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Growing With Knowledge

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

GUELPH ALUMNUS WInter 1979. Vol. 12, o. 1

UNIVERSITY OF G ELPH ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

HONORAR Y PRESIDENT: Profes sor Donald F, Forste r

PR ESIDENT: W, Ken Bell. CBS ' 73

PAST PRESIDENT: Olive (Thompson) Thompson, Mac '35

SENIOR VICE-PRESIDENT: Janice (Robertson) Partlow, Arts ' 70

VICE-PR ES IDENTS: Mary Budd, Arts '72; Dr. Thomas DeGeer, OVC '54; Peter McMullen, CPS '76; Judie (Earle) Meredith, Mac '6 1; Richard Moccia, CBS '76; Jack Palmer, OAC '38 ; AI Wise, CSS '74

SECRETARY: Robert Esch, CPS '70

DIRECTORS: Ewart Carberry, OAC ' 44 ; Dr. Norman Hawkins , OV '57; Pat (Honey) Lonergan, CSS '68; Andy McCammon , Arts '72 ; Elaine McCann, CSS ' 77; Debbie Mclellan , CPS '76; Am brose Samul ski, CBS ' 73; Tom Sawyer, OAC '59A & '64; Dr. Geoffrey Sumner-Smith, M, Sc " OVC '69; Jane (Vollick) Webster, FACS '75; Jackie (Wernyss) Wright, CBS '74

EX-OFFICIO DIRECTORS: John K, Babcock, OAC '54, Director of Alumni Affairs and Development: Ric hard Bekolay , CBS '77, President, Graduate Students' AssocIation: Dr. Harvey Grenn, OVC '58, President, OVC Alumni Association; Brad Hicks , CBS ' 73, President, College of BIological ScIence Alumni Association: Michael James, CSS ' 72, PresIdent, College of SocIal Sdence Alumni AssocIation: Carol McAulay, President, Univorsity of Guelph Central Students' Association (UGCSA): Patr icia (Shier) Mighton , OAC '64, President, OAC Alumni Association: Elizabeth (MacNau ghton) Sandals , CPS '69 , President, College of Pbysleal Science Alumni Association; Evelyn Williams, Arts '73 , President, College of Arts Alumni Association: Rut h (Woods) Wilson, Mac '62, PresIdent, Mac-FACS AlumnI AssociatIon ,

TREASURER: Jim J, Elmslie

ASSOCIATE SE RETARY: Rosemary Clark , Mac '59

The Guelph Alumnus is published by the Department of Alumni Affairs and Development in co-operation with the Department of Information, University of Guelph .

The Editorial Comminee is compri,ed of Editor-De rek J , Wing, Publications Officer; Art Director-Erich H, Ba rth ; John K. Babcock, OAC '54 , Direc tor of Alumni Affairs and Development ; Rosemary Clark, Mac '59, Assistant Director for Alumni Programs; Patricia G. Orr, Development Officer ; Douglas Waterston, Director of Information; Donald W. Jose, OAC '49, Assistant Director of Information .

The Editorial Advisory Board of the University of Guelph Alumai Association is comprised of Robert Esch , CPS '70 , Chairman; Lorene Archdekin , CSS '74; Dr. Allan Austin ; Dr. Donald A. Barnum, OVC '41 ; John Bowles , CSS '72 ; James Rusk, OAC '65; Olive (Thompson) Thompson, Mac '35; Sandra Webster , CSS '75 .

• -Offi cio: John K, Babcock , OAC ' 54; W, Ken Bell, CBS '73,

Undelivered copies should be returned to the Department of Alumni Affairs and Development, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario NIG 2WI ,

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The Value of a University Education by Ann Middleton

Many bright young people are being frightened away from universities as they

seek solutions to the current problems of hi gh unem ployment. They may c'iler job-oriented training institutions or take the first job offered them in an attempt to secure the future.

W hat parents and high school graduates often don't realize is that long-term job security is no longer an assured possibility . Students seeking careers in their late teens or early twenties need to learn to make choices. The jobs they train for in 1980 could be obsolete in 1985.

Although there is no doubt that growing

technology will make many more jobs obsolete, that same growth will create new opportunities in the job field for people who are flexible enough to reorder their lives.

Universitie s can help prepare young people to make choices, an ability that grows in importance as our society diversifies.

However, when great change coincides with economic unrest and high unemployment, it is natural for the taxpayer to place a low priority on post secondary education. Similarly, high school students place emphasis on immediate job

opportunities or job-oriented training. Now is the time, then , for alumni to

provide young people, society, and uni versities with a real service by explaining the value of a university education.

Confirming that value, data on unemployment rates published by Statistics Canada revealed that, in 1977, the rate of

unemployment among university degree holders was 3.4 per cent. This figure

compares with an unemployment rate of 5 .3 per cent for graduates of comm unity colleges and 9.3 per cent for these who had not received any post-secondary education.

Not only do universities give their students a chance of more intensive learning than anywhere else, they also give the ir students the opportunity to develop their brains as fine instru ments capab le of conceptual, analytical and sequential thought, an ability that is as essential to the development of the human potential as it is to earning a living . Students also feel the delight of expanding their intellectual capacity, an exploratory process that should prepare them for a lifetime of learning.

An equally important component of uni versity education is the development of the ability to real ize one's own limitations. Sir K arl Popper, the distinguished philosopher of science, placed great stress

on the modesty that sho uld accompany learning when he received an honorary D. Litt. at the University of Guelph Fall

Convocation . He told graduates, "It is worth tryin g to learn something about the world, even if in trying to do so we merely learn to appreciate our ignorance." He pointed out that, "In spi te of our most important scientific knowledge and its phenomenal growth, we do not know for certain. Thus," he said, "a scientist may be a great and most admirable discoverer; but still he does not know, he must submit to criticism.

"With every new advance in knowledge we come face to face with new problems, so deep, so entirely new that

nobody cou ld even have tho ught of them before the new advance was achieved." In the face of this new knowledge , Sir Karl said, it is essen tial that " those who made the advance are in the position to learn muc h about their limi tations" .

Genetic ist David Suzuk i, who was on

campus last fall, might also be described as a philosopher of science . He told an ove rflow audience at a Mac-FACS 75th anni versary lecture tha t people must expand their kno wledge of the sciences. "The moral, philosophical and re ligious decisions that ari se from scientifi c stud ies are fa r too important to be left to the sc ie ntists ," he said. The Canadian scientist critic ized universities for creating a sc hism between science and the humani ties. "No one who has completed only one course in psychology or geography can consider himself educated ," Dr. lI zuki said . "He is fooling himself and bei ng dece ived by the university. " He called on uni versities to require humanities students to study some basic science and science stude nts to broaden their education with study in the arts .

