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SUMMER 2001
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4 in and Around the University
THE PROVINCIAL
government rewards
U of G for increasing
enrolment, the University
launches a major review
of the campus master
plan, and alumnus Peter
Hannam gives $1 million
to support research on
new and innovative uses
for soybeans. In addition,
the campus community
congratulates alumnus
Ken Murray, who has
been named to the Order
of Canada.
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SUMMER 2001
RESEARCH
WH ERE W I LL RESEARC H TAKE US NEXT? U of G scientists exa mine so me of our most promising research
areas to fo recast technology breakthroughs and anticipate where
Guelph in genuity and explo ration are headed .
HISTORY
LOOKING BAC K The first chairman of the Boa rd of Governors reca lls the excite
ment of the founding of the University of Guelph.
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SCHOLARSHIP
THE TRUTH SEE KERS U of G philosophy graduates build careers in the new fi eld of
bioethics to help society develop a sense of science consciousness.
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alumni M atters
UOFGALUMNI from
the West Indies to
Texas got together over the
winter to celebrate their
Guelph connections, while
a group of students started
a new tradition to build
their own sense of com
munity. Alumni-in-Action
receive a well-deserved
thank you, and the campus
is gearing up for Alumni
Weekend when the Uni
versity of Guelph Alumni
Association will celebrate
its 35th anniversary.
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UNIVERSITY 0'GUELPH
UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH
message from the President
IN A TIME OF PLUNGING STOCK VALUES and
shaky markets, there's still one investm ent out there
that's a sure thing. Not only does it promise a signifi
cant rate of return, but it also acts as a catalyst for a
vibrant economy, society and culture. And its value and
potential are championed by top business leaders.
This outstanding investment is our universities.
An Enterprise Ca nada Research
report, The Economic Impact of
Ontario 's Universities, commissioned
by the Council of Ontario Universities,
shows that for every dollar the provin
cial government spends on universities,
it gets $ 1.50 back in direct and indirect
revenues to the provincial treasury.
Furthermore, Ontario universities
generate more than $10 billion in eco
nomic activity each year - a gross
domestic product that's larger than any
of the province's plastic products, tex
tiles, paper products, fabricated
MORDECHAI ROZANSKI
among non-medical schools, U of G attracts an estimat
ed $92.7 million in research funding annually. just five
years ago, the total was about $60 million .
Our campus is a hub for a rapidly growing cluster of
life sciences/agri-food education, research and laborato
ry services, all contributing to the "bio-economy." This
issue of the Alitnnws explores key U of G research areas
that promise to have a significant 1m pact
on the quality of life for Canadians and
people around the world over the next
decade. Read about our work on better
vaccines, "designer" foods , soft materi
als, advanced analysis, reproductive tech
nologies and upcommg technolog1es that
affect community h\·mg.
With our strong tradition in the life
sciences, Guelph is well positioned to lead
the next wave of econom1c growth and
development. The burgeoning bio-econ
omy is expected to transform everything
metal, electrical and electronic
products, communications or
chemical products industries.
fOR EVERY DOLLAR
from health care and pharma
ceutical development to agn
culture and food production At
the same time, U of G remains
highly cognizant of the cth1cal
THE PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT
And Ontario universities
are provincial leaders in job
creation, directly or indirectly
sustaining more than 375,000
SPENDS ON UNIVERSITIES, and moral responsibilities that
arise from scientific advance
ment. The Alimlnlls feature on
Prof. David Castle and Christine
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jobs in this province.
In addition, a university education benefits Ontario
as a whole by developing a high-calibre workforce that is
one of the greatest attractors for new economic invest
ment. As graduates yourselves, you know that such an
education prepares you to contribute to society in the arts,
humanities, social sciences and sciences as creative and
well-rounded individuals. Our students and their parents
realize that a university education increases employment
and income prospects and stimulates personal growth.
The evidence clearly illustrates that a highly educated
population and a dynamic research culture are vita l to
positioning a jurisdiction to compete in the new knowl
edge-based economy and to contribute to the improve
ment of the quality of life of all Ontarians. Among its
many benefits, research spawns innovation , commercial
ization and technology transfer and attracts investment.
The University of Guelph is a case in point. As the sec
ond-most research-intensive university in Canada, the first
Harrison explores the contribution of biocthiCists as we
consider and debate the issues raised by scientific advances.
Government is already demonstrating its willing
ness to invest in U ofG's vision for the future through
funding for new infrastructure and research . Significant
reinvestment by government in basic operating grants
is also necessary to enable Ontario's universities to move
forward and provide the necessary tools for teaching,
learning and research, particularly in light of growing
enrolment demand over the next several years.
With such significant and far-reaching economic,
social and cultural dividends, the evidence is clear: an
investment in Ontario universities is an essential invest
ment in this province.
The report The Economic Impact of Ontario's Univer
sities is available 011 the Council of Ontario Unl\'crsitics
Web site at http://www.cou.an.m.
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UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH • 1n an I aroun PROVINCE REWARDS ENROLMENT INCREASE
The Ministry of Training,
Colleges and Universities
(MTCU) has awarded U of G
$4.56 million in accessibility
funding for the 2000/01 fiscal
year in recognition of the
University's increase in enrol
ment.
Guelph received the most
funding of the nine Ontario
universities that shared in the
province's $16.5-million
Accessibility Fund, which was
designed to address the grow
ing demand for admission to
university programs. To be
eligible, universities were
required to increase or match
their fall 1999 first-year
admissions in fall 2000.
"This funding is welcome
news for U of G, and we are
thankful for it;' said president
Mordechai Rozanski. "It will
help us address the extraordi
nary challenges we face in this
President Mordechai Rozanski and Guelph MPP Brenda Elliott.
year's budget related to enrol
ment growth. This funding
will help cover the costs we
have already incurred for
teaching, classroom improve
ments, increased student
assistance and other student
services that contribute to our
quality learning experience."
Brenda Elliott, minister of
intergovernmental affairs and
MPP for Guelph-Wellington,
announced the funding on
behalf of MTCU minister
Dianne Cunningham. Elliott
said the initiative is one com
ponent of the government's
plan to prepare universities
Campus master plan under review
U oF G HAs launched a
review of the campus mas
ter plan in an effort to create a
physical blueprint for the future.
"We need to ensure that our
facilities are a welcoming envi
ronment for learning, teaching,
research, work and living,
because this attracts and retains
high-quality faculty, staff and
students," says Nancy Sullivan,
vice-president (finance and
administration ).
The University's original
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master plan dates back to 1964,
with the last review in 1987.
Chri s Pickard, director of
planning, engineering and con
struction , and Prof. Jim Taylor,
Landscape Architecture- who
has been seconded to act as plan
co-o rdinator - will oversee
the campus master plan review.
A steering committee chaired
by Board of Governors mem
ber Mary-Elizabeth Flynn and
made up of faculty, sen ior
administration, staff and stu-
dents has been established.
Their work will focus on the
University's core academic lands
between Edinburgh and Victo
ria roads. The review is expect
cd to last a year, with a plan
ready by spring 2002. A consu l
tation process will keep the Uni
versity community involved in
the review at key points.
"A comprehensive campus
master plan will show all of our
constituents that we have a road
map for the future," says Taylor.
and colleges to meet the antic
ipated increase in enrolment
due to the implementation of
the province's new high
school program.
"The Ontario government
will continue to work with
universities and colleges on
new initiatives to support
growth in the post-secondary
sector," she pledged.
Over the next decade, an
additional 90,000 students are
likely to be seeking admission
to Ontario universities. As
soon as 2003, there will be
33,500 new students eligible
for university admission
province-wide, in addition to
the usual first-year intake of
50,000 students.
Rozanski stressed that sta
ble multi-year operating
funding is essential to support
growth and the quality edu
cation that students demand.
IN FACT ... Senate has approYed a new four year honours degree program that integrates study in the arts and sciences. It will replace U of G's first-year AKADDHA program in fall 2002.
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Soybean research gets $1-million boost
U OF G HAS received a $1-
million gift from 1962 OAC
alumnus Peter Hannam and his
family to launch a new research
fund that could accelerate the
rising demand for soybean
products. The Hannam Soybean
Utilization Fund (HSUF) will
be used to award annual
research grants to faculty and
students to promote new and
innovative uses for soybeans.
"We are profoundly grateful
for the Hannams' faith in our
university's research capability;'
says president Mordechai
Rozanski. "This is a tremendous
example of an alumnus giving
back to U of G so that our stu
dents and faculty can continue
to conduct innovative research."
Hannam, who founded First
Line Seeds Ltd. in Guelph in 1982
and is now co-owner, says
research has never been so impor
tant to the Ontario soybean
Peter and Sandra Hannam, centre, officially announced their gift of $1
million for U of G soybean research Feb. 27. At left is president Mordechai
Rozanski. At right is Prof. Bruce Holub, one of the first recipients of
research support from the Hannam Soybean Utilization Fund.
industry as it is today. "Soybeans
are very well-suited to growing
in Ontario and have lots of
potential for new uses;' he says.
"For the long-term prosperity of
the industry, you have to expand
demand and consumption
beyond just food and fuel."
Two chosen for NRC program
SECOND-YEAR Students
Kelly Ogilvie, left, and
Cynthia Pun have been select
ed for the National Research
Council's Women in Engi
neering and Science Program.
Pun, a biological engineer
ing student, and Ogilvie, a
biomedical sciences major and
1999 President's Scholar, were
chosen from a total of I 03
candidates across Canada.
They will work in NRC lab
oratories during their co-op
work terms over the next three
years, and will benefit from
being paired with an NRC sci
entist or engineer who will act
as a mentor.
Participation in the pro
gram has become an annual
tradition for U of G students;
since 1993/94, a total of 15
have received the award.
The HSUF will provide
$100,000 to $150,000 a year for
10 years to support research. The
first grant recipients are Prof.
Bruce Holub, Human Biology
and Nutritional Sciences; Prof.
Peter Pauls, Plant Agricu lture;
and Kemptville College faculty
Allen Hills and Dean Donaldson.
Holub's award of $50,000 " I 0
will fund research on an enzyme (j
in soybeans that can slow down ~ s:
the progression of kidney dis- ~
ease. Pauls, who received ~ $25,000, will conduct research g on a line of soybeans for soy milk that don't taste "beany."
Hills and Donaldson received
$25,000 to study marketing soy biodiesel fuel, an organic renew
able alternative to fossil fuels.
First Line Seeds is a founding
sponsor of Project SOY (Soybean
Opportunities for Youth), a con
test that encourages students to
create new uses for soybeans.
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in and around the University
GREENHOUSE GASES UNDER STUDY
Two U oF G researchers
are among only 15 nation
wide to receive first-round
fundin g from a new federal
initia tive to study clean air
and climate change.
Profs. Claudia Wagner
Riddl e and jon Warland,
Land Resource Science, were
awarded more than $350,000
from the Canadian Founda
tion for Climate and Atmos
pheric Sciences (CFCAS) to
study agriculturally pro
duced greenhouse gases.
Wa gner-Riddle will
receive $240,000 over three
years to investigate the caus
es and effects of greenhouse
gases and best practices for
soil management. Her col
leagues in this project, all
from the Department of
Land Resource Science, are
Profs. Bev Kay, Paul Voroney
and Gary Parkin.
Warland will receive
$110,700 over three years to
examine how trace gases such
as carbon dioxide, ozone and
m ethan e are absorbed and
emitted by forests and vege
tated farmland. He has also
received $72,605 from the
Canada Foundation for
Innovation's New Opportu
nities program for infra
structure to support his
research project, a figure that
was subsequently matched by
the Ontario Innovation Trust.
The 2000 federal budget
established CFCAS with a
one-time grant of $60 mil
lion . The initiative aims to
help Canada meet its envi
ronmental goals, including
those of the Kyoto Protocol.
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Canadians honoured
U of G awarded 6so degrees and diplo·
mas during winter convocation cere·
monies Feb. 21 and 22 and recognized three
outstanding Canadians with honorary
degrees: Louis Siminovitch, a molecular biol
ogist who helped develop the Ontario Can
cer Institute and Toronto's Hospital for Sick
Children; Guelph resident Peggy Knapp, who
is known nationally and internationally for
her work with rural women and families; and
George Ewan, a physicist who is Canada's
leader in an international collaboration to
study neutrino particles emanating from the
sun. Ewan's hood was draped by his daugh
ter, U of G history professor Elizabeth Ewan.
In addition, retired fine art professor Mar
garet Priest was named University professor
emerita.
Wildeman named vice-president (research)
PROF . ALAN WI LDEI>IAN ,
direc tor of U of G's Food
System Biotechnology Centre,
wi ll assume the position of vice
pres ident (research ) on July 1
as Prof. Larry Mi ll igan com
pletes h is term.
"Given the exceptional lead
ership provided by Dr. Larry
Milligan over the past IS years
and the continuing achieve
ments of U of G's research
community, the search com
mi ttee was committed to
recru iting an individual of the
highest calib re," says president
Mordechai Rozanski. "We were
seeking someone with v ision
ary and st ra tegic leadership to
help the University's researchers
and sc ho lars achieve institu
tional and individual research
aspirat ions - locally, national
ly and in ternationally."
Wildeman , who holds B.Sc.
and M .Sc. degrees in biology
from the University of
Saskatchewan and a PhD in
molecular genetics from U of
G, joined Guelph in 1985 as a
professor in the Department of
tvlolecular Biology and Genet-
ics. He has held a Natural Sci
ences and Engineering Research
Council Industrial Research
Chair in biotechnology, has
been a participant in many
national and international peer
review panels in the biomedical
sCiences, was named director of
the Food System Biotechnolo
gy Centre in 1999 and is
Guelph's lead participant in the
Ontario Genome Project.
"The University of Guelph
contains many of the elements
that a leading research institu
tion needs," says Wildeman .
"While our reputation in agri
food and veterinary medicine
grows , research excellence in
social sciences, life sciences,
physical sciences and humani
ties increasingly highlights the
multi - faceted nature of schol
arship on this campus."
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Tomatosphere brings space science to children Elementary school students across Canada are con
ducting germination studies of tomato seeds that trav
elled with Canadian astronaut Marc Garneau on his
12-day space mission last November, comparing them
with seeds that stayed on Earth. The experiments are
part of a University of Guelph research project to deter
mine the effects of microgravity and cosmic radiation
on plant germination and growth. The project, dubbed
Tomatosphere, is "a great opportunity for young sci
entists to learn about the exciting world of science,
space exploration, food and nutrition," says Prof. Mike
Dixon, who leads Guelph's Space and Advanced Life
Support Agriculture research group.
Murray named Officer of the Order of Canada
Ken Murray, left, Lincoln Alexander and Marilyn Robinson-Murray
FORMER BoARD OF GovERNORS chair and long
time U of G supporter Ken Murray has been
named to the Order of Canada. Murray, who grad
uated from OAC in 1950 and received an honorary
doctorate of laws from Guelph in 1996, has dis
tinguished himself as a respected business execu
tive (retired CEO of J.M. Schneider Inc.), com-
~ n1unity leader, philanthropist and volunteer. A
~ former chair of the Homewood Corporation, he
~ founded the Homewood Foundation and estab
~ lished the Murray Alzhein1er Research and Edu~ cation Project at the University of Waterloo. He
~ also initiated the Science and Society Project at U Vl
2 of G and Waterloo. Over the years, Murray has 0 I 0.. served U of G in many roles- as a member and
chair of Board of Governors from 1973 to 1978, as
a member of the 1980s capital campaign advisory
committee, as interim vice-president (university
affairs and development) for two years, as a mem
ber of the Heritage Fund Board of Trustees from
1991 to 1998 and as first chair of the board's Her
itage Enhancement Committee. In 1985, he was
named U of G's Alumnus of Honour.
Murray was congratulated by Uof G and Chan
cellor Lincoln Alexander whan he attended Feb
ruary convocation ceremonies with his wife, Mar
ilyn Robinson-Murray, B.H.Sc '55. In March, she
was recognized for lifetime achievement by the
Guelph UM-YWCA Women of Distinction Awards
program.
GRADUATE STUDENTS EXCEL
Master's level~ Eight U of G
graduate students are among
the recipients of the Cana
dian International Develop
ment Agency's (CIDA)
Awards for Canadians for
2000. The awards allow mas
ter's students to conduct
field research abroad.
Three of the Guelph
recipients are in the School
of Rural Planning and
Development. Barbara John
son will do research in South
Africa, Jana Kelly in Mozam
bique and Shawn Stone
house in Nicaraugua.
Two recipients are col
laborative international
development students: Mar
ian Biasutti, who will study
in Brazil, and Paula Binnie,
heading for the Republic of
Chad.
Romi Oshier of the
Department of Land
Resource Science received a
CIDA award to study in
Eastern Uganda. Christopher
Slade of the Department of
Agricultural Economics and
Business will travel to Chi
na, and Laura Thomas of the
School of Engineering will
work in Mexico.
PhD level: Six U of G PhD
students were winners in the
2000 national competition
for doctoral fellowships from
the Social Sciences and
Humanities Research Coun
cil: Sarah Allen, Family Rela
tions and Applied Nutrition;
Douglas AJ-Maini and James
Brouwer, Philosophy; Tracy
Cocivera and John Robin
son, Psychology; and Rebec
ca Sutherns, Rural Extension
Studies.
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UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH
research otes SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY • SCHOLARSHIP • SOCIAL DEVELOPMENTS
DINOSAUR CLUES UNCOVERED
FoR THE FI RST time,
researchers have used tech nolo
gy normally used in designing
cars, bridges and airplanes to
uncover answers long buried in
the fossil record about how
dinosaurs ate and hunted.
The study, which appears in
Jeffrey Thomason
Nature magazine, was authored
in part by Ontario Veterinary
College professor Jeffrey
Thomason. The scientists took
the skull of the allosaurus
dinosaur and generated the
most geometrica ll y complete
and complex model of any
extinct or extant organism
"' using finite element analysis
~ (FEA). By creating a 3-D mod
i'f. el of the allosaurus' skull, they
~ were able to uncover clues
~ about the dinosaur 's hunting
~ and eating habits. They learned) u.J
~ for example, that the animal 3§ "' attacked its prey head-on at a u ~ high velocity, like a person
I;< swinging a hatchet. <(
::;: "This is definitely the most >-~ ambitious study to date dealing
@5 with the fossil record," says
1\: Thomason, add in g that the
findings demonstrate the
potential of using the technique
to test mechanical behaviour of
fossils in ways that until now
have been impossible.
