocktails at the Faculty Club UC from 330 to 6 pm

HAFA 82 reunion barbecue 4 pm at Alumni House call Ext 2102 to register

Homecoming dance 9 pm PCH tickshyets $5 social 9 pm Athletics tickets $10

Sunday Post-Homecoming fun at the new gold pool 11 am to 1pm family swim free

Oct 3 - Bonsai Show at the Arshyboretum Centre 11 am to 4 pm Bonsai displays and demonstrations ch ildren s workshops Japanese music Ikebana (flower arranging) Shiatsu (massage) laido (swordsshymanship) and Koi fish demonstrashytions sales area $4 adult $2 children

Oct 7 - Bonnie Beaver of the College of Veterinary Medicine Texas A amp M will give an insiders perspective on animal behavior at OVCs annual Schofield Memorial Lecture 3 pm

Oct 7 - Career Fair at U of G 10 am to 3 pm University Centre open to everyone

Oct 12 - A ceremony to rename the Human Biology Building in honor of retired professor John Powell will be held on site at 4 15 pm Everyone welcome

Nov 9 to 20 - Meet U of G faculty and staff during the Royal Agricultural Fair in Toronto U of Gs display will be in the East Annex of the Coliseum in Knobhill Lanes

Nov 12 to 14 - Alumni Career Development Workshop See page 22 for details or call 519-824-4120 Ext 3956

Nov 18to 21-FairNovember a craft show and sale in the UC Open Thursday and Friday 10 am to 9 pm Saturday till 6 pm and Sunday 11 am to 5 pm Free admission

Nov 20 - Join other U of G grads at the SkyDome for the 1993 Vanier Cup Call 519-824-4120 Ext 2122 to join the Guelph Parade of Colors For tickets call the Vanier Cup Hotline at 416-288-9546

Nov 30 - Deadline for submission of Scottish papers for the Watson Memorial Prize in Scottish Studies For details see story on page 5

Dec 3 to 5 - U of G alumni hockey tournament To register a team call Brian Tapscott OAC 81 at 519shy767-3566

March 2 - Florida Picnic North Port Yacht Club 11 am For details call Sue Lawrenson at Alumni House 519-824-4120 Ext 6963

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Arts

Flor Maria Buitrago 88 has left the faculshyty of Washburn University in Topeka Kan to teac h at La fayette College in Easton Pa She and her husba nd George are e njoying living in the east

Lynne Jordon 79 is chief librarian at the public library in Kingston Ont

Shari Ann (Clarke) Wortel 82 shares some enshycouraging news for alumni who are conshysidering returning to

~ school for an adshyvanced degree She graduated thi s -bull ~ spring with an MBA from the

Shari Ann Worfel University of Western Ontario

and moved in July with her husband Rene to Kreu zlingen Switzerland There Wortel is working in a management position with a heav y-vehicle manufacturer My main duties involve acti ng as a liaison between the compa ny and its suppliers in France and Engshyland as we ll as he lping to restructure and develop the documentation department

Worre l had worked in severa l jobs some unre lated to her fine art degree and fi nally as a technical illustrator at General Motors in London Ont I eventuall y decided tha t I didnt want to turn into one of those ilshylustrators I saw sitting next to me who had been do ing the exact same job for 35 years So she went back to sc hool

While work ing for GM again last sum mer she was sent overseas fo r a training sessi on and used the 0ppOllunity to make business contact s that eventually led to the pos ition in Switzerland

I would like to tell my fe llow a lumni who may be cons idering a ca reer change that returning to schoo l can be a ve ry small move It doesnt matter how long one has been away from sc hool the mindset and disshyc ipli ne come back very quickly A new deshygree can change a career path in a frac tion of the time it would take to do so by corporate climbing or job hopping It is also a wondershyful break from the real world to meet new friends and challenge ones mind academ ica lshyIyagain

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Kyle Cachagee 89 has been working in Chapleau Ont since graduation as a consershyvation officer for the Ministry of Nat ural Reshysources He writes that he is soon to marry and that he misses his time spent at Guelph - the social atmosphere not the homework

Guelph Alumns

Rick Cawthorn 73 MSc 76 and PhD 79 is a professor of parasitology in the Atshylant ic Veterinary College at the Ullversity of PE1 Hi s wife Els is a veterinarian and reshysearc h scienti st at the univers ity They ha ve two so ns Thomas and Bryan and are avid outdoor people who enjoy living in Atlantic Canada

Michael Connor 91 has completed an MSc at York Universi ty and will begin PhD studies in biology there this fall

Kevin Ferguson 80 and his wife Suzanne announce the arrival of the ir second daughter Megan Jan 22 1993 Their o lder daughter is named Ca itlin The family li ves on a small farm near Aylmer Ont Kevin is si te manager of the Elgin County Outdoor Education Centre and Suzanne is an e lementary school teacher

David Galbraith 82 and MSc 86 was recently named director of the Centre fo r Enshydangered Reptiles in G ranby Que Formerly known as the Reptile Breeding Foundation the centre moved from Picton Ont to Granshy

by in 1992 It is dedicated to capti ve breedshying conservation and educ ation abollt en shydangered rept iles and amphibian s

Before the move to Granby Galbraith spen t two years in England on a NATO postdoctoral research fellowship at the Durshyrell Institute of Conservation and Eco logy at the University of Kent There he worked on the population eco logy and gene ti cs of torshytoi ses and taught conservation biology

Karen Johnson 9 1 says that a lthough he r degree in human kineti cs didn tl and her a job it di d prepare her for her current studies in pros the tics and orthot ics at thc BC Inshystitute of Technology

Vicky Johnston 84 moved to Ye lshylowknife NWTj ust over a year ago to work as a habitat bi ologis t for the Canadian Wildlife Service She says it s an ex citing job with fic ld work in the Arctic and a chance to work with Inuit in the new te rshyritory of Nunavut I am keen to fi nd out if any of my G ue lph classmates are living in the Northwest Territories or Yukon Write to me at Box 637 Yellowkni fe X JA 2NS

Zavitz Hall studio produces winning sculpture

While studying for a BA al Guelph Charles Courville designed a ~culpture called Reillshyrenting The Whpoundel that was selected as the 1990 finalisl in a three-year competition SPOIlshy

sored hy the Toronto Sculpture Garden amed grand wilUler of the competition in 1993 Courvilles piece was on display in Toronto over the summer

The 25-foot sculpture is reminiscent of a tumbleweed rolling along picking up bit of debris in tlle wind In fact the sculpture is made of debris - wire willow twigs rags and plastic - woven together to make people rerhink their abuse of the land In time says Courville part of the sculpture would biodegrade leaving behind the wire and plastic aigt a stark reminder that we hllvc not found a way to conserve and recycle our precious resources

A graduate of the Ontario Colltge of Art COUlvilie has done some Leaching in his home town of Sudbury since leaving Guelph has worked as a stockbro-er and has set up a studio in Toronto He ill now con~idering a move to the United States to earn a masters degree in art Another Guelph student Ruthanne Henry wa~ recently named 1993 finalist in the Odelle Student Competition

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Douglas LOllcks 75 recently received a maste r of divinity from the University of Toronto Hc and his wi fe Janet Art s 76 and their family moved to South River Onl during the summer

Tara-L)11 McCready 93 is enroll ed in a PhD program in biochemistry at the Univershys ity of Alberta in Edmonton I enJoy graduate studies she says and jve nlet many other graduates of Guelph here

Janis Milliken n eamed a DVM from the Atlantic Veterinary College in PEI in 199 1 and is now completin g graduate work at Lo ui siana State University in Baton Rouge ]11 be here until Jul y 1995 completing a combined residency in thcriogenology and a masters in epidemi o logy she says

Samuel Nsembulltya-Ka turlttmu MSc 711 returned to his native Uga nda after gladuashytion to work as a fi she ries bio log ist From 1979 to 199 he was in charge of lakes George and Ed ward in western Uga nda having rcplaced the late MM Male CBS 76 In 1989 Nsembukya-Katuramu was hospitalized beca usc of diabetes and has since lost his sight He is now enrolled in a retrain ing prog mm sponsored by the Roya l Commonwealth Society for the Blind But he says the society I ike th e fisheries deparrshyment in Ugand a is seve rely short of funding and has made a public ap peal fo r aid to supshyPOl1 Nse mb ukya-Katuramu s training

He hopes to return to a productive life and once again support his family He would also like to publi sh a scientific revi ew - comshypleted some years ago - on the fi sheries of lakes George and Edward The two lakes present a challenge to fi sheries biologists beshycause of their shallowness and pollution from large herds of hippopota n1u ses he says

All of this causes a great chall enge and inshyteresting sched ule for work for a fisheries sc ien tist responsible for the conlrol and management of the lakes It requires environ shymental and biological manage ment strategies including the social and economic aspects as well as law enforcement

Classmates interes ted in lea rning more about Nsembukya-Katuramu s fi sheries review or the wo rk of the Victoria Nil e Rehabilitation Centre can write to him there at PO Box 1263 Jinja Uganda

Cindy Wright 90 li ves in Vancouver and is attendin g the Uni versity of Victori as School of Earth and Ocean Sc ience pursushying a masters degree in paleobiogeoshychemislry

CPES

Fenella Barclay 84 has earned the desigshynation of Associate of the Society of Acshytuaries by completing a series of examinations that tes t mathematical and statistica l skills underlying actuarial sc ience and their applications to technica l actuarial problems Actuaries design and evalu ate fi ana ncial programs using stat istical and economic tec hniques to ana lyse ri sk and evaluate the probabilities of future events Barclay and her hu sba nd Scott Reid OVC R7 live in Dunnville Om where he is prac shytis ing at the Dunnville Veterinary Clinic

Marshall Chipman 74 of 5t Catharines Ont is back on campus to complete an honors mathematics degree

Robert Gossage 89 is completing graduate studies in chemistry at the Univershysity of Victoria

Jain Lambert 82 is a biology professor at Ca rlet on Univ ers ity He is married to Karen (Gillespie) CSS 83

Mona Osman-Khatib 84 and MSc 89 is working for Ericsson Communications Inc in Mount Roya l Que

David Salter ~2 and OAC ~4 is supershyvisor of a United Nations development proshygram in Cambodia

CSS

Debbie Chang 82 and her husband Richard Ouellette are th e new parents of Christopher born in Dece mber 1992 Chang says she will soon return to work at the Inforshymltlt lon Man agement Corporation in Missis shysa uga Ont as a client se rvices represe ntati ve

Marjory (Rigby) Furkalo 73 says its alshyways good to hear about U ofG She li ves in Dryden Ont with her husband Dennis and thei r three ch i1dren Mel issa Sarah and Jonathan and has taught sc hool there for 16 yea rs

Andre Gaudreault 93 of Gue lph got his academic supervisors thinkin g when he recently prepared a PhD di sse rtation on the I imit of sc ience anel the problems created by the fact that scien tists are not awa re of this Iilll i t

Andrew Kissick 82 and hi s wife Barbara have found a new home in Colorado Springs Col where they both teach tennis at the Broaelmoor Hotel It s a grand old hotel with breathtaking landsca pe at the foot of the Cheyenne Mountains says Ki ss ick wh o is al so a financial anal yst

Fisheries biologist nets major alumni award During lun lonvrnatton cercmonis the Utiversity 1)1 Gudph Alumni Asshysltxiatioll alankd its allnual Medal of Alhievement to John Gunn CBS PhD 17 of Sudbury Onl The award recogshyniles it gradllttc of the lut 15 years for outswnding contributions and servhe

Gunn is unit-ially employed as a r~ shysearch scilnlist with the thhcrics policy branch uf the Ontario Minitrv of

alUml Resources (0 INR) hut he cals hi net much widr thtn a single ministry Ili~ contritllltions to the siudy or acid rain and the rehabililllion of in shydustrially t1amagetl eCI1sYitcm is rccogshy lohn Gllnll lefr willi U oG CIUlIcII(Ir Lincon nied worldwide

He has worked for a number or years lin the impHlt llf acid prllipilalion on lakes and streams in the Sudbury region He dtermined rhe mechanisms by which acitl rain and adtl tlllwmtll lead to the exshytindion uf nlllive fish populltions Illd has shown how such ngltive effects can be

Alexander Photo hy Hlrh Rau~e1llr

reversed His reseanh is rClogniled around the world fllr its applicability 10 CC(l~ysshyt~mlgt t1amaged by indusllial pollutants inshycluding those in developing cOllnlrie~

Tllthc scientific community Gunn ofshyfers an example of how Io-operarivc reshy

search C1ll bring results He works with scientilts from ~everal uniVtrsities ru wdl as Iho c from fedellll and provinshycial agencies And he has forged productive relationships with indmitry local government~ and private-interest groups establishing the tirst co-operashytive unit between OM R and Laurenshytian University

Public education is an important part of Gunlls work He hilS shared the findings from his Sudbury research with the community at open house sesshyions at Slience orth He urganized an annual one-day rehabilitation wmkshop to bring together all parshyticipants involved in ecosystem reslorashytion in the Sudbury area

He is also editing a book about the Sud shybury experience that will be both a success story in restoration ecology and a manual for other municipalities and regions intershyeSled in reversing the clological effects of industrial pollutants

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Arts

Flor Maria Buitrago 88 has left the faculshyty of Washburn University in Topeka Kan to teac h at La fayette College in Easton Pa She and her husba nd George are e njoying living in the east

Lynne Jordon 79 is chief librarian at the public library in Kingston Ont

Shari Ann (Clarke) Wortel 82 shares some enshycouraging news for alumni who are conshysidering returning to

~ school for an adshyvanced degree She graduated thi s -bull ~ spring with an MBA from the

Shari Ann Worfel University of Western Ontario

and moved in July with her husband Rene to Kreu zlingen Switzerland There Wortel is working in a management position with a heav y-vehicle manufacturer My main duties involve acti ng as a liaison between the compa ny and its suppliers in France and Engshyland as we ll as he lping to restructure and develop the documentation department

Worre l had worked in severa l jobs some unre lated to her fine art degree and fi nally as a technical illustrator at General Motors in London Ont I eventuall y decided tha t I didnt want to turn into one of those ilshylustrators I saw sitting next to me who had been do ing the exact same job for 35 years So she went back to sc hool

While work ing for GM again last sum mer she was sent overseas fo r a training sessi on and used the 0ppOllunity to make business contact s that eventually led to the pos ition in Switzerland

I would like to tell my fe llow a lumni who may be cons idering a ca reer change that returning to schoo l can be a ve ry small move It doesnt matter how long one has been away from sc hool the mindset and disshyc ipli ne come back very quickly A new deshygree can change a career path in a frac tion of the time it would take to do so by corporate climbing or job hopping It is also a wondershyful break from the real world to meet new friends and challenge ones mind academ ica lshyIyagain

CBS

Kyle Cachagee 89 has been working in Chapleau Ont since graduation as a consershyvation officer for the Ministry of Nat ural Reshysources He writes that he is soon to marry and that he misses his time spent at Guelph - the social atmosphere not the homework

Guelph Alumns

Rick Cawthorn 73 MSc 76 and PhD 79 is a professor of parasitology in the Atshylant ic Veterinary College at the Ullversity of PE1 Hi s wife Els is a veterinarian and reshysearc h scienti st at the univers ity They ha ve two so ns Thomas and Bryan and are avid outdoor people who enjoy living in Atlantic Canada

Michael Connor 91 has completed an MSc at York Universi ty and will begin PhD studies in biology there this fall

Kevin Ferguson 80 and his wife Suzanne announce the arrival of the ir second daughter Megan Jan 22 1993 Their o lder daughter is named Ca itlin The family li ves on a small farm near Aylmer Ont Kevin is si te manager of the Elgin County Outdoor Education Centre and Suzanne is an e lementary school teacher

David Galbraith 82 and MSc 86 was recently named director of the Centre fo r Enshydangered Reptiles in G ranby Que Formerly known as the Reptile Breeding Foundation the centre moved from Picton Ont to Granshy

by in 1992 It is dedicated to capti ve breedshying conservation and educ ation abollt en shydangered rept iles and amphibian s

Before the move to Granby Galbraith spen t two years in England on a NATO postdoctoral research fellowship at the Durshyrell Institute of Conservation and Eco logy at the University of Kent There he worked on the population eco logy and gene ti cs of torshytoi ses and taught conservation biology

Karen Johnson 9 1 says that a lthough he r degree in human kineti cs didn tl and her a job it di d prepare her for her current studies in pros the tics and orthot ics at thc BC Inshystitute of Technology

