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To Alumni and Friends
Professor
Donald F Forster
President Designate
As you are aware Dr WC Wi negard Presiden t o f the University o f Guelph las t year made known to the Universi t y co m shymun ity h is w ish to resign in June 1975 Yo ur Board of Governors acceded regretshyfully to his w ish recognizing that his disshytinguished leadership and personal vision had been in large measure responsible for developing during his presidency a tru ly integrated unilersity from the previous Federated Colleges
Under the University of Guelph Act y our Board is respon sib le for the appoin tment of the President A President ial Search Comshymittee rep resentative of a w ide range of university interests was entrusted with the tas k of seeking a new president That committee made a unanimous recom shymendation to th e Board The Boa rd of Governors has accepted the recommenshydation and has today designated Professor Donald F Forster as ou r next President and Vice Chancellor H is appo intment wi l l be effective Jul y 1 1975
Professor Forster is well known to some of you as the Vice-President and Provost of the University of Toronto He has held a succession o f important positions at that University In 1965 he w as appo inted at the age of th i rty-one Executive A ss istant to President Claude Bissell of the University of Toronto From 1965 to 1967 he served as Execu t ive Assistant to the Pres iden t f rom 1967 to 1971 as Vice Provost and Executive Assistant to the President In 1971 he was prom o ted to the position of Act ing Vice-President (Academic) and Provost In 1972 he was appo inted V iceshyPresident and Provost of the Un iversity of Toront o I n each of these seni or academic administrative positions his wor k has conshysistently been character ized as excellent Dur ing h is administrative career he has continued to t each economics in the Universitys Department of Political Economy
Professor Forster s t raining ach ieveshyments and exper ience admirab ly f it the needs of ou r un iversity at this t ime Professor Forster shares ou r ambi tions for t he university He appreciates our established strengths and the opportunities which lie before us We believe that he can provide leadership at a t ime wh en all of us are determined to achieve excellence in every aspect of the Unive rs i tys activities We believe that he can provide leadership at a time when stable enrol men t
and bud getary restrai nts present new challenges We bel ieve that Professor Forster has the profeSSi onal and personal qualit ies required to realize our aims and objectives
V ice-President Forster born in Toronto in 1934 was trai ned in t he fi eld of Political Science and EconomiCS He took his BA in 1956 at the University of Toron to and h is A M f rom Harvard University in 1958 In 1966 he was a Woodrow Wilson Fel low and in 1957 w as awarded an Imperial Oil Fel lowsh ip
His rapid rise at the University of T oronto through the ranks of Lecturer (1960) Assistant Professor (1 963 ) Assoc iate Professor (1965) to Professor in 1970 at the age of 36 is clear evidence of his accomp lishments as a teacher and his distincti on as a scholar He is co-editor (with MH Watki ns) of Economics Canada Toronto 1963 and co-author (with MA Bienefeld ) of Economics f or Busishyness T oronto 1964 He is co-puthor also w ith J W Pickersgill of three volumes of The MacKenzie K ing Record In addition he has published many articl es i n the field of econom ics and pol itical science From 1964 to 1967 he was Review Editor for the Canad ian Journa l of Economics and Poli tical Science From 1964 to 1970 he was Assist ant Editor of the Canadian A nnual Review In 19 70 he spent the su mmer as Economic A dviser to the Mi n ister of Economic A ffairs and Developmiddot ment Planning Government of Tanzania
In t he eight years of Dr Winegards presidency w e have seen remar kable change and growth on the campus - a vastly enlarged staff f aculty and student body the construct ion of many fine new buildings and m ost impor tant of all a marked growth in the range and quality of our academ ic p ro grammes President Winegard has built well and we thank him for it
In the immediate f uture the University must capi t alize on all these developments T he Board of Governors believes that President Designate Forster is eminently qualified t o leed the University i n making a unique contribu t ion in this new and challenging era
LU u ~Mlr-f Chairman Board of Governors
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UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH
GUELPH Autumn 1974 AWMNUS Volume 7 Number 4
PICTURE CREDITS
Page 23 Rosemary Clark pages 12 and 13 Aud io-visua l Services
UN IVER SITY OF GUELPH ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
HONORARY PRESIDENT Dr W C Wi negard
PRESI DENT Mr T R (Dick) Hilliard OAC 40
SEN IOR VICE-PRESIDENT Mrs J D (Virginia Shortt) Bandeen Mac 57
VICE-PRESIDENTS Mrs J B (Doreen Ke rn) Dawson Mac 54 Mrs R P (Valerie Mittler) Gilmor BA 72 Dr Wm C (Bill) Ha ck in g OVC 69 Mr J A (John ) Wil ey OAG 58
SECRETARY M rs A R (Shirley Ann McFee) Holmes Mac 62
DIRECTORS Mr P D (Peter) Anderson Well 68 Dr D A (Donald) Barn um OVC 41 r G R (George) Greenlees OAC 62 Mr M G (Mi lt) Greer OAC 41 Mrs M (Lind a Su lly) Keith Well 67 Mr J N (John ) Mayes OAC 69 M rs J R (Shirley Jackson) Robinson Mac 48 Dr Jean Rumney OVC 39 Dr D I Silver OVC 72 Mrs S W (Pat Damude) Squire Mac 63 Mr M C (Michael) Streib Well 69
EX-OFFI CIO DIRECTORS Mr R W (Robert) Close BSc 69 President Arts and Science s Alumni Association M r J A (John ) Ecc les OAC 40 President OA_C Al umni As sociation Dr H J (Howard) Neely OVC 51 President OVC Alumn i ASSOCiation M rs T G (Na ncy West) Sawyer Mac 62 President Mac-FACS Al um ni Assoc iation r T (Tim) Haw kins Pres ident UGC_SA Mr R (Robert) N ulsen President Universi ty of Guelph Students Assoc iation Mr J K (John) Babcock OAC 54 Di rector Alumni Affairs and Oevelopment
The Guelph Alumnus is published by the Dep3rtment of Alumni Affa i rs and Development in co-operation with the Depa rtmen t of Info rm ation UniverSity of Guelph
The Editorial Committee is comprised of Editor - David G Smith Publication s Officer Art Director- Lyle Docherty BA 72 J K Babcoc k OAG 54 Director of Alumni Affairs and Development Rosemary Clark Mac 59 As sistant Director Alumni Programs D l Waters t on Director of Information D W Jose OAC 49 Assistant Direc tor o f Informati on
The Editorial Advisory Board of the University of Guelph Alumni Association is compr ised of Mrs S W (Pat Damude) Squire Mac 63 chairman Dr Allan Aust in Robert Mercer OAC 59 G_ B Powe ll OAG 62 James Ru sk OAC 65 M rs J W (Joan Ellerington) Tanner Mac 57 Ex-offi cio J K Ba bcock OAG 54 T R Hi lliard OAC 40 Corresponding members D R Barol1 OAC 49 G M Carman OAC 49 and H G Dodds OAG 58
Undelivered cop ies should be returned to Alumni House University of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2Wl
Contents 2 To Alumni and Friends Professor Donald F Forster presently Vice-President and Provost of the University of Toronto will succeed Dr Winegard in June 1975 as President of th e Uni vers ity of Guelph
5 Landscaping Guelphs Campus Visitors to the Unive rs ity are always impressed at the harmony that exists between natural features and man-made struc tu res Rest assured the beauty of the Guelph campus is no accident
8 An Emigrant at OAC In 1880 a young man named Edward Ffolkes journeyed from England to Canada whe re he enrolled at OAC Using the viv id accounts from Ffolkes diary Professor A M Ross offers a detailed view o f student life at Guelph 94 years ago
12 Festival Week Celebrations The University of Guelp h witnessed the birthday party of the cen tury from July 6 to 14 as the Centennial Festival and Alumni Week highl ighted the year- long OAC anniversary ce lebrations
14 Intercollegiate Athletics - a Guelph Tradition From the early rough-and -tumb le days of the Aggies to the present-day streamlined tactics of the Gryphons intercollegiate athletics at Guelph has offered countless thril ls and memories
20 Campus highlights
23 Alumni Tour in Europe A traveling party of 44 alumni and friends enjoyed two weeks in seve ral European coun tries whe re they saw the s ights and visited with alumni now living abroad
Contributors to this issue Scott Tayl or is production coordi nator and staff wri ter fo r The Starting Line-up - Canadas only national inte rcollegiate sports magazine Professor A M Ross is ex-chairman of the Department of English and author of The College on the Hill- an historical account o f the Onta ri o Agricu Itu ral College s Ii rst one hundred years Cover design by Lyle Docheriy photograph by Dan Thorburn
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Landscaping Guelphs Campus
NATURE lovers struggle continually against the kind of urban development
thai destroys trees wildlife and natural land features Conservation groups picket and petition to save waterways and forests home owners plant trees to disguise barren and featureless urban housing developments and one determined surburbanite made headlines by perching in a tree in a vain attempt to save it
The Guelph campus provides refreshing testimony that development can be green lush and beautiful Scores of majestic trees some of them planted in the nineteenth century form a dignified setting for Guelphs eclecti c montage of contemporary and historical architecture
Of course the beauty of the Guelph campus didn t just happen It is the result of careful planning selective preservation meticulous grooming and co-operation from a team of experts Since development of the Universi ty began in 1965 individuals and committees within the Unive rsity have worked to preserve the best of the existing landscape in the face of rapid growth and construction
The Universitys Landscape Advisory Committee has saved many beautiful and unusual trees by instigating design changes and minor relocations of new building s The new building that will house the Schoo l of Hotel and Food Administration now under construction progressed through several design concepts The approved design will cause minimal damage to the stand of conifers along the northern edge of the campus To save the trees which date back to about the turn of the century the new structure is being built on an existing roadway Even the location of steam co nduits is calculated to minimize environmental damage
Landscape design on the campus goes back to the 1880s when the Professor of Agriculture William Brown commissioned landscape consultants to draw up a landscapi ng plan for the new campus The plan included scores of nati ve and
exo tic trees which in the years to come would serve as a teaching aid to students in horticulture botany and landscape architecture
Professor Brown himself in his capacity as farm manager supervised the planting of hundreds of trees on the campus Survivors of th at early planting include the double row of sugar maples on the east side of Gordon Street unfortunately the western row of maples have succumbed to the ravages of time and road salt Other botanical octogenarians include the spruces around Johnston Mills and Creelman Hall s
The planting of trees and sh rubs continued regularly until about 1960 and resumed again after completion of the University Master Development Plan in 1965 Drawn up by Project Planning Associates Ltd the plan lays out a general landscape to complement the placement of buildings services roads walkways and parking areas It includes recommendations for plant materials along the major roads and walkways Landscaping over the last eight years has followed these guidelines with minor revisions depending on availability of plant materials and ecological considerations About 5000 trees and shrubs have been planted in accordance with the recommendations
The master plan calls for a variety of plants and landscaping styles Contemporary walkways and plazas complement stately traditional plantings and the Universitys varied architectural styles Foliage ground covers wood chips and stones surround century-old trees and provide attractive lowshymaintenance areas to contrast with the acres of lawn Planting styles span the century - from the traditional areas around Johnston Hall to the ultra modern design around the OVCs new laboratory animal building The informal setting of evergreens and boulders in front of the soil science building contrasts with the calculated arrangement of planting boxes
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by the crop science building While the master plan specifies
landscaping along major walkways and roads it doesnt make specific recommendations for plantings around new buildings existing buildings and parking lots Such detailed planning depends on building design snow drifting considerations and traffic patterns
Because of the volume of construction that has taken place on campus since 1966 the demand for landscaping design has been considerable with most of it being done by off-campus consultants Project Planners for example designed the areas around the Arts building McLaughlin Library the Power Plant Crop Science building and Lambton Hall all of which constituted the first phase of major construction in 1965 and 1966 The same firm also designed the major walkways and plazas the pedestrian spines the main entry plaza south of the new University Centre and the plaza in front of the Food Science building
Much of the landscape planning is now done by Pat Tucker OAC 65 Head of Grounds Mr Tucker explains that with the major construction now com plete the volume of landscape planning is more manageable
All building plans and landscape designs must meet the approval of the Landscape Advisory Committee made up of landscape architects horticulturists and other campus representatives The committee makes extensive use of the campus tree inventory assembled in 1966 and updated every five years The location species size and condition of affected trees can be determined when locating and designing buildings walkways underground services and roads If the location of an outstanding mature tree conflicts with construction plans alternatives are considered This may involve moving the tree if possible rerouting a road path or underground services or slightly relocating buildings Obviously the campus development has taken its toll of mature
trees but replacements and new plantings will eventually mature
To the great envy of home gardeners new trees planted on the campus look like trees The spindly garden store specimens that home gardeners coax into treehood are rarely seen on campus Most of the trees planted on the main campus have spent five to six years in the nursery on Stone Road growing from toothpick size to a respectable 10 or 15 foot height
Because of the long-range development plan the university can purchase small trees that will be required for specific plantings in the future With the careful attention in the nursery the young trees quickly grow and fill out After five or six years of pampered nursery care a one-inch caliper tree could reach a height of 15 feet with a trunk diameter of five inches
Use of ground covers on campus follows an important trend in contemporary landscaping Many of these plants are propagated in the nursery from seed or cuttings Starters come from a variety of sources natural settings the old horticulture garden and commercial sources In addition the campus features ground covers such as grass wood chips and stones Ground covers when used properly facilitate maintenance discourage weeds help retain moisture and enhance appearances
Designing low-maintenance landscape settings doesnt eliminate the need for year-round care of the campuss 160 acres of lawn 40 acres of trees shrubs and hedges 45 acres of ground covers and flower beds 35 acres of parking lots 22 ac res of roads and 114 ac res of walkways Constant grooming is essential because the campus serves as an example to students visiting groups and home gardeners Most trees shrubs and ground covers are labelled so that students and Sunday strollers can make cross-campus jaunts informative and (hopefully) inspiring 0 -
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An Emigrant at OAC THE contribution which students of
British origin have made to life on the campus of the Ontario Agricultural College has never been examined Many old alumni would agree that this contribution was very considerable Year after year these students provided for example many star players for football teams entire cricket teams trained performers for dramatic productions officers for the Literary Society authors for the OAC Review the first Rhodes scholar interesting men in classes and finally a dash of cultural refinement against which the native born Aggie sometimes saw himself to disadvantage
It is not the purpose of this article to give a comprehensive account of the British students at the OAC over the past century Rather the article focuses upon one such student Edward G E Ffolkes from Hillington Lyn England My choice falls upon him not because he was outstanding but rather because he has left a fascinating account in his diary and letters of what life was like at the OAC in the years 1880-1881
When Ffolkes came to Guelph October 30 1880 the Ontario School of Agriculture and Experimental Farm had just become The Ontario Agricultural
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by Professor A M Ross
College and Experimental Farm James Mills in office since 1879 had just accepted the new title president The College Circular in 1880 showed the staff as follows James Mills MA President Professor of English Literature and Natural History William Brown (Gold medallist of the Scottish Arboricultural Society and of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland) Professor of Agriculture and Farm Superintendent J Hoyes Panton MA Professor of Chemistry E A A Grange VS Professor of Veterinary Science Alexander McTavish (First-Class Provo Certificate) Assistant Resident and Mathematical Master P J Woods Instructor in Farm Department James Forsyth Instructor in Horticultural Department James Mcintosh Instructor in Mechanical Department Thomas Johnston Bursar
Although the College was established primarily for the sake of the farmers of Ontario in 1880 it was failing to attract their sons In the Fall Term of that year 69 Ontario students registered
eight fewer than the year before A year later the number registering had slipped to 63 Meanwhile the number of nonshyresident students nearly doubled from 14 in 1880 to 26 in 1881 One-half of the 26 came from Britain For several years the non-resident student was a very important component of the College enrolment
How did it come about that OAG was apparently so well known in Britain so soon after its establishment in 1874 How did Edward Ffolkes at the age of 18 a student at the Haileybury Public School for Boys in Hertfordshire hear about this Canadian college One reasonable explanation may rest upon the publicity which surrounded William Brown the voluble farm superintendent when he went overseas to buy stock for the College he frequently spoke and wrote about the advantages of emigration to Canada Browns emphasis upon the OAC as being a place where a young man was taught practically appealed especially to those who planned to own land and farm it themselves
By his own admission the OAC was for Edward Ffolkes a means whereby he could learn the outline of farming and get hardy and all that sort of thing
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before going west to take up land in Manitoba Young Britons like Ffolkes may well have found William Browns account of the OACs educational theory and practice very attractive That it did not appeal to an Ontario farmers son in the 1880s was not at all surprising Ontario farm boys were all too aware of the practicalities of farming at home Neither Dr Mills Circular nor Browns speeches could convince them that the Ontario Agricultural College and Experimental Farm deserved their attendance in large numbers
At Guelph Ffolkes was initiated very quickly into a life which offered him very little if any chance to indulge in the pleasures he had known back home his pipe of tobacco his glass of beer the delights of the ballroom and concerts five oclock teas sailing billiards college suppers and evening dress At the OAC he found that waistcoat tie and collar are quite unnecessary not to say unheard of articles as of course we have not time to change after work He was furthermore puzzled about the prejudice which Canadians had against wearing knickerbockers Indeed he had come to College with much the wrong kind of clothing His Norfolk jacket was too good to wear for outside work What he needed was a pea jacket Aunt Fannys knitted waistcoat was suitable for swagger occasions but what he should have had was a woo llen waistcoat with sleeves h is tweed
trousers too had to be replaced by red by two goals As it was Saturday canvas overalls and trousers made of October 30 All Hallows Eve Edward pilot cloth went out singing for apples and
On his arrival in Guelph Edward was collected nearly half a bushel in a bag asked as soon as he got off the train On the following Monday he and other to play halfback in a football match new students wrote the matriculation against the town which the College won examinations in grammar composition
TIME TABLES FOn ICALL TERll (1 ST OCTomr 10 CIIRrSTB S) lSS0
Time taolp No1 gives the rout ine of th e di(fe rr nt ycnrs nnltl c1ivi ~ ion s for the first week tim~ hide No 2 the routine of til( ~iI)le yen r s nnd di is infls for t l second week No1 and L o 3 Hi iug ll t ll follnwcu nl tc lllulely f r l wcek eac h t llroughou t the term
TDIE TADLE No I - 1ST WEEK
1 ST YEAR-D1YlSIO oI II
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geography and arithmetic The results showed that Ffolkes doubled everyone elses marks getting 357 out of a possible 400
Like other students at the OA C Edward Ffolkes kept a diary it was a custom which the College seems to have Insisted upon for many years and severa l of these diaries have survived Edward s daily entries differ from those of his fellows in that his observations frequently go beyond the bare mention of routine chores and weather conditions On December 6 1880 for example he was thrashing in the experime ntal barn wheie all the specimens of grai n are tested bottled and labelled (before being sent) to the members of the Agricultu ra l Union which had been established in 1878 Like his contemporary Oscar Chase he reveals the practical austerities of his education getting up at 530 am to worlt four or five hours a day at two cents an hour learnin g to harness teams cleaning feeding an d littering cattle glazing double windows d itch digging up to his knees in freezin g water spreading manure acting as farm clerk (boss job) feeding the steam chaff-cutter assisting the shepherd pulping tu rn ips using a crosscut saw in the bush and chopping wood early in the morning for the farm s steam engine
Unlike many other students Edward Ffolkes cheerfully accepted the regul ations regarding student labour for they ensured that he would gain work expe rience which might serve him well in western Canada He did not however accept the academic work of the classroom in the same spirit He adm itted that it was both demanding and difficult and pointed out in one of his letters home that the two-year course at Guelph really req uired three years of attendance The lectures he asserted were decidedly hard work and took up too much of a students time Even though he had given up much sleep cramming for the Christmas examinations he found the papers ho rrible
Although he had intended to stay at the College over the Christmas vacation to improve his knowledge about farming Edward found his room so uncomfortably warm the scrub womans activities so energetic and the 930 pm curfew so confining that he thought the sooner he sloped the better He spent Christmas Eve in Toronto at Trinity College where he drank absent friends and tried to forget those horrible papers which he asserted had knocked him up a little During his first week in Toronto he went to four dances in the next to five
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I PAPERS SET AT THE SESSIONAL EXA)IINATIONS EASTER 1881
FIRST YEAJt
AGRICULTURE
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1 G ive a comprehensi ve sketch of wha t characLcris8~ the d iaer ent kinds of b rming ~~led grazing (Ltiry ing a nd mi xeuro d
2 Whit t gu idp~ us in conclud ing that a soil 1p1uirp~ to be drain cltl and how is dminage in a ll its J etai is most elli ciently co uudcu u nder two of the most opposite condition s j
3 State wh~ t is m e tnt by inj u(l icious com l)i uti on of m tedal in f ncc building and exph in Lhe telms severance damages ~ Cd l Wl ter d l ill and gradient in connection w ith road ma king
F[RST YEAR
PRACTICAL EXAMINATION IN LIVE STOCK
Exami1ler VM B ROWN
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1 Show the b pst and the poorest p oint~ of the youngest steer j udging by a Shortrshyhorn standar d
2 D escribe the whole getr-up of the other stee r fl om any point of cornparisolil 3 N ame t he brerding of t he cows wd show wherein the one inuicates superior
mi lking properties to the other
F IST YEAR
PRACTICJAL EXA~III~ATION IN LIVE STOCK
E xaminer V~ BROWgt
SaREP-L P oin t out and name t he ltliflelent b reeds croses a nd grades 2 middotWhich is the best wooled iJ cep a s regards uniformity a nd ~oundness 7 3 H ow would you h reed from amOJg the~e in order t o secure as neM as pos iiv lc
the wool of the Ier ino w il h t h( carcass of the Leicester and eonstitu Lion of the SOlllhshyltlown- giving reasons i ll (lelail l
F IRST YEA R
INORGANIC CHlDIISTRY
EXa1~i71e J HOYES PANTO~ MA
1 Name t he di ffe rent wtty ill which h eat may be transm itted and give examples of ~ch
2 Explain the terms base atom salt lrtten t hea t 3 G ive the pnpltlrlltiOll and p roperties of cholc (lump andjibull e damp 4 Vhat is lnea ll by 11 fo r llu la in chem ist ry 1 l e t he formulas for the three
titri()ls and di sti ll glli~l t hese C01U pOl llds fro l ewh other 5 N t10le three metals lig l1ttgt r thun wat r a llli ltive their p roperties 6 Vrite no tes on tlte cornrOUlrJ s Itpresente Iy Ca Co II X 0 N If 3 N il II U
0 with reference to the ir source ami ll t iJity 7 Give the prcp~mtion a nd p )or~lti es of n itroen 8 N ame the ehffe ren t form s ill w hich itira a nu alnmina occur a nd g ive t heir use 9 DeBcriue a lamp lame a nd explai n the action ot the Bnns~ n hurncr
The New Years custom of calling happiness of man and Resolved that amused him He knew of one gentleman chewing is injurious to health This last who called on as many as 130 different topic is interesting because Ffolkes families in Toronto between 11 00 am and 6 pm on that day
maintained that many of the students c hewed tobacco and their indiscriminate -Throughout his brief year at the OAC or badly aimed spitting made the walls
Edward Ffolkes proved to be a popular and floors in residence simply hoggish student He not only took part in sports On February 18 1881 Edward acted but also participated in the Literary the part of Larkspur in a Literary Society Society of which he became Viceshy entertainment In this connection he President Debating appealed to him and reminded his mother that all the he told his mother about the subjects Engl ishmen here are popular a fact Resolved that ambition is a virtue whi ch he may have thought would be a Resolved that vanity is conducive to the consolation to her when it came time
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EXGLISII CO~IPOSITIOX
1 E xpbin whl t is lD ean t by styl e J-ncl wklt you consider the cs~olltial properties of [ good s tyle
3 Stelte full y IIh1t is co mpreh0nckd U lhl cr the lle)(h of rcc nmc) and clefr~~s 3 Write all lttn ic-i 0 011 the pC(l1i Cl itie~ of p oetic di ction 4 Write a cOlllpui lio ll 011 one or (middotle fol lowing s ul1j ects
(1 ) Clilll1le (l ) Shcep-frming in C l l)(b (3) SYS lClll order and hlilless i1 bnning
(4) Who oer lhe ]l()rc oltllt1 i ~h to r eign Fantas tic helde ficru u1 in I
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fo r her second son Robert to come to the OAC
Robert Ffolkes however had decided that he wanted to farm in Iowa Edward quickly warned his mother of the dangers of revealing Roberts intentions to those in power at the College
Remember that if the authorities get so much as an inkling that Bob is thinking of farming in Iowa they will fire him out before he has been there a day Iowa being in the United States The other day the Agricultural lecturer asked one of the fellows to describe how he should proceed on taking up land Well I when I get down to Minnesota I shall first do so and so Lecturer Well the sooner you do it the better you can go and pack up you r trunks now and a team shall be ready to take you to the station for the eleven train They lent him money to get home and sent him away at once I had to kiss the Bible and swear an oath and sign a document I was going to remain four years in Canada after leaving the College when I sent in my request for admi ssion
What happened eventually to Robert is not known Although he did come to the OAC for the Fall Term of 1881 he did not stay any longer than his brother did Perhaps he too sought more practical farm training than the College was prepared to offer to a young man anxious to farm a thousand acres in the American West
Edward Ffolkes references to the City of Guelph are very limited Then as now town and gown were di sparate elements but in Edward s day they were geographically at least much more apart When Edward first came to Guelph a
boardwalk had just been laid to link the College grounds to the city limits It must have proved very convelient for the trips into town on Saturdays and on Sundays when Edward taught Sunday School in one of the fourteen churches which he had counted in the city On Saturdays he could attend entertainshyments in the City Hall or at the Drill Hall But it was Toronto that really appealed to Edward it was a splendid town even though he had seen a cart so badly stuck in the mud on Queen Street that it required five horses to pull it out
Despite the attractions of Toronto and the recommendation of a friend that he should take up banking rather than farming Edward Ffolkes determination to go to the northwest never wavered The dearest wish of his heart was to be self-supporting Whilst I am at Guelph College he told his mother it is impossible to be self-supporting for the simple reason the pay we get for working full hours (and I always do work full hours) does not cover board and washing which comes to $2 80 per week
Edward always remained skeptical of the practical value of much of what the College had to offer even of the outside work
In fact from what I can see the farming at Guelph is about the same as in England All the stock comes direct from England and the implements are exactly the same and it is hardly likely that in Manitoba there will be an assortment of implements for thrashing winnowing etc
Much better it was he thought to serve out an apprenticeship period with a successful farmer in the area where you intend to settle It was his opinion that his brother Bob cou Id no more leave the College after a three years course and
farm a thousand acres than fly to the moon Bob he said would have to rough It as foreman in some stock ranch for two years to get used to all the tricks of cattle dealing
By March 22 1881 Edward was in the midst of his Easter examinations and had made up his mind to leave the College to seek practical experience on a farm That he had given up his academic work is obvious from the results of his examinations of the five papers he seems to have written he received honour standing in agriculture and English composition and failed in organic chemistry veterinary anatomy and bookkeeping He never mentions these results in his letters home
That Edward Ffolkes may have underestimated the value of the training which the Ontario Agricultural College had to offer is reasonably certain However he never underestimated his own ability and determination to succeed as a farmer Two years after he left Guelph with the help of approximately two thousand dollars from home he was well established on a farm of 750 acres near Beaconsfield Manitoba with plans to start a shingle and saw mill in the spring The two years had however been desperately hard shyso hard that in his last letter to his mother September 23 1882 Edward Ffolkes spoke of those days of martyrdom and slavery His own account suggests that this was no exaggeration
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THE OAC Centennial Festival and Alumni Week was Guelphs birthday
party of the century The days and nights from July 6 to 14
were filled with something for everyone regardless of age or interest as many alumni and friends of the University of Guelph came and joined in the once-in-ashylifetime event
Some of the attractions included a parade of antique cars tractors steam engines horse drawn carriages and floats an Olde Tyme outdoor chuckwagon breakfast at Creelman Plaza a gigantic birthday cake six-horse hitches alumni reunions skits of the past visits from dignitaries and a beard-growing contest
Months of plann ing and hard work by the OAC Centennial Committee resulted in a wonderful week for all who attended the festivities
The celebrations were held to pay homage to the Ontario Agricultural College which was established in 1874 by the provincial Department of Agriculture and boasted 30 students who lived in a converted house on a 500-acre farm
Now with a student population hovering near 10000 and an 11 ~O-acre main campus the University of Guelph has sent leading farmers teachers research scientists and businessmen out into the world
The College has provided Canadas agriculture industry with continual research breakthroughs and fresh ideas while internationally it aids significantly in solving the agricultural problems of developing countries
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INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS a Guelph Tradition
by Scott Taylor
Opposite page Four members of the 1910-11 Ontario Agricultural College Basketball Team Left to r ight W Toole 11 W H Smith 12 manager E W White 12 C Main 11
Above An OAVC crest seen on athletic uniforms in the 1940s
ACCORDING to legend a Gryphon was a mythical creature represented by
the head and wings of an eagle the body of a lion and the tail of a serpent Since 1968 this fearful looking symbol that legend claimed to be the protector of the treasures of the Asiatic Scythis has been the guardian of the athletic teams that represent the University of Guelph
Today the College on the Hill has become one of the premier universities in the country in the field of sports competition The university is represented by a Canadian Intercollegiate Athletic
Union basketball champion an Ontario Universities Athletic Association team wrestling winner and an Ontario Womens Intercollegiate Athletic Association ice hockey titleist The list of team and individual crowns that have been won since OAC first participated in athletics as the Aggies is extensive indeed and not to recall in some manner the glorious history of athletics at Guelph first as OA C and MacDonald Institute then as OAVC and Mac and finally as the University of Guelph would be to neglect an important aspect of the centennial of the Ontario Agricultural College
On September sixth of this year the University of Guelph Gryphons opened another football season behind head coach Dick Brown a former professional gridiron player who this year was named to the Greatest Toronto Argonaut All-Star team in history The Manitoba Bisons flew in from Winnipeg and topped the Gryphons in the season starter by a fourteen-Io-six score as the passing combination of Brad Hall to Craig Holt the leading receiver in Gryphon history highlighted the evening for the Red and Gold
Through many seasons of success the losses have come as well In 1960 behind head coach Tom Mooney the passing combination was from Jim Wright 61 A to Dave Hume OAC 61 but it wasnt quite enough as the OAVC Football Redmen suffered through a bitter year of rebuilding the glories of the past The sports writer of the Libranni 1961 may have put it best in a piece entitled Great is the Fall He wrote
There are many quotations and sayings that express the difficulty of maintaining ones position at the top This year the Redmen found out just how true those expressions were Gone was the mighty invincible Redmen machine that
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flattened all the opposition without mercy Every team in the league sought to add to its own laurels and to the humiliation of the Redmen by proclaiming that they too could defeat those farmers from Guelph Due to this every team that the Redmen encountered was fired up for the encounter and played their best against our squad
However the thrill of victory has been at hand more often than not for the rugby football teams from Guelph In 1934 Head Coach and Athletic Director of the OAC Aggies F G Baldy Baldwin led a tough squad of men to the Canadian Intermediate Intercollegiate Rugby Championships for the second time W F Bill Mitchell OAC 38 quartershybacked the Aggies of 34 and today that same Bill Mitchell quarterbacks the
Above Intermediate Intercollegiate Football Champions 1949
Right Intermediate Intercollegiate Basketball Champions 1925-26 Left to right Prof A W Baker 11 coach J W G McEwan 26 J E Ridley 27 J R Currey 29 L M Schenck 26 captain L Young 27 R Graham 29 Geo Thompson 27 H Potter A T Rintoul 26 manager
entire sports program at the University of Guelph as Director of Athletics Included on that same team which incidentally did not enter the Ontario Rugby Football Union playdowns because of bad weather and approaching exam inations was a hard-nosed middle known as Haley Hales He is probably better remembered by the people in Guelph and Wellington Riding as Alfred Dryden Hales OAC 34 Member of Parliament who stepped down this past election after more than sixteen years of political service
The names of players and their eventual careers after graduation is a vast area to research Athletes who have finished their studies at Guelph have gone into various fields but a few of them have remained as outstanding athletes in the professional ranks The most recent of these are football kicker Gerry Organ BSc(PE) 71 of the Ottawa Rough
Riders and hockey netminder Ken lockett BA 72 As anyone who follows Canadian sporting fortunes knows former Gryphon Organ is the reigning Schenley Award Winner as the most outstanding native Canadian in the Canadian Football league Fewer people may know that lockett 1971 s All-Canadian hockey goaltender former mem ber of the Canadian World Student Games Team and of course a graduate Gryphon has recently been signed to a pro contract with the Vancouver Canucks of th e National Hockey league
Other Guelph athletes of the past have continued their careers at top amateur level s A prime example of this is Grant Maclaren In 1969 Maclaren put on a near one-man show at the CIA U cross-country championships He earned himself the national individual title and at the same time was backed up
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by a superb University of Guelph harrier contingent that captu red the CIAU team championship as well Today Maclaren is still a world-class distance runner who will no doubt represent Canada at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal
Another Gryphon who may be an Olympic Team member is basketball star Bob Sharpe last season Sharpe was an OUA A All-Star an All-Star team member at the CIAU championships as well as the lalter tournament s Most Valuable Player This past summer Sharpe got his first taste of international competition as a player on the Canadian National Mens Basketball Team - a team that gave Canada its best performance since the 1936 Olympics when our nations finest lost a gold medal to the United States by a 19-5 score on an outdoor court and in a driving rainstorm
Rugger at Guelph
International competition is not restricted to track stars and basketball players however This winter the University of Guelph will have four varsity wrestlers with foreign experience behind them Richard Deschatelets represented Canada in Europe this past summer while Bob Price and Tom Bethune travelled with the country s B team on a tour of the United States In 1974 AI Tschirhart was a member of Canadas World Student Games Team in Moscow and when one adds the name of OUA A champion Ross Barrable to the formidable list of four there appears to be little doubt that Guelph will repeat as A M Porter Trophy winners
Perhaps the name of this piece of silverware itself is an indication of the success of the wrestling program at Guelph The Porter Trophy was presented to the Canadian Intercollegiate Athletic
Union by A M Porter OAC 20 the Registrar of the Ontario Agricultural College Guelph Canada as a token of his active interest in University Wrestling since 1920 That is what is inscribed on the prize that is now the sought-after conclusion to the OUAA wrestling season It is appropriate that OAVC shyUniversity of Guelph teams have won this trophy seven times and are presently showing it off in the trophy case at the Athletics Centre (The University of Western Ontario has won it alone six times but on two other occasions has shared it with the University of Waterloo) From Coach Wright OAC 33 in the thirties to Coach Schlegal in the forties through Coach Glen Peister OAC 50 in the seasons of the fifties with Coach Bob Heinrich OAC 5SA in the early sixties and now in the seventies with highly-touted Londo Iacovelli at the helm
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Aggie Gryphon and Redm en grapplers have been the prime target for the opposition eve ry year
One sport at Guelph th at has just attained a position of national prominence is the game of basketball Behind people like Sharpe AI Grunys Denni s Krawchuk and graduating seniors Paul Allen BSc (HK)74 and Phil Smith BA 74 the University won a national championship in 1974 When Garney Henley took over as head coach however the University of Guelph posted a depressing one winshy17 loss season Many times during the next few years Coach Henley was fortunate to have a successful professional foo tball ca reer with the Canadian Football League s Hamilton Tiger-Cats to conso le him However through hard work and with players like Mark Walton BA 72 Chester Graham BA 73 and Wayne Morgan BA 72 Henley and his assistants Doug Dodd and Dic k Brown have built a superb prog ram
In 1956 howeve r with Tom Mooney at the helm a group of ball players had the words Take Off as an inspiration and were fighting to ga in acceptance into senior interc ollegiate ranks Led by Murray Atkinson OAC 60 who later became the firs t two-tim e win ner of the Athlete of the Year Award and by Bill Dimson OAC 57A whose subsequent death in a ca r acc ident a few years later was a bl ow for all who knew him the OAVC Aggies fini shed in second place at the intermediate level losing a heartbreaking 56-52 dec ision to the eventual c hampion Weste rn Dimsons name has not been forgotten at Guelph a plaque presented annually in his honour goes to the schools Most Valuable Baske tball Pl aye r Am ong the winners of the Bill Dimson Memorial Award are present holder Bob Sharpe and Guelphs first official All-Canadian basketball player Wayne Morgan
Top An OAC swim team resplendent in their tank suits
Above University of Guelph wrestling squad coached by Londo Iacovelli
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Awards and particularly AII-Canadtan honours are not uncommon among the present group of athletes at Guelph In addition to Ken Lockett in hockey and Morgan in basketball John Kelley and Dave lane of this years gridiron Gryphs were named All-Canadians in 1973
locketts hockey heroics were displayed when the University of Guelph was not a power on the ice but this season the Gryphons and their young coach Bud Folusewych are favoured to take serious aim at the University of Waterloos national crown led by little Adam Brown who broke all the scoring records in Ontario college hockey last season forward Bill Hanson defenceman Doug McKay and goaltender David Moote - all OUAA AII-Starsshythe Gryphons will have a good opportunity to relive past Gryphon glories Such a year was 1960 when coach AI Singleton and athletes such as Max ONeil OAC 61 Wayne lopp and Bill German OAC 61 ousted Ryerson in a semi-final playoff to earn a birth in the championship round against the powerful men from McMaster
Hockey football basketball and wrestling certainly arent the only sports that have provided Guelph with athletic laurels Cross-country teams boxing squads and golf teams have all brought hardware home to the trophy case at Guelph as today the school participates in 17 sports at the intercollegiate level The facilities for all these activities at Guelph are not totally adequate and only the football stadium could be described as outstanding Alumni Stadium opened officially on October 17 1970 is a 4100 seat complex that is not only home for the football Gryphons but houses the large multi-purpose Gryphon Room where accommodation can be made for karate wrestling and other related activities It is truly the highlight of the athletics complex on the Guelph campus
There are people on the staff and faculty at Guelph who although they dont fly the banner of the Gryphon still aid in the publics knowledge of athletics at the University of Guelph Librarian Yvonne Saunders who is a British Commonwealth Games gold medalist and Professor Abigail Hoffman of the Political Studies Department who has represented Canada in countless track events at the international level including the Olympic Games spread the name of the university in a way that is unequalled by any other non-academic activity
It is interesting to note that these two non-student athletes are both women The University of Guelph has a successful womens program as well and it has certainly grown since 1952 when Margaret Dix coached almost every sport at MacDonald Institute
With Shirley Peterson co-ordinating intercollegiate athletics and coaching ice hockey Val (Millar) Freeman BSc (PE) 70 heading the intramural program and coaching basketball and Joni Johnson Anne Stallman and Pam Wedd BSc(HK) 74 taking the coachs reins in a variety of activities the ladies at Guelph have a good foundation for fun and success
The most hardware to come in womens athletics in recent years has been on the hockey rink Mrs Petersons pucksters have captured the Ontario Women s Intercollegiate Athletics Association crown six times A record unequalled in the last decade
At present the ladies participate in 12 sports at the intercollegiate level and in the past year the most highly touted athlete has been field hockey player Marg Ellis Mrs Ellis is presently a member of the Ontario Provincial Field Hockey Team and she would like to earn a spot on the national squad in the near future
With the Olympic Games drawing near and the Ontario Agricultural College one hundred years old this year the young men and women who participate in sports at Guelph will be working to spread the Guelph name in Montreal in 1976 Names like Sharpe Deschatelets Saunders and Maclaren proudly reflect the glories of the past In old Librannis in yellowed newspaper clippings and on the nameplates of trophies people such as Goomer Raithby OAC 51 Poker Mills OAC 34 and Bill Dimson will always be remembered as viial cogs in the OAVC Aggie athletic machine 0
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campus highlights Housing shortage shortlived Early reports on the housing situation at Guelph were rather bleak however A W Mcinnis Director of Residences recently reported that the present situation is not serious and that all students have found permanent accommodation A student governmentshysponsored tent city saw very little use (approximately 10 students slept in it) as did special emergency housing in the Gryphon Room of the stadium (no-one slept there)
Tent City near the East Residences
The lack of off-campus student housing this year is directly connected to a general scarcity of housing in the city explained Mr Mcinnis He noted that because of high mortgage rates those who formerly rented their premises have ceased renting and are now selling their property In addition Guelphs attractive location vis-a-vis Toronto has led commuters to settle in many of the new subdivisions and residents who might have moved cannot afford the higher housing prices This is particularly applicable to those Guelph residents living in the downtown sections of the city which contain older but extremely large homes When sold these houses are often converted into
apartments but with fewer sales the predictable result is fewer apartments
A visit to city hall by residence officials confirmed that the off-campus situation will not improve in the immediate future and high mortgage interest rates coupled with high construction costs makes residence construction a high economic risk
The problem became acute this year due to a sharp increase in the number of students desiring residence accommodation compared with Sept 1973
Last year at mid-August approximately 2200 seniors had accepted rooms in residence By May 15 of this year more than 2200 seniors had been placed in residence and with places reserved for 1760 freshmen the Universitys 3900 beds were taken by mid-May
The 68 co-op apartments were also filled early for the fall semester Many students took out a years lease instead of an eight month agreement resulting in an extremely low turnover - less than 20 per cent from a year ago
Similar difficulties were evident at Wellington Woods the University s married students residence located on Stone Road Last year there were 36 vacancies for the fall semester this year that figure was cut to 12
Despite these figures the 1974 student housing picture in Guelph is now under control - until next fall
Freshmen enjoy a hayride tour around the University campus
Orienteering grant The University of Guelph often referred to as the home of orienteering in North America will benefit by a grant of more than $42000 made to the Canadian Orienteering Federation by Health and Welfare Canada The Honourable Marc Lalonde gave notice of the grant to Professor A Sass Peepre of Human Kinetics Professor Peepre is one of the founders of the Federation and is presently the president of the group
Orienteering is becoming very popular in Canada and is now taught at all levels in many schools The sport uses map and compass to find a specified route through the countryside and attracts thousands to meets in Europe
Enrolment increases Guelph s largest complement of students began classes in September Full-time enrolment has increased 11 per cent over last year Full-time undergraduate enrolment stood at 9100 on September 10 with approximately 550 full-time graduate students expected to register Part-time undergraduates number 600 part-time grad students about 150
A red-and-white orientation tent was erected outside the University Centre to provide a focal pOint for new students Orientation featured free concerts football games hayride tours of the campus and meetings with deans and academic counsellors
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Choir returns from tour The 42-member University of Guelph Choir returned to Guelph after several wellshyreceived performances in the Maritimes
The choir performed in Charlottetown New Glasgow Sydney Antigonish Halifax Dartmouth Yarmouth and at Acadia University in Wolfville under the direction of Nicholas Goldschmidt and assistant conductor Nickolaus Kaethler with accompanist Gerald Manning recitalist Denise Turcotte and soloist Robert Missen Along with works by Handel Bach Rossini Cherubini Schubert and Vaughan Williams the choir performed Canadian folk songs arranged by music professor Derek Healey
One of the main reasons for going on tour is to improve the quality of the choir commented Dean Murdo MacKinnon College of Arts The tour of Scotland in 1973 had a marked effect on the group so the 1974 tour of the Maritimes was a natural development Proof of the new level attained is that this year at the end of the tour the choir was asked by the CBC in Halifax to make a recording of a considerable portion of Handels Passion
which will be broadcast at the Easter season in 1975
Before the choir departed for the Maritimes an advance notice was sent to University of Guelph alumni in the area stating the times and places where the choir was to appear The results were extremely satisfying to the choir in that several alumni turned out for the performances
The choir experienced a rather unexpected thrill when it visited Fortress Louisburg in Cape Breton Island and was asked to record ten minutes of religious music in the beautiful chapel which is part of the historic fortress being re-built by the Government of Canada Consequently when visitors to the chapel hear quiet choral music in the background theyre listening to the University of Guelph Choir singing chorales of J S Bach
The choir was greeted by an enthusiastic Halifax audience when it performed in Rebecca Cohn Auditorium at Dalhousie University A critic for the Halifax Chronicle Herald commented Right from the opening of this work the
audience could hear a well-trained professional choir The singers close attention to every move of Director Goldschmidt was a joy to see and hear
The choi r sang before an overflow audience in Zion Baptist Church in Yarmouth on the opening day of the International Tuna Fish Festival A Yarmouth critic wrote The audience which gave the visitors two standing ovations was deeply moved by the majestic performance of the Passion of Christ by Handel The choir provided dramatic contrasts and excellent control of the exciting fugues which are characteristic of Handel
The program was presented once more after the choi rs retu rn They sang in St Andrews United Church Sudbury on Sunday October 6
Ottawa chapter barbecue was a success The Ottawa chapter of the University of Guelph Alumni Association held a family barbecue on Saturday September 14
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at the Kemptville College of Agricultural Tec hnology
A group of 125 adults and c hildren took part in a variety of games followed by a tour of the expe rimental ba rns and orchards Then everyone enjoyed a chicken barbecue Prizes for the ad ults were quarts of Ontario maple syrup and two pounds of honey
Board appoints new members Professor James Archibald OVC 49 Richard Birc hal l Kenneth Hammill OAC 51 and John Wood began their three-year terms on July 1 as new members on the Unive rsi ty s Board of Governors
Professor Archibald 55 a senate appointee to the board graduated from the Ontario Veterin ary COllege with a DVM degree in 1949 and in 1951 was granted a Master of Veterinary Science Professor Archibald has been on the OVC faculty since 1949 and was appOinted professor and chairman of clinical studies in 1963 a posi tion which he st ill holds
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Ric hard Birchall 59 is president of the Canadian National Sportsmen s Show and the Toronto International Boat Show In addition he is chairman of the Ontario Waterfowl Research Foundation which adm ini sters the Kortright Waterfow l Park in Gue lph He is a director of the
North American Wildlife Foundation and a Canadian director of the World Wildlife fund He is also a mem ber of the Conserva ti on Council of Ontario and vice-chairm an of the Del ta Waterfowl Research Station com mi ttee in Manitoba Mr Birchall is a mem be r of the inner council of the Wildfow l Trust in Slim bridge England and sits on the faculty of forestry advisory council o f the University of Toronto He has been a frequent visitor to campus in connection with his interests in several research projects being carried out in OAC OVC and the College of Biological Sc ience
Ken Hammill a 1951 graduate o f the Ontario Agricultural College is viceshypresident and a director of Omark Canada Ltd in Guelph Mr Hammill has been a member o f Guelph c ity council since 1962 and has served on the f in ance personnel parks and recre ation committees He has also been a ci ty representative on the Grand River Conservation Authority
John Wood 34 studied at the University of Western Ontario where he graduated in 1964 as a gold medal ist in business administrat ion He is presently vice-president (manufac turin g) and a director of the N C Wood Company in Gue lph He is a member of the Guelph Chamber of Commerce the Guelph Industrial and Economic Deve lopment Commission and the Guelph Rotary Club Mr Wood also se rved as c hairman of the Canadi an government appliance miss ion to Europe in 1968
Aggies took over September 23-28 Aggie Week 74 was filled with the usual merriment and competition that stems from a long-standing OAC tradition
Anim al scientist Bob Forshaw easily won the faculty trophy for cow milking with 35 ounces in one minute defeating other competitors suc h as President Winegard who milked two ounces last years champion Mike Jenkinson OAC 63 with 11 ounces and Professor Richard Vosburgh acting dean of Family and Consumer Studies with three ounces
Animal sc ient ist Roge r Hacker won the hog calling contest followed by Dr H 0 Branion assistant to the president
who tied for second place with agricultural economist Phil Wright
Monster ball competitions bed races chariot races and tugs of war brought out many faculty and students for the annual Aggie Games won bY OAC Class 77
Former chairman honoured The Department of Animal and Poultry Science recently honou red its former chairman Professor J C Rennie OAC 47 who left the campus to become executive direc tor of the education and resea rch division of the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food
Pro fessor Renni e jo ined the faculty in 1952 and was chairman from 1965 to 1971 Du ring the past yea r he served as acting dean of research during the absence on sabbatical of Dean W E Tossell OAC 47
Alma Mater Fund results encouraging Fund Chairman Neil Darrach reports that the Alma Mater Fund has received $120330 towards its $160000 objecti ve
A total of 2396 gifts have been received from alumni faculty professional staff and other suppo rters of higher education Gifts from the Guelph campus amounting to $27247 have reached a new high and exceed the final tabulat ion of $25977 achieved in last years fund drive on the campus
The Century Club Division of the fund reports that 357 founding members have renewed their memberships at this time with gifts of $100 or more In addition 112 new founding members have subscribed to the Century Club
Mr Darrach stated that donors who make leadership gifts to the Alma Mater Fund Century Club in 1974 and the two years preced ing the Centennial will be known as foundin g members He also stated th at the Challenge Grant made by Continental Can Company of Canada Ltd is attracting many new and increased gifts Under the term s of the Challenge Grant new girts and the amount of increase over a previous annual gift will be matched by the Challenge Grant to a max imum of $5000
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(collection of international prints) McLaughlin Library Main Floor Gallery Monday through Saturday 9 am to 10 pm Sunday 1 pm to 10 pm
December 27 Centennial 74 Finale University Centre 830 pm to 1 am
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As you are aware Dr WC Wi negard Presiden t o f the University o f Guelph las t year made known to the Universi t y co m shymun ity h is w ish to resign in June 1975 Yo ur Board of Governors acceded regretshyfully to his w ish recognizing that his disshytinguished leadership and personal vision had been in large measure responsible for developing during his presidency a tru ly integrated unilersity from the previous Federated Colleges
Under the University of Guelph Act y our Board is respon sib le for the appoin tment of the President A President ial Search Comshymittee rep resentative of a w ide range of university interests was entrusted with the tas k of seeking a new president That committee made a unanimous recom shymendation to th e Board The Boa rd of Governors has accepted the recommenshydation and has today designated Professor Donald F Forster as ou r next President and Vice Chancellor H is appo intment wi l l be effective Jul y 1 1975
Professor Forster is well known to some of you as the Vice-President and Provost of the University of Toronto He has held a succession o f important positions at that University In 1965 he w as appo inted at the age of th i rty-one Executive A ss istant to President Claude Bissell of the University of Toronto From 1965 to 1967 he served as Execu t ive Assistant to the Pres iden t f rom 1967 to 1971 as Vice Provost and Executive Assistant to the President In 1971 he was prom o ted to the position of Act ing Vice-President (Academic) and Provost In 1972 he was appo inted V iceshyPresident and Provost of the Un iversity of Toront o I n each of these seni or academic administrative positions his wor k has conshysistently been character ized as excellent Dur ing h is administrative career he has continued to t each economics in the Universitys Department of Political Economy
Professor Forster s t raining ach ieveshyments and exper ience admirab ly f it the needs of ou r un iversity at this t ime Professor Forster shares ou r ambi tions for t he university He appreciates our established strengths and the opportunities which lie before us We believe that he can provide leadership at a t ime wh en all of us are determined to achieve excellence in every aspect of the Unive rs i tys activities We believe that he can provide leadership at a time when stable enrol men t
and bud getary restrai nts present new challenges We bel ieve that Professor Forster has the profeSSi onal and personal qualit ies required to realize our aims and objectives
V ice-President Forster born in Toronto in 1934 was trai ned in t he fi eld of Political Science and EconomiCS He took his BA in 1956 at the University of Toron to and h is A M f rom Harvard University in 1958 In 1966 he was a Woodrow Wilson Fel low and in 1957 w as awarded an Imperial Oil Fel lowsh ip
His rapid rise at the University of T oronto through the ranks of Lecturer (1960) Assistant Professor (1 963 ) Assoc iate Professor (1965) to Professor in 1970 at the age of 36 is clear evidence of his accomp lishments as a teacher and his distincti on as a scholar He is co-editor (with MH Watki ns) of Economics Canada Toronto 1963 and co-author (with MA Bienefeld ) of Economics f or Busishyness T oronto 1964 He is co-puthor also w ith J W Pickersgill of three volumes of The MacKenzie K ing Record In addition he has published many articl es i n the field of econom ics and pol itical science From 1964 to 1967 he was Review Editor for the Canad ian Journa l of Economics and Poli tical Science From 1964 to 1970 he was Assist ant Editor of the Canadian A nnual Review In 19 70 he spent the su mmer as Economic A dviser to the Mi n ister of Economic A ffairs and Developmiddot ment Planning Government of Tanzania
In t he eight years of Dr Winegards presidency w e have seen remar kable change and growth on the campus - a vastly enlarged staff f aculty and student body the construct ion of many fine new buildings and m ost impor tant of all a marked growth in the range and quality of our academ ic p ro grammes President Winegard has built well and we thank him for it
In the immediate f uture the University must capi t alize on all these developments T he Board of Governors believes that President Designate Forster is eminently qualified t o leed the University i n making a unique contribu t ion in this new and challenging era
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GUELPH Autumn 1974 AWMNUS Volume 7 Number 4
PICTURE CREDITS
Page 23 Rosemary Clark pages 12 and 13 Aud io-visua l Services
UN IVER SITY OF GUELPH ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
HONORARY PRESIDENT Dr W C Wi negard
PRESI DENT Mr T R (Dick) Hilliard OAC 40
SEN IOR VICE-PRESIDENT Mrs J D (Virginia Shortt) Bandeen Mac 57
VICE-PRESIDENTS Mrs J B (Doreen Ke rn) Dawson Mac 54 Mrs R P (Valerie Mittler) Gilmor BA 72 Dr Wm C (Bill) Ha ck in g OVC 69 Mr J A (John ) Wil ey OAG 58
SECRETARY M rs A R (Shirley Ann McFee) Holmes Mac 62
DIRECTORS Mr P D (Peter) Anderson Well 68 Dr D A (Donald) Barn um OVC 41 r G R (George) Greenlees OAC 62 Mr M G (Mi lt) Greer OAC 41 Mrs M (Lind a Su lly) Keith Well 67 Mr J N (John ) Mayes OAC 69 M rs J R (Shirley Jackson) Robinson Mac 48 Dr Jean Rumney OVC 39 Dr D I Silver OVC 72 Mrs S W (Pat Damude) Squire Mac 63 Mr M C (Michael) Streib Well 69
EX-OFFI CIO DIRECTORS Mr R W (Robert) Close BSc 69 President Arts and Science s Alumni Association M r J A (John ) Ecc les OAC 40 President OA_C Al umni As sociation Dr H J (Howard) Neely OVC 51 President OVC Alumn i ASSOCiation M rs T G (Na ncy West) Sawyer Mac 62 President Mac-FACS Al um ni Assoc iation r T (Tim) Haw kins Pres ident UGC_SA Mr R (Robert) N ulsen President Universi ty of Guelph Students Assoc iation Mr J K (John) Babcock OAC 54 Di rector Alumni Affairs and Oevelopment
The Guelph Alumnus is published by the Dep3rtment of Alumni Affa i rs and Development in co-operation with the Depa rtmen t of Info rm ation UniverSity of Guelph
The Editorial Committee is comprised of Editor - David G Smith Publication s Officer Art Director- Lyle Docherty BA 72 J K Babcoc k OAG 54 Director of Alumni Affairs and Development Rosemary Clark Mac 59 As sistant Director Alumni Programs D l Waters t on Director of Information D W Jose OAC 49 Assistant Direc tor o f Informati on
The Editorial Advisory Board of the University of Guelph Alumni Association is compr ised of Mrs S W (Pat Damude) Squire Mac 63 chairman Dr Allan Aust in Robert Mercer OAC 59 G_ B Powe ll OAG 62 James Ru sk OAC 65 M rs J W (Joan Ellerington) Tanner Mac 57 Ex-offi cio J K Ba bcock OAG 54 T R Hi lliard OAC 40 Corresponding members D R Barol1 OAC 49 G M Carman OAC 49 and H G Dodds OAG 58
Undelivered cop ies should be returned to Alumni House University of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2Wl
Contents 2 To Alumni and Friends Professor Donald F Forster presently Vice-President and Provost of the University of Toronto will succeed Dr Winegard in June 1975 as President of th e Uni vers ity of Guelph
5 Landscaping Guelphs Campus Visitors to the Unive rs ity are always impressed at the harmony that exists between natural features and man-made struc tu res Rest assured the beauty of the Guelph campus is no accident
8 An Emigrant at OAC In 1880 a young man named Edward Ffolkes journeyed from England to Canada whe re he enrolled at OAC Using the viv id accounts from Ffolkes diary Professor A M Ross offers a detailed view o f student life at Guelph 94 years ago
12 Festival Week Celebrations The University of Guelp h witnessed the birthday party of the cen tury from July 6 to 14 as the Centennial Festival and Alumni Week highl ighted the year- long OAC anniversary ce lebrations
14 Intercollegiate Athletics - a Guelph Tradition From the early rough-and -tumb le days of the Aggies to the present-day streamlined tactics of the Gryphons intercollegiate athletics at Guelph has offered countless thril ls and memories
20 Campus highlights
23 Alumni Tour in Europe A traveling party of 44 alumni and friends enjoyed two weeks in seve ral European coun tries whe re they saw the s ights and visited with alumni now living abroad
Contributors to this issue Scott Tayl or is production coordi nator and staff wri ter fo r The Starting Line-up - Canadas only national inte rcollegiate sports magazine Professor A M Ross is ex-chairman of the Department of English and author of The College on the Hill- an historical account o f the Onta ri o Agricu Itu ral College s Ii rst one hundred years Cover design by Lyle Docheriy photograph by Dan Thorburn
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Landscaping Guelphs Campus
NATURE lovers struggle continually against the kind of urban development
thai destroys trees wildlife and natural land features Conservation groups picket and petition to save waterways and forests home owners plant trees to disguise barren and featureless urban housing developments and one determined surburbanite made headlines by perching in a tree in a vain attempt to save it
The Guelph campus provides refreshing testimony that development can be green lush and beautiful Scores of majestic trees some of them planted in the nineteenth century form a dignified setting for Guelphs eclecti c montage of contemporary and historical architecture
Of course the beauty of the Guelph campus didn t just happen It is the result of careful planning selective preservation meticulous grooming and co-operation from a team of experts Since development of the Universi ty began in 1965 individuals and committees within the Unive rsity have worked to preserve the best of the existing landscape in the face of rapid growth and construction
The Universitys Landscape Advisory Committee has saved many beautiful and unusual trees by instigating design changes and minor relocations of new building s The new building that will house the Schoo l of Hotel and Food Administration now under construction progressed through several design concepts The approved design will cause minimal damage to the stand of conifers along the northern edge of the campus To save the trees which date back to about the turn of the century the new structure is being built on an existing roadway Even the location of steam co nduits is calculated to minimize environmental damage
Landscape design on the campus goes back to the 1880s when the Professor of Agriculture William Brown commissioned landscape consultants to draw up a landscapi ng plan for the new campus The plan included scores of nati ve and
exo tic trees which in the years to come would serve as a teaching aid to students in horticulture botany and landscape architecture
Professor Brown himself in his capacity as farm manager supervised the planting of hundreds of trees on the campus Survivors of th at early planting include the double row of sugar maples on the east side of Gordon Street unfortunately the western row of maples have succumbed to the ravages of time and road salt Other botanical octogenarians include the spruces around Johnston Mills and Creelman Hall s
The planting of trees and sh rubs continued regularly until about 1960 and resumed again after completion of the University Master Development Plan in 1965 Drawn up by Project Planning Associates Ltd the plan lays out a general landscape to complement the placement of buildings services roads walkways and parking areas It includes recommendations for plant materials along the major roads and walkways Landscaping over the last eight years has followed these guidelines with minor revisions depending on availability of plant materials and ecological considerations About 5000 trees and shrubs have been planted in accordance with the recommendations
The master plan calls for a variety of plants and landscaping styles Contemporary walkways and plazas complement stately traditional plantings and the Universitys varied architectural styles Foliage ground covers wood chips and stones surround century-old trees and provide attractive lowshymaintenance areas to contrast with the acres of lawn Planting styles span the century - from the traditional areas around Johnston Hall to the ultra modern design around the OVCs new laboratory animal building The informal setting of evergreens and boulders in front of the soil science building contrasts with the calculated arrangement of planting boxes
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by the crop science building While the master plan specifies
landscaping along major walkways and roads it doesnt make specific recommendations for plantings around new buildings existing buildings and parking lots Such detailed planning depends on building design snow drifting considerations and traffic patterns
Because of the volume of construction that has taken place on campus since 1966 the demand for landscaping design has been considerable with most of it being done by off-campus consultants Project Planners for example designed the areas around the Arts building McLaughlin Library the Power Plant Crop Science building and Lambton Hall all of which constituted the first phase of major construction in 1965 and 1966 The same firm also designed the major walkways and plazas the pedestrian spines the main entry plaza south of the new University Centre and the plaza in front of the Food Science building
Much of the landscape planning is now done by Pat Tucker OAC 65 Head of Grounds Mr Tucker explains that with the major construction now com plete the volume of landscape planning is more manageable
All building plans and landscape designs must meet the approval of the Landscape Advisory Committee made up of landscape architects horticulturists and other campus representatives The committee makes extensive use of the campus tree inventory assembled in 1966 and updated every five years The location species size and condition of affected trees can be determined when locating and designing buildings walkways underground services and roads If the location of an outstanding mature tree conflicts with construction plans alternatives are considered This may involve moving the tree if possible rerouting a road path or underground services or slightly relocating buildings Obviously the campus development has taken its toll of mature
trees but replacements and new plantings will eventually mature
To the great envy of home gardeners new trees planted on the campus look like trees The spindly garden store specimens that home gardeners coax into treehood are rarely seen on campus Most of the trees planted on the main campus have spent five to six years in the nursery on Stone Road growing from toothpick size to a respectable 10 or 15 foot height
Because of the long-range development plan the university can purchase small trees that will be required for specific plantings in the future With the careful attention in the nursery the young trees quickly grow and fill out After five or six years of pampered nursery care a one-inch caliper tree could reach a height of 15 feet with a trunk diameter of five inches
Use of ground covers on campus follows an important trend in contemporary landscaping Many of these plants are propagated in the nursery from seed or cuttings Starters come from a variety of sources natural settings the old horticulture garden and commercial sources In addition the campus features ground covers such as grass wood chips and stones Ground covers when used properly facilitate maintenance discourage weeds help retain moisture and enhance appearances
Designing low-maintenance landscape settings doesnt eliminate the need for year-round care of the campuss 160 acres of lawn 40 acres of trees shrubs and hedges 45 acres of ground covers and flower beds 35 acres of parking lots 22 ac res of roads and 114 ac res of walkways Constant grooming is essential because the campus serves as an example to students visiting groups and home gardeners Most trees shrubs and ground covers are labelled so that students and Sunday strollers can make cross-campus jaunts informative and (hopefully) inspiring 0 -
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An Emigrant at OAC THE contribution which students of
British origin have made to life on the campus of the Ontario Agricultural College has never been examined Many old alumni would agree that this contribution was very considerable Year after year these students provided for example many star players for football teams entire cricket teams trained performers for dramatic productions officers for the Literary Society authors for the OAC Review the first Rhodes scholar interesting men in classes and finally a dash of cultural refinement against which the native born Aggie sometimes saw himself to disadvantage
It is not the purpose of this article to give a comprehensive account of the British students at the OAC over the past century Rather the article focuses upon one such student Edward G E Ffolkes from Hillington Lyn England My choice falls upon him not because he was outstanding but rather because he has left a fascinating account in his diary and letters of what life was like at the OAC in the years 1880-1881
When Ffolkes came to Guelph October 30 1880 the Ontario School of Agriculture and Experimental Farm had just become The Ontario Agricultural
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by Professor A M Ross
College and Experimental Farm James Mills in office since 1879 had just accepted the new title president The College Circular in 1880 showed the staff as follows James Mills MA President Professor of English Literature and Natural History William Brown (Gold medallist of the Scottish Arboricultural Society and of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland) Professor of Agriculture and Farm Superintendent J Hoyes Panton MA Professor of Chemistry E A A Grange VS Professor of Veterinary Science Alexander McTavish (First-Class Provo Certificate) Assistant Resident and Mathematical Master P J Woods Instructor in Farm Department James Forsyth Instructor in Horticultural Department James Mcintosh Instructor in Mechanical Department Thomas Johnston Bursar
Although the College was established primarily for the sake of the farmers of Ontario in 1880 it was failing to attract their sons In the Fall Term of that year 69 Ontario students registered
eight fewer than the year before A year later the number registering had slipped to 63 Meanwhile the number of nonshyresident students nearly doubled from 14 in 1880 to 26 in 1881 One-half of the 26 came from Britain For several years the non-resident student was a very important component of the College enrolment
How did it come about that OAG was apparently so well known in Britain so soon after its establishment in 1874 How did Edward Ffolkes at the age of 18 a student at the Haileybury Public School for Boys in Hertfordshire hear about this Canadian college One reasonable explanation may rest upon the publicity which surrounded William Brown the voluble farm superintendent when he went overseas to buy stock for the College he frequently spoke and wrote about the advantages of emigration to Canada Browns emphasis upon the OAC as being a place where a young man was taught practically appealed especially to those who planned to own land and farm it themselves
By his own admission the OAC was for Edward Ffolkes a means whereby he could learn the outline of farming and get hardy and all that sort of thing
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before going west to take up land in Manitoba Young Britons like Ffolkes may well have found William Browns account of the OACs educational theory and practice very attractive That it did not appeal to an Ontario farmers son in the 1880s was not at all surprising Ontario farm boys were all too aware of the practicalities of farming at home Neither Dr Mills Circular nor Browns speeches could convince them that the Ontario Agricultural College and Experimental Farm deserved their attendance in large numbers
At Guelph Ffolkes was initiated very quickly into a life which offered him very little if any chance to indulge in the pleasures he had known back home his pipe of tobacco his glass of beer the delights of the ballroom and concerts five oclock teas sailing billiards college suppers and evening dress At the OAC he found that waistcoat tie and collar are quite unnecessary not to say unheard of articles as of course we have not time to change after work He was furthermore puzzled about the prejudice which Canadians had against wearing knickerbockers Indeed he had come to College with much the wrong kind of clothing His Norfolk jacket was too good to wear for outside work What he needed was a pea jacket Aunt Fannys knitted waistcoat was suitable for swagger occasions but what he should have had was a woo llen waistcoat with sleeves h is tweed
trousers too had to be replaced by red by two goals As it was Saturday canvas overalls and trousers made of October 30 All Hallows Eve Edward pilot cloth went out singing for apples and
On his arrival in Guelph Edward was collected nearly half a bushel in a bag asked as soon as he got off the train On the following Monday he and other to play halfback in a football match new students wrote the matriculation against the town which the College won examinations in grammar composition
TIME TABLES FOn ICALL TERll (1 ST OCTomr 10 CIIRrSTB S) lSS0
Time taolp No1 gives the rout ine of th e di(fe rr nt ycnrs nnltl c1ivi ~ ion s for the first week tim~ hide No 2 the routine of til( ~iI)le yen r s nnd di is infls for t l second week No1 and L o 3 Hi iug ll t ll follnwcu nl tc lllulely f r l wcek eac h t llroughou t the term
TDIE TADLE No I - 1ST WEEK
1 ST YEAR-D1YlSIO oI II
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geography and arithmetic The results showed that Ffolkes doubled everyone elses marks getting 357 out of a possible 400
