SUMMER 2001

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4 in and Around the University

THE PROVINCIAL

government rewards

U of G for increasing

enrolment, the University

launches a major review

of the campus master

plan, and alumnus Peter

Hannam gives $1 million

to support research on

new and innovative uses

for soybeans. In addition,

the campus community

congratulates alumnus

Ken Murray, who has

been named to the Order

of Canada.

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RESEARCH

WH ERE W I LL RESEARC H TAKE US NEXT? U of G scientists exa mine so me of our most promising research

areas to fo recast technology breakthroughs and anticipate where

Guelph in genuity and explo ration are headed .

HISTORY

LOOKING BAC K The first chairman of the Boa rd of Governors reca lls the excite­

ment of the founding of the University of Guelph.

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SCHOLARSHIP

THE TRUTH SEE KERS U of G philosophy graduates build careers in the new fi eld of

bioethics to help society develop a sense of science consciousness.

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alumni M atters

UOFGALUMNI from

the West Indies to

Texas got together over the

winter to celebrate their

Guelph connections, while

a group of students started

a new tradition to build

their own sense of com­

munity. Alumni-in-Action

receive a well-deserved

thank you, and the campus

is gearing up for Alumni

Weekend when the Uni­

versity of Guelph Alumni

Association will celebrate

its 35th anniversary.

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UNIVERSITY 0'GUELPH

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

message from the President

IN A TIME OF PLUNGING STOCK VALUES and

shaky markets, there's still one investm ent out there

that's a sure thing. Not only does it promise a signifi­

cant rate of return, but it also acts as a catalyst for a

vibrant economy, society and culture. And its value and

potential are championed by top business leaders.

This outstanding investment is our universities.

An Enterprise Ca nada Research

report, The Economic Impact of

Ontario 's Universities, commissioned

by the Council of Ontario Universities,

shows that for every dollar the provin­

cial government spends on universities,

it gets $ 1.50 back in direct and indirect

revenues to the provincial treasury.

Furthermore, Ontario universities

generate more than $10 billion in eco­

nomic activity each year - a gross

domestic product that's larger than any

of the province's plastic products, tex­

tiles, paper products, fabricated

MORDECHAI ROZANSKI

among non-medical schools, U of G attracts an estimat­

ed $92.7 million in research funding annually. just five

years ago, the total was about $60 million .

Our campus is a hub for a rapidly growing cluster of

life sciences/agri-food education, research and laborato­

ry services, all contributing to the "bio-economy." This

issue of the Alitnnws explores key U of G research areas

that promise to have a significant 1m pact

on the quality of life for Canadians and

people around the world over the next

decade. Read about our work on better

vaccines, "designer" foods , soft materi ­

als, advanced analysis, reproductive tech­

nologies and upcommg technolog1es that

affect community h\·mg.

With our strong tradition in the life

sciences, Guelph is well positioned to lead

the next wave of econom1c growth and

development. The burgeoning bio-econ­

omy is expected to transform everything

metal, electrical and electronic

products, communications or

chemical products industries.

fOR EVERY DOLLAR

from health care and pharma­

ceutical development to agn ­

culture and food production At

the same time, U of G remains

highly cognizant of the cth1cal

THE PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT

And Ontario universities

are provincial leaders in job

creation, directly or indirectly

sustaining more than 375,000

SPENDS ON UNIVERSITIES, and moral responsibilities that

arise from scientific advance­

ment. The Alimlnlls feature on

Prof. David Castle and Christine

IT GETS $1 .50 BACK.

jobs in this province.

In addition, a university education benefits Ontario

as a whole by developing a high-calibre workforce that is

one of the greatest attractors for new economic invest­

ment. As graduates yourselves, you know that such an

education prepares you to contribute to society in the arts,

humanities, social sciences and sciences as creative and

well-rounded individuals. Our students and their parents

realize that a university education increases employment

and income prospects and stimulates personal growth.

The evidence clearly illustrates that a highly educated

population and a dynamic research culture are vita l to

positioning a jurisdiction to compete in the new knowl­

edge-based economy and to contribute to the improve­

ment of the quality of life of all Ontarians. Among its

many benefits, research spawns innovation , commercial­

ization and technology transfer and attracts investment.

The University of Guelph is a case in point. As the sec­

ond-most research-intensive university in Canada, the first

Harrison explores the contribution of biocthiCists as we

consider and debate the issues raised by scientific advances.

Government is already demonstrating its willing­

ness to invest in U ofG's vision for the future through

funding for new infrastructure and research . Significant

reinvestment by government in basic operating grants

is also necessary to enable Ontario's universities to move

forward and provide the necessary tools for teaching,

learning and research, particularly in light of growing

enrolment demand over the next several years.

With such significant and far-reaching economic,

social and cultural dividends, the evidence is clear: an

investment in Ontario universities is an essential invest­

ment in this province.

The report The Economic Impact of Ontario's Univer­

sities is available 011 the Council of Ontario Unl\'crsitics

Web site at http://www.cou.an.m.

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UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH • 1n an I aroun PROVINCE REWARDS ENROLMENT INCREASE

The Ministry of Training,

Colleges and Universities

(MTCU) has awarded U of G

$4.56 million in accessibility

funding for the 2000/01 fiscal

year in recognition of the

University's increase in enrol­

ment.

Guelph received the most

funding of the nine Ontario

universities that shared in the

province's $16.5-million

Accessibility Fund, which was

designed to address the grow­

ing demand for admission to

university programs. To be

eligible, universities were

required to increase or match

their fall 1999 first-year

admissions in fall 2000.

"This funding is welcome

news for U of G, and we are

thankful for it;' said president

Mordechai Rozanski. "It will

help us address the extraordi­

nary challenges we face in this

President Mordechai Rozanski and Guelph MPP Brenda Elliott.

year's budget related to enrol­

ment growth. This funding

will help cover the costs we

have already incurred for

teaching, classroom improve­

ments, increased student

assistance and other student

services that contribute to our

quality learning experience."

Brenda Elliott, minister of

intergovernmental affairs and

MPP for Guelph-Wellington,

announced the funding on

behalf of MTCU minister

Dianne Cunningham. Elliott

said the initiative is one com­

ponent of the government's

plan to prepare universities

Campus master plan under review

U oF G HAs launched a

review of the campus mas­

ter plan in an effort to create a

physical blueprint for the future.

"We need to ensure that our

facilities are a welcoming envi­

ronment for learning, teaching,

research, work and living,

because this attracts and retains

high-quality faculty, staff and

students," says Nancy Sullivan,

vice-president (finance and

administration ).

The University's original

4 GUELPH ALUMNUS

master plan dates back to 1964,

with the last review in 1987.

Chri s Pickard, director of

planning, engineering and con­

struction , and Prof. Jim Taylor,

Landscape Architecture- who

has been seconded to act as plan

co-o rdinator - will oversee

the campus master plan review.

A steering committee chaired

by Board of Governors mem­

ber Mary-Elizabeth Flynn and

made up of faculty, sen ior

administration, staff and stu-

dents has been established.

Their work will focus on the

University's core academic lands

between Edinburgh and Victo­

ria roads. The review is expect­

cd to last a year, with a plan

ready by spring 2002. A consu l­

tation process will keep the Uni­

versity community involved in

the review at key points.

"A comprehensive campus

master plan will show all of our

constituents that we have a road

map for the future," says Taylor.

and colleges to meet the antic­

ipated increase in enrolment

due to the implementation of

the province's new high

school program.

"The Ontario government

will continue to work with

universities and colleges on

new initiatives to support

growth in the post-secondary

sector," she pledged.

Over the next decade, an

additional 90,000 students are

likely to be seeking admission

to Ontario universities. As

soon as 2003, there will be

33,500 new students eligible

for university admission

province-wide, in addition to

the usual first-year intake of

50,000 students.

Rozanski stressed that sta­

ble multi-year operating

funding is essential to support

growth and the quality edu­

cation that students demand.

IN FACT ... Senate has approYed a new four year honours degree program that integrates study in the arts and sciences. It will replace U of G's first-year AKADDHA program in fall 2002.

• • n1vers1 PEOPLE IN THE NEWS • CAMPUS HIGHLIGHTS • UNIVERSITY NOTES

Soybean research gets $1-million boost

U OF G HAS received a $1-

million gift from 1962 OAC

alumnus Peter Hannam and his

family to launch a new research

fund that could accelerate the

rising demand for soybean

products. The Hannam Soybean

Utilization Fund (HSUF) will

be used to award annual

research grants to faculty and

students to promote new and

innovative uses for soybeans.

"We are profoundly grateful

for the Hannams' faith in our

university's research capability;'

says president Mordechai

Rozanski. "This is a tremendous

example of an alumnus giving

back to U of G so that our stu­

dents and faculty can continue

to conduct innovative research."

Hannam, who founded First

Line Seeds Ltd. in Guelph in 1982

and is now co-owner, says

research has never been so impor­

tant to the Ontario soybean

Peter and Sandra Hannam, centre, officially announced their gift of $1

million for U of G soybean research Feb. 27. At left is president Mordechai

Rozanski. At right is Prof. Bruce Holub, one of the first recipients of

research support from the Hannam Soybean Utilization Fund.

industry as it is today. "Soybeans

are very well-suited to growing

in Ontario and have lots of

potential for new uses;' he says.

"For the long-term prosperity of

the industry, you have to expand

demand and consumption

beyond just food and fuel."

Two chosen for NRC program

SECOND-YEAR Students

Kelly Ogilvie, left, and

Cynthia Pun have been select­

ed for the National Research

Council's Women in Engi­

neering and Science Program.

Pun, a biological engineer­

ing student, and Ogilvie, a

biomedical sciences major and

1999 President's Scholar, were

chosen from a total of I 03

candidates across Canada.

They will work in NRC lab­

oratories during their co-op

work terms over the next three

years, and will benefit from

being paired with an NRC sci­

entist or engineer who will act

as a mentor.

Participation in the pro­

gram has become an annual

tradition for U of G students;

since 1993/94, a total of 15

have received the award.

The HSUF will provide

$100,000 to $150,000 a year for

10 years to support research. The

first grant recipients are Prof.

Bruce Holub, Human Biology

and Nutritional Sciences; Prof.

Peter Pauls, Plant Agricu lture;

and Kemptville College faculty

Allen Hills and Dean Donaldson.

Holub's award of $50,000 " I 0

will fund research on an enzyme (j

in soybeans that can slow down ~ s:

the progression of kidney dis- ~

ease. Pauls, who received ~ $25,000, will conduct research g on a line of soybeans for soy milk that don't taste "beany."

Hills and Donaldson received

$25,000 to study marketing soy biodiesel fuel, an organic renew­

able alternative to fossil fuels.

First Line Seeds is a founding

sponsor of Project SOY (Soybean

Opportunities for Youth), a con­

test that encourages students to

create new uses for soybeans.

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in and around the University

GREENHOUSE GASES UNDER STUDY

Two U oF G researchers

are among only 15 nation­

wide to receive first-round

fundin g from a new federal

initia tive to study clean air

and climate change.

Profs. Claudia Wagner­

Riddl e and jon Warland,

Land Resource Science, were

awarded more than $350,000

from the Canadian Founda­

tion for Climate and Atmos­

pheric Sciences (CFCAS) to

study agriculturally pro­

duced greenhouse gases.

Wa gner-Riddle will

receive $240,000 over three

years to investigate the caus­

es and effects of greenhouse

gases and best practices for

soil management. Her col­

leagues in this project, all

from the Department of

Land Resource Science, are

Profs. Bev Kay, Paul Voroney

and Gary Parkin.

Warland will receive

$110,700 over three years to

examine how trace gases such

as carbon dioxide, ozone and

m ethan e are absorbed and

emitted by forests and vege­

tated farmland. He has also

received $72,605 from the

Canada Foundation for

Innovation's New Opportu­

nities program for infra ­

structure to support his

research project, a figure that

was subsequently matched by

the Ontario Innovation Trust.

The 2000 federal budget

established CFCAS with a

one-time grant of $60 mil­

lion . The initiative aims to

help Canada meet its envi­

ronmental goals, including

those of the Kyoto Protocol.

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Canadians honoured

U of G awarded 6so degrees and diplo·

mas during winter convocation cere·

monies Feb. 21 and 22 and recognized three

outstanding Canadians with honorary

degrees: Louis Siminovitch, a molecular biol­

ogist who helped develop the Ontario Can­

cer Institute and Toronto's Hospital for Sick

Children; Guelph resident Peggy Knapp, who

is known nationally and internationally for

her work with rural women and families; and

George Ewan, a physicist who is Canada's

leader in an international collaboration to

study neutrino particles emanating from the

sun. Ewan's hood was draped by his daugh­

ter, U of G history professor Elizabeth Ewan.

In addition, retired fine art professor Mar­

garet Priest was named University professor

emerita.

Wildeman named vice-president (research)

PROF . ALAN WI LDEI>IAN ,

direc tor of U of G's Food

System Biotechnology Centre,

wi ll assume the position of vice­

pres ident (research ) on July 1

as Prof. Larry Mi ll igan com­

pletes h is term.

"Given the exceptional lead­

ership provided by Dr. Larry

Milligan over the past IS years

and the continuing achieve­

ments of U of G's research

community, the search com­

mi ttee was committed to

recru iting an individual of the

highest calib re," says president

Mordechai Rozanski. "We were

seeking someone with v ision­

ary and st ra tegic leadership to

help the University's researchers

and sc ho lars achieve institu­

tional and individual research

aspirat ions - locally, national­

ly and in ternationally."

Wildeman , who holds B.Sc.

and M .Sc. degrees in biology

from the University of

Saskatchewan and a PhD in

molecular genetics from U of

G, joined Guelph in 1985 as a

professor in the Department of

tvlolecular Biology and Genet-

ics. He has held a Natural Sci ­

ences and Engineering Research

Council Industrial Research

Chair in biotechnology, has

been a participant in many

national and international peer­

review panels in the biomedical

sCiences, was named director of

the Food System Biotechnolo­

gy Centre in 1999 and is

Guelph's lead participant in the

Ontario Genome Project.

"The University of Guelph

contains many of the elements

that a leading research institu ­

tion needs," says Wildeman .

"While our reputation in agri ­

food and veterinary medicine

grows , research excellence in

social sciences, life sciences,

physical sciences and humani ­

ties increasingly highlights the

multi - faceted nature of schol ­

arship on this campus."

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Tomatosphere brings space science to children Elementary school students across Canada are con­

ducting germination studies of tomato seeds that trav­

elled with Canadian astronaut Marc Garneau on his

12-day space mission last November, comparing them

with seeds that stayed on Earth. The experiments are

part of a University of Guelph research project to deter­

mine the effects of microgravity and cosmic radiation

on plant germination and growth. The project, dubbed

Tomatosphere, is "a great opportunity for young sci­

entists to learn about the exciting world of science,

space exploration, food and nutrition," says Prof. Mike

Dixon, who leads Guelph's Space and Advanced Life­

Support Agriculture research group.

Murray named Officer of the Order of Canada

Ken Murray, left, Lincoln Alexander and Marilyn Robinson-Murray

FORMER BoARD OF GovERNORS chair and long­

time U of G supporter Ken Murray has been

named to the Order of Canada. Murray, who grad­

uated from OAC in 1950 and received an honorary

doctorate of laws from Guelph in 1996, has dis­

tinguished himself as a respected business execu­

tive (retired CEO of J.M. Schneider Inc.), com-

~ n1unity leader, philanthropist and volunteer. A

~ former chair of the Homewood Corporation, he

~ founded the Homewood Foundation and estab­

~ lished the Murray Alzhein1er Research and Edu­~ cation Project at the University of Waterloo. He

~ also initiated the Science and Society Project at U Vl

2 of G and Waterloo. Over the years, Murray has 0 I 0.. served U of G in many roles- as a member and

chair of Board of Governors from 1973 to 1978, as

a member of the 1980s capital campaign advisory

committee, as interim vice-president (university

affairs and development) for two years, as a mem­

ber of the Heritage Fund Board of Trustees from

1991 to 1998 and as first chair of the board's Her­

itage Enhancement Committee. In 1985, he was

named U of G's Alumnus of Honour.

Murray was congratulated by Uof G and Chan­

cellor Lincoln Alexander whan he attended Feb­

ruary convocation ceremonies with his wife, Mar­

ilyn Robinson-Murray, B.H.Sc '55. In March, she

was recognized for lifetime achievement by the

Guelph UM-YWCA Women of Distinction Awards

program.

GRADUATE STUDENTS EXCEL

Master's level~ Eight U of G

graduate students are among

the recipients of the Cana­

dian International Develop­

ment Agency's (CIDA)

Awards for Canadians for

2000. The awards allow mas­

ter's students to conduct

field research abroad.

Three of the Guelph

recipients are in the School

of Rural Planning and

Development. Barbara John­

son will do research in South

Africa, Jana Kelly in Mozam­

bique and Shawn Stone­

house in Nicaraugua.

Two recipients are col­

laborative international

development students: Mar­

ian Biasutti, who will study

in Brazil, and Paula Binnie,

heading for the Republic of

Chad.

Romi Oshier of the

Department of Land

Resource Science received a

CIDA award to study in

Eastern Uganda. Christopher

Slade of the Department of

Agricultural Economics and

Business will travel to Chi­

na, and Laura Thomas of the

School of Engineering will

work in Mexico.

PhD level: Six U of G PhD

students were winners in the

2000 national competition

for doctoral fellowships from

the Social Sciences and

Humanities Research Coun­

cil: Sarah Allen, Family Rela­

tions and Applied Nutrition;

Douglas AJ-Maini and James

Brouwer, Philosophy; Tracy

Cocivera and John Robin­

son, Psychology; and Rebec­

ca Sutherns, Rural Extension

Studies.

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research otes SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY • SCHOLARSHIP • SOCIAL DEVELOPMENTS

DINOSAUR CLUES UNCOVERED

FoR THE FI RST time,

researchers have used tech nolo­

gy normally used in designing

cars, bridges and airplanes to

uncover answers long buried in

the fossil record about how

dinosaurs ate and hunted.

The study, which appears in

Jeffrey Thomason

Nature magazine, was authored

in part by Ontario Veterinary

College professor Jeffrey

Thomason. The scientists took

the skull of the allosaurus

dinosaur and generated the

most geometrica ll y complete

and complex model of any

extinct or extant organism

"' using finite element analysis

~ (FEA). By creating a 3-D mod­

i'f. el of the allosaurus' skull, they

~ were able to uncover clues

~ about the dinosaur 's hunting

~ and eating habits. They learned) u.J

~ for example, that the animal 3§ "' attacked its prey head-on at a u ~ high velocity, like a person

I;< swinging a hatchet. <(

::;: "This is definitely the most >-~ ambitious study to date dealing

@5 with the fossil record," says

1\: Thomason, add in g that the

findings demonstrate the

potential of using the technique

to test mechanical behaviour of

fossils in ways that until now

have been impossible.