Vicky Johnston 84 moved to Ye lshylowknife NWTj ust over a year ago to work as a habitat bi ologis t for the Canadian Wildlife Service She says it s an ex citing job with fic ld work in the Arctic and a chance to work with Inuit in the new te rshyritory of Nunavut I am keen to fi nd out if any of my G ue lph classmates are living in the Northwest Territories or Yukon Write to me at Box 637 Yellowkni fe X JA 2NS

Zavitz Hall studio produces winning sculpture

While studying for a BA al Guelph Charles Courville designed a ~culpture called Reillshyrenting The Whpoundel that was selected as the 1990 finalisl in a three-year competition SPOIlshy

sored hy the Toronto Sculpture Garden amed grand wilUler of the competition in 1993 Courvilles piece was on display in Toronto over the summer

The 25-foot sculpture is reminiscent of a tumbleweed rolling along picking up bit of debris in tlle wind In fact the sculpture is made of debris - wire willow twigs rags and plastic - woven together to make people rerhink their abuse of the land In time says Courville part of the sculpture would biodegrade leaving behind the wire and plastic aigt a stark reminder that we hllvc not found a way to conserve and recycle our precious resources

A graduate of the Ontario Colltge of Art COUlvilie has done some Leaching in his home town of Sudbury since leaving Guelph has worked as a stockbro-er and has set up a studio in Toronto He ill now con~idering a move to the United States to earn a masters degree in art Another Guelph student Ruthanne Henry wa~ recently named 1993 finalist in the Odelle Student Competition

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Douglas LOllcks 75 recently received a maste r of divinity from the University of Toronto Hc and his wi fe Janet Art s 76 and their family moved to South River Onl during the summer

Tara-L)11 McCready 93 is enroll ed in a PhD program in biochemistry at the Univershys ity of Alberta in Edmonton I enJoy graduate studies she says and jve nlet many other graduates of Guelph here

Janis Milliken n eamed a DVM from the Atlantic Veterinary College in PEI in 199 1 and is now completin g graduate work at Lo ui siana State University in Baton Rouge ]11 be here until Jul y 1995 completing a combined residency in thcriogenology and a masters in epidemi o logy she says

Samuel Nsembulltya-Ka turlttmu MSc 711 returned to his native Uga nda after gladuashytion to work as a fi she ries bio log ist From 1979 to 199 he was in charge of lakes George and Ed ward in western Uga nda having rcplaced the late MM Male CBS 76 In 1989 Nsembukya-Katuramu was hospitalized beca usc of diabetes and has since lost his sight He is now enrolled in a retrain ing prog mm sponsored by the Roya l Commonwealth Society for the Blind But he says the society I ike th e fisheries deparrshyment in Ugand a is seve rely short of funding and has made a public ap peal fo r aid to supshyPOl1 Nse mb ukya-Katuramu s training

He hopes to return to a productive life and once again support his family He would also like to publi sh a scientific revi ew - comshypleted some years ago - on the fi sheries of lakes George and Edward The two lakes present a challenge to fi sheries biologists beshycause of their shallowness and pollution from large herds of hippopota n1u ses he says

All of this causes a great chall enge and inshyteresting sched ule for work for a fisheries sc ien tist responsible for the conlrol and management of the lakes It requires environ shymental and biological manage ment strategies including the social and economic aspects as well as law enforcement

Classmates interes ted in lea rning more about Nsembukya-Katuramu s fi sheries review or the wo rk of the Victoria Nil e Rehabilitation Centre can write to him there at PO Box 1263 Jinja Uganda

Cindy Wright 90 li ves in Vancouver and is attendin g the Uni versity of Victori as School of Earth and Ocean Sc ience pursushying a masters degree in paleobiogeoshychemislry

CPES

Fenella Barclay 84 has earned the desigshynation of Associate of the Society of Acshytuaries by completing a series of examinations that tes t mathematical and statistica l skills underlying actuarial sc ience and their applications to technica l actuarial problems Actuaries design and evalu ate fi ana ncial programs using stat istical and economic tec hniques to ana lyse ri sk and evaluate the probabilities of future events Barclay and her hu sba nd Scott Reid OVC R7 live in Dunnville Om where he is prac shytis ing at the Dunnville Veterinary Clinic

Marshall Chipman 74 of 5t Catharines Ont is back on campus to complete an honors mathematics degree

Robert Gossage 89 is completing graduate studies in chemistry at the Univershysity of Victoria

Jain Lambert 82 is a biology professor at Ca rlet on Univ ers ity He is married to Karen (Gillespie) CSS 83

Mona Osman-Khatib 84 and MSc 89 is working for Ericsson Communications Inc in Mount Roya l Que

David Salter ~2 and OAC ~4 is supershyvisor of a United Nations development proshygram in Cambodia

CSS

Debbie Chang 82 and her husband Richard Ouellette are th e new parents of Christopher born in Dece mber 1992 Chang says she will soon return to work at the Inforshymltlt lon Man agement Corporation in Missis shysa uga Ont as a client se rvices represe ntati ve

Marjory (Rigby) Furkalo 73 says its alshyways good to hear about U ofG She li ves in Dryden Ont with her husband Dennis and thei r three ch i1dren Mel issa Sarah and Jonathan and has taught sc hool there for 16 yea rs

Andre Gaudreault 93 of Gue lph got his academic supervisors thinkin g when he recently prepared a PhD di sse rtation on the I imit of sc ience anel the problems created by the fact that scien tists are not awa re of this Iilll i t

Andrew Kissick 82 and hi s wife Barbara have found a new home in Colorado Springs Col where they both teach tennis at the Broaelmoor Hotel It s a grand old hotel with breathtaking landsca pe at the foot of the Cheyenne Mountains says Ki ss ick wh o is al so a financial anal yst

Fisheries biologist nets major alumni award During lun lonvrnatton cercmonis the Utiversity 1)1 Gudph Alumni Asshysltxiatioll alankd its allnual Medal of Alhievement to John Gunn CBS PhD 17 of Sudbury Onl The award recogshyniles it gradllttc of the lut 15 years for outswnding contributions and servhe

Gunn is unit-ially employed as a r~ shysearch scilnlist with the thhcrics policy branch uf the Ontario Minitrv of

alUml Resources (0 INR) hut he cals hi net much widr thtn a single ministry Ili~ contritllltions to the siudy or acid rain and the rehabililllion of in shydustrially t1amagetl eCI1sYitcm is rccogshy lohn Gllnll lefr willi U oG CIUlIcII(Ir Lincon nied worldwide

He has worked for a number or years lin the impHlt llf acid prllipilalion on lakes and streams in the Sudbury region He dtermined rhe mechanisms by which acitl rain and adtl tlllwmtll lead to the exshytindion uf nlllive fish populltions Illd has shown how such ngltive effects can be

Alexander Photo hy Hlrh Rau~e1llr

reversed His reseanh is rClogniled around the world fllr its applicability 10 CC(l~ysshyt~mlgt t1amaged by indusllial pollutants inshycluding those in developing cOllnlrie~

Tllthc scientific community Gunn ofshyfers an example of how Io-operarivc reshy

search C1ll bring results He works with scientilts from ~everal uniVtrsities ru wdl as Iho c from fedellll and provinshycial agencies And he has forged productive relationships with indmitry local government~ and private-interest groups establishing the tirst co-operashytive unit between OM R and Laurenshytian University

Public education is an important part of Gunlls work He hilS shared the findings from his Sudbury research with the community at open house sesshyions at Slience orth He urganized an annual one-day rehabilitation wmkshop to bring together all parshyticipants involved in ecosystem reslorashytion in the Sudbury area

He is also editing a book about the Sud shybury experience that will be both a success story in restoration ecology and a manual for other municipalities and regions intershyeSled in reversing the clological effects of industrial pollutants

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============= GRAD NEWS

Douglas LOllcks 75 recently received a maste r of divinity from the University of Toronto Hc and his wi fe Janet Art s 76 and their family moved to South River Onl during the summer

Tara-L)11 McCready 93 is enroll ed in a PhD program in biochemistry at the Univershys ity of Alberta in Edmonton I enJoy graduate studies she says and jve nlet many other graduates of Guelph here

Janis Milliken n eamed a DVM from the Atlantic Veterinary College in PEI in 199 1 and is now completin g graduate work at Lo ui siana State University in Baton Rouge ]11 be here until Jul y 1995 completing a combined residency in thcriogenology and a masters in epidemi o logy she says

Samuel Nsembulltya-Ka turlttmu MSc 711 returned to his native Uga nda after gladuashytion to work as a fi she ries bio log ist From 1979 to 199 he was in charge of lakes George and Ed ward in western Uga nda having rcplaced the late MM Male CBS 76 In 1989 Nsembukya-Katuramu was hospitalized beca usc of diabetes and has since lost his sight He is now enrolled in a retrain ing prog mm sponsored by the Roya l Commonwealth Society for the Blind But he says the society I ike th e fisheries deparrshyment in Ugand a is seve rely short of funding and has made a public ap peal fo r aid to supshyPOl1 Nse mb ukya-Katuramu s training

He hopes to return to a productive life and once again support his family He would also like to publi sh a scientific revi ew - comshypleted some years ago - on the fi sheries of lakes George and Edward The two lakes present a challenge to fi sheries biologists beshycause of their shallowness and pollution from large herds of hippopota n1u ses he says

All of this causes a great chall enge and inshyteresting sched ule for work for a fisheries sc ien tist responsible for the conlrol and management of the lakes It requires environ shymental and biological manage ment strategies including the social and economic aspects as well as law enforcement

Classmates interes ted in lea rning more about Nsembukya-Katuramu s fi sheries review or the wo rk of the Victoria Nil e Rehabilitation Centre can write to him there at PO Box 1263 Jinja Uganda

Cindy Wright 90 li ves in Vancouver and is attendin g the Uni versity of Victori as School of Earth and Ocean Sc ience pursushying a masters degree in paleobiogeoshychemislry

CPES

Fenella Barclay 84 has earned the desigshynation of Associate of the Society of Acshytuaries by completing a series of examinations that tes t mathematical and statistica l skills underlying actuarial sc ience and their applications to technica l actuarial problems Actuaries design and evalu ate fi ana ncial programs using stat istical and economic tec hniques to ana lyse ri sk and evaluate the probabilities of future events Barclay and her hu sba nd Scott Reid OVC R7 live in Dunnville Om where he is prac shytis ing at the Dunnville Veterinary Clinic

Marshall Chipman 74 of 5t Catharines Ont is back on campus to complete an honors mathematics degree

Robert Gossage 89 is completing graduate studies in chemistry at the Univershysity of Victoria

Jain Lambert 82 is a biology professor at Ca rlet on Univ ers ity He is married to Karen (Gillespie) CSS 83

Mona Osman-Khatib 84 and MSc 89 is working for Ericsson Communications Inc in Mount Roya l Que

David Salter ~2 and OAC ~4 is supershyvisor of a United Nations development proshygram in Cambodia

CSS

Debbie Chang 82 and her husband Richard Ouellette are th e new parents of Christopher born in Dece mber 1992 Chang says she will soon return to work at the Inforshymltlt lon Man agement Corporation in Missis shysa uga Ont as a client se rvices represe ntati ve

Marjory (Rigby) Furkalo 73 says its alshyways good to hear about U ofG She li ves in Dryden Ont with her husband Dennis and thei r three ch i1dren Mel issa Sarah and Jonathan and has taught sc hool there for 16 yea rs

Andre Gaudreault 93 of Gue lph got his academic supervisors thinkin g when he recently prepared a PhD di sse rtation on the I imit of sc ience anel the problems created by the fact that scien tists are not awa re of this Iilll i t

Andrew Kissick 82 and hi s wife Barbara have found a new home in Colorado Springs Col where they both teach tennis at the Broaelmoor Hotel It s a grand old hotel with breathtaking landsca pe at the foot of the Cheyenne Mountains says Ki ss ick wh o is al so a financial anal yst

Fisheries biologist nets major alumni award During lun lonvrnatton cercmonis the Utiversity 1)1 Gudph Alumni Asshysltxiatioll alankd its allnual Medal of Alhievement to John Gunn CBS PhD 17 of Sudbury Onl The award recogshyniles it gradllttc of the lut 15 years for outswnding contributions and servhe

Gunn is unit-ially employed as a r~ shysearch scilnlist with the thhcrics policy branch uf the Ontario Minitrv of

alUml Resources (0 INR) hut he cals hi net much widr thtn a single ministry Ili~ contritllltions to the siudy or acid rain and the rehabililllion of in shydustrially t1amagetl eCI1sYitcm is rccogshy lohn Gllnll lefr willi U oG CIUlIcII(Ir Lincon nied worldwide

He has worked for a number or years lin the impHlt llf acid prllipilalion on lakes and streams in the Sudbury region He dtermined rhe mechanisms by which acitl rain and adtl tlllwmtll lead to the exshytindion uf nlllive fish populltions Illd has shown how such ngltive effects can be

Alexander Photo hy Hlrh Rau~e1llr

reversed His reseanh is rClogniled around the world fllr its applicability 10 CC(l~ysshyt~mlgt t1amaged by indusllial pollutants inshycluding those in developing cOllnlrie~

Tllthc scientific community Gunn ofshyfers an example of how Io-operarivc reshy

search C1ll bring results He works with scientilts from ~everal uniVtrsities ru wdl as Iho c from fedellll and provinshycial agencies And he has forged productive relationships with indmitry local government~ and private-interest groups establishing the tirst co-operashytive unit between OM R and Laurenshytian University

Public education is an important part of Gunlls work He hilS shared the findings from his Sudbury research with the community at open house sesshyions at Slience orth He urganized an annual one-day rehabilitation wmkshop to bring together all parshyticipants involved in ecosystem reslorashytion in the Sudbury area

He is also editing a book about the Sud shybury experience that will be both a success story in restoration ecology and a manual for other municipalities and regions intershyeSled in reversing the clological effects of industrial pollutants

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=============GRAD NEWS

Linda (Arney) 82 and Gary Pascoe OAC 84 announce the arrival of their first child a daughter named Kenzie Rae who was born March 27 1993

Steve Voyda 88 and his wife Siew are enshyjoying a new home in Kitchener Ont with their year-old daughter Seerna Gosia Voyda is territory manager for Huntington Laboratories

Jeff Woodie WoodyaU 79 his wife Lori and their two sons have moved from Aurora Ont to Scottsda le Ariz to enjoy the sun the mountains and maybe a bit of golf Woodyatt was in the insurance busishyness in Ontario but says he always wanted to be a cowboy and thought Arizona was the best place to relocate He sends greetings to fellow Guelph hockey players

Mac-FACS

Mary Daly 78 is one graduate who keeps coming back to campus She and her husshyband Walter van Veen brought their baby daughter Johanna Beatrice for a nature walk in the Arboretum before she was two months old They live in Kitchener where Daly works for the Waterloo Regional Health Unit

Lee Ann (Gage) DiI 81 teaches science at Hitherfield Preparatory School in Campbellville Ont She and her husband Pierre have two children

Jeri jakovac 89 is living in Vancouver and working in Richmond as an elementary school resource teacher She says she loves the mountains - a real contrast from her home town of Chatham Onto Sisters jodi Arts 91 and Jani Arts 93 are also Guelph graduates And theres one more sister at home who would probably enjoy the Guelph experience just as much

Catherine (Armstrong) jewson 41 D says her year at Guelph was a valuable one - its where she met her husband james OAC 43 They live in Islington Ont

Barb Patriarche 89 lives in Oshawa Ont with her husband Darryn Reay and their three children Rebecca 5 Coltyn 3 and Nicholas five months She works as a home day-care provider with Durham Regional Social Services

Florence Partridge 260 former chief librarian at U of G was recently honored by the Government of Canada for her years of service as a cultural volunteer in Guelph She was named 1993 winner of the Lescarshybot A ward named for Marc Lescarbot a 16th-century playwright and author who is considered to be this countrys first cultural volunteer

Partridge who was nominated by the Guelph Arts Council has played a major role in the councils heritage program inshycluding work in researching and preparing historical walking tours of the city A foundshying member and first president of the vol un-

Guelph Alumnus

CSS grads capture top medals CSS graduates Tim Mau and Paul Van Katwyk were this years winner of the Winegard and Forster medal U ofGs most prestigious undergraduate and graduate awards Established to honor fonner Guelph presidents Bill Winegard and the late Donald Forster the medals recognize academic achievement motivashytion leader hip and citizenship

