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UNIVERSITY 9!GUELPH

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

message from the President

WHILE GUELPH STUDENTS were getting

results from their fall semester mid-term exams,

the University of Guelph was receiving its own set of

marks through the national media.

On Nov. 11 , Maclean's magazine again ranked U of

G the best comprehensive university in Canada. Com­

paring us with other institutions with similar scope in

academic programs, Maclean's cited

the quality of our students and facul­ty, our high level of student support

and the overall reputation that Guelph

has among education an d business

leaders across Canada.

A week earlier, the National Post

newspaper published a report by Research Infosource Inc. that ranked

Guelph the top comprehensive research university in the country and sixth most

research-intensive overall. The report

said U of G is the only university with­out a medical school that attracts more

than $100 million in annual

MORDECHAI ROZANSKI

we value most and strive hardest to achieve.

Ultimately, these accolades are a tribute to the ded­ication and quality of our faculty, staff, administrators,

board members and alumni. They are the people who

make this university such a great place. Throughout our history, we have been guided by peo­

ple with great vision and dedication. A hundred years ago,

the establishment of Macdonald Institute

was part of the vision to improve the quality of life in rural Ontario. The cov­

er story in this issue of the Guelph Alum­

nus reveals the important role played by

this founding college as it evolved from a

school for young women into a modern

educational and research community. In 2003, we celebrate the legacy of

Macdonald Institute that lives on today in the achievements of its graduates and

in the goals of its descendant, the College

of Social and Applied Human Sciences. Another story reaffirms our dedica-

tion to the long-standing vision research funding.

And on Oct. 23, the Globe

and Mail published the results

of an online survey of Canadi­

an university students in which U of G emerged as the top

comprehensive university and was voted to have the best cam-

u OF G IS BEING of Guelph as a green and friend­

ly campus. A planned campus

since 1882, the University now

has a new master plan that will

guide our physical growth well

into the future. We owe a debt

RECOGNIZED FOR THE

QUALITIES WE VALUE

MOST AND STRIVE

HARDEST TO ACHIEVE. of thanks to members of the

Board of Governors and all the

alumni, faculty, staff, students pus atmosphere of any univer-

sity in the country. In the University Report Card survey,

our students also gave us high marks in the categories of

quality of education and student services. Overall, U of G

ranked fourth among all universities in the survey.

At the same time, a group of business professors from

Wilfrid Laurier University conducted their own review

of fi nancial documents and reports published by Cana­

dian universities and ranked Guelph the top compre­hensive university and fourth overall for its account­

ability to stakeholders.

Although we may have reservations about the

methodologies used in some of these reports, it still feels

good to receive such accolades. Everyone likes to be at

the top of their class. But what pleases us most at U of G

is that we're being recognized - by our own students and by our colleagues in education- for the qualities

and friends who contributed to the master plan review.

This issue also brings news of a $37-million federal

investment in the Ontario Veterinary College and a sep­

arate story on West Nile virus that demonstrates why

such investments are important for all Canadians. OVC

has played a key role in the detection and surveillance

of West Nile virus and will continue to contribute to a

national public health strategy on this disease.

The story is but one example of the tremendous con­tributions that veterinary medicine -and OVC in par­

ticular- make to the advancement of human, animal

and environmental health.

Each of these stories tells us something about the aca­

demic quality, the innovation and accountability, and the

overall campus experience at Guelph that have earned this university so many accolades in recent months.

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INUIT ART

Judith Nasby, director of the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, is the author of Irene Avaalaaqiaq: Myth and Reality, the first biography of one of Canada's most promi­nent Inuit artists.

Throughout her 30-year career, Avaalaaqiaq has created wall hangings,

drawings, prints and sculpture that have been featured in several nation­al and international exhi­bitions and are part of numerous collections. She received an honorary degree from U of G in 1999 for her contribu­tions to the development

of Inuit art and for her leadership role in Baker lake, Canada's only major inland arctic settlement.

Nasby's book is a crit­ical retrospective of Avaalaaqiaq's work. Based on first-hand interviews, it captures the artist's life through description, pho­tographs and maps.

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OTTAWA INVESTS IN VETERINARY SCHOOLS

ONE WAY TO STRENGTHEN CANADA'S

reputation as a world leader in the produc­tion of safe high-quality food is to invest in the country's four schools of veterinary medicine.

That was one message from a Dec. 10 announcement by Agriculture and Agri-Food Minister Lyle Vanclief that the Government of

Canada will invest $113 million to improve the physical infrastructure at veterinary colleges located in Guelph, Saskatoon, Saint-Hyacinthe and Charlottetown.

erinary hospital, laboratories and research buildings. "This investment will allow the col­lege to fulfil its responsibilities in an integrat­ed national strategy in areas that include pub­lic health, food safety and zoonotic diseases," says OVC dean Alan Meek.

OVC will receive more than $37 million to support renovation and expansion of the vet-

The federal investment will also ensure that

OVC has the lab and clinical equipment neces­sary to secure continued international accredi­tation, he says. OVC was awarded full accredi­tation by the American Veterinary Medical Association in the fall, but received warnings related to aging facilities and equipment.

• Larry Milligan, former U of G • Prof. Jorge Nef, Rural Extension • OVC post-doctoral researcher

vice-president (research) and a Studies, received the Latin Ameri- Marianne van den Heuvel

faculty member in the Depart- can Achievement Award for best received a first-ever Ontario

ment of Animal and Poultry Sci- educator, one of several awards Women's Health Scho lars Post-

ence, has received a National presented by the Latin American Doctoral Fellow Award from the

Merit Award from the Ottawa commun ity in Canada in recogni- Ontario Women's Health Council.

Life Sciences Council. Milligan tion of outstanding contributions Funded by the Ontario Ministry

was ci ted for his "leadership to culture, education, business, of Health and Long-Term Care

and contribution to agriculture athletics and community service. and valued at $41,000, it was

and the bio-based economy." He Nef, a native of Chile, is known one of five Women's Health

joined Guelph's faculty in 1985 for his longtime commitment to Scholars Awards presented for

from the University of Alberta. At excellence in teaching and educa- the first t ime in September. It

Guelph, he was dean of research tion and for his contributions to will help van den Heuvel contin-

and later vice-president Latin American studies in Canada. ue research aimed at predict ing

(research) for 16 years. He He is a fellow of the Centre for a woman's chances of achieving

returned to teaching and Research on Latin America and pregnancy through in vitro fertil-

research in zoot. the Caribbean at York University. ization.

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

Guelph students feel the pride

THERE WAS A BUZZ on

campus last semester after U of G was named top com­prehensive university in Cana­

da by Maclean's magazine.

Students sensed it; many

picked up a copy of the Nov. 11 issue to see what the edi­

tors had to say about Guelph. Leanna Braid, a third-year

international development

student from Nova Scotia, says

she wasn't surprised to see Maclean's focus on U of G's

student services and campus

environment as quality indi­cators. "I think students are

proud just to be a part of this university, where there is such

a strong sense of community

on campus;' she says.

"I know when I was mak­

ing my decision on where to go

to school, this was a big draw

REMEMBER TO ADD A '5'

As oF JAN. 1, all four-dig­

it telephone extensions on

campus changed to five digits.

Callers to the University must now place a "5" in front of all

extensions. For example, the Alumni Affairs and Develop­

ment extension, formerly 6934,

is now 56934. The change was

needed to accommodate the

increase in the number of phone

users expected on campus over

the next several years. Student residence numbers, already five

President Mordechai Rozanski

is faculty mentor to U of G Pres·

ident's Scholar Leanna Braid.

for me. Guelph is large enough

to offer a wide range of quali­

ty programs and research opportunities, but small

enough to keep that commu­

nity feeling. It's a place you

want to live and be a part of.

To me, those are two of its main strengths:'

digits starting with a seven,

remain unchanged, as does the

switchboard number, Ext. 0.

MARS LANDING SPOTLIGHTS RURAL ONTARIO

IN OcTOBER, theprovince

announced a $2.96-million

investment in MaRS Landing, a

project that links the University

of Guelph and the City of Guelph

to Toronto's new biotechnology

centre. MaRS Landing stands for Medical and Related Sciences

Links to Agricultural Network for

President Mordechai Rozanski echoes the senti­

ment. This national recogni­

tion acknowledges "our con­

tinuing commitment to our

students' success, to innovative

programs, to vibrant student­

faculty interaction and to a

welcoming campus environ­ment. This national recogni­

tion is ultimately a tribute to the entire University of Guelph

community."

In its annual ranking, Maclean's classifies Canadian

universities in three categories:

medical/doctoral, primarily undergraduate and compre­

hensive. The latter is defined

as institutions with a signifi­

cant amount of research activ­

ity and a wide range of pro­

grams at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Development and Innovation

with Guelph. Its goal is to ensure

that rural Ontario participates

and shares in the economic ben­

efits of innovation and growth. MaRS Landing partners

include U of G, Ontario Agri­

Food Technologies, th e City of

Guelph's Department of Eco­

nomic Development and the

Toronto MaRS Discovery Dis­

trict, which was established to accelerate the commercialization of scient ific discovery. MaRS

represents one of th e largest

concentrations of medical

NASA FUNDS WIND RESEARCH

Au OF G GEOGRA­

pher and his colleagues

at the Desert Research Institute 111 Nevada

received a grant from NASA to study wind ero­

sion in some of the Earth's

most disparate places.

Prof. Bill Nickling says

understanding the effects of wind erosion in Antarc­

tica will provide clues to

conditions on Mars.

LEAF TO PLANT

PLANT SCIENTIST

Manish Raizada is trying to unravel the mystery of

how a single leaf can

regenerate into an entire plant. He's zeroing in on

genes that may allow

plants to do the regenera­

tion trick. Such knowledge has implications for weed

control, forestry and plant breeding.

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SPRAY INSULIN

Au OF G RESEARCHER

has found that dogs can

safely receive insulin

through a spray pump similar to an asthma

inhaler, which means

diabetics may be closer

to talcing insulin without needles.

Prof. Dana Allen,

Clinical Studies, found

no side effects in the 40 healthy beagles that

received three puffs of

Oralin, the oral insulin spray, three times a day

for one year.

NEW FORM OF ICE

Two GuELPH PHYSI­

cists are part of an

international team that has discovered a new

form of ice that could

have implications in pre­

serving organs, embryos

and other life forms.

Bruno Tomberli,

Peter Egelstaff and five

other scientists found

three amorphous states

of ice that exist between high - and low-density

forms. Because amor­

phous ices don't form

crystals, they could

potentially be used to

preserve fragile organ­

isms.

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research in North America,

including the Un iversity of Toronto and more than 30

internationally renowned hospi­

tals and research institutes. It will

connect research communities

and extend via a virtual network

throughout Ontario and beyond. Through MaRS, U of G can

play a more strategic role in

providing a comprehensive

gateway for innovation oppor­

tunities in rural Ontario, says vice-president (research) Alan

Wildeman.

MILLIONS COULD BENEFIT FROM MILLIONS INVESTED

ONTARIO'S 12 MILLION

people will be the ultimate beneficiaries of a $22.8-million

investment in U of G research

by the provincial government.

Twenty-five projects in the human, animal and life sci­

ences, including studies aimed

at preventing breast cancer and

improving food safety, w ill

move ahead wi th new equip­

ment and infrastruct ure pro­

vided by the investment.

Provincial funds will be deliv­

ered through the Ontario Inno­

vation Trust, which matches

research dollars from the feder­al Canada Foundation fo r Inno­

vation. This funding brings the

total provincial investment for

51 research projects at Guelph to

$41 million. Funding partners have contributed an additional

$61.5 million, bringing the total

value of investments in research

infrastructure at U of G to more

than $102.5 million.

The 25 newly fun ded p ro­

jects will ultimately involve some

200 faculty and researchers from a variety of Guelph departments

and disciplines. They will

include research in food safety,

chemistry, biotechn ology, bio­diversity science, breast cancer,

reproductive disorders and ani­

mal and human health.

FOOD SAFETY INSTITUTE OPENS

THE CANADA RESEARCH

Institl}te for Food Safety

(CRIFS) opened at U of Gin the

fall. Its mandate is to support

research that will improve the safety of the Canadian food sup­

ply at all points from farm to

fork, says director Mansel Grif­fiths, a faculty member in the

Department of Food Science.

CRIFS's Level III biocon­ta inment faci lity also allows

researchers to examine high ly

hazardous food and animal -to­

human pathogens such as West

Nile virus and tuberculosis, as

well as lower-level pathogens

such as E. coli Ol57:H7, salmo­nella and listeria, in a safe and

secure environment. The facil­

ity is equipped with safety fea­

tures that ensure no pathogens

leave the lab. Funding for CRI­FS was provided by the Canada

Foundation for Innovation and

Ontario Innovation Trust.

Economist joins Fraser Institute

I N 0 c ToBER, economics professor Ross McKitrick became a senior fellow of the Fras­

er Institute, an independent public policy orga­

nization. McKitrick will remain at U of G and

act as an environmental policy consultant to the

institute, which brings together academics, econ­

omists and policy analysts from around the world

to provide market-based solutions to Canadian

public policy strategies.

A faculty member at Guelph since 1996, McKitrick specializes in the economics of envi­

ronmental policy and has been studying climate

change and related policy issues for about 10

years. In particular, he is creating a water pollu­

tion emissions database to pinpoint where prob­

lems are occurring and why.