Both men stressed the im portance of using the brain to its full potent ial, and being able to learn from li mitations , abilit ies that the student should develop at univers ity. Yet their visit s came at a time when the value of university education, and

particularly the merit of an educatio n in the arts and social sciences, is being attacked on all sides.

B .A . students learn a great deal about the human condition and its interpretation.

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They also develop an ability to think in an organized and analytical manner while they learn to take an interest in a wide variety of fields , attributes that will enrich their lives, mak ing it more creative and meaningful into old age.

The Dean of the College of Arts, Tom Settle, warns that taking an Art degree is hard work. " T here's not much point in going to uni versity if your love of learning has entirely died, because higher learning is a hard grind if you've no affection for it," he says . "But it' s very rewardi ng if you've still a thirst to know how things work, what lies below the surface of life, how others live. I think knowing and appreciating what's so and what's good and what's beautiful is more of the point of

being ali ve . "

He does not overlook the diffic ulty Arts graduates have securing employ ment , bu t points out that there are still many jobs that requi re a B .A ., as w 11 as others that are better served by employees with a background in the humani ties . T he B .A. graduate is a "better bet in a job that call s for openness of mind and cleverness at solving new problems," he says.

The University of Guelph has a long tradition of educating people to fit a variety of situations that require creative and analytical minds. Agriculture graduates can be found in every employment sphere from the arts to finance, government and indus try. The same career di versity is also found amo ng graduates of the other Colleges, and the tradition contin ues today.

Many young people are not aware of the options that the Uni versi ty of G uel ph provides . Alumni have an important role to play in advis ing prospective students of the value of the University, and can also offer valuable insights based on their own experiences both as students at G uelph and as members of the work force.

Alumni can also stimulate thought among colleagues and friends on educational choices. T he University does no t want students entering programs that are not right for them . Neither does it want students who would be much happier and more productive elsewhere .

We at the University of Guelph would like you to tell prospective students about your Alma Mater. You can tell them G uelph has a beautiful cam pus; you can also tell them it's a great place to obtain their degree. But the me ssage we really want you to get across is that G uelph is a place where they'lJ be challenged , where they will have a

chance to expand their minds.

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Te ll the m, too, that the whole person is catered to at Guelph . Students have a chance to take part in a wide range of athletic programs . This winter , for in tance,

bet ween 5,000 and 6, 000 people participate in intramural and instructional ac tivities e ery week. M usic, dance, the theatre , club

activitie s of alJ ki nds, are also avai lable for students.

Keep in touch with the University. Bring your children and the ir friends to campus events like College Royal and Winter Carnival if you li ve close enough . If you want to arrange a visit for a high school student, contact the li aison group of the Registrar 's Office . If, at any specific time, you' d like to renew acquaintance with the

campus yourself, call the tour co-ordinator with the Department of Information (519-824-4 120, Ext . 3358) to arrange a visit

tailored to your individual in te rests. Or just drop in to the Univers it y . Alumn i are al ways we lcome.

T here 's ano ther way that yo u and members of your com munity can keep in

The choice is theirs - but you

can help them get ready for life.

touch with the University of G uelph. If you live within reasonable radius of the city, the Univers ity's ne wly organized Speakers' Bureau can provide you w ith lecturers on subjects as diverse as the University community itself. For a detailed brochure write to the De partment of Information, Level 4, University Centre , University of Guelph , Guelph, Ontario N I G 2W I.

You can keep in touch and help the University at the same time if you were actively in volved in athletics during yo ur years at Guel ph. Former athletes are being asked to help attract to this campus high school athle tes who are good students. T he

new D irector of Athletics, Gib C hapman, w ith support from h is predecessor Bill M itchell, OAC '38, has initiated a program to identify all Ontario alumni who played on Gryphon, Aggie or Redmen teams. An executive wi ll be named from this group, and a progra m drawn up to enable alumni in

various areas of the province to contact promis ing athletes and tell them about academ ic programs at Guelph.

Identiflcation of female ath le tes is much more difficult as many of them are now married. For th is reason, Shirley Peterson, S upervisor , Women's Inte rcollegiate Athletics, would like to hear from women graduates of the last 15 years who participated in ind ividual o r intercollegiate spo rts.

Recent graduates w ill also be asked to participate in liaison work with promising

young people in high schoo ls . Liaison activities, fairly new at Canadian universit ies, are burgeoning as institutions try to bolster enrolments that have dropped off well ahead of the predicted end of the growth in the education system .

The decline becomes evident when one studies enrolment fig ures at G ue lph over the past few years. Full- time undergraduate enrolment in the fall semester has dropped by more than 900 in the past year . Actual fi gu res are: Fall 1976 - 9747 undergraduates, 2917 of them new; Fall

1977 - 9750 undergraduates, 2796 of them new; Fall 1978 - 8806 undergraduates, 252 1 of them new .

You can help by telling prospective students about your Alma Mater. If you know any outstanding high school students who should have information on the Uni versity of G ue lph , send their names and addresses to the Department of Alumni Affairs and Development, Level 4 , University Centre , University of Guelph, Guelph , O ntario NI G 2W l, and we' ll help them get ready for life. 0

Peggy Bennett, HAFA '76

One In 3,182

Last December, 24-year-old Peggy Bennett, HAFA '76, and 3,1 8 1 others across Canada wrote the four-day uniform final examinations of the Ontario Institute of Chartered Accountants.

Five days later, a sleepy Peggy, in her Hamilton apartment, received an early morning 'phone call. It was from her employer.

"Congratulations, Peggy! You 've won the Governor General' s gold medal and the Edmond G unn prize for the highest standing in Canada, and the Ontario Institute gold medal for the highest standing in Ontario."

For a person who had dissolved in tears after the first day of examinations at Hamilton Place - "I figured I'd flunked it ," admitted Peggy - the call came as a distinct shock.

She had a clue that she'd done well on the overall test when the head office of her firm , Deloitte , Haskins and Sells, Chartered Accountants, called her in from Mississauga for a photograph.

"I thought maybe I'd placed in the top ten or something . I never dreamed I was first," she said. "It was very exciting."

A native of Cobalt , in Northern Ontario, and the daughter of an Ontario Hydro engineer, Peggy later lived in North Bay and Abitibi Canyon and fi nished high school in Sudbury in 1972.

Ambitious to get post-secondary education, she applied at several universities but struck out when she was unable to obtain a student loan - unt il she approached the Univers ity of Guelph.

" I was lucky enough to be selected by the College of Fami ly and Consumer Studies

Peggy Bennett, HAF A .76

for a Carling 0' Keefe scholarsh ip entrance award of $750," she said. " And I' d found my university ."