Mau came to Guelph from orth York Ont as a Presidents Scholar and a new recruit for the basketball Gryphons Today hes known as the all-time Gryphons coring champion a member of Senate president of the campus Liberal orshyganization and a 1991 candidate for Guelph city council

Mau was named CIAU Freshman of the Year in his first year and All-Canadian in each subsequent year Gryphon leam capshytain mo t valuable player and athlete of the year several times over he led U of G to three national championships was namcd to the OUAA first team five times and to the QUAA all-star team of the decshyade

Off the court Mau was a five-year member of the deans honor Ii middott winner of the CSS Skinner Medal and recipient of an Ontario Graduate Scholarship He brought recognition to the University by winning a Commonwealth Scholarship and was the Ontario finalist in competition for a Rhodes Scholarship

Mau completed a double major in politi shycal studies and sociology then enrolled in a joint U ofGMcMaster University MA program with specialization in public adshyministration This fall he begins a doctor

TimMau Photo by Chri Black MSc 92 and PhD 93

Paul Vall Katl1yk Phtlll) by Martin Sd)walbe

of philosophy at Oxford University He is now a member of the board of directors of the CSS Alumni As ociation and say he hopes to one day seek uffice as an MP

Other nominees for the Winegard medal were Shirley Senoff Arts 93 Paula Wendling CBS 93 Helena Dryillout CPES 93 Lynne Walker FACS 93 Pamela JooSsee OAC 93 and Nancy Charlton OVC 93

A dedicated and innovative researcher Van Katwyk won two major external awards for his graduate research in orshyganizational psychology including the prestigious Wherry Award He was also the first recipient of the CSS John Vanderkamp Graduate Medal

He ha~ done consulting work for the mini tel of the solicitor general of On shytario nationaltelecommuni(ations corshy

porations and a retail chain operation Originally from Waterloo OUl Van

Katwyk also earned his BA at Guelph and is now completing doctoral studies in industrial organizational psychology at the University of South Florida

While at Guelph he organized a North American conference for graduate students was a project manager research assistant and teachshying assistant in th Depanment of Psychology and erved on the graduate studies committee He was alsu a counshysellor atlhe Guelph Wellington A shysociation for Community Living

Van Katwyk was featured with his wife Chris FACS 92 and their son Sasha in the spring J992 GLlefph AIII11shyIII1S in a lOt) about funding university education for the next generation

Other nominees for the Forster shyMedal were Jeannette Grant Arts 91 and MA 93 Eric Brown OAe 87 and MSc 89 and CPES PhD 93 Mary Goettler Arts 78 and FACS MSc 93 Peter Amer OAe PhD 93 and Chris OCallaghan OV 89

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tee I group bene fitshying the Guelph Museum s she was the first docent and first head of the volunteer group at the Macdonald Stewart Art Cent re

Partrid ge has been on illlportant benefactor of the Uni versity of Guelph art co llecshy

into teach ing He retired in 1985 as principa l cochemi st and is now an environmental asshyof John Diefenbaker Secondary School in ~essment officer for the federal Departlllcnt AytonOnt of Indian Affa irs ond Northern Deve lopment

Pascale Dennery 89 worked two yea rs David Hume 61 and MS A 63 is acting in agricu ltural ex tension in Africa after earnshy chai r of Guel ph s Department of Crop ing his Guelph deg ree He is now an ex shy Sc ience He says he is a prociuct of the OAC aminer in the plant breeders right s office in Class of 1933 Not only did he receive the ir Otta wa but plans to beg in a masters proshy gradua te scholars hip in 195 1 but four of his gram in sustainable agri culture thi s fa ll in the Guelph professors we re also members of the Netherla nds class - Gordon Ashton Ted Heeg Fred

Jerome and Bruce Twamley Ruth Hall 84 went on from Guel ph to study regional planni ng at Kansas State Murray Hunt 69 and MSc 70 worked Univers ity and so il chemi stry at the Univershy for the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and sity of Alberta She then moved to Food (OMA F) from 1970 to 1973 was Whitehorse Yukon to work as a tec hnical genera l man ager of genctic im provement for

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Florellce Purlri(l~e tion She began deshyve loping a co llecshy

ti on while serv ing as chi ef li bra rian ot the Masty Library and later started the Florence Part ridge Fund which has added 17 major works to the Uni versity co llection

She is abo an mtivt member and vo lunshyteer for the UGAA fo unuing president of the Univelsity Womens Club of Guelph (now rhe Canadian Fede ration of University Women) and a former president of the Guelph Trail Club

OAC

A 11llIllIi ideiilijied by un (sllIisk w(e ul win11(1 ola ~lCldUale sciwl(JiJ ip awardee hy Ihe UAC C lals of 33 Thli r accul7lp lilhshyIIlei71S dellullslra le lite IllIe Iuille oflhe S(wutip

Thomas Angus 49 and MSA 50 of Sault Ste Marie Onr was dirtc tor of the Canad ian Forest Pest Management Institute until I9~0 He received an honorary degree Ir01l1 Lourentio n Uni versi ty in 1992 fo r hi s ctlntribu tio llS to fores t pest Jl)onagement and the study of bacte ri al diseases of Lepidupshylera

Alan Barr MSc ~5 and PhD 91 ancl hi s wife Barbtra (Sa lamon) Arts in hove movd frOlll Let hbridge AlIl tu Saskatoon Sask where he is worki ng wi th Environshy1I1ent Canada s Atmospheric Environlllent Services Barbara is at hume with their chil dren JOllathan and Heather

James Biggar 5 1 cOlllpleted graduate studie at Utah State Uni ve rsity befure bcg inshynillg an acad llIic carcer Today he is on faculty at th e Ullivers ity of California in the departmelil of land oir and watn resources

Susan (Willis) Chan MSc 9 1 ea rned hcr UllClergraduatc degree at McG ill Univershysit y aJICI a bachelor of education at the Unishyvns it y uf Westem Ontario but shc says U of G O IIlCS uut on top None of the uthers were IS friendl y or as worthwhile as the Ullishyver ity ufGue lph Keep up tlK good work Chon now lives in Gloucester Ont wi th her husballd l3enedict and family

Ian Cowbrough 86 anel M Sc ~~ and hi s wife Donna (McCordic) 88 operate a family farm nea r Guelph They have an month-uld daughter Mary Amancia

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Robert C rawford 5U we nt frolll Guelph tu Michi gan State Un iversity and eventuall y

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tee I group bene fitshying the Guelph Museum s she was the first docent and first head of the volunteer group at the Macdonald Stewart Art Cent re

Partrid ge has been on illlportant benefactor of the Uni versity of Guelph art co llecshy

into teach ing He retired in 1985 as principa l cochemi st and is now an environmental asshyof John Diefenbaker Secondary School in ~essment officer for the federal Departlllcnt AytonOnt of Indian Affa irs ond Northern Deve lopment

Pascale Dennery 89 worked two yea rs David Hume 61 and MS A 63 is acting in agricu ltural ex tension in Africa after earnshy chai r of Guel ph s Department of Crop ing his Guelph deg ree He is now an ex shy Sc ience He says he is a prociuct of the OAC aminer in the plant breeders right s office in Class of 1933 Not only did he receive the ir Otta wa but plans to beg in a masters proshy gradua te scholars hip in 195 1 but four of his gram in sustainable agri culture thi s fa ll in the Guelph professors we re also members of the Netherla nds class - Gordon Ashton Ted Heeg Fred

Jerome and Bruce Twamley Ruth Hall 84 went on from Guel ph to study regional planni ng at Kansas State Murray Hunt 69 and MSc 70 worked Univers ity and so il chemi stry at the Univershy for the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and sity of Alberta She then moved to Food (OMA F) from 1970 to 1973 was Whitehorse Yukon to work as a tec hnical genera l man ager of genctic im provement for

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Florellce Purlri(l~e tion She began deshyve loping a co llecshy

ti on while serv ing as chi ef li bra rian ot the Masty Library and later started the Florence Part ridge Fund which has added 17 major works to the Uni versity co llection

She is abo an mtivt member and vo lunshyteer for the UGAA fo unuing president of the Univelsity Womens Club of Guelph (now rhe Canadian Fede ration of University Women) and a former president of the Guelph Trail Club

OAC

A 11llIllIi ideiilijied by un (sllIisk w(e ul win11(1 ola ~lCldUale sciwl(JiJ ip awardee hy Ihe UAC C lals of 33 Thli r accul7lp lilhshyIIlei71S dellullslra le lite IllIe Iuille oflhe S(wutip

Thomas Angus 49 and MSA 50 of Sault Ste Marie Onr was dirtc tor of the Canad ian Forest Pest Management Institute until I9~0 He received an honorary degree Ir01l1 Lourentio n Uni versi ty in 1992 fo r hi s ctlntribu tio llS to fores t pest Jl)onagement and the study of bacte ri al diseases of Lepidupshylera

Alan Barr MSc ~5 and PhD 91 ancl hi s wife Barbtra (Sa lamon) Arts in hove movd frOlll Let hbridge AlIl tu Saskatoon Sask where he is worki ng wi th Environshy1I1ent Canada s Atmospheric Environlllent Services Barbara is at hume with their chil dren JOllathan and Heather

James Biggar 5 1 cOlllpleted graduate studie at Utah State Uni ve rsity befure bcg inshynillg an acad llIic carcer Today he is on faculty at th e Ullivers ity of California in the departmelil of land oir and watn resources

Susan (Willis) Chan MSc 9 1 ea rned hcr UllClergraduatc degree at McG ill Univershysit y aJICI a bachelor of education at the Unishyvns it y uf Westem Ontario but shc says U of G O IIlCS uut on top None of the uthers were IS friendl y or as worthwhile as the Ullishyver ity ufGue lph Keep up tlK good work Chon now lives in Gloucester Ont wi th her husballd l3enedict and family

Ian Cowbrough 86 anel M Sc ~~ and hi s wife Donna (McCordic) 88 operate a family farm nea r Guelph They have an month-uld daughter Mary Amancia

18shy North American Life

Robert C rawford 5U we nt frolll Guelph tu Michi gan State Un iversity and eventuall y

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Canadian astonaut Rohera Banda who was named Alumnus of Hono il1 JUl1e 1992finalshyIy received he awad Apil 22 - on the sal1le Wa Memoial Hall stage whee she rint COI1shy

vacated in 1968 and was gral1led an honoray degee il1 1990 She is pictued here with some of he OAC 68 classmates Leji to iltl1t Kathyn Landidge John McG ee May (jones) Taea Alex McDonald Bonda Bob -Iul1sherge Don Rickad Jack Burr and Gail (Williams) Rickad Photo by Mary Dicki eson

Hol stein Canada from 1973 until 199 1 and is now direc tor of marke t development for the Canadian Association of Animal Breeders

Henry Ive 48 and MSA 49 helped pay his way through graduate school by workin g as an analy st fo r the soil survey that pre shyceded cons truction of To ronto s international airport After g raduation he re turned to Jashymaica and enjoyed a 25 -year career with the West Indies Sugar Company He then beshycame manag ing director of a loca l subsidiary of Seagram Co Limited and s till works in semi-ret irement as a rum buyer for Seagram distill e ries lve was recently nam ed member emeritus of the Agricultural Socie ty of Jamaica

Terrence Johnson MSc 88 of Jamaica reshycently rece ived a doctorate in environmental engineering from Virginia Po ly technic Ins tishytute A member of the American Union of Geophys ici sts he comple ted hi s undergradushyate degree at the Uni versity of the W est Inshydies in St Au gustine Trinidad in 1983 He plans to wo rk as a containment hydrogeo lshyogist for Environmental Systems and Techshynol ogies in Blacksburg Va and will be involved in computer modelling of containshyment transport and o il-spill recovery in the subsurface environment

David Jordan SO and MSA 5 I is retired from the Department of Mic robiology in Gue lph s College of Biological Science

Edward Kendall PhD 88 is an assoc iate research officer with the National Research Counc il living in Saskatoon He no tes that U of G s degree des ignation does not g ive an accurate description of many interdisciplishynary programs As far as I know I am the first OAC graduate of the biophysics interdeshypartmental program Gue lph has so many inshyterdepartmenta l and int eruni vers ity program s (that) perhaps there should be a program des shyignat ion ra t he r than a major a t least for gradshyuate studies

Cuelph Alumllus

Jacob Leyenaar 67 and M Sc 69 is a rea treasurer with S END International in the Philippines

Mary Ruth McDonald 78 and MSc 82 has just completed a PhD in plant patholshyogy at Gue lph and is working as manager and research sc ientist at the OMAFMuck Resea rch Stati on near Keltleby

David Mitchell 56 is a partne r in Mitche ll Management Services in Mi ss isshysauga Ont but his caree r inc ludes both re shysearch and management experience a t the Campbell Sou p Co of New Jersey Kansas State Uni versi ty John Labatt Ltd in Lonshyci on Ont and the Ontario Gra in ancl Feed Association

He congratulates the Class of 193 3 for it s fores ight in initiating and mainta ining the graduate schol a rship

Robert Neill 8 1 has a position in the inshyternational strategic planning group of Sandoz Agro in Switzerland In May 1993 he was married to Karen Kelsey HAFA 8 1

Joe Omielan 83 liv es in Wate rloo Ont and works in on-farm research wi th Resource Effic ient Agricultural Prod uctionshyCanada

Alison Paine 80 and MSc 83 began he r career with DuPont Canada as a pes shyticid e registration specialist She then moved to the parent company in the United Sta tes and worked there unti I 1988 Today she work s part time as a pesticide consultant at the Argonne National Labo ratory in Illino is

The late Ed Ridley 27 was recently named to the Saskat che wan Dairy Ha ll of Fame for his 40 years of service to the province ancl its dairy indu stry He ret ired in 1967 as dairy commiss ioner onl y to take on a new role of service to the Animal Breeding Co-opera shytives of Saskatchewan He died in 1986 hi s wife Leila in 1988

Stephen Stenabaugh 92 is an env ironshyment planner with EeologlCal Services Planshyning Ltd in Kapuskasing Ont but hopes to re turn to ca mpu s to do g tadu ate work in the Uni vers ity Schoo l of Rura l Plan shyning and Deshyve lopment

Murray Stewart 57 A has been e lected chair of Ontarios Adshyva nced Agri shycultural Leadership Program (A ALP) a partne rship of Murray Stewort the Ontario Federation of Agriculture OMAF the Foun shydation of Rural Li ving and U of G He sucshyceeds Peter Hannam OAC 62 presid ent of First Line Seeds of Guelph Stewart is a founding membe r of th e AALP a two-year training program for people acti ve in Ontario agri cu lture Man y of the program s I 16 g radultttes a re also OAC alumni

Going the distance

Independen t study graduate Roger S lomon has gone the uistancc in more ways than one

Solnmon wh lives in Lain Gennanv ha CImed four horticult ura l cliplomas shyfrom G uelph hut he came to campus for the tirst tillle this year to attend his graduat ion He was here June I to collec t a diploma in park horticulture

S lomon began his journey through the world of correspondence stuliie by completing Grade 13 through the Min isshylry of Educmiol1 He began trave lling U of G s independent study path in 1982 A long the way hes managed to grow 125 acres or grapes and _5 acres or frui l trees in Lahr and nlIl his own nist ro

-IlIdep(lIdeJ1l SlUdy chair Bill eli lp I(ji (ollgralllates long-distClllcl stldcnt Roger Smoll Photo by Dnlt Hmi itolt

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OVC museum named for Cliff Barker If any university president walllS to know how to operate without a budget come and see mejokes Cli IT Ba rker OVC 41 as he explains how hes been able to acculllulate more (han 4 000 items for the OVC museum

1111 always suggesting thal alulllni designate their University gifts to the museum and Ive borrowed innumerable things from facu Ity and slaff They never go bak

Today those innumerable thing are stored omewhere at OVC - only Barker knows where - but it was announced during Alumni Weekend that thc OVC museum will find a pemlanent home during Phase 2 con~truction of the college~ Lifetime Learning entre

Now officially named the CA V Burkel Musculll of Canadian Veterinary Hislory the collection will be housed in what is now the OVC libraty when new libraty space i~ added to Ihe learning centre

Stewart ~rc nt 1ll 0~ t or hi s professional ca reer w ith Cmada Packers and has mainshytained a personal interes t in grasroots leadershyship within the arifood industry He is curshyre ntly pres ide nt o f the National 4-H Council