In addition to academic publications, he has

published several newspaper and magazine arti­

cles on the Kyoto Protocol and given presenta­tions on climate and environmental policy to the

Prof. Ross McKitri ck has co llected data from 65

countries to see how changes in property owner·

ship, contract law, civil liberties and literacy influ·

ence industrial water pollution .

Canadian and U.S. governments. McKitrick will work with the Fraser Institute's

Centre for Studies in Risk and Regulation to build

research capabilities in areas related to environ­

mental policy.

ATHLETES HIT THE MARK

U OF G BOASTS 70 acade­mic All-Canadians for

2002/03, up by five from the

previous year. All-Canadians are athletes who compete in a varsity sport at the national lev­

el while maintaining an acade­mic cumulative average of 80

per cent or higher. At the

provincial level, Guelph has 32 academic winners this year.

QUEEN'S MEDALS HONOUR U OF G MEMBERS

SEVERAL CURR EN T AND

past members of the Uni­versity of Guelph have been

awarded Queen's Golden Jubilee

Medals. The medals commemo­rate the soth anniversary of

Queen Elizabeth's reign and were

awarded to Canadians who have made a significant contribution

to their fellow citizens, their com-

munity or their country. Recipi­ents include U of G undergrad­uate Natalie Barrales-Hall; Prof. lain Campbell, Physics; retired crop science professor Ken Kasha; Prof. Murdo MacKinnon, former

dean of the College of Arts; Prof. Ab Moore, former chair of Rur­

al Extension Studies; U of G Pres­

ident Mordechai Rozanski; Prof. Clayton Switzer, former dean of

OAC; and Michael Walsh, chair of U of G's board of governors.

YOUNG FACULTY GET RESEARCH BOOST

FIVE U OF G RESEA RC H

careers will benefit from

$600,000 in fundin g from the

Canada Foundation for Inno­vation's (CFI) New Opportu­

nities Fund, which is designed

to help launch th e careers of

new and talented researchers

and help instituti ons recruit

high-quality scholars. The most

recent CFI recipients at U of G

are Profs. Dick Mosser, Andrew Bendall and Ray Lu, Molecular Biology and Genetics; Manish Raizada, Plant Agriculture; and

Nicholas Bernier, Zoology. Mosser will study how cells

survive under stress, which can trigger a process of cell suicide

known as apoptosis. Bendall

will examine proteins consid­ered to be key players in decid­ing between the alternative fates

faced by embryonic cells. Raiza­da plans to develop two new

technologies to help researchers understand a fascinating feature in plants: wound-induced stem

cell regeneration. Lu's research

centres on the biological func­

tions of two new human genes he has identified , which have

been linked to animal stress

responses implicated in many

diseases. Bernier received funds

for a state-of-the-art laborato­

ry to study how stress affects the appetite and growth of fish .

Architect, geographer honoured

MACKLIN HANCOCK,

BSA '49, president of

one of the world's largest and

most influential design/plan­

ning firms, and acclaimed

cultural geographer Yi-Fu Tuan received honorary

degrees during U of G's fall convocation.

Hancock's firm, Project

Planning, created the original master plan for the Universi­

ty of Guelph and the site

design work for the main

campus. He also designed the

Expo '67 site, the communi­

ty of Don Mills in Toronto, Ontario Place, the Beijing

Complex and Urban Water­

front, and King Adbul Aziz

University in Saudi Arabia.

Tuan, who is a professor

emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been

called a "critical voice and a

liberating spirit" due to his

225 publications, including

more than a dozen books. He

has had a marked effect on

the disciplines of geography,

landscape architecture, Eng­

lish literature and religious

studies.

APPLE PATERNITY

BOTANY PROFESSOR Brian Husband is con­

ducting genetic analysis

of apple seeds. His apple

paternity tests can reveal

which apple varieties are the strongest "fathers,"

the father/mother com­binations that produce

the largest and best-tast­

ing fruit, how far bees are

moving pollen and even

how many fathers sired a

single apple. Husband's research

may help apple growers achieve larger, more

shapely apples.

HIV/AIDS IN CAMBODIA

PSYCHOLOGY PRO­

fessor Ian Lubek and

Guelph graduate Meghan

McCourt have found a

prevalence of HIV/ AIDS

in women working in the

beer bottling industry in

Cambodia. Up to 23 per cent of the women work­

ing for international breweries, including Fos­

ters, Heineken, Budweis­

er and Interbrew, are

HIV-sero-positive. The

researchers aim to find

·· strategies for reducing

HIV/AIDS in this com­

munity.

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Student smiles and miles of bri< ifts to the Campaign for the University of Guelph are already making a difference

in the look and feel of the campus. Each day, thousands of students check progress

at the construction sites for Guelph's new classroom and science buildings, while

some students say a private thank you for new scholarship programs that are giv-

ing them much-needed financial support. These visible signs of progress renew the campaign

commitment to U of G's teaching and research objectives and mark the achievement of more

than 80 per cent of the University's $75-million goal.

Musician claims Brock award

A SELF-DESCRIBED "jazz drum­

mer who wants to study Eng­lish" at U of G was awarded the

inaugural Brock Doctoral Scholarship

last fall. PhD candidate Jesse Stewart, BA '97,

received the award from Bill Brock, for­mer chair of U of G's Board of Gover-nors and Board of Trustees, and his wife, Ann Brock, who established the presti­

~ gious award worth up to $120,000 over ~ I u lll

four years. Stewart is already an international-

ly acclaimed musician. The Oshawa z >= "" <t: :::;: native was inspired to become a drum­Eo mer at age 14 after attending a concert lll

:=' by Elvin Jones, a former member of 0 ii: John Coltrane's 1960s quartet. Stewart

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is now a composer, percussionist, visu­al artist, instrument builder, researcher and writer. In 1993, he was named Outstanding Young Canadian Jazz Musician by the International Associ­ation of Jazz Educators and Young Musician of the Year by Jazz Report magazine. In 2000, he was commis­sioned to write a jazz opera for the Guelph Jazz Festival, along with Cana­dian jazz poet Paul Haines.

In Guelph's College of Arts, Stew­art earned a double major in music and fine art, then completed two mas­ter 's degrees concurrently in ethno­musicology and music composition at York University. He is now enrolled in a PhD program in literary/theatre studies in English, where he's combin­ing cultural theory and traditional music scholarship.

Alexander receives tribute

AT A FALL CONVOCATION

ceremony, Senator Don Oliver of Nova Scotia presented U of

G chancellor Lincoln Alexander with a tribute book signed by friends, col­leagues and admirers. It was prepared at U of G to commemorate Alexander's 80th birthday and the establishment of the Lincoln Alexander Chancellor's Scholarships.

Valued at more than $20,000 over eight semesters, the scholarships will be presented annually to academical­ly distinguished entering students who are aboriginal or have a disability or are members of a visible minority, and who have made significant contribu­tions to their schools and communi-

mark campaign progress

ties and demonstrated the potential to become leaders in society. The chancellor presented the first scholarships in Septem­ber to Renu Abraham of Hamilton, Ont., and Am rita Roy of Burlington, Ont. Both are enrolled in biomedical sciences and plan careers in medicine or pharmacy.

UGAA tours classroom complex

IN LESS THAN A YEAR, the bustling construction site that faces the Bullring will be transformed into a first-class,

leading-edge teaching and learning facility that will benefit Guelph students for gen­erations to come.

Playing an important role in supporting the students of the future are the students of the past. The U of G Alumni Association has donated $500,000 to the project, and members of the UGAA executive who toured the site in the fall were pleased to see the complex taking shape.

"I think this is just an amazing thing;' said UGAA past president Jim Weeden of the com­plex, which will provide space for 1,500 stu­dents from all colleges when it opens in fall 2003. When Weeden enrolled in U of G's engi­neering program in 1967, the entire student population at U of G was only about 3,500. And the learning resources he had access to just up the lane in Blackwood Hall were a far cry from those to be found in the new class­room complex, which will feature the latest in computer-based multimedia equipment.

The UGAA tour group also included president Bill Summers, second vice-presi­dent Fred Quinton, past president Scott vanEngen, treasurer Andrea Chance and secretary Gwen Paddock, as well as Susan Rankin, director of alumni programs, and

Rob McLaughlin, vice-president (alumni affairs and development).

The alumni gift to the building project will receive prominent recognition in the new classroom complex with the UGAA logo inlaid in the concourse floor. A few steps beyond, several UGAA display cases will grace the back wall of the concourse.

Summers said he's pleased at the high visibility the association will enjoy in the building.

"What a great opportunity to showcase the UGAA and introduce students to the

association from the moment they arrive on campus," he said. "It's exciting to think that thousands of students will pass through this building every day."

Members of the tour group watched as finishing work was done on the concrete for the tiered seating in two large lecture the­atres located on either side of the central lob­by. One of the lecture theatres in the 52,000-

square-foot complex will hold up to 600 students; the other, 400. Smaller classrooms planned for the rear of the new building will range in size from 30 to 200 seats.

Scholarship gifts achieve U of G goal

A MAJOR GOAL of the Campaign for the University of Guelph is to attract first-rate students to U of G and

support a new generation of leading schol­ars. The realization of that goal began in fall 2002 with the presentation of four new graduate scholarships that are being matched under the Ontario Graduate Schol­arship program to create annual awards of $15,000. They are listed here along with the donors and student recipients: • TD Bank Financial Group Ontario Gradu­

ate Scholarship, created through a $500,000 endowment from the TD Financial Group: Derek Alsop, Zoology; Stephen Pearce, Com­puting and Information Science; Andrew Brooks, Pathobiology; Kristi Herridge, Fam­ily Relations and Applied Nutrition; and Jen-

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nifer Lasenby, Psychology. • Gilbert's Ontario Grad uate Scholar­

ship, named for the Toronto law firm founded by Tim Gilbert, BA '85: Doug Al-Maini, Philosophy.

• Kenneth G. Murray Ontario Gradu­ate Scholarship, created by Ken Mur­ray, BSA '50, former chair ofU of G's Board of Governors: Justin Kastner, Food Science.

• Walsh Ontario Graduate Scholarship, created by Michael Walsh, BA '69, MA '70 and PhD '92, chair of B of G: Antonio Calcagno, Philosophy.

McDonald's gives to teaching restaurant

A$275,000 GIFT from McDonald's Restaurants of Canada Ltd. to U of G's School

~ of Hospitality and Tourism Manage-~ >- ment (HTM) will help pay for the ~ expansion of the schoors teaching ~ restaurant. z <(

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gift in November while on campus as HTM's 2002 executive-in-residence.

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courses and giving a public lecture. His company's $250,000 gift, which

supports the expansion of the school's atrium and teaching restaurant, will be complemented by a $25,000 contribu­tion from Grant Ford, owner of sever­al McDonald's franchises in Guelph and Fergus.

"We have enjoyed a long associa­tion with the University and are proud to fund the School of Hospitality and Tourism Management's new atrium and kitchen renovation;' said Johnson.

The planned $3.5-million expan­sion will double the restaurant's food production space and will add a mul­ti-purpose atrium for use as an 85-seat dining room, lecture space and special event facility.

Johnson said his visit to Guelph was an educational experience for him as well as the students. "I've been so impressed by the questions I've been asked by the students;' he said, adding that HTM's programs - especially its teaching restaurant- "are instrumen­tal in helping students become future executives in the industry because they provide the experience and knowledge needed to run a hospitality business."

Arts grad answers the call

WHEN A U OF G student called Tim Gilbert, BA '95, one evening last spring to ask

whether he'd consider making a dona­tion to the University's campaign pro­jects, his immediate answer was "no."

Gilbert laughs as he replays the con­versation. "She asked if the University could count on me to make a donation similar to what I'd given in the past. I said 'no.' She was taken aback."

The Toronto lawyer had donated a few hundred dollars here and there to his alma mater since graduating in 1985 with a double major in philoso­phy and history. This time, however, he told the caller he had something bigger in mind: "I want to give some­thing meaningful to help a student deal with the high cost of tuition:'

That meaningful gift turned out to be an endowment through his law firm to establish the Gilbert's Ontario Grad­uate Scholarship. During a special lun­cheon Nov. 11, Gilbert and two col­leagues - Robert Minnes and Shonagh McVean - met the first recipient of the award, Doug Al-Mai­ni. Thanks to Gilbert's gift and the Ontario Graduate Scholarship match­ing program, AI-Maini will receive $15,000 to complete his doctoral stud­ies in the Department of Philosophy.

AI-Maini says he's "thrilled" to be the recipient of the gift. The funding is a welcome guarantee that he'll be able to complete his studies of the work and ideas of ancient Greek philosophers.

When Gilbert presented the schol­arship to AI-Maini in November, he also met Amanda Carver, the fourth­year psychology student who made the initial call.

When Carver picked up a stack of alumni cards that included Gilbert's name, she had already racked up above-average results as one of about 35 student callers working on behalf of the University. "I think a lot of the skills I was able to use on the phone as

a caller came from my classes;' says Carver, who cites her ability to listen to and engage alumni.

She now works as a student supervisor at the U of G call centre in Alumni House, where student callers make about 170,000 calls a year. Amid clocks and photos plastered around the walls, one chart tracks the annu­al amount raised there since 1998: a fourfold increase from about $100,000 a year to more than $400,000 in 2001.

During his Guelph visit, Gilbert took the

opportunity to explore connections between his firm's interests and work being done at the University, including ethics research being pursued in the Department of Phi­losophy. Located in Toronto's landmark Flat­iron Building, his firm practises in areas of science and public policy, including intel­lectual property, competition law, regulato­ry approvals and government relations.

