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Page 1: Guelph Alumnus Magazine, Winter 1999

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message from the

rwe rwere 46

in and around the University

THE UN IVERSITY OF

GUELPH has had cluse

to cel ebra Ie in recen t

months The Un iversity

ma intained its high

ra nking in the annual

Macleans magazine

eval uatio n of Canadian

universi ties and eight

members o f the U of G

fa mily received n ational

and interna tio nal recogshy

nitio n including fo ur

Order of Ca nada designa shy

tions In addition U of G

research and teaching

programs have received

new financial support

from federa l and provinshy

cial government in itiat ives

that will boost U of G

programs in biotechnoloshy

gy co mputing science and

engin eering

WINTER

THE CAMPUS CELEBRATES 10 AGRI-FOOD LEADERSH IP

After 125 years of prov id ing ed ucation research and service

OAC is sti ll at the forefro nt of Ca nadas agri-food industry

by Mary Dickieson

FACULTY PROFILE20 INSIDE JUDITH THOMPSON

A conversation with U of G drama professor Judith T hompso n

reveals another side of one of Ca nadas bes t playwrights

by Andrew Vowles

RESEARCH

WHATS TO BE DONE WITH CANADAS FISHERIES

Guelph scientists delve in to the problems facing Ca nadas fisheries

and com men t on the managemen t issues that are th reatening both

coasta l and inland reso urces

by Andrew Vowles

1999

alumni Matters

ALUMNI I NVOIVEMENT

in th e University is

growing through the

effor ts of University

of Guelph Alumni Associshy

ation president Jim

Weeden and U of G has

received several gifts from

alumni that will provide

better computer access fo r

students and resto re two

favourite meeting places

on ca mpus T his section

also presents news from

o ther Guelph graduates

an update on U of G

even ts and programs and

an opportunity for alumshy

ni to communicate with

each o th er and with the

University

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research Wotes

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WINTER 1999 3

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

Quelph alumnus WNTEn 1999middotVOLUME3 1I ssur I Letters

Editor Mary Dickicson

Director Darlene Frampton

Art Direction Peter Enneson Design Inc

Contributors Gayle Anderson BA 92 Barbam Chance BA 74

Lori Bona Hunt Andrew Vowles BSe 84

Advertising Inquiries Brinn Downey 519-824-4120 Ext 6665

E-mail bdowneyexecadmin uoguephea

Direct all other correspondence to Guelph AIIII1III5

Communications and Public Attairs University of Guelph Guelph Ontario N IG 2Wl

Phone 519-824-4120

Fax 519-824-7962

E-mail mdickiesoexecllimin uoguelphca wwwuoguelpbcaucommalumnus

The Guelph AluI1Ilu5 magazine is pubshylished three times a year by Developshyment and Public Affairs at the Univershysity of Cuelph Its mission is to cnhlllce the relltionship between the Universishyty and its alumni and friends and proshymote pride and commitment within the University cOlllmunity All material is copyright 1999 Ideas and opinions expressed in the articles do not necesshysarily reflect the ideas or opinions of the University or the editors

Printed in Canada by the Beacon Herald Fine Printing Division ISSN 1207-7801

To update your alumni record or change your address please contact Development and Public Affairs Phone 519-824-4120 Ext 6550

fax 51 lt)-822-2670

E-mail jeanwalurnniuoguelphca

UNIVERSITY 9fGlHilPH

Thank you alumni DURING THE FIVE YEtRS [ served as dean of the College of Socia l Science [ developed 8

deep appreciation for the role alumni play in the life of the University I attended three meetshyings of the College of Social Science Alumni Association before actually becoming dean and from the start I experienced the dedicashytion of alumni volunteers who maintain an important link to the University

Alumni give in many meaningful ways welcoming new students spea king at career nights offering co-op placements and employing grad uates are just a few Alumni donations to the Alma Mater Fund are becoming increas ingly important as govshyern men t fu nd i ng decreases Schola rsh ips provided by alumni giving encourage excelshylence in undergraduate students help us attract top-notch graduate students and proshyvide opportunities for many students who might not otherwise be able to attend the University

Each year the AMF gives each college dea n $6000 [n CSS we used this money for things not possible in our operating budget - visiting speakers special equipment gradshyuate st ud ent conference travel and recruitshyment brochures The AMF also supports the Winegald Visiting Professorship and in 199697 CSS brought five scholars to camshypus for a public lecture series that was attended by hundreds of students and facshyulty A book is being published as an outshy

come of th e series Alumni support goes weJl beyond monshy

ey Many alumni care enough about us to rite and provide insights to changing socishy

etalneeds and reactions to proposals on CtHshy

ricular and organizational changes It is great to have the alumni from CSS and the Col shy

lege of Family and Consulller Studies now wOlking together to ensure that our new College of Social and Applied Human Sc ishyences will have meaning for those associshyated with the former coJleges and for future generations of graduates

Thank you alumni Your continuing

involvement with yo ur university is appre shyciated [ am proud to be lssocia ted with yo u and this wonderful institution

PROF DAVID KNIGHT

CSS DEAN 1993 TO 1998

A job well done

As GENERAL MANAG ER of the Ontario Sumshymer Games which ran Aug 13 to 16 in Guelph I want to extend a sincere thank you to the University of Guelph its faculty staff and alulllni for helping to make this event such a positive and memorable expe rien ce for the 2400 young athletes

More than 1700 vo lunteers includ ing many University alumni and employees gra shyciously donated their time and talents to make the Gltlmes Organizing Committees (GOC) dream of hosting the best-ever Summer Games ltl rea lit y

[ hope the en tire University community sha res my pride over the outstanding colshylective effort that went into organizing and hostin g these Games Atl of the University alumni and employees I dealt with made every effort to accol11 l11odate the needs of the GOe the provincial spo rt organizations and the panicipants themselves

The University of Guelph is certainly to be cOl11l11ended for a job well done Based on the feedback I received during the Games and in the months since I kI10v thal those spectators and participants from across the province who

were eAvosed to d1e University for the first time left with a highly favourable impression

One of th e goa ls of the Games was to leave a legacy in the form of improved athshyletic facilities volunteer leadership expertise and community development For the Unishyvers ity the desiled legacy will be of a differshyent nature - hwing some of these talented

young athletes return to Guelph to don the Gryp hon uniform thus ensuring that our tradition of athletic and academic excellence continues on Nothing would please this alumnus more than to see that happen

TIM MALI

SA 92 MA 93

4 GUELPH ALUMNUS

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

message from the President MORDECHAI ROZANSKI

THE BEG INN IN G OF THE YEAR seems an appropriate and second nationally in its category in the Madams ra nkshytime to introduce the new design and edi torial direc shy Lng of u madian wliversities In the magazines cross-counshy

tion of the Guelph Alumnus I hope you will like it as try survey of high school guidance counsellors and acadshy

much as I do emic and industry leaders Guelph ranked second in overall In each issue we will present regular co lumns such quality and repu tat ion Our success in these ra nkings

as In and Around the University and Research Notes to reflec ts the excellence and dedication of all members of keep you informed of research developments and camshy the University communi ty - our faculty staff students

pus news that matter most to alumni and alumni - and is testimony to our

Our fea tures will look at the issues that very talented academic and st ud ent

are most important to us as Canadians affairs leadership Guelph has maintained and will focus on the people who conshy its commitment to quality und er chalshytribute so much to Guelphs sllccess lenging conditions given the current The AllllTIJli Matters section of the magshy financial fragility of Ontario universities az ine wi ll bring yo u news about yo ur Our situation has been hel ped by our fellow alumni and their activi ties in supshy successes with several national lt1nd port of the University and the commushy provincial applications for resea rch and nities in which they live teachin g support The first of nine

In this issue of the Guelph Alumnus research initiatives submitted to the we celebrate the heritage of the Univershy Canada Fou ndat ion for Innovation has sity as we help launch the 12Sth annivershy been funded and will support the study sa ry of the Ontario Agricultural College of new technologies for enhancing agro-The college has played a leading ecosystems At the provincia l role in the history of the Unishy level the Onta rio gove rnment versity of Guelph and has made GUELPH HAS recently announced funding to many invaluab le contributions U of G under the Ontario MAINTAINED ITS to agricu ltural research and Research and Development education in this province and COMMITMENT Challenge Fund that wi II su p shyacross the nation Our feature port a new Food System

TO QUALITY UNDER on the 12Sth anniversary of the Biotechnology Centre on cal11shycollege looks back at its remarkshy CHALLENGING pus The province has also proshyable legacy and for wa rd to its vided grants to boost enrolment

CONDITIONS prominence as Canada s preshy in engineering and computing mier centre in agri-food envi- science programs and to provide ronmental and rural ed ucation research and outreach research scholarships for up to 46 U of G grad uate stushy

This issue also presents a dramatic profi le o f playshy dents working in science and technology programs wright Judith Thompson a professor in Guelphs School Although we are pl eased with this suppor t for ou r of Literatures and Performance Studies in English who excellent and deserving science-related disciplines we are displays the kind of creative energy that yo u find camshy concerned that most of these programs are so narrowly pus-wide among our talented faculty A seco nd feature targeted As a university with excell ent programs in the demonstrates Guelphs expertise in the aquat ic sciences arts humanities social sciences and applied fields Guelph and frames sOllle of the strategies that co uld preserve - as well as other Ontario universities - needs a comshyCanadas endangered fish eries reSOllfces prehensive multi-yea r effo rt that addresses the entire

The new year is al so an appropriate time to reflect range of programs and disciplines and prepares LIS to meet -on the achievements of the past yea r an d look ahead to the expectations of Ontarians in the 21st century the opportunities to come J look forward to shari ng more news with you in

Last November for the second yea r in a row Guelph hiture issues of the Guelph Alul11rlus My very best wishshyranked first among Ontarios comprehensive universities es for success hea lth and happiness in 1999

W I NTER 1999 5

bull UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

GUELPH HOLDS SECOND PLACE IN MACLEANS RANKING

For the second year in

a row U of G finished

second in the country

in its category in the annual

Macleans magazine universities

ranking issue

Editor Ann Dowsett Johnston

says it was very close with

Guelph barely nipped to the finshy

ish line by Simon Fraser Univershy

s ity in the 12-universitycomshy

prehensives category Guelph led

the way provincially coming first

of the five Ontario universities

in the sa me category

G uelph also rece ived a secshy

ond-place ranking in its categoshy

ry in the Macleans reputational

survey of 4700 corpora te CEOs

administ ra tors and high school

guidance counsellors In the allshy

categories nationwide reputashy

tional survey U of G placed xa5 eighth out of 48 institutions

~ Dowsett Johnston says

~ Guelph is well-established as a I premier university Other uni shy~ o vers ities are searching for an o f--

identity Guelph has a wonder-z laquo Vl gt ful sense of who it is This makes Vl

gtshy it a leader ahead of the game Its co 6 a strong resid ential school and

( it knows and builds o n its tr strengths It bodes incredibly ~ - well for the future

6 GUELPH ALUMNUS

ONTARIO INVESTS IN NEW

BIOTECH CENTRE AT U OF G The Ontario government will invest up to

$6 million in a new Food System Biotechshy

nology Centre at U of G

The funding from the Ministry of Energy

Science and Technology through the

Ontario Research and Development Chalshy

lenge Fund will be used to investigate anishy

mal genetiCS plant genetics and transgenshy

ics and the basic molecular research

underlying these areas With matching

funding from industry and the U of G

research budget the total investment in

this centre could reach $18 million

The new biotechnology centre will be

the focal point of molecular biology and

biotechnology research related to the agrishy

food system says U of G president

Mordechai Rozanski The award will allow

KUDOS

U of G applauds the recent

Order of Canada designamiddot

tions received by former

president William Winegard who was recognized for his

voluntarism OAC alumnus

Constantine Campbell BSA 60 who was honoured

for his significant contribushy

tions to science and the

Canadian agricultural indusshy

try Beverly Mascoll a

former member of U of Gs

Board of Governors and

Austin Clarke who recently

served as writer-in-residence

at Guelph

Roberta Bondar B5c

(Agr) 68 Canadas first

the University to develop the infrastructure

and expertise necessary to maintain a

leadership role in the important agri-food

sector of the economy he says It

involves four colleges 11 departments and

some 70 researchers and adds to Guelphs

reputation as a centre for the highest-qualshy

ity research benefiting all Canadians

The centres work will encompass all

aspects of the food system including agrishy

culture processing storage packaging

nutrition waste management and food

safety Key initiatives will incorporate

recent advances in molecular genetic techshy

nology into strategies for developing

improved strains of livestock and for the

production and evaluation of transgenic

plants

and physiological change in

space and how it applies to

life on Earth

Clay Switzer BSA 51 former

dean of OAC and former

deputy minister of the

Ontario Ministry of Agriculshy

ture and Food was inducted

into the Canadian Agriculturshy

al Hall of Fame in November

Fred Gilbert M5c 66 and

PhD 68 recently began a

first term as president of

Lakehead University in

Thunder Bay Ont

Won-Jai Maeng MSc 71 is

the newly appointed presishy

dent of Kon-Kuk University

in Seoul Korea

female astronaut has been

inducted into the Canadian

Medical Hall of Fame for her

studies on weightlessness

Winegard Named Officer of the Order of Canada

BIn WINEG ARD form er U ofG presishydent and minister of state for sc ience

and technology was named an officer of the Order of Canada in Jul y In November many of his University and co mmunity frie nds gath ered for a recognition dinner hosted by Lorie BA Sc 72 and Gin ty jocius

IN FACT What Mlldelns knows

VS editors arc learning

Major US publications have reccntly dcscribed

V of G as being academishycally excellent and a

real college valuc for American students

BSc(Agr ) 70 They were students at U of G during Winega rds tenure as president and later esta blished thei r business Gin ty jocius amp Associates in the Guelph-Wellington ridshying he represented as MP

Winegard first ca me to Guelph in 1967

to pilot the new University of Guelp h

CENTR E SIX GETS A FAC ELIFT

AFTER 25 YEARS the Unishyversity Centres popular

dining and seating area is getting a new look The expansion and renovation of Cen tre Six includes the addishytion of 200 scats an elevated lounge accessible to people

through its format ive years At the recognishytion dinner curren t U of G president Mo rdecbai Rozanski paid tribute to Wineshygards ro le as the intellec tual founder and shaper of the modern transformation of Guelph A distinguished metallurgist who began his academic career at the University of Toronto Winegard recruited many of the talented faculty who have spent the last 25 to 30 years building Guelphs reputation as a research institution said Rozanski

Winegards lead ership in the ac ademic community also encompassed the Canadian Bureau of International Education the Counshycil of Ontario Universities and the Ontario Council of University Affairs He retired from academia and U of G in 1975 His legacy on campus includes the Winegard Medal the highest award made to a graduati ng student and d1e Winegard Visiting Professorship which brings world scholars to U of G Proceeds from the recognition dinner were given to U of G to support Winegard visiting professors

Elected to Parliament in 1984 Winegard spent nine years in Ottawa and served in ca bshyinet as Canadas minister of state for science and technology and then science minister j

until he retired from Parliament in j 993 He 8 was named chair of the Premiers Research ~

Excel lence Awards board at the December i z

1998 announcement of the provincial pro- o V1gram which is designed to attract talented -lt 0you ng scientists to Ontario m

with disa bilities and a so lari shyum that has enclosed the external dining patio The facelift is funded entirely through non-exclusive agreements with the Univershysitys food service business partners

The project is expected lo address the need for space to

accommodate enrolment increases and may increase conference business Centre Six will also be more energyshyand labor-efficient with the installation of an upgraded -air-handling system In 1999

the Centre Six project will continue with renovations to the food comt area

WINTER j 999 7

in and around the

HPILOT PROJECT ELIMINATES BARRIERS

av ing a learning disability isnt a barrier to obtaining an educashy

tion at the University of Guelph especially with the laun ch of Learning Opportunities a pilot program offered through the Unishy

versitys Centre for Students with Disabilities Beginning in fall 1999

the program will give students with learning disa bilities the addishytional resources they need to meet the challenges involved in obtainshy

ing a post-secondary ed ucation

Lea rning Opportuniti es is a fi ve -yea r project that rece ived

$633 800 in special funding from the Ontario Ministry of Education

and Training U of G vas one of eight institutions to benefit from ~ the gran ts) which are designed specifically for programs in post-secshy

~ ondary institutions that support the integration of stud ents with I U learning disabiliti esIf)

z 0 Students enrolled in the Guelph program will receive pre-regis-O

~ tration cOllnselling academic advising speciall y tailored orientation

~ programs integrated living in an on-campus learn ing cluster supshy

5 ported learning groups workplace skills and competenc ies develshy

5 Oplnent) and experiential educat ion in the vvorkplace

PROVINCE BOOSTS GRADUATE RESEARCH

ANEW $75 - lvIILLlON provinshy

cial scholarship program in

science and technology will awa rd up to 46 U of G graduate

students up to $15000 star ting

this ye ar An nounced in Sepshytember the O ntario Graduate

Scholarships in Sc ience and

Technology will be awarded each

year for 10 years The ministries

of Energy Science and Technolshy

ogy and Education and Training will co-fund two-third s of the

cost of the program Uni ve rsishy

ties are expected to fmd an otershynal match for the final third

The government will alloshy

cate up to $460000 annually to

U OF G GRADS PROMPT GIFT FOOD SC IE NCE TEACHIN G and research at U of G has received financial support from the

Maple Lodge Farms Foundation In honour

of the companys founder Lawrence May

the May family presented $15000 to U of G

president Mordechai Rozanski Nov 9 at the

Royal Agricultural Wint er Fair in Toronto Presenters Wendy Ma y Robson and Kathy

May Weinhold said the gift was awarded

because of Maple Lodge Farms positive

experiences with so many highly qualified Guelph graduates

Man) graduates of this university have

passed through our facility over the yea rs

and in many capacities - as veterinarians inspectors researchers and food scientists

says Robson Our business has been enriched by this connection and it is for

8 GUELPH ALUMNUS

University

Guelph MPP Brenda Ell iott presents a cheque for $633800 to president Mordechai Rozanski for a pilot project to help learningshydisabled students Sta nd ing from left are Carol Herriot of the Cent re for Students wi th Disab ili t ies student Brad Hutchinson and cent re director Bruno Ma ncini

U of G whi ch will seek th e

remaining $230000 from prishy

va te-sector funding

Graduate studi es dean Alasshytair Summerlee is enthusiast ic

ab out the program but disapshypointed at the targe ted natu re of

the scholarships 1-k say the preshy

liminary list of qualifyi ng pro-

this reason that we wish to be part of this talented fa cility and to show our support of

its continuing mission of being a worldshy

class educational facility in Canada

Wendy Robson left and Kathy Weinh old present a gift from Maple Lodge Farms to U of G presiden t Mordechai Rozanski at the Roya l Winter Fair

grams ignores the social sciences

and huma nit ies and does not appreciate the con tributions of

fi elds suc h as econo mi cs and poli tical science to the advanceshy

mfl1t of science w d technology He says U of G wi ll press for the

govern ment to expalld the areas

included in the scholarships

B OF G WELCOMES NEW MEMBERS f OL LO W IN G 1111 1([ Il RF ~ lE NT of

several members in June U of Gs Board of Govern ors welcomed

t igh t new face~ th is blJ They are Christine Alford BSc 80 viccshy

prcsidltIlt Jnd geneml manager of

In tegration S rvices at IBM Ca na shyd1 Ltd Gil Bennett chai r of the

Canadian Tire Corporation Doug

Derry a fi na ncial adv iser and ret ired part ner with Price Wlel shy

house staff member Kathleen Hyland of th UAC Deans O ffi cI

graduate stu clenL James Rodgers undergraduate stud en ts Mitch MacDonald and Lana Rabkin and

Prof Steve Scadding Zoology

-

U OF G WINS FEDERAL

INNOVATION AWARD

mE UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH is one of 14

1 Canadian universities and one of six

in Ontario to receive awards totalling $81

million from the Canada Foundation for

Innovations (CFI) Institutional Innovation

Fund (projects over $350000)

The CFI has yet to determine the exact

amount of the award but if Guelph were

to get the approximate $750000 requestshy

ed with matching grants from industry

and the Ontario Research and Developshy

ment Challenge Fund the total award

could be close to $2 million

Guelphs project is a holistic look at

agriculture the first of its kind in Canada

Titled New Technologies for Assessing

and Enhancing Agroecosystems it will be

headed by Prof Terry Gillespie chair of the

Department of Land Resource Science and

involve 25 faculty from 10 departments

Eight other U of G research projects were

invited to move on to a further stage of

review the third-highest number for an

Ontario university

TTRELLIS LAUNCHED a triangle of information sharshy indexes and Web sites and

H E SEP~EMI3ER LAU NCH of ing through TRELLIS the Trishy databases around the world an excltmg new system University Group of Libraries More than 75 million volshy

called TRELLIS has positioned combined computer-based umes of materials can be the U of G Library as a symbol information resource system found online and more thal1 of partnership and the home The automated system 400 users can log on to for more information than ever gives students and faculty at TRELLIS at the same time before U of G Wilfrid Laurier the three campuses access to a To access TRELLIS 011

University and the University of wider range of resources the Internet type wwwtugshyWaterloo joined forces to form including computer-based librariesonca

OTHER HONOURS

CONVOCAriON HONOURS TWO The University of Guelph has added two more distinshy

guished names to its list of honorary degree recipients Renowned biologist Jane Goodall and political scienshytist Peter Russell an expert on the Canadian Constitushytion and Charter of Rights and Freedoms were honshyoured during fall convocashytion ceremonies in October

Goodall received an honorary doctor of science degree acknowledging more than 40 years of groundbreaking work in the life and sociobiology of chimpanzees and other primates

An honorary doctor of

laws degree was conferred on Russell for his extensive research on the Constitution and Canadian nationalism

UOFG QUALIFIES FOR ATOP SUPPORT U OF Gs SCHOOL OF Engi- neering and Department of Computing and Information Science (CIS) are planning for more faculty equipment and resources following the Unishyversitys request for funding from a provincial program designed to address a shortage of skilled graduates in engimiddot neering and computing science

U of G met this years enrolment increase in these high-tech programs needed to qualify for one-time fundshying under the provinces Access to Opportunities Proshygram (ATOP) Guelph has also committed to doubling enrolment by the year 2000 to take advantage of long-term ATOP money

Guelph will qualify for special operating grants from the province to universities that increase their first-year enrolment in these programs by 20 per cent over 199798

The University also hopes to receive ATOP funding to increase its graduate enrolshyment in these disciplines

Both CIS and the School of Engineering face a shortage of resources making the ATOP funding an important funding source that will help these areas without affecting other campus units

WINTER 1999 9

refront ofat the

ALL THE DEFINING WORDS

written about the Ontario Agricultural College in its 125

years perhaps the most appropriate is the word integral

Throughout its history OAC has remained integral to the

agri-food industry and rural society

Its a good word integral It describes how and why

the college has survived 125 years and suggests a reason

it will grow even stronger in the 2pt century

Without hesitation OAC dean Rob McLaughlin

BSc(Agr) 69 and PhD 77 takes up the thought and

declares that OAC is the premier agricultural college in

Canada and stands in the top rank of agricultural faculshy

ties around the world Our work has had a profound

effect on the growth and development of the Canadian

agri-food system and the well-being of the people and

communities of rural Ontario and beyond he says

10 G UELPH ALUMNUS

OAC celebrates its history its partnerships and its fu ture

W I N TER 1999 11

-

OACs 23000 graduates are also recognized

worldwide for their expertise and leadshy

ership abilities in agriculture agribusiness manageshy

ment hortiClilture landscape architecture plant and

animal biology food scie nce and rural extension

Meeting industry needs

More than 100 years apart in their leadershyship of OAC William Johnston and Rob McLaughlin both recognized that the colshylege they inherited would have to focus on industry needs to survive In Johnstons day that meant bringing greater prospershyity to the farm Because only three per cent of McLaughlins graduates return to farmshying todays college curriculum has a greater focus on skills in communication and critical thinking which are demanded by the various industries that now define agriculture

studies McLaughlin hopes those graduates will

return to help the college celebrate 1999s signifishy

cant anniversary It s important to celebrate our

past achievements and to recognize our present and

future strengths he says

A specia l OAC 125 planning committee coshy

chaired by Clay Switzer OAC dean from 1972 to

1983 and Don Blackburn former director of the

diploma program has organized a number of

events throughout the coming year to celebrate the

anniversary

Were looking forward to a wonderful year of

events to mark this occasion says Switzer BSA 51

and MSA 53 We want to celebra te the accomshy

plishments of the past and the fact tha t OAC has

interacted with many partners to get where we are

today and we want to look ahead to the future to

see how the college and the University might conshy

tinue along this successful path

Success for OAC means maintaining its position

as a vital partner and contributor to the prosperity

of the agri-food industry and the people of rural

Ontario for whom it was established That industry

and those rural communities are vastly different

from the 1874 picture we draw from the college hisshy

tory primarily because farmers themselves - with

the help of agricultural education and researchshy

12 GUElPH ALUMNUS

125 YEARS OF ACHIEVEMENT

Throughout OACs first 125 years its educashytion research and extension activities have had an impact on virtually every secshytor of Canadas agrimiddot food industry In the anniversary book 125

Years of Achievement OAC highlights some of the areas where col1lege faculty stushydents and administrashytors have played a leadership role To read more about Guelphs achievements in these areas conshytact the OAC deans office to obtain a copy of the book

Pre 1900

bull Diploma in agriculture

bull Degree in agriculture

bull Agri-food short courses

bull Production bulletins bull Extension work bull Liberal education bull Library resources bull Field crop trials bull Livestock breeding

bull Forestry bull Insect identification bull Experimental Union

1900-1910

bull Herbarium amp weed garden

bull Cheese making bull Food safety bull Land drainage bull Water testing bull Weather observashy

tions amp zoning for crop production

bull Legume inoculants

have forged change through increased productivishy

ty and efficiency

When OAC roots were planted in 187450 per

cent of th e people who lived in this new province

made their living from farming Today only two per

cent of Ontario residents live on farms

but they feed a much larger population

base and an important export market

The Ontario agri-food industry genershy

ates an impressive $637 billion in ecoshy

nomic value each year and stimulates

employment for nearly a quarter of the

workforce Canadians enjoy one of the

safest and cheapest food supplies in the

world spending less than 13 per cent of

their disposa ble income on food Most

people in the world spend more than 50

per cent

Its difficult to pinpoint all the conshy

tributions OAC faculty staff and gradshy

uates have made to agriculture because

the knowledge created and the techshy

nologies perfected here have been so weU

assimilated by the industry that they are

easily taken for granted Few people in

Ontario have ever heard of Charles

Zavitz or know that this early OAC gradshy

uate and professor recorded the first

field-crop yield tests at Guelph before 1890

Appointed head experimentalist in 1893 he was

instrumental in developing a college research proshy

gram that made good the promise that OAC would

offer its students training in scientific agriculture

Zavitz has been followed by a number of brilshy

liant educators and scientists whose contributions

to the college and its industry have filled several

books Even Alexander Ross in OACs official hisshy

tory College on the Hill can provide only a brief

description of the research initiatives that have

involved OAC in the growth of the agri-food secshy

tor and the tremendous advances agriculture has

made in the areas of human and animal nutrition

and health water and soil conservation rural develshy

opment and of course agri-food education

To give prominence to these contributions the

college has published an anniversary book that outshy

lines 125 of the most significant accomplishments in

which OAC faculty students and administrators

played a leadership role More important 125 Years ofAchievement celebrates the partnerships that have

provided the opportunities for achievement Through

the years Guelph scientists and educators have worked

closely with the agri-food industry with both the

Ontario Ministry of Agriculture Food and Rural

Affairs and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and

with other government departments international 1990s And they still have not reached that equalishy125 YEARS agencies educational institutions and alumni ty on the college faculty Alice Rowsome may haveOF ACHIEVEMENT

Read any entry in 125 Years ofAchievement and been hired to serve as assistant librarian and instrucshy

youll find an interes ting anecdote that chronicles tor in French and German at the turn of the censhy1910-1920

an important element in campus history Read the tury but horticulturist Patricia Harney remained bull Macdonaldwhole book and youll be awed by the

Institutesheer volume of th e work that has

bull Soil science been accomplished by so many people Scientific agricuLture

bull Poultry lighting working meticulously over so many

amp nutritionyears to affect so many changes in agrishy After earning one of its first agriculture

bull OAC 21 barleyculture that have improved the lives of degrees in 1888 Charles Zavitz began a

bull Fruit research Canadians 40-year career overseeing the college

Freeman McEwen OAC dean from experimental programs and made the first 1920-1930

1983 to 1990 chaired a committee that advancements in plant breeding Threebull Collecting

involved severa l dozen current and generations later Prof Ken Kasha led the Canadian art

retired faculty as well as alumni students development of a haploid technique of cell bull War Memorial

and U of G staff in writing the stories division that cut the time needed to breed Hall

A quick check of dates in the book new varieties in half Today plant biotechshybull Graduate

shows a spiral of achievement that has nologist Bryan McKersie is looking even education

escalated with whirlwind force since the deeper into the functioning of plant cells bull College Royal

establishment of the University of to manipulate genes that will enhance proshybull SoybeanGuelph in 1964 and heads unabated ductivity or disease resistance

developmenttoward the future The 125 items docushy

bull Forage varieties ment scientific discoveries to be sure

bull Meat research but also the development of the college

bull Ginsengas an educa tional institution and its bull Farm business

ongoing partnership with the provincial records

government

Out of the J25 McEwen has picked his own top the only woman on faculty throughout the 1960s 1930-1940

five beginning with the contributions OAC made and women are seriously under-represented even bull Professional

to the establishment of the University This campus today This is one area where historians find room societies

has the distinction of being the only one in North to criticize agricultural traditions and college polishybull ControlledAmerica where the agricultural college preceded the cies that continued the dominance of men for far

atmosphereuniversity that supports it That fact helps ex plain too many years

storagethe unique character of the University of Guelph The college itself was dominated by the provinshy

bull Muck crops and its prominence in the life sciences cial government during its first 90 years when OAC bull Salmonella

Some might argue that the process of becoming principals reported directly to the minister of agrishytesting

a university began as ea rly as 1904 when the Macshy culture The 1964 University of Guelph Act mainshybull Links with donald Inst itute opened This event is second on tained the schools relationship with the agriculshy

farm groups McEwens list of top accomplishments The ad dishy ture ministry but gave the col lege a new- found

tion of women to the campus changed OAC from a freedom that expanded research and graduate proshy1940-1950

boys school into a co llege Guelph history professhy grams and opened the door to increased fundingbull Holland Marsh

sor Terry Crowley says bluntly Early student life at from th e education ministry It a lso permittedResearch Station

OAC is readily divided into two - before women greater collaboration with the Ontario Veterinarybull Standardizedand after women College which had been moved to Guelph by politshy

cattle conformation The Mac girls were generally older than the J6- ical dictate in 1922

bull Potato breeding and 17-year-old students at OAC they were more One of the most vivid examples of the impact of

bull Reproductionmature and brought both a social life and a new acashy that collaboration was the dramatic increase in anishytechnology

demic focus to the campus For the young women mal-breeding technologies OVC perfected artificial bull Queen beeof Ontario it was a long overdue opportunity and insemination and held the only licence in Ontario for

rearingthey grasped the educa tion offered at Macdonald frozen semen until 1969 OAC faculty and the netshy -bull TechnologyInstitute in large numbers work of provincial agricultural representatives helped

transferWomen were not admitted into the agriculture promote the technology and control it through the

bull Conservation program until 1918 however and they didnt reach development of a national livestock and performance

farm planning numerical equality with male students until the inventory Through these combined efforts Canada

WINTER 1999 13

emerged as a global leader in animal breeding largest Ontario univers ity geographica lly when it125 YEARS OACs un ique and enduring relati onship wi th assumed res ponsibility for ed ucation resea rch andOF ACHIEVEMENT

the provincial agric ulture ministry is another addishy Iaboratory services form erl) managed by the minshy

tion to McEwe ns list of top achievements Certa inshy is try Guelph agric ultural expertise covers the 1950-1960

ly the most significan t even t in the last decade has provi nce with camp uses in Guelph Ridgetownbull Horticulture corre-

Kemptville a nd Alfred and a network of spondence course

research facilities that includes the Horshybull Business education Changing with society ticultural Resea rch Institute of Ontariobull Watershed research

diagnostic laboratories and 21 research bull Farm buildingWhen Adelaide Hoodless argued for the stat ions

programestablishment of Macdonald Institute in the The partnership with OMAFRA has

bull Computers in late 1890S she saw scientific training for kept agricultural education and research agriculture

women as a way to improve community at the forefro nt of the University of bull Corn expansionhealth standards The college has evolved Guelph More than 40 per cent of the Unishybull Deailing with continually through the years - growing versitys graduate studenllt are in OAC and

cold climate into the largest home economics facility in more than 70 per cent of its $80-million

bull CropOntario under dean Margaret McCready and research budget is focused on the ag rishyrecommendations

broadening its outlook in the 1970S under food indus try T hat commitment to

dean Janet Wardlaw to include consumer research is the earliest and most enduring1960-1970

studies and the hospitality industry Wardshy achievement out of the 125 bull OAC Alumnilaw set the tone for increased research OAC contin ues to lea d the way in

Foundationactivity and positioned the college to join research and is one of the most dynamshy

bull University of Guelphforces with the social sciences in 1998 ic co lleges in th e University saysbull Arboretum

McLaughlin But we draw on peoplebull Ag research

fro m all over the University communi shystations

ty And now with the provincial colleges bull International

added back into the mix we are ail workshyag research centres

ing as part of the sa me team to enhance bull Scholarships

been the launch of a new University relationship the opportunities availab le to yo ung people in agri shyendowments

with OACs oldest partner the Onta rio Minist ry of cu ltural edu cat ion bull International

Agriculture Food a nd Rural Affairs (OMAFRA) Alumn i have always held an important position apiculture

In 1997 the University of Guelph became th e on that tea m Among OACs top achievements is the

The OAC of today owes much to its past THE ONTAR IO AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE might never have existshy The journalist s role in establishing the college as the Ontario

ed if not for the failure of a Univers ity of Toronto experiment in School of Agriculture and Experimental Farm is bro ught into

agricultural education in the 18505 It certainly wouldnt have context in a new history of OAC that will be published in April

been situated in Guelph without the political parlaying of Guelph to help celebrate its 125th an niversary The College 011 the Hill A journalist and cleric William Clarke And it might not have surshy New History of the 011tario Agriwltuml College 1874- I 999 was

vived a traumatic first yea r o f patronage and scandal if it hadnt written by Guelph history professor Terry Crowley and Univershy

been for the acc iden tal appo intment ofVVilliam Johnston as prinshy sity professor emeritus Alexander Ross who wrote the origi nal

cipal in the fall of 1874 College 011 the Hill for OACs 100th anniversary

And that was just the beginning If the first book tdls us how OAC grew into the University of

One hundred and twenty-five years have passed since Clarke cuelph the second tells us why

successfully argued that the new province of Ontario needed a When the fledgling provincial government of the 1870s was

land-based rural college where the focus was on providing a pracshy glued togeLher by political patro nage how could th e sc hoo l be

tical education in farming The University of Toronto fai led to any different asks Crowley Two principals came and went withshy

attract farmers sons he sa id because it allowed the other proshy in its first year when rumours tore at their moral fibre so the job

fessions of medicine law and the clergy to overshadow agriculshy fell quickly to the new college rector William Johnston

ture Clarkes persuasive fiting in the then Olltario Farmer newsshy Because we already know how OACs story devdops we ca n

paper helped place the college on 550 acres of good clay loam see some iro ny in the fact that the man who nur tured this preshy

at the back door of his Guelph parish mier agricultural college through its infancy was educated in the

14 GVELPI-I AWMNvs

alumni initiative that es tablished the OAC Alumni work internship at the end of their third yea r and125 YEARS Foundation in the 1960s to provide financial supshy co me back to finish the fourth year with a job wa it shyOF ACHIEVEMENT port to co ll ege programs and scholarships The ing for them says McLa ughlin and they o ften have

foundation also provided the leadership and incenshy fo ur or fi ve to choose from vVe are very short of bull Teaching

tive to create Guelph Unive rsity Alumni Research graduates to fill all of the jobs that are o ut there now innovations

and Development (GUARD Inc) in bull Birdsfoot trefoil

1996 The manda te of the technology bull Land reclamation Educating Leadersmanageme nt company is to develop bull Rural planning

researc h i nven tion s in to marketable bull Wind and snow Guelphs agriculture graduates haveprod ucts lau nch spin-off companies

studies played key roles in Canadian agriculture and gene rate revenu es to support basic

bull Milk testing including federal ministers William Mothshyand applied research at U of G bull Ruminant nutrition

erwell Diploma 1881 John Wise ~DA 56Throughout OACs history alumni bull Ag poli cy and Lyle Vanclief BSc(Agr) 66 Mothshyhave formed a network ofAggies who

development erwell was a driving force behind the have volunteered their time to provide

western grain producers movement before 197deg-198o

a rea l-world view for students helped to

being named to Cabinet in 1921 In thelaunch the careers of many new grad ushybull Arboretum Centre 1980s Wise introduced income stabilizashyates by providing work opport unities bull Ghana-Guelph tion programs and created farm debtencouraged research initiatives co nshy

Project review boards Today Vanclief is strugshytributed millions of dollars to scholarshy

bull Integrated pest gling with low commodity prices and intershyship programs and voca lized co ncerns

managementabout college programs and curriculum national trade agreements

bull Composting animal After receivin g some critica l advice

wastesfrom alumni and agr i-food employers

bull Crop resistance toin the ea rly part o f the 1990s OAC

herbicideslaunched a new BSc(Agr ) program that

bull Limnocorrals for wil l gradu ate the fi rst class of st uden ts

aquatic ecosystems this anniversary year The new agriculshy

bull Grain drying and ture curriculum emphasizes communica tion skills in the agri-food sec tor he says

storageand teamwork allows students to choose their own If you live anywhere near Guelph youll know that

bull Asparagusspecializations and includes opportunities for onshy the agri-food sector ill this area is expected to lead the

bull Systemic fungicides the-job experience Many of those students take a local economy well into the new mi llennium creat shy

bull Pesticides research

bull Agricultural Code of

Practicesocial sciences Johnston had no real farm expeshy within the interdisciplin ary atmosphere of the

rience but he understood people well says Crow- University of Guelph OAC has both contributed

ley and he recognized almost as quickly as his students that the to and benefited iiom the Universitys steady growth Traditionshy

school would succeed only if it co uld offer farm ers sons someshy al OAC programs have expanded into new departments and colshy

thing more thall what they had already learned at home leges providing greater benefits to agri-food resea rch and teach shy

Johnstons commitment to education and his genui ne con shy in g New partnerships o n campus and th e academ ic freedom

cern for his students still echo through the corridors of the build shy provided by University sta tus have enabled Guelph to enlarge its

ing named in his hono ur a nd across campus in the broad range already significant influence in the agri-food sector

of disciplines that now nuke up the Un iversity of Guelph Johnshy Crowley says the enha nced partnership between U of G and

ston was the firs t of hundreds of hulllane and sensible people the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture Food a nd Rural Affairs has

who have given the campus its distinctive character says Crowshy fulfilled a vision of OAC as the hub of agr icultural educa tion that

ley The University of Guel ph is still a good place to be People had been expressed nea rly a cen tury before It s a good place to

help each other to a rema rkable degree and it is eve n m ore end a history and begin a future

remarkable that this sense of co-operatio n has lasted through the In Crowleys fi nal words Agriculture reta ins its econo mi c

most recent government meat slicing importance in the co untrys econom) but the secto r will find

Told in the social and political context of its 125 yea rs the itself [n an increasingly international and com petitive ellvironment -OAC story builds momentum as the pages turn The final chapshy where education and research become ever more importa nt Since

ter in Crowleys history is the most impressive because it SUIll shy the Ontario Agricultural College has demons t rated its ability to

marizes the last 25 years when developments in agricultural edushy respond to changing circumstances during its first 125 years the

cation research and service have occurred 1110st quickly Growing past suggests a willingness to meet the new challenges that await

WINTER 1999 15

ing more jobs and generating more wealth than any 125 YEARS other industry A recent study by the citys Planning OF ACHIEVEMENT OAe 125 and Business Development Department predicts a

ANNIVERSARY EVENTS50-per-cent increase in employment in agri-food bull Mosquitoindustries in the next decade Broaden out to the

monitoring jan 29 - Official OAC 12S launch and bull Canadian publication of 125 Years of Achievements

Greenhouse Feb 16 - Winegard Seminar Series hosts New frontiers Conference Andy Johnson Seymour Wis

bull Non-agricultural March 5 - Winegard Seminar Series hosts At the tum of the 20th century Prof William waste on land Sir Colin Berry Royal London Hospital UKGraham created the impetus for a Canadishy

bull Pest diagnostic March 31 - Opening of AJ Casson Exhibitan poultry industry through nutrition studshyservice and selections from the OAC art collection ies that also provided a background for

at the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre work in human nutrition The tum of the 1980-1990 April 30 - Recognition of the 12s-year 21st century finds poultry scientist Ann Gibshybull Alumni House GuelphOMAFRA partnership and launch bins perfecting the techniques to transfer bull Turfgrass Institute of The College on the Hill A New History genetic material into chicken embryos to bull Centre for the of the Ontario Agricultural College develop birds with better disease resistshy

Genetic Improvement 1874 - 1999middotance or to improve production characterisshyof Livestock june 7 amp 10 - Spring Convocation for tics including the deposition of medically

bull Network of OAC diploma and degree graduates Eachvaluable proteins in the eggs Toxicology Centres graduate will receive a copy of College

bull Biological control lab on the Hill bull George Morris june 18 amp 20 - Alumni Weekend and

Centre opening of the Conservatory and Gardens bull Advanced Sept 14 to 16 - Canadas Outdoor Farm

Agricultural Show will host the countrys biggest silent Leadership auction as an OAC fundraiser for student Program support Ontario industry and the predictors are similar and

bull Distance education Sept 25 - Heritage Banquet and Ball for again youll find U of G at the hub of that growth bull Animal behaviour alumni agri-food partners and University In the past decade the view from Johnston Hall

and welfare communityhas expanded to include OMAFRAs provincial bull Farm animal care Nov 24 - Agri-Food Into the Newheadquarters and the U of G Research Park which bull Haploid breeding Millennium conference to discuss the majoris home to a branch of Agriculture and Agri-Food

technologies forces shaping the destiny of the global Canada the regional headquarters of the Canadian bull Hybrid canolc and Canadian agri-food systems and rural Food Inspection Agency and more than two dozen bull Consumer societiesbusinesses and agriculture organizations that are

benefits from key players in Ontarios industry

agricultural For more information on these events or toIn the summer of 1997 Guelph welcomed the research order copies of the anniversary books visit establishment of Ontario Agri-Food Technologies

bull Soybean the OAC 125 Web site at wwwoacuoguelph - a consortium of 12 grower associations five rhizobium 532C cajOAC125 or contact the deans office atOntario universities 11 industries and OMAFRA

519-824-4120 Ext 2285 e-mail oac125 - which is dedicated to generating wealth for the 1990S oacuoguelphcaprovincial agri -food sector through the application bull Guelph Food

of biotechnology The consortium will develop Technology

financing and the research teams needed to take in new business to the country s economyCentre

discoveries and turn them into products in the Some would suggest the growth of agri -food bull GUARD Incsupermarket partnerships is part of a global trend in economic bull Environmental

A new venture beginning this year is the Agrishy thinking that says consolidate cluster and work Farm Plan

Food Quality Cluster that seeks out opportunities together for greater rewards but the important thing bull U of GOMAFRA

for agri-food companies to work together to meet is that this agri-food sector is clustering in Guelph partnership

a specific need The Guelph duster is one of the first - around U of G - because this institution began bull Wheat in China

to be established in Canada but it already has 500 preparing for its future 125 years ago with a comshybull Food packaging

members and has predicted that potential projects mitmen t to leadership in agri-food research edushybull Transgenic plants

in Ontario could add $2 billion to $3 billion a year cation and service ga

16 GUELPH ALUMNUS

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

rese~ tesch SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERYmiddot SCHOLARSHIpmiddot SOCIAL DEVELOPMENTS

WHEN 24 HOURS IN lea rning how to integrate work Runciman arrived at Guelph know they may be harm ful to

A DAY ISNT ENOUGH and fa mily life rath er than jugshy last summer after spending four their health

TRYIN GTO ACCOMMODATE the gling the two says Lero Inteshy years deSIgning orthopedic sysshy Most consumers are not demands of family and career is gration is key so tfut people can tems and instruments for Canashy aware that plants contain a comshya problem most peopl e fa ce in be successful in multiple roles dian and Ameri ca n firms He plex mi xture of biochemica ls todays society Those indi vidshy rath er than struggling from crishy hopes to establish a state-of-theshy says Prof Pra vecn Saxena Plant ual and family struggles will be sis to crisis art research lHboratory with Agriculture Herbal remedies the focus of the Universitys new HOLlsed in the College of Pro fs Jinl Dickey and Jack have been developed on historishy

Social and Applied j-Iuman Scishy Callaghan Human Bi010gy and cal and anecdotal evidence rather ences the centre brings togethshy Nutr itional Sciences that will than by scientitlc testin g he says er related resea rch areas und er allow him to pursue hi s twin Saxena is trying to change this by a sing1e roof and will spark new research interests in shoulder systematically identifying charshy

Family relations interdisc iplinary opportunities and spine mechanics acterizing and quantifying the experts recommend particularly for graduate st ushy The trio has appli ed for chemical constituents of plants parents integrate - not dents More than 50 fac ulty and fundi ng from the Natural Sc ishy used in a1ternative medicines juggle - work and staff ha ve indicated a desire to ences and Engineering Resea rch family life be affiliates of the centre which Co uncil to equip a biomechanshy

wijJ stimulate resea rch and forge ics lab already loca ted adjacent partnerships with organiza tions to U of Gs new Health and Pershy

Centre for Families Work and co rp orations and co mmunity forman ce Ce ntre in the recentshyWell-Being agenCies ly renova ted Powell Building

Headed by Profs Donna This funding would bring Lero and Kerry Daly Family BODY IS THE the lab up to date to meet intershyRe lat ions and Appli ed Nutri shy ULTIMATE MACHINE national standards says Runcishytion the centre will promote IM INTER ESTED in the app lishy man who p1ans to follow up on responsive wo rk env ironments cation of mechanical engineershy pioneering shoulder mechani cs and help families across Canashy ing to the human body The work he was invo lved in whil e He and grad uate students da manage wo rk and family body is the ultimate machine completing his PhD at Sco tshy Susan Murch and Co lleen Simshyresponsibilities in healthy ways So says Prof John Runciman lands Strathclyde Un iversity mons in th e Ontario Agri culshy

The centre will also be a catshy who recently brought his blend He hop es hi s studies will tural Co llege a1so wa nt to alyst for new researcl in areas of academic and industry expershy help orthopedic co mpanies improve the methods of growshyas diverse as health promotion tise in biomedical engineering design better implan ts used to in g medicinal plants to protect seniors long-term ca re nutrishy to U of Gs School of Engineershy correct such deformities as sco shy cons umers and ensure quality tion and wellness rural aging ing in the College of Phys ica l liosis or cur va ture of the spine Problems in the herbal remeshyand gender in the workplace A and Engineering Science and for treating shoulder insta shy dies industry include medicinal mandate of the centre is that the

IN FACT

bi lity often caused by injuries prepara tions containing misidenshyresults of its research must be among athletes tified plant species contaminashyapplied and availabl e to the tion by pests and disease a lack public to benefit those Canadishy RESEARCHERS of understanding of plant physshyans who ne ed help dealing with CULTIVATE QUALITY iology or efficacy for human conshythe accelerated pace of life nonshy IN HERBAL sumption ilnu co nsumer fraud shytraditional family relationsl ips MEDICINE Our research will help set a longer working hOLlrs globlt1lshy MORE AND MO RE Canadims are standard fo r the development ization and downsizing turning to natural remedies as of safe va lue-added products

The challenge for fam ilies is alternatives to medicine but few Saxena says

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RESEARCH UNCOVERS KEY

TO AGING RESEARCHERS may have found modern sc iences answer to th e mythica l Fountain of Youth

U of G professors John Phillips and Arthur Hilliker Department of Molecular Biolshyogy and Genetics and Gabrielle Boulianne of the University of Toronto and th e Hospital fo r Sick Children appear to have identified a critical weakness in the common fruit fl ys defence against aging

The researchers from the College of Biologica l Science di scovered that a specific cell type - th e motor neuron - is the major target for oxidative damage known for several years to be a key factor affecti ng aging and lifespa n They were able to boost a fruit flys defence against the damage by inserting th e human gene SOD1 which is known to protect against oxidashy

tive damage into the fly s DNA As a result the ave ra ge lifespa n of the fli es (us uall y about 80

days) was increased 40 per cent

PROFESSOR SURVEYS CANADIANS ON POLITICS ETHICS

of the most pampered celeb ri ty NEW WEAPON or the mo st prima donn a pro AGAINST BACTERIA athlete ANTflllOTlCS TYPICALLY have a

More than half of su rvey shelf life because bacte ria develshyresponden ts say they have little op resista nce over time but this or no confidence in Parliament wou ld not be a concern with a with the figure being even lower new sys tem fo r smuggling for the Senate In addition 34 per an tibiotics past bacterial walls

TI-lESE DAYS on both sides of the A molecular-level Trojan border what a politician says or ho rse is how Prof Terry Bevshydoes in private can have tremenshy eridge Department of Microbishydous impact on his or her public ology and graduate student Kelshycareer - but is th at appropriate ly MacDonald desc ribe the

Prof Maureen Mancuso of system theyre studying 1 t takes the Department of Polirical Scishy advan tage of a mechanism develshyence in the College of Social and oped by bacteria to attack an d Applied Human Sciences an d a co nsume neighbouring bugs team of four other political scishy Preliminary tests by the entists conducted a cross-counshytry survey of 1400 Canadians asking what th ey think of th e behaviour of their elected represhysentatives The res ults were pubshyli shed in October in th e book A

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WILL ONTARIO FARMERS GROW

HEMP U OF G SCIENTISTS are helping to determine the viability of hemp as a cash crop for Ontario farmers

Health Canada recently li ftshyed a 60-year ban on growing hemp and about 10000 acres are expected to be plan ted in Canada this year Hemp is an organic fibre tha t could be used in everythi ng fro m fabri c and medicine to oil and paper

Gordon Scheifele of Kemptville CoJlege and Peter Dragla of Ridgetown College are studying the potential of hemp as an Ontario crop Scheifele has completed initial test ing on nine varieties and a series of producshy

tion research experiments in northern parts of On tario Dragla has established breeding program trials and looked at commercial production of hemp varieties in southern Ontario He is also developing field instrushymentation to provid e field readshyings of tetrahydrocanmbinol the psychoactive ingredient in hemp

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TRAINING VETS TO DEAL WITH CLIENT GRIEF

A NEW INTERACTIVE CD-RO M designed by Ontario Veterinary College professor Cindy Adams will help veterinarians learn to help clients gr iev in g over th e loss of a pet Titled Death of a Pet the CD-ROM is expected to be launched in February and is geared toward vets technicians and students

Adams who holds joint appo intments in the departshyments of Popu lat ion Medicine and Cli nical Studies and the Veterinary Teaching Hospital is an expert on the humanan imal bond She has developed in-sershyvice training workshops fo r vets on dealing with client grief over the loss of a pet and su pport groups for grieving pet owners

Inside Playwright Judith Thompson

BEHIND THE MASK

JUDITH THOMPSON A DRAMA PROFESSOR at the University of Guelph

since 1992 is one of Canadas finest playwrights Her complex and

sometimes disturbing plays give voice to human failings and accomshy

plishments A two-time winner of the Governor Generals Literary

Award she has received wide acclaim for her work

On the following pages the Guelph Alumnus profiles an artist

whose creativity finds expression through dialogue by offering a

faithful rendition of the dialogue between Thompson and Comshy

munications and Public Affairs writer Andrew Vowles Much like

the characters she unmasks on stage Thompson reveals both comshy

plicated and unexpected images of herself

PHOTOGRAPHY BY D EAN PALMER

20 GU ELPH A LUMNUS

NO The scene is the rehearsal space in Lower Massey Hall at the University of Guelph

Monday mid-morning Outside the warped-glass windows the first wet snow of the year

drops like pebbles Drama professor Judith Thompson is leading some 20 students in her

Acting I class through their warm-ups The students stand in a circle and take turns aiming

a mock blow as they shout the word No More she says to the less assertive To others

whose No sounds shredded over the top she holds up a hand More control Thompson

gestures to her diaphragm It has to come from here

SCENE THOMPSONS OFFICE MASSEY H ALL

On one wal l hang pictures of actors engaged

in a drama mingled with childrens sc hool

drawings The desktop is practically bare A

black purse occupies one chai r A scarf has

landed on the back of another This is where

the playw rig ht hangs her hat during her

classes and meets with studen ts She wri tes

at home in Torontos Annex neighbourhood

where she li ves with her husband Gregor

Campbell a sessional English inst ruc tor at

Guelph and their five children Ariane 13

Eli 10 Grace 8 Felicity 4 and Sophia J

SCENE U OF G LI BRARY ARCHIVES

Guelph Alumnus writer (readil1g from draft of Epilepsy and Snakes Fear as the Genesis of Theatre a talk given by Thompson to the Epilepsy Association of Metro Toronto ill 1997 The script for the ta lk is included among boxes ofcorrespo nde11ce numerous drafts of plays various newspaper and magazine artishycles and reviews ahout the playwright and her work that Thompson recently donated to the U of G Library archives)

1have known real fear only a few times

in my relatively sheltered life But 1

believe these moments of fear are

directly connected to the so urce of creshy

ativi ty within me

SCENE J UST ABOUT ANYWHERE YOU CAN

REA D A PLAY

GA writer (reading from introduction to Tho mpsons play Sled wh ich was first pro shyduced hy Torontos Tarragon Theatre in 1997)

Judith Thompson was born in 1954 in

Montreal She graduated from Queens

University in 1976 then graduated from

the act ing program of the National Theshy

22 GU ELPH ALUMNUS

I seem to give voice to people who

have no voice

atre Schoo l in 1979 Alth ough she

worked briefl y as a profess ional actor

she became more interested in writing

and at th e age of 25 a workshop of her

first scrip t The Crack walker was proshy

duced by Theatre Passe MuraiHe Her

work which includes both radio and

tel evisio n writing has enjoyed great

internationa l success

Other plays includ e The Crackshywalker White Biting Dog Pink Tornado - radio Am Yours Lion ill the Streets White Sand Perfect Pie and Stop Talking Like That- radio She is the recipient

of the Floyd S Chalmers Canadian Play

Award for Lion in the Streets in 199 1 and

Am Yours in 1987 and the Governor

Generals Literary Award for Drama for

The Other Side of the Dark in 1989 and

White Biti11g Dog in 1984

S CENE LUNCHTIME

U OF G UNIVERSITY CLUB

Thompson Im so grateful to have this job

beca use it allows me to do the work that s

important and the plays that will be my legashy

cy and tha t are what 1 feel I have to conshy

tribute to Canadian culture If I didnt have

thi s job Id ha ve to keep compromising

because my plays dont make money Theyre

always in sma ller houses I take chances

theyre not commercial They play all over

th e world but aha)s in sma ller places 1

would just have to pursue life as a screenshy

writer to make a living Thi s job gives

me the great privilege of doing my research

which is the plays that I write and the edishy

torial work that I some times do and screenshy

plays that are worthy and good projects

GA writer Audi ences and reviewers have

described your plays as dark disturbing full

of angry people full of profanity

Thompson At the risk of sounding

grandiosel seem to give voice to people who

have no voice or very little in the culture

whom people dont li sten to Liol1 in the Streets the handicapped wo man living in

the basement all on her own the yo ung girl

Iso bel The secretary stuck in this abu sive

relationship with the actor The middle-class

housewife dumped by her husband because

be doesnt like her sweatsuits and on and on

I give voice to them because I dont know

because I care abo ut them because I like to

represent them Im a lawyer Some of them

use profanity because they have really good

reason to be angry a nd most of th em are

powerless And unfortunately profanity has

a little charge Its a little source of baby powshy

er It upsets me I dont use it myself Im very

se nsitive to it

SCENE ARCHIVES

GA writer (reading essay by Thompson comshymissio ned by Toronto literary Journal Brick

in 995)

If I were not a writer 1 think 1 would

wear a riding hat With a stee l lining

Because I would be baving many more

epi leptic seizures than 1 do presentl y

Because any of the non-writer real jobs I have had caused me sleepless nights self-disgust swoll en eyes cystic acne and hearin g di sorde rs all of which increased electrical activity in my brain which I believe increases the frequenshycy of seizu res

SCENE UNI VER SITY CLUB

Thompson (discussing the critical and pubshylic reaction to her first play The Crackwalkshyer) It was slaughtered at first as all my plays have been Very bad reviews at first and then somehow they catch fi re and theres one grea t review and the others start to see something GA writer Why the bad reviews Thompson I think people might say that theyre shock ing but I dont think so not

with the movies we see and whatnot Theyre not shocking compared with Quentin Taranshytino But theyre not like anything else they dont know where to put them And when they dont know where to put them theyre dismayed I think and hostile and they feel challenged I just write as I see Im not tryshying to shock or challenge anyone I hope they do challenge - me too all of us I often feel li ke the little boy in The Emperors New

Clothes Look this is what I see

SCENE LOWER MASSEY HALL

Two Acting I students perform a scene on th e stage Their fellow stud ents sit on th e Aoo r watching Thompson sits forward on a plasti c chair forearms propped on her knees hands clasped before her Her eyes her bod y are intent on the action Later Amberley Buxton (fi rst-year student il1 Actshyil1g I who is pursuing a psychology major and a drama minor)

Its a really in tense class In one of our first classes we were to share something that had changed our perspective on li fe or how we thought every day Later during improvisashytion or scene work she had us draw on the emotional context fro m those stories to add to our acting experiences Its really intense in that way A lot of people share a lot of personal things and we use each others experiences

SCENE UNIVER SIT Y CLUll

Thompson Ea ch se meste r students go through an intensive transition In order to find your creative centre or trigger yo u need

to know yourself in an intell ectual context They reach that pl ace and find their genius My philosophy is that every stu dent has genius and its my job to uncover it My relationshi p is so intense with st udents The classes are very psychoanalyt ic It seems to tra nsform their life

SCENE LO WER MA SSEY

Buxton Even if we haven t encountered a similar situat ion in real life she has us draw on somethi ng similar For ollr exa m Im doing a monologue My character has been abused I havent been abused myself but I have to draw on a si tuation where I had sim shy

itar feel ings draw on some experi ence Like being teased at schoo l Even so mething as small as tha t if you find a way to get back to that

SCENE UNIVERSITY CLUll

Thompso n I llsed to be terrified In high school Id spend half my time in the nurses room because the idea of having a se izu re in front of yo ur peers at that age was just petrifying I did finall y have a seizure but luckil y no one was around at the time So I

think all of that puts me in touch with a lot in life I might not have been in touch with being fairly privileged not rich but eno ugh to be middle class A lot of my work is about class abo ut the class differentiation in Canashyda Ive somehow felt more all ied to a less adva ntaged class My gra ndfather once sat as prime minister of Australia My grandshyfa ther on the other side was a member of the Royal Society an entomologist but his mother died in childbirth and he was brought up as a cousin on the farm outside of London And my Australian grandfath er was one of 1I siblings in a shack by the side of the railroad His father had di ed He walked barefoot to school so I th ink because its just two generations away I feel it in my bones and my blood GA writer How did you get to writing Thompson Through ac ting Ive been involved in thea tre since I was II years old I was Helen Keller for a university show my mother directed She had an [vIA in th eatre and she taught it at Queens I was in TILe Crushycible when I was 12 in Kingston and Jean Brodie and on and on and on I would just lisshyten to aU these wonderful lines and words and it all kind of enrered me And acting is where I reaU y found my niche as a person The theshyatre became my home Then I went to theatre schoo l as an actress but I started to create mask characters through improvisation Thats where I really took off in a big way and where I found myse lf very very excited GA writer VVhat we re you excited abo ut Thompson I was doing the writing And I felt frankly that I did it much better than most of the texts I was working with Not Shakespeare but and its not a matter of better it s thats where I belonged So I would go home and write down the charshyacters that r crea ted that day in class and make th em talk to each odler and thats how The Craekwalker happened

I spent a summer in Toronto looking for acting work and I go t a few jobs But every day for a co uple of hours I would write at a typewri ter and I found these voices comshying At the end of it I sa id to someone You know I think this isnt bad I think this might eve n be a play At the Na tional Theatre shySchool they said to me Youre pretty handy with these monologues but dont ever think you could write a play (Pause) I enjoy telling th at tale on them

WINTER 1999 23

SCENE LOWER MASSEY

Buxton It was my fint time doing mask work She had us sit with the masks on and just sta re at ou rselves in the mirror We did it for an hour staring at the mask feelin g the mask It was a phenomenal eilVer ience the Wily youre able to transform yourself It was almost as if you werent look ing at you That helped yo u to walk differently You were able to shed your

own movements and personality

SCEN E UNIVfRSITY CLU B

Thompson I think thil t seizures can transshylate into creativity are part of me as a cre shyltltive artist Peop le in the medical busin ess are very skeptical of ltll1ything like this But I fee l it s because I have fewer inhibitors in my bra in You have these inhibitors and thats what medication helps But if youre epi leptic your inhibitors Ment working as well to put out the electrical fire so it spreads I think the door to my un conscious is kind of flapping around so J think that helps creatively

SCENE MA SSEY HALL

Student (steppingforwmd) NO I Thompson (quietly) Good

SCENE ARCHIVES

GA writer ( reading fiom Epilepsy and Sna kes)

I have no doubt that my experience with epi lepsy has con tributed to my creative wo rk partly because it hE Jped me to understand what it is to be marginalized to be isolated to be feJ rful and to be out of control and eve n to be mortal

SCENE U NIVERS IT Y CLU B

Thompson Unchecked id can mean scrawlshying on the walls crazy things muttering in stree t corne rs beca use th ey re all id no su perego But I had the luck to be born into a theatrical famiJy my mother havin g the theatrical experience so I was exposed to it Lots of books I was taken to 1 lor of plays Having ep il epsy my first seizure when I was nin e J was able to link with that If I hadnt had those advantages who knows the se izur es migh t have ju st made me a depressed person an angr y person And you re touched with mortality you always live und er siege a slight fear of having a se izure Its much less so now with me

24 GUELPH ALUM NUS

SCENE UNIVERSITY CLUB

Thompson Ive always been a mimic in a cheap way I could always mimic we ll I would raLk to someone on a bus and I could do them exactly Thats kind of dangerous because it can be pretty shallow But it showed me ltl way into the person throu gh voice And once J could do that like a pupshypet something would click and I cou ld get

in in a deeper way J need to get so thoroughly into the charshy

acte rs and their state of mind and especialshyly tapping repressed el11orion which gets you in touch with your id or unconscious li fe If

I take little sections of

myself and grow them in a petri dish of the play

one character is about rage I have to tap into my own rage and that s why the monoshylogues so things can just flow and then I can retrieve things from the past and remember things So its not working from here (gesshytures to midriff) it s wo rking fro l11 here (gesshytures to head)

Mo nologues for me are always the key to findin g out who th e character is because if you cant make them rant for fi ve minutes you dont know th em Tha ts what I tell my

playwriting students I want to see r-wo pages of this characters mouth In other words to speak for five minutes we have to have

so mething to say We have to have something we feel passionately about something were angry about and if we dont have something to say for fi ve minutes who are we

SCENE UN IVERSTTY CLUB

GA writer Vhere do you see what eventushyally becomes a play such as Sled 1110mpson I was at a lodge and saw a moose that s one thin g And that made me think about winter and how the country is always with us as Ca nadians Even in the urban censhytres we ca rr y it wi th us Theres always this

see ming division between the country the wilderness and civilized centres but its the same The wildness of the moose and the

hunt and the bear is in our neighbourhoods I guess its like Lion in the Streets it must be a thing with me And also the exquisite beaushyty and thats how most of the world thinks of Canada as the wilderness Its not quite how we think of ourselves but it is partly So that made me want to do something abo ut the Nor th violence in the North

As far as th e old mans stories that was my neighbour and he told me all those stoshyries they were all true except mltlyb e one or so and I thought Theyre amazing They teilus what our neighbourhoods Me really about and Toro nto what the city is how its const ru cted Toronto is our stories and in th ese neighbourhoods you have an urbane entertainer li ving nex t to an 80-year-old Italia n man and thats the beauty ofToronshyto ltllld its the way th e world is chan ging The stric t class divis ions and culture divishysions th eyre no longer as defin ed as they we re espec ially in th ese neighbourhoods the great pioneering experimen t GA writer Do your chi ld ren see your work Thompson No None of my children can see my plays Ariane saw f Am Yours in New York when she was about nin e I do cl eal with the dark and whats tru e and my chilshydren aren t ready for that Im probab ly more protective th an mos t mothers Walk them

to school till theyre 13 that ki nd of thin g GA writer Yo u we re intervi ewed in the Globe alld Mail recently in a story about motherh ood dnd th e muse How do yo u handle th e demand s of motherh ood and writing

Thompson If Im in the situation where I have 15 or so hours of child care a week Im OK because when Im with them I wa nt to be with them and when ]m doing my work

th ats what I clo But if I do something like a worko ut thell a black cloud descends The guilt and the black cl oud th at descend as I take off on my bike it s huge Then once the workout s finished I know it was d good

thing to do although it s also cut into my

work time J do feel guilty about the nilture of my work too in that my kids cant see it Am I drawing on a part of me thats not good as a mother The oth er part of me is th at I make up bedtime stories and bake coo kies and all thlt stuff ]m probably a

rather operatic mother I cry at movies laugh too hard __

SCENE ARCI-I[VES

GA writer (reading fiom Epilepsy and Snakes)

1

Although being a dramatic writer has

given me a reputation in my cou ntr y

and a strong identity the actof writin g

or creating character leaves me SOJlle shy

times feeling that I have no id entity at

all Every once in a while when I am not

writing or tending to my four children

I feel I 1m falling again down th e terrishy1 ble hole with nothing to hold on to

And I believe this falling this identity

pain is a result of me using the very

essence of Ill yself to create character in

a dramatic wo rk r wonder so metimes

if J illl1 betraying my soul in a way by

using its essence However J have found

some comfo rt in the words ofWilliall1

Blake Essence is not Identity but from

Essence proceeds Identity and from one

Essence may proceed many Identities

as from one Affection Jlla y proceed

many thoughts If the Essence was

the sa me as the Identit y there could be

but one Identity which is fal se Heaven

wo uld upon this plan be but a clock

but one and the sa me Essence is th ereshy

fore Essence and not Identity

SCENE UNIVER SIT Y CLUB

Thompson I always put myself in a play and

never In other words I take little sections of

myself and grow them in a petri dish of th e

play So if Ive found a moment where Im a

bit lazy ]11 grow it and milke the character

very lazy o r impatient or whatever So I take

these moments because we all have all of

them grow th em and create this Frankenshy

steins monste r a character right out of parts

body parts and psychological parts often of

myself and then observe things in other peoshy

ple but I have to find it in myself to make it

work

SCENE AR C H1V ES

GA writer (reading from Epilepsy al1d Snakes)

My self asserted itself as a kind of quishy

et Lucille Ball c1ulllsy and absent-mindshy

ed At least this gave me an identity and

was a small aCI of slbo tage The next

assertion was an act of unconscio us rev shy

olution th e grand mal seizure that

almost killed me And the next one was

The Crackwalker my first play And this

is how I raged against the machine and

took space in the world And now not

surprisin gly I am seizure-free

SCENE LOWER MASSEY

After another pair of acto rs rUllS through

their scene Thompson directs them to begi n

again She interrupts frequently to question

the students about actions feelings motishy

vations At one point 8S the students pause

to consider her words Thompson turns to

the rest of the class erect in her cha ir

Thompson Isolate the mom ent The great

thing about the stage is th at it isolates the

moments that just race by us_

SCENE UNIVERSITY CLUB

Thompson Ive just written my next play

which is not ca lled Pefeet Pie but thats its

working title because it came from a mon oshy

logue called Perfect Pie But now its a full

two- haul play in which the second wom3n

comes back and tben I have them as yo ung

girls too It goes back ~nd forth and its very

exciting I worksbopped it in the spring and

in December at tbe Tarragon and it will go

on in o ne year At the sa me time lm wr itshy

ing a feature film for Rho mbus based on the

play Pe feet Pie

SCEN E UNlV ERSITY CLUIl

Thompson My pIalS are Illusically written

And if somebody doesnt get the music they

dont feel it and go with the rhythm s it

throws the whole thing off I hear the plays

I hea r them I write with my ear They

change 1 lo t but it s according to rhythm

I ll be sitting in rehea rsal listening and if it

does nt so und ri ght I change it so that its

rhythmic

SCIi -JE J UST AllOUT ANYWHERE YOU CA N

READ A PLAY

GA writer (readmg ji-olll the script ofvVbite

Biting Dog first produced at the Tarragon Th eatre in 1984)

Beciluse of the ex treme and deliberate

lllu sica lity of this play any allempts to

go aga inst the tex tual rhythms such as

th e breaking up of an unbroken senshy

tence the tlking of a pause where none

is written in are DISASTROUS The

effect is like beil1g in a small plane and

suddenly turning off the ignition It all

falls down This play III list SPIN not

just turn around

SCfN e LOWER MASSEY

Her students listen as Thompson stands to

complete a so liloq uy abo ut cap turing the

rhythm of the language on the stage The

wide sleeves of her ank le-length dress slide

down her forea rm s as she ges tures

Thompson Listen to the music of the

scene Each playwright writes their own

symphony

SCENE U NIVERSlTY CLUB

Thompson Ive been pretty directed to this

ii-om an carly age although if I had done anyshy

thing else it probab ly wou ld have been some

form of social work I would have been smokshy

ing three packs of cigarettes a day and workshy

ing il1 an office somewhere up in Scarborough

SC EN E AfltCHIVES

GA write r (reading from Brick interview of Thompson by Eleanor Wachtel ]99] )

In th e thea tre I think what one mllst

do is co nfront the truth confront the

emot ional truth of our li ves which is

mired in the swamp of minuriae

everyday minutiae Maybe it has to be -tl111 way because we couldnt confront

it every day But I think the th eatre

IllllSt Im not interested ill th eatre that

doesnt ga

W1NTER 1999 25

Never mind fish wars pitting countries against one another - here in Canada scientists and policy makers cant agree on who should control the preservation and management ofour own fishery resources BY ANDREW VOWLES

Ca

as

ollapsed cod stocks to the east

On the West Coast laquofish wars

_ rlTDT Pacific salmon enmesh

Canada and the United States

At various points in between fisheries scishy

entists and managers grapple with everyshy

thing from overfishing of freshwater

stocks to invasion by exotic molluscs

What is to be done about Canadian fishshy

eries And what role is being p layed by

fisheries and aquatic scientists at the Unishy

versity of Guelph

-

dock pollock red fish and flatfish made up just under half of Canadas total landings on the Atlantic coast (720000 tonnes of fish and shellfish were caught in 1994 represhysenting a total landed value of $11 billion) Two year~ later that proportion had dropped to 21 per cent with shellfish and open ocean fish specie~ notably Atlantic

Begin in the Atlantic The crisis on the East Coast has become a disaster So says laquoWE NEED TO TRY TO SEPARATE OUTGuelph zo ology professor John Roff enushymerating the litany of woes that have surshy

THE FISHERIES MANAGEMENT DECISIONSfaced from Ca nadas marine fishery in the past decade Although some fish and shellshy

FROM THE POLITICAL DECISIONSfi sh are holding their own stocks of other species have experienced declines raquo

ASSOCIATED WITH THE FISHE RY

down that fishery in 1992 Over fishing and under which it has been buying up fishers

Even when stocks do rebound rarely do we fully und erstand why he says Theres a complex of problems to be disshy more for cod stocks to rebound says Roff entangled involving overflshing long- and co-editor with colleague Prof Moira Fergushyshort-term climate change and changes in son of the respected Canadian Journal ofFishshyocean current systems and productivity eries and Aquatic Sciences A wise course of

And of course the once-thriving northshy action for a fisherman in Newfoundland ern cod that first drew Europeans with their would be to seU his licence and do something nets to the Grand Banks 500 years ago have else he says (Last fall the federal governshycoUapsed to the point that Ottawa had to shut ment announced its final retirement program

the failure of federal fisheries managers to heed the warnings of scientists have been blamed for the coUapse Even with the lllorashytoriulll in place it may take two decades or

licences in Atlantic Ca nada and Quebec) In 1992 - the year Ottawa imposed its

moratorium on the northern cod fisheryshylandings of groundfish including cod had-

salmon making up the difference [n 1995 the total groLlndfish catch reached its lowshyest level in two decades

Unlike the Ea st Coast fi shery which relies most ly on ocea n-living fish the Pacifshyic fishery is dominated b) migratory species Some 300000 tonnes of fish and shellfish were harvested along the west coast in 1994 worth a landed value of $550 million (Arcshytic marine fisheries and their management differ from those on the coasts although cOl11mercial and recreational fisheri es are small here food fisheries are important to

U OF G AQUATIC SCIENCES EXPERTISE CATCHES WORLD ATTENTION

Landlocked in the middle of the courltry U ofG nevertheless boasts fish pathology and diseases including farmed fish diseases fish an enviable record and range ofexpertise in aquatic sciencesshy hormones and reproductive physiology including the effects of marine and freshwater - dating back to the late 1960s Thats when environmental contaminants early life history and behaviour Prof Keith Ronald thell chair of the Department ofZoology (and of fi shes and biology of tuna later dean of the College ofBiological Science) began a marine biolshyogy program at the University Today Guelph has the largest Partnered with the A-erod Institute of Ichthyology in U of group of ichthyologists - scientists who study fish - in Gs Aquatic Sciences Facility the r[agen Aqualab is an North America investigating a wide variety ojIre~hshy aquatic research and teaching facililY for studying water alld marine fisheries and aquatics topics aquatic organisms Environmentally controlled

rooms in the Aqualab allow faculty and students to U of Gs Axelrod Institute of Ichthyology houses simulate habitats as diverse as the Arctic Ocean and one of the worlds largest collections of museumshy tropical rainforest pools The facility is named for quality fish fossils donated to the University by its principal benefactor Rolf Hagen founding presshy

ident of Canadas largest pet store 5llpplier J 989 The institute which provides space for fisheries research and visiting scientists brings together 12 core U of G U of G faculty edit four internationally recognized journals researchers in fisheries and aquatic sciences whose interests and in ichthyology fisheries and aquatic science Awarded to U of G by expertise span environmental contaminants and parasitic disshy the National Research Council in 1997 the Canadian Journal of eases evolutionary genetics of marine and freshwater fishes Fisheries al1dAquatic Sciellces is co-edited by zoology professors

US ichthyologist and author Herbert Axelrod in

28 GUELPH ALUMNUS

northerners including shrimp Atlantic salmon and arctic char) Accountin g fOI almost half of that total were Pacific salmon which ret urn from the ocean to spawn in home streams and rivers up and down the coast of Alaska British Columbia and Washshyington There are actually five main spec ies of sa lmon that run down the BC coast shysockeye (t he most va luable commercial species) chinook coho chum and pinkshyfrom spring to December

Its a very complex jurisdictional and multi-user problem says Roff Bes ides degradation of freshwater spawning habishytats and ocean climate effects of El Nill0 the West Coast fishery is a cauldron of ten shysions between various groups perennial fish wars between Ca nada and the United States disputes that pit sport fishers against native fishing rights Recognizing the problems of low ocean productivity habitat damage overfishing and indiscriminate fishing pracshytices that take weak and strong stocks alike Ottawa is developing a new policy to guide Canadas Pacific salmon fisheries focusing on conservation sustainable use and improved decision-making

That potent mix of overfishing and habishytat degrada tion is also a problem for Canashydas freshwater fisheries A report tabled last fall by the federal standing committee on

fisheries and oceans called for more federal funding for research and fisheries programs in central and arctic regions of Canada Accord ing to that report the Grea t Lakes commercial fishery is one of the largest freshwater fisheri es in the world worth an average landed value of more than $40 milshylion a year and an eco nomic impact of at least $250 million Some 90 per cent of that catch is exported The neck lace of lakes threading its way to the St Lawrence River also supports the largest fres hwater sports fishery in the world 800000 Ontarians fish on the Great Lakes eve ry year contributing $850 million to the economy

In Manitoba managers are concerned about the long-term susta inability of freshshywater fish stocks particularly declines in Lake Winnipeg and the northern part of the province caused by overfishing environshymental degradation loss of prime spawning habitat and predators The province has seen stocks rise and fall particularly of pickerel Manitobas highest-priced fish In an attempt to manage the fishery in a sustained fashion the province recently introduced a qu ota entitlement system for anglers Joe OConshynor director of the fisheries branch of Manshyitobas Department of Na tural Resources says his department is wrestling with the environmental threats on fish habitat posed

by farming and hydroelectric development In Ontario fisheries are genera lly in

pretty good shape says Evan Thomas fishshyeries section manager of the fish and wildlife branch of the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (OM NR) Ontario supports almost half of all recreational fishing in Canada with more than two million adult anglers and more than $2 billion a year spent on recreational fishing in the province Onta ri o is also home to Canadas larges t commercial freshwater fishery worth abo ut $40 million a Yfar in land ed value

Thomas says over fishing is still the numshyber one problem Others include habitat loss the potential effects of climate change and contin ued invasion by exotic species Among the management opt ions his minshyistry is exploring are more effective fisheries regulation more rapid inventory and assessshyment techniques fish culture for rehabilishytating populations and controlling nutrient inputs into lakes and rivers

We are clearly looking for federal supshyport for the sea lamprey control program he says referring to recommendations in the recent federal fisheries committee report as well as changes to the federal Fishshyeries Act to hand the province more authorshyity over fish habitat protection

Concerns continue in Ontario over

Moira Ferguson and John Roff Fish Physiology and Biochemistry the top-ranked journal in its field is edited by Prof John Leathershyland chair of the Department of Biomedical Sciences in the Ontario Veterinary College University professor emeritus Eugene Balon has served as editor-in-chief of Environmental Biology ofFishes since he founded the publication in 1976 Zoology professor David Noakes edits Guelph Ichthyology Reviews whose articles synthesize and review all aspects of fish science Both of the latter

Under the Canadian contribution to the project - furided by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council - about 80 federal government and university researchers are trying to learn more about how bioshylogical and physical processes in the oceans affect fish stocks

Zoologychair Prof Paul Hebert has led a Guelph initiative to develshyop multimedia learning resources d1at teach student~ from

are published in the Axelrod Institute of Ichthyology

Based on data from geographic information sysshytems zoology professor John Roff has mapped types of habitat associated with various species of fish and other organisms around Canadas coasts and throughout tl1C Great Lakes the first time such

e1ementaIy grades to university about Canadas aquatshyic environments His department has developed a series of CD-ROMs that provide information on all the major animal groups in the Great Lakes Already available are educational CD-ROMs on Canadas aquatic environments (also available on

d1e World Wide Web) Great Lakes biodiversity and a marine classification system has been developed in this country His report was commissioned by World Wildlife Fund Canada for its Endangered Spaces Campaign and contributes to RoWs work as chair of the scienrillc committee of Globec (Globshyal Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics) a two-year-old international research program intended to better understand ocean ecosystems

birds of the Great Lakes The latter is the first disc in a series called the Great Lakes Faunal Atlas which will eventually cover mammals amphibians reptiles fish and crustaceans

The Alma Aquaculture Research Station es tablished in 1989 and funded through a 20-year development grant by the Ontario

WI NTER 1999 29

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various invas ive species that have turned up

in the Great Lakes - notably sea lampreys

zebra mussels and quagga mussels - many

of which arrive in ballast water of ocea nshy

going vessels (Many have also found their

way into Manitoba says OConnor who

points to the effects of sm elt on whitefish

the main commercial species in Lake Winshy

nipeg) Among o ther meas ures the federal

fish eries committee report called for guarshy

anteed funding for sea lamprey control and

for scienti fic research

I think more money will come says

Prof Bill Beamish Zoology a commissionshy

er on the Great Lakes Fisheries Commission

the 40-year-old governing body that co-ordishy

nates resea rch programs between Canada

and the United States and advises both govshy

ernments It was a review led by Beamish

more than a decade ago on the sta te of

Canadas freshwater fi sheries that provided

the scientific underpinnings for a landmark

report published in 1988 that spelled ou t a

way in freshwater fisheries is a lon g-te rm

project fund ed by the OMNR and the

Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO)

to re-establish native species in their origishy

nal habitats a round Lake Ontario iVlari e

Clement a graduate student of zoology proshy

fe sso r David Noakes is studying Atlantic

sa lmo n which was wiped out of the lake

CONSIDERING WE HAVE THE

BEST FISHERY SCIENCES COMMUNITY

IN THE WORLD WE OUGHT TO

BE DOING BETTER

national strategy for freshwater fisheries

Beamish who has studied sea lampreys

for several decades at Guelph and also invesshy

tigates fish habitat loss says money is need shy

ed to help researchers investigate biological

controls as an alternative to chemical lamshy

pricides The recen t repo rt also notes the

need to address the effects of other nonshy

native exotic species on n ative fish stocks

and water quality and calls on Ottawa to

stem the funding decline in freshwater scishy

ence over the last two decades

One example of the kind of work under

and its tribu ta ry streams near the beginning

o f this century by overflshing and habitat

destruction and alteration Last fall Clement

placed eggs into a site in the Credit River

she has been monito ring oxygen availab il shy

ity durin g their incu ba tion to gau ge sedishy

mentation rates in the river This spring and

summer she wili study how newborn fi sh

interact with other species in th e r ive r

C lement says her docto ral research proshy

ject is but one piece of a larger project aimed

at re-establishing the heritage species Othshy

er researchers hop e to learn whe ther th e

Ministry of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs brings together

researchers for interdisciplinary studies of protein requirements

of arctic char improving fish semen and egg management proshy

cedures and understanding hormone activity in fish The station

acts as a quarantine unit for new fish varieties entering Ontario

and serves as a base for parts of certificate courses and a masters

program in aquaculture

farms in Canada He and fellow Guelph zoologists Eugene Balon

(co- founder of the Coelaca nth Conservat ion Council) and Jim

Bogart also identified and characterized the coelacanth which

had been thought extinct until a specimen was landed off Africa

in the la te 1930s Noakes confirmed the identity of ano ther of

these living fossils discovered in 1997 it appears to belong to a

second popula tion living in the Indian Ocean about 10000 kilo-

metres away from tha t first find

Zoology professors Moira Ferguson and Roy Danzshy

mann use molecular genetics techniques to identishy Zoology chair Paul Hebert was the first scientist to

fy DNA markers used to pinpoint the location of identify the presence in the Great Lakes of zebra

genes associated with growth spawning times mussels a prolific invader that has wreaked havoc

rates of development maturity and temperature in many ways from clogging water-intake pipes to

tolerance in rainbow trout Isolating and identifyshy consuming plankto n thus allowing light to reach

ing genetic markers fo r desirable traits will help fish bottom-dwelling organisms that may displace native

farmers and breeders cross-breed more effectively species The first researcher to report on the biology

conservationists will be better able to manage and preserve and impact of the zebra mussel on the Grea t Lakes was

genetic variability among wild fish stocks Guelph zoology professor Gerald Mackie whose studies showed

that the organisms faster growth rate and higher fecundity and

Zoology professor David Noakes has stuclied varieties of arctic population density will probably enable it to displace many native

char native to Iceland to find ones suited to being raised on fish bivalves and disrupt entire lake ecosystems

30 GUELPH ALUMNUS

LEADING RESEARCH

The University of Guelph has one orthe largest and most active groups of aquatic biologists in the world

bull More than 50 faculty and 100

graduate students research

assocrates and postdoctoral

fellows

bull Over 1000 published scientific

articles books monographs

films and videos in the past

decade

bull Interdisciplinary programs

involving more than a dozen

academic departments

bull The largest group ofichthyoloshy

gists (scientists who study

fish) in North America

bull Collaborative research with

government environrriental

organizations and academic

institutions worldwide

bull Expertise covering the entire

aquatic food chain from plankshy

ton to whales

bull Leading developments in comshy

puter-based educational mate-

rials in aquatic sciences

bull A new $6-million Aquatic

Sciences Facility

bull Research support from national

and international agencies

business and industry

adults will be able to return from the open

lake to their stream spawning grounds If

they come back will the eggs survive she

says If were able to show the eggs can surshy

vive that will be very encouraging for

Atlant ic salmon restoration

What is to be done to ensure the survival

not just of Atlantic salmon in Lake Ontario

but also of the co untrys freshwater and

m ar ine fisheries We need to try to sepashy

rate o ut the fisheries management decisions

from the political decisions associated with

the fi shery says zoology professor Glen Van

Der Kraak director of U of Gs Axelrod

Institute of Ichthyology Van Der Kraak who

studies the effects of toxic contaminants on

fi sh populations says policy mltkers need

to rely on the advice of fisheries sc ientis ts

making conservative harvest ing estimates

So often scientists make decisions and then

are overrun by the politics he says (Never

mind fish wars pitting co untries against one

another - here in Ca nada scientists and

policy makers wres tle over the question of

who should be respo nsible for what aspects

of the countrys fisheries as witnessed in a

war of words played out in the Canadian Journal ofFisheries and Aquatic Sciences over

the past 18 months between biologists at

several Canadian univers ities and the DFO

over the relationship between fishery sc ishy

ence and fishery policy)

Roff says theres nothing unique about

Canadas fish problems Its not really a

Canadian problem its a worldwide probshy

lem The only fisheries worldwide that are

not over fished appear to be some not yet

fully exploited in the Indian Ocean

After nearly four decades of growth the

worldwide marine ca tch levelled off in the

1990s to some 90 million tons a year The

m ain problems coastal pollution habitat

destruction and particula rly overfishing

Noakes editor of the journal Guelph Ichthyology Reviews contrasts the few hunshy

dred people who might have made th eir

livelihood aboard small wood en boats on

the Grand Banks several centuries ago with

the massive factory trawlers that now scour

todays coast People are much too efficient

in terms of catching fish he says Noakes

concurs with fellow Guelph researchers that

conservation of fish stocks has to reach the

top of fishery managers agendas

hat does set Canada apart is the breadth

and depth of expertise in fisheries and aquatshy

ic sciences in this country - rather a parashy

dox when you consider that Canadas record

in fisheries preservation is apparently no betshy

ter than that of many other nations

Considering we have the best fishery scishy

ences community in the world we ought to

be doing better says Roff Within the last

decade th e federal government withdrawal

o f support from the Department of Fishshy

eries and Oceans and university researchers

has been massive At the very time when the

resources were gett ing into severe problems

and when the federal government ought to

have been funding research theyve been

substantially withdrawing resources ga

DONT WAIT UNTIL SPRING The opportunity to double the impact of your gift to the University of Guelph ends on March 31 1999 Until that date all gifts designated to endowed student financial aid at Guelph will be matched by the Ontario Student Opportunity Trust Fund (OSOTF) That means that every dollar you commit will contribute two dollars to financial aid for Guelph students

If you would like to support our students throug h OSOTF you still have a w indow of oppor nishyty to have your do l1a rs doubled But only until March 31 1999

If you have already made a pled ge to OSOTf through U of Gs ACCESS Fund thank you [or your ge nerous support Please comp lete your payme nts by March 31 1999 to e nsure that your gi ft is matched

For more information contact Rudy Putns in Guelphs office of Development and Public Affairs at -519-824-4120 Ext 6384 Fax 519-822-2670 E-mail alumniuoguelphca

WINTER 1999 31

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

n ALUMNI PROF IL E

LETS LOOK AT THE OPPORTUNITIES

WHEN I-IE BECA ME president of the Unishy

versity of Guelph Alumni Association

(UGM) in June Jim Weeden brought new

enthusiasm and ideas for encouraging alumshy

ni to stay in volved with their alma mater

And he wants to start with students

Weeden reca ll s his own ex perience at

U of G where he fo und a sense of commushy

nity by living in residence and ge tting

involved in college activiti es But when he

graduated with an engin ee ring degree in

197 1 he left to begin a caree r and says he

didnt think much about the University until

he needed it again in the 1980s to pursue a

graduate degree in agricultural enginee ring

He spent his early career working as an

agricultural extensi o n engineer for the

Ontario Department o f Agriculture and is

stiU with its successo r the Ontario Ministry

of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs

(OMAFRA) Weed en completed the masshy

ters degree in 1986 when he was head of the

agricultural engineering program and extenshy

sion services a t Centralia College of Ag rishy

cultural Technology

In 1987 he moved to the ministrys plant

industry branch as program m anager and

later held the same position in th e resources

manage m ent branch Sin ce then he has

worked for OMAFRA in Woodstock and

now Stratfo rd He is technical adviser fo r

Ontarios Enviro nmental Farm Planning

Program is respo nsible for o ther environshy

m ental programs and consults with the Minshy

istry o f th e Environment on local agriculshy

tural pollution problems

w Weed en got involved with the Universishy sect tys a]u111ni programs by serving on the first g z board of the Engineering Alumni Associashy

~ tion when it was established in 1990 From

~ 1991 to 1994 he sat on the University Senshy

~ ate and its Research Board and for the pas t

~ four years) hels been on the UGAA executive

32 GUELPH A LU MNUS

From the presidents chair Weeden looks

at the bro ad picture o f UG AA se rvice and

recognizes that the associa tio n owes a debt

o f gratitude to hundreds of alumni volunshy

teers who ha ve helped to build the organishy

za tion over the yea rs and to University staff

in Development and Public Affairs (DampPA)

who support UGAA initiatives and alumni

programs Thro ugh their efforts he says the

a lulllni associati o n is rea ching out to all

U of G alumni Graduates who have mainshy

tained a close relationship with the Univershy

sity thro ugh their college or academic disshy

cipline those who feel an affiliation because

o f their participation in a thletics residence

life o r extracurricular activiti es and even

HIGHLIGHTSmiddot GRAD NEWSmiddot OBITUARIES bull CALENDER

those who have not kept in touch are part of the constituency served by UGAA

Weed en says the alumni association needs to strengthen its relationship with all alumni and he believes the effor t must start on campus with students Hed like to proshymote the idea of alumni involvement as ear shyly as a students second year We need to give students some reason to be con nected and an efficient vehicle for maintaining that connection he says

For many students and new graduates the social functions supported by UGAA and the opportunities for professional networking will be important says Weeden but greater rewards are there for those who join the effort to enhance the Universitys acade mic goals

In todays economic and political envi shyronme nt individual financial support and the advocacy of post-secon dary education are important roles for alumni he says How many people ac tively get involved with the debate on whether universities are job-trainshy

ing centres or centres of education Yet some of our alumni are extremely adept in such roles Weeden would like to cultivate past and current stud ent ac tivists as supporters of public education after they graduate

As Weeden leads UGAA into a new year he says he will work with other UGAA volshyunteers and DampPA staff to find new ways for the association to interact with students and alumni One id ea is to expand UGAAs Intershynet presence by adding a Web message board that will encourage alumni to discuss career and campus issues online and a reply form that will allow them to quickly update addressshyes employment status and other information

Weeden says its important to stay focused on UGAAs key prioriti es but he welcomes any and all new ideas on how to accomplish them All it takes to share your ideas with the UGAA executive is a stamp or a push of the send button when youre clicked on alumniuoguelphca

HKHB SPIRIT RISES

ENCOURAGED BY THE SPIRIT

shown by fellow alumni at last

summers reunion the executive

of the Human Kinetics Human Biology

Alumni Association is moving ahead

with more opportunities for alumni to

stay in touch The association plans to

launch a Web site that will be accessed

through the U of G site

A wine-and-cheese reception already

planned for June 19 1999 wiil try to

build on the success of the 1998 event

which attracted alumni from as far away

as Chicago and as far apart as the 19605

and 1990s Guests had a chance to tour

U of Gs new Health and Performance

Centre and performance testing

labs The program was co-ordinated wiLh

A REFLECTION OF PRIDE

Members of the OAC

Class of 52 join Arboshy

retum staff on the front patio

of the Arboretu m Centre

beside a new reflecting pool

that was built last summer

as a class project Pictured

from left are Murray Parker

Ann Smith George Smith

Jack Sargent Catherine Gibb

Robin Shaw-Rummington

Marilyn Swaby BA 69

Bev Healy B5e(Agr) 72

Norm Watson Una Venerus

Ron Costen Henry Kock

BSe (Agr) 77 and Ric

Jordan BA 75

Prof Jack Barclay chair of the Departshy

ment of Human Biology and Nutritional

Sciences and Prof Susan Pfeiffer Memshy

bers of the Human KineticsHuman

Biology Alumni Association executive arc

Janet Leonhard 82 president Carolyn

Moore 83 vice-president Alison Locker

97 secretary Mark Mulholland 79

lreasurer and t-iary Ann Crape 76

These officers are also spea rheading a

new initiative to benefit students - an

undergraduate award that will provide

$250 and lifetime mem bership in the

association To commcnt on these and

other initiatives contact Leonard by

e-mail at Janel_Leonhardinwrbsb

eduonca or Moore at cturveyagec

uoguelphca

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alumni

Multimedia lab buzzes

THE DONALD FORSTER RoOiv

has become one of the

busiest spots in th e Unishy

versity of Guelph Liblary since the

addition of 70 state-of-the-art

computer workstations that were

supported by alumni do nations

to the Alma Mater Fund (AM F)

U of G president Mordechai

Roza nski officia ll y o pened th e

Alma Mater Fund Multimedia

Lab D ec 2 an d celebrated th e

event with members of the AMF

Adv isory Counc iL [n 1996 a nd

1997 the AMF contributed

$240000 to th e project which

increased the number of student

workstations o n campus by 50 per

cent Students use the m ult imeshy

~ dia lab to conduct research on the

~ Internet access scholarly publicashyr u VI tions on CD-ROM and use COll1shyz ~ puter software mod ules tbat lt

~ strengthen the teaching provided lD

o in co urse lectures labs and tcxtshybii books

middotMatters

Alumnus of many interests

I NTERES TING P EOPLE always have eclect ic interests and U of G

alumnus and honorary degree recipient Ken Murray BSA 50 and

HDLA 96 is a good example H e is known by most people on camshy

pus for his distinguished career in the Canadian meat packing indusshy

try and his volunteer service to U of G He was a member and chair

of Board of Governors from 1973 to 1978 and chair of the Regionshy

al Corporate Committee during U of Gs last capital campaign and

is currently chair of the Heritage Fund Enhancement Committee

Murray is also a strong supporter of community soc ial services

In August he addressed the World Congress of Social Ps)chiatry

held in British Columbia - the only non-psychiatrist on the proshy

gram He spoke about his role in establishing an Alzheimers research

project a t the University ofWaterioo which was recently named in

his honour the Ken Murray Alzheimer Research and Education Proshy

gra m At the gc conference he al so participated in a panel dis shy

cussion that outlined services offered by Guelphs Homewood Health

Cent re Murray bas been actively involved in the governance of the

centre since 1977 and has been a major player in the development

of a charitable foundatio n bearing the Homewood name

WHEN THE PUCK DROPPED More than 30 teams including two

womens teams were entered in the

Dec 6 University of Guelph Alumni Hockey

Tournament Organizers for the 1998 event

were from left Brian Finniss B5c 88

Brad Stephenson BA 86 Terry Carr

BComm 87 Todd Bryant BA 86 and

undergraduate student Brian Melnick

Ken Murray centre with his wife Marilyn Robinson Murray and U of G president Mordechai Rozanski

34 GU ELPH ALUMNU S

RESTORING A JEWEL IN THE CROWN

DONALD RUTHERFORD BSA 5 stands in fron t

of the 1931 conservatory greenhouse that will

be restored to match the splendour of the ga rdens

now growi ng up around it His $256000 leadershy

ship gift to the Conservatory and Gardens Project

was inspired by hi s m emo ries of being a student

at OAC

On behalf of fellow alumni I hope this gift will

commemorate the experiences and educat ion we

acquired while at Guelph says Rutherford When

fully restored to its previous glory the conservatoshy

ry greenhouse will be an ideal greeting and welcome

spot for visitors and newcomers to the University

as well as old friend s renewing their acquaintance

Rutherfords professional career spans the agrishy

foo d industr y beginning as an agricu ltural repshy

resentative with the provincial minist ry I-Ie was

later vice-president of the Fertilizer Institute of

Ontario executive secreta ry of the Canadian Seed

Trade Association director of information w ith

the Ca nadian Livestock Feed Board and Canadishy

an sa les manager for Sylvite of Can ad a Retired

since 1986 he now owns his own sma ll investment

company and manages to golf throughout the yea r

The conserva tory isnt the first ca mpus project

to attract Rutherford s attention - as a student

he helped dig out the base ment of Massey H al l to

build a student lo unge - but his recent gift has

been a tremendous boost to those who have been

working since the ea rly 1990s to save the glass and

cypress structure from demo lition

A committee of alumni facult y sta ff stu dents

and fri en ds of the University has moved the proshy

ject along to th e point w here most of the surshy

rounding garden complex is now complete It fea shy

tures six gardens named in honour of the ir chie f

supporters Autumn Garden - OAC 5 1 Spring

Ga rden - OAC 53 Su mmer Garden - OAC 55

Winter Gard en - OAC 65 Water Gard en shy

OAC 49 and the Woo dland Garden named in

honour of the late Doug Rob inson BSA 53

Alumni have been in strumental in raising

funds for the $ l-million project Students and fa cshy

ulty have provided mudl of the h1l1ds-on Idbour

and friends in the nursery and landscape materishy

als supply industries have given $250000 ill donashy

tions and gifts-in-kind of plan ts and landsca ping

materials Rutherford s generous gift has pushed

th e conservato ry fund-ra ising effort in to the fin 81

stretch Th e ga rden complex and restored g reenshy

110use are sc heduled to officially open during

Alumni Weekend in June 1999

1999 Coming Events

Jan 29 - Aggie Goodshy

Times Banquet call the OAC Student Federation at Ext 8321 for ticket injemnrltion Feb 13 - Norm McCo llulll

D iploma Hockey Tournashy

m ent call Jack Bakker at 519-837-0132 to register a team

Feb 21 - Ottawa Chapter

annual curling bonspiel

Richmond C urling Club in

Richmond Ont For informashytiol1 call Alan Bentley BSA 61 at 6 13-829-6598 or John DVit[ 54 mId Margaret McGowml BHSc 54 at

613-828-7038

March 3 - Florida alumni

reunion a t Maple Leaf

Estates Port Charlo tte Fla

call Ext 6533 0 register

March 13 and 14 - ollcge

Royal 75th o pen house

March 19 and 20 - OAC

Alumni Association curling

bonspiel G uelph Curling

Club register at Ext 6657

May 5 - Chicago All Canashy

dian Universities Night hostecl

by U of G at the University

Club of Chicago 76 East Monshy

roe Sr call Exl 6533 for details May 5 - OAC Alumni

Foundation annual meeting

730 pm Arboretum Centre

May 12 - Alumni-inshy

Action annual meeting and

luncheo n 1130 3m

Arboretum Centre ((11 Ext 6657for tickets

June 18 to 20 - Alumni

Veekend call Ext 6657 to plall a reun io n

-0 r shya -IFor more infon-nation on any a

eVC1l1listed ailove call the oJ -lt oU of G extension listed at en raquo

519-824-4120 or send e-mail z

10 alunznilIoguelphca ~

WINTER 1999 35

alumni Matters

MEMORIES OF COLLEGE ROYAL Grant MacEwan ADA 23 and

BSA 26 is one of the few OAC

alumni who c~n still remember

the first College Royal held Jan

14 1925 MacEwan bad just

entered the degree program in

animal husbandry and may have

been a participant in the liveshy

stock showmanship classes Latshy

er in life he was widely known Grant MacEwan

across Western Canada as 3 liveshy

stock judge and an advocate of

agricultural fairs and exhibitions

MacEwan is bes t known

however for his 23-year C3reer

as a university professor in Manshy

itoba and Saskatchewan and Ilis

political career which included

12 years as alderman and mayshy John Kenneth Galbraith

or of C31gary four years as an

Alberta MLA and eight as lieushy birthday in August

tenant -governor of the province The year after Ma cEwan

He s till lives in Calgary graduated John Kenneth Galshy

where he celebrated his 96th braith ADA 29 and BSA 31

HOMECOMING 98

enrolled at OAC and devoted

some of his energy to organizshy

ing College Royal Show records

indicate it was Galbraith who

first proposed the college event

be publicized so that people

from the farm community

could attend He also suggestshy

ed that OAC invite students

from American agricultural colshy

legesl n th e early 1930s Colshy

lege Royal took its fir s t steps

towards becoming the comshy

munity open house it is today

Galbraith later moved to the

United States where he enjoyed

a distinguished caree r as a proshy

fessor of economics at Harvard

Universi ty Known for his

humanit~rian approach to ecoshy

nomic and political thinking

he was awarded the Order of

Canada in 1997 He celebr3ted

his 90th birthday in October

IT REALLY WAS a homecoming reunion when and Arnott who is head coach of the York

former Gryphon teammates Ralph Shapiro University Yeomen came from the visitors

S5c(HK) 74 and Tom Amott S5c(HK) 80 dreSSing room to hold the ball Shapiro is

met on the field at Alumni Stadium Oct 3 the controller at Huntsman Chemical Inc

Shapiro had the honour of kicking off in Guelph and a longtime United Way volshy

the Universitys 1998 United Way campaign unteer who chaired this years Guelph and

Wellington fund-raising drive The Univershy

sity campaign is the largest in the county

with U of G staff and faculty contributing

over $200000 in 1998

Prior to the game a number of recent

alumni - all U of G scholarship and award

winners - met for a reunion luncheon The UJ

1948 and 1949 dominion championship i5f 3

football teams were also honoured guests z 5 o at the 2 pm game that saw the Gryphons gtshy a defeat York f shya I a

Ralph Shapiro

36 G UELPH ALUMNUS

LEADING THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY FOR 1974 GRADS The 25th-anniversary reunion givshy

i ng program for the Class of 1974

is under way with Bill Laidlaw BA

74 as cbair A public affairs proshy

fessional he has been director of

government relations for the

Canadian operations of Glaxo

vVelJcome Inc for more th an 10

years He also acts as a senior conshy

sultant to support the governshy

ment relations function in other

regions of Canada

Laidlaw began his career in

teaching after earning a history

degree from Guelph and education

degrees (rom Queens University

and the University of Toronto He

also holds the certified human

resources professional designation

and worked in that field for sevshy

eral years before concen trating on

government relations at Glaxo

Welkome He lives in Burlington

Ont and is an act ive community

volunteer having se rved on the

boards of severa l professional

organizations the Queensway

General Hospital and the Metroshy

politan Toronto Lung Association

He is currently completing a oneshy

year term as chair of the Ontario

Chamber of Commerce

Anniversa ry preparations will

culminate with a class gathering

a nd reunion gift at Alumni

Weekend in June 1999

ALUMNI MAKE THE CONNECTION Students who moved into

Maids and Mills halls in Sepshy

tember can take full advanshy

tage of the Universitys highshy

speed computer network

thanks to the OAC Class of

71 whose 25 th-reunion proshy

ject provided wiring upgrades

in the 84- and 77-year-old

residence buildin gs

GRAD NEWS

Marathon survivors inspire us all to appreciate everyday life

W HEN ROBINSON SIIlLJNGS Jane BSe(Agr)

85 Heather BASe 83 Peter BSe(Agr)

86 Scott and Marnie rigwood BA 84 get

together they talk about marathons and the hope

and determination it takes to reach the finish line

Hea ther walked a marathon in San Diego

Calif in June to raise money for leukemia

research then joined Peter for a Toronto marathon

in October that benefi ted the Leukemia Research

Fund of Canada They were inspired by Janes pershy

sonal marathon of survival that foUowed her 1992

diagnosis of leukemia Chemotherapy radiation

remission relapse and finally a bone marrow

transplant [TOm her brother Scott took more than

three years out of her life but gave her the detershy

mination to keep fighting

Many families can understand the marathon

of hope maintained by the Robinsons during

Janes struggle and the commitment they have to

help others who are stricken with the disease Jane

is finally well enough to work again as a writer

and marketing consultant and to join her fami shy

ly in volunteer work She helped recruit for the

Toronto marathon fund -raiser and continues to

be involved with the Leukemia Research Funds

Team in Training She also says that her expeshy

rience has taught her to appreciate more the pleashy

sures of everyday life and the love of famil y

Jan es parents are th e late Doug Rob inson

BSA 53 and Marilyn (Inglis) Robinson Murray

BH Sc 55

19305

bull Grant Misener ADA 32 BSA 35 and DVM 38 received the

prest igious George F Hixso n Felshy

lowship Award from the Kiwanis

International Foundation in May The retired Illinois veter ishy

narian was hono ured for his subshystantial contribution to the

Kiwanis wo rldwide service proshy

ject aimed at eliminating iodine

deficiency disorders the leading

cause of preventable mental retardation in children Over the

years Misener has shown a simishylar commitment to his al ma

mater an d its students through

his close association with OVC

and his support of scho larship

programs

19405

bull Russell McDonaldDVM 45 was named an honorary life direcshytor of the Royal Agricultural Winshy

ter Fair Association in March

McDonald formerly general manshy

ager of Western Ontario Breeders

Ine and executive director of the Canadian Association of Animal

Breeders served as a director of the Royal Winter Fair for 20 years

representing the Canadian artifishycial insemination industry He

lives in Woodstock Ont

bull Ian Taylor DVM43 was recently honoured by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to

Animals of Illinois Taylor ran a small-animal veterinary clinic in

the Chicago area for many years

and says he gained ll1uch experishyence during his first three years in

Illinois as clinic veterinarian for

the anti -cruelty society

19505

bull Charles Chuck Broadwell BSA 54 was elected a Mel

Osborne Fellow by the Kiwanis

Club of Forest City in London Ont in recognition of a dedicatshy -ed and distinguished career in

Kiwanis

19605

bull Constantine Campbell BSA 60 and MSA 61 was named to the

WINTER 1999 37

Order of Canada in January He

received the award in recogni shy

tion of his many contributions

to science and the Canadian

agricultural industry After grad shy

uating from OAC he went on to

do his PhD at the University of

Saskatchewan then joined Agri shy

culture and Agri-food Canada

as a research scientist at the Swift

Current research station Campshy

bell and his family now live in

Ottawa where he is scientist

emeritus with Agriculture and

Agri-food Canada

bull John Casselman BSA 64 is

a research scientist with the

Ontario Ministry of Natural

Resources He Jives in Bath

Ont with his wife Lois

bull Jane Fuller RRSc 65 and

her husband George who both

taught at the Macdonald Instishy

tute from 1966 to 1969 have

moved from Winnipeg to

Utopia Ont following

Georges retirement from the

University of Manitoba

bull Fred Gilbert MSc 66 and

P hD 68 is in his first term as

president of Lakehead Univer shy

sity in Thunder Bay Ont He

taught at U of G in the Departshy

ment of Zoology from 1972 to

1981 and has enjoyed a dive rse

academic career that has also

included teaching at the Unishy

versity of Maine and posi tions

as director of wildlife biology at

Washington State University

and founding dean of the Facshy

ulty of Natural Reso urces and

Environmenta l Studies at the

University of Northern British

Columbia He moved to Lakeshy

head from a position as viceshy

pro vost at Colorado State Unishy

versity A respected wildlife

biologist he has conducted

ex tensive resea rch in s Ll ch areas

as the behaviour and physioloshy

gy of wildlife species and the

effects of environmental

change on wildlife populations

bull Terry Goodyear BSc 67 of

Mont Tremblant Quebec is an

early retiree from Agriculture

and Agri-Food Canada in Ottawa He is now working on

va lue-added products from

industrial wastes particularly

cellulose sludge from pulp and

pa per mills

bull Gary Hearn BA 68 was

named an Ontario provincial

judge in October For the last

25 years he has been a lawyer

with the firm Kearns McKinshy

non in Guelph where he lives

with his wife Irene and three

teenage children

bull Allan Knight BSA 66 of Corunna Ont has retired

from Dow Chemical after 30

years On retirement he was a

laboratory director for indusshy

trial chemicals He is now

working with his son in a famishy

ly-owned and -operated busishy

ness Knight Funeral Home

bull Keith McFarlane BSc(Agr)

68 works for the Department

of Foreign Affairs and Internashy

tional Trade and began a fourshy

year assignment last summer as

head of the commercial divishy

sion of the Canadian Embassy

in Lisbon Portugal The

division promotes the sa le of

Canadian goods and services

to Portugal

bull Ian Newbould MA 68 has

travelled far from his Ontario

roots through an academic and

administrative career that has

taken him to Europe Asia and

Western Canada A noted hisshy

torian he moved into adm inisshy

tration at the University of

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Lethbridge in 1981 and spent

10 years there as director of

research dean of a rts and scishy

ence and vice-presiden t (acadeshy

mic) before crossing the counshy

try to become president of

Mount Allison University in

New Brunswick He is now in

his second term as president of

Mount AUison

bull Indra Deo Singh MSc 68 is

a tea scientist international

consultant and joint director of

the Tea Research Association at

the Nagrakata substation in

India His responsibilities

include co-ordinating research

and development in the Indian

tea industry and developing tea

cultivars and agrotechnology

for tea Singh is married with

two sons aged 27 and 23

19705

bull Don Ambler BSe 71 retired in March as manager of

water programs with Environshy

ment Canada in Dartmouth

NS after 25 years of public

service He has now registered

the company Aquashed Co nshy

sulting to continue in the water

resources field when hes not

gardening beekeeping do ing

aerobics or vo lunteering in the

community and chu rch E-mail

contact is welcome a t

donambl erns sympaticoca

bull Jim Bond BSe 75 is managshy

ing a new processing facility at

the Chalk River Nuclear Laborashy

to ry in Chalk River Ont

bull Terri (Monks) Bulman BSc(Agr) 78 and MSe 81

and her husband Vincent

MSe 8 1 live in Australia with

their th ree children Catherine

7 Peter 4 and baby Christoshy

pher Terri is senior principal

environmental auditor vith

Coffey Geosciences Pty Ltd Vinshy

cent afte r many years as a geoloshy

gist travelling around Australia

and abroad has taken the year

off to study and look after the

children Their e-mail address is

tbulmanbigpondco m

bull Marie David BA 78 of

Hanover Ont has been in the

n ewspaper business for 20

years She started in the mailshy

room moved to advertising

sales then became advert ising

manager She is now gene ral

manager o f three So utham

weekly newspapers and pubshy

lish er of the Hanover Post

bull Janice Harrower and her husshy

band Jerome Billett both

DVM 76 operate a joint veterishy

nary practice in Prescott Ont

Billett says practising together

has allowed them some flexibilishy

ty in their family life and given

their four children a good took

at the rigours of veterinary

medicine Says Billett Not one

of our kid s has the slightest

interest in being a veterinarian

and isnt that just fine Their

o ldest son Jesse attends Harshy

va rd University and is a memshy

ber of its prestigious a cappella

choir Lucas is studying

mechanical engineering at the

University of Waterloo Casey is

planning a career in computer

engineering and Lindsay is a

high school athle te

bull Clair Heinbuch BSe 74 is a

sales manager with Baye r Corp

in Kansas H e and his wife

Caroline (Koscik) BASc 75

returned to the Kansas City

area after spending four years in

Denver They have three chilshy

dren Lisa 20 Scott 18 and

Ryan [5

bull Beverly Lee BASe 72 is an

elem entary school principal in

Unionville Ont She lives with

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her husband Grant Egan in

Collingwood and is looking

forward to retirement in severshy

al years Life on Georgian Bay

is wonderful she says Lee

would love to hear from fellow

grads by e-mail at

leebYrbeeduonca or by

phone at 705 -444 -092l

bull Won-Jai Maeng MSc 71 took office Sept 1 as president

of Kon-Kuk University in Seoul

Korea where his academic

career began He completed an

undergraduate degree at Kon

Kuk in 1965 then studied at

Mailing Agricultural College in Denmark and at U of G before

doing doctoral work at the Unishy

versity of California Davis

Maeng has held research and

teaching positions at the Unishy

versity of illinois at Chung-Ang

University and at Kon-Kuk

where he has been a professor of

animal science since 1984 His

appointment as president folshy

lows years of administrative

experience as a department

head dean and chair of various

research committees and proshy

fessional organizations An

expert in ruminant nutrition

Maeng was instrumental in

developing the livestock feed

industry in Korea He has also

been active in working with

alumni groups and in writing

for the Kon-Kuk Tribune

bull Bill MarshaU ADA 75 of Proton Station Ont moved

from Clarksburg in June to

work in Dundalk for the Grey

County Roads Department on

its road management crew

bull Bernie Matte BSc(Agr) 70 of Moncton NB retired

in March after 28 years with

Fisheries and Oceans Canada

and the Canadian Food

Inspection Agency He plans to

travel to Belize and Honduras

with his wife Diane and will

be available anywhere in the

Caribbean for seafood HACCP

consulting work

bull Margaret McClain BA 70 lives in Arkansas where she is

highJy involved in the issue of

40 GUELPH ALUMNUS

missing children and internashy

tional abductions McClain who

believes her own six-year-old

daughter was taken out of the

United States more than a year

ago by her second husband is

reaching out to parents with

similar experiences through an

organization that is lobbying the

US government for tougher

international abduction laws

She invites interested fr iends

and alumni to contact her

through her Web site at

wwwinsolwwbnet-dmcclain

bull Robert (Chuck) Miller BA 77 is the park superintendent

of Killarney French River and

Maskinonje provincial parks in

Ontario He moved to Killarney

from Quetico Provincial Park

last May

bull Gordon Nicol BA 72 and MSc(Agr) 74 teaches math

and science in a bilingual prishy

vate school in Guatemala A

BEd graduate of Laurentian

he first taught in Guatemala in

the late 1970s then spent 12

years in northern Alberta as a

teacher and principal He

returned to Guatemala in 1989

A widower with three teenage

children Nicol would like to

hear from U of G friends and

acquaintances especially anyshy

one who is was or will be in

Central America He says he

could also use middle-schoolshy

level science projects Send eshy

mail to gnicoll guatenet or

write to PO Box 661447 Miami

Springs Florida 33266-1447

bull Chris Schulte BSc 71 and MSc 73 lives in Nassau

Bahamas with his wife

Andrya After graduation he

stayed in the Department of

Physics as a research associate

with Prof lain Campbell then

joined Ontario Hydro in the

early 1980s He moved to the

Bahamas in 1995 He can be

reached bye-mail at

schultebahamasnetbs

bull Sandra (Pickford) Webster BA 75 has retired from U of

Gs Co mmunications and Pubshy

lic Affairs and is living in Parry

Sound Ont where she is

doing volunteer work and

communications consulting

for the municipality Guelph

friends ca n contact her by

e-mail atswebsterzeutercom

19805

bull Sharon (Courneya) Angus BA 8 I of Surrey BC comshy

pleted a BSW at the University

of British Columbia in 1988

and has been working for the

BC government for 13 years

- first in probation and now

in the family justice division

She and her husband Ron

have three children Jason

Carly and Colin

bull Karen Beazley BLA 86 is an assistant professor and acadeshy

mic program co-ordinator at

the School for Reso urce and

Environmental Studies at Dalshy

housie University in Halifax

She is currently doing research

for a book on endangered

species initiatives and is orgashy

nizing a Nova Scotia wildlands

workshop with the Wildlands

Project for 1999 Her e-mail

address is kbeazleyisdalca

bull Caroline (Van Deudekom) and Marc Brooks both ADA 87

recently moved from Strathroy

to Owen Sound Ont where

they run a 50-acre organic farm

with their two sons

bull Virginia Burt BLA 85 startshyed her own landscape architecshy

ture firm Visionscapes in

Hamilton Ont in ] 996 She

specializes in the design of thershy

apeutic healing gardens spirit

gardens sacred spaces and

la byrin ths and recen tly designed the first healing garden

in Canada specificalJy for peoshy

ple living with HIV and AIDS

bull Joanne (Branson) Carver BA 80 earned a BEd from Brock

University in 1981 and recently

started working as a probashy

tionparole officer She Jives in

Ajax Ont and has two daughshy

ters Julie4 and Sarah 8

bull Heather Champ BA 86 is a Web-site designer in New York

City She began her work in

computer design in 1990 Her

personal site can be Found at

wwwjezebelcom

bull Laurie Gough BA 87 has become a world traveller who

writes about her experiences for

the benefit of others Her most

recent book Island of the

Human Heart A tfornans Travshyel Odyssey is now in its second

printing in Canada and will be

released next year in the United

States and overseas She has also

published Travellers Tales A

Womans World which won the

US-based Lowell Thomas

Gold Award for best travel book

of the year When not travelling

or writing she teaches English

and ESL in Guelph

bull Susan (Coles) Goulden BASc 84 and her husband

Ian are th rilled wi th their

recent adoption of Jennifer Lee

Yu who was born in June near

Leping Jiangxi Peoples Repubshy

lic of China The Gouldens

who Jive in vVaterloo Ont

thank classmate Andrea

(Kovits) Henderson for her

support throughout the adopshy

tion process Susan is currently

on leave from her position with

McCormick Canada

bull Judy (Bodendistel) Gregg BA 82 moved to Melbourne Ausshy

tralia in 1997 with her husband

and two children Carly 6 and

Adam 3 We are enjoying the

friendly people and the great

weather here she says We are

especially enjoying winter in a

place where it never gets below

zero Celsius

bull Nigel GumJey DVM 85 has been a partner in the Alta Vista

Animal Hospital in Ottawa

since 1990 was president of the bull Garry Millage AMPHI 86 bull Heidi Stephenson BA 88 is now ISO 9000 manager at

Ontario Veterinary Medical left a position as vice-president was awarded her professional Carpenter Ca nada Ltd in

Association in 1997 and recent- of national operations for acco untants designation of Wood br idge Ont He lives in

ly served on the Canadian Vetshy Scotts Restaurants KFC Divishy certified general accountant in Miss issa uga Classma tes are

erilw() Medical Associations sion to open his own consult- March 1998 She has been invited to contact him at

national issues committee He ing company Future Food employed for the last 10 years avon listarca

lives in Osgoode with his wife Equipment Ine specializes in with Dan Ball Chartered bull Michelle (Pilon) Bacon BA rvlaurecn and children Laura providing new and used restau- Acco un tant in Parry Sound 90 moved to England to study

and Matthew rant equipment and reducing O nt where she lives with her and work after graduating from

bull Muneer Hirji BComm 82 restaurant construction costs hu sband Brad two dogs and a Guelph She recently left a posishy

lives in Toronto and is vice- He also operates a restaurant horse tion with the British Ministry of

president of marke ting at SAP called Nikkos in Woodbridge bull Dawn Stetsko BSe 81 lives Agriculture and Food in York to

Canada He has three chil- Ont and is planning to open a in Langhorne Pa with her husshy become an at-home mom She

drcl1 Nadia 8 Alyssa 6 and second location band Paul and children Mark now lives in London with her

Sarah I bull Tosh Noseworthy BSe 83 is and Keith and is a research husband Tim and one-year-old

bull Brenda irwin BSe 88 is a cardiovascular ICU nurse in scientist with Bristol-Myers daughter Juliette She sends love

studying at Hong Kong Unishy sunny Tuscon Arizona After Squibb Previously she worked to Sue Heather and Sheila and

vers ity of Science and Technolshy grad uation she lived in Paris at McMaster University in can be reached bye-mail at

ogy to complete the final France for a yea r s tudied nurs- Hamilton Ont for 17 yea rs michellebacondialpipexcom

sem ester of an MBA program ing in O ttawa then lived in Saushy bull Teresa Tummillo-Goy BA bull Jeff Barlow BComm 90 is

through the University of di Arabia for two yea rs She still 86 has a law practice in Water- the training and quality manag-

British Columbia She taught loves to travel and would like to 100 Ont foc Li sing primaril y on er for two five-star luxury boushy

science for the North York hea r from fellow alumni She family law civi l litiga tion and tique h o tels in Prague - Hotel

Board of Education for five can be reached at 520-299-8344 real estate She and her hus- Palace Praha and the Hotel

years before enrolling in the bull Cecilia (Wleugel) Parkes band John Goy live in Guelph Savoy Previo usly he was execu -

MBA program BComm 85 is a graphic and have three sons John 4 tive housekeeper at the five-star

bull Jagwant Kanwar PhD 80 is designer in Toronto and says Tony 3 and Shayne 2 Renaissance Pragu e Hotel

a senior scientist in the depart- she st ill uses ber marketing bull Peter Van der Borch DVM bull Margaret Burnes-Souria BA ment of vegetable crops at Pun- background to help her busishy 88 retired in the fa ll of 1997 94 is a team leader with [011 shy

jab Agricultural University in ness succeed She specia lizes in after several years of practising don Magazin e in London Ont

India He is also director of the logo design lNith hand-drawn physiotherapy and ve terinary She married David Souria in

regional vegetable research stashy illustrations medicine and surgery He Jives July 1997 and is pursuing an tion at Usman (TaranTarn) bull Jim Parr BSc(Agr) 81 and in Pictou NS ]VlBA at the University of West-

Amritsar His and his wife MSe 89 died of cancer in bull MartyWilLiams BA 85 is ern Ontario

Sanyogita have a son Mohit June 1998 but hes being co-ordinator of student activishy bull Janine Byers BASe 95 is a and a daughter Dipika who are remembered by his university ties at University College Unishy public health dietitian at the

both studying engineering friends through the establish - versity of Toronto where he Kingston Frontenac and

Friends can write to Kanwar at ment of a mem orial fund for advises student organizations Iennox amp Addington Health

Punjab Agricultural Un ivers ity his wife Denise and children 1Ie is also chair of the U of T Unit in Kingston O nt She is Ludhiana 141 004 India Shannon and Eric Anyone Staff Association a member of getting married to Ca rl Stewart

bull Larissa Larsen BSe 89 and who would like more informa - the steering committee of the on May 29 j 999 MLA 92 received a PhD in tion can ca ll Brian Tapscott at staffs unionization drive and a bull Lisa Cherry BSe 9 1 is a urban and regional planning 519-767-3566 staff member with the student science journalist and executive

from the University of Illinois bull Cheryl (Dunlop) Reid newspaper The Varsity He can director of Artists Against

at Urbana Champaign in May BSe(Agr) 89 sta rted a new be reached bye-mail at marty Racism an international organi-

She has accepted a position at job in September as ingredient wi lliamsutorontoca za tion She is based in Toronto

Thompson Dyke and Associshy sales manager for RA bull Bonnie (Byma) BASe 96 ales a landscape architecture Chisholm o f Toronto She will 19905 and Gil Clelland BA 95 were

and urban planning firm in continue to work from her bull Claire Allison BA 94 grad- married in December 1996 and

Chicago Her husband Ernie remote offke in Fergus Reid uated from the elementary are living in Chatham On t

Poortinga DVM 89 is in his and her husband Jeff BSe teacher ed ucation program at Bo nnie works at a day-care

third yea r of an MD program (Agr) 89 have two children the University of British centre G il teaches art and

at Rush University Chicago lVlega n 4 and Elizabeth 2 Columbia in 1996 and now phys ical education They ca n -Hes looking forward to joining bull Chee Sie BA 83 is a zone teaches in Va ncou ver be reached bye-ma il at gclelshy

his wife in the ranks of the manager for the Malaysian bull JohnAvon BSdHK) 94 lan ciaccesscom employed They would both Assurance Alliance Berhad in earned an M Se in industr ial bull Kate Corn ell BA 95 of enjoy hearing from fellow Sarawak Malaysia He and his operations from Lawrence Markham Ont earned her

alumni and can be reached at wife Jesterine have a two-year- Technological University in masters in dance history from epoor tin garushurushedu old daughter Letitia Southfleld Mich in 1997 and York University in May and

WINTER 1999 41

co-authored a book titled

Toronto Dance Theatre 1968shy1998 Stages in a Journey

bull Mary Jill (McClure) Culliton BASe 90 earned

her BEd from Brock University

and her M Ed from the Univershy

sity of Western Ontario and

teaches Grade 1 in Mitchell

Ont She and her husband

Tim live in Stratford

bull Kathleen (McNutt) Daniels BASe 9 1 is a teacher and was

married on New Years Eve

1994 to Gord Daniels They live

in North Bay Ont and have a

daughter Lauren born in Febshy

ruary 1997 They are expecting

their second child in February

bull Simon Deakin BA 95 studshyied in Florence Italy for a year

then earned a master of fine art

from the Slade School of Fine

Art at the University of London

England He lives in London

bull Christie Dunbar BLA 97 spent a year after graduation

working for Niagara College in

St Catharines Ont on the

vision and design of a new

campus to be built in Niagarashy

on-the- Lake Last April she

joined the landscape architecshy

ture firm of Pollack Design

Associates in Ann Arbor Mich

bull Trina Edmonds BA 94 and

Joel Hinderle became the

proud parents of a little girl

Jordan Ashley in january 1998

and moved to a new home in

Oakville Ont in September

Edmonds works in Mississauga

as a desktop publisher with a

publishingprinting company

bull Wendy Garinther BSc 93 and Steve Decker BSe 94

were married in May Joining

them in the wedding celebrashy

tions were Cheri (Coulter)

42 GUELPH ALUMNUS

Ascroft BSe 93 Karen Leinshy

gartner BSe 94 and Barb

(Moore) Johnson BSe 94

Best man was Jeff Bond BSe

93 and MSe 96 The Deckers

live in Edmonton where Steve

is doing a PhD in chemistry at

the University of Alberta and

Wendy is working in a research

laboratory at a biopharmaceushy

tical company

bull Donna Gross BA 97 is purshysu ing a master of divinity at

Emmanuel College at the Unishy

versity of Toronto and hopes to

become an ordained minister by

2002 She lives in Guelph and

can be reached bye-mail at

donnajulietalbedonet

bull Robert Gruber BA 92 is a child-care supervisor for the

YMCA-YWCA of Guelph and

manages the Jean Little Y

Child- Care Centre He recently

developed the anti -bias proshy

gramming policy for the

Guelph Y and sits on both the

Jean Little Public School Counshy

cil and the Guelph AIDS Wall

Committee He can be reached

bye-mail at rgrubernet

comca

bull Susan Harder BSe 91 grad shyuated from the University of

Toronto Medical School in June

and has started a residency at

Santa Clara Valley Medical Censhy

tre in San jose Calif She will

follow that up with an anestheshy

sia residency at Stanford Univershy

sity Hospital in 1999

bull Marko Harjupanula BASc 93 travelled in Australia for

two months after graduating

from Guelph then returned to

his home town of South Porshy

cupine Ont where he worked

in a gold mine for four years

He entered police college in

September and started as an

opp constable in Cochrane in

December

bull Nancy Holman MA 94 moved to Vancouver soon after

graduation and initially worked

as a project co-ordinator for an

ophthalmologist In 1996 she

began working full time for the

BC Liberal Caucus I would

enjoy hearing from and catchshy

ing up with the friends I made

while studying at U of G and

working at the Brass Taps she

says Her e-mail address is nan shy

cyholmanlassgovbeca

bull Ruth Johnson BA 91 is an investment banking associate

with the mergers and acquisishy

tions group of JP Morgan in

Lond on England responsible

for financial reporting and

administration She has been in

England with her partner Alex Campbell since graduation

bull Stephen Johnson BA 94 of London Ont was a lab technishy

cian at Lenscrafters for three

yea rs and is now a full-time

student at Fanshawe College

studying air conditioning and

refrigeration He was married

in Jun e to Jennifer Fox BSc

95 a chemist at 3M Their

wedding party included Dee Popat BSe (Eng) 94 and

Patrick Wulhes BSc 95

bull Sarah (Davis) Kelly BASe 90 married Robert Kelly in

July and teaches primary

grades at an inner-city school

in Toronto

bull Cassidy Klowak BComm 97 lives in Allisshy

ton Onl and is a personal

banking account manager

with ClBC in Tottenham

bull Stephanie Lopes BSc 96 completed her MSc in repro shy

ductive biology at the Universishy

ty of Toronto and worked as

patient-care director for the

College of Family Physicians

for almost a year In September

she enrolled in medical school

at the University of Toronto

She is happy to announce that

she is engaged to be married

next summer Lopes can be

reached at slopesidirectcom

bull Natalie (Parker) MacKenzie BSc 96 earned her BEd from

the University of Western

Ontario in 1997 She married

ASLt Andy MacKenzie June 27

in Sault Ste Marie Ont and

now lives in Halifax

bull Susan MacKinnon DVM 91 is a veterinarian with HUls

Science Diet She lives in

Guelph with her husband

Brandon Wiley and gave birth

to their first child Adrianna

Nicole june 26 at home

bull Waheed Mian BA 9 1 of Cambridge Ont is a store

director with PetSmart Canada

He helped the company launch

its new retail concept in Cana da

bull Alex Mitchell BA 91 was appointed clerkdeputy treasurshy

er of the Ontario township of

Mildmay-Carrick in 1998 and

will be the clerkadministrator

of the new municipality of

Mildmay-Carrick -TeesWatershy

Culross in 1999 He was married

in january 1997 and lives vith

his wife and daughter in Mild shy

may In his spare time Mitchell

is a professional scout for the

Toronto Maple Leafs covering

southwestern Ontario

bull Sherry Morland BASc 93 of Kitchener Ont ea rned her

BEd from Brock University in

J995 and is a part-time specia l

educa tion teacher and an occashy

sional teacher with the Watershy

loo County Board of Ed ucashy

tion She married Ivan LeBlanc

in 1997

bull Gary Page BSe 91 wo rks for the Nottawasaga Valley Conshy

servation Authority where he is

able to combine his knowledge

of wildlife biology with his

artistic skills as resident graphic

designer and outdoor centre

interpreter He Jives with his

wife Di and their son judah in

CreemoreOnt

bull Elaine Pammenter BA 96 is an inventory clerk with the

Royal Collection at Windsor

Castle in England She holds a

museum management and

curatorship grad uate certificate

diploma from Sir Sandford

Fleming College and did her

internship at the Royal Albert

Memorial Museum in Exeter

England

bull Brent Raymond BSe(Env) 96 of Brantford Ont has

been working with Outward

Bound since graduation He

leads wilderness trips in Northshy

ern Ontario Horida Australia and Sabah (Malaysian Borneo) Most recently he designed and implemented a new introducshytory mountaineering course for Outward Bound Sabah on the summit plateau of Mt Kinashy

balu Those of you who know me as plate licker from U of G get in touch he says Where are you Star I miss you He can be reached by e-mail at globarwchatonca or by

phone at 519-756-1697

Alumni Patrick Abbott BSA 40 July 7 1998

Albert Allen BSA 33 Jan 161994 Agris Ansmits BA 70 and MA 73

February 1998 Barbara (Quartermain) Babcock DHE

53 June 17 1998

Wray Bond BSA 34 Sept 25 1998

Kenneth Bone DVM 38 Dec 29 1998 Evelyn (Stevenson) Buhr DHE 39

May 251998 Philip Burke BSA 43 June 21 1998

Grant Carman BSA 49 Oct 221998 Frederick Chambers BSA 41

June 1998 Wilmot Conley ADA4 7 April 7 1998 Lloyd Crewson BSA 49 Aug 261998

Jacqueline Dimock DHE 47

Aug 20 1998 John Dingwall DVM 52

April 18 1998

Lloyd Dorsey BSA 38 June 9 1998 George Duncan BSA 37

Sept 19 1998

David Dyson BSA 53 Aug 31 1998

Norma (Shannon) Edwards DHE 39

November 1997 Vincent Bud Ellis DVM 41

July 15 1998 John Jack George BSA 48

Sept 24 1998

Donald Haight BSA 33 January 1997 William Hamlyn BSA 33 Dec I 1997

Gordon Harkness BSA 49

November 1997

Charles Hollister DVM 38 June 1996 Donald Hope BSA 54 June 28 1998

Lawrence Jefferson BSA 38

Sept 3 1998

James Kelso DVM 56 July 27 1998

Dorima Lalonde BSA 34 Oct 8 1998 Mildred (Cox) Large DHE 33

June 20 1998 Roger Larson BComm 86 Feb 19 1998 Robert Lawson BSA 49 June 6 1998

bull Doug Ramsey BA 91 and PhD 98 received U of Gs highshyest graduate student award shythe Forster Medal- at June convocation for his academic and community involvement while enrolled in Guelphs new

graduate program in geography He spent the summer as a visitshying research scholar at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College in Truro before assuming his curshyrent position as assistant professhysor at Mount Allison University

David Leach BSc(Agr) 74

July 18 1998

Ian Leask DVM 74 Sept 5 1998

Sheryl Lee BSc 95 June 8 1998 Ruby Janet MacAuley DHE 30

Aug 19 1998 Parker MacKenzie DVM 38

September 1994

Jeanice MacLaren DHE 28 March 1 1997

Campbell MacMaster DVM42

Oct 8 1998

Rex McCallum DVM 43 July 71998 Jean (Dunn) McMahon DHE 31

Nov 41998

Margaret Oones) McTaggart DHE 35 Aug 81998

Patrick McTaggart-Cowan HDSc 81

Oct 21997

Malcolm McWhinnie ADA 39

July 16 1998 Mary (Townsend) Mitchell BHSc

60 Sept 281998

Marjory Monaghan DHE 29

December 1997 Charles Monk BSA 44 Aug 7 1998

Heather Neilsen BHSc 59

Oct 30 1998 Jerry Niwa DVM 62 Aug 5 1998 Henry Harry OReilly BSA 42

October 1997

James Parr BSc(Agr) 81 June 19 1998 Charles Rammage DVM 45

Oct 17 1996 Howard Rapson HDSc 90

March 1997 Clement Reeds DVM 42 Oct 16 1998

William Robinson BSA 38

Aug 23 1998

Donald Sager ADA 73 Oct 141997

Austin Schaefer DVM 37 in 1997

Sandra (Mackenzie) Schmidt DHE 59

Aug 16 1997 Margaret (Harvey) Seaborn DHE 28

July 221998

Larry Seguin DVM 47 June 12 1998

Leah Shedden DHE 31 December 1998

Edward Shuh BSA 40 July 2 1998

Ted Shutsa BSc(Agr) 66

Sept 18 1998 Jim Sinclair DVM 49 Oct 4 1998

Margaret (Brown) Sinclair DHE 20

September 1998 Eldon Smith BSA 42 Sept 9 1998

Derek Somers DVM 96 Sept 25 1998

Cheryl Lynn Sopha BA 95 Sept 20 1998

Leona (Bartlett) Stewart DHE 35

June 27 1998 Alex Thomson BSc(Agr) 69

October 1996

William Whittick DVM 55

Aug 15 1998 Joseph Wilson BSA 23 Sept 11 1998

Lloyd Woolsey DVM41 June 24 1998

Winifred Yeates DHE 28 June 11998

Faculty John Carpenter BSA 43 and MSA 48

Microbiology Dec 10 1998

David Gaskin Zoology Sept 14 1998

Gordon Macleod BSA 50 Animal and

Poultry Science Nov 26 1998 Roman Retman Languages and

Literatures Sept 28 1998

Caesar Sen off Chemistry and

Biochemistry Aug 14 1998

Percy Smith Drama Dec 10 1998

Friends Robert Clark Aug 21 1998

Ethel Hammond August 1998

Thomas Hillers Sept 28 1998 Marguerite Holbrook Aug 26 1998

Catherine Kelly Sept 27 1998

James A McKenzie May 13 1998

Kenneth McIssac Oct 23 1998

William Mutlock September 1998 Roena Patterson Sept 16 1998

Donald Priddle Aug 25 1998

WINTER 1999 43

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bull Karl Reimer BSe 94 comshypleted a one-year intensive

MSc in mining engineering at

Queens University and is now

a project engineer a t Enpar

Technologies Ine in Guelph

He can be contacted at reimerbservcom

bull Nancy Nauta Rowland BA 90 and her husband Dan celshy

ebrated their first wedding

anniversary in March 1998 with

the birth of their first child

Connor who beat their March

8 anniversary by two days Nanshy

cy teaches junior-grade stushy

dents and junior special ed ucashy

tion for the Peel District School

Board The Rowlands live in

Caledon Ont

bull Fraser Stables MFA 98 was heralded by Toronto Globe 6shyMail critic Betty Jordan as a

formidable new talent followshy

ing the openi ng of his debut

gallery exh ibition in July The

Scottish artists work includes

sculpture video and mixed

media that explore notions of

flu x by interrupting the moveshy

ment of forms in space

bull Erin (Smith) Scott BSe(HK) 92 and Brad

Scott BSc(Agr) 91 of Lucan

O nt were married in 1993 and

had their first child Lucas in

August Erin works for Shopshy

pers Home Health Ca re in

London Brad is with New Life

Mills in Dunfield

bull Abby Simons BSc 95 and Martin Piche BSc(Agr) 95 were married in Mont-Tremshy

blant Quebec in 1997 She is a

customer service representative

with Kantech Systems he is

superintendent of Club de golf

vallee des forts They say theyd

love to hear from anyone headshy

ing to Montreal and can be

reached at 450-348-3860

bull Sylvia Tesori BSc 95 has been doing wildlife rehabilitashy

tion for the OSPCA Wildlife

Rehabilitation Centre in Midshy

land Ont since 1996

bull Chuck Thibeault BComm 94 is general manager of the

Putting Edge Corpora tion

which has two glow-in- theshy

dark mini-golf courses in

Ontario one in Bramp ton and

one in Richmond Hill He can

be reached in Richmond Hill at

chu ckttotalnet

bull Karen Thirlwall BA 93 is a

si ngersongwriter and guitarist

who began her stage career and

released her first album The Voice Inside Me while studying

languages at U of G She has

lived and performed in

11i stler BC for three years

and recently released a second

album called Wide-Eyed She

remembers many special

fr iends m ade at Guelph and

welcomes e-mail messages to

karenthirlwallhotmailcom

bull Christie (Johnson) and Steve

Tyler both BComm 91 live in

Cambridge Ont where

Christie is a personal banking

representative for the Royal

Bank Steve works with their

third-year design professor

Nelson Hofer in Mississauga as

a design consultan t Steves proshy

jects include the Windsor Casishy

no and U of Gs Creelman Hall

They have two children Jason

5 and Marcus 1

bull Julia White BA 91 lives in Guelph and is a small-business

accountant at Taves amp Co She

recently finished courses

towards a CGA designation and

would like to hea r from other

alumni who lived in Lambton

Hall in 198788 Send e-mail to

juliawhitesympaticoca

bull Andre-Denis Wright MSc 93 and PhD 98 is doing postshy

docto ral work in Perth Westshy

ern Australia He wants his

Guelph friends and Halifax

family to know he was thinking

of them at Christmas when it

was 40 C in Australia

bull Dave Yellen BComm 90 was recently promoted at the Gordon

Food Service to new-accounts

sales specialist for Metro Toronshy

to Having been in Ottawa for

the past few years Im hoping

to reacquaint myself with old

friend s from U of G in the Metro

area he says He lives in Scarborshy

ough and can be reached at 416shy615-2745 or davidysprintca

bull Halina Zaleski PhD 92 is a tenured professor in the

departm ent of animal sciences

at the Un iversity of Hawaii in

Honolulu She is a swine speshy

cialist involved in extension

programs for an area th at covshy

ers all of Hawai i and the PacifIC

basin She can be reached by

e-mail at halinahawaiiedu

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IF THERE ARE LIVESTOCK IN THE HOCKEY ARENA and

theyre not wearing skates its College Royal If there

are students sawing logs throwing pies baking cookies

and square dancing its College Royal When the entire

University of Guelph is displayed - from arts to zooloshy

gy - March 13 and 14 1999 youll know its definitely

College Royan

Since its inception in 1925 as an agricultural and liveshy

stock show run by the Ontario Agricultural College

College Royal has grown to be a celebrated U of G trashy

dition involving all the colleges

The event is famou s in the University community

and beyond for its open-house showcase of displays and

activities The largest student-run open house in Canashy

da College Royal attracts more than 20000 visitors to

campus over one weekend

College Royal is an event of tradition that reaches

into tomorrow Agriculture and livestock shows are still

highlighted events but College Royal activities have

grown to include dog and cat shows a photography conshy

test a chemistry magic show and demonstrations on

human health and fitness The open house gives people

an opportunity to see what happens in the Universitys

leading-edge research laboratories to observe veterinary

medicine in practice to tour a sculpture studio or to

watch a theatrical performance

To celebrate the 75th anniversary of College Royal

1998 president Joe TrakaJo lnvites alumni to get involved

again by joining one of the planning comm ittees or by

participating in a favourite event Call him for more

information at 824-4120 Ext 8366 or send e-mail to

jtrakalouoguelphca

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in and around the University

THE UN IVERSITY OF

GUELPH has had cluse

to cel ebra Ie in recen t

months The Un iversity

ma intained its high

ra nking in the annual

Macleans magazine

eval uatio n of Canadian

universi ties and eight

members o f the U of G

fa mily received n ational

and interna tio nal recogshy

nitio n including fo ur

Order of Ca nada designa shy

tions In addition U of G

research and teaching

programs have received

new financial support

from federa l and provinshy

cial government in itiat ives

that will boost U of G

programs in biotechnoloshy

gy co mputing science and

engin eering

WINTER

THE CAMPUS CELEBRATES 10 AGRI-FOOD LEADERSH IP

After 125 years of prov id ing ed ucation research and service

OAC is sti ll at the forefro nt of Ca nadas agri-food industry

by Mary Dickieson

FACULTY PROFILE20 INSIDE JUDITH THOMPSON

A conversation with U of G drama professor Judith T hompso n

reveals another side of one of Ca nadas bes t playwrights

by Andrew Vowles

RESEARCH

WHATS TO BE DONE WITH CANADAS FISHERIES

Guelph scientists delve in to the problems facing Ca nadas fisheries

and com men t on the managemen t issues that are th reatening both

coasta l and inland reso urces

by Andrew Vowles

1999

alumni Matters

ALUMNI I NVOIVEMENT

in th e University is

growing through the

effor ts of University

of Guelph Alumni Associshy

ation president Jim

Weeden and U of G has

received several gifts from

alumni that will provide

better computer access fo r

students and resto re two

favourite meeting places

on ca mpus T his section

also presents news from

o ther Guelph graduates

an update on U of G

even ts and programs and

an opportunity for alumshy

ni to communicate with

each o th er and with the

University

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UNIVERSITY 9fGlHilPH

Thank you alumni DURING THE FIVE YEtRS [ served as dean of the College of Socia l Science [ developed 8

deep appreciation for the role alumni play in the life of the University I attended three meetshyings of the College of Social Science Alumni Association before actually becoming dean and from the start I experienced the dedicashytion of alumni volunteers who maintain an important link to the University

Alumni give in many meaningful ways welcoming new students spea king at career nights offering co-op placements and employing grad uates are just a few Alumni donations to the Alma Mater Fund are becoming increas ingly important as govshyern men t fu nd i ng decreases Schola rsh ips provided by alumni giving encourage excelshylence in undergraduate students help us attract top-notch graduate students and proshyvide opportunities for many students who might not otherwise be able to attend the University

Each year the AMF gives each college dea n $6000 [n CSS we used this money for things not possible in our operating budget - visiting speakers special equipment gradshyuate st ud ent conference travel and recruitshyment brochures The AMF also supports the Winegald Visiting Professorship and in 199697 CSS brought five scholars to camshypus for a public lecture series that was attended by hundreds of students and facshyulty A book is being published as an outshy

come of th e series Alumni support goes weJl beyond monshy

ey Many alumni care enough about us to rite and provide insights to changing socishy

etalneeds and reactions to proposals on CtHshy

ricular and organizational changes It is great to have the alumni from CSS and the Col shy

lege of Family and Consulller Studies now wOlking together to ensure that our new College of Social and Applied Human Sc ishyences will have meaning for those associshyated with the former coJleges and for future generations of graduates

Thank you alumni Your continuing

involvement with yo ur university is appre shyciated [ am proud to be lssocia ted with yo u and this wonderful institution

PROF DAVID KNIGHT

CSS DEAN 1993 TO 1998

A job well done

As GENERAL MANAG ER of the Ontario Sumshymer Games which ran Aug 13 to 16 in Guelph I want to extend a sincere thank you to the University of Guelph its faculty staff and alulllni for helping to make this event such a positive and memorable expe rien ce for the 2400 young athletes

More than 1700 vo lunteers includ ing many University alumni and employees gra shyciously donated their time and talents to make the Gltlmes Organizing Committees (GOC) dream of hosting the best-ever Summer Games ltl rea lit y

[ hope the en tire University community sha res my pride over the outstanding colshylective effort that went into organizing and hostin g these Games Atl of the University alumni and employees I dealt with made every effort to accol11 l11odate the needs of the GOe the provincial spo rt organizations and the panicipants themselves

The University of Guelph is certainly to be cOl11l11ended for a job well done Based on the feedback I received during the Games and in the months since I kI10v thal those spectators and participants from across the province who

were eAvosed to d1e University for the first time left with a highly favourable impression

One of th e goa ls of the Games was to leave a legacy in the form of improved athshyletic facilities volunteer leadership expertise and community development For the Unishyvers ity the desiled legacy will be of a differshyent nature - hwing some of these talented

young athletes return to Guelph to don the Gryp hon uniform thus ensuring that our tradition of athletic and academic excellence continues on Nothing would please this alumnus more than to see that happen

TIM MALI

SA 92 MA 93

4 GUELPH ALUMNUS

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

message from the President MORDECHAI ROZANSKI

THE BEG INN IN G OF THE YEAR seems an appropriate and second nationally in its category in the Madams ra nkshytime to introduce the new design and edi torial direc shy Lng of u madian wliversities In the magazines cross-counshy

tion of the Guelph Alumnus I hope you will like it as try survey of high school guidance counsellors and acadshy

much as I do emic and industry leaders Guelph ranked second in overall In each issue we will present regular co lumns such quality and repu tat ion Our success in these ra nkings

as In and Around the University and Research Notes to reflec ts the excellence and dedication of all members of keep you informed of research developments and camshy the University communi ty - our faculty staff students

pus news that matter most to alumni and alumni - and is testimony to our

Our fea tures will look at the issues that very talented academic and st ud ent

are most important to us as Canadians affairs leadership Guelph has maintained and will focus on the people who conshy its commitment to quality und er chalshytribute so much to Guelphs sllccess lenging conditions given the current The AllllTIJli Matters section of the magshy financial fragility of Ontario universities az ine wi ll bring yo u news about yo ur Our situation has been hel ped by our fellow alumni and their activi ties in supshy successes with several national lt1nd port of the University and the commushy provincial applications for resea rch and nities in which they live teachin g support The first of nine

In this issue of the Guelph Alumnus research initiatives submitted to the we celebrate the heritage of the Univershy Canada Fou ndat ion for Innovation has sity as we help launch the 12Sth annivershy been funded and will support the study sa ry of the Ontario Agricultural College of new technologies for enhancing agro-The college has played a leading ecosystems At the provincia l role in the history of the Unishy level the Onta rio gove rnment versity of Guelph and has made GUELPH HAS recently announced funding to many invaluab le contributions U of G under the Ontario MAINTAINED ITS to agricu ltural research and Research and Development education in this province and COMMITMENT Challenge Fund that wi II su p shyacross the nation Our feature port a new Food System

TO QUALITY UNDER on the 12Sth anniversary of the Biotechnology Centre on cal11shycollege looks back at its remarkshy CHALLENGING pus The province has also proshyable legacy and for wa rd to its vided grants to boost enrolment

CONDITIONS prominence as Canada s preshy in engineering and computing mier centre in agri-food envi- science programs and to provide ronmental and rural ed ucation research and outreach research scholarships for up to 46 U of G grad uate stushy

This issue also presents a dramatic profi le o f playshy dents working in science and technology programs wright Judith Thompson a professor in Guelphs School Although we are pl eased with this suppor t for ou r of Literatures and Performance Studies in English who excellent and deserving science-related disciplines we are displays the kind of creative energy that yo u find camshy concerned that most of these programs are so narrowly pus-wide among our talented faculty A seco nd feature targeted As a university with excell ent programs in the demonstrates Guelphs expertise in the aquat ic sciences arts humanities social sciences and applied fields Guelph and frames sOllle of the strategies that co uld preserve - as well as other Ontario universities - needs a comshyCanadas endangered fish eries reSOllfces prehensive multi-yea r effo rt that addresses the entire

The new year is al so an appropriate time to reflect range of programs and disciplines and prepares LIS to meet -on the achievements of the past yea r an d look ahead to the expectations of Ontarians in the 21st century the opportunities to come J look forward to shari ng more news with you in

Last November for the second yea r in a row Guelph hiture issues of the Guelph Alul11rlus My very best wishshyranked first among Ontarios comprehensive universities es for success hea lth and happiness in 1999

W I NTER 1999 5

bull UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

GUELPH HOLDS SECOND PLACE IN MACLEANS RANKING

For the second year in

a row U of G finished

second in the country

in its category in the annual

Macleans magazine universities

ranking issue

Editor Ann Dowsett Johnston

says it was very close with

Guelph barely nipped to the finshy

ish line by Simon Fraser Univershy

s ity in the 12-universitycomshy

prehensives category Guelph led

the way provincially coming first

of the five Ontario universities

in the sa me category

G uelph also rece ived a secshy

ond-place ranking in its categoshy

ry in the Macleans reputational

survey of 4700 corpora te CEOs

administ ra tors and high school

guidance counsellors In the allshy

categories nationwide reputashy

tional survey U of G placed xa5 eighth out of 48 institutions

~ Dowsett Johnston says

~ Guelph is well-established as a I premier university Other uni shy~ o vers ities are searching for an o f--

identity Guelph has a wonder-z laquo Vl gt ful sense of who it is This makes Vl

gtshy it a leader ahead of the game Its co 6 a strong resid ential school and

( it knows and builds o n its tr strengths It bodes incredibly ~ - well for the future

6 GUELPH ALUMNUS

ONTARIO INVESTS IN NEW

BIOTECH CENTRE AT U OF G The Ontario government will invest up to

$6 million in a new Food System Biotechshy

nology Centre at U of G

The funding from the Ministry of Energy

Science and Technology through the

Ontario Research and Development Chalshy

lenge Fund will be used to investigate anishy

mal genetiCS plant genetics and transgenshy

ics and the basic molecular research

underlying these areas With matching

funding from industry and the U of G

research budget the total investment in

this centre could reach $18 million

The new biotechnology centre will be

the focal point of molecular biology and

biotechnology research related to the agrishy

food system says U of G president

Mordechai Rozanski The award will allow

KUDOS

U of G applauds the recent

Order of Canada designamiddot

tions received by former

president William Winegard who was recognized for his

voluntarism OAC alumnus

Constantine Campbell BSA 60 who was honoured

for his significant contribushy

tions to science and the

Canadian agricultural indusshy

try Beverly Mascoll a

former member of U of Gs

Board of Governors and

Austin Clarke who recently

served as writer-in-residence

at Guelph

Roberta Bondar B5c

(Agr) 68 Canadas first

the University to develop the infrastructure

and expertise necessary to maintain a

leadership role in the important agri-food

sector of the economy he says It

involves four colleges 11 departments and

some 70 researchers and adds to Guelphs

reputation as a centre for the highest-qualshy

ity research benefiting all Canadians

The centres work will encompass all

aspects of the food system including agrishy

culture processing storage packaging

nutrition waste management and food

safety Key initiatives will incorporate

recent advances in molecular genetic techshy

nology into strategies for developing

improved strains of livestock and for the

production and evaluation of transgenic

plants

and physiological change in

space and how it applies to

life on Earth

Clay Switzer BSA 51 former

dean of OAC and former

deputy minister of the

Ontario Ministry of Agriculshy

ture and Food was inducted

into the Canadian Agriculturshy

al Hall of Fame in November

Fred Gilbert M5c 66 and

PhD 68 recently began a

first term as president of

Lakehead University in

Thunder Bay Ont

Won-Jai Maeng MSc 71 is

the newly appointed presishy

dent of Kon-Kuk University

in Seoul Korea

female astronaut has been

inducted into the Canadian

Medical Hall of Fame for her

studies on weightlessness

Winegard Named Officer of the Order of Canada

BIn WINEG ARD form er U ofG presishydent and minister of state for sc ience

and technology was named an officer of the Order of Canada in Jul y In November many of his University and co mmunity frie nds gath ered for a recognition dinner hosted by Lorie BA Sc 72 and Gin ty jocius

IN FACT What Mlldelns knows

VS editors arc learning

Major US publications have reccntly dcscribed

V of G as being academishycally excellent and a

real college valuc for American students

BSc(Agr ) 70 They were students at U of G during Winega rds tenure as president and later esta blished thei r business Gin ty jocius amp Associates in the Guelph-Wellington ridshying he represented as MP

Winegard first ca me to Guelph in 1967

to pilot the new University of Guelp h

CENTR E SIX GETS A FAC ELIFT

AFTER 25 YEARS the Unishyversity Centres popular

dining and seating area is getting a new look The expansion and renovation of Cen tre Six includes the addishytion of 200 scats an elevated lounge accessible to people

through its format ive years At the recognishytion dinner curren t U of G president Mo rdecbai Rozanski paid tribute to Wineshygards ro le as the intellec tual founder and shaper of the modern transformation of Guelph A distinguished metallurgist who began his academic career at the University of Toronto Winegard recruited many of the talented faculty who have spent the last 25 to 30 years building Guelphs reputation as a research institution said Rozanski

Winegards lead ership in the ac ademic community also encompassed the Canadian Bureau of International Education the Counshycil of Ontario Universities and the Ontario Council of University Affairs He retired from academia and U of G in 1975 His legacy on campus includes the Winegard Medal the highest award made to a graduati ng student and d1e Winegard Visiting Professorship which brings world scholars to U of G Proceeds from the recognition dinner were given to U of G to support Winegard visiting professors

Elected to Parliament in 1984 Winegard spent nine years in Ottawa and served in ca bshyinet as Canadas minister of state for science and technology and then science minister j

until he retired from Parliament in j 993 He 8 was named chair of the Premiers Research ~

Excel lence Awards board at the December i z

1998 announcement of the provincial pro- o V1gram which is designed to attract talented -lt 0you ng scientists to Ontario m

with disa bilities and a so lari shyum that has enclosed the external dining patio The facelift is funded entirely through non-exclusive agreements with the Univershysitys food service business partners

The project is expected lo address the need for space to

accommodate enrolment increases and may increase conference business Centre Six will also be more energyshyand labor-efficient with the installation of an upgraded -air-handling system In 1999

the Centre Six project will continue with renovations to the food comt area

WINTER j 999 7

in and around the

HPILOT PROJECT ELIMINATES BARRIERS

av ing a learning disability isnt a barrier to obtaining an educashy

tion at the University of Guelph especially with the laun ch of Learning Opportunities a pilot program offered through the Unishy

versitys Centre for Students with Disabilities Beginning in fall 1999

the program will give students with learning disa bilities the addishytional resources they need to meet the challenges involved in obtainshy

ing a post-secondary ed ucation

Lea rning Opportuniti es is a fi ve -yea r project that rece ived

$633 800 in special funding from the Ontario Ministry of Education

and Training U of G vas one of eight institutions to benefit from ~ the gran ts) which are designed specifically for programs in post-secshy

~ ondary institutions that support the integration of stud ents with I U learning disabiliti esIf)

z 0 Students enrolled in the Guelph program will receive pre-regis-O

~ tration cOllnselling academic advising speciall y tailored orientation

~ programs integrated living in an on-campus learn ing cluster supshy

5 ported learning groups workplace skills and competenc ies develshy

5 Oplnent) and experiential educat ion in the vvorkplace

PROVINCE BOOSTS GRADUATE RESEARCH

ANEW $75 - lvIILLlON provinshy

cial scholarship program in

science and technology will awa rd up to 46 U of G graduate

students up to $15000 star ting

this ye ar An nounced in Sepshytember the O ntario Graduate

Scholarships in Sc ience and

Technology will be awarded each

year for 10 years The ministries

of Energy Science and Technolshy

ogy and Education and Training will co-fund two-third s of the

cost of the program Uni ve rsishy

ties are expected to fmd an otershynal match for the final third

The government will alloshy

cate up to $460000 annually to

U OF G GRADS PROMPT GIFT FOOD SC IE NCE TEACHIN G and research at U of G has received financial support from the

Maple Lodge Farms Foundation In honour

of the companys founder Lawrence May

the May family presented $15000 to U of G

president Mordechai Rozanski Nov 9 at the

Royal Agricultural Wint er Fair in Toronto Presenters Wendy Ma y Robson and Kathy

May Weinhold said the gift was awarded

because of Maple Lodge Farms positive

experiences with so many highly qualified Guelph graduates

Man) graduates of this university have

passed through our facility over the yea rs

and in many capacities - as veterinarians inspectors researchers and food scientists

says Robson Our business has been enriched by this connection and it is for

8 GUELPH ALUMNUS

University

Guelph MPP Brenda Ell iott presents a cheque for $633800 to president Mordechai Rozanski for a pilot project to help learningshydisabled students Sta nd ing from left are Carol Herriot of the Cent re for Students wi th Disab ili t ies student Brad Hutchinson and cent re director Bruno Ma ncini

U of G whi ch will seek th e

remaining $230000 from prishy

va te-sector funding

Graduate studi es dean Alasshytair Summerlee is enthusiast ic

ab out the program but disapshypointed at the targe ted natu re of

the scholarships 1-k say the preshy

liminary list of qualifyi ng pro-

this reason that we wish to be part of this talented fa cility and to show our support of

its continuing mission of being a worldshy

class educational facility in Canada

Wendy Robson left and Kathy Weinh old present a gift from Maple Lodge Farms to U of G presiden t Mordechai Rozanski at the Roya l Winter Fair

grams ignores the social sciences

and huma nit ies and does not appreciate the con tributions of

fi elds suc h as econo mi cs and poli tical science to the advanceshy

mfl1t of science w d technology He says U of G wi ll press for the

govern ment to expalld the areas

included in the scholarships

B OF G WELCOMES NEW MEMBERS f OL LO W IN G 1111 1([ Il RF ~ lE NT of

several members in June U of Gs Board of Govern ors welcomed

t igh t new face~ th is blJ They are Christine Alford BSc 80 viccshy

prcsidltIlt Jnd geneml manager of

In tegration S rvices at IBM Ca na shyd1 Ltd Gil Bennett chai r of the

Canadian Tire Corporation Doug

Derry a fi na ncial adv iser and ret ired part ner with Price Wlel shy

house staff member Kathleen Hyland of th UAC Deans O ffi cI

graduate stu clenL James Rodgers undergraduate stud en ts Mitch MacDonald and Lana Rabkin and

Prof Steve Scadding Zoology

-

U OF G WINS FEDERAL

INNOVATION AWARD

mE UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH is one of 14

1 Canadian universities and one of six

in Ontario to receive awards totalling $81

million from the Canada Foundation for

Innovations (CFI) Institutional Innovation

Fund (projects over $350000)

The CFI has yet to determine the exact

amount of the award but if Guelph were

to get the approximate $750000 requestshy

ed with matching grants from industry

and the Ontario Research and Developshy

ment Challenge Fund the total award

could be close to $2 million

Guelphs project is a holistic look at

agriculture the first of its kind in Canada

Titled New Technologies for Assessing

and Enhancing Agroecosystems it will be

headed by Prof Terry Gillespie chair of the

Department of Land Resource Science and

involve 25 faculty from 10 departments

Eight other U of G research projects were

invited to move on to a further stage of

review the third-highest number for an

Ontario university

TTRELLIS LAUNCHED a triangle of information sharshy indexes and Web sites and

H E SEP~EMI3ER LAU NCH of ing through TRELLIS the Trishy databases around the world an excltmg new system University Group of Libraries More than 75 million volshy

called TRELLIS has positioned combined computer-based umes of materials can be the U of G Library as a symbol information resource system found online and more thal1 of partnership and the home The automated system 400 users can log on to for more information than ever gives students and faculty at TRELLIS at the same time before U of G Wilfrid Laurier the three campuses access to a To access TRELLIS 011

University and the University of wider range of resources the Internet type wwwtugshyWaterloo joined forces to form including computer-based librariesonca

OTHER HONOURS

CONVOCAriON HONOURS TWO The University of Guelph has added two more distinshy

guished names to its list of honorary degree recipients Renowned biologist Jane Goodall and political scienshytist Peter Russell an expert on the Canadian Constitushytion and Charter of Rights and Freedoms were honshyoured during fall convocashytion ceremonies in October

Goodall received an honorary doctor of science degree acknowledging more than 40 years of groundbreaking work in the life and sociobiology of chimpanzees and other primates

An honorary doctor of

laws degree was conferred on Russell for his extensive research on the Constitution and Canadian nationalism

UOFG QUALIFIES FOR ATOP SUPPORT U OF Gs SCHOOL OF Engi- neering and Department of Computing and Information Science (CIS) are planning for more faculty equipment and resources following the Unishyversitys request for funding from a provincial program designed to address a shortage of skilled graduates in engimiddot neering and computing science

U of G met this years enrolment increase in these high-tech programs needed to qualify for one-time fundshying under the provinces Access to Opportunities Proshygram (ATOP) Guelph has also committed to doubling enrolment by the year 2000 to take advantage of long-term ATOP money

Guelph will qualify for special operating grants from the province to universities that increase their first-year enrolment in these programs by 20 per cent over 199798

The University also hopes to receive ATOP funding to increase its graduate enrolshyment in these disciplines

Both CIS and the School of Engineering face a shortage of resources making the ATOP funding an important funding source that will help these areas without affecting other campus units

WINTER 1999 9

refront ofat the

ALL THE DEFINING WORDS

written about the Ontario Agricultural College in its 125

years perhaps the most appropriate is the word integral

Throughout its history OAC has remained integral to the

agri-food industry and rural society

Its a good word integral It describes how and why

the college has survived 125 years and suggests a reason

it will grow even stronger in the 2pt century

Without hesitation OAC dean Rob McLaughlin

BSc(Agr) 69 and PhD 77 takes up the thought and

declares that OAC is the premier agricultural college in

Canada and stands in the top rank of agricultural faculshy

ties around the world Our work has had a profound

effect on the growth and development of the Canadian

agri-food system and the well-being of the people and

communities of rural Ontario and beyond he says

10 G UELPH ALUMNUS

OAC celebrates its history its partnerships and its fu ture

W I N TER 1999 11

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OACs 23000 graduates are also recognized

worldwide for their expertise and leadshy

ership abilities in agriculture agribusiness manageshy

ment hortiClilture landscape architecture plant and

animal biology food scie nce and rural extension

Meeting industry needs

More than 100 years apart in their leadershyship of OAC William Johnston and Rob McLaughlin both recognized that the colshylege they inherited would have to focus on industry needs to survive In Johnstons day that meant bringing greater prospershyity to the farm Because only three per cent of McLaughlins graduates return to farmshying todays college curriculum has a greater focus on skills in communication and critical thinking which are demanded by the various industries that now define agriculture

studies McLaughlin hopes those graduates will

return to help the college celebrate 1999s signifishy

cant anniversary It s important to celebrate our

past achievements and to recognize our present and

future strengths he says

A specia l OAC 125 planning committee coshy

chaired by Clay Switzer OAC dean from 1972 to

1983 and Don Blackburn former director of the

diploma program has organized a number of

events throughout the coming year to celebrate the

anniversary

Were looking forward to a wonderful year of

events to mark this occasion says Switzer BSA 51

and MSA 53 We want to celebra te the accomshy

plishments of the past and the fact tha t OAC has

interacted with many partners to get where we are

today and we want to look ahead to the future to

see how the college and the University might conshy

tinue along this successful path

Success for OAC means maintaining its position

as a vital partner and contributor to the prosperity

of the agri-food industry and the people of rural

Ontario for whom it was established That industry

and those rural communities are vastly different

from the 1874 picture we draw from the college hisshy

tory primarily because farmers themselves - with

the help of agricultural education and researchshy

12 GUElPH ALUMNUS

125 YEARS OF ACHIEVEMENT

Throughout OACs first 125 years its educashytion research and extension activities have had an impact on virtually every secshytor of Canadas agrimiddot food industry In the anniversary book 125

Years of Achievement OAC highlights some of the areas where col1lege faculty stushydents and administrashytors have played a leadership role To read more about Guelphs achievements in these areas conshytact the OAC deans office to obtain a copy of the book

Pre 1900

bull Diploma in agriculture

bull Degree in agriculture

bull Agri-food short courses

bull Production bulletins bull Extension work bull Liberal education bull Library resources bull Field crop trials bull Livestock breeding

bull Forestry bull Insect identification bull Experimental Union

1900-1910

bull Herbarium amp weed garden

bull Cheese making bull Food safety bull Land drainage bull Water testing bull Weather observashy

tions amp zoning for crop production

bull Legume inoculants

have forged change through increased productivishy

ty and efficiency

When OAC roots were planted in 187450 per

cent of th e people who lived in this new province

made their living from farming Today only two per

cent of Ontario residents live on farms

but they feed a much larger population

base and an important export market

The Ontario agri-food industry genershy

ates an impressive $637 billion in ecoshy

nomic value each year and stimulates

employment for nearly a quarter of the

workforce Canadians enjoy one of the

safest and cheapest food supplies in the

world spending less than 13 per cent of

their disposa ble income on food Most

people in the world spend more than 50

per cent

Its difficult to pinpoint all the conshy

tributions OAC faculty staff and gradshy

uates have made to agriculture because

the knowledge created and the techshy

nologies perfected here have been so weU

assimilated by the industry that they are

easily taken for granted Few people in

Ontario have ever heard of Charles

Zavitz or know that this early OAC gradshy

uate and professor recorded the first

field-crop yield tests at Guelph before 1890

Appointed head experimentalist in 1893 he was

instrumental in developing a college research proshy

gram that made good the promise that OAC would

offer its students training in scientific agriculture

Zavitz has been followed by a number of brilshy

liant educators and scientists whose contributions

to the college and its industry have filled several

books Even Alexander Ross in OACs official hisshy

tory College on the Hill can provide only a brief

description of the research initiatives that have

involved OAC in the growth of the agri-food secshy

tor and the tremendous advances agriculture has

made in the areas of human and animal nutrition

and health water and soil conservation rural develshy

opment and of course agri-food education

To give prominence to these contributions the

college has published an anniversary book that outshy

lines 125 of the most significant accomplishments in

which OAC faculty students and administrators

played a leadership role More important 125 Years ofAchievement celebrates the partnerships that have

provided the opportunities for achievement Through

the years Guelph scientists and educators have worked

closely with the agri-food industry with both the

Ontario Ministry of Agriculture Food and Rural

Affairs and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and

with other government departments international 1990s And they still have not reached that equalishy125 YEARS agencies educational institutions and alumni ty on the college faculty Alice Rowsome may haveOF ACHIEVEMENT

Read any entry in 125 Years ofAchievement and been hired to serve as assistant librarian and instrucshy

youll find an interes ting anecdote that chronicles tor in French and German at the turn of the censhy1910-1920

an important element in campus history Read the tury but horticulturist Patricia Harney remained bull Macdonaldwhole book and youll be awed by the

Institutesheer volume of th e work that has

bull Soil science been accomplished by so many people Scientific agricuLture

bull Poultry lighting working meticulously over so many

amp nutritionyears to affect so many changes in agrishy After earning one of its first agriculture

bull OAC 21 barleyculture that have improved the lives of degrees in 1888 Charles Zavitz began a

bull Fruit research Canadians 40-year career overseeing the college

Freeman McEwen OAC dean from experimental programs and made the first 1920-1930

1983 to 1990 chaired a committee that advancements in plant breeding Threebull Collecting

involved severa l dozen current and generations later Prof Ken Kasha led the Canadian art

retired faculty as well as alumni students development of a haploid technique of cell bull War Memorial

and U of G staff in writing the stories division that cut the time needed to breed Hall

A quick check of dates in the book new varieties in half Today plant biotechshybull Graduate

shows a spiral of achievement that has nologist Bryan McKersie is looking even education

escalated with whirlwind force since the deeper into the functioning of plant cells bull College Royal

establishment of the University of to manipulate genes that will enhance proshybull SoybeanGuelph in 1964 and heads unabated ductivity or disease resistance

developmenttoward the future The 125 items docushy

bull Forage varieties ment scientific discoveries to be sure

bull Meat research but also the development of the college

bull Ginsengas an educa tional institution and its bull Farm business

ongoing partnership with the provincial records

government

Out of the J25 McEwen has picked his own top the only woman on faculty throughout the 1960s 1930-1940

five beginning with the contributions OAC made and women are seriously under-represented even bull Professional

to the establishment of the University This campus today This is one area where historians find room societies

has the distinction of being the only one in North to criticize agricultural traditions and college polishybull ControlledAmerica where the agricultural college preceded the cies that continued the dominance of men for far

atmosphereuniversity that supports it That fact helps ex plain too many years

storagethe unique character of the University of Guelph The college itself was dominated by the provinshy

bull Muck crops and its prominence in the life sciences cial government during its first 90 years when OAC bull Salmonella

Some might argue that the process of becoming principals reported directly to the minister of agrishytesting

a university began as ea rly as 1904 when the Macshy culture The 1964 University of Guelph Act mainshybull Links with donald Inst itute opened This event is second on tained the schools relationship with the agriculshy

farm groups McEwens list of top accomplishments The ad dishy ture ministry but gave the col lege a new- found

tion of women to the campus changed OAC from a freedom that expanded research and graduate proshy1940-1950

boys school into a co llege Guelph history professhy grams and opened the door to increased fundingbull Holland Marsh

sor Terry Crowley says bluntly Early student life at from th e education ministry It a lso permittedResearch Station

OAC is readily divided into two - before women greater collaboration with the Ontario Veterinarybull Standardizedand after women College which had been moved to Guelph by politshy

cattle conformation The Mac girls were generally older than the J6- ical dictate in 1922

bull Potato breeding and 17-year-old students at OAC they were more One of the most vivid examples of the impact of

bull Reproductionmature and brought both a social life and a new acashy that collaboration was the dramatic increase in anishytechnology

demic focus to the campus For the young women mal-breeding technologies OVC perfected artificial bull Queen beeof Ontario it was a long overdue opportunity and insemination and held the only licence in Ontario for

rearingthey grasped the educa tion offered at Macdonald frozen semen until 1969 OAC faculty and the netshy -bull TechnologyInstitute in large numbers work of provincial agricultural representatives helped

transferWomen were not admitted into the agriculture promote the technology and control it through the

bull Conservation program until 1918 however and they didnt reach development of a national livestock and performance

farm planning numerical equality with male students until the inventory Through these combined efforts Canada

WINTER 1999 13

emerged as a global leader in animal breeding largest Ontario univers ity geographica lly when it125 YEARS OACs un ique and enduring relati onship wi th assumed res ponsibility for ed ucation resea rch andOF ACHIEVEMENT

the provincial agric ulture ministry is another addishy Iaboratory services form erl) managed by the minshy

tion to McEwe ns list of top achievements Certa inshy is try Guelph agric ultural expertise covers the 1950-1960

ly the most significan t even t in the last decade has provi nce with camp uses in Guelph Ridgetownbull Horticulture corre-

Kemptville a nd Alfred and a network of spondence course

research facilities that includes the Horshybull Business education Changing with society ticultural Resea rch Institute of Ontariobull Watershed research

diagnostic laboratories and 21 research bull Farm buildingWhen Adelaide Hoodless argued for the stat ions

programestablishment of Macdonald Institute in the The partnership with OMAFRA has

bull Computers in late 1890S she saw scientific training for kept agricultural education and research agriculture

women as a way to improve community at the forefro nt of the University of bull Corn expansionhealth standards The college has evolved Guelph More than 40 per cent of the Unishybull Deailing with continually through the years - growing versitys graduate studenllt are in OAC and

cold climate into the largest home economics facility in more than 70 per cent of its $80-million

bull CropOntario under dean Margaret McCready and research budget is focused on the ag rishyrecommendations

broadening its outlook in the 1970S under food indus try T hat commitment to

dean Janet Wardlaw to include consumer research is the earliest and most enduring1960-1970

studies and the hospitality industry Wardshy achievement out of the 125 bull OAC Alumnilaw set the tone for increased research OAC contin ues to lea d the way in

Foundationactivity and positioned the college to join research and is one of the most dynamshy

bull University of Guelphforces with the social sciences in 1998 ic co lleges in th e University saysbull Arboretum

McLaughlin But we draw on peoplebull Ag research

fro m all over the University communi shystations

ty And now with the provincial colleges bull International

added back into the mix we are ail workshyag research centres

ing as part of the sa me team to enhance bull Scholarships

been the launch of a new University relationship the opportunities availab le to yo ung people in agri shyendowments

with OACs oldest partner the Onta rio Minist ry of cu ltural edu cat ion bull International

Agriculture Food a nd Rural Affairs (OMAFRA) Alumn i have always held an important position apiculture

In 1997 the University of Guelph became th e on that tea m Among OACs top achievements is the

The OAC of today owes much to its past THE ONTAR IO AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE might never have existshy The journalist s role in establishing the college as the Ontario

ed if not for the failure of a Univers ity of Toronto experiment in School of Agriculture and Experimental Farm is bro ught into

agricultural education in the 18505 It certainly wouldnt have context in a new history of OAC that will be published in April

been situated in Guelph without the political parlaying of Guelph to help celebrate its 125th an niversary The College 011 the Hill A journalist and cleric William Clarke And it might not have surshy New History of the 011tario Agriwltuml College 1874- I 999 was

vived a traumatic first yea r o f patronage and scandal if it hadnt written by Guelph history professor Terry Crowley and Univershy

been for the acc iden tal appo intment ofVVilliam Johnston as prinshy sity professor emeritus Alexander Ross who wrote the origi nal

cipal in the fall of 1874 College 011 the Hill for OACs 100th anniversary

And that was just the beginning If the first book tdls us how OAC grew into the University of

One hundred and twenty-five years have passed since Clarke cuelph the second tells us why

successfully argued that the new province of Ontario needed a When the fledgling provincial government of the 1870s was

land-based rural college where the focus was on providing a pracshy glued togeLher by political patro nage how could th e sc hoo l be

tical education in farming The University of Toronto fai led to any different asks Crowley Two principals came and went withshy

attract farmers sons he sa id because it allowed the other proshy in its first year when rumours tore at their moral fibre so the job

fessions of medicine law and the clergy to overshadow agriculshy fell quickly to the new college rector William Johnston

ture Clarkes persuasive fiting in the then Olltario Farmer newsshy Because we already know how OACs story devdops we ca n

paper helped place the college on 550 acres of good clay loam see some iro ny in the fact that the man who nur tured this preshy

at the back door of his Guelph parish mier agricultural college through its infancy was educated in the

14 GVELPI-I AWMNvs

alumni initiative that es tablished the OAC Alumni work internship at the end of their third yea r and125 YEARS Foundation in the 1960s to provide financial supshy co me back to finish the fourth year with a job wa it shyOF ACHIEVEMENT port to co ll ege programs and scholarships The ing for them says McLa ughlin and they o ften have

foundation also provided the leadership and incenshy fo ur or fi ve to choose from vVe are very short of bull Teaching

tive to create Guelph Unive rsity Alumni Research graduates to fill all of the jobs that are o ut there now innovations

and Development (GUARD Inc) in bull Birdsfoot trefoil

1996 The manda te of the technology bull Land reclamation Educating Leadersmanageme nt company is to develop bull Rural planning

researc h i nven tion s in to marketable bull Wind and snow Guelphs agriculture graduates haveprod ucts lau nch spin-off companies

studies played key roles in Canadian agriculture and gene rate revenu es to support basic

bull Milk testing including federal ministers William Mothshyand applied research at U of G bull Ruminant nutrition

erwell Diploma 1881 John Wise ~DA 56Throughout OACs history alumni bull Ag poli cy and Lyle Vanclief BSc(Agr) 66 Mothshyhave formed a network ofAggies who

development erwell was a driving force behind the have volunteered their time to provide

western grain producers movement before 197deg-198o

a rea l-world view for students helped to

being named to Cabinet in 1921 In thelaunch the careers of many new grad ushybull Arboretum Centre 1980s Wise introduced income stabilizashyates by providing work opport unities bull Ghana-Guelph tion programs and created farm debtencouraged research initiatives co nshy

Project review boards Today Vanclief is strugshytributed millions of dollars to scholarshy

bull Integrated pest gling with low commodity prices and intershyship programs and voca lized co ncerns

managementabout college programs and curriculum national trade agreements

bull Composting animal After receivin g some critica l advice

wastesfrom alumni and agr i-food employers

bull Crop resistance toin the ea rly part o f the 1990s OAC

herbicideslaunched a new BSc(Agr ) program that

bull Limnocorrals for wil l gradu ate the fi rst class of st uden ts

aquatic ecosystems this anniversary year The new agriculshy

bull Grain drying and ture curriculum emphasizes communica tion skills in the agri-food sec tor he says

storageand teamwork allows students to choose their own If you live anywhere near Guelph youll know that

bull Asparagusspecializations and includes opportunities for onshy the agri-food sector ill this area is expected to lead the

bull Systemic fungicides the-job experience Many of those students take a local economy well into the new mi llennium creat shy

bull Pesticides research

bull Agricultural Code of

Practicesocial sciences Johnston had no real farm expeshy within the interdisciplin ary atmosphere of the

rience but he understood people well says Crow- University of Guelph OAC has both contributed

ley and he recognized almost as quickly as his students that the to and benefited iiom the Universitys steady growth Traditionshy

school would succeed only if it co uld offer farm ers sons someshy al OAC programs have expanded into new departments and colshy

thing more thall what they had already learned at home leges providing greater benefits to agri-food resea rch and teach shy

Johnstons commitment to education and his genui ne con shy in g New partnerships o n campus and th e academ ic freedom

cern for his students still echo through the corridors of the build shy provided by University sta tus have enabled Guelph to enlarge its

ing named in his hono ur a nd across campus in the broad range already significant influence in the agri-food sector

of disciplines that now nuke up the Un iversity of Guelph Johnshy Crowley says the enha nced partnership between U of G and

ston was the firs t of hundreds of hulllane and sensible people the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture Food a nd Rural Affairs has

who have given the campus its distinctive character says Crowshy fulfilled a vision of OAC as the hub of agr icultural educa tion that

ley The University of Guel ph is still a good place to be People had been expressed nea rly a cen tury before It s a good place to

help each other to a rema rkable degree and it is eve n m ore end a history and begin a future

remarkable that this sense of co-operatio n has lasted through the In Crowleys fi nal words Agriculture reta ins its econo mi c

most recent government meat slicing importance in the co untrys econom) but the secto r will find

Told in the social and political context of its 125 yea rs the itself [n an increasingly international and com petitive ellvironment -OAC story builds momentum as the pages turn The final chapshy where education and research become ever more importa nt Since

ter in Crowleys history is the most impressive because it SUIll shy the Ontario Agricultural College has demons t rated its ability to

marizes the last 25 years when developments in agricultural edushy respond to changing circumstances during its first 125 years the

cation research and service have occurred 1110st quickly Growing past suggests a willingness to meet the new challenges that await

WINTER 1999 15

ing more jobs and generating more wealth than any 125 YEARS other industry A recent study by the citys Planning OF ACHIEVEMENT OAe 125 and Business Development Department predicts a

ANNIVERSARY EVENTS50-per-cent increase in employment in agri-food bull Mosquitoindustries in the next decade Broaden out to the

monitoring jan 29 - Official OAC 12S launch and bull Canadian publication of 125 Years of Achievements

Greenhouse Feb 16 - Winegard Seminar Series hosts New frontiers Conference Andy Johnson Seymour Wis

bull Non-agricultural March 5 - Winegard Seminar Series hosts At the tum of the 20th century Prof William waste on land Sir Colin Berry Royal London Hospital UKGraham created the impetus for a Canadishy

bull Pest diagnostic March 31 - Opening of AJ Casson Exhibitan poultry industry through nutrition studshyservice and selections from the OAC art collection ies that also provided a background for

at the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre work in human nutrition The tum of the 1980-1990 April 30 - Recognition of the 12s-year 21st century finds poultry scientist Ann Gibshybull Alumni House GuelphOMAFRA partnership and launch bins perfecting the techniques to transfer bull Turfgrass Institute of The College on the Hill A New History genetic material into chicken embryos to bull Centre for the of the Ontario Agricultural College develop birds with better disease resistshy

Genetic Improvement 1874 - 1999middotance or to improve production characterisshyof Livestock june 7 amp 10 - Spring Convocation for tics including the deposition of medically

bull Network of OAC diploma and degree graduates Eachvaluable proteins in the eggs Toxicology Centres graduate will receive a copy of College

bull Biological control lab on the Hill bull George Morris june 18 amp 20 - Alumni Weekend and

Centre opening of the Conservatory and Gardens bull Advanced Sept 14 to 16 - Canadas Outdoor Farm

Agricultural Show will host the countrys biggest silent Leadership auction as an OAC fundraiser for student Program support Ontario industry and the predictors are similar and

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UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

rese~ tesch SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERYmiddot SCHOLARSHIpmiddot SOCIAL DEVELOPMENTS

WHEN 24 HOURS IN lea rning how to integrate work Runciman arrived at Guelph know they may be harm ful to

A DAY ISNT ENOUGH and fa mily life rath er than jugshy last summer after spending four their health

TRYIN GTO ACCOMMODATE the gling the two says Lero Inteshy years deSIgning orthopedic sysshy Most consumers are not demands of family and career is gration is key so tfut people can tems and instruments for Canashy aware that plants contain a comshya problem most peopl e fa ce in be successful in multiple roles dian and Ameri ca n firms He plex mi xture of biochemica ls todays society Those indi vidshy rath er than struggling from crishy hopes to establish a state-of-theshy says Prof Pra vecn Saxena Plant ual and family struggles will be sis to crisis art research lHboratory with Agriculture Herbal remedies the focus of the Universitys new HOLlsed in the College of Pro fs Jinl Dickey and Jack have been developed on historishy

Social and Applied j-Iuman Scishy Callaghan Human Bi010gy and cal and anecdotal evidence rather ences the centre brings togethshy Nutr itional Sciences that will than by scientitlc testin g he says er related resea rch areas und er allow him to pursue hi s twin Saxena is trying to change this by a sing1e roof and will spark new research interests in shoulder systematically identifying charshy

Family relations interdisc iplinary opportunities and spine mechanics acterizing and quantifying the experts recommend particularly for graduate st ushy The trio has appli ed for chemical constituents of plants parents integrate - not dents More than 50 fac ulty and fundi ng from the Natural Sc ishy used in a1ternative medicines juggle - work and staff ha ve indicated a desire to ences and Engineering Resea rch family life be affiliates of the centre which Co uncil to equip a biomechanshy

wijJ stimulate resea rch and forge ics lab already loca ted adjacent partnerships with organiza tions to U of Gs new Health and Pershy

Centre for Families Work and co rp orations and co mmunity forman ce Ce ntre in the recentshyWell-Being agenCies ly renova ted Powell Building

Headed by Profs Donna This funding would bring Lero and Kerry Daly Family BODY IS THE the lab up to date to meet intershyRe lat ions and Appli ed Nutri shy ULTIMATE MACHINE national standards says Runcishytion the centre will promote IM INTER ESTED in the app lishy man who p1ans to follow up on responsive wo rk env ironments cation of mechanical engineershy pioneering shoulder mechani cs and help families across Canashy ing to the human body The work he was invo lved in whil e He and grad uate students da manage wo rk and family body is the ultimate machine completing his PhD at Sco tshy Susan Murch and Co lleen Simshyresponsibilities in healthy ways So says Prof John Runciman lands Strathclyde Un iversity mons in th e Ontario Agri culshy

The centre will also be a catshy who recently brought his blend He hop es hi s studies will tural Co llege a1so wa nt to alyst for new researcl in areas of academic and industry expershy help orthopedic co mpanies improve the methods of growshyas diverse as health promotion tise in biomedical engineering design better implan ts used to in g medicinal plants to protect seniors long-term ca re nutrishy to U of Gs School of Engineershy correct such deformities as sco shy cons umers and ensure quality tion and wellness rural aging ing in the College of Phys ica l liosis or cur va ture of the spine Problems in the herbal remeshyand gender in the workplace A and Engineering Science and for treating shoulder insta shy dies industry include medicinal mandate of the centre is that the

IN FACT

bi lity often caused by injuries prepara tions containing misidenshyresults of its research must be among athletes tified plant species contaminashyapplied and availabl e to the tion by pests and disease a lack public to benefit those Canadishy RESEARCHERS of understanding of plant physshyans who ne ed help dealing with CULTIVATE QUALITY iology or efficacy for human conshythe accelerated pace of life nonshy IN HERBAL sumption ilnu co nsumer fraud shytraditional family relationsl ips MEDICINE Our research will help set a longer working hOLlrs globlt1lshy MORE AND MO RE Canadims are standard fo r the development ization and downsizing turning to natural remedies as of safe va lue-added products

The challenge for fam ilies is alternatives to medicine but few Saxena says

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RESEARCH UNCOVERS KEY

TO AGING RESEARCHERS may have found modern sc iences answer to th e mythica l Fountain of Youth

U of G professors John Phillips and Arthur Hilliker Department of Molecular Biolshyogy and Genetics and Gabrielle Boulianne of the University of Toronto and th e Hospital fo r Sick Children appear to have identified a critical weakness in the common fruit fl ys defence against aging

The researchers from the College of Biologica l Science di scovered that a specific cell type - th e motor neuron - is the major target for oxidative damage known for several years to be a key factor affecti ng aging and lifespa n They were able to boost a fruit flys defence against the damage by inserting th e human gene SOD1 which is known to protect against oxidashy

tive damage into the fly s DNA As a result the ave ra ge lifespa n of the fli es (us uall y about 80

days) was increased 40 per cent

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More than half of su rvey shelf life because bacte ria develshyresponden ts say they have little op resista nce over time but this or no confidence in Parliament wou ld not be a concern with a with the figure being even lower new sys tem fo r smuggling for the Senate In addition 34 per an tibiotics past bacterial walls

TI-lESE DAYS on both sides of the A molecular-level Trojan border what a politician says or ho rse is how Prof Terry Bevshydoes in private can have tremenshy eridge Department of Microbishydous impact on his or her public ology and graduate student Kelshycareer - but is th at appropriate ly MacDonald desc ribe the

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Health Canada recently li ftshyed a 60-year ban on growing hemp and about 10000 acres are expected to be plan ted in Canada this year Hemp is an organic fibre tha t could be used in everythi ng fro m fabri c and medicine to oil and paper

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Inside Playwright Judith Thompson

BEHIND THE MASK

JUDITH THOMPSON A DRAMA PROFESSOR at the University of Guelph

since 1992 is one of Canadas finest playwrights Her complex and

sometimes disturbing plays give voice to human failings and accomshy

plishments A two-time winner of the Governor Generals Literary

Award she has received wide acclaim for her work

On the following pages the Guelph Alumnus profiles an artist

whose creativity finds expression through dialogue by offering a

faithful rendition of the dialogue between Thompson and Comshy

munications and Public Affairs writer Andrew Vowles Much like

the characters she unmasks on stage Thompson reveals both comshy

plicated and unexpected images of herself

PHOTOGRAPHY BY D EAN PALMER

20 GU ELPH A LUMNUS

NO The scene is the rehearsal space in Lower Massey Hall at the University of Guelph

Monday mid-morning Outside the warped-glass windows the first wet snow of the year

drops like pebbles Drama professor Judith Thompson is leading some 20 students in her

Acting I class through their warm-ups The students stand in a circle and take turns aiming

a mock blow as they shout the word No More she says to the less assertive To others

whose No sounds shredded over the top she holds up a hand More control Thompson

gestures to her diaphragm It has to come from here

SCENE THOMPSONS OFFICE MASSEY H ALL

On one wal l hang pictures of actors engaged

in a drama mingled with childrens sc hool

drawings The desktop is practically bare A

black purse occupies one chai r A scarf has

landed on the back of another This is where

the playw rig ht hangs her hat during her

classes and meets with studen ts She wri tes

at home in Torontos Annex neighbourhood

where she li ves with her husband Gregor

Campbell a sessional English inst ruc tor at

Guelph and their five children Ariane 13

Eli 10 Grace 8 Felicity 4 and Sophia J

SCENE U OF G LI BRARY ARCHIVES

Guelph Alumnus writer (readil1g from draft of Epilepsy and Snakes Fear as the Genesis of Theatre a talk given by Thompson to the Epilepsy Association of Metro Toronto ill 1997 The script for the ta lk is included among boxes ofcorrespo nde11ce numerous drafts of plays various newspaper and magazine artishycles and reviews ahout the playwright and her work that Thompson recently donated to the U of G Library archives)

1have known real fear only a few times

in my relatively sheltered life But 1

believe these moments of fear are

directly connected to the so urce of creshy

ativi ty within me

SCENE J UST ABOUT ANYWHERE YOU CAN

REA D A PLAY

GA writer (reading from introduction to Tho mpsons play Sled wh ich was first pro shyduced hy Torontos Tarragon Theatre in 1997)

Judith Thompson was born in 1954 in

Montreal She graduated from Queens

University in 1976 then graduated from

the act ing program of the National Theshy

22 GU ELPH ALUMNUS

I seem to give voice to people who

have no voice

atre Schoo l in 1979 Alth ough she

worked briefl y as a profess ional actor

she became more interested in writing

and at th e age of 25 a workshop of her

first scrip t The Crack walker was proshy

duced by Theatre Passe MuraiHe Her

work which includes both radio and

tel evisio n writing has enjoyed great

internationa l success

Other plays includ e The Crackshywalker White Biting Dog Pink Tornado - radio Am Yours Lion ill the Streets White Sand Perfect Pie and Stop Talking Like That- radio She is the recipient

of the Floyd S Chalmers Canadian Play

Award for Lion in the Streets in 199 1 and

Am Yours in 1987 and the Governor

Generals Literary Award for Drama for

The Other Side of the Dark in 1989 and

White Biti11g Dog in 1984

S CENE LUNCHTIME

U OF G UNIVERSITY CLUB

Thompson Im so grateful to have this job

beca use it allows me to do the work that s

important and the plays that will be my legashy

cy and tha t are what 1 feel I have to conshy

tribute to Canadian culture If I didnt have

thi s job Id ha ve to keep compromising

because my plays dont make money Theyre

always in sma ller houses I take chances

theyre not commercial They play all over

th e world but aha)s in sma ller places 1

would just have to pursue life as a screenshy

writer to make a living Thi s job gives

me the great privilege of doing my research

which is the plays that I write and the edishy

torial work that I some times do and screenshy

plays that are worthy and good projects

GA writer Audi ences and reviewers have

described your plays as dark disturbing full

of angry people full of profanity

Thompson At the risk of sounding

grandiosel seem to give voice to people who

have no voice or very little in the culture

whom people dont li sten to Liol1 in the Streets the handicapped wo man living in

the basement all on her own the yo ung girl

Iso bel The secretary stuck in this abu sive

relationship with the actor The middle-class

housewife dumped by her husband because

be doesnt like her sweatsuits and on and on

I give voice to them because I dont know

because I care abo ut them because I like to

represent them Im a lawyer Some of them

use profanity because they have really good

reason to be angry a nd most of th em are

powerless And unfortunately profanity has

a little charge Its a little source of baby powshy

er It upsets me I dont use it myself Im very

se nsitive to it

SCENE ARCHIVES

GA writer (reading essay by Thompson comshymissio ned by Toronto literary Journal Brick

in 995)

If I were not a writer 1 think 1 would

wear a riding hat With a stee l lining

Because I would be baving many more

epi leptic seizures than 1 do presentl y

Because any of the non-writer real jobs I have had caused me sleepless nights self-disgust swoll en eyes cystic acne and hearin g di sorde rs all of which increased electrical activity in my brain which I believe increases the frequenshycy of seizu res

SCENE UNI VER SITY CLUB

Thompson (discussing the critical and pubshylic reaction to her first play The Crackwalkshyer) It was slaughtered at first as all my plays have been Very bad reviews at first and then somehow they catch fi re and theres one grea t review and the others start to see something GA writer Why the bad reviews Thompson I think people might say that theyre shock ing but I dont think so not

with the movies we see and whatnot Theyre not shocking compared with Quentin Taranshytino But theyre not like anything else they dont know where to put them And when they dont know where to put them theyre dismayed I think and hostile and they feel challenged I just write as I see Im not tryshying to shock or challenge anyone I hope they do challenge - me too all of us I often feel li ke the little boy in The Emperors New

Clothes Look this is what I see

SCENE LOWER MASSEY HALL

Two Acting I students perform a scene on th e stage Their fellow stud ents sit on th e Aoo r watching Thompson sits forward on a plasti c chair forearms propped on her knees hands clasped before her Her eyes her bod y are intent on the action Later Amberley Buxton (fi rst-year student il1 Actshyil1g I who is pursuing a psychology major and a drama minor)

Its a really in tense class In one of our first classes we were to share something that had changed our perspective on li fe or how we thought every day Later during improvisashytion or scene work she had us draw on the emotional context fro m those stories to add to our acting experiences Its really intense in that way A lot of people share a lot of personal things and we use each others experiences

SCENE UNIVER SIT Y CLUll

Thompson Ea ch se meste r students go through an intensive transition In order to find your creative centre or trigger yo u need

to know yourself in an intell ectual context They reach that pl ace and find their genius My philosophy is that every stu dent has genius and its my job to uncover it My relationshi p is so intense with st udents The classes are very psychoanalyt ic It seems to tra nsform their life

SCENE LO WER MA SSEY

Buxton Even if we haven t encountered a similar situat ion in real life she has us draw on somethi ng similar For ollr exa m Im doing a monologue My character has been abused I havent been abused myself but I have to draw on a si tuation where I had sim shy

itar feel ings draw on some experi ence Like being teased at schoo l Even so mething as small as tha t if you find a way to get back to that

SCENE UNIVERSITY CLUll

Thompso n I llsed to be terrified In high school Id spend half my time in the nurses room because the idea of having a se izu re in front of yo ur peers at that age was just petrifying I did finall y have a seizure but luckil y no one was around at the time So I

think all of that puts me in touch with a lot in life I might not have been in touch with being fairly privileged not rich but eno ugh to be middle class A lot of my work is about class abo ut the class differentiation in Canashyda Ive somehow felt more all ied to a less adva ntaged class My gra ndfather once sat as prime minister of Australia My grandshyfa ther on the other side was a member of the Royal Society an entomologist but his mother died in childbirth and he was brought up as a cousin on the farm outside of London And my Australian grandfath er was one of 1I siblings in a shack by the side of the railroad His father had di ed He walked barefoot to school so I th ink because its just two generations away I feel it in my bones and my blood GA writer How did you get to writing Thompson Through ac ting Ive been involved in thea tre since I was II years old I was Helen Keller for a university show my mother directed She had an [vIA in th eatre and she taught it at Queens I was in TILe Crushycible when I was 12 in Kingston and Jean Brodie and on and on and on I would just lisshyten to aU these wonderful lines and words and it all kind of enrered me And acting is where I reaU y found my niche as a person The theshyatre became my home Then I went to theatre schoo l as an actress but I started to create mask characters through improvisation Thats where I really took off in a big way and where I found myse lf very very excited GA writer VVhat we re you excited abo ut Thompson I was doing the writing And I felt frankly that I did it much better than most of the texts I was working with Not Shakespeare but and its not a matter of better it s thats where I belonged So I would go home and write down the charshyacters that r crea ted that day in class and make th em talk to each odler and thats how The Craekwalker happened

I spent a summer in Toronto looking for acting work and I go t a few jobs But every day for a co uple of hours I would write at a typewri ter and I found these voices comshying At the end of it I sa id to someone You know I think this isnt bad I think this might eve n be a play At the Na tional Theatre shySchool they said to me Youre pretty handy with these monologues but dont ever think you could write a play (Pause) I enjoy telling th at tale on them

WINTER 1999 23

SCENE LOWER MASSEY

Buxton It was my fint time doing mask work She had us sit with the masks on and just sta re at ou rselves in the mirror We did it for an hour staring at the mask feelin g the mask It was a phenomenal eilVer ience the Wily youre able to transform yourself It was almost as if you werent look ing at you That helped yo u to walk differently You were able to shed your

own movements and personality

SCEN E UNIVfRSITY CLU B

Thompson I think thil t seizures can transshylate into creativity are part of me as a cre shyltltive artist Peop le in the medical busin ess are very skeptical of ltll1ything like this But I fee l it s because I have fewer inhibitors in my bra in You have these inhibitors and thats what medication helps But if youre epi leptic your inhibitors Ment working as well to put out the electrical fire so it spreads I think the door to my un conscious is kind of flapping around so J think that helps creatively

SCENE MA SSEY HALL

Student (steppingforwmd) NO I Thompson (quietly) Good

SCENE ARCHIVES

GA writer ( reading fiom Epilepsy and Sna kes)

I have no doubt that my experience with epi lepsy has con tributed to my creative wo rk partly because it hE Jped me to understand what it is to be marginalized to be isolated to be feJ rful and to be out of control and eve n to be mortal

SCENE U NIVERS IT Y CLU B

Thompson Unchecked id can mean scrawlshying on the walls crazy things muttering in stree t corne rs beca use th ey re all id no su perego But I had the luck to be born into a theatrical famiJy my mother havin g the theatrical experience so I was exposed to it Lots of books I was taken to 1 lor of plays Having ep il epsy my first seizure when I was nin e J was able to link with that If I hadnt had those advantages who knows the se izur es migh t have ju st made me a depressed person an angr y person And you re touched with mortality you always live und er siege a slight fear of having a se izure Its much less so now with me

24 GUELPH ALUM NUS

SCENE UNIVERSITY CLUB

Thompson Ive always been a mimic in a cheap way I could always mimic we ll I would raLk to someone on a bus and I could do them exactly Thats kind of dangerous because it can be pretty shallow But it showed me ltl way into the person throu gh voice And once J could do that like a pupshypet something would click and I cou ld get

in in a deeper way J need to get so thoroughly into the charshy

acte rs and their state of mind and especialshyly tapping repressed el11orion which gets you in touch with your id or unconscious li fe If

I take little sections of

myself and grow them in a petri dish of the play

one character is about rage I have to tap into my own rage and that s why the monoshylogues so things can just flow and then I can retrieve things from the past and remember things So its not working from here (gesshytures to midriff) it s wo rking fro l11 here (gesshytures to head)

Mo nologues for me are always the key to findin g out who th e character is because if you cant make them rant for fi ve minutes you dont know th em Tha ts what I tell my

playwriting students I want to see r-wo pages of this characters mouth In other words to speak for five minutes we have to have

so mething to say We have to have something we feel passionately about something were angry about and if we dont have something to say for fi ve minutes who are we

SCENE UN IVERSTTY CLUB

GA writer Vhere do you see what eventushyally becomes a play such as Sled 1110mpson I was at a lodge and saw a moose that s one thin g And that made me think about winter and how the country is always with us as Ca nadians Even in the urban censhytres we ca rr y it wi th us Theres always this

see ming division between the country the wilderness and civilized centres but its the same The wildness of the moose and the

hunt and the bear is in our neighbourhoods I guess its like Lion in the Streets it must be a thing with me And also the exquisite beaushyty and thats how most of the world thinks of Canada as the wilderness Its not quite how we think of ourselves but it is partly So that made me want to do something abo ut the Nor th violence in the North

As far as th e old mans stories that was my neighbour and he told me all those stoshyries they were all true except mltlyb e one or so and I thought Theyre amazing They teilus what our neighbourhoods Me really about and Toro nto what the city is how its const ru cted Toronto is our stories and in th ese neighbourhoods you have an urbane entertainer li ving nex t to an 80-year-old Italia n man and thats the beauty ofToronshyto ltllld its the way th e world is chan ging The stric t class divis ions and culture divishysions th eyre no longer as defin ed as they we re espec ially in th ese neighbourhoods the great pioneering experimen t GA writer Do your chi ld ren see your work Thompson No None of my children can see my plays Ariane saw f Am Yours in New York when she was about nin e I do cl eal with the dark and whats tru e and my chilshydren aren t ready for that Im probab ly more protective th an mos t mothers Walk them

to school till theyre 13 that ki nd of thin g GA writer Yo u we re intervi ewed in the Globe alld Mail recently in a story about motherh ood dnd th e muse How do yo u handle th e demand s of motherh ood and writing

Thompson If Im in the situation where I have 15 or so hours of child care a week Im OK because when Im with them I wa nt to be with them and when ]m doing my work

th ats what I clo But if I do something like a worko ut thell a black cloud descends The guilt and the black cl oud th at descend as I take off on my bike it s huge Then once the workout s finished I know it was d good

thing to do although it s also cut into my

work time J do feel guilty about the nilture of my work too in that my kids cant see it Am I drawing on a part of me thats not good as a mother The oth er part of me is th at I make up bedtime stories and bake coo kies and all thlt stuff ]m probably a

rather operatic mother I cry at movies laugh too hard __

SCENE ARCI-I[VES

GA writer (reading fiom Epilepsy and Snakes)

1

Although being a dramatic writer has

given me a reputation in my cou ntr y

and a strong identity the actof writin g

or creating character leaves me SOJlle shy

times feeling that I have no id entity at

all Every once in a while when I am not

writing or tending to my four children

I feel I 1m falling again down th e terrishy1 ble hole with nothing to hold on to

And I believe this falling this identity

pain is a result of me using the very

essence of Ill yself to create character in

a dramatic wo rk r wonder so metimes

if J illl1 betraying my soul in a way by

using its essence However J have found

some comfo rt in the words ofWilliall1

Blake Essence is not Identity but from

Essence proceeds Identity and from one

Essence may proceed many Identities

as from one Affection Jlla y proceed

many thoughts If the Essence was

the sa me as the Identit y there could be

but one Identity which is fal se Heaven

wo uld upon this plan be but a clock

but one and the sa me Essence is th ereshy

fore Essence and not Identity

SCENE UNIVER SIT Y CLUB

Thompson I always put myself in a play and

never In other words I take little sections of

myself and grow them in a petri dish of th e

play So if Ive found a moment where Im a

bit lazy ]11 grow it and milke the character

very lazy o r impatient or whatever So I take

these moments because we all have all of

them grow th em and create this Frankenshy

steins monste r a character right out of parts

body parts and psychological parts often of

myself and then observe things in other peoshy

ple but I have to find it in myself to make it

work

SCENE AR C H1V ES

GA writer (reading from Epilepsy al1d Snakes)

My self asserted itself as a kind of quishy

et Lucille Ball c1ulllsy and absent-mindshy

ed At least this gave me an identity and

was a small aCI of slbo tage The next

assertion was an act of unconscio us rev shy

olution th e grand mal seizure that

almost killed me And the next one was

The Crackwalker my first play And this

is how I raged against the machine and

took space in the world And now not

surprisin gly I am seizure-free

SCENE LOWER MASSEY

After another pair of acto rs rUllS through

their scene Thompson directs them to begi n

again She interrupts frequently to question

the students about actions feelings motishy

vations At one point 8S the students pause

to consider her words Thompson turns to

the rest of the class erect in her cha ir

Thompson Isolate the mom ent The great

thing about the stage is th at it isolates the

moments that just race by us_

SCENE UNIVERSITY CLUB

Thompson Ive just written my next play

which is not ca lled Pefeet Pie but thats its

working title because it came from a mon oshy

logue called Perfect Pie But now its a full

two- haul play in which the second wom3n

comes back and tben I have them as yo ung

girls too It goes back ~nd forth and its very

exciting I worksbopped it in the spring and

in December at tbe Tarragon and it will go

on in o ne year At the sa me time lm wr itshy

ing a feature film for Rho mbus based on the

play Pe feet Pie

SCEN E UNlV ERSITY CLUIl

Thompson My pIalS are Illusically written

And if somebody doesnt get the music they

dont feel it and go with the rhythm s it

throws the whole thing off I hear the plays

I hea r them I write with my ear They

change 1 lo t but it s according to rhythm

I ll be sitting in rehea rsal listening and if it

does nt so und ri ght I change it so that its

rhythmic

SCIi -JE J UST AllOUT ANYWHERE YOU CA N

READ A PLAY

GA writer (readmg ji-olll the script ofvVbite

Biting Dog first produced at the Tarragon Th eatre in 1984)

Beciluse of the ex treme and deliberate

lllu sica lity of this play any allempts to

go aga inst the tex tual rhythms such as

th e breaking up of an unbroken senshy

tence the tlking of a pause where none

is written in are DISASTROUS The

effect is like beil1g in a small plane and

suddenly turning off the ignition It all

falls down This play III list SPIN not

just turn around

SCfN e LOWER MASSEY

Her students listen as Thompson stands to

complete a so liloq uy abo ut cap turing the

rhythm of the language on the stage The

wide sleeves of her ank le-length dress slide

down her forea rm s as she ges tures

Thompson Listen to the music of the

scene Each playwright writes their own

symphony

SCENE U NIVERSlTY CLUB

Thompson Ive been pretty directed to this

ii-om an carly age although if I had done anyshy

thing else it probab ly wou ld have been some

form of social work I would have been smokshy

ing three packs of cigarettes a day and workshy

ing il1 an office somewhere up in Scarborough

SC EN E AfltCHIVES

GA write r (reading from Brick interview of Thompson by Eleanor Wachtel ]99] )

In th e thea tre I think what one mllst

do is co nfront the truth confront the

emot ional truth of our li ves which is

mired in the swamp of minuriae

everyday minutiae Maybe it has to be -tl111 way because we couldnt confront

it every day But I think the th eatre

IllllSt Im not interested ill th eatre that

doesnt ga

W1NTER 1999 25

Never mind fish wars pitting countries against one another - here in Canada scientists and policy makers cant agree on who should control the preservation and management ofour own fishery resources BY ANDREW VOWLES

Ca

as

ollapsed cod stocks to the east

On the West Coast laquofish wars

_ rlTDT Pacific salmon enmesh

Canada and the United States

At various points in between fisheries scishy

entists and managers grapple with everyshy

thing from overfishing of freshwater

stocks to invasion by exotic molluscs

What is to be done about Canadian fishshy

eries And what role is being p layed by

fisheries and aquatic scientists at the Unishy

versity of Guelph

-

dock pollock red fish and flatfish made up just under half of Canadas total landings on the Atlantic coast (720000 tonnes of fish and shellfish were caught in 1994 represhysenting a total landed value of $11 billion) Two year~ later that proportion had dropped to 21 per cent with shellfish and open ocean fish specie~ notably Atlantic

Begin in the Atlantic The crisis on the East Coast has become a disaster So says laquoWE NEED TO TRY TO SEPARATE OUTGuelph zo ology professor John Roff enushymerating the litany of woes that have surshy

THE FISHERIES MANAGEMENT DECISIONSfaced from Ca nadas marine fishery in the past decade Although some fish and shellshy

FROM THE POLITICAL DECISIONSfi sh are holding their own stocks of other species have experienced declines raquo

ASSOCIATED WITH THE FISHE RY

down that fishery in 1992 Over fishing and under which it has been buying up fishers

Even when stocks do rebound rarely do we fully und erstand why he says Theres a complex of problems to be disshy more for cod stocks to rebound says Roff entangled involving overflshing long- and co-editor with colleague Prof Moira Fergushyshort-term climate change and changes in son of the respected Canadian Journal ofFishshyocean current systems and productivity eries and Aquatic Sciences A wise course of

And of course the once-thriving northshy action for a fisherman in Newfoundland ern cod that first drew Europeans with their would be to seU his licence and do something nets to the Grand Banks 500 years ago have else he says (Last fall the federal governshycoUapsed to the point that Ottawa had to shut ment announced its final retirement program

the failure of federal fisheries managers to heed the warnings of scientists have been blamed for the coUapse Even with the lllorashytoriulll in place it may take two decades or

licences in Atlantic Ca nada and Quebec) In 1992 - the year Ottawa imposed its

moratorium on the northern cod fisheryshylandings of groundfish including cod had-

salmon making up the difference [n 1995 the total groLlndfish catch reached its lowshyest level in two decades

Unlike the Ea st Coast fi shery which relies most ly on ocea n-living fish the Pacifshyic fishery is dominated b) migratory species Some 300000 tonnes of fish and shellfish were harvested along the west coast in 1994 worth a landed value of $550 million (Arcshytic marine fisheries and their management differ from those on the coasts although cOl11mercial and recreational fisheri es are small here food fisheries are important to

U OF G AQUATIC SCIENCES EXPERTISE CATCHES WORLD ATTENTION

Landlocked in the middle of the courltry U ofG nevertheless boasts fish pathology and diseases including farmed fish diseases fish an enviable record and range ofexpertise in aquatic sciencesshy hormones and reproductive physiology including the effects of marine and freshwater - dating back to the late 1960s Thats when environmental contaminants early life history and behaviour Prof Keith Ronald thell chair of the Department ofZoology (and of fi shes and biology of tuna later dean of the College ofBiological Science) began a marine biolshyogy program at the University Today Guelph has the largest Partnered with the A-erod Institute of Ichthyology in U of group of ichthyologists - scientists who study fish - in Gs Aquatic Sciences Facility the r[agen Aqualab is an North America investigating a wide variety ojIre~hshy aquatic research and teaching facililY for studying water alld marine fisheries and aquatics topics aquatic organisms Environmentally controlled

rooms in the Aqualab allow faculty and students to U of Gs Axelrod Institute of Ichthyology houses simulate habitats as diverse as the Arctic Ocean and one of the worlds largest collections of museumshy tropical rainforest pools The facility is named for quality fish fossils donated to the University by its principal benefactor Rolf Hagen founding presshy

ident of Canadas largest pet store 5llpplier J 989 The institute which provides space for fisheries research and visiting scientists brings together 12 core U of G U of G faculty edit four internationally recognized journals researchers in fisheries and aquatic sciences whose interests and in ichthyology fisheries and aquatic science Awarded to U of G by expertise span environmental contaminants and parasitic disshy the National Research Council in 1997 the Canadian Journal of eases evolutionary genetics of marine and freshwater fishes Fisheries al1dAquatic Sciellces is co-edited by zoology professors

US ichthyologist and author Herbert Axelrod in

28 GUELPH ALUMNUS

northerners including shrimp Atlantic salmon and arctic char) Accountin g fOI almost half of that total were Pacific salmon which ret urn from the ocean to spawn in home streams and rivers up and down the coast of Alaska British Columbia and Washshyington There are actually five main spec ies of sa lmon that run down the BC coast shysockeye (t he most va luable commercial species) chinook coho chum and pinkshyfrom spring to December

Its a very complex jurisdictional and multi-user problem says Roff Bes ides degradation of freshwater spawning habishytats and ocean climate effects of El Nill0 the West Coast fishery is a cauldron of ten shysions between various groups perennial fish wars between Ca nada and the United States disputes that pit sport fishers against native fishing rights Recognizing the problems of low ocean productivity habitat damage overfishing and indiscriminate fishing pracshytices that take weak and strong stocks alike Ottawa is developing a new policy to guide Canadas Pacific salmon fisheries focusing on conservation sustainable use and improved decision-making

That potent mix of overfishing and habishytat degrada tion is also a problem for Canashydas freshwater fisheries A report tabled last fall by the federal standing committee on

fisheries and oceans called for more federal funding for research and fisheries programs in central and arctic regions of Canada Accord ing to that report the Grea t Lakes commercial fishery is one of the largest freshwater fisheri es in the world worth an average landed value of more than $40 milshylion a year and an eco nomic impact of at least $250 million Some 90 per cent of that catch is exported The neck lace of lakes threading its way to the St Lawrence River also supports the largest fres hwater sports fishery in the world 800000 Ontarians fish on the Great Lakes eve ry year contributing $850 million to the economy

In Manitoba managers are concerned about the long-term susta inability of freshshywater fish stocks particularly declines in Lake Winnipeg and the northern part of the province caused by overfishing environshymental degradation loss of prime spawning habitat and predators The province has seen stocks rise and fall particularly of pickerel Manitobas highest-priced fish In an attempt to manage the fishery in a sustained fashion the province recently introduced a qu ota entitlement system for anglers Joe OConshynor director of the fisheries branch of Manshyitobas Department of Na tural Resources says his department is wrestling with the environmental threats on fish habitat posed

by farming and hydroelectric development In Ontario fisheries are genera lly in

pretty good shape says Evan Thomas fishshyeries section manager of the fish and wildlife branch of the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (OM NR) Ontario supports almost half of all recreational fishing in Canada with more than two million adult anglers and more than $2 billion a year spent on recreational fishing in the province Onta ri o is also home to Canadas larges t commercial freshwater fishery worth abo ut $40 million a Yfar in land ed value

Thomas says over fishing is still the numshyber one problem Others include habitat loss the potential effects of climate change and contin ued invasion by exotic species Among the management opt ions his minshyistry is exploring are more effective fisheries regulation more rapid inventory and assessshyment techniques fish culture for rehabilishytating populations and controlling nutrient inputs into lakes and rivers

We are clearly looking for federal supshyport for the sea lamprey control program he says referring to recommendations in the recent federal fisheries committee report as well as changes to the federal Fishshyeries Act to hand the province more authorshyity over fish habitat protection

Concerns continue in Ontario over

Moira Ferguson and John Roff Fish Physiology and Biochemistry the top-ranked journal in its field is edited by Prof John Leathershyland chair of the Department of Biomedical Sciences in the Ontario Veterinary College University professor emeritus Eugene Balon has served as editor-in-chief of Environmental Biology ofFishes since he founded the publication in 1976 Zoology professor David Noakes edits Guelph Ichthyology Reviews whose articles synthesize and review all aspects of fish science Both of the latter

Under the Canadian contribution to the project - furided by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council - about 80 federal government and university researchers are trying to learn more about how bioshylogical and physical processes in the oceans affect fish stocks

Zoologychair Prof Paul Hebert has led a Guelph initiative to develshyop multimedia learning resources d1at teach student~ from

are published in the Axelrod Institute of Ichthyology

Based on data from geographic information sysshytems zoology professor John Roff has mapped types of habitat associated with various species of fish and other organisms around Canadas coasts and throughout tl1C Great Lakes the first time such

e1ementaIy grades to university about Canadas aquatshyic environments His department has developed a series of CD-ROMs that provide information on all the major animal groups in the Great Lakes Already available are educational CD-ROMs on Canadas aquatic environments (also available on

d1e World Wide Web) Great Lakes biodiversity and a marine classification system has been developed in this country His report was commissioned by World Wildlife Fund Canada for its Endangered Spaces Campaign and contributes to RoWs work as chair of the scienrillc committee of Globec (Globshyal Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics) a two-year-old international research program intended to better understand ocean ecosystems

birds of the Great Lakes The latter is the first disc in a series called the Great Lakes Faunal Atlas which will eventually cover mammals amphibians reptiles fish and crustaceans

The Alma Aquaculture Research Station es tablished in 1989 and funded through a 20-year development grant by the Ontario

WI NTER 1999 29

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various invas ive species that have turned up

in the Great Lakes - notably sea lampreys

zebra mussels and quagga mussels - many

of which arrive in ballast water of ocea nshy

going vessels (Many have also found their

way into Manitoba says OConnor who

points to the effects of sm elt on whitefish

the main commercial species in Lake Winshy

nipeg) Among o ther meas ures the federal

fish eries committee report called for guarshy

anteed funding for sea lamprey control and

for scienti fic research

I think more money will come says

Prof Bill Beamish Zoology a commissionshy

er on the Great Lakes Fisheries Commission

the 40-year-old governing body that co-ordishy

nates resea rch programs between Canada

and the United States and advises both govshy

ernments It was a review led by Beamish

more than a decade ago on the sta te of

Canadas freshwater fi sheries that provided

the scientific underpinnings for a landmark

report published in 1988 that spelled ou t a

way in freshwater fisheries is a lon g-te rm

project fund ed by the OMNR and the

Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO)

to re-establish native species in their origishy

nal habitats a round Lake Ontario iVlari e

Clement a graduate student of zoology proshy

fe sso r David Noakes is studying Atlantic

sa lmo n which was wiped out of the lake

CONSIDERING WE HAVE THE

BEST FISHERY SCIENCES COMMUNITY

IN THE WORLD WE OUGHT TO

BE DOING BETTER

national strategy for freshwater fisheries

Beamish who has studied sea lampreys

for several decades at Guelph and also invesshy

tigates fish habitat loss says money is need shy

ed to help researchers investigate biological

controls as an alternative to chemical lamshy

pricides The recen t repo rt also notes the

need to address the effects of other nonshy

native exotic species on n ative fish stocks

and water quality and calls on Ottawa to

stem the funding decline in freshwater scishy

ence over the last two decades

One example of the kind of work under

and its tribu ta ry streams near the beginning

o f this century by overflshing and habitat

destruction and alteration Last fall Clement

placed eggs into a site in the Credit River

she has been monito ring oxygen availab il shy

ity durin g their incu ba tion to gau ge sedishy

mentation rates in the river This spring and

summer she wili study how newborn fi sh

interact with other species in th e r ive r

C lement says her docto ral research proshy

ject is but one piece of a larger project aimed

at re-establishing the heritage species Othshy

er researchers hop e to learn whe ther th e

Ministry of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs brings together

researchers for interdisciplinary studies of protein requirements

of arctic char improving fish semen and egg management proshy

cedures and understanding hormone activity in fish The station

acts as a quarantine unit for new fish varieties entering Ontario

and serves as a base for parts of certificate courses and a masters

program in aquaculture

farms in Canada He and fellow Guelph zoologists Eugene Balon

(co- founder of the Coelaca nth Conservat ion Council) and Jim

Bogart also identified and characterized the coelacanth which

had been thought extinct until a specimen was landed off Africa

in the la te 1930s Noakes confirmed the identity of ano ther of

these living fossils discovered in 1997 it appears to belong to a

second popula tion living in the Indian Ocean about 10000 kilo-

metres away from tha t first find

Zoology professors Moira Ferguson and Roy Danzshy

mann use molecular genetics techniques to identishy Zoology chair Paul Hebert was the first scientist to

fy DNA markers used to pinpoint the location of identify the presence in the Great Lakes of zebra

genes associated with growth spawning times mussels a prolific invader that has wreaked havoc

rates of development maturity and temperature in many ways from clogging water-intake pipes to

tolerance in rainbow trout Isolating and identifyshy consuming plankto n thus allowing light to reach

ing genetic markers fo r desirable traits will help fish bottom-dwelling organisms that may displace native

farmers and breeders cross-breed more effectively species The first researcher to report on the biology

conservationists will be better able to manage and preserve and impact of the zebra mussel on the Grea t Lakes was

genetic variability among wild fish stocks Guelph zoology professor Gerald Mackie whose studies showed

that the organisms faster growth rate and higher fecundity and

Zoology professor David Noakes has stuclied varieties of arctic population density will probably enable it to displace many native

char native to Iceland to find ones suited to being raised on fish bivalves and disrupt entire lake ecosystems

30 GUELPH ALUMNUS

LEADING RESEARCH

The University of Guelph has one orthe largest and most active groups of aquatic biologists in the world

bull More than 50 faculty and 100

graduate students research

assocrates and postdoctoral

fellows

bull Over 1000 published scientific

articles books monographs

films and videos in the past

decade

bull Interdisciplinary programs

involving more than a dozen

academic departments

bull The largest group ofichthyoloshy

gists (scientists who study

fish) in North America

bull Collaborative research with

government environrriental

organizations and academic

institutions worldwide

bull Expertise covering the entire

aquatic food chain from plankshy

ton to whales

bull Leading developments in comshy

puter-based educational mate-

rials in aquatic sciences

bull A new $6-million Aquatic

Sciences Facility

bull Research support from national

and international agencies

business and industry

adults will be able to return from the open

lake to their stream spawning grounds If

they come back will the eggs survive she

says If were able to show the eggs can surshy

vive that will be very encouraging for

Atlant ic salmon restoration

What is to be done to ensure the survival

not just of Atlantic salmon in Lake Ontario

but also of the co untrys freshwater and

m ar ine fisheries We need to try to sepashy

rate o ut the fisheries management decisions

from the political decisions associated with

the fi shery says zoology professor Glen Van

Der Kraak director of U of Gs Axelrod

Institute of Ichthyology Van Der Kraak who

studies the effects of toxic contaminants on

fi sh populations says policy mltkers need

to rely on the advice of fisheries sc ientis ts

making conservative harvest ing estimates

So often scientists make decisions and then

are overrun by the politics he says (Never

mind fish wars pitting co untries against one

another - here in Ca nada scientists and

policy makers wres tle over the question of

who should be respo nsible for what aspects

of the countrys fisheries as witnessed in a

war of words played out in the Canadian Journal ofFisheries and Aquatic Sciences over

the past 18 months between biologists at

several Canadian univers ities and the DFO

over the relationship between fishery sc ishy

ence and fishery policy)

Roff says theres nothing unique about

Canadas fish problems Its not really a

Canadian problem its a worldwide probshy

lem The only fisheries worldwide that are

not over fished appear to be some not yet

fully exploited in the Indian Ocean

After nearly four decades of growth the

worldwide marine ca tch levelled off in the

1990s to some 90 million tons a year The

m ain problems coastal pollution habitat

destruction and particula rly overfishing

Noakes editor of the journal Guelph Ichthyology Reviews contrasts the few hunshy

dred people who might have made th eir

livelihood aboard small wood en boats on

the Grand Banks several centuries ago with

the massive factory trawlers that now scour

todays coast People are much too efficient

in terms of catching fish he says Noakes

concurs with fellow Guelph researchers that

conservation of fish stocks has to reach the

top of fishery managers agendas

hat does set Canada apart is the breadth

and depth of expertise in fisheries and aquatshy

ic sciences in this country - rather a parashy

dox when you consider that Canadas record

in fisheries preservation is apparently no betshy

ter than that of many other nations

Considering we have the best fishery scishy

ences community in the world we ought to

be doing better says Roff Within the last

decade th e federal government withdrawal

o f support from the Department of Fishshy

eries and Oceans and university researchers

has been massive At the very time when the

resources were gett ing into severe problems

and when the federal government ought to

have been funding research theyve been

substantially withdrawing resources ga

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WINTER 1999 31

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

n ALUMNI PROF IL E

LETS LOOK AT THE OPPORTUNITIES

WHEN I-IE BECA ME president of the Unishy

versity of Guelph Alumni Association

(UGM) in June Jim Weeden brought new

enthusiasm and ideas for encouraging alumshy

ni to stay in volved with their alma mater

And he wants to start with students

Weeden reca ll s his own ex perience at

U of G where he fo und a sense of commushy

nity by living in residence and ge tting

involved in college activiti es But when he

graduated with an engin ee ring degree in

197 1 he left to begin a caree r and says he

didnt think much about the University until

he needed it again in the 1980s to pursue a

graduate degree in agricultural enginee ring

He spent his early career working as an

agricultural extensi o n engineer for the

Ontario Department o f Agriculture and is

stiU with its successo r the Ontario Ministry

of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs

(OMAFRA) Weed en completed the masshy

ters degree in 1986 when he was head of the

agricultural engineering program and extenshy

sion services a t Centralia College of Ag rishy

cultural Technology

In 1987 he moved to the ministrys plant

industry branch as program m anager and

later held the same position in th e resources

manage m ent branch Sin ce then he has

worked for OMAFRA in Woodstock and

now Stratfo rd He is technical adviser fo r

Ontarios Enviro nmental Farm Planning

Program is respo nsible for o ther environshy

m ental programs and consults with the Minshy

istry o f th e Environment on local agriculshy

tural pollution problems

w Weed en got involved with the Universishy sect tys a]u111ni programs by serving on the first g z board of the Engineering Alumni Associashy

~ tion when it was established in 1990 From

~ 1991 to 1994 he sat on the University Senshy

~ ate and its Research Board and for the pas t

~ four years) hels been on the UGAA executive

32 GUELPH A LU MNUS

From the presidents chair Weeden looks

at the bro ad picture o f UG AA se rvice and

recognizes that the associa tio n owes a debt

o f gratitude to hundreds of alumni volunshy

teers who ha ve helped to build the organishy

za tion over the yea rs and to University staff

in Development and Public Affairs (DampPA)

who support UGAA initiatives and alumni

programs Thro ugh their efforts he says the

a lulllni associati o n is rea ching out to all

U of G alumni Graduates who have mainshy

tained a close relationship with the Univershy

sity thro ugh their college or academic disshy

cipline those who feel an affiliation because

o f their participation in a thletics residence

life o r extracurricular activiti es and even

HIGHLIGHTSmiddot GRAD NEWSmiddot OBITUARIES bull CALENDER

those who have not kept in touch are part of the constituency served by UGAA

Weed en says the alumni association needs to strengthen its relationship with all alumni and he believes the effor t must start on campus with students Hed like to proshymote the idea of alumni involvement as ear shyly as a students second year We need to give students some reason to be con nected and an efficient vehicle for maintaining that connection he says

For many students and new graduates the social functions supported by UGAA and the opportunities for professional networking will be important says Weeden but greater rewards are there for those who join the effort to enhance the Universitys acade mic goals

In todays economic and political envi shyronme nt individual financial support and the advocacy of post-secon dary education are important roles for alumni he says How many people ac tively get involved with the debate on whether universities are job-trainshy

ing centres or centres of education Yet some of our alumni are extremely adept in such roles Weeden would like to cultivate past and current stud ent ac tivists as supporters of public education after they graduate

As Weeden leads UGAA into a new year he says he will work with other UGAA volshyunteers and DampPA staff to find new ways for the association to interact with students and alumni One id ea is to expand UGAAs Intershynet presence by adding a Web message board that will encourage alumni to discuss career and campus issues online and a reply form that will allow them to quickly update addressshyes employment status and other information

Weeden says its important to stay focused on UGAAs key prioriti es but he welcomes any and all new ideas on how to accomplish them All it takes to share your ideas with the UGAA executive is a stamp or a push of the send button when youre clicked on alumniuoguelphca

HKHB SPIRIT RISES

ENCOURAGED BY THE SPIRIT

shown by fellow alumni at last

summers reunion the executive

of the Human Kinetics Human Biology

Alumni Association is moving ahead

with more opportunities for alumni to

stay in touch The association plans to

launch a Web site that will be accessed

through the U of G site

A wine-and-cheese reception already

planned for June 19 1999 wiil try to

build on the success of the 1998 event

which attracted alumni from as far away

as Chicago and as far apart as the 19605

and 1990s Guests had a chance to tour

U of Gs new Health and Performance

Centre and performance testing

labs The program was co-ordinated wiLh

A REFLECTION OF PRIDE

Members of the OAC

Class of 52 join Arboshy

retum staff on the front patio

of the Arboretu m Centre

beside a new reflecting pool

that was built last summer

as a class project Pictured

from left are Murray Parker

Ann Smith George Smith

Jack Sargent Catherine Gibb

Robin Shaw-Rummington

Marilyn Swaby BA 69

Bev Healy B5e(Agr) 72

Norm Watson Una Venerus

Ron Costen Henry Kock

BSe (Agr) 77 and Ric

Jordan BA 75

Prof Jack Barclay chair of the Departshy

ment of Human Biology and Nutritional

Sciences and Prof Susan Pfeiffer Memshy

bers of the Human KineticsHuman

Biology Alumni Association executive arc

Janet Leonhard 82 president Carolyn

Moore 83 vice-president Alison Locker

97 secretary Mark Mulholland 79

lreasurer and t-iary Ann Crape 76

These officers are also spea rheading a

new initiative to benefit students - an

undergraduate award that will provide

$250 and lifetime mem bership in the

association To commcnt on these and

other initiatives contact Leonard by

e-mail at Janel_Leonhardinwrbsb

eduonca or Moore at cturveyagec

uoguelphca

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alumni

Multimedia lab buzzes

THE DONALD FORSTER RoOiv

has become one of the

busiest spots in th e Unishy

versity of Guelph Liblary since the

addition of 70 state-of-the-art

computer workstations that were

supported by alumni do nations

to the Alma Mater Fund (AM F)

U of G president Mordechai

Roza nski officia ll y o pened th e

Alma Mater Fund Multimedia

Lab D ec 2 an d celebrated th e

event with members of the AMF

Adv isory Counc iL [n 1996 a nd

1997 the AMF contributed

$240000 to th e project which

increased the number of student

workstations o n campus by 50 per

cent Students use the m ult imeshy

~ dia lab to conduct research on the

~ Internet access scholarly publicashyr u VI tions on CD-ROM and use COll1shyz ~ puter software mod ules tbat lt

~ strengthen the teaching provided lD

o in co urse lectures labs and tcxtshybii books

middotMatters

Alumnus of many interests

I NTERES TING P EOPLE always have eclect ic interests and U of G

alumnus and honorary degree recipient Ken Murray BSA 50 and

HDLA 96 is a good example H e is known by most people on camshy

pus for his distinguished career in the Canadian meat packing indusshy

try and his volunteer service to U of G He was a member and chair

of Board of Governors from 1973 to 1978 and chair of the Regionshy

al Corporate Committee during U of Gs last capital campaign and

is currently chair of the Heritage Fund Enhancement Committee

Murray is also a strong supporter of community soc ial services

In August he addressed the World Congress of Social Ps)chiatry

held in British Columbia - the only non-psychiatrist on the proshy

gram He spoke about his role in establishing an Alzheimers research

project a t the University ofWaterioo which was recently named in

his honour the Ken Murray Alzheimer Research and Education Proshy

gra m At the gc conference he al so participated in a panel dis shy

cussion that outlined services offered by Guelphs Homewood Health

Cent re Murray bas been actively involved in the governance of the

centre since 1977 and has been a major player in the development

of a charitable foundatio n bearing the Homewood name

WHEN THE PUCK DROPPED More than 30 teams including two

womens teams were entered in the

Dec 6 University of Guelph Alumni Hockey

Tournament Organizers for the 1998 event

were from left Brian Finniss B5c 88

Brad Stephenson BA 86 Terry Carr

BComm 87 Todd Bryant BA 86 and

undergraduate student Brian Melnick

Ken Murray centre with his wife Marilyn Robinson Murray and U of G president Mordechai Rozanski

34 GU ELPH ALUMNU S

RESTORING A JEWEL IN THE CROWN

DONALD RUTHERFORD BSA 5 stands in fron t

of the 1931 conservatory greenhouse that will

be restored to match the splendour of the ga rdens

now growi ng up around it His $256000 leadershy

ship gift to the Conservatory and Gardens Project

was inspired by hi s m emo ries of being a student

at OAC

On behalf of fellow alumni I hope this gift will

commemorate the experiences and educat ion we

acquired while at Guelph says Rutherford When

fully restored to its previous glory the conservatoshy

ry greenhouse will be an ideal greeting and welcome

spot for visitors and newcomers to the University

as well as old friend s renewing their acquaintance

Rutherfords professional career spans the agrishy

foo d industr y beginning as an agricu ltural repshy

resentative with the provincial minist ry I-Ie was

later vice-president of the Fertilizer Institute of

Ontario executive secreta ry of the Canadian Seed

Trade Association director of information w ith

the Ca nadian Livestock Feed Board and Canadishy

an sa les manager for Sylvite of Can ad a Retired

since 1986 he now owns his own sma ll investment

company and manages to golf throughout the yea r

The conserva tory isnt the first ca mpus project

to attract Rutherford s attention - as a student

he helped dig out the base ment of Massey H al l to

build a student lo unge - but his recent gift has

been a tremendous boost to those who have been

working since the ea rly 1990s to save the glass and

cypress structure from demo lition

A committee of alumni facult y sta ff stu dents

and fri en ds of the University has moved the proshy

ject along to th e point w here most of the surshy

rounding garden complex is now complete It fea shy

tures six gardens named in honour of the ir chie f

supporters Autumn Garden - OAC 5 1 Spring

Ga rden - OAC 53 Su mmer Garden - OAC 55

Winter Gard en - OAC 65 Water Gard en shy

OAC 49 and the Woo dland Garden named in

honour of the late Doug Rob inson BSA 53

Alumni have been in strumental in raising

funds for the $ l-million project Students and fa cshy

ulty have provided mudl of the h1l1ds-on Idbour

and friends in the nursery and landscape materishy

als supply industries have given $250000 ill donashy

tions and gifts-in-kind of plan ts and landsca ping

materials Rutherford s generous gift has pushed

th e conservato ry fund-ra ising effort in to the fin 81

stretch Th e ga rden complex and restored g reenshy

110use are sc heduled to officially open during

Alumni Weekend in June 1999

1999 Coming Events

Jan 29 - Aggie Goodshy

Times Banquet call the OAC Student Federation at Ext 8321 for ticket injemnrltion Feb 13 - Norm McCo llulll

D iploma Hockey Tournashy

m ent call Jack Bakker at 519-837-0132 to register a team

Feb 21 - Ottawa Chapter

annual curling bonspiel

Richmond C urling Club in

Richmond Ont For informashytiol1 call Alan Bentley BSA 61 at 6 13-829-6598 or John DVit[ 54 mId Margaret McGowml BHSc 54 at

613-828-7038

March 3 - Florida alumni

reunion a t Maple Leaf

Estates Port Charlo tte Fla

call Ext 6533 0 register

March 13 and 14 - ollcge

Royal 75th o pen house

March 19 and 20 - OAC

Alumni Association curling

bonspiel G uelph Curling

Club register at Ext 6657

May 5 - Chicago All Canashy

dian Universities Night hostecl

by U of G at the University

Club of Chicago 76 East Monshy

roe Sr call Exl 6533 for details May 5 - OAC Alumni

Foundation annual meeting

730 pm Arboretum Centre

May 12 - Alumni-inshy

Action annual meeting and

luncheo n 1130 3m

Arboretum Centre ((11 Ext 6657for tickets

June 18 to 20 - Alumni

Veekend call Ext 6657 to plall a reun io n

-0 r shya -IFor more infon-nation on any a

eVC1l1listed ailove call the oJ -lt oU of G extension listed at en raquo

519-824-4120 or send e-mail z

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alumni Matters

MEMORIES OF COLLEGE ROYAL Grant MacEwan ADA 23 and

BSA 26 is one of the few OAC

alumni who c~n still remember

the first College Royal held Jan

14 1925 MacEwan bad just

entered the degree program in

animal husbandry and may have

been a participant in the liveshy

stock showmanship classes Latshy

er in life he was widely known Grant MacEwan

across Western Canada as 3 liveshy

stock judge and an advocate of

agricultural fairs and exhibitions

MacEwan is bes t known

however for his 23-year C3reer

as a university professor in Manshy

itoba and Saskatchewan and Ilis

political career which included

12 years as alderman and mayshy John Kenneth Galbraith

or of C31gary four years as an

Alberta MLA and eight as lieushy birthday in August

tenant -governor of the province The year after Ma cEwan

He s till lives in Calgary graduated John Kenneth Galshy

where he celebrated his 96th braith ADA 29 and BSA 31

HOMECOMING 98

enrolled at OAC and devoted

some of his energy to organizshy

ing College Royal Show records

indicate it was Galbraith who

first proposed the college event

be publicized so that people

from the farm community

could attend He also suggestshy

ed that OAC invite students

from American agricultural colshy

legesl n th e early 1930s Colshy

lege Royal took its fir s t steps

towards becoming the comshy

munity open house it is today

Galbraith later moved to the

United States where he enjoyed

a distinguished caree r as a proshy

fessor of economics at Harvard

Universi ty Known for his

humanit~rian approach to ecoshy

nomic and political thinking

he was awarded the Order of

Canada in 1997 He celebr3ted

his 90th birthday in October

IT REALLY WAS a homecoming reunion when and Arnott who is head coach of the York

former Gryphon teammates Ralph Shapiro University Yeomen came from the visitors

S5c(HK) 74 and Tom Amott S5c(HK) 80 dreSSing room to hold the ball Shapiro is

met on the field at Alumni Stadium Oct 3 the controller at Huntsman Chemical Inc

Shapiro had the honour of kicking off in Guelph and a longtime United Way volshy

the Universitys 1998 United Way campaign unteer who chaired this years Guelph and

Wellington fund-raising drive The Univershy

sity campaign is the largest in the county

with U of G staff and faculty contributing

over $200000 in 1998

Prior to the game a number of recent

alumni - all U of G scholarship and award

winners - met for a reunion luncheon The UJ

1948 and 1949 dominion championship i5f 3

football teams were also honoured guests z 5 o at the 2 pm game that saw the Gryphons gtshy a defeat York f shya I a