Brllce Stone 53 illld MSA 54 beQan hi s academic clrce r at Cornell University~ but he eventually Ic turned to OAC where he has l)Cell on Llc ulty for14 years - 24 in the De shypartmcnt of Animal and Poultry Sciencc lt1nd J () i l ~ assoc iat e dCilil

(Icnn Strallon 77 MSc 78 and PhD 8 1 is a prolc ~or of microbiology at the Nova Scotia Agn cultural College ill Truro

Roh 79 and Dianna (Gamble) Sutherland CSS X I and MA 83 live in Waterloo Ont with their children Kilthlecn Willi am and Robert Rob works forOMAF

Catherine (Leitner) Sletec in is an acshycount lIlilnaftI in pe rsona l financial serviccs w ith the Toron() Dominion Rank in Lindshysay Ont She also holds a education degree from the l lnivers it y of Waterloo and an MBA from I)tlholl s ic Uni versi ty She is marshyricd to Andrew R3 who is 7one manager fOImiddot Ford Ncw Holland Canada Ltd in Guelph Thcy liv e in Olkwood

Steve Szabo R 2 ilil d MSc 85 began working for thc PE Department of Agriculture in I()~6 as an extension specialist and be came manager of technolshyogy lIld innoVllion for the Department of Inshydustry in 19119

Hdty Szilassy 82 is a volunleer wi th Ihe Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) in drought-stricken northeas te rn Brazil Originally irolll [-lililover Ollt S7ilassy lives in the runil ltlITa o~Taeai mbo aboul 140 kilometres from Recife

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The college has had a museum of sorts since 1870 when principal Andrew Smith opened a new building for OVC in Toronshyto Mo I ea rly graduate remember it as jars of pickled specimen and ke letons strung on wircs Today however the mu cum is a I iving hi tory of veterinary medic ine in Canada valuable for research and education

W hile he was a faculty membcr in the Department of Clinical Studies Barker fell heir to a box of donated items - a diploma oxen shoes OVC badges - beshycause he was neat organized and able to keep track or Ihings In the mid 1970s alumn i began to upport the museum financially and when Barker retired in 1984 he was g iven a room ill the bllseshymelll of Me abb House LO develop lind catalogue the museum collection

[n 1979 he publi$hed a book on the hisshytory of the Omario Veterinary Medical Asshysocialion followed 10 years later by II book on the Canadian associution

Peter Vanderkooy 8 1 and his wi fe Olive (Burton) OAC 80 operate Az ilda Greenshyhouses in Azilda Ont

SCOIl Wales 79A operates a 56-acre tobacshyco farm in Aylmer Ont

The family farm of Herbert Webster 29A was the focal point of centennial ce lebrations in Vernon RC last year Like the ci ty the Webster faillily orchard was eswblished in IRn Webster s g rand sons still li ve ltIt the orshycha rd originall y establi shed by hi s father John Webster OAC 1880

John Webster broke one family tradition - hi s father and grandfathe r were doctors shyand started a new one when he came to Guelph to attend OAC Two of hi s sons John Jr and Herbert also earned OAC degrees John Jr went onlO become the BC provincial seed inspector during the Second World War and Herbert took ove r manage shymen t of the faillily farm now one of the few BC orc hards thar hilS produced fruit conshytinu a lly for more than 100 yea rs

ave Jennifer Devey R8 is completing an intershynship at the Veterinary Institute of Emergenshycy and Critical Care in Mil wa ukee Wi s and will swy on for a three-year residency in emergency medicine Guelph alumni w ho hnd themse lves in Milwaukee are in vit ed to g ive her a ca ll althe institute

Thomas De Geer 54 of Coboconk Ont and George Fisher 44 of Kemptvill e Ont were both recognized last year by RotalY Inte rnational tmiddotor their service to the organi za tion and were awarded Rotary Founshydation citations for meritorious service

Catherine Dewey 79 is an ass istant professhyso r of epidemiology and swine health management at the Great Plains Ve le rinary Educational Centre al the Unive rs ity of Nebmska-Lincoln

Jeannine Gauthier MSc 84 came to Guelph with a DVM from the University of Montrea l She is now in veterinary profes shys ioned scrviees with the Quebec Mini slry of Agriculture in Quebec City

George Joseph 69 is a professor of patholshyogy and microbiology in the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at Univers ity Pertanian Malays in

Karen Kelly 79 has moved out of the medical field ancl is CEO at DLS Environshyme ntal Designs Inc in New Liskeard Ont

Andrew Madeiros 87 is at the Ettrick Animal Hospital in Warwick Bermuda

Stacey Warren 92 and Jeff Willshire CBS 119 were married in May She is pracshyti s ing at the Lindsay Animal Clinic in Lindsay Ont and at BobcaygeoJl Veteri shynary Services He is a fisheries biol ogis t for the Mini stry of Natural Resources in Lindsay

James Pinkney OVC 37 of Millon anI allended Ihe Alumni Weekend opening of ave s new Lifelime LeaJl1ing Cenlre and venlured inlo the rain 10 visil 1111 courlyard garden thaI hears his name Pinkneys $ 100000 (onlrilntlion 10 Ih l Iloming cenlre was Ihl largesl omounl given hy an inshydilmiddotidual A long -lime supporllr oj Ihe eolshylege hI is known worldwide Jor his e[Jtllise in showing hreeding andjudging ivesrock parlicuarly Landrace swine

Cuelph Alumnus

===1 IN MEMORIAM 1=== The following deaths ha ve been reported since the las t issue of the Guelph Alumnus Full notices which are usually submi tted by fam il y o r classmates Illay appear in thi s issue or in a later one

Franklin Belcher O AC 40A Feb 22 1993

Josephine (Farrow) Campbell Mac 420 Ju ne 28 1993

Hazel (Dunham) Cleghorn Mac 33 0 March 23 J993

Gwyneth (Dent) Cullen Mac 360 March 2 1993

Victor Demetrick OVC 59 Aug 3 1992

Steven Egan OVC 47 Feb 9 1993

Florence Elford Mac 52 April 16 1993

Elwood Free OA C 29A Jan I 1992

Catherine (Rawlings) Galbraith Arts 77 May 5 1993

Ernest Hamel OAC OOH 81 February 1993

Margaret Hamilton Mac 240 Oct 26 1992

Gerald Harvey OAC 59 Novembe r 1992

Ross K enney OVC 43 and OAC 35A May 20 1993

Charles C huck Kingsbury OAC 49 and MSA 5 I June 29 1993

Harold Klinck OAC 47A and SO March 29 1993

Mabel (Clapp) Lewis Mac 260 June 24 1993

Dorothy Lowe Mac 270 July 10 1992

John McCulloch OAC 43 November 1992

Alexander McKay OVC 5 8 and OAC MSA 54 March 17 1993

Gertrude (Anderson) McNeil Mac 37 June 18 1993

John Monroe OAC 35 May 30 1993

Carl Mumby OAC 41 Jul y 8 1993

Murray Nixon OAC 37 April 17 1993

Carl Oestreicher OAC 43A March I 1993

Murray Phillipson OVC49 April 12 1993

Maurice Plamondon O AC MSA 4 3 December 1992

Douglas Sleep OAC S5D May 1992

Marion Steele Mac 270 March 9 1993

John Teasdale OAC 37 April 22 1993

Louis Vandersteen OAC 6 1 A Dec 30

Hugh WaU O AC 31 May IS 1990

Grant Webb OAC 60 October 1992

Guelph Alumnus

CBS

Bryan Mulvihill 80 and MSc 83 d ied June 2 1993 in Guelph He was seafood manager at Sobeys Inc and is survived by his wife fam ily st udies professor Deborah O ConnOl- FACS 83 and hi s daughter Bridge t

Mac-FACS

Diane (White) Foyston 490 of Oak ville Ont died Jan 2 1 1993 She is survi ved by her husband Donald OAC SO and daughter Janet Jones OVC 8S

Marion (Marsh) McConachie 330 died May 13 1993 in Gue lph Sh e was an hon orary life member of the Guelph General Hospital Auxi liary life mem ber of Ch almers Un it ed Church UCW and a mem ber of the Univers it y Century Club She -vas an active member of the Mac-FA CS Alumni Associashytion and wa s it volunteer c lass agent fo r many years She is survived by her hu sband John OAC 32 one daughte r Ann John son and a son Don

OAC

James MacFarlane Bates 20A and 22 of Burlington Ont died Marcil 24 1993 Ontario s longest-serv in g high sc hool princishypal he retired after 40 yems from Central High School in Burlington in 1963 He was a life time membe r of the Burlington Central Lions C lub a Mason a member of the Horti shycultural Society and chair of the Joseph Brant Memorial Hospita l board He was C lass o f 22 president for many years and served as the class agent for the Al ma Mate r Fund He is survived by hi s w ife Marjorie and two sons james OAC 60 and John

Donald Belyea 52 died May 16 1993 in Burlington Ont [n 1985 he re tired as direc shytor of engineering at Memorinl Gardens (Onshyta rio Limited) after 33 years w ith the company He was res pon sible fo r establi shshying and main taini ng new cemete ries ac ross Canada He is survived by hi s w ife Maggie and three sons Randy Ric nnd Gary

William Brechin 36 died July 8 1993 in Burlington Ont His commitment to preservshying wa te r and so il qu ality rema ined a cent ral focus of his li fe throughou t hi s cnreer with Canada Packers and in retiremen t He is surshyvived by his wi fe Maryon (Bell) Mac 38 Me morial donat ions can be made to the Alma Mater Fund co Alumni House Unishyve rs ity of Guelph Guelph Ont N IG 2W I

Alexander Campbell 36 d ied April 4 1993 in Ott awa An MSc and PhD gradushyate of McG ill University he was a former dishy

rector of the nutrition burea u at Health and Welfare Canada In 1962 he was named vis shyiting pmfes)or at the American Uni versity of Beirut in Lebanon and fmm 1970 to 1972 was in chargc of the Nutrition Canada S urshyvey the most comprehensive sutvey eve r conducted here On hi s retirement in 1973 he WltlS appointed deput y director or the Ca rshyibbean Food and Nutrition Institut e in Ja shymaica and until 1976 was respons ibl e for developing a food and nutrition po licy for Jashymaica and food compos ition tab les and recshyommended dietary a llowances fo r the Caribbean

A found ing member of the Canadian Socishye ty of Nutritional Sc iences Dr Campbell received the Ealmiddotl e W McH enry A ward for hi s service to nutrition in Canada in 198 2 and the Harvey W Wiley Award in 1966 He also se rved as chair of the committee on food standards of th e Inte rnntion al Uni on of Nutritional Sciences and was treasurer o f th e organization from 1975 to 19~5 He is surshyvi ved by his wife Betty one daughter Barbnra Thomas and a son Willi lIn

Michael Chepesuik 3 0 died March 20 1993 in Kelowna BC He worked fOI the federal c iv il se rvice in T oronto Mon cton St John and Frederi cton from 1930 to 1968 in the depart ment s of agr iculture and defence He th en served on e yea l with the World Counc il of Churches in Tunisia before re locating to Kclowna where he spen t 10 years as a real es tate agent

An o utstanding w restle r in the light shyheavywe ight class in uni versit y ci rcles he won a go ld meda l in wres tlin g at the first Co mmonwealth Games in Hamilton Onl in 1930 He played with the Toronto Argonaut Footba ll C lub as an ins ide (now called guard) fro m 1930 to 1934 and was a sta rte r under famed foot ball coach Lew Hayman He was indu c ted into the U o f G Sports Hall of Fame in 1984 and (he Ukrainiltln Spons Hall of Fame in Vancouver in 1992

Mr C hepes uik was a life mem be r of the OAC A lumni Assoc iatio n mel the Pres shyidents Council and is survived by hi s wi fe Olive and three dau ghte rs Carol Bryson Barbara Hop kins and Marjo rie Macqueen

Harold Danforth 39 of Blen he im Ont di ed May 71993 He was a fonne r MP for Kent-Essex chaired the Conservation Comshymittee of Agr icul ture and the Commi ttee of Trade and Commerce was chi e f agr iculture cri ti c in th e shadow cabinet and was secre shytary then chair of the Conservati ve cauc us

Also a former counc ill o r for the Tow nship o f Harwi ch Mr Danforth was acti ve in the Leamington Kin smen Club the Essex Counshyty Federati on of Agriculture the Ontario Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association the Seacliff Growers Co-op Exchange South Essex G rowers and the Kent-Elgin New Potato Marke tin g Board He is survived by hi s w ife Isabel and daughters Sharon Yates Dianne Hogan and Den ise St roude

1992

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William (Bill) Fox 36 di ed April 30 1993 in Burlington Onl He was Ontarios first ex tension specialist for fruits and vegetables and later became director of fruit vegetable and tobacco ex tension stationed at Vineland He was co-ordinator of extension for Ontario on th e U of G campu~ from 1964 to 1974 and during the formative days of the University provided close li aison between U of G and the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food (OMAF) He is survived by his wife Gwen and two sons Ian and Bruce

Allan Dempsey 30 of Belleville Ont died March 13 1993 He was an RAF physishycal training instructor in England and India during the Second World War When he returned to Ontario in 1946 he became a technician at the Dominion Entomological Lab in Belleville where he remained until re tirement in 1969 He is survived by hi s wife Ethel and four children

Orazio Gualtieri 82 Eng of WeIshyland Onl died as the res ult of an auto acc ident Dec 2 1991 He had been employed as an enshygineer in the SI Catharines area and had establi shed GO Engineering

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vices He was ac tive in th e Niagara SquashRacquet Association and taught athshyleti cs at the YMCA the Ni agara Regional Youth Home and Brock University He IS survived by his parents Gaetano and Ida a s ister Genny Hnd a brother Tony

Maynard Harrison 30 of Maugerville NB died May 21993 Before com ing to Guelph he taught school near Fredericton and attended the Nova Scotia Agricultural College in Truro He was a horticulturist with the New Brunswick Department of Agshyriculture from 1930 until his retirement in 1965 At the same time he ran a vegetable farm at Maugerville and was involved in a number of organizations including the Fredshyericton Gladiolius Society the agr icultural society and 4-H He was a horticulture judge at fall fairs throughout the Maritimes and was on the SI John River Basin Advisory Board and the board of Sheffield United Church He is survived by his dau ghters Margaret Drew and Mary Lou Duncan son Charles and a brother Arthur OAC 29

Darb) Hayes 34A of Kelowna BC dIed June 2 1992 A pioneer in the Okanagan fruit industry he worked as general man ager for the Occidental Fruit Company for more than 20 years He helped establish the Kelowna Yacht Club in 1950 and served as club commodore He is su rvived by his wife Janet and son Eric

Reginald Hoskins 4 1A of Claremont Ont died March 28 1993 A lIfe member of the OAC Alumni ASSOCIa tion he farmed nea l Claremont and was past master of Brougham Union Lodge He is survived by IllS wife Doris (Kingsmill) Mac 4 J and six daughters Ruth Taylor FACS 76 Anne Hoskins-Reid OAC 78 Mary Haapa la Doris Denney Margaret McGill and Susan Olfsen

Joseph McCulloch 4 1 A of Cbes iey Ont died June 13 1993 After college he served as a mechani ca l engi neer with the Canadian Armed Forces in Europe then returned to Canada to run the family farm near Ches ley He was active in the co-operative movement and was president of the board of directors of the Saugeen Valley Co-op He is survived by hi s wife Mary Alice and six children Mary BIll Nancy Joanne Frances and Janet

John Pennington 38 dIed May 4 1993 in North Bay Ont He Joined the Canadian Army in 1942 and was on loan to the British army in the Highland division After the wa r he became involved in th e dairy industry and was production manager at seve ral large plants In 1964 he joined OMAF as fie ld repshyresentative for the milk industry branch and served the count ies of BraIlt NoIiolk and Haldimand until he was tran sferred to North Bay where he worked until his retirement in 1980 He was a volunteer with Mea ls on

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Wheels and at the city hosp ital in N01h Bay He is survi ved by his wife Janice (Scott) Mac 38 Hnd his daughters Lesley Leroux and Lynn Colotelo

Joseph Pires 53 and MSA 54 died April 4 1993 in Port of Spain Trinidad He was founder and managing director of Caribbean Chemicals and Agencies Limited a large manufacturer and distributor of agricultural products in the Caribbean He is survived by his wife Angelica three sons Joe Jr OAC 86A Anthony and Basil one daughter Joanne Pires-Straatsma CSS 79 and her hu sba nd John HAFA 79