Gilbert said he might well have given a gift to the University of Toronto, where he completed his law degree in 1988. But he reasoned that providing a scholarship to Guelph, particularly during the University's campaign, might go further. "The Univer­sity of Guelph, as a yo unger university, needs its graduates to start giving back. I felt that this would be the best."

'Science of Life, Art of Living' theme draws support

THE RBC FOUNDATION has pro­vided $500,000 to the University of Guelph for two seemingly unrelated

initiatives that find connections through the U of G capital campaign theme -"The Science of Life, the Art of Living:'

The foundation will provide $400,000 to support research and teaching by U of G plant scientists in the proposed Agricultural Plant Biotechnology and Biocomputing Centre, and $100,000 towards the creation of a chair

in Scottish studies in the College of Arts. The RBC gift "is wonderful because it

advances our aspirations in the sciences and arts," says president Mordechai Rozanski." It's a true reflection of our campaign theme:'

RBC has a long-standing relationship with U of G. The bank supports Guelph students through internship opportunities and through World of Work, a skills devel­

opment program for undergraduate stu­dents in the Ontario Agricultural College.

In addition, about three-quarters of the employees in Royal Bank's agriculture and agribusiness division - some 45 people -

are U of G graduates, said George Dickson, RBC's senior vice- president, Commercial Markets-Ontario, whose son is a Guelph graduate in environmental engineering.

The planned $6.5-million biotechnolo­

gy centre will include new and refurbished classrooms, state-of-the-art laboratories and

computing equipment, and other facilities designed to promote collaborations between researchers in the Department of Plant Agri­culture and industry. .

"We hope to enable the University to pursue its goals as it seeks breakthroughs in research, teaching and product develop­ment," said Dickson.

OAC dean Craig Pearson said the new

biotechnology centre will allow U of G to strengthen existing research links with indus­try and offer more teaching and research

opportunities for undergraduate and grad­uate students. "This gift today is absolutely crucial to provide cutting-edge facilities and experiences for our students," he said.

Regarding the bank's gift to the College of Arts, Dickson said it is intended to help the University "maintain its reputation as the foremost research centre in Scottish studies outside of Scotland." The chair in Scottish studies will add a distinguished fac­ulty position to the University's renowned Scottish studies program, the only one of its kind in North America.

College of Arts dean Jacqueline Murray added: "This scholar will act as a catalyst not only for research and teaching but also for community outreach activity."

Winter 2003 11

THE Macdonald Institute shaped the lives and ideas of

"THERE WEREN'T MANY choic­es for women." Teaching or nurs­

ing. Maryon Brechin recalls those

were the options for most young women

looking for career prospects in the 1930s.

Admirable occupations, but neither of

them appealed to a young Maryon Bell, grow­

ing up on the family farm in Nelson, Ont. She

chose instead another route- through the

doors of Macdonald Institute in Guelph.

And so in 1936, a "slightly underage" Bell

found herself among some 40 like-minded

young women entering the columned por-

12 GuELPH ALUMNUS

tico of the imposing red-brick building that

anchored the northern end of the campus

of the Ontario Agricultural College (OAC).

Two years later, most of those women would

step through that doorway for the last time,

armed with their diplomas in domestic sci­

ences and with new ideas and plans.

"The training that Guelph gave us was

one that enabled us to go into so many

fields;' says Brechin, who reflects on a career

as a consumer advocate.

Improving the social and economic con­

ditions in rural Canada was the ultimate

goal of those who founded Macdonald

Institute in 1903. They rightly saw a more

educated womanhood as the instrument of

change, but may have been short-sighted in

their expectations.

U of G history professor Jamie Sne ll,

author of a new history of Macdonald Insti­

tute and its collegiate successors, says that

in the beginning, the institute was "a imed

at teaching farmers' daughters how to take

back some of the new knowledge about

homes and good nutriti on and hygiene in

the hope that they would marry farmers and

by Andrew Vowles

LEGACY

A stitch in time:

The art quilt used in our photos hangs

in the Macdonald Institute building at

U of G. It was created by artist Mari·

lyn Stothers and commissioned by her

classmates in the Mac degree class of

1954 to commemorate their 40th

anniversary of graduation.

The quilt was designed as a

reminder of the importance of edu·

cation in the broadest sense and

what it meant to the individual lives

of the Mac graduates of 1954.

female students. In turn, they shaped Mac's destiny

upgrade the quality of rural life." But there

was more to it than that.

"Fairly quickly it becomes clear that,

while it has that function, there are increas­

ingly young women who have career expec­

tations and want Mac to be something else.

And they vote with their feet in terms of

which programs they go into and what they

do with their degree when they leave."

A full century later, it's a rather more

diverse crowd of young women~ and men

~enrolled in numerous departments and

programs in the College of Social and

Applied Human Sciences (CSAHS), which

evolved from Macdonald Institute. A found­

ing college of the University of Guelph in

1964, Mac became FACS in 1970 when the

Co ll ege of Family and Consumer Studies

was established. And in 1998, FACS ama l­

gamated with the College of Social Science

(CSS) to form CSAHS.

CSAHS dean Alun joseph says the Mac

legacy has helped make those transitions

successful. His office in the original Mac­

donald Institute building provides a con­

stant reminder of how the college created

an imposing presence on campus and estab­

lished an educational foundation for its suc­

cessors to build on. From Snell's analysi s:

"The most imp ressive thing is the way in

which Macdonald Institute has been able to

adapt itself to the changing circumstances

and environment."

Snell's book, Macdonald Institute: Remem­

bering the Past, Embracing the Future, was

comm issioned by CSAHS to recognize the

legacy of Macdonald Institute and celebrate

the history of renewal that makes the college

as relevant to society today as it was in 1903.

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MARYON BRECHIN, DHE 1938

I n the 1930s, young women like Maryon Bell had few career

choices, but her options expanded when she earned a diploma

in household economics from Macdonald Institute. That educa­

tion led to a course in bakery research at the Trent Institute and

then a job with Canada Packers. ''I'm sure I would never have been taken into the fold at Cana­

da Packers had it not been for the practical experience I had at

Guelph," she says.

Later, she served as a consumer advocate with various orga­

nizat ions, including two terms as president of the Co nsumers' Association of Canada. Her work with the association led to her

being named to the Order of Canada in 1975.

A good education wasn't the only thing Brechin took away

from Guelph. It was at one of the regular Macdonald Hall dances

that she met OAC student William Brechin. They were married

after graduation; he died in 1993.

JANE COLLINS, B.H.SC. 1955

J ane Adams Collins was a trailblazer of sorts during her under­

graduate years at Guelph. She originally registered for the diplo­

ma program, but then switched to the four-year degree in house­

hold sciences. In the summer before her fourth year, she was one

of three women in her class to get married. "We were the first graduating class that had married students," she says. "The idea

was entirely strange to (then principal) Dr. Margaret McCready."

Collins married OAC student Allan Collins, BSA '55. After

graduation, they began a lifelong career in farming and raised

five children.

The B.H.Sc. program "was very good preparation for family life;' says Jane, whose homemaking career included numerous lead­

ership roles in her church and 30 years of volunteer work with the

Girl Guides of Canada. Since Allan's death this summer, Jane has remained on the vegetable farm with her son, Ken, and continues

to be active in her community and church.

Choice determines destiny If the students at Macdonald Institute vot­ed with their feet, it's important to follow

their footsteps to see how they used the edu-

scratched into the glass by four of the first

graduates in 1904. Look at today's college more closely and you can see something else

lingering from its domestic science roots.

after the Second World War.

~ cation they received at Guelph. The choic- CSAHS dean Alun Joseph easily traces a

dotted line between th e mandate of the

original institute - patterned after home

economics programs begun in American land-grant colleges- and the bachelor of

applied science program offered today in

the Department of Family Relations and Applied Nutrition. That program has its

roots in the diploma program that Brechin

took decades ago and the bachelor of house­

hold science degree program that emerged

By the 1950s, Mac boasted the largest degree-granting home economics program

in Canada. It prepared many graduates for traditional family life and gave others the

opportunity to launch successful careers

outside the home. ~ es made by each generation of Mac gradu­~ ates- and FACS and CSAHS graduates-:r: ::::_ have influenced academic renewal time and

; again within a college that defines its man­

~ date in response to the society it serves. z <!

~ Remembering the past >-~ There's a ghost of sorts in one of the origi-

13 nal windows in the Macdonald Institute 6: building- the faint etchings of signatures

14 GuELP H ALUMNUS

As the role of Canadian women evolved

during the 1950s and 1960s, the college rec­

ognized a need to expand its own role in

society. It was time for reinvention, says

Prof. Janet Wardlaw, who served as dean of

FACS from 1969 to 1983. She recalls hear­

ing derisive comments around campus about the "cookie house" before University

MARJORIE HALL, B.H.SC. 1968

M arjorie Wilson Wall straddled the old and the new when

she arrived at Guelph in 1964 among the first crop of stu­

dents to attend the newly established University of Guelph. She

grew up on a farm near Woodstock, Ont., and came to Macdon­ald Institute with plans to teach high school. In fact, Wall com­

pleted a master's degree in textile science in 1970, then went on to

do a PhD at Ohio State University.

While she was at Guelph, Macdonald Institute reinvented itself

as FACS, and Wall joined the faculty in 1974. She is now chair of

the Department of Consumer Studies. She laughs at the notion of today's students serving tea to fac­

ulty as she did in her 1960s home management course, but says

there are more similarities than differences. "An integrated view of

what's needed for quality of life- that's at the bottom of all our

departments. And that's how the Macdonald Institute started in its

own way- the quality of life within the constraints of society."

BRAD FRANCIS, B.A.SC. 1982

I f Brad Francis had wanted to become a banker in the tradi­

tional sense of the word, he might have taken a conventional

business program in finance or accounting. Instead, he chose to

pursue his interest in marketing research and human behaviour

in FACS. Today, he's vice-president, marketing research and customer

care, with the TO Bank Financial Group in Toronto.

"The program really helped me develop some good problem­

solving skills and analytical abilities like how to research infor­mation, how to analyse it, and how to really turn that informa­

tion into knowledge so that it's meaningful from a business

perspective;' says Francis.

He recalls the interviewer for his TO job commenting on his

combination of studies in psychology, economics and statistics

from Guelph . "From an employer's point of view, it was viewed

as a unique program and very applicable to the industry."

president J.D. MacLachlan asked her to

redesign a home economics program that would be relevant for the 1980s.

Macdonald Institute gave way to the new

College of Family and Consumer Studies in

1970, a reflection of the societal changes

MacLachlan had been thinking about. More

women were working, creating the need for

day care. Families were more mobile,

decreasing the influence of the extended

family and increasing the need for social

services. More couples were relying on two

incomes, so they were buying more and

making less at home.

the 1960s, says Prof. Richard Barham, who

succeeded Wardlaw as FACS dean until 1993. "It became inappropriate to have a separate

space for women in the home economics

program," he says. Far from its forerunner's

description in early course calendars as "a

training ground for homemakers;' the new

college would begin to examine families and

consumers through a wider-angle lens.

cipline and college boundaries to offer a

commerce degree in eight major areas of study. Guelph business students continue

to benefit from the University's broad back­

ground in the social and applied sciences.

Wardlaw's lens was intended to provide a

view ahead as far as the 1980s. As for fore­

seeing the new millennium, she would have

needed a crystal ball. Although people were

talking 30 years ago about the value of pool­

ing research efforts and interdisciplinary stud­ies on campus, "we couldn't have foreseen the

combining of social sciences and this college;'

she says. But that was the reality in 1998 when

FACS amalgamated with CSS. Not to mention the cultural upheaval of

FACS also included a school of hotel and

food administration that was launched with

financial support from a growing hospital­

ity industry. The bachelor of commerce

degree soon became the largest program in the college, eventually expanding across dis-

Winter 2003 15

HUGH MURPHY, B.COMM. 1990

"Emergent strategies" is a hot term used by management gurus today to describe the concept of allowing strategic

directions to fa ll out of the day-to-day. But Hugh Murphy says

the term might describe his own career path.

When he was studying consumer behaviour at Guelph , he couldn't have foreseen how what he was learning would some­

day fit together. He remembers scratching his head over courses

involving survey design and advanced statistical analys is.

"While you're doing it at university, you think there's absolutely

no way I'm going to need this. Later on, the tables turn completely:'

Today, some of what he learned is central to his career as a

marketing and research analyst with Environics Research, where

he is vice-president responsible for financial services research. "Guelph's consumer behaviour program positions people very

well to get into consumer research, investor research, any kind of

human research;' says Murphy, who also holds an MBA from Dal­

housie University.

NIKI HALEY-SCOTT, BA 1996

For Niki Haley-Scott, choices were the main benefit of com­

ing to Guelph to study psychology in CSS. Initially, she

planned to go on to graduate studies in the field, but two years

into her program, she added marketing to the mix by taking cours­

es in FACS. She built her degree from the two academic units that

would officially amalgamate in 1998. "The school was flexible enough to allow me to do a double

major, something a lot of schools won't let you do;' says Haley­

Scott, who also appreciated the size of the University- small

enough to foster a sense of belonging.

Today, she applies both sides of her program in her job as a

pharmaceutical specialty sales representative with Toronto-based

Pharmacia Canada. "Psychology gave me the analytical skills to

look at people; it gave me tools to analyse interchanges between people, which is what sales is all about." At the same time, she

believes she benefited from the tactical project-oriented skills

derived from her business program.

Recalling the route toward amalgamation,

founding CSAHS dean Michael Nightingale

says the new structure offered an opportuni­

ty to bring together two pieces that had already begun to look like a logical fit.