Ralph Shapiro

36 G UELPH ALUMNUS

LEADING THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY FOR 1974 GRADS The 25th-anniversary reunion givshy

i ng program for the Class of 1974

is under way with Bill Laidlaw BA

74 as cbair A public affairs proshy

fessional he has been director of

government relations for the

Canadian operations of Glaxo

vVelJcome Inc for more th an 10

years He also acts as a senior conshy

sultant to support the governshy

ment relations function in other

regions of Canada

Laidlaw began his career in

teaching after earning a history

degree from Guelph and education

degrees (rom Queens University

and the University of Toronto He

also holds the certified human

resources professional designation

and worked in that field for sevshy

eral years before concen trating on

government relations at Glaxo

Welkome He lives in Burlington

Ont and is an act ive community

volunteer having se rved on the

boards of severa l professional

organizations the Queensway

General Hospital and the Metroshy

politan Toronto Lung Association

He is currently completing a oneshy

year term as chair of the Ontario

Chamber of Commerce

Anniversa ry preparations will

culminate with a class gathering

a nd reunion gift at Alumni

Weekend in June 1999

ALUMNI MAKE THE CONNECTION Students who moved into

Maids and Mills halls in Sepshy

tember can take full advanshy

tage of the Universitys highshy

speed computer network

thanks to the OAC Class of

71 whose 25 th-reunion proshy

ject provided wiring upgrades

in the 84- and 77-year-old

residence buildin gs

GRAD NEWS

Marathon survivors inspire us all to appreciate everyday life

W HEN ROBINSON SIIlLJNGS Jane BSe(Agr)

85 Heather BASe 83 Peter BSe(Agr)

86 Scott and Marnie rigwood BA 84 get

together they talk about marathons and the hope

and determination it takes to reach the finish line

Hea ther walked a marathon in San Diego

Calif in June to raise money for leukemia

research then joined Peter for a Toronto marathon

in October that benefi ted the Leukemia Research

Fund of Canada They were inspired by Janes pershy

sonal marathon of survival that foUowed her 1992

diagnosis of leukemia Chemotherapy radiation

remission relapse and finally a bone marrow

transplant [TOm her brother Scott took more than

three years out of her life but gave her the detershy

mination to keep fighting

Many families can understand the marathon

of hope maintained by the Robinsons during

Janes struggle and the commitment they have to

help others who are stricken with the disease Jane

is finally well enough to work again as a writer

and marketing consultant and to join her fami shy

ly in volunteer work She helped recruit for the

Toronto marathon fund -raiser and continues to

be involved with the Leukemia Research Funds

Team in Training She also says that her expeshy

rience has taught her to appreciate more the pleashy

sures of everyday life and the love of famil y

Jan es parents are th e late Doug Rob inson

BSA 53 and Marilyn (Inglis) Robinson Murray

BH Sc 55

19305

bull Grant Misener ADA 32 BSA 35 and DVM 38 received the

prest igious George F Hixso n Felshy

lowship Award from the Kiwanis

International Foundation in May The retired Illinois veter ishy

narian was hono ured for his subshystantial contribution to the

Kiwanis wo rldwide service proshy

ject aimed at eliminating iodine

deficiency disorders the leading

cause of preventable mental retardation in children Over the

years Misener has shown a simishylar commitment to his al ma

mater an d its students through

his close association with OVC

and his support of scho larship

programs

19405

bull Russell McDonaldDVM 45 was named an honorary life direcshytor of the Royal Agricultural Winshy

ter Fair Association in March

McDonald formerly general manshy

ager of Western Ontario Breeders

Ine and executive director of the Canadian Association of Animal

Breeders served as a director of the Royal Winter Fair for 20 years

representing the Canadian artifishycial insemination industry He

lives in Woodstock Ont

bull Ian Taylor DVM43 was recently honoured by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to

Animals of Illinois Taylor ran a small-animal veterinary clinic in

the Chicago area for many years

and says he gained ll1uch experishyence during his first three years in

Illinois as clinic veterinarian for

the anti -cruelty society

19505

bull Charles Chuck Broadwell BSA 54 was elected a Mel

Osborne Fellow by the Kiwanis

Club of Forest City in London Ont in recognition of a dedicatshy -ed and distinguished career in

Kiwanis

19605

bull Constantine Campbell BSA 60 and MSA 61 was named to the

WINTER 1999 37

Order of Canada in January He

received the award in recogni shy

tion of his many contributions

to science and the Canadian

agricultural industry After grad shy

uating from OAC he went on to

do his PhD at the University of

Saskatchewan then joined Agri shy

culture and Agri-food Canada

as a research scientist at the Swift

Current research station Campshy

bell and his family now live in

Ottawa where he is scientist

emeritus with Agriculture and

Agri-food Canada

bull John Casselman BSA 64 is

a research scientist with the

Ontario Ministry of Natural

Resources He Jives in Bath

Ont with his wife Lois

bull Jane Fuller RRSc 65 and

her husband George who both

taught at the Macdonald Instishy

tute from 1966 to 1969 have

moved from Winnipeg to

Utopia Ont following

Georges retirement from the

University of Manitoba

bull Fred Gilbert MSc 66 and

P hD 68 is in his first term as

president of Lakehead Univer shy

sity in Thunder Bay Ont He

taught at U of G in the Departshy

ment of Zoology from 1972 to

1981 and has enjoyed a dive rse

academic career that has also

included teaching at the Unishy

versity of Maine and posi tions

as director of wildlife biology at

Washington State University

and founding dean of the Facshy

ulty of Natural Reso urces and

Environmenta l Studies at the

University of Northern British

Columbia He moved to Lakeshy

head from a position as viceshy

pro vost at Colorado State Unishy

versity A respected wildlife

biologist he has conducted

ex tensive resea rch in s Ll ch areas

as the behaviour and physioloshy

gy of wildlife species and the

effects of environmental

change on wildlife populations

bull Terry Goodyear BSc 67 of

Mont Tremblant Quebec is an

early retiree from Agriculture

and Agri-Food Canada in Ottawa He is now working on

va lue-added products from

industrial wastes particularly

cellulose sludge from pulp and

pa per mills

bull Gary Hearn BA 68 was

named an Ontario provincial

judge in October For the last

25 years he has been a lawyer

with the firm Kearns McKinshy

non in Guelph where he lives

with his wife Irene and three

teenage children

bull Allan Knight BSA 66 of Corunna Ont has retired

from Dow Chemical after 30

years On retirement he was a

laboratory director for indusshy

trial chemicals He is now

working with his son in a famishy

ly-owned and -operated busishy

ness Knight Funeral Home

bull Keith McFarlane BSc(Agr)

68 works for the Department

of Foreign Affairs and Internashy

tional Trade and began a fourshy

year assignment last summer as

head of the commercial divishy

sion of the Canadian Embassy

in Lisbon Portugal The

division promotes the sa le of

Canadian goods and services

to Portugal

bull Ian Newbould MA 68 has

travelled far from his Ontario

roots through an academic and

administrative career that has

taken him to Europe Asia and

Western Canada A noted hisshy

torian he moved into adm inisshy

tration at the University of

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Lethbridge in 1981 and spent

10 years there as director of

research dean of a rts and scishy

ence and vice-presiden t (acadeshy

mic) before crossing the counshy

try to become president of

Mount Allison University in

New Brunswick He is now in

his second term as president of

Mount AUison

bull Indra Deo Singh MSc 68 is

a tea scientist international

consultant and joint director of

the Tea Research Association at

the Nagrakata substation in

India His responsibilities

include co-ordinating research

and development in the Indian

tea industry and developing tea

cultivars and agrotechnology

for tea Singh is married with

two sons aged 27 and 23

19705

bull Don Ambler BSe 71 retired in March as manager of

water programs with Environshy

ment Canada in Dartmouth

NS after 25 years of public

service He has now registered

the company Aquashed Co nshy

sulting to continue in the water

resources field when hes not

gardening beekeeping do ing

aerobics or vo lunteering in the

community and chu rch E-mail

contact is welcome a t

donambl erns sympaticoca

bull Jim Bond BSe 75 is managshy

ing a new processing facility at

the Chalk River Nuclear Laborashy

to ry in Chalk River Ont

bull Terri (Monks) Bulman BSc(Agr) 78 and MSe 81

and her husband Vincent

MSe 8 1 live in Australia with

their th ree children Catherine

7 Peter 4 and baby Christoshy

pher Terri is senior principal

environmental auditor vith

Coffey Geosciences Pty Ltd Vinshy

cent afte r many years as a geoloshy

gist travelling around Australia

and abroad has taken the year

off to study and look after the

children Their e-mail address is

tbulmanbigpondco m

bull Marie David BA 78 of

Hanover Ont has been in the

n ewspaper business for 20

years She started in the mailshy

room moved to advertising

sales then became advert ising

manager She is now gene ral

manager o f three So utham

weekly newspapers and pubshy

lish er of the Hanover Post

bull Janice Harrower and her husshy

band Jerome Billett both

DVM 76 operate a joint veterishy

nary practice in Prescott Ont

Billett says practising together

has allowed them some flexibilishy

ty in their family life and given

their four children a good took

at the rigours of veterinary

medicine Says Billett Not one

of our kid s has the slightest

interest in being a veterinarian

and isnt that just fine Their

o ldest son Jesse attends Harshy

va rd University and is a memshy

ber of its prestigious a cappella

choir Lucas is studying

mechanical engineering at the

University of Waterloo Casey is

planning a career in computer

engineering and Lindsay is a

high school athle te

bull Clair Heinbuch BSe 74 is a

sales manager with Baye r Corp

in Kansas H e and his wife

Caroline (Koscik) BASc 75

returned to the Kansas City

area after spending four years in

Denver They have three chilshy

dren Lisa 20 Scott 18 and

Ryan [5

bull Beverly Lee BASe 72 is an

elem entary school principal in

Unionville Ont She lives with

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her husband Grant Egan in

Collingwood and is looking

forward to retirement in severshy

al years Life on Georgian Bay

is wonderful she says Lee

would love to hear from fellow

grads by e-mail at

leebYrbeeduonca or by

phone at 705 -444 -092l

bull Won-Jai Maeng MSc 71 took office Sept 1 as president

of Kon-Kuk University in Seoul

Korea where his academic

career began He completed an

undergraduate degree at Kon

Kuk in 1965 then studied at

Mailing Agricultural College in Denmark and at U of G before

doing doctoral work at the Unishy

versity of California Davis

Maeng has held research and

teaching positions at the Unishy

versity of illinois at Chung-Ang

University and at Kon-Kuk

where he has been a professor of

animal science since 1984 His

appointment as president folshy

lows years of administrative

experience as a department

head dean and chair of various

research committees and proshy

fessional organizations An

expert in ruminant nutrition

Maeng was instrumental in

developing the livestock feed

industry in Korea He has also

been active in working with

alumni groups and in writing

for the Kon-Kuk Tribune

bull Bill MarshaU ADA 75 of Proton Station Ont moved

from Clarksburg in June to

work in Dundalk for the Grey

County Roads Department on

its road management crew

bull Bernie Matte BSc(Agr) 70 of Moncton NB retired

in March after 28 years with

Fisheries and Oceans Canada

and the Canadian Food

Inspection Agency He plans to

travel to Belize and Honduras

with his wife Diane and will

be available anywhere in the

Caribbean for seafood HACCP

consulting work

bull Margaret McClain BA 70 lives in Arkansas where she is

highJy involved in the issue of

40 GUELPH ALUMNUS

missing children and internashy

tional abductions McClain who

believes her own six-year-old

daughter was taken out of the

United States more than a year

ago by her second husband is

reaching out to parents with

similar experiences through an

organization that is lobbying the

US government for tougher

international abduction laws

She invites interested fr iends

and alumni to contact her

through her Web site at

wwwinsolwwbnet-dmcclain

bull Robert (Chuck) Miller BA 77 is the park superintendent

of Killarney French River and

Maskinonje provincial parks in

Ontario He moved to Killarney

from Quetico Provincial Park

last May

bull Gordon Nicol BA 72 and MSc(Agr) 74 teaches math

and science in a bilingual prishy

vate school in Guatemala A

BEd graduate of Laurentian

he first taught in Guatemala in

the late 1970s then spent 12

years in northern Alberta as a

teacher and principal He

returned to Guatemala in 1989

A widower with three teenage

children Nicol would like to

hear from U of G friends and

acquaintances especially anyshy

one who is was or will be in

Central America He says he

could also use middle-schoolshy

level science projects Send eshy

mail to gnicoll guatenet or

write to PO Box 661447 Miami

Springs Florida 33266-1447

bull Chris Schulte BSc 71 and MSc 73 lives in Nassau

Bahamas with his wife

Andrya After graduation he

stayed in the Department of

Physics as a research associate

with Prof lain Campbell then

joined Ontario Hydro in the

early 1980s He moved to the

Bahamas in 1995 He can be

reached bye-mail at

schultebahamasnetbs

bull Sandra (Pickford) Webster BA 75 has retired from U of

Gs Co mmunications and Pubshy

lic Affairs and is living in Parry

Sound Ont where she is

doing volunteer work and

communications consulting

for the municipality Guelph

friends ca n contact her by

e-mail atswebsterzeutercom

19805

bull Sharon (Courneya) Angus BA 8 I of Surrey BC comshy

pleted a BSW at the University

of British Columbia in 1988

and has been working for the

BC government for 13 years

- first in probation and now

in the family justice division

She and her husband Ron

have three children Jason

Carly and Colin

bull Karen Beazley BLA 86 is an assistant professor and acadeshy

mic program co-ordinator at

the School for Reso urce and

Environmental Studies at Dalshy

housie University in Halifax

She is currently doing research

for a book on endangered

species initiatives and is orgashy

nizing a Nova Scotia wildlands

workshop with the Wildlands

Project for 1999 Her e-mail

address is kbeazleyisdalca

bull Caroline (Van Deudekom) and Marc Brooks both ADA 87

recently moved from Strathroy

to Owen Sound Ont where

they run a 50-acre organic farm

with their two sons

bull Virginia Burt BLA 85 startshyed her own landscape architecshy

ture firm Visionscapes in

Hamilton Ont in ] 996 She

specializes in the design of thershy

apeutic healing gardens spirit

gardens sacred spaces and

la byrin ths and recen tly designed the first healing garden

in Canada specificalJy for peoshy

ple living with HIV and AIDS

bull Joanne (Branson) Carver BA 80 earned a BEd from Brock

University in 1981 and recently

started working as a probashy

tionparole officer She Jives in

Ajax Ont and has two daughshy

ters Julie4 and Sarah 8

bull Heather Champ BA 86 is a Web-site designer in New York

City She began her work in

computer design in 1990 Her

personal site can be Found at

wwwjezebelcom

bull Laurie Gough BA 87 has become a world traveller who

writes about her experiences for

the benefit of others Her most

recent book Island of the

Human Heart A tfornans Travshyel Odyssey is now in its second

printing in Canada and will be

released next year in the United

States and overseas She has also

published Travellers Tales A

Womans World which won the

US-based Lowell Thomas

Gold Award for best travel book

of the year When not travelling

or writing she teaches English

and ESL in Guelph

bull Susan (Coles) Goulden BASc 84 and her husband

Ian are th rilled wi th their

recent adoption of Jennifer Lee

Yu who was born in June near

Leping Jiangxi Peoples Repubshy

lic of China The Gouldens

who Jive in vVaterloo Ont

thank classmate Andrea

(Kovits) Henderson for her

support throughout the adopshy

tion process Susan is currently

on leave from her position with

McCormick Canada

bull Judy (Bodendistel) Gregg BA 82 moved to Melbourne Ausshy

tralia in 1997 with her husband

and two children Carly 6 and

Adam 3 We are enjoying the

friendly people and the great

weather here she says We are

especially enjoying winter in a

place where it never gets below

zero Celsius

bull Nigel GumJey DVM 85 has been a partner in the Alta Vista

Animal Hospital in Ottawa

since 1990 was president of the bull Garry Millage AMPHI 86 bull Heidi Stephenson BA 88 is now ISO 9000 manager at

Ontario Veterinary Medical left a position as vice-president was awarded her professional Carpenter Ca nada Ltd in

Association in 1997 and recent- of national operations for acco untants designation of Wood br idge Ont He lives in

ly served on the Canadian Vetshy Scotts Restaurants KFC Divishy certified general accountant in Miss issa uga Classma tes are

erilw() Medical Associations sion to open his own consult- March 1998 She has been invited to contact him at

national issues committee He ing company Future Food employed for the last 10 years avon listarca

lives in Osgoode with his wife Equipment Ine specializes in with Dan Ball Chartered bull Michelle (Pilon) Bacon BA rvlaurecn and children Laura providing new and used restau- Acco un tant in Parry Sound 90 moved to England to study

and Matthew rant equipment and reducing O nt where she lives with her and work after graduating from

bull Muneer Hirji BComm 82 restaurant construction costs hu sband Brad two dogs and a Guelph She recently left a posishy

lives in Toronto and is vice- He also operates a restaurant horse tion with the British Ministry of

president of marke ting at SAP called Nikkos in Woodbridge bull Dawn Stetsko BSe 81 lives Agriculture and Food in York to

Canada He has three chil- Ont and is planning to open a in Langhorne Pa with her husshy become an at-home mom She

drcl1 Nadia 8 Alyssa 6 and second location band Paul and children Mark now lives in London with her

Sarah I bull Tosh Noseworthy BSe 83 is and Keith and is a research husband Tim and one-year-old

bull Brenda irwin BSe 88 is a cardiovascular ICU nurse in scientist with Bristol-Myers daughter Juliette She sends love

studying at Hong Kong Unishy sunny Tuscon Arizona After Squibb Previously she worked to Sue Heather and Sheila and

vers ity of Science and Technolshy grad uation she lived in Paris at McMaster University in can be reached bye-mail at

ogy to complete the final France for a yea r s tudied nurs- Hamilton Ont for 17 yea rs michellebacondialpipexcom

sem ester of an MBA program ing in O ttawa then lived in Saushy bull Teresa Tummillo-Goy BA bull Jeff Barlow BComm 90 is

through the University of di Arabia for two yea rs She still 86 has a law practice in Water- the training and quality manag-

British Columbia She taught loves to travel and would like to 100 Ont foc Li sing primaril y on er for two five-star luxury boushy

science for the North York hea r from fellow alumni She family law civi l litiga tion and tique h o tels in Prague - Hotel

Board of Education for five can be reached at 520-299-8344 real estate She and her hus- Palace Praha and the Hotel

years before enrolling in the bull Cecilia (Wleugel) Parkes band John Goy live in Guelph Savoy Previo usly he was execu -

MBA program BComm 85 is a graphic and have three sons John 4 tive housekeeper at the five-star

bull Jagwant Kanwar PhD 80 is designer in Toronto and says Tony 3 and Shayne 2 Renaissance Pragu e Hotel

a senior scientist in the depart- she st ill uses ber marketing bull Peter Van der Borch DVM bull Margaret Burnes-Souria BA ment of vegetable crops at Pun- background to help her busishy 88 retired in the fa ll of 1997 94 is a team leader with [011 shy

jab Agricultural University in ness succeed She specia lizes in after several years of practising don Magazin e in London Ont

India He is also director of the logo design lNith hand-drawn physiotherapy and ve terinary She married David Souria in

regional vegetable research stashy illustrations medicine and surgery He Jives July 1997 and is pursuing an tion at Usman (TaranTarn) bull Jim Parr BSc(Agr) 81 and in Pictou NS ]VlBA at the University of West-

Amritsar His and his wife MSe 89 died of cancer in bull MartyWilLiams BA 85 is ern Ontario

Sanyogita have a son Mohit June 1998 but hes being co-ordinator of student activishy bull Janine Byers BASe 95 is a and a daughter Dipika who are remembered by his university ties at University College Unishy public health dietitian at the

both studying engineering friends through the establish - versity of Toronto where he Kingston Frontenac and

Friends can write to Kanwar at ment of a mem orial fund for advises student organizations Iennox amp Addington Health

Punjab Agricultural Un ivers ity his wife Denise and children 1Ie is also chair of the U of T Unit in Kingston O nt She is Ludhiana 141 004 India Shannon and Eric Anyone Staff Association a member of getting married to Ca rl Stewart

bull Larissa Larsen BSe 89 and who would like more informa - the steering committee of the on May 29 j 999 MLA 92 received a PhD in tion can ca ll Brian Tapscott at staffs unionization drive and a bull Lisa Cherry BSe 9 1 is a urban and regional planning 519-767-3566 staff member with the student science journalist and executive

from the University of Illinois bull Cheryl (Dunlop) Reid newspaper The Varsity He can director of Artists Against

at Urbana Champaign in May BSe(Agr) 89 sta rted a new be reached bye-mail at marty Racism an international organi-

She has accepted a position at job in September as ingredient wi lliamsutorontoca za tion She is based in Toronto

Thompson Dyke and Associshy sales manager for RA bull Bonnie (Byma) BASe 96 ales a landscape architecture Chisholm o f Toronto She will 19905 and Gil Clelland BA 95 were

and urban planning firm in continue to work from her bull Claire Allison BA 94 grad- married in December 1996 and

Chicago Her husband Ernie remote offke in Fergus Reid uated from the elementary are living in Chatham On t

Poortinga DVM 89 is in his and her husband Jeff BSe teacher ed ucation program at Bo nnie works at a day-care

third yea r of an MD program (Agr) 89 have two children the University of British centre G il teaches art and

at Rush University Chicago lVlega n 4 and Elizabeth 2 Columbia in 1996 and now phys ical education They ca n -Hes looking forward to joining bull Chee Sie BA 83 is a zone teaches in Va ncou ver be reached bye-ma il at gclelshy

his wife in the ranks of the manager for the Malaysian bull JohnAvon BSdHK) 94 lan ciaccesscom employed They would both Assurance Alliance Berhad in earned an M Se in industr ial bull Kate Corn ell BA 95 of enjoy hearing from fellow Sarawak Malaysia He and his operations from Lawrence Markham Ont earned her

alumni and can be reached at wife Jesterine have a two-year- Technological University in masters in dance history from epoor tin garushurushedu old daughter Letitia Southfleld Mich in 1997 and York University in May and

WINTER 1999 41

co-authored a book titled

Toronto Dance Theatre 1968shy1998 Stages in a Journey

bull Mary Jill (McClure) Culliton BASe 90 earned

her BEd from Brock University

and her M Ed from the Univershy

sity of Western Ontario and

teaches Grade 1 in Mitchell

Ont She and her husband

Tim live in Stratford

bull Kathleen (McNutt) Daniels BASe 9 1 is a teacher and was

married on New Years Eve

1994 to Gord Daniels They live

in North Bay Ont and have a

daughter Lauren born in Febshy

ruary 1997 They are expecting

their second child in February

bull Simon Deakin BA 95 studshyied in Florence Italy for a year

then earned a master of fine art

from the Slade School of Fine

Art at the University of London

England He lives in London

bull Christie Dunbar BLA 97 spent a year after graduation

working for Niagara College in

St Catharines Ont on the

vision and design of a new

campus to be built in Niagarashy

on-the- Lake Last April she

joined the landscape architecshy

ture firm of Pollack Design

Associates in Ann Arbor Mich

bull Trina Edmonds BA 94 and

Joel Hinderle became the

proud parents of a little girl

Jordan Ashley in january 1998

and moved to a new home in

Oakville Ont in September

Edmonds works in Mississauga

as a desktop publisher with a

publishingprinting company

bull Wendy Garinther BSc 93 and Steve Decker BSe 94

were married in May Joining

them in the wedding celebrashy

tions were Cheri (Coulter)

42 GUELPH ALUMNUS

Ascroft BSe 93 Karen Leinshy

gartner BSe 94 and Barb

(Moore) Johnson BSe 94

Best man was Jeff Bond BSe

93 and MSe 96 The Deckers

live in Edmonton where Steve

is doing a PhD in chemistry at

the University of Alberta and

Wendy is working in a research

laboratory at a biopharmaceushy

tical company

bull Donna Gross BA 97 is purshysu ing a master of divinity at

Emmanuel College at the Unishy

versity of Toronto and hopes to

become an ordained minister by

2002 She lives in Guelph and

can be reached bye-mail at

donnajulietalbedonet

bull Robert Gruber BA 92 is a child-care supervisor for the

YMCA-YWCA of Guelph and

manages the Jean Little Y

Child- Care Centre He recently

developed the anti -bias proshy

gramming policy for the

Guelph Y and sits on both the

Jean Little Public School Counshy

cil and the Guelph AIDS Wall

Committee He can be reached

bye-mail at rgrubernet

comca

bull Susan Harder BSe 91 grad shyuated from the University of

Toronto Medical School in June

and has started a residency at

Santa Clara Valley Medical Censhy

tre in San jose Calif She will

follow that up with an anestheshy

sia residency at Stanford Univershy

sity Hospital in 1999

bull Marko Harjupanula BASc 93 travelled in Australia for

two months after graduating

from Guelph then returned to

his home town of South Porshy

cupine Ont where he worked

in a gold mine for four years

He entered police college in

September and started as an

opp constable in Cochrane in

December

bull Nancy Holman MA 94 moved to Vancouver soon after

graduation and initially worked

as a project co-ordinator for an

ophthalmologist In 1996 she

began working full time for the

BC Liberal Caucus I would

enjoy hearing from and catchshy

ing up with the friends I made

while studying at U of G and

working at the Brass Taps she

says Her e-mail address is nan shy

cyholmanlassgovbeca

bull Ruth Johnson BA 91 is an investment banking associate

with the mergers and acquisishy

tions group of JP Morgan in

Lond on England responsible

for financial reporting and

administration She has been in

England with her partner Alex Campbell since graduation

bull Stephen Johnson BA 94 of London Ont was a lab technishy

cian at Lenscrafters for three

yea rs and is now a full-time

student at Fanshawe College

studying air conditioning and

refrigeration He was married

in Jun e to Jennifer Fox BSc

95 a chemist at 3M Their

wedding party included Dee Popat BSe (Eng) 94 and

Patrick Wulhes BSc 95

bull Sarah (Davis) Kelly BASe 90 married Robert Kelly in

July and teaches primary

grades at an inner-city school

in Toronto

bull Cassidy Klowak BComm 97 lives in Allisshy

ton Onl and is a personal

banking account manager

with ClBC in Tottenham

bull Stephanie Lopes BSc 96 completed her MSc in repro shy

ductive biology at the Universishy

ty of Toronto and worked as

patient-care director for the

College of Family Physicians

for almost a year In September

she enrolled in medical school

at the University of Toronto

She is happy to announce that

she is engaged to be married

next summer Lopes can be

reached at slopesidirectcom

bull Natalie (Parker) MacKenzie BSc 96 earned her BEd from

the University of Western

Ontario in 1997 She married

ASLt Andy MacKenzie June 27

in Sault Ste Marie Ont and

now lives in Halifax

bull Susan MacKinnon DVM 91 is a veterinarian with HUls

Science Diet She lives in

Guelph with her husband

Brandon Wiley and gave birth

to their first child Adrianna

Nicole june 26 at home

bull Waheed Mian BA 9 1 of Cambridge Ont is a store

director with PetSmart Canada

He helped the company launch

its new retail concept in Cana da

bull Alex Mitchell BA 91 was appointed clerkdeputy treasurshy

er of the Ontario township of

Mildmay-Carrick in 1998 and

will be the clerkadministrator

of the new municipality of

Mildmay-Carrick -TeesWatershy

Culross in 1999 He was married

in january 1997 and lives vith

his wife and daughter in Mild shy

may In his spare time Mitchell

is a professional scout for the

Toronto Maple Leafs covering

southwestern Ontario

bull Sherry Morland BASc 93 of Kitchener Ont ea rned her

BEd from Brock University in

J995 and is a part-time specia l

educa tion teacher and an occashy

sional teacher with the Watershy

loo County Board of Ed ucashy

tion She married Ivan LeBlanc

in 1997

bull Gary Page BSe 91 wo rks for the Nottawasaga Valley Conshy

servation Authority where he is

able to combine his knowledge

of wildlife biology with his

artistic skills as resident graphic

designer and outdoor centre

interpreter He Jives with his

wife Di and their son judah in

CreemoreOnt

bull Elaine Pammenter BA 96 is an inventory clerk with the

Royal Collection at Windsor

Castle in England She holds a

museum management and

curatorship grad uate certificate

diploma from Sir Sandford

Fleming College and did her

internship at the Royal Albert

Memorial Museum in Exeter

England

bull Brent Raymond BSe(Env) 96 of Brantford Ont has

been working with Outward

Bound since graduation He

leads wilderness trips in Northshy

ern Ontario Horida Australia and Sabah (Malaysian Borneo) Most recently he designed and implemented a new introducshytory mountaineering course for Outward Bound Sabah on the summit plateau of Mt Kinashy

balu Those of you who know me as plate licker from U of G get in touch he says Where are you Star I miss you He can be reached by e-mail at globarwchatonca or by

phone at 519-756-1697

Alumni Patrick Abbott BSA 40 July 7 1998

Albert Allen BSA 33 Jan 161994 Agris Ansmits BA 70 and MA 73

February 1998 Barbara (Quartermain) Babcock DHE

53 June 17 1998

Wray Bond BSA 34 Sept 25 1998

Kenneth Bone DVM 38 Dec 29 1998 Evelyn (Stevenson) Buhr DHE 39

May 251998 Philip Burke BSA 43 June 21 1998

Grant Carman BSA 49 Oct 221998 Frederick Chambers BSA 41

June 1998 Wilmot Conley ADA4 7 April 7 1998 Lloyd Crewson BSA 49 Aug 261998

Jacqueline Dimock DHE 47

Aug 20 1998 John Dingwall DVM 52

April 18 1998

Lloyd Dorsey BSA 38 June 9 1998 George Duncan BSA 37

Sept 19 1998

David Dyson BSA 53 Aug 31 1998

Norma (Shannon) Edwards DHE 39

November 1997 Vincent Bud Ellis DVM 41

July 15 1998 John Jack George BSA 48

Sept 24 1998

Donald Haight BSA 33 January 1997 William Hamlyn BSA 33 Dec I 1997

Gordon Harkness BSA 49

November 1997

Charles Hollister DVM 38 June 1996 Donald Hope BSA 54 June 28 1998

Lawrence Jefferson BSA 38

Sept 3 1998

James Kelso DVM 56 July 27 1998

Dorima Lalonde BSA 34 Oct 8 1998 Mildred (Cox) Large DHE 33

June 20 1998 Roger Larson BComm 86 Feb 19 1998 Robert Lawson BSA 49 June 6 1998

bull Doug Ramsey BA 91 and PhD 98 received U of Gs highshyest graduate student award shythe Forster Medal- at June convocation for his academic and community involvement while enrolled in Guelphs new

graduate program in geography He spent the summer as a visitshying research scholar at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College in Truro before assuming his curshyrent position as assistant professhysor at Mount Allison University

David Leach BSc(Agr) 74

July 18 1998

Ian Leask DVM 74 Sept 5 1998

Sheryl Lee BSc 95 June 8 1998 Ruby Janet MacAuley DHE 30

Aug 19 1998 Parker MacKenzie DVM 38

September 1994

Jeanice MacLaren DHE 28 March 1 1997

Campbell MacMaster DVM42

Oct 8 1998

Rex McCallum DVM 43 July 71998 Jean (Dunn) McMahon DHE 31

Nov 41998

Margaret Oones) McTaggart DHE 35 Aug 81998

Patrick McTaggart-Cowan HDSc 81

Oct 21997

Malcolm McWhinnie ADA 39

July 16 1998 Mary (Townsend) Mitchell BHSc

60 Sept 281998

Marjory Monaghan DHE 29

December 1997 Charles Monk BSA 44 Aug 7 1998

Heather Neilsen BHSc 59

Oct 30 1998 Jerry Niwa DVM 62 Aug 5 1998 Henry Harry OReilly BSA 42

October 1997

James Parr BSc(Agr) 81 June 19 1998 Charles Rammage DVM 45

Oct 17 1996 Howard Rapson HDSc 90

March 1997 Clement Reeds DVM 42 Oct 16 1998

William Robinson BSA 38

Aug 23 1998

Donald Sager ADA 73 Oct 141997

Austin Schaefer DVM 37 in 1997

Sandra (Mackenzie) Schmidt DHE 59

Aug 16 1997 Margaret (Harvey) Seaborn DHE 28

July 221998

Larry Seguin DVM 47 June 12 1998

Leah Shedden DHE 31 December 1998

Edward Shuh BSA 40 July 2 1998

Ted Shutsa BSc(Agr) 66

Sept 18 1998 Jim Sinclair DVM 49 Oct 4 1998

Margaret (Brown) Sinclair DHE 20

September 1998 Eldon Smith BSA 42 Sept 9 1998

Derek Somers DVM 96 Sept 25 1998

Cheryl Lynn Sopha BA 95 Sept 20 1998

Leona (Bartlett) Stewart DHE 35

June 27 1998 Alex Thomson BSc(Agr) 69

October 1996

William Whittick DVM 55

Aug 15 1998 Joseph Wilson BSA 23 Sept 11 1998

Lloyd Woolsey DVM41 June 24 1998

Winifred Yeates DHE 28 June 11998

Faculty John Carpenter BSA 43 and MSA 48

Microbiology Dec 10 1998

David Gaskin Zoology Sept 14 1998

Gordon Macleod BSA 50 Animal and

Poultry Science Nov 26 1998 Roman Retman Languages and

Literatures Sept 28 1998

Caesar Sen off Chemistry and

Biochemistry Aug 14 1998

Percy Smith Drama Dec 10 1998

Friends Robert Clark Aug 21 1998

Ethel Hammond August 1998

Thomas Hillers Sept 28 1998 Marguerite Holbrook Aug 26 1998

Catherine Kelly Sept 27 1998

James A McKenzie May 13 1998

Kenneth McIssac Oct 23 1998

William Mutlock September 1998 Roena Patterson Sept 16 1998

Donald Priddle Aug 25 1998

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bull Karl Reimer BSe 94 comshypleted a one-year intensive

MSc in mining engineering at

Queens University and is now

a project engineer a t Enpar

Technologies Ine in Guelph

He can be contacted at reimerbservcom

bull Nancy Nauta Rowland BA 90 and her husband Dan celshy

ebrated their first wedding

anniversary in March 1998 with

the birth of their first child

Connor who beat their March

8 anniversary by two days Nanshy

cy teaches junior-grade stushy

dents and junior special ed ucashy

tion for the Peel District School

Board The Rowlands live in

Caledon Ont

bull Fraser Stables MFA 98 was heralded by Toronto Globe 6shyMail critic Betty Jordan as a

formidable new talent followshy

ing the openi ng of his debut

gallery exh ibition in July The

Scottish artists work includes

sculpture video and mixed

media that explore notions of

flu x by interrupting the moveshy

ment of forms in space

bull Erin (Smith) Scott BSe(HK) 92 and Brad

Scott BSc(Agr) 91 of Lucan

O nt were married in 1993 and

had their first child Lucas in

August Erin works for Shopshy

pers Home Health Ca re in

London Brad is with New Life

Mills in Dunfield

bull Abby Simons BSc 95 and Martin Piche BSc(Agr) 95 were married in Mont-Tremshy

blant Quebec in 1997 She is a

customer service representative

with Kantech Systems he is

superintendent of Club de golf

vallee des forts They say theyd

love to hear from anyone headshy

ing to Montreal and can be

reached at 450-348-3860

bull Sylvia Tesori BSc 95 has been doing wildlife rehabilitashy

tion for the OSPCA Wildlife

Rehabilitation Centre in Midshy

land Ont since 1996

bull Chuck Thibeault BComm 94 is general manager of the

Putting Edge Corpora tion

which has two glow-in- theshy

dark mini-golf courses in

Ontario one in Bramp ton and

one in Richmond Hill He can

be reached in Richmond Hill at

chu ckttotalnet

bull Karen Thirlwall BA 93 is a

si ngersongwriter and guitarist

who began her stage career and

released her first album The Voice Inside Me while studying

languages at U of G She has

lived and performed in

11i stler BC for three years

and recently released a second

album called Wide-Eyed She

remembers many special

fr iends m ade at Guelph and

welcomes e-mail messages to

karenthirlwallhotmailcom

bull Christie (Johnson) and Steve

Tyler both BComm 91 live in

Cambridge Ont where

Christie is a personal banking

representative for the Royal

Bank Steve works with their

third-year design professor

Nelson Hofer in Mississauga as

a design consultan t Steves proshy

jects include the Windsor Casishy

no and U of Gs Creelman Hall

They have two children Jason

5 and Marcus 1

bull Julia White BA 91 lives in Guelph and is a small-business

accountant at Taves amp Co She

recently finished courses

towards a CGA designation and

would like to hea r from other

alumni who lived in Lambton

Hall in 198788 Send e-mail to

juliawhitesympaticoca

bull Andre-Denis Wright MSc 93 and PhD 98 is doing postshy

docto ral work in Perth Westshy

ern Australia He wants his

Guelph friends and Halifax

family to know he was thinking

of them at Christmas when it

was 40 C in Australia

bull Dave Yellen BComm 90 was recently promoted at the Gordon

Food Service to new-accounts

sales specialist for Metro Toronshy

to Having been in Ottawa for

the past few years Im hoping

to reacquaint myself with old

friend s from U of G in the Metro

area he says He lives in Scarborshy

ough and can be reached at 416shy615-2745 or davidysprintca

bull Halina Zaleski PhD 92 is a tenured professor in the

departm ent of animal sciences

at the Un iversity of Hawaii in

Honolulu She is a swine speshy

cialist involved in extension

programs for an area th at covshy

ers all of Hawai i and the PacifIC

basin She can be reached by

e-mail at halinahawaiiedu

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IF THERE ARE LIVESTOCK IN THE HOCKEY ARENA and

theyre not wearing skates its College Royal If there

are students sawing logs throwing pies baking cookies

and square dancing its College Royal When the entire

University of Guelph is displayed - from arts to zooloshy

gy - March 13 and 14 1999 youll know its definitely

College Royan

Since its inception in 1925 as an agricultural and liveshy

stock show run by the Ontario Agricultural College

College Royal has grown to be a celebrated U of G trashy

dition involving all the colleges

The event is famou s in the University community

and beyond for its open-house showcase of displays and

activities The largest student-run open house in Canashy

da College Royal attracts more than 20000 visitors to

campus over one weekend

College Royal is an event of tradition that reaches

into tomorrow Agriculture and livestock shows are still

highlighted events but College Royal activities have

grown to include dog and cat shows a photography conshy

test a chemistry magic show and demonstrations on

human health and fitness The open house gives people

an opportunity to see what happens in the Universitys

leading-edge research laboratories to observe veterinary

medicine in practice to tour a sculpture studio or to

watch a theatrical performance

To celebrate the 75th anniversary of College Royal

1998 president Joe TrakaJo lnvites alumni to get involved

again by joining one of the planning comm ittees or by

participating in a favourite event Call him for more

information at 824-4120 Ext 8366 or send e-mail to

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Thank you alumni DURING THE FIVE YEtRS [ served as dean of the College of Socia l Science [ developed 8

deep appreciation for the role alumni play in the life of the University I attended three meetshyings of the College of Social Science Alumni Association before actually becoming dean and from the start I experienced the dedicashytion of alumni volunteers who maintain an important link to the University

Alumni give in many meaningful ways welcoming new students spea king at career nights offering co-op placements and employing grad uates are just a few Alumni donations to the Alma Mater Fund are becoming increas ingly important as govshyern men t fu nd i ng decreases Schola rsh ips provided by alumni giving encourage excelshylence in undergraduate students help us attract top-notch graduate students and proshyvide opportunities for many students who might not otherwise be able to attend the University

Each year the AMF gives each college dea n $6000 [n CSS we used this money for things not possible in our operating budget - visiting speakers special equipment gradshyuate st ud ent conference travel and recruitshyment brochures The AMF also supports the Winegald Visiting Professorship and in 199697 CSS brought five scholars to camshypus for a public lecture series that was attended by hundreds of students and facshyulty A book is being published as an outshy

come of th e series Alumni support goes weJl beyond monshy

ey Many alumni care enough about us to rite and provide insights to changing socishy

etalneeds and reactions to proposals on CtHshy

ricular and organizational changes It is great to have the alumni from CSS and the Col shy

lege of Family and Consulller Studies now wOlking together to ensure that our new College of Social and Applied Human Sc ishyences will have meaning for those associshyated with the former coJleges and for future generations of graduates

Thank you alumni Your continuing

involvement with yo ur university is appre shyciated [ am proud to be lssocia ted with yo u and this wonderful institution

PROF DAVID KNIGHT

CSS DEAN 1993 TO 1998

A job well done

As GENERAL MANAG ER of the Ontario Sumshymer Games which ran Aug 13 to 16 in Guelph I want to extend a sincere thank you to the University of Guelph its faculty staff and alulllni for helping to make this event such a positive and memorable expe rien ce for the 2400 young athletes

More than 1700 vo lunteers includ ing many University alumni and employees gra shyciously donated their time and talents to make the Gltlmes Organizing Committees (GOC) dream of hosting the best-ever Summer Games ltl rea lit y

[ hope the en tire University community sha res my pride over the outstanding colshylective effort that went into organizing and hostin g these Games Atl of the University alumni and employees I dealt with made every effort to accol11 l11odate the needs of the GOe the provincial spo rt organizations and the panicipants themselves

The University of Guelph is certainly to be cOl11l11ended for a job well done Based on the feedback I received during the Games and in the months since I kI10v thal those spectators and participants from across the province who

were eAvosed to d1e University for the first time left with a highly favourable impression

One of th e goa ls of the Games was to leave a legacy in the form of improved athshyletic facilities volunteer leadership expertise and community development For the Unishyvers ity the desiled legacy will be of a differshyent nature - hwing some of these talented

young athletes return to Guelph to don the Gryp hon uniform thus ensuring that our tradition of athletic and academic excellence continues on Nothing would please this alumnus more than to see that happen

TIM MALI

SA 92 MA 93

4 GUELPH ALUMNUS

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

message from the President MORDECHAI ROZANSKI

THE BEG INN IN G OF THE YEAR seems an appropriate and second nationally in its category in the Madams ra nkshytime to introduce the new design and edi torial direc shy Lng of u madian wliversities In the magazines cross-counshy

tion of the Guelph Alumnus I hope you will like it as try survey of high school guidance counsellors and acadshy

much as I do emic and industry leaders Guelph ranked second in overall In each issue we will present regular co lumns such quality and repu tat ion Our success in these ra nkings

as In and Around the University and Research Notes to reflec ts the excellence and dedication of all members of keep you informed of research developments and camshy the University communi ty - our faculty staff students

pus news that matter most to alumni and alumni - and is testimony to our

Our fea tures will look at the issues that very talented academic and st ud ent

are most important to us as Canadians affairs leadership Guelph has maintained and will focus on the people who conshy its commitment to quality und er chalshytribute so much to Guelphs sllccess lenging conditions given the current The AllllTIJli Matters section of the magshy financial fragility of Ontario universities az ine wi ll bring yo u news about yo ur Our situation has been hel ped by our fellow alumni and their activi ties in supshy successes with several national lt1nd port of the University and the commushy provincial applications for resea rch and nities in which they live teachin g support The first of nine

In this issue of the Guelph Alumnus research initiatives submitted to the we celebrate the heritage of the Univershy Canada Fou ndat ion for Innovation has sity as we help launch the 12Sth annivershy been funded and will support the study sa ry of the Ontario Agricultural College of new technologies for enhancing agro-The college has played a leading ecosystems At the provincia l role in the history of the Unishy level the Onta rio gove rnment versity of Guelph and has made GUELPH HAS recently announced funding to many invaluab le contributions U of G under the Ontario MAINTAINED ITS to agricu ltural research and Research and Development education in this province and COMMITMENT Challenge Fund that wi II su p shyacross the nation Our feature port a new Food System

TO QUALITY UNDER on the 12Sth anniversary of the Biotechnology Centre on cal11shycollege looks back at its remarkshy CHALLENGING pus The province has also proshyable legacy and for wa rd to its vided grants to boost enrolment

CONDITIONS prominence as Canada s preshy in engineering and computing mier centre in agri-food envi- science programs and to provide ronmental and rural ed ucation research and outreach research scholarships for up to 46 U of G grad uate stushy

This issue also presents a dramatic profi le o f playshy dents working in science and technology programs wright Judith Thompson a professor in Guelphs School Although we are pl eased with this suppor t for ou r of Literatures and Performance Studies in English who excellent and deserving science-related disciplines we are displays the kind of creative energy that yo u find camshy concerned that most of these programs are so narrowly pus-wide among our talented faculty A seco nd feature targeted As a university with excell ent programs in the demonstrates Guelphs expertise in the aquat ic sciences arts humanities social sciences and applied fields Guelph and frames sOllle of the strategies that co uld preserve - as well as other Ontario universities - needs a comshyCanadas endangered fish eries reSOllfces prehensive multi-yea r effo rt that addresses the entire

The new year is al so an appropriate time to reflect range of programs and disciplines and prepares LIS to meet -on the achievements of the past yea r an d look ahead to the expectations of Ontarians in the 21st century the opportunities to come J look forward to shari ng more news with you in

Last November for the second yea r in a row Guelph hiture issues of the Guelph Alul11rlus My very best wishshyranked first among Ontarios comprehensive universities es for success hea lth and happiness in 1999

W I NTER 1999 5

bull UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

GUELPH HOLDS SECOND PLACE IN MACLEANS RANKING

For the second year in

a row U of G finished

second in the country

in its category in the annual

Macleans magazine universities

ranking issue

Editor Ann Dowsett Johnston

says it was very close with

Guelph barely nipped to the finshy

ish line by Simon Fraser Univershy

s ity in the 12-universitycomshy

prehensives category Guelph led

the way provincially coming first

of the five Ontario universities

in the sa me category

G uelph also rece ived a secshy

ond-place ranking in its categoshy

ry in the Macleans reputational

survey of 4700 corpora te CEOs

administ ra tors and high school

guidance counsellors In the allshy

categories nationwide reputashy

tional survey U of G placed xa5 eighth out of 48 institutions

~ Dowsett Johnston says

~ Guelph is well-established as a I premier university Other uni shy~ o vers ities are searching for an o f--

identity Guelph has a wonder-z laquo Vl gt ful sense of who it is This makes Vl

gtshy it a leader ahead of the game Its co 6 a strong resid ential school and

( it knows and builds o n its tr strengths It bodes incredibly ~ - well for the future

6 GUELPH ALUMNUS

ONTARIO INVESTS IN NEW

BIOTECH CENTRE AT U OF G The Ontario government will invest up to

$6 million in a new Food System Biotechshy

nology Centre at U of G

The funding from the Ministry of Energy

Science and Technology through the

Ontario Research and Development Chalshy

lenge Fund will be used to investigate anishy

mal genetiCS plant genetics and transgenshy

ics and the basic molecular research

underlying these areas With matching

funding from industry and the U of G

research budget the total investment in

this centre could reach $18 million

The new biotechnology centre will be

the focal point of molecular biology and

biotechnology research related to the agrishy

food system says U of G president

Mordechai Rozanski The award will allow

KUDOS

U of G applauds the recent

Order of Canada designamiddot

tions received by former

president William Winegard who was recognized for his

voluntarism OAC alumnus

Constantine Campbell BSA 60 who was honoured

for his significant contribushy

tions to science and the

Canadian agricultural indusshy

try Beverly Mascoll a

former member of U of Gs

Board of Governors and

Austin Clarke who recently

served as writer-in-residence

at Guelph

Roberta Bondar B5c

(Agr) 68 Canadas first

the University to develop the infrastructure

and expertise necessary to maintain a

leadership role in the important agri-food

sector of the economy he says It

involves four colleges 11 departments and

some 70 researchers and adds to Guelphs

reputation as a centre for the highest-qualshy

ity research benefiting all Canadians

The centres work will encompass all

aspects of the food system including agrishy

culture processing storage packaging

nutrition waste management and food

safety Key initiatives will incorporate

recent advances in molecular genetic techshy

nology into strategies for developing

improved strains of livestock and for the

production and evaluation of transgenic

plants

and physiological change in

space and how it applies to

life on Earth

Clay Switzer BSA 51 former

dean of OAC and former

deputy minister of the

Ontario Ministry of Agriculshy

ture and Food was inducted

into the Canadian Agriculturshy

al Hall of Fame in November

Fred Gilbert M5c 66 and

PhD 68 recently began a

first term as president of

Lakehead University in

Thunder Bay Ont

Won-Jai Maeng MSc 71 is

the newly appointed presishy

dent of Kon-Kuk University

in Seoul Korea

female astronaut has been

inducted into the Canadian

Medical Hall of Fame for her

studies on weightlessness

Winegard Named Officer of the Order of Canada

BIn WINEG ARD form er U ofG presishydent and minister of state for sc ience

and technology was named an officer of the Order of Canada in Jul y In November many of his University and co mmunity frie nds gath ered for a recognition dinner hosted by Lorie BA Sc 72 and Gin ty jocius

IN FACT What Mlldelns knows

VS editors arc learning

Major US publications have reccntly dcscribed

V of G as being academishycally excellent and a

real college valuc for American students

BSc(Agr ) 70 They were students at U of G during Winega rds tenure as president and later esta blished thei r business Gin ty jocius amp Associates in the Guelph-Wellington ridshying he represented as MP

Winegard first ca me to Guelph in 1967

to pilot the new University of Guelp h

CENTR E SIX GETS A FAC ELIFT

AFTER 25 YEARS the Unishyversity Centres popular

dining and seating area is getting a new look The expansion and renovation of Cen tre Six includes the addishytion of 200 scats an elevated lounge accessible to people

through its format ive years At the recognishytion dinner curren t U of G president Mo rdecbai Rozanski paid tribute to Wineshygards ro le as the intellec tual founder and shaper of the modern transformation of Guelph A distinguished metallurgist who began his academic career at the University of Toronto Winegard recruited many of the talented faculty who have spent the last 25 to 30 years building Guelphs reputation as a research institution said Rozanski

Winegards lead ership in the ac ademic community also encompassed the Canadian Bureau of International Education the Counshycil of Ontario Universities and the Ontario Council of University Affairs He retired from academia and U of G in 1975 His legacy on campus includes the Winegard Medal the highest award made to a graduati ng student and d1e Winegard Visiting Professorship which brings world scholars to U of G Proceeds from the recognition dinner were given to U of G to support Winegard visiting professors

Elected to Parliament in 1984 Winegard spent nine years in Ottawa and served in ca bshyinet as Canadas minister of state for science and technology and then science minister j

until he retired from Parliament in j 993 He 8 was named chair of the Premiers Research ~

Excel lence Awards board at the December i z

1998 announcement of the provincial pro- o V1gram which is designed to attract talented -lt 0you ng scientists to Ontario m

with disa bilities and a so lari shyum that has enclosed the external dining patio The facelift is funded entirely through non-exclusive agreements with the Univershysitys food service business partners

The project is expected lo address the need for space to

accommodate enrolment increases and may increase conference business Centre Six will also be more energyshyand labor-efficient with the installation of an upgraded -air-handling system In 1999

the Centre Six project will continue with renovations to the food comt area

WINTER j 999 7

in and around the

HPILOT PROJECT ELIMINATES BARRIERS

av ing a learning disability isnt a barrier to obtaining an educashy

tion at the University of Guelph especially with the laun ch of Learning Opportunities a pilot program offered through the Unishy

versitys Centre for Students with Disabilities Beginning in fall 1999

the program will give students with learning disa bilities the addishytional resources they need to meet the challenges involved in obtainshy

ing a post-secondary ed ucation

Lea rning Opportuniti es is a fi ve -yea r project that rece ived

$633 800 in special funding from the Ontario Ministry of Education

and Training U of G vas one of eight institutions to benefit from ~ the gran ts) which are designed specifically for programs in post-secshy

~ ondary institutions that support the integration of stud ents with I U learning disabiliti esIf)

z 0 Students enrolled in the Guelph program will receive pre-regis-O

~ tration cOllnselling academic advising speciall y tailored orientation

~ programs integrated living in an on-campus learn ing cluster supshy

5 ported learning groups workplace skills and competenc ies develshy

5 Oplnent) and experiential educat ion in the vvorkplace

PROVINCE BOOSTS GRADUATE RESEARCH

ANEW $75 - lvIILLlON provinshy

cial scholarship program in

science and technology will awa rd up to 46 U of G graduate

students up to $15000 star ting

this ye ar An nounced in Sepshytember the O ntario Graduate

Scholarships in Sc ience and

Technology will be awarded each

year for 10 years The ministries

of Energy Science and Technolshy

ogy and Education and Training will co-fund two-third s of the

cost of the program Uni ve rsishy

ties are expected to fmd an otershynal match for the final third

The government will alloshy

cate up to $460000 annually to

U OF G GRADS PROMPT GIFT FOOD SC IE NCE TEACHIN G and research at U of G has received financial support from the

Maple Lodge Farms Foundation In honour

of the companys founder Lawrence May

the May family presented $15000 to U of G

president Mordechai Rozanski Nov 9 at the

Royal Agricultural Wint er Fair in Toronto Presenters Wendy Ma y Robson and Kathy

May Weinhold said the gift was awarded

because of Maple Lodge Farms positive

experiences with so many highly qualified Guelph graduates

Man) graduates of this university have

passed through our facility over the yea rs

and in many capacities - as veterinarians inspectors researchers and food scientists

says Robson Our business has been enriched by this connection and it is for

8 GUELPH ALUMNUS

University

Guelph MPP Brenda Ell iott presents a cheque for $633800 to president Mordechai Rozanski for a pilot project to help learningshydisabled students Sta nd ing from left are Carol Herriot of the Cent re for Students wi th Disab ili t ies student Brad Hutchinson and cent re director Bruno Ma ncini

U of G whi ch will seek th e

remaining $230000 from prishy

va te-sector funding

Graduate studi es dean Alasshytair Summerlee is enthusiast ic

ab out the program but disapshypointed at the targe ted natu re of

the scholarships 1-k say the preshy

liminary list of qualifyi ng pro-

this reason that we wish to be part of this talented fa cility and to show our support of

its continuing mission of being a worldshy

class educational facility in Canada

Wendy Robson left and Kathy Weinh old present a gift from Maple Lodge Farms to U of G presiden t Mordechai Rozanski at the Roya l Winter Fair

grams ignores the social sciences

and huma nit ies and does not appreciate the con tributions of

fi elds suc h as econo mi cs and poli tical science to the advanceshy

mfl1t of science w d technology He says U of G wi ll press for the

govern ment to expalld the areas

included in the scholarships

B OF G WELCOMES NEW MEMBERS f OL LO W IN G 1111 1([ Il RF ~ lE NT of

several members in June U of Gs Board of Govern ors welcomed

t igh t new face~ th is blJ They are Christine Alford BSc 80 viccshy

prcsidltIlt Jnd geneml manager of

In tegration S rvices at IBM Ca na shyd1 Ltd Gil Bennett chai r of the

Canadian Tire Corporation Doug

Derry a fi na ncial adv iser and ret ired part ner with Price Wlel shy

house staff member Kathleen Hyland of th UAC Deans O ffi cI

graduate stu clenL James Rodgers undergraduate stud en ts Mitch MacDonald and Lana Rabkin and

Prof Steve Scadding Zoology

-

U OF G WINS FEDERAL

INNOVATION AWARD

mE UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH is one of 14

1 Canadian universities and one of six

in Ontario to receive awards totalling $81

million from the Canada Foundation for

Innovations (CFI) Institutional Innovation

Fund (projects over $350000)

The CFI has yet to determine the exact

amount of the award but if Guelph were

to get the approximate $750000 requestshy

ed with matching grants from industry

and the Ontario Research and Developshy

ment Challenge Fund the total award

could be close to $2 million

Guelphs project is a holistic look at

agriculture the first of its kind in Canada

Titled New Technologies for Assessing

and Enhancing Agroecosystems it will be

headed by Prof Terry Gillespie chair of the

Department of Land Resource Science and

involve 25 faculty from 10 departments

Eight other U of G research projects were

invited to move on to a further stage of

review the third-highest number for an

Ontario university

TTRELLIS LAUNCHED a triangle of information sharshy indexes and Web sites and

H E SEP~EMI3ER LAU NCH of ing through TRELLIS the Trishy databases around the world an excltmg new system University Group of Libraries More than 75 million volshy

called TRELLIS has positioned combined computer-based umes of materials can be the U of G Library as a symbol information resource system found online and more thal1 of partnership and the home The automated system 400 users can log on to for more information than ever gives students and faculty at TRELLIS at the same time before U of G Wilfrid Laurier the three campuses access to a To access TRELLIS 011

University and the University of wider range of resources the Internet type wwwtugshyWaterloo joined forces to form including computer-based librariesonca

OTHER HONOURS

CONVOCAriON HONOURS TWO The University of Guelph has added two more distinshy

guished names to its list of honorary degree recipients Renowned biologist Jane Goodall and political scienshytist Peter Russell an expert on the Canadian Constitushytion and Charter of Rights and Freedoms were honshyoured during fall convocashytion ceremonies in October

Goodall received an honorary doctor of science degree acknowledging more than 40 years of groundbreaking work in the life and sociobiology of chimpanzees and other primates

An honorary doctor of

laws degree was conferred on Russell for his extensive research on the Constitution and Canadian nationalism

UOFG QUALIFIES FOR ATOP SUPPORT U OF Gs SCHOOL OF Engi- neering and Department of Computing and Information Science (CIS) are planning for more faculty equipment and resources following the Unishyversitys request for funding from a provincial program designed to address a shortage of skilled graduates in engimiddot neering and computing science

U of G met this years enrolment increase in these high-tech programs needed to qualify for one-time fundshying under the provinces Access to Opportunities Proshygram (ATOP) Guelph has also committed to doubling enrolment by the year 2000 to take advantage of long-term ATOP money

Guelph will qualify for special operating grants from the province to universities that increase their first-year enrolment in these programs by 20 per cent over 199798

The University also hopes to receive ATOP funding to increase its graduate enrolshyment in these disciplines

Both CIS and the School of Engineering face a shortage of resources making the ATOP funding an important funding source that will help these areas without affecting other campus units

WINTER 1999 9

refront ofat the

ALL THE DEFINING WORDS

written about the Ontario Agricultural College in its 125

years perhaps the most appropriate is the word integral

Throughout its history OAC has remained integral to the

agri-food industry and rural society

Its a good word integral It describes how and why

the college has survived 125 years and suggests a reason

it will grow even stronger in the 2pt century

Without hesitation OAC dean Rob McLaughlin

BSc(Agr) 69 and PhD 77 takes up the thought and

declares that OAC is the premier agricultural college in

Canada and stands in the top rank of agricultural faculshy

ties around the world Our work has had a profound

effect on the growth and development of the Canadian

agri-food system and the well-being of the people and

communities of rural Ontario and beyond he says

10 G UELPH ALUMNUS

OAC celebrates its history its partnerships and its fu ture

W I N TER 1999 11

-

OACs 23000 graduates are also recognized

worldwide for their expertise and leadshy

ership abilities in agriculture agribusiness manageshy

ment hortiClilture landscape architecture plant and

animal biology food scie nce and rural extension

Meeting industry needs

More than 100 years apart in their leadershyship of OAC William Johnston and Rob McLaughlin both recognized that the colshylege they inherited would have to focus on industry needs to survive In Johnstons day that meant bringing greater prospershyity to the farm Because only three per cent of McLaughlins graduates return to farmshying todays college curriculum has a greater focus on skills in communication and critical thinking which are demanded by the various industries that now define agriculture

studies McLaughlin hopes those graduates will

return to help the college celebrate 1999s signifishy

cant anniversary It s important to celebrate our

past achievements and to recognize our present and

future strengths he says

A specia l OAC 125 planning committee coshy

chaired by Clay Switzer OAC dean from 1972 to

1983 and Don Blackburn former director of the

diploma program has organized a number of

events throughout the coming year to celebrate the

anniversary

Were looking forward to a wonderful year of

events to mark this occasion says Switzer BSA 51

and MSA 53 We want to celebra te the accomshy

plishments of the past and the fact tha t OAC has

interacted with many partners to get where we are

today and we want to look ahead to the future to

see how the college and the University might conshy

tinue along this successful path

Success for OAC means maintaining its position

as a vital partner and contributor to the prosperity

of the agri-food industry and the people of rural

Ontario for whom it was established That industry

and those rural communities are vastly different

from the 1874 picture we draw from the college hisshy

tory primarily because farmers themselves - with

the help of agricultural education and researchshy

12 GUElPH ALUMNUS

125 YEARS OF ACHIEVEMENT

Throughout OACs first 125 years its educashytion research and extension activities have had an impact on virtually every secshytor of Canadas agrimiddot food industry In the anniversary book 125

Years of Achievement OAC highlights some of the areas where col1lege faculty stushydents and administrashytors have played a leadership role To read more about Guelphs achievements in these areas conshytact the OAC deans office to obtain a copy of the book

Pre 1900

bull Diploma in agriculture

bull Degree in agriculture

bull Agri-food short courses

bull Production bulletins bull Extension work bull Liberal education bull Library resources bull Field crop trials bull Livestock breeding

bull Forestry bull Insect identification bull Experimental Union

1900-1910

bull Herbarium amp weed garden

bull Cheese making bull Food safety bull Land drainage bull Water testing bull Weather observashy

tions amp zoning for crop production

bull Legume inoculants

have forged change through increased productivishy

ty and efficiency

When OAC roots were planted in 187450 per

cent of th e people who lived in this new province

made their living from farming Today only two per

cent of Ontario residents live on farms

but they feed a much larger population

base and an important export market

The Ontario agri-food industry genershy

ates an impressive $637 billion in ecoshy

nomic value each year and stimulates

employment for nearly a quarter of the

workforce Canadians enjoy one of the

safest and cheapest food supplies in the

world spending less than 13 per cent of

their disposa ble income on food Most

people in the world spend more than 50

per cent

Its difficult to pinpoint all the conshy

tributions OAC faculty staff and gradshy

uates have made to agriculture because

the knowledge created and the techshy

nologies perfected here have been so weU

assimilated by the industry that they are

easily taken for granted Few people in

Ontario have ever heard of Charles

Zavitz or know that this early OAC gradshy

uate and professor recorded the first

field-crop yield tests at Guelph before 1890

Appointed head experimentalist in 1893 he was

instrumental in developing a college research proshy

gram that made good the promise that OAC would

offer its students training in scientific agriculture

Zavitz has been followed by a number of brilshy

liant educators and scientists whose contributions

to the college and its industry have filled several

books Even Alexander Ross in OACs official hisshy

tory College on the Hill can provide only a brief

description of the research initiatives that have

involved OAC in the growth of the agri-food secshy

tor and the tremendous advances agriculture has

made in the areas of human and animal nutrition

and health water and soil conservation rural develshy

opment and of course agri-food education

To give prominence to these contributions the

college has published an anniversary book that outshy

lines 125 of the most significant accomplishments in

which OAC faculty students and administrators

played a leadership role More important 125 Years ofAchievement celebrates the partnerships that have

provided the opportunities for achievement Through

the years Guelph scientists and educators have worked

closely with the agri-food industry with both the

Ontario Ministry of Agriculture Food and Rural

Affairs and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and

with other government departments international 1990s And they still have not reached that equalishy125 YEARS agencies educational institutions and alumni ty on the college faculty Alice Rowsome may haveOF ACHIEVEMENT

Read any entry in 125 Years ofAchievement and been hired to serve as assistant librarian and instrucshy

youll find an interes ting anecdote that chronicles tor in French and German at the turn of the censhy1910-1920

an important element in campus history Read the tury but horticulturist Patricia Harney remained bull Macdonaldwhole book and youll be awed by the

Institutesheer volume of th e work that has

bull Soil science been accomplished by so many people Scientific agricuLture

bull Poultry lighting working meticulously over so many

amp nutritionyears to affect so many changes in agrishy After earning one of its first agriculture

bull OAC 21 barleyculture that have improved the lives of degrees in 1888 Charles Zavitz began a

bull Fruit research Canadians 40-year career overseeing the college

Freeman McEwen OAC dean from experimental programs and made the first 1920-1930

1983 to 1990 chaired a committee that advancements in plant breeding Threebull Collecting

involved severa l dozen current and generations later Prof Ken Kasha led the Canadian art

retired faculty as well as alumni students development of a haploid technique of cell bull War Memorial

and U of G staff in writing the stories division that cut the time needed to breed Hall

A quick check of dates in the book new varieties in half Today plant biotechshybull Graduate

shows a spiral of achievement that has nologist Bryan McKersie is looking even education

escalated with whirlwind force since the deeper into the functioning of plant cells bull College Royal

establishment of the University of to manipulate genes that will enhance proshybull SoybeanGuelph in 1964 and heads unabated ductivity or disease resistance

developmenttoward the future The 125 items docushy

bull Forage varieties ment scientific discoveries to be sure

bull Meat research but also the development of the college

bull Ginsengas an educa tional institution and its bull Farm business

ongoing partnership with the provincial records

government

Out of the J25 McEwen has picked his own top the only woman on faculty throughout the 1960s 1930-1940

five beginning with the contributions OAC made and women are seriously under-represented even bull Professional

to the establishment of the University This campus today This is one area where historians find room societies

has the distinction of being the only one in North to criticize agricultural traditions and college polishybull ControlledAmerica where the agricultural college preceded the cies that continued the dominance of men for far

atmosphereuniversity that supports it That fact helps ex plain too many years

storagethe unique character of the University of Guelph The college itself was dominated by the provinshy

bull Muck crops and its prominence in the life sciences cial government during its first 90 years when OAC bull Salmonella

Some might argue that the process of becoming principals reported directly to the minister of agrishytesting

a university began as ea rly as 1904 when the Macshy culture The 1964 University of Guelph Act mainshybull Links with donald Inst itute opened This event is second on tained the schools relationship with the agriculshy

farm groups McEwens list of top accomplishments The ad dishy ture ministry but gave the col lege a new- found

tion of women to the campus changed OAC from a freedom that expanded research and graduate proshy1940-1950

boys school into a co llege Guelph history professhy grams and opened the door to increased fundingbull Holland Marsh

sor Terry Crowley says bluntly Early student life at from th e education ministry It a lso permittedResearch Station

OAC is readily divided into two - before women greater collaboration with the Ontario Veterinarybull Standardizedand after women College which had been moved to Guelph by politshy

cattle conformation The Mac girls were generally older than the J6- ical dictate in 1922

bull Potato breeding and 17-year-old students at OAC they were more One of the most vivid examples of the impact of

bull Reproductionmature and brought both a social life and a new acashy that collaboration was the dramatic increase in anishytechnology

demic focus to the campus For the young women mal-breeding technologies OVC perfected artificial bull Queen beeof Ontario it was a long overdue opportunity and insemination and held the only licence in Ontario for

rearingthey grasped the educa tion offered at Macdonald frozen semen until 1969 OAC faculty and the netshy -bull TechnologyInstitute in large numbers work of provincial agricultural representatives helped

transferWomen were not admitted into the agriculture promote the technology and control it through the

bull Conservation program until 1918 however and they didnt reach development of a national livestock and performance

farm planning numerical equality with male students until the inventory Through these combined efforts Canada

WINTER 1999 13

emerged as a global leader in animal breeding largest Ontario univers ity geographica lly when it125 YEARS OACs un ique and enduring relati onship wi th assumed res ponsibility for ed ucation resea rch andOF ACHIEVEMENT

the provincial agric ulture ministry is another addishy Iaboratory services form erl) managed by the minshy

tion to McEwe ns list of top achievements Certa inshy is try Guelph agric ultural expertise covers the 1950-1960

ly the most significan t even t in the last decade has provi nce with camp uses in Guelph Ridgetownbull Horticulture corre-

Kemptville a nd Alfred and a network of spondence course

research facilities that includes the Horshybull Business education Changing with society ticultural Resea rch Institute of Ontariobull Watershed research

diagnostic laboratories and 21 research bull Farm buildingWhen Adelaide Hoodless argued for the stat ions

programestablishment of Macdonald Institute in the The partnership with OMAFRA has

bull Computers in late 1890S she saw scientific training for kept agricultural education and research agriculture

women as a way to improve community at the forefro nt of the University of bull Corn expansionhealth standards The college has evolved Guelph More than 40 per cent of the Unishybull Deailing with continually through the years - growing versitys graduate studenllt are in OAC and

cold climate into the largest home economics facility in more than 70 per cent of its $80-million

bull CropOntario under dean Margaret McCready and research budget is focused on the ag rishyrecommendations

broadening its outlook in the 1970S under food indus try T hat commitment to

dean Janet Wardlaw to include consumer research is the earliest and most enduring1960-1970

studies and the hospitality industry Wardshy achievement out of the 125 bull OAC Alumnilaw set the tone for increased research OAC contin ues to lea d the way in

Foundationactivity and positioned the college to join research and is one of the most dynamshy

bull University of Guelphforces with the social sciences in 1998 ic co lleges in th e University saysbull Arboretum

McLaughlin But we draw on peoplebull Ag research

fro m all over the University communi shystations

ty And now with the provincial colleges bull International

added back into the mix we are ail workshyag research centres

ing as part of the sa me team to enhance bull Scholarships

been the launch of a new University relationship the opportunities availab le to yo ung people in agri shyendowments

with OACs oldest partner the Onta rio Minist ry of cu ltural edu cat ion bull International

Agriculture Food a nd Rural Affairs (OMAFRA) Alumn i have always held an important position apiculture

In 1997 the University of Guelph became th e on that tea m Among OACs top achievements is the

The OAC of today owes much to its past THE ONTAR IO AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE might never have existshy The journalist s role in establishing the college as the Ontario

ed if not for the failure of a Univers ity of Toronto experiment in School of Agriculture and Experimental Farm is bro ught into

agricultural education in the 18505 It certainly wouldnt have context in a new history of OAC that will be published in April

been situated in Guelph without the political parlaying of Guelph to help celebrate its 125th an niversary The College 011 the Hill A journalist and cleric William Clarke And it might not have surshy New History of the 011tario Agriwltuml College 1874- I 999 was

vived a traumatic first yea r o f patronage and scandal if it hadnt written by Guelph history professor Terry Crowley and Univershy

been for the acc iden tal appo intment ofVVilliam Johnston as prinshy sity professor emeritus Alexander Ross who wrote the origi nal

cipal in the fall of 1874 College 011 the Hill for OACs 100th anniversary

And that was just the beginning If the first book tdls us how OAC grew into the University of

One hundred and twenty-five years have passed since Clarke cuelph the second tells us why

successfully argued that the new province of Ontario needed a When the fledgling provincial government of the 1870s was

land-based rural college where the focus was on providing a pracshy glued togeLher by political patro nage how could th e sc hoo l be

tical education in farming The University of Toronto fai led to any different asks Crowley Two principals came and went withshy

attract farmers sons he sa id because it allowed the other proshy in its first year when rumours tore at their moral fibre so the job

fessions of medicine law and the clergy to overshadow agriculshy fell quickly to the new college rector William Johnston

ture Clarkes persuasive fiting in the then Olltario Farmer newsshy Because we already know how OACs story devdops we ca n

paper helped place the college on 550 acres of good clay loam see some iro ny in the fact that the man who nur tured this preshy

at the back door of his Guelph parish mier agricultural college through its infancy was educated in the

14 GVELPI-I AWMNvs

alumni initiative that es tablished the OAC Alumni work internship at the end of their third yea r and125 YEARS Foundation in the 1960s to provide financial supshy co me back to finish the fourth year with a job wa it shyOF ACHIEVEMENT port to co ll ege programs and scholarships The ing for them says McLa ughlin and they o ften have

foundation also provided the leadership and incenshy fo ur or fi ve to choose from vVe are very short of bull Teaching

tive to create Guelph Unive rsity Alumni Research graduates to fill all of the jobs that are o ut there now innovations

and Development (GUARD Inc) in bull Birdsfoot trefoil

1996 The manda te of the technology bull Land reclamation Educating Leadersmanageme nt company is to develop bull Rural planning

researc h i nven tion s in to marketable bull Wind and snow Guelphs agriculture graduates haveprod ucts lau nch spin-off companies

studies played key roles in Canadian agriculture and gene rate revenu es to support basic

bull Milk testing including federal ministers William Mothshyand applied research at U of G bull Ruminant nutrition

erwell Diploma 1881 John Wise ~DA 56Throughout OACs history alumni bull Ag poli cy and Lyle Vanclief BSc(Agr) 66 Mothshyhave formed a network ofAggies who

development erwell was a driving force behind the have volunteered their time to provide

western grain producers movement before 197deg-198o

a rea l-world view for students helped to

being named to Cabinet in 1921 In thelaunch the careers of many new grad ushybull Arboretum Centre 1980s Wise introduced income stabilizashyates by providing work opport unities bull Ghana-Guelph tion programs and created farm debtencouraged research initiatives co nshy

Project review boards Today Vanclief is strugshytributed millions of dollars to scholarshy

bull Integrated pest gling with low commodity prices and intershyship programs and voca lized co ncerns

managementabout college programs and curriculum national trade agreements

bull Composting animal After receivin g some critica l advice

wastesfrom alumni and agr i-food employers

bull Crop resistance toin the ea rly part o f the 1990s OAC

herbicideslaunched a new BSc(Agr ) program that

bull Limnocorrals for wil l gradu ate the fi rst class of st uden ts

aquatic ecosystems this anniversary year The new agriculshy

bull Grain drying and ture curriculum emphasizes communica tion skills in the agri-food sec tor he says

storageand teamwork allows students to choose their own If you live anywhere near Guelph youll know that

bull Asparagusspecializations and includes opportunities for onshy the agri-food sector ill this area is expected to lead the

bull Systemic fungicides the-job experience Many of those students take a local economy well into the new mi llennium creat shy

bull Pesticides research

bull Agricultural Code of

Practicesocial sciences Johnston had no real farm expeshy within the interdisciplin ary atmosphere of the

rience but he understood people well says Crow- University of Guelph OAC has both contributed

ley and he recognized almost as quickly as his students that the to and benefited iiom the Universitys steady growth Traditionshy

school would succeed only if it co uld offer farm ers sons someshy al OAC programs have expanded into new departments and colshy

thing more thall what they had already learned at home leges providing greater benefits to agri-food resea rch and teach shy

Johnstons commitment to education and his genui ne con shy in g New partnerships o n campus and th e academ ic freedom

cern for his students still echo through the corridors of the build shy provided by University sta tus have enabled Guelph to enlarge its

ing named in his hono ur a nd across campus in the broad range already significant influence in the agri-food sector

of disciplines that now nuke up the Un iversity of Guelph Johnshy Crowley says the enha nced partnership between U of G and

ston was the firs t of hundreds of hulllane and sensible people the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture Food a nd Rural Affairs has

who have given the campus its distinctive character says Crowshy fulfilled a vision of OAC as the hub of agr icultural educa tion that

ley The University of Guel ph is still a good place to be People had been expressed nea rly a cen tury before It s a good place to

help each other to a rema rkable degree and it is eve n m ore end a history and begin a future

remarkable that this sense of co-operatio n has lasted through the In Crowleys fi nal words Agriculture reta ins its econo mi c

most recent government meat slicing importance in the co untrys econom) but the secto r will find

Told in the social and political context of its 125 yea rs the itself [n an increasingly international and com petitive ellvironment -OAC story builds momentum as the pages turn The final chapshy where education and research become ever more importa nt Since

ter in Crowleys history is the most impressive because it SUIll shy the Ontario Agricultural College has demons t rated its ability to

marizes the last 25 years when developments in agricultural edushy respond to changing circumstances during its first 125 years the

cation research and service have occurred 1110st quickly Growing past suggests a willingness to meet the new challenges that await

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ing more jobs and generating more wealth than any 125 YEARS other industry A recent study by the citys Planning OF ACHIEVEMENT OAe 125 and Business Development Department predicts a

ANNIVERSARY EVENTS50-per-cent increase in employment in agri-food bull Mosquitoindustries in the next decade Broaden out to the

monitoring jan 29 - Official OAC 12S launch and bull Canadian publication of 125 Years of Achievements

Greenhouse Feb 16 - Winegard Seminar Series hosts New frontiers Conference Andy Johnson Seymour Wis

bull Non-agricultural March 5 - Winegard Seminar Series hosts At the tum of the 20th century Prof William waste on land Sir Colin Berry Royal London Hospital UKGraham created the impetus for a Canadishy

bull Pest diagnostic March 31 - Opening of AJ Casson Exhibitan poultry industry through nutrition studshyservice and selections from the OAC art collection ies that also provided a background for

at the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre work in human nutrition The tum of the 1980-1990 April 30 - Recognition of the 12s-year 21st century finds poultry scientist Ann Gibshybull Alumni House GuelphOMAFRA partnership and launch bins perfecting the techniques to transfer bull Turfgrass Institute of The College on the Hill A New History genetic material into chicken embryos to bull Centre for the of the Ontario Agricultural College develop birds with better disease resistshy

Genetic Improvement 1874 - 1999middotance or to improve production characterisshyof Livestock june 7 amp 10 - Spring Convocation for tics including the deposition of medically

bull Network of OAC diploma and degree graduates Eachvaluable proteins in the eggs Toxicology Centres graduate will receive a copy of College

bull Biological control lab on the Hill bull George Morris june 18 amp 20 - Alumni Weekend and

Centre opening of the Conservatory and Gardens bull Advanced Sept 14 to 16 - Canadas Outdoor Farm

Agricultural Show will host the countrys biggest silent Leadership auction as an OAC fundraiser for student Program support Ontario industry and the predictors are similar and

bull Distance education Sept 25 - Heritage Banquet and Ball for again youll find U of G at the hub of that growth bull Animal behaviour alumni agri-food partners and University In the past decade the view from Johnston Hall

and welfare communityhas expanded to include OMAFRAs provincial bull Farm animal care Nov 24 - Agri-Food Into the Newheadquarters and the U of G Research Park which bull Haploid breeding Millennium conference to discuss the majoris home to a branch of Agriculture and Agri-Food

technologies forces shaping the destiny of the global Canada the regional headquarters of the Canadian bull Hybrid canolc and Canadian agri-food systems and rural Food Inspection Agency and more than two dozen bull Consumer societiesbusinesses and agriculture organizations that are

benefits from key players in Ontarios industry

agricultural For more information on these events or toIn the summer of 1997 Guelph welcomed the research order copies of the anniversary books visit establishment of Ontario Agri-Food Technologies

bull Soybean the OAC 125 Web site at wwwoacuoguelph - a consortium of 12 grower associations five rhizobium 532C cajOAC125 or contact the deans office atOntario universities 11 industries and OMAFRA

519-824-4120 Ext 2285 e-mail oac125 - which is dedicated to generating wealth for the 1990S oacuoguelphcaprovincial agri -food sector through the application bull Guelph Food

of biotechnology The consortium will develop Technology

financing and the research teams needed to take in new business to the country s economyCentre

discoveries and turn them into products in the Some would suggest the growth of agri -food bull GUARD Incsupermarket partnerships is part of a global trend in economic bull Environmental

A new venture beginning this year is the Agrishy thinking that says consolidate cluster and work Farm Plan

Food Quality Cluster that seeks out opportunities together for greater rewards but the important thing bull U of GOMAFRA

for agri-food companies to work together to meet is that this agri-food sector is clustering in Guelph partnership

a specific need The Guelph duster is one of the first - around U of G - because this institution began bull Wheat in China

to be established in Canada but it already has 500 preparing for its future 125 years ago with a comshybull Food packaging

members and has predicted that potential projects mitmen t to leadership in agri-food research edushybull Transgenic plants

in Ontario could add $2 billion to $3 billion a year cation and service ga

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UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

rese~ tesch SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERYmiddot SCHOLARSHIpmiddot SOCIAL DEVELOPMENTS

WHEN 24 HOURS IN lea rning how to integrate work Runciman arrived at Guelph know they may be harm ful to

A DAY ISNT ENOUGH and fa mily life rath er than jugshy last summer after spending four their health

TRYIN GTO ACCOMMODATE the gling the two says Lero Inteshy years deSIgning orthopedic sysshy Most consumers are not demands of family and career is gration is key so tfut people can tems and instruments for Canashy aware that plants contain a comshya problem most peopl e fa ce in be successful in multiple roles dian and Ameri ca n firms He plex mi xture of biochemica ls todays society Those indi vidshy rath er than struggling from crishy hopes to establish a state-of-theshy says Prof Pra vecn Saxena Plant ual and family struggles will be sis to crisis art research lHboratory with Agriculture Herbal remedies the focus of the Universitys new HOLlsed in the College of Pro fs Jinl Dickey and Jack have been developed on historishy

Social and Applied j-Iuman Scishy Callaghan Human Bi010gy and cal and anecdotal evidence rather ences the centre brings togethshy Nutr itional Sciences that will than by scientitlc testin g he says er related resea rch areas und er allow him to pursue hi s twin Saxena is trying to change this by a sing1e roof and will spark new research interests in shoulder systematically identifying charshy

Family relations interdisc iplinary opportunities and spine mechanics acterizing and quantifying the experts recommend particularly for graduate st ushy The trio has appli ed for chemical constituents of plants parents integrate - not dents More than 50 fac ulty and fundi ng from the Natural Sc ishy used in a1ternative medicines juggle - work and staff ha ve indicated a desire to ences and Engineering Resea rch family life be affiliates of the centre which Co uncil to equip a biomechanshy

wijJ stimulate resea rch and forge ics lab already loca ted adjacent partnerships with organiza tions to U of Gs new Health and Pershy

Centre for Families Work and co rp orations and co mmunity forman ce Ce ntre in the recentshyWell-Being agenCies ly renova ted Powell Building

Headed by Profs Donna This funding would bring Lero and Kerry Daly Family BODY IS THE the lab up to date to meet intershyRe lat ions and Appli ed Nutri shy ULTIMATE MACHINE national standards says Runcishytion the centre will promote IM INTER ESTED in the app lishy man who p1ans to follow up on responsive wo rk env ironments cation of mechanical engineershy pioneering shoulder mechani cs and help families across Canashy ing to the human body The work he was invo lved in whil e He and grad uate students da manage wo rk and family body is the ultimate machine completing his PhD at Sco tshy Susan Murch and Co lleen Simshyresponsibilities in healthy ways So says Prof John Runciman lands Strathclyde Un iversity mons in th e Ontario Agri culshy

The centre will also be a catshy who recently brought his blend He hop es hi s studies will tural Co llege a1so wa nt to alyst for new researcl in areas of academic and industry expershy help orthopedic co mpanies improve the methods of growshyas diverse as health promotion tise in biomedical engineering design better implan ts used to in g medicinal plants to protect seniors long-term ca re nutrishy to U of Gs School of Engineershy correct such deformities as sco shy cons umers and ensure quality tion and wellness rural aging ing in the College of Phys ica l liosis or cur va ture of the spine Problems in the herbal remeshyand gender in the workplace A and Engineering Science and for treating shoulder insta shy dies industry include medicinal mandate of the centre is that the

IN FACT

bi lity often caused by injuries prepara tions containing misidenshyresults of its research must be among athletes tified plant species contaminashyapplied and availabl e to the tion by pests and disease a lack public to benefit those Canadishy RESEARCHERS of understanding of plant physshyans who ne ed help dealing with CULTIVATE QUALITY iology or efficacy for human conshythe accelerated pace of life nonshy IN HERBAL sumption ilnu co nsumer fraud shytraditional family relationsl ips MEDICINE Our research will help set a longer working hOLlrs globlt1lshy MORE AND MO RE Canadims are standard fo r the development ization and downsizing turning to natural remedies as of safe va lue-added products

The challenge for fam ilies is alternatives to medicine but few Saxena says

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RESEARCH UNCOVERS KEY

TO AGING RESEARCHERS may have found modern sc iences answer to th e mythica l Fountain of Youth

U of G professors John Phillips and Arthur Hilliker Department of Molecular Biolshyogy and Genetics and Gabrielle Boulianne of the University of Toronto and th e Hospital fo r Sick Children appear to have identified a critical weakness in the common fruit fl ys defence against aging

The researchers from the College of Biologica l Science di scovered that a specific cell type - th e motor neuron - is the major target for oxidative damage known for several years to be a key factor affecti ng aging and lifespa n They were able to boost a fruit flys defence against the damage by inserting th e human gene SOD1 which is known to protect against oxidashy

tive damage into the fly s DNA As a result the ave ra ge lifespa n of the fli es (us uall y about 80

days) was increased 40 per cent

PROFESSOR SURVEYS CANADIANS ON POLITICS ETHICS

of the most pampered celeb ri ty NEW WEAPON or the mo st prima donn a pro AGAINST BACTERIA athlete ANTflllOTlCS TYPICALLY have a

More than half of su rvey shelf life because bacte ria develshyresponden ts say they have little op resista nce over time but this or no confidence in Parliament wou ld not be a concern with a with the figure being even lower new sys tem fo r smuggling for the Senate In addition 34 per an tibiotics past bacterial walls

TI-lESE DAYS on both sides of the A molecular-level Trojan border what a politician says or ho rse is how Prof Terry Bevshydoes in private can have tremenshy eridge Department of Microbishydous impact on his or her public ology and graduate student Kelshycareer - but is th at appropriate ly MacDonald desc ribe the

Prof Maureen Mancuso of system theyre studying 1 t takes the Department of Polirical Scishy advan tage of a mechanism develshyence in the College of Social and oped by bacteria to attack an d Applied Human Sciences an d a co nsume neighbouring bugs team of four other political scishy Preliminary tests by the entists conducted a cross-counshytry survey of 1400 Canadians asking what th ey think of th e behaviour of their elected represhysentatives The res ults were pubshyli shed in October in th e book A

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WILL ONTARIO FARMERS GROW

HEMP U OF G SCIENTISTS are helping to determine the viability of hemp as a cash crop for Ontario farmers

Health Canada recently li ftshyed a 60-year ban on growing hemp and about 10000 acres are expected to be plan ted in Canada this year Hemp is an organic fibre tha t could be used in everythi ng fro m fabri c and medicine to oil and paper

Gordon Scheifele of Kemptville CoJlege and Peter Dragla of Ridgetown College are studying the potential of hemp as an Ontario crop Scheifele has completed initial test ing on nine varieties and a series of producshy

tion research experiments in northern parts of On tario Dragla has established breeding program trials and looked at commercial production of hemp varieties in southern Ontario He is also developing field instrushymentation to provid e field readshyings of tetrahydrocanmbinol the psychoactive ingredient in hemp

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COLLEGE OF ARTS professor Ivlary Rubio and professo r emerita Eliza beth Waterston know more abo ut author LM Montgomery than anyone else in the world They were among the first academics to seriously study the world-famous author of Anne ofGreel Gables

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A NEW INTERACTIVE CD-RO M designed by Ontario Veterinary College professor Cindy Adams will help veterinarians learn to help clients gr iev in g over th e loss of a pet Titled Death of a Pet the CD-ROM is expected to be launched in February and is geared toward vets technicians and students

Adams who holds joint appo intments in the departshyments of Popu lat ion Medicine and Cli nical Studies and the Veterinary Teaching Hospital is an expert on the humanan imal bond She has developed in-sershyvice training workshops fo r vets on dealing with client grief over the loss of a pet and su pport groups for grieving pet owners

Inside Playwright Judith Thompson

BEHIND THE MASK

JUDITH THOMPSON A DRAMA PROFESSOR at the University of Guelph

since 1992 is one of Canadas finest playwrights Her complex and

sometimes disturbing plays give voice to human failings and accomshy

plishments A two-time winner of the Governor Generals Literary

Award she has received wide acclaim for her work

On the following pages the Guelph Alumnus profiles an artist

whose creativity finds expression through dialogue by offering a

faithful rendition of the dialogue between Thompson and Comshy

munications and Public Affairs writer Andrew Vowles Much like

the characters she unmasks on stage Thompson reveals both comshy

plicated and unexpected images of herself

PHOTOGRAPHY BY D EAN PALMER

20 GU ELPH A LUMNUS

NO The scene is the rehearsal space in Lower Massey Hall at the University of Guelph

Monday mid-morning Outside the warped-glass windows the first wet snow of the year

drops like pebbles Drama professor Judith Thompson is leading some 20 students in her

Acting I class through their warm-ups The students stand in a circle and take turns aiming

a mock blow as they shout the word No More she says to the less assertive To others

whose No sounds shredded over the top she holds up a hand More control Thompson

gestures to her diaphragm It has to come from here

SCENE THOMPSONS OFFICE MASSEY H ALL

On one wal l hang pictures of actors engaged

in a drama mingled with childrens sc hool

drawings The desktop is practically bare A

black purse occupies one chai r A scarf has

landed on the back of another This is where

the playw rig ht hangs her hat during her

classes and meets with studen ts She wri tes

at home in Torontos Annex neighbourhood

where she li ves with her husband Gregor

Campbell a sessional English inst ruc tor at

Guelph and their five children Ariane 13

Eli 10 Grace 8 Felicity 4 and Sophia J

SCENE U OF G LI BRARY ARCHIVES

Guelph Alumnus writer (readil1g from draft of Epilepsy and Snakes Fear as the Genesis of Theatre a talk given by Thompson to the Epilepsy Association of Metro Toronto ill 1997 The script for the ta lk is included among boxes ofcorrespo nde11ce numerous drafts of plays various newspaper and magazine artishycles and reviews ahout the playwright and her work that Thompson recently donated to the U of G Library archives)

1have known real fear only a few times

in my relatively sheltered life But 1

believe these moments of fear are

directly connected to the so urce of creshy

ativi ty within me

SCENE J UST ABOUT ANYWHERE YOU CAN

REA D A PLAY

GA writer (reading from introduction to Tho mpsons play Sled wh ich was first pro shyduced hy Torontos Tarragon Theatre in 1997)

Judith Thompson was born in 1954 in

Montreal She graduated from Queens

University in 1976 then graduated from

the act ing program of the National Theshy

22 GU ELPH ALUMNUS

I seem to give voice to people who

have no voice

atre Schoo l in 1979 Alth ough she

worked briefl y as a profess ional actor

she became more interested in writing

and at th e age of 25 a workshop of her

first scrip t The Crack walker was proshy

duced by Theatre Passe MuraiHe Her

work which includes both radio and

tel evisio n writing has enjoyed great

internationa l success

Other plays includ e The Crackshywalker White Biting Dog Pink Tornado - radio Am Yours Lion ill the Streets White Sand Perfect Pie and Stop Talking Like That- radio She is the recipient

of the Floyd S Chalmers Canadian Play

Award for Lion in the Streets in 199 1 and

Am Yours in 1987 and the Governor

Generals Literary Award for Drama for

The Other Side of the Dark in 1989 and

White Biti11g Dog in 1984

S CENE LUNCHTIME

U OF G UNIVERSITY CLUB

Thompson Im so grateful to have this job

beca use it allows me to do the work that s

important and the plays that will be my legashy

cy and tha t are what 1 feel I have to conshy

tribute to Canadian culture If I didnt have

thi s job Id ha ve to keep compromising

because my plays dont make money Theyre

always in sma ller houses I take chances

theyre not commercial They play all over

th e world but aha)s in sma ller places 1

would just have to pursue life as a screenshy

writer to make a living Thi s job gives

me the great privilege of doing my research

which is the plays that I write and the edishy

torial work that I some times do and screenshy

plays that are worthy and good projects

GA writer Audi ences and reviewers have

described your plays as dark disturbing full

of angry people full of profanity

Thompson At the risk of sounding

grandiosel seem to give voice to people who

have no voice or very little in the culture

whom people dont li sten to Liol1 in the Streets the handicapped wo man living in

the basement all on her own the yo ung girl

Iso bel The secretary stuck in this abu sive

relationship with the actor The middle-class

housewife dumped by her husband because

be doesnt like her sweatsuits and on and on

I give voice to them because I dont know

because I care abo ut them because I like to

represent them Im a lawyer Some of them

use profanity because they have really good

reason to be angry a nd most of th em are

powerless And unfortunately profanity has

a little charge Its a little source of baby powshy

er It upsets me I dont use it myself Im very

se nsitive to it

SCENE ARCHIVES

GA writer (reading essay by Thompson comshymissio ned by Toronto literary Journal Brick

in 995)

If I were not a writer 1 think 1 would

wear a riding hat With a stee l lining

Because I would be baving many more

epi leptic seizures than 1 do presentl y

Because any of the non-writer real jobs I have had caused me sleepless nights self-disgust swoll en eyes cystic acne and hearin g di sorde rs all of which increased electrical activity in my brain which I believe increases the frequenshycy of seizu res

SCENE UNI VER SITY CLUB

Thompson (discussing the critical and pubshylic reaction to her first play The Crackwalkshyer) It was slaughtered at first as all my plays have been Very bad reviews at first and then somehow they catch fi re and theres one grea t review and the others start to see something GA writer Why the bad reviews Thompson I think people might say that theyre shock ing but I dont think so not

with the movies we see and whatnot Theyre not shocking compared with Quentin Taranshytino But theyre not like anything else they dont know where to put them And when they dont know where to put them theyre dismayed I think and hostile and they feel challenged I just write as I see Im not tryshying to shock or challenge anyone I hope they do challenge - me too all of us I often feel li ke the little boy in The Emperors New

Clothes Look this is what I see

SCENE LOWER MASSEY HALL

Two Acting I students perform a scene on th e stage Their fellow stud ents sit on th e Aoo r watching Thompson sits forward on a plasti c chair forearms propped on her knees hands clasped before her Her eyes her bod y are intent on the action Later Amberley Buxton (fi rst-year student il1 Actshyil1g I who is pursuing a psychology major and a drama minor)

Its a really in tense class In one of our first classes we were to share something that had changed our perspective on li fe or how we thought every day Later during improvisashytion or scene work she had us draw on the emotional context fro m those stories to add to our acting experiences Its really intense in that way A lot of people share a lot of personal things and we use each others experiences

SCENE UNIVER SIT Y CLUll

Thompson Ea ch se meste r students go through an intensive transition In order to find your creative centre or trigger yo u need

to know yourself in an intell ectual context They reach that pl ace and find their genius My philosophy is that every stu dent has genius and its my job to uncover it My relationshi p is so intense with st udents The classes are very psychoanalyt ic It seems to tra nsform their life

SCENE LO WER MA SSEY

Buxton Even if we haven t encountered a similar situat ion in real life she has us draw on somethi ng similar For ollr exa m Im doing a monologue My character has been abused I havent been abused myself but I have to draw on a si tuation where I had sim shy

itar feel ings draw on some experi ence Like being teased at schoo l Even so mething as small as tha t if you find a way to get back to that

SCENE UNIVERSITY CLUll

Thompso n I llsed to be terrified In high school Id spend half my time in the nurses room because the idea of having a se izu re in front of yo ur peers at that age was just petrifying I did finall y have a seizure but luckil y no one was around at the time So I

think all of that puts me in touch with a lot in life I might not have been in touch with being fairly privileged not rich but eno ugh to be middle class A lot of my work is about class abo ut the class differentiation in Canashyda Ive somehow felt more all ied to a less adva ntaged class My gra ndfather once sat as prime minister of Australia My grandshyfa ther on the other side was a member of the Royal Society an entomologist but his mother died in childbirth and he was brought up as a cousin on the farm outside of London And my Australian grandfath er was one of 1I siblings in a shack by the side of the railroad His father had di ed He walked barefoot to school so I th ink because its just two generations away I feel it in my bones and my blood GA writer How did you get to writing Thompson Through ac ting Ive been involved in thea tre since I was II years old I was Helen Keller for a university show my mother directed She had an [vIA in th eatre and she taught it at Queens I was in TILe Crushycible when I was 12 in Kingston and Jean Brodie and on and on and on I would just lisshyten to aU these wonderful lines and words and it all kind of enrered me And acting is where I reaU y found my niche as a person The theshyatre became my home Then I went to theatre schoo l as an actress but I started to create mask characters through improvisation Thats where I really took off in a big way and where I found myse lf very very excited GA writer VVhat we re you excited abo ut Thompson I was doing the writing And I felt frankly that I did it much better than most of the texts I was working with Not Shakespeare but and its not a matter of better it s thats where I belonged So I would go home and write down the charshyacters that r crea ted that day in class and make th em talk to each odler and thats how The Craekwalker happened

I spent a summer in Toronto looking for acting work and I go t a few jobs But every day for a co uple of hours I would write at a typewri ter and I found these voices comshying At the end of it I sa id to someone You know I think this isnt bad I think this might eve n be a play At the Na tional Theatre shySchool they said to me Youre pretty handy with these monologues but dont ever think you could write a play (Pause) I enjoy telling th at tale on them

WINTER 1999 23

SCENE LOWER MASSEY

Buxton It was my fint time doing mask work She had us sit with the masks on and just sta re at ou rselves in the mirror We did it for an hour staring at the mask feelin g the mask It was a phenomenal eilVer ience the Wily youre able to transform yourself It was almost as if you werent look ing at you That helped yo u to walk differently You were able to shed your

own movements and personality

SCEN E UNIVfRSITY CLU B

Thompson I think thil t seizures can transshylate into creativity are part of me as a cre shyltltive artist Peop le in the medical busin ess are very skeptical of ltll1ything like this But I fee l it s because I have fewer inhibitors in my bra in You have these inhibitors and thats what medication helps But if youre epi leptic your inhibitors Ment working as well to put out the electrical fire so it spreads I think the door to my un conscious is kind of flapping around so J think that helps creatively

SCENE MA SSEY HALL

Student (steppingforwmd) NO I Thompson (quietly) Good

SCENE ARCHIVES

GA writer ( reading fiom Epilepsy and Sna kes)

I have no doubt that my experience with epi lepsy has con tributed to my creative wo rk partly because it hE Jped me to understand what it is to be marginalized to be isolated to be feJ rful and to be out of control and eve n to be mortal

SCENE U NIVERS IT Y CLU B

Thompson Unchecked id can mean scrawlshying on the walls crazy things muttering in stree t corne rs beca use th ey re all id no su perego But I had the luck to be born into a theatrical famiJy my mother havin g the theatrical experience so I was exposed to it Lots of books I was taken to 1 lor of plays Having ep il epsy my first seizure when I was nin e J was able to link with that If I hadnt had those advantages who knows the se izur es migh t have ju st made me a depressed person an angr y person And you re touched with mortality you always live und er siege a slight fear of having a se izure Its much less so now with me

24 GUELPH ALUM NUS

SCENE UNIVERSITY CLUB

Thompson Ive always been a mimic in a cheap way I could always mimic we ll I would raLk to someone on a bus and I could do them exactly Thats kind of dangerous because it can be pretty shallow But it showed me ltl way into the person throu gh voice And once J could do that like a pupshypet something would click and I cou ld get

in in a deeper way J need to get so thoroughly into the charshy

acte rs and their state of mind and especialshyly tapping repressed el11orion which gets you in touch with your id or unconscious li fe If

I take little sections of

myself and grow them in a petri dish of the play

one character is about rage I have to tap into my own rage and that s why the monoshylogues so things can just flow and then I can retrieve things from the past and remember things So its not working from here (gesshytures to midriff) it s wo rking fro l11 here (gesshytures to head)

Mo nologues for me are always the key to findin g out who th e character is because if you cant make them rant for fi ve minutes you dont know th em Tha ts what I tell my

playwriting students I want to see r-wo pages of this characters mouth In other words to speak for five minutes we have to have

so mething to say We have to have something we feel passionately about something were angry about and if we dont have something to say for fi ve minutes who are we

SCENE UN IVERSTTY CLUB

GA writer Vhere do you see what eventushyally becomes a play such as Sled 1110mpson I was at a lodge and saw a moose that s one thin g And that made me think about winter and how the country is always with us as Ca nadians Even in the urban censhytres we ca rr y it wi th us Theres always this

see ming division between the country the wilderness and civilized centres but its the same The wildness of the moose and the

hunt and the bear is in our neighbourhoods I guess its like Lion in the Streets it must be a thing with me And also the exquisite beaushyty and thats how most of the world thinks of Canada as the wilderness Its not quite how we think of ourselves but it is partly So that made me want to do something abo ut the Nor th violence in the North

As far as th e old mans stories that was my neighbour and he told me all those stoshyries they were all true except mltlyb e one or so and I thought Theyre amazing They teilus what our neighbourhoods Me really about and Toro nto what the city is how its const ru cted Toronto is our stories and in th ese neighbourhoods you have an urbane entertainer li ving nex t to an 80-year-old Italia n man and thats the beauty ofToronshyto ltllld its the way th e world is chan ging The stric t class divis ions and culture divishysions th eyre no longer as defin ed as they we re espec ially in th ese neighbourhoods the great pioneering experimen t GA writer Do your chi ld ren see your work Thompson No None of my children can see my plays Ariane saw f Am Yours in New York when she was about nin e I do cl eal with the dark and whats tru e and my chilshydren aren t ready for that Im probab ly more protective th an mos t mothers Walk them

to school till theyre 13 that ki nd of thin g GA writer Yo u we re intervi ewed in the Globe alld Mail recently in a story about motherh ood dnd th e muse How do yo u handle th e demand s of motherh ood and writing

Thompson If Im in the situation where I have 15 or so hours of child care a week Im OK because when Im with them I wa nt to be with them and when ]m doing my work

th ats what I clo But if I do something like a worko ut thell a black cloud descends The guilt and the black cl oud th at descend as I take off on my bike it s huge Then once the workout s finished I know it was d good

thing to do although it s also cut into my

work time J do feel guilty about the nilture of my work too in that my kids cant see it Am I drawing on a part of me thats not good as a mother The oth er part of me is th at I make up bedtime stories and bake coo kies and all thlt stuff ]m probably a

rather operatic mother I cry at movies laugh too hard __

SCENE ARCI-I[VES

GA writer (reading fiom Epilepsy and Snakes)

1

Although being a dramatic writer has

given me a reputation in my cou ntr y

and a strong identity the actof writin g

or creating character leaves me SOJlle shy

times feeling that I have no id entity at

all Every once in a while when I am not

writing or tending to my four children

I feel I 1m falling again down th e terrishy1 ble hole with nothing to hold on to

And I believe this falling this identity

pain is a result of me using the very

essence of Ill yself to create character in

a dramatic wo rk r wonder so metimes

if J illl1 betraying my soul in a way by

using its essence However J have found

some comfo rt in the words ofWilliall1

Blake Essence is not Identity but from

Essence proceeds Identity and from one

Essence may proceed many Identities

as from one Affection Jlla y proceed

many thoughts If the Essence was

the sa me as the Identit y there could be

but one Identity which is fal se Heaven

wo uld upon this plan be but a clock

but one and the sa me Essence is th ereshy

fore Essence and not Identity

SCENE UNIVER SIT Y CLUB

Thompson I always put myself in a play and

never In other words I take little sections of

myself and grow them in a petri dish of th e

play So if Ive found a moment where Im a

bit lazy ]11 grow it and milke the character

very lazy o r impatient or whatever So I take

these moments because we all have all of

them grow th em and create this Frankenshy

steins monste r a character right out of parts

body parts and psychological parts often of

myself and then observe things in other peoshy

ple but I have to find it in myself to make it

work

SCENE AR C H1V ES

GA writer (reading from Epilepsy al1d Snakes)

My self asserted itself as a kind of quishy

et Lucille Ball c1ulllsy and absent-mindshy

ed At least this gave me an identity and

was a small aCI of slbo tage The next

assertion was an act of unconscio us rev shy

olution th e grand mal seizure that

almost killed me And the next one was

The Crackwalker my first play And this

is how I raged against the machine and

took space in the world And now not

surprisin gly I am seizure-free

SCENE LOWER MASSEY

After another pair of acto rs rUllS through

their scene Thompson directs them to begi n

again She interrupts frequently to question

the students about actions feelings motishy

vations At one point 8S the students pause

to consider her words Thompson turns to

the rest of the class erect in her cha ir

Thompson Isolate the mom ent The great

thing about the stage is th at it isolates the

moments that just race by us_

SCENE UNIVERSITY CLUB

Thompson Ive just written my next play

which is not ca lled Pefeet Pie but thats its

working title because it came from a mon oshy

logue called Perfect Pie But now its a full

two- haul play in which the second wom3n

comes back and tben I have them as yo ung

girls too It goes back ~nd forth and its very

exciting I worksbopped it in the spring and

in December at tbe Tarragon and it will go

on in o ne year At the sa me time lm wr itshy

ing a feature film for Rho mbus based on the

play Pe feet Pie

SCEN E UNlV ERSITY CLUIl

Thompson My pIalS are Illusically written

And if somebody doesnt get the music they

dont feel it and go with the rhythm s it

throws the whole thing off I hear the plays

I hea r them I write with my ear They

change 1 lo t but it s according to rhythm

I ll be sitting in rehea rsal listening and if it

does nt so und ri ght I change it so that its

rhythmic

SCIi -JE J UST AllOUT ANYWHERE YOU CA N

READ A PLAY

GA writer (readmg ji-olll the script ofvVbite

Biting Dog first produced at the Tarragon Th eatre in 1984)

Beciluse of the ex treme and deliberate

lllu sica lity of this play any allempts to

go aga inst the tex tual rhythms such as

th e breaking up of an unbroken senshy

tence the tlking of a pause where none

is written in are DISASTROUS The

effect is like beil1g in a small plane and

suddenly turning off the ignition It all

falls down This play III list SPIN not

just turn around

SCfN e LOWER MASSEY

Her students listen as Thompson stands to

complete a so liloq uy abo ut cap turing the

rhythm of the language on the stage The

wide sleeves of her ank le-length dress slide

down her forea rm s as she ges tures

Thompson Listen to the music of the

scene Each playwright writes their own

symphony

SCENE U NIVERSlTY CLUB

Thompson Ive been pretty directed to this

ii-om an carly age although if I had done anyshy

thing else it probab ly wou ld have been some

form of social work I would have been smokshy

ing three packs of cigarettes a day and workshy

ing il1 an office somewhere up in Scarborough

SC EN E AfltCHIVES

GA write r (reading from Brick interview of Thompson by Eleanor Wachtel ]99] )

In th e thea tre I think what one mllst

do is co nfront the truth confront the

emot ional truth of our li ves which is

mired in the swamp of minuriae

everyday minutiae Maybe it has to be -tl111 way because we couldnt confront

it every day But I think the th eatre

IllllSt Im not interested ill th eatre that

doesnt ga

W1NTER 1999 25

Never mind fish wars pitting countries against one another - here in Canada scientists and policy makers cant agree on who should control the preservation and management ofour own fishery resources BY ANDREW VOWLES

Ca

as

ollapsed cod stocks to the east

On the West Coast laquofish wars

_ rlTDT Pacific salmon enmesh

Canada and the United States

At various points in between fisheries scishy

entists and managers grapple with everyshy

thing from overfishing of freshwater

stocks to invasion by exotic molluscs

What is to be done about Canadian fishshy

eries And what role is being p layed by

fisheries and aquatic scientists at the Unishy

versity of Guelph

-

dock pollock red fish and flatfish made up just under half of Canadas total landings on the Atlantic coast (720000 tonnes of fish and shellfish were caught in 1994 represhysenting a total landed value of $11 billion) Two year~ later that proportion had dropped to 21 per cent with shellfish and open ocean fish specie~ notably Atlantic

Begin in the Atlantic The crisis on the East Coast has become a disaster So says laquoWE NEED TO TRY TO SEPARATE OUTGuelph zo ology professor John Roff enushymerating the litany of woes that have surshy

THE FISHERIES MANAGEMENT DECISIONSfaced from Ca nadas marine fishery in the past decade Although some fish and shellshy

FROM THE POLITICAL DECISIONSfi sh are holding their own stocks of other species have experienced declines raquo

ASSOCIATED WITH THE FISHE RY

down that fishery in 1992 Over fishing and under which it has been buying up fishers

Even when stocks do rebound rarely do we fully und erstand why he says Theres a complex of problems to be disshy more for cod stocks to rebound says Roff entangled involving overflshing long- and co-editor with colleague Prof Moira Fergushyshort-term climate change and changes in son of the respected Canadian Journal ofFishshyocean current systems and productivity eries and Aquatic Sciences A wise course of

And of course the once-thriving northshy action for a fisherman in Newfoundland ern cod that first drew Europeans with their would be to seU his licence and do something nets to the Grand Banks 500 years ago have else he says (Last fall the federal governshycoUapsed to the point that Ottawa had to shut ment announced its final retirement program

the failure of federal fisheries managers to heed the warnings of scientists have been blamed for the coUapse Even with the lllorashytoriulll in place it may take two decades or

licences in Atlantic Ca nada and Quebec) In 1992 - the year Ottawa imposed its

moratorium on the northern cod fisheryshylandings of groundfish including cod had-

salmon making up the difference [n 1995 the total groLlndfish catch reached its lowshyest level in two decades

Unlike the Ea st Coast fi shery which relies most ly on ocea n-living fish the Pacifshyic fishery is dominated b) migratory species Some 300000 tonnes of fish and shellfish were harvested along the west coast in 1994 worth a landed value of $550 million (Arcshytic marine fisheries and their management differ from those on the coasts although cOl11mercial and recreational fisheri es are small here food fisheries are important to

U OF G AQUATIC SCIENCES EXPERTISE CATCHES WORLD ATTENTION

Landlocked in the middle of the courltry U ofG nevertheless boasts fish pathology and diseases including farmed fish diseases fish an enviable record and range ofexpertise in aquatic sciencesshy hormones and reproductive physiology including the effects of marine and freshwater - dating back to the late 1960s Thats when environmental contaminants early life history and behaviour Prof Keith Ronald thell chair of the Department ofZoology (and of fi shes and biology of tuna later dean of the College ofBiological Science) began a marine biolshyogy program at the University Today Guelph has the largest Partnered with the A-erod Institute of Ichthyology in U of group of ichthyologists - scientists who study fish - in Gs Aquatic Sciences Facility the r[agen Aqualab is an North America investigating a wide variety ojIre~hshy aquatic research and teaching facililY for studying water alld marine fisheries and aquatics topics aquatic organisms Environmentally controlled

rooms in the Aqualab allow faculty and students to U of Gs Axelrod Institute of Ichthyology houses simulate habitats as diverse as the Arctic Ocean and one of the worlds largest collections of museumshy tropical rainforest pools The facility is named for quality fish fossils donated to the University by its principal benefactor Rolf Hagen founding presshy

ident of Canadas largest pet store 5llpplier J 989 The institute which provides space for fisheries research and visiting scientists brings together 12 core U of G U of G faculty edit four internationally recognized journals researchers in fisheries and aquatic sciences whose interests and in ichthyology fisheries and aquatic science Awarded to U of G by expertise span environmental contaminants and parasitic disshy the National Research Council in 1997 the Canadian Journal of eases evolutionary genetics of marine and freshwater fishes Fisheries al1dAquatic Sciellces is co-edited by zoology professors

US ichthyologist and author Herbert Axelrod in

28 GUELPH ALUMNUS

northerners including shrimp Atlantic salmon and arctic char) Accountin g fOI almost half of that total were Pacific salmon which ret urn from the ocean to spawn in home streams and rivers up and down the coast of Alaska British Columbia and Washshyington There are actually five main spec ies of sa lmon that run down the BC coast shysockeye (t he most va luable commercial species) chinook coho chum and pinkshyfrom spring to December

Its a very complex jurisdictional and multi-user problem says Roff Bes ides degradation of freshwater spawning habishytats and ocean climate effects of El Nill0 the West Coast fishery is a cauldron of ten shysions between various groups perennial fish wars between Ca nada and the United States disputes that pit sport fishers against native fishing rights Recognizing the problems of low ocean productivity habitat damage overfishing and indiscriminate fishing pracshytices that take weak and strong stocks alike Ottawa is developing a new policy to guide Canadas Pacific salmon fisheries focusing on conservation sustainable use and improved decision-making

That potent mix of overfishing and habishytat degrada tion is also a problem for Canashydas freshwater fisheries A report tabled last fall by the federal standing committee on

fisheries and oceans called for more federal funding for research and fisheries programs in central and arctic regions of Canada Accord ing to that report the Grea t Lakes commercial fishery is one of the largest freshwater fisheri es in the world worth an average landed value of more than $40 milshylion a year and an eco nomic impact of at least $250 million Some 90 per cent of that catch is exported The neck lace of lakes threading its way to the St Lawrence River also supports the largest fres hwater sports fishery in the world 800000 Ontarians fish on the Great Lakes eve ry year contributing $850 million to the economy

In Manitoba managers are concerned about the long-term susta inability of freshshywater fish stocks particularly declines in Lake Winnipeg and the northern part of the province caused by overfishing environshymental degradation loss of prime spawning habitat and predators The province has seen stocks rise and fall particularly of pickerel Manitobas highest-priced fish In an attempt to manage the fishery in a sustained fashion the province recently introduced a qu ota entitlement system for anglers Joe OConshynor director of the fisheries branch of Manshyitobas Department of Na tural Resources says his department is wrestling with the environmental threats on fish habitat posed

by farming and hydroelectric development In Ontario fisheries are genera lly in

pretty good shape says Evan Thomas fishshyeries section manager of the fish and wildlife branch of the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (OM NR) Ontario supports almost half of all recreational fishing in Canada with more than two million adult anglers and more than $2 billion a year spent on recreational fishing in the province Onta ri o is also home to Canadas larges t commercial freshwater fishery worth abo ut $40 million a Yfar in land ed value

Thomas says over fishing is still the numshyber one problem Others include habitat loss the potential effects of climate change and contin ued invasion by exotic species Among the management opt ions his minshyistry is exploring are more effective fisheries regulation more rapid inventory and assessshyment techniques fish culture for rehabilishytating populations and controlling nutrient inputs into lakes and rivers

We are clearly looking for federal supshyport for the sea lamprey control program he says referring to recommendations in the recent federal fisheries committee report as well as changes to the federal Fishshyeries Act to hand the province more authorshyity over fish habitat protection

Concerns continue in Ontario over

Moira Ferguson and John Roff Fish Physiology and Biochemistry the top-ranked journal in its field is edited by Prof John Leathershyland chair of the Department of Biomedical Sciences in the Ontario Veterinary College University professor emeritus Eugene Balon has served as editor-in-chief of Environmental Biology ofFishes since he founded the publication in 1976 Zoology professor David Noakes edits Guelph Ichthyology Reviews whose articles synthesize and review all aspects of fish science Both of the latter

Under the Canadian contribution to the project - furided by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council - about 80 federal government and university researchers are trying to learn more about how bioshylogical and physical processes in the oceans affect fish stocks

Zoologychair Prof Paul Hebert has led a Guelph initiative to develshyop multimedia learning resources d1at teach student~ from

are published in the Axelrod Institute of Ichthyology

Based on data from geographic information sysshytems zoology professor John Roff has mapped types of habitat associated with various species of fish and other organisms around Canadas coasts and throughout tl1C Great Lakes the first time such

e1ementaIy grades to university about Canadas aquatshyic environments His department has developed a series of CD-ROMs that provide information on all the major animal groups in the Great Lakes Already available are educational CD-ROMs on Canadas aquatic environments (also available on

d1e World Wide Web) Great Lakes biodiversity and a marine classification system has been developed in this country His report was commissioned by World Wildlife Fund Canada for its Endangered Spaces Campaign and contributes to RoWs work as chair of the scienrillc committee of Globec (Globshyal Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics) a two-year-old international research program intended to better understand ocean ecosystems

birds of the Great Lakes The latter is the first disc in a series called the Great Lakes Faunal Atlas which will eventually cover mammals amphibians reptiles fish and crustaceans

The Alma Aquaculture Research Station es tablished in 1989 and funded through a 20-year development grant by the Ontario

WI NTER 1999 29

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various invas ive species that have turned up

in the Great Lakes - notably sea lampreys

zebra mussels and quagga mussels - many

of which arrive in ballast water of ocea nshy

going vessels (Many have also found their

way into Manitoba says OConnor who

points to the effects of sm elt on whitefish

the main commercial species in Lake Winshy

nipeg) Among o ther meas ures the federal

fish eries committee report called for guarshy

anteed funding for sea lamprey control and

for scienti fic research

I think more money will come says

Prof Bill Beamish Zoology a commissionshy

er on the Great Lakes Fisheries Commission

the 40-year-old governing body that co-ordishy

nates resea rch programs between Canada

and the United States and advises both govshy

ernments It was a review led by Beamish

more than a decade ago on the sta te of

Canadas freshwater fi sheries that provided

the scientific underpinnings for a landmark

report published in 1988 that spelled ou t a

way in freshwater fisheries is a lon g-te rm

project fund ed by the OMNR and the

Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO)

to re-establish native species in their origishy

nal habitats a round Lake Ontario iVlari e

Clement a graduate student of zoology proshy

fe sso r David Noakes is studying Atlantic

sa lmo n which was wiped out of the lake

CONSIDERING WE HAVE THE

BEST FISHERY SCIENCES COMMUNITY

IN THE WORLD WE OUGHT TO

BE DOING BETTER

national strategy for freshwater fisheries

Beamish who has studied sea lampreys

for several decades at Guelph and also invesshy

tigates fish habitat loss says money is need shy

ed to help researchers investigate biological

controls as an alternative to chemical lamshy

pricides The recen t repo rt also notes the

need to address the effects of other nonshy

native exotic species on n ative fish stocks

and water quality and calls on Ottawa to

stem the funding decline in freshwater scishy

ence over the last two decades

One example of the kind of work under

and its tribu ta ry streams near the beginning

o f this century by overflshing and habitat

destruction and alteration Last fall Clement

placed eggs into a site in the Credit River

she has been monito ring oxygen availab il shy

ity durin g their incu ba tion to gau ge sedishy

mentation rates in the river This spring and

summer she wili study how newborn fi sh

interact with other species in th e r ive r

C lement says her docto ral research proshy

ject is but one piece of a larger project aimed

at re-establishing the heritage species Othshy

er researchers hop e to learn whe ther th e

Ministry of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs brings together

researchers for interdisciplinary studies of protein requirements

of arctic char improving fish semen and egg management proshy

cedures and understanding hormone activity in fish The station

acts as a quarantine unit for new fish varieties entering Ontario

and serves as a base for parts of certificate courses and a masters

program in aquaculture

farms in Canada He and fellow Guelph zoologists Eugene Balon

(co- founder of the Coelaca nth Conservat ion Council) and Jim

Bogart also identified and characterized the coelacanth which

had been thought extinct until a specimen was landed off Africa

in the la te 1930s Noakes confirmed the identity of ano ther of

these living fossils discovered in 1997 it appears to belong to a

second popula tion living in the Indian Ocean about 10000 kilo-

metres away from tha t first find

Zoology professors Moira Ferguson and Roy Danzshy

mann use molecular genetics techniques to identishy Zoology chair Paul Hebert was the first scientist to

fy DNA markers used to pinpoint the location of identify the presence in the Great Lakes of zebra

genes associated with growth spawning times mussels a prolific invader that has wreaked havoc

rates of development maturity and temperature in many ways from clogging water-intake pipes to

tolerance in rainbow trout Isolating and identifyshy consuming plankto n thus allowing light to reach

ing genetic markers fo r desirable traits will help fish bottom-dwelling organisms that may displace native

farmers and breeders cross-breed more effectively species The first researcher to report on the biology

conservationists will be better able to manage and preserve and impact of the zebra mussel on the Grea t Lakes was

genetic variability among wild fish stocks Guelph zoology professor Gerald Mackie whose studies showed

that the organisms faster growth rate and higher fecundity and

Zoology professor David Noakes has stuclied varieties of arctic population density will probably enable it to displace many native

char native to Iceland to find ones suited to being raised on fish bivalves and disrupt entire lake ecosystems

30 GUELPH ALUMNUS

LEADING RESEARCH

The University of Guelph has one orthe largest and most active groups of aquatic biologists in the world

bull More than 50 faculty and 100

graduate students research

assocrates and postdoctoral

fellows

bull Over 1000 published scientific

articles books monographs

films and videos in the past

decade

bull Interdisciplinary programs

involving more than a dozen

academic departments

bull The largest group ofichthyoloshy

gists (scientists who study

fish) in North America

bull Collaborative research with

government environrriental

organizations and academic

institutions worldwide

bull Expertise covering the entire

aquatic food chain from plankshy

ton to whales

bull Leading developments in comshy

puter-based educational mate-

rials in aquatic sciences

bull A new $6-million Aquatic

Sciences Facility

bull Research support from national

and international agencies

business and industry

adults will be able to return from the open

lake to their stream spawning grounds If

they come back will the eggs survive she

says If were able to show the eggs can surshy

vive that will be very encouraging for

Atlant ic salmon restoration

What is to be done to ensure the survival

not just of Atlantic salmon in Lake Ontario

but also of the co untrys freshwater and

m ar ine fisheries We need to try to sepashy

rate o ut the fisheries management decisions

from the political decisions associated with

the fi shery says zoology professor Glen Van

Der Kraak director of U of Gs Axelrod

Institute of Ichthyology Van Der Kraak who

studies the effects of toxic contaminants on

fi sh populations says policy mltkers need

to rely on the advice of fisheries sc ientis ts

making conservative harvest ing estimates

So often scientists make decisions and then

are overrun by the politics he says (Never

mind fish wars pitting co untries against one

another - here in Ca nada scientists and

policy makers wres tle over the question of

who should be respo nsible for what aspects

of the countrys fisheries as witnessed in a

war of words played out in the Canadian Journal ofFisheries and Aquatic Sciences over

the past 18 months between biologists at

several Canadian univers ities and the DFO

over the relationship between fishery sc ishy

ence and fishery policy)

Roff says theres nothing unique about

Canadas fish problems Its not really a

Canadian problem its a worldwide probshy

lem The only fisheries worldwide that are

not over fished appear to be some not yet

fully exploited in the Indian Ocean

After nearly four decades of growth the

worldwide marine ca tch levelled off in the

1990s to some 90 million tons a year The

m ain problems coastal pollution habitat

destruction and particula rly overfishing

Noakes editor of the journal Guelph Ichthyology Reviews contrasts the few hunshy

dred people who might have made th eir

livelihood aboard small wood en boats on

the Grand Banks several centuries ago with

the massive factory trawlers that now scour

todays coast People are much too efficient

in terms of catching fish he says Noakes

concurs with fellow Guelph researchers that

conservation of fish stocks has to reach the

top of fishery managers agendas

hat does set Canada apart is the breadth

and depth of expertise in fisheries and aquatshy

ic sciences in this country - rather a parashy

dox when you consider that Canadas record

in fisheries preservation is apparently no betshy

ter than that of many other nations

Considering we have the best fishery scishy

ences community in the world we ought to

be doing better says Roff Within the last

decade th e federal government withdrawal

o f support from the Department of Fishshy

eries and Oceans and university researchers

has been massive At the very time when the

resources were gett ing into severe problems

and when the federal government ought to

have been funding research theyve been

substantially withdrawing resources ga

DONT WAIT UNTIL SPRING The opportunity to double the impact of your gift to the University of Guelph ends on March 31 1999 Until that date all gifts designated to endowed student financial aid at Guelph will be matched by the Ontario Student Opportunity Trust Fund (OSOTF) That means that every dollar you commit will contribute two dollars to financial aid for Guelph students

If you would like to support our students throug h OSOTF you still have a w indow of oppor nishyty to have your do l1a rs doubled But only until March 31 1999

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WINTER 1999 31

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

n ALUMNI PROF IL E

LETS LOOK AT THE OPPORTUNITIES

WHEN I-IE BECA ME president of the Unishy

versity of Guelph Alumni Association

(UGM) in June Jim Weeden brought new

enthusiasm and ideas for encouraging alumshy

ni to stay in volved with their alma mater

And he wants to start with students

Weeden reca ll s his own ex perience at

U of G where he fo und a sense of commushy

nity by living in residence and ge tting

involved in college activiti es But when he

graduated with an engin ee ring degree in

197 1 he left to begin a caree r and says he

didnt think much about the University until

he needed it again in the 1980s to pursue a

graduate degree in agricultural enginee ring

He spent his early career working as an

agricultural extensi o n engineer for the

Ontario Department o f Agriculture and is

stiU with its successo r the Ontario Ministry

of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs

(OMAFRA) Weed en completed the masshy

ters degree in 1986 when he was head of the

agricultural engineering program and extenshy

sion services a t Centralia College of Ag rishy

cultural Technology

In 1987 he moved to the ministrys plant

industry branch as program m anager and

later held the same position in th e resources

manage m ent branch Sin ce then he has

worked for OMAFRA in Woodstock and

now Stratfo rd He is technical adviser fo r

Ontarios Enviro nmental Farm Planning

Program is respo nsible for o ther environshy

m ental programs and consults with the Minshy

istry o f th e Environment on local agriculshy

tural pollution problems

w Weed en got involved with the Universishy sect tys a]u111ni programs by serving on the first g z board of the Engineering Alumni Associashy

~ tion when it was established in 1990 From

~ 1991 to 1994 he sat on the University Senshy

~ ate and its Research Board and for the pas t

~ four years) hels been on the UGAA executive

32 GUELPH A LU MNUS

From the presidents chair Weeden looks

at the bro ad picture o f UG AA se rvice and

recognizes that the associa tio n owes a debt

o f gratitude to hundreds of alumni volunshy

teers who ha ve helped to build the organishy

za tion over the yea rs and to University staff

in Development and Public Affairs (DampPA)

who support UGAA initiatives and alumni

programs Thro ugh their efforts he says the

a lulllni associati o n is rea ching out to all

U of G alumni Graduates who have mainshy

tained a close relationship with the Univershy

sity thro ugh their college or academic disshy

cipline those who feel an affiliation because

o f their participation in a thletics residence

life o r extracurricular activiti es and even

HIGHLIGHTSmiddot GRAD NEWSmiddot OBITUARIES bull CALENDER

those who have not kept in touch are part of the constituency served by UGAA

Weed en says the alumni association needs to strengthen its relationship with all alumni and he believes the effor t must start on campus with students Hed like to proshymote the idea of alumni involvement as ear shyly as a students second year We need to give students some reason to be con nected and an efficient vehicle for maintaining that connection he says

For many students and new graduates the social functions supported by UGAA and the opportunities for professional networking will be important says Weeden but greater rewards are there for those who join the effort to enhance the Universitys acade mic goals

In todays economic and political envi shyronme nt individual financial support and the advocacy of post-secon dary education are important roles for alumni he says How many people ac tively get involved with the debate on whether universities are job-trainshy

ing centres or centres of education Yet some of our alumni are extremely adept in such roles Weeden would like to cultivate past and current stud ent ac tivists as supporters of public education after they graduate

As Weeden leads UGAA into a new year he says he will work with other UGAA volshyunteers and DampPA staff to find new ways for the association to interact with students and alumni One id ea is to expand UGAAs Intershynet presence by adding a Web message board that will encourage alumni to discuss career and campus issues online and a reply form that will allow them to quickly update addressshyes employment status and other information

Weeden says its important to stay focused on UGAAs key prioriti es but he welcomes any and all new ideas on how to accomplish them All it takes to share your ideas with the UGAA executive is a stamp or a push of the send button when youre clicked on alumniuoguelphca

HKHB SPIRIT RISES

ENCOURAGED BY THE SPIRIT

shown by fellow alumni at last

summers reunion the executive

of the Human Kinetics Human Biology

Alumni Association is moving ahead

with more opportunities for alumni to

stay in touch The association plans to

launch a Web site that will be accessed

through the U of G site

A wine-and-cheese reception already

planned for June 19 1999 wiil try to

build on the success of the 1998 event

which attracted alumni from as far away

as Chicago and as far apart as the 19605

and 1990s Guests had a chance to tour

U of Gs new Health and Performance

Centre and performance testing

labs The program was co-ordinated wiLh

A REFLECTION OF PRIDE

Members of the OAC

Class of 52 join Arboshy

retum staff on the front patio

of the Arboretu m Centre

beside a new reflecting pool

that was built last summer

as a class project Pictured

from left are Murray Parker

Ann Smith George Smith

Jack Sargent Catherine Gibb

Robin Shaw-Rummington

Marilyn Swaby BA 69

Bev Healy B5e(Agr) 72

Norm Watson Una Venerus

Ron Costen Henry Kock

BSe (Agr) 77 and Ric

Jordan BA 75

Prof Jack Barclay chair of the Departshy

ment of Human Biology and Nutritional

Sciences and Prof Susan Pfeiffer Memshy

bers of the Human KineticsHuman

Biology Alumni Association executive arc

Janet Leonhard 82 president Carolyn

Moore 83 vice-president Alison Locker

97 secretary Mark Mulholland 79

lreasurer and t-iary Ann Crape 76

These officers are also spea rheading a

new initiative to benefit students - an

undergraduate award that will provide

$250 and lifetime mem bership in the

association To commcnt on these and

other initiatives contact Leonard by

e-mail at Janel_Leonhardinwrbsb

eduonca or Moore at cturveyagec

uoguelphca

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alumni

Multimedia lab buzzes

THE DONALD FORSTER RoOiv

has become one of the

busiest spots in th e Unishy

versity of Guelph Liblary since the

addition of 70 state-of-the-art

computer workstations that were

supported by alumni do nations

to the Alma Mater Fund (AM F)

U of G president Mordechai

Roza nski officia ll y o pened th e

Alma Mater Fund Multimedia

Lab D ec 2 an d celebrated th e

event with members of the AMF

Adv isory Counc iL [n 1996 a nd

1997 the AMF contributed

$240000 to th e project which

increased the number of student

workstations o n campus by 50 per

cent Students use the m ult imeshy

~ dia lab to conduct research on the

~ Internet access scholarly publicashyr u VI tions on CD-ROM and use COll1shyz ~ puter software mod ules tbat lt

~ strengthen the teaching provided lD

o in co urse lectures labs and tcxtshybii books

middotMatters

Alumnus of many interests

I NTERES TING P EOPLE always have eclect ic interests and U of G

alumnus and honorary degree recipient Ken Murray BSA 50 and

HDLA 96 is a good example H e is known by most people on camshy

pus for his distinguished career in the Canadian meat packing indusshy

try and his volunteer service to U of G He was a member and chair

of Board of Governors from 1973 to 1978 and chair of the Regionshy

al Corporate Committee during U of Gs last capital campaign and

is currently chair of the Heritage Fund Enhancement Committee

Murray is also a strong supporter of community soc ial services

In August he addressed the World Congress of Social Ps)chiatry

held in British Columbia - the only non-psychiatrist on the proshy

gram He spoke about his role in establishing an Alzheimers research

project a t the University ofWaterioo which was recently named in

his honour the Ken Murray Alzheimer Research and Education Proshy

gra m At the gc conference he al so participated in a panel dis shy

cussion that outlined services offered by Guelphs Homewood Health

Cent re Murray bas been actively involved in the governance of the

centre since 1977 and has been a major player in the development

of a charitable foundatio n bearing the Homewood name

WHEN THE PUCK DROPPED More than 30 teams including two

womens teams were entered in the

Dec 6 University of Guelph Alumni Hockey

Tournament Organizers for the 1998 event

were from left Brian Finniss B5c 88

Brad Stephenson BA 86 Terry Carr

BComm 87 Todd Bryant BA 86 and

undergraduate student Brian Melnick

Ken Murray centre with his wife Marilyn Robinson Murray and U of G president Mordechai Rozanski

34 GU ELPH ALUMNU S

RESTORING A JEWEL IN THE CROWN

DONALD RUTHERFORD BSA 5 stands in fron t

of the 1931 conservatory greenhouse that will

be restored to match the splendour of the ga rdens

now growi ng up around it His $256000 leadershy

ship gift to the Conservatory and Gardens Project

was inspired by hi s m emo ries of being a student

at OAC

On behalf of fellow alumni I hope this gift will

commemorate the experiences and educat ion we

acquired while at Guelph says Rutherford When

fully restored to its previous glory the conservatoshy

ry greenhouse will be an ideal greeting and welcome

spot for visitors and newcomers to the University

as well as old friend s renewing their acquaintance

Rutherfords professional career spans the agrishy

foo d industr y beginning as an agricu ltural repshy

resentative with the provincial minist ry I-Ie was

later vice-president of the Fertilizer Institute of

Ontario executive secreta ry of the Canadian Seed

Trade Association director of information w ith

the Ca nadian Livestock Feed Board and Canadishy

an sa les manager for Sylvite of Can ad a Retired

since 1986 he now owns his own sma ll investment

company and manages to golf throughout the yea r

The conserva tory isnt the first ca mpus project

to attract Rutherford s attention - as a student

he helped dig out the base ment of Massey H al l to

build a student lo unge - but his recent gift has

been a tremendous boost to those who have been

working since the ea rly 1990s to save the glass and

cypress structure from demo lition

A committee of alumni facult y sta ff stu dents

and fri en ds of the University has moved the proshy

ject along to th e point w here most of the surshy

rounding garden complex is now complete It fea shy

tures six gardens named in honour of the ir chie f

supporters Autumn Garden - OAC 5 1 Spring

Ga rden - OAC 53 Su mmer Garden - OAC 55

Winter Gard en - OAC 65 Water Gard en shy

OAC 49 and the Woo dland Garden named in

honour of the late Doug Rob inson BSA 53

Alumni have been in strumental in raising

funds for the $ l-million project Students and fa cshy

ulty have provided mudl of the h1l1ds-on Idbour

and friends in the nursery and landscape materishy

als supply industries have given $250000 ill donashy

tions and gifts-in-kind of plan ts and landsca ping

materials Rutherford s generous gift has pushed

th e conservato ry fund-ra ising effort in to the fin 81

stretch Th e ga rden complex and restored g reenshy

110use are sc heduled to officially open during

Alumni Weekend in June 1999

1999 Coming Events

Jan 29 - Aggie Goodshy

Times Banquet call the OAC Student Federation at Ext 8321 for ticket injemnrltion Feb 13 - Norm McCo llulll

D iploma Hockey Tournashy

m ent call Jack Bakker at 519-837-0132 to register a team

Feb 21 - Ottawa Chapter

annual curling bonspiel

Richmond C urling Club in

Richmond Ont For informashytiol1 call Alan Bentley BSA 61 at 6 13-829-6598 or John DVit[ 54 mId Margaret McGowml BHSc 54 at

613-828-7038

March 3 - Florida alumni

reunion a t Maple Leaf

Estates Port Charlo tte Fla

call Ext 6533 0 register

March 13 and 14 - ollcge

Royal 75th o pen house

March 19 and 20 - OAC

Alumni Association curling

bonspiel G uelph Curling

Club register at Ext 6657

May 5 - Chicago All Canashy

dian Universities Night hostecl

by U of G at the University

Club of Chicago 76 East Monshy

roe Sr call Exl 6533 for details May 5 - OAC Alumni

Foundation annual meeting

730 pm Arboretum Centre

May 12 - Alumni-inshy

Action annual meeting and

luncheo n 1130 3m

Arboretum Centre ((11 Ext 6657for tickets

June 18 to 20 - Alumni

Veekend call Ext 6657 to plall a reun io n

-0 r shya -IFor more infon-nation on any a

eVC1l1listed ailove call the oJ -lt oU of G extension listed at en raquo

519-824-4120 or send e-mail z

10 alunznilIoguelphca ~

WINTER 1999 35

alumni Matters

MEMORIES OF COLLEGE ROYAL Grant MacEwan ADA 23 and

BSA 26 is one of the few OAC

alumni who c~n still remember

the first College Royal held Jan

14 1925 MacEwan bad just

entered the degree program in

animal husbandry and may have

been a participant in the liveshy

stock showmanship classes Latshy

er in life he was widely known Grant MacEwan

across Western Canada as 3 liveshy

stock judge and an advocate of

agricultural fairs and exhibitions

MacEwan is bes t known

however for his 23-year C3reer

as a university professor in Manshy

itoba and Saskatchewan and Ilis

political career which included

12 years as alderman and mayshy John Kenneth Galbraith

or of C31gary four years as an

Alberta MLA and eight as lieushy birthday in August

tenant -governor of the province The year after Ma cEwan

He s till lives in Calgary graduated John Kenneth Galshy

where he celebrated his 96th braith ADA 29 and BSA 31

HOMECOMING 98

enrolled at OAC and devoted

some of his energy to organizshy

ing College Royal Show records

indicate it was Galbraith who

first proposed the college event

be publicized so that people

from the farm community

could attend He also suggestshy

ed that OAC invite students

from American agricultural colshy

legesl n th e early 1930s Colshy

lege Royal took its fir s t steps

towards becoming the comshy

munity open house it is today

Galbraith later moved to the

United States where he enjoyed

a distinguished caree r as a proshy

fessor of economics at Harvard

Universi ty Known for his

humanit~rian approach to ecoshy

nomic and political thinking

he was awarded the Order of

Canada in 1997 He celebr3ted

his 90th birthday in October

IT REALLY WAS a homecoming reunion when and Arnott who is head coach of the York

former Gryphon teammates Ralph Shapiro University Yeomen came from the visitors

S5c(HK) 74 and Tom Amott S5c(HK) 80 dreSSing room to hold the ball Shapiro is

met on the field at Alumni Stadium Oct 3 the controller at Huntsman Chemical Inc

Shapiro had the honour of kicking off in Guelph and a longtime United Way volshy

the Universitys 1998 United Way campaign unteer who chaired this years Guelph and

Wellington fund-raising drive The Univershy

sity campaign is the largest in the county

with U of G staff and faculty contributing

over $200000 in 1998

Prior to the game a number of recent

alumni - all U of G scholarship and award

winners - met for a reunion luncheon The UJ

1948 and 1949 dominion championship i5f 3

football teams were also honoured guests z 5 o at the 2 pm game that saw the Gryphons gtshy a defeat York f shya I a

Ralph Shapiro

36 G UELPH ALUMNUS

LEADING THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY FOR 1974 GRADS The 25th-anniversary reunion givshy

i ng program for the Class of 1974

is under way with Bill Laidlaw BA

74 as cbair A public affairs proshy

fessional he has been director of

government relations for the

Canadian operations of Glaxo

vVelJcome Inc for more th an 10

years He also acts as a senior conshy

sultant to support the governshy

ment relations function in other

regions of Canada

Laidlaw began his career in

teaching after earning a history

degree from Guelph and education

degrees (rom Queens University

and the University of Toronto He

also holds the certified human

resources professional designation

and worked in that field for sevshy

eral years before concen trating on

government relations at Glaxo

Welkome He lives in Burlington

Ont and is an act ive community

volunteer having se rved on the

boards of severa l professional

organizations the Queensway

General Hospital and the Metroshy

politan Toronto Lung Association

He is currently completing a oneshy

year term as chair of the Ontario

Chamber of Commerce

Anniversa ry preparations will

culminate with a class gathering

a nd reunion gift at Alumni

Weekend in June 1999

ALUMNI MAKE THE CONNECTION Students who moved into

Maids and Mills halls in Sepshy

tember can take full advanshy

tage of the Universitys highshy

speed computer network

thanks to the OAC Class of

71 whose 25 th-reunion proshy

ject provided wiring upgrades

in the 84- and 77-year-old

residence buildin gs

GRAD NEWS

Marathon survivors inspire us all to appreciate everyday life

W HEN ROBINSON SIIlLJNGS Jane BSe(Agr)

85 Heather BASe 83 Peter BSe(Agr)

86 Scott and Marnie rigwood BA 84 get

together they talk about marathons and the hope

and determination it takes to reach the finish line

Hea ther walked a marathon in San Diego

Calif in June to raise money for leukemia

research then joined Peter for a Toronto marathon

in October that benefi ted the Leukemia Research

Fund of Canada They were inspired by Janes pershy

sonal marathon of survival that foUowed her 1992

diagnosis of leukemia Chemotherapy radiation

remission relapse and finally a bone marrow

transplant [TOm her brother Scott took more than

three years out of her life but gave her the detershy

mination to keep fighting

Many families can understand the marathon

of hope maintained by the Robinsons during

Janes struggle and the commitment they have to

help others who are stricken with the disease Jane

is finally well enough to work again as a writer

and marketing consultant and to join her fami shy

ly in volunteer work She helped recruit for the

Toronto marathon fund -raiser and continues to

be involved with the Leukemia Research Funds

Team in Training She also says that her expeshy

rience has taught her to appreciate more the pleashy

sures of everyday life and the love of famil y

Jan es parents are th e late Doug Rob inson

BSA 53 and Marilyn (Inglis) Robinson Murray

BH Sc 55

19305

bull Grant Misener ADA 32 BSA 35 and DVM 38 received the

prest igious George F Hixso n Felshy

lowship Award from the Kiwanis

International Foundation in May The retired Illinois veter ishy

narian was hono ured for his subshystantial contribution to the

Kiwanis wo rldwide service proshy

ject aimed at eliminating iodine

deficiency disorders the leading

cause of preventable mental retardation in children Over the

years Misener has shown a simishylar commitment to his al ma

mater an d its students through

his close association with OVC

and his support of scho larship

programs

19405

bull Russell McDonaldDVM 45 was named an honorary life direcshytor of the Royal Agricultural Winshy

ter Fair Association in March

McDonald formerly general manshy

ager of Western Ontario Breeders

Ine and executive director of the Canadian Association of Animal

Breeders served as a director of the Royal Winter Fair for 20 years

representing the Canadian artifishycial insemination industry He

lives in Woodstock Ont

bull Ian Taylor DVM43 was recently honoured by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to

Animals of Illinois Taylor ran a small-animal veterinary clinic in

the Chicago area for many years

and says he gained ll1uch experishyence during his first three years in

Illinois as clinic veterinarian for

the anti -cruelty society

19505

bull Charles Chuck Broadwell BSA 54 was elected a Mel

Osborne Fellow by the Kiwanis

Club of Forest City in London Ont in recognition of a dedicatshy -ed and distinguished career in

Kiwanis

19605

bull Constantine Campbell BSA 60 and MSA 61 was named to the

WINTER 1999 37

Order of Canada in January He

received the award in recogni shy

tion of his many contributions

to science and the Canadian

agricultural industry After grad shy

uating from OAC he went on to

do his PhD at the University of

Saskatchewan then joined Agri shy

culture and Agri-food Canada

as a research scientist at the Swift

Current research station Campshy

bell and his family now live in

Ottawa where he is scientist

emeritus with Agriculture and

Agri-food Canada

bull John Casselman BSA 64 is

a research scientist with the

Ontario Ministry of Natural

Resources He Jives in Bath

Ont with his wife Lois

bull Jane Fuller RRSc 65 and

her husband George who both

taught at the Macdonald Instishy

tute from 1966 to 1969 have

moved from Winnipeg to

Utopia Ont following

Georges retirement from the

University of Manitoba

bull Fred Gilbert MSc 66 and

P hD 68 is in his first term as

president of Lakehead Univer shy

sity in Thunder Bay Ont He

taught at U of G in the Departshy

ment of Zoology from 1972 to

1981 and has enjoyed a dive rse

academic career that has also

included teaching at the Unishy

versity of Maine and posi tions

as director of wildlife biology at

Washington State University

and founding dean of the Facshy

ulty of Natural Reso urces and

Environmenta l Studies at the

University of Northern British

Columbia He moved to Lakeshy

head from a position as viceshy

pro vost at Colorado State Unishy

versity A respected wildlife

biologist he has conducted

ex tensive resea rch in s Ll ch areas

as the behaviour and physioloshy

gy of wildlife species and the

effects of environmental

change on wildlife populations

bull Terry Goodyear BSc 67 of

Mont Tremblant Quebec is an

early retiree from Agriculture

and Agri-Food Canada in Ottawa He is now working on

va lue-added products from

industrial wastes particularly

cellulose sludge from pulp and

pa per mills

bull Gary Hearn BA 68 was

named an Ontario provincial

judge in October For the last

25 years he has been a lawyer

with the firm Kearns McKinshy

non in Guelph where he lives

with his wife Irene and three

teenage children

bull Allan Knight BSA 66 of Corunna Ont has retired

from Dow Chemical after 30

years On retirement he was a

laboratory director for indusshy

trial chemicals He is now

working with his son in a famishy

ly-owned and -operated busishy

ness Knight Funeral Home

bull Keith McFarlane BSc(Agr)

68 works for the Department

of Foreign Affairs and Internashy

tional Trade and began a fourshy

year assignment last summer as

head of the commercial divishy

sion of the Canadian Embassy

in Lisbon Portugal The

division promotes the sa le of

Canadian goods and services

to Portugal

bull Ian Newbould MA 68 has

travelled far from his Ontario

roots through an academic and

administrative career that has

taken him to Europe Asia and

Western Canada A noted hisshy

torian he moved into adm inisshy

tration at the University of

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Lethbridge in 1981 and spent

10 years there as director of

research dean of a rts and scishy

ence and vice-presiden t (acadeshy

mic) before crossing the counshy

try to become president of

Mount Allison University in

New Brunswick He is now in

his second term as president of

Mount AUison

bull Indra Deo Singh MSc 68 is

a tea scientist international

consultant and joint director of

the Tea Research Association at

the Nagrakata substation in

India His responsibilities

include co-ordinating research

and development in the Indian

tea industry and developing tea

cultivars and agrotechnology

for tea Singh is married with

two sons aged 27 and 23

19705

bull Don Ambler BSe 71 retired in March as manager of

water programs with Environshy

ment Canada in Dartmouth

NS after 25 years of public

service He has now registered

the company Aquashed Co nshy

sulting to continue in the water

resources field when hes not

gardening beekeeping do ing

aerobics or vo lunteering in the

community and chu rch E-mail

contact is welcome a t

donambl erns sympaticoca

bull Jim Bond BSe 75 is managshy

ing a new processing facility at

the Chalk River Nuclear Laborashy

to ry in Chalk River Ont

bull Terri (Monks) Bulman BSc(Agr) 78 and MSe 81

and her husband Vincent

MSe 8 1 live in Australia with

their th ree children Catherine

7 Peter 4 and baby Christoshy

pher Terri is senior principal

environmental auditor vith

Coffey Geosciences Pty Ltd Vinshy

cent afte r many years as a geoloshy

gist travelling around Australia

and abroad has taken the year

off to study and look after the

children Their e-mail address is

tbulmanbigpondco m

bull Marie David BA 78 of

Hanover Ont has been in the

n ewspaper business for 20

years She started in the mailshy

room moved to advertising

sales then became advert ising

manager She is now gene ral

manager o f three So utham

weekly newspapers and pubshy

lish er of the Hanover Post

bull Janice Harrower and her husshy

band Jerome Billett both

DVM 76 operate a joint veterishy

nary practice in Prescott Ont

Billett says practising together

has allowed them some flexibilishy

ty in their family life and given

their four children a good took

at the rigours of veterinary

medicine Says Billett Not one

of our kid s has the slightest

interest in being a veterinarian

and isnt that just fine Their

o ldest son Jesse attends Harshy

va rd University and is a memshy

ber of its prestigious a cappella

choir Lucas is studying

mechanical engineering at the

University of Waterloo Casey is

planning a career in computer

engineering and Lindsay is a

high school athle te

bull Clair Heinbuch BSe 74 is a

sales manager with Baye r Corp

in Kansas H e and his wife

Caroline (Koscik) BASc 75

returned to the Kansas City

area after spending four years in

Denver They have three chilshy

dren Lisa 20 Scott 18 and

Ryan [5

bull Beverly Lee BASe 72 is an

elem entary school principal in

Unionville Ont She lives with

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her husband Grant Egan in

Collingwood and is looking

forward to retirement in severshy

al years Life on Georgian Bay

is wonderful she says Lee

would love to hear from fellow

grads by e-mail at

leebYrbeeduonca or by

phone at 705 -444 -092l

bull Won-Jai Maeng MSc 71 took office Sept 1 as president

of Kon-Kuk University in Seoul

Korea where his academic

career began He completed an

undergraduate degree at Kon

Kuk in 1965 then studied at

Mailing Agricultural College in Denmark and at U of G before

doing doctoral work at the Unishy

versity of California Davis

Maeng has held research and

teaching positions at the Unishy

versity of illinois at Chung-Ang

University and at Kon-Kuk

where he has been a professor of

animal science since 1984 His

appointment as president folshy

lows years of administrative

experience as a department

head dean and chair of various

research committees and proshy

fessional organizations An

expert in ruminant nutrition

Maeng was instrumental in

developing the livestock feed

industry in Korea He has also

been active in working with

alumni groups and in writing

for the Kon-Kuk Tribune

bull Bill MarshaU ADA 75 of Proton Station Ont moved

from Clarksburg in June to

work in Dundalk for the Grey

County Roads Department on

its road management crew

bull Bernie Matte BSc(Agr) 70 of Moncton NB retired

in March after 28 years with

Fisheries and Oceans Canada

and the Canadian Food

Inspection Agency He plans to

travel to Belize and Honduras

with his wife Diane and will

be available anywhere in the

Caribbean for seafood HACCP

consulting work

bull Margaret McClain BA 70 lives in Arkansas where she is

highJy involved in the issue of

40 GUELPH ALUMNUS

missing children and internashy

tional abductions McClain who

believes her own six-year-old

daughter was taken out of the

United States more than a year

ago by her second husband is

reaching out to parents with

similar experiences through an

organization that is lobbying the

US government for tougher

international abduction laws

She invites interested fr iends

and alumni to contact her

through her Web site at

wwwinsolwwbnet-dmcclain

bull Robert (Chuck) Miller BA 77 is the park superintendent

of Killarney French River and

Maskinonje provincial parks in

Ontario He moved to Killarney

from Quetico Provincial Park

last May

bull Gordon Nicol BA 72 and MSc(Agr) 74 teaches math

and science in a bilingual prishy

vate school in Guatemala A

BEd graduate of Laurentian

he first taught in Guatemala in

the late 1970s then spent 12

years in northern Alberta as a

teacher and principal He

returned to Guatemala in 1989

A widower with three teenage

children Nicol would like to

hear from U of G friends and

acquaintances especially anyshy

one who is was or will be in

Central America He says he

could also use middle-schoolshy

level science projects Send eshy

mail to gnicoll guatenet or

write to PO Box 661447 Miami

Springs Florida 33266-1447

bull Chris Schulte BSc 71 and MSc 73 lives in Nassau

Bahamas with his wife

Andrya After graduation he

stayed in the Department of

Physics as a research associate

with Prof lain Campbell then

joined Ontario Hydro in the

early 1980s He moved to the

Bahamas in 1995 He can be

reached bye-mail at

schultebahamasnetbs

bull Sandra (Pickford) Webster BA 75 has retired from U of

Gs Co mmunications and Pubshy

lic Affairs and is living in Parry

Sound Ont where she is

doing volunteer work and

communications consulting

for the municipality Guelph

friends ca n contact her by

e-mail atswebsterzeutercom

19805

bull Sharon (Courneya) Angus BA 8 I of Surrey BC comshy

pleted a BSW at the University

of British Columbia in 1988

and has been working for the

BC government for 13 years

- first in probation and now

in the family justice division

She and her husband Ron

have three children Jason

Carly and Colin

bull Karen Beazley BLA 86 is an assistant professor and acadeshy

mic program co-ordinator at

the School for Reso urce and

Environmental Studies at Dalshy

housie University in Halifax

She is currently doing research

for a book on endangered

species initiatives and is orgashy

nizing a Nova Scotia wildlands

workshop with the Wildlands

Project for 1999 Her e-mail

address is kbeazleyisdalca

bull Caroline (Van Deudekom) and Marc Brooks both ADA 87

recently moved from Strathroy

to Owen Sound Ont where

they run a 50-acre organic farm

with their two sons

bull Virginia Burt BLA 85 startshyed her own landscape architecshy

ture firm Visionscapes in

Hamilton Ont in ] 996 She

specializes in the design of thershy

apeutic healing gardens spirit

gardens sacred spaces and

la byrin ths and recen tly designed the first healing garden

in Canada specificalJy for peoshy

ple living with HIV and AIDS

bull Joanne (Branson) Carver BA 80 earned a BEd from Brock

University in 1981 and recently

started working as a probashy

tionparole officer She Jives in

Ajax Ont and has two daughshy

ters Julie4 and Sarah 8

bull Heather Champ BA 86 is a Web-site designer in New York

City She began her work in

computer design in 1990 Her

personal site can be Found at

wwwjezebelcom

bull Laurie Gough BA 87 has become a world traveller who

writes about her experiences for

the benefit of others Her most

recent book Island of the

Human Heart A tfornans Travshyel Odyssey is now in its second

printing in Canada and will be

released next year in the United

States and overseas She has also

published Travellers Tales A

Womans World which won the

US-based Lowell Thomas

Gold Award for best travel book

of the year When not travelling

or writing she teaches English

and ESL in Guelph

bull Susan (Coles) Goulden BASc 84 and her husband

Ian are th rilled wi th their

recent adoption of Jennifer Lee

Yu who was born in June near

Leping Jiangxi Peoples Repubshy

lic of China The Gouldens

who Jive in vVaterloo Ont

thank classmate Andrea

(Kovits) Henderson for her

support throughout the adopshy

tion process Susan is currently

on leave from her position with

McCormick Canada

bull Judy (Bodendistel) Gregg BA 82 moved to Melbourne Ausshy

tralia in 1997 with her husband

and two children Carly 6 and

Adam 3 We are enjoying the

friendly people and the great

weather here she says We are

especially enjoying winter in a

place where it never gets below

zero Celsius

bull Nigel GumJey DVM 85 has been a partner in the Alta Vista

Animal Hospital in Ottawa

since 1990 was president of the bull Garry Millage AMPHI 86 bull Heidi Stephenson BA 88 is now ISO 9000 manager at

Ontario Veterinary Medical left a position as vice-president was awarded her professional Carpenter Ca nada Ltd in

Association in 1997 and recent- of national operations for acco untants designation of Wood br idge Ont He lives in

ly served on the Canadian Vetshy Scotts Restaurants KFC Divishy certified general accountant in Miss issa uga Classma tes are

erilw() Medical Associations sion to open his own consult- March 1998 She has been invited to contact him at

national issues committee He ing company Future Food employed for the last 10 years avon listarca

lives in Osgoode with his wife Equipment Ine specializes in with Dan Ball Chartered bull Michelle (Pilon) Bacon BA rvlaurecn and children Laura providing new and used restau- Acco un tant in Parry Sound 90 moved to England to study

and Matthew rant equipment and reducing O nt where she lives with her and work after graduating from

bull Muneer Hirji BComm 82 restaurant construction costs hu sband Brad two dogs and a Guelph She recently left a posishy

lives in Toronto and is vice- He also operates a restaurant horse tion with the British Ministry of

president of marke ting at SAP called Nikkos in Woodbridge bull Dawn Stetsko BSe 81 lives Agriculture and Food in York to

Canada He has three chil- Ont and is planning to open a in Langhorne Pa with her husshy become an at-home mom She

drcl1 Nadia 8 Alyssa 6 and second location band Paul and children Mark now lives in London with her

Sarah I bull Tosh Noseworthy BSe 83 is and Keith and is a research husband Tim and one-year-old

bull Brenda irwin BSe 88 is a cardiovascular ICU nurse in scientist with Bristol-Myers daughter Juliette She sends love

studying at Hong Kong Unishy sunny Tuscon Arizona After Squibb Previously she worked to Sue Heather and Sheila and

vers ity of Science and Technolshy grad uation she lived in Paris at McMaster University in can be reached bye-mail at

ogy to complete the final France for a yea r s tudied nurs- Hamilton Ont for 17 yea rs michellebacondialpipexcom

sem ester of an MBA program ing in O ttawa then lived in Saushy bull Teresa Tummillo-Goy BA bull Jeff Barlow BComm 90 is

through the University of di Arabia for two yea rs She still 86 has a law practice in Water- the training and quality manag-

British Columbia She taught loves to travel and would like to 100 Ont foc Li sing primaril y on er for two five-star luxury boushy

science for the North York hea r from fellow alumni She family law civi l litiga tion and tique h o tels in Prague - Hotel

Board of Education for five can be reached at 520-299-8344 real estate She and her hus- Palace Praha and the Hotel

years before enrolling in the bull Cecilia (Wleugel) Parkes band John Goy live in Guelph Savoy Previo usly he was execu -

MBA program BComm 85 is a graphic and have three sons John 4 tive housekeeper at the five-star

bull Jagwant Kanwar PhD 80 is designer in Toronto and says Tony 3 and Shayne 2 Renaissance Pragu e Hotel

a senior scientist in the depart- she st ill uses ber marketing bull Peter Van der Borch DVM bull Margaret Burnes-Souria BA ment of vegetable crops at Pun- background to help her busishy 88 retired in the fa ll of 1997 94 is a team leader with [011 shy

jab Agricultural University in ness succeed She specia lizes in after several years of practising don Magazin e in London Ont

India He is also director of the logo design lNith hand-drawn physiotherapy and ve terinary She married David Souria in

regional vegetable research stashy illustrations medicine and surgery He Jives July 1997 and is pursuing an tion at Usman (TaranTarn) bull Jim Parr BSc(Agr) 81 and in Pictou NS ]VlBA at the University of West-

Amritsar His and his wife MSe 89 died of cancer in bull MartyWilLiams BA 85 is ern Ontario

Sanyogita have a son Mohit June 1998 but hes being co-ordinator of student activishy bull Janine Byers BASe 95 is a and a daughter Dipika who are remembered by his university ties at University College Unishy public health dietitian at the

both studying engineering friends through the establish - versity of Toronto where he Kingston Frontenac and

Friends can write to Kanwar at ment of a mem orial fund for advises student organizations Iennox amp Addington Health

Punjab Agricultural Un ivers ity his wife Denise and children 1Ie is also chair of the U of T Unit in Kingston O nt She is Ludhiana 141 004 India Shannon and Eric Anyone Staff Association a member of getting married to Ca rl Stewart

bull Larissa Larsen BSe 89 and who would like more informa - the steering committee of the on May 29 j 999 MLA 92 received a PhD in tion can ca ll Brian Tapscott at staffs unionization drive and a bull Lisa Cherry BSe 9 1 is a urban and regional planning 519-767-3566 staff member with the student science journalist and executive

from the University of Illinois bull Cheryl (Dunlop) Reid newspaper The Varsity He can director of Artists Against

at Urbana Champaign in May BSe(Agr) 89 sta rted a new be reached bye-mail at marty Racism an international organi-

She has accepted a position at job in September as ingredient wi lliamsutorontoca za tion She is based in Toronto

Thompson Dyke and Associshy sales manager for RA bull Bonnie (Byma) BASe 96 ales a landscape architecture Chisholm o f Toronto She will 19905 and Gil Clelland BA 95 were

and urban planning firm in continue to work from her bull Claire Allison BA 94 grad- married in December 1996 and

Chicago Her husband Ernie remote offke in Fergus Reid uated from the elementary are living in Chatham On t

Poortinga DVM 89 is in his and her husband Jeff BSe teacher ed ucation program at Bo nnie works at a day-care

third yea r of an MD program (Agr) 89 have two children the University of British centre G il teaches art and

at Rush University Chicago lVlega n 4 and Elizabeth 2 Columbia in 1996 and now phys ical education They ca n -Hes looking forward to joining bull Chee Sie BA 83 is a zone teaches in Va ncou ver be reached bye-ma il at gclelshy

his wife in the ranks of the manager for the Malaysian bull JohnAvon BSdHK) 94 lan ciaccesscom employed They would both Assurance Alliance Berhad in earned an M Se in industr ial bull Kate Corn ell BA 95 of enjoy hearing from fellow Sarawak Malaysia He and his operations from Lawrence Markham Ont earned her

alumni and can be reached at wife Jesterine have a two-year- Technological University in masters in dance history from epoor tin garushurushedu old daughter Letitia Southfleld Mich in 1997 and York University in May and

WINTER 1999 41

co-authored a book titled

Toronto Dance Theatre 1968shy1998 Stages in a Journey

bull Mary Jill (McClure) Culliton BASe 90 earned

her BEd from Brock University

and her M Ed from the Univershy

sity of Western Ontario and

teaches Grade 1 in Mitchell

Ont She and her husband

Tim live in Stratford

bull Kathleen (McNutt) Daniels BASe 9 1 is a teacher and was

married on New Years Eve

1994 to Gord Daniels They live

in North Bay Ont and have a

daughter Lauren born in Febshy

ruary 1997 They are expecting

their second child in February

bull Simon Deakin BA 95 studshyied in Florence Italy for a year

then earned a master of fine art

from the Slade School of Fine

Art at the University of London

England He lives in London

bull Christie Dunbar BLA 97 spent a year after graduation

working for Niagara College in

St Catharines Ont on the

vision and design of a new

campus to be built in Niagarashy

on-the- Lake Last April she

joined the landscape architecshy

ture firm of Pollack Design

Associates in Ann Arbor Mich

bull Trina Edmonds BA 94 and

Joel Hinderle became the

proud parents of a little girl

Jordan Ashley in january 1998

and moved to a new home in

Oakville Ont in September

Edmonds works in Mississauga

as a desktop publisher with a

publishingprinting company

bull Wendy Garinther BSc 93 and Steve Decker BSe 94

were married in May Joining

them in the wedding celebrashy

tions were Cheri (Coulter)

42 GUELPH ALUMNUS

Ascroft BSe 93 Karen Leinshy

gartner BSe 94 and Barb

(Moore) Johnson BSe 94

Best man was Jeff Bond BSe

93 and MSe 96 The Deckers

live in Edmonton where Steve

is doing a PhD in chemistry at

the University of Alberta and

Wendy is working in a research

laboratory at a biopharmaceushy

tical company

bull Donna Gross BA 97 is purshysu ing a master of divinity at

Emmanuel College at the Unishy

versity of Toronto and hopes to

become an ordained minister by

2002 She lives in Guelph and

can be reached bye-mail at

donnajulietalbedonet

bull Robert Gruber BA 92 is a child-care supervisor for the

YMCA-YWCA of Guelph and

manages the Jean Little Y

Child- Care Centre He recently

developed the anti -bias proshy

gramming policy for the

Guelph Y and sits on both the

Jean Little Public School Counshy

cil and the Guelph AIDS Wall

Committee He can be reached

bye-mail at rgrubernet

comca

bull Susan Harder BSe 91 grad shyuated from the University of

Toronto Medical School in June

and has started a residency at

Santa Clara Valley Medical Censhy

tre in San jose Calif She will

follow that up with an anestheshy

sia residency at Stanford Univershy

sity Hospital in 1999

bull Marko Harjupanula BASc 93 travelled in Australia for

two months after graduating

from Guelph then returned to

his home town of South Porshy

cupine Ont where he worked

in a gold mine for four years

He entered police college in

September and started as an

opp constable in Cochrane in

December

bull Nancy Holman MA 94 moved to Vancouver soon after

graduation and initially worked

as a project co-ordinator for an

ophthalmologist In 1996 she

began working full time for the

BC Liberal Caucus I would

enjoy hearing from and catchshy

ing up with the friends I made

while studying at U of G and

working at the Brass Taps she

says Her e-mail address is nan shy

cyholmanlassgovbeca

bull Ruth Johnson BA 91 is an investment banking associate

with the mergers and acquisishy

tions group of JP Morgan in

Lond on England responsible

for financial reporting and

administration She has been in

England with her partner Alex Campbell since graduation

bull Stephen Johnson BA 94 of London Ont was a lab technishy

cian at Lenscrafters for three

yea rs and is now a full-time

student at Fanshawe College

studying air conditioning and

refrigeration He was married

in Jun e to Jennifer Fox BSc

95 a chemist at 3M Their

wedding party included Dee Popat BSe (Eng) 94 and

Patrick Wulhes BSc 95

bull Sarah (Davis) Kelly BASe 90 married Robert Kelly in

July and teaches primary

grades at an inner-city school

in Toronto

bull Cassidy Klowak BComm 97 lives in Allisshy

ton Onl and is a personal

banking account manager

with ClBC in Tottenham

bull Stephanie Lopes BSc 96 completed her MSc in repro shy

ductive biology at the Universishy

ty of Toronto and worked as

patient-care director for the

College of Family Physicians

for almost a year In September

she enrolled in medical school

at the University of Toronto

She is happy to announce that

she is engaged to be married

next summer Lopes can be

reached at slopesidirectcom

bull Natalie (Parker) MacKenzie BSc 96 earned her BEd from

the University of Western

Ontario in 1997 She married

ASLt Andy MacKenzie June 27

in Sault Ste Marie Ont and

now lives in Halifax

bull Susan MacKinnon DVM 91 is a veterinarian with HUls

Science Diet She lives in

Guelph with her husband

Brandon Wiley and gave birth

to their first child Adrianna

Nicole june 26 at home

bull Waheed Mian BA 9 1 of Cambridge Ont is a store

director with PetSmart Canada

He helped the company launch

its new retail concept in Cana da

bull Alex Mitchell BA 91 was appointed clerkdeputy treasurshy

er of the Ontario township of

Mildmay-Carrick in 1998 and

will be the clerkadministrator

of the new municipality of

Mildmay-Carrick -TeesWatershy

Culross in 1999 He was married

in january 1997 and lives vith

his wife and daughter in Mild shy

may In his spare time Mitchell

is a professional scout for the

Toronto Maple Leafs covering

southwestern Ontario

bull Sherry Morland BASc 93 of Kitchener Ont ea rned her

BEd from Brock University in

J995 and is a part-time specia l

educa tion teacher and an occashy

sional teacher with the Watershy

loo County Board of Ed ucashy

tion She married Ivan LeBlanc

in 1997

bull Gary Page BSe 91 wo rks for the Nottawasaga Valley Conshy

servation Authority where he is

able to combine his knowledge

of wildlife biology with his

artistic skills as resident graphic

designer and outdoor centre

interpreter He Jives with his

wife Di and their son judah in

CreemoreOnt

bull Elaine Pammenter BA 96 is an inventory clerk with the

Royal Collection at Windsor

Castle in England She holds a

museum management and

curatorship grad uate certificate

diploma from Sir Sandford

Fleming College and did her

internship at the Royal Albert

Memorial Museum in Exeter

England

bull Brent Raymond BSe(Env) 96 of Brantford Ont has

been working with Outward

Bound since graduation He

leads wilderness trips in Northshy

ern Ontario Horida Australia and Sabah (Malaysian Borneo) Most recently he designed and implemented a new introducshytory mountaineering course for Outward Bound Sabah on the summit plateau of Mt Kinashy

balu Those of you who know me as plate licker from U of G get in touch he says Where are you Star I miss you He can be reached by e-mail at globarwchatonca or by

phone at 519-756-1697

Alumni Patrick Abbott BSA 40 July 7 1998

Albert Allen BSA 33 Jan 161994 Agris Ansmits BA 70 and MA 73

February 1998 Barbara (Quartermain) Babcock DHE

53 June 17 1998

Wray Bond BSA 34 Sept 25 1998

Kenneth Bone DVM 38 Dec 29 1998 Evelyn (Stevenson) Buhr DHE 39

May 251998 Philip Burke BSA 43 June 21 1998

Grant Carman BSA 49 Oct 221998 Frederick Chambers BSA 41

June 1998 Wilmot Conley ADA4 7 April 7 1998 Lloyd Crewson BSA 49 Aug 261998

Jacqueline Dimock DHE 47

Aug 20 1998 John Dingwall DVM 52

April 18 1998

Lloyd Dorsey BSA 38 June 9 1998 George Duncan BSA 37

Sept 19 1998

David Dyson BSA 53 Aug 31 1998

Norma (Shannon) Edwards DHE 39

November 1997 Vincent Bud Ellis DVM 41

July 15 1998 John Jack George BSA 48

Sept 24 1998

Donald Haight BSA 33 January 1997 William Hamlyn BSA 33 Dec I 1997

Gordon Harkness BSA 49

November 1997

Charles Hollister DVM 38 June 1996 Donald Hope BSA 54 June 28 1998

Lawrence Jefferson BSA 38

Sept 3 1998

James Kelso DVM 56 July 27 1998

Dorima Lalonde BSA 34 Oct 8 1998 Mildred (Cox) Large DHE 33

June 20 1998 Roger Larson BComm 86 Feb 19 1998 Robert Lawson BSA 49 June 6 1998

bull Doug Ramsey BA 91 and PhD 98 received U of Gs highshyest graduate student award shythe Forster Medal- at June convocation for his academic and community involvement while enrolled in Guelphs new

graduate program in geography He spent the summer as a visitshying research scholar at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College in Truro before assuming his curshyrent position as assistant professhysor at Mount Allison University

David Leach BSc(Agr) 74

July 18 1998

Ian Leask DVM 74 Sept 5 1998

Sheryl Lee BSc 95 June 8 1998 Ruby Janet MacAuley DHE 30

Aug 19 1998 Parker MacKenzie DVM 38

September 1994

Jeanice MacLaren DHE 28 March 1 1997

Campbell MacMaster DVM42

Oct 8 1998

Rex McCallum DVM 43 July 71998 Jean (Dunn) McMahon DHE 31

Nov 41998

Margaret Oones) McTaggart DHE 35 Aug 81998

Patrick McTaggart-Cowan HDSc 81

Oct 21997

Malcolm McWhinnie ADA 39

July 16 1998 Mary (Townsend) Mitchell BHSc

60 Sept 281998

Marjory Monaghan DHE 29

December 1997 Charles Monk BSA 44 Aug 7 1998

Heather Neilsen BHSc 59

Oct 30 1998 Jerry Niwa DVM 62 Aug 5 1998 Henry Harry OReilly BSA 42

October 1997

James Parr BSc(Agr) 81 June 19 1998 Charles Rammage DVM 45

Oct 17 1996 Howard Rapson HDSc 90

March 1997 Clement Reeds DVM 42 Oct 16 1998

William Robinson BSA 38

Aug 23 1998

Donald Sager ADA 73 Oct 141997

Austin Schaefer DVM 37 in 1997

Sandra (Mackenzie) Schmidt DHE 59

Aug 16 1997 Margaret (Harvey) Seaborn DHE 28

July 221998

Larry Seguin DVM 47 June 12 1998

Leah Shedden DHE 31 December 1998

Edward Shuh BSA 40 July 2 1998

Ted Shutsa BSc(Agr) 66

Sept 18 1998 Jim Sinclair DVM 49 Oct 4 1998

Margaret (Brown) Sinclair DHE 20

September 1998 Eldon Smith BSA 42 Sept 9 1998

Derek Somers DVM 96 Sept 25 1998

Cheryl Lynn Sopha BA 95 Sept 20 1998

Leona (Bartlett) Stewart DHE 35

June 27 1998 Alex Thomson BSc(Agr) 69

October 1996

William Whittick DVM 55

Aug 15 1998 Joseph Wilson BSA 23 Sept 11 1998

Lloyd Woolsey DVM41 June 24 1998

Winifred Yeates DHE 28 June 11998

Faculty John Carpenter BSA 43 and MSA 48

Microbiology Dec 10 1998

David Gaskin Zoology Sept 14 1998

Gordon Macleod BSA 50 Animal and

Poultry Science Nov 26 1998 Roman Retman Languages and

Literatures Sept 28 1998

Caesar Sen off Chemistry and

Biochemistry Aug 14 1998

Percy Smith Drama Dec 10 1998

Friends Robert Clark Aug 21 1998

Ethel Hammond August 1998

Thomas Hillers Sept 28 1998 Marguerite Holbrook Aug 26 1998

Catherine Kelly Sept 27 1998

James A McKenzie May 13 1998

Kenneth McIssac Oct 23 1998

William Mutlock September 1998 Roena Patterson Sept 16 1998

Donald Priddle Aug 25 1998

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bull Karl Reimer BSe 94 comshypleted a one-year intensive

MSc in mining engineering at

Queens University and is now

a project engineer a t Enpar

Technologies Ine in Guelph

He can be contacted at reimerbservcom

bull Nancy Nauta Rowland BA 90 and her husband Dan celshy

ebrated their first wedding

anniversary in March 1998 with

the birth of their first child

Connor who beat their March

8 anniversary by two days Nanshy

cy teaches junior-grade stushy

dents and junior special ed ucashy

tion for the Peel District School

Board The Rowlands live in

Caledon Ont

bull Fraser Stables MFA 98 was heralded by Toronto Globe 6shyMail critic Betty Jordan as a

formidable new talent followshy

ing the openi ng of his debut

gallery exh ibition in July The

Scottish artists work includes

sculpture video and mixed

media that explore notions of

flu x by interrupting the moveshy

ment of forms in space

bull Erin (Smith) Scott BSe(HK) 92 and Brad

Scott BSc(Agr) 91 of Lucan

O nt were married in 1993 and

had their first child Lucas in

August Erin works for Shopshy

pers Home Health Ca re in

London Brad is with New Life

Mills in Dunfield

bull Abby Simons BSc 95 and Martin Piche BSc(Agr) 95 were married in Mont-Tremshy

blant Quebec in 1997 She is a

customer service representative

with Kantech Systems he is

superintendent of Club de golf

vallee des forts They say theyd

love to hear from anyone headshy

ing to Montreal and can be

reached at 450-348-3860

bull Sylvia Tesori BSc 95 has been doing wildlife rehabilitashy

tion for the OSPCA Wildlife

Rehabilitation Centre in Midshy

land Ont since 1996

bull Chuck Thibeault BComm 94 is general manager of the

Putting Edge Corpora tion

which has two glow-in- theshy

dark mini-golf courses in

Ontario one in Bramp ton and

one in Richmond Hill He can

be reached in Richmond Hill at

chu ckttotalnet

bull Karen Thirlwall BA 93 is a

si ngersongwriter and guitarist

who began her stage career and

released her first album The Voice Inside Me while studying

languages at U of G She has

lived and performed in

11i stler BC for three years

and recently released a second

album called Wide-Eyed She

remembers many special

fr iends m ade at Guelph and

welcomes e-mail messages to

karenthirlwallhotmailcom

bull Christie (Johnson) and Steve

Tyler both BComm 91 live in

Cambridge Ont where

Christie is a personal banking

representative for the Royal

Bank Steve works with their

third-year design professor

Nelson Hofer in Mississauga as

a design consultan t Steves proshy

jects include the Windsor Casishy

no and U of Gs Creelman Hall

They have two children Jason

5 and Marcus 1

bull Julia White BA 91 lives in Guelph and is a small-business

accountant at Taves amp Co She

recently finished courses

towards a CGA designation and

would like to hea r from other

alumni who lived in Lambton

Hall in 198788 Send e-mail to

juliawhitesympaticoca

bull Andre-Denis Wright MSc 93 and PhD 98 is doing postshy

docto ral work in Perth Westshy

ern Australia He wants his

Guelph friends and Halifax

family to know he was thinking

of them at Christmas when it

was 40 C in Australia

bull Dave Yellen BComm 90 was recently promoted at the Gordon

Food Service to new-accounts

sales specialist for Metro Toronshy

to Having been in Ottawa for

the past few years Im hoping

to reacquaint myself with old

friend s from U of G in the Metro

area he says He lives in Scarborshy

ough and can be reached at 416shy615-2745 or davidysprintca

bull Halina Zaleski PhD 92 is a tenured professor in the

departm ent of animal sciences

at the Un iversity of Hawaii in

Honolulu She is a swine speshy

cialist involved in extension

programs for an area th at covshy

ers all of Hawai i and the PacifIC

basin She can be reached by

e-mail at halinahawaiiedu

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IF THERE ARE LIVESTOCK IN THE HOCKEY ARENA and

theyre not wearing skates its College Royal If there

are students sawing logs throwing pies baking cookies

and square dancing its College Royal When the entire

University of Guelph is displayed - from arts to zooloshy

gy - March 13 and 14 1999 youll know its definitely

College Royan

Since its inception in 1925 as an agricultural and liveshy

stock show run by the Ontario Agricultural College

College Royal has grown to be a celebrated U of G trashy

dition involving all the colleges

The event is famou s in the University community

and beyond for its open-house showcase of displays and

activities The largest student-run open house in Canashy

da College Royal attracts more than 20000 visitors to

campus over one weekend

College Royal is an event of tradition that reaches

into tomorrow Agriculture and livestock shows are still

highlighted events but College Royal activities have

grown to include dog and cat shows a photography conshy

test a chemistry magic show and demonstrations on

human health and fitness The open house gives people

an opportunity to see what happens in the Universitys

leading-edge research laboratories to observe veterinary

medicine in practice to tour a sculpture studio or to

watch a theatrical performance

To celebrate the 75th anniversary of College Royal

1998 president Joe TrakaJo lnvites alumni to get involved

again by joining one of the planning comm ittees or by

participating in a favourite event Call him for more

information at 824-4120 Ext 8366 or send e-mail to

jtrakalouoguelphca

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UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

message from the President MORDECHAI ROZANSKI

THE BEG INN IN G OF THE YEAR seems an appropriate and second nationally in its category in the Madams ra nkshytime to introduce the new design and edi torial direc shy Lng of u madian wliversities In the magazines cross-counshy

tion of the Guelph Alumnus I hope you will like it as try survey of high school guidance counsellors and acadshy

much as I do emic and industry leaders Guelph ranked second in overall In each issue we will present regular co lumns such quality and repu tat ion Our success in these ra nkings

as In and Around the University and Research Notes to reflec ts the excellence and dedication of all members of keep you informed of research developments and camshy the University communi ty - our faculty staff students

pus news that matter most to alumni and alumni - and is testimony to our

Our fea tures will look at the issues that very talented academic and st ud ent

are most important to us as Canadians affairs leadership Guelph has maintained and will focus on the people who conshy its commitment to quality und er chalshytribute so much to Guelphs sllccess lenging conditions given the current The AllllTIJli Matters section of the magshy financial fragility of Ontario universities az ine wi ll bring yo u news about yo ur Our situation has been hel ped by our fellow alumni and their activi ties in supshy successes with several national lt1nd port of the University and the commushy provincial applications for resea rch and nities in which they live teachin g support The first of nine

In this issue of the Guelph Alumnus research initiatives submitted to the we celebrate the heritage of the Univershy Canada Fou ndat ion for Innovation has sity as we help launch the 12Sth annivershy been funded and will support the study sa ry of the Ontario Agricultural College of new technologies for enhancing agro-The college has played a leading ecosystems At the provincia l role in the history of the Unishy level the Onta rio gove rnment versity of Guelph and has made GUELPH HAS recently announced funding to many invaluab le contributions U of G under the Ontario MAINTAINED ITS to agricu ltural research and Research and Development education in this province and COMMITMENT Challenge Fund that wi II su p shyacross the nation Our feature port a new Food System

TO QUALITY UNDER on the 12Sth anniversary of the Biotechnology Centre on cal11shycollege looks back at its remarkshy CHALLENGING pus The province has also proshyable legacy and for wa rd to its vided grants to boost enrolment

CONDITIONS prominence as Canada s preshy in engineering and computing mier centre in agri-food envi- science programs and to provide ronmental and rural ed ucation research and outreach research scholarships for up to 46 U of G grad uate stushy

This issue also presents a dramatic profi le o f playshy dents working in science and technology programs wright Judith Thompson a professor in Guelphs School Although we are pl eased with this suppor t for ou r of Literatures and Performance Studies in English who excellent and deserving science-related disciplines we are displays the kind of creative energy that yo u find camshy concerned that most of these programs are so narrowly pus-wide among our talented faculty A seco nd feature targeted As a university with excell ent programs in the demonstrates Guelphs expertise in the aquat ic sciences arts humanities social sciences and applied fields Guelph and frames sOllle of the strategies that co uld preserve - as well as other Ontario universities - needs a comshyCanadas endangered fish eries reSOllfces prehensive multi-yea r effo rt that addresses the entire

The new year is al so an appropriate time to reflect range of programs and disciplines and prepares LIS to meet -on the achievements of the past yea r an d look ahead to the expectations of Ontarians in the 21st century the opportunities to come J look forward to shari ng more news with you in

Last November for the second yea r in a row Guelph hiture issues of the Guelph Alul11rlus My very best wishshyranked first among Ontarios comprehensive universities es for success hea lth and happiness in 1999

W I NTER 1999 5

bull UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

GUELPH HOLDS SECOND PLACE IN MACLEANS RANKING

For the second year in

a row U of G finished

second in the country

in its category in the annual

Macleans magazine universities

ranking issue

Editor Ann Dowsett Johnston

says it was very close with

Guelph barely nipped to the finshy

ish line by Simon Fraser Univershy

s ity in the 12-universitycomshy

prehensives category Guelph led

the way provincially coming first

of the five Ontario universities

in the sa me category

G uelph also rece ived a secshy

ond-place ranking in its categoshy

ry in the Macleans reputational

survey of 4700 corpora te CEOs

administ ra tors and high school

guidance counsellors In the allshy

categories nationwide reputashy

tional survey U of G placed xa5 eighth out of 48 institutions

~ Dowsett Johnston says

~ Guelph is well-established as a I premier university Other uni shy~ o vers ities are searching for an o f--

identity Guelph has a wonder-z laquo Vl gt ful sense of who it is This makes Vl

gtshy it a leader ahead of the game Its co 6 a strong resid ential school and

( it knows and builds o n its tr strengths It bodes incredibly ~ - well for the future

6 GUELPH ALUMNUS

ONTARIO INVESTS IN NEW

BIOTECH CENTRE AT U OF G The Ontario government will invest up to

$6 million in a new Food System Biotechshy

nology Centre at U of G

The funding from the Ministry of Energy

Science and Technology through the

Ontario Research and Development Chalshy

lenge Fund will be used to investigate anishy

mal genetiCS plant genetics and transgenshy

ics and the basic molecular research

underlying these areas With matching

funding from industry and the U of G

research budget the total investment in

this centre could reach $18 million

The new biotechnology centre will be

the focal point of molecular biology and

biotechnology research related to the agrishy

food system says U of G president

Mordechai Rozanski The award will allow

KUDOS

U of G applauds the recent

Order of Canada designamiddot

tions received by former

president William Winegard who was recognized for his

voluntarism OAC alumnus

Constantine Campbell BSA 60 who was honoured

for his significant contribushy

tions to science and the

Canadian agricultural indusshy

try Beverly Mascoll a

former member of U of Gs

Board of Governors and

Austin Clarke who recently

served as writer-in-residence

at Guelph

Roberta Bondar B5c

(Agr) 68 Canadas first

the University to develop the infrastructure

and expertise necessary to maintain a

leadership role in the important agri-food

sector of the economy he says It

involves four colleges 11 departments and

some 70 researchers and adds to Guelphs

reputation as a centre for the highest-qualshy

ity research benefiting all Canadians

The centres work will encompass all

aspects of the food system including agrishy

culture processing storage packaging

nutrition waste management and food

safety Key initiatives will incorporate

recent advances in molecular genetic techshy

nology into strategies for developing

improved strains of livestock and for the

production and evaluation of transgenic

plants

and physiological change in

space and how it applies to

life on Earth

Clay Switzer BSA 51 former

dean of OAC and former

deputy minister of the

Ontario Ministry of Agriculshy

ture and Food was inducted

into the Canadian Agriculturshy

al Hall of Fame in November

Fred Gilbert M5c 66 and

PhD 68 recently began a

first term as president of

Lakehead University in

Thunder Bay Ont

Won-Jai Maeng MSc 71 is

the newly appointed presishy

dent of Kon-Kuk University

in Seoul Korea

female astronaut has been

inducted into the Canadian

Medical Hall of Fame for her

studies on weightlessness

Winegard Named Officer of the Order of Canada

BIn WINEG ARD form er U ofG presishydent and minister of state for sc ience

and technology was named an officer of the Order of Canada in Jul y In November many of his University and co mmunity frie nds gath ered for a recognition dinner hosted by Lorie BA Sc 72 and Gin ty jocius

IN FACT What Mlldelns knows

VS editors arc learning

Major US publications have reccntly dcscribed

V of G as being academishycally excellent and a

real college valuc for American students

BSc(Agr ) 70 They were students at U of G during Winega rds tenure as president and later esta blished thei r business Gin ty jocius amp Associates in the Guelph-Wellington ridshying he represented as MP

Winegard first ca me to Guelph in 1967

to pilot the new University of Guelp h

CENTR E SIX GETS A FAC ELIFT

AFTER 25 YEARS the Unishyversity Centres popular

dining and seating area is getting a new look The expansion and renovation of Cen tre Six includes the addishytion of 200 scats an elevated lounge accessible to people

through its format ive years At the recognishytion dinner curren t U of G president Mo rdecbai Rozanski paid tribute to Wineshygards ro le as the intellec tual founder and shaper of the modern transformation of Guelph A distinguished metallurgist who began his academic career at the University of Toronto Winegard recruited many of the talented faculty who have spent the last 25 to 30 years building Guelphs reputation as a research institution said Rozanski

Winegards lead ership in the ac ademic community also encompassed the Canadian Bureau of International Education the Counshycil of Ontario Universities and the Ontario Council of University Affairs He retired from academia and U of G in 1975 His legacy on campus includes the Winegard Medal the highest award made to a graduati ng student and d1e Winegard Visiting Professorship which brings world scholars to U of G Proceeds from the recognition dinner were given to U of G to support Winegard visiting professors

Elected to Parliament in 1984 Winegard spent nine years in Ottawa and served in ca bshyinet as Canadas minister of state for science and technology and then science minister j

until he retired from Parliament in j 993 He 8 was named chair of the Premiers Research ~

Excel lence Awards board at the December i z

1998 announcement of the provincial pro- o V1gram which is designed to attract talented -lt 0you ng scientists to Ontario m

with disa bilities and a so lari shyum that has enclosed the external dining patio The facelift is funded entirely through non-exclusive agreements with the Univershysitys food service business partners

The project is expected lo address the need for space to

accommodate enrolment increases and may increase conference business Centre Six will also be more energyshyand labor-efficient with the installation of an upgraded -air-handling system In 1999

the Centre Six project will continue with renovations to the food comt area

WINTER j 999 7

in and around the

HPILOT PROJECT ELIMINATES BARRIERS

av ing a learning disability isnt a barrier to obtaining an educashy

tion at the University of Guelph especially with the laun ch of Learning Opportunities a pilot program offered through the Unishy

versitys Centre for Students with Disabilities Beginning in fall 1999

the program will give students with learning disa bilities the addishytional resources they need to meet the challenges involved in obtainshy

ing a post-secondary ed ucation

Lea rning Opportuniti es is a fi ve -yea r project that rece ived

$633 800 in special funding from the Ontario Ministry of Education

and Training U of G vas one of eight institutions to benefit from ~ the gran ts) which are designed specifically for programs in post-secshy

~ ondary institutions that support the integration of stud ents with I U learning disabiliti esIf)

z 0 Students enrolled in the Guelph program will receive pre-regis-O

~ tration cOllnselling academic advising speciall y tailored orientation

~ programs integrated living in an on-campus learn ing cluster supshy

5 ported learning groups workplace skills and competenc ies develshy

5 Oplnent) and experiential educat ion in the vvorkplace

PROVINCE BOOSTS GRADUATE RESEARCH

ANEW $75 - lvIILLlON provinshy

cial scholarship program in

science and technology will awa rd up to 46 U of G graduate

students up to $15000 star ting

this ye ar An nounced in Sepshytember the O ntario Graduate

Scholarships in Sc ience and

Technology will be awarded each

year for 10 years The ministries

of Energy Science and Technolshy

ogy and Education and Training will co-fund two-third s of the

cost of the program Uni ve rsishy

ties are expected to fmd an otershynal match for the final third

The government will alloshy

cate up to $460000 annually to

U OF G GRADS PROMPT GIFT FOOD SC IE NCE TEACHIN G and research at U of G has received financial support from the

Maple Lodge Farms Foundation In honour

of the companys founder Lawrence May

the May family presented $15000 to U of G

president Mordechai Rozanski Nov 9 at the

Royal Agricultural Wint er Fair in Toronto Presenters Wendy Ma y Robson and Kathy

May Weinhold said the gift was awarded

because of Maple Lodge Farms positive

experiences with so many highly qualified Guelph graduates

Man) graduates of this university have

passed through our facility over the yea rs

and in many capacities - as veterinarians inspectors researchers and food scientists

says Robson Our business has been enriched by this connection and it is for

8 GUELPH ALUMNUS

University

Guelph MPP Brenda Ell iott presents a cheque for $633800 to president Mordechai Rozanski for a pilot project to help learningshydisabled students Sta nd ing from left are Carol Herriot of the Cent re for Students wi th Disab ili t ies student Brad Hutchinson and cent re director Bruno Ma ncini

U of G whi ch will seek th e

remaining $230000 from prishy

va te-sector funding

Graduate studi es dean Alasshytair Summerlee is enthusiast ic

ab out the program but disapshypointed at the targe ted natu re of

the scholarships 1-k say the preshy

liminary list of qualifyi ng pro-

this reason that we wish to be part of this talented fa cility and to show our support of

its continuing mission of being a worldshy

class educational facility in Canada

Wendy Robson left and Kathy Weinh old present a gift from Maple Lodge Farms to U of G presiden t Mordechai Rozanski at the Roya l Winter Fair

grams ignores the social sciences

and huma nit ies and does not appreciate the con tributions of

fi elds suc h as econo mi cs and poli tical science to the advanceshy

mfl1t of science w d technology He says U of G wi ll press for the

govern ment to expalld the areas

included in the scholarships

B OF G WELCOMES NEW MEMBERS f OL LO W IN G 1111 1([ Il RF ~ lE NT of

several members in June U of Gs Board of Govern ors welcomed

t igh t new face~ th is blJ They are Christine Alford BSc 80 viccshy

prcsidltIlt Jnd geneml manager of

In tegration S rvices at IBM Ca na shyd1 Ltd Gil Bennett chai r of the

Canadian Tire Corporation Doug

Derry a fi na ncial adv iser and ret ired part ner with Price Wlel shy

house staff member Kathleen Hyland of th UAC Deans O ffi cI

graduate stu clenL James Rodgers undergraduate stud en ts Mitch MacDonald and Lana Rabkin and

Prof Steve Scadding Zoology

-

U OF G WINS FEDERAL

INNOVATION AWARD

mE UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH is one of 14

1 Canadian universities and one of six

in Ontario to receive awards totalling $81

million from the Canada Foundation for

Innovations (CFI) Institutional Innovation

Fund (projects over $350000)

The CFI has yet to determine the exact

amount of the award but if Guelph were

to get the approximate $750000 requestshy

ed with matching grants from industry

and the Ontario Research and Developshy

ment Challenge Fund the total award

could be close to $2 million

Guelphs project is a holistic look at

agriculture the first of its kind in Canada

Titled New Technologies for Assessing

and Enhancing Agroecosystems it will be

headed by Prof Terry Gillespie chair of the

Department of Land Resource Science and

involve 25 faculty from 10 departments

Eight other U of G research projects were

invited to move on to a further stage of

review the third-highest number for an

Ontario university

TTRELLIS LAUNCHED a triangle of information sharshy indexes and Web sites and

H E SEP~EMI3ER LAU NCH of ing through TRELLIS the Trishy databases around the world an excltmg new system University Group of Libraries More than 75 million volshy

called TRELLIS has positioned combined computer-based umes of materials can be the U of G Library as a symbol information resource system found online and more thal1 of partnership and the home The automated system 400 users can log on to for more information than ever gives students and faculty at TRELLIS at the same time before U of G Wilfrid Laurier the three campuses access to a To access TRELLIS 011

University and the University of wider range of resources the Internet type wwwtugshyWaterloo joined forces to form including computer-based librariesonca

OTHER HONOURS

CONVOCAriON HONOURS TWO The University of Guelph has added two more distinshy

guished names to its list of honorary degree recipients Renowned biologist Jane Goodall and political scienshytist Peter Russell an expert on the Canadian Constitushytion and Charter of Rights and Freedoms were honshyoured during fall convocashytion ceremonies in October

Goodall received an honorary doctor of science degree acknowledging more than 40 years of groundbreaking work in the life and sociobiology of chimpanzees and other primates

An honorary doctor of

laws degree was conferred on Russell for his extensive research on the Constitution and Canadian nationalism

UOFG QUALIFIES FOR ATOP SUPPORT U OF Gs SCHOOL OF Engi- neering and Department of Computing and Information Science (CIS) are planning for more faculty equipment and resources following the Unishyversitys request for funding from a provincial program designed to address a shortage of skilled graduates in engimiddot neering and computing science

U of G met this years enrolment increase in these high-tech programs needed to qualify for one-time fundshying under the provinces Access to Opportunities Proshygram (ATOP) Guelph has also committed to doubling enrolment by the year 2000 to take advantage of long-term ATOP money

Guelph will qualify for special operating grants from the province to universities that increase their first-year enrolment in these programs by 20 per cent over 199798

The University also hopes to receive ATOP funding to increase its graduate enrolshyment in these disciplines

Both CIS and the School of Engineering face a shortage of resources making the ATOP funding an important funding source that will help these areas without affecting other campus units

WINTER 1999 9

refront ofat the

ALL THE DEFINING WORDS

written about the Ontario Agricultural College in its 125

years perhaps the most appropriate is the word integral

Throughout its history OAC has remained integral to the

agri-food industry and rural society

Its a good word integral It describes how and why

the college has survived 125 years and suggests a reason

it will grow even stronger in the 2pt century

Without hesitation OAC dean Rob McLaughlin

BSc(Agr) 69 and PhD 77 takes up the thought and

declares that OAC is the premier agricultural college in

Canada and stands in the top rank of agricultural faculshy

ties around the world Our work has had a profound

effect on the growth and development of the Canadian

agri-food system and the well-being of the people and

communities of rural Ontario and beyond he says

10 G UELPH ALUMNUS

OAC celebrates its history its partnerships and its fu ture

W I N TER 1999 11

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OACs 23000 graduates are also recognized

worldwide for their expertise and leadshy

ership abilities in agriculture agribusiness manageshy

ment hortiClilture landscape architecture plant and

animal biology food scie nce and rural extension

Meeting industry needs

More than 100 years apart in their leadershyship of OAC William Johnston and Rob McLaughlin both recognized that the colshylege they inherited would have to focus on industry needs to survive In Johnstons day that meant bringing greater prospershyity to the farm Because only three per cent of McLaughlins graduates return to farmshying todays college curriculum has a greater focus on skills in communication and critical thinking which are demanded by the various industries that now define agriculture

studies McLaughlin hopes those graduates will

return to help the college celebrate 1999s signifishy

cant anniversary It s important to celebrate our

past achievements and to recognize our present and

future strengths he says

A specia l OAC 125 planning committee coshy

chaired by Clay Switzer OAC dean from 1972 to

1983 and Don Blackburn former director of the

diploma program has organized a number of

events throughout the coming year to celebrate the

anniversary

Were looking forward to a wonderful year of

events to mark this occasion says Switzer BSA 51

and MSA 53 We want to celebra te the accomshy

plishments of the past and the fact tha t OAC has

interacted with many partners to get where we are

today and we want to look ahead to the future to

see how the college and the University might conshy

tinue along this successful path

Success for OAC means maintaining its position

as a vital partner and contributor to the prosperity

of the agri-food industry and the people of rural

Ontario for whom it was established That industry

and those rural communities are vastly different

from the 1874 picture we draw from the college hisshy

tory primarily because farmers themselves - with

the help of agricultural education and researchshy

12 GUElPH ALUMNUS

125 YEARS OF ACHIEVEMENT

Throughout OACs first 125 years its educashytion research and extension activities have had an impact on virtually every secshytor of Canadas agrimiddot food industry In the anniversary book 125

Years of Achievement OAC highlights some of the areas where col1lege faculty stushydents and administrashytors have played a leadership role To read more about Guelphs achievements in these areas conshytact the OAC deans office to obtain a copy of the book

Pre 1900

bull Diploma in agriculture

bull Degree in agriculture

bull Agri-food short courses

bull Production bulletins bull Extension work bull Liberal education bull Library resources bull Field crop trials bull Livestock breeding

bull Forestry bull Insect identification bull Experimental Union

1900-1910

bull Herbarium amp weed garden

bull Cheese making bull Food safety bull Land drainage bull Water testing bull Weather observashy

tions amp zoning for crop production

bull Legume inoculants

have forged change through increased productivishy

ty and efficiency

When OAC roots were planted in 187450 per

cent of th e people who lived in this new province

made their living from farming Today only two per

cent of Ontario residents live on farms

but they feed a much larger population

base and an important export market

The Ontario agri-food industry genershy

ates an impressive $637 billion in ecoshy

nomic value each year and stimulates

employment for nearly a quarter of the

workforce Canadians enjoy one of the

safest and cheapest food supplies in the

world spending less than 13 per cent of

their disposa ble income on food Most

people in the world spend more than 50

per cent

Its difficult to pinpoint all the conshy

tributions OAC faculty staff and gradshy

uates have made to agriculture because

the knowledge created and the techshy

nologies perfected here have been so weU

assimilated by the industry that they are

easily taken for granted Few people in

Ontario have ever heard of Charles

Zavitz or know that this early OAC gradshy

uate and professor recorded the first

field-crop yield tests at Guelph before 1890

Appointed head experimentalist in 1893 he was

instrumental in developing a college research proshy

gram that made good the promise that OAC would

offer its students training in scientific agriculture

Zavitz has been followed by a number of brilshy

liant educators and scientists whose contributions

to the college and its industry have filled several

books Even Alexander Ross in OACs official hisshy

tory College on the Hill can provide only a brief

description of the research initiatives that have

involved OAC in the growth of the agri-food secshy

tor and the tremendous advances agriculture has

made in the areas of human and animal nutrition

and health water and soil conservation rural develshy

opment and of course agri-food education

To give prominence to these contributions the

college has published an anniversary book that outshy

lines 125 of the most significant accomplishments in

which OAC faculty students and administrators

played a leadership role More important 125 Years ofAchievement celebrates the partnerships that have

provided the opportunities for achievement Through

the years Guelph scientists and educators have worked

closely with the agri-food industry with both the

Ontario Ministry of Agriculture Food and Rural

Affairs and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and

with other government departments international 1990s And they still have not reached that equalishy125 YEARS agencies educational institutions and alumni ty on the college faculty Alice Rowsome may haveOF ACHIEVEMENT

Read any entry in 125 Years ofAchievement and been hired to serve as assistant librarian and instrucshy

youll find an interes ting anecdote that chronicles tor in French and German at the turn of the censhy1910-1920

an important element in campus history Read the tury but horticulturist Patricia Harney remained bull Macdonaldwhole book and youll be awed by the

Institutesheer volume of th e work that has

bull Soil science been accomplished by so many people Scientific agricuLture

bull Poultry lighting working meticulously over so many

amp nutritionyears to affect so many changes in agrishy After earning one of its first agriculture

bull OAC 21 barleyculture that have improved the lives of degrees in 1888 Charles Zavitz began a

bull Fruit research Canadians 40-year career overseeing the college

Freeman McEwen OAC dean from experimental programs and made the first 1920-1930

1983 to 1990 chaired a committee that advancements in plant breeding Threebull Collecting

involved severa l dozen current and generations later Prof Ken Kasha led the Canadian art

retired faculty as well as alumni students development of a haploid technique of cell bull War Memorial

and U of G staff in writing the stories division that cut the time needed to breed Hall

A quick check of dates in the book new varieties in half Today plant biotechshybull Graduate

shows a spiral of achievement that has nologist Bryan McKersie is looking even education

escalated with whirlwind force since the deeper into the functioning of plant cells bull College Royal

establishment of the University of to manipulate genes that will enhance proshybull SoybeanGuelph in 1964 and heads unabated ductivity or disease resistance

developmenttoward the future The 125 items docushy

bull Forage varieties ment scientific discoveries to be sure

bull Meat research but also the development of the college

bull Ginsengas an educa tional institution and its bull Farm business

ongoing partnership with the provincial records

government

Out of the J25 McEwen has picked his own top the only woman on faculty throughout the 1960s 1930-1940

five beginning with the contributions OAC made and women are seriously under-represented even bull Professional

to the establishment of the University This campus today This is one area where historians find room societies

has the distinction of being the only one in North to criticize agricultural traditions and college polishybull ControlledAmerica where the agricultural college preceded the cies that continued the dominance of men for far

atmosphereuniversity that supports it That fact helps ex plain too many years

storagethe unique character of the University of Guelph The college itself was dominated by the provinshy

bull Muck crops and its prominence in the life sciences cial government during its first 90 years when OAC bull Salmonella

Some might argue that the process of becoming principals reported directly to the minister of agrishytesting

a university began as ea rly as 1904 when the Macshy culture The 1964 University of Guelph Act mainshybull Links with donald Inst itute opened This event is second on tained the schools relationship with the agriculshy

farm groups McEwens list of top accomplishments The ad dishy ture ministry but gave the col lege a new- found

tion of women to the campus changed OAC from a freedom that expanded research and graduate proshy1940-1950

boys school into a co llege Guelph history professhy grams and opened the door to increased fundingbull Holland Marsh

sor Terry Crowley says bluntly Early student life at from th e education ministry It a lso permittedResearch Station

OAC is readily divided into two - before women greater collaboration with the Ontario Veterinarybull Standardizedand after women College which had been moved to Guelph by politshy

cattle conformation The Mac girls were generally older than the J6- ical dictate in 1922

bull Potato breeding and 17-year-old students at OAC they were more One of the most vivid examples of the impact of

bull Reproductionmature and brought both a social life and a new acashy that collaboration was the dramatic increase in anishytechnology

demic focus to the campus For the young women mal-breeding technologies OVC perfected artificial bull Queen beeof Ontario it was a long overdue opportunity and insemination and held the only licence in Ontario for

rearingthey grasped the educa tion offered at Macdonald frozen semen until 1969 OAC faculty and the netshy -bull TechnologyInstitute in large numbers work of provincial agricultural representatives helped

transferWomen were not admitted into the agriculture promote the technology and control it through the

bull Conservation program until 1918 however and they didnt reach development of a national livestock and performance

farm planning numerical equality with male students until the inventory Through these combined efforts Canada

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emerged as a global leader in animal breeding largest Ontario univers ity geographica lly when it125 YEARS OACs un ique and enduring relati onship wi th assumed res ponsibility for ed ucation resea rch andOF ACHIEVEMENT

the provincial agric ulture ministry is another addishy Iaboratory services form erl) managed by the minshy

tion to McEwe ns list of top achievements Certa inshy is try Guelph agric ultural expertise covers the 1950-1960

ly the most significan t even t in the last decade has provi nce with camp uses in Guelph Ridgetownbull Horticulture corre-

Kemptville a nd Alfred and a network of spondence course

research facilities that includes the Horshybull Business education Changing with society ticultural Resea rch Institute of Ontariobull Watershed research

diagnostic laboratories and 21 research bull Farm buildingWhen Adelaide Hoodless argued for the stat ions

programestablishment of Macdonald Institute in the The partnership with OMAFRA has

bull Computers in late 1890S she saw scientific training for kept agricultural education and research agriculture

women as a way to improve community at the forefro nt of the University of bull Corn expansionhealth standards The college has evolved Guelph More than 40 per cent of the Unishybull Deailing with continually through the years - growing versitys graduate studenllt are in OAC and

cold climate into the largest home economics facility in more than 70 per cent of its $80-million

bull CropOntario under dean Margaret McCready and research budget is focused on the ag rishyrecommendations

broadening its outlook in the 1970S under food indus try T hat commitment to

dean Janet Wardlaw to include consumer research is the earliest and most enduring1960-1970

studies and the hospitality industry Wardshy achievement out of the 125 bull OAC Alumnilaw set the tone for increased research OAC contin ues to lea d the way in

Foundationactivity and positioned the college to join research and is one of the most dynamshy

bull University of Guelphforces with the social sciences in 1998 ic co lleges in th e University saysbull Arboretum

McLaughlin But we draw on peoplebull Ag research

fro m all over the University communi shystations

ty And now with the provincial colleges bull International

added back into the mix we are ail workshyag research centres

ing as part of the sa me team to enhance bull Scholarships

been the launch of a new University relationship the opportunities availab le to yo ung people in agri shyendowments

with OACs oldest partner the Onta rio Minist ry of cu ltural edu cat ion bull International

Agriculture Food a nd Rural Affairs (OMAFRA) Alumn i have always held an important position apiculture

In 1997 the University of Guelph became th e on that tea m Among OACs top achievements is the

The OAC of today owes much to its past THE ONTAR IO AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE might never have existshy The journalist s role in establishing the college as the Ontario

ed if not for the failure of a Univers ity of Toronto experiment in School of Agriculture and Experimental Farm is bro ught into

agricultural education in the 18505 It certainly wouldnt have context in a new history of OAC that will be published in April

been situated in Guelph without the political parlaying of Guelph to help celebrate its 125th an niversary The College 011 the Hill A journalist and cleric William Clarke And it might not have surshy New History of the 011tario Agriwltuml College 1874- I 999 was

vived a traumatic first yea r o f patronage and scandal if it hadnt written by Guelph history professor Terry Crowley and Univershy

been for the acc iden tal appo intment ofVVilliam Johnston as prinshy sity professor emeritus Alexander Ross who wrote the origi nal

cipal in the fall of 1874 College 011 the Hill for OACs 100th anniversary

And that was just the beginning If the first book tdls us how OAC grew into the University of

One hundred and twenty-five years have passed since Clarke cuelph the second tells us why

successfully argued that the new province of Ontario needed a When the fledgling provincial government of the 1870s was

land-based rural college where the focus was on providing a pracshy glued togeLher by political patro nage how could th e sc hoo l be

tical education in farming The University of Toronto fai led to any different asks Crowley Two principals came and went withshy

attract farmers sons he sa id because it allowed the other proshy in its first year when rumours tore at their moral fibre so the job

fessions of medicine law and the clergy to overshadow agriculshy fell quickly to the new college rector William Johnston

ture Clarkes persuasive fiting in the then Olltario Farmer newsshy Because we already know how OACs story devdops we ca n

paper helped place the college on 550 acres of good clay loam see some iro ny in the fact that the man who nur tured this preshy

at the back door of his Guelph parish mier agricultural college through its infancy was educated in the

14 GVELPI-I AWMNvs

alumni initiative that es tablished the OAC Alumni work internship at the end of their third yea r and125 YEARS Foundation in the 1960s to provide financial supshy co me back to finish the fourth year with a job wa it shyOF ACHIEVEMENT port to co ll ege programs and scholarships The ing for them says McLa ughlin and they o ften have

foundation also provided the leadership and incenshy fo ur or fi ve to choose from vVe are very short of bull Teaching

tive to create Guelph Unive rsity Alumni Research graduates to fill all of the jobs that are o ut there now innovations

and Development (GUARD Inc) in bull Birdsfoot trefoil

1996 The manda te of the technology bull Land reclamation Educating Leadersmanageme nt company is to develop bull Rural planning

researc h i nven tion s in to marketable bull Wind and snow Guelphs agriculture graduates haveprod ucts lau nch spin-off companies

studies played key roles in Canadian agriculture and gene rate revenu es to support basic

bull Milk testing including federal ministers William Mothshyand applied research at U of G bull Ruminant nutrition

erwell Diploma 1881 John Wise ~DA 56Throughout OACs history alumni bull Ag poli cy and Lyle Vanclief BSc(Agr) 66 Mothshyhave formed a network ofAggies who

development erwell was a driving force behind the have volunteered their time to provide

western grain producers movement before 197deg-198o

a rea l-world view for students helped to

being named to Cabinet in 1921 In thelaunch the careers of many new grad ushybull Arboretum Centre 1980s Wise introduced income stabilizashyates by providing work opport unities bull Ghana-Guelph tion programs and created farm debtencouraged research initiatives co nshy

Project review boards Today Vanclief is strugshytributed millions of dollars to scholarshy

bull Integrated pest gling with low commodity prices and intershyship programs and voca lized co ncerns

managementabout college programs and curriculum national trade agreements

bull Composting animal After receivin g some critica l advice

wastesfrom alumni and agr i-food employers

bull Crop resistance toin the ea rly part o f the 1990s OAC

herbicideslaunched a new BSc(Agr ) program that

bull Limnocorrals for wil l gradu ate the fi rst class of st uden ts

aquatic ecosystems this anniversary year The new agriculshy

bull Grain drying and ture curriculum emphasizes communica tion skills in the agri-food sec tor he says

storageand teamwork allows students to choose their own If you live anywhere near Guelph youll know that

bull Asparagusspecializations and includes opportunities for onshy the agri-food sector ill this area is expected to lead the

bull Systemic fungicides the-job experience Many of those students take a local economy well into the new mi llennium creat shy

bull Pesticides research

bull Agricultural Code of

Practicesocial sciences Johnston had no real farm expeshy within the interdisciplin ary atmosphere of the

rience but he understood people well says Crow- University of Guelph OAC has both contributed

ley and he recognized almost as quickly as his students that the to and benefited iiom the Universitys steady growth Traditionshy

school would succeed only if it co uld offer farm ers sons someshy al OAC programs have expanded into new departments and colshy

thing more thall what they had already learned at home leges providing greater benefits to agri-food resea rch and teach shy

Johnstons commitment to education and his genui ne con shy in g New partnerships o n campus and th e academ ic freedom

cern for his students still echo through the corridors of the build shy provided by University sta tus have enabled Guelph to enlarge its

ing named in his hono ur a nd across campus in the broad range already significant influence in the agri-food sector

of disciplines that now nuke up the Un iversity of Guelph Johnshy Crowley says the enha nced partnership between U of G and

ston was the firs t of hundreds of hulllane and sensible people the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture Food a nd Rural Affairs has

who have given the campus its distinctive character says Crowshy fulfilled a vision of OAC as the hub of agr icultural educa tion that

ley The University of Guel ph is still a good place to be People had been expressed nea rly a cen tury before It s a good place to

help each other to a rema rkable degree and it is eve n m ore end a history and begin a future

remarkable that this sense of co-operatio n has lasted through the In Crowleys fi nal words Agriculture reta ins its econo mi c

most recent government meat slicing importance in the co untrys econom) but the secto r will find

Told in the social and political context of its 125 yea rs the itself [n an increasingly international and com petitive ellvironment -OAC story builds momentum as the pages turn The final chapshy where education and research become ever more importa nt Since

ter in Crowleys history is the most impressive because it SUIll shy the Ontario Agricultural College has demons t rated its ability to

marizes the last 25 years when developments in agricultural edushy respond to changing circumstances during its first 125 years the

cation research and service have occurred 1110st quickly Growing past suggests a willingness to meet the new challenges that await

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ing more jobs and generating more wealth than any 125 YEARS other industry A recent study by the citys Planning OF ACHIEVEMENT OAe 125 and Business Development Department predicts a

ANNIVERSARY EVENTS50-per-cent increase in employment in agri-food bull Mosquitoindustries in the next decade Broaden out to the

monitoring jan 29 - Official OAC 12S launch and bull Canadian publication of 125 Years of Achievements

Greenhouse Feb 16 - Winegard Seminar Series hosts New frontiers Conference Andy Johnson Seymour Wis

bull Non-agricultural March 5 - Winegard Seminar Series hosts At the tum of the 20th century Prof William waste on land Sir Colin Berry Royal London Hospital UKGraham created the impetus for a Canadishy

bull Pest diagnostic March 31 - Opening of AJ Casson Exhibitan poultry industry through nutrition studshyservice and selections from the OAC art collection ies that also provided a background for

at the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre work in human nutrition The tum of the 1980-1990 April 30 - Recognition of the 12s-year 21st century finds poultry scientist Ann Gibshybull Alumni House GuelphOMAFRA partnership and launch bins perfecting the techniques to transfer bull Turfgrass Institute of The College on the Hill A New History genetic material into chicken embryos to bull Centre for the of the Ontario Agricultural College develop birds with better disease resistshy

Genetic Improvement 1874 - 1999middotance or to improve production characterisshyof Livestock june 7 amp 10 - Spring Convocation for tics including the deposition of medically

bull Network of OAC diploma and degree graduates Eachvaluable proteins in the eggs Toxicology Centres graduate will receive a copy of College

bull Biological control lab on the Hill bull George Morris june 18 amp 20 - Alumni Weekend and

Centre opening of the Conservatory and Gardens bull Advanced Sept 14 to 16 - Canadas Outdoor Farm

Agricultural Show will host the countrys biggest silent Leadership auction as an OAC fundraiser for student Program support Ontario industry and the predictors are similar and

bull Distance education Sept 25 - Heritage Banquet and Ball for again youll find U of G at the hub of that growth bull Animal behaviour alumni agri-food partners and University In the past decade the view from Johnston Hall

and welfare communityhas expanded to include OMAFRAs provincial bull Farm animal care Nov 24 - Agri-Food Into the Newheadquarters and the U of G Research Park which bull Haploid breeding Millennium conference to discuss the majoris home to a branch of Agriculture and Agri-Food

technologies forces shaping the destiny of the global Canada the regional headquarters of the Canadian bull Hybrid canolc and Canadian agri-food systems and rural Food Inspection Agency and more than two dozen bull Consumer societiesbusinesses and agriculture organizations that are

benefits from key players in Ontarios industry

agricultural For more information on these events or toIn the summer of 1997 Guelph welcomed the research order copies of the anniversary books visit establishment of Ontario Agri-Food Technologies

bull Soybean the OAC 125 Web site at wwwoacuoguelph - a consortium of 12 grower associations five rhizobium 532C cajOAC125 or contact the deans office atOntario universities 11 industries and OMAFRA

519-824-4120 Ext 2285 e-mail oac125 - which is dedicated to generating wealth for the 1990S oacuoguelphcaprovincial agri -food sector through the application bull Guelph Food

of biotechnology The consortium will develop Technology

financing and the research teams needed to take in new business to the country s economyCentre

discoveries and turn them into products in the Some would suggest the growth of agri -food bull GUARD Incsupermarket partnerships is part of a global trend in economic bull Environmental

A new venture beginning this year is the Agrishy thinking that says consolidate cluster and work Farm Plan

Food Quality Cluster that seeks out opportunities together for greater rewards but the important thing bull U of GOMAFRA

for agri-food companies to work together to meet is that this agri-food sector is clustering in Guelph partnership

a specific need The Guelph duster is one of the first - around U of G - because this institution began bull Wheat in China

to be established in Canada but it already has 500 preparing for its future 125 years ago with a comshybull Food packaging

members and has predicted that potential projects mitmen t to leadership in agri-food research edushybull Transgenic plants

in Ontario could add $2 billion to $3 billion a year cation and service ga

16 GUELPH ALUMNUS

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

rese~ tesch SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERYmiddot SCHOLARSHIpmiddot SOCIAL DEVELOPMENTS

WHEN 24 HOURS IN lea rning how to integrate work Runciman arrived at Guelph know they may be harm ful to

A DAY ISNT ENOUGH and fa mily life rath er than jugshy last summer after spending four their health

TRYIN GTO ACCOMMODATE the gling the two says Lero Inteshy years deSIgning orthopedic sysshy Most consumers are not demands of family and career is gration is key so tfut people can tems and instruments for Canashy aware that plants contain a comshya problem most peopl e fa ce in be successful in multiple roles dian and Ameri ca n firms He plex mi xture of biochemica ls todays society Those indi vidshy rath er than struggling from crishy hopes to establish a state-of-theshy says Prof Pra vecn Saxena Plant ual and family struggles will be sis to crisis art research lHboratory with Agriculture Herbal remedies the focus of the Universitys new HOLlsed in the College of Pro fs Jinl Dickey and Jack have been developed on historishy

Social and Applied j-Iuman Scishy Callaghan Human Bi010gy and cal and anecdotal evidence rather ences the centre brings togethshy Nutr itional Sciences that will than by scientitlc testin g he says er related resea rch areas und er allow him to pursue hi s twin Saxena is trying to change this by a sing1e roof and will spark new research interests in shoulder systematically identifying charshy

Family relations interdisc iplinary opportunities and spine mechanics acterizing and quantifying the experts recommend particularly for graduate st ushy The trio has appli ed for chemical constituents of plants parents integrate - not dents More than 50 fac ulty and fundi ng from the Natural Sc ishy used in a1ternative medicines juggle - work and staff ha ve indicated a desire to ences and Engineering Resea rch family life be affiliates of the centre which Co uncil to equip a biomechanshy

wijJ stimulate resea rch and forge ics lab already loca ted adjacent partnerships with organiza tions to U of Gs new Health and Pershy

Centre for Families Work and co rp orations and co mmunity forman ce Ce ntre in the recentshyWell-Being agenCies ly renova ted Powell Building

Headed by Profs Donna This funding would bring Lero and Kerry Daly Family BODY IS THE the lab up to date to meet intershyRe lat ions and Appli ed Nutri shy ULTIMATE MACHINE national standards says Runcishytion the centre will promote IM INTER ESTED in the app lishy man who p1ans to follow up on responsive wo rk env ironments cation of mechanical engineershy pioneering shoulder mechani cs and help families across Canashy ing to the human body The work he was invo lved in whil e He and grad uate students da manage wo rk and family body is the ultimate machine completing his PhD at Sco tshy Susan Murch and Co lleen Simshyresponsibilities in healthy ways So says Prof John Runciman lands Strathclyde Un iversity mons in th e Ontario Agri culshy

The centre will also be a catshy who recently brought his blend He hop es hi s studies will tural Co llege a1so wa nt to alyst for new researcl in areas of academic and industry expershy help orthopedic co mpanies improve the methods of growshyas diverse as health promotion tise in biomedical engineering design better implan ts used to in g medicinal plants to protect seniors long-term ca re nutrishy to U of Gs School of Engineershy correct such deformities as sco shy cons umers and ensure quality tion and wellness rural aging ing in the College of Phys ica l liosis or cur va ture of the spine Problems in the herbal remeshyand gender in the workplace A and Engineering Science and for treating shoulder insta shy dies industry include medicinal mandate of the centre is that the

IN FACT

bi lity often caused by injuries prepara tions containing misidenshyresults of its research must be among athletes tified plant species contaminashyapplied and availabl e to the tion by pests and disease a lack public to benefit those Canadishy RESEARCHERS of understanding of plant physshyans who ne ed help dealing with CULTIVATE QUALITY iology or efficacy for human conshythe accelerated pace of life nonshy IN HERBAL sumption ilnu co nsumer fraud shytraditional family relationsl ips MEDICINE Our research will help set a longer working hOLlrs globlt1lshy MORE AND MO RE Canadims are standard fo r the development ization and downsizing turning to natural remedies as of safe va lue-added products

The challenge for fam ilies is alternatives to medicine but few Saxena says

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RESEARCH UNCOVERS KEY

TO AGING RESEARCHERS may have found modern sc iences answer to th e mythica l Fountain of Youth

U of G professors John Phillips and Arthur Hilliker Department of Molecular Biolshyogy and Genetics and Gabrielle Boulianne of the University of Toronto and th e Hospital fo r Sick Children appear to have identified a critical weakness in the common fruit fl ys defence against aging

The researchers from the College of Biologica l Science di scovered that a specific cell type - th e motor neuron - is the major target for oxidative damage known for several years to be a key factor affecti ng aging and lifespa n They were able to boost a fruit flys defence against the damage by inserting th e human gene SOD1 which is known to protect against oxidashy

tive damage into the fly s DNA As a result the ave ra ge lifespa n of the fli es (us uall y about 80

days) was increased 40 per cent

PROFESSOR SURVEYS CANADIANS ON POLITICS ETHICS

of the most pampered celeb ri ty NEW WEAPON or the mo st prima donn a pro AGAINST BACTERIA athlete ANTflllOTlCS TYPICALLY have a

More than half of su rvey shelf life because bacte ria develshyresponden ts say they have little op resista nce over time but this or no confidence in Parliament wou ld not be a concern with a with the figure being even lower new sys tem fo r smuggling for the Senate In addition 34 per an tibiotics past bacterial walls

TI-lESE DAYS on both sides of the A molecular-level Trojan border what a politician says or ho rse is how Prof Terry Bevshydoes in private can have tremenshy eridge Department of Microbishydous impact on his or her public ology and graduate student Kelshycareer - but is th at appropriate ly MacDonald desc ribe the

Prof Maureen Mancuso of system theyre studying 1 t takes the Department of Polirical Scishy advan tage of a mechanism develshyence in the College of Social and oped by bacteria to attack an d Applied Human Sciences an d a co nsume neighbouring bugs team of four other political scishy Preliminary tests by the entists conducted a cross-counshytry survey of 1400 Canadians asking what th ey think of th e behaviour of their elected represhysentatives The res ults were pubshyli shed in October in th e book A

Question of Ethics Canadians

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against other bacteria includ shying species that can afflict peoshyple with weakened immune sysshytems or that can severely in fect a developing fetus

WILL ONTARIO FARMERS GROW

HEMP U OF G SCIENTISTS are helping to determine the viability of hemp as a cash crop for Ontario farmers

Health Canada recently li ftshyed a 60-year ban on growing hemp and about 10000 acres are expected to be plan ted in Canada this year Hemp is an organic fibre tha t could be used in everythi ng fro m fabri c and medicine to oil and paper

Gordon Scheifele of Kemptville CoJlege and Peter Dragla of Ridgetown College are studying the potential of hemp as an Ontario crop Scheifele has completed initial test ing on nine varieties and a series of producshy

tion research experiments in northern parts of On tario Dragla has established breeding program trials and looked at commercial production of hemp varieties in southern Ontario He is also developing field instrushymentation to provid e field readshyings of tetrahydrocanmbinol the psychoactive ingredient in hemp

NO ONE KNOWS MORE ABOUT

THE WOMAN WHO CREATED ANNE

COLLEGE OF ARTS professor Ivlary Rubio and professo r emerita Eliza beth Waterston know more abo ut author LM Montgomery than anyone else in the world They were among the first academics to seriously study the world-famous author of Anne ofGreel Gables

Montgomery published a total of 22 novel s which have been translated into abo ut 20 languages and continue to sell

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From the School of Li terashytures and Performance Studies in English Rubio and Waterston

IN FACT U of G professors wrote the script for a new video shown to visitors at the Green Gables site in PEI

edi ted the recen tly released The Selected Journals of Lucy Maud Montgomery Volume IV as weJl as the three previous volumes They are now editing the fi fth and final vo lume of he r journals and have also published a short biography called Wri ting a Life LM Mon tgomery

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Rubio is also writing a longer biography of Montgomery at the request of the authors fam ily

TRAINING VETS TO DEAL WITH CLIENT GRIEF

A NEW INTERACTIVE CD-RO M designed by Ontario Veterinary College professor Cindy Adams will help veterinarians learn to help clients gr iev in g over th e loss of a pet Titled Death of a Pet the CD-ROM is expected to be launched in February and is geared toward vets technicians and students

Adams who holds joint appo intments in the departshyments of Popu lat ion Medicine and Cli nical Studies and the Veterinary Teaching Hospital is an expert on the humanan imal bond She has developed in-sershyvice training workshops fo r vets on dealing with client grief over the loss of a pet and su pport groups for grieving pet owners

Inside Playwright Judith Thompson

BEHIND THE MASK

JUDITH THOMPSON A DRAMA PROFESSOR at the University of Guelph

since 1992 is one of Canadas finest playwrights Her complex and

sometimes disturbing plays give voice to human failings and accomshy

plishments A two-time winner of the Governor Generals Literary

Award she has received wide acclaim for her work

On the following pages the Guelph Alumnus profiles an artist

whose creativity finds expression through dialogue by offering a

faithful rendition of the dialogue between Thompson and Comshy

munications and Public Affairs writer Andrew Vowles Much like

the characters she unmasks on stage Thompson reveals both comshy

plicated and unexpected images of herself

PHOTOGRAPHY BY D EAN PALMER

20 GU ELPH A LUMNUS

NO The scene is the rehearsal space in Lower Massey Hall at the University of Guelph

Monday mid-morning Outside the warped-glass windows the first wet snow of the year

drops like pebbles Drama professor Judith Thompson is leading some 20 students in her

Acting I class through their warm-ups The students stand in a circle and take turns aiming

a mock blow as they shout the word No More she says to the less assertive To others

whose No sounds shredded over the top she holds up a hand More control Thompson

gestures to her diaphragm It has to come from here

SCENE THOMPSONS OFFICE MASSEY H ALL

On one wal l hang pictures of actors engaged

in a drama mingled with childrens sc hool

drawings The desktop is practically bare A

black purse occupies one chai r A scarf has

landed on the back of another This is where

the playw rig ht hangs her hat during her

classes and meets with studen ts She wri tes

at home in Torontos Annex neighbourhood

where she li ves with her husband Gregor

Campbell a sessional English inst ruc tor at

Guelph and their five children Ariane 13

Eli 10 Grace 8 Felicity 4 and Sophia J

SCENE U OF G LI BRARY ARCHIVES

Guelph Alumnus writer (readil1g from draft of Epilepsy and Snakes Fear as the Genesis of Theatre a talk given by Thompson to the Epilepsy Association of Metro Toronto ill 1997 The script for the ta lk is included among boxes ofcorrespo nde11ce numerous drafts of plays various newspaper and magazine artishycles and reviews ahout the playwright and her work that Thompson recently donated to the U of G Library archives)

1have known real fear only a few times

in my relatively sheltered life But 1

believe these moments of fear are

directly connected to the so urce of creshy

ativi ty within me

SCENE J UST ABOUT ANYWHERE YOU CAN

REA D A PLAY

GA writer (reading from introduction to Tho mpsons play Sled wh ich was first pro shyduced hy Torontos Tarragon Theatre in 1997)

Judith Thompson was born in 1954 in

Montreal She graduated from Queens

University in 1976 then graduated from

the act ing program of the National Theshy

22 GU ELPH ALUMNUS

I seem to give voice to people who

have no voice

atre Schoo l in 1979 Alth ough she

worked briefl y as a profess ional actor

she became more interested in writing

and at th e age of 25 a workshop of her

first scrip t The Crack walker was proshy

duced by Theatre Passe MuraiHe Her

work which includes both radio and

tel evisio n writing has enjoyed great

internationa l success

Other plays includ e The Crackshywalker White Biting Dog Pink Tornado - radio Am Yours Lion ill the Streets White Sand Perfect Pie and Stop Talking Like That- radio She is the recipient

of the Floyd S Chalmers Canadian Play

Award for Lion in the Streets in 199 1 and

Am Yours in 1987 and the Governor

Generals Literary Award for Drama for

The Other Side of the Dark in 1989 and

White Biti11g Dog in 1984

S CENE LUNCHTIME

U OF G UNIVERSITY CLUB

Thompson Im so grateful to have this job

beca use it allows me to do the work that s

important and the plays that will be my legashy

cy and tha t are what 1 feel I have to conshy

tribute to Canadian culture If I didnt have

thi s job Id ha ve to keep compromising

because my plays dont make money Theyre

always in sma ller houses I take chances

theyre not commercial They play all over

th e world but aha)s in sma ller places 1

would just have to pursue life as a screenshy

writer to make a living Thi s job gives

me the great privilege of doing my research

which is the plays that I write and the edishy

torial work that I some times do and screenshy

plays that are worthy and good projects

GA writer Audi ences and reviewers have

described your plays as dark disturbing full

of angry people full of profanity

Thompson At the risk of sounding

grandiosel seem to give voice to people who

have no voice or very little in the culture

whom people dont li sten to Liol1 in the Streets the handicapped wo man living in

the basement all on her own the yo ung girl

Iso bel The secretary stuck in this abu sive

relationship with the actor The middle-class

housewife dumped by her husband because

be doesnt like her sweatsuits and on and on

I give voice to them because I dont know

because I care abo ut them because I like to

represent them Im a lawyer Some of them

use profanity because they have really good

reason to be angry a nd most of th em are

powerless And unfortunately profanity has

a little charge Its a little source of baby powshy

er It upsets me I dont use it myself Im very

se nsitive to it

SCENE ARCHIVES

GA writer (reading essay by Thompson comshymissio ned by Toronto literary Journal Brick

in 995)

If I were not a writer 1 think 1 would

wear a riding hat With a stee l lining

Because I would be baving many more

epi leptic seizures than 1 do presentl y

Because any of the non-writer real jobs I have had caused me sleepless nights self-disgust swoll en eyes cystic acne and hearin g di sorde rs all of which increased electrical activity in my brain which I believe increases the frequenshycy of seizu res

SCENE UNI VER SITY CLUB

Thompson (discussing the critical and pubshylic reaction to her first play The Crackwalkshyer) It was slaughtered at first as all my plays have been Very bad reviews at first and then somehow they catch fi re and theres one grea t review and the others start to see something GA writer Why the bad reviews Thompson I think people might say that theyre shock ing but I dont think so not

with the movies we see and whatnot Theyre not shocking compared with Quentin Taranshytino But theyre not like anything else they dont know where to put them And when they dont know where to put them theyre dismayed I think and hostile and they feel challenged I just write as I see Im not tryshying to shock or challenge anyone I hope they do challenge - me too all of us I often feel li ke the little boy in The Emperors New

Clothes Look this is what I see

SCENE LOWER MASSEY HALL

Two Acting I students perform a scene on th e stage Their fellow stud ents sit on th e Aoo r watching Thompson sits forward on a plasti c chair forearms propped on her knees hands clasped before her Her eyes her bod y are intent on the action Later Amberley Buxton (fi rst-year student il1 Actshyil1g I who is pursuing a psychology major and a drama minor)

Its a really in tense class In one of our first classes we were to share something that had changed our perspective on li fe or how we thought every day Later during improvisashytion or scene work she had us draw on the emotional context fro m those stories to add to our acting experiences Its really intense in that way A lot of people share a lot of personal things and we use each others experiences

SCENE UNIVER SIT Y CLUll

Thompson Ea ch se meste r students go through an intensive transition In order to find your creative centre or trigger yo u need

to know yourself in an intell ectual context They reach that pl ace and find their genius My philosophy is that every stu dent has genius and its my job to uncover it My relationshi p is so intense with st udents The classes are very psychoanalyt ic It seems to tra nsform their life

SCENE LO WER MA SSEY

Buxton Even if we haven t encountered a similar situat ion in real life she has us draw on somethi ng similar For ollr exa m Im doing a monologue My character has been abused I havent been abused myself but I have to draw on a si tuation where I had sim shy

itar feel ings draw on some experi ence Like being teased at schoo l Even so mething as small as tha t if you find a way to get back to that

SCENE UNIVERSITY CLUll

Thompso n I llsed to be terrified In high school Id spend half my time in the nurses room because the idea of having a se izu re in front of yo ur peers at that age was just petrifying I did finall y have a seizure but luckil y no one was around at the time So I

think all of that puts me in touch with a lot in life I might not have been in touch with being fairly privileged not rich but eno ugh to be middle class A lot of my work is about class abo ut the class differentiation in Canashyda Ive somehow felt more all ied to a less adva ntaged class My gra ndfather once sat as prime minister of Australia My grandshyfa ther on the other side was a member of the Royal Society an entomologist but his mother died in childbirth and he was brought up as a cousin on the farm outside of London And my Australian grandfath er was one of 1I siblings in a shack by the side of the railroad His father had di ed He walked barefoot to school so I th ink because its just two generations away I feel it in my bones and my blood GA writer How did you get to writing Thompson Through ac ting Ive been involved in thea tre since I was II years old I was Helen Keller for a university show my mother directed She had an [vIA in th eatre and she taught it at Queens I was in TILe Crushycible when I was 12 in Kingston and Jean Brodie and on and on and on I would just lisshyten to aU these wonderful lines and words and it all kind of enrered me And acting is where I reaU y found my niche as a person The theshyatre became my home Then I went to theatre schoo l as an actress but I started to create mask characters through improvisation Thats where I really took off in a big way and where I found myse lf very very excited GA writer VVhat we re you excited abo ut Thompson I was doing the writing And I felt frankly that I did it much better than most of the texts I was working with Not Shakespeare but and its not a matter of better it s thats where I belonged So I would go home and write down the charshyacters that r crea ted that day in class and make th em talk to each odler and thats how The Craekwalker happened

I spent a summer in Toronto looking for acting work and I go t a few jobs But every day for a co uple of hours I would write at a typewri ter and I found these voices comshying At the end of it I sa id to someone You know I think this isnt bad I think this might eve n be a play At the Na tional Theatre shySchool they said to me Youre pretty handy with these monologues but dont ever think you could write a play (Pause) I enjoy telling th at tale on them

WINTER 1999 23

SCENE LOWER MASSEY

Buxton It was my fint time doing mask work She had us sit with the masks on and just sta re at ou rselves in the mirror We did it for an hour staring at the mask feelin g the mask It was a phenomenal eilVer ience the Wily youre able to transform yourself It was almost as if you werent look ing at you That helped yo u to walk differently You were able to shed your

own movements and personality

SCEN E UNIVfRSITY CLU B

Thompson I think thil t seizures can transshylate into creativity are part of me as a cre shyltltive artist Peop le in the medical busin ess are very skeptical of ltll1ything like this But I fee l it s because I have fewer inhibitors in my bra in You have these inhibitors and thats what medication helps But if youre epi leptic your inhibitors Ment working as well to put out the electrical fire so it spreads I think the door to my un conscious is kind of flapping around so J think that helps creatively

SCENE MA SSEY HALL

Student (steppingforwmd) NO I Thompson (quietly) Good

SCENE ARCHIVES

GA writer ( reading fiom Epilepsy and Sna kes)

I have no doubt that my experience with epi lepsy has con tributed to my creative wo rk partly because it hE Jped me to understand what it is to be marginalized to be isolated to be feJ rful and to be out of control and eve n to be mortal

SCENE U NIVERS IT Y CLU B

Thompson Unchecked id can mean scrawlshying on the walls crazy things muttering in stree t corne rs beca use th ey re all id no su perego But I had the luck to be born into a theatrical famiJy my mother havin g the theatrical experience so I was exposed to it Lots of books I was taken to 1 lor of plays Having ep il epsy my first seizure when I was nin e J was able to link with that If I hadnt had those advantages who knows the se izur es migh t have ju st made me a depressed person an angr y person And you re touched with mortality you always live und er siege a slight fear of having a se izure Its much less so now with me

24 GUELPH ALUM NUS

SCENE UNIVERSITY CLUB

Thompson Ive always been a mimic in a cheap way I could always mimic we ll I would raLk to someone on a bus and I could do them exactly Thats kind of dangerous because it can be pretty shallow But it showed me ltl way into the person throu gh voice And once J could do that like a pupshypet something would click and I cou ld get

in in a deeper way J need to get so thoroughly into the charshy

acte rs and their state of mind and especialshyly tapping repressed el11orion which gets you in touch with your id or unconscious li fe If

I take little sections of

myself and grow them in a petri dish of the play

one character is about rage I have to tap into my own rage and that s why the monoshylogues so things can just flow and then I can retrieve things from the past and remember things So its not working from here (gesshytures to midriff) it s wo rking fro l11 here (gesshytures to head)

Mo nologues for me are always the key to findin g out who th e character is because if you cant make them rant for fi ve minutes you dont know th em Tha ts what I tell my

playwriting students I want to see r-wo pages of this characters mouth In other words to speak for five minutes we have to have

so mething to say We have to have something we feel passionately about something were angry about and if we dont have something to say for fi ve minutes who are we

SCENE UN IVERSTTY CLUB

GA writer Vhere do you see what eventushyally becomes a play such as Sled 1110mpson I was at a lodge and saw a moose that s one thin g And that made me think about winter and how the country is always with us as Ca nadians Even in the urban censhytres we ca rr y it wi th us Theres always this

see ming division between the country the wilderness and civilized centres but its the same The wildness of the moose and the

hunt and the bear is in our neighbourhoods I guess its like Lion in the Streets it must be a thing with me And also the exquisite beaushyty and thats how most of the world thinks of Canada as the wilderness Its not quite how we think of ourselves but it is partly So that made me want to do something abo ut the Nor th violence in the North

As far as th e old mans stories that was my neighbour and he told me all those stoshyries they were all true except mltlyb e one or so and I thought Theyre amazing They teilus what our neighbourhoods Me really about and Toro nto what the city is how its const ru cted Toronto is our stories and in th ese neighbourhoods you have an urbane entertainer li ving nex t to an 80-year-old Italia n man and thats the beauty ofToronshyto ltllld its the way th e world is chan ging The stric t class divis ions and culture divishysions th eyre no longer as defin ed as they we re espec ially in th ese neighbourhoods the great pioneering experimen t GA writer Do your chi ld ren see your work Thompson No None of my children can see my plays Ariane saw f Am Yours in New York when she was about nin e I do cl eal with the dark and whats tru e and my chilshydren aren t ready for that Im probab ly more protective th an mos t mothers Walk them

to school till theyre 13 that ki nd of thin g GA writer Yo u we re intervi ewed in the Globe alld Mail recently in a story about motherh ood dnd th e muse How do yo u handle th e demand s of motherh ood and writing

Thompson If Im in the situation where I have 15 or so hours of child care a week Im OK because when Im with them I wa nt to be with them and when ]m doing my work

th ats what I clo But if I do something like a worko ut thell a black cloud descends The guilt and the black cl oud th at descend as I take off on my bike it s huge Then once the workout s finished I know it was d good

thing to do although it s also cut into my

work time J do feel guilty about the nilture of my work too in that my kids cant see it Am I drawing on a part of me thats not good as a mother The oth er part of me is th at I make up bedtime stories and bake coo kies and all thlt stuff ]m probably a

rather operatic mother I cry at movies laugh too hard __

SCENE ARCI-I[VES

GA writer (reading fiom Epilepsy and Snakes)

1

Although being a dramatic writer has

given me a reputation in my cou ntr y

and a strong identity the actof writin g

or creating character leaves me SOJlle shy

times feeling that I have no id entity at

all Every once in a while when I am not

writing or tending to my four children

I feel I 1m falling again down th e terrishy1 ble hole with nothing to hold on to

And I believe this falling this identity

pain is a result of me using the very

essence of Ill yself to create character in

a dramatic wo rk r wonder so metimes

if J illl1 betraying my soul in a way by

using its essence However J have found

some comfo rt in the words ofWilliall1

Blake Essence is not Identity but from

Essence proceeds Identity and from one

Essence may proceed many Identities

as from one Affection Jlla y proceed

many thoughts If the Essence was

the sa me as the Identit y there could be

but one Identity which is fal se Heaven

wo uld upon this plan be but a clock

but one and the sa me Essence is th ereshy

fore Essence and not Identity

SCENE UNIVER SIT Y CLUB

Thompson I always put myself in a play and

never In other words I take little sections of

myself and grow them in a petri dish of th e

play So if Ive found a moment where Im a

bit lazy ]11 grow it and milke the character

very lazy o r impatient or whatever So I take

these moments because we all have all of

them grow th em and create this Frankenshy

steins monste r a character right out of parts

body parts and psychological parts often of

myself and then observe things in other peoshy

ple but I have to find it in myself to make it

work

SCENE AR C H1V ES

GA writer (reading from Epilepsy al1d Snakes)