FEA is commonly used to

estimate performance in struc­

tures such as bridges, airplanes

and cars. Thomason has also

used FEA in his research at

OVC, which has included exam­

ining the strain horses' hooves

experience during different

activities and specific measure­

ments of horses' strides.

ONTARIO PROSPERITY DOESN'T REACH

RURAL AREAS ONTARio's RURAL commu­

nities lack the wherewithal to

maintain or improve their

declining economic circum­

stances, and the problem is like­

ly to become more widespread

and intense, according to a new

report by U of G researchers.

" In many communities, the

interrelatedness of economy,

community survival and quality

of ru rallife is the pivotal issue,"

says Prof. David Douglas, School

of Rural Planning and Develop­

ment. "What we discovered is a

IN FACT ... Only 38 per cent of rural Ontario municipalities have an economic development plan.

dangerous picture requiring our

immediate attention."

The researchers note that

Ontario's recent economic

prosperity has not filtered down

to rural communities. More

than two-thirds of communi­

ties responding complai ned of

economic stagnation and pop­

ulation decline in the period

1996 to 1999.

The two-volume report, "An

Integrated Analysis of Chang­

ing Municipal and Communi­

ty Roles and Practices," is part

of a three-year research project

ca lled "Toward More Effective

Rural Economic Development

in Ontario." The survey of all

495 of Ontario's rural munici­

palities (128 responded) found

that without provincial help,

rural communities are flagging

and at risk.

ANCIENT COURT RECORDS REVEAL

SCOTTISH HISTORY SCOTTISH STUDIES profes­

sor Elizabeth Ewan has under­

taken a three-year project to

study the nature of insult and

social order in 16th-century

Scotland from the perspective

of women.

Her study is sponsored by

the Social Sciences and Human­

ities Research Council , and will

be based primarily on court

documents and historical and

literary material. The goal of the

project is to increase available

resources about women's histo­

ry in Scotland and gain a better

understanding of Scottish life.

" If you don't look for

women, you won't find them,"

Ewan says. "Uncovering life in

Scotland as to ld from a female

voice will enlarge our under­

standing of that era."

In the first part of the pro­

ject, Ewan is researching the life

of a woman with a slanderous

tongue and aggressive nature

Elizabeth Ewan

named Alison Rouch, who lived

in Edinburgh during the first

half of the 16th century. Then,

with help from two doctoral

students, she will examine the

nature of insult and social order

as seen from a woman's per­

spect ive. The insults used by

men and women reveal con­

temporary ideas about appro­

priate male and female roles,

says Ewa n. Documents show

that misbehaviour in 16th-cen­

tury Scotland was punished by

public humiliation and shame.

After being paraded around

town , deviants were forced to

apologize publicly.

The third part of her study

is dedicated to increasing the

number of resources avai lable

on women's history in Scotland,

including a Web bibliography.

Summer 2001 9

EAT MORE FISH TO AVOID ALZHEIMER'S

DISEASE EATING FISH MAY beaway to ward off Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia and cognitive afflictions, according to new research by a team led by U of G adjunct professor Julie Conquer, Human Biology and Nutri­tional Sciences.

The study, reported in the U.S. journal Lipids, found that Alzheimer's sufferers as well as elderly subjects with other forms of dementia or cognitive impairments all had lower lev­els of DHA (docosahexaenoic acid) in blood samples than did

~ elderly subjects with normal ~ cognitive functioning. I

~ DHA and other omega-3 ~ fatty acids are found in high ~ concentrations in many fish ~ species, including tuna, salmon 5 and trout, and have already 5: been found to lower incidences

of cardiovascular disease, depression and attention deficit disorder. Eggs also contain omega-3 fatty acids.

"Our research suggests that the need to increase fish, fish products or other sources of omega-3 fatty acids in the diet of both the population at large and the elderly seems prudent," says Conquer, director of the Human Nutraceutical Research Unit.

Previous evidence had sug­gested that lower DHA levels serve as a predicting factor for Alzheimer's disease, but the new findings confirm this and are the first to also link low DHA levels to other forms of de men­tia as well as cognitive impair­ments among the elderly.

ARE GAMBLING AND PARENTING

LINKED? J S T H E R E A L I N K between authoritarian parenting and risk-taking behaviours such as

Gera ld Adams

gambling? U of G professor Ger­ald Adams is about to find out.

Adams, a faculty member in the Department of Family Rela­tions and Applied Nutrition, has received a $168,000 grant from the Ontario Problem Gambling Research Centre to study whether certain parent­ing styles - especially strict authoritarian parenting -could be encouraging children to seek risk-taking activities.

" If we can find a relation­ship between such factors, then

we can predict such prob lem­atic behaviours and find ways to prevent them," says Adams, who wrote a series of books on the effect parenting styles have on childhood and adolescent behaviour.

He and graduate student Anne-Marie Cantwell, who is specializing in addictive behav­iours, will study the gambling habits of students attending the universities of Guelph, Wind­sor, Brock and Wilfrid Laurier.

"We will cover the spectrum, examining a broad range of gambling, from betting to casi­nos, to game wagers and poker;' says Adams. University students are ideal research candidates because many of them are liv­ing away from home for the first time, yet remain strongly con­nected to their families, he says. It's also a crucial time for self­development and self-identifi­cation, and the influence of par­enting styles is still strong.

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INJURIES AU OF G ENGINEERING

professor and graduate student

are using sophisticated com­

puter modelling techniques to

get a grasp on the most complex

and least understood joint in the

human body- the shoulder.

Prof. john Runciman and

student john Phillips are study­

ing the individual and combined

roles of the various structures of

the shou lder using computer­

based mode!Jing. Shoulders have

the greatest range of motion of

all human joints, making them

more prone to injury. Almost 45

per cent of all joint dislocations

are shoulder-related. A shoulder

that is dislocated or badly pulled

is rendered unstable for life.

The researchers plan to

investigate each component of

the shoulder joint in detail, then

examine the structure as an

integrated whole.

They hope that by identify­

ing the relationships between

the structures of the shoulder

joint, they can develop a firm

foundation for better under­

standing the active contributors

to stability and joint function.

STEP-PARENT MOTIVES AFFECT

ADOPTION SUCCESS THE MOTIVE OF step-par­

ents to adopt their stepchildren

has much to do with whether

the adoption is experienced as

a success or failure. This was a

key finding of a first -ever study

on the subject by psychology

professor Michael Sobol.

Preliminary findings of

Sobol's research also reveal that

children should offer uncoerced

consent as to whether they will

be adopted by a step-parent and

whether they will have contact

with the birth parent or other

relatives.

"There are few good data on

step-parent adoptions, despite the

fact that there are four times as

many step-adoptions as 'full'

ones," says Sobol, who has been

studying Canadian adoption laws

and policies for more than 20

years.

"We can't ignore step-parent

adoptions or pretend they're just

legal acts of little significance, nor

can we lump them in with other

kinds of adoptions, because the

circumstances are unique."

The study was based on

IN FACT ...

Shoulders have the

greatest range of motion

of all human joints,

making them more

prone to injury.

interviews with adults aged 19

to 56 who had been adopted by

a step-parent when they were

between the ages of six and 12.

"Our study shows that even

in cases where the adoptive par­

ent and biological parent later

divorced, if the adoption was

originally motivated by love, the

relationship endured," he says.

The research also found that

in the vast majority of"unsuc­

cessful" adoptions, consent was

imposed and the resulting

resentment often carried over

into adulthood.

"Many of our participants

felt that the adoption repre­

sented a loss of self and that it

was a betrayal of their past rela­

tionships," says Sobol. By con­

trast, in adoptions rated a "suc­

cess," there was no coercion to

give consent.

The study also showed that

continued contact with the

birth parent or birth parent's

family influenced whether an

adoptee considered his or her

adoption a "success."

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Summer 2001 11

U of G researchers envision the futurE

N I vER sIT Y REsEARcH has always solved mysteries, provided tangible ben­

efits and fuelled progress. Over the next decade, however, it's expected that the

inventions and discoveries yet to be made in biology, medicine, computing, phar-

~ maceuticals and agri-food research will surpass anything we have seen before.

The University of Guelph intends to be among the nation's leaders, not only in gener-

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and like what they see by Suzanne Soto

ating and transmitting this future knowledge but also in applying it to improve the health

and the social, cultural and economic quality of life of all Canadians.

On the following pages, we examine some of our most promising research areas to fore­

cast technology breakthroughs and anticipate where Guelph ingenuity and exploration

may take us next.

Summer 2001 13

Technology transfer

T he University of Guelph has a histo­

ry of successfully transferring

research knowledge to the marketplace,

but the future promises even more effi­

cient technology transfer and greater

financial rewards that will fuel new

research initiatives.

Guelph's Business Development Office

(BDO) has shown strong positive results

in its effort to protect the University's intel­

lectual property, license U of G inventions,

develop industrial partnerships and pro­

mote the creation of spinoff companies. "I

believe our statistics speak for themselves;'

says BDO head Connie Hearty.

Health-enhancing Foods

R ice that improves eyesight, broccoli that

targets cancer, corn that prevents heart

disease, fruit packed not only with new

antioxidants but also with vaccines, milk

rich in antibodies, soybeans that deliver

insulin- the list of"designer foods" that

could be produced in the near future

through biotechnology seems endless.

"There's a big push right now in both sci­

ence and society to produce food that pro­

motes better health and prevents disease,"

says food science professor Rick Yada, assis­

tant vice-president (agri-food programs).

Over the next decade, he predicts more

and more of these health-enhancing foods

will start making their way on to super­

market she lves. And U of G will be a key

player in the ongoing development of these

products. "We currently have people all over

~ this campus working on these functional

~ foods and nutraceuticals, trying to advance

~ our knowledge in these areas," he says.

Si Two of these researchers are food science z ~ professor Gopi Paliyath, who's trying to find

~ the "on" switch that produces antioxidants 3 and ant ioxidant enzymes in fruit and veg­

g etables, and plant agriculture professor Lar­

~ ry Erickson, who hopes to identifY and engi->-~ neer plant proteins that cou ld cure both

animal and human diseases. And faculty

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The BDO has achieved 117 invention

disclosures and 336 industrial research

contracts worth $16 million . U of G cur­

rently holds 75 issued patents, with 143

applications in progress. To date, the office

has also successfully negotiated 30 licen­

see agreements with an associated annu­

al royalty revenue of $1.5 million.

With help from GUARD (Guelph

Alumni Research and Development Inc.),

the University has also generated more

than 10 start-up companies that are in var­

ious stages of development. Originally an

alumni initiative, GUARD is a unique col­

laboration among the scientific, financial

and industrial sectors. It operates as a for­

profit company that is publicly traded on

from 11 different departments are working

under the umbrella of U of G's new Food

System Biotechnology Centre (FSBC),

whose mandate is to apply recent advances

in mol ecu lar genetic technology to develop

improved crops, plants and animal pro­

duction systems.

Just as important as discoveries geared

to enhancing human and animal health, says

Yada, are future breakthroughs that will

improve crop yields, add new varieties with

better stress tolerance and disease resistance,

promote environmental stability and open

new economic markets for plant-based

nutraceuticals, pharmaceuticals and indus­

trial enzymes.

It's expected that over the next decade,

more sophisticated modification of plant

metabolism will be engineered, including

the controlled expression of introduced

genes in a cell or tissue-specific manner and

regulated by environmental or develop­

mental cues.

"We are designing those crops now," he

the Canadian Venture Exchange. U of G

owns 20 per cent of GUARD, says presi­

dent and CEO Brian Cox.

GUARD has stimulated the commer­

cialization of Guelph inventions and dis­

coveries by helping to found companies

such as Elite Display Systems Inc., which

produces colour inorganic electrolumi­

nescence for flat panel displays; Magnos

Technologies Inc., which has commer­

cialized X-ray backscatter technology;

Integragen, which owns exclusive rights

to High Immune Response, a technology

that improves livestock's genetic ability

to resist infectious diseases; and the drug­

design firm Nanodesign, sold last year to

Montreal's SignalGene for $15 million.

says. "We expect to continue to develop new

approaches for detecting plant diseases, iso­

lating plant genes, producing transgenic

plants and selecting new cultivars. We fur­

ther expect that the work will greatly increase

our understanding of plant physiology from

the level of the gene to the whole plant."

Yada and his collaborators hope to even­

tually establish U of Gas a world centre for

private- and public-sector agricultural research.

"We want to be recognized internationally as

a hub for life sciences research, especially as it

applies to developing food, plants, animals

and processes that conform to the highest

standards of quality and safety."

Bioinformatics

D ata mining- defined by its practi­

tioners as "the extraction of implicit,

previously unknown and potentially useful

information from data" - is quickly emerg­

ing as one of the most important comput­

er technologies of the new millennium.

Long a staple of marketers- who've

used data to develop new products and

track consumer preferences and spending

habits-- this research is now becoming

essential for human biologists, geneticists,

epidemiologists and a host of other biolog­

ical scientists. They're using it to map out

genes and proteins, identify behaviour pal­

terns of living organisms, predict and pre-

vent disease, model events and antic ipate

outcomes, and formulate better drugs and

other products.

"Informatics, but more important,

bioinformatics and biocomputing, are the

wave of the future," says Prof. Deborah

Stacey, Computing and Information Sci­

ence, who is head of Guelph's SHARC-Net

(Shared Hierarchical Academic Research

Computing Network) team. The network

-consisting of several university and col­

lege partners- is committed to advancing

large-scale computing in Canada.

U of G has the expertise to make a big

contribution in this rapidly expand ing area,

says Stacey, who expects biocomputing to

transform pharmaceut ical development,

health care, agriculture and food produc­

tion research.

"We already have a very strong tradition

in the life sciences- plant agriculture, ani­

mal research, food technology," she says.

"We're also experts at collaborating with

industry and other institutions to generate

knowledge. And we have a small but vibrant

computational community. In 10 years'

time, if things continue the way they are,

U of G could be a Canadian front-runner

in bioscience."

Stacey is currently spearheading efforts

to establish a Canadian Centre for Bio­

computing on campus. Its goa ls would

include developing a software library of bio­

logically inspired techniques to analyse bio­

logical data and creating databases for ani­

mal biological data.

"Canada urgently needs an Internet­

based network of searchable, documented

and linked biodiversity, ecosystem and bioin­

formatics databases;' she says. "The Univer­

sity of Guelph could be one of the key insti­

tutions providing this invaluable resource.

And I believe that, in time, we will."

New vaccines and disease treatments

S cientists agree that finding cures for ter­

rifying illnesses such as hemorrhagic

fevers or "mad cow" disease are still a long

way off, but reversing the alarming rise of

antibiotic-resistant bacteria first detected in

the 1990s is definitely something they hope

to achieve in the next few years.

Prof. Terry Beveridge and researcher Fu

Hun gwen of the Department of Microbi­

ology have developed a vaccine and drug­

delivery system they believe will immunize

animals and humans against a wide range

of bacterial pathogens as well as deliver

antibiotics directly to antibiotic-resistant

bacteria. Beveridge says the technology

should be ready for use by the agricultural

and medical industries in about a decade.

In its simplest form, the technology works

like this: there are two basic types of bacte­

ria, gram-positive and gram-negative. A sig­

nificant difference between the two is that

gram-negative bacteria- such as salmonella

and Escherichia coli, which can cause serious

intestinal-tract infections- constantly shed

membrane vesicles, which Beveridge likens

to tiny balloons. He's found that these bal­

loons can be inserted into live attenuated vac­

cine strains, which then become effective oral

vaccines againstthe gram-negative bacteria.

The membrane vesicles can also carry pow­

erful enzymes that allow them to search out

and destroy infecting bacteria.

Perhaps more important, the membrane

vesicles can be packed with antibiotics. The

loaded vesicles then penetrate gram-nega­

tive bacteria resistant to other drugs or

embedded in hard-to-reach tissue. Once

inside, they burst, releasing their "cargo" and

killing the bacteria.

"What all of this means," says Beveridge,

"is that in future, you and I could either take

an oral concoction that would immunize us

against a wide range of pathogens, including

cholera, dysentery and Helicobacter pylori, or

we could package antibiotics in the vesicles

and then send them right to the infected tis­

sue to inhibit the growth of pathogens."

The technology should work in humans

as well as in farm animals and pets, he adds.

The drug-delivery mechanism is partie-

ularly promising for humans because it

could also conceivably be used to deliver any

chemical to parts of the body, including anti­

tumour drugs to malignant cells. "Ten years

downstream, we might be at a stage where

we can package almost any protein or small

biomolecule we want in the vesicles;' he says.

"We could clone a human hormone, for

example, and use the vesicles to send hor­

mones to tissue where they're required."

Another possibility is that Beveridge's

technology may someday be available in

aerosol form. "An animal or person would

simply breathe the vaccines in, which would

then elicit an immune response;' he explains.

"We're in very preliminary studies for that

right now. Aerosol vaccines are very new.

They're beginning to be used for some farm

animals, but have not progressed to human

use because researchers have to figure out a

way of packaging them for effective use. But

maybe in I 0 years' time, we' ll be there."

High-tech humanities research

M uch of the incubation and dissemi­

nation of cultural knowledge was

once primarily confined to learned confer­

ences, letters between academics and con­

versations among scholars. Information

technology, however, has not only trans­

formed these exchanges but has also

brought cultural studies to a much greater

audience, including the general public.

Summer 200 I 15

This trend is likely to continue in the first

years of the 21st century, says Prof. Susan

Brown, Literatures and Performance Studies

in English. "I believe that because of electronic

media, humanities scholarship is going to be

opened up in ways we can only imagine."

images of engravings and art, audio-visual

materials, transcriptions, and published and

unpublished texts- including electronic

"chats" that may have taken place years ago

and been archived- right off the Internet. This material, she notes, can often be

accessed not only by humanities scholars but

also by students at all educational levels and

anyone interested in cultural studies.

individual inquiries in searching, sorting and

moving through the literary history.

" I rea lly believe we're only at the very

beginning of exploring what computers can do for the humanities;' she says. "But also,

the humanities have much to contribute to

make computers speak to us in ways that

make sense to us and that contribute to our

understanding of our culture and history."