FEA is commonly used to
estimate performance in struc
tures such as bridges, airplanes
and cars. Thomason has also
used FEA in his research at
OVC, which has included exam
ining the strain horses' hooves
experience during different
activities and specific measure
ments of horses' strides.
ONTARIO PROSPERITY DOESN'T REACH
RURAL AREAS ONTARio's RURAL commu
nities lack the wherewithal to
maintain or improve their
declining economic circum
stances, and the problem is like
ly to become more widespread
and intense, according to a new
report by U of G researchers.
" In many communities, the
interrelatedness of economy,
community survival and quality
of ru rallife is the pivotal issue,"
says Prof. David Douglas, School
of Rural Planning and Develop
ment. "What we discovered is a
IN FACT ... Only 38 per cent of rural Ontario municipalities have an economic development plan.
dangerous picture requiring our
immediate attention."
The researchers note that
Ontario's recent economic
prosperity has not filtered down
to rural communities. More
than two-thirds of communi
ties responding complai ned of
economic stagnation and pop
ulation decline in the period
1996 to 1999.
The two-volume report, "An
Integrated Analysis of Chang
ing Municipal and Communi
ty Roles and Practices," is part
of a three-year research project
ca lled "Toward More Effective
Rural Economic Development
in Ontario." The survey of all
495 of Ontario's rural munici
palities (128 responded) found
that without provincial help,
rural communities are flagging
and at risk.
ANCIENT COURT RECORDS REVEAL
SCOTTISH HISTORY SCOTTISH STUDIES profes
sor Elizabeth Ewan has under
taken a three-year project to
study the nature of insult and
social order in 16th-century
Scotland from the perspective
of women.
Her study is sponsored by
the Social Sciences and Human
ities Research Council , and will
be based primarily on court
documents and historical and
literary material. The goal of the
project is to increase available
resources about women's histo
ry in Scotland and gain a better
understanding of Scottish life.
" If you don't look for
women, you won't find them,"
Ewan says. "Uncovering life in
Scotland as to ld from a female
voice will enlarge our under
standing of that era."
In the first part of the pro
ject, Ewan is researching the life
of a woman with a slanderous
tongue and aggressive nature
Elizabeth Ewan
named Alison Rouch, who lived
in Edinburgh during the first
half of the 16th century. Then,
with help from two doctoral
students, she will examine the
nature of insult and social order
as seen from a woman's per
spect ive. The insults used by
men and women reveal con
temporary ideas about appro
priate male and female roles,
says Ewa n. Documents show
that misbehaviour in 16th-cen
tury Scotland was punished by
public humiliation and shame.
After being paraded around
town , deviants were forced to
apologize publicly.
The third part of her study
is dedicated to increasing the
number of resources avai lable
on women's history in Scotland,
including a Web bibliography.
Summer 2001 9
EAT MORE FISH TO AVOID ALZHEIMER'S
DISEASE EATING FISH MAY beaway to ward off Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia and cognitive afflictions, according to new research by a team led by U of G adjunct professor Julie Conquer, Human Biology and Nutritional Sciences.
The study, reported in the U.S. journal Lipids, found that Alzheimer's sufferers as well as elderly subjects with other forms of dementia or cognitive impairments all had lower levels of DHA (docosahexaenoic acid) in blood samples than did
~ elderly subjects with normal ~ cognitive functioning. I
~ DHA and other omega-3 ~ fatty acids are found in high ~ concentrations in many fish ~ species, including tuna, salmon 5 and trout, and have already 5: been found to lower incidences
of cardiovascular disease, depression and attention deficit disorder. Eggs also contain omega-3 fatty acids.
"Our research suggests that the need to increase fish, fish products or other sources of omega-3 fatty acids in the diet of both the population at large and the elderly seems prudent," says Conquer, director of the Human Nutraceutical Research Unit.
Previous evidence had suggested that lower DHA levels serve as a predicting factor for Alzheimer's disease, but the new findings confirm this and are the first to also link low DHA levels to other forms of de mentia as well as cognitive impairments among the elderly.
ARE GAMBLING AND PARENTING
LINKED? J S T H E R E A L I N K between authoritarian parenting and risk-taking behaviours such as
Gera ld Adams
gambling? U of G professor Gerald Adams is about to find out.
Adams, a faculty member in the Department of Family Relations and Applied Nutrition, has received a $168,000 grant from the Ontario Problem Gambling Research Centre to study whether certain parenting styles - especially strict authoritarian parenting -could be encouraging children to seek risk-taking activities.
" If we can find a relationship between such factors, then
we can predict such prob lematic behaviours and find ways to prevent them," says Adams, who wrote a series of books on the effect parenting styles have on childhood and adolescent behaviour.
He and graduate student Anne-Marie Cantwell, who is specializing in addictive behaviours, will study the gambling habits of students attending the universities of Guelph, Windsor, Brock and Wilfrid Laurier.
"We will cover the spectrum, examining a broad range of gambling, from betting to casinos, to game wagers and poker;' says Adams. University students are ideal research candidates because many of them are living away from home for the first time, yet remain strongly connected to their families, he says. It's also a crucial time for selfdevelopment and self-identification, and the influence of parenting styles is still strong.
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GETTING A GRASP ON SHOULDER
INJURIES AU OF G ENGINEERING
professor and graduate student
are using sophisticated com
puter modelling techniques to
get a grasp on the most complex
and least understood joint in the
human body- the shoulder.
Prof. john Runciman and
student john Phillips are study
ing the individual and combined
roles of the various structures of
the shou lder using computer
based mode!Jing. Shoulders have
the greatest range of motion of
all human joints, making them
more prone to injury. Almost 45
per cent of all joint dislocations
are shoulder-related. A shoulder
that is dislocated or badly pulled
is rendered unstable for life.
The researchers plan to
investigate each component of
the shoulder joint in detail, then
examine the structure as an
integrated whole.
They hope that by identify
ing the relationships between
the structures of the shoulder
joint, they can develop a firm
foundation for better under
standing the active contributors
to stability and joint function.
STEP-PARENT MOTIVES AFFECT
ADOPTION SUCCESS THE MOTIVE OF step-par
ents to adopt their stepchildren
has much to do with whether
the adoption is experienced as
a success or failure. This was a
key finding of a first -ever study
on the subject by psychology
professor Michael Sobol.
Preliminary findings of
Sobol's research also reveal that
children should offer uncoerced
consent as to whether they will
be adopted by a step-parent and
whether they will have contact
with the birth parent or other
relatives.
"There are few good data on
step-parent adoptions, despite the
fact that there are four times as
many step-adoptions as 'full'
ones," says Sobol, who has been
studying Canadian adoption laws
and policies for more than 20
years.
"We can't ignore step-parent
adoptions or pretend they're just
legal acts of little significance, nor
can we lump them in with other
kinds of adoptions, because the
circumstances are unique."
The study was based on
IN FACT ...
Shoulders have the
greatest range of motion
of all human joints,
making them more
prone to injury.
interviews with adults aged 19
to 56 who had been adopted by
a step-parent when they were
between the ages of six and 12.
"Our study shows that even
in cases where the adoptive par
ent and biological parent later
divorced, if the adoption was
originally motivated by love, the
relationship endured," he says.
The research also found that
in the vast majority of"unsuc
cessful" adoptions, consent was
imposed and the resulting
resentment often carried over
into adulthood.
"Many of our participants
felt that the adoption repre
sented a loss of self and that it
was a betrayal of their past rela
tionships," says Sobol. By con
trast, in adoptions rated a "suc
cess," there was no coercion to
give consent.
The study also showed that
continued contact with the
birth parent or birth parent's
family influenced whether an
adoptee considered his or her
adoption a "success."
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U of G researchers envision the futurE
N I vER sIT Y REsEARcH has always solved mysteries, provided tangible ben
efits and fuelled progress. Over the next decade, however, it's expected that the
inventions and discoveries yet to be made in biology, medicine, computing, phar-
~ maceuticals and agri-food research will surpass anything we have seen before.
The University of Guelph intends to be among the nation's leaders, not only in gener-
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ating and transmitting this future knowledge but also in applying it to improve the health
and the social, cultural and economic quality of life of all Canadians.
On the following pages, we examine some of our most promising research areas to fore
cast technology breakthroughs and anticipate where Guelph ingenuity and exploration
may take us next.
Summer 2001 13
Technology transfer
T he University of Guelph has a histo
ry of successfully transferring
research knowledge to the marketplace,
but the future promises even more effi
cient technology transfer and greater
financial rewards that will fuel new
research initiatives.
Guelph's Business Development Office
(BDO) has shown strong positive results
in its effort to protect the University's intel
lectual property, license U of G inventions,
develop industrial partnerships and pro
mote the creation of spinoff companies. "I
believe our statistics speak for themselves;'
says BDO head Connie Hearty.
Health-enhancing Foods
R ice that improves eyesight, broccoli that
targets cancer, corn that prevents heart
disease, fruit packed not only with new
antioxidants but also with vaccines, milk
rich in antibodies, soybeans that deliver
insulin- the list of"designer foods" that
could be produced in the near future
through biotechnology seems endless.
"There's a big push right now in both sci
ence and society to produce food that pro
motes better health and prevents disease,"
says food science professor Rick Yada, assis
tant vice-president (agri-food programs).
Over the next decade, he predicts more
and more of these health-enhancing foods
will start making their way on to super
market she lves. And U of G will be a key
player in the ongoing development of these
products. "We currently have people all over
~ this campus working on these functional
~ foods and nutraceuticals, trying to advance
~ our knowledge in these areas," he says.
Si Two of these researchers are food science z ~ professor Gopi Paliyath, who's trying to find
~ the "on" switch that produces antioxidants 3 and ant ioxidant enzymes in fruit and veg
g etables, and plant agriculture professor Lar
~ ry Erickson, who hopes to identifY and engi->-~ neer plant proteins that cou ld cure both
animal and human diseases. And faculty
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The BDO has achieved 117 invention
disclosures and 336 industrial research
contracts worth $16 million . U of G cur
rently holds 75 issued patents, with 143
applications in progress. To date, the office
has also successfully negotiated 30 licen
see agreements with an associated annu
al royalty revenue of $1.5 million.
With help from GUARD (Guelph
Alumni Research and Development Inc.),
the University has also generated more
than 10 start-up companies that are in var
ious stages of development. Originally an
alumni initiative, GUARD is a unique col
laboration among the scientific, financial
and industrial sectors. It operates as a for
profit company that is publicly traded on
from 11 different departments are working
under the umbrella of U of G's new Food
System Biotechnology Centre (FSBC),
whose mandate is to apply recent advances
in mol ecu lar genetic technology to develop
improved crops, plants and animal pro
duction systems.
Just as important as discoveries geared
to enhancing human and animal health, says
Yada, are future breakthroughs that will
improve crop yields, add new varieties with
better stress tolerance and disease resistance,
promote environmental stability and open
new economic markets for plant-based
nutraceuticals, pharmaceuticals and indus
trial enzymes.
It's expected that over the next decade,
more sophisticated modification of plant
metabolism will be engineered, including
the controlled expression of introduced
genes in a cell or tissue-specific manner and
regulated by environmental or develop
mental cues.
"We are designing those crops now," he
the Canadian Venture Exchange. U of G
owns 20 per cent of GUARD, says presi
dent and CEO Brian Cox.
GUARD has stimulated the commer
cialization of Guelph inventions and dis
coveries by helping to found companies
such as Elite Display Systems Inc., which
produces colour inorganic electrolumi
nescence for flat panel displays; Magnos
Technologies Inc., which has commer
cialized X-ray backscatter technology;
Integragen, which owns exclusive rights
to High Immune Response, a technology
that improves livestock's genetic ability
to resist infectious diseases; and the drug
design firm Nanodesign, sold last year to
Montreal's SignalGene for $15 million.
says. "We expect to continue to develop new
approaches for detecting plant diseases, iso
lating plant genes, producing transgenic
plants and selecting new cultivars. We fur
ther expect that the work will greatly increase
our understanding of plant physiology from
the level of the gene to the whole plant."
Yada and his collaborators hope to even
tually establish U of Gas a world centre for
private- and public-sector agricultural research.
"We want to be recognized internationally as
a hub for life sciences research, especially as it
applies to developing food, plants, animals
and processes that conform to the highest
standards of quality and safety."
Bioinformatics
D ata mining- defined by its practi
tioners as "the extraction of implicit,
previously unknown and potentially useful
information from data" - is quickly emerg
ing as one of the most important comput
er technologies of the new millennium.
Long a staple of marketers- who've
used data to develop new products and
track consumer preferences and spending
habits-- this research is now becoming
essential for human biologists, geneticists,
epidemiologists and a host of other biolog
ical scientists. They're using it to map out
genes and proteins, identify behaviour pal
terns of living organisms, predict and pre-
vent disease, model events and antic ipate
outcomes, and formulate better drugs and
other products.
"Informatics, but more important,
bioinformatics and biocomputing, are the
wave of the future," says Prof. Deborah
Stacey, Computing and Information Sci
ence, who is head of Guelph's SHARC-Net
(Shared Hierarchical Academic Research
Computing Network) team. The network
-consisting of several university and col
lege partners- is committed to advancing
large-scale computing in Canada.
U of G has the expertise to make a big
contribution in this rapidly expand ing area,
says Stacey, who expects biocomputing to
transform pharmaceut ical development,
health care, agriculture and food produc
tion research.
"We already have a very strong tradition
in the life sciences- plant agriculture, ani
mal research, food technology," she says.
"We're also experts at collaborating with
industry and other institutions to generate
knowledge. And we have a small but vibrant
computational community. In 10 years'
time, if things continue the way they are,
U of G could be a Canadian front-runner
in bioscience."
Stacey is currently spearheading efforts
to establish a Canadian Centre for Bio
computing on campus. Its goa ls would
include developing a software library of bio
logically inspired techniques to analyse bio
logical data and creating databases for ani
mal biological data.
"Canada urgently needs an Internet
based network of searchable, documented
and linked biodiversity, ecosystem and bioin
formatics databases;' she says. "The Univer
sity of Guelph could be one of the key insti
tutions providing this invaluable resource.
And I believe that, in time, we will."
New vaccines and disease treatments
S cientists agree that finding cures for ter
rifying illnesses such as hemorrhagic
fevers or "mad cow" disease are still a long
way off, but reversing the alarming rise of
antibiotic-resistant bacteria first detected in
the 1990s is definitely something they hope
to achieve in the next few years.
Prof. Terry Beveridge and researcher Fu
Hun gwen of the Department of Microbi
ology have developed a vaccine and drug
delivery system they believe will immunize
animals and humans against a wide range
of bacterial pathogens as well as deliver
antibiotics directly to antibiotic-resistant
bacteria. Beveridge says the technology
should be ready for use by the agricultural
and medical industries in about a decade.
In its simplest form, the technology works
like this: there are two basic types of bacte
ria, gram-positive and gram-negative. A sig
nificant difference between the two is that
gram-negative bacteria- such as salmonella
and Escherichia coli, which can cause serious
intestinal-tract infections- constantly shed
membrane vesicles, which Beveridge likens
to tiny balloons. He's found that these bal
loons can be inserted into live attenuated vac
cine strains, which then become effective oral
vaccines againstthe gram-negative bacteria.
The membrane vesicles can also carry pow
erful enzymes that allow them to search out
and destroy infecting bacteria.
Perhaps more important, the membrane
vesicles can be packed with antibiotics. The
loaded vesicles then penetrate gram-nega
tive bacteria resistant to other drugs or
embedded in hard-to-reach tissue. Once
inside, they burst, releasing their "cargo" and
killing the bacteria.
"What all of this means," says Beveridge,
"is that in future, you and I could either take
an oral concoction that would immunize us
against a wide range of pathogens, including
cholera, dysentery and Helicobacter pylori, or
we could package antibiotics in the vesicles
and then send them right to the infected tis
sue to inhibit the growth of pathogens."
The technology should work in humans
as well as in farm animals and pets, he adds.
The drug-delivery mechanism is partie-
ularly promising for humans because it
could also conceivably be used to deliver any
chemical to parts of the body, including anti
tumour drugs to malignant cells. "Ten years
downstream, we might be at a stage where
we can package almost any protein or small
biomolecule we want in the vesicles;' he says.
"We could clone a human hormone, for
example, and use the vesicles to send hor
mones to tissue where they're required."
Another possibility is that Beveridge's
technology may someday be available in
aerosol form. "An animal or person would
simply breathe the vaccines in, which would
then elicit an immune response;' he explains.
"We're in very preliminary studies for that
right now. Aerosol vaccines are very new.
They're beginning to be used for some farm
animals, but have not progressed to human
use because researchers have to figure out a
way of packaging them for effective use. But
maybe in I 0 years' time, we' ll be there."
High-tech humanities research
M uch of the incubation and dissemi
nation of cultural knowledge was
once primarily confined to learned confer
ences, letters between academics and con
versations among scholars. Information
technology, however, has not only trans
formed these exchanges but has also
brought cultural studies to a much greater
audience, including the general public.
Summer 200 I 15
This trend is likely to continue in the first
years of the 21st century, says Prof. Susan
Brown, Literatures and Performance Studies
in English. "I believe that because of electronic
media, humanities scholarship is going to be
opened up in ways we can only imagine."
images of engravings and art, audio-visual
materials, transcriptions, and published and
unpublished texts- including electronic
"chats" that may have taken place years ago
and been archived- right off the Internet. This material, she notes, can often be
accessed not only by humanities scholars but
also by students at all educational levels and
anyone interested in cultural studies.
individual inquiries in searching, sorting and
moving through the literary history.
" I rea lly believe we're only at the very
beginning of exploring what computers can do for the humanities;' she says. "But also,
the humanities have much to contribute to
make computers speak to us in ways that
make sense to us and that contribute to our
understanding of our culture and history."
Brown heads U of G's team on the
Orlando Project, an electronic scholarly his-
Reproductive technologies
tory of British women's writing being com
piled with research ers at the University of Alberta. When it's launched in 2003, this
electronic resource is expected to be the
definitive guide to biographical informa
tion, critical discussion and contextual
material on women's writing in Britain.