During her fo ur years of study at the College ' s Sc hool of Hotel and Food Admi nistration she received th ree in-course Carling O 'Keefe awards totall ing $2,500.

Following graduation, Peggy joi ned Ontario Hydro in Toronto . W hen she left them for Deloitte , Haskins and Sells in Hamilton in late 1976, she was already well into an M .B .A. program . Since then she has completed the necessary nine courses, involving accounting, audi ting and tax, while attending night cl asses at York Un iversity in Toronto , McMaster Uni ersi ty

in Hamilton and W ilfrid Laurier Uni versity in Waterloo.

Asked how she'd managed to obtain top spot in a field of 3,182 aspiring chartered accountants, Peggy gave a shy smile as she revealed the secret of her success. " It ' s called just plain hard work, self discipline and an ability to buckle down and study. "

In black and white in the H .A. F.A. '76 year book that she treasures together with other University of Guelph memorabilia, the words of her fellow students reflect their all-tao-true assessment of Peggy' s character. " Our sweet young thing from the mining towns up north. She soon became known as a hard worker and a high achiever. Keep smiling Peg I"

In September, Peggy will complete the mandatory three years of on-the-job accounting experience that wi ll qu alify her as a Chartered Accountant. W hat then? "That' s a very good question. Things are up in the air right now," she said. "It's such a large field and there are so many options. "

Describing he rself as "shy " , Peggy has a " stro ng dislike of big cities , which is a very real disadvantage for a C. A. I' m not sure which speciality I'll pursue, but to get into the fInesse of tax, for instance, would take me right back to Toronto ."

Peggy's di slike of large cities and her acce ptance of Hamilton really doesn ' t compute. " I don ' t know why, but I'm strangely happy here, " she confe ssed. " 1'11 settle for that for now despite the commuting ...

Peggy's job takes her out of M ississauga often and the d riving to and from Hamilton becomes very tedious . Up at 6:00 a.m . and home somet imes we ll after 8:00 p .m . is routine. " It wo uld be just great to be home at 5:30, start supper and re lax, " she sighed. "But I enjoy the variety of clients I get to visit - and that's what makes it all worth while. "

Peggy has come a long way since she was introduced to accounting at H .A .F .A. and, no doubt, she still has a lo ng way to go . •• Staff acc ountant to upervisor to manager. Who knows?" she mused, "maybe even partner."

Looking back at her track record - it's a cinch that our Peggy can do it. 0

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Located at the edge of the Arboretum's Victoria Woods, the J .C . Taylor Nature Centre was the place to stop for hot coffee, a nature display and snowshoe loans.

Fakes Flumes and Flute

At the Narure Centre, naturalist Alan Watson helpedfasten snowshoes.

Retired Arboretum Director Bob Hilton and current Director Erik Jorgensen.

Skiers broke trails in all directions exploring the Victoria Woods.

On borrowed snowshoes a mixed group of veterans and novices heads for the tall timber.

A three-way joint venture involving the O .A .C . 's Arboretum, the Department of the Curator of Art and the College of Arts' Di vision of M usic , with funding from the Ontario Arts Council, "Flakes , Flumes and Flute" was an innovati ve on-campus program designed to meld the delights of nature's winter wonderland with the soothing strains of music.

A grey day with freezing rain and a chill wind failed to dampen the spirits of those who turned out in earl y afte rnoon to visit the Arboretum's J. C. Taylor Nature Ce ntre. After viewing the exhibits, some were introduced to snowshoes loaned by naturalist Al an Watson, CBS '75, and his crew who spent most of their afte rnoon strapping their customers into the sometimes awkward and unwieldy footwear.

A live with novice snowshoers, skiers,

Arboretum Curator, Dr . John Ambrose, with the sculpture baffle.

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tobogganers and skaters, the Victoria Woods nature trails and Victoria Pond, adjacent to the Nature Centre , must have presented amusement for the wood ' s natu ral inhabitants as the visito rs slipped, slid and stumbled the ir way around.

Despite the raucous sounds of revelry that echoed among the tall trees, all kinds of birds refused to be perturbed . T hey calmly continued their steady rifling of sunflower seeds from the many well-stocked bird-feeders scattered throughout the woods.

Cookies and piping hot coffee welcomed those of the chilled explorers who chattered their way to the Arboretum Centre to view an environmental snow sculpture and a concert featuring flutist Vicki Blechta and pianist Cecilia Ignat ieff.

Unfortunately, lack of blowing snow following the installation of a three- foot high deformed triangular metal baffle , erected in an open area adjacent to the Arboretum Centre, resulted in the unfortunate non-appearance of the predic ted environmental snow sculpture.

Designed by artist Stephen Dryden, Arts '73, the baffle was the product of many hours of research using a spec ial School of Engineering flume which simulates, with circulating water and suspended fine silica sand, the effects of wind and snow. It is used to determine leeward dri fting patterns around an object.

An overabundance of drifting material is expected to be delivered , no doubt, during the remains of winter and the sculpture will ultimately appear.

Snugly warm w ithin the Arbor tum Centre, yet with the mantle of winter beautifully visible beyond the vast expanse

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Professor Stanley Saunders, Director of Musi c . with musical artists Vicki 81echta and Cecilia Ignatieff.

of the Centre ' s auditorium pic ture windows , an aud ience of about 150 was entertained with chamber music .

T he well balanced program inclu ded early class ical music and music composed in the twe ntieth cen tury . In the latter group, were the Canadian premiere of Louis Moyse's "Improvisation on Harmon ics for Flute Alone" and " Fantais ie" , by Geo rges Hue .

T he performance by the artists, who enj oy an establi shed rep utati on in Canada, was most enjoyable and rounded off a tru ly ex.h ilarating day .

Profess r Erik Jorgensen, Arboretum Director; Professor Stanley Saunde rs, Director of Musi c , and Judith Nas by, Curator o f Art, are to be congratulated for the ir extre m ly successful and novel firs t joint venture. 0

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Three young skaters had a cleared section of Victoria Pond all to themselves.

At the Arboretum Centre an appreciative audience of about Flutist Vicki Blechta and pianist Cecilia Ignatieff. The 150 enjoyed a concert of chamber music on flute and piano. artists later met the audience over coffee.

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By Pat Orr

Bequests and memorial gifts are received by the University of Guelph through the Department of Alumni Affairs and Development. These gifts, which so often enable T h etruly deserving recipients to obtain a university education which would otherwise be denied, take many forms, from property or valuable collections of such things as paintings and rare books, to money for specified or unspecified use. Gifts of money are often designated to be put into trust funds, and the resulting interest used for perpetual scholarships.