Brown heads U of G's team on the

Orlando Project, an electronic scholarly his-

Reproductive technologies

tory of British women's writing being com­

piled with research ers at the University of Alberta. When it's launched in 2003, this

electronic resource is expected to be the

definitive guide to biographical informa­

tion, critical discussion and contextual

material on women's writing in Britain.

Libraries and their role in humanities

research, meanwhile, will also continue to

be revolutioni zed by technology. Just last year, the international Research Libraries

Group- which includes libraries at Cor­

nell, Oxford and Yale universities -

announced it was creating shared access to

high-quality images and descriptions of the

works and artifacts that document culture

and civilization. The result is expected to be

a globally accessible Web-based research

resource drawn from the pre-eminent col­lections of the group's member institutions.

"Computers have allowed us to cross great

distances and to collaborate more easily than

before," says Brown. She's looking ahead to

more integrated and responsive humanities

research projects like Orlando, whose elec­tronic form will permit readers to pursue

C loning research for medical applications

on humans has recently become an acceptable- albeit highly controversial­

scientific pursuit. just this March, European

and American researchers announced they

were close to cloning a human. They were

swiftly condemned by other scientists and

the religious community.

Bu t although cloning a whole person remains questionable, scientists from

around the world have replicated tissue,

which they believe will one day be used to

repair damaged skin, among other things.

They're now trying to grow livers, hearts She says it 's now possible to obtain

The Last Industry up soil contaminants and • evaluation of animal and

10 Years • identifying bacteria that can be plants to take up metal toxins human movement in joints

used to teach metals from ores • software to predict the behav- like the shoulder

• identifying milk proteins as iour and potentia l health haz- • models to evaluate cattle, Expertise developed through emulsifiers and texturing ards from industrial chemicals pigs and sheep genetics past U of G research initiatives agents in infant formula, • laser technology to measure • instrument to measure foot will provide the building blocks soups and new health drinks. greenhouse gas levels in the pressure that helps diagnose for future achievements. • PIXE software to measure the environment health problems like cerebral

distributions of ai r pollutants, pa lsy, back problems and

Human health determine the commercial Computer technology diabetes

• determining how cancers viab il ity of ore samples and • co mputer-contro lled green- • software that mimics human

originate test integrated circuits. houses that respond to plant sense of smell and taste to

• reducing the side effects of • a substance-specific sensor stress measure consumer prefer-

cancer drugs that detects conta mi nation in • software to assess pollution ences for everything from

• preventing mu lti-drug resist- chemical manufacturing plants sources in the developing whisky to potato chips

ance in cancer patients • a fluid and electrolyte replace- world • modelling the structure and

• a diagnost ic blood test to ment supplement for horses • models to help farmers function of ion channels

detect ovarian cancer at an to increase performance assess the potential co mm u- responsible for heart rhythms

early stage • a computer-based model to nity im pact of farm practices • linking atmospheric levels of

• cancer tests that don't require identify and generate chemi- • mi nicomp uter for hearing aids carbon dioxide to respiratory

the sacrifice of animals cal compounds for use in • surgical tool for back surg- allergies

• artifi cial skin to study wound developing new drugs eries to co rrect conditions • software program to teach

hea li ng • us ing soil microbes to clean like scoliosis grammar and punctuation

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and kidneys for eventual transplantation,

and to find ways of using healthy human

stem cells to treat disease and maybe even

reverse the aging process.

"That's what the future holds," says bio­

medical sciences professor Allan King, an

expert on animal ferti lization, cloning,

embryo culture and early development.

U of G has long been a leader in animal

reproductive technologies - the well­

known precursors to human advancements

in this area. "Our focus is on animals, but

obviously, the research has direct applica­

tions to humans," King says.

Last year, Guelph received federal and

provincial funding to establish a Genome

Manipulation Laboratory- part of the

FSBC- and to hire PhD graduate Dean

Betts as a professor. He' ll join King in the

Department of Biomedical Sciences this fall

and be dedicated to animal cloning research.

King sees Guelph research in this area

going in two possible directions: continuing

to be an invaluable tool for agricultural ani­

mal production and leading to a much bet­

ter understanding of basic reproductive biol­

ogy. The two scientists are currently using

cloning techniques to produce elite calves with

high production potential and fertility, good

reproduction qualities and sound health.

"We hope to provide the livestock indus­

try with a way of making copies of geneti­

cally valuable cattle, which in turn will

reduce production costs," says King.

Their work has led them to interesting

discoveries in the area of cell aging and

death. For some reason, in cloned cows, an

enzyme responsible for telomeres- which

regulate chromosome production- revers­

es its course during the first week of the

clone's embryonic development. The result

is that, unlike other cloned animals, which

inherit the adult telomeres of their prede­

cessors, cloned calves end up with newborn-

Transgenic • "super seeds" for mass prop- tor temperatures

like telomeres. King and Betts are studying

this phenomenon to see what possible impli­

cations it has for animal and human aging.

Another important research focus is

embryo development and loss. In cattle, 40

per cent of all embryos die before birth,

leading to huge economic losses in the cat­

tle industry.

"By studying embryos produced in the

lab through in vitro fertilization and

cloning, we are trying to determine what

goes wrong and what prevents an embryo

from developing normally," says King.

"From a human perspective, the research

could provide answers to the agony and

heartbreak of failed pregnancies."

Industrial soft material research

M aterials experts and engineers have

long moulded, ground, fused and

turned "hard" matters such as wood, metals

and clay into usable products like lumber,

steel and concrete. Now, researchers are

applying these same principles to "soft"

related to cystic fibrosis

• protoplast fusion to replace agation of new varieties • finding the active agents that • transgenic alfalfa that carries

the slow po llination process • rapid test to detect salmonel- enable oats, garl ic and fish antibodies to vaccinate cattle

in canola breeding Ia in fection in horses oils to reduce heart disease against respiratory infection

• plants with hi gh levels of • omega-3 enriched eggs • understanding how E.coli

beneficial proteins Food safety • evaluating soy proteins as survives in the bladder and

• plants that grow well in • chemica l-free ways to store health promoters; e.g., kidney

low-light conditio ns fresh fruit and vegetables immune system, kidney dis- • speeding up the development

• winte r-hardiness in alfalfa and • pasteurization by electrical ease, Alzheimer's of vaccines by eliminating the

canola current • new treatments for lung need for genetic manipulation

• improved shelf life for • automated system for grading infections in people with cys·

tomatoes meat carcasses tic fibrosis Reproduction

• a rapid test for bacterial • Vitamin A-enriched vegetable • improved genetic selection

Agriculture detection in meat oils of livestock through genetic

• genet ic improvement of field evaluation identification of

crops, vegetables and fruit Functional foods Vaccines genetic markers and repro·

• seed treatment to make co rn, • da iry proteins as natural • shipping fever vacci ne for ductive technologies like

rice and barley more tolerant additives in ice cream cattle pneumonia embryo manipulation and

of heat and drought • edible soy coating that pre· • rotavirus vaccine producible cryopreservation

• biologica l controls to thwart vents fat absorpt ion in fried in chicken egg yolks • transgenic chimeric chicks

mould foods • breakthroughs in the devel·

• so il bacterium to boost the abil· • increasing nutrient values in milk opment of a preventive vac-

ity of soybeans to use nitrogen • spreadable butter at refrigera- cine for respiratory infection

Summer 2001 17

materials such as biological membranes, pro­

teins, polymers and even food components,

to develop the products of the future: bio­

fuels from starch and sugars, therapeutic

proteins and carbohydrates for pharmaceu­

tical application, polymer films to keep bac­

teria away and fat crystals for healthier food.

"The use and development of soft mate­

rials such as polymers and proteins is expect­

ed to revolutionize many sectors of the Cana­

dian industry," says physics professor john

Dutcher, director of U of G's Centre for Food

and Soft Materials Science. "These sectors

include the aerospace, pharmaceutical,

microelectronics and packaging industries."

Two important areas of research in soft

materials are food and the discovery of

completely different, or new, uses for either

existing materials or waste products -

something scientists call "value-added"

products. Dutcher says researchers are devel­

oping better ways of monitoring quality

during food processing and distribution,

such as improved sensors for detecting

harmful bacteria or pathogens and "smart"

packaging that alerts buyers when meat or

other food contains bacteria.

A Mississauga company has already devel­

oped and is trying to commercialize this

U of G technology, basically a multi-layered

packaging film that tells consumers when bac­

teria are present by changing colour. This,

however, is just one product. Dutcher says

there are huge advances to be made in this

area. "It's conceivable that one day, everything

we buy will alert us of possible dangers."

Technically, value-added products could

18 GUELPH ALUMNUS

be developed from any conventional m ate­

rial, but an area expected to grow dramat­

ically in the next few years is the reuse of

raw agricultural products to add value. A

good example of this is what an Australian

researcher is doing with milk, says food sci­

entist Yada. "He has isolated co mpounds

from milk that he has then used to repair

skin on burn patients."Yada adds that many

food products will probably make their way

into the health-care system in the future.

At U of G, researchers are co nducting

fundamental studies of the structure and

function of food compo nents in eggs to

develop vaccines, trying to extract soybea n

proteins that may eventua ll y prevent dia ­

betes, and working with fat crys tals to cre­

ate better dairy products and infant for­

mula, among other projects.

In addition, says Dutcher, fundamental

studies of bacterial surfaces, thin polymer

films and biological membranes wil l provide

a deeper understanding of these important

systems, which will have a direct impact on

their technological app licat ions. "The whole

area of biological macromolecules is ve ry

exciting," he says. "The scient ific, economic

and health-related advances we could make

through this type of research are extensive."

Cancer research

J ust as we can now determine some peo­

ple's predisposition to cancer through

their genes, it may soon be possible to pre­

vent some cancers by altering genes or to

treat them through gene- or protein-spe­

cific therapies and drugs. In fact, so m e of

this is already happening. Acco rding to a

recent article in The National Post, an inter­

national pharmaceutical company is seek­

ing U.S. Food and Drug Adm ini stration

approval for a compound that thwarts the

development of tyrosine kinase proteins,

known to ease cancer ce ll interaction.

At U of G, a number of researchers are

trying to unravel cancer's mysteries and

develop new treatments. Prof. Frances

Sharom, Chemistry and Biochemistry, is

working to develop new treatments for

improving chemotherapy in drug-resistant

forms of cancer. Prof. David )osephy in the

same department was the first to detect a

carcinogen in breast milk that has been

linked to the development of breast cancer.

His research team has also demonstrated a

potential link between smoking and breast

cancer and is now looking at the different

ways first - and second-hand smoke affect

the body. In the Department of Biomedical

Sciences, Prof. Gordon Kirby is trying to

determine if colitis is involved in the reduc­

tion of certain enzymes that have also been

associated with colon cancer.

Prof. Alan Wildeman, Molecular Biolo­

gy and Genetics, is trying to stop the spread

of cancer by studying the expression of mol­

ecules from the surface of cells that are

important for cell movement and migration.

"Cancer cells spread because they can

migrate throughout the body;' he explains.

"We're looking at ways we can alter the pat­

tern of expression of these molecules, so we

can eliminate those that are more abundant,

like tumour cells, and those that cause

migration ."

Wildeman believes that within a decade,

researchers might be able to start regulat­

ing these molecules to stop their growth­

at least in the laboratory. "This will make it

easier to develop new therapies for cancer;'

he says. "As we know more about protein

structures, it will be possible to understand

better what kinds of drugs should be used

to fight cancer, and we' ll be able to make

drugs that selectively kill cancer cells."

Another area that will grow in impor­

tance is gene therapy, he adds. The possi ­

bilities include inducing genes to create pro­

teins that inhibit cancer cells or that produce

other beneficial effects, and using gene ther­

apy to stimulate the body's natural defences

against abnormal cells. ga

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looking back guides Us for U of G founder recalls educational issues of the early 1960s

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graduates about to break on Ontario's

post-secondary institutions. Uni­

versity of Guelph enrolment projections

pushing 15,000 students. These sound like

modern-day issues preoccupying adminis­

trators, faculty and staff at U of G and oth­

er universities across the province as they

anticipate a 40-per-cent increase in student

demand over the next decade.

But these same issues faced the founders

of the University of Guelph more than 35

years ago, according to documents in a col­

lection of material about the University's

founding years that was recently donated to

the U of G Library archives by Thomas A.

McEwan, founding chairman of the Uni­

versity of Guelph's Board of Governors in

1964. A former Guelph businessman a nd

past chairman of the city's public board of

education, McEwan is now retired and lives

in Mississauga, Ont., with his wife, Bessie.

"Tom was a central player in the found­

ing of the University in 1964 and a propo­

nent of public education in general," says

president Mordechai Rozanski. "His papers

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provide an important view of the social and

political forces that helped shape the edu­

cation system in Ontario."

Among the reports, correspondence and

personal notes fillin g a number of boxes in

the archives are McEwan's annotated copy

of the long-range master plan for the cam­

pus, budget documents and detailed plans

for the University's fund-raising campaign

in the mid- 1960s.

The collection also includes materials

from McEwan's tenure on the Guelph board

of education, as well as correspondence and

documents from throughout the 1970s

when he served as chairman of the provin­

cial Committee on the Costs of Education,

including his handwritten draft of the 1979

Education Reform Policy for Ontario.

McEwan says it was while serving on the

board of education that he became con­

cerned that post-secondary institutions in

the province would not be able to accom­

modate the post-war influx of students that

he and other trustees were dealing with at

the elementary level. He voiced his concerns

and received support locally from Guelph

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businessmen Gordon Tiller and Ralph Boyce

and college faculty Waldo Brown, John

Gilman, Leslie Lord and Gerald Trant to look

at ways the Ontario Agricultural College,

Macdonald Institute and the Ontario Vet­

erinary College might accommodate some

of the projected demand. "These men played

instrumental roles in the establishment of

the University of Guelph," says McEwan.

There was also strong support for uni ­

versity expansion in the office of then -pre­

mier John Robarts. McEwan lobbied the

board of regents of the Federated Colleges

and the premier, pointing out that the col­

leges provided an excellent base for the estab­

lishment of university programs and that the

citizens of Guelph would participate and pro­

vide a good home for a university.

"We were looking for ways to expand

Ontario universities;' says John R. McCarthy,

deputy minister on university affairs at the

time, "and we could never have accomplished

what we did without the impetus and help of

people like Tom McEwan at the local level."

McEwan was right about the suitability

of Guelph as a place to establish a universi-

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ty, says McCarthy. Campus resources pro­

vided a good foundation for expansion in

the liberal arts, he says, and there was a feel­

ing in government that the Guelph colleges

would benefit by gaining university status.

The Robarts government moved ahead

with the creation of the University of

Guelph, and the premier invited McEwan

to sit on the inaugural Board of Governors,

which elected him its first chairman.

McEwan's memories of those heady days

include reviewing with Robarts the draft bill

that would establish the University of

Guelph and a dramatic II th-hour phone

call from agriculture minister William Stew­

art, saying he wanted to retain Johnston

Green, Johnston Hall and War Memorial

Hall as government property. McEwan

replied that the proposal "would be com­

pletely unacceptable," and Stewart, who

eventually served as U of G chancellor from

1983 to 1989, withdrew the amendment at

a hastily arranged meeting in Toronto. Thus,

the campus remained intact.

The University of Guelph Act was passed

by the legislature on May 8, 1964.

Robarts appointed former OAC princi­

pal john MacLachlan the University's first

president and announced lofty plans to

expand enrolment as high as 15,000 stu­

dents. Those plans have particular resonance

for today's administration as Guelph's enrol­

ment approaches the 15,000 mark.

Over the next few years, McEwan contin­

ued to encourage the growth of the Univer­

sity, the launch of development activities and

the establishment of the U of G Alumni Asso­

ciation. He stepped down as B of G chairman

in 1968 and was named a U of G Fellow in

1969.

McEwan's professional career was also

advancing. A 1950 graduate of Queen's Uni­

versity, he worked with Toronto's Union

Carbide and Carbon, was president of the

Sterling Rubber Company Ltd., then vice­

president and general manager of Howmet

of Canada before joining Becton Dickinson

& Company Canada Ltd. in 1968 as execu­

tive vice-president and chief operating offi­

cer. He was named president of the com­

pany in 1970.

McEwan also devoted many volunteer

hours to his community through the Rotary

Club, his work on the school board and as

a member and president of the Ontario

Society for Crippled Children.

He felt his responsibility to support pub­

lic education all the way down to his pock­

etbook. In addition to helping his class spon­

sor a scholarship at his Queen's alma mater,

McEwan helped launch U of G's Heritage

Trust in 1991. He and three other Guelph

supporters- Emmanuel Birnbaum, jack

Skov and Ossic Downes- donated 26 acres

of land that was sold for $4.4 million to pro­

vide a significant portion of the capital used

to establish the Heritage Trust. Today, it has

a total endowment of more than $30 million.

"Tom's foresight in addressing the finan­

cial needs of the University of Guelph is

obviously as adept as his original desire to

launch a university that would address a

very real need in post-secondary education;'

says Rozanski. "We are grateful for his lead­

ership and support, and his donation of his­

torical documents to the library archives is

a valuable addition to the rich history of the

University of Guelph." ga

Winter 200 I 21

The Truth Seekers U of G philosophy graduates

meet the demands of a society desperate to develop a new sense of science consciousness.

AFTER ToRONTo's Hospitalfor

Sick Children established its depart­

ment ofbioethics in 1991, hospital

staff put up a sign in one of the operating

rooms. It read: "The ethics police have arrived:'

According to Christine Harrison, BA '76

and MA '85, director of Sick Kids' bioethics

department, that attitude can still be found

occasionally lurking, but less so as the pro­

fession takes hold. "There was some initial

suspicion," she says. "Some doctors didn't

realize that we're there to help them."

That's changed, however, fuelled by a

technological tsunami that seemingly has

the moral compass of many innocent

bystanders spinning out of control and in

search of direction. "Bioethics is not just

about health care any more," says Harrison.

"The pace of scientific discovery means

there is an expanded role for bioethicists to

play. Take cloning, for example, or the devel­

opment of chemical and bacteriological

weapons of mass destruction or science's

impact on wildlife and the environment."

Philosophy, one of the purest forms of

inquiry, is enjoying a renaissance precisely

because of the explosion of one of the most

applied forms of inquiry - technology.

When Harrison was appointed bioethics

director in 1994, her first consultation

involved two conjoined children. As it hap­

pens, her PhD thesis (through the joint

Guelph-McMaster PhD program) had

involved the concept of the "person" in med­

ical ethics, so her first task was determining

22 GuELPH ALUMNus

by Alexander Wooley

whether the children were singular or plur­

al "persons," from an ethical perspective.