Libraries and their role in humanities
research, meanwhile, will also continue to
be revolutioni zed by technology. Just last year, the international Research Libraries
Group- which includes libraries at Cor
nell, Oxford and Yale universities -
announced it was creating shared access to
high-quality images and descriptions of the
works and artifacts that document culture
and civilization. The result is expected to be
a globally accessible Web-based research
resource drawn from the pre-eminent collections of the group's member institutions.
"Computers have allowed us to cross great
distances and to collaborate more easily than
before," says Brown. She's looking ahead to
more integrated and responsive humanities
research projects like Orlando, whose electronic form will permit readers to pursue
C loning research for medical applications
on humans has recently become an acceptable- albeit highly controversial
scientific pursuit. just this March, European
and American researchers announced they
were close to cloning a human. They were
swiftly condemned by other scientists and
the religious community.
Bu t although cloning a whole person remains questionable, scientists from
around the world have replicated tissue,
which they believe will one day be used to
repair damaged skin, among other things.
They're now trying to grow livers, hearts She says it 's now possible to obtain
The Last Industry up soil contaminants and • evaluation of animal and
10 Years • identifying bacteria that can be plants to take up metal toxins human movement in joints
used to teach metals from ores • software to predict the behav- like the shoulder
• identifying milk proteins as iour and potentia l health haz- • models to evaluate cattle, Expertise developed through emulsifiers and texturing ards from industrial chemicals pigs and sheep genetics past U of G research initiatives agents in infant formula, • laser technology to measure • instrument to measure foot will provide the building blocks soups and new health drinks. greenhouse gas levels in the pressure that helps diagnose for future achievements. • PIXE software to measure the environment health problems like cerebral
distributions of ai r pollutants, pa lsy, back problems and
Human health determine the commercial Computer technology diabetes
• determining how cancers viab il ity of ore samples and • co mputer-contro lled green- • software that mimics human
originate test integrated circuits. houses that respond to plant sense of smell and taste to
• reducing the side effects of • a substance-specific sensor stress measure consumer prefer-
cancer drugs that detects conta mi nation in • software to assess pollution ences for everything from
• preventing mu lti-drug resist- chemical manufacturing plants sources in the developing whisky to potato chips
ance in cancer patients • a fluid and electrolyte replace- world • modelling the structure and
• a diagnost ic blood test to ment supplement for horses • models to help farmers function of ion channels
detect ovarian cancer at an to increase performance assess the potential co mm u- responsible for heart rhythms
early stage • a computer-based model to nity im pact of farm practices • linking atmospheric levels of
• cancer tests that don't require identify and generate chemi- • mi nicomp uter for hearing aids carbon dioxide to respiratory
the sacrifice of animals cal compounds for use in • surgical tool for back surg- allergies
• artifi cial skin to study wound developing new drugs eries to co rrect conditions • software program to teach
hea li ng • us ing soil microbes to clean like scoliosis grammar and punctuation
16 GUELPH ALUMNUS
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and kidneys for eventual transplantation,
and to find ways of using healthy human
stem cells to treat disease and maybe even
reverse the aging process.
"That's what the future holds," says bio
medical sciences professor Allan King, an
expert on animal ferti lization, cloning,
embryo culture and early development.
U of G has long been a leader in animal
reproductive technologies - the well
known precursors to human advancements
in this area. "Our focus is on animals, but
obviously, the research has direct applica
tions to humans," King says.
Last year, Guelph received federal and
provincial funding to establish a Genome
Manipulation Laboratory- part of the
FSBC- and to hire PhD graduate Dean
Betts as a professor. He' ll join King in the
Department of Biomedical Sciences this fall
and be dedicated to animal cloning research.
King sees Guelph research in this area
going in two possible directions: continuing
to be an invaluable tool for agricultural ani
mal production and leading to a much bet
ter understanding of basic reproductive biol
ogy. The two scientists are currently using
cloning techniques to produce elite calves with
high production potential and fertility, good
reproduction qualities and sound health.
"We hope to provide the livestock indus
try with a way of making copies of geneti
cally valuable cattle, which in turn will
reduce production costs," says King.
Their work has led them to interesting
discoveries in the area of cell aging and
death. For some reason, in cloned cows, an
enzyme responsible for telomeres- which
regulate chromosome production- revers
es its course during the first week of the
clone's embryonic development. The result
is that, unlike other cloned animals, which
inherit the adult telomeres of their prede
cessors, cloned calves end up with newborn-
Transgenic • "super seeds" for mass prop- tor temperatures
like telomeres. King and Betts are studying
this phenomenon to see what possible impli
cations it has for animal and human aging.
Another important research focus is
embryo development and loss. In cattle, 40
per cent of all embryos die before birth,
leading to huge economic losses in the cat
tle industry.
"By studying embryos produced in the
lab through in vitro fertilization and
cloning, we are trying to determine what
goes wrong and what prevents an embryo
from developing normally," says King.
"From a human perspective, the research
could provide answers to the agony and
heartbreak of failed pregnancies."
Industrial soft material research
M aterials experts and engineers have
long moulded, ground, fused and
turned "hard" matters such as wood, metals
and clay into usable products like lumber,
steel and concrete. Now, researchers are
applying these same principles to "soft"
related to cystic fibrosis
• protoplast fusion to replace agation of new varieties • finding the active agents that • transgenic alfalfa that carries
the slow po llination process • rapid test to detect salmonel- enable oats, garl ic and fish antibodies to vaccinate cattle
in canola breeding Ia in fection in horses oils to reduce heart disease against respiratory infection
• plants with hi gh levels of • omega-3 enriched eggs • understanding how E.coli
beneficial proteins Food safety • evaluating soy proteins as survives in the bladder and
• plants that grow well in • chemica l-free ways to store health promoters; e.g., kidney
low-light conditio ns fresh fruit and vegetables immune system, kidney dis- • speeding up the development
• winte r-hardiness in alfalfa and • pasteurization by electrical ease, Alzheimer's of vaccines by eliminating the
canola current • new treatments for lung need for genetic manipulation
• improved shelf life for • automated system for grading infections in people with cys·
tomatoes meat carcasses tic fibrosis Reproduction
• a rapid test for bacterial • Vitamin A-enriched vegetable • improved genetic selection
Agriculture detection in meat oils of livestock through genetic
• genet ic improvement of field evaluation identification of
crops, vegetables and fruit Functional foods Vaccines genetic markers and repro·
• seed treatment to make co rn, • da iry proteins as natural • shipping fever vacci ne for ductive technologies like
rice and barley more tolerant additives in ice cream cattle pneumonia embryo manipulation and
of heat and drought • edible soy coating that pre· • rotavirus vaccine producible cryopreservation
• biologica l controls to thwart vents fat absorpt ion in fried in chicken egg yolks • transgenic chimeric chicks
mould foods • breakthroughs in the devel·
• so il bacterium to boost the abil· • increasing nutrient values in milk opment of a preventive vac-
ity of soybeans to use nitrogen • spreadable butter at refrigera- cine for respiratory infection
Summer 2001 17
materials such as biological membranes, pro
teins, polymers and even food components,
to develop the products of the future: bio
fuels from starch and sugars, therapeutic
proteins and carbohydrates for pharmaceu
tical application, polymer films to keep bac
teria away and fat crystals for healthier food.
"The use and development of soft mate
rials such as polymers and proteins is expect
ed to revolutionize many sectors of the Cana
dian industry," says physics professor john
Dutcher, director of U of G's Centre for Food
and Soft Materials Science. "These sectors
include the aerospace, pharmaceutical,
microelectronics and packaging industries."
Two important areas of research in soft
materials are food and the discovery of
completely different, or new, uses for either
existing materials or waste products -
something scientists call "value-added"
products. Dutcher says researchers are devel
oping better ways of monitoring quality
during food processing and distribution,
such as improved sensors for detecting
harmful bacteria or pathogens and "smart"
packaging that alerts buyers when meat or
other food contains bacteria.
A Mississauga company has already devel
oped and is trying to commercialize this
U of G technology, basically a multi-layered
packaging film that tells consumers when bac
teria are present by changing colour. This,
however, is just one product. Dutcher says
there are huge advances to be made in this
area. "It's conceivable that one day, everything
we buy will alert us of possible dangers."
Technically, value-added products could
18 GUELPH ALUMNUS
be developed from any conventional m ate
rial, but an area expected to grow dramat
ically in the next few years is the reuse of
raw agricultural products to add value. A
good example of this is what an Australian
researcher is doing with milk, says food sci
entist Yada. "He has isolated co mpounds
from milk that he has then used to repair
skin on burn patients."Yada adds that many
food products will probably make their way
into the health-care system in the future.
At U of G, researchers are co nducting
fundamental studies of the structure and
function of food compo nents in eggs to
develop vaccines, trying to extract soybea n
proteins that may eventua ll y prevent dia
betes, and working with fat crys tals to cre
ate better dairy products and infant for
mula, among other projects.
In addition, says Dutcher, fundamental
studies of bacterial surfaces, thin polymer
films and biological membranes wil l provide
a deeper understanding of these important
systems, which will have a direct impact on
their technological app licat ions. "The whole
area of biological macromolecules is ve ry
exciting," he says. "The scient ific, economic
and health-related advances we could make
through this type of research are extensive."
Cancer research
J ust as we can now determine some peo
ple's predisposition to cancer through
their genes, it may soon be possible to pre
vent some cancers by altering genes or to
treat them through gene- or protein-spe
cific therapies and drugs. In fact, so m e of
this is already happening. Acco rding to a
recent article in The National Post, an inter
national pharmaceutical company is seek
ing U.S. Food and Drug Adm ini stration
approval for a compound that thwarts the
development of tyrosine kinase proteins,
known to ease cancer ce ll interaction.
At U of G, a number of researchers are
trying to unravel cancer's mysteries and
develop new treatments. Prof. Frances
Sharom, Chemistry and Biochemistry, is
working to develop new treatments for
improving chemotherapy in drug-resistant
forms of cancer. Prof. David )osephy in the
same department was the first to detect a
carcinogen in breast milk that has been
linked to the development of breast cancer.
His research team has also demonstrated a
potential link between smoking and breast
cancer and is now looking at the different
ways first - and second-hand smoke affect
the body. In the Department of Biomedical
Sciences, Prof. Gordon Kirby is trying to
determine if colitis is involved in the reduc
tion of certain enzymes that have also been
associated with colon cancer.
Prof. Alan Wildeman, Molecular Biolo
gy and Genetics, is trying to stop the spread
of cancer by studying the expression of mol
ecules from the surface of cells that are
important for cell movement and migration.
"Cancer cells spread because they can
migrate throughout the body;' he explains.
"We're looking at ways we can alter the pat
tern of expression of these molecules, so we
can eliminate those that are more abundant,
like tumour cells, and those that cause
migration ."
Wildeman believes that within a decade,
researchers might be able to start regulat
ing these molecules to stop their growth
at least in the laboratory. "This will make it
easier to develop new therapies for cancer;'
he says. "As we know more about protein
structures, it will be possible to understand
better what kinds of drugs should be used
to fight cancer, and we' ll be able to make
drugs that selectively kill cancer cells."
Another area that will grow in impor
tance is gene therapy, he adds. The possi
bilities include inducing genes to create pro
teins that inhibit cancer cells or that produce
other beneficial effects, and using gene ther
apy to stimulate the body's natural defences
against abnormal cells. ga
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graduates about to break on Ontario's
post-secondary institutions. Uni
versity of Guelph enrolment projections
pushing 15,000 students. These sound like
modern-day issues preoccupying adminis
trators, faculty and staff at U of G and oth
er universities across the province as they
anticipate a 40-per-cent increase in student
demand over the next decade.
But these same issues faced the founders
of the University of Guelph more than 35
years ago, according to documents in a col
lection of material about the University's
founding years that was recently donated to
the U of G Library archives by Thomas A.
McEwan, founding chairman of the Uni
versity of Guelph's Board of Governors in
1964. A former Guelph businessman a nd
past chairman of the city's public board of
education, McEwan is now retired and lives
in Mississauga, Ont., with his wife, Bessie.
"Tom was a central player in the found
ing of the University in 1964 and a propo
nent of public education in general," says
president Mordechai Rozanski. "His papers
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provide an important view of the social and
political forces that helped shape the edu
cation system in Ontario."
Among the reports, correspondence and
personal notes fillin g a number of boxes in
the archives are McEwan's annotated copy
of the long-range master plan for the cam
pus, budget documents and detailed plans
for the University's fund-raising campaign
in the mid- 1960s.
The collection also includes materials
from McEwan's tenure on the Guelph board
of education, as well as correspondence and
documents from throughout the 1970s
when he served as chairman of the provin
cial Committee on the Costs of Education,
including his handwritten draft of the 1979
Education Reform Policy for Ontario.
McEwan says it was while serving on the
board of education that he became con
cerned that post-secondary institutions in
the province would not be able to accom
modate the post-war influx of students that
he and other trustees were dealing with at
the elementary level. He voiced his concerns
and received support locally from Guelph
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businessmen Gordon Tiller and Ralph Boyce
and college faculty Waldo Brown, John
Gilman, Leslie Lord and Gerald Trant to look
at ways the Ontario Agricultural College,
Macdonald Institute and the Ontario Vet
erinary College might accommodate some
of the projected demand. "These men played
instrumental roles in the establishment of
the University of Guelph," says McEwan.
There was also strong support for uni
versity expansion in the office of then -pre
mier John Robarts. McEwan lobbied the
board of regents of the Federated Colleges
and the premier, pointing out that the col
leges provided an excellent base for the estab
lishment of university programs and that the
citizens of Guelph would participate and pro
vide a good home for a university.
"We were looking for ways to expand
Ontario universities;' says John R. McCarthy,
deputy minister on university affairs at the
time, "and we could never have accomplished
what we did without the impetus and help of
people like Tom McEwan at the local level."
McEwan was right about the suitability
of Guelph as a place to establish a universi-
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ty, says McCarthy. Campus resources pro
vided a good foundation for expansion in
the liberal arts, he says, and there was a feel
ing in government that the Guelph colleges
would benefit by gaining university status.
The Robarts government moved ahead
with the creation of the University of
Guelph, and the premier invited McEwan
to sit on the inaugural Board of Governors,
which elected him its first chairman.
McEwan's memories of those heady days
include reviewing with Robarts the draft bill
that would establish the University of
Guelph and a dramatic II th-hour phone
call from agriculture minister William Stew
art, saying he wanted to retain Johnston
Green, Johnston Hall and War Memorial
Hall as government property. McEwan
replied that the proposal "would be com
pletely unacceptable," and Stewart, who
eventually served as U of G chancellor from
1983 to 1989, withdrew the amendment at
a hastily arranged meeting in Toronto. Thus,
the campus remained intact.
The University of Guelph Act was passed
by the legislature on May 8, 1964.
Robarts appointed former OAC princi
pal john MacLachlan the University's first
president and announced lofty plans to
expand enrolment as high as 15,000 stu
dents. Those plans have particular resonance
for today's administration as Guelph's enrol
ment approaches the 15,000 mark.
Over the next few years, McEwan contin
ued to encourage the growth of the Univer
sity, the launch of development activities and
the establishment of the U of G Alumni Asso
ciation. He stepped down as B of G chairman
in 1968 and was named a U of G Fellow in
1969.
McEwan's professional career was also
advancing. A 1950 graduate of Queen's Uni
versity, he worked with Toronto's Union
Carbide and Carbon, was president of the
Sterling Rubber Company Ltd., then vice
president and general manager of Howmet
of Canada before joining Becton Dickinson
& Company Canada Ltd. in 1968 as execu
tive vice-president and chief operating offi
cer. He was named president of the com
pany in 1970.
McEwan also devoted many volunteer
hours to his community through the Rotary
Club, his work on the school board and as
a member and president of the Ontario
Society for Crippled Children.
He felt his responsibility to support pub
lic education all the way down to his pock
etbook. In addition to helping his class spon
sor a scholarship at his Queen's alma mater,
McEwan helped launch U of G's Heritage
Trust in 1991. He and three other Guelph
supporters- Emmanuel Birnbaum, jack
Skov and Ossic Downes- donated 26 acres
of land that was sold for $4.4 million to pro
vide a significant portion of the capital used
to establish the Heritage Trust. Today, it has
a total endowment of more than $30 million.
"Tom's foresight in addressing the finan
cial needs of the University of Guelph is
obviously as adept as his original desire to
launch a university that would address a
very real need in post-secondary education;'
says Rozanski. "We are grateful for his lead
ership and support, and his donation of his
torical documents to the library archives is
a valuable addition to the rich history of the
University of Guelph." ga
Winter 200 I 21
The Truth Seekers U of G philosophy graduates
meet the demands of a society desperate to develop a new sense of science consciousness.
AFTER ToRONTo's Hospitalfor
Sick Children established its depart
ment ofbioethics in 1991, hospital
staff put up a sign in one of the operating
rooms. It read: "The ethics police have arrived:'
According to Christine Harrison, BA '76
and MA '85, director of Sick Kids' bioethics
department, that attitude can still be found
occasionally lurking, but less so as the pro
fession takes hold. "There was some initial
suspicion," she says. "Some doctors didn't
realize that we're there to help them."
That's changed, however, fuelled by a
technological tsunami that seemingly has
the moral compass of many innocent
bystanders spinning out of control and in
search of direction. "Bioethics is not just
about health care any more," says Harrison.
"The pace of scientific discovery means
there is an expanded role for bioethicists to
play. Take cloning, for example, or the devel
opment of chemical and bacteriological
weapons of mass destruction or science's
impact on wildlife and the environment."
Philosophy, one of the purest forms of
inquiry, is enjoying a renaissance precisely
because of the explosion of one of the most
applied forms of inquiry - technology.
When Harrison was appointed bioethics
director in 1994, her first consultation
involved two conjoined children. As it hap
pens, her PhD thesis (through the joint
Guelph-McMaster PhD program) had
involved the concept of the "person" in med
ical ethics, so her first task was determining
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whether the children were singular or plur
al "persons," from an ethical perspective.
"Some people think of philosophy as all
metaphysical, up in the air," she says, "where
as here was a real-world example I was deal
ing with in my first week as director."
Bioethicists are in demand because tech
nology has gone democratic, affecting the
many rather than the few. On the cutting edge
of this phenomenon is U of G philosophy
professor David Castle, PhD '98, who is asso
ciated with the University's Food System
Biotechnology Centre, which brings togeth
er more than 70 Guelph researchers involved
in genomics and biotechnology research.