CSS consisted of five academic depart­

ments: Economics, Geography, Political Sci­ence, Psychology, and Sociology and

Anthropology. Faculty within FACS depart­

ments concerned with family studies, con­sumer studies and hospitality and tourism

management were preparing students for

careers that provided service to society. Putting together theory and research from

the applied fields with that from the base

disciplines in social science allowed Guelph

to bring together complimentary research

and degree programs in a way that further enhanced its contributions to the commu­

nity, says Nightingale.

uates would see many changes, but they'd

also recognize the kind of hands-on educa­

tion they received at Guelph. Peering in the

kitchen window at the School of Hospitali­ty and Tourism Management, for example,

they'd find women and men training togeth­

er but still focused on good nutrition and

the domestic skills of food preparation.

16 GuELPH ALUMNUS

Now with five years of its own history,

CSAHS is the largest college on campus, with

about one-third of U of G's undergraduates.

It has 23,000 alumni working in all sectors

of Canadian society and business and in a

variety of roles throughout the world.

Looking back through the window where they scratched their names, those 1904 grad-

In a sense, what the college is celebrat­

ing in 2003 is a legacy of applied learning

and adaptation, providing through each decade of the last century an education that

prepares graduates to contribute to an evolving society. ga

Mapping a green & friendly

campus by Suzanne Soto Imagine arriving at the

University of Guelph and being welcomed by a new and impressive entrance on the south­

ern edge of campus, where only a street corner existed before · Now picture yourself

walking past Johnston Hall, down the stairs in front of the library and into the heart of

the campus where the cannon sits in Branion Plaza. The area has been landscaped to cre­

ate a large "town square" that is filled with trees and flowers, park benches and tables.

This green and friendly vision for the campus is contained in a new version of the

campus master plan that was unanimously approved by the University's Board of Gov­

ernors in October.

Mary-Elizabeth Flynn- a U of G gov­

ernor and chair of the faculty, staff, student

and alumni committee that spent nearly two

years consulting extensively, poring over his­

torical and planning information, and

working with a consultant to develop the

new plan -acknowledges that, yes, the pro­

posals do sound like a dream. "But we wanted to dream;' she says. "This

was our opportunity to outline some of our

highest goals for this already remarkable cam-

pus, and I think this plan does that and more:' Douglas Derry, another governor, agrees

and says the new plan sets the scene for the

future physical development of the Univer­

sity over the next 30 years. Derry chairs the board's Physical

Resources and Property Committee, which

will be responsible for the plan's implemen­

tation. "It really reflects the University's mis­

sion, strategic directions and values;' he says,

acknowledging that many of the recommen­

dations could be expensive and won't be done

immediately. "The plan will be a living doc­

ument that will be reviewed every five years:'

These are not the first dreamers to imag­

ine Guelph as one of Ontario's most beau-

tiful campuses. Nor the first Board of Gov­ernors to fit new construction projects into

a grand vision that pays tribute to the his­

torical architecture and green spaces that

define this institution.

Landscape architecture professor Jim

Taylor, who co-ordinated the recent review

process, says the new campus master plan

reinforces key elements of an 1882 design

for the agricultural college first established here, and it replaces a 1964 development

plan for the University of Guelph.

The map on the next two pages outlines

campus growth governed by those ea rlier

plans and shows new construction projects

that prompted the current master plan review.

U of G dares to dream as it updates the master plan for campus growth

Winter 2003 17

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The University of Guelph today

Guelph's core campus covers 1,017 acres (412 hectares).

Architectural styles vary from stone-wall construction

dating to 1874 to more modern poured-concrete

structures, with the most recent buildings

combining elements of both.

This map depicts more than 125 years of campus growth. Key historical periods are represented by different colours. Only major buildings are identified.

• 1874 to 1882

18 GUELPH ALUMNUS

Early years of the Ontario

Agricultural College

• 1883 to 1922 OAC and Macdonald Institute

before the 1922 arrival of the

Ontario Veterinary College

• 1923 to 1964 Expansion of the three

founding colleges

• 1965 to 1987 A new University of Guelph

guided by the 1964

development plan

• 1988 to 2002 Physical expansion to support

growth in academic programs and

research activity

• Current construction Building for the new millennium

Compare this picture of construction and growth with planning priorities established by the

original 1882 campus design and the University's 1964 development plan. The carriageways

that make Johnston Green a focal point, the grid system of lanes and walkways, the orienta­

tion of buildings around a central core, the emphasis on green space. All are visible in the

image of today's campus and inherent in the new campus master plan for tomorrow's growth.

For more details on campus growth and building identification, see pages 20 and 21.

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Campus Construction Timeline (Map #)

• 187 4 to 1882 President's House

Raithby House 2

• 1883 to 1922 Alumni House 3

Drew Hall 4

Day Hall 5

McNally House 6

Maclachlan Building 7

Bullring 8

Macdonald Institute Building 9

Macdonald Hall 10

Massey Hall 11

Blackwood Hall 12

Zavitz Hall 13

Creelman Hall 14

Graham Hall 15

Reynolds Building 16

Mills Hall 17

Food Science 18

• 1923 to 1964 OVC Main Building 19

War Memorial Hall 20

Maids Hall 21

Watson Hall 22

Conservatory Greenhouse 23

Hutt Building 24

Johnston Hall 25

OVC Pharmacology & Toxicology 26

Textiles & Design 27

McNabb House 28

OVC Biomedical Sciences 29

Landscape Architecture 30

Security Services 31

OVC Archibald Small Animal Clinic 32

Mitchell Athletics Centre 33

Richards Building 34

Axelrod Building 35

OVC Pathobiology (VMI) 36

Preserving value

I t's been almost a decade since landscape

architecture professor Cecelia Paine asked

alumni to choose the 10 places on campus

they value most. It's not surprising that those

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ENVISIONING TOMORROW,

PLANNING TODAY

I nitiated by Nancy Sullivan, vice-president

(finance and administration), the campus

master plan review process included hiring

Lea Consulting Ltd. to review parking facili­

ties on campus and du Toit Allsopp Hillier to

produce the updated plan. Du Toit has exper­

tise in campus and urban planning as well as

familiarity with the University of Guelph.

Roger du Toit, the firm's principal part­

ner, says he first became acquainted with

Guelph in 1966 as part of the architectural

team designing South Residences. At that

time, this newly minted university was

undergoing great expansion.

"Physically, the University was adding a

whole new urban character to its then rural

layout and, in the process, moving its centre

of gravity from Johnston Hall to what is now

Branion Plaza," he recalls. "The South Resi­

dences, McLaughlin Library, University Cen­

tre and MacKinnon Building were all built

in the late 1960s and early 1970s, as outlined

in the ambitious long-range plan of 1964."

This was, of course, not the first time the

campus had experienced such a building

boom or developed a set of plans. In 1882,

a landscape gardener from Philadelphia

named Miller completed the first physical

plan for the Ontario Agricultural College

and Experimental Farm. It described a large

pastoral green with Moreton Lodge (where

Johnston Hall now sits) at the top of its

slope. A curved carriage drive encircled the

green and led to Moreton Lodge from Dun­

das Road, now called Gordon Street.

The plan envisioned buildings aligned

along the route that later became Winegard

Walk and included a grid of lanes east and

south of the green that provided the frame­

work for future buildings and plantings. It

guided the pre-1900 construction of Day and

Drew halls and the carriage house that would

eventually become Alumni House. More con­

struction between 1900 and 1906 nearly

campus locations mentioned most often by

alumni are reflected in the key principles gov­

erning U of G's new campus master plan .

Johnston Green ranked number one as the

favourite campus site. Winegard Walk also

made the alumni top 10, along with the Bull-

quadrupled the gross floor area on campus

as Macdonald Institute, Macdonald Hall,

Massey Hall and the Bullring were added.

Du Toit says the modern University of

Guelph has been chiefly shaped by the 1882

and 1964 plans. "They had the most profound

influence on the main 'structuring elements

of the campus, and they created a campus of

both great character and enviable beauty:'

Johnston Green, he says, embodies the

meaning of "campus," which is Latin for

field. "The buildings around it are wonder­

fully collegiate. The brick walkways are a

defining feature, the essence of an academ­

ic environment. You'll also go a long way to

find a finer walkway than the carriageway

south of Johnston Green."

Fast-forward to the new millennium,

and the University is in the midst of anoth­

er major expansion to prepare for 18,000

students by 2007. An addition to the engi­

neering building, a new athletic dome and

the completion of the East Village residences

are all part of this expansion, as are the class­

room and science complexes, both now

under construction in the campus core.

The time is right to develop a new phys­

ical blueprint for the future in the form of

a campus master plan that reflects the Uni­

versity's great heritage but incorporates cur­

rent values and priorities.

DEVELOPING THE PLAN

Tom Hulland, DVM '54, represented the Uni­

versity of Guelph Alumni Association on the

steering committee chaired by Flynn that

worked with du Toit Allsopp Hillier. They

considered Guelph's historical background

as well as feedback provided through two

town hall meetings on campus; more than

two dozen meetings with other stakehold­

ers, including alumni, local residents and the

City of Guelph planning department; and

more than 100 responses to a survey that gave

campus users the opportunity to define key

issues. The process resulted in 46 key plan-

ring and the cannon, which are integral to the

"town square" concept of Bran ion Plaza.

Other places identified by alumni as places

they value most were the Arboretum, Univer­

sity Centre, Johnston Hall, Mclaughlin Library,

Massey Hall and War Memorial Hall.

ning principles that will guide future devel­

opment of buildings, landscaping, roadways

and parking on campus. They include:

New project designs will reinforce the

character and reflect historical architec­ture that is fundamental to the Universi­

ty's established image.

New academic, communal and support

buildings will be located within a 10-

minute walk to the library, when possible.

As new space requirements arise, the Uni­

versity will emphasize efficient utilization first, renovation next, infill third, and

expansion as a last option.

Johnston Green and Branion Plaza will be

maintained as the primary outdoor focal

spaces of the campus.

Landscape designs will unify the campus,

stimulate social interaction, offer comfort

and security and reflect the environmen­

tal focus of the University.

The University will seek ways to give the

campus a strong sense of identity, well­

defined entrances and an easy sense of

orientation.

The campus will accommodate automobiles

but will promote alternatives such as public

transit, bicycling, walking and carpooling. New parking facilities will be located with­

in walking distance, but outside the cam­

pus core area.

The new master plan provides several demonstration plans that show how these

principles might be implemented. The class­

room and science complexes, for example, will increase academic and research space on cam­

pus while helping to frame an enlarged "town

square" around the cannon in Branion Plaza.

The new campus master plan report casts

favourable light on the University's paved

walkway system and calls it a defining feature

of the Guelph campus experience. It goes on

to suggest improvements to the system, including the extension of a brick-paved, tree­

lined walk around Johnston Green that would

eliminate parking in front of the building and

make the northern trek from johnston to War

Memorial Hall as elegant as strolling the

southern walkway that leads past Massey Hall.

This would reinforce the identity ofJohnston

Green and create a stronger pedestrian

entrance into the campus. The campus review also includes a demon­

stration plan for a new southern entrance to

the campus near the corner of Stone Road and

Gordon Street. It would create a formal entry

with improved landscape features, better sig­

nage and a more impressive sense of arrival.

As a guide for long-term growth, the plan outlines opportunities where new buildings

would enhance the fabric of the campus,

frame its walkways and reinforce campus landscapes. New buildings on campus, it

says, "should be designed to interpret and

express the local, rural and collegiate roots."

When it comes to implementing these

recommendations, Sullivan says the timing "will clearly depend on funding, but it will

also serve to guide how we allocate existing

resources, such as landscaping that is under­

taken, including the selection of trees and

other plant materials on campus." The plan

itself proposes that fundraising campaigns

be developed to raise both awareness and

funds for major projects. "The natural beauty of our campus adds

an important element to the overall student

experience at Guelph," says Prof. Alastair Summerlee, provost and vice-president (aca­

demic). "Our challenge as we grow to 18,000

students is to achieve a balance between our

academic and non-academic priorities:'

"We know that many of the proposals in

the new campus master plan won't happen

overnight;' adds review co-ordinator Prof.

Jim Taylor. "But it's an incredibly exciting

vision; and a realistic one that can be achieved

over time through creative implementation

practices and sound long-term planning."

A copy of the complete campus master

plan can be found on the Web at www.pr.

uoguelph.ca/masterplan. ga

Campus Construction Timeline (Map #)

• 1965 to 1987 Lambton Hall 37

MacKinnon Building 38

OVC Clinical Research 39

Crop Science 40

Animal Science & Nutrition 41

Maclaughlin Library 42

South Residences 43

OVC Embryo Biotechnology Group 44

MacNaughton Building 45

Alumni Stadium 46

Lennox-Addington Hall 47

Thornbrough Building 48

East Residence Complex 49

Powell Building so

University Centre 51

Macdonald Stewart Hall 52

OVC Pathobiology (Pathology) 53

Central Animal Facility 54

OVC Stewart Building 55

• 1988 to 2002 Equine Research Centre 56

Child-Care and Learning Centre 57

Twin-Pad Arena 58

Bovey Buildin g 59

OVC Lifetime Learn ing Centre 6o

Guelph Food Technology Centre 61

Hagen Aqualab 62

Axelrod Institute of Ichthyology 63

Covered Sports Dome 64

• Under construction Classroom Complex

Science Complex

6s

66

For more information on these projects,

see the Summer 2002 issue of the Guelph

Alumnus, available at www.uoguelph.ca/

news/alumnus/backissues/ or see

www.uoguelph.ca/toward2o1o.shtml.