Archie Rintoul 26 of East Longmeado w Mass died March 25 1993 Raised on a farm near Carleton Place Olll he took a job with the Blue Valley Creamery Co of Chicago after graduation His sal es territory cove red the midwestern United States Mr Rintoul moved to the Quaker Oats Company in Hartford Conn as animal feed sa lesma n and became general manager when the comshypany started the Community Feed Stores in Massachu setts Connecticut and Vermon t He bought the East Longmeadow and Easshythampton stores fro m the company in 1932 and eventually operated the East Longmeadow store with hi s son

He was a member of the Springfield Boys Club the Masonic Lod ge the Scottish Rits Bodies and th e Melha Temple Shrine He atshytended both Kiwanis and Lions Clubs for 50 years and was a 30-year member of the East Longmeadow Finance Committee

Longtime supporters of the Alma Mater Fund the Presidents Council and U ofG he and his wife Isabelle (Cook) Mac 26 recently establi shed the Archie and Isabelle Rintoul Fellows hips in OAC and FACS Beshysides his wife he is survived by a son James and two daughters Mary Rintoul Quilling and Elizabeth Rintoul Farneth

ove Carl Gobert 40 of Bardstown Ky died March 10 1993 He operated a mixed pracshytice in Kentucky from 1940 until he re tired in 1982 He was a member of the American Veterinary Association and American Asshysoc iation of Equine Pract itioners a Shriner and a Mason He is surv ived by his wife Glenna and four daughters

Peter Konkin 64 of Kamsack Sask died Feb 18 1993 after a shon illness with canshycer Before altending OVC he served two years in the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm and attended one year of med ical sc hool at the University of Western Ontario He dropped out when needed at home on the family farm and spent 16 years there Jn 1960 he was acshycepted into the second year at OVC and graduated in 1964 He moved back to Sasshy

katchewan to practise was one of the first vets in Canada to become involved in emblYo transfe r techniques in cattle and went on to establish an embryo transplant setvice in conjunction with hi s large-animal practice His transpl ant work took him to Germany New Zealand Australia China the United States Central America and Eastshyern Europe

Dr Konkin was a member of the Internashytional Embryo Transfer Society the Canadian Embryo Transfer Association and the Saskatchewan Veterinary Medical Asshysoci ation and its president in 197071 He also establi shed one of the first Simmental herd s in Canada and in recent years worked wi th the Saskatchewan Horse Racing Comshymiss ion He is survived by hi s wife Irene two sons Douglas and Daniel and a daughter Jill

Bernard Tonken 54 died in Calgary Alta Feb 4 1993 Following graduation he began it practice in Vulcan and moved it to Calgary in 1962 In 1969 he bought into Diamond Laboratories a veterinary drug Illanufacturer and remained as general manager when it was sold to Syntex He left a few years later to join Vexco as a consultshyant He is survived by his wife Lil

Donald MacDonald 42 of Amherstburg Ont died May 61993 After ea rnin g his DVM he obtained a diploma in veterinary public hea lth from the University of Toronto and worked for the health unit now known as the Windsor-Essex Co unty Health Unit until retirement in 1954 He is survived by hi s wife Shirley two sons Ian and Robert CBS 82 and two daughters Catherine and Wend y

Alan Secord 29 DSc 83 died May 1 1993 in Toronto Known acros s Canada Secord was a proponent of the contributions pets make toward improving a human s physical and emotional well-being He and his classmate Raymond Currey estabshyli shedt he Secord-Currey Fellowship in Comshypanion Animal-Human Bonding to support graduate students studying the humanshyanimal bond Dr Secord served on Guelph s Board of Governors from 1973 to 1977 on the Heritage Fund boa rd of trustees as honorary president of the OVC Pet Trust Fund and as class agent for the Alma Mater Fund A member of the MacLachlan Society and it lifetime member of the Presidents Council he received the OVC Alumni Associations Di stingui shed Alumnus Award in 1978 and an honorary degree in 1983 He was inducted into the Gryphon Hall of Fame for track and field

Dr Secord was a life member of the Toronto Humane Society and past pres ident of the Toronto Academy of Veterinary Medicine and was affiliated with the Ontario Veterinary Association

He is survived by his Wife Ingeborg one son David OVC 58 and two dau ghters Beverly O Sullivan and Diane Memorial gi fts can be sent to the Secord-Currey Felshylowsh ip co Alumni House University of Guelph Guelph Ont N I G 2W I

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Herbert Armstrong retired dean of graduate studshyies died March 3 1993 Before coming to U of Gin 1968 he was dea n of arts and sc ience at McMaster Unishyversity for 12 years dean of science and Heherl Amsong academic vice-president at the University of Alberta then the first president and vice-chancellor of the University of Calgary At Guelph he played a crucial role in developing a flouri sh ing proshygram of postgraduate studie~ Dr Arm~trong

officially retired in 1980 but con tinu ed to work on special ass ign ment s for the Univershysi ty He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Roya l Canadian Geogra phical Society He wagt made an honorary fellow of U of Gin 1985 He is surshyvived by his wife Kathleen and his chilshydren Catherine Lynden and Margaret Shera

Stephen Fushtey of Agassi z BC a fac ulty member in the late 19605 and 19705 in botany and environmental biology di ed March II 1993 He owned and operated the Fushtey Nut Farm in Agassiz He is survived by his wife Ruth three daughters Elizabeth Nieman FACS 85 Patricia OAC 82A and Mary and one son David BLA 80

Professor emeritus John Melby died Dec 18 1992 in Guelph He was named the first chair of the Depa rtm ent of Politica l Studies at U of G in 1967 and retired in 1977 He came to Canada after being fired in 1954 from the US State Department for havin g a relationship with playwright Lillian Hellman who was charged with being a Communi st He and Hellman began an affair in Mosco w in 1944 that turned into a long friend ship documented in The Cold War Romance ofLillian Hellman and lohn Melhy by Robert Newman Dr Melbys c lass ificashytion as a sec urity ri sk in the United States was not lifted until 1977 He is survived by hi s wi fe Roxana and one son Ev eret t Conshytri butions to a memorial fund can be sent to Alumni House University of Guelph Guelph Ont NIG 2WI

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===1 IN MEMORIAM 1=== The following deaths ha ve been reported since the las t issue of the Guelph Alumnus Full notices which are usually submi tted by fam il y o r classmates Illay appear in thi s issue or in a later one

Franklin Belcher O AC 40A Feb 22 1993

Josephine (Farrow) Campbell Mac 420 Ju ne 28 1993

Hazel (Dunham) Cleghorn Mac 33 0 March 23 J993

Gwyneth (Dent) Cullen Mac 360 March 2 1993

Victor Demetrick OVC 59 Aug 3 1992

Steven Egan OVC 47 Feb 9 1993

Florence Elford Mac 52 April 16 1993

Elwood Free OA C 29A Jan I 1992

Catherine (Rawlings) Galbraith Arts 77 May 5 1993

Ernest Hamel OAC OOH 81 February 1993

Margaret Hamilton Mac 240 Oct 26 1992

Gerald Harvey OAC 59 Novembe r 1992

Ross K enney OVC 43 and OAC 35A May 20 1993

Charles C huck Kingsbury OAC 49 and MSA 5 I June 29 1993

Harold Klinck OAC 47A and SO March 29 1993

Mabel (Clapp) Lewis Mac 260 June 24 1993

Dorothy Lowe Mac 270 July 10 1992

John McCulloch OAC 43 November 1992

Alexander McKay OVC 5 8 and OAC MSA 54 March 17 1993

Gertrude (Anderson) McNeil Mac 37 June 18 1993

John Monroe OAC 35 May 30 1993

Carl Mumby OAC 41 Jul y 8 1993

Murray Nixon OAC 37 April 17 1993

Carl Oestreicher OAC 43A March I 1993

Murray Phillipson OVC49 April 12 1993

Maurice Plamondon O AC MSA 4 3 December 1992

Douglas Sleep OAC S5D May 1992

Marion Steele Mac 270 March 9 1993

John Teasdale OAC 37 April 22 1993

Louis Vandersteen OAC 6 1 A Dec 30

Hugh WaU O AC 31 May IS 1990

Grant Webb OAC 60 October 1992

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Bryan Mulvihill 80 and MSc 83 d ied June 2 1993 in Guelph He was seafood manager at Sobeys Inc and is survived by his wife fam ily st udies professor Deborah O ConnOl- FACS 83 and hi s daughter Bridge t

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Diane (White) Foyston 490 of Oak ville Ont died Jan 2 1 1993 She is survi ved by her husband Donald OAC SO and daughter Janet Jones OVC 8S

Marion (Marsh) McConachie 330 died May 13 1993 in Gue lph Sh e was an hon orary life member of the Guelph General Hospital Auxi liary life mem ber of Ch almers Un it ed Church UCW and a mem ber of the Univers it y Century Club She -vas an active member of the Mac-FA CS Alumni Associashytion and wa s it volunteer c lass agent fo r many years She is survived by her hu sband John OAC 32 one daughte r Ann John son and a son Don

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James MacFarlane Bates 20A and 22 of Burlington Ont died Marcil 24 1993 Ontario s longest-serv in g high sc hool princishypal he retired after 40 yems from Central High School in Burlington in 1963 He was a life time membe r of the Burlington Central Lions C lub a Mason a member of the Horti shycultural Society and chair of the Joseph Brant Memorial Hospita l board He was C lass o f 22 president for many years and served as the class agent for the Al ma Mate r Fund He is survived by hi s w ife Marjorie and two sons james OAC 60 and John

Donald Belyea 52 died May 16 1993 in Burlington Ont [n 1985 he re tired as direc shytor of engineering at Memorinl Gardens (Onshyta rio Limited) after 33 years w ith the company He was res pon sible fo r establi shshying and main taini ng new cemete ries ac ross Canada He is survived by hi s w ife Maggie and three sons Randy Ric nnd Gary

William Brechin 36 died July 8 1993 in Burlington Ont His commitment to preservshying wa te r and so il qu ality rema ined a cent ral focus of his li fe throughou t hi s cnreer with Canada Packers and in retiremen t He is surshyvived by his wi fe Maryon (Bell) Mac 38 Me morial donat ions can be made to the Alma Mater Fund co Alumni House Unishyve rs ity of Guelph Guelph Ont N IG 2W I

Alexander Campbell 36 d ied April 4 1993 in Ott awa An MSc and PhD gradushyate of McG ill University he was a former dishy

rector of the nutrition burea u at Health and Welfare Canada In 1962 he was named vis shyiting pmfes)or at the American Uni versity of Beirut in Lebanon and fmm 1970 to 1972 was in chargc of the Nutrition Canada S urshyvey the most comprehensive sutvey eve r conducted here On hi s retirement in 1973 he WltlS appointed deput y director or the Ca rshyibbean Food and Nutrition Institut e in Ja shymaica and until 1976 was respons ibl e for developing a food and nutrition po licy for Jashymaica and food compos ition tab les and recshyommended dietary a llowances fo r the Caribbean

A found ing member of the Canadian Socishye ty of Nutritional Sc iences Dr Campbell received the Ealmiddotl e W McH enry A ward for hi s service to nutrition in Canada in 198 2 and the Harvey W Wiley Award in 1966 He also se rved as chair of the committee on food standards of th e Inte rnntion al Uni on of Nutritional Sciences and was treasurer o f th e organization from 1975 to 19~5 He is surshyvi ved by his wife Betty one daughter Barbnra Thomas and a son Willi lIn

Michael Chepesuik 3 0 died March 20 1993 in Kelowna BC He worked fOI the federal c iv il se rvice in T oronto Mon cton St John and Frederi cton from 1930 to 1968 in the depart ment s of agr iculture and defence He th en served on e yea l with the World Counc il of Churches in Tunisia before re locating to Kclowna where he spen t 10 years as a real es tate agent

An o utstanding w restle r in the light shyheavywe ight class in uni versit y ci rcles he won a go ld meda l in wres tlin g at the first Co mmonwealth Games in Hamilton Onl in 1930 He played with the Toronto Argonaut Footba ll C lub as an ins ide (now called guard) fro m 1930 to 1934 and was a sta rte r under famed foot ball coach Lew Hayman He was indu c ted into the U o f G Sports Hall of Fame in 1984 and (he Ukrainiltln Spons Hall of Fame in Vancouver in 1992

Mr C hepes uik was a life mem be r of the OAC A lumni Assoc iatio n mel the Pres shyidents Council and is survived by hi s wi fe Olive and three dau ghte rs Carol Bryson Barbara Hop kins and Marjo rie Macqueen

Harold Danforth 39 of Blen he im Ont di ed May 71993 He was a fonne r MP for Kent-Essex chaired the Conservation Comshymittee of Agr icul ture and the Commi ttee of Trade and Commerce was chi e f agr iculture cri ti c in th e shadow cabinet and was secre shytary then chair of the Conservati ve cauc us

Also a former counc ill o r for the Tow nship o f Harwi ch Mr Danforth was acti ve in the Leamington Kin smen Club the Essex Counshyty Federati on of Agriculture the Ontario Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association the Seacliff Growers Co-op Exchange South Essex G rowers and the Kent-Elgin New Potato Marke tin g Board He is survived by hi s w ife Isabel and daughters Sharon Yates Dianne Hogan and Den ise St roude

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William (Bill) Fox 36 di ed April 30 1993 in Burlington Onl He was Ontarios first ex tension specialist for fruits and vegetables and later became director of fruit vegetable and tobacco ex tension stationed at Vineland He was co-ordinator of extension for Ontario on th e U of G campu~ from 1964 to 1974 and during the formative days of the University provided close li aison between U of G and the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food (OMAF) He is survived by his wife Gwen and two sons Ian and Bruce

Allan Dempsey 30 of Belleville Ont died March 13 1993 He was an RAF physishycal training instructor in England and India during the Second World War When he returned to Ontario in 1946 he became a technician at the Dominion Entomological Lab in Belleville where he remained until re tirement in 1969 He is survived by hi s wife Ethel and four children

Orazio Gualtieri 82 Eng of WeIshyland Onl died as the res ult of an auto acc ident Dec 2 1991 He had been employed as an enshygineer in the SI Catharines area and had establi shed GO Engineering

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vices He was ac tive in th e Niagara SquashRacquet Association and taught athshyleti cs at the YMCA the Ni agara Regional Youth Home and Brock University He IS survived by his parents Gaetano and Ida a s ister Genny Hnd a brother Tony

Maynard Harrison 30 of Maugerville NB died May 21993 Before com ing to Guelph he taught school near Fredericton and attended the Nova Scotia Agricultural College in Truro He was a horticulturist with the New Brunswick Department of Agshyriculture from 1930 until his retirement in 1965 At the same time he ran a vegetable farm at Maugerville and was involved in a number of organizations including the Fredshyericton Gladiolius Society the agr icultural society and 4-H He was a horticulture judge at fall fairs throughout the Maritimes and was on the SI John River Basin Advisory Board and the board of Sheffield United Church He is survived by his dau ghters Margaret Drew and Mary Lou Duncan son Charles and a brother Arthur OAC 29

Darb) Hayes 34A of Kelowna BC dIed June 2 1992 A pioneer in the Okanagan fruit industry he worked as general man ager for the Occidental Fruit Company for more than 20 years He helped establish the Kelowna Yacht Club in 1950 and served as club commodore He is su rvived by his wife Janet and son Eric

Reginald Hoskins 4 1A of Claremont Ont died March 28 1993 A lIfe member of the OAC Alumni ASSOCIa tion he farmed nea l Claremont and was past master of Brougham Union Lodge He is survived by IllS wife Doris (Kingsmill) Mac 4 J and six daughters Ruth Taylor FACS 76 Anne Hoskins-Reid OAC 78 Mary Haapa la Doris Denney Margaret McGill and Susan Olfsen

Joseph McCulloch 4 1 A of Cbes iey Ont died June 13 1993 After college he served as a mechani ca l engi neer with the Canadian Armed Forces in Europe then returned to Canada to run the family farm near Ches ley He was active in the co-operative movement and was president of the board of directors of the Saugeen Valley Co-op He is survived by hi s wife Mary Alice and six children Mary BIll Nancy Joanne Frances and Janet

John Pennington 38 dIed May 4 1993 in North Bay Ont He Joined the Canadian Army in 1942 and was on loan to the British army in the Highland division After the wa r he became involved in th e dairy industry and was production manager at seve ral large plants In 1964 he joined OMAF as fie ld repshyresentative for the milk industry branch and served the count ies of BraIlt NoIiolk and Haldimand until he was tran sferred to North Bay where he worked until his retirement in 1980 He was a volunteer with Mea ls on