"Some people think of philosophy as all

metaphysical, up in the air," she says, "where­

as here was a real-world example I was deal­

ing with in my first week as director."

Bioethicists are in demand because tech­

nology has gone democratic, affecting the

many rather than the few. On the cutting edge

of this phenomenon is U of G philosophy

professor David Castle, PhD '98, who is asso­

ciated with the University's Food System

Biotechnology Centre, which brings togeth­

er more than 70 Guelph researchers involved

in genomics and biotechnology research.

Consider the current convergence of

agriculture and medicine, where advances

in genetics and biotechnology are giving us

the scientific possibility of things like plant­

grown vaccines, says Castle.

"The emerging bio-economy means that

these technologies are going to have a per­

vasive influence on people's lives, in a way

that earlier technological advances did not.

For example, the aerospace revolution­

humans flying to the moon - arguably did

not have an effect on people's everyday

lives."

Castle completed a B.Sc in biology and

chemistry before he switched to philosophy,

earning a BA, MA and PhD. "I was inter­

ested in the sciences, but not just the 'how'

questions" he says. "I wanted to understand

the macroscopic 'why' questions. I wanted

to conduct the big-picture analysis of why

we're doing what we do in the sciences."

The arts/science combination of degrees

makes Castle well-qualified to tackle issues

like biotechnology and genetics. He co-teach­

es with Prof. john Phillips a course called

"Genetics: Our Uncertain Heritage" in

Phillips's Department of Molecular Biology

and Genetics. The course has 175 students

each term learning how ethical issues in genet­

ics and biotechnology arise and are resolved.

The course teaches the fundamentals of moral

reasoning, then incorporates these into a series

of case studies examining substantial ethical

issues posed by genetics and biotechnology.

Students look worldwide to evaluate techno­

logical advances on the basis of the scientific

thought and reasoning behind them.

If you're thinking of a career as a bioethi­

cist, expect to deal with difficult cases. There

aren't any cream puffs here.

Each year, Sick Kids treats more than

12,000 in-patients, most of whom Harrison

will never have to deal with. "The hardest

part of my job is that the cases that come to

us are really bad- the complications are

extreme," she says. "We've passed the point

where there's an outcome that will make all

sides happy. So we look instead for an end

point where people can live with the result."

She cites examples of parents who may

make a moral or religious decision to choose

naturopathic treatments for their child over

conventional medicine, which they may

view as invasive. Harrison says this can be

a particular problem where the child is

C§A\JB[§ • Summer 2001

JB UJLJLJE1LIN Alumni Involvement in the College of Social and Applied Human Sciences

Students launch new alumni tradition IN THE SPRING of 1904, four young

women scratched their names into the glass

pane of a window inside Macdonald Institute, where they were studying domestic science in

the province's first school for women.

Inspired by those scratched names, another group of young women who take

classes today in that same red brick building

found a way to reconnect with the history of

their college and build a sense of communi­

ty among their own classmates. On March

24, they hosted a unique Heritage Night event that drew almost 200 people, mostly

students, to a reception in the former Mac­

donald Institute building, now home to the

office of the dean of the College of Social and

Applied Human Sciences. Beth-Anne Tsourounis, Amie Phillips,

Sarah Hill, Paula Black and Lyndsay Arm­

strong spearheaded the effort to build a new

tradition among their classmates. "] didn't really know what Macdonald

Institute was until l did some research in

the library;' says Tsourounis, who launched

the idea. "It's amazing how far women's edu­

cation has come in a hundred years, and

many of the Mac Institute grads went on to

do some really incredible things."

The student group enlisted help from col­

lege staff and alumni to help them put togeth­

er a display of memorabilia and a slide show

that highlighted the experiences ofMacdon-

UNIVERSITY Q/"GUELPH

Mac-FACS AA president Patsy Marshall, left, with Heritage Night organizer Beth-Anne

Tsourounis.

aid Institute students from 1903 to the mid-

1960s. Their committee included Shirley Sur­

geoner, B.A.Sc. '72; Kate Revington, former

B.A.Sc. academic counsellor; applied nutri­

tion professor Marg Hedley, B.H.Sc. '64 and M.Sc. '8 1; and Laurie Malleau, B.Comm. '83,

alumni program manager for CSAHS. A dinner held after the reception wel­

comed students, faculty and several former board members of the Mac-FACS Alumni Association. Guest speakers included Patri­cia "Patsy" Marshall, B.A.Sc. '74 and M.Sc.

WHAT'S INSIDE DEAN's MESSAGE ............... 2

GRAD CoMES FuLL CIRCLE ...... 3

ALUMNI/STUDENT INVOLVEMENT .. -4

CSAHS Bulletin 1 Summer 2001

'78, president of the Mac-FACS AA, CSAHS

dean Alun Joseph and history professor

Jamie Snell. Marshall talked about her expe­riences at U of G and the career moves that

have taken her from social work to human

resources specialization and teaching. She

currently runs her own business, offering a

variety of business training courses.

The committee plans to expand the Her­

itage Night event next year to cover college history after the establishment of the Uni­

versity of Guelph.

STUDENTS IN RESEARCH .............. 6

STUDENT WINS u OF G AWARD ..... .]

2003 ANNIVERSARY ........ . ......... 8

Dean's Message ONE OF THE GREAT pleasures of

being a dean is having the opportuni­

ty to present new graduates to the Univer­

sity chancellor at convocation. There will be

more than I ,000 CSAHS graduates to con­

gratulate in June as they collect their degrees

and progress from student to alumni status.

They'll be joining a large family of more

than 20,000 alumni under the CSAHS

umbrella, the biggest alumni population of

any college at U of G. And what a diverse

group it is.

Our earliest alumni classes are all

women, graduates of Macdonald Institute.

A group of today's students recently probed

the history of this founding college and

hosted a highly successful Heritage Night

to showcase our historical roots and help

build a sense of appreciation for the expe­

riences of the Mac women. l believe

"inspired" is an accurate word to describe

the way students felt about that evening.

challenge is to maintain meaningful rela­

tionships with graduates from every corner

of the college. We're making a renewed

effort to do that by involving alumni in the

core activities of our academic programs

and by fostering friendships that began here

among students.

In this issue of the CSAHS Bulletin, you

will find stories about the many different

ways alumni are contributing to the life of

the college- mentoring students, provid­

ing work experiences, facilitating research

projects, supporting scholarships and bur­

saries, and creating networking opportuni­

ties for faculty and students.

We also introduce some exciting new

opportunities for alumni, such as a "virtu­

al" alumni gathering on the Department of

Geography Web site and a networking club

(the 5:30 Club) for those interested in busi­

ness and marketing.

Equall y important, we're taking steps to

ensure that current students are aware and

appreciative of alumni contributions and

financial support.

~ The alumni membersh ip of our coll ege

~ broadens as we add some 30 graduating class­

~ es from the former College of Family and

~ Consumer Studies. We have social science

i graduates from the six years of Well ington

in College and 29 years of classes from the Col­

~ lege of Social Science. Still growing, our alum-

6: ni family includes 2,171more recent gradu-

ates who completed programs in CSAHS.

As alumni, you are always welcome in

the departments where you studied as well

as throughout the college. We hope to hear

from you often.

DEAN'S NOTE

WHEN EACH ISSUE OF

the CSAHS Bulletin is

mailed out, we're struck by the

large number of alumni who

work on campus, especially

here in our own college.

More than 25 of our facul­

ty have Guelph degrees, includ­

ing Prof. Donna Woolcott,

B.H.Sc. '69 and PhD '79, who

is now serving as assistant vice­

president (academic); Prof. julia

Christensen Hughes, B.Comm.

'81, who is director of Teaching

Support Services; Brenda

Whiteside, BA '82 and MA '83,

now serving as associate vice­

president (student affairs); and

As an alumni family, we are both distin­

guished and challenged by our diversity. The

Ti m Mau and Laurie Malleau

one of our newest faculty, Peter

Hausdorf, MA '90, of the

Department of Psychology.

Academic counsellors Diane

Dobbins, B.A.Sc. '91, Donna

Reimer, BA '78, and Susan

Turner, BA '78 and MA '83, are

among our students' greatest

resources, while dozens of pro­

fessional and clerical staff are

the right hands of faculty.

Most recently, we've wei-

CSAHS Bulletin 2 Summer 2001

ALUN )OSEPH

comed Laurie MaUeau, B.Comm.

'83, and Tim Mau, BA '92 and

MA '93, who are working in

CSAHS as alumni program and

development managers. Their

presence in the college is a con­

stant reminder to faculty and stu­

dents that alumni have been and

continue to be our most loyal

supporters and are among our

greatest resources.

In turn, Laurie and Tim are

resources for alumni who want

to become more involved in

their alma mater. You can reach

them by calling 519-824-4120

or by sending e-mai l to

lmalleau@uoguelph.ca and

tmau @uoguelph.ca.

Blast from the past

CHECK OUT THE NEW geography

alumni Web page to see this photo of

a 1981 undergraduate field trip to Devon

and South Wales. It's one of many photos

posted on the site to bring back great

memories of the undergraduate experi­

ence in the Department of Geography and

to help launch a new virtual Guelph

Geography Alumni Association (GGAA).

The idea for a virtual alumni office was

developed by geography chair Prof. Richard

Kuhn, retired professor Phil Keddie and

alumnus Grant Lee, BA '73.

"We've had more than 2,000 graduates

of the geography program since it was estab­

lished in 1966, and now the technology is

in place to regroup," says Kuhn. "The Web

site gives faculty and alumni a way to stay

in touch and continue relationships start­

ed at U of G. We hope our alumni will

bookmark the GGAA Web site at

www.uoguelph.ca/geography/alumni/ggaa

and come back often to check out college

events, contact colleagues and share career

and continued learning opportunities."

The photo shows geography students and

faculty; who scaled cliffs and descended into

a coal mine together. Prof. Alun joseph orga-

nized the field trip to his home territory in

South Wales while supervising U of G's Lon­

don semester, but says the first overseas

excursion for geography students still would

not have been possible without financial sup­

port from alumni through the Annual Fund.

Family studies grad comes full circle WHEN SHE GRADUATED from

Guelph nearly 20 years ago, Shelley

Macdermid received a gift from a family she

had never met: a Harshman Foundation

scholarsh ip.

The foundation, established by busi­

nessman H.H. Harshman and now run by

his great-nephew Peter Harshman,

B.Sc.(Agr. ) '71, and Peter's wife, Grace, has

been providing scholarships to undergrad­

uate and graduate students in the Depart­

ment of Family Relations and Applied

Nutrition since the early 1960s.

Macdermid says the money and recog­

nition were a "big confidence booster." It's

fitting, then, that she was invited back to her

alma mater nearly two decades later as guest

speaker in the Harshman Lecture Series,

supported by the same family and founda­

tion that provided her with that scholarship

those many years ago.

ln her November 2000 lecture, Macdermid

spoke about families and work, a topic that she

studied as an w1dergraduate at U of G and that

is now a primary focus of her work as direc­

tor of the Center for Families at Purdue Uni­

versity. The centre is similar to Guelph's Cen­

tre for Families, Work and Well-Being, a

co-sponsor of the Harshman Lecture Series.

Macdermid says her visit to Guelph was

truly a "coming full circle" experience for

her and others. "I was born and raised in

Stratford, but this was my first official visit

back to Guelph since I graduated."

After receiving her B.A.Sc. in 1982, she

attended graduate school at Penn State and

later joined Purdue's faculty. She has direct­

ed its Center for Families for seven years.

"I'm very pleased that U of G has the

Centre for Families, Work and Well-Being

now;' she says. "! think it's a wonderful step."

Macdermid says the purpose of facilities

like those at U of G and Purdue are to help

educate and influence those who dictate the

kind of struggles families will face.

"A key part of that is educating policy-

CSAHS Bulletin 3 Summer 2001

Shelley Macdermid

makers," she says, "but equally important is

educating the general public about the

importance of families."

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CSAHS students benefit from the exper

Fred Kan, BA '99, and judy Duncan, BA

'91, centre, shared career experiences

with HAFA students at a February

careers night. Kan is a project manag­

er with the Tea Council of Canada, and

Duncan is owner of JD Marketing.

SHARING CAREER EXPERIENCES

WHEN IT COMES to making career

decisions, it's a big bonus for students

to be able to talk with someone who's "been

there, done that," says Lyndsay Armstrong,

president of the CSAHS Student Alliance.

"Having access to alumni from our pro­

grams who are involved in a range of careers

offers students a broader picture of what's

available to them after graduation;' she says.

"That alone is reason enough for the col­

lege to make a greater effort to get alumni

involved."

Forty alumni participated in careers

night events held in February and March.

RECRUITING STUDENTS

STUDENTS IN GUELPH'S housing

and real estate management (HREM)

program tend to be a close-knit group of

highly motivated students who usually stay

in touch with each other and with faculty

long after graduation .

Terry Ellery, B.Comm. '96, says his grad­

uating class tries to get together a couple of

times a year.

"You might be surprised how powerful

and handy a network of individuals special­

izing in various aspects of the real estate indus­

try can be;' he says. "''ve taken advantage of

it in setting up and growing my company."

Ellery is president of Guelph-based Bilt­

more Homes, which posted annual revenues

of more than $3.7 million last year.

Many HREM alumni are key players in

the business and real estate industry­

major banks, trust companies, property

management firms- and generally can't

say enough good things about the program.

"I feel the HREM B.Comm. gave me an

edge by educating me on the history of past

real estate and economic cycles and what

future trends may lie ahead," says Ellery. "I

put the lessons learned to use every day."

Prof. Marjorie Wall, chair of the Depart­

ment of Consumer Studies, hopes to capi­

talize on those positive remarks and the

strength of alumni relationships as the

department looks to double the program's

enrolment over the next few years and

enlarge its co-op stream.

SUPPORTING STUDENT TALENT

WHEN MEMBERS OF THE Mac­

donald Institute class of 1949 went

looking for a 50th-anniversary project, they

decided to commission a piece of artwork

that would provide work for a U of G fine

art student while commemorating their days

at the college. A proposal from graduate stu­

dent Lori Newdick won the commission;

her photo piece Essentially now hangs on

the walls of a CSAHS meeting room, where

it provides a glimpse of what college life was

like for women in 1949.

In doing research for the project,

Newdick says she found incredible stories

in a scrapbook lent to her by Nony (Hoga­

rth) Denison, who is pictured in the piece.

ENCOURAGING VOLUNTEERISM

WHEN SHE WAS A STUDENT at

U of G, Theresa Firestone, B.A.Sc. '78,

spent up to 30 hours a week engaged in vol­

unteer activities in the community. Recog­

nizing the value of those experiences 20 years

later, she inspired the 1999 establishment of

an annual CSAHS Student Volunteer Award

CSAHS Bulletin 4 Summer 2001

that has been funded by the Harshman Fel­

lowships Society and Pfizer Canada Inc. Fire­

stone is now vice-president, government and

public affairs, at Pfizer in Montreal.

The inaugural award was presented to

Darlene "Dee" Cober, B.A.Sc. '99, who is now

studying at Conestoga College in Waterloo

to be a nurse practitioner. The 2000 winner,

Allison Broostad, will graduate from U of G

in 2002 with a B.A.Sc. in nutrition.

Elizabeth O'Neil

MARKETING GRADUATES

C SAHS PROFESSOR Elizabeth O'Neil,

B.A.Sc. '74 and M.Sc. '83, is finding

success with a new marketing idea. The 5:30

Club is a regular networking opportunity

for alumni, students, faculty and commu­

nity professionals in marketing. The gath­

erings begin with industry experts invited

to talk about hot topics in marketing- a

recent example was a discussion of how the

Internet is transforming market research. If

you're interested in attending the 5:30 Club,

call 519-824-4120, Ext. 25 72.

MAKING EDUCATION POSSIBLE Memorials

T HE FAMILY AND FRIENDS of the

late Jean Carter, DHE '38, have estab­

lished a $1,000 annual undergraduate schol­

arship for a gerontology student in CSAHS.

The first award will be made in September.

The endowment was funded by the

and support of alumni Carter family and donations made to the

Jean Carter Memorial Fund after her death

in 1999. She is survived by her sons, John

and Robert, B.Comm. '84.

Jean Carter was a former teacher, a mas­

ter weaver and an active community vol­

unteer in Kitchener, Ont. At U of G, she

served on Senate and was president of the

Mac-FACS Alumni Association. She was

instrumental in working with her Mac '38

classmates to establish a scholarship that

provides $6,000 annually to graduate stu­

dents in gerontology.

Funding for bursaries and scholarships

is absolutely crucial to the mission of

CSAHS if the college is to ensure accessi­

bility and quality, says development man­

ager Tim Mau, BA '92 and MA '93.

Bequests

STUDENTS IN MANY CSAHS pro­

grams are benefiting from undergrad­

uate and graduate scholarships provided by

the estates of Audrey Yeandle, DHE '25, and

Katherine Beck, DHE '22.

The bequest from the Yeandle estate was

matched by the provincial government

through the University's ACCESS Fund,

providing $1.1 million to the college endow­

ment for student aid. The Beck estate will

add $500,000 to the endowment for grad­

uate scholarships.

Like jean Carter, these women were life­

long Guelph supporters. Audrey Yeandle

and her sister, Mary, DHE '27, taught for

many years at the john Fisher School in

Toronto. Katherine Beck enjoyed a career as

a professional dietitian and was in charge

of the kitchen in Creelman Hall for well over

a quarter of a century.

"When you bear in mind the time in

which these women obtained their degrees

and embarked on careers, you realize that

they were true pioneers," says Mau. "The

relationships they made early on in life car­

ried through the decades, and they never

forgot the friends they made at Mac, the

quality of their education or the faculty and

staff. Their generosity is heartwarming and

serves as an example to us all."

Jessica McCullough

PROVIDING CO-OP EMPLOYMENT "UoF G ALUMNI ARE OFTEN our

best co-op employers," says co-op

field co-ordinator janet Brydges. "They're

certainly our most loy2.l employers, typically

because they had a nice experience when

they were students at Guelph and because

they understand our programs."

Alumni employers often notice the co­

op ad in the Guelph Alumnus magazine or

hear about the University's programs

through Career Services, or they're former

co-op students themselves, she says.

All employers today are looking for a

wide set of skills, says Brydges, and the co­

op program gives them a unique opportu­

nity to see the skills Guelph students have

to offer. In turn, co-op students find an eas­

ier transition to the workplace, and many

graduate with a job offer already in hand.