My self asserted itself as a kind of quishy

et Lucille Ball c1ulllsy and absent-mindshy

ed At least this gave me an identity and

was a small aCI of slbo tage The next

assertion was an act of unconscio us rev shy

olution th e grand mal seizure that

almost killed me And the next one was

The Crackwalker my first play And this

is how I raged against the machine and

took space in the world And now not

surprisin gly I am seizure-free

SCENE LOWER MASSEY

After another pair of acto rs rUllS through

their scene Thompson directs them to begi n

again She interrupts frequently to question

the students about actions feelings motishy

vations At one point 8S the students pause

to consider her words Thompson turns to

the rest of the class erect in her cha ir

Thompson Isolate the mom ent The great

thing about the stage is th at it isolates the

moments that just race by us_

SCENE UNIVERSITY CLUB

Thompson Ive just written my next play

which is not ca lled Pefeet Pie but thats its

working title because it came from a mon oshy

logue called Perfect Pie But now its a full

two- haul play in which the second wom3n

comes back and tben I have them as yo ung

girls too It goes back ~nd forth and its very

exciting I worksbopped it in the spring and

in December at tbe Tarragon and it will go

on in o ne year At the sa me time lm wr itshy

ing a feature film for Rho mbus based on the

play Pe feet Pie

SCEN E UNlV ERSITY CLUIl

Thompson My pIalS are Illusically written

And if somebody doesnt get the music they

dont feel it and go with the rhythm s it

throws the whole thing off I hear the plays

I hea r them I write with my ear They

change 1 lo t but it s according to rhythm

I ll be sitting in rehea rsal listening and if it

does nt so und ri ght I change it so that its

rhythmic

SCIi -JE J UST AllOUT ANYWHERE YOU CA N

READ A PLAY

GA writer (readmg ji-olll the script ofvVbite

Biting Dog first produced at the Tarragon Th eatre in 1984)

Beciluse of the ex treme and deliberate

lllu sica lity of this play any allempts to

go aga inst the tex tual rhythms such as

th e breaking up of an unbroken senshy

tence the tlking of a pause where none

is written in are DISASTROUS The

effect is like beil1g in a small plane and

suddenly turning off the ignition It all

falls down This play III list SPIN not

just turn around

SCfN e LOWER MASSEY

Her students listen as Thompson stands to

complete a so liloq uy abo ut cap turing the

rhythm of the language on the stage The

wide sleeves of her ank le-length dress slide

down her forea rm s as she ges tures

Thompson Listen to the music of the

scene Each playwright writes their own

symphony

SCENE U NIVERSlTY CLUB

Thompson Ive been pretty directed to this

ii-om an carly age although if I had done anyshy

thing else it probab ly wou ld have been some

form of social work I would have been smokshy

ing three packs of cigarettes a day and workshy

ing il1 an office somewhere up in Scarborough

SC EN E AfltCHIVES

GA write r (reading from Brick interview of Thompson by Eleanor Wachtel ]99] )

In th e thea tre I think what one mllst

do is co nfront the truth confront the

emot ional truth of our li ves which is

mired in the swamp of minuriae

everyday minutiae Maybe it has to be -tl111 way because we couldnt confront

it every day But I think the th eatre

IllllSt Im not interested ill th eatre that

doesnt ga

W1NTER 1999 25

Never mind fish wars pitting countries against one another - here in Canada scientists and policy makers cant agree on who should control the preservation and management ofour own fishery resources BY ANDREW VOWLES

Ca

as

ollapsed cod stocks to the east

On the West Coast laquofish wars

_ rlTDT Pacific salmon enmesh

Canada and the United States

At various points in between fisheries scishy

entists and managers grapple with everyshy

thing from overfishing of freshwater

stocks to invasion by exotic molluscs

What is to be done about Canadian fishshy

eries And what role is being p layed by

fisheries and aquatic scientists at the Unishy

versity of Guelph

-

dock pollock red fish and flatfish made up just under half of Canadas total landings on the Atlantic coast (720000 tonnes of fish and shellfish were caught in 1994 represhysenting a total landed value of $11 billion) Two year~ later that proportion had dropped to 21 per cent with shellfish and open ocean fish specie~ notably Atlantic

Begin in the Atlantic The crisis on the East Coast has become a disaster So says laquoWE NEED TO TRY TO SEPARATE OUTGuelph zo ology professor John Roff enushymerating the litany of woes that have surshy

THE FISHERIES MANAGEMENT DECISIONSfaced from Ca nadas marine fishery in the past decade Although some fish and shellshy

FROM THE POLITICAL DECISIONSfi sh are holding their own stocks of other species have experienced declines raquo

ASSOCIATED WITH THE FISHE RY

down that fishery in 1992 Over fishing and under which it has been buying up fishers

Even when stocks do rebound rarely do we fully und erstand why he says Theres a complex of problems to be disshy more for cod stocks to rebound says Roff entangled involving overflshing long- and co-editor with colleague Prof Moira Fergushyshort-term climate change and changes in son of the respected Canadian Journal ofFishshyocean current systems and productivity eries and Aquatic Sciences A wise course of

And of course the once-thriving northshy action for a fisherman in Newfoundland ern cod that first drew Europeans with their would be to seU his licence and do something nets to the Grand Banks 500 years ago have else he says (Last fall the federal governshycoUapsed to the point that Ottawa had to shut ment announced its final retirement program

the failure of federal fisheries managers to heed the warnings of scientists have been blamed for the coUapse Even with the lllorashytoriulll in place it may take two decades or

licences in Atlantic Ca nada and Quebec) In 1992 - the year Ottawa imposed its

moratorium on the northern cod fisheryshylandings of groundfish including cod had-

salmon making up the difference [n 1995 the total groLlndfish catch reached its lowshyest level in two decades

Unlike the Ea st Coast fi shery which relies most ly on ocea n-living fish the Pacifshyic fishery is dominated b) migratory species Some 300000 tonnes of fish and shellfish were harvested along the west coast in 1994 worth a landed value of $550 million (Arcshytic marine fisheries and their management differ from those on the coasts although cOl11mercial and recreational fisheri es are small here food fisheries are important to

U OF G AQUATIC SCIENCES EXPERTISE CATCHES WORLD ATTENTION

Landlocked in the middle of the courltry U ofG nevertheless boasts fish pathology and diseases including farmed fish diseases fish an enviable record and range ofexpertise in aquatic sciencesshy hormones and reproductive physiology including the effects of marine and freshwater - dating back to the late 1960s Thats when environmental contaminants early life history and behaviour Prof Keith Ronald thell chair of the Department ofZoology (and of fi shes and biology of tuna later dean of the College ofBiological Science) began a marine biolshyogy program at the University Today Guelph has the largest Partnered with the A-erod Institute of Ichthyology in U of group of ichthyologists - scientists who study fish - in Gs Aquatic Sciences Facility the r[agen Aqualab is an North America investigating a wide variety ojIre~hshy aquatic research and teaching facililY for studying water alld marine fisheries and aquatics topics aquatic organisms Environmentally controlled

rooms in the Aqualab allow faculty and students to U of Gs Axelrod Institute of Ichthyology houses simulate habitats as diverse as the Arctic Ocean and one of the worlds largest collections of museumshy tropical rainforest pools The facility is named for quality fish fossils donated to the University by its principal benefactor Rolf Hagen founding presshy

ident of Canadas largest pet store 5llpplier J 989 The institute which provides space for fisheries research and visiting scientists brings together 12 core U of G U of G faculty edit four internationally recognized journals researchers in fisheries and aquatic sciences whose interests and in ichthyology fisheries and aquatic science Awarded to U of G by expertise span environmental contaminants and parasitic disshy the National Research Council in 1997 the Canadian Journal of eases evolutionary genetics of marine and freshwater fishes Fisheries al1dAquatic Sciellces is co-edited by zoology professors

US ichthyologist and author Herbert Axelrod in

28 GUELPH ALUMNUS

northerners including shrimp Atlantic salmon and arctic char) Accountin g fOI almost half of that total were Pacific salmon which ret urn from the ocean to spawn in home streams and rivers up and down the coast of Alaska British Columbia and Washshyington There are actually five main spec ies of sa lmon that run down the BC coast shysockeye (t he most va luable commercial species) chinook coho chum and pinkshyfrom spring to December

Its a very complex jurisdictional and multi-user problem says Roff Bes ides degradation of freshwater spawning habishytats and ocean climate effects of El Nill0 the West Coast fishery is a cauldron of ten shysions between various groups perennial fish wars between Ca nada and the United States disputes that pit sport fishers against native fishing rights Recognizing the problems of low ocean productivity habitat damage overfishing and indiscriminate fishing pracshytices that take weak and strong stocks alike Ottawa is developing a new policy to guide Canadas Pacific salmon fisheries focusing on conservation sustainable use and improved decision-making

That potent mix of overfishing and habishytat degrada tion is also a problem for Canashydas freshwater fisheries A report tabled last fall by the federal standing committee on

fisheries and oceans called for more federal funding for research and fisheries programs in central and arctic regions of Canada Accord ing to that report the Grea t Lakes commercial fishery is one of the largest freshwater fisheri es in the world worth an average landed value of more than $40 milshylion a year and an eco nomic impact of at least $250 million Some 90 per cent of that catch is exported The neck lace of lakes threading its way to the St Lawrence River also supports the largest fres hwater sports fishery in the world 800000 Ontarians fish on the Great Lakes eve ry year contributing $850 million to the economy

In Manitoba managers are concerned about the long-term susta inability of freshshywater fish stocks particularly declines in Lake Winnipeg and the northern part of the province caused by overfishing environshymental degradation loss of prime spawning habitat and predators The province has seen stocks rise and fall particularly of pickerel Manitobas highest-priced fish In an attempt to manage the fishery in a sustained fashion the province recently introduced a qu ota entitlement system for anglers Joe OConshynor director of the fisheries branch of Manshyitobas Department of Na tural Resources says his department is wrestling with the environmental threats on fish habitat posed

by farming and hydroelectric development In Ontario fisheries are genera lly in

pretty good shape says Evan Thomas fishshyeries section manager of the fish and wildlife branch of the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (OM NR) Ontario supports almost half of all recreational fishing in Canada with more than two million adult anglers and more than $2 billion a year spent on recreational fishing in the province Onta ri o is also home to Canadas larges t commercial freshwater fishery worth abo ut $40 million a Yfar in land ed value

Thomas says over fishing is still the numshyber one problem Others include habitat loss the potential effects of climate change and contin ued invasion by exotic species Among the management opt ions his minshyistry is exploring are more effective fisheries regulation more rapid inventory and assessshyment techniques fish culture for rehabilishytating populations and controlling nutrient inputs into lakes and rivers

We are clearly looking for federal supshyport for the sea lamprey control program he says referring to recommendations in the recent federal fisheries committee report as well as changes to the federal Fishshyeries Act to hand the province more authorshyity over fish habitat protection

Concerns continue in Ontario over

Moira Ferguson and John Roff Fish Physiology and Biochemistry the top-ranked journal in its field is edited by Prof John Leathershyland chair of the Department of Biomedical Sciences in the Ontario Veterinary College University professor emeritus Eugene Balon has served as editor-in-chief of Environmental Biology ofFishes since he founded the publication in 1976 Zoology professor David Noakes edits Guelph Ichthyology Reviews whose articles synthesize and review all aspects of fish science Both of the latter

Under the Canadian contribution to the project - furided by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council - about 80 federal government and university researchers are trying to learn more about how bioshylogical and physical processes in the oceans affect fish stocks

Zoologychair Prof Paul Hebert has led a Guelph initiative to develshyop multimedia learning resources d1at teach student~ from

are published in the Axelrod Institute of Ichthyology

Based on data from geographic information sysshytems zoology professor John Roff has mapped types of habitat associated with various species of fish and other organisms around Canadas coasts and throughout tl1C Great Lakes the first time such

e1ementaIy grades to university about Canadas aquatshyic environments His department has developed a series of CD-ROMs that provide information on all the major animal groups in the Great Lakes Already available are educational CD-ROMs on Canadas aquatic environments (also available on

d1e World Wide Web) Great Lakes biodiversity and a marine classification system has been developed in this country His report was commissioned by World Wildlife Fund Canada for its Endangered Spaces Campaign and contributes to RoWs work as chair of the scienrillc committee of Globec (Globshyal Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics) a two-year-old international research program intended to better understand ocean ecosystems

birds of the Great Lakes The latter is the first disc in a series called the Great Lakes Faunal Atlas which will eventually cover mammals amphibians reptiles fish and crustaceans

The Alma Aquaculture Research Station es tablished in 1989 and funded through a 20-year development grant by the Ontario

WI NTER 1999 29

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various invas ive species that have turned up

in the Great Lakes - notably sea lampreys

zebra mussels and quagga mussels - many

of which arrive in ballast water of ocea nshy

going vessels (Many have also found their

way into Manitoba says OConnor who

points to the effects of sm elt on whitefish

the main commercial species in Lake Winshy

nipeg) Among o ther meas ures the federal

fish eries committee report called for guarshy

anteed funding for sea lamprey control and

for scienti fic research

I think more money will come says

Prof Bill Beamish Zoology a commissionshy

er on the Great Lakes Fisheries Commission

the 40-year-old governing body that co-ordishy

nates resea rch programs between Canada

and the United States and advises both govshy

ernments It was a review led by Beamish

more than a decade ago on the sta te of

Canadas freshwater fi sheries that provided

the scientific underpinnings for a landmark

report published in 1988 that spelled ou t a

way in freshwater fisheries is a lon g-te rm

project fund ed by the OMNR and the

Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO)

to re-establish native species in their origishy

nal habitats a round Lake Ontario iVlari e

Clement a graduate student of zoology proshy

fe sso r David Noakes is studying Atlantic

sa lmo n which was wiped out of the lake

CONSIDERING WE HAVE THE

BEST FISHERY SCIENCES COMMUNITY

IN THE WORLD WE OUGHT TO

BE DOING BETTER

national strategy for freshwater fisheries

Beamish who has studied sea lampreys

for several decades at Guelph and also invesshy

tigates fish habitat loss says money is need shy

ed to help researchers investigate biological

controls as an alternative to chemical lamshy

pricides The recen t repo rt also notes the

need to address the effects of other nonshy

native exotic species on n ative fish stocks

and water quality and calls on Ottawa to

stem the funding decline in freshwater scishy

ence over the last two decades

One example of the kind of work under

and its tribu ta ry streams near the beginning

o f this century by overflshing and habitat

destruction and alteration Last fall Clement

placed eggs into a site in the Credit River

she has been monito ring oxygen availab il shy

ity durin g their incu ba tion to gau ge sedishy

mentation rates in the river This spring and

summer she wili study how newborn fi sh

interact with other species in th e r ive r

C lement says her docto ral research proshy

ject is but one piece of a larger project aimed

at re-establishing the heritage species Othshy

er researchers hop e to learn whe ther th e

Ministry of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs brings together

researchers for interdisciplinary studies of protein requirements

of arctic char improving fish semen and egg management proshy

cedures and understanding hormone activity in fish The station

acts as a quarantine unit for new fish varieties entering Ontario

and serves as a base for parts of certificate courses and a masters

program in aquaculture

farms in Canada He and fellow Guelph zoologists Eugene Balon

(co- founder of the Coelaca nth Conservat ion Council) and Jim

Bogart also identified and characterized the coelacanth which

had been thought extinct until a specimen was landed off Africa

in the la te 1930s Noakes confirmed the identity of ano ther of

these living fossils discovered in 1997 it appears to belong to a

second popula tion living in the Indian Ocean about 10000 kilo-

metres away from tha t first find

Zoology professors Moira Ferguson and Roy Danzshy

mann use molecular genetics techniques to identishy Zoology chair Paul Hebert was the first scientist to

fy DNA markers used to pinpoint the location of identify the presence in the Great Lakes of zebra

genes associated with growth spawning times mussels a prolific invader that has wreaked havoc

rates of development maturity and temperature in many ways from clogging water-intake pipes to

tolerance in rainbow trout Isolating and identifyshy consuming plankto n thus allowing light to reach

ing genetic markers fo r desirable traits will help fish bottom-dwelling organisms that may displace native

farmers and breeders cross-breed more effectively species The first researcher to report on the biology

conservationists will be better able to manage and preserve and impact of the zebra mussel on the Grea t Lakes was

genetic variability among wild fish stocks Guelph zoology professor Gerald Mackie whose studies showed

that the organisms faster growth rate and higher fecundity and

Zoology professor David Noakes has stuclied varieties of arctic population density will probably enable it to displace many native

char native to Iceland to find ones suited to being raised on fish bivalves and disrupt entire lake ecosystems

30 GUELPH ALUMNUS

LEADING RESEARCH

The University of Guelph has one orthe largest and most active groups of aquatic biologists in the world

bull More than 50 faculty and 100

graduate students research

assocrates and postdoctoral

fellows

bull Over 1000 published scientific

articles books monographs

films and videos in the past

decade

bull Interdisciplinary programs

involving more than a dozen

academic departments

bull The largest group ofichthyoloshy

gists (scientists who study

fish) in North America

bull Collaborative research with

government environrriental

organizations and academic

institutions worldwide

bull Expertise covering the entire

aquatic food chain from plankshy

ton to whales

bull Leading developments in comshy

puter-based educational mate-

rials in aquatic sciences

bull A new $6-million Aquatic

Sciences Facility

bull Research support from national

and international agencies

business and industry

adults will be able to return from the open

lake to their stream spawning grounds If

they come back will the eggs survive she

says If were able to show the eggs can surshy

vive that will be very encouraging for

Atlant ic salmon restoration

What is to be done to ensure the survival

not just of Atlantic salmon in Lake Ontario

but also of the co untrys freshwater and

m ar ine fisheries We need to try to sepashy

rate o ut the fisheries management decisions

from the political decisions associated with

the fi shery says zoology professor Glen Van

Der Kraak director of U of Gs Axelrod

Institute of Ichthyology Van Der Kraak who

studies the effects of toxic contaminants on

fi sh populations says policy mltkers need

to rely on the advice of fisheries sc ientis ts

making conservative harvest ing estimates

So often scientists make decisions and then

are overrun by the politics he says (Never

mind fish wars pitting co untries against one

another - here in Ca nada scientists and

policy makers wres tle over the question of

who should be respo nsible for what aspects

of the countrys fisheries as witnessed in a

war of words played out in the Canadian Journal ofFisheries and Aquatic Sciences over

the past 18 months between biologists at

several Canadian univers ities and the DFO

over the relationship between fishery sc ishy

ence and fishery policy)

Roff says theres nothing unique about

Canadas fish problems Its not really a

Canadian problem its a worldwide probshy

lem The only fisheries worldwide that are

not over fished appear to be some not yet

fully exploited in the Indian Ocean

After nearly four decades of growth the

worldwide marine ca tch levelled off in the

1990s to some 90 million tons a year The

m ain problems coastal pollution habitat

destruction and particula rly overfishing

Noakes editor of the journal Guelph Ichthyology Reviews contrasts the few hunshy

dred people who might have made th eir

livelihood aboard small wood en boats on

the Grand Banks several centuries ago with

the massive factory trawlers that now scour

todays coast People are much too efficient

in terms of catching fish he says Noakes

concurs with fellow Guelph researchers that

conservation of fish stocks has to reach the

top of fishery managers agendas

hat does set Canada apart is the breadth

and depth of expertise in fisheries and aquatshy

ic sciences in this country - rather a parashy

dox when you consider that Canadas record

in fisheries preservation is apparently no betshy

ter than that of many other nations

Considering we have the best fishery scishy

ences community in the world we ought to

be doing better says Roff Within the last

decade th e federal government withdrawal

o f support from the Department of Fishshy

eries and Oceans and university researchers

has been massive At the very time when the

resources were gett ing into severe problems

and when the federal government ought to

have been funding research theyve been

substantially withdrawing resources ga

DONT WAIT UNTIL SPRING The opportunity to double the impact of your gift to the University of Guelph ends on March 31 1999 Until that date all gifts designated to endowed student financial aid at Guelph will be matched by the Ontario Student Opportunity Trust Fund (OSOTF) That means that every dollar you commit will contribute two dollars to financial aid for Guelph students

If you would like to support our students throug h OSOTF you still have a w indow of oppor nishyty to have your do l1a rs doubled But only until March 31 1999

If you have already made a pled ge to OSOTf through U of Gs ACCESS Fund thank you [or your ge nerous support Please comp lete your payme nts by March 31 1999 to e nsure that your gi ft is matched

For more information contact Rudy Putns in Guelphs office of Development and Public Affairs at -519-824-4120 Ext 6384 Fax 519-822-2670 E-mail alumniuoguelphca

WINTER 1999 31

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

n ALUMNI PROF IL E

LETS LOOK AT THE OPPORTUNITIES

WHEN I-IE BECA ME president of the Unishy

versity of Guelph Alumni Association

(UGM) in June Jim Weeden brought new

enthusiasm and ideas for encouraging alumshy

ni to stay in volved with their alma mater

And he wants to start with students

Weeden reca ll s his own ex perience at

U of G where he fo und a sense of commushy

nity by living in residence and ge tting

involved in college activiti es But when he

graduated with an engin ee ring degree in

197 1 he left to begin a caree r and says he

didnt think much about the University until

he needed it again in the 1980s to pursue a

graduate degree in agricultural enginee ring

He spent his early career working as an

agricultural extensi o n engineer for the

Ontario Department o f Agriculture and is

stiU with its successo r the Ontario Ministry

of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs

(OMAFRA) Weed en completed the masshy

ters degree in 1986 when he was head of the

agricultural engineering program and extenshy

sion services a t Centralia College of Ag rishy

cultural Technology

In 1987 he moved to the ministrys plant

industry branch as program m anager and

later held the same position in th e resources

manage m ent branch Sin ce then he has

worked for OMAFRA in Woodstock and

now Stratfo rd He is technical adviser fo r

Ontarios Enviro nmental Farm Planning

Program is respo nsible for o ther environshy

m ental programs and consults with the Minshy

istry o f th e Environment on local agriculshy

tural pollution problems

w Weed en got involved with the Universishy sect tys a]u111ni programs by serving on the first g z board of the Engineering Alumni Associashy

~ tion when it was established in 1990 From

~ 1991 to 1994 he sat on the University Senshy

~ ate and its Research Board and for the pas t

~ four years) hels been on the UGAA executive

32 GUELPH A LU MNUS

From the presidents chair Weeden looks

at the bro ad picture o f UG AA se rvice and

recognizes that the associa tio n owes a debt

o f gratitude to hundreds of alumni volunshy

teers who ha ve helped to build the organishy

za tion over the yea rs and to University staff

in Development and Public Affairs (DampPA)

who support UGAA initiatives and alumni

programs Thro ugh their efforts he says the

a lulllni associati o n is rea ching out to all

U of G alumni Graduates who have mainshy

tained a close relationship with the Univershy

sity thro ugh their college or academic disshy

cipline those who feel an affiliation because

o f their participation in a thletics residence

life o r extracurricular activiti es and even

HIGHLIGHTSmiddot GRAD NEWSmiddot OBITUARIES bull CALENDER

those who have not kept in touch are part of the constituency served by UGAA

Weed en says the alumni association needs to strengthen its relationship with all alumni and he believes the effor t must start on campus with students Hed like to proshymote the idea of alumni involvement as ear shyly as a students second year We need to give students some reason to be con nected and an efficient vehicle for maintaining that connection he says

For many students and new graduates the social functions supported by UGAA and the opportunities for professional networking will be important says Weeden but greater rewards are there for those who join the effort to enhance the Universitys acade mic goals

In todays economic and political envi shyronme nt individual financial support and the advocacy of post-secon dary education are important roles for alumni he says How many people ac tively get involved with the debate on whether universities are job-trainshy

ing centres or centres of education Yet some of our alumni are extremely adept in such roles Weeden would like to cultivate past and current stud ent ac tivists as supporters of public education after they graduate

As Weeden leads UGAA into a new year he says he will work with other UGAA volshyunteers and DampPA staff to find new ways for the association to interact with students and alumni One id ea is to expand UGAAs Intershynet presence by adding a Web message board that will encourage alumni to discuss career and campus issues online and a reply form that will allow them to quickly update addressshyes employment status and other information

Weeden says its important to stay focused on UGAAs key prioriti es but he welcomes any and all new ideas on how to accomplish them All it takes to share your ideas with the UGAA executive is a stamp or a push of the send button when youre clicked on alumniuoguelphca

HKHB SPIRIT RISES

ENCOURAGED BY THE SPIRIT

shown by fellow alumni at last

summers reunion the executive

of the Human Kinetics Human Biology

Alumni Association is moving ahead

with more opportunities for alumni to

stay in touch The association plans to

launch a Web site that will be accessed

through the U of G site

A wine-and-cheese reception already

planned for June 19 1999 wiil try to

build on the success of the 1998 event

which attracted alumni from as far away

as Chicago and as far apart as the 19605

and 1990s Guests had a chance to tour

U of Gs new Health and Performance

Centre and performance testing

labs The program was co-ordinated wiLh

A REFLECTION OF PRIDE

Members of the OAC

Class of 52 join Arboshy

retum staff on the front patio

of the Arboretu m Centre

beside a new reflecting pool

that was built last summer

as a class project Pictured

from left are Murray Parker

Ann Smith George Smith

Jack Sargent Catherine Gibb

Robin Shaw-Rummington

Marilyn Swaby BA 69

Bev Healy B5e(Agr) 72

Norm Watson Una Venerus

Ron Costen Henry Kock

BSe (Agr) 77 and Ric

Jordan BA 75

Prof Jack Barclay chair of the Departshy

ment of Human Biology and Nutritional

Sciences and Prof Susan Pfeiffer Memshy

bers of the Human KineticsHuman

Biology Alumni Association executive arc

Janet Leonhard 82 president Carolyn

Moore 83 vice-president Alison Locker

97 secretary Mark Mulholland 79

lreasurer and t-iary Ann Crape 76

These officers are also spea rheading a

new initiative to benefit students - an

undergraduate award that will provide

$250 and lifetime mem bership in the

association To commcnt on these and

other initiatives contact Leonard by

e-mail at Janel_Leonhardinwrbsb

eduonca or Moore at cturveyagec

uoguelphca

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alumni

Multimedia lab buzzes

THE DONALD FORSTER RoOiv

has become one of the

busiest spots in th e Unishy

versity of Guelph Liblary since the

addition of 70 state-of-the-art

computer workstations that were

supported by alumni do nations

to the Alma Mater Fund (AM F)

U of G president Mordechai

Roza nski officia ll y o pened th e

Alma Mater Fund Multimedia

Lab D ec 2 an d celebrated th e

event with members of the AMF

Adv isory Counc iL [n 1996 a nd

1997 the AMF contributed

$240000 to th e project which

increased the number of student

workstations o n campus by 50 per

cent Students use the m ult imeshy

~ dia lab to conduct research on the

~ Internet access scholarly publicashyr u VI tions on CD-ROM and use COll1shyz ~ puter software mod ules tbat lt

~ strengthen the teaching provided lD

o in co urse lectures labs and tcxtshybii books

middotMatters

Alumnus of many interests

I NTERES TING P EOPLE always have eclect ic interests and U of G

alumnus and honorary degree recipient Ken Murray BSA 50 and

HDLA 96 is a good example H e is known by most people on camshy

pus for his distinguished career in the Canadian meat packing indusshy

try and his volunteer service to U of G He was a member and chair

of Board of Governors from 1973 to 1978 and chair of the Regionshy

al Corporate Committee during U of Gs last capital campaign and

is currently chair of the Heritage Fund Enhancement Committee

Murray is also a strong supporter of community soc ial services

In August he addressed the World Congress of Social Ps)chiatry

held in British Columbia - the only non-psychiatrist on the proshy

gram He spoke about his role in establishing an Alzheimers research

project a t the University ofWaterioo which was recently named in

his honour the Ken Murray Alzheimer Research and Education Proshy

gra m At the gc conference he al so participated in a panel dis shy

cussion that outlined services offered by Guelphs Homewood Health

Cent re Murray bas been actively involved in the governance of the

centre since 1977 and has been a major player in the development

of a charitable foundatio n bearing the Homewood name

WHEN THE PUCK DROPPED More than 30 teams including two

womens teams were entered in the

Dec 6 University of Guelph Alumni Hockey

Tournament Organizers for the 1998 event

were from left Brian Finniss B5c 88

Brad Stephenson BA 86 Terry Carr

BComm 87 Todd Bryant BA 86 and

undergraduate student Brian Melnick

Ken Murray centre with his wife Marilyn Robinson Murray and U of G president Mordechai Rozanski

34 GU ELPH ALUMNU S

RESTORING A JEWEL IN THE CROWN

DONALD RUTHERFORD BSA 5 stands in fron t

of the 1931 conservatory greenhouse that will

be restored to match the splendour of the ga rdens

now growi ng up around it His $256000 leadershy

ship gift to the Conservatory and Gardens Project

was inspired by hi s m emo ries of being a student

at OAC

On behalf of fellow alumni I hope this gift will

commemorate the experiences and educat ion we

acquired while at Guelph says Rutherford When

fully restored to its previous glory the conservatoshy

ry greenhouse will be an ideal greeting and welcome

spot for visitors and newcomers to the University

as well as old friend s renewing their acquaintance

Rutherfords professional career spans the agrishy

foo d industr y beginning as an agricu ltural repshy

resentative with the provincial minist ry I-Ie was

later vice-president of the Fertilizer Institute of

Ontario executive secreta ry of the Canadian Seed

Trade Association director of information w ith

the Ca nadian Livestock Feed Board and Canadishy

an sa les manager for Sylvite of Can ad a Retired

since 1986 he now owns his own sma ll investment

company and manages to golf throughout the yea r

The conserva tory isnt the first ca mpus project

to attract Rutherford s attention - as a student

he helped dig out the base ment of Massey H al l to

build a student lo unge - but his recent gift has

been a tremendous boost to those who have been

working since the ea rly 1990s to save the glass and

cypress structure from demo lition

A committee of alumni facult y sta ff stu dents

and fri en ds of the University has moved the proshy

ject along to th e point w here most of the surshy

rounding garden complex is now complete It fea shy

tures six gardens named in honour of the ir chie f

supporters Autumn Garden - OAC 5 1 Spring

Ga rden - OAC 53 Su mmer Garden - OAC 55

Winter Gard en - OAC 65 Water Gard en shy

OAC 49 and the Woo dland Garden named in

honour of the late Doug Rob inson BSA 53

Alumni have been in strumental in raising

funds for the $ l-million project Students and fa cshy

ulty have provided mudl of the h1l1ds-on Idbour

and friends in the nursery and landscape materishy

als supply industries have given $250000 ill donashy

tions and gifts-in-kind of plan ts and landsca ping

materials Rutherford s generous gift has pushed

th e conservato ry fund-ra ising effort in to the fin 81

stretch Th e ga rden complex and restored g reenshy

110use are sc heduled to officially open during

Alumni Weekend in June 1999

1999 Coming Events

Jan 29 - Aggie Goodshy

Times Banquet call the OAC Student Federation at Ext 8321 for ticket injemnrltion Feb 13 - Norm McCo llulll

D iploma Hockey Tournashy

m ent call Jack Bakker at 519-837-0132 to register a team

Feb 21 - Ottawa Chapter

annual curling bonspiel

Richmond C urling Club in

Richmond Ont For informashytiol1 call Alan Bentley BSA 61 at 6 13-829-6598 or John DVit[ 54 mId Margaret McGowml BHSc 54 at

613-828-7038

March 3 - Florida alumni

reunion a t Maple Leaf

Estates Port Charlo tte Fla

call Ext 6533 0 register

March 13 and 14 - ollcge

Royal 75th o pen house

March 19 and 20 - OAC

Alumni Association curling

bonspiel G uelph Curling

Club register at Ext 6657

May 5 - Chicago All Canashy

dian Universities Night hostecl

by U of G at the University

Club of Chicago 76 East Monshy

roe Sr call Exl 6533 for details May 5 - OAC Alumni

Foundation annual meeting

730 pm Arboretum Centre

May 12 - Alumni-inshy

Action annual meeting and

luncheo n 1130 3m

Arboretum Centre ((11 Ext 6657for tickets

June 18 to 20 - Alumni

Veekend call Ext 6657 to plall a reun io n

-0 r shya -IFor more infon-nation on any a

eVC1l1listed ailove call the oJ -lt oU of G extension listed at en raquo

519-824-4120 or send e-mail z

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WINTER 1999 35

alumni Matters

MEMORIES OF COLLEGE ROYAL Grant MacEwan ADA 23 and

BSA 26 is one of the few OAC

alumni who c~n still remember

the first College Royal held Jan

14 1925 MacEwan bad just

entered the degree program in

animal husbandry and may have

been a participant in the liveshy

stock showmanship classes Latshy

er in life he was widely known Grant MacEwan

across Western Canada as 3 liveshy

stock judge and an advocate of

agricultural fairs and exhibitions

MacEwan is bes t known

however for his 23-year C3reer

as a university professor in Manshy

itoba and Saskatchewan and Ilis

political career which included

12 years as alderman and mayshy John Kenneth Galbraith

or of C31gary four years as an

Alberta MLA and eight as lieushy birthday in August

tenant -governor of the province The year after Ma cEwan

He s till lives in Calgary graduated John Kenneth Galshy

where he celebrated his 96th braith ADA 29 and BSA 31

HOMECOMING 98

enrolled at OAC and devoted

some of his energy to organizshy

ing College Royal Show records

indicate it was Galbraith who

first proposed the college event

be publicized so that people

from the farm community

could attend He also suggestshy

ed that OAC invite students

from American agricultural colshy

legesl n th e early 1930s Colshy

lege Royal took its fir s t steps

towards becoming the comshy

munity open house it is today

Galbraith later moved to the

United States where he enjoyed

a distinguished caree r as a proshy

fessor of economics at Harvard

Universi ty Known for his

humanit~rian approach to ecoshy

nomic and political thinking

he was awarded the Order of

Canada in 1997 He celebr3ted

his 90th birthday in October

IT REALLY WAS a homecoming reunion when and Arnott who is head coach of the York

former Gryphon teammates Ralph Shapiro University Yeomen came from the visitors

S5c(HK) 74 and Tom Amott S5c(HK) 80 dreSSing room to hold the ball Shapiro is

met on the field at Alumni Stadium Oct 3 the controller at Huntsman Chemical Inc

Shapiro had the honour of kicking off in Guelph and a longtime United Way volshy

the Universitys 1998 United Way campaign unteer who chaired this years Guelph and

Wellington fund-raising drive The Univershy

sity campaign is the largest in the county

with U of G staff and faculty contributing

over $200000 in 1998

Prior to the game a number of recent

alumni - all U of G scholarship and award

winners - met for a reunion luncheon The UJ

1948 and 1949 dominion championship i5f 3

football teams were also honoured guests z 5 o at the 2 pm game that saw the Gryphons gtshy a defeat York f shya I a

Ralph Shapiro

36 G UELPH ALUMNUS

LEADING THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY FOR 1974 GRADS The 25th-anniversary reunion givshy

i ng program for the Class of 1974

is under way with Bill Laidlaw BA

74 as cbair A public affairs proshy

fessional he has been director of

government relations for the

Canadian operations of Glaxo

vVelJcome Inc for more th an 10

years He also acts as a senior conshy

sultant to support the governshy

ment relations function in other

regions of Canada

Laidlaw began his career in

teaching after earning a history

degree from Guelph and education

degrees (rom Queens University

and the University of Toronto He

also holds the certified human

resources professional designation

and worked in that field for sevshy

eral years before concen trating on

government relations at Glaxo

Welkome He lives in Burlington

Ont and is an act ive community

volunteer having se rved on the

boards of severa l professional

organizations the Queensway

General Hospital and the Metroshy

politan Toronto Lung Association

He is currently completing a oneshy

year term as chair of the Ontario

Chamber of Commerce

Anniversa ry preparations will

culminate with a class gathering

a nd reunion gift at Alumni

Weekend in June 1999

ALUMNI MAKE THE CONNECTION Students who moved into

Maids and Mills halls in Sepshy

tember can take full advanshy

tage of the Universitys highshy

speed computer network

thanks to the OAC Class of

71 whose 25 th-reunion proshy

ject provided wiring upgrades

in the 84- and 77-year-old

residence buildin gs

GRAD NEWS

Marathon survivors inspire us all to appreciate everyday life

W HEN ROBINSON SIIlLJNGS Jane BSe(Agr)

85 Heather BASe 83 Peter BSe(Agr)

86 Scott and Marnie rigwood BA 84 get

together they talk about marathons and the hope

and determination it takes to reach the finish line

Hea ther walked a marathon in San Diego

Calif in June to raise money for leukemia

research then joined Peter for a Toronto marathon

in October that benefi ted the Leukemia Research

Fund of Canada They were inspired by Janes pershy

sonal marathon of survival that foUowed her 1992

diagnosis of leukemia Chemotherapy radiation

remission relapse and finally a bone marrow

transplant [TOm her brother Scott took more than

three years out of her life but gave her the detershy

mination to keep fighting

Many families can understand the marathon

of hope maintained by the Robinsons during

Janes struggle and the commitment they have to

help others who are stricken with the disease Jane

is finally well enough to work again as a writer

and marketing consultant and to join her fami shy

ly in volunteer work She helped recruit for the

Toronto marathon fund -raiser and continues to

be involved with the Leukemia Research Funds

Team in Training She also says that her expeshy

rience has taught her to appreciate more the pleashy

sures of everyday life and the love of famil y

Jan es parents are th e late Doug Rob inson

BSA 53 and Marilyn (Inglis) Robinson Murray

BH Sc 55

19305

bull Grant Misener ADA 32 BSA 35 and DVM 38 received the

prest igious George F Hixso n Felshy

lowship Award from the Kiwanis

International Foundation in May The retired Illinois veter ishy

narian was hono ured for his subshystantial contribution to the

Kiwanis wo rldwide service proshy

ject aimed at eliminating iodine

deficiency disorders the leading

cause of preventable mental retardation in children Over the

years Misener has shown a simishylar commitment to his al ma

mater an d its students through

his close association with OVC

and his support of scho larship

programs

19405

bull Russell McDonaldDVM 45 was named an honorary life direcshytor of the Royal Agricultural Winshy

ter Fair Association in March

McDonald formerly general manshy

ager of Western Ontario Breeders

Ine and executive director of the Canadian Association of Animal

Breeders served as a director of the Royal Winter Fair for 20 years

representing the Canadian artifishycial insemination industry He

lives in Woodstock Ont

bull Ian Taylor DVM43 was recently honoured by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to

Animals of Illinois Taylor ran a small-animal veterinary clinic in

the Chicago area for many years

and says he gained ll1uch experishyence during his first three years in

Illinois as clinic veterinarian for

the anti -cruelty society

19505

bull Charles Chuck Broadwell BSA 54 was elected a Mel

Osborne Fellow by the Kiwanis

Club of Forest City in London Ont in recognition of a dedicatshy -ed and distinguished career in

Kiwanis

19605

bull Constantine Campbell BSA 60 and MSA 61 was named to the

WINTER 1999 37

Order of Canada in January He

received the award in recogni shy

tion of his many contributions

to science and the Canadian

agricultural industry After grad shy

uating from OAC he went on to

do his PhD at the University of

Saskatchewan then joined Agri shy

culture and Agri-food Canada

as a research scientist at the Swift

Current research station Campshy

bell and his family now live in

Ottawa where he is scientist

emeritus with Agriculture and

Agri-food Canada

bull John Casselman BSA 64 is

a research scientist with the

Ontario Ministry of Natural

Resources He Jives in Bath

Ont with his wife Lois

bull Jane Fuller RRSc 65 and

her husband George who both

taught at the Macdonald Instishy

tute from 1966 to 1969 have

moved from Winnipeg to

Utopia Ont following

Georges retirement from the

University of Manitoba

bull Fred Gilbert MSc 66 and

P hD 68 is in his first term as

president of Lakehead Univer shy

sity in Thunder Bay Ont He

taught at U of G in the Departshy

ment of Zoology from 1972 to

1981 and has enjoyed a dive rse

academic career that has also

included teaching at the Unishy

versity of Maine and posi tions

as director of wildlife biology at

Washington State University

and founding dean of the Facshy

ulty of Natural Reso urces and

Environmenta l Studies at the

University of Northern British

Columbia He moved to Lakeshy

head from a position as viceshy

pro vost at Colorado State Unishy

versity A respected wildlife

biologist he has conducted

ex tensive resea rch in s Ll ch areas

as the behaviour and physioloshy

gy of wildlife species and the

effects of environmental

change on wildlife populations

bull Terry Goodyear BSc 67 of

Mont Tremblant Quebec is an

early retiree from Agriculture

and Agri-Food Canada in Ottawa He is now working on

va lue-added products from

industrial wastes particularly

cellulose sludge from pulp and

pa per mills

bull Gary Hearn BA 68 was

named an Ontario provincial

judge in October For the last

25 years he has been a lawyer

with the firm Kearns McKinshy

non in Guelph where he lives

with his wife Irene and three

teenage children

bull Allan Knight BSA 66 of Corunna Ont has retired

from Dow Chemical after 30

years On retirement he was a

laboratory director for indusshy

trial chemicals He is now

working with his son in a famishy

ly-owned and -operated busishy

ness Knight Funeral Home

bull Keith McFarlane BSc(Agr)

68 works for the Department

of Foreign Affairs and Internashy

tional Trade and began a fourshy

year assignment last summer as

head of the commercial divishy

sion of the Canadian Embassy

in Lisbon Portugal The

division promotes the sa le of

Canadian goods and services

to Portugal

bull Ian Newbould MA 68 has

travelled far from his Ontario

roots through an academic and

administrative career that has

taken him to Europe Asia and

Western Canada A noted hisshy

torian he moved into adm inisshy

tration at the University of

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Lethbridge in 1981 and spent

10 years there as director of

research dean of a rts and scishy

ence and vice-presiden t (acadeshy

mic) before crossing the counshy

try to become president of

Mount Allison University in

New Brunswick He is now in

his second term as president of

Mount AUison

bull Indra Deo Singh MSc 68 is

a tea scientist international

consultant and joint director of

the Tea Research Association at

the Nagrakata substation in

India His responsibilities

include co-ordinating research

and development in the Indian

tea industry and developing tea

cultivars and agrotechnology

for tea Singh is married with

two sons aged 27 and 23

19705

bull Don Ambler BSe 71 retired in March as manager of

water programs with Environshy

ment Canada in Dartmouth

NS after 25 years of public

service He has now registered

the company Aquashed Co nshy

sulting to continue in the water

resources field when hes not

gardening beekeeping do ing

aerobics or vo lunteering in the

community and chu rch E-mail

contact is welcome a t

donambl erns sympaticoca

bull Jim Bond BSe 75 is managshy

ing a new processing facility at

the Chalk River Nuclear Laborashy

to ry in Chalk River Ont

bull Terri (Monks) Bulman BSc(Agr) 78 and MSe 81

and her husband Vincent

MSe 8 1 live in Australia with

their th ree children Catherine

7 Peter 4 and baby Christoshy

pher Terri is senior principal

environmental auditor vith

Coffey Geosciences Pty Ltd Vinshy

cent afte r many years as a geoloshy

gist travelling around Australia

and abroad has taken the year

off to study and look after the

children Their e-mail address is

tbulmanbigpondco m

bull Marie David BA 78 of

Hanover Ont has been in the

n ewspaper business for 20

years She started in the mailshy

room moved to advertising

sales then became advert ising

manager She is now gene ral

manager o f three So utham

weekly newspapers and pubshy

lish er of the Hanover Post

bull Janice Harrower and her husshy

band Jerome Billett both

DVM 76 operate a joint veterishy

nary practice in Prescott Ont

Billett says practising together

has allowed them some flexibilishy

ty in their family life and given

their four children a good took

at the rigours of veterinary

medicine Says Billett Not one

of our kid s has the slightest

interest in being a veterinarian

and isnt that just fine Their

o ldest son Jesse attends Harshy

va rd University and is a memshy

ber of its prestigious a cappella

choir Lucas is studying

mechanical engineering at the

University of Waterloo Casey is

planning a career in computer

engineering and Lindsay is a

high school athle te

bull Clair Heinbuch BSe 74 is a

sales manager with Baye r Corp

in Kansas H e and his wife

Caroline (Koscik) BASc 75

returned to the Kansas City

area after spending four years in

Denver They have three chilshy

dren Lisa 20 Scott 18 and

Ryan [5

bull Beverly Lee BASe 72 is an

elem entary school principal in

Unionville Ont She lives with

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her husband Grant Egan in

Collingwood and is looking

forward to retirement in severshy

al years Life on Georgian Bay

is wonderful she says Lee

would love to hear from fellow

grads by e-mail at

leebYrbeeduonca or by

phone at 705 -444 -092l

bull Won-Jai Maeng MSc 71 took office Sept 1 as president

of Kon-Kuk University in Seoul

Korea where his academic

career began He completed an

undergraduate degree at Kon

Kuk in 1965 then studied at

Mailing Agricultural College in Denmark and at U of G before

doing doctoral work at the Unishy

versity of California Davis

Maeng has held research and

teaching positions at the Unishy

versity of illinois at Chung-Ang

University and at Kon-Kuk

where he has been a professor of

animal science since 1984 His

appointment as president folshy

lows years of administrative

experience as a department

head dean and chair of various

research committees and proshy

fessional organizations An

expert in ruminant nutrition

Maeng was instrumental in

developing the livestock feed

industry in Korea He has also

been active in working with

alumni groups and in writing

for the Kon-Kuk Tribune

bull Bill MarshaU ADA 75 of Proton Station Ont moved

from Clarksburg in June to

work in Dundalk for the Grey

County Roads Department on

its road management crew

bull Bernie Matte BSc(Agr) 70 of Moncton NB retired

in March after 28 years with

Fisheries and Oceans Canada

and the Canadian Food

Inspection Agency He plans to

travel to Belize and Honduras

with his wife Diane and will

be available anywhere in the

Caribbean for seafood HACCP

consulting work

bull Margaret McClain BA 70 lives in Arkansas where she is

highJy involved in the issue of

40 GUELPH ALUMNUS

missing children and internashy

tional abductions McClain who

believes her own six-year-old

daughter was taken out of the

United States more than a year

ago by her second husband is

reaching out to parents with

similar experiences through an

organization that is lobbying the

US government for tougher

international abduction laws

She invites interested fr iends

and alumni to contact her

through her Web site at

wwwinsolwwbnet-dmcclain

bull Robert (Chuck) Miller BA 77 is the park superintendent

of Killarney French River and

Maskinonje provincial parks in

Ontario He moved to Killarney

from Quetico Provincial Park

last May

bull Gordon Nicol BA 72 and MSc(Agr) 74 teaches math

and science in a bilingual prishy

vate school in Guatemala A

BEd graduate of Laurentian

he first taught in Guatemala in

the late 1970s then spent 12

years in northern Alberta as a

teacher and principal He

returned to Guatemala in 1989

A widower with three teenage

children Nicol would like to

hear from U of G friends and

acquaintances especially anyshy

one who is was or will be in

Central America He says he

could also use middle-schoolshy

level science projects Send eshy

mail to gnicoll guatenet or

write to PO Box 661447 Miami

Springs Florida 33266-1447

bull Chris Schulte BSc 71 and MSc 73 lives in Nassau

Bahamas with his wife

Andrya After graduation he

stayed in the Department of

Physics as a research associate

with Prof lain Campbell then

joined Ontario Hydro in the

early 1980s He moved to the

Bahamas in 1995 He can be

reached bye-mail at

schultebahamasnetbs

bull Sandra (Pickford) Webster BA 75 has retired from U of

Gs Co mmunications and Pubshy

lic Affairs and is living in Parry

Sound Ont where she is

doing volunteer work and

communications consulting

for the municipality Guelph

friends ca n contact her by

e-mail atswebsterzeutercom

19805

bull Sharon (Courneya) Angus BA 8 I of Surrey BC comshy

pleted a BSW at the University

of British Columbia in 1988

and has been working for the

BC government for 13 years

- first in probation and now

in the family justice division

She and her husband Ron

have three children Jason

Carly and Colin

bull Karen Beazley BLA 86 is an assistant professor and acadeshy

mic program co-ordinator at

the School for Reso urce and

Environmental Studies at Dalshy

housie University in Halifax

She is currently doing research

for a book on endangered

species initiatives and is orgashy

nizing a Nova Scotia wildlands

workshop with the Wildlands

Project for 1999 Her e-mail

address is kbeazleyisdalca

bull Caroline (Van Deudekom) and Marc Brooks both ADA 87

recently moved from Strathroy

to Owen Sound Ont where

they run a 50-acre organic farm

with their two sons

bull Virginia Burt BLA 85 startshyed her own landscape architecshy

ture firm Visionscapes in

Hamilton Ont in ] 996 She

specializes in the design of thershy

apeutic healing gardens spirit

gardens sacred spaces and

la byrin ths and recen tly designed the first healing garden

in Canada specificalJy for peoshy

ple living with HIV and AIDS

bull Joanne (Branson) Carver BA 80 earned a BEd from Brock

University in 1981 and recently

started working as a probashy

tionparole officer She Jives in

Ajax Ont and has two daughshy

ters Julie4 and Sarah 8

bull Heather Champ BA 86 is a Web-site designer in New York

City She began her work in

computer design in 1990 Her

personal site can be Found at

wwwjezebelcom

bull Laurie Gough BA 87 has become a world traveller who

writes about her experiences for

the benefit of others Her most

recent book Island of the

Human Heart A tfornans Travshyel Odyssey is now in its second

printing in Canada and will be

released next year in the United

States and overseas She has also

published Travellers Tales A

Womans World which won the

US-based Lowell Thomas

Gold Award for best travel book

of the year When not travelling

or writing she teaches English

and ESL in Guelph

bull Susan (Coles) Goulden BASc 84 and her husband

Ian are th rilled wi th their

recent adoption of Jennifer Lee

Yu who was born in June near

Leping Jiangxi Peoples Repubshy

lic of China The Gouldens

who Jive in vVaterloo Ont

thank classmate Andrea

(Kovits) Henderson for her

support throughout the adopshy

tion process Susan is currently

on leave from her position with

McCormick Canada

bull Judy (Bodendistel) Gregg BA 82 moved to Melbourne Ausshy

tralia in 1997 with her husband

and two children Carly 6 and

Adam 3 We are enjoying the

friendly people and the great

weather here she says We are

especially enjoying winter in a

place where it never gets below

zero Celsius

bull Nigel GumJey DVM 85 has been a partner in the Alta Vista

Animal Hospital in Ottawa

since 1990 was president of the bull Garry Millage AMPHI 86 bull Heidi Stephenson BA 88 is now ISO 9000 manager at

Ontario Veterinary Medical left a position as vice-president was awarded her professional Carpenter Ca nada Ltd in

Association in 1997 and recent- of national operations for acco untants designation of Wood br idge Ont He lives in

ly served on the Canadian Vetshy Scotts Restaurants KFC Divishy certified general accountant in Miss issa uga Classma tes are

erilw() Medical Associations sion to open his own consult- March 1998 She has been invited to contact him at

national issues committee He ing company Future Food employed for the last 10 years avon listarca

lives in Osgoode with his wife Equipment Ine specializes in with Dan Ball Chartered bull Michelle (Pilon) Bacon BA rvlaurecn and children Laura providing new and used restau- Acco un tant in Parry Sound 90 moved to England to study

and Matthew rant equipment and reducing O nt where she lives with her and work after graduating from

bull Muneer Hirji BComm 82 restaurant construction costs hu sband Brad two dogs and a Guelph She recently left a posishy

lives in Toronto and is vice- He also operates a restaurant horse tion with the British Ministry of

president of marke ting at SAP called Nikkos in Woodbridge bull Dawn Stetsko BSe 81 lives Agriculture and Food in York to

Canada He has three chil- Ont and is planning to open a in Langhorne Pa with her husshy become an at-home mom She

drcl1 Nadia 8 Alyssa 6 and second location band Paul and children Mark now lives in London with her

Sarah I bull Tosh Noseworthy BSe 83 is and Keith and is a research husband Tim and one-year-old

bull Brenda irwin BSe 88 is a cardiovascular ICU nurse in scientist with Bristol-Myers daughter Juliette She sends love

studying at Hong Kong Unishy sunny Tuscon Arizona After Squibb Previously she worked to Sue Heather and Sheila and

vers ity of Science and Technolshy grad uation she lived in Paris at McMaster University in can be reached bye-mail at

ogy to complete the final France for a yea r s tudied nurs- Hamilton Ont for 17 yea rs michellebacondialpipexcom

sem ester of an MBA program ing in O ttawa then lived in Saushy bull Teresa Tummillo-Goy BA bull Jeff Barlow BComm 90 is

through the University of di Arabia for two yea rs She still 86 has a law practice in Water- the training and quality manag-

British Columbia She taught loves to travel and would like to 100 Ont foc Li sing primaril y on er for two five-star luxury boushy

science for the North York hea r from fellow alumni She family law civi l litiga tion and tique h o tels in Prague - Hotel

Board of Education for five can be reached at 520-299-8344 real estate She and her hus- Palace Praha and the Hotel

years before enrolling in the bull Cecilia (Wleugel) Parkes band John Goy live in Guelph Savoy Previo usly he was execu -

MBA program BComm 85 is a graphic and have three sons John 4 tive housekeeper at the five-star

bull Jagwant Kanwar PhD 80 is designer in Toronto and says Tony 3 and Shayne 2 Renaissance Pragu e Hotel

a senior scientist in the depart- she st ill uses ber marketing bull Peter Van der Borch DVM bull Margaret Burnes-Souria BA ment of vegetable crops at Pun- background to help her busishy 88 retired in the fa ll of 1997 94 is a team leader with [011 shy

jab Agricultural University in ness succeed She specia lizes in after several years of practising don Magazin e in London Ont

India He is also director of the logo design lNith hand-drawn physiotherapy and ve terinary She married David Souria in

regional vegetable research stashy illustrations medicine and surgery He Jives July 1997 and is pursuing an tion at Usman (TaranTarn) bull Jim Parr BSc(Agr) 81 and in Pictou NS ]VlBA at the University of West-

Amritsar His and his wife MSe 89 died of cancer in bull MartyWilLiams BA 85 is ern Ontario

Sanyogita have a son Mohit June 1998 but hes being co-ordinator of student activishy bull Janine Byers BASe 95 is a and a daughter Dipika who are remembered by his university ties at University College Unishy public health dietitian at the

both studying engineering friends through the establish - versity of Toronto where he Kingston Frontenac and

Friends can write to Kanwar at ment of a mem orial fund for advises student organizations Iennox amp Addington Health

Punjab Agricultural Un ivers ity his wife Denise and children 1Ie is also chair of the U of T Unit in Kingston O nt She is Ludhiana 141 004 India Shannon and Eric Anyone Staff Association a member of getting married to Ca rl Stewart

bull Larissa Larsen BSe 89 and who would like more informa - the steering committee of the on May 29 j 999 MLA 92 received a PhD in tion can ca ll Brian Tapscott at staffs unionization drive and a bull Lisa Cherry BSe 9 1 is a urban and regional planning 519-767-3566 staff member with the student science journalist and executive

from the University of Illinois bull Cheryl (Dunlop) Reid newspaper The Varsity He can director of Artists Against

at Urbana Champaign in May BSe(Agr) 89 sta rted a new be reached bye-mail at marty Racism an international organi-

She has accepted a position at job in September as ingredient wi lliamsutorontoca za tion She is based in Toronto

Thompson Dyke and Associshy sales manager for RA bull Bonnie (Byma) BASe 96 ales a landscape architecture Chisholm o f Toronto She will 19905 and Gil Clelland BA 95 were

and urban planning firm in continue to work from her bull Claire Allison BA 94 grad- married in December 1996 and

Chicago Her husband Ernie remote offke in Fergus Reid uated from the elementary are living in Chatham On t

Poortinga DVM 89 is in his and her husband Jeff BSe teacher ed ucation program at Bo nnie works at a day-care

third yea r of an MD program (Agr) 89 have two children the University of British centre G il teaches art and

at Rush University Chicago lVlega n 4 and Elizabeth 2 Columbia in 1996 and now phys ical education They ca n -Hes looking forward to joining bull Chee Sie BA 83 is a zone teaches in Va ncou ver be reached bye-ma il at gclelshy

his wife in the ranks of the manager for the Malaysian bull JohnAvon BSdHK) 94 lan ciaccesscom employed They would both Assurance Alliance Berhad in earned an M Se in industr ial bull Kate Corn ell BA 95 of enjoy hearing from fellow Sarawak Malaysia He and his operations from Lawrence Markham Ont earned her

alumni and can be reached at wife Jesterine have a two-year- Technological University in masters in dance history from epoor tin garushurushedu old daughter Letitia Southfleld Mich in 1997 and York University in May and

WINTER 1999 41

co-authored a book titled

Toronto Dance Theatre 1968shy1998 Stages in a Journey

bull Mary Jill (McClure) Culliton BASe 90 earned

her BEd from Brock University

and her M Ed from the Univershy

sity of Western Ontario and

teaches Grade 1 in Mitchell

Ont She and her husband

Tim live in Stratford

bull Kathleen (McNutt) Daniels BASe 9 1 is a teacher and was

married on New Years Eve

1994 to Gord Daniels They live

in North Bay Ont and have a

daughter Lauren born in Febshy

ruary 1997 They are expecting

their second child in February

bull Simon Deakin BA 95 studshyied in Florence Italy for a year

then earned a master of fine art

from the Slade School of Fine

Art at the University of London

England He lives in London

bull Christie Dunbar BLA 97 spent a year after graduation

working for Niagara College in

St Catharines Ont on the

vision and design of a new

campus to be built in Niagarashy

on-the- Lake Last April she

joined the landscape architecshy

ture firm of Pollack Design

Associates in Ann Arbor Mich

bull Trina Edmonds BA 94 and

Joel Hinderle became the

proud parents of a little girl

Jordan Ashley in january 1998

and moved to a new home in

Oakville Ont in September

Edmonds works in Mississauga

as a desktop publisher with a

publishingprinting company

bull Wendy Garinther BSc 93 and Steve Decker BSe 94

were married in May Joining

them in the wedding celebrashy

tions were Cheri (Coulter)

42 GUELPH ALUMNUS

Ascroft BSe 93 Karen Leinshy

gartner BSe 94 and Barb

(Moore) Johnson BSe 94

Best man was Jeff Bond BSe

93 and MSe 96 The Deckers

live in Edmonton where Steve

is doing a PhD in chemistry at

the University of Alberta and

Wendy is working in a research

laboratory at a biopharmaceushy

tical company

bull Donna Gross BA 97 is purshysu ing a master of divinity at

Emmanuel College at the Unishy

versity of Toronto and hopes to

become an ordained minister by

2002 She lives in Guelph and

can be reached bye-mail at

donnajulietalbedonet

bull Robert Gruber BA 92 is a child-care supervisor for the

YMCA-YWCA of Guelph and

manages the Jean Little Y

Child- Care Centre He recently

developed the anti -bias proshy

gramming policy for the

Guelph Y and sits on both the

Jean Little Public School Counshy

cil and the Guelph AIDS Wall

Committee He can be reached

bye-mail at rgrubernet

comca

bull Susan Harder BSe 91 grad shyuated from the University of

Toronto Medical School in June

and has started a residency at

Santa Clara Valley Medical Censhy

tre in San jose Calif She will

follow that up with an anestheshy

sia residency at Stanford Univershy

sity Hospital in 1999

bull Marko Harjupanula BASc 93 travelled in Australia for

two months after graduating

from Guelph then returned to

his home town of South Porshy

cupine Ont where he worked

in a gold mine for four years

He entered police college in

September and started as an

opp constable in Cochrane in

December

bull Nancy Holman MA 94 moved to Vancouver soon after

graduation and initially worked

as a project co-ordinator for an

ophthalmologist In 1996 she

began working full time for the

BC Liberal Caucus I would

enjoy hearing from and catchshy

ing up with the friends I made

while studying at U of G and

working at the Brass Taps she

says Her e-mail address is nan shy

cyholmanlassgovbeca

bull Ruth Johnson BA 91 is an investment banking associate

with the mergers and acquisishy

tions group of JP Morgan in

Lond on England responsible

for financial reporting and

administration She has been in

England with her partner Alex Campbell since graduation

bull Stephen Johnson BA 94 of London Ont was a lab technishy

cian at Lenscrafters for three

yea rs and is now a full-time

student at Fanshawe College

studying air conditioning and

refrigeration He was married

in Jun e to Jennifer Fox BSc

95 a chemist at 3M Their

wedding party included Dee Popat BSe (Eng) 94 and

Patrick Wulhes BSc 95

bull Sarah (Davis) Kelly BASe 90 married Robert Kelly in

July and teaches primary

grades at an inner-city school

in Toronto

bull Cassidy Klowak BComm 97 lives in Allisshy

ton Onl and is a personal

banking account manager

with ClBC in Tottenham

bull Stephanie Lopes BSc 96 completed her MSc in repro shy

ductive biology at the Universishy

ty of Toronto and worked as

patient-care director for the

College of Family Physicians

for almost a year In September

she enrolled in medical school

at the University of Toronto

She is happy to announce that

she is engaged to be married

next summer Lopes can be

reached at slopesidirectcom

bull Natalie (Parker) MacKenzie BSc 96 earned her BEd from

the University of Western

Ontario in 1997 She married

ASLt Andy MacKenzie June 27

in Sault Ste Marie Ont and

now lives in Halifax

bull Susan MacKinnon DVM 91 is a veterinarian with HUls

Science Diet She lives in

Guelph with her husband

Brandon Wiley and gave birth

to their first child Adrianna

Nicole june 26 at home

bull Waheed Mian BA 9 1 of Cambridge Ont is a store

director with PetSmart Canada

He helped the company launch

its new retail concept in Cana da

bull Alex Mitchell BA 91 was appointed clerkdeputy treasurshy

er of the Ontario township of

Mildmay-Carrick in 1998 and

will be the clerkadministrator

of the new municipality of

Mildmay-Carrick -TeesWatershy

Culross in 1999 He was married

in january 1997 and lives vith

his wife and daughter in Mild shy

may In his spare time Mitchell

is a professional scout for the

Toronto Maple Leafs covering

southwestern Ontario

bull Sherry Morland BASc 93 of Kitchener Ont ea rned her

BEd from Brock University in

J995 and is a part-time specia l

educa tion teacher and an occashy

sional teacher with the Watershy

loo County Board of Ed ucashy

tion She married Ivan LeBlanc

in 1997

bull Gary Page BSe 91 wo rks for the Nottawasaga Valley Conshy

servation Authority where he is

able to combine his knowledge

of wildlife biology with his

artistic skills as resident graphic

designer and outdoor centre

interpreter He Jives with his

wife Di and their son judah in

CreemoreOnt

bull Elaine Pammenter BA 96 is an inventory clerk with the

Royal Collection at Windsor

Castle in England She holds a

museum management and

curatorship grad uate certificate

diploma from Sir Sandford

Fleming College and did her

internship at the Royal Albert

Memorial Museum in Exeter

England

bull Brent Raymond BSe(Env) 96 of Brantford Ont has

been working with Outward

Bound since graduation He

leads wilderness trips in Northshy

ern Ontario Horida Australia and Sabah (Malaysian Borneo) Most recently he designed and implemented a new introducshytory mountaineering course for Outward Bound Sabah on the summit plateau of Mt Kinashy

balu Those of you who know me as plate licker from U of G get in touch he says Where are you Star I miss you He can be reached by e-mail at globarwchatonca or by

phone at 519-756-1697

Alumni Patrick Abbott BSA 40 July 7 1998

Albert Allen BSA 33 Jan 161994 Agris Ansmits BA 70 and MA 73

February 1998 Barbara (Quartermain) Babcock DHE

53 June 17 1998

Wray Bond BSA 34 Sept 25 1998

Kenneth Bone DVM 38 Dec 29 1998 Evelyn (Stevenson) Buhr DHE 39

May 251998 Philip Burke BSA 43 June 21 1998

Grant Carman BSA 49 Oct 221998 Frederick Chambers BSA 41

June 1998 Wilmot Conley ADA4 7 April 7 1998 Lloyd Crewson BSA 49 Aug 261998

Jacqueline Dimock DHE 47

Aug 20 1998 John Dingwall DVM 52

April 18 1998

Lloyd Dorsey BSA 38 June 9 1998 George Duncan BSA 37

Sept 19 1998

David Dyson BSA 53 Aug 31 1998

Norma (Shannon) Edwards DHE 39

November 1997 Vincent Bud Ellis DVM 41

July 15 1998 John Jack George BSA 48

Sept 24 1998

Donald Haight BSA 33 January 1997 William Hamlyn BSA 33 Dec I 1997

Gordon Harkness BSA 49

November 1997

Charles Hollister DVM 38 June 1996 Donald Hope BSA 54 June 28 1998

Lawrence Jefferson BSA 38

Sept 3 1998

James Kelso DVM 56 July 27 1998

Dorima Lalonde BSA 34 Oct 8 1998 Mildred (Cox) Large DHE 33

June 20 1998 Roger Larson BComm 86 Feb 19 1998 Robert Lawson BSA 49 June 6 1998

bull Doug Ramsey BA 91 and PhD 98 received U of Gs highshyest graduate student award shythe Forster Medal- at June convocation for his academic and community involvement while enrolled in Guelphs new

graduate program in geography He spent the summer as a visitshying research scholar at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College in Truro before assuming his curshyrent position as assistant professhysor at Mount Allison University

David Leach BSc(Agr) 74

July 18 1998

Ian Leask DVM 74 Sept 5 1998

Sheryl Lee BSc 95 June 8 1998 Ruby Janet MacAuley DHE 30

Aug 19 1998 Parker MacKenzie DVM 38

September 1994

Jeanice MacLaren DHE 28 March 1 1997

Campbell MacMaster DVM42

Oct 8 1998

Rex McCallum DVM 43 July 71998 Jean (Dunn) McMahon DHE 31

Nov 41998

Margaret Oones) McTaggart DHE 35 Aug 81998

Patrick McTaggart-Cowan HDSc 81

Oct 21997

Malcolm McWhinnie ADA 39

July 16 1998 Mary (Townsend) Mitchell BHSc

60 Sept 281998

Marjory Monaghan DHE 29

December 1997 Charles Monk BSA 44 Aug 7 1998

Heather Neilsen BHSc 59

Oct 30 1998 Jerry Niwa DVM 62 Aug 5 1998 Henry Harry OReilly BSA 42

October 1997

James Parr BSc(Agr) 81 June 19 1998 Charles Rammage DVM 45

Oct 17 1996 Howard Rapson HDSc 90

March 1997 Clement Reeds DVM 42 Oct 16 1998

William Robinson BSA 38

Aug 23 1998

Donald Sager ADA 73 Oct 141997

Austin Schaefer DVM 37 in 1997

Sandra (Mackenzie) Schmidt DHE 59

Aug 16 1997 Margaret (Harvey) Seaborn DHE 28

July 221998

Larry Seguin DVM 47 June 12 1998

Leah Shedden DHE 31 December 1998

Edward Shuh BSA 40 July 2 1998

Ted Shutsa BSc(Agr) 66

Sept 18 1998 Jim Sinclair DVM 49 Oct 4 1998

Margaret (Brown) Sinclair DHE 20

September 1998 Eldon Smith BSA 42 Sept 9 1998

Derek Somers DVM 96 Sept 25 1998

Cheryl Lynn Sopha BA 95 Sept 20 1998

Leona (Bartlett) Stewart DHE 35

June 27 1998 Alex Thomson BSc(Agr) 69

October 1996

William Whittick DVM 55

Aug 15 1998 Joseph Wilson BSA 23 Sept 11 1998

Lloyd Woolsey DVM41 June 24 1998

Winifred Yeates DHE 28 June 11998

Faculty John Carpenter BSA 43 and MSA 48

Microbiology Dec 10 1998

David Gaskin Zoology Sept 14 1998

Gordon Macleod BSA 50 Animal and

Poultry Science Nov 26 1998 Roman Retman Languages and

Literatures Sept 28 1998

Caesar Sen off Chemistry and

Biochemistry Aug 14 1998

Percy Smith Drama Dec 10 1998

Friends Robert Clark Aug 21 1998

Ethel Hammond August 1998

Thomas Hillers Sept 28 1998 Marguerite Holbrook Aug 26 1998

Catherine Kelly Sept 27 1998

James A McKenzie May 13 1998

Kenneth McIssac Oct 23 1998

William Mutlock September 1998 Roena Patterson Sept 16 1998

Donald Priddle Aug 25 1998

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bull Karl Reimer BSe 94 comshypleted a one-year intensive

MSc in mining engineering at

Queens University and is now

a project engineer a t Enpar

Technologies Ine in Guelph

He can be contacted at reimerbservcom

bull Nancy Nauta Rowland BA 90 and her husband Dan celshy

ebrated their first wedding

anniversary in March 1998 with

the birth of their first child

Connor who beat their March

8 anniversary by two days Nanshy

cy teaches junior-grade stushy

dents and junior special ed ucashy

tion for the Peel District School

Board The Rowlands live in

Caledon Ont

bull Fraser Stables MFA 98 was heralded by Toronto Globe 6shyMail critic Betty Jordan as a

formidable new talent followshy

ing the openi ng of his debut

gallery exh ibition in July The

Scottish artists work includes

sculpture video and mixed

media that explore notions of

flu x by interrupting the moveshy

ment of forms in space

bull Erin (Smith) Scott BSe(HK) 92 and Brad

Scott BSc(Agr) 91 of Lucan

O nt were married in 1993 and

had their first child Lucas in

August Erin works for Shopshy

pers Home Health Ca re in

London Brad is with New Life

Mills in Dunfield

bull Abby Simons BSc 95 and Martin Piche BSc(Agr) 95 were married in Mont-Tremshy

blant Quebec in 1997 She is a

customer service representative

with Kantech Systems he is

superintendent of Club de golf

vallee des forts They say theyd

love to hear from anyone headshy

ing to Montreal and can be

reached at 450-348-3860

bull Sylvia Tesori BSc 95 has been doing wildlife rehabilitashy

tion for the OSPCA Wildlife

Rehabilitation Centre in Midshy

land Ont since 1996

bull Chuck Thibeault BComm 94 is general manager of the

Putting Edge Corpora tion

which has two glow-in- theshy

dark mini-golf courses in

Ontario one in Bramp ton and

one in Richmond Hill He can

be reached in Richmond Hill at

chu ckttotalnet

bull Karen Thirlwall BA 93 is a

si ngersongwriter and guitarist

who began her stage career and

released her first album The Voice Inside Me while studying

languages at U of G She has

lived and performed in

11i stler BC for three years

and recently released a second

album called Wide-Eyed She

remembers many special

fr iends m ade at Guelph and

welcomes e-mail messages to

karenthirlwallhotmailcom

bull Christie (Johnson) and Steve

Tyler both BComm 91 live in

Cambridge Ont where

Christie is a personal banking

representative for the Royal

Bank Steve works with their

third-year design professor

Nelson Hofer in Mississauga as

a design consultan t Steves proshy

jects include the Windsor Casishy

no and U of Gs Creelman Hall

They have two children Jason

5 and Marcus 1

bull Julia White BA 91 lives in Guelph and is a small-business

accountant at Taves amp Co She

recently finished courses

towards a CGA designation and

would like to hea r from other

alumni who lived in Lambton

Hall in 198788 Send e-mail to

juliawhitesympaticoca

bull Andre-Denis Wright MSc 93 and PhD 98 is doing postshy

docto ral work in Perth Westshy

ern Australia He wants his

Guelph friends and Halifax

family to know he was thinking

of them at Christmas when it

was 40 C in Australia

bull Dave Yellen BComm 90 was recently promoted at the Gordon

Food Service to new-accounts

sales specialist for Metro Toronshy

to Having been in Ottawa for

the past few years Im hoping

to reacquaint myself with old

friend s from U of G in the Metro

area he says He lives in Scarborshy

ough and can be reached at 416shy615-2745 or davidysprintca

bull Halina Zaleski PhD 92 is a tenured professor in the

departm ent of animal sciences

at the Un iversity of Hawaii in

Honolulu She is a swine speshy

cialist involved in extension

programs for an area th at covshy

ers all of Hawai i and the PacifIC

basin She can be reached by

e-mail at halinahawaiiedu

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IF THERE ARE LIVESTOCK IN THE HOCKEY ARENA and

theyre not wearing skates its College Royal If there

are students sawing logs throwing pies baking cookies

and square dancing its College Royal When the entire

University of Guelph is displayed - from arts to zooloshy

gy - March 13 and 14 1999 youll know its definitely

College Royan

Since its inception in 1925 as an agricultural and liveshy

stock show run by the Ontario Agricultural College

College Royal has grown to be a celebrated U of G trashy

dition involving all the colleges

The event is famou s in the University community

and beyond for its open-house showcase of displays and

activities The largest student-run open house in Canashy

da College Royal attracts more than 20000 visitors to

campus over one weekend

College Royal is an event of tradition that reaches

into tomorrow Agriculture and livestock shows are still

highlighted events but College Royal activities have

grown to include dog and cat shows a photography conshy

test a chemistry magic show and demonstrations on

human health and fitness The open house gives people

an opportunity to see what happens in the Universitys

leading-edge research laboratories to observe veterinary

medicine in practice to tour a sculpture studio or to

watch a theatrical performance

To celebrate the 75th anniversary of College Royal

1998 president Joe TrakaJo lnvites alumni to get involved

again by joining one of the planning comm ittees or by

participating in a favourite event Call him for more

information at 824-4120 Ext 8366 or send e-mail to

jtrakalouoguelphca

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GUELPH HOLDS SECOND PLACE IN MACLEANS RANKING

For the second year in

a row U of G finished

second in the country

in its category in the annual

Macleans magazine universities

ranking issue

Editor Ann Dowsett Johnston

says it was very close with

Guelph barely nipped to the finshy

ish line by Simon Fraser Univershy

s ity in the 12-universitycomshy

prehensives category Guelph led

the way provincially coming first

of the five Ontario universities

in the sa me category

G uelph also rece ived a secshy

ond-place ranking in its categoshy

ry in the Macleans reputational

survey of 4700 corpora te CEOs

administ ra tors and high school

guidance counsellors In the allshy

categories nationwide reputashy

tional survey U of G placed xa5 eighth out of 48 institutions

~ Dowsett Johnston says

~ Guelph is well-established as a I premier university Other uni shy~ o vers ities are searching for an o f--

identity Guelph has a wonder-z laquo Vl gt ful sense of who it is This makes Vl

gtshy it a leader ahead of the game Its co 6 a strong resid ential school and

( it knows and builds o n its tr strengths It bodes incredibly ~ - well for the future

6 GUELPH ALUMNUS

ONTARIO INVESTS IN NEW

BIOTECH CENTRE AT U OF G The Ontario government will invest up to

$6 million in a new Food System Biotechshy

nology Centre at U of G

The funding from the Ministry of Energy

Science and Technology through the

Ontario Research and Development Chalshy

lenge Fund will be used to investigate anishy

mal genetiCS plant genetics and transgenshy

ics and the basic molecular research

underlying these areas With matching

funding from industry and the U of G

research budget the total investment in

this centre could reach $18 million

The new biotechnology centre will be

the focal point of molecular biology and

biotechnology research related to the agrishy

food system says U of G president

Mordechai Rozanski The award will allow

KUDOS

U of G applauds the recent

Order of Canada designamiddot

tions received by former

president William Winegard who was recognized for his

voluntarism OAC alumnus

Constantine Campbell BSA 60 who was honoured

for his significant contribushy

tions to science and the

Canadian agricultural indusshy

try Beverly Mascoll a

former member of U of Gs

Board of Governors and

Austin Clarke who recently

served as writer-in-residence

at Guelph

Roberta Bondar B5c

(Agr) 68 Canadas first

the University to develop the infrastructure

and expertise necessary to maintain a

leadership role in the important agri-food

sector of the economy he says It

involves four colleges 11 departments and

some 70 researchers and adds to Guelphs

reputation as a centre for the highest-qualshy

ity research benefiting all Canadians

The centres work will encompass all

aspects of the food system including agrishy

culture processing storage packaging

nutrition waste management and food

safety Key initiatives will incorporate

recent advances in molecular genetic techshy

nology into strategies for developing

improved strains of livestock and for the

production and evaluation of transgenic

plants

and physiological change in

space and how it applies to

life on Earth

Clay Switzer BSA 51 former

dean of OAC and former

deputy minister of the

Ontario Ministry of Agriculshy

ture and Food was inducted

into the Canadian Agriculturshy

al Hall of Fame in November

Fred Gilbert M5c 66 and

PhD 68 recently began a

first term as president of

Lakehead University in

Thunder Bay Ont

Won-Jai Maeng MSc 71 is

the newly appointed presishy

dent of Kon-Kuk University

in Seoul Korea

female astronaut has been

inducted into the Canadian

Medical Hall of Fame for her

studies on weightlessness

Winegard Named Officer of the Order of Canada

BIn WINEG ARD form er U ofG presishydent and minister of state for sc ience

and technology was named an officer of the Order of Canada in Jul y In November many of his University and co mmunity frie nds gath ered for a recognition dinner hosted by Lorie BA Sc 72 and Gin ty jocius

IN FACT What Mlldelns knows

VS editors arc learning

Major US publications have reccntly dcscribed

V of G as being academishycally excellent and a

real college valuc for American students

BSc(Agr ) 70 They were students at U of G during Winega rds tenure as president and later esta blished thei r business Gin ty jocius amp Associates in the Guelph-Wellington ridshying he represented as MP

Winegard first ca me to Guelph in 1967

to pilot the new University of Guelp h

CENTR E SIX GETS A FAC ELIFT

AFTER 25 YEARS the Unishyversity Centres popular

dining and seating area is getting a new look The expansion and renovation of Cen tre Six includes the addishytion of 200 scats an elevated lounge accessible to people

through its format ive years At the recognishytion dinner curren t U of G president Mo rdecbai Rozanski paid tribute to Wineshygards ro le as the intellec tual founder and shaper of the modern transformation of Guelph A distinguished metallurgist who began his academic career at the University of Toronto Winegard recruited many of the talented faculty who have spent the last 25 to 30 years building Guelphs reputation as a research institution said Rozanski

Winegards lead ership in the ac ademic community also encompassed the Canadian Bureau of International Education the Counshycil of Ontario Universities and the Ontario Council of University Affairs He retired from academia and U of G in 1975 His legacy on campus includes the Winegard Medal the highest award made to a graduati ng student and d1e Winegard Visiting Professorship which brings world scholars to U of G Proceeds from the recognition dinner were given to U of G to support Winegard visiting professors

Elected to Parliament in 1984 Winegard spent nine years in Ottawa and served in ca bshyinet as Canadas minister of state for science and technology and then science minister j

until he retired from Parliament in j 993 He 8 was named chair of the Premiers Research ~

Excel lence Awards board at the December i z

1998 announcement of the provincial pro- o V1gram which is designed to attract talented -lt 0you ng scientists to Ontario m

with disa bilities and a so lari shyum that has enclosed the external dining patio The facelift is funded entirely through non-exclusive agreements with the Univershysitys food service business partners

The project is expected lo address the need for space to

accommodate enrolment increases and may increase conference business Centre Six will also be more energyshyand labor-efficient with the installation of an upgraded -air-handling system In 1999

the Centre Six project will continue with renovations to the food comt area

WINTER j 999 7

in and around the

HPILOT PROJECT ELIMINATES BARRIERS

av ing a learning disability isnt a barrier to obtaining an educashy

tion at the University of Guelph especially with the laun ch of Learning Opportunities a pilot program offered through the Unishy

versitys Centre for Students with Disabilities Beginning in fall 1999

the program will give students with learning disa bilities the addishytional resources they need to meet the challenges involved in obtainshy

ing a post-secondary ed ucation

Lea rning Opportuniti es is a fi ve -yea r project that rece ived

$633 800 in special funding from the Ontario Ministry of Education

and Training U of G vas one of eight institutions to benefit from ~ the gran ts) which are designed specifically for programs in post-secshy

~ ondary institutions that support the integration of stud ents with I U learning disabiliti esIf)

z 0 Students enrolled in the Guelph program will receive pre-regis-O

~ tration cOllnselling academic advising speciall y tailored orientation

~ programs integrated living in an on-campus learn ing cluster supshy

5 ported learning groups workplace skills and competenc ies develshy

5 Oplnent) and experiential educat ion in the vvorkplace

PROVINCE BOOSTS GRADUATE RESEARCH

ANEW $75 - lvIILLlON provinshy

cial scholarship program in

science and technology will awa rd up to 46 U of G graduate

students up to $15000 star ting

this ye ar An nounced in Sepshytember the O ntario Graduate

Scholarships in Sc ience and

Technology will be awarded each

year for 10 years The ministries

of Energy Science and Technolshy

ogy and Education and Training will co-fund two-third s of the

cost of the program Uni ve rsishy

ties are expected to fmd an otershynal match for the final third

The government will alloshy

cate up to $460000 annually to

U OF G GRADS PROMPT GIFT FOOD SC IE NCE TEACHIN G and research at U of G has received financial support from the

Maple Lodge Farms Foundation In honour

of the companys founder Lawrence May

the May family presented $15000 to U of G

president Mordechai Rozanski Nov 9 at the

Royal Agricultural Wint er Fair in Toronto Presenters Wendy Ma y Robson and Kathy

May Weinhold said the gift was awarded

because of Maple Lodge Farms positive

experiences with so many highly qualified Guelph graduates

Man) graduates of this university have

passed through our facility over the yea rs

and in many capacities - as veterinarians inspectors researchers and food scientists

says Robson Our business has been enriched by this connection and it is for

8 GUELPH ALUMNUS

University

Guelph MPP Brenda Ell iott presents a cheque for $633800 to president Mordechai Rozanski for a pilot project to help learningshydisabled students Sta nd ing from left are Carol Herriot of the Cent re for Students wi th Disab ili t ies student Brad Hutchinson and cent re director Bruno Ma ncini

U of G whi ch will seek th e

remaining $230000 from prishy

va te-sector funding

Graduate studi es dean Alasshytair Summerlee is enthusiast ic

ab out the program but disapshypointed at the targe ted natu re of

the scholarships 1-k say the preshy

liminary list of qualifyi ng pro-

this reason that we wish to be part of this talented fa cility and to show our support of

its continuing mission of being a worldshy

class educational facility in Canada

Wendy Robson left and Kathy Weinh old present a gift from Maple Lodge Farms to U of G presiden t Mordechai Rozanski at the Roya l Winter Fair

grams ignores the social sciences

and huma nit ies and does not appreciate the con tributions of

fi elds suc h as econo mi cs and poli tical science to the advanceshy

mfl1t of science w d technology He says U of G wi ll press for the

govern ment to expalld the areas

included in the scholarships

B OF G WELCOMES NEW MEMBERS f OL LO W IN G 1111 1([ Il RF ~ lE NT of

several members in June U of Gs Board of Govern ors welcomed

t igh t new face~ th is blJ They are Christine Alford BSc 80 viccshy

prcsidltIlt Jnd geneml manager of

In tegration S rvices at IBM Ca na shyd1 Ltd Gil Bennett chai r of the

Canadian Tire Corporation Doug

Derry a fi na ncial adv iser and ret ired part ner with Price Wlel shy

house staff member Kathleen Hyland of th UAC Deans O ffi cI

graduate stu clenL James Rodgers undergraduate stud en ts Mitch MacDonald and Lana Rabkin and

Prof Steve Scadding Zoology

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U OF G WINS FEDERAL

INNOVATION AWARD

mE UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH is one of 14

1 Canadian universities and one of six

in Ontario to receive awards totalling $81

million from the Canada Foundation for

Innovations (CFI) Institutional Innovation

Fund (projects over $350000)

The CFI has yet to determine the exact

amount of the award but if Guelph were

to get the approximate $750000 requestshy

ed with matching grants from industry

and the Ontario Research and Developshy

ment Challenge Fund the total award

could be close to $2 million

Guelphs project is a holistic look at

agriculture the first of its kind in Canada

Titled New Technologies for Assessing

and Enhancing Agroecosystems it will be

headed by Prof Terry Gillespie chair of the

Department of Land Resource Science and

involve 25 faculty from 10 departments

Eight other U of G research projects were

invited to move on to a further stage of

review the third-highest number for an

Ontario university

TTRELLIS LAUNCHED a triangle of information sharshy indexes and Web sites and

H E SEP~EMI3ER LAU NCH of ing through TRELLIS the Trishy databases around the world an excltmg new system University Group of Libraries More than 75 million volshy

called TRELLIS has positioned combined computer-based umes of materials can be the U of G Library as a symbol information resource system found online and more thal1 of partnership and the home The automated system 400 users can log on to for more information than ever gives students and faculty at TRELLIS at the same time before U of G Wilfrid Laurier the three campuses access to a To access TRELLIS 011

University and the University of wider range of resources the Internet type wwwtugshyWaterloo joined forces to form including computer-based librariesonca

OTHER HONOURS

CONVOCAriON HONOURS TWO The University of Guelph has added two more distinshy

guished names to its list of honorary degree recipients Renowned biologist Jane Goodall and political scienshytist Peter Russell an expert on the Canadian Constitushytion and Charter of Rights and Freedoms were honshyoured during fall convocashytion ceremonies in October

Goodall received an honorary doctor of science degree acknowledging more than 40 years of groundbreaking work in the life and sociobiology of chimpanzees and other primates

An honorary doctor of

laws degree was conferred on Russell for his extensive research on the Constitution and Canadian nationalism

UOFG QUALIFIES FOR ATOP SUPPORT U OF Gs SCHOOL OF Engi- neering and Department of Computing and Information Science (CIS) are planning for more faculty equipment and resources following the Unishyversitys request for funding from a provincial program designed to address a shortage of skilled graduates in engimiddot neering and computing science

U of G met this years enrolment increase in these high-tech programs needed to qualify for one-time fundshying under the provinces Access to Opportunities Proshygram (ATOP) Guelph has also committed to doubling enrolment by the year 2000 to take advantage of long-term ATOP money

Guelph will qualify for special operating grants from the province to universities that increase their first-year enrolment in these programs by 20 per cent over 199798

The University also hopes to receive ATOP funding to increase its graduate enrolshyment in these disciplines

Both CIS and the School of Engineering face a shortage of resources making the ATOP funding an important funding source that will help these areas without affecting other campus units

WINTER 1999 9

refront ofat the

ALL THE DEFINING WORDS

written about the Ontario Agricultural College in its 125

years perhaps the most appropriate is the word integral

Throughout its history OAC has remained integral to the

agri-food industry and rural society

Its a good word integral It describes how and why

the college has survived 125 years and suggests a reason

it will grow even stronger in the 2pt century

Without hesitation OAC dean Rob McLaughlin

BSc(Agr) 69 and PhD 77 takes up the thought and

declares that OAC is the premier agricultural college in

Canada and stands in the top rank of agricultural faculshy

ties around the world Our work has had a profound

effect on the growth and development of the Canadian

agri-food system and the well-being of the people and

communities of rural Ontario and beyond he says

10 G UELPH ALUMNUS

OAC celebrates its history its partnerships and its fu ture

W I N TER 1999 11

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OACs 23000 graduates are also recognized

worldwide for their expertise and leadshy

ership abilities in agriculture agribusiness manageshy

ment hortiClilture landscape architecture plant and

animal biology food scie nce and rural extension

Meeting industry needs

More than 100 years apart in their leadershyship of OAC William Johnston and Rob McLaughlin both recognized that the colshylege they inherited would have to focus on industry needs to survive In Johnstons day that meant bringing greater prospershyity to the farm Because only three per cent of McLaughlins graduates return to farmshying todays college curriculum has a greater focus on skills in communication and critical thinking which are demanded by the various industries that now define agriculture

studies McLaughlin hopes those graduates will

return to help the college celebrate 1999s signifishy

cant anniversary It s important to celebrate our

past achievements and to recognize our present and

future strengths he says

A specia l OAC 125 planning committee coshy

chaired by Clay Switzer OAC dean from 1972 to

1983 and Don Blackburn former director of the

diploma program has organized a number of

events throughout the coming year to celebrate the

anniversary

Were looking forward to a wonderful year of

events to mark this occasion says Switzer BSA 51

and MSA 53 We want to celebra te the accomshy

plishments of the past and the fact tha t OAC has

interacted with many partners to get where we are

today and we want to look ahead to the future to

see how the college and the University might conshy

tinue along this successful path

Success for OAC means maintaining its position

as a vital partner and contributor to the prosperity

of the agri-food industry and the people of rural

Ontario for whom it was established That industry

and those rural communities are vastly different

from the 1874 picture we draw from the college hisshy

tory primarily because farmers themselves - with

the help of agricultural education and researchshy

12 GUElPH ALUMNUS

125 YEARS OF ACHIEVEMENT

Throughout OACs first 125 years its educashytion research and extension activities have had an impact on virtually every secshytor of Canadas agrimiddot food industry In the anniversary book 125

Years of Achievement OAC highlights some of the areas where col1lege faculty stushydents and administrashytors have played a leadership role To read more about Guelphs achievements in these areas conshytact the OAC deans office to obtain a copy of the book

Pre 1900

bull Diploma in agriculture

bull Degree in agriculture

bull Agri-food short courses

bull Production bulletins bull Extension work bull Liberal education bull Library resources bull Field crop trials bull Livestock breeding

bull Forestry bull Insect identification bull Experimental Union

1900-1910

bull Herbarium amp weed garden

bull Cheese making bull Food safety bull Land drainage bull Water testing bull Weather observashy

tions amp zoning for crop production

bull Legume inoculants

have forged change through increased productivishy

ty and efficiency

When OAC roots were planted in 187450 per

cent of th e people who lived in this new province

made their living from farming Today only two per

cent of Ontario residents live on farms

but they feed a much larger population

base and an important export market

The Ontario agri-food industry genershy

ates an impressive $637 billion in ecoshy

nomic value each year and stimulates

employment for nearly a quarter of the

workforce Canadians enjoy one of the

safest and cheapest food supplies in the

world spending less than 13 per cent of

their disposa ble income on food Most

people in the world spend more than 50

per cent

Its difficult to pinpoint all the conshy

tributions OAC faculty staff and gradshy

uates have made to agriculture because

the knowledge created and the techshy

nologies perfected here have been so weU

assimilated by the industry that they are

easily taken for granted Few people in

Ontario have ever heard of Charles

Zavitz or know that this early OAC gradshy

uate and professor recorded the first

field-crop yield tests at Guelph before 1890

Appointed head experimentalist in 1893 he was

instrumental in developing a college research proshy

gram that made good the promise that OAC would

offer its students training in scientific agriculture

Zavitz has been followed by a number of brilshy

liant educators and scientists whose contributions

to the college and its industry have filled several

books Even Alexander Ross in OACs official hisshy

tory College on the Hill can provide only a brief

description of the research initiatives that have

involved OAC in the growth of the agri-food secshy

tor and the tremendous advances agriculture has

made in the areas of human and animal nutrition

and health water and soil conservation rural develshy

opment and of course agri-food education

To give prominence to these contributions the

college has published an anniversary book that outshy

lines 125 of the most significant accomplishments in

which OAC faculty students and administrators

played a leadership role More important 125 Years ofAchievement celebrates the partnerships that have

provided the opportunities for achievement Through

the years Guelph scientists and educators have worked

closely with the agri-food industry with both the

Ontario Ministry of Agriculture Food and Rural

Affairs and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and

with other government departments international 1990s And they still have not reached that equalishy125 YEARS agencies educational institutions and alumni ty on the college faculty Alice Rowsome may haveOF ACHIEVEMENT

Read any entry in 125 Years ofAchievement and been hired to serve as assistant librarian and instrucshy

youll find an interes ting anecdote that chronicles tor in French and German at the turn of the censhy1910-1920

an important element in campus history Read the tury but horticulturist Patricia Harney remained bull Macdonaldwhole book and youll be awed by the

Institutesheer volume of th e work that has

bull Soil science been accomplished by so many people Scientific agricuLture

bull Poultry lighting working meticulously over so many

amp nutritionyears to affect so many changes in agrishy After earning one of its first agriculture

bull OAC 21 barleyculture that have improved the lives of degrees in 1888 Charles Zavitz began a

bull Fruit research Canadians 40-year career overseeing the college

Freeman McEwen OAC dean from experimental programs and made the first 1920-1930

1983 to 1990 chaired a committee that advancements in plant breeding Threebull Collecting

involved severa l dozen current and generations later Prof Ken Kasha led the Canadian art

retired faculty as well as alumni students development of a haploid technique of cell bull War Memorial

and U of G staff in writing the stories division that cut the time needed to breed Hall

A quick check of dates in the book new varieties in half Today plant biotechshybull Graduate

shows a spiral of achievement that has nologist Bryan McKersie is looking even education

escalated with whirlwind force since the deeper into the functioning of plant cells bull College Royal

establishment of the University of to manipulate genes that will enhance proshybull SoybeanGuelph in 1964 and heads unabated ductivity or disease resistance

developmenttoward the future The 125 items docushy

bull Forage varieties ment scientific discoveries to be sure

bull Meat research but also the development of the college

bull Ginsengas an educa tional institution and its bull Farm business

ongoing partnership with the provincial records

government

Out of the J25 McEwen has picked his own top the only woman on faculty throughout the 1960s 1930-1940

five beginning with the contributions OAC made and women are seriously under-represented even bull Professional

to the establishment of the University This campus today This is one area where historians find room societies

has the distinction of being the only one in North to criticize agricultural traditions and college polishybull ControlledAmerica where the agricultural college preceded the cies that continued the dominance of men for far

atmosphereuniversity that supports it That fact helps ex plain too many years

storagethe unique character of the University of Guelph The college itself was dominated by the provinshy

bull Muck crops and its prominence in the life sciences cial government during its first 90 years when OAC bull Salmonella

Some might argue that the process of becoming principals reported directly to the minister of agrishytesting

a university began as ea rly as 1904 when the Macshy culture The 1964 University of Guelph Act mainshybull Links with donald Inst itute opened This event is second on tained the schools relationship with the agriculshy

farm groups McEwens list of top accomplishments The ad dishy ture ministry but gave the col lege a new- found

tion of women to the campus changed OAC from a freedom that expanded research and graduate proshy1940-1950

boys school into a co llege Guelph history professhy grams and opened the door to increased fundingbull Holland Marsh

sor Terry Crowley says bluntly Early student life at from th e education ministry It a lso permittedResearch Station

OAC is readily divided into two - before women greater collaboration with the Ontario Veterinarybull Standardizedand after women College which had been moved to Guelph by politshy

cattle conformation The Mac girls were generally older than the J6- ical dictate in 1922

bull Potato breeding and 17-year-old students at OAC they were more One of the most vivid examples of the impact of

bull Reproductionmature and brought both a social life and a new acashy that collaboration was the dramatic increase in anishytechnology

demic focus to the campus For the young women mal-breeding technologies OVC perfected artificial bull Queen beeof Ontario it was a long overdue opportunity and insemination and held the only licence in Ontario for

rearingthey grasped the educa tion offered at Macdonald frozen semen until 1969 OAC faculty and the netshy -bull TechnologyInstitute in large numbers work of provincial agricultural representatives helped

transferWomen were not admitted into the agriculture promote the technology and control it through the

bull Conservation program until 1918 however and they didnt reach development of a national livestock and performance

farm planning numerical equality with male students until the inventory Through these combined efforts Canada

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emerged as a global leader in animal breeding largest Ontario univers ity geographica lly when it125 YEARS OACs un ique and enduring relati onship wi th assumed res ponsibility for ed ucation resea rch andOF ACHIEVEMENT

the provincial agric ulture ministry is another addishy Iaboratory services form erl) managed by the minshy

tion to McEwe ns list of top achievements Certa inshy is try Guelph agric ultural expertise covers the 1950-1960

ly the most significan t even t in the last decade has provi nce with camp uses in Guelph Ridgetownbull Horticulture corre-

Kemptville a nd Alfred and a network of spondence course

research facilities that includes the Horshybull Business education Changing with society ticultural Resea rch Institute of Ontariobull Watershed research

diagnostic laboratories and 21 research bull Farm buildingWhen Adelaide Hoodless argued for the stat ions

programestablishment of Macdonald Institute in the The partnership with OMAFRA has

bull Computers in late 1890S she saw scientific training for kept agricultural education and research agriculture

women as a way to improve community at the forefro nt of the University of bull Corn expansionhealth standards The college has evolved Guelph More than 40 per cent of the Unishybull Deailing with continually through the years - growing versitys graduate studenllt are in OAC and

cold climate into the largest home economics facility in more than 70 per cent of its $80-million

bull CropOntario under dean Margaret McCready and research budget is focused on the ag rishyrecommendations

broadening its outlook in the 1970S under food indus try T hat commitment to

dean Janet Wardlaw to include consumer research is the earliest and most enduring1960-1970

studies and the hospitality industry Wardshy achievement out of the 125 bull OAC Alumnilaw set the tone for increased research OAC contin ues to lea d the way in

Foundationactivity and positioned the college to join research and is one of the most dynamshy

bull University of Guelphforces with the social sciences in 1998 ic co lleges in th e University saysbull Arboretum

McLaughlin But we draw on peoplebull Ag research

fro m all over the University communi shystations

ty And now with the provincial colleges bull International

added back into the mix we are ail workshyag research centres

ing as part of the sa me team to enhance bull Scholarships

been the launch of a new University relationship the opportunities availab le to yo ung people in agri shyendowments

with OACs oldest partner the Onta rio Minist ry of cu ltural edu cat ion bull International

Agriculture Food a nd Rural Affairs (OMAFRA) Alumn i have always held an important position apiculture

In 1997 the University of Guelph became th e on that tea m Among OACs top achievements is the

The OAC of today owes much to its past THE ONTAR IO AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE might never have existshy The journalist s role in establishing the college as the Ontario

ed if not for the failure of a Univers ity of Toronto experiment in School of Agriculture and Experimental Farm is bro ught into

agricultural education in the 18505 It certainly wouldnt have context in a new history of OAC that will be published in April

been situated in Guelph without the political parlaying of Guelph to help celebrate its 125th an niversary The College 011 the Hill A journalist and cleric William Clarke And it might not have surshy New History of the 011tario Agriwltuml College 1874- I 999 was

vived a traumatic first yea r o f patronage and scandal if it hadnt written by Guelph history professor Terry Crowley and Univershy

been for the acc iden tal appo intment ofVVilliam Johnston as prinshy sity professor emeritus Alexander Ross who wrote the origi nal

cipal in the fall of 1874 College 011 the Hill for OACs 100th anniversary

And that was just the beginning If the first book tdls us how OAC grew into the University of

One hundred and twenty-five years have passed since Clarke cuelph the second tells us why

successfully argued that the new province of Ontario needed a When the fledgling provincial government of the 1870s was

land-based rural college where the focus was on providing a pracshy glued togeLher by political patro nage how could th e sc hoo l be

tical education in farming The University of Toronto fai led to any different asks Crowley Two principals came and went withshy

attract farmers sons he sa id because it allowed the other proshy in its first year when rumours tore at their moral fibre so the job

fessions of medicine law and the clergy to overshadow agriculshy fell quickly to the new college rector William Johnston

ture Clarkes persuasive fiting in the then Olltario Farmer newsshy Because we already know how OACs story devdops we ca n

paper helped place the college on 550 acres of good clay loam see some iro ny in the fact that the man who nur tured this preshy

at the back door of his Guelph parish mier agricultural college through its infancy was educated in the

14 GVELPI-I AWMNvs

alumni initiative that es tablished the OAC Alumni work internship at the end of their third yea r and125 YEARS Foundation in the 1960s to provide financial supshy co me back to finish the fourth year with a job wa it shyOF ACHIEVEMENT port to co ll ege programs and scholarships The ing for them says McLa ughlin and they o ften have

foundation also provided the leadership and incenshy fo ur or fi ve to choose from vVe are very short of bull Teaching

tive to create Guelph Unive rsity Alumni Research graduates to fill all of the jobs that are o ut there now innovations

and Development (GUARD Inc) in bull Birdsfoot trefoil

1996 The manda te of the technology bull Land reclamation Educating Leadersmanageme nt company is to develop bull Rural planning

researc h i nven tion s in to marketable bull Wind and snow Guelphs agriculture graduates haveprod ucts lau nch spin-off companies

studies played key roles in Canadian agriculture and gene rate revenu es to support basic

bull Milk testing including federal ministers William Mothshyand applied research at U of G bull Ruminant nutrition

erwell Diploma 1881 John Wise ~DA 56Throughout OACs history alumni bull Ag poli cy and Lyle Vanclief BSc(Agr) 66 Mothshyhave formed a network ofAggies who

development erwell was a driving force behind the have volunteered their time to provide

western grain producers movement before 197deg-198o

a rea l-world view for students helped to

being named to Cabinet in 1921 In thelaunch the careers of many new grad ushybull Arboretum Centre 1980s Wise introduced income stabilizashyates by providing work opport unities bull Ghana-Guelph tion programs and created farm debtencouraged research initiatives co nshy

Project review boards Today Vanclief is strugshytributed millions of dollars to scholarshy

bull Integrated pest gling with low commodity prices and intershyship programs and voca lized co ncerns

managementabout college programs and curriculum national trade agreements

bull Composting animal After receivin g some critica l advice

wastesfrom alumni and agr i-food employers

bull Crop resistance toin the ea rly part o f the 1990s OAC

herbicideslaunched a new BSc(Agr ) program that

bull Limnocorrals for wil l gradu ate the fi rst class of st uden ts

aquatic ecosystems this anniversary year The new agriculshy

bull Grain drying and ture curriculum emphasizes communica tion skills in the agri-food sec tor he says

storageand teamwork allows students to choose their own If you live anywhere near Guelph youll know that

bull Asparagusspecializations and includes opportunities for onshy the agri-food sector ill this area is expected to lead the

bull Systemic fungicides the-job experience Many of those students take a local economy well into the new mi llennium creat shy

bull Pesticides research

bull Agricultural Code of

Practicesocial sciences Johnston had no real farm expeshy within the interdisciplin ary atmosphere of the

rience but he understood people well says Crow- University of Guelph OAC has both contributed

ley and he recognized almost as quickly as his students that the to and benefited iiom the Universitys steady growth Traditionshy

school would succeed only if it co uld offer farm ers sons someshy al OAC programs have expanded into new departments and colshy

thing more thall what they had already learned at home leges providing greater benefits to agri-food resea rch and teach shy

Johnstons commitment to education and his genui ne con shy in g New partnerships o n campus and th e academ ic freedom

cern for his students still echo through the corridors of the build shy provided by University sta tus have enabled Guelph to enlarge its

ing named in his hono ur a nd across campus in the broad range already significant influence in the agri-food sector

of disciplines that now nuke up the Un iversity of Guelph Johnshy Crowley says the enha nced partnership between U of G and

ston was the firs t of hundreds of hulllane and sensible people the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture Food a nd Rural Affairs has

who have given the campus its distinctive character says Crowshy fulfilled a vision of OAC as the hub of agr icultural educa tion that

ley The University of Guel ph is still a good place to be People had been expressed nea rly a cen tury before It s a good place to

help each other to a rema rkable degree and it is eve n m ore end a history and begin a future

remarkable that this sense of co-operatio n has lasted through the In Crowleys fi nal words Agriculture reta ins its econo mi c

most recent government meat slicing importance in the co untrys econom) but the secto r will find

Told in the social and political context of its 125 yea rs the itself [n an increasingly international and com petitive ellvironment -OAC story builds momentum as the pages turn The final chapshy where education and research become ever more importa nt Since

ter in Crowleys history is the most impressive because it SUIll shy the Ontario Agricultural College has demons t rated its ability to

marizes the last 25 years when developments in agricultural edushy respond to changing circumstances during its first 125 years the

cation research and service have occurred 1110st quickly Growing past suggests a willingness to meet the new challenges that await

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ing more jobs and generating more wealth than any 125 YEARS other industry A recent study by the citys Planning OF ACHIEVEMENT OAe 125 and Business Development Department predicts a

ANNIVERSARY EVENTS50-per-cent increase in employment in agri-food bull Mosquitoindustries in the next decade Broaden out to the

monitoring jan 29 - Official OAC 12S launch and bull Canadian publication of 125 Years of Achievements

Greenhouse Feb 16 - Winegard Seminar Series hosts New frontiers Conference Andy Johnson Seymour Wis

bull Non-agricultural March 5 - Winegard Seminar Series hosts At the tum of the 20th century Prof William waste on land Sir Colin Berry Royal London Hospital UKGraham created the impetus for a Canadishy

bull Pest diagnostic March 31 - Opening of AJ Casson Exhibitan poultry industry through nutrition studshyservice and selections from the OAC art collection ies that also provided a background for

at the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre work in human nutrition The tum of the 1980-1990 April 30 - Recognition of the 12s-year 21st century finds poultry scientist Ann Gibshybull Alumni House GuelphOMAFRA partnership and launch bins perfecting the techniques to transfer bull Turfgrass Institute of The College on the Hill A New History genetic material into chicken embryos to bull Centre for the of the Ontario Agricultural College develop birds with better disease resistshy

Genetic Improvement 1874 - 1999middotance or to improve production characterisshyof Livestock june 7 amp 10 - Spring Convocation for tics including the deposition of medically

bull Network of OAC diploma and degree graduates Eachvaluable proteins in the eggs Toxicology Centres graduate will receive a copy of College

bull Biological control lab on the Hill bull George Morris june 18 amp 20 - Alumni Weekend and

Centre opening of the Conservatory and Gardens bull Advanced Sept 14 to 16 - Canadas Outdoor Farm

Agricultural Show will host the countrys biggest silent Leadership auction as an OAC fundraiser for student Program support Ontario industry and the predictors are similar and

bull Distance education Sept 25 - Heritage Banquet and Ball for again youll find U of G at the hub of that growth bull Animal behaviour alumni agri-food partners and University In the past decade the view from Johnston Hall

and welfare communityhas expanded to include OMAFRAs provincial bull Farm animal care Nov 24 - Agri-Food Into the Newheadquarters and the U of G Research Park which bull Haploid breeding Millennium conference to discuss the majoris home to a branch of Agriculture and Agri-Food

technologies forces shaping the destiny of the global Canada the regional headquarters of the Canadian bull Hybrid canolc and Canadian agri-food systems and rural Food Inspection Agency and more than two dozen bull Consumer societiesbusinesses and agriculture organizations that are

benefits from key players in Ontarios industry

agricultural For more information on these events or toIn the summer of 1997 Guelph welcomed the research order copies of the anniversary books visit establishment of Ontario Agri-Food Technologies

bull Soybean the OAC 125 Web site at wwwoacuoguelph - a consortium of 12 grower associations five rhizobium 532C cajOAC125 or contact the deans office atOntario universities 11 industries and OMAFRA

519-824-4120 Ext 2285 e-mail oac125 - which is dedicated to generating wealth for the 1990S oacuoguelphcaprovincial agri -food sector through the application bull Guelph Food

of biotechnology The consortium will develop Technology

financing and the research teams needed to take in new business to the country s economyCentre

discoveries and turn them into products in the Some would suggest the growth of agri -food bull GUARD Incsupermarket partnerships is part of a global trend in economic bull Environmental

A new venture beginning this year is the Agrishy thinking that says consolidate cluster and work Farm Plan

Food Quality Cluster that seeks out opportunities together for greater rewards but the important thing bull U of GOMAFRA

for agri-food companies to work together to meet is that this agri-food sector is clustering in Guelph partnership

a specific need The Guelph duster is one of the first - around U of G - because this institution began bull Wheat in China

to be established in Canada but it already has 500 preparing for its future 125 years ago with a comshybull Food packaging

members and has predicted that potential projects mitmen t to leadership in agri-food research edushybull Transgenic plants

in Ontario could add $2 billion to $3 billion a year cation and service ga

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UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

rese~ tesch SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERYmiddot SCHOLARSHIpmiddot SOCIAL DEVELOPMENTS

WHEN 24 HOURS IN lea rning how to integrate work Runciman arrived at Guelph know they may be harm ful to

A DAY ISNT ENOUGH and fa mily life rath er than jugshy last summer after spending four their health

TRYIN GTO ACCOMMODATE the gling the two says Lero Inteshy years deSIgning orthopedic sysshy Most consumers are not demands of family and career is gration is key so tfut people can tems and instruments for Canashy aware that plants contain a comshya problem most peopl e fa ce in be successful in multiple roles dian and Ameri ca n firms He plex mi xture of biochemica ls todays society Those indi vidshy rath er than struggling from crishy hopes to establish a state-of-theshy says Prof Pra vecn Saxena Plant ual and family struggles will be sis to crisis art research lHboratory with Agriculture Herbal remedies the focus of the Universitys new HOLlsed in the College of Pro fs Jinl Dickey and Jack have been developed on historishy

Social and Applied j-Iuman Scishy Callaghan Human Bi010gy and cal and anecdotal evidence rather ences the centre brings togethshy Nutr itional Sciences that will than by scientitlc testin g he says er related resea rch areas und er allow him to pursue hi s twin Saxena is trying to change this by a sing1e roof and will spark new research interests in shoulder systematically identifying charshy

Family relations interdisc iplinary opportunities and spine mechanics acterizing and quantifying the experts recommend particularly for graduate st ushy The trio has appli ed for chemical constituents of plants parents integrate - not dents More than 50 fac ulty and fundi ng from the Natural Sc ishy used in a1ternative medicines juggle - work and staff ha ve indicated a desire to ences and Engineering Resea rch family life be affiliates of the centre which Co uncil to equip a biomechanshy

wijJ stimulate resea rch and forge ics lab already loca ted adjacent partnerships with organiza tions to U of Gs new Health and Pershy

Centre for Families Work and co rp orations and co mmunity forman ce Ce ntre in the recentshyWell-Being agenCies ly renova ted Powell Building

Headed by Profs Donna This funding would bring Lero and Kerry Daly Family BODY IS THE the lab up to date to meet intershyRe lat ions and Appli ed Nutri shy ULTIMATE MACHINE national standards says Runcishytion the centre will promote IM INTER ESTED in the app lishy man who p1ans to follow up on responsive wo rk env ironments cation of mechanical engineershy pioneering shoulder mechani cs and help families across Canashy ing to the human body The work he was invo lved in whil e He and grad uate students da manage wo rk and family body is the ultimate machine completing his PhD at Sco tshy Susan Murch and Co lleen Simshyresponsibilities in healthy ways So says Prof John Runciman lands Strathclyde Un iversity mons in th e Ontario Agri culshy

The centre will also be a catshy who recently brought his blend He hop es hi s studies will tural Co llege a1so wa nt to alyst for new researcl in areas of academic and industry expershy help orthopedic co mpanies improve the methods of growshyas diverse as health promotion tise in biomedical engineering design better implan ts used to in g medicinal plants to protect seniors long-term ca re nutrishy to U of Gs School of Engineershy correct such deformities as sco shy cons umers and ensure quality tion and wellness rural aging ing in the College of Phys ica l liosis or cur va ture of the spine Problems in the herbal remeshyand gender in the workplace A and Engineering Science and for treating shoulder insta shy dies industry include medicinal mandate of the centre is that the

IN FACT

bi lity often caused by injuries prepara tions containing misidenshyresults of its research must be among athletes tified plant species contaminashyapplied and availabl e to the tion by pests and disease a lack public to benefit those Canadishy RESEARCHERS of understanding of plant physshyans who ne ed help dealing with CULTIVATE QUALITY iology or efficacy for human conshythe accelerated pace of life nonshy IN HERBAL sumption ilnu co nsumer fraud shytraditional family relationsl ips MEDICINE Our research will help set a longer working hOLlrs globlt1lshy MORE AND MO RE Canadims are standard fo r the development ization and downsizing turning to natural remedies as of safe va lue-added products

The challenge for fam ilies is alternatives to medicine but few Saxena says

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RESEARCH UNCOVERS KEY

TO AGING RESEARCHERS may have found modern sc iences answer to th e mythica l Fountain of Youth

U of G professors John Phillips and Arthur Hilliker Department of Molecular Biolshyogy and Genetics and Gabrielle Boulianne of the University of Toronto and th e Hospital fo r Sick Children appear to have identified a critical weakness in the common fruit fl ys defence against aging

The researchers from the College of Biologica l Science di scovered that a specific cell type - th e motor neuron - is the major target for oxidative damage known for several years to be a key factor affecti ng aging and lifespa n They were able to boost a fruit flys defence against the damage by inserting th e human gene SOD1 which is known to protect against oxidashy

tive damage into the fly s DNA As a result the ave ra ge lifespa n of the fli es (us uall y about 80

days) was increased 40 per cent

PROFESSOR SURVEYS CANADIANS ON POLITICS ETHICS

of the most pampered celeb ri ty NEW WEAPON or the mo st prima donn a pro AGAINST BACTERIA athlete ANTflllOTlCS TYPICALLY have a

More than half of su rvey shelf life because bacte ria develshyresponden ts say they have little op resista nce over time but this or no confidence in Parliament wou ld not be a concern with a with the figure being even lower new sys tem fo r smuggling for the Senate In addition 34 per an tibiotics past bacterial walls

TI-lESE DAYS on both sides of the A molecular-level Trojan border what a politician says or ho rse is how Prof Terry Bevshydoes in private can have tremenshy eridge Department of Microbishydous impact on his or her public ology and graduate student Kelshycareer - but is th at appropriate ly MacDonald desc ribe the

Prof Maureen Mancuso of system theyre studying 1 t takes the Department of Polirical Scishy advan tage of a mechanism develshyence in the College of Social and oped by bacteria to attack an d Applied Human Sciences an d a co nsume neighbouring bugs team of four other political scishy Preliminary tests by the entists conducted a cross-counshytry survey of 1400 Canadians asking what th ey think of th e behaviour of their elected represhysentatives The res ults were pubshyli shed in October in th e book A

Question of Ethics Canadians

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WILL ONTARIO FARMERS GROW

HEMP U OF G SCIENTISTS are helping to determine the viability of hemp as a cash crop for Ontario farmers

Health Canada recently li ftshyed a 60-year ban on growing hemp and about 10000 acres are expected to be plan ted in Canada this year Hemp is an organic fibre tha t could be used in everythi ng fro m fabri c and medicine to oil and paper

Gordon Scheifele of Kemptville CoJlege and Peter Dragla of Ridgetown College are studying the potential of hemp as an Ontario crop Scheifele has completed initial test ing on nine varieties and a series of producshy

tion research experiments in northern parts of On tario Dragla has established breeding program trials and looked at commercial production of hemp varieties in southern Ontario He is also developing field instrushymentation to provid e field readshyings of tetrahydrocanmbinol the psychoactive ingredient in hemp

NO ONE KNOWS MORE ABOUT

THE WOMAN WHO CREATED ANNE

COLLEGE OF ARTS professor Ivlary Rubio and professo r emerita Eliza beth Waterston know more abo ut author LM Montgomery than anyone else in the world They were among the first academics to seriously study the world-famous author of Anne ofGreel Gables

Montgomery published a total of 22 novel s which have been translated into abo ut 20 languages and continue to sell

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From the School of Li terashytures and Performance Studies in English Rubio and Waterston

IN FACT U of G professors wrote the script for a new video shown to visitors at the Green Gables site in PEI

edi ted the recen tly released The Selected Journals of Lucy Maud Montgomery Volume IV as weJl as the three previous volumes They are now editing the fi fth and final vo lume of he r journals and have also published a short biography called Wri ting a Life LM Mon tgomery

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Rubio is also writing a longer biography of Montgomery at the request of the authors fam ily

TRAINING VETS TO DEAL WITH CLIENT GRIEF

A NEW INTERACTIVE CD-RO M designed by Ontario Veterinary College professor Cindy Adams will help veterinarians learn to help clients gr iev in g over th e loss of a pet Titled Death of a Pet the CD-ROM is expected to be launched in February and is geared toward vets technicians and students

Adams who holds joint appo intments in the departshyments of Popu lat ion Medicine and Cli nical Studies and the Veterinary Teaching Hospital is an expert on the humanan imal bond She has developed in-sershyvice training workshops fo r vets on dealing with client grief over the loss of a pet and su pport groups for grieving pet owners

Inside Playwright Judith Thompson

BEHIND THE MASK

JUDITH THOMPSON A DRAMA PROFESSOR at the University of Guelph

since 1992 is one of Canadas finest playwrights Her complex and

sometimes disturbing plays give voice to human failings and accomshy

plishments A two-time winner of the Governor Generals Literary

Award she has received wide acclaim for her work

On the following pages the Guelph Alumnus profiles an artist

whose creativity finds expression through dialogue by offering a

faithful rendition of the dialogue between Thompson and Comshy

munications and Public Affairs writer Andrew Vowles Much like

the characters she unmasks on stage Thompson reveals both comshy

plicated and unexpected images of herself

PHOTOGRAPHY BY D EAN PALMER

20 GU ELPH A LUMNUS

NO The scene is the rehearsal space in Lower Massey Hall at the University of Guelph

Monday mid-morning Outside the warped-glass windows the first wet snow of the year

drops like pebbles Drama professor Judith Thompson is leading some 20 students in her

Acting I class through their warm-ups The students stand in a circle and take turns aiming

a mock blow as they shout the word No More she says to the less assertive To others

whose No sounds shredded over the top she holds up a hand More control Thompson

gestures to her diaphragm It has to come from here

SCENE THOMPSONS OFFICE MASSEY H ALL

On one wal l hang pictures of actors engaged

in a drama mingled with childrens sc hool

drawings The desktop is practically bare A

black purse occupies one chai r A scarf has

landed on the back of another This is where

the playw rig ht hangs her hat during her

classes and meets with studen ts She wri tes

at home in Torontos Annex neighbourhood

where she li ves with her husband Gregor

Campbell a sessional English inst ruc tor at

Guelph and their five children Ariane 13

Eli 10 Grace 8 Felicity 4 and Sophia J

SCENE U OF G LI BRARY ARCHIVES

Guelph Alumnus writer (readil1g from draft of Epilepsy and Snakes Fear as the Genesis of Theatre a talk given by Thompson to the Epilepsy Association of Metro Toronto ill 1997 The script for the ta lk is included among boxes ofcorrespo nde11ce numerous drafts of plays various newspaper and magazine artishycles and reviews ahout the playwright and her work that Thompson recently donated to the U of G Library archives)

1have known real fear only a few times

in my relatively sheltered life But 1

believe these moments of fear are

directly connected to the so urce of creshy

ativi ty within me

SCENE J UST ABOUT ANYWHERE YOU CAN

REA D A PLAY

GA writer (reading from introduction to Tho mpsons play Sled wh ich was first pro shyduced hy Torontos Tarragon Theatre in 1997)

Judith Thompson was born in 1954 in

Montreal She graduated from Queens

University in 1976 then graduated from

the act ing program of the National Theshy

22 GU ELPH ALUMNUS

I seem to give voice to people who

have no voice

atre Schoo l in 1979 Alth ough she

worked briefl y as a profess ional actor

she became more interested in writing

and at th e age of 25 a workshop of her

first scrip t The Crack walker was proshy

duced by Theatre Passe MuraiHe Her

work which includes both radio and

tel evisio n writing has enjoyed great

internationa l success

Other plays includ e The Crackshywalker White Biting Dog Pink Tornado - radio Am Yours Lion ill the Streets White Sand Perfect Pie and Stop Talking Like That- radio She is the recipient

of the Floyd S Chalmers Canadian Play

Award for Lion in the Streets in 199 1 and

Am Yours in 1987 and the Governor

Generals Literary Award for Drama for

The Other Side of the Dark in 1989 and

White Biti11g Dog in 1984

S CENE LUNCHTIME

U OF G UNIVERSITY CLUB

Thompson Im so grateful to have this job

beca use it allows me to do the work that s

important and the plays that will be my legashy

cy and tha t are what 1 feel I have to conshy

tribute to Canadian culture If I didnt have

thi s job Id ha ve to keep compromising

because my plays dont make money Theyre

always in sma ller houses I take chances

theyre not commercial They play all over

th e world but aha)s in sma ller places 1

would just have to pursue life as a screenshy

writer to make a living Thi s job gives

me the great privilege of doing my research

which is the plays that I write and the edishy

torial work that I some times do and screenshy

plays that are worthy and good projects

GA writer Audi ences and reviewers have

described your plays as dark disturbing full

of angry people full of profanity

Thompson At the risk of sounding

grandiosel seem to give voice to people who

have no voice or very little in the culture

whom people dont li sten to Liol1 in the Streets the handicapped wo man living in

the basement all on her own the yo ung girl

Iso bel The secretary stuck in this abu sive

relationship with the actor The middle-class

housewife dumped by her husband because

be doesnt like her sweatsuits and on and on

I give voice to them because I dont know

because I care abo ut them because I like to

represent them Im a lawyer Some of them

use profanity because they have really good

reason to be angry a nd most of th em are

powerless And unfortunately profanity has

a little charge Its a little source of baby powshy

er It upsets me I dont use it myself Im very

se nsitive to it

SCENE ARCHIVES

GA writer (reading essay by Thompson comshymissio ned by Toronto literary Journal Brick

in 995)

If I were not a writer 1 think 1 would

wear a riding hat With a stee l lining

Because I would be baving many more

epi leptic seizures than 1 do presentl y

Because any of the non-writer real jobs I have had caused me sleepless nights self-disgust swoll en eyes cystic acne and hearin g di sorde rs all of which increased electrical activity in my brain which I believe increases the frequenshycy of seizu res

SCENE UNI VER SITY CLUB

Thompson (discussing the critical and pubshylic reaction to her first play The Crackwalkshyer) It was slaughtered at first as all my plays have been Very bad reviews at first and then somehow they catch fi re and theres one grea t review and the others start to see something GA writer Why the bad reviews Thompson I think people might say that theyre shock ing but I dont think so not

with the movies we see and whatnot Theyre not shocking compared with Quentin Taranshytino But theyre not like anything else they dont know where to put them And when they dont know where to put them theyre dismayed I think and hostile and they feel challenged I just write as I see Im not tryshying to shock or challenge anyone I hope they do challenge - me too all of us I often feel li ke the little boy in The Emperors New

Clothes Look this is what I see

SCENE LOWER MASSEY HALL

Two Acting I students perform a scene on th e stage Their fellow stud ents sit on th e Aoo r watching Thompson sits forward on a plasti c chair forearms propped on her knees hands clasped before her Her eyes her bod y are intent on the action Later Amberley Buxton (fi rst-year student il1 Actshyil1g I who is pursuing a psychology major and a drama minor)

Its a really in tense class In one of our first classes we were to share something that had changed our perspective on li fe or how we thought every day Later during improvisashytion or scene work she had us draw on the emotional context fro m those stories to add to our acting experiences Its really intense in that way A lot of people share a lot of personal things and we use each others experiences

SCENE UNIVER SIT Y CLUll

Thompson Ea ch se meste r students go through an intensive transition In order to find your creative centre or trigger yo u need

to know yourself in an intell ectual context They reach that pl ace and find their genius My philosophy is that every stu dent has genius and its my job to uncover it My relationshi p is so intense with st udents The classes are very psychoanalyt ic It seems to tra nsform their life

SCENE LO WER MA SSEY

Buxton Even if we haven t encountered a similar situat ion in real life she has us draw on somethi ng similar For ollr exa m Im doing a monologue My character has been abused I havent been abused myself but I have to draw on a si tuation where I had sim shy

itar feel ings draw on some experi ence Like being teased at schoo l Even so mething as small as tha t if you find a way to get back to that

SCENE UNIVERSITY CLUll

Thompso n I llsed to be terrified In high school Id spend half my time in the nurses room because the idea of having a se izu re in front of yo ur peers at that age was just petrifying I did finall y have a seizure but luckil y no one was around at the time So I

think all of that puts me in touch with a lot in life I might not have been in touch with being fairly privileged not rich but eno ugh to be middle class A lot of my work is about class abo ut the class differentiation in Canashyda Ive somehow felt more all ied to a less adva ntaged class My gra ndfather once sat as prime minister of Australia My grandshyfa ther on the other side was a member of the Royal Society an entomologist but his mother died in childbirth and he was brought up as a cousin on the farm outside of London And my Australian grandfath er was one of 1I siblings in a shack by the side of the railroad His father had di ed He walked barefoot to school so I th ink because its just two generations away I feel it in my bones and my blood GA writer How did you get to writing Thompson Through ac ting Ive been involved in thea tre since I was II years old I was Helen Keller for a university show my mother directed She had an [vIA in th eatre and she taught it at Queens I was in TILe Crushycible when I was 12 in Kingston and Jean Brodie and on and on and on I would just lisshyten to aU these wonderful lines and words and it all kind of enrered me And acting is where I reaU y found my niche as a person The theshyatre became my home Then I went to theatre schoo l as an actress but I started to create mask characters through improvisation Thats where I really took off in a big way and where I found myse lf very very excited GA writer VVhat we re you excited abo ut Thompson I was doing the writing And I felt frankly that I did it much better than most of the texts I was working with Not Shakespeare but and its not a matter of better it s thats where I belonged So I would go home and write down the charshyacters that r crea ted that day in class and make th em talk to each odler and thats how The Craekwalker happened

I spent a summer in Toronto looking for acting work and I go t a few jobs But every day for a co uple of hours I would write at a typewri ter and I found these voices comshying At the end of it I sa id to someone You know I think this isnt bad I think this might eve n be a play At the Na tional Theatre shySchool they said to me Youre pretty handy with these monologues but dont ever think you could write a play (Pause) I enjoy telling th at tale on them

WINTER 1999 23

SCENE LOWER MASSEY

Buxton It was my fint time doing mask work She had us sit with the masks on and just sta re at ou rselves in the mirror We did it for an hour staring at the mask feelin g the mask It was a phenomenal eilVer ience the Wily youre able to transform yourself It was almost as if you werent look ing at you That helped yo u to walk differently You were able to shed your

own movements and personality

SCEN E UNIVfRSITY CLU B

Thompson I think thil t seizures can transshylate into creativity are part of me as a cre shyltltive artist Peop le in the medical busin ess are very skeptical of ltll1ything like this But I fee l it s because I have fewer inhibitors in my bra in You have these inhibitors and thats what medication helps But if youre epi leptic your inhibitors Ment working as well to put out the electrical fire so it spreads I think the door to my un conscious is kind of flapping around so J think that helps creatively

SCENE MA SSEY HALL

Student (steppingforwmd) NO I Thompson (quietly) Good

SCENE ARCHIVES

GA writer ( reading fiom Epilepsy and Sna kes)

I have no doubt that my experience with epi lepsy has con tributed to my creative wo rk partly because it hE Jped me to understand what it is to be marginalized to be isolated to be feJ rful and to be out of control and eve n to be mortal

SCENE U NIVERS IT Y CLU B

Thompson Unchecked id can mean scrawlshying on the walls crazy things muttering in stree t corne rs beca use th ey re all id no su perego But I had the luck to be born into a theatrical famiJy my mother havin g the theatrical experience so I was exposed to it Lots of books I was taken to 1 lor of plays Having ep il epsy my first seizure when I was nin e J was able to link with that If I hadnt had those advantages who knows the se izur es migh t have ju st made me a depressed person an angr y person And you re touched with mortality you always live und er siege a slight fear of having a se izure Its much less so now with me

24 GUELPH ALUM NUS

SCENE UNIVERSITY CLUB

Thompson Ive always been a mimic in a cheap way I could always mimic we ll I would raLk to someone on a bus and I could do them exactly Thats kind of dangerous because it can be pretty shallow But it showed me ltl way into the person throu gh voice And once J could do that like a pupshypet something would click and I cou ld get

in in a deeper way J need to get so thoroughly into the charshy

acte rs and their state of mind and especialshyly tapping repressed el11orion which gets you in touch with your id or unconscious li fe If

I take little sections of

myself and grow them in a petri dish of the play

one character is about rage I have to tap into my own rage and that s why the monoshylogues so things can just flow and then I can retrieve things from the past and remember things So its not working from here (gesshytures to midriff) it s wo rking fro l11 here (gesshytures to head)

Mo nologues for me are always the key to findin g out who th e character is because if you cant make them rant for fi ve minutes you dont know th em Tha ts what I tell my

playwriting students I want to see r-wo pages of this characters mouth In other words to speak for five minutes we have to have

so mething to say We have to have something we feel passionately about something were angry about and if we dont have something to say for fi ve minutes who are we

SCENE UN IVERSTTY CLUB

GA writer Vhere do you see what eventushyally becomes a play such as Sled 1110mpson I was at a lodge and saw a moose that s one thin g And that made me think about winter and how the country is always with us as Ca nadians Even in the urban censhytres we ca rr y it wi th us Theres always this

see ming division between the country the wilderness and civilized centres but its the same The wildness of the moose and the

hunt and the bear is in our neighbourhoods I guess its like Lion in the Streets it must be a thing with me And also the exquisite beaushyty and thats how most of the world thinks of Canada as the wilderness Its not quite how we think of ourselves but it is partly So that made me want to do something abo ut the Nor th violence in the North

As far as th e old mans stories that was my neighbour and he told me all those stoshyries they were all true except mltlyb e one or so and I thought Theyre amazing They teilus what our neighbourhoods Me really about and Toro nto what the city is how its const ru cted Toronto is our stories and in th ese neighbourhoods you have an urbane entertainer li ving nex t to an 80-year-old Italia n man and thats the beauty ofToronshyto ltllld its the way th e world is chan ging The stric t class divis ions and culture divishysions th eyre no longer as defin ed as they we re espec ially in th ese neighbourhoods the great pioneering experimen t GA writer Do your chi ld ren see your work Thompson No None of my children can see my plays Ariane saw f Am Yours in New York when she was about nin e I do cl eal with the dark and whats tru e and my chilshydren aren t ready for that Im probab ly more protective th an mos t mothers Walk them

to school till theyre 13 that ki nd of thin g GA writer Yo u we re intervi ewed in the Globe alld Mail recently in a story about motherh ood dnd th e muse How do yo u handle th e demand s of motherh ood and writing

Thompson If Im in the situation where I have 15 or so hours of child care a week Im OK because when Im with them I wa nt to be with them and when ]m doing my work

th ats what I clo But if I do something like a worko ut thell a black cloud descends The guilt and the black cl oud th at descend as I take off on my bike it s huge Then once the workout s finished I know it was d good

thing to do although it s also cut into my

work time J do feel guilty about the nilture of my work too in that my kids cant see it Am I drawing on a part of me thats not good as a mother The oth er part of me is th at I make up bedtime stories and bake coo kies and all thlt stuff ]m probably a

rather operatic mother I cry at movies laugh too hard __

SCENE ARCI-I[VES

GA writer (reading fiom Epilepsy and Snakes)

1

Although being a dramatic writer has

given me a reputation in my cou ntr y

and a strong identity the actof writin g

or creating character leaves me SOJlle shy

times feeling that I have no id entity at

all Every once in a while when I am not

writing or tending to my four children

I feel I 1m falling again down th e terrishy1 ble hole with nothing to hold on to

And I believe this falling this identity

pain is a result of me using the very

essence of Ill yself to create character in

a dramatic wo rk r wonder so metimes

if J illl1 betraying my soul in a way by

using its essence However J have found

some comfo rt in the words ofWilliall1

Blake Essence is not Identity but from

Essence proceeds Identity and from one

Essence may proceed many Identities

as from one Affection Jlla y proceed

many thoughts If the Essence was

the sa me as the Identit y there could be

but one Identity which is fal se Heaven

wo uld upon this plan be but a clock

but one and the sa me Essence is th ereshy

fore Essence and not Identity

SCENE UNIVER SIT Y CLUB

Thompson I always put myself in a play and

never In other words I take little sections of

myself and grow them in a petri dish of th e

play So if Ive found a moment where Im a

bit lazy ]11 grow it and milke the character

very lazy o r impatient or whatever So I take

these moments because we all have all of

them grow th em and create this Frankenshy

steins monste r a character right out of parts

body parts and psychological parts often of

myself and then observe things in other peoshy

ple but I have to find it in myself to make it

work

SCENE AR C H1V ES

GA writer (reading from Epilepsy al1d Snakes)

My self asserted itself as a kind of quishy

et Lucille Ball c1ulllsy and absent-mindshy

ed At least this gave me an identity and

was a small aCI of slbo tage The next

assertion was an act of unconscio us rev shy

olution th e grand mal seizure that

almost killed me And the next one was

The Crackwalker my first play And this

is how I raged against the machine and

took space in the world And now not

surprisin gly I am seizure-free

SCENE LOWER MASSEY

After another pair of acto rs rUllS through

their scene Thompson directs them to begi n

again She interrupts frequently to question

the students about actions feelings motishy

vations At one point 8S the students pause

to consider her words Thompson turns to

the rest of the class erect in her cha ir

Thompson Isolate the mom ent The great

thing about the stage is th at it isolates the

moments that just race by us_

SCENE UNIVERSITY CLUB

Thompson Ive just written my next play

which is not ca lled Pefeet Pie but thats its

working title because it came from a mon oshy

logue called Perfect Pie But now its a full

two- haul play in which the second wom3n

comes back and tben I have them as yo ung

girls too It goes back ~nd forth and its very

exciting I worksbopped it in the spring and

in December at tbe Tarragon and it will go

on in o ne year At the sa me time lm wr itshy

ing a feature film for Rho mbus based on the

play Pe feet Pie

SCEN E UNlV ERSITY CLUIl

Thompson My pIalS are Illusically written

And if somebody doesnt get the music they

dont feel it and go with the rhythm s it

throws the whole thing off I hear the plays

I hea r them I write with my ear They

change 1 lo t but it s according to rhythm

I ll be sitting in rehea rsal listening and if it

does nt so und ri ght I change it so that its

rhythmic

SCIi -JE J UST AllOUT ANYWHERE YOU CA N

READ A PLAY

GA writer (readmg ji-olll the script ofvVbite

Biting Dog first produced at the Tarragon Th eatre in 1984)

Beciluse of the ex treme and deliberate

lllu sica lity of this play any allempts to

go aga inst the tex tual rhythms such as

th e breaking up of an unbroken senshy

tence the tlking of a pause where none

is written in are DISASTROUS The

effect is like beil1g in a small plane and

suddenly turning off the ignition It all

falls down This play III list SPIN not

just turn around

SCfN e LOWER MASSEY

Her students listen as Thompson stands to

complete a so liloq uy abo ut cap turing the

rhythm of the language on the stage The

wide sleeves of her ank le-length dress slide

down her forea rm s as she ges tures

Thompson Listen to the music of the

scene Each playwright writes their own

symphony

SCENE U NIVERSlTY CLUB

Thompson Ive been pretty directed to this

ii-om an carly age although if I had done anyshy

thing else it probab ly wou ld have been some

form of social work I would have been smokshy

ing three packs of cigarettes a day and workshy

ing il1 an office somewhere up in Scarborough

SC EN E AfltCHIVES

GA write r (reading from Brick interview of Thompson by Eleanor Wachtel ]99] )

In th e thea tre I think what one mllst

do is co nfront the truth confront the

emot ional truth of our li ves which is

mired in the swamp of minuriae

everyday minutiae Maybe it has to be -tl111 way because we couldnt confront

it every day But I think the th eatre

IllllSt Im not interested ill th eatre that

doesnt ga

W1NTER 1999 25

Never mind fish wars pitting countries against one another - here in Canada scientists and policy makers cant agree on who should control the preservation and management ofour own fishery resources BY ANDREW VOWLES

Ca

as

ollapsed cod stocks to the east

On the West Coast laquofish wars

_ rlTDT Pacific salmon enmesh

Canada and the United States

At various points in between fisheries scishy

entists and managers grapple with everyshy

thing from overfishing of freshwater

stocks to invasion by exotic molluscs

What is to be done about Canadian fishshy

eries And what role is being p layed by

fisheries and aquatic scientists at the Unishy

versity of Guelph

-

dock pollock red fish and flatfish made up just under half of Canadas total landings on the Atlantic coast (720000 tonnes of fish and shellfish were caught in 1994 represhysenting a total landed value of $11 billion) Two year~ later that proportion had dropped to 21 per cent with shellfish and open ocean fish specie~ notably Atlantic

Begin in the Atlantic The crisis on the East Coast has become a disaster So says laquoWE NEED TO TRY TO SEPARATE OUTGuelph zo ology professor John Roff enushymerating the litany of woes that have surshy

THE FISHERIES MANAGEMENT DECISIONSfaced from Ca nadas marine fishery in the past decade Although some fish and shellshy

FROM THE POLITICAL DECISIONSfi sh are holding their own stocks of other species have experienced declines raquo

ASSOCIATED WITH THE FISHE RY

down that fishery in 1992 Over fishing and under which it has been buying up fishers

Even when stocks do rebound rarely do we fully und erstand why he says Theres a complex of problems to be disshy more for cod stocks to rebound says Roff entangled involving overflshing long- and co-editor with colleague Prof Moira Fergushyshort-term climate change and changes in son of the respected Canadian Journal ofFishshyocean current systems and productivity eries and Aquatic Sciences A wise course of

And of course the once-thriving northshy action for a fisherman in Newfoundland ern cod that first drew Europeans with their would be to seU his licence and do something nets to the Grand Banks 500 years ago have else he says (Last fall the federal governshycoUapsed to the point that Ottawa had to shut ment announced its final retirement program

the failure of federal fisheries managers to heed the warnings of scientists have been blamed for the coUapse Even with the lllorashytoriulll in place it may take two decades or

licences in Atlantic Ca nada and Quebec) In 1992 - the year Ottawa imposed its

moratorium on the northern cod fisheryshylandings of groundfish including cod had-

salmon making up the difference [n 1995 the total groLlndfish catch reached its lowshyest level in two decades

Unlike the Ea st Coast fi shery which relies most ly on ocea n-living fish the Pacifshyic fishery is dominated b) migratory species Some 300000 tonnes of fish and shellfish were harvested along the west coast in 1994 worth a landed value of $550 million (Arcshytic marine fisheries and their management differ from those on the coasts although cOl11mercial and recreational fisheri es are small here food fisheries are important to

U OF G AQUATIC SCIENCES EXPERTISE CATCHES WORLD ATTENTION

Landlocked in the middle of the courltry U ofG nevertheless boasts fish pathology and diseases including farmed fish diseases fish an enviable record and range ofexpertise in aquatic sciencesshy hormones and reproductive physiology including the effects of marine and freshwater - dating back to the late 1960s Thats when environmental contaminants early life history and behaviour Prof Keith Ronald thell chair of the Department ofZoology (and of fi shes and biology of tuna later dean of the College ofBiological Science) began a marine biolshyogy program at the University Today Guelph has the largest Partnered with the A-erod Institute of Ichthyology in U of group of ichthyologists - scientists who study fish - in Gs Aquatic Sciences Facility the r[agen Aqualab is an North America investigating a wide variety ojIre~hshy aquatic research and teaching facililY for studying water alld marine fisheries and aquatics topics aquatic organisms Environmentally controlled

rooms in the Aqualab allow faculty and students to U of Gs Axelrod Institute of Ichthyology houses simulate habitats as diverse as the Arctic Ocean and one of the worlds largest collections of museumshy tropical rainforest pools The facility is named for quality fish fossils donated to the University by its principal benefactor Rolf Hagen founding presshy

ident of Canadas largest pet store 5llpplier J 989 The institute which provides space for fisheries research and visiting scientists brings together 12 core U of G U of G faculty edit four internationally recognized journals researchers in fisheries and aquatic sciences whose interests and in ichthyology fisheries and aquatic science Awarded to U of G by expertise span environmental contaminants and parasitic disshy the National Research Council in 1997 the Canadian Journal of eases evolutionary genetics of marine and freshwater fishes Fisheries al1dAquatic Sciellces is co-edited by zoology professors

US ichthyologist and author Herbert Axelrod in

28 GUELPH ALUMNUS

northerners including shrimp Atlantic salmon and arctic char) Accountin g fOI almost half of that total were Pacific salmon which ret urn from the ocean to spawn in home streams and rivers up and down the coast of Alaska British Columbia and Washshyington There are actually five main spec ies of sa lmon that run down the BC coast shysockeye (t he most va luable commercial species) chinook coho chum and pinkshyfrom spring to December

Its a very complex jurisdictional and multi-user problem says Roff Bes ides degradation of freshwater spawning habishytats and ocean climate effects of El Nill0 the West Coast fishery is a cauldron of ten shysions between various groups perennial fish wars between Ca nada and the United States disputes that pit sport fishers against native fishing rights Recognizing the problems of low ocean productivity habitat damage overfishing and indiscriminate fishing pracshytices that take weak and strong stocks alike Ottawa is developing a new policy to guide Canadas Pacific salmon fisheries focusing on conservation sustainable use and improved decision-making

That potent mix of overfishing and habishytat degrada tion is also a problem for Canashydas freshwater fisheries A report tabled last fall by the federal standing committee on

fisheries and oceans called for more federal funding for research and fisheries programs in central and arctic regions of Canada Accord ing to that report the Grea t Lakes commercial fishery is one of the largest freshwater fisheri es in the world worth an average landed value of more than $40 milshylion a year and an eco nomic impact of at least $250 million Some 90 per cent of that catch is exported The neck lace of lakes threading its way to the St Lawrence River also supports the largest fres hwater sports fishery in the world 800000 Ontarians fish on the Great Lakes eve ry year contributing $850 million to the economy

In Manitoba managers are concerned about the long-term susta inability of freshshywater fish stocks particularly declines in Lake Winnipeg and the northern part of the province caused by overfishing environshymental degradation loss of prime spawning habitat and predators The province has seen stocks rise and fall particularly of pickerel Manitobas highest-priced fish In an attempt to manage the fishery in a sustained fashion the province recently introduced a qu ota entitlement system for anglers Joe OConshynor director of the fisheries branch of Manshyitobas Department of Na tural Resources says his department is wrestling with the environmental threats on fish habitat posed

by farming and hydroelectric development In Ontario fisheries are genera lly in

pretty good shape says Evan Thomas fishshyeries section manager of the fish and wildlife branch of the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (OM NR) Ontario supports almost half of all recreational fishing in Canada with more than two million adult anglers and more than $2 billion a year spent on recreational fishing in the province Onta ri o is also home to Canadas larges t commercial freshwater fishery worth abo ut $40 million a Yfar in land ed value

Thomas says over fishing is still the numshyber one problem Others include habitat loss the potential effects of climate change and contin ued invasion by exotic species Among the management opt ions his minshyistry is exploring are more effective fisheries regulation more rapid inventory and assessshyment techniques fish culture for rehabilishytating populations and controlling nutrient inputs into lakes and rivers

We are clearly looking for federal supshyport for the sea lamprey control program he says referring to recommendations in the recent federal fisheries committee report as well as changes to the federal Fishshyeries Act to hand the province more authorshyity over fish habitat protection

Concerns continue in Ontario over

Moira Ferguson and John Roff Fish Physiology and Biochemistry the top-ranked journal in its field is edited by Prof John Leathershyland chair of the Department of Biomedical Sciences in the Ontario Veterinary College University professor emeritus Eugene Balon has served as editor-in-chief of Environmental Biology ofFishes since he founded the publication in 1976 Zoology professor David Noakes edits Guelph Ichthyology Reviews whose articles synthesize and review all aspects of fish science Both of the latter

Under the Canadian contribution to the project - furided by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council - about 80 federal government and university researchers are trying to learn more about how bioshylogical and physical processes in the oceans affect fish stocks

Zoologychair Prof Paul Hebert has led a Guelph initiative to develshyop multimedia learning resources d1at teach student~ from

are published in the Axelrod Institute of Ichthyology

Based on data from geographic information sysshytems zoology professor John Roff has mapped types of habitat associated with various species of fish and other organisms around Canadas coasts and throughout tl1C Great Lakes the first time such

e1ementaIy grades to university about Canadas aquatshyic environments His department has developed a series of CD-ROMs that provide information on all the major animal groups in the Great Lakes Already available are educational CD-ROMs on Canadas aquatic environments (also available on

d1e World Wide Web) Great Lakes biodiversity and a marine classification system has been developed in this country His report was commissioned by World Wildlife Fund Canada for its Endangered Spaces Campaign and contributes to RoWs work as chair of the scienrillc committee of Globec (Globshyal Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics) a two-year-old international research program intended to better understand ocean ecosystems

birds of the Great Lakes The latter is the first disc in a series called the Great Lakes Faunal Atlas which will eventually cover mammals amphibians reptiles fish and crustaceans

The Alma Aquaculture Research Station es tablished in 1989 and funded through a 20-year development grant by the Ontario

WI NTER 1999 29

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various invas ive species that have turned up

in the Great Lakes - notably sea lampreys

zebra mussels and quagga mussels - many

of which arrive in ballast water of ocea nshy

going vessels (Many have also found their

way into Manitoba says OConnor who

points to the effects of sm elt on whitefish

the main commercial species in Lake Winshy

nipeg) Among o ther meas ures the federal

fish eries committee report called for guarshy

anteed funding for sea lamprey control and

for scienti fic research

I think more money will come says

Prof Bill Beamish Zoology a commissionshy

er on the Great Lakes Fisheries Commission

the 40-year-old governing body that co-ordishy

nates resea rch programs between Canada

and the United States and advises both govshy

ernments It was a review led by Beamish

more than a decade ago on the sta te of

Canadas freshwater fi sheries that provided

the scientific underpinnings for a landmark

report published in 1988 that spelled ou t a

way in freshwater fisheries is a lon g-te rm

project fund ed by the OMNR and the

Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO)

to re-establish native species in their origishy

nal habitats a round Lake Ontario iVlari e

Clement a graduate student of zoology proshy

fe sso r David Noakes is studying Atlantic

sa lmo n which was wiped out of the lake

CONSIDERING WE HAVE THE

BEST FISHERY SCIENCES COMMUNITY

IN THE WORLD WE OUGHT TO

BE DOING BETTER

national strategy for freshwater fisheries

Beamish who has studied sea lampreys

for several decades at Guelph and also invesshy

tigates fish habitat loss says money is need shy

ed to help researchers investigate biological

controls as an alternative to chemical lamshy

pricides The recen t repo rt also notes the

need to address the effects of other nonshy

native exotic species on n ative fish stocks

and water quality and calls on Ottawa to

stem the funding decline in freshwater scishy

ence over the last two decades

One example of the kind of work under

and its tribu ta ry streams near the beginning

o f this century by overflshing and habitat

destruction and alteration Last fall Clement

placed eggs into a site in the Credit River

she has been monito ring oxygen availab il shy

ity durin g their incu ba tion to gau ge sedishy

mentation rates in the river This spring and

summer she wili study how newborn fi sh

interact with other species in th e r ive r

C lement says her docto ral research proshy

ject is but one piece of a larger project aimed

at re-establishing the heritage species Othshy

er researchers hop e to learn whe ther th e

Ministry of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs brings together

researchers for interdisciplinary studies of protein requirements

of arctic char improving fish semen and egg management proshy

cedures and understanding hormone activity in fish The station

acts as a quarantine unit for new fish varieties entering Ontario

and serves as a base for parts of certificate courses and a masters

program in aquaculture

farms in Canada He and fellow Guelph zoologists Eugene Balon

(co- founder of the Coelaca nth Conservat ion Council) and Jim

Bogart also identified and characterized the coelacanth which

had been thought extinct until a specimen was landed off Africa

in the la te 1930s Noakes confirmed the identity of ano ther of

these living fossils discovered in 1997 it appears to belong to a

second popula tion living in the Indian Ocean about 10000 kilo-

metres away from tha t first find

Zoology professors Moira Ferguson and Roy Danzshy

mann use molecular genetics techniques to identishy Zoology chair Paul Hebert was the first scientist to

fy DNA markers used to pinpoint the location of identify the presence in the Great Lakes of zebra

genes associated with growth spawning times mussels a prolific invader that has wreaked havoc

rates of development maturity and temperature in many ways from clogging water-intake pipes to

tolerance in rainbow trout Isolating and identifyshy consuming plankto n thus allowing light to reach

ing genetic markers fo r desirable traits will help fish bottom-dwelling organisms that may displace native

farmers and breeders cross-breed more effectively species The first researcher to report on the biology

conservationists will be better able to manage and preserve and impact of the zebra mussel on the Grea t Lakes was

genetic variability among wild fish stocks Guelph zoology professor Gerald Mackie whose studies showed

that the organisms faster growth rate and higher fecundity and

Zoology professor David Noakes has stuclied varieties of arctic population density will probably enable it to displace many native

char native to Iceland to find ones suited to being raised on fish bivalves and disrupt entire lake ecosystems

30 GUELPH ALUMNUS

LEADING RESEARCH

The University of Guelph has one orthe largest and most active groups of aquatic biologists in the world

bull More than 50 faculty and 100

graduate students research

assocrates and postdoctoral

fellows

bull Over 1000 published scientific

articles books monographs

films and videos in the past

decade

bull Interdisciplinary programs

involving more than a dozen

academic departments

bull The largest group ofichthyoloshy

gists (scientists who study

fish) in North America

bull Collaborative research with

government environrriental

organizations and academic

institutions worldwide

bull Expertise covering the entire

aquatic food chain from plankshy

ton to whales

bull Leading developments in comshy

puter-based educational mate-

rials in aquatic sciences

bull A new $6-million Aquatic

Sciences Facility

bull Research support from national

and international agencies

business and industry

adults will be able to return from the open

lake to their stream spawning grounds If

they come back will the eggs survive she

says If were able to show the eggs can surshy

vive that will be very encouraging for

Atlant ic salmon restoration

What is to be done to ensure the survival

not just of Atlantic salmon in Lake Ontario

but also of the co untrys freshwater and

m ar ine fisheries We need to try to sepashy

rate o ut the fisheries management decisions

from the political decisions associated with

the fi shery says zoology professor Glen Van

Der Kraak director of U of Gs Axelrod

Institute of Ichthyology Van Der Kraak who

studies the effects of toxic contaminants on

fi sh populations says policy mltkers need

to rely on the advice of fisheries sc ientis ts

making conservative harvest ing estimates

So often scientists make decisions and then

are overrun by the politics he says (Never

mind fish wars pitting co untries against one

another - here in Ca nada scientists and

policy makers wres tle over the question of

who should be respo nsible for what aspects

of the countrys fisheries as witnessed in a

war of words played out in the Canadian Journal ofFisheries and Aquatic Sciences over

the past 18 months between biologists at

several Canadian univers ities and the DFO

over the relationship between fishery sc ishy

ence and fishery policy)

Roff says theres nothing unique about

Canadas fish problems Its not really a

Canadian problem its a worldwide probshy

lem The only fisheries worldwide that are

not over fished appear to be some not yet

fully exploited in the Indian Ocean

After nearly four decades of growth the

worldwide marine ca tch levelled off in the

1990s to some 90 million tons a year The

m ain problems coastal pollution habitat

destruction and particula rly overfishing

Noakes editor of the journal Guelph Ichthyology Reviews contrasts the few hunshy

dred people who might have made th eir

livelihood aboard small wood en boats on

the Grand Banks several centuries ago with

the massive factory trawlers that now scour

todays coast People are much too efficient

in terms of catching fish he says Noakes

concurs with fellow Guelph researchers that

conservation of fish stocks has to reach the

top of fishery managers agendas

hat does set Canada apart is the breadth

and depth of expertise in fisheries and aquatshy

ic sciences in this country - rather a parashy

dox when you consider that Canadas record

in fisheries preservation is apparently no betshy

ter than that of many other nations

Considering we have the best fishery scishy

ences community in the world we ought to

be doing better says Roff Within the last

decade th e federal government withdrawal

o f support from the Department of Fishshy

eries and Oceans and university researchers

has been massive At the very time when the

resources were gett ing into severe problems

and when the federal government ought to

have been funding research theyve been

substantially withdrawing resources ga

DONT WAIT UNTIL SPRING The opportunity to double the impact of your gift to the University of Guelph ends on March 31 1999 Until that date all gifts designated to endowed student financial aid at Guelph will be matched by the Ontario Student Opportunity Trust Fund (OSOTF) That means that every dollar you commit will contribute two dollars to financial aid for Guelph students

If you would like to support our students throug h OSOTF you still have a w indow of oppor nishyty to have your do l1a rs doubled But only until March 31 1999

If you have already made a pled ge to OSOTf through U of Gs ACCESS Fund thank you [or your ge nerous support Please comp lete your payme nts by March 31 1999 to e nsure that your gi ft is matched

For more information contact Rudy Putns in Guelphs office of Development and Public Affairs at -519-824-4120 Ext 6384 Fax 519-822-2670 E-mail alumniuoguelphca

WINTER 1999 31

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

n ALUMNI PROF IL E

LETS LOOK AT THE OPPORTUNITIES

WHEN I-IE BECA ME president of the Unishy

versity of Guelph Alumni Association

(UGM) in June Jim Weeden brought new

enthusiasm and ideas for encouraging alumshy

ni to stay in volved with their alma mater

And he wants to start with students

Weeden reca ll s his own ex perience at

U of G where he fo und a sense of commushy

nity by living in residence and ge tting

involved in college activiti es But when he

graduated with an engin ee ring degree in

197 1 he left to begin a caree r and says he

didnt think much about the University until

he needed it again in the 1980s to pursue a

graduate degree in agricultural enginee ring

He spent his early career working as an

agricultural extensi o n engineer for the

Ontario Department o f Agriculture and is

stiU with its successo r the Ontario Ministry

of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs

(OMAFRA) Weed en completed the masshy

ters degree in 1986 when he was head of the

agricultural engineering program and extenshy

sion services a t Centralia College of Ag rishy

cultural Technology

In 1987 he moved to the ministrys plant

industry branch as program m anager and

later held the same position in th e resources

manage m ent branch Sin ce then he has

worked for OMAFRA in Woodstock and

now Stratfo rd He is technical adviser fo r

Ontarios Enviro nmental Farm Planning

Program is respo nsible for o ther environshy

m ental programs and consults with the Minshy

istry o f th e Environment on local agriculshy

tural pollution problems

w Weed en got involved with the Universishy sect tys a]u111ni programs by serving on the first g z board of the Engineering Alumni Associashy

~ tion when it was established in 1990 From

~ 1991 to 1994 he sat on the University Senshy

~ ate and its Research Board and for the pas t

~ four years) hels been on the UGAA executive

32 GUELPH A LU MNUS

From the presidents chair Weeden looks

at the bro ad picture o f UG AA se rvice and

recognizes that the associa tio n owes a debt

o f gratitude to hundreds of alumni volunshy

teers who ha ve helped to build the organishy

za tion over the yea rs and to University staff

in Development and Public Affairs (DampPA)

who support UGAA initiatives and alumni

programs Thro ugh their efforts he says the

a lulllni associati o n is rea ching out to all

U of G alumni Graduates who have mainshy

tained a close relationship with the Univershy

sity thro ugh their college or academic disshy

cipline those who feel an affiliation because

o f their participation in a thletics residence

life o r extracurricular activiti es and even

HIGHLIGHTSmiddot GRAD NEWSmiddot OBITUARIES bull CALENDER

those who have not kept in touch are part of the constituency served by UGAA

Weed en says the alumni association needs to strengthen its relationship with all alumni and he believes the effor t must start on campus with students Hed like to proshymote the idea of alumni involvement as ear shyly as a students second year We need to give students some reason to be con nected and an efficient vehicle for maintaining that connection he says

For many students and new graduates the social functions supported by UGAA and the opportunities for professional networking will be important says Weeden but greater rewards are there for those who join the effort to enhance the Universitys acade mic goals

In todays economic and political envi shyronme nt individual financial support and the advocacy of post-secon dary education are important roles for alumni he says How many people ac tively get involved with the debate on whether universities are job-trainshy

ing centres or centres of education Yet some of our alumni are extremely adept in such roles Weeden would like to cultivate past and current stud ent ac tivists as supporters of public education after they graduate

As Weeden leads UGAA into a new year he says he will work with other UGAA volshyunteers and DampPA staff to find new ways for the association to interact with students and alumni One id ea is to expand UGAAs Intershynet presence by adding a Web message board that will encourage alumni to discuss career and campus issues online and a reply form that will allow them to quickly update addressshyes employment status and other information

Weeden says its important to stay focused on UGAAs key prioriti es but he welcomes any and all new ideas on how to accomplish them All it takes to share your ideas with the UGAA executive is a stamp or a push of the send button when youre clicked on alumniuoguelphca

HKHB SPIRIT RISES

ENCOURAGED BY THE SPIRIT

shown by fellow alumni at last

summers reunion the executive

of the Human Kinetics Human Biology

Alumni Association is moving ahead

with more opportunities for alumni to

stay in touch The association plans to

launch a Web site that will be accessed

through the U of G site

A wine-and-cheese reception already

planned for June 19 1999 wiil try to

build on the success of the 1998 event

which attracted alumni from as far away

as Chicago and as far apart as the 19605

and 1990s Guests had a chance to tour

U of Gs new Health and Performance

Centre and performance testing

labs The program was co-ordinated wiLh

A REFLECTION OF PRIDE

Members of the OAC

Class of 52 join Arboshy

retum staff on the front patio

of the Arboretu m Centre

beside a new reflecting pool

that was built last summer

as a class project Pictured

from left are Murray Parker

Ann Smith George Smith

Jack Sargent Catherine Gibb

Robin Shaw-Rummington

Marilyn Swaby BA 69

Bev Healy B5e(Agr) 72

Norm Watson Una Venerus

Ron Costen Henry Kock

BSe (Agr) 77 and Ric

Jordan BA 75

Prof Jack Barclay chair of the Departshy

ment of Human Biology and Nutritional

Sciences and Prof Susan Pfeiffer Memshy

bers of the Human KineticsHuman

Biology Alumni Association executive arc

Janet Leonhard 82 president Carolyn

Moore 83 vice-president Alison Locker

97 secretary Mark Mulholland 79

lreasurer and t-iary Ann Crape 76

These officers are also spea rheading a

new initiative to benefit students - an

undergraduate award that will provide

$250 and lifetime mem bership in the

association To commcnt on these and

other initiatives contact Leonard by

e-mail at Janel_Leonhardinwrbsb

eduonca or Moore at cturveyagec

uoguelphca

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alumni

Multimedia lab buzzes

THE DONALD FORSTER RoOiv

has become one of the

busiest spots in th e Unishy

versity of Guelph Liblary since the

addition of 70 state-of-the-art

computer workstations that were

supported by alumni do nations

to the Alma Mater Fund (AM F)

U of G president Mordechai

Roza nski officia ll y o pened th e

Alma Mater Fund Multimedia

Lab D ec 2 an d celebrated th e

event with members of the AMF

Adv isory Counc iL [n 1996 a nd

1997 the AMF contributed

$240000 to th e project which

increased the number of student

workstations o n campus by 50 per

cent Students use the m ult imeshy

~ dia lab to conduct research on the

~ Internet access scholarly publicashyr u VI tions on CD-ROM and use COll1shyz ~ puter software mod ules tbat lt

~ strengthen the teaching provided lD

o in co urse lectures labs and tcxtshybii books

middotMatters

Alumnus of many interests

I NTERES TING P EOPLE always have eclect ic interests and U of G

alumnus and honorary degree recipient Ken Murray BSA 50 and

HDLA 96 is a good example H e is known by most people on camshy

pus for his distinguished career in the Canadian meat packing indusshy

try and his volunteer service to U of G He was a member and chair

of Board of Governors from 1973 to 1978 and chair of the Regionshy

al Corporate Committee during U of Gs last capital campaign and

is currently chair of the Heritage Fund Enhancement Committee

Murray is also a strong supporter of community soc ial services

In August he addressed the World Congress of Social Ps)chiatry

held in British Columbia - the only non-psychiatrist on the proshy

gram He spoke about his role in establishing an Alzheimers research

project a t the University ofWaterioo which was recently named in

his honour the Ken Murray Alzheimer Research and Education Proshy

gra m At the gc conference he al so participated in a panel dis shy

cussion that outlined services offered by Guelphs Homewood Health

Cent re Murray bas been actively involved in the governance of the

centre since 1977 and has been a major player in the development

of a charitable foundatio n bearing the Homewood name

WHEN THE PUCK DROPPED More than 30 teams including two

womens teams were entered in the

Dec 6 University of Guelph Alumni Hockey

Tournament Organizers for the 1998 event

were from left Brian Finniss B5c 88

Brad Stephenson BA 86 Terry Carr

BComm 87 Todd Bryant BA 86 and

undergraduate student Brian Melnick

Ken Murray centre with his wife Marilyn Robinson Murray and U of G president Mordechai Rozanski

34 GU ELPH ALUMNU S

RESTORING A JEWEL IN THE CROWN

DONALD RUTHERFORD BSA 5 stands in fron t

of the 1931 conservatory greenhouse that will

be restored to match the splendour of the ga rdens

now growi ng up around it His $256000 leadershy

ship gift to the Conservatory and Gardens Project

was inspired by hi s m emo ries of being a student

at OAC

On behalf of fellow alumni I hope this gift will

commemorate the experiences and educat ion we

acquired while at Guelph says Rutherford When

fully restored to its previous glory the conservatoshy

ry greenhouse will be an ideal greeting and welcome

spot for visitors and newcomers to the University

as well as old friend s renewing their acquaintance

Rutherfords professional career spans the agrishy

foo d industr y beginning as an agricu ltural repshy

resentative with the provincial minist ry I-Ie was

later vice-president of the Fertilizer Institute of

Ontario executive secreta ry of the Canadian Seed

Trade Association director of information w ith

the Ca nadian Livestock Feed Board and Canadishy

an sa les manager for Sylvite of Can ad a Retired

since 1986 he now owns his own sma ll investment

company and manages to golf throughout the yea r

The conserva tory isnt the first ca mpus project

to attract Rutherford s attention - as a student

he helped dig out the base ment of Massey H al l to

build a student lo unge - but his recent gift has

been a tremendous boost to those who have been

working since the ea rly 1990s to save the glass and

cypress structure from demo lition

A committee of alumni facult y sta ff stu dents

and fri en ds of the University has moved the proshy

ject along to th e point w here most of the surshy

rounding garden complex is now complete It fea shy

tures six gardens named in honour of the ir chie f

supporters Autumn Garden - OAC 5 1 Spring

Ga rden - OAC 53 Su mmer Garden - OAC 55

Winter Gard en - OAC 65 Water Gard en shy

OAC 49 and the Woo dland Garden named in

honour of the late Doug Rob inson BSA 53

Alumni have been in strumental in raising

funds for the $ l-million project Students and fa cshy

ulty have provided mudl of the h1l1ds-on Idbour

and friends in the nursery and landscape materishy

als supply industries have given $250000 ill donashy

tions and gifts-in-kind of plan ts and landsca ping

materials Rutherford s generous gift has pushed

th e conservato ry fund-ra ising effort in to the fin 81

stretch Th e ga rden complex and restored g reenshy

110use are sc heduled to officially open during

Alumni Weekend in June 1999

1999 Coming Events

Jan 29 - Aggie Goodshy

Times Banquet call the OAC Student Federation at Ext 8321 for ticket injemnrltion Feb 13 - Norm McCo llulll

D iploma Hockey Tournashy

m ent call Jack Bakker at 519-837-0132 to register a team

Feb 21 - Ottawa Chapter

annual curling bonspiel

Richmond C urling Club in

Richmond Ont For informashytiol1 call Alan Bentley BSA 61 at 6 13-829-6598 or John DVit[ 54 mId Margaret McGowml BHSc 54 at

613-828-7038

March 3 - Florida alumni

reunion a t Maple Leaf

Estates Port Charlo tte Fla

call Ext 6533 0 register

March 13 and 14 - ollcge

Royal 75th o pen house

March 19 and 20 - OAC

Alumni Association curling

bonspiel G uelph Curling

Club register at Ext 6657

May 5 - Chicago All Canashy

dian Universities Night hostecl

by U of G at the University

Club of Chicago 76 East Monshy

roe Sr call Exl 6533 for details May 5 - OAC Alumni

Foundation annual meeting

730 pm Arboretum Centre

May 12 - Alumni-inshy

Action annual meeting and

luncheo n 1130 3m

Arboretum Centre ((11 Ext 6657for tickets

June 18 to 20 - Alumni

Veekend call Ext 6657 to plall a reun io n

-0 r shya -IFor more infon-nation on any a

eVC1l1listed ailove call the oJ -lt oU of G extension listed at en raquo

519-824-4120 or send e-mail z

10 alunznilIoguelphca ~

WINTER 1999 35

alumni Matters

MEMORIES OF COLLEGE ROYAL Grant MacEwan ADA 23 and

BSA 26 is one of the few OAC

alumni who c~n still remember

the first College Royal held Jan

14 1925 MacEwan bad just

entered the degree program in

animal husbandry and may have

been a participant in the liveshy

stock showmanship classes Latshy

er in life he was widely known Grant MacEwan

across Western Canada as 3 liveshy

stock judge and an advocate of

agricultural fairs and exhibitions

MacEwan is bes t known

however for his 23-year C3reer

as a university professor in Manshy

itoba and Saskatchewan and Ilis

political career which included

12 years as alderman and mayshy John Kenneth Galbraith

or of C31gary four years as an

Alberta MLA and eight as lieushy birthday in August

tenant -governor of the province The year after Ma cEwan

He s till lives in Calgary graduated John Kenneth Galshy

where he celebrated his 96th braith ADA 29 and BSA 31

HOMECOMING 98

enrolled at OAC and devoted

some of his energy to organizshy

ing College Royal Show records

indicate it was Galbraith who

first proposed the college event

be publicized so that people

from the farm community

could attend He also suggestshy

ed that OAC invite students

from American agricultural colshy

legesl n th e early 1930s Colshy

lege Royal took its fir s t steps

towards becoming the comshy

munity open house it is today

Galbraith later moved to the

United States where he enjoyed

a distinguished caree r as a proshy

fessor of economics at Harvard

Universi ty Known for his

humanit~rian approach to ecoshy

nomic and political thinking

he was awarded the Order of

Canada in 1997 He celebr3ted

his 90th birthday in October

IT REALLY WAS a homecoming reunion when and Arnott who is head coach of the York

former Gryphon teammates Ralph Shapiro University Yeomen came from the visitors

S5c(HK) 74 and Tom Amott S5c(HK) 80 dreSSing room to hold the ball Shapiro is

met on the field at Alumni Stadium Oct 3 the controller at Huntsman Chemical Inc

Shapiro had the honour of kicking off in Guelph and a longtime United Way volshy

the Universitys 1998 United Way campaign unteer who chaired this years Guelph and

Wellington fund-raising drive The Univershy

sity campaign is the largest in the county

with U of G staff and faculty contributing

over $200000 in 1998

Prior to the game a number of recent

alumni - all U of G scholarship and award

winners - met for a reunion luncheon The UJ

1948 and 1949 dominion championship i5f 3

football teams were also honoured guests z 5 o at the 2 pm game that saw the Gryphons gtshy a defeat York f shya I a

Ralph Shapiro

36 G UELPH ALUMNUS

LEADING THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY FOR 1974 GRADS The 25th-anniversary reunion givshy

i ng program for the Class of 1974

is under way with Bill Laidlaw BA

74 as cbair A public affairs proshy

fessional he has been director of

government relations for the

Canadian operations of Glaxo

vVelJcome Inc for more th an 10

years He also acts as a senior conshy

sultant to support the governshy

ment relations function in other

regions of Canada

Laidlaw began his career in

teaching after earning a history

degree from Guelph and education

degrees (rom Queens University

and the University of Toronto He

also holds the certified human

resources professional designation

and worked in that field for sevshy

eral years before concen trating on

government relations at Glaxo

Welkome He lives in Burlington

Ont and is an act ive community

volunteer having se rved on the

boards of severa l professional

organizations the Queensway

General Hospital and the Metroshy

politan Toronto Lung Association

He is currently completing a oneshy

year term as chair of the Ontario

Chamber of Commerce

Anniversa ry preparations will

culminate with a class gathering

a nd reunion gift at Alumni

Weekend in June 1999

ALUMNI MAKE THE CONNECTION Students who moved into

Maids and Mills halls in Sepshy

tember can take full advanshy

tage of the Universitys highshy

speed computer network

thanks to the OAC Class of

71 whose 25 th-reunion proshy

ject provided wiring upgrades

in the 84- and 77-year-old

residence buildin gs

GRAD NEWS

Marathon survivors inspire us all to appreciate everyday life

W HEN ROBINSON SIIlLJNGS Jane BSe(Agr)

85 Heather BASe 83 Peter BSe(Agr)

86 Scott and Marnie rigwood BA 84 get

together they talk about marathons and the hope

and determination it takes to reach the finish line

Hea ther walked a marathon in San Diego

Calif in June to raise money for leukemia

research then joined Peter for a Toronto marathon

in October that benefi ted the Leukemia Research

Fund of Canada They were inspired by Janes pershy

sonal marathon of survival that foUowed her 1992

diagnosis of leukemia Chemotherapy radiation

remission relapse and finally a bone marrow

transplant [TOm her brother Scott took more than

three years out of her life but gave her the detershy

mination to keep fighting

Many families can understand the marathon

of hope maintained by the Robinsons during

Janes struggle and the commitment they have to

help others who are stricken with the disease Jane

is finally well enough to work again as a writer

and marketing consultant and to join her fami shy

ly in volunteer work She helped recruit for the

Toronto marathon fund -raiser and continues to

be involved with the Leukemia Research Funds

Team in Training She also says that her expeshy

rience has taught her to appreciate more the pleashy

sures of everyday life and the love of famil y

Jan es parents are th e late Doug Rob inson

BSA 53 and Marilyn (Inglis) Robinson Murray

BH Sc 55

19305

bull Grant Misener ADA 32 BSA 35 and DVM 38 received the

prest igious George F Hixso n Felshy

lowship Award from the Kiwanis

International Foundation in May The retired Illinois veter ishy

narian was hono ured for his subshystantial contribution to the

Kiwanis wo rldwide service proshy

ject aimed at eliminating iodine

deficiency disorders the leading

cause of preventable mental retardation in children Over the

years Misener has shown a simishylar commitment to his al ma

mater an d its students through

his close association with OVC

and his support of scho larship

programs

19405

bull Russell McDonaldDVM 45 was named an honorary life direcshytor of the Royal Agricultural Winshy

ter Fair Association in March

McDonald formerly general manshy

ager of Western Ontario Breeders

Ine and executive director of the Canadian Association of Animal

Breeders served as a director of the Royal Winter Fair for 20 years

representing the Canadian artifishycial insemination industry He

lives in Woodstock Ont

bull Ian Taylor DVM43 was recently honoured by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to

Animals of Illinois Taylor ran a small-animal veterinary clinic in

the Chicago area for many years

and says he gained ll1uch experishyence during his first three years in

Illinois as clinic veterinarian for

the anti -cruelty society

19505

bull Charles Chuck Broadwell BSA 54 was elected a Mel

Osborne Fellow by the Kiwanis

Club of Forest City in London Ont in recognition of a dedicatshy -ed and distinguished career in

Kiwanis

19605

bull Constantine Campbell BSA 60 and MSA 61 was named to the

WINTER 1999 37

Order of Canada in January He

received the award in recogni shy

tion of his many contributions

to science and the Canadian

agricultural industry After grad shy

uating from OAC he went on to

do his PhD at the University of

Saskatchewan then joined Agri shy

culture and Agri-food Canada

as a research scientist at the Swift

Current research station Campshy

bell and his family now live in

Ottawa where he is scientist

emeritus with Agriculture and

Agri-food Canada

bull John Casselman BSA 64 is

a research scientist with the

Ontario Ministry of Natural

Resources He Jives in Bath

Ont with his wife Lois

bull Jane Fuller RRSc 65 and

her husband George who both

taught at the Macdonald Instishy

tute from 1966 to 1969 have

moved from Winnipeg to

Utopia Ont following

Georges retirement from the

University of Manitoba

bull Fred Gilbert MSc 66 and

P hD 68 is in his first term as

president of Lakehead Univer shy

sity in Thunder Bay Ont He

taught at U of G in the Departshy

ment of Zoology from 1972 to

1981 and has enjoyed a dive rse

academic career that has also

included teaching at the Unishy

versity of Maine and posi tions

as director of wildlife biology at

Washington State University

and founding dean of the Facshy

ulty of Natural Reso urces and

Environmenta l Studies at the

University of Northern British

Columbia He moved to Lakeshy

head from a position as viceshy

pro vost at Colorado State Unishy

versity A respected wildlife

biologist he has conducted

ex tensive resea rch in s Ll ch areas

as the behaviour and physioloshy

gy of wildlife species and the

effects of environmental

change on wildlife populations

bull Terry Goodyear BSc 67 of

Mont Tremblant Quebec is an

early retiree from Agriculture

and Agri-Food Canada in Ottawa He is now working on

va lue-added products from

industrial wastes particularly

cellulose sludge from pulp and

pa per mills

bull Gary Hearn BA 68 was

named an Ontario provincial

judge in October For the last

25 years he has been a lawyer

with the firm Kearns McKinshy

non in Guelph where he lives

with his wife Irene and three

teenage children

bull Allan Knight BSA 66 of Corunna Ont has retired

from Dow Chemical after 30

years On retirement he was a

laboratory director for indusshy

trial chemicals He is now

working with his son in a famishy

ly-owned and -operated busishy

ness Knight Funeral Home

bull Keith McFarlane BSc(Agr)

68 works for the Department

of Foreign Affairs and Internashy

tional Trade and began a fourshy

year assignment last summer as

head of the commercial divishy

sion of the Canadian Embassy

in Lisbon Portugal The

division promotes the sa le of

Canadian goods and services

to Portugal

bull Ian Newbould MA 68 has

travelled far from his Ontario

roots through an academic and

administrative career that has

taken him to Europe Asia and

Western Canada A noted hisshy

torian he moved into adm inisshy

tration at the University of

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Lethbridge in 1981 and spent

10 years there as director of

research dean of a rts and scishy

ence and vice-presiden t (acadeshy

mic) before crossing the counshy

try to become president of

Mount Allison University in

New Brunswick He is now in

his second term as president of

Mount AUison

bull Indra Deo Singh MSc 68 is

a tea scientist international

consultant and joint director of

the Tea Research Association at

the Nagrakata substation in

India His responsibilities

include co-ordinating research

and development in the Indian

tea industry and developing tea

cultivars and agrotechnology

for tea Singh is married with

two sons aged 27 and 23

19705

bull Don Ambler BSe 71 retired in March as manager of

water programs with Environshy

ment Canada in Dartmouth

NS after 25 years of public

service He has now registered

the company Aquashed Co nshy

sulting to continue in the water

resources field when hes not

gardening beekeeping do ing

aerobics or vo lunteering in the

community and chu rch E-mail

contact is welcome a t

donambl erns sympaticoca

bull Jim Bond BSe 75 is managshy

ing a new processing facility at

the Chalk River Nuclear Laborashy

to ry in Chalk River Ont

bull Terri (Monks) Bulman BSc(Agr) 78 and MSe 81

and her husband Vincent

MSe 8 1 live in Australia with

their th ree children Catherine

7 Peter 4 and baby Christoshy

pher Terri is senior principal

environmental auditor vith

Coffey Geosciences Pty Ltd Vinshy

cent afte r many years as a geoloshy

gist travelling around Australia

and abroad has taken the year

off to study and look after the

children Their e-mail address is

tbulmanbigpondco m

bull Marie David BA 78 of

Hanover Ont has been in the

n ewspaper business for 20

years She started in the mailshy

room moved to advertising

sales then became advert ising

manager She is now gene ral

manager o f three So utham

weekly newspapers and pubshy

lish er of the Hanover Post

bull Janice Harrower and her husshy

band Jerome Billett both

DVM 76 operate a joint veterishy

nary practice in Prescott Ont

Billett says practising together

has allowed them some flexibilishy

ty in their family life and given

their four children a good took

at the rigours of veterinary

medicine Says Billett Not one

of our kid s has the slightest

interest in being a veterinarian

and isnt that just fine Their

o ldest son Jesse attends Harshy

va rd University and is a memshy

ber of its prestigious a cappella

choir Lucas is studying

mechanical engineering at the

University of Waterloo Casey is

planning a career in computer

engineering and Lindsay is a

high school athle te

bull Clair Heinbuch BSe 74 is a

sales manager with Baye r Corp

in Kansas H e and his wife

Caroline (Koscik) BASc 75

returned to the Kansas City

area after spending four years in

Denver They have three chilshy

dren Lisa 20 Scott 18 and

Ryan [5

bull Beverly Lee BASe 72 is an

elem entary school principal in

Unionville Ont She lives with

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her husband Grant Egan in

Collingwood and is looking

forward to retirement in severshy

al years Life on Georgian Bay

is wonderful she says Lee

would love to hear from fellow

grads by e-mail at

leebYrbeeduonca or by

phone at 705 -444 -092l

bull Won-Jai Maeng MSc 71 took office Sept 1 as president

of Kon-Kuk University in Seoul

Korea where his academic

career began He completed an

undergraduate degree at Kon

Kuk in 1965 then studied at

Mailing Agricultural College in Denmark and at U of G before

doing doctoral work at the Unishy

versity of California Davis

Maeng has held research and

teaching positions at the Unishy

versity of illinois at Chung-Ang

University and at Kon-Kuk

where he has been a professor of

animal science since 1984 His

appointment as president folshy

lows years of administrative

experience as a department

head dean and chair of various

research committees and proshy

fessional organizations An

expert in ruminant nutrition

Maeng was instrumental in

developing the livestock feed

industry in Korea He has also

been active in working with

alumni groups and in writing

for the Kon-Kuk Tribune

bull Bill MarshaU ADA 75 of Proton Station Ont moved

from Clarksburg in June to

work in Dundalk for the Grey

County Roads Department on

its road management crew

bull Bernie Matte BSc(Agr) 70 of Moncton NB retired

in March after 28 years with

Fisheries and Oceans Canada

and the Canadian Food

Inspection Agency He plans to

travel to Belize and Honduras

with his wife Diane and will

be available anywhere in the

Caribbean for seafood HACCP

consulting work

bull Margaret McClain BA 70 lives in Arkansas where she is

highJy involved in the issue of

40 GUELPH ALUMNUS

missing children and internashy

tional abductions McClain who

believes her own six-year-old

daughter was taken out of the

United States more than a year

ago by her second husband is

reaching out to parents with

similar experiences through an

organization that is lobbying the

US government for tougher

international abduction laws

She invites interested fr iends

and alumni to contact her

through her Web site at

wwwinsolwwbnet-dmcclain

bull Robert (Chuck) Miller BA 77 is the park superintendent

of Killarney French River and

Maskinonje provincial parks in

Ontario He moved to Killarney

from Quetico Provincial Park

last May

bull Gordon Nicol BA 72 and MSc(Agr) 74 teaches math

and science in a bilingual prishy

vate school in Guatemala A

BEd graduate of Laurentian

he first taught in Guatemala in

the late 1970s then spent 12

years in northern Alberta as a

teacher and principal He

returned to Guatemala in 1989

A widower with three teenage

children Nicol would like to

hear from U of G friends and

acquaintances especially anyshy

one who is was or will be in

Central America He says he

could also use middle-schoolshy

level science projects Send eshy

mail to gnicoll guatenet or

write to PO Box 661447 Miami

Springs Florida 33266-1447

bull Chris Schulte BSc 71 and MSc 73 lives in Nassau

Bahamas with his wife

Andrya After graduation he

stayed in the Department of

Physics as a research associate

with Prof lain Campbell then

joined Ontario Hydro in the

early 1980s He moved to the

Bahamas in 1995 He can be

reached bye-mail at

schultebahamasnetbs

bull Sandra (Pickford) Webster BA 75 has retired from U of

Gs Co mmunications and Pubshy

lic Affairs and is living in Parry

Sound Ont where she is

doing volunteer work and

communications consulting

for the municipality Guelph

friends ca n contact her by

e-mail atswebsterzeutercom

19805

bull Sharon (Courneya) Angus BA 8 I of Surrey BC comshy

pleted a BSW at the University

of British Columbia in 1988

and has been working for the

BC government for 13 years

- first in probation and now

in the family justice division

She and her husband Ron

have three children Jason

Carly and Colin

bull Karen Beazley BLA 86 is an assistant professor and acadeshy

mic program co-ordinator at

the School for Reso urce and

Environmental Studies at Dalshy

housie University in Halifax

She is currently doing research

for a book on endangered

species initiatives and is orgashy

nizing a Nova Scotia wildlands

workshop with the Wildlands

Project for 1999 Her e-mail

address is kbeazleyisdalca

bull Caroline (Van Deudekom) and Marc Brooks both ADA 87

recently moved from Strathroy

to Owen Sound Ont where

they run a 50-acre organic farm

with their two sons

bull Virginia Burt BLA 85 startshyed her own landscape architecshy

ture firm Visionscapes in

Hamilton Ont in ] 996 She

specializes in the design of thershy

apeutic healing gardens spirit

gardens sacred spaces and

la byrin ths and recen tly designed the first healing garden

in Canada specificalJy for peoshy

ple living with HIV and AIDS

bull Joanne (Branson) Carver BA 80 earned a BEd from Brock

University in 1981 and recently

started working as a probashy

tionparole officer She Jives in

Ajax Ont and has two daughshy

ters Julie4 and Sarah 8

bull Heather Champ BA 86 is a Web-site designer in New York

City She began her work in

computer design in 1990 Her

personal site can be Found at

wwwjezebelcom

bull Laurie Gough BA 87 has become a world traveller who

writes about her experiences for

the benefit of others Her most

recent book Island of the

Human Heart A tfornans Travshyel Odyssey is now in its second

printing in Canada and will be

released next year in the United

States and overseas She has also

published Travellers Tales A

Womans World which won the

US-based Lowell Thomas

Gold Award for best travel book

of the year When not travelling

or writing she teaches English

and ESL in Guelph

bull Susan (Coles) Goulden BASc 84 and her husband

Ian are th rilled wi th their

recent adoption of Jennifer Lee

Yu who was born in June near

Leping Jiangxi Peoples Repubshy

lic of China The Gouldens

who Jive in vVaterloo Ont

thank classmate Andrea

(Kovits) Henderson for her

support throughout the adopshy

tion process Susan is currently

on leave from her position with

McCormick Canada

bull Judy (Bodendistel) Gregg BA 82 moved to Melbourne Ausshy

tralia in 1997 with her husband

and two children Carly 6 and

Adam 3 We are enjoying the

friendly people and the great

weather here she says We are

especially enjoying winter in a

place where it never gets below

zero Celsius

bull Nigel GumJey DVM 85 has been a partner in the Alta Vista

Animal Hospital in Ottawa

since 1990 was president of the bull Garry Millage AMPHI 86 bull Heidi Stephenson BA 88 is now ISO 9000 manager at

Ontario Veterinary Medical left a position as vice-president was awarded her professional Carpenter Ca nada Ltd in

Association in 1997 and recent- of national operations for acco untants designation of Wood br idge Ont He lives in

ly served on the Canadian Vetshy Scotts Restaurants KFC Divishy certified general accountant in Miss issa uga Classma tes are

erilw() Medical Associations sion to open his own consult- March 1998 She has been invited to contact him at

national issues committee He ing company Future Food employed for the last 10 years avon listarca

lives in Osgoode with his wife Equipment Ine specializes in with Dan Ball Chartered bull Michelle (Pilon) Bacon BA rvlaurecn and children Laura providing new and used restau- Acco un tant in Parry Sound 90 moved to England to study

and Matthew rant equipment and reducing O nt where she lives with her and work after graduating from

bull Muneer Hirji BComm 82 restaurant construction costs hu sband Brad two dogs and a Guelph She recently left a posishy

lives in Toronto and is vice- He also operates a restaurant horse tion with the British Ministry of

president of marke ting at SAP called Nikkos in Woodbridge bull Dawn Stetsko BSe 81 lives Agriculture and Food in York to

Canada He has three chil- Ont and is planning to open a in Langhorne Pa with her husshy become an at-home mom She

drcl1 Nadia 8 Alyssa 6 and second location band Paul and children Mark now lives in London with her

Sarah I bull Tosh Noseworthy BSe 83 is and Keith and is a research husband Tim and one-year-old

bull Brenda irwin BSe 88 is a cardiovascular ICU nurse in scientist with Bristol-Myers daughter Juliette She sends love

studying at Hong Kong Unishy sunny Tuscon Arizona After Squibb Previously she worked to Sue Heather and Sheila and

vers ity of Science and Technolshy grad uation she lived in Paris at McMaster University in can be reached bye-mail at

ogy to complete the final France for a yea r s tudied nurs- Hamilton Ont for 17 yea rs michellebacondialpipexcom

sem ester of an MBA program ing in O ttawa then lived in Saushy bull Teresa Tummillo-Goy BA bull Jeff Barlow BComm 90 is

through the University of di Arabia for two yea rs She still 86 has a law practice in Water- the training and quality manag-

British Columbia She taught loves to travel and would like to 100 Ont foc Li sing primaril y on er for two five-star luxury boushy

science for the North York hea r from fellow alumni She family law civi l litiga tion and tique h o tels in Prague - Hotel

Board of Education for five can be reached at 520-299-8344 real estate She and her hus- Palace Praha and the Hotel

years before enrolling in the bull Cecilia (Wleugel) Parkes band John Goy live in Guelph Savoy Previo usly he was execu -

MBA program BComm 85 is a graphic and have three sons John 4 tive housekeeper at the five-star

bull Jagwant Kanwar PhD 80 is designer in Toronto and says Tony 3 and Shayne 2 Renaissance Pragu e Hotel

a senior scientist in the depart- she st ill uses ber marketing bull Peter Van der Borch DVM bull Margaret Burnes-Souria BA ment of vegetable crops at Pun- background to help her busishy 88 retired in the fa ll of 1997 94 is a team leader with [011 shy

jab Agricultural University in ness succeed She specia lizes in after several years of practising don Magazin e in London Ont

India He is also director of the logo design lNith hand-drawn physiotherapy and ve terinary She married David Souria in

regional vegetable research stashy illustrations medicine and surgery He Jives July 1997 and is pursuing an tion at Usman (TaranTarn) bull Jim Parr BSc(Agr) 81 and in Pictou NS ]VlBA at the University of West-

Amritsar His and his wife MSe 89 died of cancer in bull MartyWilLiams BA 85 is ern Ontario

Sanyogita have a son Mohit June 1998 but hes being co-ordinator of student activishy bull Janine Byers BASe 95 is a and a daughter Dipika who are remembered by his university ties at University College Unishy public health dietitian at the

both studying engineering friends through the establish - versity of Toronto where he Kingston Frontenac and

Friends can write to Kanwar at ment of a mem orial fund for advises student organizations Iennox amp Addington Health

Punjab Agricultural Un ivers ity his wife Denise and children 1Ie is also chair of the U of T Unit in Kingston O nt She is Ludhiana 141 004 India Shannon and Eric Anyone Staff Association a member of getting married to Ca rl Stewart

bull Larissa Larsen BSe 89 and who would like more informa - the steering committee of the on May 29 j 999 MLA 92 received a PhD in tion can ca ll Brian Tapscott at staffs unionization drive and a bull Lisa Cherry BSe 9 1 is a urban and regional planning 519-767-3566 staff member with the student science journalist and executive

from the University of Illinois bull Cheryl (Dunlop) Reid newspaper The Varsity He can director of Artists Against

at Urbana Champaign in May BSe(Agr) 89 sta rted a new be reached bye-mail at marty Racism an international organi-

She has accepted a position at job in September as ingredient wi lliamsutorontoca za tion She is based in Toronto

Thompson Dyke and Associshy sales manager for RA bull Bonnie (Byma) BASe 96 ales a landscape architecture Chisholm o f Toronto She will 19905 and Gil Clelland BA 95 were

and urban planning firm in continue to work from her bull Claire Allison BA 94 grad- married in December 1996 and

Chicago Her husband Ernie remote offke in Fergus Reid uated from the elementary are living in Chatham On t

Poortinga DVM 89 is in his and her husband Jeff BSe teacher ed ucation program at Bo nnie works at a day-care

third yea r of an MD program (Agr) 89 have two children the University of British centre G il teaches art and

at Rush University Chicago lVlega n 4 and Elizabeth 2 Columbia in 1996 and now phys ical education They ca n -Hes looking forward to joining bull Chee Sie BA 83 is a zone teaches in Va ncou ver be reached bye-ma il at gclelshy

his wife in the ranks of the manager for the Malaysian bull JohnAvon BSdHK) 94 lan ciaccesscom employed They would both Assurance Alliance Berhad in earned an M Se in industr ial bull Kate Corn ell BA 95 of enjoy hearing from fellow Sarawak Malaysia He and his operations from Lawrence Markham Ont earned her

alumni and can be reached at wife Jesterine have a two-year- Technological University in masters in dance history from epoor tin garushurushedu old daughter Letitia Southfleld Mich in 1997 and York University in May and

WINTER 1999 41

co-authored a book titled

Toronto Dance Theatre 1968shy1998 Stages in a Journey

bull Mary Jill (McClure) Culliton BASe 90 earned

her BEd from Brock University

and her M Ed from the Univershy

sity of Western Ontario and

teaches Grade 1 in Mitchell

Ont She and her husband

Tim live in Stratford

bull Kathleen (McNutt) Daniels BASe 9 1 is a teacher and was

married on New Years Eve

1994 to Gord Daniels They live

in North Bay Ont and have a

daughter Lauren born in Febshy

ruary 1997 They are expecting

their second child in February

bull Simon Deakin BA 95 studshyied in Florence Italy for a year

then earned a master of fine art

from the Slade School of Fine

Art at the University of London

England He lives in London

bull Christie Dunbar BLA 97 spent a year after graduation

working for Niagara College in

St Catharines Ont on the

vision and design of a new

campus to be built in Niagarashy

on-the- Lake Last April she

joined the landscape architecshy

ture firm of Pollack Design

Associates in Ann Arbor Mich

bull Trina Edmonds BA 94 and

Joel Hinderle became the

proud parents of a little girl

Jordan Ashley in january 1998

and moved to a new home in

Oakville Ont in September

Edmonds works in Mississauga

as a desktop publisher with a

publishingprinting company

bull Wendy Garinther BSc 93 and Steve Decker BSe 94

were married in May Joining

them in the wedding celebrashy

tions were Cheri (Coulter)

42 GUELPH ALUMNUS

Ascroft BSe 93 Karen Leinshy

gartner BSe 94 and Barb

(Moore) Johnson BSe 94

Best man was Jeff Bond BSe

93 and MSe 96 The Deckers

live in Edmonton where Steve

is doing a PhD in chemistry at

the University of Alberta and

Wendy is working in a research

laboratory at a biopharmaceushy

tical company

bull Donna Gross BA 97 is purshysu ing a master of divinity at

Emmanuel College at the Unishy

versity of Toronto and hopes to

become an ordained minister by

2002 She lives in Guelph and

can be reached bye-mail at

donnajulietalbedonet

bull Robert Gruber BA 92 is a child-care supervisor for the

YMCA-YWCA of Guelph and

manages the Jean Little Y

Child- Care Centre He recently

developed the anti -bias proshy

gramming policy for the

Guelph Y and sits on both the

Jean Little Public School Counshy

cil and the Guelph AIDS Wall

Committee He can be reached

bye-mail at rgrubernet

comca

bull Susan Harder BSe 91 grad shyuated from the University of

Toronto Medical School in June

and has started a residency at

Santa Clara Valley Medical Censhy

tre in San jose Calif She will

follow that up with an anestheshy

sia residency at Stanford Univershy

sity Hospital in 1999

bull Marko Harjupanula BASc 93 travelled in Australia for

two months after graduating

from Guelph then returned to

his home town of South Porshy

cupine Ont where he worked

in a gold mine for four years

He entered police college in

September and started as an

opp constable in Cochrane in

December

bull Nancy Holman MA 94 moved to Vancouver soon after

graduation and initially worked

as a project co-ordinator for an

ophthalmologist In 1996 she

began working full time for the

BC Liberal Caucus I would

enjoy hearing from and catchshy

ing up with the friends I made

while studying at U of G and

working at the Brass Taps she

says Her e-mail address is nan shy

cyholmanlassgovbeca

bull Ruth Johnson BA 91 is an investment banking associate

with the mergers and acquisishy

tions group of JP Morgan in

Lond on England responsible

for financial reporting and

administration She has been in

England with her partner Alex Campbell since graduation

bull Stephen Johnson BA 94 of London Ont was a lab technishy

cian at Lenscrafters for three

yea rs and is now a full-time

student at Fanshawe College

studying air conditioning and

refrigeration He was married

in Jun e to Jennifer Fox BSc

95 a chemist at 3M Their

wedding party included Dee Popat BSe (Eng) 94 and

Patrick Wulhes BSc 95

bull Sarah (Davis) Kelly BASe 90 married Robert Kelly in

July and teaches primary

grades at an inner-city school

in Toronto

bull Cassidy Klowak BComm 97 lives in Allisshy

ton Onl and is a personal

banking account manager

with ClBC in Tottenham

bull Stephanie Lopes BSc 96 completed her MSc in repro shy

ductive biology at the Universishy

ty of Toronto and worked as

patient-care director for the

College of Family Physicians

for almost a year In September

she enrolled in medical school

at the University of Toronto

She is happy to announce that

she is engaged to be married

next summer Lopes can be

reached at slopesidirectcom

bull Natalie (Parker) MacKenzie BSc 96 earned her BEd from

the University of Western

Ontario in 1997 She married

ASLt Andy MacKenzie June 27

in Sault Ste Marie Ont and

now lives in Halifax

bull Susan MacKinnon DVM 91 is a veterinarian with HUls

Science Diet She lives in

Guelph with her husband

Brandon Wiley and gave birth

to their first child Adrianna

Nicole june 26 at home

bull Waheed Mian BA 9 1 of Cambridge Ont is a store

director with PetSmart Canada

He helped the company launch

its new retail concept in Cana da

bull Alex Mitchell BA 91 was appointed clerkdeputy treasurshy

er of the Ontario township of

Mildmay-Carrick in 1998 and

will be the clerkadministrator

of the new municipality of

Mildmay-Carrick -TeesWatershy

Culross in 1999 He was married

in january 1997 and lives vith

his wife and daughter in Mild shy

may In his spare time Mitchell

is a professional scout for the

Toronto Maple Leafs covering

southwestern Ontario

bull Sherry Morland BASc 93 of Kitchener Ont ea rned her

BEd from Brock University in

J995 and is a part-time specia l

educa tion teacher and an occashy

sional teacher with the Watershy

loo County Board of Ed ucashy

tion She married Ivan LeBlanc

in 1997

bull Gary Page BSe 91 wo rks for the Nottawasaga Valley Conshy

servation Authority where he is

able to combine his knowledge

of wildlife biology with his

artistic skills as resident graphic

designer and outdoor centre

interpreter He Jives with his

wife Di and their son judah in

CreemoreOnt

bull Elaine Pammenter BA 96 is an inventory clerk with the

Royal Collection at Windsor

Castle in England She holds a

museum management and

curatorship grad uate certificate

diploma from Sir Sandford

Fleming College and did her

internship at the Royal Albert

Memorial Museum in Exeter

England

bull Brent Raymond BSe(Env) 96 of Brantford Ont has

been working with Outward

Bound since graduation He

leads wilderness trips in Northshy

ern Ontario Horida Australia and Sabah (Malaysian Borneo) Most recently he designed and implemented a new introducshytory mountaineering course for Outward Bound Sabah on the summit plateau of Mt Kinashy

balu Those of you who know me as plate licker from U of G get in touch he says Where are you Star I miss you He can be reached by e-mail at globarwchatonca or by

phone at 519-756-1697

Alumni Patrick Abbott BSA 40 July 7 1998

Albert Allen BSA 33 Jan 161994 Agris Ansmits BA 70 and MA 73

February 1998 Barbara (Quartermain) Babcock DHE

53 June 17 1998

Wray Bond BSA 34 Sept 25 1998

Kenneth Bone DVM 38 Dec 29 1998 Evelyn (Stevenson) Buhr DHE 39

May 251998 Philip Burke BSA 43 June 21 1998

Grant Carman BSA 49 Oct 221998 Frederick Chambers BSA 41

June 1998 Wilmot Conley ADA4 7 April 7 1998 Lloyd Crewson BSA 49 Aug 261998

Jacqueline Dimock DHE 47

Aug 20 1998 John Dingwall DVM 52

April 18 1998

Lloyd Dorsey BSA 38 June 9 1998 George Duncan BSA 37

Sept 19 1998

David Dyson BSA 53 Aug 31 1998

Norma (Shannon) Edwards DHE 39

November 1997 Vincent Bud Ellis DVM 41

July 15 1998 John Jack George BSA 48

Sept 24 1998

Donald Haight BSA 33 January 1997 William Hamlyn BSA 33 Dec I 1997

Gordon Harkness BSA 49

November 1997

Charles Hollister DVM 38 June 1996 Donald Hope BSA 54 June 28 1998

Lawrence Jefferson BSA 38

Sept 3 1998

James Kelso DVM 56 July 27 1998

Dorima Lalonde BSA 34 Oct 8 1998 Mildred (Cox) Large DHE 33

June 20 1998 Roger Larson BComm 86 Feb 19 1998 Robert Lawson BSA 49 June 6 1998

bull Doug Ramsey BA 91 and PhD 98 received U of Gs highshyest graduate student award shythe Forster Medal- at June convocation for his academic and community involvement while enrolled in Guelphs new

graduate program in geography He spent the summer as a visitshying research scholar at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College in Truro before assuming his curshyrent position as assistant professhysor at Mount Allison University

David Leach BSc(Agr) 74

July 18 1998

Ian Leask DVM 74 Sept 5 1998

Sheryl Lee BSc 95 June 8 1998 Ruby Janet MacAuley DHE 30

Aug 19 1998 Parker MacKenzie DVM 38

September 1994

Jeanice MacLaren DHE 28 March 1 1997

Campbell MacMaster DVM42

Oct 8 1998

Rex McCallum DVM 43 July 71998 Jean (Dunn) McMahon DHE 31

Nov 41998

Margaret Oones) McTaggart DHE 35 Aug 81998

Patrick McTaggart-Cowan HDSc 81

Oct 21997

Malcolm McWhinnie ADA 39

July 16 1998 Mary (Townsend) Mitchell BHSc

60 Sept 281998

Marjory Monaghan DHE 29

December 1997 Charles Monk BSA 44 Aug 7 1998

Heather Neilsen BHSc 59

Oct 30 1998 Jerry Niwa DVM 62 Aug 5 1998 Henry Harry OReilly BSA 42

October 1997

James Parr BSc(Agr) 81 June 19 1998 Charles Rammage DVM 45

Oct 17 1996 Howard Rapson HDSc 90

March 1997 Clement Reeds DVM 42 Oct 16 1998

William Robinson BSA 38

Aug 23 1998

Donald Sager ADA 73 Oct 141997

Austin Schaefer DVM 37 in 1997

Sandra (Mackenzie) Schmidt DHE 59

Aug 16 1997 Margaret (Harvey) Seaborn DHE 28

July 221998

Larry Seguin DVM 47 June 12 1998

Leah Shedden DHE 31 December 1998

Edward Shuh BSA 40 July 2 1998

Ted Shutsa BSc(Agr) 66

Sept 18 1998 Jim Sinclair DVM 49 Oct 4 1998

Margaret (Brown) Sinclair DHE 20

September 1998 Eldon Smith BSA 42 Sept 9 1998

Derek Somers DVM 96 Sept 25 1998

Cheryl Lynn Sopha BA 95 Sept 20 1998

Leona (Bartlett) Stewart DHE 35

June 27 1998 Alex Thomson BSc(Agr) 69

October 1996

William Whittick DVM 55

Aug 15 1998 Joseph Wilson BSA 23 Sept 11 1998

Lloyd Woolsey DVM41 June 24 1998

Winifred Yeates DHE 28 June 11998

Faculty John Carpenter BSA 43 and MSA 48

Microbiology Dec 10 1998

David Gaskin Zoology Sept 14 1998

Gordon Macleod BSA 50 Animal and

Poultry Science Nov 26 1998 Roman Retman Languages and

Literatures Sept 28 1998

Caesar Sen off Chemistry and

Biochemistry Aug 14 1998

Percy Smith Drama Dec 10 1998

Friends Robert Clark Aug 21 1998

Ethel Hammond August 1998

Thomas Hillers Sept 28 1998 Marguerite Holbrook Aug 26 1998

Catherine Kelly Sept 27 1998

James A McKenzie May 13 1998

Kenneth McIssac Oct 23 1998

William Mutlock September 1998 Roena Patterson Sept 16 1998

Donald Priddle Aug 25 1998

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bull Karl Reimer BSe 94 comshypleted a one-year intensive

MSc in mining engineering at

Queens University and is now

a project engineer a t Enpar

Technologies Ine in Guelph

He can be contacted at reimerbservcom

bull Nancy Nauta Rowland BA 90 and her husband Dan celshy

ebrated their first wedding

anniversary in March 1998 with

the birth of their first child

Connor who beat their March

8 anniversary by two days Nanshy

cy teaches junior-grade stushy

dents and junior special ed ucashy

tion for the Peel District School

Board The Rowlands live in

Caledon Ont

bull Fraser Stables MFA 98 was heralded by Toronto Globe 6shyMail critic Betty Jordan as a

formidable new talent followshy

ing the openi ng of his debut

gallery exh ibition in July The

Scottish artists work includes

sculpture video and mixed

media that explore notions of

flu x by interrupting the moveshy

ment of forms in space

bull Erin (Smith) Scott BSe(HK) 92 and Brad

Scott BSc(Agr) 91 of Lucan

O nt were married in 1993 and

had their first child Lucas in

August Erin works for Shopshy

pers Home Health Ca re in

London Brad is with New Life

Mills in Dunfield

bull Abby Simons BSc 95 and Martin Piche BSc(Agr) 95 were married in Mont-Tremshy

blant Quebec in 1997 She is a

customer service representative

with Kantech Systems he is

superintendent of Club de golf

vallee des forts They say theyd

love to hear from anyone headshy

ing to Montreal and can be

reached at 450-348-3860

bull Sylvia Tesori BSc 95 has been doing wildlife rehabilitashy

tion for the OSPCA Wildlife

Rehabilitation Centre in Midshy

land Ont since 1996

bull Chuck Thibeault BComm 94 is general manager of the

Putting Edge Corpora tion

which has two glow-in- theshy

dark mini-golf courses in

Ontario one in Bramp ton and

one in Richmond Hill He can

be reached in Richmond Hill at

chu ckttotalnet

bull Karen Thirlwall BA 93 is a

si ngersongwriter and guitarist

who began her stage career and

released her first album The Voice Inside Me while studying

languages at U of G She has

lived and performed in

11i stler BC for three years

and recently released a second

album called Wide-Eyed She

remembers many special

fr iends m ade at Guelph and

welcomes e-mail messages to

karenthirlwallhotmailcom

bull Christie (Johnson) and Steve

Tyler both BComm 91 live in

Cambridge Ont where

Christie is a personal banking

representative for the Royal

Bank Steve works with their

third-year design professor

Nelson Hofer in Mississauga as

a design consultan t Steves proshy

jects include the Windsor Casishy

no and U of Gs Creelman Hall

They have two children Jason

5 and Marcus 1

bull Julia White BA 91 lives in Guelph and is a small-business

accountant at Taves amp Co She

recently finished courses

towards a CGA designation and

would like to hea r from other

alumni who lived in Lambton

Hall in 198788 Send e-mail to

juliawhitesympaticoca

bull Andre-Denis Wright MSc 93 and PhD 98 is doing postshy

docto ral work in Perth Westshy

ern Australia He wants his

Guelph friends and Halifax

family to know he was thinking

of them at Christmas when it

was 40 C in Australia

bull Dave Yellen BComm 90 was recently promoted at the Gordon

Food Service to new-accounts

sales specialist for Metro Toronshy

to Having been in Ottawa for

the past few years Im hoping

to reacquaint myself with old

friend s from U of G in the Metro

area he says He lives in Scarborshy

ough and can be reached at 416shy615-2745 or davidysprintca

bull Halina Zaleski PhD 92 is a tenured professor in the

departm ent of animal sciences

at the Un iversity of Hawaii in

Honolulu She is a swine speshy

cialist involved in extension

programs for an area th at covshy

ers all of Hawai i and the PacifIC

basin She can be reached by

e-mail at halinahawaiiedu

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IF THERE ARE LIVESTOCK IN THE HOCKEY ARENA and

theyre not wearing skates its College Royal If there

are students sawing logs throwing pies baking cookies

and square dancing its College Royal When the entire

University of Guelph is displayed - from arts to zooloshy

gy - March 13 and 14 1999 youll know its definitely

College Royan

Since its inception in 1925 as an agricultural and liveshy

stock show run by the Ontario Agricultural College

College Royal has grown to be a celebrated U of G trashy

dition involving all the colleges

The event is famou s in the University community

and beyond for its open-house showcase of displays and

activities The largest student-run open house in Canashy

da College Royal attracts more than 20000 visitors to

campus over one weekend

College Royal is an event of tradition that reaches

into tomorrow Agriculture and livestock shows are still

highlighted events but College Royal activities have

grown to include dog and cat shows a photography conshy

test a chemistry magic show and demonstrations on

human health and fitness The open house gives people

an opportunity to see what happens in the Universitys

leading-edge research laboratories to observe veterinary

medicine in practice to tour a sculpture studio or to

watch a theatrical performance

To celebrate the 75th anniversary of College Royal

1998 president Joe TrakaJo lnvites alumni to get involved

again by joining one of the planning comm ittees or by

participating in a favourite event Call him for more

information at 824-4120 Ext 8366 or send e-mail to

jtrakalouoguelphca

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Winegard Named Officer of the Order of Canada

BIn WINEG ARD form er U ofG presishydent and minister of state for sc ience

and technology was named an officer of the Order of Canada in Jul y In November many of his University and co mmunity frie nds gath ered for a recognition dinner hosted by Lorie BA Sc 72 and Gin ty jocius

IN FACT What Mlldelns knows

VS editors arc learning

Major US publications have reccntly dcscribed

V of G as being academishycally excellent and a

real college valuc for American students

BSc(Agr ) 70 They were students at U of G during Winega rds tenure as president and later esta blished thei r business Gin ty jocius amp Associates in the Guelph-Wellington ridshying he represented as MP

Winegard first ca me to Guelph in 1967

to pilot the new University of Guelp h

CENTR E SIX GETS A FAC ELIFT

AFTER 25 YEARS the Unishyversity Centres popular

dining and seating area is getting a new look The expansion and renovation of Cen tre Six includes the addishytion of 200 scats an elevated lounge accessible to people

through its format ive years At the recognishytion dinner curren t U of G president Mo rdecbai Rozanski paid tribute to Wineshygards ro le as the intellec tual founder and shaper of the modern transformation of Guelph A distinguished metallurgist who began his academic career at the University of Toronto Winegard recruited many of the talented faculty who have spent the last 25 to 30 years building Guelphs reputation as a research institution said Rozanski

Winegards lead ership in the ac ademic community also encompassed the Canadian Bureau of International Education the Counshycil of Ontario Universities and the Ontario Council of University Affairs He retired from academia and U of G in 1975 His legacy on campus includes the Winegard Medal the highest award made to a graduati ng student and d1e Winegard Visiting Professorship which brings world scholars to U of G Proceeds from the recognition dinner were given to U of G to support Winegard visiting professors

Elected to Parliament in 1984 Winegard spent nine years in Ottawa and served in ca bshyinet as Canadas minister of state for science and technology and then science minister j

until he retired from Parliament in j 993 He 8 was named chair of the Premiers Research ~

Excel lence Awards board at the December i z

1998 announcement of the provincial pro- o V1gram which is designed to attract talented -lt 0you ng scientists to Ontario m

with disa bilities and a so lari shyum that has enclosed the external dining patio The facelift is funded entirely through non-exclusive agreements with the Univershysitys food service business partners

The project is expected lo address the need for space to

accommodate enrolment increases and may increase conference business Centre Six will also be more energyshyand labor-efficient with the installation of an upgraded -air-handling system In 1999

the Centre Six project will continue with renovations to the food comt area

WINTER j 999 7

in and around the

HPILOT PROJECT ELIMINATES BARRIERS

av ing a learning disability isnt a barrier to obtaining an educashy

tion at the University of Guelph especially with the laun ch of Learning Opportunities a pilot program offered through the Unishy

versitys Centre for Students with Disabilities Beginning in fall 1999

the program will give students with learning disa bilities the addishytional resources they need to meet the challenges involved in obtainshy

ing a post-secondary ed ucation

Lea rning Opportuniti es is a fi ve -yea r project that rece ived

$633 800 in special funding from the Ontario Ministry of Education

and Training U of G vas one of eight institutions to benefit from ~ the gran ts) which are designed specifically for programs in post-secshy

~ ondary institutions that support the integration of stud ents with I U learning disabiliti esIf)

z 0 Students enrolled in the Guelph program will receive pre-regis-O

~ tration cOllnselling academic advising speciall y tailored orientation

~ programs integrated living in an on-campus learn ing cluster supshy

5 ported learning groups workplace skills and competenc ies develshy

5 Oplnent) and experiential educat ion in the vvorkplace

PROVINCE BOOSTS GRADUATE RESEARCH

ANEW $75 - lvIILLlON provinshy

cial scholarship program in

science and technology will awa rd up to 46 U of G graduate

students up to $15000 star ting

this ye ar An nounced in Sepshytember the O ntario Graduate

Scholarships in Sc ience and

Technology will be awarded each

year for 10 years The ministries

of Energy Science and Technolshy

ogy and Education and Training will co-fund two-third s of the

cost of the program Uni ve rsishy

ties are expected to fmd an otershynal match for the final third

The government will alloshy

cate up to $460000 annually to

U OF G GRADS PROMPT GIFT FOOD SC IE NCE TEACHIN G and research at U of G has received financial support from the

Maple Lodge Farms Foundation In honour

of the companys founder Lawrence May

the May family presented $15000 to U of G

president Mordechai Rozanski Nov 9 at the

Royal Agricultural Wint er Fair in Toronto Presenters Wendy Ma y Robson and Kathy

May Weinhold said the gift was awarded

because of Maple Lodge Farms positive

experiences with so many highly qualified Guelph graduates

Man) graduates of this university have

passed through our facility over the yea rs

and in many capacities - as veterinarians inspectors researchers and food scientists

says Robson Our business has been enriched by this connection and it is for

8 GUELPH ALUMNUS

University

Guelph MPP Brenda Ell iott presents a cheque for $633800 to president Mordechai Rozanski for a pilot project to help learningshydisabled students Sta nd ing from left are Carol Herriot of the Cent re for Students wi th Disab ili t ies student Brad Hutchinson and cent re director Bruno Ma ncini

U of G whi ch will seek th e

remaining $230000 from prishy

va te-sector funding

Graduate studi es dean Alasshytair Summerlee is enthusiast ic

ab out the program but disapshypointed at the targe ted natu re of

the scholarships 1-k say the preshy

liminary list of qualifyi ng pro-

this reason that we wish to be part of this talented fa cility and to show our support of

its continuing mission of being a worldshy

class educational facility in Canada

Wendy Robson left and Kathy Weinh old present a gift from Maple Lodge Farms to U of G presiden t Mordechai Rozanski at the Roya l Winter Fair

grams ignores the social sciences

and huma nit ies and does not appreciate the con tributions of

fi elds suc h as econo mi cs and poli tical science to the advanceshy

mfl1t of science w d technology He says U of G wi ll press for the

govern ment to expalld the areas

included in the scholarships

B OF G WELCOMES NEW MEMBERS f OL LO W IN G 1111 1([ Il RF ~ lE NT of

several members in June U of Gs Board of Govern ors welcomed

t igh t new face~ th is blJ They are Christine Alford BSc 80 viccshy

prcsidltIlt Jnd geneml manager of

In tegration S rvices at IBM Ca na shyd1 Ltd Gil Bennett chai r of the

Canadian Tire Corporation Doug

Derry a fi na ncial adv iser and ret ired part ner with Price Wlel shy

house staff member Kathleen Hyland of th UAC Deans O ffi cI

graduate stu clenL James Rodgers undergraduate stud en ts Mitch MacDonald and Lana Rabkin and

Prof Steve Scadding Zoology

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U OF G WINS FEDERAL

INNOVATION AWARD

mE UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH is one of 14

1 Canadian universities and one of six

in Ontario to receive awards totalling $81

million from the Canada Foundation for

Innovations (CFI) Institutional Innovation

Fund (projects over $350000)

The CFI has yet to determine the exact

amount of the award but if Guelph were

to get the approximate $750000 requestshy

ed with matching grants from industry

and the Ontario Research and Developshy

ment Challenge Fund the total award

could be close to $2 million

Guelphs project is a holistic look at

agriculture the first of its kind in Canada

Titled New Technologies for Assessing

and Enhancing Agroecosystems it will be

headed by Prof Terry Gillespie chair of the

Department of Land Resource Science and

involve 25 faculty from 10 departments

Eight other U of G research projects were

invited to move on to a further stage of

review the third-highest number for an

Ontario university

TTRELLIS LAUNCHED a triangle of information sharshy indexes and Web sites and

H E SEP~EMI3ER LAU NCH of ing through TRELLIS the Trishy databases around the world an excltmg new system University Group of Libraries More than 75 million volshy

called TRELLIS has positioned combined computer-based umes of materials can be the U of G Library as a symbol information resource system found online and more thal1 of partnership and the home The automated system 400 users can log on to for more information than ever gives students and faculty at TRELLIS at the same time before U of G Wilfrid Laurier the three campuses access to a To access TRELLIS 011

University and the University of wider range of resources the Internet type wwwtugshyWaterloo joined forces to form including computer-based librariesonca

OTHER HONOURS

CONVOCAriON HONOURS TWO The University of Guelph has added two more distinshy

guished names to its list of honorary degree recipients Renowned biologist Jane Goodall and political scienshytist Peter Russell an expert on the Canadian Constitushytion and Charter of Rights and Freedoms were honshyoured during fall convocashytion ceremonies in October

Goodall received an honorary doctor of science degree acknowledging more than 40 years of groundbreaking work in the life and sociobiology of chimpanzees and other primates

An honorary doctor of

laws degree was conferred on Russell for his extensive research on the Constitution and Canadian nationalism

UOFG QUALIFIES FOR ATOP SUPPORT U OF Gs SCHOOL OF Engi- neering and Department of Computing and Information Science (CIS) are planning for more faculty equipment and resources following the Unishyversitys request for funding from a provincial program designed to address a shortage of skilled graduates in engimiddot neering and computing science

U of G met this years enrolment increase in these high-tech programs needed to qualify for one-time fundshying under the provinces Access to Opportunities Proshygram (ATOP) Guelph has also committed to doubling enrolment by the year 2000 to take advantage of long-term ATOP money

Guelph will qualify for special operating grants from the province to universities that increase their first-year enrolment in these programs by 20 per cent over 199798

The University also hopes to receive ATOP funding to increase its graduate enrolshyment in these disciplines

Both CIS and the School of Engineering face a shortage of resources making the ATOP funding an important funding source that will help these areas without affecting other campus units

WINTER 1999 9

refront ofat the

ALL THE DEFINING WORDS

written about the Ontario Agricultural College in its 125

years perhaps the most appropriate is the word integral

Throughout its history OAC has remained integral to the

agri-food industry and rural society

Its a good word integral It describes how and why

the college has survived 125 years and suggests a reason

it will grow even stronger in the 2pt century

Without hesitation OAC dean Rob McLaughlin

BSc(Agr) 69 and PhD 77 takes up the thought and

declares that OAC is the premier agricultural college in

Canada and stands in the top rank of agricultural faculshy

ties around the world Our work has had a profound

effect on the growth and development of the Canadian

agri-food system and the well-being of the people and

communities of rural Ontario and beyond he says

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OAC celebrates its history its partnerships and its fu ture

W I N TER 1999 11

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OACs 23000 graduates are also recognized

worldwide for their expertise and leadshy

ership abilities in agriculture agribusiness manageshy

ment hortiClilture landscape architecture plant and

animal biology food scie nce and rural extension

Meeting industry needs

More than 100 years apart in their leadershyship of OAC William Johnston and Rob McLaughlin both recognized that the colshylege they inherited would have to focus on industry needs to survive In Johnstons day that meant bringing greater prospershyity to the farm Because only three per cent of McLaughlins graduates return to farmshying todays college curriculum has a greater focus on skills in communication and critical thinking which are demanded by the various industries that now define agriculture

studies McLaughlin hopes those graduates will

return to help the college celebrate 1999s signifishy

cant anniversary It s important to celebrate our

past achievements and to recognize our present and

future strengths he says

A specia l OAC 125 planning committee coshy

chaired by Clay Switzer OAC dean from 1972 to

1983 and Don Blackburn former director of the

diploma program has organized a number of

events throughout the coming year to celebrate the

anniversary

Were looking forward to a wonderful year of

events to mark this occasion says Switzer BSA 51

and MSA 53 We want to celebra te the accomshy

plishments of the past and the fact tha t OAC has

interacted with many partners to get where we are

today and we want to look ahead to the future to

see how the college and the University might conshy

tinue along this successful path

Success for OAC means maintaining its position

as a vital partner and contributor to the prosperity

of the agri-food industry and the people of rural

Ontario for whom it was established That industry

and those rural communities are vastly different

from the 1874 picture we draw from the college hisshy

tory primarily because farmers themselves - with

the help of agricultural education and researchshy

12 GUElPH ALUMNUS

125 YEARS OF ACHIEVEMENT

Throughout OACs first 125 years its educashytion research and extension activities have had an impact on virtually every secshytor of Canadas agrimiddot food industry In the anniversary book 125

Years of Achievement OAC highlights some of the areas where col1lege faculty stushydents and administrashytors have played a leadership role To read more about Guelphs achievements in these areas conshytact the OAC deans office to obtain a copy of the book

Pre 1900

bull Diploma in agriculture

bull Degree in agriculture

bull Agri-food short courses

bull Production bulletins bull Extension work bull Liberal education bull Library resources bull Field crop trials bull Livestock breeding

bull Forestry bull Insect identification bull Experimental Union

1900-1910

bull Herbarium amp weed garden

bull Cheese making bull Food safety bull Land drainage bull Water testing bull Weather observashy

tions amp zoning for crop production

bull Legume inoculants

have forged change through increased productivishy

ty and efficiency

When OAC roots were planted in 187450 per

cent of th e people who lived in this new province

made their living from farming Today only two per

cent of Ontario residents live on farms

but they feed a much larger population

base and an important export market

The Ontario agri-food industry genershy

ates an impressive $637 billion in ecoshy

nomic value each year and stimulates

employment for nearly a quarter of the

workforce Canadians enjoy one of the

safest and cheapest food supplies in the

world spending less than 13 per cent of

their disposa ble income on food Most

people in the world spend more than 50

per cent

Its difficult to pinpoint all the conshy

tributions OAC faculty staff and gradshy

uates have made to agriculture because

the knowledge created and the techshy

nologies perfected here have been so weU

assimilated by the industry that they are

easily taken for granted Few people in

Ontario have ever heard of Charles

Zavitz or know that this early OAC gradshy

uate and professor recorded the first

field-crop yield tests at Guelph before 1890

Appointed head experimentalist in 1893 he was

instrumental in developing a college research proshy

gram that made good the promise that OAC would

offer its students training in scientific agriculture

Zavitz has been followed by a number of brilshy

liant educators and scientists whose contributions

to the college and its industry have filled several

books Even Alexander Ross in OACs official hisshy

tory College on the Hill can provide only a brief

description of the research initiatives that have

involved OAC in the growth of the agri-food secshy

tor and the tremendous advances agriculture has

made in the areas of human and animal nutrition

and health water and soil conservation rural develshy

opment and of course agri-food education

To give prominence to these contributions the

college has published an anniversary book that outshy

lines 125 of the most significant accomplishments in

which OAC faculty students and administrators

played a leadership role More important 125 Years ofAchievement celebrates the partnerships that have

provided the opportunities for achievement Through

the years Guelph scientists and educators have worked

closely with the agri-food industry with both the

Ontario Ministry of Agriculture Food and Rural

Affairs and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and

with other government departments international 1990s And they still have not reached that equalishy125 YEARS agencies educational institutions and alumni ty on the college faculty Alice Rowsome may haveOF ACHIEVEMENT

Read any entry in 125 Years ofAchievement and been hired to serve as assistant librarian and instrucshy

youll find an interes ting anecdote that chronicles tor in French and German at the turn of the censhy1910-1920

an important element in campus history Read the tury but horticulturist Patricia Harney remained bull Macdonaldwhole book and youll be awed by the

Institutesheer volume of th e work that has

bull Soil science been accomplished by so many people Scientific agricuLture

bull Poultry lighting working meticulously over so many

amp nutritionyears to affect so many changes in agrishy After earning one of its first agriculture

bull OAC 21 barleyculture that have improved the lives of degrees in 1888 Charles Zavitz began a

bull Fruit research Canadians 40-year career overseeing the college

Freeman McEwen OAC dean from experimental programs and made the first 1920-1930

1983 to 1990 chaired a committee that advancements in plant breeding Threebull Collecting

involved severa l dozen current and generations later Prof Ken Kasha led the Canadian art

retired faculty as well as alumni students development of a haploid technique of cell bull War Memorial

and U of G staff in writing the stories division that cut the time needed to breed Hall

A quick check of dates in the book new varieties in half Today plant biotechshybull Graduate

shows a spiral of achievement that has nologist Bryan McKersie is looking even education

escalated with whirlwind force since the deeper into the functioning of plant cells bull College Royal

establishment of the University of to manipulate genes that will enhance proshybull SoybeanGuelph in 1964 and heads unabated ductivity or disease resistance

developmenttoward the future The 125 items docushy

bull Forage varieties ment scientific discoveries to be sure

bull Meat research but also the development of the college

bull Ginsengas an educa tional institution and its bull Farm business

ongoing partnership with the provincial records

government

Out of the J25 McEwen has picked his own top the only woman on faculty throughout the 1960s 1930-1940

five beginning with the contributions OAC made and women are seriously under-represented even bull Professional

to the establishment of the University This campus today This is one area where historians find room societies

has the distinction of being the only one in North to criticize agricultural traditions and college polishybull ControlledAmerica where the agricultural college preceded the cies that continued the dominance of men for far

atmosphereuniversity that supports it That fact helps ex plain too many years

storagethe unique character of the University of Guelph The college itself was dominated by the provinshy

bull Muck crops and its prominence in the life sciences cial government during its first 90 years when OAC bull Salmonella

Some might argue that the process of becoming principals reported directly to the minister of agrishytesting

a university began as ea rly as 1904 when the Macshy culture The 1964 University of Guelph Act mainshybull Links with donald Inst itute opened This event is second on tained the schools relationship with the agriculshy

farm groups McEwens list of top accomplishments The ad dishy ture ministry but gave the col lege a new- found

tion of women to the campus changed OAC from a freedom that expanded research and graduate proshy1940-1950

boys school into a co llege Guelph history professhy grams and opened the door to increased fundingbull Holland Marsh

sor Terry Crowley says bluntly Early student life at from th e education ministry It a lso permittedResearch Station

OAC is readily divided into two - before women greater collaboration with the Ontario Veterinarybull Standardizedand after women College which had been moved to Guelph by politshy

cattle conformation The Mac girls were generally older than the J6- ical dictate in 1922

bull Potato breeding and 17-year-old students at OAC they were more One of the most vivid examples of the impact of

bull Reproductionmature and brought both a social life and a new acashy that collaboration was the dramatic increase in anishytechnology

demic focus to the campus For the young women mal-breeding technologies OVC perfected artificial bull Queen beeof Ontario it was a long overdue opportunity and insemination and held the only licence in Ontario for

rearingthey grasped the educa tion offered at Macdonald frozen semen until 1969 OAC faculty and the netshy -bull TechnologyInstitute in large numbers work of provincial agricultural representatives helped

transferWomen were not admitted into the agriculture promote the technology and control it through the

bull Conservation program until 1918 however and they didnt reach development of a national livestock and performance

farm planning numerical equality with male students until the inventory Through these combined efforts Canada

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emerged as a global leader in animal breeding largest Ontario univers ity geographica lly when it125 YEARS OACs un ique and enduring relati onship wi th assumed res ponsibility for ed ucation resea rch andOF ACHIEVEMENT

the provincial agric ulture ministry is another addishy Iaboratory services form erl) managed by the minshy

tion to McEwe ns list of top achievements Certa inshy is try Guelph agric ultural expertise covers the 1950-1960

ly the most significan t even t in the last decade has provi nce with camp uses in Guelph Ridgetownbull Horticulture corre-

Kemptville a nd Alfred and a network of spondence course

research facilities that includes the Horshybull Business education Changing with society ticultural Resea rch Institute of Ontariobull Watershed research

diagnostic laboratories and 21 research bull Farm buildingWhen Adelaide Hoodless argued for the stat ions

programestablishment of Macdonald Institute in the The partnership with OMAFRA has

bull Computers in late 1890S she saw scientific training for kept agricultural education and research agriculture

women as a way to improve community at the forefro nt of the University of bull Corn expansionhealth standards The college has evolved Guelph More than 40 per cent of the Unishybull Deailing with continually through the years - growing versitys graduate studenllt are in OAC and

cold climate into the largest home economics facility in more than 70 per cent of its $80-million

bull CropOntario under dean Margaret McCready and research budget is focused on the ag rishyrecommendations

broadening its outlook in the 1970S under food indus try T hat commitment to

dean Janet Wardlaw to include consumer research is the earliest and most enduring1960-1970

studies and the hospitality industry Wardshy achievement out of the 125 bull OAC Alumnilaw set the tone for increased research OAC contin ues to lea d the way in

Foundationactivity and positioned the college to join research and is one of the most dynamshy

bull University of Guelphforces with the social sciences in 1998 ic co lleges in th e University saysbull Arboretum

McLaughlin But we draw on peoplebull Ag research

fro m all over the University communi shystations

ty And now with the provincial colleges bull International

added back into the mix we are ail workshyag research centres

ing as part of the sa me team to enhance bull Scholarships

been the launch of a new University relationship the opportunities availab le to yo ung people in agri shyendowments

with OACs oldest partner the Onta rio Minist ry of cu ltural edu cat ion bull International

Agriculture Food a nd Rural Affairs (OMAFRA) Alumn i have always held an important position apiculture

In 1997 the University of Guelph became th e on that tea m Among OACs top achievements is the

The OAC of today owes much to its past THE ONTAR IO AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE might never have existshy The journalist s role in establishing the college as the Ontario

ed if not for the failure of a Univers ity of Toronto experiment in School of Agriculture and Experimental Farm is bro ught into

agricultural education in the 18505 It certainly wouldnt have context in a new history of OAC that will be published in April

been situated in Guelph without the political parlaying of Guelph to help celebrate its 125th an niversary The College 011 the Hill A journalist and cleric William Clarke And it might not have surshy New History of the 011tario Agriwltuml College 1874- I 999 was

vived a traumatic first yea r o f patronage and scandal if it hadnt written by Guelph history professor Terry Crowley and Univershy

been for the acc iden tal appo intment ofVVilliam Johnston as prinshy sity professor emeritus Alexander Ross who wrote the origi nal

cipal in the fall of 1874 College 011 the Hill for OACs 100th anniversary

And that was just the beginning If the first book tdls us how OAC grew into the University of

One hundred and twenty-five years have passed since Clarke cuelph the second tells us why

successfully argued that the new province of Ontario needed a When the fledgling provincial government of the 1870s was

land-based rural college where the focus was on providing a pracshy glued togeLher by political patro nage how could th e sc hoo l be

tical education in farming The University of Toronto fai led to any different asks Crowley Two principals came and went withshy

attract farmers sons he sa id because it allowed the other proshy in its first year when rumours tore at their moral fibre so the job

fessions of medicine law and the clergy to overshadow agriculshy fell quickly to the new college rector William Johnston

ture Clarkes persuasive fiting in the then Olltario Farmer newsshy Because we already know how OACs story devdops we ca n

paper helped place the college on 550 acres of good clay loam see some iro ny in the fact that the man who nur tured this preshy

at the back door of his Guelph parish mier agricultural college through its infancy was educated in the

14 GVELPI-I AWMNvs

alumni initiative that es tablished the OAC Alumni work internship at the end of their third yea r and125 YEARS Foundation in the 1960s to provide financial supshy co me back to finish the fourth year with a job wa it shyOF ACHIEVEMENT port to co ll ege programs and scholarships The ing for them says McLa ughlin and they o ften have

foundation also provided the leadership and incenshy fo ur or fi ve to choose from vVe are very short of bull Teaching

tive to create Guelph Unive rsity Alumni Research graduates to fill all of the jobs that are o ut there now innovations

and Development (GUARD Inc) in bull Birdsfoot trefoil

1996 The manda te of the technology bull Land reclamation Educating Leadersmanageme nt company is to develop bull Rural planning

researc h i nven tion s in to marketable bull Wind and snow Guelphs agriculture graduates haveprod ucts lau nch spin-off companies

studies played key roles in Canadian agriculture and gene rate revenu es to support basic

bull Milk testing including federal ministers William Mothshyand applied research at U of G bull Ruminant nutrition

erwell Diploma 1881 John Wise ~DA 56Throughout OACs history alumni bull Ag poli cy and Lyle Vanclief BSc(Agr) 66 Mothshyhave formed a network ofAggies who

development erwell was a driving force behind the have volunteered their time to provide

western grain producers movement before 197deg-198o

a rea l-world view for students helped to

being named to Cabinet in 1921 In thelaunch the careers of many new grad ushybull Arboretum Centre 1980s Wise introduced income stabilizashyates by providing work opport unities bull Ghana-Guelph tion programs and created farm debtencouraged research initiatives co nshy

Project review boards Today Vanclief is strugshytributed millions of dollars to scholarshy

bull Integrated pest gling with low commodity prices and intershyship programs and voca lized co ncerns

managementabout college programs and curriculum national trade agreements

bull Composting animal After receivin g some critica l advice

wastesfrom alumni and agr i-food employers

bull Crop resistance toin the ea rly part o f the 1990s OAC

herbicideslaunched a new BSc(Agr ) program that

bull Limnocorrals for wil l gradu ate the fi rst class of st uden ts

aquatic ecosystems this anniversary year The new agriculshy

bull Grain drying and ture curriculum emphasizes communica tion skills in the agri-food sec tor he says

storageand teamwork allows students to choose their own If you live anywhere near Guelph youll know that

bull Asparagusspecializations and includes opportunities for onshy the agri-food sector ill this area is expected to lead the

bull Systemic fungicides the-job experience Many of those students take a local economy well into the new mi llennium creat shy

bull Pesticides research

bull Agricultural Code of

Practicesocial sciences Johnston had no real farm expeshy within the interdisciplin ary atmosphere of the

rience but he understood people well says Crow- University of Guelph OAC has both contributed

ley and he recognized almost as quickly as his students that the to and benefited iiom the Universitys steady growth Traditionshy

school would succeed only if it co uld offer farm ers sons someshy al OAC programs have expanded into new departments and colshy

thing more thall what they had already learned at home leges providing greater benefits to agri-food resea rch and teach shy

Johnstons commitment to education and his genui ne con shy in g New partnerships o n campus and th e academ ic freedom

cern for his students still echo through the corridors of the build shy provided by University sta tus have enabled Guelph to enlarge its

ing named in his hono ur a nd across campus in the broad range already significant influence in the agri-food sector

of disciplines that now nuke up the Un iversity of Guelph Johnshy Crowley says the enha nced partnership between U of G and

ston was the firs t of hundreds of hulllane and sensible people the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture Food a nd Rural Affairs has

who have given the campus its distinctive character says Crowshy fulfilled a vision of OAC as the hub of agr icultural educa tion that

ley The University of Guel ph is still a good place to be People had been expressed nea rly a cen tury before It s a good place to

help each other to a rema rkable degree and it is eve n m ore end a history and begin a future

remarkable that this sense of co-operatio n has lasted through the In Crowleys fi nal words Agriculture reta ins its econo mi c

most recent government meat slicing importance in the co untrys econom) but the secto r will find

Told in the social and political context of its 125 yea rs the itself [n an increasingly international and com petitive ellvironment -OAC story builds momentum as the pages turn The final chapshy where education and research become ever more importa nt Since

ter in Crowleys history is the most impressive because it SUIll shy the Ontario Agricultural College has demons t rated its ability to

marizes the last 25 years when developments in agricultural edushy respond to changing circumstances during its first 125 years the

cation research and service have occurred 1110st quickly Growing past suggests a willingness to meet the new challenges that await

WINTER 1999 15

ing more jobs and generating more wealth than any 125 YEARS other industry A recent study by the citys Planning OF ACHIEVEMENT OAe 125 and Business Development Department predicts a

ANNIVERSARY EVENTS50-per-cent increase in employment in agri-food bull Mosquitoindustries in the next decade Broaden out to the

monitoring jan 29 - Official OAC 12S launch and bull Canadian publication of 125 Years of Achievements

Greenhouse Feb 16 - Winegard Seminar Series hosts New frontiers Conference Andy Johnson Seymour Wis

bull Non-agricultural March 5 - Winegard Seminar Series hosts At the tum of the 20th century Prof William waste on land Sir Colin Berry Royal London Hospital UKGraham created the impetus for a Canadishy

bull Pest diagnostic March 31 - Opening of AJ Casson Exhibitan poultry industry through nutrition studshyservice and selections from the OAC art collection ies that also provided a background for

at the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre work in human nutrition The tum of the 1980-1990 April 30 - Recognition of the 12s-year 21st century finds poultry scientist Ann Gibshybull Alumni House GuelphOMAFRA partnership and launch bins perfecting the techniques to transfer bull Turfgrass Institute of The College on the Hill A New History genetic material into chicken embryos to bull Centre for the of the Ontario Agricultural College develop birds with better disease resistshy

Genetic Improvement 1874 - 1999middotance or to improve production characterisshyof Livestock june 7 amp 10 - Spring Convocation for tics including the deposition of medically

bull Network of OAC diploma and degree graduates Eachvaluable proteins in the eggs Toxicology Centres graduate will receive a copy of College

bull Biological control lab on the Hill bull George Morris june 18 amp 20 - Alumni Weekend and

Centre opening of the Conservatory and Gardens bull Advanced Sept 14 to 16 - Canadas Outdoor Farm

Agricultural Show will host the countrys biggest silent Leadership auction as an OAC fundraiser for student Program support Ontario industry and the predictors are similar and

bull Distance education Sept 25 - Heritage Banquet and Ball for again youll find U of G at the hub of that growth bull Animal behaviour alumni agri-food partners and University In the past decade the view from Johnston Hall

and welfare communityhas expanded to include OMAFRAs provincial bull Farm animal care Nov 24 - Agri-Food Into the Newheadquarters and the U of G Research Park which bull Haploid breeding Millennium conference to discuss the majoris home to a branch of Agriculture and Agri-Food

technologies forces shaping the destiny of the global Canada the regional headquarters of the Canadian bull Hybrid canolc and Canadian agri-food systems and rural Food Inspection Agency and more than two dozen bull Consumer societiesbusinesses and agriculture organizations that are

benefits from key players in Ontarios industry

agricultural For more information on these events or toIn the summer of 1997 Guelph welcomed the research order copies of the anniversary books visit establishment of Ontario Agri-Food Technologies

bull Soybean the OAC 125 Web site at wwwoacuoguelph - a consortium of 12 grower associations five rhizobium 532C cajOAC125 or contact the deans office atOntario universities 11 industries and OMAFRA

519-824-4120 Ext 2285 e-mail oac125 - which is dedicated to generating wealth for the 1990S oacuoguelphcaprovincial agri -food sector through the application bull Guelph Food

of biotechnology The consortium will develop Technology

financing and the research teams needed to take in new business to the country s economyCentre

discoveries and turn them into products in the Some would suggest the growth of agri -food bull GUARD Incsupermarket partnerships is part of a global trend in economic bull Environmental

A new venture beginning this year is the Agrishy thinking that says consolidate cluster and work Farm Plan

Food Quality Cluster that seeks out opportunities together for greater rewards but the important thing bull U of GOMAFRA

for agri-food companies to work together to meet is that this agri-food sector is clustering in Guelph partnership

a specific need The Guelph duster is one of the first - around U of G - because this institution began bull Wheat in China

to be established in Canada but it already has 500 preparing for its future 125 years ago with a comshybull Food packaging

members and has predicted that potential projects mitmen t to leadership in agri-food research edushybull Transgenic plants

in Ontario could add $2 billion to $3 billion a year cation and service ga

16 GUELPH ALUMNUS

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

rese~ tesch SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERYmiddot SCHOLARSHIpmiddot SOCIAL DEVELOPMENTS

WHEN 24 HOURS IN lea rning how to integrate work Runciman arrived at Guelph know they may be harm ful to

A DAY ISNT ENOUGH and fa mily life rath er than jugshy last summer after spending four their health