Consider the current convergence of
agriculture and medicine, where advances
in genetics and biotechnology are giving us
the scientific possibility of things like plant
grown vaccines, says Castle.
"The emerging bio-economy means that
these technologies are going to have a per
vasive influence on people's lives, in a way
that earlier technological advances did not.
For example, the aerospace revolution
humans flying to the moon - arguably did
not have an effect on people's everyday
lives."
Castle completed a B.Sc in biology and
chemistry before he switched to philosophy,
earning a BA, MA and PhD. "I was inter
ested in the sciences, but not just the 'how'
questions" he says. "I wanted to understand
the macroscopic 'why' questions. I wanted
to conduct the big-picture analysis of why
we're doing what we do in the sciences."
The arts/science combination of degrees
makes Castle well-qualified to tackle issues
like biotechnology and genetics. He co-teach
es with Prof. john Phillips a course called
"Genetics: Our Uncertain Heritage" in
Phillips's Department of Molecular Biology
and Genetics. The course has 175 students
each term learning how ethical issues in genet
ics and biotechnology arise and are resolved.
The course teaches the fundamentals of moral
reasoning, then incorporates these into a series
of case studies examining substantial ethical
issues posed by genetics and biotechnology.
Students look worldwide to evaluate techno
logical advances on the basis of the scientific
thought and reasoning behind them.
If you're thinking of a career as a bioethi
cist, expect to deal with difficult cases. There
aren't any cream puffs here.
Each year, Sick Kids treats more than
12,000 in-patients, most of whom Harrison
will never have to deal with. "The hardest
part of my job is that the cases that come to
us are really bad- the complications are
extreme," she says. "We've passed the point
where there's an outcome that will make all
sides happy. So we look instead for an end
point where people can live with the result."
She cites examples of parents who may
make a moral or religious decision to choose
naturopathic treatments for their child over
conventional medicine, which they may
view as invasive. Harrison says this can be
a particular problem where the child is
C§A\JB[§ • Summer 2001
JB UJLJLJE1LIN Alumni Involvement in the College of Social and Applied Human Sciences
Students launch new alumni tradition IN THE SPRING of 1904, four young
women scratched their names into the glass
pane of a window inside Macdonald Institute, where they were studying domestic science in
the province's first school for women.
Inspired by those scratched names, another group of young women who take
classes today in that same red brick building
found a way to reconnect with the history of
their college and build a sense of communi
ty among their own classmates. On March
24, they hosted a unique Heritage Night event that drew almost 200 people, mostly
students, to a reception in the former Mac
donald Institute building, now home to the
office of the dean of the College of Social and
Applied Human Sciences. Beth-Anne Tsourounis, Amie Phillips,
Sarah Hill, Paula Black and Lyndsay Arm
strong spearheaded the effort to build a new
tradition among their classmates. "] didn't really know what Macdonald
Institute was until l did some research in
the library;' says Tsourounis, who launched
the idea. "It's amazing how far women's edu
cation has come in a hundred years, and
many of the Mac Institute grads went on to
do some really incredible things."
The student group enlisted help from col
lege staff and alumni to help them put togeth
er a display of memorabilia and a slide show
that highlighted the experiences ofMacdon-
UNIVERSITY Q/"GUELPH
Mac-FACS AA president Patsy Marshall, left, with Heritage Night organizer Beth-Anne
Tsourounis.
aid Institute students from 1903 to the mid-
1960s. Their committee included Shirley Sur
geoner, B.A.Sc. '72; Kate Revington, former
B.A.Sc. academic counsellor; applied nutri
tion professor Marg Hedley, B.H.Sc. '64 and M.Sc. '8 1; and Laurie Malleau, B.Comm. '83,
alumni program manager for CSAHS. A dinner held after the reception wel
comed students, faculty and several former board members of the Mac-FACS Alumni Association. Guest speakers included Patricia "Patsy" Marshall, B.A.Sc. '74 and M.Sc.
WHAT'S INSIDE DEAN's MESSAGE ............... 2
GRAD CoMES FuLL CIRCLE ...... 3
ALUMNI/STUDENT INVOLVEMENT .. -4
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'78, president of the Mac-FACS AA, CSAHS
dean Alun Joseph and history professor
Jamie Snell. Marshall talked about her experiences at U of G and the career moves that
have taken her from social work to human
resources specialization and teaching. She
currently runs her own business, offering a
variety of business training courses.
The committee plans to expand the Her
itage Night event next year to cover college history after the establishment of the Uni
versity of Guelph.
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2003 ANNIVERSARY ........ . ......... 8
Dean's Message ONE OF THE GREAT pleasures of
being a dean is having the opportuni
ty to present new graduates to the Univer
sity chancellor at convocation. There will be
more than I ,000 CSAHS graduates to con
gratulate in June as they collect their degrees
and progress from student to alumni status.
They'll be joining a large family of more
than 20,000 alumni under the CSAHS
umbrella, the biggest alumni population of
any college at U of G. And what a diverse
group it is.
Our earliest alumni classes are all
women, graduates of Macdonald Institute.
A group of today's students recently probed
the history of this founding college and
hosted a highly successful Heritage Night
to showcase our historical roots and help
build a sense of appreciation for the expe
riences of the Mac women. l believe
"inspired" is an accurate word to describe
the way students felt about that evening.
challenge is to maintain meaningful rela
tionships with graduates from every corner
of the college. We're making a renewed
effort to do that by involving alumni in the
core activities of our academic programs
and by fostering friendships that began here
among students.
In this issue of the CSAHS Bulletin, you
will find stories about the many different
ways alumni are contributing to the life of
the college- mentoring students, provid
ing work experiences, facilitating research
projects, supporting scholarships and bur
saries, and creating networking opportuni
ties for faculty and students.
We also introduce some exciting new
opportunities for alumni, such as a "virtu
al" alumni gathering on the Department of
Geography Web site and a networking club
(the 5:30 Club) for those interested in busi
ness and marketing.
Equall y important, we're taking steps to
ensure that current students are aware and
appreciative of alumni contributions and
financial support.
~ The alumni membersh ip of our coll ege
~ broadens as we add some 30 graduating class
~ es from the former College of Family and
~ Consumer Studies. We have social science
i graduates from the six years of Well ington
in College and 29 years of classes from the Col
~ lege of Social Science. Still growing, our alum-
6: ni family includes 2,171more recent gradu-
ates who completed programs in CSAHS.
As alumni, you are always welcome in
the departments where you studied as well
as throughout the college. We hope to hear
from you often.
DEAN'S NOTE
WHEN EACH ISSUE OF
the CSAHS Bulletin is
mailed out, we're struck by the
large number of alumni who
work on campus, especially
here in our own college.
More than 25 of our facul
ty have Guelph degrees, includ
ing Prof. Donna Woolcott,
B.H.Sc. '69 and PhD '79, who
is now serving as assistant vice
president (academic); Prof. julia
Christensen Hughes, B.Comm.
'81, who is director of Teaching
Support Services; Brenda
Whiteside, BA '82 and MA '83,
now serving as associate vice
president (student affairs); and
As an alumni family, we are both distin
guished and challenged by our diversity. The
Ti m Mau and Laurie Malleau
one of our newest faculty, Peter
Hausdorf, MA '90, of the
Department of Psychology.
Academic counsellors Diane
Dobbins, B.A.Sc. '91, Donna
Reimer, BA '78, and Susan
Turner, BA '78 and MA '83, are
among our students' greatest
resources, while dozens of pro
fessional and clerical staff are
the right hands of faculty.
Most recently, we've wei-
CSAHS Bulletin 2 Summer 2001
ALUN )OSEPH
comed Laurie MaUeau, B.Comm.
'83, and Tim Mau, BA '92 and
MA '93, who are working in
CSAHS as alumni program and
development managers. Their
presence in the college is a con
stant reminder to faculty and stu
dents that alumni have been and
continue to be our most loyal
supporters and are among our
greatest resources.
In turn, Laurie and Tim are
resources for alumni who want
to become more involved in
their alma mater. You can reach
them by calling 519-824-4120
or by sending e-mai l to
tmau @uoguelph.ca.
Blast from the past
CHECK OUT THE NEW geography
alumni Web page to see this photo of
a 1981 undergraduate field trip to Devon
and South Wales. It's one of many photos
posted on the site to bring back great
memories of the undergraduate experi
ence in the Department of Geography and
to help launch a new virtual Guelph
Geography Alumni Association (GGAA).
The idea for a virtual alumni office was
developed by geography chair Prof. Richard
Kuhn, retired professor Phil Keddie and
alumnus Grant Lee, BA '73.
"We've had more than 2,000 graduates
of the geography program since it was estab
lished in 1966, and now the technology is
in place to regroup," says Kuhn. "The Web
site gives faculty and alumni a way to stay
in touch and continue relationships start
ed at U of G. We hope our alumni will
bookmark the GGAA Web site at
www.uoguelph.ca/geography/alumni/ggaa
and come back often to check out college
events, contact colleagues and share career
and continued learning opportunities."
The photo shows geography students and
faculty; who scaled cliffs and descended into
a coal mine together. Prof. Alun joseph orga-
nized the field trip to his home territory in
South Wales while supervising U of G's Lon
don semester, but says the first overseas
excursion for geography students still would
not have been possible without financial sup
port from alumni through the Annual Fund.
Family studies grad comes full circle WHEN SHE GRADUATED from
Guelph nearly 20 years ago, Shelley
Macdermid received a gift from a family she
had never met: a Harshman Foundation
scholarsh ip.
The foundation, established by busi
nessman H.H. Harshman and now run by
his great-nephew Peter Harshman,
B.Sc.(Agr. ) '71, and Peter's wife, Grace, has
been providing scholarships to undergrad
uate and graduate students in the Depart
ment of Family Relations and Applied
Nutrition since the early 1960s.
Macdermid says the money and recog
nition were a "big confidence booster." It's
fitting, then, that she was invited back to her
alma mater nearly two decades later as guest
speaker in the Harshman Lecture Series,
supported by the same family and founda
tion that provided her with that scholarship
those many years ago.
ln her November 2000 lecture, Macdermid
spoke about families and work, a topic that she
studied as an w1dergraduate at U of G and that
is now a primary focus of her work as direc
tor of the Center for Families at Purdue Uni
versity. The centre is similar to Guelph's Cen
tre for Families, Work and Well-Being, a
co-sponsor of the Harshman Lecture Series.
Macdermid says her visit to Guelph was
truly a "coming full circle" experience for
her and others. "I was born and raised in
Stratford, but this was my first official visit
back to Guelph since I graduated."
After receiving her B.A.Sc. in 1982, she
attended graduate school at Penn State and
later joined Purdue's faculty. She has direct
ed its Center for Families for seven years.
"I'm very pleased that U of G has the
Centre for Families, Work and Well-Being
now;' she says. "! think it's a wonderful step."
Macdermid says the purpose of facilities
like those at U of G and Purdue are to help
educate and influence those who dictate the
kind of struggles families will face.
"A key part of that is educating policy-
CSAHS Bulletin 3 Summer 2001
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makers," she says, "but equally important is
educating the general public about the
importance of families."
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CSAHS students benefit from the exper
Fred Kan, BA '99, and judy Duncan, BA
'91, centre, shared career experiences
with HAFA students at a February
careers night. Kan is a project manag
er with the Tea Council of Canada, and
Duncan is owner of JD Marketing.
SHARING CAREER EXPERIENCES
WHEN IT COMES to making career
decisions, it's a big bonus for students
to be able to talk with someone who's "been
there, done that," says Lyndsay Armstrong,
president of the CSAHS Student Alliance.
"Having access to alumni from our pro
grams who are involved in a range of careers
offers students a broader picture of what's
available to them after graduation;' she says.
"That alone is reason enough for the col
lege to make a greater effort to get alumni
involved."
Forty alumni participated in careers
night events held in February and March.
RECRUITING STUDENTS
STUDENTS IN GUELPH'S housing
and real estate management (HREM)
program tend to be a close-knit group of
highly motivated students who usually stay
in touch with each other and with faculty
long after graduation .
Terry Ellery, B.Comm. '96, says his grad
uating class tries to get together a couple of
times a year.
"You might be surprised how powerful
and handy a network of individuals special
izing in various aspects of the real estate indus
try can be;' he says. "''ve taken advantage of
it in setting up and growing my company."
Ellery is president of Guelph-based Bilt
more Homes, which posted annual revenues
of more than $3.7 million last year.
Many HREM alumni are key players in
the business and real estate industry
major banks, trust companies, property
management firms- and generally can't
say enough good things about the program.
"I feel the HREM B.Comm. gave me an
edge by educating me on the history of past
real estate and economic cycles and what
future trends may lie ahead," says Ellery. "I
put the lessons learned to use every day."
Prof. Marjorie Wall, chair of the Depart
ment of Consumer Studies, hopes to capi
talize on those positive remarks and the
strength of alumni relationships as the
department looks to double the program's
enrolment over the next few years and
enlarge its co-op stream.
SUPPORTING STUDENT TALENT
WHEN MEMBERS OF THE Mac
donald Institute class of 1949 went
looking for a 50th-anniversary project, they
decided to commission a piece of artwork
that would provide work for a U of G fine
art student while commemorating their days
at the college. A proposal from graduate stu
dent Lori Newdick won the commission;
her photo piece Essentially now hangs on
the walls of a CSAHS meeting room, where
it provides a glimpse of what college life was
like for women in 1949.
In doing research for the project,
Newdick says she found incredible stories
in a scrapbook lent to her by Nony (Hoga
rth) Denison, who is pictured in the piece.
ENCOURAGING VOLUNTEERISM
WHEN SHE WAS A STUDENT at
U of G, Theresa Firestone, B.A.Sc. '78,
spent up to 30 hours a week engaged in vol
unteer activities in the community. Recog
nizing the value of those experiences 20 years
later, she inspired the 1999 establishment of
an annual CSAHS Student Volunteer Award
CSAHS Bulletin 4 Summer 2001
that has been funded by the Harshman Fel
lowships Society and Pfizer Canada Inc. Fire
stone is now vice-president, government and
public affairs, at Pfizer in Montreal.
The inaugural award was presented to
Darlene "Dee" Cober, B.A.Sc. '99, who is now
studying at Conestoga College in Waterloo
to be a nurse practitioner. The 2000 winner,
Allison Broostad, will graduate from U of G
in 2002 with a B.A.Sc. in nutrition.
Elizabeth O'Neil
MARKETING GRADUATES
C SAHS PROFESSOR Elizabeth O'Neil,
B.A.Sc. '74 and M.Sc. '83, is finding
success with a new marketing idea. The 5:30
Club is a regular networking opportunity
for alumni, students, faculty and commu
nity professionals in marketing. The gath
erings begin with industry experts invited
to talk about hot topics in marketing- a
recent example was a discussion of how the
Internet is transforming market research. If
you're interested in attending the 5:30 Club,
call 519-824-4120, Ext. 25 72.
MAKING EDUCATION POSSIBLE Memorials
T HE FAMILY AND FRIENDS of the
late Jean Carter, DHE '38, have estab
lished a $1,000 annual undergraduate schol
arship for a gerontology student in CSAHS.
The first award will be made in September.
The endowment was funded by the
and support of alumni Carter family and donations made to the
Jean Carter Memorial Fund after her death
in 1999. She is survived by her sons, John
and Robert, B.Comm. '84.
Jean Carter was a former teacher, a mas
ter weaver and an active community vol
unteer in Kitchener, Ont. At U of G, she
served on Senate and was president of the
Mac-FACS Alumni Association. She was
instrumental in working with her Mac '38
classmates to establish a scholarship that
provides $6,000 annually to graduate stu
dents in gerontology.
Funding for bursaries and scholarships
is absolutely crucial to the mission of
CSAHS if the college is to ensure accessi
bility and quality, says development man
ager Tim Mau, BA '92 and MA '93.
Bequests
STUDENTS IN MANY CSAHS pro
grams are benefiting from undergrad
uate and graduate scholarships provided by
the estates of Audrey Yeandle, DHE '25, and
Katherine Beck, DHE '22.
The bequest from the Yeandle estate was
matched by the provincial government
through the University's ACCESS Fund,
providing $1.1 million to the college endow
ment for student aid. The Beck estate will
add $500,000 to the endowment for grad
uate scholarships.
Like jean Carter, these women were life
long Guelph supporters. Audrey Yeandle
and her sister, Mary, DHE '27, taught for
many years at the john Fisher School in
Toronto. Katherine Beck enjoyed a career as
a professional dietitian and was in charge
of the kitchen in Creelman Hall for well over
a quarter of a century.
"When you bear in mind the time in
which these women obtained their degrees
and embarked on careers, you realize that
they were true pioneers," says Mau. "The
relationships they made early on in life car
ried through the decades, and they never
forgot the friends they made at Mac, the
quality of their education or the faculty and
staff. Their generosity is heartwarming and
serves as an example to us all."
Jessica McCullough
PROVIDING CO-OP EMPLOYMENT "UoF G ALUMNI ARE OFTEN our
best co-op employers," says co-op
field co-ordinator janet Brydges. "They're
certainly our most loy2.l employers, typically
because they had a nice experience when
they were students at Guelph and because
they understand our programs."
Alumni employers often notice the co
op ad in the Guelph Alumnus magazine or
hear about the University's programs
through Career Services, or they're former
co-op students themselves, she says.
All employers today are looking for a
wide set of skills, says Brydges, and the co
op program gives them a unique opportu
nity to see the skills Guelph students have
to offer. In turn, co-op students find an eas
ier transition to the workplace, and many
graduate with a job offer already in hand.
Such is the case for Jessica McCullough,
one of the first students in U of G's mas
ter's-level co-op program in economics. She
spent two co-op placements at Ontario
Power Generation and will begin work there
when she completes her degree this spring.
"The job experience was great in terms
of providing what you can never really learn
at school- first-hand experience of how
the business world functions,' she says.
This new master's co-op program has
received a lot of response from economics
alumni, says Brydges. "It's been very nice
because we're able to connect with employ
ers who are aware of Guelph's economics
program and what it's capable of producing:'
CSAHS Bulletin 5 Summer 2001
That's a bonus for the Department of Eco
nomics, which is actively engaged in build
ing alumni contacts. An event held last fall
drew 35 graduates from as far away as Ottawa.
STRENGTHENING ALUMNI TIES
HELPING HANDS FROM ALL quarters
are supporting a new effort to strength
en ties between the College of Social and
Applied Human Sciences and its alumni.