Such is the case for Jessica McCullough,

one of the first students in U of G's mas­

ter's-level co-op program in economics. She

spent two co-op placements at Ontario

Power Generation and will begin work there

when she completes her degree this spring.

"The job experience was great in terms

of providing what you can never really learn

at school- first-hand experience of how

the business world functions,' she says.

This new master's co-op program has

received a lot of response from economics

alumni, says Brydges. "It's been very nice

because we're able to connect with employ­

ers who are aware of Guelph's economics

program and what it's capable of producing:'

CSAHS Bulletin 5 Summer 2001

That's a bonus for the Department of Eco­

nomics, which is actively engaged in build­

ing alumni contacts. An event held last fall

drew 35 graduates from as far away as Ottawa.

STRENGTHENING ALUMNI TIES

HELPING HANDS FROM ALL quarters

are supporting a new effort to strength­

en ties between the College of Social and

Applied Human Sciences and its alumni.

U of G's new college-based approach to

alumni programming is supported by the

University of Guelph Alumni Association

(UGAA), which recently committed $30,000

in operating funds to support alumni ini­

tiatives in CSAHS over the next three years.

Both established and emerging alumni

groups will benefit from the resources as the

college focuses on greater alumni involve­

ment, says alumni program manager

Laurie Malleau, B.Comm. '83.

"The more we can do to involve alumni

in the academic life of our college, the more

our students will benefit," she says. "And the

more our students benefit, the greater the

rewards alumni will receive. We think that's

a key to strengthening relationships."

FOSTERING THE NEXT GENERATION OF ALUMNI

L YN DSAY ARMSTRONG, president of

the CSAHS Student Alliance, says she

thinks alumni support has increased dur­

ing her three years as a student in the col­

lege, but admits that her student govern­

ment role gives her a privileged view of

alumni involvement.

"Seeing the commitment that alumni

still have even 20 to 30 years down the road

tells me that something here left a lasting

impression," she says. "I hope that impres­

sion is left for me as well."

Armstrong believes it's important that stu­

dents know how much alumni contribute to

the University, "whether it's renovating a build­

ing, sponsoring a lecture series or financing a

scholarship. And students who feel they're

being supported now are more likely to have

a continuing interest when they graduate."

Students/faculty tap eve resources AUNIQUE OPPORTUNITY that taps

the valuable resources of the Credit Riv­

er Watershed provides University of Guelph

students and faculty with the means to

atta in hands-on experience in education,

research and field work.

U of G and the Credit Valley Conserva­

tion (CVC)- a publicly funded organiza­

tion whose mandate is the protection and

environmental management of the Credit

River Watershed- have established a part­

nership that involves two-way sharing of

resources, knowledge and expertise. This

flow of information has helped meet the

research needs of both organizations.

"The partnership gives the CVC access

to research expertise from the University,"

says geography professor John Smithers,

MA '89 and PhD '95. "And it provides

research and learning opportunities for U

of G graduate and undergraduate students

and faculty. It satisfies objectives on both

sides of the fence."

Helping to facilitate this partnership are

a number of Guelph alumni who work for

the CVC, including senior planner Mike

Puddister, MA '83. His personal connection

to the U of G faculty has been instrumen­

tal in furthering and building new collabo­

rative projects. Together, authorities from

the eve and students and faculty from

U of G have been working on projects such

as lake management plans, door-to-door

surveys, and targeting sites for restoration

and water-quality enhancement.

The Credit River Watershed runs from

the town of Orangeville through Erin, Cale­

don, Brampton and Mississauga to Lake

Ontario, spanning a total of 1,000 square

kilometres. The Credit River itself supports

l ,500 km of tributaries, streams and creeks.

It's estimated that over the next 25 years,

urban land use within the watershed will

increase from 16 to 40 per cent. This pres­

sure makes environmental management of

this vital resource even more important.

Through the partnership, Guelph

researchers have the opportunity to focus

their work on identified research priorities

in local resources management. The part­

nership also provides hands-on training to

undergraduate students who want to learn

about ecological systems and the applica­

tion of research in management.

In return, the CVC has access to the

environmental data and understanding that

result from this research. This knowledge

helps the eve practise informed manage­

ment and make the most-educated man­

agement decisions possible. The exchange

of information also allows the organization

to explore important issues and areas it nor­

mally wouldn't be able to cover because of

limited expertise and resources.

For example, a group of undergraduate

students recently developed a system used

eve Forester Bob Baker, with U of G

geography students Michelle De eiccio,

centre, and Shannon Stephens.

to visually evaluate the appearance of ponds

in order to monitor the performance of new

storm-water management facilities being

implemented in the Credit Valley Water­

shed.

"We like to think of the watershed as a

laboratory," says Puddister. "We're always

looking for new opportunities to work with

university departments and faculty."

BY DALE DuNCAN

Hotel executive offers insights

JOHN SHARPE, former president and

chief operating officer of Four Seasons

Hotels and Resorts, was executive-in-resi­

dence at HAFA during the winter semester.

He spent a week on campus, offering

insights on a var iety of topics to about 15

classes of students at all course levels.

Sharpe, centre, also presented the inau­

gural Four Seasons Entrance Scholarships to

first-year students Brennan Quesnele, left,

and Elizabeth Hilliard. Azra Bajric was the

eSAHS Bulletin 6 Summer 2001

third recipient of the $5,000 scholarsh ips,

which are awarded each year to students

entering the B.Comm. program in hotel and

food administration or tourism management.

Alumni donations to the University's

Annual Fund have helped support HAFA's

executive-in-residence program, which

brings two industry executives to campus

each year, giving students the opportunity

to hear success stories from an industry per­

spective.

HAFA stretches the margins PRO F. JEFF STEWART, School of Hotel

and Food Administration, says it was a

long-term effort to manage costs while main­

taining quality and value that enabled stu­

dents in the HAFA restaurant program to

generate the funds needed to purchase new

chairs for the HAFA restaurant.

"It was certainly a real-world business

experience for the students and for faculty and

staff,' says Stewart, who attributes the new fur-

niture to a team effort in restaurant manage­

ment. Next on his wish list are a new paint job,

silverware, new tables and more kitchen space.

"Next semester, we'll be running a full

lab of 24 students five days a week," he says.

Enrolment projections for the restaurant

class, which accommodates both HAFA and

nutrition students, suggest the demand

could nearly double to 200 students a

semester over the next few years.

HAFA already has a renovation plan that

will double the capacity of the kitchen and

enlarge the seating area from 40 to 85 patrons.

CSAHS development manager Tim Mau says

renovation costs will exceed $2.5 million.

"We hope to enlist private-sector sup­

port for this project, which will enable the

HAFA program to grow with the demands

of students and the needs of the hospitali­

ty industry," he says.

Gerontology student honoured CSAH S G E RO NTOLOG Y student Beth­

Anne Tsourounis is the first recipient of a

U ofG citizenship award established last year

to recognize an undergraduate or graduate

student who demonstrates through volunteer

efforts a sense of personal responsibility and

commitment towards the community.

The Andre Auger Citizenship Award was

established to honour the contributions of

Andre Auger during his 27 years of service

to U of Gas director of the Counselling and

Student Resource Centre.

Tsourounis was nominated by the CSAHS

Student Alliance because of her involvement

in the University and the community. In addi­

tion to spearheading the recent Heritage

Night event, Tsourounis is an executive mem-

ber of the Gerontology Students' Association

and has worked for both the Department of

Family Relations and Applied Nutrition

(FRAN) and U of G's Admission Services to

promote the B.A.Sc. program.

She has been the gerontology represen­

tative for several FRAN committees, and is

a member of the gerontology task force par­

ticipating in discussions about a family rela­

tions degree proposed as part of the new

Guelph-Humber College initiative.

Tsourounis also works with the Guelph­

Wellington Association for Community Liv­

ing assisting adults with specia l needs, vis­

its nursing home residents in Guelph, and

is the campus co-ordinator for the Best

Buddies Canada Program.

STUDENTS WORK TOGETHER TO RENOVATE LOUNGE

The first major project of the CSAHS Student Alliance - created through

an amalgamation of the former FACS and CSS student governments

- was to redecorate and furnish a student lounge. The Alliance received

support from the Student Life Enhancement Fund, the CSAHS Dean's

Office and Jostens Photography. At left, president Lyndsay Armstrong

and vice·president Jeff Hyslop move out the old furniture. Centre: Mar·

keting student Sean Holiday and HAFA students Karen Morrison and

lan Ricci (at the back) assemble new chairs. Right: Enjoying the fin ·

ished project are, from left, marketing student Mike Hakomaki and

HAFA students Romana Miokovic, Andrew Excel and An ish Mehra.

CSAHS Bulletin 7 Summer 2001

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Alumni and college plan for 2003 SHIRLEY SuRGEON ER, B.A.Sc. '72,

says she jumped at the chance to help

students plan the March 24 Heritage Night,

but admits she was initially surprised by

their enthusiasm to dig into the history of

Macdonald Institute, a name they may

know only from the facade of an old red

brick bui lding.

"Today's students are part of a much big­

ger and more diversified college, so it sur­

prises me that they have such interest in the

past;' she says, "yet many seem to be look­

ing for roots to anchor their place in the

new College of Social and Applied Human

Sciences."

Surgeoner is working not just with stu­

dents, but also with alumni to prepare for

the 10oth anniversary of the founding of

Macdonald Institute, slated for 2003. She

and Sarah Davenport, B.A.Sc. '90, began col­

lecting photos, stories and memorabilia for

a book now being written by Prof. Jamie

Snell, History.

"It's important for us to record our his­

tory so that it's not forgotten," says Sur­

geoner. "What would have happened if Mac­

donald Institute hadn't been established? It's

important to remember that the education­

al programs that started here in 1903 have

grown and unfolded into today's dynamic

college, one that we totally support as alum­

ni. Throughout its history, our college has

had an impact around the world."

CSAHS BULLETIN Summer 2001

Produced by the College of Social

and Applied Human Sciences

Contact:

Carmelina Ridi,

Tel : 519·824·4120,

Ext. 3078

Fax: 519·766·4797

E-mail: cridi@uoguelph.ca

Web site:

www.csahs.uoguelph.ca

The Mac·FACS Alumni Association board, from left: Rosemary Clark, B.H.Sc. '59; Heather

Husnik·Osborne, B.Comm. '94; Brenda Watson, B.A.Sc. '87; Tim Mau, BA '92 and MA '93;

CSAHS dean Alun Joseph; Lyndsay Armstrong, president of CSAHS Student Alliance; Patsy

Marshall, B.A.Sc. '74; Prof. Jane Londerville, faculty liaison; Shirley Surgeoner, B.A.Sc.

'72; and Laurie Malleau, B.Comm. '83. Absent: Sandra Martin, B.H.Sc. '69.

Surgeoner and Rosemary Clark, B.H.Sc.

'59, both longtime members of the Mac­

FACS Alumni Association, have volunteered

to represent a lumni on a planning com­

mittee for the 2003 anniversary celebrations.

If you have ideas or time to volunteer, call

Surgeonerat 519-843-5236.

The anniversary will also include a fund-

raising project to help finance major reno­

vations to the turn-of-the-century building

that housed Macdonald Institute.

"We've now turned yet another centu­

ry," says dean Alun Joseph, "and find our

heritage building in need of restoration and

upgrades that will address academic needs

into the future."

Food for Thought A one-day seminar sponsored by the Mac-FACS Alumni Association

June 15, noon to 5 p.m. Springfield Golf & Country Club, Gordon Street South, Guelph

Speakers

Deborah Whale

Vice-president of Clovermead Farms

"Putting Food on Your Table"

Anita Stewart

Founder of Cuisine Canada

"Distinctively Canadian Food"

Lois Ferguson, B.A.Sc. '71

President of Malibu Consulting

"Eating for Energy and Ecstasy"

Shirley Ann Holmes, B.H.Sc. '62

Home economist and Food sty list

"Easy Bread Machine Baking"

Cost $so per person, includes lunch. Send cheque payable to Mac-FACS AA to

Rosemary Clark, 143 College Ave., Guelph, ON N1G 1S5. E-mail: rhclark@uoguelph.ca

CSAHS Bulletin 8 Summer 2001

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placed at risk over the length of a long-term

illness. Short-term life-or-death cases, such

as refusing a b lood transfusion for a child

injured in an auto accident, rarely make it

to her, she says, because the child lives or

d ies within the space of a few hours.

" In the cases where a child has a long­

term illness, you have to be careful and try

and maintain that relationship with the par­

ents, because otherwise the parents could

take the child and disappear. You want to

remain engaged and see a resolution to the

case that all sides can live with."

Castle faces similar challenges on the

genomics and biotechnology front. "We're

in a period right now where we have quite

entrenched positions, especially about crop

biotechnology," he says. "We have the pro-

Winter 2001 23

GMO multinationals on one side and the

anti-GMO organizations on the other, and

there's not much movement from either

polarized position."

What will ease tensions, he predicts, are

such things as incentives for multinational

companies to adopt policies that meet their

financial goals while allowing them to

donate biotechnology to poorer countries

or to create biotechnology specifically aimed

at helping developing nations.

"The University of Guelph is an incuba­

tor for industry/university collaboration on

projects that can meet these objectives," he

says. "We must think now about how to devel­

op and deliver these emerging technologies

so they will do the most good possible."

Harrison's education and expertise are

in constant demand. In addition to being a

departmental director, she is on the faculty

"There was some

initial suspicion.

Some doctors didn't

realize that we're

there to help them."

of pediatrics at the University of Toronto,

as well as at the School of Graduate Stud­

ies, and she belongs to that university's )oint

Centre for Bioethics. She teaches all levels

of doctors-in-training, from first-year med­

ical students to doctors taking upgrade

courses at Toronto, and also gives courses

in the occupational therapy department and

at the Michener Institute in Toronto. She

says bioethics is an area of growing interest

to students, and she's seen a steady increase

in the number of med students who want

to study bioethics as part of their training.

Harrison also sits on a number of hos­

pital task forces. Two current ones deal with

disclosure of medical error and whether

newborn babies should be tested for drugs

if their mother was a drug user.

Expectations can run high. "The challenge

still is explaining to people what it is we do;'

24 GUELPH ALUMNUS

she says, recalling an incident several years

ago when a doctor said to her:"! hope you're

going to be able to give us some answers."

"Sometimes there is a definite answer,"

says Harrison. "Other times, we're involved

in helping people reach a decision. Our exper­

tise is not what's right or wrong, but knowl­

edge of ethical theory, decision-making

processes and human psychology. Sometimes

we solve a problem simply by getting both

sides to sit down and listen to each other."

Castle points out that "resolve" is a term

that doesn't always mean everyone ends up

happy. "To resolve an ethical issue means

that it is no longer a question as to what

constitutes a right action. Sometimes that

means all parties are satisfied and come to

an agreement. Other times, the resolution

is identified by all parties, but one side

remains dissatisfied with what the right

action entails."

Harrison is also the president of the 600-

member Canadian Bioethics Society, where

a chief goal of her mandate will be increas­

ing the credibility of the profession. She

thinks this will be achievable, in part, by the

development of standards for the profession.

Harrison points out that, despite the title,

bioethicists are not saints, although to the mis­

informed or self-conscious, they may appear

as modern-day equivalents of priest-confes­

sors or nuns. Sometimes at social gatherings,

for example, people will stop swearing if she

comes into a room. On another occasion,

when she was a visitor in an operating room

and a mistake was made, one of the masked

health-care professionals said: "That would

have to happen when the bioethicist was here:'

Instead, other qualities are necessary to

the bioethicist's makeup. Both Castle and

Harrison emphasize the importance of

being able to speak your mind honestly and

openly.

The personality of the organization they

work in is also critical. Harrison and Castle

say they feel fortunate that Sick Kids and

U of G are both institutions where the orga­

nizational atmosphere invites open ques­

tioning and discussion.

Harrison did her MA at Guelph under

Prof. Carole Stewart, now dean of the Col­

lege of Arts. She also fondly remembers

courses with Prof. Jay Newman, Philosophy.

"The philosophy I learned at Guelph gave

me the conceptual tools to work in this pro-

fession," she says.

Harrison recalls one case where she was

able afterwards to deconstruct a consultation

based entirely on pure philosophical concept.

"This was the case of a child who ulti­

mately died. It was very sad. The doctors dis­

agreed with each other about whether or not

to respect the family's wishes and continue

providing aggressive but futile treatment, or

to do what all health-care team members

believed was best for the child- to let her

die peacefully. Upon reflecting later as to why

the situation went so badly, I realized that the

two sides were using different philosophy in

their thinking. Some of the doctors had a

deontological philosophy, meaning duty­

based, so they felt duty-bound to respect the

comfort and dignity of the child, whereas the

other doctors had a consequentialist philos­

ophy. They didn't want conflict with the

"We have the pro-GMO

multinationals on one

side and the anti-GMO

organizations on

the other, and there's

not much movement

from either."

health-care team to be the final memory the

family had of their child's last days."

Harrison says the Sick Kids environment

is one of family-centred care. "We think of

the child in terms of the whole family, that

the child is part of that family, and all treat­

ment is provided with this principle in mind.

So in this particular situation, the health­

care team respected the parents' wishes but

afterwards experienced moral distress­

what we refer to as a 'moral residue."'

Despite these individual cases that Har­

rison describes as sometimes "agonizing,"

it seems she wouldn't have it any other way.

"There are so many applications for

bioethics and so much potential for this

field that it seems in my day-to-day work,

I'm always at the bottom of the learning

curve. It's one of the factors that makes mine

an incredibly interesting job." ga

• encoura re at1ons Ips U of G turns the spotlight on alumni participation

Alumni involvement in the life

of the University has taken centre stage with

the launch of a new team of alumni pro­

gram officers who have moved their com­

puters and their ideas into the colleges to

rub shoulders with faculty and staff and the

next generation of alumni.

"It's wonderful to be part of the acade­

mic scene, the scurrying of students, bump­

ing into faculty in the halls and picking up

a real sense of their priorities," says Laurie

Malleau, alumni program officer for the

College of Social and Applied Human Sci­

ences. A staff member in Alumni Programs

since 1987, she says being closer to the

dean's office is also helping to increase

awareness in the college of the role alumni

play in the life of the University.

The college-based approach to alumni

programming mirrors the decentralized

structure of U of G's development team,

launched almost two years. Alumni and

development staff are now active partici.­

pants in the college communities, but still

maintain a close connection to Alumni

House to facilitate major events and fund-

~ raising initiatives.