TRYIN GTO ACCOMMODATE the gling the two says Lero Inteshy years deSIgning orthopedic sysshy Most consumers are not demands of family and career is gration is key so tfut people can tems and instruments for Canashy aware that plants contain a comshya problem most peopl e fa ce in be successful in multiple roles dian and Ameri ca n firms He plex mi xture of biochemica ls todays society Those indi vidshy rath er than struggling from crishy hopes to establish a state-of-theshy says Prof Pra vecn Saxena Plant ual and family struggles will be sis to crisis art research lHboratory with Agriculture Herbal remedies the focus of the Universitys new HOLlsed in the College of Pro fs Jinl Dickey and Jack have been developed on historishy

Social and Applied j-Iuman Scishy Callaghan Human Bi010gy and cal and anecdotal evidence rather ences the centre brings togethshy Nutr itional Sciences that will than by scientitlc testin g he says er related resea rch areas und er allow him to pursue hi s twin Saxena is trying to change this by a sing1e roof and will spark new research interests in shoulder systematically identifying charshy

Family relations interdisc iplinary opportunities and spine mechanics acterizing and quantifying the experts recommend particularly for graduate st ushy The trio has appli ed for chemical constituents of plants parents integrate - not dents More than 50 fac ulty and fundi ng from the Natural Sc ishy used in a1ternative medicines juggle - work and staff ha ve indicated a desire to ences and Engineering Resea rch family life be affiliates of the centre which Co uncil to equip a biomechanshy

wijJ stimulate resea rch and forge ics lab already loca ted adjacent partnerships with organiza tions to U of Gs new Health and Pershy

Centre for Families Work and co rp orations and co mmunity forman ce Ce ntre in the recentshyWell-Being agenCies ly renova ted Powell Building

Headed by Profs Donna This funding would bring Lero and Kerry Daly Family BODY IS THE the lab up to date to meet intershyRe lat ions and Appli ed Nutri shy ULTIMATE MACHINE national standards says Runcishytion the centre will promote IM INTER ESTED in the app lishy man who p1ans to follow up on responsive wo rk env ironments cation of mechanical engineershy pioneering shoulder mechani cs and help families across Canashy ing to the human body The work he was invo lved in whil e He and grad uate students da manage wo rk and family body is the ultimate machine completing his PhD at Sco tshy Susan Murch and Co lleen Simshyresponsibilities in healthy ways So says Prof John Runciman lands Strathclyde Un iversity mons in th e Ontario Agri culshy

The centre will also be a catshy who recently brought his blend He hop es hi s studies will tural Co llege a1so wa nt to alyst for new researcl in areas of academic and industry expershy help orthopedic co mpanies improve the methods of growshyas diverse as health promotion tise in biomedical engineering design better implan ts used to in g medicinal plants to protect seniors long-term ca re nutrishy to U of Gs School of Engineershy correct such deformities as sco shy cons umers and ensure quality tion and wellness rural aging ing in the College of Phys ica l liosis or cur va ture of the spine Problems in the herbal remeshyand gender in the workplace A and Engineering Science and for treating shoulder insta shy dies industry include medicinal mandate of the centre is that the

IN FACT

bi lity often caused by injuries prepara tions containing misidenshyresults of its research must be among athletes tified plant species contaminashyapplied and availabl e to the tion by pests and disease a lack public to benefit those Canadishy RESEARCHERS of understanding of plant physshyans who ne ed help dealing with CULTIVATE QUALITY iology or efficacy for human conshythe accelerated pace of life nonshy IN HERBAL sumption ilnu co nsumer fraud shytraditional family relationsl ips MEDICINE Our research will help set a longer working hOLlrs globlt1lshy MORE AND MO RE Canadims are standard fo r the development ization and downsizing turning to natural remedies as of safe va lue-added products

The challenge for fam ilies is alternatives to medicine but few Saxena says

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RESEARCH UNCOVERS KEY

TO AGING RESEARCHERS may have found modern sc iences answer to th e mythica l Fountain of Youth

U of G professors John Phillips and Arthur Hilliker Department of Molecular Biolshyogy and Genetics and Gabrielle Boulianne of the University of Toronto and th e Hospital fo r Sick Children appear to have identified a critical weakness in the common fruit fl ys defence against aging

The researchers from the College of Biologica l Science di scovered that a specific cell type - th e motor neuron - is the major target for oxidative damage known for several years to be a key factor affecti ng aging and lifespa n They were able to boost a fruit flys defence against the damage by inserting th e human gene SOD1 which is known to protect against oxidashy

tive damage into the fly s DNA As a result the ave ra ge lifespa n of the fli es (us uall y about 80

days) was increased 40 per cent

PROFESSOR SURVEYS CANADIANS ON POLITICS ETHICS

of the most pampered celeb ri ty NEW WEAPON or the mo st prima donn a pro AGAINST BACTERIA athlete ANTflllOTlCS TYPICALLY have a

More than half of su rvey shelf life because bacte ria develshyresponden ts say they have little op resista nce over time but this or no confidence in Parliament wou ld not be a concern with a with the figure being even lower new sys tem fo r smuggling for the Senate In addition 34 per an tibiotics past bacterial walls

TI-lESE DAYS on both sides of the A molecular-level Trojan border what a politician says or ho rse is how Prof Terry Bevshydoes in private can have tremenshy eridge Department of Microbishydous impact on his or her public ology and graduate student Kelshycareer - but is th at appropriate ly MacDonald desc ribe the

Prof Maureen Mancuso of system theyre studying 1 t takes the Department of Polirical Scishy advan tage of a mechanism develshyence in the College of Social and oped by bacteria to attack an d Applied Human Sciences an d a co nsume neighbouring bugs team of four other political scishy Preliminary tests by the entists conducted a cross-counshytry survey of 1400 Canadians asking what th ey think of th e behaviour of their elected represhysentatives The res ults were pubshyli shed in October in th e book A

Question of Ethics Canadians

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WILL ONTARIO FARMERS GROW

HEMP U OF G SCIENTISTS are helping to determine the viability of hemp as a cash crop for Ontario farmers

Health Canada recently li ftshyed a 60-year ban on growing hemp and about 10000 acres are expected to be plan ted in Canada this year Hemp is an organic fibre tha t could be used in everythi ng fro m fabri c and medicine to oil and paper

Gordon Scheifele of Kemptville CoJlege and Peter Dragla of Ridgetown College are studying the potential of hemp as an Ontario crop Scheifele has completed initial test ing on nine varieties and a series of producshy

tion research experiments in northern parts of On tario Dragla has established breeding program trials and looked at commercial production of hemp varieties in southern Ontario He is also developing field instrushymentation to provid e field readshyings of tetrahydrocanmbinol the psychoactive ingredient in hemp

NO ONE KNOWS MORE ABOUT

THE WOMAN WHO CREATED ANNE

COLLEGE OF ARTS professor Ivlary Rubio and professo r emerita Eliza beth Waterston know more abo ut author LM Montgomery than anyone else in the world They were among the first academics to seriously study the world-famous author of Anne ofGreel Gables

Montgomery published a total of 22 novel s which have been translated into abo ut 20 languages and continue to sell

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From the School of Li terashytures and Performance Studies in English Rubio and Waterston

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Rubio is also writing a longer biography of Montgomery at the request of the authors fam ily

TRAINING VETS TO DEAL WITH CLIENT GRIEF

A NEW INTERACTIVE CD-RO M designed by Ontario Veterinary College professor Cindy Adams will help veterinarians learn to help clients gr iev in g over th e loss of a pet Titled Death of a Pet the CD-ROM is expected to be launched in February and is geared toward vets technicians and students

Adams who holds joint appo intments in the departshyments of Popu lat ion Medicine and Cli nical Studies and the Veterinary Teaching Hospital is an expert on the humanan imal bond She has developed in-sershyvice training workshops fo r vets on dealing with client grief over the loss of a pet and su pport groups for grieving pet owners

Inside Playwright Judith Thompson

BEHIND THE MASK

JUDITH THOMPSON A DRAMA PROFESSOR at the University of Guelph

since 1992 is one of Canadas finest playwrights Her complex and

sometimes disturbing plays give voice to human failings and accomshy

plishments A two-time winner of the Governor Generals Literary

Award she has received wide acclaim for her work

On the following pages the Guelph Alumnus profiles an artist

whose creativity finds expression through dialogue by offering a

faithful rendition of the dialogue between Thompson and Comshy

munications and Public Affairs writer Andrew Vowles Much like

the characters she unmasks on stage Thompson reveals both comshy

plicated and unexpected images of herself

PHOTOGRAPHY BY D EAN PALMER

20 GU ELPH A LUMNUS

NO The scene is the rehearsal space in Lower Massey Hall at the University of Guelph

Monday mid-morning Outside the warped-glass windows the first wet snow of the year

drops like pebbles Drama professor Judith Thompson is leading some 20 students in her

Acting I class through their warm-ups The students stand in a circle and take turns aiming

a mock blow as they shout the word No More she says to the less assertive To others

whose No sounds shredded over the top she holds up a hand More control Thompson

gestures to her diaphragm It has to come from here

SCENE THOMPSONS OFFICE MASSEY H ALL

On one wal l hang pictures of actors engaged

in a drama mingled with childrens sc hool

drawings The desktop is practically bare A

black purse occupies one chai r A scarf has

landed on the back of another This is where

the playw rig ht hangs her hat during her

classes and meets with studen ts She wri tes

at home in Torontos Annex neighbourhood

where she li ves with her husband Gregor

Campbell a sessional English inst ruc tor at

Guelph and their five children Ariane 13

Eli 10 Grace 8 Felicity 4 and Sophia J

SCENE U OF G LI BRARY ARCHIVES

Guelph Alumnus writer (readil1g from draft of Epilepsy and Snakes Fear as the Genesis of Theatre a talk given by Thompson to the Epilepsy Association of Metro Toronto ill 1997 The script for the ta lk is included among boxes ofcorrespo nde11ce numerous drafts of plays various newspaper and magazine artishycles and reviews ahout the playwright and her work that Thompson recently donated to the U of G Library archives)

1have known real fear only a few times

in my relatively sheltered life But 1

believe these moments of fear are

directly connected to the so urce of creshy

ativi ty within me

SCENE J UST ABOUT ANYWHERE YOU CAN

REA D A PLAY

GA writer (reading from introduction to Tho mpsons play Sled wh ich was first pro shyduced hy Torontos Tarragon Theatre in 1997)

Judith Thompson was born in 1954 in

Montreal She graduated from Queens

University in 1976 then graduated from

the act ing program of the National Theshy

22 GU ELPH ALUMNUS

I seem to give voice to people who

have no voice

atre Schoo l in 1979 Alth ough she

worked briefl y as a profess ional actor

she became more interested in writing

and at th e age of 25 a workshop of her

first scrip t The Crack walker was proshy

duced by Theatre Passe MuraiHe Her

work which includes both radio and

tel evisio n writing has enjoyed great

internationa l success

Other plays includ e The Crackshywalker White Biting Dog Pink Tornado - radio Am Yours Lion ill the Streets White Sand Perfect Pie and Stop Talking Like That- radio She is the recipient

of the Floyd S Chalmers Canadian Play

Award for Lion in the Streets in 199 1 and

Am Yours in 1987 and the Governor

Generals Literary Award for Drama for

The Other Side of the Dark in 1989 and

White Biti11g Dog in 1984

S CENE LUNCHTIME

U OF G UNIVERSITY CLUB

Thompson Im so grateful to have this job

beca use it allows me to do the work that s

important and the plays that will be my legashy

cy and tha t are what 1 feel I have to conshy

tribute to Canadian culture If I didnt have

thi s job Id ha ve to keep compromising

because my plays dont make money Theyre

always in sma ller houses I take chances

theyre not commercial They play all over

th e world but aha)s in sma ller places 1

would just have to pursue life as a screenshy

writer to make a living Thi s job gives

me the great privilege of doing my research

which is the plays that I write and the edishy

torial work that I some times do and screenshy

plays that are worthy and good projects

GA writer Audi ences and reviewers have

described your plays as dark disturbing full

of angry people full of profanity

Thompson At the risk of sounding

grandiosel seem to give voice to people who

have no voice or very little in the culture

whom people dont li sten to Liol1 in the Streets the handicapped wo man living in

the basement all on her own the yo ung girl

Iso bel The secretary stuck in this abu sive

relationship with the actor The middle-class

housewife dumped by her husband because

be doesnt like her sweatsuits and on and on

I give voice to them because I dont know

because I care abo ut them because I like to

represent them Im a lawyer Some of them

use profanity because they have really good

reason to be angry a nd most of th em are

powerless And unfortunately profanity has

a little charge Its a little source of baby powshy

er It upsets me I dont use it myself Im very

se nsitive to it

SCENE ARCHIVES

GA writer (reading essay by Thompson comshymissio ned by Toronto literary Journal Brick

in 995)

If I were not a writer 1 think 1 would

wear a riding hat With a stee l lining

Because I would be baving many more

epi leptic seizures than 1 do presentl y

Because any of the non-writer real jobs I have had caused me sleepless nights self-disgust swoll en eyes cystic acne and hearin g di sorde rs all of which increased electrical activity in my brain which I believe increases the frequenshycy of seizu res

SCENE UNI VER SITY CLUB

Thompson (discussing the critical and pubshylic reaction to her first play The Crackwalkshyer) It was slaughtered at first as all my plays have been Very bad reviews at first and then somehow they catch fi re and theres one grea t review and the others start to see something GA writer Why the bad reviews Thompson I think people might say that theyre shock ing but I dont think so not

with the movies we see and whatnot Theyre not shocking compared with Quentin Taranshytino But theyre not like anything else they dont know where to put them And when they dont know where to put them theyre dismayed I think and hostile and they feel challenged I just write as I see Im not tryshying to shock or challenge anyone I hope they do challenge - me too all of us I often feel li ke the little boy in The Emperors New

Clothes Look this is what I see

SCENE LOWER MASSEY HALL

Two Acting I students perform a scene on th e stage Their fellow stud ents sit on th e Aoo r watching Thompson sits forward on a plasti c chair forearms propped on her knees hands clasped before her Her eyes her bod y are intent on the action Later Amberley Buxton (fi rst-year student il1 Actshyil1g I who is pursuing a psychology major and a drama minor)

Its a really in tense class In one of our first classes we were to share something that had changed our perspective on li fe or how we thought every day Later during improvisashytion or scene work she had us draw on the emotional context fro m those stories to add to our acting experiences Its really intense in that way A lot of people share a lot of personal things and we use each others experiences

SCENE UNIVER SIT Y CLUll

Thompson Ea ch se meste r students go through an intensive transition In order to find your creative centre or trigger yo u need

to know yourself in an intell ectual context They reach that pl ace and find their genius My philosophy is that every stu dent has genius and its my job to uncover it My relationshi p is so intense with st udents The classes are very psychoanalyt ic It seems to tra nsform their life

SCENE LO WER MA SSEY

Buxton Even if we haven t encountered a similar situat ion in real life she has us draw on somethi ng similar For ollr exa m Im doing a monologue My character has been abused I havent been abused myself but I have to draw on a si tuation where I had sim shy

itar feel ings draw on some experi ence Like being teased at schoo l Even so mething as small as tha t if you find a way to get back to that

SCENE UNIVERSITY CLUll

Thompso n I llsed to be terrified In high school Id spend half my time in the nurses room because the idea of having a se izu re in front of yo ur peers at that age was just petrifying I did finall y have a seizure but luckil y no one was around at the time So I

think all of that puts me in touch with a lot in life I might not have been in touch with being fairly privileged not rich but eno ugh to be middle class A lot of my work is about class abo ut the class differentiation in Canashyda Ive somehow felt more all ied to a less adva ntaged class My gra ndfather once sat as prime minister of Australia My grandshyfa ther on the other side was a member of the Royal Society an entomologist but his mother died in childbirth and he was brought up as a cousin on the farm outside of London And my Australian grandfath er was one of 1I siblings in a shack by the side of the railroad His father had di ed He walked barefoot to school so I th ink because its just two generations away I feel it in my bones and my blood GA writer How did you get to writing Thompson Through ac ting Ive been involved in thea tre since I was II years old I was Helen Keller for a university show my mother directed She had an [vIA in th eatre and she taught it at Queens I was in TILe Crushycible when I was 12 in Kingston and Jean Brodie and on and on and on I would just lisshyten to aU these wonderful lines and words and it all kind of enrered me And acting is where I reaU y found my niche as a person The theshyatre became my home Then I went to theatre schoo l as an actress but I started to create mask characters through improvisation Thats where I really took off in a big way and where I found myse lf very very excited GA writer VVhat we re you excited abo ut Thompson I was doing the writing And I felt frankly that I did it much better than most of the texts I was working with Not Shakespeare but and its not a matter of better it s thats where I belonged So I would go home and write down the charshyacters that r crea ted that day in class and make th em talk to each odler and thats how The Craekwalker happened

I spent a summer in Toronto looking for acting work and I go t a few jobs But every day for a co uple of hours I would write at a typewri ter and I found these voices comshying At the end of it I sa id to someone You know I think this isnt bad I think this might eve n be a play At the Na tional Theatre shySchool they said to me Youre pretty handy with these monologues but dont ever think you could write a play (Pause) I enjoy telling th at tale on them

WINTER 1999 23

SCENE LOWER MASSEY

Buxton It was my fint time doing mask work She had us sit with the masks on and just sta re at ou rselves in the mirror We did it for an hour staring at the mask feelin g the mask It was a phenomenal eilVer ience the Wily youre able to transform yourself It was almost as if you werent look ing at you That helped yo u to walk differently You were able to shed your

own movements and personality

SCEN E UNIVfRSITY CLU B

Thompson I think thil t seizures can transshylate into creativity are part of me as a cre shyltltive artist Peop le in the medical busin ess are very skeptical of ltll1ything like this But I fee l it s because I have fewer inhibitors in my bra in You have these inhibitors and thats what medication helps But if youre epi leptic your inhibitors Ment working as well to put out the electrical fire so it spreads I think the door to my un conscious is kind of flapping around so J think that helps creatively

SCENE MA SSEY HALL

Student (steppingforwmd) NO I Thompson (quietly) Good

SCENE ARCHIVES

GA writer ( reading fiom Epilepsy and Sna kes)

I have no doubt that my experience with epi lepsy has con tributed to my creative wo rk partly because it hE Jped me to understand what it is to be marginalized to be isolated to be feJ rful and to be out of control and eve n to be mortal

SCENE U NIVERS IT Y CLU B

Thompson Unchecked id can mean scrawlshying on the walls crazy things muttering in stree t corne rs beca use th ey re all id no su perego But I had the luck to be born into a theatrical famiJy my mother havin g the theatrical experience so I was exposed to it Lots of books I was taken to 1 lor of plays Having ep il epsy my first seizure when I was nin e J was able to link with that If I hadnt had those advantages who knows the se izur es migh t have ju st made me a depressed person an angr y person And you re touched with mortality you always live und er siege a slight fear of having a se izure Its much less so now with me

24 GUELPH ALUM NUS

SCENE UNIVERSITY CLUB

Thompson Ive always been a mimic in a cheap way I could always mimic we ll I would raLk to someone on a bus and I could do them exactly Thats kind of dangerous because it can be pretty shallow But it showed me ltl way into the person throu gh voice And once J could do that like a pupshypet something would click and I cou ld get

in in a deeper way J need to get so thoroughly into the charshy

acte rs and their state of mind and especialshyly tapping repressed el11orion which gets you in touch with your id or unconscious li fe If

I take little sections of

myself and grow them in a petri dish of the play

one character is about rage I have to tap into my own rage and that s why the monoshylogues so things can just flow and then I can retrieve things from the past and remember things So its not working from here (gesshytures to midriff) it s wo rking fro l11 here (gesshytures to head)

Mo nologues for me are always the key to findin g out who th e character is because if you cant make them rant for fi ve minutes you dont know th em Tha ts what I tell my

playwriting students I want to see r-wo pages of this characters mouth In other words to speak for five minutes we have to have

so mething to say We have to have something we feel passionately about something were angry about and if we dont have something to say for fi ve minutes who are we

SCENE UN IVERSTTY CLUB

GA writer Vhere do you see what eventushyally becomes a play such as Sled 1110mpson I was at a lodge and saw a moose that s one thin g And that made me think about winter and how the country is always with us as Ca nadians Even in the urban censhytres we ca rr y it wi th us Theres always this

see ming division between the country the wilderness and civilized centres but its the same The wildness of the moose and the

hunt and the bear is in our neighbourhoods I guess its like Lion in the Streets it must be a thing with me And also the exquisite beaushyty and thats how most of the world thinks of Canada as the wilderness Its not quite how we think of ourselves but it is partly So that made me want to do something abo ut the Nor th violence in the North

As far as th e old mans stories that was my neighbour and he told me all those stoshyries they were all true except mltlyb e one or so and I thought Theyre amazing They teilus what our neighbourhoods Me really about and Toro nto what the city is how its const ru cted Toronto is our stories and in th ese neighbourhoods you have an urbane entertainer li ving nex t to an 80-year-old Italia n man and thats the beauty ofToronshyto ltllld its the way th e world is chan ging The stric t class divis ions and culture divishysions th eyre no longer as defin ed as they we re espec ially in th ese neighbourhoods the great pioneering experimen t GA writer Do your chi ld ren see your work Thompson No None of my children can see my plays Ariane saw f Am Yours in New York when she was about nin e I do cl eal with the dark and whats tru e and my chilshydren aren t ready for that Im probab ly more protective th an mos t mothers Walk them

to school till theyre 13 that ki nd of thin g GA writer Yo u we re intervi ewed in the Globe alld Mail recently in a story about motherh ood dnd th e muse How do yo u handle th e demand s of motherh ood and writing

Thompson If Im in the situation where I have 15 or so hours of child care a week Im OK because when Im with them I wa nt to be with them and when ]m doing my work

th ats what I clo But if I do something like a worko ut thell a black cloud descends The guilt and the black cl oud th at descend as I take off on my bike it s huge Then once the workout s finished I know it was d good

thing to do although it s also cut into my

work time J do feel guilty about the nilture of my work too in that my kids cant see it Am I drawing on a part of me thats not good as a mother The oth er part of me is th at I make up bedtime stories and bake coo kies and all thlt stuff ]m probably a

rather operatic mother I cry at movies laugh too hard __

SCENE ARCI-I[VES

GA writer (reading fiom Epilepsy and Snakes)

1

Although being a dramatic writer has

given me a reputation in my cou ntr y

and a strong identity the actof writin g

or creating character leaves me SOJlle shy

times feeling that I have no id entity at

all Every once in a while when I am not

writing or tending to my four children

I feel I 1m falling again down th e terrishy1 ble hole with nothing to hold on to

And I believe this falling this identity

pain is a result of me using the very

essence of Ill yself to create character in

a dramatic wo rk r wonder so metimes

if J illl1 betraying my soul in a way by

using its essence However J have found

some comfo rt in the words ofWilliall1

Blake Essence is not Identity but from

Essence proceeds Identity and from one

Essence may proceed many Identities

as from one Affection Jlla y proceed

many thoughts If the Essence was

the sa me as the Identit y there could be

but one Identity which is fal se Heaven

wo uld upon this plan be but a clock

but one and the sa me Essence is th ereshy

fore Essence and not Identity

SCENE UNIVER SIT Y CLUB

Thompson I always put myself in a play and

never In other words I take little sections of

myself and grow them in a petri dish of th e

play So if Ive found a moment where Im a

bit lazy ]11 grow it and milke the character

very lazy o r impatient or whatever So I take

these moments because we all have all of

them grow th em and create this Frankenshy

steins monste r a character right out of parts

body parts and psychological parts often of

myself and then observe things in other peoshy

ple but I have to find it in myself to make it

work

SCENE AR C H1V ES

GA writer (reading from Epilepsy al1d Snakes)

My self asserted itself as a kind of quishy

et Lucille Ball c1ulllsy and absent-mindshy

ed At least this gave me an identity and

was a small aCI of slbo tage The next

assertion was an act of unconscio us rev shy

olution th e grand mal seizure that

almost killed me And the next one was

The Crackwalker my first play And this

is how I raged against the machine and

took space in the world And now not

surprisin gly I am seizure-free

SCENE LOWER MASSEY

After another pair of acto rs rUllS through

their scene Thompson directs them to begi n

again She interrupts frequently to question

the students about actions feelings motishy

vations At one point 8S the students pause

to consider her words Thompson turns to

the rest of the class erect in her cha ir

Thompson Isolate the mom ent The great

thing about the stage is th at it isolates the

moments that just race by us_

SCENE UNIVERSITY CLUB

Thompson Ive just written my next play

which is not ca lled Pefeet Pie but thats its

working title because it came from a mon oshy

logue called Perfect Pie But now its a full

two- haul play in which the second wom3n

comes back and tben I have them as yo ung

girls too It goes back ~nd forth and its very

exciting I worksbopped it in the spring and

in December at tbe Tarragon and it will go

on in o ne year At the sa me time lm wr itshy

ing a feature film for Rho mbus based on the

play Pe feet Pie

SCEN E UNlV ERSITY CLUIl

Thompson My pIalS are Illusically written

And if somebody doesnt get the music they

dont feel it and go with the rhythm s it

throws the whole thing off I hear the plays

I hea r them I write with my ear They

change 1 lo t but it s according to rhythm

I ll be sitting in rehea rsal listening and if it

does nt so und ri ght I change it so that its

rhythmic

SCIi -JE J UST AllOUT ANYWHERE YOU CA N

READ A PLAY

GA writer (readmg ji-olll the script ofvVbite

Biting Dog first produced at the Tarragon Th eatre in 1984)

Beciluse of the ex treme and deliberate

lllu sica lity of this play any allempts to

go aga inst the tex tual rhythms such as

th e breaking up of an unbroken senshy

tence the tlking of a pause where none

is written in are DISASTROUS The

effect is like beil1g in a small plane and

suddenly turning off the ignition It all

falls down This play III list SPIN not

just turn around

SCfN e LOWER MASSEY

Her students listen as Thompson stands to

complete a so liloq uy abo ut cap turing the

rhythm of the language on the stage The

wide sleeves of her ank le-length dress slide

down her forea rm s as she ges tures

Thompson Listen to the music of the

scene Each playwright writes their own

symphony

SCENE U NIVERSlTY CLUB

Thompson Ive been pretty directed to this

ii-om an carly age although if I had done anyshy

thing else it probab ly wou ld have been some

form of social work I would have been smokshy

ing three packs of cigarettes a day and workshy

ing il1 an office somewhere up in Scarborough

SC EN E AfltCHIVES

GA write r (reading from Brick interview of Thompson by Eleanor Wachtel ]99] )

In th e thea tre I think what one mllst

do is co nfront the truth confront the

emot ional truth of our li ves which is

mired in the swamp of minuriae

everyday minutiae Maybe it has to be -tl111 way because we couldnt confront

it every day But I think the th eatre

IllllSt Im not interested ill th eatre that

doesnt ga

W1NTER 1999 25

Never mind fish wars pitting countries against one another - here in Canada scientists and policy makers cant agree on who should control the preservation and management ofour own fishery resources BY ANDREW VOWLES

Ca

as

ollapsed cod stocks to the east

On the West Coast laquofish wars

_ rlTDT Pacific salmon enmesh

Canada and the United States

At various points in between fisheries scishy

entists and managers grapple with everyshy

thing from overfishing of freshwater

stocks to invasion by exotic molluscs

What is to be done about Canadian fishshy

eries And what role is being p layed by

fisheries and aquatic scientists at the Unishy

versity of Guelph

-

dock pollock red fish and flatfish made up just under half of Canadas total landings on the Atlantic coast (720000 tonnes of fish and shellfish were caught in 1994 represhysenting a total landed value of $11 billion) Two year~ later that proportion had dropped to 21 per cent with shellfish and open ocean fish specie~ notably Atlantic

Begin in the Atlantic The crisis on the East Coast has become a disaster So says laquoWE NEED TO TRY TO SEPARATE OUTGuelph zo ology professor John Roff enushymerating the litany of woes that have surshy

THE FISHERIES MANAGEMENT DECISIONSfaced from Ca nadas marine fishery in the past decade Although some fish and shellshy

FROM THE POLITICAL DECISIONSfi sh are holding their own stocks of other species have experienced declines raquo

ASSOCIATED WITH THE FISHE RY

down that fishery in 1992 Over fishing and under which it has been buying up fishers

Even when stocks do rebound rarely do we fully und erstand why he says Theres a complex of problems to be disshy more for cod stocks to rebound says Roff entangled involving overflshing long- and co-editor with colleague Prof Moira Fergushyshort-term climate change and changes in son of the respected Canadian Journal ofFishshyocean current systems and productivity eries and Aquatic Sciences A wise course of

And of course the once-thriving northshy action for a fisherman in Newfoundland ern cod that first drew Europeans with their would be to seU his licence and do something nets to the Grand Banks 500 years ago have else he says (Last fall the federal governshycoUapsed to the point that Ottawa had to shut ment announced its final retirement program

the failure of federal fisheries managers to heed the warnings of scientists have been blamed for the coUapse Even with the lllorashytoriulll in place it may take two decades or

licences in Atlantic Ca nada and Quebec) In 1992 - the year Ottawa imposed its

moratorium on the northern cod fisheryshylandings of groundfish including cod had-

salmon making up the difference [n 1995 the total groLlndfish catch reached its lowshyest level in two decades

Unlike the Ea st Coast fi shery which relies most ly on ocea n-living fish the Pacifshyic fishery is dominated b) migratory species Some 300000 tonnes of fish and shellfish were harvested along the west coast in 1994 worth a landed value of $550 million (Arcshytic marine fisheries and their management differ from those on the coasts although cOl11mercial and recreational fisheri es are small here food fisheries are important to

U OF G AQUATIC SCIENCES EXPERTISE CATCHES WORLD ATTENTION

Landlocked in the middle of the courltry U ofG nevertheless boasts fish pathology and diseases including farmed fish diseases fish an enviable record and range ofexpertise in aquatic sciencesshy hormones and reproductive physiology including the effects of marine and freshwater - dating back to the late 1960s Thats when environmental contaminants early life history and behaviour Prof Keith Ronald thell chair of the Department ofZoology (and of fi shes and biology of tuna later dean of the College ofBiological Science) began a marine biolshyogy program at the University Today Guelph has the largest Partnered with the A-erod Institute of Ichthyology in U of group of ichthyologists - scientists who study fish - in Gs Aquatic Sciences Facility the r[agen Aqualab is an North America investigating a wide variety ojIre~hshy aquatic research and teaching facililY for studying water alld marine fisheries and aquatics topics aquatic organisms Environmentally controlled

rooms in the Aqualab allow faculty and students to U of Gs Axelrod Institute of Ichthyology houses simulate habitats as diverse as the Arctic Ocean and one of the worlds largest collections of museumshy tropical rainforest pools The facility is named for quality fish fossils donated to the University by its principal benefactor Rolf Hagen founding presshy

ident of Canadas largest pet store 5llpplier J 989 The institute which provides space for fisheries research and visiting scientists brings together 12 core U of G U of G faculty edit four internationally recognized journals researchers in fisheries and aquatic sciences whose interests and in ichthyology fisheries and aquatic science Awarded to U of G by expertise span environmental contaminants and parasitic disshy the National Research Council in 1997 the Canadian Journal of eases evolutionary genetics of marine and freshwater fishes Fisheries al1dAquatic Sciellces is co-edited by zoology professors

US ichthyologist and author Herbert Axelrod in

28 GUELPH ALUMNUS

northerners including shrimp Atlantic salmon and arctic char) Accountin g fOI almost half of that total were Pacific salmon which ret urn from the ocean to spawn in home streams and rivers up and down the coast of Alaska British Columbia and Washshyington There are actually five main spec ies of sa lmon that run down the BC coast shysockeye (t he most va luable commercial species) chinook coho chum and pinkshyfrom spring to December

Its a very complex jurisdictional and multi-user problem says Roff Bes ides degradation of freshwater spawning habishytats and ocean climate effects of El Nill0 the West Coast fishery is a cauldron of ten shysions between various groups perennial fish wars between Ca nada and the United States disputes that pit sport fishers against native fishing rights Recognizing the problems of low ocean productivity habitat damage overfishing and indiscriminate fishing pracshytices that take weak and strong stocks alike Ottawa is developing a new policy to guide Canadas Pacific salmon fisheries focusing on conservation sustainable use and improved decision-making

That potent mix of overfishing and habishytat degrada tion is also a problem for Canashydas freshwater fisheries A report tabled last fall by the federal standing committee on

fisheries and oceans called for more federal funding for research and fisheries programs in central and arctic regions of Canada Accord ing to that report the Grea t Lakes commercial fishery is one of the largest freshwater fisheri es in the world worth an average landed value of more than $40 milshylion a year and an eco nomic impact of at least $250 million Some 90 per cent of that catch is exported The neck lace of lakes threading its way to the St Lawrence River also supports the largest fres hwater sports fishery in the world 800000 Ontarians fish on the Great Lakes eve ry year contributing $850 million to the economy

In Manitoba managers are concerned about the long-term susta inability of freshshywater fish stocks particularly declines in Lake Winnipeg and the northern part of the province caused by overfishing environshymental degradation loss of prime spawning habitat and predators The province has seen stocks rise and fall particularly of pickerel Manitobas highest-priced fish In an attempt to manage the fishery in a sustained fashion the province recently introduced a qu ota entitlement system for anglers Joe OConshynor director of the fisheries branch of Manshyitobas Department of Na tural Resources says his department is wrestling with the environmental threats on fish habitat posed

by farming and hydroelectric development In Ontario fisheries are genera lly in

pretty good shape says Evan Thomas fishshyeries section manager of the fish and wildlife branch of the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (OM NR) Ontario supports almost half of all recreational fishing in Canada with more than two million adult anglers and more than $2 billion a year spent on recreational fishing in the province Onta ri o is also home to Canadas larges t commercial freshwater fishery worth abo ut $40 million a Yfar in land ed value

Thomas says over fishing is still the numshyber one problem Others include habitat loss the potential effects of climate change and contin ued invasion by exotic species Among the management opt ions his minshyistry is exploring are more effective fisheries regulation more rapid inventory and assessshyment techniques fish culture for rehabilishytating populations and controlling nutrient inputs into lakes and rivers

We are clearly looking for federal supshyport for the sea lamprey control program he says referring to recommendations in the recent federal fisheries committee report as well as changes to the federal Fishshyeries Act to hand the province more authorshyity over fish habitat protection

Concerns continue in Ontario over

Moira Ferguson and John Roff Fish Physiology and Biochemistry the top-ranked journal in its field is edited by Prof John Leathershyland chair of the Department of Biomedical Sciences in the Ontario Veterinary College University professor emeritus Eugene Balon has served as editor-in-chief of Environmental Biology ofFishes since he founded the publication in 1976 Zoology professor David Noakes edits Guelph Ichthyology Reviews whose articles synthesize and review all aspects of fish science Both of the latter

Under the Canadian contribution to the project - furided by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council - about 80 federal government and university researchers are trying to learn more about how bioshylogical and physical processes in the oceans affect fish stocks

Zoologychair Prof Paul Hebert has led a Guelph initiative to develshyop multimedia learning resources d1at teach student~ from

are published in the Axelrod Institute of Ichthyology

Based on data from geographic information sysshytems zoology professor John Roff has mapped types of habitat associated with various species of fish and other organisms around Canadas coasts and throughout tl1C Great Lakes the first time such

e1ementaIy grades to university about Canadas aquatshyic environments His department has developed a series of CD-ROMs that provide information on all the major animal groups in the Great Lakes Already available are educational CD-ROMs on Canadas aquatic environments (also available on

d1e World Wide Web) Great Lakes biodiversity and a marine classification system has been developed in this country His report was commissioned by World Wildlife Fund Canada for its Endangered Spaces Campaign and contributes to RoWs work as chair of the scienrillc committee of Globec (Globshyal Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics) a two-year-old international research program intended to better understand ocean ecosystems

birds of the Great Lakes The latter is the first disc in a series called the Great Lakes Faunal Atlas which will eventually cover mammals amphibians reptiles fish and crustaceans

The Alma Aquaculture Research Station es tablished in 1989 and funded through a 20-year development grant by the Ontario

WI NTER 1999 29

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various invas ive species that have turned up

in the Great Lakes - notably sea lampreys

zebra mussels and quagga mussels - many

of which arrive in ballast water of ocea nshy

going vessels (Many have also found their

way into Manitoba says OConnor who

points to the effects of sm elt on whitefish

the main commercial species in Lake Winshy

nipeg) Among o ther meas ures the federal

fish eries committee report called for guarshy

anteed funding for sea lamprey control and

for scienti fic research

I think more money will come says

Prof Bill Beamish Zoology a commissionshy

er on the Great Lakes Fisheries Commission

the 40-year-old governing body that co-ordishy

nates resea rch programs between Canada

and the United States and advises both govshy

ernments It was a review led by Beamish

more than a decade ago on the sta te of

Canadas freshwater fi sheries that provided

the scientific underpinnings for a landmark

report published in 1988 that spelled ou t a

way in freshwater fisheries is a lon g-te rm

project fund ed by the OMNR and the

Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO)

to re-establish native species in their origishy

nal habitats a round Lake Ontario iVlari e

Clement a graduate student of zoology proshy

fe sso r David Noakes is studying Atlantic

sa lmo n which was wiped out of the lake

CONSIDERING WE HAVE THE

BEST FISHERY SCIENCES COMMUNITY

IN THE WORLD WE OUGHT TO

BE DOING BETTER

national strategy for freshwater fisheries

Beamish who has studied sea lampreys

for several decades at Guelph and also invesshy

tigates fish habitat loss says money is need shy

ed to help researchers investigate biological

controls as an alternative to chemical lamshy

pricides The recen t repo rt also notes the

need to address the effects of other nonshy

native exotic species on n ative fish stocks

and water quality and calls on Ottawa to

stem the funding decline in freshwater scishy

ence over the last two decades

One example of the kind of work under

and its tribu ta ry streams near the beginning

o f this century by overflshing and habitat

destruction and alteration Last fall Clement

placed eggs into a site in the Credit River

she has been monito ring oxygen availab il shy

ity durin g their incu ba tion to gau ge sedishy

mentation rates in the river This spring and

summer she wili study how newborn fi sh

interact with other species in th e r ive r

C lement says her docto ral research proshy

ject is but one piece of a larger project aimed

at re-establishing the heritage species Othshy

er researchers hop e to learn whe ther th e

Ministry of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs brings together

researchers for interdisciplinary studies of protein requirements

of arctic char improving fish semen and egg management proshy

cedures and understanding hormone activity in fish The station

acts as a quarantine unit for new fish varieties entering Ontario

and serves as a base for parts of certificate courses and a masters

program in aquaculture

farms in Canada He and fellow Guelph zoologists Eugene Balon

(co- founder of the Coelaca nth Conservat ion Council) and Jim

Bogart also identified and characterized the coelacanth which

had been thought extinct until a specimen was landed off Africa

in the la te 1930s Noakes confirmed the identity of ano ther of

these living fossils discovered in 1997 it appears to belong to a

second popula tion living in the Indian Ocean about 10000 kilo-

metres away from tha t first find

Zoology professors Moira Ferguson and Roy Danzshy

mann use molecular genetics techniques to identishy Zoology chair Paul Hebert was the first scientist to

fy DNA markers used to pinpoint the location of identify the presence in the Great Lakes of zebra

genes associated with growth spawning times mussels a prolific invader that has wreaked havoc

rates of development maturity and temperature in many ways from clogging water-intake pipes to

tolerance in rainbow trout Isolating and identifyshy consuming plankto n thus allowing light to reach

ing genetic markers fo r desirable traits will help fish bottom-dwelling organisms that may displace native

farmers and breeders cross-breed more effectively species The first researcher to report on the biology

conservationists will be better able to manage and preserve and impact of the zebra mussel on the Grea t Lakes was

genetic variability among wild fish stocks Guelph zoology professor Gerald Mackie whose studies showed

that the organisms faster growth rate and higher fecundity and

Zoology professor David Noakes has stuclied varieties of arctic population density will probably enable it to displace many native

char native to Iceland to find ones suited to being raised on fish bivalves and disrupt entire lake ecosystems

30 GUELPH ALUMNUS

LEADING RESEARCH

The University of Guelph has one orthe largest and most active groups of aquatic biologists in the world

bull More than 50 faculty and 100

graduate students research

assocrates and postdoctoral

fellows

bull Over 1000 published scientific

articles books monographs

films and videos in the past

decade

bull Interdisciplinary programs

involving more than a dozen

academic departments

bull The largest group ofichthyoloshy

gists (scientists who study

fish) in North America

bull Collaborative research with

government environrriental

organizations and academic

institutions worldwide

bull Expertise covering the entire

aquatic food chain from plankshy

ton to whales

bull Leading developments in comshy

puter-based educational mate-

rials in aquatic sciences

bull A new $6-million Aquatic

Sciences Facility

bull Research support from national

and international agencies

business and industry

adults will be able to return from the open

lake to their stream spawning grounds If

they come back will the eggs survive she

says If were able to show the eggs can surshy

vive that will be very encouraging for

Atlant ic salmon restoration

What is to be done to ensure the survival

not just of Atlantic salmon in Lake Ontario

but also of the co untrys freshwater and

m ar ine fisheries We need to try to sepashy

rate o ut the fisheries management decisions

from the political decisions associated with

the fi shery says zoology professor Glen Van

Der Kraak director of U of Gs Axelrod

Institute of Ichthyology Van Der Kraak who

studies the effects of toxic contaminants on

fi sh populations says policy mltkers need

to rely on the advice of fisheries sc ientis ts

making conservative harvest ing estimates

So often scientists make decisions and then

are overrun by the politics he says (Never

mind fish wars pitting co untries against one

another - here in Ca nada scientists and

policy makers wres tle over the question of

who should be respo nsible for what aspects

of the countrys fisheries as witnessed in a

war of words played out in the Canadian Journal ofFisheries and Aquatic Sciences over

the past 18 months between biologists at

several Canadian univers ities and the DFO

over the relationship between fishery sc ishy

ence and fishery policy)

Roff says theres nothing unique about

Canadas fish problems Its not really a

Canadian problem its a worldwide probshy

lem The only fisheries worldwide that are

not over fished appear to be some not yet

fully exploited in the Indian Ocean

After nearly four decades of growth the

worldwide marine ca tch levelled off in the

1990s to some 90 million tons a year The

m ain problems coastal pollution habitat

destruction and particula rly overfishing

Noakes editor of the journal Guelph Ichthyology Reviews contrasts the few hunshy

dred people who might have made th eir

livelihood aboard small wood en boats on

the Grand Banks several centuries ago with

the massive factory trawlers that now scour

todays coast People are much too efficient

in terms of catching fish he says Noakes

concurs with fellow Guelph researchers that

conservation of fish stocks has to reach the

top of fishery managers agendas

hat does set Canada apart is the breadth

and depth of expertise in fisheries and aquatshy

ic sciences in this country - rather a parashy

dox when you consider that Canadas record

in fisheries preservation is apparently no betshy

ter than that of many other nations

Considering we have the best fishery scishy

ences community in the world we ought to

be doing better says Roff Within the last

decade th e federal government withdrawal

o f support from the Department of Fishshy

eries and Oceans and university researchers

has been massive At the very time when the

resources were gett ing into severe problems

and when the federal government ought to

have been funding research theyve been

substantially withdrawing resources ga

DONT WAIT UNTIL SPRING The opportunity to double the impact of your gift to the University of Guelph ends on March 31 1999 Until that date all gifts designated to endowed student financial aid at Guelph will be matched by the Ontario Student Opportunity Trust Fund (OSOTF) That means that every dollar you commit will contribute two dollars to financial aid for Guelph students

If you would like to support our students throug h OSOTF you still have a w indow of oppor nishyty to have your do l1a rs doubled But only until March 31 1999

If you have already made a pled ge to OSOTf through U of Gs ACCESS Fund thank you [or your ge nerous support Please comp lete your payme nts by March 31 1999 to e nsure that your gi ft is matched

For more information contact Rudy Putns in Guelphs office of Development and Public Affairs at -519-824-4120 Ext 6384 Fax 519-822-2670 E-mail alumniuoguelphca

WINTER 1999 31

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

n ALUMNI PROF IL E

LETS LOOK AT THE OPPORTUNITIES

WHEN I-IE BECA ME president of the Unishy

versity of Guelph Alumni Association

(UGM) in June Jim Weeden brought new

enthusiasm and ideas for encouraging alumshy

ni to stay in volved with their alma mater

And he wants to start with students

Weeden reca ll s his own ex perience at

U of G where he fo und a sense of commushy

nity by living in residence and ge tting

involved in college activiti es But when he

graduated with an engin ee ring degree in

197 1 he left to begin a caree r and says he

didnt think much about the University until

he needed it again in the 1980s to pursue a

graduate degree in agricultural enginee ring

He spent his early career working as an

agricultural extensi o n engineer for the

Ontario Department o f Agriculture and is

stiU with its successo r the Ontario Ministry

of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs

(OMAFRA) Weed en completed the masshy

ters degree in 1986 when he was head of the

agricultural engineering program and extenshy

sion services a t Centralia College of Ag rishy

cultural Technology

In 1987 he moved to the ministrys plant

industry branch as program m anager and

later held the same position in th e resources

manage m ent branch Sin ce then he has

worked for OMAFRA in Woodstock and

now Stratfo rd He is technical adviser fo r

Ontarios Enviro nmental Farm Planning

Program is respo nsible for o ther environshy

m ental programs and consults with the Minshy

istry o f th e Environment on local agriculshy

tural pollution problems

w Weed en got involved with the Universishy sect tys a]u111ni programs by serving on the first g z board of the Engineering Alumni Associashy

~ tion when it was established in 1990 From

~ 1991 to 1994 he sat on the University Senshy

~ ate and its Research Board and for the pas t

~ four years) hels been on the UGAA executive

32 GUELPH A LU MNUS

From the presidents chair Weeden looks

at the bro ad picture o f UG AA se rvice and

recognizes that the associa tio n owes a debt

o f gratitude to hundreds of alumni volunshy

teers who ha ve helped to build the organishy

za tion over the yea rs and to University staff

in Development and Public Affairs (DampPA)

who support UGAA initiatives and alumni

programs Thro ugh their efforts he says the

a lulllni associati o n is rea ching out to all

U of G alumni Graduates who have mainshy

tained a close relationship with the Univershy

sity thro ugh their college or academic disshy

cipline those who feel an affiliation because

o f their participation in a thletics residence

life o r extracurricular activiti es and even

HIGHLIGHTSmiddot GRAD NEWSmiddot OBITUARIES bull CALENDER

those who have not kept in touch are part of the constituency served by UGAA

Weed en says the alumni association needs to strengthen its relationship with all alumni and he believes the effor t must start on campus with students Hed like to proshymote the idea of alumni involvement as ear shyly as a students second year We need to give students some reason to be con nected and an efficient vehicle for maintaining that connection he says

For many students and new graduates the social functions supported by UGAA and the opportunities for professional networking will be important says Weeden but greater rewards are there for those who join the effort to enhance the Universitys acade mic goals

In todays economic and political envi shyronme nt individual financial support and the advocacy of post-secon dary education are important roles for alumni he says How many people ac tively get involved with the debate on whether universities are job-trainshy

ing centres or centres of education Yet some of our alumni are extremely adept in such roles Weeden would like to cultivate past and current stud ent ac tivists as supporters of public education after they graduate

As Weeden leads UGAA into a new year he says he will work with other UGAA volshyunteers and DampPA staff to find new ways for the association to interact with students and alumni One id ea is to expand UGAAs Intershynet presence by adding a Web message board that will encourage alumni to discuss career and campus issues online and a reply form that will allow them to quickly update addressshyes employment status and other information

Weeden says its important to stay focused on UGAAs key prioriti es but he welcomes any and all new ideas on how to accomplish them All it takes to share your ideas with the UGAA executive is a stamp or a push of the send button when youre clicked on alumniuoguelphca

HKHB SPIRIT RISES

ENCOURAGED BY THE SPIRIT

shown by fellow alumni at last

summers reunion the executive

of the Human Kinetics Human Biology

Alumni Association is moving ahead

with more opportunities for alumni to

stay in touch The association plans to

launch a Web site that will be accessed

through the U of G site

A wine-and-cheese reception already

planned for June 19 1999 wiil try to

build on the success of the 1998 event

which attracted alumni from as far away

as Chicago and as far apart as the 19605

and 1990s Guests had a chance to tour

U of Gs new Health and Performance

Centre and performance testing

labs The program was co-ordinated wiLh

A REFLECTION OF PRIDE

Members of the OAC

Class of 52 join Arboshy

retum staff on the front patio

of the Arboretu m Centre

beside a new reflecting pool

that was built last summer

as a class project Pictured

from left are Murray Parker

Ann Smith George Smith

Jack Sargent Catherine Gibb

Robin Shaw-Rummington

Marilyn Swaby BA 69

Bev Healy B5e(Agr) 72

Norm Watson Una Venerus

Ron Costen Henry Kock

BSe (Agr) 77 and Ric

Jordan BA 75

Prof Jack Barclay chair of the Departshy

ment of Human Biology and Nutritional

Sciences and Prof Susan Pfeiffer Memshy

bers of the Human KineticsHuman

Biology Alumni Association executive arc

Janet Leonhard 82 president Carolyn

Moore 83 vice-president Alison Locker

97 secretary Mark Mulholland 79

lreasurer and t-iary Ann Crape 76

These officers are also spea rheading a

new initiative to benefit students - an

undergraduate award that will provide

$250 and lifetime mem bership in the

association To commcnt on these and

other initiatives contact Leonard by

e-mail at Janel_Leonhardinwrbsb

eduonca or Moore at cturveyagec

uoguelphca

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alumni

Multimedia lab buzzes

THE DONALD FORSTER RoOiv

has become one of the

busiest spots in th e Unishy

versity of Guelph Liblary since the

addition of 70 state-of-the-art

computer workstations that were

supported by alumni do nations

to the Alma Mater Fund (AM F)

U of G president Mordechai

Roza nski officia ll y o pened th e

Alma Mater Fund Multimedia

Lab D ec 2 an d celebrated th e

event with members of the AMF

Adv isory Counc iL [n 1996 a nd

1997 the AMF contributed

$240000 to th e project which

increased the number of student

workstations o n campus by 50 per

cent Students use the m ult imeshy

~ dia lab to conduct research on the

~ Internet access scholarly publicashyr u VI tions on CD-ROM and use COll1shyz ~ puter software mod ules tbat lt

~ strengthen the teaching provided lD

o in co urse lectures labs and tcxtshybii books

middotMatters

Alumnus of many interests

I NTERES TING P EOPLE always have eclect ic interests and U of G

alumnus and honorary degree recipient Ken Murray BSA 50 and

HDLA 96 is a good example H e is known by most people on camshy

pus for his distinguished career in the Canadian meat packing indusshy

try and his volunteer service to U of G He was a member and chair

of Board of Governors from 1973 to 1978 and chair of the Regionshy

al Corporate Committee during U of Gs last capital campaign and

is currently chair of the Heritage Fund Enhancement Committee

Murray is also a strong supporter of community soc ial services

In August he addressed the World Congress of Social Ps)chiatry

held in British Columbia - the only non-psychiatrist on the proshy

gram He spoke about his role in establishing an Alzheimers research

project a t the University ofWaterioo which was recently named in

his honour the Ken Murray Alzheimer Research and Education Proshy

gra m At the gc conference he al so participated in a panel dis shy

cussion that outlined services offered by Guelphs Homewood Health

Cent re Murray bas been actively involved in the governance of the

centre since 1977 and has been a major player in the development

of a charitable foundatio n bearing the Homewood name

WHEN THE PUCK DROPPED More than 30 teams including two

womens teams were entered in the

Dec 6 University of Guelph Alumni Hockey

Tournament Organizers for the 1998 event

were from left Brian Finniss B5c 88

Brad Stephenson BA 86 Terry Carr

BComm 87 Todd Bryant BA 86 and

undergraduate student Brian Melnick

Ken Murray centre with his wife Marilyn Robinson Murray and U of G president Mordechai Rozanski

34 GU ELPH ALUMNU S

RESTORING A JEWEL IN THE CROWN

DONALD RUTHERFORD BSA 5 stands in fron t

of the 1931 conservatory greenhouse that will

be restored to match the splendour of the ga rdens

now growi ng up around it His $256000 leadershy

ship gift to the Conservatory and Gardens Project

was inspired by hi s m emo ries of being a student

at OAC

On behalf of fellow alumni I hope this gift will

commemorate the experiences and educat ion we

acquired while at Guelph says Rutherford When

fully restored to its previous glory the conservatoshy

ry greenhouse will be an ideal greeting and welcome

spot for visitors and newcomers to the University

as well as old friend s renewing their acquaintance

Rutherfords professional career spans the agrishy

foo d industr y beginning as an agricu ltural repshy

resentative with the provincial minist ry I-Ie was

later vice-president of the Fertilizer Institute of

Ontario executive secreta ry of the Canadian Seed

Trade Association director of information w ith

the Ca nadian Livestock Feed Board and Canadishy

an sa les manager for Sylvite of Can ad a Retired

since 1986 he now owns his own sma ll investment

company and manages to golf throughout the yea r

The conserva tory isnt the first ca mpus project

to attract Rutherford s attention - as a student

he helped dig out the base ment of Massey H al l to

build a student lo unge - but his recent gift has

been a tremendous boost to those who have been

working since the ea rly 1990s to save the glass and

cypress structure from demo lition

A committee of alumni facult y sta ff stu dents

and fri en ds of the University has moved the proshy

ject along to th e point w here most of the surshy

rounding garden complex is now complete It fea shy

tures six gardens named in honour of the ir chie f

supporters Autumn Garden - OAC 5 1 Spring

Ga rden - OAC 53 Su mmer Garden - OAC 55

Winter Gard en - OAC 65 Water Gard en shy

OAC 49 and the Woo dland Garden named in

honour of the late Doug Rob inson BSA 53

Alumni have been in strumental in raising

funds for the $ l-million project Students and fa cshy

ulty have provided mudl of the h1l1ds-on Idbour

and friends in the nursery and landscape materishy

als supply industries have given $250000 ill donashy

tions and gifts-in-kind of plan ts and landsca ping

materials Rutherford s generous gift has pushed

th e conservato ry fund-ra ising effort in to the fin 81

stretch Th e ga rden complex and restored g reenshy

110use are sc heduled to officially open during

Alumni Weekend in June 1999

1999 Coming Events

Jan 29 - Aggie Goodshy

Times Banquet call the OAC Student Federation at Ext 8321 for ticket injemnrltion Feb 13 - Norm McCo llulll

D iploma Hockey Tournashy

m ent call Jack Bakker at 519-837-0132 to register a team

Feb 21 - Ottawa Chapter

annual curling bonspiel

Richmond C urling Club in

Richmond Ont For informashytiol1 call Alan Bentley BSA 61 at 6 13-829-6598 or John DVit[ 54 mId Margaret McGowml BHSc 54 at

613-828-7038

March 3 - Florida alumni

reunion a t Maple Leaf

Estates Port Charlo tte Fla

call Ext 6533 0 register

March 13 and 14 - ollcge

Royal 75th o pen house

March 19 and 20 - OAC

Alumni Association curling

bonspiel G uelph Curling

Club register at Ext 6657

May 5 - Chicago All Canashy

dian Universities Night hostecl

by U of G at the University

Club of Chicago 76 East Monshy

roe Sr call Exl 6533 for details May 5 - OAC Alumni

Foundation annual meeting

730 pm Arboretum Centre

May 12 - Alumni-inshy

Action annual meeting and

luncheo n 1130 3m

Arboretum Centre ((11 Ext 6657for tickets

June 18 to 20 - Alumni

Veekend call Ext 6657 to plall a reun io n

-0 r shya -IFor more infon-nation on any a

eVC1l1listed ailove call the oJ -lt oU of G extension listed at en raquo

519-824-4120 or send e-mail z

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WINTER 1999 35

alumni Matters

MEMORIES OF COLLEGE ROYAL Grant MacEwan ADA 23 and

BSA 26 is one of the few OAC

alumni who c~n still remember

the first College Royal held Jan

14 1925 MacEwan bad just

entered the degree program in

animal husbandry and may have

been a participant in the liveshy

stock showmanship classes Latshy

er in life he was widely known Grant MacEwan

across Western Canada as 3 liveshy

stock judge and an advocate of

agricultural fairs and exhibitions

MacEwan is bes t known

however for his 23-year C3reer

as a university professor in Manshy

itoba and Saskatchewan and Ilis

political career which included

12 years as alderman and mayshy John Kenneth Galbraith

or of C31gary four years as an

Alberta MLA and eight as lieushy birthday in August

tenant -governor of the province The year after Ma cEwan

He s till lives in Calgary graduated John Kenneth Galshy

where he celebrated his 96th braith ADA 29 and BSA 31

HOMECOMING 98

enrolled at OAC and devoted

some of his energy to organizshy

ing College Royal Show records

indicate it was Galbraith who

first proposed the college event

be publicized so that people

from the farm community

could attend He also suggestshy

ed that OAC invite students

from American agricultural colshy

legesl n th e early 1930s Colshy

lege Royal took its fir s t steps

towards becoming the comshy

munity open house it is today

Galbraith later moved to the

United States where he enjoyed

a distinguished caree r as a proshy

fessor of economics at Harvard

Universi ty Known for his

humanit~rian approach to ecoshy

nomic and political thinking

he was awarded the Order of

Canada in 1997 He celebr3ted

his 90th birthday in October

IT REALLY WAS a homecoming reunion when and Arnott who is head coach of the York

former Gryphon teammates Ralph Shapiro University Yeomen came from the visitors

S5c(HK) 74 and Tom Amott S5c(HK) 80 dreSSing room to hold the ball Shapiro is

met on the field at Alumni Stadium Oct 3 the controller at Huntsman Chemical Inc

Shapiro had the honour of kicking off in Guelph and a longtime United Way volshy

the Universitys 1998 United Way campaign unteer who chaired this years Guelph and

Wellington fund-raising drive The Univershy

sity campaign is the largest in the county

with U of G staff and faculty contributing

over $200000 in 1998

Prior to the game a number of recent

alumni - all U of G scholarship and award

winners - met for a reunion luncheon The UJ

1948 and 1949 dominion championship i5f 3

football teams were also honoured guests z 5 o at the 2 pm game that saw the Gryphons gtshy a defeat York f shya I a

Ralph Shapiro

36 G UELPH ALUMNUS

LEADING THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY FOR 1974 GRADS The 25th-anniversary reunion givshy

i ng program for the Class of 1974

is under way with Bill Laidlaw BA

74 as cbair A public affairs proshy

fessional he has been director of

government relations for the

Canadian operations of Glaxo

vVelJcome Inc for more th an 10

years He also acts as a senior conshy

sultant to support the governshy

ment relations function in other

regions of Canada

Laidlaw began his career in

teaching after earning a history

degree from Guelph and education

degrees (rom Queens University

and the University of Toronto He

also holds the certified human

resources professional designation

and worked in that field for sevshy

eral years before concen trating on

government relations at Glaxo

Welkome He lives in Burlington

Ont and is an act ive community

volunteer having se rved on the

boards of severa l professional

organizations the Queensway

General Hospital and the Metroshy

politan Toronto Lung Association

He is currently completing a oneshy

year term as chair of the Ontario

Chamber of Commerce

Anniversa ry preparations will

culminate with a class gathering

a nd reunion gift at Alumni

Weekend in June 1999

ALUMNI MAKE THE CONNECTION Students who moved into

Maids and Mills halls in Sepshy

tember can take full advanshy

tage of the Universitys highshy

speed computer network

thanks to the OAC Class of

71 whose 25 th-reunion proshy

ject provided wiring upgrades

in the 84- and 77-year-old

residence buildin gs

GRAD NEWS

Marathon survivors inspire us all to appreciate everyday life

W HEN ROBINSON SIIlLJNGS Jane BSe(Agr)

85 Heather BASe 83 Peter BSe(Agr)

86 Scott and Marnie rigwood BA 84 get

together they talk about marathons and the hope

and determination it takes to reach the finish line

Hea ther walked a marathon in San Diego

Calif in June to raise money for leukemia

research then joined Peter for a Toronto marathon

in October that benefi ted the Leukemia Research

Fund of Canada They were inspired by Janes pershy

sonal marathon of survival that foUowed her 1992

diagnosis of leukemia Chemotherapy radiation

remission relapse and finally a bone marrow

transplant [TOm her brother Scott took more than

three years out of her life but gave her the detershy

mination to keep fighting

Many families can understand the marathon

of hope maintained by the Robinsons during

Janes struggle and the commitment they have to

help others who are stricken with the disease Jane

is finally well enough to work again as a writer

and marketing consultant and to join her fami shy

ly in volunteer work She helped recruit for the

Toronto marathon fund -raiser and continues to

be involved with the Leukemia Research Funds

Team in Training She also says that her expeshy

rience has taught her to appreciate more the pleashy

sures of everyday life and the love of famil y

Jan es parents are th e late Doug Rob inson

BSA 53 and Marilyn (Inglis) Robinson Murray

BH Sc 55

19305

bull Grant Misener ADA 32 BSA 35 and DVM 38 received the

prest igious George F Hixso n Felshy

lowship Award from the Kiwanis

International Foundation in May The retired Illinois veter ishy

narian was hono ured for his subshystantial contribution to the

Kiwanis wo rldwide service proshy

ject aimed at eliminating iodine

deficiency disorders the leading

cause of preventable mental retardation in children Over the

years Misener has shown a simishylar commitment to his al ma

mater an d its students through

his close association with OVC

and his support of scho larship

programs

19405

bull Russell McDonaldDVM 45 was named an honorary life direcshytor of the Royal Agricultural Winshy

ter Fair Association in March

McDonald formerly general manshy

ager of Western Ontario Breeders

Ine and executive director of the Canadian Association of Animal

Breeders served as a director of the Royal Winter Fair for 20 years

representing the Canadian artifishycial insemination industry He

lives in Woodstock Ont

bull Ian Taylor DVM43 was recently honoured by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to

Animals of Illinois Taylor ran a small-animal veterinary clinic in

the Chicago area for many years

and says he gained ll1uch experishyence during his first three years in

Illinois as clinic veterinarian for

the anti -cruelty society

19505

bull Charles Chuck Broadwell BSA 54 was elected a Mel

Osborne Fellow by the Kiwanis

Club of Forest City in London Ont in recognition of a dedicatshy -ed and distinguished career in

Kiwanis

19605

bull Constantine Campbell BSA 60 and MSA 61 was named to the

WINTER 1999 37

Order of Canada in January He

received the award in recogni shy

tion of his many contributions

to science and the Canadian

agricultural industry After grad shy

uating from OAC he went on to

do his PhD at the University of

Saskatchewan then joined Agri shy

culture and Agri-food Canada

as a research scientist at the Swift

Current research station Campshy

bell and his family now live in

Ottawa where he is scientist

emeritus with Agriculture and

Agri-food Canada

bull John Casselman BSA 64 is

a research scientist with the

Ontario Ministry of Natural

Resources He Jives in Bath

Ont with his wife Lois

bull Jane Fuller RRSc 65 and

her husband George who both

taught at the Macdonald Instishy

tute from 1966 to 1969 have

moved from Winnipeg to

Utopia Ont following

Georges retirement from the

University of Manitoba

bull Fred Gilbert MSc 66 and

P hD 68 is in his first term as

president of Lakehead Univer shy

sity in Thunder Bay Ont He

taught at U of G in the Departshy

ment of Zoology from 1972 to

1981 and has enjoyed a dive rse

academic career that has also

included teaching at the Unishy

versity of Maine and posi tions

as director of wildlife biology at

Washington State University

and founding dean of the Facshy

ulty of Natural Reso urces and

Environmenta l Studies at the

University of Northern British

Columbia He moved to Lakeshy

head from a position as viceshy

pro vost at Colorado State Unishy

versity A respected wildlife

biologist he has conducted

ex tensive resea rch in s Ll ch areas

as the behaviour and physioloshy

gy of wildlife species and the

effects of environmental

change on wildlife populations

bull Terry Goodyear BSc 67 of

Mont Tremblant Quebec is an

early retiree from Agriculture

and Agri-Food Canada in Ottawa He is now working on

va lue-added products from

industrial wastes particularly

cellulose sludge from pulp and

pa per mills

bull Gary Hearn BA 68 was

named an Ontario provincial

judge in October For the last

25 years he has been a lawyer

with the firm Kearns McKinshy

non in Guelph where he lives

with his wife Irene and three

teenage children

bull Allan Knight BSA 66 of Corunna Ont has retired

from Dow Chemical after 30

years On retirement he was a

laboratory director for indusshy

trial chemicals He is now

working with his son in a famishy

ly-owned and -operated busishy

ness Knight Funeral Home

bull Keith McFarlane BSc(Agr)

68 works for the Department

of Foreign Affairs and Internashy

tional Trade and began a fourshy

year assignment last summer as

head of the commercial divishy

sion of the Canadian Embassy

in Lisbon Portugal The

division promotes the sa le of

Canadian goods and services

to Portugal

bull Ian Newbould MA 68 has

travelled far from his Ontario

roots through an academic and

administrative career that has

taken him to Europe Asia and

Western Canada A noted hisshy

torian he moved into adm inisshy

tration at the University of

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Lethbridge in 1981 and spent

10 years there as director of

research dean of a rts and scishy

ence and vice-presiden t (acadeshy

mic) before crossing the counshy

try to become president of

Mount Allison University in

New Brunswick He is now in

his second term as president of

Mount AUison

bull Indra Deo Singh MSc 68 is

a tea scientist international

consultant and joint director of

the Tea Research Association at

the Nagrakata substation in

India His responsibilities

include co-ordinating research

and development in the Indian

tea industry and developing tea

cultivars and agrotechnology

for tea Singh is married with

two sons aged 27 and 23

19705

bull Don Ambler BSe 71 retired in March as manager of

water programs with Environshy

ment Canada in Dartmouth

NS after 25 years of public

service He has now registered

the company Aquashed Co nshy

sulting to continue in the water

resources field when hes not

gardening beekeeping do ing

aerobics or vo lunteering in the

community and chu rch E-mail

contact is welcome a t

donambl erns sympaticoca

bull Jim Bond BSe 75 is managshy

ing a new processing facility at

the Chalk River Nuclear Laborashy

to ry in Chalk River Ont

bull Terri (Monks) Bulman BSc(Agr) 78 and MSe 81

and her husband Vincent

MSe 8 1 live in Australia with

their th ree children Catherine

7 Peter 4 and baby Christoshy

pher Terri is senior principal

environmental auditor vith

Coffey Geosciences Pty Ltd Vinshy

cent afte r many years as a geoloshy

gist travelling around Australia

and abroad has taken the year

off to study and look after the

children Their e-mail address is

tbulmanbigpondco m

bull Marie David BA 78 of

Hanover Ont has been in the

n ewspaper business for 20

years She started in the mailshy

room moved to advertising

sales then became advert ising

manager She is now gene ral

manager o f three So utham

weekly newspapers and pubshy

lish er of the Hanover Post

bull Janice Harrower and her husshy

band Jerome Billett both

DVM 76 operate a joint veterishy

nary practice in Prescott Ont

Billett says practising together

has allowed them some flexibilishy

ty in their family life and given

their four children a good took

at the rigours of veterinary

medicine Says Billett Not one

of our kid s has the slightest

interest in being a veterinarian

and isnt that just fine Their

o ldest son Jesse attends Harshy

va rd University and is a memshy

ber of its prestigious a cappella

choir Lucas is studying

mechanical engineering at the

University of Waterloo Casey is

planning a career in computer

engineering and Lindsay is a

high school athle te

bull Clair Heinbuch BSe 74 is a

sales manager with Baye r Corp

in Kansas H e and his wife

Caroline (Koscik) BASc 75

returned to the Kansas City

area after spending four years in

Denver They have three chilshy

dren Lisa 20 Scott 18 and

Ryan [5

bull Beverly Lee BASe 72 is an

elem entary school principal in

Unionville Ont She lives with

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her husband Grant Egan in

Collingwood and is looking

forward to retirement in severshy

al years Life on Georgian Bay

is wonderful she says Lee

would love to hear from fellow

grads by e-mail at

leebYrbeeduonca or by

phone at 705 -444 -092l

bull Won-Jai Maeng MSc 71 took office Sept 1 as president

of Kon-Kuk University in Seoul

Korea where his academic

career began He completed an

undergraduate degree at Kon

Kuk in 1965 then studied at

Mailing Agricultural College in Denmark and at U of G before

doing doctoral work at the Unishy

versity of California Davis

Maeng has held research and

teaching positions at the Unishy

versity of illinois at Chung-Ang

University and at Kon-Kuk

where he has been a professor of

animal science since 1984 His

appointment as president folshy

lows years of administrative

experience as a department

head dean and chair of various

research committees and proshy

fessional organizations An

expert in ruminant nutrition

Maeng was instrumental in

developing the livestock feed

industry in Korea He has also

been active in working with

alumni groups and in writing

for the Kon-Kuk Tribune

bull Bill MarshaU ADA 75 of Proton Station Ont moved

from Clarksburg in June to

work in Dundalk for the Grey

County Roads Department on

its road management crew

bull Bernie Matte BSc(Agr) 70 of Moncton NB retired

in March after 28 years with

Fisheries and Oceans Canada

and the Canadian Food

Inspection Agency He plans to

travel to Belize and Honduras

with his wife Diane and will

be available anywhere in the

Caribbean for seafood HACCP

consulting work

bull Margaret McClain BA 70 lives in Arkansas where she is

highJy involved in the issue of

40 GUELPH ALUMNUS

missing children and internashy

tional abductions McClain who

believes her own six-year-old

daughter was taken out of the

United States more than a year

ago by her second husband is

reaching out to parents with

similar experiences through an

organization that is lobbying the

US government for tougher

international abduction laws

She invites interested fr iends

and alumni to contact her

through her Web site at

wwwinsolwwbnet-dmcclain

bull Robert (Chuck) Miller BA 77 is the park superintendent

of Killarney French River and

Maskinonje provincial parks in

Ontario He moved to Killarney

from Quetico Provincial Park

last May

bull Gordon Nicol BA 72 and MSc(Agr) 74 teaches math

and science in a bilingual prishy

vate school in Guatemala A

BEd graduate of Laurentian

he first taught in Guatemala in

the late 1970s then spent 12

years in northern Alberta as a

teacher and principal He

returned to Guatemala in 1989

A widower with three teenage

children Nicol would like to

hear from U of G friends and

acquaintances especially anyshy

one who is was or will be in

Central America He says he

could also use middle-schoolshy

level science projects Send eshy

mail to gnicoll guatenet or

write to PO Box 661447 Miami

Springs Florida 33266-1447

bull Chris Schulte BSc 71 and MSc 73 lives in Nassau

Bahamas with his wife

Andrya After graduation he

stayed in the Department of

Physics as a research associate

with Prof lain Campbell then

joined Ontario Hydro in the

early 1980s He moved to the

Bahamas in 1995 He can be

reached bye-mail at

schultebahamasnetbs

bull Sandra (Pickford) Webster BA 75 has retired from U of

Gs Co mmunications and Pubshy

lic Affairs and is living in Parry

Sound Ont where she is

doing volunteer work and

communications consulting

for the municipality Guelph

friends ca n contact her by

e-mail atswebsterzeutercom

19805

bull Sharon (Courneya) Angus BA 8 I of Surrey BC comshy

pleted a BSW at the University

of British Columbia in 1988

and has been working for the

BC government for 13 years

- first in probation and now

in the family justice division

She and her husband Ron

have three children Jason

Carly and Colin

bull Karen Beazley BLA 86 is an assistant professor and acadeshy

mic program co-ordinator at

the School for Reso urce and

Environmental Studies at Dalshy

housie University in Halifax

She is currently doing research

for a book on endangered

species initiatives and is orgashy

nizing a Nova Scotia wildlands

workshop with the Wildlands

Project for 1999 Her e-mail

address is kbeazleyisdalca

bull Caroline (Van Deudekom) and Marc Brooks both ADA 87

recently moved from Strathroy

to Owen Sound Ont where

they run a 50-acre organic farm

with their two sons

bull Virginia Burt BLA 85 startshyed her own landscape architecshy

ture firm Visionscapes in

Hamilton Ont in ] 996 She

specializes in the design of thershy

apeutic healing gardens spirit

gardens sacred spaces and

la byrin ths and recen tly designed the first healing garden

in Canada specificalJy for peoshy

ple living with HIV and AIDS

bull Joanne (Branson) Carver BA 80 earned a BEd from Brock

University in 1981 and recently

started working as a probashy

tionparole officer She Jives in

Ajax Ont and has two daughshy

ters Julie4 and Sarah 8

bull Heather Champ BA 86 is a Web-site designer in New York

City She began her work in

computer design in 1990 Her

personal site can be Found at

wwwjezebelcom

bull Laurie Gough BA 87 has become a world traveller who

writes about her experiences for

the benefit of others Her most

recent book Island of the

Human Heart A tfornans Travshyel Odyssey is now in its second

printing in Canada and will be

released next year in the United

States and overseas She has also

published Travellers Tales A

Womans World which won the

US-based Lowell Thomas

Gold Award for best travel book

of the year When not travelling

or writing she teaches English

and ESL in Guelph

bull Susan (Coles) Goulden BASc 84 and her husband

Ian are th rilled wi th their

recent adoption of Jennifer Lee

Yu who was born in June near

Leping Jiangxi Peoples Repubshy

lic of China The Gouldens

who Jive in vVaterloo Ont

thank classmate Andrea

(Kovits) Henderson for her

support throughout the adopshy

tion process Susan is currently

on leave from her position with

McCormick Canada

bull Judy (Bodendistel) Gregg BA 82 moved to Melbourne Ausshy

tralia in 1997 with her husband

and two children Carly 6 and

Adam 3 We are enjoying the

friendly people and the great

weather here she says We are

especially enjoying winter in a

place where it never gets below

zero Celsius

bull Nigel GumJey DVM 85 has been a partner in the Alta Vista

Animal Hospital in Ottawa

since 1990 was president of the bull Garry Millage AMPHI 86 bull Heidi Stephenson BA 88 is now ISO 9000 manager at

Ontario Veterinary Medical left a position as vice-president was awarded her professional Carpenter Ca nada Ltd in

Association in 1997 and recent- of national operations for acco untants designation of Wood br idge Ont He lives in

ly served on the Canadian Vetshy Scotts Restaurants KFC Divishy certified general accountant in Miss issa uga Classma tes are

erilw() Medical Associations sion to open his own consult- March 1998 She has been invited to contact him at

national issues committee He ing company Future Food employed for the last 10 years avon listarca

lives in Osgoode with his wife Equipment Ine specializes in with Dan Ball Chartered bull Michelle (Pilon) Bacon BA rvlaurecn and children Laura providing new and used restau- Acco un tant in Parry Sound 90 moved to England to study

and Matthew rant equipment and reducing O nt where she lives with her and work after graduating from

bull Muneer Hirji BComm 82 restaurant construction costs hu sband Brad two dogs and a Guelph She recently left a posishy

lives in Toronto and is vice- He also operates a restaurant horse tion with the British Ministry of

president of marke ting at SAP called Nikkos in Woodbridge bull Dawn Stetsko BSe 81 lives Agriculture and Food in York to

Canada He has three chil- Ont and is planning to open a in Langhorne Pa with her husshy become an at-home mom She

drcl1 Nadia 8 Alyssa 6 and second location band Paul and children Mark now lives in London with her

Sarah I bull Tosh Noseworthy BSe 83 is and Keith and is a research husband Tim and one-year-old

bull Brenda irwin BSe 88 is a cardiovascular ICU nurse in scientist with Bristol-Myers daughter Juliette She sends love

studying at Hong Kong Unishy sunny Tuscon Arizona After Squibb Previously she worked to Sue Heather and Sheila and

vers ity of Science and Technolshy grad uation she lived in Paris at McMaster University in can be reached bye-mail at

ogy to complete the final France for a yea r s tudied nurs- Hamilton Ont for 17 yea rs michellebacondialpipexcom

sem ester of an MBA program ing in O ttawa then lived in Saushy bull Teresa Tummillo-Goy BA bull Jeff Barlow BComm 90 is

through the University of di Arabia for two yea rs She still 86 has a law practice in Water- the training and quality manag-

British Columbia She taught loves to travel and would like to 100 Ont foc Li sing primaril y on er for two five-star luxury boushy

science for the North York hea r from fellow alumni She family law civi l litiga tion and tique h o tels in Prague - Hotel

Board of Education for five can be reached at 520-299-8344 real estate She and her hus- Palace Praha and the Hotel

years before enrolling in the bull Cecilia (Wleugel) Parkes band John Goy live in Guelph Savoy Previo usly he was execu -

MBA program BComm 85 is a graphic and have three sons John 4 tive housekeeper at the five-star

bull Jagwant Kanwar PhD 80 is designer in Toronto and says Tony 3 and Shayne 2 Renaissance Pragu e Hotel

a senior scientist in the depart- she st ill uses ber marketing bull Peter Van der Borch DVM bull Margaret Burnes-Souria BA ment of vegetable crops at Pun- background to help her busishy 88 retired in the fa ll of 1997 94 is a team leader with [011 shy

jab Agricultural University in ness succeed She specia lizes in after several years of practising don Magazin e in London Ont

India He is also director of the logo design lNith hand-drawn physiotherapy and ve terinary She married David Souria in

regional vegetable research stashy illustrations medicine and surgery He Jives July 1997 and is pursuing an tion at Usman (TaranTarn) bull Jim Parr BSc(Agr) 81 and in Pictou NS ]VlBA at the University of West-

Amritsar His and his wife MSe 89 died of cancer in bull MartyWilLiams BA 85 is ern Ontario

Sanyogita have a son Mohit June 1998 but hes being co-ordinator of student activishy bull Janine Byers BASe 95 is a and a daughter Dipika who are remembered by his university ties at University College Unishy public health dietitian at the

both studying engineering friends through the establish - versity of Toronto where he Kingston Frontenac and

Friends can write to Kanwar at ment of a mem orial fund for advises student organizations Iennox amp Addington Health

Punjab Agricultural Un ivers ity his wife Denise and children 1Ie is also chair of the U of T Unit in Kingston O nt She is Ludhiana 141 004 India Shannon and Eric Anyone Staff Association a member of getting married to Ca rl Stewart

bull Larissa Larsen BSe 89 and who would like more informa - the steering committee of the on May 29 j 999 MLA 92 received a PhD in tion can ca ll Brian Tapscott at staffs unionization drive and a bull Lisa Cherry BSe 9 1 is a urban and regional planning 519-767-3566 staff member with the student science journalist and executive

from the University of Illinois bull Cheryl (Dunlop) Reid newspaper The Varsity He can director of Artists Against

at Urbana Champaign in May BSe(Agr) 89 sta rted a new be reached bye-mail at marty Racism an international organi-

She has accepted a position at job in September as ingredient wi lliamsutorontoca za tion She is based in Toronto

Thompson Dyke and Associshy sales manager for RA bull Bonnie (Byma) BASe 96 ales a landscape architecture Chisholm o f Toronto She will 19905 and Gil Clelland BA 95 were

and urban planning firm in continue to work from her bull Claire Allison BA 94 grad- married in December 1996 and

Chicago Her husband Ernie remote offke in Fergus Reid uated from the elementary are living in Chatham On t

Poortinga DVM 89 is in his and her husband Jeff BSe teacher ed ucation program at Bo nnie works at a day-care

third yea r of an MD program (Agr) 89 have two children the University of British centre G il teaches art and

at Rush University Chicago lVlega n 4 and Elizabeth 2 Columbia in 1996 and now phys ical education They ca n -Hes looking forward to joining bull Chee Sie BA 83 is a zone teaches in Va ncou ver be reached bye-ma il at gclelshy

his wife in the ranks of the manager for the Malaysian bull JohnAvon BSdHK) 94 lan ciaccesscom employed They would both Assurance Alliance Berhad in earned an M Se in industr ial bull Kate Corn ell BA 95 of enjoy hearing from fellow Sarawak Malaysia He and his operations from Lawrence Markham Ont earned her

alumni and can be reached at wife Jesterine have a two-year- Technological University in masters in dance history from epoor tin garushurushedu old daughter Letitia Southfleld Mich in 1997 and York University in May and

WINTER 1999 41

co-authored a book titled

Toronto Dance Theatre 1968shy1998 Stages in a Journey

bull Mary Jill (McClure) Culliton BASe 90 earned

her BEd from Brock University

and her M Ed from the Univershy

sity of Western Ontario and

teaches Grade 1 in Mitchell

Ont She and her husband

Tim live in Stratford

bull Kathleen (McNutt) Daniels BASe 9 1 is a teacher and was

married on New Years Eve

1994 to Gord Daniels They live

in North Bay Ont and have a

daughter Lauren born in Febshy

ruary 1997 They are expecting

their second child in February

bull Simon Deakin BA 95 studshyied in Florence Italy for a year

then earned a master of fine art

from the Slade School of Fine

Art at the University of London

England He lives in London

bull Christie Dunbar BLA 97 spent a year after graduation

working for Niagara College in

St Catharines Ont on the

vision and design of a new

campus to be built in Niagarashy

on-the- Lake Last April she

joined the landscape architecshy

ture firm of Pollack Design

Associates in Ann Arbor Mich

bull Trina Edmonds BA 94 and

Joel Hinderle became the

proud parents of a little girl

Jordan Ashley in january 1998

and moved to a new home in

Oakville Ont in September

Edmonds works in Mississauga

as a desktop publisher with a

publishingprinting company

bull Wendy Garinther BSc 93 and Steve Decker BSe 94

were married in May Joining

them in the wedding celebrashy

tions were Cheri (Coulter)

42 GUELPH ALUMNUS

Ascroft BSe 93 Karen Leinshy

gartner BSe 94 and Barb

(Moore) Johnson BSe 94

Best man was Jeff Bond BSe

93 and MSe 96 The Deckers

live in Edmonton where Steve

is doing a PhD in chemistry at

the University of Alberta and

Wendy is working in a research

laboratory at a biopharmaceushy

tical company

bull Donna Gross BA 97 is purshysu ing a master of divinity at

Emmanuel College at the Unishy

versity of Toronto and hopes to

become an ordained minister by

2002 She lives in Guelph and

can be reached bye-mail at

donnajulietalbedonet

bull Robert Gruber BA 92 is a child-care supervisor for the

YMCA-YWCA of Guelph and

manages the Jean Little Y

Child- Care Centre He recently

developed the anti -bias proshy

gramming policy for the

Guelph Y and sits on both the

Jean Little Public School Counshy

cil and the Guelph AIDS Wall

Committee He can be reached

bye-mail at rgrubernet

comca

bull Susan Harder BSe 91 grad shyuated from the University of

Toronto Medical School in June

and has started a residency at

Santa Clara Valley Medical Censhy

tre in San jose Calif She will

follow that up with an anestheshy

sia residency at Stanford Univershy

sity Hospital in 1999

bull Marko Harjupanula BASc 93 travelled in Australia for

two months after graduating

from Guelph then returned to

his home town of South Porshy

cupine Ont where he worked

in a gold mine for four years

He entered police college in

September and started as an

opp constable in Cochrane in

December

bull Nancy Holman MA 94 moved to Vancouver soon after

graduation and initially worked

as a project co-ordinator for an

ophthalmologist In 1996 she

began working full time for the

BC Liberal Caucus I would

enjoy hearing from and catchshy

ing up with the friends I made

while studying at U of G and

working at the Brass Taps she

says Her e-mail address is nan shy

cyholmanlassgovbeca

bull Ruth Johnson BA 91 is an investment banking associate

with the mergers and acquisishy

tions group of JP Morgan in

Lond on England responsible

for financial reporting and

administration She has been in

England with her partner Alex Campbell since graduation

bull Stephen Johnson BA 94 of London Ont was a lab technishy

cian at Lenscrafters for three

yea rs and is now a full-time

student at Fanshawe College

studying air conditioning and

refrigeration He was married

in Jun e to Jennifer Fox BSc

95 a chemist at 3M Their

wedding party included Dee Popat BSe (Eng) 94 and

Patrick Wulhes BSc 95

bull Sarah (Davis) Kelly BASe 90 married Robert Kelly in

July and teaches primary

grades at an inner-city school

in Toronto

bull Cassidy Klowak BComm 97 lives in Allisshy

ton Onl and is a personal

banking account manager

with ClBC in Tottenham

bull Stephanie Lopes BSc 96 completed her MSc in repro shy

ductive biology at the Universishy

ty of Toronto and worked as

patient-care director for the

College of Family Physicians

for almost a year In September

she enrolled in medical school

at the University of Toronto

She is happy to announce that

she is engaged to be married

next summer Lopes can be

reached at slopesidirectcom

bull Natalie (Parker) MacKenzie BSc 96 earned her BEd from

the University of Western

Ontario in 1997 She married

ASLt Andy MacKenzie June 27

in Sault Ste Marie Ont and

now lives in Halifax

bull Susan MacKinnon DVM 91 is a veterinarian with HUls

Science Diet She lives in

Guelph with her husband

Brandon Wiley and gave birth

to their first child Adrianna

Nicole june 26 at home

bull Waheed Mian BA 9 1 of Cambridge Ont is a store

director with PetSmart Canada

He helped the company launch

its new retail concept in Cana da

bull Alex Mitchell BA 91 was appointed clerkdeputy treasurshy

er of the Ontario township of

Mildmay-Carrick in 1998 and

will be the clerkadministrator

of the new municipality of

Mildmay-Carrick -TeesWatershy

Culross in 1999 He was married

in january 1997 and lives vith

his wife and daughter in Mild shy

may In his spare time Mitchell

is a professional scout for the

Toronto Maple Leafs covering

southwestern Ontario

bull Sherry Morland BASc 93 of Kitchener Ont ea rned her

BEd from Brock University in

J995 and is a part-time specia l

educa tion teacher and an occashy

sional teacher with the Watershy

loo County Board of Ed ucashy

tion She married Ivan LeBlanc

in 1997

bull Gary Page BSe 91 wo rks for the Nottawasaga Valley Conshy

servation Authority where he is

able to combine his knowledge

of wildlife biology with his

artistic skills as resident graphic

designer and outdoor centre

interpreter He Jives with his

wife Di and their son judah in

CreemoreOnt

bull Elaine Pammenter BA 96 is an inventory clerk with the

Royal Collection at Windsor

Castle in England She holds a

museum management and

curatorship grad uate certificate

diploma from Sir Sandford

Fleming College and did her

internship at the Royal Albert

Memorial Museum in Exeter

England

bull Brent Raymond BSe(Env) 96 of Brantford Ont has

been working with Outward

Bound since graduation He

leads wilderness trips in Northshy

ern Ontario Horida Australia and Sabah (Malaysian Borneo) Most recently he designed and implemented a new introducshytory mountaineering course for Outward Bound Sabah on the summit plateau of Mt Kinashy

balu Those of you who know me as plate licker from U of G get in touch he says Where are you Star I miss you He can be reached by e-mail at globarwchatonca or by

phone at 519-756-1697

Alumni Patrick Abbott BSA 40 July 7 1998

Albert Allen BSA 33 Jan 161994 Agris Ansmits BA 70 and MA 73

February 1998 Barbara (Quartermain) Babcock DHE

53 June 17 1998

Wray Bond BSA 34 Sept 25 1998

Kenneth Bone DVM 38 Dec 29 1998 Evelyn (Stevenson) Buhr DHE 39

May 251998 Philip Burke BSA 43 June 21 1998

Grant Carman BSA 49 Oct 221998 Frederick Chambers BSA 41

June 1998 Wilmot Conley ADA4 7 April 7 1998 Lloyd Crewson BSA 49 Aug 261998

Jacqueline Dimock DHE 47

Aug 20 1998 John Dingwall DVM 52

April 18 1998

Lloyd Dorsey BSA 38 June 9 1998 George Duncan BSA 37

Sept 19 1998

David Dyson BSA 53 Aug 31 1998

Norma (Shannon) Edwards DHE 39

November 1997 Vincent Bud Ellis DVM 41

July 15 1998 John Jack George BSA 48

Sept 24 1998

Donald Haight BSA 33 January 1997 William Hamlyn BSA 33 Dec I 1997

Gordon Harkness BSA 49

November 1997

Charles Hollister DVM 38 June 1996 Donald Hope BSA 54 June 28 1998

Lawrence Jefferson BSA 38

Sept 3 1998

James Kelso DVM 56 July 27 1998

Dorima Lalonde BSA 34 Oct 8 1998 Mildred (Cox) Large DHE 33

June 20 1998 Roger Larson BComm 86 Feb 19 1998 Robert Lawson BSA 49 June 6 1998

bull Doug Ramsey BA 91 and PhD 98 received U of Gs highshyest graduate student award shythe Forster Medal- at June convocation for his academic and community involvement while enrolled in Guelphs new

graduate program in geography He spent the summer as a visitshying research scholar at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College in Truro before assuming his curshyrent position as assistant professhysor at Mount Allison University

David Leach BSc(Agr) 74

July 18 1998

Ian Leask DVM 74 Sept 5 1998

Sheryl Lee BSc 95 June 8 1998 Ruby Janet MacAuley DHE 30

Aug 19 1998 Parker MacKenzie DVM 38

September 1994

Jeanice MacLaren DHE 28 March 1 1997

Campbell MacMaster DVM42

Oct 8 1998

Rex McCallum DVM 43 July 71998 Jean (Dunn) McMahon DHE 31

Nov 41998

Margaret Oones) McTaggart DHE 35 Aug 81998

Patrick McTaggart-Cowan HDSc 81

Oct 21997

Malcolm McWhinnie ADA 39

July 16 1998 Mary (Townsend) Mitchell BHSc

60 Sept 281998

Marjory Monaghan DHE 29

December 1997 Charles Monk BSA 44 Aug 7 1998

Heather Neilsen BHSc 59

Oct 30 1998 Jerry Niwa DVM 62 Aug 5 1998 Henry Harry OReilly BSA 42

October 1997

James Parr BSc(Agr) 81 June 19 1998 Charles Rammage DVM 45

Oct 17 1996 Howard Rapson HDSc 90

March 1997 Clement Reeds DVM 42 Oct 16 1998

William Robinson BSA 38

Aug 23 1998

Donald Sager ADA 73 Oct 141997

Austin Schaefer DVM 37 in 1997

Sandra (Mackenzie) Schmidt DHE 59

Aug 16 1997 Margaret (Harvey) Seaborn DHE 28

July 221998

Larry Seguin DVM 47 June 12 1998

Leah Shedden DHE 31 December 1998

Edward Shuh BSA 40 July 2 1998

Ted Shutsa BSc(Agr) 66

Sept 18 1998 Jim Sinclair DVM 49 Oct 4 1998

Margaret (Brown) Sinclair DHE 20

September 1998 Eldon Smith BSA 42 Sept 9 1998

Derek Somers DVM 96 Sept 25 1998

Cheryl Lynn Sopha BA 95 Sept 20 1998

Leona (Bartlett) Stewart DHE 35

June 27 1998 Alex Thomson BSc(Agr) 69

October 1996

William Whittick DVM 55

Aug 15 1998 Joseph Wilson BSA 23 Sept 11 1998

Lloyd Woolsey DVM41 June 24 1998

Winifred Yeates DHE 28 June 11998

Faculty John Carpenter BSA 43 and MSA 48

Microbiology Dec 10 1998

David Gaskin Zoology Sept 14 1998

Gordon Macleod BSA 50 Animal and

Poultry Science Nov 26 1998 Roman Retman Languages and

Literatures Sept 28 1998

Caesar Sen off Chemistry and

Biochemistry Aug 14 1998

Percy Smith Drama Dec 10 1998

Friends Robert Clark Aug 21 1998

Ethel Hammond August 1998

Thomas Hillers Sept 28 1998 Marguerite Holbrook Aug 26 1998

Catherine Kelly Sept 27 1998

James A McKenzie May 13 1998

Kenneth McIssac Oct 23 1998

William Mutlock September 1998 Roena Patterson Sept 16 1998

Donald Priddle Aug 25 1998

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bull Karl Reimer BSe 94 comshypleted a one-year intensive

MSc in mining engineering at

Queens University and is now

a project engineer a t Enpar

Technologies Ine in Guelph

He can be contacted at reimerbservcom

bull Nancy Nauta Rowland BA 90 and her husband Dan celshy

ebrated their first wedding

anniversary in March 1998 with

the birth of their first child

Connor who beat their March

8 anniversary by two days Nanshy

cy teaches junior-grade stushy

dents and junior special ed ucashy

tion for the Peel District School

Board The Rowlands live in

Caledon Ont

bull Fraser Stables MFA 98 was heralded by Toronto Globe 6shyMail critic Betty Jordan as a

formidable new talent followshy

ing the openi ng of his debut

gallery exh ibition in July The

Scottish artists work includes

sculpture video and mixed

media that explore notions of

flu x by interrupting the moveshy

ment of forms in space

bull Erin (Smith) Scott BSe(HK) 92 and Brad

Scott BSc(Agr) 91 of Lucan

O nt were married in 1993 and

had their first child Lucas in

August Erin works for Shopshy

pers Home Health Ca re in

London Brad is with New Life

Mills in Dunfield

bull Abby Simons BSc 95 and Martin Piche BSc(Agr) 95 were married in Mont-Tremshy

blant Quebec in 1997 She is a

customer service representative

with Kantech Systems he is

superintendent of Club de golf

vallee des forts They say theyd

love to hear from anyone headshy

ing to Montreal and can be

reached at 450-348-3860

bull Sylvia Tesori BSc 95 has been doing wildlife rehabilitashy

tion for the OSPCA Wildlife

Rehabilitation Centre in Midshy

land Ont since 1996

bull Chuck Thibeault BComm 94 is general manager of the

Putting Edge Corpora tion

which has two glow-in- theshy

dark mini-golf courses in

Ontario one in Bramp ton and

one in Richmond Hill He can

be reached in Richmond Hill at

chu ckttotalnet

bull Karen Thirlwall BA 93 is a

si ngersongwriter and guitarist

who began her stage career and

released her first album The Voice Inside Me while studying

languages at U of G She has

lived and performed in

11i stler BC for three years

and recently released a second

album called Wide-Eyed She

remembers many special

fr iends m ade at Guelph and

welcomes e-mail messages to

karenthirlwallhotmailcom

bull Christie (Johnson) and Steve

Tyler both BComm 91 live in

Cambridge Ont where

Christie is a personal banking

representative for the Royal

Bank Steve works with their

third-year design professor

Nelson Hofer in Mississauga as

a design consultan t Steves proshy

jects include the Windsor Casishy

no and U of Gs Creelman Hall

They have two children Jason

5 and Marcus 1

bull Julia White BA 91 lives in Guelph and is a small-business

accountant at Taves amp Co She

recently finished courses

towards a CGA designation and

would like to hea r from other

alumni who lived in Lambton

Hall in 198788 Send e-mail to

juliawhitesympaticoca

bull Andre-Denis Wright MSc 93 and PhD 98 is doing postshy

docto ral work in Perth Westshy

ern Australia He wants his

Guelph friends and Halifax

family to know he was thinking

of them at Christmas when it

was 40 C in Australia

bull Dave Yellen BComm 90 was recently promoted at the Gordon

Food Service to new-accounts

sales specialist for Metro Toronshy

to Having been in Ottawa for

the past few years Im hoping

to reacquaint myself with old

friend s from U of G in the Metro

area he says He lives in Scarborshy

ough and can be reached at 416shy615-2745 or davidysprintca

bull Halina Zaleski PhD 92 is a tenured professor in the

departm ent of animal sciences

at the Un iversity of Hawaii in

Honolulu She is a swine speshy

cialist involved in extension

programs for an area th at covshy

ers all of Hawai i and the PacifIC

basin She can be reached by

e-mail at halinahawaiiedu

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the Way We Were r (() M Til FARC III V E S

IF THERE ARE LIVESTOCK IN THE HOCKEY ARENA and

theyre not wearing skates its College Royal If there

are students sawing logs throwing pies baking cookies

and square dancing its College Royal When the entire

University of Guelph is displayed - from arts to zooloshy

gy - March 13 and 14 1999 youll know its definitely

College Royan

Since its inception in 1925 as an agricultural and liveshy

stock show run by the Ontario Agricultural College

College Royal has grown to be a celebrated U of G trashy

dition involving all the colleges

The event is famou s in the University community

and beyond for its open-house showcase of displays and

activities The largest student-run open house in Canashy

da College Royal attracts more than 20000 visitors to

campus over one weekend

College Royal is an event of tradition that reaches

into tomorrow Agriculture and livestock shows are still

highlighted events but College Royal activities have

grown to include dog and cat shows a photography conshy

test a chemistry magic show and demonstrations on

human health and fitness The open house gives people

an opportunity to see what happens in the Universitys

leading-edge research laboratories to observe veterinary

medicine in practice to tour a sculpture studio or to

watch a theatrical performance

To celebrate the 75th anniversary of College Royal

1998 president Joe TrakaJo lnvites alumni to get involved

again by joining one of the planning comm ittees or by

participating in a favourite event Call him for more

information at 824-4120 Ext 8366 or send e-mail to

jtrakalouoguelphca

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HPILOT PROJECT ELIMINATES BARRIERS

av ing a learning disability isnt a barrier to obtaining an educashy

tion at the University of Guelph especially with the laun ch of Learning Opportunities a pilot program offered through the Unishy

versitys Centre for Students with Disabilities Beginning in fall 1999

the program will give students with learning disa bilities the addishytional resources they need to meet the challenges involved in obtainshy

ing a post-secondary ed ucation

Lea rning Opportuniti es is a fi ve -yea r project that rece ived

$633 800 in special funding from the Ontario Ministry of Education

and Training U of G vas one of eight institutions to benefit from ~ the gran ts) which are designed specifically for programs in post-secshy

~ ondary institutions that support the integration of stud ents with I U learning disabiliti esIf)

z 0 Students enrolled in the Guelph program will receive pre-regis-O

~ tration cOllnselling academic advising speciall y tailored orientation

~ programs integrated living in an on-campus learn ing cluster supshy

5 ported learning groups workplace skills and competenc ies develshy

5 Oplnent) and experiential educat ion in the vvorkplace

PROVINCE BOOSTS GRADUATE RESEARCH

ANEW $75 - lvIILLlON provinshy

cial scholarship program in

science and technology will awa rd up to 46 U of G graduate

students up to $15000 star ting

this ye ar An nounced in Sepshytember the O ntario Graduate

Scholarships in Sc ience and

Technology will be awarded each

year for 10 years The ministries

of Energy Science and Technolshy

ogy and Education and Training will co-fund two-third s of the

cost of the program Uni ve rsishy

ties are expected to fmd an otershynal match for the final third

The government will alloshy

cate up to $460000 annually to

U OF G GRADS PROMPT GIFT FOOD SC IE NCE TEACHIN G and research at U of G has received financial support from the

Maple Lodge Farms Foundation In honour

of the companys founder Lawrence May

the May family presented $15000 to U of G

president Mordechai Rozanski Nov 9 at the

Royal Agricultural Wint er Fair in Toronto Presenters Wendy Ma y Robson and Kathy

May Weinhold said the gift was awarded

because of Maple Lodge Farms positive

experiences with so many highly qualified Guelph graduates

Man) graduates of this university have

passed through our facility over the yea rs

and in many capacities - as veterinarians inspectors researchers and food scientists

says Robson Our business has been enriched by this connection and it is for

8 GUELPH ALUMNUS

University

Guelph MPP Brenda Ell iott presents a cheque for $633800 to president Mordechai Rozanski for a pilot project to help learningshydisabled students Sta nd ing from left are Carol Herriot of the Cent re for Students wi th Disab ili t ies student Brad Hutchinson and cent re director Bruno Ma ncini

U of G whi ch will seek th e

remaining $230000 from prishy

va te-sector funding

Graduate studi es dean Alasshytair Summerlee is enthusiast ic

ab out the program but disapshypointed at the targe ted natu re of

the scholarships 1-k say the preshy

liminary list of qualifyi ng pro-

this reason that we wish to be part of this talented fa cility and to show our support of

its continuing mission of being a worldshy

class educational facility in Canada

Wendy Robson left and Kathy Weinh old present a gift from Maple Lodge Farms to U of G presiden t Mordechai Rozanski at the Roya l Winter Fair

grams ignores the social sciences

and huma nit ies and does not appreciate the con tributions of

fi elds suc h as econo mi cs and poli tical science to the advanceshy

mfl1t of science w d technology He says U of G wi ll press for the

govern ment to expalld the areas

included in the scholarships

B OF G WELCOMES NEW MEMBERS f OL LO W IN G 1111 1([ Il RF ~ lE NT of

several members in June U of Gs Board of Govern ors welcomed

t igh t new face~ th is blJ They are Christine Alford BSc 80 viccshy

prcsidltIlt Jnd geneml manager of

In tegration S rvices at IBM Ca na shyd1 Ltd Gil Bennett chai r of the

Canadian Tire Corporation Doug

Derry a fi na ncial adv iser and ret ired part ner with Price Wlel shy

house staff member Kathleen Hyland of th UAC Deans O ffi cI

graduate stu clenL James Rodgers undergraduate stud en ts Mitch MacDonald and Lana Rabkin and

Prof Steve Scadding Zoology

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U OF G WINS FEDERAL

INNOVATION AWARD

mE UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH is one of 14

1 Canadian universities and one of six

in Ontario to receive awards totalling $81

million from the Canada Foundation for

Innovations (CFI) Institutional Innovation

Fund (projects over $350000)

The CFI has yet to determine the exact

amount of the award but if Guelph were

to get the approximate $750000 requestshy

ed with matching grants from industry

and the Ontario Research and Developshy

ment Challenge Fund the total award

could be close to $2 million

Guelphs project is a holistic look at

agriculture the first of its kind in Canada

Titled New Technologies for Assessing

and Enhancing Agroecosystems it will be

headed by Prof Terry Gillespie chair of the

Department of Land Resource Science and

involve 25 faculty from 10 departments

Eight other U of G research projects were

invited to move on to a further stage of

review the third-highest number for an

Ontario university

TTRELLIS LAUNCHED a triangle of information sharshy indexes and Web sites and

H E SEP~EMI3ER LAU NCH of ing through TRELLIS the Trishy databases around the world an excltmg new system University Group of Libraries More than 75 million volshy

called TRELLIS has positioned combined computer-based umes of materials can be the U of G Library as a symbol information resource system found online and more thal1 of partnership and the home The automated system 400 users can log on to for more information than ever gives students and faculty at TRELLIS at the same time before U of G Wilfrid Laurier the three campuses access to a To access TRELLIS 011

University and the University of wider range of resources the Internet type wwwtugshyWaterloo joined forces to form including computer-based librariesonca

OTHER HONOURS

CONVOCAriON HONOURS TWO The University of Guelph has added two more distinshy

guished names to its list of honorary degree recipients Renowned biologist Jane Goodall and political scienshytist Peter Russell an expert on the Canadian Constitushytion and Charter of Rights and Freedoms were honshyoured during fall convocashytion ceremonies in October

Goodall received an honorary doctor of science degree acknowledging more than 40 years of groundbreaking work in the life and sociobiology of chimpanzees and other primates

An honorary doctor of

laws degree was conferred on Russell for his extensive research on the Constitution and Canadian nationalism

UOFG QUALIFIES FOR ATOP SUPPORT U OF Gs SCHOOL OF Engi- neering and Department of Computing and Information Science (CIS) are planning for more faculty equipment and resources following the Unishyversitys request for funding from a provincial program designed to address a shortage of skilled graduates in engimiddot neering and computing science

U of G met this years enrolment increase in these high-tech programs needed to qualify for one-time fundshying under the provinces Access to Opportunities Proshygram (ATOP) Guelph has also committed to doubling enrolment by the year 2000 to take advantage of long-term ATOP money

Guelph will qualify for special operating grants from the province to universities that increase their first-year enrolment in these programs by 20 per cent over 199798

The University also hopes to receive ATOP funding to increase its graduate enrolshyment in these disciplines

Both CIS and the School of Engineering face a shortage of resources making the ATOP funding an important funding source that will help these areas without affecting other campus units

WINTER 1999 9

refront ofat the

ALL THE DEFINING WORDS

written about the Ontario Agricultural College in its 125

years perhaps the most appropriate is the word integral

Throughout its history OAC has remained integral to the

agri-food industry and rural society

Its a good word integral It describes how and why

the college has survived 125 years and suggests a reason

it will grow even stronger in the 2pt century

Without hesitation OAC dean Rob McLaughlin

BSc(Agr) 69 and PhD 77 takes up the thought and

declares that OAC is the premier agricultural college in

Canada and stands in the top rank of agricultural faculshy

ties around the world Our work has had a profound

effect on the growth and development of the Canadian

agri-food system and the well-being of the people and

communities of rural Ontario and beyond he says

10 G UELPH ALUMNUS

OAC celebrates its history its partnerships and its fu ture

W I N TER 1999 11

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OACs 23000 graduates are also recognized

worldwide for their expertise and leadshy

ership abilities in agriculture agribusiness manageshy

ment hortiClilture landscape architecture plant and

animal biology food scie nce and rural extension

Meeting industry needs

More than 100 years apart in their leadershyship of OAC William Johnston and Rob McLaughlin both recognized that the colshylege they inherited would have to focus on industry needs to survive In Johnstons day that meant bringing greater prospershyity to the farm Because only three per cent of McLaughlins graduates return to farmshying todays college curriculum has a greater focus on skills in communication and critical thinking which are demanded by the various industries that now define agriculture

studies McLaughlin hopes those graduates will

return to help the college celebrate 1999s signifishy

cant anniversary It s important to celebrate our

past achievements and to recognize our present and

future strengths he says

A specia l OAC 125 planning committee coshy

chaired by Clay Switzer OAC dean from 1972 to

1983 and Don Blackburn former director of the

diploma program has organized a number of

events throughout the coming year to celebrate the

anniversary

Were looking forward to a wonderful year of

events to mark this occasion says Switzer BSA 51

and MSA 53 We want to celebra te the accomshy

plishments of the past and the fact tha t OAC has

interacted with many partners to get where we are

today and we want to look ahead to the future to

see how the college and the University might conshy

tinue along this successful path

Success for OAC means maintaining its position

as a vital partner and contributor to the prosperity

of the agri-food industry and the people of rural

Ontario for whom it was established That industry

and those rural communities are vastly different

from the 1874 picture we draw from the college hisshy

tory primarily because farmers themselves - with

the help of agricultural education and researchshy

12 GUElPH ALUMNUS

125 YEARS OF ACHIEVEMENT

Throughout OACs first 125 years its educashytion research and extension activities have had an impact on virtually every secshytor of Canadas agrimiddot food industry In the anniversary book 125

Years of Achievement OAC highlights some of the areas where col1lege faculty stushydents and administrashytors have played a leadership role To read more about Guelphs achievements in these areas conshytact the OAC deans office to obtain a copy of the book

Pre 1900

bull Diploma in agriculture

bull Degree in agriculture

bull Agri-food short courses

bull Production bulletins bull Extension work bull Liberal education bull Library resources bull Field crop trials bull Livestock breeding

bull Forestry bull Insect identification bull Experimental Union

1900-1910

bull Herbarium amp weed garden

bull Cheese making bull Food safety bull Land drainage bull Water testing bull Weather observashy

tions amp zoning for crop production

bull Legume inoculants

have forged change through increased productivishy

ty and efficiency

When OAC roots were planted in 187450 per

cent of th e people who lived in this new province

made their living from farming Today only two per

cent of Ontario residents live on farms

but they feed a much larger population

base and an important export market

The Ontario agri-food industry genershy

ates an impressive $637 billion in ecoshy

nomic value each year and stimulates

employment for nearly a quarter of the

workforce Canadians enjoy one of the

safest and cheapest food supplies in the

world spending less than 13 per cent of

their disposa ble income on food Most

people in the world spend more than 50

per cent

Its difficult to pinpoint all the conshy

tributions OAC faculty staff and gradshy

uates have made to agriculture because

the knowledge created and the techshy

nologies perfected here have been so weU

assimilated by the industry that they are

easily taken for granted Few people in

Ontario have ever heard of Charles

Zavitz or know that this early OAC gradshy

uate and professor recorded the first

field-crop yield tests at Guelph before 1890

Appointed head experimentalist in 1893 he was

instrumental in developing a college research proshy

gram that made good the promise that OAC would

offer its students training in scientific agriculture

Zavitz has been followed by a number of brilshy

liant educators and scientists whose contributions

to the college and its industry have filled several

books Even Alexander Ross in OACs official hisshy

tory College on the Hill can provide only a brief

description of the research initiatives that have

involved OAC in the growth of the agri-food secshy

tor and the tremendous advances agriculture has

made in the areas of human and animal nutrition

and health water and soil conservation rural develshy

opment and of course agri-food education

To give prominence to these contributions the

college has published an anniversary book that outshy

lines 125 of the most significant accomplishments in

which OAC faculty students and administrators

played a leadership role More important 125 Years ofAchievement celebrates the partnerships that have

provided the opportunities for achievement Through

the years Guelph scientists and educators have worked

closely with the agri-food industry with both the

Ontario Ministry of Agriculture Food and Rural

Affairs and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and

with other government departments international 1990s And they still have not reached that equalishy125 YEARS agencies educational institutions and alumni ty on the college faculty Alice Rowsome may haveOF ACHIEVEMENT

Read any entry in 125 Years ofAchievement and been hired to serve as assistant librarian and instrucshy

youll find an interes ting anecdote that chronicles tor in French and German at the turn of the censhy1910-1920

an important element in campus history Read the tury but horticulturist Patricia Harney remained bull Macdonaldwhole book and youll be awed by the

Institutesheer volume of th e work that has

bull Soil science been accomplished by so many people Scientific agricuLture

bull Poultry lighting working meticulously over so many

amp nutritionyears to affect so many changes in agrishy After earning one of its first agriculture

bull OAC 21 barleyculture that have improved the lives of degrees in 1888 Charles Zavitz began a

bull Fruit research Canadians 40-year career overseeing the college

Freeman McEwen OAC dean from experimental programs and made the first 1920-1930

1983 to 1990 chaired a committee that advancements in plant breeding Threebull Collecting

involved severa l dozen current and generations later Prof Ken Kasha led the Canadian art

retired faculty as well as alumni students development of a haploid technique of cell bull War Memorial

and U of G staff in writing the stories division that cut the time needed to breed Hall

A quick check of dates in the book new varieties in half Today plant biotechshybull Graduate

shows a spiral of achievement that has nologist Bryan McKersie is looking even education

escalated with whirlwind force since the deeper into the functioning of plant cells bull College Royal

establishment of the University of to manipulate genes that will enhance proshybull SoybeanGuelph in 1964 and heads unabated ductivity or disease resistance

developmenttoward the future The 125 items docushy

bull Forage varieties ment scientific discoveries to be sure

bull Meat research but also the development of the college

bull Ginsengas an educa tional institution and its bull Farm business

ongoing partnership with the provincial records

government

Out of the J25 McEwen has picked his own top the only woman on faculty throughout the 1960s 1930-1940

five beginning with the contributions OAC made and women are seriously under-represented even bull Professional

to the establishment of the University This campus today This is one area where historians find room societies

has the distinction of being the only one in North to criticize agricultural traditions and college polishybull ControlledAmerica where the agricultural college preceded the cies that continued the dominance of men for far

atmosphereuniversity that supports it That fact helps ex plain too many years

storagethe unique character of the University of Guelph The college itself was dominated by the provinshy

bull Muck crops and its prominence in the life sciences cial government during its first 90 years when OAC bull Salmonella

Some might argue that the process of becoming principals reported directly to the minister of agrishytesting

a university began as ea rly as 1904 when the Macshy culture The 1964 University of Guelph Act mainshybull Links with donald Inst itute opened This event is second on tained the schools relationship with the agriculshy

farm groups McEwens list of top accomplishments The ad dishy ture ministry but gave the col lege a new- found

tion of women to the campus changed OAC from a freedom that expanded research and graduate proshy1940-1950

boys school into a co llege Guelph history professhy grams and opened the door to increased fundingbull Holland Marsh

sor Terry Crowley says bluntly Early student life at from th e education ministry It a lso permittedResearch Station

OAC is readily divided into two - before women greater collaboration with the Ontario Veterinarybull Standardizedand after women College which had been moved to Guelph by politshy

cattle conformation The Mac girls were generally older than the J6- ical dictate in 1922

bull Potato breeding and 17-year-old students at OAC they were more One of the most vivid examples of the impact of

bull Reproductionmature and brought both a social life and a new acashy that collaboration was the dramatic increase in anishytechnology

demic focus to the campus For the young women mal-breeding technologies OVC perfected artificial bull Queen beeof Ontario it was a long overdue opportunity and insemination and held the only licence in Ontario for

rearingthey grasped the educa tion offered at Macdonald frozen semen until 1969 OAC faculty and the netshy -bull TechnologyInstitute in large numbers work of provincial agricultural representatives helped

transferWomen were not admitted into the agriculture promote the technology and control it through the

bull Conservation program until 1918 however and they didnt reach development of a national livestock and performance

farm planning numerical equality with male students until the inventory Through these combined efforts Canada

WINTER 1999 13

emerged as a global leader in animal breeding largest Ontario univers ity geographica lly when it125 YEARS OACs un ique and enduring relati onship wi th assumed res ponsibility for ed ucation resea rch andOF ACHIEVEMENT

the provincial agric ulture ministry is another addishy Iaboratory services form erl) managed by the minshy

tion to McEwe ns list of top achievements Certa inshy is try Guelph agric ultural expertise covers the 1950-1960

ly the most significan t even t in the last decade has provi nce with camp uses in Guelph Ridgetownbull Horticulture corre-

Kemptville a nd Alfred and a network of spondence course

research facilities that includes the Horshybull Business education Changing with society ticultural Resea rch Institute of Ontariobull Watershed research

diagnostic laboratories and 21 research bull Farm buildingWhen Adelaide Hoodless argued for the stat ions

programestablishment of Macdonald Institute in the The partnership with OMAFRA has

bull Computers in late 1890S she saw scientific training for kept agricultural education and research agriculture

women as a way to improve community at the forefro nt of the University of bull Corn expansionhealth standards The college has evolved Guelph More than 40 per cent of the Unishybull Deailing with continually through the years - growing versitys graduate studenllt are in OAC and

cold climate into the largest home economics facility in more than 70 per cent of its $80-million

bull CropOntario under dean Margaret McCready and research budget is focused on the ag rishyrecommendations

broadening its outlook in the 1970S under food indus try T hat commitment to

dean Janet Wardlaw to include consumer research is the earliest and most enduring1960-1970

studies and the hospitality industry Wardshy achievement out of the 125 bull OAC Alumnilaw set the tone for increased research OAC contin ues to lea d the way in

Foundationactivity and positioned the college to join research and is one of the most dynamshy

bull University of Guelphforces with the social sciences in 1998 ic co lleges in th e University saysbull Arboretum

McLaughlin But we draw on peoplebull Ag research

fro m all over the University communi shystations

ty And now with the provincial colleges bull International

added back into the mix we are ail workshyag research centres

ing as part of the sa me team to enhance bull Scholarships

been the launch of a new University relationship the opportunities availab le to yo ung people in agri shyendowments

with OACs oldest partner the Onta rio Minist ry of cu ltural edu cat ion bull International

Agriculture Food a nd Rural Affairs (OMAFRA) Alumn i have always held an important position apiculture

In 1997 the University of Guelph became th e on that tea m Among OACs top achievements is the

The OAC of today owes much to its past THE ONTAR IO AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE might never have existshy The journalist s role in establishing the college as the Ontario

ed if not for the failure of a Univers ity of Toronto experiment in School of Agriculture and Experimental Farm is bro ught into

agricultural education in the 18505 It certainly wouldnt have context in a new history of OAC that will be published in April

been situated in Guelph without the political parlaying of Guelph to help celebrate its 125th an niversary The College 011 the Hill A journalist and cleric William Clarke And it might not have surshy New History of the 011tario Agriwltuml College 1874- I 999 was

vived a traumatic first yea r o f patronage and scandal if it hadnt written by Guelph history professor Terry Crowley and Univershy

been for the acc iden tal appo intment ofVVilliam Johnston as prinshy sity professor emeritus Alexander Ross who wrote the origi nal

cipal in the fall of 1874 College 011 the Hill for OACs 100th anniversary

And that was just the beginning If the first book tdls us how OAC grew into the University of

One hundred and twenty-five years have passed since Clarke cuelph the second tells us why

successfully argued that the new province of Ontario needed a When the fledgling provincial government of the 1870s was

land-based rural college where the focus was on providing a pracshy glued togeLher by political patro nage how could th e sc hoo l be

tical education in farming The University of Toronto fai led to any different asks Crowley Two principals came and went withshy

attract farmers sons he sa id because it allowed the other proshy in its first year when rumours tore at their moral fibre so the job

fessions of medicine law and the clergy to overshadow agriculshy fell quickly to the new college rector William Johnston

ture Clarkes persuasive fiting in the then Olltario Farmer newsshy Because we already know how OACs story devdops we ca n

paper helped place the college on 550 acres of good clay loam see some iro ny in the fact that the man who nur tured this preshy

at the back door of his Guelph parish mier agricultural college through its infancy was educated in the

14 GVELPI-I AWMNvs

alumni initiative that es tablished the OAC Alumni work internship at the end of their third yea r and125 YEARS Foundation in the 1960s to provide financial supshy co me back to finish the fourth year with a job wa it shyOF ACHIEVEMENT port to co ll ege programs and scholarships The ing for them says McLa ughlin and they o ften have

foundation also provided the leadership and incenshy fo ur or fi ve to choose from vVe are very short of bull Teaching

tive to create Guelph Unive rsity Alumni Research graduates to fill all of the jobs that are o ut there now innovations

and Development (GUARD Inc) in bull Birdsfoot trefoil

1996 The manda te of the technology bull Land reclamation Educating Leadersmanageme nt company is to develop bull Rural planning

researc h i nven tion s in to marketable bull Wind and snow Guelphs agriculture graduates haveprod ucts lau nch spin-off companies

studies played key roles in Canadian agriculture and gene rate revenu es to support basic

bull Milk testing including federal ministers William Mothshyand applied research at U of G bull Ruminant nutrition

erwell Diploma 1881 John Wise ~DA 56Throughout OACs history alumni bull Ag poli cy and Lyle Vanclief BSc(Agr) 66 Mothshyhave formed a network ofAggies who

development erwell was a driving force behind the have volunteered their time to provide

western grain producers movement before 197deg-198o

a rea l-world view for students helped to

being named to Cabinet in 1921 In thelaunch the careers of many new grad ushybull Arboretum Centre 1980s Wise introduced income stabilizashyates by providing work opport unities bull Ghana-Guelph tion programs and created farm debtencouraged research initiatives co nshy

Project review boards Today Vanclief is strugshytributed millions of dollars to scholarshy

bull Integrated pest gling with low commodity prices and intershyship programs and voca lized co ncerns

managementabout college programs and curriculum national trade agreements

bull Composting animal After receivin g some critica l advice

wastesfrom alumni and agr i-food employers

bull Crop resistance toin the ea rly part o f the 1990s OAC

herbicideslaunched a new BSc(Agr ) program that

bull Limnocorrals for wil l gradu ate the fi rst class of st uden ts

aquatic ecosystems this anniversary year The new agriculshy

bull Grain drying and ture curriculum emphasizes communica tion skills in the agri-food sec tor he says

storageand teamwork allows students to choose their own If you live anywhere near Guelph youll know that

bull Asparagusspecializations and includes opportunities for onshy the agri-food sector ill this area is expected to lead the

bull Systemic fungicides the-job experience Many of those students take a local economy well into the new mi llennium creat shy

bull Pesticides research

bull Agricultural Code of

Practicesocial sciences Johnston had no real farm expeshy within the interdisciplin ary atmosphere of the

rience but he understood people well says Crow- University of Guelph OAC has both contributed

ley and he recognized almost as quickly as his students that the to and benefited iiom the Universitys steady growth Traditionshy

school would succeed only if it co uld offer farm ers sons someshy al OAC programs have expanded into new departments and colshy

thing more thall what they had already learned at home leges providing greater benefits to agri-food resea rch and teach shy

Johnstons commitment to education and his genui ne con shy in g New partnerships o n campus and th e academ ic freedom

cern for his students still echo through the corridors of the build shy provided by University sta tus have enabled Guelph to enlarge its

ing named in his hono ur a nd across campus in the broad range already significant influence in the agri-food sector

of disciplines that now nuke up the Un iversity of Guelph Johnshy Crowley says the enha nced partnership between U of G and

ston was the firs t of hundreds of hulllane and sensible people the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture Food a nd Rural Affairs has

who have given the campus its distinctive character says Crowshy fulfilled a vision of OAC as the hub of agr icultural educa tion that

ley The University of Guel ph is still a good place to be People had been expressed nea rly a cen tury before It s a good place to

help each other to a rema rkable degree and it is eve n m ore end a history and begin a future

remarkable that this sense of co-operatio n has lasted through the In Crowleys fi nal words Agriculture reta ins its econo mi c

most recent government meat slicing importance in the co untrys econom) but the secto r will find

Told in the social and political context of its 125 yea rs the itself [n an increasingly international and com petitive ellvironment -OAC story builds momentum as the pages turn The final chapshy where education and research become ever more importa nt Since

ter in Crowleys history is the most impressive because it SUIll shy the Ontario Agricultural College has demons t rated its ability to

marizes the last 25 years when developments in agricultural edushy respond to changing circumstances during its first 125 years the

cation research and service have occurred 1110st quickly Growing past suggests a willingness to meet the new challenges that await

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ing more jobs and generating more wealth than any 125 YEARS other industry A recent study by the citys Planning OF ACHIEVEMENT OAe 125 and Business Development Department predicts a

ANNIVERSARY EVENTS50-per-cent increase in employment in agri-food bull Mosquitoindustries in the next decade Broaden out to the

monitoring jan 29 - Official OAC 12S launch and bull Canadian publication of 125 Years of Achievements

Greenhouse Feb 16 - Winegard Seminar Series hosts New frontiers Conference Andy Johnson Seymour Wis

bull Non-agricultural March 5 - Winegard Seminar Series hosts At the tum of the 20th century Prof William waste on land Sir Colin Berry Royal London Hospital UKGraham created the impetus for a Canadishy

bull Pest diagnostic March 31 - Opening of AJ Casson Exhibitan poultry industry through nutrition studshyservice and selections from the OAC art collection ies that also provided a background for

at the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre work in human nutrition The tum of the 1980-1990 April 30 - Recognition of the 12s-year 21st century finds poultry scientist Ann Gibshybull Alumni House GuelphOMAFRA partnership and launch bins perfecting the techniques to transfer bull Turfgrass Institute of The College on the Hill A New History genetic material into chicken embryos to bull Centre for the of the Ontario Agricultural College develop birds with better disease resistshy

Genetic Improvement 1874 - 1999middotance or to improve production characterisshyof Livestock june 7 amp 10 - Spring Convocation for tics including the deposition of medically

bull Network of OAC diploma and degree graduates Eachvaluable proteins in the eggs Toxicology Centres graduate will receive a copy of College

bull Biological control lab on the Hill bull George Morris june 18 amp 20 - Alumni Weekend and

Centre opening of the Conservatory and Gardens bull Advanced Sept 14 to 16 - Canadas Outdoor Farm

Agricultural Show will host the countrys biggest silent Leadership auction as an OAC fundraiser for student Program support Ontario industry and the predictors are similar and

bull Distance education Sept 25 - Heritage Banquet and Ball for again youll find U of G at the hub of that growth bull Animal behaviour alumni agri-food partners and University In the past decade the view from Johnston Hall

and welfare communityhas expanded to include OMAFRAs provincial bull Farm animal care Nov 24 - Agri-Food Into the Newheadquarters and the U of G Research Park which bull Haploid breeding Millennium conference to discuss the majoris home to a branch of Agriculture and Agri-Food

technologies forces shaping the destiny of the global Canada the regional headquarters of the Canadian bull Hybrid canolc and Canadian agri-food systems and rural Food Inspection Agency and more than two dozen bull Consumer societiesbusinesses and agriculture organizations that are

benefits from key players in Ontarios industry

agricultural For more information on these events or toIn the summer of 1997 Guelph welcomed the research order copies of the anniversary books visit establishment of Ontario Agri-Food Technologies

bull Soybean the OAC 125 Web site at wwwoacuoguelph - a consortium of 12 grower associations five rhizobium 532C cajOAC125 or contact the deans office atOntario universities 11 industries and OMAFRA

519-824-4120 Ext 2285 e-mail oac125 - which is dedicated to generating wealth for the 1990S oacuoguelphcaprovincial agri -food sector through the application bull Guelph Food

of biotechnology The consortium will develop Technology

financing and the research teams needed to take in new business to the country s economyCentre

discoveries and turn them into products in the Some would suggest the growth of agri -food bull GUARD Incsupermarket partnerships is part of a global trend in economic bull Environmental

A new venture beginning this year is the Agrishy thinking that says consolidate cluster and work Farm Plan

Food Quality Cluster that seeks out opportunities together for greater rewards but the important thing bull U of GOMAFRA

for agri-food companies to work together to meet is that this agri-food sector is clustering in Guelph partnership

a specific need The Guelph duster is one of the first - around U of G - because this institution began bull Wheat in China

to be established in Canada but it already has 500 preparing for its future 125 years ago with a comshybull Food packaging

members and has predicted that potential projects mitmen t to leadership in agri-food research edushybull Transgenic plants

in Ontario could add $2 billion to $3 billion a year cation and service ga

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UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

rese~ tesch SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERYmiddot SCHOLARSHIpmiddot SOCIAL DEVELOPMENTS

WHEN 24 HOURS IN lea rning how to integrate work Runciman arrived at Guelph know they may be harm ful to

A DAY ISNT ENOUGH and fa mily life rath er than jugshy last summer after spending four their health

TRYIN GTO ACCOMMODATE the gling the two says Lero Inteshy years deSIgning orthopedic sysshy Most consumers are not demands of family and career is gration is key so tfut people can tems and instruments for Canashy aware that plants contain a comshya problem most peopl e fa ce in be successful in multiple roles dian and Ameri ca n firms He plex mi xture of biochemica ls todays society Those indi vidshy rath er than struggling from crishy hopes to establish a state-of-theshy says Prof Pra vecn Saxena Plant ual and family struggles will be sis to crisis art research lHboratory with Agriculture Herbal remedies the focus of the Universitys new HOLlsed in the College of Pro fs Jinl Dickey and Jack have been developed on historishy

Social and Applied j-Iuman Scishy Callaghan Human Bi010gy and cal and anecdotal evidence rather ences the centre brings togethshy Nutr itional Sciences that will than by scientitlc testin g he says er related resea rch areas und er allow him to pursue hi s twin Saxena is trying to change this by a sing1e roof and will spark new research interests in shoulder systematically identifying charshy

Family relations interdisc iplinary opportunities and spine mechanics acterizing and quantifying the experts recommend particularly for graduate st ushy The trio has appli ed for chemical constituents of plants parents integrate - not dents More than 50 fac ulty and fundi ng from the Natural Sc ishy used in a1ternative medicines juggle - work and staff ha ve indicated a desire to ences and Engineering Resea rch family life be affiliates of the centre which Co uncil to equip a biomechanshy

wijJ stimulate resea rch and forge ics lab already loca ted adjacent partnerships with organiza tions to U of Gs new Health and Pershy

Centre for Families Work and co rp orations and co mmunity forman ce Ce ntre in the recentshyWell-Being agenCies ly renova ted Powell Building

Headed by Profs Donna This funding would bring Lero and Kerry Daly Family BODY IS THE the lab up to date to meet intershyRe lat ions and Appli ed Nutri shy ULTIMATE MACHINE national standards says Runcishytion the centre will promote IM INTER ESTED in the app lishy man who p1ans to follow up on responsive wo rk env ironments cation of mechanical engineershy pioneering shoulder mechani cs and help families across Canashy ing to the human body The work he was invo lved in whil e He and grad uate students da manage wo rk and family body is the ultimate machine completing his PhD at Sco tshy Susan Murch and Co lleen Simshyresponsibilities in healthy ways So says Prof John Runciman lands Strathclyde Un iversity mons in th e Ontario Agri culshy

The centre will also be a catshy who recently brought his blend He hop es hi s studies will tural Co llege a1so wa nt to alyst for new researcl in areas of academic and industry expershy help orthopedic co mpanies improve the methods of growshyas diverse as health promotion tise in biomedical engineering design better implan ts used to in g medicinal plants to protect seniors long-term ca re nutrishy to U of Gs School of Engineershy correct such deformities as sco shy cons umers and ensure quality tion and wellness rural aging ing in the College of Phys ica l liosis or cur va ture of the spine Problems in the herbal remeshyand gender in the workplace A and Engineering Science and for treating shoulder insta shy dies industry include medicinal mandate of the centre is that the

IN FACT

bi lity often caused by injuries prepara tions containing misidenshyresults of its research must be among athletes tified plant species contaminashyapplied and availabl e to the tion by pests and disease a lack public to benefit those Canadishy RESEARCHERS of understanding of plant physshyans who ne ed help dealing with CULTIVATE QUALITY iology or efficacy for human conshythe accelerated pace of life nonshy IN HERBAL sumption ilnu co nsumer fraud shytraditional family relationsl ips MEDICINE Our research will help set a longer working hOLlrs globlt1lshy MORE AND MO RE Canadims are standard fo r the development ization and downsizing turning to natural remedies as of safe va lue-added products

The challenge for fam ilies is alternatives to medicine but few Saxena says

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RESEARCH UNCOVERS KEY

TO AGING RESEARCHERS may have found modern sc iences answer to th e mythica l Fountain of Youth

U of G professors John Phillips and Arthur Hilliker Department of Molecular Biolshyogy and Genetics and Gabrielle Boulianne of the University of Toronto and th e Hospital fo r Sick Children appear to have identified a critical weakness in the common fruit fl ys defence against aging

The researchers from the College of Biologica l Science di scovered that a specific cell type - th e motor neuron - is the major target for oxidative damage known for several years to be a key factor affecti ng aging and lifespa n They were able to boost a fruit flys defence against the damage by inserting th e human gene SOD1 which is known to protect against oxidashy

tive damage into the fly s DNA As a result the ave ra ge lifespa n of the fli es (us uall y about 80

days) was increased 40 per cent

PROFESSOR SURVEYS CANADIANS ON POLITICS ETHICS

of the most pampered celeb ri ty NEW WEAPON or the mo st prima donn a pro AGAINST BACTERIA athlete ANTflllOTlCS TYPICALLY have a

More than half of su rvey shelf life because bacte ria develshyresponden ts say they have little op resista nce over time but this or no confidence in Parliament wou ld not be a concern with a with the figure being even lower new sys tem fo r smuggling for the Senate In addition 34 per an tibiotics past bacterial walls

TI-lESE DAYS on both sides of the A molecular-level Trojan border what a politician says or ho rse is how Prof Terry Bevshydoes in private can have tremenshy eridge Department of Microbishydous impact on his or her public ology and graduate student Kelshycareer - but is th at appropriate ly MacDonald desc ribe the

Prof Maureen Mancuso of system theyre studying 1 t takes the Department of Polirical Scishy advan tage of a mechanism develshyence in the College of Social and oped by bacteria to attack an d Applied Human Sciences an d a co nsume neighbouring bugs team of four other political scishy Preliminary tests by the entists conducted a cross-counshytry survey of 1400 Canadians asking what th ey think of th e behaviour of their elected represhysentatives The res ults were pubshyli shed in October in th e book A

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WILL ONTARIO FARMERS GROW

HEMP U OF G SCIENTISTS are helping to determine the viability of hemp as a cash crop for Ontario farmers

Health Canada recently li ftshyed a 60-year ban on growing hemp and about 10000 acres are expected to be plan ted in Canada this year Hemp is an organic fibre tha t could be used in everythi ng fro m fabri c and medicine to oil and paper

Gordon Scheifele of Kemptville CoJlege and Peter Dragla of Ridgetown College are studying the potential of hemp as an Ontario crop Scheifele has completed initial test ing on nine varieties and a series of producshy

tion research experiments in northern parts of On tario Dragla has established breeding program trials and looked at commercial production of hemp varieties in southern Ontario He is also developing field instrushymentation to provid e field readshyings of tetrahydrocanmbinol the psychoactive ingredient in hemp

NO ONE KNOWS MORE ABOUT

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COLLEGE OF ARTS professor Ivlary Rubio and professo r emerita Eliza beth Waterston know more abo ut author LM Montgomery than anyone else in the world They were among the first academics to seriously study the world-famous author of Anne ofGreel Gables

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TRAINING VETS TO DEAL WITH CLIENT GRIEF

A NEW INTERACTIVE CD-RO M designed by Ontario Veterinary College professor Cindy Adams will help veterinarians learn to help clients gr iev in g over th e loss of a pet Titled Death of a Pet the CD-ROM is expected to be launched in February and is geared toward vets technicians and students

Adams who holds joint appo intments in the departshyments of Popu lat ion Medicine and Cli nical Studies and the Veterinary Teaching Hospital is an expert on the humanan imal bond She has developed in-sershyvice training workshops fo r vets on dealing with client grief over the loss of a pet and su pport groups for grieving pet owners

Inside Playwright Judith Thompson

BEHIND THE MASK

JUDITH THOMPSON A DRAMA PROFESSOR at the University of Guelph

since 1992 is one of Canadas finest playwrights Her complex and

sometimes disturbing plays give voice to human failings and accomshy

plishments A two-time winner of the Governor Generals Literary

Award she has received wide acclaim for her work

On the following pages the Guelph Alumnus profiles an artist

whose creativity finds expression through dialogue by offering a

faithful rendition of the dialogue between Thompson and Comshy

munications and Public Affairs writer Andrew Vowles Much like

the characters she unmasks on stage Thompson reveals both comshy

plicated and unexpected images of herself

PHOTOGRAPHY BY D EAN PALMER

20 GU ELPH A LUMNUS

NO The scene is the rehearsal space in Lower Massey Hall at the University of Guelph

Monday mid-morning Outside the warped-glass windows the first wet snow of the year

drops like pebbles Drama professor Judith Thompson is leading some 20 students in her

Acting I class through their warm-ups The students stand in a circle and take turns aiming

a mock blow as they shout the word No More she says to the less assertive To others

whose No sounds shredded over the top she holds up a hand More control Thompson

gestures to her diaphragm It has to come from here

SCENE THOMPSONS OFFICE MASSEY H ALL

On one wal l hang pictures of actors engaged

in a drama mingled with childrens sc hool

drawings The desktop is practically bare A

black purse occupies one chai r A scarf has

landed on the back of another This is where

the playw rig ht hangs her hat during her

classes and meets with studen ts She wri tes

at home in Torontos Annex neighbourhood

where she li ves with her husband Gregor

Campbell a sessional English inst ruc tor at

Guelph and their five children Ariane 13

Eli 10 Grace 8 Felicity 4 and Sophia J

SCENE U OF G LI BRARY ARCHIVES

Guelph Alumnus writer (readil1g from draft of Epilepsy and Snakes Fear as the Genesis of Theatre a talk given by Thompson to the Epilepsy Association of Metro Toronto ill 1997 The script for the ta lk is included among boxes ofcorrespo nde11ce numerous drafts of plays various newspaper and magazine artishycles and reviews ahout the playwright and her work that Thompson recently donated to the U of G Library archives)

1have known real fear only a few times

in my relatively sheltered life But 1

believe these moments of fear are

directly connected to the so urce of creshy

ativi ty within me

SCENE J UST ABOUT ANYWHERE YOU CAN

REA D A PLAY

GA writer (reading from introduction to Tho mpsons play Sled wh ich was first pro shyduced hy Torontos Tarragon Theatre in 1997)

Judith Thompson was born in 1954 in

Montreal She graduated from Queens

University in 1976 then graduated from

the act ing program of the National Theshy

22 GU ELPH ALUMNUS

I seem to give voice to people who

have no voice

atre Schoo l in 1979 Alth ough she

worked briefl y as a profess ional actor

she became more interested in writing

and at th e age of 25 a workshop of her

first scrip t The Crack walker was proshy

duced by Theatre Passe MuraiHe Her

work which includes both radio and

tel evisio n writing has enjoyed great

internationa l success

Other plays includ e The Crackshywalker White Biting Dog Pink Tornado - radio Am Yours Lion ill the Streets White Sand Perfect Pie and Stop Talking Like That- radio She is the recipient

of the Floyd S Chalmers Canadian Play

Award for Lion in the Streets in 199 1 and

Am Yours in 1987 and the Governor

Generals Literary Award for Drama for

The Other Side of the Dark in 1989 and

White Biti11g Dog in 1984

S CENE LUNCHTIME

U OF G UNIVERSITY CLUB

Thompson Im so grateful to have this job

beca use it allows me to do the work that s

important and the plays that will be my legashy

cy and tha t are what 1 feel I have to conshy

tribute to Canadian culture If I didnt have

thi s job Id ha ve to keep compromising

because my plays dont make money Theyre

always in sma ller houses I take chances

theyre not commercial They play all over

th e world but aha)s in sma ller places 1

would just have to pursue life as a screenshy

writer to make a living Thi s job gives

me the great privilege of doing my research

which is the plays that I write and the edishy

torial work that I some times do and screenshy

plays that are worthy and good projects

GA writer Audi ences and reviewers have

described your plays as dark disturbing full

of angry people full of profanity

Thompson At the risk of sounding

grandiosel seem to give voice to people who

have no voice or very little in the culture

whom people dont li sten to Liol1 in the Streets the handicapped wo man living in

the basement all on her own the yo ung girl

Iso bel The secretary stuck in this abu sive

relationship with the actor The middle-class

housewife dumped by her husband because

be doesnt like her sweatsuits and on and on

I give voice to them because I dont know

because I care abo ut them because I like to

represent them Im a lawyer Some of them

use profanity because they have really good

reason to be angry a nd most of th em are

powerless And unfortunately profanity has

a little charge Its a little source of baby powshy

er It upsets me I dont use it myself Im very

se nsitive to it

SCENE ARCHIVES

GA writer (reading essay by Thompson comshymissio ned by Toronto literary Journal Brick

in 995)

If I were not a writer 1 think 1 would

wear a riding hat With a stee l lining

Because I would be baving many more

epi leptic seizures than 1 do presentl y

Because any of the non-writer real jobs I have had caused me sleepless nights self-disgust swoll en eyes cystic acne and hearin g di sorde rs all of which increased electrical activity in my brain which I believe increases the frequenshycy of seizu res

SCENE UNI VER SITY CLUB

Thompson (discussing the critical and pubshylic reaction to her first play The Crackwalkshyer) It was slaughtered at first as all my plays have been Very bad reviews at first and then somehow they catch fi re and theres one grea t review and the others start to see something GA writer Why the bad reviews Thompson I think people might say that theyre shock ing but I dont think so not

with the movies we see and whatnot Theyre not shocking compared with Quentin Taranshytino But theyre not like anything else they dont know where to put them And when they dont know where to put them theyre dismayed I think and hostile and they feel challenged I just write as I see Im not tryshying to shock or challenge anyone I hope they do challenge - me too all of us I often feel li ke the little boy in The Emperors New

Clothes Look this is what I see

SCENE LOWER MASSEY HALL

Two Acting I students perform a scene on th e stage Their fellow stud ents sit on th e Aoo r watching Thompson sits forward on a plasti c chair forearms propped on her knees hands clasped before her Her eyes her bod y are intent on the action Later Amberley Buxton (fi rst-year student il1 Actshyil1g I who is pursuing a psychology major and a drama minor)

Its a really in tense class In one of our first classes we were to share something that had changed our perspective on li fe or how we thought every day Later during improvisashytion or scene work she had us draw on the emotional context fro m those stories to add to our acting experiences Its really intense in that way A lot of people share a lot of personal things and we use each others experiences

SCENE UNIVER SIT Y CLUll

Thompson Ea ch se meste r students go through an intensive transition In order to find your creative centre or trigger yo u need

to know yourself in an intell ectual context They reach that pl ace and find their genius My philosophy is that every stu dent has genius and its my job to uncover it My relationshi p is so intense with st udents The classes are very psychoanalyt ic It seems to tra nsform their life

SCENE LO WER MA SSEY

Buxton Even if we haven t encountered a similar situat ion in real life she has us draw on somethi ng similar For ollr exa m Im doing a monologue My character has been abused I havent been abused myself but I have to draw on a si tuation where I had sim shy

itar feel ings draw on some experi ence Like being teased at schoo l Even so mething as small as tha t if you find a way to get back to that

SCENE UNIVERSITY CLUll

Thompso n I llsed to be terrified In high school Id spend half my time in the nurses room because the idea of having a se izu re in front of yo ur peers at that age was just petrifying I did finall y have a seizure but luckil y no one was around at the time So I

think all of that puts me in touch with a lot in life I might not have been in touch with being fairly privileged not rich but eno ugh to be middle class A lot of my work is about class abo ut the class differentiation in Canashyda Ive somehow felt more all ied to a less adva ntaged class My gra ndfather once sat as prime minister of Australia My grandshyfa ther on the other side was a member of the Royal Society an entomologist but his mother died in childbirth and he was brought up as a cousin on the farm outside of London And my Australian grandfath er was one of 1I siblings in a shack by the side of the railroad His father had di ed He walked barefoot to school so I th ink because its just two generations away I feel it in my bones and my blood GA writer How did you get to writing Thompson Through ac ting Ive been involved in thea tre since I was II years old I was Helen Keller for a university show my mother directed She had an [vIA in th eatre and she taught it at Queens I was in TILe Crushycible when I was 12 in Kingston and Jean Brodie and on and on and on I would just lisshyten to aU these wonderful lines and words and it all kind of enrered me And acting is where I reaU y found my niche as a person The theshyatre became my home Then I went to theatre schoo l as an actress but I started to create mask characters through improvisation Thats where I really took off in a big way and where I found myse lf very very excited GA writer VVhat we re you excited abo ut Thompson I was doing the writing And I felt frankly that I did it much better than most of the texts I was working with Not Shakespeare but and its not a matter of better it s thats where I belonged So I would go home and write down the charshyacters that r crea ted that day in class and make th em talk to each odler and thats how The Craekwalker happened

I spent a summer in Toronto looking for acting work and I go t a few jobs But every day for a co uple of hours I would write at a typewri ter and I found these voices comshying At the end of it I sa id to someone You know I think this isnt bad I think this might eve n be a play At the Na tional Theatre shySchool they said to me Youre pretty handy with these monologues but dont ever think you could write a play (Pause) I enjoy telling th at tale on them

WINTER 1999 23

SCENE LOWER MASSEY

Buxton It was my fint time doing mask work She had us sit with the masks on and just sta re at ou rselves in the mirror We did it for an hour staring at the mask feelin g the mask It was a phenomenal eilVer ience the Wily youre able to transform yourself It was almost as if you werent look ing at you That helped yo u to walk differently You were able to shed your

own movements and personality

SCEN E UNIVfRSITY CLU B

Thompson I think thil t seizures can transshylate into creativity are part of me as a cre shyltltive artist Peop le in the medical busin ess are very skeptical of ltll1ything like this But I fee l it s because I have fewer inhibitors in my bra in You have these inhibitors and thats what medication helps But if youre epi leptic your inhibitors Ment working as well to put out the electrical fire so it spreads I think the door to my un conscious is kind of flapping around so J think that helps creatively

SCENE MA SSEY HALL

Student (steppingforwmd) NO I Thompson (quietly) Good

SCENE ARCHIVES

GA writer ( reading fiom Epilepsy and Sna kes)

I have no doubt that my experience with epi lepsy has con tributed to my creative wo rk partly because it hE Jped me to understand what it is to be marginalized to be isolated to be feJ rful and to be out of control and eve n to be mortal

SCENE U NIVERS IT Y CLU B

Thompson Unchecked id can mean scrawlshying on the walls crazy things muttering in stree t corne rs beca use th ey re all id no su perego But I had the luck to be born into a theatrical famiJy my mother havin g the theatrical experience so I was exposed to it Lots of books I was taken to 1 lor of plays Having ep il epsy my first seizure when I was nin e J was able to link with that If I hadnt had those advantages who knows the se izur es migh t have ju st made me a depressed person an angr y person And you re touched with mortality you always live und er siege a slight fear of having a se izure Its much less so now with me

24 GUELPH ALUM NUS

SCENE UNIVERSITY CLUB

Thompson Ive always been a mimic in a cheap way I could always mimic we ll I would raLk to someone on a bus and I could do them exactly Thats kind of dangerous because it can be pretty shallow But it showed me ltl way into the person throu gh voice And once J could do that like a pupshypet something would click and I cou ld get

in in a deeper way J need to get so thoroughly into the charshy

acte rs and their state of mind and especialshyly tapping repressed el11orion which gets you in touch with your id or unconscious li fe If

I take little sections of

myself and grow them in a petri dish of the play

one character is about rage I have to tap into my own rage and that s why the monoshylogues so things can just flow and then I can retrieve things from the past and remember things So its not working from here (gesshytures to midriff) it s wo rking fro l11 here (gesshytures to head)

Mo nologues for me are always the key to findin g out who th e character is because if you cant make them rant for fi ve minutes you dont know th em Tha ts what I tell my

playwriting students I want to see r-wo pages of this characters mouth In other words to speak for five minutes we have to have

so mething to say We have to have something we feel passionately about something were angry about and if we dont have something to say for fi ve minutes who are we

SCENE UN IVERSTTY CLUB

GA writer Vhere do you see what eventushyally becomes a play such as Sled 1110mpson I was at a lodge and saw a moose that s one thin g And that made me think about winter and how the country is always with us as Ca nadians Even in the urban censhytres we ca rr y it wi th us Theres always this

see ming division between the country the wilderness and civilized centres but its the same The wildness of the moose and the

hunt and the bear is in our neighbourhoods I guess its like Lion in the Streets it must be a thing with me And also the exquisite beaushyty and thats how most of the world thinks of Canada as the wilderness Its not quite how we think of ourselves but it is partly So that made me want to do something abo ut the Nor th violence in the North

As far as th e old mans stories that was my neighbour and he told me all those stoshyries they were all true except mltlyb e one or so and I thought Theyre amazing They teilus what our neighbourhoods Me really about and Toro nto what the city is how its const ru cted Toronto is our stories and in th ese neighbourhoods you have an urbane entertainer li ving nex t to an 80-year-old Italia n man and thats the beauty ofToronshyto ltllld its the way th e world is chan ging The stric t class divis ions and culture divishysions th eyre no longer as defin ed as they we re espec ially in th ese neighbourhoods the great pioneering experimen t GA writer Do your chi ld ren see your work Thompson No None of my children can see my plays Ariane saw f Am Yours in New York when she was about nin e I do cl eal with the dark and whats tru e and my chilshydren aren t ready for that Im probab ly more protective th an mos t mothers Walk them

to school till theyre 13 that ki nd of thin g GA writer Yo u we re intervi ewed in the Globe alld Mail recently in a story about motherh ood dnd th e muse How do yo u handle th e demand s of motherh ood and writing

Thompson If Im in the situation where I have 15 or so hours of child care a week Im OK because when Im with them I wa nt to be with them and when ]m doing my work

th ats what I clo But if I do something like a worko ut thell a black cloud descends The guilt and the black cl oud th at descend as I take off on my bike it s huge Then once the workout s finished I know it was d good

thing to do although it s also cut into my

work time J do feel guilty about the nilture of my work too in that my kids cant see it Am I drawing on a part of me thats not good as a mother The oth er part of me is th at I make up bedtime stories and bake coo kies and all thlt stuff ]m probably a

rather operatic mother I cry at movies laugh too hard __

SCENE ARCI-I[VES

GA writer (reading fiom Epilepsy and Snakes)

1

Although being a dramatic writer has

given me a reputation in my cou ntr y

and a strong identity the actof writin g

or creating character leaves me SOJlle shy

times feeling that I have no id entity at

all Every once in a while when I am not

writing or tending to my four children

I feel I 1m falling again down th e terrishy1 ble hole with nothing to hold on to

And I believe this falling this identity

pain is a result of me using the very

essence of Ill yself to create character in

a dramatic wo rk r wonder so metimes

if J illl1 betraying my soul in a way by

using its essence However J have found

some comfo rt in the words ofWilliall1

Blake Essence is not Identity but from

Essence proceeds Identity and from one

Essence may proceed many Identities

as from one Affection Jlla y proceed

many thoughts If the Essence was

the sa me as the Identit y there could be

but one Identity which is fal se Heaven

wo uld upon this plan be but a clock

but one and the sa me Essence is th ereshy

fore Essence and not Identity

SCENE UNIVER SIT Y CLUB

Thompson I always put myself in a play and

never In other words I take little sections of

myself and grow them in a petri dish of th e

play So if Ive found a moment where Im a

bit lazy ]11 grow it and milke the character

very lazy o r impatient or whatever So I take

these moments because we all have all of

them grow th em and create this Frankenshy

steins monste r a character right out of parts

body parts and psychological parts often of

myself and then observe things in other peoshy

ple but I have to find it in myself to make it

work

SCENE AR C H1V ES

GA writer (reading from Epilepsy al1d Snakes)

My self asserted itself as a kind of quishy

et Lucille Ball c1ulllsy and absent-mindshy

ed At least this gave me an identity and

was a small aCI of slbo tage The next

assertion was an act of unconscio us rev shy

olution th e grand mal seizure that

almost killed me And the next one was

The Crackwalker my first play And this

is how I raged against the machine and

took space in the world And now not

surprisin gly I am seizure-free

SCENE LOWER MASSEY

After another pair of acto rs rUllS through

their scene Thompson directs them to begi n

again She interrupts frequently to question

the students about actions feelings motishy

vations At one point 8S the students pause

to consider her words Thompson turns to

the rest of the class erect in her cha ir

Thompson Isolate the mom ent The great

thing about the stage is th at it isolates the

moments that just race by us_

SCENE UNIVERSITY CLUB

Thompson Ive just written my next play

which is not ca lled Pefeet Pie but thats its

working title because it came from a mon oshy

logue called Perfect Pie But now its a full

two- haul play in which the second wom3n

comes back and tben I have them as yo ung

girls too It goes back ~nd forth and its very

exciting I worksbopped it in the spring and

in December at tbe Tarragon and it will go

on in o ne year At the sa me time lm wr itshy

ing a feature film for Rho mbus based on the

play Pe feet Pie

SCEN E UNlV ERSITY CLUIl

Thompson My pIalS are Illusically written

And if somebody doesnt get the music they

dont feel it and go with the rhythm s it

throws the whole thing off I hear the plays

I hea r them I write with my ear They

change 1 lo t but it s according to rhythm

I ll be sitting in rehea rsal listening and if it

does nt so und ri ght I change it so that its

rhythmic

SCIi -JE J UST AllOUT ANYWHERE YOU CA N

READ A PLAY

GA writer (readmg ji-olll the script ofvVbite

Biting Dog first produced at the Tarragon Th eatre in 1984)

Beciluse of the ex treme and deliberate

lllu sica lity of this play any allempts to

go aga inst the tex tual rhythms such as

th e breaking up of an unbroken senshy

tence the tlking of a pause where none

is written in are DISASTROUS The

effect is like beil1g in a small plane and

suddenly turning off the ignition It all

falls down This play III list SPIN not

just turn around

SCfN e LOWER MASSEY

Her students listen as Thompson stands to

complete a so liloq uy abo ut cap turing the

rhythm of the language on the stage The

wide sleeves of her ank le-length dress slide

down her forea rm s as she ges tures

Thompson Listen to the music of the

scene Each playwright writes their own

symphony

SCENE U NIVERSlTY CLUB

Thompson Ive been pretty directed to this

ii-om an carly age although if I had done anyshy

thing else it probab ly wou ld have been some

form of social work I would have been smokshy

ing three packs of cigarettes a day and workshy

ing il1 an office somewhere up in Scarborough

SC EN E AfltCHIVES

GA write r (reading from Brick interview of Thompson by Eleanor Wachtel ]99] )

In th e thea tre I think what one mllst

do is co nfront the truth confront the

emot ional truth of our li ves which is

mired in the swamp of minuriae

everyday minutiae Maybe it has to be -tl111 way because we couldnt confront

it every day But I think the th eatre

IllllSt Im not interested ill th eatre that

doesnt ga

W1NTER 1999 25

Never mind fish wars pitting countries against one another - here in Canada scientists and policy makers cant agree on who should control the preservation and management ofour own fishery resources BY ANDREW VOWLES

Ca

as

ollapsed cod stocks to the east

On the West Coast laquofish wars

_ rlTDT Pacific salmon enmesh

Canada and the United States

At various points in between fisheries scishy

entists and managers grapple with everyshy

thing from overfishing of freshwater

stocks to invasion by exotic molluscs

What is to be done about Canadian fishshy

eries And what role is being p layed by

fisheries and aquatic scientists at the Unishy

versity of Guelph

-

dock pollock red fish and flatfish made up just under half of Canadas total landings on the Atlantic coast (720000 tonnes of fish and shellfish were caught in 1994 represhysenting a total landed value of $11 billion) Two year~ later that proportion had dropped to 21 per cent with shellfish and open ocean fish specie~ notably Atlantic

Begin in the Atlantic The crisis on the East Coast has become a disaster So says laquoWE NEED TO TRY TO SEPARATE OUTGuelph zo ology professor John Roff enushymerating the litany of woes that have surshy

THE FISHERIES MANAGEMENT DECISIONSfaced from Ca nadas marine fishery in the past decade Although some fish and shellshy

FROM THE POLITICAL DECISIONSfi sh are holding their own stocks of other species have experienced declines raquo

ASSOCIATED WITH THE FISHE RY

down that fishery in 1992 Over fishing and under which it has been buying up fishers

Even when stocks do rebound rarely do we fully und erstand why he says Theres a complex of problems to be disshy more for cod stocks to rebound says Roff entangled involving overflshing long- and co-editor with colleague Prof Moira Fergushyshort-term climate change and changes in son of the respected Canadian Journal ofFishshyocean current systems and productivity eries and Aquatic Sciences A wise course of

And of course the once-thriving northshy action for a fisherman in Newfoundland ern cod that first drew Europeans with their would be to seU his licence and do something nets to the Grand Banks 500 years ago have else he says (Last fall the federal governshycoUapsed to the point that Ottawa had to shut ment announced its final retirement program

the failure of federal fisheries managers to heed the warnings of scientists have been blamed for the coUapse Even with the lllorashytoriulll in place it may take two decades or

licences in Atlantic Ca nada and Quebec) In 1992 - the year Ottawa imposed its

moratorium on the northern cod fisheryshylandings of groundfish including cod had-

salmon making up the difference [n 1995 the total groLlndfish catch reached its lowshyest level in two decades

Unlike the Ea st Coast fi shery which relies most ly on ocea n-living fish the Pacifshyic fishery is dominated b) migratory species Some 300000 tonnes of fish and shellfish were harvested along the west coast in 1994 worth a landed value of $550 million (Arcshytic marine fisheries and their management differ from those on the coasts although cOl11mercial and recreational fisheri es are small here food fisheries are important to

U OF G AQUATIC SCIENCES EXPERTISE CATCHES WORLD ATTENTION

Landlocked in the middle of the courltry U ofG nevertheless boasts fish pathology and diseases including farmed fish diseases fish an enviable record and range ofexpertise in aquatic sciencesshy hormones and reproductive physiology including the effects of marine and freshwater - dating back to the late 1960s Thats when environmental contaminants early life history and behaviour Prof Keith Ronald thell chair of the Department ofZoology (and of fi shes and biology of tuna later dean of the College ofBiological Science) began a marine biolshyogy program at the University Today Guelph has the largest Partnered with the A-erod Institute of Ichthyology in U of group of ichthyologists - scientists who study fish - in Gs Aquatic Sciences Facility the r[agen Aqualab is an North America investigating a wide variety ojIre~hshy aquatic research and teaching facililY for studying water alld marine fisheries and aquatics topics aquatic organisms Environmentally controlled

rooms in the Aqualab allow faculty and students to U of Gs Axelrod Institute of Ichthyology houses simulate habitats as diverse as the Arctic Ocean and one of the worlds largest collections of museumshy tropical rainforest pools The facility is named for quality fish fossils donated to the University by its principal benefactor Rolf Hagen founding presshy

ident of Canadas largest pet store 5llpplier J 989 The institute which provides space for fisheries research and visiting scientists brings together 12 core U of G U of G faculty edit four internationally recognized journals researchers in fisheries and aquatic sciences whose interests and in ichthyology fisheries and aquatic science Awarded to U of G by expertise span environmental contaminants and parasitic disshy the National Research Council in 1997 the Canadian Journal of eases evolutionary genetics of marine and freshwater fishes Fisheries al1dAquatic Sciellces is co-edited by zoology professors

US ichthyologist and author Herbert Axelrod in

28 GUELPH ALUMNUS

northerners including shrimp Atlantic salmon and arctic char) Accountin g fOI almost half of that total were Pacific salmon which ret urn from the ocean to spawn in home streams and rivers up and down the coast of Alaska British Columbia and Washshyington There are actually five main spec ies of sa lmon that run down the BC coast shysockeye (t he most va luable commercial species) chinook coho chum and pinkshyfrom spring to December

Its a very complex jurisdictional and multi-user problem says Roff Bes ides degradation of freshwater spawning habishytats and ocean climate effects of El Nill0 the West Coast fishery is a cauldron of ten shysions between various groups perennial fish wars between Ca nada and the United States disputes that pit sport fishers against native fishing rights Recognizing the problems of low ocean productivity habitat damage overfishing and indiscriminate fishing pracshytices that take weak and strong stocks alike Ottawa is developing a new policy to guide Canadas Pacific salmon fisheries focusing on conservation sustainable use and improved decision-making

That potent mix of overfishing and habishytat degrada tion is also a problem for Canashydas freshwater fisheries A report tabled last fall by the federal standing committee on

fisheries and oceans called for more federal funding for research and fisheries programs in central and arctic regions of Canada Accord ing to that report the Grea t Lakes commercial fishery is one of the largest freshwater fisheri es in the world worth an average landed value of more than $40 milshylion a year and an eco nomic impact of at least $250 million Some 90 per cent of that catch is exported The neck lace of lakes threading its way to the St Lawrence River also supports the largest fres hwater sports fishery in the world 800000 Ontarians fish on the Great Lakes eve ry year contributing $850 million to the economy

In Manitoba managers are concerned about the long-term susta inability of freshshywater fish stocks particularly declines in Lake Winnipeg and the northern part of the province caused by overfishing environshymental degradation loss of prime spawning habitat and predators The province has seen stocks rise and fall particularly of pickerel Manitobas highest-priced fish In an attempt to manage the fishery in a sustained fashion the province recently introduced a qu ota entitlement system for anglers Joe OConshynor director of the fisheries branch of Manshyitobas Department of Na tural Resources says his department is wrestling with the environmental threats on fish habitat posed

by farming and hydroelectric development In Ontario fisheries are genera lly in

pretty good shape says Evan Thomas fishshyeries section manager of the fish and wildlife branch of the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (OM NR) Ontario supports almost half of all recreational fishing in Canada with more than two million adult anglers and more than $2 billion a year spent on recreational fishing in the province Onta ri o is also home to Canadas larges t commercial freshwater fishery worth abo ut $40 million a Yfar in land ed value

Thomas says over fishing is still the numshyber one problem Others include habitat loss the potential effects of climate change and contin ued invasion by exotic species Among the management opt ions his minshyistry is exploring are more effective fisheries regulation more rapid inventory and assessshyment techniques fish culture for rehabilishytating populations and controlling nutrient inputs into lakes and rivers

We are clearly looking for federal supshyport for the sea lamprey control program he says referring to recommendations in the recent federal fisheries committee report as well as changes to the federal Fishshyeries Act to hand the province more authorshyity over fish habitat protection

Concerns continue in Ontario over

Moira Ferguson and John Roff Fish Physiology and Biochemistry the top-ranked journal in its field is edited by Prof John Leathershyland chair of the Department of Biomedical Sciences in the Ontario Veterinary College University professor emeritus Eugene Balon has served as editor-in-chief of Environmental Biology ofFishes since he founded the publication in 1976 Zoology professor David Noakes edits Guelph Ichthyology Reviews whose articles synthesize and review all aspects of fish science Both of the latter

Under the Canadian contribution to the project - furided by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council - about 80 federal government and university researchers are trying to learn more about how bioshylogical and physical processes in the oceans affect fish stocks

Zoologychair Prof Paul Hebert has led a Guelph initiative to develshyop multimedia learning resources d1at teach student~ from

are published in the Axelrod Institute of Ichthyology

Based on data from geographic information sysshytems zoology professor John Roff has mapped types of habitat associated with various species of fish and other organisms around Canadas coasts and throughout tl1C Great Lakes the first time such

e1ementaIy grades to university about Canadas aquatshyic environments His department has developed a series of CD-ROMs that provide information on all the major animal groups in the Great Lakes Already available are educational CD-ROMs on Canadas aquatic environments (also available on

d1e World Wide Web) Great Lakes biodiversity and a marine classification system has been developed in this country His report was commissioned by World Wildlife Fund Canada for its Endangered Spaces Campaign and contributes to RoWs work as chair of the scienrillc committee of Globec (Globshyal Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics) a two-year-old international research program intended to better understand ocean ecosystems

birds of the Great Lakes The latter is the first disc in a series called the Great Lakes Faunal Atlas which will eventually cover mammals amphibians reptiles fish and crustaceans

The Alma Aquaculture Research Station es tablished in 1989 and funded through a 20-year development grant by the Ontario

WI NTER 1999 29

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various invas ive species that have turned up

in the Great Lakes - notably sea lampreys

zebra mussels and quagga mussels - many

of which arrive in ballast water of ocea nshy

going vessels (Many have also found their

way into Manitoba says OConnor who

points to the effects of sm elt on whitefish

the main commercial species in Lake Winshy

nipeg) Among o ther meas ures the federal

fish eries committee report called for guarshy

anteed funding for sea lamprey control and

for scienti fic research

I think more money will come says

Prof Bill Beamish Zoology a commissionshy

er on the Great Lakes Fisheries Commission

the 40-year-old governing body that co-ordishy

nates resea rch programs between Canada

and the United States and advises both govshy

ernments It was a review led by Beamish

more than a decade ago on the sta te of

Canadas freshwater fi sheries that provided

the scientific underpinnings for a landmark

report published in 1988 that spelled ou t a

way in freshwater fisheries is a lon g-te rm

project fund ed by the OMNR and the

Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO)

to re-establish native species in their origishy

nal habitats a round Lake Ontario iVlari e

Clement a graduate student of zoology proshy

fe sso r David Noakes is studying Atlantic

sa lmo n which was wiped out of the lake

CONSIDERING WE HAVE THE

BEST FISHERY SCIENCES COMMUNITY

IN THE WORLD WE OUGHT TO

BE DOING BETTER

national strategy for freshwater fisheries

Beamish who has studied sea lampreys

for several decades at Guelph and also invesshy

tigates fish habitat loss says money is need shy

ed to help researchers investigate biological

controls as an alternative to chemical lamshy

pricides The recen t repo rt also notes the

need to address the effects of other nonshy

native exotic species on n ative fish stocks

and water quality and calls on Ottawa to

stem the funding decline in freshwater scishy

ence over the last two decades

One example of the kind of work under

and its tribu ta ry streams near the beginning

o f this century by overflshing and habitat

destruction and alteration Last fall Clement

placed eggs into a site in the Credit River

she has been monito ring oxygen availab il shy

ity durin g their incu ba tion to gau ge sedishy

mentation rates in the river This spring and

summer she wili study how newborn fi sh

interact with other species in th e r ive r

C lement says her docto ral research proshy

ject is but one piece of a larger project aimed

at re-establishing the heritage species Othshy

er researchers hop e to learn whe ther th e

Ministry of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs brings together

researchers for interdisciplinary studies of protein requirements

of arctic char improving fish semen and egg management proshy

cedures and understanding hormone activity in fish The station

acts as a quarantine unit for new fish varieties entering Ontario

and serves as a base for parts of certificate courses and a masters

program in aquaculture

farms in Canada He and fellow Guelph zoologists Eugene Balon

(co- founder of the Coelaca nth Conservat ion Council) and Jim

Bogart also identified and characterized the coelacanth which

had been thought extinct until a specimen was landed off Africa

in the la te 1930s Noakes confirmed the identity of ano ther of

these living fossils discovered in 1997 it appears to belong to a

second popula tion living in the Indian Ocean about 10000 kilo-

metres away from tha t first find

Zoology professors Moira Ferguson and Roy Danzshy

mann use molecular genetics techniques to identishy Zoology chair Paul Hebert was the first scientist to

fy DNA markers used to pinpoint the location of identify the presence in the Great Lakes of zebra

genes associated with growth spawning times mussels a prolific invader that has wreaked havoc

rates of development maturity and temperature in many ways from clogging water-intake pipes to

tolerance in rainbow trout Isolating and identifyshy consuming plankto n thus allowing light to reach

ing genetic markers fo r desirable traits will help fish bottom-dwelling organisms that may displace native

farmers and breeders cross-breed more effectively species The first researcher to report on the biology

conservationists will be better able to manage and preserve and impact of the zebra mussel on the Grea t Lakes was

genetic variability among wild fish stocks Guelph zoology professor Gerald Mackie whose studies showed

that the organisms faster growth rate and higher fecundity and

Zoology professor David Noakes has stuclied varieties of arctic population density will probably enable it to displace many native

char native to Iceland to find ones suited to being raised on fish bivalves and disrupt entire lake ecosystems

30 GUELPH ALUMNUS

LEADING RESEARCH

The University of Guelph has one orthe largest and most active groups of aquatic biologists in the world

bull More than 50 faculty and 100

graduate students research

assocrates and postdoctoral

fellows

bull Over 1000 published scientific

articles books monographs

films and videos in the past

decade

bull Interdisciplinary programs

involving more than a dozen

academic departments

bull The largest group ofichthyoloshy

gists (scientists who study

fish) in North America

bull Collaborative research with

government environrriental

organizations and academic

institutions worldwide

bull Expertise covering the entire

aquatic food chain from plankshy

ton to whales

bull Leading developments in comshy

puter-based educational mate-

rials in aquatic sciences

bull A new $6-million Aquatic

Sciences Facility

bull Research support from national

and international agencies

business and industry

adults will be able to return from the open

lake to their stream spawning grounds If

they come back will the eggs survive she

says If were able to show the eggs can surshy

vive that will be very encouraging for

Atlant ic salmon restoration

What is to be done to ensure the survival

not just of Atlantic salmon in Lake Ontario

but also of the co untrys freshwater and

m ar ine fisheries We need to try to sepashy

rate o ut the fisheries management decisions

from the political decisions associated with

the fi shery says zoology professor Glen Van

Der Kraak director of U of Gs Axelrod

Institute of Ichthyology Van Der Kraak who

studies the effects of toxic contaminants on

fi sh populations says policy mltkers need

to rely on the advice of fisheries sc ientis ts

making conservative harvest ing estimates

So often scientists make decisions and then

are overrun by the politics he says (Never

mind fish wars pitting co untries against one

another - here in Ca nada scientists and

policy makers wres tle over the question of

who should be respo nsible for what aspects

of the countrys fisheries as witnessed in a

war of words played out in the Canadian Journal ofFisheries and Aquatic Sciences over

the past 18 months between biologists at

several Canadian univers ities and the DFO

over the relationship between fishery sc ishy

ence and fishery policy)

Roff says theres nothing unique about

Canadas fish problems Its not really a

Canadian problem its a worldwide probshy

lem The only fisheries worldwide that are

not over fished appear to be some not yet

fully exploited in the Indian Ocean

After nearly four decades of growth the

worldwide marine ca tch levelled off in the

1990s to some 90 million tons a year The

m ain problems coastal pollution habitat

destruction and particula rly overfishing

Noakes editor of the journal Guelph Ichthyology Reviews contrasts the few hunshy

dred people who might have made th eir

livelihood aboard small wood en boats on

the Grand Banks several centuries ago with

the massive factory trawlers that now scour

todays coast People are much too efficient

in terms of catching fish he says Noakes

concurs with fellow Guelph researchers that

conservation of fish stocks has to reach the

top of fishery managers agendas

hat does set Canada apart is the breadth

and depth of expertise in fisheries and aquatshy

ic sciences in this country - rather a parashy

dox when you consider that Canadas record

in fisheries preservation is apparently no betshy

ter than that of many other nations

Considering we have the best fishery scishy

ences community in the world we ought to

be doing better says Roff Within the last

decade th e federal government withdrawal

o f support from the Department of Fishshy

eries and Oceans and university researchers

has been massive At the very time when the

resources were gett ing into severe problems

and when the federal government ought to

have been funding research theyve been

substantially withdrawing resources ga

DONT WAIT UNTIL SPRING The opportunity to double the impact of your gift to the University of Guelph ends on March 31 1999 Until that date all gifts designated to endowed student financial aid at Guelph will be matched by the Ontario Student Opportunity Trust Fund (OSOTF) That means that every dollar you commit will contribute two dollars to financial aid for Guelph students

If you would like to support our students throug h OSOTF you still have a w indow of oppor nishyty to have your do l1a rs doubled But only until March 31 1999

If you have already made a pled ge to OSOTf through U of Gs ACCESS Fund thank you [or your ge nerous support Please comp lete your payme nts by March 31 1999 to e nsure that your gi ft is matched

For more information contact Rudy Putns in Guelphs office of Development and Public Affairs at -519-824-4120 Ext 6384 Fax 519-822-2670 E-mail alumniuoguelphca

WINTER 1999 31

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

n ALUMNI PROF IL E

LETS LOOK AT THE OPPORTUNITIES

WHEN I-IE BECA ME president of the Unishy

versity of Guelph Alumni Association

(UGM) in June Jim Weeden brought new

enthusiasm and ideas for encouraging alumshy

ni to stay in volved with their alma mater

And he wants to start with students

Weeden reca ll s his own ex perience at

U of G where he fo und a sense of commushy

nity by living in residence and ge tting

involved in college activiti es But when he

graduated with an engin ee ring degree in

197 1 he left to begin a caree r and says he

didnt think much about the University until

he needed it again in the 1980s to pursue a

graduate degree in agricultural enginee ring

He spent his early career working as an

agricultural extensi o n engineer for the

Ontario Department o f Agriculture and is

stiU with its successo r the Ontario Ministry

of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs

(OMAFRA) Weed en completed the masshy

ters degree in 1986 when he was head of the

agricultural engineering program and extenshy

sion services a t Centralia College of Ag rishy

cultural Technology

In 1987 he moved to the ministrys plant

industry branch as program m anager and

later held the same position in th e resources

manage m ent branch Sin ce then he has

worked for OMAFRA in Woodstock and

now Stratfo rd He is technical adviser fo r

Ontarios Enviro nmental Farm Planning

Program is respo nsible for o ther environshy

m ental programs and consults with the Minshy

istry o f th e Environment on local agriculshy

tural pollution problems

w Weed en got involved with the Universishy sect tys a]u111ni programs by serving on the first g z board of the Engineering Alumni Associashy

~ tion when it was established in 1990 From

~ 1991 to 1994 he sat on the University Senshy

~ ate and its Research Board and for the pas t

~ four years) hels been on the UGAA executive

32 GUELPH A LU MNUS

From the presidents chair Weeden looks

at the bro ad picture o f UG AA se rvice and

recognizes that the associa tio n owes a debt

o f gratitude to hundreds of alumni volunshy

teers who ha ve helped to build the organishy

za tion over the yea rs and to University staff

in Development and Public Affairs (DampPA)

who support UGAA initiatives and alumni

programs Thro ugh their efforts he says the

a lulllni associati o n is rea ching out to all

U of G alumni Graduates who have mainshy

tained a close relationship with the Univershy

sity thro ugh their college or academic disshy

cipline those who feel an affiliation because

o f their participation in a thletics residence

life o r extracurricular activiti es and even

HIGHLIGHTSmiddot GRAD NEWSmiddot OBITUARIES bull CALENDER

those who have not kept in touch are part of the constituency served by UGAA

Weed en says the alumni association needs to strengthen its relationship with all alumni and he believes the effor t must start on campus with students Hed like to proshymote the idea of alumni involvement as ear shyly as a students second year We need to give students some reason to be con nected and an efficient vehicle for maintaining that connection he says

For many students and new graduates the social functions supported by UGAA and the opportunities for professional networking will be important says Weeden but greater rewards are there for those who join the effort to enhance the Universitys acade mic goals

In todays economic and political envi shyronme nt individual financial support and the advocacy of post-secon dary education are important roles for alumni he says How many people ac tively get involved with the debate on whether universities are job-trainshy

ing centres or centres of education Yet some of our alumni are extremely adept in such roles Weeden would like to cultivate past and current stud ent ac tivists as supporters of public education after they graduate

As Weeden leads UGAA into a new year he says he will work with other UGAA volshyunteers and DampPA staff to find new ways for the association to interact with students and alumni One id ea is to expand UGAAs Intershynet presence by adding a Web message board that will encourage alumni to discuss career and campus issues online and a reply form that will allow them to quickly update addressshyes employment status and other information

Weeden says its important to stay focused on UGAAs key prioriti es but he welcomes any and all new ideas on how to accomplish them All it takes to share your ideas with the UGAA executive is a stamp or a push of the send button when youre clicked on alumniuoguelphca

HKHB SPIRIT RISES

ENCOURAGED BY THE SPIRIT

shown by fellow alumni at last

summers reunion the executive

of the Human Kinetics Human Biology

Alumni Association is moving ahead

with more opportunities for alumni to

stay in touch The association plans to

launch a Web site that will be accessed

through the U of G site

A wine-and-cheese reception already

planned for June 19 1999 wiil try to

build on the success of the 1998 event

which attracted alumni from as far away

as Chicago and as far apart as the 19605

and 1990s Guests had a chance to tour

U of Gs new Health and Performance

Centre and performance testing

labs The program was co-ordinated wiLh

A REFLECTION OF PRIDE

Members of the OAC

Class of 52 join Arboshy

retum staff on the front patio

of the Arboretu m Centre

beside a new reflecting pool

that was built last summer

as a class project Pictured

from left are Murray Parker

Ann Smith George Smith

Jack Sargent Catherine Gibb

Robin Shaw-Rummington

Marilyn Swaby BA 69

Bev Healy B5e(Agr) 72

Norm Watson Una Venerus

Ron Costen Henry Kock

BSe (Agr) 77 and Ric

Jordan BA 75

Prof Jack Barclay chair of the Departshy

ment of Human Biology and Nutritional

Sciences and Prof Susan Pfeiffer Memshy

bers of the Human KineticsHuman

Biology Alumni Association executive arc

Janet Leonhard 82 president Carolyn

Moore 83 vice-president Alison Locker

97 secretary Mark Mulholland 79

lreasurer and t-iary Ann Crape 76

These officers are also spea rheading a

new initiative to benefit students - an

undergraduate award that will provide

$250 and lifetime mem bership in the

association To commcnt on these and

other initiatives contact Leonard by

e-mail at Janel_Leonhardinwrbsb

eduonca or Moore at cturveyagec

uoguelphca

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alumni

Multimedia lab buzzes

THE DONALD FORSTER RoOiv

has become one of the

busiest spots in th e Unishy

versity of Guelph Liblary since the

addition of 70 state-of-the-art

computer workstations that were

supported by alumni do nations

to the Alma Mater Fund (AM F)

U of G president Mordechai

Roza nski officia ll y o pened th e

Alma Mater Fund Multimedia

Lab D ec 2 an d celebrated th e

event with members of the AMF

Adv isory Counc iL [n 1996 a nd

1997 the AMF contributed

$240000 to th e project which

increased the number of student

workstations o n campus by 50 per

cent Students use the m ult imeshy

~ dia lab to conduct research on the

~ Internet access scholarly publicashyr u VI tions on CD-ROM and use COll1shyz ~ puter software mod ules tbat lt

~ strengthen the teaching provided lD

o in co urse lectures labs and tcxtshybii books

middotMatters

Alumnus of many interests

I NTERES TING P EOPLE always have eclect ic interests and U of G

alumnus and honorary degree recipient Ken Murray BSA 50 and

HDLA 96 is a good example H e is known by most people on camshy

pus for his distinguished career in the Canadian meat packing indusshy

try and his volunteer service to U of G He was a member and chair

of Board of Governors from 1973 to 1978 and chair of the Regionshy

al Corporate Committee during U of Gs last capital campaign and

is currently chair of the Heritage Fund Enhancement Committee

Murray is also a strong supporter of community soc ial services

In August he addressed the World Congress of Social Ps)chiatry

held in British Columbia - the only non-psychiatrist on the proshy

gram He spoke about his role in establishing an Alzheimers research

project a t the University ofWaterioo which was recently named in

his honour the Ken Murray Alzheimer Research and Education Proshy

gra m At the gc conference he al so participated in a panel dis shy

cussion that outlined services offered by Guelphs Homewood Health

Cent re Murray bas been actively involved in the governance of the

centre since 1977 and has been a major player in the development

of a charitable foundatio n bearing the Homewood name

WHEN THE PUCK DROPPED More than 30 teams including two

womens teams were entered in the

Dec 6 University of Guelph Alumni Hockey

Tournament Organizers for the 1998 event

were from left Brian Finniss B5c 88

Brad Stephenson BA 86 Terry Carr

BComm 87 Todd Bryant BA 86 and

undergraduate student Brian Melnick

Ken Murray centre with his wife Marilyn Robinson Murray and U of G president Mordechai Rozanski

34 GU ELPH ALUMNU S

RESTORING A JEWEL IN THE CROWN

DONALD RUTHERFORD BSA 5 stands in fron t

of the 1931 conservatory greenhouse that will

be restored to match the splendour of the ga rdens

now growi ng up around it His $256000 leadershy

ship gift to the Conservatory and Gardens Project

was inspired by hi s m emo ries of being a student

at OAC

On behalf of fellow alumni I hope this gift will

commemorate the experiences and educat ion we

acquired while at Guelph says Rutherford When

fully restored to its previous glory the conservatoshy

ry greenhouse will be an ideal greeting and welcome

spot for visitors and newcomers to the University

as well as old friend s renewing their acquaintance

Rutherfords professional career spans the agrishy

foo d industr y beginning as an agricu ltural repshy

resentative with the provincial minist ry I-Ie was

later vice-president of the Fertilizer Institute of

Ontario executive secreta ry of the Canadian Seed

Trade Association director of information w ith

the Ca nadian Livestock Feed Board and Canadishy

an sa les manager for Sylvite of Can ad a Retired

since 1986 he now owns his own sma ll investment

company and manages to golf throughout the yea r

The conserva tory isnt the first ca mpus project

to attract Rutherford s attention - as a student

he helped dig out the base ment of Massey H al l to

build a student lo unge - but his recent gift has

been a tremendous boost to those who have been

working since the ea rly 1990s to save the glass and

cypress structure from demo lition

A committee of alumni facult y sta ff stu dents

and fri en ds of the University has moved the proshy

ject along to th e point w here most of the surshy

rounding garden complex is now complete It fea shy

tures six gardens named in honour of the ir chie f

supporters Autumn Garden - OAC 5 1 Spring

Ga rden - OAC 53 Su mmer Garden - OAC 55

Winter Gard en - OAC 65 Water Gard en shy

OAC 49 and the Woo dland Garden named in

honour of the late Doug Rob inson BSA 53

Alumni have been in strumental in raising

funds for the $ l-million project Students and fa cshy

ulty have provided mudl of the h1l1ds-on Idbour

and friends in the nursery and landscape materishy

als supply industries have given $250000 ill donashy

tions and gifts-in-kind of plan ts and landsca ping

materials Rutherford s generous gift has pushed

th e conservato ry fund-ra ising effort in to the fin 81

stretch Th e ga rden complex and restored g reenshy

110use are sc heduled to officially open during

Alumni Weekend in June 1999

1999 Coming Events

Jan 29 - Aggie Goodshy

Times Banquet call the OAC Student Federation at Ext 8321 for ticket injemnrltion Feb 13 - Norm McCo llulll

D iploma Hockey Tournashy

m ent call Jack Bakker at 519-837-0132 to register a team

Feb 21 - Ottawa Chapter

annual curling bonspiel

Richmond C urling Club in

Richmond Ont For informashytiol1 call Alan Bentley BSA 61 at 6 13-829-6598 or John DVit[ 54 mId Margaret McGowml BHSc 54 at

613-828-7038

March 3 - Florida alumni

reunion a t Maple Leaf

Estates Port Charlo tte Fla

call Ext 6533 0 register

March 13 and 14 - ollcge

Royal 75th o pen house

March 19 and 20 - OAC

Alumni Association curling

bonspiel G uelph Curling

Club register at Ext 6657

May 5 - Chicago All Canashy

dian Universities Night hostecl

by U of G at the University

Club of Chicago 76 East Monshy

roe Sr call Exl 6533 for details May 5 - OAC Alumni

Foundation annual meeting

730 pm Arboretum Centre

May 12 - Alumni-inshy

Action annual meeting and

luncheo n 1130 3m

Arboretum Centre ((11 Ext 6657for tickets

June 18 to 20 - Alumni

Veekend call Ext 6657 to plall a reun io n

-0 r shya -IFor more infon-nation on any a

eVC1l1listed ailove call the oJ -lt oU of G extension listed at en raquo

519-824-4120 or send e-mail z

10 alunznilIoguelphca ~

WINTER 1999 35

alumni Matters

MEMORIES OF COLLEGE ROYAL Grant MacEwan ADA 23 and

BSA 26 is one of the few OAC

alumni who c~n still remember

the first College Royal held Jan

14 1925 MacEwan bad just

entered the degree program in

animal husbandry and may have

been a participant in the liveshy

stock showmanship classes Latshy

er in life he was widely known Grant MacEwan

across Western Canada as 3 liveshy

stock judge and an advocate of

agricultural fairs and exhibitions

MacEwan is bes t known

however for his 23-year C3reer

as a university professor in Manshy

itoba and Saskatchewan and Ilis

political career which included

12 years as alderman and mayshy John Kenneth Galbraith

or of C31gary four years as an

Alberta MLA and eight as lieushy birthday in August

tenant -governor of the province The year after Ma cEwan

He s till lives in Calgary graduated John Kenneth Galshy

where he celebrated his 96th braith ADA 29 and BSA 31

HOMECOMING 98

enrolled at OAC and devoted

some of his energy to organizshy

ing College Royal Show records

indicate it was Galbraith who

first proposed the college event

be publicized so that people

from the farm community

could attend He also suggestshy

ed that OAC invite students

from American agricultural colshy

legesl n th e early 1930s Colshy

lege Royal took its fir s t steps

towards becoming the comshy

munity open house it is today

Galbraith later moved to the

United States where he enjoyed

a distinguished caree r as a proshy

fessor of economics at Harvard

Universi ty Known for his

humanit~rian approach to ecoshy

nomic and political thinking

he was awarded the Order of

Canada in 1997 He celebr3ted

his 90th birthday in October

IT REALLY WAS a homecoming reunion when and Arnott who is head coach of the York

former Gryphon teammates Ralph Shapiro University Yeomen came from the visitors

S5c(HK) 74 and Tom Amott S5c(HK) 80 dreSSing room to hold the ball Shapiro is

met on the field at Alumni Stadium Oct 3 the controller at Huntsman Chemical Inc

Shapiro had the honour of kicking off in Guelph and a longtime United Way volshy

the Universitys 1998 United Way campaign unteer who chaired this years Guelph and

Wellington fund-raising drive The Univershy

sity campaign is the largest in the county

with U of G staff and faculty contributing

over $200000 in 1998

Prior to the game a number of recent

alumni - all U of G scholarship and award

winners - met for a reunion luncheon The UJ

1948 and 1949 dominion championship i5f 3

football teams were also honoured guests z 5 o at the 2 pm game that saw the Gryphons gtshy a defeat York f shya I a

Ralph Shapiro

36 G UELPH ALUMNUS

LEADING THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY FOR 1974 GRADS The 25th-anniversary reunion givshy

i ng program for the Class of 1974

is under way with Bill Laidlaw BA

74 as cbair A public affairs proshy

fessional he has been director of

government relations for the

Canadian operations of Glaxo

vVelJcome Inc for more th an 10

years He also acts as a senior conshy

sultant to support the governshy

ment relations function in other

regions of Canada

Laidlaw began his career in

teaching after earning a history

degree from Guelph and education

degrees (rom Queens University

and the University of Toronto He

also holds the certified human

resources professional designation

and worked in that field for sevshy

eral years before concen trating on

government relations at Glaxo

Welkome He lives in Burlington

Ont and is an act ive community

volunteer having se rved on the

boards of severa l professional

organizations the Queensway

General Hospital and the Metroshy

politan Toronto Lung Association

He is currently completing a oneshy

year term as chair of the Ontario

Chamber of Commerce

Anniversa ry preparations will

culminate with a class gathering

a nd reunion gift at Alumni

Weekend in June 1999

ALUMNI MAKE THE CONNECTION Students who moved into

Maids and Mills halls in Sepshy

tember can take full advanshy

tage of the Universitys highshy

speed computer network

thanks to the OAC Class of

71 whose 25 th-reunion proshy

ject provided wiring upgrades

in the 84- and 77-year-old

residence buildin gs

GRAD NEWS

Marathon survivors inspire us all to appreciate everyday life

W HEN ROBINSON SIIlLJNGS Jane BSe(Agr)

85 Heather BASe 83 Peter BSe(Agr)

86 Scott and Marnie rigwood BA 84 get

together they talk about marathons and the hope

and determination it takes to reach the finish line

Hea ther walked a marathon in San Diego

Calif in June to raise money for leukemia

research then joined Peter for a Toronto marathon

in October that benefi ted the Leukemia Research

Fund of Canada They were inspired by Janes pershy

sonal marathon of survival that foUowed her 1992

diagnosis of leukemia Chemotherapy radiation

remission relapse and finally a bone marrow

transplant [TOm her brother Scott took more than

three years out of her life but gave her the detershy

mination to keep fighting

Many families can understand the marathon

of hope maintained by the Robinsons during

Janes struggle and the commitment they have to

help others who are stricken with the disease Jane

is finally well enough to work again as a writer

and marketing consultant and to join her fami shy

ly in volunteer work She helped recruit for the

Toronto marathon fund -raiser and continues to

be involved with the Leukemia Research Funds

Team in Training She also says that her expeshy

rience has taught her to appreciate more the pleashy

sures of everyday life and the love of famil y

Jan es parents are th e late Doug Rob inson

BSA 53 and Marilyn (Inglis) Robinson Murray

BH Sc 55

19305

bull Grant Misener ADA 32 BSA 35 and DVM 38 received the

prest igious George F Hixso n Felshy

lowship Award from the Kiwanis

International Foundation in May The retired Illinois veter ishy

narian was hono ured for his subshystantial contribution to the

Kiwanis wo rldwide service proshy

ject aimed at eliminating iodine

deficiency disorders the leading

cause of preventable mental retardation in children Over the

years Misener has shown a simishylar commitment to his al ma

mater an d its students through

his close association with OVC

and his support of scho larship

programs

19405

bull Russell McDonaldDVM 45 was named an honorary life direcshytor of the Royal Agricultural Winshy

ter Fair Association in March

McDonald formerly general manshy

ager of Western Ontario Breeders

Ine and executive director of the Canadian Association of Animal

Breeders served as a director of the Royal Winter Fair for 20 years

representing the Canadian artifishycial insemination industry He

lives in Woodstock Ont

bull Ian Taylor DVM43 was recently honoured by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to

Animals of Illinois Taylor ran a small-animal veterinary clinic in

the Chicago area for many years

and says he gained ll1uch experishyence during his first three years in

Illinois as clinic veterinarian for

the anti -cruelty society

19505

bull Charles Chuck Broadwell BSA 54 was elected a Mel

Osborne Fellow by the Kiwanis

Club of Forest City in London Ont in recognition of a dedicatshy -ed and distinguished career in

Kiwanis

19605

bull Constantine Campbell BSA 60 and MSA 61 was named to the

WINTER 1999 37

Order of Canada in January He

received the award in recogni shy

tion of his many contributions

to science and the Canadian

agricultural industry After grad shy

uating from OAC he went on to

do his PhD at the University of

Saskatchewan then joined Agri shy

culture and Agri-food Canada

as a research scientist at the Swift

Current research station Campshy

bell and his family now live in

Ottawa where he is scientist

emeritus with Agriculture and

Agri-food Canada

bull John Casselman BSA 64 is

a research scientist with the

Ontario Ministry of Natural

Resources He Jives in Bath

Ont with his wife Lois

bull Jane Fuller RRSc 65 and

her husband George who both

taught at the Macdonald Instishy

tute from 1966 to 1969 have

moved from Winnipeg to

Utopia Ont following

Georges retirement from the

University of Manitoba

bull Fred Gilbert MSc 66 and

P hD 68 is in his first term as

president of Lakehead Univer shy

sity in Thunder Bay Ont He

taught at U of G in the Departshy

ment of Zoology from 1972 to

1981 and has enjoyed a dive rse

academic career that has also

included teaching at the Unishy

versity of Maine and posi tions

as director of wildlife biology at

Washington State University

and founding dean of the Facshy

ulty of Natural Reso urces and

Environmenta l Studies at the

University of Northern British

Columbia He moved to Lakeshy

head from a position as viceshy

pro vost at Colorado State Unishy

versity A respected wildlife

biologist he has conducted

ex tensive resea rch in s Ll ch areas

as the behaviour and physioloshy

gy of wildlife species and the

effects of environmental

change on wildlife populations

bull Terry Goodyear BSc 67 of

Mont Tremblant Quebec is an

early retiree from Agriculture

and Agri-Food Canada in Ottawa He is now working on

va lue-added products from

industrial wastes particularly

cellulose sludge from pulp and

pa per mills

bull Gary Hearn BA 68 was

named an Ontario provincial

judge in October For the last

25 years he has been a lawyer

with the firm Kearns McKinshy

non in Guelph where he lives

with his wife Irene and three

teenage children

bull Allan Knight BSA 66 of Corunna Ont has retired

from Dow Chemical after 30

years On retirement he was a

laboratory director for indusshy

trial chemicals He is now

working with his son in a famishy

ly-owned and -operated busishy

ness Knight Funeral Home

bull Keith McFarlane BSc(Agr)

68 works for the Department

of Foreign Affairs and Internashy

tional Trade and began a fourshy

year assignment last summer as

head of the commercial divishy

sion of the Canadian Embassy

in Lisbon Portugal The

division promotes the sa le of

Canadian goods and services

to Portugal

bull Ian Newbould MA 68 has

travelled far from his Ontario

roots through an academic and

administrative career that has

taken him to Europe Asia and

Western Canada A noted hisshy

torian he moved into adm inisshy

tration at the University of

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Lethbridge in 1981 and spent

10 years there as director of

research dean of a rts and scishy

ence and vice-presiden t (acadeshy

mic) before crossing the counshy

try to become president of

Mount Allison University in

New Brunswick He is now in

his second term as president of

Mount AUison

bull Indra Deo Singh MSc 68 is

a tea scientist international

consultant and joint director of

the Tea Research Association at

the Nagrakata substation in

India His responsibilities

include co-ordinating research

and development in the Indian

tea industry and developing tea

cultivars and agrotechnology

for tea Singh is married with

two sons aged 27 and 23

19705

bull Don Ambler BSe 71 retired in March as manager of

water programs with Environshy

ment Canada in Dartmouth

NS after 25 years of public

service He has now registered

the company Aquashed Co nshy

sulting to continue in the water

resources field when hes not

gardening beekeeping do ing

aerobics or vo lunteering in the

community and chu rch E-mail

contact is welcome a t

donambl erns sympaticoca

bull Jim Bond BSe 75 is managshy

ing a new processing facility at

the Chalk River Nuclear Laborashy

to ry in Chalk River Ont

bull Terri (Monks) Bulman BSc(Agr) 78 and MSe 81

and her husband Vincent

MSe 8 1 live in Australia with

their th ree children Catherine

7 Peter 4 and baby Christoshy

pher Terri is senior principal

environmental auditor vith

Coffey Geosciences Pty Ltd Vinshy

cent afte r many years as a geoloshy

gist travelling around Australia

and abroad has taken the year

off to study and look after the

children Their e-mail address is

tbulmanbigpondco m

bull Marie David BA 78 of

Hanover Ont has been in the

n ewspaper business for 20

years She started in the mailshy

room moved to advertising

sales then became advert ising

manager She is now gene ral

manager o f three So utham

weekly newspapers and pubshy

lish er of the Hanover Post

bull Janice Harrower and her husshy

band Jerome Billett both

DVM 76 operate a joint veterishy

nary practice in Prescott Ont

Billett says practising together

has allowed them some flexibilishy

ty in their family life and given

their four children a good took

at the rigours of veterinary

medicine Says Billett Not one

of our kid s has the slightest

interest in being a veterinarian

and isnt that just fine Their

o ldest son Jesse attends Harshy

va rd University and is a memshy

ber of its prestigious a cappella

choir Lucas is studying

mechanical engineering at the

University of Waterloo Casey is

planning a career in computer

engineering and Lindsay is a

high school athle te

bull Clair Heinbuch BSe 74 is a

sales manager with Baye r Corp

in Kansas H e and his wife

Caroline (Koscik) BASc 75

returned to the Kansas City

area after spending four years in

Denver They have three chilshy

dren Lisa 20 Scott 18 and

Ryan [5

bull Beverly Lee BASe 72 is an

elem entary school principal in

Unionville Ont She lives with

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her husband Grant Egan in

Collingwood and is looking

forward to retirement in severshy

al years Life on Georgian Bay

is wonderful she says Lee

would love to hear from fellow

grads by e-mail at

leebYrbeeduonca or by

phone at 705 -444 -092l

bull Won-Jai Maeng MSc 71 took office Sept 1 as president

of Kon-Kuk University in Seoul

Korea where his academic

career began He completed an

undergraduate degree at Kon

Kuk in 1965 then studied at

Mailing Agricultural College in Denmark and at U of G before

doing doctoral work at the Unishy

versity of California Davis

Maeng has held research and

teaching positions at the Unishy

versity of illinois at Chung-Ang

University and at Kon-Kuk

where he has been a professor of

animal science since 1984 His

appointment as president folshy

lows years of administrative

experience as a department

head dean and chair of various

research committees and proshy

fessional organizations An

expert in ruminant nutrition

Maeng was instrumental in

developing the livestock feed

industry in Korea He has also

been active in working with

alumni groups and in writing

for the Kon-Kuk Tribune

bull Bill MarshaU ADA 75 of Proton Station Ont moved

from Clarksburg in June to

work in Dundalk for the Grey

County Roads Department on

its road management crew

bull Bernie Matte BSc(Agr) 70 of Moncton NB retired

in March after 28 years with

Fisheries and Oceans Canada

and the Canadian Food

Inspection Agency He plans to

travel to Belize and Honduras

with his wife Diane and will

be available anywhere in the

Caribbean for seafood HACCP

consulting work

bull Margaret McClain BA 70 lives in Arkansas where she is

highJy involved in the issue of

40 GUELPH ALUMNUS

missing children and internashy

tional abductions McClain who

believes her own six-year-old

daughter was taken out of the

United States more than a year

ago by her second husband is

reaching out to parents with

similar experiences through an

organization that is lobbying the

US government for tougher

international abduction laws

She invites interested fr iends

and alumni to contact her

through her Web site at

wwwinsolwwbnet-dmcclain

bull Robert (Chuck) Miller BA 77 is the park superintendent

of Killarney French River and

Maskinonje provincial parks in

Ontario He moved to Killarney

from Quetico Provincial Park

last May

bull Gordon Nicol BA 72 and MSc(Agr) 74 teaches math

and science in a bilingual prishy

vate school in Guatemala A

BEd graduate of Laurentian

he first taught in Guatemala in

the late 1970s then spent 12

years in northern Alberta as a

teacher and principal He

returned to Guatemala in 1989

A widower with three teenage

children Nicol would like to

hear from U of G friends and

acquaintances especially anyshy

one who is was or will be in

Central America He says he

could also use middle-schoolshy

level science projects Send eshy

mail to gnicoll guatenet or

write to PO Box 661447 Miami

Springs Florida 33266-1447

bull Chris Schulte BSc 71 and MSc 73 lives in Nassau

Bahamas with his wife

Andrya After graduation he

stayed in the Department of

Physics as a research associate

with Prof lain Campbell then

joined Ontario Hydro in the

early 1980s He moved to the

Bahamas in 1995 He can be

reached bye-mail at

schultebahamasnetbs

bull Sandra (Pickford) Webster BA 75 has retired from U of

Gs Co mmunications and Pubshy

lic Affairs and is living in Parry

Sound Ont where she is

doing volunteer work and

communications consulting

for the municipality Guelph

friends ca n contact her by

e-mail atswebsterzeutercom

19805

bull Sharon (Courneya) Angus BA 8 I of Surrey BC comshy

pleted a BSW at the University

of British Columbia in 1988

and has been working for the

BC government for 13 years

- first in probation and now

in the family justice division

She and her husband Ron

have three children Jason

Carly and Colin

bull Karen Beazley BLA 86 is an assistant professor and acadeshy

mic program co-ordinator at

the School for Reso urce and

Environmental Studies at Dalshy

housie University in Halifax

She is currently doing research

for a book on endangered

species initiatives and is orgashy

nizing a Nova Scotia wildlands

workshop with the Wildlands

Project for 1999 Her e-mail

address is kbeazleyisdalca

bull Caroline (Van Deudekom) and Marc Brooks both ADA 87

recently moved from Strathroy

to Owen Sound Ont where

they run a 50-acre organic farm

with their two sons

bull Virginia Burt BLA 85 startshyed her own landscape architecshy

ture firm Visionscapes in

Hamilton Ont in ] 996 She

specializes in the design of thershy

apeutic healing gardens spirit

gardens sacred spaces and

la byrin ths and recen tly designed the first healing garden

in Canada specificalJy for peoshy

ple living with HIV and AIDS

bull Joanne (Branson) Carver BA 80 earned a BEd from Brock

University in 1981 and recently

started working as a probashy

tionparole officer She Jives in

Ajax Ont and has two daughshy

ters Julie4 and Sarah 8

bull Heather Champ BA 86 is a Web-site designer in New York

City She began her work in

computer design in 1990 Her

personal site can be Found at

wwwjezebelcom

bull Laurie Gough BA 87 has become a world traveller who

writes about her experiences for

the benefit of others Her most

recent book Island of the

Human Heart A tfornans Travshyel Odyssey is now in its second

printing in Canada and will be

released next year in the United

States and overseas She has also

published Travellers Tales A

Womans World which won the

US-based Lowell Thomas

Gold Award for best travel book

of the year When not travelling

or writing she teaches English

and ESL in Guelph

bull Susan (Coles) Goulden BASc 84 and her husband

Ian are th rilled wi th their

recent adoption of Jennifer Lee

Yu who was born in June near

Leping Jiangxi Peoples Repubshy

lic of China The Gouldens

who Jive in vVaterloo Ont

thank classmate Andrea

(Kovits) Henderson for her

support throughout the adopshy

tion process Susan is currently

on leave from her position with

McCormick Canada

bull Judy (Bodendistel) Gregg BA 82 moved to Melbourne Ausshy

tralia in 1997 with her husband

and two children Carly 6 and

Adam 3 We are enjoying the

friendly people and the great

weather here she says We are

especially enjoying winter in a

place where it never gets below

zero Celsius

bull Nigel GumJey DVM 85 has been a partner in the Alta Vista

Animal Hospital in Ottawa

since 1990 was president of the bull Garry Millage AMPHI 86 bull Heidi Stephenson BA 88 is now ISO 9000 manager at

Ontario Veterinary Medical left a position as vice-president was awarded her professional Carpenter Ca nada Ltd in

Association in 1997 and recent- of national operations for acco untants designation of Wood br idge Ont He lives in

ly served on the Canadian Vetshy Scotts Restaurants KFC Divishy certified general accountant in Miss issa uga Classma tes are

erilw() Medical Associations sion to open his own consult- March 1998 She has been invited to contact him at

national issues committee He ing company Future Food employed for the last 10 years avon listarca

lives in Osgoode with his wife Equipment Ine specializes in with Dan Ball Chartered bull Michelle (Pilon) Bacon BA rvlaurecn and children Laura providing new and used restau- Acco un tant in Parry Sound 90 moved to England to study

and Matthew rant equipment and reducing O nt where she lives with her and work after graduating from

bull Muneer Hirji BComm 82 restaurant construction costs hu sband Brad two dogs and a Guelph She recently left a posishy

lives in Toronto and is vice- He also operates a restaurant horse tion with the British Ministry of

president of marke ting at SAP called Nikkos in Woodbridge bull Dawn Stetsko BSe 81 lives Agriculture and Food in York to

Canada He has three chil- Ont and is planning to open a in Langhorne Pa with her husshy become an at-home mom She

drcl1 Nadia 8 Alyssa 6 and second location band Paul and children Mark now lives in London with her

Sarah I bull Tosh Noseworthy BSe 83 is and Keith and is a research husband Tim and one-year-old

bull Brenda irwin BSe 88 is a cardiovascular ICU nurse in scientist with Bristol-Myers daughter Juliette She sends love

studying at Hong Kong Unishy sunny Tuscon Arizona After Squibb Previously she worked to Sue Heather and Sheila and

vers ity of Science and Technolshy grad uation she lived in Paris at McMaster University in can be reached bye-mail at

ogy to complete the final France for a yea r s tudied nurs- Hamilton Ont for 17 yea rs michellebacondialpipexcom

sem ester of an MBA program ing in O ttawa then lived in Saushy bull Teresa Tummillo-Goy BA bull Jeff Barlow BComm 90 is

through the University of di Arabia for two yea rs She still 86 has a law practice in Water- the training and quality manag-

British Columbia She taught loves to travel and would like to 100 Ont foc Li sing primaril y on er for two five-star luxury boushy

science for the North York hea r from fellow alumni She family law civi l litiga tion and tique h o tels in Prague - Hotel

Board of Education for five can be reached at 520-299-8344 real estate She and her hus- Palace Praha and the Hotel

years before enrolling in the bull Cecilia (Wleugel) Parkes band John Goy live in Guelph Savoy Previo usly he was execu -

MBA program BComm 85 is a graphic and have three sons John 4 tive housekeeper at the five-star

bull Jagwant Kanwar PhD 80 is designer in Toronto and says Tony 3 and Shayne 2 Renaissance Pragu e Hotel

a senior scientist in the depart- she st ill uses ber marketing bull Peter Van der Borch DVM bull Margaret Burnes-Souria BA ment of vegetable crops at Pun- background to help her busishy 88 retired in the fa ll of 1997 94 is a team leader with [011 shy

jab Agricultural University in ness succeed She specia lizes in after several years of practising don Magazin e in London Ont

India He is also director of the logo design lNith hand-drawn physiotherapy and ve terinary She married David Souria in

regional vegetable research stashy illustrations medicine and surgery He Jives July 1997 and is pursuing an tion at Usman (TaranTarn) bull Jim Parr BSc(Agr) 81 and in Pictou NS ]VlBA at the University of West-

Amritsar His and his wife MSe 89 died of cancer in bull MartyWilLiams BA 85 is ern Ontario

Sanyogita have a son Mohit June 1998 but hes being co-ordinator of student activishy bull Janine Byers BASe 95 is a and a daughter Dipika who are remembered by his university ties at University College Unishy public health dietitian at the

both studying engineering friends through the establish - versity of Toronto where he Kingston Frontenac and

Friends can write to Kanwar at ment of a mem orial fund for advises student organizations Iennox amp Addington Health

Punjab Agricultural Un ivers ity his wife Denise and children 1Ie is also chair of the U of T Unit in Kingston O nt She is Ludhiana 141 004 India Shannon and Eric Anyone Staff Association a member of getting married to Ca rl Stewart

bull Larissa Larsen BSe 89 and who would like more informa - the steering committee of the on May 29 j 999 MLA 92 received a PhD in tion can ca ll Brian Tapscott at staffs unionization drive and a bull Lisa Cherry BSe 9 1 is a urban and regional planning 519-767-3566 staff member with the student science journalist and executive

from the University of Illinois bull Cheryl (Dunlop) Reid newspaper The Varsity He can director of Artists Against

at Urbana Champaign in May BSe(Agr) 89 sta rted a new be reached bye-mail at marty Racism an international organi-

She has accepted a position at job in September as ingredient wi lliamsutorontoca za tion She is based in Toronto

Thompson Dyke and Associshy sales manager for RA bull Bonnie (Byma) BASe 96 ales a landscape architecture Chisholm o f Toronto She will 19905 and Gil Clelland BA 95 were

and urban planning firm in continue to work from her bull Claire Allison BA 94 grad- married in December 1996 and

Chicago Her husband Ernie remote offke in Fergus Reid uated from the elementary are living in Chatham On t

Poortinga DVM 89 is in his and her husband Jeff BSe teacher ed ucation program at Bo nnie works at a day-care

third yea r of an MD program (Agr) 89 have two children the University of British centre G il teaches art and

at Rush University Chicago lVlega n 4 and Elizabeth 2 Columbia in 1996 and now phys ical education They ca n -Hes looking forward to joining bull Chee Sie BA 83 is a zone teaches in Va ncou ver be reached bye-ma il at gclelshy

his wife in the ranks of the manager for the Malaysian bull JohnAvon BSdHK) 94 lan ciaccesscom employed They would both Assurance Alliance Berhad in earned an M Se in industr ial bull Kate Corn ell BA 95 of enjoy hearing from fellow Sarawak Malaysia He and his operations from Lawrence Markham Ont earned her

alumni and can be reached at wife Jesterine have a two-year- Technological University in masters in dance history from epoor tin garushurushedu old daughter Letitia Southfleld Mich in 1997 and York University in May and

WINTER 1999 41

co-authored a book titled

Toronto Dance Theatre 1968shy1998 Stages in a Journey

bull Mary Jill (McClure) Culliton BASe 90 earned

her BEd from Brock University

and her M Ed from the Univershy

sity of Western Ontario and

teaches Grade 1 in Mitchell

Ont She and her husband

Tim live in Stratford

bull Kathleen (McNutt) Daniels BASe 9 1 is a teacher and was

married on New Years Eve

1994 to Gord Daniels They live

in North Bay Ont and have a

daughter Lauren born in Febshy

ruary 1997 They are expecting

their second child in February

bull Simon Deakin BA 95 studshyied in Florence Italy for a year

then earned a master of fine art

from the Slade School of Fine

Art at the University of London

England He lives in London

bull Christie Dunbar BLA 97 spent a year after graduation

working for Niagara College in

St Catharines Ont on the

vision and design of a new

campus to be built in Niagarashy

on-the- Lake Last April she

joined the landscape architecshy

ture firm of Pollack Design

Associates in Ann Arbor Mich

bull Trina Edmonds BA 94 and

Joel Hinderle became the

proud parents of a little girl

Jordan Ashley in january 1998

and moved to a new home in

Oakville Ont in September

Edmonds works in Mississauga

as a desktop publisher with a

publishingprinting company

bull Wendy Garinther BSc 93 and Steve Decker BSe 94

were married in May Joining

them in the wedding celebrashy

tions were Cheri (Coulter)

42 GUELPH ALUMNUS

Ascroft BSe 93 Karen Leinshy

gartner BSe 94 and Barb

(Moore) Johnson BSe 94

Best man was Jeff Bond BSe

93 and MSe 96 The Deckers

live in Edmonton where Steve

is doing a PhD in chemistry at

the University of Alberta and

Wendy is working in a research

laboratory at a biopharmaceushy

tical company

bull Donna Gross BA 97 is purshysu ing a master of divinity at

Emmanuel College at the Unishy

versity of Toronto and hopes to

become an ordained minister by

2002 She lives in Guelph and

can be reached bye-mail at

donnajulietalbedonet

bull Robert Gruber BA 92 is a child-care supervisor for the

YMCA-YWCA of Guelph and

manages the Jean Little Y

Child- Care Centre He recently

developed the anti -bias proshy

gramming policy for the

Guelph Y and sits on both the

Jean Little Public School Counshy

cil and the Guelph AIDS Wall

Committee He can be reached

bye-mail at rgrubernet

comca

bull Susan Harder BSe 91 grad shyuated from the University of

Toronto Medical School in June

and has started a residency at

Santa Clara Valley Medical Censhy

tre in San jose Calif She will

follow that up with an anestheshy

sia residency at Stanford Univershy

sity Hospital in 1999

bull Marko Harjupanula BASc 93 travelled in Australia for

two months after graduating

from Guelph then returned to

his home town of South Porshy

cupine Ont where he worked

in a gold mine for four years

He entered police college in

September and started as an

opp constable in Cochrane in

December

bull Nancy Holman MA 94 moved to Vancouver soon after

graduation and initially worked

as a project co-ordinator for an

ophthalmologist In 1996 she

began working full time for the

BC Liberal Caucus I would

enjoy hearing from and catchshy

ing up with the friends I made

while studying at U of G and

working at the Brass Taps she

says Her e-mail address is nan shy

cyholmanlassgovbeca

bull Ruth Johnson BA 91 is an investment banking associate

with the mergers and acquisishy

tions group of JP Morgan in

Lond on England responsible

for financial reporting and

administration She has been in

England with her partner Alex Campbell since graduation

bull Stephen Johnson BA 94 of London Ont was a lab technishy

cian at Lenscrafters for three

yea rs and is now a full-time

student at Fanshawe College

studying air conditioning and

refrigeration He was married

in Jun e to Jennifer Fox BSc

95 a chemist at 3M Their

wedding party included Dee Popat BSe (Eng) 94 and

Patrick Wulhes BSc 95

bull Sarah (Davis) Kelly BASe 90 married Robert Kelly in

July and teaches primary

grades at an inner-city school

in Toronto

bull Cassidy Klowak BComm 97 lives in Allisshy

ton Onl and is a personal

banking account manager

with ClBC in Tottenham

bull Stephanie Lopes BSc 96 completed her MSc in repro shy

ductive biology at the Universishy

ty of Toronto and worked as

patient-care director for the

College of Family Physicians

for almost a year In September

she enrolled in medical school

at the University of Toronto

She is happy to announce that

she is engaged to be married

next summer Lopes can be

reached at slopesidirectcom

bull Natalie (Parker) MacKenzie BSc 96 earned her BEd from

the University of Western

Ontario in 1997 She married

ASLt Andy MacKenzie June 27

in Sault Ste Marie Ont and

now lives in Halifax

bull Susan MacKinnon DVM 91 is a veterinarian with HUls

Science Diet She lives in

Guelph with her husband

Brandon Wiley and gave birth

to their first child Adrianna

Nicole june 26 at home

bull Waheed Mian BA 9 1 of Cambridge Ont is a store

director with PetSmart Canada

He helped the company launch

its new retail concept in Cana da

bull Alex Mitchell BA 91 was appointed clerkdeputy treasurshy

er of the Ontario township of

Mildmay-Carrick in 1998 and

will be the clerkadministrator

of the new municipality of

Mildmay-Carrick -TeesWatershy

Culross in 1999 He was married

in january 1997 and lives vith

his wife and daughter in Mild shy

may In his spare time Mitchell

is a professional scout for the

Toronto Maple Leafs covering

southwestern Ontario

bull Sherry Morland BASc 93 of Kitchener Ont ea rned her

BEd from Brock University in

J995 and is a part-time specia l

educa tion teacher and an occashy

sional teacher with the Watershy

loo County Board of Ed ucashy

tion She married Ivan LeBlanc

in 1997

bull Gary Page BSe 91 wo rks for the Nottawasaga Valley Conshy

servation Authority where he is

able to combine his knowledge

of wildlife biology with his

artistic skills as resident graphic

designer and outdoor centre

interpreter He Jives with his

wife Di and their son judah in

CreemoreOnt

bull Elaine Pammenter BA 96 is an inventory clerk with the

Royal Collection at Windsor

Castle in England She holds a

museum management and

curatorship grad uate certificate

diploma from Sir Sandford

Fleming College and did her

internship at the Royal Albert

Memorial Museum in Exeter

England

bull Brent Raymond BSe(Env) 96 of Brantford Ont has

been working with Outward

Bound since graduation He

leads wilderness trips in Northshy

ern Ontario Horida Australia and Sabah (Malaysian Borneo) Most recently he designed and implemented a new introducshytory mountaineering course for Outward Bound Sabah on the summit plateau of Mt Kinashy

balu Those of you who know me as plate licker from U of G get in touch he says Where are you Star I miss you He can be reached by e-mail at globarwchatonca or by

phone at 519-756-1697

Alumni Patrick Abbott BSA 40 July 7 1998

Albert Allen BSA 33 Jan 161994 Agris Ansmits BA 70 and MA 73

February 1998 Barbara (Quartermain) Babcock DHE

53 June 17 1998

Wray Bond BSA 34 Sept 25 1998

Kenneth Bone DVM 38 Dec 29 1998 Evelyn (Stevenson) Buhr DHE 39

May 251998 Philip Burke BSA 43 June 21 1998

Grant Carman BSA 49 Oct 221998 Frederick Chambers BSA 41

June 1998 Wilmot Conley ADA4 7 April 7 1998 Lloyd Crewson BSA 49 Aug 261998

Jacqueline Dimock DHE 47

Aug 20 1998 John Dingwall DVM 52

April 18 1998

Lloyd Dorsey BSA 38 June 9 1998 George Duncan BSA 37

Sept 19 1998

David Dyson BSA 53 Aug 31 1998

Norma (Shannon) Edwards DHE 39

November 1997 Vincent Bud Ellis DVM 41

July 15 1998 John Jack George BSA 48

Sept 24 1998

Donald Haight BSA 33 January 1997 William Hamlyn BSA 33 Dec I 1997

Gordon Harkness BSA 49

November 1997

Charles Hollister DVM 38 June 1996 Donald Hope BSA 54 June 28 1998

Lawrence Jefferson BSA 38

Sept 3 1998

James Kelso DVM 56 July 27 1998

Dorima Lalonde BSA 34 Oct 8 1998 Mildred (Cox) Large DHE 33

June 20 1998 Roger Larson BComm 86 Feb 19 1998 Robert Lawson BSA 49 June 6 1998

bull Doug Ramsey BA 91 and PhD 98 received U of Gs highshyest graduate student award shythe Forster Medal- at June convocation for his academic and community involvement while enrolled in Guelphs new

graduate program in geography He spent the summer as a visitshying research scholar at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College in Truro before assuming his curshyrent position as assistant professhysor at Mount Allison University

David Leach BSc(Agr) 74

July 18 1998

Ian Leask DVM 74 Sept 5 1998

Sheryl Lee BSc 95 June 8 1998 Ruby Janet MacAuley DHE 30

Aug 19 1998 Parker MacKenzie DVM 38

September 1994

Jeanice MacLaren DHE 28 March 1 1997

Campbell MacMaster DVM42

Oct 8 1998

Rex McCallum DVM 43 July 71998 Jean (Dunn) McMahon DHE 31

Nov 41998

Margaret Oones) McTaggart DHE 35 Aug 81998

Patrick McTaggart-Cowan HDSc 81

Oct 21997

Malcolm McWhinnie ADA 39

July 16 1998 Mary (Townsend) Mitchell BHSc

60 Sept 281998

Marjory Monaghan DHE 29

December 1997 Charles Monk BSA 44 Aug 7 1998

Heather Neilsen BHSc 59

Oct 30 1998 Jerry Niwa DVM 62 Aug 5 1998 Henry Harry OReilly BSA 42

October 1997

James Parr BSc(Agr) 81 June 19 1998 Charles Rammage DVM 45

Oct 17 1996 Howard Rapson HDSc 90

March 1997 Clement Reeds DVM 42 Oct 16 1998

William Robinson BSA 38

Aug 23 1998

Donald Sager ADA 73 Oct 141997

Austin Schaefer DVM 37 in 1997

Sandra (Mackenzie) Schmidt DHE 59

Aug 16 1997 Margaret (Harvey) Seaborn DHE 28

July 221998

Larry Seguin DVM 47 June 12 1998

Leah Shedden DHE 31 December 1998

Edward Shuh BSA 40 July 2 1998

Ted Shutsa BSc(Agr) 66

Sept 18 1998 Jim Sinclair DVM 49 Oct 4 1998

Margaret (Brown) Sinclair DHE 20

September 1998 Eldon Smith BSA 42 Sept 9 1998

Derek Somers DVM 96 Sept 25 1998

Cheryl Lynn Sopha BA 95 Sept 20 1998

Leona (Bartlett) Stewart DHE 35

June 27 1998 Alex Thomson BSc(Agr) 69

October 1996

William Whittick DVM 55

Aug 15 1998 Joseph Wilson BSA 23 Sept 11 1998

Lloyd Woolsey DVM41 June 24 1998

Winifred Yeates DHE 28 June 11998

Faculty John Carpenter BSA 43 and MSA 48

Microbiology Dec 10 1998

David Gaskin Zoology Sept 14 1998

Gordon Macleod BSA 50 Animal and

Poultry Science Nov 26 1998 Roman Retman Languages and

Literatures Sept 28 1998

Caesar Sen off Chemistry and

Biochemistry Aug 14 1998

Percy Smith Drama Dec 10 1998

Friends Robert Clark Aug 21 1998

Ethel Hammond August 1998

Thomas Hillers Sept 28 1998 Marguerite Holbrook Aug 26 1998

Catherine Kelly Sept 27 1998

James A McKenzie May 13 1998

Kenneth McIssac Oct 23 1998

William Mutlock September 1998 Roena Patterson Sept 16 1998

Donald Priddle Aug 25 1998

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bull Karl Reimer BSe 94 comshypleted a one-year intensive

MSc in mining engineering at

Queens University and is now

a project engineer a t Enpar

Technologies Ine in Guelph

He can be contacted at reimerbservcom

bull Nancy Nauta Rowland BA 90 and her husband Dan celshy

ebrated their first wedding

anniversary in March 1998 with

the birth of their first child

Connor who beat their March

8 anniversary by two days Nanshy

cy teaches junior-grade stushy

dents and junior special ed ucashy

tion for the Peel District School

Board The Rowlands live in

Caledon Ont

bull Fraser Stables MFA 98 was heralded by Toronto Globe 6shyMail critic Betty Jordan as a

formidable new talent followshy

ing the openi ng of his debut

gallery exh ibition in July The

Scottish artists work includes

sculpture video and mixed

media that explore notions of

flu x by interrupting the moveshy

ment of forms in space

bull Erin (Smith) Scott BSe(HK) 92 and Brad

Scott BSc(Agr) 91 of Lucan

O nt were married in 1993 and

had their first child Lucas in

August Erin works for Shopshy

pers Home Health Ca re in

London Brad is with New Life

Mills in Dunfield

bull Abby Simons BSc 95 and Martin Piche BSc(Agr) 95 were married in Mont-Tremshy

blant Quebec in 1997 She is a

customer service representative

with Kantech Systems he is

superintendent of Club de golf

vallee des forts They say theyd

love to hear from anyone headshy

ing to Montreal and can be

reached at 450-348-3860

bull Sylvia Tesori BSc 95 has been doing wildlife rehabilitashy

tion for the OSPCA Wildlife

Rehabilitation Centre in Midshy

land Ont since 1996

bull Chuck Thibeault BComm 94 is general manager of the

Putting Edge Corpora tion

which has two glow-in- theshy

dark mini-golf courses in

Ontario one in Bramp ton and

one in Richmond Hill He can

be reached in Richmond Hill at

chu ckttotalnet

bull Karen Thirlwall BA 93 is a

si ngersongwriter and guitarist

who began her stage career and

released her first album The Voice Inside Me while studying

languages at U of G She has

lived and performed in

11i stler BC for three years

and recently released a second

album called Wide-Eyed She

remembers many special

fr iends m ade at Guelph and

welcomes e-mail messages to

karenthirlwallhotmailcom

bull Christie (Johnson) and Steve

Tyler both BComm 91 live in

Cambridge Ont where

Christie is a personal banking

representative for the Royal

Bank Steve works with their

third-year design professor

Nelson Hofer in Mississauga as

a design consultan t Steves proshy

jects include the Windsor Casishy

no and U of Gs Creelman Hall

They have two children Jason

5 and Marcus 1

bull Julia White BA 91 lives in Guelph and is a small-business

accountant at Taves amp Co She

recently finished courses

towards a CGA designation and

would like to hea r from other

alumni who lived in Lambton

Hall in 198788 Send e-mail to

juliawhitesympaticoca

bull Andre-Denis Wright MSc 93 and PhD 98 is doing postshy

docto ral work in Perth Westshy

ern Australia He wants his

Guelph friends and Halifax

family to know he was thinking

of them at Christmas when it

was 40 C in Australia

bull Dave Yellen BComm 90 was recently promoted at the Gordon

Food Service to new-accounts

sales specialist for Metro Toronshy

to Having been in Ottawa for

the past few years Im hoping

to reacquaint myself with old

friend s from U of G in the Metro

area he says He lives in Scarborshy

ough and can be reached at 416shy615-2745 or davidysprintca

bull Halina Zaleski PhD 92 is a tenured professor in the

departm ent of animal sciences

at the Un iversity of Hawaii in

Honolulu She is a swine speshy

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ers all of Hawai i and the PacifIC

basin She can be reached by

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IF THERE ARE LIVESTOCK IN THE HOCKEY ARENA and

theyre not wearing skates its College Royal If there

are students sawing logs throwing pies baking cookies

and square dancing its College Royal When the entire

University of Guelph is displayed - from arts to zooloshy

gy - March 13 and 14 1999 youll know its definitely

College Royan

Since its inception in 1925 as an agricultural and liveshy

stock show run by the Ontario Agricultural College

College Royal has grown to be a celebrated U of G trashy

dition involving all the colleges

The event is famou s in the University community

and beyond for its open-house showcase of displays and

activities The largest student-run open house in Canashy

da College Royal attracts more than 20000 visitors to

campus over one weekend

College Royal is an event of tradition that reaches

into tomorrow Agriculture and livestock shows are still

highlighted events but College Royal activities have

grown to include dog and cat shows a photography conshy

test a chemistry magic show and demonstrations on

human health and fitness The open house gives people

an opportunity to see what happens in the Universitys

leading-edge research laboratories to observe veterinary

medicine in practice to tour a sculpture studio or to

watch a theatrical performance

To celebrate the 75th anniversary of College Royal

1998 president Joe TrakaJo lnvites alumni to get involved

again by joining one of the planning comm ittees or by

participating in a favourite event Call him for more

information at 824-4120 Ext 8366 or send e-mail to

jtrakalouoguelphca

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U OF G WINS FEDERAL

INNOVATION AWARD

mE UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH is one of 14

1 Canadian universities and one of six

in Ontario to receive awards totalling $81

million from the Canada Foundation for

Innovations (CFI) Institutional Innovation

Fund (projects over $350000)

The CFI has yet to determine the exact

amount of the award but if Guelph were

to get the approximate $750000 requestshy

ed with matching grants from industry

and the Ontario Research and Developshy

ment Challenge Fund the total award

could be close to $2 million

Guelphs project is a holistic look at

agriculture the first of its kind in Canada

Titled New Technologies for Assessing

and Enhancing Agroecosystems it will be

headed by Prof Terry Gillespie chair of the

Department of Land Resource Science and

involve 25 faculty from 10 departments

Eight other U of G research projects were

invited to move on to a further stage of

review the third-highest number for an

Ontario university

TTRELLIS LAUNCHED a triangle of information sharshy indexes and Web sites and

H E SEP~EMI3ER LAU NCH of ing through TRELLIS the Trishy databases around the world an excltmg new system University Group of Libraries More than 75 million volshy

called TRELLIS has positioned combined computer-based umes of materials can be the U of G Library as a symbol information resource system found online and more thal1 of partnership and the home The automated system 400 users can log on to for more information than ever gives students and faculty at TRELLIS at the same time before U of G Wilfrid Laurier the three campuses access to a To access TRELLIS 011

University and the University of wider range of resources the Internet type wwwtugshyWaterloo joined forces to form including computer-based librariesonca

OTHER HONOURS

CONVOCAriON HONOURS TWO The University of Guelph has added two more distinshy

guished names to its list of honorary degree recipients Renowned biologist Jane Goodall and political scienshytist Peter Russell an expert on the Canadian Constitushytion and Charter of Rights and Freedoms were honshyoured during fall convocashytion ceremonies in October

Goodall received an honorary doctor of science degree acknowledging more than 40 years of groundbreaking work in the life and sociobiology of chimpanzees and other primates

An honorary doctor of

laws degree was conferred on Russell for his extensive research on the Constitution and Canadian nationalism

UOFG QUALIFIES FOR ATOP SUPPORT U OF Gs SCHOOL OF Engi- neering and Department of Computing and Information Science (CIS) are planning for more faculty equipment and resources following the Unishyversitys request for funding from a provincial program designed to address a shortage of skilled graduates in engimiddot neering and computing science

U of G met this years enrolment increase in these high-tech programs needed to qualify for one-time fundshying under the provinces Access to Opportunities Proshygram (ATOP) Guelph has also committed to doubling enrolment by the year 2000 to take advantage of long-term ATOP money

Guelph will qualify for special operating grants from the province to universities that increase their first-year enrolment in these programs by 20 per cent over 199798

The University also hopes to receive ATOP funding to increase its graduate enrolshyment in these disciplines

Both CIS and the School of Engineering face a shortage of resources making the ATOP funding an important funding source that will help these areas without affecting other campus units

WINTER 1999 9

refront ofat the

ALL THE DEFINING WORDS

written about the Ontario Agricultural College in its 125

years perhaps the most appropriate is the word integral

Throughout its history OAC has remained integral to the

agri-food industry and rural society

Its a good word integral It describes how and why

the college has survived 125 years and suggests a reason

it will grow even stronger in the 2pt century

Without hesitation OAC dean Rob McLaughlin

BSc(Agr) 69 and PhD 77 takes up the thought and

declares that OAC is the premier agricultural college in

Canada and stands in the top rank of agricultural faculshy

ties around the world Our work has had a profound

effect on the growth and development of the Canadian

agri-food system and the well-being of the people and

communities of rural Ontario and beyond he says

10 G UELPH ALUMNUS

OAC celebrates its history its partnerships and its fu ture

W I N TER 1999 11

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OACs 23000 graduates are also recognized

worldwide for their expertise and leadshy

ership abilities in agriculture agribusiness manageshy

ment hortiClilture landscape architecture plant and

animal biology food scie nce and rural extension

Meeting industry needs

More than 100 years apart in their leadershyship of OAC William Johnston and Rob McLaughlin both recognized that the colshylege they inherited would have to focus on industry needs to survive In Johnstons day that meant bringing greater prospershyity to the farm Because only three per cent of McLaughlins graduates return to farmshying todays college curriculum has a greater focus on skills in communication and critical thinking which are demanded by the various industries that now define agriculture

studies McLaughlin hopes those graduates will

return to help the college celebrate 1999s signifishy

cant anniversary It s important to celebrate our

past achievements and to recognize our present and

future strengths he says

A specia l OAC 125 planning committee coshy

chaired by Clay Switzer OAC dean from 1972 to

1983 and Don Blackburn former director of the

diploma program has organized a number of

events throughout the coming year to celebrate the

anniversary

Were looking forward to a wonderful year of

events to mark this occasion says Switzer BSA 51

and MSA 53 We want to celebra te the accomshy

plishments of the past and the fact tha t OAC has

interacted with many partners to get where we are

today and we want to look ahead to the future to

see how the college and the University might conshy

tinue along this successful path

Success for OAC means maintaining its position

as a vital partner and contributor to the prosperity

of the agri-food industry and the people of rural

Ontario for whom it was established That industry

and those rural communities are vastly different

from the 1874 picture we draw from the college hisshy

tory primarily because farmers themselves - with

the help of agricultural education and researchshy

12 GUElPH ALUMNUS

125 YEARS OF ACHIEVEMENT

Throughout OACs first 125 years its educashytion research and extension activities have had an impact on virtually every secshytor of Canadas agrimiddot food industry In the anniversary book 125

Years of Achievement OAC highlights some of the areas where col1lege faculty stushydents and administrashytors have played a leadership role To read more about Guelphs achievements in these areas conshytact the OAC deans office to obtain a copy of the book

Pre 1900

bull Diploma in agriculture

bull Degree in agriculture

bull Agri-food short courses

bull Production bulletins bull Extension work bull Liberal education bull Library resources bull Field crop trials bull Livestock breeding

bull Forestry bull Insect identification bull Experimental Union

1900-1910

bull Herbarium amp weed garden

bull Cheese making bull Food safety bull Land drainage bull Water testing bull Weather observashy

tions amp zoning for crop production

bull Legume inoculants

have forged change through increased productivishy

ty and efficiency

When OAC roots were planted in 187450 per

cent of th e people who lived in this new province

made their living from farming Today only two per

cent of Ontario residents live on farms

but they feed a much larger population

base and an important export market

The Ontario agri-food industry genershy

ates an impressive $637 billion in ecoshy

nomic value each year and stimulates

employment for nearly a quarter of the

workforce Canadians enjoy one of the

safest and cheapest food supplies in the

world spending less than 13 per cent of

their disposa ble income on food Most

people in the world spend more than 50

per cent

Its difficult to pinpoint all the conshy

tributions OAC faculty staff and gradshy

uates have made to agriculture because

the knowledge created and the techshy

nologies perfected here have been so weU

assimilated by the industry that they are

easily taken for granted Few people in

Ontario have ever heard of Charles

Zavitz or know that this early OAC gradshy

uate and professor recorded the first

field-crop yield tests at Guelph before 1890

Appointed head experimentalist in 1893 he was

instrumental in developing a college research proshy

gram that made good the promise that OAC would

offer its students training in scientific agriculture

Zavitz has been followed by a number of brilshy

liant educators and scientists whose contributions

to the college and its industry have filled several

books Even Alexander Ross in OACs official hisshy

tory College on the Hill can provide only a brief

description of the research initiatives that have

involved OAC in the growth of the agri-food secshy

tor and the tremendous advances agriculture has

made in the areas of human and animal nutrition

and health water and soil conservation rural develshy

opment and of course agri-food education

To give prominence to these contributions the

college has published an anniversary book that outshy

lines 125 of the most significant accomplishments in

which OAC faculty students and administrators

played a leadership role More important 125 Years ofAchievement celebrates the partnerships that have

provided the opportunities for achievement Through

the years Guelph scientists and educators have worked

closely with the agri-food industry with both the

Ontario Ministry of Agriculture Food and Rural

Affairs and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and

with other government departments international 1990s And they still have not reached that equalishy125 YEARS agencies educational institutions and alumni ty on the college faculty Alice Rowsome may haveOF ACHIEVEMENT

Read any entry in 125 Years ofAchievement and been hired to serve as assistant librarian and instrucshy

youll find an interes ting anecdote that chronicles tor in French and German at the turn of the censhy1910-1920

an important element in campus history Read the tury but horticulturist Patricia Harney remained bull Macdonaldwhole book and youll be awed by the

Institutesheer volume of th e work that has

bull Soil science been accomplished by so many people Scientific agricuLture

bull Poultry lighting working meticulously over so many

amp nutritionyears to affect so many changes in agrishy After earning one of its first agriculture

bull OAC 21 barleyculture that have improved the lives of degrees in 1888 Charles Zavitz began a

bull Fruit research Canadians 40-year career overseeing the college

Freeman McEwen OAC dean from experimental programs and made the first 1920-1930

1983 to 1990 chaired a committee that advancements in plant breeding Threebull Collecting

involved severa l dozen current and generations later Prof Ken Kasha led the Canadian art

retired faculty as well as alumni students development of a haploid technique of cell bull War Memorial

and U of G staff in writing the stories division that cut the time needed to breed Hall

A quick check of dates in the book new varieties in half Today plant biotechshybull Graduate

shows a spiral of achievement that has nologist Bryan McKersie is looking even education

escalated with whirlwind force since the deeper into the functioning of plant cells bull College Royal

establishment of the University of to manipulate genes that will enhance proshybull SoybeanGuelph in 1964 and heads unabated ductivity or disease resistance

developmenttoward the future The 125 items docushy

bull Forage varieties ment scientific discoveries to be sure

bull Meat research but also the development of the college

bull Ginsengas an educa tional institution and its bull Farm business

ongoing partnership with the provincial records

government

Out of the J25 McEwen has picked his own top the only woman on faculty throughout the 1960s 1930-1940

five beginning with the contributions OAC made and women are seriously under-represented even bull Professional

to the establishment of the University This campus today This is one area where historians find room societies

has the distinction of being the only one in North to criticize agricultural traditions and college polishybull ControlledAmerica where the agricultural college preceded the cies that continued the dominance of men for far

atmosphereuniversity that supports it That fact helps ex plain too many years

storagethe unique character of the University of Guelph The college itself was dominated by the provinshy

bull Muck crops and its prominence in the life sciences cial government during its first 90 years when OAC bull Salmonella

Some might argue that the process of becoming principals reported directly to the minister of agrishytesting

a university began as ea rly as 1904 when the Macshy culture The 1964 University of Guelph Act mainshybull Links with donald Inst itute opened This event is second on tained the schools relationship with the agriculshy

farm groups McEwens list of top accomplishments The ad dishy ture ministry but gave the col lege a new- found

tion of women to the campus changed OAC from a freedom that expanded research and graduate proshy1940-1950

boys school into a co llege Guelph history professhy grams and opened the door to increased fundingbull Holland Marsh

sor Terry Crowley says bluntly Early student life at from th e education ministry It a lso permittedResearch Station

OAC is readily divided into two - before women greater collaboration with the Ontario Veterinarybull Standardizedand after women College which had been moved to Guelph by politshy

cattle conformation The Mac girls were generally older than the J6- ical dictate in 1922

bull Potato breeding and 17-year-old students at OAC they were more One of the most vivid examples of the impact of

bull Reproductionmature and brought both a social life and a new acashy that collaboration was the dramatic increase in anishytechnology

demic focus to the campus For the young women mal-breeding technologies OVC perfected artificial bull Queen beeof Ontario it was a long overdue opportunity and insemination and held the only licence in Ontario for

rearingthey grasped the educa tion offered at Macdonald frozen semen until 1969 OAC faculty and the netshy -bull TechnologyInstitute in large numbers work of provincial agricultural representatives helped

transferWomen were not admitted into the agriculture promote the technology and control it through the

bull Conservation program until 1918 however and they didnt reach development of a national livestock and performance

farm planning numerical equality with male students until the inventory Through these combined efforts Canada

WINTER 1999 13

emerged as a global leader in animal breeding largest Ontario univers ity geographica lly when it125 YEARS OACs un ique and enduring relati onship wi th assumed res ponsibility for ed ucation resea rch andOF ACHIEVEMENT

the provincial agric ulture ministry is another addishy Iaboratory services form erl) managed by the minshy

tion to McEwe ns list of top achievements Certa inshy is try Guelph agric ultural expertise covers the 1950-1960

ly the most significan t even t in the last decade has provi nce with camp uses in Guelph Ridgetownbull Horticulture corre-

Kemptville a nd Alfred and a network of spondence course

research facilities that includes the Horshybull Business education Changing with society ticultural Resea rch Institute of Ontariobull Watershed research

diagnostic laboratories and 21 research bull Farm buildingWhen Adelaide Hoodless argued for the stat ions

programestablishment of Macdonald Institute in the The partnership with OMAFRA has

bull Computers in late 1890S she saw scientific training for kept agricultural education and research agriculture

women as a way to improve community at the forefro nt of the University of bull Corn expansionhealth standards The college has evolved Guelph More than 40 per cent of the Unishybull Deailing with continually through the years - growing versitys graduate studenllt are in OAC and

cold climate into the largest home economics facility in more than 70 per cent of its $80-million

bull CropOntario under dean Margaret McCready and research budget is focused on the ag rishyrecommendations

broadening its outlook in the 1970S under food indus try T hat commitment to

dean Janet Wardlaw to include consumer research is the earliest and most enduring1960-1970

studies and the hospitality industry Wardshy achievement out of the 125 bull OAC Alumnilaw set the tone for increased research OAC contin ues to lea d the way in

Foundationactivity and positioned the college to join research and is one of the most dynamshy

bull University of Guelphforces with the social sciences in 1998 ic co lleges in th e University saysbull Arboretum

McLaughlin But we draw on peoplebull Ag research

fro m all over the University communi shystations

ty And now with the provincial colleges bull International

added back into the mix we are ail workshyag research centres

ing as part of the sa me team to enhance bull Scholarships

been the launch of a new University relationship the opportunities availab le to yo ung people in agri shyendowments

with OACs oldest partner the Onta rio Minist ry of cu ltural edu cat ion bull International

Agriculture Food a nd Rural Affairs (OMAFRA) Alumn i have always held an important position apiculture

In 1997 the University of Guelph became th e on that tea m Among OACs top achievements is the