Like other students at the OA C Edward Ffolkes kept a diary it was a custom which the College seems to have Insisted upon for many years and severa l of these diaries have survived Edward s daily entries differ from those of his fellows in that his observations frequently go beyond the bare mention of routine chores and weather conditions On December 6 1880 for example he was thrashing in the experime ntal barn wheie all the specimens of grai n are tested bottled and labelled (before being sent) to the members of the Agricultu ra l Union which had been established in 1878 Like his contemporary Oscar Chase he reveals the practical austerities of his education getting up at 530 am to worlt four or five hours a day at two cents an hour learnin g to harness teams cleaning feeding an d littering cattle glazing double windows d itch digging up to his knees in freezin g water spreading manure acting as farm clerk (boss job) feeding the steam chaff-cutter assisting the shepherd pulping tu rn ips using a crosscut saw in the bush and chopping wood early in the morning for the farm s steam engine
Unlike many other students Edward Ffolkes cheerfully accepted the regul ations regarding student labour for they ensured that he would gain work expe rience which might serve him well in western Canada He did not however accept the academic work of the classroom in the same spirit He adm itted that it was both demanding and difficult and pointed out in one of his letters home that the two-year course at Guelph really req uired three years of attendance The lectures he asserted were decidedly hard work and took up too much of a students time Even though he had given up much sleep cramming for the Christmas examinations he found the papers ho rrible
Although he had intended to stay at the College over the Christmas vacation to improve his knowledge about farming Edward found his room so uncomfortably warm the scrub womans activities so energetic and the 930 pm curfew so confining that he thought the sooner he sloped the better He spent Christmas Eve in Toronto at Trinity College where he drank absent friends and tried to forget those horrible papers which he asserted had knocked him up a little During his first week in Toronto he went to four dances in the next to five
Alexander M Ross The College on the Hill Toronto Copp Clark 1974 pp 61-64
I PAPERS SET AT THE SESSIONAL EXA)IINATIONS EASTER 1881
FIRST YEAJt
AGRICULTURE
Exam in er V I BIWW~
1 G ive a comprehensi ve sketch of wha t characLcris8~ the d iaer ent kinds of b rming ~~led grazing (Ltiry ing a nd mi xeuro d
2 Whit t gu idp~ us in conclud ing that a soil 1p1uirp~ to be drain cltl and how is dminage in a ll its J etai is most elli ciently co uudcu u nder two of the most opposite condition s j
3 State wh~ t is m e tnt by inj u(l icious com l)i uti on of m tedal in f ncc building and exph in Lhe telms severance damages ~ Cd l Wl ter d l ill and gradient in connection w ith road ma king
F[RST YEAR
PRACTICAL EXAMINATION IN LIVE STOCK
Exami1ler VM B ROWN
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1 Show the b pst and the poorest p oint~ of the youngest steer j udging by a Shortrshyhorn standar d
2 D escribe the whole getr-up of the other stee r fl om any point of cornparisolil 3 N ame t he brerding of t he cows wd show wherein the one inuicates superior
mi lking properties to the other
F IST YEAR
PRACTICJAL EXA~III~ATION IN LIVE STOCK
E xaminer V~ BROWgt
SaREP-L P oin t out and name t he ltliflelent b reeds croses a nd grades 2 middotWhich is the best wooled iJ cep a s regards uniformity a nd ~oundness 7 3 H ow would you h reed from amOJg the~e in order t o secure as neM as pos iiv lc
the wool of the Ier ino w il h t h( carcass of the Leicester and eonstitu Lion of the SOlllhshyltlown- giving reasons i ll (lelail l
F IRST YEA R
INORGANIC CHlDIISTRY
EXa1~i71e J HOYES PANTO~ MA
1 Name t he di ffe rent wtty ill which h eat may be transm itted and give examples of ~ch
2 Explain the terms base atom salt lrtten t hea t 3 G ive the pnpltlrlltiOll and p roperties of cholc (lump andjibull e damp 4 Vhat is lnea ll by 11 fo r llu la in chem ist ry 1 l e t he formulas for the three
titri()ls and di sti ll glli~l t hese C01U pOl llds fro l ewh other 5 N t10le three metals lig l1ttgt r thun wat r a llli ltive their p roperties 6 Vrite no tes on tlte cornrOUlrJ s Itpresente Iy Ca Co II X 0 N If 3 N il II U
0 with reference to the ir source ami ll t iJity 7 Give the prcp~mtion a nd p )or~lti es of n itroen 8 N ame the ehffe ren t form s ill w hich itira a nu alnmina occur a nd g ive t heir use 9 DeBcriue a lamp lame a nd explai n the action ot the Bnns~ n hurncr
The New Years custom of calling happiness of man and Resolved that amused him He knew of one gentleman chewing is injurious to health This last who called on as many as 130 different topic is interesting because Ffolkes families in Toronto between 11 00 am and 6 pm on that day
maintained that many of the students c hewed tobacco and their indiscriminate -Throughout his brief year at the OAC or badly aimed spitting made the walls
Edward Ffolkes proved to be a popular and floors in residence simply hoggish student He not only took part in sports On February 18 1881 Edward acted but also participated in the Literary the part of Larkspur in a Literary Society Society of which he became Viceshy entertainment In this connection he President Debating appealed to him and reminded his mother that all the he told his mother about the subjects Engl ishmen here are popular a fact Resolved that ambition is a virtue whi ch he may have thought would be a Resolved that vanity is conducive to the consolation to her when it came time
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EASTER EXAJIIVI FIOTS l SSJ-continued
EXGLISII CO~IPOSITIOX
1 E xpbin whl t is lD ean t by styl e J-ncl wklt you consider the cs~olltial properties of [ good s tyle
3 Stelte full y IIh1t is co mpreh0nckd U lhl cr the lle)(h of rcc nmc) and clefr~~s 3 Write all lttn ic-i 0 011 the pC(l1i Cl itie~ of p oetic di ction 4 Write a cOlllpui lio ll 011 one or (middotle fol lowing s ul1j ects
(1 ) Clilll1le (l ) Shcep-frming in C l l)(b (3) SYS lClll order and hlilless i1 bnning
(4) Who oer lhe ]l()rc oltllt1 i ~h to r eign Fantas tic helde ficru u1 in I
Vain a s the k a f upon th L Strell Anel fickle s a chall~d ltl clrcalll anttstic 1S i W01LJall Blood And fi e rce as Vrcmy fc(gt retl ulootl
fo r her second son Robert to come to the OAC
Robert Ffolkes however had decided that he wanted to farm in Iowa Edward quickly warned his mother of the dangers of revealing Roberts intentions to those in power at the College
Remember that if the authorities get so much as an inkling that Bob is thinking of farming in Iowa they will fire him out before he has been there a day Iowa being in the United States The other day the Agricultural lecturer asked one of the fellows to describe how he should proceed on taking up land Well I when I get down to Minnesota I shall first do so and so Lecturer Well the sooner you do it the better you can go and pack up you r trunks now and a team shall be ready to take you to the station for the eleven train They lent him money to get home and sent him away at once I had to kiss the Bible and swear an oath and sign a document I was going to remain four years in Canada after leaving the College when I sent in my request for admi ssion
What happened eventually to Robert is not known Although he did come to the OAC for the Fall Term of 1881 he did not stay any longer than his brother did Perhaps he too sought more practical farm training than the College was prepared to offer to a young man anxious to farm a thousand acres in the American West
Edward Ffolkes references to the City of Guelph are very limited Then as now town and gown were di sparate elements but in Edward s day they were geographically at least much more apart When Edward first came to Guelph a
boardwalk had just been laid to link the College grounds to the city limits It must have proved very convelient for the trips into town on Saturdays and on Sundays when Edward taught Sunday School in one of the fourteen churches which he had counted in the city On Saturdays he could attend entertainshyments in the City Hall or at the Drill Hall But it was Toronto that really appealed to Edward it was a splendid town even though he had seen a cart so badly stuck in the mud on Queen Street that it required five horses to pull it out
Despite the attractions of Toronto and the recommendation of a friend that he should take up banking rather than farming Edward Ffolkes determination to go to the northwest never wavered The dearest wish of his heart was to be self-supporting Whilst I am at Guelph College he told his mother it is impossible to be self-supporting for the simple reason the pay we get for working full hours (and I always do work full hours) does not cover board and washing which comes to $2 80 per week
Edward always remained skeptical of the practical value of much of what the College had to offer even of the outside work
In fact from what I can see the farming at Guelph is about the same as in England All the stock comes direct from England and the implements are exactly the same and it is hardly likely that in Manitoba there will be an assortment of implements for thrashing winnowing etc
Much better it was he thought to serve out an apprenticeship period with a successful farmer in the area where you intend to settle It was his opinion that his brother Bob cou Id no more leave the College after a three years course and
farm a thousand acres than fly to the moon Bob he said would have to rough It as foreman in some stock ranch for two years to get used to all the tricks of cattle dealing
By March 22 1881 Edward was in the midst of his Easter examinations and had made up his mind to leave the College to seek practical experience on a farm That he had given up his academic work is obvious from the results of his examinations of the five papers he seems to have written he received honour standing in agriculture and English composition and failed in organic chemistry veterinary anatomy and bookkeeping He never mentions these results in his letters home
That Edward Ffolkes may have underestimated the value of the training which the Ontario Agricultural College had to offer is reasonably certain However he never underestimated his own ability and determination to succeed as a farmer Two years after he left Guelph with the help of approximately two thousand dollars from home he was well established on a farm of 750 acres near Beaconsfield Manitoba with plans to start a shingle and saw mill in the spring The two years had however been desperately hard shyso hard that in his last letter to his mother September 23 1882 Edward Ffolkes spoke of those days of martyrdom and slavery His own account suggests that this was no exaggeration
It is this account and the earlier record of Edward Ffol kes year at the Ontario Agricultural College which was edited by Edwards uncle that gives historical significance to the very rare book Letters from a Young Emigrant in Manitoba published by Kegan Paul Trench in London in 1883 0
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THE OAC Centennial Festival and Alumni Week was Guelphs birthday
party of the century The days and nights from July 6 to 14
were filled with something for everyone regardless of age or interest as many alumni and friends of the University of Guelph came and joined in the once-in-ashylifetime event
Some of the attractions included a parade of antique cars tractors steam engines horse drawn carriages and floats an Olde Tyme outdoor chuckwagon breakfast at Creelman Plaza a gigantic birthday cake six-horse hitches alumni reunions skits of the past visits from dignitaries and a beard-growing contest
Months of plann ing and hard work by the OAC Centennial Committee resulted in a wonderful week for all who attended the festivities
The celebrations were held to pay homage to the Ontario Agricultural College which was established in 1874 by the provincial Department of Agriculture and boasted 30 students who lived in a converted house on a 500-acre farm
Now with a student population hovering near 10000 and an 11 ~O-acre main campus the University of Guelph has sent leading farmers teachers research scientists and businessmen out into the world
The College has provided Canadas agriculture industry with continual research breakthroughs and fresh ideas while internationally it aids significantly in solving the agricultural problems of developing countries
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INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS a Guelph Tradition
by Scott Taylor
Opposite page Four members of the 1910-11 Ontario Agricultural College Basketball Team Left to r ight W Toole 11 W H Smith 12 manager E W White 12 C Main 11
Above An OAVC crest seen on athletic uniforms in the 1940s
ACCORDING to legend a Gryphon was a mythical creature represented by
the head and wings of an eagle the body of a lion and the tail of a serpent Since 1968 this fearful looking symbol that legend claimed to be the protector of the treasures of the Asiatic Scythis has been the guardian of the athletic teams that represent the University of Guelph
Today the College on the Hill has become one of the premier universities in the country in the field of sports competition The university is represented by a Canadian Intercollegiate Athletic
Union basketball champion an Ontario Universities Athletic Association team wrestling winner and an Ontario Womens Intercollegiate Athletic Association ice hockey titleist The list of team and individual crowns that have been won since OAC first participated in athletics as the Aggies is extensive indeed and not to recall in some manner the glorious history of athletics at Guelph first as OA C and MacDonald Institute then as OAVC and Mac and finally as the University of Guelph would be to neglect an important aspect of the centennial of the Ontario Agricultural College
On September sixth of this year the University of Guelph Gryphons opened another football season behind head coach Dick Brown a former professional gridiron player who this year was named to the Greatest Toronto Argonaut All-Star team in history The Manitoba Bisons flew in from Winnipeg and topped the Gryphons in the season starter by a fourteen-Io-six score as the passing combination of Brad Hall to Craig Holt the leading receiver in Gryphon history highlighted the evening for the Red and Gold
Through many seasons of success the losses have come as well In 1960 behind head coach Tom Mooney the passing combination was from Jim Wright 61 A to Dave Hume OAC 61 but it wasnt quite enough as the OAVC Football Redmen suffered through a bitter year of rebuilding the glories of the past The sports writer of the Libranni 1961 may have put it best in a piece entitled Great is the Fall He wrote
There are many quotations and sayings that express the difficulty of maintaining ones position at the top This year the Redmen found out just how true those expressions were Gone was the mighty invincible Redmen machine that
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flattened all the opposition without mercy Every team in the league sought to add to its own laurels and to the humiliation of the Redmen by proclaiming that they too could defeat those farmers from Guelph Due to this every team that the Redmen encountered was fired up for the encounter and played their best against our squad
However the thrill of victory has been at hand more often than not for the rugby football teams from Guelph In 1934 Head Coach and Athletic Director of the OAC Aggies F G Baldy Baldwin led a tough squad of men to the Canadian Intermediate Intercollegiate Rugby Championships for the second time W F Bill Mitchell OAC 38 quartershybacked the Aggies of 34 and today that same Bill Mitchell quarterbacks the
Above Intermediate Intercollegiate Football Champions 1949
Right Intermediate Intercollegiate Basketball Champions 1925-26 Left to right Prof A W Baker 11 coach J W G McEwan 26 J E Ridley 27 J R Currey 29 L M Schenck 26 captain L Young 27 R Graham 29 Geo Thompson 27 H Potter A T Rintoul 26 manager
entire sports program at the University of Guelph as Director of Athletics Included on that same team which incidentally did not enter the Ontario Rugby Football Union playdowns because of bad weather and approaching exam inations was a hard-nosed middle known as Haley Hales He is probably better remembered by the people in Guelph and Wellington Riding as Alfred Dryden Hales OAC 34 Member of Parliament who stepped down this past election after more than sixteen years of political service
The names of players and their eventual careers after graduation is a vast area to research Athletes who have finished their studies at Guelph have gone into various fields but a few of them have remained as outstanding athletes in the professional ranks The most recent of these are football kicker Gerry Organ BSc(PE) 71 of the Ottawa Rough
Riders and hockey netminder Ken lockett BA 72 As anyone who follows Canadian sporting fortunes knows former Gryphon Organ is the reigning Schenley Award Winner as the most outstanding native Canadian in the Canadian Football league Fewer people may know that lockett 1971 s All-Canadian hockey goaltender former mem ber of the Canadian World Student Games Team and of course a graduate Gryphon has recently been signed to a pro contract with the Vancouver Canucks of th e National Hockey league
Other Guelph athletes of the past have continued their careers at top amateur level s A prime example of this is Grant Maclaren In 1969 Maclaren put on a near one-man show at the CIA U cross-country championships He earned himself the national individual title and at the same time was backed up
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by a superb University of Guelph harrier contingent that captu red the CIAU team championship as well Today Maclaren is still a world-class distance runner who will no doubt represent Canada at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal
Another Gryphon who may be an Olympic Team member is basketball star Bob Sharpe last season Sharpe was an OUA A All-Star an All-Star team member at the CIAU championships as well as the lalter tournament s Most Valuable Player This past summer Sharpe got his first taste of international competition as a player on the Canadian National Mens Basketball Team - a team that gave Canada its best performance since the 1936 Olympics when our nations finest lost a gold medal to the United States by a 19-5 score on an outdoor court and in a driving rainstorm
Rugger at Guelph
International competition is not restricted to track stars and basketball players however This winter the University of Guelph will have four varsity wrestlers with foreign experience behind them Richard Deschatelets represented Canada in Europe this past summer while Bob Price and Tom Bethune travelled with the country s B team on a tour of the United States In 1974 AI Tschirhart was a member of Canadas World Student Games Team in Moscow and when one adds the name of OUA A champion Ross Barrable to the formidable list of four there appears to be little doubt that Guelph will repeat as A M Porter Trophy winners
Perhaps the name of this piece of silverware itself is an indication of the success of the wrestling program at Guelph The Porter Trophy was presented to the Canadian Intercollegiate Athletic
Union by A M Porter OAC 20 the Registrar of the Ontario Agricultural College Guelph Canada as a token of his active interest in University Wrestling since 1920 That is what is inscribed on the prize that is now the sought-after conclusion to the OUAA wrestling season It is appropriate that OAVC shyUniversity of Guelph teams have won this trophy seven times and are presently showing it off in the trophy case at the Athletics Centre (The University of Western Ontario has won it alone six times but on two other occasions has shared it with the University of Waterloo) From Coach Wright OAC 33 in the thirties to Coach Schlegal in the forties through Coach Glen Peister OAC 50 in the seasons of the fifties with Coach Bob Heinrich OAC 5SA in the early sixties and now in the seventies with highly-touted Londo Iacovelli at the helm
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Aggie Gryphon and Redm en grapplers have been the prime target for the opposition eve ry year
One sport at Guelph th at has just attained a position of national prominence is the game of basketball Behind people like Sharpe AI Grunys Denni s Krawchuk and graduating seniors Paul Allen BSc (HK)74 and Phil Smith BA 74 the University won a national championship in 1974 When Garney Henley took over as head coach however the University of Guelph posted a depressing one winshy17 loss season Many times during the next few years Coach Henley was fortunate to have a successful professional foo tball ca reer with the Canadian Football League s Hamilton Tiger-Cats to conso le him However through hard work and with players like Mark Walton BA 72 Chester Graham BA 73 and Wayne Morgan BA 72 Henley and his assistants Doug Dodd and Dic k Brown have built a superb prog ram
In 1956 howeve r with Tom Mooney at the helm a group of ball players had the words Take Off as an inspiration and were fighting to ga in acceptance into senior interc ollegiate ranks Led by Murray Atkinson OAC 60 who later became the firs t two-tim e win ner of the Athlete of the Year Award and by Bill Dimson OAC 57A whose subsequent death in a ca r acc ident a few years later was a bl ow for all who knew him the OAVC Aggies fini shed in second place at the intermediate level losing a heartbreaking 56-52 dec ision to the eventual c hampion Weste rn Dimsons name has not been forgotten at Guelph a plaque presented annually in his honour goes to the schools Most Valuable Baske tball Pl aye r Am ong the winners of the Bill Dimson Memorial Award are present holder Bob Sharpe and Guelphs first official All-Canadian basketball player Wayne Morgan
Top An OAC swim team resplendent in their tank suits
Above University of Guelph wrestling squad coached by Londo Iacovelli
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Awards and particularly AII-Canadtan honours are not uncommon among the present group of athletes at Guelph In addition to Ken Lockett in hockey and Morgan in basketball John Kelley and Dave lane of this years gridiron Gryphs were named All-Canadians in 1973
locketts hockey heroics were displayed when the University of Guelph was not a power on the ice but this season the Gryphons and their young coach Bud Folusewych are favoured to take serious aim at the University of Waterloos national crown led by little Adam Brown who broke all the scoring records in Ontario college hockey last season forward Bill Hanson defenceman Doug McKay and goaltender David Moote - all OUAA AII-Starsshythe Gryphons will have a good opportunity to relive past Gryphon glories Such a year was 1960 when coach AI Singleton and athletes such as Max ONeil OAC 61 Wayne lopp and Bill German OAC 61 ousted Ryerson in a semi-final playoff to earn a birth in the championship round against the powerful men from McMaster
Hockey football basketball and wrestling certainly arent the only sports that have provided Guelph with athletic laurels Cross-country teams boxing squads and golf teams have all brought hardware home to the trophy case at Guelph as today the school participates in 17 sports at the intercollegiate level The facilities for all these activities at Guelph are not totally adequate and only the football stadium could be described as outstanding Alumni Stadium opened officially on October 17 1970 is a 4100 seat complex that is not only home for the football Gryphons but houses the large multi-purpose Gryphon Room where accommodation can be made for karate wrestling and other related activities It is truly the highlight of the athletics complex on the Guelph campus
There are people on the staff and faculty at Guelph who although they dont fly the banner of the Gryphon still aid in the publics knowledge of athletics at the University of Guelph Librarian Yvonne Saunders who is a British Commonwealth Games gold medalist and Professor Abigail Hoffman of the Political Studies Department who has represented Canada in countless track events at the international level including the Olympic Games spread the name of the university in a way that is unequalled by any other non-academic activity
It is interesting to note that these two non-student athletes are both women The University of Guelph has a successful womens program as well and it has certainly grown since 1952 when Margaret Dix coached almost every sport at MacDonald Institute
With Shirley Peterson co-ordinating intercollegiate athletics and coaching ice hockey Val (Millar) Freeman BSc (PE) 70 heading the intramural program and coaching basketball and Joni Johnson Anne Stallman and Pam Wedd BSc(HK) 74 taking the coachs reins in a variety of activities the ladies at Guelph have a good foundation for fun and success
The most hardware to come in womens athletics in recent years has been on the hockey rink Mrs Petersons pucksters have captured the Ontario Women s Intercollegiate Athletics Association crown six times A record unequalled in the last decade
At present the ladies participate in 12 sports at the intercollegiate level and in the past year the most highly touted athlete has been field hockey player Marg Ellis Mrs Ellis is presently a member of the Ontario Provincial Field Hockey Team and she would like to earn a spot on the national squad in the near future
With the Olympic Games drawing near and the Ontario Agricultural College one hundred years old this year the young men and women who participate in sports at Guelph will be working to spread the Guelph name in Montreal in 1976 Names like Sharpe Deschatelets Saunders and Maclaren proudly reflect the glories of the past In old Librannis in yellowed newspaper clippings and on the nameplates of trophies people such as Goomer Raithby OAC 51 Poker Mills OAC 34 and Bill Dimson will always be remembered as viial cogs in the OAVC Aggie athletic machine 0
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campus highlights Housing shortage shortlived Early reports on the housing situation at Guelph were rather bleak however A W Mcinnis Director of Residences recently reported that the present situation is not serious and that all students have found permanent accommodation A student governmentshysponsored tent city saw very little use (approximately 10 students slept in it) as did special emergency housing in the Gryphon Room of the stadium (no-one slept there)
Tent City near the East Residences
The lack of off-campus student housing this year is directly connected to a general scarcity of housing in the city explained Mr Mcinnis He noted that because of high mortgage rates those who formerly rented their premises have ceased renting and are now selling their property In addition Guelphs attractive location vis-a-vis Toronto has led commuters to settle in many of the new subdivisions and residents who might have moved cannot afford the higher housing prices This is particularly applicable to those Guelph residents living in the downtown sections of the city which contain older but extremely large homes When sold these houses are often converted into
apartments but with fewer sales the predictable result is fewer apartments
A visit to city hall by residence officials confirmed that the off-campus situation will not improve in the immediate future and high mortgage interest rates coupled with high construction costs makes residence construction a high economic risk
The problem became acute this year due to a sharp increase in the number of students desiring residence accommodation compared with Sept 1973
Last year at mid-August approximately 2200 seniors had accepted rooms in residence By May 15 of this year more than 2200 seniors had been placed in residence and with places reserved for 1760 freshmen the Universitys 3900 beds were taken by mid-May
The 68 co-op apartments were also filled early for the fall semester Many students took out a years lease instead of an eight month agreement resulting in an extremely low turnover - less than 20 per cent from a year ago
Similar difficulties were evident at Wellington Woods the University s married students residence located on Stone Road Last year there were 36 vacancies for the fall semester this year that figure was cut to 12
Despite these figures the 1974 student housing picture in Guelph is now under control - until next fall
Freshmen enjoy a hayride tour around the University campus
Orienteering grant The University of Guelph often referred to as the home of orienteering in North America will benefit by a grant of more than $42000 made to the Canadian Orienteering Federation by Health and Welfare Canada The Honourable Marc Lalonde gave notice of the grant to Professor A Sass Peepre of Human Kinetics Professor Peepre is one of the founders of the Federation and is presently the president of the group
Orienteering is becoming very popular in Canada and is now taught at all levels in many schools The sport uses map and compass to find a specified route through the countryside and attracts thousands to meets in Europe
Enrolment increases Guelph s largest complement of students began classes in September Full-time enrolment has increased 11 per cent over last year Full-time undergraduate enrolment stood at 9100 on September 10 with approximately 550 full-time graduate students expected to register Part-time undergraduates number 600 part-time grad students about 150
A red-and-white orientation tent was erected outside the University Centre to provide a focal pOint for new students Orientation featured free concerts football games hayride tours of the campus and meetings with deans and academic counsellors
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Choir returns from tour The 42-member University of Guelph Choir returned to Guelph after several wellshyreceived performances in the Maritimes
The choir performed in Charlottetown New Glasgow Sydney Antigonish Halifax Dartmouth Yarmouth and at Acadia University in Wolfville under the direction of Nicholas Goldschmidt and assistant conductor Nickolaus Kaethler with accompanist Gerald Manning recitalist Denise Turcotte and soloist Robert Missen Along with works by Handel Bach Rossini Cherubini Schubert and Vaughan Williams the choir performed Canadian folk songs arranged by music professor Derek Healey
One of the main reasons for going on tour is to improve the quality of the choir commented Dean Murdo MacKinnon College of Arts The tour of Scotland in 1973 had a marked effect on the group so the 1974 tour of the Maritimes was a natural development Proof of the new level attained is that this year at the end of the tour the choir was asked by the CBC in Halifax to make a recording of a considerable portion of Handels Passion
which will be broadcast at the Easter season in 1975
Before the choir departed for the Maritimes an advance notice was sent to University of Guelph alumni in the area stating the times and places where the choir was to appear The results were extremely satisfying to the choir in that several alumni turned out for the performances
The choir experienced a rather unexpected thrill when it visited Fortress Louisburg in Cape Breton Island and was asked to record ten minutes of religious music in the beautiful chapel which is part of the historic fortress being re-built by the Government of Canada Consequently when visitors to the chapel hear quiet choral music in the background theyre listening to the University of Guelph Choir singing chorales of J S Bach
The choir was greeted by an enthusiastic Halifax audience when it performed in Rebecca Cohn Auditorium at Dalhousie University A critic for the Halifax Chronicle Herald commented Right from the opening of this work the
audience could hear a well-trained professional choir The singers close attention to every move of Director Goldschmidt was a joy to see and hear
The choi r sang before an overflow audience in Zion Baptist Church in Yarmouth on the opening day of the International Tuna Fish Festival A Yarmouth critic wrote The audience which gave the visitors two standing ovations was deeply moved by the majestic performance of the Passion of Christ by Handel The choir provided dramatic contrasts and excellent control of the exciting fugues which are characteristic of Handel
The program was presented once more after the choi rs retu rn They sang in St Andrews United Church Sudbury on Sunday October 6
Ottawa chapter barbecue was a success The Ottawa chapter of the University of Guelph Alumni Association held a family barbecue on Saturday September 14
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at the Kemptville College of Agricultural Tec hnology
A group of 125 adults and c hildren took part in a variety of games followed by a tour of the expe rimental ba rns and orchards Then everyone enjoyed a chicken barbecue Prizes for the ad ults were quarts of Ontario maple syrup and two pounds of honey
Board appoints new members Professor James Archibald OVC 49 Richard Birc hal l Kenneth Hammill OAC 51 and John Wood began their three-year terms on July 1 as new members on the Unive rsi ty s Board of Governors
Professor Archibald 55 a senate appointee to the board graduated from the Ontario Veterin ary COllege with a DVM degree in 1949 and in 1951 was granted a Master of Veterinary Science Professor Archibald has been on the OVC faculty since 1949 and was appOinted professor and chairman of clinical studies in 1963 a posi tion which he st ill holds
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Ric hard Birchall 59 is president of the Canadian National Sportsmen s Show and the Toronto International Boat Show In addition he is chairman of the Ontario Waterfowl Research Foundation which adm ini sters the Kortright Waterfow l Park in Gue lph He is a director of the
North American Wildlife Foundation and a Canadian director of the World Wildlife fund He is also a mem ber of the Conserva ti on Council of Ontario and vice-chairm an of the Del ta Waterfowl Research Station com mi ttee in Manitoba Mr Birchall is a mem be r of the inner council of the Wildfow l Trust in Slim bridge England and sits on the faculty of forestry advisory council o f the University of Toronto He has been a frequent visitor to campus in connection with his interests in several research projects being carried out in OAC OVC and the College of Biological Sc ience
Ken Hammill a 1951 graduate o f the Ontario Agricultural College is viceshypresident and a director of Omark Canada Ltd in Guelph Mr Hammill has been a member o f Guelph c ity council since 1962 and has served on the f in ance personnel parks and recre ation committees He has also been a ci ty representative on the Grand River Conservation Authority
John Wood 34 studied at the University of Western Ontario where he graduated in 1964 as a gold medal ist in business administrat ion He is presently vice-president (manufac turin g) and a director of the N C Wood Company in Gue lph He is a member of the Guelph Chamber of Commerce the Guelph Industrial and Economic Deve lopment Commission and the Guelph Rotary Club Mr Wood also se rved as c hairman of the Canadi an government appliance miss ion to Europe in 1968
Aggies took over September 23-28 Aggie Week 74 was filled with the usual merriment and competition that stems from a long-standing OAC tradition
Anim al scientist Bob Forshaw easily won the faculty trophy for cow milking with 35 ounces in one minute defeating other competitors suc h as President Winegard who milked two ounces last years champion Mike Jenkinson OAC 63 with 11 ounces and Professor Richard Vosburgh acting dean of Family and Consumer Studies with three ounces
Animal sc ient ist Roge r Hacker won the hog calling contest followed by Dr H 0 Branion assistant to the president
who tied for second place with agricultural economist Phil Wright
Monster ball competitions bed races chariot races and tugs of war brought out many faculty and students for the annual Aggie Games won bY OAC Class 77
Former chairman honoured The Department of Animal and Poultry Science recently honou red its former chairman Professor J C Rennie OAC 47 who left the campus to become executive direc tor of the education and resea rch division of the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food
Pro fessor Renni e jo ined the faculty in 1952 and was chairman from 1965 to 1971 Du ring the past yea r he served as acting dean of research during the absence on sabbatical of Dean W E Tossell OAC 47
Alma Mater Fund results encouraging Fund Chairman Neil Darrach reports that the Alma Mater Fund has received $120330 towards its $160000 objecti ve
A total of 2396 gifts have been received from alumni faculty professional staff and other suppo rters of higher education Gifts from the Guelph campus amounting to $27247 have reached a new high and exceed the final tabulat ion of $25977 achieved in last years fund drive on the campus
The Century Club Division of the fund reports that 357 founding members have renewed their memberships at this time with gifts of $100 or more In addition 112 new founding members have subscribed to the Century Club
Mr Darrach stated that donors who make leadership gifts to the Alma Mater Fund Century Club in 1974 and the two years preced ing the Centennial will be known as foundin g members He also stated th at the Challenge Grant made by Continental Can Company of Canada Ltd is attracting many new and increased gifts Under the term s of the Challenge Grant new girts and the amount of increase over a previous annual gift will be matched by the Challenge Grant to a max imum of $5000
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November 28 University of Guelph to January 5 Printmaking Workshop
(collection of international prints) McLaughlin Library Main Floor Gallery Monday through Saturday 9 am to 10 pm Sunday 1 pm to 10 pm
December 27 Centennial 74 Finale University Centre 830 pm to 1 am
UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH
GUELPH Autumn 1974 AWMNUS Volume 7 Number 4
PICTURE CREDITS
Page 23 Rosemary Clark pages 12 and 13 Aud io-visua l Services
UN IVER SITY OF GUELPH ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
HONORARY PRESIDENT Dr W C Wi negard
PRESI DENT Mr T R (Dick) Hilliard OAC 40
SEN IOR VICE-PRESIDENT Mrs J D (Virginia Shortt) Bandeen Mac 57
VICE-PRESIDENTS Mrs J B (Doreen Ke rn) Dawson Mac 54 Mrs R P (Valerie Mittler) Gilmor BA 72 Dr Wm C (Bill) Ha ck in g OVC 69 Mr J A (John ) Wil ey OAG 58
SECRETARY M rs A R (Shirley Ann McFee) Holmes Mac 62
DIRECTORS Mr P D (Peter) Anderson Well 68 Dr D A (Donald) Barn um OVC 41 r G R (George) Greenlees OAC 62 Mr M G (Mi lt) Greer OAC 41 Mrs M (Lind a Su lly) Keith Well 67 Mr J N (John ) Mayes OAC 69 M rs J R (Shirley Jackson) Robinson Mac 48 Dr Jean Rumney OVC 39 Dr D I Silver OVC 72 Mrs S W (Pat Damude) Squire Mac 63 Mr M C (Michael) Streib Well 69
EX-OFFI CIO DIRECTORS Mr R W (Robert) Close BSc 69 President Arts and Science s Alumni Association M r J A (John ) Ecc les OAC 40 President OA_C Al umni As sociation Dr H J (Howard) Neely OVC 51 President OVC Alumn i ASSOCiation M rs T G (Na ncy West) Sawyer Mac 62 President Mac-FACS Al um ni Assoc iation r T (Tim) Haw kins Pres ident UGC_SA Mr R (Robert) N ulsen President Universi ty of Guelph Students Assoc iation Mr J K (John) Babcock OAC 54 Di rector Alumni Affairs and Oevelopment
The Guelph Alumnus is published by the Dep3rtment of Alumni Affa i rs and Development in co-operation with the Depa rtmen t of Info rm ation UniverSity of Guelph
The Editorial Committee is comprised of Editor - David G Smith Publication s Officer Art Director- Lyle Docherty BA 72 J K Babcoc k OAG 54 Director of Alumni Affairs and Development Rosemary Clark Mac 59 As sistant Director Alumni Programs D l Waters t on Director of Information D W Jose OAC 49 Assistant Direc tor o f Informati on
The Editorial Advisory Board of the University of Guelph Alumni Association is compr ised of Mrs S W (Pat Damude) Squire Mac 63 chairman Dr Allan Aust in Robert Mercer OAC 59 G_ B Powe ll OAG 62 James Ru sk OAC 65 M rs J W (Joan Ellerington) Tanner Mac 57 Ex-offi cio J K Ba bcock OAG 54 T R Hi lliard OAC 40 Corresponding members D R Barol1 OAC 49 G M Carman OAC 49 and H G Dodds OAG 58
Undelivered cop ies should be returned to Alumni House University of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2Wl
Contents 2 To Alumni and Friends Professor Donald F Forster presently Vice-President and Provost of the University of Toronto will succeed Dr Winegard in June 1975 as President of th e Uni vers ity of Guelph
5 Landscaping Guelphs Campus Visitors to the Unive rs ity are always impressed at the harmony that exists between natural features and man-made struc tu res Rest assured the beauty of the Guelph campus is no accident
8 An Emigrant at OAC In 1880 a young man named Edward Ffolkes journeyed from England to Canada whe re he enrolled at OAC Using the viv id accounts from Ffolkes diary Professor A M Ross offers a detailed view o f student life at Guelph 94 years ago
12 Festival Week Celebrations The University of Guelp h witnessed the birthday party of the cen tury from July 6 to 14 as the Centennial Festival and Alumni Week highl ighted the year- long OAC anniversary ce lebrations
14 Intercollegiate Athletics - a Guelph Tradition From the early rough-and -tumb le days of the Aggies to the present-day streamlined tactics of the Gryphons intercollegiate athletics at Guelph has offered countless thril ls and memories
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23 Alumni Tour in Europe A traveling party of 44 alumni and friends enjoyed two weeks in seve ral European coun tries whe re they saw the s ights and visited with alumni now living abroad
Contributors to this issue Scott Tayl or is production coordi nator and staff wri ter fo r The Starting Line-up - Canadas only national inte rcollegiate sports magazine Professor A M Ross is ex-chairman of the Department of English and author of The College on the Hill- an historical account o f the Onta ri o Agricu Itu ral College s Ii rst one hundred years Cover design by Lyle Docheriy photograph by Dan Thorburn
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Landscaping Guelphs Campus
NATURE lovers struggle continually against the kind of urban development
thai destroys trees wildlife and natural land features Conservation groups picket and petition to save waterways and forests home owners plant trees to disguise barren and featureless urban housing developments and one determined surburbanite made headlines by perching in a tree in a vain attempt to save it
The Guelph campus provides refreshing testimony that development can be green lush and beautiful Scores of majestic trees some of them planted in the nineteenth century form a dignified setting for Guelphs eclecti c montage of contemporary and historical architecture
Of course the beauty of the Guelph campus didn t just happen It is the result of careful planning selective preservation meticulous grooming and co-operation from a team of experts Since development of the Universi ty began in 1965 individuals and committees within the Unive rsity have worked to preserve the best of the existing landscape in the face of rapid growth and construction
The Universitys Landscape Advisory Committee has saved many beautiful and unusual trees by instigating design changes and minor relocations of new building s The new building that will house the Schoo l of Hotel and Food Administration now under construction progressed through several design concepts The approved design will cause minimal damage to the stand of conifers along the northern edge of the campus To save the trees which date back to about the turn of the century the new structure is being built on an existing roadway Even the location of steam co nduits is calculated to minimize environmental damage
Landscape design on the campus goes back to the 1880s when the Professor of Agriculture William Brown commissioned landscape consultants to draw up a landscapi ng plan for the new campus The plan included scores of nati ve and
exo tic trees which in the years to come would serve as a teaching aid to students in horticulture botany and landscape architecture
Professor Brown himself in his capacity as farm manager supervised the planting of hundreds of trees on the campus Survivors of th at early planting include the double row of sugar maples on the east side of Gordon Street unfortunately the western row of maples have succumbed to the ravages of time and road salt Other botanical octogenarians include the spruces around Johnston Mills and Creelman Hall s
The planting of trees and sh rubs continued regularly until about 1960 and resumed again after completion of the University Master Development Plan in 1965 Drawn up by Project Planning Associates Ltd the plan lays out a general landscape to complement the placement of buildings services roads walkways and parking areas It includes recommendations for plant materials along the major roads and walkways Landscaping over the last eight years has followed these guidelines with minor revisions depending on availability of plant materials and ecological considerations About 5000 trees and shrubs have been planted in accordance with the recommendations
The master plan calls for a variety of plants and landscaping styles Contemporary walkways and plazas complement stately traditional plantings and the Universitys varied architectural styles Foliage ground covers wood chips and stones surround century-old trees and provide attractive lowshymaintenance areas to contrast with the acres of lawn Planting styles span the century - from the traditional areas around Johnston Hall to the ultra modern design around the OVCs new laboratory animal building The informal setting of evergreens and boulders in front of the soil science building contrasts with the calculated arrangement of planting boxes
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by the crop science building While the master plan specifies
landscaping along major walkways and roads it doesnt make specific recommendations for plantings around new buildings existing buildings and parking lots Such detailed planning depends on building design snow drifting considerations and traffic patterns
Because of the volume of construction that has taken place on campus since 1966 the demand for landscaping design has been considerable with most of it being done by off-campus consultants Project Planners for example designed the areas around the Arts building McLaughlin Library the Power Plant Crop Science building and Lambton Hall all of which constituted the first phase of major construction in 1965 and 1966 The same firm also designed the major walkways and plazas the pedestrian spines the main entry plaza south of the new University Centre and the plaza in front of the Food Science building
Much of the landscape planning is now done by Pat Tucker OAC 65 Head of Grounds Mr Tucker explains that with the major construction now com plete the volume of landscape planning is more manageable
All building plans and landscape designs must meet the approval of the Landscape Advisory Committee made up of landscape architects horticulturists and other campus representatives The committee makes extensive use of the campus tree inventory assembled in 1966 and updated every five years The location species size and condition of affected trees can be determined when locating and designing buildings walkways underground services and roads If the location of an outstanding mature tree conflicts with construction plans alternatives are considered This may involve moving the tree if possible rerouting a road path or underground services or slightly relocating buildings Obviously the campus development has taken its toll of mature
trees but replacements and new plantings will eventually mature
To the great envy of home gardeners new trees planted on the campus look like trees The spindly garden store specimens that home gardeners coax into treehood are rarely seen on campus Most of the trees planted on the main campus have spent five to six years in the nursery on Stone Road growing from toothpick size to a respectable 10 or 15 foot height
Because of the long-range development plan the university can purchase small trees that will be required for specific plantings in the future With the careful attention in the nursery the young trees quickly grow and fill out After five or six years of pampered nursery care a one-inch caliper tree could reach a height of 15 feet with a trunk diameter of five inches
Use of ground covers on campus follows an important trend in contemporary landscaping Many of these plants are propagated in the nursery from seed or cuttings Starters come from a variety of sources natural settings the old horticulture garden and commercial sources In addition the campus features ground covers such as grass wood chips and stones Ground covers when used properly facilitate maintenance discourage weeds help retain moisture and enhance appearances
Designing low-maintenance landscape settings doesnt eliminate the need for year-round care of the campuss 160 acres of lawn 40 acres of trees shrubs and hedges 45 acres of ground covers and flower beds 35 acres of parking lots 22 ac res of roads and 114 ac res of walkways Constant grooming is essential because the campus serves as an example to students visiting groups and home gardeners Most trees shrubs and ground covers are labelled so that students and Sunday strollers can make cross-campus jaunts informative and (hopefully) inspiring 0 -
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An Emigrant at OAC THE contribution which students of
British origin have made to life on the campus of the Ontario Agricultural College has never been examined Many old alumni would agree that this contribution was very considerable Year after year these students provided for example many star players for football teams entire cricket teams trained performers for dramatic productions officers for the Literary Society authors for the OAC Review the first Rhodes scholar interesting men in classes and finally a dash of cultural refinement against which the native born Aggie sometimes saw himself to disadvantage
It is not the purpose of this article to give a comprehensive account of the British students at the OAC over the past century Rather the article focuses upon one such student Edward G E Ffolkes from Hillington Lyn England My choice falls upon him not because he was outstanding but rather because he has left a fascinating account in his diary and letters of what life was like at the OAC in the years 1880-1881
When Ffolkes came to Guelph October 30 1880 the Ontario School of Agriculture and Experimental Farm had just become The Ontario Agricultural
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College and Experimental Farm James Mills in office since 1879 had just accepted the new title president The College Circular in 1880 showed the staff as follows James Mills MA President Professor of English Literature and Natural History William Brown (Gold medallist of the Scottish Arboricultural Society and of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland) Professor of Agriculture and Farm Superintendent J Hoyes Panton MA Professor of Chemistry E A A Grange VS Professor of Veterinary Science Alexander McTavish (First-Class Provo Certificate) Assistant Resident and Mathematical Master P J Woods Instructor in Farm Department James Forsyth Instructor in Horticultural Department James Mcintosh Instructor in Mechanical Department Thomas Johnston Bursar
Although the College was established primarily for the sake of the farmers of Ontario in 1880 it was failing to attract their sons In the Fall Term of that year 69 Ontario students registered
eight fewer than the year before A year later the number registering had slipped to 63 Meanwhile the number of nonshyresident students nearly doubled from 14 in 1880 to 26 in 1881 One-half of the 26 came from Britain For several years the non-resident student was a very important component of the College enrolment
How did it come about that OAG was apparently so well known in Britain so soon after its establishment in 1874 How did Edward Ffolkes at the age of 18 a student at the Haileybury Public School for Boys in Hertfordshire hear about this Canadian college One reasonable explanation may rest upon the publicity which surrounded William Brown the voluble farm superintendent when he went overseas to buy stock for the College he frequently spoke and wrote about the advantages of emigration to Canada Browns emphasis upon the OAC as being a place where a young man was taught practically appealed especially to those who planned to own land and farm it themselves
By his own admission the OAC was for Edward Ffolkes a means whereby he could learn the outline of farming and get hardy and all that sort of thing
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before going west to take up land in Manitoba Young Britons like Ffolkes may well have found William Browns account of the OACs educational theory and practice very attractive That it did not appeal to an Ontario farmers son in the 1880s was not at all surprising Ontario farm boys were all too aware of the practicalities of farming at home Neither Dr Mills Circular nor Browns speeches could convince them that the Ontario Agricultural College and Experimental Farm deserved their attendance in large numbers
At Guelph Ffolkes was initiated very quickly into a life which offered him very little if any chance to indulge in the pleasures he had known back home his pipe of tobacco his glass of beer the delights of the ballroom and concerts five oclock teas sailing billiards college suppers and evening dress At the OAC he found that waistcoat tie and collar are quite unnecessary not to say unheard of articles as of course we have not time to change after work He was furthermore puzzled about the prejudice which Canadians had against wearing knickerbockers Indeed he had come to College with much the wrong kind of clothing His Norfolk jacket was too good to wear for outside work What he needed was a pea jacket Aunt Fannys knitted waistcoat was suitable for swagger occasions but what he should have had was a woo llen waistcoat with sleeves h is tweed
trousers too had to be replaced by red by two goals As it was Saturday canvas overalls and trousers made of October 30 All Hallows Eve Edward pilot cloth went out singing for apples and
On his arrival in Guelph Edward was collected nearly half a bushel in a bag asked as soon as he got off the train On the following Monday he and other to play halfback in a football match new students wrote the matriculation against the town which the College won examinations in grammar composition
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geography and arithmetic The results showed that Ffolkes doubled everyone elses marks getting 357 out of a possible 400
Like other students at the OA C Edward Ffolkes kept a diary it was a custom which the College seems to have Insisted upon for many years and severa l of these diaries have survived Edward s daily entries differ from those of his fellows in that his observations frequently go beyond the bare mention of routine chores and weather conditions On December 6 1880 for example he was thrashing in the experime ntal barn wheie all the specimens of grai n are tested bottled and labelled (before being sent) to the members of the Agricultu ra l Union which had been established in 1878 Like his contemporary Oscar Chase he reveals the practical austerities of his education getting up at 530 am to worlt four or five hours a day at two cents an hour learnin g to harness teams cleaning feeding an d littering cattle glazing double windows d itch digging up to his knees in freezin g water spreading manure acting as farm clerk (boss job) feeding the steam chaff-cutter assisting the shepherd pulping tu rn ips using a crosscut saw in the bush and chopping wood early in the morning for the farm s steam engine
Unlike many other students Edward Ffolkes cheerfully accepted the regul ations regarding student labour for they ensured that he would gain work expe rience which might serve him well in western Canada He did not however accept the academic work of the classroom in the same spirit He adm itted that it was both demanding and difficult and pointed out in one of his letters home that the two-year course at Guelph really req uired three years of attendance The lectures he asserted were decidedly hard work and took up too much of a students time Even though he had given up much sleep cramming for the Christmas examinations he found the papers ho rrible
Although he had intended to stay at the College over the Christmas vacation to improve his knowledge about farming Edward found his room so uncomfortably warm the scrub womans activities so energetic and the 930 pm curfew so confining that he thought the sooner he sloped the better He spent Christmas Eve in Toronto at Trinity College where he drank absent friends and tried to forget those horrible papers which he asserted had knocked him up a little During his first week in Toronto he went to four dances in the next to five
Alexander M Ross The College on the Hill Toronto Copp Clark 1974 pp 61-64
I PAPERS SET AT THE SESSIONAL EXA)IINATIONS EASTER 1881
FIRST YEAJt
AGRICULTURE
Exam in er V I BIWW~
1 G ive a comprehensi ve sketch of wha t characLcris8~ the d iaer ent kinds of b rming ~~led grazing (Ltiry ing a nd mi xeuro d
2 Whit t gu idp~ us in conclud ing that a soil 1p1uirp~ to be drain cltl and how is dminage in a ll its J etai is most elli ciently co uudcu u nder two of the most opposite condition s j
3 State wh~ t is m e tnt by inj u(l icious com l)i uti on of m tedal in f ncc building and exph in Lhe telms severance damages ~ Cd l Wl ter d l ill and gradient in connection w ith road ma king
F[RST YEAR
PRACTICAL EXAMINATION IN LIVE STOCK
Exami1ler VM B ROWN
CATTLEshy
1 Show the b pst and the poorest p oint~ of the youngest steer j udging by a Shortrshyhorn standar d
2 D escribe the whole getr-up of the other stee r fl om any point of cornparisolil 3 N ame t he brerding of t he cows wd show wherein the one inuicates superior
mi lking properties to the other
F IST YEAR
PRACTICJAL EXA~III~ATION IN LIVE STOCK
E xaminer V~ BROWgt
SaREP-L P oin t out and name t he ltliflelent b reeds croses a nd grades 2 middotWhich is the best wooled iJ cep a s regards uniformity a nd ~oundness 7 3 H ow would you h reed from amOJg the~e in order t o secure as neM as pos iiv lc
the wool of the Ier ino w il h t h( carcass of the Leicester and eonstitu Lion of the SOlllhshyltlown- giving reasons i ll (lelail l
F IRST YEA R
INORGANIC CHlDIISTRY
EXa1~i71e J HOYES PANTO~ MA
1 Name t he di ffe rent wtty ill which h eat may be transm itted and give examples of ~ch
2 Explain the terms base atom salt lrtten t hea t 3 G ive the pnpltlrlltiOll and p roperties of cholc (lump andjibull e damp 4 Vhat is lnea ll by 11 fo r llu la in chem ist ry 1 l e t he formulas for the three
titri()ls and di sti ll glli~l t hese C01U pOl llds fro l ewh other 5 N t10le three metals lig l1ttgt r thun wat r a llli ltive their p roperties 6 Vrite no tes on tlte cornrOUlrJ s Itpresente Iy Ca Co II X 0 N If 3 N il II U
0 with reference to the ir source ami ll t iJity 7 Give the prcp~mtion a nd p )or~lti es of n itroen 8 N ame the ehffe ren t form s ill w hich itira a nu alnmina occur a nd g ive t heir use 9 DeBcriue a lamp lame a nd explai n the action ot the Bnns~ n hurncr
The New Years custom of calling happiness of man and Resolved that amused him He knew of one gentleman chewing is injurious to health This last who called on as many as 130 different topic is interesting because Ffolkes families in Toronto between 11 00 am and 6 pm on that day
maintained that many of the students c hewed tobacco and their indiscriminate -Throughout his brief year at the OAC or badly aimed spitting made the walls
Edward Ffolkes proved to be a popular and floors in residence simply hoggish student He not only took part in sports On February 18 1881 Edward acted but also participated in the Literary the part of Larkspur in a Literary Society Society of which he became Viceshy entertainment In this connection he President Debating appealed to him and reminded his mother that all the he told his mother about the subjects Engl ishmen here are popular a fact Resolved that ambition is a virtue whi ch he may have thought would be a Resolved that vanity is conducive to the consolation to her when it came time
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EASTER EXAJIIVI FIOTS l SSJ-continued
EXGLISII CO~IPOSITIOX
1 E xpbin whl t is lD ean t by styl e J-ncl wklt you consider the cs~olltial properties of [ good s tyle
3 Stelte full y IIh1t is co mpreh0nckd U lhl cr the lle)(h of rcc nmc) and clefr~~s 3 Write all lttn ic-i 0 011 the pC(l1i Cl itie~ of p oetic di ction 4 Write a cOlllpui lio ll 011 one or (middotle fol lowing s ul1j ects
(1 ) Clilll1le (l ) Shcep-frming in C l l)(b (3) SYS lClll order and hlilless i1 bnning
(4) Who oer lhe ]l()rc oltllt1 i ~h to r eign Fantas tic helde ficru u1 in I
Vain a s the k a f upon th L Strell Anel fickle s a chall~d ltl clrcalll anttstic 1S i W01LJall Blood And fi e rce as Vrcmy fc(gt retl ulootl
fo r her second son Robert to come to the OAC
Robert Ffolkes however had decided that he wanted to farm in Iowa Edward quickly warned his mother of the dangers of revealing Roberts intentions to those in power at the College
Remember that if the authorities get so much as an inkling that Bob is thinking of farming in Iowa they will fire him out before he has been there a day Iowa being in the United States The other day the Agricultural lecturer asked one of the fellows to describe how he should proceed on taking up land Well I when I get down to Minnesota I shall first do so and so Lecturer Well the sooner you do it the better you can go and pack up you r trunks now and a team shall be ready to take you to the station for the eleven train They lent him money to get home and sent him away at once I had to kiss the Bible and swear an oath and sign a document I was going to remain four years in Canada after leaving the College when I sent in my request for admi ssion
What happened eventually to Robert is not known Although he did come to the OAC for the Fall Term of 1881 he did not stay any longer than his brother did Perhaps he too sought more practical farm training than the College was prepared to offer to a young man anxious to farm a thousand acres in the American West
Edward Ffolkes references to the City of Guelph are very limited Then as now town and gown were di sparate elements but in Edward s day they were geographically at least much more apart When Edward first came to Guelph a
boardwalk had just been laid to link the College grounds to the city limits It must have proved very convelient for the trips into town on Saturdays and on Sundays when Edward taught Sunday School in one of the fourteen churches which he had counted in the city On Saturdays he could attend entertainshyments in the City Hall or at the Drill Hall But it was Toronto that really appealed to Edward it was a splendid town even though he had seen a cart so badly stuck in the mud on Queen Street that it required five horses to pull it out
Despite the attractions of Toronto and the recommendation of a friend that he should take up banking rather than farming Edward Ffolkes determination to go to the northwest never wavered The dearest wish of his heart was to be self-supporting Whilst I am at Guelph College he told his mother it is impossible to be self-supporting for the simple reason the pay we get for working full hours (and I always do work full hours) does not cover board and washing which comes to $2 80 per week
Edward always remained skeptical of the practical value of much of what the College had to offer even of the outside work
In fact from what I can see the farming at Guelph is about the same as in England All the stock comes direct from England and the implements are exactly the same and it is hardly likely that in Manitoba there will be an assortment of implements for thrashing winnowing etc
Much better it was he thought to serve out an apprenticeship period with a successful farmer in the area where you intend to settle It was his opinion that his brother Bob cou Id no more leave the College after a three years course and
farm a thousand acres than fly to the moon Bob he said would have to rough It as foreman in some stock ranch for two years to get used to all the tricks of cattle dealing
By March 22 1881 Edward was in the midst of his Easter examinations and had made up his mind to leave the College to seek practical experience on a farm That he had given up his academic work is obvious from the results of his examinations of the five papers he seems to have written he received honour standing in agriculture and English composition and failed in organic chemistry veterinary anatomy and bookkeeping He never mentions these results in his letters home
That Edward Ffolkes may have underestimated the value of the training which the Ontario Agricultural College had to offer is reasonably certain However he never underestimated his own ability and determination to succeed as a farmer Two years after he left Guelph with the help of approximately two thousand dollars from home he was well established on a farm of 750 acres near Beaconsfield Manitoba with plans to start a shingle and saw mill in the spring The two years had however been desperately hard shyso hard that in his last letter to his mother September 23 1882 Edward Ffolkes spoke of those days of martyrdom and slavery His own account suggests that this was no exaggeration
It is this account and the earlier record of Edward Ffol kes year at the Ontario Agricultural College which was edited by Edwards uncle that gives historical significance to the very rare book Letters from a Young Emigrant in Manitoba published by Kegan Paul Trench in London in 1883 0
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THE OAC Centennial Festival and Alumni Week was Guelphs birthday
party of the century The days and nights from July 6 to 14
were filled with something for everyone regardless of age or interest as many alumni and friends of the University of Guelph came and joined in the once-in-ashylifetime event
Some of the attractions included a parade of antique cars tractors steam engines horse drawn carriages and floats an Olde Tyme outdoor chuckwagon breakfast at Creelman Plaza a gigantic birthday cake six-horse hitches alumni reunions skits of the past visits from dignitaries and a beard-growing contest
Months of plann ing and hard work by the OAC Centennial Committee resulted in a wonderful week for all who attended the festivities
The celebrations were held to pay homage to the Ontario Agricultural College which was established in 1874 by the provincial Department of Agriculture and boasted 30 students who lived in a converted house on a 500-acre farm
Now with a student population hovering near 10000 and an 11 ~O-acre main campus the University of Guelph has sent leading farmers teachers research scientists and businessmen out into the world
The College has provided Canadas agriculture industry with continual research breakthroughs and fresh ideas while internationally it aids significantly in solving the agricultural problems of developing countries
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INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS a Guelph Tradition
by Scott Taylor
Opposite page Four members of the 1910-11 Ontario Agricultural College Basketball Team Left to r ight W Toole 11 W H Smith 12 manager E W White 12 C Main 11
Above An OAVC crest seen on athletic uniforms in the 1940s
ACCORDING to legend a Gryphon was a mythical creature represented by
the head and wings of an eagle the body of a lion and the tail of a serpent Since 1968 this fearful looking symbol that legend claimed to be the protector of the treasures of the Asiatic Scythis has been the guardian of the athletic teams that represent the University of Guelph
Today the College on the Hill has become one of the premier universities in the country in the field of sports competition The university is represented by a Canadian Intercollegiate Athletic
Union basketball champion an Ontario Universities Athletic Association team wrestling winner and an Ontario Womens Intercollegiate Athletic Association ice hockey titleist The list of team and individual crowns that have been won since OAC first participated in athletics as the Aggies is extensive indeed and not to recall in some manner the glorious history of athletics at Guelph first as OA C and MacDonald Institute then as OAVC and Mac and finally as the University of Guelph would be to neglect an important aspect of the centennial of the Ontario Agricultural College
On September sixth of this year the University of Guelph Gryphons opened another football season behind head coach Dick Brown a former professional gridiron player who this year was named to the Greatest Toronto Argonaut All-Star team in history The Manitoba Bisons flew in from Winnipeg and topped the Gryphons in the season starter by a fourteen-Io-six score as the passing combination of Brad Hall to Craig Holt the leading receiver in Gryphon history highlighted the evening for the Red and Gold
Through many seasons of success the losses have come as well In 1960 behind head coach Tom Mooney the passing combination was from Jim Wright 61 A to Dave Hume OAC 61 but it wasnt quite enough as the OAVC Football Redmen suffered through a bitter year of rebuilding the glories of the past The sports writer of the Libranni 1961 may have put it best in a piece entitled Great is the Fall He wrote
There are many quotations and sayings that express the difficulty of maintaining ones position at the top This year the Redmen found out just how true those expressions were Gone was the mighty invincible Redmen machine that
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flattened all the opposition without mercy Every team in the league sought to add to its own laurels and to the humiliation of the Redmen by proclaiming that they too could defeat those farmers from Guelph Due to this every team that the Redmen encountered was fired up for the encounter and played their best against our squad
However the thrill of victory has been at hand more often than not for the rugby football teams from Guelph In 1934 Head Coach and Athletic Director of the OAC Aggies F G Baldy Baldwin led a tough squad of men to the Canadian Intermediate Intercollegiate Rugby Championships for the second time W F Bill Mitchell OAC 38 quartershybacked the Aggies of 34 and today that same Bill Mitchell quarterbacks the
Above Intermediate Intercollegiate Football Champions 1949
Right Intermediate Intercollegiate Basketball Champions 1925-26 Left to right Prof A W Baker 11 coach J W G McEwan 26 J E Ridley 27 J R Currey 29 L M Schenck 26 captain L Young 27 R Graham 29 Geo Thompson 27 H Potter A T Rintoul 26 manager
entire sports program at the University of Guelph as Director of Athletics Included on that same team which incidentally did not enter the Ontario Rugby Football Union playdowns because of bad weather and approaching exam inations was a hard-nosed middle known as Haley Hales He is probably better remembered by the people in Guelph and Wellington Riding as Alfred Dryden Hales OAC 34 Member of Parliament who stepped down this past election after more than sixteen years of political service
The names of players and their eventual careers after graduation is a vast area to research Athletes who have finished their studies at Guelph have gone into various fields but a few of them have remained as outstanding athletes in the professional ranks The most recent of these are football kicker Gerry Organ BSc(PE) 71 of the Ottawa Rough
Riders and hockey netminder Ken lockett BA 72 As anyone who follows Canadian sporting fortunes knows former Gryphon Organ is the reigning Schenley Award Winner as the most outstanding native Canadian in the Canadian Football league Fewer people may know that lockett 1971 s All-Canadian hockey goaltender former mem ber of the Canadian World Student Games Team and of course a graduate Gryphon has recently been signed to a pro contract with the Vancouver Canucks of th e National Hockey league
Other Guelph athletes of the past have continued their careers at top amateur level s A prime example of this is Grant Maclaren In 1969 Maclaren put on a near one-man show at the CIA U cross-country championships He earned himself the national individual title and at the same time was backed up
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by a superb University of Guelph harrier contingent that captu red the CIAU team championship as well Today Maclaren is still a world-class distance runner who will no doubt represent Canada at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal
Another Gryphon who may be an Olympic Team member is basketball star Bob Sharpe last season Sharpe was an OUA A All-Star an All-Star team member at the CIAU championships as well as the lalter tournament s Most Valuable Player This past summer Sharpe got his first taste of international competition as a player on the Canadian National Mens Basketball Team - a team that gave Canada its best performance since the 1936 Olympics when our nations finest lost a gold medal to the United States by a 19-5 score on an outdoor court and in a driving rainstorm
Rugger at Guelph
International competition is not restricted to track stars and basketball players however This winter the University of Guelph will have four varsity wrestlers with foreign experience behind them Richard Deschatelets represented Canada in Europe this past summer while Bob Price and Tom Bethune travelled with the country s B team on a tour of the United States In 1974 AI Tschirhart was a member of Canadas World Student Games Team in Moscow and when one adds the name of OUA A champion Ross Barrable to the formidable list of four there appears to be little doubt that Guelph will repeat as A M Porter Trophy winners
Perhaps the name of this piece of silverware itself is an indication of the success of the wrestling program at Guelph The Porter Trophy was presented to the Canadian Intercollegiate Athletic
Union by A M Porter OAC 20 the Registrar of the Ontario Agricultural College Guelph Canada as a token of his active interest in University Wrestling since 1920 That is what is inscribed on the prize that is now the sought-after conclusion to the OUAA wrestling season It is appropriate that OAVC shyUniversity of Guelph teams have won this trophy seven times and are presently showing it off in the trophy case at the Athletics Centre (The University of Western Ontario has won it alone six times but on two other occasions has shared it with the University of Waterloo) From Coach Wright OAC 33 in the thirties to Coach Schlegal in the forties through Coach Glen Peister OAC 50 in the seasons of the fifties with Coach Bob Heinrich OAC 5SA in the early sixties and now in the seventies with highly-touted Londo Iacovelli at the helm
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Aggie Gryphon and Redm en grapplers have been the prime target for the opposition eve ry year
One sport at Guelph th at has just attained a position of national prominence is the game of basketball Behind people like Sharpe AI Grunys Denni s Krawchuk and graduating seniors Paul Allen BSc (HK)74 and Phil Smith BA 74 the University won a national championship in 1974 When Garney Henley took over as head coach however the University of Guelph posted a depressing one winshy17 loss season Many times during the next few years Coach Henley was fortunate to have a successful professional foo tball ca reer with the Canadian Football League s Hamilton Tiger-Cats to conso le him However through hard work and with players like Mark Walton BA 72 Chester Graham BA 73 and Wayne Morgan BA 72 Henley and his assistants Doug Dodd and Dic k Brown have built a superb prog ram
In 1956 howeve r with Tom Mooney at the helm a group of ball players had the words Take Off as an inspiration and were fighting to ga in acceptance into senior interc ollegiate ranks Led by Murray Atkinson OAC 60 who later became the firs t two-tim e win ner of the Athlete of the Year Award and by Bill Dimson OAC 57A whose subsequent death in a ca r acc ident a few years later was a bl ow for all who knew him the OAVC Aggies fini shed in second place at the intermediate level losing a heartbreaking 56-52 dec ision to the eventual c hampion Weste rn Dimsons name has not been forgotten at Guelph a plaque presented annually in his honour goes to the schools Most Valuable Baske tball Pl aye r Am ong the winners of the Bill Dimson Memorial Award are present holder Bob Sharpe and Guelphs first official All-Canadian basketball player Wayne Morgan
Top An OAC swim team resplendent in their tank suits
Above University of Guelph wrestling squad coached by Londo Iacovelli
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Awards and particularly AII-Canadtan honours are not uncommon among the present group of athletes at Guelph In addition to Ken Lockett in hockey and Morgan in basketball John Kelley and Dave lane of this years gridiron Gryphs were named All-Canadians in 1973
locketts hockey heroics were displayed when the University of Guelph was not a power on the ice but this season the Gryphons and their young coach Bud Folusewych are favoured to take serious aim at the University of Waterloos national crown led by little Adam Brown who broke all the scoring records in Ontario college hockey last season forward Bill Hanson defenceman Doug McKay and goaltender David Moote - all OUAA AII-Starsshythe Gryphons will have a good opportunity to relive past Gryphon glories Such a year was 1960 when coach AI Singleton and athletes such as Max ONeil OAC 61 Wayne lopp and Bill German OAC 61 ousted Ryerson in a semi-final playoff to earn a birth in the championship round against the powerful men from McMaster
Hockey football basketball and wrestling certainly arent the only sports that have provided Guelph with athletic laurels Cross-country teams boxing squads and golf teams have all brought hardware home to the trophy case at Guelph as today the school participates in 17 sports at the intercollegiate level The facilities for all these activities at Guelph are not totally adequate and only the football stadium could be described as outstanding Alumni Stadium opened officially on October 17 1970 is a 4100 seat complex that is not only home for the football Gryphons but houses the large multi-purpose Gryphon Room where accommodation can be made for karate wrestling and other related activities It is truly the highlight of the athletics complex on the Guelph campus
There are people on the staff and faculty at Guelph who although they dont fly the banner of the Gryphon still aid in the publics knowledge of athletics at the University of Guelph Librarian Yvonne Saunders who is a British Commonwealth Games gold medalist and Professor Abigail Hoffman of the Political Studies Department who has represented Canada in countless track events at the international level including the Olympic Games spread the name of the university in a way that is unequalled by any other non-academic activity
It is interesting to note that these two non-student athletes are both women The University of Guelph has a successful womens program as well and it has certainly grown since 1952 when Margaret Dix coached almost every sport at MacDonald Institute
With Shirley Peterson co-ordinating intercollegiate athletics and coaching ice hockey Val (Millar) Freeman BSc (PE) 70 heading the intramural program and coaching basketball and Joni Johnson Anne Stallman and Pam Wedd BSc(HK) 74 taking the coachs reins in a variety of activities the ladies at Guelph have a good foundation for fun and success
The most hardware to come in womens athletics in recent years has been on the hockey rink Mrs Petersons pucksters have captured the Ontario Women s Intercollegiate Athletics Association crown six times A record unequalled in the last decade
At present the ladies participate in 12 sports at the intercollegiate level and in the past year the most highly touted athlete has been field hockey player Marg Ellis Mrs Ellis is presently a member of the Ontario Provincial Field Hockey Team and she would like to earn a spot on the national squad in the near future
With the Olympic Games drawing near and the Ontario Agricultural College one hundred years old this year the young men and women who participate in sports at Guelph will be working to spread the Guelph name in Montreal in 1976 Names like Sharpe Deschatelets Saunders and Maclaren proudly reflect the glories of the past In old Librannis in yellowed newspaper clippings and on the nameplates of trophies people such as Goomer Raithby OAC 51 Poker Mills OAC 34 and Bill Dimson will always be remembered as viial cogs in the OAVC Aggie athletic machine 0
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campus highlights Housing shortage shortlived Early reports on the housing situation at Guelph were rather bleak however A W Mcinnis Director of Residences recently reported that the present situation is not serious and that all students have found permanent accommodation A student governmentshysponsored tent city saw very little use (approximately 10 students slept in it) as did special emergency housing in the Gryphon Room of the stadium (no-one slept there)
Tent City near the East Residences
The lack of off-campus student housing this year is directly connected to a general scarcity of housing in the city explained Mr Mcinnis He noted that because of high mortgage rates those who formerly rented their premises have ceased renting and are now selling their property In addition Guelphs attractive location vis-a-vis Toronto has led commuters to settle in many of the new subdivisions and residents who might have moved cannot afford the higher housing prices This is particularly applicable to those Guelph residents living in the downtown sections of the city which contain older but extremely large homes When sold these houses are often converted into