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Wheels and at the city hosp ital in N01h Bay He is survi ved by his wife Janice (Scott) Mac 38 Hnd his daughters Lesley Leroux and Lynn Colotelo

Joseph Pires 53 and MSA 54 died April 4 1993 in Port of Spain Trinidad He was founder and managing director of Caribbean Chemicals and Agencies Limited a large manufacturer and distributor of agricultural products in the Caribbean He is survived by his wife Angelica three sons Joe Jr OAC 86A Anthony and Basil one daughter Joanne Pires-Straatsma CSS 79 and her hu sba nd John HAFA 79

Archie Rintoul 26 of East Longmeado w Mass died March 25 1993 Raised on a farm near Carleton Place Olll he took a job with the Blue Valley Creamery Co of Chicago after graduation His sal es territory cove red the midwestern United States Mr Rintoul moved to the Quaker Oats Company in Hartford Conn as animal feed sa lesma n and became general manager when the comshypany started the Community Feed Stores in Massachu setts Connecticut and Vermon t He bought the East Longmeadow and Easshythampton stores fro m the company in 1932 and eventually operated the East Longmeadow store with hi s son

He was a member of the Springfield Boys Club the Masonic Lod ge the Scottish Rits Bodies and th e Melha Temple Shrine He atshytended both Kiwanis and Lions Clubs for 50 years and was a 30-year member of the East Longmeadow Finance Committee

Longtime supporters of the Alma Mater Fund the Presidents Council and U ofG he and his wife Isabelle (Cook) Mac 26 recently establi shed the Archie and Isabelle Rintoul Fellows hips in OAC and FACS Beshysides his wife he is survived by a son James and two daughters Mary Rintoul Quilling and Elizabeth Rintoul Farneth

ove Carl Gobert 40 of Bardstown Ky died March 10 1993 He operated a mixed pracshytice in Kentucky from 1940 until he re tired in 1982 He was a member of the American Veterinary Association and American Asshysoc iation of Equine Pract itioners a Shriner and a Mason He is surv ived by his wife Glenna and four daughters

Peter Konkin 64 of Kamsack Sask died Feb 18 1993 after a shon illness with canshycer Before altending OVC he served two years in the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm and attended one year of med ical sc hool at the University of Western Ontario He dropped out when needed at home on the family farm and spent 16 years there Jn 1960 he was acshycepted into the second year at OVC and graduated in 1964 He moved back to Sasshy

katchewan to practise was one of the first vets in Canada to become involved in emblYo transfe r techniques in cattle and went on to establish an embryo transplant setvice in conjunction with hi s large-animal practice His transpl ant work took him to Germany New Zealand Australia China the United States Central America and Eastshyern Europe

Dr Konkin was a member of the Internashytional Embryo Transfer Society the Canadian Embryo Transfer Association and the Saskatchewan Veterinary Medical Asshysoci ation and its president in 197071 He also establi shed one of the first Simmental herd s in Canada and in recent years worked wi th the Saskatchewan Horse Racing Comshymiss ion He is survived by hi s wife Irene two sons Douglas and Daniel and a daughter Jill

Bernard Tonken 54 died in Calgary Alta Feb 4 1993 Following graduation he began it practice in Vulcan and moved it to Calgary in 1962 In 1969 he bought into Diamond Laboratories a veterinary drug Illanufacturer and remained as general manager when it was sold to Syntex He left a few years later to join Vexco as a consultshyant He is survived by his wife Lil

Donald MacDonald 42 of Amherstburg Ont died May 61993 After ea rnin g his DVM he obtained a diploma in veterinary public hea lth from the University of Toronto and worked for the health unit now known as the Windsor-Essex Co unty Health Unit until retirement in 1954 He is survived by hi s wife Shirley two sons Ian and Robert CBS 82 and two daughters Catherine and Wend y

Alan Secord 29 DSc 83 died May 1 1993 in Toronto Known acros s Canada Secord was a proponent of the contributions pets make toward improving a human s physical and emotional well-being He and his classmate Raymond Currey estabshyli shedt he Secord-Currey Fellowship in Comshypanion Animal-Human Bonding to support graduate students studying the humanshyanimal bond Dr Secord served on Guelph s Board of Governors from 1973 to 1977 on the Heritage Fund boa rd of trustees as honorary president of the OVC Pet Trust Fund and as class agent for the Alma Mater Fund A member of the MacLachlan Society and it lifetime member of the Presidents Council he received the OVC Alumni Associations Di stingui shed Alumnus Award in 1978 and an honorary degree in 1983 He was inducted into the Gryphon Hall of Fame for track and field

Dr Secord was a life member of the Toronto Humane Society and past pres ident of the Toronto Academy of Veterinary Medicine and was affiliated with the Ontario Veterinary Association

He is survived by his Wife Ingeborg one son David OVC 58 and two dau ghters Beverly O Sullivan and Diane Memorial gi fts can be sent to the Secord-Currey Felshylowsh ip co Alumni House University of Guelph Guelph Ont N I G 2W I

Faculty

Herbert Armstrong retired dean of graduate studshyies died March 3 1993 Before coming to U of Gin 1968 he was dea n of arts and sc ience at McMaster Unishyversity for 12 years dean of science and Heherl Amsong academic vice-president at the University of Alberta then the first president and vice-chancellor of the University of Calgary At Guelph he played a crucial role in developing a flouri sh ing proshygram of postgraduate studie~ Dr Arm~trong

officially retired in 1980 but con tinu ed to work on special ass ign ment s for the Univershysi ty He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Roya l Canadian Geogra phical Society He wagt made an honorary fellow of U of Gin 1985 He is surshyvived by his wife Kathleen and his chilshydren Catherine Lynden and Margaret Shera

Stephen Fushtey of Agassi z BC a fac ulty member in the late 19605 and 19705 in botany and environmental biology di ed March II 1993 He owned and operated the Fushtey Nut Farm in Agassiz He is survived by his wife Ruth three daughters Elizabeth Nieman FACS 85 Patricia OAC 82A and Mary and one son David BLA 80

Professor emeritus John Melby died Dec 18 1992 in Guelph He was named the first chair of the Depa rtm ent of Politica l Studies at U of G in 1967 and retired in 1977 He came to Canada after being fired in 1954 from the US State Department for havin g a relationship with playwright Lillian Hellman who was charged with being a Communi st He and Hellman began an affair in Mosco w in 1944 that turned into a long friend ship documented in The Cold War Romance ofLillian Hellman and lohn Melhy by Robert Newman Dr Melbys c lass ificashytion as a sec urity ri sk in the United States was not lifted until 1977 He is survived by hi s wi fe Roxana and one son Ev eret t Conshytri butions to a memorial fund can be sent to Alumni House University of Guelph Guelph Ont NIG 2WI

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William (Bill) Fox 36 di ed April 30 1993 in Burlington Onl He was Ontarios first ex tension specialist for fruits and vegetables and later became director of fruit vegetable and tobacco ex tension stationed at Vineland He was co-ordinator of extension for Ontario on th e U of G campu~ from 1964 to 1974 and during the formative days of the University provided close li aison between U of G and the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food (OMAF) He is survived by his wife Gwen and two sons Ian and Bruce

Allan Dempsey 30 of Belleville Ont died March 13 1993 He was an RAF physishycal training instructor in England and India during the Second World War When he returned to Ontario in 1946 he became a technician at the Dominion Entomological Lab in Belleville where he remained until re tirement in 1969 He is survived by hi s wife Ethel and four children

Orazio Gualtieri 82 Eng of WeIshyland Onl died as the res ult of an auto acc ident Dec 2 1991 He had been employed as an enshygineer in the SI Catharines area and had establi shed GO Engineering

Orazio Gualtieri Development Sershy

vices He was ac tive in th e Niagara SquashRacquet Association and taught athshyleti cs at the YMCA the Ni agara Regional Youth Home and Brock University He IS survived by his parents Gaetano and Ida a s ister Genny Hnd a brother Tony

Maynard Harrison 30 of Maugerville NB died May 21993 Before com ing to Guelph he taught school near Fredericton and attended the Nova Scotia Agricultural College in Truro He was a horticulturist with the New Brunswick Department of Agshyriculture from 1930 until his retirement in 1965 At the same time he ran a vegetable farm at Maugerville and was involved in a number of organizations including the Fredshyericton Gladiolius Society the agr icultural society and 4-H He was a horticulture judge at fall fairs throughout the Maritimes and was on the SI John River Basin Advisory Board and the board of Sheffield United Church He is survived by his dau ghters Margaret Drew and Mary Lou Duncan son Charles and a brother Arthur OAC 29

Darb) Hayes 34A of Kelowna BC dIed June 2 1992 A pioneer in the Okanagan fruit industry he worked as general man ager for the Occidental Fruit Company for more than 20 years He helped establish the Kelowna Yacht Club in 1950 and served as club commodore He is su rvived by his wife Janet and son Eric

Reginald Hoskins 4 1A of Claremont Ont died March 28 1993 A lIfe member of the OAC Alumni ASSOCIa tion he farmed nea l Claremont and was past master of Brougham Union Lodge He is survived by IllS wife Doris (Kingsmill) Mac 4 J and six daughters Ruth Taylor FACS 76 Anne Hoskins-Reid OAC 78 Mary Haapa la Doris Denney Margaret McGill and Susan Olfsen

Joseph McCulloch 4 1 A of Cbes iey Ont died June 13 1993 After college he served as a mechani ca l engi neer with the Canadian Armed Forces in Europe then returned to Canada to run the family farm near Ches ley He was active in the co-operative movement and was president of the board of directors of the Saugeen Valley Co-op He is survived by hi s wife Mary Alice and six children Mary BIll Nancy Joanne Frances and Janet

John Pennington 38 dIed May 4 1993 in North Bay Ont He Joined the Canadian Army in 1942 and was on loan to the British army in the Highland division After the wa r he became involved in th e dairy industry and was production manager at seve ral large plants In 1964 he joined OMAF as fie ld repshyresentative for the milk industry branch and served the count ies of BraIlt NoIiolk and Haldimand until he was tran sferred to North Bay where he worked until his retirement in 1980 He was a volunteer with Mea ls on

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Guelph Ontario NIH 4K3 (519) 822-0051

Cu~lph Alumnus 36

============= IN MEMORIAM=============

Wheels and at the city hosp ital in N01h Bay He is survi ved by his wife Janice (Scott) Mac 38 Hnd his daughters Lesley Leroux and Lynn Colotelo

Joseph Pires 53 and MSA 54 died April 4 1993 in Port of Spain Trinidad He was founder and managing director of Caribbean Chemicals and Agencies Limited a large manufacturer and distributor of agricultural products in the Caribbean He is survived by his wife Angelica three sons Joe Jr OAC 86A Anthony and Basil one daughter Joanne Pires-Straatsma CSS 79 and her hu sba nd John HAFA 79

Archie Rintoul 26 of East Longmeado w Mass died March 25 1993 Raised on a farm near Carleton Place Olll he took a job with the Blue Valley Creamery Co of Chicago after graduation His sal es territory cove red the midwestern United States Mr Rintoul moved to the Quaker Oats Company in Hartford Conn as animal feed sa lesma n and became general manager when the comshypany started the Community Feed Stores in Massachu setts Connecticut and Vermon t He bought the East Longmeadow and Easshythampton stores fro m the company in 1932 and eventually operated the East Longmeadow store with hi s son

He was a member of the Springfield Boys Club the Masonic Lod ge the Scottish Rits Bodies and th e Melha Temple Shrine He atshytended both Kiwanis and Lions Clubs for 50 years and was a 30-year member of the East Longmeadow Finance Committee

Longtime supporters of the Alma Mater Fund the Presidents Council and U ofG he and his wife Isabelle (Cook) Mac 26 recently establi shed the Archie and Isabelle Rintoul Fellows hips in OAC and FACS Beshysides his wife he is survived by a son James and two daughters Mary Rintoul Quilling and Elizabeth Rintoul Farneth

ove Carl Gobert 40 of Bardstown Ky died March 10 1993 He operated a mixed pracshytice in Kentucky from 1940 until he re tired in 1982 He was a member of the American Veterinary Association and American Asshysoc iation of Equine Pract itioners a Shriner and a Mason He is surv ived by his wife Glenna and four daughters

Peter Konkin 64 of Kamsack Sask died Feb 18 1993 after a shon illness with canshycer Before altending OVC he served two years in the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm and attended one year of med ical sc hool at the University of Western Ontario He dropped out when needed at home on the family farm and spent 16 years there Jn 1960 he was acshycepted into the second year at OVC and graduated in 1964 He moved back to Sasshy

katchewan to practise was one of the first vets in Canada to become involved in emblYo transfe r techniques in cattle and went on to establish an embryo transplant setvice in conjunction with hi s large-animal practice His transpl ant work took him to Germany New Zealand Australia China the United States Central America and Eastshyern Europe

Dr Konkin was a member of the Internashytional Embryo Transfer Society the Canadian Embryo Transfer Association and the Saskatchewan Veterinary Medical Asshysoci ation and its president in 197071 He also establi shed one of the first Simmental herd s in Canada and in recent years worked wi th the Saskatchewan Horse Racing Comshymiss ion He is survived by hi s wife Irene two sons Douglas and Daniel and a daughter Jill

Bernard Tonken 54 died in Calgary Alta Feb 4 1993 Following graduation he began it practice in Vulcan and moved it to Calgary in 1962 In 1969 he bought into Diamond Laboratories a veterinary drug Illanufacturer and remained as general manager when it was sold to Syntex He left a few years later to join Vexco as a consultshyant He is survived by his wife Lil

Donald MacDonald 42 of Amherstburg Ont died May 61993 After ea rnin g his DVM he obtained a diploma in veterinary public hea lth from the University of Toronto and worked for the health unit now known as the Windsor-Essex Co unty Health Unit until retirement in 1954 He is survived by hi s wife Shirley two sons Ian and Robert CBS 82 and two daughters Catherine and Wend y

Alan Secord 29 DSc 83 died May 1 1993 in Toronto Known acros s Canada Secord was a proponent of the contributions pets make toward improving a human s physical and emotional well-being He and his classmate Raymond Currey estabshyli shedt he Secord-Currey Fellowship in Comshypanion Animal-Human Bonding to support graduate students studying the humanshyanimal bond Dr Secord served on Guelph s Board of Governors from 1973 to 1977 on the Heritage Fund boa rd of trustees as honorary president of the OVC Pet Trust Fund and as class agent for the Alma Mater Fund A member of the MacLachlan Society and it lifetime member of the Presidents Council he received the OVC Alumni Associations Di stingui shed Alumnus Award in 1978 and an honorary degree in 1983 He was inducted into the Gryphon Hall of Fame for track and field

Dr Secord was a life member of the Toronto Humane Society and past pres ident of the Toronto Academy of Veterinary Medicine and was affiliated with the Ontario Veterinary Association

He is survived by his Wife Ingeborg one son David OVC 58 and two dau ghters Beverly O Sullivan and Diane Memorial gi fts can be sent to the Secord-Currey Felshylowsh ip co Alumni House University of Guelph Guelph Ont N I G 2W I

Faculty

Herbert Armstrong retired dean of graduate studshyies died March 3 1993 Before coming to U of Gin 1968 he was dea n of arts and sc ience at McMaster Unishyversity for 12 years dean of science and Heherl Amsong academic vice-president at the University of Alberta then the first president and vice-chancellor of the University of Calgary At Guelph he played a crucial role in developing a flouri sh ing proshygram of postgraduate studie~ Dr Arm~trong

officially retired in 1980 but con tinu ed to work on special ass ign ment s for the Univershysi ty He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Roya l Canadian Geogra phical Society He wagt made an honorary fellow of U of Gin 1985 He is surshyvived by his wife Kathleen and his chilshydren Catherine Lynden and Margaret Shera

Stephen Fushtey of Agassi z BC a fac ulty member in the late 19605 and 19705 in botany and environmental biology di ed March II 1993 He owned and operated the Fushtey Nut Farm in Agassiz He is survived by his wife Ruth three daughters Elizabeth Nieman FACS 85 Patricia OAC 82A and Mary and one son David BLA 80