The OAC of today owes much to its past THE ONTAR IO AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE might never have existshy The journalist s role in establishing the college as the Ontario

ed if not for the failure of a Univers ity of Toronto experiment in School of Agriculture and Experimental Farm is bro ught into

agricultural education in the 18505 It certainly wouldnt have context in a new history of OAC that will be published in April

been situated in Guelph without the political parlaying of Guelph to help celebrate its 125th an niversary The College 011 the Hill A journalist and cleric William Clarke And it might not have surshy New History of the 011tario Agriwltuml College 1874- I 999 was

vived a traumatic first yea r o f patronage and scandal if it hadnt written by Guelph history professor Terry Crowley and Univershy

been for the acc iden tal appo intment ofVVilliam Johnston as prinshy sity professor emeritus Alexander Ross who wrote the origi nal

cipal in the fall of 1874 College 011 the Hill for OACs 100th anniversary

And that was just the beginning If the first book tdls us how OAC grew into the University of

One hundred and twenty-five years have passed since Clarke cuelph the second tells us why

successfully argued that the new province of Ontario needed a When the fledgling provincial government of the 1870s was

land-based rural college where the focus was on providing a pracshy glued togeLher by political patro nage how could th e sc hoo l be

tical education in farming The University of Toronto fai led to any different asks Crowley Two principals came and went withshy

attract farmers sons he sa id because it allowed the other proshy in its first year when rumours tore at their moral fibre so the job

fessions of medicine law and the clergy to overshadow agriculshy fell quickly to the new college rector William Johnston

ture Clarkes persuasive fiting in the then Olltario Farmer newsshy Because we already know how OACs story devdops we ca n

paper helped place the college on 550 acres of good clay loam see some iro ny in the fact that the man who nur tured this preshy

at the back door of his Guelph parish mier agricultural college through its infancy was educated in the

14 GVELPI-I AWMNvs

alumni initiative that es tablished the OAC Alumni work internship at the end of their third yea r and125 YEARS Foundation in the 1960s to provide financial supshy co me back to finish the fourth year with a job wa it shyOF ACHIEVEMENT port to co ll ege programs and scholarships The ing for them says McLa ughlin and they o ften have

foundation also provided the leadership and incenshy fo ur or fi ve to choose from vVe are very short of bull Teaching

tive to create Guelph Unive rsity Alumni Research graduates to fill all of the jobs that are o ut there now innovations

and Development (GUARD Inc) in bull Birdsfoot trefoil

1996 The manda te of the technology bull Land reclamation Educating Leadersmanageme nt company is to develop bull Rural planning

researc h i nven tion s in to marketable bull Wind and snow Guelphs agriculture graduates haveprod ucts lau nch spin-off companies

studies played key roles in Canadian agriculture and gene rate revenu es to support basic

bull Milk testing including federal ministers William Mothshyand applied research at U of G bull Ruminant nutrition

erwell Diploma 1881 John Wise ~DA 56Throughout OACs history alumni bull Ag poli cy and Lyle Vanclief BSc(Agr) 66 Mothshyhave formed a network ofAggies who

development erwell was a driving force behind the have volunteered their time to provide

western grain producers movement before 197deg-198o

a rea l-world view for students helped to

being named to Cabinet in 1921 In thelaunch the careers of many new grad ushybull Arboretum Centre 1980s Wise introduced income stabilizashyates by providing work opport unities bull Ghana-Guelph tion programs and created farm debtencouraged research initiatives co nshy

Project review boards Today Vanclief is strugshytributed millions of dollars to scholarshy

bull Integrated pest gling with low commodity prices and intershyship programs and voca lized co ncerns

managementabout college programs and curriculum national trade agreements

bull Composting animal After receivin g some critica l advice

wastesfrom alumni and agr i-food employers

bull Crop resistance toin the ea rly part o f the 1990s OAC

herbicideslaunched a new BSc(Agr ) program that

bull Limnocorrals for wil l gradu ate the fi rst class of st uden ts

aquatic ecosystems this anniversary year The new agriculshy

bull Grain drying and ture curriculum emphasizes communica tion skills in the agri-food sec tor he says

storageand teamwork allows students to choose their own If you live anywhere near Guelph youll know that

bull Asparagusspecializations and includes opportunities for onshy the agri-food sector ill this area is expected to lead the

bull Systemic fungicides the-job experience Many of those students take a local economy well into the new mi llennium creat shy

bull Pesticides research

bull Agricultural Code of

Practicesocial sciences Johnston had no real farm expeshy within the interdisciplin ary atmosphere of the

rience but he understood people well says Crow- University of Guelph OAC has both contributed

ley and he recognized almost as quickly as his students that the to and benefited iiom the Universitys steady growth Traditionshy

school would succeed only if it co uld offer farm ers sons someshy al OAC programs have expanded into new departments and colshy

thing more thall what they had already learned at home leges providing greater benefits to agri-food resea rch and teach shy

Johnstons commitment to education and his genui ne con shy in g New partnerships o n campus and th e academ ic freedom

cern for his students still echo through the corridors of the build shy provided by University sta tus have enabled Guelph to enlarge its

ing named in his hono ur a nd across campus in the broad range already significant influence in the agri-food sector

of disciplines that now nuke up the Un iversity of Guelph Johnshy Crowley says the enha nced partnership between U of G and

ston was the firs t of hundreds of hulllane and sensible people the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture Food a nd Rural Affairs has

who have given the campus its distinctive character says Crowshy fulfilled a vision of OAC as the hub of agr icultural educa tion that

ley The University of Guel ph is still a good place to be People had been expressed nea rly a cen tury before It s a good place to

help each other to a rema rkable degree and it is eve n m ore end a history and begin a future

remarkable that this sense of co-operatio n has lasted through the In Crowleys fi nal words Agriculture reta ins its econo mi c

most recent government meat slicing importance in the co untrys econom) but the secto r will find

Told in the social and political context of its 125 yea rs the itself [n an increasingly international and com petitive ellvironment -OAC story builds momentum as the pages turn The final chapshy where education and research become ever more importa nt Since

ter in Crowleys history is the most impressive because it SUIll shy the Ontario Agricultural College has demons t rated its ability to

marizes the last 25 years when developments in agricultural edushy respond to changing circumstances during its first 125 years the

cation research and service have occurred 1110st quickly Growing past suggests a willingness to meet the new challenges that await

WINTER 1999 15

ing more jobs and generating more wealth than any 125 YEARS other industry A recent study by the citys Planning OF ACHIEVEMENT OAe 125 and Business Development Department predicts a

ANNIVERSARY EVENTS50-per-cent increase in employment in agri-food bull Mosquitoindustries in the next decade Broaden out to the

monitoring jan 29 - Official OAC 12S launch and bull Canadian publication of 125 Years of Achievements

Greenhouse Feb 16 - Winegard Seminar Series hosts New frontiers Conference Andy Johnson Seymour Wis

bull Non-agricultural March 5 - Winegard Seminar Series hosts At the tum of the 20th century Prof William waste on land Sir Colin Berry Royal London Hospital UKGraham created the impetus for a Canadishy

bull Pest diagnostic March 31 - Opening of AJ Casson Exhibitan poultry industry through nutrition studshyservice and selections from the OAC art collection ies that also provided a background for

at the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre work in human nutrition The tum of the 1980-1990 April 30 - Recognition of the 12s-year 21st century finds poultry scientist Ann Gibshybull Alumni House GuelphOMAFRA partnership and launch bins perfecting the techniques to transfer bull Turfgrass Institute of The College on the Hill A New History genetic material into chicken embryos to bull Centre for the of the Ontario Agricultural College develop birds with better disease resistshy

Genetic Improvement 1874 - 1999middotance or to improve production characterisshyof Livestock june 7 amp 10 - Spring Convocation for tics including the deposition of medically

bull Network of OAC diploma and degree graduates Eachvaluable proteins in the eggs Toxicology Centres graduate will receive a copy of College

bull Biological control lab on the Hill bull George Morris june 18 amp 20 - Alumni Weekend and

Centre opening of the Conservatory and Gardens bull Advanced Sept 14 to 16 - Canadas Outdoor Farm

Agricultural Show will host the countrys biggest silent Leadership auction as an OAC fundraiser for student Program support Ontario industry and the predictors are similar and

bull Distance education Sept 25 - Heritage Banquet and Ball for again youll find U of G at the hub of that growth bull Animal behaviour alumni agri-food partners and University In the past decade the view from Johnston Hall

and welfare communityhas expanded to include OMAFRAs provincial bull Farm animal care Nov 24 - Agri-Food Into the Newheadquarters and the U of G Research Park which bull Haploid breeding Millennium conference to discuss the majoris home to a branch of Agriculture and Agri-Food

technologies forces shaping the destiny of the global Canada the regional headquarters of the Canadian bull Hybrid canolc and Canadian agri-food systems and rural Food Inspection Agency and more than two dozen bull Consumer societiesbusinesses and agriculture organizations that are

benefits from key players in Ontarios industry

agricultural For more information on these events or toIn the summer of 1997 Guelph welcomed the research order copies of the anniversary books visit establishment of Ontario Agri-Food Technologies

bull Soybean the OAC 125 Web site at wwwoacuoguelph - a consortium of 12 grower associations five rhizobium 532C cajOAC125 or contact the deans office atOntario universities 11 industries and OMAFRA

519-824-4120 Ext 2285 e-mail oac125 - which is dedicated to generating wealth for the 1990S oacuoguelphcaprovincial agri -food sector through the application bull Guelph Food

of biotechnology The consortium will develop Technology

financing and the research teams needed to take in new business to the country s economyCentre

discoveries and turn them into products in the Some would suggest the growth of agri -food bull GUARD Incsupermarket partnerships is part of a global trend in economic bull Environmental

A new venture beginning this year is the Agrishy thinking that says consolidate cluster and work Farm Plan

Food Quality Cluster that seeks out opportunities together for greater rewards but the important thing bull U of GOMAFRA

for agri-food companies to work together to meet is that this agri-food sector is clustering in Guelph partnership

a specific need The Guelph duster is one of the first - around U of G - because this institution began bull Wheat in China

to be established in Canada but it already has 500 preparing for its future 125 years ago with a comshybull Food packaging

members and has predicted that potential projects mitmen t to leadership in agri-food research edushybull Transgenic plants

in Ontario could add $2 billion to $3 billion a year cation and service ga

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UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

rese~ tesch SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERYmiddot SCHOLARSHIpmiddot SOCIAL DEVELOPMENTS

WHEN 24 HOURS IN lea rning how to integrate work Runciman arrived at Guelph know they may be harm ful to

A DAY ISNT ENOUGH and fa mily life rath er than jugshy last summer after spending four their health

TRYIN GTO ACCOMMODATE the gling the two says Lero Inteshy years deSIgning orthopedic sysshy Most consumers are not demands of family and career is gration is key so tfut people can tems and instruments for Canashy aware that plants contain a comshya problem most peopl e fa ce in be successful in multiple roles dian and Ameri ca n firms He plex mi xture of biochemica ls todays society Those indi vidshy rath er than struggling from crishy hopes to establish a state-of-theshy says Prof Pra vecn Saxena Plant ual and family struggles will be sis to crisis art research lHboratory with Agriculture Herbal remedies the focus of the Universitys new HOLlsed in the College of Pro fs Jinl Dickey and Jack have been developed on historishy

Social and Applied j-Iuman Scishy Callaghan Human Bi010gy and cal and anecdotal evidence rather ences the centre brings togethshy Nutr itional Sciences that will than by scientitlc testin g he says er related resea rch areas und er allow him to pursue hi s twin Saxena is trying to change this by a sing1e roof and will spark new research interests in shoulder systematically identifying charshy

Family relations interdisc iplinary opportunities and spine mechanics acterizing and quantifying the experts recommend particularly for graduate st ushy The trio has appli ed for chemical constituents of plants parents integrate - not dents More than 50 fac ulty and fundi ng from the Natural Sc ishy used in a1ternative medicines juggle - work and staff ha ve indicated a desire to ences and Engineering Resea rch family life be affiliates of the centre which Co uncil to equip a biomechanshy

wijJ stimulate resea rch and forge ics lab already loca ted adjacent partnerships with organiza tions to U of Gs new Health and Pershy

Centre for Families Work and co rp orations and co mmunity forman ce Ce ntre in the recentshyWell-Being agenCies ly renova ted Powell Building

Headed by Profs Donna This funding would bring Lero and Kerry Daly Family BODY IS THE the lab up to date to meet intershyRe lat ions and Appli ed Nutri shy ULTIMATE MACHINE national standards says Runcishytion the centre will promote IM INTER ESTED in the app lishy man who p1ans to follow up on responsive wo rk env ironments cation of mechanical engineershy pioneering shoulder mechani cs and help families across Canashy ing to the human body The work he was invo lved in whil e He and grad uate students da manage wo rk and family body is the ultimate machine completing his PhD at Sco tshy Susan Murch and Co lleen Simshyresponsibilities in healthy ways So says Prof John Runciman lands Strathclyde Un iversity mons in th e Ontario Agri culshy

The centre will also be a catshy who recently brought his blend He hop es hi s studies will tural Co llege a1so wa nt to alyst for new researcl in areas of academic and industry expershy help orthopedic co mpanies improve the methods of growshyas diverse as health promotion tise in biomedical engineering design better implan ts used to in g medicinal plants to protect seniors long-term ca re nutrishy to U of Gs School of Engineershy correct such deformities as sco shy cons umers and ensure quality tion and wellness rural aging ing in the College of Phys ica l liosis or cur va ture of the spine Problems in the herbal remeshyand gender in the workplace A and Engineering Science and for treating shoulder insta shy dies industry include medicinal mandate of the centre is that the

IN FACT

bi lity often caused by injuries prepara tions containing misidenshyresults of its research must be among athletes tified plant species contaminashyapplied and availabl e to the tion by pests and disease a lack public to benefit those Canadishy RESEARCHERS of understanding of plant physshyans who ne ed help dealing with CULTIVATE QUALITY iology or efficacy for human conshythe accelerated pace of life nonshy IN HERBAL sumption ilnu co nsumer fraud shytraditional family relationsl ips MEDICINE Our research will help set a longer working hOLlrs globlt1lshy MORE AND MO RE Canadims are standard fo r the development ization and downsizing turning to natural remedies as of safe va lue-added products

The challenge for fam ilies is alternatives to medicine but few Saxena says

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RESEARCH UNCOVERS KEY

TO AGING RESEARCHERS may have found modern sc iences answer to th e mythica l Fountain of Youth

U of G professors John Phillips and Arthur Hilliker Department of Molecular Biolshyogy and Genetics and Gabrielle Boulianne of the University of Toronto and th e Hospital fo r Sick Children appear to have identified a critical weakness in the common fruit fl ys defence against aging

The researchers from the College of Biologica l Science di scovered that a specific cell type - th e motor neuron - is the major target for oxidative damage known for several years to be a key factor affecti ng aging and lifespa n They were able to boost a fruit flys defence against the damage by inserting th e human gene SOD1 which is known to protect against oxidashy

tive damage into the fly s DNA As a result the ave ra ge lifespa n of the fli es (us uall y about 80

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Inside Playwright Judith Thompson

BEHIND THE MASK

JUDITH THOMPSON A DRAMA PROFESSOR at the University of Guelph

since 1992 is one of Canadas finest playwrights Her complex and

sometimes disturbing plays give voice to human failings and accomshy

plishments A two-time winner of the Governor Generals Literary

Award she has received wide acclaim for her work

On the following pages the Guelph Alumnus profiles an artist

whose creativity finds expression through dialogue by offering a

faithful rendition of the dialogue between Thompson and Comshy

munications and Public Affairs writer Andrew Vowles Much like

the characters she unmasks on stage Thompson reveals both comshy

plicated and unexpected images of herself

PHOTOGRAPHY BY D EAN PALMER

20 GU ELPH A LUMNUS

NO The scene is the rehearsal space in Lower Massey Hall at the University of Guelph

Monday mid-morning Outside the warped-glass windows the first wet snow of the year

drops like pebbles Drama professor Judith Thompson is leading some 20 students in her

Acting I class through their warm-ups The students stand in a circle and take turns aiming

a mock blow as they shout the word No More she says to the less assertive To others

whose No sounds shredded over the top she holds up a hand More control Thompson

gestures to her diaphragm It has to come from here

SCENE THOMPSONS OFFICE MASSEY H ALL

On one wal l hang pictures of actors engaged

in a drama mingled with childrens sc hool

drawings The desktop is practically bare A

black purse occupies one chai r A scarf has

landed on the back of another This is where

the playw rig ht hangs her hat during her

classes and meets with studen ts She wri tes

at home in Torontos Annex neighbourhood

where she li ves with her husband Gregor

Campbell a sessional English inst ruc tor at

Guelph and their five children Ariane 13

Eli 10 Grace 8 Felicity 4 and Sophia J

SCENE U OF G LI BRARY ARCHIVES

Guelph Alumnus writer (readil1g from draft of Epilepsy and Snakes Fear as the Genesis of Theatre a talk given by Thompson to the Epilepsy Association of Metro Toronto ill 1997 The script for the ta lk is included among boxes ofcorrespo nde11ce numerous drafts of plays various newspaper and magazine artishycles and reviews ahout the playwright and her work that Thompson recently donated to the U of G Library archives)

1have known real fear only a few times

in my relatively sheltered life But 1

believe these moments of fear are

directly connected to the so urce of creshy

ativi ty within me

SCENE J UST ABOUT ANYWHERE YOU CAN

REA D A PLAY

GA writer (reading from introduction to Tho mpsons play Sled wh ich was first pro shyduced hy Torontos Tarragon Theatre in 1997)

Judith Thompson was born in 1954 in

Montreal She graduated from Queens

University in 1976 then graduated from

the act ing program of the National Theshy

22 GU ELPH ALUMNUS

I seem to give voice to people who

have no voice

atre Schoo l in 1979 Alth ough she

worked briefl y as a profess ional actor

she became more interested in writing

and at th e age of 25 a workshop of her

first scrip t The Crack walker was proshy

duced by Theatre Passe MuraiHe Her

work which includes both radio and

tel evisio n writing has enjoyed great

internationa l success

Other plays includ e The Crackshywalker White Biting Dog Pink Tornado - radio Am Yours Lion ill the Streets White Sand Perfect Pie and Stop Talking Like That- radio She is the recipient

of the Floyd S Chalmers Canadian Play

Award for Lion in the Streets in 199 1 and

Am Yours in 1987 and the Governor

Generals Literary Award for Drama for

The Other Side of the Dark in 1989 and

White Biti11g Dog in 1984

S CENE LUNCHTIME

U OF G UNIVERSITY CLUB

Thompson Im so grateful to have this job

beca use it allows me to do the work that s

important and the plays that will be my legashy

cy and tha t are what 1 feel I have to conshy

tribute to Canadian culture If I didnt have

thi s job Id ha ve to keep compromising

because my plays dont make money Theyre

always in sma ller houses I take chances

theyre not commercial They play all over

th e world but aha)s in sma ller places 1

would just have to pursue life as a screenshy

writer to make a living Thi s job gives

me the great privilege of doing my research

which is the plays that I write and the edishy

torial work that I some times do and screenshy

plays that are worthy and good projects

GA writer Audi ences and reviewers have

described your plays as dark disturbing full

of angry people full of profanity

Thompson At the risk of sounding

grandiosel seem to give voice to people who

have no voice or very little in the culture

whom people dont li sten to Liol1 in the Streets the handicapped wo man living in

the basement all on her own the yo ung girl

Iso bel The secretary stuck in this abu sive

relationship with the actor The middle-class

housewife dumped by her husband because

be doesnt like her sweatsuits and on and on

I give voice to them because I dont know

because I care abo ut them because I like to

represent them Im a lawyer Some of them

use profanity because they have really good

reason to be angry a nd most of th em are

powerless And unfortunately profanity has

a little charge Its a little source of baby powshy

er It upsets me I dont use it myself Im very

se nsitive to it

SCENE ARCHIVES

GA writer (reading essay by Thompson comshymissio ned by Toronto literary Journal Brick

in 995)

If I were not a writer 1 think 1 would

wear a riding hat With a stee l lining

Because I would be baving many more

epi leptic seizures than 1 do presentl y

Because any of the non-writer real jobs I have had caused me sleepless nights self-disgust swoll en eyes cystic acne and hearin g di sorde rs all of which increased electrical activity in my brain which I believe increases the frequenshycy of seizu res

SCENE UNI VER SITY CLUB

Thompson (discussing the critical and pubshylic reaction to her first play The Crackwalkshyer) It was slaughtered at first as all my plays have been Very bad reviews at first and then somehow they catch fi re and theres one grea t review and the others start to see something GA writer Why the bad reviews Thompson I think people might say that theyre shock ing but I dont think so not

with the movies we see and whatnot Theyre not shocking compared with Quentin Taranshytino But theyre not like anything else they dont know where to put them And when they dont know where to put them theyre dismayed I think and hostile and they feel challenged I just write as I see Im not tryshying to shock or challenge anyone I hope they do challenge - me too all of us I often feel li ke the little boy in The Emperors New

Clothes Look this is what I see

SCENE LOWER MASSEY HALL

Two Acting I students perform a scene on th e stage Their fellow stud ents sit on th e Aoo r watching Thompson sits forward on a plasti c chair forearms propped on her knees hands clasped before her Her eyes her bod y are intent on the action Later Amberley Buxton (fi rst-year student il1 Actshyil1g I who is pursuing a psychology major and a drama minor)

Its a really in tense class In one of our first classes we were to share something that had changed our perspective on li fe or how we thought every day Later during improvisashytion or scene work she had us draw on the emotional context fro m those stories to add to our acting experiences Its really intense in that way A lot of people share a lot of personal things and we use each others experiences

SCENE UNIVER SIT Y CLUll

Thompson Ea ch se meste r students go through an intensive transition In order to find your creative centre or trigger yo u need

to know yourself in an intell ectual context They reach that pl ace and find their genius My philosophy is that every stu dent has genius and its my job to uncover it My relationshi p is so intense with st udents The classes are very psychoanalyt ic It seems to tra nsform their life

SCENE LO WER MA SSEY

Buxton Even if we haven t encountered a similar situat ion in real life she has us draw on somethi ng similar For ollr exa m Im doing a monologue My character has been abused I havent been abused myself but I have to draw on a si tuation where I had sim shy

itar feel ings draw on some experi ence Like being teased at schoo l Even so mething as small as tha t if you find a way to get back to that

SCENE UNIVERSITY CLUll

Thompso n I llsed to be terrified In high school Id spend half my time in the nurses room because the idea of having a se izu re in front of yo ur peers at that age was just petrifying I did finall y have a seizure but luckil y no one was around at the time So I

think all of that puts me in touch with a lot in life I might not have been in touch with being fairly privileged not rich but eno ugh to be middle class A lot of my work is about class abo ut the class differentiation in Canashyda Ive somehow felt more all ied to a less adva ntaged class My gra ndfather once sat as prime minister of Australia My grandshyfa ther on the other side was a member of the Royal Society an entomologist but his mother died in childbirth and he was brought up as a cousin on the farm outside of London And my Australian grandfath er was one of 1I siblings in a shack by the side of the railroad His father had di ed He walked barefoot to school so I th ink because its just two generations away I feel it in my bones and my blood GA writer How did you get to writing Thompson Through ac ting Ive been involved in thea tre since I was II years old I was Helen Keller for a university show my mother directed She had an [vIA in th eatre and she taught it at Queens I was in TILe Crushycible when I was 12 in Kingston and Jean Brodie and on and on and on I would just lisshyten to aU these wonderful lines and words and it all kind of enrered me And acting is where I reaU y found my niche as a person The theshyatre became my home Then I went to theatre schoo l as an actress but I started to create mask characters through improvisation Thats where I really took off in a big way and where I found myse lf very very excited GA writer VVhat we re you excited abo ut Thompson I was doing the writing And I felt frankly that I did it much better than most of the texts I was working with Not Shakespeare but and its not a matter of better it s thats where I belonged So I would go home and write down the charshyacters that r crea ted that day in class and make th em talk to each odler and thats how The Craekwalker happened

I spent a summer in Toronto looking for acting work and I go t a few jobs But every day for a co uple of hours I would write at a typewri ter and I found these voices comshying At the end of it I sa id to someone You know I think this isnt bad I think this might eve n be a play At the Na tional Theatre shySchool they said to me Youre pretty handy with these monologues but dont ever think you could write a play (Pause) I enjoy telling th at tale on them

WINTER 1999 23

SCENE LOWER MASSEY

Buxton It was my fint time doing mask work She had us sit with the masks on and just sta re at ou rselves in the mirror We did it for an hour staring at the mask feelin g the mask It was a phenomenal eilVer ience the Wily youre able to transform yourself It was almost as if you werent look ing at you That helped yo u to walk differently You were able to shed your

own movements and personality

SCEN E UNIVfRSITY CLU B

Thompson I think thil t seizures can transshylate into creativity are part of me as a cre shyltltive artist Peop le in the medical busin ess are very skeptical of ltll1ything like this But I fee l it s because I have fewer inhibitors in my bra in You have these inhibitors and thats what medication helps But if youre epi leptic your inhibitors Ment working as well to put out the electrical fire so it spreads I think the door to my un conscious is kind of flapping around so J think that helps creatively

SCENE MA SSEY HALL

Student (steppingforwmd) NO I Thompson (quietly) Good

SCENE ARCHIVES

GA writer ( reading fiom Epilepsy and Sna kes)

I have no doubt that my experience with epi lepsy has con tributed to my creative wo rk partly because it hE Jped me to understand what it is to be marginalized to be isolated to be feJ rful and to be out of control and eve n to be mortal

SCENE U NIVERS IT Y CLU B

Thompson Unchecked id can mean scrawlshying on the walls crazy things muttering in stree t corne rs beca use th ey re all id no su perego But I had the luck to be born into a theatrical famiJy my mother havin g the theatrical experience so I was exposed to it Lots of books I was taken to 1 lor of plays Having ep il epsy my first seizure when I was nin e J was able to link with that If I hadnt had those advantages who knows the se izur es migh t have ju st made me a depressed person an angr y person And you re touched with mortality you always live und er siege a slight fear of having a se izure Its much less so now with me

24 GUELPH ALUM NUS

SCENE UNIVERSITY CLUB

Thompson Ive always been a mimic in a cheap way I could always mimic we ll I would raLk to someone on a bus and I could do them exactly Thats kind of dangerous because it can be pretty shallow But it showed me ltl way into the person throu gh voice And once J could do that like a pupshypet something would click and I cou ld get

in in a deeper way J need to get so thoroughly into the charshy

acte rs and their state of mind and especialshyly tapping repressed el11orion which gets you in touch with your id or unconscious li fe If

I take little sections of

myself and grow them in a petri dish of the play

one character is about rage I have to tap into my own rage and that s why the monoshylogues so things can just flow and then I can retrieve things from the past and remember things So its not working from here (gesshytures to midriff) it s wo rking fro l11 here (gesshytures to head)

Mo nologues for me are always the key to findin g out who th e character is because if you cant make them rant for fi ve minutes you dont know th em Tha ts what I tell my

playwriting students I want to see r-wo pages of this characters mouth In other words to speak for five minutes we have to have

so mething to say We have to have something we feel passionately about something were angry about and if we dont have something to say for fi ve minutes who are we

SCENE UN IVERSTTY CLUB

GA writer Vhere do you see what eventushyally becomes a play such as Sled 1110mpson I was at a lodge and saw a moose that s one thin g And that made me think about winter and how the country is always with us as Ca nadians Even in the urban censhytres we ca rr y it wi th us Theres always this

see ming division between the country the wilderness and civilized centres but its the same The wildness of the moose and the

hunt and the bear is in our neighbourhoods I guess its like Lion in the Streets it must be a thing with me And also the exquisite beaushyty and thats how most of the world thinks of Canada as the wilderness Its not quite how we think of ourselves but it is partly So that made me want to do something abo ut the Nor th violence in the North

As far as th e old mans stories that was my neighbour and he told me all those stoshyries they were all true except mltlyb e one or so and I thought Theyre amazing They teilus what our neighbourhoods Me really about and Toro nto what the city is how its const ru cted Toronto is our stories and in th ese neighbourhoods you have an urbane entertainer li ving nex t to an 80-year-old Italia n man and thats the beauty ofToronshyto ltllld its the way th e world is chan ging The stric t class divis ions and culture divishysions th eyre no longer as defin ed as they we re espec ially in th ese neighbourhoods the great pioneering experimen t GA writer Do your chi ld ren see your work Thompson No None of my children can see my plays Ariane saw f Am Yours in New York when she was about nin e I do cl eal with the dark and whats tru e and my chilshydren aren t ready for that Im probab ly more protective th an mos t mothers Walk them

to school till theyre 13 that ki nd of thin g GA writer Yo u we re intervi ewed in the Globe alld Mail recently in a story about motherh ood dnd th e muse How do yo u handle th e demand s of motherh ood and writing

Thompson If Im in the situation where I have 15 or so hours of child care a week Im OK because when Im with them I wa nt to be with them and when ]m doing my work

th ats what I clo But if I do something like a worko ut thell a black cloud descends The guilt and the black cl oud th at descend as I take off on my bike it s huge Then once the workout s finished I know it was d good

thing to do although it s also cut into my

work time J do feel guilty about the nilture of my work too in that my kids cant see it Am I drawing on a part of me thats not good as a mother The oth er part of me is th at I make up bedtime stories and bake coo kies and all thlt stuff ]m probably a

rather operatic mother I cry at movies laugh too hard __

SCENE ARCI-I[VES

GA writer (reading fiom Epilepsy and Snakes)

1

Although being a dramatic writer has

given me a reputation in my cou ntr y

and a strong identity the actof writin g

or creating character leaves me SOJlle shy

times feeling that I have no id entity at

all Every once in a while when I am not

writing or tending to my four children

I feel I 1m falling again down th e terrishy1 ble hole with nothing to hold on to

And I believe this falling this identity

pain is a result of me using the very

essence of Ill yself to create character in

a dramatic wo rk r wonder so metimes

if J illl1 betraying my soul in a way by

using its essence However J have found

some comfo rt in the words ofWilliall1

Blake Essence is not Identity but from

Essence proceeds Identity and from one

Essence may proceed many Identities

as from one Affection Jlla y proceed

many thoughts If the Essence was

the sa me as the Identit y there could be

but one Identity which is fal se Heaven

wo uld upon this plan be but a clock

but one and the sa me Essence is th ereshy

fore Essence and not Identity

SCENE UNIVER SIT Y CLUB

Thompson I always put myself in a play and

never In other words I take little sections of

myself and grow them in a petri dish of th e

play So if Ive found a moment where Im a

bit lazy ]11 grow it and milke the character

very lazy o r impatient or whatever So I take

these moments because we all have all of

them grow th em and create this Frankenshy

steins monste r a character right out of parts

body parts and psychological parts often of

myself and then observe things in other peoshy

ple but I have to find it in myself to make it

work

SCENE AR C H1V ES

GA writer (reading from Epilepsy al1d Snakes)

My self asserted itself as a kind of quishy

et Lucille Ball c1ulllsy and absent-mindshy

ed At least this gave me an identity and

was a small aCI of slbo tage The next

assertion was an act of unconscio us rev shy

olution th e grand mal seizure that

almost killed me And the next one was

The Crackwalker my first play And this

is how I raged against the machine and

took space in the world And now not

surprisin gly I am seizure-free

SCENE LOWER MASSEY

After another pair of acto rs rUllS through

their scene Thompson directs them to begi n

again She interrupts frequently to question

the students about actions feelings motishy

vations At one point 8S the students pause

to consider her words Thompson turns to

the rest of the class erect in her cha ir

Thompson Isolate the mom ent The great

thing about the stage is th at it isolates the

moments that just race by us_

SCENE UNIVERSITY CLUB

Thompson Ive just written my next play

which is not ca lled Pefeet Pie but thats its

working title because it came from a mon oshy

logue called Perfect Pie But now its a full

two- haul play in which the second wom3n

comes back and tben I have them as yo ung

girls too It goes back ~nd forth and its very

exciting I worksbopped it in the spring and

in December at tbe Tarragon and it will go

on in o ne year At the sa me time lm wr itshy

ing a feature film for Rho mbus based on the

play Pe feet Pie

SCEN E UNlV ERSITY CLUIl

Thompson My pIalS are Illusically written

And if somebody doesnt get the music they

dont feel it and go with the rhythm s it

throws the whole thing off I hear the plays

I hea r them I write with my ear They

change 1 lo t but it s according to rhythm

I ll be sitting in rehea rsal listening and if it

does nt so und ri ght I change it so that its

rhythmic

SCIi -JE J UST AllOUT ANYWHERE YOU CA N

READ A PLAY

GA writer (readmg ji-olll the script ofvVbite

Biting Dog first produced at the Tarragon Th eatre in 1984)

Beciluse of the ex treme and deliberate

lllu sica lity of this play any allempts to

go aga inst the tex tual rhythms such as

th e breaking up of an unbroken senshy

tence the tlking of a pause where none

is written in are DISASTROUS The

effect is like beil1g in a small plane and

suddenly turning off the ignition It all

falls down This play III list SPIN not

just turn around

SCfN e LOWER MASSEY

Her students listen as Thompson stands to

complete a so liloq uy abo ut cap turing the

rhythm of the language on the stage The

wide sleeves of her ank le-length dress slide

down her forea rm s as she ges tures

Thompson Listen to the music of the

scene Each playwright writes their own

symphony

SCENE U NIVERSlTY CLUB

Thompson Ive been pretty directed to this

ii-om an carly age although if I had done anyshy

thing else it probab ly wou ld have been some

form of social work I would have been smokshy

ing three packs of cigarettes a day and workshy

ing il1 an office somewhere up in Scarborough

SC EN E AfltCHIVES

GA write r (reading from Brick interview of Thompson by Eleanor Wachtel ]99] )

In th e thea tre I think what one mllst

do is co nfront the truth confront the

emot ional truth of our li ves which is

mired in the swamp of minuriae

everyday minutiae Maybe it has to be -tl111 way because we couldnt confront

it every day But I think the th eatre

IllllSt Im not interested ill th eatre that

doesnt ga

W1NTER 1999 25

Never mind fish wars pitting countries against one another - here in Canada scientists and policy makers cant agree on who should control the preservation and management ofour own fishery resources BY ANDREW VOWLES

Ca

as

ollapsed cod stocks to the east

On the West Coast laquofish wars

_ rlTDT Pacific salmon enmesh

Canada and the United States

At various points in between fisheries scishy

entists and managers grapple with everyshy

thing from overfishing of freshwater

stocks to invasion by exotic molluscs

What is to be done about Canadian fishshy

eries And what role is being p layed by

fisheries and aquatic scientists at the Unishy

versity of Guelph

-

dock pollock red fish and flatfish made up just under half of Canadas total landings on the Atlantic coast (720000 tonnes of fish and shellfish were caught in 1994 represhysenting a total landed value of $11 billion) Two year~ later that proportion had dropped to 21 per cent with shellfish and open ocean fish specie~ notably Atlantic

Begin in the Atlantic The crisis on the East Coast has become a disaster So says laquoWE NEED TO TRY TO SEPARATE OUTGuelph zo ology professor John Roff enushymerating the litany of woes that have surshy

THE FISHERIES MANAGEMENT DECISIONSfaced from Ca nadas marine fishery in the past decade Although some fish and shellshy

FROM THE POLITICAL DECISIONSfi sh are holding their own stocks of other species have experienced declines raquo

ASSOCIATED WITH THE FISHE RY

down that fishery in 1992 Over fishing and under which it has been buying up fishers

Even when stocks do rebound rarely do we fully und erstand why he says Theres a complex of problems to be disshy more for cod stocks to rebound says Roff entangled involving overflshing long- and co-editor with colleague Prof Moira Fergushyshort-term climate change and changes in son of the respected Canadian Journal ofFishshyocean current systems and productivity eries and Aquatic Sciences A wise course of

And of course the once-thriving northshy action for a fisherman in Newfoundland ern cod that first drew Europeans with their would be to seU his licence and do something nets to the Grand Banks 500 years ago have else he says (Last fall the federal governshycoUapsed to the point that Ottawa had to shut ment announced its final retirement program

the failure of federal fisheries managers to heed the warnings of scientists have been blamed for the coUapse Even with the lllorashytoriulll in place it may take two decades or

licences in Atlantic Ca nada and Quebec) In 1992 - the year Ottawa imposed its

moratorium on the northern cod fisheryshylandings of groundfish including cod had-

salmon making up the difference [n 1995 the total groLlndfish catch reached its lowshyest level in two decades

Unlike the Ea st Coast fi shery which relies most ly on ocea n-living fish the Pacifshyic fishery is dominated b) migratory species Some 300000 tonnes of fish and shellfish were harvested along the west coast in 1994 worth a landed value of $550 million (Arcshytic marine fisheries and their management differ from those on the coasts although cOl11mercial and recreational fisheri es are small here food fisheries are important to

U OF G AQUATIC SCIENCES EXPERTISE CATCHES WORLD ATTENTION

Landlocked in the middle of the courltry U ofG nevertheless boasts fish pathology and diseases including farmed fish diseases fish an enviable record and range ofexpertise in aquatic sciencesshy hormones and reproductive physiology including the effects of marine and freshwater - dating back to the late 1960s Thats when environmental contaminants early life history and behaviour Prof Keith Ronald thell chair of the Department ofZoology (and of fi shes and biology of tuna later dean of the College ofBiological Science) began a marine biolshyogy program at the University Today Guelph has the largest Partnered with the A-erod Institute of Ichthyology in U of group of ichthyologists - scientists who study fish - in Gs Aquatic Sciences Facility the r[agen Aqualab is an North America investigating a wide variety ojIre~hshy aquatic research and teaching facililY for studying water alld marine fisheries and aquatics topics aquatic organisms Environmentally controlled

rooms in the Aqualab allow faculty and students to U of Gs Axelrod Institute of Ichthyology houses simulate habitats as diverse as the Arctic Ocean and one of the worlds largest collections of museumshy tropical rainforest pools The facility is named for quality fish fossils donated to the University by its principal benefactor Rolf Hagen founding presshy

ident of Canadas largest pet store 5llpplier J 989 The institute which provides space for fisheries research and visiting scientists brings together 12 core U of G U of G faculty edit four internationally recognized journals researchers in fisheries and aquatic sciences whose interests and in ichthyology fisheries and aquatic science Awarded to U of G by expertise span environmental contaminants and parasitic disshy the National Research Council in 1997 the Canadian Journal of eases evolutionary genetics of marine and freshwater fishes Fisheries al1dAquatic Sciellces is co-edited by zoology professors

US ichthyologist and author Herbert Axelrod in

28 GUELPH ALUMNUS

northerners including shrimp Atlantic salmon and arctic char) Accountin g fOI almost half of that total were Pacific salmon which ret urn from the ocean to spawn in home streams and rivers up and down the coast of Alaska British Columbia and Washshyington There are actually five main spec ies of sa lmon that run down the BC coast shysockeye (t he most va luable commercial species) chinook coho chum and pinkshyfrom spring to December

Its a very complex jurisdictional and multi-user problem says Roff Bes ides degradation of freshwater spawning habishytats and ocean climate effects of El Nill0 the West Coast fishery is a cauldron of ten shysions between various groups perennial fish wars between Ca nada and the United States disputes that pit sport fishers against native fishing rights Recognizing the problems of low ocean productivity habitat damage overfishing and indiscriminate fishing pracshytices that take weak and strong stocks alike Ottawa is developing a new policy to guide Canadas Pacific salmon fisheries focusing on conservation sustainable use and improved decision-making

That potent mix of overfishing and habishytat degrada tion is also a problem for Canashydas freshwater fisheries A report tabled last fall by the federal standing committee on

fisheries and oceans called for more federal funding for research and fisheries programs in central and arctic regions of Canada Accord ing to that report the Grea t Lakes commercial fishery is one of the largest freshwater fisheri es in the world worth an average landed value of more than $40 milshylion a year and an eco nomic impact of at least $250 million Some 90 per cent of that catch is exported The neck lace of lakes threading its way to the St Lawrence River also supports the largest fres hwater sports fishery in the world 800000 Ontarians fish on the Great Lakes eve ry year contributing $850 million to the economy

In Manitoba managers are concerned about the long-term susta inability of freshshywater fish stocks particularly declines in Lake Winnipeg and the northern part of the province caused by overfishing environshymental degradation loss of prime spawning habitat and predators The province has seen stocks rise and fall particularly of pickerel Manitobas highest-priced fish In an attempt to manage the fishery in a sustained fashion the province recently introduced a qu ota entitlement system for anglers Joe OConshynor director of the fisheries branch of Manshyitobas Department of Na tural Resources says his department is wrestling with the environmental threats on fish habitat posed

by farming and hydroelectric development In Ontario fisheries are genera lly in

pretty good shape says Evan Thomas fishshyeries section manager of the fish and wildlife branch of the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (OM NR) Ontario supports almost half of all recreational fishing in Canada with more than two million adult anglers and more than $2 billion a year spent on recreational fishing in the province Onta ri o is also home to Canadas larges t commercial freshwater fishery worth abo ut $40 million a Yfar in land ed value

Thomas says over fishing is still the numshyber one problem Others include habitat loss the potential effects of climate change and contin ued invasion by exotic species Among the management opt ions his minshyistry is exploring are more effective fisheries regulation more rapid inventory and assessshyment techniques fish culture for rehabilishytating populations and controlling nutrient inputs into lakes and rivers

We are clearly looking for federal supshyport for the sea lamprey control program he says referring to recommendations in the recent federal fisheries committee report as well as changes to the federal Fishshyeries Act to hand the province more authorshyity over fish habitat protection

Concerns continue in Ontario over

Moira Ferguson and John Roff Fish Physiology and Biochemistry the top-ranked journal in its field is edited by Prof John Leathershyland chair of the Department of Biomedical Sciences in the Ontario Veterinary College University professor emeritus Eugene Balon has served as editor-in-chief of Environmental Biology ofFishes since he founded the publication in 1976 Zoology professor David Noakes edits Guelph Ichthyology Reviews whose articles synthesize and review all aspects of fish science Both of the latter

Under the Canadian contribution to the project - furided by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council - about 80 federal government and university researchers are trying to learn more about how bioshylogical and physical processes in the oceans affect fish stocks

Zoologychair Prof Paul Hebert has led a Guelph initiative to develshyop multimedia learning resources d1at teach student~ from

are published in the Axelrod Institute of Ichthyology

Based on data from geographic information sysshytems zoology professor John Roff has mapped types of habitat associated with various species of fish and other organisms around Canadas coasts and throughout tl1C Great Lakes the first time such

e1ementaIy grades to university about Canadas aquatshyic environments His department has developed a series of CD-ROMs that provide information on all the major animal groups in the Great Lakes Already available are educational CD-ROMs on Canadas aquatic environments (also available on

d1e World Wide Web) Great Lakes biodiversity and a marine classification system has been developed in this country His report was commissioned by World Wildlife Fund Canada for its Endangered Spaces Campaign and contributes to RoWs work as chair of the scienrillc committee of Globec (Globshyal Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics) a two-year-old international research program intended to better understand ocean ecosystems

birds of the Great Lakes The latter is the first disc in a series called the Great Lakes Faunal Atlas which will eventually cover mammals amphibians reptiles fish and crustaceans

The Alma Aquaculture Research Station es tablished in 1989 and funded through a 20-year development grant by the Ontario

WI NTER 1999 29

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various invas ive species that have turned up

in the Great Lakes - notably sea lampreys

zebra mussels and quagga mussels - many

of which arrive in ballast water of ocea nshy

going vessels (Many have also found their

way into Manitoba says OConnor who

points to the effects of sm elt on whitefish

the main commercial species in Lake Winshy

nipeg) Among o ther meas ures the federal

fish eries committee report called for guarshy

anteed funding for sea lamprey control and

for scienti fic research

I think more money will come says

Prof Bill Beamish Zoology a commissionshy

er on the Great Lakes Fisheries Commission

the 40-year-old governing body that co-ordishy

nates resea rch programs between Canada

and the United States and advises both govshy

ernments It was a review led by Beamish

more than a decade ago on the sta te of

Canadas freshwater fi sheries that provided

the scientific underpinnings for a landmark

report published in 1988 that spelled ou t a

way in freshwater fisheries is a lon g-te rm

project fund ed by the OMNR and the

Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO)

to re-establish native species in their origishy

nal habitats a round Lake Ontario iVlari e

Clement a graduate student of zoology proshy

fe sso r David Noakes is studying Atlantic

sa lmo n which was wiped out of the lake

CONSIDERING WE HAVE THE

BEST FISHERY SCIENCES COMMUNITY

IN THE WORLD WE OUGHT TO

BE DOING BETTER

national strategy for freshwater fisheries

Beamish who has studied sea lampreys

for several decades at Guelph and also invesshy

tigates fish habitat loss says money is need shy

ed to help researchers investigate biological

controls as an alternative to chemical lamshy

pricides The recen t repo rt also notes the

need to address the effects of other nonshy

native exotic species on n ative fish stocks

and water quality and calls on Ottawa to

stem the funding decline in freshwater scishy

ence over the last two decades

One example of the kind of work under

and its tribu ta ry streams near the beginning

o f this century by overflshing and habitat

destruction and alteration Last fall Clement

placed eggs into a site in the Credit River

she has been monito ring oxygen availab il shy

ity durin g their incu ba tion to gau ge sedishy

mentation rates in the river This spring and

summer she wili study how newborn fi sh

interact with other species in th e r ive r

C lement says her docto ral research proshy

ject is but one piece of a larger project aimed

at re-establishing the heritage species Othshy

er researchers hop e to learn whe ther th e

Ministry of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs brings together

researchers for interdisciplinary studies of protein requirements

of arctic char improving fish semen and egg management proshy

cedures and understanding hormone activity in fish The station

acts as a quarantine unit for new fish varieties entering Ontario

and serves as a base for parts of certificate courses and a masters

program in aquaculture

farms in Canada He and fellow Guelph zoologists Eugene Balon

(co- founder of the Coelaca nth Conservat ion Council) and Jim

Bogart also identified and characterized the coelacanth which

had been thought extinct until a specimen was landed off Africa

in the la te 1930s Noakes confirmed the identity of ano ther of

these living fossils discovered in 1997 it appears to belong to a

second popula tion living in the Indian Ocean about 10000 kilo-

metres away from tha t first find

Zoology professors Moira Ferguson and Roy Danzshy

mann use molecular genetics techniques to identishy Zoology chair Paul Hebert was the first scientist to

fy DNA markers used to pinpoint the location of identify the presence in the Great Lakes of zebra

genes associated with growth spawning times mussels a prolific invader that has wreaked havoc

rates of development maturity and temperature in many ways from clogging water-intake pipes to

tolerance in rainbow trout Isolating and identifyshy consuming plankto n thus allowing light to reach

ing genetic markers fo r desirable traits will help fish bottom-dwelling organisms that may displace native

farmers and breeders cross-breed more effectively species The first researcher to report on the biology

conservationists will be better able to manage and preserve and impact of the zebra mussel on the Grea t Lakes was

genetic variability among wild fish stocks Guelph zoology professor Gerald Mackie whose studies showed

that the organisms faster growth rate and higher fecundity and

Zoology professor David Noakes has stuclied varieties of arctic population density will probably enable it to displace many native

char native to Iceland to find ones suited to being raised on fish bivalves and disrupt entire lake ecosystems

30 GUELPH ALUMNUS

LEADING RESEARCH

The University of Guelph has one orthe largest and most active groups of aquatic biologists in the world

bull More than 50 faculty and 100

graduate students research

assocrates and postdoctoral

fellows

bull Over 1000 published scientific

articles books monographs

films and videos in the past

decade

bull Interdisciplinary programs

involving more than a dozen

academic departments

bull The largest group ofichthyoloshy

gists (scientists who study

fish) in North America

bull Collaborative research with

government environrriental

organizations and academic

institutions worldwide

bull Expertise covering the entire

aquatic food chain from plankshy

ton to whales

bull Leading developments in comshy

puter-based educational mate-

rials in aquatic sciences

bull A new $6-million Aquatic

Sciences Facility

bull Research support from national

and international agencies

business and industry

adults will be able to return from the open

lake to their stream spawning grounds If

they come back will the eggs survive she

says If were able to show the eggs can surshy

vive that will be very encouraging for

Atlant ic salmon restoration

What is to be done to ensure the survival

not just of Atlantic salmon in Lake Ontario

but also of the co untrys freshwater and

m ar ine fisheries We need to try to sepashy

rate o ut the fisheries management decisions

from the political decisions associated with

the fi shery says zoology professor Glen Van

Der Kraak director of U of Gs Axelrod

Institute of Ichthyology Van Der Kraak who

studies the effects of toxic contaminants on

fi sh populations says policy mltkers need

to rely on the advice of fisheries sc ientis ts

making conservative harvest ing estimates

So often scientists make decisions and then

are overrun by the politics he says (Never

mind fish wars pitting co untries against one

another - here in Ca nada scientists and

policy makers wres tle over the question of

who should be respo nsible for what aspects

of the countrys fisheries as witnessed in a

war of words played out in the Canadian Journal ofFisheries and Aquatic Sciences over

the past 18 months between biologists at

several Canadian univers ities and the DFO

over the relationship between fishery sc ishy

ence and fishery policy)

Roff says theres nothing unique about

Canadas fish problems Its not really a

Canadian problem its a worldwide probshy

lem The only fisheries worldwide that are

not over fished appear to be some not yet

fully exploited in the Indian Ocean

After nearly four decades of growth the

worldwide marine ca tch levelled off in the

1990s to some 90 million tons a year The

m ain problems coastal pollution habitat

destruction and particula rly overfishing

Noakes editor of the journal Guelph Ichthyology Reviews contrasts the few hunshy

dred people who might have made th eir

livelihood aboard small wood en boats on

the Grand Banks several centuries ago with

the massive factory trawlers that now scour

todays coast People are much too efficient

in terms of catching fish he says Noakes

concurs with fellow Guelph researchers that

conservation of fish stocks has to reach the

top of fishery managers agendas

hat does set Canada apart is the breadth

and depth of expertise in fisheries and aquatshy

ic sciences in this country - rather a parashy

dox when you consider that Canadas record

in fisheries preservation is apparently no betshy

ter than that of many other nations

Considering we have the best fishery scishy

ences community in the world we ought to

be doing better says Roff Within the last

decade th e federal government withdrawal

o f support from the Department of Fishshy

eries and Oceans and university researchers

has been massive At the very time when the

resources were gett ing into severe problems

and when the federal government ought to

have been funding research theyve been

substantially withdrawing resources ga

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If you would like to support our students throug h OSOTF you still have a w indow of oppor nishyty to have your do l1a rs doubled But only until March 31 1999

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WINTER 1999 31

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

n ALUMNI PROF IL E

LETS LOOK AT THE OPPORTUNITIES

WHEN I-IE BECA ME president of the Unishy

versity of Guelph Alumni Association

(UGM) in June Jim Weeden brought new

enthusiasm and ideas for encouraging alumshy

ni to stay in volved with their alma mater

And he wants to start with students

Weeden reca ll s his own ex perience at

U of G where he fo und a sense of commushy

nity by living in residence and ge tting

involved in college activiti es But when he

graduated with an engin ee ring degree in

197 1 he left to begin a caree r and says he

didnt think much about the University until

he needed it again in the 1980s to pursue a

graduate degree in agricultural enginee ring

He spent his early career working as an

agricultural extensi o n engineer for the

Ontario Department o f Agriculture and is

stiU with its successo r the Ontario Ministry

of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs

(OMAFRA) Weed en completed the masshy

ters degree in 1986 when he was head of the

agricultural engineering program and extenshy

sion services a t Centralia College of Ag rishy

cultural Technology

In 1987 he moved to the ministrys plant

industry branch as program m anager and

later held the same position in th e resources

manage m ent branch Sin ce then he has

worked for OMAFRA in Woodstock and

now Stratfo rd He is technical adviser fo r

Ontarios Enviro nmental Farm Planning

Program is respo nsible for o ther environshy

m ental programs and consults with the Minshy

istry o f th e Environment on local agriculshy

tural pollution problems

w Weed en got involved with the Universishy sect tys a]u111ni programs by serving on the first g z board of the Engineering Alumni Associashy

~ tion when it was established in 1990 From

~ 1991 to 1994 he sat on the University Senshy

~ ate and its Research Board and for the pas t

~ four years) hels been on the UGAA executive

32 GUELPH A LU MNUS

From the presidents chair Weeden looks

at the bro ad picture o f UG AA se rvice and

recognizes that the associa tio n owes a debt

o f gratitude to hundreds of alumni volunshy

teers who ha ve helped to build the organishy

za tion over the yea rs and to University staff

in Development and Public Affairs (DampPA)

who support UGAA initiatives and alumni

programs Thro ugh their efforts he says the

a lulllni associati o n is rea ching out to all

U of G alumni Graduates who have mainshy

tained a close relationship with the Univershy

sity thro ugh their college or academic disshy

cipline those who feel an affiliation because

o f their participation in a thletics residence

life o r extracurricular activiti es and even

HIGHLIGHTSmiddot GRAD NEWSmiddot OBITUARIES bull CALENDER

those who have not kept in touch are part of the constituency served by UGAA

Weed en says the alumni association needs to strengthen its relationship with all alumni and he believes the effor t must start on campus with students Hed like to proshymote the idea of alumni involvement as ear shyly as a students second year We need to give students some reason to be con nected and an efficient vehicle for maintaining that connection he says

For many students and new graduates the social functions supported by UGAA and the opportunities for professional networking will be important says Weeden but greater rewards are there for those who join the effort to enhance the Universitys acade mic goals

In todays economic and political envi shyronme nt individual financial support and the advocacy of post-secon dary education are important roles for alumni he says How many people ac tively get involved with the debate on whether universities are job-trainshy

ing centres or centres of education Yet some of our alumni are extremely adept in such roles Weeden would like to cultivate past and current stud ent ac tivists as supporters of public education after they graduate

As Weeden leads UGAA into a new year he says he will work with other UGAA volshyunteers and DampPA staff to find new ways for the association to interact with students and alumni One id ea is to expand UGAAs Intershynet presence by adding a Web message board that will encourage alumni to discuss career and campus issues online and a reply form that will allow them to quickly update addressshyes employment status and other information

Weeden says its important to stay focused on UGAAs key prioriti es but he welcomes any and all new ideas on how to accomplish them All it takes to share your ideas with the UGAA executive is a stamp or a push of the send button when youre clicked on alumniuoguelphca

HKHB SPIRIT RISES

ENCOURAGED BY THE SPIRIT

shown by fellow alumni at last

summers reunion the executive

of the Human Kinetics Human Biology

Alumni Association is moving ahead

with more opportunities for alumni to

stay in touch The association plans to

launch a Web site that will be accessed

through the U of G site

A wine-and-cheese reception already

planned for June 19 1999 wiil try to

build on the success of the 1998 event

which attracted alumni from as far away

as Chicago and as far apart as the 19605

and 1990s Guests had a chance to tour

U of Gs new Health and Performance

Centre and performance testing

labs The program was co-ordinated wiLh

A REFLECTION OF PRIDE

Members of the OAC

Class of 52 join Arboshy

retum staff on the front patio

of the Arboretu m Centre

beside a new reflecting pool

that was built last summer

as a class project Pictured

from left are Murray Parker

Ann Smith George Smith

Jack Sargent Catherine Gibb

Robin Shaw-Rummington

Marilyn Swaby BA 69

Bev Healy B5e(Agr) 72

Norm Watson Una Venerus

Ron Costen Henry Kock

BSe (Agr) 77 and Ric

Jordan BA 75

Prof Jack Barclay chair of the Departshy

ment of Human Biology and Nutritional

Sciences and Prof Susan Pfeiffer Memshy

bers of the Human KineticsHuman

Biology Alumni Association executive arc

Janet Leonhard 82 president Carolyn

Moore 83 vice-president Alison Locker

97 secretary Mark Mulholland 79

lreasurer and t-iary Ann Crape 76

These officers are also spea rheading a

new initiative to benefit students - an

undergraduate award that will provide

$250 and lifetime mem bership in the

association To commcnt on these and

other initiatives contact Leonard by

e-mail at Janel_Leonhardinwrbsb

eduonca or Moore at cturveyagec

uoguelphca

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alumni

Multimedia lab buzzes

THE DONALD FORSTER RoOiv

has become one of the

busiest spots in th e Unishy

versity of Guelph Liblary since the

addition of 70 state-of-the-art

computer workstations that were

supported by alumni do nations

to the Alma Mater Fund (AM F)

U of G president Mordechai

Roza nski officia ll y o pened th e

Alma Mater Fund Multimedia

Lab D ec 2 an d celebrated th e

event with members of the AMF

Adv isory Counc iL [n 1996 a nd

1997 the AMF contributed

$240000 to th e project which

increased the number of student

workstations o n campus by 50 per

cent Students use the m ult imeshy

~ dia lab to conduct research on the

~ Internet access scholarly publicashyr u VI tions on CD-ROM and use COll1shyz ~ puter software mod ules tbat lt

~ strengthen the teaching provided lD

o in co urse lectures labs and tcxtshybii books

middotMatters

Alumnus of many interests

I NTERES TING P EOPLE always have eclect ic interests and U of G

alumnus and honorary degree recipient Ken Murray BSA 50 and

HDLA 96 is a good example H e is known by most people on camshy

pus for his distinguished career in the Canadian meat packing indusshy

try and his volunteer service to U of G He was a member and chair

of Board of Governors from 1973 to 1978 and chair of the Regionshy

al Corporate Committee during U of Gs last capital campaign and

is currently chair of the Heritage Fund Enhancement Committee

Murray is also a strong supporter of community soc ial services

In August he addressed the World Congress of Social Ps)chiatry

held in British Columbia - the only non-psychiatrist on the proshy

gram He spoke about his role in establishing an Alzheimers research

project a t the University ofWaterioo which was recently named in

his honour the Ken Murray Alzheimer Research and Education Proshy

gra m At the gc conference he al so participated in a panel dis shy

cussion that outlined services offered by Guelphs Homewood Health

Cent re Murray bas been actively involved in the governance of the

centre since 1977 and has been a major player in the development

of a charitable foundatio n bearing the Homewood name

WHEN THE PUCK DROPPED More than 30 teams including two

womens teams were entered in the

Dec 6 University of Guelph Alumni Hockey

Tournament Organizers for the 1998 event

were from left Brian Finniss B5c 88

Brad Stephenson BA 86 Terry Carr

BComm 87 Todd Bryant BA 86 and

undergraduate student Brian Melnick

Ken Murray centre with his wife Marilyn Robinson Murray and U of G president Mordechai Rozanski

34 GU ELPH ALUMNU S

RESTORING A JEWEL IN THE CROWN

DONALD RUTHERFORD BSA 5 stands in fron t

of the 1931 conservatory greenhouse that will

be restored to match the splendour of the ga rdens

now growi ng up around it His $256000 leadershy

ship gift to the Conservatory and Gardens Project

was inspired by hi s m emo ries of being a student

at OAC

On behalf of fellow alumni I hope this gift will

commemorate the experiences and educat ion we

acquired while at Guelph says Rutherford When

fully restored to its previous glory the conservatoshy

ry greenhouse will be an ideal greeting and welcome

spot for visitors and newcomers to the University

as well as old friend s renewing their acquaintance

Rutherfords professional career spans the agrishy

foo d industr y beginning as an agricu ltural repshy

resentative with the provincial minist ry I-Ie was

later vice-president of the Fertilizer Institute of

Ontario executive secreta ry of the Canadian Seed

Trade Association director of information w ith

the Ca nadian Livestock Feed Board and Canadishy

an sa les manager for Sylvite of Can ad a Retired

since 1986 he now owns his own sma ll investment

company and manages to golf throughout the yea r

The conserva tory isnt the first ca mpus project

to attract Rutherford s attention - as a student

he helped dig out the base ment of Massey H al l to

build a student lo unge - but his recent gift has

been a tremendous boost to those who have been

working since the ea rly 1990s to save the glass and

cypress structure from demo lition

A committee of alumni facult y sta ff stu dents

and fri en ds of the University has moved the proshy

ject along to th e point w here most of the surshy

rounding garden complex is now complete It fea shy

tures six gardens named in honour of the ir chie f

supporters Autumn Garden - OAC 5 1 Spring

Ga rden - OAC 53 Su mmer Garden - OAC 55

Winter Gard en - OAC 65 Water Gard en shy

OAC 49 and the Woo dland Garden named in

honour of the late Doug Rob inson BSA 53

Alumni have been in strumental in raising

funds for the $ l-million project Students and fa cshy

ulty have provided mudl of the h1l1ds-on Idbour

and friends in the nursery and landscape materishy

als supply industries have given $250000 ill donashy

tions and gifts-in-kind of plan ts and landsca ping

materials Rutherford s generous gift has pushed

th e conservato ry fund-ra ising effort in to the fin 81

stretch Th e ga rden complex and restored g reenshy

110use are sc heduled to officially open during

Alumni Weekend in June 1999

1999 Coming Events

Jan 29 - Aggie Goodshy

Times Banquet call the OAC Student Federation at Ext 8321 for ticket injemnrltion Feb 13 - Norm McCo llulll

D iploma Hockey Tournashy

m ent call Jack Bakker at 519-837-0132 to register a team

Feb 21 - Ottawa Chapter

annual curling bonspiel

Richmond C urling Club in

Richmond Ont For informashytiol1 call Alan Bentley BSA 61 at 6 13-829-6598 or John DVit[ 54 mId Margaret McGowml BHSc 54 at

613-828-7038

March 3 - Florida alumni

reunion a t Maple Leaf

Estates Port Charlo tte Fla

call Ext 6533 0 register

March 13 and 14 - ollcge

Royal 75th o pen house

March 19 and 20 - OAC

Alumni Association curling

bonspiel G uelph Curling

Club register at Ext 6657

May 5 - Chicago All Canashy

dian Universities Night hostecl

by U of G at the University

Club of Chicago 76 East Monshy

roe Sr call Exl 6533 for details May 5 - OAC Alumni

Foundation annual meeting

730 pm Arboretum Centre

May 12 - Alumni-inshy

Action annual meeting and

luncheo n 1130 3m

Arboretum Centre ((11 Ext 6657for tickets

June 18 to 20 - Alumni

Veekend call Ext 6657 to plall a reun io n

-0 r shya -IFor more infon-nation on any a

eVC1l1listed ailove call the oJ -lt oU of G extension listed at en raquo

519-824-4120 or send e-mail z

10 alunznilIoguelphca ~

WINTER 1999 35

alumni Matters

MEMORIES OF COLLEGE ROYAL Grant MacEwan ADA 23 and

BSA 26 is one of the few OAC

alumni who c~n still remember

the first College Royal held Jan

14 1925 MacEwan bad just

entered the degree program in

animal husbandry and may have

been a participant in the liveshy

stock showmanship classes Latshy

er in life he was widely known Grant MacEwan

across Western Canada as 3 liveshy

stock judge and an advocate of

agricultural fairs and exhibitions

MacEwan is bes t known

however for his 23-year C3reer

as a university professor in Manshy

itoba and Saskatchewan and Ilis

political career which included

12 years as alderman and mayshy John Kenneth Galbraith

or of C31gary four years as an

Alberta MLA and eight as lieushy birthday in August

tenant -governor of the province The year after Ma cEwan

He s till lives in Calgary graduated John Kenneth Galshy

where he celebrated his 96th braith ADA 29 and BSA 31

HOMECOMING 98

enrolled at OAC and devoted

some of his energy to organizshy

ing College Royal Show records

indicate it was Galbraith who

first proposed the college event

be publicized so that people

from the farm community

could attend He also suggestshy

ed that OAC invite students

from American agricultural colshy

legesl n th e early 1930s Colshy

lege Royal took its fir s t steps

towards becoming the comshy

munity open house it is today

Galbraith later moved to the

United States where he enjoyed

a distinguished caree r as a proshy

fessor of economics at Harvard

Universi ty Known for his

humanit~rian approach to ecoshy

nomic and political thinking

he was awarded the Order of

Canada in 1997 He celebr3ted

his 90th birthday in October

IT REALLY WAS a homecoming reunion when and Arnott who is head coach of the York

former Gryphon teammates Ralph Shapiro University Yeomen came from the visitors

S5c(HK) 74 and Tom Amott S5c(HK) 80 dreSSing room to hold the ball Shapiro is

met on the field at Alumni Stadium Oct 3 the controller at Huntsman Chemical Inc

Shapiro had the honour of kicking off in Guelph and a longtime United Way volshy

the Universitys 1998 United Way campaign unteer who chaired this years Guelph and

Wellington fund-raising drive The Univershy

sity campaign is the largest in the county

with U of G staff and faculty contributing

over $200000 in 1998

Prior to the game a number of recent

alumni - all U of G scholarship and award

winners - met for a reunion luncheon The UJ

1948 and 1949 dominion championship i5f 3

football teams were also honoured guests z 5 o at the 2 pm game that saw the Gryphons gtshy a defeat York f shya I a

Ralph Shapiro

36 G UELPH ALUMNUS

LEADING THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY FOR 1974 GRADS The 25th-anniversary reunion givshy

i ng program for the Class of 1974

is under way with Bill Laidlaw BA

74 as cbair A public affairs proshy

fessional he has been director of

government relations for the

Canadian operations of Glaxo

vVelJcome Inc for more th an 10

years He also acts as a senior conshy

sultant to support the governshy

ment relations function in other

regions of Canada

Laidlaw began his career in

teaching after earning a history

degree from Guelph and education

degrees (rom Queens University

and the University of Toronto He

also holds the certified human

resources professional designation

and worked in that field for sevshy

eral years before concen trating on

government relations at Glaxo

Welkome He lives in Burlington

Ont and is an act ive community

volunteer having se rved on the

boards of severa l professional

organizations the Queensway

General Hospital and the Metroshy

politan Toronto Lung Association

He is currently completing a oneshy

year term as chair of the Ontario

Chamber of Commerce

Anniversa ry preparations will

culminate with a class gathering

a nd reunion gift at Alumni

Weekend in June 1999

ALUMNI MAKE THE CONNECTION Students who moved into

Maids and Mills halls in Sepshy

tember can take full advanshy

tage of the Universitys highshy

speed computer network

thanks to the OAC Class of

71 whose 25 th-reunion proshy

ject provided wiring upgrades

in the 84- and 77-year-old

residence buildin gs

GRAD NEWS

Marathon survivors inspire us all to appreciate everyday life

W HEN ROBINSON SIIlLJNGS Jane BSe(Agr)

85 Heather BASe 83 Peter BSe(Agr)

86 Scott and Marnie rigwood BA 84 get

together they talk about marathons and the hope

and determination it takes to reach the finish line

Hea ther walked a marathon in San Diego

Calif in June to raise money for leukemia

research then joined Peter for a Toronto marathon

in October that benefi ted the Leukemia Research

Fund of Canada They were inspired by Janes pershy

sonal marathon of survival that foUowed her 1992

diagnosis of leukemia Chemotherapy radiation

remission relapse and finally a bone marrow

transplant [TOm her brother Scott took more than

three years out of her life but gave her the detershy

mination to keep fighting

Many families can understand the marathon

of hope maintained by the Robinsons during

Janes struggle and the commitment they have to

help others who are stricken with the disease Jane

is finally well enough to work again as a writer

and marketing consultant and to join her fami shy

ly in volunteer work She helped recruit for the

Toronto marathon fund -raiser and continues to

be involved with the Leukemia Research Funds

Team in Training She also says that her expeshy

rience has taught her to appreciate more the pleashy

sures of everyday life and the love of famil y

Jan es parents are th e late Doug Rob inson

BSA 53 and Marilyn (Inglis) Robinson Murray

BH Sc 55

19305

bull Grant Misener ADA 32 BSA 35 and DVM 38 received the

prest igious George F Hixso n Felshy

lowship Award from the Kiwanis

International Foundation in May The retired Illinois veter ishy

narian was hono ured for his subshystantial contribution to the

Kiwanis wo rldwide service proshy

ject aimed at eliminating iodine

deficiency disorders the leading

cause of preventable mental retardation in children Over the

years Misener has shown a simishylar commitment to his al ma

mater an d its students through

his close association with OVC

and his support of scho larship

programs

19405

bull Russell McDonaldDVM 45 was named an honorary life direcshytor of the Royal Agricultural Winshy

ter Fair Association in March

McDonald formerly general manshy

ager of Western Ontario Breeders

Ine and executive director of the Canadian Association of Animal

Breeders served as a director of the Royal Winter Fair for 20 years

representing the Canadian artifishycial insemination industry He

lives in Woodstock Ont

bull Ian Taylor DVM43 was recently honoured by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to

Animals of Illinois Taylor ran a small-animal veterinary clinic in

the Chicago area for many years

and says he gained ll1uch experishyence during his first three years in

Illinois as clinic veterinarian for

the anti -cruelty society

19505

bull Charles Chuck Broadwell BSA 54 was elected a Mel

Osborne Fellow by the Kiwanis

Club of Forest City in London Ont in recognition of a dedicatshy -ed and distinguished career in

Kiwanis

19605

bull Constantine Campbell BSA 60 and MSA 61 was named to the

WINTER 1999 37

Order of Canada in January He

received the award in recogni shy

tion of his many contributions

to science and the Canadian

agricultural industry After grad shy

uating from OAC he went on to

do his PhD at the University of

Saskatchewan then joined Agri shy

culture and Agri-food Canada

as a research scientist at the Swift

Current research station Campshy

bell and his family now live in

Ottawa where he is scientist

emeritus with Agriculture and

Agri-food Canada

bull John Casselman BSA 64 is

a research scientist with the

Ontario Ministry of Natural

Resources He Jives in Bath

Ont with his wife Lois

bull Jane Fuller RRSc 65 and

her husband George who both

taught at the Macdonald Instishy

tute from 1966 to 1969 have

moved from Winnipeg to

Utopia Ont following

Georges retirement from the

University of Manitoba

bull Fred Gilbert MSc 66 and

P hD 68 is in his first term as

president of Lakehead Univer shy

sity in Thunder Bay Ont He

taught at U of G in the Departshy

ment of Zoology from 1972 to

1981 and has enjoyed a dive rse

academic career that has also

included teaching at the Unishy

versity of Maine and posi tions

as director of wildlife biology at

Washington State University

and founding dean of the Facshy

ulty of Natural Reso urces and

Environmenta l Studies at the

University of Northern British

Columbia He moved to Lakeshy

head from a position as viceshy

pro vost at Colorado State Unishy

versity A respected wildlife

biologist he has conducted

ex tensive resea rch in s Ll ch areas

as the behaviour and physioloshy

gy of wildlife species and the

effects of environmental

change on wildlife populations

bull Terry Goodyear BSc 67 of

Mont Tremblant Quebec is an

early retiree from Agriculture

and Agri-Food Canada in Ottawa He is now working on

va lue-added products from

industrial wastes particularly

cellulose sludge from pulp and

pa per mills

bull Gary Hearn BA 68 was

named an Ontario provincial

judge in October For the last

25 years he has been a lawyer

with the firm Kearns McKinshy

non in Guelph where he lives

with his wife Irene and three

teenage children

bull Allan Knight BSA 66 of Corunna Ont has retired

from Dow Chemical after 30

years On retirement he was a

laboratory director for indusshy

trial chemicals He is now

working with his son in a famishy

ly-owned and -operated busishy

ness Knight Funeral Home

bull Keith McFarlane BSc(Agr)

68 works for the Department

of Foreign Affairs and Internashy

tional Trade and began a fourshy

year assignment last summer as

head of the commercial divishy

sion of the Canadian Embassy

in Lisbon Portugal The

division promotes the sa le of

Canadian goods and services

to Portugal

bull Ian Newbould MA 68 has

travelled far from his Ontario

roots through an academic and

administrative career that has

taken him to Europe Asia and

Western Canada A noted hisshy

torian he moved into adm inisshy

tration at the University of

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Lethbridge in 1981 and spent

10 years there as director of

research dean of a rts and scishy

ence and vice-presiden t (acadeshy

mic) before crossing the counshy

try to become president of

Mount Allison University in

New Brunswick He is now in

his second term as president of

Mount AUison

bull Indra Deo Singh MSc 68 is

a tea scientist international

consultant and joint director of

the Tea Research Association at

the Nagrakata substation in

India His responsibilities

include co-ordinating research

and development in the Indian

tea industry and developing tea

cultivars and agrotechnology

for tea Singh is married with

two sons aged 27 and 23

19705

bull Don Ambler BSe 71 retired in March as manager of

water programs with Environshy

ment Canada in Dartmouth

NS after 25 years of public

service He has now registered

the company Aquashed Co nshy

sulting to continue in the water

resources field when hes not

gardening beekeeping do ing

aerobics or vo lunteering in the

community and chu rch E-mail

contact is welcome a t

donambl erns sympaticoca

bull Jim Bond BSe 75 is managshy

ing a new processing facility at

the Chalk River Nuclear Laborashy

to ry in Chalk River Ont

bull Terri (Monks) Bulman BSc(Agr) 78 and MSe 81

and her husband Vincent

MSe 8 1 live in Australia with

their th ree children Catherine

7 Peter 4 and baby Christoshy

pher Terri is senior principal

environmental auditor vith

Coffey Geosciences Pty Ltd Vinshy

cent afte r many years as a geoloshy

gist travelling around Australia

and abroad has taken the year

off to study and look after the

children Their e-mail address is

tbulmanbigpondco m

bull Marie David BA 78 of

Hanover Ont has been in the

n ewspaper business for 20

years She started in the mailshy

room moved to advertising

sales then became advert ising

manager She is now gene ral

manager o f three So utham

weekly newspapers and pubshy

lish er of the Hanover Post

bull Janice Harrower and her husshy

band Jerome Billett both

DVM 76 operate a joint veterishy

nary practice in Prescott Ont

Billett says practising together

has allowed them some flexibilishy

ty in their family life and given

their four children a good took

at the rigours of veterinary

medicine Says Billett Not one

of our kid s has the slightest

interest in being a veterinarian

and isnt that just fine Their

o ldest son Jesse attends Harshy

va rd University and is a memshy

ber of its prestigious a cappella

choir Lucas is studying

mechanical engineering at the

University of Waterloo Casey is

planning a career in computer

engineering and Lindsay is a

high school athle te

bull Clair Heinbuch BSe 74 is a

sales manager with Baye r Corp

in Kansas H e and his wife

Caroline (Koscik) BASc 75

returned to the Kansas City

area after spending four years in

Denver They have three chilshy

dren Lisa 20 Scott 18 and

Ryan [5

bull Beverly Lee BASe 72 is an

elem entary school principal in

Unionville Ont She lives with

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her husband Grant Egan in

Collingwood and is looking

forward to retirement in severshy

al years Life on Georgian Bay

is wonderful she says Lee

would love to hear from fellow

grads by e-mail at

leebYrbeeduonca or by

phone at 705 -444 -092l

bull Won-Jai Maeng MSc 71 took office Sept 1 as president

of Kon-Kuk University in Seoul

Korea where his academic

career began He completed an

undergraduate degree at Kon

Kuk in 1965 then studied at

Mailing Agricultural College in Denmark and at U of G before

doing doctoral work at the Unishy

versity of California Davis

Maeng has held research and

teaching positions at the Unishy

versity of illinois at Chung-Ang

University and at Kon-Kuk

where he has been a professor of

animal science since 1984 His

appointment as president folshy

lows years of administrative

experience as a department

head dean and chair of various

research committees and proshy

fessional organizations An

expert in ruminant nutrition

Maeng was instrumental in

developing the livestock feed

industry in Korea He has also

been active in working with

alumni groups and in writing

for the Kon-Kuk Tribune

bull Bill MarshaU ADA 75 of Proton Station Ont moved

from Clarksburg in June to

work in Dundalk for the Grey

County Roads Department on

its road management crew

bull Bernie Matte BSc(Agr) 70 of Moncton NB retired

in March after 28 years with

Fisheries and Oceans Canada

and the Canadian Food

Inspection Agency He plans to

travel to Belize and Honduras

with his wife Diane and will

be available anywhere in the

Caribbean for seafood HACCP

consulting work

bull Margaret McClain BA 70 lives in Arkansas where she is

highJy involved in the issue of

40 GUELPH ALUMNUS

missing children and internashy

tional abductions McClain who

believes her own six-year-old

daughter was taken out of the

United States more than a year

ago by her second husband is

reaching out to parents with

similar experiences through an

organization that is lobbying the

US government for tougher

international abduction laws

She invites interested fr iends

and alumni to contact her

through her Web site at

wwwinsolwwbnet-dmcclain

bull Robert (Chuck) Miller BA 77 is the park superintendent

of Killarney French River and

Maskinonje provincial parks in

Ontario He moved to Killarney

from Quetico Provincial Park

last May

bull Gordon Nicol BA 72 and MSc(Agr) 74 teaches math

and science in a bilingual prishy

vate school in Guatemala A

BEd graduate of Laurentian

he first taught in Guatemala in

the late 1970s then spent 12

years in northern Alberta as a

teacher and principal He

returned to Guatemala in 1989

A widower with three teenage

children Nicol would like to

hear from U of G friends and

acquaintances especially anyshy

one who is was or will be in

Central America He says he

could also use middle-schoolshy

level science projects Send eshy

mail to gnicoll guatenet or

write to PO Box 661447 Miami

Springs Florida 33266-1447

bull Chris Schulte BSc 71 and MSc 73 lives in Nassau

Bahamas with his wife

Andrya After graduation he

stayed in the Department of

Physics as a research associate

with Prof lain Campbell then

joined Ontario Hydro in the

early 1980s He moved to the

Bahamas in 1995 He can be

reached bye-mail at

schultebahamasnetbs

bull Sandra (Pickford) Webster BA 75 has retired from U of

Gs Co mmunications and Pubshy

lic Affairs and is living in Parry

Sound Ont where she is

doing volunteer work and

communications consulting

for the municipality Guelph

friends ca n contact her by

e-mail atswebsterzeutercom

19805

bull Sharon (Courneya) Angus BA 8 I of Surrey BC comshy

pleted a BSW at the University

of British Columbia in 1988

and has been working for the

BC government for 13 years

- first in probation and now

in the family justice division

She and her husband Ron

have three children Jason

Carly and Colin

bull Karen Beazley BLA 86 is an assistant professor and acadeshy

mic program co-ordinator at

the School for Reso urce and

Environmental Studies at Dalshy

housie University in Halifax

She is currently doing research

for a book on endangered

species initiatives and is orgashy

nizing a Nova Scotia wildlands

workshop with the Wildlands

Project for 1999 Her e-mail

address is kbeazleyisdalca

bull Caroline (Van Deudekom) and Marc Brooks both ADA 87

recently moved from Strathroy

to Owen Sound Ont where

they run a 50-acre organic farm

with their two sons

bull Virginia Burt BLA 85 startshyed her own landscape architecshy

ture firm Visionscapes in

Hamilton Ont in ] 996 She

specializes in the design of thershy

apeutic healing gardens spirit

gardens sacred spaces and

la byrin ths and recen tly designed the first healing garden

in Canada specificalJy for peoshy

ple living with HIV and AIDS

bull Joanne (Branson) Carver BA 80 earned a BEd from Brock

University in 1981 and recently

started working as a probashy

tionparole officer She Jives in

Ajax Ont and has two daughshy

ters Julie4 and Sarah 8

bull Heather Champ BA 86 is a Web-site designer in New York

City She began her work in

computer design in 1990 Her

personal site can be Found at

wwwjezebelcom

bull Laurie Gough BA 87 has become a world traveller who

writes about her experiences for

the benefit of others Her most

recent book Island of the

Human Heart A tfornans Travshyel Odyssey is now in its second

printing in Canada and will be

released next year in the United

States and overseas She has also

published Travellers Tales A

Womans World which won the

US-based Lowell Thomas

Gold Award for best travel book

of the year When not travelling

or writing she teaches English

and ESL in Guelph

bull Susan (Coles) Goulden BASc 84 and her husband

Ian are th rilled wi th their

recent adoption of Jennifer Lee

Yu who was born in June near

Leping Jiangxi Peoples Repubshy

lic of China The Gouldens

who Jive in vVaterloo Ont

thank classmate Andrea

(Kovits) Henderson for her

support throughout the adopshy

tion process Susan is currently

on leave from her position with

McCormick Canada

bull Judy (Bodendistel) Gregg BA 82 moved to Melbourne Ausshy

tralia in 1997 with her husband

and two children Carly 6 and

Adam 3 We are enjoying the

friendly people and the great

weather here she says We are

especially enjoying winter in a

place where it never gets below

zero Celsius

bull Nigel GumJey DVM 85 has been a partner in the Alta Vista

Animal Hospital in Ottawa

since 1990 was president of the bull Garry Millage AMPHI 86 bull Heidi Stephenson BA 88 is now ISO 9000 manager at

Ontario Veterinary Medical left a position as vice-president was awarded her professional Carpenter Ca nada Ltd in

Association in 1997 and recent- of national operations for acco untants designation of Wood br idge Ont He lives in

ly served on the Canadian Vetshy Scotts Restaurants KFC Divishy certified general accountant in Miss issa uga Classma tes are

erilw() Medical Associations sion to open his own consult- March 1998 She has been invited to contact him at

national issues committee He ing company Future Food employed for the last 10 years avon listarca

lives in Osgoode with his wife Equipment Ine specializes in with Dan Ball Chartered bull Michelle (Pilon) Bacon BA rvlaurecn and children Laura providing new and used restau- Acco un tant in Parry Sound 90 moved to England to study

and Matthew rant equipment and reducing O nt where she lives with her and work after graduating from

bull Muneer Hirji BComm 82 restaurant construction costs hu sband Brad two dogs and a Guelph She recently left a posishy

lives in Toronto and is vice- He also operates a restaurant horse tion with the British Ministry of

president of marke ting at SAP called Nikkos in Woodbridge bull Dawn Stetsko BSe 81 lives Agriculture and Food in York to

Canada He has three chil- Ont and is planning to open a in Langhorne Pa with her husshy become an at-home mom She

drcl1 Nadia 8 Alyssa 6 and second location band Paul and children Mark now lives in London with her

Sarah I bull Tosh Noseworthy BSe 83 is and Keith and is a research husband Tim and one-year-old

bull Brenda irwin BSe 88 is a cardiovascular ICU nurse in scientist with Bristol-Myers daughter Juliette She sends love

studying at Hong Kong Unishy sunny Tuscon Arizona After Squibb Previously she worked to Sue Heather and Sheila and

vers ity of Science and Technolshy grad uation she lived in Paris at McMaster University in can be reached bye-mail at

ogy to complete the final France for a yea r s tudied nurs- Hamilton Ont for 17 yea rs michellebacondialpipexcom

sem ester of an MBA program ing in O ttawa then lived in Saushy bull Teresa Tummillo-Goy BA bull Jeff Barlow BComm 90 is

through the University of di Arabia for two yea rs She still 86 has a law practice in Water- the training and quality manag-

British Columbia She taught loves to travel and would like to 100 Ont foc Li sing primaril y on er for two five-star luxury boushy

science for the North York hea r from fellow alumni She family law civi l litiga tion and tique h o tels in Prague - Hotel

Board of Education for five can be reached at 520-299-8344 real estate She and her hus- Palace Praha and the Hotel

years before enrolling in the bull Cecilia (Wleugel) Parkes band John Goy live in Guelph Savoy Previo usly he was execu -

MBA program BComm 85 is a graphic and have three sons John 4 tive housekeeper at the five-star

bull Jagwant Kanwar PhD 80 is designer in Toronto and says Tony 3 and Shayne 2 Renaissance Pragu e Hotel

a senior scientist in the depart- she st ill uses ber marketing bull Peter Van der Borch DVM bull Margaret Burnes-Souria BA ment of vegetable crops at Pun- background to help her busishy 88 retired in the fa ll of 1997 94 is a team leader with [011 shy

jab Agricultural University in ness succeed She specia lizes in after several years of practising don Magazin e in London Ont

India He is also director of the logo design lNith hand-drawn physiotherapy and ve terinary She married David Souria in

regional vegetable research stashy illustrations medicine and surgery He Jives July 1997 and is pursuing an tion at Usman (TaranTarn) bull Jim Parr BSc(Agr) 81 and in Pictou NS ]VlBA at the University of West-

Amritsar His and his wife MSe 89 died of cancer in bull MartyWilLiams BA 85 is ern Ontario

Sanyogita have a son Mohit June 1998 but hes being co-ordinator of student activishy bull Janine Byers BASe 95 is a and a daughter Dipika who are remembered by his university ties at University College Unishy public health dietitian at the

both studying engineering friends through the establish - versity of Toronto where he Kingston Frontenac and

Friends can write to Kanwar at ment of a mem orial fund for advises student organizations Iennox amp Addington Health

Punjab Agricultural Un ivers ity his wife Denise and children 1Ie is also chair of the U of T Unit in Kingston O nt She is Ludhiana 141 004 India Shannon and Eric Anyone Staff Association a member of getting married to Ca rl Stewart

bull Larissa Larsen BSe 89 and who would like more informa - the steering committee of the on May 29 j 999 MLA 92 received a PhD in tion can ca ll Brian Tapscott at staffs unionization drive and a bull Lisa Cherry BSe 9 1 is a urban and regional planning 519-767-3566 staff member with the student science journalist and executive

from the University of Illinois bull Cheryl (Dunlop) Reid newspaper The Varsity He can director of Artists Against

at Urbana Champaign in May BSe(Agr) 89 sta rted a new be reached bye-mail at marty Racism an international organi-

She has accepted a position at job in September as ingredient wi lliamsutorontoca za tion She is based in Toronto

Thompson Dyke and Associshy sales manager for RA bull Bonnie (Byma) BASe 96 ales a landscape architecture Chisholm o f Toronto She will 19905 and Gil Clelland BA 95 were

and urban planning firm in continue to work from her bull Claire Allison BA 94 grad- married in December 1996 and

Chicago Her husband Ernie remote offke in Fergus Reid uated from the elementary are living in Chatham On t

Poortinga DVM 89 is in his and her husband Jeff BSe teacher ed ucation program at Bo nnie works at a day-care

third yea r of an MD program (Agr) 89 have two children the University of British centre G il teaches art and

at Rush University Chicago lVlega n 4 and Elizabeth 2 Columbia in 1996 and now phys ical education They ca n -Hes looking forward to joining bull Chee Sie BA 83 is a zone teaches in Va ncou ver be reached bye-ma il at gclelshy

his wife in the ranks of the manager for the Malaysian bull JohnAvon BSdHK) 94 lan ciaccesscom employed They would both Assurance Alliance Berhad in earned an M Se in industr ial bull Kate Corn ell BA 95 of enjoy hearing from fellow Sarawak Malaysia He and his operations from Lawrence Markham Ont earned her

alumni and can be reached at wife Jesterine have a two-year- Technological University in masters in dance history from epoor tin garushurushedu old daughter Letitia Southfleld Mich in 1997 and York University in May and

WINTER 1999 41

co-authored a book titled

Toronto Dance Theatre 1968shy1998 Stages in a Journey

bull Mary Jill (McClure) Culliton BASe 90 earned

her BEd from Brock University

and her M Ed from the Univershy

sity of Western Ontario and

teaches Grade 1 in Mitchell

Ont She and her husband

Tim live in Stratford

bull Kathleen (McNutt) Daniels BASe 9 1 is a teacher and was

married on New Years Eve

1994 to Gord Daniels They live

in North Bay Ont and have a

daughter Lauren born in Febshy

ruary 1997 They are expecting

their second child in February

bull Simon Deakin BA 95 studshyied in Florence Italy for a year

then earned a master of fine art

from the Slade School of Fine

Art at the University of London

England He lives in London

bull Christie Dunbar BLA 97 spent a year after graduation

working for Niagara College in

St Catharines Ont on the

vision and design of a new

campus to be built in Niagarashy

on-the- Lake Last April she

joined the landscape architecshy

ture firm of Pollack Design

Associates in Ann Arbor Mich

bull Trina Edmonds BA 94 and

Joel Hinderle became the

proud parents of a little girl

Jordan Ashley in january 1998

and moved to a new home in

Oakville Ont in September

Edmonds works in Mississauga

as a desktop publisher with a

publishingprinting company

bull Wendy Garinther BSc 93 and Steve Decker BSe 94

were married in May Joining

them in the wedding celebrashy

tions were Cheri (Coulter)

42 GUELPH ALUMNUS

Ascroft BSe 93 Karen Leinshy

gartner BSe 94 and Barb

(Moore) Johnson BSe 94

Best man was Jeff Bond BSe

93 and MSe 96 The Deckers

live in Edmonton where Steve

is doing a PhD in chemistry at

the University of Alberta and

Wendy is working in a research

laboratory at a biopharmaceushy

tical company

bull Donna Gross BA 97 is purshysu ing a master of divinity at

Emmanuel College at the Unishy

versity of Toronto and hopes to

become an ordained minister by

2002 She lives in Guelph and

can be reached bye-mail at

donnajulietalbedonet

bull Robert Gruber BA 92 is a child-care supervisor for the

YMCA-YWCA of Guelph and

manages the Jean Little Y

Child- Care Centre He recently

developed the anti -bias proshy

gramming policy for the

Guelph Y and sits on both the

Jean Little Public School Counshy

cil and the Guelph AIDS Wall

Committee He can be reached

bye-mail at rgrubernet

comca

bull Susan Harder BSe 91 grad shyuated from the University of

Toronto Medical School in June

and has started a residency at

Santa Clara Valley Medical Censhy

tre in San jose Calif She will

follow that up with an anestheshy

sia residency at Stanford Univershy

sity Hospital in 1999

bull Marko Harjupanula BASc 93 travelled in Australia for

two months after graduating

from Guelph then returned to

his home town of South Porshy

cupine Ont where he worked

in a gold mine for four years

He entered police college in

September and started as an

opp constable in Cochrane in

December

bull Nancy Holman MA 94 moved to Vancouver soon after

graduation and initially worked

as a project co-ordinator for an

ophthalmologist In 1996 she

began working full time for the

BC Liberal Caucus I would

enjoy hearing from and catchshy

ing up with the friends I made

while studying at U of G and

working at the Brass Taps she

says Her e-mail address is nan shy

cyholmanlassgovbeca

bull Ruth Johnson BA 91 is an investment banking associate

with the mergers and acquisishy

tions group of JP Morgan in

Lond on England responsible

for financial reporting and

administration She has been in

England with her partner Alex Campbell since graduation

bull Stephen Johnson BA 94 of London Ont was a lab technishy

cian at Lenscrafters for three

yea rs and is now a full-time

student at Fanshawe College

studying air conditioning and

refrigeration He was married

in Jun e to Jennifer Fox BSc

95 a chemist at 3M Their

wedding party included Dee Popat BSe (Eng) 94 and

Patrick Wulhes BSc 95

bull Sarah (Davis) Kelly BASe 90 married Robert Kelly in

July and teaches primary

grades at an inner-city school

in Toronto

bull Cassidy Klowak BComm 97 lives in Allisshy

ton Onl and is a personal

banking account manager

with ClBC in Tottenham

bull Stephanie Lopes BSc 96 completed her MSc in repro shy

ductive biology at the Universishy

ty of Toronto and worked as

patient-care director for the

College of Family Physicians

for almost a year In September

she enrolled in medical school

at the University of Toronto

She is happy to announce that

she is engaged to be married

next summer Lopes can be

reached at slopesidirectcom

bull Natalie (Parker) MacKenzie BSc 96 earned her BEd from

the University of Western

Ontario in 1997 She married

ASLt Andy MacKenzie June 27

in Sault Ste Marie Ont and

now lives in Halifax

bull Susan MacKinnon DVM 91 is a veterinarian with HUls

Science Diet She lives in

Guelph with her husband

Brandon Wiley and gave birth

to their first child Adrianna

Nicole june 26 at home

bull Waheed Mian BA 9 1 of Cambridge Ont is a store

director with PetSmart Canada

He helped the company launch

its new retail concept in Cana da

bull Alex Mitchell BA 91 was appointed clerkdeputy treasurshy

er of the Ontario township of

Mildmay-Carrick in 1998 and

will be the clerkadministrator

of the new municipality of

Mildmay-Carrick -TeesWatershy

Culross in 1999 He was married

in january 1997 and lives vith

his wife and daughter in Mild shy

may In his spare time Mitchell

is a professional scout for the

Toronto Maple Leafs covering

southwestern Ontario

bull Sherry Morland BASc 93 of Kitchener Ont ea rned her

BEd from Brock University in

J995 and is a part-time specia l

educa tion teacher and an occashy

sional teacher with the Watershy

loo County Board of Ed ucashy

tion She married Ivan LeBlanc

in 1997

bull Gary Page BSe 91 wo rks for the Nottawasaga Valley Conshy

servation Authority where he is

able to combine his knowledge

of wildlife biology with his

artistic skills as resident graphic

designer and outdoor centre

interpreter He Jives with his

wife Di and their son judah in

CreemoreOnt

bull Elaine Pammenter BA 96 is an inventory clerk with the

Royal Collection at Windsor

Castle in England She holds a

museum management and

curatorship grad uate certificate

diploma from Sir Sandford

Fleming College and did her

internship at the Royal Albert

Memorial Museum in Exeter

England

bull Brent Raymond BSe(Env) 96 of Brantford Ont has

been working with Outward

Bound since graduation He

leads wilderness trips in Northshy

ern Ontario Horida Australia and Sabah (Malaysian Borneo) Most recently he designed and implemented a new introducshytory mountaineering course for Outward Bound Sabah on the summit plateau of Mt Kinashy

balu Those of you who know me as plate licker from U of G get in touch he says Where are you Star I miss you He can be reached by e-mail at globarwchatonca or by

phone at 519-756-1697

Alumni Patrick Abbott BSA 40 July 7 1998

Albert Allen BSA 33 Jan 161994 Agris Ansmits BA 70 and MA 73

February 1998 Barbara (Quartermain) Babcock DHE

53 June 17 1998

Wray Bond BSA 34 Sept 25 1998

Kenneth Bone DVM 38 Dec 29 1998 Evelyn (Stevenson) Buhr DHE 39

May 251998 Philip Burke BSA 43 June 21 1998

Grant Carman BSA 49 Oct 221998 Frederick Chambers BSA 41

June 1998 Wilmot Conley ADA4 7 April 7 1998 Lloyd Crewson BSA 49 Aug 261998

Jacqueline Dimock DHE 47

Aug 20 1998 John Dingwall DVM 52

April 18 1998

Lloyd Dorsey BSA 38 June 9 1998 George Duncan BSA 37

Sept 19 1998

David Dyson BSA 53 Aug 31 1998

Norma (Shannon) Edwards DHE 39

November 1997 Vincent Bud Ellis DVM 41

July 15 1998 John Jack George BSA 48

Sept 24 1998

Donald Haight BSA 33 January 1997 William Hamlyn BSA 33 Dec I 1997

Gordon Harkness BSA 49

November 1997

Charles Hollister DVM 38 June 1996 Donald Hope BSA 54 June 28 1998

Lawrence Jefferson BSA 38

Sept 3 1998

James Kelso DVM 56 July 27 1998

Dorima Lalonde BSA 34 Oct 8 1998 Mildred (Cox) Large DHE 33

June 20 1998 Roger Larson BComm 86 Feb 19 1998 Robert Lawson BSA 49 June 6 1998

bull Doug Ramsey BA 91 and PhD 98 received U of Gs highshyest graduate student award shythe Forster Medal- at June convocation for his academic and community involvement while enrolled in Guelphs new

graduate program in geography He spent the summer as a visitshying research scholar at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College in Truro before assuming his curshyrent position as assistant professhysor at Mount Allison University

David Leach BSc(Agr) 74

July 18 1998

Ian Leask DVM 74 Sept 5 1998

Sheryl Lee BSc 95 June 8 1998 Ruby Janet MacAuley DHE 30

Aug 19 1998 Parker MacKenzie DVM 38

September 1994

Jeanice MacLaren DHE 28 March 1 1997

Campbell MacMaster DVM42

Oct 8 1998

Rex McCallum DVM 43 July 71998 Jean (Dunn) McMahon DHE 31

Nov 41998

Margaret Oones) McTaggart DHE 35 Aug 81998

Patrick McTaggart-Cowan HDSc 81

Oct 21997

Malcolm McWhinnie ADA 39

July 16 1998 Mary (Townsend) Mitchell BHSc

60 Sept 281998

Marjory Monaghan DHE 29

December 1997 Charles Monk BSA 44 Aug 7 1998

Heather Neilsen BHSc 59

Oct 30 1998 Jerry Niwa DVM 62 Aug 5 1998 Henry Harry OReilly BSA 42

October 1997

James Parr BSc(Agr) 81 June 19 1998 Charles Rammage DVM 45

Oct 17 1996 Howard Rapson HDSc 90

March 1997 Clement Reeds DVM 42 Oct 16 1998

William Robinson BSA 38

Aug 23 1998

Donald Sager ADA 73 Oct 141997

Austin Schaefer DVM 37 in 1997

Sandra (Mackenzie) Schmidt DHE 59

Aug 16 1997 Margaret (Harvey) Seaborn DHE 28

July 221998

Larry Seguin DVM 47 June 12 1998

Leah Shedden DHE 31 December 1998

Edward Shuh BSA 40 July 2 1998

Ted Shutsa BSc(Agr) 66

Sept 18 1998 Jim Sinclair DVM 49 Oct 4 1998

Margaret (Brown) Sinclair DHE 20

September 1998 Eldon Smith BSA 42 Sept 9 1998

Derek Somers DVM 96 Sept 25 1998

Cheryl Lynn Sopha BA 95 Sept 20 1998

Leona (Bartlett) Stewart DHE 35

June 27 1998 Alex Thomson BSc(Agr) 69

October 1996

William Whittick DVM 55

Aug 15 1998 Joseph Wilson BSA 23 Sept 11 1998

Lloyd Woolsey DVM41 June 24 1998

Winifred Yeates DHE 28 June 11998

Faculty John Carpenter BSA 43 and MSA 48

Microbiology Dec 10 1998

David Gaskin Zoology Sept 14 1998

Gordon Macleod BSA 50 Animal and

Poultry Science Nov 26 1998 Roman Retman Languages and

Literatures Sept 28 1998

Caesar Sen off Chemistry and

Biochemistry Aug 14 1998

Percy Smith Drama Dec 10 1998

Friends Robert Clark Aug 21 1998

Ethel Hammond August 1998

Thomas Hillers Sept 28 1998 Marguerite Holbrook Aug 26 1998

Catherine Kelly Sept 27 1998

James A McKenzie May 13 1998

Kenneth McIssac Oct 23 1998

William Mutlock September 1998 Roena Patterson Sept 16 1998

Donald Priddle Aug 25 1998

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bull Karl Reimer BSe 94 comshypleted a one-year intensive

MSc in mining engineering at

Queens University and is now

a project engineer a t Enpar

Technologies Ine in Guelph

He can be contacted at reimerbservcom

bull Nancy Nauta Rowland BA 90 and her husband Dan celshy

ebrated their first wedding

anniversary in March 1998 with

the birth of their first child

Connor who beat their March

8 anniversary by two days Nanshy

cy teaches junior-grade stushy

dents and junior special ed ucashy

tion for the Peel District School

Board The Rowlands live in

Caledon Ont

bull Fraser Stables MFA 98 was heralded by Toronto Globe 6shyMail critic Betty Jordan as a

formidable new talent followshy

ing the openi ng of his debut

gallery exh ibition in July The

Scottish artists work includes

sculpture video and mixed

media that explore notions of

flu x by interrupting the moveshy

ment of forms in space

bull Erin (Smith) Scott BSe(HK) 92 and Brad

Scott BSc(Agr) 91 of Lucan

O nt were married in 1993 and

had their first child Lucas in

August Erin works for Shopshy

pers Home Health Ca re in

London Brad is with New Life

Mills in Dunfield

bull Abby Simons BSc 95 and Martin Piche BSc(Agr) 95 were married in Mont-Tremshy

blant Quebec in 1997 She is a

customer service representative

with Kantech Systems he is

superintendent of Club de golf

vallee des forts They say theyd

love to hear from anyone headshy

ing to Montreal and can be

reached at 450-348-3860

bull Sylvia Tesori BSc 95 has been doing wildlife rehabilitashy

tion for the OSPCA Wildlife

Rehabilitation Centre in Midshy

land Ont since 1996

bull Chuck Thibeault BComm 94 is general manager of the

Putting Edge Corpora tion

which has two glow-in- theshy

dark mini-golf courses in

Ontario one in Bramp ton and

one in Richmond Hill He can

be reached in Richmond Hill at

chu ckttotalnet

bull Karen Thirlwall BA 93 is a

si ngersongwriter and guitarist

who began her stage career and

released her first album The Voice Inside Me while studying

languages at U of G She has

lived and performed in

11i stler BC for three years

and recently released a second

album called Wide-Eyed She

remembers many special

fr iends m ade at Guelph and

welcomes e-mail messages to

karenthirlwallhotmailcom

bull Christie (Johnson) and Steve

Tyler both BComm 91 live in

Cambridge Ont where

Christie is a personal banking

representative for the Royal

Bank Steve works with their

third-year design professor

Nelson Hofer in Mississauga as

a design consultan t Steves proshy

jects include the Windsor Casishy

no and U of Gs Creelman Hall

They have two children Jason

5 and Marcus 1

bull Julia White BA 91 lives in Guelph and is a small-business

accountant at Taves amp Co She

recently finished courses

towards a CGA designation and

would like to hea r from other

alumni who lived in Lambton

Hall in 198788 Send e-mail to

juliawhitesympaticoca

bull Andre-Denis Wright MSc 93 and PhD 98 is doing postshy

docto ral work in Perth Westshy

ern Australia He wants his

Guelph friends and Halifax

family to know he was thinking

of them at Christmas when it

was 40 C in Australia

bull Dave Yellen BComm 90 was recently promoted at the Gordon

Food Service to new-accounts

sales specialist for Metro Toronshy

to Having been in Ottawa for

the past few years Im hoping

to reacquaint myself with old

friend s from U of G in the Metro

area he says He lives in Scarborshy

ough and can be reached at 416shy615-2745 or davidysprintca

bull Halina Zaleski PhD 92 is a tenured professor in the

departm ent of animal sciences

at the Un iversity of Hawaii in

Honolulu She is a swine speshy

cialist involved in extension

programs for an area th at covshy

ers all of Hawai i and the PacifIC

basin She can be reached by

e-mail at halinahawaiiedu

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IF THERE ARE LIVESTOCK IN THE HOCKEY ARENA and

theyre not wearing skates its College Royal If there

are students sawing logs throwing pies baking cookies

and square dancing its College Royal When the entire

University of Guelph is displayed - from arts to zooloshy

gy - March 13 and 14 1999 youll know its definitely

College Royan

Since its inception in 1925 as an agricultural and liveshy

stock show run by the Ontario Agricultural College

College Royal has grown to be a celebrated U of G trashy

dition involving all the colleges

The event is famou s in the University community

and beyond for its open-house showcase of displays and

activities The largest student-run open house in Canashy

da College Royal attracts more than 20000 visitors to

campus over one weekend

College Royal is an event of tradition that reaches

into tomorrow Agriculture and livestock shows are still

highlighted events but College Royal activities have

grown to include dog and cat shows a photography conshy

test a chemistry magic show and demonstrations on

human health and fitness The open house gives people

an opportunity to see what happens in the Universitys

leading-edge research laboratories to observe veterinary

medicine in practice to tour a sculpture studio or to

watch a theatrical performance

To celebrate the 75th anniversary of College Royal

1998 president Joe TrakaJo lnvites alumni to get involved

again by joining one of the planning comm ittees or by

participating in a favourite event Call him for more

information at 824-4120 Ext 8366 or send e-mail to

jtrakalouoguelphca

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ALL THE DEFINING WORDS

written about the Ontario Agricultural College in its 125

years perhaps the most appropriate is the word integral

Throughout its history OAC has remained integral to the

agri-food industry and rural society

Its a good word integral It describes how and why

the college has survived 125 years and suggests a reason

it will grow even stronger in the 2pt century

Without hesitation OAC dean Rob McLaughlin

BSc(Agr) 69 and PhD 77 takes up the thought and

declares that OAC is the premier agricultural college in

Canada and stands in the top rank of agricultural faculshy

ties around the world Our work has had a profound

effect on the growth and development of the Canadian

agri-food system and the well-being of the people and

communities of rural Ontario and beyond he says

10 G UELPH ALUMNUS

OAC celebrates its history its partnerships and its fu ture

W I N TER 1999 11

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OACs 23000 graduates are also recognized

worldwide for their expertise and leadshy

ership abilities in agriculture agribusiness manageshy

ment hortiClilture landscape architecture plant and

animal biology food scie nce and rural extension

Meeting industry needs

More than 100 years apart in their leadershyship of OAC William Johnston and Rob McLaughlin both recognized that the colshylege they inherited would have to focus on industry needs to survive In Johnstons day that meant bringing greater prospershyity to the farm Because only three per cent of McLaughlins graduates return to farmshying todays college curriculum has a greater focus on skills in communication and critical thinking which are demanded by the various industries that now define agriculture

studies McLaughlin hopes those graduates will

return to help the college celebrate 1999s signifishy

cant anniversary It s important to celebrate our

past achievements and to recognize our present and

future strengths he says

A specia l OAC 125 planning committee coshy

chaired by Clay Switzer OAC dean from 1972 to

1983 and Don Blackburn former director of the

diploma program has organized a number of

events throughout the coming year to celebrate the

anniversary

Were looking forward to a wonderful year of

events to mark this occasion says Switzer BSA 51

and MSA 53 We want to celebra te the accomshy

plishments of the past and the fact tha t OAC has

interacted with many partners to get where we are

today and we want to look ahead to the future to

see how the college and the University might conshy

tinue along this successful path

Success for OAC means maintaining its position

as a vital partner and contributor to the prosperity

of the agri-food industry and the people of rural

Ontario for whom it was established That industry

and those rural communities are vastly different

from the 1874 picture we draw from the college hisshy

tory primarily because farmers themselves - with

the help of agricultural education and researchshy

12 GUElPH ALUMNUS

125 YEARS OF ACHIEVEMENT

Throughout OACs first 125 years its educashytion research and extension activities have had an impact on virtually every secshytor of Canadas agrimiddot food industry In the anniversary book 125

Years of Achievement OAC highlights some of the areas where col1lege faculty stushydents and administrashytors have played a leadership role To read more about Guelphs achievements in these areas conshytact the OAC deans office to obtain a copy of the book

Pre 1900

bull Diploma in agriculture

bull Degree in agriculture

bull Agri-food short courses

bull Production bulletins bull Extension work bull Liberal education bull Library resources bull Field crop trials bull Livestock breeding

bull Forestry bull Insect identification bull Experimental Union

1900-1910

bull Herbarium amp weed garden

bull Cheese making bull Food safety bull Land drainage bull Water testing bull Weather observashy

tions amp zoning for crop production

bull Legume inoculants

have forged change through increased productivishy

ty and efficiency

When OAC roots were planted in 187450 per

cent of th e people who lived in this new province

made their living from farming Today only two per

cent of Ontario residents live on farms

but they feed a much larger population

base and an important export market

The Ontario agri-food industry genershy

ates an impressive $637 billion in ecoshy

nomic value each year and stimulates

employment for nearly a quarter of the

workforce Canadians enjoy one of the

safest and cheapest food supplies in the

world spending less than 13 per cent of

their disposa ble income on food Most

people in the world spend more than 50

per cent

Its difficult to pinpoint all the conshy

tributions OAC faculty staff and gradshy

uates have made to agriculture because

the knowledge created and the techshy

nologies perfected here have been so weU

assimilated by the industry that they are

easily taken for granted Few people in

Ontario have ever heard of Charles

Zavitz or know that this early OAC gradshy

uate and professor recorded the first

field-crop yield tests at Guelph before 1890

Appointed head experimentalist in 1893 he was

instrumental in developing a college research proshy

gram that made good the promise that OAC would

offer its students training in scientific agriculture

Zavitz has been followed by a number of brilshy

liant educators and scientists whose contributions

to the college and its industry have filled several

books Even Alexander Ross in OACs official hisshy

tory College on the Hill can provide only a brief

description of the research initiatives that have

involved OAC in the growth of the agri-food secshy

tor and the tremendous advances agriculture has

made in the areas of human and animal nutrition

and health water and soil conservation rural develshy

opment and of course agri-food education

To give prominence to these contributions the

college has published an anniversary book that outshy

lines 125 of the most significant accomplishments in

which OAC faculty students and administrators

played a leadership role More important 125 Years ofAchievement celebrates the partnerships that have

provided the opportunities for achievement Through

the years Guelph scientists and educators have worked

closely with the agri-food industry with both the

Ontario Ministry of Agriculture Food and Rural

Affairs and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and

with other government departments international 1990s And they still have not reached that equalishy125 YEARS agencies educational institutions and alumni ty on the college faculty Alice Rowsome may haveOF ACHIEVEMENT

Read any entry in 125 Years ofAchievement and been hired to serve as assistant librarian and instrucshy

youll find an interes ting anecdote that chronicles tor in French and German at the turn of the censhy1910-1920

an important element in campus history Read the tury but horticulturist Patricia Harney remained bull Macdonaldwhole book and youll be awed by the

Institutesheer volume of th e work that has

bull Soil science been accomplished by so many people Scientific agricuLture

bull Poultry lighting working meticulously over so many

amp nutritionyears to affect so many changes in agrishy After earning one of its first agriculture

bull OAC 21 barleyculture that have improved the lives of degrees in 1888 Charles Zavitz began a

bull Fruit research Canadians 40-year career overseeing the college

Freeman McEwen OAC dean from experimental programs and made the first 1920-1930

1983 to 1990 chaired a committee that advancements in plant breeding Threebull Collecting

involved severa l dozen current and generations later Prof Ken Kasha led the Canadian art

retired faculty as well as alumni students development of a haploid technique of cell bull War Memorial

and U of G staff in writing the stories division that cut the time needed to breed Hall

A quick check of dates in the book new varieties in half Today plant biotechshybull Graduate

shows a spiral of achievement that has nologist Bryan McKersie is looking even education

escalated with whirlwind force since the deeper into the functioning of plant cells bull College Royal

establishment of the University of to manipulate genes that will enhance proshybull SoybeanGuelph in 1964 and heads unabated ductivity or disease resistance

developmenttoward the future The 125 items docushy

bull Forage varieties ment scientific discoveries to be sure

bull Meat research but also the development of the college

bull Ginsengas an educa tional institution and its bull Farm business

ongoing partnership with the provincial records

government

Out of the J25 McEwen has picked his own top the only woman on faculty throughout the 1960s 1930-1940

five beginning with the contributions OAC made and women are seriously under-represented even bull Professional

to the establishment of the University This campus today This is one area where historians find room societies

has the distinction of being the only one in North to criticize agricultural traditions and college polishybull ControlledAmerica where the agricultural college preceded the cies that continued the dominance of men for far

atmosphereuniversity that supports it That fact helps ex plain too many years

storagethe unique character of the University of Guelph The college itself was dominated by the provinshy

bull Muck crops and its prominence in the life sciences cial government during its first 90 years when OAC bull Salmonella

Some might argue that the process of becoming principals reported directly to the minister of agrishytesting

a university began as ea rly as 1904 when the Macshy culture The 1964 University of Guelph Act mainshybull Links with donald Inst itute opened This event is second on tained the schools relationship with the agriculshy

farm groups McEwens list of top accomplishments The ad dishy ture ministry but gave the col lege a new- found

tion of women to the campus changed OAC from a freedom that expanded research and graduate proshy1940-1950

boys school into a co llege Guelph history professhy grams and opened the door to increased fundingbull Holland Marsh

sor Terry Crowley says bluntly Early student life at from th e education ministry It a lso permittedResearch Station

OAC is readily divided into two - before women greater collaboration with the Ontario Veterinarybull Standardizedand after women College which had been moved to Guelph by politshy

cattle conformation The Mac girls were generally older than the J6- ical dictate in 1922

bull Potato breeding and 17-year-old students at OAC they were more One of the most vivid examples of the impact of

bull Reproductionmature and brought both a social life and a new acashy that collaboration was the dramatic increase in anishytechnology

demic focus to the campus For the young women mal-breeding technologies OVC perfected artificial bull Queen beeof Ontario it was a long overdue opportunity and insemination and held the only licence in Ontario for

rearingthey grasped the educa tion offered at Macdonald frozen semen until 1969 OAC faculty and the netshy -bull TechnologyInstitute in large numbers work of provincial agricultural representatives helped

transferWomen were not admitted into the agriculture promote the technology and control it through the

bull Conservation program until 1918 however and they didnt reach development of a national livestock and performance

farm planning numerical equality with male students until the inventory Through these combined efforts Canada

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emerged as a global leader in animal breeding largest Ontario univers ity geographica lly when it125 YEARS OACs un ique and enduring relati onship wi th assumed res ponsibility for ed ucation resea rch andOF ACHIEVEMENT

the provincial agric ulture ministry is another addishy Iaboratory services form erl) managed by the minshy

tion to McEwe ns list of top achievements Certa inshy is try Guelph agric ultural expertise covers the 1950-1960

ly the most significan t even t in the last decade has provi nce with camp uses in Guelph Ridgetownbull Horticulture corre-

Kemptville a nd Alfred and a network of spondence course

research facilities that includes the Horshybull Business education Changing with society ticultural Resea rch Institute of Ontariobull Watershed research

diagnostic laboratories and 21 research bull Farm buildingWhen Adelaide Hoodless argued for the stat ions

programestablishment of Macdonald Institute in the The partnership with OMAFRA has

bull Computers in late 1890S she saw scientific training for kept agricultural education and research agriculture

women as a way to improve community at the forefro nt of the University of bull Corn expansionhealth standards The college has evolved Guelph More than 40 per cent of the Unishybull Deailing with continually through the years - growing versitys graduate studenllt are in OAC and

cold climate into the largest home economics facility in more than 70 per cent of its $80-million

bull CropOntario under dean Margaret McCready and research budget is focused on the ag rishyrecommendations

broadening its outlook in the 1970S under food indus try T hat commitment to

dean Janet Wardlaw to include consumer research is the earliest and most enduring1960-1970

studies and the hospitality industry Wardshy achievement out of the 125 bull OAC Alumnilaw set the tone for increased research OAC contin ues to lea d the way in

Foundationactivity and positioned the college to join research and is one of the most dynamshy

bull University of Guelphforces with the social sciences in 1998 ic co lleges in th e University saysbull Arboretum

McLaughlin But we draw on peoplebull Ag research

fro m all over the University communi shystations

ty And now with the provincial colleges bull International

added back into the mix we are ail workshyag research centres

ing as part of the sa me team to enhance bull Scholarships

been the launch of a new University relationship the opportunities availab le to yo ung people in agri shyendowments

with OACs oldest partner the Onta rio Minist ry of cu ltural edu cat ion bull International

Agriculture Food a nd Rural Affairs (OMAFRA) Alumn i have always held an important position apiculture

In 1997 the University of Guelph became th e on that tea m Among OACs top achievements is the

The OAC of today owes much to its past THE ONTAR IO AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE might never have existshy The journalist s role in establishing the college as the Ontario

ed if not for the failure of a Univers ity of Toronto experiment in School of Agriculture and Experimental Farm is bro ught into

agricultural education in the 18505 It certainly wouldnt have context in a new history of OAC that will be published in April

been situated in Guelph without the political parlaying of Guelph to help celebrate its 125th an niversary The College 011 the Hill A journalist and cleric William Clarke And it might not have surshy New History of the 011tario Agriwltuml College 1874- I 999 was

vived a traumatic first yea r o f patronage and scandal if it hadnt written by Guelph history professor Terry Crowley and Univershy

been for the acc iden tal appo intment ofVVilliam Johnston as prinshy sity professor emeritus Alexander Ross who wrote the origi nal

cipal in the fall of 1874 College 011 the Hill for OACs 100th anniversary

And that was just the beginning If the first book tdls us how OAC grew into the University of

One hundred and twenty-five years have passed since Clarke cuelph the second tells us why

successfully argued that the new province of Ontario needed a When the fledgling provincial government of the 1870s was

land-based rural college where the focus was on providing a pracshy glued togeLher by political patro nage how could th e sc hoo l be

tical education in farming The University of Toronto fai led to any different asks Crowley Two principals came and went withshy

attract farmers sons he sa id because it allowed the other proshy in its first year when rumours tore at their moral fibre so the job

fessions of medicine law and the clergy to overshadow agriculshy fell quickly to the new college rector William Johnston

ture Clarkes persuasive fiting in the then Olltario Farmer newsshy Because we already know how OACs story devdops we ca n

paper helped place the college on 550 acres of good clay loam see some iro ny in the fact that the man who nur tured this preshy

at the back door of his Guelph parish mier agricultural college through its infancy was educated in the

14 GVELPI-I AWMNvs

alumni initiative that es tablished the OAC Alumni work internship at the end of their third yea r and125 YEARS Foundation in the 1960s to provide financial supshy co me back to finish the fourth year with a job wa it shyOF ACHIEVEMENT port to co ll ege programs and scholarships The ing for them says McLa ughlin and they o ften have

foundation also provided the leadership and incenshy fo ur or fi ve to choose from vVe are very short of bull Teaching

tive to create Guelph Unive rsity Alumni Research graduates to fill all of the jobs that are o ut there now innovations

and Development (GUARD Inc) in bull Birdsfoot trefoil

1996 The manda te of the technology bull Land reclamation Educating Leadersmanageme nt company is to develop bull Rural planning

researc h i nven tion s in to marketable bull Wind and snow Guelphs agriculture graduates haveprod ucts lau nch spin-off companies

studies played key roles in Canadian agriculture and gene rate revenu es to support basic

bull Milk testing including federal ministers William Mothshyand applied research at U of G bull Ruminant nutrition

erwell Diploma 1881 John Wise ~DA 56Throughout OACs history alumni bull Ag poli cy and Lyle Vanclief BSc(Agr) 66 Mothshyhave formed a network ofAggies who

development erwell was a driving force behind the have volunteered their time to provide

western grain producers movement before 197deg-198o

a rea l-world view for students helped to

being named to Cabinet in 1921 In thelaunch the careers of many new grad ushybull Arboretum Centre 1980s Wise introduced income stabilizashyates by providing work opport unities bull Ghana-Guelph tion programs and created farm debtencouraged research initiatives co nshy

Project review boards Today Vanclief is strugshytributed millions of dollars to scholarshy

bull Integrated pest gling with low commodity prices and intershyship programs and voca lized co ncerns

managementabout college programs and curriculum national trade agreements

bull Composting animal After receivin g some critica l advice

wastesfrom alumni and agr i-food employers

bull Crop resistance toin the ea rly part o f the 1990s OAC

herbicideslaunched a new BSc(Agr ) program that

bull Limnocorrals for wil l gradu ate the fi rst class of st uden ts

aquatic ecosystems this anniversary year The new agriculshy

bull Grain drying and ture curriculum emphasizes communica tion skills in the agri-food sec tor he says

storageand teamwork allows students to choose their own If you live anywhere near Guelph youll know that

bull Asparagusspecializations and includes opportunities for onshy the agri-food sector ill this area is expected to lead the

bull Systemic fungicides the-job experience Many of those students take a local economy well into the new mi llennium creat shy

bull Pesticides research

bull Agricultural Code of

Practicesocial sciences Johnston had no real farm expeshy within the interdisciplin ary atmosphere of the

rience but he understood people well says Crow- University of Guelph OAC has both contributed

ley and he recognized almost as quickly as his students that the to and benefited iiom the Universitys steady growth Traditionshy

school would succeed only if it co uld offer farm ers sons someshy al OAC programs have expanded into new departments and colshy

thing more thall what they had already learned at home leges providing greater benefits to agri-food resea rch and teach shy

Johnstons commitment to education and his genui ne con shy in g New partnerships o n campus and th e academ ic freedom

cern for his students still echo through the corridors of the build shy provided by University sta tus have enabled Guelph to enlarge its

ing named in his hono ur a nd across campus in the broad range already significant influence in the agri-food sector

of disciplines that now nuke up the Un iversity of Guelph Johnshy Crowley says the enha nced partnership between U of G and

ston was the firs t of hundreds of hulllane and sensible people the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture Food a nd Rural Affairs has

who have given the campus its distinctive character says Crowshy fulfilled a vision of OAC as the hub of agr icultural educa tion that

ley The University of Guel ph is still a good place to be People had been expressed nea rly a cen tury before It s a good place to

help each other to a rema rkable degree and it is eve n m ore end a history and begin a future

remarkable that this sense of co-operatio n has lasted through the In Crowleys fi nal words Agriculture reta ins its econo mi c

most recent government meat slicing importance in the co untrys econom) but the secto r will find

Told in the social and political context of its 125 yea rs the itself [n an increasingly international and com petitive ellvironment -OAC story builds momentum as the pages turn The final chapshy where education and research become ever more importa nt Since

ter in Crowleys history is the most impressive because it SUIll shy the Ontario Agricultural College has demons t rated its ability to

marizes the last 25 years when developments in agricultural edushy respond to changing circumstances during its first 125 years the

cation research and service have occurred 1110st quickly Growing past suggests a willingness to meet the new challenges that await

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ing more jobs and generating more wealth than any 125 YEARS other industry A recent study by the citys Planning OF ACHIEVEMENT OAe 125 and Business Development Department predicts a

ANNIVERSARY EVENTS50-per-cent increase in employment in agri-food bull Mosquitoindustries in the next decade Broaden out to the

monitoring jan 29 - Official OAC 12S launch and bull Canadian publication of 125 Years of Achievements

Greenhouse Feb 16 - Winegard Seminar Series hosts New frontiers Conference Andy Johnson Seymour Wis

bull Non-agricultural March 5 - Winegard Seminar Series hosts At the tum of the 20th century Prof William waste on land Sir Colin Berry Royal London Hospital UKGraham created the impetus for a Canadishy

bull Pest diagnostic March 31 - Opening of AJ Casson Exhibitan poultry industry through nutrition studshyservice and selections from the OAC art collection ies that also provided a background for

at the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre work in human nutrition The tum of the 1980-1990 April 30 - Recognition of the 12s-year 21st century finds poultry scientist Ann Gibshybull Alumni House GuelphOMAFRA partnership and launch bins perfecting the techniques to transfer bull Turfgrass Institute of The College on the Hill A New History genetic material into chicken embryos to bull Centre for the of the Ontario Agricultural College develop birds with better disease resistshy

Genetic Improvement 1874 - 1999middotance or to improve production characterisshyof Livestock june 7 amp 10 - Spring Convocation for tics including the deposition of medically

bull Network of OAC diploma and degree graduates Eachvaluable proteins in the eggs Toxicology Centres graduate will receive a copy of College

bull Biological control lab on the Hill bull George Morris june 18 amp 20 - Alumni Weekend and

Centre opening of the Conservatory and Gardens bull Advanced Sept 14 to 16 - Canadas Outdoor Farm

Agricultural Show will host the countrys biggest silent Leadership auction as an OAC fundraiser for student Program support Ontario industry and the predictors are similar and

bull Distance education Sept 25 - Heritage Banquet and Ball for again youll find U of G at the hub of that growth bull Animal behaviour alumni agri-food partners and University In the past decade the view from Johnston Hall

and welfare communityhas expanded to include OMAFRAs provincial bull Farm animal care Nov 24 - Agri-Food Into the Newheadquarters and the U of G Research Park which bull Haploid breeding Millennium conference to discuss the majoris home to a branch of Agriculture and Agri-Food

technologies forces shaping the destiny of the global Canada the regional headquarters of the Canadian bull Hybrid canolc and Canadian agri-food systems and rural Food Inspection Agency and more than two dozen bull Consumer societiesbusinesses and agriculture organizations that are

benefits from key players in Ontarios industry

agricultural For more information on these events or toIn the summer of 1997 Guelph welcomed the research order copies of the anniversary books visit establishment of Ontario Agri-Food Technologies

bull Soybean the OAC 125 Web site at wwwoacuoguelph - a consortium of 12 grower associations five rhizobium 532C cajOAC125 or contact the deans office atOntario universities 11 industries and OMAFRA

519-824-4120 Ext 2285 e-mail oac125 - which is dedicated to generating wealth for the 1990S oacuoguelphcaprovincial agri -food sector through the application bull Guelph Food

of biotechnology The consortium will develop Technology

financing and the research teams needed to take in new business to the country s economyCentre

discoveries and turn them into products in the Some would suggest the growth of agri -food bull GUARD Incsupermarket partnerships is part of a global trend in economic bull Environmental

A new venture beginning this year is the Agrishy thinking that says consolidate cluster and work Farm Plan

Food Quality Cluster that seeks out opportunities together for greater rewards but the important thing bull U of GOMAFRA

for agri-food companies to work together to meet is that this agri-food sector is clustering in Guelph partnership

a specific need The Guelph duster is one of the first - around U of G - because this institution began bull Wheat in China

to be established in Canada but it already has 500 preparing for its future 125 years ago with a comshybull Food packaging

members and has predicted that potential projects mitmen t to leadership in agri-food research edushybull Transgenic plants

in Ontario could add $2 billion to $3 billion a year cation and service ga

16 GUELPH ALUMNUS

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

rese~ tesch SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERYmiddot SCHOLARSHIpmiddot SOCIAL DEVELOPMENTS

WHEN 24 HOURS IN lea rning how to integrate work Runciman arrived at Guelph know they may be harm ful to

A DAY ISNT ENOUGH and fa mily life rath er than jugshy last summer after spending four their health

TRYIN GTO ACCOMMODATE the gling the two says Lero Inteshy years deSIgning orthopedic sysshy Most consumers are not demands of family and career is gration is key so tfut people can tems and instruments for Canashy aware that plants contain a comshya problem most peopl e fa ce in be successful in multiple roles dian and Ameri ca n firms He plex mi xture of biochemica ls todays society Those indi vidshy rath er than struggling from crishy hopes to establish a state-of-theshy says Prof Pra vecn Saxena Plant ual and family struggles will be sis to crisis art research lHboratory with Agriculture Herbal remedies the focus of the Universitys new HOLlsed in the College of Pro fs Jinl Dickey and Jack have been developed on historishy

Social and Applied j-Iuman Scishy Callaghan Human Bi010gy and cal and anecdotal evidence rather ences the centre brings togethshy Nutr itional Sciences that will than by scientitlc testin g he says er related resea rch areas und er allow him to pursue hi s twin Saxena is trying to change this by a sing1e roof and will spark new research interests in shoulder systematically identifying charshy

Family relations interdisc iplinary opportunities and spine mechanics acterizing and quantifying the experts recommend particularly for graduate st ushy The trio has appli ed for chemical constituents of plants parents integrate - not dents More than 50 fac ulty and fundi ng from the Natural Sc ishy used in a1ternative medicines juggle - work and staff ha ve indicated a desire to ences and Engineering Resea rch family life be affiliates of the centre which Co uncil to equip a biomechanshy

wijJ stimulate resea rch and forge ics lab already loca ted adjacent partnerships with organiza tions to U of Gs new Health and Pershy

Centre for Families Work and co rp orations and co mmunity forman ce Ce ntre in the recentshyWell-Being agenCies ly renova ted Powell Building

Headed by Profs Donna This funding would bring Lero and Kerry Daly Family BODY IS THE the lab up to date to meet intershyRe lat ions and Appli ed Nutri shy ULTIMATE MACHINE national standards says Runcishytion the centre will promote IM INTER ESTED in the app lishy man who p1ans to follow up on responsive wo rk env ironments cation of mechanical engineershy pioneering shoulder mechani cs and help families across Canashy ing to the human body The work he was invo lved in whil e He and grad uate students da manage wo rk and family body is the ultimate machine completing his PhD at Sco tshy Susan Murch and Co lleen Simshyresponsibilities in healthy ways So says Prof John Runciman lands Strathclyde Un iversity mons in th e Ontario Agri culshy

The centre will also be a catshy who recently brought his blend He hop es hi s studies will tural Co llege a1so wa nt to alyst for new researcl in areas of academic and industry expershy help orthopedic co mpanies improve the methods of growshyas diverse as health promotion tise in biomedical engineering design better implan ts used to in g medicinal plants to protect seniors long-term ca re nutrishy to U of Gs School of Engineershy correct such deformities as sco shy cons umers and ensure quality tion and wellness rural aging ing in the College of Phys ica l liosis or cur va ture of the spine Problems in the herbal remeshyand gender in the workplace A and Engineering Science and for treating shoulder insta shy dies industry include medicinal mandate of the centre is that the

IN FACT

bi lity often caused by injuries prepara tions containing misidenshyresults of its research must be among athletes tified plant species contaminashyapplied and availabl e to the tion by pests and disease a lack public to benefit those Canadishy RESEARCHERS of understanding of plant physshyans who ne ed help dealing with CULTIVATE QUALITY iology or efficacy for human conshythe accelerated pace of life nonshy IN HERBAL sumption ilnu co nsumer fraud shytraditional family relationsl ips MEDICINE Our research will help set a longer working hOLlrs globlt1lshy MORE AND MO RE Canadims are standard fo r the development ization and downsizing turning to natural remedies as of safe va lue-added products

The challenge for fam ilies is alternatives to medicine but few Saxena says

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RESEARCH UNCOVERS KEY

TO AGING RESEARCHERS may have found modern sc iences answer to th e mythica l Fountain of Youth

U of G professors John Phillips and Arthur Hilliker Department of Molecular Biolshyogy and Genetics and Gabrielle Boulianne of the University of Toronto and th e Hospital fo r Sick Children appear to have identified a critical weakness in the common fruit fl ys defence against aging

The researchers from the College of Biologica l Science di scovered that a specific cell type - th e motor neuron - is the major target for oxidative damage known for several years to be a key factor affecti ng aging and lifespa n They were able to boost a fruit flys defence against the damage by inserting th e human gene SOD1 which is known to protect against oxidashy

tive damage into the fly s DNA As a result the ave ra ge lifespa n of the fli es (us uall y about 80

days) was increased 40 per cent

PROFESSOR SURVEYS CANADIANS ON POLITICS ETHICS

of the most pampered celeb ri ty NEW WEAPON or the mo st prima donn a pro AGAINST BACTERIA athlete ANTflllOTlCS TYPICALLY have a

More than half of su rvey shelf life because bacte ria develshyresponden ts say they have little op resista nce over time but this or no confidence in Parliament wou ld not be a concern with a with the figure being even lower new sys tem fo r smuggling for the Senate In addition 34 per an tibiotics past bacterial walls

TI-lESE DAYS on both sides of the A molecular-level Trojan border what a politician says or ho rse is how Prof Terry Bevshydoes in private can have tremenshy eridge Department of Microbishydous impact on his or her public ology and graduate student Kelshycareer - but is th at appropriate ly MacDonald desc ribe the

Prof Maureen Mancuso of system theyre studying 1 t takes the Department of Polirical Scishy advan tage of a mechanism develshyence in the College of Social and oped by bacteria to attack an d Applied Human Sciences an d a co nsume neighbouring bugs team of four other political scishy Preliminary tests by the entists conducted a cross-counshytry survey of 1400 Canadians asking what th ey think of th e behaviour of their elected represhysentatives The res ults were pubshyli shed in October in th e book A

Question of Ethics Canadians

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against other bacteria includ shying species that can afflict peoshyple with weakened immune sysshytems or that can severely in fect a developing fetus

WILL ONTARIO FARMERS GROW

HEMP U OF G SCIENTISTS are helping to determine the viability of hemp as a cash crop for Ontario farmers

Health Canada recently li ftshyed a 60-year ban on growing hemp and about 10000 acres are expected to be plan ted in Canada this year Hemp is an organic fibre tha t could be used in everythi ng fro m fabri c and medicine to oil and paper

Gordon Scheifele of Kemptville CoJlege and Peter Dragla of Ridgetown College are studying the potential of hemp as an Ontario crop Scheifele has completed initial test ing on nine varieties and a series of producshy

tion research experiments in northern parts of On tario Dragla has established breeding program trials and looked at commercial production of hemp varieties in southern Ontario He is also developing field instrushymentation to provid e field readshyings of tetrahydrocanmbinol the psychoactive ingredient in hemp

NO ONE KNOWS MORE ABOUT

THE WOMAN WHO CREATED ANNE

COLLEGE OF ARTS professor Ivlary Rubio and professo r emerita Eliza beth Waterston know more abo ut author LM Montgomery than anyone else in the world They were among the first academics to seriously study the world-famous author of Anne ofGreel Gables

Montgomery published a total of 22 novel s which have been translated into abo ut 20 languages and continue to sell

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From the School of Li terashytures and Performance Studies in English Rubio and Waterston

IN FACT U of G professors wrote the script for a new video shown to visitors at the Green Gables site in PEI

edi ted the recen tly released The Selected Journals of Lucy Maud Montgomery Volume IV as weJl as the three previous volumes They are now editing the fi fth and final vo lume of he r journals and have also published a short biography called Wri ting a Life LM Mon tgomery

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Rubio is also writing a longer biography of Montgomery at the request of the authors fam ily

TRAINING VETS TO DEAL WITH CLIENT GRIEF

A NEW INTERACTIVE CD-RO M designed by Ontario Veterinary College professor Cindy Adams will help veterinarians learn to help clients gr iev in g over th e loss of a pet Titled Death of a Pet the CD-ROM is expected to be launched in February and is geared toward vets technicians and students

Adams who holds joint appo intments in the departshyments of Popu lat ion Medicine and Cli nical Studies and the Veterinary Teaching Hospital is an expert on the humanan imal bond She has developed in-sershyvice training workshops fo r vets on dealing with client grief over the loss of a pet and su pport groups for grieving pet owners

Inside Playwright Judith Thompson

BEHIND THE MASK

JUDITH THOMPSON A DRAMA PROFESSOR at the University of Guelph

since 1992 is one of Canadas finest playwrights Her complex and

sometimes disturbing plays give voice to human failings and accomshy

plishments A two-time winner of the Governor Generals Literary

Award she has received wide acclaim for her work

On the following pages the Guelph Alumnus profiles an artist

whose creativity finds expression through dialogue by offering a

faithful rendition of the dialogue between Thompson and Comshy

munications and Public Affairs writer Andrew Vowles Much like

the characters she unmasks on stage Thompson reveals both comshy

plicated and unexpected images of herself

PHOTOGRAPHY BY D EAN PALMER

20 GU ELPH A LUMNUS

NO The scene is the rehearsal space in Lower Massey Hall at the University of Guelph

Monday mid-morning Outside the warped-glass windows the first wet snow of the year

drops like pebbles Drama professor Judith Thompson is leading some 20 students in her

Acting I class through their warm-ups The students stand in a circle and take turns aiming

a mock blow as they shout the word No More she says to the less assertive To others

whose No sounds shredded over the top she holds up a hand More control Thompson

gestures to her diaphragm It has to come from here

SCENE THOMPSONS OFFICE MASSEY H ALL

On one wal l hang pictures of actors engaged

in a drama mingled with childrens sc hool

drawings The desktop is practically bare A

black purse occupies one chai r A scarf has

landed on the back of another This is where

the playw rig ht hangs her hat during her

classes and meets with studen ts She wri tes

at home in Torontos Annex neighbourhood

where she li ves with her husband Gregor

Campbell a sessional English inst ruc tor at

Guelph and their five children Ariane 13

Eli 10 Grace 8 Felicity 4 and Sophia J

SCENE U OF G LI BRARY ARCHIVES

Guelph Alumnus writer (readil1g from draft of Epilepsy and Snakes Fear as the Genesis of Theatre a talk given by Thompson to the Epilepsy Association of Metro Toronto ill 1997 The script for the ta lk is included among boxes ofcorrespo nde11ce numerous drafts of plays various newspaper and magazine artishycles and reviews ahout the playwright and her work that Thompson recently donated to the U of G Library archives)

1have known real fear only a few times

in my relatively sheltered life But 1

believe these moments of fear are

directly connected to the so urce of creshy

ativi ty within me

SCENE J UST ABOUT ANYWHERE YOU CAN

REA D A PLAY

GA writer (reading from introduction to Tho mpsons play Sled wh ich was first pro shyduced hy Torontos Tarragon Theatre in 1997)

Judith Thompson was born in 1954 in

Montreal She graduated from Queens

University in 1976 then graduated from

the act ing program of the National Theshy

22 GU ELPH ALUMNUS

I seem to give voice to people who

have no voice

atre Schoo l in 1979 Alth ough she

worked briefl y as a profess ional actor

she became more interested in writing

and at th e age of 25 a workshop of her

first scrip t The Crack walker was proshy

duced by Theatre Passe MuraiHe Her

work which includes both radio and

tel evisio n writing has enjoyed great

internationa l success

Other plays includ e The Crackshywalker White Biting Dog Pink Tornado - radio Am Yours Lion ill the Streets White Sand Perfect Pie and Stop Talking Like That- radio She is the recipient

of the Floyd S Chalmers Canadian Play

Award for Lion in the Streets in 199 1 and

Am Yours in 1987 and the Governor

Generals Literary Award for Drama for

The Other Side of the Dark in 1989 and

White Biti11g Dog in 1984

S CENE LUNCHTIME

U OF G UNIVERSITY CLUB

Thompson Im so grateful to have this job

beca use it allows me to do the work that s

important and the plays that will be my legashy

cy and tha t are what 1 feel I have to conshy

tribute to Canadian culture If I didnt have

thi s job Id ha ve to keep compromising

because my plays dont make money Theyre

always in sma ller houses I take chances

theyre not commercial They play all over

th e world but aha)s in sma ller places 1

would just have to pursue life as a screenshy

writer to make a living Thi s job gives

me the great privilege of doing my research

which is the plays that I write and the edishy

torial work that I some times do and screenshy

plays that are worthy and good projects

GA writer Audi ences and reviewers have

described your plays as dark disturbing full

of angry people full of profanity

Thompson At the risk of sounding

grandiosel seem to give voice to people who

have no voice or very little in the culture

whom people dont li sten to Liol1 in the Streets the handicapped wo man living in

the basement all on her own the yo ung girl

Iso bel The secretary stuck in this abu sive

relationship with the actor The middle-class

housewife dumped by her husband because

be doesnt like her sweatsuits and on and on

I give voice to them because I dont know

because I care abo ut them because I like to

represent them Im a lawyer Some of them

use profanity because they have really good

reason to be angry a nd most of th em are

powerless And unfortunately profanity has

a little charge Its a little source of baby powshy

er It upsets me I dont use it myself Im very

se nsitive to it

SCENE ARCHIVES

GA writer (reading essay by Thompson comshymissio ned by Toronto literary Journal Brick

in 995)

If I were not a writer 1 think 1 would

wear a riding hat With a stee l lining

Because I would be baving many more

epi leptic seizures than 1 do presentl y

Because any of the non-writer real jobs I have had caused me sleepless nights self-disgust swoll en eyes cystic acne and hearin g di sorde rs all of which increased electrical activity in my brain which I believe increases the frequenshycy of seizu res

SCENE UNI VER SITY CLUB

Thompson (discussing the critical and pubshylic reaction to her first play The Crackwalkshyer) It was slaughtered at first as all my plays have been Very bad reviews at first and then somehow they catch fi re and theres one grea t review and the others start to see something GA writer Why the bad reviews Thompson I think people might say that theyre shock ing but I dont think so not

with the movies we see and whatnot Theyre not shocking compared with Quentin Taranshytino But theyre not like anything else they dont know where to put them And when they dont know where to put them theyre dismayed I think and hostile and they feel challenged I just write as I see Im not tryshying to shock or challenge anyone I hope they do challenge - me too all of us I often feel li ke the little boy in The Emperors New

Clothes Look this is what I see

SCENE LOWER MASSEY HALL

Two Acting I students perform a scene on th e stage Their fellow stud ents sit on th e Aoo r watching Thompson sits forward on a plasti c chair forearms propped on her knees hands clasped before her Her eyes her bod y are intent on the action Later Amberley Buxton (fi rst-year student il1 Actshyil1g I who is pursuing a psychology major and a drama minor)

Its a really in tense class In one of our first classes we were to share something that had changed our perspective on li fe or how we thought every day Later during improvisashytion or scene work she had us draw on the emotional context fro m those stories to add to our acting experiences Its really intense in that way A lot of people share a lot of personal things and we use each others experiences

SCENE UNIVER SIT Y CLUll

Thompson Ea ch se meste r students go through an intensive transition In order to find your creative centre or trigger yo u need

to know yourself in an intell ectual context They reach that pl ace and find their genius My philosophy is that every stu dent has genius and its my job to uncover it My relationshi p is so intense with st udents The classes are very psychoanalyt ic It seems to tra nsform their life

SCENE LO WER MA SSEY

Buxton Even if we haven t encountered a similar situat ion in real life she has us draw on somethi ng similar For ollr exa m Im doing a monologue My character has been abused I havent been abused myself but I have to draw on a si tuation where I had sim shy

itar feel ings draw on some experi ence Like being teased at schoo l Even so mething as small as tha t if you find a way to get back to that

SCENE UNIVERSITY CLUll

Thompso n I llsed to be terrified In high school Id spend half my time in the nurses room because the idea of having a se izu re in front of yo ur peers at that age was just petrifying I did finall y have a seizure but luckil y no one was around at the time So I

think all of that puts me in touch with a lot in life I might not have been in touch with being fairly privileged not rich but eno ugh to be middle class A lot of my work is about class abo ut the class differentiation in Canashyda Ive somehow felt more all ied to a less adva ntaged class My gra ndfather once sat as prime minister of Australia My grandshyfa ther on the other side was a member of the Royal Society an entomologist but his mother died in childbirth and he was brought up as a cousin on the farm outside of London And my Australian grandfath er was one of 1I siblings in a shack by the side of the railroad His father had di ed He walked barefoot to school so I th ink because its just two generations away I feel it in my bones and my blood GA writer How did you get to writing Thompson Through ac ting Ive been involved in thea tre since I was II years old I was Helen Keller for a university show my mother directed She had an [vIA in th eatre and she taught it at Queens I was in TILe Crushycible when I was 12 in Kingston and Jean Brodie and on and on and on I would just lisshyten to aU these wonderful lines and words and it all kind of enrered me And acting is where I reaU y found my niche as a person The theshyatre became my home Then I went to theatre schoo l as an actress but I started to create mask characters through improvisation Thats where I really took off in a big way and where I found myse lf very very excited GA writer VVhat we re you excited abo ut Thompson I was doing the writing And I felt frankly that I did it much better than most of the texts I was working with Not Shakespeare but and its not a matter of better it s thats where I belonged So I would go home and write down the charshyacters that r crea ted that day in class and make th em talk to each odler and thats how The Craekwalker happened

I spent a summer in Toronto looking for acting work and I go t a few jobs But every day for a co uple of hours I would write at a typewri ter and I found these voices comshying At the end of it I sa id to someone You know I think this isnt bad I think this might eve n be a play At the Na tional Theatre shySchool they said to me Youre pretty handy with these monologues but dont ever think you could write a play (Pause) I enjoy telling th at tale on them

WINTER 1999 23

SCENE LOWER MASSEY

Buxton It was my fint time doing mask work She had us sit with the masks on and just sta re at ou rselves in the mirror We did it for an hour staring at the mask feelin g the mask It was a phenomenal eilVer ience the Wily youre able to transform yourself It was almost as if you werent look ing at you That helped yo u to walk differently You were able to shed your

own movements and personality

SCEN E UNIVfRSITY CLU B

Thompson I think thil t seizures can transshylate into creativity are part of me as a cre shyltltive artist Peop le in the medical busin ess are very skeptical of ltll1ything like this But I fee l it s because I have fewer inhibitors in my bra in You have these inhibitors and thats what medication helps But if youre epi leptic your inhibitors Ment working as well to put out the electrical fire so it spreads I think the door to my un conscious is kind of flapping around so J think that helps creatively

SCENE MA SSEY HALL

Student (steppingforwmd) NO I Thompson (quietly) Good

SCENE ARCHIVES

GA writer ( reading fiom Epilepsy and Sna kes)

I have no doubt that my experience with epi lepsy has con tributed to my creative wo rk partly because it hE Jped me to understand what it is to be marginalized to be isolated to be feJ rful and to be out of control and eve n to be mortal

SCENE U NIVERS IT Y CLU B

Thompson Unchecked id can mean scrawlshying on the walls crazy things muttering in stree t corne rs beca use th ey re all id no su perego But I had the luck to be born into a theatrical famiJy my mother havin g the theatrical experience so I was exposed to it Lots of books I was taken to 1 lor of plays Having ep il epsy my first seizure when I was nin e J was able to link with that If I hadnt had those advantages who knows the se izur es migh t have ju st made me a depressed person an angr y person And you re touched with mortality you always live und er siege a slight fear of having a se izure Its much less so now with me

24 GUELPH ALUM NUS

SCENE UNIVERSITY CLUB

Thompson Ive always been a mimic in a cheap way I could always mimic we ll I would raLk to someone on a bus and I could do them exactly Thats kind of dangerous because it can be pretty shallow But it showed me ltl way into the person throu gh voice And once J could do that like a pupshypet something would click and I cou ld get

in in a deeper way J need to get so thoroughly into the charshy

acte rs and their state of mind and especialshyly tapping repressed el11orion which gets you in touch with your id or unconscious li fe If

I take little sections of

myself and grow them in a petri dish of the play

one character is about rage I have to tap into my own rage and that s why the monoshylogues so things can just flow and then I can retrieve things from the past and remember things So its not working from here (gesshytures to midriff) it s wo rking fro l11 here (gesshytures to head)

Mo nologues for me are always the key to findin g out who th e character is because if you cant make them rant for fi ve minutes you dont know th em Tha ts what I tell my

playwriting students I want to see r-wo pages of this characters mouth In other words to speak for five minutes we have to have

so mething to say We have to have something we feel passionately about something were angry about and if we dont have something to say for fi ve minutes who are we

SCENE UN IVERSTTY CLUB

GA writer Vhere do you see what eventushyally becomes a play such as Sled 1110mpson I was at a lodge and saw a moose that s one thin g And that made me think about winter and how the country is always with us as Ca nadians Even in the urban censhytres we ca rr y it wi th us Theres always this

see ming division between the country the wilderness and civilized centres but its the same The wildness of the moose and the

hunt and the bear is in our neighbourhoods I guess its like Lion in the Streets it must be a thing with me And also the exquisite beaushyty and thats how most of the world thinks of Canada as the wilderness Its not quite how we think of ourselves but it is partly So that made me want to do something abo ut the Nor th violence in the North

As far as th e old mans stories that was my neighbour and he told me all those stoshyries they were all true except mltlyb e one or so and I thought Theyre amazing They teilus what our neighbourhoods Me really about and Toro nto what the city is how its const ru cted Toronto is our stories and in th ese neighbourhoods you have an urbane entertainer li ving nex t to an 80-year-old Italia n man and thats the beauty ofToronshyto ltllld its the way th e world is chan ging The stric t class divis ions and culture divishysions th eyre no longer as defin ed as they we re espec ially in th ese neighbourhoods the great pioneering experimen t GA writer Do your chi ld ren see your work Thompson No None of my children can see my plays Ariane saw f Am Yours in New York when she was about nin e I do cl eal with the dark and whats tru e and my chilshydren aren t ready for that Im probab ly more protective th an mos t mothers Walk them

to school till theyre 13 that ki nd of thin g GA writer Yo u we re intervi ewed in the Globe alld Mail recently in a story about motherh ood dnd th e muse How do yo u handle th e demand s of motherh ood and writing

Thompson If Im in the situation where I have 15 or so hours of child care a week Im OK because when Im with them I wa nt to be with them and when ]m doing my work

th ats what I clo But if I do something like a worko ut thell a black cloud descends The guilt and the black cl oud th at descend as I take off on my bike it s huge Then once the workout s finished I know it was d good

thing to do although it s also cut into my

work time J do feel guilty about the nilture of my work too in that my kids cant see it Am I drawing on a part of me thats not good as a mother The oth er part of me is th at I make up bedtime stories and bake coo kies and all thlt stuff ]m probably a

rather operatic mother I cry at movies laugh too hard __

SCENE ARCI-I[VES

GA writer (reading fiom Epilepsy and Snakes)

1

Although being a dramatic writer has

given me a reputation in my cou ntr y

and a strong identity the actof writin g

or creating character leaves me SOJlle shy

times feeling that I have no id entity at

all Every once in a while when I am not

writing or tending to my four children

I feel I 1m falling again down th e terrishy1 ble hole with nothing to hold on to

And I believe this falling this identity

pain is a result of me using the very

essence of Ill yself to create character in

a dramatic wo rk r wonder so metimes

if J illl1 betraying my soul in a way by

using its essence However J have found

some comfo rt in the words ofWilliall1

Blake Essence is not Identity but from

Essence proceeds Identity and from one

Essence may proceed many Identities

as from one Affection Jlla y proceed

many thoughts If the Essence was

the sa me as the Identit y there could be

but one Identity which is fal se Heaven

wo uld upon this plan be but a clock

but one and the sa me Essence is th ereshy

fore Essence and not Identity

SCENE UNIVER SIT Y CLUB

Thompson I always put myself in a play and

never In other words I take little sections of

myself and grow them in a petri dish of th e

play So if Ive found a moment where Im a

bit lazy ]11 grow it and milke the character

very lazy o r impatient or whatever So I take

these moments because we all have all of

them grow th em and create this Frankenshy

steins monste r a character right out of parts

body parts and psychological parts often of

myself and then observe things in other peoshy

ple but I have to find it in myself to make it

work

SCENE AR C H1V ES

GA writer (reading from Epilepsy al1d Snakes)

My self asserted itself as a kind of quishy

et Lucille Ball c1ulllsy and absent-mindshy

ed At least this gave me an identity and

was a small aCI of slbo tage The next

assertion was an act of unconscio us rev shy

olution th e grand mal seizure that

almost killed me And the next one was

The Crackwalker my first play And this

is how I raged against the machine and

took space in the world And now not

surprisin gly I am seizure-free

SCENE LOWER MASSEY

After another pair of acto rs rUllS through

their scene Thompson directs them to begi n

again She interrupts frequently to question

the students about actions feelings motishy

vations At one point 8S the students pause

to consider her words Thompson turns to

the rest of the class erect in her cha ir

Thompson Isolate the mom ent The great

thing about the stage is th at it isolates the

moments that just race by us_

SCENE UNIVERSITY CLUB

Thompson Ive just written my next play

which is not ca lled Pefeet Pie but thats its

working title because it came from a mon oshy

logue called Perfect Pie But now its a full

two- haul play in which the second wom3n

comes back and tben I have them as yo ung

girls too It goes back ~nd forth and its very

exciting I worksbopped it in the spring and

in December at tbe Tarragon and it will go

on in o ne year At the sa me time lm wr itshy

ing a feature film for Rho mbus based on the

play Pe feet Pie

SCEN E UNlV ERSITY CLUIl

Thompson My pIalS are Illusically written

And if somebody doesnt get the music they

dont feel it and go with the rhythm s it

throws the whole thing off I hear the plays

I hea r them I write with my ear They

change 1 lo t but it s according to rhythm

I ll be sitting in rehea rsal listening and if it

does nt so und ri ght I change it so that its

rhythmic

SCIi -JE J UST AllOUT ANYWHERE YOU CA N

READ A PLAY

GA writer (readmg ji-olll the script ofvVbite

Biting Dog first produced at the Tarragon Th eatre in 1984)

Beciluse of the ex treme and deliberate

lllu sica lity of this play any allempts to

go aga inst the tex tual rhythms such as

th e breaking up of an unbroken senshy

tence the tlking of a pause where none

is written in are DISASTROUS The

effect is like beil1g in a small plane and

suddenly turning off the ignition It all

falls down This play III list SPIN not

just turn around

SCfN e LOWER MASSEY

Her students listen as Thompson stands to

complete a so liloq uy abo ut cap turing the

rhythm of the language on the stage The

wide sleeves of her ank le-length dress slide

down her forea rm s as she ges tures

Thompson Listen to the music of the

scene Each playwright writes their own

symphony

SCENE U NIVERSlTY CLUB

Thompson Ive been pretty directed to this

ii-om an carly age although if I had done anyshy

thing else it probab ly wou ld have been some

form of social work I would have been smokshy

ing three packs of cigarettes a day and workshy

ing il1 an office somewhere up in Scarborough

SC EN E AfltCHIVES

GA write r (reading from Brick interview of Thompson by Eleanor Wachtel ]99] )

In th e thea tre I think what one mllst

do is co nfront the truth confront the

emot ional truth of our li ves which is

mired in the swamp of minuriae

everyday minutiae Maybe it has to be -tl111 way because we couldnt confront

it every day But I think the th eatre

IllllSt Im not interested ill th eatre that

doesnt ga

W1NTER 1999 25

Never mind fish wars pitting countries against one another - here in Canada scientists and policy makers cant agree on who should control the preservation and management ofour own fishery resources BY ANDREW VOWLES

Ca

as

ollapsed cod stocks to the east

On the West Coast laquofish wars

_ rlTDT Pacific salmon enmesh

Canada and the United States

At various points in between fisheries scishy

entists and managers grapple with everyshy

thing from overfishing of freshwater

stocks to invasion by exotic molluscs

What is to be done about Canadian fishshy

eries And what role is being p layed by

fisheries and aquatic scientists at the Unishy

versity of Guelph

-

dock pollock red fish and flatfish made up just under half of Canadas total landings on the Atlantic coast (720000 tonnes of fish and shellfish were caught in 1994 represhysenting a total landed value of $11 billion) Two year~ later that proportion had dropped to 21 per cent with shellfish and open ocean fish specie~ notably Atlantic

Begin in the Atlantic The crisis on the East Coast has become a disaster So says laquoWE NEED TO TRY TO SEPARATE OUTGuelph zo ology professor John Roff enushymerating the litany of woes that have surshy

THE FISHERIES MANAGEMENT DECISIONSfaced from Ca nadas marine fishery in the past decade Although some fish and shellshy

FROM THE POLITICAL DECISIONSfi sh are holding their own stocks of other species have experienced declines raquo

ASSOCIATED WITH THE FISHE RY

down that fishery in 1992 Over fishing and under which it has been buying up fishers

Even when stocks do rebound rarely do we fully und erstand why he says Theres a complex of problems to be disshy more for cod stocks to rebound says Roff entangled involving overflshing long- and co-editor with colleague Prof Moira Fergushyshort-term climate change and changes in son of the respected Canadian Journal ofFishshyocean current systems and productivity eries and Aquatic Sciences A wise course of

And of course the once-thriving northshy action for a fisherman in Newfoundland ern cod that first drew Europeans with their would be to seU his licence and do something nets to the Grand Banks 500 years ago have else he says (Last fall the federal governshycoUapsed to the point that Ottawa had to shut ment announced its final retirement program

the failure of federal fisheries managers to heed the warnings of scientists have been blamed for the coUapse Even with the lllorashytoriulll in place it may take two decades or

licences in Atlantic Ca nada and Quebec) In 1992 - the year Ottawa imposed its

moratorium on the northern cod fisheryshylandings of groundfish including cod had-

salmon making up the difference [n 1995 the total groLlndfish catch reached its lowshyest level in two decades

Unlike the Ea st Coast fi shery which relies most ly on ocea n-living fish the Pacifshyic fishery is dominated b) migratory species Some 300000 tonnes of fish and shellfish were harvested along the west coast in 1994 worth a landed value of $550 million (Arcshytic marine fisheries and their management differ from those on the coasts although cOl11mercial and recreational fisheri es are small here food fisheries are important to

U OF G AQUATIC SCIENCES EXPERTISE CATCHES WORLD ATTENTION

Landlocked in the middle of the courltry U ofG nevertheless boasts fish pathology and diseases including farmed fish diseases fish an enviable record and range ofexpertise in aquatic sciencesshy hormones and reproductive physiology including the effects of marine and freshwater - dating back to the late 1960s Thats when environmental contaminants early life history and behaviour Prof Keith Ronald thell chair of the Department ofZoology (and of fi shes and biology of tuna later dean of the College ofBiological Science) began a marine biolshyogy program at the University Today Guelph has the largest Partnered with the A-erod Institute of Ichthyology in U of group of ichthyologists - scientists who study fish - in Gs Aquatic Sciences Facility the r[agen Aqualab is an North America investigating a wide variety ojIre~hshy aquatic research and teaching facililY for studying water alld marine fisheries and aquatics topics aquatic organisms Environmentally controlled

rooms in the Aqualab allow faculty and students to U of Gs Axelrod Institute of Ichthyology houses simulate habitats as diverse as the Arctic Ocean and one of the worlds largest collections of museumshy tropical rainforest pools The facility is named for quality fish fossils donated to the University by its principal benefactor Rolf Hagen founding presshy

ident of Canadas largest pet store 5llpplier J 989 The institute which provides space for fisheries research and visiting scientists brings together 12 core U of G U of G faculty edit four internationally recognized journals researchers in fisheries and aquatic sciences whose interests and in ichthyology fisheries and aquatic science Awarded to U of G by expertise span environmental contaminants and parasitic disshy the National Research Council in 1997 the Canadian Journal of eases evolutionary genetics of marine and freshwater fishes Fisheries al1dAquatic Sciellces is co-edited by zoology professors

US ichthyologist and author Herbert Axelrod in

28 GUELPH ALUMNUS

northerners including shrimp Atlantic salmon and arctic char) Accountin g fOI almost half of that total were Pacific salmon which ret urn from the ocean to spawn in home streams and rivers up and down the coast of Alaska British Columbia and Washshyington There are actually five main spec ies of sa lmon that run down the BC coast shysockeye (t he most va luable commercial species) chinook coho chum and pinkshyfrom spring to December

Its a very complex jurisdictional and multi-user problem says Roff Bes ides degradation of freshwater spawning habishytats and ocean climate effects of El Nill0 the West Coast fishery is a cauldron of ten shysions between various groups perennial fish wars between Ca nada and the United States disputes that pit sport fishers against native fishing rights Recognizing the problems of low ocean productivity habitat damage overfishing and indiscriminate fishing pracshytices that take weak and strong stocks alike Ottawa is developing a new policy to guide Canadas Pacific salmon fisheries focusing on conservation sustainable use and improved decision-making

That potent mix of overfishing and habishytat degrada tion is also a problem for Canashydas freshwater fisheries A report tabled last fall by the federal standing committee on

fisheries and oceans called for more federal funding for research and fisheries programs in central and arctic regions of Canada Accord ing to that report the Grea t Lakes commercial fishery is one of the largest freshwater fisheri es in the world worth an average landed value of more than $40 milshylion a year and an eco nomic impact of at least $250 million Some 90 per cent of that catch is exported The neck lace of lakes threading its way to the St Lawrence River also supports the largest fres hwater sports fishery in the world 800000 Ontarians fish on the Great Lakes eve ry year contributing $850 million to the economy

In Manitoba managers are concerned about the long-term susta inability of freshshywater fish stocks particularly declines in Lake Winnipeg and the northern part of the province caused by overfishing environshymental degradation loss of prime spawning habitat and predators The province has seen stocks rise and fall particularly of pickerel Manitobas highest-priced fish In an attempt to manage the fishery in a sustained fashion the province recently introduced a qu ota entitlement system for anglers Joe OConshynor director of the fisheries branch of Manshyitobas Department of Na tural Resources says his department is wrestling with the environmental threats on fish habitat posed

by farming and hydroelectric development In Ontario fisheries are genera lly in

pretty good shape says Evan Thomas fishshyeries section manager of the fish and wildlife branch of the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (OM NR) Ontario supports almost half of all recreational fishing in Canada with more than two million adult anglers and more than $2 billion a year spent on recreational fishing in the province Onta ri o is also home to Canadas larges t commercial freshwater fishery worth abo ut $40 million a Yfar in land ed value

Thomas says over fishing is still the numshyber one problem Others include habitat loss the potential effects of climate change and contin ued invasion by exotic species Among the management opt ions his minshyistry is exploring are more effective fisheries regulation more rapid inventory and assessshyment techniques fish culture for rehabilishytating populations and controlling nutrient inputs into lakes and rivers

We are clearly looking for federal supshyport for the sea lamprey control program he says referring to recommendations in the recent federal fisheries committee report as well as changes to the federal Fishshyeries Act to hand the province more authorshyity over fish habitat protection

Concerns continue in Ontario over

Moira Ferguson and John Roff Fish Physiology and Biochemistry the top-ranked journal in its field is edited by Prof John Leathershyland chair of the Department of Biomedical Sciences in the Ontario Veterinary College University professor emeritus Eugene Balon has served as editor-in-chief of Environmental Biology ofFishes since he founded the publication in 1976 Zoology professor David Noakes edits Guelph Ichthyology Reviews whose articles synthesize and review all aspects of fish science Both of the latter

Under the Canadian contribution to the project - furided by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council - about 80 federal government and university researchers are trying to learn more about how bioshylogical and physical processes in the oceans affect fish stocks

Zoologychair Prof Paul Hebert has led a Guelph initiative to develshyop multimedia learning resources d1at teach student~ from

are published in the Axelrod Institute of Ichthyology

Based on data from geographic information sysshytems zoology professor John Roff has mapped types of habitat associated with various species of fish and other organisms around Canadas coasts and throughout tl1C Great Lakes the first time such

e1ementaIy grades to university about Canadas aquatshyic environments His department has developed a series of CD-ROMs that provide information on all the major animal groups in the Great Lakes Already available are educational CD-ROMs on Canadas aquatic environments (also available on

d1e World Wide Web) Great Lakes biodiversity and a marine classification system has been developed in this country His report was commissioned by World Wildlife Fund Canada for its Endangered Spaces Campaign and contributes to RoWs work as chair of the scienrillc committee of Globec (Globshyal Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics) a two-year-old international research program intended to better understand ocean ecosystems

birds of the Great Lakes The latter is the first disc in a series called the Great Lakes Faunal Atlas which will eventually cover mammals amphibians reptiles fish and crustaceans

The Alma Aquaculture Research Station es tablished in 1989 and funded through a 20-year development grant by the Ontario

WI NTER 1999 29

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various invas ive species that have turned up

in the Great Lakes - notably sea lampreys

zebra mussels and quagga mussels - many

of which arrive in ballast water of ocea nshy

going vessels (Many have also found their

way into Manitoba says OConnor who

points to the effects of sm elt on whitefish

the main commercial species in Lake Winshy

nipeg) Among o ther meas ures the federal

fish eries committee report called for guarshy

anteed funding for sea lamprey control and

for scienti fic research

I think more money will come says

Prof Bill Beamish Zoology a commissionshy

er on the Great Lakes Fisheries Commission

the 40-year-old governing body that co-ordishy

nates resea rch programs between Canada

and the United States and advises both govshy

ernments It was a review led by Beamish

more than a decade ago on the sta te of

Canadas freshwater fi sheries that provided

the scientific underpinnings for a landmark

report published in 1988 that spelled ou t a

way in freshwater fisheries is a lon g-te rm

project fund ed by the OMNR and the

Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO)

to re-establish native species in their origishy

nal habitats a round Lake Ontario iVlari e

Clement a graduate student of zoology proshy

fe sso r David Noakes is studying Atlantic

sa lmo n which was wiped out of the lake

CONSIDERING WE HAVE THE

BEST FISHERY SCIENCES COMMUNITY

IN THE WORLD WE OUGHT TO

BE DOING BETTER

national strategy for freshwater fisheries

Beamish who has studied sea lampreys

for several decades at Guelph and also invesshy

tigates fish habitat loss says money is need shy

ed to help researchers investigate biological

controls as an alternative to chemical lamshy

pricides The recen t repo rt also notes the

need to address the effects of other nonshy

native exotic species on n ative fish stocks

and water quality and calls on Ottawa to

stem the funding decline in freshwater scishy

ence over the last two decades

One example of the kind of work under

and its tribu ta ry streams near the beginning

o f this century by overflshing and habitat

destruction and alteration Last fall Clement

placed eggs into a site in the Credit River

she has been monito ring oxygen availab il shy

ity durin g their incu ba tion to gau ge sedishy

mentation rates in the river This spring and

summer she wili study how newborn fi sh

interact with other species in th e r ive r

C lement says her docto ral research proshy

ject is but one piece of a larger project aimed

at re-establishing the heritage species Othshy

er researchers hop e to learn whe ther th e

Ministry of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs brings together

researchers for interdisciplinary studies of protein requirements

of arctic char improving fish semen and egg management proshy

cedures and understanding hormone activity in fish The station

acts as a quarantine unit for new fish varieties entering Ontario

and serves as a base for parts of certificate courses and a masters

program in aquaculture

farms in Canada He and fellow Guelph zoologists Eugene Balon

(co- founder of the Coelaca nth Conservat ion Council) and Jim

Bogart also identified and characterized the coelacanth which

had been thought extinct until a specimen was landed off Africa

in the la te 1930s Noakes confirmed the identity of ano ther of

these living fossils discovered in 1997 it appears to belong to a

second popula tion living in the Indian Ocean about 10000 kilo-

metres away from tha t first find

Zoology professors Moira Ferguson and Roy Danzshy

mann use molecular genetics techniques to identishy Zoology chair Paul Hebert was the first scientist to

fy DNA markers used to pinpoint the location of identify the presence in the Great Lakes of zebra

genes associated with growth spawning times mussels a prolific invader that has wreaked havoc

rates of development maturity and temperature in many ways from clogging water-intake pipes to

tolerance in rainbow trout Isolating and identifyshy consuming plankto n thus allowing light to reach

ing genetic markers fo r desirable traits will help fish bottom-dwelling organisms that may displace native

farmers and breeders cross-breed more effectively species The first researcher to report on the biology

conservationists will be better able to manage and preserve and impact of the zebra mussel on the Grea t Lakes was

genetic variability among wild fish stocks Guelph zoology professor Gerald Mackie whose studies showed

that the organisms faster growth rate and higher fecundity and

Zoology professor David Noakes has stuclied varieties of arctic population density will probably enable it to displace many native

char native to Iceland to find ones suited to being raised on fish bivalves and disrupt entire lake ecosystems

30 GUELPH ALUMNUS

LEADING RESEARCH

The University of Guelph has one orthe largest and most active groups of aquatic biologists in the world

bull More than 50 faculty and 100

graduate students research

assocrates and postdoctoral

fellows

bull Over 1000 published scientific

articles books monographs

films and videos in the past

decade

bull Interdisciplinary programs

involving more than a dozen

academic departments

bull The largest group ofichthyoloshy

gists (scientists who study

fish) in North America

bull Collaborative research with

government environrriental

organizations and academic

institutions worldwide

bull Expertise covering the entire

aquatic food chain from plankshy

ton to whales

bull Leading developments in comshy

puter-based educational mate-

rials in aquatic sciences

bull A new $6-million Aquatic

Sciences Facility

bull Research support from national

and international agencies

business and industry

adults will be able to return from the open

lake to their stream spawning grounds If

they come back will the eggs survive she

says If were able to show the eggs can surshy

vive that will be very encouraging for

Atlant ic salmon restoration

What is to be done to ensure the survival

not just of Atlantic salmon in Lake Ontario

but also of the co untrys freshwater and

m ar ine fisheries We need to try to sepashy

rate o ut the fisheries management decisions

from the political decisions associated with

the fi shery says zoology professor Glen Van

Der Kraak director of U of Gs Axelrod

Institute of Ichthyology Van Der Kraak who

studies the effects of toxic contaminants on

fi sh populations says policy mltkers need

to rely on the advice of fisheries sc ientis ts

making conservative harvest ing estimates

So often scientists make decisions and then

are overrun by the politics he says (Never

mind fish wars pitting co untries against one

another - here in Ca nada scientists and

policy makers wres tle over the question of

who should be respo nsible for what aspects

of the countrys fisheries as witnessed in a

war of words played out in the Canadian Journal ofFisheries and Aquatic Sciences over

the past 18 months between biologists at

several Canadian univers ities and the DFO

over the relationship between fishery sc ishy

ence and fishery policy)

Roff says theres nothing unique about

Canadas fish problems Its not really a

Canadian problem its a worldwide probshy

lem The only fisheries worldwide that are

not over fished appear to be some not yet

fully exploited in the Indian Ocean

After nearly four decades of growth the

worldwide marine ca tch levelled off in the

1990s to some 90 million tons a year The

m ain problems coastal pollution habitat

destruction and particula rly overfishing

Noakes editor of the journal Guelph Ichthyology Reviews contrasts the few hunshy

dred people who might have made th eir

livelihood aboard small wood en boats on

the Grand Banks several centuries ago with

the massive factory trawlers that now scour

todays coast People are much too efficient

in terms of catching fish he says Noakes

concurs with fellow Guelph researchers that

conservation of fish stocks has to reach the

top of fishery managers agendas

hat does set Canada apart is the breadth

and depth of expertise in fisheries and aquatshy

ic sciences in this country - rather a parashy

dox when you consider that Canadas record

in fisheries preservation is apparently no betshy

ter than that of many other nations

Considering we have the best fishery scishy

ences community in the world we ought to

be doing better says Roff Within the last

decade th e federal government withdrawal

o f support from the Department of Fishshy

eries and Oceans and university researchers

has been massive At the very time when the

resources were gett ing into severe problems

and when the federal government ought to

have been funding research theyve been

substantially withdrawing resources ga

DONT WAIT UNTIL SPRING The opportunity to double the impact of your gift to the University of Guelph ends on March 31 1999 Until that date all gifts designated to endowed student financial aid at Guelph will be matched by the Ontario Student Opportunity Trust Fund (OSOTF) That means that every dollar you commit will contribute two dollars to financial aid for Guelph students

If you would like to support our students throug h OSOTF you still have a w indow of oppor nishyty to have your do l1a rs doubled But only until March 31 1999

If you have already made a pled ge to OSOTf through U of Gs ACCESS Fund thank you [or your ge nerous support Please comp lete your payme nts by March 31 1999 to e nsure that your gi ft is matched

For more information contact Rudy Putns in Guelphs office of Development and Public Affairs at -519-824-4120 Ext 6384 Fax 519-822-2670 E-mail alumniuoguelphca

WINTER 1999 31

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

n ALUMNI PROF IL E

LETS LOOK AT THE OPPORTUNITIES

WHEN I-IE BECA ME president of the Unishy

versity of Guelph Alumni Association

(UGM) in June Jim Weeden brought new

enthusiasm and ideas for encouraging alumshy

ni to stay in volved with their alma mater

And he wants to start with students

Weeden reca ll s his own ex perience at

U of G where he fo und a sense of commushy

nity by living in residence and ge tting

involved in college activiti es But when he

graduated with an engin ee ring degree in

197 1 he left to begin a caree r and says he

didnt think much about the University until

he needed it again in the 1980s to pursue a

graduate degree in agricultural enginee ring

He spent his early career working as an

agricultural extensi o n engineer for the

Ontario Department o f Agriculture and is

stiU with its successo r the Ontario Ministry

of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs

(OMAFRA) Weed en completed the masshy

ters degree in 1986 when he was head of the

agricultural engineering program and extenshy

sion services a t Centralia College of Ag rishy

cultural Technology

In 1987 he moved to the ministrys plant

industry branch as program m anager and

later held the same position in th e resources

manage m ent branch Sin ce then he has

worked for OMAFRA in Woodstock and

now Stratfo rd He is technical adviser fo r

Ontarios Enviro nmental Farm Planning

Program is respo nsible for o ther environshy

m ental programs and consults with the Minshy

istry o f th e Environment on local agriculshy

tural pollution problems

w Weed en got involved with the Universishy sect tys a]u111ni programs by serving on the first g z board of the Engineering Alumni Associashy

~ tion when it was established in 1990 From

~ 1991 to 1994 he sat on the University Senshy

~ ate and its Research Board and for the pas t

~ four years) hels been on the UGAA executive

32 GUELPH A LU MNUS

From the presidents chair Weeden looks

at the bro ad picture o f UG AA se rvice and

recognizes that the associa tio n owes a debt

o f gratitude to hundreds of alumni volunshy

teers who ha ve helped to build the organishy

za tion over the yea rs and to University staff

in Development and Public Affairs (DampPA)

who support UGAA initiatives and alumni

programs Thro ugh their efforts he says the

a lulllni associati o n is rea ching out to all

U of G alumni Graduates who have mainshy

tained a close relationship with the Univershy

sity thro ugh their college or academic disshy

cipline those who feel an affiliation because

o f their participation in a thletics residence

life o r extracurricular activiti es and even

HIGHLIGHTSmiddot GRAD NEWSmiddot OBITUARIES bull CALENDER

those who have not kept in touch are part of the constituency served by UGAA

Weed en says the alumni association needs to strengthen its relationship with all alumni and he believes the effor t must start on campus with students Hed like to proshymote the idea of alumni involvement as ear shyly as a students second year We need to give students some reason to be con nected and an efficient vehicle for maintaining that connection he says

For many students and new graduates the social functions supported by UGAA and the opportunities for professional networking will be important says Weeden but greater rewards are there for those who join the effort to enhance the Universitys acade mic goals

In todays economic and political envi shyronme nt individual financial support and the advocacy of post-secon dary education are important roles for alumni he says How many people ac tively get involved with the debate on whether universities are job-trainshy

ing centres or centres of education Yet some of our alumni are extremely adept in such roles Weeden would like to cultivate past and current stud ent ac tivists as supporters of public education after they graduate

As Weeden leads UGAA into a new year he says he will work with other UGAA volshyunteers and DampPA staff to find new ways for the association to interact with students and alumni One id ea is to expand UGAAs Intershynet presence by adding a Web message board that will encourage alumni to discuss career and campus issues online and a reply form that will allow them to quickly update addressshyes employment status and other information

Weeden says its important to stay focused on UGAAs key prioriti es but he welcomes any and all new ideas on how to accomplish them All it takes to share your ideas with the UGAA executive is a stamp or a push of the send button when youre clicked on alumniuoguelphca

HKHB SPIRIT RISES

ENCOURAGED BY THE SPIRIT

shown by fellow alumni at last

summers reunion the executive

of the Human Kinetics Human Biology

Alumni Association is moving ahead

with more opportunities for alumni to

stay in touch The association plans to

launch a Web site that will be accessed

through the U of G site

A wine-and-cheese reception already

planned for June 19 1999 wiil try to

build on the success of the 1998 event

which attracted alumni from as far away

as Chicago and as far apart as the 19605

and 1990s Guests had a chance to tour

U of Gs new Health and Performance

Centre and performance testing

labs The program was co-ordinated wiLh

A REFLECTION OF PRIDE

Members of the OAC

Class of 52 join Arboshy

retum staff on the front patio

of the Arboretu m Centre

beside a new reflecting pool

that was built last summer

as a class project Pictured

from left are Murray Parker

Ann Smith George Smith

Jack Sargent Catherine Gibb

Robin Shaw-Rummington

Marilyn Swaby BA 69

Bev Healy B5e(Agr) 72

Norm Watson Una Venerus

Ron Costen Henry Kock

BSe (Agr) 77 and Ric

Jordan BA 75

Prof Jack Barclay chair of the Departshy

ment of Human Biology and Nutritional

Sciences and Prof Susan Pfeiffer Memshy

bers of the Human KineticsHuman

Biology Alumni Association executive arc

Janet Leonhard 82 president Carolyn

Moore 83 vice-president Alison Locker

97 secretary Mark Mulholland 79

lreasurer and t-iary Ann Crape 76

These officers are also spea rheading a

new initiative to benefit students - an

undergraduate award that will provide

$250 and lifetime mem bership in the

association To commcnt on these and

other initiatives contact Leonard by

e-mail at Janel_Leonhardinwrbsb

eduonca or Moore at cturveyagec

uoguelphca

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alumni

Multimedia lab buzzes

THE DONALD FORSTER RoOiv

has become one of the

busiest spots in th e Unishy

versity of Guelph Liblary since the

addition of 70 state-of-the-art

computer workstations that were

supported by alumni do nations

to the Alma Mater Fund (AM F)

U of G president Mordechai

Roza nski officia ll y o pened th e

Alma Mater Fund Multimedia

Lab D ec 2 an d celebrated th e

event with members of the AMF

Adv isory Counc iL [n 1996 a nd

1997 the AMF contributed

$240000 to th e project which

increased the number of student

workstations o n campus by 50 per

cent Students use the m ult imeshy

~ dia lab to conduct research on the

~ Internet access scholarly publicashyr u VI tions on CD-ROM and use COll1shyz ~ puter software mod ules tbat lt

~ strengthen the teaching provided lD

o in co urse lectures labs and tcxtshybii books

middotMatters

Alumnus of many interests

I NTERES TING P EOPLE always have eclect ic interests and U of G

alumnus and honorary degree recipient Ken Murray BSA 50 and

HDLA 96 is a good example H e is known by most people on camshy

pus for his distinguished career in the Canadian meat packing indusshy

try and his volunteer service to U of G He was a member and chair

of Board of Governors from 1973 to 1978 and chair of the Regionshy

al Corporate Committee during U of Gs last capital campaign and

is currently chair of the Heritage Fund Enhancement Committee

Murray is also a strong supporter of community soc ial services

In August he addressed the World Congress of Social Ps)chiatry

held in British Columbia - the only non-psychiatrist on the proshy

gram He spoke about his role in establishing an Alzheimers research

project a t the University ofWaterioo which was recently named in

his honour the Ken Murray Alzheimer Research and Education Proshy

gra m At the gc conference he al so participated in a panel dis shy

cussion that outlined services offered by Guelphs Homewood Health

Cent re Murray bas been actively involved in the governance of the

centre since 1977 and has been a major player in the development

of a charitable foundatio n bearing the Homewood name

WHEN THE PUCK DROPPED More than 30 teams including two

womens teams were entered in the

Dec 6 University of Guelph Alumni Hockey

Tournament Organizers for the 1998 event

were from left Brian Finniss B5c 88

Brad Stephenson BA 86 Terry Carr

BComm 87 Todd Bryant BA 86 and

undergraduate student Brian Melnick

Ken Murray centre with his wife Marilyn Robinson Murray and U of G president Mordechai Rozanski

34 GU ELPH ALUMNU S

RESTORING A JEWEL IN THE CROWN

DONALD RUTHERFORD BSA 5 stands in fron t

of the 1931 conservatory greenhouse that will

be restored to match the splendour of the ga rdens

now growi ng up around it His $256000 leadershy

ship gift to the Conservatory and Gardens Project

was inspired by hi s m emo ries of being a student

at OAC

On behalf of fellow alumni I hope this gift will

commemorate the experiences and educat ion we

acquired while at Guelph says Rutherford When

fully restored to its previous glory the conservatoshy

ry greenhouse will be an ideal greeting and welcome

spot for visitors and newcomers to the University

as well as old friend s renewing their acquaintance

Rutherfords professional career spans the agrishy

foo d industr y beginning as an agricu ltural repshy

resentative with the provincial minist ry I-Ie was

later vice-president of the Fertilizer Institute of

Ontario executive secreta ry of the Canadian Seed

Trade Association director of information w ith

the Ca nadian Livestock Feed Board and Canadishy

an sa les manager for Sylvite of Can ad a Retired

since 1986 he now owns his own sma ll investment

company and manages to golf throughout the yea r

The conserva tory isnt the first ca mpus project

to attract Rutherford s attention - as a student

he helped dig out the base ment of Massey H al l to

build a student lo unge - but his recent gift has

been a tremendous boost to those who have been

working since the ea rly 1990s to save the glass and

cypress structure from demo lition

A committee of alumni facult y sta ff stu dents

and fri en ds of the University has moved the proshy

ject along to th e point w here most of the surshy

rounding garden complex is now complete It fea shy

tures six gardens named in honour of the ir chie f

supporters Autumn Garden - OAC 5 1 Spring

Ga rden - OAC 53 Su mmer Garden - OAC 55

Winter Gard en - OAC 65 Water Gard en shy

OAC 49 and the Woo dland Garden named in

honour of the late Doug Rob inson BSA 53

Alumni have been in strumental in raising

funds for the $ l-million project Students and fa cshy

ulty have provided mudl of the h1l1ds-on Idbour

and friends in the nursery and landscape materishy

als supply industries have given $250000 ill donashy

tions and gifts-in-kind of plan ts and landsca ping

materials Rutherford s generous gift has pushed

th e conservato ry fund-ra ising effort in to the fin 81

stretch Th e ga rden complex and restored g reenshy

110use are sc heduled to officially open during

Alumni Weekend in June 1999

1999 Coming Events

Jan 29 - Aggie Goodshy

Times Banquet call the OAC Student Federation at Ext 8321 for ticket injemnrltion Feb 13 - Norm McCo llulll

D iploma Hockey Tournashy

m ent call Jack Bakker at 519-837-0132 to register a team

Feb 21 - Ottawa Chapter

annual curling bonspiel

Richmond C urling Club in

Richmond Ont For informashytiol1 call Alan Bentley BSA 61 at 6 13-829-6598 or John DVit[ 54 mId Margaret McGowml BHSc 54 at

613-828-7038

March 3 - Florida alumni

reunion a t Maple Leaf

Estates Port Charlo tte Fla

call Ext 6533 0 register

March 13 and 14 - ollcge

Royal 75th o pen house

March 19 and 20 - OAC

Alumni Association curling

bonspiel G uelph Curling

Club register at Ext 6657

May 5 - Chicago All Canashy

dian Universities Night hostecl

by U of G at the University

Club of Chicago 76 East Monshy

roe Sr call Exl 6533 for details May 5 - OAC Alumni

Foundation annual meeting

730 pm Arboretum Centre

May 12 - Alumni-inshy

Action annual meeting and

luncheo n 1130 3m

Arboretum Centre ((11 Ext 6657for tickets

June 18 to 20 - Alumni

Veekend call Ext 6657 to plall a reun io n

-0 r shya -IFor more infon-nation on any a

eVC1l1listed ailove call the oJ -lt oU of G extension listed at en raquo

519-824-4120 or send e-mail z

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WINTER 1999 35

alumni Matters

MEMORIES OF COLLEGE ROYAL Grant MacEwan ADA 23 and

BSA 26 is one of the few OAC

alumni who c~n still remember

the first College Royal held Jan

14 1925 MacEwan bad just

entered the degree program in

animal husbandry and may have

been a participant in the liveshy

stock showmanship classes Latshy

er in life he was widely known Grant MacEwan

across Western Canada as 3 liveshy

stock judge and an advocate of

agricultural fairs and exhibitions

MacEwan is bes t known

however for his 23-year C3reer

as a university professor in Manshy

itoba and Saskatchewan and Ilis

political career which included

12 years as alderman and mayshy John Kenneth Galbraith

or of C31gary four years as an

Alberta MLA and eight as lieushy birthday in August

tenant -governor of the province The year after Ma cEwan

He s till lives in Calgary graduated John Kenneth Galshy

where he celebrated his 96th braith ADA 29 and BSA 31

HOMECOMING 98

enrolled at OAC and devoted

some of his energy to organizshy

ing College Royal Show records

indicate it was Galbraith who

first proposed the college event

be publicized so that people

from the farm community

could attend He also suggestshy

ed that OAC invite students

from American agricultural colshy

legesl n th e early 1930s Colshy

lege Royal took its fir s t steps

towards becoming the comshy

munity open house it is today

Galbraith later moved to the

United States where he enjoyed

a distinguished caree r as a proshy

fessor of economics at Harvard

Universi ty Known for his

humanit~rian approach to ecoshy

nomic and political thinking

he was awarded the Order of

Canada in 1997 He celebr3ted

his 90th birthday in October

IT REALLY WAS a homecoming reunion when and Arnott who is head coach of the York

former Gryphon teammates Ralph Shapiro University Yeomen came from the visitors

S5c(HK) 74 and Tom Amott S5c(HK) 80 dreSSing room to hold the ball Shapiro is

met on the field at Alumni Stadium Oct 3 the controller at Huntsman Chemical Inc

Shapiro had the honour of kicking off in Guelph and a longtime United Way volshy

the Universitys 1998 United Way campaign unteer who chaired this years Guelph and

Wellington fund-raising drive The Univershy

sity campaign is the largest in the county

with U of G staff and faculty contributing

over $200000 in 1998

Prior to the game a number of recent

alumni - all U of G scholarship and award

winners - met for a reunion luncheon The UJ

1948 and 1949 dominion championship i5f 3

football teams were also honoured guests z 5 o at the 2 pm game that saw the Gryphons gtshy a defeat York f shya I a

Ralph Shapiro

36 G UELPH ALUMNUS

LEADING THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY FOR 1974 GRADS The 25th-anniversary reunion givshy

i ng program for the Class of 1974

is under way with Bill Laidlaw BA

74 as cbair A public affairs proshy

fessional he has been director of

government relations for the

Canadian operations of Glaxo

vVelJcome Inc for more th an 10

years He also acts as a senior conshy

sultant to support the governshy

ment relations function in other

regions of Canada

Laidlaw began his career in

teaching after earning a history

degree from Guelph and education

degrees (rom Queens University

and the University of Toronto He

also holds the certified human

resources professional designation

and worked in that field for sevshy

eral years before concen trating on

government relations at Glaxo

Welkome He lives in Burlington

Ont and is an act ive community

volunteer having se rved on the

boards of severa l professional

organizations the Queensway

General Hospital and the Metroshy

politan Toronto Lung Association

He is currently completing a oneshy

year term as chair of the Ontario

Chamber of Commerce

Anniversa ry preparations will

culminate with a class gathering

a nd reunion gift at Alumni

Weekend in June 1999

ALUMNI MAKE THE CONNECTION Students who moved into

Maids and Mills halls in Sepshy

tember can take full advanshy

tage of the Universitys highshy

speed computer network

thanks to the OAC Class of

71 whose 25 th-reunion proshy

ject provided wiring upgrades

in the 84- and 77-year-old

residence buildin gs

GRAD NEWS

Marathon survivors inspire us all to appreciate everyday life

W HEN ROBINSON SIIlLJNGS Jane BSe(Agr)

85 Heather BASe 83 Peter BSe(Agr)

86 Scott and Marnie rigwood BA 84 get

together they talk about marathons and the hope

and determination it takes to reach the finish line

Hea ther walked a marathon in San Diego

Calif in June to raise money for leukemia

research then joined Peter for a Toronto marathon

in October that benefi ted the Leukemia Research

Fund of Canada They were inspired by Janes pershy

sonal marathon of survival that foUowed her 1992

diagnosis of leukemia Chemotherapy radiation

remission relapse and finally a bone marrow

transplant [TOm her brother Scott took more than

three years out of her life but gave her the detershy

mination to keep fighting

Many families can understand the marathon

of hope maintained by the Robinsons during

Janes struggle and the commitment they have to

help others who are stricken with the disease Jane

is finally well enough to work again as a writer

and marketing consultant and to join her fami shy

ly in volunteer work She helped recruit for the

Toronto marathon fund -raiser and continues to

be involved with the Leukemia Research Funds

Team in Training She also says that her expeshy

rience has taught her to appreciate more the pleashy

sures of everyday life and the love of famil y

Jan es parents are th e late Doug Rob inson

BSA 53 and Marilyn (Inglis) Robinson Murray

BH Sc 55

19305

bull Grant Misener ADA 32 BSA 35 and DVM 38 received the

prest igious George F Hixso n Felshy

lowship Award from the Kiwanis

International Foundation in May The retired Illinois veter ishy

narian was hono ured for his subshystantial contribution to the

Kiwanis wo rldwide service proshy

ject aimed at eliminating iodine

deficiency disorders the leading

cause of preventable mental retardation in children Over the

years Misener has shown a simishylar commitment to his al ma

mater an d its students through

his close association with OVC

and his support of scho larship

programs

19405

bull Russell McDonaldDVM 45 was named an honorary life direcshytor of the Royal Agricultural Winshy

ter Fair Association in March

McDonald formerly general manshy

ager of Western Ontario Breeders

Ine and executive director of the Canadian Association of Animal

Breeders served as a director of the Royal Winter Fair for 20 years

representing the Canadian artifishycial insemination industry He

lives in Woodstock Ont

bull Ian Taylor DVM43 was recently honoured by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to

Animals of Illinois Taylor ran a small-animal veterinary clinic in

the Chicago area for many years

and says he gained ll1uch experishyence during his first three years in

Illinois as clinic veterinarian for

the anti -cruelty society

19505

bull Charles Chuck Broadwell BSA 54 was elected a Mel

Osborne Fellow by the Kiwanis

Club of Forest City in London Ont in recognition of a dedicatshy -ed and distinguished career in

Kiwanis

19605

bull Constantine Campbell BSA 60 and MSA 61 was named to the

WINTER 1999 37

Order of Canada in January He

received the award in recogni shy

tion of his many contributions

to science and the Canadian

agricultural industry After grad shy

uating from OAC he went on to

do his PhD at the University of

Saskatchewan then joined Agri shy

culture and Agri-food Canada

as a research scientist at the Swift

Current research station Campshy

bell and his family now live in

Ottawa where he is scientist

emeritus with Agriculture and

Agri-food Canada

bull John Casselman BSA 64 is

a research scientist with the

Ontario Ministry of Natural

Resources He Jives in Bath

Ont with his wife Lois

bull Jane Fuller RRSc 65 and

her husband George who both

taught at the Macdonald Instishy

tute from 1966 to 1969 have

moved from Winnipeg to

Utopia Ont following

Georges retirement from the

University of Manitoba

bull Fred Gilbert MSc 66 and

P hD 68 is in his first term as

president of Lakehead Univer shy

sity in Thunder Bay Ont He

taught at U of G in the Departshy

ment of Zoology from 1972 to

1981 and has enjoyed a dive rse

academic career that has also

included teaching at the Unishy

versity of Maine and posi tions

as director of wildlife biology at

Washington State University

and founding dean of the Facshy

ulty of Natural Reso urces and

Environmenta l Studies at the

University of Northern British

Columbia He moved to Lakeshy

head from a position as viceshy

pro vost at Colorado State Unishy

versity A respected wildlife

biologist he has conducted

ex tensive resea rch in s Ll ch areas

as the behaviour and physioloshy

gy of wildlife species and the

effects of environmental

change on wildlife populations

bull Terry Goodyear BSc 67 of

Mont Tremblant Quebec is an

early retiree from Agriculture

and Agri-Food Canada in Ottawa He is now working on

va lue-added products from

industrial wastes particularly

cellulose sludge from pulp and

pa per mills

bull Gary Hearn BA 68 was

named an Ontario provincial

judge in October For the last

25 years he has been a lawyer

with the firm Kearns McKinshy

non in Guelph where he lives

with his wife Irene and three

teenage children

bull Allan Knight BSA 66 of Corunna Ont has retired

from Dow Chemical after 30

years On retirement he was a

laboratory director for indusshy

trial chemicals He is now

working with his son in a famishy

ly-owned and -operated busishy

ness Knight Funeral Home

bull Keith McFarlane BSc(Agr)

68 works for the Department

of Foreign Affairs and Internashy

tional Trade and began a fourshy

year assignment last summer as

head of the commercial divishy

sion of the Canadian Embassy

in Lisbon Portugal The

division promotes the sa le of

Canadian goods and services

to Portugal

bull Ian Newbould MA 68 has

travelled far from his Ontario

roots through an academic and

administrative career that has

taken him to Europe Asia and

Western Canada A noted hisshy

torian he moved into adm inisshy

tration at the University of

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Lethbridge in 1981 and spent

10 years there as director of

research dean of a rts and scishy

ence and vice-presiden t (acadeshy

mic) before crossing the counshy

try to become president of

Mount Allison University in

New Brunswick He is now in

his second term as president of

Mount AUison

bull Indra Deo Singh MSc 68 is

a tea scientist international

consultant and joint director of

the Tea Research Association at

the Nagrakata substation in

India His responsibilities

include co-ordinating research

and development in the Indian

tea industry and developing tea

cultivars and agrotechnology

for tea Singh is married with

two sons aged 27 and 23

19705

bull Don Ambler BSe 71 retired in March as manager of

water programs with Environshy

ment Canada in Dartmouth

NS after 25 years of public

service He has now registered

the company Aquashed Co nshy

sulting to continue in the water

resources field when hes not

gardening beekeeping do ing

aerobics or vo lunteering in the

community and chu rch E-mail

contact is welcome a t

donambl erns sympaticoca

bull Jim Bond BSe 75 is managshy

ing a new processing facility at

the Chalk River Nuclear Laborashy

to ry in Chalk River Ont

bull Terri (Monks) Bulman BSc(Agr) 78 and MSe 81

and her husband Vincent

MSe 8 1 live in Australia with

their th ree children Catherine

7 Peter 4 and baby Christoshy

pher Terri is senior principal

environmental auditor vith

Coffey Geosciences Pty Ltd Vinshy

cent afte r many years as a geoloshy

gist travelling around Australia

and abroad has taken the year

off to study and look after the

children Their e-mail address is

tbulmanbigpondco m

bull Marie David BA 78 of

Hanover Ont has been in the

n ewspaper business for 20

years She started in the mailshy

room moved to advertising

sales then became advert ising

manager She is now gene ral

manager o f three So utham

weekly newspapers and pubshy

lish er of the Hanover Post

bull Janice Harrower and her husshy

band Jerome Billett both

DVM 76 operate a joint veterishy

nary practice in Prescott Ont

Billett says practising together

has allowed them some flexibilishy

ty in their family life and given

their four children a good took

at the rigours of veterinary

medicine Says Billett Not one

of our kid s has the slightest

interest in being a veterinarian

and isnt that just fine Their

o ldest son Jesse attends Harshy

va rd University and is a memshy

ber of its prestigious a cappella

choir Lucas is studying

mechanical engineering at the

University of Waterloo Casey is

planning a career in computer

engineering and Lindsay is a

high school athle te

bull Clair Heinbuch BSe 74 is a

sales manager with Baye r Corp

in Kansas H e and his wife

Caroline (Koscik) BASc 75

returned to the Kansas City

area after spending four years in

Denver They have three chilshy

dren Lisa 20 Scott 18 and

Ryan [5

bull Beverly Lee BASe 72 is an

elem entary school principal in

Unionville Ont She lives with

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her husband Grant Egan in

Collingwood and is looking

forward to retirement in severshy

al years Life on Georgian Bay

is wonderful she says Lee

would love to hear from fellow

grads by e-mail at

leebYrbeeduonca or by

phone at 705 -444 -092l

bull Won-Jai Maeng MSc 71 took office Sept 1 as president

of Kon-Kuk University in Seoul

Korea where his academic

career began He completed an

undergraduate degree at Kon

Kuk in 1965 then studied at

Mailing Agricultural College in Denmark and at U of G before

doing doctoral work at the Unishy

versity of California Davis

Maeng has held research and

teaching positions at the Unishy

versity of illinois at Chung-Ang

University and at Kon-Kuk

where he has been a professor of

animal science since 1984 His

appointment as president folshy

lows years of administrative

experience as a department

head dean and chair of various

research committees and proshy

fessional organizations An

expert in ruminant nutrition

Maeng was instrumental in

developing the livestock feed

industry in Korea He has also

been active in working with

alumni groups and in writing

for the Kon-Kuk Tribune

bull Bill MarshaU ADA 75 of Proton Station Ont moved

from Clarksburg in June to

work in Dundalk for the Grey

County Roads Department on

its road management crew

bull Bernie Matte BSc(Agr) 70 of Moncton NB retired

in March after 28 years with

Fisheries and Oceans Canada

and the Canadian Food

Inspection Agency He plans to

travel to Belize and Honduras

with his wife Diane and will

be available anywhere in the

Caribbean for seafood HACCP

consulting work

bull Margaret McClain BA 70 lives in Arkansas where she is

highJy involved in the issue of

40 GUELPH ALUMNUS

missing children and internashy

tional abductions McClain who

believes her own six-year-old

daughter was taken out of the

United States more than a year

ago by her second husband is

reaching out to parents with

similar experiences through an

organization that is lobbying the

US government for tougher

international abduction laws

She invites interested fr iends

and alumni to contact her

through her Web site at

wwwinsolwwbnet-dmcclain

bull Robert (Chuck) Miller BA 77 is the park superintendent

of Killarney French River and

Maskinonje provincial parks in

Ontario He moved to Killarney

from Quetico Provincial Park

last May

bull Gordon Nicol BA 72 and MSc(Agr) 74 teaches math

and science in a bilingual prishy

vate school in Guatemala A

BEd graduate of Laurentian

he first taught in Guatemala in

the late 1970s then spent 12

years in northern Alberta as a

teacher and principal He

returned to Guatemala in 1989

A widower with three teenage

children Nicol would like to

hear from U of G friends and

acquaintances especially anyshy

one who is was or will be in

Central America He says he

could also use middle-schoolshy

level science projects Send eshy

mail to gnicoll guatenet or

write to PO Box 661447 Miami

Springs Florida 33266-1447

bull Chris Schulte BSc 71 and MSc 73 lives in Nassau

Bahamas with his wife

Andrya After graduation he

stayed in the Department of

Physics as a research associate

with Prof lain Campbell then

joined Ontario Hydro in the

early 1980s He moved to the

Bahamas in 1995 He can be

reached bye-mail at

schultebahamasnetbs

bull Sandra (Pickford) Webster BA 75 has retired from U of

Gs Co mmunications and Pubshy

lic Affairs and is living in Parry

Sound Ont where she is

doing volunteer work and

communications consulting

for the municipality Guelph

friends ca n contact her by

e-mail atswebsterzeutercom

19805

bull Sharon (Courneya) Angus BA 8 I of Surrey BC comshy

pleted a BSW at the University

of British Columbia in 1988

and has been working for the

BC government for 13 years

- first in probation and now

in the family justice division

She and her husband Ron

have three children Jason

Carly and Colin

bull Karen Beazley BLA 86 is an assistant professor and acadeshy

mic program co-ordinator at

the School for Reso urce and

Environmental Studies at Dalshy

housie University in Halifax

She is currently doing research

for a book on endangered

species initiatives and is orgashy

nizing a Nova Scotia wildlands

workshop with the Wildlands

Project for 1999 Her e-mail

address is kbeazleyisdalca

bull Caroline (Van Deudekom) and Marc Brooks both ADA 87

recently moved from Strathroy

to Owen Sound Ont where

they run a 50-acre organic farm

with their two sons

bull Virginia Burt BLA 85 startshyed her own landscape architecshy

ture firm Visionscapes in

Hamilton Ont in ] 996 She

specializes in the design of thershy

apeutic healing gardens spirit

gardens sacred spaces and

la byrin ths and recen tly designed the first healing garden

in Canada specificalJy for peoshy

ple living with HIV and AIDS

bull Joanne (Branson) Carver BA 80 earned a BEd from Brock

University in 1981 and recently

started working as a probashy

tionparole officer She Jives in

Ajax Ont and has two daughshy

ters Julie4 and Sarah 8

bull Heather Champ BA 86 is a Web-site designer in New York

City She began her work in

computer design in 1990 Her

personal site can be Found at

wwwjezebelcom

bull Laurie Gough BA 87 has become a world traveller who

writes about her experiences for

the benefit of others Her most

recent book Island of the

Human Heart A tfornans Travshyel Odyssey is now in its second

printing in Canada and will be

released next year in the United

States and overseas She has also

published Travellers Tales A

Womans World which won the

US-based Lowell Thomas

Gold Award for best travel book

of the year When not travelling

or writing she teaches English

and ESL in Guelph

bull Susan (Coles) Goulden BASc 84 and her husband

Ian are th rilled wi th their

recent adoption of Jennifer Lee

Yu who was born in June near

Leping Jiangxi Peoples Repubshy

lic of China The Gouldens

who Jive in vVaterloo Ont

thank classmate Andrea

(Kovits) Henderson for her

support throughout the adopshy

tion process Susan is currently

on leave from her position with

McCormick Canada

bull Judy (Bodendistel) Gregg BA 82 moved to Melbourne Ausshy

tralia in 1997 with her husband

and two children Carly 6 and

Adam 3 We are enjoying the

friendly people and the great

weather here she says We are

especially enjoying winter in a

place where it never gets below

zero Celsius

bull Nigel GumJey DVM 85 has been a partner in the Alta Vista

Animal Hospital in Ottawa

since 1990 was president of the bull Garry Millage AMPHI 86 bull Heidi Stephenson BA 88 is now ISO 9000 manager at

Ontario Veterinary Medical left a position as vice-president was awarded her professional Carpenter Ca nada Ltd in

Association in 1997 and recent- of national operations for acco untants designation of Wood br idge Ont He lives in

ly served on the Canadian Vetshy Scotts Restaurants KFC Divishy certified general accountant in Miss issa uga Classma tes are

erilw() Medical Associations sion to open his own consult- March 1998 She has been invited to contact him at

national issues committee He ing company Future Food employed for the last 10 years avon listarca

lives in Osgoode with his wife Equipment Ine specializes in with Dan Ball Chartered bull Michelle (Pilon) Bacon BA rvlaurecn and children Laura providing new and used restau- Acco un tant in Parry Sound 90 moved to England to study

and Matthew rant equipment and reducing O nt where she lives with her and work after graduating from

bull Muneer Hirji BComm 82 restaurant construction costs hu sband Brad two dogs and a Guelph She recently left a posishy

lives in Toronto and is vice- He also operates a restaurant horse tion with the British Ministry of

president of marke ting at SAP called Nikkos in Woodbridge bull Dawn Stetsko BSe 81 lives Agriculture and Food in York to

Canada He has three chil- Ont and is planning to open a in Langhorne Pa with her husshy become an at-home mom She

drcl1 Nadia 8 Alyssa 6 and second location band Paul and children Mark now lives in London with her

Sarah I bull Tosh Noseworthy BSe 83 is and Keith and is a research husband Tim and one-year-old

bull Brenda irwin BSe 88 is a cardiovascular ICU nurse in scientist with Bristol-Myers daughter Juliette She sends love

studying at Hong Kong Unishy sunny Tuscon Arizona After Squibb Previously she worked to Sue Heather and Sheila and

vers ity of Science and Technolshy grad uation she lived in Paris at McMaster University in can be reached bye-mail at

ogy to complete the final France for a yea r s tudied nurs- Hamilton Ont for 17 yea rs michellebacondialpipexcom

sem ester of an MBA program ing in O ttawa then lived in Saushy bull Teresa Tummillo-Goy BA bull Jeff Barlow BComm 90 is

through the University of di Arabia for two yea rs She still 86 has a law practice in Water- the training and quality manag-

British Columbia She taught loves to travel and would like to 100 Ont foc Li sing primaril y on er for two five-star luxury boushy

science for the North York hea r from fellow alumni She family law civi l litiga tion and tique h o tels in Prague - Hotel

Board of Education for five can be reached at 520-299-8344 real estate She and her hus- Palace Praha and the Hotel

years before enrolling in the bull Cecilia (Wleugel) Parkes band John Goy live in Guelph Savoy Previo usly he was execu -

MBA program BComm 85 is a graphic and have three sons John 4 tive housekeeper at the five-star

bull Jagwant Kanwar PhD 80 is designer in Toronto and says Tony 3 and Shayne 2 Renaissance Pragu e Hotel

a senior scientist in the depart- she st ill uses ber marketing bull Peter Van der Borch DVM bull Margaret Burnes-Souria BA ment of vegetable crops at Pun- background to help her busishy 88 retired in the fa ll of 1997 94 is a team leader with [011 shy

jab Agricultural University in ness succeed She specia lizes in after several years of practising don Magazin e in London Ont

India He is also director of the logo design lNith hand-drawn physiotherapy and ve terinary She married David Souria in

regional vegetable research stashy illustrations medicine and surgery He Jives July 1997 and is pursuing an tion at Usman (TaranTarn) bull Jim Parr BSc(Agr) 81 and in Pictou NS ]VlBA at the University of West-

Amritsar His and his wife MSe 89 died of cancer in bull MartyWilLiams BA 85 is ern Ontario

Sanyogita have a son Mohit June 1998 but hes being co-ordinator of student activishy bull Janine Byers BASe 95 is a and a daughter Dipika who are remembered by his university ties at University College Unishy public health dietitian at the

both studying engineering friends through the establish - versity of Toronto where he Kingston Frontenac and

Friends can write to Kanwar at ment of a mem orial fund for advises student organizations Iennox amp Addington Health

Punjab Agricultural Un ivers ity his wife Denise and children 1Ie is also chair of the U of T Unit in Kingston O nt She is Ludhiana 141 004 India Shannon and Eric Anyone Staff Association a member of getting married to Ca rl Stewart

bull Larissa Larsen BSe 89 and who would like more informa - the steering committee of the on May 29 j 999 MLA 92 received a PhD in tion can ca ll Brian Tapscott at staffs unionization drive and a bull Lisa Cherry BSe 9 1 is a urban and regional planning 519-767-3566 staff member with the student science journalist and executive

from the University of Illinois bull Cheryl (Dunlop) Reid newspaper The Varsity He can director of Artists Against

at Urbana Champaign in May BSe(Agr) 89 sta rted a new be reached bye-mail at marty Racism an international organi-

She has accepted a position at job in September as ingredient wi lliamsutorontoca za tion She is based in Toronto

Thompson Dyke and Associshy sales manager for RA bull Bonnie (Byma) BASe 96 ales a landscape architecture Chisholm o f Toronto She will 19905 and Gil Clelland BA 95 were

and urban planning firm in continue to work from her bull Claire Allison BA 94 grad- married in December 1996 and

Chicago Her husband Ernie remote offke in Fergus Reid uated from the elementary are living in Chatham On t

Poortinga DVM 89 is in his and her husband Jeff BSe teacher ed ucation program at Bo nnie works at a day-care

third yea r of an MD program (Agr) 89 have two children the University of British centre G il teaches art and

at Rush University Chicago lVlega n 4 and Elizabeth 2 Columbia in 1996 and now phys ical education They ca n -Hes looking forward to joining bull Chee Sie BA 83 is a zone teaches in Va ncou ver be reached bye-ma il at gclelshy

his wife in the ranks of the manager for the Malaysian bull JohnAvon BSdHK) 94 lan ciaccesscom employed They would both Assurance Alliance Berhad in earned an M Se in industr ial bull Kate Corn ell BA 95 of enjoy hearing from fellow Sarawak Malaysia He and his operations from Lawrence Markham Ont earned her

alumni and can be reached at wife Jesterine have a two-year- Technological University in masters in dance history from epoor tin garushurushedu old daughter Letitia Southfleld Mich in 1997 and York University in May and

WINTER 1999 41

co-authored a book titled

Toronto Dance Theatre 1968shy1998 Stages in a Journey

bull Mary Jill (McClure) Culliton BASe 90 earned

her BEd from Brock University

and her M Ed from the Univershy

sity of Western Ontario and

teaches Grade 1 in Mitchell

Ont She and her husband

Tim live in Stratford

bull Kathleen (McNutt) Daniels BASe 9 1 is a teacher and was

married on New Years Eve

1994 to Gord Daniels They live

in North Bay Ont and have a

daughter Lauren born in Febshy

ruary 1997 They are expecting

their second child in February

bull Simon Deakin BA 95 studshyied in Florence Italy for a year

then earned a master of fine art

from the Slade School of Fine

Art at the University of London

England He lives in London

bull Christie Dunbar BLA 97 spent a year after graduation

working for Niagara College in

St Catharines Ont on the

vision and design of a new

campus to be built in Niagarashy

on-the- Lake Last April she

joined the landscape architecshy

ture firm of Pollack Design

Associates in Ann Arbor Mich

bull Trina Edmonds BA 94 and

Joel Hinderle became the

proud parents of a little girl

Jordan Ashley in january 1998

and moved to a new home in

Oakville Ont in September

Edmonds works in Mississauga

as a desktop publisher with a

publishingprinting company

bull Wendy Garinther BSc 93 and Steve Decker BSe 94

were married in May Joining

them in the wedding celebrashy

tions were Cheri (Coulter)

42 GUELPH ALUMNUS

Ascroft BSe 93 Karen Leinshy

gartner BSe 94 and Barb

(Moore) Johnson BSe 94

Best man was Jeff Bond BSe

93 and MSe 96 The Deckers

live in Edmonton where Steve

is doing a PhD in chemistry at

the University of Alberta and

Wendy is working in a research

laboratory at a biopharmaceushy

tical company

bull Donna Gross BA 97 is purshysu ing a master of divinity at

Emmanuel College at the Unishy

versity of Toronto and hopes to

become an ordained minister by

2002 She lives in Guelph and

can be reached bye-mail at

donnajulietalbedonet

bull Robert Gruber BA 92 is a child-care supervisor for the

YMCA-YWCA of Guelph and

manages the Jean Little Y

Child- Care Centre He recently

developed the anti -bias proshy

gramming policy for the

Guelph Y and sits on both the

Jean Little Public School Counshy

cil and the Guelph AIDS Wall

Committee He can be reached

bye-mail at rgrubernet

comca

bull Susan Harder BSe 91 grad shyuated from the University of

Toronto Medical School in June

and has started a residency at

Santa Clara Valley Medical Censhy

tre in San jose Calif She will

follow that up with an anestheshy

sia residency at Stanford Univershy

sity Hospital in 1999

bull Marko Harjupanula BASc 93 travelled in Australia for

two months after graduating

from Guelph then returned to

his home town of South Porshy

cupine Ont where he worked

in a gold mine for four years

He entered police college in

September and started as an

opp constable in Cochrane in

December

bull Nancy Holman MA 94 moved to Vancouver soon after

graduation and initially worked

as a project co-ordinator for an

ophthalmologist In 1996 she

began working full time for the

BC Liberal Caucus I would

enjoy hearing from and catchshy

ing up with the friends I made

while studying at U of G and

working at the Brass Taps she

says Her e-mail address is nan shy

cyholmanlassgovbeca

bull Ruth Johnson BA 91 is an investment banking associate

with the mergers and acquisishy

tions group of JP Morgan in

Lond on England responsible

for financial reporting and

administration She has been in

England with her partner Alex Campbell since graduation

bull Stephen Johnson BA 94 of London Ont was a lab technishy

cian at Lenscrafters for three

yea rs and is now a full-time

student at Fanshawe College

studying air conditioning and

refrigeration He was married

in Jun e to Jennifer Fox BSc

95 a chemist at 3M Their

wedding party included Dee Popat BSe (Eng) 94 and

Patrick Wulhes BSc 95

bull Sarah (Davis) Kelly BASe 90 married Robert Kelly in

July and teaches primary

grades at an inner-city school

in Toronto

bull Cassidy Klowak BComm 97 lives in Allisshy

ton Onl and is a personal

banking account manager

with ClBC in Tottenham

bull Stephanie Lopes BSc 96 completed her MSc in repro shy

ductive biology at the Universishy

ty of Toronto and worked as

patient-care director for the

College of Family Physicians

for almost a year In September

she enrolled in medical school

at the University of Toronto

She is happy to announce that

she is engaged to be married

next summer Lopes can be

reached at slopesidirectcom

bull Natalie (Parker) MacKenzie BSc 96 earned her BEd from

the University of Western

Ontario in 1997 She married

ASLt Andy MacKenzie June 27

in Sault Ste Marie Ont and

now lives in Halifax

bull Susan MacKinnon DVM 91 is a veterinarian with HUls

Science Diet She lives in

Guelph with her husband

Brandon Wiley and gave birth

to their first child Adrianna

Nicole june 26 at home

bull Waheed Mian BA 9 1 of Cambridge Ont is a store

director with PetSmart Canada

He helped the company launch

its new retail concept in Cana da

bull Alex Mitchell BA 91 was appointed clerkdeputy treasurshy

er of the Ontario township of

Mildmay-Carrick in 1998 and

will be the clerkadministrator

of the new municipality of

Mildmay-Carrick -TeesWatershy

Culross in 1999 He was married

in january 1997 and lives vith

his wife and daughter in Mild shy

may In his spare time Mitchell

is a professional scout for the

Toronto Maple Leafs covering

southwestern Ontario

bull Sherry Morland BASc 93 of Kitchener Ont ea rned her

BEd from Brock University in

J995 and is a part-time specia l

educa tion teacher and an occashy

sional teacher with the Watershy

loo County Board of Ed ucashy

tion She married Ivan LeBlanc

in 1997

bull Gary Page BSe 91 wo rks for the Nottawasaga Valley Conshy

servation Authority where he is

able to combine his knowledge

of wildlife biology with his

artistic skills as resident graphic

designer and outdoor centre

interpreter He Jives with his

wife Di and their son judah in

CreemoreOnt

bull Elaine Pammenter BA 96 is an inventory clerk with the

Royal Collection at Windsor

Castle in England She holds a

museum management and

curatorship grad uate certificate

diploma from Sir Sandford

Fleming College and did her

internship at the Royal Albert

Memorial Museum in Exeter

England

bull Brent Raymond BSe(Env) 96 of Brantford Ont has

been working with Outward

Bound since graduation He

leads wilderness trips in Northshy

ern Ontario Horida Australia and Sabah (Malaysian Borneo) Most recently he designed and implemented a new introducshytory mountaineering course for Outward Bound Sabah on the summit plateau of Mt Kinashy

balu Those of you who know me as plate licker from U of G get in touch he says Where are you Star I miss you He can be reached by e-mail at globarwchatonca or by

phone at 519-756-1697

Alumni Patrick Abbott BSA 40 July 7 1998

Albert Allen BSA 33 Jan 161994 Agris Ansmits BA 70 and MA 73

February 1998 Barbara (Quartermain) Babcock DHE

53 June 17 1998

Wray Bond BSA 34 Sept 25 1998

Kenneth Bone DVM 38 Dec 29 1998 Evelyn (Stevenson) Buhr DHE 39

May 251998 Philip Burke BSA 43 June 21 1998

Grant Carman BSA 49 Oct 221998 Frederick Chambers BSA 41

June 1998 Wilmot Conley ADA4 7 April 7 1998 Lloyd Crewson BSA 49 Aug 261998

Jacqueline Dimock DHE 47

Aug 20 1998 John Dingwall DVM 52

April 18 1998

Lloyd Dorsey BSA 38 June 9 1998 George Duncan BSA 37

Sept 19 1998

David Dyson BSA 53 Aug 31 1998

Norma (Shannon) Edwards DHE 39

November 1997 Vincent Bud Ellis DVM 41

July 15 1998 John Jack George BSA 48

Sept 24 1998

Donald Haight BSA 33 January 1997 William Hamlyn BSA 33 Dec I 1997

Gordon Harkness BSA 49

November 1997

Charles Hollister DVM 38 June 1996 Donald Hope BSA 54 June 28 1998

Lawrence Jefferson BSA 38

Sept 3 1998

James Kelso DVM 56 July 27 1998

Dorima Lalonde BSA 34 Oct 8 1998 Mildred (Cox) Large DHE 33

June 20 1998 Roger Larson BComm 86 Feb 19 1998 Robert Lawson BSA 49 June 6 1998

bull Doug Ramsey BA 91 and PhD 98 received U of Gs highshyest graduate student award shythe Forster Medal- at June convocation for his academic and community involvement while enrolled in Guelphs new

graduate program in geography He spent the summer as a visitshying research scholar at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College in Truro before assuming his curshyrent position as assistant professhysor at Mount Allison University

David Leach BSc(Agr) 74

July 18 1998

Ian Leask DVM 74 Sept 5 1998

Sheryl Lee BSc 95 June 8 1998 Ruby Janet MacAuley DHE 30

Aug 19 1998 Parker MacKenzie DVM 38

September 1994

Jeanice MacLaren DHE 28 March 1 1997

Campbell MacMaster DVM42

Oct 8 1998

Rex McCallum DVM 43 July 71998 Jean (Dunn) McMahon DHE 31

Nov 41998

Margaret Oones) McTaggart DHE 35 Aug 81998

Patrick McTaggart-Cowan HDSc 81

Oct 21997

Malcolm McWhinnie ADA 39

July 16 1998 Mary (Townsend) Mitchell BHSc

60 Sept 281998

Marjory Monaghan DHE 29

December 1997 Charles Monk BSA 44 Aug 7 1998

Heather Neilsen BHSc 59

Oct 30 1998 Jerry Niwa DVM 62 Aug 5 1998 Henry Harry OReilly BSA 42

October 1997

James Parr BSc(Agr) 81 June 19 1998 Charles Rammage DVM 45

Oct 17 1996 Howard Rapson HDSc 90

March 1997 Clement Reeds DVM 42 Oct 16 1998

William Robinson BSA 38

Aug 23 1998

Donald Sager ADA 73 Oct 141997

Austin Schaefer DVM 37 in 1997

Sandra (Mackenzie) Schmidt DHE 59

Aug 16 1997 Margaret (Harvey) Seaborn DHE 28

July 221998

Larry Seguin DVM 47 June 12 1998

Leah Shedden DHE 31 December 1998

Edward Shuh BSA 40 July 2 1998

Ted Shutsa BSc(Agr) 66

Sept 18 1998 Jim Sinclair DVM 49 Oct 4 1998

Margaret (Brown) Sinclair DHE 20

September 1998 Eldon Smith BSA 42 Sept 9 1998

Derek Somers DVM 96 Sept 25 1998

Cheryl Lynn Sopha BA 95 Sept 20 1998

Leona (Bartlett) Stewart DHE 35

June 27 1998 Alex Thomson BSc(Agr) 69

October 1996

William Whittick DVM 55

Aug 15 1998 Joseph Wilson BSA 23 Sept 11 1998

Lloyd Woolsey DVM41 June 24 1998

Winifred Yeates DHE 28 June 11998

Faculty John Carpenter BSA 43 and MSA 48

Microbiology Dec 10 1998

David Gaskin Zoology Sept 14 1998

Gordon Macleod BSA 50 Animal and

Poultry Science Nov 26 1998 Roman Retman Languages and

Literatures Sept 28 1998

Caesar Sen off Chemistry and

Biochemistry Aug 14 1998

Percy Smith Drama Dec 10 1998

Friends Robert Clark Aug 21 1998

Ethel Hammond August 1998

Thomas Hillers Sept 28 1998 Marguerite Holbrook Aug 26 1998

Catherine Kelly Sept 27 1998

James A McKenzie May 13 1998

Kenneth McIssac Oct 23 1998

William Mutlock September 1998 Roena Patterson Sept 16 1998

Donald Priddle Aug 25 1998

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bull Karl Reimer BSe 94 comshypleted a one-year intensive

MSc in mining engineering at

Queens University and is now

a project engineer a t Enpar

Technologies Ine in Guelph

He can be contacted at reimerbservcom

bull Nancy Nauta Rowland BA 90 and her husband Dan celshy

ebrated their first wedding

anniversary in March 1998 with

the birth of their first child

Connor who beat their March

8 anniversary by two days Nanshy

cy teaches junior-grade stushy

dents and junior special ed ucashy

tion for the Peel District School

Board The Rowlands live in

Caledon Ont

bull Fraser Stables MFA 98 was heralded by Toronto Globe 6shyMail critic Betty Jordan as a

formidable new talent followshy

ing the openi ng of his debut

gallery exh ibition in July The

Scottish artists work includes

sculpture video and mixed

media that explore notions of

flu x by interrupting the moveshy

ment of forms in space

bull Erin (Smith) Scott BSe(HK) 92 and Brad

Scott BSc(Agr) 91 of Lucan

O nt were married in 1993 and

had their first child Lucas in

August Erin works for Shopshy

pers Home Health Ca re in

London Brad is with New Life

Mills in Dunfield

bull Abby Simons BSc 95 and Martin Piche BSc(Agr) 95 were married in Mont-Tremshy

blant Quebec in 1997 She is a

customer service representative

with Kantech Systems he is

superintendent of Club de golf

vallee des forts They say theyd

love to hear from anyone headshy

ing to Montreal and can be

reached at 450-348-3860

bull Sylvia Tesori BSc 95 has been doing wildlife rehabilitashy

tion for the OSPCA Wildlife

Rehabilitation Centre in Midshy

land Ont since 1996

bull Chuck Thibeault BComm 94 is general manager of the

Putting Edge Corpora tion

which has two glow-in- theshy

dark mini-golf courses in

Ontario one in Bramp ton and

one in Richmond Hill He can

be reached in Richmond Hill at

chu ckttotalnet

bull Karen Thirlwall BA 93 is a

si ngersongwriter and guitarist

who began her stage career and

released her first album The Voice Inside Me while studying

languages at U of G She has

lived and performed in

11i stler BC for three years

and recently released a second

album called Wide-Eyed She

remembers many special

fr iends m ade at Guelph and

welcomes e-mail messages to

karenthirlwallhotmailcom

bull Christie (Johnson) and Steve

Tyler both BComm 91 live in

Cambridge Ont where

Christie is a personal banking

representative for the Royal

Bank Steve works with their

third-year design professor

Nelson Hofer in Mississauga as

a design consultan t Steves proshy

jects include the Windsor Casishy

no and U of Gs Creelman Hall

They have two children Jason

5 and Marcus 1

bull Julia White BA 91 lives in Guelph and is a small-business

accountant at Taves amp Co She

recently finished courses

towards a CGA designation and

would like to hea r from other

alumni who lived in Lambton

Hall in 198788 Send e-mail to

juliawhitesympaticoca

bull Andre-Denis Wright MSc 93 and PhD 98 is doing postshy

docto ral work in Perth Westshy

ern Australia He wants his

Guelph friends and Halifax

family to know he was thinking

of them at Christmas when it

was 40 C in Australia

bull Dave Yellen BComm 90 was recently promoted at the Gordon

Food Service to new-accounts

sales specialist for Metro Toronshy

to Having been in Ottawa for

the past few years Im hoping

to reacquaint myself with old

friend s from U of G in the Metro

area he says He lives in Scarborshy

ough and can be reached at 416shy615-2745 or davidysprintca

bull Halina Zaleski PhD 92 is a tenured professor in the

departm ent of animal sciences

at the Un iversity of Hawaii in

Honolulu She is a swine speshy

cialist involved in extension

programs for an area th at covshy

ers all of Hawai i and the PacifIC

basin She can be reached by

e-mail at halinahawaiiedu

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are students sawing logs throwing pies baking cookies

and square dancing its College Royal When the entire

University of Guelph is displayed - from arts to zooloshy

gy - March 13 and 14 1999 youll know its definitely

College Royan

Since its inception in 1925 as an agricultural and liveshy

stock show run by the Ontario Agricultural College

College Royal has grown to be a celebrated U of G trashy

dition involving all the colleges

The event is famou s in the University community

and beyond for its open-house showcase of displays and

activities The largest student-run open house in Canashy

da College Royal attracts more than 20000 visitors to

campus over one weekend

College Royal is an event of tradition that reaches

into tomorrow Agriculture and livestock shows are still

highlighted events but College Royal activities have

grown to include dog and cat shows a photography conshy

test a chemistry magic show and demonstrations on

human health and fitness The open house gives people

an opportunity to see what happens in the Universitys

leading-edge research laboratories to observe veterinary

medicine in practice to tour a sculpture studio or to

watch a theatrical performance

To celebrate the 75th anniversary of College Royal

1998 president Joe TrakaJo lnvites alumni to get involved

again by joining one of the planning comm ittees or by

participating in a favourite event Call him for more

information at 824-4120 Ext 8366 or send e-mail to

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OAC celebrates its history its partnerships and its fu ture

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OACs 23000 graduates are also recognized

worldwide for their expertise and leadshy

ership abilities in agriculture agribusiness manageshy

ment hortiClilture landscape architecture plant and

animal biology food scie nce and rural extension

Meeting industry needs

More than 100 years apart in their leadershyship of OAC William Johnston and Rob McLaughlin both recognized that the colshylege they inherited would have to focus on industry needs to survive In Johnstons day that meant bringing greater prospershyity to the farm Because only three per cent of McLaughlins graduates return to farmshying todays college curriculum has a greater focus on skills in communication and critical thinking which are demanded by the various industries that now define agriculture

studies McLaughlin hopes those graduates will

return to help the college celebrate 1999s signifishy

cant anniversary It s important to celebrate our

past achievements and to recognize our present and

future strengths he says

A specia l OAC 125 planning committee coshy

chaired by Clay Switzer OAC dean from 1972 to

1983 and Don Blackburn former director of the

diploma program has organized a number of

events throughout the coming year to celebrate the

anniversary

Were looking forward to a wonderful year of

events to mark this occasion says Switzer BSA 51

and MSA 53 We want to celebra te the accomshy

plishments of the past and the fact tha t OAC has

interacted with many partners to get where we are

today and we want to look ahead to the future to

see how the college and the University might conshy

tinue along this successful path

Success for OAC means maintaining its position

as a vital partner and contributor to the prosperity

of the agri-food industry and the people of rural

Ontario for whom it was established That industry

and those rural communities are vastly different

from the 1874 picture we draw from the college hisshy

tory primarily because farmers themselves - with

the help of agricultural education and researchshy

12 GUElPH ALUMNUS

125 YEARS OF ACHIEVEMENT

Throughout OACs first 125 years its educashytion research and extension activities have had an impact on virtually every secshytor of Canadas agrimiddot food industry In the anniversary book 125

Years of Achievement OAC highlights some of the areas where col1lege faculty stushydents and administrashytors have played a leadership role To read more about Guelphs achievements in these areas conshytact the OAC deans office to obtain a copy of the book

Pre 1900

bull Diploma in agriculture

bull Degree in agriculture

bull Agri-food short courses

bull Production bulletins bull Extension work bull Liberal education bull Library resources bull Field crop trials bull Livestock breeding

bull Forestry bull Insect identification bull Experimental Union

1900-1910

bull Herbarium amp weed garden

bull Cheese making bull Food safety bull Land drainage bull Water testing bull Weather observashy

tions amp zoning for crop production

bull Legume inoculants

have forged change through increased productivishy

ty and efficiency

When OAC roots were planted in 187450 per

cent of th e people who lived in this new province

made their living from farming Today only two per

cent of Ontario residents live on farms

but they feed a much larger population

base and an important export market

The Ontario agri-food industry genershy

ates an impressive $637 billion in ecoshy

nomic value each year and stimulates

employment for nearly a quarter of the

workforce Canadians enjoy one of the

safest and cheapest food supplies in the

world spending less than 13 per cent of

their disposa ble income on food Most

people in the world spend more than 50

per cent

Its difficult to pinpoint all the conshy

tributions OAC faculty staff and gradshy

uates have made to agriculture because

the knowledge created and the techshy

nologies perfected here have been so weU

assimilated by the industry that they are

easily taken for granted Few people in

Ontario have ever heard of Charles

Zavitz or know that this early OAC gradshy

uate and professor recorded the first

field-crop yield tests at Guelph before 1890

Appointed head experimentalist in 1893 he was

instrumental in developing a college research proshy

gram that made good the promise that OAC would

offer its students training in scientific agriculture

Zavitz has been followed by a number of brilshy

liant educators and scientists whose contributions

to the college and its industry have filled several

books Even Alexander Ross in OACs official hisshy

tory College on the Hill can provide only a brief

description of the research initiatives that have

involved OAC in the growth of the agri-food secshy

tor and the tremendous advances agriculture has

made in the areas of human and animal nutrition

and health water and soil conservation rural develshy

opment and of course agri-food education

To give prominence to these contributions the

college has published an anniversary book that outshy

lines 125 of the most significant accomplishments in

which OAC faculty students and administrators

played a leadership role More important 125 Years ofAchievement celebrates the partnerships that have

provided the opportunities for achievement Through

the years Guelph scientists and educators have worked

closely with the agri-food industry with both the

Ontario Ministry of Agriculture Food and Rural

Affairs and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and

with other government departments international 1990s And they still have not reached that equalishy125 YEARS agencies educational institutions and alumni ty on the college faculty Alice Rowsome may haveOF ACHIEVEMENT

Read any entry in 125 Years ofAchievement and been hired to serve as assistant librarian and instrucshy

youll find an interes ting anecdote that chronicles tor in French and German at the turn of the censhy1910-1920

an important element in campus history Read the tury but horticulturist Patricia Harney remained bull Macdonaldwhole book and youll be awed by the

Institutesheer volume of th e work that has

bull Soil science been accomplished by so many people Scientific agricuLture

bull Poultry lighting working meticulously over so many

amp nutritionyears to affect so many changes in agrishy After earning one of its first agriculture

bull OAC 21 barleyculture that have improved the lives of degrees in 1888 Charles Zavitz began a

bull Fruit research Canadians 40-year career overseeing the college

Freeman McEwen OAC dean from experimental programs and made the first 1920-1930

1983 to 1990 chaired a committee that advancements in plant breeding Threebull Collecting

involved severa l dozen current and generations later Prof Ken Kasha led the Canadian art

retired faculty as well as alumni students development of a haploid technique of cell bull War Memorial

and U of G staff in writing the stories division that cut the time needed to breed Hall

A quick check of dates in the book new varieties in half Today plant biotechshybull Graduate

shows a spiral of achievement that has nologist Bryan McKersie is looking even education

escalated with whirlwind force since the deeper into the functioning of plant cells bull College Royal

establishment of the University of to manipulate genes that will enhance proshybull SoybeanGuelph in 1964 and heads unabated ductivity or disease resistance

developmenttoward the future The 125 items docushy

bull Forage varieties ment scientific discoveries to be sure

bull Meat research but also the development of the college

bull Ginsengas an educa tional institution and its bull Farm business

ongoing partnership with the provincial records

government

Out of the J25 McEwen has picked his own top the only woman on faculty throughout the 1960s 1930-1940

five beginning with the contributions OAC made and women are seriously under-represented even bull Professional

to the establishment of the University This campus today This is one area where historians find room societies

has the distinction of being the only one in North to criticize agricultural traditions and college polishybull ControlledAmerica where the agricultural college preceded the cies that continued the dominance of men for far

atmosphereuniversity that supports it That fact helps ex plain too many years

storagethe unique character of the University of Guelph The college itself was dominated by the provinshy

bull Muck crops and its prominence in the life sciences cial government during its first 90 years when OAC bull Salmonella

Some might argue that the process of becoming principals reported directly to the minister of agrishytesting

a university began as ea rly as 1904 when the Macshy culture The 1964 University of Guelph Act mainshybull Links with donald Inst itute opened This event is second on tained the schools relationship with the agriculshy

farm groups McEwens list of top accomplishments The ad dishy ture ministry but gave the col lege a new- found

tion of women to the campus changed OAC from a freedom that expanded research and graduate proshy1940-1950

boys school into a co llege Guelph history professhy grams and opened the door to increased fundingbull Holland Marsh

sor Terry Crowley says bluntly Early student life at from th e education ministry It a lso permittedResearch Station

OAC is readily divided into two - before women greater collaboration with the Ontario Veterinarybull Standardizedand after women College which had been moved to Guelph by politshy

cattle conformation The Mac girls were generally older than the J6- ical dictate in 1922

bull Potato breeding and 17-year-old students at OAC they were more One of the most vivid examples of the impact of

bull Reproductionmature and brought both a social life and a new acashy that collaboration was the dramatic increase in anishytechnology

demic focus to the campus For the young women mal-breeding technologies OVC perfected artificial bull Queen beeof Ontario it was a long overdue opportunity and insemination and held the only licence in Ontario for

rearingthey grasped the educa tion offered at Macdonald frozen semen until 1969 OAC faculty and the netshy -bull TechnologyInstitute in large numbers work of provincial agricultural representatives helped

transferWomen were not admitted into the agriculture promote the technology and control it through the

bull Conservation program until 1918 however and they didnt reach development of a national livestock and performance

farm planning numerical equality with male students until the inventory Through these combined efforts Canada

WINTER 1999 13

emerged as a global leader in animal breeding largest Ontario univers ity geographica lly when it125 YEARS OACs un ique and enduring relati onship wi th assumed res ponsibility for ed ucation resea rch andOF ACHIEVEMENT

the provincial agric ulture ministry is another addishy Iaboratory services form erl) managed by the minshy

tion to McEwe ns list of top achievements Certa inshy is try Guelph agric ultural expertise covers the 1950-1960

ly the most significan t even t in the last decade has provi nce with camp uses in Guelph Ridgetownbull Horticulture corre-

Kemptville a nd Alfred and a network of spondence course

research facilities that includes the Horshybull Business education Changing with society ticultural Resea rch Institute of Ontariobull Watershed research

diagnostic laboratories and 21 research bull Farm buildingWhen Adelaide Hoodless argued for the stat ions

programestablishment of Macdonald Institute in the The partnership with OMAFRA has

bull Computers in late 1890S she saw scientific training for kept agricultural education and research agriculture

women as a way to improve community at the forefro nt of the University of bull Corn expansionhealth standards The college has evolved Guelph More than 40 per cent of the Unishybull Deailing with continually through the years - growing versitys graduate studenllt are in OAC and

cold climate into the largest home economics facility in more than 70 per cent of its $80-million

bull CropOntario under dean Margaret McCready and research budget is focused on the ag rishyrecommendations

broadening its outlook in the 1970S under food indus try T hat commitment to

dean Janet Wardlaw to include consumer research is the earliest and most enduring1960-1970

studies and the hospitality industry Wardshy achievement out of the 125 bull OAC Alumnilaw set the tone for increased research OAC contin ues to lea d the way in

Foundationactivity and positioned the college to join research and is one of the most dynamshy

bull University of Guelphforces with the social sciences in 1998 ic co lleges in th e University saysbull Arboretum

McLaughlin But we draw on peoplebull Ag research

fro m all over the University communi shystations

ty And now with the provincial colleges bull International

added back into the mix we are ail workshyag research centres

ing as part of the sa me team to enhance bull Scholarships

been the launch of a new University relationship the opportunities availab le to yo ung people in agri shyendowments

with OACs oldest partner the Onta rio Minist ry of cu ltural edu cat ion bull International

Agriculture Food a nd Rural Affairs (OMAFRA) Alumn i have always held an important position apiculture

In 1997 the University of Guelph became th e on that tea m Among OACs top achievements is the

The OAC of today owes much to its past THE ONTAR IO AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE might never have existshy The journalist s role in establishing the college as the Ontario

ed if not for the failure of a Univers ity of Toronto experiment in School of Agriculture and Experimental Farm is bro ught into

agricultural education in the 18505 It certainly wouldnt have context in a new history of OAC that will be published in April

been situated in Guelph without the political parlaying of Guelph to help celebrate its 125th an niversary The College 011 the Hill A journalist and cleric William Clarke And it might not have surshy New History of the 011tario Agriwltuml College 1874- I 999 was

vived a traumatic first yea r o f patronage and scandal if it hadnt written by Guelph history professor Terry Crowley and Univershy

been for the acc iden tal appo intment ofVVilliam Johnston as prinshy sity professor emeritus Alexander Ross who wrote the origi nal

cipal in the fall of 1874 College 011 the Hill for OACs 100th anniversary

And that was just the beginning If the first book tdls us how OAC grew into the University of

One hundred and twenty-five years have passed since Clarke cuelph the second tells us why

successfully argued that the new province of Ontario needed a When the fledgling provincial government of the 1870s was

land-based rural college where the focus was on providing a pracshy glued togeLher by political patro nage how could th e sc hoo l be

tical education in farming The University of Toronto fai led to any different asks Crowley Two principals came and went withshy

attract farmers sons he sa id because it allowed the other proshy in its first year when rumours tore at their moral fibre so the job

fessions of medicine law and the clergy to overshadow agriculshy fell quickly to the new college rector William Johnston

ture Clarkes persuasive fiting in the then Olltario Farmer newsshy Because we already know how OACs story devdops we ca n

paper helped place the college on 550 acres of good clay loam see some iro ny in the fact that the man who nur tured this preshy

at the back door of his Guelph parish mier agricultural college through its infancy was educated in the

14 GVELPI-I AWMNvs

alumni initiative that es tablished the OAC Alumni work internship at the end of their third yea r and125 YEARS Foundation in the 1960s to provide financial supshy co me back to finish the fourth year with a job wa it shyOF ACHIEVEMENT port to co ll ege programs and scholarships The ing for them says McLa ughlin and they o ften have

foundation also provided the leadership and incenshy fo ur or fi ve to choose from vVe are very short of bull Teaching

tive to create Guelph Unive rsity Alumni Research graduates to fill all of the jobs that are o ut there now innovations

and Development (GUARD Inc) in bull Birdsfoot trefoil

1996 The manda te of the technology bull Land reclamation Educating Leadersmanageme nt company is to develop bull Rural planning

researc h i nven tion s in to marketable bull Wind and snow Guelphs agriculture graduates haveprod ucts lau nch spin-off companies

studies played key roles in Canadian agriculture and gene rate revenu es to support basic

bull Milk testing including federal ministers William Mothshyand applied research at U of G bull Ruminant nutrition

erwell Diploma 1881 John Wise ~DA 56Throughout OACs history alumni bull Ag poli cy and Lyle Vanclief BSc(Agr) 66 Mothshyhave formed a network ofAggies who

development erwell was a driving force behind the have volunteered their time to provide

western grain producers movement before 197deg-198o

a rea l-world view for students helped to

being named to Cabinet in 1921 In thelaunch the careers of many new grad ushybull Arboretum Centre 1980s Wise introduced income stabilizashyates by providing work opport unities bull Ghana-Guelph tion programs and created farm debtencouraged research initiatives co nshy