Winter 2003 21

22 GuELP H ALUMNUS

s THE TWO

have become synonymous in less than four years

as North Americans adjust to the reality of a deadly new virus spreading

across the continent at the speed of flight

WHEN HEALTH CANADA decid­

ed it needed a national strategy to

deal with the challenges posed to

public and animal health by the imminent

arrival of West Nile virus, it turned to the

country's four veterinary colleges.

The year was 1999 and the mosquito­

borne West Nile virus had just begun to cre­

ate fear and confusion in New York. Com­

monly found in Africa, Eastern Europe and

the Middle East, West Nile virus is carried

by mosquitoes but also infects birds, hors­

es, humans and some other mammals.

Officials from the Canadian Co-opera­

tive Wildlife Health Centre (CCHWC)- a

network of wildlife health experts at U of

G's Ontario Veterinary College, the Facul­

ty of Veterinary Medicine at the University

of Montreal, the Atlantic Veterinary College

at the University of Prince Edward Island

and the Western College of Veterinary Med­

icine at the University of Saskatchewan­

were among a group called to a special

meeting in Ottawa.

"We had been watching the situation in

the United States very closely," says Peter

BY LORI BONA HUNT

Buck, an epidemiologist with Health Cana­

da's Population and Public Health Branch

and an OVC graduate (DVM '93 and M.Sc.

'96). "By the end of 1999, we realized we'd

better get our ducks in a row, so to speak,

and make plans for surveillance and

response in Canada."

OVC pathobiology professor Ian Bark­

er, who directs the Ontario/Nunavut region

of CCWHC, travelled to Ottawa in Febru­

ary 2000. "It was unique and precedent-set­

ting for us (CCWHC) to be involved in an

activity that was more focused on public

health than animal health," says Barker. "At

the time, very few people knew anything

about West Nile virus."

Indeed, Health Canada "was starting

from scratch," says Buck, and it was logical

to begin with the nation's veterinary schools.

"Veterinarians have a very important role

to play in public health;' he says. "Our back­

ground and training are quite broad, and

many of the diseases that affect animals also

affect humans. It's important to have an

understanding of all the issues behind a dis­

ease other than just how it affects people."

In addition, the four wild life centres are

"wonderful partners;' he says. "They have

tentacles that stretch across the entire coun­

try, including elaborate links with various

wildlife agencies and groups and ministries

of natural resources and conservation."

Because of its experience in monitoring

wildlife disease across Canada, CCWHC was

charged with the task of organizing a nation­

al plan for West Nile virus surveill ance in

dead birds. Barker, who also serves on Health

Canada's West Nile virus steering commit­

tee, co-ordinated the CCWHC surveillance

system and implemented it in Ontar io

through facilities shared by OVC and the

Animal Health Laboratory. "The idea was

that we would monitor and detect West Nile

virus activity in the ecosystem using dead

birds, and do it in a timely manner to per­

mit public health preventive measures."

This has meant that for the past three

years, public -health units across the

province have been shipping dead birds­

mostly crows, the province's unofficial sen­

tinel- to Barker's lab at OVC. Specimens

are collected and sent to Health Canada's

Winter 2003 23

National Microbiology Laboratory in Win­

nipeg for detection of West Nile virus. "At

times, we've been swamped," he says.

This year alone, about 5,500 birds

arrived at the nation's wildlife centres, one­

third of them in Guelph, and more than

3,500 have been tested .

"Ian Barker and the regional wildlife

centres have played a very important role

in the surveillance and early warning sys­

tem for human health;' says Buck. The dead

birds that test positive for West Nile virus

provide early warning signals to health units

across the country, letting them know where

the virus is active and where human cases

might appear, he says.

Other veterinarians central to the response

in Ontario include OVC graduates ChuckLe

Ber, DVM '71 and Grad Diploma '77, and

Dean Middleton, B.Sc. '86, DVM '87 and

M.Sc. '95. Both are epidemiologists who co­

ordinate Ontario Ministry of Health and

Long-Term Care activities related to West Nile

virus, helping to promote awareness about

how individuals can protect themselves.

The first human cases of West Nile virus

in Canada were confirmed in the fall, and in

November, a cancer patient from Cambridge

died after becoming infected with the virus.

Throughout it all, Barker has been inun ­

dated with calls from media and the gener­

al public looking for background informa­

tion and updates. But he doesn't mind the

extra effort. "To me, public service is part of

our role as faculty. The government and pub­

lic are all our clients, in one way or another."

That philosophy of public service is

prevalent at OVC and in many other col­

leges at the University, where faculty and

w staff have been at the forefront of West Nile f­f­w

"' > :::J 0

virus surveillance, detection and treatment.

"We've all been aware that West Nile virus

~ was moving northward for a number of years;'

~ says Michael Taylor, the staff veterinarian in 0 z <t: 0

OVC's avian and exotic animal service who

runs U of G's Wild Bird Clinic. "The Univer-

~ sity has, collectively, been there since day one, ~ ~ playing a key role in keeping people informed:'

~ Environmental biology researcher Jamie f-

"' Heal's role began in the summer of 2000. He w

3 rf.

and summer student Marjorie Gratton -Fer­

guson analysed more than 50,000 mosqui­

toes for Health Canada. The mosquitoes were z <t: w 0

v; collected from various locations throughout 0 f-0 :r: 0..

Ontario and were sent to Heal's lab to iden­

tify. The lab has been working with mosqui-

24 G u ELPH ALU MN us

toes and repellent for some 15 years.

They were looking for the Culex pipi­ens/restuans species, which is common in

Ontario and can carry West Nile virus. Mak­

ing an accurate identification required Heal

and Gratton -Ferguson to examine the

insects under a microscope . It was a

painstakingly slow process. The mosquitoes

had to be alive but cold, so they wouldn't

move around too much on the microscope's

slides. "We would identify them by things

such as hair and scales," Heal says.

Mosquitoes were frozen and shipped to

Winnipeg for further tests to determine if

they carried West Nile. This was an impor­

tant first step in verifying that West Nile

virus had crossed the U.S.-Canada border.

The first confirmation that the virus was

in Canada's bird population came in August

200 I when it was detected in a crow from

Windsor. A year later, OVC's Veterinary

Teaching Hospital confirmed the first case

of West Nile in a horse in Ontario. The hos­

pital went on to treat 28 horses with the

virus last summer and fall .

In addition, the Wild Bird Clinic cared for

about 30 wild birds such as red tail hawks and

owls that were also ailing from West Nile, says

Taylor. "We've just been waiting and watch­

ing for it for a long time. What did catch me

by surprise was how vigorously it spread."

Clinical studies professor Scott Weese, a

specialist in large-animal infectious disease,

agrees. "We knew it was coming; we just did­

n't know when ."

Among the first group of horses treated

for West Nile virus was a two-year-old thor-

oughbred from Westhaven Farm in Cale­

don. Farm manager Bob Hancock knew

something was dreadfully wrong with the

racehorse-in-training. "He seemed confused

and was stumbling and falling down. It hap­

pened so fast . The horse had been training

on a track in Etobicoke, and two hours after

running, he was showing these signs. The

doctor at the track put two and two togeth­

er and said he thought it was West Nile."

There was no hesitating. The horse was

loaded into a trailer and taken to OVC, "the

only place that could handle it;' says Hancock.

He was convinced the animal would never

race again or that it might not survive at all.

Although West Nile does come on sud­

denly, it actually has better survival rates

than most other neurological disorders, says

Weese. "And the horses that survive tend to

do well." Indeed, after a week of treatment,

the thoroughbred from Hancock's farm

recovered, as did about 60 per cent of the

confirmed cases that were treated at OVC.

Weese goes on to explain that West Nile

virus has no specific pattern in horses. "In

people, it seems to affect those who are old­

er or have weakened immune systems, but

in horses, young and healthy animals appear

to get sick as often as older ones," he says.

It's also unclear why horses -like people

- appear to be more susceptible to the

virus than other animals are.

Weese notes that although vaccines are

available, their effectiveness is uncertain. He

does predict that there will be widespread

vaccination of horses in Ontario in 2003,

and says the OVC Large Animal Medicine

Section is recommending vaccina tion of

horses this spring.

Both horses and people are considered

"dead-end hosts" of West Nile, meaning they

can't spread it. "They have low levels of the

virus in their blood," says Weese. "If a per­

son or a horse with West Nile is bitten by a

mosquito, it's no t enough for the virus to

be transmitted to someone else:' The excep­

tion appears to be transmission through a

blood transfusion or o rgan / tissu e trans­

plants. Scienti sts and docto rs at Health

Canada are still trying to determine how a

Cambrid ge woman undergoin g ca ncer

treatment contracted the virus from a blood

transfusion. They believe it was due to the

compromised state of her immune system

and the fact that transfusions often involve

a number of different blood componen ts

from many do nors.

It's another situation entirely in the bird

population. Although not all species of birds

infected with West Nile virus get sick, some

are particularly prone to develop the disease.

These include members< r the crow family,

hawks and owls and even some pet birds.

"We know, based on research, th a t

infected birds have a higher level of the virus

in their blood, so th ey're h osts th at help

replicate the infectio n," says Taylor. "They

can transmit the virus through their blood

or secretions. We had to be really ca reful in

how we handled and housed these birds."

He notes that altho ugh West Nile did­

n't affect the number of birds treated at the

Wild Bird Clinic (typicall y between 500

and 1,000 a year), it did dram aticall y

change the demography.

"We were admitting a different group of

birds during the summer th an we have in

the past eight years I've been here. We were

seeing more birds that were truly ill and not

just traumatica lly injured, and that seems

to go along with the West Nil e picture."

The Wild Bird Clinic also provided advice

and support to wild bird rehabilitato rs and

aviaries that were hard hit by the virus. One

owl breeding and rehabilitation sanctuary in

Niagara that was investigated by pathobiol­

ogy professor Bruce Hunter saw nea rly 80

From left to right:

]ames Heal,

lan Barker,

Michael Taylor,

Scott Weese and

Peter Buck.

per cent of its population destroyed.

Scientists are still trying to figure out why

some mosquito species carry West Nile and

o thers do not, says Heal. The Culex pipi ­

ens/restuans species is known to prefer feed­

ing on birds, "but there are other species and

even other insects, such as blackflies and deer

fli es, th at also bite birds and mam mals."

For now, the best option fo r prevention

is public education, teaching people how to

redu ce mosquito populati ons and avo id

encounters by dressing properly and using

repellents, he says.

The cold winter weather has provided a

reprieve from the spread of the virus, which

Taylor says he is using to prepare fo r the next

wave. He's focusing on education programs

aimed at owners and breeders of wild and pet

birds. "We have to ge t the word out there

about what to do prevention-wise."

Winter has also given Barker some catch­

up time. He spent the fi rst three years deter­

mining whether dead birds were carrying the

virus, but says the scope of his work has now

changed. West Nile is active in Can ada, "so

the question now is, what to do about it?"

"West Nile has implications for wildli fe

populat ions, zoos, endangered species, han­

dlers, wildlife rehabili ta to rs, veterin arian s

and an imal and pet owners," says Ba rker.

"But it also has signi fica nt implicati ons fo r

public health ."

Thi s is a fac t Hea lth Ca nada kn ows all

too well. It used the information ge nerated

by CCWHC and the Winni peg lab to pro­

vide da ily updated tables and maps show­

ing West Nile virus activity across the entire

country. The info rmat ion will also be incor­

porated into Health Canada's 2003 planning

and strategy sessions.

"Predi ct in g what's go ing to happen in

2003 is extremely di ffic ult;' says Buck. "West

Nile is new to the Western Hemisp here, so

there's a steep learning curve here to figure

out this virus and exactly how it wi ll persist

in th e ecosyste m ," he says. T hi s in cl ud es

determ ining which bi rd species wi ll be the

rese rvo ir host, how effecti ve the virus was

at "overwin te rin g" (survivin g th e co ld

weath er in nat ive mosquitoes), th e degree

of its in trodu ctio n into an a rea by migra­

to ry birds and the size of this yea r's mos­

qui to population, which is de termin ed by

a variety of climatic co nditi ons.

Weese adds that recent information from

the Un ited States based o n virus levels in

mosquitoes suggests that t he pea k of t he

d isease is likely a few years away.

In Barker's lab, technicians work to finish

their analysis of the dead birds submi tted dur­

ing 2002 before mosquitoes start to make their

appearance this year. The next goal is to take

the in formation collected and use it to make

predictions about which areas of Onta rio and

Canada pose the greatest public-health risk,

based on mosq uito and human population.

In this step, Barker will be wo rking with

yet ano ther Guelph graduate, Robbin Lin d­

say, Ph D '95, a medica l ento mologis t with

Health Canada .

"''m very pleased with what's been done

so fa r," says Ba rker. "We've had hu ge geo­

graphi ca l and jurisd icti onal issues to deal

with , but the in fo rmation has been getting

o ut to the pu blic- hea lth age ncies, and I

think it's safe to say we've had some impact.

It's been very interes ting to be invo lved in

such a multi -face ted, multi d isciplinary and

multi -agency project and see it work, despite

a fa ir number of obstacl es." ga

Winter 2003 25

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

HUMAN STORIES TOUCH THIS FRONT-LINE GRAD

THROUGHOUT HER VARIED CAREER,

Bonnie Milliner, BA '85, has worked on

the front line of society's response to human

needs. As a nurse, social worker, member of

the Ontario parole board and now a mem­

ber of Canada's Immigration and Refugee

Board, she has come to know the heavy

responsibility of making decisions that affect

other people's lives.