U of G's new college-based approach to
alumni programming is supported by the
University of Guelph Alumni Association
(UGAA), which recently committed $30,000
in operating funds to support alumni ini
tiatives in CSAHS over the next three years.
Both established and emerging alumni
groups will benefit from the resources as the
college focuses on greater alumni involve
ment, says alumni program manager
Laurie Malleau, B.Comm. '83.
"The more we can do to involve alumni
in the academic life of our college, the more
our students will benefit," she says. "And the
more our students benefit, the greater the
rewards alumni will receive. We think that's
a key to strengthening relationships."
FOSTERING THE NEXT GENERATION OF ALUMNI
L YN DSAY ARMSTRONG, president of
the CSAHS Student Alliance, says she
thinks alumni support has increased dur
ing her three years as a student in the col
lege, but admits that her student govern
ment role gives her a privileged view of
alumni involvement.
"Seeing the commitment that alumni
still have even 20 to 30 years down the road
tells me that something here left a lasting
impression," she says. "I hope that impres
sion is left for me as well."
Armstrong believes it's important that stu
dents know how much alumni contribute to
the University, "whether it's renovating a build
ing, sponsoring a lecture series or financing a
scholarship. And students who feel they're
being supported now are more likely to have
a continuing interest when they graduate."
Students/faculty tap eve resources AUNIQUE OPPORTUNITY that taps
the valuable resources of the Credit Riv
er Watershed provides University of Guelph
students and faculty with the means to
atta in hands-on experience in education,
research and field work.
U of G and the Credit Valley Conserva
tion (CVC)- a publicly funded organiza
tion whose mandate is the protection and
environmental management of the Credit
River Watershed- have established a part
nership that involves two-way sharing of
resources, knowledge and expertise. This
flow of information has helped meet the
research needs of both organizations.
"The partnership gives the CVC access
to research expertise from the University,"
says geography professor John Smithers,
MA '89 and PhD '95. "And it provides
research and learning opportunities for U
of G graduate and undergraduate students
and faculty. It satisfies objectives on both
sides of the fence."
Helping to facilitate this partnership are
a number of Guelph alumni who work for
the CVC, including senior planner Mike
Puddister, MA '83. His personal connection
to the U of G faculty has been instrumen
tal in furthering and building new collabo
rative projects. Together, authorities from
the eve and students and faculty from
U of G have been working on projects such
as lake management plans, door-to-door
surveys, and targeting sites for restoration
and water-quality enhancement.
The Credit River Watershed runs from
the town of Orangeville through Erin, Cale
don, Brampton and Mississauga to Lake
Ontario, spanning a total of 1,000 square
kilometres. The Credit River itself supports
l ,500 km of tributaries, streams and creeks.
It's estimated that over the next 25 years,
urban land use within the watershed will
increase from 16 to 40 per cent. This pres
sure makes environmental management of
this vital resource even more important.
Through the partnership, Guelph
researchers have the opportunity to focus
their work on identified research priorities
in local resources management. The part
nership also provides hands-on training to
undergraduate students who want to learn
about ecological systems and the applica
tion of research in management.
In return, the CVC has access to the
environmental data and understanding that
result from this research. This knowledge
helps the eve practise informed manage
ment and make the most-educated man
agement decisions possible. The exchange
of information also allows the organization
to explore important issues and areas it nor
mally wouldn't be able to cover because of
limited expertise and resources.
For example, a group of undergraduate
students recently developed a system used
eve Forester Bob Baker, with U of G
geography students Michelle De eiccio,
centre, and Shannon Stephens.
to visually evaluate the appearance of ponds
in order to monitor the performance of new
storm-water management facilities being
implemented in the Credit Valley Water
shed.
"We like to think of the watershed as a
laboratory," says Puddister. "We're always
looking for new opportunities to work with
university departments and faculty."
BY DALE DuNCAN
Hotel executive offers insights
JOHN SHARPE, former president and
chief operating officer of Four Seasons
Hotels and Resorts, was executive-in-resi
dence at HAFA during the winter semester.
He spent a week on campus, offering
insights on a var iety of topics to about 15
classes of students at all course levels.
Sharpe, centre, also presented the inau
gural Four Seasons Entrance Scholarships to
first-year students Brennan Quesnele, left,
and Elizabeth Hilliard. Azra Bajric was the
eSAHS Bulletin 6 Summer 2001
third recipient of the $5,000 scholarsh ips,
which are awarded each year to students
entering the B.Comm. program in hotel and
food administration or tourism management.
Alumni donations to the University's
Annual Fund have helped support HAFA's
executive-in-residence program, which
brings two industry executives to campus
each year, giving students the opportunity
to hear success stories from an industry per
spective.
HAFA stretches the margins PRO F. JEFF STEWART, School of Hotel
and Food Administration, says it was a
long-term effort to manage costs while main
taining quality and value that enabled stu
dents in the HAFA restaurant program to
generate the funds needed to purchase new
chairs for the HAFA restaurant.
"It was certainly a real-world business
experience for the students and for faculty and
staff,' says Stewart, who attributes the new fur-
niture to a team effort in restaurant manage
ment. Next on his wish list are a new paint job,
silverware, new tables and more kitchen space.
"Next semester, we'll be running a full
lab of 24 students five days a week," he says.
Enrolment projections for the restaurant
class, which accommodates both HAFA and
nutrition students, suggest the demand
could nearly double to 200 students a
semester over the next few years.
HAFA already has a renovation plan that
will double the capacity of the kitchen and
enlarge the seating area from 40 to 85 patrons.
CSAHS development manager Tim Mau says
renovation costs will exceed $2.5 million.
"We hope to enlist private-sector sup
port for this project, which will enable the
HAFA program to grow with the demands
of students and the needs of the hospitali
ty industry," he says.
Gerontology student honoured CSAH S G E RO NTOLOG Y student Beth
Anne Tsourounis is the first recipient of a
U ofG citizenship award established last year
to recognize an undergraduate or graduate
student who demonstrates through volunteer
efforts a sense of personal responsibility and
commitment towards the community.
The Andre Auger Citizenship Award was
established to honour the contributions of
Andre Auger during his 27 years of service
to U of Gas director of the Counselling and
Student Resource Centre.
Tsourounis was nominated by the CSAHS
Student Alliance because of her involvement
in the University and the community. In addi
tion to spearheading the recent Heritage
Night event, Tsourounis is an executive mem-
ber of the Gerontology Students' Association
and has worked for both the Department of
Family Relations and Applied Nutrition
(FRAN) and U of G's Admission Services to
promote the B.A.Sc. program.
She has been the gerontology represen
tative for several FRAN committees, and is
a member of the gerontology task force par
ticipating in discussions about a family rela
tions degree proposed as part of the new
Guelph-Humber College initiative.
Tsourounis also works with the Guelph
Wellington Association for Community Liv
ing assisting adults with specia l needs, vis
its nursing home residents in Guelph, and
is the campus co-ordinator for the Best
Buddies Canada Program.
STUDENTS WORK TOGETHER TO RENOVATE LOUNGE
The first major project of the CSAHS Student Alliance - created through
an amalgamation of the former FACS and CSS student governments
- was to redecorate and furnish a student lounge. The Alliance received
support from the Student Life Enhancement Fund, the CSAHS Dean's
Office and Jostens Photography. At left, president Lyndsay Armstrong
and vice·president Jeff Hyslop move out the old furniture. Centre: Mar·
keting student Sean Holiday and HAFA students Karen Morrison and
lan Ricci (at the back) assemble new chairs. Right: Enjoying the fin ·
ished project are, from left, marketing student Mike Hakomaki and
HAFA students Romana Miokovic, Andrew Excel and An ish Mehra.
CSAHS Bulletin 7 Summer 2001
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Alumni and college plan for 2003 SHIRLEY SuRGEON ER, B.A.Sc. '72,
says she jumped at the chance to help
students plan the March 24 Heritage Night,
but admits she was initially surprised by
their enthusiasm to dig into the history of
Macdonald Institute, a name they may
know only from the facade of an old red
brick bui lding.
"Today's students are part of a much big
ger and more diversified college, so it sur
prises me that they have such interest in the
past;' she says, "yet many seem to be look
ing for roots to anchor their place in the
new College of Social and Applied Human
Sciences."
Surgeoner is working not just with stu
dents, but also with alumni to prepare for
the 10oth anniversary of the founding of
Macdonald Institute, slated for 2003. She
and Sarah Davenport, B.A.Sc. '90, began col
lecting photos, stories and memorabilia for
a book now being written by Prof. Jamie
Snell, History.
"It's important for us to record our his
tory so that it's not forgotten," says Sur
geoner. "What would have happened if Mac
donald Institute hadn't been established? It's
important to remember that the education
al programs that started here in 1903 have
grown and unfolded into today's dynamic
college, one that we totally support as alum
ni. Throughout its history, our college has
had an impact around the world."
CSAHS BULLETIN Summer 2001
Produced by the College of Social
and Applied Human Sciences
Contact:
Carmelina Ridi,
Tel : 519·824·4120,
Ext. 3078
Fax: 519·766·4797
E-mail: [email protected]
Web site:
www.csahs.uoguelph.ca
The Mac·FACS Alumni Association board, from left: Rosemary Clark, B.H.Sc. '59; Heather
Husnik·Osborne, B.Comm. '94; Brenda Watson, B.A.Sc. '87; Tim Mau, BA '92 and MA '93;
CSAHS dean Alun Joseph; Lyndsay Armstrong, president of CSAHS Student Alliance; Patsy
Marshall, B.A.Sc. '74; Prof. Jane Londerville, faculty liaison; Shirley Surgeoner, B.A.Sc.
'72; and Laurie Malleau, B.Comm. '83. Absent: Sandra Martin, B.H.Sc. '69.
Surgeoner and Rosemary Clark, B.H.Sc.
'59, both longtime members of the Mac
FACS Alumni Association, have volunteered
to represent a lumni on a planning com
mittee for the 2003 anniversary celebrations.
If you have ideas or time to volunteer, call
Surgeonerat 519-843-5236.
The anniversary will also include a fund-
raising project to help finance major reno
vations to the turn-of-the-century building
that housed Macdonald Institute.
"We've now turned yet another centu
ry," says dean Alun Joseph, "and find our
heritage building in need of restoration and
upgrades that will address academic needs
into the future."
Food for Thought A one-day seminar sponsored by the Mac-FACS Alumni Association
June 15, noon to 5 p.m. Springfield Golf & Country Club, Gordon Street South, Guelph
Speakers
Deborah Whale
Vice-president of Clovermead Farms
"Putting Food on Your Table"
Anita Stewart
Founder of Cuisine Canada
"Distinctively Canadian Food"
Lois Ferguson, B.A.Sc. '71
President of Malibu Consulting
"Eating for Energy and Ecstasy"
Shirley Ann Holmes, B.H.Sc. '62
Home economist and Food sty list
"Easy Bread Machine Baking"
Cost $so per person, includes lunch. Send cheque payable to Mac-FACS AA to
Rosemary Clark, 143 College Ave., Guelph, ON N1G 1S5. E-mail: [email protected]
CSAHS Bulletin 8 Summer 2001
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placed at risk over the length of a long-term
illness. Short-term life-or-death cases, such
as refusing a b lood transfusion for a child
injured in an auto accident, rarely make it
to her, she says, because the child lives or
d ies within the space of a few hours.
" In the cases where a child has a long
term illness, you have to be careful and try
and maintain that relationship with the par
ents, because otherwise the parents could
take the child and disappear. You want to
remain engaged and see a resolution to the
case that all sides can live with."
Castle faces similar challenges on the
genomics and biotechnology front. "We're
in a period right now where we have quite
entrenched positions, especially about crop
biotechnology," he says. "We have the pro-
Winter 2001 23
GMO multinationals on one side and the
anti-GMO organizations on the other, and
there's not much movement from either
polarized position."
What will ease tensions, he predicts, are
such things as incentives for multinational
companies to adopt policies that meet their
financial goals while allowing them to
donate biotechnology to poorer countries
or to create biotechnology specifically aimed
at helping developing nations.
"The University of Guelph is an incuba
tor for industry/university collaboration on
projects that can meet these objectives," he
says. "We must think now about how to devel
op and deliver these emerging technologies
so they will do the most good possible."
Harrison's education and expertise are
in constant demand. In addition to being a
departmental director, she is on the faculty
"There was some
initial suspicion.
Some doctors didn't
realize that we're
there to help them."
of pediatrics at the University of Toronto,
as well as at the School of Graduate Stud
ies, and she belongs to that university's )oint
Centre for Bioethics. She teaches all levels
of doctors-in-training, from first-year med
ical students to doctors taking upgrade
courses at Toronto, and also gives courses
in the occupational therapy department and
at the Michener Institute in Toronto. She
says bioethics is an area of growing interest
to students, and she's seen a steady increase
in the number of med students who want
to study bioethics as part of their training.
Harrison also sits on a number of hos
pital task forces. Two current ones deal with
disclosure of medical error and whether
newborn babies should be tested for drugs
if their mother was a drug user.
Expectations can run high. "The challenge
still is explaining to people what it is we do;'
24 GUELPH ALUMNUS
she says, recalling an incident several years
ago when a doctor said to her:"! hope you're
going to be able to give us some answers."
"Sometimes there is a definite answer,"
says Harrison. "Other times, we're involved
in helping people reach a decision. Our exper
tise is not what's right or wrong, but knowl
edge of ethical theory, decision-making
processes and human psychology. Sometimes
we solve a problem simply by getting both
sides to sit down and listen to each other."
Castle points out that "resolve" is a term
that doesn't always mean everyone ends up
happy. "To resolve an ethical issue means
that it is no longer a question as to what
constitutes a right action. Sometimes that
means all parties are satisfied and come to
an agreement. Other times, the resolution
is identified by all parties, but one side
remains dissatisfied with what the right
action entails."
Harrison is also the president of the 600-
member Canadian Bioethics Society, where
a chief goal of her mandate will be increas
ing the credibility of the profession. She
thinks this will be achievable, in part, by the
development of standards for the profession.
Harrison points out that, despite the title,
bioethicists are not saints, although to the mis
informed or self-conscious, they may appear
as modern-day equivalents of priest-confes
sors or nuns. Sometimes at social gatherings,
for example, people will stop swearing if she
comes into a room. On another occasion,
when she was a visitor in an operating room
and a mistake was made, one of the masked
health-care professionals said: "That would
have to happen when the bioethicist was here:'
Instead, other qualities are necessary to
the bioethicist's makeup. Both Castle and
Harrison emphasize the importance of
being able to speak your mind honestly and
openly.
The personality of the organization they
work in is also critical. Harrison and Castle
say they feel fortunate that Sick Kids and
U of G are both institutions where the orga
nizational atmosphere invites open ques
tioning and discussion.
Harrison did her MA at Guelph under
Prof. Carole Stewart, now dean of the Col
lege of Arts. She also fondly remembers
courses with Prof. Jay Newman, Philosophy.
"The philosophy I learned at Guelph gave
me the conceptual tools to work in this pro-
fession," she says.
Harrison recalls one case where she was
able afterwards to deconstruct a consultation
based entirely on pure philosophical concept.
"This was the case of a child who ulti
mately died. It was very sad. The doctors dis
agreed with each other about whether or not
to respect the family's wishes and continue
providing aggressive but futile treatment, or
to do what all health-care team members
believed was best for the child- to let her
die peacefully. Upon reflecting later as to why
the situation went so badly, I realized that the
two sides were using different philosophy in
their thinking. Some of the doctors had a
deontological philosophy, meaning duty
based, so they felt duty-bound to respect the
comfort and dignity of the child, whereas the
other doctors had a consequentialist philos
ophy. They didn't want conflict with the
"We have the pro-GMO
multinationals on one
side and the anti-GMO
organizations on
the other, and there's
not much movement
from either."
health-care team to be the final memory the
family had of their child's last days."
Harrison says the Sick Kids environment
is one of family-centred care. "We think of
the child in terms of the whole family, that
the child is part of that family, and all treat
ment is provided with this principle in mind.
So in this particular situation, the health
care team respected the parents' wishes but
afterwards experienced moral distress
what we refer to as a 'moral residue."'
Despite these individual cases that Har
rison describes as sometimes "agonizing,"
it seems she wouldn't have it any other way.
"There are so many applications for
bioethics and so much potential for this
field that it seems in my day-to-day work,
I'm always at the bottom of the learning
curve. It's one of the factors that makes mine
an incredibly interesting job." ga
• encoura re at1ons Ips U of G turns the spotlight on alumni participation
Alumni involvement in the life
of the University has taken centre stage with
the launch of a new team of alumni pro
gram officers who have moved their com
puters and their ideas into the colleges to
rub shoulders with faculty and staff and the
next generation of alumni.
"It's wonderful to be part of the acade
mic scene, the scurrying of students, bump
ing into faculty in the halls and picking up
a real sense of their priorities," says Laurie
Malleau, alumni program officer for the
College of Social and Applied Human Sci
ences. A staff member in Alumni Programs
since 1987, she says being closer to the
dean's office is also helping to increase
awareness in the college of the role alumni
play in the life of the University.
The college-based approach to alumni
programming mirrors the decentralized
structure of U of G's development team,
launched almost two years. Alumni and
development staff are now active partici.
pants in the college communities, but still
maintain a close connection to Alumni
House to facilitate major events and fund-
~ raising initiatives.
~ "U of G has a large and diverse alumni :r: ~ population, and we believe grassroots
i§ involvement is the best way for our gradu
~ ates to stay in touch with their college and
i'i:i the best way for us to encourage new rela
~ tionships;' says Rob McLaughlin, vice-pres
iS: ident (alumni affairs and development).
26 GUELPH ALUMNUS
by Mary Dickieson
If you're looking for a way to get
involved in your college, to connect with
students or to contribute as a U of G alum
ni volunteer, call one of the alumni officers.
Eventually, they'll be spreading their wings
across the country to meet and work with
you on your own turf, helping to create new
alumni groups and strengthening U of G's
existing alumni associations.
Alumni involvement at U of G takes
many forms, from speaking at a careers
night to sitting on an academic advisory
board, mentoring students, hiring students
in co-op jobs, taking a position within an
alumni association, serving as a class
agent/contact, providing scholarships, being
a contact for international students, fund
ing student leadership initiatives, advocat
ing on behalf of the University and wel
coming new graduates at convocation.