Project review boards Today Vanclief is strugshytributed millions of dollars to scholarshy

bull Integrated pest gling with low commodity prices and intershyship programs and voca lized co ncerns

managementabout college programs and curriculum national trade agreements

bull Composting animal After receivin g some critica l advice

wastesfrom alumni and agr i-food employers

bull Crop resistance toin the ea rly part o f the 1990s OAC

herbicideslaunched a new BSc(Agr ) program that

bull Limnocorrals for wil l gradu ate the fi rst class of st uden ts

aquatic ecosystems this anniversary year The new agriculshy

bull Grain drying and ture curriculum emphasizes communica tion skills in the agri-food sec tor he says

storageand teamwork allows students to choose their own If you live anywhere near Guelph youll know that

bull Asparagusspecializations and includes opportunities for onshy the agri-food sector ill this area is expected to lead the

bull Systemic fungicides the-job experience Many of those students take a local economy well into the new mi llennium creat shy

bull Pesticides research

bull Agricultural Code of

Practicesocial sciences Johnston had no real farm expeshy within the interdisciplin ary atmosphere of the

rience but he understood people well says Crow- University of Guelph OAC has both contributed

ley and he recognized almost as quickly as his students that the to and benefited iiom the Universitys steady growth Traditionshy

school would succeed only if it co uld offer farm ers sons someshy al OAC programs have expanded into new departments and colshy

thing more thall what they had already learned at home leges providing greater benefits to agri-food resea rch and teach shy

Johnstons commitment to education and his genui ne con shy in g New partnerships o n campus and th e academ ic freedom

cern for his students still echo through the corridors of the build shy provided by University sta tus have enabled Guelph to enlarge its

ing named in his hono ur a nd across campus in the broad range already significant influence in the agri-food sector

of disciplines that now nuke up the Un iversity of Guelph Johnshy Crowley says the enha nced partnership between U of G and

ston was the firs t of hundreds of hulllane and sensible people the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture Food a nd Rural Affairs has

who have given the campus its distinctive character says Crowshy fulfilled a vision of OAC as the hub of agr icultural educa tion that

ley The University of Guel ph is still a good place to be People had been expressed nea rly a cen tury before It s a good place to

help each other to a rema rkable degree and it is eve n m ore end a history and begin a future

remarkable that this sense of co-operatio n has lasted through the In Crowleys fi nal words Agriculture reta ins its econo mi c

most recent government meat slicing importance in the co untrys econom) but the secto r will find

Told in the social and political context of its 125 yea rs the itself [n an increasingly international and com petitive ellvironment -OAC story builds momentum as the pages turn The final chapshy where education and research become ever more importa nt Since

ter in Crowleys history is the most impressive because it SUIll shy the Ontario Agricultural College has demons t rated its ability to

marizes the last 25 years when developments in agricultural edushy respond to changing circumstances during its first 125 years the

cation research and service have occurred 1110st quickly Growing past suggests a willingness to meet the new challenges that await

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ing more jobs and generating more wealth than any 125 YEARS other industry A recent study by the citys Planning OF ACHIEVEMENT OAe 125 and Business Development Department predicts a

ANNIVERSARY EVENTS50-per-cent increase in employment in agri-food bull Mosquitoindustries in the next decade Broaden out to the

monitoring jan 29 - Official OAC 12S launch and bull Canadian publication of 125 Years of Achievements

Greenhouse Feb 16 - Winegard Seminar Series hosts New frontiers Conference Andy Johnson Seymour Wis

bull Non-agricultural March 5 - Winegard Seminar Series hosts At the tum of the 20th century Prof William waste on land Sir Colin Berry Royal London Hospital UKGraham created the impetus for a Canadishy

bull Pest diagnostic March 31 - Opening of AJ Casson Exhibitan poultry industry through nutrition studshyservice and selections from the OAC art collection ies that also provided a background for

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UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

rese~ tesch SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERYmiddot SCHOLARSHIpmiddot SOCIAL DEVELOPMENTS

WHEN 24 HOURS IN lea rning how to integrate work Runciman arrived at Guelph know they may be harm ful to

A DAY ISNT ENOUGH and fa mily life rath er than jugshy last summer after spending four their health

TRYIN GTO ACCOMMODATE the gling the two says Lero Inteshy years deSIgning orthopedic sysshy Most consumers are not demands of family and career is gration is key so tfut people can tems and instruments for Canashy aware that plants contain a comshya problem most peopl e fa ce in be successful in multiple roles dian and Ameri ca n firms He plex mi xture of biochemica ls todays society Those indi vidshy rath er than struggling from crishy hopes to establish a state-of-theshy says Prof Pra vecn Saxena Plant ual and family struggles will be sis to crisis art research lHboratory with Agriculture Herbal remedies the focus of the Universitys new HOLlsed in the College of Pro fs Jinl Dickey and Jack have been developed on historishy

Social and Applied j-Iuman Scishy Callaghan Human Bi010gy and cal and anecdotal evidence rather ences the centre brings togethshy Nutr itional Sciences that will than by scientitlc testin g he says er related resea rch areas und er allow him to pursue hi s twin Saxena is trying to change this by a sing1e roof and will spark new research interests in shoulder systematically identifying charshy

Family relations interdisc iplinary opportunities and spine mechanics acterizing and quantifying the experts recommend particularly for graduate st ushy The trio has appli ed for chemical constituents of plants parents integrate - not dents More than 50 fac ulty and fundi ng from the Natural Sc ishy used in a1ternative medicines juggle - work and staff ha ve indicated a desire to ences and Engineering Resea rch family life be affiliates of the centre which Co uncil to equip a biomechanshy

wijJ stimulate resea rch and forge ics lab already loca ted adjacent partnerships with organiza tions to U of Gs new Health and Pershy

Centre for Families Work and co rp orations and co mmunity forman ce Ce ntre in the recentshyWell-Being agenCies ly renova ted Powell Building

Headed by Profs Donna This funding would bring Lero and Kerry Daly Family BODY IS THE the lab up to date to meet intershyRe lat ions and Appli ed Nutri shy ULTIMATE MACHINE national standards says Runcishytion the centre will promote IM INTER ESTED in the app lishy man who p1ans to follow up on responsive wo rk env ironments cation of mechanical engineershy pioneering shoulder mechani cs and help families across Canashy ing to the human body The work he was invo lved in whil e He and grad uate students da manage wo rk and family body is the ultimate machine completing his PhD at Sco tshy Susan Murch and Co lleen Simshyresponsibilities in healthy ways So says Prof John Runciman lands Strathclyde Un iversity mons in th e Ontario Agri culshy

The centre will also be a catshy who recently brought his blend He hop es hi s studies will tural Co llege a1so wa nt to alyst for new researcl in areas of academic and industry expershy help orthopedic co mpanies improve the methods of growshyas diverse as health promotion tise in biomedical engineering design better implan ts used to in g medicinal plants to protect seniors long-term ca re nutrishy to U of Gs School of Engineershy correct such deformities as sco shy cons umers and ensure quality tion and wellness rural aging ing in the College of Phys ica l liosis or cur va ture of the spine Problems in the herbal remeshyand gender in the workplace A and Engineering Science and for treating shoulder insta shy dies industry include medicinal mandate of the centre is that the

IN FACT

bi lity often caused by injuries prepara tions containing misidenshyresults of its research must be among athletes tified plant species contaminashyapplied and availabl e to the tion by pests and disease a lack public to benefit those Canadishy RESEARCHERS of understanding of plant physshyans who ne ed help dealing with CULTIVATE QUALITY iology or efficacy for human conshythe accelerated pace of life nonshy IN HERBAL sumption ilnu co nsumer fraud shytraditional family relationsl ips MEDICINE Our research will help set a longer working hOLlrs globlt1lshy MORE AND MO RE Canadims are standard fo r the development ization and downsizing turning to natural remedies as of safe va lue-added products

The challenge for fam ilies is alternatives to medicine but few Saxena says

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RESEARCH UNCOVERS KEY

TO AGING RESEARCHERS may have found modern sc iences answer to th e mythica l Fountain of Youth

U of G professors John Phillips and Arthur Hilliker Department of Molecular Biolshyogy and Genetics and Gabrielle Boulianne of the University of Toronto and th e Hospital fo r Sick Children appear to have identified a critical weakness in the common fruit fl ys defence against aging

The researchers from the College of Biologica l Science di scovered that a specific cell type - th e motor neuron - is the major target for oxidative damage known for several years to be a key factor affecti ng aging and lifespa n They were able to boost a fruit flys defence against the damage by inserting th e human gene SOD1 which is known to protect against oxidashy

tive damage into the fly s DNA As a result the ave ra ge lifespa n of the fli es (us uall y about 80

days) was increased 40 per cent

PROFESSOR SURVEYS CANADIANS ON POLITICS ETHICS

of the most pampered celeb ri ty NEW WEAPON or the mo st prima donn a pro AGAINST BACTERIA athlete ANTflllOTlCS TYPICALLY have a

More than half of su rvey shelf life because bacte ria develshyresponden ts say they have little op resista nce over time but this or no confidence in Parliament wou ld not be a concern with a with the figure being even lower new sys tem fo r smuggling for the Senate In addition 34 per an tibiotics past bacterial walls

TI-lESE DAYS on both sides of the A molecular-level Trojan border what a politician says or ho rse is how Prof Terry Bevshydoes in private can have tremenshy eridge Department of Microbishydous impact on his or her public ology and graduate student Kelshycareer - but is th at appropriate ly MacDonald desc ribe the

Prof Maureen Mancuso of system theyre studying 1 t takes the Department of Polirical Scishy advan tage of a mechanism develshyence in the College of Social and oped by bacteria to attack an d Applied Human Sciences an d a co nsume neighbouring bugs team of four other political scishy Preliminary tests by the entists conducted a cross-counshytry survey of 1400 Canadians asking what th ey think of th e behaviour of their elected represhysentatives The res ults were pubshyli shed in October in th e book A

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Health Canada recently li ftshyed a 60-year ban on growing hemp and about 10000 acres are expected to be plan ted in Canada this year Hemp is an organic fibre tha t could be used in everythi ng fro m fabri c and medicine to oil and paper

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Inside Playwright Judith Thompson

BEHIND THE MASK

JUDITH THOMPSON A DRAMA PROFESSOR at the University of Guelph

since 1992 is one of Canadas finest playwrights Her complex and

sometimes disturbing plays give voice to human failings and accomshy

plishments A two-time winner of the Governor Generals Literary

Award she has received wide acclaim for her work

On the following pages the Guelph Alumnus profiles an artist

whose creativity finds expression through dialogue by offering a

faithful rendition of the dialogue between Thompson and Comshy

munications and Public Affairs writer Andrew Vowles Much like

the characters she unmasks on stage Thompson reveals both comshy

plicated and unexpected images of herself

PHOTOGRAPHY BY D EAN PALMER

20 GU ELPH A LUMNUS

NO The scene is the rehearsal space in Lower Massey Hall at the University of Guelph

Monday mid-morning Outside the warped-glass windows the first wet snow of the year

drops like pebbles Drama professor Judith Thompson is leading some 20 students in her

Acting I class through their warm-ups The students stand in a circle and take turns aiming

a mock blow as they shout the word No More she says to the less assertive To others

whose No sounds shredded over the top she holds up a hand More control Thompson

gestures to her diaphragm It has to come from here

SCENE THOMPSONS OFFICE MASSEY H ALL

On one wal l hang pictures of actors engaged

in a drama mingled with childrens sc hool

drawings The desktop is practically bare A

black purse occupies one chai r A scarf has

landed on the back of another This is where

the playw rig ht hangs her hat during her

classes and meets with studen ts She wri tes

at home in Torontos Annex neighbourhood

where she li ves with her husband Gregor

Campbell a sessional English inst ruc tor at

Guelph and their five children Ariane 13

Eli 10 Grace 8 Felicity 4 and Sophia J

SCENE U OF G LI BRARY ARCHIVES

Guelph Alumnus writer (readil1g from draft of Epilepsy and Snakes Fear as the Genesis of Theatre a talk given by Thompson to the Epilepsy Association of Metro Toronto ill 1997 The script for the ta lk is included among boxes ofcorrespo nde11ce numerous drafts of plays various newspaper and magazine artishycles and reviews ahout the playwright and her work that Thompson recently donated to the U of G Library archives)

1have known real fear only a few times

in my relatively sheltered life But 1

believe these moments of fear are

directly connected to the so urce of creshy

ativi ty within me

SCENE J UST ABOUT ANYWHERE YOU CAN

REA D A PLAY

GA writer (reading from introduction to Tho mpsons play Sled wh ich was first pro shyduced hy Torontos Tarragon Theatre in 1997)

Judith Thompson was born in 1954 in

Montreal She graduated from Queens

University in 1976 then graduated from

the act ing program of the National Theshy

22 GU ELPH ALUMNUS

I seem to give voice to people who

have no voice

atre Schoo l in 1979 Alth ough she

worked briefl y as a profess ional actor

she became more interested in writing

and at th e age of 25 a workshop of her

first scrip t The Crack walker was proshy

duced by Theatre Passe MuraiHe Her

work which includes both radio and

tel evisio n writing has enjoyed great

internationa l success

Other plays includ e The Crackshywalker White Biting Dog Pink Tornado - radio Am Yours Lion ill the Streets White Sand Perfect Pie and Stop Talking Like That- radio She is the recipient

of the Floyd S Chalmers Canadian Play

Award for Lion in the Streets in 199 1 and

Am Yours in 1987 and the Governor

Generals Literary Award for Drama for

The Other Side of the Dark in 1989 and

White Biti11g Dog in 1984

S CENE LUNCHTIME

U OF G UNIVERSITY CLUB

Thompson Im so grateful to have this job

beca use it allows me to do the work that s

important and the plays that will be my legashy

cy and tha t are what 1 feel I have to conshy

tribute to Canadian culture If I didnt have

thi s job Id ha ve to keep compromising

because my plays dont make money Theyre

always in sma ller houses I take chances

theyre not commercial They play all over

th e world but aha)s in sma ller places 1

would just have to pursue life as a screenshy

writer to make a living Thi s job gives

me the great privilege of doing my research

which is the plays that I write and the edishy

torial work that I some times do and screenshy

plays that are worthy and good projects

GA writer Audi ences and reviewers have

described your plays as dark disturbing full

of angry people full of profanity

Thompson At the risk of sounding

grandiosel seem to give voice to people who

have no voice or very little in the culture

whom people dont li sten to Liol1 in the Streets the handicapped wo man living in

the basement all on her own the yo ung girl

Iso bel The secretary stuck in this abu sive

relationship with the actor The middle-class

housewife dumped by her husband because

be doesnt like her sweatsuits and on and on

I give voice to them because I dont know

because I care abo ut them because I like to

represent them Im a lawyer Some of them

use profanity because they have really good

reason to be angry a nd most of th em are

powerless And unfortunately profanity has

a little charge Its a little source of baby powshy

er It upsets me I dont use it myself Im very

se nsitive to it

SCENE ARCHIVES

GA writer (reading essay by Thompson comshymissio ned by Toronto literary Journal Brick

in 995)

If I were not a writer 1 think 1 would

wear a riding hat With a stee l lining

Because I would be baving many more

epi leptic seizures than 1 do presentl y

Because any of the non-writer real jobs I have had caused me sleepless nights self-disgust swoll en eyes cystic acne and hearin g di sorde rs all of which increased electrical activity in my brain which I believe increases the frequenshycy of seizu res

SCENE UNI VER SITY CLUB

Thompson (discussing the critical and pubshylic reaction to her first play The Crackwalkshyer) It was slaughtered at first as all my plays have been Very bad reviews at first and then somehow they catch fi re and theres one grea t review and the others start to see something GA writer Why the bad reviews Thompson I think people might say that theyre shock ing but I dont think so not

with the movies we see and whatnot Theyre not shocking compared with Quentin Taranshytino But theyre not like anything else they dont know where to put them And when they dont know where to put them theyre dismayed I think and hostile and they feel challenged I just write as I see Im not tryshying to shock or challenge anyone I hope they do challenge - me too all of us I often feel li ke the little boy in The Emperors New

Clothes Look this is what I see

SCENE LOWER MASSEY HALL

Two Acting I students perform a scene on th e stage Their fellow stud ents sit on th e Aoo r watching Thompson sits forward on a plasti c chair forearms propped on her knees hands clasped before her Her eyes her bod y are intent on the action Later Amberley Buxton (fi rst-year student il1 Actshyil1g I who is pursuing a psychology major and a drama minor)

Its a really in tense class In one of our first classes we were to share something that had changed our perspective on li fe or how we thought every day Later during improvisashytion or scene work she had us draw on the emotional context fro m those stories to add to our acting experiences Its really intense in that way A lot of people share a lot of personal things and we use each others experiences

SCENE UNIVER SIT Y CLUll

Thompson Ea ch se meste r students go through an intensive transition In order to find your creative centre or trigger yo u need

to know yourself in an intell ectual context They reach that pl ace and find their genius My philosophy is that every stu dent has genius and its my job to uncover it My relationshi p is so intense with st udents The classes are very psychoanalyt ic It seems to tra nsform their life

SCENE LO WER MA SSEY

Buxton Even if we haven t encountered a similar situat ion in real life she has us draw on somethi ng similar For ollr exa m Im doing a monologue My character has been abused I havent been abused myself but I have to draw on a si tuation where I had sim shy

itar feel ings draw on some experi ence Like being teased at schoo l Even so mething as small as tha t if you find a way to get back to that

SCENE UNIVERSITY CLUll

Thompso n I llsed to be terrified In high school Id spend half my time in the nurses room because the idea of having a se izu re in front of yo ur peers at that age was just petrifying I did finall y have a seizure but luckil y no one was around at the time So I

think all of that puts me in touch with a lot in life I might not have been in touch with being fairly privileged not rich but eno ugh to be middle class A lot of my work is about class abo ut the class differentiation in Canashyda Ive somehow felt more all ied to a less adva ntaged class My gra ndfather once sat as prime minister of Australia My grandshyfa ther on the other side was a member of the Royal Society an entomologist but his mother died in childbirth and he was brought up as a cousin on the farm outside of London And my Australian grandfath er was one of 1I siblings in a shack by the side of the railroad His father had di ed He walked barefoot to school so I th ink because its just two generations away I feel it in my bones and my blood GA writer How did you get to writing Thompson Through ac ting Ive been involved in thea tre since I was II years old I was Helen Keller for a university show my mother directed She had an [vIA in th eatre and she taught it at Queens I was in TILe Crushycible when I was 12 in Kingston and Jean Brodie and on and on and on I would just lisshyten to aU these wonderful lines and words and it all kind of enrered me And acting is where I reaU y found my niche as a person The theshyatre became my home Then I went to theatre schoo l as an actress but I started to create mask characters through improvisation Thats where I really took off in a big way and where I found myse lf very very excited GA writer VVhat we re you excited abo ut Thompson I was doing the writing And I felt frankly that I did it much better than most of the texts I was working with Not Shakespeare but and its not a matter of better it s thats where I belonged So I would go home and write down the charshyacters that r crea ted that day in class and make th em talk to each odler and thats how The Craekwalker happened

I spent a summer in Toronto looking for acting work and I go t a few jobs But every day for a co uple of hours I would write at a typewri ter and I found these voices comshying At the end of it I sa id to someone You know I think this isnt bad I think this might eve n be a play At the Na tional Theatre shySchool they said to me Youre pretty handy with these monologues but dont ever think you could write a play (Pause) I enjoy telling th at tale on them

WINTER 1999 23

SCENE LOWER MASSEY

Buxton It was my fint time doing mask work She had us sit with the masks on and just sta re at ou rselves in the mirror We did it for an hour staring at the mask feelin g the mask It was a phenomenal eilVer ience the Wily youre able to transform yourself It was almost as if you werent look ing at you That helped yo u to walk differently You were able to shed your

own movements and personality

SCEN E UNIVfRSITY CLU B

Thompson I think thil t seizures can transshylate into creativity are part of me as a cre shyltltive artist Peop le in the medical busin ess are very skeptical of ltll1ything like this But I fee l it s because I have fewer inhibitors in my bra in You have these inhibitors and thats what medication helps But if youre epi leptic your inhibitors Ment working as well to put out the electrical fire so it spreads I think the door to my un conscious is kind of flapping around so J think that helps creatively

SCENE MA SSEY HALL

Student (steppingforwmd) NO I Thompson (quietly) Good

SCENE ARCHIVES

GA writer ( reading fiom Epilepsy and Sna kes)

I have no doubt that my experience with epi lepsy has con tributed to my creative wo rk partly because it hE Jped me to understand what it is to be marginalized to be isolated to be feJ rful and to be out of control and eve n to be mortal

SCENE U NIVERS IT Y CLU B

Thompson Unchecked id can mean scrawlshying on the walls crazy things muttering in stree t corne rs beca use th ey re all id no su perego But I had the luck to be born into a theatrical famiJy my mother havin g the theatrical experience so I was exposed to it Lots of books I was taken to 1 lor of plays Having ep il epsy my first seizure when I was nin e J was able to link with that If I hadnt had those advantages who knows the se izur es migh t have ju st made me a depressed person an angr y person And you re touched with mortality you always live und er siege a slight fear of having a se izure Its much less so now with me

24 GUELPH ALUM NUS

SCENE UNIVERSITY CLUB

Thompson Ive always been a mimic in a cheap way I could always mimic we ll I would raLk to someone on a bus and I could do them exactly Thats kind of dangerous because it can be pretty shallow But it showed me ltl way into the person throu gh voice And once J could do that like a pupshypet something would click and I cou ld get

in in a deeper way J need to get so thoroughly into the charshy

acte rs and their state of mind and especialshyly tapping repressed el11orion which gets you in touch with your id or unconscious li fe If

I take little sections of

myself and grow them in a petri dish of the play

one character is about rage I have to tap into my own rage and that s why the monoshylogues so things can just flow and then I can retrieve things from the past and remember things So its not working from here (gesshytures to midriff) it s wo rking fro l11 here (gesshytures to head)

Mo nologues for me are always the key to findin g out who th e character is because if you cant make them rant for fi ve minutes you dont know th em Tha ts what I tell my

playwriting students I want to see r-wo pages of this characters mouth In other words to speak for five minutes we have to have

so mething to say We have to have something we feel passionately about something were angry about and if we dont have something to say for fi ve minutes who are we

SCENE UN IVERSTTY CLUB

GA writer Vhere do you see what eventushyally becomes a play such as Sled 1110mpson I was at a lodge and saw a moose that s one thin g And that made me think about winter and how the country is always with us as Ca nadians Even in the urban censhytres we ca rr y it wi th us Theres always this

see ming division between the country the wilderness and civilized centres but its the same The wildness of the moose and the

hunt and the bear is in our neighbourhoods I guess its like Lion in the Streets it must be a thing with me And also the exquisite beaushyty and thats how most of the world thinks of Canada as the wilderness Its not quite how we think of ourselves but it is partly So that made me want to do something abo ut the Nor th violence in the North

As far as th e old mans stories that was my neighbour and he told me all those stoshyries they were all true except mltlyb e one or so and I thought Theyre amazing They teilus what our neighbourhoods Me really about and Toro nto what the city is how its const ru cted Toronto is our stories and in th ese neighbourhoods you have an urbane entertainer li ving nex t to an 80-year-old Italia n man and thats the beauty ofToronshyto ltllld its the way th e world is chan ging The stric t class divis ions and culture divishysions th eyre no longer as defin ed as they we re espec ially in th ese neighbourhoods the great pioneering experimen t GA writer Do your chi ld ren see your work Thompson No None of my children can see my plays Ariane saw f Am Yours in New York when she was about nin e I do cl eal with the dark and whats tru e and my chilshydren aren t ready for that Im probab ly more protective th an mos t mothers Walk them

to school till theyre 13 that ki nd of thin g GA writer Yo u we re intervi ewed in the Globe alld Mail recently in a story about motherh ood dnd th e muse How do yo u handle th e demand s of motherh ood and writing

Thompson If Im in the situation where I have 15 or so hours of child care a week Im OK because when Im with them I wa nt to be with them and when ]m doing my work

th ats what I clo But if I do something like a worko ut thell a black cloud descends The guilt and the black cl oud th at descend as I take off on my bike it s huge Then once the workout s finished I know it was d good

thing to do although it s also cut into my

work time J do feel guilty about the nilture of my work too in that my kids cant see it Am I drawing on a part of me thats not good as a mother The oth er part of me is th at I make up bedtime stories and bake coo kies and all thlt stuff ]m probably a

rather operatic mother I cry at movies laugh too hard __

SCENE ARCI-I[VES

GA writer (reading fiom Epilepsy and Snakes)

1

Although being a dramatic writer has

given me a reputation in my cou ntr y

and a strong identity the actof writin g

or creating character leaves me SOJlle shy

times feeling that I have no id entity at

all Every once in a while when I am not

writing or tending to my four children

I feel I 1m falling again down th e terrishy1 ble hole with nothing to hold on to

And I believe this falling this identity

pain is a result of me using the very

essence of Ill yself to create character in

a dramatic wo rk r wonder so metimes

if J illl1 betraying my soul in a way by

using its essence However J have found

some comfo rt in the words ofWilliall1

Blake Essence is not Identity but from

Essence proceeds Identity and from one

Essence may proceed many Identities

as from one Affection Jlla y proceed

many thoughts If the Essence was

the sa me as the Identit y there could be

but one Identity which is fal se Heaven

wo uld upon this plan be but a clock

but one and the sa me Essence is th ereshy

fore Essence and not Identity

SCENE UNIVER SIT Y CLUB

Thompson I always put myself in a play and

never In other words I take little sections of

myself and grow them in a petri dish of th e

play So if Ive found a moment where Im a

bit lazy ]11 grow it and milke the character

very lazy o r impatient or whatever So I take

these moments because we all have all of

them grow th em and create this Frankenshy

steins monste r a character right out of parts

body parts and psychological parts often of

myself and then observe things in other peoshy

ple but I have to find it in myself to make it

work

SCENE AR C H1V ES

GA writer (reading from Epilepsy al1d Snakes)

My self asserted itself as a kind of quishy

et Lucille Ball c1ulllsy and absent-mindshy

ed At least this gave me an identity and

was a small aCI of slbo tage The next

assertion was an act of unconscio us rev shy

olution th e grand mal seizure that

almost killed me And the next one was

The Crackwalker my first play And this

is how I raged against the machine and

took space in the world And now not

surprisin gly I am seizure-free

SCENE LOWER MASSEY

After another pair of acto rs rUllS through

their scene Thompson directs them to begi n

again She interrupts frequently to question

the students about actions feelings motishy

vations At one point 8S the students pause

to consider her words Thompson turns to

the rest of the class erect in her cha ir

Thompson Isolate the mom ent The great

thing about the stage is th at it isolates the

moments that just race by us_

SCENE UNIVERSITY CLUB

Thompson Ive just written my next play

which is not ca lled Pefeet Pie but thats its

working title because it came from a mon oshy

logue called Perfect Pie But now its a full

two- haul play in which the second wom3n

comes back and tben I have them as yo ung

girls too It goes back ~nd forth and its very

exciting I worksbopped it in the spring and

in December at tbe Tarragon and it will go

on in o ne year At the sa me time lm wr itshy

ing a feature film for Rho mbus based on the

play Pe feet Pie

SCEN E UNlV ERSITY CLUIl

Thompson My pIalS are Illusically written

And if somebody doesnt get the music they

dont feel it and go with the rhythm s it

throws the whole thing off I hear the plays

I hea r them I write with my ear They

change 1 lo t but it s according to rhythm

I ll be sitting in rehea rsal listening and if it

does nt so und ri ght I change it so that its

rhythmic

SCIi -JE J UST AllOUT ANYWHERE YOU CA N

READ A PLAY

GA writer (readmg ji-olll the script ofvVbite

Biting Dog first produced at the Tarragon Th eatre in 1984)

Beciluse of the ex treme and deliberate

lllu sica lity of this play any allempts to

go aga inst the tex tual rhythms such as

th e breaking up of an unbroken senshy

tence the tlking of a pause where none

is written in are DISASTROUS The

effect is like beil1g in a small plane and

suddenly turning off the ignition It all

falls down This play III list SPIN not

just turn around

SCfN e LOWER MASSEY

Her students listen as Thompson stands to

complete a so liloq uy abo ut cap turing the

rhythm of the language on the stage The

wide sleeves of her ank le-length dress slide

down her forea rm s as she ges tures

Thompson Listen to the music of the

scene Each playwright writes their own

symphony

SCENE U NIVERSlTY CLUB

Thompson Ive been pretty directed to this

ii-om an carly age although if I had done anyshy

thing else it probab ly wou ld have been some

form of social work I would have been smokshy

ing three packs of cigarettes a day and workshy

ing il1 an office somewhere up in Scarborough

SC EN E AfltCHIVES

GA write r (reading from Brick interview of Thompson by Eleanor Wachtel ]99] )

In th e thea tre I think what one mllst

do is co nfront the truth confront the

emot ional truth of our li ves which is

mired in the swamp of minuriae

everyday minutiae Maybe it has to be -tl111 way because we couldnt confront

it every day But I think the th eatre

IllllSt Im not interested ill th eatre that

doesnt ga

W1NTER 1999 25

Never mind fish wars pitting countries against one another - here in Canada scientists and policy makers cant agree on who should control the preservation and management ofour own fishery resources BY ANDREW VOWLES

Ca

as

ollapsed cod stocks to the east

On the West Coast laquofish wars

_ rlTDT Pacific salmon enmesh

Canada and the United States

At various points in between fisheries scishy

entists and managers grapple with everyshy

thing from overfishing of freshwater

stocks to invasion by exotic molluscs

What is to be done about Canadian fishshy

eries And what role is being p layed by

fisheries and aquatic scientists at the Unishy

versity of Guelph

-

dock pollock red fish and flatfish made up just under half of Canadas total landings on the Atlantic coast (720000 tonnes of fish and shellfish were caught in 1994 represhysenting a total landed value of $11 billion) Two year~ later that proportion had dropped to 21 per cent with shellfish and open ocean fish specie~ notably Atlantic

Begin in the Atlantic The crisis on the East Coast has become a disaster So says laquoWE NEED TO TRY TO SEPARATE OUTGuelph zo ology professor John Roff enushymerating the litany of woes that have surshy

THE FISHERIES MANAGEMENT DECISIONSfaced from Ca nadas marine fishery in the past decade Although some fish and shellshy

FROM THE POLITICAL DECISIONSfi sh are holding their own stocks of other species have experienced declines raquo

ASSOCIATED WITH THE FISHE RY

down that fishery in 1992 Over fishing and under which it has been buying up fishers

Even when stocks do rebound rarely do we fully und erstand why he says Theres a complex of problems to be disshy more for cod stocks to rebound says Roff entangled involving overflshing long- and co-editor with colleague Prof Moira Fergushyshort-term climate change and changes in son of the respected Canadian Journal ofFishshyocean current systems and productivity eries and Aquatic Sciences A wise course of

And of course the once-thriving northshy action for a fisherman in Newfoundland ern cod that first drew Europeans with their would be to seU his licence and do something nets to the Grand Banks 500 years ago have else he says (Last fall the federal governshycoUapsed to the point that Ottawa had to shut ment announced its final retirement program

the failure of federal fisheries managers to heed the warnings of scientists have been blamed for the coUapse Even with the lllorashytoriulll in place it may take two decades or

licences in Atlantic Ca nada and Quebec) In 1992 - the year Ottawa imposed its

moratorium on the northern cod fisheryshylandings of groundfish including cod had-

salmon making up the difference [n 1995 the total groLlndfish catch reached its lowshyest level in two decades

Unlike the Ea st Coast fi shery which relies most ly on ocea n-living fish the Pacifshyic fishery is dominated b) migratory species Some 300000 tonnes of fish and shellfish were harvested along the west coast in 1994 worth a landed value of $550 million (Arcshytic marine fisheries and their management differ from those on the coasts although cOl11mercial and recreational fisheri es are small here food fisheries are important to

U OF G AQUATIC SCIENCES EXPERTISE CATCHES WORLD ATTENTION

Landlocked in the middle of the courltry U ofG nevertheless boasts fish pathology and diseases including farmed fish diseases fish an enviable record and range ofexpertise in aquatic sciencesshy hormones and reproductive physiology including the effects of marine and freshwater - dating back to the late 1960s Thats when environmental contaminants early life history and behaviour Prof Keith Ronald thell chair of the Department ofZoology (and of fi shes and biology of tuna later dean of the College ofBiological Science) began a marine biolshyogy program at the University Today Guelph has the largest Partnered with the A-erod Institute of Ichthyology in U of group of ichthyologists - scientists who study fish - in Gs Aquatic Sciences Facility the r[agen Aqualab is an North America investigating a wide variety ojIre~hshy aquatic research and teaching facililY for studying water alld marine fisheries and aquatics topics aquatic organisms Environmentally controlled

rooms in the Aqualab allow faculty and students to U of Gs Axelrod Institute of Ichthyology houses simulate habitats as diverse as the Arctic Ocean and one of the worlds largest collections of museumshy tropical rainforest pools The facility is named for quality fish fossils donated to the University by its principal benefactor Rolf Hagen founding presshy

ident of Canadas largest pet store 5llpplier J 989 The institute which provides space for fisheries research and visiting scientists brings together 12 core U of G U of G faculty edit four internationally recognized journals researchers in fisheries and aquatic sciences whose interests and in ichthyology fisheries and aquatic science Awarded to U of G by expertise span environmental contaminants and parasitic disshy the National Research Council in 1997 the Canadian Journal of eases evolutionary genetics of marine and freshwater fishes Fisheries al1dAquatic Sciellces is co-edited by zoology professors

US ichthyologist and author Herbert Axelrod in

28 GUELPH ALUMNUS

northerners including shrimp Atlantic salmon and arctic char) Accountin g fOI almost half of that total were Pacific salmon which ret urn from the ocean to spawn in home streams and rivers up and down the coast of Alaska British Columbia and Washshyington There are actually five main spec ies of sa lmon that run down the BC coast shysockeye (t he most va luable commercial species) chinook coho chum and pinkshyfrom spring to December

Its a very complex jurisdictional and multi-user problem says Roff Bes ides degradation of freshwater spawning habishytats and ocean climate effects of El Nill0 the West Coast fishery is a cauldron of ten shysions between various groups perennial fish wars between Ca nada and the United States disputes that pit sport fishers against native fishing rights Recognizing the problems of low ocean productivity habitat damage overfishing and indiscriminate fishing pracshytices that take weak and strong stocks alike Ottawa is developing a new policy to guide Canadas Pacific salmon fisheries focusing on conservation sustainable use and improved decision-making

That potent mix of overfishing and habishytat degrada tion is also a problem for Canashydas freshwater fisheries A report tabled last fall by the federal standing committee on

fisheries and oceans called for more federal funding for research and fisheries programs in central and arctic regions of Canada Accord ing to that report the Grea t Lakes commercial fishery is one of the largest freshwater fisheri es in the world worth an average landed value of more than $40 milshylion a year and an eco nomic impact of at least $250 million Some 90 per cent of that catch is exported The neck lace of lakes threading its way to the St Lawrence River also supports the largest fres hwater sports fishery in the world 800000 Ontarians fish on the Great Lakes eve ry year contributing $850 million to the economy

In Manitoba managers are concerned about the long-term susta inability of freshshywater fish stocks particularly declines in Lake Winnipeg and the northern part of the province caused by overfishing environshymental degradation loss of prime spawning habitat and predators The province has seen stocks rise and fall particularly of pickerel Manitobas highest-priced fish In an attempt to manage the fishery in a sustained fashion the province recently introduced a qu ota entitlement system for anglers Joe OConshynor director of the fisheries branch of Manshyitobas Department of Na tural Resources says his department is wrestling with the environmental threats on fish habitat posed

by farming and hydroelectric development In Ontario fisheries are genera lly in

pretty good shape says Evan Thomas fishshyeries section manager of the fish and wildlife branch of the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (OM NR) Ontario supports almost half of all recreational fishing in Canada with more than two million adult anglers and more than $2 billion a year spent on recreational fishing in the province Onta ri o is also home to Canadas larges t commercial freshwater fishery worth abo ut $40 million a Yfar in land ed value

Thomas says over fishing is still the numshyber one problem Others include habitat loss the potential effects of climate change and contin ued invasion by exotic species Among the management opt ions his minshyistry is exploring are more effective fisheries regulation more rapid inventory and assessshyment techniques fish culture for rehabilishytating populations and controlling nutrient inputs into lakes and rivers

We are clearly looking for federal supshyport for the sea lamprey control program he says referring to recommendations in the recent federal fisheries committee report as well as changes to the federal Fishshyeries Act to hand the province more authorshyity over fish habitat protection

Concerns continue in Ontario over

Moira Ferguson and John Roff Fish Physiology and Biochemistry the top-ranked journal in its field is edited by Prof John Leathershyland chair of the Department of Biomedical Sciences in the Ontario Veterinary College University professor emeritus Eugene Balon has served as editor-in-chief of Environmental Biology ofFishes since he founded the publication in 1976 Zoology professor David Noakes edits Guelph Ichthyology Reviews whose articles synthesize and review all aspects of fish science Both of the latter

Under the Canadian contribution to the project - furided by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council - about 80 federal government and university researchers are trying to learn more about how bioshylogical and physical processes in the oceans affect fish stocks

Zoologychair Prof Paul Hebert has led a Guelph initiative to develshyop multimedia learning resources d1at teach student~ from

are published in the Axelrod Institute of Ichthyology

Based on data from geographic information sysshytems zoology professor John Roff has mapped types of habitat associated with various species of fish and other organisms around Canadas coasts and throughout tl1C Great Lakes the first time such

e1ementaIy grades to university about Canadas aquatshyic environments His department has developed a series of CD-ROMs that provide information on all the major animal groups in the Great Lakes Already available are educational CD-ROMs on Canadas aquatic environments (also available on

d1e World Wide Web) Great Lakes biodiversity and a marine classification system has been developed in this country His report was commissioned by World Wildlife Fund Canada for its Endangered Spaces Campaign and contributes to RoWs work as chair of the scienrillc committee of Globec (Globshyal Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics) a two-year-old international research program intended to better understand ocean ecosystems

birds of the Great Lakes The latter is the first disc in a series called the Great Lakes Faunal Atlas which will eventually cover mammals amphibians reptiles fish and crustaceans

The Alma Aquaculture Research Station es tablished in 1989 and funded through a 20-year development grant by the Ontario

WI NTER 1999 29

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various invas ive species that have turned up

in the Great Lakes - notably sea lampreys

zebra mussels and quagga mussels - many

of which arrive in ballast water of ocea nshy

going vessels (Many have also found their

way into Manitoba says OConnor who

points to the effects of sm elt on whitefish

the main commercial species in Lake Winshy

nipeg) Among o ther meas ures the federal

fish eries committee report called for guarshy

anteed funding for sea lamprey control and

for scienti fic research

I think more money will come says

Prof Bill Beamish Zoology a commissionshy

er on the Great Lakes Fisheries Commission

the 40-year-old governing body that co-ordishy

nates resea rch programs between Canada

and the United States and advises both govshy

ernments It was a review led by Beamish

more than a decade ago on the sta te of

Canadas freshwater fi sheries that provided

the scientific underpinnings for a landmark

report published in 1988 that spelled ou t a

way in freshwater fisheries is a lon g-te rm

project fund ed by the OMNR and the

Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO)

to re-establish native species in their origishy

nal habitats a round Lake Ontario iVlari e

Clement a graduate student of zoology proshy

fe sso r David Noakes is studying Atlantic

sa lmo n which was wiped out of the lake

CONSIDERING WE HAVE THE

BEST FISHERY SCIENCES COMMUNITY

IN THE WORLD WE OUGHT TO

BE DOING BETTER

national strategy for freshwater fisheries

Beamish who has studied sea lampreys

for several decades at Guelph and also invesshy

tigates fish habitat loss says money is need shy

ed to help researchers investigate biological

controls as an alternative to chemical lamshy

pricides The recen t repo rt also notes the

need to address the effects of other nonshy

native exotic species on n ative fish stocks

and water quality and calls on Ottawa to

stem the funding decline in freshwater scishy

ence over the last two decades

One example of the kind of work under

and its tribu ta ry streams near the beginning

o f this century by overflshing and habitat

destruction and alteration Last fall Clement

placed eggs into a site in the Credit River

she has been monito ring oxygen availab il shy

ity durin g their incu ba tion to gau ge sedishy

mentation rates in the river This spring and

summer she wili study how newborn fi sh

interact with other species in th e r ive r

C lement says her docto ral research proshy

ject is but one piece of a larger project aimed

at re-establishing the heritage species Othshy

er researchers hop e to learn whe ther th e

Ministry of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs brings together

researchers for interdisciplinary studies of protein requirements

of arctic char improving fish semen and egg management proshy

cedures and understanding hormone activity in fish The station

acts as a quarantine unit for new fish varieties entering Ontario

and serves as a base for parts of certificate courses and a masters

program in aquaculture

farms in Canada He and fellow Guelph zoologists Eugene Balon

(co- founder of the Coelaca nth Conservat ion Council) and Jim

Bogart also identified and characterized the coelacanth which

had been thought extinct until a specimen was landed off Africa

in the la te 1930s Noakes confirmed the identity of ano ther of

these living fossils discovered in 1997 it appears to belong to a

second popula tion living in the Indian Ocean about 10000 kilo-

metres away from tha t first find

Zoology professors Moira Ferguson and Roy Danzshy

mann use molecular genetics techniques to identishy Zoology chair Paul Hebert was the first scientist to

fy DNA markers used to pinpoint the location of identify the presence in the Great Lakes of zebra

genes associated with growth spawning times mussels a prolific invader that has wreaked havoc

rates of development maturity and temperature in many ways from clogging water-intake pipes to

tolerance in rainbow trout Isolating and identifyshy consuming plankto n thus allowing light to reach

ing genetic markers fo r desirable traits will help fish bottom-dwelling organisms that may displace native

farmers and breeders cross-breed more effectively species The first researcher to report on the biology

conservationists will be better able to manage and preserve and impact of the zebra mussel on the Grea t Lakes was

genetic variability among wild fish stocks Guelph zoology professor Gerald Mackie whose studies showed

that the organisms faster growth rate and higher fecundity and

Zoology professor David Noakes has stuclied varieties of arctic population density will probably enable it to displace many native

char native to Iceland to find ones suited to being raised on fish bivalves and disrupt entire lake ecosystems

30 GUELPH ALUMNUS

LEADING RESEARCH

The University of Guelph has one orthe largest and most active groups of aquatic biologists in the world

bull More than 50 faculty and 100

graduate students research

assocrates and postdoctoral

fellows

bull Over 1000 published scientific

articles books monographs

films and videos in the past

decade

bull Interdisciplinary programs

involving more than a dozen

academic departments

bull The largest group ofichthyoloshy

gists (scientists who study

fish) in North America

bull Collaborative research with

government environrriental

organizations and academic

institutions worldwide

bull Expertise covering the entire

aquatic food chain from plankshy

ton to whales

bull Leading developments in comshy

puter-based educational mate-

rials in aquatic sciences

bull A new $6-million Aquatic

Sciences Facility

bull Research support from national

and international agencies

business and industry

adults will be able to return from the open

lake to their stream spawning grounds If

they come back will the eggs survive she

says If were able to show the eggs can surshy

vive that will be very encouraging for

Atlant ic salmon restoration

What is to be done to ensure the survival

not just of Atlantic salmon in Lake Ontario

but also of the co untrys freshwater and

m ar ine fisheries We need to try to sepashy

rate o ut the fisheries management decisions

from the political decisions associated with

the fi shery says zoology professor Glen Van

Der Kraak director of U of Gs Axelrod

Institute of Ichthyology Van Der Kraak who

studies the effects of toxic contaminants on

fi sh populations says policy mltkers need

to rely on the advice of fisheries sc ientis ts

making conservative harvest ing estimates

So often scientists make decisions and then

are overrun by the politics he says (Never

mind fish wars pitting co untries against one

another - here in Ca nada scientists and

policy makers wres tle over the question of

who should be respo nsible for what aspects

of the countrys fisheries as witnessed in a

war of words played out in the Canadian Journal ofFisheries and Aquatic Sciences over

the past 18 months between biologists at

several Canadian univers ities and the DFO

over the relationship between fishery sc ishy

ence and fishery policy)

Roff says theres nothing unique about

Canadas fish problems Its not really a

Canadian problem its a worldwide probshy

lem The only fisheries worldwide that are

not over fished appear to be some not yet

fully exploited in the Indian Ocean

After nearly four decades of growth the

worldwide marine ca tch levelled off in the

1990s to some 90 million tons a year The

m ain problems coastal pollution habitat

destruction and particula rly overfishing

Noakes editor of the journal Guelph Ichthyology Reviews contrasts the few hunshy

dred people who might have made th eir

livelihood aboard small wood en boats on

the Grand Banks several centuries ago with

the massive factory trawlers that now scour

todays coast People are much too efficient

in terms of catching fish he says Noakes

concurs with fellow Guelph researchers that

conservation of fish stocks has to reach the

top of fishery managers agendas

hat does set Canada apart is the breadth

and depth of expertise in fisheries and aquatshy

ic sciences in this country - rather a parashy

dox when you consider that Canadas record

in fisheries preservation is apparently no betshy

ter than that of many other nations

Considering we have the best fishery scishy

ences community in the world we ought to

be doing better says Roff Within the last

decade th e federal government withdrawal

o f support from the Department of Fishshy

eries and Oceans and university researchers

has been massive At the very time when the

resources were gett ing into severe problems

and when the federal government ought to

have been funding research theyve been

substantially withdrawing resources ga

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UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

n ALUMNI PROF IL E

LETS LOOK AT THE OPPORTUNITIES

WHEN I-IE BECA ME president of the Unishy

versity of Guelph Alumni Association

(UGM) in June Jim Weeden brought new

enthusiasm and ideas for encouraging alumshy

ni to stay in volved with their alma mater

And he wants to start with students

Weeden reca ll s his own ex perience at

U of G where he fo und a sense of commushy

nity by living in residence and ge tting

involved in college activiti es But when he

graduated with an engin ee ring degree in

197 1 he left to begin a caree r and says he

didnt think much about the University until

he needed it again in the 1980s to pursue a

graduate degree in agricultural enginee ring

He spent his early career working as an

agricultural extensi o n engineer for the

Ontario Department o f Agriculture and is

stiU with its successo r the Ontario Ministry

of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs

(OMAFRA) Weed en completed the masshy

ters degree in 1986 when he was head of the

agricultural engineering program and extenshy

sion services a t Centralia College of Ag rishy

cultural Technology

In 1987 he moved to the ministrys plant

industry branch as program m anager and

later held the same position in th e resources

manage m ent branch Sin ce then he has

worked for OMAFRA in Woodstock and

now Stratfo rd He is technical adviser fo r

Ontarios Enviro nmental Farm Planning

Program is respo nsible for o ther environshy

m ental programs and consults with the Minshy

istry o f th e Environment on local agriculshy

tural pollution problems

w Weed en got involved with the Universishy sect tys a]u111ni programs by serving on the first g z board of the Engineering Alumni Associashy

~ tion when it was established in 1990 From

~ 1991 to 1994 he sat on the University Senshy

~ ate and its Research Board and for the pas t

~ four years) hels been on the UGAA executive

32 GUELPH A LU MNUS

From the presidents chair Weeden looks

at the bro ad picture o f UG AA se rvice and

recognizes that the associa tio n owes a debt

o f gratitude to hundreds of alumni volunshy

teers who ha ve helped to build the organishy

za tion over the yea rs and to University staff

in Development and Public Affairs (DampPA)

who support UGAA initiatives and alumni

programs Thro ugh their efforts he says the

a lulllni associati o n is rea ching out to all

U of G alumni Graduates who have mainshy

tained a close relationship with the Univershy

sity thro ugh their college or academic disshy

cipline those who feel an affiliation because

o f their participation in a thletics residence

life o r extracurricular activiti es and even

HIGHLIGHTSmiddot GRAD NEWSmiddot OBITUARIES bull CALENDER

those who have not kept in touch are part of the constituency served by UGAA

Weed en says the alumni association needs to strengthen its relationship with all alumni and he believes the effor t must start on campus with students Hed like to proshymote the idea of alumni involvement as ear shyly as a students second year We need to give students some reason to be con nected and an efficient vehicle for maintaining that connection he says

For many students and new graduates the social functions supported by UGAA and the opportunities for professional networking will be important says Weeden but greater rewards are there for those who join the effort to enhance the Universitys acade mic goals

In todays economic and political envi shyronme nt individual financial support and the advocacy of post-secon dary education are important roles for alumni he says How many people ac tively get involved with the debate on whether universities are job-trainshy

ing centres or centres of education Yet some of our alumni are extremely adept in such roles Weeden would like to cultivate past and current stud ent ac tivists as supporters of public education after they graduate

As Weeden leads UGAA into a new year he says he will work with other UGAA volshyunteers and DampPA staff to find new ways for the association to interact with students and alumni One id ea is to expand UGAAs Intershynet presence by adding a Web message board that will encourage alumni to discuss career and campus issues online and a reply form that will allow them to quickly update addressshyes employment status and other information

Weeden says its important to stay focused on UGAAs key prioriti es but he welcomes any and all new ideas on how to accomplish them All it takes to share your ideas with the UGAA executive is a stamp or a push of the send button when youre clicked on alumniuoguelphca

HKHB SPIRIT RISES

ENCOURAGED BY THE SPIRIT

shown by fellow alumni at last

summers reunion the executive

of the Human Kinetics Human Biology

Alumni Association is moving ahead

with more opportunities for alumni to

stay in touch The association plans to

launch a Web site that will be accessed

through the U of G site

A wine-and-cheese reception already

planned for June 19 1999 wiil try to

build on the success of the 1998 event

which attracted alumni from as far away

as Chicago and as far apart as the 19605

and 1990s Guests had a chance to tour

U of Gs new Health and Performance

Centre and performance testing

labs The program was co-ordinated wiLh

A REFLECTION OF PRIDE

Members of the OAC

Class of 52 join Arboshy

retum staff on the front patio

of the Arboretu m Centre

beside a new reflecting pool

that was built last summer

as a class project Pictured

from left are Murray Parker

Ann Smith George Smith

Jack Sargent Catherine Gibb

Robin Shaw-Rummington

Marilyn Swaby BA 69

Bev Healy B5e(Agr) 72

Norm Watson Una Venerus

Ron Costen Henry Kock

BSe (Agr) 77 and Ric

Jordan BA 75

Prof Jack Barclay chair of the Departshy

ment of Human Biology and Nutritional

Sciences and Prof Susan Pfeiffer Memshy

bers of the Human KineticsHuman

Biology Alumni Association executive arc

Janet Leonhard 82 president Carolyn

Moore 83 vice-president Alison Locker

97 secretary Mark Mulholland 79

lreasurer and t-iary Ann Crape 76

These officers are also spea rheading a

new initiative to benefit students - an

undergraduate award that will provide

$250 and lifetime mem bership in the

association To commcnt on these and

other initiatives contact Leonard by

e-mail at Janel_Leonhardinwrbsb

eduonca or Moore at cturveyagec

uoguelphca

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alumni

Multimedia lab buzzes

THE DONALD FORSTER RoOiv

has become one of the

busiest spots in th e Unishy

versity of Guelph Liblary since the

addition of 70 state-of-the-art

computer workstations that were

supported by alumni do nations

to the Alma Mater Fund (AM F)

U of G president Mordechai

Roza nski officia ll y o pened th e

Alma Mater Fund Multimedia

Lab D ec 2 an d celebrated th e

event with members of the AMF

Adv isory Counc iL [n 1996 a nd

1997 the AMF contributed

$240000 to th e project which

increased the number of student

workstations o n campus by 50 per

cent Students use the m ult imeshy

~ dia lab to conduct research on the

~ Internet access scholarly publicashyr u VI tions on CD-ROM and use COll1shyz ~ puter software mod ules tbat lt

~ strengthen the teaching provided lD

o in co urse lectures labs and tcxtshybii books

middotMatters

Alumnus of many interests

I NTERES TING P EOPLE always have eclect ic interests and U of G

alumnus and honorary degree recipient Ken Murray BSA 50 and

HDLA 96 is a good example H e is known by most people on camshy

pus for his distinguished career in the Canadian meat packing indusshy

try and his volunteer service to U of G He was a member and chair

of Board of Governors from 1973 to 1978 and chair of the Regionshy

al Corporate Committee during U of Gs last capital campaign and

is currently chair of the Heritage Fund Enhancement Committee

Murray is also a strong supporter of community soc ial services

In August he addressed the World Congress of Social Ps)chiatry

held in British Columbia - the only non-psychiatrist on the proshy

gram He spoke about his role in establishing an Alzheimers research

project a t the University ofWaterioo which was recently named in

his honour the Ken Murray Alzheimer Research and Education Proshy

gra m At the gc conference he al so participated in a panel dis shy

cussion that outlined services offered by Guelphs Homewood Health

Cent re Murray bas been actively involved in the governance of the

centre since 1977 and has been a major player in the development

of a charitable foundatio n bearing the Homewood name

WHEN THE PUCK DROPPED More than 30 teams including two

womens teams were entered in the

Dec 6 University of Guelph Alumni Hockey

Tournament Organizers for the 1998 event

were from left Brian Finniss B5c 88

Brad Stephenson BA 86 Terry Carr

BComm 87 Todd Bryant BA 86 and

undergraduate student Brian Melnick

Ken Murray centre with his wife Marilyn Robinson Murray and U of G president Mordechai Rozanski

34 GU ELPH ALUMNU S

RESTORING A JEWEL IN THE CROWN

DONALD RUTHERFORD BSA 5 stands in fron t

of the 1931 conservatory greenhouse that will

be restored to match the splendour of the ga rdens

now growi ng up around it His $256000 leadershy

ship gift to the Conservatory and Gardens Project

was inspired by hi s m emo ries of being a student

at OAC

On behalf of fellow alumni I hope this gift will

commemorate the experiences and educat ion we

acquired while at Guelph says Rutherford When

fully restored to its previous glory the conservatoshy

ry greenhouse will be an ideal greeting and welcome

spot for visitors and newcomers to the University

as well as old friend s renewing their acquaintance

Rutherfords professional career spans the agrishy

foo d industr y beginning as an agricu ltural repshy

resentative with the provincial minist ry I-Ie was

later vice-president of the Fertilizer Institute of

Ontario executive secreta ry of the Canadian Seed

Trade Association director of information w ith

the Ca nadian Livestock Feed Board and Canadishy

an sa les manager for Sylvite of Can ad a Retired

since 1986 he now owns his own sma ll investment

company and manages to golf throughout the yea r

The conserva tory isnt the first ca mpus project

to attract Rutherford s attention - as a student

he helped dig out the base ment of Massey H al l to

build a student lo unge - but his recent gift has

been a tremendous boost to those who have been

working since the ea rly 1990s to save the glass and

cypress structure from demo lition

A committee of alumni facult y sta ff stu dents

and fri en ds of the University has moved the proshy

ject along to th e point w here most of the surshy

rounding garden complex is now complete It fea shy

tures six gardens named in honour of the ir chie f

supporters Autumn Garden - OAC 5 1 Spring

Ga rden - OAC 53 Su mmer Garden - OAC 55

Winter Gard en - OAC 65 Water Gard en shy

OAC 49 and the Woo dland Garden named in

honour of the late Doug Rob inson BSA 53

Alumni have been in strumental in raising

funds for the $ l-million project Students and fa cshy

ulty have provided mudl of the h1l1ds-on Idbour

and friends in the nursery and landscape materishy

als supply industries have given $250000 ill donashy

tions and gifts-in-kind of plan ts and landsca ping

materials Rutherford s generous gift has pushed

th e conservato ry fund-ra ising effort in to the fin 81

stretch Th e ga rden complex and restored g reenshy

110use are sc heduled to officially open during

Alumni Weekend in June 1999

1999 Coming Events

Jan 29 - Aggie Goodshy

Times Banquet call the OAC Student Federation at Ext 8321 for ticket injemnrltion Feb 13 - Norm McCo llulll

D iploma Hockey Tournashy

m ent call Jack Bakker at 519-837-0132 to register a team

Feb 21 - Ottawa Chapter

annual curling bonspiel

Richmond C urling Club in

Richmond Ont For informashytiol1 call Alan Bentley BSA 61 at 6 13-829-6598 or John DVit[ 54 mId Margaret McGowml BHSc 54 at

613-828-7038

March 3 - Florida alumni

reunion a t Maple Leaf

Estates Port Charlo tte Fla

call Ext 6533 0 register

March 13 and 14 - ollcge

Royal 75th o pen house

March 19 and 20 - OAC

Alumni Association curling

bonspiel G uelph Curling

Club register at Ext 6657

May 5 - Chicago All Canashy

dian Universities Night hostecl

by U of G at the University

Club of Chicago 76 East Monshy

roe Sr call Exl 6533 for details May 5 - OAC Alumni

Foundation annual meeting

730 pm Arboretum Centre

May 12 - Alumni-inshy

Action annual meeting and

luncheo n 1130 3m

Arboretum Centre ((11 Ext 6657for tickets

June 18 to 20 - Alumni

Veekend call Ext 6657 to plall a reun io n

-0 r shya -IFor more infon-nation on any a

eVC1l1listed ailove call the oJ -lt oU of G extension listed at en raquo

519-824-4120 or send e-mail z

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WINTER 1999 35

alumni Matters

MEMORIES OF COLLEGE ROYAL Grant MacEwan ADA 23 and

BSA 26 is one of the few OAC

alumni who c~n still remember

the first College Royal held Jan

14 1925 MacEwan bad just

entered the degree program in

animal husbandry and may have

been a participant in the liveshy

stock showmanship classes Latshy

er in life he was widely known Grant MacEwan

across Western Canada as 3 liveshy

stock judge and an advocate of

agricultural fairs and exhibitions

MacEwan is bes t known

however for his 23-year C3reer

as a university professor in Manshy

itoba and Saskatchewan and Ilis

political career which included

12 years as alderman and mayshy John Kenneth Galbraith

or of C31gary four years as an

Alberta MLA and eight as lieushy birthday in August

tenant -governor of the province The year after Ma cEwan

He s till lives in Calgary graduated John Kenneth Galshy

where he celebrated his 96th braith ADA 29 and BSA 31

HOMECOMING 98

enrolled at OAC and devoted

some of his energy to organizshy

ing College Royal Show records

indicate it was Galbraith who

first proposed the college event

be publicized so that people

from the farm community

could attend He also suggestshy

ed that OAC invite students

from American agricultural colshy

legesl n th e early 1930s Colshy

lege Royal took its fir s t steps

towards becoming the comshy

munity open house it is today

Galbraith later moved to the

United States where he enjoyed

a distinguished caree r as a proshy

fessor of economics at Harvard

Universi ty Known for his

humanit~rian approach to ecoshy

nomic and political thinking

he was awarded the Order of

Canada in 1997 He celebr3ted

his 90th birthday in October

IT REALLY WAS a homecoming reunion when and Arnott who is head coach of the York

former Gryphon teammates Ralph Shapiro University Yeomen came from the visitors

S5c(HK) 74 and Tom Amott S5c(HK) 80 dreSSing room to hold the ball Shapiro is

met on the field at Alumni Stadium Oct 3 the controller at Huntsman Chemical Inc

Shapiro had the honour of kicking off in Guelph and a longtime United Way volshy

the Universitys 1998 United Way campaign unteer who chaired this years Guelph and

Wellington fund-raising drive The Univershy

sity campaign is the largest in the county

with U of G staff and faculty contributing

over $200000 in 1998

Prior to the game a number of recent

alumni - all U of G scholarship and award

winners - met for a reunion luncheon The UJ

1948 and 1949 dominion championship i5f 3

football teams were also honoured guests z 5 o at the 2 pm game that saw the Gryphons gtshy a defeat York f shya I a

Ralph Shapiro

36 G UELPH ALUMNUS

LEADING THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY FOR 1974 GRADS The 25th-anniversary reunion givshy

i ng program for the Class of 1974

is under way with Bill Laidlaw BA

74 as cbair A public affairs proshy

fessional he has been director of

government relations for the

Canadian operations of Glaxo

vVelJcome Inc for more th an 10

years He also acts as a senior conshy

sultant to support the governshy

ment relations function in other

regions of Canada

Laidlaw began his career in

teaching after earning a history

degree from Guelph and education

degrees (rom Queens University

and the University of Toronto He

also holds the certified human

resources professional designation

and worked in that field for sevshy

eral years before concen trating on

government relations at Glaxo

Welkome He lives in Burlington

Ont and is an act ive community

volunteer having se rved on the

boards of severa l professional

organizations the Queensway

General Hospital and the Metroshy

politan Toronto Lung Association

He is currently completing a oneshy

year term as chair of the Ontario

Chamber of Commerce

Anniversa ry preparations will

culminate with a class gathering

a nd reunion gift at Alumni

Weekend in June 1999

ALUMNI MAKE THE CONNECTION Students who moved into

Maids and Mills halls in Sepshy

tember can take full advanshy

tage of the Universitys highshy

speed computer network

thanks to the OAC Class of

71 whose 25 th-reunion proshy

ject provided wiring upgrades

in the 84- and 77-year-old

residence buildin gs

GRAD NEWS

Marathon survivors inspire us all to appreciate everyday life

W HEN ROBINSON SIIlLJNGS Jane BSe(Agr)

85 Heather BASe 83 Peter BSe(Agr)

86 Scott and Marnie rigwood BA 84 get

together they talk about marathons and the hope

and determination it takes to reach the finish line

Hea ther walked a marathon in San Diego

Calif in June to raise money for leukemia

research then joined Peter for a Toronto marathon

in October that benefi ted the Leukemia Research

Fund of Canada They were inspired by Janes pershy

sonal marathon of survival that foUowed her 1992

diagnosis of leukemia Chemotherapy radiation

remission relapse and finally a bone marrow

transplant [TOm her brother Scott took more than

three years out of her life but gave her the detershy

mination to keep fighting

Many families can understand the marathon

of hope maintained by the Robinsons during

Janes struggle and the commitment they have to

help others who are stricken with the disease Jane

is finally well enough to work again as a writer

and marketing consultant and to join her fami shy

ly in volunteer work She helped recruit for the

Toronto marathon fund -raiser and continues to

be involved with the Leukemia Research Funds

Team in Training She also says that her expeshy

rience has taught her to appreciate more the pleashy

sures of everyday life and the love of famil y

Jan es parents are th e late Doug Rob inson

BSA 53 and Marilyn (Inglis) Robinson Murray

BH Sc 55

19305

bull Grant Misener ADA 32 BSA 35 and DVM 38 received the

prest igious George F Hixso n Felshy

lowship Award from the Kiwanis

International Foundation in May The retired Illinois veter ishy

narian was hono ured for his subshystantial contribution to the

Kiwanis wo rldwide service proshy

ject aimed at eliminating iodine

deficiency disorders the leading

cause of preventable mental retardation in children Over the

years Misener has shown a simishylar commitment to his al ma

mater an d its students through

his close association with OVC

and his support of scho larship

programs

19405

bull Russell McDonaldDVM 45 was named an honorary life direcshytor of the Royal Agricultural Winshy

ter Fair Association in March

McDonald formerly general manshy

ager of Western Ontario Breeders

Ine and executive director of the Canadian Association of Animal

Breeders served as a director of the Royal Winter Fair for 20 years

representing the Canadian artifishycial insemination industry He

lives in Woodstock Ont

bull Ian Taylor DVM43 was recently honoured by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to

Animals of Illinois Taylor ran a small-animal veterinary clinic in

the Chicago area for many years

and says he gained ll1uch experishyence during his first three years in

Illinois as clinic veterinarian for

the anti -cruelty society

19505

bull Charles Chuck Broadwell BSA 54 was elected a Mel

Osborne Fellow by the Kiwanis

Club of Forest City in London Ont in recognition of a dedicatshy -ed and distinguished career in

Kiwanis

19605

bull Constantine Campbell BSA 60 and MSA 61 was named to the

WINTER 1999 37

Order of Canada in January He

received the award in recogni shy

tion of his many contributions

to science and the Canadian

agricultural industry After grad shy

uating from OAC he went on to

do his PhD at the University of

Saskatchewan then joined Agri shy

culture and Agri-food Canada

as a research scientist at the Swift

Current research station Campshy

bell and his family now live in

Ottawa where he is scientist

emeritus with Agriculture and

Agri-food Canada

bull John Casselman BSA 64 is

a research scientist with the

Ontario Ministry of Natural

Resources He Jives in Bath

Ont with his wife Lois

bull Jane Fuller RRSc 65 and

her husband George who both

taught at the Macdonald Instishy

tute from 1966 to 1969 have

moved from Winnipeg to

Utopia Ont following

Georges retirement from the

University of Manitoba

bull Fred Gilbert MSc 66 and

P hD 68 is in his first term as

president of Lakehead Univer shy

sity in Thunder Bay Ont He

taught at U of G in the Departshy

ment of Zoology from 1972 to

1981 and has enjoyed a dive rse

academic career that has also

included teaching at the Unishy

versity of Maine and posi tions

as director of wildlife biology at

Washington State University

and founding dean of the Facshy

ulty of Natural Reso urces and

Environmenta l Studies at the

University of Northern British

Columbia He moved to Lakeshy

head from a position as viceshy

pro vost at Colorado State Unishy

versity A respected wildlife

biologist he has conducted

ex tensive resea rch in s Ll ch areas

as the behaviour and physioloshy

gy of wildlife species and the

effects of environmental

change on wildlife populations

bull Terry Goodyear BSc 67 of

Mont Tremblant Quebec is an

early retiree from Agriculture

and Agri-Food Canada in Ottawa He is now working on

va lue-added products from

industrial wastes particularly

cellulose sludge from pulp and

pa per mills

bull Gary Hearn BA 68 was

named an Ontario provincial

judge in October For the last

25 years he has been a lawyer

with the firm Kearns McKinshy

non in Guelph where he lives

with his wife Irene and three

teenage children

bull Allan Knight BSA 66 of Corunna Ont has retired

from Dow Chemical after 30

years On retirement he was a

laboratory director for indusshy

trial chemicals He is now

working with his son in a famishy

ly-owned and -operated busishy

ness Knight Funeral Home

bull Keith McFarlane BSc(Agr)

68 works for the Department

of Foreign Affairs and Internashy

tional Trade and began a fourshy

year assignment last summer as

head of the commercial divishy

sion of the Canadian Embassy

in Lisbon Portugal The

division promotes the sa le of

Canadian goods and services

to Portugal

bull Ian Newbould MA 68 has

travelled far from his Ontario

roots through an academic and

administrative career that has

taken him to Europe Asia and

Western Canada A noted hisshy

torian he moved into adm inisshy

tration at the University of

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38 GUELPH ALUMNUS

Lethbridge in 1981 and spent

10 years there as director of

research dean of a rts and scishy

ence and vice-presiden t (acadeshy

mic) before crossing the counshy

try to become president of

Mount Allison University in

New Brunswick He is now in

his second term as president of

Mount AUison

bull Indra Deo Singh MSc 68 is

a tea scientist international

consultant and joint director of

the Tea Research Association at

the Nagrakata substation in

India His responsibilities

include co-ordinating research

and development in the Indian

tea industry and developing tea

cultivars and agrotechnology

for tea Singh is married with

two sons aged 27 and 23

19705

bull Don Ambler BSe 71 retired in March as manager of

water programs with Environshy

ment Canada in Dartmouth

NS after 25 years of public

service He has now registered

the company Aquashed Co nshy

sulting to continue in the water

resources field when hes not

gardening beekeeping do ing

aerobics or vo lunteering in the

community and chu rch E-mail

contact is welcome a t

donambl erns sympaticoca

bull Jim Bond BSe 75 is managshy

ing a new processing facility at

the Chalk River Nuclear Laborashy

to ry in Chalk River Ont

bull Terri (Monks) Bulman BSc(Agr) 78 and MSe 81

and her husband Vincent

MSe 8 1 live in Australia with

their th ree children Catherine

7 Peter 4 and baby Christoshy

pher Terri is senior principal

environmental auditor vith

Coffey Geosciences Pty Ltd Vinshy

cent afte r many years as a geoloshy

gist travelling around Australia

and abroad has taken the year

off to study and look after the

children Their e-mail address is

tbulmanbigpondco m

bull Marie David BA 78 of

Hanover Ont has been in the

n ewspaper business for 20

years She started in the mailshy

room moved to advertising

sales then became advert ising

manager She is now gene ral

manager o f three So utham

weekly newspapers and pubshy

lish er of the Hanover Post

bull Janice Harrower and her husshy

band Jerome Billett both

DVM 76 operate a joint veterishy

nary practice in Prescott Ont

Billett says practising together

has allowed them some flexibilishy

ty in their family life and given

their four children a good took

at the rigours of veterinary

medicine Says Billett Not one

of our kid s has the slightest

interest in being a veterinarian

and isnt that just fine Their

o ldest son Jesse attends Harshy

va rd University and is a memshy

ber of its prestigious a cappella

choir Lucas is studying

mechanical engineering at the

University of Waterloo Casey is

planning a career in computer

engineering and Lindsay is a

high school athle te

bull Clair Heinbuch BSe 74 is a

sales manager with Baye r Corp

in Kansas H e and his wife

Caroline (Koscik) BASc 75

returned to the Kansas City

area after spending four years in

Denver They have three chilshy

dren Lisa 20 Scott 18 and

Ryan [5

bull Beverly Lee BASe 72 is an

elem entary school principal in

Unionville Ont She lives with

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her husband Grant Egan in

Collingwood and is looking

forward to retirement in severshy

al years Life on Georgian Bay

is wonderful she says Lee

would love to hear from fellow

grads by e-mail at

leebYrbeeduonca or by

phone at 705 -444 -092l

bull Won-Jai Maeng MSc 71 took office Sept 1 as president

of Kon-Kuk University in Seoul

Korea where his academic

career began He completed an

undergraduate degree at Kon

Kuk in 1965 then studied at

Mailing Agricultural College in Denmark and at U of G before

doing doctoral work at the Unishy

versity of California Davis

Maeng has held research and

teaching positions at the Unishy

versity of illinois at Chung-Ang

University and at Kon-Kuk

where he has been a professor of

animal science since 1984 His

appointment as president folshy

lows years of administrative

experience as a department

head dean and chair of various

research committees and proshy

fessional organizations An

expert in ruminant nutrition

Maeng was instrumental in

developing the livestock feed

industry in Korea He has also

been active in working with

alumni groups and in writing

for the Kon-Kuk Tribune

bull Bill MarshaU ADA 75 of Proton Station Ont moved

from Clarksburg in June to

work in Dundalk for the Grey

County Roads Department on

its road management crew

bull Bernie Matte BSc(Agr) 70 of Moncton NB retired

in March after 28 years with

Fisheries and Oceans Canada

and the Canadian Food

Inspection Agency He plans to

travel to Belize and Honduras

with his wife Diane and will

be available anywhere in the

Caribbean for seafood HACCP

consulting work

bull Margaret McClain BA 70 lives in Arkansas where she is

highJy involved in the issue of

40 GUELPH ALUMNUS

missing children and internashy

tional abductions McClain who

believes her own six-year-old

daughter was taken out of the

United States more than a year

ago by her second husband is

reaching out to parents with

similar experiences through an

organization that is lobbying the

US government for tougher

international abduction laws

She invites interested fr iends

and alumni to contact her

through her Web site at

wwwinsolwwbnet-dmcclain

bull Robert (Chuck) Miller BA 77 is the park superintendent

of Killarney French River and

Maskinonje provincial parks in

Ontario He moved to Killarney

from Quetico Provincial Park

last May

bull Gordon Nicol BA 72 and MSc(Agr) 74 teaches math

and science in a bilingual prishy

vate school in Guatemala A

BEd graduate of Laurentian

he first taught in Guatemala in

the late 1970s then spent 12

years in northern Alberta as a

teacher and principal He

returned to Guatemala in 1989

A widower with three teenage

children Nicol would like to

hear from U of G friends and

acquaintances especially anyshy

one who is was or will be in

Central America He says he

could also use middle-schoolshy

level science projects Send eshy

mail to gnicoll guatenet or

write to PO Box 661447 Miami

Springs Florida 33266-1447

bull Chris Schulte BSc 71 and MSc 73 lives in Nassau

Bahamas with his wife

Andrya After graduation he

stayed in the Department of

Physics as a research associate

with Prof lain Campbell then

joined Ontario Hydro in the

early 1980s He moved to the

Bahamas in 1995 He can be

reached bye-mail at

schultebahamasnetbs

bull Sandra (Pickford) Webster BA 75 has retired from U of

Gs Co mmunications and Pubshy

lic Affairs and is living in Parry

Sound Ont where she is

doing volunteer work and

communications consulting

for the municipality Guelph

friends ca n contact her by

e-mail atswebsterzeutercom

19805

bull Sharon (Courneya) Angus BA 8 I of Surrey BC comshy

pleted a BSW at the University

of British Columbia in 1988

and has been working for the

BC government for 13 years

- first in probation and now

in the family justice division

She and her husband Ron

have three children Jason

Carly and Colin

bull Karen Beazley BLA 86 is an assistant professor and acadeshy

mic program co-ordinator at

the School for Reso urce and

Environmental Studies at Dalshy

housie University in Halifax

She is currently doing research

for a book on endangered

species initiatives and is orgashy

nizing a Nova Scotia wildlands

workshop with the Wildlands

Project for 1999 Her e-mail

address is kbeazleyisdalca

bull Caroline (Van Deudekom) and Marc Brooks both ADA 87

recently moved from Strathroy

to Owen Sound Ont where

they run a 50-acre organic farm

with their two sons

bull Virginia Burt BLA 85 startshyed her own landscape architecshy

ture firm Visionscapes in

Hamilton Ont in ] 996 She

specializes in the design of thershy

apeutic healing gardens spirit

gardens sacred spaces and

la byrin ths and recen tly designed the first healing garden

in Canada specificalJy for peoshy

ple living with HIV and AIDS

bull Joanne (Branson) Carver BA 80 earned a BEd from Brock

University in 1981 and recently

started working as a probashy

tionparole officer She Jives in

Ajax Ont and has two daughshy

ters Julie4 and Sarah 8

bull Heather Champ BA 86 is a Web-site designer in New York

City She began her work in

computer design in 1990 Her

personal site can be Found at

wwwjezebelcom

bull Laurie Gough BA 87 has become a world traveller who

writes about her experiences for

the benefit of others Her most

recent book Island of the

Human Heart A tfornans Travshyel Odyssey is now in its second

printing in Canada and will be

released next year in the United

States and overseas She has also

published Travellers Tales A

Womans World which won the

US-based Lowell Thomas

Gold Award for best travel book

of the year When not travelling

or writing she teaches English

and ESL in Guelph

bull Susan (Coles) Goulden BASc 84 and her husband

Ian are th rilled wi th their

recent adoption of Jennifer Lee

Yu who was born in June near

Leping Jiangxi Peoples Repubshy

lic of China The Gouldens

who Jive in vVaterloo Ont

thank classmate Andrea

(Kovits) Henderson for her

support throughout the adopshy

tion process Susan is currently

on leave from her position with

McCormick Canada

bull Judy (Bodendistel) Gregg BA 82 moved to Melbourne Ausshy

tralia in 1997 with her husband

and two children Carly 6 and

Adam 3 We are enjoying the

friendly people and the great

weather here she says We are

especially enjoying winter in a

place where it never gets below

zero Celsius

bull Nigel GumJey DVM 85 has been a partner in the Alta Vista

Animal Hospital in Ottawa

since 1990 was president of the bull Garry Millage AMPHI 86 bull Heidi Stephenson BA 88 is now ISO 9000 manager at

Ontario Veterinary Medical left a position as vice-president was awarded her professional Carpenter Ca nada Ltd in

Association in 1997 and recent- of national operations for acco untants designation of Wood br idge Ont He lives in

ly served on the Canadian Vetshy Scotts Restaurants KFC Divishy certified general accountant in Miss issa uga Classma tes are

erilw() Medical Associations sion to open his own consult- March 1998 She has been invited to contact him at

national issues committee He ing company Future Food employed for the last 10 years avon listarca

lives in Osgoode with his wife Equipment Ine specializes in with Dan Ball Chartered bull Michelle (Pilon) Bacon BA rvlaurecn and children Laura providing new and used restau- Acco un tant in Parry Sound 90 moved to England to study

and Matthew rant equipment and reducing O nt where she lives with her and work after graduating from

bull Muneer Hirji BComm 82 restaurant construction costs hu sband Brad two dogs and a Guelph She recently left a posishy

lives in Toronto and is vice- He also operates a restaurant horse tion with the British Ministry of

president of marke ting at SAP called Nikkos in Woodbridge bull Dawn Stetsko BSe 81 lives Agriculture and Food in York to

Canada He has three chil- Ont and is planning to open a in Langhorne Pa with her husshy become an at-home mom She

drcl1 Nadia 8 Alyssa 6 and second location band Paul and children Mark now lives in London with her

Sarah I bull Tosh Noseworthy BSe 83 is and Keith and is a research husband Tim and one-year-old

bull Brenda irwin BSe 88 is a cardiovascular ICU nurse in scientist with Bristol-Myers daughter Juliette She sends love

studying at Hong Kong Unishy sunny Tuscon Arizona After Squibb Previously she worked to Sue Heather and Sheila and

vers ity of Science and Technolshy grad uation she lived in Paris at McMaster University in can be reached bye-mail at

ogy to complete the final France for a yea r s tudied nurs- Hamilton Ont for 17 yea rs michellebacondialpipexcom

sem ester of an MBA program ing in O ttawa then lived in Saushy bull Teresa Tummillo-Goy BA bull Jeff Barlow BComm 90 is

through the University of di Arabia for two yea rs She still 86 has a law practice in Water- the training and quality manag-

British Columbia She taught loves to travel and would like to 100 Ont foc Li sing primaril y on er for two five-star luxury boushy

science for the North York hea r from fellow alumni She family law civi l litiga tion and tique h o tels in Prague - Hotel

Board of Education for five can be reached at 520-299-8344 real estate She and her hus- Palace Praha and the Hotel

years before enrolling in the bull Cecilia (Wleugel) Parkes band John Goy live in Guelph Savoy Previo usly he was execu -

MBA program BComm 85 is a graphic and have three sons John 4 tive housekeeper at the five-star

bull Jagwant Kanwar PhD 80 is designer in Toronto and says Tony 3 and Shayne 2 Renaissance Pragu e Hotel

a senior scientist in the depart- she st ill uses ber marketing bull Peter Van der Borch DVM bull Margaret Burnes-Souria BA ment of vegetable crops at Pun- background to help her busishy 88 retired in the fa ll of 1997 94 is a team leader with [011 shy

jab Agricultural University in ness succeed She specia lizes in after several years of practising don Magazin e in London Ont

India He is also director of the logo design lNith hand-drawn physiotherapy and ve terinary She married David Souria in

regional vegetable research stashy illustrations medicine and surgery He Jives July 1997 and is pursuing an tion at Usman (TaranTarn) bull Jim Parr BSc(Agr) 81 and in Pictou NS ]VlBA at the University of West-

Amritsar His and his wife MSe 89 died of cancer in bull MartyWilLiams BA 85 is ern Ontario

Sanyogita have a son Mohit June 1998 but hes being co-ordinator of student activishy bull Janine Byers BASe 95 is a and a daughter Dipika who are remembered by his university ties at University College Unishy public health dietitian at the

both studying engineering friends through the establish - versity of Toronto where he Kingston Frontenac and

Friends can write to Kanwar at ment of a mem orial fund for advises student organizations Iennox amp Addington Health

Punjab Agricultural Un ivers ity his wife Denise and children 1Ie is also chair of the U of T Unit in Kingston O nt She is Ludhiana 141 004 India Shannon and Eric Anyone Staff Association a member of getting married to Ca rl Stewart

bull Larissa Larsen BSe 89 and who would like more informa - the steering committee of the on May 29 j 999 MLA 92 received a PhD in tion can ca ll Brian Tapscott at staffs unionization drive and a bull Lisa Cherry BSe 9 1 is a urban and regional planning 519-767-3566 staff member with the student science journalist and executive

from the University of Illinois bull Cheryl (Dunlop) Reid newspaper The Varsity He can director of Artists Against

at Urbana Champaign in May BSe(Agr) 89 sta rted a new be reached bye-mail at marty Racism an international organi-

She has accepted a position at job in September as ingredient wi lliamsutorontoca za tion She is based in Toronto

Thompson Dyke and Associshy sales manager for RA bull Bonnie (Byma) BASe 96 ales a landscape architecture Chisholm o f Toronto She will 19905 and Gil Clelland BA 95 were

and urban planning firm in continue to work from her bull Claire Allison BA 94 grad- married in December 1996 and

Chicago Her husband Ernie remote offke in Fergus Reid uated from the elementary are living in Chatham On t

Poortinga DVM 89 is in his and her husband Jeff BSe teacher ed ucation program at Bo nnie works at a day-care

third yea r of an MD program (Agr) 89 have two children the University of British centre G il teaches art and

at Rush University Chicago lVlega n 4 and Elizabeth 2 Columbia in 1996 and now phys ical education They ca n -Hes looking forward to joining bull Chee Sie BA 83 is a zone teaches in Va ncou ver be reached bye-ma il at gclelshy

his wife in the ranks of the manager for the Malaysian bull JohnAvon BSdHK) 94 lan ciaccesscom employed They would both Assurance Alliance Berhad in earned an M Se in industr ial bull Kate Corn ell BA 95 of enjoy hearing from fellow Sarawak Malaysia He and his operations from Lawrence Markham Ont earned her

alumni and can be reached at wife Jesterine have a two-year- Technological University in masters in dance history from epoor tin garushurushedu old daughter Letitia Southfleld Mich in 1997 and York University in May and

WINTER 1999 41

co-authored a book titled

Toronto Dance Theatre 1968shy1998 Stages in a Journey

bull Mary Jill (McClure) Culliton BASe 90 earned

her BEd from Brock University

and her M Ed from the Univershy

sity of Western Ontario and

teaches Grade 1 in Mitchell

Ont She and her husband

Tim live in Stratford

bull Kathleen (McNutt) Daniels BASe 9 1 is a teacher and was

married on New Years Eve

1994 to Gord Daniels They live

in North Bay Ont and have a

daughter Lauren born in Febshy

ruary 1997 They are expecting

their second child in February

bull Simon Deakin BA 95 studshyied in Florence Italy for a year

then earned a master of fine art

from the Slade School of Fine

Art at the University of London

England He lives in London

bull Christie Dunbar BLA 97 spent a year after graduation

working for Niagara College in

St Catharines Ont on the

vision and design of a new

campus to be built in Niagarashy

on-the- Lake Last April she

joined the landscape architecshy

ture firm of Pollack Design

Associates in Ann Arbor Mich

bull Trina Edmonds BA 94 and

Joel Hinderle became the

proud parents of a little girl

Jordan Ashley in january 1998

and moved to a new home in

Oakville Ont in September

Edmonds works in Mississauga

as a desktop publisher with a

publishingprinting company

bull Wendy Garinther BSc 93 and Steve Decker BSe 94

were married in May Joining

them in the wedding celebrashy

tions were Cheri (Coulter)

42 GUELPH ALUMNUS

Ascroft BSe 93 Karen Leinshy

gartner BSe 94 and Barb

(Moore) Johnson BSe 94

Best man was Jeff Bond BSe

93 and MSe 96 The Deckers

live in Edmonton where Steve

is doing a PhD in chemistry at

the University of Alberta and

Wendy is working in a research

laboratory at a biopharmaceushy

tical company

bull Donna Gross BA 97 is purshysu ing a master of divinity at

Emmanuel College at the Unishy

versity of Toronto and hopes to

become an ordained minister by

2002 She lives in Guelph and

can be reached bye-mail at

donnajulietalbedonet

bull Robert Gruber BA 92 is a child-care supervisor for the

YMCA-YWCA of Guelph and

manages the Jean Little Y

Child- Care Centre He recently

developed the anti -bias proshy

gramming policy for the

Guelph Y and sits on both the

Jean Little Public School Counshy

cil and the Guelph AIDS Wall

Committee He can be reached

bye-mail at rgrubernet

comca

bull Susan Harder BSe 91 grad shyuated from the University of

Toronto Medical School in June

and has started a residency at

Santa Clara Valley Medical Censhy

tre in San jose Calif She will

follow that up with an anestheshy

sia residency at Stanford Univershy

sity Hospital in 1999

bull Marko Harjupanula BASc 93 travelled in Australia for

two months after graduating

from Guelph then returned to

his home town of South Porshy

cupine Ont where he worked

in a gold mine for four years

He entered police college in

September and started as an

opp constable in Cochrane in

December

bull Nancy Holman MA 94 moved to Vancouver soon after

graduation and initially worked

as a project co-ordinator for an

ophthalmologist In 1996 she

began working full time for the

BC Liberal Caucus I would

enjoy hearing from and catchshy

ing up with the friends I made

while studying at U of G and

working at the Brass Taps she

says Her e-mail address is nan shy

cyholmanlassgovbeca

bull Ruth Johnson BA 91 is an investment banking associate

with the mergers and acquisishy

tions group of JP Morgan in

Lond on England responsible

for financial reporting and

administration She has been in

England with her partner Alex Campbell since graduation

bull Stephen Johnson BA 94 of London Ont was a lab technishy

cian at Lenscrafters for three

yea rs and is now a full-time

student at Fanshawe College

studying air conditioning and

refrigeration He was married

in Jun e to Jennifer Fox BSc

95 a chemist at 3M Their

wedding party included Dee Popat BSe (Eng) 94 and

Patrick Wulhes BSc 95

bull Sarah (Davis) Kelly BASe 90 married Robert Kelly in

July and teaches primary

grades at an inner-city school

in Toronto

bull Cassidy Klowak BComm 97 lives in Allisshy

ton Onl and is a personal

banking account manager

with ClBC in Tottenham

bull Stephanie Lopes BSc 96 completed her MSc in repro shy

ductive biology at the Universishy

ty of Toronto and worked as

patient-care director for the

College of Family Physicians

for almost a year In September

she enrolled in medical school

at the University of Toronto

She is happy to announce that

she is engaged to be married

next summer Lopes can be

reached at slopesidirectcom

bull Natalie (Parker) MacKenzie BSc 96 earned her BEd from

the University of Western

Ontario in 1997 She married

ASLt Andy MacKenzie June 27

in Sault Ste Marie Ont and

now lives in Halifax

bull Susan MacKinnon DVM 91 is a veterinarian with HUls

Science Diet She lives in

Guelph with her husband

Brandon Wiley and gave birth

to their first child Adrianna

Nicole june 26 at home

bull Waheed Mian BA 9 1 of Cambridge Ont is a store

director with PetSmart Canada

He helped the company launch

its new retail concept in Cana da

bull Alex Mitchell BA 91 was appointed clerkdeputy treasurshy

er of the Ontario township of

Mildmay-Carrick in 1998 and

will be the clerkadministrator

of the new municipality of

Mildmay-Carrick -TeesWatershy

Culross in 1999 He was married

in january 1997 and lives vith

his wife and daughter in Mild shy

may In his spare time Mitchell

is a professional scout for the

Toronto Maple Leafs covering

southwestern Ontario

bull Sherry Morland BASc 93 of Kitchener Ont ea rned her

BEd from Brock University in

J995 and is a part-time specia l

educa tion teacher and an occashy

sional teacher with the Watershy

loo County Board of Ed ucashy

tion She married Ivan LeBlanc

in 1997

bull Gary Page BSe 91 wo rks for the Nottawasaga Valley Conshy

servation Authority where he is

able to combine his knowledge

of wildlife biology with his

artistic skills as resident graphic

designer and outdoor centre

interpreter He Jives with his

wife Di and their son judah in

CreemoreOnt

bull Elaine Pammenter BA 96 is an inventory clerk with the

Royal Collection at Windsor

Castle in England She holds a

museum management and

curatorship grad uate certificate

diploma from Sir Sandford

Fleming College and did her

internship at the Royal Albert

Memorial Museum in Exeter

England

bull Brent Raymond BSe(Env) 96 of Brantford Ont has

been working with Outward

Bound since graduation He

leads wilderness trips in Northshy

ern Ontario Horida Australia and Sabah (Malaysian Borneo) Most recently he designed and implemented a new introducshytory mountaineering course for Outward Bound Sabah on the summit plateau of Mt Kinashy

balu Those of you who know me as plate licker from U of G get in touch he says Where are you Star I miss you He can be reached by e-mail at globarwchatonca or by

phone at 519-756-1697

Alumni Patrick Abbott BSA 40 July 7 1998

Albert Allen BSA 33 Jan 161994 Agris Ansmits BA 70 and MA 73

February 1998 Barbara (Quartermain) Babcock DHE

53 June 17 1998

Wray Bond BSA 34 Sept 25 1998

Kenneth Bone DVM 38 Dec 29 1998 Evelyn (Stevenson) Buhr DHE 39

May 251998 Philip Burke BSA 43 June 21 1998

Grant Carman BSA 49 Oct 221998 Frederick Chambers BSA 41

June 1998 Wilmot Conley ADA4 7 April 7 1998 Lloyd Crewson BSA 49 Aug 261998

Jacqueline Dimock DHE 47

Aug 20 1998 John Dingwall DVM 52

April 18 1998

Lloyd Dorsey BSA 38 June 9 1998 George Duncan BSA 37

Sept 19 1998

David Dyson BSA 53 Aug 31 1998

Norma (Shannon) Edwards DHE 39

November 1997 Vincent Bud Ellis DVM 41

July 15 1998 John Jack George BSA 48

Sept 24 1998

Donald Haight BSA 33 January 1997 William Hamlyn BSA 33 Dec I 1997

Gordon Harkness BSA 49

November 1997

Charles Hollister DVM 38 June 1996 Donald Hope BSA 54 June 28 1998

Lawrence Jefferson BSA 38

Sept 3 1998

James Kelso DVM 56 July 27 1998

Dorima Lalonde BSA 34 Oct 8 1998 Mildred (Cox) Large DHE 33

June 20 1998 Roger Larson BComm 86 Feb 19 1998 Robert Lawson BSA 49 June 6 1998

bull Doug Ramsey BA 91 and PhD 98 received U of Gs highshyest graduate student award shythe Forster Medal- at June convocation for his academic and community involvement while enrolled in Guelphs new

graduate program in geography He spent the summer as a visitshying research scholar at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College in Truro before assuming his curshyrent position as assistant professhysor at Mount Allison University

David Leach BSc(Agr) 74

July 18 1998

Ian Leask DVM 74 Sept 5 1998

Sheryl Lee BSc 95 June 8 1998 Ruby Janet MacAuley DHE 30

Aug 19 1998 Parker MacKenzie DVM 38

September 1994

Jeanice MacLaren DHE 28 March 1 1997

Campbell MacMaster DVM42

Oct 8 1998

Rex McCallum DVM 43 July 71998 Jean (Dunn) McMahon DHE 31

Nov 41998

Margaret Oones) McTaggart DHE 35 Aug 81998

Patrick McTaggart-Cowan HDSc 81

Oct 21997

Malcolm McWhinnie ADA 39

July 16 1998 Mary (Townsend) Mitchell BHSc

60 Sept 281998

Marjory Monaghan DHE 29

December 1997 Charles Monk BSA 44 Aug 7 1998

Heather Neilsen BHSc 59

Oct 30 1998 Jerry Niwa DVM 62 Aug 5 1998 Henry Harry OReilly BSA 42

October 1997

James Parr BSc(Agr) 81 June 19 1998 Charles Rammage DVM 45

Oct 17 1996 Howard Rapson HDSc 90

March 1997 Clement Reeds DVM 42 Oct 16 1998

William Robinson BSA 38

Aug 23 1998

Donald Sager ADA 73 Oct 141997

Austin Schaefer DVM 37 in 1997

Sandra (Mackenzie) Schmidt DHE 59

Aug 16 1997 Margaret (Harvey) Seaborn DHE 28

July 221998

Larry Seguin DVM 47 June 12 1998

Leah Shedden DHE 31 December 1998

Edward Shuh BSA 40 July 2 1998

Ted Shutsa BSc(Agr) 66

Sept 18 1998 Jim Sinclair DVM 49 Oct 4 1998

Margaret (Brown) Sinclair DHE 20

September 1998 Eldon Smith BSA 42 Sept 9 1998

Derek Somers DVM 96 Sept 25 1998

Cheryl Lynn Sopha BA 95 Sept 20 1998

Leona (Bartlett) Stewart DHE 35

June 27 1998 Alex Thomson BSc(Agr) 69

October 1996

William Whittick DVM 55

Aug 15 1998 Joseph Wilson BSA 23 Sept 11 1998

Lloyd Woolsey DVM41 June 24 1998

Winifred Yeates DHE 28 June 11998

Faculty John Carpenter BSA 43 and MSA 48

Microbiology Dec 10 1998

David Gaskin Zoology Sept 14 1998

Gordon Macleod BSA 50 Animal and

Poultry Science Nov 26 1998 Roman Retman Languages and

Literatures Sept 28 1998

Caesar Sen off Chemistry and

Biochemistry Aug 14 1998

Percy Smith Drama Dec 10 1998

Friends Robert Clark Aug 21 1998

Ethel Hammond August 1998

Thomas Hillers Sept 28 1998 Marguerite Holbrook Aug 26 1998

Catherine Kelly Sept 27 1998

James A McKenzie May 13 1998

Kenneth McIssac Oct 23 1998

William Mutlock September 1998 Roena Patterson Sept 16 1998

Donald Priddle Aug 25 1998

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bull Karl Reimer BSe 94 comshypleted a one-year intensive

MSc in mining engineering at

Queens University and is now

a project engineer a t Enpar

Technologies Ine in Guelph

He can be contacted at reimerbservcom

bull Nancy Nauta Rowland BA 90 and her husband Dan celshy

ebrated their first wedding

anniversary in March 1998 with

the birth of their first child

Connor who beat their March

8 anniversary by two days Nanshy

cy teaches junior-grade stushy

dents and junior special ed ucashy

tion for the Peel District School

Board The Rowlands live in

Caledon Ont

bull Fraser Stables MFA 98 was heralded by Toronto Globe 6shyMail critic Betty Jordan as a

formidable new talent followshy

ing the openi ng of his debut

gallery exh ibition in July The

Scottish artists work includes

sculpture video and mixed

media that explore notions of

flu x by interrupting the moveshy

ment of forms in space

bull Erin (Smith) Scott BSe(HK) 92 and Brad

Scott BSc(Agr) 91 of Lucan

O nt were married in 1993 and

had their first child Lucas in

August Erin works for Shopshy

pers Home Health Ca re in

London Brad is with New Life

Mills in Dunfield

bull Abby Simons BSc 95 and Martin Piche BSc(Agr) 95 were married in Mont-Tremshy

blant Quebec in 1997 She is a

customer service representative

with Kantech Systems he is

superintendent of Club de golf

vallee des forts They say theyd

love to hear from anyone headshy

ing to Montreal and can be

reached at 450-348-3860

bull Sylvia Tesori BSc 95 has been doing wildlife rehabilitashy

tion for the OSPCA Wildlife

Rehabilitation Centre in Midshy

land Ont since 1996

bull Chuck Thibeault BComm 94 is general manager of the

Putting Edge Corpora tion

which has two glow-in- theshy

dark mini-golf courses in

Ontario one in Bramp ton and

one in Richmond Hill He can

be reached in Richmond Hill at

chu ckttotalnet

bull Karen Thirlwall BA 93 is a

si ngersongwriter and guitarist

who began her stage career and

released her first album The Voice Inside Me while studying

languages at U of G She has

lived and performed in

11i stler BC for three years

and recently released a second

album called Wide-Eyed She

remembers many special

fr iends m ade at Guelph and

welcomes e-mail messages to

karenthirlwallhotmailcom

bull Christie (Johnson) and Steve

Tyler both BComm 91 live in

Cambridge Ont where

Christie is a personal banking

representative for the Royal

Bank Steve works with their

third-year design professor

Nelson Hofer in Mississauga as

a design consultan t Steves proshy

jects include the Windsor Casishy

no and U of Gs Creelman Hall

They have two children Jason

5 and Marcus 1

bull Julia White BA 91 lives in Guelph and is a small-business

accountant at Taves amp Co She

recently finished courses

towards a CGA designation and

would like to hea r from other

alumni who lived in Lambton

Hall in 198788 Send e-mail to

juliawhitesympaticoca

bull Andre-Denis Wright MSc 93 and PhD 98 is doing postshy

docto ral work in Perth Westshy

ern Australia He wants his

Guelph friends and Halifax

family to know he was thinking

of them at Christmas when it

was 40 C in Australia

bull Dave Yellen BComm 90 was recently promoted at the Gordon

Food Service to new-accounts

sales specialist for Metro Toronshy

to Having been in Ottawa for

the past few years Im hoping

to reacquaint myself with old

friend s from U of G in the Metro

area he says He lives in Scarborshy

ough and can be reached at 416shy615-2745 or davidysprintca

bull Halina Zaleski PhD 92 is a tenured professor in the

departm ent of animal sciences

at the Un iversity of Hawaii in

Honolulu She is a swine speshy

cialist involved in extension

programs for an area th at covshy

ers all of Hawai i and the PacifIC

basin She can be reached by

e-mail at halinahawaiiedu

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IF THERE ARE LIVESTOCK IN THE HOCKEY ARENA and

theyre not wearing skates its College Royal If there

are students sawing logs throwing pies baking cookies

and square dancing its College Royal When the entire

University of Guelph is displayed - from arts to zooloshy

gy - March 13 and 14 1999 youll know its definitely

College Royan

Since its inception in 1925 as an agricultural and liveshy

stock show run by the Ontario Agricultural College

College Royal has grown to be a celebrated U of G trashy

dition involving all the colleges

The event is famou s in the University community

and beyond for its open-house showcase of displays and

activities The largest student-run open house in Canashy

da College Royal attracts more than 20000 visitors to

campus over one weekend

College Royal is an event of tradition that reaches

into tomorrow Agriculture and livestock shows are still

highlighted events but College Royal activities have

grown to include dog and cat shows a photography conshy

test a chemistry magic show and demonstrations on

human health and fitness The open house gives people

an opportunity to see what happens in the Universitys

leading-edge research laboratories to observe veterinary

medicine in practice to tour a sculpture studio or to

watch a theatrical performance

To celebrate the 75th anniversary of College Royal

1998 president Joe TrakaJo lnvites alumni to get involved

again by joining one of the planning comm ittees or by

participating in a favourite event Call him for more

information at 824-4120 Ext 8366 or send e-mail to

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OACs 23000 graduates are also recognized

worldwide for their expertise and leadshy

ership abilities in agriculture agribusiness manageshy

ment hortiClilture landscape architecture plant and

animal biology food scie nce and rural extension

Meeting industry needs

More than 100 years apart in their leadershyship of OAC William Johnston and Rob McLaughlin both recognized that the colshylege they inherited would have to focus on industry needs to survive In Johnstons day that meant bringing greater prospershyity to the farm Because only three per cent of McLaughlins graduates return to farmshying todays college curriculum has a greater focus on skills in communication and critical thinking which are demanded by the various industries that now define agriculture

studies McLaughlin hopes those graduates will

return to help the college celebrate 1999s signifishy

cant anniversary It s important to celebrate our

past achievements and to recognize our present and

future strengths he says

A specia l OAC 125 planning committee coshy

chaired by Clay Switzer OAC dean from 1972 to

1983 and Don Blackburn former director of the

diploma program has organized a number of

events throughout the coming year to celebrate the

anniversary

Were looking forward to a wonderful year of

events to mark this occasion says Switzer BSA 51

and MSA 53 We want to celebra te the accomshy

plishments of the past and the fact tha t OAC has

interacted with many partners to get where we are

today and we want to look ahead to the future to

see how the college and the University might conshy

tinue along this successful path

Success for OAC means maintaining its position

as a vital partner and contributor to the prosperity

of the agri-food industry and the people of rural

Ontario for whom it was established That industry

and those rural communities are vastly different

from the 1874 picture we draw from the college hisshy

tory primarily because farmers themselves - with

the help of agricultural education and researchshy

12 GUElPH ALUMNUS

125 YEARS OF ACHIEVEMENT

Throughout OACs first 125 years its educashytion research and extension activities have had an impact on virtually every secshytor of Canadas agrimiddot food industry In the anniversary book 125

Years of Achievement OAC highlights some of the areas where col1lege faculty stushydents and administrashytors have played a leadership role To read more about Guelphs achievements in these areas conshytact the OAC deans office to obtain a copy of the book

Pre 1900

bull Diploma in agriculture

bull Degree in agriculture

bull Agri-food short courses

bull Production bulletins bull Extension work bull Liberal education bull Library resources bull Field crop trials bull Livestock breeding

bull Forestry bull Insect identification bull Experimental Union

1900-1910

bull Herbarium amp weed garden

bull Cheese making bull Food safety bull Land drainage bull Water testing bull Weather observashy

tions amp zoning for crop production

bull Legume inoculants

have forged change through increased productivishy

ty and efficiency

When OAC roots were planted in 187450 per

cent of th e people who lived in this new province

made their living from farming Today only two per

cent of Ontario residents live on farms

but they feed a much larger population

base and an important export market

The Ontario agri-food industry genershy

ates an impressive $637 billion in ecoshy

nomic value each year and stimulates

employment for nearly a quarter of the

workforce Canadians enjoy one of the

safest and cheapest food supplies in the

world spending less than 13 per cent of

their disposa ble income on food Most

people in the world spend more than 50

per cent

Its difficult to pinpoint all the conshy

tributions OAC faculty staff and gradshy

uates have made to agriculture because

the knowledge created and the techshy

nologies perfected here have been so weU

assimilated by the industry that they are

easily taken for granted Few people in

Ontario have ever heard of Charles

Zavitz or know that this early OAC gradshy

uate and professor recorded the first

field-crop yield tests at Guelph before 1890

Appointed head experimentalist in 1893 he was

instrumental in developing a college research proshy

gram that made good the promise that OAC would

offer its students training in scientific agriculture

Zavitz has been followed by a number of brilshy

liant educators and scientists whose contributions

to the college and its industry have filled several

books Even Alexander Ross in OACs official hisshy

tory College on the Hill can provide only a brief

description of the research initiatives that have

involved OAC in the growth of the agri-food secshy

tor and the tremendous advances agriculture has

made in the areas of human and animal nutrition

and health water and soil conservation rural develshy

opment and of course agri-food education

To give prominence to these contributions the

college has published an anniversary book that outshy

lines 125 of the most significant accomplishments in

which OAC faculty students and administrators

played a leadership role More important 125 Years ofAchievement celebrates the partnerships that have

provided the opportunities for achievement Through

the years Guelph scientists and educators have worked

closely with the agri-food industry with both the

Ontario Ministry of Agriculture Food and Rural

Affairs and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and

with other government departments international 1990s And they still have not reached that equalishy125 YEARS agencies educational institutions and alumni ty on the college faculty Alice Rowsome may haveOF ACHIEVEMENT

Read any entry in 125 Years ofAchievement and been hired to serve as assistant librarian and instrucshy

youll find an interes ting anecdote that chronicles tor in French and German at the turn of the censhy1910-1920

an important element in campus history Read the tury but horticulturist Patricia Harney remained bull Macdonaldwhole book and youll be awed by the

Institutesheer volume of th e work that has

bull Soil science been accomplished by so many people Scientific agricuLture

bull Poultry lighting working meticulously over so many

amp nutritionyears to affect so many changes in agrishy After earning one of its first agriculture

bull OAC 21 barleyculture that have improved the lives of degrees in 1888 Charles Zavitz began a

bull Fruit research Canadians 40-year career overseeing the college

Freeman McEwen OAC dean from experimental programs and made the first 1920-1930

1983 to 1990 chaired a committee that advancements in plant breeding Threebull Collecting

involved severa l dozen current and generations later Prof Ken Kasha led the Canadian art

retired faculty as well as alumni students development of a haploid technique of cell bull War Memorial

and U of G staff in writing the stories division that cut the time needed to breed Hall

A quick check of dates in the book new varieties in half Today plant biotechshybull Graduate

shows a spiral of achievement that has nologist Bryan McKersie is looking even education

escalated with whirlwind force since the deeper into the functioning of plant cells bull College Royal

establishment of the University of to manipulate genes that will enhance proshybull SoybeanGuelph in 1964 and heads unabated ductivity or disease resistance

developmenttoward the future The 125 items docushy

bull Forage varieties ment scientific discoveries to be sure

bull Meat research but also the development of the college

bull Ginsengas an educa tional institution and its bull Farm business

ongoing partnership with the provincial records

government

Out of the J25 McEwen has picked his own top the only woman on faculty throughout the 1960s 1930-1940

five beginning with the contributions OAC made and women are seriously under-represented even bull Professional

to the establishment of the University This campus today This is one area where historians find room societies

has the distinction of being the only one in North to criticize agricultural traditions and college polishybull ControlledAmerica where the agricultural college preceded the cies that continued the dominance of men for far

atmosphereuniversity that supports it That fact helps ex plain too many years

storagethe unique character of the University of Guelph The college itself was dominated by the provinshy

bull Muck crops and its prominence in the life sciences cial government during its first 90 years when OAC bull Salmonella

Some might argue that the process of becoming principals reported directly to the minister of agrishytesting

a university began as ea rly as 1904 when the Macshy culture The 1964 University of Guelph Act mainshybull Links with donald Inst itute opened This event is second on tained the schools relationship with the agriculshy

farm groups McEwens list of top accomplishments The ad dishy ture ministry but gave the col lege a new- found

tion of women to the campus changed OAC from a freedom that expanded research and graduate proshy1940-1950

boys school into a co llege Guelph history professhy grams and opened the door to increased fundingbull Holland Marsh

sor Terry Crowley says bluntly Early student life at from th e education ministry It a lso permittedResearch Station

OAC is readily divided into two - before women greater collaboration with the Ontario Veterinarybull Standardizedand after women College which had been moved to Guelph by politshy

cattle conformation The Mac girls were generally older than the J6- ical dictate in 1922

bull Potato breeding and 17-year-old students at OAC they were more One of the most vivid examples of the impact of

bull Reproductionmature and brought both a social life and a new acashy that collaboration was the dramatic increase in anishytechnology

demic focus to the campus For the young women mal-breeding technologies OVC perfected artificial bull Queen beeof Ontario it was a long overdue opportunity and insemination and held the only licence in Ontario for

rearingthey grasped the educa tion offered at Macdonald frozen semen until 1969 OAC faculty and the netshy -bull TechnologyInstitute in large numbers work of provincial agricultural representatives helped

transferWomen were not admitted into the agriculture promote the technology and control it through the

bull Conservation program until 1918 however and they didnt reach development of a national livestock and performance

farm planning numerical equality with male students until the inventory Through these combined efforts Canada

WINTER 1999 13

emerged as a global leader in animal breeding largest Ontario univers ity geographica lly when it125 YEARS OACs un ique and enduring relati onship wi th assumed res ponsibility for ed ucation resea rch andOF ACHIEVEMENT

the provincial agric ulture ministry is another addishy Iaboratory services form erl) managed by the minshy

tion to McEwe ns list of top achievements Certa inshy is try Guelph agric ultural expertise covers the 1950-1960

ly the most significan t even t in the last decade has provi nce with camp uses in Guelph Ridgetownbull Horticulture corre-

Kemptville a nd Alfred and a network of spondence course

research facilities that includes the Horshybull Business education Changing with society ticultural Resea rch Institute of Ontariobull Watershed research

diagnostic laboratories and 21 research bull Farm buildingWhen Adelaide Hoodless argued for the stat ions

programestablishment of Macdonald Institute in the The partnership with OMAFRA has

bull Computers in late 1890S she saw scientific training for kept agricultural education and research agriculture

women as a way to improve community at the forefro nt of the University of bull Corn expansionhealth standards The college has evolved Guelph More than 40 per cent of the Unishybull Deailing with continually through the years - growing versitys graduate studenllt are in OAC and

cold climate into the largest home economics facility in more than 70 per cent of its $80-million

bull CropOntario under dean Margaret McCready and research budget is focused on the ag rishyrecommendations

broadening its outlook in the 1970S under food indus try T hat commitment to

dean Janet Wardlaw to include consumer research is the earliest and most enduring1960-1970

studies and the hospitality industry Wardshy achievement out of the 125 bull OAC Alumnilaw set the tone for increased research OAC contin ues to lea d the way in

Foundationactivity and positioned the college to join research and is one of the most dynamshy

bull University of Guelphforces with the social sciences in 1998 ic co lleges in th e University saysbull Arboretum

McLaughlin But we draw on peoplebull Ag research

fro m all over the University communi shystations

ty And now with the provincial colleges bull International

added back into the mix we are ail workshyag research centres

ing as part of the sa me team to enhance bull Scholarships

been the launch of a new University relationship the opportunities availab le to yo ung people in agri shyendowments

with OACs oldest partner the Onta rio Minist ry of cu ltural edu cat ion bull International

Agriculture Food a nd Rural Affairs (OMAFRA) Alumn i have always held an important position apiculture

In 1997 the University of Guelph became th e on that tea m Among OACs top achievements is the

The OAC of today owes much to its past THE ONTAR IO AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE might never have existshy The journalist s role in establishing the college as the Ontario

ed if not for the failure of a Univers ity of Toronto experiment in School of Agriculture and Experimental Farm is bro ught into

agricultural education in the 18505 It certainly wouldnt have context in a new history of OAC that will be published in April

been situated in Guelph without the political parlaying of Guelph to help celebrate its 125th an niversary The College 011 the Hill A journalist and cleric William Clarke And it might not have surshy New History of the 011tario Agriwltuml College 1874- I 999 was

vived a traumatic first yea r o f patronage and scandal if it hadnt written by Guelph history professor Terry Crowley and Univershy

been for the acc iden tal appo intment ofVVilliam Johnston as prinshy sity professor emeritus Alexander Ross who wrote the origi nal

cipal in the fall of 1874 College 011 the Hill for OACs 100th anniversary

And that was just the beginning If the first book tdls us how OAC grew into the University of

One hundred and twenty-five years have passed since Clarke cuelph the second tells us why

successfully argued that the new province of Ontario needed a When the fledgling provincial government of the 1870s was

land-based rural college where the focus was on providing a pracshy glued togeLher by political patro nage how could th e sc hoo l be

tical education in farming The University of Toronto fai led to any different asks Crowley Two principals came and went withshy

attract farmers sons he sa id because it allowed the other proshy in its first year when rumours tore at their moral fibre so the job

fessions of medicine law and the clergy to overshadow agriculshy fell quickly to the new college rector William Johnston

ture Clarkes persuasive fiting in the then Olltario Farmer newsshy Because we already know how OACs story devdops we ca n

paper helped place the college on 550 acres of good clay loam see some iro ny in the fact that the man who nur tured this preshy

at the back door of his Guelph parish mier agricultural college through its infancy was educated in the

14 GVELPI-I AWMNvs

alumni initiative that es tablished the OAC Alumni work internship at the end of their third yea r and125 YEARS Foundation in the 1960s to provide financial supshy co me back to finish the fourth year with a job wa it shyOF ACHIEVEMENT port to co ll ege programs and scholarships The ing for them says McLa ughlin and they o ften have

foundation also provided the leadership and incenshy fo ur or fi ve to choose from vVe are very short of bull Teaching

tive to create Guelph Unive rsity Alumni Research graduates to fill all of the jobs that are o ut there now innovations

and Development (GUARD Inc) in bull Birdsfoot trefoil

1996 The manda te of the technology bull Land reclamation Educating Leadersmanageme nt company is to develop bull Rural planning

researc h i nven tion s in to marketable bull Wind and snow Guelphs agriculture graduates haveprod ucts lau nch spin-off companies

studies played key roles in Canadian agriculture and gene rate revenu es to support basic

bull Milk testing including federal ministers William Mothshyand applied research at U of G bull Ruminant nutrition

erwell Diploma 1881 John Wise ~DA 56Throughout OACs history alumni bull Ag poli cy and Lyle Vanclief BSc(Agr) 66 Mothshyhave formed a network ofAggies who

development erwell was a driving force behind the have volunteered their time to provide

western grain producers movement before 197deg-198o

a rea l-world view for students helped to

being named to Cabinet in 1921 In thelaunch the careers of many new grad ushybull Arboretum Centre 1980s Wise introduced income stabilizashyates by providing work opport unities bull Ghana-Guelph tion programs and created farm debtencouraged research initiatives co nshy

Project review boards Today Vanclief is strugshytributed millions of dollars to scholarshy

bull Integrated pest gling with low commodity prices and intershyship programs and voca lized co ncerns

managementabout college programs and curriculum national trade agreements

bull Composting animal After receivin g some critica l advice

wastesfrom alumni and agr i-food employers

bull Crop resistance toin the ea rly part o f the 1990s OAC

herbicideslaunched a new BSc(Agr ) program that

bull Limnocorrals for wil l gradu ate the fi rst class of st uden ts

aquatic ecosystems this anniversary year The new agriculshy

bull Grain drying and ture curriculum emphasizes communica tion skills in the agri-food sec tor he says

storageand teamwork allows students to choose their own If you live anywhere near Guelph youll know that

bull Asparagusspecializations and includes opportunities for onshy the agri-food sector ill this area is expected to lead the

bull Systemic fungicides the-job experience Many of those students take a local economy well into the new mi llennium creat shy

bull Pesticides research

bull Agricultural Code of

Practicesocial sciences Johnston had no real farm expeshy within the interdisciplin ary atmosphere of the

rience but he understood people well says Crow- University of Guelph OAC has both contributed

ley and he recognized almost as quickly as his students that the to and benefited iiom the Universitys steady growth Traditionshy

school would succeed only if it co uld offer farm ers sons someshy al OAC programs have expanded into new departments and colshy

thing more thall what they had already learned at home leges providing greater benefits to agri-food resea rch and teach shy

Johnstons commitment to education and his genui ne con shy in g New partnerships o n campus and th e academ ic freedom

cern for his students still echo through the corridors of the build shy provided by University sta tus have enabled Guelph to enlarge its

ing named in his hono ur a nd across campus in the broad range already significant influence in the agri-food sector

of disciplines that now nuke up the Un iversity of Guelph Johnshy Crowley says the enha nced partnership between U of G and

ston was the firs t of hundreds of hulllane and sensible people the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture Food a nd Rural Affairs has

who have given the campus its distinctive character says Crowshy fulfilled a vision of OAC as the hub of agr icultural educa tion that

ley The University of Guel ph is still a good place to be People had been expressed nea rly a cen tury before It s a good place to

help each other to a rema rkable degree and it is eve n m ore end a history and begin a future

remarkable that this sense of co-operatio n has lasted through the In Crowleys fi nal words Agriculture reta ins its econo mi c

most recent government meat slicing importance in the co untrys econom) but the secto r will find

Told in the social and political context of its 125 yea rs the itself [n an increasingly international and com petitive ellvironment -OAC story builds momentum as the pages turn The final chapshy where education and research become ever more importa nt Since

ter in Crowleys history is the most impressive because it SUIll shy the Ontario Agricultural College has demons t rated its ability to

marizes the last 25 years when developments in agricultural edushy respond to changing circumstances during its first 125 years the

cation research and service have occurred 1110st quickly Growing past suggests a willingness to meet the new challenges that await

WINTER 1999 15

ing more jobs and generating more wealth than any 125 YEARS other industry A recent study by the citys Planning OF ACHIEVEMENT OAe 125 and Business Development Department predicts a

ANNIVERSARY EVENTS50-per-cent increase in employment in agri-food bull Mosquitoindustries in the next decade Broaden out to the

monitoring jan 29 - Official OAC 12S launch and bull Canadian publication of 125 Years of Achievements

Greenhouse Feb 16 - Winegard Seminar Series hosts New frontiers Conference Andy Johnson Seymour Wis

bull Non-agricultural March 5 - Winegard Seminar Series hosts At the tum of the 20th century Prof William waste on land Sir Colin Berry Royal London Hospital UKGraham created the impetus for a Canadishy

bull Pest diagnostic March 31 - Opening of AJ Casson Exhibitan poultry industry through nutrition studshyservice and selections from the OAC art collection ies that also provided a background for

at the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre work in human nutrition The tum of the 1980-1990 April 30 - Recognition of the 12s-year 21st century finds poultry scientist Ann Gibshybull Alumni House GuelphOMAFRA partnership and launch bins perfecting the techniques to transfer bull Turfgrass Institute of The College on the Hill A New History genetic material into chicken embryos to bull Centre for the of the Ontario Agricultural College develop birds with better disease resistshy

Genetic Improvement 1874 - 1999middotance or to improve production characterisshyof Livestock june 7 amp 10 - Spring Convocation for tics including the deposition of medically

bull Network of OAC diploma and degree graduates Eachvaluable proteins in the eggs Toxicology Centres graduate will receive a copy of College

bull Biological control lab on the Hill bull George Morris june 18 amp 20 - Alumni Weekend and

Centre opening of the Conservatory and Gardens bull Advanced Sept 14 to 16 - Canadas Outdoor Farm

Agricultural Show will host the countrys biggest silent Leadership auction as an OAC fundraiser for student Program support Ontario industry and the predictors are similar and

bull Distance education Sept 25 - Heritage Banquet and Ball for again youll find U of G at the hub of that growth bull Animal behaviour alumni agri-food partners and University In the past decade the view from Johnston Hall

and welfare communityhas expanded to include OMAFRAs provincial bull Farm animal care Nov 24 - Agri-Food Into the Newheadquarters and the U of G Research Park which bull Haploid breeding Millennium conference to discuss the majoris home to a branch of Agriculture and Agri-Food

technologies forces shaping the destiny of the global Canada the regional headquarters of the Canadian bull Hybrid canolc and Canadian agri-food systems and rural Food Inspection Agency and more than two dozen bull Consumer societiesbusinesses and agriculture organizations that are

benefits from key players in Ontarios industry

agricultural For more information on these events or toIn the summer of 1997 Guelph welcomed the research order copies of the anniversary books visit establishment of Ontario Agri-Food Technologies

bull Soybean the OAC 125 Web site at wwwoacuoguelph - a consortium of 12 grower associations five rhizobium 532C cajOAC125 or contact the deans office atOntario universities 11 industries and OMAFRA

519-824-4120 Ext 2285 e-mail oac125 - which is dedicated to generating wealth for the 1990S oacuoguelphcaprovincial agri -food sector through the application bull Guelph Food

of biotechnology The consortium will develop Technology

financing and the research teams needed to take in new business to the country s economyCentre

discoveries and turn them into products in the Some would suggest the growth of agri -food bull GUARD Incsupermarket partnerships is part of a global trend in economic bull Environmental

A new venture beginning this year is the Agrishy thinking that says consolidate cluster and work Farm Plan

Food Quality Cluster that seeks out opportunities together for greater rewards but the important thing bull U of GOMAFRA

for agri-food companies to work together to meet is that this agri-food sector is clustering in Guelph partnership

a specific need The Guelph duster is one of the first - around U of G - because this institution began bull Wheat in China

to be established in Canada but it already has 500 preparing for its future 125 years ago with a comshybull Food packaging

members and has predicted that potential projects mitmen t to leadership in agri-food research edushybull Transgenic plants

in Ontario could add $2 billion to $3 billion a year cation and service ga

16 GUELPH ALUMNUS

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

rese~ tesch SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERYmiddot SCHOLARSHIpmiddot SOCIAL DEVELOPMENTS

WHEN 24 HOURS IN lea rning how to integrate work Runciman arrived at Guelph know they may be harm ful to

A DAY ISNT ENOUGH and fa mily life rath er than jugshy last summer after spending four their health

TRYIN GTO ACCOMMODATE the gling the two says Lero Inteshy years deSIgning orthopedic sysshy Most consumers are not demands of family and career is gration is key so tfut people can tems and instruments for Canashy aware that plants contain a comshya problem most peopl e fa ce in be successful in multiple roles dian and Ameri ca n firms He plex mi xture of biochemica ls todays society Those indi vidshy rath er than struggling from crishy hopes to establish a state-of-theshy says Prof Pra vecn Saxena Plant ual and family struggles will be sis to crisis art research lHboratory with Agriculture Herbal remedies the focus of the Universitys new HOLlsed in the College of Pro fs Jinl Dickey and Jack have been developed on historishy

Social and Applied j-Iuman Scishy Callaghan Human Bi010gy and cal and anecdotal evidence rather ences the centre brings togethshy Nutr itional Sciences that will than by scientitlc testin g he says er related resea rch areas und er allow him to pursue hi s twin Saxena is trying to change this by a sing1e roof and will spark new research interests in shoulder systematically identifying charshy

Family relations interdisc iplinary opportunities and spine mechanics acterizing and quantifying the experts recommend particularly for graduate st ushy The trio has appli ed for chemical constituents of plants parents integrate - not dents More than 50 fac ulty and fundi ng from the Natural Sc ishy used in a1ternative medicines juggle - work and staff ha ve indicated a desire to ences and Engineering Resea rch family life be affiliates of the centre which Co uncil to equip a biomechanshy

wijJ stimulate resea rch and forge ics lab already loca ted adjacent partnerships with organiza tions to U of Gs new Health and Pershy

Centre for Families Work and co rp orations and co mmunity forman ce Ce ntre in the recentshyWell-Being agenCies ly renova ted Powell Building

Headed by Profs Donna This funding would bring Lero and Kerry Daly Family BODY IS THE the lab up to date to meet intershyRe lat ions and Appli ed Nutri shy ULTIMATE MACHINE national standards says Runcishytion the centre will promote IM INTER ESTED in the app lishy man who p1ans to follow up on responsive wo rk env ironments cation of mechanical engineershy pioneering shoulder mechani cs and help families across Canashy ing to the human body The work he was invo lved in whil e He and grad uate students da manage wo rk and family body is the ultimate machine completing his PhD at Sco tshy Susan Murch and Co lleen Simshyresponsibilities in healthy ways So says Prof John Runciman lands Strathclyde Un iversity mons in th e Ontario Agri culshy

The centre will also be a catshy who recently brought his blend He hop es hi s studies will tural Co llege a1so wa nt to alyst for new researcl in areas of academic and industry expershy help orthopedic co mpanies improve the methods of growshyas diverse as health promotion tise in biomedical engineering design better implan ts used to in g medicinal plants to protect seniors long-term ca re nutrishy to U of Gs School of Engineershy correct such deformities as sco shy cons umers and ensure quality tion and wellness rural aging ing in the College of Phys ica l liosis or cur va ture of the spine Problems in the herbal remeshyand gender in the workplace A and Engineering Science and for treating shoulder insta shy dies industry include medicinal mandate of the centre is that the

IN FACT

bi lity often caused by injuries prepara tions containing misidenshyresults of its research must be among athletes tified plant species contaminashyapplied and availabl e to the tion by pests and disease a lack public to benefit those Canadishy RESEARCHERS of understanding of plant physshyans who ne ed help dealing with CULTIVATE QUALITY iology or efficacy for human conshythe accelerated pace of life nonshy IN HERBAL sumption ilnu co nsumer fraud shytraditional family relationsl ips MEDICINE Our research will help set a longer working hOLlrs globlt1lshy MORE AND MO RE Canadims are standard fo r the development ization and downsizing turning to natural remedies as of safe va lue-added products

The challenge for fam ilies is alternatives to medicine but few Saxena says

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RESEARCH UNCOVERS KEY

TO AGING RESEARCHERS may have found modern sc iences answer to th e mythica l Fountain of Youth

U of G professors John Phillips and Arthur Hilliker Department of Molecular Biolshyogy and Genetics and Gabrielle Boulianne of the University of Toronto and th e Hospital fo r Sick Children appear to have identified a critical weakness in the common fruit fl ys defence against aging

The researchers from the College of Biologica l Science di scovered that a specific cell type - th e motor neuron - is the major target for oxidative damage known for several years to be a key factor affecti ng aging and lifespa n They were able to boost a fruit flys defence against the damage by inserting th e human gene SOD1 which is known to protect against oxidashy

tive damage into the fly s DNA As a result the ave ra ge lifespa n of the fli es (us uall y about 80

days) was increased 40 per cent

PROFESSOR SURVEYS CANADIANS ON POLITICS ETHICS

of the most pampered celeb ri ty NEW WEAPON or the mo st prima donn a pro AGAINST BACTERIA athlete ANTflllOTlCS TYPICALLY have a

More than half of su rvey shelf life because bacte ria develshyresponden ts say they have little op resista nce over time but this or no confidence in Parliament wou ld not be a concern with a with the figure being even lower new sys tem fo r smuggling for the Senate In addition 34 per an tibiotics past bacterial walls

TI-lESE DAYS on both sides of the A molecular-level Trojan border what a politician says or ho rse is how Prof Terry Bevshydoes in private can have tremenshy eridge Department of Microbishydous impact on his or her public ology and graduate student Kelshycareer - but is th at appropriate ly MacDonald desc ribe the

Prof Maureen Mancuso of system theyre studying 1 t takes the Department of Polirical Scishy advan tage of a mechanism develshyence in the College of Social and oped by bacteria to attack an d Applied Human Sciences an d a co nsume neighbouring bugs team of four other political scishy Preliminary tests by the entists conducted a cross-counshytry survey of 1400 Canadians asking what th ey think of th e behaviour of their elected represhysentatives The res ults were pubshyli shed in October in th e book A

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WILL ONTARIO FARMERS GROW

HEMP U OF G SCIENTISTS are helping to determine the viability of hemp as a cash crop for Ontario farmers

Health Canada recently li ftshyed a 60-year ban on growing hemp and about 10000 acres are expected to be plan ted in Canada this year Hemp is an organic fibre tha t could be used in everythi ng fro m fabri c and medicine to oil and paper

Gordon Scheifele of Kemptville CoJlege and Peter Dragla of Ridgetown College are studying the potential of hemp as an Ontario crop Scheifele has completed initial test ing on nine varieties and a series of producshy

tion research experiments in northern parts of On tario Dragla has established breeding program trials and looked at commercial production of hemp varieties in southern Ontario He is also developing field instrushymentation to provid e field readshyings of tetrahydrocanmbinol the psychoactive ingredient in hemp

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Inside Playwright Judith Thompson

BEHIND THE MASK

JUDITH THOMPSON A DRAMA PROFESSOR at the University of Guelph

since 1992 is one of Canadas finest playwrights Her complex and

sometimes disturbing plays give voice to human failings and accomshy

plishments A two-time winner of the Governor Generals Literary

Award she has received wide acclaim for her work

On the following pages the Guelph Alumnus profiles an artist

whose creativity finds expression through dialogue by offering a

faithful rendition of the dialogue between Thompson and Comshy

munications and Public Affairs writer Andrew Vowles Much like

the characters she unmasks on stage Thompson reveals both comshy

plicated and unexpected images of herself

PHOTOGRAPHY BY D EAN PALMER

20 GU ELPH A LUMNUS

NO The scene is the rehearsal space in Lower Massey Hall at the University of Guelph

Monday mid-morning Outside the warped-glass windows the first wet snow of the year

drops like pebbles Drama professor Judith Thompson is leading some 20 students in her

Acting I class through their warm-ups The students stand in a circle and take turns aiming

a mock blow as they shout the word No More she says to the less assertive To others

whose No sounds shredded over the top she holds up a hand More control Thompson

gestures to her diaphragm It has to come from here

SCENE THOMPSONS OFFICE MASSEY H ALL

On one wal l hang pictures of actors engaged

in a drama mingled with childrens sc hool

drawings The desktop is practically bare A

black purse occupies one chai r A scarf has

landed on the back of another This is where

the playw rig ht hangs her hat during her

classes and meets with studen ts She wri tes

at home in Torontos Annex neighbourhood

where she li ves with her husband Gregor

Campbell a sessional English inst ruc tor at

Guelph and their five children Ariane 13

Eli 10 Grace 8 Felicity 4 and Sophia J

SCENE U OF G LI BRARY ARCHIVES

Guelph Alumnus writer (readil1g from draft of Epilepsy and Snakes Fear as the Genesis of Theatre a talk given by Thompson to the Epilepsy Association of Metro Toronto ill 1997 The script for the ta lk is included among boxes ofcorrespo nde11ce numerous drafts of plays various newspaper and magazine artishycles and reviews ahout the playwright and her work that Thompson recently donated to the U of G Library archives)

1have known real fear only a few times

in my relatively sheltered life But 1

believe these moments of fear are

directly connected to the so urce of creshy

ativi ty within me

SCENE J UST ABOUT ANYWHERE YOU CAN

REA D A PLAY

GA writer (reading from introduction to Tho mpsons play Sled wh ich was first pro shyduced hy Torontos Tarragon Theatre in 1997)

Judith Thompson was born in 1954 in

Montreal She graduated from Queens

University in 1976 then graduated from

the act ing program of the National Theshy

22 GU ELPH ALUMNUS

I seem to give voice to people who

have no voice

atre Schoo l in 1979 Alth ough she

worked briefl y as a profess ional actor

she became more interested in writing

and at th e age of 25 a workshop of her

first scrip t The Crack walker was proshy

duced by Theatre Passe MuraiHe Her

work which includes both radio and

tel evisio n writing has enjoyed great

internationa l success

Other plays includ e The Crackshywalker White Biting Dog Pink Tornado - radio Am Yours Lion ill the Streets White Sand Perfect Pie and Stop Talking Like That- radio She is the recipient

of the Floyd S Chalmers Canadian Play

Award for Lion in the Streets in 199 1 and

Am Yours in 1987 and the Governor

Generals Literary Award for Drama for

The Other Side of the Dark in 1989 and

White Biti11g Dog in 1984

S CENE LUNCHTIME

U OF G UNIVERSITY CLUB

Thompson Im so grateful to have this job

beca use it allows me to do the work that s

important and the plays that will be my legashy

cy and tha t are what 1 feel I have to conshy

tribute to Canadian culture If I didnt have

thi s job Id ha ve to keep compromising

because my plays dont make money Theyre

always in sma ller houses I take chances

theyre not commercial They play all over

th e world but aha)s in sma ller places 1

would just have to pursue life as a screenshy

writer to make a living Thi s job gives

me the great privilege of doing my research

which is the plays that I write and the edishy

torial work that I some times do and screenshy

plays that are worthy and good projects

GA writer Audi ences and reviewers have

described your plays as dark disturbing full

of angry people full of profanity

Thompson At the risk of sounding

grandiosel seem to give voice to people who

have no voice or very little in the culture

whom people dont li sten to Liol1 in the Streets the handicapped wo man living in

the basement all on her own the yo ung girl

Iso bel The secretary stuck in this abu sive

relationship with the actor The middle-class

housewife dumped by her husband because

be doesnt like her sweatsuits and on and on

I give voice to them because I dont know

because I care abo ut them because I like to

represent them Im a lawyer Some of them

use profanity because they have really good

reason to be angry a nd most of th em are

powerless And unfortunately profanity has

a little charge Its a little source of baby powshy

er It upsets me I dont use it myself Im very

se nsitive to it

SCENE ARCHIVES

GA writer (reading essay by Thompson comshymissio ned by Toronto literary Journal Brick

in 995)

If I were not a writer 1 think 1 would

wear a riding hat With a stee l lining

Because I would be baving many more

epi leptic seizures than 1 do presentl y

Because any of the non-writer real jobs I have had caused me sleepless nights self-disgust swoll en eyes cystic acne and hearin g di sorde rs all of which increased electrical activity in my brain which I believe increases the frequenshycy of seizu res

SCENE UNI VER SITY CLUB

Thompson (discussing the critical and pubshylic reaction to her first play The Crackwalkshyer) It was slaughtered at first as all my plays have been Very bad reviews at first and then somehow they catch fi re and theres one grea t review and the others start to see something GA writer Why the bad reviews Thompson I think people might say that theyre shock ing but I dont think so not

with the movies we see and whatnot Theyre not shocking compared with Quentin Taranshytino But theyre not like anything else they dont know where to put them And when they dont know where to put them theyre dismayed I think and hostile and they feel challenged I just write as I see Im not tryshying to shock or challenge anyone I hope they do challenge - me too all of us I often feel li ke the little boy in The Emperors New

Clothes Look this is what I see

SCENE LOWER MASSEY HALL

Two Acting I students perform a scene on th e stage Their fellow stud ents sit on th e Aoo r watching Thompson sits forward on a plasti c chair forearms propped on her knees hands clasped before her Her eyes her bod y are intent on the action Later Amberley Buxton (fi rst-year student il1 Actshyil1g I who is pursuing a psychology major and a drama minor)

Its a really in tense class In one of our first classes we were to share something that had changed our perspective on li fe or how we thought every day Later during improvisashytion or scene work she had us draw on the emotional context fro m those stories to add to our acting experiences Its really intense in that way A lot of people share a lot of personal things and we use each others experiences

SCENE UNIVER SIT Y CLUll

Thompson Ea ch se meste r students go through an intensive transition In order to find your creative centre or trigger yo u need

to know yourself in an intell ectual context They reach that pl ace and find their genius My philosophy is that every stu dent has genius and its my job to uncover it My relationshi p is so intense with st udents The classes are very psychoanalyt ic It seems to tra nsform their life

SCENE LO WER MA SSEY

Buxton Even if we haven t encountered a similar situat ion in real life she has us draw on somethi ng similar For ollr exa m Im doing a monologue My character has been abused I havent been abused myself but I have to draw on a si tuation where I had sim shy

itar feel ings draw on some experi ence Like being teased at schoo l Even so mething as small as tha t if you find a way to get back to that

SCENE UNIVERSITY CLUll

Thompso n I llsed to be terrified In high school Id spend half my time in the nurses room because the idea of having a se izu re in front of yo ur peers at that age was just petrifying I did finall y have a seizure but luckil y no one was around at the time So I

think all of that puts me in touch with a lot in life I might not have been in touch with being fairly privileged not rich but eno ugh to be middle class A lot of my work is about class abo ut the class differentiation in Canashyda Ive somehow felt more all ied to a less adva ntaged class My gra ndfather once sat as prime minister of Australia My grandshyfa ther on the other side was a member of the Royal Society an entomologist but his mother died in childbirth and he was brought up as a cousin on the farm outside of London And my Australian grandfath er was one of 1I siblings in a shack by the side of the railroad His father had di ed He walked barefoot to school so I th ink because its just two generations away I feel it in my bones and my blood GA writer How did you get to writing Thompson Through ac ting Ive been involved in thea tre since I was II years old I was Helen Keller for a university show my mother directed She had an [vIA in th eatre and she taught it at Queens I was in TILe Crushycible when I was 12 in Kingston and Jean Brodie and on and on and on I would just lisshyten to aU these wonderful lines and words and it all kind of enrered me And acting is where I reaU y found my niche as a person The theshyatre became my home Then I went to theatre schoo l as an actress but I started to create mask characters through improvisation Thats where I really took off in a big way and where I found myse lf very very excited GA writer VVhat we re you excited abo ut Thompson I was doing the writing And I felt frankly that I did it much better than most of the texts I was working with Not Shakespeare but and its not a matter of better it s thats where I belonged So I would go home and write down the charshyacters that r crea ted that day in class and make th em talk to each odler and thats how The Craekwalker happened

I spent a summer in Toronto looking for acting work and I go t a few jobs But every day for a co uple of hours I would write at a typewri ter and I found these voices comshying At the end of it I sa id to someone You know I think this isnt bad I think this might eve n be a play At the Na tional Theatre shySchool they said to me Youre pretty handy with these monologues but dont ever think you could write a play (Pause) I enjoy telling th at tale on them

WINTER 1999 23

SCENE LOWER MASSEY

Buxton It was my fint time doing mask work She had us sit with the masks on and just sta re at ou rselves in the mirror We did it for an hour staring at the mask feelin g the mask It was a phenomenal eilVer ience the Wily youre able to transform yourself It was almost as if you werent look ing at you That helped yo u to walk differently You were able to shed your

own movements and personality

SCEN E UNIVfRSITY CLU B

Thompson I think thil t seizures can transshylate into creativity are part of me as a cre shyltltive artist Peop le in the medical busin ess are very skeptical of ltll1ything like this But I fee l it s because I have fewer inhibitors in my bra in You have these inhibitors and thats what medication helps But if youre epi leptic your inhibitors Ment working as well to put out the electrical fire so it spreads I think the door to my un conscious is kind of flapping around so J think that helps creatively

SCENE MA SSEY HALL

Student (steppingforwmd) NO I Thompson (quietly) Good

SCENE ARCHIVES

GA writer ( reading fiom Epilepsy and Sna kes)

I have no doubt that my experience with epi lepsy has con tributed to my creative wo rk partly because it hE Jped me to understand what it is to be marginalized to be isolated to be feJ rful and to be out of control and eve n to be mortal

SCENE U NIVERS IT Y CLU B

Thompson Unchecked id can mean scrawlshying on the walls crazy things muttering in stree t corne rs beca use th ey re all id no su perego But I had the luck to be born into a theatrical famiJy my mother havin g the theatrical experience so I was exposed to it Lots of books I was taken to 1 lor of plays Having ep il epsy my first seizure when I was nin e J was able to link with that If I hadnt had those advantages who knows the se izur es migh t have ju st made me a depressed person an angr y person And you re touched with mortality you always live und er siege a slight fear of having a se izure Its much less so now with me

24 GUELPH ALUM NUS

SCENE UNIVERSITY CLUB

Thompson Ive always been a mimic in a cheap way I could always mimic we ll I would raLk to someone on a bus and I could do them exactly Thats kind of dangerous because it can be pretty shallow But it showed me ltl way into the person throu gh voice And once J could do that like a pupshypet something would click and I cou ld get

in in a deeper way J need to get so thoroughly into the charshy

acte rs and their state of mind and especialshyly tapping repressed el11orion which gets you in touch with your id or unconscious li fe If

I take little sections of

myself and grow them in a petri dish of the play

one character is about rage I have to tap into my own rage and that s why the monoshylogues so things can just flow and then I can retrieve things from the past and remember things So its not working from here (gesshytures to midriff) it s wo rking fro l11 here (gesshytures to head)

Mo nologues for me are always the key to findin g out who th e character is because if you cant make them rant for fi ve minutes you dont know th em Tha ts what I tell my

playwriting students I want to see r-wo pages of this characters mouth In other words to speak for five minutes we have to have

so mething to say We have to have something we feel passionately about something were angry about and if we dont have something to say for fi ve minutes who are we

SCENE UN IVERSTTY CLUB

GA writer Vhere do you see what eventushyally becomes a play such as Sled 1110mpson I was at a lodge and saw a moose that s one thin g And that made me think about winter and how the country is always with us as Ca nadians Even in the urban censhytres we ca rr y it wi th us Theres always this

see ming division between the country the wilderness and civilized centres but its the same The wildness of the moose and the

hunt and the bear is in our neighbourhoods I guess its like Lion in the Streets it must be a thing with me And also the exquisite beaushyty and thats how most of the world thinks of Canada as the wilderness Its not quite how we think of ourselves but it is partly So that made me want to do something abo ut the Nor th violence in the North

As far as th e old mans stories that was my neighbour and he told me all those stoshyries they were all true except mltlyb e one or so and I thought Theyre amazing They teilus what our neighbourhoods Me really about and Toro nto what the city is how its const ru cted Toronto is our stories and in th ese neighbourhoods you have an urbane entertainer li ving nex t to an 80-year-old Italia n man and thats the beauty ofToronshyto ltllld its the way th e world is chan ging The stric t class divis ions and culture divishysions th eyre no longer as defin ed as they we re espec ially in th ese neighbourhoods the great pioneering experimen t GA writer Do your chi ld ren see your work Thompson No None of my children can see my plays Ariane saw f Am Yours in New York when she was about nin e I do cl eal with the dark and whats tru e and my chilshydren aren t ready for that Im probab ly more protective th an mos t mothers Walk them

to school till theyre 13 that ki nd of thin g GA writer Yo u we re intervi ewed in the Globe alld Mail recently in a story about motherh ood dnd th e muse How do yo u handle th e demand s of motherh ood and writing

Thompson If Im in the situation where I have 15 or so hours of child care a week Im OK because when Im with them I wa nt to be with them and when ]m doing my work

th ats what I clo But if I do something like a worko ut thell a black cloud descends The guilt and the black cl oud th at descend as I take off on my bike it s huge Then once the workout s finished I know it was d good

thing to do although it s also cut into my

work time J do feel guilty about the nilture of my work too in that my kids cant see it Am I drawing on a part of me thats not good as a mother The oth er part of me is th at I make up bedtime stories and bake coo kies and all thlt stuff ]m probably a

rather operatic mother I cry at movies laugh too hard __

SCENE ARCI-I[VES

GA writer (reading fiom Epilepsy and Snakes)

1

Although being a dramatic writer has

given me a reputation in my cou ntr y

and a strong identity the actof writin g

or creating character leaves me SOJlle shy

times feeling that I have no id entity at

all Every once in a while when I am not

writing or tending to my four children

I feel I 1m falling again down th e terrishy1 ble hole with nothing to hold on to

And I believe this falling this identity

pain is a result of me using the very

essence of Ill yself to create character in

a dramatic wo rk r wonder so metimes

if J illl1 betraying my soul in a way by

using its essence However J have found

some comfo rt in the words ofWilliall1

Blake Essence is not Identity but from

Essence proceeds Identity and from one

Essence may proceed many Identities

as from one Affection Jlla y proceed

many thoughts If the Essence was

the sa me as the Identit y there could be

but one Identity which is fal se Heaven

wo uld upon this plan be but a clock

but one and the sa me Essence is th ereshy

fore Essence and not Identity

SCENE UNIVER SIT Y CLUB

Thompson I always put myself in a play and

never In other words I take little sections of

myself and grow them in a petri dish of th e

play So if Ive found a moment where Im a

bit lazy ]11 grow it and milke the character

very lazy o r impatient or whatever So I take

these moments because we all have all of

them grow th em and create this Frankenshy

steins monste r a character right out of parts

body parts and psychological parts often of

myself and then observe things in other peoshy

ple but I have to find it in myself to make it

work

SCENE AR C H1V ES

GA writer (reading from Epilepsy al1d Snakes)

My self asserted itself as a kind of quishy

et Lucille Ball c1ulllsy and absent-mindshy

ed At least this gave me an identity and

was a small aCI of slbo tage The next

assertion was an act of unconscio us rev shy

olution th e grand mal seizure that

almost killed me And the next one was

The Crackwalker my first play And this

is how I raged against the machine and

took space in the world And now not

surprisin gly I am seizure-free

SCENE LOWER MASSEY

After another pair of acto rs rUllS through

their scene Thompson directs them to begi n

again She interrupts frequently to question

the students about actions feelings motishy

vations At one point 8S the students pause

to consider her words Thompson turns to

the rest of the class erect in her cha ir

Thompson Isolate the mom ent The great

thing about the stage is th at it isolates the

moments that just race by us_

SCENE UNIVERSITY CLUB

Thompson Ive just written my next play

which is not ca lled Pefeet Pie but thats its

working title because it came from a mon oshy

logue called Perfect Pie But now its a full

two- haul play in which the second wom3n

comes back and tben I have them as yo ung

girls too It goes back ~nd forth and its very

exciting I worksbopped it in the spring and

in December at tbe Tarragon and it will go

on in o ne year At the sa me time lm wr itshy

ing a feature film for Rho mbus based on the

play Pe feet Pie

SCEN E UNlV ERSITY CLUIl

Thompson My pIalS are Illusically written

And if somebody doesnt get the music they

dont feel it and go with the rhythm s it

throws the whole thing off I hear the plays

I hea r them I write with my ear They

change 1 lo t but it s according to rhythm

I ll be sitting in rehea rsal listening and if it

does nt so und ri ght I change it so that its

rhythmic

SCIi -JE J UST AllOUT ANYWHERE YOU CA N

READ A PLAY

GA writer (readmg ji-olll the script ofvVbite

Biting Dog first produced at the Tarragon Th eatre in 1984)

Beciluse of the ex treme and deliberate

lllu sica lity of this play any allempts to

go aga inst the tex tual rhythms such as

th e breaking up of an unbroken senshy

tence the tlking of a pause where none

is written in are DISASTROUS The

effect is like beil1g in a small plane and

suddenly turning off the ignition It all

falls down This play III list SPIN not

just turn around

SCfN e LOWER MASSEY

Her students listen as Thompson stands to

complete a so liloq uy abo ut cap turing the

rhythm of the language on the stage The

wide sleeves of her ank le-length dress slide

down her forea rm s as she ges tures

Thompson Listen to the music of the

scene Each playwright writes their own

symphony

SCENE U NIVERSlTY CLUB

Thompson Ive been pretty directed to this

ii-om an carly age although if I had done anyshy

thing else it probab ly wou ld have been some

form of social work I would have been smokshy

ing three packs of cigarettes a day and workshy

ing il1 an office somewhere up in Scarborough

SC EN E AfltCHIVES

GA write r (reading from Brick interview of Thompson by Eleanor Wachtel ]99] )

In th e thea tre I think what one mllst

do is co nfront the truth confront the

emot ional truth of our li ves which is

mired in the swamp of minuriae

everyday minutiae Maybe it has to be -tl111 way because we couldnt confront

it every day But I think the th eatre

IllllSt Im not interested ill th eatre that

doesnt ga

W1NTER 1999 25

Never mind fish wars pitting countries against one another - here in Canada scientists and policy makers cant agree on who should control the preservation and management ofour own fishery resources BY ANDREW VOWLES

Ca

as

ollapsed cod stocks to the east

On the West Coast laquofish wars

_ rlTDT Pacific salmon enmesh

Canada and the United States

At various points in between fisheries scishy

entists and managers grapple with everyshy

thing from overfishing of freshwater

stocks to invasion by exotic molluscs

What is to be done about Canadian fishshy

eries And what role is being p layed by

fisheries and aquatic scientists at the Unishy

versity of Guelph

-

dock pollock red fish and flatfish made up just under half of Canadas total landings on the Atlantic coast (720000 tonnes of fish and shellfish were caught in 1994 represhysenting a total landed value of $11 billion) Two year~ later that proportion had dropped to 21 per cent with shellfish and open ocean fish specie~ notably Atlantic

Begin in the Atlantic The crisis on the East Coast has become a disaster So says laquoWE NEED TO TRY TO SEPARATE OUTGuelph zo ology professor John Roff enushymerating the litany of woes that have surshy

THE FISHERIES MANAGEMENT DECISIONSfaced from Ca nadas marine fishery in the past decade Although some fish and shellshy

FROM THE POLITICAL DECISIONSfi sh are holding their own stocks of other species have experienced declines raquo

ASSOCIATED WITH THE FISHE RY

down that fishery in 1992 Over fishing and under which it has been buying up fishers

Even when stocks do rebound rarely do we fully und erstand why he says Theres a complex of problems to be disshy more for cod stocks to rebound says Roff entangled involving overflshing long- and co-editor with colleague Prof Moira Fergushyshort-term climate change and changes in son of the respected Canadian Journal ofFishshyocean current systems and productivity eries and Aquatic Sciences A wise course of

And of course the once-thriving northshy action for a fisherman in Newfoundland ern cod that first drew Europeans with their would be to seU his licence and do something nets to the Grand Banks 500 years ago have else he says (Last fall the federal governshycoUapsed to the point that Ottawa had to shut ment announced its final retirement program

the failure of federal fisheries managers to heed the warnings of scientists have been blamed for the coUapse Even with the lllorashytoriulll in place it may take two decades or

licences in Atlantic Ca nada and Quebec) In 1992 - the year Ottawa imposed its

moratorium on the northern cod fisheryshylandings of groundfish including cod had-

salmon making up the difference [n 1995 the total groLlndfish catch reached its lowshyest level in two decades

Unlike the Ea st Coast fi shery which relies most ly on ocea n-living fish the Pacifshyic fishery is dominated b) migratory species Some 300000 tonnes of fish and shellfish were harvested along the west coast in 1994 worth a landed value of $550 million (Arcshytic marine fisheries and their management differ from those on the coasts although cOl11mercial and recreational fisheri es are small here food fisheries are important to

U OF G AQUATIC SCIENCES EXPERTISE CATCHES WORLD ATTENTION

Landlocked in the middle of the courltry U ofG nevertheless boasts fish pathology and diseases including farmed fish diseases fish an enviable record and range ofexpertise in aquatic sciencesshy hormones and reproductive physiology including the effects of marine and freshwater - dating back to the late 1960s Thats when environmental contaminants early life history and behaviour Prof Keith Ronald thell chair of the Department ofZoology (and of fi shes and biology of tuna later dean of the College ofBiological Science) began a marine biolshyogy program at the University Today Guelph has the largest Partnered with the A-erod Institute of Ichthyology in U of group of ichthyologists - scientists who study fish - in Gs Aquatic Sciences Facility the r[agen Aqualab is an North America investigating a wide variety ojIre~hshy aquatic research and teaching facililY for studying water alld marine fisheries and aquatics topics aquatic organisms Environmentally controlled

rooms in the Aqualab allow faculty and students to U of Gs Axelrod Institute of Ichthyology houses simulate habitats as diverse as the Arctic Ocean and one of the worlds largest collections of museumshy tropical rainforest pools The facility is named for quality fish fossils donated to the University by its principal benefactor Rolf Hagen founding presshy

ident of Canadas largest pet store 5llpplier J 989 The institute which provides space for fisheries research and visiting scientists brings together 12 core U of G U of G faculty edit four internationally recognized journals researchers in fisheries and aquatic sciences whose interests and in ichthyology fisheries and aquatic science Awarded to U of G by expertise span environmental contaminants and parasitic disshy the National Research Council in 1997 the Canadian Journal of eases evolutionary genetics of marine and freshwater fishes Fisheries al1dAquatic Sciellces is co-edited by zoology professors

US ichthyologist and author Herbert Axelrod in

28 GUELPH ALUMNUS

northerners including shrimp Atlantic salmon and arctic char) Accountin g fOI almost half of that total were Pacific salmon which ret urn from the ocean to spawn in home streams and rivers up and down the coast of Alaska British Columbia and Washshyington There are actually five main spec ies of sa lmon that run down the BC coast shysockeye (t he most va luable commercial species) chinook coho chum and pinkshyfrom spring to December

Its a very complex jurisdictional and multi-user problem says Roff Bes ides degradation of freshwater spawning habishytats and ocean climate effects of El Nill0 the West Coast fishery is a cauldron of ten shysions between various groups perennial fish wars between Ca nada and the United States disputes that pit sport fishers against native fishing rights Recognizing the problems of low ocean productivity habitat damage overfishing and indiscriminate fishing pracshytices that take weak and strong stocks alike Ottawa is developing a new policy to guide Canadas Pacific salmon fisheries focusing on conservation sustainable use and improved decision-making

That potent mix of overfishing and habishytat degrada tion is also a problem for Canashydas freshwater fisheries A report tabled last fall by the federal standing committee on

fisheries and oceans called for more federal funding for research and fisheries programs in central and arctic regions of Canada Accord ing to that report the Grea t Lakes commercial fishery is one of the largest freshwater fisheri es in the world worth an average landed value of more than $40 milshylion a year and an eco nomic impact of at least $250 million Some 90 per cent of that catch is exported The neck lace of lakes threading its way to the St Lawrence River also supports the largest fres hwater sports fishery in the world 800000 Ontarians fish on the Great Lakes eve ry year contributing $850 million to the economy

In Manitoba managers are concerned about the long-term susta inability of freshshywater fish stocks particularly declines in Lake Winnipeg and the northern part of the province caused by overfishing environshymental degradation loss of prime spawning habitat and predators The province has seen stocks rise and fall particularly of pickerel Manitobas highest-priced fish In an attempt to manage the fishery in a sustained fashion the province recently introduced a qu ota entitlement system for anglers Joe OConshynor director of the fisheries branch of Manshyitobas Department of Na tural Resources says his department is wrestling with the environmental threats on fish habitat posed

by farming and hydroelectric development In Ontario fisheries are genera lly in

pretty good shape says Evan Thomas fishshyeries section manager of the fish and wildlife branch of the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (OM NR) Ontario supports almost half of all recreational fishing in Canada with more than two million adult anglers and more than $2 billion a year spent on recreational fishing in the province Onta ri o is also home to Canadas larges t commercial freshwater fishery worth abo ut $40 million a Yfar in land ed value

Thomas says over fishing is still the numshyber one problem Others include habitat loss the potential effects of climate change and contin ued invasion by exotic species Among the management opt ions his minshyistry is exploring are more effective fisheries regulation more rapid inventory and assessshyment techniques fish culture for rehabilishytating populations and controlling nutrient inputs into lakes and rivers

We are clearly looking for federal supshyport for the sea lamprey control program he says referring to recommendations in the recent federal fisheries committee report as well as changes to the federal Fishshyeries Act to hand the province more authorshyity over fish habitat protection

Concerns continue in Ontario over

Moira Ferguson and John Roff Fish Physiology and Biochemistry the top-ranked journal in its field is edited by Prof John Leathershyland chair of the Department of Biomedical Sciences in the Ontario Veterinary College University professor emeritus Eugene Balon has served as editor-in-chief of Environmental Biology ofFishes since he founded the publication in 1976 Zoology professor David Noakes edits Guelph Ichthyology Reviews whose articles synthesize and review all aspects of fish science Both of the latter

Under the Canadian contribution to the project - furided by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council - about 80 federal government and university researchers are trying to learn more about how bioshylogical and physical processes in the oceans affect fish stocks

Zoologychair Prof Paul Hebert has led a Guelph initiative to develshyop multimedia learning resources d1at teach student~ from

are published in the Axelrod Institute of Ichthyology

Based on data from geographic information sysshytems zoology professor John Roff has mapped types of habitat associated with various species of fish and other organisms around Canadas coasts and throughout tl1C Great Lakes the first time such

e1ementaIy grades to university about Canadas aquatshyic environments His department has developed a series of CD-ROMs that provide information on all the major animal groups in the Great Lakes Already available are educational CD-ROMs on Canadas aquatic environments (also available on

d1e World Wide Web) Great Lakes biodiversity and a marine classification system has been developed in this country His report was commissioned by World Wildlife Fund Canada for its Endangered Spaces Campaign and contributes to RoWs work as chair of the scienrillc committee of Globec (Globshyal Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics) a two-year-old international research program intended to better understand ocean ecosystems

birds of the Great Lakes The latter is the first disc in a series called the Great Lakes Faunal Atlas which will eventually cover mammals amphibians reptiles fish and crustaceans

The Alma Aquaculture Research Station es tablished in 1989 and funded through a 20-year development grant by the Ontario

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various invas ive species that have turned up

in the Great Lakes - notably sea lampreys

zebra mussels and quagga mussels - many

of which arrive in ballast water of ocea nshy

going vessels (Many have also found their

way into Manitoba says OConnor who

points to the effects of sm elt on whitefish

the main commercial species in Lake Winshy

nipeg) Among o ther meas ures the federal

fish eries committee report called for guarshy

anteed funding for sea lamprey control and

for scienti fic research

I think more money will come says

Prof Bill Beamish Zoology a commissionshy

er on the Great Lakes Fisheries Commission

the 40-year-old governing body that co-ordishy

nates resea rch programs between Canada

and the United States and advises both govshy

ernments It was a review led by Beamish

more than a decade ago on the sta te of

Canadas freshwater fi sheries that provided

the scientific underpinnings for a landmark

report published in 1988 that spelled ou t a

way in freshwater fisheries is a lon g-te rm

project fund ed by the OMNR and the

Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO)

to re-establish native species in their origishy

nal habitats a round Lake Ontario iVlari e

Clement a graduate student of zoology proshy

fe sso r David Noakes is studying Atlantic

sa lmo n which was wiped out of the lake

CONSIDERING WE HAVE THE

BEST FISHERY SCIENCES COMMUNITY

IN THE WORLD WE OUGHT TO

BE DOING BETTER

national strategy for freshwater fisheries

Beamish who has studied sea lampreys

for several decades at Guelph and also invesshy

tigates fish habitat loss says money is need shy

ed to help researchers investigate biological

controls as an alternative to chemical lamshy

pricides The recen t repo rt also notes the

need to address the effects of other nonshy

native exotic species on n ative fish stocks

and water quality and calls on Ottawa to

stem the funding decline in freshwater scishy

ence over the last two decades

One example of the kind of work under

and its tribu ta ry streams near the beginning

o f this century by overflshing and habitat

destruction and alteration Last fall Clement

placed eggs into a site in the Credit River

she has been monito ring oxygen availab il shy

ity durin g their incu ba tion to gau ge sedishy

mentation rates in the river This spring and

summer she wili study how newborn fi sh

interact with other species in th e r ive r

C lement says her docto ral research proshy

ject is but one piece of a larger project aimed

at re-establishing the heritage species Othshy

er researchers hop e to learn whe ther th e

Ministry of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs brings together

researchers for interdisciplinary studies of protein requirements

of arctic char improving fish semen and egg management proshy

cedures and understanding hormone activity in fish The station

acts as a quarantine unit for new fish varieties entering Ontario

and serves as a base for parts of certificate courses and a masters

program in aquaculture

farms in Canada He and fellow Guelph zoologists Eugene Balon

(co- founder of the Coelaca nth Conservat ion Council) and Jim

Bogart also identified and characterized the coelacanth which

had been thought extinct until a specimen was landed off Africa

in the la te 1930s Noakes confirmed the identity of ano ther of

these living fossils discovered in 1997 it appears to belong to a

second popula tion living in the Indian Ocean about 10000 kilo-

metres away from tha t first find

Zoology professors Moira Ferguson and Roy Danzshy

mann use molecular genetics techniques to identishy Zoology chair Paul Hebert was the first scientist to

fy DNA markers used to pinpoint the location of identify the presence in the Great Lakes of zebra

genes associated with growth spawning times mussels a prolific invader that has wreaked havoc

rates of development maturity and temperature in many ways from clogging water-intake pipes to

tolerance in rainbow trout Isolating and identifyshy consuming plankto n thus allowing light to reach

ing genetic markers fo r desirable traits will help fish bottom-dwelling organisms that may displace native

farmers and breeders cross-breed more effectively species The first researcher to report on the biology

conservationists will be better able to manage and preserve and impact of the zebra mussel on the Grea t Lakes was

genetic variability among wild fish stocks Guelph zoology professor Gerald Mackie whose studies showed

that the organisms faster growth rate and higher fecundity and

Zoology professor David Noakes has stuclied varieties of arctic population density will probably enable it to displace many native

char native to Iceland to find ones suited to being raised on fish bivalves and disrupt entire lake ecosystems

30 GUELPH ALUMNUS

LEADING RESEARCH

The University of Guelph has one orthe largest and most active groups of aquatic biologists in the world

bull More than 50 faculty and 100

graduate students research

assocrates and postdoctoral

fellows

bull Over 1000 published scientific

articles books monographs

films and videos in the past

decade

bull Interdisciplinary programs

involving more than a dozen

academic departments

bull The largest group ofichthyoloshy

gists (scientists who study

fish) in North America

bull Collaborative research with

government environrriental

organizations and academic

institutions worldwide

bull Expertise covering the entire

aquatic food chain from plankshy

ton to whales

bull Leading developments in comshy

puter-based educational mate-

rials in aquatic sciences

bull A new $6-million Aquatic

Sciences Facility

bull Research support from national

and international agencies

business and industry

adults will be able to return from the open

lake to their stream spawning grounds If

they come back will the eggs survive she

says If were able to show the eggs can surshy

vive that will be very encouraging for

Atlant ic salmon restoration

What is to be done to ensure the survival

not just of Atlantic salmon in Lake Ontario

but also of the co untrys freshwater and

m ar ine fisheries We need to try to sepashy

rate o ut the fisheries management decisions

from the political decisions associated with

the fi shery says zoology professor Glen Van

Der Kraak director of U of Gs Axelrod

Institute of Ichthyology Van Der Kraak who

studies the effects of toxic contaminants on

fi sh populations says policy mltkers need

to rely on the advice of fisheries sc ientis ts

making conservative harvest ing estimates

So often scientists make decisions and then

are overrun by the politics he says (Never

mind fish wars pitting co untries against one

another - here in Ca nada scientists and

policy makers wres tle over the question of

who should be respo nsible for what aspects

of the countrys fisheries as witnessed in a

war of words played out in the Canadian Journal ofFisheries and Aquatic Sciences over

the past 18 months between biologists at

several Canadian univers ities and the DFO

over the relationship between fishery sc ishy

ence and fishery policy)

Roff says theres nothing unique about

Canadas fish problems Its not really a

Canadian problem its a worldwide probshy

lem The only fisheries worldwide that are

not over fished appear to be some not yet

fully exploited in the Indian Ocean

After nearly four decades of growth the

worldwide marine ca tch levelled off in the

1990s to some 90 million tons a year The

m ain problems coastal pollution habitat

destruction and particula rly overfishing

Noakes editor of the journal Guelph Ichthyology Reviews contrasts the few hunshy

dred people who might have made th eir

livelihood aboard small wood en boats on

the Grand Banks several centuries ago with

the massive factory trawlers that now scour

todays coast People are much too efficient

in terms of catching fish he says Noakes

concurs with fellow Guelph researchers that

conservation of fish stocks has to reach the

top of fishery managers agendas

hat does set Canada apart is the breadth

and depth of expertise in fisheries and aquatshy

ic sciences in this country - rather a parashy

dox when you consider that Canadas record

in fisheries preservation is apparently no betshy

ter than that of many other nations

Considering we have the best fishery scishy

ences community in the world we ought to

be doing better says Roff Within the last

decade th e federal government withdrawal

o f support from the Department of Fishshy

eries and Oceans and university researchers

has been massive At the very time when the

resources were gett ing into severe problems

and when the federal government ought to

have been funding research theyve been

substantially withdrawing resources ga

DONT WAIT UNTIL SPRING The opportunity to double the impact of your gift to the University of Guelph ends on March 31 1999 Until that date all gifts designated to endowed student financial aid at Guelph will be matched by the Ontario Student Opportunity Trust Fund (OSOTF) That means that every dollar you commit will contribute two dollars to financial aid for Guelph students

If you would like to support our students throug h OSOTF you still have a w indow of oppor nishyty to have your do l1a rs doubled But only until March 31 1999

If you have already made a pled ge to OSOTf through U of Gs ACCESS Fund thank you [or your ge nerous support Please comp lete your payme nts by March 31 1999 to e nsure that your gi ft is matched

For more information contact Rudy Putns in Guelphs office of Development and Public Affairs at -519-824-4120 Ext 6384 Fax 519-822-2670 E-mail alumniuoguelphca

WINTER 1999 31

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

n ALUMNI PROF IL E

LETS LOOK AT THE OPPORTUNITIES

WHEN I-IE BECA ME president of the Unishy

versity of Guelph Alumni Association

(UGM) in June Jim Weeden brought new

enthusiasm and ideas for encouraging alumshy

ni to stay in volved with their alma mater

And he wants to start with students

Weeden reca ll s his own ex perience at

U of G where he fo und a sense of commushy

nity by living in residence and ge tting

involved in college activiti es But when he

graduated with an engin ee ring degree in

197 1 he left to begin a caree r and says he

didnt think much about the University until

he needed it again in the 1980s to pursue a

graduate degree in agricultural enginee ring

He spent his early career working as an

agricultural extensi o n engineer for the

Ontario Department o f Agriculture and is

stiU with its successo r the Ontario Ministry

of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs

(OMAFRA) Weed en completed the masshy

ters degree in 1986 when he was head of the

agricultural engineering program and extenshy

sion services a t Centralia College of Ag rishy

cultural Technology

In 1987 he moved to the ministrys plant

industry branch as program m anager and

later held the same position in th e resources

manage m ent branch Sin ce then he has

worked for OMAFRA in Woodstock and

now Stratfo rd He is technical adviser fo r

Ontarios Enviro nmental Farm Planning

Program is respo nsible for o ther environshy

m ental programs and consults with the Minshy

istry o f th e Environment on local agriculshy

tural pollution problems

w Weed en got involved with the Universishy sect tys a]u111ni programs by serving on the first g z board of the Engineering Alumni Associashy

~ tion when it was established in 1990 From

~ 1991 to 1994 he sat on the University Senshy

~ ate and its Research Board and for the pas t

~ four years) hels been on the UGAA executive

32 GUELPH A LU MNUS

From the presidents chair Weeden looks

at the bro ad picture o f UG AA se rvice and

recognizes that the associa tio n owes a debt

o f gratitude to hundreds of alumni volunshy

teers who ha ve helped to build the organishy

za tion over the yea rs and to University staff

in Development and Public Affairs (DampPA)

who support UGAA initiatives and alumni

programs Thro ugh their efforts he says the

a lulllni associati o n is rea ching out to all

U of G alumni Graduates who have mainshy

tained a close relationship with the Univershy

sity thro ugh their college or academic disshy

cipline those who feel an affiliation because

o f their participation in a thletics residence

life o r extracurricular activiti es and even

HIGHLIGHTSmiddot GRAD NEWSmiddot OBITUARIES bull CALENDER

those who have not kept in touch are part of the constituency served by UGAA

Weed en says the alumni association needs to strengthen its relationship with all alumni and he believes the effor t must start on campus with students Hed like to proshymote the idea of alumni involvement as ear shyly as a students second year We need to give students some reason to be con nected and an efficient vehicle for maintaining that connection he says

For many students and new graduates the social functions supported by UGAA and the opportunities for professional networking will be important says Weeden but greater rewards are there for those who join the effort to enhance the Universitys acade mic goals

In todays economic and political envi shyronme nt individual financial support and the advocacy of post-secon dary education are important roles for alumni he says How many people ac tively get involved with the debate on whether universities are job-trainshy

ing centres or centres of education Yet some of our alumni are extremely adept in such roles Weeden would like to cultivate past and current stud ent ac tivists as supporters of public education after they graduate

As Weeden leads UGAA into a new year he says he will work with other UGAA volshyunteers and DampPA staff to find new ways for the association to interact with students and alumni One id ea is to expand UGAAs Intershynet presence by adding a Web message board that will encourage alumni to discuss career and campus issues online and a reply form that will allow them to quickly update addressshyes employment status and other information

Weeden says its important to stay focused on UGAAs key prioriti es but he welcomes any and all new ideas on how to accomplish them All it takes to share your ideas with the UGAA executive is a stamp or a push of the send button when youre clicked on alumniuoguelphca

HKHB SPIRIT RISES

ENCOURAGED BY THE SPIRIT

shown by fellow alumni at last

summers reunion the executive

of the Human Kinetics Human Biology

Alumni Association is moving ahead

with more opportunities for alumni to

stay in touch The association plans to

launch a Web site that will be accessed

through the U of G site

A wine-and-cheese reception already

planned for June 19 1999 wiil try to

build on the success of the 1998 event

which attracted alumni from as far away

as Chicago and as far apart as the 19605

and 1990s Guests had a chance to tour

U of Gs new Health and Performance

Centre and performance testing

labs The program was co-ordinated wiLh

A REFLECTION OF PRIDE

Members of the OAC

Class of 52 join Arboshy

retum staff on the front patio

of the Arboretu m Centre

beside a new reflecting pool

that was built last summer

as a class project Pictured

from left are Murray Parker

Ann Smith George Smith

Jack Sargent Catherine Gibb

Robin Shaw-Rummington

Marilyn Swaby BA 69

Bev Healy B5e(Agr) 72

Norm Watson Una Venerus

Ron Costen Henry Kock

BSe (Agr) 77 and Ric

Jordan BA 75

Prof Jack Barclay chair of the Departshy

ment of Human Biology and Nutritional

Sciences and Prof Susan Pfeiffer Memshy

bers of the Human KineticsHuman

Biology Alumni Association executive arc

Janet Leonhard 82 president Carolyn

Moore 83 vice-president Alison Locker

97 secretary Mark Mulholland 79

lreasurer and t-iary Ann Crape 76

These officers are also spea rheading a

new initiative to benefit students - an

undergraduate award that will provide

$250 and lifetime mem bership in the

association To commcnt on these and

other initiatives contact Leonard by

e-mail at Janel_Leonhardinwrbsb

eduonca or Moore at cturveyagec

uoguelphca

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alumni

Multimedia lab buzzes

THE DONALD FORSTER RoOiv

has become one of the

busiest spots in th e Unishy

versity of Guelph Liblary since the

addition of 70 state-of-the-art

computer workstations that were

supported by alumni do nations

to the Alma Mater Fund (AM F)

U of G president Mordechai

Roza nski officia ll y o pened th e

Alma Mater Fund Multimedia

Lab D ec 2 an d celebrated th e

event with members of the AMF

Adv isory Counc iL [n 1996 a nd

1997 the AMF contributed

$240000 to th e project which

increased the number of student

workstations o n campus by 50 per

cent Students use the m ult imeshy

~ dia lab to conduct research on the

~ Internet access scholarly publicashyr u VI tions on CD-ROM and use COll1shyz ~ puter software mod ules tbat lt

~ strengthen the teaching provided lD

o in co urse lectures labs and tcxtshybii books

middotMatters

Alumnus of many interests

I NTERES TING P EOPLE always have eclect ic interests and U of G

alumnus and honorary degree recipient Ken Murray BSA 50 and

HDLA 96 is a good example H e is known by most people on camshy

pus for his distinguished career in the Canadian meat packing indusshy

try and his volunteer service to U of G He was a member and chair

of Board of Governors from 1973 to 1978 and chair of the Regionshy

al Corporate Committee during U of Gs last capital campaign and

is currently chair of the Heritage Fund Enhancement Committee

Murray is also a strong supporter of community soc ial services

In August he addressed the World Congress of Social Ps)chiatry

held in British Columbia - the only non-psychiatrist on the proshy

gram He spoke about his role in establishing an Alzheimers research

project a t the University ofWaterioo which was recently named in

his honour the Ken Murray Alzheimer Research and Education Proshy

gra m At the gc conference he al so participated in a panel dis shy

cussion that outlined services offered by Guelphs Homewood Health

Cent re Murray bas been actively involved in the governance of the

centre since 1977 and has been a major player in the development

of a charitable foundatio n bearing the Homewood name

WHEN THE PUCK DROPPED More than 30 teams including two

womens teams were entered in the

Dec 6 University of Guelph Alumni Hockey

Tournament Organizers for the 1998 event

were from left Brian Finniss B5c 88

Brad Stephenson BA 86 Terry Carr

BComm 87 Todd Bryant BA 86 and

undergraduate student Brian Melnick

Ken Murray centre with his wife Marilyn Robinson Murray and U of G president Mordechai Rozanski

34 GU ELPH ALUMNU S

RESTORING A JEWEL IN THE CROWN

DONALD RUTHERFORD BSA 5 stands in fron t

of the 1931 conservatory greenhouse that will

be restored to match the splendour of the ga rdens

now growi ng up around it His $256000 leadershy

ship gift to the Conservatory and Gardens Project

was inspired by hi s m emo ries of being a student

at OAC

On behalf of fellow alumni I hope this gift will

commemorate the experiences and educat ion we

acquired while at Guelph says Rutherford When

fully restored to its previous glory the conservatoshy

ry greenhouse will be an ideal greeting and welcome

spot for visitors and newcomers to the University

as well as old friend s renewing their acquaintance

Rutherfords professional career spans the agrishy

foo d industr y beginning as an agricu ltural repshy

resentative with the provincial minist ry I-Ie was

later vice-president of the Fertilizer Institute of

Ontario executive secreta ry of the Canadian Seed

Trade Association director of information w ith

the Ca nadian Livestock Feed Board and Canadishy

an sa les manager for Sylvite of Can ad a Retired

since 1986 he now owns his own sma ll investment

company and manages to golf throughout the yea r

The conserva tory isnt the first ca mpus project

to attract Rutherford s attention - as a student

he helped dig out the base ment of Massey H al l to

build a student lo unge - but his recent gift has

been a tremendous boost to those who have been

working since the ea rly 1990s to save the glass and

cypress structure from demo lition

A committee of alumni facult y sta ff stu dents

and fri en ds of the University has moved the proshy

ject along to th e point w here most of the surshy

rounding garden complex is now complete It fea shy

tures six gardens named in honour of the ir chie f

supporters Autumn Garden - OAC 5 1 Spring

Ga rden - OAC 53 Su mmer Garden - OAC 55

Winter Gard en - OAC 65 Water Gard en shy

OAC 49 and the Woo dland Garden named in

honour of the late Doug Rob inson BSA 53

Alumni have been in strumental in raising

funds for the $ l-million project Students and fa cshy

ulty have provided mudl of the h1l1ds-on Idbour

and friends in the nursery and landscape materishy

als supply industries have given $250000 ill donashy

tions and gifts-in-kind of plan ts and landsca ping

materials Rutherford s generous gift has pushed

th e conservato ry fund-ra ising effort in to the fin 81

stretch Th e ga rden complex and restored g reenshy

110use are sc heduled to officially open during

Alumni Weekend in June 1999

1999 Coming Events

Jan 29 - Aggie Goodshy

Times Banquet call the OAC Student Federation at Ext 8321 for ticket injemnrltion Feb 13 - Norm McCo llulll

D iploma Hockey Tournashy

m ent call Jack Bakker at 519-837-0132 to register a team

Feb 21 - Ottawa Chapter

annual curling bonspiel

Richmond C urling Club in

Richmond Ont For informashytiol1 call Alan Bentley BSA 61 at 6 13-829-6598 or John DVit[ 54 mId Margaret McGowml BHSc 54 at

613-828-7038

March 3 - Florida alumni

reunion a t Maple Leaf

Estates Port Charlo tte Fla

call Ext 6533 0 register

March 13 and 14 - ollcge

Royal 75th o pen house

March 19 and 20 - OAC

Alumni Association curling

bonspiel G uelph Curling

Club register at Ext 6657

May 5 - Chicago All Canashy

dian Universities Night hostecl

by U of G at the University

Club of Chicago 76 East Monshy

roe Sr call Exl 6533 for details May 5 - OAC Alumni

Foundation annual meeting

730 pm Arboretum Centre

May 12 - Alumni-inshy

Action annual meeting and

luncheo n 1130 3m

Arboretum Centre ((11 Ext 6657for tickets

June 18 to 20 - Alumni

Veekend call Ext 6657 to plall a reun io n

-0 r shya -IFor more infon-nation on any a

eVC1l1listed ailove call the oJ -lt oU of G extension listed at en raquo

519-824-4120 or send e-mail z

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WINTER 1999 35

alumni Matters

MEMORIES OF COLLEGE ROYAL Grant MacEwan ADA 23 and

BSA 26 is one of the few OAC

alumni who c~n still remember

the first College Royal held Jan

14 1925 MacEwan bad just

entered the degree program in

animal husbandry and may have

been a participant in the liveshy

stock showmanship classes Latshy

er in life he was widely known Grant MacEwan

across Western Canada as 3 liveshy

stock judge and an advocate of

agricultural fairs and exhibitions

MacEwan is bes t known

however for his 23-year C3reer

as a university professor in Manshy

itoba and Saskatchewan and Ilis

political career which included

12 years as alderman and mayshy John Kenneth Galbraith

or of C31gary four years as an

Alberta MLA and eight as lieushy birthday in August

tenant -governor of the province The year after Ma cEwan

He s till lives in Calgary graduated John Kenneth Galshy

where he celebrated his 96th braith ADA 29 and BSA 31

HOMECOMING 98

enrolled at OAC and devoted

some of his energy to organizshy

ing College Royal Show records

indicate it was Galbraith who

first proposed the college event

be publicized so that people

from the farm community

could attend He also suggestshy

ed that OAC invite students

from American agricultural colshy

legesl n th e early 1930s Colshy

lege Royal took its fir s t steps

towards becoming the comshy

munity open house it is today

Galbraith later moved to the

United States where he enjoyed

a distinguished caree r as a proshy

fessor of economics at Harvard

Universi ty Known for his

humanit~rian approach to ecoshy

nomic and political thinking

he was awarded the Order of

Canada in 1997 He celebr3ted

his 90th birthday in October

IT REALLY WAS a homecoming reunion when and Arnott who is head coach of the York

former Gryphon teammates Ralph Shapiro University Yeomen came from the visitors

S5c(HK) 74 and Tom Amott S5c(HK) 80 dreSSing room to hold the ball Shapiro is

met on the field at Alumni Stadium Oct 3 the controller at Huntsman Chemical Inc

Shapiro had the honour of kicking off in Guelph and a longtime United Way volshy

the Universitys 1998 United Way campaign unteer who chaired this years Guelph and

Wellington fund-raising drive The Univershy

sity campaign is the largest in the county

with U of G staff and faculty contributing

over $200000 in 1998

Prior to the game a number of recent

alumni - all U of G scholarship and award

winners - met for a reunion luncheon The UJ

1948 and 1949 dominion championship i5f 3

football teams were also honoured guests z 5 o at the 2 pm game that saw the Gryphons gtshy a defeat York f shya I a

Ralph Shapiro

36 G UELPH ALUMNUS

LEADING THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY FOR 1974 GRADS The 25th-anniversary reunion givshy

i ng program for the Class of 1974

is under way with Bill Laidlaw BA

74 as cbair A public affairs proshy

fessional he has been director of

government relations for the

Canadian operations of Glaxo

vVelJcome Inc for more th an 10

years He also acts as a senior conshy

sultant to support the governshy

ment relations function in other

regions of Canada

Laidlaw began his career in

teaching after earning a history

degree from Guelph and education

degrees (rom Queens University

and the University of Toronto He

also holds the certified human

resources professional designation

and worked in that field for sevshy

eral years before concen trating on

government relations at Glaxo

Welkome He lives in Burlington

Ont and is an act ive community

volunteer having se rved on the

boards of severa l professional

organizations the Queensway

General Hospital and the Metroshy

politan Toronto Lung Association

He is currently completing a oneshy

year term as chair of the Ontario

Chamber of Commerce

Anniversa ry preparations will

culminate with a class gathering

a nd reunion gift at Alumni

Weekend in June 1999

ALUMNI MAKE THE CONNECTION Students who moved into

Maids and Mills halls in Sepshy

tember can take full advanshy

tage of the Universitys highshy

speed computer network

thanks to the OAC Class of

71 whose 25 th-reunion proshy

ject provided wiring upgrades

in the 84- and 77-year-old

residence buildin gs

GRAD NEWS

Marathon survivors inspire us all to appreciate everyday life

W HEN ROBINSON SIIlLJNGS Jane BSe(Agr)

85 Heather BASe 83 Peter BSe(Agr)

86 Scott and Marnie rigwood BA 84 get

together they talk about marathons and the hope

and determination it takes to reach the finish line

Hea ther walked a marathon in San Diego

Calif in June to raise money for leukemia

research then joined Peter for a Toronto marathon

in October that benefi ted the Leukemia Research

Fund of Canada They were inspired by Janes pershy

sonal marathon of survival that foUowed her 1992

diagnosis of leukemia Chemotherapy radiation

remission relapse and finally a bone marrow

transplant [TOm her brother Scott took more than

three years out of her life but gave her the detershy

mination to keep fighting

Many families can understand the marathon

of hope maintained by the Robinsons during

Janes struggle and the commitment they have to

help others who are stricken with the disease Jane

is finally well enough to work again as a writer

and marketing consultant and to join her fami shy

ly in volunteer work She helped recruit for the

Toronto marathon fund -raiser and continues to

be involved with the Leukemia Research Funds

Team in Training She also says that her expeshy

rience has taught her to appreciate more the pleashy

sures of everyday life and the love of famil y

Jan es parents are th e late Doug Rob inson

BSA 53 and Marilyn (Inglis) Robinson Murray

BH Sc 55

19305

bull Grant Misener ADA 32 BSA 35 and DVM 38 received the

prest igious George F Hixso n Felshy

lowship Award from the Kiwanis

International Foundation in May The retired Illinois veter ishy

narian was hono ured for his subshystantial contribution to the

Kiwanis wo rldwide service proshy

ject aimed at eliminating iodine

deficiency disorders the leading

cause of preventable mental retardation in children Over the

years Misener has shown a simishylar commitment to his al ma

mater an d its students through

his close association with OVC

and his support of scho larship

programs

19405

bull Russell McDonaldDVM 45 was named an honorary life direcshytor of the Royal Agricultural Winshy

ter Fair Association in March

McDonald formerly general manshy

ager of Western Ontario Breeders

Ine and executive director of the Canadian Association of Animal

Breeders served as a director of the Royal Winter Fair for 20 years

representing the Canadian artifishycial insemination industry He

lives in Woodstock Ont

bull Ian Taylor DVM43 was recently honoured by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to

Animals of Illinois Taylor ran a small-animal veterinary clinic in

the Chicago area for many years

and says he gained ll1uch experishyence during his first three years in

Illinois as clinic veterinarian for

the anti -cruelty society

19505

bull Charles Chuck Broadwell BSA 54 was elected a Mel

Osborne Fellow by the Kiwanis

Club of Forest City in London Ont in recognition of a dedicatshy -ed and distinguished career in

Kiwanis

19605

bull Constantine Campbell BSA 60 and MSA 61 was named to the

WINTER 1999 37

Order of Canada in January He

received the award in recogni shy

tion of his many contributions

to science and the Canadian

agricultural industry After grad shy

uating from OAC he went on to

do his PhD at the University of

Saskatchewan then joined Agri shy

culture and Agri-food Canada

as a research scientist at the Swift

Current research station Campshy

bell and his family now live in

Ottawa where he is scientist

emeritus with Agriculture and

Agri-food Canada

bull John Casselman BSA 64 is

a research scientist with the

Ontario Ministry of Natural

Resources He Jives in Bath

Ont with his wife Lois

bull Jane Fuller RRSc 65 and

her husband George who both

taught at the Macdonald Instishy

tute from 1966 to 1969 have

moved from Winnipeg to

Utopia Ont following

Georges retirement from the

University of Manitoba

bull Fred Gilbert MSc 66 and

P hD 68 is in his first term as

president of Lakehead Univer shy

sity in Thunder Bay Ont He

taught at U of G in the Departshy

ment of Zoology from 1972 to

1981 and has enjoyed a dive rse

academic career that has also

included teaching at the Unishy

versity of Maine and posi tions

as director of wildlife biology at

Washington State University

and founding dean of the Facshy

ulty of Natural Reso urces and

Environmenta l Studies at the

University of Northern British

Columbia He moved to Lakeshy

head from a position as viceshy

pro vost at Colorado State Unishy

versity A respected wildlife

biologist he has conducted

ex tensive resea rch in s Ll ch areas

as the behaviour and physioloshy

gy of wildlife species and the

effects of environmental

change on wildlife populations

bull Terry Goodyear BSc 67 of

Mont Tremblant Quebec is an

early retiree from Agriculture

and Agri-Food Canada in Ottawa He is now working on

va lue-added products from

industrial wastes particularly

cellulose sludge from pulp and

pa per mills

bull Gary Hearn BA 68 was

named an Ontario provincial

judge in October For the last

25 years he has been a lawyer

with the firm Kearns McKinshy

non in Guelph where he lives

with his wife Irene and three

teenage children

bull Allan Knight BSA 66 of Corunna Ont has retired

from Dow Chemical after 30

years On retirement he was a

laboratory director for indusshy

trial chemicals He is now

working with his son in a famishy

ly-owned and -operated busishy

ness Knight Funeral Home

bull Keith McFarlane BSc(Agr)

68 works for the Department

of Foreign Affairs and Internashy

tional Trade and began a fourshy

year assignment last summer as

head of the commercial divishy

sion of the Canadian Embassy

in Lisbon Portugal The

division promotes the sa le of

Canadian goods and services

to Portugal

bull Ian Newbould MA 68 has

travelled far from his Ontario

roots through an academic and

administrative career that has

taken him to Europe Asia and

Western Canada A noted hisshy

torian he moved into adm inisshy

tration at the University of

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Lethbridge in 1981 and spent

10 years there as director of

research dean of a rts and scishy

ence and vice-presiden t (acadeshy

mic) before crossing the counshy

try to become president of

Mount Allison University in

New Brunswick He is now in

his second term as president of

Mount AUison

bull Indra Deo Singh MSc 68 is

a tea scientist international

consultant and joint director of

the Tea Research Association at

the Nagrakata substation in

India His responsibilities

include co-ordinating research

and development in the Indian

tea industry and developing tea

cultivars and agrotechnology

for tea Singh is married with

two sons aged 27 and 23

19705

bull Don Ambler BSe 71 retired in March as manager of

water programs with Environshy

ment Canada in Dartmouth

NS after 25 years of public

service He has now registered

the company Aquashed Co nshy

sulting to continue in the water

resources field when hes not

gardening beekeeping do ing

aerobics or vo lunteering in the

community and chu rch E-mail

contact is welcome a t

donambl erns sympaticoca

bull Jim Bond BSe 75 is managshy

ing a new processing facility at

the Chalk River Nuclear Laborashy

to ry in Chalk River Ont

bull Terri (Monks) Bulman BSc(Agr) 78 and MSe 81

and her husband Vincent

MSe 8 1 live in Australia with

their th ree children Catherine

7 Peter 4 and baby Christoshy

pher Terri is senior principal

environmental auditor vith

Coffey Geosciences Pty Ltd Vinshy

cent afte r many years as a geoloshy

gist travelling around Australia

and abroad has taken the year

off to study and look after the

children Their e-mail address is

tbulmanbigpondco m

bull Marie David BA 78 of

Hanover Ont has been in the

n ewspaper business for 20

years She started in the mailshy

room moved to advertising

sales then became advert ising

manager She is now gene ral

manager o f three So utham

weekly newspapers and pubshy

lish er of the Hanover Post

bull Janice Harrower and her husshy

band Jerome Billett both

DVM 76 operate a joint veterishy

nary practice in Prescott Ont

Billett says practising together

has allowed them some flexibilishy

ty in their family life and given

their four children a good took

at the rigours of veterinary

medicine Says Billett Not one

of our kid s has the slightest

interest in being a veterinarian

and isnt that just fine Their

o ldest son Jesse attends Harshy

va rd University and is a memshy

ber of its prestigious a cappella

choir Lucas is studying

mechanical engineering at the

University of Waterloo Casey is

planning a career in computer

engineering and Lindsay is a

high school athle te

bull Clair Heinbuch BSe 74 is a

sales manager with Baye r Corp

in Kansas H e and his wife

Caroline (Koscik) BASc 75

returned to the Kansas City

area after spending four years in

Denver They have three chilshy

dren Lisa 20 Scott 18 and

Ryan [5

bull Beverly Lee BASe 72 is an

elem entary school principal in

Unionville Ont She lives with

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her husband Grant Egan in

Collingwood and is looking

forward to retirement in severshy

al years Life on Georgian Bay

is wonderful she says Lee

would love to hear from fellow

grads by e-mail at

leebYrbeeduonca or by

phone at 705 -444 -092l

bull Won-Jai Maeng MSc 71 took office Sept 1 as president

of Kon-Kuk University in Seoul

Korea where his academic

career began He completed an

undergraduate degree at Kon

Kuk in 1965 then studied at

Mailing Agricultural College in Denmark and at U of G before

doing doctoral work at the Unishy

versity of California Davis

Maeng has held research and

teaching positions at the Unishy

versity of illinois at Chung-Ang

University and at Kon-Kuk

where he has been a professor of

animal science since 1984 His

appointment as president folshy

lows years of administrative

experience as a department

head dean and chair of various

research committees and proshy

fessional organizations An

expert in ruminant nutrition

Maeng was instrumental in

developing the livestock feed

industry in Korea He has also

been active in working with

alumni groups and in writing

for the Kon-Kuk Tribune

bull Bill MarshaU ADA 75 of Proton Station Ont moved

from Clarksburg in June to

work in Dundalk for the Grey

County Roads Department on

its road management crew

bull Bernie Matte BSc(Agr) 70 of Moncton NB retired

in March after 28 years with

Fisheries and Oceans Canada

and the Canadian Food

Inspection Agency He plans to

travel to Belize and Honduras

with his wife Diane and will

be available anywhere in the

Caribbean for seafood HACCP

consulting work

bull Margaret McClain BA 70 lives in Arkansas where she is

highJy involved in the issue of

40 GUELPH ALUMNUS

missing children and internashy

tional abductions McClain who

believes her own six-year-old

daughter was taken out of the

United States more than a year

ago by her second husband is

reaching out to parents with

similar experiences through an

organization that is lobbying the

US government for tougher

international abduction laws

She invites interested fr iends

and alumni to contact her

through her Web site at

wwwinsolwwbnet-dmcclain

bull Robert (Chuck) Miller BA 77 is the park superintendent

of Killarney French River and

Maskinonje provincial parks in

Ontario He moved to Killarney

from Quetico Provincial Park

last May

bull Gordon Nicol BA 72 and MSc(Agr) 74 teaches math

and science in a bilingual prishy

vate school in Guatemala A

BEd graduate of Laurentian

he first taught in Guatemala in

the late 1970s then spent 12

years in northern Alberta as a

teacher and principal He

returned to Guatemala in 1989

A widower with three teenage

children Nicol would like to

hear from U of G friends and

acquaintances especially anyshy

one who is was or will be in

Central America He says he

could also use middle-schoolshy

level science projects Send eshy

mail to gnicoll guatenet or

write to PO Box 661447 Miami

Springs Florida 33266-1447

bull Chris Schulte BSc 71 and MSc 73 lives in Nassau

Bahamas with his wife

Andrya After graduation he

stayed in the Department of

Physics as a research associate

with Prof lain Campbell then

joined Ontario Hydro in the

early 1980s He moved to the

Bahamas in 1995 He can be

reached bye-mail at

schultebahamasnetbs

bull Sandra (Pickford) Webster BA 75 has retired from U of

Gs Co mmunications and Pubshy

lic Affairs and is living in Parry

Sound Ont where she is

doing volunteer work and

communications consulting

for the municipality Guelph

friends ca n contact her by

e-mail atswebsterzeutercom

19805

bull Sharon (Courneya) Angus BA 8 I of Surrey BC comshy

pleted a BSW at the University

of British Columbia in 1988

and has been working for the

BC government for 13 years

- first in probation and now

in the family justice division

She and her husband Ron

have three children Jason

Carly and Colin

bull Karen Beazley BLA 86 is an assistant professor and acadeshy

mic program co-ordinator at

the School for Reso urce and

Environmental Studies at Dalshy

housie University in Halifax

She is currently doing research

for a book on endangered

species initiatives and is orgashy

nizing a Nova Scotia wildlands

workshop with the Wildlands

Project for 1999 Her e-mail

address is kbeazleyisdalca

bull Caroline (Van Deudekom) and Marc Brooks both ADA 87

recently moved from Strathroy

to Owen Sound Ont where

they run a 50-acre organic farm

with their two sons

bull Virginia Burt BLA 85 startshyed her own landscape architecshy

ture firm Visionscapes in

Hamilton Ont in ] 996 She

specializes in the design of thershy

apeutic healing gardens spirit

gardens sacred spaces and

la byrin ths and recen tly designed the first healing garden

in Canada specificalJy for peoshy

ple living with HIV and AIDS

bull Joanne (Branson) Carver BA 80 earned a BEd from Brock

University in 1981 and recently

started working as a probashy

tionparole officer She Jives in

Ajax Ont and has two daughshy

ters Julie4 and Sarah 8

bull Heather Champ BA 86 is a Web-site designer in New York

City She began her work in

computer design in 1990 Her

personal site can be Found at

wwwjezebelcom

bull Laurie Gough BA 87 has become a world traveller who

writes about her experiences for

the benefit of others Her most

recent book Island of the

Human Heart A tfornans Travshyel Odyssey is now in its second

printing in Canada and will be

released next year in the United

States and overseas She has also

published Travellers Tales A

Womans World which won the

US-based Lowell Thomas

Gold Award for best travel book

of the year When not travelling

or writing she teaches English

and ESL in Guelph

bull Susan (Coles) Goulden BASc 84 and her husband

Ian are th rilled wi th their

recent adoption of Jennifer Lee

Yu who was born in June near

Leping Jiangxi Peoples Repubshy

lic of China The Gouldens

who Jive in vVaterloo Ont

thank classmate Andrea

(Kovits) Henderson for her

support throughout the adopshy

tion process Susan is currently

on leave from her position with

McCormick Canada

bull Judy (Bodendistel) Gregg BA 82 moved to Melbourne Ausshy

tralia in 1997 with her husband

and two children Carly 6 and

Adam 3 We are enjoying the

friendly people and the great

weather here she says We are

especially enjoying winter in a

place where it never gets below

zero Celsius

bull Nigel GumJey DVM 85 has been a partner in the Alta Vista

Animal Hospital in Ottawa

since 1990 was president of the bull Garry Millage AMPHI 86 bull Heidi Stephenson BA 88 is now ISO 9000 manager at

Ontario Veterinary Medical left a position as vice-president was awarded her professional Carpenter Ca nada Ltd in

Association in 1997 and recent- of national operations for acco untants designation of Wood br idge Ont He lives in

ly served on the Canadian Vetshy Scotts Restaurants KFC Divishy certified general accountant in Miss issa uga Classma tes are

erilw() Medical Associations sion to open his own consult- March 1998 She has been invited to contact him at

national issues committee He ing company Future Food employed for the last 10 years avon listarca

lives in Osgoode with his wife Equipment Ine specializes in with Dan Ball Chartered bull Michelle (Pilon) Bacon BA rvlaurecn and children Laura providing new and used restau- Acco un tant in Parry Sound 90 moved to England to study

and Matthew rant equipment and reducing O nt where she lives with her and work after graduating from

bull Muneer Hirji BComm 82 restaurant construction costs hu sband Brad two dogs and a Guelph She recently left a posishy

lives in Toronto and is vice- He also operates a restaurant horse tion with the British Ministry of

president of marke ting at SAP called Nikkos in Woodbridge bull Dawn Stetsko BSe 81 lives Agriculture and Food in York to

Canada He has three chil- Ont and is planning to open a in Langhorne Pa with her husshy become an at-home mom She

drcl1 Nadia 8 Alyssa 6 and second location band Paul and children Mark now lives in London with her

Sarah I bull Tosh Noseworthy BSe 83 is and Keith and is a research husband Tim and one-year-old

bull Brenda irwin BSe 88 is a cardiovascular ICU nurse in scientist with Bristol-Myers daughter Juliette She sends love

studying at Hong Kong Unishy sunny Tuscon Arizona After Squibb Previously she worked to Sue Heather and Sheila and

vers ity of Science and Technolshy grad uation she lived in Paris at McMaster University in can be reached bye-mail at

ogy to complete the final France for a yea r s tudied nurs- Hamilton Ont for 17 yea rs michellebacondialpipexcom

sem ester of an MBA program ing in O ttawa then lived in Saushy bull Teresa Tummillo-Goy BA bull Jeff Barlow BComm 90 is

through the University of di Arabia for two yea rs She still 86 has a law practice in Water- the training and quality manag-

British Columbia She taught loves to travel and would like to 100 Ont foc Li sing primaril y on er for two five-star luxury boushy

science for the North York hea r from fellow alumni She family law civi l litiga tion and tique h o tels in Prague - Hotel

Board of Education for five can be reached at 520-299-8344 real estate She and her hus- Palace Praha and the Hotel

years before enrolling in the bull Cecilia (Wleugel) Parkes band John Goy live in Guelph Savoy Previo usly he was execu -

MBA program BComm 85 is a graphic and have three sons John 4 tive housekeeper at the five-star

bull Jagwant Kanwar PhD 80 is designer in Toronto and says Tony 3 and Shayne 2 Renaissance Pragu e Hotel

a senior scientist in the depart- she st ill uses ber marketing bull Peter Van der Borch DVM bull Margaret Burnes-Souria BA ment of vegetable crops at Pun- background to help her busishy 88 retired in the fa ll of 1997 94 is a team leader with [011 shy

jab Agricultural University in ness succeed She specia lizes in after several years of practising don Magazin e in London Ont

India He is also director of the logo design lNith hand-drawn physiotherapy and ve terinary She married David Souria in

regional vegetable research stashy illustrations medicine and surgery He Jives July 1997 and is pursuing an tion at Usman (TaranTarn) bull Jim Parr BSc(Agr) 81 and in Pictou NS ]VlBA at the University of West-

Amritsar His and his wife MSe 89 died of cancer in bull MartyWilLiams BA 85 is ern Ontario

Sanyogita have a son Mohit June 1998 but hes being co-ordinator of student activishy bull Janine Byers BASe 95 is a and a daughter Dipika who are remembered by his university ties at University College Unishy public health dietitian at the

both studying engineering friends through the establish - versity of Toronto where he Kingston Frontenac and

Friends can write to Kanwar at ment of a mem orial fund for advises student organizations Iennox amp Addington Health

Punjab Agricultural Un ivers ity his wife Denise and children 1Ie is also chair of the U of T Unit in Kingston O nt She is Ludhiana 141 004 India Shannon and Eric Anyone Staff Association a member of getting married to Ca rl Stewart

bull Larissa Larsen BSe 89 and who would like more informa - the steering committee of the on May 29 j 999 MLA 92 received a PhD in tion can ca ll Brian Tapscott at staffs unionization drive and a bull Lisa Cherry BSe 9 1 is a urban and regional planning 519-767-3566 staff member with the student science journalist and executive

from the University of Illinois bull Cheryl (Dunlop) Reid newspaper The Varsity He can director of Artists Against

at Urbana Champaign in May BSe(Agr) 89 sta rted a new be reached bye-mail at marty Racism an international organi-

She has accepted a position at job in September as ingredient wi lliamsutorontoca za tion She is based in Toronto

Thompson Dyke and Associshy sales manager for RA bull Bonnie (Byma) BASe 96 ales a landscape architecture Chisholm o f Toronto She will 19905 and Gil Clelland BA 95 were

and urban planning firm in continue to work from her bull Claire Allison BA 94 grad- married in December 1996 and

Chicago Her husband Ernie remote offke in Fergus Reid uated from the elementary are living in Chatham On t

Poortinga DVM 89 is in his and her husband Jeff BSe teacher ed ucation program at Bo nnie works at a day-care

third yea r of an MD program (Agr) 89 have two children the University of British centre G il teaches art and

at Rush University Chicago lVlega n 4 and Elizabeth 2 Columbia in 1996 and now phys ical education They ca n -Hes looking forward to joining bull Chee Sie BA 83 is a zone teaches in Va ncou ver be reached bye-ma il at gclelshy

his wife in the ranks of the manager for the Malaysian bull JohnAvon BSdHK) 94 lan ciaccesscom employed They would both Assurance Alliance Berhad in earned an M Se in industr ial bull Kate Corn ell BA 95 of enjoy hearing from fellow Sarawak Malaysia He and his operations from Lawrence Markham Ont earned her

alumni and can be reached at wife Jesterine have a two-year- Technological University in masters in dance history from epoor tin garushurushedu old daughter Letitia Southfleld Mich in 1997 and York University in May and

WINTER 1999 41

co-authored a book titled

Toronto Dance Theatre 1968shy1998 Stages in a Journey

bull Mary Jill (McClure) Culliton BASe 90 earned

her BEd from Brock University

and her M Ed from the Univershy

sity of Western Ontario and

teaches Grade 1 in Mitchell

Ont She and her husband

Tim live in Stratford

bull Kathleen (McNutt) Daniels BASe 9 1 is a teacher and was

married on New Years Eve

1994 to Gord Daniels They live

in North Bay Ont and have a

daughter Lauren born in Febshy

ruary 1997 They are expecting

their second child in February

bull Simon Deakin BA 95 studshyied in Florence Italy for a year

then earned a master of fine art

from the Slade School of Fine

Art at the University of London

England He lives in London

bull Christie Dunbar BLA 97 spent a year after graduation

working for Niagara College in

St Catharines Ont on the

vision and design of a new

campus to be built in Niagarashy

on-the- Lake Last April she

joined the landscape architecshy

ture firm of Pollack Design

Associates in Ann Arbor Mich

bull Trina Edmonds BA 94 and

Joel Hinderle became the

proud parents of a little girl

Jordan Ashley in january 1998

and moved to a new home in

Oakville Ont in September

Edmonds works in Mississauga

as a desktop publisher with a

publishingprinting company

bull Wendy Garinther BSc 93 and Steve Decker BSe 94

were married in May Joining

them in the wedding celebrashy

tions were Cheri (Coulter)

42 GUELPH ALUMNUS

Ascroft BSe 93 Karen Leinshy

gartner BSe 94 and Barb

(Moore) Johnson BSe 94

Best man was Jeff Bond BSe

93 and MSe 96 The Deckers

live in Edmonton where Steve

is doing a PhD in chemistry at

the University of Alberta and

Wendy is working in a research

laboratory at a biopharmaceushy

tical company

bull Donna Gross BA 97 is purshysu ing a master of divinity at

Emmanuel College at the Unishy

versity of Toronto and hopes to

become an ordained minister by

2002 She lives in Guelph and

can be reached bye-mail at

donnajulietalbedonet

bull Robert Gruber BA 92 is a child-care supervisor for the

YMCA-YWCA of Guelph and

manages the Jean Little Y

Child- Care Centre He recently

developed the anti -bias proshy

gramming policy for the

Guelph Y and sits on both the

Jean Little Public School Counshy

cil and the Guelph AIDS Wall

Committee He can be reached

bye-mail at rgrubernet

comca

bull Susan Harder BSe 91 grad shyuated from the University of

Toronto Medical School in June

and has started a residency at

Santa Clara Valley Medical Censhy

tre in San jose Calif She will

follow that up with an anestheshy

sia residency at Stanford Univershy

sity Hospital in 1999

bull Marko Harjupanula BASc 93 travelled in Australia for

two months after graduating

from Guelph then returned to

his home town of South Porshy

cupine Ont where he worked

in a gold mine for four years

He entered police college in

September and started as an

opp constable in Cochrane in

December

bull Nancy Holman MA 94 moved to Vancouver soon after

graduation and initially worked

as a project co-ordinator for an

ophthalmologist In 1996 she

began working full time for the

BC Liberal Caucus I would

enjoy hearing from and catchshy

ing up with the friends I made

while studying at U of G and

working at the Brass Taps she

says Her e-mail address is nan shy

cyholmanlassgovbeca

bull Ruth Johnson BA 91 is an investment banking associate

with the mergers and acquisishy

tions group of JP Morgan in

Lond on England responsible

for financial reporting and

administration She has been in

England with her partner Alex Campbell since graduation

bull Stephen Johnson BA 94 of London Ont was a lab technishy

cian at Lenscrafters for three

yea rs and is now a full-time

student at Fanshawe College

studying air conditioning and

refrigeration He was married

in Jun e to Jennifer Fox BSc

95 a chemist at 3M Their

wedding party included Dee Popat BSe (Eng) 94 and

Patrick Wulhes BSc 95

bull Sarah (Davis) Kelly BASe 90 married Robert Kelly in

July and teaches primary

grades at an inner-city school

in Toronto

bull Cassidy Klowak BComm 97 lives in Allisshy

ton Onl and is a personal

banking account manager

with ClBC in Tottenham

bull Stephanie Lopes BSc 96 completed her MSc in repro shy

ductive biology at the Universishy

ty of Toronto and worked as

patient-care director for the

College of Family Physicians

for almost a year In September

she enrolled in medical school

at the University of Toronto

She is happy to announce that

she is engaged to be married

next summer Lopes can be

reached at slopesidirectcom

bull Natalie (Parker) MacKenzie BSc 96 earned her BEd from

the University of Western

Ontario in 1997 She married

ASLt Andy MacKenzie June 27

in Sault Ste Marie Ont and

now lives in Halifax

bull Susan MacKinnon DVM 91 is a veterinarian with HUls

Science Diet She lives in

Guelph with her husband

Brandon Wiley and gave birth

to their first child Adrianna

Nicole june 26 at home

bull Waheed Mian BA 9 1 of Cambridge Ont is a store

director with PetSmart Canada

He helped the company launch

its new retail concept in Cana da

bull Alex Mitchell BA 91 was appointed clerkdeputy treasurshy

er of the Ontario township of

Mildmay-Carrick in 1998 and

will be the clerkadministrator

of the new municipality of

Mildmay-Carrick -TeesWatershy

Culross in 1999 He was married

in january 1997 and lives vith

his wife and daughter in Mild shy

may In his spare time Mitchell

is a professional scout for the

Toronto Maple Leafs covering

southwestern Ontario

bull Sherry Morland BASc 93 of Kitchener Ont ea rned her

BEd from Brock University in

J995 and is a part-time specia l

educa tion teacher and an occashy

sional teacher with the Watershy

loo County Board of Ed ucashy

tion She married Ivan LeBlanc

in 1997

bull Gary Page BSe 91 wo rks for the Nottawasaga Valley Conshy

servation Authority where he is

able to combine his knowledge

of wildlife biology with his

artistic skills as resident graphic

designer and outdoor centre

interpreter He Jives with his

wife Di and their son judah in

CreemoreOnt

bull Elaine Pammenter BA 96 is an inventory clerk with the

Royal Collection at Windsor

Castle in England She holds a

museum management and

curatorship grad uate certificate

diploma from Sir Sandford

Fleming College and did her

internship at the Royal Albert

Memorial Museum in Exeter

England

bull Brent Raymond BSe(Env) 96 of Brantford Ont has

been working with Outward

Bound since graduation He

leads wilderness trips in Northshy

ern Ontario Horida Australia and Sabah (Malaysian Borneo) Most recently he designed and implemented a new introducshytory mountaineering course for Outward Bound Sabah on the summit plateau of Mt Kinashy

balu Those of you who know me as plate licker from U of G get in touch he says Where are you Star I miss you He can be reached by e-mail at globarwchatonca or by

phone at 519-756-1697

Alumni Patrick Abbott BSA 40 July 7 1998

Albert Allen BSA 33 Jan 161994 Agris Ansmits BA 70 and MA 73

February 1998 Barbara (Quartermain) Babcock DHE

53 June 17 1998

Wray Bond BSA 34 Sept 25 1998

Kenneth Bone DVM 38 Dec 29 1998 Evelyn (Stevenson) Buhr DHE 39

May 251998 Philip Burke BSA 43 June 21 1998

Grant Carman BSA 49 Oct 221998 Frederick Chambers BSA 41

June 1998 Wilmot Conley ADA4 7 April 7 1998 Lloyd Crewson BSA 49 Aug 261998

Jacqueline Dimock DHE 47

Aug 20 1998 John Dingwall DVM 52

April 18 1998

Lloyd Dorsey BSA 38 June 9 1998 George Duncan BSA 37

Sept 19 1998

David Dyson BSA 53 Aug 31 1998

Norma (Shannon) Edwards DHE 39

November 1997 Vincent Bud Ellis DVM 41

July 15 1998 John Jack George BSA 48

Sept 24 1998

Donald Haight BSA 33 January 1997 William Hamlyn BSA 33 Dec I 1997

Gordon Harkness BSA 49

November 1997

Charles Hollister DVM 38 June 1996 Donald Hope BSA 54 June 28 1998

Lawrence Jefferson BSA 38

Sept 3 1998

James Kelso DVM 56 July 27 1998

Dorima Lalonde BSA 34 Oct 8 1998 Mildred (Cox) Large DHE 33

June 20 1998 Roger Larson BComm 86 Feb 19 1998 Robert Lawson BSA 49 June 6 1998

bull Doug Ramsey BA 91 and PhD 98 received U of Gs highshyest graduate student award shythe Forster Medal- at June convocation for his academic and community involvement while enrolled in Guelphs new

graduate program in geography He spent the summer as a visitshying research scholar at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College in Truro before assuming his curshyrent position as assistant professhysor at Mount Allison University

David Leach BSc(Agr) 74

July 18 1998

Ian Leask DVM 74 Sept 5 1998

Sheryl Lee BSc 95 June 8 1998 Ruby Janet MacAuley DHE 30

Aug 19 1998 Parker MacKenzie DVM 38

September 1994

Jeanice MacLaren DHE 28 March 1 1997

Campbell MacMaster DVM42

Oct 8 1998

Rex McCallum DVM 43 July 71998 Jean (Dunn) McMahon DHE 31

Nov 41998

Margaret Oones) McTaggart DHE 35 Aug 81998

Patrick McTaggart-Cowan HDSc 81

Oct 21997

Malcolm McWhinnie ADA 39

July 16 1998 Mary (Townsend) Mitchell BHSc

60 Sept 281998

Marjory Monaghan DHE 29

December 1997 Charles Monk BSA 44 Aug 7 1998

Heather Neilsen BHSc 59

Oct 30 1998 Jerry Niwa DVM 62 Aug 5 1998 Henry Harry OReilly BSA 42

October 1997

James Parr BSc(Agr) 81 June 19 1998 Charles Rammage DVM 45

Oct 17 1996 Howard Rapson HDSc 90

March 1997 Clement Reeds DVM 42 Oct 16 1998

William Robinson BSA 38

Aug 23 1998

Donald Sager ADA 73 Oct 141997

Austin Schaefer DVM 37 in 1997

Sandra (Mackenzie) Schmidt DHE 59

Aug 16 1997 Margaret (Harvey) Seaborn DHE 28

July 221998

Larry Seguin DVM 47 June 12 1998

Leah Shedden DHE 31 December 1998

Edward Shuh BSA 40 July 2 1998

Ted Shutsa BSc(Agr) 66

Sept 18 1998 Jim Sinclair DVM 49 Oct 4 1998

Margaret (Brown) Sinclair DHE 20

September 1998 Eldon Smith BSA 42 Sept 9 1998

Derek Somers DVM 96 Sept 25 1998

Cheryl Lynn Sopha BA 95 Sept 20 1998

Leona (Bartlett) Stewart DHE 35

June 27 1998 Alex Thomson BSc(Agr) 69

October 1996

William Whittick DVM 55

Aug 15 1998 Joseph Wilson BSA 23 Sept 11 1998

Lloyd Woolsey DVM41 June 24 1998

Winifred Yeates DHE 28 June 11998

Faculty John Carpenter BSA 43 and MSA 48

Microbiology Dec 10 1998

David Gaskin Zoology Sept 14 1998

Gordon Macleod BSA 50 Animal and

Poultry Science Nov 26 1998 Roman Retman Languages and

Literatures Sept 28 1998

Caesar Sen off Chemistry and

Biochemistry Aug 14 1998

Percy Smith Drama Dec 10 1998

Friends Robert Clark Aug 21 1998

Ethel Hammond August 1998

Thomas Hillers Sept 28 1998 Marguerite Holbrook Aug 26 1998

Catherine Kelly Sept 27 1998

James A McKenzie May 13 1998

Kenneth McIssac Oct 23 1998

William Mutlock September 1998 Roena Patterson Sept 16 1998

Donald Priddle Aug 25 1998

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bull Karl Reimer BSe 94 comshypleted a one-year intensive

MSc in mining engineering at

Queens University and is now

a project engineer a t Enpar

Technologies Ine in Guelph

He can be contacted at reimerbservcom

bull Nancy Nauta Rowland BA 90 and her husband Dan celshy

ebrated their first wedding

anniversary in March 1998 with

the birth of their first child

Connor who beat their March

8 anniversary by two days Nanshy

cy teaches junior-grade stushy

dents and junior special ed ucashy

tion for the Peel District School

Board The Rowlands live in

Caledon Ont

bull Fraser Stables MFA 98 was heralded by Toronto Globe 6shyMail critic Betty Jordan as a

formidable new talent followshy

ing the openi ng of his debut

gallery exh ibition in July The

Scottish artists work includes

sculpture video and mixed

media that explore notions of

flu x by interrupting the moveshy

ment of forms in space

bull Erin (Smith) Scott BSe(HK) 92 and Brad

Scott BSc(Agr) 91 of Lucan

O nt were married in 1993 and

had their first child Lucas in

August Erin works for Shopshy

pers Home Health Ca re in

London Brad is with New Life

Mills in Dunfield

bull Abby Simons BSc 95 and Martin Piche BSc(Agr) 95 were married in Mont-Tremshy

blant Quebec in 1997 She is a

customer service representative

with Kantech Systems he is

superintendent of Club de golf

vallee des forts They say theyd

love to hear from anyone headshy

ing to Montreal and can be

reached at 450-348-3860

bull Sylvia Tesori BSc 95 has been doing wildlife rehabilitashy

tion for the OSPCA Wildlife

Rehabilitation Centre in Midshy

land Ont since 1996

bull Chuck Thibeault BComm 94 is general manager of the

Putting Edge Corpora tion

which has two glow-in- theshy

dark mini-golf courses in

Ontario one in Bramp ton and

one in Richmond Hill He can

be reached in Richmond Hill at

chu ckttotalnet

bull Karen Thirlwall BA 93 is a

si ngersongwriter and guitarist

who began her stage career and

released her first album The Voice Inside Me while studying

languages at U of G She has

lived and performed in

11i stler BC for three years

and recently released a second

album called Wide-Eyed She

remembers many special

fr iends m ade at Guelph and

welcomes e-mail messages to

karenthirlwallhotmailcom

bull Christie (Johnson) and Steve

Tyler both BComm 91 live in

Cambridge Ont where

Christie is a personal banking

representative for the Royal

Bank Steve works with their

third-year design professor

Nelson Hofer in Mississauga as

a design consultan t Steves proshy

jects include the Windsor Casishy

no and U of Gs Creelman Hall

They have two children Jason

5 and Marcus 1

bull Julia White BA 91 lives in Guelph and is a small-business

accountant at Taves amp Co She

recently finished courses

towards a CGA designation and

would like to hea r from other

alumni who lived in Lambton

Hall in 198788 Send e-mail to

juliawhitesympaticoca

bull Andre-Denis Wright MSc 93 and PhD 98 is doing postshy

docto ral work in Perth Westshy

ern Australia He wants his

Guelph friends and Halifax

family to know he was thinking

of them at Christmas when it

was 40 C in Australia

bull Dave Yellen BComm 90 was recently promoted at the Gordon

Food Service to new-accounts

sales specialist for Metro Toronshy

to Having been in Ottawa for

the past few years Im hoping

to reacquaint myself with old

friend s from U of G in the Metro

area he says He lives in Scarborshy

ough and can be reached at 416shy615-2745 or davidysprintca

bull Halina Zaleski PhD 92 is a tenured professor in the

departm ent of animal sciences

at the Un iversity of Hawaii in

Honolulu She is a swine speshy

cialist involved in extension

programs for an area th at covshy

ers all of Hawai i and the PacifIC

basin She can be reached by

e-mail at halinahawaiiedu

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The event is famou s in the University community

and beyond for its open-house showcase of displays and

activities The largest student-run open house in Canashy

da College Royal attracts more than 20000 visitors to

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College Royal is an event of tradition that reaches

into tomorrow Agriculture and livestock shows are still

highlighted events but College Royal activities have

grown to include dog and cat shows a photography conshy

test a chemistry magic show and demonstrations on

human health and fitness The open house gives people

an opportunity to see what happens in the Universitys

leading-edge research laboratories to observe veterinary

medicine in practice to tour a sculpture studio or to

watch a theatrical performance

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with other government departments international 1990s And they still have not reached that equalishy125 YEARS agencies educational institutions and alumni ty on the college faculty Alice Rowsome may haveOF ACHIEVEMENT

Read any entry in 125 Years ofAchievement and been hired to serve as assistant librarian and instrucshy

youll find an interes ting anecdote that chronicles tor in French and German at the turn of the censhy1910-1920

an important element in campus history Read the tury but horticulturist Patricia Harney remained bull Macdonaldwhole book and youll be awed by the

Institutesheer volume of th e work that has

bull Soil science been accomplished by so many people Scientific agricuLture

bull Poultry lighting working meticulously over so many

amp nutritionyears to affect so many changes in agrishy After earning one of its first agriculture

bull OAC 21 barleyculture that have improved the lives of degrees in 1888 Charles Zavitz began a

bull Fruit research Canadians 40-year career overseeing the college

Freeman McEwen OAC dean from experimental programs and made the first 1920-1930

1983 to 1990 chaired a committee that advancements in plant breeding Threebull Collecting

involved severa l dozen current and generations later Prof Ken Kasha led the Canadian art

retired faculty as well as alumni students development of a haploid technique of cell bull War Memorial

and U of G staff in writing the stories division that cut the time needed to breed Hall

A quick check of dates in the book new varieties in half Today plant biotechshybull Graduate

shows a spiral of achievement that has nologist Bryan McKersie is looking even education

escalated with whirlwind force since the deeper into the functioning of plant cells bull College Royal

establishment of the University of to manipulate genes that will enhance proshybull SoybeanGuelph in 1964 and heads unabated ductivity or disease resistance

developmenttoward the future The 125 items docushy

bull Forage varieties ment scientific discoveries to be sure

bull Meat research but also the development of the college

bull Ginsengas an educa tional institution and its bull Farm business

ongoing partnership with the provincial records

government

Out of the J25 McEwen has picked his own top the only woman on faculty throughout the 1960s 1930-1940

five beginning with the contributions OAC made and women are seriously under-represented even bull Professional

to the establishment of the University This campus today This is one area where historians find room societies

has the distinction of being the only one in North to criticize agricultural traditions and college polishybull ControlledAmerica where the agricultural college preceded the cies that continued the dominance of men for far

atmosphereuniversity that supports it That fact helps ex plain too many years

storagethe unique character of the University of Guelph The college itself was dominated by the provinshy

bull Muck crops and its prominence in the life sciences cial government during its first 90 years when OAC bull Salmonella

Some might argue that the process of becoming principals reported directly to the minister of agrishytesting

a university began as ea rly as 1904 when the Macshy culture The 1964 University of Guelph Act mainshybull Links with donald Inst itute opened This event is second on tained the schools relationship with the agriculshy

farm groups McEwens list of top accomplishments The ad dishy ture ministry but gave the col lege a new- found

tion of women to the campus changed OAC from a freedom that expanded research and graduate proshy1940-1950

boys school into a co llege Guelph history professhy grams and opened the door to increased fundingbull Holland Marsh

sor Terry Crowley says bluntly Early student life at from th e education ministry It a lso permittedResearch Station

OAC is readily divided into two - before women greater collaboration with the Ontario Veterinarybull Standardizedand after women College which had been moved to Guelph by politshy

cattle conformation The Mac girls were generally older than the J6- ical dictate in 1922

bull Potato breeding and 17-year-old students at OAC they were more One of the most vivid examples of the impact of

bull Reproductionmature and brought both a social life and a new acashy that collaboration was the dramatic increase in anishytechnology

demic focus to the campus For the young women mal-breeding technologies OVC perfected artificial bull Queen beeof Ontario it was a long overdue opportunity and insemination and held the only licence in Ontario for

rearingthey grasped the educa tion offered at Macdonald frozen semen until 1969 OAC faculty and the netshy -bull TechnologyInstitute in large numbers work of provincial agricultural representatives helped

transferWomen were not admitted into the agriculture promote the technology and control it through the

bull Conservation program until 1918 however and they didnt reach development of a national livestock and performance

farm planning numerical equality with male students until the inventory Through these combined efforts Canada

WINTER 1999 13

emerged as a global leader in animal breeding largest Ontario univers ity geographica lly when it125 YEARS OACs un ique and enduring relati onship wi th assumed res ponsibility for ed ucation resea rch andOF ACHIEVEMENT

the provincial agric ulture ministry is another addishy Iaboratory services form erl) managed by the minshy

tion to McEwe ns list of top achievements Certa inshy is try Guelph agric ultural expertise covers the 1950-1960

ly the most significan t even t in the last decade has provi nce with camp uses in Guelph Ridgetownbull Horticulture corre-

Kemptville a nd Alfred and a network of spondence course

research facilities that includes the Horshybull Business education Changing with society ticultural Resea rch Institute of Ontariobull Watershed research

diagnostic laboratories and 21 research bull Farm buildingWhen Adelaide Hoodless argued for the stat ions

programestablishment of Macdonald Institute in the The partnership with OMAFRA has

bull Computers in late 1890S she saw scientific training for kept agricultural education and research agriculture

women as a way to improve community at the forefro nt of the University of bull Corn expansionhealth standards The college has evolved Guelph More than 40 per cent of the Unishybull Deailing with continually through the years - growing versitys graduate studenllt are in OAC and

cold climate into the largest home economics facility in more than 70 per cent of its $80-million

bull CropOntario under dean Margaret McCready and research budget is focused on the ag rishyrecommendations

broadening its outlook in the 1970S under food indus try T hat commitment to

dean Janet Wardlaw to include consumer research is the earliest and most enduring1960-1970

studies and the hospitality industry Wardshy achievement out of the 125 bull OAC Alumnilaw set the tone for increased research OAC contin ues to lea d the way in

Foundationactivity and positioned the college to join research and is one of the most dynamshy

bull University of Guelphforces with the social sciences in 1998 ic co lleges in th e University saysbull Arboretum

McLaughlin But we draw on peoplebull Ag research

fro m all over the University communi shystations

ty And now with the provincial colleges bull International

added back into the mix we are ail workshyag research centres

ing as part of the sa me team to enhance bull Scholarships

been the launch of a new University relationship the opportunities availab le to yo ung people in agri shyendowments

with OACs oldest partner the Onta rio Minist ry of cu ltural edu cat ion bull International

Agriculture Food a nd Rural Affairs (OMAFRA) Alumn i have always held an important position apiculture

In 1997 the University of Guelph became th e on that tea m Among OACs top achievements is the

The OAC of today owes much to its past THE ONTAR IO AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE might never have existshy The journalist s role in establishing the college as the Ontario

ed if not for the failure of a Univers ity of Toronto experiment in School of Agriculture and Experimental Farm is bro ught into

agricultural education in the 18505 It certainly wouldnt have context in a new history of OAC that will be published in April

been situated in Guelph without the political parlaying of Guelph to help celebrate its 125th an niversary The College 011 the Hill A journalist and cleric William Clarke And it might not have surshy New History of the 011tario Agriwltuml College 1874- I 999 was

vived a traumatic first yea r o f patronage and scandal if it hadnt written by Guelph history professor Terry Crowley and Univershy

been for the acc iden tal appo intment ofVVilliam Johnston as prinshy sity professor emeritus Alexander Ross who wrote the origi nal

cipal in the fall of 1874 College 011 the Hill for OACs 100th anniversary

And that was just the beginning If the first book tdls us how OAC grew into the University of

One hundred and twenty-five years have passed since Clarke cuelph the second tells us why

successfully argued that the new province of Ontario needed a When the fledgling provincial government of the 1870s was

land-based rural college where the focus was on providing a pracshy glued togeLher by political patro nage how could th e sc hoo l be

tical education in farming The University of Toronto fai led to any different asks Crowley Two principals came and went withshy

attract farmers sons he sa id because it allowed the other proshy in its first year when rumours tore at their moral fibre so the job

fessions of medicine law and the clergy to overshadow agriculshy fell quickly to the new college rector William Johnston

ture Clarkes persuasive fiting in the then Olltario Farmer newsshy Because we already know how OACs story devdops we ca n

paper helped place the college on 550 acres of good clay loam see some iro ny in the fact that the man who nur tured this preshy

at the back door of his Guelph parish mier agricultural college through its infancy was educated in the

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alumni initiative that es tablished the OAC Alumni work internship at the end of their third yea r and125 YEARS Foundation in the 1960s to provide financial supshy co me back to finish the fourth year with a job wa it shyOF ACHIEVEMENT port to co ll ege programs and scholarships The ing for them says McLa ughlin and they o ften have

foundation also provided the leadership and incenshy fo ur or fi ve to choose from vVe are very short of bull Teaching

tive to create Guelph Unive rsity Alumni Research graduates to fill all of the jobs that are o ut there now innovations

and Development (GUARD Inc) in bull Birdsfoot trefoil

1996 The manda te of the technology bull Land reclamation Educating Leadersmanageme nt company is to develop bull Rural planning

researc h i nven tion s in to marketable bull Wind and snow Guelphs agriculture graduates haveprod ucts lau nch spin-off companies

studies played key roles in Canadian agriculture and gene rate revenu es to support basic

bull Milk testing including federal ministers William Mothshyand applied research at U of G bull Ruminant nutrition

erwell Diploma 1881 John Wise ~DA 56Throughout OACs history alumni bull Ag poli cy and Lyle Vanclief BSc(Agr) 66 Mothshyhave formed a network ofAggies who

development erwell was a driving force behind the have volunteered their time to provide

western grain producers movement before 197deg-198o

a rea l-world view for students helped to

being named to Cabinet in 1921 In thelaunch the careers of many new grad ushybull Arboretum Centre 1980s Wise introduced income stabilizashyates by providing work opport unities bull Ghana-Guelph tion programs and created farm debtencouraged research initiatives co nshy

Project review boards Today Vanclief is strugshytributed millions of dollars to scholarshy

bull Integrated pest gling with low commodity prices and intershyship programs and voca lized co ncerns

managementabout college programs and curriculum national trade agreements

bull Composting animal After receivin g some critica l advice

wastesfrom alumni and agr i-food employers

bull Crop resistance toin the ea rly part o f the 1990s OAC

herbicideslaunched a new BSc(Agr ) program that

bull Limnocorrals for wil l gradu ate the fi rst class of st uden ts

aquatic ecosystems this anniversary year The new agriculshy

bull Grain drying and ture curriculum emphasizes communica tion skills in the agri-food sec tor he says

storageand teamwork allows students to choose their own If you live anywhere near Guelph youll know that

bull Asparagusspecializations and includes opportunities for onshy the agri-food sector ill this area is expected to lead the

bull Systemic fungicides the-job experience Many of those students take a local economy well into the new mi llennium creat shy

bull Pesticides research

bull Agricultural Code of

Practicesocial sciences Johnston had no real farm expeshy within the interdisciplin ary atmosphere of the

rience but he understood people well says Crow- University of Guelph OAC has both contributed

ley and he recognized almost as quickly as his students that the to and benefited iiom the Universitys steady growth Traditionshy

school would succeed only if it co uld offer farm ers sons someshy al OAC programs have expanded into new departments and colshy

thing more thall what they had already learned at home leges providing greater benefits to agri-food resea rch and teach shy

Johnstons commitment to education and his genui ne con shy in g New partnerships o n campus and th e academ ic freedom

cern for his students still echo through the corridors of the build shy provided by University sta tus have enabled Guelph to enlarge its

ing named in his hono ur a nd across campus in the broad range already significant influence in the agri-food sector

of disciplines that now nuke up the Un iversity of Guelph Johnshy Crowley says the enha nced partnership between U of G and

ston was the firs t of hundreds of hulllane and sensible people the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture Food a nd Rural Affairs has

who have given the campus its distinctive character says Crowshy fulfilled a vision of OAC as the hub of agr icultural educa tion that

ley The University of Guel ph is still a good place to be People had been expressed nea rly a cen tury before It s a good place to

help each other to a rema rkable degree and it is eve n m ore end a history and begin a future

remarkable that this sense of co-operatio n has lasted through the In Crowleys fi nal words Agriculture reta ins its econo mi c

most recent government meat slicing importance in the co untrys econom) but the secto r will find

Told in the social and political context of its 125 yea rs the itself [n an increasingly international and com petitive ellvironment -OAC story builds momentum as the pages turn The final chapshy where education and research become ever more importa nt Since

ter in Crowleys history is the most impressive because it SUIll shy the Ontario Agricultural College has demons t rated its ability to

marizes the last 25 years when developments in agricultural edushy respond to changing circumstances during its first 125 years the

cation research and service have occurred 1110st quickly Growing past suggests a willingness to meet the new challenges that await

WINTER 1999 15

ing more jobs and generating more wealth than any 125 YEARS other industry A recent study by the citys Planning OF ACHIEVEMENT OAe 125 and Business Development Department predicts a

ANNIVERSARY EVENTS50-per-cent increase in employment in agri-food bull Mosquitoindustries in the next decade Broaden out to the

monitoring jan 29 - Official OAC 12S launch and bull Canadian publication of 125 Years of Achievements

Greenhouse Feb 16 - Winegard Seminar Series hosts New frontiers Conference Andy Johnson Seymour Wis

bull Non-agricultural March 5 - Winegard Seminar Series hosts At the tum of the 20th century Prof William waste on land Sir Colin Berry Royal London Hospital UKGraham created the impetus for a Canadishy

bull Pest diagnostic March 31 - Opening of AJ Casson Exhibitan poultry industry through nutrition studshyservice and selections from the OAC art collection ies that also provided a background for

at the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre work in human nutrition The tum of the 1980-1990 April 30 - Recognition of the 12s-year 21st century finds poultry scientist Ann Gibshybull Alumni House GuelphOMAFRA partnership and launch bins perfecting the techniques to transfer bull Turfgrass Institute of The College on the Hill A New History genetic material into chicken embryos to bull Centre for the of the Ontario Agricultural College develop birds with better disease resistshy

Genetic Improvement 1874 - 1999middotance or to improve production characterisshyof Livestock june 7 amp 10 - Spring Convocation for tics including the deposition of medically

bull Network of OAC diploma and degree graduates Eachvaluable proteins in the eggs Toxicology Centres graduate will receive a copy of College

bull Biological control lab on the Hill bull George Morris june 18 amp 20 - Alumni Weekend and

Centre opening of the Conservatory and Gardens bull Advanced Sept 14 to 16 - Canadas Outdoor Farm

Agricultural Show will host the countrys biggest silent Leadership auction as an OAC fundraiser for student Program support Ontario industry and the predictors are similar and

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UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

rese~ tesch SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERYmiddot SCHOLARSHIpmiddot SOCIAL DEVELOPMENTS

WHEN 24 HOURS IN lea rning how to integrate work Runciman arrived at Guelph know they may be harm ful to

A DAY ISNT ENOUGH and fa mily life rath er than jugshy last summer after spending four their health

TRYIN GTO ACCOMMODATE the gling the two says Lero Inteshy years deSIgning orthopedic sysshy Most consumers are not demands of family and career is gration is key so tfut people can tems and instruments for Canashy aware that plants contain a comshya problem most peopl e fa ce in be successful in multiple roles dian and Ameri ca n firms He plex mi xture of biochemica ls todays society Those indi vidshy rath er than struggling from crishy hopes to establish a state-of-theshy says Prof Pra vecn Saxena Plant ual and family struggles will be sis to crisis art research lHboratory with Agriculture Herbal remedies the focus of the Universitys new HOLlsed in the College of Pro fs Jinl Dickey and Jack have been developed on historishy

Social and Applied j-Iuman Scishy Callaghan Human Bi010gy and cal and anecdotal evidence rather ences the centre brings togethshy Nutr itional Sciences that will than by scientitlc testin g he says er related resea rch areas und er allow him to pursue hi s twin Saxena is trying to change this by a sing1e roof and will spark new research interests in shoulder systematically identifying charshy

Family relations interdisc iplinary opportunities and spine mechanics acterizing and quantifying the experts recommend particularly for graduate st ushy The trio has appli ed for chemical constituents of plants parents integrate - not dents More than 50 fac ulty and fundi ng from the Natural Sc ishy used in a1ternative medicines juggle - work and staff ha ve indicated a desire to ences and Engineering Resea rch family life be affiliates of the centre which Co uncil to equip a biomechanshy

wijJ stimulate resea rch and forge ics lab already loca ted adjacent partnerships with organiza tions to U of Gs new Health and Pershy

Centre for Families Work and co rp orations and co mmunity forman ce Ce ntre in the recentshyWell-Being agenCies ly renova ted Powell Building

Headed by Profs Donna This funding would bring Lero and Kerry Daly Family BODY IS THE the lab up to date to meet intershyRe lat ions and Appli ed Nutri shy ULTIMATE MACHINE national standards says Runcishytion the centre will promote IM INTER ESTED in the app lishy man who p1ans to follow up on responsive wo rk env ironments cation of mechanical engineershy pioneering shoulder mechani cs and help families across Canashy ing to the human body The work he was invo lved in whil e He and grad uate students da manage wo rk and family body is the ultimate machine completing his PhD at Sco tshy Susan Murch and Co lleen Simshyresponsibilities in healthy ways So says Prof John Runciman lands Strathclyde Un iversity mons in th e Ontario Agri culshy

The centre will also be a catshy who recently brought his blend He hop es hi s studies will tural Co llege a1so wa nt to alyst for new researcl in areas of academic and industry expershy help orthopedic co mpanies improve the methods of growshyas diverse as health promotion tise in biomedical engineering design better implan ts used to in g medicinal plants to protect seniors long-term ca re nutrishy to U of Gs School of Engineershy correct such deformities as sco shy cons umers and ensure quality tion and wellness rural aging ing in the College of Phys ica l liosis or cur va ture of the spine Problems in the herbal remeshyand gender in the workplace A and Engineering Science and for treating shoulder insta shy dies industry include medicinal mandate of the centre is that the

IN FACT

bi lity often caused by injuries prepara tions containing misidenshyresults of its research must be among athletes tified plant species contaminashyapplied and availabl e to the tion by pests and disease a lack public to benefit those Canadishy RESEARCHERS of understanding of plant physshyans who ne ed help dealing with CULTIVATE QUALITY iology or efficacy for human conshythe accelerated pace of life nonshy IN HERBAL sumption ilnu co nsumer fraud shytraditional family relationsl ips MEDICINE Our research will help set a longer working hOLlrs globlt1lshy MORE AND MO RE Canadims are standard fo r the development ization and downsizing turning to natural remedies as of safe va lue-added products

The challenge for fam ilies is alternatives to medicine but few Saxena says

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RESEARCH UNCOVERS KEY

TO AGING RESEARCHERS may have found modern sc iences answer to th e mythica l Fountain of Youth

U of G professors John Phillips and Arthur Hilliker Department of Molecular Biolshyogy and Genetics and Gabrielle Boulianne of the University of Toronto and th e Hospital fo r Sick Children appear to have identified a critical weakness in the common fruit fl ys defence against aging

The researchers from the College of Biologica l Science di scovered that a specific cell type - th e motor neuron - is the major target for oxidative damage known for several years to be a key factor affecti ng aging and lifespa n They were able to boost a fruit flys defence against the damage by inserting th e human gene SOD1 which is known to protect against oxidashy

tive damage into the fly s DNA As a result the ave ra ge lifespa n of the fli es (us uall y about 80

days) was increased 40 per cent

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More than half of su rvey shelf life because bacte ria develshyresponden ts say they have little op resista nce over time but this or no confidence in Parliament wou ld not be a concern with a with the figure being even lower new sys tem fo r smuggling for the Senate In addition 34 per an tibiotics past bacterial walls

TI-lESE DAYS on both sides of the A molecular-level Trojan border what a politician says or ho rse is how Prof Terry Bevshydoes in private can have tremenshy eridge Department of Microbishydous impact on his or her public ology and graduate student Kelshycareer - but is th at appropriate ly MacDonald desc ribe the

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Health Canada recently li ftshyed a 60-year ban on growing hemp and about 10000 acres are expected to be plan ted in Canada this year Hemp is an organic fibre tha t could be used in everythi ng fro m fabri c and medicine to oil and paper

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Inside Playwright Judith Thompson

BEHIND THE MASK

JUDITH THOMPSON A DRAMA PROFESSOR at the University of Guelph

since 1992 is one of Canadas finest playwrights Her complex and

sometimes disturbing plays give voice to human failings and accomshy

plishments A two-time winner of the Governor Generals Literary

Award she has received wide acclaim for her work

On the following pages the Guelph Alumnus profiles an artist

whose creativity finds expression through dialogue by offering a

faithful rendition of the dialogue between Thompson and Comshy

munications and Public Affairs writer Andrew Vowles Much like

the characters she unmasks on stage Thompson reveals both comshy

plicated and unexpected images of herself

PHOTOGRAPHY BY D EAN PALMER

20 GU ELPH A LUMNUS

NO The scene is the rehearsal space in Lower Massey Hall at the University of Guelph

Monday mid-morning Outside the warped-glass windows the first wet snow of the year

drops like pebbles Drama professor Judith Thompson is leading some 20 students in her

Acting I class through their warm-ups The students stand in a circle and take turns aiming

a mock blow as they shout the word No More she says to the less assertive To others

whose No sounds shredded over the top she holds up a hand More control Thompson

gestures to her diaphragm It has to come from here

SCENE THOMPSONS OFFICE MASSEY H ALL

On one wal l hang pictures of actors engaged

in a drama mingled with childrens sc hool

drawings The desktop is practically bare A

black purse occupies one chai r A scarf has

landed on the back of another This is where

the playw rig ht hangs her hat during her

classes and meets with studen ts She wri tes

at home in Torontos Annex neighbourhood

where she li ves with her husband Gregor

Campbell a sessional English inst ruc tor at

Guelph and their five children Ariane 13

Eli 10 Grace 8 Felicity 4 and Sophia J

SCENE U OF G LI BRARY ARCHIVES

Guelph Alumnus writer (readil1g from draft of Epilepsy and Snakes Fear as the Genesis of Theatre a talk given by Thompson to the Epilepsy Association of Metro Toronto ill 1997 The script for the ta lk is included among boxes ofcorrespo nde11ce numerous drafts of plays various newspaper and magazine artishycles and reviews ahout the playwright and her work that Thompson recently donated to the U of G Library archives)

1have known real fear only a few times

in my relatively sheltered life But 1

believe these moments of fear are

directly connected to the so urce of creshy

ativi ty within me

SCENE J UST ABOUT ANYWHERE YOU CAN

REA D A PLAY

GA writer (reading from introduction to Tho mpsons play Sled wh ich was first pro shyduced hy Torontos Tarragon Theatre in 1997)