Professor emeritus John Melby died Dec 18 1992 in Guelph He was named the first chair of the Depa rtm ent of Politica l Studies at U of G in 1967 and retired in 1977 He came to Canada after being fired in 1954 from the US State Department for havin g a relationship with playwright Lillian Hellman who was charged with being a Communi st He and Hellman began an affair in Mosco w in 1944 that turned into a long friend ship documented in The Cold War Romance ofLillian Hellman and lohn Melhy by Robert Newman Dr Melbys c lass ificashytion as a sec urity ri sk in the United States was not lifted until 1977 He is survived by hi s wi fe Roxana and one son Ev eret t Conshytri butions to a memorial fund can be sent to Alumni House University of Guelph Guelph Ont NIG 2WI

Donations given in memory of the ahove alumni will help support scholarships at the University ofGuelph if directed to the Alumni Memorial Fund

Guelph Alumnus 37

Classifieds 1867 Confederation Log Homes Box 213 Chatswo~h Onl NOH lGO(519)794-2800 FAX (519) 794-3681 Canadas most complete pre-cut log packshyages for homes collages chalets amp commercial buildshyings Model and sales all ice on Holland Rd 10 east 01 Hwy 6 between Chatswo~h and Williamslord Indeshypendent dealer lor Weather-Bos Environmentally Sale Stains and Paints 1middot800-667middot8300

Campion College at the University of Regina invites former students to return to the campus for a 75th anniversary reunion OCi 8 to 10 1993 For an infolshymational brochure call (306) 586-4242 or loll free 1-800-667-7282

Specialists in Retirement Communities and Institutional Land Development

What an Achievement An advertisement in the Guelph Alumnus benefits

f your business and your

l university

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University of Guelph Guelph Ont N 1 G 2W1 519-824-4120 Ext 6690

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~ Rob Boycott MPA

Investment Executive

Scotia McLeod Inc Suite 30142 Wyndham Street North

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University of Guelph A Campus Portrait

A few limited edition pictorial essay colfee-fable books containing outstanding original photographs by award-winning photographer John de Visser are available $35 plus $7 shipping amp handling Send cheque payable to University of Guelph Advancement Programs Alumni HouseUniversity

of Guelph Guelph Onfario NIG 2Wl or call 519-824-4120 Ext 6534

Did you live in Mills Hall Join us Oct 2 for a Mill s Hall reunion celebrating 72 years of

tradition Call Brad Whittich at 5 J9-824-4120 Ext 77825

for information

Take us with you wherever you go

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Address ______________

Telephone _____________

Grad news update___________

St IHI addn- dWI1lt llld Ic](] Ill 10 till Ielpll 111111111

lmiddotllil~ril or(IIlmiddotlph (udph Onl 1( 2 I

The Eades Group 1505 Holburne Road

Mississauga Ont L5E 2L7

(416) 278-4104 Fax 278-7738 Mobile 948-6079

TRAVEL ADVENTURE

Eastern Caribbean cruise Nov 27 to Dec 4 1993 Leaving from Fort L auderd ale Fla on the ms Wcsfcrdam this Holland Ameri ca seven-day lu xury cruise inshycludes visits to St Maarten and St Thomas in the Virg in Island s and Nassau in the Bahamas Duty-free shopping and sightsee in g wilJ make this cruise a perfect ge taway before the busy holiday season Prices begin at $1385 and depend on se lection of stateroom

Arrangements by Golding Travel Guelph 5J 9-836-4940

South American adventure Feb 2S to March 22 1994 Escape the winteron a IO-day advenshyture south of the equator Join Guelph aJumni and friends as you tour Buenos Aires in Argentina and v isit Brazil to see 19 uasll FalJ s - one of the worlds m ost spectacular nntshyural wonders - and Rio de Janeiro Cost of thi s holiday i s about $2900

Arrangements by Ships School Educational Travel Brantford 519shy756-4900

For more in formation cdJ Rosemary Clark at Alumni House 5 J 9-824-4120 Ext 634

3lt1 GlleIII I IIIIIIIIIIS

Gryphon Club Hall of Fame inductees

Mike Lackowitz BLA 70 swimming omecomlbull 9Kim Miles HK 76 hockey

Bill Sproule OAC 59 football

Henry Vandenberg CSS 77 basketball

Ross Junke OAC 42 basketball football hockey

Prof Mary Beverley-Burton Zoology bui lder

Don Mason OAC Redmen swimming coach 1958-1966 builder

Induction will take place during the Hall of Fame dinner Oct I at 6 pm at the OVC Learning Centre Tickets $50 (in shycludes $25 tax rece ipt) order by calling 519-824-41 20 Ext 6133

Hack in the Swim of rhing

Pool opening Alumni swim meet

Inner tube water polo Family swim

Water fun

Call Alan Fairweather to register for the swim meet or water polo tourshynament 59-824-4120 Ext 2220

Homecoming Hotline

519-824-4120 Ext 2102

93

RYPHON Events WIMMIN

There s ruom

Thursday Sept 30

530 pm Alumni House III UII

barbecue for new II ( 11 pool students hosted by the UG AA and Student Alumni Association

Friday Oct 1

5 to 9 pm Welcome Wagon UC courtyard 6pm Hall of Fame Dinner OvC Learning Centre and

Inner tube Water Polo Tournament

Saturday Oct 2

All day Welcome Wagon UC courtyard 9 am to 2 pm Alumni swim meet and brunch call Ext 2220 to register 9am Human Kinetics Alumni Association meeting 10 am Engineering Alumni Association meeting 10 am to 2 pm College Days at FACS (By invitation) 11 am POOL OPENING 11 am Mills Hall reunion barbecue call E xt 77825 for detai ls Noon to 2 pm Walking parade from Johnston Green to the stadium 2pm Football Gryphons vs Windsor Lancers 330 to 6 pm Coffee amp cocktails at the Faculty Club UC 4pm HAFA 82 reunion barbecue 9 pm Homecoming dance PCH and social Athletics

Sunday Oct 3

J I am to I pm Free family swim in the new gold pool 11 am to 4 pm Bonsai show at the Arboretull1 Centre

For complete details see Homecoming schedule page 28

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STUDIES PROGRAM

- all in the pursuit of your education And

- incredible savings on your first new ca r or truc k

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============= IN MEMORIAM=============

Wheels and at the city hosp ital in N01h Bay He is survi ved by his wife Janice (Scott) Mac 38 Hnd his daughters Lesley Leroux and Lynn Colotelo

Joseph Pires 53 and MSA 54 died April 4 1993 in Port of Spain Trinidad He was founder and managing director of Caribbean Chemicals and Agencies Limited a large manufacturer and distributor of agricultural products in the Caribbean He is survived by his wife Angelica three sons Joe Jr OAC 86A Anthony and Basil one daughter Joanne Pires-Straatsma CSS 79 and her hu sba nd John HAFA 79

Archie Rintoul 26 of East Longmeado w Mass died March 25 1993 Raised on a farm near Carleton Place Olll he took a job with the Blue Valley Creamery Co of Chicago after graduation His sal es territory cove red the midwestern United States Mr Rintoul moved to the Quaker Oats Company in Hartford Conn as animal feed sa lesma n and became general manager when the comshypany started the Community Feed Stores in Massachu setts Connecticut and Vermon t He bought the East Longmeadow and Easshythampton stores fro m the company in 1932 and eventually operated the East Longmeadow store with hi s son

He was a member of the Springfield Boys Club the Masonic Lod ge the Scottish Rits Bodies and th e Melha Temple Shrine He atshytended both Kiwanis and Lions Clubs for 50 years and was a 30-year member of the East Longmeadow Finance Committee

Longtime supporters of the Alma Mater Fund the Presidents Council and U ofG he and his wife Isabelle (Cook) Mac 26 recently establi shed the Archie and Isabelle Rintoul Fellows hips in OAC and FACS Beshysides his wife he is survived by a son James and two daughters Mary Rintoul Quilling and Elizabeth Rintoul Farneth

ove Carl Gobert 40 of Bardstown Ky died March 10 1993 He operated a mixed pracshytice in Kentucky from 1940 until he re tired in 1982 He was a member of the American Veterinary Association and American Asshysoc iation of Equine Pract itioners a Shriner and a Mason He is surv ived by his wife Glenna and four daughters

Peter Konkin 64 of Kamsack Sask died Feb 18 1993 after a shon illness with canshycer Before altending OVC he served two years in the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm and attended one year of med ical sc hool at the University of Western Ontario He dropped out when needed at home on the family farm and spent 16 years there Jn 1960 he was acshycepted into the second year at OVC and graduated in 1964 He moved back to Sasshy

katchewan to practise was one of the first vets in Canada to become involved in emblYo transfe r techniques in cattle and went on to establish an embryo transplant setvice in conjunction with hi s large-animal practice His transpl ant work took him to Germany New Zealand Australia China the United States Central America and Eastshyern Europe

Dr Konkin was a member of the Internashytional Embryo Transfer Society the Canadian Embryo Transfer Association and the Saskatchewan Veterinary Medical Asshysoci ation and its president in 197071 He also establi shed one of the first Simmental herd s in Canada and in recent years worked wi th the Saskatchewan Horse Racing Comshymiss ion He is survived by hi s wife Irene two sons Douglas and Daniel and a daughter Jill

Bernard Tonken 54 died in Calgary Alta Feb 4 1993 Following graduation he began it practice in Vulcan and moved it to Calgary in 1962 In 1969 he bought into Diamond Laboratories a veterinary drug Illanufacturer and remained as general manager when it was sold to Syntex He left a few years later to join Vexco as a consultshyant He is survived by his wife Lil

Donald MacDonald 42 of Amherstburg Ont died May 61993 After ea rnin g his DVM he obtained a diploma in veterinary public hea lth from the University of Toronto and worked for the health unit now known as the Windsor-Essex Co unty Health Unit until retirement in 1954 He is survived by hi s wife Shirley two sons Ian and Robert CBS 82 and two daughters Catherine and Wend y

Alan Secord 29 DSc 83 died May 1 1993 in Toronto Known acros s Canada Secord was a proponent of the contributions pets make toward improving a human s physical and emotional well-being He and his classmate Raymond Currey estabshyli shedt he Secord-Currey Fellowship in Comshypanion Animal-Human Bonding to support graduate students studying the humanshyanimal bond Dr Secord served on Guelph s Board of Governors from 1973 to 1977 on the Heritage Fund boa rd of trustees as honorary president of the OVC Pet Trust Fund and as class agent for the Alma Mater Fund A member of the MacLachlan Society and it lifetime member of the Presidents Council he received the OVC Alumni Associations Di stingui shed Alumnus Award in 1978 and an honorary degree in 1983 He was inducted into the Gryphon Hall of Fame for track and field

Dr Secord was a life member of the Toronto Humane Society and past pres ident of the Toronto Academy of Veterinary Medicine and was affiliated with the Ontario Veterinary Association

He is survived by his Wife Ingeborg one son David OVC 58 and two dau ghters Beverly O Sullivan and Diane Memorial gi fts can be sent to the Secord-Currey Felshylowsh ip co Alumni House University of Guelph Guelph Ont N I G 2W I

Faculty

Herbert Armstrong retired dean of graduate studshyies died March 3 1993 Before coming to U of Gin 1968 he was dea n of arts and sc ience at McMaster Unishyversity for 12 years dean of science and Heherl Amsong academic vice-president at the University of Alberta then the first president and vice-chancellor of the University of Calgary At Guelph he played a crucial role in developing a flouri sh ing proshygram of postgraduate studie~ Dr Arm~trong

officially retired in 1980 but con tinu ed to work on special ass ign ment s for the Univershysi ty He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Roya l Canadian Geogra phical Society He wagt made an honorary fellow of U of Gin 1985 He is surshyvived by his wife Kathleen and his chilshydren Catherine Lynden and Margaret Shera

Stephen Fushtey of Agassi z BC a fac ulty member in the late 19605 and 19705 in botany and environmental biology di ed March II 1993 He owned and operated the Fushtey Nut Farm in Agassiz He is survived by his wife Ruth three daughters Elizabeth Nieman FACS 85 Patricia OAC 82A and Mary and one son David BLA 80

Professor emeritus John Melby died Dec 18 1992 in Guelph He was named the first chair of the Depa rtm ent of Politica l Studies at U of G in 1967 and retired in 1977 He came to Canada after being fired in 1954 from the US State Department for havin g a relationship with playwright Lillian Hellman who was charged with being a Communi st He and Hellman began an affair in Mosco w in 1944 that turned into a long friend ship documented in The Cold War Romance ofLillian Hellman and lohn Melhy by Robert Newman Dr Melbys c lass ificashytion as a sec urity ri sk in the United States was not lifted until 1977 He is survived by hi s wi fe Roxana and one son Ev eret t Conshytri butions to a memorial fund can be sent to Alumni House University of Guelph Guelph Ont NIG 2WI

Donations given in memory of the ahove alumni will help support scholarships at the University ofGuelph if directed to the Alumni Memorial Fund

Guelph Alumnus 37

Classifieds 1867 Confederation Log Homes Box 213 Chatswo~h Onl NOH lGO(519)794-2800 FAX (519) 794-3681 Canadas most complete pre-cut log packshyages for homes collages chalets amp commercial buildshyings Model and sales all ice on Holland Rd 10 east 01 Hwy 6 between Chatswo~h and Williamslord Indeshypendent dealer lor Weather-Bos Environmentally Sale Stains and Paints 1middot800-667middot8300

Campion College at the University of Regina invites former students to return to the campus for a 75th anniversary reunion OCi 8 to 10 1993 For an infolshymational brochure call (306) 586-4242 or loll free 1-800-667-7282

Specialists in Retirement Communities and Institutional Land Development

What an Achievement An advertisement in the Guelph Alumnus benefits

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Investment Executive

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University of Guelph A Campus Portrait

A few limited edition pictorial essay colfee-fable books containing outstanding original photographs by award-winning photographer John de Visser are available $35 plus $7 shipping amp handling Send cheque payable to University of Guelph Advancement Programs Alumni HouseUniversity

of Guelph Guelph Onfario NIG 2Wl or call 519-824-4120 Ext 6534

Did you live in Mills Hall Join us Oct 2 for a Mill s Hall reunion celebrating 72 years of

tradition Call Brad Whittich at 5 J9-824-4120 Ext 77825

for information

Take us with you wherever you go

Name _______________

Oegree _______________

Address ______________

Telephone _____________

Grad news update___________

St IHI addn- dWI1lt llld Ic](] Ill 10 till Ielpll 111111111

lmiddotllil~ril or(IIlmiddotlph (udph Onl 1( 2 I

The Eades Group 1505 Holburne Road

Mississauga Ont L5E 2L7

(416) 278-4104 Fax 278-7738 Mobile 948-6079

TRAVEL ADVENTURE

Eastern Caribbean cruise Nov 27 to Dec 4 1993 Leaving from Fort L auderd ale Fla on the ms Wcsfcrdam this Holland Ameri ca seven-day lu xury cruise inshycludes visits to St Maarten and St Thomas in the Virg in Island s and Nassau in the Bahamas Duty-free shopping and sightsee in g wilJ make this cruise a perfect ge taway before the busy holiday season Prices begin at $1385 and depend on se lection of stateroom

Arrangements by Golding Travel Guelph 5J 9-836-4940

South American adventure Feb 2S to March 22 1994 Escape the winteron a IO-day advenshyture south of the equator Join Guelph aJumni and friends as you tour Buenos Aires in Argentina and v isit Brazil to see 19 uasll FalJ s - one of the worlds m ost spectacular nntshyural wonders - and Rio de Janeiro Cost of thi s holiday i s about $2900

Arrangements by Ships School Educational Travel Brantford 519shy756-4900

For more in formation cdJ Rosemary Clark at Alumni House 5 J 9-824-4120 Ext 634

3lt1 GlleIII I IIIIIIIIIIS

Gryphon Club Hall of Fame inductees

Mike Lackowitz BLA 70 swimming omecomlbull 9Kim Miles HK 76 hockey

Bill Sproule OAC 59 football

Henry Vandenberg CSS 77 basketball

Ross Junke OAC 42 basketball football hockey

Prof Mary Beverley-Burton Zoology bui lder

Don Mason OAC Redmen swimming coach 1958-1966 builder

Induction will take place during the Hall of Fame dinner Oct I at 6 pm at the OVC Learning Centre Tickets $50 (in shycludes $25 tax rece ipt) order by calling 519-824-41 20 Ext 6133

Hack in the Swim of rhing

Pool opening Alumni swim meet

Inner tube water polo Family swim

Water fun

Call Alan Fairweather to register for the swim meet or water polo tourshynament 59-824-4120 Ext 2220