Meet the cast of alumni profes
sionals at U of G:
• Laurie Malleau, B.Comm. '83, has worked
for several years with alumni of the School
of Hotel and Food Administration and the
former College of Family and Consumer
Studies (FACS) and Macdonald Institute.
She has previous experience in the hospi
tality industry and is enjoying a new old
office in the 1904 Macdonald Institute
building.
• Carla Bradshaw, BA '88, has worked on
campus since 1987, first in the liaison area,
then moving to Alumni Programs in 1992.
She has provided professional support to
staff and alumni in several academic areas,
focusing on alumni activities in OAC since
1999. She says her new location in johnston
Hall has met with approval from alumni .
• Sam Kosakowski, B.Sc. (H.K. ) '92 and BA
'94, is alumni program officer for the Col
lege of Biological Science and College of
Physical and Engineering Science. AU of G
employee since 1990, he has worked as a
program co-ordinator and assistant BA
counsellor. He also coaches the varsity men's
lacrosse team and is currently completing
an M.Sc. in rural extension studies.
• Susan Rankin, BA '92, is a newcomer to
the University's staff but not to alumni pro
gramming. She has worked in alumni pro
grams, alumni advancement and donor
relations at McMaster University since 1995.
At U of G, she is responsible for developing
alumni programs in the College of Arts and,
through Student Affairs, will stimulate
alumni involvement in varsity athletics,
career mentoring, co-op placements and
residence life.
• Another newcomer to the alumni staff,
Andrea Pavia, B.Comm. '97, brings experi
ence as a manager in the hospitality indus
try and as a manager of customer service for
the Royal Bank Financial Group. As aU of
G student, she was co-ordinator of the job
shadowing program and president of the
FACS student association. She is now facili-
Keep in touch with your college:
Carla Bradshaw, OAC alumni officer .... ..... [email protected]
Sam Kosakowski, CBS/CPES alumni officer ...... [email protected]
Laurie Malleau, CSAHS alumni officer .. ......... [email protected]
Andrea Pavia, OVC alumni officer ............... [email protected]
Susan Rankin, Arts alumni officer ....... .. .. [email protected]
tating alumni program activities for OVC.
• Supporting this team from Alumni
House are Vikki Tremblay as alumni pro
gram ass istan t and Jennifer Brett, recent
ly hired in a new position as alumni events
and communications co-ordinator. Trem-
blay has worked in administrative posi
tions at U of G for the past seven years.
Brett comes to Guelph from UN ICEF
Ontario and brings experience in com
munity relations, event co-ordination and
communications.
Michael Somerville also played a central
role in establishing the new staff structure
as director for alumni programs, but has
since left the Un iversity.
The five alumn i officers will support
constituent alumni groups, co-o rdin ate
alumni participation in co llege activities,
and work with Alumni House staff to
maintain U of G's long tradition of host
ing popular events such as Alumni Week
end and Homecoming, supporting class
reunions and providing direct support
for the University of Gue lph Alumni
Association. ga
Winter 2001 27
UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH
ALUMNI VO LUNT EE RS
1\lumni·in-Action board members and volunteers. Front row, front left: Barbara Colter, BA '83 ; Dorothy Collin, B.H.Sc. '6o; and Jean King, B.H.Sc. '52. Ba
row: Doug King; Bill Brack, DVM '49; Russ McDonald, DVM '45; Stan Young, BSA '49; Paul Pennock, DVM '58; George Fleming, DVM '52; and Bruce Stan
BSI\ '53 and MSA '54. Board members who were absent: Earl Gagnon, ADA '58; Ann Smith, BSA '52; Bill Richards, BSA '63; and Murray Woods, BSA '5
>-
ALUMNI-IN-AGION SAYS IT ALL
ONE OF THE MOST effective alumni
groups at U of G is called simply Alum
ni-in-Action. Its members are primarily retired
people who work often behind the scenes with
a willingness to roll up their sleeves to the tasks
t:;; that make their helping programs indispens-
: able to the University and its students.
~ One of the most striking examples is the
~ dedication of readers who tape textbooks, lee
~ tures and papers for students with disabili
~ ties. jean King, B.H.Sc. '52, and her husband,
~ Doug, have been readers for three years, and
28 GuELPH ALUMNUS
she has recruited many other alumni volun
teers for the U of G Library program. The
Kings have read a variety of material from
economics and geography to agriculture and
English, and teamed up last year to read an
entire English novel of the 1700s.
Multiply their effort by a group of up to
22 volunteer readers. In one semester alone,
the group taped five full textbooks, 136
chapters and 47 individual articles, an esti
m ated 5,500 pages representing more than
500 hours of work.
"Doug and I do a lot of volunteer work;'
says King. "We're both retired teachers. 0 all the volunteer work I've done, I cancer
tainly say this is the most gratifying." It 's also
interesting work and helps ho ne read in
and diction ski lls, she says. ''I' ll continue to
read as long as there is read ing required."
Although these volunteers may never mee
the students they're helping, another Alum·
ni-in-Action project brings students an
alumni face to face. Twice a year, the organi·
zation hosts a dinner for international stu·
dents. The alumni hosts tell stories about cam
pus history, share folklore and offer a friendly
atters HIGHLIGHTS • GRAD NEWS • OBITUARIES • CALENDAR
LACROSSE PLAYERS FORM ASSOCIATION
I\ GRouP oF FoRM E R U of G lacrosse players got together
t"\Iast summer to form the Gryphon Lacrosse Alumni Associa
tion. Their goals are to foster interest and support for the current
lacrosse program at the University and to provide an opportunity
for lacrosse alumni to stay in touch with one another.
An inaugural event Sept. 29 to Oct. 1 had 24 alumni players
challenging the current U of G varsity men's lacrosse team. Alum
ni came from as far away as Texas and Nova Scotia, says organizer
Sam Kosakowski, B.Sc. (H.K.) '92 and BA '94, who is the current
vars ity coach and aU of G alumni program officer.
With their families, the lacrosse alumni enjoyed a Friday night
a current project.
get-together, dinner at Gryphs Lounge after Saturday's game and
an evening at the Great Canadian Brewing Festival, an annual com
munity event held in the U of G arena. The lacrosse weekend was
supported by U of G's Department of Athletics, Gryphs Lounge,
the Process Mechanical Group and Molson's.
The newly elected Gryphon Lacrosse Alumni Association
executive includes Kosakowski; jeff Snyder; Dave Campbell, BA
'97; Mark Walker, B.Comm. '91 and M.Sc '95; and john
VanSlingerland, B.Comm '99. If you're a U of G lacrosse alum
ni, visit the group's Web site at www.uoguelph.ca/-lacrosse or
call Kosakowski at 519-824-4120, Ext. 4703.
face to answer questions and help Guelph's
international students feel at home. Alumni
in-Action president Stan Young, BSA '49, says
the fall event draws up to 150 students.
Young is also a new recruit for a long
standing Alumni-in-Action service program
with the library archives. For many years,
alumni have volunteered in the archives to
help care for rare leather books, identify
photographs and classify new material. The
Rural Heritage Collection transferred from
the Ontario Farm Museum last summer is
"It takes a long time to go from a pile of
boxes to a format that can be catalogued in
the library and made available so people can
use it;' says Young. "I hope to do more work
on that collection."
by Ed Brubaker, BSA '49. He recorded the
memories of Tom McEwan, the first person
to chair the University's Board of Governors,
and travelled to Massachusetts to interview
retired economist john K. Galbraith, BSA '31.
The Alumni-in-Action oral history tapes
are available at Alumni House and in the
library archives.
The project for which Alumni-in-Action
may be best known is a collection of histori
cal audio tapes containing interviews with
several dozen alumni, faculty and volunteers
about their early campus experiences. Two of
the most recent additions were contributed
If you're interested in joining this active
helping group, contact U of G Alumni Pro
grams at 519-824-4120, Ext. 6544, or by
e-mail at [email protected].
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alumni Matters TEXAS GRADS MAKE THE GUELPH CONNECTION
THE FIRST U OF G Texas alumni reunion drew 24 people to San Anto
nio March 10. Grads came from Arthur
City, Deer Park, Dallas, Houston, Austin,
Brownsville and surrounding areas to
make the Guelph connection. Ted Freeman, ADA '56, and his wife,
Shirley, organized the event, and OAC act
ing dean Tom Michaels was guest speaker. Those attending were enthusiastic about
making the Texas reunion an annual event,
so an organizing committee for next year
was formed: Elaine Hernandez, Charlotte
Kerr Jorgensen, George Sprankle, Paul Bay
er, Federico Villamayor and Freeman. If you'd like to receive information on
this newly established Texas alumni chap
ter or to ensure you're on the mailing list
for the 2002 reunion, call Carla Bradshaw at 519-824-4120, Ext. 6657, or send e-mail to [email protected] guelph.ca.
Front row, from left: Paulette Samson, OAC director of development; Elaine Hernandez, BA '74;
Anne Louise McPhail-Smith, BA '89; Charlotte Kerr Jorgensen, BA '73; Carla Bradshaw, OAC
alumni program officer. Back row: Tom Michaels, OAC acting dean; Paul Bayer, ADA '61; Janet Hunter, BA '74; Greg Levens, DVM '95; Federico Villamayor, PhD '84; Ted Freeman, ADA '56;
and George Sprankle, DVM '51.
CSAHS STUDENTS HOST HERITAGE EVENT
A group of College of Social and Applied Human Sciences students enlisted help from
college staff and alumni to host a unique heritage event March 24 that highlighted the
beginnings of the college as Macdonald Institute. Almost 200 people attended. Members of the Heritage Night committee were, from left: student Paula Black; Laurie Mal
leau, B.Comm. '83, and alumni program officer for CSAHS; Kate Revington, former B.A.Sc. aca
demic counsellor; Shirley Surgeoner, B.A.Sc. '72; and students Lyndsay Armstrong, president of the CSAHS Student Alliance, Arnie Phillips, Sarah Hill and Beth-Anne Tsourounis. Prof. Marg
Hedley, Family Relations and Applied Nutrition, was unavailable for the photo.
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HONG KONG ALUMNI MEET
AMAY 19 RECEPTION for U of G
alumni in Hong Kong was hosted by
Prof. Alun joseph, dean of the College of
Social and Applied Human Sciences, and
Prof. John Walsh, associate dean of the Fac
ulty of Management Studies, who intro
duced Guelph's new Internet-based master
of management studies program (MMS) . The distance education program is geared
to mid-career professionals in the hospital
ity and tourism industries and builds on a
residential MMS launched in 1992.
Hong Kong alumni who helped orga
nize the event include Douglas Barber,
vice-president and general manager of the
Century Hong Kong Hotel and a certificate holder from Guelph's Advanced Manage
ment Programs m the Hospitality Industry; Patsy Leung, B.Comm. '95, busi
ness development manager for the Grand Hyatt; and Kallista Wong, BA '92, who
works for the English School Foundation
in Hong Kong.
If you live in Hong Kong and want to ensure that your name is on the mailing list for future alumni events, send e-mail to
Laurie Malleau at [email protected].
UGAA HONOURS GOLDEN GRADS
NOT o LY w1 LL THE OAC Class of
1951 celebrate its 50th anniversary dur
ing Alumni Weekend june IS to 17, but it
will also celebrate the individual achieve
ments of class members Ken Hammill and
Clayton Switzer as they receive special hon
ours from the University of Guelph Alum
ni Association (UGAA).
Hammill will be named Alum n us of
Honour, and Switzer will receive the UGAA
Alumni Volunteer Award during the June 16
President's Luncheon.
Hammill will be recognized for his con
tributions to education, research, environ
mental conservation and culture. His rela
tionship with his alma mater has intertwined
with a professional career in business,
involvement in municipal government,
membership in the National Research Coun
cil and his persona l interest in bui lding an
important collection of Inuit art at the Mac
donald Stewart Art Centre.
Switzer's OAC '51 classmates have
brought attention to his volunteer leadership
on behalf of their class, the many agricultural
organizations that have benefited from his
involvement and his work to address the
financial needs of OAC and the University.
Student scholarships, the Turfgrass Research
Institute, the Rutherford Conservatory green
house, the OAC '51 garden and the Univer
sity's Annual Fund have all benefited from
Switzer's enthusiasm and fund-raising skills.
Also at the President's Luncheon, the
Ontario Veterinary Col lege Alumni Associ
ation will recognize jim Archibald, DVM '49,
as its Distinguished Alumnus. A pioneering
surgeon during his faculty career at OVC, he
has made innumerable contributions to the
profession and to veterinary education,
including his work on an OVC '49 class com
mittee that raised more than $200,000 for
scholarships and bursaries. Archibald has also
been active in politics and charitable work.
U OF G NEEDS SKI COACH T H E U oF G NoR o 1 c sk i team needs a
coach so it can reapply for varsity status for
the 2001/2002 season. If you're interested in
physical activity, Nordic skiing and working
with young athletes, contact team members
Alumni Weekend 2001 Through the Lens of Time
FRIDAY, JUNE 15
10 a.m. OVC Symposium, Cliff Barker, DVM '41 1:30 p.m. Food for Thought Luncheon and Lecture Series
5:30p.m. Welcome Barbecue • 9:15p.m. Stargazing Party Class Reunions and Hospitality Events
SATURDAY, JUNE 16 Constituent Alumni Association Meetings
11 a.m. College of Arts Alumni Association Recognition Noon President's Luncheon and Alumni Awards Presentation
2 p.m. Trolley Tours of Campus 3 p.m. UGAA 35th -Anniversary Celebration and AGM
3 p.m. Mills Hall Plaque Dedication to OAC '71 Launch of OAC '71 and '72 Anniversary Project
6 p.m. Golden Anniversary Dinner • Silver Anniversary Dinner Class Reunions and Hospitality Events
SUNDAY, JUNE 17 9:30a.m. Ecumenical Service • 9:45a .m. Farewell Breakfast
For program details, contact Alumni Programs at 519-824-4120, Ext. 6544, or vikkit@alumni .uoguelph.ca.
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alumni Matters
FIRST-TIME ALUMNI GATHERINGS HELD IN WEST INDIES
U OF G's INTERNATIONAL liaison co-ordinator, Mary Haggar
ty, BA '90, donned her alumni hat last fall during a recruit
ment visit to the West Indies. She hosted successful alumni gath
erings in Trinidad, Barbados and St. Lucia, but was disappointed
when no one showed up in the Bahamas and Jamaica. She found
out why when she got back to Guelph- the invitations hadn't
arrived on time. "I guess Canada isn't the only co_untry with snail
mail;' says Haggarty, who hosted these first-ever West Indies
alumni events on behalf of Guelph's Alumni Programs office.
"Next time we'll mail the invitations much earlier."
The Canadian High Commission helped co-ordinate the Barbados
event, which included, from left, Sandra Hastings, B.H.Sc. '69; Jean
McCardle, M.Sc. '93; Geoffrey Goddard, ADA '79; Katalin Goddard,
B.A.Sc. '8o; and Martin Taylor, B.Sc.(Agr.) '88.
In St. Lucia, Mary Haggarty met, from left, Francis Leonce, BSA '62
and MSA '64; Jahn Sifflet, B.Comm. '99; Keith Scotland, DVM '79;
Trudy Leonce-Joseph, B.Sc. '85; Michael Montrose, DVM '79; a guest;
and Donnalyn Charles, B.Sc.(Agr.) '97.
OVC alumni John Fernandes, DVM '8o, and Roger D'Abadie, DVM '81, organized a large gathering of almost so people in Trinidad.
NOTICE OF AGM THE UNIVERSITY OF GuELPH Alumni
Association will hold its annual general
meeting June 16 at 3 p.m. at the
Macdonald Stewart Art Centre. Members
will consider an amendment to the bylaws
of the association.
Bylaw # 3 a) Classification. Regular
Members.
Under the section titled " Regular
Members," add a new clause: "All persons
who have completed a certificate/diploma
program offered by the University of
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Guelph that has been approved for mem
bership by resolution of the UGAA board."
FLORIDA REUNION DRAWS 88 ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL Florida alumni
reunion was held March 7 at Maple Leaf
Estates in Port Charlotte. Organizers Donald,
DVM '49, and Betty Way welcomed 88 guests,
including U of G's vice-president (a lumni
affairs and development), Rob McLaughlin,
B.Sc.(Agr.) '69 and PhD '77, who was the
guest speaker. Morley Funston, BSA '32, rep
resented the earliest class, and OAC '51 had
the most members in attendance.
FINDING BEAUTY IN THE ARBORETUM THE CLASS OF OAC '56 will commemorate
its 45th anniversary June 16 by dedicating
the OAC '56 Park in the Garden project at
the Arboretum.
Class members have contributed more
than $69,000 to the project, which includes
dedication of the park, 13 specimen trees
and a double arbour at the southwest cor
ner of the park boundary.
GRAD N EWS
What's after Gryphon hockey?
From left: Matt Mullin, Kevin MacDonald, Paul Rosebush and Jason Reesor
• There's no doubt about it. Winning the 1997 University
Cup championship ranks as the
all-time Gryphon hockey high
light.
The Gryphons dominated Canadian university hockey dur
ing the 1990s, finishing second
in Canada in 1994 and 1995 and defeating the University of New
Brunswick in Maple Leaf Gar
dens to win their first national
championship in March 1997.
Where are those hockey
Gryphons now? Amazingly, five
members of the 1997 champi
onship team are still playing
1940 • John Kerr, ADA '40, lives in
retirement in Barry, South
Glamorgan, Wales. He was for
merly self-employed in garden
ing, painting and decorating enterprises. Friends can contact
him by e-mail at irvine.kerr@
tesco.net.
• Ian Taylor, DVM '43, says this
photo captures the first time he's
treated a horse since graduation
from OVC. The fibreglass pony is covered with hands spelling
out sign language for the deaf,
hockey together ... in sunny Cal
ifornia! J.P. Davis, Matt Mullin,
jason Reesor, Paul Rosebush and
Bill Monkman skate with the
Bakersfield Condors in the West
Coast Hockey League, which
includes professional teams based in eight cities stretching
from Phoenix, Ariz., up the west coast to Anchorage, Alaska.