apartments but with fewer sales the predictable result is fewer apartments
A visit to city hall by residence officials confirmed that the off-campus situation will not improve in the immediate future and high mortgage interest rates coupled with high construction costs makes residence construction a high economic risk
The problem became acute this year due to a sharp increase in the number of students desiring residence accommodation compared with Sept 1973
Last year at mid-August approximately 2200 seniors had accepted rooms in residence By May 15 of this year more than 2200 seniors had been placed in residence and with places reserved for 1760 freshmen the Universitys 3900 beds were taken by mid-May
The 68 co-op apartments were also filled early for the fall semester Many students took out a years lease instead of an eight month agreement resulting in an extremely low turnover - less than 20 per cent from a year ago
Similar difficulties were evident at Wellington Woods the University s married students residence located on Stone Road Last year there were 36 vacancies for the fall semester this year that figure was cut to 12
Despite these figures the 1974 student housing picture in Guelph is now under control - until next fall
Freshmen enjoy a hayride tour around the University campus
Orienteering grant The University of Guelph often referred to as the home of orienteering in North America will benefit by a grant of more than $42000 made to the Canadian Orienteering Federation by Health and Welfare Canada The Honourable Marc Lalonde gave notice of the grant to Professor A Sass Peepre of Human Kinetics Professor Peepre is one of the founders of the Federation and is presently the president of the group
Orienteering is becoming very popular in Canada and is now taught at all levels in many schools The sport uses map and compass to find a specified route through the countryside and attracts thousands to meets in Europe
Enrolment increases Guelph s largest complement of students began classes in September Full-time enrolment has increased 11 per cent over last year Full-time undergraduate enrolment stood at 9100 on September 10 with approximately 550 full-time graduate students expected to register Part-time undergraduates number 600 part-time grad students about 150
A red-and-white orientation tent was erected outside the University Centre to provide a focal pOint for new students Orientation featured free concerts football games hayride tours of the campus and meetings with deans and academic counsellors
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The University of Guelph Choir led by conductor Nicholas Goldschmidt
Choir returns from tour The 42-member University of Guelph Choir returned to Guelph after several wellshyreceived performances in the Maritimes
The choir performed in Charlottetown New Glasgow Sydney Antigonish Halifax Dartmouth Yarmouth and at Acadia University in Wolfville under the direction of Nicholas Goldschmidt and assistant conductor Nickolaus Kaethler with accompanist Gerald Manning recitalist Denise Turcotte and soloist Robert Missen Along with works by Handel Bach Rossini Cherubini Schubert and Vaughan Williams the choir performed Canadian folk songs arranged by music professor Derek Healey
One of the main reasons for going on tour is to improve the quality of the choir commented Dean Murdo MacKinnon College of Arts The tour of Scotland in 1973 had a marked effect on the group so the 1974 tour of the Maritimes was a natural development Proof of the new level attained is that this year at the end of the tour the choir was asked by the CBC in Halifax to make a recording of a considerable portion of Handels Passion
which will be broadcast at the Easter season in 1975
Before the choir departed for the Maritimes an advance notice was sent to University of Guelph alumni in the area stating the times and places where the choir was to appear The results were extremely satisfying to the choir in that several alumni turned out for the performances
The choir experienced a rather unexpected thrill when it visited Fortress Louisburg in Cape Breton Island and was asked to record ten minutes of religious music in the beautiful chapel which is part of the historic fortress being re-built by the Government of Canada Consequently when visitors to the chapel hear quiet choral music in the background theyre listening to the University of Guelph Choir singing chorales of J S Bach
The choir was greeted by an enthusiastic Halifax audience when it performed in Rebecca Cohn Auditorium at Dalhousie University A critic for the Halifax Chronicle Herald commented Right from the opening of this work the
audience could hear a well-trained professional choir The singers close attention to every move of Director Goldschmidt was a joy to see and hear
The choi r sang before an overflow audience in Zion Baptist Church in Yarmouth on the opening day of the International Tuna Fish Festival A Yarmouth critic wrote The audience which gave the visitors two standing ovations was deeply moved by the majestic performance of the Passion of Christ by Handel The choir provided dramatic contrasts and excellent control of the exciting fugues which are characteristic of Handel
The program was presented once more after the choi rs retu rn They sang in St Andrews United Church Sudbury on Sunday October 6
Ottawa chapter barbecue was a success The Ottawa chapter of the University of Guelph Alumni Association held a family barbecue on Saturday September 14
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campus highlights
at the Kemptville College of Agricultural Tec hnology
A group of 125 adults and c hildren took part in a variety of games followed by a tour of the expe rimental ba rns and orchards Then everyone enjoyed a chicken barbecue Prizes for the ad ults were quarts of Ontario maple syrup and two pounds of honey
Board appoints new members Professor James Archibald OVC 49 Richard Birc hal l Kenneth Hammill OAC 51 and John Wood began their three-year terms on July 1 as new members on the Unive rsi ty s Board of Governors
Professor Archibald 55 a senate appointee to the board graduated from the Ontario Veterin ary COllege with a DVM degree in 1949 and in 1951 was granted a Master of Veterinary Science Professor Archibald has been on the OVC faculty since 1949 and was appOinted professor and chairman of clinical studies in 1963 a posi tion which he st ill holds
Archibald
Hammill Birchall
Ric hard Birchall 59 is president of the Canadian National Sportsmen s Show and the Toronto International Boat Show In addition he is chairman of the Ontario Waterfowl Research Foundation which adm ini sters the Kortright Waterfow l Park in Gue lph He is a director of the
North American Wildlife Foundation and a Canadian director of the World Wildlife fund He is also a mem ber of the Conserva ti on Council of Ontario and vice-chairm an of the Del ta Waterfowl Research Station com mi ttee in Manitoba Mr Birchall is a mem be r of the inner council of the Wildfow l Trust in Slim bridge England and sits on the faculty of forestry advisory council o f the University of Toronto He has been a frequent visitor to campus in connection with his interests in several research projects being carried out in OAC OVC and the College of Biological Sc ience
Ken Hammill a 1951 graduate o f the Ontario Agricultural College is viceshypresident and a director of Omark Canada Ltd in Guelph Mr Hammill has been a member o f Guelph c ity council since 1962 and has served on the f in ance personnel parks and recre ation committees He has also been a ci ty representative on the Grand River Conservation Authority
John Wood 34 studied at the University of Western Ontario where he graduated in 1964 as a gold medal ist in business administrat ion He is presently vice-president (manufac turin g) and a director of the N C Wood Company in Gue lph He is a member of the Guelph Chamber of Commerce the Guelph Industrial and Economic Deve lopment Commission and the Guelph Rotary Club Mr Wood also se rved as c hairman of the Canadi an government appliance miss ion to Europe in 1968
Aggies took over September 23-28 Aggie Week 74 was filled with the usual merriment and competition that stems from a long-standing OAC tradition
Anim al scientist Bob Forshaw easily won the faculty trophy for cow milking with 35 ounces in one minute defeating other competitors suc h as President Winegard who milked two ounces last years champion Mike Jenkinson OAC 63 with 11 ounces and Professor Richard Vosburgh acting dean of Family and Consumer Studies with three ounces
Animal sc ient ist Roge r Hacker won the hog calling contest followed by Dr H 0 Branion assistant to the president
who tied for second place with agricultural economist Phil Wright
Monster ball competitions bed races chariot races and tugs of war brought out many faculty and students for the annual Aggie Games won bY OAC Class 77
Former chairman honoured The Department of Animal and Poultry Science recently honou red its former chairman Professor J C Rennie OAC 47 who left the campus to become executive direc tor of the education and resea rch division of the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food
Pro fessor Renni e jo ined the faculty in 1952 and was chairman from 1965 to 1971 Du ring the past yea r he served as acting dean of research during the absence on sabbatical of Dean W E Tossell OAC 47
Alma Mater Fund results encouraging Fund Chairman Neil Darrach reports that the Alma Mater Fund has received $120330 towards its $160000 objecti ve
A total of 2396 gifts have been received from alumni faculty professional staff and other suppo rters of higher education Gifts from the Guelph campus amounting to $27247 have reached a new high and exceed the final tabulat ion of $25977 achieved in last years fund drive on the campus
The Century Club Division of the fund reports that 357 founding members have renewed their memberships at this time with gifts of $100 or more In addition 112 new founding members have subscribed to the Century Club
Mr Darrach stated that donors who make leadership gifts to the Alma Mater Fund Century Club in 1974 and the two years preced ing the Centennial will be known as foundin g members He also stated th at the Challenge Grant made by Continental Can Company of Canada Ltd is attracting many new and increased gifts Under the term s of the Challenge Grant new girts and the amount of increase over a previous annual gift will be matched by the Challenge Grant to a max imum of $5000
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November 28 University of Guelph to January 5 Printmaking Workshop
(collection of international prints) McLaughlin Library Main Floor Gallery Monday through Saturday 9 am to 10 pm Sunday 1 pm to 10 pm
December 27 Centennial 74 Finale University Centre 830 pm to 1 am
Landscaping Guelphs Campus
NATURE lovers struggle continually against the kind of urban development
thai destroys trees wildlife and natural land features Conservation groups picket and petition to save waterways and forests home owners plant trees to disguise barren and featureless urban housing developments and one determined surburbanite made headlines by perching in a tree in a vain attempt to save it
The Guelph campus provides refreshing testimony that development can be green lush and beautiful Scores of majestic trees some of them planted in the nineteenth century form a dignified setting for Guelphs eclecti c montage of contemporary and historical architecture
Of course the beauty of the Guelph campus didn t just happen It is the result of careful planning selective preservation meticulous grooming and co-operation from a team of experts Since development of the Universi ty began in 1965 individuals and committees within the Unive rsity have worked to preserve the best of the existing landscape in the face of rapid growth and construction
The Universitys Landscape Advisory Committee has saved many beautiful and unusual trees by instigating design changes and minor relocations of new building s The new building that will house the Schoo l of Hotel and Food Administration now under construction progressed through several design concepts The approved design will cause minimal damage to the stand of conifers along the northern edge of the campus To save the trees which date back to about the turn of the century the new structure is being built on an existing roadway Even the location of steam co nduits is calculated to minimize environmental damage
Landscape design on the campus goes back to the 1880s when the Professor of Agriculture William Brown commissioned landscape consultants to draw up a landscapi ng plan for the new campus The plan included scores of nati ve and
exo tic trees which in the years to come would serve as a teaching aid to students in horticulture botany and landscape architecture
Professor Brown himself in his capacity as farm manager supervised the planting of hundreds of trees on the campus Survivors of th at early planting include the double row of sugar maples on the east side of Gordon Street unfortunately the western row of maples have succumbed to the ravages of time and road salt Other botanical octogenarians include the spruces around Johnston Mills and Creelman Hall s
The planting of trees and sh rubs continued regularly until about 1960 and resumed again after completion of the University Master Development Plan in 1965 Drawn up by Project Planning Associates Ltd the plan lays out a general landscape to complement the placement of buildings services roads walkways and parking areas It includes recommendations for plant materials along the major roads and walkways Landscaping over the last eight years has followed these guidelines with minor revisions depending on availability of plant materials and ecological considerations About 5000 trees and shrubs have been planted in accordance with the recommendations
The master plan calls for a variety of plants and landscaping styles Contemporary walkways and plazas complement stately traditional plantings and the Universitys varied architectural styles Foliage ground covers wood chips and stones surround century-old trees and provide attractive lowshymaintenance areas to contrast with the acres of lawn Planting styles span the century - from the traditional areas around Johnston Hall to the ultra modern design around the OVCs new laboratory animal building The informal setting of evergreens and boulders in front of the soil science building contrasts with the calculated arrangement of planting boxes
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by the crop science building While the master plan specifies
landscaping along major walkways and roads it doesnt make specific recommendations for plantings around new buildings existing buildings and parking lots Such detailed planning depends on building design snow drifting considerations and traffic patterns
Because of the volume of construction that has taken place on campus since 1966 the demand for landscaping design has been considerable with most of it being done by off-campus consultants Project Planners for example designed the areas around the Arts building McLaughlin Library the Power Plant Crop Science building and Lambton Hall all of which constituted the first phase of major construction in 1965 and 1966 The same firm also designed the major walkways and plazas the pedestrian spines the main entry plaza south of the new University Centre and the plaza in front of the Food Science building
Much of the landscape planning is now done by Pat Tucker OAC 65 Head of Grounds Mr Tucker explains that with the major construction now com plete the volume of landscape planning is more manageable
All building plans and landscape designs must meet the approval of the Landscape Advisory Committee made up of landscape architects horticulturists and other campus representatives The committee makes extensive use of the campus tree inventory assembled in 1966 and updated every five years The location species size and condition of affected trees can be determined when locating and designing buildings walkways underground services and roads If the location of an outstanding mature tree conflicts with construction plans alternatives are considered This may involve moving the tree if possible rerouting a road path or underground services or slightly relocating buildings Obviously the campus development has taken its toll of mature
trees but replacements and new plantings will eventually mature
To the great envy of home gardeners new trees planted on the campus look like trees The spindly garden store specimens that home gardeners coax into treehood are rarely seen on campus Most of the trees planted on the main campus have spent five to six years in the nursery on Stone Road growing from toothpick size to a respectable 10 or 15 foot height
Because of the long-range development plan the university can purchase small trees that will be required for specific plantings in the future With the careful attention in the nursery the young trees quickly grow and fill out After five or six years of pampered nursery care a one-inch caliper tree could reach a height of 15 feet with a trunk diameter of five inches
Use of ground covers on campus follows an important trend in contemporary landscaping Many of these plants are propagated in the nursery from seed or cuttings Starters come from a variety of sources natural settings the old horticulture garden and commercial sources In addition the campus features ground covers such as grass wood chips and stones Ground covers when used properly facilitate maintenance discourage weeds help retain moisture and enhance appearances
Designing low-maintenance landscape settings doesnt eliminate the need for year-round care of the campuss 160 acres of lawn 40 acres of trees shrubs and hedges 45 acres of ground covers and flower beds 35 acres of parking lots 22 ac res of roads and 114 ac res of walkways Constant grooming is essential because the campus serves as an example to students visiting groups and home gardeners Most trees shrubs and ground covers are labelled so that students and Sunday strollers can make cross-campus jaunts informative and (hopefully) inspiring 0 -
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An Emigrant at OAC THE contribution which students of
British origin have made to life on the campus of the Ontario Agricultural College has never been examined Many old alumni would agree that this contribution was very considerable Year after year these students provided for example many star players for football teams entire cricket teams trained performers for dramatic productions officers for the Literary Society authors for the OAC Review the first Rhodes scholar interesting men in classes and finally a dash of cultural refinement against which the native born Aggie sometimes saw himself to disadvantage
It is not the purpose of this article to give a comprehensive account of the British students at the OAC over the past century Rather the article focuses upon one such student Edward G E Ffolkes from Hillington Lyn England My choice falls upon him not because he was outstanding but rather because he has left a fascinating account in his diary and letters of what life was like at the OAC in the years 1880-1881
When Ffolkes came to Guelph October 30 1880 the Ontario School of Agriculture and Experimental Farm had just become The Ontario Agricultural
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by Professor A M Ross
College and Experimental Farm James Mills in office since 1879 had just accepted the new title president The College Circular in 1880 showed the staff as follows James Mills MA President Professor of English Literature and Natural History William Brown (Gold medallist of the Scottish Arboricultural Society and of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland) Professor of Agriculture and Farm Superintendent J Hoyes Panton MA Professor of Chemistry E A A Grange VS Professor of Veterinary Science Alexander McTavish (First-Class Provo Certificate) Assistant Resident and Mathematical Master P J Woods Instructor in Farm Department James Forsyth Instructor in Horticultural Department James Mcintosh Instructor in Mechanical Department Thomas Johnston Bursar
Although the College was established primarily for the sake of the farmers of Ontario in 1880 it was failing to attract their sons In the Fall Term of that year 69 Ontario students registered
eight fewer than the year before A year later the number registering had slipped to 63 Meanwhile the number of nonshyresident students nearly doubled from 14 in 1880 to 26 in 1881 One-half of the 26 came from Britain For several years the non-resident student was a very important component of the College enrolment
How did it come about that OAG was apparently so well known in Britain so soon after its establishment in 1874 How did Edward Ffolkes at the age of 18 a student at the Haileybury Public School for Boys in Hertfordshire hear about this Canadian college One reasonable explanation may rest upon the publicity which surrounded William Brown the voluble farm superintendent when he went overseas to buy stock for the College he frequently spoke and wrote about the advantages of emigration to Canada Browns emphasis upon the OAC as being a place where a young man was taught practically appealed especially to those who planned to own land and farm it themselves
By his own admission the OAC was for Edward Ffolkes a means whereby he could learn the outline of farming and get hardy and all that sort of thing
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before going west to take up land in Manitoba Young Britons like Ffolkes may well have found William Browns account of the OACs educational theory and practice very attractive That it did not appeal to an Ontario farmers son in the 1880s was not at all surprising Ontario farm boys were all too aware of the practicalities of farming at home Neither Dr Mills Circular nor Browns speeches could convince them that the Ontario Agricultural College and Experimental Farm deserved their attendance in large numbers
At Guelph Ffolkes was initiated very quickly into a life which offered him very little if any chance to indulge in the pleasures he had known back home his pipe of tobacco his glass of beer the delights of the ballroom and concerts five oclock teas sailing billiards college suppers and evening dress At the OAC he found that waistcoat tie and collar are quite unnecessary not to say unheard of articles as of course we have not time to change after work He was furthermore puzzled about the prejudice which Canadians had against wearing knickerbockers Indeed he had come to College with much the wrong kind of clothing His Norfolk jacket was too good to wear for outside work What he needed was a pea jacket Aunt Fannys knitted waistcoat was suitable for swagger occasions but what he should have had was a woo llen waistcoat with sleeves h is tweed
trousers too had to be replaced by red by two goals As it was Saturday canvas overalls and trousers made of October 30 All Hallows Eve Edward pilot cloth went out singing for apples and
On his arrival in Guelph Edward was collected nearly half a bushel in a bag asked as soon as he got off the train On the following Monday he and other to play halfback in a football match new students wrote the matriculation against the town which the College won examinations in grammar composition
TIME TABLES FOn ICALL TERll (1 ST OCTomr 10 CIIRrSTB S) lSS0
Time taolp No1 gives the rout ine of th e di(fe rr nt ycnrs nnltl c1ivi ~ ion s for the first week tim~ hide No 2 the routine of til( ~iI)le yen r s nnd di is infls for t l second week No1 and L o 3 Hi iug ll t ll follnwcu nl tc lllulely f r l wcek eac h t llroughou t the term
TDIE TADLE No I - 1ST WEEK
1 ST YEAR-D1YlSIO oI II
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geography and arithmetic The results showed that Ffolkes doubled everyone elses marks getting 357 out of a possible 400
Like other students at the OA C Edward Ffolkes kept a diary it was a custom which the College seems to have Insisted upon for many years and severa l of these diaries have survived Edward s daily entries differ from those of his fellows in that his observations frequently go beyond the bare mention of routine chores and weather conditions On December 6 1880 for example he was thrashing in the experime ntal barn wheie all the specimens of grai n are tested bottled and labelled (before being sent) to the members of the Agricultu ra l Union which had been established in 1878 Like his contemporary Oscar Chase he reveals the practical austerities of his education getting up at 530 am to worlt four or five hours a day at two cents an hour learnin g to harness teams cleaning feeding an d littering cattle glazing double windows d itch digging up to his knees in freezin g water spreading manure acting as farm clerk (boss job) feeding the steam chaff-cutter assisting the shepherd pulping tu rn ips using a crosscut saw in the bush and chopping wood early in the morning for the farm s steam engine
Unlike many other students Edward Ffolkes cheerfully accepted the regul ations regarding student labour for they ensured that he would gain work expe rience which might serve him well in western Canada He did not however accept the academic work of the classroom in the same spirit He adm itted that it was both demanding and difficult and pointed out in one of his letters home that the two-year course at Guelph really req uired three years of attendance The lectures he asserted were decidedly hard work and took up too much of a students time Even though he had given up much sleep cramming for the Christmas examinations he found the papers ho rrible
Although he had intended to stay at the College over the Christmas vacation to improve his knowledge about farming Edward found his room so uncomfortably warm the scrub womans activities so energetic and the 930 pm curfew so confining that he thought the sooner he sloped the better He spent Christmas Eve in Toronto at Trinity College where he drank absent friends and tried to forget those horrible papers which he asserted had knocked him up a little During his first week in Toronto he went to four dances in the next to five
Alexander M Ross The College on the Hill Toronto Copp Clark 1974 pp 61-64
I PAPERS SET AT THE SESSIONAL EXA)IINATIONS EASTER 1881
FIRST YEAJt
AGRICULTURE
Exam in er V I BIWW~
1 G ive a comprehensi ve sketch of wha t characLcris8~ the d iaer ent kinds of b rming ~~led grazing (Ltiry ing a nd mi xeuro d
2 Whit t gu idp~ us in conclud ing that a soil 1p1uirp~ to be drain cltl and how is dminage in a ll its J etai is most elli ciently co uudcu u nder two of the most opposite condition s j
3 State wh~ t is m e tnt by inj u(l icious com l)i uti on of m tedal in f ncc building and exph in Lhe telms severance damages ~ Cd l Wl ter d l ill and gradient in connection w ith road ma king
F[RST YEAR
PRACTICAL EXAMINATION IN LIVE STOCK
Exami1ler VM B ROWN
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1 Show the b pst and the poorest p oint~ of the youngest steer j udging by a Shortrshyhorn standar d
2 D escribe the whole getr-up of the other stee r fl om any point of cornparisolil 3 N ame t he brerding of t he cows wd show wherein the one inuicates superior
mi lking properties to the other
F IST YEAR
PRACTICJAL EXA~III~ATION IN LIVE STOCK
E xaminer V~ BROWgt
SaREP-L P oin t out and name t he ltliflelent b reeds croses a nd grades 2 middotWhich is the best wooled iJ cep a s regards uniformity a nd ~oundness 7 3 H ow would you h reed from amOJg the~e in order t o secure as neM as pos iiv lc
the wool of the Ier ino w il h t h( carcass of the Leicester and eonstitu Lion of the SOlllhshyltlown- giving reasons i ll (lelail l
F IRST YEA R
INORGANIC CHlDIISTRY
EXa1~i71e J HOYES PANTO~ MA
1 Name t he di ffe rent wtty ill which h eat may be transm itted and give examples of ~ch
2 Explain the terms base atom salt lrtten t hea t 3 G ive the pnpltlrlltiOll and p roperties of cholc (lump andjibull e damp 4 Vhat is lnea ll by 11 fo r llu la in chem ist ry 1 l e t he formulas for the three
titri()ls and di sti ll glli~l t hese C01U pOl llds fro l ewh other 5 N t10le three metals lig l1ttgt r thun wat r a llli ltive their p roperties 6 Vrite no tes on tlte cornrOUlrJ s Itpresente Iy Ca Co II X 0 N If 3 N il II U
0 with reference to the ir source ami ll t iJity 7 Give the prcp~mtion a nd p )or~lti es of n itroen 8 N ame the ehffe ren t form s ill w hich itira a nu alnmina occur a nd g ive t heir use 9 DeBcriue a lamp lame a nd explai n the action ot the Bnns~ n hurncr
The New Years custom of calling happiness of man and Resolved that amused him He knew of one gentleman chewing is injurious to health This last who called on as many as 130 different topic is interesting because Ffolkes families in Toronto between 11 00 am and 6 pm on that day
maintained that many of the students c hewed tobacco and their indiscriminate -Throughout his brief year at the OAC or badly aimed spitting made the walls
Edward Ffolkes proved to be a popular and floors in residence simply hoggish student He not only took part in sports On February 18 1881 Edward acted but also participated in the Literary the part of Larkspur in a Literary Society Society of which he became Viceshy entertainment In this connection he President Debating appealed to him and reminded his mother that all the he told his mother about the subjects Engl ishmen here are popular a fact Resolved that ambition is a virtue whi ch he may have thought would be a Resolved that vanity is conducive to the consolation to her when it came time
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EXGLISII CO~IPOSITIOX
1 E xpbin whl t is lD ean t by styl e J-ncl wklt you consider the cs~olltial properties of [ good s tyle
3 Stelte full y IIh1t is co mpreh0nckd U lhl cr the lle)(h of rcc nmc) and clefr~~s 3 Write all lttn ic-i 0 011 the pC(l1i Cl itie~ of p oetic di ction 4 Write a cOlllpui lio ll 011 one or (middotle fol lowing s ul1j ects
(1 ) Clilll1le (l ) Shcep-frming in C l l)(b (3) SYS lClll order and hlilless i1 bnning
(4) Who oer lhe ]l()rc oltllt1 i ~h to r eign Fantas tic helde ficru u1 in I
Vain a s the k a f upon th L Strell Anel fickle s a chall~d ltl clrcalll anttstic 1S i W01LJall Blood And fi e rce as Vrcmy fc(gt retl ulootl
fo r her second son Robert to come to the OAC
Robert Ffolkes however had decided that he wanted to farm in Iowa Edward quickly warned his mother of the dangers of revealing Roberts intentions to those in power at the College
Remember that if the authorities get so much as an inkling that Bob is thinking of farming in Iowa they will fire him out before he has been there a day Iowa being in the United States The other day the Agricultural lecturer asked one of the fellows to describe how he should proceed on taking up land Well I when I get down to Minnesota I shall first do so and so Lecturer Well the sooner you do it the better you can go and pack up you r trunks now and a team shall be ready to take you to the station for the eleven train They lent him money to get home and sent him away at once I had to kiss the Bible and swear an oath and sign a document I was going to remain four years in Canada after leaving the College when I sent in my request for admi ssion
What happened eventually to Robert is not known Although he did come to the OAC for the Fall Term of 1881 he did not stay any longer than his brother did Perhaps he too sought more practical farm training than the College was prepared to offer to a young man anxious to farm a thousand acres in the American West
Edward Ffolkes references to the City of Guelph are very limited Then as now town and gown were di sparate elements but in Edward s day they were geographically at least much more apart When Edward first came to Guelph a
boardwalk had just been laid to link the College grounds to the city limits It must have proved very convelient for the trips into town on Saturdays and on Sundays when Edward taught Sunday School in one of the fourteen churches which he had counted in the city On Saturdays he could attend entertainshyments in the City Hall or at the Drill Hall But it was Toronto that really appealed to Edward it was a splendid town even though he had seen a cart so badly stuck in the mud on Queen Street that it required five horses to pull it out
Despite the attractions of Toronto and the recommendation of a friend that he should take up banking rather than farming Edward Ffolkes determination to go to the northwest never wavered The dearest wish of his heart was to be self-supporting Whilst I am at Guelph College he told his mother it is impossible to be self-supporting for the simple reason the pay we get for working full hours (and I always do work full hours) does not cover board and washing which comes to $2 80 per week
Edward always remained skeptical of the practical value of much of what the College had to offer even of the outside work
In fact from what I can see the farming at Guelph is about the same as in England All the stock comes direct from England and the implements are exactly the same and it is hardly likely that in Manitoba there will be an assortment of implements for thrashing winnowing etc
Much better it was he thought to serve out an apprenticeship period with a successful farmer in the area where you intend to settle It was his opinion that his brother Bob cou Id no more leave the College after a three years course and
farm a thousand acres than fly to the moon Bob he said would have to rough It as foreman in some stock ranch for two years to get used to all the tricks of cattle dealing
By March 22 1881 Edward was in the midst of his Easter examinations and had made up his mind to leave the College to seek practical experience on a farm That he had given up his academic work is obvious from the results of his examinations of the five papers he seems to have written he received honour standing in agriculture and English composition and failed in organic chemistry veterinary anatomy and bookkeeping He never mentions these results in his letters home
That Edward Ffolkes may have underestimated the value of the training which the Ontario Agricultural College had to offer is reasonably certain However he never underestimated his own ability and determination to succeed as a farmer Two years after he left Guelph with the help of approximately two thousand dollars from home he was well established on a farm of 750 acres near Beaconsfield Manitoba with plans to start a shingle and saw mill in the spring The two years had however been desperately hard shyso hard that in his last letter to his mother September 23 1882 Edward Ffolkes spoke of those days of martyrdom and slavery His own account suggests that this was no exaggeration
It is this account and the earlier record of Edward Ffol kes year at the Ontario Agricultural College which was edited by Edwards uncle that gives historical significance to the very rare book Letters from a Young Emigrant in Manitoba published by Kegan Paul Trench in London in 1883 0
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THE OAC Centennial Festival and Alumni Week was Guelphs birthday
party of the century The days and nights from July 6 to 14
were filled with something for everyone regardless of age or interest as many alumni and friends of the University of Guelph came and joined in the once-in-ashylifetime event
Some of the attractions included a parade of antique cars tractors steam engines horse drawn carriages and floats an Olde Tyme outdoor chuckwagon breakfast at Creelman Plaza a gigantic birthday cake six-horse hitches alumni reunions skits of the past visits from dignitaries and a beard-growing contest
Months of plann ing and hard work by the OAC Centennial Committee resulted in a wonderful week for all who attended the festivities
The celebrations were held to pay homage to the Ontario Agricultural College which was established in 1874 by the provincial Department of Agriculture and boasted 30 students who lived in a converted house on a 500-acre farm
Now with a student population hovering near 10000 and an 11 ~O-acre main campus the University of Guelph has sent leading farmers teachers research scientists and businessmen out into the world
The College has provided Canadas agriculture industry with continual research breakthroughs and fresh ideas while internationally it aids significantly in solving the agricultural problems of developing countries
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INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS a Guelph Tradition
by Scott Taylor
Opposite page Four members of the 1910-11 Ontario Agricultural College Basketball Team Left to r ight W Toole 11 W H Smith 12 manager E W White 12 C Main 11
Above An OAVC crest seen on athletic uniforms in the 1940s
ACCORDING to legend a Gryphon was a mythical creature represented by
the head and wings of an eagle the body of a lion and the tail of a serpent Since 1968 this fearful looking symbol that legend claimed to be the protector of the treasures of the Asiatic Scythis has been the guardian of the athletic teams that represent the University of Guelph
Today the College on the Hill has become one of the premier universities in the country in the field of sports competition The university is represented by a Canadian Intercollegiate Athletic
Union basketball champion an Ontario Universities Athletic Association team wrestling winner and an Ontario Womens Intercollegiate Athletic Association ice hockey titleist The list of team and individual crowns that have been won since OAC first participated in athletics as the Aggies is extensive indeed and not to recall in some manner the glorious history of athletics at Guelph first as OA C and MacDonald Institute then as OAVC and Mac and finally as the University of Guelph would be to neglect an important aspect of the centennial of the Ontario Agricultural College
On September sixth of this year the University of Guelph Gryphons opened another football season behind head coach Dick Brown a former professional gridiron player who this year was named to the Greatest Toronto Argonaut All-Star team in history The Manitoba Bisons flew in from Winnipeg and topped the Gryphons in the season starter by a fourteen-Io-six score as the passing combination of Brad Hall to Craig Holt the leading receiver in Gryphon history highlighted the evening for the Red and Gold
Through many seasons of success the losses have come as well In 1960 behind head coach Tom Mooney the passing combination was from Jim Wright 61 A to Dave Hume OAC 61 but it wasnt quite enough as the OAVC Football Redmen suffered through a bitter year of rebuilding the glories of the past The sports writer of the Libranni 1961 may have put it best in a piece entitled Great is the Fall He wrote
There are many quotations and sayings that express the difficulty of maintaining ones position at the top This year the Redmen found out just how true those expressions were Gone was the mighty invincible Redmen machine that
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flattened all the opposition without mercy Every team in the league sought to add to its own laurels and to the humiliation of the Redmen by proclaiming that they too could defeat those farmers from Guelph Due to this every team that the Redmen encountered was fired up for the encounter and played their best against our squad
However the thrill of victory has been at hand more often than not for the rugby football teams from Guelph In 1934 Head Coach and Athletic Director of the OAC Aggies F G Baldy Baldwin led a tough squad of men to the Canadian Intermediate Intercollegiate Rugby Championships for the second time W F Bill Mitchell OAC 38 quartershybacked the Aggies of 34 and today that same Bill Mitchell quarterbacks the
Above Intermediate Intercollegiate Football Champions 1949
Right Intermediate Intercollegiate Basketball Champions 1925-26 Left to right Prof A W Baker 11 coach J W G McEwan 26 J E Ridley 27 J R Currey 29 L M Schenck 26 captain L Young 27 R Graham 29 Geo Thompson 27 H Potter A T Rintoul 26 manager
entire sports program at the University of Guelph as Director of Athletics Included on that same team which incidentally did not enter the Ontario Rugby Football Union playdowns because of bad weather and approaching exam inations was a hard-nosed middle known as Haley Hales He is probably better remembered by the people in Guelph and Wellington Riding as Alfred Dryden Hales OAC 34 Member of Parliament who stepped down this past election after more than sixteen years of political service
The names of players and their eventual careers after graduation is a vast area to research Athletes who have finished their studies at Guelph have gone into various fields but a few of them have remained as outstanding athletes in the professional ranks The most recent of these are football kicker Gerry Organ BSc(PE) 71 of the Ottawa Rough
Riders and hockey netminder Ken lockett BA 72 As anyone who follows Canadian sporting fortunes knows former Gryphon Organ is the reigning Schenley Award Winner as the most outstanding native Canadian in the Canadian Football league Fewer people may know that lockett 1971 s All-Canadian hockey goaltender former mem ber of the Canadian World Student Games Team and of course a graduate Gryphon has recently been signed to a pro contract with the Vancouver Canucks of th e National Hockey league
Other Guelph athletes of the past have continued their careers at top amateur level s A prime example of this is Grant Maclaren In 1969 Maclaren put on a near one-man show at the CIA U cross-country championships He earned himself the national individual title and at the same time was backed up
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by a superb University of Guelph harrier contingent that captu red the CIAU team championship as well Today Maclaren is still a world-class distance runner who will no doubt represent Canada at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal
Another Gryphon who may be an Olympic Team member is basketball star Bob Sharpe last season Sharpe was an OUA A All-Star an All-Star team member at the CIAU championships as well as the lalter tournament s Most Valuable Player This past summer Sharpe got his first taste of international competition as a player on the Canadian National Mens Basketball Team - a team that gave Canada its best performance since the 1936 Olympics when our nations finest lost a gold medal to the United States by a 19-5 score on an outdoor court and in a driving rainstorm
Rugger at Guelph
International competition is not restricted to track stars and basketball players however This winter the University of Guelph will have four varsity wrestlers with foreign experience behind them Richard Deschatelets represented Canada in Europe this past summer while Bob Price and Tom Bethune travelled with the country s B team on a tour of the United States In 1974 AI Tschirhart was a member of Canadas World Student Games Team in Moscow and when one adds the name of OUA A champion Ross Barrable to the formidable list of four there appears to be little doubt that Guelph will repeat as A M Porter Trophy winners
Perhaps the name of this piece of silverware itself is an indication of the success of the wrestling program at Guelph The Porter Trophy was presented to the Canadian Intercollegiate Athletic
Union by A M Porter OAC 20 the Registrar of the Ontario Agricultural College Guelph Canada as a token of his active interest in University Wrestling since 1920 That is what is inscribed on the prize that is now the sought-after conclusion to the OUAA wrestling season It is appropriate that OAVC shyUniversity of Guelph teams have won this trophy seven times and are presently showing it off in the trophy case at the Athletics Centre (The University of Western Ontario has won it alone six times but on two other occasions has shared it with the University of Waterloo) From Coach Wright OAC 33 in the thirties to Coach Schlegal in the forties through Coach Glen Peister OAC 50 in the seasons of the fifties with Coach Bob Heinrich OAC 5SA in the early sixties and now in the seventies with highly-touted Londo Iacovelli at the helm
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Aggie Gryphon and Redm en grapplers have been the prime target for the opposition eve ry year
One sport at Guelph th at has just attained a position of national prominence is the game of basketball Behind people like Sharpe AI Grunys Denni s Krawchuk and graduating seniors Paul Allen BSc (HK)74 and Phil Smith BA 74 the University won a national championship in 1974 When Garney Henley took over as head coach however the University of Guelph posted a depressing one winshy17 loss season Many times during the next few years Coach Henley was fortunate to have a successful professional foo tball ca reer with the Canadian Football League s Hamilton Tiger-Cats to conso le him However through hard work and with players like Mark Walton BA 72 Chester Graham BA 73 and Wayne Morgan BA 72 Henley and his assistants Doug Dodd and Dic k Brown have built a superb prog ram
In 1956 howeve r with Tom Mooney at the helm a group of ball players had the words Take Off as an inspiration and were fighting to ga in acceptance into senior interc ollegiate ranks Led by Murray Atkinson OAC 60 who later became the firs t two-tim e win ner of the Athlete of the Year Award and by Bill Dimson OAC 57A whose subsequent death in a ca r acc ident a few years later was a bl ow for all who knew him the OAVC Aggies fini shed in second place at the intermediate level losing a heartbreaking 56-52 dec ision to the eventual c hampion Weste rn Dimsons name has not been forgotten at Guelph a plaque presented annually in his honour goes to the schools Most Valuable Baske tball Pl aye r Am ong the winners of the Bill Dimson Memorial Award are present holder Bob Sharpe and Guelphs first official All-Canadian basketball player Wayne Morgan
Top An OAC swim team resplendent in their tank suits
Above University of Guelph wrestling squad coached by Londo Iacovelli
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Awards and particularly AII-Canadtan honours are not uncommon among the present group of athletes at Guelph In addition to Ken Lockett in hockey and Morgan in basketball John Kelley and Dave lane of this years gridiron Gryphs were named All-Canadians in 1973
locketts hockey heroics were displayed when the University of Guelph was not a power on the ice but this season the Gryphons and their young coach Bud Folusewych are favoured to take serious aim at the University of Waterloos national crown led by little Adam Brown who broke all the scoring records in Ontario college hockey last season forward Bill Hanson defenceman Doug McKay and goaltender David Moote - all OUAA AII-Starsshythe Gryphons will have a good opportunity to relive past Gryphon glories Such a year was 1960 when coach AI Singleton and athletes such as Max ONeil OAC 61 Wayne lopp and Bill German OAC 61 ousted Ryerson in a semi-final playoff to earn a birth in the championship round against the powerful men from McMaster
Hockey football basketball and wrestling certainly arent the only sports that have provided Guelph with athletic laurels Cross-country teams boxing squads and golf teams have all brought hardware home to the trophy case at Guelph as today the school participates in 17 sports at the intercollegiate level The facilities for all these activities at Guelph are not totally adequate and only the football stadium could be described as outstanding Alumni Stadium opened officially on October 17 1970 is a 4100 seat complex that is not only home for the football Gryphons but houses the large multi-purpose Gryphon Room where accommodation can be made for karate wrestling and other related activities It is truly the highlight of the athletics complex on the Guelph campus
There are people on the staff and faculty at Guelph who although they dont fly the banner of the Gryphon still aid in the publics knowledge of athletics at the University of Guelph Librarian Yvonne Saunders who is a British Commonwealth Games gold medalist and Professor Abigail Hoffman of the Political Studies Department who has represented Canada in countless track events at the international level including the Olympic Games spread the name of the university in a way that is unequalled by any other non-academic activity
It is interesting to note that these two non-student athletes are both women The University of Guelph has a successful womens program as well and it has certainly grown since 1952 when Margaret Dix coached almost every sport at MacDonald Institute
With Shirley Peterson co-ordinating intercollegiate athletics and coaching ice hockey Val (Millar) Freeman BSc (PE) 70 heading the intramural program and coaching basketball and Joni Johnson Anne Stallman and Pam Wedd BSc(HK) 74 taking the coachs reins in a variety of activities the ladies at Guelph have a good foundation for fun and success
The most hardware to come in womens athletics in recent years has been on the hockey rink Mrs Petersons pucksters have captured the Ontario Women s Intercollegiate Athletics Association crown six times A record unequalled in the last decade
At present the ladies participate in 12 sports at the intercollegiate level and in the past year the most highly touted athlete has been field hockey player Marg Ellis Mrs Ellis is presently a member of the Ontario Provincial Field Hockey Team and she would like to earn a spot on the national squad in the near future
With the Olympic Games drawing near and the Ontario Agricultural College one hundred years old this year the young men and women who participate in sports at Guelph will be working to spread the Guelph name in Montreal in 1976 Names like Sharpe Deschatelets Saunders and Maclaren proudly reflect the glories of the past In old Librannis in yellowed newspaper clippings and on the nameplates of trophies people such as Goomer Raithby OAC 51 Poker Mills OAC 34 and Bill Dimson will always be remembered as viial cogs in the OAVC Aggie athletic machine 0
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campus highlights Housing shortage shortlived Early reports on the housing situation at Guelph were rather bleak however A W Mcinnis Director of Residences recently reported that the present situation is not serious and that all students have found permanent accommodation A student governmentshysponsored tent city saw very little use (approximately 10 students slept in it) as did special emergency housing in the Gryphon Room of the stadium (no-one slept there)
Tent City near the East Residences
The lack of off-campus student housing this year is directly connected to a general scarcity of housing in the city explained Mr Mcinnis He noted that because of high mortgage rates those who formerly rented their premises have ceased renting and are now selling their property In addition Guelphs attractive location vis-a-vis Toronto has led commuters to settle in many of the new subdivisions and residents who might have moved cannot afford the higher housing prices This is particularly applicable to those Guelph residents living in the downtown sections of the city which contain older but extremely large homes When sold these houses are often converted into
apartments but with fewer sales the predictable result is fewer apartments
A visit to city hall by residence officials confirmed that the off-campus situation will not improve in the immediate future and high mortgage interest rates coupled with high construction costs makes residence construction a high economic risk
The problem became acute this year due to a sharp increase in the number of students desiring residence accommodation compared with Sept 1973
Last year at mid-August approximately 2200 seniors had accepted rooms in residence By May 15 of this year more than 2200 seniors had been placed in residence and with places reserved for 1760 freshmen the Universitys 3900 beds were taken by mid-May
The 68 co-op apartments were also filled early for the fall semester Many students took out a years lease instead of an eight month agreement resulting in an extremely low turnover - less than 20 per cent from a year ago
Similar difficulties were evident at Wellington Woods the University s married students residence located on Stone Road Last year there were 36 vacancies for the fall semester this year that figure was cut to 12
Despite these figures the 1974 student housing picture in Guelph is now under control - until next fall
Freshmen enjoy a hayride tour around the University campus
Orienteering grant The University of Guelph often referred to as the home of orienteering in North America will benefit by a grant of more than $42000 made to the Canadian Orienteering Federation by Health and Welfare Canada The Honourable Marc Lalonde gave notice of the grant to Professor A Sass Peepre of Human Kinetics Professor Peepre is one of the founders of the Federation and is presently the president of the group
Orienteering is becoming very popular in Canada and is now taught at all levels in many schools The sport uses map and compass to find a specified route through the countryside and attracts thousands to meets in Europe
Enrolment increases Guelph s largest complement of students began classes in September Full-time enrolment has increased 11 per cent over last year Full-time undergraduate enrolment stood at 9100 on September 10 with approximately 550 full-time graduate students expected to register Part-time undergraduates number 600 part-time grad students about 150
A red-and-white orientation tent was erected outside the University Centre to provide a focal pOint for new students Orientation featured free concerts football games hayride tours of the campus and meetings with deans and academic counsellors
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The University of Guelph Choir led by conductor Nicholas Goldschmidt
Choir returns from tour The 42-member University of Guelph Choir returned to Guelph after several wellshyreceived performances in the Maritimes
The choir performed in Charlottetown New Glasgow Sydney Antigonish Halifax Dartmouth Yarmouth and at Acadia University in Wolfville under the direction of Nicholas Goldschmidt and assistant conductor Nickolaus Kaethler with accompanist Gerald Manning recitalist Denise Turcotte and soloist Robert Missen Along with works by Handel Bach Rossini Cherubini Schubert and Vaughan Williams the choir performed Canadian folk songs arranged by music professor Derek Healey
One of the main reasons for going on tour is to improve the quality of the choir commented Dean Murdo MacKinnon College of Arts The tour of Scotland in 1973 had a marked effect on the group so the 1974 tour of the Maritimes was a natural development Proof of the new level attained is that this year at the end of the tour the choir was asked by the CBC in Halifax to make a recording of a considerable portion of Handels Passion
which will be broadcast at the Easter season in 1975
Before the choir departed for the Maritimes an advance notice was sent to University of Guelph alumni in the area stating the times and places where the choir was to appear The results were extremely satisfying to the choir in that several alumni turned out for the performances
The choir experienced a rather unexpected thrill when it visited Fortress Louisburg in Cape Breton Island and was asked to record ten minutes of religious music in the beautiful chapel which is part of the historic fortress being re-built by the Government of Canada Consequently when visitors to the chapel hear quiet choral music in the background theyre listening to the University of Guelph Choir singing chorales of J S Bach
The choir was greeted by an enthusiastic Halifax audience when it performed in Rebecca Cohn Auditorium at Dalhousie University A critic for the Halifax Chronicle Herald commented Right from the opening of this work the
audience could hear a well-trained professional choir The singers close attention to every move of Director Goldschmidt was a joy to see and hear
The choi r sang before an overflow audience in Zion Baptist Church in Yarmouth on the opening day of the International Tuna Fish Festival A Yarmouth critic wrote The audience which gave the visitors two standing ovations was deeply moved by the majestic performance of the Passion of Christ by Handel The choir provided dramatic contrasts and excellent control of the exciting fugues which are characteristic of Handel
The program was presented once more after the choi rs retu rn They sang in St Andrews United Church Sudbury on Sunday October 6
Ottawa chapter barbecue was a success The Ottawa chapter of the University of Guelph Alumni Association held a family barbecue on Saturday September 14
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at the Kemptville College of Agricultural Tec hnology
A group of 125 adults and c hildren took part in a variety of games followed by a tour of the expe rimental ba rns and orchards Then everyone enjoyed a chicken barbecue Prizes for the ad ults were quarts of Ontario maple syrup and two pounds of honey
Board appoints new members Professor James Archibald OVC 49 Richard Birc hal l Kenneth Hammill OAC 51 and John Wood began their three-year terms on July 1 as new members on the Unive rsi ty s Board of Governors
Professor Archibald 55 a senate appointee to the board graduated from the Ontario Veterin ary COllege with a DVM degree in 1949 and in 1951 was granted a Master of Veterinary Science Professor Archibald has been on the OVC faculty since 1949 and was appOinted professor and chairman of clinical studies in 1963 a posi tion which he st ill holds
Archibald
Hammill Birchall
Ric hard Birchall 59 is president of the Canadian National Sportsmen s Show and the Toronto International Boat Show In addition he is chairman of the Ontario Waterfowl Research Foundation which adm ini sters the Kortright Waterfow l Park in Gue lph He is a director of the
North American Wildlife Foundation and a Canadian director of the World Wildlife fund He is also a mem ber of the Conserva ti on Council of Ontario and vice-chairm an of the Del ta Waterfowl Research Station com mi ttee in Manitoba Mr Birchall is a mem be r of the inner council of the Wildfow l Trust in Slim bridge England and sits on the faculty of forestry advisory council o f the University of Toronto He has been a frequent visitor to campus in connection with his interests in several research projects being carried out in OAC OVC and the College of Biological Sc ience
Ken Hammill a 1951 graduate o f the Ontario Agricultural College is viceshypresident and a director of Omark Canada Ltd in Guelph Mr Hammill has been a member o f Guelph c ity council since 1962 and has served on the f in ance personnel parks and recre ation committees He has also been a ci ty representative on the Grand River Conservation Authority
John Wood 34 studied at the University of Western Ontario where he graduated in 1964 as a gold medal ist in business administrat ion He is presently vice-president (manufac turin g) and a director of the N C Wood Company in Gue lph He is a member of the Guelph Chamber of Commerce the Guelph Industrial and Economic Deve lopment Commission and the Guelph Rotary Club Mr Wood also se rved as c hairman of the Canadi an government appliance miss ion to Europe in 1968
Aggies took over September 23-28 Aggie Week 74 was filled with the usual merriment and competition that stems from a long-standing OAC tradition
Anim al scientist Bob Forshaw easily won the faculty trophy for cow milking with 35 ounces in one minute defeating other competitors suc h as President Winegard who milked two ounces last years champion Mike Jenkinson OAC 63 with 11 ounces and Professor Richard Vosburgh acting dean of Family and Consumer Studies with three ounces
Animal sc ient ist Roge r Hacker won the hog calling contest followed by Dr H 0 Branion assistant to the president
who tied for second place with agricultural economist Phil Wright
Monster ball competitions bed races chariot races and tugs of war brought out many faculty and students for the annual Aggie Games won bY OAC Class 77
Former chairman honoured The Department of Animal and Poultry Science recently honou red its former chairman Professor J C Rennie OAC 47 who left the campus to become executive direc tor of the education and resea rch division of the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food
Pro fessor Renni e jo ined the faculty in 1952 and was chairman from 1965 to 1971 Du ring the past yea r he served as acting dean of research during the absence on sabbatical of Dean W E Tossell OAC 47
Alma Mater Fund results encouraging Fund Chairman Neil Darrach reports that the Alma Mater Fund has received $120330 towards its $160000 objecti ve
A total of 2396 gifts have been received from alumni faculty professional staff and other suppo rters of higher education Gifts from the Guelph campus amounting to $27247 have reached a new high and exceed the final tabulat ion of $25977 achieved in last years fund drive on the campus
The Century Club Division of the fund reports that 357 founding members have renewed their memberships at this time with gifts of $100 or more In addition 112 new founding members have subscribed to the Century Club
Mr Darrach stated that donors who make leadership gifts to the Alma Mater Fund Century Club in 1974 and the two years preced ing the Centennial will be known as foundin g members He also stated th at the Challenge Grant made by Continental Can Company of Canada Ltd is attracting many new and increased gifts Under the term s of the Challenge Grant new girts and the amount of increase over a previous annual gift will be matched by the Challenge Grant to a max imum of $5000
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November 28 University of Guelph to January 5 Printmaking Workshop
(collection of international prints) McLaughlin Library Main Floor Gallery Monday through Saturday 9 am to 10 pm Sunday 1 pm to 10 pm
December 27 Centennial 74 Finale University Centre 830 pm to 1 am
by the crop science building While the master plan specifies
landscaping along major walkways and roads it doesnt make specific recommendations for plantings around new buildings existing buildings and parking lots Such detailed planning depends on building design snow drifting considerations and traffic patterns
Because of the volume of construction that has taken place on campus since 1966 the demand for landscaping design has been considerable with most of it being done by off-campus consultants Project Planners for example designed the areas around the Arts building McLaughlin Library the Power Plant Crop Science building and Lambton Hall all of which constituted the first phase of major construction in 1965 and 1966 The same firm also designed the major walkways and plazas the pedestrian spines the main entry plaza south of the new University Centre and the plaza in front of the Food Science building
Much of the landscape planning is now done by Pat Tucker OAC 65 Head of Grounds Mr Tucker explains that with the major construction now com plete the volume of landscape planning is more manageable
All building plans and landscape designs must meet the approval of the Landscape Advisory Committee made up of landscape architects horticulturists and other campus representatives The committee makes extensive use of the campus tree inventory assembled in 1966 and updated every five years The location species size and condition of affected trees can be determined when locating and designing buildings walkways underground services and roads If the location of an outstanding mature tree conflicts with construction plans alternatives are considered This may involve moving the tree if possible rerouting a road path or underground services or slightly relocating buildings Obviously the campus development has taken its toll of mature
trees but replacements and new plantings will eventually mature
To the great envy of home gardeners new trees planted on the campus look like trees The spindly garden store specimens that home gardeners coax into treehood are rarely seen on campus Most of the trees planted on the main campus have spent five to six years in the nursery on Stone Road growing from toothpick size to a respectable 10 or 15 foot height
Because of the long-range development plan the university can purchase small trees that will be required for specific plantings in the future With the careful attention in the nursery the young trees quickly grow and fill out After five or six years of pampered nursery care a one-inch caliper tree could reach a height of 15 feet with a trunk diameter of five inches
Use of ground covers on campus follows an important trend in contemporary landscaping Many of these plants are propagated in the nursery from seed or cuttings Starters come from a variety of sources natural settings the old horticulture garden and commercial sources In addition the campus features ground covers such as grass wood chips and stones Ground covers when used properly facilitate maintenance discourage weeds help retain moisture and enhance appearances
Designing low-maintenance landscape settings doesnt eliminate the need for year-round care of the campuss 160 acres of lawn 40 acres of trees shrubs and hedges 45 acres of ground covers and flower beds 35 acres of parking lots 22 ac res of roads and 114 ac res of walkways Constant grooming is essential because the campus serves as an example to students visiting groups and home gardeners Most trees shrubs and ground covers are labelled so that students and Sunday strollers can make cross-campus jaunts informative and (hopefully) inspiring 0 -
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An Emigrant at OAC THE contribution which students of
British origin have made to life on the campus of the Ontario Agricultural College has never been examined Many old alumni would agree that this contribution was very considerable Year after year these students provided for example many star players for football teams entire cricket teams trained performers for dramatic productions officers for the Literary Society authors for the OAC Review the first Rhodes scholar interesting men in classes and finally a dash of cultural refinement against which the native born Aggie sometimes saw himself to disadvantage
It is not the purpose of this article to give a comprehensive account of the British students at the OAC over the past century Rather the article focuses upon one such student Edward G E Ffolkes from Hillington Lyn England My choice falls upon him not because he was outstanding but rather because he has left a fascinating account in his diary and letters of what life was like at the OAC in the years 1880-1881
When Ffolkes came to Guelph October 30 1880 the Ontario School of Agriculture and Experimental Farm had just become The Ontario Agricultural
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College and Experimental Farm James Mills in office since 1879 had just accepted the new title president The College Circular in 1880 showed the staff as follows James Mills MA President Professor of English Literature and Natural History William Brown (Gold medallist of the Scottish Arboricultural Society and of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland) Professor of Agriculture and Farm Superintendent J Hoyes Panton MA Professor of Chemistry E A A Grange VS Professor of Veterinary Science Alexander McTavish (First-Class Provo Certificate) Assistant Resident and Mathematical Master P J Woods Instructor in Farm Department James Forsyth Instructor in Horticultural Department James Mcintosh Instructor in Mechanical Department Thomas Johnston Bursar
Although the College was established primarily for the sake of the farmers of Ontario in 1880 it was failing to attract their sons In the Fall Term of that year 69 Ontario students registered
eight fewer than the year before A year later the number registering had slipped to 63 Meanwhile the number of nonshyresident students nearly doubled from 14 in 1880 to 26 in 1881 One-half of the 26 came from Britain For several years the non-resident student was a very important component of the College enrolment
How did it come about that OAG was apparently so well known in Britain so soon after its establishment in 1874 How did Edward Ffolkes at the age of 18 a student at the Haileybury Public School for Boys in Hertfordshire hear about this Canadian college One reasonable explanation may rest upon the publicity which surrounded William Brown the voluble farm superintendent when he went overseas to buy stock for the College he frequently spoke and wrote about the advantages of emigration to Canada Browns emphasis upon the OAC as being a place where a young man was taught practically appealed especially to those who planned to own land and farm it themselves
By his own admission the OAC was for Edward Ffolkes a means whereby he could learn the outline of farming and get hardy and all that sort of thing
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before going west to take up land in Manitoba Young Britons like Ffolkes may well have found William Browns account of the OACs educational theory and practice very attractive That it did not appeal to an Ontario farmers son in the 1880s was not at all surprising Ontario farm boys were all too aware of the practicalities of farming at home Neither Dr Mills Circular nor Browns speeches could convince them that the Ontario Agricultural College and Experimental Farm deserved their attendance in large numbers
At Guelph Ffolkes was initiated very quickly into a life which offered him very little if any chance to indulge in the pleasures he had known back home his pipe of tobacco his glass of beer the delights of the ballroom and concerts five oclock teas sailing billiards college suppers and evening dress At the OAC he found that waistcoat tie and collar are quite unnecessary not to say unheard of articles as of course we have not time to change after work He was furthermore puzzled about the prejudice which Canadians had against wearing knickerbockers Indeed he had come to College with much the wrong kind of clothing His Norfolk jacket was too good to wear for outside work What he needed was a pea jacket Aunt Fannys knitted waistcoat was suitable for swagger occasions but what he should have had was a woo llen waistcoat with sleeves h is tweed
trousers too had to be replaced by red by two goals As it was Saturday canvas overalls and trousers made of October 30 All Hallows Eve Edward pilot cloth went out singing for apples and
On his arrival in Guelph Edward was collected nearly half a bushel in a bag asked as soon as he got off the train On the following Monday he and other to play halfback in a football match new students wrote the matriculation against the town which the College won examinations in grammar composition
TIME TABLES FOn ICALL TERll (1 ST OCTomr 10 CIIRrSTB S) lSS0
Time taolp No1 gives the rout ine of th e di(fe rr nt ycnrs nnltl c1ivi ~ ion s for the first week tim~ hide No 2 the routine of til( ~iI)le yen r s nnd di is infls for t l second week No1 and L o 3 Hi iug ll t ll follnwcu nl tc lllulely f r l wcek eac h t llroughou t the term
TDIE TADLE No I - 1ST WEEK
1 ST YEAR-D1YlSIO oI II
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~ -4--~~ic 1 Vcter~ V etcrin1ry ~rl i h 1---It- -I 1I -) Chc-nl istry Anatomy Anltomy Litc l 1ture 1 g ll cu nrc
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geography and arithmetic The results showed that Ffolkes doubled everyone elses marks getting 357 out of a possible 400
Like other students at the OA C Edward Ffolkes kept a diary it was a custom which the College seems to have Insisted upon for many years and severa l of these diaries have survived Edward s daily entries differ from those of his fellows in that his observations frequently go beyond the bare mention of routine chores and weather conditions On December 6 1880 for example he was thrashing in the experime ntal barn wheie all the specimens of grai n are tested bottled and labelled (before being sent) to the members of the Agricultu ra l Union which had been established in 1878 Like his contemporary Oscar Chase he reveals the practical austerities of his education getting up at 530 am to worlt four or five hours a day at two cents an hour learnin g to harness teams cleaning feeding an d littering cattle glazing double windows d itch digging up to his knees in freezin g water spreading manure acting as farm clerk (boss job) feeding the steam chaff-cutter assisting the shepherd pulping tu rn ips using a crosscut saw in the bush and chopping wood early in the morning for the farm s steam engine
Unlike many other students Edward Ffolkes cheerfully accepted the regul ations regarding student labour for they ensured that he would gain work expe rience which might serve him well in western Canada He did not however accept the academic work of the classroom in the same spirit He adm itted that it was both demanding and difficult and pointed out in one of his letters home that the two-year course at Guelph really req uired three years of attendance The lectures he asserted were decidedly hard work and took up too much of a students time Even though he had given up much sleep cramming for the Christmas examinations he found the papers ho rrible
Although he had intended to stay at the College over the Christmas vacation to improve his knowledge about farming Edward found his room so uncomfortably warm the scrub womans activities so energetic and the 930 pm curfew so confining that he thought the sooner he sloped the better He spent Christmas Eve in Toronto at Trinity College where he drank absent friends and tried to forget those horrible papers which he asserted had knocked him up a little During his first week in Toronto he went to four dances in the next to five
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I PAPERS SET AT THE SESSIONAL EXA)IINATIONS EASTER 1881
FIRST YEAJt
AGRICULTURE
Exam in er V I BIWW~
1 G ive a comprehensi ve sketch of wha t characLcris8~ the d iaer ent kinds of b rming ~~led grazing (Ltiry ing a nd mi xeuro d
2 Whit t gu idp~ us in conclud ing that a soil 1p1uirp~ to be drain cltl and how is dminage in a ll its J etai is most elli ciently co uudcu u nder two of the most opposite condition s j
3 State wh~ t is m e tnt by inj u(l icious com l)i uti on of m tedal in f ncc building and exph in Lhe telms severance damages ~ Cd l Wl ter d l ill and gradient in connection w ith road ma king
F[RST YEAR
PRACTICAL EXAMINATION IN LIVE STOCK
Exami1ler VM B ROWN
CATTLEshy
1 Show the b pst and the poorest p oint~ of the youngest steer j udging by a Shortrshyhorn standar d
2 D escribe the whole getr-up of the other stee r fl om any point of cornparisolil 3 N ame t he brerding of t he cows wd show wherein the one inuicates superior
mi lking properties to the other
F IST YEAR
PRACTICJAL EXA~III~ATION IN LIVE STOCK
E xaminer V~ BROWgt
SaREP-L P oin t out and name t he ltliflelent b reeds croses a nd grades 2 middotWhich is the best wooled iJ cep a s regards uniformity a nd ~oundness 7 3 H ow would you h reed from amOJg the~e in order t o secure as neM as pos iiv lc
the wool of the Ier ino w il h t h( carcass of the Leicester and eonstitu Lion of the SOlllhshyltlown- giving reasons i ll (lelail l
F IRST YEA R
INORGANIC CHlDIISTRY
EXa1~i71e J HOYES PANTO~ MA
1 Name t he di ffe rent wtty ill which h eat may be transm itted and give examples of ~ch
2 Explain the terms base atom salt lrtten t hea t 3 G ive the pnpltlrlltiOll and p roperties of cholc (lump andjibull e damp 4 Vhat is lnea ll by 11 fo r llu la in chem ist ry 1 l e t he formulas for the three
titri()ls and di sti ll glli~l t hese C01U pOl llds fro l ewh other 5 N t10le three metals lig l1ttgt r thun wat r a llli ltive their p roperties 6 Vrite no tes on tlte cornrOUlrJ s Itpresente Iy Ca Co II X 0 N If 3 N il II U
0 with reference to the ir source ami ll t iJity 7 Give the prcp~mtion a nd p )or~lti es of n itroen 8 N ame the ehffe ren t form s ill w hich itira a nu alnmina occur a nd g ive t heir use 9 DeBcriue a lamp lame a nd explai n the action ot the Bnns~ n hurncr
The New Years custom of calling happiness of man and Resolved that amused him He knew of one gentleman chewing is injurious to health This last who called on as many as 130 different topic is interesting because Ffolkes families in Toronto between 11 00 am and 6 pm on that day
maintained that many of the students c hewed tobacco and their indiscriminate -Throughout his brief year at the OAC or badly aimed spitting made the walls
Edward Ffolkes proved to be a popular and floors in residence simply hoggish student He not only took part in sports On February 18 1881 Edward acted but also participated in the Literary the part of Larkspur in a Literary Society Society of which he became Viceshy entertainment In this connection he President Debating appealed to him and reminded his mother that all the he told his mother about the subjects Engl ishmen here are popular a fact Resolved that ambition is a virtue whi ch he may have thought would be a Resolved that vanity is conducive to the consolation to her when it came time
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fo r her second son Robert to come to the OAC
Robert Ffolkes however had decided that he wanted to farm in Iowa Edward quickly warned his mother of the dangers of revealing Roberts intentions to those in power at the College
Remember that if the authorities get so much as an inkling that Bob is thinking of farming in Iowa they will fire him out before he has been there a day Iowa being in the United States The other day the Agricultural lecturer asked one of the fellows to describe how he should proceed on taking up land Well I when I get down to Minnesota I shall first do so and so Lecturer Well the sooner you do it the better you can go and pack up you r trunks now and a team shall be ready to take you to the station for the eleven train They lent him money to get home and sent him away at once I had to kiss the Bible and swear an oath and sign a document I was going to remain four years in Canada after leaving the College when I sent in my request for admi ssion
What happened eventually to Robert is not known Although he did come to the OAC for the Fall Term of 1881 he did not stay any longer than his brother did Perhaps he too sought more practical farm training than the College was prepared to offer to a young man anxious to farm a thousand acres in the American West
Edward Ffolkes references to the City of Guelph are very limited Then as now town and gown were di sparate elements but in Edward s day they were geographically at least much more apart When Edward first came to Guelph a
boardwalk had just been laid to link the College grounds to the city limits It must have proved very convelient for the trips into town on Saturdays and on Sundays when Edward taught Sunday School in one of the fourteen churches which he had counted in the city On Saturdays he could attend entertainshyments in the City Hall or at the Drill Hall But it was Toronto that really appealed to Edward it was a splendid town even though he had seen a cart so badly stuck in the mud on Queen Street that it required five horses to pull it out
Despite the attractions of Toronto and the recommendation of a friend that he should take up banking rather than farming Edward Ffolkes determination to go to the northwest never wavered The dearest wish of his heart was to be self-supporting Whilst I am at Guelph College he told his mother it is impossible to be self-supporting for the simple reason the pay we get for working full hours (and I always do work full hours) does not cover board and washing which comes to $2 80 per week
Edward always remained skeptical of the practical value of much of what the College had to offer even of the outside work
In fact from what I can see the farming at Guelph is about the same as in England All the stock comes direct from England and the implements are exactly the same and it is hardly likely that in Manitoba there will be an assortment of implements for thrashing winnowing etc
Much better it was he thought to serve out an apprenticeship period with a successful farmer in the area where you intend to settle It was his opinion that his brother Bob cou Id no more leave the College after a three years course and
farm a thousand acres than fly to the moon Bob he said would have to rough It as foreman in some stock ranch for two years to get used to all the tricks of cattle dealing
By March 22 1881 Edward was in the midst of his Easter examinations and had made up his mind to leave the College to seek practical experience on a farm That he had given up his academic work is obvious from the results of his examinations of the five papers he seems to have written he received honour standing in agriculture and English composition and failed in organic chemistry veterinary anatomy and bookkeeping He never mentions these results in his letters home
That Edward Ffolkes may have underestimated the value of the training which the Ontario Agricultural College had to offer is reasonably certain However he never underestimated his own ability and determination to succeed as a farmer Two years after he left Guelph with the help of approximately two thousand dollars from home he was well established on a farm of 750 acres near Beaconsfield Manitoba with plans to start a shingle and saw mill in the spring The two years had however been desperately hard shyso hard that in his last letter to his mother September 23 1882 Edward Ffolkes spoke of those days of martyrdom and slavery His own account suggests that this was no exaggeration