Most bequests are not made known until the donor is deceased, but a few have G1-ftbeen carefully planned in advance with the University's awareness and, if needed, assistance. In the latter case, John Babcock, OAC '54, Director of Alumni Affairs and Development, will have met confidentially with the donor to discuss specified wishes and establish correct terms of reference.

Gifts in memory, on the other hand, are given by the living as lasting symbols of respect and love. Such gifts may honour deceased relatives or friends, or the donor

may wish to honour someone still living so that both will enjoy watching the benefit of L -Ve this action accrue. This kind of gift, too, can sometimes render tax advantages during the donor's lifetime.

Following are some bequests and memorials recently received by the University. They iJlustrate how graduates and friends of Guelph have helped strengthen an already great institution with both generosity and vision.

The Lena Grothier Memorial Scholarships

Elena Augusta Orothier , known as Lena to her friends, left $ 30,000 to the University to be divided equally between the Ontario Agricultural College and the College of Family and Co nsumer Studies .

T he daughter of Lillian Halliday and Richard Orothier, she spent her childhood in the small Leeds County town of Newboro. After attending the two-year Normal program at MacdonaJd Institute , she graduated with a d iploma in Home Management in 19 15. She travelled considerably after graduation , teaching public school domestic science first in Ne lson, B.C. , and then in Winnipeg, Manitoba and Fort W illiam, Ontario.

Returning to Newboro to take care of her father, Lena remained to retire there. In 1972 she entered St. Lawrence Lodge , a nursing home in Brockville, where she died on Ju ly 25,1977.

Both Colleges will set up annual Lena Oro thier Memorial Scholarships for " Canadian students, most in need of assistance." The O .A.C. bas determined to award four annual $300 scholarships to stude nts in the B.Sc.(Agr.) program registered in the M inor in Intern ational Agriculture . The C .F. A.C. S. plans to award an annual $1 ,200 scholarship to a graduate student in either of the Departments of Family Studies or Consumer Studies.ELena Augusta Grothier

The Joan Doherty Me

Joan Kathleen Doherty

Born in Toronto in 1955 , Joan Kathleen D oherty spent her childhood there, then with her parents, moved back to the family home in Sarnia in 1972. Her keen interest in clothing design and dressmaking, coupled with art istic and creative capabilities, led her to Family and Consumer Studies in 1974 where she majored in texti les .

Joan assumed responsibility exceptionally well and was adept at completing any undertaken projects. She enjoyed life, and in the important things her actions were dlrected by princ iples which

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The Knut Karl Grimstad Memorial Scholarship

KIlUl Karl Grimstad

Anne Grimstad hono ured the memory of her husband by donating $ 10 ,000 fo r the establishment of a scholarship in his name .

Knut Karl Grimstad was born in 1904 in the small town of Kristiansund , on the west coast of Norway . In the mid 1920 's he ente red Norway's only technical university, at Trondhjem, and graduated four years later as an electrical engineer . This uni ers ity was nick named the " Norwegian-American line " because no work was available fo r its alum ni; Mr. Grimstad jo ined the rest of its grad uates immigrating to Canada or the United States .

Once established in the Toron to area,

On norial Scholarship

she would not compromi e . While maintaining a vigorou scholastic

schedule and participating in other campus activities, she sti ll wa s able to spend many weekends visit ing her fami ly and her fiance . In the fall of 1977 , in her seventh semester of the B .A . Sc . progra m, she tragically lost her life in an automobile accident.

In their daughter' s memory , Tom and Isabel Doherty , and other fam ily members and friend s, established an endowment of $18 ,750 to fund the annual $1,500 Joan Doherty Me morial Scholarship . Joan hadn' t just inherited the love and respect of he r family, she had earned it. Th is scholarship reflects , in a small way , the honour she brought to them.

Terms of reference were developed to correspond with Joan's ow n personality ­cand idates, in the Consumer Studies major, are active in curricular and extra-curric ular programs, and re peeted by students and faculty alike fo r the ir character and sincerity . They are nominated by their own classmates for this award .

The firs t Joan Doherty Memorial Scholarship was announced and presented at the No vember 1, 1978 Awards Presentation . while many of Joan's fr ie nds were still in school. Winner of this initial award was Flora "Beth" Park, FACS ' 79, of Scarborough.

he sent for his fi ancee, An ne . Li f was diffic ult fo r this newlywed couple - fi rst came the depression, then a motorcycle acciden t almost took their lives . Following a reco very period , they had two chi ldren: Kari , who is now a professor wi th the University ' s Department of Languages, and an other daughter , Ingrid , who died in early childhood .

M r. G rimstad worked fo r several firms before joining Brazilian T raction just after the war. He spent three exci ting years buildi ng Brazil's hydroelectric system, di vert ing the course of rivers to create the present Brazilian power system .

He took an early retirement in the mid-60 's, but worked as a consulti ng engineer throughout hi s retir ment. He also devoted more time to his favouri te hobby , woodworking , which he claimed gave relief from stress . Until he died in 1970 , he continued to gi ve new li fe to old lumber, fa shioning a myriad of decorative and functional items .

Successful candidates for the Knut Karl Grimstad Memoria l Scholarship are outs tanding O .A.C. students in Water Resources Engineering in the B .Sc . (Eng .) program at the conclusion of semester six . Mrs . Grimstad and daughter Kari selected th is program as be ing the closest to Mr. Grimstad ' s area of interest.

The first Grimstad Scholarship for $400 was presented last fa ll to Patricia Jackman , OAC ' 79, of Willowdale. After interest has accum ulated, two scholarships wi ll be awarded an nually .

The Malcolm Fellowship

A fond ness for horses has resulted in a $ 10,000 bequest to the Universi ty of Guelph by Dori s Malcolm.

In te rest on the gift of Mrs. Malcolm , who died on June 14, 1978, will establish and main tain the annual $800 Malcolm Fello wship . O . V.c. stude nts registered in the Faculty of G raduate Studies and st udying in the field of equine health and disease will be eligible for this award , with special conside ration for financial need .

Born in Toronto, Doris spent the first six months of her life in Guelph and then, with her parents, moved to New Liskeard in Northern Ontario . She lived there un til her teens and recalled, as a girl, hatching eggs

sent from th Gue lph campus to ew Liskeard as a spec ial project. Her keen interest in horses never abated; un til her death, she would often visit the stables at the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair.

Her husband , the late Norman Malcolm , grew up in Guelph where his paren ts li ved on the corner of Dublin and Liverpool Streets . His fa lher ' plumbing and heating busi ness d id much work on campus and downtown . Aft er thei r marriage, M r. and Mrs . Malcol m resided in the Beaches d istric t of Toro nto, in the same house Mrs. Malcol m occupied at the time of her death some 50 year later. 0

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Professor Robin Ollerhead at the keyboard of the PDP 9 compuler that is used to analyze recorded target chamber data.