The Bakersfield team boasts
14 Canadian players, most from
southern Ontario, and head
coach Kevin MacDonald grew
up in Guelph. He played hock
ey in Ottawa and with several
AHL teams and began coaching
and was the Arlington Heights
Lions Club entry in the com
munity's 2000 Ponies on Parade
Festival. Taylor has posted a per-
in the Colorado Avalanche sys
tem. MacDonald was well aware
of Gryphon hockey talent, hav
ing worked for Gryphon coach
Marlin Muylaert at several U of
G training camps in the 1990s.
MacDonald signed Reesor,
Rosebush and Briane Thomp
son in 1999, Davis and Mullin
in 2000, and Monkman in
2001. Thompson has since moved from California to Flori
da, where he's a member of the
Pensacola Solar Bears of the
East Coast Hockey League.
What's next for these players? Apart from the obvious
hope of making the NHL, the
five Condors have a variety of
options. Rosebush is already
branching into other sports. He
played on the Canadian softball team at the 1999 Pan Am
Games and plays professional
fastball each summer. Davis
gained some modelling experience while playing hockey in
Europe, and Monkman did
some radio broadcasting while
playing in Georgia. Reesor plans
to become a teacher, and Mullin
hopes to return to Guelph, pos
sibly as a firefighter.
feet attendance record with the
Illinois Lions Club for 42 years.
1950 • Charles "Chuck" Broadwell,
BSA '54, received a citation last
fall from the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural
Affairs for his contributions to
Ontario's agri-food industry as
chair of the Farm Organizations
Accreditation Tribunal, vice
chair of the Farm Products
Appeal Tribunal, and member of
the Ontario Drainage Tribunal
and Board of Negotiations.
• William Shaw, BSA '57, is
retired but enrolled in a school
of Scottish studies. He is also a member of Lions International,
the Fraternal Order of Eagles and the C!Jnadian Historical
Society and is a volunteer for
the Canadian Cancer Society.
• Ted Wiffen, BSA '54, and his
wife, Joan, live in Guelph's Vil
lage by the Arboretum, where
they are enjoying retirement and their three grandchildren. Their
son, David, B.Comm. 1986, is an
area manager with Payless Shoes and lives in Georgetown, Ont., with his wife, Diane, and son,
Scott. The Wiffens' daughter, Janice Schweizer, B.A.Sc. '82, is a
senior human resources consul
tant in Mississauga, Ont., and has two children, Kristy and Andrew.
1960 • Mary (Jarrott) Cassar, BA '68,
is retired after a 25-year career
as a court reporter. She lives in
St. George, Ont., with her husband, Ted, and is returning to
an earlier interest in painting
and sketching.
• Anthony "Tony" Crocker, B.Sc.(Agr.) '67, of Lindsay, Ont.,
retired from teaching at Lindsay
Collegiate and Vocational Insti
tute in 1998 after teaching sec
ondary school physics for 31
years. He has started a new career
as a freelance photographer.
1970 • Ewen Ferguson, DVM '77, was recognized last fall for contri
butions to his profession and
community when he received
the practitioner of the year
award from the An1erican Asso
ciation of Bovine Practitioners.
He is the first Ontario veteri
narian to be so honoured. After
graduation, Ferguson bought
into a vet practice in Campbellford, Ont., became sole owner
in 1980 and sold the practice to
Kathy Wilkins, B.Sc.(Agr.) '83
and DVM '87, in 1994. He con
tinues to consult for Ontario
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Dairy Herd Improvement and
is active as a community volun
teer, currently chairing the
Campbellford Health Centre
Board.
• On Jan. 13, 2001, Maureen
(Stonestreet) Hair, BA '77, was
ordained to holy orders at St.
James Anglican Church in
Gravenhurst, Ont. She and her
husband, Ralph, live in Dorset,
and she is ministering to the
Lake of Bays Anglican Parish on
a part-time basis. Hair is also a
self-employed registered reha
bilitation professional, helping
workers return to the labour
market after injury or illness.
• Don Massey, B.Sc.(Agr.) '78,
is seed distribution manager for
Mycogen Seeds in Illinois. He
lives in Normal with his wife,
Sharon, and children, Chris,
Kyle and Alicia.
• Jay Nisbet, B.Comm. '76,
accepted a new position last fall
as director of international
business development for U.S.
based Healthpoint, Ltd., a man
ufacturer and distributor of tis
sue management and infection
prevention products. He was
formerly director of interna
tional franchise development at
Johnson & Johnson for 21
years. Nisbet lives in Colleyville,
Tex., with his wife, Anne, and
their three sons.
• Bill Parish, ADA '72, is one of
the organizers of a 50th-anniver
sary celebration for Pickering
High School in Ajax, Ont. He
says many of his high school
classmates also attended U of G
and he hopes to see them at the
June 8 to 10 reunion. For more
information, call him at 905-
683-2003 or send e-mail to
www.pickeringhighschool.com.
• Helen (Campbell) Pelton,
M.Sc. '74, is a lawyer in Hamil
ton, Ont.
• Margaret Peter, BA '74, has
retired from teaching in the ele
mentary school system, but
continues to teach printmaking
at Wilfrid Laurier University in
GRAD NEWS UPDATE FORM
Waterloo, Ont. She plans sever
al exhibitions of her own work
this year and will be part of the
Guelph Studio Tour. To view
some of her work, visit the Web
sites www.art-in-guelph.com
and www.artcanadiana.com
• Christopher Terry, BA '70,
was recently appointed director
of the Canada Science and Tech
nology Museum Corporation in
Ottawa. The corporation over
sees the Canada Science and
Technology Museum, the Cana
da Agriculture Museum and the
Canada Aviation Museum, of
which Terry had served as direc
tor general since june 1989.
• Lynne VanWyck, B.A.Sc. '73,
and her husband, Peter, built a
reputation in the hospitality
industry as owners of the Gin
gerbread House, a restaurant and
bakery in Port Dover, Ont. Last
summer, they moved the busi
ness to Cayuga near the Ruthven
Park National Historic Site on
Highway 54. The Gingerbread
House is now a country inn and
restaurant, open daily for lunch
and dinner and welcoming
overnight visitors to its Grand
River location. Contact the Van
Wycks at [email protected].
• Fred Vaughn, B.Sc.(Agr.) '78,
is president and general man
ager of Vaughn Agricultural
Research Services Ltd. in Cam
bridge, Ont. He and his wife,
Annette, have two teen-aged
children.
• Heidi (Higgon) Wilker,
B.Comm. '76, left the Delta
Meadowvale in Mississauga,
Ont., in 1999 after almost 10
years in conference services to
start her own home-based busi
ness as an event planner. Blessed
Events provides meeting and
conference planning tailored for
religious organizations. Her
husband, Don, B.Comm. '75, is
a chartered accountant and has
worked in Brampton for the
past 19 years. They invite
Guelph alumni to get in touch.
1980 • Amarinder Singh Bawa, PhD
'83, is director of the Defence
Food Research Laboratory in
Mysore, India, under the Min
istry of Defence. He has three
children: a son in lOth class; a
daughter studying electronics
and communication engineer
ing; and a son working in Cana
da as an electrical engineer.
• Cindy Brewer, BA '83, is an
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associate professor of geography
at Pennsylvania State Universi
ty. She is currently on sabbatical
in Washington, D.C., working
with the U.S. Census Bureau on
an atlas of the 2000 census. She
is married to David DiBiase.
• Wayne Bridge, BA '85, is a
music teacher and performer
who lives in Fergus, Ont. His lat
est CD is A Year on the Grand, on which he performs his own
compositions on solo guitar.
• Terry (Male) Christiansen,
B.Sc.(Agr.) '83, was married last
August, with OAC classmates
Alice, Heather and Jan helping
to celebrate the occasion with
friends and family. Terry and
her husband, Robert, live in
Ajax, Ont. After 15 years of
working at the Toronto Zoo,
she left to pursue a new career
in respiratory therapy.
• Michel Delorme, B.Sc.(Agr.)
'88, is a greenhouse adviser at the
Quebec Institute for the Devel
opment of Ornamental Horti
culture. He lives in lverville with
his wife, Danielle, and daughters,
Marie-Eve and Amelie.
• Paul Doig, B.Sc.(H.K.) '83,
teaches high school chemistry
and biology in Peterborough,
Ont. He has three sons, and he
and his wife, Edwina, are plan
ning to open a bed and break
fast in 2004.
• Lim-Lim (Yap) Dwm,BA '86,
has worked in the financial
industry for the past 12 years,
has been a certified financial
p lanner for three years and is
currently a financial adviser
with Imperial Services of CIBC
in Waterloo, Ont. She is mar
ried to Gary Dunn, BA '88, and
they share their home with
Duke and Max, a yellow lab
cross and a chocolate lab.
• Brendan Elder, ADA '85, is a
landscape technologist at the
University of British Columbia.
He and his wife, Angelica Beis
sel, will celebrate their second
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anniversary in August.
• Paul Gicheru, M.Sc.(Eng.)
'86, is a water resources engineer
with Kenya's Ministry of Envi
ronment and Natural Resources
water department in Nairobi.
He'd like to hear from former U
of G colleagues at P.O. Box
30828, 00100-Nairobi, Kenya.
• Tom Goodwin, B.Sc. '84, is a
wildlife biologist who has
worked in offshore fisheries data
collection and surveillance, as
well as in whale research and
rescue from fishing nets. He is
currently running Ocean Explo
rations Whale Cruises in Tiver
ton, N.S.
• Eric Griffin, BA '82, went on
from U of G to earn an M.Div.
from the University of Toronto
in 1985, an M.Th. from the Uni
versity of Waterloo in 1993 and
a doctor of theology in system
atic theology from Toronto in
2000. His dissertation, "Daniel
Brevint and the Eucharistic
Calvinism of the Caroline
Church of England, 1603-1674;'
was recommended for publica
tion, and an abridgement of the
first chapter was published in
the fall2000 edition of Anglican and Episcopal History. He has
been rector of St. Margaret's
Church in Hamilton, Ont., for
six years, has guest lectured in
history at McMaster University
and supervised field education
students for McMaster Divinity.
His wife, Margaret, is project
manager of the Collected Works
of Florence Nightingale Project
located at U of G.
• Michael Jones, BA '81, teach
es Eng I ish in a private girls'
school in Sendai, Japan.
• Grant Joyce, B.Sc.(Agr.) '80,
operates a small pineapple farm
in Antigua. He is married with
three children, Elizabeth, David
and Kay Ia, and invites U of G
alumni to visit Claremont
Farms outside Old Road Vil
lage, Antigua, West Indies.
• Heather (Reese) Koerber, is a
sales representative with Merck
Frosst Canada and recently
transferred from Ontario to
Nova Scotia. She now lives in
Stillwater Lake with her husband,
Rob, and three children, Lauren,
Reese and Drew. She would love
to hear from former classmates
• Angela (Morton) Littke
mann, ADA '81, has been mar
ried for 11 years to Martin, a
graduate of Kemptville College.
They operate a dairy farm near
Stirling, Ont., where she says
they "milk 45 Ayrshires and
pander to about 70 purebred
barn cats protected by watch
dogs Sam and Weezy!"
• Wally MacDonell, B.Sc.(Agr.) '89, works in client services for
ScotiaMcLeod in Kanata, Ont.
He married Catherine Dawn
Lisson April26, 2000, at Crane
Beach in the Barbados. Their
family includes four children.
• Mary McBeath , BA '83, is
teaching English at a small pri
vate school in the Bahamas. She
says life is busy but enjoyable as
a single mother to Rebecca,
Thomas and Dylan. Spare time
is spent on the beach or acting
and directing drama productions
at a community church. She
would love to hear from former
classmates at Mary_mama@
yahoo. com.
• Alan Metcalfe, ADA '83,
works as a millwright and lives
in Oshawa, Ont., with his wife,
Deb Dart, and son, Mitchell.
• Christopher Minard, B.A.Sc.
'89, is a strategic accounts man
ager in San Jose, Calif. Over the
past 10 years, he's also Jived in
South Africa, Montreal and San
Diego and would like to catch
up with U of G friends and
football teammates. He can
be contacted by e-mail at
• Albert O'Donnell, BA '82, is
a retired teacher and artist liv-
ing in Burlington, Ont.
• Leo Pellizzari, BA '84 and MA
'86, is an elementary school
principal for the Waterloo
Catholic District School Board.
He lives in Guelph with his wife,
Renee, and two children, Nathan
and Kaela, and says he's often
reminded of his good times as a
student when biking through
the campus with his family.
• Kathleen (Beeton) Power,
M.Sc. '88, has three children
and is a marriage and family
therapist in Edmonton.
• Julia (Vousden) Ruhl, B.Sc. '88,
is a regional co-ordinator with
the Canadian Food Inspection
Agency. She lives in Tottenham,
Ont., with her husband, Jeff, and
son, Noah. They enjoy travelling,
hiking and skiing, and she is
training a young horse for show.
• Roger Russell, B.Sc.(Agr.) '81,
is a program director for the
Canadian Co-operative Associa
tion, working on a three-year
community development project
in Indonesia. His wife, Catherine,
and daughters, Allison and Cat
rina, are also enjoying the expe
rience in Jakarta. Contact him at
rrussell@cca jak.or.id.
• Shelley, B.A.Sc. '88, and
Freeman Sweazey, B.Sc.(Agr.)
'87, moved to Barrie, Ont., last
summer when he was trans
ferred from Pangnirtung,
Nunavut, to Newmarket with the
RCMP. They have four children:
Luke, Ash lee, Sam and jack.
• Elizabeth "Betty" Szilassy,
B.Sc.(Agr.) '82, is an agronomist
and has been a rural develop
ment worker with the Men
nonite Central Committee in
Brazil's northeast region for 18
years. She recently moved from
Tacaimb6 to Brejo da Madre de
Deus, where she is involved in
a sustainable agriculture pro
gram with small-scale farmers,
concerned with organic veg
etable production and market
ing and water resource devel-
opment, especially cistern con
struction. She will visit Canada
this summer, and friends can
contact her in Ontario at 519-
369-5392 or 519-659-4274.
• David Waltner-Toews, PhD
'85, a professor in OVC's Depart
ment of Population Medicine,
published a new poetry book last
fall. The Fat Lady Struck Dumb is available in most bookstores.
• Yvonne Tremblay, B.A.Sc. '80,
is a freelance food and nutrition
consultant in Toronto. She
recently published her first
cookbook, Prizewinning Pre
serves, with Prentice Hall.
1990 • Tim Abercrombie, B.Comm.
'94, worked for an independent
telecommunications company
in Toronto for 2 1/2 years after
graduation, then moved to Bell
Canada in a similar position. He
served the southwestern Ontario
market, then the greater Toron
to area. Last fall, he joined Nor
tel Networks as a senior market
ing specialist, focusing on
corporate marketing. He lives in
Caledon and can be reached by
e-mail at [email protected].
• Kelly Brisbin-Harris, BA '96,
is a claims adjuster in Toronto
and is married to Brian Harris.
She welcomes notes from
friends at [email protected]
ninghamlindsey.com.
• Duncan Burns, B.Sc.(Agr.)
'93, is a police constable with
the city police service in
Edmonton.
• Alain Carriere, B.Sc. '95, and
Alanna Wall announce the birth
of their son, Thomas, on jan.
14,2001. Carriere is a technical
representative with Dionex
Canada Ltd. in Calgary and can
be reached by e-mail at
• Paul Clutterbuck, B.Comm.
'93, is manager of technology
for the AMG Group and has
lived in Woodbridge, Ont., since
getting married last year. He
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B.Comm. graduates.
• Jenn (Broome) Cousineau, ADA '99, lives in Guelph with
her husband, Jean-Paul, and
son, Jake, and works at ESG
International. Contact her byemail at [email protected].
• Jeff Emch, B.Sc. '96, and Gillian (Barrick), BA '96, moved
from Toronto to Stewartsville,
N.J., when he received a promo
tion with Roche Diagnostics.
She recently earned a certificate
in marketing from Ryerson Uni
versity and plans to continue her career in marketing in the States.
• Tom Everitt, BA '92, says hel
lo to fellow drama graduates.
"Gosh, how I miss Guelph sometimes (sigh)." He is a real
estate agent in Vancouver.
• David Gibson, BA '95, is writ
ing and producing a series of
children's history programs for
TVOntario and is the head writer
for a new television talk show.
• David Heath, BA '95, and his wife, Rhea, recently moved from
Toronto to Cambridge, Ont. He
is the operations manager at
Teknic 88 Marketing, a compa
ny focused on e-business.
• Craig Hennigar, MA '95, and
his wife, Susan, had their first
child, Lauren Victoria, Jan. 19, 2001. They live in North Van
couver, B.C., where Craig is a
real estate consultant.
• Robert Intine, PhD '99, is a
post-doctoral fellow in the
Department of Scientific Dis
covery at the National Institute
of Child Health and Human
Development in Bethesda, Md.
He published an article on molecular growth regulation in the
journal Molecular Cell in August
2000.
• Jennifer Jackson, B.Sc. '92, is an environmental lawyer with
the newly amalgamated City of
Ottawa. She says she's a proud homeowner with two "awe
some" cats and enjoys paddling
38 GuELPH ALUMNUS
her homemade sea kayak
around eastern Ontario. U of G
friends can contact her at Jennifer.}[email protected].
• Ruth Johnson, BA '91, and
her partner, Alex Campbell, work for J.P. Morgan in London,
England, in investment banking.
• Thomson Kalinda, M.Sc. '93 and PhD '97, was recently
appointed head of the Depart
ment of Agricultural Econom-. ics and Extension Education at
the University of Zambia. He
was the first graduate of
Guelph's PhD program in rur
al extension studies.
• Susan Kloepper, BA '92,
taught English and German in
the Czech Republic for two years
after graduating from U of G. She
then went on to obtain certifica
tion in translation in Wiirzburg,
Germany. In 2000, she received
her post-graduate certificate in
education in English, drama and
information technology from the University of Exeter in Devon,
England. She is now teaching
English at Bideford College in Devon and working on a master's
degree in education from Exeter.
• Donna (Leonard) Lange, ADA '97, is a communication
programs co-ordinator for the
Dairy Farmers of Ontario. She
was married in October to Karl
Lange.
• Elizabeth Leal, BA '93, is
associate director of residence life at Queen's University in
Kingston, Ont. She was for
merly in residence facilities at
the University of Windsor.
• Joe Marino, BA '92, was a teacher and department head of
music at two schools in Sweden
for five years, but is now a com
puter consultant for Sigma Infor
mation Designs in Stockholm. He and his wife, Susanne, have a
two-year-old son, Alexander.