It is this account and the earlier record of Edward Ffol kes year at the Ontario Agricultural College which was edited by Edwards uncle that gives historical significance to the very rare book Letters from a Young Emigrant in Manitoba published by Kegan Paul Trench in London in 1883 0
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THE OAC Centennial Festival and Alumni Week was Guelphs birthday
party of the century The days and nights from July 6 to 14
were filled with something for everyone regardless of age or interest as many alumni and friends of the University of Guelph came and joined in the once-in-ashylifetime event
Some of the attractions included a parade of antique cars tractors steam engines horse drawn carriages and floats an Olde Tyme outdoor chuckwagon breakfast at Creelman Plaza a gigantic birthday cake six-horse hitches alumni reunions skits of the past visits from dignitaries and a beard-growing contest
Months of plann ing and hard work by the OAC Centennial Committee resulted in a wonderful week for all who attended the festivities
The celebrations were held to pay homage to the Ontario Agricultural College which was established in 1874 by the provincial Department of Agriculture and boasted 30 students who lived in a converted house on a 500-acre farm
Now with a student population hovering near 10000 and an 11 ~O-acre main campus the University of Guelph has sent leading farmers teachers research scientists and businessmen out into the world
The College has provided Canadas agriculture industry with continual research breakthroughs and fresh ideas while internationally it aids significantly in solving the agricultural problems of developing countries
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INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS a Guelph Tradition
by Scott Taylor
Opposite page Four members of the 1910-11 Ontario Agricultural College Basketball Team Left to r ight W Toole 11 W H Smith 12 manager E W White 12 C Main 11
Above An OAVC crest seen on athletic uniforms in the 1940s
ACCORDING to legend a Gryphon was a mythical creature represented by
the head and wings of an eagle the body of a lion and the tail of a serpent Since 1968 this fearful looking symbol that legend claimed to be the protector of the treasures of the Asiatic Scythis has been the guardian of the athletic teams that represent the University of Guelph
Today the College on the Hill has become one of the premier universities in the country in the field of sports competition The university is represented by a Canadian Intercollegiate Athletic
Union basketball champion an Ontario Universities Athletic Association team wrestling winner and an Ontario Womens Intercollegiate Athletic Association ice hockey titleist The list of team and individual crowns that have been won since OAC first participated in athletics as the Aggies is extensive indeed and not to recall in some manner the glorious history of athletics at Guelph first as OA C and MacDonald Institute then as OAVC and Mac and finally as the University of Guelph would be to neglect an important aspect of the centennial of the Ontario Agricultural College
On September sixth of this year the University of Guelph Gryphons opened another football season behind head coach Dick Brown a former professional gridiron player who this year was named to the Greatest Toronto Argonaut All-Star team in history The Manitoba Bisons flew in from Winnipeg and topped the Gryphons in the season starter by a fourteen-Io-six score as the passing combination of Brad Hall to Craig Holt the leading receiver in Gryphon history highlighted the evening for the Red and Gold
Through many seasons of success the losses have come as well In 1960 behind head coach Tom Mooney the passing combination was from Jim Wright 61 A to Dave Hume OAC 61 but it wasnt quite enough as the OAVC Football Redmen suffered through a bitter year of rebuilding the glories of the past The sports writer of the Libranni 1961 may have put it best in a piece entitled Great is the Fall He wrote
There are many quotations and sayings that express the difficulty of maintaining ones position at the top This year the Redmen found out just how true those expressions were Gone was the mighty invincible Redmen machine that
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flattened all the opposition without mercy Every team in the league sought to add to its own laurels and to the humiliation of the Redmen by proclaiming that they too could defeat those farmers from Guelph Due to this every team that the Redmen encountered was fired up for the encounter and played their best against our squad
However the thrill of victory has been at hand more often than not for the rugby football teams from Guelph In 1934 Head Coach and Athletic Director of the OAC Aggies F G Baldy Baldwin led a tough squad of men to the Canadian Intermediate Intercollegiate Rugby Championships for the second time W F Bill Mitchell OAC 38 quartershybacked the Aggies of 34 and today that same Bill Mitchell quarterbacks the
Above Intermediate Intercollegiate Football Champions 1949
Right Intermediate Intercollegiate Basketball Champions 1925-26 Left to right Prof A W Baker 11 coach J W G McEwan 26 J E Ridley 27 J R Currey 29 L M Schenck 26 captain L Young 27 R Graham 29 Geo Thompson 27 H Potter A T Rintoul 26 manager
entire sports program at the University of Guelph as Director of Athletics Included on that same team which incidentally did not enter the Ontario Rugby Football Union playdowns because of bad weather and approaching exam inations was a hard-nosed middle known as Haley Hales He is probably better remembered by the people in Guelph and Wellington Riding as Alfred Dryden Hales OAC 34 Member of Parliament who stepped down this past election after more than sixteen years of political service
The names of players and their eventual careers after graduation is a vast area to research Athletes who have finished their studies at Guelph have gone into various fields but a few of them have remained as outstanding athletes in the professional ranks The most recent of these are football kicker Gerry Organ BSc(PE) 71 of the Ottawa Rough
Riders and hockey netminder Ken lockett BA 72 As anyone who follows Canadian sporting fortunes knows former Gryphon Organ is the reigning Schenley Award Winner as the most outstanding native Canadian in the Canadian Football league Fewer people may know that lockett 1971 s All-Canadian hockey goaltender former mem ber of the Canadian World Student Games Team and of course a graduate Gryphon has recently been signed to a pro contract with the Vancouver Canucks of th e National Hockey league
Other Guelph athletes of the past have continued their careers at top amateur level s A prime example of this is Grant Maclaren In 1969 Maclaren put on a near one-man show at the CIA U cross-country championships He earned himself the national individual title and at the same time was backed up
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by a superb University of Guelph harrier contingent that captu red the CIAU team championship as well Today Maclaren is still a world-class distance runner who will no doubt represent Canada at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal
Another Gryphon who may be an Olympic Team member is basketball star Bob Sharpe last season Sharpe was an OUA A All-Star an All-Star team member at the CIAU championships as well as the lalter tournament s Most Valuable Player This past summer Sharpe got his first taste of international competition as a player on the Canadian National Mens Basketball Team - a team that gave Canada its best performance since the 1936 Olympics when our nations finest lost a gold medal to the United States by a 19-5 score on an outdoor court and in a driving rainstorm
Rugger at Guelph
International competition is not restricted to track stars and basketball players however This winter the University of Guelph will have four varsity wrestlers with foreign experience behind them Richard Deschatelets represented Canada in Europe this past summer while Bob Price and Tom Bethune travelled with the country s B team on a tour of the United States In 1974 AI Tschirhart was a member of Canadas World Student Games Team in Moscow and when one adds the name of OUA A champion Ross Barrable to the formidable list of four there appears to be little doubt that Guelph will repeat as A M Porter Trophy winners
Perhaps the name of this piece of silverware itself is an indication of the success of the wrestling program at Guelph The Porter Trophy was presented to the Canadian Intercollegiate Athletic
Union by A M Porter OAC 20 the Registrar of the Ontario Agricultural College Guelph Canada as a token of his active interest in University Wrestling since 1920 That is what is inscribed on the prize that is now the sought-after conclusion to the OUAA wrestling season It is appropriate that OAVC shyUniversity of Guelph teams have won this trophy seven times and are presently showing it off in the trophy case at the Athletics Centre (The University of Western Ontario has won it alone six times but on two other occasions has shared it with the University of Waterloo) From Coach Wright OAC 33 in the thirties to Coach Schlegal in the forties through Coach Glen Peister OAC 50 in the seasons of the fifties with Coach Bob Heinrich OAC 5SA in the early sixties and now in the seventies with highly-touted Londo Iacovelli at the helm
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Aggie Gryphon and Redm en grapplers have been the prime target for the opposition eve ry year
One sport at Guelph th at has just attained a position of national prominence is the game of basketball Behind people like Sharpe AI Grunys Denni s Krawchuk and graduating seniors Paul Allen BSc (HK)74 and Phil Smith BA 74 the University won a national championship in 1974 When Garney Henley took over as head coach however the University of Guelph posted a depressing one winshy17 loss season Many times during the next few years Coach Henley was fortunate to have a successful professional foo tball ca reer with the Canadian Football League s Hamilton Tiger-Cats to conso le him However through hard work and with players like Mark Walton BA 72 Chester Graham BA 73 and Wayne Morgan BA 72 Henley and his assistants Doug Dodd and Dic k Brown have built a superb prog ram
In 1956 howeve r with Tom Mooney at the helm a group of ball players had the words Take Off as an inspiration and were fighting to ga in acceptance into senior interc ollegiate ranks Led by Murray Atkinson OAC 60 who later became the firs t two-tim e win ner of the Athlete of the Year Award and by Bill Dimson OAC 57A whose subsequent death in a ca r acc ident a few years later was a bl ow for all who knew him the OAVC Aggies fini shed in second place at the intermediate level losing a heartbreaking 56-52 dec ision to the eventual c hampion Weste rn Dimsons name has not been forgotten at Guelph a plaque presented annually in his honour goes to the schools Most Valuable Baske tball Pl aye r Am ong the winners of the Bill Dimson Memorial Award are present holder Bob Sharpe and Guelphs first official All-Canadian basketball player Wayne Morgan
Top An OAC swim team resplendent in their tank suits
Above University of Guelph wrestling squad coached by Londo Iacovelli
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Awards and particularly AII-Canadtan honours are not uncommon among the present group of athletes at Guelph In addition to Ken Lockett in hockey and Morgan in basketball John Kelley and Dave lane of this years gridiron Gryphs were named All-Canadians in 1973
locketts hockey heroics were displayed when the University of Guelph was not a power on the ice but this season the Gryphons and their young coach Bud Folusewych are favoured to take serious aim at the University of Waterloos national crown led by little Adam Brown who broke all the scoring records in Ontario college hockey last season forward Bill Hanson defenceman Doug McKay and goaltender David Moote - all OUAA AII-Starsshythe Gryphons will have a good opportunity to relive past Gryphon glories Such a year was 1960 when coach AI Singleton and athletes such as Max ONeil OAC 61 Wayne lopp and Bill German OAC 61 ousted Ryerson in a semi-final playoff to earn a birth in the championship round against the powerful men from McMaster
Hockey football basketball and wrestling certainly arent the only sports that have provided Guelph with athletic laurels Cross-country teams boxing squads and golf teams have all brought hardware home to the trophy case at Guelph as today the school participates in 17 sports at the intercollegiate level The facilities for all these activities at Guelph are not totally adequate and only the football stadium could be described as outstanding Alumni Stadium opened officially on October 17 1970 is a 4100 seat complex that is not only home for the football Gryphons but houses the large multi-purpose Gryphon Room where accommodation can be made for karate wrestling and other related activities It is truly the highlight of the athletics complex on the Guelph campus
There are people on the staff and faculty at Guelph who although they dont fly the banner of the Gryphon still aid in the publics knowledge of athletics at the University of Guelph Librarian Yvonne Saunders who is a British Commonwealth Games gold medalist and Professor Abigail Hoffman of the Political Studies Department who has represented Canada in countless track events at the international level including the Olympic Games spread the name of the university in a way that is unequalled by any other non-academic activity
It is interesting to note that these two non-student athletes are both women The University of Guelph has a successful womens program as well and it has certainly grown since 1952 when Margaret Dix coached almost every sport at MacDonald Institute
With Shirley Peterson co-ordinating intercollegiate athletics and coaching ice hockey Val (Millar) Freeman BSc (PE) 70 heading the intramural program and coaching basketball and Joni Johnson Anne Stallman and Pam Wedd BSc(HK) 74 taking the coachs reins in a variety of activities the ladies at Guelph have a good foundation for fun and success
The most hardware to come in womens athletics in recent years has been on the hockey rink Mrs Petersons pucksters have captured the Ontario Women s Intercollegiate Athletics Association crown six times A record unequalled in the last decade
At present the ladies participate in 12 sports at the intercollegiate level and in the past year the most highly touted athlete has been field hockey player Marg Ellis Mrs Ellis is presently a member of the Ontario Provincial Field Hockey Team and she would like to earn a spot on the national squad in the near future
With the Olympic Games drawing near and the Ontario Agricultural College one hundred years old this year the young men and women who participate in sports at Guelph will be working to spread the Guelph name in Montreal in 1976 Names like Sharpe Deschatelets Saunders and Maclaren proudly reflect the glories of the past In old Librannis in yellowed newspaper clippings and on the nameplates of trophies people such as Goomer Raithby OAC 51 Poker Mills OAC 34 and Bill Dimson will always be remembered as viial cogs in the OAVC Aggie athletic machine 0
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campus highlights Housing shortage shortlived Early reports on the housing situation at Guelph were rather bleak however A W Mcinnis Director of Residences recently reported that the present situation is not serious and that all students have found permanent accommodation A student governmentshysponsored tent city saw very little use (approximately 10 students slept in it) as did special emergency housing in the Gryphon Room of the stadium (no-one slept there)
Tent City near the East Residences
The lack of off-campus student housing this year is directly connected to a general scarcity of housing in the city explained Mr Mcinnis He noted that because of high mortgage rates those who formerly rented their premises have ceased renting and are now selling their property In addition Guelphs attractive location vis-a-vis Toronto has led commuters to settle in many of the new subdivisions and residents who might have moved cannot afford the higher housing prices This is particularly applicable to those Guelph residents living in the downtown sections of the city which contain older but extremely large homes When sold these houses are often converted into
apartments but with fewer sales the predictable result is fewer apartments
A visit to city hall by residence officials confirmed that the off-campus situation will not improve in the immediate future and high mortgage interest rates coupled with high construction costs makes residence construction a high economic risk
The problem became acute this year due to a sharp increase in the number of students desiring residence accommodation compared with Sept 1973
Last year at mid-August approximately 2200 seniors had accepted rooms in residence By May 15 of this year more than 2200 seniors had been placed in residence and with places reserved for 1760 freshmen the Universitys 3900 beds were taken by mid-May
The 68 co-op apartments were also filled early for the fall semester Many students took out a years lease instead of an eight month agreement resulting in an extremely low turnover - less than 20 per cent from a year ago
Similar difficulties were evident at Wellington Woods the University s married students residence located on Stone Road Last year there were 36 vacancies for the fall semester this year that figure was cut to 12
Despite these figures the 1974 student housing picture in Guelph is now under control - until next fall
Freshmen enjoy a hayride tour around the University campus
Orienteering grant The University of Guelph often referred to as the home of orienteering in North America will benefit by a grant of more than $42000 made to the Canadian Orienteering Federation by Health and Welfare Canada The Honourable Marc Lalonde gave notice of the grant to Professor A Sass Peepre of Human Kinetics Professor Peepre is one of the founders of the Federation and is presently the president of the group
Orienteering is becoming very popular in Canada and is now taught at all levels in many schools The sport uses map and compass to find a specified route through the countryside and attracts thousands to meets in Europe
Enrolment increases Guelph s largest complement of students began classes in September Full-time enrolment has increased 11 per cent over last year Full-time undergraduate enrolment stood at 9100 on September 10 with approximately 550 full-time graduate students expected to register Part-time undergraduates number 600 part-time grad students about 150
A red-and-white orientation tent was erected outside the University Centre to provide a focal pOint for new students Orientation featured free concerts football games hayride tours of the campus and meetings with deans and academic counsellors
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The University of Guelph Choir led by conductor Nicholas Goldschmidt
Choir returns from tour The 42-member University of Guelph Choir returned to Guelph after several wellshyreceived performances in the Maritimes
The choir performed in Charlottetown New Glasgow Sydney Antigonish Halifax Dartmouth Yarmouth and at Acadia University in Wolfville under the direction of Nicholas Goldschmidt and assistant conductor Nickolaus Kaethler with accompanist Gerald Manning recitalist Denise Turcotte and soloist Robert Missen Along with works by Handel Bach Rossini Cherubini Schubert and Vaughan Williams the choir performed Canadian folk songs arranged by music professor Derek Healey
One of the main reasons for going on tour is to improve the quality of the choir commented Dean Murdo MacKinnon College of Arts The tour of Scotland in 1973 had a marked effect on the group so the 1974 tour of the Maritimes was a natural development Proof of the new level attained is that this year at the end of the tour the choir was asked by the CBC in Halifax to make a recording of a considerable portion of Handels Passion
which will be broadcast at the Easter season in 1975
Before the choir departed for the Maritimes an advance notice was sent to University of Guelph alumni in the area stating the times and places where the choir was to appear The results were extremely satisfying to the choir in that several alumni turned out for the performances
The choir experienced a rather unexpected thrill when it visited Fortress Louisburg in Cape Breton Island and was asked to record ten minutes of religious music in the beautiful chapel which is part of the historic fortress being re-built by the Government of Canada Consequently when visitors to the chapel hear quiet choral music in the background theyre listening to the University of Guelph Choir singing chorales of J S Bach
The choir was greeted by an enthusiastic Halifax audience when it performed in Rebecca Cohn Auditorium at Dalhousie University A critic for the Halifax Chronicle Herald commented Right from the opening of this work the
audience could hear a well-trained professional choir The singers close attention to every move of Director Goldschmidt was a joy to see and hear
The choi r sang before an overflow audience in Zion Baptist Church in Yarmouth on the opening day of the International Tuna Fish Festival A Yarmouth critic wrote The audience which gave the visitors two standing ovations was deeply moved by the majestic performance of the Passion of Christ by Handel The choir provided dramatic contrasts and excellent control of the exciting fugues which are characteristic of Handel
The program was presented once more after the choi rs retu rn They sang in St Andrews United Church Sudbury on Sunday October 6
Ottawa chapter barbecue was a success The Ottawa chapter of the University of Guelph Alumni Association held a family barbecue on Saturday September 14
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at the Kemptville College of Agricultural Tec hnology
A group of 125 adults and c hildren took part in a variety of games followed by a tour of the expe rimental ba rns and orchards Then everyone enjoyed a chicken barbecue Prizes for the ad ults were quarts of Ontario maple syrup and two pounds of honey
Board appoints new members Professor James Archibald OVC 49 Richard Birc hal l Kenneth Hammill OAC 51 and John Wood began their three-year terms on July 1 as new members on the Unive rsi ty s Board of Governors
Professor Archibald 55 a senate appointee to the board graduated from the Ontario Veterin ary COllege with a DVM degree in 1949 and in 1951 was granted a Master of Veterinary Science Professor Archibald has been on the OVC faculty since 1949 and was appOinted professor and chairman of clinical studies in 1963 a posi tion which he st ill holds
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Ric hard Birchall 59 is president of the Canadian National Sportsmen s Show and the Toronto International Boat Show In addition he is chairman of the Ontario Waterfowl Research Foundation which adm ini sters the Kortright Waterfow l Park in Gue lph He is a director of the
North American Wildlife Foundation and a Canadian director of the World Wildlife fund He is also a mem ber of the Conserva ti on Council of Ontario and vice-chairm an of the Del ta Waterfowl Research Station com mi ttee in Manitoba Mr Birchall is a mem be r of the inner council of the Wildfow l Trust in Slim bridge England and sits on the faculty of forestry advisory council o f the University of Toronto He has been a frequent visitor to campus in connection with his interests in several research projects being carried out in OAC OVC and the College of Biological Sc ience
Ken Hammill a 1951 graduate o f the Ontario Agricultural College is viceshypresident and a director of Omark Canada Ltd in Guelph Mr Hammill has been a member o f Guelph c ity council since 1962 and has served on the f in ance personnel parks and recre ation committees He has also been a ci ty representative on the Grand River Conservation Authority
John Wood 34 studied at the University of Western Ontario where he graduated in 1964 as a gold medal ist in business administrat ion He is presently vice-president (manufac turin g) and a director of the N C Wood Company in Gue lph He is a member of the Guelph Chamber of Commerce the Guelph Industrial and Economic Deve lopment Commission and the Guelph Rotary Club Mr Wood also se rved as c hairman of the Canadi an government appliance miss ion to Europe in 1968
Aggies took over September 23-28 Aggie Week 74 was filled with the usual merriment and competition that stems from a long-standing OAC tradition
Anim al scientist Bob Forshaw easily won the faculty trophy for cow milking with 35 ounces in one minute defeating other competitors suc h as President Winegard who milked two ounces last years champion Mike Jenkinson OAC 63 with 11 ounces and Professor Richard Vosburgh acting dean of Family and Consumer Studies with three ounces
Animal sc ient ist Roge r Hacker won the hog calling contest followed by Dr H 0 Branion assistant to the president
who tied for second place with agricultural economist Phil Wright
Monster ball competitions bed races chariot races and tugs of war brought out many faculty and students for the annual Aggie Games won bY OAC Class 77
Former chairman honoured The Department of Animal and Poultry Science recently honou red its former chairman Professor J C Rennie OAC 47 who left the campus to become executive direc tor of the education and resea rch division of the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food
Pro fessor Renni e jo ined the faculty in 1952 and was chairman from 1965 to 1971 Du ring the past yea r he served as acting dean of research during the absence on sabbatical of Dean W E Tossell OAC 47
Alma Mater Fund results encouraging Fund Chairman Neil Darrach reports that the Alma Mater Fund has received $120330 towards its $160000 objecti ve
A total of 2396 gifts have been received from alumni faculty professional staff and other suppo rters of higher education Gifts from the Guelph campus amounting to $27247 have reached a new high and exceed the final tabulat ion of $25977 achieved in last years fund drive on the campus
The Century Club Division of the fund reports that 357 founding members have renewed their memberships at this time with gifts of $100 or more In addition 112 new founding members have subscribed to the Century Club
Mr Darrach stated that donors who make leadership gifts to the Alma Mater Fund Century Club in 1974 and the two years preced ing the Centennial will be known as foundin g members He also stated th at the Challenge Grant made by Continental Can Company of Canada Ltd is attracting many new and increased gifts Under the term s of the Challenge Grant new girts and the amount of increase over a previous annual gift will be matched by the Challenge Grant to a max imum of $5000
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November 28 University of Guelph to January 5 Printmaking Workshop
(collection of international prints) McLaughlin Library Main Floor Gallery Monday through Saturday 9 am to 10 pm Sunday 1 pm to 10 pm
December 27 Centennial 74 Finale University Centre 830 pm to 1 am
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An Emigrant at OAC THE contribution which students of
British origin have made to life on the campus of the Ontario Agricultural College has never been examined Many old alumni would agree that this contribution was very considerable Year after year these students provided for example many star players for football teams entire cricket teams trained performers for dramatic productions officers for the Literary Society authors for the OAC Review the first Rhodes scholar interesting men in classes and finally a dash of cultural refinement against which the native born Aggie sometimes saw himself to disadvantage
It is not the purpose of this article to give a comprehensive account of the British students at the OAC over the past century Rather the article focuses upon one such student Edward G E Ffolkes from Hillington Lyn England My choice falls upon him not because he was outstanding but rather because he has left a fascinating account in his diary and letters of what life was like at the OAC in the years 1880-1881
When Ffolkes came to Guelph October 30 1880 the Ontario School of Agriculture and Experimental Farm had just become The Ontario Agricultural
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College and Experimental Farm James Mills in office since 1879 had just accepted the new title president The College Circular in 1880 showed the staff as follows James Mills MA President Professor of English Literature and Natural History William Brown (Gold medallist of the Scottish Arboricultural Society and of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland) Professor of Agriculture and Farm Superintendent J Hoyes Panton MA Professor of Chemistry E A A Grange VS Professor of Veterinary Science Alexander McTavish (First-Class Provo Certificate) Assistant Resident and Mathematical Master P J Woods Instructor in Farm Department James Forsyth Instructor in Horticultural Department James Mcintosh Instructor in Mechanical Department Thomas Johnston Bursar
Although the College was established primarily for the sake of the farmers of Ontario in 1880 it was failing to attract their sons In the Fall Term of that year 69 Ontario students registered
eight fewer than the year before A year later the number registering had slipped to 63 Meanwhile the number of nonshyresident students nearly doubled from 14 in 1880 to 26 in 1881 One-half of the 26 came from Britain For several years the non-resident student was a very important component of the College enrolment
How did it come about that OAG was apparently so well known in Britain so soon after its establishment in 1874 How did Edward Ffolkes at the age of 18 a student at the Haileybury Public School for Boys in Hertfordshire hear about this Canadian college One reasonable explanation may rest upon the publicity which surrounded William Brown the voluble farm superintendent when he went overseas to buy stock for the College he frequently spoke and wrote about the advantages of emigration to Canada Browns emphasis upon the OAC as being a place where a young man was taught practically appealed especially to those who planned to own land and farm it themselves
By his own admission the OAC was for Edward Ffolkes a means whereby he could learn the outline of farming and get hardy and all that sort of thing
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before going west to take up land in Manitoba Young Britons like Ffolkes may well have found William Browns account of the OACs educational theory and practice very attractive That it did not appeal to an Ontario farmers son in the 1880s was not at all surprising Ontario farm boys were all too aware of the practicalities of farming at home Neither Dr Mills Circular nor Browns speeches could convince them that the Ontario Agricultural College and Experimental Farm deserved their attendance in large numbers
At Guelph Ffolkes was initiated very quickly into a life which offered him very little if any chance to indulge in the pleasures he had known back home his pipe of tobacco his glass of beer the delights of the ballroom and concerts five oclock teas sailing billiards college suppers and evening dress At the OAC he found that waistcoat tie and collar are quite unnecessary not to say unheard of articles as of course we have not time to change after work He was furthermore puzzled about the prejudice which Canadians had against wearing knickerbockers Indeed he had come to College with much the wrong kind of clothing His Norfolk jacket was too good to wear for outside work What he needed was a pea jacket Aunt Fannys knitted waistcoat was suitable for swagger occasions but what he should have had was a woo llen waistcoat with sleeves h is tweed
trousers too had to be replaced by red by two goals As it was Saturday canvas overalls and trousers made of October 30 All Hallows Eve Edward pilot cloth went out singing for apples and
On his arrival in Guelph Edward was collected nearly half a bushel in a bag asked as soon as he got off the train On the following Monday he and other to play halfback in a football match new students wrote the matriculation against the town which the College won examinations in grammar composition
TIME TABLES FOn ICALL TERll (1 ST OCTomr 10 CIIRrSTB S) lSS0
Time taolp No1 gives the rout ine of th e di(fe rr nt ycnrs nnltl c1ivi ~ ion s for the first week tim~ hide No 2 the routine of til( ~iI)le yen r s nnd di is infls for t l second week No1 and L o 3 Hi iug ll t ll follnwcu nl tc lllulely f r l wcek eac h t llroughou t the term
TDIE TADLE No I - 1ST WEEK
1 ST YEAR-D1YlSIO oI II
I H Moo ~ w middotI--=-Is -~ 7-12 Work Work Work Work I W ork I Work
-- - - - - 1----1 2- 3 I Anthmctic Enli h Imiddot turalHi 40ry middot1 Hcltaral I Arithmetic Composit ion J ~ory
~ 1- -4 - - --1- - ~Iih Ie 1 Trlor c I Inorr=-shy~ 3 d gncu tltre L t t grJCU ture C- t h t 1 era ure uClnl ry I - ttJ l1 $ ry
~ -4--~~ic 1 Vcter~ V etcrin1ry ~rl i h 1---It- -I 1I -) Chc-nl istry Anatomy Anltomy Litc l 1ture 1 g ll cu nrc
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geography and arithmetic The results showed that Ffolkes doubled everyone elses marks getting 357 out of a possible 400
Like other students at the OA C Edward Ffolkes kept a diary it was a custom which the College seems to have Insisted upon for many years and severa l of these diaries have survived Edward s daily entries differ from those of his fellows in that his observations frequently go beyond the bare mention of routine chores and weather conditions On December 6 1880 for example he was thrashing in the experime ntal barn wheie all the specimens of grai n are tested bottled and labelled (before being sent) to the members of the Agricultu ra l Union which had been established in 1878 Like his contemporary Oscar Chase he reveals the practical austerities of his education getting up at 530 am to worlt four or five hours a day at two cents an hour learnin g to harness teams cleaning feeding an d littering cattle glazing double windows d itch digging up to his knees in freezin g water spreading manure acting as farm clerk (boss job) feeding the steam chaff-cutter assisting the shepherd pulping tu rn ips using a crosscut saw in the bush and chopping wood early in the morning for the farm s steam engine
Unlike many other students Edward Ffolkes cheerfully accepted the regul ations regarding student labour for they ensured that he would gain work expe rience which might serve him well in western Canada He did not however accept the academic work of the classroom in the same spirit He adm itted that it was both demanding and difficult and pointed out in one of his letters home that the two-year course at Guelph really req uired three years of attendance The lectures he asserted were decidedly hard work and took up too much of a students time Even though he had given up much sleep cramming for the Christmas examinations he found the papers ho rrible
Although he had intended to stay at the College over the Christmas vacation to improve his knowledge about farming Edward found his room so uncomfortably warm the scrub womans activities so energetic and the 930 pm curfew so confining that he thought the sooner he sloped the better He spent Christmas Eve in Toronto at Trinity College where he drank absent friends and tried to forget those horrible papers which he asserted had knocked him up a little During his first week in Toronto he went to four dances in the next to five
Alexander M Ross The College on the Hill Toronto Copp Clark 1974 pp 61-64
I PAPERS SET AT THE SESSIONAL EXA)IINATIONS EASTER 1881
FIRST YEAJt
AGRICULTURE
Exam in er V I BIWW~
1 G ive a comprehensi ve sketch of wha t characLcris8~ the d iaer ent kinds of b rming ~~led grazing (Ltiry ing a nd mi xeuro d
2 Whit t gu idp~ us in conclud ing that a soil 1p1uirp~ to be drain cltl and how is dminage in a ll its J etai is most elli ciently co uudcu u nder two of the most opposite condition s j
3 State wh~ t is m e tnt by inj u(l icious com l)i uti on of m tedal in f ncc building and exph in Lhe telms severance damages ~ Cd l Wl ter d l ill and gradient in connection w ith road ma king
F[RST YEAR
PRACTICAL EXAMINATION IN LIVE STOCK
Exami1ler VM B ROWN
CATTLEshy
1 Show the b pst and the poorest p oint~ of the youngest steer j udging by a Shortrshyhorn standar d
2 D escribe the whole getr-up of the other stee r fl om any point of cornparisolil 3 N ame t he brerding of t he cows wd show wherein the one inuicates superior
mi lking properties to the other
F IST YEAR
PRACTICJAL EXA~III~ATION IN LIVE STOCK
E xaminer V~ BROWgt
SaREP-L P oin t out and name t he ltliflelent b reeds croses a nd grades 2 middotWhich is the best wooled iJ cep a s regards uniformity a nd ~oundness 7 3 H ow would you h reed from amOJg the~e in order t o secure as neM as pos iiv lc
the wool of the Ier ino w il h t h( carcass of the Leicester and eonstitu Lion of the SOlllhshyltlown- giving reasons i ll (lelail l
F IRST YEA R
INORGANIC CHlDIISTRY
EXa1~i71e J HOYES PANTO~ MA
1 Name t he di ffe rent wtty ill which h eat may be transm itted and give examples of ~ch
2 Explain the terms base atom salt lrtten t hea t 3 G ive the pnpltlrlltiOll and p roperties of cholc (lump andjibull e damp 4 Vhat is lnea ll by 11 fo r llu la in chem ist ry 1 l e t he formulas for the three
titri()ls and di sti ll glli~l t hese C01U pOl llds fro l ewh other 5 N t10le three metals lig l1ttgt r thun wat r a llli ltive their p roperties 6 Vrite no tes on tlte cornrOUlrJ s Itpresente Iy Ca Co II X 0 N If 3 N il II U
0 with reference to the ir source ami ll t iJity 7 Give the prcp~mtion a nd p )or~lti es of n itroen 8 N ame the ehffe ren t form s ill w hich itira a nu alnmina occur a nd g ive t heir use 9 DeBcriue a lamp lame a nd explai n the action ot the Bnns~ n hurncr
The New Years custom of calling happiness of man and Resolved that amused him He knew of one gentleman chewing is injurious to health This last who called on as many as 130 different topic is interesting because Ffolkes families in Toronto between 11 00 am and 6 pm on that day
maintained that many of the students c hewed tobacco and their indiscriminate -Throughout his brief year at the OAC or badly aimed spitting made the walls
Edward Ffolkes proved to be a popular and floors in residence simply hoggish student He not only took part in sports On February 18 1881 Edward acted but also participated in the Literary the part of Larkspur in a Literary Society Society of which he became Viceshy entertainment In this connection he President Debating appealed to him and reminded his mother that all the he told his mother about the subjects Engl ishmen here are popular a fact Resolved that ambition is a virtue whi ch he may have thought would be a Resolved that vanity is conducive to the consolation to her when it came time
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EASTER EXAJIIVI FIOTS l SSJ-continued
EXGLISII CO~IPOSITIOX
1 E xpbin whl t is lD ean t by styl e J-ncl wklt you consider the cs~olltial properties of [ good s tyle
3 Stelte full y IIh1t is co mpreh0nckd U lhl cr the lle)(h of rcc nmc) and clefr~~s 3 Write all lttn ic-i 0 011 the pC(l1i Cl itie~ of p oetic di ction 4 Write a cOlllpui lio ll 011 one or (middotle fol lowing s ul1j ects
(1 ) Clilll1le (l ) Shcep-frming in C l l)(b (3) SYS lClll order and hlilless i1 bnning
(4) Who oer lhe ]l()rc oltllt1 i ~h to r eign Fantas tic helde ficru u1 in I
Vain a s the k a f upon th L Strell Anel fickle s a chall~d ltl clrcalll anttstic 1S i W01LJall Blood And fi e rce as Vrcmy fc(gt retl ulootl
fo r her second son Robert to come to the OAC
Robert Ffolkes however had decided that he wanted to farm in Iowa Edward quickly warned his mother of the dangers of revealing Roberts intentions to those in power at the College
Remember that if the authorities get so much as an inkling that Bob is thinking of farming in Iowa they will fire him out before he has been there a day Iowa being in the United States The other day the Agricultural lecturer asked one of the fellows to describe how he should proceed on taking up land Well I when I get down to Minnesota I shall first do so and so Lecturer Well the sooner you do it the better you can go and pack up you r trunks now and a team shall be ready to take you to the station for the eleven train They lent him money to get home and sent him away at once I had to kiss the Bible and swear an oath and sign a document I was going to remain four years in Canada after leaving the College when I sent in my request for admi ssion
What happened eventually to Robert is not known Although he did come to the OAC for the Fall Term of 1881 he did not stay any longer than his brother did Perhaps he too sought more practical farm training than the College was prepared to offer to a young man anxious to farm a thousand acres in the American West
Edward Ffolkes references to the City of Guelph are very limited Then as now town and gown were di sparate elements but in Edward s day they were geographically at least much more apart When Edward first came to Guelph a
boardwalk had just been laid to link the College grounds to the city limits It must have proved very convelient for the trips into town on Saturdays and on Sundays when Edward taught Sunday School in one of the fourteen churches which he had counted in the city On Saturdays he could attend entertainshyments in the City Hall or at the Drill Hall But it was Toronto that really appealed to Edward it was a splendid town even though he had seen a cart so badly stuck in the mud on Queen Street that it required five horses to pull it out
Despite the attractions of Toronto and the recommendation of a friend that he should take up banking rather than farming Edward Ffolkes determination to go to the northwest never wavered The dearest wish of his heart was to be self-supporting Whilst I am at Guelph College he told his mother it is impossible to be self-supporting for the simple reason the pay we get for working full hours (and I always do work full hours) does not cover board and washing which comes to $2 80 per week
Edward always remained skeptical of the practical value of much of what the College had to offer even of the outside work
In fact from what I can see the farming at Guelph is about the same as in England All the stock comes direct from England and the implements are exactly the same and it is hardly likely that in Manitoba there will be an assortment of implements for thrashing winnowing etc
Much better it was he thought to serve out an apprenticeship period with a successful farmer in the area where you intend to settle It was his opinion that his brother Bob cou Id no more leave the College after a three years course and
farm a thousand acres than fly to the moon Bob he said would have to rough It as foreman in some stock ranch for two years to get used to all the tricks of cattle dealing
By March 22 1881 Edward was in the midst of his Easter examinations and had made up his mind to leave the College to seek practical experience on a farm That he had given up his academic work is obvious from the results of his examinations of the five papers he seems to have written he received honour standing in agriculture and English composition and failed in organic chemistry veterinary anatomy and bookkeeping He never mentions these results in his letters home
That Edward Ffolkes may have underestimated the value of the training which the Ontario Agricultural College had to offer is reasonably certain However he never underestimated his own ability and determination to succeed as a farmer Two years after he left Guelph with the help of approximately two thousand dollars from home he was well established on a farm of 750 acres near Beaconsfield Manitoba with plans to start a shingle and saw mill in the spring The two years had however been desperately hard shyso hard that in his last letter to his mother September 23 1882 Edward Ffolkes spoke of those days of martyrdom and slavery His own account suggests that this was no exaggeration
It is this account and the earlier record of Edward Ffol kes year at the Ontario Agricultural College which was edited by Edwards uncle that gives historical significance to the very rare book Letters from a Young Emigrant in Manitoba published by Kegan Paul Trench in London in 1883 0
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THE OAC Centennial Festival and Alumni Week was Guelphs birthday
party of the century The days and nights from July 6 to 14
were filled with something for everyone regardless of age or interest as many alumni and friends of the University of Guelph came and joined in the once-in-ashylifetime event
Some of the attractions included a parade of antique cars tractors steam engines horse drawn carriages and floats an Olde Tyme outdoor chuckwagon breakfast at Creelman Plaza a gigantic birthday cake six-horse hitches alumni reunions skits of the past visits from dignitaries and a beard-growing contest
Months of plann ing and hard work by the OAC Centennial Committee resulted in a wonderful week for all who attended the festivities
The celebrations were held to pay homage to the Ontario Agricultural College which was established in 1874 by the provincial Department of Agriculture and boasted 30 students who lived in a converted house on a 500-acre farm
Now with a student population hovering near 10000 and an 11 ~O-acre main campus the University of Guelph has sent leading farmers teachers research scientists and businessmen out into the world
The College has provided Canadas agriculture industry with continual research breakthroughs and fresh ideas while internationally it aids significantly in solving the agricultural problems of developing countries
Youve come a long way baby Happy Birthday 0
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INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS a Guelph Tradition
by Scott Taylor
Opposite page Four members of the 1910-11 Ontario Agricultural College Basketball Team Left to r ight W Toole 11 W H Smith 12 manager E W White 12 C Main 11
Above An OAVC crest seen on athletic uniforms in the 1940s
ACCORDING to legend a Gryphon was a mythical creature represented by
the head and wings of an eagle the body of a lion and the tail of a serpent Since 1968 this fearful looking symbol that legend claimed to be the protector of the treasures of the Asiatic Scythis has been the guardian of the athletic teams that represent the University of Guelph
Today the College on the Hill has become one of the premier universities in the country in the field of sports competition The university is represented by a Canadian Intercollegiate Athletic
Union basketball champion an Ontario Universities Athletic Association team wrestling winner and an Ontario Womens Intercollegiate Athletic Association ice hockey titleist The list of team and individual crowns that have been won since OAC first participated in athletics as the Aggies is extensive indeed and not to recall in some manner the glorious history of athletics at Guelph first as OA C and MacDonald Institute then as OAVC and Mac and finally as the University of Guelph would be to neglect an important aspect of the centennial of the Ontario Agricultural College
On September sixth of this year the University of Guelph Gryphons opened another football season behind head coach Dick Brown a former professional gridiron player who this year was named to the Greatest Toronto Argonaut All-Star team in history The Manitoba Bisons flew in from Winnipeg and topped the Gryphons in the season starter by a fourteen-Io-six score as the passing combination of Brad Hall to Craig Holt the leading receiver in Gryphon history highlighted the evening for the Red and Gold
Through many seasons of success the losses have come as well In 1960 behind head coach Tom Mooney the passing combination was from Jim Wright 61 A to Dave Hume OAC 61 but it wasnt quite enough as the OAVC Football Redmen suffered through a bitter year of rebuilding the glories of the past The sports writer of the Libranni 1961 may have put it best in a piece entitled Great is the Fall He wrote
There are many quotations and sayings that express the difficulty of maintaining ones position at the top This year the Redmen found out just how true those expressions were Gone was the mighty invincible Redmen machine that
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flattened all the opposition without mercy Every team in the league sought to add to its own laurels and to the humiliation of the Redmen by proclaiming that they too could defeat those farmers from Guelph Due to this every team that the Redmen encountered was fired up for the encounter and played their best against our squad
However the thrill of victory has been at hand more often than not for the rugby football teams from Guelph In 1934 Head Coach and Athletic Director of the OAC Aggies F G Baldy Baldwin led a tough squad of men to the Canadian Intermediate Intercollegiate Rugby Championships for the second time W F Bill Mitchell OAC 38 quartershybacked the Aggies of 34 and today that same Bill Mitchell quarterbacks the
Above Intermediate Intercollegiate Football Champions 1949
Right Intermediate Intercollegiate Basketball Champions 1925-26 Left to right Prof A W Baker 11 coach J W G McEwan 26 J E Ridley 27 J R Currey 29 L M Schenck 26 captain L Young 27 R Graham 29 Geo Thompson 27 H Potter A T Rintoul 26 manager
entire sports program at the University of Guelph as Director of Athletics Included on that same team which incidentally did not enter the Ontario Rugby Football Union playdowns because of bad weather and approaching exam inations was a hard-nosed middle known as Haley Hales He is probably better remembered by the people in Guelph and Wellington Riding as Alfred Dryden Hales OAC 34 Member of Parliament who stepped down this past election after more than sixteen years of political service
The names of players and their eventual careers after graduation is a vast area to research Athletes who have finished their studies at Guelph have gone into various fields but a few of them have remained as outstanding athletes in the professional ranks The most recent of these are football kicker Gerry Organ BSc(PE) 71 of the Ottawa Rough
Riders and hockey netminder Ken lockett BA 72 As anyone who follows Canadian sporting fortunes knows former Gryphon Organ is the reigning Schenley Award Winner as the most outstanding native Canadian in the Canadian Football league Fewer people may know that lockett 1971 s All-Canadian hockey goaltender former mem ber of the Canadian World Student Games Team and of course a graduate Gryphon has recently been signed to a pro contract with the Vancouver Canucks of th e National Hockey league
Other Guelph athletes of the past have continued their careers at top amateur level s A prime example of this is Grant Maclaren In 1969 Maclaren put on a near one-man show at the CIA U cross-country championships He earned himself the national individual title and at the same time was backed up
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by a superb University of Guelph harrier contingent that captu red the CIAU team championship as well Today Maclaren is still a world-class distance runner who will no doubt represent Canada at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal
Another Gryphon who may be an Olympic Team member is basketball star Bob Sharpe last season Sharpe was an OUA A All-Star an All-Star team member at the CIAU championships as well as the lalter tournament s Most Valuable Player This past summer Sharpe got his first taste of international competition as a player on the Canadian National Mens Basketball Team - a team that gave Canada its best performance since the 1936 Olympics when our nations finest lost a gold medal to the United States by a 19-5 score on an outdoor court and in a driving rainstorm
Rugger at Guelph
International competition is not restricted to track stars and basketball players however This winter the University of Guelph will have four varsity wrestlers with foreign experience behind them Richard Deschatelets represented Canada in Europe this past summer while Bob Price and Tom Bethune travelled with the country s B team on a tour of the United States In 1974 AI Tschirhart was a member of Canadas World Student Games Team in Moscow and when one adds the name of OUA A champion Ross Barrable to the formidable list of four there appears to be little doubt that Guelph will repeat as A M Porter Trophy winners
Perhaps the name of this piece of silverware itself is an indication of the success of the wrestling program at Guelph The Porter Trophy was presented to the Canadian Intercollegiate Athletic
Union by A M Porter OAC 20 the Registrar of the Ontario Agricultural College Guelph Canada as a token of his active interest in University Wrestling since 1920 That is what is inscribed on the prize that is now the sought-after conclusion to the OUAA wrestling season It is appropriate that OAVC shyUniversity of Guelph teams have won this trophy seven times and are presently showing it off in the trophy case at the Athletics Centre (The University of Western Ontario has won it alone six times but on two other occasions has shared it with the University of Waterloo) From Coach Wright OAC 33 in the thirties to Coach Schlegal in the forties through Coach Glen Peister OAC 50 in the seasons of the fifties with Coach Bob Heinrich OAC 5SA in the early sixties and now in the seventies with highly-touted Londo Iacovelli at the helm
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Aggie Gryphon and Redm en grapplers have been the prime target for the opposition eve ry year
One sport at Guelph th at has just attained a position of national prominence is the game of basketball Behind people like Sharpe AI Grunys Denni s Krawchuk and graduating seniors Paul Allen BSc (HK)74 and Phil Smith BA 74 the University won a national championship in 1974 When Garney Henley took over as head coach however the University of Guelph posted a depressing one winshy17 loss season Many times during the next few years Coach Henley was fortunate to have a successful professional foo tball ca reer with the Canadian Football League s Hamilton Tiger-Cats to conso le him However through hard work and with players like Mark Walton BA 72 Chester Graham BA 73 and Wayne Morgan BA 72 Henley and his assistants Doug Dodd and Dic k Brown have built a superb prog ram
In 1956 howeve r with Tom Mooney at the helm a group of ball players had the words Take Off as an inspiration and were fighting to ga in acceptance into senior interc ollegiate ranks Led by Murray Atkinson OAC 60 who later became the firs t two-tim e win ner of the Athlete of the Year Award and by Bill Dimson OAC 57A whose subsequent death in a ca r acc ident a few years later was a bl ow for all who knew him the OAVC Aggies fini shed in second place at the intermediate level losing a heartbreaking 56-52 dec ision to the eventual c hampion Weste rn Dimsons name has not been forgotten at Guelph a plaque presented annually in his honour goes to the schools Most Valuable Baske tball Pl aye r Am ong the winners of the Bill Dimson Memorial Award are present holder Bob Sharpe and Guelphs first official All-Canadian basketball player Wayne Morgan
Top An OAC swim team resplendent in their tank suits
Above University of Guelph wrestling squad coached by Londo Iacovelli
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Awards and particularly AII-Canadtan honours are not uncommon among the present group of athletes at Guelph In addition to Ken Lockett in hockey and Morgan in basketball John Kelley and Dave lane of this years gridiron Gryphs were named All-Canadians in 1973
locketts hockey heroics were displayed when the University of Guelph was not a power on the ice but this season the Gryphons and their young coach Bud Folusewych are favoured to take serious aim at the University of Waterloos national crown led by little Adam Brown who broke all the scoring records in Ontario college hockey last season forward Bill Hanson defenceman Doug McKay and goaltender David Moote - all OUAA AII-Starsshythe Gryphons will have a good opportunity to relive past Gryphon glories Such a year was 1960 when coach AI Singleton and athletes such as Max ONeil OAC 61 Wayne lopp and Bill German OAC 61 ousted Ryerson in a semi-final playoff to earn a birth in the championship round against the powerful men from McMaster
Hockey football basketball and wrestling certainly arent the only sports that have provided Guelph with athletic laurels Cross-country teams boxing squads and golf teams have all brought hardware home to the trophy case at Guelph as today the school participates in 17 sports at the intercollegiate level The facilities for all these activities at Guelph are not totally adequate and only the football stadium could be described as outstanding Alumni Stadium opened officially on October 17 1970 is a 4100 seat complex that is not only home for the football Gryphons but houses the large multi-purpose Gryphon Room where accommodation can be made for karate wrestling and other related activities It is truly the highlight of the athletics complex on the Guelph campus
There are people on the staff and faculty at Guelph who although they dont fly the banner of the Gryphon still aid in the publics knowledge of athletics at the University of Guelph Librarian Yvonne Saunders who is a British Commonwealth Games gold medalist and Professor Abigail Hoffman of the Political Studies Department who has represented Canada in countless track events at the international level including the Olympic Games spread the name of the university in a way that is unequalled by any other non-academic activity
It is interesting to note that these two non-student athletes are both women The University of Guelph has a successful womens program as well and it has certainly grown since 1952 when Margaret Dix coached almost every sport at MacDonald Institute
With Shirley Peterson co-ordinating intercollegiate athletics and coaching ice hockey Val (Millar) Freeman BSc (PE) 70 heading the intramural program and coaching basketball and Joni Johnson Anne Stallman and Pam Wedd BSc(HK) 74 taking the coachs reins in a variety of activities the ladies at Guelph have a good foundation for fun and success
The most hardware to come in womens athletics in recent years has been on the hockey rink Mrs Petersons pucksters have captured the Ontario Women s Intercollegiate Athletics Association crown six times A record unequalled in the last decade
At present the ladies participate in 12 sports at the intercollegiate level and in the past year the most highly touted athlete has been field hockey player Marg Ellis Mrs Ellis is presently a member of the Ontario Provincial Field Hockey Team and she would like to earn a spot on the national squad in the near future
With the Olympic Games drawing near and the Ontario Agricultural College one hundred years old this year the young men and women who participate in sports at Guelph will be working to spread the Guelph name in Montreal in 1976 Names like Sharpe Deschatelets Saunders and Maclaren proudly reflect the glories of the past In old Librannis in yellowed newspaper clippings and on the nameplates of trophies people such as Goomer Raithby OAC 51 Poker Mills OAC 34 and Bill Dimson will always be remembered as viial cogs in the OAVC Aggie athletic machine 0
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campus highlights Housing shortage shortlived Early reports on the housing situation at Guelph were rather bleak however A W Mcinnis Director of Residences recently reported that the present situation is not serious and that all students have found permanent accommodation A student governmentshysponsored tent city saw very little use (approximately 10 students slept in it) as did special emergency housing in the Gryphon Room of the stadium (no-one slept there)
Tent City near the East Residences
The lack of off-campus student housing this year is directly connected to a general scarcity of housing in the city explained Mr Mcinnis He noted that because of high mortgage rates those who formerly rented their premises have ceased renting and are now selling their property In addition Guelphs attractive location vis-a-vis Toronto has led commuters to settle in many of the new subdivisions and residents who might have moved cannot afford the higher housing prices This is particularly applicable to those Guelph residents living in the downtown sections of the city which contain older but extremely large homes When sold these houses are often converted into
apartments but with fewer sales the predictable result is fewer apartments
A visit to city hall by residence officials confirmed that the off-campus situation will not improve in the immediate future and high mortgage interest rates coupled with high construction costs makes residence construction a high economic risk
The problem became acute this year due to a sharp increase in the number of students desiring residence accommodation compared with Sept 1973
Last year at mid-August approximately 2200 seniors had accepted rooms in residence By May 15 of this year more than 2200 seniors had been placed in residence and with places reserved for 1760 freshmen the Universitys 3900 beds were taken by mid-May
The 68 co-op apartments were also filled early for the fall semester Many students took out a years lease instead of an eight month agreement resulting in an extremely low turnover - less than 20 per cent from a year ago
Similar difficulties were evident at Wellington Woods the University s married students residence located on Stone Road Last year there were 36 vacancies for the fall semester this year that figure was cut to 12
Despite these figures the 1974 student housing picture in Guelph is now under control - until next fall
Freshmen enjoy a hayride tour around the University campus
Orienteering grant The University of Guelph often referred to as the home of orienteering in North America will benefit by a grant of more than $42000 made to the Canadian Orienteering Federation by Health and Welfare Canada The Honourable Marc Lalonde gave notice of the grant to Professor A Sass Peepre of Human Kinetics Professor Peepre is one of the founders of the Federation and is presently the president of the group
Orienteering is becoming very popular in Canada and is now taught at all levels in many schools The sport uses map and compass to find a specified route through the countryside and attracts thousands to meets in Europe
Enrolment increases Guelph s largest complement of students began classes in September Full-time enrolment has increased 11 per cent over last year Full-time undergraduate enrolment stood at 9100 on September 10 with approximately 550 full-time graduate students expected to register Part-time undergraduates number 600 part-time grad students about 150
A red-and-white orientation tent was erected outside the University Centre to provide a focal pOint for new students Orientation featured free concerts football games hayride tours of the campus and meetings with deans and academic counsellors
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The University of Guelph Choir led by conductor Nicholas Goldschmidt
Choir returns from tour The 42-member University of Guelph Choir returned to Guelph after several wellshyreceived performances in the Maritimes
The choir performed in Charlottetown New Glasgow Sydney Antigonish Halifax Dartmouth Yarmouth and at Acadia University in Wolfville under the direction of Nicholas Goldschmidt and assistant conductor Nickolaus Kaethler with accompanist Gerald Manning recitalist Denise Turcotte and soloist Robert Missen Along with works by Handel Bach Rossini Cherubini Schubert and Vaughan Williams the choir performed Canadian folk songs arranged by music professor Derek Healey
One of the main reasons for going on tour is to improve the quality of the choir commented Dean Murdo MacKinnon College of Arts The tour of Scotland in 1973 had a marked effect on the group so the 1974 tour of the Maritimes was a natural development Proof of the new level attained is that this year at the end of the tour the choir was asked by the CBC in Halifax to make a recording of a considerable portion of Handels Passion
which will be broadcast at the Easter season in 1975
Before the choir departed for the Maritimes an advance notice was sent to University of Guelph alumni in the area stating the times and places where the choir was to appear The results were extremely satisfying to the choir in that several alumni turned out for the performances
The choir experienced a rather unexpected thrill when it visited Fortress Louisburg in Cape Breton Island and was asked to record ten minutes of religious music in the beautiful chapel which is part of the historic fortress being re-built by the Government of Canada Consequently when visitors to the chapel hear quiet choral music in the background theyre listening to the University of Guelph Choir singing chorales of J S Bach
The choir was greeted by an enthusiastic Halifax audience when it performed in Rebecca Cohn Auditorium at Dalhousie University A critic for the Halifax Chronicle Herald commented Right from the opening of this work the
audience could hear a well-trained professional choir The singers close attention to every move of Director Goldschmidt was a joy to see and hear
The choi r sang before an overflow audience in Zion Baptist Church in Yarmouth on the opening day of the International Tuna Fish Festival A Yarmouth critic wrote The audience which gave the visitors two standing ovations was deeply moved by the majestic performance of the Passion of Christ by Handel The choir provided dramatic contrasts and excellent control of the exciting fugues which are characteristic of Handel
The program was presented once more after the choi rs retu rn They sang in St Andrews United Church Sudbury on Sunday October 6
Ottawa chapter barbecue was a success The Ottawa chapter of the University of Guelph Alumni Association held a family barbecue on Saturday September 14
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campus highlights
at the Kemptville College of Agricultural Tec hnology
A group of 125 adults and c hildren took part in a variety of games followed by a tour of the expe rimental ba rns and orchards Then everyone enjoyed a chicken barbecue Prizes for the ad ults were quarts of Ontario maple syrup and two pounds of honey
Board appoints new members Professor James Archibald OVC 49 Richard Birc hal l Kenneth Hammill OAC 51 and John Wood began their three-year terms on July 1 as new members on the Unive rsi ty s Board of Governors
Professor Archibald 55 a senate appointee to the board graduated from the Ontario Veterin ary COllege with a DVM degree in 1949 and in 1951 was granted a Master of Veterinary Science Professor Archibald has been on the OVC faculty since 1949 and was appOinted professor and chairman of clinical studies in 1963 a posi tion which he st ill holds
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Hammill Birchall
Ric hard Birchall 59 is president of the Canadian National Sportsmen s Show and the Toronto International Boat Show In addition he is chairman of the Ontario Waterfowl Research Foundation which adm ini sters the Kortright Waterfow l Park in Gue lph He is a director of the
North American Wildlife Foundation and a Canadian director of the World Wildlife fund He is also a mem ber of the Conserva ti on Council of Ontario and vice-chairm an of the Del ta Waterfowl Research Station com mi ttee in Manitoba Mr Birchall is a mem be r of the inner council of the Wildfow l Trust in Slim bridge England and sits on the faculty of forestry advisory council o f the University of Toronto He has been a frequent visitor to campus in connection with his interests in several research projects being carried out in OAC OVC and the College of Biological Sc ience
Ken Hammill a 1951 graduate o f the Ontario Agricultural College is viceshypresident and a director of Omark Canada Ltd in Guelph Mr Hammill has been a member o f Guelph c ity council since 1962 and has served on the f in ance personnel parks and recre ation committees He has also been a ci ty representative on the Grand River Conservation Authority
John Wood 34 studied at the University of Western Ontario where he graduated in 1964 as a gold medal ist in business administrat ion He is presently vice-president (manufac turin g) and a director of the N C Wood Company in Gue lph He is a member of the Guelph Chamber of Commerce the Guelph Industrial and Economic Deve lopment Commission and the Guelph Rotary Club Mr Wood also se rved as c hairman of the Canadi an government appliance miss ion to Europe in 1968
Aggies took over September 23-28 Aggie Week 74 was filled with the usual merriment and competition that stems from a long-standing OAC tradition
Anim al scientist Bob Forshaw easily won the faculty trophy for cow milking with 35 ounces in one minute defeating other competitors suc h as President Winegard who milked two ounces last years champion Mike Jenkinson OAC 63 with 11 ounces and Professor Richard Vosburgh acting dean of Family and Consumer Studies with three ounces
Animal sc ient ist Roge r Hacker won the hog calling contest followed by Dr H 0 Branion assistant to the president
who tied for second place with agricultural economist Phil Wright
Monster ball competitions bed races chariot races and tugs of war brought out many faculty and students for the annual Aggie Games won bY OAC Class 77
Former chairman honoured The Department of Animal and Poultry Science recently honou red its former chairman Professor J C Rennie OAC 47 who left the campus to become executive direc tor of the education and resea rch division of the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food
Pro fessor Renni e jo ined the faculty in 1952 and was chairman from 1965 to 1971 Du ring the past yea r he served as acting dean of research during the absence on sabbatical of Dean W E Tossell OAC 47
Alma Mater Fund results encouraging Fund Chairman Neil Darrach reports that the Alma Mater Fund has received $120330 towards its $160000 objecti ve
A total of 2396 gifts have been received from alumni faculty professional staff and other suppo rters of higher education Gifts from the Guelph campus amounting to $27247 have reached a new high and exceed the final tabulat ion of $25977 achieved in last years fund drive on the campus
The Century Club Division of the fund reports that 357 founding members have renewed their memberships at this time with gifts of $100 or more In addition 112 new founding members have subscribed to the Century Club
Mr Darrach stated that donors who make leadership gifts to the Alma Mater Fund Century Club in 1974 and the two years preced ing the Centennial will be known as foundin g members He also stated th at the Challenge Grant made by Continental Can Company of Canada Ltd is attracting many new and increased gifts Under the term s of the Challenge Grant new girts and the amount of increase over a previous annual gift will be matched by the Challenge Grant to a max imum of $5000
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November 28 University of Guelph to January 5 Printmaking Workshop
(collection of international prints) McLaughlin Library Main Floor Gallery Monday through Saturday 9 am to 10 pm Sunday 1 pm to 10 pm
December 27 Centennial 74 Finale University Centre 830 pm to 1 am
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An Emigrant at OAC THE contribution which students of
British origin have made to life on the campus of the Ontario Agricultural College has never been examined Many old alumni would agree that this contribution was very considerable Year after year these students provided for example many star players for football teams entire cricket teams trained performers for dramatic productions officers for the Literary Society authors for the OAC Review the first Rhodes scholar interesting men in classes and finally a dash of cultural refinement against which the native born Aggie sometimes saw himself to disadvantage
It is not the purpose of this article to give a comprehensive account of the British students at the OAC over the past century Rather the article focuses upon one such student Edward G E Ffolkes from Hillington Lyn England My choice falls upon him not because he was outstanding but rather because he has left a fascinating account in his diary and letters of what life was like at the OAC in the years 1880-1881
When Ffolkes came to Guelph October 30 1880 the Ontario School of Agriculture and Experimental Farm had just become The Ontario Agricultural
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by Professor A M Ross
College and Experimental Farm James Mills in office since 1879 had just accepted the new title president The College Circular in 1880 showed the staff as follows James Mills MA President Professor of English Literature and Natural History William Brown (Gold medallist of the Scottish Arboricultural Society and of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland) Professor of Agriculture and Farm Superintendent J Hoyes Panton MA Professor of Chemistry E A A Grange VS Professor of Veterinary Science Alexander McTavish (First-Class Provo Certificate) Assistant Resident and Mathematical Master P J Woods Instructor in Farm Department James Forsyth Instructor in Horticultural Department James Mcintosh Instructor in Mechanical Department Thomas Johnston Bursar
Although the College was established primarily for the sake of the farmers of Ontario in 1880 it was failing to attract their sons In the Fall Term of that year 69 Ontario students registered
eight fewer than the year before A year later the number registering had slipped to 63 Meanwhile the number of nonshyresident students nearly doubled from 14 in 1880 to 26 in 1881 One-half of the 26 came from Britain For several years the non-resident student was a very important component of the College enrolment
How did it come about that OAG was apparently so well known in Britain so soon after its establishment in 1874 How did Edward Ffolkes at the age of 18 a student at the Haileybury Public School for Boys in Hertfordshire hear about this Canadian college One reasonable explanation may rest upon the publicity which surrounded William Brown the voluble farm superintendent when he went overseas to buy stock for the College he frequently spoke and wrote about the advantages of emigration to Canada Browns emphasis upon the OAC as being a place where a young man was taught practically appealed especially to those who planned to own land and farm it themselves
By his own admission the OAC was for Edward Ffolkes a means whereby he could learn the outline of farming and get hardy and all that sort of thing
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before going west to take up land in Manitoba Young Britons like Ffolkes may well have found William Browns account of the OACs educational theory and practice very attractive That it did not appeal to an Ontario farmers son in the 1880s was not at all surprising Ontario farm boys were all too aware of the practicalities of farming at home Neither Dr Mills Circular nor Browns speeches could convince them that the Ontario Agricultural College and Experimental Farm deserved their attendance in large numbers
At Guelph Ffolkes was initiated very quickly into a life which offered him very little if any chance to indulge in the pleasures he had known back home his pipe of tobacco his glass of beer the delights of the ballroom and concerts five oclock teas sailing billiards college suppers and evening dress At the OAC he found that waistcoat tie and collar are quite unnecessary not to say unheard of articles as of course we have not time to change after work He was furthermore puzzled about the prejudice which Canadians had against wearing knickerbockers Indeed he had come to College with much the wrong kind of clothing His Norfolk jacket was too good to wear for outside work What he needed was a pea jacket Aunt Fannys knitted waistcoat was suitable for swagger occasions but what he should have had was a woo llen waistcoat with sleeves h is tweed
trousers too had to be replaced by red by two goals As it was Saturday canvas overalls and trousers made of October 30 All Hallows Eve Edward pilot cloth went out singing for apples and
On his arrival in Guelph Edward was collected nearly half a bushel in a bag asked as soon as he got off the train On the following Monday he and other to play halfback in a football match new students wrote the matriculation against the town which the College won examinations in grammar composition
TIME TABLES FOn ICALL TERll (1 ST OCTomr 10 CIIRrSTB S) lSS0
Time taolp No1 gives the rout ine of th e di(fe rr nt ycnrs nnltl c1ivi ~ ion s for the first week tim~ hide No 2 the routine of til( ~iI)le yen r s nnd di is infls for t l second week No1 and L o 3 Hi iug ll t ll follnwcu nl tc lllulely f r l wcek eac h t llroughou t the term
TDIE TADLE No I - 1ST WEEK
1 ST YEAR-D1YlSIO oI II
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-- - - - - 1----1 2- 3 I Anthmctic Enli h Imiddot turalHi 40ry middot1 Hcltaral I Arithmetic Composit ion J ~ory
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~ -4--~~ic 1 Vcter~ V etcrin1ry ~rl i h 1---It- -I 1I -) Chc-nl istry Anatomy Anltomy Litc l 1ture 1 g ll cu nrc
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geography and arithmetic The results showed that Ffolkes doubled everyone elses marks getting 357 out of a possible 400
Like other students at the OA C Edward Ffolkes kept a diary it was a custom which the College seems to have Insisted upon for many years and severa l of these diaries have survived Edward s daily entries differ from those of his fellows in that his observations frequently go beyond the bare mention of routine chores and weather conditions On December 6 1880 for example he was thrashing in the experime ntal barn wheie all the specimens of grai n are tested bottled and labelled (before being sent) to the members of the Agricultu ra l Union which had been established in 1878 Like his contemporary Oscar Chase he reveals the practical austerities of his education getting up at 530 am to worlt four or five hours a day at two cents an hour learnin g to harness teams cleaning feeding an d littering cattle glazing double windows d itch digging up to his knees in freezin g water spreading manure acting as farm clerk (boss job) feeding the steam chaff-cutter assisting the shepherd pulping tu rn ips using a crosscut saw in the bush and chopping wood early in the morning for the farm s steam engine
Unlike many other students Edward Ffolkes cheerfully accepted the regul ations regarding student labour for they ensured that he would gain work expe rience which might serve him well in western Canada He did not however accept the academic work of the classroom in the same spirit He adm itted that it was both demanding and difficult and pointed out in one of his letters home that the two-year course at Guelph really req uired three years of attendance The lectures he asserted were decidedly hard work and took up too much of a students time Even though he had given up much sleep cramming for the Christmas examinations he found the papers ho rrible
Although he had intended to stay at the College over the Christmas vacation to improve his knowledge about farming Edward found his room so uncomfortably warm the scrub womans activities so energetic and the 930 pm curfew so confining that he thought the sooner he sloped the better He spent Christmas Eve in Toronto at Trinity College where he drank absent friends and tried to forget those horrible papers which he asserted had knocked him up a little During his first week in Toronto he went to four dances in the next to five
Alexander M Ross The College on the Hill Toronto Copp Clark 1974 pp 61-64
I PAPERS SET AT THE SESSIONAL EXA)IINATIONS EASTER 1881
FIRST YEAJt
AGRICULTURE
Exam in er V I BIWW~
1 G ive a comprehensi ve sketch of wha t characLcris8~ the d iaer ent kinds of b rming ~~led grazing (Ltiry ing a nd mi xeuro d
2 Whit t gu idp~ us in conclud ing that a soil 1p1uirp~ to be drain cltl and how is dminage in a ll its J etai is most elli ciently co uudcu u nder two of the most opposite condition s j
3 State wh~ t is m e tnt by inj u(l icious com l)i uti on of m tedal in f ncc building and exph in Lhe telms severance damages ~ Cd l Wl ter d l ill and gradient in connection w ith road ma king
F[RST YEAR
PRACTICAL EXAMINATION IN LIVE STOCK
Exami1ler VM B ROWN
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1 Show the b pst and the poorest p oint~ of the youngest steer j udging by a Shortrshyhorn standar d
2 D escribe the whole getr-up of the other stee r fl om any point of cornparisolil 3 N ame t he brerding of t he cows wd show wherein the one inuicates superior
mi lking properties to the other
F IST YEAR
PRACTICJAL EXA~III~ATION IN LIVE STOCK
E xaminer V~ BROWgt
SaREP-L P oin t out and name t he ltliflelent b reeds croses a nd grades 2 middotWhich is the best wooled iJ cep a s regards uniformity a nd ~oundness 7 3 H ow would you h reed from amOJg the~e in order t o secure as neM as pos iiv lc