Homecoming Hotline

519-824-4120 Ext 2102

93

RYPHON Events WIMMIN

There s ruom

Thursday Sept 30

530 pm Alumni House III UII

barbecue for new II ( 11 pool students hosted by the UG AA and Student Alumni Association

Friday Oct 1

5 to 9 pm Welcome Wagon UC courtyard 6pm Hall of Fame Dinner OvC Learning Centre and

Inner tube Water Polo Tournament

Saturday Oct 2

All day Welcome Wagon UC courtyard 9 am to 2 pm Alumni swim meet and brunch call Ext 2220 to register 9am Human Kinetics Alumni Association meeting 10 am Engineering Alumni Association meeting 10 am to 2 pm College Days at FACS (By invitation) 11 am POOL OPENING 11 am Mills Hall reunion barbecue call E xt 77825 for detai ls Noon to 2 pm Walking parade from Johnston Green to the stadium 2pm Football Gryphons vs Windsor Lancers 330 to 6 pm Coffee amp cocktails at the Faculty Club UC 4pm HAFA 82 reunion barbecue 9 pm Homecoming dance PCH and social Athletics

Sunday Oct 3

J I am to I pm Free family swim in the new gold pool 11 am to 4 pm Bonsai show at the Arboretull1 Centre

For complete details see Homecoming schedule page 28

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GRADS

STUDIES PROGRAM

- all in the pursuit of your education And

- incredible savings on your first new ca r or truc k

Make the best dea l yo u can at any Chrysler Dodge

Plymouth or JeepEagle dealership then present the

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Cred it approved finan ced purchases on 48-month term s on

selected offers You 11111 pay the full amount but Chrysler

understands that wh en youre first starting out this deferral

option gIves you a little extra time to start you on your wayt

Visit your Chrysler Dodge Plym outh or JeepEagle dealer today for

a test drive Expe rience the Chrysler differen ce for yourse lf

Buy with confidence With Chryslers Owners Choice

Protection Plan you can choose between our 7-yea r 11 5000 kil ometre

Powertra1l1 Warra ntycombined wi th a I yea r20000 kilome tre bumper-toshy

yea r60000 kilometre bumper-to-bumper

Warra nty (Fo r Import s and LaserTalon models the 360 option also inclu des 5-1earIl00 000

CHRYSLERC rr~ (v-ilF lgtIf r~A 10N imiddotBilur rl lPyt ln rrI[l T Chl l I BCJt 30

A-GueIph-94

_________ Telephone _________

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Youve burned the midnight oil crammed countless ElCts9192 amp93 Chrysler wants to give you a graduation present

bumper Basic Warranty OR our 3shy

Eagle Talon km Powerlrain coverage) Its your chOICe and theres no ded uctible I Sizzling looks and hot performance

Jeep CherokeeFrom S1 4475 Driving excitement from

an award-WinnerPlymouth Laser From S14145 From S15485

Jeep YJ Dakota The Fun to Drive 4x4 Thoroughbred loo ks

Work horse gu ts From S12605

From Sll265

Plymouth Sundance DodgePlymouth Colt Dodge Shadow - Eagle Summit Sporty good looks at an Affordable excitement affordable pri ce

From S~895 From Sl 0750

j ~lf l~oIl ~ -1~ I e t I doln Amuic c I(f S 9j(j- f-j rf) I r or 000 r 10 J 0 A pI IS It-v) PrlC-~ IS ~urI~ Ie ndl Pemiddot ~ -1(JIrgh A~ tV (rql~lIlllorur J nJJor- rrflgld Toion11zt5YJJIPJ(ISc75 Jlr) o)tlld$52~ r lt ~~ 1 ~ lJ~ I tJil S lt t middotcvmm 1 141~~ [Ir)Ir --ramp~r r I()r l (~~ Or( Deol~1 ~Oy ell lor ilJ OHp Cl ~C1lcbgt unrd

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Please complele

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Streel _______________ ___________

Province ____________ Poslol Code ________

Grad year ____ Sc hool ________________

Where did you hear obou llhe program _______________

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Classifieds 1867 Confederation Log Homes Box 213 Chatswo~h Onl NOH lGO(519)794-2800 FAX (519) 794-3681 Canadas most complete pre-cut log packshyages for homes collages chalets amp commercial buildshyings Model and sales all ice on Holland Rd 10 east 01 Hwy 6 between Chatswo~h and Williamslord Indeshypendent dealer lor Weather-Bos Environmentally Sale Stains and Paints 1middot800-667middot8300

Campion College at the University of Regina invites former students to return to the campus for a 75th anniversary reunion OCi 8 to 10 1993 For an infolshymational brochure call (306) 586-4242 or loll free 1-800-667-7282

Specialists in Retirement Communities and Institutional Land Development

What an Achievement An advertisement in the Guelph Alumnus benefits

f your business and your

l university

I II~ J 1 Call for

1 I detaIls I today

- 1 1 Guelph Alumnus Magazine

University of Guelph Guelph Ont N 1 G 2W1 519-824-4120 Ext 6690

Inveitrnent Executive

~ Rob Boycott MPA

Investment Executive

Scotia McLeod Inc Suite 30142 Wyndham Street North

St Georges Square Guelph Ontario N 1 H 4C9

(519) 763-0371 1-800-265-2999 fax (519) 763-0234

bull Persona1lnvestmcnt Review

bull PersonaJ Retirement PJanning

bull Managed Portfolios

University of Guelph A Campus Portrait

A few limited edition pictorial essay colfee-fable books containing outstanding original photographs by award-winning photographer John de Visser are available $35 plus $7 shipping amp handling Send cheque payable to University of Guelph Advancement Programs Alumni HouseUniversity

of Guelph Guelph Onfario NIG 2Wl or call 519-824-4120 Ext 6534

Did you live in Mills Hall Join us Oct 2 for a Mill s Hall reunion celebrating 72 years of

tradition Call Brad Whittich at 5 J9-824-4120 Ext 77825

for information

Take us with you wherever you go

Name _______________

Oegree _______________

Address ______________

Telephone _____________

Grad news update___________

St IHI addn- dWI1lt llld Ic](] Ill 10 till Ielpll 111111111

lmiddotllil~ril or(IIlmiddotlph (udph Onl 1( 2 I

The Eades Group 1505 Holburne Road

Mississauga Ont L5E 2L7

(416) 278-4104 Fax 278-7738 Mobile 948-6079

TRAVEL ADVENTURE

Eastern Caribbean cruise Nov 27 to Dec 4 1993 Leaving from Fort L auderd ale Fla on the ms Wcsfcrdam this Holland Ameri ca seven-day lu xury cruise inshycludes visits to St Maarten and St Thomas in the Virg in Island s and Nassau in the Bahamas Duty-free shopping and sightsee in g wilJ make this cruise a perfect ge taway before the busy holiday season Prices begin at $1385 and depend on se lection of stateroom

Arrangements by Golding Travel Guelph 5J 9-836-4940

South American adventure Feb 2S to March 22 1994 Escape the winteron a IO-day advenshyture south of the equator Join Guelph aJumni and friends as you tour Buenos Aires in Argentina and v isit Brazil to see 19 uasll FalJ s - one of the worlds m ost spectacular nntshyural wonders - and Rio de Janeiro Cost of thi s holiday i s about $2900

Arrangements by Ships School Educational Travel Brantford 519shy756-4900

For more in formation cdJ Rosemary Clark at Alumni House 5 J 9-824-4120 Ext 634

3lt1 GlleIII I IIIIIIIIIIS

Gryphon Club Hall of Fame inductees

Mike Lackowitz BLA 70 swimming omecomlbull 9Kim Miles HK 76 hockey

Bill Sproule OAC 59 football

Henry Vandenberg CSS 77 basketball

Ross Junke OAC 42 basketball football hockey

Prof Mary Beverley-Burton Zoology bui lder

Don Mason OAC Redmen swimming coach 1958-1966 builder

Induction will take place during the Hall of Fame dinner Oct I at 6 pm at the OVC Learning Centre Tickets $50 (in shycludes $25 tax rece ipt) order by calling 519-824-41 20 Ext 6133

Hack in the Swim of rhing

Pool opening Alumni swim meet

Inner tube water polo Family swim

Water fun

Call Alan Fairweather to register for the swim meet or water polo tourshynament 59-824-4120 Ext 2220

Homecoming Hotline

519-824-4120 Ext 2102

93

RYPHON Events WIMMIN

There s ruom

Thursday Sept 30

530 pm Alumni House III UII

barbecue for new II ( 11 pool students hosted by the UG AA and Student Alumni Association

Friday Oct 1

5 to 9 pm Welcome Wagon UC courtyard 6pm Hall of Fame Dinner OvC Learning Centre and

Inner tube Water Polo Tournament

Saturday Oct 2

All day Welcome Wagon UC courtyard 9 am to 2 pm Alumni swim meet and brunch call Ext 2220 to register 9am Human Kinetics Alumni Association meeting 10 am Engineering Alumni Association meeting 10 am to 2 pm College Days at FACS (By invitation) 11 am POOL OPENING 11 am Mills Hall reunion barbecue call E xt 77825 for detai ls Noon to 2 pm Walking parade from Johnston Green to the stadium 2pm Football Gryphons vs Windsor Lancers 330 to 6 pm Coffee amp cocktails at the Faculty Club UC 4pm HAFA 82 reunion barbecue 9 pm Homecoming dance PCH and social Athletics

Sunday Oct 3

J I am to I pm Free family swim in the new gold pool 11 am to 4 pm Bonsai show at the Arboretull1 Centre

For complete details see Homecoming schedule page 28

-

GRADS

STUDIES PROGRAM

- all in the pursuit of your education And

- incredible savings on your first new ca r or truc k

Make the best dea l yo u can at any Chrysler Dodge

Plymouth or JeepEagle dealership then present the

ce rtifi cate below fo r an add itional savll1gs of 57 50 I

You ca n defer your paymentsfor three months on Chrysler

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Gryphon Club Hall of Fame inductees

Mike Lackowitz BLA 70 swimming omecomlbull 9Kim Miles HK 76 hockey

Bill Sproule OAC 59 football

Henry Vandenberg CSS 77 basketball

Ross Junke OAC 42 basketball football hockey

Prof Mary Beverley-Burton Zoology bui lder

Don Mason OAC Redmen swimming coach 1958-1966 builder

Induction will take place during the Hall of Fame dinner Oct I at 6 pm at the OVC Learning Centre Tickets $50 (in shycludes $25 tax rece ipt) order by calling 519-824-41 20 Ext 6133

Hack in the Swim of rhing

Pool opening Alumni swim meet

Inner tube water polo Family swim

Water fun

Call Alan Fairweather to register for the swim meet or water polo tourshynament 59-824-4120 Ext 2220

Homecoming Hotline

519-824-4120 Ext 2102

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RYPHON Events WIMMIN

There s ruom

Thursday Sept 30

530 pm Alumni House III UII

barbecue for new II ( 11 pool students hosted by the UG AA and Student Alumni Association

Friday Oct 1

5 to 9 pm Welcome Wagon UC courtyard 6pm Hall of Fame Dinner OvC Learning Centre and

Inner tube Water Polo Tournament

Saturday Oct 2

All day Welcome Wagon UC courtyard 9 am to 2 pm Alumni swim meet and brunch call Ext 2220 to register 9am Human Kinetics Alumni Association meeting 10 am Engineering Alumni Association meeting 10 am to 2 pm College Days at FACS (By invitation) 11 am POOL OPENING 11 am Mills Hall reunion barbecue call E xt 77825 for detai ls Noon to 2 pm Walking parade from Johnston Green to the stadium 2pm Football Gryphons vs Windsor Lancers 330 to 6 pm Coffee amp cocktails at the Faculty Club UC 4pm HAFA 82 reunion barbecue 9 pm Homecoming dance PCH and social Athletics

Sunday Oct 3

J I am to I pm Free family swim in the new gold pool 11 am to 4 pm Bonsai show at the Arboretull1 Centre

For complete details see Homecoming schedule page 28

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- all in the pursuit of your education And

- incredible savings on your first new ca r or truc k

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Plymouth or JeepEagle dealership then present the

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Cred it approved finan ced purchases on 48-month term s on

selected offers You 11111 pay the full amount but Chrysler

understands that wh en youre first starting out this deferral

option gIves you a little extra time to start you on your wayt

Visit your Chrysler Dodge Plym outh or JeepEagle dealer today for

a test drive Expe rience the Chrysler differen ce for yourse lf

Buy with confidence With Chryslers Owners Choice

Protection Plan you can choose between our 7-yea r 11 5000 kil ometre

Powertra1l1 Warra ntycombined wi th a I yea r20000 kilome tre bumper-toshy

yea r60000 kilometre bumper-to-bumper

Warra nty (Fo r Import s and LaserTalon models the 360 option also inclu des 5-1earIl00 000

CHRYSLERC rr~ (v-ilF lgtIf r~A 10N imiddotBilur rl lPyt ln rrI[l T Chl l I BCJt 30

A-GueIph-94

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CHRYSLER POST-GRADUATE

Youve burned the midnight oil crammed countless ElCts9192 amp93 Chrysler wants to give you a graduation present

bumper Basic Warranty OR our 3shy

Eagle Talon km Powerlrain coverage) Its your chOICe and theres no ded uctible I Sizzling looks and hot performance

Jeep CherokeeFrom S1 4475 Driving excitement from

an award-WinnerPlymouth Laser From S14145 From S15485

Jeep YJ Dakota The Fun to Drive 4x4 Thoroughbred loo ks

Work horse gu ts From S12605

From Sll265

Plymouth Sundance DodgePlymouth Colt Dodge Shadow - Eagle Summit Sporty good looks at an Affordable excitement affordable pri ce

From S~895 From Sl 0750

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GRADS

STUDIES PROGRAM

- all in the pursuit of your education And

- incredible savings on your first new ca r or truc k

Make the best dea l yo u can at any Chrysler Dodge

Plymouth or JeepEagle dealership then present the

ce rtifi cate below fo r an add itional savll1gs of 57 50 I

You ca n defer your paymentsfor three months on Chrysler

Cred it approved finan ced purchases on 48-month term s on

selected offers You 11111 pay the full amount but Chrysler

understands that wh en youre first starting out this deferral

option gIves you a little extra time to start you on your wayt

Visit your Chrysler Dodge Plym outh or JeepEagle dealer today for

a test drive Expe rience the Chrysler differen ce for yourse lf

Buy with confidence With Chryslers Owners Choice

Protection Plan you can choose between our 7-yea r 11 5000 kil ometre

Powertra1l1 Warra ntycombined wi th a I yea r20000 kilome tre bumper-toshy

yea r60000 kilometre bumper-to-bumper

Warra nty (Fo r Import s and LaserTalon models the 360 option also inclu des 5-1earIl00 000

CHRYSLERC rr~ (v-ilF lgtIf r~A 10N imiddotBilur rl lPyt ln rrI[l T Chl l I BCJt 30

A-GueIph-94

_________ Telephone _________

CHRYSLER POST-GRADUATE

Youve burned the midnight oil crammed countless ElCts9192 amp93 Chrysler wants to give you a graduation present

bumper Basic Warranty OR our 3shy

Eagle Talon km Powerlrain coverage) Its your chOICe and theres no ded uctible I Sizzling looks and hot performance

Jeep CherokeeFrom S1 4475 Driving excitement from

an award-WinnerPlymouth Laser From S14145 From S15485

Jeep YJ Dakota The Fun to Drive 4x4 Thoroughbred loo ks

Work horse gu ts From S12605

From Sll265

Plymouth Sundance DodgePlymouth Colt Dodge Shadow - Eagle Summit Sporty good looks at an Affordable excitement affordable pri ce

From S~895 From Sl 0750

j ~lf l~oIl ~ -1~ I e t I doln Amuic c I(f S 9j(j- f-j rf) I r or 000 r 10 J 0 A pI IS It-v) PrlC-~ IS ~urI~ Ie ndl Pemiddot ~ -1(JIrgh A~ tV (rql~lIlllorur J nJJor- rrflgld Toion11zt5YJJIPJ(ISc75 Jlr) o)tlld$52~ r lt ~~ 1 ~ lJ~ I tJil S lt t middotcvmm 1 141~~ [Ir)Ir --ramp~r r I()r l (~~ Or( Deol~1 ~Oy ell lor ilJ OHp Cl ~C1lcbgt unrd

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