Judith Thompson was born in 1954 in

Montreal She graduated from Queens

University in 1976 then graduated from

the act ing program of the National Theshy

22 GU ELPH ALUMNUS

I seem to give voice to people who

have no voice

atre Schoo l in 1979 Alth ough she

worked briefl y as a profess ional actor

she became more interested in writing

and at th e age of 25 a workshop of her

first scrip t The Crack walker was proshy

duced by Theatre Passe MuraiHe Her

work which includes both radio and

tel evisio n writing has enjoyed great

internationa l success

Other plays includ e The Crackshywalker White Biting Dog Pink Tornado - radio Am Yours Lion ill the Streets White Sand Perfect Pie and Stop Talking Like That- radio She is the recipient

of the Floyd S Chalmers Canadian Play

Award for Lion in the Streets in 199 1 and

Am Yours in 1987 and the Governor

Generals Literary Award for Drama for

The Other Side of the Dark in 1989 and

White Biti11g Dog in 1984

S CENE LUNCHTIME

U OF G UNIVERSITY CLUB

Thompson Im so grateful to have this job

beca use it allows me to do the work that s

important and the plays that will be my legashy

cy and tha t are what 1 feel I have to conshy

tribute to Canadian culture If I didnt have

thi s job Id ha ve to keep compromising

because my plays dont make money Theyre

always in sma ller houses I take chances

theyre not commercial They play all over

th e world but aha)s in sma ller places 1

would just have to pursue life as a screenshy

writer to make a living Thi s job gives

me the great privilege of doing my research

which is the plays that I write and the edishy

torial work that I some times do and screenshy

plays that are worthy and good projects

GA writer Audi ences and reviewers have

described your plays as dark disturbing full

of angry people full of profanity

Thompson At the risk of sounding

grandiosel seem to give voice to people who

have no voice or very little in the culture

whom people dont li sten to Liol1 in the Streets the handicapped wo man living in

the basement all on her own the yo ung girl

Iso bel The secretary stuck in this abu sive

relationship with the actor The middle-class

housewife dumped by her husband because

be doesnt like her sweatsuits and on and on

I give voice to them because I dont know

because I care abo ut them because I like to

represent them Im a lawyer Some of them

use profanity because they have really good

reason to be angry a nd most of th em are

powerless And unfortunately profanity has

a little charge Its a little source of baby powshy

er It upsets me I dont use it myself Im very

se nsitive to it

SCENE ARCHIVES

GA writer (reading essay by Thompson comshymissio ned by Toronto literary Journal Brick

in 995)

If I were not a writer 1 think 1 would

wear a riding hat With a stee l lining

Because I would be baving many more

epi leptic seizures than 1 do presentl y

Because any of the non-writer real jobs I have had caused me sleepless nights self-disgust swoll en eyes cystic acne and hearin g di sorde rs all of which increased electrical activity in my brain which I believe increases the frequenshycy of seizu res

SCENE UNI VER SITY CLUB

Thompson (discussing the critical and pubshylic reaction to her first play The Crackwalkshyer) It was slaughtered at first as all my plays have been Very bad reviews at first and then somehow they catch fi re and theres one grea t review and the others start to see something GA writer Why the bad reviews Thompson I think people might say that theyre shock ing but I dont think so not

with the movies we see and whatnot Theyre not shocking compared with Quentin Taranshytino But theyre not like anything else they dont know where to put them And when they dont know where to put them theyre dismayed I think and hostile and they feel challenged I just write as I see Im not tryshying to shock or challenge anyone I hope they do challenge - me too all of us I often feel li ke the little boy in The Emperors New

Clothes Look this is what I see

SCENE LOWER MASSEY HALL

Two Acting I students perform a scene on th e stage Their fellow stud ents sit on th e Aoo r watching Thompson sits forward on a plasti c chair forearms propped on her knees hands clasped before her Her eyes her bod y are intent on the action Later Amberley Buxton (fi rst-year student il1 Actshyil1g I who is pursuing a psychology major and a drama minor)

Its a really in tense class In one of our first classes we were to share something that had changed our perspective on li fe or how we thought every day Later during improvisashytion or scene work she had us draw on the emotional context fro m those stories to add to our acting experiences Its really intense in that way A lot of people share a lot of personal things and we use each others experiences

SCENE UNIVER SIT Y CLUll

Thompson Ea ch se meste r students go through an intensive transition In order to find your creative centre or trigger yo u need

to know yourself in an intell ectual context They reach that pl ace and find their genius My philosophy is that every stu dent has genius and its my job to uncover it My relationshi p is so intense with st udents The classes are very psychoanalyt ic It seems to tra nsform their life

SCENE LO WER MA SSEY

Buxton Even if we haven t encountered a similar situat ion in real life she has us draw on somethi ng similar For ollr exa m Im doing a monologue My character has been abused I havent been abused myself but I have to draw on a si tuation where I had sim shy

itar feel ings draw on some experi ence Like being teased at schoo l Even so mething as small as tha t if you find a way to get back to that

SCENE UNIVERSITY CLUll

Thompso n I llsed to be terrified In high school Id spend half my time in the nurses room because the idea of having a se izu re in front of yo ur peers at that age was just petrifying I did finall y have a seizure but luckil y no one was around at the time So I

think all of that puts me in touch with a lot in life I might not have been in touch with being fairly privileged not rich but eno ugh to be middle class A lot of my work is about class abo ut the class differentiation in Canashyda Ive somehow felt more all ied to a less adva ntaged class My gra ndfather once sat as prime minister of Australia My grandshyfa ther on the other side was a member of the Royal Society an entomologist but his mother died in childbirth and he was brought up as a cousin on the farm outside of London And my Australian grandfath er was one of 1I siblings in a shack by the side of the railroad His father had di ed He walked barefoot to school so I th ink because its just two generations away I feel it in my bones and my blood GA writer How did you get to writing Thompson Through ac ting Ive been involved in thea tre since I was II years old I was Helen Keller for a university show my mother directed She had an [vIA in th eatre and she taught it at Queens I was in TILe Crushycible when I was 12 in Kingston and Jean Brodie and on and on and on I would just lisshyten to aU these wonderful lines and words and it all kind of enrered me And acting is where I reaU y found my niche as a person The theshyatre became my home Then I went to theatre schoo l as an actress but I started to create mask characters through improvisation Thats where I really took off in a big way and where I found myse lf very very excited GA writer VVhat we re you excited abo ut Thompson I was doing the writing And I felt frankly that I did it much better than most of the texts I was working with Not Shakespeare but and its not a matter of better it s thats where I belonged So I would go home and write down the charshyacters that r crea ted that day in class and make th em talk to each odler and thats how The Craekwalker happened

I spent a summer in Toronto looking for acting work and I go t a few jobs But every day for a co uple of hours I would write at a typewri ter and I found these voices comshying At the end of it I sa id to someone You know I think this isnt bad I think this might eve n be a play At the Na tional Theatre shySchool they said to me Youre pretty handy with these monologues but dont ever think you could write a play (Pause) I enjoy telling th at tale on them

WINTER 1999 23

SCENE LOWER MASSEY

Buxton It was my fint time doing mask work She had us sit with the masks on and just sta re at ou rselves in the mirror We did it for an hour staring at the mask feelin g the mask It was a phenomenal eilVer ience the Wily youre able to transform yourself It was almost as if you werent look ing at you That helped yo u to walk differently You were able to shed your

own movements and personality

SCEN E UNIVfRSITY CLU B

Thompson I think thil t seizures can transshylate into creativity are part of me as a cre shyltltive artist Peop le in the medical busin ess are very skeptical of ltll1ything like this But I fee l it s because I have fewer inhibitors in my bra in You have these inhibitors and thats what medication helps But if youre epi leptic your inhibitors Ment working as well to put out the electrical fire so it spreads I think the door to my un conscious is kind of flapping around so J think that helps creatively

SCENE MA SSEY HALL

Student (steppingforwmd) NO I Thompson (quietly) Good

SCENE ARCHIVES

GA writer ( reading fiom Epilepsy and Sna kes)

I have no doubt that my experience with epi lepsy has con tributed to my creative wo rk partly because it hE Jped me to understand what it is to be marginalized to be isolated to be feJ rful and to be out of control and eve n to be mortal

SCENE U NIVERS IT Y CLU B

Thompson Unchecked id can mean scrawlshying on the walls crazy things muttering in stree t corne rs beca use th ey re all id no su perego But I had the luck to be born into a theatrical famiJy my mother havin g the theatrical experience so I was exposed to it Lots of books I was taken to 1 lor of plays Having ep il epsy my first seizure when I was nin e J was able to link with that If I hadnt had those advantages who knows the se izur es migh t have ju st made me a depressed person an angr y person And you re touched with mortality you always live und er siege a slight fear of having a se izure Its much less so now with me

24 GUELPH ALUM NUS

SCENE UNIVERSITY CLUB

Thompson Ive always been a mimic in a cheap way I could always mimic we ll I would raLk to someone on a bus and I could do them exactly Thats kind of dangerous because it can be pretty shallow But it showed me ltl way into the person throu gh voice And once J could do that like a pupshypet something would click and I cou ld get

in in a deeper way J need to get so thoroughly into the charshy

acte rs and their state of mind and especialshyly tapping repressed el11orion which gets you in touch with your id or unconscious li fe If

I take little sections of

myself and grow them in a petri dish of the play

one character is about rage I have to tap into my own rage and that s why the monoshylogues so things can just flow and then I can retrieve things from the past and remember things So its not working from here (gesshytures to midriff) it s wo rking fro l11 here (gesshytures to head)

Mo nologues for me are always the key to findin g out who th e character is because if you cant make them rant for fi ve minutes you dont know th em Tha ts what I tell my

playwriting students I want to see r-wo pages of this characters mouth In other words to speak for five minutes we have to have

so mething to say We have to have something we feel passionately about something were angry about and if we dont have something to say for fi ve minutes who are we

SCENE UN IVERSTTY CLUB

GA writer Vhere do you see what eventushyally becomes a play such as Sled 1110mpson I was at a lodge and saw a moose that s one thin g And that made me think about winter and how the country is always with us as Ca nadians Even in the urban censhytres we ca rr y it wi th us Theres always this

see ming division between the country the wilderness and civilized centres but its the same The wildness of the moose and the

hunt and the bear is in our neighbourhoods I guess its like Lion in the Streets it must be a thing with me And also the exquisite beaushyty and thats how most of the world thinks of Canada as the wilderness Its not quite how we think of ourselves but it is partly So that made me want to do something abo ut the Nor th violence in the North

As far as th e old mans stories that was my neighbour and he told me all those stoshyries they were all true except mltlyb e one or so and I thought Theyre amazing They teilus what our neighbourhoods Me really about and Toro nto what the city is how its const ru cted Toronto is our stories and in th ese neighbourhoods you have an urbane entertainer li ving nex t to an 80-year-old Italia n man and thats the beauty ofToronshyto ltllld its the way th e world is chan ging The stric t class divis ions and culture divishysions th eyre no longer as defin ed as they we re espec ially in th ese neighbourhoods the great pioneering experimen t GA writer Do your chi ld ren see your work Thompson No None of my children can see my plays Ariane saw f Am Yours in New York when she was about nin e I do cl eal with the dark and whats tru e and my chilshydren aren t ready for that Im probab ly more protective th an mos t mothers Walk them

to school till theyre 13 that ki nd of thin g GA writer Yo u we re intervi ewed in the Globe alld Mail recently in a story about motherh ood dnd th e muse How do yo u handle th e demand s of motherh ood and writing

Thompson If Im in the situation where I have 15 or so hours of child care a week Im OK because when Im with them I wa nt to be with them and when ]m doing my work

th ats what I clo But if I do something like a worko ut thell a black cloud descends The guilt and the black cl oud th at descend as I take off on my bike it s huge Then once the workout s finished I know it was d good

thing to do although it s also cut into my

work time J do feel guilty about the nilture of my work too in that my kids cant see it Am I drawing on a part of me thats not good as a mother The oth er part of me is th at I make up bedtime stories and bake coo kies and all thlt stuff ]m probably a

rather operatic mother I cry at movies laugh too hard __

SCENE ARCI-I[VES

GA writer (reading fiom Epilepsy and Snakes)

1

Although being a dramatic writer has

given me a reputation in my cou ntr y

and a strong identity the actof writin g

or creating character leaves me SOJlle shy

times feeling that I have no id entity at

all Every once in a while when I am not

writing or tending to my four children

I feel I 1m falling again down th e terrishy1 ble hole with nothing to hold on to

And I believe this falling this identity

pain is a result of me using the very

essence of Ill yself to create character in

a dramatic wo rk r wonder so metimes

if J illl1 betraying my soul in a way by

using its essence However J have found

some comfo rt in the words ofWilliall1

Blake Essence is not Identity but from

Essence proceeds Identity and from one

Essence may proceed many Identities

as from one Affection Jlla y proceed

many thoughts If the Essence was

the sa me as the Identit y there could be

but one Identity which is fal se Heaven

wo uld upon this plan be but a clock

but one and the sa me Essence is th ereshy

fore Essence and not Identity

SCENE UNIVER SIT Y CLUB

Thompson I always put myself in a play and

never In other words I take little sections of

myself and grow them in a petri dish of th e

play So if Ive found a moment where Im a

bit lazy ]11 grow it and milke the character

very lazy o r impatient or whatever So I take

these moments because we all have all of

them grow th em and create this Frankenshy

steins monste r a character right out of parts

body parts and psychological parts often of

myself and then observe things in other peoshy

ple but I have to find it in myself to make it

work

SCENE AR C H1V ES

GA writer (reading from Epilepsy al1d Snakes)

My self asserted itself as a kind of quishy

et Lucille Ball c1ulllsy and absent-mindshy

ed At least this gave me an identity and

was a small aCI of slbo tage The next

assertion was an act of unconscio us rev shy

olution th e grand mal seizure that

almost killed me And the next one was

The Crackwalker my first play And this

is how I raged against the machine and

took space in the world And now not

surprisin gly I am seizure-free

SCENE LOWER MASSEY

After another pair of acto rs rUllS through

their scene Thompson directs them to begi n

again She interrupts frequently to question

the students about actions feelings motishy

vations At one point 8S the students pause

to consider her words Thompson turns to

the rest of the class erect in her cha ir

Thompson Isolate the mom ent The great

thing about the stage is th at it isolates the

moments that just race by us_

SCENE UNIVERSITY CLUB

Thompson Ive just written my next play

which is not ca lled Pefeet Pie but thats its

working title because it came from a mon oshy

logue called Perfect Pie But now its a full

two- haul play in which the second wom3n

comes back and tben I have them as yo ung

girls too It goes back ~nd forth and its very

exciting I worksbopped it in the spring and

in December at tbe Tarragon and it will go

on in o ne year At the sa me time lm wr itshy

ing a feature film for Rho mbus based on the

play Pe feet Pie

SCEN E UNlV ERSITY CLUIl

Thompson My pIalS are Illusically written

And if somebody doesnt get the music they

dont feel it and go with the rhythm s it

throws the whole thing off I hear the plays

I hea r them I write with my ear They

change 1 lo t but it s according to rhythm

I ll be sitting in rehea rsal listening and if it

does nt so und ri ght I change it so that its

rhythmic

SCIi -JE J UST AllOUT ANYWHERE YOU CA N

READ A PLAY

GA writer (readmg ji-olll the script ofvVbite

Biting Dog first produced at the Tarragon Th eatre in 1984)

Beciluse of the ex treme and deliberate

lllu sica lity of this play any allempts to

go aga inst the tex tual rhythms such as

th e breaking up of an unbroken senshy

tence the tlking of a pause where none

is written in are DISASTROUS The

effect is like beil1g in a small plane and

suddenly turning off the ignition It all

falls down This play III list SPIN not

just turn around

SCfN e LOWER MASSEY

Her students listen as Thompson stands to

complete a so liloq uy abo ut cap turing the

rhythm of the language on the stage The

wide sleeves of her ank le-length dress slide

down her forea rm s as she ges tures

Thompson Listen to the music of the

scene Each playwright writes their own

symphony

SCENE U NIVERSlTY CLUB

Thompson Ive been pretty directed to this

ii-om an carly age although if I had done anyshy

thing else it probab ly wou ld have been some

form of social work I would have been smokshy

ing three packs of cigarettes a day and workshy

ing il1 an office somewhere up in Scarborough

SC EN E AfltCHIVES

GA write r (reading from Brick interview of Thompson by Eleanor Wachtel ]99] )

In th e thea tre I think what one mllst

do is co nfront the truth confront the

emot ional truth of our li ves which is

mired in the swamp of minuriae

everyday minutiae Maybe it has to be -tl111 way because we couldnt confront

it every day But I think the th eatre

IllllSt Im not interested ill th eatre that

doesnt ga

W1NTER 1999 25

Never mind fish wars pitting countries against one another - here in Canada scientists and policy makers cant agree on who should control the preservation and management ofour own fishery resources BY ANDREW VOWLES

Ca

as

ollapsed cod stocks to the east

On the West Coast laquofish wars

_ rlTDT Pacific salmon enmesh

Canada and the United States

At various points in between fisheries scishy

entists and managers grapple with everyshy

thing from overfishing of freshwater

stocks to invasion by exotic molluscs

What is to be done about Canadian fishshy

eries And what role is being p layed by

fisheries and aquatic scientists at the Unishy

versity of Guelph

-

dock pollock red fish and flatfish made up just under half of Canadas total landings on the Atlantic coast (720000 tonnes of fish and shellfish were caught in 1994 represhysenting a total landed value of $11 billion) Two year~ later that proportion had dropped to 21 per cent with shellfish and open ocean fish specie~ notably Atlantic

Begin in the Atlantic The crisis on the East Coast has become a disaster So says laquoWE NEED TO TRY TO SEPARATE OUTGuelph zo ology professor John Roff enushymerating the litany of woes that have surshy

THE FISHERIES MANAGEMENT DECISIONSfaced from Ca nadas marine fishery in the past decade Although some fish and shellshy

FROM THE POLITICAL DECISIONSfi sh are holding their own stocks of other species have experienced declines raquo

ASSOCIATED WITH THE FISHE RY

down that fishery in 1992 Over fishing and under which it has been buying up fishers

Even when stocks do rebound rarely do we fully und erstand why he says Theres a complex of problems to be disshy more for cod stocks to rebound says Roff entangled involving overflshing long- and co-editor with colleague Prof Moira Fergushyshort-term climate change and changes in son of the respected Canadian Journal ofFishshyocean current systems and productivity eries and Aquatic Sciences A wise course of

And of course the once-thriving northshy action for a fisherman in Newfoundland ern cod that first drew Europeans with their would be to seU his licence and do something nets to the Grand Banks 500 years ago have else he says (Last fall the federal governshycoUapsed to the point that Ottawa had to shut ment announced its final retirement program

the failure of federal fisheries managers to heed the warnings of scientists have been blamed for the coUapse Even with the lllorashytoriulll in place it may take two decades or

licences in Atlantic Ca nada and Quebec) In 1992 - the year Ottawa imposed its

moratorium on the northern cod fisheryshylandings of groundfish including cod had-

salmon making up the difference [n 1995 the total groLlndfish catch reached its lowshyest level in two decades

Unlike the Ea st Coast fi shery which relies most ly on ocea n-living fish the Pacifshyic fishery is dominated b) migratory species Some 300000 tonnes of fish and shellfish were harvested along the west coast in 1994 worth a landed value of $550 million (Arcshytic marine fisheries and their management differ from those on the coasts although cOl11mercial and recreational fisheri es are small here food fisheries are important to

U OF G AQUATIC SCIENCES EXPERTISE CATCHES WORLD ATTENTION

Landlocked in the middle of the courltry U ofG nevertheless boasts fish pathology and diseases including farmed fish diseases fish an enviable record and range ofexpertise in aquatic sciencesshy hormones and reproductive physiology including the effects of marine and freshwater - dating back to the late 1960s Thats when environmental contaminants early life history and behaviour Prof Keith Ronald thell chair of the Department ofZoology (and of fi shes and biology of tuna later dean of the College ofBiological Science) began a marine biolshyogy program at the University Today Guelph has the largest Partnered with the A-erod Institute of Ichthyology in U of group of ichthyologists - scientists who study fish - in Gs Aquatic Sciences Facility the r[agen Aqualab is an North America investigating a wide variety ojIre~hshy aquatic research and teaching facililY for studying water alld marine fisheries and aquatics topics aquatic organisms Environmentally controlled

rooms in the Aqualab allow faculty and students to U of Gs Axelrod Institute of Ichthyology houses simulate habitats as diverse as the Arctic Ocean and one of the worlds largest collections of museumshy tropical rainforest pools The facility is named for quality fish fossils donated to the University by its principal benefactor Rolf Hagen founding presshy

ident of Canadas largest pet store 5llpplier J 989 The institute which provides space for fisheries research and visiting scientists brings together 12 core U of G U of G faculty edit four internationally recognized journals researchers in fisheries and aquatic sciences whose interests and in ichthyology fisheries and aquatic science Awarded to U of G by expertise span environmental contaminants and parasitic disshy the National Research Council in 1997 the Canadian Journal of eases evolutionary genetics of marine and freshwater fishes Fisheries al1dAquatic Sciellces is co-edited by zoology professors

US ichthyologist and author Herbert Axelrod in

28 GUELPH ALUMNUS

northerners including shrimp Atlantic salmon and arctic char) Accountin g fOI almost half of that total were Pacific salmon which ret urn from the ocean to spawn in home streams and rivers up and down the coast of Alaska British Columbia and Washshyington There are actually five main spec ies of sa lmon that run down the BC coast shysockeye (t he most va luable commercial species) chinook coho chum and pinkshyfrom spring to December

Its a very complex jurisdictional and multi-user problem says Roff Bes ides degradation of freshwater spawning habishytats and ocean climate effects of El Nill0 the West Coast fishery is a cauldron of ten shysions between various groups perennial fish wars between Ca nada and the United States disputes that pit sport fishers against native fishing rights Recognizing the problems of low ocean productivity habitat damage overfishing and indiscriminate fishing pracshytices that take weak and strong stocks alike Ottawa is developing a new policy to guide Canadas Pacific salmon fisheries focusing on conservation sustainable use and improved decision-making

That potent mix of overfishing and habishytat degrada tion is also a problem for Canashydas freshwater fisheries A report tabled last fall by the federal standing committee on

fisheries and oceans called for more federal funding for research and fisheries programs in central and arctic regions of Canada Accord ing to that report the Grea t Lakes commercial fishery is one of the largest freshwater fisheri es in the world worth an average landed value of more than $40 milshylion a year and an eco nomic impact of at least $250 million Some 90 per cent of that catch is exported The neck lace of lakes threading its way to the St Lawrence River also supports the largest fres hwater sports fishery in the world 800000 Ontarians fish on the Great Lakes eve ry year contributing $850 million to the economy

In Manitoba managers are concerned about the long-term susta inability of freshshywater fish stocks particularly declines in Lake Winnipeg and the northern part of the province caused by overfishing environshymental degradation loss of prime spawning habitat and predators The province has seen stocks rise and fall particularly of pickerel Manitobas highest-priced fish In an attempt to manage the fishery in a sustained fashion the province recently introduced a qu ota entitlement system for anglers Joe OConshynor director of the fisheries branch of Manshyitobas Department of Na tural Resources says his department is wrestling with the environmental threats on fish habitat posed

by farming and hydroelectric development In Ontario fisheries are genera lly in

pretty good shape says Evan Thomas fishshyeries section manager of the fish and wildlife branch of the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (OM NR) Ontario supports almost half of all recreational fishing in Canada with more than two million adult anglers and more than $2 billion a year spent on recreational fishing in the province Onta ri o is also home to Canadas larges t commercial freshwater fishery worth abo ut $40 million a Yfar in land ed value

Thomas says over fishing is still the numshyber one problem Others include habitat loss the potential effects of climate change and contin ued invasion by exotic species Among the management opt ions his minshyistry is exploring are more effective fisheries regulation more rapid inventory and assessshyment techniques fish culture for rehabilishytating populations and controlling nutrient inputs into lakes and rivers

We are clearly looking for federal supshyport for the sea lamprey control program he says referring to recommendations in the recent federal fisheries committee report as well as changes to the federal Fishshyeries Act to hand the province more authorshyity over fish habitat protection

Concerns continue in Ontario over

Moira Ferguson and John Roff Fish Physiology and Biochemistry the top-ranked journal in its field is edited by Prof John Leathershyland chair of the Department of Biomedical Sciences in the Ontario Veterinary College University professor emeritus Eugene Balon has served as editor-in-chief of Environmental Biology ofFishes since he founded the publication in 1976 Zoology professor David Noakes edits Guelph Ichthyology Reviews whose articles synthesize and review all aspects of fish science Both of the latter

Under the Canadian contribution to the project - furided by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council - about 80 federal government and university researchers are trying to learn more about how bioshylogical and physical processes in the oceans affect fish stocks

Zoologychair Prof Paul Hebert has led a Guelph initiative to develshyop multimedia learning resources d1at teach student~ from

are published in the Axelrod Institute of Ichthyology

Based on data from geographic information sysshytems zoology professor John Roff has mapped types of habitat associated with various species of fish and other organisms around Canadas coasts and throughout tl1C Great Lakes the first time such

e1ementaIy grades to university about Canadas aquatshyic environments His department has developed a series of CD-ROMs that provide information on all the major animal groups in the Great Lakes Already available are educational CD-ROMs on Canadas aquatic environments (also available on

d1e World Wide Web) Great Lakes biodiversity and a marine classification system has been developed in this country His report was commissioned by World Wildlife Fund Canada for its Endangered Spaces Campaign and contributes to RoWs work as chair of the scienrillc committee of Globec (Globshyal Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics) a two-year-old international research program intended to better understand ocean ecosystems

birds of the Great Lakes The latter is the first disc in a series called the Great Lakes Faunal Atlas which will eventually cover mammals amphibians reptiles fish and crustaceans

The Alma Aquaculture Research Station es tablished in 1989 and funded through a 20-year development grant by the Ontario

WI NTER 1999 29

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various invas ive species that have turned up

in the Great Lakes - notably sea lampreys

zebra mussels and quagga mussels - many

of which arrive in ballast water of ocea nshy

going vessels (Many have also found their

way into Manitoba says OConnor who

points to the effects of sm elt on whitefish

the main commercial species in Lake Winshy

nipeg) Among o ther meas ures the federal

fish eries committee report called for guarshy

anteed funding for sea lamprey control and

for scienti fic research

I think more money will come says

Prof Bill Beamish Zoology a commissionshy

er on the Great Lakes Fisheries Commission

the 40-year-old governing body that co-ordishy

nates resea rch programs between Canada

and the United States and advises both govshy

ernments It was a review led by Beamish

more than a decade ago on the sta te of

Canadas freshwater fi sheries that provided

the scientific underpinnings for a landmark

report published in 1988 that spelled ou t a

way in freshwater fisheries is a lon g-te rm

project fund ed by the OMNR and the

Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO)

to re-establish native species in their origishy

nal habitats a round Lake Ontario iVlari e

Clement a graduate student of zoology proshy

fe sso r David Noakes is studying Atlantic

sa lmo n which was wiped out of the lake

CONSIDERING WE HAVE THE

BEST FISHERY SCIENCES COMMUNITY

IN THE WORLD WE OUGHT TO

BE DOING BETTER

national strategy for freshwater fisheries

Beamish who has studied sea lampreys

for several decades at Guelph and also invesshy

tigates fish habitat loss says money is need shy

ed to help researchers investigate biological

controls as an alternative to chemical lamshy

pricides The recen t repo rt also notes the

need to address the effects of other nonshy

native exotic species on n ative fish stocks

and water quality and calls on Ottawa to

stem the funding decline in freshwater scishy

ence over the last two decades

One example of the kind of work under

and its tribu ta ry streams near the beginning

o f this century by overflshing and habitat

destruction and alteration Last fall Clement

placed eggs into a site in the Credit River

she has been monito ring oxygen availab il shy

ity durin g their incu ba tion to gau ge sedishy

mentation rates in the river This spring and

summer she wili study how newborn fi sh

interact with other species in th e r ive r

C lement says her docto ral research proshy

ject is but one piece of a larger project aimed

at re-establishing the heritage species Othshy

er researchers hop e to learn whe ther th e

Ministry of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs brings together

researchers for interdisciplinary studies of protein requirements

of arctic char improving fish semen and egg management proshy

cedures and understanding hormone activity in fish The station

acts as a quarantine unit for new fish varieties entering Ontario

and serves as a base for parts of certificate courses and a masters

program in aquaculture

farms in Canada He and fellow Guelph zoologists Eugene Balon

(co- founder of the Coelaca nth Conservat ion Council) and Jim

Bogart also identified and characterized the coelacanth which

had been thought extinct until a specimen was landed off Africa

in the la te 1930s Noakes confirmed the identity of ano ther of

these living fossils discovered in 1997 it appears to belong to a

second popula tion living in the Indian Ocean about 10000 kilo-

metres away from tha t first find

Zoology professors Moira Ferguson and Roy Danzshy

mann use molecular genetics techniques to identishy Zoology chair Paul Hebert was the first scientist to

fy DNA markers used to pinpoint the location of identify the presence in the Great Lakes of zebra

genes associated with growth spawning times mussels a prolific invader that has wreaked havoc

rates of development maturity and temperature in many ways from clogging water-intake pipes to

tolerance in rainbow trout Isolating and identifyshy consuming plankto n thus allowing light to reach

ing genetic markers fo r desirable traits will help fish bottom-dwelling organisms that may displace native

farmers and breeders cross-breed more effectively species The first researcher to report on the biology

conservationists will be better able to manage and preserve and impact of the zebra mussel on the Grea t Lakes was

genetic variability among wild fish stocks Guelph zoology professor Gerald Mackie whose studies showed

that the organisms faster growth rate and higher fecundity and

Zoology professor David Noakes has stuclied varieties of arctic population density will probably enable it to displace many native

char native to Iceland to find ones suited to being raised on fish bivalves and disrupt entire lake ecosystems

30 GUELPH ALUMNUS

LEADING RESEARCH

The University of Guelph has one orthe largest and most active groups of aquatic biologists in the world

bull More than 50 faculty and 100

graduate students research

assocrates and postdoctoral

fellows

bull Over 1000 published scientific

articles books monographs

films and videos in the past

decade

bull Interdisciplinary programs

involving more than a dozen

academic departments

bull The largest group ofichthyoloshy

gists (scientists who study

fish) in North America

bull Collaborative research with

government environrriental

organizations and academic

institutions worldwide

bull Expertise covering the entire

aquatic food chain from plankshy

ton to whales

bull Leading developments in comshy

puter-based educational mate-

rials in aquatic sciences

bull A new $6-million Aquatic

Sciences Facility

bull Research support from national

and international agencies

business and industry

adults will be able to return from the open

lake to their stream spawning grounds If

they come back will the eggs survive she

says If were able to show the eggs can surshy

vive that will be very encouraging for

Atlant ic salmon restoration

What is to be done to ensure the survival

not just of Atlantic salmon in Lake Ontario

but also of the co untrys freshwater and

m ar ine fisheries We need to try to sepashy

rate o ut the fisheries management decisions

from the political decisions associated with

the fi shery says zoology professor Glen Van

Der Kraak director of U of Gs Axelrod

Institute of Ichthyology Van Der Kraak who

studies the effects of toxic contaminants on

fi sh populations says policy mltkers need

to rely on the advice of fisheries sc ientis ts

making conservative harvest ing estimates

So often scientists make decisions and then

are overrun by the politics he says (Never

mind fish wars pitting co untries against one

another - here in Ca nada scientists and

policy makers wres tle over the question of

who should be respo nsible for what aspects

of the countrys fisheries as witnessed in a

war of words played out in the Canadian Journal ofFisheries and Aquatic Sciences over

the past 18 months between biologists at

several Canadian univers ities and the DFO

over the relationship between fishery sc ishy

ence and fishery policy)

Roff says theres nothing unique about

Canadas fish problems Its not really a

Canadian problem its a worldwide probshy

lem The only fisheries worldwide that are

not over fished appear to be some not yet

fully exploited in the Indian Ocean

After nearly four decades of growth the

worldwide marine ca tch levelled off in the

1990s to some 90 million tons a year The

m ain problems coastal pollution habitat

destruction and particula rly overfishing

Noakes editor of the journal Guelph Ichthyology Reviews contrasts the few hunshy

dred people who might have made th eir

livelihood aboard small wood en boats on

the Grand Banks several centuries ago with

the massive factory trawlers that now scour

todays coast People are much too efficient

in terms of catching fish he says Noakes

concurs with fellow Guelph researchers that

conservation of fish stocks has to reach the

top of fishery managers agendas

hat does set Canada apart is the breadth

and depth of expertise in fisheries and aquatshy

ic sciences in this country - rather a parashy

dox when you consider that Canadas record

in fisheries preservation is apparently no betshy

ter than that of many other nations

Considering we have the best fishery scishy

ences community in the world we ought to

be doing better says Roff Within the last

decade th e federal government withdrawal

o f support from the Department of Fishshy

eries and Oceans and university researchers

has been massive At the very time when the

resources were gett ing into severe problems

and when the federal government ought to

have been funding research theyve been

substantially withdrawing resources ga

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WINTER 1999 31

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

n ALUMNI PROF IL E

LETS LOOK AT THE OPPORTUNITIES

WHEN I-IE BECA ME president of the Unishy

versity of Guelph Alumni Association

(UGM) in June Jim Weeden brought new

enthusiasm and ideas for encouraging alumshy

ni to stay in volved with their alma mater

And he wants to start with students

Weeden reca ll s his own ex perience at

U of G where he fo und a sense of commushy

nity by living in residence and ge tting

involved in college activiti es But when he

graduated with an engin ee ring degree in

197 1 he left to begin a caree r and says he

didnt think much about the University until

he needed it again in the 1980s to pursue a

graduate degree in agricultural enginee ring

He spent his early career working as an

agricultural extensi o n engineer for the

Ontario Department o f Agriculture and is

stiU with its successo r the Ontario Ministry

of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs

(OMAFRA) Weed en completed the masshy

ters degree in 1986 when he was head of the

agricultural engineering program and extenshy

sion services a t Centralia College of Ag rishy

cultural Technology

In 1987 he moved to the ministrys plant

industry branch as program m anager and

later held the same position in th e resources

manage m ent branch Sin ce then he has

worked for OMAFRA in Woodstock and

now Stratfo rd He is technical adviser fo r

Ontarios Enviro nmental Farm Planning

Program is respo nsible for o ther environshy

m ental programs and consults with the Minshy

istry o f th e Environment on local agriculshy

tural pollution problems

w Weed en got involved with the Universishy sect tys a]u111ni programs by serving on the first g z board of the Engineering Alumni Associashy

~ tion when it was established in 1990 From

~ 1991 to 1994 he sat on the University Senshy

~ ate and its Research Board and for the pas t

~ four years) hels been on the UGAA executive

32 GUELPH A LU MNUS

From the presidents chair Weeden looks

at the bro ad picture o f UG AA se rvice and

recognizes that the associa tio n owes a debt

o f gratitude to hundreds of alumni volunshy

teers who ha ve helped to build the organishy

za tion over the yea rs and to University staff

in Development and Public Affairs (DampPA)

who support UGAA initiatives and alumni

programs Thro ugh their efforts he says the

a lulllni associati o n is rea ching out to all

U of G alumni Graduates who have mainshy

tained a close relationship with the Univershy

sity thro ugh their college or academic disshy

cipline those who feel an affiliation because

o f their participation in a thletics residence

life o r extracurricular activiti es and even

HIGHLIGHTSmiddot GRAD NEWSmiddot OBITUARIES bull CALENDER

those who have not kept in touch are part of the constituency served by UGAA

Weed en says the alumni association needs to strengthen its relationship with all alumni and he believes the effor t must start on campus with students Hed like to proshymote the idea of alumni involvement as ear shyly as a students second year We need to give students some reason to be con nected and an efficient vehicle for maintaining that connection he says

For many students and new graduates the social functions supported by UGAA and the opportunities for professional networking will be important says Weeden but greater rewards are there for those who join the effort to enhance the Universitys acade mic goals

In todays economic and political envi shyronme nt individual financial support and the advocacy of post-secon dary education are important roles for alumni he says How many people ac tively get involved with the debate on whether universities are job-trainshy

ing centres or centres of education Yet some of our alumni are extremely adept in such roles Weeden would like to cultivate past and current stud ent ac tivists as supporters of public education after they graduate

As Weeden leads UGAA into a new year he says he will work with other UGAA volshyunteers and DampPA staff to find new ways for the association to interact with students and alumni One id ea is to expand UGAAs Intershynet presence by adding a Web message board that will encourage alumni to discuss career and campus issues online and a reply form that will allow them to quickly update addressshyes employment status and other information

Weeden says its important to stay focused on UGAAs key prioriti es but he welcomes any and all new ideas on how to accomplish them All it takes to share your ideas with the UGAA executive is a stamp or a push of the send button when youre clicked on alumniuoguelphca

HKHB SPIRIT RISES

ENCOURAGED BY THE SPIRIT

shown by fellow alumni at last

summers reunion the executive

of the Human Kinetics Human Biology

Alumni Association is moving ahead

with more opportunities for alumni to

stay in touch The association plans to

launch a Web site that will be accessed

through the U of G site

A wine-and-cheese reception already

planned for June 19 1999 wiil try to

build on the success of the 1998 event

which attracted alumni from as far away

as Chicago and as far apart as the 19605

and 1990s Guests had a chance to tour

U of Gs new Health and Performance

Centre and performance testing

labs The program was co-ordinated wiLh

A REFLECTION OF PRIDE

Members of the OAC

Class of 52 join Arboshy

retum staff on the front patio

of the Arboretu m Centre

beside a new reflecting pool

that was built last summer

as a class project Pictured

from left are Murray Parker

Ann Smith George Smith

Jack Sargent Catherine Gibb

Robin Shaw-Rummington

Marilyn Swaby BA 69

Bev Healy B5e(Agr) 72

Norm Watson Una Venerus

Ron Costen Henry Kock

BSe (Agr) 77 and Ric

Jordan BA 75

Prof Jack Barclay chair of the Departshy

ment of Human Biology and Nutritional

Sciences and Prof Susan Pfeiffer Memshy

bers of the Human KineticsHuman

Biology Alumni Association executive arc

Janet Leonhard 82 president Carolyn

Moore 83 vice-president Alison Locker

97 secretary Mark Mulholland 79

lreasurer and t-iary Ann Crape 76

These officers are also spea rheading a

new initiative to benefit students - an

undergraduate award that will provide

$250 and lifetime mem bership in the

association To commcnt on these and

other initiatives contact Leonard by

e-mail at Janel_Leonhardinwrbsb

eduonca or Moore at cturveyagec

uoguelphca

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alumni

Multimedia lab buzzes

THE DONALD FORSTER RoOiv

has become one of the

busiest spots in th e Unishy

versity of Guelph Liblary since the

addition of 70 state-of-the-art

computer workstations that were

supported by alumni do nations

to the Alma Mater Fund (AM F)

U of G president Mordechai

Roza nski officia ll y o pened th e

Alma Mater Fund Multimedia

Lab D ec 2 an d celebrated th e

event with members of the AMF

Adv isory Counc iL [n 1996 a nd

1997 the AMF contributed

$240000 to th e project which

increased the number of student

workstations o n campus by 50 per

cent Students use the m ult imeshy

~ dia lab to conduct research on the

~ Internet access scholarly publicashyr u VI tions on CD-ROM and use COll1shyz ~ puter software mod ules tbat lt

~ strengthen the teaching provided lD

o in co urse lectures labs and tcxtshybii books

middotMatters

Alumnus of many interests

I NTERES TING P EOPLE always have eclect ic interests and U of G

alumnus and honorary degree recipient Ken Murray BSA 50 and

HDLA 96 is a good example H e is known by most people on camshy

pus for his distinguished career in the Canadian meat packing indusshy

try and his volunteer service to U of G He was a member and chair

of Board of Governors from 1973 to 1978 and chair of the Regionshy

al Corporate Committee during U of Gs last capital campaign and

is currently chair of the Heritage Fund Enhancement Committee

Murray is also a strong supporter of community soc ial services

In August he addressed the World Congress of Social Ps)chiatry

held in British Columbia - the only non-psychiatrist on the proshy

gram He spoke about his role in establishing an Alzheimers research

project a t the University ofWaterioo which was recently named in

his honour the Ken Murray Alzheimer Research and Education Proshy

gra m At the gc conference he al so participated in a panel dis shy

cussion that outlined services offered by Guelphs Homewood Health

Cent re Murray bas been actively involved in the governance of the

centre since 1977 and has been a major player in the development

of a charitable foundatio n bearing the Homewood name

WHEN THE PUCK DROPPED More than 30 teams including two

womens teams were entered in the

Dec 6 University of Guelph Alumni Hockey

Tournament Organizers for the 1998 event

were from left Brian Finniss B5c 88

Brad Stephenson BA 86 Terry Carr

BComm 87 Todd Bryant BA 86 and

undergraduate student Brian Melnick

Ken Murray centre with his wife Marilyn Robinson Murray and U of G president Mordechai Rozanski

34 GU ELPH ALUMNU S

RESTORING A JEWEL IN THE CROWN

DONALD RUTHERFORD BSA 5 stands in fron t

of the 1931 conservatory greenhouse that will

be restored to match the splendour of the ga rdens

now growi ng up around it His $256000 leadershy

ship gift to the Conservatory and Gardens Project

was inspired by hi s m emo ries of being a student

at OAC

On behalf of fellow alumni I hope this gift will

commemorate the experiences and educat ion we

acquired while at Guelph says Rutherford When

fully restored to its previous glory the conservatoshy

ry greenhouse will be an ideal greeting and welcome

spot for visitors and newcomers to the University

as well as old friend s renewing their acquaintance

Rutherfords professional career spans the agrishy

foo d industr y beginning as an agricu ltural repshy

resentative with the provincial minist ry I-Ie was

later vice-president of the Fertilizer Institute of

Ontario executive secreta ry of the Canadian Seed

Trade Association director of information w ith

the Ca nadian Livestock Feed Board and Canadishy

an sa les manager for Sylvite of Can ad a Retired

since 1986 he now owns his own sma ll investment

company and manages to golf throughout the yea r

The conserva tory isnt the first ca mpus project

to attract Rutherford s attention - as a student

he helped dig out the base ment of Massey H al l to

build a student lo unge - but his recent gift has

been a tremendous boost to those who have been

working since the ea rly 1990s to save the glass and

cypress structure from demo lition

A committee of alumni facult y sta ff stu dents

and fri en ds of the University has moved the proshy

ject along to th e point w here most of the surshy

rounding garden complex is now complete It fea shy

tures six gardens named in honour of the ir chie f

supporters Autumn Garden - OAC 5 1 Spring

Ga rden - OAC 53 Su mmer Garden - OAC 55

Winter Gard en - OAC 65 Water Gard en shy

OAC 49 and the Woo dland Garden named in

honour of the late Doug Rob inson BSA 53

Alumni have been in strumental in raising

funds for the $ l-million project Students and fa cshy

ulty have provided mudl of the h1l1ds-on Idbour

and friends in the nursery and landscape materishy

als supply industries have given $250000 ill donashy

tions and gifts-in-kind of plan ts and landsca ping

materials Rutherford s generous gift has pushed

th e conservato ry fund-ra ising effort in to the fin 81

stretch Th e ga rden complex and restored g reenshy

110use are sc heduled to officially open during

Alumni Weekend in June 1999

1999 Coming Events

Jan 29 - Aggie Goodshy

Times Banquet call the OAC Student Federation at Ext 8321 for ticket injemnrltion Feb 13 - Norm McCo llulll

D iploma Hockey Tournashy

m ent call Jack Bakker at 519-837-0132 to register a team

Feb 21 - Ottawa Chapter

annual curling bonspiel

Richmond C urling Club in

Richmond Ont For informashytiol1 call Alan Bentley BSA 61 at 6 13-829-6598 or John DVit[ 54 mId Margaret McGowml BHSc 54 at

613-828-7038

March 3 - Florida alumni

reunion a t Maple Leaf

Estates Port Charlo tte Fla

call Ext 6533 0 register

March 13 and 14 - ollcge

Royal 75th o pen house

March 19 and 20 - OAC

Alumni Association curling

bonspiel G uelph Curling

Club register at Ext 6657

May 5 - Chicago All Canashy

dian Universities Night hostecl

by U of G at the University

Club of Chicago 76 East Monshy

roe Sr call Exl 6533 for details May 5 - OAC Alumni

Foundation annual meeting

730 pm Arboretum Centre

May 12 - Alumni-inshy

Action annual meeting and

luncheo n 1130 3m

Arboretum Centre ((11 Ext 6657for tickets

June 18 to 20 - Alumni

Veekend call Ext 6657 to plall a reun io n

-0 r shya -IFor more infon-nation on any a

eVC1l1listed ailove call the oJ -lt oU of G extension listed at en raquo

519-824-4120 or send e-mail z

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alumni Matters

MEMORIES OF COLLEGE ROYAL Grant MacEwan ADA 23 and

BSA 26 is one of the few OAC

alumni who c~n still remember

the first College Royal held Jan

14 1925 MacEwan bad just

entered the degree program in

animal husbandry and may have

been a participant in the liveshy

stock showmanship classes Latshy

er in life he was widely known Grant MacEwan

across Western Canada as 3 liveshy

stock judge and an advocate of

agricultural fairs and exhibitions

MacEwan is bes t known

however for his 23-year C3reer

as a university professor in Manshy

itoba and Saskatchewan and Ilis

political career which included

12 years as alderman and mayshy John Kenneth Galbraith

or of C31gary four years as an

Alberta MLA and eight as lieushy birthday in August

tenant -governor of the province The year after Ma cEwan

He s till lives in Calgary graduated John Kenneth Galshy

where he celebrated his 96th braith ADA 29 and BSA 31

HOMECOMING 98

enrolled at OAC and devoted

some of his energy to organizshy

ing College Royal Show records

indicate it was Galbraith who

first proposed the college event

be publicized so that people

from the farm community

could attend He also suggestshy

ed that OAC invite students

from American agricultural colshy

legesl n th e early 1930s Colshy

lege Royal took its fir s t steps

towards becoming the comshy

munity open house it is today

Galbraith later moved to the

United States where he enjoyed

a distinguished caree r as a proshy

fessor of economics at Harvard

Universi ty Known for his

humanit~rian approach to ecoshy

nomic and political thinking

he was awarded the Order of

Canada in 1997 He celebr3ted

his 90th birthday in October

IT REALLY WAS a homecoming reunion when and Arnott who is head coach of the York

former Gryphon teammates Ralph Shapiro University Yeomen came from the visitors

S5c(HK) 74 and Tom Amott S5c(HK) 80 dreSSing room to hold the ball Shapiro is

met on the field at Alumni Stadium Oct 3 the controller at Huntsman Chemical Inc

Shapiro had the honour of kicking off in Guelph and a longtime United Way volshy

the Universitys 1998 United Way campaign unteer who chaired this years Guelph and

Wellington fund-raising drive The Univershy

sity campaign is the largest in the county

with U of G staff and faculty contributing

over $200000 in 1998

Prior to the game a number of recent

alumni - all U of G scholarship and award

winners - met for a reunion luncheon The UJ

1948 and 1949 dominion championship i5f 3

football teams were also honoured guests z 5 o at the 2 pm game that saw the Gryphons gtshy a defeat York f shya I a

Ralph Shapiro

36 G UELPH ALUMNUS

LEADING THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY FOR 1974 GRADS The 25th-anniversary reunion givshy

i ng program for the Class of 1974

is under way with Bill Laidlaw BA

74 as cbair A public affairs proshy

fessional he has been director of

government relations for the

Canadian operations of Glaxo

vVelJcome Inc for more th an 10

years He also acts as a senior conshy

sultant to support the governshy

ment relations function in other

regions of Canada

Laidlaw began his career in

teaching after earning a history

degree from Guelph and education

degrees (rom Queens University

and the University of Toronto He

also holds the certified human

resources professional designation

and worked in that field for sevshy

eral years before concen trating on

government relations at Glaxo

Welkome He lives in Burlington

Ont and is an act ive community

volunteer having se rved on the

boards of severa l professional

organizations the Queensway

General Hospital and the Metroshy

politan Toronto Lung Association

He is currently completing a oneshy

year term as chair of the Ontario

Chamber of Commerce

Anniversa ry preparations will

culminate with a class gathering

a nd reunion gift at Alumni

Weekend in June 1999

ALUMNI MAKE THE CONNECTION Students who moved into

Maids and Mills halls in Sepshy

tember can take full advanshy

tage of the Universitys highshy

speed computer network

thanks to the OAC Class of

71 whose 25 th-reunion proshy

ject provided wiring upgrades

in the 84- and 77-year-old

residence buildin gs

GRAD NEWS

Marathon survivors inspire us all to appreciate everyday life

W HEN ROBINSON SIIlLJNGS Jane BSe(Agr)

85 Heather BASe 83 Peter BSe(Agr)

86 Scott and Marnie rigwood BA 84 get

together they talk about marathons and the hope

and determination it takes to reach the finish line

Hea ther walked a marathon in San Diego

Calif in June to raise money for leukemia

research then joined Peter for a Toronto marathon

in October that benefi ted the Leukemia Research

Fund of Canada They were inspired by Janes pershy

sonal marathon of survival that foUowed her 1992

diagnosis of leukemia Chemotherapy radiation

remission relapse and finally a bone marrow

transplant [TOm her brother Scott took more than

three years out of her life but gave her the detershy

mination to keep fighting

Many families can understand the marathon

of hope maintained by the Robinsons during

Janes struggle and the commitment they have to

help others who are stricken with the disease Jane

is finally well enough to work again as a writer

and marketing consultant and to join her fami shy

ly in volunteer work She helped recruit for the

Toronto marathon fund -raiser and continues to

be involved with the Leukemia Research Funds

Team in Training She also says that her expeshy

rience has taught her to appreciate more the pleashy

sures of everyday life and the love of famil y

Jan es parents are th e late Doug Rob inson

BSA 53 and Marilyn (Inglis) Robinson Murray

BH Sc 55

19305

bull Grant Misener ADA 32 BSA 35 and DVM 38 received the

prest igious George F Hixso n Felshy

lowship Award from the Kiwanis

International Foundation in May The retired Illinois veter ishy

narian was hono ured for his subshystantial contribution to the

Kiwanis wo rldwide service proshy

ject aimed at eliminating iodine

deficiency disorders the leading

cause of preventable mental retardation in children Over the

years Misener has shown a simishylar commitment to his al ma

mater an d its students through

his close association with OVC

and his support of scho larship

programs

19405

bull Russell McDonaldDVM 45 was named an honorary life direcshytor of the Royal Agricultural Winshy

ter Fair Association in March

McDonald formerly general manshy

ager of Western Ontario Breeders

Ine and executive director of the Canadian Association of Animal

Breeders served as a director of the Royal Winter Fair for 20 years

representing the Canadian artifishycial insemination industry He

lives in Woodstock Ont

bull Ian Taylor DVM43 was recently honoured by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to

Animals of Illinois Taylor ran a small-animal veterinary clinic in

the Chicago area for many years

and says he gained ll1uch experishyence during his first three years in

Illinois as clinic veterinarian for

the anti -cruelty society

19505

bull Charles Chuck Broadwell BSA 54 was elected a Mel

Osborne Fellow by the Kiwanis

Club of Forest City in London Ont in recognition of a dedicatshy -ed and distinguished career in

Kiwanis

19605

bull Constantine Campbell BSA 60 and MSA 61 was named to the

WINTER 1999 37

Order of Canada in January He

received the award in recogni shy

tion of his many contributions

to science and the Canadian

agricultural industry After grad shy

uating from OAC he went on to

do his PhD at the University of

Saskatchewan then joined Agri shy

culture and Agri-food Canada

as a research scientist at the Swift

Current research station Campshy

bell and his family now live in

Ottawa where he is scientist

emeritus with Agriculture and

Agri-food Canada

bull John Casselman BSA 64 is

a research scientist with the

Ontario Ministry of Natural

Resources He Jives in Bath

Ont with his wife Lois

bull Jane Fuller RRSc 65 and

her husband George who both

taught at the Macdonald Instishy

tute from 1966 to 1969 have

moved from Winnipeg to

Utopia Ont following

Georges retirement from the

University of Manitoba

bull Fred Gilbert MSc 66 and

P hD 68 is in his first term as

president of Lakehead Univer shy

sity in Thunder Bay Ont He

taught at U of G in the Departshy

ment of Zoology from 1972 to

1981 and has enjoyed a dive rse

academic career that has also

included teaching at the Unishy

versity of Maine and posi tions

as director of wildlife biology at

Washington State University

and founding dean of the Facshy

ulty of Natural Reso urces and

Environmenta l Studies at the

University of Northern British

Columbia He moved to Lakeshy

head from a position as viceshy

pro vost at Colorado State Unishy

versity A respected wildlife

biologist he has conducted

ex tensive resea rch in s Ll ch areas

as the behaviour and physioloshy

gy of wildlife species and the

effects of environmental

change on wildlife populations

bull Terry Goodyear BSc 67 of

Mont Tremblant Quebec is an

early retiree from Agriculture

and Agri-Food Canada in Ottawa He is now working on

va lue-added products from

industrial wastes particularly

cellulose sludge from pulp and

pa per mills

bull Gary Hearn BA 68 was

named an Ontario provincial

judge in October For the last

25 years he has been a lawyer

with the firm Kearns McKinshy

non in Guelph where he lives

with his wife Irene and three

teenage children

bull Allan Knight BSA 66 of Corunna Ont has retired

from Dow Chemical after 30

years On retirement he was a

laboratory director for indusshy

trial chemicals He is now

working with his son in a famishy

ly-owned and -operated busishy

ness Knight Funeral Home

bull Keith McFarlane BSc(Agr)

68 works for the Department

of Foreign Affairs and Internashy

tional Trade and began a fourshy

year assignment last summer as

head of the commercial divishy

sion of the Canadian Embassy

in Lisbon Portugal The

division promotes the sa le of

Canadian goods and services

to Portugal

bull Ian Newbould MA 68 has

travelled far from his Ontario

roots through an academic and

administrative career that has

taken him to Europe Asia and

Western Canada A noted hisshy

torian he moved into adm inisshy

tration at the University of

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Lethbridge in 1981 and spent

10 years there as director of

research dean of a rts and scishy

ence and vice-presiden t (acadeshy

mic) before crossing the counshy

try to become president of

Mount Allison University in

New Brunswick He is now in

his second term as president of

Mount AUison

bull Indra Deo Singh MSc 68 is

a tea scientist international

consultant and joint director of

the Tea Research Association at

the Nagrakata substation in

India His responsibilities

include co-ordinating research

and development in the Indian

tea industry and developing tea

cultivars and agrotechnology

for tea Singh is married with

two sons aged 27 and 23

19705

bull Don Ambler BSe 71 retired in March as manager of

water programs with Environshy

ment Canada in Dartmouth

NS after 25 years of public

service He has now registered

the company Aquashed Co nshy

sulting to continue in the water

resources field when hes not

gardening beekeeping do ing

aerobics or vo lunteering in the

community and chu rch E-mail

contact is welcome a t

donambl erns sympaticoca

bull Jim Bond BSe 75 is managshy

ing a new processing facility at

the Chalk River Nuclear Laborashy

to ry in Chalk River Ont

bull Terri (Monks) Bulman BSc(Agr) 78 and MSe 81

and her husband Vincent

MSe 8 1 live in Australia with

their th ree children Catherine

7 Peter 4 and baby Christoshy

pher Terri is senior principal

environmental auditor vith

Coffey Geosciences Pty Ltd Vinshy

cent afte r many years as a geoloshy

gist travelling around Australia

and abroad has taken the year

off to study and look after the

children Their e-mail address is

tbulmanbigpondco m

bull Marie David BA 78 of

Hanover Ont has been in the

n ewspaper business for 20

years She started in the mailshy

room moved to advertising

sales then became advert ising

manager She is now gene ral

manager o f three So utham

weekly newspapers and pubshy

lish er of the Hanover Post

bull Janice Harrower and her husshy

band Jerome Billett both

DVM 76 operate a joint veterishy

nary practice in Prescott Ont

Billett says practising together

has allowed them some flexibilishy

ty in their family life and given

their four children a good took

at the rigours of veterinary

medicine Says Billett Not one

of our kid s has the slightest

interest in being a veterinarian

and isnt that just fine Their

o ldest son Jesse attends Harshy

va rd University and is a memshy

ber of its prestigious a cappella

choir Lucas is studying

mechanical engineering at the

University of Waterloo Casey is

planning a career in computer

engineering and Lindsay is a

high school athle te

bull Clair Heinbuch BSe 74 is a

sales manager with Baye r Corp

in Kansas H e and his wife

Caroline (Koscik) BASc 75

returned to the Kansas City

area after spending four years in

Denver They have three chilshy

dren Lisa 20 Scott 18 and

Ryan [5

bull Beverly Lee BASe 72 is an

elem entary school principal in

Unionville Ont She lives with

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her husband Grant Egan in

Collingwood and is looking

forward to retirement in severshy

al years Life on Georgian Bay

is wonderful she says Lee

would love to hear from fellow

grads by e-mail at

leebYrbeeduonca or by

phone at 705 -444 -092l

bull Won-Jai Maeng MSc 71 took office Sept 1 as president

of Kon-Kuk University in Seoul

Korea where his academic

career began He completed an

undergraduate degree at Kon

Kuk in 1965 then studied at

Mailing Agricultural College in Denmark and at U of G before

doing doctoral work at the Unishy

versity of California Davis

Maeng has held research and

teaching positions at the Unishy

versity of illinois at Chung-Ang

University and at Kon-Kuk

where he has been a professor of

animal science since 1984 His

appointment as president folshy

lows years of administrative

experience as a department

head dean and chair of various

research committees and proshy

fessional organizations An

expert in ruminant nutrition

Maeng was instrumental in

developing the livestock feed

industry in Korea He has also

been active in working with

alumni groups and in writing

for the Kon-Kuk Tribune

bull Bill MarshaU ADA 75 of Proton Station Ont moved

from Clarksburg in June to

work in Dundalk for the Grey

County Roads Department on

its road management crew

bull Bernie Matte BSc(Agr) 70 of Moncton NB retired

in March after 28 years with

Fisheries and Oceans Canada

and the Canadian Food

Inspection Agency He plans to

travel to Belize and Honduras

with his wife Diane and will

be available anywhere in the

Caribbean for seafood HACCP

consulting work

bull Margaret McClain BA 70 lives in Arkansas where she is

highJy involved in the issue of

40 GUELPH ALUMNUS

missing children and internashy

tional abductions McClain who

believes her own six-year-old

daughter was taken out of the

United States more than a year

ago by her second husband is

reaching out to parents with

similar experiences through an

organization that is lobbying the

US government for tougher

international abduction laws

She invites interested fr iends

and alumni to contact her

through her Web site at

wwwinsolwwbnet-dmcclain

bull Robert (Chuck) Miller BA 77 is the park superintendent

of Killarney French River and

Maskinonje provincial parks in

Ontario He moved to Killarney

from Quetico Provincial Park

last May

bull Gordon Nicol BA 72 and MSc(Agr) 74 teaches math

and science in a bilingual prishy

vate school in Guatemala A

BEd graduate of Laurentian

he first taught in Guatemala in

the late 1970s then spent 12

years in northern Alberta as a

teacher and principal He

returned to Guatemala in 1989

A widower with three teenage

children Nicol would like to

hear from U of G friends and

acquaintances especially anyshy

one who is was or will be in

Central America He says he

could also use middle-schoolshy

level science projects Send eshy

mail to gnicoll guatenet or

write to PO Box 661447 Miami

Springs Florida 33266-1447

bull Chris Schulte BSc 71 and MSc 73 lives in Nassau

Bahamas with his wife

Andrya After graduation he

stayed in the Department of

Physics as a research associate

with Prof lain Campbell then

joined Ontario Hydro in the

early 1980s He moved to the

Bahamas in 1995 He can be

reached bye-mail at

schultebahamasnetbs

bull Sandra (Pickford) Webster BA 75 has retired from U of

Gs Co mmunications and Pubshy

lic Affairs and is living in Parry

Sound Ont where she is

doing volunteer work and

communications consulting

for the municipality Guelph

friends ca n contact her by

e-mail atswebsterzeutercom

19805

bull Sharon (Courneya) Angus BA 8 I of Surrey BC comshy

pleted a BSW at the University

of British Columbia in 1988

and has been working for the

BC government for 13 years

- first in probation and now

in the family justice division

She and her husband Ron

have three children Jason

Carly and Colin

bull Karen Beazley BLA 86 is an assistant professor and acadeshy

mic program co-ordinator at

the School for Reso urce and

Environmental Studies at Dalshy

housie University in Halifax

She is currently doing research

for a book on endangered

species initiatives and is orgashy

nizing a Nova Scotia wildlands

workshop with the Wildlands

Project for 1999 Her e-mail

address is kbeazleyisdalca

bull Caroline (Van Deudekom) and Marc Brooks both ADA 87

recently moved from Strathroy

to Owen Sound Ont where

they run a 50-acre organic farm

with their two sons

bull Virginia Burt BLA 85 startshyed her own landscape architecshy

ture firm Visionscapes in

Hamilton Ont in ] 996 She

specializes in the design of thershy

apeutic healing gardens spirit

gardens sacred spaces and

la byrin ths and recen tly designed the first healing garden

in Canada specificalJy for peoshy

ple living with HIV and AIDS

bull Joanne (Branson) Carver BA 80 earned a BEd from Brock

University in 1981 and recently

started working as a probashy

tionparole officer She Jives in

Ajax Ont and has two daughshy

ters Julie4 and Sarah 8

bull Heather Champ BA 86 is a Web-site designer in New York

City She began her work in

computer design in 1990 Her

personal site can be Found at

wwwjezebelcom

bull Laurie Gough BA 87 has become a world traveller who

writes about her experiences for

the benefit of others Her most

recent book Island of the

Human Heart A tfornans Travshyel Odyssey is now in its second

printing in Canada and will be

released next year in the United

States and overseas She has also

published Travellers Tales A

Womans World which won the

US-based Lowell Thomas

Gold Award for best travel book

of the year When not travelling

or writing she teaches English

and ESL in Guelph

bull Susan (Coles) Goulden BASc 84 and her husband

Ian are th rilled wi th their

recent adoption of Jennifer Lee

Yu who was born in June near

Leping Jiangxi Peoples Repubshy

lic of China The Gouldens

who Jive in vVaterloo Ont

thank classmate Andrea

(Kovits) Henderson for her

support throughout the adopshy

tion process Susan is currently

on leave from her position with

McCormick Canada

bull Judy (Bodendistel) Gregg BA 82 moved to Melbourne Ausshy

tralia in 1997 with her husband

and two children Carly 6 and

Adam 3 We are enjoying the

friendly people and the great

weather here she says We are

especially enjoying winter in a

place where it never gets below

zero Celsius

bull Nigel GumJey DVM 85 has been a partner in the Alta Vista

Animal Hospital in Ottawa

since 1990 was president of the bull Garry Millage AMPHI 86 bull Heidi Stephenson BA 88 is now ISO 9000 manager at

Ontario Veterinary Medical left a position as vice-president was awarded her professional Carpenter Ca nada Ltd in

Association in 1997 and recent- of national operations for acco untants designation of Wood br idge Ont He lives in

ly served on the Canadian Vetshy Scotts Restaurants KFC Divishy certified general accountant in Miss issa uga Classma tes are

erilw() Medical Associations sion to open his own consult- March 1998 She has been invited to contact him at

national issues committee He ing company Future Food employed for the last 10 years avon listarca

lives in Osgoode with his wife Equipment Ine specializes in with Dan Ball Chartered bull Michelle (Pilon) Bacon BA rvlaurecn and children Laura providing new and used restau- Acco un tant in Parry Sound 90 moved to England to study

and Matthew rant equipment and reducing O nt where she lives with her and work after graduating from

bull Muneer Hirji BComm 82 restaurant construction costs hu sband Brad two dogs and a Guelph She recently left a posishy

lives in Toronto and is vice- He also operates a restaurant horse tion with the British Ministry of

president of marke ting at SAP called Nikkos in Woodbridge bull Dawn Stetsko BSe 81 lives Agriculture and Food in York to

Canada He has three chil- Ont and is planning to open a in Langhorne Pa with her husshy become an at-home mom She

drcl1 Nadia 8 Alyssa 6 and second location band Paul and children Mark now lives in London with her

Sarah I bull Tosh Noseworthy BSe 83 is and Keith and is a research husband Tim and one-year-old

bull Brenda irwin BSe 88 is a cardiovascular ICU nurse in scientist with Bristol-Myers daughter Juliette She sends love

studying at Hong Kong Unishy sunny Tuscon Arizona After Squibb Previously she worked to Sue Heather and Sheila and

vers ity of Science and Technolshy grad uation she lived in Paris at McMaster University in can be reached bye-mail at

ogy to complete the final France for a yea r s tudied nurs- Hamilton Ont for 17 yea rs michellebacondialpipexcom

sem ester of an MBA program ing in O ttawa then lived in Saushy bull Teresa Tummillo-Goy BA bull Jeff Barlow BComm 90 is

through the University of di Arabia for two yea rs She still 86 has a law practice in Water- the training and quality manag-

British Columbia She taught loves to travel and would like to 100 Ont foc Li sing primaril y on er for two five-star luxury boushy

science for the North York hea r from fellow alumni She family law civi l litiga tion and tique h o tels in Prague - Hotel

Board of Education for five can be reached at 520-299-8344 real estate She and her hus- Palace Praha and the Hotel

years before enrolling in the bull Cecilia (Wleugel) Parkes band John Goy live in Guelph Savoy Previo usly he was execu -

MBA program BComm 85 is a graphic and have three sons John 4 tive housekeeper at the five-star

bull Jagwant Kanwar PhD 80 is designer in Toronto and says Tony 3 and Shayne 2 Renaissance Pragu e Hotel

a senior scientist in the depart- she st ill uses ber marketing bull Peter Van der Borch DVM bull Margaret Burnes-Souria BA ment of vegetable crops at Pun- background to help her busishy 88 retired in the fa ll of 1997 94 is a team leader with [011 shy

jab Agricultural University in ness succeed She specia lizes in after several years of practising don Magazin e in London Ont

India He is also director of the logo design lNith hand-drawn physiotherapy and ve terinary She married David Souria in

regional vegetable research stashy illustrations medicine and surgery He Jives July 1997 and is pursuing an tion at Usman (TaranTarn) bull Jim Parr BSc(Agr) 81 and in Pictou NS ]VlBA at the University of West-

Amritsar His and his wife MSe 89 died of cancer in bull MartyWilLiams BA 85 is ern Ontario

Sanyogita have a son Mohit June 1998 but hes being co-ordinator of student activishy bull Janine Byers BASe 95 is a and a daughter Dipika who are remembered by his university ties at University College Unishy public health dietitian at the

both studying engineering friends through the establish - versity of Toronto where he Kingston Frontenac and

Friends can write to Kanwar at ment of a mem orial fund for advises student organizations Iennox amp Addington Health

Punjab Agricultural Un ivers ity his wife Denise and children 1Ie is also chair of the U of T Unit in Kingston O nt She is Ludhiana 141 004 India Shannon and Eric Anyone Staff Association a member of getting married to Ca rl Stewart

bull Larissa Larsen BSe 89 and who would like more informa - the steering committee of the on May 29 j 999 MLA 92 received a PhD in tion can ca ll Brian Tapscott at staffs unionization drive and a bull Lisa Cherry BSe 9 1 is a urban and regional planning 519-767-3566 staff member with the student science journalist and executive

from the University of Illinois bull Cheryl (Dunlop) Reid newspaper The Varsity He can director of Artists Against

at Urbana Champaign in May BSe(Agr) 89 sta rted a new be reached bye-mail at marty Racism an international organi-

She has accepted a position at job in September as ingredient wi lliamsutorontoca za tion She is based in Toronto

Thompson Dyke and Associshy sales manager for RA bull Bonnie (Byma) BASe 96 ales a landscape architecture Chisholm o f Toronto She will 19905 and Gil Clelland BA 95 were

and urban planning firm in continue to work from her bull Claire Allison BA 94 grad- married in December 1996 and

Chicago Her husband Ernie remote offke in Fergus Reid uated from the elementary are living in Chatham On t

Poortinga DVM 89 is in his and her husband Jeff BSe teacher ed ucation program at Bo nnie works at a day-care

third yea r of an MD program (Agr) 89 have two children the University of British centre G il teaches art and

at Rush University Chicago lVlega n 4 and Elizabeth 2 Columbia in 1996 and now phys ical education They ca n -Hes looking forward to joining bull Chee Sie BA 83 is a zone teaches in Va ncou ver be reached bye-ma il at gclelshy

his wife in the ranks of the manager for the Malaysian bull JohnAvon BSdHK) 94 lan ciaccesscom employed They would both Assurance Alliance Berhad in earned an M Se in industr ial bull Kate Corn ell BA 95 of enjoy hearing from fellow Sarawak Malaysia He and his operations from Lawrence Markham Ont earned her

alumni and can be reached at wife Jesterine have a two-year- Technological University in masters in dance history from epoor tin garushurushedu old daughter Letitia Southfleld Mich in 1997 and York University in May and

WINTER 1999 41

co-authored a book titled

Toronto Dance Theatre 1968shy1998 Stages in a Journey

bull Mary Jill (McClure) Culliton BASe 90 earned

her BEd from Brock University

and her M Ed from the Univershy

sity of Western Ontario and

teaches Grade 1 in Mitchell

Ont She and her husband

Tim live in Stratford

bull Kathleen (McNutt) Daniels BASe 9 1 is a teacher and was

married on New Years Eve

1994 to Gord Daniels They live

in North Bay Ont and have a

daughter Lauren born in Febshy

ruary 1997 They are expecting

their second child in February

bull Simon Deakin BA 95 studshyied in Florence Italy for a year

then earned a master of fine art

from the Slade School of Fine

Art at the University of London

England He lives in London

bull Christie Dunbar BLA 97 spent a year after graduation

working for Niagara College in

St Catharines Ont on the

vision and design of a new

campus to be built in Niagarashy

on-the- Lake Last April she

joined the landscape architecshy

ture firm of Pollack Design

Associates in Ann Arbor Mich

bull Trina Edmonds BA 94 and

Joel Hinderle became the

proud parents of a little girl

Jordan Ashley in january 1998

and moved to a new home in

Oakville Ont in September

Edmonds works in Mississauga

as a desktop publisher with a

publishingprinting company

bull Wendy Garinther BSc 93 and Steve Decker BSe 94

were married in May Joining

them in the wedding celebrashy

tions were Cheri (Coulter)

42 GUELPH ALUMNUS

Ascroft BSe 93 Karen Leinshy

gartner BSe 94 and Barb

(Moore) Johnson BSe 94

Best man was Jeff Bond BSe

93 and MSe 96 The Deckers

live in Edmonton where Steve

is doing a PhD in chemistry at

the University of Alberta and

Wendy is working in a research

laboratory at a biopharmaceushy

tical company

bull Donna Gross BA 97 is purshysu ing a master of divinity at

Emmanuel College at the Unishy

versity of Toronto and hopes to

become an ordained minister by

2002 She lives in Guelph and

can be reached bye-mail at

donnajulietalbedonet

bull Robert Gruber BA 92 is a child-care supervisor for the

YMCA-YWCA of Guelph and

manages the Jean Little Y

Child- Care Centre He recently

developed the anti -bias proshy

gramming policy for the

Guelph Y and sits on both the

Jean Little Public School Counshy

cil and the Guelph AIDS Wall

Committee He can be reached

bye-mail at rgrubernet

comca

bull Susan Harder BSe 91 grad shyuated from the University of

Toronto Medical School in June

and has started a residency at

Santa Clara Valley Medical Censhy

tre in San jose Calif She will

follow that up with an anestheshy

sia residency at Stanford Univershy

sity Hospital in 1999

bull Marko Harjupanula BASc 93 travelled in Australia for

two months after graduating

from Guelph then returned to

his home town of South Porshy

cupine Ont where he worked

in a gold mine for four years

He entered police college in

September and started as an

opp constable in Cochrane in

December

bull Nancy Holman MA 94 moved to Vancouver soon after

graduation and initially worked

as a project co-ordinator for an

ophthalmologist In 1996 she

began working full time for the

BC Liberal Caucus I would

enjoy hearing from and catchshy

ing up with the friends I made

while studying at U of G and

working at the Brass Taps she

says Her e-mail address is nan shy

cyholmanlassgovbeca

bull Ruth Johnson BA 91 is an investment banking associate

with the mergers and acquisishy

tions group of JP Morgan in

Lond on England responsible

for financial reporting and

administration She has been in

England with her partner Alex Campbell since graduation

bull Stephen Johnson BA 94 of London Ont was a lab technishy

cian at Lenscrafters for three

yea rs and is now a full-time

student at Fanshawe College

studying air conditioning and

refrigeration He was married

in Jun e to Jennifer Fox BSc

95 a chemist at 3M Their

wedding party included Dee Popat BSe (Eng) 94 and

Patrick Wulhes BSc 95

bull Sarah (Davis) Kelly BASe 90 married Robert Kelly in

July and teaches primary

grades at an inner-city school

in Toronto

bull Cassidy Klowak BComm 97 lives in Allisshy

ton Onl and is a personal

banking account manager

with ClBC in Tottenham

bull Stephanie Lopes BSc 96 completed her MSc in repro shy

ductive biology at the Universishy

ty of Toronto and worked as

patient-care director for the

College of Family Physicians

for almost a year In September

she enrolled in medical school

at the University of Toronto

She is happy to announce that

she is engaged to be married

next summer Lopes can be

reached at slopesidirectcom

bull Natalie (Parker) MacKenzie BSc 96 earned her BEd from

the University of Western

Ontario in 1997 She married

ASLt Andy MacKenzie June 27

in Sault Ste Marie Ont and

now lives in Halifax

bull Susan MacKinnon DVM 91 is a veterinarian with HUls

Science Diet She lives in

Guelph with her husband

Brandon Wiley and gave birth

to their first child Adrianna

Nicole june 26 at home

bull Waheed Mian BA 9 1 of Cambridge Ont is a store

director with PetSmart Canada

He helped the company launch

its new retail concept in Cana da

bull Alex Mitchell BA 91 was appointed clerkdeputy treasurshy

er of the Ontario township of

Mildmay-Carrick in 1998 and

will be the clerkadministrator

of the new municipality of

Mildmay-Carrick -TeesWatershy

Culross in 1999 He was married

in january 1997 and lives vith

his wife and daughter in Mild shy

may In his spare time Mitchell

is a professional scout for the

Toronto Maple Leafs covering

southwestern Ontario

bull Sherry Morland BASc 93 of Kitchener Ont ea rned her

BEd from Brock University in

J995 and is a part-time specia l

educa tion teacher and an occashy

sional teacher with the Watershy

loo County Board of Ed ucashy

tion She married Ivan LeBlanc

in 1997

bull Gary Page BSe 91 wo rks for the Nottawasaga Valley Conshy

servation Authority where he is

able to combine his knowledge

of wildlife biology with his

artistic skills as resident graphic

designer and outdoor centre

interpreter He Jives with his

wife Di and their son judah in

CreemoreOnt

bull Elaine Pammenter BA 96 is an inventory clerk with the

Royal Collection at Windsor

Castle in England She holds a

museum management and

curatorship grad uate certificate

diploma from Sir Sandford

Fleming College and did her

internship at the Royal Albert

Memorial Museum in Exeter

England

bull Brent Raymond BSe(Env) 96 of Brantford Ont has

been working with Outward

Bound since graduation He

leads wilderness trips in Northshy

ern Ontario Horida Australia and Sabah (Malaysian Borneo) Most recently he designed and implemented a new introducshytory mountaineering course for Outward Bound Sabah on the summit plateau of Mt Kinashy

balu Those of you who know me as plate licker from U of G get in touch he says Where are you Star I miss you He can be reached by e-mail at globarwchatonca or by

phone at 519-756-1697

Alumni Patrick Abbott BSA 40 July 7 1998

Albert Allen BSA 33 Jan 161994 Agris Ansmits BA 70 and MA 73

February 1998 Barbara (Quartermain) Babcock DHE

53 June 17 1998

Wray Bond BSA 34 Sept 25 1998

Kenneth Bone DVM 38 Dec 29 1998 Evelyn (Stevenson) Buhr DHE 39

May 251998 Philip Burke BSA 43 June 21 1998

Grant Carman BSA 49 Oct 221998 Frederick Chambers BSA 41

June 1998 Wilmot Conley ADA4 7 April 7 1998 Lloyd Crewson BSA 49 Aug 261998

Jacqueline Dimock DHE 47

Aug 20 1998 John Dingwall DVM 52

April 18 1998

Lloyd Dorsey BSA 38 June 9 1998 George Duncan BSA 37

Sept 19 1998

David Dyson BSA 53 Aug 31 1998

Norma (Shannon) Edwards DHE 39

November 1997 Vincent Bud Ellis DVM 41

July 15 1998 John Jack George BSA 48

Sept 24 1998

Donald Haight BSA 33 January 1997 William Hamlyn BSA 33 Dec I 1997

Gordon Harkness BSA 49

November 1997

Charles Hollister DVM 38 June 1996 Donald Hope BSA 54 June 28 1998

Lawrence Jefferson BSA 38

Sept 3 1998

James Kelso DVM 56 July 27 1998

Dorima Lalonde BSA 34 Oct 8 1998 Mildred (Cox) Large DHE 33

June 20 1998 Roger Larson BComm 86 Feb 19 1998 Robert Lawson BSA 49 June 6 1998

bull Doug Ramsey BA 91 and PhD 98 received U of Gs highshyest graduate student award shythe Forster Medal- at June convocation for his academic and community involvement while enrolled in Guelphs new

graduate program in geography He spent the summer as a visitshying research scholar at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College in Truro before assuming his curshyrent position as assistant professhysor at Mount Allison University

David Leach BSc(Agr) 74

July 18 1998

Ian Leask DVM 74 Sept 5 1998

Sheryl Lee BSc 95 June 8 1998 Ruby Janet MacAuley DHE 30

Aug 19 1998 Parker MacKenzie DVM 38

September 1994

Jeanice MacLaren DHE 28 March 1 1997

Campbell MacMaster DVM42

Oct 8 1998

Rex McCallum DVM 43 July 71998 Jean (Dunn) McMahon DHE 31

Nov 41998

Margaret Oones) McTaggart DHE 35 Aug 81998

Patrick McTaggart-Cowan HDSc 81

Oct 21997

Malcolm McWhinnie ADA 39

July 16 1998 Mary (Townsend) Mitchell BHSc

60 Sept 281998

Marjory Monaghan DHE 29

December 1997 Charles Monk BSA 44 Aug 7 1998

Heather Neilsen BHSc 59

Oct 30 1998 Jerry Niwa DVM 62 Aug 5 1998 Henry Harry OReilly BSA 42

October 1997

James Parr BSc(Agr) 81 June 19 1998 Charles Rammage DVM 45

Oct 17 1996 Howard Rapson HDSc 90

March 1997 Clement Reeds DVM 42 Oct 16 1998

William Robinson BSA 38

Aug 23 1998

Donald Sager ADA 73 Oct 141997

Austin Schaefer DVM 37 in 1997

Sandra (Mackenzie) Schmidt DHE 59

Aug 16 1997 Margaret (Harvey) Seaborn DHE 28

July 221998

Larry Seguin DVM 47 June 12 1998

Leah Shedden DHE 31 December 1998

Edward Shuh BSA 40 July 2 1998

Ted Shutsa BSc(Agr) 66

Sept 18 1998 Jim Sinclair DVM 49 Oct 4 1998

Margaret (Brown) Sinclair DHE 20

September 1998 Eldon Smith BSA 42 Sept 9 1998

Derek Somers DVM 96 Sept 25 1998

Cheryl Lynn Sopha BA 95 Sept 20 1998

Leona (Bartlett) Stewart DHE 35

June 27 1998 Alex Thomson BSc(Agr) 69

October 1996

William Whittick DVM 55

Aug 15 1998 Joseph Wilson BSA 23 Sept 11 1998

Lloyd Woolsey DVM41 June 24 1998

Winifred Yeates DHE 28 June 11998

Faculty John Carpenter BSA 43 and MSA 48

Microbiology Dec 10 1998

David Gaskin Zoology Sept 14 1998

Gordon Macleod BSA 50 Animal and

Poultry Science Nov 26 1998 Roman Retman Languages and

Literatures Sept 28 1998

Caesar Sen off Chemistry and

Biochemistry Aug 14 1998

Percy Smith Drama Dec 10 1998

Friends Robert Clark Aug 21 1998

Ethel Hammond August 1998

Thomas Hillers Sept 28 1998 Marguerite Holbrook Aug 26 1998

Catherine Kelly Sept 27 1998

James A McKenzie May 13 1998

Kenneth McIssac Oct 23 1998

William Mutlock September 1998 Roena Patterson Sept 16 1998

Donald Priddle Aug 25 1998

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bull Karl Reimer BSe 94 comshypleted a one-year intensive

MSc in mining engineering at

Queens University and is now

a project engineer a t Enpar

Technologies Ine in Guelph

He can be contacted at reimerbservcom

bull Nancy Nauta Rowland BA 90 and her husband Dan celshy

ebrated their first wedding

anniversary in March 1998 with

the birth of their first child

Connor who beat their March

8 anniversary by two days Nanshy

cy teaches junior-grade stushy

dents and junior special ed ucashy

tion for the Peel District School

Board The Rowlands live in

Caledon Ont

bull Fraser Stables MFA 98 was heralded by Toronto Globe 6shyMail critic Betty Jordan as a

formidable new talent followshy

ing the openi ng of his debut

gallery exh ibition in July The

Scottish artists work includes

sculpture video and mixed

media that explore notions of

flu x by interrupting the moveshy

ment of forms in space

bull Erin (Smith) Scott BSe(HK) 92 and Brad

Scott BSc(Agr) 91 of Lucan

O nt were married in 1993 and

had their first child Lucas in

August Erin works for Shopshy

pers Home Health Ca re in

London Brad is with New Life

Mills in Dunfield

bull Abby Simons BSc 95 and Martin Piche BSc(Agr) 95 were married in Mont-Tremshy

blant Quebec in 1997 She is a

customer service representative

with Kantech Systems he is

superintendent of Club de golf

vallee des forts They say theyd

love to hear from anyone headshy

ing to Montreal and can be

reached at 450-348-3860

bull Sylvia Tesori BSc 95 has been doing wildlife rehabilitashy

tion for the OSPCA Wildlife

Rehabilitation Centre in Midshy

land Ont since 1996

bull Chuck Thibeault BComm 94 is general manager of the

Putting Edge Corpora tion

which has two glow-in- theshy

dark mini-golf courses in

Ontario one in Bramp ton and

one in Richmond Hill He can

be reached in Richmond Hill at

chu ckttotalnet

bull Karen Thirlwall BA 93 is a

si ngersongwriter and guitarist

who began her stage career and

released her first album The Voice Inside Me while studying

languages at U of G She has

lived and performed in

11i stler BC for three years

and recently released a second

album called Wide-Eyed She

remembers many special

fr iends m ade at Guelph and

welcomes e-mail messages to

karenthirlwallhotmailcom

bull Christie (Johnson) and Steve

Tyler both BComm 91 live in

Cambridge Ont where

Christie is a personal banking

representative for the Royal

Bank Steve works with their

third-year design professor

Nelson Hofer in Mississauga as

a design consultan t Steves proshy

jects include the Windsor Casishy

no and U of Gs Creelman Hall

They have two children Jason

5 and Marcus 1

bull Julia White BA 91 lives in Guelph and is a small-business

accountant at Taves amp Co She

recently finished courses

towards a CGA designation and

would like to hea r from other

alumni who lived in Lambton

Hall in 198788 Send e-mail to

juliawhitesympaticoca

bull Andre-Denis Wright MSc 93 and PhD 98 is doing postshy

docto ral work in Perth Westshy

ern Australia He wants his

Guelph friends and Halifax

family to know he was thinking

of them at Christmas when it

was 40 C in Australia

bull Dave Yellen BComm 90 was recently promoted at the Gordon

Food Service to new-accounts

sales specialist for Metro Toronshy

to Having been in Ottawa for

the past few years Im hoping

to reacquaint myself with old

friend s from U of G in the Metro

area he says He lives in Scarborshy

ough and can be reached at 416shy615-2745 or davidysprintca

bull Halina Zaleski PhD 92 is a tenured professor in the

departm ent of animal sciences

at the Un iversity of Hawaii in

Honolulu She is a swine speshy

cialist involved in extension

programs for an area th at covshy

ers all of Hawai i and the PacifIC

basin She can be reached by

e-mail at halinahawaiiedu

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IF THERE ARE LIVESTOCK IN THE HOCKEY ARENA and

theyre not wearing skates its College Royal If there

are students sawing logs throwing pies baking cookies

and square dancing its College Royal When the entire

University of Guelph is displayed - from arts to zooloshy

gy - March 13 and 14 1999 youll know its definitely

College Royan

Since its inception in 1925 as an agricultural and liveshy

stock show run by the Ontario Agricultural College

College Royal has grown to be a celebrated U of G trashy

dition involving all the colleges

The event is famou s in the University community

and beyond for its open-house showcase of displays and

activities The largest student-run open house in Canashy

da College Royal attracts more than 20000 visitors to

campus over one weekend

College Royal is an event of tradition that reaches

into tomorrow Agriculture and livestock shows are still

highlighted events but College Royal activities have

grown to include dog and cat shows a photography conshy

test a chemistry magic show and demonstrations on

human health and fitness The open house gives people

an opportunity to see what happens in the Universitys

leading-edge research laboratories to observe veterinary

medicine in practice to tour a sculpture studio or to

watch a theatrical performance

To celebrate the 75th anniversary of College Royal

1998 president Joe TrakaJo lnvites alumni to get involved

again by joining one of the planning comm ittees or by

participating in a favourite event Call him for more

information at 824-4120 Ext 8366 or send e-mail to

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emerged as a global leader in animal breeding largest Ontario univers ity geographica lly when it125 YEARS OACs un ique and enduring relati onship wi th assumed res ponsibility for ed ucation resea rch andOF ACHIEVEMENT

the provincial agric ulture ministry is another addishy Iaboratory services form erl) managed by the minshy

tion to McEwe ns list of top achievements Certa inshy is try Guelph agric ultural expertise covers the 1950-1960

ly the most significan t even t in the last decade has provi nce with camp uses in Guelph Ridgetownbull Horticulture corre-

Kemptville a nd Alfred and a network of spondence course

research facilities that includes the Horshybull Business education Changing with society ticultural Resea rch Institute of Ontariobull Watershed research

diagnostic laboratories and 21 research bull Farm buildingWhen Adelaide Hoodless argued for the stat ions

programestablishment of Macdonald Institute in the The partnership with OMAFRA has

bull Computers in late 1890S she saw scientific training for kept agricultural education and research agriculture

women as a way to improve community at the forefro nt of the University of bull Corn expansionhealth standards The college has evolved Guelph More than 40 per cent of the Unishybull Deailing with continually through the years - growing versitys graduate studenllt are in OAC and

cold climate into the largest home economics facility in more than 70 per cent of its $80-million

bull CropOntario under dean Margaret McCready and research budget is focused on the ag rishyrecommendations

broadening its outlook in the 1970S under food indus try T hat commitment to

dean Janet Wardlaw to include consumer research is the earliest and most enduring1960-1970

studies and the hospitality industry Wardshy achievement out of the 125 bull OAC Alumnilaw set the tone for increased research OAC contin ues to lea d the way in

Foundationactivity and positioned the college to join research and is one of the most dynamshy

bull University of Guelphforces with the social sciences in 1998 ic co lleges in th e University saysbull Arboretum

McLaughlin But we draw on peoplebull Ag research

fro m all over the University communi shystations

ty And now with the provincial colleges bull International

added back into the mix we are ail workshyag research centres

ing as part of the sa me team to enhance bull Scholarships

been the launch of a new University relationship the opportunities availab le to yo ung people in agri shyendowments

with OACs oldest partner the Onta rio Minist ry of cu ltural edu cat ion bull International

Agriculture Food a nd Rural Affairs (OMAFRA) Alumn i have always held an important position apiculture

In 1997 the University of Guelph became th e on that tea m Among OACs top achievements is the

The OAC of today owes much to its past THE ONTAR IO AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE might never have existshy The journalist s role in establishing the college as the Ontario

ed if not for the failure of a Univers ity of Toronto experiment in School of Agriculture and Experimental Farm is bro ught into

agricultural education in the 18505 It certainly wouldnt have context in a new history of OAC that will be published in April

been situated in Guelph without the political parlaying of Guelph to help celebrate its 125th an niversary The College 011 the Hill A journalist and cleric William Clarke And it might not have surshy New History of the 011tario Agriwltuml College 1874- I 999 was

vived a traumatic first yea r o f patronage and scandal if it hadnt written by Guelph history professor Terry Crowley and Univershy

been for the acc iden tal appo intment ofVVilliam Johnston as prinshy sity professor emeritus Alexander Ross who wrote the origi nal

cipal in the fall of 1874 College 011 the Hill for OACs 100th anniversary

And that was just the beginning If the first book tdls us how OAC grew into the University of

One hundred and twenty-five years have passed since Clarke cuelph the second tells us why

successfully argued that the new province of Ontario needed a When the fledgling provincial government of the 1870s was

land-based rural college where the focus was on providing a pracshy glued togeLher by political patro nage how could th e sc hoo l be

tical education in farming The University of Toronto fai led to any different asks Crowley Two principals came and went withshy

attract farmers sons he sa id because it allowed the other proshy in its first year when rumours tore at their moral fibre so the job

fessions of medicine law and the clergy to overshadow agriculshy fell quickly to the new college rector William Johnston

ture Clarkes persuasive fiting in the then Olltario Farmer newsshy Because we already know how OACs story devdops we ca n

paper helped place the college on 550 acres of good clay loam see some iro ny in the fact that the man who nur tured this preshy

at the back door of his Guelph parish mier agricultural college through its infancy was educated in the

14 GVELPI-I AWMNvs

alumni initiative that es tablished the OAC Alumni work internship at the end of their third yea r and125 YEARS Foundation in the 1960s to provide financial supshy co me back to finish the fourth year with a job wa it shyOF ACHIEVEMENT port to co ll ege programs and scholarships The ing for them says McLa ughlin and they o ften have

foundation also provided the leadership and incenshy fo ur or fi ve to choose from vVe are very short of bull Teaching

tive to create Guelph Unive rsity Alumni Research graduates to fill all of the jobs that are o ut there now innovations

and Development (GUARD Inc) in bull Birdsfoot trefoil

1996 The manda te of the technology bull Land reclamation Educating Leadersmanageme nt company is to develop bull Rural planning

researc h i nven tion s in to marketable bull Wind and snow Guelphs agriculture graduates haveprod ucts lau nch spin-off companies

studies played key roles in Canadian agriculture and gene rate revenu es to support basic

bull Milk testing including federal ministers William Mothshyand applied research at U of G bull Ruminant nutrition

erwell Diploma 1881 John Wise ~DA 56Throughout OACs history alumni bull Ag poli cy and Lyle Vanclief BSc(Agr) 66 Mothshyhave formed a network ofAggies who

development erwell was a driving force behind the have volunteered their time to provide

western grain producers movement before 197deg-198o

a rea l-world view for students helped to

being named to Cabinet in 1921 In thelaunch the careers of many new grad ushybull Arboretum Centre 1980s Wise introduced income stabilizashyates by providing work opport unities bull Ghana-Guelph tion programs and created farm debtencouraged research initiatives co nshy

Project review boards Today Vanclief is strugshytributed millions of dollars to scholarshy

bull Integrated pest gling with low commodity prices and intershyship programs and voca lized co ncerns

managementabout college programs and curriculum national trade agreements

bull Composting animal After receivin g some critica l advice

wastesfrom alumni and agr i-food employers

bull Crop resistance toin the ea rly part o f the 1990s OAC

herbicideslaunched a new BSc(Agr ) program that

bull Limnocorrals for wil l gradu ate the fi rst class of st uden ts

aquatic ecosystems this anniversary year The new agriculshy

bull Grain drying and ture curriculum emphasizes communica tion skills in the agri-food sec tor he says

storageand teamwork allows students to choose their own If you live anywhere near Guelph youll know that

bull Asparagusspecializations and includes opportunities for onshy the agri-food sector ill this area is expected to lead the

bull Systemic fungicides the-job experience Many of those students take a local economy well into the new mi llennium creat shy

bull Pesticides research

bull Agricultural Code of

Practicesocial sciences Johnston had no real farm expeshy within the interdisciplin ary atmosphere of the

rience but he understood people well says Crow- University of Guelph OAC has both contributed

ley and he recognized almost as quickly as his students that the to and benefited iiom the Universitys steady growth Traditionshy

school would succeed only if it co uld offer farm ers sons someshy al OAC programs have expanded into new departments and colshy

thing more thall what they had already learned at home leges providing greater benefits to agri-food resea rch and teach shy

Johnstons commitment to education and his genui ne con shy in g New partnerships o n campus and th e academ ic freedom

cern for his students still echo through the corridors of the build shy provided by University sta tus have enabled Guelph to enlarge its

ing named in his hono ur a nd across campus in the broad range already significant influence in the agri-food sector

of disciplines that now nuke up the Un iversity of Guelph Johnshy Crowley says the enha nced partnership between U of G and

ston was the firs t of hundreds of hulllane and sensible people the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture Food a nd Rural Affairs has

who have given the campus its distinctive character says Crowshy fulfilled a vision of OAC as the hub of agr icultural educa tion that

ley The University of Guel ph is still a good place to be People had been expressed nea rly a cen tury before It s a good place to

help each other to a rema rkable degree and it is eve n m ore end a history and begin a future

remarkable that this sense of co-operatio n has lasted through the In Crowleys fi nal words Agriculture reta ins its econo mi c

most recent government meat slicing importance in the co untrys econom) but the secto r will find

Told in the social and political context of its 125 yea rs the itself [n an increasingly international and com petitive ellvironment -OAC story builds momentum as the pages turn The final chapshy where education and research become ever more importa nt Since

ter in Crowleys history is the most impressive because it SUIll shy the Ontario Agricultural College has demons t rated its ability to

marizes the last 25 years when developments in agricultural edushy respond to changing circumstances during its first 125 years the

cation research and service have occurred 1110st quickly Growing past suggests a willingness to meet the new challenges that await

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ing more jobs and generating more wealth than any 125 YEARS other industry A recent study by the citys Planning OF ACHIEVEMENT OAe 125 and Business Development Department predicts a

ANNIVERSARY EVENTS50-per-cent increase in employment in agri-food bull Mosquitoindustries in the next decade Broaden out to the

monitoring jan 29 - Official OAC 12S launch and bull Canadian publication of 125 Years of Achievements

Greenhouse Feb 16 - Winegard Seminar Series hosts New frontiers Conference Andy Johnson Seymour Wis

bull Non-agricultural March 5 - Winegard Seminar Series hosts At the tum of the 20th century Prof William waste on land Sir Colin Berry Royal London Hospital UKGraham created the impetus for a Canadishy

bull Pest diagnostic March 31 - Opening of AJ Casson Exhibitan poultry industry through nutrition studshyservice and selections from the OAC art collection ies that also provided a background for

at the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre work in human nutrition The tum of the 1980-1990 April 30 - Recognition of the 12s-year 21st century finds poultry scientist Ann Gibshybull Alumni House GuelphOMAFRA partnership and launch bins perfecting the techniques to transfer bull Turfgrass Institute of The College on the Hill A New History genetic material into chicken embryos to bull Centre for the of the Ontario Agricultural College develop birds with better disease resistshy

Genetic Improvement 1874 - 1999middotance or to improve production characterisshyof Livestock june 7 amp 10 - Spring Convocation for tics including the deposition of medically

bull Network of OAC diploma and degree graduates Eachvaluable proteins in the eggs Toxicology Centres graduate will receive a copy of College

bull Biological control lab on the Hill bull George Morris june 18 amp 20 - Alumni Weekend and

Centre opening of the Conservatory and Gardens bull Advanced Sept 14 to 16 - Canadas Outdoor Farm

Agricultural Show will host the countrys biggest silent Leadership auction as an OAC fundraiser for student Program support Ontario industry and the predictors are similar and

bull Distance education Sept 25 - Heritage Banquet and Ball for again youll find U of G at the hub of that growth bull Animal behaviour alumni agri-food partners and University In the past decade the view from Johnston Hall

and welfare communityhas expanded to include OMAFRAs provincial bull Farm animal care Nov 24 - Agri-Food Into the Newheadquarters and the U of G Research Park which bull Haploid breeding Millennium conference to discuss the majoris home to a branch of Agriculture and Agri-Food

technologies forces shaping the destiny of the global Canada the regional headquarters of the Canadian bull Hybrid canolc and Canadian agri-food systems and rural Food Inspection Agency and more than two dozen bull Consumer societiesbusinesses and agriculture organizations that are

benefits from key players in Ontarios industry

agricultural For more information on these events or toIn the summer of 1997 Guelph welcomed the research order copies of the anniversary books visit establishment of Ontario Agri-Food Technologies

bull Soybean the OAC 125 Web site at wwwoacuoguelph - a consortium of 12 grower associations five rhizobium 532C cajOAC125 or contact the deans office atOntario universities 11 industries and OMAFRA

519-824-4120 Ext 2285 e-mail oac125 - which is dedicated to generating wealth for the 1990S oacuoguelphcaprovincial agri -food sector through the application bull Guelph Food

of biotechnology The consortium will develop Technology

financing and the research teams needed to take in new business to the country s economyCentre

discoveries and turn them into products in the Some would suggest the growth of agri -food bull GUARD Incsupermarket partnerships is part of a global trend in economic bull Environmental

A new venture beginning this year is the Agrishy thinking that says consolidate cluster and work Farm Plan

Food Quality Cluster that seeks out opportunities together for greater rewards but the important thing bull U of GOMAFRA

for agri-food companies to work together to meet is that this agri-food sector is clustering in Guelph partnership

a specific need The Guelph duster is one of the first - around U of G - because this institution began bull Wheat in China

to be established in Canada but it already has 500 preparing for its future 125 years ago with a comshybull Food packaging

members and has predicted that potential projects mitmen t to leadership in agri-food research edushybull Transgenic plants

in Ontario could add $2 billion to $3 billion a year cation and service ga

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UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

rese~ tesch SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERYmiddot SCHOLARSHIpmiddot SOCIAL DEVELOPMENTS

WHEN 24 HOURS IN lea rning how to integrate work Runciman arrived at Guelph know they may be harm ful to

A DAY ISNT ENOUGH and fa mily life rath er than jugshy last summer after spending four their health

TRYIN GTO ACCOMMODATE the gling the two says Lero Inteshy years deSIgning orthopedic sysshy Most consumers are not demands of family and career is gration is key so tfut people can tems and instruments for Canashy aware that plants contain a comshya problem most peopl e fa ce in be successful in multiple roles dian and Ameri ca n firms He plex mi xture of biochemica ls todays society Those indi vidshy rath er than struggling from crishy hopes to establish a state-of-theshy says Prof Pra vecn Saxena Plant ual and family struggles will be sis to crisis art research lHboratory with Agriculture Herbal remedies the focus of the Universitys new HOLlsed in the College of Pro fs Jinl Dickey and Jack have been developed on historishy

Social and Applied j-Iuman Scishy Callaghan Human Bi010gy and cal and anecdotal evidence rather ences the centre brings togethshy Nutr itional Sciences that will than by scientitlc testin g he says er related resea rch areas und er allow him to pursue hi s twin Saxena is trying to change this by a sing1e roof and will spark new research interests in shoulder systematically identifying charshy

Family relations interdisc iplinary opportunities and spine mechanics acterizing and quantifying the experts recommend particularly for graduate st ushy The trio has appli ed for chemical constituents of plants parents integrate - not dents More than 50 fac ulty and fundi ng from the Natural Sc ishy used in a1ternative medicines juggle - work and staff ha ve indicated a desire to ences and Engineering Resea rch family life be affiliates of the centre which Co uncil to equip a biomechanshy

wijJ stimulate resea rch and forge ics lab already loca ted adjacent partnerships with organiza tions to U of Gs new Health and Pershy

Centre for Families Work and co rp orations and co mmunity forman ce Ce ntre in the recentshyWell-Being agenCies ly renova ted Powell Building

Headed by Profs Donna This funding would bring Lero and Kerry Daly Family BODY IS THE the lab up to date to meet intershyRe lat ions and Appli ed Nutri shy ULTIMATE MACHINE national standards says Runcishytion the centre will promote IM INTER ESTED in the app lishy man who p1ans to follow up on responsive wo rk env ironments cation of mechanical engineershy pioneering shoulder mechani cs and help families across Canashy ing to the human body The work he was invo lved in whil e He and grad uate students da manage wo rk and family body is the ultimate machine completing his PhD at Sco tshy Susan Murch and Co lleen Simshyresponsibilities in healthy ways So says Prof John Runciman lands Strathclyde Un iversity mons in th e Ontario Agri culshy

The centre will also be a catshy who recently brought his blend He hop es hi s studies will tural Co llege a1so wa nt to alyst for new researcl in areas of academic and industry expershy help orthopedic co mpanies improve the methods of growshyas diverse as health promotion tise in biomedical engineering design better implan ts used to in g medicinal plants to protect seniors long-term ca re nutrishy to U of Gs School of Engineershy correct such deformities as sco shy cons umers and ensure quality tion and wellness rural aging ing in the College of Phys ica l liosis or cur va ture of the spine Problems in the herbal remeshyand gender in the workplace A and Engineering Science and for treating shoulder insta shy dies industry include medicinal mandate of the centre is that the

IN FACT

bi lity often caused by injuries prepara tions containing misidenshyresults of its research must be among athletes tified plant species contaminashyapplied and availabl e to the tion by pests and disease a lack public to benefit those Canadishy RESEARCHERS of understanding of plant physshyans who ne ed help dealing with CULTIVATE QUALITY iology or efficacy for human conshythe accelerated pace of life nonshy IN HERBAL sumption ilnu co nsumer fraud shytraditional family relationsl ips MEDICINE Our research will help set a longer working hOLlrs globlt1lshy MORE AND MO RE Canadims are standard fo r the development ization and downsizing turning to natural remedies as of safe va lue-added products

The challenge for fam ilies is alternatives to medicine but few Saxena says

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RESEARCH UNCOVERS KEY

TO AGING RESEARCHERS may have found modern sc iences answer to th e mythica l Fountain of Youth

U of G professors John Phillips and Arthur Hilliker Department of Molecular Biolshyogy and Genetics and Gabrielle Boulianne of the University of Toronto and th e Hospital fo r Sick Children appear to have identified a critical weakness in the common fruit fl ys defence against aging

The researchers from the College of Biologica l Science di scovered that a specific cell type - th e motor neuron - is the major target for oxidative damage known for several years to be a key factor affecti ng aging and lifespa n They were able to boost a fruit flys defence against the damage by inserting th e human gene SOD1 which is known to protect against oxidashy

tive damage into the fly s DNA As a result the ave ra ge lifespa n of the fli es (us uall y about 80

days) was increased 40 per cent

PROFESSOR SURVEYS CANADIANS ON POLITICS ETHICS

of the most pampered celeb ri ty NEW WEAPON or the mo st prima donn a pro AGAINST BACTERIA athlete ANTflllOTlCS TYPICALLY have a

More than half of su rvey shelf life because bacte ria develshyresponden ts say they have little op resista nce over time but this or no confidence in Parliament wou ld not be a concern with a with the figure being even lower new sys tem fo r smuggling for the Senate In addition 34 per an tibiotics past bacterial walls

TI-lESE DAYS on both sides of the A molecular-level Trojan border what a politician says or ho rse is how Prof Terry Bevshydoes in private can have tremenshy eridge Department of Microbishydous impact on his or her public ology and graduate student Kelshycareer - but is th at appropriate ly MacDonald desc ribe the

Prof Maureen Mancuso of system theyre studying 1 t takes the Department of Polirical Scishy advan tage of a mechanism develshyence in the College of Social and oped by bacteria to attack an d Applied Human Sciences an d a co nsume neighbouring bugs team of four other political scishy Preliminary tests by the entists conducted a cross-counshytry survey of 1400 Canadians asking what th ey think of th e behaviour of their elected represhysentatives The res ults were pubshyli shed in October in th e book A

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WILL ONTARIO FARMERS GROW

HEMP U OF G SCIENTISTS are helping to determine the viability of hemp as a cash crop for Ontario farmers

Health Canada recently li ftshyed a 60-year ban on growing hemp and about 10000 acres are expected to be plan ted in Canada this year Hemp is an organic fibre tha t could be used in everythi ng fro m fabri c and medicine to oil and paper

Gordon Scheifele of Kemptville CoJlege and Peter Dragla of Ridgetown College are studying the potential of hemp as an Ontario crop Scheifele has completed initial test ing on nine varieties and a series of producshy

tion research experiments in northern parts of On tario Dragla has established breeding program trials and looked at commercial production of hemp varieties in southern Ontario He is also developing field instrushymentation to provid e field readshyings of tetrahydrocanmbinol the psychoactive ingredient in hemp

NO ONE KNOWS MORE ABOUT

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COLLEGE OF ARTS professor Ivlary Rubio and professo r emerita Eliza beth Waterston know more abo ut author LM Montgomery than anyone else in the world They were among the first academics to seriously study the world-famous author of Anne ofGreel Gables

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TRAINING VETS TO DEAL WITH CLIENT GRIEF

A NEW INTERACTIVE CD-RO M designed by Ontario Veterinary College professor Cindy Adams will help veterinarians learn to help clients gr iev in g over th e loss of a pet Titled Death of a Pet the CD-ROM is expected to be launched in February and is geared toward vets technicians and students

Adams who holds joint appo intments in the departshyments of Popu lat ion Medicine and Cli nical Studies and the Veterinary Teaching Hospital is an expert on the humanan imal bond She has developed in-sershyvice training workshops fo r vets on dealing with client grief over the loss of a pet and su pport groups for grieving pet owners

Inside Playwright Judith Thompson

BEHIND THE MASK

JUDITH THOMPSON A DRAMA PROFESSOR at the University of Guelph

since 1992 is one of Canadas finest playwrights Her complex and

sometimes disturbing plays give voice to human failings and accomshy

plishments A two-time winner of the Governor Generals Literary

Award she has received wide acclaim for her work

On the following pages the Guelph Alumnus profiles an artist

whose creativity finds expression through dialogue by offering a

faithful rendition of the dialogue between Thompson and Comshy

munications and Public Affairs writer Andrew Vowles Much like

the characters she unmasks on stage Thompson reveals both comshy

plicated and unexpected images of herself

PHOTOGRAPHY BY D EAN PALMER

20 GU ELPH A LUMNUS

NO The scene is the rehearsal space in Lower Massey Hall at the University of Guelph

Monday mid-morning Outside the warped-glass windows the first wet snow of the year

drops like pebbles Drama professor Judith Thompson is leading some 20 students in her

Acting I class through their warm-ups The students stand in a circle and take turns aiming

a mock blow as they shout the word No More she says to the less assertive To others

whose No sounds shredded over the top she holds up a hand More control Thompson

gestures to her diaphragm It has to come from here

SCENE THOMPSONS OFFICE MASSEY H ALL

On one wal l hang pictures of actors engaged

in a drama mingled with childrens sc hool

drawings The desktop is practically bare A

black purse occupies one chai r A scarf has

landed on the back of another This is where

the playw rig ht hangs her hat during her

classes and meets with studen ts She wri tes

at home in Torontos Annex neighbourhood

where she li ves with her husband Gregor

Campbell a sessional English inst ruc tor at

Guelph and their five children Ariane 13

Eli 10 Grace 8 Felicity 4 and Sophia J

SCENE U OF G LI BRARY ARCHIVES

Guelph Alumnus writer (readil1g from draft of Epilepsy and Snakes Fear as the Genesis of Theatre a talk given by Thompson to the Epilepsy Association of Metro Toronto ill 1997 The script for the ta lk is included among boxes ofcorrespo nde11ce numerous drafts of plays various newspaper and magazine artishycles and reviews ahout the playwright and her work that Thompson recently donated to the U of G Library archives)

1have known real fear only a few times

in my relatively sheltered life But 1

believe these moments of fear are

directly connected to the so urce of creshy

ativi ty within me

SCENE J UST ABOUT ANYWHERE YOU CAN

REA D A PLAY

GA writer (reading from introduction to Tho mpsons play Sled wh ich was first pro shyduced hy Torontos Tarragon Theatre in 1997)

Judith Thompson was born in 1954 in

Montreal She graduated from Queens

University in 1976 then graduated from

the act ing program of the National Theshy

22 GU ELPH ALUMNUS

I seem to give voice to people who

have no voice

atre Schoo l in 1979 Alth ough she

worked briefl y as a profess ional actor

she became more interested in writing

and at th e age of 25 a workshop of her

first scrip t The Crack walker was proshy

duced by Theatre Passe MuraiHe Her

work which includes both radio and

tel evisio n writing has enjoyed great

internationa l success

Other plays includ e The Crackshywalker White Biting Dog Pink Tornado - radio Am Yours Lion ill the Streets White Sand Perfect Pie and Stop Talking Like That- radio She is the recipient

of the Floyd S Chalmers Canadian Play

Award for Lion in the Streets in 199 1 and

Am Yours in 1987 and the Governor

Generals Literary Award for Drama for

The Other Side of the Dark in 1989 and

White Biti11g Dog in 1984

S CENE LUNCHTIME

U OF G UNIVERSITY CLUB

Thompson Im so grateful to have this job

beca use it allows me to do the work that s

important and the plays that will be my legashy

cy and tha t are what 1 feel I have to conshy

tribute to Canadian culture If I didnt have

thi s job Id ha ve to keep compromising

because my plays dont make money Theyre

always in sma ller houses I take chances

theyre not commercial They play all over

th e world but aha)s in sma ller places 1

would just have to pursue life as a screenshy

writer to make a living Thi s job gives

me the great privilege of doing my research

which is the plays that I write and the edishy

torial work that I some times do and screenshy

plays that are worthy and good projects

GA writer Audi ences and reviewers have

described your plays as dark disturbing full

of angry people full of profanity

Thompson At the risk of sounding

grandiosel seem to give voice to people who

have no voice or very little in the culture

whom people dont li sten to Liol1 in the Streets the handicapped wo man living in

the basement all on her own the yo ung girl

Iso bel The secretary stuck in this abu sive

relationship with the actor The middle-class

housewife dumped by her husband because

be doesnt like her sweatsuits and on and on

I give voice to them because I dont know

because I care abo ut them because I like to

represent them Im a lawyer Some of them

use profanity because they have really good

reason to be angry a nd most of th em are

powerless And unfortunately profanity has

a little charge Its a little source of baby powshy

er It upsets me I dont use it myself Im very

se nsitive to it

SCENE ARCHIVES

GA writer (reading essay by Thompson comshymissio ned by Toronto literary Journal Brick

in 995)

If I were not a writer 1 think 1 would

wear a riding hat With a stee l lining

Because I would be baving many more

epi leptic seizures than 1 do presentl y

Because any of the non-writer real jobs I have had caused me sleepless nights self-disgust swoll en eyes cystic acne and hearin g di sorde rs all of which increased electrical activity in my brain which I believe increases the frequenshycy of seizu res

SCENE UNI VER SITY CLUB

Thompson (discussing the critical and pubshylic reaction to her first play The Crackwalkshyer) It was slaughtered at first as all my plays have been Very bad reviews at first and then somehow they catch fi re and theres one grea t review and the others start to see something GA writer Why the bad reviews Thompson I think people might say that theyre shock ing but I dont think so not

with the movies we see and whatnot Theyre not shocking compared with Quentin Taranshytino But theyre not like anything else they dont know where to put them And when they dont know where to put them theyre dismayed I think and hostile and they feel challenged I just write as I see Im not tryshying to shock or challenge anyone I hope they do challenge - me too all of us I often feel li ke the little boy in The Emperors New

Clothes Look this is what I see

SCENE LOWER MASSEY HALL

Two Acting I students perform a scene on th e stage Their fellow stud ents sit on th e Aoo r watching Thompson sits forward on a plasti c chair forearms propped on her knees hands clasped before her Her eyes her bod y are intent on the action Later Amberley Buxton (fi rst-year student il1 Actshyil1g I who is pursuing a psychology major and a drama minor)

Its a really in tense class In one of our first classes we were to share something that had changed our perspective on li fe or how we thought every day Later during improvisashytion or scene work she had us draw on the emotional context fro m those stories to add to our acting experiences Its really intense in that way A lot of people share a lot of personal things and we use each others experiences

SCENE UNIVER SIT Y CLUll

Thompson Ea ch se meste r students go through an intensive transition In order to find your creative centre or trigger yo u need

to know yourself in an intell ectual context They reach that pl ace and find their genius My philosophy is that every stu dent has genius and its my job to uncover it My relationshi p is so intense with st udents The classes are very psychoanalyt ic It seems to tra nsform their life

SCENE LO WER MA SSEY

Buxton Even if we haven t encountered a similar situat ion in real life she has us draw on somethi ng similar For ollr exa m Im doing a monologue My character has been abused I havent been abused myself but I have to draw on a si tuation where I had sim shy

itar feel ings draw on some experi ence Like being teased at schoo l Even so mething as small as tha t if you find a way to get back to that

SCENE UNIVERSITY CLUll

Thompso n I llsed to be terrified In high school Id spend half my time in the nurses room because the idea of having a se izu re in front of yo ur peers at that age was just petrifying I did finall y have a seizure but luckil y no one was around at the time So I

think all of that puts me in touch with a lot in life I might not have been in touch with being fairly privileged not rich but eno ugh to be middle class A lot of my work is about class abo ut the class differentiation in Canashyda Ive somehow felt more all ied to a less adva ntaged class My gra ndfather once sat as prime minister of Australia My grandshyfa ther on the other side was a member of the Royal Society an entomologist but his mother died in childbirth and he was brought up as a cousin on the farm outside of London And my Australian grandfath er was one of 1I siblings in a shack by the side of the railroad His father had di ed He walked barefoot to school so I th ink because its just two generations away I feel it in my bones and my blood GA writer How did you get to writing Thompson Through ac ting Ive been involved in thea tre since I was II years old I was Helen Keller for a university show my mother directed She had an [vIA in th eatre and she taught it at Queens I was in TILe Crushycible when I was 12 in Kingston and Jean Brodie and on and on and on I would just lisshyten to aU these wonderful lines and words and it all kind of enrered me And acting is where I reaU y found my niche as a person The theshyatre became my home Then I went to theatre schoo l as an actress but I started to create mask characters through improvisation Thats where I really took off in a big way and where I found myse lf very very excited GA writer VVhat we re you excited abo ut Thompson I was doing the writing And I felt frankly that I did it much better than most of the texts I was working with Not Shakespeare but and its not a matter of better it s thats where I belonged So I would go home and write down the charshyacters that r crea ted that day in class and make th em talk to each odler and thats how The Craekwalker happened

I spent a summer in Toronto looking for acting work and I go t a few jobs But every day for a co uple of hours I would write at a typewri ter and I found these voices comshying At the end of it I sa id to someone You know I think this isnt bad I think this might eve n be a play At the Na tional Theatre shySchool they said to me Youre pretty handy with these monologues but dont ever think you could write a play (Pause) I enjoy telling th at tale on them

WINTER 1999 23

SCENE LOWER MASSEY

Buxton It was my fint time doing mask work She had us sit with the masks on and just sta re at ou rselves in the mirror We did it for an hour staring at the mask feelin g the mask It was a phenomenal eilVer ience the Wily youre able to transform yourself It was almost as if you werent look ing at you That helped yo u to walk differently You were able to shed your

own movements and personality

SCEN E UNIVfRSITY CLU B

Thompson I think thil t seizures can transshylate into creativity are part of me as a cre shyltltive artist Peop le in the medical busin ess are very skeptical of ltll1ything like this But I fee l it s because I have fewer inhibitors in my bra in You have these inhibitors and thats what medication helps But if youre epi leptic your inhibitors Ment working as well to put out the electrical fire so it spreads I think the door to my un conscious is kind of flapping around so J think that helps creatively

SCENE MA SSEY HALL

Student (steppingforwmd) NO I Thompson (quietly) Good

SCENE ARCHIVES

GA writer ( reading fiom Epilepsy and Sna kes)

I have no doubt that my experience with epi lepsy has con tributed to my creative wo rk partly because it hE Jped me to understand what it is to be marginalized to be isolated to be feJ rful and to be out of control and eve n to be mortal

SCENE U NIVERS IT Y CLU B

Thompson Unchecked id can mean scrawlshying on the walls crazy things muttering in stree t corne rs beca use th ey re all id no su perego But I had the luck to be born into a theatrical famiJy my mother havin g the theatrical experience so I was exposed to it Lots of books I was taken to 1 lor of plays Having ep il epsy my first seizure when I was nin e J was able to link with that If I hadnt had those advantages who knows the se izur es migh t have ju st made me a depressed person an angr y person And you re touched with mortality you always live und er siege a slight fear of having a se izure Its much less so now with me

24 GUELPH ALUM NUS

SCENE UNIVERSITY CLUB

Thompson Ive always been a mimic in a cheap way I could always mimic we ll I would raLk to someone on a bus and I could do them exactly Thats kind of dangerous because it can be pretty shallow But it showed me ltl way into the person throu gh voice And once J could do that like a pupshypet something would click and I cou ld get

in in a deeper way J need to get so thoroughly into the charshy

acte rs and their state of mind and especialshyly tapping repressed el11orion which gets you in touch with your id or unconscious li fe If

I take little sections of

myself and grow them in a petri dish of the play

one character is about rage I have to tap into my own rage and that s why the monoshylogues so things can just flow and then I can retrieve things from the past and remember things So its not working from here (gesshytures to midriff) it s wo rking fro l11 here (gesshytures to head)

Mo nologues for me are always the key to findin g out who th e character is because if you cant make them rant for fi ve minutes you dont know th em Tha ts what I tell my

playwriting students I want to see r-wo pages of this characters mouth In other words to speak for five minutes we have to have

so mething to say We have to have something we feel passionately about something were angry about and if we dont have something to say for fi ve minutes who are we

SCENE UN IVERSTTY CLUB

GA writer Vhere do you see what eventushyally becomes a play such as Sled 1110mpson I was at a lodge and saw a moose that s one thin g And that made me think about winter and how the country is always with us as Ca nadians Even in the urban censhytres we ca rr y it wi th us Theres always this

see ming division between the country the wilderness and civilized centres but its the same The wildness of the moose and the

hunt and the bear is in our neighbourhoods I guess its like Lion in the Streets it must be a thing with me And also the exquisite beaushyty and thats how most of the world thinks of Canada as the wilderness Its not quite how we think of ourselves but it is partly So that made me want to do something abo ut the Nor th violence in the North

As far as th e old mans stories that was my neighbour and he told me all those stoshyries they were all true except mltlyb e one or so and I thought Theyre amazing They teilus what our neighbourhoods Me really about and Toro nto what the city is how its const ru cted Toronto is our stories and in th ese neighbourhoods you have an urbane entertainer li ving nex t to an 80-year-old Italia n man and thats the beauty ofToronshyto ltllld its the way th e world is chan ging The stric t class divis ions and culture divishysions th eyre no longer as defin ed as they we re espec ially in th ese neighbourhoods the great pioneering experimen t GA writer Do your chi ld ren see your work Thompson No None of my children can see my plays Ariane saw f Am Yours in New York when she was about nin e I do cl eal with the dark and whats tru e and my chilshydren aren t ready for that Im probab ly more protective th an mos t mothers Walk them

to school till theyre 13 that ki nd of thin g GA writer Yo u we re intervi ewed in the Globe alld Mail recently in a story about motherh ood dnd th e muse How do yo u handle th e demand s of motherh ood and writing

Thompson If Im in the situation where I have 15 or so hours of child care a week Im OK because when Im with them I wa nt to be with them and when ]m doing my work

th ats what I clo But if I do something like a worko ut thell a black cloud descends The guilt and the black cl oud th at descend as I take off on my bike it s huge Then once the workout s finished I know it was d good

thing to do although it s also cut into my

work time J do feel guilty about the nilture of my work too in that my kids cant see it Am I drawing on a part of me thats not good as a mother The oth er part of me is th at I make up bedtime stories and bake coo kies and all thlt stuff ]m probably a

rather operatic mother I cry at movies laugh too hard __

SCENE ARCI-I[VES

GA writer (reading fiom Epilepsy and Snakes)

1

Although being a dramatic writer has

given me a reputation in my cou ntr y

and a strong identity the actof writin g

or creating character leaves me SOJlle shy

times feeling that I have no id entity at

all Every once in a while when I am not

writing or tending to my four children

I feel I 1m falling again down th e terrishy1 ble hole with nothing to hold on to

And I believe this falling this identity

pain is a result of me using the very

essence of Ill yself to create character in

a dramatic wo rk r wonder so metimes

if J illl1 betraying my soul in a way by

using its essence However J have found

some comfo rt in the words ofWilliall1

Blake Essence is not Identity but from

Essence proceeds Identity and from one

Essence may proceed many Identities

as from one Affection Jlla y proceed

many thoughts If the Essence was

the sa me as the Identit y there could be

but one Identity which is fal se Heaven

wo uld upon this plan be but a clock

but one and the sa me Essence is th ereshy

fore Essence and not Identity

SCENE UNIVER SIT Y CLUB

Thompson I always put myself in a play and

never In other words I take little sections of

myself and grow them in a petri dish of th e

play So if Ive found a moment where Im a

bit lazy ]11 grow it and milke the character

very lazy o r impatient or whatever So I take

these moments because we all have all of

them grow th em and create this Frankenshy

steins monste r a character right out of parts

body parts and psychological parts often of

myself and then observe things in other peoshy

ple but I have to find it in myself to make it

work

SCENE AR C H1V ES

GA writer (reading from Epilepsy al1d Snakes)

My self asserted itself as a kind of quishy

et Lucille Ball c1ulllsy and absent-mindshy

ed At least this gave me an identity and

was a small aCI of slbo tage The next

assertion was an act of unconscio us rev shy

olution th e grand mal seizure that

almost killed me And the next one was

The Crackwalker my first play And this

is how I raged against the machine and

took space in the world And now not

surprisin gly I am seizure-free

SCENE LOWER MASSEY

After another pair of acto rs rUllS through

their scene Thompson directs them to begi n

again She interrupts frequently to question

the students about actions feelings motishy

vations At one point 8S the students pause

to consider her words Thompson turns to

the rest of the class erect in her cha ir

Thompson Isolate the mom ent The great

thing about the stage is th at it isolates the

moments that just race by us_

SCENE UNIVERSITY CLUB

Thompson Ive just written my next play

which is not ca lled Pefeet Pie but thats its

working title because it came from a mon oshy

logue called Perfect Pie But now its a full

two- haul play in which the second wom3n

comes back and tben I have them as yo ung

girls too It goes back ~nd forth and its very

exciting I worksbopped it in the spring and

in December at tbe Tarragon and it will go

on in o ne year At the sa me time lm wr itshy

ing a feature film for Rho mbus based on the

play Pe feet Pie

SCEN E UNlV ERSITY CLUIl

Thompson My pIalS are Illusically written

And if somebody doesnt get the music they

dont feel it and go with the rhythm s it

throws the whole thing off I hear the plays

I hea r them I write with my ear They

change 1 lo t but it s according to rhythm

I ll be sitting in rehea rsal listening and if it

does nt so und ri ght I change it so that its

rhythmic

SCIi -JE J UST AllOUT ANYWHERE YOU CA N

READ A PLAY

GA writer (readmg ji-olll the script ofvVbite

Biting Dog first produced at the Tarragon Th eatre in 1984)

Beciluse of the ex treme and deliberate

lllu sica lity of this play any allempts to

go aga inst the tex tual rhythms such as

th e breaking up of an unbroken senshy

tence the tlking of a pause where none

is written in are DISASTROUS The

effect is like beil1g in a small plane and

suddenly turning off the ignition It all

falls down This play III list SPIN not

just turn around

SCfN e LOWER MASSEY

Her students listen as Thompson stands to

complete a so liloq uy abo ut cap turing the

rhythm of the language on the stage The

wide sleeves of her ank le-length dress slide

down her forea rm s as she ges tures

Thompson Listen to the music of the

scene Each playwright writes their own

symphony

SCENE U NIVERSlTY CLUB

Thompson Ive been pretty directed to this

ii-om an carly age although if I had done anyshy

thing else it probab ly wou ld have been some

form of social work I would have been smokshy

ing three packs of cigarettes a day and workshy

ing il1 an office somewhere up in Scarborough

SC EN E AfltCHIVES

GA write r (reading from Brick interview of Thompson by Eleanor Wachtel ]99] )

In th e thea tre I think what one mllst

do is co nfront the truth confront the

emot ional truth of our li ves which is

mired in the swamp of minuriae

everyday minutiae Maybe it has to be -tl111 way because we couldnt confront

it every day But I think the th eatre

IllllSt Im not interested ill th eatre that

doesnt ga

W1NTER 1999 25

Never mind fish wars pitting countries against one another - here in Canada scientists and policy makers cant agree on who should control the preservation and management ofour own fishery resources BY ANDREW VOWLES

Ca

as

ollapsed cod stocks to the east

On the West Coast laquofish wars

_ rlTDT Pacific salmon enmesh

Canada and the United States

At various points in between fisheries scishy

entists and managers grapple with everyshy

thing from overfishing of freshwater

stocks to invasion by exotic molluscs

What is to be done about Canadian fishshy

eries And what role is being p layed by

fisheries and aquatic scientists at the Unishy

versity of Guelph

-

dock pollock red fish and flatfish made up just under half of Canadas total landings on the Atlantic coast (720000 tonnes of fish and shellfish were caught in 1994 represhysenting a total landed value of $11 billion) Two year~ later that proportion had dropped to 21 per cent with shellfish and open ocean fish specie~ notably Atlantic

Begin in the Atlantic The crisis on the East Coast has become a disaster So says laquoWE NEED TO TRY TO SEPARATE OUTGuelph zo ology professor John Roff enushymerating the litany of woes that have surshy

THE FISHERIES MANAGEMENT DECISIONSfaced from Ca nadas marine fishery in the past decade Although some fish and shellshy

FROM THE POLITICAL DECISIONSfi sh are holding their own stocks of other species have experienced declines raquo

ASSOCIATED WITH THE FISHE RY

down that fishery in 1992 Over fishing and under which it has been buying up fishers

Even when stocks do rebound rarely do we fully und erstand why he says Theres a complex of problems to be disshy more for cod stocks to rebound says Roff entangled involving overflshing long- and co-editor with colleague Prof Moira Fergushyshort-term climate change and changes in son of the respected Canadian Journal ofFishshyocean current systems and productivity eries and Aquatic Sciences A wise course of

And of course the once-thriving northshy action for a fisherman in Newfoundland ern cod that first drew Europeans with their would be to seU his licence and do something nets to the Grand Banks 500 years ago have else he says (Last fall the federal governshycoUapsed to the point that Ottawa had to shut ment announced its final retirement program

the failure of federal fisheries managers to heed the warnings of scientists have been blamed for the coUapse Even with the lllorashytoriulll in place it may take two decades or

licences in Atlantic Ca nada and Quebec) In 1992 - the year Ottawa imposed its

moratorium on the northern cod fisheryshylandings of groundfish including cod had-

salmon making up the difference [n 1995 the total groLlndfish catch reached its lowshyest level in two decades

Unlike the Ea st Coast fi shery which relies most ly on ocea n-living fish the Pacifshyic fishery is dominated b) migratory species Some 300000 tonnes of fish and shellfish were harvested along the west coast in 1994 worth a landed value of $550 million (Arcshytic marine fisheries and their management differ from those on the coasts although cOl11mercial and recreational fisheri es are small here food fisheries are important to

U OF G AQUATIC SCIENCES EXPERTISE CATCHES WORLD ATTENTION

Landlocked in the middle of the courltry U ofG nevertheless boasts fish pathology and diseases including farmed fish diseases fish an enviable record and range ofexpertise in aquatic sciencesshy hormones and reproductive physiology including the effects of marine and freshwater - dating back to the late 1960s Thats when environmental contaminants early life history and behaviour Prof Keith Ronald thell chair of the Department ofZoology (and of fi shes and biology of tuna later dean of the College ofBiological Science) began a marine biolshyogy program at the University Today Guelph has the largest Partnered with the A-erod Institute of Ichthyology in U of group of ichthyologists - scientists who study fish - in Gs Aquatic Sciences Facility the r[agen Aqualab is an North America investigating a wide variety ojIre~hshy aquatic research and teaching facililY for studying water alld marine fisheries and aquatics topics aquatic organisms Environmentally controlled

rooms in the Aqualab allow faculty and students to U of Gs Axelrod Institute of Ichthyology houses simulate habitats as diverse as the Arctic Ocean and one of the worlds largest collections of museumshy tropical rainforest pools The facility is named for quality fish fossils donated to the University by its principal benefactor Rolf Hagen founding presshy

ident of Canadas largest pet store 5llpplier J 989 The institute which provides space for fisheries research and visiting scientists brings together 12 core U of G U of G faculty edit four internationally recognized journals researchers in fisheries and aquatic sciences whose interests and in ichthyology fisheries and aquatic science Awarded to U of G by expertise span environmental contaminants and parasitic disshy the National Research Council in 1997 the Canadian Journal of eases evolutionary genetics of marine and freshwater fishes Fisheries al1dAquatic Sciellces is co-edited by zoology professors

US ichthyologist and author Herbert Axelrod in

28 GUELPH ALUMNUS

northerners including shrimp Atlantic salmon and arctic char) Accountin g fOI almost half of that total were Pacific salmon which ret urn from the ocean to spawn in home streams and rivers up and down the coast of Alaska British Columbia and Washshyington There are actually five main spec ies of sa lmon that run down the BC coast shysockeye (t he most va luable commercial species) chinook coho chum and pinkshyfrom spring to December

Its a very complex jurisdictional and multi-user problem says Roff Bes ides degradation of freshwater spawning habishytats and ocean climate effects of El Nill0 the West Coast fishery is a cauldron of ten shysions between various groups perennial fish wars between Ca nada and the United States disputes that pit sport fishers against native fishing rights Recognizing the problems of low ocean productivity habitat damage overfishing and indiscriminate fishing pracshytices that take weak and strong stocks alike Ottawa is developing a new policy to guide Canadas Pacific salmon fisheries focusing on conservation sustainable use and improved decision-making

That potent mix of overfishing and habishytat degrada tion is also a problem for Canashydas freshwater fisheries A report tabled last fall by the federal standing committee on

fisheries and oceans called for more federal funding for research and fisheries programs in central and arctic regions of Canada Accord ing to that report the Grea t Lakes commercial fishery is one of the largest freshwater fisheri es in the world worth an average landed value of more than $40 milshylion a year and an eco nomic impact of at least $250 million Some 90 per cent of that catch is exported The neck lace of lakes threading its way to the St Lawrence River also supports the largest fres hwater sports fishery in the world 800000 Ontarians fish on the Great Lakes eve ry year contributing $850 million to the economy

In Manitoba managers are concerned about the long-term susta inability of freshshywater fish stocks particularly declines in Lake Winnipeg and the northern part of the province caused by overfishing environshymental degradation loss of prime spawning habitat and predators The province has seen stocks rise and fall particularly of pickerel Manitobas highest-priced fish In an attempt to manage the fishery in a sustained fashion the province recently introduced a qu ota entitlement system for anglers Joe OConshynor director of the fisheries branch of Manshyitobas Department of Na tural Resources says his department is wrestling with the environmental threats on fish habitat posed

by farming and hydroelectric development In Ontario fisheries are genera lly in

pretty good shape says Evan Thomas fishshyeries section manager of the fish and wildlife branch of the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (OM NR) Ontario supports almost half of all recreational fishing in Canada with more than two million adult anglers and more than $2 billion a year spent on recreational fishing in the province Onta ri o is also home to Canadas larges t commercial freshwater fishery worth abo ut $40 million a Yfar in land ed value

Thomas says over fishing is still the numshyber one problem Others include habitat loss the potential effects of climate change and contin ued invasion by exotic species Among the management opt ions his minshyistry is exploring are more effective fisheries regulation more rapid inventory and assessshyment techniques fish culture for rehabilishytating populations and controlling nutrient inputs into lakes and rivers

We are clearly looking for federal supshyport for the sea lamprey control program he says referring to recommendations in the recent federal fisheries committee report as well as changes to the federal Fishshyeries Act to hand the province more authorshyity over fish habitat protection

Concerns continue in Ontario over

Moira Ferguson and John Roff Fish Physiology and Biochemistry the top-ranked journal in its field is edited by Prof John Leathershyland chair of the Department of Biomedical Sciences in the Ontario Veterinary College University professor emeritus Eugene Balon has served as editor-in-chief of Environmental Biology ofFishes since he founded the publication in 1976 Zoology professor David Noakes edits Guelph Ichthyology Reviews whose articles synthesize and review all aspects of fish science Both of the latter

Under the Canadian contribution to the project - furided by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council - about 80 federal government and university researchers are trying to learn more about how bioshylogical and physical processes in the oceans affect fish stocks

Zoologychair Prof Paul Hebert has led a Guelph initiative to develshyop multimedia learning resources d1at teach student~ from

are published in the Axelrod Institute of Ichthyology

Based on data from geographic information sysshytems zoology professor John Roff has mapped types of habitat associated with various species of fish and other organisms around Canadas coasts and throughout tl1C Great Lakes the first time such

e1ementaIy grades to university about Canadas aquatshyic environments His department has developed a series of CD-ROMs that provide information on all the major animal groups in the Great Lakes Already available are educational CD-ROMs on Canadas aquatic environments (also available on

d1e World Wide Web) Great Lakes biodiversity and a marine classification system has been developed in this country His report was commissioned by World Wildlife Fund Canada for its Endangered Spaces Campaign and contributes to RoWs work as chair of the scienrillc committee of Globec (Globshyal Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics) a two-year-old international research program intended to better understand ocean ecosystems

birds of the Great Lakes The latter is the first disc in a series called the Great Lakes Faunal Atlas which will eventually cover mammals amphibians reptiles fish and crustaceans

The Alma Aquaculture Research Station es tablished in 1989 and funded through a 20-year development grant by the Ontario

WI NTER 1999 29

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various invas ive species that have turned up

in the Great Lakes - notably sea lampreys

zebra mussels and quagga mussels - many

of which arrive in ballast water of ocea nshy

going vessels (Many have also found their

way into Manitoba says OConnor who

points to the effects of sm elt on whitefish

the main commercial species in Lake Winshy

nipeg) Among o ther meas ures the federal

fish eries committee report called for guarshy

anteed funding for sea lamprey control and

for scienti fic research

I think more money will come says

Prof Bill Beamish Zoology a commissionshy

er on the Great Lakes Fisheries Commission

the 40-year-old governing body that co-ordishy

nates resea rch programs between Canada

and the United States and advises both govshy

ernments It was a review led by Beamish

more than a decade ago on the sta te of

Canadas freshwater fi sheries that provided

the scientific underpinnings for a landmark

report published in 1988 that spelled ou t a

way in freshwater fisheries is a lon g-te rm

project fund ed by the OMNR and the

Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO)

to re-establish native species in their origishy

nal habitats a round Lake Ontario iVlari e

Clement a graduate student of zoology proshy

fe sso r David Noakes is studying Atlantic

sa lmo n which was wiped out of the lake

CONSIDERING WE HAVE THE

BEST FISHERY SCIENCES COMMUNITY

IN THE WORLD WE OUGHT TO

BE DOING BETTER

national strategy for freshwater fisheries

Beamish who has studied sea lampreys

for several decades at Guelph and also invesshy

tigates fish habitat loss says money is need shy

ed to help researchers investigate biological

controls as an alternative to chemical lamshy

pricides The recen t repo rt also notes the

need to address the effects of other nonshy

native exotic species on n ative fish stocks

and water quality and calls on Ottawa to

stem the funding decline in freshwater scishy

ence over the last two decades

One example of the kind of work under

and its tribu ta ry streams near the beginning

o f this century by overflshing and habitat

destruction and alteration Last fall Clement

placed eggs into a site in the Credit River

she has been monito ring oxygen availab il shy

ity durin g their incu ba tion to gau ge sedishy

mentation rates in the river This spring and

summer she wili study how newborn fi sh

interact with other species in th e r ive r

C lement says her docto ral research proshy

ject is but one piece of a larger project aimed

at re-establishing the heritage species Othshy

er researchers hop e to learn whe ther th e

Ministry of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs brings together

researchers for interdisciplinary studies of protein requirements

of arctic char improving fish semen and egg management proshy

cedures and understanding hormone activity in fish The station

acts as a quarantine unit for new fish varieties entering Ontario

and serves as a base for parts of certificate courses and a masters

program in aquaculture

farms in Canada He and fellow Guelph zoologists Eugene Balon

(co- founder of the Coelaca nth Conservat ion Council) and Jim

Bogart also identified and characterized the coelacanth which

had been thought extinct until a specimen was landed off Africa

in the la te 1930s Noakes confirmed the identity of ano ther of

these living fossils discovered in 1997 it appears to belong to a

second popula tion living in the Indian Ocean about 10000 kilo-

metres away from tha t first find

Zoology professors Moira Ferguson and Roy Danzshy

mann use molecular genetics techniques to identishy Zoology chair Paul Hebert was the first scientist to

fy DNA markers used to pinpoint the location of identify the presence in the Great Lakes of zebra

genes associated with growth spawning times mussels a prolific invader that has wreaked havoc

rates of development maturity and temperature in many ways from clogging water-intake pipes to

tolerance in rainbow trout Isolating and identifyshy consuming plankto n thus allowing light to reach

ing genetic markers fo r desirable traits will help fish bottom-dwelling organisms that may displace native

farmers and breeders cross-breed more effectively species The first researcher to report on the biology

conservationists will be better able to manage and preserve and impact of the zebra mussel on the Grea t Lakes was

genetic variability among wild fish stocks Guelph zoology professor Gerald Mackie whose studies showed

that the organisms faster growth rate and higher fecundity and

Zoology professor David Noakes has stuclied varieties of arctic population density will probably enable it to displace many native

char native to Iceland to find ones suited to being raised on fish bivalves and disrupt entire lake ecosystems

30 GUELPH ALUMNUS

LEADING RESEARCH

The University of Guelph has one orthe largest and most active groups of aquatic biologists in the world

bull More than 50 faculty and 100

graduate students research

assocrates and postdoctoral

fellows

bull Over 1000 published scientific

articles books monographs

films and videos in the past

decade

bull Interdisciplinary programs

involving more than a dozen

academic departments

bull The largest group ofichthyoloshy

gists (scientists who study

fish) in North America

bull Collaborative research with

government environrriental

organizations and academic

institutions worldwide

bull Expertise covering the entire

aquatic food chain from plankshy

ton to whales

bull Leading developments in comshy

puter-based educational mate-

rials in aquatic sciences

bull A new $6-million Aquatic

Sciences Facility

bull Research support from national

and international agencies

business and industry

adults will be able to return from the open

lake to their stream spawning grounds If

they come back will the eggs survive she

says If were able to show the eggs can surshy

vive that will be very encouraging for

Atlant ic salmon restoration

What is to be done to ensure the survival

not just of Atlantic salmon in Lake Ontario

but also of the co untrys freshwater and

m ar ine fisheries We need to try to sepashy

rate o ut the fisheries management decisions

from the political decisions associated with

the fi shery says zoology professor Glen Van

Der Kraak director of U of Gs Axelrod

Institute of Ichthyology Van Der Kraak who

studies the effects of toxic contaminants on

fi sh populations says policy mltkers need

to rely on the advice of fisheries sc ientis ts

making conservative harvest ing estimates

So often scientists make decisions and then

are overrun by the politics he says (Never

mind fish wars pitting co untries against one

another - here in Ca nada scientists and

policy makers wres tle over the question of

who should be respo nsible for what aspects

of the countrys fisheries as witnessed in a

war of words played out in the Canadian Journal ofFisheries and Aquatic Sciences over

the past 18 months between biologists at

several Canadian univers ities and the DFO

over the relationship between fishery sc ishy

ence and fishery policy)

Roff says theres nothing unique about

Canadas fish problems Its not really a

Canadian problem its a worldwide probshy

lem The only fisheries worldwide that are

not over fished appear to be some not yet

fully exploited in the Indian Ocean

After nearly four decades of growth the

worldwide marine ca tch levelled off in the

1990s to some 90 million tons a year The

m ain problems coastal pollution habitat

destruction and particula rly overfishing

Noakes editor of the journal Guelph Ichthyology Reviews contrasts the few hunshy

dred people who might have made th eir

livelihood aboard small wood en boats on

the Grand Banks several centuries ago with

the massive factory trawlers that now scour

todays coast People are much too efficient

in terms of catching fish he says Noakes

concurs with fellow Guelph researchers that

conservation of fish stocks has to reach the

top of fishery managers agendas

hat does set Canada apart is the breadth

and depth of expertise in fisheries and aquatshy

ic sciences in this country - rather a parashy

dox when you consider that Canadas record

in fisheries preservation is apparently no betshy

ter than that of many other nations

Considering we have the best fishery scishy

ences community in the world we ought to

be doing better says Roff Within the last

decade th e federal government withdrawal

o f support from the Department of Fishshy

eries and Oceans and university researchers

has been massive At the very time when the

resources were gett ing into severe problems

and when the federal government ought to

have been funding research theyve been

substantially withdrawing resources ga

DONT WAIT UNTIL SPRING The opportunity to double the impact of your gift to the University of Guelph ends on March 31 1999 Until that date all gifts designated to endowed student financial aid at Guelph will be matched by the Ontario Student Opportunity Trust Fund (OSOTF) That means that every dollar you commit will contribute two dollars to financial aid for Guelph students

If you would like to support our students throug h OSOTF you still have a w indow of oppor nishyty to have your do l1a rs doubled But only until March 31 1999

If you have already made a pled ge to OSOTf through U of Gs ACCESS Fund thank you [or your ge nerous support Please comp lete your payme nts by March 31 1999 to e nsure that your gi ft is matched

For more information contact Rudy Putns in Guelphs office of Development and Public Affairs at -519-824-4120 Ext 6384 Fax 519-822-2670 E-mail alumniuoguelphca

WINTER 1999 31

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

n ALUMNI PROF IL E

LETS LOOK AT THE OPPORTUNITIES

WHEN I-IE BECA ME president of the Unishy

versity of Guelph Alumni Association

(UGM) in June Jim Weeden brought new

enthusiasm and ideas for encouraging alumshy

ni to stay in volved with their alma mater

And he wants to start with students

Weeden reca ll s his own ex perience at

U of G where he fo und a sense of commushy

nity by living in residence and ge tting

involved in college activiti es But when he

graduated with an engin ee ring degree in

197 1 he left to begin a caree r and says he

didnt think much about the University until

he needed it again in the 1980s to pursue a

graduate degree in agricultural enginee ring

He spent his early career working as an

agricultural extensi o n engineer for the

Ontario Department o f Agriculture and is

stiU with its successo r the Ontario Ministry

of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs

(OMAFRA) Weed en completed the masshy

ters degree in 1986 when he was head of the

agricultural engineering program and extenshy

sion services a t Centralia College of Ag rishy

cultural Technology

In 1987 he moved to the ministrys plant

industry branch as program m anager and

later held the same position in th e resources

manage m ent branch Sin ce then he has

worked for OMAFRA in Woodstock and

now Stratfo rd He is technical adviser fo r

Ontarios Enviro nmental Farm Planning

Program is respo nsible for o ther environshy

m ental programs and consults with the Minshy

istry o f th e Environment on local agriculshy

tural pollution problems

w Weed en got involved with the Universishy sect tys a]u111ni programs by serving on the first g z board of the Engineering Alumni Associashy

~ tion when it was established in 1990 From

~ 1991 to 1994 he sat on the University Senshy

~ ate and its Research Board and for the pas t

~ four years) hels been on the UGAA executive

32 GUELPH A LU MNUS

From the presidents chair Weeden looks

at the bro ad picture o f UG AA se rvice and

recognizes that the associa tio n owes a debt

o f gratitude to hundreds of alumni volunshy

teers who ha ve helped to build the organishy

za tion over the yea rs and to University staff

in Development and Public Affairs (DampPA)

who support UGAA initiatives and alumni

programs Thro ugh their efforts he says the

a lulllni associati o n is rea ching out to all

U of G alumni Graduates who have mainshy

tained a close relationship with the Univershy

sity thro ugh their college or academic disshy

cipline those who feel an affiliation because

o f their participation in a thletics residence

life o r extracurricular activiti es and even

HIGHLIGHTSmiddot GRAD NEWSmiddot OBITUARIES bull CALENDER

those who have not kept in touch are part of the constituency served by UGAA

Weed en says the alumni association needs to strengthen its relationship with all alumni and he believes the effor t must start on campus with students Hed like to proshymote the idea of alumni involvement as ear shyly as a students second year We need to give students some reason to be con nected and an efficient vehicle for maintaining that connection he says

For many students and new graduates the social functions supported by UGAA and the opportunities for professional networking will be important says Weeden but greater rewards are there for those who join the effort to enhance the Universitys acade mic goals

In todays economic and political envi shyronme nt individual financial support and the advocacy of post-secon dary education are important roles for alumni he says How many people ac tively get involved with the debate on whether universities are job-trainshy

ing centres or centres of education Yet some of our alumni are extremely adept in such roles Weeden would like to cultivate past and current stud ent ac tivists as supporters of public education after they graduate

As Weeden leads UGAA into a new year he says he will work with other UGAA volshyunteers and DampPA staff to find new ways for the association to interact with students and alumni One id ea is to expand UGAAs Intershynet presence by adding a Web message board that will encourage alumni to discuss career and campus issues online and a reply form that will allow them to quickly update addressshyes employment status and other information

Weeden says its important to stay focused on UGAAs key prioriti es but he welcomes any and all new ideas on how to accomplish them All it takes to share your ideas with the UGAA executive is a stamp or a push of the send button when youre clicked on alumniuoguelphca

HKHB SPIRIT RISES

ENCOURAGED BY THE SPIRIT

shown by fellow alumni at last

summers reunion the executive

of the Human Kinetics Human Biology

Alumni Association is moving ahead

with more opportunities for alumni to

stay in touch The association plans to

launch a Web site that will be accessed

through the U of G site

A wine-and-cheese reception already

planned for June 19 1999 wiil try to

build on the success of the 1998 event

which attracted alumni from as far away

as Chicago and as far apart as the 19605

and 1990s Guests had a chance to tour

U of Gs new Health and Performance

Centre and performance testing

labs The program was co-ordinated wiLh

A REFLECTION OF PRIDE

Members of the OAC

Class of 52 join Arboshy

retum staff on the front patio

of the Arboretu m Centre

beside a new reflecting pool

that was built last summer

as a class project Pictured

from left are Murray Parker

Ann Smith George Smith

Jack Sargent Catherine Gibb

Robin Shaw-Rummington

Marilyn Swaby BA 69

Bev Healy B5e(Agr) 72

Norm Watson Una Venerus

Ron Costen Henry Kock

BSe (Agr) 77 and Ric

Jordan BA 75

Prof Jack Barclay chair of the Departshy

ment of Human Biology and Nutritional

Sciences and Prof Susan Pfeiffer Memshy

bers of the Human KineticsHuman

Biology Alumni Association executive arc

Janet Leonhard 82 president Carolyn

Moore 83 vice-president Alison Locker

97 secretary Mark Mulholland 79

lreasurer and t-iary Ann Crape 76

These officers are also spea rheading a

new initiative to benefit students - an

undergraduate award that will provide

$250 and lifetime mem bership in the

association To commcnt on these and

other initiatives contact Leonard by

e-mail at Janel_Leonhardinwrbsb

eduonca or Moore at cturveyagec

uoguelphca

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alumni

Multimedia lab buzzes

THE DONALD FORSTER RoOiv

has become one of the

busiest spots in th e Unishy

versity of Guelph Liblary since the

addition of 70 state-of-the-art

computer workstations that were

supported by alumni do nations

to the Alma Mater Fund (AM F)

U of G president Mordechai

Roza nski officia ll y o pened th e

Alma Mater Fund Multimedia

Lab D ec 2 an d celebrated th e

event with members of the AMF

Adv isory Counc iL [n 1996 a nd

1997 the AMF contributed

$240000 to th e project which

increased the number of student

workstations o n campus by 50 per

cent Students use the m ult imeshy

~ dia lab to conduct research on the

~ Internet access scholarly publicashyr u VI tions on CD-ROM and use COll1shyz ~ puter software mod ules tbat lt

~ strengthen the teaching provided lD

o in co urse lectures labs and tcxtshybii books

middotMatters

Alumnus of many interests

I NTERES TING P EOPLE always have eclect ic interests and U of G

alumnus and honorary degree recipient Ken Murray BSA 50 and

HDLA 96 is a good example H e is known by most people on camshy

pus for his distinguished career in the Canadian meat packing indusshy

try and his volunteer service to U of G He was a member and chair

of Board of Governors from 1973 to 1978 and chair of the Regionshy

al Corporate Committee during U of Gs last capital campaign and

is currently chair of the Heritage Fund Enhancement Committee

Murray is also a strong supporter of community soc ial services

In August he addressed the World Congress of Social Ps)chiatry

held in British Columbia - the only non-psychiatrist on the proshy

gram He spoke about his role in establishing an Alzheimers research

project a t the University ofWaterioo which was recently named in

his honour the Ken Murray Alzheimer Research and Education Proshy

gra m At the gc conference he al so participated in a panel dis shy

cussion that outlined services offered by Guelphs Homewood Health

Cent re Murray bas been actively involved in the governance of the

centre since 1977 and has been a major player in the development

of a charitable foundatio n bearing the Homewood name

WHEN THE PUCK DROPPED More than 30 teams including two

womens teams were entered in the

Dec 6 University of Guelph Alumni Hockey

Tournament Organizers for the 1998 event

were from left Brian Finniss B5c 88

Brad Stephenson BA 86 Terry Carr

BComm 87 Todd Bryant BA 86 and

undergraduate student Brian Melnick

Ken Murray centre with his wife Marilyn Robinson Murray and U of G president Mordechai Rozanski

34 GU ELPH ALUMNU S

RESTORING A JEWEL IN THE CROWN

DONALD RUTHERFORD BSA 5 stands in fron t

of the 1931 conservatory greenhouse that will

be restored to match the splendour of the ga rdens

now growi ng up around it His $256000 leadershy

ship gift to the Conservatory and Gardens Project

was inspired by hi s m emo ries of being a student

at OAC

On behalf of fellow alumni I hope this gift will

commemorate the experiences and educat ion we

acquired while at Guelph says Rutherford When

fully restored to its previous glory the conservatoshy

ry greenhouse will be an ideal greeting and welcome

spot for visitors and newcomers to the University

as well as old friend s renewing their acquaintance

Rutherfords professional career spans the agrishy

foo d industr y beginning as an agricu ltural repshy

resentative with the provincial minist ry I-Ie was

later vice-president of the Fertilizer Institute of

Ontario executive secreta ry of the Canadian Seed

Trade Association director of information w ith

the Ca nadian Livestock Feed Board and Canadishy

an sa les manager for Sylvite of Can ad a Retired

since 1986 he now owns his own sma ll investment

company and manages to golf throughout the yea r

The conserva tory isnt the first ca mpus project

to attract Rutherford s attention - as a student

he helped dig out the base ment of Massey H al l to

build a student lo unge - but his recent gift has

been a tremendous boost to those who have been

working since the ea rly 1990s to save the glass and

cypress structure from demo lition

A committee of alumni facult y sta ff stu dents

and fri en ds of the University has moved the proshy

ject along to th e point w here most of the surshy

rounding garden complex is now complete It fea shy

tures six gardens named in honour of the ir chie f

supporters Autumn Garden - OAC 5 1 Spring

Ga rden - OAC 53 Su mmer Garden - OAC 55

Winter Gard en - OAC 65 Water Gard en shy

OAC 49 and the Woo dland Garden named in

honour of the late Doug Rob inson BSA 53

Alumni have been in strumental in raising

funds for the $ l-million project Students and fa cshy

ulty have provided mudl of the h1l1ds-on Idbour

and friends in the nursery and landscape materishy

als supply industries have given $250000 ill donashy

tions and gifts-in-kind of plan ts and landsca ping

materials Rutherford s generous gift has pushed

th e conservato ry fund-ra ising effort in to the fin 81

stretch Th e ga rden complex and restored g reenshy

110use are sc heduled to officially open during

Alumni Weekend in June 1999

1999 Coming Events

Jan 29 - Aggie Goodshy

Times Banquet call the OAC Student Federation at Ext 8321 for ticket injemnrltion Feb 13 - Norm McCo llulll

D iploma Hockey Tournashy

m ent call Jack Bakker at 519-837-0132 to register a team

Feb 21 - Ottawa Chapter

annual curling bonspiel

Richmond C urling Club in

Richmond Ont For informashytiol1 call Alan Bentley BSA 61 at 6 13-829-6598 or John DVit[ 54 mId Margaret McGowml BHSc 54 at

613-828-7038

March 3 - Florida alumni

reunion a t Maple Leaf

Estates Port Charlo tte Fla

call Ext 6533 0 register

March 13 and 14 - ollcge

Royal 75th o pen house

March 19 and 20 - OAC

Alumni Association curling

bonspiel G uelph Curling

Club register at Ext 6657

May 5 - Chicago All Canashy

dian Universities Night hostecl

by U of G at the University

Club of Chicago 76 East Monshy

roe Sr call Exl 6533 for details May 5 - OAC Alumni

Foundation annual meeting

730 pm Arboretum Centre

May 12 - Alumni-inshy

Action annual meeting and

luncheo n 1130 3m

Arboretum Centre ((11 Ext 6657for tickets

June 18 to 20 - Alumni

Veekend call Ext 6657 to plall a reun io n

-0 r shya -IFor more infon-nation on any a

eVC1l1listed ailove call the oJ -lt oU of G extension listed at en raquo

519-824-4120 or send e-mail z

10 alunznilIoguelphca ~

WINTER 1999 35

alumni Matters

MEMORIES OF COLLEGE ROYAL Grant MacEwan ADA 23 and

BSA 26 is one of the few OAC

alumni who c~n still remember

the first College Royal held Jan

14 1925 MacEwan bad just

entered the degree program in

animal husbandry and may have

been a participant in the liveshy

stock showmanship classes Latshy

er in life he was widely known Grant MacEwan

across Western Canada as 3 liveshy

stock judge and an advocate of

agricultural fairs and exhibitions

MacEwan is bes t known

however for his 23-year C3reer

as a university professor in Manshy

itoba and Saskatchewan and Ilis

political career which included

12 years as alderman and mayshy John Kenneth Galbraith

or of C31gary four years as an

Alberta MLA and eight as lieushy birthday in August

tenant -governor of the province The year after Ma cEwan

He s till lives in Calgary graduated John Kenneth Galshy

where he celebrated his 96th braith ADA 29 and BSA 31

HOMECOMING 98

enrolled at OAC and devoted

some of his energy to organizshy

ing College Royal Show records

indicate it was Galbraith who

first proposed the college event

be publicized so that people

from the farm community

could attend He also suggestshy

ed that OAC invite students

from American agricultural colshy

legesl n th e early 1930s Colshy

lege Royal took its fir s t steps

towards becoming the comshy

munity open house it is today

Galbraith later moved to the

United States where he enjoyed

a distinguished caree r as a proshy

fessor of economics at Harvard

Universi ty Known for his

humanit~rian approach to ecoshy

nomic and political thinking

he was awarded the Order of

Canada in 1997 He celebr3ted

his 90th birthday in October

IT REALLY WAS a homecoming reunion when and Arnott who is head coach of the York

former Gryphon teammates Ralph Shapiro University Yeomen came from the visitors

S5c(HK) 74 and Tom Amott S5c(HK) 80 dreSSing room to hold the ball Shapiro is

met on the field at Alumni Stadium Oct 3 the controller at Huntsman Chemical Inc

Shapiro had the honour of kicking off in Guelph and a longtime United Way volshy

the Universitys 1998 United Way campaign unteer who chaired this years Guelph and

Wellington fund-raising drive The Univershy

sity campaign is the largest in the county

with U of G staff and faculty contributing

over $200000 in 1998

Prior to the game a number of recent

alumni - all U of G scholarship and award

winners - met for a reunion luncheon The UJ

1948 and 1949 dominion championship i5f 3

football teams were also honoured guests z 5 o at the 2 pm game that saw the Gryphons gtshy a defeat York f shya I a

Ralph Shapiro

36 G UELPH ALUMNUS

LEADING THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY FOR 1974 GRADS The 25th-anniversary reunion givshy

i ng program for the Class of 1974

is under way with Bill Laidlaw BA

74 as cbair A public affairs proshy

fessional he has been director of

government relations for the

Canadian operations of Glaxo

vVelJcome Inc for more th an 10

years He also acts as a senior conshy

sultant to support the governshy

ment relations function in other

regions of Canada

Laidlaw began his career in

teaching after earning a history

degree from Guelph and education

degrees (rom Queens University

and the University of Toronto He

also holds the certified human

resources professional designation

and worked in that field for sevshy

eral years before concen trating on

government relations at Glaxo

Welkome He lives in Burlington

Ont and is an act ive community

volunteer having se rved on the

boards of severa l professional

organizations the Queensway

General Hospital and the Metroshy

politan Toronto Lung Association

He is currently completing a oneshy

year term as chair of the Ontario

Chamber of Commerce

Anniversa ry preparations will

culminate with a class gathering

a nd reunion gift at Alumni

Weekend in June 1999

ALUMNI MAKE THE CONNECTION Students who moved into

Maids and Mills halls in Sepshy

tember can take full advanshy

tage of the Universitys highshy

speed computer network

thanks to the OAC Class of

71 whose 25 th-reunion proshy

ject provided wiring upgrades

in the 84- and 77-year-old

residence buildin gs

GRAD NEWS

Marathon survivors inspire us all to appreciate everyday life

W HEN ROBINSON SIIlLJNGS Jane BSe(Agr)

85 Heather BASe 83 Peter BSe(Agr)

86 Scott and Marnie rigwood BA 84 get

together they talk about marathons and the hope

and determination it takes to reach the finish line

Hea ther walked a marathon in San Diego

Calif in June to raise money for leukemia

research then joined Peter for a Toronto marathon

in October that benefi ted the Leukemia Research

Fund of Canada They were inspired by Janes pershy

sonal marathon of survival that foUowed her 1992

diagnosis of leukemia Chemotherapy radiation

remission relapse and finally a bone marrow

transplant [TOm her brother Scott took more than

three years out of her life but gave her the detershy

mination to keep fighting

Many families can understand the marathon

of hope maintained by the Robinsons during

Janes struggle and the commitment they have to

help others who are stricken with the disease Jane

is finally well enough to work again as a writer

and marketing consultant and to join her fami shy

ly in volunteer work She helped recruit for the

Toronto marathon fund -raiser and continues to

be involved with the Leukemia Research Funds

Team in Training She also says that her expeshy

rience has taught her to appreciate more the pleashy

sures of everyday life and the love of famil y

Jan es parents are th e late Doug Rob inson

BSA 53 and Marilyn (Inglis) Robinson Murray

BH Sc 55

19305

bull Grant Misener ADA 32 BSA 35 and DVM 38 received the

prest igious George F Hixso n Felshy

lowship Award from the Kiwanis

International Foundation in May The retired Illinois veter ishy

narian was hono ured for his subshystantial contribution to the

Kiwanis wo rldwide service proshy

ject aimed at eliminating iodine

deficiency disorders the leading

cause of preventable mental retardation in children Over the

years Misener has shown a simishylar commitment to his al ma

mater an d its students through

his close association with OVC

and his support of scho larship

programs

19405

bull Russell McDonaldDVM 45 was named an honorary life direcshytor of the Royal Agricultural Winshy

ter Fair Association in March

McDonald formerly general manshy

ager of Western Ontario Breeders

Ine and executive director of the Canadian Association of Animal

Breeders served as a director of the Royal Winter Fair for 20 years

representing the Canadian artifishycial insemination industry He

lives in Woodstock Ont

bull Ian Taylor DVM43 was recently honoured by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to

Animals of Illinois Taylor ran a small-animal veterinary clinic in

the Chicago area for many years

and says he gained ll1uch experishyence during his first three years in

Illinois as clinic veterinarian for

the anti -cruelty society

19505

bull Charles Chuck Broadwell BSA 54 was elected a Mel

Osborne Fellow by the Kiwanis

Club of Forest City in London Ont in recognition of a dedicatshy -ed and distinguished career in

Kiwanis

19605

bull Constantine Campbell BSA 60 and MSA 61 was named to the

WINTER 1999 37

Order of Canada in January He

received the award in recogni shy

tion of his many contributions

to science and the Canadian

agricultural industry After grad shy

uating from OAC he went on to

do his PhD at the University of

Saskatchewan then joined Agri shy

culture and Agri-food Canada

as a research scientist at the Swift

Current research station Campshy

bell and his family now live in

Ottawa where he is scientist

emeritus with Agriculture and

Agri-food Canada

bull John Casselman BSA 64 is

a research scientist with the

Ontario Ministry of Natural

Resources He Jives in Bath

Ont with his wife Lois

bull Jane Fuller RRSc 65 and

her husband George who both

taught at the Macdonald Instishy

tute from 1966 to 1969 have

moved from Winnipeg to

Utopia Ont following

Georges retirement from the

University of Manitoba

bull Fred Gilbert MSc 66 and

P hD 68 is in his first term as

president of Lakehead Univer shy

sity in Thunder Bay Ont He

taught at U of G in the Departshy

ment of Zoology from 1972 to

1981 and has enjoyed a dive rse

academic career that has also

included teaching at the Unishy

versity of Maine and posi tions

as director of wildlife biology at

Washington State University

and founding dean of the Facshy

ulty of Natural Reso urces and

Environmenta l Studies at the

University of Northern British

Columbia He moved to Lakeshy

head from a position as viceshy

pro vost at Colorado State Unishy

versity A respected wildlife

biologist he has conducted

ex tensive resea rch in s Ll ch areas

as the behaviour and physioloshy

gy of wildlife species and the

effects of environmental

change on wildlife populations

bull Terry Goodyear BSc 67 of

Mont Tremblant Quebec is an

early retiree from Agriculture

and Agri-Food Canada in Ottawa He is now working on

va lue-added products from

industrial wastes particularly

cellulose sludge from pulp and

pa per mills

bull Gary Hearn BA 68 was

named an Ontario provincial

judge in October For the last

25 years he has been a lawyer

with the firm Kearns McKinshy

non in Guelph where he lives

with his wife Irene and three

teenage children

bull Allan Knight BSA 66 of Corunna Ont has retired

from Dow Chemical after 30

years On retirement he was a

laboratory director for indusshy

trial chemicals He is now

working with his son in a famishy

ly-owned and -operated busishy

ness Knight Funeral Home

bull Keith McFarlane BSc(Agr)

68 works for the Department

of Foreign Affairs and Internashy

tional Trade and began a fourshy

year assignment last summer as

head of the commercial divishy

sion of the Canadian Embassy

in Lisbon Portugal The

division promotes the sa le of

Canadian goods and services

to Portugal

bull Ian Newbould MA 68 has

travelled far from his Ontario

roots through an academic and

administrative career that has

taken him to Europe Asia and

Western Canada A noted hisshy

torian he moved into adm inisshy

tration at the University of

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Lethbridge in 1981 and spent

10 years there as director of

research dean of a rts and scishy

ence and vice-presiden t (acadeshy

mic) before crossing the counshy

try to become president of

Mount Allison University in

New Brunswick He is now in

his second term as president of

Mount AUison

bull Indra Deo Singh MSc 68 is

a tea scientist international

consultant and joint director of

the Tea Research Association at

the Nagrakata substation in

India His responsibilities

include co-ordinating research

and development in the Indian

tea industry and developing tea

cultivars and agrotechnology

for tea Singh is married with

two sons aged 27 and 23

19705

bull Don Ambler BSe 71 retired in March as manager of

water programs with Environshy

ment Canada in Dartmouth

NS after 25 years of public

service He has now registered

the company Aquashed Co nshy

sulting to continue in the water

resources field when hes not

gardening beekeeping do ing

aerobics or vo lunteering in the

community and chu rch E-mail

contact is welcome a t

donambl erns sympaticoca

bull Jim Bond BSe 75 is managshy

ing a new processing facility at

the Chalk River Nuclear Laborashy

to ry in Chalk River Ont

bull Terri (Monks) Bulman BSc(Agr) 78 and MSe 81

and her husband Vincent

MSe 8 1 live in Australia with

their th ree children Catherine

7 Peter 4 and baby Christoshy

pher Terri is senior principal

environmental auditor vith

Coffey Geosciences Pty Ltd Vinshy

cent afte r many years as a geoloshy

gist travelling around Australia

and abroad has taken the year

off to study and look after the

children Their e-mail address is

tbulmanbigpondco m

bull Marie David BA 78 of

Hanover Ont has been in the

n ewspaper business for 20

years She started in the mailshy

room moved to advertising

sales then became advert ising

manager She is now gene ral

manager o f three So utham

weekly newspapers and pubshy

lish er of the Hanover Post

bull Janice Harrower and her husshy

band Jerome Billett both

DVM 76 operate a joint veterishy

nary practice in Prescott Ont

Billett says practising together

has allowed them some flexibilishy

ty in their family life and given

their four children a good took

at the rigours of veterinary

medicine Says Billett Not one

of our kid s has the slightest

interest in being a veterinarian

and isnt that just fine Their

o ldest son Jesse attends Harshy

va rd University and is a memshy

ber of its prestigious a cappella

choir Lucas is studying

mechanical engineering at the

University of Waterloo Casey is

planning a career in computer

engineering and Lindsay is a

high school athle te

bull Clair Heinbuch BSe 74 is a

sales manager with Baye r Corp

in Kansas H e and his wife

Caroline (Koscik) BASc 75

returned to the Kansas City

area after spending four years in

Denver They have three chilshy

dren Lisa 20 Scott 18 and

Ryan [5

bull Beverly Lee BASe 72 is an

elem entary school principal in

Unionville Ont She lives with

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her husband Grant Egan in

Collingwood and is looking

forward to retirement in severshy

al years Life on Georgian Bay

is wonderful she says Lee

would love to hear from fellow

grads by e-mail at

leebYrbeeduonca or by

phone at 705 -444 -092l

bull Won-Jai Maeng MSc 71 took office Sept 1 as president

of Kon-Kuk University in Seoul

Korea where his academic

career began He completed an

undergraduate degree at Kon

Kuk in 1965 then studied at

Mailing Agricultural College in Denmark and at U of G before

doing doctoral work at the Unishy

versity of California Davis

Maeng has held research and

teaching positions at the Unishy

versity of illinois at Chung-Ang

University and at Kon-Kuk

where he has been a professor of

animal science since 1984 His

appointment as president folshy

lows years of administrative

experience as a department

head dean and chair of various

research committees and proshy

fessional organizations An

expert in ruminant nutrition

Maeng was instrumental in

developing the livestock feed

industry in Korea He has also

been active in working with

alumni groups and in writing

for the Kon-Kuk Tribune

bull Bill MarshaU ADA 75 of Proton Station Ont moved

from Clarksburg in June to

work in Dundalk for the Grey

County Roads Department on

its road management crew

bull Bernie Matte BSc(Agr) 70 of Moncton NB retired

in March after 28 years with

Fisheries and Oceans Canada

and the Canadian Food

Inspection Agency He plans to

travel to Belize and Honduras

with his wife Diane and will

be available anywhere in the

Caribbean for seafood HACCP

consulting work

bull Margaret McClain BA 70 lives in Arkansas where she is

highJy involved in the issue of

40 GUELPH ALUMNUS

missing children and internashy

tional abductions McClain who

believes her own six-year-old

daughter was taken out of the

United States more than a year

ago by her second husband is

reaching out to parents with

similar experiences through an

organization that is lobbying the

US government for tougher

international abduction laws

She invites interested fr iends

and alumni to contact her

through her Web site at

wwwinsolwwbnet-dmcclain

bull Robert (Chuck) Miller BA 77 is the park superintendent

of Killarney French River and

Maskinonje provincial parks in

Ontario He moved to Killarney

from Quetico Provincial Park

last May

bull Gordon Nicol BA 72 and MSc(Agr) 74 teaches math

and science in a bilingual prishy

vate school in Guatemala A

BEd graduate of Laurentian

he first taught in Guatemala in

the late 1970s then spent 12

years in northern Alberta as a

teacher and principal He

returned to Guatemala in 1989

A widower with three teenage

children Nicol would like to

hear from U of G friends and

acquaintances especially anyshy

one who is was or will be in

Central America He says he

could also use middle-schoolshy

level science projects Send eshy

mail to gnicoll guatenet or

write to PO Box 661447 Miami

Springs Florida 33266-1447

bull Chris Schulte BSc 71 and MSc 73 lives in Nassau

Bahamas with his wife

Andrya After graduation he

stayed in the Department of

Physics as a research associate

with Prof lain Campbell then

joined Ontario Hydro in the

early 1980s He moved to the

Bahamas in 1995 He can be

reached bye-mail at

schultebahamasnetbs

bull Sandra (Pickford) Webster BA 75 has retired from U of

Gs Co mmunications and Pubshy

lic Affairs and is living in Parry

Sound Ont where she is

doing volunteer work and

communications consulting

for the municipality Guelph

friends ca n contact her by

e-mail atswebsterzeutercom

19805

bull Sharon (Courneya) Angus BA 8 I of Surrey BC comshy

pleted a BSW at the University

of British Columbia in 1988

and has been working for the

BC government for 13 years

- first in probation and now

in the family justice division

She and her husband Ron

have three children Jason

Carly and Colin

bull Karen Beazley BLA 86 is an assistant professor and acadeshy

mic program co-ordinator at

the School for Reso urce and

Environmental Studies at Dalshy

housie University in Halifax

She is currently doing research

for a book on endangered

species initiatives and is orgashy

nizing a Nova Scotia wildlands

workshop with the Wildlands

Project for 1999 Her e-mail

address is kbeazleyisdalca

bull Caroline (Van Deudekom) and Marc Brooks both ADA 87

recently moved from Strathroy

to Owen Sound Ont where

they run a 50-acre organic farm

with their two sons

bull Virginia Burt BLA 85 startshyed her own landscape architecshy

ture firm Visionscapes in

Hamilton Ont in ] 996 She

specializes in the design of thershy

apeutic healing gardens spirit

gardens sacred spaces and

la byrin ths and recen tly designed the first healing garden

in Canada specificalJy for peoshy

ple living with HIV and AIDS

bull Joanne (Branson) Carver BA 80 earned a BEd from Brock

University in 1981 and recently

started working as a probashy

tionparole officer She Jives in

Ajax Ont and has two daughshy

ters Julie4 and Sarah 8

bull Heather Champ BA 86 is a Web-site designer in New York

City She began her work in

computer design in 1990 Her

personal site can be Found at

wwwjezebelcom

bull Laurie Gough BA 87 has become a world traveller who

writes about her experiences for

the benefit of others Her most

recent book Island of the

Human Heart A tfornans Travshyel Odyssey is now in its second

printing in Canada and will be

released next year in the United

States and overseas She has also

published Travellers Tales A

Womans World which won the

US-based Lowell Thomas

Gold Award for best travel book

of the year When not travelling

or writing she teaches English

and ESL in Guelph

bull Susan (Coles) Goulden BASc 84 and her husband

Ian are th rilled wi th their

recent adoption of Jennifer Lee

Yu who was born in June near

Leping Jiangxi Peoples Repubshy

lic of China The Gouldens

who Jive in vVaterloo Ont

thank classmate Andrea

(Kovits) Henderson for her

support throughout the adopshy

tion process Susan is currently

on leave from her position with

McCormick Canada

bull Judy (Bodendistel) Gregg BA 82 moved to Melbourne Ausshy

tralia in 1997 with her husband

and two children Carly 6 and

Adam 3 We are enjoying the

friendly people and the great

weather here she says We are

especially enjoying winter in a

place where it never gets below

zero Celsius

bull Nigel GumJey DVM 85 has been a partner in the Alta Vista

Animal Hospital in Ottawa

since 1990 was president of the bull Garry Millage AMPHI 86 bull Heidi Stephenson BA 88 is now ISO 9000 manager at

Ontario Veterinary Medical left a position as vice-president was awarded her professional Carpenter Ca nada Ltd in

Association in 1997 and recent- of national operations for acco untants designation of Wood br idge Ont He lives in

ly served on the Canadian Vetshy Scotts Restaurants KFC Divishy certified general accountant in Miss issa uga Classma tes are

erilw() Medical Associations sion to open his own consult- March 1998 She has been invited to contact him at

national issues committee He ing company Future Food employed for the last 10 years avon listarca

lives in Osgoode with his wife Equipment Ine specializes in with Dan Ball Chartered bull Michelle (Pilon) Bacon BA rvlaurecn and children Laura providing new and used restau- Acco un tant in Parry Sound 90 moved to England to study

and Matthew rant equipment and reducing O nt where she lives with her and work after graduating from

bull Muneer Hirji BComm 82 restaurant construction costs hu sband Brad two dogs and a Guelph She recently left a posishy

lives in Toronto and is vice- He also operates a restaurant horse tion with the British Ministry of

president of marke ting at SAP called Nikkos in Woodbridge bull Dawn Stetsko BSe 81 lives Agriculture and Food in York to

Canada He has three chil- Ont and is planning to open a in Langhorne Pa with her husshy become an at-home mom She

drcl1 Nadia 8 Alyssa 6 and second location band Paul and children Mark now lives in London with her

Sarah I bull Tosh Noseworthy BSe 83 is and Keith and is a research husband Tim and one-year-old

bull Brenda irwin BSe 88 is a cardiovascular ICU nurse in scientist with Bristol-Myers daughter Juliette She sends love

studying at Hong Kong Unishy sunny Tuscon Arizona After Squibb Previously she worked to Sue Heather and Sheila and

vers ity of Science and Technolshy grad uation she lived in Paris at McMaster University in can be reached bye-mail at

ogy to complete the final France for a yea r s tudied nurs- Hamilton Ont for 17 yea rs michellebacondialpipexcom

sem ester of an MBA program ing in O ttawa then lived in Saushy bull Teresa Tummillo-Goy BA bull Jeff Barlow BComm 90 is

through the University of di Arabia for two yea rs She still 86 has a law practice in Water- the training and quality manag-

British Columbia She taught loves to travel and would like to 100 Ont foc Li sing primaril y on er for two five-star luxury boushy

science for the North York hea r from fellow alumni She family law civi l litiga tion and tique h o tels in Prague - Hotel

Board of Education for five can be reached at 520-299-8344 real estate She and her hus- Palace Praha and the Hotel

years before enrolling in the bull Cecilia (Wleugel) Parkes band John Goy live in Guelph Savoy Previo usly he was execu -

MBA program BComm 85 is a graphic and have three sons John 4 tive housekeeper at the five-star

bull Jagwant Kanwar PhD 80 is designer in Toronto and says Tony 3 and Shayne 2 Renaissance Pragu e Hotel

a senior scientist in the depart- she st ill uses ber marketing bull Peter Van der Borch DVM bull Margaret Burnes-Souria BA ment of vegetable crops at Pun- background to help her busishy 88 retired in the fa ll of 1997 94 is a team leader with [011 shy

jab Agricultural University in ness succeed She specia lizes in after several years of practising don Magazin e in London Ont

India He is also director of the logo design lNith hand-drawn physiotherapy and ve terinary She married David Souria in

regional vegetable research stashy illustrations medicine and surgery He Jives July 1997 and is pursuing an tion at Usman (TaranTarn) bull Jim Parr BSc(Agr) 81 and in Pictou NS ]VlBA at the University of West-

Amritsar His and his wife MSe 89 died of cancer in bull MartyWilLiams BA 85 is ern Ontario

Sanyogita have a son Mohit June 1998 but hes being co-ordinator of student activishy bull Janine Byers BASe 95 is a and a daughter Dipika who are remembered by his university ties at University College Unishy public health dietitian at the

both studying engineering friends through the establish - versity of Toronto where he Kingston Frontenac and

Friends can write to Kanwar at ment of a mem orial fund for advises student organizations Iennox amp Addington Health

Punjab Agricultural Un ivers ity his wife Denise and children 1Ie is also chair of the U of T Unit in Kingston O nt She is Ludhiana 141 004 India Shannon and Eric Anyone Staff Association a member of getting married to Ca rl Stewart

bull Larissa Larsen BSe 89 and who would like more informa - the steering committee of the on May 29 j 999 MLA 92 received a PhD in tion can ca ll Brian Tapscott at staffs unionization drive and a bull Lisa Cherry BSe 9 1 is a urban and regional planning 519-767-3566 staff member with the student science journalist and executive

from the University of Illinois bull Cheryl (Dunlop) Reid newspaper The Varsity He can director of Artists Against

at Urbana Champaign in May BSe(Agr) 89 sta rted a new be reached bye-mail at marty Racism an international organi-

She has accepted a position at job in September as ingredient wi lliamsutorontoca za tion She is based in Toronto

Thompson Dyke and Associshy sales manager for RA bull Bonnie (Byma) BASe 96 ales a landscape architecture Chisholm o f Toronto She will 19905 and Gil Clelland BA 95 were

and urban planning firm in continue to work from her bull Claire Allison BA 94 grad- married in December 1996 and

Chicago Her husband Ernie remote offke in Fergus Reid uated from the elementary are living in Chatham On t

Poortinga DVM 89 is in his and her husband Jeff BSe teacher ed ucation program at Bo nnie works at a day-care

third yea r of an MD program (Agr) 89 have two children the University of British centre G il teaches art and

at Rush University Chicago lVlega n 4 and Elizabeth 2 Columbia in 1996 and now phys ical education They ca n -Hes looking forward to joining bull Chee Sie BA 83 is a zone teaches in Va ncou ver be reached bye-ma il at gclelshy

his wife in the ranks of the manager for the Malaysian bull JohnAvon BSdHK) 94 lan ciaccesscom employed They would both Assurance Alliance Berhad in earned an M Se in industr ial bull Kate Corn ell BA 95 of enjoy hearing from fellow Sarawak Malaysia He and his operations from Lawrence Markham Ont earned her

alumni and can be reached at wife Jesterine have a two-year- Technological University in masters in dance history from epoor tin garushurushedu old daughter Letitia Southfleld Mich in 1997 and York University in May and

WINTER 1999 41

co-authored a book titled

Toronto Dance Theatre 1968shy1998 Stages in a Journey

bull Mary Jill (McClure) Culliton BASe 90 earned

her BEd from Brock University

and her M Ed from the Univershy

sity of Western Ontario and

teaches Grade 1 in Mitchell

Ont She and her husband

Tim live in Stratford

bull Kathleen (McNutt) Daniels BASe 9 1 is a teacher and was

married on New Years Eve

1994 to Gord Daniels They live

in North Bay Ont and have a

daughter Lauren born in Febshy

ruary 1997 They are expecting

their second child in February

bull Simon Deakin BA 95 studshyied in Florence Italy for a year

then earned a master of fine art

from the Slade School of Fine

Art at the University of London

England He lives in London

bull Christie Dunbar BLA 97 spent a year after graduation

working for Niagara College in

St Catharines Ont on the

vision and design of a new

campus to be built in Niagarashy

on-the- Lake Last April she

joined the landscape architecshy

ture firm of Pollack Design

Associates in Ann Arbor Mich

bull Trina Edmonds BA 94 and

Joel Hinderle became the

proud parents of a little girl

Jordan Ashley in january 1998

and moved to a new home in

Oakville Ont in September

Edmonds works in Mississauga

as a desktop publisher with a

publishingprinting company

bull Wendy Garinther BSc 93 and Steve Decker BSe 94

were married in May Joining

them in the wedding celebrashy

tions were Cheri (Coulter)

42 GUELPH ALUMNUS

Ascroft BSe 93 Karen Leinshy

gartner BSe 94 and Barb

(Moore) Johnson BSe 94

Best man was Jeff Bond BSe

93 and MSe 96 The Deckers

live in Edmonton where Steve

is doing a PhD in chemistry at

the University of Alberta and

Wendy is working in a research

laboratory at a biopharmaceushy

tical company

bull Donna Gross BA 97 is purshysu ing a master of divinity at

Emmanuel College at the Unishy

versity of Toronto and hopes to

become an ordained minister by

2002 She lives in Guelph and

can be reached bye-mail at

donnajulietalbedonet

bull Robert Gruber BA 92 is a child-care supervisor for the

YMCA-YWCA of Guelph and

manages the Jean Little Y

Child- Care Centre He recently

developed the anti -bias proshy

gramming policy for the

Guelph Y and sits on both the

Jean Little Public School Counshy

cil and the Guelph AIDS Wall

Committee He can be reached

bye-mail at rgrubernet

comca

bull Susan Harder BSe 91 grad shyuated from the University of

Toronto Medical School in June

and has started a residency at

Santa Clara Valley Medical Censhy

tre in San jose Calif She will

follow that up with an anestheshy

sia residency at Stanford Univershy

sity Hospital in 1999

bull Marko Harjupanula BASc 93 travelled in Australia for

two months after graduating

from Guelph then returned to

his home town of South Porshy

cupine Ont where he worked

in a gold mine for four years

He entered police college in

September and started as an

opp constable in Cochrane in

December

bull Nancy Holman MA 94 moved to Vancouver soon after

graduation and initially worked

as a project co-ordinator for an

ophthalmologist In 1996 she

began working full time for the

BC Liberal Caucus I would

enjoy hearing from and catchshy

ing up with the friends I made

while studying at U of G and

working at the Brass Taps she

says Her e-mail address is nan shy

cyholmanlassgovbeca

bull Ruth Johnson BA 91 is an investment banking associate

with the mergers and acquisishy

tions group of JP Morgan in

Lond on England responsible

for financial reporting and

administration She has been in

England with her partner Alex Campbell since graduation

bull Stephen Johnson BA 94 of London Ont was a lab technishy

cian at Lenscrafters for three

yea rs and is now a full-time

student at Fanshawe College

studying air conditioning and

refrigeration He was married

in Jun e to Jennifer Fox BSc

95 a chemist at 3M Their

wedding party included Dee Popat BSe (Eng) 94 and

Patrick Wulhes BSc 95

bull Sarah (Davis) Kelly BASe 90 married Robert Kelly in

July and teaches primary

grades at an inner-city school

in Toronto

bull Cassidy Klowak BComm 97 lives in Allisshy

ton Onl and is a personal

banking account manager

with ClBC in Tottenham

bull Stephanie Lopes BSc 96 completed her MSc in repro shy

ductive biology at the Universishy

ty of Toronto and worked as

patient-care director for the

College of Family Physicians

for almost a year In September

she enrolled in medical school

at the University of Toronto

She is happy to announce that

she is engaged to be married

next summer Lopes can be

reached at slopesidirectcom

bull Natalie (Parker) MacKenzie BSc 96 earned her BEd from

the University of Western

Ontario in 1997 She married

ASLt Andy MacKenzie June 27

in Sault Ste Marie Ont and

now lives in Halifax

bull Susan MacKinnon DVM 91 is a veterinarian with HUls

Science Diet She lives in

Guelph with her husband

Brandon Wiley and gave birth

to their first child Adrianna

Nicole june 26 at home

bull Waheed Mian BA 9 1 of Cambridge Ont is a store

director with PetSmart Canada

He helped the company launch

its new retail concept in Cana da

bull Alex Mitchell BA 91 was appointed clerkdeputy treasurshy

er of the Ontario township of

Mildmay-Carrick in 1998 and

will be the clerkadministrator

of the new municipality of

Mildmay-Carrick -TeesWatershy

Culross in 1999 He was married

in january 1997 and lives vith

his wife and daughter in Mild shy

may In his spare time Mitchell

is a professional scout for the

Toronto Maple Leafs covering

southwestern Ontario

bull Sherry Morland BASc 93 of Kitchener Ont ea rned her

BEd from Brock University in

J995 and is a part-time specia l

educa tion teacher and an occashy

sional teacher with the Watershy

loo County Board of Ed ucashy

tion She married Ivan LeBlanc

in 1997

bull Gary Page BSe 91 wo rks for the Nottawasaga Valley Conshy

servation Authority where he is

able to combine his knowledge

of wildlife biology with his

artistic skills as resident graphic

designer and outdoor centre

interpreter He Jives with his

wife Di and their son judah in

CreemoreOnt

bull Elaine Pammenter BA 96 is an inventory clerk with the

Royal Collection at Windsor

Castle in England She holds a

museum management and

curatorship grad uate certificate

diploma from Sir Sandford

Fleming College and did her

internship at the Royal Albert

Memorial Museum in Exeter

England

bull Brent Raymond BSe(Env) 96 of Brantford Ont has

been working with Outward

Bound since graduation He

leads wilderness trips in Northshy

ern Ontario Horida Australia and Sabah (Malaysian Borneo) Most recently he designed and implemented a new introducshytory mountaineering course for Outward Bound Sabah on the summit plateau of Mt Kinashy

balu Those of you who know me as plate licker from U of G get in touch he says Where are you Star I miss you He can be reached by e-mail at globarwchatonca or by

phone at 519-756-1697

Alumni Patrick Abbott BSA 40 July 7 1998

Albert Allen BSA 33 Jan 161994 Agris Ansmits BA 70 and MA 73

February 1998 Barbara (Quartermain) Babcock DHE

53 June 17 1998

Wray Bond BSA 34 Sept 25 1998

Kenneth Bone DVM 38 Dec 29 1998 Evelyn (Stevenson) Buhr DHE 39

May 251998 Philip Burke BSA 43 June 21 1998

Grant Carman BSA 49 Oct 221998 Frederick Chambers BSA 41

June 1998 Wilmot Conley ADA4 7 April 7 1998 Lloyd Crewson BSA 49 Aug 261998

Jacqueline Dimock DHE 47

Aug 20 1998 John Dingwall DVM 52

April 18 1998

Lloyd Dorsey BSA 38 June 9 1998 George Duncan BSA 37

Sept 19 1998

David Dyson BSA 53 Aug 31 1998

Norma (Shannon) Edwards DHE 39

November 1997 Vincent Bud Ellis DVM 41

July 15 1998 John Jack George BSA 48

Sept 24 1998

Donald Haight BSA 33 January 1997 William Hamlyn BSA 33 Dec I 1997

Gordon Harkness BSA 49

November 1997

Charles Hollister DVM 38 June 1996 Donald Hope BSA 54 June 28 1998

Lawrence Jefferson BSA 38

Sept 3 1998

James Kelso DVM 56 July 27 1998

Dorima Lalonde BSA 34 Oct 8 1998 Mildred (Cox) Large DHE 33

June 20 1998 Roger Larson BComm 86 Feb 19 1998 Robert Lawson BSA 49 June 6 1998

bull Doug Ramsey BA 91 and PhD 98 received U of Gs highshyest graduate student award shythe Forster Medal- at June convocation for his academic and community involvement while enrolled in Guelphs new

graduate program in geography He spent the summer as a visitshying research scholar at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College in Truro before assuming his curshyrent position as assistant professhysor at Mount Allison University

David Leach BSc(Agr) 74

July 18 1998

Ian Leask DVM 74 Sept 5 1998

Sheryl Lee BSc 95 June 8 1998 Ruby Janet MacAuley DHE 30

Aug 19 1998 Parker MacKenzie DVM 38

September 1994

Jeanice MacLaren DHE 28 March 1 1997

Campbell MacMaster DVM42

Oct 8 1998

Rex McCallum DVM 43 July 71998 Jean (Dunn) McMahon DHE 31

Nov 41998

Margaret Oones) McTaggart DHE 35 Aug 81998

Patrick McTaggart-Cowan HDSc 81

Oct 21997

Malcolm McWhinnie ADA 39

July 16 1998 Mary (Townsend) Mitchell BHSc

60 Sept 281998

Marjory Monaghan DHE 29

December 1997 Charles Monk BSA 44 Aug 7 1998

Heather Neilsen BHSc 59

Oct 30 1998 Jerry Niwa DVM 62 Aug 5 1998 Henry Harry OReilly BSA 42

October 1997

James Parr BSc(Agr) 81 June 19 1998 Charles Rammage DVM 45

Oct 17 1996 Howard Rapson HDSc 90

March 1997 Clement Reeds DVM 42 Oct 16 1998

William Robinson BSA 38

Aug 23 1998

Donald Sager ADA 73 Oct 141997

Austin Schaefer DVM 37 in 1997

Sandra (Mackenzie) Schmidt DHE 59

Aug 16 1997 Margaret (Harvey) Seaborn DHE 28

July 221998

Larry Seguin DVM 47 June 12 1998

Leah Shedden DHE 31 December 1998

Edward Shuh BSA 40 July 2 1998

Ted Shutsa BSc(Agr) 66

Sept 18 1998 Jim Sinclair DVM 49 Oct 4 1998

Margaret (Brown) Sinclair DHE 20

September 1998 Eldon Smith BSA 42 Sept 9 1998

Derek Somers DVM 96 Sept 25 1998

Cheryl Lynn Sopha BA 95 Sept 20 1998

Leona (Bartlett) Stewart DHE 35

June 27 1998 Alex Thomson BSc(Agr) 69

October 1996

William Whittick DVM 55

Aug 15 1998 Joseph Wilson BSA 23 Sept 11 1998

Lloyd Woolsey DVM41 June 24 1998

Winifred Yeates DHE 28 June 11998

Faculty John Carpenter BSA 43 and MSA 48

Microbiology Dec 10 1998

David Gaskin Zoology Sept 14 1998

Gordon Macleod BSA 50 Animal and

Poultry Science Nov 26 1998 Roman Retman Languages and

Literatures Sept 28 1998

Caesar Sen off Chemistry and

Biochemistry Aug 14 1998

Percy Smith Drama Dec 10 1998

Friends Robert Clark Aug 21 1998

Ethel Hammond August 1998

Thomas Hillers Sept 28 1998 Marguerite Holbrook Aug 26 1998

Catherine Kelly Sept 27 1998

James A McKenzie May 13 1998

Kenneth McIssac Oct 23 1998

William Mutlock September 1998 Roena Patterson Sept 16 1998

Donald Priddle Aug 25 1998

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bull Karl Reimer BSe 94 comshypleted a one-year intensive

MSc in mining engineering at

Queens University and is now

a project engineer a t Enpar

Technologies Ine in Guelph

He can be contacted at reimerbservcom

bull Nancy Nauta Rowland BA 90 and her husband Dan celshy

ebrated their first wedding

anniversary in March 1998 with

the birth of their first child

Connor who beat their March

8 anniversary by two days Nanshy

cy teaches junior-grade stushy

dents and junior special ed ucashy

tion for the Peel District School

Board The Rowlands live in

Caledon Ont

bull Fraser Stables MFA 98 was heralded by Toronto Globe 6shyMail critic Betty Jordan as a

formidable new talent followshy

ing the openi ng of his debut

gallery exh ibition in July The

Scottish artists work includes

sculpture video and mixed

media that explore notions of

flu x by interrupting the moveshy

ment of forms in space

bull Erin (Smith) Scott BSe(HK) 92 and Brad

Scott BSc(Agr) 91 of Lucan

O nt were married in 1993 and

had their first child Lucas in

August Erin works for Shopshy

pers Home Health Ca re in

London Brad is with New Life

Mills in Dunfield

bull Abby Simons BSc 95 and Martin Piche BSc(Agr) 95 were married in Mont-Tremshy

blant Quebec in 1997 She is a

customer service representative

with Kantech Systems he is

superintendent of Club de golf

vallee des forts They say theyd

love to hear from anyone headshy

ing to Montreal and can be

reached at 450-348-3860

bull Sylvia Tesori BSc 95 has been doing wildlife rehabilitashy

tion for the OSPCA Wildlife

Rehabilitation Centre in Midshy

land Ont since 1996

bull Chuck Thibeault BComm 94 is general manager of the

Putting Edge Corpora tion

which has two glow-in- theshy

dark mini-golf courses in

Ontario one in Bramp ton and

one in Richmond Hill He can

be reached in Richmond Hill at

chu ckttotalnet

bull Karen Thirlwall BA 93 is a

si ngersongwriter and guitarist

who began her stage career and

released her first album The Voice Inside Me while studying

languages at U of G She has

lived and performed in

11i stler BC for three years

and recently released a second

album called Wide-Eyed She

remembers many special

fr iends m ade at Guelph and

welcomes e-mail messages to

karenthirlwallhotmailcom

bull Christie (Johnson) and Steve

Tyler both BComm 91 live in

Cambridge Ont where

Christie is a personal banking

representative for the Royal

Bank Steve works with their

third-year design professor

Nelson Hofer in Mississauga as

a design consultan t Steves proshy

jects include the Windsor Casishy

no and U of Gs Creelman Hall

They have two children Jason

5 and Marcus 1

bull Julia White BA 91 lives in Guelph and is a small-business

accountant at Taves amp Co She

recently finished courses

towards a CGA designation and

would like to hea r from other

alumni who lived in Lambton

Hall in 198788 Send e-mail to

juliawhitesympaticoca

bull Andre-Denis Wright MSc 93 and PhD 98 is doing postshy

docto ral work in Perth Westshy

ern Australia He wants his

Guelph friends and Halifax

family to know he was thinking

of them at Christmas when it

was 40 C in Australia

bull Dave Yellen BComm 90 was recently promoted at the Gordon

Food Service to new-accounts

sales specialist for Metro Toronshy

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da College Royal attracts more than 20000 visitors to

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College Royal is an event of tradition that reaches

into tomorrow Agriculture and livestock shows are still

highlighted events but College Royal activities have

grown to include dog and cat shows a photography conshy

test a chemistry magic show and demonstrations on

human health and fitness The open house gives people

an opportunity to see what happens in the Universitys

leading-edge research laboratories to observe veterinary

medicine in practice to tour a sculpture studio or to

watch a theatrical performance

To celebrate the 75th anniversary of College Royal

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alumni initiative that es tablished the OAC Alumni work internship at the end of their third yea r and125 YEARS Foundation in the 1960s to provide financial supshy co me back to finish the fourth year with a job wa it shyOF ACHIEVEMENT port to co ll ege programs and scholarships The ing for them says McLa ughlin and they o ften have

foundation also provided the leadership and incenshy fo ur or fi ve to choose from vVe are very short of bull Teaching

tive to create Guelph Unive rsity Alumni Research graduates to fill all of the jobs that are o ut there now innovations

and Development (GUARD Inc) in bull Birdsfoot trefoil

1996 The manda te of the technology bull Land reclamation Educating Leadersmanageme nt company is to develop bull Rural planning

researc h i nven tion s in to marketable bull Wind and snow Guelphs agriculture graduates haveprod ucts lau nch spin-off companies

studies played key roles in Canadian agriculture and gene rate revenu es to support basic

bull Milk testing including federal ministers William Mothshyand applied research at U of G bull Ruminant nutrition

erwell Diploma 1881 John Wise ~DA 56Throughout OACs history alumni bull Ag poli cy and Lyle Vanclief BSc(Agr) 66 Mothshyhave formed a network ofAggies who

development erwell was a driving force behind the have volunteered their time to provide

western grain producers movement before 197deg-198o

a rea l-world view for students helped to

being named to Cabinet in 1921 In thelaunch the careers of many new grad ushybull Arboretum Centre 1980s Wise introduced income stabilizashyates by providing work opport unities bull Ghana-Guelph tion programs and created farm debtencouraged research initiatives co nshy

Project review boards Today Vanclief is strugshytributed millions of dollars to scholarshy

bull Integrated pest gling with low commodity prices and intershyship programs and voca lized co ncerns

managementabout college programs and curriculum national trade agreements

bull Composting animal After receivin g some critica l advice

wastesfrom alumni and agr i-food employers

bull Crop resistance toin the ea rly part o f the 1990s OAC

herbicideslaunched a new BSc(Agr ) program that

bull Limnocorrals for wil l gradu ate the fi rst class of st uden ts

aquatic ecosystems this anniversary year The new agriculshy

bull Grain drying and ture curriculum emphasizes communica tion skills in the agri-food sec tor he says

storageand teamwork allows students to choose their own If you live anywhere near Guelph youll know that

bull Asparagusspecializations and includes opportunities for onshy the agri-food sector ill this area is expected to lead the

bull Systemic fungicides the-job experience Many of those students take a local economy well into the new mi llennium creat shy

bull Pesticides research

bull Agricultural Code of

Practicesocial sciences Johnston had no real farm expeshy within the interdisciplin ary atmosphere of the

rience but he understood people well says Crow- University of Guelph OAC has both contributed

ley and he recognized almost as quickly as his students that the to and benefited iiom the Universitys steady growth Traditionshy

school would succeed only if it co uld offer farm ers sons someshy al OAC programs have expanded into new departments and colshy

thing more thall what they had already learned at home leges providing greater benefits to agri-food resea rch and teach shy

Johnstons commitment to education and his genui ne con shy in g New partnerships o n campus and th e academ ic freedom

cern for his students still echo through the corridors of the build shy provided by University sta tus have enabled Guelph to enlarge its

ing named in his hono ur a nd across campus in the broad range already significant influence in the agri-food sector

of disciplines that now nuke up the Un iversity of Guelph Johnshy Crowley says the enha nced partnership between U of G and

ston was the firs t of hundreds of hulllane and sensible people the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture Food a nd Rural Affairs has

who have given the campus its distinctive character says Crowshy fulfilled a vision of OAC as the hub of agr icultural educa tion that

ley The University of Guel ph is still a good place to be People had been expressed nea rly a cen tury before It s a good place to

help each other to a rema rkable degree and it is eve n m ore end a history and begin a future

remarkable that this sense of co-operatio n has lasted through the In Crowleys fi nal words Agriculture reta ins its econo mi c

most recent government meat slicing importance in the co untrys econom) but the secto r will find

Told in the social and political context of its 125 yea rs the itself [n an increasingly international and com petitive ellvironment -OAC story builds momentum as the pages turn The final chapshy where education and research become ever more importa nt Since

ter in Crowleys history is the most impressive because it SUIll shy the Ontario Agricultural College has demons t rated its ability to

marizes the last 25 years when developments in agricultural edushy respond to changing circumstances during its first 125 years the

cation research and service have occurred 1110st quickly Growing past suggests a willingness to meet the new challenges that await

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ing more jobs and generating more wealth than any 125 YEARS other industry A recent study by the citys Planning OF ACHIEVEMENT OAe 125 and Business Development Department predicts a

ANNIVERSARY EVENTS50-per-cent increase in employment in agri-food bull Mosquitoindustries in the next decade Broaden out to the

monitoring jan 29 - Official OAC 12S launch and bull Canadian publication of 125 Years of Achievements

Greenhouse Feb 16 - Winegard Seminar Series hosts New frontiers Conference Andy Johnson Seymour Wis

bull Non-agricultural March 5 - Winegard Seminar Series hosts At the tum of the 20th century Prof William waste on land Sir Colin Berry Royal London Hospital UKGraham created the impetus for a Canadishy

bull Pest diagnostic March 31 - Opening of AJ Casson Exhibitan poultry industry through nutrition studshyservice and selections from the OAC art collection ies that also provided a background for

at the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre work in human nutrition The tum of the 1980-1990 April 30 - Recognition of the 12s-year 21st century finds poultry scientist Ann Gibshybull Alumni House GuelphOMAFRA partnership and launch bins perfecting the techniques to transfer bull Turfgrass Institute of The College on the Hill A New History genetic material into chicken embryos to bull Centre for the of the Ontario Agricultural College develop birds with better disease resistshy

Genetic Improvement 1874 - 1999middotance or to improve production characterisshyof Livestock june 7 amp 10 - Spring Convocation for tics including the deposition of medically

bull Network of OAC diploma and degree graduates Eachvaluable proteins in the eggs Toxicology Centres graduate will receive a copy of College

bull Biological control lab on the Hill bull George Morris june 18 amp 20 - Alumni Weekend and

Centre opening of the Conservatory and Gardens bull Advanced Sept 14 to 16 - Canadas Outdoor Farm

Agricultural Show will host the countrys biggest silent Leadership auction as an OAC fundraiser for student Program support Ontario industry and the predictors are similar and

bull Distance education Sept 25 - Heritage Banquet and Ball for again youll find U of G at the hub of that growth bull Animal behaviour alumni agri-food partners and University In the past decade the view from Johnston Hall

and welfare communityhas expanded to include OMAFRAs provincial bull Farm animal care Nov 24 - Agri-Food Into the Newheadquarters and the U of G Research Park which bull Haploid breeding Millennium conference to discuss the majoris home to a branch of Agriculture and Agri-Food

technologies forces shaping the destiny of the global Canada the regional headquarters of the Canadian bull Hybrid canolc and Canadian agri-food systems and rural Food Inspection Agency and more than two dozen bull Consumer societiesbusinesses and agriculture organizations that are

benefits from key players in Ontarios industry

agricultural For more information on these events or toIn the summer of 1997 Guelph welcomed the research order copies of the anniversary books visit establishment of Ontario Agri-Food Technologies

bull Soybean the OAC 125 Web site at wwwoacuoguelph - a consortium of 12 grower associations five rhizobium 532C cajOAC125 or contact the deans office atOntario universities 11 industries and OMAFRA

519-824-4120 Ext 2285 e-mail oac125 - which is dedicated to generating wealth for the 1990S oacuoguelphcaprovincial agri -food sector through the application bull Guelph Food

of biotechnology The consortium will develop Technology

financing and the research teams needed to take in new business to the country s economyCentre

discoveries and turn them into products in the Some would suggest the growth of agri -food bull GUARD Incsupermarket partnerships is part of a global trend in economic bull Environmental

A new venture beginning this year is the Agrishy thinking that says consolidate cluster and work Farm Plan

Food Quality Cluster that seeks out opportunities together for greater rewards but the important thing bull U of GOMAFRA

for agri-food companies to work together to meet is that this agri-food sector is clustering in Guelph partnership

a specific need The Guelph duster is one of the first - around U of G - because this institution began bull Wheat in China

to be established in Canada but it already has 500 preparing for its future 125 years ago with a comshybull Food packaging

members and has predicted that potential projects mitmen t to leadership in agri-food research edushybull Transgenic plants

in Ontario could add $2 billion to $3 billion a year cation and service ga

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UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

rese~ tesch SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERYmiddot SCHOLARSHIpmiddot SOCIAL DEVELOPMENTS

WHEN 24 HOURS IN lea rning how to integrate work Runciman arrived at Guelph know they may be harm ful to

A DAY ISNT ENOUGH and fa mily life rath er than jugshy last summer after spending four their health

TRYIN GTO ACCOMMODATE the gling the two says Lero Inteshy years deSIgning orthopedic sysshy Most consumers are not demands of family and career is gration is key so tfut people can tems and instruments for Canashy aware that plants contain a comshya problem most peopl e fa ce in be successful in multiple roles dian and Ameri ca n firms He plex mi xture of biochemica ls todays society Those indi vidshy rath er than struggling from crishy hopes to establish a state-of-theshy says Prof Pra vecn Saxena Plant ual and family struggles will be sis to crisis art research lHboratory with Agriculture Herbal remedies the focus of the Universitys new HOLlsed in the College of Pro fs Jinl Dickey and Jack have been developed on historishy

Social and Applied j-Iuman Scishy Callaghan Human Bi010gy and cal and anecdotal evidence rather ences the centre brings togethshy Nutr itional Sciences that will than by scientitlc testin g he says er related resea rch areas und er allow him to pursue hi s twin Saxena is trying to change this by a sing1e roof and will spark new research interests in shoulder systematically identifying charshy

Family relations interdisc iplinary opportunities and spine mechanics acterizing and quantifying the experts recommend particularly for graduate st ushy The trio has appli ed for chemical constituents of plants parents integrate - not dents More than 50 fac ulty and fundi ng from the Natural Sc ishy used in a1ternative medicines juggle - work and staff ha ve indicated a desire to ences and Engineering Resea rch family life be affiliates of the centre which Co uncil to equip a biomechanshy

wijJ stimulate resea rch and forge ics lab already loca ted adjacent partnerships with organiza tions to U of Gs new Health and Pershy

Centre for Families Work and co rp orations and co mmunity forman ce Ce ntre in the recentshyWell-Being agenCies ly renova ted Powell Building

Headed by Profs Donna This funding would bring Lero and Kerry Daly Family BODY IS THE the lab up to date to meet intershyRe lat ions and Appli ed Nutri shy ULTIMATE MACHINE national standards says Runcishytion the centre will promote IM INTER ESTED in the app lishy man who p1ans to follow up on responsive wo rk env ironments cation of mechanical engineershy pioneering shoulder mechani cs and help families across Canashy ing to the human body The work he was invo lved in whil e He and grad uate students da manage wo rk and family body is the ultimate machine completing his PhD at Sco tshy Susan Murch and Co lleen Simshyresponsibilities in healthy ways So says Prof John Runciman lands Strathclyde Un iversity mons in th e Ontario Agri culshy

The centre will also be a catshy who recently brought his blend He hop es hi s studies will tural Co llege a1so wa nt to alyst for new researcl in areas of academic and industry expershy help orthopedic co mpanies improve the methods of growshyas diverse as health promotion tise in biomedical engineering design better implan ts used to in g medicinal plants to protect seniors long-term ca re nutrishy to U of Gs School of Engineershy correct such deformities as sco shy cons umers and ensure quality tion and wellness rural aging ing in the College of Phys ica l liosis or cur va ture of the spine Problems in the herbal remeshyand gender in the workplace A and Engineering Science and for treating shoulder insta shy dies industry include medicinal mandate of the centre is that the

IN FACT

bi lity often caused by injuries prepara tions containing misidenshyresults of its research must be among athletes tified plant species contaminashyapplied and availabl e to the tion by pests and disease a lack public to benefit those Canadishy RESEARCHERS of understanding of plant physshyans who ne ed help dealing with CULTIVATE QUALITY iology or efficacy for human conshythe accelerated pace of life nonshy IN HERBAL sumption ilnu co nsumer fraud shytraditional family relationsl ips MEDICINE Our research will help set a longer working hOLlrs globlt1lshy MORE AND MO RE Canadims are standard fo r the development ization and downsizing turning to natural remedies as of safe va lue-added products

The challenge for fam ilies is alternatives to medicine but few Saxena says

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RESEARCH UNCOVERS KEY

TO AGING RESEARCHERS may have found modern sc iences answer to th e mythica l Fountain of Youth

U of G professors John Phillips and Arthur Hilliker Department of Molecular Biolshyogy and Genetics and Gabrielle Boulianne of the University of Toronto and th e Hospital fo r Sick Children appear to have identified a critical weakness in the common fruit fl ys defence against aging

The researchers from the College of Biologica l Science di scovered that a specific cell type - th e motor neuron - is the major target for oxidative damage known for several years to be a key factor affecti ng aging and lifespa n They were able to boost a fruit flys defence against the damage by inserting th e human gene SOD1 which is known to protect against oxidashy

tive damage into the fly s DNA As a result the ave ra ge lifespa n of the fli es (us uall y about 80

days) was increased 40 per cent

PROFESSOR SURVEYS CANADIANS ON POLITICS ETHICS

of the most pampered celeb ri ty NEW WEAPON or the mo st prima donn a pro AGAINST BACTERIA athlete ANTflllOTlCS TYPICALLY have a

More than half of su rvey shelf life because bacte ria develshyresponden ts say they have little op resista nce over time but this or no confidence in Parliament wou ld not be a concern with a with the figure being even lower new sys tem fo r smuggling for the Senate In addition 34 per an tibiotics past bacterial walls

TI-lESE DAYS on both sides of the A molecular-level Trojan border what a politician says or ho rse is how Prof Terry Bevshydoes in private can have tremenshy eridge Department of Microbishydous impact on his or her public ology and graduate student Kelshycareer - but is th at appropriate ly MacDonald desc ribe the

Prof Maureen Mancuso of system theyre studying 1 t takes the Department of Polirical Scishy advan tage of a mechanism develshyence in the College of Social and oped by bacteria to attack an d Applied Human Sciences an d a co nsume neighbouring bugs team of four other political scishy Preliminary tests by the entists conducted a cross-counshytry survey of 1400 Canadians asking what th ey think of th e behaviour of their elected represhysentatives The res ults were pubshyli shed in October in th e book A

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WILL ONTARIO FARMERS GROW

HEMP U OF G SCIENTISTS are helping to determine the viability of hemp as a cash crop for Ontario farmers

Health Canada recently li ftshyed a 60-year ban on growing hemp and about 10000 acres are expected to be plan ted in Canada this year Hemp is an organic fibre tha t could be used in everythi ng fro m fabri c and medicine to oil and paper

Gordon Scheifele of Kemptville CoJlege and Peter Dragla of Ridgetown College are studying the potential of hemp as an Ontario crop Scheifele has completed initial test ing on nine varieties and a series of producshy

tion research experiments in northern parts of On tario Dragla has established breeding program trials and looked at commercial production of hemp varieties in southern Ontario He is also developing field instrushymentation to provid e field readshyings of tetrahydrocanmbinol the psychoactive ingredient in hemp

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THE WOMAN WHO CREATED ANNE

COLLEGE OF ARTS professor Ivlary Rubio and professo r emerita Eliza beth Waterston know more abo ut author LM Montgomery than anyone else in the world They were among the first academics to seriously study the world-famous author of Anne ofGreel Gables

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A NEW INTERACTIVE CD-RO M designed by Ontario Veterinary College professor Cindy Adams will help veterinarians learn to help clients gr iev in g over th e loss of a pet Titled Death of a Pet the CD-ROM is expected to be launched in February and is geared toward vets technicians and students

Adams who holds joint appo intments in the departshyments of Popu lat ion Medicine and Cli nical Studies and the Veterinary Teaching Hospital is an expert on the humanan imal bond She has developed in-sershyvice training workshops fo r vets on dealing with client grief over the loss of a pet and su pport groups for grieving pet owners

Inside Playwright Judith Thompson

BEHIND THE MASK

JUDITH THOMPSON A DRAMA PROFESSOR at the University of Guelph

since 1992 is one of Canadas finest playwrights Her complex and

sometimes disturbing plays give voice to human failings and accomshy

plishments A two-time winner of the Governor Generals Literary

Award she has received wide acclaim for her work

On the following pages the Guelph Alumnus profiles an artist

whose creativity finds expression through dialogue by offering a

faithful rendition of the dialogue between Thompson and Comshy

munications and Public Affairs writer Andrew Vowles Much like

the characters she unmasks on stage Thompson reveals both comshy

plicated and unexpected images of herself

PHOTOGRAPHY BY D EAN PALMER

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NO The scene is the rehearsal space in Lower Massey Hall at the University of Guelph

Monday mid-morning Outside the warped-glass windows the first wet snow of the year

drops like pebbles Drama professor Judith Thompson is leading some 20 students in her

Acting I class through their warm-ups The students stand in a circle and take turns aiming

a mock blow as they shout the word No More she says to the less assertive To others

whose No sounds shredded over the top she holds up a hand More control Thompson

gestures to her diaphragm It has to come from here

SCENE THOMPSONS OFFICE MASSEY H ALL

On one wal l hang pictures of actors engaged

in a drama mingled with childrens sc hool

drawings The desktop is practically bare A

black purse occupies one chai r A scarf has

landed on the back of another This is where

the playw rig ht hangs her hat during her

classes and meets with studen ts She wri tes

at home in Torontos Annex neighbourhood

where she li ves with her husband Gregor

Campbell a sessional English inst ruc tor at

Guelph and their five children Ariane 13

Eli 10 Grace 8 Felicity 4 and Sophia J

SCENE U OF G LI BRARY ARCHIVES

Guelph Alumnus writer (readil1g from draft of Epilepsy and Snakes Fear as the Genesis of Theatre a talk given by Thompson to the Epilepsy Association of Metro Toronto ill 1997 The script for the ta lk is included among boxes ofcorrespo nde11ce numerous drafts of plays various newspaper and magazine artishycles and reviews ahout the playwright and her work that Thompson recently donated to the U of G Library archives)

1have known real fear only a few times

in my relatively sheltered life But 1

believe these moments of fear are

directly connected to the so urce of creshy

ativi ty within me

SCENE J UST ABOUT ANYWHERE YOU CAN

REA D A PLAY

GA writer (reading from introduction to Tho mpsons play Sled wh ich was first pro shyduced hy Torontos Tarragon Theatre in 1997)

Judith Thompson was born in 1954 in

Montreal She graduated from Queens

University in 1976 then graduated from

the act ing program of the National Theshy

22 GU ELPH ALUMNUS

I seem to give voice to people who

have no voice

atre Schoo l in 1979 Alth ough she

worked briefl y as a profess ional actor

she became more interested in writing

and at th e age of 25 a workshop of her

first scrip t The Crack walker was proshy

duced by Theatre Passe MuraiHe Her

work which includes both radio and

tel evisio n writing has enjoyed great

internationa l success

Other plays includ e The Crackshywalker White Biting Dog Pink Tornado - radio Am Yours Lion ill the Streets White Sand Perfect Pie and Stop Talking Like That- radio She is the recipient

of the Floyd S Chalmers Canadian Play

Award for Lion in the Streets in 199 1 and

Am Yours in 1987 and the Governor

Generals Literary Award for Drama for

The Other Side of the Dark in 1989 and

White Biti11g Dog in 1984

S CENE LUNCHTIME

U OF G UNIVERSITY CLUB

Thompson Im so grateful to have this job

beca use it allows me to do the work that s

important and the plays that will be my legashy

cy and tha t are what 1 feel I have to conshy

tribute to Canadian culture If I didnt have

thi s job Id ha ve to keep compromising

because my plays dont make money Theyre

always in sma ller houses I take chances

theyre not commercial They play all over

th e world but aha)s in sma ller places 1

would just have to pursue life as a screenshy

writer to make a living Thi s job gives

me the great privilege of doing my research

which is the plays that I write and the edishy

torial work that I some times do and screenshy

plays that are worthy and good projects

GA writer Audi ences and reviewers have

described your plays as dark disturbing full

of angry people full of profanity

Thompson At the risk of sounding

grandiosel seem to give voice to people who

have no voice or very little in the culture

whom people dont li sten to Liol1 in the Streets the handicapped wo man living in

the basement all on her own the yo ung girl

Iso bel The secretary stuck in this abu sive

relationship with the actor The middle-class

housewife dumped by her husband because

be doesnt like her sweatsuits and on and on

I give voice to them because I dont know

because I care abo ut them because I like to

represent them Im a lawyer Some of them

use profanity because they have really good

reason to be angry a nd most of th em are

powerless And unfortunately profanity has

a little charge Its a little source of baby powshy

er It upsets me I dont use it myself Im very

se nsitive to it

SCENE ARCHIVES

GA writer (reading essay by Thompson comshymissio ned by Toronto literary Journal Brick

in 995)

If I were not a writer 1 think 1 would

wear a riding hat With a stee l lining

Because I would be baving many more

epi leptic seizures than 1 do presentl y

Because any of the non-writer real jobs I have had caused me sleepless nights self-disgust swoll en eyes cystic acne and hearin g di sorde rs all of which increased electrical activity in my brain which I believe increases the frequenshycy of seizu res

SCENE UNI VER SITY CLUB

Thompson (discussing the critical and pubshylic reaction to her first play The Crackwalkshyer) It was slaughtered at first as all my plays have been Very bad reviews at first and then somehow they catch fi re and theres one grea t review and the others start to see something GA writer Why the bad reviews Thompson I think people might say that theyre shock ing but I dont think so not

with the movies we see and whatnot Theyre not shocking compared with Quentin Taranshytino But theyre not like anything else they dont know where to put them And when they dont know where to put them theyre dismayed I think and hostile and they feel challenged I just write as I see Im not tryshying to shock or challenge anyone I hope they do challenge - me too all of us I often feel li ke the little boy in The Emperors New

Clothes Look this is what I see

SCENE LOWER MASSEY HALL

Two Acting I students perform a scene on th e stage Their fellow stud ents sit on th e Aoo r watching Thompson sits forward on a plasti c chair forearms propped on her knees hands clasped before her Her eyes her bod y are intent on the action Later Amberley Buxton (fi rst-year student il1 Actshyil1g I who is pursuing a psychology major and a drama minor)

Its a really in tense class In one of our first classes we were to share something that had changed our perspective on li fe or how we thought every day Later during improvisashytion or scene work she had us draw on the emotional context fro m those stories to add to our acting experiences Its really intense in that way A lot of people share a lot of personal things and we use each others experiences

SCENE UNIVER SIT Y CLUll

Thompson Ea ch se meste r students go through an intensive transition In order to find your creative centre or trigger yo u need

to know yourself in an intell ectual context They reach that pl ace and find their genius My philosophy is that every stu dent has genius and its my job to uncover it My relationshi p is so intense with st udents The classes are very psychoanalyt ic It seems to tra nsform their life

SCENE LO WER MA SSEY

Buxton Even if we haven t encountered a similar situat ion in real life she has us draw on somethi ng similar For ollr exa m Im doing a monologue My character has been abused I havent been abused myself but I have to draw on a si tuation where I had sim shy

itar feel ings draw on some experi ence Like being teased at schoo l Even so mething as small as tha t if you find a way to get back to that

SCENE UNIVERSITY CLUll

Thompso n I llsed to be terrified In high school Id spend half my time in the nurses room because the idea of having a se izu re in front of yo ur peers at that age was just petrifying I did finall y have a seizure but luckil y no one was around at the time So I

think all of that puts me in touch with a lot in life I might not have been in touch with being fairly privileged not rich but eno ugh to be middle class A lot of my work is about class abo ut the class differentiation in Canashyda Ive somehow felt more all ied to a less adva ntaged class My gra ndfather once sat as prime minister of Australia My grandshyfa ther on the other side was a member of the Royal Society an entomologist but his mother died in childbirth and he was brought up as a cousin on the farm outside of London And my Australian grandfath er was one of 1I siblings in a shack by the side of the railroad His father had di ed He walked barefoot to school so I th ink because its just two generations away I feel it in my bones and my blood GA writer How did you get to writing Thompson Through ac ting Ive been involved in thea tre since I was II years old I was Helen Keller for a university show my mother directed She had an [vIA in th eatre and she taught it at Queens I was in TILe Crushycible when I was 12 in Kingston and Jean Brodie and on and on and on I would just lisshyten to aU these wonderful lines and words and it all kind of enrered me And acting is where I reaU y found my niche as a person The theshyatre became my home Then I went to theatre schoo l as an actress but I started to create mask characters through improvisation Thats where I really took off in a big way and where I found myse lf very very excited GA writer VVhat we re you excited abo ut Thompson I was doing the writing And I felt frankly that I did it much better than most of the texts I was working with Not Shakespeare but and its not a matter of better it s thats where I belonged So I would go home and write down the charshyacters that r crea ted that day in class and make th em talk to each odler and thats how The Craekwalker happened

I spent a summer in Toronto looking for acting work and I go t a few jobs But every day for a co uple of hours I would write at a typewri ter and I found these voices comshying At the end of it I sa id to someone You know I think this isnt bad I think this might eve n be a play At the Na tional Theatre shySchool they said to me Youre pretty handy with these monologues but dont ever think you could write a play (Pause) I enjoy telling th at tale on them

WINTER 1999 23

SCENE LOWER MASSEY

Buxton It was my fint time doing mask work She had us sit with the masks on and just sta re at ou rselves in the mirror We did it for an hour staring at the mask feelin g the mask It was a phenomenal eilVer ience the Wily youre able to transform yourself It was almost as if you werent look ing at you That helped yo u to walk differently You were able to shed your

own movements and personality

SCEN E UNIVfRSITY CLU B

Thompson I think thil t seizures can transshylate into creativity are part of me as a cre shyltltive artist Peop le in the medical busin ess are very skeptical of ltll1ything like this But I fee l it s because I have fewer inhibitors in my bra in You have these inhibitors and thats what medication helps But if youre epi leptic your inhibitors Ment working as well to put out the electrical fire so it spreads I think the door to my un conscious is kind of flapping around so J think that helps creatively

SCENE MA SSEY HALL

Student (steppingforwmd) NO I Thompson (quietly) Good

SCENE ARCHIVES

GA writer ( reading fiom Epilepsy and Sna kes)

I have no doubt that my experience with epi lepsy has con tributed to my creative wo rk partly because it hE Jped me to understand what it is to be marginalized to be isolated to be feJ rful and to be out of control and eve n to be mortal

SCENE U NIVERS IT Y CLU B

Thompson Unchecked id can mean scrawlshying on the walls crazy things muttering in stree t corne rs beca use th ey re all id no su perego But I had the luck to be born into a theatrical famiJy my mother havin g the theatrical experience so I was exposed to it Lots of books I was taken to 1 lor of plays Having ep il epsy my first seizure when I was nin e J was able to link with that If I hadnt had those advantages who knows the se izur es migh t have ju st made me a depressed person an angr y person And you re touched with mortality you always live und er siege a slight fear of having a se izure Its much less so now with me

24 GUELPH ALUM NUS

SCENE UNIVERSITY CLUB

Thompson Ive always been a mimic in a cheap way I could always mimic we ll I would raLk to someone on a bus and I could do them exactly Thats kind of dangerous because it can be pretty shallow But it showed me ltl way into the person throu gh voice And once J could do that like a pupshypet something would click and I cou ld get

in in a deeper way J need to get so thoroughly into the charshy

acte rs and their state of mind and especialshyly tapping repressed el11orion which gets you in touch with your id or unconscious li fe If

I take little sections of

myself and grow them in a petri dish of the play

one character is about rage I have to tap into my own rage and that s why the monoshylogues so things can just flow and then I can retrieve things from the past and remember things So its not working from here (gesshytures to midriff) it s wo rking fro l11 here (gesshytures to head)

Mo nologues for me are always the key to findin g out who th e character is because if you cant make them rant for fi ve minutes you dont know th em Tha ts what I tell my

playwriting students I want to see r-wo pages of this characters mouth In other words to speak for five minutes we have to have

so mething to say We have to have something we feel passionately about something were angry about and if we dont have something to say for fi ve minutes who are we

SCENE UN IVERSTTY CLUB

GA writer Vhere do you see what eventushyally becomes a play such as Sled 1110mpson I was at a lodge and saw a moose that s one thin g And that made me think about winter and how the country is always with us as Ca nadians Even in the urban censhytres we ca rr y it wi th us Theres always this

see ming division between the country the wilderness and civilized centres but its the same The wildness of the moose and the

hunt and the bear is in our neighbourhoods I guess its like Lion in the Streets it must be a thing with me And also the exquisite beaushyty and thats how most of the world thinks of Canada as the wilderness Its not quite how we think of ourselves but it is partly So that made me want to do something abo ut the Nor th violence in the North

As far as th e old mans stories that was my neighbour and he told me all those stoshyries they were all true except mltlyb e one or so and I thought Theyre amazing They teilus what our neighbourhoods Me really about and Toro nto what the city is how its const ru cted Toronto is our stories and in th ese neighbourhoods you have an urbane entertainer li ving nex t to an 80-year-old Italia n man and thats the beauty ofToronshyto ltllld its the way th e world is chan ging The stric t class divis ions and culture divishysions th eyre no longer as defin ed as they we re espec ially in th ese neighbourhoods the great pioneering experimen t GA writer Do your chi ld ren see your work Thompson No None of my children can see my plays Ariane saw f Am Yours in New York when she was about nin e I do cl eal with the dark and whats tru e and my chilshydren aren t ready for that Im probab ly more protective th an mos t mothers Walk them

to school till theyre 13 that ki nd of thin g GA writer Yo u we re intervi ewed in the Globe alld Mail recently in a story about motherh ood dnd th e muse How do yo u handle th e demand s of motherh ood and writing

Thompson If Im in the situation where I have 15 or so hours of child care a week Im OK because when Im with them I wa nt to be with them and when ]m doing my work

th ats what I clo But if I do something like a worko ut thell a black cloud descends The guilt and the black cl oud th at descend as I take off on my bike it s huge Then once the workout s finished I know it was d good

thing to do although it s also cut into my

work time J do feel guilty about the nilture of my work too in that my kids cant see it Am I drawing on a part of me thats not good as a mother The oth er part of me is th at I make up bedtime stories and bake coo kies and all thlt stuff ]m probably a

rather operatic mother I cry at movies laugh too hard __

SCENE ARCI-I[VES

GA writer (reading fiom Epilepsy and Snakes)

1

Although being a dramatic writer has

given me a reputation in my cou ntr y

and a strong identity the actof writin g

or creating character leaves me SOJlle shy

times feeling that I have no id entity at

all Every once in a while when I am not

writing or tending to my four children

I feel I 1m falling again down th e terrishy1 ble hole with nothing to hold on to

And I believe this falling this identity

pain is a result of me using the very

essence of Ill yself to create character in

a dramatic wo rk r wonder so metimes

if J illl1 betraying my soul in a way by

using its essence However J have found

some comfo rt in the words ofWilliall1

Blake Essence is not Identity but from

Essence proceeds Identity and from one

Essence may proceed many Identities

as from one Affection Jlla y proceed

many thoughts If the Essence was

the sa me as the Identit y there could be

but one Identity which is fal se Heaven

wo uld upon this plan be but a clock

but one and the sa me Essence is th ereshy

fore Essence and not Identity

SCENE UNIVER SIT Y CLUB

Thompson I always put myself in a play and

never In other words I take little sections of

myself and grow them in a petri dish of th e

play So if Ive found a moment where Im a

bit lazy ]11 grow it and milke the character

very lazy o r impatient or whatever So I take

these moments because we all have all of

them grow th em and create this Frankenshy

steins monste r a character right out of parts

body parts and psychological parts often of

myself and then observe things in other peoshy

ple but I have to find it in myself to make it

work

SCENE AR C H1V ES

GA writer (reading from Epilepsy al1d Snakes)

My self asserted itself as a kind of quishy

et Lucille Ball c1ulllsy and absent-mindshy

ed At least this gave me an identity and

was a small aCI of slbo tage The next

assertion was an act of unconscio us rev shy

olution th e grand mal seizure that

almost killed me And the next one was

The Crackwalker my first play And this

is how I raged against the machine and

took space in the world And now not

surprisin gly I am seizure-free

SCENE LOWER MASSEY

After another pair of acto rs rUllS through

their scene Thompson directs them to begi n

again She interrupts frequently to question

the students about actions feelings motishy

vations At one point 8S the students pause

to consider her words Thompson turns to

the rest of the class erect in her cha ir

Thompson Isolate the mom ent The great

thing about the stage is th at it isolates the

moments that just race by us_

SCENE UNIVERSITY CLUB

Thompson Ive just written my next play

which is not ca lled Pefeet Pie but thats its

working title because it came from a mon oshy

logue called Perfect Pie But now its a full

two- haul play in which the second wom3n

comes back and tben I have them as yo ung

girls too It goes back ~nd forth and its very

exciting I worksbopped it in the spring and

in December at tbe Tarragon and it will go

on in o ne year At the sa me time lm wr itshy

ing a feature film for Rho mbus based on the

play Pe feet Pie

SCEN E UNlV ERSITY CLUIl

Thompson My pIalS are Illusically written

And if somebody doesnt get the music they

dont feel it and go with the rhythm s it

throws the whole thing off I hear the plays

I hea r them I write with my ear They

change 1 lo t but it s according to rhythm

I ll be sitting in rehea rsal listening and if it

does nt so und ri ght I change it so that its

rhythmic

SCIi -JE J UST AllOUT ANYWHERE YOU CA N

READ A PLAY

GA writer (readmg ji-olll the script ofvVbite

Biting Dog first produced at the Tarragon Th eatre in 1984)

Beciluse of the ex treme and deliberate

lllu sica lity of this play any allempts to

go aga inst the tex tual rhythms such as

th e breaking up of an unbroken senshy

tence the tlking of a pause where none

is written in are DISASTROUS The

effect is like beil1g in a small plane and

suddenly turning off the ignition It all

falls down This play III list SPIN not

just turn around

SCfN e LOWER MASSEY

Her students listen as Thompson stands to

complete a so liloq uy abo ut cap turing the

rhythm of the language on the stage The

wide sleeves of her ank le-length dress slide

down her forea rm s as she ges tures

Thompson Listen to the music of the

scene Each playwright writes their own

symphony

SCENE U NIVERSlTY CLUB

Thompson Ive been pretty directed to this

ii-om an carly age although if I had done anyshy

thing else it probab ly wou ld have been some

form of social work I would have been smokshy

ing three packs of cigarettes a day and workshy

ing il1 an office somewhere up in Scarborough

SC EN E AfltCHIVES

GA write r (reading from Brick interview of Thompson by Eleanor Wachtel ]99] )

In th e thea tre I think what one mllst

do is co nfront the truth confront the

emot ional truth of our li ves which is

mired in the swamp of minuriae

everyday minutiae Maybe it has to be -tl111 way because we couldnt confront

it every day But I think the th eatre

IllllSt Im not interested ill th eatre that

doesnt ga

W1NTER 1999 25

Never mind fish wars pitting countries against one another - here in Canada scientists and policy makers cant agree on who should control the preservation and management ofour own fishery resources BY ANDREW VOWLES

Ca

as

ollapsed cod stocks to the east

On the West Coast laquofish wars

_ rlTDT Pacific salmon enmesh

Canada and the United States

At various points in between fisheries scishy

entists and managers grapple with everyshy

thing from overfishing of freshwater

stocks to invasion by exotic molluscs

What is to be done about Canadian fishshy

eries And what role is being p layed by

fisheries and aquatic scientists at the Unishy

versity of Guelph

-

dock pollock red fish and flatfish made up just under half of Canadas total landings on the Atlantic coast (720000 tonnes of fish and shellfish were caught in 1994 represhysenting a total landed value of $11 billion) Two year~ later that proportion had dropped to 21 per cent with shellfish and open ocean fish specie~ notably Atlantic

Begin in the Atlantic The crisis on the East Coast has become a disaster So says laquoWE NEED TO TRY TO SEPARATE OUTGuelph zo ology professor John Roff enushymerating the litany of woes that have surshy

THE FISHERIES MANAGEMENT DECISIONSfaced from Ca nadas marine fishery in the past decade Although some fish and shellshy

FROM THE POLITICAL DECISIONSfi sh are holding their own stocks of other species have experienced declines raquo

ASSOCIATED WITH THE FISHE RY

down that fishery in 1992 Over fishing and under which it has been buying up fishers

Even when stocks do rebound rarely do we fully und erstand why he says Theres a complex of problems to be disshy more for cod stocks to rebound says Roff entangled involving overflshing long- and co-editor with colleague Prof Moira Fergushyshort-term climate change and changes in son of the respected Canadian Journal ofFishshyocean current systems and productivity eries and Aquatic Sciences A wise course of

And of course the once-thriving northshy action for a fisherman in Newfoundland ern cod that first drew Europeans with their would be to seU his licence and do something nets to the Grand Banks 500 years ago have else he says (Last fall the federal governshycoUapsed to the point that Ottawa had to shut ment announced its final retirement program

the failure of federal fisheries managers to heed the warnings of scientists have been blamed for the coUapse Even with the lllorashytoriulll in place it may take two decades or

licences in Atlantic Ca nada and Quebec) In 1992 - the year Ottawa imposed its

moratorium on the northern cod fisheryshylandings of groundfish including cod had-

salmon making up the difference [n 1995 the total groLlndfish catch reached its lowshyest level in two decades

Unlike the Ea st Coast fi shery which relies most ly on ocea n-living fish the Pacifshyic fishery is dominated b) migratory species Some 300000 tonnes of fish and shellfish were harvested along the west coast in 1994 worth a landed value of $550 million (Arcshytic marine fisheries and their management differ from those on the coasts although cOl11mercial and recreational fisheri es are small here food fisheries are important to

U OF G AQUATIC SCIENCES EXPERTISE CATCHES WORLD ATTENTION

Landlocked in the middle of the courltry U ofG nevertheless boasts fish pathology and diseases including farmed fish diseases fish an enviable record and range ofexpertise in aquatic sciencesshy hormones and reproductive physiology including the effects of marine and freshwater - dating back to the late 1960s Thats when environmental contaminants early life history and behaviour Prof Keith Ronald thell chair of the Department ofZoology (and of fi shes and biology of tuna later dean of the College ofBiological Science) began a marine biolshyogy program at the University Today Guelph has the largest Partnered with the A-erod Institute of Ichthyology in U of group of ichthyologists - scientists who study fish - in Gs Aquatic Sciences Facility the r[agen Aqualab is an North America investigating a wide variety ojIre~hshy aquatic research and teaching facililY for studying water alld marine fisheries and aquatics topics aquatic organisms Environmentally controlled

rooms in the Aqualab allow faculty and students to U of Gs Axelrod Institute of Ichthyology houses simulate habitats as diverse as the Arctic Ocean and one of the worlds largest collections of museumshy tropical rainforest pools The facility is named for quality fish fossils donated to the University by its principal benefactor Rolf Hagen founding presshy

ident of Canadas largest pet store 5llpplier J 989 The institute which provides space for fisheries research and visiting scientists brings together 12 core U of G U of G faculty edit four internationally recognized journals researchers in fisheries and aquatic sciences whose interests and in ichthyology fisheries and aquatic science Awarded to U of G by expertise span environmental contaminants and parasitic disshy the National Research Council in 1997 the Canadian Journal of eases evolutionary genetics of marine and freshwater fishes Fisheries al1dAquatic Sciellces is co-edited by zoology professors

US ichthyologist and author Herbert Axelrod in

28 GUELPH ALUMNUS

northerners including shrimp Atlantic salmon and arctic char) Accountin g fOI almost half of that total were Pacific salmon which ret urn from the ocean to spawn in home streams and rivers up and down the coast of Alaska British Columbia and Washshyington There are actually five main spec ies of sa lmon that run down the BC coast shysockeye (t he most va luable commercial species) chinook coho chum and pinkshyfrom spring to December

Its a very complex jurisdictional and multi-user problem says Roff Bes ides degradation of freshwater spawning habishytats and ocean climate effects of El Nill0 the West Coast fishery is a cauldron of ten shysions between various groups perennial fish wars between Ca nada and the United States disputes that pit sport fishers against native fishing rights Recognizing the problems of low ocean productivity habitat damage overfishing and indiscriminate fishing pracshytices that take weak and strong stocks alike Ottawa is developing a new policy to guide Canadas Pacific salmon fisheries focusing on conservation sustainable use and improved decision-making

That potent mix of overfishing and habishytat degrada tion is also a problem for Canashydas freshwater fisheries A report tabled last fall by the federal standing committee on

fisheries and oceans called for more federal funding for research and fisheries programs in central and arctic regions of Canada Accord ing to that report the Grea t Lakes commercial fishery is one of the largest freshwater fisheri es in the world worth an average landed value of more than $40 milshylion a year and an eco nomic impact of at least $250 million Some 90 per cent of that catch is exported The neck lace of lakes threading its way to the St Lawrence River also supports the largest fres hwater sports fishery in the world 800000 Ontarians fish on the Great Lakes eve ry year contributing $850 million to the economy

In Manitoba managers are concerned about the long-term susta inability of freshshywater fish stocks particularly declines in Lake Winnipeg and the northern part of the province caused by overfishing environshymental degradation loss of prime spawning habitat and predators The province has seen stocks rise and fall particularly of pickerel Manitobas highest-priced fish In an attempt to manage the fishery in a sustained fashion the province recently introduced a qu ota entitlement system for anglers Joe OConshynor director of the fisheries branch of Manshyitobas Department of Na tural Resources says his department is wrestling with the environmental threats on fish habitat posed

by farming and hydroelectric development In Ontario fisheries are genera lly in

pretty good shape says Evan Thomas fishshyeries section manager of the fish and wildlife branch of the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (OM NR) Ontario supports almost half of all recreational fishing in Canada with more than two million adult anglers and more than $2 billion a year spent on recreational fishing in the province Onta ri o is also home to Canadas larges t commercial freshwater fishery worth abo ut $40 million a Yfar in land ed value

Thomas says over fishing is still the numshyber one problem Others include habitat loss the potential effects of climate change and contin ued invasion by exotic species Among the management opt ions his minshyistry is exploring are more effective fisheries regulation more rapid inventory and assessshyment techniques fish culture for rehabilishytating populations and controlling nutrient inputs into lakes and rivers

We are clearly looking for federal supshyport for the sea lamprey control program he says referring to recommendations in the recent federal fisheries committee report as well as changes to the federal Fishshyeries Act to hand the province more authorshyity over fish habitat protection

Concerns continue in Ontario over

Moira Ferguson and John Roff Fish Physiology and Biochemistry the top-ranked journal in its field is edited by Prof John Leathershyland chair of the Department of Biomedical Sciences in the Ontario Veterinary College University professor emeritus Eugene Balon has served as editor-in-chief of Environmental Biology ofFishes since he founded the publication in 1976 Zoology professor David Noakes edits Guelph Ichthyology Reviews whose articles synthesize and review all aspects of fish science Both of the latter

Under the Canadian contribution to the project - furided by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council - about 80 federal government and university researchers are trying to learn more about how bioshylogical and physical processes in the oceans affect fish stocks

Zoologychair Prof Paul Hebert has led a Guelph initiative to develshyop multimedia learning resources d1at teach student~ from

are published in the Axelrod Institute of Ichthyology

Based on data from geographic information sysshytems zoology professor John Roff has mapped types of habitat associated with various species of fish and other organisms around Canadas coasts and throughout tl1C Great Lakes the first time such

e1ementaIy grades to university about Canadas aquatshyic environments His department has developed a series of CD-ROMs that provide information on all the major animal groups in the Great Lakes Already available are educational CD-ROMs on Canadas aquatic environments (also available on

d1e World Wide Web) Great Lakes biodiversity and a marine classification system has been developed in this country His report was commissioned by World Wildlife Fund Canada for its Endangered Spaces Campaign and contributes to RoWs work as chair of the scienrillc committee of Globec (Globshyal Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics) a two-year-old international research program intended to better understand ocean ecosystems

birds of the Great Lakes The latter is the first disc in a series called the Great Lakes Faunal Atlas which will eventually cover mammals amphibians reptiles fish and crustaceans