the wool of the Ier ino w il h t h( carcass of the Leicester and eonstitu Lion of the SOlllhshyltlown- giving reasons i ll (lelail l
F IRST YEA R
INORGANIC CHlDIISTRY
EXa1~i71e J HOYES PANTO~ MA
1 Name t he di ffe rent wtty ill which h eat may be transm itted and give examples of ~ch
2 Explain the terms base atom salt lrtten t hea t 3 G ive the pnpltlrlltiOll and p roperties of cholc (lump andjibull e damp 4 Vhat is lnea ll by 11 fo r llu la in chem ist ry 1 l e t he formulas for the three
titri()ls and di sti ll glli~l t hese C01U pOl llds fro l ewh other 5 N t10le three metals lig l1ttgt r thun wat r a llli ltive their p roperties 6 Vrite no tes on tlte cornrOUlrJ s Itpresente Iy Ca Co II X 0 N If 3 N il II U
0 with reference to the ir source ami ll t iJity 7 Give the prcp~mtion a nd p )or~lti es of n itroen 8 N ame the ehffe ren t form s ill w hich itira a nu alnmina occur a nd g ive t heir use 9 DeBcriue a lamp lame a nd explai n the action ot the Bnns~ n hurncr
The New Years custom of calling happiness of man and Resolved that amused him He knew of one gentleman chewing is injurious to health This last who called on as many as 130 different topic is interesting because Ffolkes families in Toronto between 11 00 am and 6 pm on that day
maintained that many of the students c hewed tobacco and their indiscriminate -Throughout his brief year at the OAC or badly aimed spitting made the walls
Edward Ffolkes proved to be a popular and floors in residence simply hoggish student He not only took part in sports On February 18 1881 Edward acted but also participated in the Literary the part of Larkspur in a Literary Society Society of which he became Viceshy entertainment In this connection he President Debating appealed to him and reminded his mother that all the he told his mother about the subjects Engl ishmen here are popular a fact Resolved that ambition is a virtue whi ch he may have thought would be a Resolved that vanity is conducive to the consolation to her when it came time
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EASTER EXAJIIVI FIOTS l SSJ-continued
EXGLISII CO~IPOSITIOX
1 E xpbin whl t is lD ean t by styl e J-ncl wklt you consider the cs~olltial properties of [ good s tyle
3 Stelte full y IIh1t is co mpreh0nckd U lhl cr the lle)(h of rcc nmc) and clefr~~s 3 Write all lttn ic-i 0 011 the pC(l1i Cl itie~ of p oetic di ction 4 Write a cOlllpui lio ll 011 one or (middotle fol lowing s ul1j ects
(1 ) Clilll1le (l ) Shcep-frming in C l l)(b (3) SYS lClll order and hlilless i1 bnning
(4) Who oer lhe ]l()rc oltllt1 i ~h to r eign Fantas tic helde ficru u1 in I
Vain a s the k a f upon th L Strell Anel fickle s a chall~d ltl clrcalll anttstic 1S i W01LJall Blood And fi e rce as Vrcmy fc(gt retl ulootl
fo r her second son Robert to come to the OAC
Robert Ffolkes however had decided that he wanted to farm in Iowa Edward quickly warned his mother of the dangers of revealing Roberts intentions to those in power at the College
Remember that if the authorities get so much as an inkling that Bob is thinking of farming in Iowa they will fire him out before he has been there a day Iowa being in the United States The other day the Agricultural lecturer asked one of the fellows to describe how he should proceed on taking up land Well I when I get down to Minnesota I shall first do so and so Lecturer Well the sooner you do it the better you can go and pack up you r trunks now and a team shall be ready to take you to the station for the eleven train They lent him money to get home and sent him away at once I had to kiss the Bible and swear an oath and sign a document I was going to remain four years in Canada after leaving the College when I sent in my request for admi ssion
What happened eventually to Robert is not known Although he did come to the OAC for the Fall Term of 1881 he did not stay any longer than his brother did Perhaps he too sought more practical farm training than the College was prepared to offer to a young man anxious to farm a thousand acres in the American West
Edward Ffolkes references to the City of Guelph are very limited Then as now town and gown were di sparate elements but in Edward s day they were geographically at least much more apart When Edward first came to Guelph a
boardwalk had just been laid to link the College grounds to the city limits It must have proved very convelient for the trips into town on Saturdays and on Sundays when Edward taught Sunday School in one of the fourteen churches which he had counted in the city On Saturdays he could attend entertainshyments in the City Hall or at the Drill Hall But it was Toronto that really appealed to Edward it was a splendid town even though he had seen a cart so badly stuck in the mud on Queen Street that it required five horses to pull it out
Despite the attractions of Toronto and the recommendation of a friend that he should take up banking rather than farming Edward Ffolkes determination to go to the northwest never wavered The dearest wish of his heart was to be self-supporting Whilst I am at Guelph College he told his mother it is impossible to be self-supporting for the simple reason the pay we get for working full hours (and I always do work full hours) does not cover board and washing which comes to $2 80 per week
Edward always remained skeptical of the practical value of much of what the College had to offer even of the outside work
In fact from what I can see the farming at Guelph is about the same as in England All the stock comes direct from England and the implements are exactly the same and it is hardly likely that in Manitoba there will be an assortment of implements for thrashing winnowing etc
Much better it was he thought to serve out an apprenticeship period with a successful farmer in the area where you intend to settle It was his opinion that his brother Bob cou Id no more leave the College after a three years course and
farm a thousand acres than fly to the moon Bob he said would have to rough It as foreman in some stock ranch for two years to get used to all the tricks of cattle dealing
By March 22 1881 Edward was in the midst of his Easter examinations and had made up his mind to leave the College to seek practical experience on a farm That he had given up his academic work is obvious from the results of his examinations of the five papers he seems to have written he received honour standing in agriculture and English composition and failed in organic chemistry veterinary anatomy and bookkeeping He never mentions these results in his letters home
That Edward Ffolkes may have underestimated the value of the training which the Ontario Agricultural College had to offer is reasonably certain However he never underestimated his own ability and determination to succeed as a farmer Two years after he left Guelph with the help of approximately two thousand dollars from home he was well established on a farm of 750 acres near Beaconsfield Manitoba with plans to start a shingle and saw mill in the spring The two years had however been desperately hard shyso hard that in his last letter to his mother September 23 1882 Edward Ffolkes spoke of those days of martyrdom and slavery His own account suggests that this was no exaggeration
It is this account and the earlier record of Edward Ffol kes year at the Ontario Agricultural College which was edited by Edwards uncle that gives historical significance to the very rare book Letters from a Young Emigrant in Manitoba published by Kegan Paul Trench in London in 1883 0
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THE OAC Centennial Festival and Alumni Week was Guelphs birthday
party of the century The days and nights from July 6 to 14
were filled with something for everyone regardless of age or interest as many alumni and friends of the University of Guelph came and joined in the once-in-ashylifetime event
Some of the attractions included a parade of antique cars tractors steam engines horse drawn carriages and floats an Olde Tyme outdoor chuckwagon breakfast at Creelman Plaza a gigantic birthday cake six-horse hitches alumni reunions skits of the past visits from dignitaries and a beard-growing contest
Months of plann ing and hard work by the OAC Centennial Committee resulted in a wonderful week for all who attended the festivities
The celebrations were held to pay homage to the Ontario Agricultural College which was established in 1874 by the provincial Department of Agriculture and boasted 30 students who lived in a converted house on a 500-acre farm
Now with a student population hovering near 10000 and an 11 ~O-acre main campus the University of Guelph has sent leading farmers teachers research scientists and businessmen out into the world
The College has provided Canadas agriculture industry with continual research breakthroughs and fresh ideas while internationally it aids significantly in solving the agricultural problems of developing countries
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INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS a Guelph Tradition
by Scott Taylor
Opposite page Four members of the 1910-11 Ontario Agricultural College Basketball Team Left to r ight W Toole 11 W H Smith 12 manager E W White 12 C Main 11
Above An OAVC crest seen on athletic uniforms in the 1940s
ACCORDING to legend a Gryphon was a mythical creature represented by
the head and wings of an eagle the body of a lion and the tail of a serpent Since 1968 this fearful looking symbol that legend claimed to be the protector of the treasures of the Asiatic Scythis has been the guardian of the athletic teams that represent the University of Guelph
Today the College on the Hill has become one of the premier universities in the country in the field of sports competition The university is represented by a Canadian Intercollegiate Athletic
Union basketball champion an Ontario Universities Athletic Association team wrestling winner and an Ontario Womens Intercollegiate Athletic Association ice hockey titleist The list of team and individual crowns that have been won since OAC first participated in athletics as the Aggies is extensive indeed and not to recall in some manner the glorious history of athletics at Guelph first as OA C and MacDonald Institute then as OAVC and Mac and finally as the University of Guelph would be to neglect an important aspect of the centennial of the Ontario Agricultural College
On September sixth of this year the University of Guelph Gryphons opened another football season behind head coach Dick Brown a former professional gridiron player who this year was named to the Greatest Toronto Argonaut All-Star team in history The Manitoba Bisons flew in from Winnipeg and topped the Gryphons in the season starter by a fourteen-Io-six score as the passing combination of Brad Hall to Craig Holt the leading receiver in Gryphon history highlighted the evening for the Red and Gold
Through many seasons of success the losses have come as well In 1960 behind head coach Tom Mooney the passing combination was from Jim Wright 61 A to Dave Hume OAC 61 but it wasnt quite enough as the OAVC Football Redmen suffered through a bitter year of rebuilding the glories of the past The sports writer of the Libranni 1961 may have put it best in a piece entitled Great is the Fall He wrote
There are many quotations and sayings that express the difficulty of maintaining ones position at the top This year the Redmen found out just how true those expressions were Gone was the mighty invincible Redmen machine that
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flattened all the opposition without mercy Every team in the league sought to add to its own laurels and to the humiliation of the Redmen by proclaiming that they too could defeat those farmers from Guelph Due to this every team that the Redmen encountered was fired up for the encounter and played their best against our squad
However the thrill of victory has been at hand more often than not for the rugby football teams from Guelph In 1934 Head Coach and Athletic Director of the OAC Aggies F G Baldy Baldwin led a tough squad of men to the Canadian Intermediate Intercollegiate Rugby Championships for the second time W F Bill Mitchell OAC 38 quartershybacked the Aggies of 34 and today that same Bill Mitchell quarterbacks the
Above Intermediate Intercollegiate Football Champions 1949
Right Intermediate Intercollegiate Basketball Champions 1925-26 Left to right Prof A W Baker 11 coach J W G McEwan 26 J E Ridley 27 J R Currey 29 L M Schenck 26 captain L Young 27 R Graham 29 Geo Thompson 27 H Potter A T Rintoul 26 manager
entire sports program at the University of Guelph as Director of Athletics Included on that same team which incidentally did not enter the Ontario Rugby Football Union playdowns because of bad weather and approaching exam inations was a hard-nosed middle known as Haley Hales He is probably better remembered by the people in Guelph and Wellington Riding as Alfred Dryden Hales OAC 34 Member of Parliament who stepped down this past election after more than sixteen years of political service
The names of players and their eventual careers after graduation is a vast area to research Athletes who have finished their studies at Guelph have gone into various fields but a few of them have remained as outstanding athletes in the professional ranks The most recent of these are football kicker Gerry Organ BSc(PE) 71 of the Ottawa Rough
Riders and hockey netminder Ken lockett BA 72 As anyone who follows Canadian sporting fortunes knows former Gryphon Organ is the reigning Schenley Award Winner as the most outstanding native Canadian in the Canadian Football league Fewer people may know that lockett 1971 s All-Canadian hockey goaltender former mem ber of the Canadian World Student Games Team and of course a graduate Gryphon has recently been signed to a pro contract with the Vancouver Canucks of th e National Hockey league
Other Guelph athletes of the past have continued their careers at top amateur level s A prime example of this is Grant Maclaren In 1969 Maclaren put on a near one-man show at the CIA U cross-country championships He earned himself the national individual title and at the same time was backed up
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by a superb University of Guelph harrier contingent that captu red the CIAU team championship as well Today Maclaren is still a world-class distance runner who will no doubt represent Canada at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal
Another Gryphon who may be an Olympic Team member is basketball star Bob Sharpe last season Sharpe was an OUA A All-Star an All-Star team member at the CIAU championships as well as the lalter tournament s Most Valuable Player This past summer Sharpe got his first taste of international competition as a player on the Canadian National Mens Basketball Team - a team that gave Canada its best performance since the 1936 Olympics when our nations finest lost a gold medal to the United States by a 19-5 score on an outdoor court and in a driving rainstorm
Rugger at Guelph
International competition is not restricted to track stars and basketball players however This winter the University of Guelph will have four varsity wrestlers with foreign experience behind them Richard Deschatelets represented Canada in Europe this past summer while Bob Price and Tom Bethune travelled with the country s B team on a tour of the United States In 1974 AI Tschirhart was a member of Canadas World Student Games Team in Moscow and when one adds the name of OUA A champion Ross Barrable to the formidable list of four there appears to be little doubt that Guelph will repeat as A M Porter Trophy winners
Perhaps the name of this piece of silverware itself is an indication of the success of the wrestling program at Guelph The Porter Trophy was presented to the Canadian Intercollegiate Athletic
Union by A M Porter OAC 20 the Registrar of the Ontario Agricultural College Guelph Canada as a token of his active interest in University Wrestling since 1920 That is what is inscribed on the prize that is now the sought-after conclusion to the OUAA wrestling season It is appropriate that OAVC shyUniversity of Guelph teams have won this trophy seven times and are presently showing it off in the trophy case at the Athletics Centre (The University of Western Ontario has won it alone six times but on two other occasions has shared it with the University of Waterloo) From Coach Wright OAC 33 in the thirties to Coach Schlegal in the forties through Coach Glen Peister OAC 50 in the seasons of the fifties with Coach Bob Heinrich OAC 5SA in the early sixties and now in the seventies with highly-touted Londo Iacovelli at the helm
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Aggie Gryphon and Redm en grapplers have been the prime target for the opposition eve ry year
One sport at Guelph th at has just attained a position of national prominence is the game of basketball Behind people like Sharpe AI Grunys Denni s Krawchuk and graduating seniors Paul Allen BSc (HK)74 and Phil Smith BA 74 the University won a national championship in 1974 When Garney Henley took over as head coach however the University of Guelph posted a depressing one winshy17 loss season Many times during the next few years Coach Henley was fortunate to have a successful professional foo tball ca reer with the Canadian Football League s Hamilton Tiger-Cats to conso le him However through hard work and with players like Mark Walton BA 72 Chester Graham BA 73 and Wayne Morgan BA 72 Henley and his assistants Doug Dodd and Dic k Brown have built a superb prog ram
In 1956 howeve r with Tom Mooney at the helm a group of ball players had the words Take Off as an inspiration and were fighting to ga in acceptance into senior interc ollegiate ranks Led by Murray Atkinson OAC 60 who later became the firs t two-tim e win ner of the Athlete of the Year Award and by Bill Dimson OAC 57A whose subsequent death in a ca r acc ident a few years later was a bl ow for all who knew him the OAVC Aggies fini shed in second place at the intermediate level losing a heartbreaking 56-52 dec ision to the eventual c hampion Weste rn Dimsons name has not been forgotten at Guelph a plaque presented annually in his honour goes to the schools Most Valuable Baske tball Pl aye r Am ong the winners of the Bill Dimson Memorial Award are present holder Bob Sharpe and Guelphs first official All-Canadian basketball player Wayne Morgan
Top An OAC swim team resplendent in their tank suits
Above University of Guelph wrestling squad coached by Londo Iacovelli
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Awards and particularly AII-Canadtan honours are not uncommon among the present group of athletes at Guelph In addition to Ken Lockett in hockey and Morgan in basketball John Kelley and Dave lane of this years gridiron Gryphs were named All-Canadians in 1973
locketts hockey heroics were displayed when the University of Guelph was not a power on the ice but this season the Gryphons and their young coach Bud Folusewych are favoured to take serious aim at the University of Waterloos national crown led by little Adam Brown who broke all the scoring records in Ontario college hockey last season forward Bill Hanson defenceman Doug McKay and goaltender David Moote - all OUAA AII-Starsshythe Gryphons will have a good opportunity to relive past Gryphon glories Such a year was 1960 when coach AI Singleton and athletes such as Max ONeil OAC 61 Wayne lopp and Bill German OAC 61 ousted Ryerson in a semi-final playoff to earn a birth in the championship round against the powerful men from McMaster
Hockey football basketball and wrestling certainly arent the only sports that have provided Guelph with athletic laurels Cross-country teams boxing squads and golf teams have all brought hardware home to the trophy case at Guelph as today the school participates in 17 sports at the intercollegiate level The facilities for all these activities at Guelph are not totally adequate and only the football stadium could be described as outstanding Alumni Stadium opened officially on October 17 1970 is a 4100 seat complex that is not only home for the football Gryphons but houses the large multi-purpose Gryphon Room where accommodation can be made for karate wrestling and other related activities It is truly the highlight of the athletics complex on the Guelph campus
There are people on the staff and faculty at Guelph who although they dont fly the banner of the Gryphon still aid in the publics knowledge of athletics at the University of Guelph Librarian Yvonne Saunders who is a British Commonwealth Games gold medalist and Professor Abigail Hoffman of the Political Studies Department who has represented Canada in countless track events at the international level including the Olympic Games spread the name of the university in a way that is unequalled by any other non-academic activity
It is interesting to note that these two non-student athletes are both women The University of Guelph has a successful womens program as well and it has certainly grown since 1952 when Margaret Dix coached almost every sport at MacDonald Institute
With Shirley Peterson co-ordinating intercollegiate athletics and coaching ice hockey Val (Millar) Freeman BSc (PE) 70 heading the intramural program and coaching basketball and Joni Johnson Anne Stallman and Pam Wedd BSc(HK) 74 taking the coachs reins in a variety of activities the ladies at Guelph have a good foundation for fun and success
The most hardware to come in womens athletics in recent years has been on the hockey rink Mrs Petersons pucksters have captured the Ontario Women s Intercollegiate Athletics Association crown six times A record unequalled in the last decade
At present the ladies participate in 12 sports at the intercollegiate level and in the past year the most highly touted athlete has been field hockey player Marg Ellis Mrs Ellis is presently a member of the Ontario Provincial Field Hockey Team and she would like to earn a spot on the national squad in the near future
With the Olympic Games drawing near and the Ontario Agricultural College one hundred years old this year the young men and women who participate in sports at Guelph will be working to spread the Guelph name in Montreal in 1976 Names like Sharpe Deschatelets Saunders and Maclaren proudly reflect the glories of the past In old Librannis in yellowed newspaper clippings and on the nameplates of trophies people such as Goomer Raithby OAC 51 Poker Mills OAC 34 and Bill Dimson will always be remembered as viial cogs in the OAVC Aggie athletic machine 0
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campus highlights Housing shortage shortlived Early reports on the housing situation at Guelph were rather bleak however A W Mcinnis Director of Residences recently reported that the present situation is not serious and that all students have found permanent accommodation A student governmentshysponsored tent city saw very little use (approximately 10 students slept in it) as did special emergency housing in the Gryphon Room of the stadium (no-one slept there)
Tent City near the East Residences
The lack of off-campus student housing this year is directly connected to a general scarcity of housing in the city explained Mr Mcinnis He noted that because of high mortgage rates those who formerly rented their premises have ceased renting and are now selling their property In addition Guelphs attractive location vis-a-vis Toronto has led commuters to settle in many of the new subdivisions and residents who might have moved cannot afford the higher housing prices This is particularly applicable to those Guelph residents living in the downtown sections of the city which contain older but extremely large homes When sold these houses are often converted into
apartments but with fewer sales the predictable result is fewer apartments
A visit to city hall by residence officials confirmed that the off-campus situation will not improve in the immediate future and high mortgage interest rates coupled with high construction costs makes residence construction a high economic risk
The problem became acute this year due to a sharp increase in the number of students desiring residence accommodation compared with Sept 1973
Last year at mid-August approximately 2200 seniors had accepted rooms in residence By May 15 of this year more than 2200 seniors had been placed in residence and with places reserved for 1760 freshmen the Universitys 3900 beds were taken by mid-May
The 68 co-op apartments were also filled early for the fall semester Many students took out a years lease instead of an eight month agreement resulting in an extremely low turnover - less than 20 per cent from a year ago
Similar difficulties were evident at Wellington Woods the University s married students residence located on Stone Road Last year there were 36 vacancies for the fall semester this year that figure was cut to 12
Despite these figures the 1974 student housing picture in Guelph is now under control - until next fall
Freshmen enjoy a hayride tour around the University campus
Orienteering grant The University of Guelph often referred to as the home of orienteering in North America will benefit by a grant of more than $42000 made to the Canadian Orienteering Federation by Health and Welfare Canada The Honourable Marc Lalonde gave notice of the grant to Professor A Sass Peepre of Human Kinetics Professor Peepre is one of the founders of the Federation and is presently the president of the group
Orienteering is becoming very popular in Canada and is now taught at all levels in many schools The sport uses map and compass to find a specified route through the countryside and attracts thousands to meets in Europe
Enrolment increases Guelph s largest complement of students began classes in September Full-time enrolment has increased 11 per cent over last year Full-time undergraduate enrolment stood at 9100 on September 10 with approximately 550 full-time graduate students expected to register Part-time undergraduates number 600 part-time grad students about 150
A red-and-white orientation tent was erected outside the University Centre to provide a focal pOint for new students Orientation featured free concerts football games hayride tours of the campus and meetings with deans and academic counsellors
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Choir returns from tour The 42-member University of Guelph Choir returned to Guelph after several wellshyreceived performances in the Maritimes
The choir performed in Charlottetown New Glasgow Sydney Antigonish Halifax Dartmouth Yarmouth and at Acadia University in Wolfville under the direction of Nicholas Goldschmidt and assistant conductor Nickolaus Kaethler with accompanist Gerald Manning recitalist Denise Turcotte and soloist Robert Missen Along with works by Handel Bach Rossini Cherubini Schubert and Vaughan Williams the choir performed Canadian folk songs arranged by music professor Derek Healey
One of the main reasons for going on tour is to improve the quality of the choir commented Dean Murdo MacKinnon College of Arts The tour of Scotland in 1973 had a marked effect on the group so the 1974 tour of the Maritimes was a natural development Proof of the new level attained is that this year at the end of the tour the choir was asked by the CBC in Halifax to make a recording of a considerable portion of Handels Passion
which will be broadcast at the Easter season in 1975
Before the choir departed for the Maritimes an advance notice was sent to University of Guelph alumni in the area stating the times and places where the choir was to appear The results were extremely satisfying to the choir in that several alumni turned out for the performances
The choir experienced a rather unexpected thrill when it visited Fortress Louisburg in Cape Breton Island and was asked to record ten minutes of religious music in the beautiful chapel which is part of the historic fortress being re-built by the Government of Canada Consequently when visitors to the chapel hear quiet choral music in the background theyre listening to the University of Guelph Choir singing chorales of J S Bach
The choir was greeted by an enthusiastic Halifax audience when it performed in Rebecca Cohn Auditorium at Dalhousie University A critic for the Halifax Chronicle Herald commented Right from the opening of this work the
audience could hear a well-trained professional choir The singers close attention to every move of Director Goldschmidt was a joy to see and hear
The choi r sang before an overflow audience in Zion Baptist Church in Yarmouth on the opening day of the International Tuna Fish Festival A Yarmouth critic wrote The audience which gave the visitors two standing ovations was deeply moved by the majestic performance of the Passion of Christ by Handel The choir provided dramatic contrasts and excellent control of the exciting fugues which are characteristic of Handel
The program was presented once more after the choi rs retu rn They sang in St Andrews United Church Sudbury on Sunday October 6
Ottawa chapter barbecue was a success The Ottawa chapter of the University of Guelph Alumni Association held a family barbecue on Saturday September 14
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campus highlights
at the Kemptville College of Agricultural Tec hnology
A group of 125 adults and c hildren took part in a variety of games followed by a tour of the expe rimental ba rns and orchards Then everyone enjoyed a chicken barbecue Prizes for the ad ults were quarts of Ontario maple syrup and two pounds of honey
Board appoints new members Professor James Archibald OVC 49 Richard Birc hal l Kenneth Hammill OAC 51 and John Wood began their three-year terms on July 1 as new members on the Unive rsi ty s Board of Governors
Professor Archibald 55 a senate appointee to the board graduated from the Ontario Veterin ary COllege with a DVM degree in 1949 and in 1951 was granted a Master of Veterinary Science Professor Archibald has been on the OVC faculty since 1949 and was appOinted professor and chairman of clinical studies in 1963 a posi tion which he st ill holds
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Hammill Birchall
Ric hard Birchall 59 is president of the Canadian National Sportsmen s Show and the Toronto International Boat Show In addition he is chairman of the Ontario Waterfowl Research Foundation which adm ini sters the Kortright Waterfow l Park in Gue lph He is a director of the
North American Wildlife Foundation and a Canadian director of the World Wildlife fund He is also a mem ber of the Conserva ti on Council of Ontario and vice-chairm an of the Del ta Waterfowl Research Station com mi ttee in Manitoba Mr Birchall is a mem be r of the inner council of the Wildfow l Trust in Slim bridge England and sits on the faculty of forestry advisory council o f the University of Toronto He has been a frequent visitor to campus in connection with his interests in several research projects being carried out in OAC OVC and the College of Biological Sc ience
Ken Hammill a 1951 graduate o f the Ontario Agricultural College is viceshypresident and a director of Omark Canada Ltd in Guelph Mr Hammill has been a member o f Guelph c ity council since 1962 and has served on the f in ance personnel parks and recre ation committees He has also been a ci ty representative on the Grand River Conservation Authority
John Wood 34 studied at the University of Western Ontario where he graduated in 1964 as a gold medal ist in business administrat ion He is presently vice-president (manufac turin g) and a director of the N C Wood Company in Gue lph He is a member of the Guelph Chamber of Commerce the Guelph Industrial and Economic Deve lopment Commission and the Guelph Rotary Club Mr Wood also se rved as c hairman of the Canadi an government appliance miss ion to Europe in 1968
Aggies took over September 23-28 Aggie Week 74 was filled with the usual merriment and competition that stems from a long-standing OAC tradition
Anim al scientist Bob Forshaw easily won the faculty trophy for cow milking with 35 ounces in one minute defeating other competitors suc h as President Winegard who milked two ounces last years champion Mike Jenkinson OAC 63 with 11 ounces and Professor Richard Vosburgh acting dean of Family and Consumer Studies with three ounces
Animal sc ient ist Roge r Hacker won the hog calling contest followed by Dr H 0 Branion assistant to the president
who tied for second place with agricultural economist Phil Wright
Monster ball competitions bed races chariot races and tugs of war brought out many faculty and students for the annual Aggie Games won bY OAC Class 77
Former chairman honoured The Department of Animal and Poultry Science recently honou red its former chairman Professor J C Rennie OAC 47 who left the campus to become executive direc tor of the education and resea rch division of the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food
Pro fessor Renni e jo ined the faculty in 1952 and was chairman from 1965 to 1971 Du ring the past yea r he served as acting dean of research during the absence on sabbatical of Dean W E Tossell OAC 47
Alma Mater Fund results encouraging Fund Chairman Neil Darrach reports that the Alma Mater Fund has received $120330 towards its $160000 objecti ve
A total of 2396 gifts have been received from alumni faculty professional staff and other suppo rters of higher education Gifts from the Guelph campus amounting to $27247 have reached a new high and exceed the final tabulat ion of $25977 achieved in last years fund drive on the campus
The Century Club Division of the fund reports that 357 founding members have renewed their memberships at this time with gifts of $100 or more In addition 112 new founding members have subscribed to the Century Club
Mr Darrach stated that donors who make leadership gifts to the Alma Mater Fund Century Club in 1974 and the two years preced ing the Centennial will be known as foundin g members He also stated th at the Challenge Grant made by Continental Can Company of Canada Ltd is attracting many new and increased gifts Under the term s of the Challenge Grant new girts and the amount of increase over a previous annual gift will be matched by the Challenge Grant to a max imum of $5000
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November 28 University of Guelph to January 5 Printmaking Workshop
(collection of international prints) McLaughlin Library Main Floor Gallery Monday through Saturday 9 am to 10 pm Sunday 1 pm to 10 pm
December 27 Centennial 74 Finale University Centre 830 pm to 1 am
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AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE
GUELPII ONT
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before going west to take up land in Manitoba Young Britons like Ffolkes may well have found William Browns account of the OACs educational theory and practice very attractive That it did not appeal to an Ontario farmers son in the 1880s was not at all surprising Ontario farm boys were all too aware of the practicalities of farming at home Neither Dr Mills Circular nor Browns speeches could convince them that the Ontario Agricultural College and Experimental Farm deserved their attendance in large numbers
At Guelph Ffolkes was initiated very quickly into a life which offered him very little if any chance to indulge in the pleasures he had known back home his pipe of tobacco his glass of beer the delights of the ballroom and concerts five oclock teas sailing billiards college suppers and evening dress At the OAC he found that waistcoat tie and collar are quite unnecessary not to say unheard of articles as of course we have not time to change after work He was furthermore puzzled about the prejudice which Canadians had against wearing knickerbockers Indeed he had come to College with much the wrong kind of clothing His Norfolk jacket was too good to wear for outside work What he needed was a pea jacket Aunt Fannys knitted waistcoat was suitable for swagger occasions but what he should have had was a woo llen waistcoat with sleeves h is tweed
trousers too had to be replaced by red by two goals As it was Saturday canvas overalls and trousers made of October 30 All Hallows Eve Edward pilot cloth went out singing for apples and
On his arrival in Guelph Edward was collected nearly half a bushel in a bag asked as soon as he got off the train On the following Monday he and other to play halfback in a football match new students wrote the matriculation against the town which the College won examinations in grammar composition
TIME TABLES FOn ICALL TERll (1 ST OCTomr 10 CIIRrSTB S) lSS0
Time taolp No1 gives the rout ine of th e di(fe rr nt ycnrs nnltl c1ivi ~ ion s for the first week tim~ hide No 2 the routine of til( ~iI)le yen r s nnd di is infls for t l second week No1 and L o 3 Hi iug ll t ll follnwcu nl tc lllulely f r l wcek eac h t llroughou t the term
TDIE TADLE No I - 1ST WEEK
1 ST YEAR-D1YlSIO oI II
I H Moo ~ w middotI--=-Is -~ 7-12 Work Work Work Work I W ork I Work
-- - - - - 1----1 2- 3 I Anthmctic Enli h Imiddot turalHi 40ry middot1 Hcltaral I Arithmetic Composit ion J ~ory
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~ -4--~~ic 1 Vcter~ V etcrin1ry ~rl i h 1---It- -I 1I -) Chc-nl istry Anatomy Anltomy Litc l 1ture 1 g ll cu nrc
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geography and arithmetic The results showed that Ffolkes doubled everyone elses marks getting 357 out of a possible 400
Like other students at the OA C Edward Ffolkes kept a diary it was a custom which the College seems to have Insisted upon for many years and severa l of these diaries have survived Edward s daily entries differ from those of his fellows in that his observations frequently go beyond the bare mention of routine chores and weather conditions On December 6 1880 for example he was thrashing in the experime ntal barn wheie all the specimens of grai n are tested bottled and labelled (before being sent) to the members of the Agricultu ra l Union which had been established in 1878 Like his contemporary Oscar Chase he reveals the practical austerities of his education getting up at 530 am to worlt four or five hours a day at two cents an hour learnin g to harness teams cleaning feeding an d littering cattle glazing double windows d itch digging up to his knees in freezin g water spreading manure acting as farm clerk (boss job) feeding the steam chaff-cutter assisting the shepherd pulping tu rn ips using a crosscut saw in the bush and chopping wood early in the morning for the farm s steam engine
Unlike many other students Edward Ffolkes cheerfully accepted the regul ations regarding student labour for they ensured that he would gain work expe rience which might serve him well in western Canada He did not however accept the academic work of the classroom in the same spirit He adm itted that it was both demanding and difficult and pointed out in one of his letters home that the two-year course at Guelph really req uired three years of attendance The lectures he asserted were decidedly hard work and took up too much of a students time Even though he had given up much sleep cramming for the Christmas examinations he found the papers ho rrible
Although he had intended to stay at the College over the Christmas vacation to improve his knowledge about farming Edward found his room so uncomfortably warm the scrub womans activities so energetic and the 930 pm curfew so confining that he thought the sooner he sloped the better He spent Christmas Eve in Toronto at Trinity College where he drank absent friends and tried to forget those horrible papers which he asserted had knocked him up a little During his first week in Toronto he went to four dances in the next to five
Alexander M Ross The College on the Hill Toronto Copp Clark 1974 pp 61-64
I PAPERS SET AT THE SESSIONAL EXA)IINATIONS EASTER 1881
FIRST YEAJt
AGRICULTURE
Exam in er V I BIWW~
1 G ive a comprehensi ve sketch of wha t characLcris8~ the d iaer ent kinds of b rming ~~led grazing (Ltiry ing a nd mi xeuro d
2 Whit t gu idp~ us in conclud ing that a soil 1p1uirp~ to be drain cltl and how is dminage in a ll its J etai is most elli ciently co uudcu u nder two of the most opposite condition s j
3 State wh~ t is m e tnt by inj u(l icious com l)i uti on of m tedal in f ncc building and exph in Lhe telms severance damages ~ Cd l Wl ter d l ill and gradient in connection w ith road ma king
F[RST YEAR
PRACTICAL EXAMINATION IN LIVE STOCK
Exami1ler VM B ROWN
CATTLEshy
1 Show the b pst and the poorest p oint~ of the youngest steer j udging by a Shortrshyhorn standar d
2 D escribe the whole getr-up of the other stee r fl om any point of cornparisolil 3 N ame t he brerding of t he cows wd show wherein the one inuicates superior
mi lking properties to the other
F IST YEAR
PRACTICJAL EXA~III~ATION IN LIVE STOCK
E xaminer V~ BROWgt
SaREP-L P oin t out and name t he ltliflelent b reeds croses a nd grades 2 middotWhich is the best wooled iJ cep a s regards uniformity a nd ~oundness 7 3 H ow would you h reed from amOJg the~e in order t o secure as neM as pos iiv lc
the wool of the Ier ino w il h t h( carcass of the Leicester and eonstitu Lion of the SOlllhshyltlown- giving reasons i ll (lelail l
F IRST YEA R
INORGANIC CHlDIISTRY
EXa1~i71e J HOYES PANTO~ MA
1 Name t he di ffe rent wtty ill which h eat may be transm itted and give examples of ~ch
2 Explain the terms base atom salt lrtten t hea t 3 G ive the pnpltlrlltiOll and p roperties of cholc (lump andjibull e damp 4 Vhat is lnea ll by 11 fo r llu la in chem ist ry 1 l e t he formulas for the three
titri()ls and di sti ll glli~l t hese C01U pOl llds fro l ewh other 5 N t10le three metals lig l1ttgt r thun wat r a llli ltive their p roperties 6 Vrite no tes on tlte cornrOUlrJ s Itpresente Iy Ca Co II X 0 N If 3 N il II U
0 with reference to the ir source ami ll t iJity 7 Give the prcp~mtion a nd p )or~lti es of n itroen 8 N ame the ehffe ren t form s ill w hich itira a nu alnmina occur a nd g ive t heir use 9 DeBcriue a lamp lame a nd explai n the action ot the Bnns~ n hurncr
The New Years custom of calling happiness of man and Resolved that amused him He knew of one gentleman chewing is injurious to health This last who called on as many as 130 different topic is interesting because Ffolkes families in Toronto between 11 00 am and 6 pm on that day
maintained that many of the students c hewed tobacco and their indiscriminate -Throughout his brief year at the OAC or badly aimed spitting made the walls
Edward Ffolkes proved to be a popular and floors in residence simply hoggish student He not only took part in sports On February 18 1881 Edward acted but also participated in the Literary the part of Larkspur in a Literary Society Society of which he became Viceshy entertainment In this connection he President Debating appealed to him and reminded his mother that all the he told his mother about the subjects Engl ishmen here are popular a fact Resolved that ambition is a virtue whi ch he may have thought would be a Resolved that vanity is conducive to the consolation to her when it came time
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EASTER EXAJIIVI FIOTS l SSJ-continued
EXGLISII CO~IPOSITIOX
1 E xpbin whl t is lD ean t by styl e J-ncl wklt you consider the cs~olltial properties of [ good s tyle
3 Stelte full y IIh1t is co mpreh0nckd U lhl cr the lle)(h of rcc nmc) and clefr~~s 3 Write all lttn ic-i 0 011 the pC(l1i Cl itie~ of p oetic di ction 4 Write a cOlllpui lio ll 011 one or (middotle fol lowing s ul1j ects
(1 ) Clilll1le (l ) Shcep-frming in C l l)(b (3) SYS lClll order and hlilless i1 bnning
(4) Who oer lhe ]l()rc oltllt1 i ~h to r eign Fantas tic helde ficru u1 in I
Vain a s the k a f upon th L Strell Anel fickle s a chall~d ltl clrcalll anttstic 1S i W01LJall Blood And fi e rce as Vrcmy fc(gt retl ulootl
fo r her second son Robert to come to the OAC
Robert Ffolkes however had decided that he wanted to farm in Iowa Edward quickly warned his mother of the dangers of revealing Roberts intentions to those in power at the College
Remember that if the authorities get so much as an inkling that Bob is thinking of farming in Iowa they will fire him out before he has been there a day Iowa being in the United States The other day the Agricultural lecturer asked one of the fellows to describe how he should proceed on taking up land Well I when I get down to Minnesota I shall first do so and so Lecturer Well the sooner you do it the better you can go and pack up you r trunks now and a team shall be ready to take you to the station for the eleven train They lent him money to get home and sent him away at once I had to kiss the Bible and swear an oath and sign a document I was going to remain four years in Canada after leaving the College when I sent in my request for admi ssion
What happened eventually to Robert is not known Although he did come to the OAC for the Fall Term of 1881 he did not stay any longer than his brother did Perhaps he too sought more practical farm training than the College was prepared to offer to a young man anxious to farm a thousand acres in the American West
Edward Ffolkes references to the City of Guelph are very limited Then as now town and gown were di sparate elements but in Edward s day they were geographically at least much more apart When Edward first came to Guelph a
boardwalk had just been laid to link the College grounds to the city limits It must have proved very convelient for the trips into town on Saturdays and on Sundays when Edward taught Sunday School in one of the fourteen churches which he had counted in the city On Saturdays he could attend entertainshyments in the City Hall or at the Drill Hall But it was Toronto that really appealed to Edward it was a splendid town even though he had seen a cart so badly stuck in the mud on Queen Street that it required five horses to pull it out
Despite the attractions of Toronto and the recommendation of a friend that he should take up banking rather than farming Edward Ffolkes determination to go to the northwest never wavered The dearest wish of his heart was to be self-supporting Whilst I am at Guelph College he told his mother it is impossible to be self-supporting for the simple reason the pay we get for working full hours (and I always do work full hours) does not cover board and washing which comes to $2 80 per week
Edward always remained skeptical of the practical value of much of what the College had to offer even of the outside work
In fact from what I can see the farming at Guelph is about the same as in England All the stock comes direct from England and the implements are exactly the same and it is hardly likely that in Manitoba there will be an assortment of implements for thrashing winnowing etc
Much better it was he thought to serve out an apprenticeship period with a successful farmer in the area where you intend to settle It was his opinion that his brother Bob cou Id no more leave the College after a three years course and
farm a thousand acres than fly to the moon Bob he said would have to rough It as foreman in some stock ranch for two years to get used to all the tricks of cattle dealing
By March 22 1881 Edward was in the midst of his Easter examinations and had made up his mind to leave the College to seek practical experience on a farm That he had given up his academic work is obvious from the results of his examinations of the five papers he seems to have written he received honour standing in agriculture and English composition and failed in organic chemistry veterinary anatomy and bookkeeping He never mentions these results in his letters home
That Edward Ffolkes may have underestimated the value of the training which the Ontario Agricultural College had to offer is reasonably certain However he never underestimated his own ability and determination to succeed as a farmer Two years after he left Guelph with the help of approximately two thousand dollars from home he was well established on a farm of 750 acres near Beaconsfield Manitoba with plans to start a shingle and saw mill in the spring The two years had however been desperately hard shyso hard that in his last letter to his mother September 23 1882 Edward Ffolkes spoke of those days of martyrdom and slavery His own account suggests that this was no exaggeration
It is this account and the earlier record of Edward Ffol kes year at the Ontario Agricultural College which was edited by Edwards uncle that gives historical significance to the very rare book Letters from a Young Emigrant in Manitoba published by Kegan Paul Trench in London in 1883 0
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THE OAC Centennial Festival and Alumni Week was Guelphs birthday
party of the century The days and nights from July 6 to 14
were filled with something for everyone regardless of age or interest as many alumni and friends of the University of Guelph came and joined in the once-in-ashylifetime event
Some of the attractions included a parade of antique cars tractors steam engines horse drawn carriages and floats an Olde Tyme outdoor chuckwagon breakfast at Creelman Plaza a gigantic birthday cake six-horse hitches alumni reunions skits of the past visits from dignitaries and a beard-growing contest
Months of plann ing and hard work by the OAC Centennial Committee resulted in a wonderful week for all who attended the festivities
The celebrations were held to pay homage to the Ontario Agricultural College which was established in 1874 by the provincial Department of Agriculture and boasted 30 students who lived in a converted house on a 500-acre farm
Now with a student population hovering near 10000 and an 11 ~O-acre main campus the University of Guelph has sent leading farmers teachers research scientists and businessmen out into the world
The College has provided Canadas agriculture industry with continual research breakthroughs and fresh ideas while internationally it aids significantly in solving the agricultural problems of developing countries
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INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS a Guelph Tradition
by Scott Taylor
Opposite page Four members of the 1910-11 Ontario Agricultural College Basketball Team Left to r ight W Toole 11 W H Smith 12 manager E W White 12 C Main 11
Above An OAVC crest seen on athletic uniforms in the 1940s
ACCORDING to legend a Gryphon was a mythical creature represented by
the head and wings of an eagle the body of a lion and the tail of a serpent Since 1968 this fearful looking symbol that legend claimed to be the protector of the treasures of the Asiatic Scythis has been the guardian of the athletic teams that represent the University of Guelph
Today the College on the Hill has become one of the premier universities in the country in the field of sports competition The university is represented by a Canadian Intercollegiate Athletic
Union basketball champion an Ontario Universities Athletic Association team wrestling winner and an Ontario Womens Intercollegiate Athletic Association ice hockey titleist The list of team and individual crowns that have been won since OAC first participated in athletics as the Aggies is extensive indeed and not to recall in some manner the glorious history of athletics at Guelph first as OA C and MacDonald Institute then as OAVC and Mac and finally as the University of Guelph would be to neglect an important aspect of the centennial of the Ontario Agricultural College
On September sixth of this year the University of Guelph Gryphons opened another football season behind head coach Dick Brown a former professional gridiron player who this year was named to the Greatest Toronto Argonaut All-Star team in history The Manitoba Bisons flew in from Winnipeg and topped the Gryphons in the season starter by a fourteen-Io-six score as the passing combination of Brad Hall to Craig Holt the leading receiver in Gryphon history highlighted the evening for the Red and Gold
Through many seasons of success the losses have come as well In 1960 behind head coach Tom Mooney the passing combination was from Jim Wright 61 A to Dave Hume OAC 61 but it wasnt quite enough as the OAVC Football Redmen suffered through a bitter year of rebuilding the glories of the past The sports writer of the Libranni 1961 may have put it best in a piece entitled Great is the Fall He wrote
There are many quotations and sayings that express the difficulty of maintaining ones position at the top This year the Redmen found out just how true those expressions were Gone was the mighty invincible Redmen machine that
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flattened all the opposition without mercy Every team in the league sought to add to its own laurels and to the humiliation of the Redmen by proclaiming that they too could defeat those farmers from Guelph Due to this every team that the Redmen encountered was fired up for the encounter and played their best against our squad
However the thrill of victory has been at hand more often than not for the rugby football teams from Guelph In 1934 Head Coach and Athletic Director of the OAC Aggies F G Baldy Baldwin led a tough squad of men to the Canadian Intermediate Intercollegiate Rugby Championships for the second time W F Bill Mitchell OAC 38 quartershybacked the Aggies of 34 and today that same Bill Mitchell quarterbacks the
Above Intermediate Intercollegiate Football Champions 1949
Right Intermediate Intercollegiate Basketball Champions 1925-26 Left to right Prof A W Baker 11 coach J W G McEwan 26 J E Ridley 27 J R Currey 29 L M Schenck 26 captain L Young 27 R Graham 29 Geo Thompson 27 H Potter A T Rintoul 26 manager
entire sports program at the University of Guelph as Director of Athletics Included on that same team which incidentally did not enter the Ontario Rugby Football Union playdowns because of bad weather and approaching exam inations was a hard-nosed middle known as Haley Hales He is probably better remembered by the people in Guelph and Wellington Riding as Alfred Dryden Hales OAC 34 Member of Parliament who stepped down this past election after more than sixteen years of political service
The names of players and their eventual careers after graduation is a vast area to research Athletes who have finished their studies at Guelph have gone into various fields but a few of them have remained as outstanding athletes in the professional ranks The most recent of these are football kicker Gerry Organ BSc(PE) 71 of the Ottawa Rough
Riders and hockey netminder Ken lockett BA 72 As anyone who follows Canadian sporting fortunes knows former Gryphon Organ is the reigning Schenley Award Winner as the most outstanding native Canadian in the Canadian Football league Fewer people may know that lockett 1971 s All-Canadian hockey goaltender former mem ber of the Canadian World Student Games Team and of course a graduate Gryphon has recently been signed to a pro contract with the Vancouver Canucks of th e National Hockey league
Other Guelph athletes of the past have continued their careers at top amateur level s A prime example of this is Grant Maclaren In 1969 Maclaren put on a near one-man show at the CIA U cross-country championships He earned himself the national individual title and at the same time was backed up
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by a superb University of Guelph harrier contingent that captu red the CIAU team championship as well Today Maclaren is still a world-class distance runner who will no doubt represent Canada at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal
Another Gryphon who may be an Olympic Team member is basketball star Bob Sharpe last season Sharpe was an OUA A All-Star an All-Star team member at the CIAU championships as well as the lalter tournament s Most Valuable Player This past summer Sharpe got his first taste of international competition as a player on the Canadian National Mens Basketball Team - a team that gave Canada its best performance since the 1936 Olympics when our nations finest lost a gold medal to the United States by a 19-5 score on an outdoor court and in a driving rainstorm
Rugger at Guelph
International competition is not restricted to track stars and basketball players however This winter the University of Guelph will have four varsity wrestlers with foreign experience behind them Richard Deschatelets represented Canada in Europe this past summer while Bob Price and Tom Bethune travelled with the country s B team on a tour of the United States In 1974 AI Tschirhart was a member of Canadas World Student Games Team in Moscow and when one adds the name of OUA A champion Ross Barrable to the formidable list of four there appears to be little doubt that Guelph will repeat as A M Porter Trophy winners
Perhaps the name of this piece of silverware itself is an indication of the success of the wrestling program at Guelph The Porter Trophy was presented to the Canadian Intercollegiate Athletic
Union by A M Porter OAC 20 the Registrar of the Ontario Agricultural College Guelph Canada as a token of his active interest in University Wrestling since 1920 That is what is inscribed on the prize that is now the sought-after conclusion to the OUAA wrestling season It is appropriate that OAVC shyUniversity of Guelph teams have won this trophy seven times and are presently showing it off in the trophy case at the Athletics Centre (The University of Western Ontario has won it alone six times but on two other occasions has shared it with the University of Waterloo) From Coach Wright OAC 33 in the thirties to Coach Schlegal in the forties through Coach Glen Peister OAC 50 in the seasons of the fifties with Coach Bob Heinrich OAC 5SA in the early sixties and now in the seventies with highly-touted Londo Iacovelli at the helm
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Aggie Gryphon and Redm en grapplers have been the prime target for the opposition eve ry year
One sport at Guelph th at has just attained a position of national prominence is the game of basketball Behind people like Sharpe AI Grunys Denni s Krawchuk and graduating seniors Paul Allen BSc (HK)74 and Phil Smith BA 74 the University won a national championship in 1974 When Garney Henley took over as head coach however the University of Guelph posted a depressing one winshy17 loss season Many times during the next few years Coach Henley was fortunate to have a successful professional foo tball ca reer with the Canadian Football League s Hamilton Tiger-Cats to conso le him However through hard work and with players like Mark Walton BA 72 Chester Graham BA 73 and Wayne Morgan BA 72 Henley and his assistants Doug Dodd and Dic k Brown have built a superb prog ram
In 1956 howeve r with Tom Mooney at the helm a group of ball players had the words Take Off as an inspiration and were fighting to ga in acceptance into senior interc ollegiate ranks Led by Murray Atkinson OAC 60 who later became the firs t two-tim e win ner of the Athlete of the Year Award and by Bill Dimson OAC 57A whose subsequent death in a ca r acc ident a few years later was a bl ow for all who knew him the OAVC Aggies fini shed in second place at the intermediate level losing a heartbreaking 56-52 dec ision to the eventual c hampion Weste rn Dimsons name has not been forgotten at Guelph a plaque presented annually in his honour goes to the schools Most Valuable Baske tball Pl aye r Am ong the winners of the Bill Dimson Memorial Award are present holder Bob Sharpe and Guelphs first official All-Canadian basketball player Wayne Morgan
Top An OAC swim team resplendent in their tank suits
Above University of Guelph wrestling squad coached by Londo Iacovelli
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Awards and particularly AII-Canadtan honours are not uncommon among the present group of athletes at Guelph In addition to Ken Lockett in hockey and Morgan in basketball John Kelley and Dave lane of this years gridiron Gryphs were named All-Canadians in 1973
locketts hockey heroics were displayed when the University of Guelph was not a power on the ice but this season the Gryphons and their young coach Bud Folusewych are favoured to take serious aim at the University of Waterloos national crown led by little Adam Brown who broke all the scoring records in Ontario college hockey last season forward Bill Hanson defenceman Doug McKay and goaltender David Moote - all OUAA AII-Starsshythe Gryphons will have a good opportunity to relive past Gryphon glories Such a year was 1960 when coach AI Singleton and athletes such as Max ONeil OAC 61 Wayne lopp and Bill German OAC 61 ousted Ryerson in a semi-final playoff to earn a birth in the championship round against the powerful men from McMaster
Hockey football basketball and wrestling certainly arent the only sports that have provided Guelph with athletic laurels Cross-country teams boxing squads and golf teams have all brought hardware home to the trophy case at Guelph as today the school participates in 17 sports at the intercollegiate level The facilities for all these activities at Guelph are not totally adequate and only the football stadium could be described as outstanding Alumni Stadium opened officially on October 17 1970 is a 4100 seat complex that is not only home for the football Gryphons but houses the large multi-purpose Gryphon Room where accommodation can be made for karate wrestling and other related activities It is truly the highlight of the athletics complex on the Guelph campus
There are people on the staff and faculty at Guelph who although they dont fly the banner of the Gryphon still aid in the publics knowledge of athletics at the University of Guelph Librarian Yvonne Saunders who is a British Commonwealth Games gold medalist and Professor Abigail Hoffman of the Political Studies Department who has represented Canada in countless track events at the international level including the Olympic Games spread the name of the university in a way that is unequalled by any other non-academic activity
It is interesting to note that these two non-student athletes are both women The University of Guelph has a successful womens program as well and it has certainly grown since 1952 when Margaret Dix coached almost every sport at MacDonald Institute
With Shirley Peterson co-ordinating intercollegiate athletics and coaching ice hockey Val (Millar) Freeman BSc (PE) 70 heading the intramural program and coaching basketball and Joni Johnson Anne Stallman and Pam Wedd BSc(HK) 74 taking the coachs reins in a variety of activities the ladies at Guelph have a good foundation for fun and success
The most hardware to come in womens athletics in recent years has been on the hockey rink Mrs Petersons pucksters have captured the Ontario Women s Intercollegiate Athletics Association crown six times A record unequalled in the last decade
At present the ladies participate in 12 sports at the intercollegiate level and in the past year the most highly touted athlete has been field hockey player Marg Ellis Mrs Ellis is presently a member of the Ontario Provincial Field Hockey Team and she would like to earn a spot on the national squad in the near future
With the Olympic Games drawing near and the Ontario Agricultural College one hundred years old this year the young men and women who participate in sports at Guelph will be working to spread the Guelph name in Montreal in 1976 Names like Sharpe Deschatelets Saunders and Maclaren proudly reflect the glories of the past In old Librannis in yellowed newspaper clippings and on the nameplates of trophies people such as Goomer Raithby OAC 51 Poker Mills OAC 34 and Bill Dimson will always be remembered as viial cogs in the OAVC Aggie athletic machine 0
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campus highlights Housing shortage shortlived Early reports on the housing situation at Guelph were rather bleak however A W Mcinnis Director of Residences recently reported that the present situation is not serious and that all students have found permanent accommodation A student governmentshysponsored tent city saw very little use (approximately 10 students slept in it) as did special emergency housing in the Gryphon Room of the stadium (no-one slept there)
Tent City near the East Residences
The lack of off-campus student housing this year is directly connected to a general scarcity of housing in the city explained Mr Mcinnis He noted that because of high mortgage rates those who formerly rented their premises have ceased renting and are now selling their property In addition Guelphs attractive location vis-a-vis Toronto has led commuters to settle in many of the new subdivisions and residents who might have moved cannot afford the higher housing prices This is particularly applicable to those Guelph residents living in the downtown sections of the city which contain older but extremely large homes When sold these houses are often converted into
apartments but with fewer sales the predictable result is fewer apartments
A visit to city hall by residence officials confirmed that the off-campus situation will not improve in the immediate future and high mortgage interest rates coupled with high construction costs makes residence construction a high economic risk
The problem became acute this year due to a sharp increase in the number of students desiring residence accommodation compared with Sept 1973
Last year at mid-August approximately 2200 seniors had accepted rooms in residence By May 15 of this year more than 2200 seniors had been placed in residence and with places reserved for 1760 freshmen the Universitys 3900 beds were taken by mid-May
The 68 co-op apartments were also filled early for the fall semester Many students took out a years lease instead of an eight month agreement resulting in an extremely low turnover - less than 20 per cent from a year ago
Similar difficulties were evident at Wellington Woods the University s married students residence located on Stone Road Last year there were 36 vacancies for the fall semester this year that figure was cut to 12
Despite these figures the 1974 student housing picture in Guelph is now under control - until next fall
Freshmen enjoy a hayride tour around the University campus
Orienteering grant The University of Guelph often referred to as the home of orienteering in North America will benefit by a grant of more than $42000 made to the Canadian Orienteering Federation by Health and Welfare Canada The Honourable Marc Lalonde gave notice of the grant to Professor A Sass Peepre of Human Kinetics Professor Peepre is one of the founders of the Federation and is presently the president of the group
Orienteering is becoming very popular in Canada and is now taught at all levels in many schools The sport uses map and compass to find a specified route through the countryside and attracts thousands to meets in Europe
Enrolment increases Guelph s largest complement of students began classes in September Full-time enrolment has increased 11 per cent over last year Full-time undergraduate enrolment stood at 9100 on September 10 with approximately 550 full-time graduate students expected to register Part-time undergraduates number 600 part-time grad students about 150
A red-and-white orientation tent was erected outside the University Centre to provide a focal pOint for new students Orientation featured free concerts football games hayride tours of the campus and meetings with deans and academic counsellors
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The University of Guelph Choir led by conductor Nicholas Goldschmidt
Choir returns from tour The 42-member University of Guelph Choir returned to Guelph after several wellshyreceived performances in the Maritimes
The choir performed in Charlottetown New Glasgow Sydney Antigonish Halifax Dartmouth Yarmouth and at Acadia University in Wolfville under the direction of Nicholas Goldschmidt and assistant conductor Nickolaus Kaethler with accompanist Gerald Manning recitalist Denise Turcotte and soloist Robert Missen Along with works by Handel Bach Rossini Cherubini Schubert and Vaughan Williams the choir performed Canadian folk songs arranged by music professor Derek Healey
One of the main reasons for going on tour is to improve the quality of the choir commented Dean Murdo MacKinnon College of Arts The tour of Scotland in 1973 had a marked effect on the group so the 1974 tour of the Maritimes was a natural development Proof of the new level attained is that this year at the end of the tour the choir was asked by the CBC in Halifax to make a recording of a considerable portion of Handels Passion
which will be broadcast at the Easter season in 1975
Before the choir departed for the Maritimes an advance notice was sent to University of Guelph alumni in the area stating the times and places where the choir was to appear The results were extremely satisfying to the choir in that several alumni turned out for the performances
The choir experienced a rather unexpected thrill when it visited Fortress Louisburg in Cape Breton Island and was asked to record ten minutes of religious music in the beautiful chapel which is part of the historic fortress being re-built by the Government of Canada Consequently when visitors to the chapel hear quiet choral music in the background theyre listening to the University of Guelph Choir singing chorales of J S Bach
The choir was greeted by an enthusiastic Halifax audience when it performed in Rebecca Cohn Auditorium at Dalhousie University A critic for the Halifax Chronicle Herald commented Right from the opening of this work the
audience could hear a well-trained professional choir The singers close attention to every move of Director Goldschmidt was a joy to see and hear
The choi r sang before an overflow audience in Zion Baptist Church in Yarmouth on the opening day of the International Tuna Fish Festival A Yarmouth critic wrote The audience which gave the visitors two standing ovations was deeply moved by the majestic performance of the Passion of Christ by Handel The choir provided dramatic contrasts and excellent control of the exciting fugues which are characteristic of Handel
The program was presented once more after the choi rs retu rn They sang in St Andrews United Church Sudbury on Sunday October 6
Ottawa chapter barbecue was a success The Ottawa chapter of the University of Guelph Alumni Association held a family barbecue on Saturday September 14
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campus highlights
at the Kemptville College of Agricultural Tec hnology
A group of 125 adults and c hildren took part in a variety of games followed by a tour of the expe rimental ba rns and orchards Then everyone enjoyed a chicken barbecue Prizes for the ad ults were quarts of Ontario maple syrup and two pounds of honey
Board appoints new members Professor James Archibald OVC 49 Richard Birc hal l Kenneth Hammill OAC 51 and John Wood began their three-year terms on July 1 as new members on the Unive rsi ty s Board of Governors
Professor Archibald 55 a senate appointee to the board graduated from the Ontario Veterin ary COllege with a DVM degree in 1949 and in 1951 was granted a Master of Veterinary Science Professor Archibald has been on the OVC faculty since 1949 and was appOinted professor and chairman of clinical studies in 1963 a posi tion which he st ill holds
Archibald
Hammill Birchall
Ric hard Birchall 59 is president of the Canadian National Sportsmen s Show and the Toronto International Boat Show In addition he is chairman of the Ontario Waterfowl Research Foundation which adm ini sters the Kortright Waterfow l Park in Gue lph He is a director of the
North American Wildlife Foundation and a Canadian director of the World Wildlife fund He is also a mem ber of the Conserva ti on Council of Ontario and vice-chairm an of the Del ta Waterfowl Research Station com mi ttee in Manitoba Mr Birchall is a mem be r of the inner council of the Wildfow l Trust in Slim bridge England and sits on the faculty of forestry advisory council o f the University of Toronto He has been a frequent visitor to campus in connection with his interests in several research projects being carried out in OAC OVC and the College of Biological Sc ience
Ken Hammill a 1951 graduate o f the Ontario Agricultural College is viceshypresident and a director of Omark Canada Ltd in Guelph Mr Hammill has been a member o f Guelph c ity council since 1962 and has served on the f in ance personnel parks and recre ation committees He has also been a ci ty representative on the Grand River Conservation Authority
John Wood 34 studied at the University of Western Ontario where he graduated in 1964 as a gold medal ist in business administrat ion He is presently vice-president (manufac turin g) and a director of the N C Wood Company in Gue lph He is a member of the Guelph Chamber of Commerce the Guelph Industrial and Economic Deve lopment Commission and the Guelph Rotary Club Mr Wood also se rved as c hairman of the Canadi an government appliance miss ion to Europe in 1968
Aggies took over September 23-28 Aggie Week 74 was filled with the usual merriment and competition that stems from a long-standing OAC tradition
Anim al scientist Bob Forshaw easily won the faculty trophy for cow milking with 35 ounces in one minute defeating other competitors suc h as President Winegard who milked two ounces last years champion Mike Jenkinson OAC 63 with 11 ounces and Professor Richard Vosburgh acting dean of Family and Consumer Studies with three ounces
Animal sc ient ist Roge r Hacker won the hog calling contest followed by Dr H 0 Branion assistant to the president
who tied for second place with agricultural economist Phil Wright
Monster ball competitions bed races chariot races and tugs of war brought out many faculty and students for the annual Aggie Games won bY OAC Class 77
Former chairman honoured The Department of Animal and Poultry Science recently honou red its former chairman Professor J C Rennie OAC 47 who left the campus to become executive direc tor of the education and resea rch division of the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food
Pro fessor Renni e jo ined the faculty in 1952 and was chairman from 1965 to 1971 Du ring the past yea r he served as acting dean of research during the absence on sabbatical of Dean W E Tossell OAC 47
Alma Mater Fund results encouraging Fund Chairman Neil Darrach reports that the Alma Mater Fund has received $120330 towards its $160000 objecti ve
A total of 2396 gifts have been received from alumni faculty professional staff and other suppo rters of higher education Gifts from the Guelph campus amounting to $27247 have reached a new high and exceed the final tabulat ion of $25977 achieved in last years fund drive on the campus
The Century Club Division of the fund reports that 357 founding members have renewed their memberships at this time with gifts of $100 or more In addition 112 new founding members have subscribed to the Century Club
Mr Darrach stated that donors who make leadership gifts to the Alma Mater Fund Century Club in 1974 and the two years preced ing the Centennial will be known as foundin g members He also stated th at the Challenge Grant made by Continental Can Company of Canada Ltd is attracting many new and increased gifts Under the term s of the Challenge Grant new girts and the amount of increase over a previous annual gift will be matched by the Challenge Grant to a max imum of $5000
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November 28 University of Guelph to January 5 Printmaking Workshop
(collection of international prints) McLaughlin Library Main Floor Gallery Monday through Saturday 9 am to 10 pm Sunday 1 pm to 10 pm
December 27 Centennial 74 Finale University Centre 830 pm to 1 am
geography and arithmetic The results showed that Ffolkes doubled everyone elses marks getting 357 out of a possible 400
Like other students at the OA C Edward Ffolkes kept a diary it was a custom which the College seems to have Insisted upon for many years and severa l of these diaries have survived Edward s daily entries differ from those of his fellows in that his observations frequently go beyond the bare mention of routine chores and weather conditions On December 6 1880 for example he was thrashing in the experime ntal barn wheie all the specimens of grai n are tested bottled and labelled (before being sent) to the members of the Agricultu ra l Union which had been established in 1878 Like his contemporary Oscar Chase he reveals the practical austerities of his education getting up at 530 am to worlt four or five hours a day at two cents an hour learnin g to harness teams cleaning feeding an d littering cattle glazing double windows d itch digging up to his knees in freezin g water spreading manure acting as farm clerk (boss job) feeding the steam chaff-cutter assisting the shepherd pulping tu rn ips using a crosscut saw in the bush and chopping wood early in the morning for the farm s steam engine
Unlike many other students Edward Ffolkes cheerfully accepted the regul ations regarding student labour for they ensured that he would gain work expe rience which might serve him well in western Canada He did not however accept the academic work of the classroom in the same spirit He adm itted that it was both demanding and difficult and pointed out in one of his letters home that the two-year course at Guelph really req uired three years of attendance The lectures he asserted were decidedly hard work and took up too much of a students time Even though he had given up much sleep cramming for the Christmas examinations he found the papers ho rrible
Although he had intended to stay at the College over the Christmas vacation to improve his knowledge about farming Edward found his room so uncomfortably warm the scrub womans activities so energetic and the 930 pm curfew so confining that he thought the sooner he sloped the better He spent Christmas Eve in Toronto at Trinity College where he drank absent friends and tried to forget those horrible papers which he asserted had knocked him up a little During his first week in Toronto he went to four dances in the next to five
Alexander M Ross The College on the Hill Toronto Copp Clark 1974 pp 61-64
I PAPERS SET AT THE SESSIONAL EXA)IINATIONS EASTER 1881
FIRST YEAJt
AGRICULTURE
Exam in er V I BIWW~
1 G ive a comprehensi ve sketch of wha t characLcris8~ the d iaer ent kinds of b rming ~~led grazing (Ltiry ing a nd mi xeuro d
2 Whit t gu idp~ us in conclud ing that a soil 1p1uirp~ to be drain cltl and how is dminage in a ll its J etai is most elli ciently co uudcu u nder two of the most opposite condition s j
3 State wh~ t is m e tnt by inj u(l icious com l)i uti on of m tedal in f ncc building and exph in Lhe telms severance damages ~ Cd l Wl ter d l ill and gradient in connection w ith road ma king
F[RST YEAR
PRACTICAL EXAMINATION IN LIVE STOCK
Exami1ler VM B ROWN
CATTLEshy
1 Show the b pst and the poorest p oint~ of the youngest steer j udging by a Shortrshyhorn standar d
2 D escribe the whole getr-up of the other stee r fl om any point of cornparisolil 3 N ame t he brerding of t he cows wd show wherein the one inuicates superior
mi lking properties to the other
F IST YEAR
PRACTICJAL EXA~III~ATION IN LIVE STOCK
E xaminer V~ BROWgt
SaREP-L P oin t out and name t he ltliflelent b reeds croses a nd grades 2 middotWhich is the best wooled iJ cep a s regards uniformity a nd ~oundness 7 3 H ow would you h reed from amOJg the~e in order t o secure as neM as pos iiv lc
the wool of the Ier ino w il h t h( carcass of the Leicester and eonstitu Lion of the SOlllhshyltlown- giving reasons i ll (lelail l
F IRST YEA R
INORGANIC CHlDIISTRY
EXa1~i71e J HOYES PANTO~ MA
1 Name t he di ffe rent wtty ill which h eat may be transm itted and give examples of ~ch
2 Explain the terms base atom salt lrtten t hea t 3 G ive the pnpltlrlltiOll and p roperties of cholc (lump andjibull e damp 4 Vhat is lnea ll by 11 fo r llu la in chem ist ry 1 l e t he formulas for the three
titri()ls and di sti ll glli~l t hese C01U pOl llds fro l ewh other 5 N t10le three metals lig l1ttgt r thun wat r a llli ltive their p roperties 6 Vrite no tes on tlte cornrOUlrJ s Itpresente Iy Ca Co II X 0 N If 3 N il II U
0 with reference to the ir source ami ll t iJity 7 Give the prcp~mtion a nd p )or~lti es of n itroen 8 N ame the ehffe ren t form s ill w hich itira a nu alnmina occur a nd g ive t heir use 9 DeBcriue a lamp lame a nd explai n the action ot the Bnns~ n hurncr
The New Years custom of calling happiness of man and Resolved that amused him He knew of one gentleman chewing is injurious to health This last who called on as many as 130 different topic is interesting because Ffolkes families in Toronto between 11 00 am and 6 pm on that day
maintained that many of the students c hewed tobacco and their indiscriminate -Throughout his brief year at the OAC or badly aimed spitting made the walls
Edward Ffolkes proved to be a popular and floors in residence simply hoggish student He not only took part in sports On February 18 1881 Edward acted but also participated in the Literary the part of Larkspur in a Literary Society Society of which he became Viceshy entertainment In this connection he President Debating appealed to him and reminded his mother that all the he told his mother about the subjects Engl ishmen here are popular a fact Resolved that ambition is a virtue whi ch he may have thought would be a Resolved that vanity is conducive to the consolation to her when it came time
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EASTER EXAJIIVI FIOTS l SSJ-continued
EXGLISII CO~IPOSITIOX
1 E xpbin whl t is lD ean t by styl e J-ncl wklt you consider the cs~olltial properties of [ good s tyle
3 Stelte full y IIh1t is co mpreh0nckd U lhl cr the lle)(h of rcc nmc) and clefr~~s 3 Write all lttn ic-i 0 011 the pC(l1i Cl itie~ of p oetic di ction 4 Write a cOlllpui lio ll 011 one or (middotle fol lowing s ul1j ects