The pressure vessel behind technician Richard Gingerich rolls f orward to hOl/se the accelerator's ion source. Under high vaCl/lIm and energized by three million VOilS, the iOlls are accelerated to one­tenth Ihe speed of light.

The Department of Physics has an

Accelerator by Don W. Jose, OAe '49

A major new research facility on campus, a three mill ion volt Van de Graaff acce lerator is now be ing in stalled and tested by the Department of Phys ics in a new basement laboratory in the Physical Sciences building. It will o pen new opportunities and new challenges for research in the field of parti cle-solid interactions .

This fie ld of study is a relat ively new and rapid ly growing inter-disciplinary area. I! spans both " pure" and " applied " research aspects of mapy fie lds including phys ics , materia ls science, metallurgy, chemistry and engineering.

As the name implies, the field of particle-solid in teractions involves the study of the interacti on of energetic ato ms, ions, or molec ules wit h solid materials . The central piece of apparatus in the new laboratory , the acce lera tor will be used to accel erate ions to sufficient energy to probe the near-surface regions of solid targe t materials .

The accelerator is not new , having been used for two decades in an industrial

research laboratory for research in nuclear physics. Its purchase and subsequent installation at G uelph have been financed by approximately equal contributions from the Re search Advisory Board of the Universi ty of G uelph, from Department of Physics capital equipment funds and National Research Council grants to physics faculty involved in the project. In addition , the University 's Department of Physical Resources prepared the laboratory for the installation.

All of the installation work and much of the design and production of ancillary equipment has been done by personnel in the physics department. The project has been co-ordinated by Department of Physics •engineering technologist Richard Gingerich who has major responsibility fo r the in stallatio n and operation of the facility. M embers of the department' s machine and electronics shops have made essential contributions. In particular, research technici ans Tom Riddolls and Bill Morton have spent the better part of a year

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constructing sophisticated apparatus wh ich will be used in future experiments.

Both the nature of the scienti fic work and the scale of operations make the fie ld of particle-solid interac tions ideal for university-based research and graduate work. Although much fundamental work is yet to be done, many of the techniques of the field are currently being applied to important problems in industrial technology.

Solutions to such major concerns of society as energy sources, conservation of resources and pro tection of our environment will depend, in substantial measure, upon the characterization, modification and development of materials. It is because of this that the field of particle-solid interactions is growing rapidly , particularly in industry , and such growth is generating a demand for experts in the field.

W hen an energetic beam of particles from a high voltage accelerator such as the Van de Graaff strikes a solid target, several fundamental processes can occur. All of these have practical applications in research and in industrial technology. The particle beam can be scattered or deflected in such a manner that observation of the energy and number of scattered particles can reveal many properties of the solid, ranging from the elemental composition of the material to the microscopic arrangement of crystal structure of its constituent atoms.

This is the partic ular interest of Professor Jack R . MacDonald , Chairman of the Department of Physics, and Tom Jackman, CPS '72, a Ph. D. student in the department, who have been studying the properties of thin films of oxide on the surface of silicon. This work has been undertaken in collaboration with scientists at Bell Telephone Laboratories, and is of fundamental importance in the st udy of the surface of solids.

In addition to the scattering of the incident particle beam, another fundamental process involves the emission of X-rays which are characteristic of the composition of the target material. This particular process, particle-induced X-ray emission, is a very powerful technique for identifying trace elements at minute levels of concentration .

Professor Ian Campbe ll, Department of Physics, a pioneer in the deve lopmen t and use of this technique, and Chris Sch ulte , a research associ at in the Department of Physics, are planning several experiments in this area. Their current interests range from the study of composition of mineral samples to the correlation of selected impurity levels

in biological materials associated with diseases .

Another process of importance in the field of particle-solid int rac tions is re lated to the energy deposited in the solid by the inc ident beam. T his process , termed "sputtering, " is presently being studied by Professor Robin W . Ollerhead and Dr. J . A. Davies of C halk River uclear Laboratories . .. Sputtering" is a process which is of importance in such d iverse problems as the modification of the surface of the moon and plane ts by particles from the sun and the possi ble erosion of the walls of controlled themlOnuclear re actors.

P rofessor Mac Donald sees a number of additional benefits fl owing from the insta ll at ion of the accelerator. Its application will lead to inter-d isciplinary and multi-disciplinary projects in coll aboration w ith other researchers on campus, wherein the powerful analytical tec hniques can be brought to bear in new and exciting areas .

T he facility is also ideally suited for use in se nior undergraduate physics courses to illustrate, experimentally, many of the fundamental concepts of physics .

Dr . MacDonald is looking forward with keen antic ipation to the uses which will be made of the on-campus Van de Graaff accelerator. "The major problems facing industrial technology are materials and energy problems," he says. "The field of particle-solid in te ractions enables the researcher to co nfront tbose problems and obtain answers ."

In addition, he foresees substantial growth in this branch of physics , particularl y for its analytical capabilities . Only a relat ively f w universities in North America are now maki ng a contribution in this area. W ith the likely increase in the use of analytical technology. we at the University of Guelph are prepared to train people and give them experience in this speciali zed area of physics . 0

Between the accelerator ' s two beam lines, Department of Physics personnel curremly involved with the unit are : I to r, Professor Jack MacDonald, Chairman of the Department of Physics, Professor ian Campbell, Ph .D. student Tom Jackman , CPS ' 72, technician Richard Gingerich, research associate Chris Schulte and Prof essor Robill Ollerhead .

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Art Gallery Guelph A Wintario capital grant of $456, 100 has been awarded to The Macdonald Stewart Com munity Art Centre toward the development of a community art gallery. The newly elected Chairman of the Art Centre, Charles C. Ferguson, annou nced this in early February at a special meeting in Macdonald Consolidated School, the building that is to be renovated into the Ce ntre's Art Ga llery.

Immedi ately preceeding the meeting, the Lieutenant Governor of O ntario, the Honorable Dr. Pauline McGibbon, signed and presented to the Art Centre a mou nted copy of the document giving Royal Assent to The Legislati ve Bill creat ing the Centre .

Dr. McGi bbon , the th ird Chance llor of the University of G uelph , came to the meeting from nearby War Memorial Hall where she had attended the Uni versity's Winte r Convocation ceremonies .

At the meet ing , M r. Ferguson also announced that the Min ister of Culture and Recreation , Rue b n C. Baetz, has informed the Centre that an additional $200 ,000 from the ' 'Grants for Cultural Support Capital program " will be prov ided toward the re-construction cost of the building.