~ "U of G has a large and diverse alumni :r: ~ population, and we believe grassroots

i§ involvement is the best way for our gradu­

~ ates to stay in touch with their college and

i'i:i the best way for us to encourage new rela­

~ tionships;' says Rob McLaughlin, vice-pres­

iS: ident (alumni affairs and development).

26 GUELPH ALUMNUS

by Mary Dickieson

If you're looking for a way to get

involved in your college, to connect with

students or to contribute as a U of G alum­

ni volunteer, call one of the alumni officers.

Eventually, they'll be spreading their wings

across the country to meet and work with

you on your own turf, helping to create new

alumni groups and strengthening U of G's

existing alumni associations.

Alumni involvement at U of G takes

many forms, from speaking at a careers

night to sitting on an academic advisory

board, mentoring students, hiring students

in co-op jobs, taking a position within an

alumni association, serving as a class

agent/contact, providing scholarships, being

a contact for international students, fund­

ing student leadership initiatives, advocat­

ing on behalf of the University and wel­

coming new graduates at convocation.

Meet the cast of alumni profes­

sionals at U of G:

• Laurie Malleau, B.Comm. '83, has worked

for several years with alumni of the School

of Hotel and Food Administration and the

former College of Family and Consumer

Studies (FACS) and Macdonald Institute.

She has previous experience in the hospi­

tality industry and is enjoying a new old

office in the 1904 Macdonald Institute

building.

• Carla Bradshaw, BA '88, has worked on

campus since 1987, first in the liaison area,

then moving to Alumni Programs in 1992.

She has provided professional support to

staff and alumni in several academic areas,

focusing on alumni activities in OAC since

1999. She says her new location in johnston

Hall has met with approval from alumni .

• Sam Kosakowski, B.Sc. (H.K. ) '92 and BA

'94, is alumni program officer for the Col­

lege of Biological Science and College of

Physical and Engineering Science. AU of G

employee since 1990, he has worked as a

program co-ordinator and assistant BA

counsellor. He also coaches the varsity men's

lacrosse team and is currently completing

an M.Sc. in rural extension studies.

• Susan Rankin, BA '92, is a newcomer to

the University's staff but not to alumni pro­

gramming. She has worked in alumni pro­

grams, alumni advancement and donor

relations at McMaster University since 1995.

At U of G, she is responsible for developing

alumni programs in the College of Arts and,

through Student Affairs, will stimulate

alumni involvement in varsity athletics,

career mentoring, co-op placements and

residence life.

• Another newcomer to the alumni staff,

Andrea Pavia, B.Comm. '97, brings experi­

ence as a manager in the hospitality indus­

try and as a manager of customer service for

the Royal Bank Financial Group. As aU of

G student, she was co-ordinator of the job­

shadowing program and president of the

FACS student association. She is now facili-

Keep in touch with your college:

Carla Bradshaw, OAC alumni officer .... ..... cbradsha@oac.uoguelph.ca

Sam Kosakowski, CBS/CPES alumni officer ...... skosakow@uoguelph.ca

Laurie Malleau, CSAHS alumni officer .. ......... lmalleau@uoguelph.ca

Andrea Pavia, OVC alumni officer ............... apavia@uoguelph.ca

Susan Rankin, Arts alumni officer ....... .. .. srankin@arts.uoguelph.ca

tating alumni program activities for OVC.

• Supporting this team from Alumni

House are Vikki Tremblay as alumni pro­

gram ass istan t and Jennifer Brett, recent­

ly hired in a new position as alumni events

and communications co-ordinator. Trem-

blay has worked in administrative posi­

tions at U of G for the past seven years.

Brett comes to Guelph from UN ICEF

Ontario and brings experience in com­

munity relations, event co-ordination and

communications.

Michael Somerville also played a central

role in establishing the new staff structure

as director for alumni programs, but has

since left the Un iversity.

The five alumn i officers will support

constituent alumni groups, co-o rdin ate

alumni participation in co llege activities,

and work with Alumni House staff to

maintain U of G's long tradition of host­

ing popular events such as Alumni Week­

end and Homecoming, supporting class

reunions and providing direct support

for the University of Gue lph Alumni

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UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

ALUMNI VO LUNT EE RS

1\lumni·in-Action board members and volunteers. Front row, front left: Barbara Colter, BA '83 ; Dorothy Collin, B.H.Sc. '6o; and Jean King, B.H.Sc. '52. Ba

row: Doug King; Bill Brack, DVM '49; Russ McDonald, DVM '45; Stan Young, BSA '49; Paul Pennock, DVM '58; George Fleming, DVM '52; and Bruce Stan

BSI\ '53 and MSA '54. Board members who were absent: Earl Gagnon, ADA '58; Ann Smith, BSA '52; Bill Richards, BSA '63; and Murray Woods, BSA '5

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ALUMNI-IN-AGION SAYS IT ALL

ONE OF THE MOST effective alumni

groups at U of G is called simply Alum­

ni-in-Action. Its members are primarily retired

people who work often behind the scenes with

a willingness to roll up their sleeves to the tasks

t:;; that make their helping programs indispens-

: able to the University and its students.

~ One of the most striking examples is the

~ dedication of readers who tape textbooks, lee­

~ tures and papers for students with disabili­

~ ties. jean King, B.H.Sc. '52, and her husband,

~ Doug, have been readers for three years, and

28 GuELPH ALUMNUS

she has recruited many other alumni volun­

teers for the U of G Library program. The

Kings have read a variety of material from

economics and geography to agriculture and

English, and teamed up last year to read an

entire English novel of the 1700s.

Multiply their effort by a group of up to

22 volunteer readers. In one semester alone,

the group taped five full textbooks, 136

chapters and 47 individual articles, an esti­

m ated 5,500 pages representing more than

500 hours of work.

"Doug and I do a lot of volunteer work;'

says King. "We're both retired teachers. 0 all the volunteer work I've done, I cancer­

tainly say this is the most gratifying." It 's also

interesting work and helps ho ne read in

and diction ski lls, she says. ''I' ll continue to

read as long as there is read ing required."

Although these volunteers may never mee

the students they're helping, another Alum·

ni-in-Action project brings students an

alumni face to face. Twice a year, the organi·

zation hosts a dinner for international stu·

dents. The alumni hosts tell stories about cam

pus history, share folklore and offer a friendly

atters HIGHLIGHTS • GRAD NEWS • OBITUARIES • CALENDAR

LACROSSE PLAYERS FORM ASSOCIATION

I\ GRouP oF FoRM E R U of G lacrosse players got together

t"\Iast summer to form the Gryphon Lacrosse Alumni Associa­

tion. Their goals are to foster interest and support for the current

lacrosse program at the University and to provide an opportunity

for lacrosse alumni to stay in touch with one another.

An inaugural event Sept. 29 to Oct. 1 had 24 alumni players

challenging the current U of G varsity men's lacrosse team. Alum­

ni came from as far away as Texas and Nova Scotia, says organizer

Sam Kosakowski, B.Sc. (H.K.) '92 and BA '94, who is the current

vars ity coach and aU of G alumni program officer.

With their families, the lacrosse alumni enjoyed a Friday night

a current project.

get-together, dinner at Gryphs Lounge after Saturday's game and

an evening at the Great Canadian Brewing Festival, an annual com­

munity event held in the U of G arena. The lacrosse weekend was

supported by U of G's Department of Athletics, Gryphs Lounge,

the Process Mechanical Group and Molson's.

The newly elected Gryphon Lacrosse Alumni Association

executive includes Kosakowski; jeff Snyder; Dave Campbell, BA

'97; Mark Walker, B.Comm. '91 and M.Sc '95; and john

VanSlingerland, B.Comm '99. If you're a U of G lacrosse alum­

ni, visit the group's Web site at www.uoguelph.ca/-lacrosse or

call Kosakowski at 519-824-4120, Ext. 4703.

face to answer questions and help Guelph's

international students feel at home. Alumni­

in-Action president Stan Young, BSA '49, says

the fall event draws up to 150 students.

Young is also a new recruit for a long­

standing Alumni-in-Action service program

with the library archives. For many years,

alumni have volunteered in the archives to

help care for rare leather books, identify

photographs and classify new material. The

Rural Heritage Collection transferred from

the Ontario Farm Museum last summer is

"It takes a long time to go from a pile of

boxes to a format that can be catalogued in

the library and made available so people can

use it;' says Young. "I hope to do more work

on that collection."

by Ed Brubaker, BSA '49. He recorded the

memories of Tom McEwan, the first person

to chair the University's Board of Governors,

and travelled to Massachusetts to interview

retired economist john K. Galbraith, BSA '31.

The Alumni-in-Action oral history tapes

are available at Alumni House and in the

library archives.

The project for which Alumni-in-Action

may be best known is a collection of histori­

cal audio tapes containing interviews with

several dozen alumni, faculty and volunteers

about their early campus experiences. Two of

the most recent additions were contributed

If you're interested in joining this active

helping group, contact U of G Alumni Pro­

grams at 519-824-4120, Ext. 6544, or by

e-mail at alumni@uoguelph.ca.

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alumni Matters TEXAS GRADS MAKE THE GUELPH CONNECTION

THE FIRST U OF G Texas alumni reunion drew 24 people to San Anto­

nio March 10. Grads came from Arthur

City, Deer Park, Dallas, Houston, Austin,

Brownsville and surrounding areas to

make the Guelph connection. Ted Freeman, ADA '56, and his wife,

Shirley, organized the event, and OAC act­

ing dean Tom Michaels was guest speaker. Those attending were enthusiastic about

making the Texas reunion an annual event,

so an organizing committee for next year

was formed: Elaine Hernandez, Charlotte

Kerr Jorgensen, George Sprankle, Paul Bay­

er, Federico Villamayor and Freeman. If you'd like to receive information on

this newly established Texas alumni chap­

ter or to ensure you're on the mailing list

for the 2002 reunion, call Carla Bradshaw at 519-824-4120, Ext. 6657, or send e-mail to cbradsha@oac.uo guelph.ca.

Front row, from left: Paulette Samson, OAC director of development; Elaine Hernandez, BA '74;

Anne Louise McPhail-Smith, BA '89; Charlotte Kerr Jorgensen, BA '73; Carla Bradshaw, OAC

alumni program officer. Back row: Tom Michaels, OAC acting dean; Paul Bayer, ADA '61; Janet Hunter, BA '74; Greg Levens, DVM '95; Federico Villamayor, PhD '84; Ted Freeman, ADA '56;

and George Sprankle, DVM '51.

CSAHS STUDENTS HOST HERITAGE EVENT

A group of College of Social and Applied Human Sciences students enlisted help from

college staff and alumni to host a unique heritage event March 24 that highlighted the

beginnings of the college as Macdonald Institute. Almost 200 people attended. Members of the Heritage Night committee were, from left: student Paula Black; Laurie Mal­

leau, B.Comm. '83, and alumni program officer for CSAHS; Kate Revington, former B.A.Sc. aca­

demic counsellor; Shirley Surgeoner, B.A.Sc. '72; and students Lyndsay Armstrong, president of the CSAHS Student Alliance, Arnie Phillips, Sarah Hill and Beth-Anne Tsourounis. Prof. Marg

Hedley, Family Relations and Applied Nutrition, was unavailable for the photo.

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HONG KONG ALUMNI MEET

AMAY 19 RECEPTION for U of G

alumni in Hong Kong was hosted by

Prof. Alun joseph, dean of the College of

Social and Applied Human Sciences, and

Prof. John Walsh, associate dean of the Fac­

ulty of Management Studies, who intro­

duced Guelph's new Internet-based master

of management studies program (MMS) . The distance education program is geared

to mid-career professionals in the hospital­

ity and tourism industries and builds on a

residential MMS launched in 1992.

Hong Kong alumni who helped orga­

nize the event include Douglas Barber,

vice-president and general manager of the

Century Hong Kong Hotel and a certificate holder from Guelph's Advanced Manage­

ment Programs m the Hospitality Industry; Patsy Leung, B.Comm. '95, busi­

ness development manager for the Grand Hyatt; and Kallista Wong, BA '92, who

works for the English School Foundation

in Hong Kong.

If you live in Hong Kong and want to ensure that your name is on the mailing list for future alumni events, send e-mail to

Laurie Malleau at lmalleau@uoguelph.ca.

UGAA HONOURS GOLDEN GRADS

NOT o LY w1 LL THE OAC Class of

1951 celebrate its 50th anniversary dur­

ing Alumni Weekend june IS to 17, but it

will also celebrate the individual achieve­

ments of class members Ken Hammill and

Clayton Switzer as they receive special hon­

ours from the University of Guelph Alum­

ni Association (UGAA).

Hammill will be named Alum n us of

Honour, and Switzer will receive the UGAA

Alumni Volunteer Award during the June 16

President's Luncheon.

Hammill will be recognized for his con­

tributions to education, research, environ­

mental conservation and culture. His rela­

tionship with his alma mater has intertwined

with a professional career in business,

involvement in municipal government,

membership in the National Research Coun­

cil and his persona l interest in bui lding an

important collection of Inuit art at the Mac­

donald Stewart Art Centre.

Switzer's OAC '51 classmates have

brought attention to his volunteer leadership

on behalf of their class, the many agricultural

organizations that have benefited from his

involvement and his work to address the

financial needs of OAC and the University.

Student scholarships, the Turfgrass Research

Institute, the Rutherford Conservatory green­

house, the OAC '51 garden and the Univer­

sity's Annual Fund have all benefited from

Switzer's enthusiasm and fund-raising skills.

Also at the President's Luncheon, the

Ontario Veterinary Col lege Alumni Associ­

ation will recognize jim Archibald, DVM '49,

as its Distinguished Alumnus. A pioneering

surgeon during his faculty career at OVC, he

has made innumerable contributions to the

profession and to veterinary education,

including his work on an OVC '49 class com­

mittee that raised more than $200,000 for

scholarships and bursaries. Archibald has also

been active in politics and charitable work.

U OF G NEEDS SKI COACH T H E U oF G NoR o 1 c sk i team needs a

coach so it can reapply for varsity status for

the 2001/2002 season. If you're interested in

physical activity, Nordic skiing and working

with young athletes, contact team members

at phook@uoguelph.ca.

Alumni Weekend 2001 Through the Lens of Time

FRIDAY, JUNE 15

10 a.m. OVC Symposium, Cliff Barker, DVM '41 1:30 p.m. Food for Thought Luncheon and Lecture Series

5:30p.m. Welcome Barbecue • 9:15p.m. Stargazing Party Class Reunions and Hospitality Events

SATURDAY, JUNE 16 Constituent Alumni Association Meetings

11 a.m. College of Arts Alumni Association Recognition Noon President's Luncheon and Alumni Awards Presentation

2 p.m. Trolley Tours of Campus 3 p.m. UGAA 35th -Anniversary Celebration and AGM

3 p.m. Mills Hall Plaque Dedication to OAC '71 Launch of OAC '71 and '72 Anniversary Project

6 p.m. Golden Anniversary Dinner • Silver Anniversary Dinner Class Reunions and Hospitality Events

SUNDAY, JUNE 17 9:30a.m. Ecumenical Service • 9:45a .m. Farewell Breakfast

For program details, contact Alumni Programs at 519-824-4120, Ext. 6544, or vikkit@alumni .uoguelph.ca.

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alumni Matters

FIRST-TIME ALUMNI GATHERINGS HELD IN WEST INDIES

U OF G's INTERNATIONAL liaison co-ordinator, Mary Haggar­

ty, BA '90, donned her alumni hat last fall during a recruit­

ment visit to the West Indies. She hosted successful alumni gath­

erings in Trinidad, Barbados and St. Lucia, but was disappointed

when no one showed up in the Bahamas and Jamaica. She found

out why when she got back to Guelph- the invitations hadn't

arrived on time. "I guess Canada isn't the only co_untry with snail

mail;' says Haggarty, who hosted these first-ever West Indies

alumni events on behalf of Guelph's Alumni Programs office.

"Next time we'll mail the invitations much earlier."

The Canadian High Commission helped co-ordinate the Barbados

event, which included, from left, Sandra Hastings, B.H.Sc. '69; Jean

McCardle, M.Sc. '93; Geoffrey Goddard, ADA '79; Katalin Goddard,

B.A.Sc. '8o; and Martin Taylor, B.Sc.(Agr.) '88.

In St. Lucia, Mary Haggarty met, from left, Francis Leonce, BSA '62

and MSA '64; Jahn Sifflet, B.Comm. '99; Keith Scotland, DVM '79;

Trudy Leonce-Joseph, B.Sc. '85; Michael Montrose, DVM '79; a guest;

and Donnalyn Charles, B.Sc.(Agr.) '97.

OVC alumni John Fernandes, DVM '8o, and Roger D'Abadie, DVM '81, organized a large gathering of almost so people in Trinidad.

NOTICE OF AGM THE UNIVERSITY OF GuELPH Alumni

Association will hold its annual general

meeting June 16 at 3 p.m. at the

Macdonald Stewart Art Centre. Members

will consider an amendment to the bylaws

of the association.

Bylaw # 3 a) Classification. Regular

Members.

Under the section titled " Regular

Members," add a new clause: "All persons

who have completed a certificate/diploma

program offered by the University of

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Guelph that has been approved for mem­

bership by resolution of the UGAA board."

FLORIDA REUNION DRAWS 88 ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL Florida alumni

reunion was held March 7 at Maple Leaf

Estates in Port Charlotte. Organizers Donald,

DVM '49, and Betty Way welcomed 88 guests,

including U of G's vice-president (a lumni

affairs and development), Rob McLaughlin,

B.Sc.(Agr.) '69 and PhD '77, who was the

guest speaker. Morley Funston, BSA '32, rep­

resented the earliest class, and OAC '51 had

the most members in attendance.

FINDING BEAUTY IN THE ARBORETUM THE CLASS OF OAC '56 will commemorate

its 45th anniversary June 16 by dedicating

the OAC '56 Park in the Garden project at

the Arboretum.

Class members have contributed more

than $69,000 to the project, which includes

dedication of the park, 13 specimen trees

and a double arbour at the southwest cor­

ner of the park boundary.

GRAD N EWS

What's after Gryphon hockey?

From left: Matt Mullin, Kevin MacDonald, Paul Rosebush and Jason Reesor

• There's no doubt about it. Winning the 1997 University

Cup championship ranks as the

all-time Gryphon hockey high­

light.

The Gryphons dominated Canadian university hockey dur­

ing the 1990s, finishing second

in Canada in 1994 and 1995 and defeating the University of New

Brunswick in Maple Leaf Gar­

dens to win their first national

championship in March 1997.