(1 ) Clilll1le (l ) Shcep-frming in C l l)(b (3) SYS lClll order and hlilless i1 bnning
(4) Who oer lhe ]l()rc oltllt1 i ~h to r eign Fantas tic helde ficru u1 in I
Vain a s the k a f upon th L Strell Anel fickle s a chall~d ltl clrcalll anttstic 1S i W01LJall Blood And fi e rce as Vrcmy fc(gt retl ulootl
fo r her second son Robert to come to the OAC
Robert Ffolkes however had decided that he wanted to farm in Iowa Edward quickly warned his mother of the dangers of revealing Roberts intentions to those in power at the College
Remember that if the authorities get so much as an inkling that Bob is thinking of farming in Iowa they will fire him out before he has been there a day Iowa being in the United States The other day the Agricultural lecturer asked one of the fellows to describe how he should proceed on taking up land Well I when I get down to Minnesota I shall first do so and so Lecturer Well the sooner you do it the better you can go and pack up you r trunks now and a team shall be ready to take you to the station for the eleven train They lent him money to get home and sent him away at once I had to kiss the Bible and swear an oath and sign a document I was going to remain four years in Canada after leaving the College when I sent in my request for admi ssion
What happened eventually to Robert is not known Although he did come to the OAC for the Fall Term of 1881 he did not stay any longer than his brother did Perhaps he too sought more practical farm training than the College was prepared to offer to a young man anxious to farm a thousand acres in the American West
Edward Ffolkes references to the City of Guelph are very limited Then as now town and gown were di sparate elements but in Edward s day they were geographically at least much more apart When Edward first came to Guelph a
boardwalk had just been laid to link the College grounds to the city limits It must have proved very convelient for the trips into town on Saturdays and on Sundays when Edward taught Sunday School in one of the fourteen churches which he had counted in the city On Saturdays he could attend entertainshyments in the City Hall or at the Drill Hall But it was Toronto that really appealed to Edward it was a splendid town even though he had seen a cart so badly stuck in the mud on Queen Street that it required five horses to pull it out
Despite the attractions of Toronto and the recommendation of a friend that he should take up banking rather than farming Edward Ffolkes determination to go to the northwest never wavered The dearest wish of his heart was to be self-supporting Whilst I am at Guelph College he told his mother it is impossible to be self-supporting for the simple reason the pay we get for working full hours (and I always do work full hours) does not cover board and washing which comes to $2 80 per week
Edward always remained skeptical of the practical value of much of what the College had to offer even of the outside work
In fact from what I can see the farming at Guelph is about the same as in England All the stock comes direct from England and the implements are exactly the same and it is hardly likely that in Manitoba there will be an assortment of implements for thrashing winnowing etc
Much better it was he thought to serve out an apprenticeship period with a successful farmer in the area where you intend to settle It was his opinion that his brother Bob cou Id no more leave the College after a three years course and
farm a thousand acres than fly to the moon Bob he said would have to rough It as foreman in some stock ranch for two years to get used to all the tricks of cattle dealing
By March 22 1881 Edward was in the midst of his Easter examinations and had made up his mind to leave the College to seek practical experience on a farm That he had given up his academic work is obvious from the results of his examinations of the five papers he seems to have written he received honour standing in agriculture and English composition and failed in organic chemistry veterinary anatomy and bookkeeping He never mentions these results in his letters home
That Edward Ffolkes may have underestimated the value of the training which the Ontario Agricultural College had to offer is reasonably certain However he never underestimated his own ability and determination to succeed as a farmer Two years after he left Guelph with the help of approximately two thousand dollars from home he was well established on a farm of 750 acres near Beaconsfield Manitoba with plans to start a shingle and saw mill in the spring The two years had however been desperately hard shyso hard that in his last letter to his mother September 23 1882 Edward Ffolkes spoke of those days of martyrdom and slavery His own account suggests that this was no exaggeration
It is this account and the earlier record of Edward Ffol kes year at the Ontario Agricultural College which was edited by Edwards uncle that gives historical significance to the very rare book Letters from a Young Emigrant in Manitoba published by Kegan Paul Trench in London in 1883 0
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THE OAC Centennial Festival and Alumni Week was Guelphs birthday
party of the century The days and nights from July 6 to 14
were filled with something for everyone regardless of age or interest as many alumni and friends of the University of Guelph came and joined in the once-in-ashylifetime event
Some of the attractions included a parade of antique cars tractors steam engines horse drawn carriages and floats an Olde Tyme outdoor chuckwagon breakfast at Creelman Plaza a gigantic birthday cake six-horse hitches alumni reunions skits of the past visits from dignitaries and a beard-growing contest
Months of plann ing and hard work by the OAC Centennial Committee resulted in a wonderful week for all who attended the festivities
The celebrations were held to pay homage to the Ontario Agricultural College which was established in 1874 by the provincial Department of Agriculture and boasted 30 students who lived in a converted house on a 500-acre farm
Now with a student population hovering near 10000 and an 11 ~O-acre main campus the University of Guelph has sent leading farmers teachers research scientists and businessmen out into the world
The College has provided Canadas agriculture industry with continual research breakthroughs and fresh ideas while internationally it aids significantly in solving the agricultural problems of developing countries
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INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS a Guelph Tradition
by Scott Taylor
Opposite page Four members of the 1910-11 Ontario Agricultural College Basketball Team Left to r ight W Toole 11 W H Smith 12 manager E W White 12 C Main 11
Above An OAVC crest seen on athletic uniforms in the 1940s
ACCORDING to legend a Gryphon was a mythical creature represented by
the head and wings of an eagle the body of a lion and the tail of a serpent Since 1968 this fearful looking symbol that legend claimed to be the protector of the treasures of the Asiatic Scythis has been the guardian of the athletic teams that represent the University of Guelph
Today the College on the Hill has become one of the premier universities in the country in the field of sports competition The university is represented by a Canadian Intercollegiate Athletic
Union basketball champion an Ontario Universities Athletic Association team wrestling winner and an Ontario Womens Intercollegiate Athletic Association ice hockey titleist The list of team and individual crowns that have been won since OAC first participated in athletics as the Aggies is extensive indeed and not to recall in some manner the glorious history of athletics at Guelph first as OA C and MacDonald Institute then as OAVC and Mac and finally as the University of Guelph would be to neglect an important aspect of the centennial of the Ontario Agricultural College
On September sixth of this year the University of Guelph Gryphons opened another football season behind head coach Dick Brown a former professional gridiron player who this year was named to the Greatest Toronto Argonaut All-Star team in history The Manitoba Bisons flew in from Winnipeg and topped the Gryphons in the season starter by a fourteen-Io-six score as the passing combination of Brad Hall to Craig Holt the leading receiver in Gryphon history highlighted the evening for the Red and Gold
Through many seasons of success the losses have come as well In 1960 behind head coach Tom Mooney the passing combination was from Jim Wright 61 A to Dave Hume OAC 61 but it wasnt quite enough as the OAVC Football Redmen suffered through a bitter year of rebuilding the glories of the past The sports writer of the Libranni 1961 may have put it best in a piece entitled Great is the Fall He wrote
There are many quotations and sayings that express the difficulty of maintaining ones position at the top This year the Redmen found out just how true those expressions were Gone was the mighty invincible Redmen machine that
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flattened all the opposition without mercy Every team in the league sought to add to its own laurels and to the humiliation of the Redmen by proclaiming that they too could defeat those farmers from Guelph Due to this every team that the Redmen encountered was fired up for the encounter and played their best against our squad
However the thrill of victory has been at hand more often than not for the rugby football teams from Guelph In 1934 Head Coach and Athletic Director of the OAC Aggies F G Baldy Baldwin led a tough squad of men to the Canadian Intermediate Intercollegiate Rugby Championships for the second time W F Bill Mitchell OAC 38 quartershybacked the Aggies of 34 and today that same Bill Mitchell quarterbacks the
Above Intermediate Intercollegiate Football Champions 1949
Right Intermediate Intercollegiate Basketball Champions 1925-26 Left to right Prof A W Baker 11 coach J W G McEwan 26 J E Ridley 27 J R Currey 29 L M Schenck 26 captain L Young 27 R Graham 29 Geo Thompson 27 H Potter A T Rintoul 26 manager
entire sports program at the University of Guelph as Director of Athletics Included on that same team which incidentally did not enter the Ontario Rugby Football Union playdowns because of bad weather and approaching exam inations was a hard-nosed middle known as Haley Hales He is probably better remembered by the people in Guelph and Wellington Riding as Alfred Dryden Hales OAC 34 Member of Parliament who stepped down this past election after more than sixteen years of political service
The names of players and their eventual careers after graduation is a vast area to research Athletes who have finished their studies at Guelph have gone into various fields but a few of them have remained as outstanding athletes in the professional ranks The most recent of these are football kicker Gerry Organ BSc(PE) 71 of the Ottawa Rough
Riders and hockey netminder Ken lockett BA 72 As anyone who follows Canadian sporting fortunes knows former Gryphon Organ is the reigning Schenley Award Winner as the most outstanding native Canadian in the Canadian Football league Fewer people may know that lockett 1971 s All-Canadian hockey goaltender former mem ber of the Canadian World Student Games Team and of course a graduate Gryphon has recently been signed to a pro contract with the Vancouver Canucks of th e National Hockey league
Other Guelph athletes of the past have continued their careers at top amateur level s A prime example of this is Grant Maclaren In 1969 Maclaren put on a near one-man show at the CIA U cross-country championships He earned himself the national individual title and at the same time was backed up
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by a superb University of Guelph harrier contingent that captu red the CIAU team championship as well Today Maclaren is still a world-class distance runner who will no doubt represent Canada at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal
Another Gryphon who may be an Olympic Team member is basketball star Bob Sharpe last season Sharpe was an OUA A All-Star an All-Star team member at the CIAU championships as well as the lalter tournament s Most Valuable Player This past summer Sharpe got his first taste of international competition as a player on the Canadian National Mens Basketball Team - a team that gave Canada its best performance since the 1936 Olympics when our nations finest lost a gold medal to the United States by a 19-5 score on an outdoor court and in a driving rainstorm
Rugger at Guelph
International competition is not restricted to track stars and basketball players however This winter the University of Guelph will have four varsity wrestlers with foreign experience behind them Richard Deschatelets represented Canada in Europe this past summer while Bob Price and Tom Bethune travelled with the country s B team on a tour of the United States In 1974 AI Tschirhart was a member of Canadas World Student Games Team in Moscow and when one adds the name of OUA A champion Ross Barrable to the formidable list of four there appears to be little doubt that Guelph will repeat as A M Porter Trophy winners
Perhaps the name of this piece of silverware itself is an indication of the success of the wrestling program at Guelph The Porter Trophy was presented to the Canadian Intercollegiate Athletic
Union by A M Porter OAC 20 the Registrar of the Ontario Agricultural College Guelph Canada as a token of his active interest in University Wrestling since 1920 That is what is inscribed on the prize that is now the sought-after conclusion to the OUAA wrestling season It is appropriate that OAVC shyUniversity of Guelph teams have won this trophy seven times and are presently showing it off in the trophy case at the Athletics Centre (The University of Western Ontario has won it alone six times but on two other occasions has shared it with the University of Waterloo) From Coach Wright OAC 33 in the thirties to Coach Schlegal in the forties through Coach Glen Peister OAC 50 in the seasons of the fifties with Coach Bob Heinrich OAC 5SA in the early sixties and now in the seventies with highly-touted Londo Iacovelli at the helm
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Aggie Gryphon and Redm en grapplers have been the prime target for the opposition eve ry year
One sport at Guelph th at has just attained a position of national prominence is the game of basketball Behind people like Sharpe AI Grunys Denni s Krawchuk and graduating seniors Paul Allen BSc (HK)74 and Phil Smith BA 74 the University won a national championship in 1974 When Garney Henley took over as head coach however the University of Guelph posted a depressing one winshy17 loss season Many times during the next few years Coach Henley was fortunate to have a successful professional foo tball ca reer with the Canadian Football League s Hamilton Tiger-Cats to conso le him However through hard work and with players like Mark Walton BA 72 Chester Graham BA 73 and Wayne Morgan BA 72 Henley and his assistants Doug Dodd and Dic k Brown have built a superb prog ram
In 1956 howeve r with Tom Mooney at the helm a group of ball players had the words Take Off as an inspiration and were fighting to ga in acceptance into senior interc ollegiate ranks Led by Murray Atkinson OAC 60 who later became the firs t two-tim e win ner of the Athlete of the Year Award and by Bill Dimson OAC 57A whose subsequent death in a ca r acc ident a few years later was a bl ow for all who knew him the OAVC Aggies fini shed in second place at the intermediate level losing a heartbreaking 56-52 dec ision to the eventual c hampion Weste rn Dimsons name has not been forgotten at Guelph a plaque presented annually in his honour goes to the schools Most Valuable Baske tball Pl aye r Am ong the winners of the Bill Dimson Memorial Award are present holder Bob Sharpe and Guelphs first official All-Canadian basketball player Wayne Morgan
Top An OAC swim team resplendent in their tank suits
Above University of Guelph wrestling squad coached by Londo Iacovelli
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Awards and particularly AII-Canadtan honours are not uncommon among the present group of athletes at Guelph In addition to Ken Lockett in hockey and Morgan in basketball John Kelley and Dave lane of this years gridiron Gryphs were named All-Canadians in 1973
locketts hockey heroics were displayed when the University of Guelph was not a power on the ice but this season the Gryphons and their young coach Bud Folusewych are favoured to take serious aim at the University of Waterloos national crown led by little Adam Brown who broke all the scoring records in Ontario college hockey last season forward Bill Hanson defenceman Doug McKay and goaltender David Moote - all OUAA AII-Starsshythe Gryphons will have a good opportunity to relive past Gryphon glories Such a year was 1960 when coach AI Singleton and athletes such as Max ONeil OAC 61 Wayne lopp and Bill German OAC 61 ousted Ryerson in a semi-final playoff to earn a birth in the championship round against the powerful men from McMaster
Hockey football basketball and wrestling certainly arent the only sports that have provided Guelph with athletic laurels Cross-country teams boxing squads and golf teams have all brought hardware home to the trophy case at Guelph as today the school participates in 17 sports at the intercollegiate level The facilities for all these activities at Guelph are not totally adequate and only the football stadium could be described as outstanding Alumni Stadium opened officially on October 17 1970 is a 4100 seat complex that is not only home for the football Gryphons but houses the large multi-purpose Gryphon Room where accommodation can be made for karate wrestling and other related activities It is truly the highlight of the athletics complex on the Guelph campus
There are people on the staff and faculty at Guelph who although they dont fly the banner of the Gryphon still aid in the publics knowledge of athletics at the University of Guelph Librarian Yvonne Saunders who is a British Commonwealth Games gold medalist and Professor Abigail Hoffman of the Political Studies Department who has represented Canada in countless track events at the international level including the Olympic Games spread the name of the university in a way that is unequalled by any other non-academic activity
It is interesting to note that these two non-student athletes are both women The University of Guelph has a successful womens program as well and it has certainly grown since 1952 when Margaret Dix coached almost every sport at MacDonald Institute
With Shirley Peterson co-ordinating intercollegiate athletics and coaching ice hockey Val (Millar) Freeman BSc (PE) 70 heading the intramural program and coaching basketball and Joni Johnson Anne Stallman and Pam Wedd BSc(HK) 74 taking the coachs reins in a variety of activities the ladies at Guelph have a good foundation for fun and success
The most hardware to come in womens athletics in recent years has been on the hockey rink Mrs Petersons pucksters have captured the Ontario Women s Intercollegiate Athletics Association crown six times A record unequalled in the last decade
At present the ladies participate in 12 sports at the intercollegiate level and in the past year the most highly touted athlete has been field hockey player Marg Ellis Mrs Ellis is presently a member of the Ontario Provincial Field Hockey Team and she would like to earn a spot on the national squad in the near future
With the Olympic Games drawing near and the Ontario Agricultural College one hundred years old this year the young men and women who participate in sports at Guelph will be working to spread the Guelph name in Montreal in 1976 Names like Sharpe Deschatelets Saunders and Maclaren proudly reflect the glories of the past In old Librannis in yellowed newspaper clippings and on the nameplates of trophies people such as Goomer Raithby OAC 51 Poker Mills OAC 34 and Bill Dimson will always be remembered as viial cogs in the OAVC Aggie athletic machine 0
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campus highlights Housing shortage shortlived Early reports on the housing situation at Guelph were rather bleak however A W Mcinnis Director of Residences recently reported that the present situation is not serious and that all students have found permanent accommodation A student governmentshysponsored tent city saw very little use (approximately 10 students slept in it) as did special emergency housing in the Gryphon Room of the stadium (no-one slept there)
Tent City near the East Residences
The lack of off-campus student housing this year is directly connected to a general scarcity of housing in the city explained Mr Mcinnis He noted that because of high mortgage rates those who formerly rented their premises have ceased renting and are now selling their property In addition Guelphs attractive location vis-a-vis Toronto has led commuters to settle in many of the new subdivisions and residents who might have moved cannot afford the higher housing prices This is particularly applicable to those Guelph residents living in the downtown sections of the city which contain older but extremely large homes When sold these houses are often converted into
apartments but with fewer sales the predictable result is fewer apartments
A visit to city hall by residence officials confirmed that the off-campus situation will not improve in the immediate future and high mortgage interest rates coupled with high construction costs makes residence construction a high economic risk
The problem became acute this year due to a sharp increase in the number of students desiring residence accommodation compared with Sept 1973
Last year at mid-August approximately 2200 seniors had accepted rooms in residence By May 15 of this year more than 2200 seniors had been placed in residence and with places reserved for 1760 freshmen the Universitys 3900 beds were taken by mid-May
The 68 co-op apartments were also filled early for the fall semester Many students took out a years lease instead of an eight month agreement resulting in an extremely low turnover - less than 20 per cent from a year ago
Similar difficulties were evident at Wellington Woods the University s married students residence located on Stone Road Last year there were 36 vacancies for the fall semester this year that figure was cut to 12
Despite these figures the 1974 student housing picture in Guelph is now under control - until next fall
Freshmen enjoy a hayride tour around the University campus
Orienteering grant The University of Guelph often referred to as the home of orienteering in North America will benefit by a grant of more than $42000 made to the Canadian Orienteering Federation by Health and Welfare Canada The Honourable Marc Lalonde gave notice of the grant to Professor A Sass Peepre of Human Kinetics Professor Peepre is one of the founders of the Federation and is presently the president of the group
Orienteering is becoming very popular in Canada and is now taught at all levels in many schools The sport uses map and compass to find a specified route through the countryside and attracts thousands to meets in Europe
Enrolment increases Guelph s largest complement of students began classes in September Full-time enrolment has increased 11 per cent over last year Full-time undergraduate enrolment stood at 9100 on September 10 with approximately 550 full-time graduate students expected to register Part-time undergraduates number 600 part-time grad students about 150
A red-and-white orientation tent was erected outside the University Centre to provide a focal pOint for new students Orientation featured free concerts football games hayride tours of the campus and meetings with deans and academic counsellors
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The University of Guelph Choir led by conductor Nicholas Goldschmidt
Choir returns from tour The 42-member University of Guelph Choir returned to Guelph after several wellshyreceived performances in the Maritimes
The choir performed in Charlottetown New Glasgow Sydney Antigonish Halifax Dartmouth Yarmouth and at Acadia University in Wolfville under the direction of Nicholas Goldschmidt and assistant conductor Nickolaus Kaethler with accompanist Gerald Manning recitalist Denise Turcotte and soloist Robert Missen Along with works by Handel Bach Rossini Cherubini Schubert and Vaughan Williams the choir performed Canadian folk songs arranged by music professor Derek Healey
One of the main reasons for going on tour is to improve the quality of the choir commented Dean Murdo MacKinnon College of Arts The tour of Scotland in 1973 had a marked effect on the group so the 1974 tour of the Maritimes was a natural development Proof of the new level attained is that this year at the end of the tour the choir was asked by the CBC in Halifax to make a recording of a considerable portion of Handels Passion
which will be broadcast at the Easter season in 1975
Before the choir departed for the Maritimes an advance notice was sent to University of Guelph alumni in the area stating the times and places where the choir was to appear The results were extremely satisfying to the choir in that several alumni turned out for the performances
The choir experienced a rather unexpected thrill when it visited Fortress Louisburg in Cape Breton Island and was asked to record ten minutes of religious music in the beautiful chapel which is part of the historic fortress being re-built by the Government of Canada Consequently when visitors to the chapel hear quiet choral music in the background theyre listening to the University of Guelph Choir singing chorales of J S Bach
The choir was greeted by an enthusiastic Halifax audience when it performed in Rebecca Cohn Auditorium at Dalhousie University A critic for the Halifax Chronicle Herald commented Right from the opening of this work the
audience could hear a well-trained professional choir The singers close attention to every move of Director Goldschmidt was a joy to see and hear
The choi r sang before an overflow audience in Zion Baptist Church in Yarmouth on the opening day of the International Tuna Fish Festival A Yarmouth critic wrote The audience which gave the visitors two standing ovations was deeply moved by the majestic performance of the Passion of Christ by Handel The choir provided dramatic contrasts and excellent control of the exciting fugues which are characteristic of Handel
The program was presented once more after the choi rs retu rn They sang in St Andrews United Church Sudbury on Sunday October 6
Ottawa chapter barbecue was a success The Ottawa chapter of the University of Guelph Alumni Association held a family barbecue on Saturday September 14
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campus highlights
at the Kemptville College of Agricultural Tec hnology
A group of 125 adults and c hildren took part in a variety of games followed by a tour of the expe rimental ba rns and orchards Then everyone enjoyed a chicken barbecue Prizes for the ad ults were quarts of Ontario maple syrup and two pounds of honey
Board appoints new members Professor James Archibald OVC 49 Richard Birc hal l Kenneth Hammill OAC 51 and John Wood began their three-year terms on July 1 as new members on the Unive rsi ty s Board of Governors
Professor Archibald 55 a senate appointee to the board graduated from the Ontario Veterin ary COllege with a DVM degree in 1949 and in 1951 was granted a Master of Veterinary Science Professor Archibald has been on the OVC faculty since 1949 and was appOinted professor and chairman of clinical studies in 1963 a posi tion which he st ill holds
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Ric hard Birchall 59 is president of the Canadian National Sportsmen s Show and the Toronto International Boat Show In addition he is chairman of the Ontario Waterfowl Research Foundation which adm ini sters the Kortright Waterfow l Park in Gue lph He is a director of the
North American Wildlife Foundation and a Canadian director of the World Wildlife fund He is also a mem ber of the Conserva ti on Council of Ontario and vice-chairm an of the Del ta Waterfowl Research Station com mi ttee in Manitoba Mr Birchall is a mem be r of the inner council of the Wildfow l Trust in Slim bridge England and sits on the faculty of forestry advisory council o f the University of Toronto He has been a frequent visitor to campus in connection with his interests in several research projects being carried out in OAC OVC and the College of Biological Sc ience
Ken Hammill a 1951 graduate o f the Ontario Agricultural College is viceshypresident and a director of Omark Canada Ltd in Guelph Mr Hammill has been a member o f Guelph c ity council since 1962 and has served on the f in ance personnel parks and recre ation committees He has also been a ci ty representative on the Grand River Conservation Authority
John Wood 34 studied at the University of Western Ontario where he graduated in 1964 as a gold medal ist in business administrat ion He is presently vice-president (manufac turin g) and a director of the N C Wood Company in Gue lph He is a member of the Guelph Chamber of Commerce the Guelph Industrial and Economic Deve lopment Commission and the Guelph Rotary Club Mr Wood also se rved as c hairman of the Canadi an government appliance miss ion to Europe in 1968
Aggies took over September 23-28 Aggie Week 74 was filled with the usual merriment and competition that stems from a long-standing OAC tradition
Anim al scientist Bob Forshaw easily won the faculty trophy for cow milking with 35 ounces in one minute defeating other competitors suc h as President Winegard who milked two ounces last years champion Mike Jenkinson OAC 63 with 11 ounces and Professor Richard Vosburgh acting dean of Family and Consumer Studies with three ounces
Animal sc ient ist Roge r Hacker won the hog calling contest followed by Dr H 0 Branion assistant to the president
who tied for second place with agricultural economist Phil Wright
Monster ball competitions bed races chariot races and tugs of war brought out many faculty and students for the annual Aggie Games won bY OAC Class 77
Former chairman honoured The Department of Animal and Poultry Science recently honou red its former chairman Professor J C Rennie OAC 47 who left the campus to become executive direc tor of the education and resea rch division of the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food
Pro fessor Renni e jo ined the faculty in 1952 and was chairman from 1965 to 1971 Du ring the past yea r he served as acting dean of research during the absence on sabbatical of Dean W E Tossell OAC 47
Alma Mater Fund results encouraging Fund Chairman Neil Darrach reports that the Alma Mater Fund has received $120330 towards its $160000 objecti ve
A total of 2396 gifts have been received from alumni faculty professional staff and other suppo rters of higher education Gifts from the Guelph campus amounting to $27247 have reached a new high and exceed the final tabulat ion of $25977 achieved in last years fund drive on the campus
The Century Club Division of the fund reports that 357 founding members have renewed their memberships at this time with gifts of $100 or more In addition 112 new founding members have subscribed to the Century Club
Mr Darrach stated that donors who make leadership gifts to the Alma Mater Fund Century Club in 1974 and the two years preced ing the Centennial will be known as foundin g members He also stated th at the Challenge Grant made by Continental Can Company of Canada Ltd is attracting many new and increased gifts Under the term s of the Challenge Grant new girts and the amount of increase over a previous annual gift will be matched by the Challenge Grant to a max imum of $5000
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November 28 University of Guelph to January 5 Printmaking Workshop
(collection of international prints) McLaughlin Library Main Floor Gallery Monday through Saturday 9 am to 10 pm Sunday 1 pm to 10 pm
December 27 Centennial 74 Finale University Centre 830 pm to 1 am
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fo r her second son Robert to come to the OAC
Robert Ffolkes however had decided that he wanted to farm in Iowa Edward quickly warned his mother of the dangers of revealing Roberts intentions to those in power at the College
Remember that if the authorities get so much as an inkling that Bob is thinking of farming in Iowa they will fire him out before he has been there a day Iowa being in the United States The other day the Agricultural lecturer asked one of the fellows to describe how he should proceed on taking up land Well I when I get down to Minnesota I shall first do so and so Lecturer Well the sooner you do it the better you can go and pack up you r trunks now and a team shall be ready to take you to the station for the eleven train They lent him money to get home and sent him away at once I had to kiss the Bible and swear an oath and sign a document I was going to remain four years in Canada after leaving the College when I sent in my request for admi ssion
What happened eventually to Robert is not known Although he did come to the OAC for the Fall Term of 1881 he did not stay any longer than his brother did Perhaps he too sought more practical farm training than the College was prepared to offer to a young man anxious to farm a thousand acres in the American West
Edward Ffolkes references to the City of Guelph are very limited Then as now town and gown were di sparate elements but in Edward s day they were geographically at least much more apart When Edward first came to Guelph a
boardwalk had just been laid to link the College grounds to the city limits It must have proved very convelient for the trips into town on Saturdays and on Sundays when Edward taught Sunday School in one of the fourteen churches which he had counted in the city On Saturdays he could attend entertainshyments in the City Hall or at the Drill Hall But it was Toronto that really appealed to Edward it was a splendid town even though he had seen a cart so badly stuck in the mud on Queen Street that it required five horses to pull it out
Despite the attractions of Toronto and the recommendation of a friend that he should take up banking rather than farming Edward Ffolkes determination to go to the northwest never wavered The dearest wish of his heart was to be self-supporting Whilst I am at Guelph College he told his mother it is impossible to be self-supporting for the simple reason the pay we get for working full hours (and I always do work full hours) does not cover board and washing which comes to $2 80 per week
Edward always remained skeptical of the practical value of much of what the College had to offer even of the outside work
In fact from what I can see the farming at Guelph is about the same as in England All the stock comes direct from England and the implements are exactly the same and it is hardly likely that in Manitoba there will be an assortment of implements for thrashing winnowing etc
Much better it was he thought to serve out an apprenticeship period with a successful farmer in the area where you intend to settle It was his opinion that his brother Bob cou Id no more leave the College after a three years course and
farm a thousand acres than fly to the moon Bob he said would have to rough It as foreman in some stock ranch for two years to get used to all the tricks of cattle dealing
By March 22 1881 Edward was in the midst of his Easter examinations and had made up his mind to leave the College to seek practical experience on a farm That he had given up his academic work is obvious from the results of his examinations of the five papers he seems to have written he received honour standing in agriculture and English composition and failed in organic chemistry veterinary anatomy and bookkeeping He never mentions these results in his letters home
That Edward Ffolkes may have underestimated the value of the training which the Ontario Agricultural College had to offer is reasonably certain However he never underestimated his own ability and determination to succeed as a farmer Two years after he left Guelph with the help of approximately two thousand dollars from home he was well established on a farm of 750 acres near Beaconsfield Manitoba with plans to start a shingle and saw mill in the spring The two years had however been desperately hard shyso hard that in his last letter to his mother September 23 1882 Edward Ffolkes spoke of those days of martyrdom and slavery His own account suggests that this was no exaggeration
It is this account and the earlier record of Edward Ffol kes year at the Ontario Agricultural College which was edited by Edwards uncle that gives historical significance to the very rare book Letters from a Young Emigrant in Manitoba published by Kegan Paul Trench in London in 1883 0
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THE OAC Centennial Festival and Alumni Week was Guelphs birthday
party of the century The days and nights from July 6 to 14
were filled with something for everyone regardless of age or interest as many alumni and friends of the University of Guelph came and joined in the once-in-ashylifetime event
Some of the attractions included a parade of antique cars tractors steam engines horse drawn carriages and floats an Olde Tyme outdoor chuckwagon breakfast at Creelman Plaza a gigantic birthday cake six-horse hitches alumni reunions skits of the past visits from dignitaries and a beard-growing contest
Months of plann ing and hard work by the OAC Centennial Committee resulted in a wonderful week for all who attended the festivities
The celebrations were held to pay homage to the Ontario Agricultural College which was established in 1874 by the provincial Department of Agriculture and boasted 30 students who lived in a converted house on a 500-acre farm
Now with a student population hovering near 10000 and an 11 ~O-acre main campus the University of Guelph has sent leading farmers teachers research scientists and businessmen out into the world
The College has provided Canadas agriculture industry with continual research breakthroughs and fresh ideas while internationally it aids significantly in solving the agricultural problems of developing countries
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INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS a Guelph Tradition
by Scott Taylor
Opposite page Four members of the 1910-11 Ontario Agricultural College Basketball Team Left to r ight W Toole 11 W H Smith 12 manager E W White 12 C Main 11
Above An OAVC crest seen on athletic uniforms in the 1940s
ACCORDING to legend a Gryphon was a mythical creature represented by
the head and wings of an eagle the body of a lion and the tail of a serpent Since 1968 this fearful looking symbol that legend claimed to be the protector of the treasures of the Asiatic Scythis has been the guardian of the athletic teams that represent the University of Guelph
Today the College on the Hill has become one of the premier universities in the country in the field of sports competition The university is represented by a Canadian Intercollegiate Athletic
Union basketball champion an Ontario Universities Athletic Association team wrestling winner and an Ontario Womens Intercollegiate Athletic Association ice hockey titleist The list of team and individual crowns that have been won since OAC first participated in athletics as the Aggies is extensive indeed and not to recall in some manner the glorious history of athletics at Guelph first as OA C and MacDonald Institute then as OAVC and Mac and finally as the University of Guelph would be to neglect an important aspect of the centennial of the Ontario Agricultural College
On September sixth of this year the University of Guelph Gryphons opened another football season behind head coach Dick Brown a former professional gridiron player who this year was named to the Greatest Toronto Argonaut All-Star team in history The Manitoba Bisons flew in from Winnipeg and topped the Gryphons in the season starter by a fourteen-Io-six score as the passing combination of Brad Hall to Craig Holt the leading receiver in Gryphon history highlighted the evening for the Red and Gold
Through many seasons of success the losses have come as well In 1960 behind head coach Tom Mooney the passing combination was from Jim Wright 61 A to Dave Hume OAC 61 but it wasnt quite enough as the OAVC Football Redmen suffered through a bitter year of rebuilding the glories of the past The sports writer of the Libranni 1961 may have put it best in a piece entitled Great is the Fall He wrote
There are many quotations and sayings that express the difficulty of maintaining ones position at the top This year the Redmen found out just how true those expressions were Gone was the mighty invincible Redmen machine that
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flattened all the opposition without mercy Every team in the league sought to add to its own laurels and to the humiliation of the Redmen by proclaiming that they too could defeat those farmers from Guelph Due to this every team that the Redmen encountered was fired up for the encounter and played their best against our squad
However the thrill of victory has been at hand more often than not for the rugby football teams from Guelph In 1934 Head Coach and Athletic Director of the OAC Aggies F G Baldy Baldwin led a tough squad of men to the Canadian Intermediate Intercollegiate Rugby Championships for the second time W F Bill Mitchell OAC 38 quartershybacked the Aggies of 34 and today that same Bill Mitchell quarterbacks the
Above Intermediate Intercollegiate Football Champions 1949
Right Intermediate Intercollegiate Basketball Champions 1925-26 Left to right Prof A W Baker 11 coach J W G McEwan 26 J E Ridley 27 J R Currey 29 L M Schenck 26 captain L Young 27 R Graham 29 Geo Thompson 27 H Potter A T Rintoul 26 manager
entire sports program at the University of Guelph as Director of Athletics Included on that same team which incidentally did not enter the Ontario Rugby Football Union playdowns because of bad weather and approaching exam inations was a hard-nosed middle known as Haley Hales He is probably better remembered by the people in Guelph and Wellington Riding as Alfred Dryden Hales OAC 34 Member of Parliament who stepped down this past election after more than sixteen years of political service
The names of players and their eventual careers after graduation is a vast area to research Athletes who have finished their studies at Guelph have gone into various fields but a few of them have remained as outstanding athletes in the professional ranks The most recent of these are football kicker Gerry Organ BSc(PE) 71 of the Ottawa Rough
Riders and hockey netminder Ken lockett BA 72 As anyone who follows Canadian sporting fortunes knows former Gryphon Organ is the reigning Schenley Award Winner as the most outstanding native Canadian in the Canadian Football league Fewer people may know that lockett 1971 s All-Canadian hockey goaltender former mem ber of the Canadian World Student Games Team and of course a graduate Gryphon has recently been signed to a pro contract with the Vancouver Canucks of th e National Hockey league
Other Guelph athletes of the past have continued their careers at top amateur level s A prime example of this is Grant Maclaren In 1969 Maclaren put on a near one-man show at the CIA U cross-country championships He earned himself the national individual title and at the same time was backed up
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by a superb University of Guelph harrier contingent that captu red the CIAU team championship as well Today Maclaren is still a world-class distance runner who will no doubt represent Canada at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal
Another Gryphon who may be an Olympic Team member is basketball star Bob Sharpe last season Sharpe was an OUA A All-Star an All-Star team member at the CIAU championships as well as the lalter tournament s Most Valuable Player This past summer Sharpe got his first taste of international competition as a player on the Canadian National Mens Basketball Team - a team that gave Canada its best performance since the 1936 Olympics when our nations finest lost a gold medal to the United States by a 19-5 score on an outdoor court and in a driving rainstorm
Rugger at Guelph
International competition is not restricted to track stars and basketball players however This winter the University of Guelph will have four varsity wrestlers with foreign experience behind them Richard Deschatelets represented Canada in Europe this past summer while Bob Price and Tom Bethune travelled with the country s B team on a tour of the United States In 1974 AI Tschirhart was a member of Canadas World Student Games Team in Moscow and when one adds the name of OUA A champion Ross Barrable to the formidable list of four there appears to be little doubt that Guelph will repeat as A M Porter Trophy winners
Perhaps the name of this piece of silverware itself is an indication of the success of the wrestling program at Guelph The Porter Trophy was presented to the Canadian Intercollegiate Athletic
Union by A M Porter OAC 20 the Registrar of the Ontario Agricultural College Guelph Canada as a token of his active interest in University Wrestling since 1920 That is what is inscribed on the prize that is now the sought-after conclusion to the OUAA wrestling season It is appropriate that OAVC shyUniversity of Guelph teams have won this trophy seven times and are presently showing it off in the trophy case at the Athletics Centre (The University of Western Ontario has won it alone six times but on two other occasions has shared it with the University of Waterloo) From Coach Wright OAC 33 in the thirties to Coach Schlegal in the forties through Coach Glen Peister OAC 50 in the seasons of the fifties with Coach Bob Heinrich OAC 5SA in the early sixties and now in the seventies with highly-touted Londo Iacovelli at the helm
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Aggie Gryphon and Redm en grapplers have been the prime target for the opposition eve ry year
One sport at Guelph th at has just attained a position of national prominence is the game of basketball Behind people like Sharpe AI Grunys Denni s Krawchuk and graduating seniors Paul Allen BSc (HK)74 and Phil Smith BA 74 the University won a national championship in 1974 When Garney Henley took over as head coach however the University of Guelph posted a depressing one winshy17 loss season Many times during the next few years Coach Henley was fortunate to have a successful professional foo tball ca reer with the Canadian Football League s Hamilton Tiger-Cats to conso le him However through hard work and with players like Mark Walton BA 72 Chester Graham BA 73 and Wayne Morgan BA 72 Henley and his assistants Doug Dodd and Dic k Brown have built a superb prog ram
In 1956 howeve r with Tom Mooney at the helm a group of ball players had the words Take Off as an inspiration and were fighting to ga in acceptance into senior interc ollegiate ranks Led by Murray Atkinson OAC 60 who later became the firs t two-tim e win ner of the Athlete of the Year Award and by Bill Dimson OAC 57A whose subsequent death in a ca r acc ident a few years later was a bl ow for all who knew him the OAVC Aggies fini shed in second place at the intermediate level losing a heartbreaking 56-52 dec ision to the eventual c hampion Weste rn Dimsons name has not been forgotten at Guelph a plaque presented annually in his honour goes to the schools Most Valuable Baske tball Pl aye r Am ong the winners of the Bill Dimson Memorial Award are present holder Bob Sharpe and Guelphs first official All-Canadian basketball player Wayne Morgan
Top An OAC swim team resplendent in their tank suits
Above University of Guelph wrestling squad coached by Londo Iacovelli
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Awards and particularly AII-Canadtan honours are not uncommon among the present group of athletes at Guelph In addition to Ken Lockett in hockey and Morgan in basketball John Kelley and Dave lane of this years gridiron Gryphs were named All-Canadians in 1973
locketts hockey heroics were displayed when the University of Guelph was not a power on the ice but this season the Gryphons and their young coach Bud Folusewych are favoured to take serious aim at the University of Waterloos national crown led by little Adam Brown who broke all the scoring records in Ontario college hockey last season forward Bill Hanson defenceman Doug McKay and goaltender David Moote - all OUAA AII-Starsshythe Gryphons will have a good opportunity to relive past Gryphon glories Such a year was 1960 when coach AI Singleton and athletes such as Max ONeil OAC 61 Wayne lopp and Bill German OAC 61 ousted Ryerson in a semi-final playoff to earn a birth in the championship round against the powerful men from McMaster
Hockey football basketball and wrestling certainly arent the only sports that have provided Guelph with athletic laurels Cross-country teams boxing squads and golf teams have all brought hardware home to the trophy case at Guelph as today the school participates in 17 sports at the intercollegiate level The facilities for all these activities at Guelph are not totally adequate and only the football stadium could be described as outstanding Alumni Stadium opened officially on October 17 1970 is a 4100 seat complex that is not only home for the football Gryphons but houses the large multi-purpose Gryphon Room where accommodation can be made for karate wrestling and other related activities It is truly the highlight of the athletics complex on the Guelph campus
There are people on the staff and faculty at Guelph who although they dont fly the banner of the Gryphon still aid in the publics knowledge of athletics at the University of Guelph Librarian Yvonne Saunders who is a British Commonwealth Games gold medalist and Professor Abigail Hoffman of the Political Studies Department who has represented Canada in countless track events at the international level including the Olympic Games spread the name of the university in a way that is unequalled by any other non-academic activity
It is interesting to note that these two non-student athletes are both women The University of Guelph has a successful womens program as well and it has certainly grown since 1952 when Margaret Dix coached almost every sport at MacDonald Institute
With Shirley Peterson co-ordinating intercollegiate athletics and coaching ice hockey Val (Millar) Freeman BSc (PE) 70 heading the intramural program and coaching basketball and Joni Johnson Anne Stallman and Pam Wedd BSc(HK) 74 taking the coachs reins in a variety of activities the ladies at Guelph have a good foundation for fun and success
The most hardware to come in womens athletics in recent years has been on the hockey rink Mrs Petersons pucksters have captured the Ontario Women s Intercollegiate Athletics Association crown six times A record unequalled in the last decade
At present the ladies participate in 12 sports at the intercollegiate level and in the past year the most highly touted athlete has been field hockey player Marg Ellis Mrs Ellis is presently a member of the Ontario Provincial Field Hockey Team and she would like to earn a spot on the national squad in the near future
With the Olympic Games drawing near and the Ontario Agricultural College one hundred years old this year the young men and women who participate in sports at Guelph will be working to spread the Guelph name in Montreal in 1976 Names like Sharpe Deschatelets Saunders and Maclaren proudly reflect the glories of the past In old Librannis in yellowed newspaper clippings and on the nameplates of trophies people such as Goomer Raithby OAC 51 Poker Mills OAC 34 and Bill Dimson will always be remembered as viial cogs in the OAVC Aggie athletic machine 0
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campus highlights Housing shortage shortlived Early reports on the housing situation at Guelph were rather bleak however A W Mcinnis Director of Residences recently reported that the present situation is not serious and that all students have found permanent accommodation A student governmentshysponsored tent city saw very little use (approximately 10 students slept in it) as did special emergency housing in the Gryphon Room of the stadium (no-one slept there)
Tent City near the East Residences
The lack of off-campus student housing this year is directly connected to a general scarcity of housing in the city explained Mr Mcinnis He noted that because of high mortgage rates those who formerly rented their premises have ceased renting and are now selling their property In addition Guelphs attractive location vis-a-vis Toronto has led commuters to settle in many of the new subdivisions and residents who might have moved cannot afford the higher housing prices This is particularly applicable to those Guelph residents living in the downtown sections of the city which contain older but extremely large homes When sold these houses are often converted into
apartments but with fewer sales the predictable result is fewer apartments
A visit to city hall by residence officials confirmed that the off-campus situation will not improve in the immediate future and high mortgage interest rates coupled with high construction costs makes residence construction a high economic risk
The problem became acute this year due to a sharp increase in the number of students desiring residence accommodation compared with Sept 1973
Last year at mid-August approximately 2200 seniors had accepted rooms in residence By May 15 of this year more than 2200 seniors had been placed in residence and with places reserved for 1760 freshmen the Universitys 3900 beds were taken by mid-May
The 68 co-op apartments were also filled early for the fall semester Many students took out a years lease instead of an eight month agreement resulting in an extremely low turnover - less than 20 per cent from a year ago
Similar difficulties were evident at Wellington Woods the University s married students residence located on Stone Road Last year there were 36 vacancies for the fall semester this year that figure was cut to 12
Despite these figures the 1974 student housing picture in Guelph is now under control - until next fall
Freshmen enjoy a hayride tour around the University campus
Orienteering grant The University of Guelph often referred to as the home of orienteering in North America will benefit by a grant of more than $42000 made to the Canadian Orienteering Federation by Health and Welfare Canada The Honourable Marc Lalonde gave notice of the grant to Professor A Sass Peepre of Human Kinetics Professor Peepre is one of the founders of the Federation and is presently the president of the group
Orienteering is becoming very popular in Canada and is now taught at all levels in many schools The sport uses map and compass to find a specified route through the countryside and attracts thousands to meets in Europe
Enrolment increases Guelph s largest complement of students began classes in September Full-time enrolment has increased 11 per cent over last year Full-time undergraduate enrolment stood at 9100 on September 10 with approximately 550 full-time graduate students expected to register Part-time undergraduates number 600 part-time grad students about 150
A red-and-white orientation tent was erected outside the University Centre to provide a focal pOint for new students Orientation featured free concerts football games hayride tours of the campus and meetings with deans and academic counsellors
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The University of Guelph Choir led by conductor Nicholas Goldschmidt
Choir returns from tour The 42-member University of Guelph Choir returned to Guelph after several wellshyreceived performances in the Maritimes
The choir performed in Charlottetown New Glasgow Sydney Antigonish Halifax Dartmouth Yarmouth and at Acadia University in Wolfville under the direction of Nicholas Goldschmidt and assistant conductor Nickolaus Kaethler with accompanist Gerald Manning recitalist Denise Turcotte and soloist Robert Missen Along with works by Handel Bach Rossini Cherubini Schubert and Vaughan Williams the choir performed Canadian folk songs arranged by music professor Derek Healey
One of the main reasons for going on tour is to improve the quality of the choir commented Dean Murdo MacKinnon College of Arts The tour of Scotland in 1973 had a marked effect on the group so the 1974 tour of the Maritimes was a natural development Proof of the new level attained is that this year at the end of the tour the choir was asked by the CBC in Halifax to make a recording of a considerable portion of Handels Passion
which will be broadcast at the Easter season in 1975
Before the choir departed for the Maritimes an advance notice was sent to University of Guelph alumni in the area stating the times and places where the choir was to appear The results were extremely satisfying to the choir in that several alumni turned out for the performances
The choir experienced a rather unexpected thrill when it visited Fortress Louisburg in Cape Breton Island and was asked to record ten minutes of religious music in the beautiful chapel which is part of the historic fortress being re-built by the Government of Canada Consequently when visitors to the chapel hear quiet choral music in the background theyre listening to the University of Guelph Choir singing chorales of J S Bach
The choir was greeted by an enthusiastic Halifax audience when it performed in Rebecca Cohn Auditorium at Dalhousie University A critic for the Halifax Chronicle Herald commented Right from the opening of this work the
audience could hear a well-trained professional choir The singers close attention to every move of Director Goldschmidt was a joy to see and hear
The choi r sang before an overflow audience in Zion Baptist Church in Yarmouth on the opening day of the International Tuna Fish Festival A Yarmouth critic wrote The audience which gave the visitors two standing ovations was deeply moved by the majestic performance of the Passion of Christ by Handel The choir provided dramatic contrasts and excellent control of the exciting fugues which are characteristic of Handel
The program was presented once more after the choi rs retu rn They sang in St Andrews United Church Sudbury on Sunday October 6
Ottawa chapter barbecue was a success The Ottawa chapter of the University of Guelph Alumni Association held a family barbecue on Saturday September 14
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at the Kemptville College of Agricultural Tec hnology
A group of 125 adults and c hildren took part in a variety of games followed by a tour of the expe rimental ba rns and orchards Then everyone enjoyed a chicken barbecue Prizes for the ad ults were quarts of Ontario maple syrup and two pounds of honey
Board appoints new members Professor James Archibald OVC 49 Richard Birc hal l Kenneth Hammill OAC 51 and John Wood began their three-year terms on July 1 as new members on the Unive rsi ty s Board of Governors
Professor Archibald 55 a senate appointee to the board graduated from the Ontario Veterin ary COllege with a DVM degree in 1949 and in 1951 was granted a Master of Veterinary Science Professor Archibald has been on the OVC faculty since 1949 and was appOinted professor and chairman of clinical studies in 1963 a posi tion which he st ill holds
Archibald
Hammill Birchall
Ric hard Birchall 59 is president of the Canadian National Sportsmen s Show and the Toronto International Boat Show In addition he is chairman of the Ontario Waterfowl Research Foundation which adm ini sters the Kortright Waterfow l Park in Gue lph He is a director of the
North American Wildlife Foundation and a Canadian director of the World Wildlife fund He is also a mem ber of the Conserva ti on Council of Ontario and vice-chairm an of the Del ta Waterfowl Research Station com mi ttee in Manitoba Mr Birchall is a mem be r of the inner council of the Wildfow l Trust in Slim bridge England and sits on the faculty of forestry advisory council o f the University of Toronto He has been a frequent visitor to campus in connection with his interests in several research projects being carried out in OAC OVC and the College of Biological Sc ience
Ken Hammill a 1951 graduate o f the Ontario Agricultural College is viceshypresident and a director of Omark Canada Ltd in Guelph Mr Hammill has been a member o f Guelph c ity council since 1962 and has served on the f in ance personnel parks and recre ation committees He has also been a ci ty representative on the Grand River Conservation Authority
John Wood 34 studied at the University of Western Ontario where he graduated in 1964 as a gold medal ist in business administrat ion He is presently vice-president (manufac turin g) and a director of the N C Wood Company in Gue lph He is a member of the Guelph Chamber of Commerce the Guelph Industrial and Economic Deve lopment Commission and the Guelph Rotary Club Mr Wood also se rved as c hairman of the Canadi an government appliance miss ion to Europe in 1968
Aggies took over September 23-28 Aggie Week 74 was filled with the usual merriment and competition that stems from a long-standing OAC tradition
Anim al scientist Bob Forshaw easily won the faculty trophy for cow milking with 35 ounces in one minute defeating other competitors suc h as President Winegard who milked two ounces last years champion Mike Jenkinson OAC 63 with 11 ounces and Professor Richard Vosburgh acting dean of Family and Consumer Studies with three ounces
Animal sc ient ist Roge r Hacker won the hog calling contest followed by Dr H 0 Branion assistant to the president
who tied for second place with agricultural economist Phil Wright
Monster ball competitions bed races chariot races and tugs of war brought out many faculty and students for the annual Aggie Games won bY OAC Class 77
Former chairman honoured The Department of Animal and Poultry Science recently honou red its former chairman Professor J C Rennie OAC 47 who left the campus to become executive direc tor of the education and resea rch division of the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food
Pro fessor Renni e jo ined the faculty in 1952 and was chairman from 1965 to 1971 Du ring the past yea r he served as acting dean of research during the absence on sabbatical of Dean W E Tossell OAC 47
Alma Mater Fund results encouraging Fund Chairman Neil Darrach reports that the Alma Mater Fund has received $120330 towards its $160000 objecti ve
A total of 2396 gifts have been received from alumni faculty professional staff and other suppo rters of higher education Gifts from the Guelph campus amounting to $27247 have reached a new high and exceed the final tabulat ion of $25977 achieved in last years fund drive on the campus
The Century Club Division of the fund reports that 357 founding members have renewed their memberships at this time with gifts of $100 or more In addition 112 new founding members have subscribed to the Century Club
Mr Darrach stated that donors who make leadership gifts to the Alma Mater Fund Century Club in 1974 and the two years preced ing the Centennial will be known as foundin g members He also stated th at the Challenge Grant made by Continental Can Company of Canada Ltd is attracting many new and increased gifts Under the term s of the Challenge Grant new girts and the amount of increase over a previous annual gift will be matched by the Challenge Grant to a max imum of $5000
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November 28 University of Guelph to January 5 Printmaking Workshop
(collection of international prints) McLaughlin Library Main Floor Gallery Monday through Saturday 9 am to 10 pm Sunday 1 pm to 10 pm
December 27 Centennial 74 Finale University Centre 830 pm to 1 am
THE OAC Centennial Festival and Alumni Week was Guelphs birthday
party of the century The days and nights from July 6 to 14
were filled with something for everyone regardless of age or interest as many alumni and friends of the University of Guelph came and joined in the once-in-ashylifetime event
Some of the attractions included a parade of antique cars tractors steam engines horse drawn carriages and floats an Olde Tyme outdoor chuckwagon breakfast at Creelman Plaza a gigantic birthday cake six-horse hitches alumni reunions skits of the past visits from dignitaries and a beard-growing contest
Months of plann ing and hard work by the OAC Centennial Committee resulted in a wonderful week for all who attended the festivities
The celebrations were held to pay homage to the Ontario Agricultural College which was established in 1874 by the provincial Department of Agriculture and boasted 30 students who lived in a converted house on a 500-acre farm
Now with a student population hovering near 10000 and an 11 ~O-acre main campus the University of Guelph has sent leading farmers teachers research scientists and businessmen out into the world
The College has provided Canadas agriculture industry with continual research breakthroughs and fresh ideas while internationally it aids significantly in solving the agricultural problems of developing countries
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INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS a Guelph Tradition
by Scott Taylor
Opposite page Four members of the 1910-11 Ontario Agricultural College Basketball Team Left to r ight W Toole 11 W H Smith 12 manager E W White 12 C Main 11
Above An OAVC crest seen on athletic uniforms in the 1940s
ACCORDING to legend a Gryphon was a mythical creature represented by
the head and wings of an eagle the body of a lion and the tail of a serpent Since 1968 this fearful looking symbol that legend claimed to be the protector of the treasures of the Asiatic Scythis has been the guardian of the athletic teams that represent the University of Guelph
Today the College on the Hill has become one of the premier universities in the country in the field of sports competition The university is represented by a Canadian Intercollegiate Athletic
Union basketball champion an Ontario Universities Athletic Association team wrestling winner and an Ontario Womens Intercollegiate Athletic Association ice hockey titleist The list of team and individual crowns that have been won since OAC first participated in athletics as the Aggies is extensive indeed and not to recall in some manner the glorious history of athletics at Guelph first as OA C and MacDonald Institute then as OAVC and Mac and finally as the University of Guelph would be to neglect an important aspect of the centennial of the Ontario Agricultural College
On September sixth of this year the University of Guelph Gryphons opened another football season behind head coach Dick Brown a former professional gridiron player who this year was named to the Greatest Toronto Argonaut All-Star team in history The Manitoba Bisons flew in from Winnipeg and topped the Gryphons in the season starter by a fourteen-Io-six score as the passing combination of Brad Hall to Craig Holt the leading receiver in Gryphon history highlighted the evening for the Red and Gold
Through many seasons of success the losses have come as well In 1960 behind head coach Tom Mooney the passing combination was from Jim Wright 61 A to Dave Hume OAC 61 but it wasnt quite enough as the OAVC Football Redmen suffered through a bitter year of rebuilding the glories of the past The sports writer of the Libranni 1961 may have put it best in a piece entitled Great is the Fall He wrote
There are many quotations and sayings that express the difficulty of maintaining ones position at the top This year the Redmen found out just how true those expressions were Gone was the mighty invincible Redmen machine that
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flattened all the opposition without mercy Every team in the league sought to add to its own laurels and to the humiliation of the Redmen by proclaiming that they too could defeat those farmers from Guelph Due to this every team that the Redmen encountered was fired up for the encounter and played their best against our squad
However the thrill of victory has been at hand more often than not for the rugby football teams from Guelph In 1934 Head Coach and Athletic Director of the OAC Aggies F G Baldy Baldwin led a tough squad of men to the Canadian Intermediate Intercollegiate Rugby Championships for the second time W F Bill Mitchell OAC 38 quartershybacked the Aggies of 34 and today that same Bill Mitchell quarterbacks the
Above Intermediate Intercollegiate Football Champions 1949
Right Intermediate Intercollegiate Basketball Champions 1925-26 Left to right Prof A W Baker 11 coach J W G McEwan 26 J E Ridley 27 J R Currey 29 L M Schenck 26 captain L Young 27 R Graham 29 Geo Thompson 27 H Potter A T Rintoul 26 manager
entire sports program at the University of Guelph as Director of Athletics Included on that same team which incidentally did not enter the Ontario Rugby Football Union playdowns because of bad weather and approaching exam inations was a hard-nosed middle known as Haley Hales He is probably better remembered by the people in Guelph and Wellington Riding as Alfred Dryden Hales OAC 34 Member of Parliament who stepped down this past election after more than sixteen years of political service
The names of players and their eventual careers after graduation is a vast area to research Athletes who have finished their studies at Guelph have gone into various fields but a few of them have remained as outstanding athletes in the professional ranks The most recent of these are football kicker Gerry Organ BSc(PE) 71 of the Ottawa Rough
Riders and hockey netminder Ken lockett BA 72 As anyone who follows Canadian sporting fortunes knows former Gryphon Organ is the reigning Schenley Award Winner as the most outstanding native Canadian in the Canadian Football league Fewer people may know that lockett 1971 s All-Canadian hockey goaltender former mem ber of the Canadian World Student Games Team and of course a graduate Gryphon has recently been signed to a pro contract with the Vancouver Canucks of th e National Hockey league
Other Guelph athletes of the past have continued their careers at top amateur level s A prime example of this is Grant Maclaren In 1969 Maclaren put on a near one-man show at the CIA U cross-country championships He earned himself the national individual title and at the same time was backed up
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by a superb University of Guelph harrier contingent that captu red the CIAU team championship as well Today Maclaren is still a world-class distance runner who will no doubt represent Canada at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal
Another Gryphon who may be an Olympic Team member is basketball star Bob Sharpe last season Sharpe was an OUA A All-Star an All-Star team member at the CIAU championships as well as the lalter tournament s Most Valuable Player This past summer Sharpe got his first taste of international competition as a player on the Canadian National Mens Basketball Team - a team that gave Canada its best performance since the 1936 Olympics when our nations finest lost a gold medal to the United States by a 19-5 score on an outdoor court and in a driving rainstorm
Rugger at Guelph
International competition is not restricted to track stars and basketball players however This winter the University of Guelph will have four varsity wrestlers with foreign experience behind them Richard Deschatelets represented Canada in Europe this past summer while Bob Price and Tom Bethune travelled with the country s B team on a tour of the United States In 1974 AI Tschirhart was a member of Canadas World Student Games Team in Moscow and when one adds the name of OUA A champion Ross Barrable to the formidable list of four there appears to be little doubt that Guelph will repeat as A M Porter Trophy winners
Perhaps the name of this piece of silverware itself is an indication of the success of the wrestling program at Guelph The Porter Trophy was presented to the Canadian Intercollegiate Athletic
Union by A M Porter OAC 20 the Registrar of the Ontario Agricultural College Guelph Canada as a token of his active interest in University Wrestling since 1920 That is what is inscribed on the prize that is now the sought-after conclusion to the OUAA wrestling season It is appropriate that OAVC shyUniversity of Guelph teams have won this trophy seven times and are presently showing it off in the trophy case at the Athletics Centre (The University of Western Ontario has won it alone six times but on two other occasions has shared it with the University of Waterloo) From Coach Wright OAC 33 in the thirties to Coach Schlegal in the forties through Coach Glen Peister OAC 50 in the seasons of the fifties with Coach Bob Heinrich OAC 5SA in the early sixties and now in the seventies with highly-touted Londo Iacovelli at the helm
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Aggie Gryphon and Redm en grapplers have been the prime target for the opposition eve ry year
One sport at Guelph th at has just attained a position of national prominence is the game of basketball Behind people like Sharpe AI Grunys Denni s Krawchuk and graduating seniors Paul Allen BSc (HK)74 and Phil Smith BA 74 the University won a national championship in 1974 When Garney Henley took over as head coach however the University of Guelph posted a depressing one winshy17 loss season Many times during the next few years Coach Henley was fortunate to have a successful professional foo tball ca reer with the Canadian Football League s Hamilton Tiger-Cats to conso le him However through hard work and with players like Mark Walton BA 72 Chester Graham BA 73 and Wayne Morgan BA 72 Henley and his assistants Doug Dodd and Dic k Brown have built a superb prog ram
In 1956 howeve r with Tom Mooney at the helm a group of ball players had the words Take Off as an inspiration and were fighting to ga in acceptance into senior interc ollegiate ranks Led by Murray Atkinson OAC 60 who later became the firs t two-tim e win ner of the Athlete of the Year Award and by Bill Dimson OAC 57A whose subsequent death in a ca r acc ident a few years later was a bl ow for all who knew him the OAVC Aggies fini shed in second place at the intermediate level losing a heartbreaking 56-52 dec ision to the eventual c hampion Weste rn Dimsons name has not been forgotten at Guelph a plaque presented annually in his honour goes to the schools Most Valuable Baske tball Pl aye r Am ong the winners of the Bill Dimson Memorial Award are present holder Bob Sharpe and Guelphs first official All-Canadian basketball player Wayne Morgan
Top An OAC swim team resplendent in their tank suits
Above University of Guelph wrestling squad coached by Londo Iacovelli
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Awards and particularly AII-Canadtan honours are not uncommon among the present group of athletes at Guelph In addition to Ken Lockett in hockey and Morgan in basketball John Kelley and Dave lane of this years gridiron Gryphs were named All-Canadians in 1973
locketts hockey heroics were displayed when the University of Guelph was not a power on the ice but this season the Gryphons and their young coach Bud Folusewych are favoured to take serious aim at the University of Waterloos national crown led by little Adam Brown who broke all the scoring records in Ontario college hockey last season forward Bill Hanson defenceman Doug McKay and goaltender David Moote - all OUAA AII-Starsshythe Gryphons will have a good opportunity to relive past Gryphon glories Such a year was 1960 when coach AI Singleton and athletes such as Max ONeil OAC 61 Wayne lopp and Bill German OAC 61 ousted Ryerson in a semi-final playoff to earn a birth in the championship round against the powerful men from McMaster
Hockey football basketball and wrestling certainly arent the only sports that have provided Guelph with athletic laurels Cross-country teams boxing squads and golf teams have all brought hardware home to the trophy case at Guelph as today the school participates in 17 sports at the intercollegiate level The facilities for all these activities at Guelph are not totally adequate and only the football stadium could be described as outstanding Alumni Stadium opened officially on October 17 1970 is a 4100 seat complex that is not only home for the football Gryphons but houses the large multi-purpose Gryphon Room where accommodation can be made for karate wrestling and other related activities It is truly the highlight of the athletics complex on the Guelph campus
There are people on the staff and faculty at Guelph who although they dont fly the banner of the Gryphon still aid in the publics knowledge of athletics at the University of Guelph Librarian Yvonne Saunders who is a British Commonwealth Games gold medalist and Professor Abigail Hoffman of the Political Studies Department who has represented Canada in countless track events at the international level including the Olympic Games spread the name of the university in a way that is unequalled by any other non-academic activity
It is interesting to note that these two non-student athletes are both women The University of Guelph has a successful womens program as well and it has certainly grown since 1952 when Margaret Dix coached almost every sport at MacDonald Institute
With Shirley Peterson co-ordinating intercollegiate athletics and coaching ice hockey Val (Millar) Freeman BSc (PE) 70 heading the intramural program and coaching basketball and Joni Johnson Anne Stallman and Pam Wedd BSc(HK) 74 taking the coachs reins in a variety of activities the ladies at Guelph have a good foundation for fun and success
The most hardware to come in womens athletics in recent years has been on the hockey rink Mrs Petersons pucksters have captured the Ontario Women s Intercollegiate Athletics Association crown six times A record unequalled in the last decade
At present the ladies participate in 12 sports at the intercollegiate level and in the past year the most highly touted athlete has been field hockey player Marg Ellis Mrs Ellis is presently a member of the Ontario Provincial Field Hockey Team and she would like to earn a spot on the national squad in the near future
With the Olympic Games drawing near and the Ontario Agricultural College one hundred years old this year the young men and women who participate in sports at Guelph will be working to spread the Guelph name in Montreal in 1976 Names like Sharpe Deschatelets Saunders and Maclaren proudly reflect the glories of the past In old Librannis in yellowed newspaper clippings and on the nameplates of trophies people such as Goomer Raithby OAC 51 Poker Mills OAC 34 and Bill Dimson will always be remembered as viial cogs in the OAVC Aggie athletic machine 0
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campus highlights Housing shortage shortlived Early reports on the housing situation at Guelph were rather bleak however A W Mcinnis Director of Residences recently reported that the present situation is not serious and that all students have found permanent accommodation A student governmentshysponsored tent city saw very little use (approximately 10 students slept in it) as did special emergency housing in the Gryphon Room of the stadium (no-one slept there)
Tent City near the East Residences
The lack of off-campus student housing this year is directly connected to a general scarcity of housing in the city explained Mr Mcinnis He noted that because of high mortgage rates those who formerly rented their premises have ceased renting and are now selling their property In addition Guelphs attractive location vis-a-vis Toronto has led commuters to settle in many of the new subdivisions and residents who might have moved cannot afford the higher housing prices This is particularly applicable to those Guelph residents living in the downtown sections of the city which contain older but extremely large homes When sold these houses are often converted into
apartments but with fewer sales the predictable result is fewer apartments
A visit to city hall by residence officials confirmed that the off-campus situation will not improve in the immediate future and high mortgage interest rates coupled with high construction costs makes residence construction a high economic risk
The problem became acute this year due to a sharp increase in the number of students desiring residence accommodation compared with Sept 1973
Last year at mid-August approximately 2200 seniors had accepted rooms in residence By May 15 of this year more than 2200 seniors had been placed in residence and with places reserved for 1760 freshmen the Universitys 3900 beds were taken by mid-May
The 68 co-op apartments were also filled early for the fall semester Many students took out a years lease instead of an eight month agreement resulting in an extremely low turnover - less than 20 per cent from a year ago
Similar difficulties were evident at Wellington Woods the University s married students residence located on Stone Road Last year there were 36 vacancies for the fall semester this year that figure was cut to 12
Despite these figures the 1974 student housing picture in Guelph is now under control - until next fall
Freshmen enjoy a hayride tour around the University campus
Orienteering grant The University of Guelph often referred to as the home of orienteering in North America will benefit by a grant of more than $42000 made to the Canadian Orienteering Federation by Health and Welfare Canada The Honourable Marc Lalonde gave notice of the grant to Professor A Sass Peepre of Human Kinetics Professor Peepre is one of the founders of the Federation and is presently the president of the group