"We will now be able to re-acti vate our plans to make th Art Cen tre a physical rea lity," Mr. e rguso n said. "The new funds , toge the r with prev iously announced grants which were arranged throu gh the University 's Department of Alumni Affairs and Development , will make it possible to start our planned renovations to the building. We will st ill need more funds, h wever, to bring our full plans to fru it ion. " The previo usly announced grants are : a $300 ,000 naming grant from The Macdonald Stewart Foundation of Montreal; a $300 ,000 grant from the National M useu ms of Canada; a $15,000 initial grant from the Min is try of Culture and Recreation, and a $2,000 grant toward furni shings from local lODE chapters .

An in tegral part of Canadian history, the original building became the first consolidated school in the province when Sir William Macdonald gave th property to six ru ral sc hool sections in Well ington County 75 years ago. The renovated school building , with its beautifully treed grounds and centra l location at the corner of Gordon Stree t and College Avenue, will pro vide Guelph and Well ington Co unty with a greatly needed centre for numerous art ac ti vities.

Touring art exhibitions, sc hool tours, and special art programs are a few of the benefits which the communi ty can look forward to when the art gallery is comple ted . The University of Guelph has al so offered the loan of it s 900-p iece collection of Canad ian art val ued at a mill ion dollars so that the Centre can have a permanent collection fo r public disp lay .

The Board of Trustees for the Art Centre have been named by the four sponsors of the project: City of G uelph , We llington County Board of Educat ion, Wellington County and the Un iversity.

The trustees are as follows: Mayor Norman Jary, Alde rman Charle s M .

Hammond, Alde rman Kenneth O . Hammill , O AC '51, C ity Administrator Frede rick M . Woods , Board of Education Chai rman Douglas Hogarth, Trustee Frederick A. Hamilton , T rustee George Day, Director of Educatio n William G . F orsythe , We ll ington County Warde n Lawrence G . MacKenzie, Harristo n Reeve Arncld D . McIntyre, Puslinch Ree ve Archie MacRo bbie, Well ington County Clerk-Treasurer Vera B . Myers, University of Guelph Vice-Pres id nt, Admini stration , Charles C. Ferguson , Director of Phy sical Resources W . Allan Brown and Di rector of Developme nt Joh n K . Babcock, OAC ' 54 .

At the organizat ion meet ing of the trustees on January 30 , Mr. Ferguson was elec ted Chairman , Dr. Hamilton Vice­Cha irman, Mrs . Myers Secretary , and Mr. Hammill Treasurer. At the same meeting , the Un iversity of Guelph C urator of Art , J udith M . Nasby , was named Centre Direct r.

The firm of Raymond Moriyama, Architects and Planners, of Toronto has completed th pre lim inary designs for con vert ing Macdonald Consolidated School to the Art Centre. 0

In the Macdonald •Consolidated School,

I to r, are: Judith M . Nasby, Director,

Macdonald Stewart Community Art Centre,

the Hon. Pauline McGibbon and Charles

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Election of alumni to Senate Regulations governing election

Al l alumni shall be eligible to vote , providing they have graduated from the University of Guelph or the founding College . Alumni members of faculty at the University of Guelph or fu ll-time or part-time students enrolled in a program under the jurisdiction of the Senate of the University of Guelph may not vote in the election of alumni to Senate if they have participated in the current election of faculty or the election of students to Senate .

There shall be a minimum of one and a maximum of fo ur elected alumni from any one of the undernoted alumni bodies . (a) Macdonald Ins ti tute or its successor College of Family and Consumer Studies; (b) Ontario Agricultural C liege; (c) Ontario Veterinary College; (d) Well ington College and the Colleges of Arts, Biological Science, Physical Science, and Social Science taken as a group.

Each year , the three-year terms of office of three of the nine alumni senators expire . Retiring August 31, 1979 are Mary Hofstetter, Arts '68; Will iam D. Laidlaw, Arts '74, and Robert (Herb) Wright, OVC '38 . The terms of office of Frank Archibald, OAC '39; Gretchen MacMi llan, CSS '70, and Dr . V . C. Rowan Walker, OVC '47, will expire August 31,1980. Gordon B. Henry, OAC '34; Mary (Robertson) McGillivray, Mac '36, and Helen McKercher, Mac '3 1, wi ll sit on Senat until August 31 , 1981.

Voting instructions Please vote fo r a max imum of three candidates on the ballot form. Voting shall be by an "x" or checkmark . Any mark on a ballot other than those required for marking the voter 's preference shall make the ballot null and void .

Completed ballot form should be clipped and placed in an envelope on which you are requested to put your name and year in the upper left-hand comer. To facili tate voting by an alumnus whose spouse is also an alumnus of the University of Guelph and who, therefore, jointly receive only one copy of the Guelph Alum nus, two ballot forms are pro vided. A joint return (two ballots in the same envelope) is acceptable only if the name and year of both voters are on the envelope . Address to Box SE, Alumni Office , University Centre, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N I G 2W I , stamp and mail. On receipt at the Alumni Office, eligibility to vote will be verified . The sealed envelopes will be opened on or after April J5, 1979 and the ballots counted by scrutineers appointed by the Executive Committee of the Universi ty of Guelph Alumni Association. Only ~ valid ballots received on or before that date wi ll be counted .

Senate Ballot Form Senate Ballot Form For election of three alumni to Senate, Unjversity of For election of three alumni to Senate, University of

Guelph, for the three-year term commencing September 1, 1979. See other side of this page for biographical sketches of candidates. Vote for a maximum of three nominees. One ballot per voter.

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Guelph, for the three-year term commencing September 1, 1979 . See other side of this page for biographical sketches of candidates. Vote for a maximum of three nominees. One ballot per voter.

NAME OF NOMINEE VOTE I NAME OF NOM1NEE VOTE

BERRY, Samuel R. (Bob) OAC ' 37, Ottawa. I

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BERRY, Samuel R. (Bob) OAC '37, Ottawa.

BOWLES, W . John I BOWLES, W . John CSS ' 72, Guelph . I CSS ' 72, Guelph .

BROADWELL, Charles E. (Chuck) OAC ' 54, London. I BROADWELL, Charles E. (Chuck)

OAC '54, London .

CARON, James A. (Jim) Arts ' 75, Mississauga. I

i CARON, James A. (Jim) Arts '75, Mississauga.

FLEGG, John R. I FLEGG, John R . Arts ' 68 , Islington. I Arts ' 68, Is lington.

MONCKTON, William F. (Randy) CSS ' 76, Guelph. 1

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MONCKTON, William F. (Randy) CSS '76, Guelph .

RANSOM, Herbert S. (Herb) OAC '43, Manotick .

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RANSOM, Herbert S. (Herb) OAC '43 , Manotick.

TOLTON, William G. (Bill) OAC ' 36, Streetsville.