Where are those hockey

Gryphons now? Amazingly, five

members of the 1997 champi­

onship team are still playing

1940 • John Kerr, ADA '40, lives in

retirement in Barry, South

Glamorgan, Wales. He was for­

merly self-employed in garden­

ing, painting and decorating enterprises. Friends can contact

him by e-mail at irvine.kerr@

tesco.net.

• Ian Taylor, DVM '43, says this

photo captures the first time he's

treated a horse since graduation

from OVC. The fibreglass pony is covered with hands spelling

out sign language for the deaf,

hockey together ... in sunny Cal­

ifornia! J.P. Davis, Matt Mullin,

jason Reesor, Paul Rosebush and

Bill Monkman skate with the

Bakersfield Condors in the West

Coast Hockey League, which

includes professional teams based in eight cities stretching

from Phoenix, Ariz., up the west coast to Anchorage, Alaska.

The Bakersfield team boasts

14 Canadian players, most from

southern Ontario, and head

coach Kevin MacDonald grew

up in Guelph. He played hock­

ey in Ottawa and with several

AHL teams and began coaching

and was the Arlington Heights

Lions Club entry in the com­

munity's 2000 Ponies on Parade

Festival. Taylor has posted a per-

in the Colorado Avalanche sys­

tem. MacDonald was well aware

of Gryphon hockey talent, hav­

ing worked for Gryphon coach

Marlin Muylaert at several U of

G training camps in the 1990s.

MacDonald signed Reesor,

Rosebush and Briane Thomp­

son in 1999, Davis and Mullin

in 2000, and Monkman in

2001. Thompson has since moved from California to Flori­

da, where he's a member of the

Pensacola Solar Bears of the

East Coast Hockey League.

What's next for these play­ers? Apart from the obvious

hope of making the NHL, the

five Condors have a variety of

options. Rosebush is already

branching into other sports. He

played on the Canadian softball team at the 1999 Pan Am

Games and plays professional

fastball each summer. Davis

gained some modelling experi­ence while playing hockey in

Europe, and Monkman did

some radio broadcasting while

playing in Georgia. Reesor plans

to become a teacher, and Mullin

hopes to return to Guelph, pos­

sibly as a firefighter.

feet attendance record with the

Illinois Lions Club for 42 years.

1950 • Charles "Chuck" Broadwell,

BSA '54, received a citation last

fall from the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural

Affairs for his contributions to

Ontario's agri-food industry as

chair of the Farm Organizations

Accreditation Tribunal, vice­

chair of the Farm Products

Appeal Tribunal, and member of

the Ontario Drainage Tribunal

and Board of Negotiations.

• William Shaw, BSA '57, is

retired but enrolled in a school

of Scottish studies. He is also a member of Lions International,

the Fraternal Order of Eagles and the C!Jnadian Historical

Society and is a volunteer for

the Canadian Cancer Society.

• Ted Wiffen, BSA '54, and his

wife, Joan, live in Guelph's Vil­

lage by the Arboretum, where

they are enjoying retirement and their three grandchildren. Their

son, David, B.Comm. 1986, is an

area manager with Payless Shoes and lives in Georgetown, Ont., with his wife, Diane, and son,

Scott. The Wiffens' daughter, Jan­ice Schweizer, B.A.Sc. '82, is a

senior human resources consul­

tant in Mississauga, Ont., and has two children, Kristy and Andrew.

1960 • Mary (Jarrott) Cassar, BA '68,

is retired after a 25-year career

as a court reporter. She lives in

St. George, Ont., with her hus­band, Ted, and is returning to

an earlier interest in painting

and sketching.

• Anthony "Tony" Crocker, B.Sc.(Agr.) '67, of Lindsay, Ont.,

retired from teaching at Lindsay

Collegiate and Vocational Insti­

tute in 1998 after teaching sec­

ondary school physics for 31

years. He has started a new career

as a freelance photographer.

1970 • Ewen Ferguson, DVM '77, was recognized last fall for contri­

butions to his profession and

community when he received

the practitioner of the year

award from the An1erican Asso­

ciation of Bovine Practitioners.

He is the first Ontario veteri­

narian to be so honoured. After

graduation, Ferguson bought

into a vet practice in Campbell­ford, Ont., became sole owner

in 1980 and sold the practice to

Kathy Wilkins, B.Sc.(Agr.) '83

and DVM '87, in 1994. He con­

tinues to consult for Ontario

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Dairy Herd Improvement and

is active as a community volun­

teer, currently chairing the

Campbellford Health Centre

Board.

• On Jan. 13, 2001, Maureen

(Stonestreet) Hair, BA '77, was

ordained to holy orders at St.

James Anglican Church in

Gravenhurst, Ont. She and her

husband, Ralph, live in Dorset,

and she is ministering to the

Lake of Bays Anglican Parish on

a part-time basis. Hair is also a

self-employed registered reha­

bilitation professional, helping

workers return to the labour

market after injury or illness.

• Don Massey, B.Sc.(Agr.) '78,

is seed distribution manager for

Mycogen Seeds in Illinois. He

lives in Normal with his wife,

Sharon, and children, Chris,

Kyle and Alicia.

• Jay Nisbet, B.Comm. '76,

accepted a new position last fall

as director of international

business development for U.S.­

based Healthpoint, Ltd., a man­

ufacturer and distributor of tis­

sue management and infection

prevention products. He was

formerly director of interna­

tional franchise development at

Johnson & Johnson for 21

years. Nisbet lives in Colleyville,

Tex., with his wife, Anne, and

their three sons.

• Bill Parish, ADA '72, is one of

the organizers of a 50th-anniver­

sary celebration for Pickering

High School in Ajax, Ont. He

says many of his high school

classmates also attended U of G

and he hopes to see them at the

June 8 to 10 reunion. For more

information, call him at 905-

683-2003 or send e-mail to

www.pickeringhighschool.com.

• Helen (Campbell) Pelton,

M.Sc. '74, is a lawyer in Hamil­

ton, Ont.

• Margaret Peter, BA '74, has

retired from teaching in the ele­

mentary school system, but

continues to teach printmaking

at Wilfrid Laurier University in

GRAD NEWS UPDATE FORM

Waterloo, Ont. She plans sever­

al exhibitions of her own work

this year and will be part of the

Guelph Studio Tour. To view

some of her work, visit the Web

sites www.art-in-guelph.com

and www.artcanadiana.com

• Christopher Terry, BA '70,

was recently appointed director

of the Canada Science and Tech­

nology Museum Corporation in

Ottawa. The corporation over­

sees the Canada Science and

Technology Museum, the Cana­

da Agriculture Museum and the

Canada Aviation Museum, of

which Terry had served as direc­

tor general since june 1989.

• Lynne VanWyck, B.A.Sc. '73,

and her husband, Peter, built a

reputation in the hospitality

industry as owners of the Gin­

gerbread House, a restaurant and

bakery in Port Dover, Ont. Last

summer, they moved the busi­

ness to Cayuga near the Ruthven

Park National Historic Site on

Highway 54. The Gingerbread

House is now a country inn and

restaurant, open daily for lunch

and dinner and welcoming

overnight visitors to its Grand

River location. Contact the Van­

Wycks at gbhouse@yahoo.com.

• Fred Vaughn, B.Sc.(Agr.) '78,

is president and general man­

ager of Vaughn Agricultural

Research Services Ltd. in Cam­

bridge, Ont. He and his wife,

Annette, have two teen-aged

children.

• Heidi (Higgon) Wilker,

B.Comm. '76, left the Delta

Meadowvale in Mississauga,

Ont., in 1999 after almost 10

years in conference services to

start her own home-based busi­

ness as an event planner. Blessed

Events provides meeting and

conference planning tailored for

religious organizations. Her

husband, Don, B.Comm. '75, is

a chartered accountant and has

worked in Brampton for the

past 19 years. They invite

Guelph alumni to get in touch.

1980 • Amarinder Singh Bawa, PhD

'83, is director of the Defence

Food Research Laboratory in

Mysore, India, under the Min­

istry of Defence. He has three

children: a son in lOth class; a

daughter studying electronics

and communication engineer­

ing; and a son working in Cana­

da as an electrical engineer.

• Cindy Brewer, BA '83, is an

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associate professor of geography

at Pennsylvania State Universi­

ty. She is currently on sabbatical

in Washington, D.C., working

with the U.S. Census Bureau on

an atlas of the 2000 census. She

is married to David DiBiase.

• Wayne Bridge, BA '85, is a

music teacher and performer

who lives in Fergus, Ont. His lat­

est CD is A Year on the Grand, on which he performs his own

compositions on solo guitar.

• Terry (Male) Christiansen,

B.Sc.(Agr.) '83, was married last

August, with OAC classmates

Alice, Heather and Jan helping

to celebrate the occasion with

friends and family. Terry and

her husband, Robert, live in

Ajax, Ont. After 15 years of

working at the Toronto Zoo,

she left to pursue a new career

in respiratory therapy.

• Michel Delorme, B.Sc.(Agr.)

'88, is a greenhouse adviser at the

Quebec Institute for the Devel­

opment of Ornamental Horti­

culture. He lives in lverville with

his wife, Danielle, and daughters,

Marie-Eve and Amelie.

• Paul Doig, B.Sc.(H.K.) '83,

teaches high school chemistry

and biology in Peterborough,

Ont. He has three sons, and he

and his wife, Edwina, are plan­

ning to open a bed and break­

fast in 2004.

• Lim-Lim (Yap) Dwm,BA '86,

has worked in the financial

industry for the past 12 years,

has been a certified financial

p lanner for three years and is

currently a financial adviser

with Imperial Services of CIBC

in Waterloo, Ont. She is mar­

ried to Gary Dunn, BA '88, and

they share their home with

Duke and Max, a yellow lab

cross and a chocolate lab.

• Brendan Elder, ADA '85, is a

landscape technologist at the

University of British Columbia.

He and his wife, Angelica Beis­

sel, will celebrate their second

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anniversary in August.

• Paul Gicheru, M.Sc.(Eng.)

'86, is a water resources engineer

with Kenya's Ministry of Envi­

ronment and Natural Resources

water department in Nairobi.

He'd like to hear from former U

of G colleagues at P.O. Box

30828, 00100-Nairobi, Kenya.

• Tom Goodwin, B.Sc. '84, is a

wildlife biologist who has

worked in offshore fisheries data

collection and surveillance, as

well as in whale research and

rescue from fishing nets. He is

currently running Ocean Explo­

rations Whale Cruises in Tiver­

ton, N.S.

• Eric Griffin, BA '82, went on

from U of G to earn an M.Div.

from the University of Toronto

in 1985, an M.Th. from the Uni­

versity of Waterloo in 1993 and

a doctor of theology in system­

atic theology from Toronto in

2000. His dissertation, "Daniel

Brevint and the Eucharistic

Calvinism of the Caroline

Church of England, 1603-1674;'

was recommended for publica­

tion, and an abridgement of the

first chapter was published in

the fall2000 edition of Anglican and Episcopal History. He has

been rector of St. Margaret's

Church in Hamilton, Ont., for

six years, has guest lectured in

history at McMaster University

and supervised field education

students for McMaster Divinity.

His wife, Margaret, is project

manager of the Collected Works

of Florence Nightingale Project

located at U of G.

• Michael Jones, BA '81, teach­

es Eng I ish in a private girls'

school in Sendai, Japan.

• Grant Joyce, B.Sc.(Agr.) '80,

operates a small pineapple farm

in Antigua. He is married with

three children, Elizabeth, David

and Kay Ia, and invites U of G

alumni to visit Claremont

Farms outside Old Road Vil­

lage, Antigua, West Indies.

• Heather (Reese) Koerber, is a

sales representative with Merck

Frosst Canada and recently

transferred from Ontario to

Nova Scotia. She now lives in

Stillwater Lake with her husband,

Rob, and three children, Lauren,

Reese and Drew. She would love

to hear from former classmates

at rhkoerber@sympatico.ca.

• Angela (Morton) Littke­

mann, ADA '81, has been mar­

ried for 11 years to Martin, a

graduate of Kemptville College.

They operate a dairy farm near

Stirling, Ont., where she says

they "milk 45 Ayrshires and

pander to about 70 purebred

barn cats protected by watch­

dogs Sam and Weezy!"

• Wally MacDonell, B.Sc.(Agr.) '89, works in client services for

ScotiaMcLeod in Kanata, Ont.

He married Catherine Dawn

Lisson April26, 2000, at Crane

Beach in the Barbados. Their

family includes four children.

• Mary McBeath , BA '83, is

teaching English at a small pri­

vate school in the Bahamas. She

says life is busy but enjoyable as

a single mother to Rebecca,

Thomas and Dylan. Spare time

is spent on the beach or acting

and directing drama productions

at a community church. She

would love to hear from former

classmates at Mary_mama@

yahoo. com.

• Alan Metcalfe, ADA '83,

works as a millwright and lives

in Oshawa, Ont., with his wife,

Deb Dart, and son, Mitchell.

• Christopher Minard, B.A.Sc.

'89, is a strategic accounts man­

ager in San Jose, Calif. Over the

past 10 years, he's also Jived in

South Africa, Montreal and San

Diego and would like to catch

up with U of G friends and

football teammates. He can

be contacted by e-mail at

cminard@nypac.com.

• Albert O'Donnell, BA '82, is

a retired teacher and artist liv-

ing in Burlington, Ont.

• Leo Pellizzari, BA '84 and MA

'86, is an elementary school

principal for the Waterloo

Catholic District School Board.

He lives in Guelph with his wife,

Renee, and two children, Nathan

and Kaela, and says he's often

reminded of his good times as a

student when biking through

the campus with his family.

• Kathleen (Beeton) Power,

M.Sc. '88, has three children

and is a marriage and family

therapist in Edmonton.

• Julia (Vousden) Ruhl, B.Sc. '88,

is a regional co-ordinator with

the Canadian Food Inspection

Agency. She lives in Tottenham,

Ont., with her husband, Jeff, and

son, Noah. They enjoy travelling,

hiking and skiing, and she is

training a young horse for show.

• Roger Russell, B.Sc.(Agr.) '81,

is a program director for the

Canadian Co-operative Associa­

tion, working on a three-year

community development project

in Indonesia. His wife, Catherine,

and daughters, Allison and Cat­

rina, are also enjoying the expe­

rience in Jakarta. Contact him at

rrussell@cca jak.or.id.

• Shelley, B.A.Sc. '88, and

Freeman Sweazey, B.Sc.(Agr.)

'87, moved to Barrie, Ont., last

summer when he was trans­

ferred from Pangnirtung,

Nunavut, to Newmarket with the

RCMP. They have four children:

Luke, Ash lee, Sam and jack.

• Elizabeth "Betty" Szilassy,

B.Sc.(Agr.) '82, is an agronomist

and has been a rural develop­

ment worker with the Men­

nonite Central Committee in

Brazil's northeast region for 18

years. She recently moved from

Tacaimb6 to Brejo da Madre de

Deus, where she is involved in

a sustainable agriculture pro­

gram with small-scale farmers,

concerned with organic veg­

etable production and market­

ing and water resource devel-

opment, especially cistern con­

struction. She will visit Canada

this summer, and friends can

contact her in Ontario at 519-

369-5392 or 519-659-4274.

• David Waltner-Toews, PhD

'85, a professor in OVC's Depart­

ment of Population Medicine,

published a new poetry book last

fall. The Fat Lady Struck Dumb is available in most bookstores.

• Yvonne Tremblay, B.A.Sc. '80,

is a freelance food and nutrition

consultant in Toronto. She

recently published her first

cookbook, Prizewinning Pre­

serves, with Prentice Hall.

1990 • Tim Abercrombie, B.Comm.

'94, worked for an independent

telecommunications company

in Toronto for 2 1/2 years after

graduation, then moved to Bell

Canada in a similar position. He

served the southwestern Ontario

market, then the greater Toron­

to area. Last fall, he joined Nor­

tel Networks as a senior market­

ing specialist, focusing on

corporate marketing. He lives in

Caledon and can be reached by

e-mail at tsabercro@yahoo.com.

• Kelly Brisbin-Harris, BA '96,

is a claims adjuster in Toronto

and is married to Brian Harris.

She welcomes notes from

friends at kbrisbin@na.cun­

ninghamlindsey.com.

• Duncan Burns, B.Sc.(Agr.)

'93, is a police constable with

the city police service in

Edmonton.

• Alain Carriere, B.Sc. '95, and

Alanna Wall announce the birth

of their son, Thomas, on jan.

14,2001. Carriere is a technical

representative with Dionex

Canada Ltd. in Calgary and can

be reached by e-mail at

alain.carriere@dionex.com.

• Paul Clutterbuck, B.Comm.

'93, is manager of technology

for the AMG Group and has

lived in Woodbridge, Ont., since

getting married last year. He

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• Jenn (Broome) Cousineau, ADA '99, lives in Guelph with

her husband, Jean-Paul, and

son, Jake, and works at ESG

International. Contact her bye­mail at jcousineau@esg.net.

• Jeff Emch, B.Sc. '96, and Gillian (Barrick), BA '96, moved

from Toronto to Stewartsville,

N.J., when he received a promo­

tion with Roche Diagnostics.

She recently earned a certificate

in marketing from Ryerson Uni­

versity and plans to continue her career in marketing in the States.

• Tom Everitt, BA '92, says hel­

lo to fellow drama graduates.

"Gosh, how I miss Guelph sometimes (sigh)." He is a real

estate agent in Vancouver.

• David Gibson, BA '95, is writ­

ing and producing a series of

children's history programs for

TVOntario and is the head writer

for a new television talk show.

• David Heath, BA '95, and his wife, Rhea, recently moved from

Toronto to Cambridge, Ont. He

is the operations manager at

Teknic 88 Marketing, a compa­

ny focused on e-business.

• Craig Hennigar, MA '95, and

his wife, Susan, had their first

child, Lauren Victoria, Jan. 19, 2001. They live in North Van­

couver, B.C., where Craig is a

real estate consultant.

• Robert Intine, PhD '99, is a

post-doctoral fellow in the

Department of Scientific Dis­

covery at the National Institute

of Child Health and Human

Development in Bethesda, Md.

He published an article on mol­ecular growth regulation in the

journal Molecular Cell in August

2000.

• Jennifer Jackson, B.Sc. '92, is an environmental lawyer with

the newly amalgamated City of

Ottawa. She says she's a proud homeowner with two "awe­

some" cats and enjoys paddling

38 GuELPH ALUMNUS

her homemade sea kayak

around eastern Ontario. U of G

friends can contact her at Jen­nifer.}ackson@city.ottawa.on.ca.