Orienteering is becoming very popular in Canada and is now taught at all levels in many schools The sport uses map and compass to find a specified route through the countryside and attracts thousands to meets in Europe
Enrolment increases Guelph s largest complement of students began classes in September Full-time enrolment has increased 11 per cent over last year Full-time undergraduate enrolment stood at 9100 on September 10 with approximately 550 full-time graduate students expected to register Part-time undergraduates number 600 part-time grad students about 150
A red-and-white orientation tent was erected outside the University Centre to provide a focal pOint for new students Orientation featured free concerts football games hayride tours of the campus and meetings with deans and academic counsellors
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The University of Guelph Choir led by conductor Nicholas Goldschmidt
Choir returns from tour The 42-member University of Guelph Choir returned to Guelph after several wellshyreceived performances in the Maritimes
The choir performed in Charlottetown New Glasgow Sydney Antigonish Halifax Dartmouth Yarmouth and at Acadia University in Wolfville under the direction of Nicholas Goldschmidt and assistant conductor Nickolaus Kaethler with accompanist Gerald Manning recitalist Denise Turcotte and soloist Robert Missen Along with works by Handel Bach Rossini Cherubini Schubert and Vaughan Williams the choir performed Canadian folk songs arranged by music professor Derek Healey
One of the main reasons for going on tour is to improve the quality of the choir commented Dean Murdo MacKinnon College of Arts The tour of Scotland in 1973 had a marked effect on the group so the 1974 tour of the Maritimes was a natural development Proof of the new level attained is that this year at the end of the tour the choir was asked by the CBC in Halifax to make a recording of a considerable portion of Handels Passion
which will be broadcast at the Easter season in 1975
Before the choir departed for the Maritimes an advance notice was sent to University of Guelph alumni in the area stating the times and places where the choir was to appear The results were extremely satisfying to the choir in that several alumni turned out for the performances
The choir experienced a rather unexpected thrill when it visited Fortress Louisburg in Cape Breton Island and was asked to record ten minutes of religious music in the beautiful chapel which is part of the historic fortress being re-built by the Government of Canada Consequently when visitors to the chapel hear quiet choral music in the background theyre listening to the University of Guelph Choir singing chorales of J S Bach
The choir was greeted by an enthusiastic Halifax audience when it performed in Rebecca Cohn Auditorium at Dalhousie University A critic for the Halifax Chronicle Herald commented Right from the opening of this work the
audience could hear a well-trained professional choir The singers close attention to every move of Director Goldschmidt was a joy to see and hear
The choi r sang before an overflow audience in Zion Baptist Church in Yarmouth on the opening day of the International Tuna Fish Festival A Yarmouth critic wrote The audience which gave the visitors two standing ovations was deeply moved by the majestic performance of the Passion of Christ by Handel The choir provided dramatic contrasts and excellent control of the exciting fugues which are characteristic of Handel
The program was presented once more after the choi rs retu rn They sang in St Andrews United Church Sudbury on Sunday October 6
Ottawa chapter barbecue was a success The Ottawa chapter of the University of Guelph Alumni Association held a family barbecue on Saturday September 14
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campus highlights
at the Kemptville College of Agricultural Tec hnology
A group of 125 adults and c hildren took part in a variety of games followed by a tour of the expe rimental ba rns and orchards Then everyone enjoyed a chicken barbecue Prizes for the ad ults were quarts of Ontario maple syrup and two pounds of honey
Board appoints new members Professor James Archibald OVC 49 Richard Birc hal l Kenneth Hammill OAC 51 and John Wood began their three-year terms on July 1 as new members on the Unive rsi ty s Board of Governors
Professor Archibald 55 a senate appointee to the board graduated from the Ontario Veterin ary COllege with a DVM degree in 1949 and in 1951 was granted a Master of Veterinary Science Professor Archibald has been on the OVC faculty since 1949 and was appOinted professor and chairman of clinical studies in 1963 a posi tion which he st ill holds
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Hammill Birchall
Ric hard Birchall 59 is president of the Canadian National Sportsmen s Show and the Toronto International Boat Show In addition he is chairman of the Ontario Waterfowl Research Foundation which adm ini sters the Kortright Waterfow l Park in Gue lph He is a director of the
North American Wildlife Foundation and a Canadian director of the World Wildlife fund He is also a mem ber of the Conserva ti on Council of Ontario and vice-chairm an of the Del ta Waterfowl Research Station com mi ttee in Manitoba Mr Birchall is a mem be r of the inner council of the Wildfow l Trust in Slim bridge England and sits on the faculty of forestry advisory council o f the University of Toronto He has been a frequent visitor to campus in connection with his interests in several research projects being carried out in OAC OVC and the College of Biological Sc ience
Ken Hammill a 1951 graduate o f the Ontario Agricultural College is viceshypresident and a director of Omark Canada Ltd in Guelph Mr Hammill has been a member o f Guelph c ity council since 1962 and has served on the f in ance personnel parks and recre ation committees He has also been a ci ty representative on the Grand River Conservation Authority
John Wood 34 studied at the University of Western Ontario where he graduated in 1964 as a gold medal ist in business administrat ion He is presently vice-president (manufac turin g) and a director of the N C Wood Company in Gue lph He is a member of the Guelph Chamber of Commerce the Guelph Industrial and Economic Deve lopment Commission and the Guelph Rotary Club Mr Wood also se rved as c hairman of the Canadi an government appliance miss ion to Europe in 1968
Aggies took over September 23-28 Aggie Week 74 was filled with the usual merriment and competition that stems from a long-standing OAC tradition
Anim al scientist Bob Forshaw easily won the faculty trophy for cow milking with 35 ounces in one minute defeating other competitors suc h as President Winegard who milked two ounces last years champion Mike Jenkinson OAC 63 with 11 ounces and Professor Richard Vosburgh acting dean of Family and Consumer Studies with three ounces
Animal sc ient ist Roge r Hacker won the hog calling contest followed by Dr H 0 Branion assistant to the president
who tied for second place with agricultural economist Phil Wright
Monster ball competitions bed races chariot races and tugs of war brought out many faculty and students for the annual Aggie Games won bY OAC Class 77
Former chairman honoured The Department of Animal and Poultry Science recently honou red its former chairman Professor J C Rennie OAC 47 who left the campus to become executive direc tor of the education and resea rch division of the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food
Pro fessor Renni e jo ined the faculty in 1952 and was chairman from 1965 to 1971 Du ring the past yea r he served as acting dean of research during the absence on sabbatical of Dean W E Tossell OAC 47
Alma Mater Fund results encouraging Fund Chairman Neil Darrach reports that the Alma Mater Fund has received $120330 towards its $160000 objecti ve
A total of 2396 gifts have been received from alumni faculty professional staff and other suppo rters of higher education Gifts from the Guelph campus amounting to $27247 have reached a new high and exceed the final tabulat ion of $25977 achieved in last years fund drive on the campus
The Century Club Division of the fund reports that 357 founding members have renewed their memberships at this time with gifts of $100 or more In addition 112 new founding members have subscribed to the Century Club
Mr Darrach stated that donors who make leadership gifts to the Alma Mater Fund Century Club in 1974 and the two years preced ing the Centennial will be known as foundin g members He also stated th at the Challenge Grant made by Continental Can Company of Canada Ltd is attracting many new and increased gifts Under the term s of the Challenge Grant new girts and the amount of increase over a previous annual gift will be matched by the Challenge Grant to a max imum of $5000
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November 28 University of Guelph to January 5 Printmaking Workshop
(collection of international prints) McLaughlin Library Main Floor Gallery Monday through Saturday 9 am to 10 pm Sunday 1 pm to 10 pm
December 27 Centennial 74 Finale University Centre 830 pm to 1 am
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INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS a Guelph Tradition
by Scott Taylor
Opposite page Four members of the 1910-11 Ontario Agricultural College Basketball Team Left to r ight W Toole 11 W H Smith 12 manager E W White 12 C Main 11
Above An OAVC crest seen on athletic uniforms in the 1940s
ACCORDING to legend a Gryphon was a mythical creature represented by
the head and wings of an eagle the body of a lion and the tail of a serpent Since 1968 this fearful looking symbol that legend claimed to be the protector of the treasures of the Asiatic Scythis has been the guardian of the athletic teams that represent the University of Guelph
Today the College on the Hill has become one of the premier universities in the country in the field of sports competition The university is represented by a Canadian Intercollegiate Athletic
Union basketball champion an Ontario Universities Athletic Association team wrestling winner and an Ontario Womens Intercollegiate Athletic Association ice hockey titleist The list of team and individual crowns that have been won since OAC first participated in athletics as the Aggies is extensive indeed and not to recall in some manner the glorious history of athletics at Guelph first as OA C and MacDonald Institute then as OAVC and Mac and finally as the University of Guelph would be to neglect an important aspect of the centennial of the Ontario Agricultural College
On September sixth of this year the University of Guelph Gryphons opened another football season behind head coach Dick Brown a former professional gridiron player who this year was named to the Greatest Toronto Argonaut All-Star team in history The Manitoba Bisons flew in from Winnipeg and topped the Gryphons in the season starter by a fourteen-Io-six score as the passing combination of Brad Hall to Craig Holt the leading receiver in Gryphon history highlighted the evening for the Red and Gold
Through many seasons of success the losses have come as well In 1960 behind head coach Tom Mooney the passing combination was from Jim Wright 61 A to Dave Hume OAC 61 but it wasnt quite enough as the OAVC Football Redmen suffered through a bitter year of rebuilding the glories of the past The sports writer of the Libranni 1961 may have put it best in a piece entitled Great is the Fall He wrote
There are many quotations and sayings that express the difficulty of maintaining ones position at the top This year the Redmen found out just how true those expressions were Gone was the mighty invincible Redmen machine that
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flattened all the opposition without mercy Every team in the league sought to add to its own laurels and to the humiliation of the Redmen by proclaiming that they too could defeat those farmers from Guelph Due to this every team that the Redmen encountered was fired up for the encounter and played their best against our squad
However the thrill of victory has been at hand more often than not for the rugby football teams from Guelph In 1934 Head Coach and Athletic Director of the OAC Aggies F G Baldy Baldwin led a tough squad of men to the Canadian Intermediate Intercollegiate Rugby Championships for the second time W F Bill Mitchell OAC 38 quartershybacked the Aggies of 34 and today that same Bill Mitchell quarterbacks the
Above Intermediate Intercollegiate Football Champions 1949
Right Intermediate Intercollegiate Basketball Champions 1925-26 Left to right Prof A W Baker 11 coach J W G McEwan 26 J E Ridley 27 J R Currey 29 L M Schenck 26 captain L Young 27 R Graham 29 Geo Thompson 27 H Potter A T Rintoul 26 manager
entire sports program at the University of Guelph as Director of Athletics Included on that same team which incidentally did not enter the Ontario Rugby Football Union playdowns because of bad weather and approaching exam inations was a hard-nosed middle known as Haley Hales He is probably better remembered by the people in Guelph and Wellington Riding as Alfred Dryden Hales OAC 34 Member of Parliament who stepped down this past election after more than sixteen years of political service
The names of players and their eventual careers after graduation is a vast area to research Athletes who have finished their studies at Guelph have gone into various fields but a few of them have remained as outstanding athletes in the professional ranks The most recent of these are football kicker Gerry Organ BSc(PE) 71 of the Ottawa Rough
Riders and hockey netminder Ken lockett BA 72 As anyone who follows Canadian sporting fortunes knows former Gryphon Organ is the reigning Schenley Award Winner as the most outstanding native Canadian in the Canadian Football league Fewer people may know that lockett 1971 s All-Canadian hockey goaltender former mem ber of the Canadian World Student Games Team and of course a graduate Gryphon has recently been signed to a pro contract with the Vancouver Canucks of th e National Hockey league
Other Guelph athletes of the past have continued their careers at top amateur level s A prime example of this is Grant Maclaren In 1969 Maclaren put on a near one-man show at the CIA U cross-country championships He earned himself the national individual title and at the same time was backed up
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by a superb University of Guelph harrier contingent that captu red the CIAU team championship as well Today Maclaren is still a world-class distance runner who will no doubt represent Canada at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal
Another Gryphon who may be an Olympic Team member is basketball star Bob Sharpe last season Sharpe was an OUA A All-Star an All-Star team member at the CIAU championships as well as the lalter tournament s Most Valuable Player This past summer Sharpe got his first taste of international competition as a player on the Canadian National Mens Basketball Team - a team that gave Canada its best performance since the 1936 Olympics when our nations finest lost a gold medal to the United States by a 19-5 score on an outdoor court and in a driving rainstorm
Rugger at Guelph
International competition is not restricted to track stars and basketball players however This winter the University of Guelph will have four varsity wrestlers with foreign experience behind them Richard Deschatelets represented Canada in Europe this past summer while Bob Price and Tom Bethune travelled with the country s B team on a tour of the United States In 1974 AI Tschirhart was a member of Canadas World Student Games Team in Moscow and when one adds the name of OUA A champion Ross Barrable to the formidable list of four there appears to be little doubt that Guelph will repeat as A M Porter Trophy winners
Perhaps the name of this piece of silverware itself is an indication of the success of the wrestling program at Guelph The Porter Trophy was presented to the Canadian Intercollegiate Athletic
Union by A M Porter OAC 20 the Registrar of the Ontario Agricultural College Guelph Canada as a token of his active interest in University Wrestling since 1920 That is what is inscribed on the prize that is now the sought-after conclusion to the OUAA wrestling season It is appropriate that OAVC shyUniversity of Guelph teams have won this trophy seven times and are presently showing it off in the trophy case at the Athletics Centre (The University of Western Ontario has won it alone six times but on two other occasions has shared it with the University of Waterloo) From Coach Wright OAC 33 in the thirties to Coach Schlegal in the forties through Coach Glen Peister OAC 50 in the seasons of the fifties with Coach Bob Heinrich OAC 5SA in the early sixties and now in the seventies with highly-touted Londo Iacovelli at the helm
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Aggie Gryphon and Redm en grapplers have been the prime target for the opposition eve ry year
One sport at Guelph th at has just attained a position of national prominence is the game of basketball Behind people like Sharpe AI Grunys Denni s Krawchuk and graduating seniors Paul Allen BSc (HK)74 and Phil Smith BA 74 the University won a national championship in 1974 When Garney Henley took over as head coach however the University of Guelph posted a depressing one winshy17 loss season Many times during the next few years Coach Henley was fortunate to have a successful professional foo tball ca reer with the Canadian Football League s Hamilton Tiger-Cats to conso le him However through hard work and with players like Mark Walton BA 72 Chester Graham BA 73 and Wayne Morgan BA 72 Henley and his assistants Doug Dodd and Dic k Brown have built a superb prog ram
In 1956 howeve r with Tom Mooney at the helm a group of ball players had the words Take Off as an inspiration and were fighting to ga in acceptance into senior interc ollegiate ranks Led by Murray Atkinson OAC 60 who later became the firs t two-tim e win ner of the Athlete of the Year Award and by Bill Dimson OAC 57A whose subsequent death in a ca r acc ident a few years later was a bl ow for all who knew him the OAVC Aggies fini shed in second place at the intermediate level losing a heartbreaking 56-52 dec ision to the eventual c hampion Weste rn Dimsons name has not been forgotten at Guelph a plaque presented annually in his honour goes to the schools Most Valuable Baske tball Pl aye r Am ong the winners of the Bill Dimson Memorial Award are present holder Bob Sharpe and Guelphs first official All-Canadian basketball player Wayne Morgan
Top An OAC swim team resplendent in their tank suits
Above University of Guelph wrestling squad coached by Londo Iacovelli
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Awards and particularly AII-Canadtan honours are not uncommon among the present group of athletes at Guelph In addition to Ken Lockett in hockey and Morgan in basketball John Kelley and Dave lane of this years gridiron Gryphs were named All-Canadians in 1973
locketts hockey heroics were displayed when the University of Guelph was not a power on the ice but this season the Gryphons and their young coach Bud Folusewych are favoured to take serious aim at the University of Waterloos national crown led by little Adam Brown who broke all the scoring records in Ontario college hockey last season forward Bill Hanson defenceman Doug McKay and goaltender David Moote - all OUAA AII-Starsshythe Gryphons will have a good opportunity to relive past Gryphon glories Such a year was 1960 when coach AI Singleton and athletes such as Max ONeil OAC 61 Wayne lopp and Bill German OAC 61 ousted Ryerson in a semi-final playoff to earn a birth in the championship round against the powerful men from McMaster
Hockey football basketball and wrestling certainly arent the only sports that have provided Guelph with athletic laurels Cross-country teams boxing squads and golf teams have all brought hardware home to the trophy case at Guelph as today the school participates in 17 sports at the intercollegiate level The facilities for all these activities at Guelph are not totally adequate and only the football stadium could be described as outstanding Alumni Stadium opened officially on October 17 1970 is a 4100 seat complex that is not only home for the football Gryphons but houses the large multi-purpose Gryphon Room where accommodation can be made for karate wrestling and other related activities It is truly the highlight of the athletics complex on the Guelph campus
There are people on the staff and faculty at Guelph who although they dont fly the banner of the Gryphon still aid in the publics knowledge of athletics at the University of Guelph Librarian Yvonne Saunders who is a British Commonwealth Games gold medalist and Professor Abigail Hoffman of the Political Studies Department who has represented Canada in countless track events at the international level including the Olympic Games spread the name of the university in a way that is unequalled by any other non-academic activity
It is interesting to note that these two non-student athletes are both women The University of Guelph has a successful womens program as well and it has certainly grown since 1952 when Margaret Dix coached almost every sport at MacDonald Institute
With Shirley Peterson co-ordinating intercollegiate athletics and coaching ice hockey Val (Millar) Freeman BSc (PE) 70 heading the intramural program and coaching basketball and Joni Johnson Anne Stallman and Pam Wedd BSc(HK) 74 taking the coachs reins in a variety of activities the ladies at Guelph have a good foundation for fun and success
The most hardware to come in womens athletics in recent years has been on the hockey rink Mrs Petersons pucksters have captured the Ontario Women s Intercollegiate Athletics Association crown six times A record unequalled in the last decade
At present the ladies participate in 12 sports at the intercollegiate level and in the past year the most highly touted athlete has been field hockey player Marg Ellis Mrs Ellis is presently a member of the Ontario Provincial Field Hockey Team and she would like to earn a spot on the national squad in the near future
With the Olympic Games drawing near and the Ontario Agricultural College one hundred years old this year the young men and women who participate in sports at Guelph will be working to spread the Guelph name in Montreal in 1976 Names like Sharpe Deschatelets Saunders and Maclaren proudly reflect the glories of the past In old Librannis in yellowed newspaper clippings and on the nameplates of trophies people such as Goomer Raithby OAC 51 Poker Mills OAC 34 and Bill Dimson will always be remembered as viial cogs in the OAVC Aggie athletic machine 0
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campus highlights Housing shortage shortlived Early reports on the housing situation at Guelph were rather bleak however A W Mcinnis Director of Residences recently reported that the present situation is not serious and that all students have found permanent accommodation A student governmentshysponsored tent city saw very little use (approximately 10 students slept in it) as did special emergency housing in the Gryphon Room of the stadium (no-one slept there)
Tent City near the East Residences
The lack of off-campus student housing this year is directly connected to a general scarcity of housing in the city explained Mr Mcinnis He noted that because of high mortgage rates those who formerly rented their premises have ceased renting and are now selling their property In addition Guelphs attractive location vis-a-vis Toronto has led commuters to settle in many of the new subdivisions and residents who might have moved cannot afford the higher housing prices This is particularly applicable to those Guelph residents living in the downtown sections of the city which contain older but extremely large homes When sold these houses are often converted into
apartments but with fewer sales the predictable result is fewer apartments
A visit to city hall by residence officials confirmed that the off-campus situation will not improve in the immediate future and high mortgage interest rates coupled with high construction costs makes residence construction a high economic risk
The problem became acute this year due to a sharp increase in the number of students desiring residence accommodation compared with Sept 1973
Last year at mid-August approximately 2200 seniors had accepted rooms in residence By May 15 of this year more than 2200 seniors had been placed in residence and with places reserved for 1760 freshmen the Universitys 3900 beds were taken by mid-May
The 68 co-op apartments were also filled early for the fall semester Many students took out a years lease instead of an eight month agreement resulting in an extremely low turnover - less than 20 per cent from a year ago
Similar difficulties were evident at Wellington Woods the University s married students residence located on Stone Road Last year there were 36 vacancies for the fall semester this year that figure was cut to 12
Despite these figures the 1974 student housing picture in Guelph is now under control - until next fall
Freshmen enjoy a hayride tour around the University campus
Orienteering grant The University of Guelph often referred to as the home of orienteering in North America will benefit by a grant of more than $42000 made to the Canadian Orienteering Federation by Health and Welfare Canada The Honourable Marc Lalonde gave notice of the grant to Professor A Sass Peepre of Human Kinetics Professor Peepre is one of the founders of the Federation and is presently the president of the group
Orienteering is becoming very popular in Canada and is now taught at all levels in many schools The sport uses map and compass to find a specified route through the countryside and attracts thousands to meets in Europe
Enrolment increases Guelph s largest complement of students began classes in September Full-time enrolment has increased 11 per cent over last year Full-time undergraduate enrolment stood at 9100 on September 10 with approximately 550 full-time graduate students expected to register Part-time undergraduates number 600 part-time grad students about 150
A red-and-white orientation tent was erected outside the University Centre to provide a focal pOint for new students Orientation featured free concerts football games hayride tours of the campus and meetings with deans and academic counsellors
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The University of Guelph Choir led by conductor Nicholas Goldschmidt
Choir returns from tour The 42-member University of Guelph Choir returned to Guelph after several wellshyreceived performances in the Maritimes
The choir performed in Charlottetown New Glasgow Sydney Antigonish Halifax Dartmouth Yarmouth and at Acadia University in Wolfville under the direction of Nicholas Goldschmidt and assistant conductor Nickolaus Kaethler with accompanist Gerald Manning recitalist Denise Turcotte and soloist Robert Missen Along with works by Handel Bach Rossini Cherubini Schubert and Vaughan Williams the choir performed Canadian folk songs arranged by music professor Derek Healey
One of the main reasons for going on tour is to improve the quality of the choir commented Dean Murdo MacKinnon College of Arts The tour of Scotland in 1973 had a marked effect on the group so the 1974 tour of the Maritimes was a natural development Proof of the new level attained is that this year at the end of the tour the choir was asked by the CBC in Halifax to make a recording of a considerable portion of Handels Passion
which will be broadcast at the Easter season in 1975
Before the choir departed for the Maritimes an advance notice was sent to University of Guelph alumni in the area stating the times and places where the choir was to appear The results were extremely satisfying to the choir in that several alumni turned out for the performances
The choir experienced a rather unexpected thrill when it visited Fortress Louisburg in Cape Breton Island and was asked to record ten minutes of religious music in the beautiful chapel which is part of the historic fortress being re-built by the Government of Canada Consequently when visitors to the chapel hear quiet choral music in the background theyre listening to the University of Guelph Choir singing chorales of J S Bach
The choir was greeted by an enthusiastic Halifax audience when it performed in Rebecca Cohn Auditorium at Dalhousie University A critic for the Halifax Chronicle Herald commented Right from the opening of this work the
audience could hear a well-trained professional choir The singers close attention to every move of Director Goldschmidt was a joy to see and hear
The choi r sang before an overflow audience in Zion Baptist Church in Yarmouth on the opening day of the International Tuna Fish Festival A Yarmouth critic wrote The audience which gave the visitors two standing ovations was deeply moved by the majestic performance of the Passion of Christ by Handel The choir provided dramatic contrasts and excellent control of the exciting fugues which are characteristic of Handel
The program was presented once more after the choi rs retu rn They sang in St Andrews United Church Sudbury on Sunday October 6
Ottawa chapter barbecue was a success The Ottawa chapter of the University of Guelph Alumni Association held a family barbecue on Saturday September 14
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at the Kemptville College of Agricultural Tec hnology
A group of 125 adults and c hildren took part in a variety of games followed by a tour of the expe rimental ba rns and orchards Then everyone enjoyed a chicken barbecue Prizes for the ad ults were quarts of Ontario maple syrup and two pounds of honey
Board appoints new members Professor James Archibald OVC 49 Richard Birc hal l Kenneth Hammill OAC 51 and John Wood began their three-year terms on July 1 as new members on the Unive rsi ty s Board of Governors
Professor Archibald 55 a senate appointee to the board graduated from the Ontario Veterin ary COllege with a DVM degree in 1949 and in 1951 was granted a Master of Veterinary Science Professor Archibald has been on the OVC faculty since 1949 and was appOinted professor and chairman of clinical studies in 1963 a posi tion which he st ill holds
Archibald
Hammill Birchall
Ric hard Birchall 59 is president of the Canadian National Sportsmen s Show and the Toronto International Boat Show In addition he is chairman of the Ontario Waterfowl Research Foundation which adm ini sters the Kortright Waterfow l Park in Gue lph He is a director of the
North American Wildlife Foundation and a Canadian director of the World Wildlife fund He is also a mem ber of the Conserva ti on Council of Ontario and vice-chairm an of the Del ta Waterfowl Research Station com mi ttee in Manitoba Mr Birchall is a mem be r of the inner council of the Wildfow l Trust in Slim bridge England and sits on the faculty of forestry advisory council o f the University of Toronto He has been a frequent visitor to campus in connection with his interests in several research projects being carried out in OAC OVC and the College of Biological Sc ience
Ken Hammill a 1951 graduate o f the Ontario Agricultural College is viceshypresident and a director of Omark Canada Ltd in Guelph Mr Hammill has been a member o f Guelph c ity council since 1962 and has served on the f in ance personnel parks and recre ation committees He has also been a ci ty representative on the Grand River Conservation Authority
John Wood 34 studied at the University of Western Ontario where he graduated in 1964 as a gold medal ist in business administrat ion He is presently vice-president (manufac turin g) and a director of the N C Wood Company in Gue lph He is a member of the Guelph Chamber of Commerce the Guelph Industrial and Economic Deve lopment Commission and the Guelph Rotary Club Mr Wood also se rved as c hairman of the Canadi an government appliance miss ion to Europe in 1968
Aggies took over September 23-28 Aggie Week 74 was filled with the usual merriment and competition that stems from a long-standing OAC tradition
Anim al scientist Bob Forshaw easily won the faculty trophy for cow milking with 35 ounces in one minute defeating other competitors suc h as President Winegard who milked two ounces last years champion Mike Jenkinson OAC 63 with 11 ounces and Professor Richard Vosburgh acting dean of Family and Consumer Studies with three ounces
Animal sc ient ist Roge r Hacker won the hog calling contest followed by Dr H 0 Branion assistant to the president
who tied for second place with agricultural economist Phil Wright
Monster ball competitions bed races chariot races and tugs of war brought out many faculty and students for the annual Aggie Games won bY OAC Class 77
Former chairman honoured The Department of Animal and Poultry Science recently honou red its former chairman Professor J C Rennie OAC 47 who left the campus to become executive direc tor of the education and resea rch division of the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food
Pro fessor Renni e jo ined the faculty in 1952 and was chairman from 1965 to 1971 Du ring the past yea r he served as acting dean of research during the absence on sabbatical of Dean W E Tossell OAC 47
Alma Mater Fund results encouraging Fund Chairman Neil Darrach reports that the Alma Mater Fund has received $120330 towards its $160000 objecti ve
A total of 2396 gifts have been received from alumni faculty professional staff and other suppo rters of higher education Gifts from the Guelph campus amounting to $27247 have reached a new high and exceed the final tabulat ion of $25977 achieved in last years fund drive on the campus
The Century Club Division of the fund reports that 357 founding members have renewed their memberships at this time with gifts of $100 or more In addition 112 new founding members have subscribed to the Century Club
Mr Darrach stated that donors who make leadership gifts to the Alma Mater Fund Century Club in 1974 and the two years preced ing the Centennial will be known as foundin g members He also stated th at the Challenge Grant made by Continental Can Company of Canada Ltd is attracting many new and increased gifts Under the term s of the Challenge Grant new girts and the amount of increase over a previous annual gift will be matched by the Challenge Grant to a max imum of $5000
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November 28 University of Guelph to January 5 Printmaking Workshop
(collection of international prints) McLaughlin Library Main Floor Gallery Monday through Saturday 9 am to 10 pm Sunday 1 pm to 10 pm
December 27 Centennial 74 Finale University Centre 830 pm to 1 am
INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS a Guelph Tradition
by Scott Taylor
Opposite page Four members of the 1910-11 Ontario Agricultural College Basketball Team Left to r ight W Toole 11 W H Smith 12 manager E W White 12 C Main 11
Above An OAVC crest seen on athletic uniforms in the 1940s
ACCORDING to legend a Gryphon was a mythical creature represented by
the head and wings of an eagle the body of a lion and the tail of a serpent Since 1968 this fearful looking symbol that legend claimed to be the protector of the treasures of the Asiatic Scythis has been the guardian of the athletic teams that represent the University of Guelph
Today the College on the Hill has become one of the premier universities in the country in the field of sports competition The university is represented by a Canadian Intercollegiate Athletic
Union basketball champion an Ontario Universities Athletic Association team wrestling winner and an Ontario Womens Intercollegiate Athletic Association ice hockey titleist The list of team and individual crowns that have been won since OAC first participated in athletics as the Aggies is extensive indeed and not to recall in some manner the glorious history of athletics at Guelph first as OA C and MacDonald Institute then as OAVC and Mac and finally as the University of Guelph would be to neglect an important aspect of the centennial of the Ontario Agricultural College
On September sixth of this year the University of Guelph Gryphons opened another football season behind head coach Dick Brown a former professional gridiron player who this year was named to the Greatest Toronto Argonaut All-Star team in history The Manitoba Bisons flew in from Winnipeg and topped the Gryphons in the season starter by a fourteen-Io-six score as the passing combination of Brad Hall to Craig Holt the leading receiver in Gryphon history highlighted the evening for the Red and Gold
Through many seasons of success the losses have come as well In 1960 behind head coach Tom Mooney the passing combination was from Jim Wright 61 A to Dave Hume OAC 61 but it wasnt quite enough as the OAVC Football Redmen suffered through a bitter year of rebuilding the glories of the past The sports writer of the Libranni 1961 may have put it best in a piece entitled Great is the Fall He wrote
There are many quotations and sayings that express the difficulty of maintaining ones position at the top This year the Redmen found out just how true those expressions were Gone was the mighty invincible Redmen machine that
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flattened all the opposition without mercy Every team in the league sought to add to its own laurels and to the humiliation of the Redmen by proclaiming that they too could defeat those farmers from Guelph Due to this every team that the Redmen encountered was fired up for the encounter and played their best against our squad
However the thrill of victory has been at hand more often than not for the rugby football teams from Guelph In 1934 Head Coach and Athletic Director of the OAC Aggies F G Baldy Baldwin led a tough squad of men to the Canadian Intermediate Intercollegiate Rugby Championships for the second time W F Bill Mitchell OAC 38 quartershybacked the Aggies of 34 and today that same Bill Mitchell quarterbacks the
Above Intermediate Intercollegiate Football Champions 1949
Right Intermediate Intercollegiate Basketball Champions 1925-26 Left to right Prof A W Baker 11 coach J W G McEwan 26 J E Ridley 27 J R Currey 29 L M Schenck 26 captain L Young 27 R Graham 29 Geo Thompson 27 H Potter A T Rintoul 26 manager
entire sports program at the University of Guelph as Director of Athletics Included on that same team which incidentally did not enter the Ontario Rugby Football Union playdowns because of bad weather and approaching exam inations was a hard-nosed middle known as Haley Hales He is probably better remembered by the people in Guelph and Wellington Riding as Alfred Dryden Hales OAC 34 Member of Parliament who stepped down this past election after more than sixteen years of political service
The names of players and their eventual careers after graduation is a vast area to research Athletes who have finished their studies at Guelph have gone into various fields but a few of them have remained as outstanding athletes in the professional ranks The most recent of these are football kicker Gerry Organ BSc(PE) 71 of the Ottawa Rough
Riders and hockey netminder Ken lockett BA 72 As anyone who follows Canadian sporting fortunes knows former Gryphon Organ is the reigning Schenley Award Winner as the most outstanding native Canadian in the Canadian Football league Fewer people may know that lockett 1971 s All-Canadian hockey goaltender former mem ber of the Canadian World Student Games Team and of course a graduate Gryphon has recently been signed to a pro contract with the Vancouver Canucks of th e National Hockey league
Other Guelph athletes of the past have continued their careers at top amateur level s A prime example of this is Grant Maclaren In 1969 Maclaren put on a near one-man show at the CIA U cross-country championships He earned himself the national individual title and at the same time was backed up
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by a superb University of Guelph harrier contingent that captu red the CIAU team championship as well Today Maclaren is still a world-class distance runner who will no doubt represent Canada at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal
Another Gryphon who may be an Olympic Team member is basketball star Bob Sharpe last season Sharpe was an OUA A All-Star an All-Star team member at the CIAU championships as well as the lalter tournament s Most Valuable Player This past summer Sharpe got his first taste of international competition as a player on the Canadian National Mens Basketball Team - a team that gave Canada its best performance since the 1936 Olympics when our nations finest lost a gold medal to the United States by a 19-5 score on an outdoor court and in a driving rainstorm
Rugger at Guelph
International competition is not restricted to track stars and basketball players however This winter the University of Guelph will have four varsity wrestlers with foreign experience behind them Richard Deschatelets represented Canada in Europe this past summer while Bob Price and Tom Bethune travelled with the country s B team on a tour of the United States In 1974 AI Tschirhart was a member of Canadas World Student Games Team in Moscow and when one adds the name of OUA A champion Ross Barrable to the formidable list of four there appears to be little doubt that Guelph will repeat as A M Porter Trophy winners
Perhaps the name of this piece of silverware itself is an indication of the success of the wrestling program at Guelph The Porter Trophy was presented to the Canadian Intercollegiate Athletic
Union by A M Porter OAC 20 the Registrar of the Ontario Agricultural College Guelph Canada as a token of his active interest in University Wrestling since 1920 That is what is inscribed on the prize that is now the sought-after conclusion to the OUAA wrestling season It is appropriate that OAVC shyUniversity of Guelph teams have won this trophy seven times and are presently showing it off in the trophy case at the Athletics Centre (The University of Western Ontario has won it alone six times but on two other occasions has shared it with the University of Waterloo) From Coach Wright OAC 33 in the thirties to Coach Schlegal in the forties through Coach Glen Peister OAC 50 in the seasons of the fifties with Coach Bob Heinrich OAC 5SA in the early sixties and now in the seventies with highly-touted Londo Iacovelli at the helm
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Aggie Gryphon and Redm en grapplers have been the prime target for the opposition eve ry year
One sport at Guelph th at has just attained a position of national prominence is the game of basketball Behind people like Sharpe AI Grunys Denni s Krawchuk and graduating seniors Paul Allen BSc (HK)74 and Phil Smith BA 74 the University won a national championship in 1974 When Garney Henley took over as head coach however the University of Guelph posted a depressing one winshy17 loss season Many times during the next few years Coach Henley was fortunate to have a successful professional foo tball ca reer with the Canadian Football League s Hamilton Tiger-Cats to conso le him However through hard work and with players like Mark Walton BA 72 Chester Graham BA 73 and Wayne Morgan BA 72 Henley and his assistants Doug Dodd and Dic k Brown have built a superb prog ram
In 1956 howeve r with Tom Mooney at the helm a group of ball players had the words Take Off as an inspiration and were fighting to ga in acceptance into senior interc ollegiate ranks Led by Murray Atkinson OAC 60 who later became the firs t two-tim e win ner of the Athlete of the Year Award and by Bill Dimson OAC 57A whose subsequent death in a ca r acc ident a few years later was a bl ow for all who knew him the OAVC Aggies fini shed in second place at the intermediate level losing a heartbreaking 56-52 dec ision to the eventual c hampion Weste rn Dimsons name has not been forgotten at Guelph a plaque presented annually in his honour goes to the schools Most Valuable Baske tball Pl aye r Am ong the winners of the Bill Dimson Memorial Award are present holder Bob Sharpe and Guelphs first official All-Canadian basketball player Wayne Morgan
Top An OAC swim team resplendent in their tank suits
Above University of Guelph wrestling squad coached by Londo Iacovelli
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Awards and particularly AII-Canadtan honours are not uncommon among the present group of athletes at Guelph In addition to Ken Lockett in hockey and Morgan in basketball John Kelley and Dave lane of this years gridiron Gryphs were named All-Canadians in 1973
locketts hockey heroics were displayed when the University of Guelph was not a power on the ice but this season the Gryphons and their young coach Bud Folusewych are favoured to take serious aim at the University of Waterloos national crown led by little Adam Brown who broke all the scoring records in Ontario college hockey last season forward Bill Hanson defenceman Doug McKay and goaltender David Moote - all OUAA AII-Starsshythe Gryphons will have a good opportunity to relive past Gryphon glories Such a year was 1960 when coach AI Singleton and athletes such as Max ONeil OAC 61 Wayne lopp and Bill German OAC 61 ousted Ryerson in a semi-final playoff to earn a birth in the championship round against the powerful men from McMaster
Hockey football basketball and wrestling certainly arent the only sports that have provided Guelph with athletic laurels Cross-country teams boxing squads and golf teams have all brought hardware home to the trophy case at Guelph as today the school participates in 17 sports at the intercollegiate level The facilities for all these activities at Guelph are not totally adequate and only the football stadium could be described as outstanding Alumni Stadium opened officially on October 17 1970 is a 4100 seat complex that is not only home for the football Gryphons but houses the large multi-purpose Gryphon Room where accommodation can be made for karate wrestling and other related activities It is truly the highlight of the athletics complex on the Guelph campus
There are people on the staff and faculty at Guelph who although they dont fly the banner of the Gryphon still aid in the publics knowledge of athletics at the University of Guelph Librarian Yvonne Saunders who is a British Commonwealth Games gold medalist and Professor Abigail Hoffman of the Political Studies Department who has represented Canada in countless track events at the international level including the Olympic Games spread the name of the university in a way that is unequalled by any other non-academic activity
It is interesting to note that these two non-student athletes are both women The University of Guelph has a successful womens program as well and it has certainly grown since 1952 when Margaret Dix coached almost every sport at MacDonald Institute
With Shirley Peterson co-ordinating intercollegiate athletics and coaching ice hockey Val (Millar) Freeman BSc (PE) 70 heading the intramural program and coaching basketball and Joni Johnson Anne Stallman and Pam Wedd BSc(HK) 74 taking the coachs reins in a variety of activities the ladies at Guelph have a good foundation for fun and success
The most hardware to come in womens athletics in recent years has been on the hockey rink Mrs Petersons pucksters have captured the Ontario Women s Intercollegiate Athletics Association crown six times A record unequalled in the last decade
At present the ladies participate in 12 sports at the intercollegiate level and in the past year the most highly touted athlete has been field hockey player Marg Ellis Mrs Ellis is presently a member of the Ontario Provincial Field Hockey Team and she would like to earn a spot on the national squad in the near future
With the Olympic Games drawing near and the Ontario Agricultural College one hundred years old this year the young men and women who participate in sports at Guelph will be working to spread the Guelph name in Montreal in 1976 Names like Sharpe Deschatelets Saunders and Maclaren proudly reflect the glories of the past In old Librannis in yellowed newspaper clippings and on the nameplates of trophies people such as Goomer Raithby OAC 51 Poker Mills OAC 34 and Bill Dimson will always be remembered as viial cogs in the OAVC Aggie athletic machine 0
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campus highlights Housing shortage shortlived Early reports on the housing situation at Guelph were rather bleak however A W Mcinnis Director of Residences recently reported that the present situation is not serious and that all students have found permanent accommodation A student governmentshysponsored tent city saw very little use (approximately 10 students slept in it) as did special emergency housing in the Gryphon Room of the stadium (no-one slept there)
Tent City near the East Residences
The lack of off-campus student housing this year is directly connected to a general scarcity of housing in the city explained Mr Mcinnis He noted that because of high mortgage rates those who formerly rented their premises have ceased renting and are now selling their property In addition Guelphs attractive location vis-a-vis Toronto has led commuters to settle in many of the new subdivisions and residents who might have moved cannot afford the higher housing prices This is particularly applicable to those Guelph residents living in the downtown sections of the city which contain older but extremely large homes When sold these houses are often converted into
apartments but with fewer sales the predictable result is fewer apartments
A visit to city hall by residence officials confirmed that the off-campus situation will not improve in the immediate future and high mortgage interest rates coupled with high construction costs makes residence construction a high economic risk
The problem became acute this year due to a sharp increase in the number of students desiring residence accommodation compared with Sept 1973
Last year at mid-August approximately 2200 seniors had accepted rooms in residence By May 15 of this year more than 2200 seniors had been placed in residence and with places reserved for 1760 freshmen the Universitys 3900 beds were taken by mid-May
The 68 co-op apartments were also filled early for the fall semester Many students took out a years lease instead of an eight month agreement resulting in an extremely low turnover - less than 20 per cent from a year ago
Similar difficulties were evident at Wellington Woods the University s married students residence located on Stone Road Last year there were 36 vacancies for the fall semester this year that figure was cut to 12
Despite these figures the 1974 student housing picture in Guelph is now under control - until next fall
Freshmen enjoy a hayride tour around the University campus
Orienteering grant The University of Guelph often referred to as the home of orienteering in North America will benefit by a grant of more than $42000 made to the Canadian Orienteering Federation by Health and Welfare Canada The Honourable Marc Lalonde gave notice of the grant to Professor A Sass Peepre of Human Kinetics Professor Peepre is one of the founders of the Federation and is presently the president of the group
Orienteering is becoming very popular in Canada and is now taught at all levels in many schools The sport uses map and compass to find a specified route through the countryside and attracts thousands to meets in Europe
Enrolment increases Guelph s largest complement of students began classes in September Full-time enrolment has increased 11 per cent over last year Full-time undergraduate enrolment stood at 9100 on September 10 with approximately 550 full-time graduate students expected to register Part-time undergraduates number 600 part-time grad students about 150
A red-and-white orientation tent was erected outside the University Centre to provide a focal pOint for new students Orientation featured free concerts football games hayride tours of the campus and meetings with deans and academic counsellors
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The University of Guelph Choir led by conductor Nicholas Goldschmidt
Choir returns from tour The 42-member University of Guelph Choir returned to Guelph after several wellshyreceived performances in the Maritimes
The choir performed in Charlottetown New Glasgow Sydney Antigonish Halifax Dartmouth Yarmouth and at Acadia University in Wolfville under the direction of Nicholas Goldschmidt and assistant conductor Nickolaus Kaethler with accompanist Gerald Manning recitalist Denise Turcotte and soloist Robert Missen Along with works by Handel Bach Rossini Cherubini Schubert and Vaughan Williams the choir performed Canadian folk songs arranged by music professor Derek Healey
One of the main reasons for going on tour is to improve the quality of the choir commented Dean Murdo MacKinnon College of Arts The tour of Scotland in 1973 had a marked effect on the group so the 1974 tour of the Maritimes was a natural development Proof of the new level attained is that this year at the end of the tour the choir was asked by the CBC in Halifax to make a recording of a considerable portion of Handels Passion
which will be broadcast at the Easter season in 1975
Before the choir departed for the Maritimes an advance notice was sent to University of Guelph alumni in the area stating the times and places where the choir was to appear The results were extremely satisfying to the choir in that several alumni turned out for the performances
The choir experienced a rather unexpected thrill when it visited Fortress Louisburg in Cape Breton Island and was asked to record ten minutes of religious music in the beautiful chapel which is part of the historic fortress being re-built by the Government of Canada Consequently when visitors to the chapel hear quiet choral music in the background theyre listening to the University of Guelph Choir singing chorales of J S Bach
The choir was greeted by an enthusiastic Halifax audience when it performed in Rebecca Cohn Auditorium at Dalhousie University A critic for the Halifax Chronicle Herald commented Right from the opening of this work the
audience could hear a well-trained professional choir The singers close attention to every move of Director Goldschmidt was a joy to see and hear
The choi r sang before an overflow audience in Zion Baptist Church in Yarmouth on the opening day of the International Tuna Fish Festival A Yarmouth critic wrote The audience which gave the visitors two standing ovations was deeply moved by the majestic performance of the Passion of Christ by Handel The choir provided dramatic contrasts and excellent control of the exciting fugues which are characteristic of Handel
The program was presented once more after the choi rs retu rn They sang in St Andrews United Church Sudbury on Sunday October 6
Ottawa chapter barbecue was a success The Ottawa chapter of the University of Guelph Alumni Association held a family barbecue on Saturday September 14
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campus highlights
at the Kemptville College of Agricultural Tec hnology
A group of 125 adults and c hildren took part in a variety of games followed by a tour of the expe rimental ba rns and orchards Then everyone enjoyed a chicken barbecue Prizes for the ad ults were quarts of Ontario maple syrup and two pounds of honey
Board appoints new members Professor James Archibald OVC 49 Richard Birc hal l Kenneth Hammill OAC 51 and John Wood began their three-year terms on July 1 as new members on the Unive rsi ty s Board of Governors
Professor Archibald 55 a senate appointee to the board graduated from the Ontario Veterin ary COllege with a DVM degree in 1949 and in 1951 was granted a Master of Veterinary Science Professor Archibald has been on the OVC faculty since 1949 and was appOinted professor and chairman of clinical studies in 1963 a posi tion which he st ill holds
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Hammill Birchall
Ric hard Birchall 59 is president of the Canadian National Sportsmen s Show and the Toronto International Boat Show In addition he is chairman of the Ontario Waterfowl Research Foundation which adm ini sters the Kortright Waterfow l Park in Gue lph He is a director of the
North American Wildlife Foundation and a Canadian director of the World Wildlife fund He is also a mem ber of the Conserva ti on Council of Ontario and vice-chairm an of the Del ta Waterfowl Research Station com mi ttee in Manitoba Mr Birchall is a mem be r of the inner council of the Wildfow l Trust in Slim bridge England and sits on the faculty of forestry advisory council o f the University of Toronto He has been a frequent visitor to campus in connection with his interests in several research projects being carried out in OAC OVC and the College of Biological Sc ience
Ken Hammill a 1951 graduate o f the Ontario Agricultural College is viceshypresident and a director of Omark Canada Ltd in Guelph Mr Hammill has been a member o f Guelph c ity council since 1962 and has served on the f in ance personnel parks and recre ation committees He has also been a ci ty representative on the Grand River Conservation Authority
John Wood 34 studied at the University of Western Ontario where he graduated in 1964 as a gold medal ist in business administrat ion He is presently vice-president (manufac turin g) and a director of the N C Wood Company in Gue lph He is a member of the Guelph Chamber of Commerce the Guelph Industrial and Economic Deve lopment Commission and the Guelph Rotary Club Mr Wood also se rved as c hairman of the Canadi an government appliance miss ion to Europe in 1968
Aggies took over September 23-28 Aggie Week 74 was filled with the usual merriment and competition that stems from a long-standing OAC tradition
Anim al scientist Bob Forshaw easily won the faculty trophy for cow milking with 35 ounces in one minute defeating other competitors suc h as President Winegard who milked two ounces last years champion Mike Jenkinson OAC 63 with 11 ounces and Professor Richard Vosburgh acting dean of Family and Consumer Studies with three ounces
Animal sc ient ist Roge r Hacker won the hog calling contest followed by Dr H 0 Branion assistant to the president
who tied for second place with agricultural economist Phil Wright
Monster ball competitions bed races chariot races and tugs of war brought out many faculty and students for the annual Aggie Games won bY OAC Class 77
Former chairman honoured The Department of Animal and Poultry Science recently honou red its former chairman Professor J C Rennie OAC 47 who left the campus to become executive direc tor of the education and resea rch division of the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food
Pro fessor Renni e jo ined the faculty in 1952 and was chairman from 1965 to 1971 Du ring the past yea r he served as acting dean of research during the absence on sabbatical of Dean W E Tossell OAC 47
Alma Mater Fund results encouraging Fund Chairman Neil Darrach reports that the Alma Mater Fund has received $120330 towards its $160000 objecti ve
A total of 2396 gifts have been received from alumni faculty professional staff and other suppo rters of higher education Gifts from the Guelph campus amounting to $27247 have reached a new high and exceed the final tabulat ion of $25977 achieved in last years fund drive on the campus
The Century Club Division of the fund reports that 357 founding members have renewed their memberships at this time with gifts of $100 or more In addition 112 new founding members have subscribed to the Century Club
Mr Darrach stated that donors who make leadership gifts to the Alma Mater Fund Century Club in 1974 and the two years preced ing the Centennial will be known as foundin g members He also stated th at the Challenge Grant made by Continental Can Company of Canada Ltd is attracting many new and increased gifts Under the term s of the Challenge Grant new girts and the amount of increase over a previous annual gift will be matched by the Challenge Grant to a max imum of $5000
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November 28 University of Guelph to January 5 Printmaking Workshop
(collection of international prints) McLaughlin Library Main Floor Gallery Monday through Saturday 9 am to 10 pm Sunday 1 pm to 10 pm
December 27 Centennial 74 Finale University Centre 830 pm to 1 am
flattened all the opposition without mercy Every team in the league sought to add to its own laurels and to the humiliation of the Redmen by proclaiming that they too could defeat those farmers from Guelph Due to this every team that the Redmen encountered was fired up for the encounter and played their best against our squad
However the thrill of victory has been at hand more often than not for the rugby football teams from Guelph In 1934 Head Coach and Athletic Director of the OAC Aggies F G Baldy Baldwin led a tough squad of men to the Canadian Intermediate Intercollegiate Rugby Championships for the second time W F Bill Mitchell OAC 38 quartershybacked the Aggies of 34 and today that same Bill Mitchell quarterbacks the
Above Intermediate Intercollegiate Football Champions 1949
Right Intermediate Intercollegiate Basketball Champions 1925-26 Left to right Prof A W Baker 11 coach J W G McEwan 26 J E Ridley 27 J R Currey 29 L M Schenck 26 captain L Young 27 R Graham 29 Geo Thompson 27 H Potter A T Rintoul 26 manager
entire sports program at the University of Guelph as Director of Athletics Included on that same team which incidentally did not enter the Ontario Rugby Football Union playdowns because of bad weather and approaching exam inations was a hard-nosed middle known as Haley Hales He is probably better remembered by the people in Guelph and Wellington Riding as Alfred Dryden Hales OAC 34 Member of Parliament who stepped down this past election after more than sixteen years of political service
The names of players and their eventual careers after graduation is a vast area to research Athletes who have finished their studies at Guelph have gone into various fields but a few of them have remained as outstanding athletes in the professional ranks The most recent of these are football kicker Gerry Organ BSc(PE) 71 of the Ottawa Rough
Riders and hockey netminder Ken lockett BA 72 As anyone who follows Canadian sporting fortunes knows former Gryphon Organ is the reigning Schenley Award Winner as the most outstanding native Canadian in the Canadian Football league Fewer people may know that lockett 1971 s All-Canadian hockey goaltender former mem ber of the Canadian World Student Games Team and of course a graduate Gryphon has recently been signed to a pro contract with the Vancouver Canucks of th e National Hockey league
Other Guelph athletes of the past have continued their careers at top amateur level s A prime example of this is Grant Maclaren In 1969 Maclaren put on a near one-man show at the CIA U cross-country championships He earned himself the national individual title and at the same time was backed up
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by a superb University of Guelph harrier contingent that captu red the CIAU team championship as well Today Maclaren is still a world-class distance runner who will no doubt represent Canada at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal
Another Gryphon who may be an Olympic Team member is basketball star Bob Sharpe last season Sharpe was an OUA A All-Star an All-Star team member at the CIAU championships as well as the lalter tournament s Most Valuable Player This past summer Sharpe got his first taste of international competition as a player on the Canadian National Mens Basketball Team - a team that gave Canada its best performance since the 1936 Olympics when our nations finest lost a gold medal to the United States by a 19-5 score on an outdoor court and in a driving rainstorm
Rugger at Guelph
International competition is not restricted to track stars and basketball players however This winter the University of Guelph will have four varsity wrestlers with foreign experience behind them Richard Deschatelets represented Canada in Europe this past summer while Bob Price and Tom Bethune travelled with the country s B team on a tour of the United States In 1974 AI Tschirhart was a member of Canadas World Student Games Team in Moscow and when one adds the name of OUA A champion Ross Barrable to the formidable list of four there appears to be little doubt that Guelph will repeat as A M Porter Trophy winners
Perhaps the name of this piece of silverware itself is an indication of the success of the wrestling program at Guelph The Porter Trophy was presented to the Canadian Intercollegiate Athletic
Union by A M Porter OAC 20 the Registrar of the Ontario Agricultural College Guelph Canada as a token of his active interest in University Wrestling since 1920 That is what is inscribed on the prize that is now the sought-after conclusion to the OUAA wrestling season It is appropriate that OAVC shyUniversity of Guelph teams have won this trophy seven times and are presently showing it off in the trophy case at the Athletics Centre (The University of Western Ontario has won it alone six times but on two other occasions has shared it with the University of Waterloo) From Coach Wright OAC 33 in the thirties to Coach Schlegal in the forties through Coach Glen Peister OAC 50 in the seasons of the fifties with Coach Bob Heinrich OAC 5SA in the early sixties and now in the seventies with highly-touted Londo Iacovelli at the helm
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Aggie Gryphon and Redm en grapplers have been the prime target for the opposition eve ry year
One sport at Guelph th at has just attained a position of national prominence is the game of basketball Behind people like Sharpe AI Grunys Denni s Krawchuk and graduating seniors Paul Allen BSc (HK)74 and Phil Smith BA 74 the University won a national championship in 1974 When Garney Henley took over as head coach however the University of Guelph posted a depressing one winshy17 loss season Many times during the next few years Coach Henley was fortunate to have a successful professional foo tball ca reer with the Canadian Football League s Hamilton Tiger-Cats to conso le him However through hard work and with players like Mark Walton BA 72 Chester Graham BA 73 and Wayne Morgan BA 72 Henley and his assistants Doug Dodd and Dic k Brown have built a superb prog ram
In 1956 howeve r with Tom Mooney at the helm a group of ball players had the words Take Off as an inspiration and were fighting to ga in acceptance into senior interc ollegiate ranks Led by Murray Atkinson OAC 60 who later became the firs t two-tim e win ner of the Athlete of the Year Award and by Bill Dimson OAC 57A whose subsequent death in a ca r acc ident a few years later was a bl ow for all who knew him the OAVC Aggies fini shed in second place at the intermediate level losing a heartbreaking 56-52 dec ision to the eventual c hampion Weste rn Dimsons name has not been forgotten at Guelph a plaque presented annually in his honour goes to the schools Most Valuable Baske tball Pl aye r Am ong the winners of the Bill Dimson Memorial Award are present holder Bob Sharpe and Guelphs first official All-Canadian basketball player Wayne Morgan
Top An OAC swim team resplendent in their tank suits
Above University of Guelph wrestling squad coached by Londo Iacovelli
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Awards and particularly AII-Canadtan honours are not uncommon among the present group of athletes at Guelph In addition to Ken Lockett in hockey and Morgan in basketball John Kelley and Dave lane of this years gridiron Gryphs were named All-Canadians in 1973
locketts hockey heroics were displayed when the University of Guelph was not a power on the ice but this season the Gryphons and their young coach Bud Folusewych are favoured to take serious aim at the University of Waterloos national crown led by little Adam Brown who broke all the scoring records in Ontario college hockey last season forward Bill Hanson defenceman Doug McKay and goaltender David Moote - all OUAA AII-Starsshythe Gryphons will have a good opportunity to relive past Gryphon glories Such a year was 1960 when coach AI Singleton and athletes such as Max ONeil OAC 61 Wayne lopp and Bill German OAC 61 ousted Ryerson in a semi-final playoff to earn a birth in the championship round against the powerful men from McMaster
Hockey football basketball and wrestling certainly arent the only sports that have provided Guelph with athletic laurels Cross-country teams boxing squads and golf teams have all brought hardware home to the trophy case at Guelph as today the school participates in 17 sports at the intercollegiate level The facilities for all these activities at Guelph are not totally adequate and only the football stadium could be described as outstanding Alumni Stadium opened officially on October 17 1970 is a 4100 seat complex that is not only home for the football Gryphons but houses the large multi-purpose Gryphon Room where accommodation can be made for karate wrestling and other related activities It is truly the highlight of the athletics complex on the Guelph campus
There are people on the staff and faculty at Guelph who although they dont fly the banner of the Gryphon still aid in the publics knowledge of athletics at the University of Guelph Librarian Yvonne Saunders who is a British Commonwealth Games gold medalist and Professor Abigail Hoffman of the Political Studies Department who has represented Canada in countless track events at the international level including the Olympic Games spread the name of the university in a way that is unequalled by any other non-academic activity
It is interesting to note that these two non-student athletes are both women The University of Guelph has a successful womens program as well and it has certainly grown since 1952 when Margaret Dix coached almost every sport at MacDonald Institute
With Shirley Peterson co-ordinating intercollegiate athletics and coaching ice hockey Val (Millar) Freeman BSc (PE) 70 heading the intramural program and coaching basketball and Joni Johnson Anne Stallman and Pam Wedd BSc(HK) 74 taking the coachs reins in a variety of activities the ladies at Guelph have a good foundation for fun and success
The most hardware to come in womens athletics in recent years has been on the hockey rink Mrs Petersons pucksters have captured the Ontario Women s Intercollegiate Athletics Association crown six times A record unequalled in the last decade
At present the ladies participate in 12 sports at the intercollegiate level and in the past year the most highly touted athlete has been field hockey player Marg Ellis Mrs Ellis is presently a member of the Ontario Provincial Field Hockey Team and she would like to earn a spot on the national squad in the near future
With the Olympic Games drawing near and the Ontario Agricultural College one hundred years old this year the young men and women who participate in sports at Guelph will be working to spread the Guelph name in Montreal in 1976 Names like Sharpe Deschatelets Saunders and Maclaren proudly reflect the glories of the past In old Librannis in yellowed newspaper clippings and on the nameplates of trophies people such as Goomer Raithby OAC 51 Poker Mills OAC 34 and Bill Dimson will always be remembered as viial cogs in the OAVC Aggie athletic machine 0
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campus highlights Housing shortage shortlived Early reports on the housing situation at Guelph were rather bleak however A W Mcinnis Director of Residences recently reported that the present situation is not serious and that all students have found permanent accommodation A student governmentshysponsored tent city saw very little use (approximately 10 students slept in it) as did special emergency housing in the Gryphon Room of the stadium (no-one slept there)
Tent City near the East Residences
The lack of off-campus student housing this year is directly connected to a general scarcity of housing in the city explained Mr Mcinnis He noted that because of high mortgage rates those who formerly rented their premises have ceased renting and are now selling their property In addition Guelphs attractive location vis-a-vis Toronto has led commuters to settle in many of the new subdivisions and residents who might have moved cannot afford the higher housing prices This is particularly applicable to those Guelph residents living in the downtown sections of the city which contain older but extremely large homes When sold these houses are often converted into
apartments but with fewer sales the predictable result is fewer apartments
A visit to city hall by residence officials confirmed that the off-campus situation will not improve in the immediate future and high mortgage interest rates coupled with high construction costs makes residence construction a high economic risk
The problem became acute this year due to a sharp increase in the number of students desiring residence accommodation compared with Sept 1973
Last year at mid-August approximately 2200 seniors had accepted rooms in residence By May 15 of this year more than 2200 seniors had been placed in residence and with places reserved for 1760 freshmen the Universitys 3900 beds were taken by mid-May
The 68 co-op apartments were also filled early for the fall semester Many students took out a years lease instead of an eight month agreement resulting in an extremely low turnover - less than 20 per cent from a year ago
Similar difficulties were evident at Wellington Woods the University s married students residence located on Stone Road Last year there were 36 vacancies for the fall semester this year that figure was cut to 12
Despite these figures the 1974 student housing picture in Guelph is now under control - until next fall
Freshmen enjoy a hayride tour around the University campus
Orienteering grant The University of Guelph often referred to as the home of orienteering in North America will benefit by a grant of more than $42000 made to the Canadian Orienteering Federation by Health and Welfare Canada The Honourable Marc Lalonde gave notice of the grant to Professor A Sass Peepre of Human Kinetics Professor Peepre is one of the founders of the Federation and is presently the president of the group
Orienteering is becoming very popular in Canada and is now taught at all levels in many schools The sport uses map and compass to find a specified route through the countryside and attracts thousands to meets in Europe
Enrolment increases Guelph s largest complement of students began classes in September Full-time enrolment has increased 11 per cent over last year Full-time undergraduate enrolment stood at 9100 on September 10 with approximately 550 full-time graduate students expected to register Part-time undergraduates number 600 part-time grad students about 150
A red-and-white orientation tent was erected outside the University Centre to provide a focal pOint for new students Orientation featured free concerts football games hayride tours of the campus and meetings with deans and academic counsellors
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The University of Guelph Choir led by conductor Nicholas Goldschmidt
Choir returns from tour The 42-member University of Guelph Choir returned to Guelph after several wellshyreceived performances in the Maritimes
The choir performed in Charlottetown New Glasgow Sydney Antigonish Halifax Dartmouth Yarmouth and at Acadia University in Wolfville under the direction of Nicholas Goldschmidt and assistant conductor Nickolaus Kaethler with accompanist Gerald Manning recitalist Denise Turcotte and soloist Robert Missen Along with works by Handel Bach Rossini Cherubini Schubert and Vaughan Williams the choir performed Canadian folk songs arranged by music professor Derek Healey
One of the main reasons for going on tour is to improve the quality of the choir commented Dean Murdo MacKinnon College of Arts The tour of Scotland in 1973 had a marked effect on the group so the 1974 tour of the Maritimes was a natural development Proof of the new level attained is that this year at the end of the tour the choir was asked by the CBC in Halifax to make a recording of a considerable portion of Handels Passion
which will be broadcast at the Easter season in 1975
Before the choir departed for the Maritimes an advance notice was sent to University of Guelph alumni in the area stating the times and places where the choir was to appear The results were extremely satisfying to the choir in that several alumni turned out for the performances
The choir experienced a rather unexpected thrill when it visited Fortress Louisburg in Cape Breton Island and was asked to record ten minutes of religious music in the beautiful chapel which is part of the historic fortress being re-built by the Government of Canada Consequently when visitors to the chapel hear quiet choral music in the background theyre listening to the University of Guelph Choir singing chorales of J S Bach
The choir was greeted by an enthusiastic Halifax audience when it performed in Rebecca Cohn Auditorium at Dalhousie University A critic for the Halifax Chronicle Herald commented Right from the opening of this work the
audience could hear a well-trained professional choir The singers close attention to every move of Director Goldschmidt was a joy to see and hear
The choi r sang before an overflow audience in Zion Baptist Church in Yarmouth on the opening day of the International Tuna Fish Festival A Yarmouth critic wrote The audience which gave the visitors two standing ovations was deeply moved by the majestic performance of the Passion of Christ by Handel The choir provided dramatic contrasts and excellent control of the exciting fugues which are characteristic of Handel
The program was presented once more after the choi rs retu rn They sang in St Andrews United Church Sudbury on Sunday October 6
Ottawa chapter barbecue was a success The Ottawa chapter of the University of Guelph Alumni Association held a family barbecue on Saturday September 14
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campus highlights
at the Kemptville College of Agricultural Tec hnology
A group of 125 adults and c hildren took part in a variety of games followed by a tour of the expe rimental ba rns and orchards Then everyone enjoyed a chicken barbecue Prizes for the ad ults were quarts of Ontario maple syrup and two pounds of honey
Board appoints new members Professor James Archibald OVC 49 Richard Birc hal l Kenneth Hammill OAC 51 and John Wood began their three-year terms on July 1 as new members on the Unive rsi ty s Board of Governors
Professor Archibald 55 a senate appointee to the board graduated from the Ontario Veterin ary COllege with a DVM degree in 1949 and in 1951 was granted a Master of Veterinary Science Professor Archibald has been on the OVC faculty since 1949 and was appOinted professor and chairman of clinical studies in 1963 a posi tion which he st ill holds
Archibald
Hammill Birchall
Ric hard Birchall 59 is president of the Canadian National Sportsmen s Show and the Toronto International Boat Show In addition he is chairman of the Ontario Waterfowl Research Foundation which adm ini sters the Kortright Waterfow l Park in Gue lph He is a director of the
North American Wildlife Foundation and a Canadian director of the World Wildlife fund He is also a mem ber of the Conserva ti on Council of Ontario and vice-chairm an of the Del ta Waterfowl Research Station com mi ttee in Manitoba Mr Birchall is a mem be r of the inner council of the Wildfow l Trust in Slim bridge England and sits on the faculty of forestry advisory council o f the University of Toronto He has been a frequent visitor to campus in connection with his interests in several research projects being carried out in OAC OVC and the College of Biological Sc ience
Ken Hammill a 1951 graduate o f the Ontario Agricultural College is viceshypresident and a director of Omark Canada Ltd in Guelph Mr Hammill has been a member o f Guelph c ity council since 1962 and has served on the f in ance personnel parks and recre ation committees He has also been a ci ty representative on the Grand River Conservation Authority
John Wood 34 studied at the University of Western Ontario where he graduated in 1964 as a gold medal ist in business administrat ion He is presently vice-president (manufac turin g) and a director of the N C Wood Company in Gue lph He is a member of the Guelph Chamber of Commerce the Guelph Industrial and Economic Deve lopment Commission and the Guelph Rotary Club Mr Wood also se rved as c hairman of the Canadi an government appliance miss ion to Europe in 1968
Aggies took over September 23-28 Aggie Week 74 was filled with the usual merriment and competition that stems from a long-standing OAC tradition
Anim al scientist Bob Forshaw easily won the faculty trophy for cow milking with 35 ounces in one minute defeating other competitors suc h as President Winegard who milked two ounces last years champion Mike Jenkinson OAC 63 with 11 ounces and Professor Richard Vosburgh acting dean of Family and Consumer Studies with three ounces
Animal sc ient ist Roge r Hacker won the hog calling contest followed by Dr H 0 Branion assistant to the president
who tied for second place with agricultural economist Phil Wright
Monster ball competitions bed races chariot races and tugs of war brought out many faculty and students for the annual Aggie Games won bY OAC Class 77