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WRIGHT, Robert H . (Herb) OVC ' 38 , Dundas. I

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SAMUEL R. (BOB) BERRY , OAC ' 37, lives in Ottawa and is Principal of W odroffe High Schoo l, Ottawa. Bob is Past-Pres ident of the Eastern Ontario Principals' Association and the Ottawa Teachers Credit Union and was , for many years, Secretary-Treasurer of the Canadian College of Teachers . He is a Past-Governor of Gyro International , a mem b r of the Chem ical Institute of Canada , the Ottawa Men' s Canadian Club, the Royal Commonwealth Society and the Canadian Seniors Golf Association . He is a life member of the Canadian College of Teachers, the Ottawa Federation of Musicians and the O .A.C . Alumn i Associat ion .

W. JOHN BOWLES, CSS '72, lives in Guelph but anticipates a move to Toronto later this year . He is Director , Public Relations, with the Toronto Domin ion Bank . He is Past-Editor of the Guelph Alumnus, and is currently a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Guelph Alumnus. Joh n's aim as an alu mn i member of Senate will be to bring the pe rspective of the business community to the academic affairs of the University. His recreat ional ac tivities include sailing, skiing and tennis .

CHARLES (CHUCK) E. BROADWELL, OAC '54, li ve in London, Ontario. He has been the Manager of the Ontario Bean Producers Marketing Board s ince 1968. He is Chairman of Elders, Tri ni ty Lutheran Church, London , and of the Agriculture and Conservation Committee , K iwanis Club of Forest City , London . He is a member of the American Marketing Assoc iat ion, the London Chamber of Commerce , the Ontario Field Bean Committee and the Ontario Institute of Agrologists . He has been an active alumni volunteer and is invo lved in trade missions, trade fairs , conferences and conventions on a world-wide basis.

JAMES (JIM) A, CARON, Arts '75, li ves in Mis issauga . He is employed as a Meat Inspector with the fede ral Department of Agriculture and is a member of the Purchasing Management Association of Canada . Jim grew up in Toronto but since graduat ion has come into close contac t with the agricultural community. Duty-conscious, he is conccrned regarding variable human background flexibility in education , and feels that fast-growing urban areas can create problems.

JOHN R. FLEGG, Art· ' 68 , lives in Islington . He is employed as Director of Information Services at Humber College of Applied Arts and Technology . A former executive with both Well ington College and University of Guelph Al umni Associations, John has a sincere interest in developing a viable interchange between community coil ges and universities, examining mature student req uirements , and rev iewing relationships between the quality and mployab ili ty of graduates in the market of today .

WILLIAM (RANDY) F , MONCKTON , CSS ' 76, lives in Guelph , and is currently seeking employment . Following graduation , he pursued graduate studies for two years . During these two years he was geography graduate student representative both to hi s department and to the Graduate Students ' Association . As a G .S .A. representative he was elected to si t on both the Uni versity Judicial and Student Advisory Committees . He was also elected as a Director of the Graduate Student ' Club and to the position of Club manager.

HERBERT (HERB) S. RANSOM, OAC ' 43, retired from the posi tion of Co-ordinator of Horticultural Courses at Algonquin College, Ottawa , on January I , 1978 . Followi ng graduation , he entered the Royal Canadian Navy as a seaman and was discharged as a Lieutenant . He is a charter member of the Ontario Institute of Profess ional Agrologists, was Provincial Director of that Instit ute fo r a term of lhree years, and is Past-President of that Institute'S Ottawa Valley Branch. He is a member of the Canadian Society of Horticultural Science , and a charter member of the Mandcrley Golf and Country Club, the Manotick Curling Club , and the Ottawa Valley Turfgrass Association.

WILLIAM (BILL) G. TOLTON, OAC ' 36 , Ii es i.o Streetsv ille. In sem i-retirement since 1975, he is a part-time research librarian at the Ontario Agricultural Museum at Mi lton . Bill ' s career as editor, publisher and printer of trade journals started in 1947 . Currently Edi tor of the O.A . C . Alumni News, he has held the posi tion since 1969 . He was Founding President and is •Treasurer of the Streetsvil!e Historical Society; a founding member, and Past-President of the Street ville Lions Club , and a Founding Director of both the Canadian Ornamental Plant Foundation and the Ontario Farm Homes for Deaf Children.

ROBERT H. (HERB) WRIGHT, OVC ' 38 , Jives in Dundas , Ontario . In practice for 35 years, and proprietor of the Dundas Animal Hospital, he rc tired in 1975. Secretary of his class since graduation , Dr. Wright is a life mem ber and Past-President of the Ontario Veterinary Association; erved on the OVA Advisory Committee; is a member of the CVMA and the AVMA , and was OVA member in the AVMA House of Representat ives for five years . He was appointed to Senate in 1978 to complete the unexpired term of Ron Taylor , HAFA '73, who resigned his seat. Ron Taylor would have retired from Senate August 31, 1979.

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Appointments

Douglas R. Babcook, O AC '50, is Vice-President, Produc tion, with the Stroh Brewery Company, Detroit, Mic higan, U.S.A.

Following graduation from Guelph, he spent five years with the Defense Research Board , Department of Nation al Defense, as a research scientist.

He joined Canadian Breweries Ltd ., in 1955 and was Head Brewer there prior to his move to Stroh Brewery as Master Brewer in 1969 . He was appointed General Manager, Brewing, Packaging and Feeds in 1976.

Me. Babcook is a diploma member of the Institute of Brewing, a graduate of the U .S. Brewers Academy, and a member of the Master Brewers Association of America, the American Society of Brewing Chemists, the Engineering Society of Detroit and the Royal Canadian Navy Reserve .

A native of Kingston , Ontario, he is married to the former Pat sy St. Peter from Milk River, Alberta. They have three daughters, Lo u Anne, CBS ' 8 1, Catherine and Mary Jane.

Robert W. (Bob) Kelly, OAC ' 51, has been appointed General Manager of The Meat Packers Council of Canada .

Following graduation, his initial business experience was with Toronto Elevators Limited , now Maple Leaf Mills Ltd.

During his almost 25 years of association management Mr. Kelly has had extensive experience with the Allied Boating Association, the Canadian Touri st Association, the Canadian National Sportsmen's Show and the Conservation Council of Ont ario. Since 1972 he has been General Manager of the Canadian Farm and Industrial Equipment Institute.

He and his wife, Be verly , live in West Toronto with the ir two children.

Wayne E. T bompson has been appointed professor and Chairman of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology . Previously he was Chairman and professor in the department of sociology at Brock Uni versity.

Douglas R. Babcook Robert W . Kelly

Professor Thompson received his B.A. cum laude in economics and soc io logy in 1949 and his M . A. degree in sociology in 195 1, both from the Universi ty of Colorado . In 1956 , he received his Ph .D. from Cornell .