A former registered nurse, Mi lli ner says

she began taking courses at U of G just "to

expand my horizons." First music courses,

then courses in family and child studies that

encouraged her to apply for a social work

posit ion with the Ch ildren's Aid Society.

That position "gave me exposure to the

court system, and after six years with Chil­

dren's Aid, I fe lt I needed to move on."

Moving on meant assuming the respon­

sibility of making parole determinations as

a community member of the Ontario Board

of Parole. After the allowable maximum of

six years of service, Milliner retired briefly

before being appointed in 1998 to the fed­

eral quasi-judicial tribunal that determines

Q refugee claims.

~ "My retirement lasted long enough to

~ clean out the garage," she laughs.

~ During her four years on the Immigra­

':::. tion and Refugee Board, Milliner has been

~ hearing the refugee claims of people from

~ Asian countries and says her daily bus com­

~ mute from Guelph to Toronto has enabled

~ her to stay abreast of changes in the judi­

~ cial, political, criminal and social service sys-w ~ tems in the countries assigned to her.

~ "I've never worked harder in my life,"

~ admits Mi lliner, who says this is both the z ~ most frustrating and the most rewarding job

~ she has ever had. The stories of refugee ,.. ~ claimants can be heartbreaking, but the job

8 is made easier by the mission of the Immi­o it gration and Refugee Board. She works on

26 GuELPH ALUMNus

• a umn1

behalf of Canadians to "make well-reasoned

decisions on immigration and refugee mat­

ters, efficiently, fairly and in accordance with

Canadian law." Milliner says Ca nadian law

allows the board to provide refuge to peo­

ple when there is legitimate concern for their

safety if they are returned to their country

of origin. "Canada stands pretty tall , I think,

in terms of its compassion for and treatment

of legitimate refugees;' she says.

These were some of the things Milliner

told current U of G st udents when she

attended a College of Arts career night last

year. "Anyone who has an interest in law, a

commitment to public service and a desire

to keep learn ing might be in te rested in

refugee work;' she said. Canada's Immigra­

tion and Refugee Board incl udes a mixture

of lawyers and comm unity m em bers from

all walks of life.

She also talked about the importance of

famil y and music and lifelong learning.

Through a series of stressful occupations,

"music and singing have provided the oth­

er life that helps keep me in balance."

It took Milliner eight years of part-time

study to complete her BA in music and fam­

ily and child studies. She and her son, Ted,

graduated at the sam e 1985 convocation .

Two yea rs later, her husband, Russell,

received a BA in psychology after 10 years

of part-time study.

"I loved it," she says. "My plan has always

been to go back and take more courses after

I retire."

But a second retirement is several years

away, so for now, the extra courses and the

garage will have to wait.

atters HIGHLIGHTS • GRAD NEWS • OBITUARIES • CALENDAR

FOOTBALL BROUGHT 'EM BACK More than 115 alumni and football fans

from across North America gathered on

campus Sept. 21 to celebrate Guelph's long

football history. The day's Homecoming

events included breakfast, the annual

"" I

Visiting U of G from Dublin, Ont., Art Bolton,

BSA 'ss. left, enjoyed the annual Chilifest

at Alumni House with his son, Carl , B.Sc.

(Eng.) 'So, and grandson, Matthew.

Former Guelph players Gord Wright, left, and

Bob Billin, DVM '58, pose with the U of G

Gryphon mascot.

alumni Glory Bowl game and a luncheon

before the afternoon Gryphon game

against the University of Ottawa. The Gee

Gees were the victors, 43 to 17, before a

crowd of 2,500.

Plans are under way to make the foot­

ball gathering an annual event. If you'd

like to be involved, contact senior devel­

opment manager Bruce Hill at Ext. 52122

or send e-mail to brucehil@uoguelph.ca.

At the Gryphon Club Hall of Fame induction Sept. 20, former Guelph football coach Tom Mooney

was congratulated by a crowd of former players who were members of his 1956 to 1960 teams.

Front row, from left: John Wright, Tom Mooney, Robbie Keith and Bob Silk. Second row: Robert

Billin , Peter Lindley, Ron Bogart, Stu O'Neil, Hal Grunau, Bill Sirman and Bill Mulchinock. Third

row: Robbie Maughan, John Burton, Bob Lewis, Tom Sawyer, Jim Wright, Lloyd Banbury and David

Hume. Fourth row: Roy Pearn, Ray German, Bill Stevens, Bill Sproule, Jim Miller and Don Ames.

Preparing for a ceremonial kickoff at the Homecoming game are, from left: Bob Brooks, BSA

'51; Hugh Tharby, B.Sc. '95; Sam Beninasa, B.Comm. '94; Gord Wright, BSA '33; Don West­

lake, B.Sc.(P.E.) '72; Brill Sproule, BSA '59; and Rae German, BSA '63 .

Winter 2003 27

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28 GuELPH ALUMNUS

These are just a

few of the

businesses

advertised by

Guelph alumni

in the business

card section of

the online

community

WE'RE COMING BACK!

MORE THAN 30 CLASSES HAVE

already planned to hold reunions on

campus during Alumni ~eekend 2003: CBS '88; FACS '73, '78, '83 and '87; HAFA '73; Mac '38, '5lD, '53 and '53 D, '56 and '56D, '57D,

'63 and '66; OAC '33, '43, '48, '53 and 53A,

'58, '63, '68, '73A, '78 and '88; OVC '43, '48,

'58, '63 '68, '73, '78 and '02.

If you're a member of one of these classes

and would like to get involved in the planning

- or if you'd like to organize a reunion for

another class or group - contact jennifer

Brett, alumni events and communications co­

ordinator, at Ext. 53540 or jbrett@uoguelph.ca.

CELEBRATE MAC'S LEGACY

UOF G AND THE COLLEGE ofSocial

and Applied Human Sciences will cele­brate the legacy of Macdonald Institute dur­

ing Alumni Weekend june 20 to 22. Alumni

are invited to participate in a number of planned events:

"College Directions" seminar series.

Book launch for a college biography writ­ten by history professor Jamie Snell, price

$39.99 plus tax. Advance copies available in

May for $53.50 (includes taxes and ship­ping), order from CSAHS Dean's Office,

Room 111, Macdonald Institute, Universi­

ty of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2Wl.

Unveiling of a Canada Post commemora­

tive stamp recognizing the 1903 founding

of Macdonald Institute at Guelph.

Opening of Alumni Heritage Room.

Meet and greet the Mac-FACS Alumni Association boards.

Gala dinner; tickets $65 per person, dance

only $15 or $25 per couple. Order by send­

ing a cheque to Mac 100th Anniversary,

Alumni House, University of Guelph,

Guelph, ON N1G 2W1

For more information and/or to volunteer

your participation in Mac legacy events, con­

tact Kathy Virgin in alumni programs at

519-824-4120, Ext. 52102, or send e-mail to kvirgin@uoguelph.ca.

HOCKEY NETS NEW JERSEYS U of G's athletics program will receive six new

sets of hockey jerseys for intramural sports, thanks to funds raised at the annual U of G

Alumni Hockey Tournament Nov. 30 and

alumni Matters

Coming Events

jan. 18- Guelph Open Wrestling Tour­nament, followed by an alumni and friends

banquet; Gryphs Sports Lounge. For details, send e-mail to dcox@uoguelph.ca.

jan. 19 - OVC alumni reception at the

North American Veterinary Conference,

Marriott World Center, Orlando, Fla., 8 to

10 p.m. Contact Andrea Pavia at Ext. 54430

or apavia@ovc.uoguelph.ca for details.

jan. 20 to 24- OAC Career Week. Con­

tact Carla Bradshaw at cbradsha@oac.uo guelph.ca for details.

jan. 24- Aggie Good Times Banquet for alumni and students. Contact the Student

Federation of OAC at Ext. 58321 or Kerry

Alexander at kerry@uoguelph.ca.

jan. 25- Human Biology and Nutritional

Sciences Student Symposium. Call Sam Kosakowski at 519-824-4120, Ext. 54703.

jan. 30 and Feb. 1 - Ontario Veterinary

Medical Association annual conference and trade show, Westin Harbour Castle, Toron­

to. Drop by the OVC Alumni Association

exhibitor booth.

Dec. 1. Staff and students alike say thank

you to tournament organizer Brad Stephen­

son and all hockey players and fans who

contributed to the event.

UGAA SEEKS NOMINEES

THE UNIVERSITY OF GuELPH

Alumni Association seeks nominations for its annual awards program. Categories

are: Alumnus of Honour, recognizing career achievement and contributions to society; Alumni Medal of Achievement, recogniz­ing professional achievement and commu­

nity service of a graduate of the last 15 years;

and Alumni Volunteer Award, recognizing

community involvement and volunteer

work on behalf of the University and/or

charitable organizations. Complete details of the awards program,

nomination criteria and nomination forms

are available from alumni program manag­er Andrea Pavia at 519-824-4120, Ext.

54430, or apavia@ovc. uoguelph.ca. The nomination deadline is Jan. 31.

jan. 31- Deadline for nominations for

U of G Alumni Association awards. For

details, contact Andrea Pavia at Ext. 54430 or apavia@ovc.uoguelph.ca.

Feb. 17- Alumni reception at the West­ern Veterinary Conference, Mandalay Bay

Resort, Las Vegas, Nev., 7 to 9 p.m. Con­

tact Andrea Pavia at Ext. 54430 or

apavia@ovc.uoguelph.ca for details.

Feb. 19- Convocation. Alumni volun­

teers are needed to present information

packages to graduates. To volunteer, call Ext. 56544 or send e-mail to alumni@

uoguelph.ca.

Feb. 21- Deadline for nominations for OAC Alumni Association Distinguished

Faculty Awards in teaching, research and

extension. Contact Carla Bradshaw at Ext. 56657 or cbradsha@oac.uoguelph.ca for

details.

March 5 - U of G alumni Florida

reunion, Maple Leaf Estates, 2100 Kings Highway, Port Charlotte, Fla.; includes

lunch and a tour of Fisherman's Wharf. Contact Jennifer Brett at Ext. 53540 or jbrett@uoguelph.ca for details.

MCLAUGHLINS HONOUR JOHNSTON

Rob and Kathie

ROB McLAUGHLIN, B.Sc.(Agr.) '69

and PhD '77, and Kathie McLaughlin,

B.Sc. '75, donated a historical plaque inside Johnston Hall to recognize the man for

March 8- U of G alumni Texas reunion

in San Antonio; includes a tour of the

Riverwalk, Texan barbecue ~inner and

two-stepping at a country saloon. Contact Jennifer Brett at Ext. 53540 or jbrett@

uoguelph.ca for details.

March 15 and 16- College Royal Week­

end at U of G. Visit the Web site www.

collegeroyal.uoguelph.ca for details.

March 28 and 29 - OAC Alumni Asso­

ciation 45th-annual curling bonspiel,

Guelph Curling Club and Guelph Country Club. Contact Carla Bradshaw at Ext. 56657

or cbradsha@oac.uoguelph.ca to register.

june 9 to 18- Guelph Sexuality Con-ference, focusing on "Looking Back, Mov­

ing Forward." Send e-mail to info@open.

uoguelph.ca for a conference schedule and

fees or log on to www.open.uoguelph.

ca/sexconf. june 20 to 22- Alumni Weekend. Watch

for details in the May issue of Guelph Alumnus. For details of alumni events, call the exten­sion listed at 519-824-4120 or send e-mail to alumni@uoguelph.ca.

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GRAD NEWS

Prof. Forshaw still cares about students

Prof. Robert Forshaw's portrait appears on the screen as members of the

OAC '55 "Group of Seven" launch a fundraising project to refurbish an

animal science lab in his honour. From left: Dana Porter, Larry Crump,

Rod McFadden, Rodney Wright, John Kellough and John Robson. Absent:

Harold Nash.

Prof. Robert Forshaw has been retired from the Department of Animal and Poultry Science for 22 years, but he's still impressed

by the students he taught dur­ing his 33-year career at Guelph. And he's still telling the

Ontario Agricultural College that it's important for every stu­dent to reach his or her poten­tial as a contributing member of Canada's agri-food industry.

The venerable professor's words were beamed by satellite

1940 • Muriel (Sharpe) Andrew, BSA '41, wrote recently from her home in West Lafayette, Indiana, which she says is in the backyard of Purdue University. One of four women to graduate from OAC in 1941, she studied horti-culture after being refused entry into the entomology program

30 GuELPH ALUMNUS

from his home in British Columbia Nov. 12 to Lab 102 of the Animal Science and Nutri­tion Building. He drew wide applause from a gathering of 100 alumni and friends who can1e to honour him, witness the unveil­ing of a portrait and to support a recognition project launched by the associate diploma in agri­culture class of 1955.

Their idea has grown into a $400,000 fundraising project to refurbish Lab 102, now called

because of her gender. During her career, she worked as a chemist for DuPont. Now that she's in her 80s, "Purdue has rec-ognized me as a thwarted en to-mologist and has appointed me to their Entomology Develop-ment Council;' she says.

1950 • George Thurtell, BSA '57 and

the Prof. R.P. Forshaw Lab. Committee chair Dana

Porter, ADA '55, reported that

more than $110,000 has already been donated by alumni and industry. "The Forshaw name

has inspired alumni to support the lab, and gifts are flowing in from all over Canada and around the world."

He challenges other diplo­ma classes associated with For­shaw as their honorary class president to join in the project to help meet the $400,000 goal.