Former chairman honoured The Department of Animal and Poultry Science recently honou red its former chairman Professor J C Rennie OAC 47 who left the campus to become executive direc tor of the education and resea rch division of the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food
Pro fessor Renni e jo ined the faculty in 1952 and was chairman from 1965 to 1971 Du ring the past yea r he served as acting dean of research during the absence on sabbatical of Dean W E Tossell OAC 47
Alma Mater Fund results encouraging Fund Chairman Neil Darrach reports that the Alma Mater Fund has received $120330 towards its $160000 objecti ve
A total of 2396 gifts have been received from alumni faculty professional staff and other suppo rters of higher education Gifts from the Guelph campus amounting to $27247 have reached a new high and exceed the final tabulat ion of $25977 achieved in last years fund drive on the campus
The Century Club Division of the fund reports that 357 founding members have renewed their memberships at this time with gifts of $100 or more In addition 112 new founding members have subscribed to the Century Club
Mr Darrach stated that donors who make leadership gifts to the Alma Mater Fund Century Club in 1974 and the two years preced ing the Centennial will be known as foundin g members He also stated th at the Challenge Grant made by Continental Can Company of Canada Ltd is attracting many new and increased gifts Under the term s of the Challenge Grant new girts and the amount of increase over a previous annual gift will be matched by the Challenge Grant to a max imum of $5000
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November 28 University of Guelph to January 5 Printmaking Workshop
(collection of international prints) McLaughlin Library Main Floor Gallery Monday through Saturday 9 am to 10 pm Sunday 1 pm to 10 pm
December 27 Centennial 74 Finale University Centre 830 pm to 1 am
by a superb University of Guelph harrier contingent that captu red the CIAU team championship as well Today Maclaren is still a world-class distance runner who will no doubt represent Canada at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal
Another Gryphon who may be an Olympic Team member is basketball star Bob Sharpe last season Sharpe was an OUA A All-Star an All-Star team member at the CIAU championships as well as the lalter tournament s Most Valuable Player This past summer Sharpe got his first taste of international competition as a player on the Canadian National Mens Basketball Team - a team that gave Canada its best performance since the 1936 Olympics when our nations finest lost a gold medal to the United States by a 19-5 score on an outdoor court and in a driving rainstorm
Rugger at Guelph
International competition is not restricted to track stars and basketball players however This winter the University of Guelph will have four varsity wrestlers with foreign experience behind them Richard Deschatelets represented Canada in Europe this past summer while Bob Price and Tom Bethune travelled with the country s B team on a tour of the United States In 1974 AI Tschirhart was a member of Canadas World Student Games Team in Moscow and when one adds the name of OUA A champion Ross Barrable to the formidable list of four there appears to be little doubt that Guelph will repeat as A M Porter Trophy winners
Perhaps the name of this piece of silverware itself is an indication of the success of the wrestling program at Guelph The Porter Trophy was presented to the Canadian Intercollegiate Athletic
Union by A M Porter OAC 20 the Registrar of the Ontario Agricultural College Guelph Canada as a token of his active interest in University Wrestling since 1920 That is what is inscribed on the prize that is now the sought-after conclusion to the OUAA wrestling season It is appropriate that OAVC shyUniversity of Guelph teams have won this trophy seven times and are presently showing it off in the trophy case at the Athletics Centre (The University of Western Ontario has won it alone six times but on two other occasions has shared it with the University of Waterloo) From Coach Wright OAC 33 in the thirties to Coach Schlegal in the forties through Coach Glen Peister OAC 50 in the seasons of the fifties with Coach Bob Heinrich OAC 5SA in the early sixties and now in the seventies with highly-touted Londo Iacovelli at the helm
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Aggie Gryphon and Redm en grapplers have been the prime target for the opposition eve ry year
One sport at Guelph th at has just attained a position of national prominence is the game of basketball Behind people like Sharpe AI Grunys Denni s Krawchuk and graduating seniors Paul Allen BSc (HK)74 and Phil Smith BA 74 the University won a national championship in 1974 When Garney Henley took over as head coach however the University of Guelph posted a depressing one winshy17 loss season Many times during the next few years Coach Henley was fortunate to have a successful professional foo tball ca reer with the Canadian Football League s Hamilton Tiger-Cats to conso le him However through hard work and with players like Mark Walton BA 72 Chester Graham BA 73 and Wayne Morgan BA 72 Henley and his assistants Doug Dodd and Dic k Brown have built a superb prog ram
In 1956 howeve r with Tom Mooney at the helm a group of ball players had the words Take Off as an inspiration and were fighting to ga in acceptance into senior interc ollegiate ranks Led by Murray Atkinson OAC 60 who later became the firs t two-tim e win ner of the Athlete of the Year Award and by Bill Dimson OAC 57A whose subsequent death in a ca r acc ident a few years later was a bl ow for all who knew him the OAVC Aggies fini shed in second place at the intermediate level losing a heartbreaking 56-52 dec ision to the eventual c hampion Weste rn Dimsons name has not been forgotten at Guelph a plaque presented annually in his honour goes to the schools Most Valuable Baske tball Pl aye r Am ong the winners of the Bill Dimson Memorial Award are present holder Bob Sharpe and Guelphs first official All-Canadian basketball player Wayne Morgan
Top An OAC swim team resplendent in their tank suits
Above University of Guelph wrestling squad coached by Londo Iacovelli
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Awards and particularly AII-Canadtan honours are not uncommon among the present group of athletes at Guelph In addition to Ken Lockett in hockey and Morgan in basketball John Kelley and Dave lane of this years gridiron Gryphs were named All-Canadians in 1973
locketts hockey heroics were displayed when the University of Guelph was not a power on the ice but this season the Gryphons and their young coach Bud Folusewych are favoured to take serious aim at the University of Waterloos national crown led by little Adam Brown who broke all the scoring records in Ontario college hockey last season forward Bill Hanson defenceman Doug McKay and goaltender David Moote - all OUAA AII-Starsshythe Gryphons will have a good opportunity to relive past Gryphon glories Such a year was 1960 when coach AI Singleton and athletes such as Max ONeil OAC 61 Wayne lopp and Bill German OAC 61 ousted Ryerson in a semi-final playoff to earn a birth in the championship round against the powerful men from McMaster
Hockey football basketball and wrestling certainly arent the only sports that have provided Guelph with athletic laurels Cross-country teams boxing squads and golf teams have all brought hardware home to the trophy case at Guelph as today the school participates in 17 sports at the intercollegiate level The facilities for all these activities at Guelph are not totally adequate and only the football stadium could be described as outstanding Alumni Stadium opened officially on October 17 1970 is a 4100 seat complex that is not only home for the football Gryphons but houses the large multi-purpose Gryphon Room where accommodation can be made for karate wrestling and other related activities It is truly the highlight of the athletics complex on the Guelph campus
There are people on the staff and faculty at Guelph who although they dont fly the banner of the Gryphon still aid in the publics knowledge of athletics at the University of Guelph Librarian Yvonne Saunders who is a British Commonwealth Games gold medalist and Professor Abigail Hoffman of the Political Studies Department who has represented Canada in countless track events at the international level including the Olympic Games spread the name of the university in a way that is unequalled by any other non-academic activity
It is interesting to note that these two non-student athletes are both women The University of Guelph has a successful womens program as well and it has certainly grown since 1952 when Margaret Dix coached almost every sport at MacDonald Institute
With Shirley Peterson co-ordinating intercollegiate athletics and coaching ice hockey Val (Millar) Freeman BSc (PE) 70 heading the intramural program and coaching basketball and Joni Johnson Anne Stallman and Pam Wedd BSc(HK) 74 taking the coachs reins in a variety of activities the ladies at Guelph have a good foundation for fun and success
The most hardware to come in womens athletics in recent years has been on the hockey rink Mrs Petersons pucksters have captured the Ontario Women s Intercollegiate Athletics Association crown six times A record unequalled in the last decade
At present the ladies participate in 12 sports at the intercollegiate level and in the past year the most highly touted athlete has been field hockey player Marg Ellis Mrs Ellis is presently a member of the Ontario Provincial Field Hockey Team and she would like to earn a spot on the national squad in the near future
With the Olympic Games drawing near and the Ontario Agricultural College one hundred years old this year the young men and women who participate in sports at Guelph will be working to spread the Guelph name in Montreal in 1976 Names like Sharpe Deschatelets Saunders and Maclaren proudly reflect the glories of the past In old Librannis in yellowed newspaper clippings and on the nameplates of trophies people such as Goomer Raithby OAC 51 Poker Mills OAC 34 and Bill Dimson will always be remembered as viial cogs in the OAVC Aggie athletic machine 0
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campus highlights Housing shortage shortlived Early reports on the housing situation at Guelph were rather bleak however A W Mcinnis Director of Residences recently reported that the present situation is not serious and that all students have found permanent accommodation A student governmentshysponsored tent city saw very little use (approximately 10 students slept in it) as did special emergency housing in the Gryphon Room of the stadium (no-one slept there)
Tent City near the East Residences
The lack of off-campus student housing this year is directly connected to a general scarcity of housing in the city explained Mr Mcinnis He noted that because of high mortgage rates those who formerly rented their premises have ceased renting and are now selling their property In addition Guelphs attractive location vis-a-vis Toronto has led commuters to settle in many of the new subdivisions and residents who might have moved cannot afford the higher housing prices This is particularly applicable to those Guelph residents living in the downtown sections of the city which contain older but extremely large homes When sold these houses are often converted into
apartments but with fewer sales the predictable result is fewer apartments
A visit to city hall by residence officials confirmed that the off-campus situation will not improve in the immediate future and high mortgage interest rates coupled with high construction costs makes residence construction a high economic risk
The problem became acute this year due to a sharp increase in the number of students desiring residence accommodation compared with Sept 1973
Last year at mid-August approximately 2200 seniors had accepted rooms in residence By May 15 of this year more than 2200 seniors had been placed in residence and with places reserved for 1760 freshmen the Universitys 3900 beds were taken by mid-May
The 68 co-op apartments were also filled early for the fall semester Many students took out a years lease instead of an eight month agreement resulting in an extremely low turnover - less than 20 per cent from a year ago
Similar difficulties were evident at Wellington Woods the University s married students residence located on Stone Road Last year there were 36 vacancies for the fall semester this year that figure was cut to 12
Despite these figures the 1974 student housing picture in Guelph is now under control - until next fall
Freshmen enjoy a hayride tour around the University campus
Orienteering grant The University of Guelph often referred to as the home of orienteering in North America will benefit by a grant of more than $42000 made to the Canadian Orienteering Federation by Health and Welfare Canada The Honourable Marc Lalonde gave notice of the grant to Professor A Sass Peepre of Human Kinetics Professor Peepre is one of the founders of the Federation and is presently the president of the group
Orienteering is becoming very popular in Canada and is now taught at all levels in many schools The sport uses map and compass to find a specified route through the countryside and attracts thousands to meets in Europe
Enrolment increases Guelph s largest complement of students began classes in September Full-time enrolment has increased 11 per cent over last year Full-time undergraduate enrolment stood at 9100 on September 10 with approximately 550 full-time graduate students expected to register Part-time undergraduates number 600 part-time grad students about 150
A red-and-white orientation tent was erected outside the University Centre to provide a focal pOint for new students Orientation featured free concerts football games hayride tours of the campus and meetings with deans and academic counsellors
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The University of Guelph Choir led by conductor Nicholas Goldschmidt
Choir returns from tour The 42-member University of Guelph Choir returned to Guelph after several wellshyreceived performances in the Maritimes
The choir performed in Charlottetown New Glasgow Sydney Antigonish Halifax Dartmouth Yarmouth and at Acadia University in Wolfville under the direction of Nicholas Goldschmidt and assistant conductor Nickolaus Kaethler with accompanist Gerald Manning recitalist Denise Turcotte and soloist Robert Missen Along with works by Handel Bach Rossini Cherubini Schubert and Vaughan Williams the choir performed Canadian folk songs arranged by music professor Derek Healey
One of the main reasons for going on tour is to improve the quality of the choir commented Dean Murdo MacKinnon College of Arts The tour of Scotland in 1973 had a marked effect on the group so the 1974 tour of the Maritimes was a natural development Proof of the new level attained is that this year at the end of the tour the choir was asked by the CBC in Halifax to make a recording of a considerable portion of Handels Passion
which will be broadcast at the Easter season in 1975
Before the choir departed for the Maritimes an advance notice was sent to University of Guelph alumni in the area stating the times and places where the choir was to appear The results were extremely satisfying to the choir in that several alumni turned out for the performances
The choir experienced a rather unexpected thrill when it visited Fortress Louisburg in Cape Breton Island and was asked to record ten minutes of religious music in the beautiful chapel which is part of the historic fortress being re-built by the Government of Canada Consequently when visitors to the chapel hear quiet choral music in the background theyre listening to the University of Guelph Choir singing chorales of J S Bach
The choir was greeted by an enthusiastic Halifax audience when it performed in Rebecca Cohn Auditorium at Dalhousie University A critic for the Halifax Chronicle Herald commented Right from the opening of this work the
audience could hear a well-trained professional choir The singers close attention to every move of Director Goldschmidt was a joy to see and hear
The choi r sang before an overflow audience in Zion Baptist Church in Yarmouth on the opening day of the International Tuna Fish Festival A Yarmouth critic wrote The audience which gave the visitors two standing ovations was deeply moved by the majestic performance of the Passion of Christ by Handel The choir provided dramatic contrasts and excellent control of the exciting fugues which are characteristic of Handel
The program was presented once more after the choi rs retu rn They sang in St Andrews United Church Sudbury on Sunday October 6
Ottawa chapter barbecue was a success The Ottawa chapter of the University of Guelph Alumni Association held a family barbecue on Saturday September 14
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campus highlights
at the Kemptville College of Agricultural Tec hnology
A group of 125 adults and c hildren took part in a variety of games followed by a tour of the expe rimental ba rns and orchards Then everyone enjoyed a chicken barbecue Prizes for the ad ults were quarts of Ontario maple syrup and two pounds of honey
Board appoints new members Professor James Archibald OVC 49 Richard Birc hal l Kenneth Hammill OAC 51 and John Wood began their three-year terms on July 1 as new members on the Unive rsi ty s Board of Governors
Professor Archibald 55 a senate appointee to the board graduated from the Ontario Veterin ary COllege with a DVM degree in 1949 and in 1951 was granted a Master of Veterinary Science Professor Archibald has been on the OVC faculty since 1949 and was appOinted professor and chairman of clinical studies in 1963 a posi tion which he st ill holds
Archibald
Hammill Birchall
Ric hard Birchall 59 is president of the Canadian National Sportsmen s Show and the Toronto International Boat Show In addition he is chairman of the Ontario Waterfowl Research Foundation which adm ini sters the Kortright Waterfow l Park in Gue lph He is a director of the
North American Wildlife Foundation and a Canadian director of the World Wildlife fund He is also a mem ber of the Conserva ti on Council of Ontario and vice-chairm an of the Del ta Waterfowl Research Station com mi ttee in Manitoba Mr Birchall is a mem be r of the inner council of the Wildfow l Trust in Slim bridge England and sits on the faculty of forestry advisory council o f the University of Toronto He has been a frequent visitor to campus in connection with his interests in several research projects being carried out in OAC OVC and the College of Biological Sc ience
Ken Hammill a 1951 graduate o f the Ontario Agricultural College is viceshypresident and a director of Omark Canada Ltd in Guelph Mr Hammill has been a member o f Guelph c ity council since 1962 and has served on the f in ance personnel parks and recre ation committees He has also been a ci ty representative on the Grand River Conservation Authority
John Wood 34 studied at the University of Western Ontario where he graduated in 1964 as a gold medal ist in business administrat ion He is presently vice-president (manufac turin g) and a director of the N C Wood Company in Gue lph He is a member of the Guelph Chamber of Commerce the Guelph Industrial and Economic Deve lopment Commission and the Guelph Rotary Club Mr Wood also se rved as c hairman of the Canadi an government appliance miss ion to Europe in 1968
Aggies took over September 23-28 Aggie Week 74 was filled with the usual merriment and competition that stems from a long-standing OAC tradition
Anim al scientist Bob Forshaw easily won the faculty trophy for cow milking with 35 ounces in one minute defeating other competitors suc h as President Winegard who milked two ounces last years champion Mike Jenkinson OAC 63 with 11 ounces and Professor Richard Vosburgh acting dean of Family and Consumer Studies with three ounces
Animal sc ient ist Roge r Hacker won the hog calling contest followed by Dr H 0 Branion assistant to the president
who tied for second place with agricultural economist Phil Wright
Monster ball competitions bed races chariot races and tugs of war brought out many faculty and students for the annual Aggie Games won bY OAC Class 77
Former chairman honoured The Department of Animal and Poultry Science recently honou red its former chairman Professor J C Rennie OAC 47 who left the campus to become executive direc tor of the education and resea rch division of the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food
Pro fessor Renni e jo ined the faculty in 1952 and was chairman from 1965 to 1971 Du ring the past yea r he served as acting dean of research during the absence on sabbatical of Dean W E Tossell OAC 47
Alma Mater Fund results encouraging Fund Chairman Neil Darrach reports that the Alma Mater Fund has received $120330 towards its $160000 objecti ve
A total of 2396 gifts have been received from alumni faculty professional staff and other suppo rters of higher education Gifts from the Guelph campus amounting to $27247 have reached a new high and exceed the final tabulat ion of $25977 achieved in last years fund drive on the campus
The Century Club Division of the fund reports that 357 founding members have renewed their memberships at this time with gifts of $100 or more In addition 112 new founding members have subscribed to the Century Club
Mr Darrach stated that donors who make leadership gifts to the Alma Mater Fund Century Club in 1974 and the two years preced ing the Centennial will be known as foundin g members He also stated th at the Challenge Grant made by Continental Can Company of Canada Ltd is attracting many new and increased gifts Under the term s of the Challenge Grant new girts and the amount of increase over a previous annual gift will be matched by the Challenge Grant to a max imum of $5000
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November 28 University of Guelph to January 5 Printmaking Workshop
(collection of international prints) McLaughlin Library Main Floor Gallery Monday through Saturday 9 am to 10 pm Sunday 1 pm to 10 pm
December 27 Centennial 74 Finale University Centre 830 pm to 1 am
Aggie Gryphon and Redm en grapplers have been the prime target for the opposition eve ry year
One sport at Guelph th at has just attained a position of national prominence is the game of basketball Behind people like Sharpe AI Grunys Denni s Krawchuk and graduating seniors Paul Allen BSc (HK)74 and Phil Smith BA 74 the University won a national championship in 1974 When Garney Henley took over as head coach however the University of Guelph posted a depressing one winshy17 loss season Many times during the next few years Coach Henley was fortunate to have a successful professional foo tball ca reer with the Canadian Football League s Hamilton Tiger-Cats to conso le him However through hard work and with players like Mark Walton BA 72 Chester Graham BA 73 and Wayne Morgan BA 72 Henley and his assistants Doug Dodd and Dic k Brown have built a superb prog ram
In 1956 howeve r with Tom Mooney at the helm a group of ball players had the words Take Off as an inspiration and were fighting to ga in acceptance into senior interc ollegiate ranks Led by Murray Atkinson OAC 60 who later became the firs t two-tim e win ner of the Athlete of the Year Award and by Bill Dimson OAC 57A whose subsequent death in a ca r acc ident a few years later was a bl ow for all who knew him the OAVC Aggies fini shed in second place at the intermediate level losing a heartbreaking 56-52 dec ision to the eventual c hampion Weste rn Dimsons name has not been forgotten at Guelph a plaque presented annually in his honour goes to the schools Most Valuable Baske tball Pl aye r Am ong the winners of the Bill Dimson Memorial Award are present holder Bob Sharpe and Guelphs first official All-Canadian basketball player Wayne Morgan
Top An OAC swim team resplendent in their tank suits
Above University of Guelph wrestling squad coached by Londo Iacovelli
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Awards and particularly AII-Canadtan honours are not uncommon among the present group of athletes at Guelph In addition to Ken Lockett in hockey and Morgan in basketball John Kelley and Dave lane of this years gridiron Gryphs were named All-Canadians in 1973
locketts hockey heroics were displayed when the University of Guelph was not a power on the ice but this season the Gryphons and their young coach Bud Folusewych are favoured to take serious aim at the University of Waterloos national crown led by little Adam Brown who broke all the scoring records in Ontario college hockey last season forward Bill Hanson defenceman Doug McKay and goaltender David Moote - all OUAA AII-Starsshythe Gryphons will have a good opportunity to relive past Gryphon glories Such a year was 1960 when coach AI Singleton and athletes such as Max ONeil OAC 61 Wayne lopp and Bill German OAC 61 ousted Ryerson in a semi-final playoff to earn a birth in the championship round against the powerful men from McMaster
Hockey football basketball and wrestling certainly arent the only sports that have provided Guelph with athletic laurels Cross-country teams boxing squads and golf teams have all brought hardware home to the trophy case at Guelph as today the school participates in 17 sports at the intercollegiate level The facilities for all these activities at Guelph are not totally adequate and only the football stadium could be described as outstanding Alumni Stadium opened officially on October 17 1970 is a 4100 seat complex that is not only home for the football Gryphons but houses the large multi-purpose Gryphon Room where accommodation can be made for karate wrestling and other related activities It is truly the highlight of the athletics complex on the Guelph campus
There are people on the staff and faculty at Guelph who although they dont fly the banner of the Gryphon still aid in the publics knowledge of athletics at the University of Guelph Librarian Yvonne Saunders who is a British Commonwealth Games gold medalist and Professor Abigail Hoffman of the Political Studies Department who has represented Canada in countless track events at the international level including the Olympic Games spread the name of the university in a way that is unequalled by any other non-academic activity
It is interesting to note that these two non-student athletes are both women The University of Guelph has a successful womens program as well and it has certainly grown since 1952 when Margaret Dix coached almost every sport at MacDonald Institute
With Shirley Peterson co-ordinating intercollegiate athletics and coaching ice hockey Val (Millar) Freeman BSc (PE) 70 heading the intramural program and coaching basketball and Joni Johnson Anne Stallman and Pam Wedd BSc(HK) 74 taking the coachs reins in a variety of activities the ladies at Guelph have a good foundation for fun and success
The most hardware to come in womens athletics in recent years has been on the hockey rink Mrs Petersons pucksters have captured the Ontario Women s Intercollegiate Athletics Association crown six times A record unequalled in the last decade
At present the ladies participate in 12 sports at the intercollegiate level and in the past year the most highly touted athlete has been field hockey player Marg Ellis Mrs Ellis is presently a member of the Ontario Provincial Field Hockey Team and she would like to earn a spot on the national squad in the near future
With the Olympic Games drawing near and the Ontario Agricultural College one hundred years old this year the young men and women who participate in sports at Guelph will be working to spread the Guelph name in Montreal in 1976 Names like Sharpe Deschatelets Saunders and Maclaren proudly reflect the glories of the past In old Librannis in yellowed newspaper clippings and on the nameplates of trophies people such as Goomer Raithby OAC 51 Poker Mills OAC 34 and Bill Dimson will always be remembered as viial cogs in the OAVC Aggie athletic machine 0
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campus highlights Housing shortage shortlived Early reports on the housing situation at Guelph were rather bleak however A W Mcinnis Director of Residences recently reported that the present situation is not serious and that all students have found permanent accommodation A student governmentshysponsored tent city saw very little use (approximately 10 students slept in it) as did special emergency housing in the Gryphon Room of the stadium (no-one slept there)
Tent City near the East Residences
The lack of off-campus student housing this year is directly connected to a general scarcity of housing in the city explained Mr Mcinnis He noted that because of high mortgage rates those who formerly rented their premises have ceased renting and are now selling their property In addition Guelphs attractive location vis-a-vis Toronto has led commuters to settle in many of the new subdivisions and residents who might have moved cannot afford the higher housing prices This is particularly applicable to those Guelph residents living in the downtown sections of the city which contain older but extremely large homes When sold these houses are often converted into
apartments but with fewer sales the predictable result is fewer apartments
A visit to city hall by residence officials confirmed that the off-campus situation will not improve in the immediate future and high mortgage interest rates coupled with high construction costs makes residence construction a high economic risk
The problem became acute this year due to a sharp increase in the number of students desiring residence accommodation compared with Sept 1973
Last year at mid-August approximately 2200 seniors had accepted rooms in residence By May 15 of this year more than 2200 seniors had been placed in residence and with places reserved for 1760 freshmen the Universitys 3900 beds were taken by mid-May
The 68 co-op apartments were also filled early for the fall semester Many students took out a years lease instead of an eight month agreement resulting in an extremely low turnover - less than 20 per cent from a year ago
Similar difficulties were evident at Wellington Woods the University s married students residence located on Stone Road Last year there were 36 vacancies for the fall semester this year that figure was cut to 12
Despite these figures the 1974 student housing picture in Guelph is now under control - until next fall
Freshmen enjoy a hayride tour around the University campus
Orienteering grant The University of Guelph often referred to as the home of orienteering in North America will benefit by a grant of more than $42000 made to the Canadian Orienteering Federation by Health and Welfare Canada The Honourable Marc Lalonde gave notice of the grant to Professor A Sass Peepre of Human Kinetics Professor Peepre is one of the founders of the Federation and is presently the president of the group
Orienteering is becoming very popular in Canada and is now taught at all levels in many schools The sport uses map and compass to find a specified route through the countryside and attracts thousands to meets in Europe
Enrolment increases Guelph s largest complement of students began classes in September Full-time enrolment has increased 11 per cent over last year Full-time undergraduate enrolment stood at 9100 on September 10 with approximately 550 full-time graduate students expected to register Part-time undergraduates number 600 part-time grad students about 150
A red-and-white orientation tent was erected outside the University Centre to provide a focal pOint for new students Orientation featured free concerts football games hayride tours of the campus and meetings with deans and academic counsellors
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The University of Guelph Choir led by conductor Nicholas Goldschmidt
Choir returns from tour The 42-member University of Guelph Choir returned to Guelph after several wellshyreceived performances in the Maritimes
The choir performed in Charlottetown New Glasgow Sydney Antigonish Halifax Dartmouth Yarmouth and at Acadia University in Wolfville under the direction of Nicholas Goldschmidt and assistant conductor Nickolaus Kaethler with accompanist Gerald Manning recitalist Denise Turcotte and soloist Robert Missen Along with works by Handel Bach Rossini Cherubini Schubert and Vaughan Williams the choir performed Canadian folk songs arranged by music professor Derek Healey
One of the main reasons for going on tour is to improve the quality of the choir commented Dean Murdo MacKinnon College of Arts The tour of Scotland in 1973 had a marked effect on the group so the 1974 tour of the Maritimes was a natural development Proof of the new level attained is that this year at the end of the tour the choir was asked by the CBC in Halifax to make a recording of a considerable portion of Handels Passion
which will be broadcast at the Easter season in 1975
Before the choir departed for the Maritimes an advance notice was sent to University of Guelph alumni in the area stating the times and places where the choir was to appear The results were extremely satisfying to the choir in that several alumni turned out for the performances
The choir experienced a rather unexpected thrill when it visited Fortress Louisburg in Cape Breton Island and was asked to record ten minutes of religious music in the beautiful chapel which is part of the historic fortress being re-built by the Government of Canada Consequently when visitors to the chapel hear quiet choral music in the background theyre listening to the University of Guelph Choir singing chorales of J S Bach
The choir was greeted by an enthusiastic Halifax audience when it performed in Rebecca Cohn Auditorium at Dalhousie University A critic for the Halifax Chronicle Herald commented Right from the opening of this work the
audience could hear a well-trained professional choir The singers close attention to every move of Director Goldschmidt was a joy to see and hear
The choi r sang before an overflow audience in Zion Baptist Church in Yarmouth on the opening day of the International Tuna Fish Festival A Yarmouth critic wrote The audience which gave the visitors two standing ovations was deeply moved by the majestic performance of the Passion of Christ by Handel The choir provided dramatic contrasts and excellent control of the exciting fugues which are characteristic of Handel
The program was presented once more after the choi rs retu rn They sang in St Andrews United Church Sudbury on Sunday October 6
Ottawa chapter barbecue was a success The Ottawa chapter of the University of Guelph Alumni Association held a family barbecue on Saturday September 14
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campus highlights
at the Kemptville College of Agricultural Tec hnology
A group of 125 adults and c hildren took part in a variety of games followed by a tour of the expe rimental ba rns and orchards Then everyone enjoyed a chicken barbecue Prizes for the ad ults were quarts of Ontario maple syrup and two pounds of honey
Board appoints new members Professor James Archibald OVC 49 Richard Birc hal l Kenneth Hammill OAC 51 and John Wood began their three-year terms on July 1 as new members on the Unive rsi ty s Board of Governors
Professor Archibald 55 a senate appointee to the board graduated from the Ontario Veterin ary COllege with a DVM degree in 1949 and in 1951 was granted a Master of Veterinary Science Professor Archibald has been on the OVC faculty since 1949 and was appOinted professor and chairman of clinical studies in 1963 a posi tion which he st ill holds
Archibald
Hammill Birchall
Ric hard Birchall 59 is president of the Canadian National Sportsmen s Show and the Toronto International Boat Show In addition he is chairman of the Ontario Waterfowl Research Foundation which adm ini sters the Kortright Waterfow l Park in Gue lph He is a director of the
North American Wildlife Foundation and a Canadian director of the World Wildlife fund He is also a mem ber of the Conserva ti on Council of Ontario and vice-chairm an of the Del ta Waterfowl Research Station com mi ttee in Manitoba Mr Birchall is a mem be r of the inner council of the Wildfow l Trust in Slim bridge England and sits on the faculty of forestry advisory council o f the University of Toronto He has been a frequent visitor to campus in connection with his interests in several research projects being carried out in OAC OVC and the College of Biological Sc ience
Ken Hammill a 1951 graduate o f the Ontario Agricultural College is viceshypresident and a director of Omark Canada Ltd in Guelph Mr Hammill has been a member o f Guelph c ity council since 1962 and has served on the f in ance personnel parks and recre ation committees He has also been a ci ty representative on the Grand River Conservation Authority
John Wood 34 studied at the University of Western Ontario where he graduated in 1964 as a gold medal ist in business administrat ion He is presently vice-president (manufac turin g) and a director of the N C Wood Company in Gue lph He is a member of the Guelph Chamber of Commerce the Guelph Industrial and Economic Deve lopment Commission and the Guelph Rotary Club Mr Wood also se rved as c hairman of the Canadi an government appliance miss ion to Europe in 1968
Aggies took over September 23-28 Aggie Week 74 was filled with the usual merriment and competition that stems from a long-standing OAC tradition
Anim al scientist Bob Forshaw easily won the faculty trophy for cow milking with 35 ounces in one minute defeating other competitors suc h as President Winegard who milked two ounces last years champion Mike Jenkinson OAC 63 with 11 ounces and Professor Richard Vosburgh acting dean of Family and Consumer Studies with three ounces
Animal sc ient ist Roge r Hacker won the hog calling contest followed by Dr H 0 Branion assistant to the president
who tied for second place with agricultural economist Phil Wright
Monster ball competitions bed races chariot races and tugs of war brought out many faculty and students for the annual Aggie Games won bY OAC Class 77
Former chairman honoured The Department of Animal and Poultry Science recently honou red its former chairman Professor J C Rennie OAC 47 who left the campus to become executive direc tor of the education and resea rch division of the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food
Pro fessor Renni e jo ined the faculty in 1952 and was chairman from 1965 to 1971 Du ring the past yea r he served as acting dean of research during the absence on sabbatical of Dean W E Tossell OAC 47
Alma Mater Fund results encouraging Fund Chairman Neil Darrach reports that the Alma Mater Fund has received $120330 towards its $160000 objecti ve
A total of 2396 gifts have been received from alumni faculty professional staff and other suppo rters of higher education Gifts from the Guelph campus amounting to $27247 have reached a new high and exceed the final tabulat ion of $25977 achieved in last years fund drive on the campus
The Century Club Division of the fund reports that 357 founding members have renewed their memberships at this time with gifts of $100 or more In addition 112 new founding members have subscribed to the Century Club
Mr Darrach stated that donors who make leadership gifts to the Alma Mater Fund Century Club in 1974 and the two years preced ing the Centennial will be known as foundin g members He also stated th at the Challenge Grant made by Continental Can Company of Canada Ltd is attracting many new and increased gifts Under the term s of the Challenge Grant new girts and the amount of increase over a previous annual gift will be matched by the Challenge Grant to a max imum of $5000
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November 28 University of Guelph to January 5 Printmaking Workshop
(collection of international prints) McLaughlin Library Main Floor Gallery Monday through Saturday 9 am to 10 pm Sunday 1 pm to 10 pm
December 27 Centennial 74 Finale University Centre 830 pm to 1 am
Awards and particularly AII-Canadtan honours are not uncommon among the present group of athletes at Guelph In addition to Ken Lockett in hockey and Morgan in basketball John Kelley and Dave lane of this years gridiron Gryphs were named All-Canadians in 1973
locketts hockey heroics were displayed when the University of Guelph was not a power on the ice but this season the Gryphons and their young coach Bud Folusewych are favoured to take serious aim at the University of Waterloos national crown led by little Adam Brown who broke all the scoring records in Ontario college hockey last season forward Bill Hanson defenceman Doug McKay and goaltender David Moote - all OUAA AII-Starsshythe Gryphons will have a good opportunity to relive past Gryphon glories Such a year was 1960 when coach AI Singleton and athletes such as Max ONeil OAC 61 Wayne lopp and Bill German OAC 61 ousted Ryerson in a semi-final playoff to earn a birth in the championship round against the powerful men from McMaster
Hockey football basketball and wrestling certainly arent the only sports that have provided Guelph with athletic laurels Cross-country teams boxing squads and golf teams have all brought hardware home to the trophy case at Guelph as today the school participates in 17 sports at the intercollegiate level The facilities for all these activities at Guelph are not totally adequate and only the football stadium could be described as outstanding Alumni Stadium opened officially on October 17 1970 is a 4100 seat complex that is not only home for the football Gryphons but houses the large multi-purpose Gryphon Room where accommodation can be made for karate wrestling and other related activities It is truly the highlight of the athletics complex on the Guelph campus
There are people on the staff and faculty at Guelph who although they dont fly the banner of the Gryphon still aid in the publics knowledge of athletics at the University of Guelph Librarian Yvonne Saunders who is a British Commonwealth Games gold medalist and Professor Abigail Hoffman of the Political Studies Department who has represented Canada in countless track events at the international level including the Olympic Games spread the name of the university in a way that is unequalled by any other non-academic activity
It is interesting to note that these two non-student athletes are both women The University of Guelph has a successful womens program as well and it has certainly grown since 1952 when Margaret Dix coached almost every sport at MacDonald Institute
With Shirley Peterson co-ordinating intercollegiate athletics and coaching ice hockey Val (Millar) Freeman BSc (PE) 70 heading the intramural program and coaching basketball and Joni Johnson Anne Stallman and Pam Wedd BSc(HK) 74 taking the coachs reins in a variety of activities the ladies at Guelph have a good foundation for fun and success
The most hardware to come in womens athletics in recent years has been on the hockey rink Mrs Petersons pucksters have captured the Ontario Women s Intercollegiate Athletics Association crown six times A record unequalled in the last decade
At present the ladies participate in 12 sports at the intercollegiate level and in the past year the most highly touted athlete has been field hockey player Marg Ellis Mrs Ellis is presently a member of the Ontario Provincial Field Hockey Team and she would like to earn a spot on the national squad in the near future
With the Olympic Games drawing near and the Ontario Agricultural College one hundred years old this year the young men and women who participate in sports at Guelph will be working to spread the Guelph name in Montreal in 1976 Names like Sharpe Deschatelets Saunders and Maclaren proudly reflect the glories of the past In old Librannis in yellowed newspaper clippings and on the nameplates of trophies people such as Goomer Raithby OAC 51 Poker Mills OAC 34 and Bill Dimson will always be remembered as viial cogs in the OAVC Aggie athletic machine 0
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campus highlights Housing shortage shortlived Early reports on the housing situation at Guelph were rather bleak however A W Mcinnis Director of Residences recently reported that the present situation is not serious and that all students have found permanent accommodation A student governmentshysponsored tent city saw very little use (approximately 10 students slept in it) as did special emergency housing in the Gryphon Room of the stadium (no-one slept there)
Tent City near the East Residences
The lack of off-campus student housing this year is directly connected to a general scarcity of housing in the city explained Mr Mcinnis He noted that because of high mortgage rates those who formerly rented their premises have ceased renting and are now selling their property In addition Guelphs attractive location vis-a-vis Toronto has led commuters to settle in many of the new subdivisions and residents who might have moved cannot afford the higher housing prices This is particularly applicable to those Guelph residents living in the downtown sections of the city which contain older but extremely large homes When sold these houses are often converted into
apartments but with fewer sales the predictable result is fewer apartments
A visit to city hall by residence officials confirmed that the off-campus situation will not improve in the immediate future and high mortgage interest rates coupled with high construction costs makes residence construction a high economic risk
The problem became acute this year due to a sharp increase in the number of students desiring residence accommodation compared with Sept 1973
Last year at mid-August approximately 2200 seniors had accepted rooms in residence By May 15 of this year more than 2200 seniors had been placed in residence and with places reserved for 1760 freshmen the Universitys 3900 beds were taken by mid-May
The 68 co-op apartments were also filled early for the fall semester Many students took out a years lease instead of an eight month agreement resulting in an extremely low turnover - less than 20 per cent from a year ago
Similar difficulties were evident at Wellington Woods the University s married students residence located on Stone Road Last year there were 36 vacancies for the fall semester this year that figure was cut to 12
Despite these figures the 1974 student housing picture in Guelph is now under control - until next fall
Freshmen enjoy a hayride tour around the University campus
Orienteering grant The University of Guelph often referred to as the home of orienteering in North America will benefit by a grant of more than $42000 made to the Canadian Orienteering Federation by Health and Welfare Canada The Honourable Marc Lalonde gave notice of the grant to Professor A Sass Peepre of Human Kinetics Professor Peepre is one of the founders of the Federation and is presently the president of the group
Orienteering is becoming very popular in Canada and is now taught at all levels in many schools The sport uses map and compass to find a specified route through the countryside and attracts thousands to meets in Europe
Enrolment increases Guelph s largest complement of students began classes in September Full-time enrolment has increased 11 per cent over last year Full-time undergraduate enrolment stood at 9100 on September 10 with approximately 550 full-time graduate students expected to register Part-time undergraduates number 600 part-time grad students about 150
A red-and-white orientation tent was erected outside the University Centre to provide a focal pOint for new students Orientation featured free concerts football games hayride tours of the campus and meetings with deans and academic counsellors
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The University of Guelph Choir led by conductor Nicholas Goldschmidt
Choir returns from tour The 42-member University of Guelph Choir returned to Guelph after several wellshyreceived performances in the Maritimes
The choir performed in Charlottetown New Glasgow Sydney Antigonish Halifax Dartmouth Yarmouth and at Acadia University in Wolfville under the direction of Nicholas Goldschmidt and assistant conductor Nickolaus Kaethler with accompanist Gerald Manning recitalist Denise Turcotte and soloist Robert Missen Along with works by Handel Bach Rossini Cherubini Schubert and Vaughan Williams the choir performed Canadian folk songs arranged by music professor Derek Healey
One of the main reasons for going on tour is to improve the quality of the choir commented Dean Murdo MacKinnon College of Arts The tour of Scotland in 1973 had a marked effect on the group so the 1974 tour of the Maritimes was a natural development Proof of the new level attained is that this year at the end of the tour the choir was asked by the CBC in Halifax to make a recording of a considerable portion of Handels Passion
which will be broadcast at the Easter season in 1975
Before the choir departed for the Maritimes an advance notice was sent to University of Guelph alumni in the area stating the times and places where the choir was to appear The results were extremely satisfying to the choir in that several alumni turned out for the performances
The choir experienced a rather unexpected thrill when it visited Fortress Louisburg in Cape Breton Island and was asked to record ten minutes of religious music in the beautiful chapel which is part of the historic fortress being re-built by the Government of Canada Consequently when visitors to the chapel hear quiet choral music in the background theyre listening to the University of Guelph Choir singing chorales of J S Bach
The choir was greeted by an enthusiastic Halifax audience when it performed in Rebecca Cohn Auditorium at Dalhousie University A critic for the Halifax Chronicle Herald commented Right from the opening of this work the
audience could hear a well-trained professional choir The singers close attention to every move of Director Goldschmidt was a joy to see and hear
The choi r sang before an overflow audience in Zion Baptist Church in Yarmouth on the opening day of the International Tuna Fish Festival A Yarmouth critic wrote The audience which gave the visitors two standing ovations was deeply moved by the majestic performance of the Passion of Christ by Handel The choir provided dramatic contrasts and excellent control of the exciting fugues which are characteristic of Handel
The program was presented once more after the choi rs retu rn They sang in St Andrews United Church Sudbury on Sunday October 6
Ottawa chapter barbecue was a success The Ottawa chapter of the University of Guelph Alumni Association held a family barbecue on Saturday September 14
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campus highlights
at the Kemptville College of Agricultural Tec hnology
A group of 125 adults and c hildren took part in a variety of games followed by a tour of the expe rimental ba rns and orchards Then everyone enjoyed a chicken barbecue Prizes for the ad ults were quarts of Ontario maple syrup and two pounds of honey
Board appoints new members Professor James Archibald OVC 49 Richard Birc hal l Kenneth Hammill OAC 51 and John Wood began their three-year terms on July 1 as new members on the Unive rsi ty s Board of Governors
Professor Archibald 55 a senate appointee to the board graduated from the Ontario Veterin ary COllege with a DVM degree in 1949 and in 1951 was granted a Master of Veterinary Science Professor Archibald has been on the OVC faculty since 1949 and was appOinted professor and chairman of clinical studies in 1963 a posi tion which he st ill holds
Archibald
Hammill Birchall
Ric hard Birchall 59 is president of the Canadian National Sportsmen s Show and the Toronto International Boat Show In addition he is chairman of the Ontario Waterfowl Research Foundation which adm ini sters the Kortright Waterfow l Park in Gue lph He is a director of the
North American Wildlife Foundation and a Canadian director of the World Wildlife fund He is also a mem ber of the Conserva ti on Council of Ontario and vice-chairm an of the Del ta Waterfowl Research Station com mi ttee in Manitoba Mr Birchall is a mem be r of the inner council of the Wildfow l Trust in Slim bridge England and sits on the faculty of forestry advisory council o f the University of Toronto He has been a frequent visitor to campus in connection with his interests in several research projects being carried out in OAC OVC and the College of Biological Sc ience
Ken Hammill a 1951 graduate o f the Ontario Agricultural College is viceshypresident and a director of Omark Canada Ltd in Guelph Mr Hammill has been a member o f Guelph c ity council since 1962 and has served on the f in ance personnel parks and recre ation committees He has also been a ci ty representative on the Grand River Conservation Authority
John Wood 34 studied at the University of Western Ontario where he graduated in 1964 as a gold medal ist in business administrat ion He is presently vice-president (manufac turin g) and a director of the N C Wood Company in Gue lph He is a member of the Guelph Chamber of Commerce the Guelph Industrial and Economic Deve lopment Commission and the Guelph Rotary Club Mr Wood also se rved as c hairman of the Canadi an government appliance miss ion to Europe in 1968
Aggies took over September 23-28 Aggie Week 74 was filled with the usual merriment and competition that stems from a long-standing OAC tradition
Anim al scientist Bob Forshaw easily won the faculty trophy for cow milking with 35 ounces in one minute defeating other competitors suc h as President Winegard who milked two ounces last years champion Mike Jenkinson OAC 63 with 11 ounces and Professor Richard Vosburgh acting dean of Family and Consumer Studies with three ounces
Animal sc ient ist Roge r Hacker won the hog calling contest followed by Dr H 0 Branion assistant to the president
who tied for second place with agricultural economist Phil Wright
Monster ball competitions bed races chariot races and tugs of war brought out many faculty and students for the annual Aggie Games won bY OAC Class 77
Former chairman honoured The Department of Animal and Poultry Science recently honou red its former chairman Professor J C Rennie OAC 47 who left the campus to become executive direc tor of the education and resea rch division of the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food
Pro fessor Renni e jo ined the faculty in 1952 and was chairman from 1965 to 1971 Du ring the past yea r he served as acting dean of research during the absence on sabbatical of Dean W E Tossell OAC 47
Alma Mater Fund results encouraging Fund Chairman Neil Darrach reports that the Alma Mater Fund has received $120330 towards its $160000 objecti ve
A total of 2396 gifts have been received from alumni faculty professional staff and other suppo rters of higher education Gifts from the Guelph campus amounting to $27247 have reached a new high and exceed the final tabulat ion of $25977 achieved in last years fund drive on the campus
The Century Club Division of the fund reports that 357 founding members have renewed their memberships at this time with gifts of $100 or more In addition 112 new founding members have subscribed to the Century Club
Mr Darrach stated that donors who make leadership gifts to the Alma Mater Fund Century Club in 1974 and the two years preced ing the Centennial will be known as foundin g members He also stated th at the Challenge Grant made by Continental Can Company of Canada Ltd is attracting many new and increased gifts Under the term s of the Challenge Grant new girts and the amount of increase over a previous annual gift will be matched by the Challenge Grant to a max imum of $5000
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November 28 University of Guelph to January 5 Printmaking Workshop
(collection of international prints) McLaughlin Library Main Floor Gallery Monday through Saturday 9 am to 10 pm Sunday 1 pm to 10 pm
December 27 Centennial 74 Finale University Centre 830 pm to 1 am
campus highlights Housing shortage shortlived Early reports on the housing situation at Guelph were rather bleak however A W Mcinnis Director of Residences recently reported that the present situation is not serious and that all students have found permanent accommodation A student governmentshysponsored tent city saw very little use (approximately 10 students slept in it) as did special emergency housing in the Gryphon Room of the stadium (no-one slept there)
Tent City near the East Residences
The lack of off-campus student housing this year is directly connected to a general scarcity of housing in the city explained Mr Mcinnis He noted that because of high mortgage rates those who formerly rented their premises have ceased renting and are now selling their property In addition Guelphs attractive location vis-a-vis Toronto has led commuters to settle in many of the new subdivisions and residents who might have moved cannot afford the higher housing prices This is particularly applicable to those Guelph residents living in the downtown sections of the city which contain older but extremely large homes When sold these houses are often converted into
apartments but with fewer sales the predictable result is fewer apartments
A visit to city hall by residence officials confirmed that the off-campus situation will not improve in the immediate future and high mortgage interest rates coupled with high construction costs makes residence construction a high economic risk
The problem became acute this year due to a sharp increase in the number of students desiring residence accommodation compared with Sept 1973
Last year at mid-August approximately 2200 seniors had accepted rooms in residence By May 15 of this year more than 2200 seniors had been placed in residence and with places reserved for 1760 freshmen the Universitys 3900 beds were taken by mid-May
The 68 co-op apartments were also filled early for the fall semester Many students took out a years lease instead of an eight month agreement resulting in an extremely low turnover - less than 20 per cent from a year ago
Similar difficulties were evident at Wellington Woods the University s married students residence located on Stone Road Last year there were 36 vacancies for the fall semester this year that figure was cut to 12
Despite these figures the 1974 student housing picture in Guelph is now under control - until next fall
Freshmen enjoy a hayride tour around the University campus
Orienteering grant The University of Guelph often referred to as the home of orienteering in North America will benefit by a grant of more than $42000 made to the Canadian Orienteering Federation by Health and Welfare Canada The Honourable Marc Lalonde gave notice of the grant to Professor A Sass Peepre of Human Kinetics Professor Peepre is one of the founders of the Federation and is presently the president of the group
Orienteering is becoming very popular in Canada and is now taught at all levels in many schools The sport uses map and compass to find a specified route through the countryside and attracts thousands to meets in Europe
Enrolment increases Guelph s largest complement of students began classes in September Full-time enrolment has increased 11 per cent over last year Full-time undergraduate enrolment stood at 9100 on September 10 with approximately 550 full-time graduate students expected to register Part-time undergraduates number 600 part-time grad students about 150
A red-and-white orientation tent was erected outside the University Centre to provide a focal pOint for new students Orientation featured free concerts football games hayride tours of the campus and meetings with deans and academic counsellors
20
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The University of Guelph Choir led by conductor Nicholas Goldschmidt
Choir returns from tour The 42-member University of Guelph Choir returned to Guelph after several wellshyreceived performances in the Maritimes
The choir performed in Charlottetown New Glasgow Sydney Antigonish Halifax Dartmouth Yarmouth and at Acadia University in Wolfville under the direction of Nicholas Goldschmidt and assistant conductor Nickolaus Kaethler with accompanist Gerald Manning recitalist Denise Turcotte and soloist Robert Missen Along with works by Handel Bach Rossini Cherubini Schubert and Vaughan Williams the choir performed Canadian folk songs arranged by music professor Derek Healey
One of the main reasons for going on tour is to improve the quality of the choir commented Dean Murdo MacKinnon College of Arts The tour of Scotland in 1973 had a marked effect on the group so the 1974 tour of the Maritimes was a natural development Proof of the new level attained is that this year at the end of the tour the choir was asked by the CBC in Halifax to make a recording of a considerable portion of Handels Passion
which will be broadcast at the Easter season in 1975
Before the choir departed for the Maritimes an advance notice was sent to University of Guelph alumni in the area stating the times and places where the choir was to appear The results were extremely satisfying to the choir in that several alumni turned out for the performances
The choir experienced a rather unexpected thrill when it visited Fortress Louisburg in Cape Breton Island and was asked to record ten minutes of religious music in the beautiful chapel which is part of the historic fortress being re-built by the Government of Canada Consequently when visitors to the chapel hear quiet choral music in the background theyre listening to the University of Guelph Choir singing chorales of J S Bach
The choir was greeted by an enthusiastic Halifax audience when it performed in Rebecca Cohn Auditorium at Dalhousie University A critic for the Halifax Chronicle Herald commented Right from the opening of this work the
audience could hear a well-trained professional choir The singers close attention to every move of Director Goldschmidt was a joy to see and hear
The choi r sang before an overflow audience in Zion Baptist Church in Yarmouth on the opening day of the International Tuna Fish Festival A Yarmouth critic wrote The audience which gave the visitors two standing ovations was deeply moved by the majestic performance of the Passion of Christ by Handel The choir provided dramatic contrasts and excellent control of the exciting fugues which are characteristic of Handel
The program was presented once more after the choi rs retu rn They sang in St Andrews United Church Sudbury on Sunday October 6
Ottawa chapter barbecue was a success The Ottawa chapter of the University of Guelph Alumni Association held a family barbecue on Saturday September 14
21
campus highlights
at the Kemptville College of Agricultural Tec hnology
A group of 125 adults and c hildren took part in a variety of games followed by a tour of the expe rimental ba rns and orchards Then everyone enjoyed a chicken barbecue Prizes for the ad ults were quarts of Ontario maple syrup and two pounds of honey
Board appoints new members Professor James Archibald OVC 49 Richard Birc hal l Kenneth Hammill OAC 51 and John Wood began their three-year terms on July 1 as new members on the Unive rsi ty s Board of Governors
Professor Archibald 55 a senate appointee to the board graduated from the Ontario Veterin ary COllege with a DVM degree in 1949 and in 1951 was granted a Master of Veterinary Science Professor Archibald has been on the OVC faculty since 1949 and was appOinted professor and chairman of clinical studies in 1963 a posi tion which he st ill holds
Archibald
Hammill Birchall
Ric hard Birchall 59 is president of the Canadian National Sportsmen s Show and the Toronto International Boat Show In addition he is chairman of the Ontario Waterfowl Research Foundation which adm ini sters the Kortright Waterfow l Park in Gue lph He is a director of the
North American Wildlife Foundation and a Canadian director of the World Wildlife fund He is also a mem ber of the Conserva ti on Council of Ontario and vice-chairm an of the Del ta Waterfowl Research Station com mi ttee in Manitoba Mr Birchall is a mem be r of the inner council of the Wildfow l Trust in Slim bridge England and sits on the faculty of forestry advisory council o f the University of Toronto He has been a frequent visitor to campus in connection with his interests in several research projects being carried out in OAC OVC and the College of Biological Sc ience
Ken Hammill a 1951 graduate o f the Ontario Agricultural College is viceshypresident and a director of Omark Canada Ltd in Guelph Mr Hammill has been a member o f Guelph c ity council since 1962 and has served on the f in ance personnel parks and recre ation committees He has also been a ci ty representative on the Grand River Conservation Authority
John Wood 34 studied at the University of Western Ontario where he graduated in 1964 as a gold medal ist in business administrat ion He is presently vice-president (manufac turin g) and a director of the N C Wood Company in Gue lph He is a member of the Guelph Chamber of Commerce the Guelph Industrial and Economic Deve lopment Commission and the Guelph Rotary Club Mr Wood also se rved as c hairman of the Canadi an government appliance miss ion to Europe in 1968
Aggies took over September 23-28 Aggie Week 74 was filled with the usual merriment and competition that stems from a long-standing OAC tradition
Anim al scientist Bob Forshaw easily won the faculty trophy for cow milking with 35 ounces in one minute defeating other competitors suc h as President Winegard who milked two ounces last years champion Mike Jenkinson OAC 63 with 11 ounces and Professor Richard Vosburgh acting dean of Family and Consumer Studies with three ounces
Animal sc ient ist Roge r Hacker won the hog calling contest followed by Dr H 0 Branion assistant to the president
who tied for second place with agricultural economist Phil Wright
Monster ball competitions bed races chariot races and tugs of war brought out many faculty and students for the annual Aggie Games won bY OAC Class 77
Former chairman honoured The Department of Animal and Poultry Science recently honou red its former chairman Professor J C Rennie OAC 47 who left the campus to become executive direc tor of the education and resea rch division of the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food
Pro fessor Renni e jo ined the faculty in 1952 and was chairman from 1965 to 1971 Du ring the past yea r he served as acting dean of research during the absence on sabbatical of Dean W E Tossell OAC 47
Alma Mater Fund results encouraging Fund Chairman Neil Darrach reports that the Alma Mater Fund has received $120330 towards its $160000 objecti ve
A total of 2396 gifts have been received from alumni faculty professional staff and other suppo rters of higher education Gifts from the Guelph campus amounting to $27247 have reached a new high and exceed the final tabulat ion of $25977 achieved in last years fund drive on the campus
The Century Club Division of the fund reports that 357 founding members have renewed their memberships at this time with gifts of $100 or more In addition 112 new founding members have subscribed to the Century Club
Mr Darrach stated that donors who make leadership gifts to the Alma Mater Fund Century Club in 1974 and the two years preced ing the Centennial will be known as foundin g members He also stated th at the Challenge Grant made by Continental Can Company of Canada Ltd is attracting many new and increased gifts Under the term s of the Challenge Grant new girts and the amount of increase over a previous annual gift will be matched by the Challenge Grant to a max imum of $5000
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November 28 University of Guelph to January 5 Printmaking Workshop
(collection of international prints) McLaughlin Library Main Floor Gallery Monday through Saturday 9 am to 10 pm Sunday 1 pm to 10 pm
December 27 Centennial 74 Finale University Centre 830 pm to 1 am
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The University of Guelph Choir led by conductor Nicholas Goldschmidt
Choir returns from tour The 42-member University of Guelph Choir returned to Guelph after several wellshyreceived performances in the Maritimes
The choir performed in Charlottetown New Glasgow Sydney Antigonish Halifax Dartmouth Yarmouth and at Acadia University in Wolfville under the direction of Nicholas Goldschmidt and assistant conductor Nickolaus Kaethler with accompanist Gerald Manning recitalist Denise Turcotte and soloist Robert Missen Along with works by Handel Bach Rossini Cherubini Schubert and Vaughan Williams the choir performed Canadian folk songs arranged by music professor Derek Healey
One of the main reasons for going on tour is to improve the quality of the choir commented Dean Murdo MacKinnon College of Arts The tour of Scotland in 1973 had a marked effect on the group so the 1974 tour of the Maritimes was a natural development Proof of the new level attained is that this year at the end of the tour the choir was asked by the CBC in Halifax to make a recording of a considerable portion of Handels Passion
which will be broadcast at the Easter season in 1975
Before the choir departed for the Maritimes an advance notice was sent to University of Guelph alumni in the area stating the times and places where the choir was to appear The results were extremely satisfying to the choir in that several alumni turned out for the performances
The choir experienced a rather unexpected thrill when it visited Fortress Louisburg in Cape Breton Island and was asked to record ten minutes of religious music in the beautiful chapel which is part of the historic fortress being re-built by the Government of Canada Consequently when visitors to the chapel hear quiet choral music in the background theyre listening to the University of Guelph Choir singing chorales of J S Bach
The choir was greeted by an enthusiastic Halifax audience when it performed in Rebecca Cohn Auditorium at Dalhousie University A critic for the Halifax Chronicle Herald commented Right from the opening of this work the
audience could hear a well-trained professional choir The singers close attention to every move of Director Goldschmidt was a joy to see and hear
The choi r sang before an overflow audience in Zion Baptist Church in Yarmouth on the opening day of the International Tuna Fish Festival A Yarmouth critic wrote The audience which gave the visitors two standing ovations was deeply moved by the majestic performance of the Passion of Christ by Handel The choir provided dramatic contrasts and excellent control of the exciting fugues which are characteristic of Handel
The program was presented once more after the choi rs retu rn They sang in St Andrews United Church Sudbury on Sunday October 6
Ottawa chapter barbecue was a success The Ottawa chapter of the University of Guelph Alumni Association held a family barbecue on Saturday September 14
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campus highlights
at the Kemptville College of Agricultural Tec hnology
A group of 125 adults and c hildren took part in a variety of games followed by a tour of the expe rimental ba rns and orchards Then everyone enjoyed a chicken barbecue Prizes for the ad ults were quarts of Ontario maple syrup and two pounds of honey
Board appoints new members Professor James Archibald OVC 49 Richard Birc hal l Kenneth Hammill OAC 51 and John Wood began their three-year terms on July 1 as new members on the Unive rsi ty s Board of Governors
Professor Archibald 55 a senate appointee to the board graduated from the Ontario Veterin ary COllege with a DVM degree in 1949 and in 1951 was granted a Master of Veterinary Science Professor Archibald has been on the OVC faculty since 1949 and was appOinted professor and chairman of clinical studies in 1963 a posi tion which he st ill holds
Archibald
Hammill Birchall
Ric hard Birchall 59 is president of the Canadian National Sportsmen s Show and the Toronto International Boat Show In addition he is chairman of the Ontario Waterfowl Research Foundation which adm ini sters the Kortright Waterfow l Park in Gue lph He is a director of the
North American Wildlife Foundation and a Canadian director of the World Wildlife fund He is also a mem ber of the Conserva ti on Council of Ontario and vice-chairm an of the Del ta Waterfowl Research Station com mi ttee in Manitoba Mr Birchall is a mem be r of the inner council of the Wildfow l Trust in Slim bridge England and sits on the faculty of forestry advisory council o f the University of Toronto He has been a frequent visitor to campus in connection with his interests in several research projects being carried out in OAC OVC and the College of Biological Sc ience
Ken Hammill a 1951 graduate o f the Ontario Agricultural College is viceshypresident and a director of Omark Canada Ltd in Guelph Mr Hammill has been a member o f Guelph c ity council since 1962 and has served on the f in ance personnel parks and recre ation committees He has also been a ci ty representative on the Grand River Conservation Authority
John Wood 34 studied at the University of Western Ontario where he graduated in 1964 as a gold medal ist in business administrat ion He is presently vice-president (manufac turin g) and a director of the N C Wood Company in Gue lph He is a member of the Guelph Chamber of Commerce the Guelph Industrial and Economic Deve lopment Commission and the Guelph Rotary Club Mr Wood also se rved as c hairman of the Canadi an government appliance miss ion to Europe in 1968
Aggies took over September 23-28 Aggie Week 74 was filled with the usual merriment and competition that stems from a long-standing OAC tradition
Anim al scientist Bob Forshaw easily won the faculty trophy for cow milking with 35 ounces in one minute defeating other competitors suc h as President Winegard who milked two ounces last years champion Mike Jenkinson OAC 63 with 11 ounces and Professor Richard Vosburgh acting dean of Family and Consumer Studies with three ounces
Animal sc ient ist Roge r Hacker won the hog calling contest followed by Dr H 0 Branion assistant to the president
who tied for second place with agricultural economist Phil Wright
Monster ball competitions bed races chariot races and tugs of war brought out many faculty and students for the annual Aggie Games won bY OAC Class 77
Former chairman honoured The Department of Animal and Poultry Science recently honou red its former chairman Professor J C Rennie OAC 47 who left the campus to become executive direc tor of the education and resea rch division of the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food
Pro fessor Renni e jo ined the faculty in 1952 and was chairman from 1965 to 1971 Du ring the past yea r he served as acting dean of research during the absence on sabbatical of Dean W E Tossell OAC 47
Alma Mater Fund results encouraging Fund Chairman Neil Darrach reports that the Alma Mater Fund has received $120330 towards its $160000 objecti ve
A total of 2396 gifts have been received from alumni faculty professional staff and other suppo rters of higher education Gifts from the Guelph campus amounting to $27247 have reached a new high and exceed the final tabulat ion of $25977 achieved in last years fund drive on the campus
The Century Club Division of the fund reports that 357 founding members have renewed their memberships at this time with gifts of $100 or more In addition 112 new founding members have subscribed to the Century Club
Mr Darrach stated that donors who make leadership gifts to the Alma Mater Fund Century Club in 1974 and the two years preced ing the Centennial will be known as foundin g members He also stated th at the Challenge Grant made by Continental Can Company of Canada Ltd is attracting many new and increased gifts Under the term s of the Challenge Grant new girts and the amount of increase over a previous annual gift will be matched by the Challenge Grant to a max imum of $5000
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November 28 University of Guelph to January 5 Printmaking Workshop
(collection of international prints) McLaughlin Library Main Floor Gallery Monday through Saturday 9 am to 10 pm Sunday 1 pm to 10 pm
December 27 Centennial 74 Finale University Centre 830 pm to 1 am
campus highlights
at the Kemptville College of Agricultural Tec hnology
A group of 125 adults and c hildren took part in a variety of games followed by a tour of the expe rimental ba rns and orchards Then everyone enjoyed a chicken barbecue Prizes for the ad ults were quarts of Ontario maple syrup and two pounds of honey
Board appoints new members Professor James Archibald OVC 49 Richard Birc hal l Kenneth Hammill OAC 51 and John Wood began their three-year terms on July 1 as new members on the Unive rsi ty s Board of Governors
Professor Archibald 55 a senate appointee to the board graduated from the Ontario Veterin ary COllege with a DVM degree in 1949 and in 1951 was granted a Master of Veterinary Science Professor Archibald has been on the OVC faculty since 1949 and was appOinted professor and chairman of clinical studies in 1963 a posi tion which he st ill holds
Archibald
Hammill Birchall
Ric hard Birchall 59 is president of the Canadian National Sportsmen s Show and the Toronto International Boat Show In addition he is chairman of the Ontario Waterfowl Research Foundation which adm ini sters the Kortright Waterfow l Park in Gue lph He is a director of the
North American Wildlife Foundation and a Canadian director of the World Wildlife fund He is also a mem ber of the Conserva ti on Council of Ontario and vice-chairm an of the Del ta Waterfowl Research Station com mi ttee in Manitoba Mr Birchall is a mem be r of the inner council of the Wildfow l Trust in Slim bridge England and sits on the faculty of forestry advisory council o f the University of Toronto He has been a frequent visitor to campus in connection with his interests in several research projects being carried out in OAC OVC and the College of Biological Sc ience
Ken Hammill a 1951 graduate o f the Ontario Agricultural College is viceshypresident and a director of Omark Canada Ltd in Guelph Mr Hammill has been a member o f Guelph c ity council since 1962 and has served on the f in ance personnel parks and recre ation committees He has also been a ci ty representative on the Grand River Conservation Authority
John Wood 34 studied at the University of Western Ontario where he graduated in 1964 as a gold medal ist in business administrat ion He is presently vice-president (manufac turin g) and a director of the N C Wood Company in Gue lph He is a member of the Guelph Chamber of Commerce the Guelph Industrial and Economic Deve lopment Commission and the Guelph Rotary Club Mr Wood also se rved as c hairman of the Canadi an government appliance miss ion to Europe in 1968
Aggies took over September 23-28 Aggie Week 74 was filled with the usual merriment and competition that stems from a long-standing OAC tradition
Anim al scientist Bob Forshaw easily won the faculty trophy for cow milking with 35 ounces in one minute defeating other competitors suc h as President Winegard who milked two ounces last years champion Mike Jenkinson OAC 63 with 11 ounces and Professor Richard Vosburgh acting dean of Family and Consumer Studies with three ounces
Animal sc ient ist Roge r Hacker won the hog calling contest followed by Dr H 0 Branion assistant to the president
who tied for second place with agricultural economist Phil Wright
Monster ball competitions bed races chariot races and tugs of war brought out many faculty and students for the annual Aggie Games won bY OAC Class 77
Former chairman honoured The Department of Animal and Poultry Science recently honou red its former chairman Professor J C Rennie OAC 47 who left the campus to become executive direc tor of the education and resea rch division of the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food
Pro fessor Renni e jo ined the faculty in 1952 and was chairman from 1965 to 1971 Du ring the past yea r he served as acting dean of research during the absence on sabbatical of Dean W E Tossell OAC 47
Alma Mater Fund results encouraging Fund Chairman Neil Darrach reports that the Alma Mater Fund has received $120330 towards its $160000 objecti ve
A total of 2396 gifts have been received from alumni faculty professional staff and other suppo rters of higher education Gifts from the Guelph campus amounting to $27247 have reached a new high and exceed the final tabulat ion of $25977 achieved in last years fund drive on the campus
The Century Club Division of the fund reports that 357 founding members have renewed their memberships at this time with gifts of $100 or more In addition 112 new founding members have subscribed to the Century Club
Mr Darrach stated that donors who make leadership gifts to the Alma Mater Fund Century Club in 1974 and the two years preced ing the Centennial will be known as foundin g members He also stated th at the Challenge Grant made by Continental Can Company of Canada Ltd is attracting many new and increased gifts Under the term s of the Challenge Grant new girts and the amount of increase over a previous annual gift will be matched by the Challenge Grant to a max imum of $5000
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November 28 University of Guelph to January 5 Printmaking Workshop
(collection of international prints) McLaughlin Library Main Floor Gallery Monday through Saturday 9 am to 10 pm Sunday 1 pm to 10 pm
December 27 Centennial 74 Finale University Centre 830 pm to 1 am
November 28 University of Guelph to January 5 Printmaking Workshop
(collection of international prints) McLaughlin Library Main Floor Gallery Monday through Saturday 9 am to 10 pm Sunday 1 pm to 10 pm
December 27 Centennial 74 Finale University Centre 830 pm to 1 am