During his career, Dr. Thompson has served as professor of sociology at Cornell and as professor and Chairman of the department at the University of North Caroli na in Greensboro , at Californi a State College , in Bakersfield , as we ll as at Brock. He was visi ti ng professor at the University of Colo rado during the sum mers of 1966 and 1967 and served on the Fulbright-Hays adv isory screening committee fo r sociology from 1967 to 1968 and as its chairman fro m 1969 to 1973.

Dr. Thompson has been invol ved with a large number of research projects dealing with yo uth, occupat ional ret irement and community issues . Many of his papers have dealt with the subject of aging and adjustment to it.

Professor R ussell A . Willoughby, OVC '57, Cli nical Stud ies, has been named Associ ate Dean of Research and Resources at the Ontario Veterinary College , a positi on that has remained vac ant s ince the death , this past summer, of Professor Donald G . Ingram , O VC '52.

Dr. Willoughby' s teaching and researc h interests have centred on the problems associated with the inteo ified rearing of livestock . In recent years, these stud ies have included the effects of noxious gases and du st in barns on the resp iratory systems, the measurement of stress , the effect of under-nutrition on the uptake of lead and the interaction of environ mental factors and infectious diseases . More recen tly he has helped to stablish respiratory fu nct ion tests for hor es and cattle.

Since 1972 , he ha been Secretary of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medici ne and was presented with an Award of Merit from tha t College for his services .

Dr. Willoughby was born in Manitoba in 1933 and was raised on hi s fathe r' , Aberdeen Angus farm in south astern

WaYlle E , Thumpsoll Russell A. Willoughby

Saskatchewan . He grad uated from the Ontario Veterinary Co llege in 1957. From 1957 to J96 1 he conducted a mixed veterinary practice at Grenfell, Saskatchewan, then , after spend ing a year as a cl inic ian with the Fann Service Clini c at the O . V.C . he obtained a Ph,D . from Corne ll Un iversity in 1965. Since that time he has been a pro fessor of large animal medic ine in the Department of Clin ical S tudie at the O .V .C .

He is married to the former Peggy Irene Ramsay of Carlyle , Saskatchewan , They have a son and two daughters . 0

New Award Nomi nati ons are now being accepted for the inaug ural presentation of the University of Guelph Community Service Award ,

This award has been created in order to provide recognition to those individ uals or groups who have made contr ibut ions sign ificant to the betterment of the University community as a who le .

Any indiv idual o r organization that is or has been associated with the Universit y since it incorporation in 1964 is e ligible for nom inatio n fo r the award . The award w ill take the form o f a model of the Johnston Ha I Portico, and wil l be awarded annuall y at the University of Guelph community barbecue .

ominations for this award should be accom pan ied by a support ing brief, and ma iled to the Community Service Award Committee, Room 274 , University Centre, Un ivers ity of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario

IG 2W I, to arrive no later than May 15 , 1979 . 0

Wellington College

REUNION A reunion d inner for all We lli ngton Co llege Alumni wil l be held Saturday, June 16, 1979 in the Facu lty Club, University Centre, University of Guel ph, during Alumni We kend . Watch fo r further information. 0

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Alumni at the equator Close your eyes, and conjure up a mental picture of yourself crossing the equator. Odds are you en visioned bright sunshine , sti fli ng heat and a couple of Li vingstoneish pith helmets - very good!

However, that' s not the way it was when 23 alumni and friends crossed latitude zero during their to ur of Colombia and Ecuador last November.

According to Rosemary Clark, Mac ' 59, Assistant Director, Alumni Programs, who accompanied the group , there they were , on a narrow mountain road 10,000 feet up in Ecuador's Andes Mountains, dressed for th jungle and stepping out of a motor coach into a temperature of 50° F. and pouring ra in l

That was the trip ' s "Iowl ight" . The highlight occurred earlier when the group was ente rtai ned at "Rincon de Jura" in Bogota, the beautiful home of David Hughes, OAC '5IA, and hi s wife Betty . Among the guests at the dinner party were Dr . Mi chael Held , OAC '56 , and his wife , and David Laughton, Canadian Ambassador to Colombia. south of Cal i where the three Andes challenges are tossed in . One such challenge

Part of the trip, a six-day, 800-mile mountain ranges meet. that faced a ll was the expected language motor coach tour, from Bogota in Colombia, Together with miles of breath-taking barrier, especially ill areas not regularly south to Qu ito , in Ecuador , exposed a land scenery, the group was exposed to a wide visited by tourists . of contrasts as the group visited, or tayed range of crop production in luding co ffee, It' s reported that Canada's excellent overnight, in large c ities and small towns . sugar cane , orchids, rice, casava and maize, bilingual ' phone system is more appreciated

Much of the trip was spent travell ing much of which grow very close to the after a bm sh with Spanish-speaking through the Andes Mountains at an e levat ion mou ntain peaks, often on sub-standard soil telephone operators who have no command of between 5,000 and 10,000 feet. One of or very little soil at all. of the Engl ish language . Waving your arms the more spectacular places was the area just All trips are spiced up when a few about doesn' t help a bit! 0

At the Hotel Monestario, Popayan , Colombia, are: left CO right front row, Jack Palmer, OAC '38; Ha rold Minshall, OAC '33 , Grant Anderson, OAC '33 , Esmond Smith, OAC '36 ; Ann and Jack Wright. In the rear are : Dick Hilliard, OAC '40 ; Dorothea Palmer , Mac '36; Audrey Hilliard, Thelma Anderson, Jean Smith, George alld Verna Thorpe, Fordyce and Jr-ene Cla rk, Harry Burr, Leonard Beaupre, OAC '39; Isabelle Burr, Dorothy LeBel, Mac'32; Jean Morlon, Rela Minshall and James Morton , OAC '47 .

March 19, 21,22 Counselling Days for

coming events

GUELPH ALUMNUS IWinter 1979 Volum~ 12, Number 1

Canada Poltes1+ Post Canada F'Ds'*'OOod -""", / Bulk Ennombre third troisieme class classe 1067 Guelph. Onto

April 1 Alumni Maple Syrup and Pancakeprospective students. Festival, University of 29 Ontario Institute of Guelph Arboretum. Agroiogists,

24 O.A.C. Alumnj Association Seminar.Annual Meeting, Ottawa. May 5 Mac-FACS Alumni Association 30-31 O.A. C, Alumni Association

Seminar.Annual Curling Bonspiel.

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If the addressee or a son or a •daughter who is an alumnus has moved, please notify the Alumni Office, University of Guelph N1 G 2W 1 , so that this magazine may be forwarded to the proper address.

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