Many of the donation cheques received to date have come attached to letters filled with stories of the professor's generosity and wise counsel. "Bob was one of those precious

professors who put his students ahead of everything else;' said John Robson, ADA '55.

Forshaw came to Guelph in 1947 after teaching at the Uni­versity of Saskatchewan. His aca­demic specialty was swine pro­duction, but he contributed to Ontario agriculture in several ways: educating a new genera­tion of industry leaders, leading numerous extension activities and improving the welfare of rural people, including working towards the establishment of medical insurance for farmers before the introduction of OHIP.

MSA '60, and Clarke Topp, BSA '59, were honoured this

summer at the joint annual conventions of the American Society of Agronomy and the Soil Science Society of Ameri-ca. Thurtell, a former Guelph professor in the Department of Land Resource, and Topp, a sci-entist with Agriculture and

Agri-Food Canada, followed parallel educational paths

through Guelph and the Uni­versity of Wisconsin soil physics group. Together, they have made contributio.ns in both the above- and below-ground envi­

ronmental zones. Thurtell has improved instrumentation and analyses for the flux of gaseous components and energy between the soil and the atmos­phere. Topp has pioneered an improvement to the measure­ment of soil water content using radio frequency methods in soil, now referenced as TDR.

Both scientists attribute the recognition they've received to their early education and the

strength of the general science option at Guelph in the 1950s and 1960s, as well as the excel­lent way that background inte­grated into the soil physics pro­gram at Wisconsin. They say the careers of more than 10 soil physicists and agricultural mete­orologists trace back to that basic science option at Guelph. Five of the 10 also went to Wis­

consin for graduate work.

1960 • Pat (Everest) Klaas, B.H.Sc. '63, and her husband, Bill, oper­ate a bed and breakfast near Port Perry, Ont. She is retired from a 30-year teaching career and invites classmates and friends to share U of G memo­ries at ilieir B&B on the shore of

Lake Scugog. • Alan Still, ADA '67, retired from Agriculture andAgri-Food Canada's health of animals branch after 30 years and has begun a new career in the wine

industry. He is sales manager for Joseph's Estate Wines and lives in Niagara Falls with his wife, Wendy, and their children, Craig, Tom, Jordan and Kate.

1970 • Lynne Allen, BA '72, is vice- · president and senior employee

benefits consultant at Marsh USA, Inc., an insurance bro­

kerage and risk advisement company, in Rochester, N.Y. She

previously served as employee benefits marketing manager at Marsh and as senior account executive for CIGNA. • Lea Barker, ADA '7 4, left Pfiz­er Animal Health early in 2002 when the company moved offices to Montreal. During his 23-year tenure with Pfizer, he travelled often to Newmarket, Montreal, Kansas City and Lon­don, Ont. He now operates his own company, Barker Market­ing Inc., offering event and pro­ject management services to

clients in Ontario. He has a son at the Royal Military College and a daughter in high school. • S. Angus N.D. Chidebelu, M.Sc. '77, earned a PhD at the

University of Georgia in 1980 before joining the University of Nigeria as a lecturer. In addition to his position as professor, he has headed the Department of Agricultural Economics and served as associate dean of the

Faculty of Agriculture. He recently spent a year as visiting professor at Nigeria's Delta State University.

• Mary Coyle, BA '76, MA '85 (rural development), has been appointed vice-president of St. Francis Xavier University. She has been director of its world­renowned Coady International Institute for five years and is also a member of the St. Francis Xavier University Foundation. • David Moore, M.Sc. '70, is a technical adviser on environ­mental policy and legislation with Ireland's Ministry of the

Environment. • Lorraine Roy, B.Sc.(Agr.) '78, is a textile artist who has designed a series of 17 wall hangings based on rare trees in the Arboretum's Living Gene Bank. An exhibition of the work, titled "Saving Paradise: The Arboretum Project," will tour Ontario throughout 2002.

GRAD NEWS UPDATE FORM

Name

Address

Prov./State

Home Phone ______________ ___

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Fax

Fax

Hall of Fame athletes

Inductees into the Gryphon Club Hall of Fame include, from left: coach Robert Stallman, swimming and diving; athlete Dan Wicklum, football; coach Tom Mooney, football; athlete Kathy Cameron, track and cross-country; and athlete Mel LaForme, football, rowing and wrestling. Other inductees were the late Alan Claremont, athlete in cross-country and track; athlete Mike Hawkes, diving, swimming and water polo; and the 1977 OUA championship rowing team.

The tour includes an exhibition May 22 to June 30 at the Green­wood Quiltery in Guelph as part

of the Waterloo and Area Quilt­ing Festival. For a complete exhibition schedule, send e-mail to lorraine.roy3@sympatico.ca. • Donna Scher, B.A.Sc. '74, is a

rehabilitation psychologist with Con centra, a case management company in Toronto. • Heather (Logie) Tichbon, B.Sc. '78, is a veterinary assist­ant in Vancouver, where she lives with her husband, Richard, and teenage sons, Peter and

Degree & Year ______________ ___

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Postal Code _______ ___

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Send address changes and Grad News to: Alumni Records, University of Guelph, Guelph ON N1G 2W1 Phone: 519-824-4120, Ext. 56550, Fax: 519-822-2670, E-mail: alumnirecords@uoguelph.ca

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Michael. She says her spare time

is devoted to horseback riding

and touring the west coast. Contact her at richard_tich­

bon@telus.net.

• Paul Zvonkin, BA '71, has retired from the Simcoe County District

School Board after teaching busi­

ness for 29 years at Stayner Colle­

giate. He lives in Collingwood,

Ont., and enjoys snowboarding, biking and walking an eccentric

golden retriever.

1980 • Michele Bailey, DVM '82, has worked in private practice,

industry and academia since

graduating from Guelph. She directed the animal-care and

veterinary services program at

the University of Western

Ontario for 10 years and is now

a professor of biomedical sci­ences and associate vice­

provost, research, at Cornell

University in New York. She

lives in Ithaca with her partner,

Don Paxton, and daughters,

Elissa and Emily.

• Luce Berard, PhD '81,

received a diploma in applied

ethics in October 2002 at Que­bec's Universite de Sherbrooke.

In 1996, she earned a diploma

m community health from

Sherbrooke.

• Tye Burt, BA '80, has been

appointed a director of Barrick

Gold. He has gained extensive experience in the mining sector

in his 16 years in international

corporate finance. He was chair

of Deutsche Bank Canada as

well as global head of Metals

and Mining Investment Bank­

ing at Deutsche Bank and co­

head of the mining group at

Nesbitt Burns.

• Sally Cooper, BA '88, teach­es at Humber College in Toron­

to and recently published her

first novel, Love Object.

• Alesander Enyedi, B.Sc.(Agr.)

'81 and M.Sc. '85, was recently

appointed professor and chair

of the Department of Biologi­

cal Sciences at Western Michi­gan University (WMU) in Kala-

mazoo. A faculty member since

1993, he is a specialist in plant

physiology. He holds a PhD from Pennsylvania State Uni­

versity and completed post­

doctoral research at Rutgers. He has published more than 30

abstracts and journal articles

and received a teaching excel­

lence award from WMU in

2000. • David Galbraith, B.Sc. '82 and

M.Sc. '86, received the 2002 Pro­

fessional Citation Award from

the American Association of Botanical Gardens and Arbore­

ta, which represents more than

470 institutions and 2,000 pro­

fessionals across North Ameri­

ca. He is manager of biodiversi­

ty projects at the Royal

Botanical Gardens in Hamilton, Ont. He is on ly the second

Canadian to receive the award,

which recognizes excellence in

disciplines such as education

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..... Canadian Commonwealth Scholarship or Fellowship

..... Government of Canada Award

The Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade has created an alumni association for you. We want to know what you've been up to since your stay and offer you a chance to renew your links with Canada and other award recipients.

Complete our questionnaire at www.scholarships-bourses-ca.org and we'll send you a certificate celebrating your Canadian experience. For a hard copy write to:

Alumni Relations Officer International Council for Canadian Studies 75 Albert Street, Suite 908 Ottawa, Ontario K1P 5E7 Canada E-mail: alumni@iccs-ciec.ca

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..... Programme de bourses du gouvernement du Canada Le ministere des Affaires etrangeres et du Commerce international a cree pour vous une association d'anciens. No us voulons savoir ce que vous avez fait depuis votre sejour au Canada et nous vous offrons un bon moyen de raviver les liens que vous avez noues avec le Canada et d'autres beneficiaires.

Remplissez le questionnaire a : www.scholarships-bourses-ca.org et nous vous ferons parvenir un certificat pour souligner votre experience canadienne. Pour obtenir une version papier, ecrivez a: l'agent de relations avec les anciens boursiers Conseil international d'etudes canadiennes 75, rue Albert, bureau 908 Ottawa (Ontario) K1 P 5E7 Canada Courriel : alumni@iccs-ciec.ca

Canada

and conservation. He can be reached at dgalbraith@rbg.ca. • Don Juan Gayondato, BA '84, is living in Kuala Lumpur and would like to hear from Cana­dian friends by e-mail at tonyg@nstp.com.my. • Byron and Sharon (Wood) Henderson, both B.Sc.(Agr.) '80, recently moved from Saskatchewan to the Henderson family farm at Keady, Ont. Dur­ing their 20 years m Saskatchewan, they raised three children- Carlie, Alecia and Quinn - and Byron worked with Monsanto and the Bank of Montreal. He is currently loans manager with the Saugeen Credit Union in Durham. • Jean (McGowan) Jordan, B.Sc. '87 and M.Sc. '90, heads a cytogenetics lab at Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario in Ottawa, where she lives with her husband, Scott Jordan, PhD '90.

She recently became a Fellow of the Canadian College of Med­ical Geneticists, one of only a half-dozen people in Canada to hold the designation. • A. Kuppuswamy Kumaragu­ru, PhD '83, is head and co-

ordinator of the School of Energy, Environment and Nat­ural Resources at Madurai Kamaraj University in Tamil Nadu, India. He joined the school as a scientific officer in June 1983, was elevated as a reader in 1987 and became a full professor in 1996.

Remembering the good times

The 45th-anniversary reunion of the OAC class of 1956 at Windermere House Resorts was one of the good times as class members shared life stories and celebrated a successful fundraising project. They raised more than $70,000 to create the Arboretum's Park in the Garden. Located just north of Arboretum Road, the park is bordered by the Ivey trail and connects to the Japanese and English gardens.

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June Pearson, COA alumni officer ............................ jpearson@uoguelph.ca Vikki Tremblay, alumni programs office .................. vikkit@alumni.uoguelph.ca Alumni Records ........................................... records@uoguelph.ca

International Programs Jan Walker, job posting service ....... . ....... . . ........ . ..... jwalker@uoguelph.ca

Guelph Alumnus Mary Dickieson, editor . .................. .. ........ m.dickieson@exec.uoguelph.ca

For telephone contact, call519-824-4120.

• Barbara McLean, MA '89, recently published a memoir

called Lambsquarters th at chronicles her life on an

Ontario farmstead . She and her

physician husband, Thomas,

moved to the farm in Grey

County 26 years ago. They raised two children and lots of

lambs and garden produce

while turning their 1880s farm­

house into a much-loved coun­

try home. Subtitled "Scenes

From a Handmade Life," the

book was published by Ran­

dom House.

• Helen Peart, BA '83, is a free­lance artist and writer living in

Toronto, following a 14-year

career in the developmental ser­

vice sector. She teaches adult

courses in pottery for the Toron­to District School Board, co-ordi­

nates the Woodlawn Pottery Stu­

dio Co-operative and has

published short fiction and poet­

ry in several U.S. anthologies. She is married to Rob Weekes and

would like to hear from class­mates at beepeaweel@aol.com.

• Sue Richards, BA '84, describes herself as a social entrepreneur, artist and cultur-

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a! animator. In addition to her role as an arts educator, she pro­

duces an annual calendar called Breast of Canada, with proceeds

going to the Canadian Breast Cancer network. See the Web

site www.breastofcanada.com.

Richards was recently selected to

serve as honorary chair of the YMCA-YWCA of Guelph 2003

Women of Distinction Awards.

She was an award recipient in

the arts and culture category in

2000.

• Shri Sharma, M.Sc. '89 and PhD '92 , is a scientist in the

research and development clivi-

sion of Rich Products Corpora­

tion of Buffalo, N.Y., the largest

privately owned frozen food

manufacturer in the United

States. He previously worked as a food scientist with the Inter-

national Food Network in Itha­ca, N.Y. Originally from India,

Sharma came to U of G after

earning undergraduate and

graduate degrees in dairy tech­no logy and dairy engineering at

the National Dairy Research

Institute in Kamal, India. • Michael van't Slot, B.Sc. '87, teaches mathematics at R.S.

McLaughlin CVI in Oshawa,

Ont. He and his wife, Judy, have

two children, David and Katie.

Friends can contact them at mjvanslot@yahoo.ca.

1990 • Bruce Bonham, BA '94, and his wife, Anna, live in Calgary,

where he is an editor at the Cal­

gary Herald. They met on U of G's Krakow semester and are

reminded of the Poland experi­

ence by their two cats, Pyszczek and Leniuszek. After graduating

from Guelph, Bruce earned a

master's degree from the Uni­

versity of Ottawa, then spent two

years as an editor at the Kingston

Whig-Standard and two years at

th e National Post in Toronto

before moving to Calgary.

• Nicola Campbell, B.Sc. '94, has been appointed biotech

principal of BA Venture Part­

ners, a division of Bank of

America, in Foster City, Calif.