• Becky (Miller) Madill, B.A.Sc. '95, and her husband, David,
welcomed their first child,
Alexandria Hannah Belle, Nov . 3, 2000. Madill lives in Fordwich,
Ont., teaches Grade 3 for the
Avon Maitland District School Board and can be reached by e
mail at [email protected].
• Laura Majic, BA '91, is the owner of Majic Farms near
Mount Forest, Ont., where she raises alternative livestock and
exotic animals such as Bengal
cats, sugar gliders and hedge
hogs. She sells organic meat,
emu and ostrich meat and nat
ural products such as soaps, lip
balms and bath accessories at the St. Jacob's Farmers' Market and
via the Internet at www.emu
majic.com.
• Monique (Fasan) Martin, BA
'93, teaches English at St. James High School in Guelph. She and
her husband, LeRoy, returned
to Guelph after living in Bermuda for three years.
• Peggy Norris-Robinson, M.Sc. '94, is a consultant on seniors' issues for the New
Brunswick government. She lives in Fredericton with her
husband, Clarence, and daugh
ter, Brianna, and is expecting a
second child in July.
• Jacquie Pankatz, B.Sc. '92 and DVM '97, worked for three
years in a small-animal clinic
before opening her own busi
ness, Harbourview Veterinary
Hospital, in her home town of
Collingwood, Ont.
• Robert Pelton, B.Sc. '70 and M.Sc. '72, is a professor at
McMaster University in Hamil
ton, Ont., and director of the
McMaster Centre for Pulp and
Paper Research. He is also chair
of the scientific program com
mittee of the federal mechani
cal wood pulps Network for Centres of Excellence.
• Dean Plummer, B.Sc. '90, was
awarded Canada's Star of
Courage posthumously during an investiture ceremony Feb. 2
at Rideau Hall in Ottawa. Gov-
ernor General Adrienne Clark
son presented the award to his brother, David. Dean Plummer
drowned Feb. 6, 1999, while try
ing to save the life of a friend
who had been washed into Lake
Huron near Sauble Beach. Although fully aware, as an
experienced scuba diver, of the
rapid effects of hypothermia, he
removed his heavy boots and
mitts and, with complete disre
gard for his own safety, jumped
into the rough waters. Despite valiant efforts, he was unable to
locate his friend and was even
tually overcome by exhaustion
and hypothermia. He was rec
ognized by the governor gener
al for his heroic act of bravery.
• Fred "Buck" Preston,
B.Sc.(Agr.) '99, is an equipment
operator for Agricore, former
ly the Alberta Wheat Pool, in
Lethbridge. He was married last
October to Marilyn Retzlaff of Rosemary, Alta.
• Deborah Rumble, BA '95, recently received a Courage to
Come Back Award recognizing
the nobility of the human spir
it. She is hoping to pursue a master's degree.
• Robin Schafer, B.A.Sc. '96, is
a sales representative for furni
ture, cooking equipment and
small wares for the food-service
and hospitality industry in
Ontario. He plans to move back
to Guelph this summer.
• Sherry Smith, B.Sc.(Agr.) '91 ,
is a horticulturist with JEA
Perennials in Thedford, Ont.,
and is engaged to Gary Peters,
B.Sc.(Agr.) '92. Their wedding
is planned for July 27.
• Andrea Taylor, B.A.Sc. '96,
earned a master's degree in
library and information science
from the University of Western
Ontario and is now a children's
librarian in Naples, Fla.
• Bruce Tester, B.Sc. '91, is the
environmental co-ordinator for
Chetwynd Pulp Co. 111
Chetwynd, B.C. He and his
wife, Tracey, have a son, Owen,
and a daughter, Erin Christine.
• Michelle (Ward) Tomlinson,
BA '96, was married in 1999
and is currently attending
teachers college at Redeemer in
Ancaster, Ont.
• Karen VanderLaan, BA '98, is
a customer service represen ta
tive for the Bank of Montreal in
Hamilton, Ont., and became a
new mom Sept. 10, 2000, with
the birth of her son, Matthew
David.
• Cati (Bourgeois) VanVeen,
BA ' 92, teaches high school
visual arts and drama in Kin
cardine, Ont. Her husband,
Tom, is a sheep farmer, and they
have three children: Jenna, Noah
and Annika. Her e-mail address
• Robyn (Bezaire) Watts,
B.A.Sc. '93, teaches kindergarten
in Kingston, Ont. She and her
husband, Robin, have an 18-
month-old son, Colin Anthony.
• Gillian Webster-Groenewe
gen, B.Sc. '92, and her husband,
Bill, welcomed baby Liam to
their family in July 2000.
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Coming Events
May 12 - All-Canadian Universities dinner in Washington, D .. C., Fort McNair Officers' Club, entertainment by Dave Broadfoot. For information, call Ext. 6544.
May 14 - Deadline for applications to the next class of the Advanced Agricultural Leadership Program, September
2001 through April 2003. For more information, call519-826-4204 or visit the Web site www.aalp.on.ca.
june 7 - HAFA alumni annual general meeting. 7 p.m., Royal York Hotel, Toronto. june 15 to 17 - Alumni Weekend.
june 17 - Alumni association meetings: 9 a.m. OAC in Mac Hall 149 10 a.m. OVC in OVC 1714
2 p.m. Mac-FACS in HAFA 129 3 p.m. Engineering Alumni Association 4 p.m. HK/HB in Powell 207 4 p.m. CBS in Powell212. june 18 to 20 - 23rd Annual Guelph Conference and Training Institute on Sexuality. For information, call the Office of Open Learning at 519-767-5000 or send e-mail to [email protected].
july 14 - OAC '51A reunion at the Arboretum Centre, University of Guelph . Call Everett Daboll at 905-892-6283. july 21 - OAC '59 A reunion at Alumni House. Call Tom Sawyer at 905-689-5982. july 27 & 28 - OAC '91 reunion in Albany, P.E.I. Call Mary Catherine Lamond at 519-655-3199.
Sept. 7 - OACAA annual golf tournament at Victoria Park West Golf Club in Guelph. Contact Carla Bradshaw at Ext. 6657 or [email protected]. Aug. 29 to 31 - OAC '58 mid-term reunion, Kempen felt Conference Centre, Barrie, Ont. Call Bill Stevens at 519-824-9912.
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Teacher and Student Shirley Raymont, DHE '47, died Sept. 28,
2000. A retired elementary school teacher,
she went back to university when her
children were young and was in the first
graduating class at Simon Fraser Univer
sity in Burnaby, B.C. She later earned an MA through night school. She is survived
by her husband, Chuck.
Business woman Margaret Mitchell Gannon, DHE '27,
died Feb. 24, 2001, in Escondido, Calif.
She worked for Stouffer Corporation of
Cleveland, Ohio, for 42 years, serving as
vice-president and general manager of
the restaurant division and later assistant
to the president. She spent her retirement
years in California as an active commu
nity volunteer, with emphasis on the
needs of the elderly.
Entomologist and beekeeper Donald Peer, BSA '51, died Oct. 4, 2000.
A professional entomologist, he was a pro
fessor at the University of Wisconsin and
a research scientist with both the Canadi
an and U.S. governments, but what he enjoyed most was his work as a commer
cial beekeeper near Nipawin, Sask., where
he ran a honey business for 35 years.
Remembered by friends Alice (Plumley) Snider, B.Sc.(Agr.) '83,
died in September 2000. Her OAC classmates will dedicate a memorial tree to
her memory june 16 at the U of G
Arboretum. The 11:30 a.m. ceremony at "Alice's Tree" will be followed by a buffet
lunch at the Ramada Hotel in Guelph. To
make a donation to the memorial pro
ject, send a cheque to class treasurer
Eleanor Anwender at RR#l, Sebringville, ON NOK lXO. For details about the day's
events, call Anwender at 519-271-7055
or Heather Lang at 613-972-6736.
Alumni Seymour Allen, BSA '46, Dec. 15, 2000
Robert Anderson, DVM '66, Dec. 31, 2000
Winston Anderson, BSA '43, date unknown
OBITUARIES
Peter Beamish, BA '72, Aug. 25, 2000 Carolyn Beattie, B.H.Sc. '55, Nov. 26,
2000 Frank Bernt, ODH '70, jan. 9, 2001
John Best, DVM '48, jan. 5, 2001
William Blackball, B.Sc. '75, April 1997
Lisa Borne, B.A.Sc. '94, Dec. 1, 2000
Lina Borsoi, BA '80, Aug 24, 1999
Robert Carroll, BSA '54, Nov. 24, 2000
Edith Chamberlayne, DHE '37, March 4,
2001 Ross Chapman, BSA '40, Oct. 8, 2000
Harvey Cowan, DVM '42, Feb. 11, 2001
Paul Crouch, BA '73, )an. 23, 2001 Doris Darling, DHE '27, Feb. 9, 2001
Bill Dyment, ADA '65, jan. 31, 2001
Beverly Easton, BSA '36, Feb. 26, 2001
Peter Ellis, BA '72, Oct. 7, 2000
Margaret Filgiano, B.H.Sc. '51, june 5,
1999 Agnes McDonald (Hogarth) Fleming,
DHE '41, july 24,2000
Helen Fraser, DHE '35, Nov. 5, 2000
Margaret Gilbert, DHE '31, April 15,
2000 David Hamilton, B.Sc.(Agr.) '63, April 9,
2000 Patrick Hanlon, DVM '41, )an . 11, 2001
Ralph Harrop, DVM '46, Dec. 24, 2000 Donald Hewer, BSA '30, date unknown
Bruce Howe, B.Sc. (Agr.) '66 Feb. 12,2001
Helen Innes, DHE '37, jan 1, 2001
Gladys james, DHE '28, May 2000
Hubert Jasmin, DVM '51, Oct. 6, 2000
James Jeffery, BA '80, in 1995
Shirley Johnson, BA '97, March 22,2001
Philip Keller, BSA '43, July 20, 1997 William Laing, BSA '50, Oct. 25, 2000
Robert Landon, BSA, '35, july 31,2000
Mark Lawrence, DVM '83, Feb. 23,2001
Grace Lund, DHE '37, April 21, 1998
Wilfred MacDonald, BSA '36, Feb. 15,
2000 Walter Macdougall, BA '70, Sept. 6, 2000 John MacPherson, DVM '45, jan. 24,
2001 Bruce Matheson, BSA '41, Feb. 27,2001
Murray McGill, BSA '38, Feb. 15, 2001
Beverly Miller, BSA '49, March 17, 2000
Robert Miller, BSA '37, September 2000
Bob Milne, BSA '55, jan. 12, 2001
Helen Misener, DHE '25, Dec. 26, 2000
Edward Moore, BSA '34, March 1, 2001
Bruce Murray, DVM '41, Feb. 4, 200 1
Maureen Newell, DVM '78, March 2,
2001
Gopala Nirmalan, DVM '72, in 1993
Anthony O'Marra, BA '74, Mar 14,2000
Christopher Perry, BA '95, jan. 26,2001
Nicholas Prouse, BA '70, April 8, 2000
Leonard Reid, BSA '33, Feb. 19, 2001
John Reynolds, BSA '35, july 4, 2000
Harm Schaap, ODH '71, in 1998
Charles Seal, DVM '51, Feb. 24,2001
David Shelton, ADA '85, Sept. 21, 2000
Robert Skipper, BSA '51, Dec. 30, 2000 Sanford Smith, B.Sc.(Agr.) '75, jan. 4,
2001
Jeffery Stevens, B.A.Sc. '83, Oct. 17,2000
Nicholas Sweetman, ADA '76, Sept. 23,
2000 Ruth Thorn, DHE '40, june 28,2000
John Thomas, BSA '46, Dec. 27, 2000
Robert Thompson, ADA '66, Feb. 10,
2001
Mary Thomson, DHE '39, Feb. 2, 2001
Edmund Turlej, BA '70, November 1998 Robert Warren, BSA '48, Feb. 9, 2001
Frederick Wellington, ADA '30, in 1998
Marjorie White, DHE '41, February 2000
Douglas Wright, BSA '43, Dec. 5, 2000 Mary Yeandle, DHE '27, jan. 2, 2001
Paul Yellin, BA '72, March 12, 2000
Murray Young, BSA '39, Feb. 28, 2001
Harry Zlotnick, DVM '52, October 2000
Faculty David Arnott, Food Science, April 1, 2001
Jean Hill, U ofG Library, Jan. 1, 2001 Margaret Hauser, BSA '46 and MSA '48,
Microbiology, jan. 12, 2001
George Leibbrandt, Mathematics and
Statistics, April 3, 2001
Katsumi Okashimo, Computing and
Information Science, March 12,2001 Robert Stinson, BSA '53 and MSA '57,
Physics, jan. 13, 2001
Marjorie White, Family Stud ies, Dec. 4,
2000
Friends: Mary Brent, Dec. 2, 2000
jean Gosling, Dec. 6, 2000
Thomas Landon, july 2000
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EACH ISSUE OF THE Gue/phA/1111111115 brings me fresh and great memories of my
life as a student at this beautiful university. I did my M.Sc. between September 1990 and january 1993 in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Business and the School of Rural Planning and Development.
The magazine evokes so many wonderful memories of the Guelph campus. l enjoyed every part of my life as a foreign student mingling freely with Canadian and other international students. What a rich mixture of cultures!
The lecturers were social, accessible and articulate. The learning facilities and the library were excellent, and I genuinely miss the gym with all its sporting facilities. The landscape of the whole Un ivers ity wasand I hope still is- beautiful. And the spring and early summer weather were great.
)ECKONES DoNGE, M.Sc. '93 NAIROBI
Football Strategy How SAD FOR ME TO readinyourwinter edition of the death of Bill Mitchell, BSA '38. Bill and I were teammates at the Ontario Agricultural College, now the University of Guelph, and played together on the 1935
football team. We had a fabulous record that year, beating out McMaster, the University of Western Ontario and the University of
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Toronto intermediate teams, and winning an exhibition game at St. Thomas, Ont. Syl Apps, one of Canada's greatest hockey players, played for McMaster, and joe Krol, later of Argonaut fame, played for Western.
An amusing incident occurred while playing the University of Toronto. The playing field at Guelph was frozen solid, but there was no snow. Our wily coach, Fred "Baldy" Baldwin, held us back until one minute to game time, then our whole team appeared in running shoes. The result was historic as we beat Toronto in the first half by more than 40 points. The Toronto team panicked and bought up every pair of running shoes they could find. Cleats on regular shoes wouldn't hold up, and some players took their shoes off and played in stocking feet.
The second half was more even, but we again dominated the play and won by a respectable margin. No one had ever seen this before, and our win was a sensation in Canadian football.
Bill Mitchell was our excellent quarterback and was a natural leader. His record as director of athletics will be hard to beat.
On behalf of all the former players, I extend deepest sympathy to his wife and family. Bill will always be remembered as a fine, intelligent man and will go down in history as one of Guelph's greatest athletes.
BEVERLY "BuTcH" EAsTON, BSA '36 CHATHAM, 0NT.
Remember Mills
As I oo WITH EVERY A/unnluspublication, I search for some feature, item or event that serves as a link back to what I would describe as the four most pivotal years of my life.
I finally found it on page 18 of your winter 2001 issue. It was the gold/buff brick banding in the background of the photograph. Since graduation, I have been involved in the new-home industry and have seen countless brick walls and assemblies, but I immediately recognized this Mills hallway.
I don't think you can imagine how painful it was to also take note of the young women who obviously now reside within.
I can certainly appreciate that time brings change and that the first casua lty of change is tradition. But by ignoring and, in some cases, desecrating tradition, you disenfranchise those of the past - those you are trying to have involved in the ever-so-important financial support of the Un iversity.
How much funding and corporate sponsorship Guelph could have obtained by organizing Mills Hall reunions, golf and weekend hockey tournaments and other such events is something the University obviously did not have (a nd now will not have) the vision to realize.
DA N "T ilE WoP" GABRIELE, B.Sc. '88 STONEY CREEK, Owr.
(MILLS HALL, 1982 TO 1985)
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the <Way <We <Were
ALUMNI HAVE BEEN gatheringoncampussince 1906 when the OAC Class of 1904 held the first
reunion, but the campus-wide Alumni Weekend tradition began with the establishment of the University of Guelph Alumni Association (UGAA) in 1966. This photo shows a 1983 Alumni Weekend picnic.
Unlike most university alumni associations, UGAA began with a membership of more than I 0,000 and a campus heritage dating back a full century. Today, there are over 70,000 U of G alumni, and the organization works harder than ever to support the goals of the University.
On its first anniversary, UGAA supported the University's newly established development fund by
44 GuELPH ALUMNus
FROM THE ARCHIVES
holding an auction of crockery retired from Creelman Hall. In 1970, UGAA gave its first Alumnus of Honour Award to Frank Palmer, BSA '13. And by the time it was I 0 years old, it had mobilized alumni to establish an annual-giving fund to provide financial support for a student scholarship endowment fund, the launch of the Arboretum and the building of Alumni Stadium.
At its 20th anniversary, UGAA was involved in planning and fund-raising to support the restoration of Alumni House, which opened in 1987 as a permanent home for U of G alumni.
UGAA will celebrate its 35th anniversary during Alumni Weekend 200!.
Alumni Collection Clothing Rugger Shirt, as shown, S-XXXL ................................ 79.95 Golf Shirt, white or tan, S-XXL .................................. 49.95 Quarter-Zip Cotton Fleece, red, S-XXL ...................... .S9.95 Cotton Tee, grey, S-XXL ...................... .. ..................... 24.95 Sherpa V-Neck, cream or navy, S-XL ......................... 69.95 Ladies Tee, white, S-M-L ........................................... 22.95 Adjustable Cap, as shown ......................................... 19.95 Nylon Hooded Jacket, navy, S-XXL ........................... 75.00
Alumni Collection Gifts Marble Mug with Portico Design .............................. 6.98 Tie silk face, as shown .............................................. 59.95 Portico Design Decanter ........................................... 49.95 Matching Old-Fashioned Glass .................................. 10.00 Cedar Card Box ........................................................ 19.95 Piece-of-the-Cannon Paperweight ............................. 29.95 Wooden Alumni Pen Set ........................................... 49.95 School Ring1ewellery (Call for information)
Return the completed order form to: University Book~tore, MacNaughton Building, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON NlG 2Wl. Allow 2 weeks for delivery.
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