• Ruth Johnson, BA '91, and

her partner, Alex Campbell, work for J.P. Morgan in London,

England, in investment banking.

• Thomson Kalinda, M.Sc. '93 and PhD '97, was recently

appointed head of the Depart­

ment of Agricultural Econom-. ics and Extension Education at

the University of Zambia. He

was the first graduate of

Guelph's PhD program in rur­

al extension studies.

• Susan Kloepper, BA '92,

taught English and German in

the Czech Republic for two years

after graduating from U of G. She

then went on to obtain certifica­

tion in translation in Wiirzburg,

Germany. In 2000, she received

her post-graduate certificate in

education in English, drama and

information technology from the University of Exeter in Devon,

England. She is now teaching

English at Bideford College in Devon and working on a master's

degree in education from Exeter.

• Donna (Leonard) Lange, ADA '97, is a communication

programs co-ordinator for the

Dairy Farmers of Ontario. She

was married in October to Karl

Lange.

• Elizabeth Leal, BA '93, is

associate director of residence life at Queen's University in

Kingston, Ont. She was for­

merly in residence facilities at

the University of Windsor.

• Joe Marino, BA '92, was a teacher and department head of

music at two schools in Sweden

for five years, but is now a com­

puter consultant for Sigma Infor­

mation Designs in Stockholm. He and his wife, Susanne, have a

two-year-old son, Alexander.

• Becky (Miller) Madill, B.A.Sc. '95, and her husband, David,

welcomed their first child,

Alexandria Hannah Belle, Nov . 3, 2000. Madill lives in Fordwich,

Ont., teaches Grade 3 for the

Avon Maitland District School Board and can be reached by e­

mail at bdmadill@wightman.net.

• Laura Majic, BA '91, is the owner of Majic Farms near

Mount Forest, Ont., where she raises alternative livestock and

exotic animals such as Bengal

cats, sugar gliders and hedge­

hogs. She sells organic meat,

emu and ostrich meat and nat­

ural products such as soaps, lip

balms and bath accessories at the St. Jacob's Farmers' Market and

via the Internet at www.emu

majic.com.

• Monique (Fasan) Martin, BA

'93, teaches English at St. James High School in Guelph. She and

her husband, LeRoy, returned

to Guelph after living in Bermuda for three years.

• Peggy Norris-Robinson, M.Sc. '94, is a consultant on seniors' issues for the New

Brunswick government. She lives in Fredericton with her

husband, Clarence, and daugh­

ter, Brianna, and is expecting a

second child in July.

• Jacquie Pankatz, B.Sc. '92 and DVM '97, worked for three

years in a small-animal clinic

before opening her own busi­

ness, Harbourview Veterinary

Hospital, in her home town of

Collingwood, Ont.

• Robert Pelton, B.Sc. '70 and M.Sc. '72, is a professor at

McMaster University in Hamil­

ton, Ont., and director of the

McMaster Centre for Pulp and

Paper Research. He is also chair

of the scientific program com­

mittee of the federal mechani­

cal wood pulps Network for Centres of Excellence.

• Dean Plummer, B.Sc. '90, was

awarded Canada's Star of

Courage posthumously during an investiture ceremony Feb. 2

at Rideau Hall in Ottawa. Gov-

ernor General Adrienne Clark­

son presented the award to his brother, David. Dean Plummer

drowned Feb. 6, 1999, while try­

ing to save the life of a friend

who had been washed into Lake

Huron near Sauble Beach. Although fully aware, as an

experienced scuba diver, of the

rapid effects of hypothermia, he

removed his heavy boots and

mitts and, with complete disre­

gard for his own safety, jumped

into the rough waters. Despite valiant efforts, he was unable to

locate his friend and was even­

tually overcome by exhaustion

and hypothermia. He was rec­

ognized by the governor gener­

al for his heroic act of bravery.

• Fred "Buck" Preston,

B.Sc.(Agr.) '99, is an equipment

operator for Agricore, former­

ly the Alberta Wheat Pool, in

Lethbridge. He was married last

October to Marilyn Retzlaff of Rosemary, Alta.

• Deborah Rumble, BA '95, recently received a Courage to

Come Back Award recognizing

the nobility of the human spir­

it. She is hoping to pursue a master's degree.

• Robin Schafer, B.A.Sc. '96, is

a sales representative for furni­

ture, cooking equipment and

small wares for the food-service

and hospitality industry in

Ontario. He plans to move back

to Guelph this summer.

• Sherry Smith, B.Sc.(Agr.) '91 ,

is a horticulturist with JEA

Perennials in Thedford, Ont.,

and is engaged to Gary Peters,

B.Sc.(Agr.) '92. Their wedding

is planned for July 27.

• Andrea Taylor, B.A.Sc. '96,

earned a master's degree in

library and information science

from the University of Western

Ontario and is now a children's

librarian in Naples, Fla.

• Bruce Tester, B.Sc. '91, is the

environmental co-ordinator for

Chetwynd Pulp Co. 111

Chetwynd, B.C. He and his

wife, Tracey, have a son, Owen,

and a daughter, Erin Christine.

• Michelle (Ward) Tomlinson,

BA '96, was married in 1999

and is currently attending

teachers college at Redeemer in

Ancaster, Ont.

• Karen VanderLaan, BA '98, is

a customer service represen ta­

tive for the Bank of Montreal in

Hamilton, Ont., and became a

new mom Sept. 10, 2000, with

the birth of her son, Matthew

David.

• Cati (Bourgeois) VanVeen,

BA ' 92, teaches high school

visual arts and drama in Kin­

cardine, Ont. Her husband,

Tom, is a sheep farmer, and they

have three children: Jenna, Noah

and Annika. Her e-mail address

is tcvanveen@bmts.com.

• Robyn (Bezaire) Watts,

B.A.Sc. '93, teaches kindergarten

in Kingston, Ont. She and her

husband, Robin, have an 18-

month-old son, Colin Anthony.

• Gillian Webster-Groenewe­

gen, B.Sc. '92, and her husband,

Bill, welcomed baby Liam to

their family in July 2000.

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Coming Events

May 12 - All-Canadian Universities din­ner in Washington, D .. C., Fort McNair Officers' Club, entertainment by Dave Broadfoot. For information, call Ext. 6544.

May 14 - Deadline for applications to the next class of the Advanced Agricul­tural Leadership Program, September

2001 through April 2003. For more infor­mation, call519-826-4204 or visit the Web site www.aalp.on.ca.

june 7 - HAFA alumni annual general meeting. 7 p.m., Royal York Hotel, Toronto. june 15 to 17 - Alumni Weekend.

june 17 - Alumni association meetings: 9 a.m. OAC in Mac Hall 149 10 a.m. OVC in OVC 1714

2 p.m. Mac-FACS in HAFA 129 3 p.m. Engineering Alumni Association 4 p.m. HK/HB in Powell 207 4 p.m. CBS in Powell212. june 18 to 20 - 23rd Annual Guelph Conference and Training Institute on Sex­uality. For information, call the Office of Open Learning at 519-767-5000 or send e-mail to info@openlrng.uoguelph.ca.

july 14 - OAC '51A reunion at the Arboretum Centre, University of Guelph . Call Everett Daboll at 905-892-6283. july 21 - OAC '59 A reunion at Alumni House. Call Tom Sawyer at 905-689-5982. july 27 & 28 - OAC '91 reunion in Albany, P.E.I. Call Mary Catherine Lam­ond at 519-655-3199.

Sept. 7 - OACAA annual golf tourna­ment at Victoria Park West Golf Club in Guelph. Contact Carla Bradshaw at Ext. 6657 or cbradsha@oac.uoguelph.ca. Aug. 29 to 31 - OAC '58 mid-term reunion, Kempen felt Conference Centre, Barrie, Ont. Call Bill Stevens at 519-824-9912.

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Teacher and Student Shirley Raymont, DHE '47, died Sept. 28,

2000. A retired elementary school teacher,

she went back to university when her

children were young and was in the first

graduating class at Simon Fraser Univer­

sity in Burnaby, B.C. She later earned an MA through night school. She is survived

by her husband, Chuck.

Business woman Margaret Mitchell Gannon, DHE '27,

died Feb. 24, 2001, in Escondido, Calif.

She worked for Stouffer Corporation of

Cleveland, Ohio, for 42 years, serving as

vice-president and general manager of

the restaurant division and later assistant

to the president. She spent her retirement

years in California as an active commu­

nity volunteer, with emphasis on the

needs of the elderly.

Entomologist and beekeeper Donald Peer, BSA '51, died Oct. 4, 2000.

A professional entomologist, he was a pro­

fessor at the University of Wisconsin and

a research scientist with both the Canadi­

an and U.S. governments, but what he enjoyed most was his work as a commer­

cial beekeeper near Nipawin, Sask., where

he ran a honey business for 35 years.

Remembered by friends Alice (Plumley) Snider, B.Sc.(Agr.) '83,

died in September 2000. Her OAC class­mates will dedicate a memorial tree to

her memory june 16 at the U of G

Arboretum. The 11:30 a.m. ceremony at "Alice's Tree" will be followed by a buffet

lunch at the Ramada Hotel in Guelph. To

make a donation to the memorial pro­

ject, send a cheque to class treasurer

Eleanor Anwender at RR#l, Sebringville, ON NOK lXO. For details about the day's

events, call Anwender at 519-271-7055

or Heather Lang at 613-972-6736.

Alumni Seymour Allen, BSA '46, Dec. 15, 2000

Robert Anderson, DVM '66, Dec. 31, 2000

Winston Anderson, BSA '43, date unknown

OBITUARIES

Peter Beamish, BA '72, Aug. 25, 2000 Carolyn Beattie, B.H.Sc. '55, Nov. 26,

2000 Frank Bernt, ODH '70, jan. 9, 2001

John Best, DVM '48, jan. 5, 2001

William Blackball, B.Sc. '75, April 1997

Lisa Borne, B.A.Sc. '94, Dec. 1, 2000

Lina Borsoi, BA '80, Aug 24, 1999

Robert Carroll, BSA '54, Nov. 24, 2000

Edith Chamberlayne, DHE '37, March 4,

2001 Ross Chapman, BSA '40, Oct. 8, 2000

Harvey Cowan, DVM '42, Feb. 11, 2001

Paul Crouch, BA '73, )an. 23, 2001 Doris Darling, DHE '27, Feb. 9, 2001

Bill Dyment, ADA '65, jan. 31, 2001

Beverly Easton, BSA '36, Feb. 26, 2001

Peter Ellis, BA '72, Oct. 7, 2000

Margaret Filgiano, B.H.Sc. '51, june 5,

1999 Agnes McDonald (Hogarth) Fleming,

DHE '41, july 24,2000

Helen Fraser, DHE '35, Nov. 5, 2000

Margaret Gilbert, DHE '31, April 15,

2000 David Hamilton, B.Sc.(Agr.) '63, April 9,

2000 Patrick Hanlon, DVM '41, )an . 11, 2001

Ralph Harrop, DVM '46, Dec. 24, 2000 Donald Hewer, BSA '30, date unknown

Bruce Howe, B.Sc. (Agr.) '66 Feb. 12,2001

Helen Innes, DHE '37, jan 1, 2001

Gladys james, DHE '28, May 2000

Hubert Jasmin, DVM '51, Oct. 6, 2000

James Jeffery, BA '80, in 1995

Shirley Johnson, BA '97, March 22,2001

Philip Keller, BSA '43, July 20, 1997 William Laing, BSA '50, Oct. 25, 2000

Robert Landon, BSA, '35, july 31,2000

Mark Lawrence, DVM '83, Feb. 23,2001

Grace Lund, DHE '37, April 21, 1998

Wilfred MacDonald, BSA '36, Feb. 15,

2000 Walter Macdougall, BA '70, Sept. 6, 2000 John MacPherson, DVM '45, jan. 24,

2001 Bruce Matheson, BSA '41, Feb. 27,2001

Murray McGill, BSA '38, Feb. 15, 2001

Beverly Miller, BSA '49, March 17, 2000

Robert Miller, BSA '37, September 2000

Bob Milne, BSA '55, jan. 12, 2001

Helen Misener, DHE '25, Dec. 26, 2000

Edward Moore, BSA '34, March 1, 2001

Bruce Murray, DVM '41, Feb. 4, 200 1

Maureen Newell, DVM '78, March 2,

2001

Gopala Nirmalan, DVM '72, in 1993

Anthony O'Marra, BA '74, Mar 14,2000

Christopher Perry, BA '95, jan. 26,2001

Nicholas Prouse, BA '70, April 8, 2000

Leonard Reid, BSA '33, Feb. 19, 2001

John Reynolds, BSA '35, july 4, 2000

Harm Schaap, ODH '71, in 1998

Charles Seal, DVM '51, Feb. 24,2001

David Shelton, ADA '85, Sept. 21, 2000

Robert Skipper, BSA '51, Dec. 30, 2000 Sanford Smith, B.Sc.(Agr.) '75, jan. 4,

2001

Jeffery Stevens, B.A.Sc. '83, Oct. 17,2000

Nicholas Sweetman, ADA '76, Sept. 23,

2000 Ruth Thorn, DHE '40, june 28,2000

John Thomas, BSA '46, Dec. 27, 2000

Robert Thompson, ADA '66, Feb. 10,

2001

Mary Thomson, DHE '39, Feb. 2, 2001

Edmund Turlej, BA '70, November 1998 Robert Warren, BSA '48, Feb. 9, 2001

Frederick Wellington, ADA '30, in 1998

Marjorie White, DHE '41, February 2000

Douglas Wright, BSA '43, Dec. 5, 2000 Mary Yeandle, DHE '27, jan. 2, 2001

Paul Yellin, BA '72, March 12, 2000

Murray Young, BSA '39, Feb. 28, 2001

Harry Zlotnick, DVM '52, October 2000

Faculty David Arnott, Food Science, April 1, 2001

Jean Hill, U ofG Library, Jan. 1, 2001 Margaret Hauser, BSA '46 and MSA '48,

Microbiology, jan. 12, 2001

George Leibbrandt, Mathematics and

Statistics, April 3, 2001

Katsumi Okashimo, Computing and

Information Science, March 12,2001 Robert Stinson, BSA '53 and MSA '57,

Physics, jan. 13, 2001

Marjorie White, Family Stud ies, Dec. 4,

2000

Friends: Mary Brent, Dec. 2, 2000

jean Gosling, Dec. 6, 2000

Thomas Landon, july 2000

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life as a student at this beautiful university. I did my M.Sc. between September 1990 and january 1993 in the Department of Agri­cultural Economics and Business and the School of Rural Planning and Development.

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The lecturers were social, accessible and articulate. The learning facilities and the library were excellent, and I genuinely miss the gym with all its sporting facilities. The landscape of the whole Un ivers ity was­and I hope still is- beautiful. And the spring and early summer weather were great.

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Football Strategy How SAD FOR ME TO readinyourwin­ter edition of the death of Bill Mitchell, BSA '38. Bill and I were teammates at the Ontario Agricultural College, now the University of Guelph, and played together on the 1935

football team. We had a fabulous record that year, beating out McMaster, the University of Western Ontario and the University of

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Toronto intermediate teams, and winning an exhibition game at St. Thomas, Ont. Syl Apps, one of Canada's greatest hockey play­ers, played for McMaster, and joe Krol, lat­er of Argonaut fame, played for Western.

An amusing incident occurred while playing the University of Toronto. The play­ing field at Guelph was frozen solid, but there was no snow. Our wily coach, Fred "Baldy" Baldwin, held us back until one minute to game time, then our whole team appeared in running shoes. The result was historic as we beat Toronto in the first half by more than 40 points. The Toronto team panicked and bought up every pair of running shoes they could find. Cleats on regular shoes wouldn't hold up, and some players took their shoes off and played in stocking feet.

The second half was more even, but we again dominated the play and won by a respectable margin. No one had ever seen this before, and our win was a sensation in Canadian football.

Bill Mitchell was our excellent quarter­back and was a natural leader. His record as director of athletics will be hard to beat.

On behalf of all the former players, I extend deepest sympathy to his wife and family. Bill will always be remembered as a fine, intelligent man and will go down in history as one of Guelph's greatest athletes.

BEVERLY "BuTcH" EAsTON, BSA '36 CHATHAM, 0NT.

Remember Mills

As I oo WITH EVERY A/unnluspubli­cation, I search for some feature, item or event that serves as a link back to what I would describe as the four most pivotal years of my life.

I finally found it on page 18 of your win­ter 2001 issue. It was the gold/buff brick banding in the background of the photo­graph. Since graduation, I have been involved in the new-home industry and have seen countless brick walls and assemblies, but I immediately recognized this Mills hallway.

I don't think you can imagine how painful it was to also take note of the young women who obviously now reside within.

I can certainly appreciate that time brings change and that the first casua lty of change is tradition. But by ignoring and, in some cases, desecrating tradition, you disenfran­chise those of the past - those you are try­ing to have involved in the ever-so-impor­tant financial support of the Un iversity.

How much funding and corporate spon­sorship Guelph could have obtained by organizing Mills Hall reunions, golf and weekend hockey tournaments and other such events is something the University obviously did not have (a nd now will not have) the vision to realize.

DA N "T ilE WoP" GABRIELE, B.Sc. '88 STONEY CREEK, Owr.

(MILLS HALL, 1982 TO 1985)

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UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

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ALUMNI HAVE BEEN gatheringoncampussince 1906 when the OAC Class of 1904 held the first

reunion, but the campus-wide Alumni Weekend tradi­tion began with the establishment of the University of Guelph Alumni Association (UGAA) in 1966. This pho­to shows a 1983 Alumni Weekend picnic.

Unlike most university alumni associations, UGAA began with a membership of more than I 0,000 and a campus heritage dating back a full century. Today, there are over 70,000 U of G alumni, and the organi­zation works harder than ever to support the goals of the University.

On its first anniversary, UGAA supported the University's newly established development fund by

44 GuELPH ALUMNus

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holding an auction of crockery retired from Creelman Hall. In 1970, UGAA gave its first Alumnus of Honour Award to Frank Palmer, BSA '13. And by the time it was I 0 years old, it had mobilized alumni to establish an annual-giving fund to provide financial support for a student scholarship endowment fund, the launch of the Arboretum and the building of Alumni Stadium.

At its 20th anniversary, UGAA was involved in planning and fund-raising to support the restoration of Alumni House, which opened in 1987 as a perma­nent home for U of G alumni.

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