Before joining BA Venture Part­

ners, she was director at Burrill

& Company, a life sciences mer­

chant bank. After completing her Guelph degree, she earned

an M.Sc. and PhD at Mount

Sinai Medical Center.

• Andrea Cardenas, B.Sc.(Agr.) '95, and her husband, Victor, are

working as health promoters in

Guerrero, Mexico, through the

Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) . She previously served

with MCC in Bolivia, earned a teacher's certificate from Cali­

fornia State University of Mon­

terrey Bay and worked as a bilin­

gual teacher with the Salinas City

School District in California. The

couple have a young daughter, Daniela, and make their perma­

nent home in Salinas.

• Don Christie, BA '96, spent three years working in Japan,

but is now involved in culture

and education programs at the

Japanese Consulate in Toronto. He facilitates scholarships,

events and exchange programs and says "Bravo" to U of G's

Centre for International Pro­

grams. He says U of G is second among Ontario universities in

the number of graduates who

travel to Japan with the Japan

Exchange and Teaching Pro­

gram.

• Denis Dinsmore, B.Comm. '9 1, is regional director of

finance for Grand River Valley Newspapers, which include the

Kitchener- Waterloo Record,

Guelph Mercury and Cambridge Reporter. He and his wife, Eri­ca, live in Oakville. • Bethany Henderson, ADA '94, won the New Business Award as part of the Awards of Excellence of the Guelph Busi­ness Enterprise Centre. She owns Shades of Green, an inte­rior plantscaping company. • Neal Jones, BA '94, and Eri­ka Meipoom-Jones, B.Sc. '95,

were married in 1995 and now live in Calgary with their son, Liam, born Sept. 11, 2002. Classmates and friends can reach them at erika@ttw.net.

• Sean Karow, BA '93, began his career as a corporate video producer, but is now working as an independent filmmaker. Several of his short films are broadcast on Bravo!, Space, Pride Vision and Drive-in Clas­sics. He recently wrote and directed a long-format drama, The HomeComing, that was shot in Brighton, Ont. For more information about Karow Prime Films, visit the Web site www.karowprimefilms.com.

• Stephen Krajcarski, B.Sc. (H.K.) '97, and Heather Kraj­carski-Hunt, B.Sc.(Agr.) '97 and M.Sc. '00, live in Defiance,

Ohio, where he works at Gen­eral Motors and she is at home with their infant daughter, Pey­ton Faith. • Thomas Laszlo, ADA '94, is a winemaker at Heron Hill Win­ery on Keuka Lake, N.Y. He began his winemaking career after obtaining a Guelph diplo­ma in farm management and working as a vineyard manager

in Niagara-on-the-Lake. He then worked as an assistant wine­maker at Henry Pelham Estate Winery in St. Catharines, Ont. • Michael Letsche, BA '94 and MA '96, and Teresa Sweeney­Letsche, BA '91, live in Toronto with their son, Cole, born July 21, 2001. • Paul Luimes, B.Sc. '94 and M.Sc. '96, and Kathryn (Van Laren), ADA '97, were married 111 1998 and lived ll1

Lennoxville, Que., while he completed a PhD at McGill University. They recently moved to the United States, where Paul is a post-doctoral research asso­ciate at the University of Ver­mont. They have a son, Hem­mo, born in March 2001.

• Keltie MacNeill-Keller, B.A.Sc. '94, and Jeff Keller, BA '94, live in Exeter, Ont. He is a financial planner and partner in Wilkinson Steigmeier and Keller Financial Services, and she is a case manager with the Com­munity Care Access Centre for Huron County. They have two children - Aveleigh, 4, and Neilla, 1-and can be reached at jeff.keltie@cabletv.on.ca.

• Steven Majer, BA '94, is labour relations supervisor with

the Ford Motor Company at the Edison assembly plant in Edison, N.J. He is married to Anissa (Jones), BA '94. • Kari (Heinrichs) Norman, B.Comm. '93, and Peter Nor­man, MA '93, are happy to

announce the birth of Leif Jacob on July 4, 2002, a broth­er for two-year-old Kathleen. They live in Toronto and can be

reached by e-mail at knor­man@canada.com.

• Peggy Norris-Robinson, M.Sc. '94, is a consultant on seniors' issues with the New Brunswick Department of Family and Community Ser­vices. She and her husband,

Clarence, have two daughters, Brianna and Alyssa. • Jennifer (Pope) Parney, B.A.Sc. '94, has been a caseworker for Community and Social Services (Ontario Works) in Chatham­Kent for four years. She and her husband, Jeff, purchased a 100-acre beef cattle and cash -crop farm in the Ridgetown area in the summer of 2002. She can be reached by e-mail at jen­niferp@city.chatham-kent.on.ca. • Melanie Paterson, BLA '95, debuted in the American Le Mans auto racing series this year and competed at the Trois-Riv­ieres Grand Prix, the Grand Prix of Mosport and the season finale Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta, finishing third, second and third, respectively, in the LMP 675 class. She drove the #55 Ima­tion/Flamingo Resort Pilbeam MP84/Nissan with co-drivers Pierre Ehret and John Olson of Team Bucknum Racing.

• Lindsay Puddicombe, ADA '99, recently earned a certificate in winemaking from Niagara College and operates a small winery on her family's Winona, Ont., farm. Puddicombe Estate

Farms welcomes visitors throughout the summer and offers walking trails, a petting wo and a playground, as well as a restaurant and wine outlet.

• Vania Sukola, B.A.Sc. '98 , is on a one-year volunteer place­ment in Kazakhstan with Vol­untary Service Overseas, an international development agency that works through vol­unteers. Her goal is to improve services for disadvantaged women and children fleeing domestic violence in the Cen­tral Asian nation. Previously, she worked in Toronto as a shelter worker, most recently with the YWCA of Greater Toronto's Stop 86 shelter for young women in crisis. • Meredith Tunnicliff, B.Sc. '99, was married in July 2001 to a business analyst from England, and they make their home in Christchurch, Dorset. She is a project co-ordinator in a busi­ness technology department of JP Morgan Investor Services and says she looks forward to a long career in the field of cus­todial banking. • Tracy Vink, DVM '98, and Steve Taylor, BA '91, were mar­ried in November 2001 and live in Aylmer, Ont., where he is a greenskeeper and she works at a veterinary clinic. 2000 • Krista Hearn, BA '00, lives in

Guelph and teaches Grade 8 French immersion with the Upper Grand District School Board. • Linda O'Neill, MFA '00, recently held an exhibition of new paintings titled "Slow Float" at the Wynick/Tuck Gallery in Toronto. To view her artwork, visit the Web site

www. wynicktuckgallery. ca.

Did you major in European studies? Current and prospective students (and their parents) often ask about career opportunities for European studies graduates. To answer their queries, we'd like to hear about your career paths. Please write or e-mail and tell us what job(s) you found after graduating and what you're doing now. Grad names will be kept

confidential on request. Write to June Pearson, manager of alum-

ni programs, College of Arts, Day Hall Room 101; or Prof. Paola Mayer, co-ordinator of European studies, School of Lan­guages and Literatures, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N 1 G 2Wl. Send e-mails to jpearson@uoguelph.ca, pmayer@uo guelph.ca or eurostud@uoguelph.ca.

Winter 2003 35

Daniel Melanson, BA '89, died in a farm

accident July 3, 2002. A former journalist,

Melanson began his writing career as editor

of the Ontarian. After graduation, he worked at the Fergus- Elora News Express, then the

Guelph Mercury. He edited a computer mag­azine in Toronto for three years and worked

as a computer progranuner for Sybase Cana­da in Waterloo for six years. He and his wife,

Janet Spies, purchased her family's farm near

Alma in 2000 and moved there with their children: Riley, 4, and Emma, 3. Spies shares

a quote from one of the last editorials he

wrote for the Ontarian; "I tossed my post-secondary school

applications into the wind and ended up

here.

Four years later, there is only one thing

I can say for certain that's been learned: that is, the learning's only begun. Far

beyond all the facts and information., the

University teaches a way of thinking. Edu­

cation won't change a person; it will only

give them the opportunity to be changed.

Naively, I thought a degree was what

was going to give me a great under­

standing into the wonders and workings

of the world. School has become only the

first in a series of steps towards that

understanding.

University teaches one to analyse sci­

entifically, logically, reasonably, estheti­

cally, an entire wealth of knowledge and

skill. But it is nothing without putting

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OBITUARIES

these tools to work.

The greatest challenge facing students today is applying these tools by opening their minds to different ways of life, dif­

ferent ways of thinking, to constantly

challenge their own standards by the

standards of others. It's an obvious task, but one easily overlooked."

Jacqueline (Taggart) Cripps, DHE '57,

died Nov. 22, 2002, after a long struggle with cancer. She was the first profession­

al dietitian at the Linhaven Home for the

Aged in St. Catharines, Ont. She left to raise a family, but returned to Linhaven

in 1983 as craft co-ordinator and

remained there until her retirement in

1995. She also graduated from Niagara

College's gerontology program and was

active in 4-H clubs, the Girl Guides, and

the National Campers and Hikers Asso­ciation. She was on the board of Niagara

College, taught numerous craft courses

and was a life member of the Mac- FACS

Alumni Association.

David St. Aubin, M.Sc. '76 and PhD '89,

died Sept. 10, 2002. He was director of

research at Mystic Aquarium in Mystic,

Conn., and a renowned marine mammal

scientist respected for his research on bel­uga whales, narwhals and sea lions.

Lester Allen, DVM '51, Nov. 7, 2002

Murray Benner, ADA '47, May 6, 2002

Marjorie Berlin, DHE '39, Aug. 19, 2002

Kitty-Jane Bouma, B.Sc.(Agr.) '79,

Sept. 4, 2002

John Budd, ADA '52, Sept. 11, 2002

James Carmichael, ADA '53,

date unknown

Graham Child, DVM '82, Aug. 4, 2002

William Clifford, BSA '49,

Nov. 21, 2002 Harvey Cochran, BSA '40, Feb. 4, 2002

Allan Collins, BSA '55, July 27, 2002

Morrison Colville, BSA '32,

February 2002 Robert Couban, ADA '58, Oct. 7, 2002

Auleen Curry, DHE '31, Aug. 2, 2002

Thomas Daniel, ADA '47, June 3, 2002

Richard Dawe, B.Sc. '78, Aug. 7, 2002

Andrew Dixon, BSA '29, July 9, 2002

Bennett Duke, DVM '45, June 11,2002 John Duncan, B.Sc.(Agr.) '80,

Feb. 12, 2002 ·

Elsie Felker, DHE '40, Aug. 25, 2002

Timothy Findley, H.D.Le. '84,

June 20, 2002 Edward Gillan, BSA '53, Feb. 17,2002

William Hamilton, ADA '51, in 1995 Kenneth Hare, H.D.Sc. '96, Sept. 3, 2002

Frederick Hayward, BSA '50,

Nov. 27,2001 Frederick Hodgson, BSA '41,

June 14,2002 James Howitt, BSA '38, Nov. 2, 2002 Cecilia Ku, M.Sc. '70, Nov. 4, 2002

Peggy Linton, DHE '48, Sept 8, 2002

Lorraine Lukas, ADA '98, Aug. 9, 2002 Edward MacPhee, BSA '31,

Sept. 11,2001 Julien Martin, ADA '47, May 14,2002

Lawrence McDermott, BSA '39,

Aug. 14, 2002

Norman McLeod, M.Sc.(Agr.) '84,

Aug. 29, 2002 Jeremy Morgan, BA '99, Oct. 15,2001

Donald Mountjoy, BSA '51, August 2002

Dean Parrott, BSA '39, July 26, 2002 Helen Pearson, DHE '41, Nov. 5, 2002

Donald Pettit, BSA '49, Oct. 19, 2002

Margaretha Ramsay, BA '78, April 2002

Allan Reoch, BSA '62, July 2002

Elizabeth Ridler, DHE '34, Nov. 20, 2002

Mabel Sanderson, DHE '31, Aug. 6, 2002

Margaret Scott, DHE '47, Oct. 12, 2002

Evelyn Scrace, DHE '31, October 2001 Frank Shelton, BSA '41, Nov. 14,2002

George Sprankle, DVM '51,

Aug. 10, 2002 Chester Staniec, ODH '83, in 2000 Katherine Strite-Gatto, BA '70,

Aug. 20, 2002 Alice Stuart, DHE '35, June 8, 2002

Richard VanDamme, BSA '74, Aug. 5, 2002

Jack Waterhouse, ADA '33, Oct. 8, 2002

Joan Weatherly, BA '82, Aug. 30, 2002

Margaret Wilson, B.H.Sc. '68,

Sept. 27, 2002

Robert Wilson, DVM '62, Aug. 10, 2002

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

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IN THE EARLY YEARS oftheCollegeofBiological Science, Biobash was a popular pub/dance event that

raised funds to support the CBS student government

and gave biological science students a chance to social­

ize. Many friendships- and some marriages- trace

their first meeting to a Biobash event.

That's equally true for Saturday-night pubs hosted

by all U of G college groups during the 1970s. The most

popular venues were Creelman Hall or- as at this 1976

FROM THE ARCHIVES

Biobash- the Gryphon Room under the bleachers in

Alumni Stadium. The cinder block walls are still a defining feature of

the Gryphon Room. It is now used primarily for Athlet­

ics Department classes and club events, everything from

martial arts and ballroom dance lessons to badminton

and Gryphon football weight training. The walls are dec­

orated with U of G's football history, and alumn i and

fans often gather in the room after a home game.

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