The Alma Aquaculture Research Station es tablished in 1989 and funded through a 20-year development grant by the Ontario

WI NTER 1999 29

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various invas ive species that have turned up

in the Great Lakes - notably sea lampreys

zebra mussels and quagga mussels - many

of which arrive in ballast water of ocea nshy

going vessels (Many have also found their

way into Manitoba says OConnor who

points to the effects of sm elt on whitefish

the main commercial species in Lake Winshy

nipeg) Among o ther meas ures the federal

fish eries committee report called for guarshy

anteed funding for sea lamprey control and

for scienti fic research

I think more money will come says

Prof Bill Beamish Zoology a commissionshy

er on the Great Lakes Fisheries Commission

the 40-year-old governing body that co-ordishy

nates resea rch programs between Canada

and the United States and advises both govshy

ernments It was a review led by Beamish

more than a decade ago on the sta te of

Canadas freshwater fi sheries that provided

the scientific underpinnings for a landmark

report published in 1988 that spelled ou t a

way in freshwater fisheries is a lon g-te rm

project fund ed by the OMNR and the

Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO)

to re-establish native species in their origishy

nal habitats a round Lake Ontario iVlari e

Clement a graduate student of zoology proshy

fe sso r David Noakes is studying Atlantic

sa lmo n which was wiped out of the lake

CONSIDERING WE HAVE THE

BEST FISHERY SCIENCES COMMUNITY

IN THE WORLD WE OUGHT TO

BE DOING BETTER

national strategy for freshwater fisheries

Beamish who has studied sea lampreys

for several decades at Guelph and also invesshy

tigates fish habitat loss says money is need shy

ed to help researchers investigate biological

controls as an alternative to chemical lamshy

pricides The recen t repo rt also notes the

need to address the effects of other nonshy

native exotic species on n ative fish stocks

and water quality and calls on Ottawa to

stem the funding decline in freshwater scishy

ence over the last two decades

One example of the kind of work under

and its tribu ta ry streams near the beginning

o f this century by overflshing and habitat

destruction and alteration Last fall Clement

placed eggs into a site in the Credit River

she has been monito ring oxygen availab il shy

ity durin g their incu ba tion to gau ge sedishy

mentation rates in the river This spring and

summer she wili study how newborn fi sh

interact with other species in th e r ive r

C lement says her docto ral research proshy

ject is but one piece of a larger project aimed

at re-establishing the heritage species Othshy

er researchers hop e to learn whe ther th e

Ministry of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs brings together

researchers for interdisciplinary studies of protein requirements

of arctic char improving fish semen and egg management proshy

cedures and understanding hormone activity in fish The station

acts as a quarantine unit for new fish varieties entering Ontario

and serves as a base for parts of certificate courses and a masters

program in aquaculture

farms in Canada He and fellow Guelph zoologists Eugene Balon

(co- founder of the Coelaca nth Conservat ion Council) and Jim

Bogart also identified and characterized the coelacanth which

had been thought extinct until a specimen was landed off Africa

in the la te 1930s Noakes confirmed the identity of ano ther of

these living fossils discovered in 1997 it appears to belong to a

second popula tion living in the Indian Ocean about 10000 kilo-

metres away from tha t first find

Zoology professors Moira Ferguson and Roy Danzshy

mann use molecular genetics techniques to identishy Zoology chair Paul Hebert was the first scientist to

fy DNA markers used to pinpoint the location of identify the presence in the Great Lakes of zebra

genes associated with growth spawning times mussels a prolific invader that has wreaked havoc

rates of development maturity and temperature in many ways from clogging water-intake pipes to

tolerance in rainbow trout Isolating and identifyshy consuming plankto n thus allowing light to reach

ing genetic markers fo r desirable traits will help fish bottom-dwelling organisms that may displace native

farmers and breeders cross-breed more effectively species The first researcher to report on the biology

conservationists will be better able to manage and preserve and impact of the zebra mussel on the Grea t Lakes was

genetic variability among wild fish stocks Guelph zoology professor Gerald Mackie whose studies showed

that the organisms faster growth rate and higher fecundity and

Zoology professor David Noakes has stuclied varieties of arctic population density will probably enable it to displace many native

char native to Iceland to find ones suited to being raised on fish bivalves and disrupt entire lake ecosystems

30 GUELPH ALUMNUS

LEADING RESEARCH

The University of Guelph has one orthe largest and most active groups of aquatic biologists in the world

bull More than 50 faculty and 100

graduate students research

assocrates and postdoctoral

fellows

bull Over 1000 published scientific

articles books monographs

films and videos in the past

decade

bull Interdisciplinary programs

involving more than a dozen

academic departments

bull The largest group ofichthyoloshy

gists (scientists who study

fish) in North America

bull Collaborative research with

government environrriental

organizations and academic

institutions worldwide

bull Expertise covering the entire

aquatic food chain from plankshy

ton to whales

bull Leading developments in comshy

puter-based educational mate-

rials in aquatic sciences

bull A new $6-million Aquatic

Sciences Facility

bull Research support from national

and international agencies

business and industry

adults will be able to return from the open

lake to their stream spawning grounds If

they come back will the eggs survive she

says If were able to show the eggs can surshy

vive that will be very encouraging for

Atlant ic salmon restoration

What is to be done to ensure the survival

not just of Atlantic salmon in Lake Ontario

but also of the co untrys freshwater and

m ar ine fisheries We need to try to sepashy

rate o ut the fisheries management decisions

from the political decisions associated with

the fi shery says zoology professor Glen Van

Der Kraak director of U of Gs Axelrod

Institute of Ichthyology Van Der Kraak who

studies the effects of toxic contaminants on

fi sh populations says policy mltkers need

to rely on the advice of fisheries sc ientis ts

making conservative harvest ing estimates

So often scientists make decisions and then

are overrun by the politics he says (Never

mind fish wars pitting co untries against one

another - here in Ca nada scientists and

policy makers wres tle over the question of

who should be respo nsible for what aspects

of the countrys fisheries as witnessed in a

war of words played out in the Canadian Journal ofFisheries and Aquatic Sciences over

the past 18 months between biologists at

several Canadian univers ities and the DFO

over the relationship between fishery sc ishy

ence and fishery policy)

Roff says theres nothing unique about

Canadas fish problems Its not really a

Canadian problem its a worldwide probshy

lem The only fisheries worldwide that are

not over fished appear to be some not yet

fully exploited in the Indian Ocean

After nearly four decades of growth the

worldwide marine ca tch levelled off in the

1990s to some 90 million tons a year The

m ain problems coastal pollution habitat

destruction and particula rly overfishing

Noakes editor of the journal Guelph Ichthyology Reviews contrasts the few hunshy

dred people who might have made th eir

livelihood aboard small wood en boats on

the Grand Banks several centuries ago with

the massive factory trawlers that now scour

todays coast People are much too efficient

in terms of catching fish he says Noakes

concurs with fellow Guelph researchers that

conservation of fish stocks has to reach the

top of fishery managers agendas

hat does set Canada apart is the breadth

and depth of expertise in fisheries and aquatshy

ic sciences in this country - rather a parashy

dox when you consider that Canadas record

in fisheries preservation is apparently no betshy

ter than that of many other nations

Considering we have the best fishery scishy

ences community in the world we ought to

be doing better says Roff Within the last

decade th e federal government withdrawal

o f support from the Department of Fishshy

eries and Oceans and university researchers

has been massive At the very time when the

resources were gett ing into severe problems

and when the federal government ought to

have been funding research theyve been

substantially withdrawing resources ga

DONT WAIT UNTIL SPRING The opportunity to double the impact of your gift to the University of Guelph ends on March 31 1999 Until that date all gifts designated to endowed student financial aid at Guelph will be matched by the Ontario Student Opportunity Trust Fund (OSOTF) That means that every dollar you commit will contribute two dollars to financial aid for Guelph students

If you would like to support our students throug h OSOTF you still have a w indow of oppor nishyty to have your do l1a rs doubled But only until March 31 1999

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WINTER 1999 31

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

n ALUMNI PROF IL E

LETS LOOK AT THE OPPORTUNITIES

WHEN I-IE BECA ME president of the Unishy

versity of Guelph Alumni Association

(UGM) in June Jim Weeden brought new

enthusiasm and ideas for encouraging alumshy

ni to stay in volved with their alma mater

And he wants to start with students

Weeden reca ll s his own ex perience at

U of G where he fo und a sense of commushy

nity by living in residence and ge tting

involved in college activiti es But when he

graduated with an engin ee ring degree in

197 1 he left to begin a caree r and says he

didnt think much about the University until

he needed it again in the 1980s to pursue a

graduate degree in agricultural enginee ring

He spent his early career working as an

agricultural extensi o n engineer for the

Ontario Department o f Agriculture and is

stiU with its successo r the Ontario Ministry

of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs

(OMAFRA) Weed en completed the masshy

ters degree in 1986 when he was head of the

agricultural engineering program and extenshy

sion services a t Centralia College of Ag rishy

cultural Technology

In 1987 he moved to the ministrys plant

industry branch as program m anager and

later held the same position in th e resources

manage m ent branch Sin ce then he has

worked for OMAFRA in Woodstock and

now Stratfo rd He is technical adviser fo r

Ontarios Enviro nmental Farm Planning

Program is respo nsible for o ther environshy

m ental programs and consults with the Minshy

istry o f th e Environment on local agriculshy

tural pollution problems

w Weed en got involved with the Universishy sect tys a]u111ni programs by serving on the first g z board of the Engineering Alumni Associashy

~ tion when it was established in 1990 From

~ 1991 to 1994 he sat on the University Senshy

~ ate and its Research Board and for the pas t

~ four years) hels been on the UGAA executive

32 GUELPH A LU MNUS

From the presidents chair Weeden looks

at the bro ad picture o f UG AA se rvice and

recognizes that the associa tio n owes a debt

o f gratitude to hundreds of alumni volunshy

teers who ha ve helped to build the organishy

za tion over the yea rs and to University staff

in Development and Public Affairs (DampPA)

who support UGAA initiatives and alumni

programs Thro ugh their efforts he says the

a lulllni associati o n is rea ching out to all

U of G alumni Graduates who have mainshy

tained a close relationship with the Univershy

sity thro ugh their college or academic disshy

cipline those who feel an affiliation because

o f their participation in a thletics residence

life o r extracurricular activiti es and even

HIGHLIGHTSmiddot GRAD NEWSmiddot OBITUARIES bull CALENDER

those who have not kept in touch are part of the constituency served by UGAA

Weed en says the alumni association needs to strengthen its relationship with all alumni and he believes the effor t must start on campus with students Hed like to proshymote the idea of alumni involvement as ear shyly as a students second year We need to give students some reason to be con nected and an efficient vehicle for maintaining that connection he says

For many students and new graduates the social functions supported by UGAA and the opportunities for professional networking will be important says Weeden but greater rewards are there for those who join the effort to enhance the Universitys acade mic goals

In todays economic and political envi shyronme nt individual financial support and the advocacy of post-secon dary education are important roles for alumni he says How many people ac tively get involved with the debate on whether universities are job-trainshy

ing centres or centres of education Yet some of our alumni are extremely adept in such roles Weeden would like to cultivate past and current stud ent ac tivists as supporters of public education after they graduate

As Weeden leads UGAA into a new year he says he will work with other UGAA volshyunteers and DampPA staff to find new ways for the association to interact with students and alumni One id ea is to expand UGAAs Intershynet presence by adding a Web message board that will encourage alumni to discuss career and campus issues online and a reply form that will allow them to quickly update addressshyes employment status and other information

Weeden says its important to stay focused on UGAAs key prioriti es but he welcomes any and all new ideas on how to accomplish them All it takes to share your ideas with the UGAA executive is a stamp or a push of the send button when youre clicked on alumniuoguelphca

HKHB SPIRIT RISES

ENCOURAGED BY THE SPIRIT

shown by fellow alumni at last

summers reunion the executive

of the Human Kinetics Human Biology

Alumni Association is moving ahead

with more opportunities for alumni to

stay in touch The association plans to

launch a Web site that will be accessed

through the U of G site

A wine-and-cheese reception already

planned for June 19 1999 wiil try to

build on the success of the 1998 event

which attracted alumni from as far away

as Chicago and as far apart as the 19605

and 1990s Guests had a chance to tour

U of Gs new Health and Performance

Centre and performance testing

labs The program was co-ordinated wiLh

A REFLECTION OF PRIDE

Members of the OAC

Class of 52 join Arboshy

retum staff on the front patio

of the Arboretu m Centre

beside a new reflecting pool

that was built last summer

as a class project Pictured

from left are Murray Parker

Ann Smith George Smith

Jack Sargent Catherine Gibb

Robin Shaw-Rummington

Marilyn Swaby BA 69

Bev Healy B5e(Agr) 72

Norm Watson Una Venerus

Ron Costen Henry Kock

BSe (Agr) 77 and Ric

Jordan BA 75

Prof Jack Barclay chair of the Departshy

ment of Human Biology and Nutritional

Sciences and Prof Susan Pfeiffer Memshy

bers of the Human KineticsHuman

Biology Alumni Association executive arc

Janet Leonhard 82 president Carolyn

Moore 83 vice-president Alison Locker

97 secretary Mark Mulholland 79

lreasurer and t-iary Ann Crape 76

These officers are also spea rheading a

new initiative to benefit students - an

undergraduate award that will provide

$250 and lifetime mem bership in the

association To commcnt on these and

other initiatives contact Leonard by

e-mail at Janel_Leonhardinwrbsb

eduonca or Moore at cturveyagec

uoguelphca

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alumni

Multimedia lab buzzes

THE DONALD FORSTER RoOiv

has become one of the

busiest spots in th e Unishy

versity of Guelph Liblary since the

addition of 70 state-of-the-art

computer workstations that were

supported by alumni do nations

to the Alma Mater Fund (AM F)

U of G president Mordechai

Roza nski officia ll y o pened th e

Alma Mater Fund Multimedia

Lab D ec 2 an d celebrated th e

event with members of the AMF

Adv isory Counc iL [n 1996 a nd

1997 the AMF contributed

$240000 to th e project which

increased the number of student

workstations o n campus by 50 per

cent Students use the m ult imeshy

~ dia lab to conduct research on the

~ Internet access scholarly publicashyr u VI tions on CD-ROM and use COll1shyz ~ puter software mod ules tbat lt

~ strengthen the teaching provided lD

o in co urse lectures labs and tcxtshybii books

middotMatters

Alumnus of many interests

I NTERES TING P EOPLE always have eclect ic interests and U of G

alumnus and honorary degree recipient Ken Murray BSA 50 and

HDLA 96 is a good example H e is known by most people on camshy

pus for his distinguished career in the Canadian meat packing indusshy

try and his volunteer service to U of G He was a member and chair

of Board of Governors from 1973 to 1978 and chair of the Regionshy

al Corporate Committee during U of Gs last capital campaign and

is currently chair of the Heritage Fund Enhancement Committee

Murray is also a strong supporter of community soc ial services

In August he addressed the World Congress of Social Ps)chiatry

held in British Columbia - the only non-psychiatrist on the proshy

gram He spoke about his role in establishing an Alzheimers research

project a t the University ofWaterioo which was recently named in

his honour the Ken Murray Alzheimer Research and Education Proshy

gra m At the gc conference he al so participated in a panel dis shy

cussion that outlined services offered by Guelphs Homewood Health

Cent re Murray bas been actively involved in the governance of the

centre since 1977 and has been a major player in the development

of a charitable foundatio n bearing the Homewood name

WHEN THE PUCK DROPPED More than 30 teams including two

womens teams were entered in the

Dec 6 University of Guelph Alumni Hockey

Tournament Organizers for the 1998 event

were from left Brian Finniss B5c 88

Brad Stephenson BA 86 Terry Carr

BComm 87 Todd Bryant BA 86 and

undergraduate student Brian Melnick

Ken Murray centre with his wife Marilyn Robinson Murray and U of G president Mordechai Rozanski

34 GU ELPH ALUMNU S

RESTORING A JEWEL IN THE CROWN

DONALD RUTHERFORD BSA 5 stands in fron t

of the 1931 conservatory greenhouse that will

be restored to match the splendour of the ga rdens

now growi ng up around it His $256000 leadershy

ship gift to the Conservatory and Gardens Project

was inspired by hi s m emo ries of being a student

at OAC

On behalf of fellow alumni I hope this gift will

commemorate the experiences and educat ion we

acquired while at Guelph says Rutherford When

fully restored to its previous glory the conservatoshy

ry greenhouse will be an ideal greeting and welcome

spot for visitors and newcomers to the University

as well as old friend s renewing their acquaintance

Rutherfords professional career spans the agrishy

foo d industr y beginning as an agricu ltural repshy

resentative with the provincial minist ry I-Ie was

later vice-president of the Fertilizer Institute of

Ontario executive secreta ry of the Canadian Seed

Trade Association director of information w ith

the Ca nadian Livestock Feed Board and Canadishy

an sa les manager for Sylvite of Can ad a Retired

since 1986 he now owns his own sma ll investment

company and manages to golf throughout the yea r

The conserva tory isnt the first ca mpus project

to attract Rutherford s attention - as a student

he helped dig out the base ment of Massey H al l to

build a student lo unge - but his recent gift has

been a tremendous boost to those who have been

working since the ea rly 1990s to save the glass and

cypress structure from demo lition

A committee of alumni facult y sta ff stu dents

and fri en ds of the University has moved the proshy

ject along to th e point w here most of the surshy

rounding garden complex is now complete It fea shy

tures six gardens named in honour of the ir chie f

supporters Autumn Garden - OAC 5 1 Spring

Ga rden - OAC 53 Su mmer Garden - OAC 55

Winter Gard en - OAC 65 Water Gard en shy

OAC 49 and the Woo dland Garden named in

honour of the late Doug Rob inson BSA 53

Alumni have been in strumental in raising

funds for the $ l-million project Students and fa cshy

ulty have provided mudl of the h1l1ds-on Idbour

and friends in the nursery and landscape materishy

als supply industries have given $250000 ill donashy

tions and gifts-in-kind of plan ts and landsca ping

materials Rutherford s generous gift has pushed

th e conservato ry fund-ra ising effort in to the fin 81

stretch Th e ga rden complex and restored g reenshy

110use are sc heduled to officially open during

Alumni Weekend in June 1999

1999 Coming Events

Jan 29 - Aggie Goodshy

Times Banquet call the OAC Student Federation at Ext 8321 for ticket injemnrltion Feb 13 - Norm McCo llulll

D iploma Hockey Tournashy

m ent call Jack Bakker at 519-837-0132 to register a team

Feb 21 - Ottawa Chapter

annual curling bonspiel

Richmond C urling Club in

Richmond Ont For informashytiol1 call Alan Bentley BSA 61 at 6 13-829-6598 or John DVit[ 54 mId Margaret McGowml BHSc 54 at

613-828-7038

March 3 - Florida alumni

reunion a t Maple Leaf

Estates Port Charlo tte Fla

call Ext 6533 0 register

March 13 and 14 - ollcge

Royal 75th o pen house

March 19 and 20 - OAC

Alumni Association curling

bonspiel G uelph Curling

Club register at Ext 6657

May 5 - Chicago All Canashy

dian Universities Night hostecl

by U of G at the University

Club of Chicago 76 East Monshy

roe Sr call Exl 6533 for details May 5 - OAC Alumni

Foundation annual meeting

730 pm Arboretum Centre

May 12 - Alumni-inshy

Action annual meeting and

luncheo n 1130 3m

Arboretum Centre ((11 Ext 6657for tickets

June 18 to 20 - Alumni

Veekend call Ext 6657 to plall a reun io n

-0 r shya -IFor more infon-nation on any a

eVC1l1listed ailove call the oJ -lt oU of G extension listed at en raquo

519-824-4120 or send e-mail z

10 alunznilIoguelphca ~

WINTER 1999 35

alumni Matters

MEMORIES OF COLLEGE ROYAL Grant MacEwan ADA 23 and

BSA 26 is one of the few OAC

alumni who c~n still remember

the first College Royal held Jan

14 1925 MacEwan bad just

entered the degree program in

animal husbandry and may have

been a participant in the liveshy

stock showmanship classes Latshy

er in life he was widely known Grant MacEwan

across Western Canada as 3 liveshy

stock judge and an advocate of

agricultural fairs and exhibitions

MacEwan is bes t known

however for his 23-year C3reer

as a university professor in Manshy

itoba and Saskatchewan and Ilis

political career which included

12 years as alderman and mayshy John Kenneth Galbraith

or of C31gary four years as an

Alberta MLA and eight as lieushy birthday in August

tenant -governor of the province The year after Ma cEwan

He s till lives in Calgary graduated John Kenneth Galshy

where he celebrated his 96th braith ADA 29 and BSA 31

HOMECOMING 98

enrolled at OAC and devoted

some of his energy to organizshy

ing College Royal Show records

indicate it was Galbraith who

first proposed the college event

be publicized so that people

from the farm community

could attend He also suggestshy

ed that OAC invite students

from American agricultural colshy

legesl n th e early 1930s Colshy

lege Royal took its fir s t steps

towards becoming the comshy

munity open house it is today

Galbraith later moved to the

United States where he enjoyed

a distinguished caree r as a proshy

fessor of economics at Harvard

Universi ty Known for his

humanit~rian approach to ecoshy

nomic and political thinking

he was awarded the Order of

Canada in 1997 He celebr3ted

his 90th birthday in October

IT REALLY WAS a homecoming reunion when and Arnott who is head coach of the York

former Gryphon teammates Ralph Shapiro University Yeomen came from the visitors

S5c(HK) 74 and Tom Amott S5c(HK) 80 dreSSing room to hold the ball Shapiro is

met on the field at Alumni Stadium Oct 3 the controller at Huntsman Chemical Inc

Shapiro had the honour of kicking off in Guelph and a longtime United Way volshy

the Universitys 1998 United Way campaign unteer who chaired this years Guelph and

Wellington fund-raising drive The Univershy

sity campaign is the largest in the county

with U of G staff and faculty contributing

over $200000 in 1998

Prior to the game a number of recent

alumni - all U of G scholarship and award

winners - met for a reunion luncheon The UJ

1948 and 1949 dominion championship i5f 3

football teams were also honoured guests z 5 o at the 2 pm game that saw the Gryphons gtshy a defeat York f shya I a

Ralph Shapiro

36 G UELPH ALUMNUS

LEADING THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY FOR 1974 GRADS The 25th-anniversary reunion givshy

i ng program for the Class of 1974

is under way with Bill Laidlaw BA

74 as cbair A public affairs proshy

fessional he has been director of

government relations for the

Canadian operations of Glaxo

vVelJcome Inc for more th an 10

years He also acts as a senior conshy

sultant to support the governshy

ment relations function in other

regions of Canada

Laidlaw began his career in

teaching after earning a history

degree from Guelph and education

degrees (rom Queens University

and the University of Toronto He

also holds the certified human

resources professional designation

and worked in that field for sevshy

eral years before concen trating on

government relations at Glaxo

Welkome He lives in Burlington

Ont and is an act ive community

volunteer having se rved on the

boards of severa l professional

organizations the Queensway

General Hospital and the Metroshy

politan Toronto Lung Association

He is currently completing a oneshy

year term as chair of the Ontario

Chamber of Commerce

Anniversa ry preparations will

culminate with a class gathering

a nd reunion gift at Alumni

Weekend in June 1999

ALUMNI MAKE THE CONNECTION Students who moved into

Maids and Mills halls in Sepshy

tember can take full advanshy

tage of the Universitys highshy

speed computer network

thanks to the OAC Class of

71 whose 25 th-reunion proshy

ject provided wiring upgrades

in the 84- and 77-year-old

residence buildin gs

GRAD NEWS

Marathon survivors inspire us all to appreciate everyday life

W HEN ROBINSON SIIlLJNGS Jane BSe(Agr)

85 Heather BASe 83 Peter BSe(Agr)

86 Scott and Marnie rigwood BA 84 get

together they talk about marathons and the hope

and determination it takes to reach the finish line

Hea ther walked a marathon in San Diego

Calif in June to raise money for leukemia

research then joined Peter for a Toronto marathon

in October that benefi ted the Leukemia Research

Fund of Canada They were inspired by Janes pershy

sonal marathon of survival that foUowed her 1992

diagnosis of leukemia Chemotherapy radiation

remission relapse and finally a bone marrow

transplant [TOm her brother Scott took more than

three years out of her life but gave her the detershy

mination to keep fighting

Many families can understand the marathon

of hope maintained by the Robinsons during

Janes struggle and the commitment they have to

help others who are stricken with the disease Jane

is finally well enough to work again as a writer

and marketing consultant and to join her fami shy

ly in volunteer work She helped recruit for the

Toronto marathon fund -raiser and continues to

be involved with the Leukemia Research Funds

Team in Training She also says that her expeshy

rience has taught her to appreciate more the pleashy

sures of everyday life and the love of famil y

Jan es parents are th e late Doug Rob inson

BSA 53 and Marilyn (Inglis) Robinson Murray

BH Sc 55

19305

bull Grant Misener ADA 32 BSA 35 and DVM 38 received the

prest igious George F Hixso n Felshy

lowship Award from the Kiwanis

International Foundation in May The retired Illinois veter ishy

narian was hono ured for his subshystantial contribution to the

Kiwanis wo rldwide service proshy

ject aimed at eliminating iodine

deficiency disorders the leading

cause of preventable mental retardation in children Over the

years Misener has shown a simishylar commitment to his al ma

mater an d its students through

his close association with OVC

and his support of scho larship

programs

19405

bull Russell McDonaldDVM 45 was named an honorary life direcshytor of the Royal Agricultural Winshy

ter Fair Association in March

McDonald formerly general manshy

ager of Western Ontario Breeders

Ine and executive director of the Canadian Association of Animal

Breeders served as a director of the Royal Winter Fair for 20 years

representing the Canadian artifishycial insemination industry He

lives in Woodstock Ont

bull Ian Taylor DVM43 was recently honoured by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to

Animals of Illinois Taylor ran a small-animal veterinary clinic in

the Chicago area for many years

and says he gained ll1uch experishyence during his first three years in

Illinois as clinic veterinarian for

the anti -cruelty society

19505

bull Charles Chuck Broadwell BSA 54 was elected a Mel

Osborne Fellow by the Kiwanis

Club of Forest City in London Ont in recognition of a dedicatshy -ed and distinguished career in

Kiwanis

19605

bull Constantine Campbell BSA 60 and MSA 61 was named to the

WINTER 1999 37

Order of Canada in January He

received the award in recogni shy

tion of his many contributions

to science and the Canadian

agricultural industry After grad shy

uating from OAC he went on to

do his PhD at the University of

Saskatchewan then joined Agri shy

culture and Agri-food Canada

as a research scientist at the Swift

Current research station Campshy

bell and his family now live in

Ottawa where he is scientist

emeritus with Agriculture and

Agri-food Canada

bull John Casselman BSA 64 is

a research scientist with the

Ontario Ministry of Natural

Resources He Jives in Bath

Ont with his wife Lois

bull Jane Fuller RRSc 65 and

her husband George who both

taught at the Macdonald Instishy

tute from 1966 to 1969 have

moved from Winnipeg to

Utopia Ont following

Georges retirement from the

University of Manitoba

bull Fred Gilbert MSc 66 and

P hD 68 is in his first term as

president of Lakehead Univer shy

sity in Thunder Bay Ont He

taught at U of G in the Departshy

ment of Zoology from 1972 to

1981 and has enjoyed a dive rse

academic career that has also

included teaching at the Unishy

versity of Maine and posi tions

as director of wildlife biology at

Washington State University

and founding dean of the Facshy

ulty of Natural Reso urces and

Environmenta l Studies at the

University of Northern British

Columbia He moved to Lakeshy

head from a position as viceshy

pro vost at Colorado State Unishy

versity A respected wildlife

biologist he has conducted

ex tensive resea rch in s Ll ch areas

as the behaviour and physioloshy

gy of wildlife species and the

effects of environmental

change on wildlife populations

bull Terry Goodyear BSc 67 of

Mont Tremblant Quebec is an

early retiree from Agriculture

and Agri-Food Canada in Ottawa He is now working on

va lue-added products from

industrial wastes particularly

cellulose sludge from pulp and

pa per mills

bull Gary Hearn BA 68 was

named an Ontario provincial

judge in October For the last

25 years he has been a lawyer

with the firm Kearns McKinshy

non in Guelph where he lives

with his wife Irene and three

teenage children

bull Allan Knight BSA 66 of Corunna Ont has retired

from Dow Chemical after 30

years On retirement he was a

laboratory director for indusshy

trial chemicals He is now

working with his son in a famishy

ly-owned and -operated busishy

ness Knight Funeral Home

bull Keith McFarlane BSc(Agr)

68 works for the Department

of Foreign Affairs and Internashy

tional Trade and began a fourshy

year assignment last summer as

head of the commercial divishy

sion of the Canadian Embassy

in Lisbon Portugal The

division promotes the sa le of

Canadian goods and services

to Portugal

bull Ian Newbould MA 68 has

travelled far from his Ontario

roots through an academic and

administrative career that has

taken him to Europe Asia and

Western Canada A noted hisshy

torian he moved into adm inisshy

tration at the University of

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Lethbridge in 1981 and spent

10 years there as director of

research dean of a rts and scishy

ence and vice-presiden t (acadeshy

mic) before crossing the counshy

try to become president of

Mount Allison University in

New Brunswick He is now in

his second term as president of

Mount AUison

bull Indra Deo Singh MSc 68 is

a tea scientist international

consultant and joint director of

the Tea Research Association at

the Nagrakata substation in

India His responsibilities

include co-ordinating research

and development in the Indian

tea industry and developing tea

cultivars and agrotechnology

for tea Singh is married with

two sons aged 27 and 23

19705

bull Don Ambler BSe 71 retired in March as manager of

water programs with Environshy

ment Canada in Dartmouth

NS after 25 years of public

service He has now registered

the company Aquashed Co nshy

sulting to continue in the water

resources field when hes not

gardening beekeeping do ing

aerobics or vo lunteering in the

community and chu rch E-mail

contact is welcome a t

donambl erns sympaticoca

bull Jim Bond BSe 75 is managshy

ing a new processing facility at

the Chalk River Nuclear Laborashy

to ry in Chalk River Ont

bull Terri (Monks) Bulman BSc(Agr) 78 and MSe 81

and her husband Vincent

MSe 8 1 live in Australia with

their th ree children Catherine

7 Peter 4 and baby Christoshy

pher Terri is senior principal

environmental auditor vith

Coffey Geosciences Pty Ltd Vinshy

cent afte r many years as a geoloshy

gist travelling around Australia

and abroad has taken the year

off to study and look after the

children Their e-mail address is

tbulmanbigpondco m

bull Marie David BA 78 of

Hanover Ont has been in the

n ewspaper business for 20

years She started in the mailshy

room moved to advertising

sales then became advert ising

manager She is now gene ral

manager o f three So utham

weekly newspapers and pubshy

lish er of the Hanover Post

bull Janice Harrower and her husshy

band Jerome Billett both

DVM 76 operate a joint veterishy

nary practice in Prescott Ont

Billett says practising together

has allowed them some flexibilishy

ty in their family life and given

their four children a good took

at the rigours of veterinary

medicine Says Billett Not one

of our kid s has the slightest

interest in being a veterinarian

and isnt that just fine Their

o ldest son Jesse attends Harshy

va rd University and is a memshy

ber of its prestigious a cappella

choir Lucas is studying

mechanical engineering at the

University of Waterloo Casey is

planning a career in computer

engineering and Lindsay is a

high school athle te

bull Clair Heinbuch BSe 74 is a

sales manager with Baye r Corp

in Kansas H e and his wife

Caroline (Koscik) BASc 75

returned to the Kansas City

area after spending four years in

Denver They have three chilshy

dren Lisa 20 Scott 18 and

Ryan [5

bull Beverly Lee BASe 72 is an

elem entary school principal in

Unionville Ont She lives with

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her husband Grant Egan in

Collingwood and is looking

forward to retirement in severshy

al years Life on Georgian Bay

is wonderful she says Lee

would love to hear from fellow

grads by e-mail at

leebYrbeeduonca or by

phone at 705 -444 -092l

bull Won-Jai Maeng MSc 71 took office Sept 1 as president

of Kon-Kuk University in Seoul

Korea where his academic

career began He completed an

undergraduate degree at Kon

Kuk in 1965 then studied at

Mailing Agricultural College in Denmark and at U of G before

doing doctoral work at the Unishy

versity of California Davis

Maeng has held research and

teaching positions at the Unishy

versity of illinois at Chung-Ang

University and at Kon-Kuk

where he has been a professor of

animal science since 1984 His

appointment as president folshy

lows years of administrative

experience as a department

head dean and chair of various

research committees and proshy

fessional organizations An

expert in ruminant nutrition

Maeng was instrumental in

developing the livestock feed

industry in Korea He has also

been active in working with

alumni groups and in writing

for the Kon-Kuk Tribune

bull Bill MarshaU ADA 75 of Proton Station Ont moved

from Clarksburg in June to

work in Dundalk for the Grey

County Roads Department on

its road management crew

bull Bernie Matte BSc(Agr) 70 of Moncton NB retired

in March after 28 years with

Fisheries and Oceans Canada

and the Canadian Food

Inspection Agency He plans to

travel to Belize and Honduras

with his wife Diane and will

be available anywhere in the

Caribbean for seafood HACCP

consulting work

bull Margaret McClain BA 70 lives in Arkansas where she is

highJy involved in the issue of

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missing children and internashy

tional abductions McClain who

believes her own six-year-old

daughter was taken out of the

United States more than a year

ago by her second husband is

reaching out to parents with

similar experiences through an

organization that is lobbying the

US government for tougher

international abduction laws

She invites interested fr iends

and alumni to contact her

through her Web site at

wwwinsolwwbnet-dmcclain

bull Robert (Chuck) Miller BA 77 is the park superintendent

of Killarney French River and

Maskinonje provincial parks in

Ontario He moved to Killarney

from Quetico Provincial Park

last May

bull Gordon Nicol BA 72 and MSc(Agr) 74 teaches math

and science in a bilingual prishy

vate school in Guatemala A

BEd graduate of Laurentian

he first taught in Guatemala in

the late 1970s then spent 12

years in northern Alberta as a

teacher and principal He

returned to Guatemala in 1989

A widower with three teenage

children Nicol would like to

hear from U of G friends and

acquaintances especially anyshy

one who is was or will be in

Central America He says he

could also use middle-schoolshy

level science projects Send eshy

mail to gnicoll guatenet or

write to PO Box 661447 Miami

Springs Florida 33266-1447

bull Chris Schulte BSc 71 and MSc 73 lives in Nassau

Bahamas with his wife

Andrya After graduation he

stayed in the Department of

Physics as a research associate

with Prof lain Campbell then

joined Ontario Hydro in the

early 1980s He moved to the

Bahamas in 1995 He can be

reached bye-mail at

schultebahamasnetbs

bull Sandra (Pickford) Webster BA 75 has retired from U of

Gs Co mmunications and Pubshy

lic Affairs and is living in Parry

Sound Ont where she is

doing volunteer work and

communications consulting

for the municipality Guelph

friends ca n contact her by

e-mail atswebsterzeutercom

19805

bull Sharon (Courneya) Angus BA 8 I of Surrey BC comshy

pleted a BSW at the University

of British Columbia in 1988

and has been working for the

BC government for 13 years

- first in probation and now

in the family justice division

She and her husband Ron

have three children Jason

Carly and Colin

bull Karen Beazley BLA 86 is an assistant professor and acadeshy

mic program co-ordinator at

the School for Reso urce and

Environmental Studies at Dalshy

housie University in Halifax

She is currently doing research

for a book on endangered

species initiatives and is orgashy

nizing a Nova Scotia wildlands

workshop with the Wildlands

Project for 1999 Her e-mail

address is kbeazleyisdalca

bull Caroline (Van Deudekom) and Marc Brooks both ADA 87

recently moved from Strathroy

to Owen Sound Ont where

they run a 50-acre organic farm

with their two sons

bull Virginia Burt BLA 85 startshyed her own landscape architecshy

ture firm Visionscapes in

Hamilton Ont in ] 996 She

specializes in the design of thershy

apeutic healing gardens spirit

gardens sacred spaces and

la byrin ths and recen tly designed the first healing garden

in Canada specificalJy for peoshy

ple living with HIV and AIDS

bull Joanne (Branson) Carver BA 80 earned a BEd from Brock

University in 1981 and recently

started working as a probashy

tionparole officer She Jives in

Ajax Ont and has two daughshy

ters Julie4 and Sarah 8

bull Heather Champ BA 86 is a Web-site designer in New York

City She began her work in

computer design in 1990 Her

personal site can be Found at

wwwjezebelcom

bull Laurie Gough BA 87 has become a world traveller who

writes about her experiences for

the benefit of others Her most

recent book Island of the

Human Heart A tfornans Travshyel Odyssey is now in its second

printing in Canada and will be

released next year in the United

States and overseas She has also

published Travellers Tales A

Womans World which won the

US-based Lowell Thomas

Gold Award for best travel book

of the year When not travelling

or writing she teaches English

and ESL in Guelph

bull Susan (Coles) Goulden BASc 84 and her husband

Ian are th rilled wi th their

recent adoption of Jennifer Lee

Yu who was born in June near

Leping Jiangxi Peoples Repubshy

lic of China The Gouldens

who Jive in vVaterloo Ont

thank classmate Andrea

(Kovits) Henderson for her

support throughout the adopshy

tion process Susan is currently

on leave from her position with

McCormick Canada

bull Judy (Bodendistel) Gregg BA 82 moved to Melbourne Ausshy

tralia in 1997 with her husband

and two children Carly 6 and

Adam 3 We are enjoying the

friendly people and the great

weather here she says We are

especially enjoying winter in a

place where it never gets below

zero Celsius

bull Nigel GumJey DVM 85 has been a partner in the Alta Vista

Animal Hospital in Ottawa

since 1990 was president of the bull Garry Millage AMPHI 86 bull Heidi Stephenson BA 88 is now ISO 9000 manager at

Ontario Veterinary Medical left a position as vice-president was awarded her professional Carpenter Ca nada Ltd in

Association in 1997 and recent- of national operations for acco untants designation of Wood br idge Ont He lives in

ly served on the Canadian Vetshy Scotts Restaurants KFC Divishy certified general accountant in Miss issa uga Classma tes are

erilw() Medical Associations sion to open his own consult- March 1998 She has been invited to contact him at

national issues committee He ing company Future Food employed for the last 10 years avon listarca

lives in Osgoode with his wife Equipment Ine specializes in with Dan Ball Chartered bull Michelle (Pilon) Bacon BA rvlaurecn and children Laura providing new and used restau- Acco un tant in Parry Sound 90 moved to England to study

and Matthew rant equipment and reducing O nt where she lives with her and work after graduating from

bull Muneer Hirji BComm 82 restaurant construction costs hu sband Brad two dogs and a Guelph She recently left a posishy

lives in Toronto and is vice- He also operates a restaurant horse tion with the British Ministry of

president of marke ting at SAP called Nikkos in Woodbridge bull Dawn Stetsko BSe 81 lives Agriculture and Food in York to

Canada He has three chil- Ont and is planning to open a in Langhorne Pa with her husshy become an at-home mom She

drcl1 Nadia 8 Alyssa 6 and second location band Paul and children Mark now lives in London with her

Sarah I bull Tosh Noseworthy BSe 83 is and Keith and is a research husband Tim and one-year-old

bull Brenda irwin BSe 88 is a cardiovascular ICU nurse in scientist with Bristol-Myers daughter Juliette She sends love

studying at Hong Kong Unishy sunny Tuscon Arizona After Squibb Previously she worked to Sue Heather and Sheila and

vers ity of Science and Technolshy grad uation she lived in Paris at McMaster University in can be reached bye-mail at

ogy to complete the final France for a yea r s tudied nurs- Hamilton Ont for 17 yea rs michellebacondialpipexcom

sem ester of an MBA program ing in O ttawa then lived in Saushy bull Teresa Tummillo-Goy BA bull Jeff Barlow BComm 90 is

through the University of di Arabia for two yea rs She still 86 has a law practice in Water- the training and quality manag-

British Columbia She taught loves to travel and would like to 100 Ont foc Li sing primaril y on er for two five-star luxury boushy

science for the North York hea r from fellow alumni She family law civi l litiga tion and tique h o tels in Prague - Hotel

Board of Education for five can be reached at 520-299-8344 real estate She and her hus- Palace Praha and the Hotel

years before enrolling in the bull Cecilia (Wleugel) Parkes band John Goy live in Guelph Savoy Previo usly he was execu -

MBA program BComm 85 is a graphic and have three sons John 4 tive housekeeper at the five-star

bull Jagwant Kanwar PhD 80 is designer in Toronto and says Tony 3 and Shayne 2 Renaissance Pragu e Hotel

a senior scientist in the depart- she st ill uses ber marketing bull Peter Van der Borch DVM bull Margaret Burnes-Souria BA ment of vegetable crops at Pun- background to help her busishy 88 retired in the fa ll of 1997 94 is a team leader with [011 shy

jab Agricultural University in ness succeed She specia lizes in after several years of practising don Magazin e in London Ont

India He is also director of the logo design lNith hand-drawn physiotherapy and ve terinary She married David Souria in

regional vegetable research stashy illustrations medicine and surgery He Jives July 1997 and is pursuing an tion at Usman (TaranTarn) bull Jim Parr BSc(Agr) 81 and in Pictou NS ]VlBA at the University of West-

Amritsar His and his wife MSe 89 died of cancer in bull MartyWilLiams BA 85 is ern Ontario

Sanyogita have a son Mohit June 1998 but hes being co-ordinator of student activishy bull Janine Byers BASe 95 is a and a daughter Dipika who are remembered by his university ties at University College Unishy public health dietitian at the

both studying engineering friends through the establish - versity of Toronto where he Kingston Frontenac and

Friends can write to Kanwar at ment of a mem orial fund for advises student organizations Iennox amp Addington Health

Punjab Agricultural Un ivers ity his wife Denise and children 1Ie is also chair of the U of T Unit in Kingston O nt She is Ludhiana 141 004 India Shannon and Eric Anyone Staff Association a member of getting married to Ca rl Stewart

bull Larissa Larsen BSe 89 and who would like more informa - the steering committee of the on May 29 j 999 MLA 92 received a PhD in tion can ca ll Brian Tapscott at staffs unionization drive and a bull Lisa Cherry BSe 9 1 is a urban and regional planning 519-767-3566 staff member with the student science journalist and executive

from the University of Illinois bull Cheryl (Dunlop) Reid newspaper The Varsity He can director of Artists Against

at Urbana Champaign in May BSe(Agr) 89 sta rted a new be reached bye-mail at marty Racism an international organi-

She has accepted a position at job in September as ingredient wi lliamsutorontoca za tion She is based in Toronto

Thompson Dyke and Associshy sales manager for RA bull Bonnie (Byma) BASe 96 ales a landscape architecture Chisholm o f Toronto She will 19905 and Gil Clelland BA 95 were

and urban planning firm in continue to work from her bull Claire Allison BA 94 grad- married in December 1996 and

Chicago Her husband Ernie remote offke in Fergus Reid uated from the elementary are living in Chatham On t

Poortinga DVM 89 is in his and her husband Jeff BSe teacher ed ucation program at Bo nnie works at a day-care

third yea r of an MD program (Agr) 89 have two children the University of British centre G il teaches art and

at Rush University Chicago lVlega n 4 and Elizabeth 2 Columbia in 1996 and now phys ical education They ca n -Hes looking forward to joining bull Chee Sie BA 83 is a zone teaches in Va ncou ver be reached bye-ma il at gclelshy

his wife in the ranks of the manager for the Malaysian bull JohnAvon BSdHK) 94 lan ciaccesscom employed They would both Assurance Alliance Berhad in earned an M Se in industr ial bull Kate Corn ell BA 95 of enjoy hearing from fellow Sarawak Malaysia He and his operations from Lawrence Markham Ont earned her

alumni and can be reached at wife Jesterine have a two-year- Technological University in masters in dance history from epoor tin garushurushedu old daughter Letitia Southfleld Mich in 1997 and York University in May and

WINTER 1999 41

co-authored a book titled

Toronto Dance Theatre 1968shy1998 Stages in a Journey

bull Mary Jill (McClure) Culliton BASe 90 earned

her BEd from Brock University

and her M Ed from the Univershy

sity of Western Ontario and

teaches Grade 1 in Mitchell

Ont She and her husband

Tim live in Stratford

bull Kathleen (McNutt) Daniels BASe 9 1 is a teacher and was

married on New Years Eve

1994 to Gord Daniels They live

in North Bay Ont and have a

daughter Lauren born in Febshy

ruary 1997 They are expecting

their second child in February

bull Simon Deakin BA 95 studshyied in Florence Italy for a year

then earned a master of fine art

from the Slade School of Fine

Art at the University of London

England He lives in London

bull Christie Dunbar BLA 97 spent a year after graduation

working for Niagara College in

St Catharines Ont on the

vision and design of a new

campus to be built in Niagarashy

on-the- Lake Last April she

joined the landscape architecshy

ture firm of Pollack Design

Associates in Ann Arbor Mich

bull Trina Edmonds BA 94 and

Joel Hinderle became the

proud parents of a little girl

Jordan Ashley in january 1998

and moved to a new home in

Oakville Ont in September

Edmonds works in Mississauga

as a desktop publisher with a

publishingprinting company

bull Wendy Garinther BSc 93 and Steve Decker BSe 94

were married in May Joining

them in the wedding celebrashy

tions were Cheri (Coulter)

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Ascroft BSe 93 Karen Leinshy

gartner BSe 94 and Barb

(Moore) Johnson BSe 94

Best man was Jeff Bond BSe

93 and MSe 96 The Deckers

live in Edmonton where Steve

is doing a PhD in chemistry at

the University of Alberta and

Wendy is working in a research

laboratory at a biopharmaceushy

tical company

bull Donna Gross BA 97 is purshysu ing a master of divinity at

Emmanuel College at the Unishy

versity of Toronto and hopes to

become an ordained minister by

2002 She lives in Guelph and

can be reached bye-mail at

donnajulietalbedonet

bull Robert Gruber BA 92 is a child-care supervisor for the

YMCA-YWCA of Guelph and

manages the Jean Little Y

Child- Care Centre He recently

developed the anti -bias proshy

gramming policy for the

Guelph Y and sits on both the

Jean Little Public School Counshy

cil and the Guelph AIDS Wall

Committee He can be reached

bye-mail at rgrubernet

comca

bull Susan Harder BSe 91 grad shyuated from the University of

Toronto Medical School in June

and has started a residency at

Santa Clara Valley Medical Censhy

tre in San jose Calif She will

follow that up with an anestheshy

sia residency at Stanford Univershy

sity Hospital in 1999

bull Marko Harjupanula BASc 93 travelled in Australia for

two months after graduating

from Guelph then returned to

his home town of South Porshy

cupine Ont where he worked

in a gold mine for four years

He entered police college in

September and started as an

opp constable in Cochrane in

December

bull Nancy Holman MA 94 moved to Vancouver soon after

graduation and initially worked

as a project co-ordinator for an

ophthalmologist In 1996 she

began working full time for the

BC Liberal Caucus I would

enjoy hearing from and catchshy

ing up with the friends I made

while studying at U of G and

working at the Brass Taps she

says Her e-mail address is nan shy

cyholmanlassgovbeca

bull Ruth Johnson BA 91 is an investment banking associate

with the mergers and acquisishy

tions group of JP Morgan in

Lond on England responsible

for financial reporting and

administration She has been in

England with her partner Alex Campbell since graduation

bull Stephen Johnson BA 94 of London Ont was a lab technishy

cian at Lenscrafters for three

yea rs and is now a full-time

student at Fanshawe College

studying air conditioning and

refrigeration He was married

in Jun e to Jennifer Fox BSc

95 a chemist at 3M Their

wedding party included Dee Popat BSe (Eng) 94 and

Patrick Wulhes BSc 95

bull Sarah (Davis) Kelly BASe 90 married Robert Kelly in

July and teaches primary

grades at an inner-city school

in Toronto

bull Cassidy Klowak BComm 97 lives in Allisshy

ton Onl and is a personal

banking account manager

with ClBC in Tottenham

bull Stephanie Lopes BSc 96 completed her MSc in repro shy

ductive biology at the Universishy

ty of Toronto and worked as

patient-care director for the

College of Family Physicians

for almost a year In September

she enrolled in medical school

at the University of Toronto

She is happy to announce that

she is engaged to be married

next summer Lopes can be

reached at slopesidirectcom

bull Natalie (Parker) MacKenzie BSc 96 earned her BEd from

the University of Western

Ontario in 1997 She married

ASLt Andy MacKenzie June 27

in Sault Ste Marie Ont and

now lives in Halifax

bull Susan MacKinnon DVM 91 is a veterinarian with HUls

Science Diet She lives in

Guelph with her husband

Brandon Wiley and gave birth

to their first child Adrianna

Nicole june 26 at home

bull Waheed Mian BA 9 1 of Cambridge Ont is a store

director with PetSmart Canada

He helped the company launch

its new retail concept in Cana da

bull Alex Mitchell BA 91 was appointed clerkdeputy treasurshy

er of the Ontario township of

Mildmay-Carrick in 1998 and

will be the clerkadministrator

of the new municipality of

Mildmay-Carrick -TeesWatershy

Culross in 1999 He was married

in january 1997 and lives vith

his wife and daughter in Mild shy

may In his spare time Mitchell

is a professional scout for the

Toronto Maple Leafs covering

southwestern Ontario

bull Sherry Morland BASc 93 of Kitchener Ont ea rned her

BEd from Brock University in

J995 and is a part-time specia l

educa tion teacher and an occashy

sional teacher with the Watershy

loo County Board of Ed ucashy

tion She married Ivan LeBlanc

in 1997

bull Gary Page BSe 91 wo rks for the Nottawasaga Valley Conshy

servation Authority where he is

able to combine his knowledge

of wildlife biology with his

artistic skills as resident graphic

designer and outdoor centre

interpreter He Jives with his

wife Di and their son judah in

CreemoreOnt

bull Elaine Pammenter BA 96 is an inventory clerk with the

Royal Collection at Windsor

Castle in England She holds a

museum management and

curatorship grad uate certificate

diploma from Sir Sandford

Fleming College and did her

internship at the Royal Albert

Memorial Museum in Exeter

England

bull Brent Raymond BSe(Env) 96 of Brantford Ont has

been working with Outward

Bound since graduation He

leads wilderness trips in Northshy

ern Ontario Horida Australia and Sabah (Malaysian Borneo) Most recently he designed and implemented a new introducshytory mountaineering course for Outward Bound Sabah on the summit plateau of Mt Kinashy

balu Those of you who know me as plate licker from U of G get in touch he says Where are you Star I miss you He can be reached by e-mail at globarwchatonca or by

phone at 519-756-1697

Alumni Patrick Abbott BSA 40 July 7 1998

Albert Allen BSA 33 Jan 161994 Agris Ansmits BA 70 and MA 73

February 1998 Barbara (Quartermain) Babcock DHE

53 June 17 1998

Wray Bond BSA 34 Sept 25 1998

Kenneth Bone DVM 38 Dec 29 1998 Evelyn (Stevenson) Buhr DHE 39

May 251998 Philip Burke BSA 43 June 21 1998

Grant Carman BSA 49 Oct 221998 Frederick Chambers BSA 41

June 1998 Wilmot Conley ADA4 7 April 7 1998 Lloyd Crewson BSA 49 Aug 261998

Jacqueline Dimock DHE 47

Aug 20 1998 John Dingwall DVM 52

April 18 1998

Lloyd Dorsey BSA 38 June 9 1998 George Duncan BSA 37

Sept 19 1998

David Dyson BSA 53 Aug 31 1998

Norma (Shannon) Edwards DHE 39

November 1997 Vincent Bud Ellis DVM 41

July 15 1998 John Jack George BSA 48

Sept 24 1998

Donald Haight BSA 33 January 1997 William Hamlyn BSA 33 Dec I 1997

Gordon Harkness BSA 49

November 1997

Charles Hollister DVM 38 June 1996 Donald Hope BSA 54 June 28 1998

Lawrence Jefferson BSA 38

Sept 3 1998

James Kelso DVM 56 July 27 1998

Dorima Lalonde BSA 34 Oct 8 1998 Mildred (Cox) Large DHE 33

June 20 1998 Roger Larson BComm 86 Feb 19 1998 Robert Lawson BSA 49 June 6 1998

bull Doug Ramsey BA 91 and PhD 98 received U of Gs highshyest graduate student award shythe Forster Medal- at June convocation for his academic and community involvement while enrolled in Guelphs new

graduate program in geography He spent the summer as a visitshying research scholar at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College in Truro before assuming his curshyrent position as assistant professhysor at Mount Allison University

David Leach BSc(Agr) 74

July 18 1998

Ian Leask DVM 74 Sept 5 1998

Sheryl Lee BSc 95 June 8 1998 Ruby Janet MacAuley DHE 30

Aug 19 1998 Parker MacKenzie DVM 38

September 1994

Jeanice MacLaren DHE 28 March 1 1997

Campbell MacMaster DVM42

Oct 8 1998

Rex McCallum DVM 43 July 71998 Jean (Dunn) McMahon DHE 31

Nov 41998

Margaret Oones) McTaggart DHE 35 Aug 81998

Patrick McTaggart-Cowan HDSc 81

Oct 21997

Malcolm McWhinnie ADA 39

July 16 1998 Mary (Townsend) Mitchell BHSc

60 Sept 281998

Marjory Monaghan DHE 29

December 1997 Charles Monk BSA 44 Aug 7 1998

Heather Neilsen BHSc 59

Oct 30 1998 Jerry Niwa DVM 62 Aug 5 1998 Henry Harry OReilly BSA 42

October 1997

James Parr BSc(Agr) 81 June 19 1998 Charles Rammage DVM 45

Oct 17 1996 Howard Rapson HDSc 90

March 1997 Clement Reeds DVM 42 Oct 16 1998

William Robinson BSA 38

Aug 23 1998

Donald Sager ADA 73 Oct 141997

Austin Schaefer DVM 37 in 1997

Sandra (Mackenzie) Schmidt DHE 59

Aug 16 1997 Margaret (Harvey) Seaborn DHE 28

July 221998

Larry Seguin DVM 47 June 12 1998

Leah Shedden DHE 31 December 1998

Edward Shuh BSA 40 July 2 1998

Ted Shutsa BSc(Agr) 66

Sept 18 1998 Jim Sinclair DVM 49 Oct 4 1998

Margaret (Brown) Sinclair DHE 20

September 1998 Eldon Smith BSA 42 Sept 9 1998

Derek Somers DVM 96 Sept 25 1998

Cheryl Lynn Sopha BA 95 Sept 20 1998

Leona (Bartlett) Stewart DHE 35

June 27 1998 Alex Thomson BSc(Agr) 69

October 1996

William Whittick DVM 55

Aug 15 1998 Joseph Wilson BSA 23 Sept 11 1998

Lloyd Woolsey DVM41 June 24 1998

Winifred Yeates DHE 28 June 11998

Faculty John Carpenter BSA 43 and MSA 48

Microbiology Dec 10 1998

David Gaskin Zoology Sept 14 1998

Gordon Macleod BSA 50 Animal and

Poultry Science Nov 26 1998 Roman Retman Languages and

Literatures Sept 28 1998

Caesar Sen off Chemistry and

Biochemistry Aug 14 1998

Percy Smith Drama Dec 10 1998

Friends Robert Clark Aug 21 1998

Ethel Hammond August 1998

Thomas Hillers Sept 28 1998 Marguerite Holbrook Aug 26 1998

Catherine Kelly Sept 27 1998

James A McKenzie May 13 1998

Kenneth McIssac Oct 23 1998

William Mutlock September 1998 Roena Patterson Sept 16 1998

Donald Priddle Aug 25 1998

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bull Karl Reimer BSe 94 comshypleted a one-year intensive

MSc in mining engineering at

Queens University and is now

a project engineer a t Enpar

Technologies Ine in Guelph

He can be contacted at reimerbservcom

bull Nancy Nauta Rowland BA 90 and her husband Dan celshy

ebrated their first wedding

anniversary in March 1998 with

the birth of their first child

Connor who beat their March

8 anniversary by two days Nanshy

cy teaches junior-grade stushy

dents and junior special ed ucashy

tion for the Peel District School

Board The Rowlands live in

Caledon Ont

bull Fraser Stables MFA 98 was heralded by Toronto Globe 6shyMail critic Betty Jordan as a

formidable new talent followshy

ing the openi ng of his debut

gallery exh ibition in July The

Scottish artists work includes

sculpture video and mixed

media that explore notions of

flu x by interrupting the moveshy

ment of forms in space

bull Erin (Smith) Scott BSe(HK) 92 and Brad

Scott BSc(Agr) 91 of Lucan

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UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

rese~ tesch SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERYmiddot SCHOLARSHIpmiddot SOCIAL DEVELOPMENTS

WHEN 24 HOURS IN lea rning how to integrate work Runciman arrived at Guelph know they may be harm ful to

A DAY ISNT ENOUGH and fa mily life rath er than jugshy last summer after spending four their health

TRYIN GTO ACCOMMODATE the gling the two says Lero Inteshy years deSIgning orthopedic sysshy Most consumers are not demands of family and career is gration is key so tfut people can tems and instruments for Canashy aware that plants contain a comshya problem most peopl e fa ce in be successful in multiple roles dian and Ameri ca n firms He plex mi xture of biochemica ls todays society Those indi vidshy rath er than struggling from crishy hopes to establish a state-of-theshy says Prof Pra vecn Saxena Plant ual and family struggles will be sis to crisis art research lHboratory with Agriculture Herbal remedies the focus of the Universitys new HOLlsed in the College of Pro fs Jinl Dickey and Jack have been developed on historishy

Social and Applied j-Iuman Scishy Callaghan Human Bi010gy and cal and anecdotal evidence rather ences the centre brings togethshy Nutr itional Sciences that will than by scientitlc testin g he says er related resea rch areas und er allow him to pursue hi s twin Saxena is trying to change this by a sing1e roof and will spark new research interests in shoulder systematically identifying charshy

Family relations interdisc iplinary opportunities and spine mechanics acterizing and quantifying the experts recommend particularly for graduate st ushy The trio has appli ed for chemical constituents of plants parents integrate - not dents More than 50 fac ulty and fundi ng from the Natural Sc ishy used in a1ternative medicines juggle - work and staff ha ve indicated a desire to ences and Engineering Resea rch family life be affiliates of the centre which Co uncil to equip a biomechanshy

wijJ stimulate resea rch and forge ics lab already loca ted adjacent partnerships with organiza tions to U of Gs new Health and Pershy

Centre for Families Work and co rp orations and co mmunity forman ce Ce ntre in the recentshyWell-Being agenCies ly renova ted Powell Building

Headed by Profs Donna This funding would bring Lero and Kerry Daly Family BODY IS THE the lab up to date to meet intershyRe lat ions and Appli ed Nutri shy ULTIMATE MACHINE national standards says Runcishytion the centre will promote IM INTER ESTED in the app lishy man who p1ans to follow up on responsive wo rk env ironments cation of mechanical engineershy pioneering shoulder mechani cs and help families across Canashy ing to the human body The work he was invo lved in whil e He and grad uate students da manage wo rk and family body is the ultimate machine completing his PhD at Sco tshy Susan Murch and Co lleen Simshyresponsibilities in healthy ways So says Prof John Runciman lands Strathclyde Un iversity mons in th e Ontario Agri culshy

The centre will also be a catshy who recently brought his blend He hop es hi s studies will tural Co llege a1so wa nt to alyst for new researcl in areas of academic and industry expershy help orthopedic co mpanies improve the methods of growshyas diverse as health promotion tise in biomedical engineering design better implan ts used to in g medicinal plants to protect seniors long-term ca re nutrishy to U of Gs School of Engineershy correct such deformities as sco shy cons umers and ensure quality tion and wellness rural aging ing in the College of Phys ica l liosis or cur va ture of the spine Problems in the herbal remeshyand gender in the workplace A and Engineering Science and for treating shoulder insta shy dies industry include medicinal mandate of the centre is that the

IN FACT

bi lity often caused by injuries prepara tions containing misidenshyresults of its research must be among athletes tified plant species contaminashyapplied and availabl e to the tion by pests and disease a lack public to benefit those Canadishy RESEARCHERS of understanding of plant physshyans who ne ed help dealing with CULTIVATE QUALITY iology or efficacy for human conshythe accelerated pace of life nonshy IN HERBAL sumption ilnu co nsumer fraud shytraditional family relationsl ips MEDICINE Our research will help set a longer working hOLlrs globlt1lshy MORE AND MO RE Canadims are standard fo r the development ization and downsizing turning to natural remedies as of safe va lue-added products

The challenge for fam ilies is alternatives to medicine but few Saxena says

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RESEARCH UNCOVERS KEY

TO AGING RESEARCHERS may have found modern sc iences answer to th e mythica l Fountain of Youth

U of G professors John Phillips and Arthur Hilliker Department of Molecular Biolshyogy and Genetics and Gabrielle Boulianne of the University of Toronto and th e Hospital fo r Sick Children appear to have identified a critical weakness in the common fruit fl ys defence against aging

The researchers from the College of Biologica l Science di scovered that a specific cell type - th e motor neuron - is the major target for oxidative damage known for several years to be a key factor affecti ng aging and lifespa n They were able to boost a fruit flys defence against the damage by inserting th e human gene SOD1 which is known to protect against oxidashy

tive damage into the fly s DNA As a result the ave ra ge lifespa n of the fli es (us uall y about 80

days) was increased 40 per cent

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of the most pampered celeb ri ty NEW WEAPON or the mo st prima donn a pro AGAINST BACTERIA athlete ANTflllOTlCS TYPICALLY have a

More than half of su rvey shelf life because bacte ria develshyresponden ts say they have little op resista nce over time but this or no confidence in Parliament wou ld not be a concern with a with the figure being even lower new sys tem fo r smuggling for the Senate In addition 34 per an tibiotics past bacterial walls

TI-lESE DAYS on both sides of the A molecular-level Trojan border what a politician says or ho rse is how Prof Terry Bevshydoes in private can have tremenshy eridge Department of Microbishydous impact on his or her public ology and graduate student Kelshycareer - but is th at appropriate ly MacDonald desc ribe the

Prof Maureen Mancuso of system theyre studying 1 t takes the Department of Polirical Scishy advan tage of a mechanism develshyence in the College of Social and oped by bacteria to attack an d Applied Human Sciences an d a co nsume neighbouring bugs team of four other political scishy Preliminary tests by the entists conducted a cross-counshytry survey of 1400 Canadians asking what th ey think of th e behaviour of their elected represhysentatives The res ults were pubshyli shed in October in th e book A

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HEMP U OF G SCIENTISTS are helping to determine the viability of hemp as a cash crop for Ontario farmers

Health Canada recently li ftshyed a 60-year ban on growing hemp and about 10000 acres are expected to be plan ted in Canada this year Hemp is an organic fibre tha t could be used in everythi ng fro m fabri c and medicine to oil and paper

Gordon Scheifele of Kemptville CoJlege and Peter Dragla of Ridgetown College are studying the potential of hemp as an Ontario crop Scheifele has completed initial test ing on nine varieties and a series of producshy

tion research experiments in northern parts of On tario Dragla has established breeding program trials and looked at commercial production of hemp varieties in southern Ontario He is also developing field instrushymentation to provid e field readshyings of tetrahydrocanmbinol the psychoactive ingredient in hemp

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Adams who holds joint appo intments in the departshyments of Popu lat ion Medicine and Cli nical Studies and the Veterinary Teaching Hospital is an expert on the humanan imal bond She has developed in-sershyvice training workshops fo r vets on dealing with client grief over the loss of a pet and su pport groups for grieving pet owners

Inside Playwright Judith Thompson

BEHIND THE MASK

JUDITH THOMPSON A DRAMA PROFESSOR at the University of Guelph

since 1992 is one of Canadas finest playwrights Her complex and

sometimes disturbing plays give voice to human failings and accomshy

plishments A two-time winner of the Governor Generals Literary

Award she has received wide acclaim for her work

On the following pages the Guelph Alumnus profiles an artist

whose creativity finds expression through dialogue by offering a

faithful rendition of the dialogue between Thompson and Comshy

munications and Public Affairs writer Andrew Vowles Much like

the characters she unmasks on stage Thompson reveals both comshy

plicated and unexpected images of herself

PHOTOGRAPHY BY D EAN PALMER

20 GU ELPH A LUMNUS

NO The scene is the rehearsal space in Lower Massey Hall at the University of Guelph

Monday mid-morning Outside the warped-glass windows the first wet snow of the year

drops like pebbles Drama professor Judith Thompson is leading some 20 students in her

Acting I class through their warm-ups The students stand in a circle and take turns aiming

a mock blow as they shout the word No More she says to the less assertive To others

whose No sounds shredded over the top she holds up a hand More control Thompson

gestures to her diaphragm It has to come from here

SCENE THOMPSONS OFFICE MASSEY H ALL

On one wal l hang pictures of actors engaged

in a drama mingled with childrens sc hool

drawings The desktop is practically bare A

black purse occupies one chai r A scarf has

landed on the back of another This is where

the playw rig ht hangs her hat during her

classes and meets with studen ts She wri tes

at home in Torontos Annex neighbourhood

where she li ves with her husband Gregor

Campbell a sessional English inst ruc tor at

Guelph and their five children Ariane 13

Eli 10 Grace 8 Felicity 4 and Sophia J

SCENE U OF G LI BRARY ARCHIVES

Guelph Alumnus writer (readil1g from draft of Epilepsy and Snakes Fear as the Genesis of Theatre a talk given by Thompson to the Epilepsy Association of Metro Toronto ill 1997 The script for the ta lk is included among boxes ofcorrespo nde11ce numerous drafts of plays various newspaper and magazine artishycles and reviews ahout the playwright and her work that Thompson recently donated to the U of G Library archives)

1have known real fear only a few times

in my relatively sheltered life But 1

believe these moments of fear are

directly connected to the so urce of creshy

ativi ty within me

SCENE J UST ABOUT ANYWHERE YOU CAN

REA D A PLAY

GA writer (reading from introduction to Tho mpsons play Sled wh ich was first pro shyduced hy Torontos Tarragon Theatre in 1997)

Judith Thompson was born in 1954 in

Montreal She graduated from Queens

University in 1976 then graduated from

the act ing program of the National Theshy

22 GU ELPH ALUMNUS

I seem to give voice to people who

have no voice

atre Schoo l in 1979 Alth ough she

worked briefl y as a profess ional actor

she became more interested in writing

and at th e age of 25 a workshop of her

first scrip t The Crack walker was proshy

duced by Theatre Passe MuraiHe Her

work which includes both radio and

tel evisio n writing has enjoyed great

internationa l success

Other plays includ e The Crackshywalker White Biting Dog Pink Tornado - radio Am Yours Lion ill the Streets White Sand Perfect Pie and Stop Talking Like That- radio She is the recipient

of the Floyd S Chalmers Canadian Play

Award for Lion in the Streets in 199 1 and

Am Yours in 1987 and the Governor

Generals Literary Award for Drama for

The Other Side of the Dark in 1989 and

White Biti11g Dog in 1984

S CENE LUNCHTIME

U OF G UNIVERSITY CLUB

Thompson Im so grateful to have this job

beca use it allows me to do the work that s

important and the plays that will be my legashy

cy and tha t are what 1 feel I have to conshy

tribute to Canadian culture If I didnt have

thi s job Id ha ve to keep compromising

because my plays dont make money Theyre

always in sma ller houses I take chances

theyre not commercial They play all over

th e world but aha)s in sma ller places 1

would just have to pursue life as a screenshy

writer to make a living Thi s job gives

me the great privilege of doing my research

which is the plays that I write and the edishy

torial work that I some times do and screenshy

plays that are worthy and good projects

GA writer Audi ences and reviewers have

described your plays as dark disturbing full

of angry people full of profanity

Thompson At the risk of sounding

grandiosel seem to give voice to people who

have no voice or very little in the culture

whom people dont li sten to Liol1 in the Streets the handicapped wo man living in

the basement all on her own the yo ung girl

Iso bel The secretary stuck in this abu sive

relationship with the actor The middle-class

housewife dumped by her husband because

be doesnt like her sweatsuits and on and on

I give voice to them because I dont know

because I care abo ut them because I like to

represent them Im a lawyer Some of them

use profanity because they have really good

reason to be angry a nd most of th em are

powerless And unfortunately profanity has

a little charge Its a little source of baby powshy

er It upsets me I dont use it myself Im very

se nsitive to it

SCENE ARCHIVES

GA writer (reading essay by Thompson comshymissio ned by Toronto literary Journal Brick

in 995)

If I were not a writer 1 think 1 would

wear a riding hat With a stee l lining

Because I would be baving many more

epi leptic seizures than 1 do presentl y

Because any of the non-writer real jobs I have had caused me sleepless nights self-disgust swoll en eyes cystic acne and hearin g di sorde rs all of which increased electrical activity in my brain which I believe increases the frequenshycy of seizu res

SCENE UNI VER SITY CLUB

Thompson (discussing the critical and pubshylic reaction to her first play The Crackwalkshyer) It was slaughtered at first as all my plays have been Very bad reviews at first and then somehow they catch fi re and theres one grea t review and the others start to see something GA writer Why the bad reviews Thompson I think people might say that theyre shock ing but I dont think so not

with the movies we see and whatnot Theyre not shocking compared with Quentin Taranshytino But theyre not like anything else they dont know where to put them And when they dont know where to put them theyre dismayed I think and hostile and they feel challenged I just write as I see Im not tryshying to shock or challenge anyone I hope they do challenge - me too all of us I often feel li ke the little boy in The Emperors New

Clothes Look this is what I see

SCENE LOWER MASSEY HALL

Two Acting I students perform a scene on th e stage Their fellow stud ents sit on th e Aoo r watching Thompson sits forward on a plasti c chair forearms propped on her knees hands clasped before her Her eyes her bod y are intent on the action Later Amberley Buxton (fi rst-year student il1 Actshyil1g I who is pursuing a psychology major and a drama minor)

Its a really in tense class In one of our first classes we were to share something that had changed our perspective on li fe or how we thought every day Later during improvisashytion or scene work she had us draw on the emotional context fro m those stories to add to our acting experiences Its really intense in that way A lot of people share a lot of personal things and we use each others experiences

SCENE UNIVER SIT Y CLUll

Thompson Ea ch se meste r students go through an intensive transition In order to find your creative centre or trigger yo u need

to know yourself in an intell ectual context They reach that pl ace and find their genius My philosophy is that every stu dent has genius and its my job to uncover it My relationshi p is so intense with st udents The classes are very psychoanalyt ic It seems to tra nsform their life

SCENE LO WER MA SSEY

Buxton Even if we haven t encountered a similar situat ion in real life she has us draw on somethi ng similar For ollr exa m Im doing a monologue My character has been abused I havent been abused myself but I have to draw on a si tuation where I had sim shy

itar feel ings draw on some experi ence Like being teased at schoo l Even so mething as small as tha t if you find a way to get back to that

SCENE UNIVERSITY CLUll

Thompso n I llsed to be terrified In high school Id spend half my time in the nurses room because the idea of having a se izu re in front of yo ur peers at that age was just petrifying I did finall y have a seizure but luckil y no one was around at the time So I

think all of that puts me in touch with a lot in life I might not have been in touch with being fairly privileged not rich but eno ugh to be middle class A lot of my work is about class abo ut the class differentiation in Canashyda Ive somehow felt more all ied to a less adva ntaged class My gra ndfather once sat as prime minister of Australia My grandshyfa ther on the other side was a member of the Royal Society an entomologist but his mother died in childbirth and he was brought up as a cousin on the farm outside of London And my Australian grandfath er was one of 1I siblings in a shack by the side of the railroad His father had di ed He walked barefoot to school so I th ink because its just two generations away I feel it in my bones and my blood GA writer How did you get to writing Thompson Through ac ting Ive been involved in thea tre since I was II years old I was Helen Keller for a university show my mother directed She had an [vIA in th eatre and she taught it at Queens I was in TILe Crushycible when I was 12 in Kingston and Jean Brodie and on and on and on I would just lisshyten to aU these wonderful lines and words and it all kind of enrered me And acting is where I reaU y found my niche as a person The theshyatre became my home Then I went to theatre schoo l as an actress but I started to create mask characters through improvisation Thats where I really took off in a big way and where I found myse lf very very excited GA writer VVhat we re you excited abo ut Thompson I was doing the writing And I felt frankly that I did it much better than most of the texts I was working with Not Shakespeare but and its not a matter of better it s thats where I belonged So I would go home and write down the charshyacters that r crea ted that day in class and make th em talk to each odler and thats how The Craekwalker happened

I spent a summer in Toronto looking for acting work and I go t a few jobs But every day for a co uple of hours I would write at a typewri ter and I found these voices comshying At the end of it I sa id to someone You know I think this isnt bad I think this might eve n be a play At the Na tional Theatre shySchool they said to me Youre pretty handy with these monologues but dont ever think you could write a play (Pause) I enjoy telling th at tale on them

WINTER 1999 23

SCENE LOWER MASSEY

Buxton It was my fint time doing mask work She had us sit with the masks on and just sta re at ou rselves in the mirror We did it for an hour staring at the mask feelin g the mask It was a phenomenal eilVer ience the Wily youre able to transform yourself It was almost as if you werent look ing at you That helped yo u to walk differently You were able to shed your

own movements and personality

SCEN E UNIVfRSITY CLU B

Thompson I think thil t seizures can transshylate into creativity are part of me as a cre shyltltive artist Peop le in the medical busin ess are very skeptical of ltll1ything like this But I fee l it s because I have fewer inhibitors in my bra in You have these inhibitors and thats what medication helps But if youre epi leptic your inhibitors Ment working as well to put out the electrical fire so it spreads I think the door to my un conscious is kind of flapping around so J think that helps creatively

SCENE MA SSEY HALL

Student (steppingforwmd) NO I Thompson (quietly) Good

SCENE ARCHIVES

GA writer ( reading fiom Epilepsy and Sna kes)

I have no doubt that my experience with epi lepsy has con tributed to my creative wo rk partly because it hE Jped me to understand what it is to be marginalized to be isolated to be feJ rful and to be out of control and eve n to be mortal

SCENE U NIVERS IT Y CLU B

Thompson Unchecked id can mean scrawlshying on the walls crazy things muttering in stree t corne rs beca use th ey re all id no su perego But I had the luck to be born into a theatrical famiJy my mother havin g the theatrical experience so I was exposed to it Lots of books I was taken to 1 lor of plays Having ep il epsy my first seizure when I was nin e J was able to link with that If I hadnt had those advantages who knows the se izur es migh t have ju st made me a depressed person an angr y person And you re touched with mortality you always live und er siege a slight fear of having a se izure Its much less so now with me

24 GUELPH ALUM NUS

SCENE UNIVERSITY CLUB

Thompson Ive always been a mimic in a cheap way I could always mimic we ll I would raLk to someone on a bus and I could do them exactly Thats kind of dangerous because it can be pretty shallow But it showed me ltl way into the person throu gh voice And once J could do that like a pupshypet something would click and I cou ld get

in in a deeper way J need to get so thoroughly into the charshy

acte rs and their state of mind and especialshyly tapping repressed el11orion which gets you in touch with your id or unconscious li fe If

I take little sections of

myself and grow them in a petri dish of the play

one character is about rage I have to tap into my own rage and that s why the monoshylogues so things can just flow and then I can retrieve things from the past and remember things So its not working from here (gesshytures to midriff) it s wo rking fro l11 here (gesshytures to head)

Mo nologues for me are always the key to findin g out who th e character is because if you cant make them rant for fi ve minutes you dont know th em Tha ts what I tell my

playwriting students I want to see r-wo pages of this characters mouth In other words to speak for five minutes we have to have

so mething to say We have to have something we feel passionately about something were angry about and if we dont have something to say for fi ve minutes who are we

SCENE UN IVERSTTY CLUB

GA writer Vhere do you see what eventushyally becomes a play such as Sled 1110mpson I was at a lodge and saw a moose that s one thin g And that made me think about winter and how the country is always with us as Ca nadians Even in the urban censhytres we ca rr y it wi th us Theres always this

see ming division between the country the wilderness and civilized centres but its the same The wildness of the moose and the

hunt and the bear is in our neighbourhoods I guess its like Lion in the Streets it must be a thing with me And also the exquisite beaushyty and thats how most of the world thinks of Canada as the wilderness Its not quite how we think of ourselves but it is partly So that made me want to do something abo ut the Nor th violence in the North

As far as th e old mans stories that was my neighbour and he told me all those stoshyries they were all true except mltlyb e one or so and I thought Theyre amazing They teilus what our neighbourhoods Me really about and Toro nto what the city is how its const ru cted Toronto is our stories and in th ese neighbourhoods you have an urbane entertainer li ving nex t to an 80-year-old Italia n man and thats the beauty ofToronshyto ltllld its the way th e world is chan ging The stric t class divis ions and culture divishysions th eyre no longer as defin ed as they we re espec ially in th ese neighbourhoods the great pioneering experimen t GA writer Do your chi ld ren see your work Thompson No None of my children can see my plays Ariane saw f Am Yours in New York when she was about nin e I do cl eal with the dark and whats tru e and my chilshydren aren t ready for that Im probab ly more protective th an mos t mothers Walk them

to school till theyre 13 that ki nd of thin g GA writer Yo u we re intervi ewed in the Globe alld Mail recently in a story about motherh ood dnd th e muse How do yo u handle th e demand s of motherh ood and writing

Thompson If Im in the situation where I have 15 or so hours of child care a week Im OK because when Im with them I wa nt to be with them and when ]m doing my work

th ats what I clo But if I do something like a worko ut thell a black cloud descends The guilt and the black cl oud th at descend as I take off on my bike it s huge Then once the workout s finished I know it was d good

thing to do although it s also cut into my

work time J do feel guilty about the nilture of my work too in that my kids cant see it Am I drawing on a part of me thats not good as a mother The oth er part of me is th at I make up bedtime stories and bake coo kies and all thlt stuff ]m probably a

rather operatic mother I cry at movies laugh too hard __

SCENE ARCI-I[VES

GA writer (reading fiom Epilepsy and Snakes)

1

Although being a dramatic writer has

given me a reputation in my cou ntr y

and a strong identity the actof writin g

or creating character leaves me SOJlle shy

times feeling that I have no id entity at

all Every once in a while when I am not

writing or tending to my four children

I feel I 1m falling again down th e terrishy1 ble hole with nothing to hold on to

And I believe this falling this identity

pain is a result of me using the very

essence of Ill yself to create character in

a dramatic wo rk r wonder so metimes

if J illl1 betraying my soul in a way by

using its essence However J have found

some comfo rt in the words ofWilliall1

Blake Essence is not Identity but from

Essence proceeds Identity and from one

Essence may proceed many Identities

as from one Affection Jlla y proceed

many thoughts If the Essence was

the sa me as the Identit y there could be

but one Identity which is fal se Heaven

wo uld upon this plan be but a clock

but one and the sa me Essence is th ereshy

fore Essence and not Identity

SCENE UNIVER SIT Y CLUB

Thompson I always put myself in a play and

never In other words I take little sections of

myself and grow them in a petri dish of th e

play So if Ive found a moment where Im a

bit lazy ]11 grow it and milke the character

very lazy o r impatient or whatever So I take

these moments because we all have all of

them grow th em and create this Frankenshy

steins monste r a character right out of parts

body parts and psychological parts often of

myself and then observe things in other peoshy

ple but I have to find it in myself to make it

work

SCENE AR C H1V ES

GA writer (reading from Epilepsy al1d Snakes)

My self asserted itself as a kind of quishy

et Lucille Ball c1ulllsy and absent-mindshy

ed At least this gave me an identity and

was a small aCI of slbo tage The next

assertion was an act of unconscio us rev shy

olution th e grand mal seizure that

almost killed me And the next one was

The Crackwalker my first play And this

is how I raged against the machine and

took space in the world And now not

surprisin gly I am seizure-free

SCENE LOWER MASSEY

After another pair of acto rs rUllS through

their scene Thompson directs them to begi n

again She interrupts frequently to question

the students about actions feelings motishy

vations At one point 8S the students pause

to consider her words Thompson turns to

the rest of the class erect in her cha ir

Thompson Isolate the mom ent The great

thing about the stage is th at it isolates the

moments that just race by us_

SCENE UNIVERSITY CLUB

Thompson Ive just written my next play

which is not ca lled Pefeet Pie but thats its

working title because it came from a mon oshy

logue called Perfect Pie But now its a full

two- haul play in which the second wom3n

comes back and tben I have them as yo ung

girls too It goes back ~nd forth and its very

exciting I worksbopped it in the spring and

in December at tbe Tarragon and it will go

on in o ne year At the sa me time lm wr itshy

ing a feature film for Rho mbus based on the

play Pe feet Pie

SCEN E UNlV ERSITY CLUIl

Thompson My pIalS are Illusically written

And if somebody doesnt get the music they

dont feel it and go with the rhythm s it

throws the whole thing off I hear the plays

I hea r them I write with my ear They

change 1 lo t but it s according to rhythm

I ll be sitting in rehea rsal listening and if it

does nt so und ri ght I change it so that its

rhythmic

SCIi -JE J UST AllOUT ANYWHERE YOU CA N

READ A PLAY

GA writer (readmg ji-olll the script ofvVbite

Biting Dog first produced at the Tarragon Th eatre in 1984)

Beciluse of the ex treme and deliberate

lllu sica lity of this play any allempts to

go aga inst the tex tual rhythms such as

th e breaking up of an unbroken senshy

tence the tlking of a pause where none

is written in are DISASTROUS The

effect is like beil1g in a small plane and

suddenly turning off the ignition It all

falls down This play III list SPIN not

just turn around

SCfN e LOWER MASSEY

Her students listen as Thompson stands to

complete a so liloq uy abo ut cap turing the

rhythm of the language on the stage The

wide sleeves of her ank le-length dress slide

down her forea rm s as she ges tures

Thompson Listen to the music of the

scene Each playwright writes their own

symphony

SCENE U NIVERSlTY CLUB

Thompson Ive been pretty directed to this

ii-om an carly age although if I had done anyshy

thing else it probab ly wou ld have been some

form of social work I would have been smokshy

ing three packs of cigarettes a day and workshy

ing il1 an office somewhere up in Scarborough

SC EN E AfltCHIVES

GA write r (reading from Brick interview of Thompson by Eleanor Wachtel ]99] )

In th e thea tre I think what one mllst

do is co nfront the truth confront the

emot ional truth of our li ves which is

mired in the swamp of minuriae

everyday minutiae Maybe it has to be -tl111 way because we couldnt confront

it every day But I think the th eatre

IllllSt Im not interested ill th eatre that

doesnt ga

W1NTER 1999 25

Never mind fish wars pitting countries against one another - here in Canada scientists and policy makers cant agree on who should control the preservation and management ofour own fishery resources BY ANDREW VOWLES

Ca

as

ollapsed cod stocks to the east

On the West Coast laquofish wars

_ rlTDT Pacific salmon enmesh

Canada and the United States

At various points in between fisheries scishy

entists and managers grapple with everyshy

thing from overfishing of freshwater

stocks to invasion by exotic molluscs

What is to be done about Canadian fishshy

eries And what role is being p layed by

fisheries and aquatic scientists at the Unishy

versity of Guelph

-

dock pollock red fish and flatfish made up just under half of Canadas total landings on the Atlantic coast (720000 tonnes of fish and shellfish were caught in 1994 represhysenting a total landed value of $11 billion) Two year~ later that proportion had dropped to 21 per cent with shellfish and open ocean fish specie~ notably Atlantic

Begin in the Atlantic The crisis on the East Coast has become a disaster So says laquoWE NEED TO TRY TO SEPARATE OUTGuelph zo ology professor John Roff enushymerating the litany of woes that have surshy

THE FISHERIES MANAGEMENT DECISIONSfaced from Ca nadas marine fishery in the past decade Although some fish and shellshy

FROM THE POLITICAL DECISIONSfi sh are holding their own stocks of other species have experienced declines raquo

ASSOCIATED WITH THE FISHE RY

down that fishery in 1992 Over fishing and under which it has been buying up fishers

Even when stocks do rebound rarely do we fully und erstand why he says Theres a complex of problems to be disshy more for cod stocks to rebound says Roff entangled involving overflshing long- and co-editor with colleague Prof Moira Fergushyshort-term climate change and changes in son of the respected Canadian Journal ofFishshyocean current systems and productivity eries and Aquatic Sciences A wise course of

And of course the once-thriving northshy action for a fisherman in Newfoundland ern cod that first drew Europeans with their would be to seU his licence and do something nets to the Grand Banks 500 years ago have else he says (Last fall the federal governshycoUapsed to the point that Ottawa had to shut ment announced its final retirement program

the failure of federal fisheries managers to heed the warnings of scientists have been blamed for the coUapse Even with the lllorashytoriulll in place it may take two decades or

licences in Atlantic Ca nada and Quebec) In 1992 - the year Ottawa imposed its

moratorium on the northern cod fisheryshylandings of groundfish including cod had-

salmon making up the difference [n 1995 the total groLlndfish catch reached its lowshyest level in two decades

Unlike the Ea st Coast fi shery which relies most ly on ocea n-living fish the Pacifshyic fishery is dominated b) migratory species Some 300000 tonnes of fish and shellfish were harvested along the west coast in 1994 worth a landed value of $550 million (Arcshytic marine fisheries and their management differ from those on the coasts although cOl11mercial and recreational fisheri es are small here food fisheries are important to

U OF G AQUATIC SCIENCES EXPERTISE CATCHES WORLD ATTENTION

Landlocked in the middle of the courltry U ofG nevertheless boasts fish pathology and diseases including farmed fish diseases fish an enviable record and range ofexpertise in aquatic sciencesshy hormones and reproductive physiology including the effects of marine and freshwater - dating back to the late 1960s Thats when environmental contaminants early life history and behaviour Prof Keith Ronald thell chair of the Department ofZoology (and of fi shes and biology of tuna later dean of the College ofBiological Science) began a marine biolshyogy program at the University Today Guelph has the largest Partnered with the A-erod Institute of Ichthyology in U of group of ichthyologists - scientists who study fish - in Gs Aquatic Sciences Facility the r[agen Aqualab is an North America investigating a wide variety ojIre~hshy aquatic research and teaching facililY for studying water alld marine fisheries and aquatics topics aquatic organisms Environmentally controlled

rooms in the Aqualab allow faculty and students to U of Gs Axelrod Institute of Ichthyology houses simulate habitats as diverse as the Arctic Ocean and one of the worlds largest collections of museumshy tropical rainforest pools The facility is named for quality fish fossils donated to the University by its principal benefactor Rolf Hagen founding presshy

ident of Canadas largest pet store 5llpplier J 989 The institute which provides space for fisheries research and visiting scientists brings together 12 core U of G U of G faculty edit four internationally recognized journals researchers in fisheries and aquatic sciences whose interests and in ichthyology fisheries and aquatic science Awarded to U of G by expertise span environmental contaminants and parasitic disshy the National Research Council in 1997 the Canadian Journal of eases evolutionary genetics of marine and freshwater fishes Fisheries al1dAquatic Sciellces is co-edited by zoology professors

US ichthyologist and author Herbert Axelrod in

28 GUELPH ALUMNUS

northerners including shrimp Atlantic salmon and arctic char) Accountin g fOI almost half of that total were Pacific salmon which ret urn from the ocean to spawn in home streams and rivers up and down the coast of Alaska British Columbia and Washshyington There are actually five main spec ies of sa lmon that run down the BC coast shysockeye (t he most va luable commercial species) chinook coho chum and pinkshyfrom spring to December

Its a very complex jurisdictional and multi-user problem says Roff Bes ides degradation of freshwater spawning habishytats and ocean climate effects of El Nill0 the West Coast fishery is a cauldron of ten shysions between various groups perennial fish wars between Ca nada and the United States disputes that pit sport fishers against native fishing rights Recognizing the problems of low ocean productivity habitat damage overfishing and indiscriminate fishing pracshytices that take weak and strong stocks alike Ottawa is developing a new policy to guide Canadas Pacific salmon fisheries focusing on conservation sustainable use and improved decision-making

That potent mix of overfishing and habishytat degrada tion is also a problem for Canashydas freshwater fisheries A report tabled last fall by the federal standing committee on

fisheries and oceans called for more federal funding for research and fisheries programs in central and arctic regions of Canada Accord ing to that report the Grea t Lakes commercial fishery is one of the largest freshwater fisheri es in the world worth an average landed value of more than $40 milshylion a year and an eco nomic impact of at least $250 million Some 90 per cent of that catch is exported The neck lace of lakes threading its way to the St Lawrence River also supports the largest fres hwater sports fishery in the world 800000 Ontarians fish on the Great Lakes eve ry year contributing $850 million to the economy

In Manitoba managers are concerned about the long-term susta inability of freshshywater fish stocks particularly declines in Lake Winnipeg and the northern part of the province caused by overfishing environshymental degradation loss of prime spawning habitat and predators The province has seen stocks rise and fall particularly of pickerel Manitobas highest-priced fish In an attempt to manage the fishery in a sustained fashion the province recently introduced a qu ota entitlement system for anglers Joe OConshynor director of the fisheries branch of Manshyitobas Department of Na tural Resources says his department is wrestling with the environmental threats on fish habitat posed

by farming and hydroelectric development In Ontario fisheries are genera lly in

pretty good shape says Evan Thomas fishshyeries section manager of the fish and wildlife branch of the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (OM NR) Ontario supports almost half of all recreational fishing in Canada with more than two million adult anglers and more than $2 billion a year spent on recreational fishing in the province Onta ri o is also home to Canadas larges t commercial freshwater fishery worth abo ut $40 million a Yfar in land ed value

Thomas says over fishing is still the numshyber one problem Others include habitat loss the potential effects of climate change and contin ued invasion by exotic species Among the management opt ions his minshyistry is exploring are more effective fisheries regulation more rapid inventory and assessshyment techniques fish culture for rehabilishytating populations and controlling nutrient inputs into lakes and rivers

We are clearly looking for federal supshyport for the sea lamprey control program he says referring to recommendations in the recent federal fisheries committee report as well as changes to the federal Fishshyeries Act to hand the province more authorshyity over fish habitat protection

Concerns continue in Ontario over

Moira Ferguson and John Roff Fish Physiology and Biochemistry the top-ranked journal in its field is edited by Prof John Leathershyland chair of the Department of Biomedical Sciences in the Ontario Veterinary College University professor emeritus Eugene Balon has served as editor-in-chief of Environmental Biology ofFishes since he founded the publication in 1976 Zoology professor David Noakes edits Guelph Ichthyology Reviews whose articles synthesize and review all aspects of fish science Both of the latter

Under the Canadian contribution to the project - furided by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council - about 80 federal government and university researchers are trying to learn more about how bioshylogical and physical processes in the oceans affect fish stocks

Zoologychair Prof Paul Hebert has led a Guelph initiative to develshyop multimedia learning resources d1at teach student~ from

are published in the Axelrod Institute of Ichthyology

Based on data from geographic information sysshytems zoology professor John Roff has mapped types of habitat associated with various species of fish and other organisms around Canadas coasts and throughout tl1C Great Lakes the first time such

e1ementaIy grades to university about Canadas aquatshyic environments His department has developed a series of CD-ROMs that provide information on all the major animal groups in the Great Lakes Already available are educational CD-ROMs on Canadas aquatic environments (also available on

d1e World Wide Web) Great Lakes biodiversity and a marine classification system has been developed in this country His report was commissioned by World Wildlife Fund Canada for its Endangered Spaces Campaign and contributes to RoWs work as chair of the scienrillc committee of Globec (Globshyal Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics) a two-year-old international research program intended to better understand ocean ecosystems

birds of the Great Lakes The latter is the first disc in a series called the Great Lakes Faunal Atlas which will eventually cover mammals amphibians reptiles fish and crustaceans

The Alma Aquaculture Research Station es tablished in 1989 and funded through a 20-year development grant by the Ontario

WI NTER 1999 29

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various invas ive species that have turned up

in the Great Lakes - notably sea lampreys

zebra mussels and quagga mussels - many

of which arrive in ballast water of ocea nshy

going vessels (Many have also found their

way into Manitoba says OConnor who

points to the effects of sm elt on whitefish

the main commercial species in Lake Winshy

nipeg) Among o ther meas ures the federal

fish eries committee report called for guarshy

anteed funding for sea lamprey control and

for scienti fic research

I think more money will come says

Prof Bill Beamish Zoology a commissionshy

er on the Great Lakes Fisheries Commission

the 40-year-old governing body that co-ordishy

nates resea rch programs between Canada

and the United States and advises both govshy

ernments It was a review led by Beamish

more than a decade ago on the sta te of

Canadas freshwater fi sheries that provided

the scientific underpinnings for a landmark

report published in 1988 that spelled ou t a

way in freshwater fisheries is a lon g-te rm

project fund ed by the OMNR and the

Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO)

to re-establish native species in their origishy

nal habitats a round Lake Ontario iVlari e

Clement a graduate student of zoology proshy

fe sso r David Noakes is studying Atlantic

sa lmo n which was wiped out of the lake

CONSIDERING WE HAVE THE

BEST FISHERY SCIENCES COMMUNITY

IN THE WORLD WE OUGHT TO

BE DOING BETTER

national strategy for freshwater fisheries

Beamish who has studied sea lampreys

for several decades at Guelph and also invesshy

tigates fish habitat loss says money is need shy

ed to help researchers investigate biological

controls as an alternative to chemical lamshy

pricides The recen t repo rt also notes the

need to address the effects of other nonshy

native exotic species on n ative fish stocks

and water quality and calls on Ottawa to

stem the funding decline in freshwater scishy

ence over the last two decades

One example of the kind of work under

and its tribu ta ry streams near the beginning

o f this century by overflshing and habitat

destruction and alteration Last fall Clement

placed eggs into a site in the Credit River

she has been monito ring oxygen availab il shy

ity durin g their incu ba tion to gau ge sedishy

mentation rates in the river This spring and

summer she wili study how newborn fi sh

interact with other species in th e r ive r

C lement says her docto ral research proshy

ject is but one piece of a larger project aimed

at re-establishing the heritage species Othshy

er researchers hop e to learn whe ther th e

Ministry of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs brings together

researchers for interdisciplinary studies of protein requirements

of arctic char improving fish semen and egg management proshy

cedures and understanding hormone activity in fish The station

acts as a quarantine unit for new fish varieties entering Ontario

and serves as a base for parts of certificate courses and a masters

program in aquaculture

farms in Canada He and fellow Guelph zoologists Eugene Balon

(co- founder of the Coelaca nth Conservat ion Council) and Jim

Bogart also identified and characterized the coelacanth which

had been thought extinct until a specimen was landed off Africa

in the la te 1930s Noakes confirmed the identity of ano ther of

these living fossils discovered in 1997 it appears to belong to a

second popula tion living in the Indian Ocean about 10000 kilo-

metres away from tha t first find

Zoology professors Moira Ferguson and Roy Danzshy

mann use molecular genetics techniques to identishy Zoology chair Paul Hebert was the first scientist to

fy DNA markers used to pinpoint the location of identify the presence in the Great Lakes of zebra

genes associated with growth spawning times mussels a prolific invader that has wreaked havoc

rates of development maturity and temperature in many ways from clogging water-intake pipes to

tolerance in rainbow trout Isolating and identifyshy consuming plankto n thus allowing light to reach

ing genetic markers fo r desirable traits will help fish bottom-dwelling organisms that may displace native

farmers and breeders cross-breed more effectively species The first researcher to report on the biology

conservationists will be better able to manage and preserve and impact of the zebra mussel on the Grea t Lakes was

genetic variability among wild fish stocks Guelph zoology professor Gerald Mackie whose studies showed

that the organisms faster growth rate and higher fecundity and

Zoology professor David Noakes has stuclied varieties of arctic population density will probably enable it to displace many native

char native to Iceland to find ones suited to being raised on fish bivalves and disrupt entire lake ecosystems

30 GUELPH ALUMNUS

LEADING RESEARCH

The University of Guelph has one orthe largest and most active groups of aquatic biologists in the world

bull More than 50 faculty and 100

graduate students research

assocrates and postdoctoral

fellows

bull Over 1000 published scientific

articles books monographs

films and videos in the past

decade

bull Interdisciplinary programs

involving more than a dozen

academic departments

bull The largest group ofichthyoloshy

gists (scientists who study

fish) in North America

bull Collaborative research with

government environrriental

organizations and academic

institutions worldwide

bull Expertise covering the entire

aquatic food chain from plankshy

ton to whales

bull Leading developments in comshy

puter-based educational mate-

rials in aquatic sciences

bull A new $6-million Aquatic

Sciences Facility

bull Research support from national

and international agencies

business and industry

adults will be able to return from the open

lake to their stream spawning grounds If

they come back will the eggs survive she

says If were able to show the eggs can surshy

vive that will be very encouraging for

Atlant ic salmon restoration

What is to be done to ensure the survival

not just of Atlantic salmon in Lake Ontario

but also of the co untrys freshwater and

m ar ine fisheries We need to try to sepashy

rate o ut the fisheries management decisions

from the political decisions associated with

the fi shery says zoology professor Glen Van

Der Kraak director of U of Gs Axelrod

Institute of Ichthyology Van Der Kraak who

studies the effects of toxic contaminants on

fi sh populations says policy mltkers need

to rely on the advice of fisheries sc ientis ts

making conservative harvest ing estimates

So often scientists make decisions and then

are overrun by the politics he says (Never

mind fish wars pitting co untries against one

another - here in Ca nada scientists and

policy makers wres tle over the question of

who should be respo nsible for what aspects

of the countrys fisheries as witnessed in a

war of words played out in the Canadian Journal ofFisheries and Aquatic Sciences over

the past 18 months between biologists at

several Canadian univers ities and the DFO

over the relationship between fishery sc ishy

ence and fishery policy)

Roff says theres nothing unique about

Canadas fish problems Its not really a

Canadian problem its a worldwide probshy

lem The only fisheries worldwide that are

not over fished appear to be some not yet

fully exploited in the Indian Ocean

After nearly four decades of growth the

worldwide marine ca tch levelled off in the

1990s to some 90 million tons a year The

m ain problems coastal pollution habitat

destruction and particula rly overfishing

Noakes editor of the journal Guelph Ichthyology Reviews contrasts the few hunshy

dred people who might have made th eir

livelihood aboard small wood en boats on

the Grand Banks several centuries ago with

the massive factory trawlers that now scour

todays coast People are much too efficient

in terms of catching fish he says Noakes

concurs with fellow Guelph researchers that

conservation of fish stocks has to reach the

top of fishery managers agendas

hat does set Canada apart is the breadth

and depth of expertise in fisheries and aquatshy

ic sciences in this country - rather a parashy

dox when you consider that Canadas record

in fisheries preservation is apparently no betshy

ter than that of many other nations

Considering we have the best fishery scishy

ences community in the world we ought to

be doing better says Roff Within the last

decade th e federal government withdrawal

o f support from the Department of Fishshy

eries and Oceans and university researchers

has been massive At the very time when the

resources were gett ing into severe problems

and when the federal government ought to

have been funding research theyve been

substantially withdrawing resources ga

DONT WAIT UNTIL SPRING The opportunity to double the impact of your gift to the University of Guelph ends on March 31 1999 Until that date all gifts designated to endowed student financial aid at Guelph will be matched by the Ontario Student Opportunity Trust Fund (OSOTF) That means that every dollar you commit will contribute two dollars to financial aid for Guelph students

If you would like to support our students throug h OSOTF you still have a w indow of oppor nishyty to have your do l1a rs doubled But only until March 31 1999

If you have already made a pled ge to OSOTf through U of Gs ACCESS Fund thank you [or your ge nerous support Please comp lete your payme nts by March 31 1999 to e nsure that your gi ft is matched

For more information contact Rudy Putns in Guelphs office of Development and Public Affairs at -519-824-4120 Ext 6384 Fax 519-822-2670 E-mail alumniuoguelphca

WINTER 1999 31

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

n ALUMNI PROF IL E

LETS LOOK AT THE OPPORTUNITIES

WHEN I-IE BECA ME president of the Unishy

versity of Guelph Alumni Association

(UGM) in June Jim Weeden brought new

enthusiasm and ideas for encouraging alumshy

ni to stay in volved with their alma mater

And he wants to start with students

Weeden reca ll s his own ex perience at

U of G where he fo und a sense of commushy

nity by living in residence and ge tting

involved in college activiti es But when he

graduated with an engin ee ring degree in

197 1 he left to begin a caree r and says he

didnt think much about the University until

he needed it again in the 1980s to pursue a

graduate degree in agricultural enginee ring

He spent his early career working as an

agricultural extensi o n engineer for the

Ontario Department o f Agriculture and is

stiU with its successo r the Ontario Ministry

of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs

(OMAFRA) Weed en completed the masshy

ters degree in 1986 when he was head of the

agricultural engineering program and extenshy

sion services a t Centralia College of Ag rishy

cultural Technology

In 1987 he moved to the ministrys plant

industry branch as program m anager and

later held the same position in th e resources

manage m ent branch Sin ce then he has

worked for OMAFRA in Woodstock and

now Stratfo rd He is technical adviser fo r

Ontarios Enviro nmental Farm Planning

Program is respo nsible for o ther environshy

m ental programs and consults with the Minshy

istry o f th e Environment on local agriculshy

tural pollution problems

w Weed en got involved with the Universishy sect tys a]u111ni programs by serving on the first g z board of the Engineering Alumni Associashy

~ tion when it was established in 1990 From

~ 1991 to 1994 he sat on the University Senshy

~ ate and its Research Board and for the pas t

~ four years) hels been on the UGAA executive

32 GUELPH A LU MNUS

From the presidents chair Weeden looks

at the bro ad picture o f UG AA se rvice and

recognizes that the associa tio n owes a debt

o f gratitude to hundreds of alumni volunshy

teers who ha ve helped to build the organishy

za tion over the yea rs and to University staff

in Development and Public Affairs (DampPA)

who support UGAA initiatives and alumni

programs Thro ugh their efforts he says the

a lulllni associati o n is rea ching out to all

U of G alumni Graduates who have mainshy

tained a close relationship with the Univershy

sity thro ugh their college or academic disshy

cipline those who feel an affiliation because

o f their participation in a thletics residence

life o r extracurricular activiti es and even

HIGHLIGHTSmiddot GRAD NEWSmiddot OBITUARIES bull CALENDER

those who have not kept in touch are part of the constituency served by UGAA

Weed en says the alumni association needs to strengthen its relationship with all alumni and he believes the effor t must start on campus with students Hed like to proshymote the idea of alumni involvement as ear shyly as a students second year We need to give students some reason to be con nected and an efficient vehicle for maintaining that connection he says

For many students and new graduates the social functions supported by UGAA and the opportunities for professional networking will be important says Weeden but greater rewards are there for those who join the effort to enhance the Universitys acade mic goals

In todays economic and political envi shyronme nt individual financial support and the advocacy of post-secon dary education are important roles for alumni he says How many people ac tively get involved with the debate on whether universities are job-trainshy

ing centres or centres of education Yet some of our alumni are extremely adept in such roles Weeden would like to cultivate past and current stud ent ac tivists as supporters of public education after they graduate

As Weeden leads UGAA into a new year he says he will work with other UGAA volshyunteers and DampPA staff to find new ways for the association to interact with students and alumni One id ea is to expand UGAAs Intershynet presence by adding a Web message board that will encourage alumni to discuss career and campus issues online and a reply form that will allow them to quickly update addressshyes employment status and other information

Weeden says its important to stay focused on UGAAs key prioriti es but he welcomes any and all new ideas on how to accomplish them All it takes to share your ideas with the UGAA executive is a stamp or a push of the send button when youre clicked on alumniuoguelphca

HKHB SPIRIT RISES

ENCOURAGED BY THE SPIRIT

shown by fellow alumni at last

summers reunion the executive

of the Human Kinetics Human Biology

Alumni Association is moving ahead

with more opportunities for alumni to

stay in touch The association plans to

launch a Web site that will be accessed

through the U of G site

A wine-and-cheese reception already

planned for June 19 1999 wiil try to

build on the success of the 1998 event

which attracted alumni from as far away

as Chicago and as far apart as the 19605

and 1990s Guests had a chance to tour

U of Gs new Health and Performance

Centre and performance testing

labs The program was co-ordinated wiLh

A REFLECTION OF PRIDE

Members of the OAC

Class of 52 join Arboshy

retum staff on the front patio

of the Arboretu m Centre

beside a new reflecting pool

that was built last summer

as a class project Pictured

from left are Murray Parker

Ann Smith George Smith

Jack Sargent Catherine Gibb

Robin Shaw-Rummington

Marilyn Swaby BA 69

Bev Healy B5e(Agr) 72

Norm Watson Una Venerus

Ron Costen Henry Kock

BSe (Agr) 77 and Ric

Jordan BA 75

Prof Jack Barclay chair of the Departshy

ment of Human Biology and Nutritional

Sciences and Prof Susan Pfeiffer Memshy

bers of the Human KineticsHuman

Biology Alumni Association executive arc

Janet Leonhard 82 president Carolyn

Moore 83 vice-president Alison Locker

97 secretary Mark Mulholland 79

lreasurer and t-iary Ann Crape 76

These officers are also spea rheading a

new initiative to benefit students - an

undergraduate award that will provide

$250 and lifetime mem bership in the

association To commcnt on these and

other initiatives contact Leonard by

e-mail at Janel_Leonhardinwrbsb

eduonca or Moore at cturveyagec

uoguelphca

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alumni

Multimedia lab buzzes

THE DONALD FORSTER RoOiv

has become one of the

busiest spots in th e Unishy

versity of Guelph Liblary since the

addition of 70 state-of-the-art

computer workstations that were

supported by alumni do nations

to the Alma Mater Fund (AM F)

U of G president Mordechai

Roza nski officia ll y o pened th e

Alma Mater Fund Multimedia

Lab D ec 2 an d celebrated th e

event with members of the AMF

Adv isory Counc iL [n 1996 a nd

1997 the AMF contributed

$240000 to th e project which

increased the number of student

workstations o n campus by 50 per

cent Students use the m ult imeshy

~ dia lab to conduct research on the

~ Internet access scholarly publicashyr u VI tions on CD-ROM and use COll1shyz ~ puter software mod ules tbat lt

~ strengthen the teaching provided lD

o in co urse lectures labs and tcxtshybii books

middotMatters

Alumnus of many interests

I NTERES TING P EOPLE always have eclect ic interests and U of G

alumnus and honorary degree recipient Ken Murray BSA 50 and

HDLA 96 is a good example H e is known by most people on camshy

pus for his distinguished career in the Canadian meat packing indusshy

try and his volunteer service to U of G He was a member and chair

of Board of Governors from 1973 to 1978 and chair of the Regionshy

al Corporate Committee during U of Gs last capital campaign and

is currently chair of the Heritage Fund Enhancement Committee

Murray is also a strong supporter of community soc ial services

In August he addressed the World Congress of Social Ps)chiatry

held in British Columbia - the only non-psychiatrist on the proshy

gram He spoke about his role in establishing an Alzheimers research

project a t the University ofWaterioo which was recently named in

his honour the Ken Murray Alzheimer Research and Education Proshy

gra m At the gc conference he al so participated in a panel dis shy

cussion that outlined services offered by Guelphs Homewood Health

Cent re Murray bas been actively involved in the governance of the

centre since 1977 and has been a major player in the development

of a charitable foundatio n bearing the Homewood name

WHEN THE PUCK DROPPED More than 30 teams including two

womens teams were entered in the

Dec 6 University of Guelph Alumni Hockey

Tournament Organizers for the 1998 event

were from left Brian Finniss B5c 88

Brad Stephenson BA 86 Terry Carr

BComm 87 Todd Bryant BA 86 and

undergraduate student Brian Melnick

Ken Murray centre with his wife Marilyn Robinson Murray and U of G president Mordechai Rozanski

34 GU ELPH ALUMNU S

RESTORING A JEWEL IN THE CROWN

DONALD RUTHERFORD BSA 5 stands in fron t

of the 1931 conservatory greenhouse that will

be restored to match the splendour of the ga rdens

now growi ng up around it His $256000 leadershy

ship gift to the Conservatory and Gardens Project

was inspired by hi s m emo ries of being a student

at OAC

On behalf of fellow alumni I hope this gift will

commemorate the experiences and educat ion we

acquired while at Guelph says Rutherford When

fully restored to its previous glory the conservatoshy

ry greenhouse will be an ideal greeting and welcome

spot for visitors and newcomers to the University

as well as old friend s renewing their acquaintance

Rutherfords professional career spans the agrishy

foo d industr y beginning as an agricu ltural repshy

resentative with the provincial minist ry I-Ie was

later vice-president of the Fertilizer Institute of

Ontario executive secreta ry of the Canadian Seed

Trade Association director of information w ith

the Ca nadian Livestock Feed Board and Canadishy

an sa les manager for Sylvite of Can ad a Retired

since 1986 he now owns his own sma ll investment

company and manages to golf throughout the yea r

The conserva tory isnt the first ca mpus project

to attract Rutherford s attention - as a student

he helped dig out the base ment of Massey H al l to

build a student lo unge - but his recent gift has

been a tremendous boost to those who have been

working since the ea rly 1990s to save the glass and

cypress structure from demo lition

A committee of alumni facult y sta ff stu dents

and fri en ds of the University has moved the proshy

ject along to th e point w here most of the surshy

rounding garden complex is now complete It fea shy

tures six gardens named in honour of the ir chie f

supporters Autumn Garden - OAC 5 1 Spring

Ga rden - OAC 53 Su mmer Garden - OAC 55

Winter Gard en - OAC 65 Water Gard en shy

OAC 49 and the Woo dland Garden named in

honour of the late Doug Rob inson BSA 53

Alumni have been in strumental in raising

funds for the $ l-million project Students and fa cshy

ulty have provided mudl of the h1l1ds-on Idbour

and friends in the nursery and landscape materishy

als supply industries have given $250000 ill donashy

tions and gifts-in-kind of plan ts and landsca ping

materials Rutherford s generous gift has pushed

th e conservato ry fund-ra ising effort in to the fin 81

stretch Th e ga rden complex and restored g reenshy

110use are sc heduled to officially open during

Alumni Weekend in June 1999

1999 Coming Events

Jan 29 - Aggie Goodshy

Times Banquet call the OAC Student Federation at Ext 8321 for ticket injemnrltion Feb 13 - Norm McCo llulll

D iploma Hockey Tournashy

m ent call Jack Bakker at 519-837-0132 to register a team

Feb 21 - Ottawa Chapter

annual curling bonspiel

Richmond C urling Club in

Richmond Ont For informashytiol1 call Alan Bentley BSA 61 at 6 13-829-6598 or John DVit[ 54 mId Margaret McGowml BHSc 54 at

613-828-7038

March 3 - Florida alumni

reunion a t Maple Leaf

Estates Port Charlo tte Fla

call Ext 6533 0 register

March 13 and 14 - ollcge

Royal 75th o pen house

March 19 and 20 - OAC

Alumni Association curling

bonspiel G uelph Curling

Club register at Ext 6657

May 5 - Chicago All Canashy

dian Universities Night hostecl

by U of G at the University

Club of Chicago 76 East Monshy

roe Sr call Exl 6533 for details May 5 - OAC Alumni

Foundation annual meeting

730 pm Arboretum Centre

May 12 - Alumni-inshy

Action annual meeting and

luncheo n 1130 3m

Arboretum Centre ((11 Ext 6657for tickets

June 18 to 20 - Alumni

Veekend call Ext 6657 to plall a reun io n

-0 r shya -IFor more infon-nation on any a

eVC1l1listed ailove call the oJ -lt oU of G extension listed at en raquo

519-824-4120 or send e-mail z

10 alunznilIoguelphca ~

WINTER 1999 35

alumni Matters

MEMORIES OF COLLEGE ROYAL Grant MacEwan ADA 23 and

BSA 26 is one of the few OAC

alumni who c~n still remember

the first College Royal held Jan

14 1925 MacEwan bad just

entered the degree program in

animal husbandry and may have

been a participant in the liveshy

stock showmanship classes Latshy

er in life he was widely known Grant MacEwan

across Western Canada as 3 liveshy

stock judge and an advocate of

agricultural fairs and exhibitions

MacEwan is bes t known

however for his 23-year C3reer

as a university professor in Manshy

itoba and Saskatchewan and Ilis

political career which included

12 years as alderman and mayshy John Kenneth Galbraith

or of C31gary four years as an

Alberta MLA and eight as lieushy birthday in August

tenant -governor of the province The year after Ma cEwan

He s till lives in Calgary graduated John Kenneth Galshy

where he celebrated his 96th braith ADA 29 and BSA 31

HOMECOMING 98

enrolled at OAC and devoted

some of his energy to organizshy

ing College Royal Show records

indicate it was Galbraith who

first proposed the college event

be publicized so that people

from the farm community

could attend He also suggestshy

ed that OAC invite students

from American agricultural colshy

legesl n th e early 1930s Colshy

lege Royal took its fir s t steps

towards becoming the comshy

munity open house it is today

Galbraith later moved to the

United States where he enjoyed

a distinguished caree r as a proshy

fessor of economics at Harvard

Universi ty Known for his

humanit~rian approach to ecoshy

nomic and political thinking

he was awarded the Order of

Canada in 1997 He celebr3ted

his 90th birthday in October

IT REALLY WAS a homecoming reunion when and Arnott who is head coach of the York

former Gryphon teammates Ralph Shapiro University Yeomen came from the visitors

S5c(HK) 74 and Tom Amott S5c(HK) 80 dreSSing room to hold the ball Shapiro is

met on the field at Alumni Stadium Oct 3 the controller at Huntsman Chemical Inc

Shapiro had the honour of kicking off in Guelph and a longtime United Way volshy

the Universitys 1998 United Way campaign unteer who chaired this years Guelph and

Wellington fund-raising drive The Univershy

sity campaign is the largest in the county

with U of G staff and faculty contributing

over $200000 in 1998

Prior to the game a number of recent

alumni - all U of G scholarship and award

winners - met for a reunion luncheon The UJ

1948 and 1949 dominion championship i5f 3

football teams were also honoured guests z 5 o at the 2 pm game that saw the Gryphons gtshy a defeat York f shya I a

Ralph Shapiro

36 G UELPH ALUMNUS

LEADING THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY FOR 1974 GRADS The 25th-anniversary reunion givshy

i ng program for the Class of 1974

is under way with Bill Laidlaw BA

74 as cbair A public affairs proshy

fessional he has been director of

government relations for the

Canadian operations of Glaxo

vVelJcome Inc for more th an 10

years He also acts as a senior conshy

sultant to support the governshy

ment relations function in other

regions of Canada

Laidlaw began his career in

teaching after earning a history

degree from Guelph and education

degrees (rom Queens University

and the University of Toronto He

also holds the certified human

resources professional designation

and worked in that field for sevshy

eral years before concen trating on

government relations at Glaxo

Welkome He lives in Burlington

Ont and is an act ive community

volunteer having se rved on the

boards of severa l professional

organizations the Queensway

General Hospital and the Metroshy

politan Toronto Lung Association

He is currently completing a oneshy

year term as chair of the Ontario

Chamber of Commerce

Anniversa ry preparations will

culminate with a class gathering

a nd reunion gift at Alumni

Weekend in June 1999

ALUMNI MAKE THE CONNECTION Students who moved into

Maids and Mills halls in Sepshy

tember can take full advanshy

tage of the Universitys highshy

speed computer network

thanks to the OAC Class of

71 whose 25 th-reunion proshy

ject provided wiring upgrades

in the 84- and 77-year-old

residence buildin gs

GRAD NEWS

Marathon survivors inspire us all to appreciate everyday life

W HEN ROBINSON SIIlLJNGS Jane BSe(Agr)

85 Heather BASe 83 Peter BSe(Agr)

86 Scott and Marnie rigwood BA 84 get

together they talk about marathons and the hope

and determination it takes to reach the finish line

Hea ther walked a marathon in San Diego

Calif in June to raise money for leukemia

research then joined Peter for a Toronto marathon

in October that benefi ted the Leukemia Research

Fund of Canada They were inspired by Janes pershy

sonal marathon of survival that foUowed her 1992

diagnosis of leukemia Chemotherapy radiation

remission relapse and finally a bone marrow

transplant [TOm her brother Scott took more than

three years out of her life but gave her the detershy

mination to keep fighting

Many families can understand the marathon

of hope maintained by the Robinsons during

Janes struggle and the commitment they have to

help others who are stricken with the disease Jane

is finally well enough to work again as a writer

and marketing consultant and to join her fami shy

ly in volunteer work She helped recruit for the

Toronto marathon fund -raiser and continues to

be involved with the Leukemia Research Funds

Team in Training She also says that her expeshy

rience has taught her to appreciate more the pleashy

sures of everyday life and the love of famil y

Jan es parents are th e late Doug Rob inson

BSA 53 and Marilyn (Inglis) Robinson Murray

BH Sc 55

19305

bull Grant Misener ADA 32 BSA 35 and DVM 38 received the

prest igious George F Hixso n Felshy

lowship Award from the Kiwanis

International Foundation in May The retired Illinois veter ishy

narian was hono ured for his subshystantial contribution to the

Kiwanis wo rldwide service proshy

ject aimed at eliminating iodine

deficiency disorders the leading

cause of preventable mental retardation in children Over the

years Misener has shown a simishylar commitment to his al ma

mater an d its students through

his close association with OVC

and his support of scho larship

programs

19405

bull Russell McDonaldDVM 45 was named an honorary life direcshytor of the Royal Agricultural Winshy

ter Fair Association in March

McDonald formerly general manshy

ager of Western Ontario Breeders

Ine and executive director of the Canadian Association of Animal

Breeders served as a director of the Royal Winter Fair for 20 years

representing the Canadian artifishycial insemination industry He

lives in Woodstock Ont

bull Ian Taylor DVM43 was recently honoured by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to

Animals of Illinois Taylor ran a small-animal veterinary clinic in

the Chicago area for many years

and says he gained ll1uch experishyence during his first three years in

Illinois as clinic veterinarian for

the anti -cruelty society

19505

bull Charles Chuck Broadwell BSA 54 was elected a Mel

Osborne Fellow by the Kiwanis

Club of Forest City in London Ont in recognition of a dedicatshy -ed and distinguished career in

Kiwanis

19605

bull Constantine Campbell BSA 60 and MSA 61 was named to the

WINTER 1999 37

Order of Canada in January He

received the award in recogni shy

tion of his many contributions

to science and the Canadian

agricultural industry After grad shy

uating from OAC he went on to

do his PhD at the University of

Saskatchewan then joined Agri shy

culture and Agri-food Canada

as a research scientist at the Swift

Current research station Campshy

bell and his family now live in

Ottawa where he is scientist

emeritus with Agriculture and

Agri-food Canada

bull John Casselman BSA 64 is

a research scientist with the

Ontario Ministry of Natural

Resources He Jives in Bath

Ont with his wife Lois

bull Jane Fuller RRSc 65 and

her husband George who both

taught at the Macdonald Instishy

tute from 1966 to 1969 have

moved from Winnipeg to

Utopia Ont following

Georges retirement from the

University of Manitoba

bull Fred Gilbert MSc 66 and

P hD 68 is in his first term as

president of Lakehead Univer shy

sity in Thunder Bay Ont He

taught at U of G in the Departshy

ment of Zoology from 1972 to

1981 and has enjoyed a dive rse

academic career that has also

included teaching at the Unishy

versity of Maine and posi tions

as director of wildlife biology at

Washington State University

and founding dean of the Facshy

ulty of Natural Reso urces and

Environmenta l Studies at the

University of Northern British

Columbia He moved to Lakeshy

head from a position as viceshy

pro vost at Colorado State Unishy

versity A respected wildlife

biologist he has conducted

ex tensive resea rch in s Ll ch areas

as the behaviour and physioloshy

gy of wildlife species and the

effects of environmental

change on wildlife populations

bull Terry Goodyear BSc 67 of

Mont Tremblant Quebec is an

early retiree from Agriculture

and Agri-Food Canada in Ottawa He is now working on

va lue-added products from

industrial wastes particularly

cellulose sludge from pulp and

pa per mills

bull Gary Hearn BA 68 was

named an Ontario provincial

judge in October For the last

25 years he has been a lawyer

with the firm Kearns McKinshy

non in Guelph where he lives

with his wife Irene and three

teenage children

bull Allan Knight BSA 66 of Corunna Ont has retired

from Dow Chemical after 30

years On retirement he was a

laboratory director for indusshy

trial chemicals He is now

working with his son in a famishy

ly-owned and -operated busishy

ness Knight Funeral Home

bull Keith McFarlane BSc(Agr)

68 works for the Department

of Foreign Affairs and Internashy

tional Trade and began a fourshy

year assignment last summer as

head of the commercial divishy

sion of the Canadian Embassy

in Lisbon Portugal The

division promotes the sa le of

Canadian goods and services

to Portugal

bull Ian Newbould MA 68 has

travelled far from his Ontario

roots through an academic and

administrative career that has

taken him to Europe Asia and

Western Canada A noted hisshy

torian he moved into adm inisshy

tration at the University of

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Lethbridge in 1981 and spent

10 years there as director of

research dean of a rts and scishy

ence and vice-presiden t (acadeshy

mic) before crossing the counshy

try to become president of

Mount Allison University in

New Brunswick He is now in

his second term as president of

Mount AUison

bull Indra Deo Singh MSc 68 is

a tea scientist international

consultant and joint director of

the Tea Research Association at

the Nagrakata substation in

India His responsibilities

include co-ordinating research

and development in the Indian

tea industry and developing tea

cultivars and agrotechnology

for tea Singh is married with

two sons aged 27 and 23

19705

bull Don Ambler BSe 71 retired in March as manager of

water programs with Environshy

ment Canada in Dartmouth

NS after 25 years of public

service He has now registered

the company Aquashed Co nshy

sulting to continue in the water

resources field when hes not

gardening beekeeping do ing

aerobics or vo lunteering in the

community and chu rch E-mail

contact is welcome a t

donambl erns sympaticoca

bull Jim Bond BSe 75 is managshy

ing a new processing facility at

the Chalk River Nuclear Laborashy

to ry in Chalk River Ont

bull Terri (Monks) Bulman BSc(Agr) 78 and MSe 81

and her husband Vincent

MSe 8 1 live in Australia with

their th ree children Catherine

7 Peter 4 and baby Christoshy

pher Terri is senior principal

environmental auditor vith

Coffey Geosciences Pty Ltd Vinshy

cent afte r many years as a geoloshy

gist travelling around Australia

and abroad has taken the year

off to study and look after the

children Their e-mail address is

tbulmanbigpondco m

bull Marie David BA 78 of

Hanover Ont has been in the

n ewspaper business for 20

years She started in the mailshy

room moved to advertising

sales then became advert ising

manager She is now gene ral

manager o f three So utham

weekly newspapers and pubshy

lish er of the Hanover Post

bull Janice Harrower and her husshy

band Jerome Billett both

DVM 76 operate a joint veterishy

nary practice in Prescott Ont

Billett says practising together

has allowed them some flexibilishy

ty in their family life and given

their four children a good took

at the rigours of veterinary

medicine Says Billett Not one

of our kid s has the slightest

interest in being a veterinarian

and isnt that just fine Their

o ldest son Jesse attends Harshy

va rd University and is a memshy

ber of its prestigious a cappella

choir Lucas is studying

mechanical engineering at the

University of Waterloo Casey is

planning a career in computer

engineering and Lindsay is a

high school athle te

bull Clair Heinbuch BSe 74 is a

sales manager with Baye r Corp

in Kansas H e and his wife

Caroline (Koscik) BASc 75

returned to the Kansas City

area after spending four years in

Denver They have three chilshy

dren Lisa 20 Scott 18 and

Ryan [5

bull Beverly Lee BASe 72 is an

elem entary school principal in

Unionville Ont She lives with

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her husband Grant Egan in

Collingwood and is looking

forward to retirement in severshy

al years Life on Georgian Bay

is wonderful she says Lee

would love to hear from fellow

grads by e-mail at

leebYrbeeduonca or by

phone at 705 -444 -092l

bull Won-Jai Maeng MSc 71 took office Sept 1 as president

of Kon-Kuk University in Seoul

Korea where his academic

career began He completed an

undergraduate degree at Kon

Kuk in 1965 then studied at

Mailing Agricultural College in Denmark and at U of G before

doing doctoral work at the Unishy

versity of California Davis

Maeng has held research and

teaching positions at the Unishy

versity of illinois at Chung-Ang

University and at Kon-Kuk

where he has been a professor of

animal science since 1984 His

appointment as president folshy

lows years of administrative

experience as a department

head dean and chair of various

research committees and proshy

fessional organizations An

expert in ruminant nutrition

Maeng was instrumental in

developing the livestock feed

industry in Korea He has also

been active in working with

alumni groups and in writing

for the Kon-Kuk Tribune

bull Bill MarshaU ADA 75 of Proton Station Ont moved

from Clarksburg in June to

work in Dundalk for the Grey

County Roads Department on

its road management crew

bull Bernie Matte BSc(Agr) 70 of Moncton NB retired

in March after 28 years with

Fisheries and Oceans Canada

and the Canadian Food

Inspection Agency He plans to

travel to Belize and Honduras

with his wife Diane and will

be available anywhere in the

Caribbean for seafood HACCP

consulting work

bull Margaret McClain BA 70 lives in Arkansas where she is

highJy involved in the issue of

40 GUELPH ALUMNUS

missing children and internashy

tional abductions McClain who

believes her own six-year-old

daughter was taken out of the

United States more than a year

ago by her second husband is

reaching out to parents with

similar experiences through an

organization that is lobbying the

US government for tougher

international abduction laws

She invites interested fr iends

and alumni to contact her

through her Web site at

wwwinsolwwbnet-dmcclain

bull Robert (Chuck) Miller BA 77 is the park superintendent

of Killarney French River and

Maskinonje provincial parks in

Ontario He moved to Killarney

from Quetico Provincial Park

last May

bull Gordon Nicol BA 72 and MSc(Agr) 74 teaches math

and science in a bilingual prishy

vate school in Guatemala A

BEd graduate of Laurentian

he first taught in Guatemala in

the late 1970s then spent 12

years in northern Alberta as a

teacher and principal He

returned to Guatemala in 1989

A widower with three teenage

children Nicol would like to

hear from U of G friends and

acquaintances especially anyshy

one who is was or will be in

Central America He says he

could also use middle-schoolshy

level science projects Send eshy

mail to gnicoll guatenet or

write to PO Box 661447 Miami

Springs Florida 33266-1447

bull Chris Schulte BSc 71 and MSc 73 lives in Nassau

Bahamas with his wife

Andrya After graduation he

stayed in the Department of

Physics as a research associate

with Prof lain Campbell then

joined Ontario Hydro in the

early 1980s He moved to the

Bahamas in 1995 He can be

reached bye-mail at

schultebahamasnetbs

bull Sandra (Pickford) Webster BA 75 has retired from U of

Gs Co mmunications and Pubshy

lic Affairs and is living in Parry

Sound Ont where she is

doing volunteer work and

communications consulting

for the municipality Guelph

friends ca n contact her by

e-mail atswebsterzeutercom

19805

bull Sharon (Courneya) Angus BA 8 I of Surrey BC comshy

pleted a BSW at the University

of British Columbia in 1988

and has been working for the

BC government for 13 years

- first in probation and now

in the family justice division

She and her husband Ron

have three children Jason

Carly and Colin

bull Karen Beazley BLA 86 is an assistant professor and acadeshy

mic program co-ordinator at

the School for Reso urce and

Environmental Studies at Dalshy

housie University in Halifax

She is currently doing research

for a book on endangered

species initiatives and is orgashy

nizing a Nova Scotia wildlands

workshop with the Wildlands

Project for 1999 Her e-mail

address is kbeazleyisdalca

bull Caroline (Van Deudekom) and Marc Brooks both ADA 87

recently moved from Strathroy

to Owen Sound Ont where

they run a 50-acre organic farm

with their two sons

bull Virginia Burt BLA 85 startshyed her own landscape architecshy

ture firm Visionscapes in

Hamilton Ont in ] 996 She

specializes in the design of thershy

apeutic healing gardens spirit

gardens sacred spaces and

la byrin ths and recen tly designed the first healing garden

in Canada specificalJy for peoshy

ple living with HIV and AIDS

bull Joanne (Branson) Carver BA 80 earned a BEd from Brock

University in 1981 and recently

started working as a probashy

tionparole officer She Jives in

Ajax Ont and has two daughshy

ters Julie4 and Sarah 8

bull Heather Champ BA 86 is a Web-site designer in New York

City She began her work in

computer design in 1990 Her

personal site can be Found at

wwwjezebelcom

bull Laurie Gough BA 87 has become a world traveller who

writes about her experiences for

the benefit of others Her most

recent book Island of the

Human Heart A tfornans Travshyel Odyssey is now in its second

printing in Canada and will be

released next year in the United

States and overseas She has also

published Travellers Tales A

Womans World which won the

US-based Lowell Thomas

Gold Award for best travel book

of the year When not travelling

or writing she teaches English

and ESL in Guelph

bull Susan (Coles) Goulden BASc 84 and her husband

Ian are th rilled wi th their

recent adoption of Jennifer Lee

Yu who was born in June near

Leping Jiangxi Peoples Repubshy

lic of China The Gouldens

who Jive in vVaterloo Ont

thank classmate Andrea

(Kovits) Henderson for her

support throughout the adopshy

tion process Susan is currently

on leave from her position with

McCormick Canada

bull Judy (Bodendistel) Gregg BA 82 moved to Melbourne Ausshy

tralia in 1997 with her husband

and two children Carly 6 and

Adam 3 We are enjoying the

friendly people and the great

weather here she says We are

especially enjoying winter in a

place where it never gets below

zero Celsius

bull Nigel GumJey DVM 85 has been a partner in the Alta Vista

Animal Hospital in Ottawa

since 1990 was president of the bull Garry Millage AMPHI 86 bull Heidi Stephenson BA 88 is now ISO 9000 manager at

Ontario Veterinary Medical left a position as vice-president was awarded her professional Carpenter Ca nada Ltd in

Association in 1997 and recent- of national operations for acco untants designation of Wood br idge Ont He lives in

ly served on the Canadian Vetshy Scotts Restaurants KFC Divishy certified general accountant in Miss issa uga Classma tes are

erilw() Medical Associations sion to open his own consult- March 1998 She has been invited to contact him at

national issues committee He ing company Future Food employed for the last 10 years avon listarca

lives in Osgoode with his wife Equipment Ine specializes in with Dan Ball Chartered bull Michelle (Pilon) Bacon BA rvlaurecn and children Laura providing new and used restau- Acco un tant in Parry Sound 90 moved to England to study

and Matthew rant equipment and reducing O nt where she lives with her and work after graduating from

bull Muneer Hirji BComm 82 restaurant construction costs hu sband Brad two dogs and a Guelph She recently left a posishy

lives in Toronto and is vice- He also operates a restaurant horse tion with the British Ministry of

president of marke ting at SAP called Nikkos in Woodbridge bull Dawn Stetsko BSe 81 lives Agriculture and Food in York to

Canada He has three chil- Ont and is planning to open a in Langhorne Pa with her husshy become an at-home mom She

drcl1 Nadia 8 Alyssa 6 and second location band Paul and children Mark now lives in London with her

Sarah I bull Tosh Noseworthy BSe 83 is and Keith and is a research husband Tim and one-year-old

bull Brenda irwin BSe 88 is a cardiovascular ICU nurse in scientist with Bristol-Myers daughter Juliette She sends love

studying at Hong Kong Unishy sunny Tuscon Arizona After Squibb Previously she worked to Sue Heather and Sheila and

vers ity of Science and Technolshy grad uation she lived in Paris at McMaster University in can be reached bye-mail at

ogy to complete the final France for a yea r s tudied nurs- Hamilton Ont for 17 yea rs michellebacondialpipexcom

sem ester of an MBA program ing in O ttawa then lived in Saushy bull Teresa Tummillo-Goy BA bull Jeff Barlow BComm 90 is

through the University of di Arabia for two yea rs She still 86 has a law practice in Water- the training and quality manag-

British Columbia She taught loves to travel and would like to 100 Ont foc Li sing primaril y on er for two five-star luxury boushy

science for the North York hea r from fellow alumni She family law civi l litiga tion and tique h o tels in Prague - Hotel

Board of Education for five can be reached at 520-299-8344 real estate She and her hus- Palace Praha and the Hotel

years before enrolling in the bull Cecilia (Wleugel) Parkes band John Goy live in Guelph Savoy Previo usly he was execu -

MBA program BComm 85 is a graphic and have three sons John 4 tive housekeeper at the five-star

bull Jagwant Kanwar PhD 80 is designer in Toronto and says Tony 3 and Shayne 2 Renaissance Pragu e Hotel

a senior scientist in the depart- she st ill uses ber marketing bull Peter Van der Borch DVM bull Margaret Burnes-Souria BA ment of vegetable crops at Pun- background to help her busishy 88 retired in the fa ll of 1997 94 is a team leader with [011 shy

jab Agricultural University in ness succeed She specia lizes in after several years of practising don Magazin e in London Ont

India He is also director of the logo design lNith hand-drawn physiotherapy and ve terinary She married David Souria in

regional vegetable research stashy illustrations medicine and surgery He Jives July 1997 and is pursuing an tion at Usman (TaranTarn) bull Jim Parr BSc(Agr) 81 and in Pictou NS ]VlBA at the University of West-

Amritsar His and his wife MSe 89 died of cancer in bull MartyWilLiams BA 85 is ern Ontario

Sanyogita have a son Mohit June 1998 but hes being co-ordinator of student activishy bull Janine Byers BASe 95 is a and a daughter Dipika who are remembered by his university ties at University College Unishy public health dietitian at the

both studying engineering friends through the establish - versity of Toronto where he Kingston Frontenac and

Friends can write to Kanwar at ment of a mem orial fund for advises student organizations Iennox amp Addington Health

Punjab Agricultural Un ivers ity his wife Denise and children 1Ie is also chair of the U of T Unit in Kingston O nt She is Ludhiana 141 004 India Shannon and Eric Anyone Staff Association a member of getting married to Ca rl Stewart

bull Larissa Larsen BSe 89 and who would like more informa - the steering committee of the on May 29 j 999 MLA 92 received a PhD in tion can ca ll Brian Tapscott at staffs unionization drive and a bull Lisa Cherry BSe 9 1 is a urban and regional planning 519-767-3566 staff member with the student science journalist and executive

from the University of Illinois bull Cheryl (Dunlop) Reid newspaper The Varsity He can director of Artists Against

at Urbana Champaign in May BSe(Agr) 89 sta rted a new be reached bye-mail at marty Racism an international organi-

She has accepted a position at job in September as ingredient wi lliamsutorontoca za tion She is based in Toronto

Thompson Dyke and Associshy sales manager for RA bull Bonnie (Byma) BASe 96 ales a landscape architecture Chisholm o f Toronto She will 19905 and Gil Clelland BA 95 were

and urban planning firm in continue to work from her bull Claire Allison BA 94 grad- married in December 1996 and

Chicago Her husband Ernie remote offke in Fergus Reid uated from the elementary are living in Chatham On t

Poortinga DVM 89 is in his and her husband Jeff BSe teacher ed ucation program at Bo nnie works at a day-care

third yea r of an MD program (Agr) 89 have two children the University of British centre G il teaches art and

at Rush University Chicago lVlega n 4 and Elizabeth 2 Columbia in 1996 and now phys ical education They ca n -Hes looking forward to joining bull Chee Sie BA 83 is a zone teaches in Va ncou ver be reached bye-ma il at gclelshy

his wife in the ranks of the manager for the Malaysian bull JohnAvon BSdHK) 94 lan ciaccesscom employed They would both Assurance Alliance Berhad in earned an M Se in industr ial bull Kate Corn ell BA 95 of enjoy hearing from fellow Sarawak Malaysia He and his operations from Lawrence Markham Ont earned her

alumni and can be reached at wife Jesterine have a two-year- Technological University in masters in dance history from epoor tin garushurushedu old daughter Letitia Southfleld Mich in 1997 and York University in May and

WINTER 1999 41

co-authored a book titled

Toronto Dance Theatre 1968shy1998 Stages in a Journey

bull Mary Jill (McClure) Culliton BASe 90 earned

her BEd from Brock University

and her M Ed from the Univershy

sity of Western Ontario and

teaches Grade 1 in Mitchell

Ont She and her husband

Tim live in Stratford

bull Kathleen (McNutt) Daniels BASe 9 1 is a teacher and was

married on New Years Eve

1994 to Gord Daniels They live

in North Bay Ont and have a

daughter Lauren born in Febshy

ruary 1997 They are expecting

their second child in February

bull Simon Deakin BA 95 studshyied in Florence Italy for a year

then earned a master of fine art

from the Slade School of Fine

Art at the University of London

England He lives in London

bull Christie Dunbar BLA 97 spent a year after graduation

working for Niagara College in

St Catharines Ont on the

vision and design of a new

campus to be built in Niagarashy

on-the- Lake Last April she

joined the landscape architecshy

ture firm of Pollack Design

Associates in Ann Arbor Mich

bull Trina Edmonds BA 94 and

Joel Hinderle became the

proud parents of a little girl

Jordan Ashley in january 1998

and moved to a new home in

Oakville Ont in September

Edmonds works in Mississauga

as a desktop publisher with a

publishingprinting company

bull Wendy Garinther BSc 93 and Steve Decker BSe 94

were married in May Joining

them in the wedding celebrashy

tions were Cheri (Coulter)

42 GUELPH ALUMNUS

Ascroft BSe 93 Karen Leinshy

gartner BSe 94 and Barb

(Moore) Johnson BSe 94

Best man was Jeff Bond BSe

93 and MSe 96 The Deckers

live in Edmonton where Steve

is doing a PhD in chemistry at

the University of Alberta and

Wendy is working in a research

laboratory at a biopharmaceushy

tical company

bull Donna Gross BA 97 is purshysu ing a master of divinity at

Emmanuel College at the Unishy

versity of Toronto and hopes to

become an ordained minister by

2002 She lives in Guelph and

can be reached bye-mail at

donnajulietalbedonet

bull Robert Gruber BA 92 is a child-care supervisor for the

YMCA-YWCA of Guelph and

manages the Jean Little Y

Child- Care Centre He recently

developed the anti -bias proshy

gramming policy for the

Guelph Y and sits on both the

Jean Little Public School Counshy

cil and the Guelph AIDS Wall

Committee He can be reached

bye-mail at rgrubernet

comca

bull Susan Harder BSe 91 grad shyuated from the University of

Toronto Medical School in June

and has started a residency at

Santa Clara Valley Medical Censhy

tre in San jose Calif She will

follow that up with an anestheshy

sia residency at Stanford Univershy

sity Hospital in 1999

bull Marko Harjupanula BASc 93 travelled in Australia for

two months after graduating

from Guelph then returned to

his home town of South Porshy

cupine Ont where he worked

in a gold mine for four years

He entered police college in

September and started as an

opp constable in Cochrane in

December

bull Nancy Holman MA 94 moved to Vancouver soon after

graduation and initially worked

as a project co-ordinator for an

ophthalmologist In 1996 she

began working full time for the

BC Liberal Caucus I would

enjoy hearing from and catchshy

ing up with the friends I made

while studying at U of G and

working at the Brass Taps she

says Her e-mail address is nan shy

cyholmanlassgovbeca

bull Ruth Johnson BA 91 is an investment banking associate

with the mergers and acquisishy

tions group of JP Morgan in

Lond on England responsible

for financial reporting and

administration She has been in

England with her partner Alex Campbell since graduation

bull Stephen Johnson BA 94 of London Ont was a lab technishy

cian at Lenscrafters for three

yea rs and is now a full-time

student at Fanshawe College

studying air conditioning and

refrigeration He was married

in Jun e to Jennifer Fox BSc

95 a chemist at 3M Their

wedding party included Dee Popat BSe (Eng) 94 and

Patrick Wulhes BSc 95

bull Sarah (Davis) Kelly BASe 90 married Robert Kelly in

July and teaches primary

grades at an inner-city school

in Toronto

bull Cassidy Klowak BComm 97 lives in Allisshy

ton Onl and is a personal

banking account manager

with ClBC in Tottenham

bull Stephanie Lopes BSc 96 completed her MSc in repro shy

ductive biology at the Universishy

ty of Toronto and worked as

patient-care director for the

College of Family Physicians

for almost a year In September

she enrolled in medical school

at the University of Toronto

She is happy to announce that

she is engaged to be married

next summer Lopes can be

reached at slopesidirectcom

bull Natalie (Parker) MacKenzie BSc 96 earned her BEd from

the University of Western

Ontario in 1997 She married

ASLt Andy MacKenzie June 27

in Sault Ste Marie Ont and

now lives in Halifax

bull Susan MacKinnon DVM 91 is a veterinarian with HUls

Science Diet She lives in

Guelph with her husband

Brandon Wiley and gave birth

to their first child Adrianna

Nicole june 26 at home

bull Waheed Mian BA 9 1 of Cambridge Ont is a store

director with PetSmart Canada

He helped the company launch

its new retail concept in Cana da

bull Alex Mitchell BA 91 was appointed clerkdeputy treasurshy

er of the Ontario township of

Mildmay-Carrick in 1998 and

will be the clerkadministrator

of the new municipality of

Mildmay-Carrick -TeesWatershy

Culross in 1999 He was married

in january 1997 and lives vith

his wife and daughter in Mild shy

may In his spare time Mitchell

is a professional scout for the

Toronto Maple Leafs covering

southwestern Ontario

bull Sherry Morland BASc 93 of Kitchener Ont ea rned her

BEd from Brock University in

J995 and is a part-time specia l

educa tion teacher and an occashy

sional teacher with the Watershy

loo County Board of Ed ucashy

tion She married Ivan LeBlanc

in 1997

bull Gary Page BSe 91 wo rks for the Nottawasaga Valley Conshy

servation Authority where he is

able to combine his knowledge

of wildlife biology with his

artistic skills as resident graphic

designer and outdoor centre

interpreter He Jives with his

wife Di and their son judah in

CreemoreOnt

bull Elaine Pammenter BA 96 is an inventory clerk with the

Royal Collection at Windsor

Castle in England She holds a

museum management and

curatorship grad uate certificate

diploma from Sir Sandford

Fleming College and did her

internship at the Royal Albert

Memorial Museum in Exeter

England

bull Brent Raymond BSe(Env) 96 of Brantford Ont has

been working with Outward

Bound since graduation He

leads wilderness trips in Northshy

ern Ontario Horida Australia and Sabah (Malaysian Borneo) Most recently he designed and implemented a new introducshytory mountaineering course for Outward Bound Sabah on the summit plateau of Mt Kinashy

balu Those of you who know me as plate licker from U of G get in touch he says Where are you Star I miss you He can be reached by e-mail at globarwchatonca or by

phone at 519-756-1697

Alumni Patrick Abbott BSA 40 July 7 1998

Albert Allen BSA 33 Jan 161994 Agris Ansmits BA 70 and MA 73

February 1998 Barbara (Quartermain) Babcock DHE

53 June 17 1998

Wray Bond BSA 34 Sept 25 1998

Kenneth Bone DVM 38 Dec 29 1998 Evelyn (Stevenson) Buhr DHE 39

May 251998 Philip Burke BSA 43 June 21 1998

Grant Carman BSA 49 Oct 221998 Frederick Chambers BSA 41

June 1998 Wilmot Conley ADA4 7 April 7 1998 Lloyd Crewson BSA 49 Aug 261998

Jacqueline Dimock DHE 47

Aug 20 1998 John Dingwall DVM 52

April 18 1998

Lloyd Dorsey BSA 38 June 9 1998 George Duncan BSA 37

Sept 19 1998

David Dyson BSA 53 Aug 31 1998

Norma (Shannon) Edwards DHE 39

November 1997 Vincent Bud Ellis DVM 41

July 15 1998 John Jack George BSA 48

Sept 24 1998

Donald Haight BSA 33 January 1997 William Hamlyn BSA 33 Dec I 1997

Gordon Harkness BSA 49

November 1997

Charles Hollister DVM 38 June 1996 Donald Hope BSA 54 June 28 1998

Lawrence Jefferson BSA 38

Sept 3 1998

James Kelso DVM 56 July 27 1998

Dorima Lalonde BSA 34 Oct 8 1998 Mildred (Cox) Large DHE 33

June 20 1998 Roger Larson BComm 86 Feb 19 1998 Robert Lawson BSA 49 June 6 1998

bull Doug Ramsey BA 91 and PhD 98 received U of Gs highshyest graduate student award shythe Forster Medal- at June convocation for his academic and community involvement while enrolled in Guelphs new

graduate program in geography He spent the summer as a visitshying research scholar at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College in Truro before assuming his curshyrent position as assistant professhysor at Mount Allison University

David Leach BSc(Agr) 74

July 18 1998

Ian Leask DVM 74 Sept 5 1998

Sheryl Lee BSc 95 June 8 1998 Ruby Janet MacAuley DHE 30

Aug 19 1998 Parker MacKenzie DVM 38

September 1994

Jeanice MacLaren DHE 28 March 1 1997

Campbell MacMaster DVM42

Oct 8 1998

Rex McCallum DVM 43 July 71998 Jean (Dunn) McMahon DHE 31

Nov 41998

Margaret Oones) McTaggart DHE 35 Aug 81998

Patrick McTaggart-Cowan HDSc 81

Oct 21997

Malcolm McWhinnie ADA 39

July 16 1998 Mary (Townsend) Mitchell BHSc

60 Sept 281998

Marjory Monaghan DHE 29

December 1997 Charles Monk BSA 44 Aug 7 1998

Heather Neilsen BHSc 59

Oct 30 1998 Jerry Niwa DVM 62 Aug 5 1998 Henry Harry OReilly BSA 42

October 1997

James Parr BSc(Agr) 81 June 19 1998 Charles Rammage DVM 45

Oct 17 1996 Howard Rapson HDSc 90

March 1997 Clement Reeds DVM 42 Oct 16 1998

William Robinson BSA 38

Aug 23 1998

Donald Sager ADA 73 Oct 141997

Austin Schaefer DVM 37 in 1997

Sandra (Mackenzie) Schmidt DHE 59

Aug 16 1997 Margaret (Harvey) Seaborn DHE 28

July 221998

Larry Seguin DVM 47 June 12 1998

Leah Shedden DHE 31 December 1998

Edward Shuh BSA 40 July 2 1998

Ted Shutsa BSc(Agr) 66

Sept 18 1998 Jim Sinclair DVM 49 Oct 4 1998

Margaret (Brown) Sinclair DHE 20

September 1998 Eldon Smith BSA 42 Sept 9 1998

Derek Somers DVM 96 Sept 25 1998

Cheryl Lynn Sopha BA 95 Sept 20 1998

Leona (Bartlett) Stewart DHE 35

June 27 1998 Alex Thomson BSc(Agr) 69

October 1996

William Whittick DVM 55

Aug 15 1998 Joseph Wilson BSA 23 Sept 11 1998

Lloyd Woolsey DVM41 June 24 1998

Winifred Yeates DHE 28 June 11998

Faculty John Carpenter BSA 43 and MSA 48

Microbiology Dec 10 1998

David Gaskin Zoology Sept 14 1998

Gordon Macleod BSA 50 Animal and

Poultry Science Nov 26 1998 Roman Retman Languages and

Literatures Sept 28 1998

Caesar Sen off Chemistry and

Biochemistry Aug 14 1998

Percy Smith Drama Dec 10 1998

Friends Robert Clark Aug 21 1998

Ethel Hammond August 1998

Thomas Hillers Sept 28 1998 Marguerite Holbrook Aug 26 1998

Catherine Kelly Sept 27 1998

James A McKenzie May 13 1998

Kenneth McIssac Oct 23 1998

William Mutlock September 1998 Roena Patterson Sept 16 1998

Donald Priddle Aug 25 1998

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bull Karl Reimer BSe 94 comshypleted a one-year intensive

MSc in mining engineering at

Queens University and is now

a project engineer a t Enpar

Technologies Ine in Guelph

He can be contacted at reimerbservcom

bull Nancy Nauta Rowland BA 90 and her husband Dan celshy

ebrated their first wedding

anniversary in March 1998 with

the birth of their first child

Connor who beat their March

8 anniversary by two days Nanshy

cy teaches junior-grade stushy

dents and junior special ed ucashy

tion for the Peel District School

Board The Rowlands live in

Caledon Ont

bull Fraser Stables MFA 98 was heralded by Toronto Globe 6shyMail critic Betty Jordan as a

formidable new talent followshy

ing the openi ng of his debut

gallery exh ibition in July The

Scottish artists work includes

sculpture video and mixed

media that explore notions of

flu x by interrupting the moveshy

ment of forms in space

bull Erin (Smith) Scott BSe(HK) 92 and Brad

Scott BSc(Agr) 91 of Lucan

O nt were married in 1993 and

had their first child Lucas in

August Erin works for Shopshy

pers Home Health Ca re in

London Brad is with New Life

Mills in Dunfield

bull Abby Simons BSc 95 and Martin Piche BSc(Agr) 95 were married in Mont-Tremshy

blant Quebec in 1997 She is a

customer service representative

with Kantech Systems he is

superintendent of Club de golf

vallee des forts They say theyd

love to hear from anyone headshy

ing to Montreal and can be

reached at 450-348-3860

bull Sylvia Tesori BSc 95 has been doing wildlife rehabilitashy

tion for the OSPCA Wildlife

Rehabilitation Centre in Midshy

land Ont since 1996

bull Chuck Thibeault BComm 94 is general manager of the

Putting Edge Corpora tion

which has two glow-in- theshy

dark mini-golf courses in

Ontario one in Bramp ton and

one in Richmond Hill He can

be reached in Richmond Hill at

chu ckttotalnet

bull Karen Thirlwall BA 93 is a

si ngersongwriter and guitarist

who began her stage career and

released her first album The Voice Inside Me while studying

languages at U of G She has

lived and performed in

11i stler BC for three years

and recently released a second

album called Wide-Eyed She

remembers many special

fr iends m ade at Guelph and

welcomes e-mail messages to

karenthirlwallhotmailcom

bull Christie (Johnson) and Steve

Tyler both BComm 91 live in

Cambridge Ont where

Christie is a personal banking

representative for the Royal

Bank Steve works with their

third-year design professor

Nelson Hofer in Mississauga as

a design consultan t Steves proshy

jects include the Windsor Casishy

no and U of Gs Creelman Hall

They have two children Jason

5 and Marcus 1

bull Julia White BA 91 lives in Guelph and is a small-business

accountant at Taves amp Co She

recently finished courses

towards a CGA designation and

would like to hea r from other

alumni who lived in Lambton

Hall in 198788 Send e-mail to

juliawhitesympaticoca

bull Andre-Denis Wright MSc 93 and PhD 98 is doing postshy

docto ral work in Perth Westshy

ern Australia He wants his

Guelph friends and Halifax

family to know he was thinking

of them at Christmas when it

was 40 C in Australia

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WHEN 24 HOURS IN lea rning how to integrate work Runciman arrived at Guelph know they may be harm ful to

A DAY ISNT ENOUGH and fa mily life rath er than jugshy last summer after spending four their health

TRYIN GTO ACCOMMODATE the gling the two says Lero Inteshy years deSIgning orthopedic sysshy Most consumers are not demands of family and career is gration is key so tfut people can tems and instruments for Canashy aware that plants contain a comshya problem most peopl e fa ce in be successful in multiple roles dian and Ameri ca n firms He plex mi xture of biochemica ls todays society Those indi vidshy rath er than struggling from crishy hopes to establish a state-of-theshy says Prof Pra vecn Saxena Plant ual and family struggles will be sis to crisis art research lHboratory with Agriculture Herbal remedies the focus of the Universitys new HOLlsed in the College of Pro fs Jinl Dickey and Jack have been developed on historishy

Social and Applied j-Iuman Scishy Callaghan Human Bi010gy and cal and anecdotal evidence rather ences the centre brings togethshy Nutr itional Sciences that will than by scientitlc testin g he says er related resea rch areas und er allow him to pursue hi s twin Saxena is trying to change this by a sing1e roof and will spark new research interests in shoulder systematically identifying charshy

Family relations interdisc iplinary opportunities and spine mechanics acterizing and quantifying the experts recommend particularly for graduate st ushy The trio has appli ed for chemical constituents of plants parents integrate - not dents More than 50 fac ulty and fundi ng from the Natural Sc ishy used in a1ternative medicines juggle - work and staff ha ve indicated a desire to ences and Engineering Resea rch family life be affiliates of the centre which Co uncil to equip a biomechanshy

wijJ stimulate resea rch and forge ics lab already loca ted adjacent partnerships with organiza tions to U of Gs new Health and Pershy

Centre for Families Work and co rp orations and co mmunity forman ce Ce ntre in the recentshyWell-Being agenCies ly renova ted Powell Building

Headed by Profs Donna This funding would bring Lero and Kerry Daly Family BODY IS THE the lab up to date to meet intershyRe lat ions and Appli ed Nutri shy ULTIMATE MACHINE national standards says Runcishytion the centre will promote IM INTER ESTED in the app lishy man who p1ans to follow up on responsive wo rk env ironments cation of mechanical engineershy pioneering shoulder mechani cs and help families across Canashy ing to the human body The work he was invo lved in whil e He and grad uate students da manage wo rk and family body is the ultimate machine completing his PhD at Sco tshy Susan Murch and Co lleen Simshyresponsibilities in healthy ways So says Prof John Runciman lands Strathclyde Un iversity mons in th e Ontario Agri culshy

The centre will also be a catshy who recently brought his blend He hop es hi s studies will tural Co llege a1so wa nt to alyst for new researcl in areas of academic and industry expershy help orthopedic co mpanies improve the methods of growshyas diverse as health promotion tise in biomedical engineering design better implan ts used to in g medicinal plants to protect seniors long-term ca re nutrishy to U of Gs School of Engineershy correct such deformities as sco shy cons umers and ensure quality tion and wellness rural aging ing in the College of Phys ica l liosis or cur va ture of the spine Problems in the herbal remeshyand gender in the workplace A and Engineering Science and for treating shoulder insta shy dies industry include medicinal mandate of the centre is that the

IN FACT

bi lity often caused by injuries prepara tions containing misidenshyresults of its research must be among athletes tified plant species contaminashyapplied and availabl e to the tion by pests and disease a lack public to benefit those Canadishy RESEARCHERS of understanding of plant physshyans who ne ed help dealing with CULTIVATE QUALITY iology or efficacy for human conshythe accelerated pace of life nonshy IN HERBAL sumption ilnu co nsumer fraud shytraditional family relationsl ips MEDICINE Our research will help set a longer working hOLlrs globlt1lshy MORE AND MO RE Canadims are standard fo r the development ization and downsizing turning to natural remedies as of safe va lue-added products

The challenge for fam ilies is alternatives to medicine but few Saxena says

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RESEARCH UNCOVERS KEY

TO AGING RESEARCHERS may have found modern sc iences answer to th e mythica l Fountain of Youth

U of G professors John Phillips and Arthur Hilliker Department of Molecular Biolshyogy and Genetics and Gabrielle Boulianne of the University of Toronto and th e Hospital fo r Sick Children appear to have identified a critical weakness in the common fruit fl ys defence against aging

The researchers from the College of Biologica l Science di scovered that a specific cell type - th e motor neuron - is the major target for oxidative damage known for several years to be a key factor affecti ng aging and lifespa n They were able to boost a fruit flys defence against the damage by inserting th e human gene SOD1 which is known to protect against oxidashy

tive damage into the fly s DNA As a result the ave ra ge lifespa n of the fli es (us uall y about 80

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More than half of su rvey shelf life because bacte ria develshyresponden ts say they have little op resista nce over time but this or no confidence in Parliament wou ld not be a concern with a with the figure being even lower new sys tem fo r smuggling for the Senate In addition 34 per an tibiotics past bacterial walls

TI-lESE DAYS on both sides of the A molecular-level Trojan border what a politician says or ho rse is how Prof Terry Bevshydoes in private can have tremenshy eridge Department of Microbishydous impact on his or her public ology and graduate student Kelshycareer - but is th at appropriate ly MacDonald desc ribe the

Prof Maureen Mancuso of system theyre studying 1 t takes the Department of Polirical Scishy advan tage of a mechanism develshyence in the College of Social and oped by bacteria to attack an d Applied Human Sciences an d a co nsume neighbouring bugs team of four other political scishy Preliminary tests by the entists conducted a cross-counshytry survey of 1400 Canadians asking what th ey think of th e behaviour of their elected represhysentatives The res ults were pubshyli shed in October in th e book A

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Inside Playwright Judith Thompson

BEHIND THE MASK

JUDITH THOMPSON A DRAMA PROFESSOR at the University of Guelph

since 1992 is one of Canadas finest playwrights Her complex and

sometimes disturbing plays give voice to human failings and accomshy

plishments A two-time winner of the Governor Generals Literary

Award she has received wide acclaim for her work

On the following pages the Guelph Alumnus profiles an artist

whose creativity finds expression through dialogue by offering a

faithful rendition of the dialogue between Thompson and Comshy

munications and Public Affairs writer Andrew Vowles Much like

the characters she unmasks on stage Thompson reveals both comshy

plicated and unexpected images of herself

PHOTOGRAPHY BY D EAN PALMER

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NO The scene is the rehearsal space in Lower Massey Hall at the University of Guelph

Monday mid-morning Outside the warped-glass windows the first wet snow of the year

drops like pebbles Drama professor Judith Thompson is leading some 20 students in her

Acting I class through their warm-ups The students stand in a circle and take turns aiming

a mock blow as they shout the word No More she says to the less assertive To others

whose No sounds shredded over the top she holds up a hand More control Thompson

gestures to her diaphragm It has to come from here

SCENE THOMPSONS OFFICE MASSEY H ALL

On one wal l hang pictures of actors engaged

in a drama mingled with childrens sc hool

drawings The desktop is practically bare A

black purse occupies one chai r A scarf has

landed on the back of another This is where

the playw rig ht hangs her hat during her

classes and meets with studen ts She wri tes

at home in Torontos Annex neighbourhood

where she li ves with her husband Gregor

Campbell a sessional English inst ruc tor at

Guelph and their five children Ariane 13

Eli 10 Grace 8 Felicity 4 and Sophia J

SCENE U OF G LI BRARY ARCHIVES

Guelph Alumnus writer (readil1g from draft of Epilepsy and Snakes Fear as the Genesis of Theatre a talk given by Thompson to the Epilepsy Association of Metro Toronto ill 1997 The script for the ta lk is included among boxes ofcorrespo nde11ce numerous drafts of plays various newspaper and magazine artishycles and reviews ahout the playwright and her work that Thompson recently donated to the U of G Library archives)

1have known real fear only a few times

in my relatively sheltered life But 1

believe these moments of fear are

directly connected to the so urce of creshy

ativi ty within me

SCENE J UST ABOUT ANYWHERE YOU CAN

REA D A PLAY

GA writer (reading from introduction to Tho mpsons play Sled wh ich was first pro shyduced hy Torontos Tarragon Theatre in 1997)

Judith Thompson was born in 1954 in

Montreal She graduated from Queens

University in 1976 then graduated from

the act ing program of the National Theshy

22 GU ELPH ALUMNUS

I seem to give voice to people who

have no voice

atre Schoo l in 1979 Alth ough she

worked briefl y as a profess ional actor

she became more interested in writing

and at th e age of 25 a workshop of her

first scrip t The Crack walker was proshy

duced by Theatre Passe MuraiHe Her

work which includes both radio and

tel evisio n writing has enjoyed great

internationa l success

Other plays includ e The Crackshywalker White Biting Dog Pink Tornado - radio Am Yours Lion ill the Streets White Sand Perfect Pie and Stop Talking Like That- radio She is the recipient

of the Floyd S Chalmers Canadian Play

Award for Lion in the Streets in 199 1 and

Am Yours in 1987 and the Governor

Generals Literary Award for Drama for

The Other Side of the Dark in 1989 and

White Biti11g Dog in 1984

S CENE LUNCHTIME

U OF G UNIVERSITY CLUB

Thompson Im so grateful to have this job

beca use it allows me to do the work that s

important and the plays that will be my legashy

cy and tha t are what 1 feel I have to conshy

tribute to Canadian culture If I didnt have

thi s job Id ha ve to keep compromising

because my plays dont make money Theyre

always in sma ller houses I take chances

theyre not commercial They play all over

th e world but aha)s in sma ller places 1

would just have to pursue life as a screenshy

writer to make a living Thi s job gives

me the great privilege of doing my research

which is the plays that I write and the edishy

torial work that I some times do and screenshy

plays that are worthy and good projects

GA writer Audi ences and reviewers have

described your plays as dark disturbing full

of angry people full of profanity

Thompson At the risk of sounding

grandiosel seem to give voice to people who

have no voice or very little in the culture

whom people dont li sten to Liol1 in the Streets the handicapped wo man living in

the basement all on her own the yo ung girl

Iso bel The secretary stuck in this abu sive

relationship with the actor The middle-class

housewife dumped by her husband because

be doesnt like her sweatsuits and on and on

I give voice to them because I dont know

because I care abo ut them because I like to

represent them Im a lawyer Some of them

use profanity because they have really good

reason to be angry a nd most of th em are

powerless And unfortunately profanity has

a little charge Its a little source of baby powshy

er It upsets me I dont use it myself Im very

se nsitive to it

SCENE ARCHIVES

GA writer (reading essay by Thompson comshymissio ned by Toronto literary Journal Brick

in 995)

If I were not a writer 1 think 1 would

wear a riding hat With a stee l lining

Because I would be baving many more

epi leptic seizures than 1 do presentl y

Because any of the non-writer real jobs I have had caused me sleepless nights self-disgust swoll en eyes cystic acne and hearin g di sorde rs all of which increased electrical activity in my brain which I believe increases the frequenshycy of seizu res

SCENE UNI VER SITY CLUB

Thompson (discussing the critical and pubshylic reaction to her first play The Crackwalkshyer) It was slaughtered at first as all my plays have been Very bad reviews at first and then somehow they catch fi re and theres one grea t review and the others start to see something GA writer Why the bad reviews Thompson I think people might say that theyre shock ing but I dont think so not

with the movies we see and whatnot Theyre not shocking compared with Quentin Taranshytino But theyre not like anything else they dont know where to put them And when they dont know where to put them theyre dismayed I think and hostile and they feel challenged I just write as I see Im not tryshying to shock or challenge anyone I hope they do challenge - me too all of us I often feel li ke the little boy in The Emperors New

Clothes Look this is what I see

SCENE LOWER MASSEY HALL

Two Acting I students perform a scene on th e stage Their fellow stud ents sit on th e Aoo r watching Thompson sits forward on a plasti c chair forearms propped on her knees hands clasped before her Her eyes her bod y are intent on the action Later Amberley Buxton (fi rst-year student il1 Actshyil1g I who is pursuing a psychology major and a drama minor)

Its a really in tense class In one of our first classes we were to share something that had changed our perspective on li fe or how we thought every day Later during improvisashytion or scene work she had us draw on the emotional context fro m those stories to add to our acting experiences Its really intense in that way A lot of people share a lot of personal things and we use each others experiences

SCENE UNIVER SIT Y CLUll

Thompson Ea ch se meste r students go through an intensive transition In order to find your creative centre or trigger yo u need

to know yourself in an intell ectual context They reach that pl ace and find their genius My philosophy is that every stu dent has genius and its my job to uncover it My relationshi p is so intense with st udents The classes are very psychoanalyt ic It seems to tra nsform their life

SCENE LO WER MA SSEY

Buxton Even if we haven t encountered a similar situat ion in real life she has us draw on somethi ng similar For ollr exa m Im doing a monologue My character has been abused I havent been abused myself but I have to draw on a si tuation where I had sim shy

itar feel ings draw on some experi ence Like being teased at schoo l Even so mething as small as tha t if you find a way to get back to that

SCENE UNIVERSITY CLUll

Thompso n I llsed to be terrified In high school Id spend half my time in the nurses room because the idea of having a se izu re in front of yo ur peers at that age was just petrifying I did finall y have a seizure but luckil y no one was around at the time So I

think all of that puts me in touch with a lot in life I might not have been in touch with being fairly privileged not rich but eno ugh to be middle class A lot of my work is about class abo ut the class differentiation in Canashyda Ive somehow felt more all ied to a less adva ntaged class My gra ndfather once sat as prime minister of Australia My grandshyfa ther on the other side was a member of the Royal Society an entomologist but his mother died in childbirth and he was brought up as a cousin on the farm outside of London And my Australian grandfath er was one of 1I siblings in a shack by the side of the railroad His father had di ed He walked barefoot to school so I th ink because its just two generations away I feel it in my bones and my blood GA writer How did you get to writing Thompson Through ac ting Ive been involved in thea tre since I was II years old I was Helen Keller for a university show my mother directed She had an [vIA in th eatre and she taught it at Queens I was in TILe Crushycible when I was 12 in Kingston and Jean Brodie and on and on and on I would just lisshyten to aU these wonderful lines and words and it all kind of enrered me And acting is where I reaU y found my niche as a person The theshyatre became my home Then I went to theatre schoo l as an actress but I started to create mask characters through improvisation Thats where I really took off in a big way and where I found myse lf very very excited GA writer VVhat we re you excited abo ut Thompson I was doing the writing And I felt frankly that I did it much better than most of the texts I was working with Not Shakespeare but and its not a matter of better it s thats where I belonged So I would go home and write down the charshyacters that r crea ted that day in class and make th em talk to each odler and thats how The Craekwalker happened

I spent a summer in Toronto looking for acting work and I go t a few jobs But every day for a co uple of hours I would write at a typewri ter and I found these voices comshying At the end of it I sa id to someone You know I think this isnt bad I think this might eve n be a play At the Na tional Theatre shySchool they said to me Youre pretty handy with these monologues but dont ever think you could write a play (Pause) I enjoy telling th at tale on them

WINTER 1999 23

SCENE LOWER MASSEY

Buxton It was my fint time doing mask work She had us sit with the masks on and just sta re at ou rselves in the mirror We did it for an hour staring at the mask feelin g the mask It was a phenomenal eilVer ience the Wily youre able to transform yourself It was almost as if you werent look ing at you That helped yo u to walk differently You were able to shed your

own movements and personality

SCEN E UNIVfRSITY CLU B

Thompson I think thil t seizures can transshylate into creativity are part of me as a cre shyltltive artist Peop le in the medical busin ess are very skeptical of ltll1ything like this But I fee l it s because I have fewer inhibitors in my bra in You have these inhibitors and thats what medication helps But if youre epi leptic your inhibitors Ment working as well to put out the electrical fire so it spreads I think the door to my un conscious is kind of flapping around so J think that helps creatively

SCENE MA SSEY HALL

Student (steppingforwmd) NO I Thompson (quietly) Good

SCENE ARCHIVES

GA writer ( reading fiom Epilepsy and Sna kes)

I have no doubt that my experience with epi lepsy has con tributed to my creative wo rk partly because it hE Jped me to understand what it is to be marginalized to be isolated to be feJ rful and to be out of control and eve n to be mortal

SCENE U NIVERS IT Y CLU B

Thompson Unchecked id can mean scrawlshying on the walls crazy things muttering in stree t corne rs beca use th ey re all id no su perego But I had the luck to be born into a theatrical famiJy my mother havin g the theatrical experience so I was exposed to it Lots of books I was taken to 1 lor of plays Having ep il epsy my first seizure when I was nin e J was able to link with that If I hadnt had those advantages who knows the se izur es migh t have ju st made me a depressed person an angr y person And you re touched with mortality you always live und er siege a slight fear of having a se izure Its much less so now with me

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SCENE UNIVERSITY CLUB

Thompson Ive always been a mimic in a cheap way I could always mimic we ll I would raLk to someone on a bus and I could do them exactly Thats kind of dangerous because it can be pretty shallow But it showed me ltl way into the person throu gh voice And once J could do that like a pupshypet something would click and I cou ld get

in in a deeper way J need to get so thoroughly into the charshy

acte rs and their state of mind and especialshyly tapping repressed el11orion which gets you in touch with your id or unconscious li fe If

I take little sections of

myself and grow them in a petri dish of the play

one character is about rage I have to tap into my own rage and that s why the monoshylogues so things can just flow and then I can retrieve things from the past and remember things So its not working from here (gesshytures to midriff) it s wo rking fro l11 here (gesshytures to head)

Mo nologues for me are always the key to findin g out who th e character is because if you cant make them rant for fi ve minutes you dont know th em Tha ts what I tell my

playwriting students I want to see r-wo pages of this characters mouth In other words to speak for five minutes we have to have

so mething to say We have to have something we feel passionately about something were angry about and if we dont have something to say for fi ve minutes who are we

SCENE UN IVERSTTY CLUB

GA writer Vhere do you see what eventushyally becomes a play such as Sled 1110mpson I was at a lodge and saw a moose that s one thin g And that made me think about winter and how the country is always with us as Ca nadians Even in the urban censhytres we ca rr y it wi th us Theres always this

see ming division between the country the wilderness and civilized centres but its the same The wildness of the moose and the

hunt and the bear is in our neighbourhoods I guess its like Lion in the Streets it must be a thing with me And also the exquisite beaushyty and thats how most of the world thinks of Canada as the wilderness Its not quite how we think of ourselves but it is partly So that made me want to do something abo ut the Nor th violence in the North

As far as th e old mans stories that was my neighbour and he told me all those stoshyries they were all true except mltlyb e one or so and I thought Theyre amazing They teilus what our neighbourhoods Me really about and Toro nto what the city is how its const ru cted Toronto is our stories and in th ese neighbourhoods you have an urbane entertainer li ving nex t to an 80-year-old Italia n man and thats the beauty ofToronshyto ltllld its the way th e world is chan ging The stric t class divis ions and culture divishysions th eyre no longer as defin ed as they we re espec ially in th ese neighbourhoods the great pioneering experimen t GA writer Do your chi ld ren see your work Thompson No None of my children can see my plays Ariane saw f Am Yours in New York when she was about nin e I do cl eal with the dark and whats tru e and my chilshydren aren t ready for that Im probab ly more protective th an mos t mothers Walk them

to school till theyre 13 that ki nd of thin g GA writer Yo u we re intervi ewed in the Globe alld Mail recently in a story about motherh ood dnd th e muse How do yo u handle th e demand s of motherh ood and writing

Thompson If Im in the situation where I have 15 or so hours of child care a week Im OK because when Im with them I wa nt to be with them and when ]m doing my work

th ats what I clo But if I do something like a worko ut thell a black cloud descends The guilt and the black cl oud th at descend as I take off on my bike it s huge Then once the workout s finished I know it was d good

thing to do although it s also cut into my

work time J do feel guilty about the nilture of my work too in that my kids cant see it Am I drawing on a part of me thats not good as a mother The oth er part of me is th at I make up bedtime stories and bake coo kies and all thlt stuff ]m probably a

rather operatic mother I cry at movies laugh too hard __

SCENE ARCI-I[VES

GA writer (reading fiom Epilepsy and Snakes)

1

Although being a dramatic writer has

given me a reputation in my cou ntr y

and a strong identity the actof writin g

or creating character leaves me SOJlle shy

times feeling that I have no id entity at

all Every once in a while when I am not

writing or tending to my four children

I feel I 1m falling again down th e terrishy1 ble hole with nothing to hold on to

And I believe this falling this identity

pain is a result of me using the very

essence of Ill yself to create character in

a dramatic wo rk r wonder so metimes

if J illl1 betraying my soul in a way by

using its essence However J have found

some comfo rt in the words ofWilliall1

Blake Essence is not Identity but from

Essence proceeds Identity and from one

Essence may proceed many Identities

as from one Affection Jlla y proceed

many thoughts If the Essence was

the sa me as the Identit y there could be

but one Identity which is fal se Heaven

wo uld upon this plan be but a clock

but one and the sa me Essence is th ereshy

fore Essence and not Identity

SCENE UNIVER SIT Y CLUB

Thompson I always put myself in a play and

never In other words I take little sections of

myself and grow them in a petri dish of th e

play So if Ive found a moment where Im a

bit lazy ]11 grow it and milke the character

very lazy o r impatient or whatever So I take

these moments because we all have all of

them grow th em and create this Frankenshy

steins monste r a character right out of parts

body parts and psychological parts often of

myself and then observe things in other peoshy

ple but I have to find it in myself to make it

work

SCENE AR C H1V ES

GA writer (reading from Epilepsy al1d Snakes)

My self asserted itself as a kind of quishy

et Lucille Ball c1ulllsy and absent-mindshy

ed At least this gave me an identity and

was a small aCI of slbo tage The next

assertion was an act of unconscio us rev shy

olution th e grand mal seizure that

almost killed me And the next one was

The Crackwalker my first play And this

is how I raged against the machine and

took space in the world And now not

surprisin gly I am seizure-free

SCENE LOWER MASSEY

After another pair of acto rs rUllS through

their scene Thompson directs them to begi n

again She interrupts frequently to question

the students about actions feelings motishy

vations At one point 8S the students pause

to consider her words Thompson turns to

the rest of the class erect in her cha ir

Thompson Isolate the mom ent The great

thing about the stage is th at it isolates the

moments that just race by us_

SCENE UNIVERSITY CLUB

Thompson Ive just written my next play

which is not ca lled Pefeet Pie but thats its

working title because it came from a mon oshy

logue called Perfect Pie But now its a full

two- haul play in which the second wom3n

comes back and tben I have them as yo ung

girls too It goes back ~nd forth and its very

exciting I worksbopped it in the spring and

in December at tbe Tarragon and it will go

on in o ne year At the sa me time lm wr itshy

ing a feature film for Rho mbus based on the

play Pe feet Pie

SCEN E UNlV ERSITY CLUIl

Thompson My pIalS are Illusically written

And if somebody doesnt get the music they

dont feel it and go with the rhythm s it

throws the whole thing off I hear the plays

I hea r them I write with my ear They

change 1 lo t but it s according to rhythm

I ll be sitting in rehea rsal listening and if it

does nt so und ri ght I change it so that its

rhythmic

SCIi -JE J UST AllOUT ANYWHERE YOU CA N

READ A PLAY

GA writer (readmg ji-olll the script ofvVbite

Biting Dog first produced at the Tarragon Th eatre in 1984)

Beciluse of the ex treme and deliberate

lllu sica lity of this play any allempts to

go aga inst the tex tual rhythms such as

th e breaking up of an unbroken senshy

tence the tlking of a pause where none

is written in are DISASTROUS The

effect is like beil1g in a small plane and

suddenly turning off the ignition It all

falls down This play III list SPIN not

just turn around

SCfN e LOWER MASSEY

Her students listen as Thompson stands to

complete a so liloq uy abo ut cap turing the

rhythm of the language on the stage The

wide sleeves of her ank le-length dress slide

down her forea rm s as she ges tures

Thompson Listen to the music of the

scene Each playwright writes their own

symphony

SCENE U NIVERSlTY CLUB

Thompson Ive been pretty directed to this

ii-om an carly age although if I had done anyshy

thing else it probab ly wou ld have been some

form of social work I would have been smokshy

ing three packs of cigarettes a day and workshy

ing il1 an office somewhere up in Scarborough

SC EN E AfltCHIVES

GA write r (reading from Brick interview of Thompson by Eleanor Wachtel ]99] )

In th e thea tre I think what one mllst

do is co nfront the truth confront the

emot ional truth of our li ves which is

mired in the swamp of minuriae

everyday minutiae Maybe it has to be -tl111 way because we couldnt confront

it every day But I think the th eatre

IllllSt Im not interested ill th eatre that

doesnt ga

W1NTER 1999 25

Never mind fish wars pitting countries against one another - here in Canada scientists and policy makers cant agree on who should control the preservation and management ofour own fishery resources BY ANDREW VOWLES

Ca

as

ollapsed cod stocks to the east

On the West Coast laquofish wars

_ rlTDT Pacific salmon enmesh

Canada and the United States

At various points in between fisheries scishy

entists and managers grapple with everyshy

thing from overfishing of freshwater

stocks to invasion by exotic molluscs

What is to be done about Canadian fishshy

eries And what role is being p layed by

fisheries and aquatic scientists at the Unishy

versity of Guelph

-

dock pollock red fish and flatfish made up just under half of Canadas total landings on the Atlantic coast (720000 tonnes of fish and shellfish were caught in 1994 represhysenting a total landed value of $11 billion) Two year~ later that proportion had dropped to 21 per cent with shellfish and open ocean fish specie~ notably Atlantic

Begin in the Atlantic The crisis on the East Coast has become a disaster So says laquoWE NEED TO TRY TO SEPARATE OUTGuelph zo ology professor John Roff enushymerating the litany of woes that have surshy

THE FISHERIES MANAGEMENT DECISIONSfaced from Ca nadas marine fishery in the past decade Although some fish and shellshy

FROM THE POLITICAL DECISIONSfi sh are holding their own stocks of other species have experienced declines raquo

ASSOCIATED WITH THE FISHE RY

down that fishery in 1992 Over fishing and under which it has been buying up fishers

Even when stocks do rebound rarely do we fully und erstand why he says Theres a complex of problems to be disshy more for cod stocks to rebound says Roff entangled involving overflshing long- and co-editor with colleague Prof Moira Fergushyshort-term climate change and changes in son of the respected Canadian Journal ofFishshyocean current systems and productivity eries and Aquatic Sciences A wise course of

And of course the once-thriving northshy action for a fisherman in Newfoundland ern cod that first drew Europeans with their would be to seU his licence and do something nets to the Grand Banks 500 years ago have else he says (Last fall the federal governshycoUapsed to the point that Ottawa had to shut ment announced its final retirement program

the failure of federal fisheries managers to heed the warnings of scientists have been blamed for the coUapse Even with the lllorashytoriulll in place it may take two decades or

licences in Atlantic Ca nada and Quebec) In 1992 - the year Ottawa imposed its

moratorium on the northern cod fisheryshylandings of groundfish including cod had-

salmon making up the difference [n 1995 the total groLlndfish catch reached its lowshyest level in two decades

Unlike the Ea st Coast fi shery which relies most ly on ocea n-living fish the Pacifshyic fishery is dominated b) migratory species Some 300000 tonnes of fish and shellfish were harvested along the west coast in 1994 worth a landed value of $550 million (Arcshytic marine fisheries and their management differ from those on the coasts although cOl11mercial and recreational fisheri es are small here food fisheries are important to

U OF G AQUATIC SCIENCES EXPERTISE CATCHES WORLD ATTENTION

Landlocked in the middle of the courltry U ofG nevertheless boasts fish pathology and diseases including farmed fish diseases fish an enviable record and range ofexpertise in aquatic sciencesshy hormones and reproductive physiology including the effects of marine and freshwater - dating back to the late 1960s Thats when environmental contaminants early life history and behaviour Prof Keith Ronald thell chair of the Department ofZoology (and of fi shes and biology of tuna later dean of the College ofBiological Science) began a marine biolshyogy program at the University Today Guelph has the largest Partnered with the A-erod Institute of Ichthyology in U of group of ichthyologists - scientists who study fish - in Gs Aquatic Sciences Facility the r[agen Aqualab is an North America investigating a wide variety ojIre~hshy aquatic research and teaching facililY for studying water alld marine fisheries and aquatics topics aquatic organisms Environmentally controlled

rooms in the Aqualab allow faculty and students to U of Gs Axelrod Institute of Ichthyology houses simulate habitats as diverse as the Arctic Ocean and one of the worlds largest collections of museumshy tropical rainforest pools The facility is named for quality fish fossils donated to the University by its principal benefactor Rolf Hagen founding presshy

ident of Canadas largest pet store 5llpplier J 989 The institute which provides space for fisheries research and visiting scientists brings together 12 core U of G U of G faculty edit four internationally recognized journals researchers in fisheries and aquatic sciences whose interests and in ichthyology fisheries and aquatic science Awarded to U of G by expertise span environmental contaminants and parasitic disshy the National Research Council in 1997 the Canadian Journal of eases evolutionary genetics of marine and freshwater fishes Fisheries al1dAquatic Sciellces is co-edited by zoology professors

US ichthyologist and author Herbert Axelrod in

28 GUELPH ALUMNUS

northerners including shrimp Atlantic salmon and arctic char) Accountin g fOI almost half of that total were Pacific salmon which ret urn from the ocean to spawn in home streams and rivers up and down the coast of Alaska British Columbia and Washshyington There are actually five main spec ies of sa lmon that run down the BC coast shysockeye (t he most va luable commercial species) chinook coho chum and pinkshyfrom spring to December

Its a very complex jurisdictional and multi-user problem says Roff Bes ides degradation of freshwater spawning habishytats and ocean climate effects of El Nill0 the West Coast fishery is a cauldron of ten shysions between various groups perennial fish wars between Ca nada and the United States disputes that pit sport fishers against native fishing rights Recognizing the problems of low ocean productivity habitat damage overfishing and indiscriminate fishing pracshytices that take weak and strong stocks alike Ottawa is developing a new policy to guide Canadas Pacific salmon fisheries focusing on conservation sustainable use and improved decision-making

That potent mix of overfishing and habishytat degrada tion is also a problem for Canashydas freshwater fisheries A report tabled last fall by the federal standing committee on

fisheries and oceans called for more federal funding for research and fisheries programs in central and arctic regions of Canada Accord ing to that report the Grea t Lakes commercial fishery is one of the largest freshwater fisheri es in the world worth an average landed value of more than $40 milshylion a year and an eco nomic impact of at least $250 million Some 90 per cent of that catch is exported The neck lace of lakes threading its way to the St Lawrence River also supports the largest fres hwater sports fishery in the world 800000 Ontarians fish on the Great Lakes eve ry year contributing $850 million to the economy

In Manitoba managers are concerned about the long-term susta inability of freshshywater fish stocks particularly declines in Lake Winnipeg and the northern part of the province caused by overfishing environshymental degradation loss of prime spawning habitat and predators The province has seen stocks rise and fall particularly of pickerel Manitobas highest-priced fish In an attempt to manage the fishery in a sustained fashion the province recently introduced a qu ota entitlement system for anglers Joe OConshynor director of the fisheries branch of Manshyitobas Department of Na tural Resources says his department is wrestling with the environmental threats on fish habitat posed

by farming and hydroelectric development In Ontario fisheries are genera lly in

pretty good shape says Evan Thomas fishshyeries section manager of the fish and wildlife branch of the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (OM NR) Ontario supports almost half of all recreational fishing in Canada with more than two million adult anglers and more than $2 billion a year spent on recreational fishing in the province Onta ri o is also home to Canadas larges t commercial freshwater fishery worth abo ut $40 million a Yfar in land ed value

Thomas says over fishing is still the numshyber one problem Others include habitat loss the potential effects of climate change and contin ued invasion by exotic species Among the management opt ions his minshyistry is exploring are more effective fisheries regulation more rapid inventory and assessshyment techniques fish culture for rehabilishytating populations and controlling nutrient inputs into lakes and rivers

We are clearly looking for federal supshyport for the sea lamprey control program he says referring to recommendations in the recent federal fisheries committee report as well as changes to the federal Fishshyeries Act to hand the province more authorshyity over fish habitat protection

Concerns continue in Ontario over

Moira Ferguson and John Roff Fish Physiology and Biochemistry the top-ranked journal in its field is edited by Prof John Leathershyland chair of the Department of Biomedical Sciences in the Ontario Veterinary College University professor emeritus Eugene Balon has served as editor-in-chief of Environmental Biology ofFishes since he founded the publication in 1976 Zoology professor David Noakes edits Guelph Ichthyology Reviews whose articles synthesize and review all aspects of fish science Both of the latter

Under the Canadian contribution to the project - furided by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council - about 80 federal government and university researchers are trying to learn more about how bioshylogical and physical processes in the oceans affect fish stocks

Zoologychair Prof Paul Hebert has led a Guelph initiative to develshyop multimedia learning resources d1at teach student~ from

are published in the Axelrod Institute of Ichthyology

Based on data from geographic information sysshytems zoology professor John Roff has mapped types of habitat associated with various species of fish and other organisms around Canadas coasts and throughout tl1C Great Lakes the first time such

e1ementaIy grades to university about Canadas aquatshyic environments His department has developed a series of CD-ROMs that provide information on all the major animal groups in the Great Lakes Already available are educational CD-ROMs on Canadas aquatic environments (also available on

d1e World Wide Web) Great Lakes biodiversity and a marine classification system has been developed in this country His report was commissioned by World Wildlife Fund Canada for its Endangered Spaces Campaign and contributes to RoWs work as chair of the scienrillc committee of Globec (Globshyal Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics) a two-year-old international research program intended to better understand ocean ecosystems

birds of the Great Lakes The latter is the first disc in a series called the Great Lakes Faunal Atlas which will eventually cover mammals amphibians reptiles fish and crustaceans

The Alma Aquaculture Research Station es tablished in 1989 and funded through a 20-year development grant by the Ontario

WI NTER 1999 29

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various invas ive species that have turned up

in the Great Lakes - notably sea lampreys

zebra mussels and quagga mussels - many

of which arrive in ballast water of ocea nshy

going vessels (Many have also found their

way into Manitoba says OConnor who

points to the effects of sm elt on whitefish

the main commercial species in Lake Winshy

nipeg) Among o ther meas ures the federal

fish eries committee report called for guarshy

anteed funding for sea lamprey control and

for scienti fic research

I think more money will come says

Prof Bill Beamish Zoology a commissionshy

er on the Great Lakes Fisheries Commission

the 40-year-old governing body that co-ordishy

nates resea rch programs between Canada

and the United States and advises both govshy

ernments It was a review led by Beamish

more than a decade ago on the sta te of

Canadas freshwater fi sheries that provided

the scientific underpinnings for a landmark

report published in 1988 that spelled ou t a

way in freshwater fisheries is a lon g-te rm

project fund ed by the OMNR and the

Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO)

to re-establish native species in their origishy

nal habitats a round Lake Ontario iVlari e

Clement a graduate student of zoology proshy

fe sso r David Noakes is studying Atlantic

sa lmo n which was wiped out of the lake

CONSIDERING WE HAVE THE

BEST FISHERY SCIENCES COMMUNITY

IN THE WORLD WE OUGHT TO

BE DOING BETTER

national strategy for freshwater fisheries

Beamish who has studied sea lampreys

for several decades at Guelph and also invesshy

tigates fish habitat loss says money is need shy

ed to help researchers investigate biological

controls as an alternative to chemical lamshy

pricides The recen t repo rt also notes the

need to address the effects of other nonshy

native exotic species on n ative fish stocks

and water quality and calls on Ottawa to

stem the funding decline in freshwater scishy

ence over the last two decades

One example of the kind of work under

and its tribu ta ry streams near the beginning

o f this century by overflshing and habitat

destruction and alteration Last fall Clement

placed eggs into a site in the Credit River

she has been monito ring oxygen availab il shy

ity durin g their incu ba tion to gau ge sedishy

mentation rates in the river This spring and

summer she wili study how newborn fi sh

interact with other species in th e r ive r

C lement says her docto ral research proshy

ject is but one piece of a larger project aimed

at re-establishing the heritage species Othshy

er researchers hop e to learn whe ther th e

Ministry of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs brings together

researchers for interdisciplinary studies of protein requirements

of arctic char improving fish semen and egg management proshy

cedures and understanding hormone activity in fish The station

acts as a quarantine unit for new fish varieties entering Ontario

and serves as a base for parts of certificate courses and a masters

program in aquaculture

farms in Canada He and fellow Guelph zoologists Eugene Balon

(co- founder of the Coelaca nth Conservat ion Council) and Jim

Bogart also identified and characterized the coelacanth which

had been thought extinct until a specimen was landed off Africa

in the la te 1930s Noakes confirmed the identity of ano ther of

these living fossils discovered in 1997 it appears to belong to a

second popula tion living in the Indian Ocean about 10000 kilo-

metres away from tha t first find

Zoology professors Moira Ferguson and Roy Danzshy

mann use molecular genetics techniques to identishy Zoology chair Paul Hebert was the first scientist to

fy DNA markers used to pinpoint the location of identify the presence in the Great Lakes of zebra

genes associated with growth spawning times mussels a prolific invader that has wreaked havoc

rates of development maturity and temperature in many ways from clogging water-intake pipes to

tolerance in rainbow trout Isolating and identifyshy consuming plankto n thus allowing light to reach

ing genetic markers fo r desirable traits will help fish bottom-dwelling organisms that may displace native

farmers and breeders cross-breed more effectively species The first researcher to report on the biology

conservationists will be better able to manage and preserve and impact of the zebra mussel on the Grea t Lakes was

genetic variability among wild fish stocks Guelph zoology professor Gerald Mackie whose studies showed

that the organisms faster growth rate and higher fecundity and

Zoology professor David Noakes has stuclied varieties of arctic population density will probably enable it to displace many native

char native to Iceland to find ones suited to being raised on fish bivalves and disrupt entire lake ecosystems

30 GUELPH ALUMNUS

LEADING RESEARCH

The University of Guelph has one orthe largest and most active groups of aquatic biologists in the world

bull More than 50 faculty and 100

graduate students research

assocrates and postdoctoral

fellows

bull Over 1000 published scientific

articles books monographs

films and videos in the past

decade

bull Interdisciplinary programs

involving more than a dozen

academic departments

bull The largest group ofichthyoloshy

gists (scientists who study

fish) in North America

bull Collaborative research with

government environrriental

organizations and academic

institutions worldwide

bull Expertise covering the entire

aquatic food chain from plankshy

ton to whales

bull Leading developments in comshy

puter-based educational mate-

rials in aquatic sciences

bull A new $6-million Aquatic

Sciences Facility

bull Research support from national

and international agencies

business and industry

adults will be able to return from the open

lake to their stream spawning grounds If

they come back will the eggs survive she

says If were able to show the eggs can surshy

vive that will be very encouraging for

Atlant ic salmon restoration

What is to be done to ensure the survival

not just of Atlantic salmon in Lake Ontario

but also of the co untrys freshwater and

m ar ine fisheries We need to try to sepashy

rate o ut the fisheries management decisions

from the political decisions associated with

the fi shery says zoology professor Glen Van

Der Kraak director of U of Gs Axelrod

Institute of Ichthyology Van Der Kraak who

studies the effects of toxic contaminants on

fi sh populations says policy mltkers need

to rely on the advice of fisheries sc ientis ts

making conservative harvest ing estimates

So often scientists make decisions and then

are overrun by the politics he says (Never

mind fish wars pitting co untries against one

another - here in Ca nada scientists and

policy makers wres tle over the question of

who should be respo nsible for what aspects

of the countrys fisheries as witnessed in a

war of words played out in the Canadian Journal ofFisheries and Aquatic Sciences over

the past 18 months between biologists at

several Canadian univers ities and the DFO

over the relationship between fishery sc ishy

ence and fishery policy)

Roff says theres nothing unique about

Canadas fish problems Its not really a

Canadian problem its a worldwide probshy

lem The only fisheries worldwide that are

not over fished appear to be some not yet

fully exploited in the Indian Ocean

After nearly four decades of growth the

worldwide marine ca tch levelled off in the

1990s to some 90 million tons a year The

m ain problems coastal pollution habitat

destruction and particula rly overfishing

Noakes editor of the journal Guelph Ichthyology Reviews contrasts the few hunshy

dred people who might have made th eir

livelihood aboard small wood en boats on

the Grand Banks several centuries ago with

the massive factory trawlers that now scour

todays coast People are much too efficient

in terms of catching fish he says Noakes

concurs with fellow Guelph researchers that

conservation of fish stocks has to reach the

top of fishery managers agendas

hat does set Canada apart is the breadth

and depth of expertise in fisheries and aquatshy

ic sciences in this country - rather a parashy

dox when you consider that Canadas record

in fisheries preservation is apparently no betshy

ter than that of many other nations

Considering we have the best fishery scishy

ences community in the world we ought to

be doing better says Roff Within the last

decade th e federal government withdrawal

o f support from the Department of Fishshy

eries and Oceans and university researchers

has been massive At the very time when the

resources were gett ing into severe problems

and when the federal government ought to

have been funding research theyve been

substantially withdrawing resources ga

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UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

n ALUMNI PROF IL E

LETS LOOK AT THE OPPORTUNITIES

WHEN I-IE BECA ME president of the Unishy

versity of Guelph Alumni Association

(UGM) in June Jim Weeden brought new

enthusiasm and ideas for encouraging alumshy

ni to stay in volved with their alma mater

And he wants to start with students

Weeden reca ll s his own ex perience at

U of G where he fo und a sense of commushy

nity by living in residence and ge tting

involved in college activiti es But when he

graduated with an engin ee ring degree in

197 1 he left to begin a caree r and says he

didnt think much about the University until

he needed it again in the 1980s to pursue a

graduate degree in agricultural enginee ring

He spent his early career working as an

agricultural extensi o n engineer for the

Ontario Department o f Agriculture and is

stiU with its successo r the Ontario Ministry

of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs

(OMAFRA) Weed en completed the masshy

ters degree in 1986 when he was head of the

agricultural engineering program and extenshy

sion services a t Centralia College of Ag rishy

cultural Technology

In 1987 he moved to the ministrys plant

industry branch as program m anager and

later held the same position in th e resources

manage m ent branch Sin ce then he has

worked for OMAFRA in Woodstock and

now Stratfo rd He is technical adviser fo r

Ontarios Enviro nmental Farm Planning

Program is respo nsible for o ther environshy

m ental programs and consults with the Minshy

istry o f th e Environment on local agriculshy

tural pollution problems

w Weed en got involved with the Universishy sect tys a]u111ni programs by serving on the first g z board of the Engineering Alumni Associashy

~ tion when it was established in 1990 From

~ 1991 to 1994 he sat on the University Senshy

~ ate and its Research Board and for the pas t

~ four years) hels been on the UGAA executive

32 GUELPH A LU MNUS

From the presidents chair Weeden looks

at the bro ad picture o f UG AA se rvice and

recognizes that the associa tio n owes a debt

o f gratitude to hundreds of alumni volunshy

teers who ha ve helped to build the organishy

za tion over the yea rs and to University staff

in Development and Public Affairs (DampPA)

who support UGAA initiatives and alumni

programs Thro ugh their efforts he says the

a lulllni associati o n is rea ching out to all

U of G alumni Graduates who have mainshy

tained a close relationship with the Univershy

sity thro ugh their college or academic disshy

cipline those who feel an affiliation because

o f their participation in a thletics residence

life o r extracurricular activiti es and even

HIGHLIGHTSmiddot GRAD NEWSmiddot OBITUARIES bull CALENDER

those who have not kept in touch are part of the constituency served by UGAA

Weed en says the alumni association needs to strengthen its relationship with all alumni and he believes the effor t must start on campus with students Hed like to proshymote the idea of alumni involvement as ear shyly as a students second year We need to give students some reason to be con nected and an efficient vehicle for maintaining that connection he says

For many students and new graduates the social functions supported by UGAA and the opportunities for professional networking will be important says Weeden but greater rewards are there for those who join the effort to enhance the Universitys acade mic goals

In todays economic and political envi shyronme nt individual financial support and the advocacy of post-secon dary education are important roles for alumni he says How many people ac tively get involved with the debate on whether universities are job-trainshy

ing centres or centres of education Yet some of our alumni are extremely adept in such roles Weeden would like to cultivate past and current stud ent ac tivists as supporters of public education after they graduate

As Weeden leads UGAA into a new year he says he will work with other UGAA volshyunteers and DampPA staff to find new ways for the association to interact with students and alumni One id ea is to expand UGAAs Intershynet presence by adding a Web message board that will encourage alumni to discuss career and campus issues online and a reply form that will allow them to quickly update addressshyes employment status and other information

Weeden says its important to stay focused on UGAAs key prioriti es but he welcomes any and all new ideas on how to accomplish them All it takes to share your ideas with the UGAA executive is a stamp or a push of the send button when youre clicked on alumniuoguelphca

HKHB SPIRIT RISES

ENCOURAGED BY THE SPIRIT

shown by fellow alumni at last

summers reunion the executive

of the Human Kinetics Human Biology

Alumni Association is moving ahead

with more opportunities for alumni to

stay in touch The association plans to

launch a Web site that will be accessed

through the U of G site

A wine-and-cheese reception already

planned for June 19 1999 wiil try to

build on the success of the 1998 event

which attracted alumni from as far away

as Chicago and as far apart as the 19605

and 1990s Guests had a chance to tour

U of Gs new Health and Performance

Centre and performance testing

labs The program was co-ordinated wiLh

A REFLECTION OF PRIDE

Members of the OAC

Class of 52 join Arboshy

retum staff on the front patio

of the Arboretu m Centre

beside a new reflecting pool

that was built last summer

as a class project Pictured

from left are Murray Parker

Ann Smith George Smith

Jack Sargent Catherine Gibb

Robin Shaw-Rummington

Marilyn Swaby BA 69

Bev Healy B5e(Agr) 72

Norm Watson Una Venerus

Ron Costen Henry Kock

BSe (Agr) 77 and Ric

Jordan BA 75

Prof Jack Barclay chair of the Departshy

ment of Human Biology and Nutritional

Sciences and Prof Susan Pfeiffer Memshy

bers of the Human KineticsHuman

Biology Alumni Association executive arc

Janet Leonhard 82 president Carolyn

Moore 83 vice-president Alison Locker

97 secretary Mark Mulholland 79

lreasurer and t-iary Ann Crape 76

These officers are also spea rheading a

new initiative to benefit students - an

undergraduate award that will provide

$250 and lifetime mem bership in the

association To commcnt on these and

other initiatives contact Leonard by

e-mail at Janel_Leonhardinwrbsb

eduonca or Moore at cturveyagec

uoguelphca

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alumni

Multimedia lab buzzes

THE DONALD FORSTER RoOiv

has become one of the

busiest spots in th e Unishy

versity of Guelph Liblary since the

addition of 70 state-of-the-art

computer workstations that were

supported by alumni do nations

to the Alma Mater Fund (AM F)

U of G president Mordechai

Roza nski officia ll y o pened th e

Alma Mater Fund Multimedia

Lab D ec 2 an d celebrated th e

event with members of the AMF

Adv isory Counc iL [n 1996 a nd

1997 the AMF contributed

$240000 to th e project which

increased the number of student

workstations o n campus by 50 per

cent Students use the m ult imeshy

~ dia lab to conduct research on the

~ Internet access scholarly publicashyr u VI tions on CD-ROM and use COll1shyz ~ puter software mod ules tbat lt

~ strengthen the teaching provided lD

o in co urse lectures labs and tcxtshybii books

middotMatters

Alumnus of many interests

I NTERES TING P EOPLE always have eclect ic interests and U of G

alumnus and honorary degree recipient Ken Murray BSA 50 and

HDLA 96 is a good example H e is known by most people on camshy

pus for his distinguished career in the Canadian meat packing indusshy

try and his volunteer service to U of G He was a member and chair

of Board of Governors from 1973 to 1978 and chair of the Regionshy

al Corporate Committee during U of Gs last capital campaign and

is currently chair of the Heritage Fund Enhancement Committee

Murray is also a strong supporter of community soc ial services

In August he addressed the World Congress of Social Ps)chiatry

held in British Columbia - the only non-psychiatrist on the proshy

gram He spoke about his role in establishing an Alzheimers research

project a t the University ofWaterioo which was recently named in

his honour the Ken Murray Alzheimer Research and Education Proshy

gra m At the gc conference he al so participated in a panel dis shy

cussion that outlined services offered by Guelphs Homewood Health

Cent re Murray bas been actively involved in the governance of the

centre since 1977 and has been a major player in the development

of a charitable foundatio n bearing the Homewood name

WHEN THE PUCK DROPPED More than 30 teams including two

womens teams were entered in the

Dec 6 University of Guelph Alumni Hockey

Tournament Organizers for the 1998 event

were from left Brian Finniss B5c 88

Brad Stephenson BA 86 Terry Carr

BComm 87 Todd Bryant BA 86 and

undergraduate student Brian Melnick

Ken Murray centre with his wife Marilyn Robinson Murray and U of G president Mordechai Rozanski

34 GU ELPH ALUMNU S

RESTORING A JEWEL IN THE CROWN

DONALD RUTHERFORD BSA 5 stands in fron t

of the 1931 conservatory greenhouse that will

be restored to match the splendour of the ga rdens

now growi ng up around it His $256000 leadershy

ship gift to the Conservatory and Gardens Project

was inspired by hi s m emo ries of being a student

at OAC

On behalf of fellow alumni I hope this gift will

commemorate the experiences and educat ion we

acquired while at Guelph says Rutherford When

fully restored to its previous glory the conservatoshy

ry greenhouse will be an ideal greeting and welcome

spot for visitors and newcomers to the University

as well as old friend s renewing their acquaintance

Rutherfords professional career spans the agrishy

foo d industr y beginning as an agricu ltural repshy

resentative with the provincial minist ry I-Ie was

later vice-president of the Fertilizer Institute of

Ontario executive secreta ry of the Canadian Seed

Trade Association director of information w ith

the Ca nadian Livestock Feed Board and Canadishy

an sa les manager for Sylvite of Can ad a Retired

since 1986 he now owns his own sma ll investment

company and manages to golf throughout the yea r

The conserva tory isnt the first ca mpus project

to attract Rutherford s attention - as a student

he helped dig out the base ment of Massey H al l to

build a student lo unge - but his recent gift has

been a tremendous boost to those who have been

working since the ea rly 1990s to save the glass and

cypress structure from demo lition

A committee of alumni facult y sta ff stu dents

and fri en ds of the University has moved the proshy

ject along to th e point w here most of the surshy

rounding garden complex is now complete It fea shy

tures six gardens named in honour of the ir chie f

supporters Autumn Garden - OAC 5 1 Spring

Ga rden - OAC 53 Su mmer Garden - OAC 55

Winter Gard en - OAC 65 Water Gard en shy

OAC 49 and the Woo dland Garden named in

honour of the late Doug Rob inson BSA 53

Alumni have been in strumental in raising

funds for the $ l-million project Students and fa cshy

ulty have provided mudl of the h1l1ds-on Idbour

and friends in the nursery and landscape materishy

als supply industries have given $250000 ill donashy

tions and gifts-in-kind of plan ts and landsca ping

materials Rutherford s generous gift has pushed

th e conservato ry fund-ra ising effort in to the fin 81

stretch Th e ga rden complex and restored g reenshy

110use are sc heduled to officially open during

Alumni Weekend in June 1999

1999 Coming Events

Jan 29 - Aggie Goodshy

Times Banquet call the OAC Student Federation at Ext 8321 for ticket injemnrltion Feb 13 - Norm McCo llulll

D iploma Hockey Tournashy

m ent call Jack Bakker at 519-837-0132 to register a team

Feb 21 - Ottawa Chapter

annual curling bonspiel

Richmond C urling Club in

Richmond Ont For informashytiol1 call Alan Bentley BSA 61 at 6 13-829-6598 or John DVit[ 54 mId Margaret McGowml BHSc 54 at

613-828-7038

March 3 - Florida alumni

reunion a t Maple Leaf

Estates Port Charlo tte Fla

call Ext 6533 0 register

March 13 and 14 - ollcge

Royal 75th o pen house

March 19 and 20 - OAC

Alumni Association curling

bonspiel G uelph Curling

Club register at Ext 6657

May 5 - Chicago All Canashy

dian Universities Night hostecl

by U of G at the University

Club of Chicago 76 East Monshy

roe Sr call Exl 6533 for details May 5 - OAC Alumni

Foundation annual meeting

730 pm Arboretum Centre

May 12 - Alumni-inshy

Action annual meeting and

luncheo n 1130 3m

Arboretum Centre ((11 Ext 6657for tickets

June 18 to 20 - Alumni

Veekend call Ext 6657 to plall a reun io n

-0 r shya -IFor more infon-nation on any a

eVC1l1listed ailove call the oJ -lt oU of G extension listed at en raquo

519-824-4120 or send e-mail z

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WINTER 1999 35

alumni Matters

MEMORIES OF COLLEGE ROYAL Grant MacEwan ADA 23 and

BSA 26 is one of the few OAC

alumni who c~n still remember

the first College Royal held Jan

14 1925 MacEwan bad just

entered the degree program in

animal husbandry and may have

been a participant in the liveshy

stock showmanship classes Latshy

er in life he was widely known Grant MacEwan

across Western Canada as 3 liveshy

stock judge and an advocate of

agricultural fairs and exhibitions

MacEwan is bes t known

however for his 23-year C3reer

as a university professor in Manshy

itoba and Saskatchewan and Ilis

political career which included

12 years as alderman and mayshy John Kenneth Galbraith

or of C31gary four years as an

Alberta MLA and eight as lieushy birthday in August

tenant -governor of the province The year after Ma cEwan

He s till lives in Calgary graduated John Kenneth Galshy

where he celebrated his 96th braith ADA 29 and BSA 31

HOMECOMING 98

enrolled at OAC and devoted

some of his energy to organizshy

ing College Royal Show records

indicate it was Galbraith who

first proposed the college event

be publicized so that people

from the farm community

could attend He also suggestshy

ed that OAC invite students

from American agricultural colshy

legesl n th e early 1930s Colshy

lege Royal took its fir s t steps

towards becoming the comshy

munity open house it is today

Galbraith later moved to the

United States where he enjoyed

a distinguished caree r as a proshy

fessor of economics at Harvard

Universi ty Known for his

humanit~rian approach to ecoshy

nomic and political thinking

he was awarded the Order of

Canada in 1997 He celebr3ted

his 90th birthday in October

IT REALLY WAS a homecoming reunion when and Arnott who is head coach of the York

former Gryphon teammates Ralph Shapiro University Yeomen came from the visitors

S5c(HK) 74 and Tom Amott S5c(HK) 80 dreSSing room to hold the ball Shapiro is

met on the field at Alumni Stadium Oct 3 the controller at Huntsman Chemical Inc

Shapiro had the honour of kicking off in Guelph and a longtime United Way volshy

the Universitys 1998 United Way campaign unteer who chaired this years Guelph and

Wellington fund-raising drive The Univershy

sity campaign is the largest in the county

with U of G staff and faculty contributing

over $200000 in 1998

Prior to the game a number of recent

alumni - all U of G scholarship and award

winners - met for a reunion luncheon The UJ

1948 and 1949 dominion championship i5f 3

football teams were also honoured guests z 5 o at the 2 pm game that saw the Gryphons gtshy a defeat York f shya I a

Ralph Shapiro

36 G UELPH ALUMNUS

LEADING THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY FOR 1974 GRADS The 25th-anniversary reunion givshy

i ng program for the Class of 1974

is under way with Bill Laidlaw BA

74 as cbair A public affairs proshy

fessional he has been director of

government relations for the

Canadian operations of Glaxo

vVelJcome Inc for more th an 10

years He also acts as a senior conshy

sultant to support the governshy

ment relations function in other

regions of Canada

Laidlaw began his career in

teaching after earning a history

degree from Guelph and education

degrees (rom Queens University

and the University of Toronto He

also holds the certified human

resources professional designation

and worked in that field for sevshy

eral years before concen trating on

government relations at Glaxo

Welkome He lives in Burlington

Ont and is an act ive community

volunteer having se rved on the

boards of severa l professional

organizations the Queensway

General Hospital and the Metroshy

politan Toronto Lung Association

He is currently completing a oneshy

year term as chair of the Ontario

Chamber of Commerce

Anniversa ry preparations will

culminate with a class gathering

a nd reunion gift at Alumni

Weekend in June 1999

ALUMNI MAKE THE CONNECTION Students who moved into

Maids and Mills halls in Sepshy

tember can take full advanshy

tage of the Universitys highshy

speed computer network

thanks to the OAC Class of

71 whose 25 th-reunion proshy

ject provided wiring upgrades

in the 84- and 77-year-old

residence buildin gs

GRAD NEWS

Marathon survivors inspire us all to appreciate everyday life

W HEN ROBINSON SIIlLJNGS Jane BSe(Agr)

85 Heather BASe 83 Peter BSe(Agr)

86 Scott and Marnie rigwood BA 84 get

together they talk about marathons and the hope

and determination it takes to reach the finish line

Hea ther walked a marathon in San Diego

Calif in June to raise money for leukemia

research then joined Peter for a Toronto marathon

in October that benefi ted the Leukemia Research

Fund of Canada They were inspired by Janes pershy

sonal marathon of survival that foUowed her 1992

diagnosis of leukemia Chemotherapy radiation

remission relapse and finally a bone marrow

transplant [TOm her brother Scott took more than

three years out of her life but gave her the detershy

mination to keep fighting

Many families can understand the marathon

of hope maintained by the Robinsons during

Janes struggle and the commitment they have to

help others who are stricken with the disease Jane

is finally well enough to work again as a writer

and marketing consultant and to join her fami shy

ly in volunteer work She helped recruit for the

Toronto marathon fund -raiser and continues to

be involved with the Leukemia Research Funds

Team in Training She also says that her expeshy

rience has taught her to appreciate more the pleashy

sures of everyday life and the love of famil y

Jan es parents are th e late Doug Rob inson

BSA 53 and Marilyn (Inglis) Robinson Murray

BH Sc 55

19305

bull Grant Misener ADA 32 BSA 35 and DVM 38 received the

prest igious George F Hixso n Felshy

lowship Award from the Kiwanis

International Foundation in May The retired Illinois veter ishy

narian was hono ured for his subshystantial contribution to the

Kiwanis wo rldwide service proshy

ject aimed at eliminating iodine

deficiency disorders the leading

cause of preventable mental retardation in children Over the

years Misener has shown a simishylar commitment to his al ma

mater an d its students through

his close association with OVC

and his support of scho larship

programs

19405

bull Russell McDonaldDVM 45 was named an honorary life direcshytor of the Royal Agricultural Winshy

ter Fair Association in March

McDonald formerly general manshy

ager of Western Ontario Breeders

Ine and executive director of the Canadian Association of Animal

Breeders served as a director of the Royal Winter Fair for 20 years

representing the Canadian artifishycial insemination industry He

lives in Woodstock Ont

bull Ian Taylor DVM43 was recently honoured by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to

Animals of Illinois Taylor ran a small-animal veterinary clinic in

the Chicago area for many years

and says he gained ll1uch experishyence during his first three years in

Illinois as clinic veterinarian for

the anti -cruelty society

19505

bull Charles Chuck Broadwell BSA 54 was elected a Mel

Osborne Fellow by the Kiwanis

Club of Forest City in London Ont in recognition of a dedicatshy -ed and distinguished career in

Kiwanis

19605

bull Constantine Campbell BSA 60 and MSA 61 was named to the

WINTER 1999 37

Order of Canada in January He

received the award in recogni shy

tion of his many contributions

to science and the Canadian

agricultural industry After grad shy

uating from OAC he went on to

do his PhD at the University of

Saskatchewan then joined Agri shy

culture and Agri-food Canada

as a research scientist at the Swift

Current research station Campshy

bell and his family now live in

Ottawa where he is scientist

emeritus with Agriculture and

Agri-food Canada

bull John Casselman BSA 64 is

a research scientist with the

Ontario Ministry of Natural

Resources He Jives in Bath

Ont with his wife Lois

bull Jane Fuller RRSc 65 and

her husband George who both

taught at the Macdonald Instishy

tute from 1966 to 1969 have

moved from Winnipeg to

Utopia Ont following

Georges retirement from the

University of Manitoba

bull Fred Gilbert MSc 66 and

P hD 68 is in his first term as

president of Lakehead Univer shy

sity in Thunder Bay Ont He

taught at U of G in the Departshy

ment of Zoology from 1972 to

1981 and has enjoyed a dive rse

academic career that has also

included teaching at the Unishy

versity of Maine and posi tions

as director of wildlife biology at

Washington State University

and founding dean of the Facshy

ulty of Natural Reso urces and

Environmenta l Studies at the

University of Northern British

Columbia He moved to Lakeshy

head from a position as viceshy

pro vost at Colorado State Unishy

versity A respected wildlife

biologist he has conducted

ex tensive resea rch in s Ll ch areas

as the behaviour and physioloshy

gy of wildlife species and the

effects of environmental

change on wildlife populations

bull Terry Goodyear BSc 67 of

Mont Tremblant Quebec is an

early retiree from Agriculture

and Agri-Food Canada in Ottawa He is now working on

va lue-added products from

industrial wastes particularly

cellulose sludge from pulp and

pa per mills

bull Gary Hearn BA 68 was

named an Ontario provincial

judge in October For the last

25 years he has been a lawyer

with the firm Kearns McKinshy

non in Guelph where he lives

with his wife Irene and three

teenage children

bull Allan Knight BSA 66 of Corunna Ont has retired

from Dow Chemical after 30

years On retirement he was a

laboratory director for indusshy

trial chemicals He is now

working with his son in a famishy

ly-owned and -operated busishy

ness Knight Funeral Home

bull Keith McFarlane BSc(Agr)

68 works for the Department

of Foreign Affairs and Internashy

tional Trade and began a fourshy

year assignment last summer as

head of the commercial divishy

sion of the Canadian Embassy

in Lisbon Portugal The

division promotes the sa le of

Canadian goods and services

to Portugal

bull Ian Newbould MA 68 has

travelled far from his Ontario

roots through an academic and

administrative career that has

taken him to Europe Asia and

Western Canada A noted hisshy

torian he moved into adm inisshy

tration at the University of

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38 GUELPH ALUMNUS

Lethbridge in 1981 and spent

10 years there as director of

research dean of a rts and scishy

ence and vice-presiden t (acadeshy

mic) before crossing the counshy

try to become president of

Mount Allison University in

New Brunswick He is now in

his second term as president of

Mount AUison

bull Indra Deo Singh MSc 68 is

a tea scientist international

consultant and joint director of

the Tea Research Association at

the Nagrakata substation in

India His responsibilities

include co-ordinating research

and development in the Indian

tea industry and developing tea

cultivars and agrotechnology

for tea Singh is married with

two sons aged 27 and 23

19705

bull Don Ambler BSe 71 retired in March as manager of

water programs with Environshy

ment Canada in Dartmouth

NS after 25 years of public

service He has now registered

the company Aquashed Co nshy

sulting to continue in the water

resources field when hes not

gardening beekeeping do ing

aerobics or vo lunteering in the

community and chu rch E-mail

contact is welcome a t

donambl erns sympaticoca

bull Jim Bond BSe 75 is managshy

ing a new processing facility at

the Chalk River Nuclear Laborashy

to ry in Chalk River Ont

bull Terri (Monks) Bulman BSc(Agr) 78 and MSe 81

and her husband Vincent

MSe 8 1 live in Australia with

their th ree children Catherine

7 Peter 4 and baby Christoshy

pher Terri is senior principal

environmental auditor vith

Coffey Geosciences Pty Ltd Vinshy

cent afte r many years as a geoloshy

gist travelling around Australia

and abroad has taken the year

off to study and look after the

children Their e-mail address is

tbulmanbigpondco m

bull Marie David BA 78 of

Hanover Ont has been in the

n ewspaper business for 20

years She started in the mailshy

room moved to advertising

sales then became advert ising

manager She is now gene ral

manager o f three So utham

weekly newspapers and pubshy

lish er of the Hanover Post

bull Janice Harrower and her husshy

band Jerome Billett both

DVM 76 operate a joint veterishy

nary practice in Prescott Ont

Billett says practising together

has allowed them some flexibilishy

ty in their family life and given

their four children a good took

at the rigours of veterinary

medicine Says Billett Not one

of our kid s has the slightest

interest in being a veterinarian

and isnt that just fine Their

o ldest son Jesse attends Harshy

va rd University and is a memshy

ber of its prestigious a cappella

choir Lucas is studying

mechanical engineering at the

University of Waterloo Casey is

planning a career in computer

engineering and Lindsay is a

high school athle te

bull Clair Heinbuch BSe 74 is a

sales manager with Baye r Corp

in Kansas H e and his wife

Caroline (Koscik) BASc 75

returned to the Kansas City

area after spending four years in

Denver They have three chilshy

dren Lisa 20 Scott 18 and

Ryan [5

bull Beverly Lee BASe 72 is an

elem entary school principal in

Unionville Ont She lives with

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her husband Grant Egan in

Collingwood and is looking

forward to retirement in severshy

al years Life on Georgian Bay

is wonderful she says Lee

would love to hear from fellow

grads by e-mail at

leebYrbeeduonca or by

phone at 705 -444 -092l

bull Won-Jai Maeng MSc 71 took office Sept 1 as president

of Kon-Kuk University in Seoul

Korea where his academic

career began He completed an

undergraduate degree at Kon

Kuk in 1965 then studied at

Mailing Agricultural College in Denmark and at U of G before

doing doctoral work at the Unishy

versity of California Davis

Maeng has held research and

teaching positions at the Unishy

versity of illinois at Chung-Ang

University and at Kon-Kuk

where he has been a professor of

animal science since 1984 His

appointment as president folshy

lows years of administrative

experience as a department

head dean and chair of various

research committees and proshy

fessional organizations An

expert in ruminant nutrition

Maeng was instrumental in

developing the livestock feed

industry in Korea He has also

been active in working with

alumni groups and in writing

for the Kon-Kuk Tribune

bull Bill MarshaU ADA 75 of Proton Station Ont moved

from Clarksburg in June to

work in Dundalk for the Grey

County Roads Department on

its road management crew

bull Bernie Matte BSc(Agr) 70 of Moncton NB retired

in March after 28 years with

Fisheries and Oceans Canada

and the Canadian Food

Inspection Agency He plans to

travel to Belize and Honduras

with his wife Diane and will

be available anywhere in the

Caribbean for seafood HACCP

consulting work

bull Margaret McClain BA 70 lives in Arkansas where she is

highJy involved in the issue of

40 GUELPH ALUMNUS

missing children and internashy

tional abductions McClain who

believes her own six-year-old

daughter was taken out of the

United States more than a year

ago by her second husband is

reaching out to parents with

similar experiences through an

organization that is lobbying the

US government for tougher

international abduction laws

She invites interested fr iends

and alumni to contact her

through her Web site at

wwwinsolwwbnet-dmcclain

bull Robert (Chuck) Miller BA 77 is the park superintendent

of Killarney French River and

Maskinonje provincial parks in

Ontario He moved to Killarney

from Quetico Provincial Park

last May

bull Gordon Nicol BA 72 and MSc(Agr) 74 teaches math

and science in a bilingual prishy

vate school in Guatemala A

BEd graduate of Laurentian

he first taught in Guatemala in

the late 1970s then spent 12

years in northern Alberta as a

teacher and principal He

returned to Guatemala in 1989

A widower with three teenage

children Nicol would like to

hear from U of G friends and

acquaintances especially anyshy

one who is was or will be in

Central America He says he

could also use middle-schoolshy

level science projects Send eshy

mail to gnicoll guatenet or

write to PO Box 661447 Miami

Springs Florida 33266-1447

bull Chris Schulte BSc 71 and MSc 73 lives in Nassau

Bahamas with his wife

Andrya After graduation he

stayed in the Department of

Physics as a research associate

with Prof lain Campbell then

joined Ontario Hydro in the

early 1980s He moved to the

Bahamas in 1995 He can be

reached bye-mail at

schultebahamasnetbs

bull Sandra (Pickford) Webster BA 75 has retired from U of

Gs Co mmunications and Pubshy

lic Affairs and is living in Parry

Sound Ont where she is

doing volunteer work and

communications consulting

for the municipality Guelph

friends ca n contact her by

e-mail atswebsterzeutercom

19805

bull Sharon (Courneya) Angus BA 8 I of Surrey BC comshy

pleted a BSW at the University

of British Columbia in 1988

and has been working for the

BC government for 13 years

- first in probation and now

in the family justice division

She and her husband Ron

have three children Jason

Carly and Colin

bull Karen Beazley BLA 86 is an assistant professor and acadeshy

mic program co-ordinator at

the School for Reso urce and

Environmental Studies at Dalshy

housie University in Halifax

She is currently doing research

for a book on endangered

species initiatives and is orgashy

nizing a Nova Scotia wildlands

workshop with the Wildlands

Project for 1999 Her e-mail

address is kbeazleyisdalca

bull Caroline (Van Deudekom) and Marc Brooks both ADA 87

recently moved from Strathroy

to Owen Sound Ont where

they run a 50-acre organic farm

with their two sons

bull Virginia Burt BLA 85 startshyed her own landscape architecshy

ture firm Visionscapes in

Hamilton Ont in ] 996 She

specializes in the design of thershy

apeutic healing gardens spirit

gardens sacred spaces and

la byrin ths and recen tly designed the first healing garden

in Canada specificalJy for peoshy

ple living with HIV and AIDS

bull Joanne (Branson) Carver BA 80 earned a BEd from Brock

University in 1981 and recently

started working as a probashy

tionparole officer She Jives in

Ajax Ont and has two daughshy

ters Julie4 and Sarah 8

bull Heather Champ BA 86 is a Web-site designer in New York

City She began her work in

computer design in 1990 Her

personal site can be Found at

wwwjezebelcom

bull Laurie Gough BA 87 has become a world traveller who

writes about her experiences for

the benefit of others Her most

recent book Island of the

Human Heart A tfornans Travshyel Odyssey is now in its second

printing in Canada and will be

released next year in the United

States and overseas She has also

published Travellers Tales A

Womans World which won the

US-based Lowell Thomas

Gold Award for best travel book

of the year When not travelling

or writing she teaches English

and ESL in Guelph

bull Susan (Coles) Goulden BASc 84 and her husband

Ian are th rilled wi th their

recent adoption of Jennifer Lee

Yu who was born in June near

Leping Jiangxi Peoples Repubshy

lic of China The Gouldens

who Jive in vVaterloo Ont

thank classmate Andrea

(Kovits) Henderson for her

support throughout the adopshy

tion process Susan is currently

on leave from her position with

McCormick Canada

bull Judy (Bodendistel) Gregg BA 82 moved to Melbourne Ausshy

tralia in 1997 with her husband

and two children Carly 6 and

Adam 3 We are enjoying the

friendly people and the great

weather here she says We are

especially enjoying winter in a

place where it never gets below

zero Celsius

bull Nigel GumJey DVM 85 has been a partner in the Alta Vista

Animal Hospital in Ottawa

since 1990 was president of the bull Garry Millage AMPHI 86 bull Heidi Stephenson BA 88 is now ISO 9000 manager at

Ontario Veterinary Medical left a position as vice-president was awarded her professional Carpenter Ca nada Ltd in

Association in 1997 and recent- of national operations for acco untants designation of Wood br idge Ont He lives in

ly served on the Canadian Vetshy Scotts Restaurants KFC Divishy certified general accountant in Miss issa uga Classma tes are

erilw() Medical Associations sion to open his own consult- March 1998 She has been invited to contact him at

national issues committee He ing company Future Food employed for the last 10 years avon listarca

lives in Osgoode with his wife Equipment Ine specializes in with Dan Ball Chartered bull Michelle (Pilon) Bacon BA rvlaurecn and children Laura providing new and used restau- Acco un tant in Parry Sound 90 moved to England to study

and Matthew rant equipment and reducing O nt where she lives with her and work after graduating from

bull Muneer Hirji BComm 82 restaurant construction costs hu sband Brad two dogs and a Guelph She recently left a posishy

lives in Toronto and is vice- He also operates a restaurant horse tion with the British Ministry of

president of marke ting at SAP called Nikkos in Woodbridge bull Dawn Stetsko BSe 81 lives Agriculture and Food in York to

Canada He has three chil- Ont and is planning to open a in Langhorne Pa with her husshy become an at-home mom She

drcl1 Nadia 8 Alyssa 6 and second location band Paul and children Mark now lives in London with her

Sarah I bull Tosh Noseworthy BSe 83 is and Keith and is a research husband Tim and one-year-old

bull Brenda irwin BSe 88 is a cardiovascular ICU nurse in scientist with Bristol-Myers daughter Juliette She sends love

studying at Hong Kong Unishy sunny Tuscon Arizona After Squibb Previously she worked to Sue Heather and Sheila and

vers ity of Science and Technolshy grad uation she lived in Paris at McMaster University in can be reached bye-mail at

ogy to complete the final France for a yea r s tudied nurs- Hamilton Ont for 17 yea rs michellebacondialpipexcom

sem ester of an MBA program ing in O ttawa then lived in Saushy bull Teresa Tummillo-Goy BA bull Jeff Barlow BComm 90 is

through the University of di Arabia for two yea rs She still 86 has a law practice in Water- the training and quality manag-

British Columbia She taught loves to travel and would like to 100 Ont foc Li sing primaril y on er for two five-star luxury boushy

science for the North York hea r from fellow alumni She family law civi l litiga tion and tique h o tels in Prague - Hotel

Board of Education for five can be reached at 520-299-8344 real estate She and her hus- Palace Praha and the Hotel

years before enrolling in the bull Cecilia (Wleugel) Parkes band John Goy live in Guelph Savoy Previo usly he was execu -

MBA program BComm 85 is a graphic and have three sons John 4 tive housekeeper at the five-star

bull Jagwant Kanwar PhD 80 is designer in Toronto and says Tony 3 and Shayne 2 Renaissance Pragu e Hotel

a senior scientist in the depart- she st ill uses ber marketing bull Peter Van der Borch DVM bull Margaret Burnes-Souria BA ment of vegetable crops at Pun- background to help her busishy 88 retired in the fa ll of 1997 94 is a team leader with [011 shy

jab Agricultural University in ness succeed She specia lizes in after several years of practising don Magazin e in London Ont

India He is also director of the logo design lNith hand-drawn physiotherapy and ve terinary She married David Souria in

regional vegetable research stashy illustrations medicine and surgery He Jives July 1997 and is pursuing an tion at Usman (TaranTarn) bull Jim Parr BSc(Agr) 81 and in Pictou NS ]VlBA at the University of West-

Amritsar His and his wife MSe 89 died of cancer in bull MartyWilLiams BA 85 is ern Ontario

Sanyogita have a son Mohit June 1998 but hes being co-ordinator of student activishy bull Janine Byers BASe 95 is a and a daughter Dipika who are remembered by his university ties at University College Unishy public health dietitian at the

both studying engineering friends through the establish - versity of Toronto where he Kingston Frontenac and

Friends can write to Kanwar at ment of a mem orial fund for advises student organizations Iennox amp Addington Health

Punjab Agricultural Un ivers ity his wife Denise and children 1Ie is also chair of the U of T Unit in Kingston O nt She is Ludhiana 141 004 India Shannon and Eric Anyone Staff Association a member of getting married to Ca rl Stewart

bull Larissa Larsen BSe 89 and who would like more informa - the steering committee of the on May 29 j 999 MLA 92 received a PhD in tion can ca ll Brian Tapscott at staffs unionization drive and a bull Lisa Cherry BSe 9 1 is a urban and regional planning 519-767-3566 staff member with the student science journalist and executive

from the University of Illinois bull Cheryl (Dunlop) Reid newspaper The Varsity He can director of Artists Against

at Urbana Champaign in May BSe(Agr) 89 sta rted a new be reached bye-mail at marty Racism an international organi-

She has accepted a position at job in September as ingredient wi lliamsutorontoca za tion She is based in Toronto

Thompson Dyke and Associshy sales manager for RA bull Bonnie (Byma) BASe 96 ales a landscape architecture Chisholm o f Toronto She will 19905 and Gil Clelland BA 95 were

and urban planning firm in continue to work from her bull Claire Allison BA 94 grad- married in December 1996 and

Chicago Her husband Ernie remote offke in Fergus Reid uated from the elementary are living in Chatham On t

Poortinga DVM 89 is in his and her husband Jeff BSe teacher ed ucation program at Bo nnie works at a day-care

third yea r of an MD program (Agr) 89 have two children the University of British centre G il teaches art and

at Rush University Chicago lVlega n 4 and Elizabeth 2 Columbia in 1996 and now phys ical education They ca n -Hes looking forward to joining bull Chee Sie BA 83 is a zone teaches in Va ncou ver be reached bye-ma il at gclelshy

his wife in the ranks of the manager for the Malaysian bull JohnAvon BSdHK) 94 lan ciaccesscom employed They would both Assurance Alliance Berhad in earned an M Se in industr ial bull Kate Corn ell BA 95 of enjoy hearing from fellow Sarawak Malaysia He and his operations from Lawrence Markham Ont earned her

alumni and can be reached at wife Jesterine have a two-year- Technological University in masters in dance history from epoor tin garushurushedu old daughter Letitia Southfleld Mich in 1997 and York University in May and

WINTER 1999 41

co-authored a book titled

Toronto Dance Theatre 1968shy1998 Stages in a Journey

bull Mary Jill (McClure) Culliton BASe 90 earned

her BEd from Brock University

and her M Ed from the Univershy

sity of Western Ontario and

teaches Grade 1 in Mitchell

Ont She and her husband

Tim live in Stratford

bull Kathleen (McNutt) Daniels BASe 9 1 is a teacher and was

married on New Years Eve

1994 to Gord Daniels They live

in North Bay Ont and have a

daughter Lauren born in Febshy

ruary 1997 They are expecting

their second child in February

bull Simon Deakin BA 95 studshyied in Florence Italy for a year

then earned a master of fine art

from the Slade School of Fine

Art at the University of London

England He lives in London

bull Christie Dunbar BLA 97 spent a year after graduation

working for Niagara College in

St Catharines Ont on the

vision and design of a new

campus to be built in Niagarashy

on-the- Lake Last April she

joined the landscape architecshy

ture firm of Pollack Design

Associates in Ann Arbor Mich

bull Trina Edmonds BA 94 and

Joel Hinderle became the

proud parents of a little girl

Jordan Ashley in january 1998

and moved to a new home in

Oakville Ont in September

Edmonds works in Mississauga

as a desktop publisher with a

publishingprinting company

bull Wendy Garinther BSc 93 and Steve Decker BSe 94

were married in May Joining

them in the wedding celebrashy

tions were Cheri (Coulter)

42 GUELPH ALUMNUS

Ascroft BSe 93 Karen Leinshy

gartner BSe 94 and Barb

(Moore) Johnson BSe 94

Best man was Jeff Bond BSe

93 and MSe 96 The Deckers

live in Edmonton where Steve

is doing a PhD in chemistry at

the University of Alberta and

Wendy is working in a research

laboratory at a biopharmaceushy

tical company

bull Donna Gross BA 97 is purshysu ing a master of divinity at

Emmanuel College at the Unishy

versity of Toronto and hopes to

become an ordained minister by

2002 She lives in Guelph and

can be reached bye-mail at

donnajulietalbedonet

bull Robert Gruber BA 92 is a child-care supervisor for the

YMCA-YWCA of Guelph and

manages the Jean Little Y

Child- Care Centre He recently

developed the anti -bias proshy

gramming policy for the

Guelph Y and sits on both the

Jean Little Public School Counshy

cil and the Guelph AIDS Wall

Committee He can be reached

bye-mail at rgrubernet

comca

bull Susan Harder BSe 91 grad shyuated from the University of

Toronto Medical School in June

and has started a residency at

Santa Clara Valley Medical Censhy

tre in San jose Calif She will

follow that up with an anestheshy

sia residency at Stanford Univershy

sity Hospital in 1999

bull Marko Harjupanula BASc 93 travelled in Australia for

two months after graduating

from Guelph then returned to

his home town of South Porshy

cupine Ont where he worked

in a gold mine for four years

He entered police college in

September and started as an

opp constable in Cochrane in

December

bull Nancy Holman MA 94 moved to Vancouver soon after

graduation and initially worked

as a project co-ordinator for an

ophthalmologist In 1996 she

began working full time for the

BC Liberal Caucus I would

enjoy hearing from and catchshy

ing up with the friends I made

while studying at U of G and

working at the Brass Taps she

says Her e-mail address is nan shy

cyholmanlassgovbeca

bull Ruth Johnson BA 91 is an investment banking associate

with the mergers and acquisishy

tions group of JP Morgan in

Lond on England responsible

for financial reporting and

administration She has been in

England with her partner Alex Campbell since graduation

bull Stephen Johnson BA 94 of London Ont was a lab technishy

cian at Lenscrafters for three

yea rs and is now a full-time

student at Fanshawe College

studying air conditioning and

refrigeration He was married

in Jun e to Jennifer Fox BSc

95 a chemist at 3M Their

wedding party included Dee Popat BSe (Eng) 94 and

Patrick Wulhes BSc 95

bull Sarah (Davis) Kelly BASe 90 married Robert Kelly in

July and teaches primary

grades at an inner-city school

in Toronto

bull Cassidy Klowak BComm 97 lives in Allisshy

ton Onl and is a personal

banking account manager

with ClBC in Tottenham

bull Stephanie Lopes BSc 96 completed her MSc in repro shy

ductive biology at the Universishy

ty of Toronto and worked as

patient-care director for the

College of Family Physicians

for almost a year In September

she enrolled in medical school

at the University of Toronto

She is happy to announce that

she is engaged to be married

next summer Lopes can be

reached at slopesidirectcom

bull Natalie (Parker) MacKenzie BSc 96 earned her BEd from

the University of Western

Ontario in 1997 She married

ASLt Andy MacKenzie June 27

in Sault Ste Marie Ont and

now lives in Halifax

bull Susan MacKinnon DVM 91 is a veterinarian with HUls

Science Diet She lives in

Guelph with her husband

Brandon Wiley and gave birth

to their first child Adrianna

Nicole june 26 at home

bull Waheed Mian BA 9 1 of Cambridge Ont is a store

director with PetSmart Canada

He helped the company launch

its new retail concept in Cana da

bull Alex Mitchell BA 91 was appointed clerkdeputy treasurshy

er of the Ontario township of

Mildmay-Carrick in 1998 and

will be the clerkadministrator

of the new municipality of

Mildmay-Carrick -TeesWatershy

Culross in 1999 He was married

in january 1997 and lives vith

his wife and daughter in Mild shy

may In his spare time Mitchell

is a professional scout for the

Toronto Maple Leafs covering

southwestern Ontario

bull Sherry Morland BASc 93 of Kitchener Ont ea rned her

BEd from Brock University in

J995 and is a part-time specia l

educa tion teacher and an occashy

sional teacher with the Watershy

loo County Board of Ed ucashy

tion She married Ivan LeBlanc

in 1997

bull Gary Page BSe 91 wo rks for the Nottawasaga Valley Conshy

servation Authority where he is

able to combine his knowledge

of wildlife biology with his

artistic skills as resident graphic

designer and outdoor centre

interpreter He Jives with his

wife Di and their son judah in

CreemoreOnt

bull Elaine Pammenter BA 96 is an inventory clerk with the

Royal Collection at Windsor

Castle in England She holds a

museum management and

curatorship grad uate certificate

diploma from Sir Sandford

Fleming College and did her

internship at the Royal Albert

Memorial Museum in Exeter

England

bull Brent Raymond BSe(Env) 96 of Brantford Ont has

been working with Outward

Bound since graduation He

leads wilderness trips in Northshy

ern Ontario Horida Australia and Sabah (Malaysian Borneo) Most recently he designed and implemented a new introducshytory mountaineering course for Outward Bound Sabah on the summit plateau of Mt Kinashy

balu Those of you who know me as plate licker from U of G get in touch he says Where are you Star I miss you He can be reached by e-mail at globarwchatonca or by

phone at 519-756-1697

Alumni Patrick Abbott BSA 40 July 7 1998

Albert Allen BSA 33 Jan 161994 Agris Ansmits BA 70 and MA 73

February 1998 Barbara (Quartermain) Babcock DHE

53 June 17 1998

Wray Bond BSA 34 Sept 25 1998

Kenneth Bone DVM 38 Dec 29 1998 Evelyn (Stevenson) Buhr DHE 39

May 251998 Philip Burke BSA 43 June 21 1998

Grant Carman BSA 49 Oct 221998 Frederick Chambers BSA 41

June 1998 Wilmot Conley ADA4 7 April 7 1998 Lloyd Crewson BSA 49 Aug 261998

Jacqueline Dimock DHE 47

Aug 20 1998 John Dingwall DVM 52

April 18 1998

Lloyd Dorsey BSA 38 June 9 1998 George Duncan BSA 37

Sept 19 1998

David Dyson BSA 53 Aug 31 1998

Norma (Shannon) Edwards DHE 39

November 1997 Vincent Bud Ellis DVM 41

July 15 1998 John Jack George BSA 48

Sept 24 1998

Donald Haight BSA 33 January 1997 William Hamlyn BSA 33 Dec I 1997

Gordon Harkness BSA 49

November 1997

Charles Hollister DVM 38 June 1996 Donald Hope BSA 54 June 28 1998

Lawrence Jefferson BSA 38

Sept 3 1998

James Kelso DVM 56 July 27 1998

Dorima Lalonde BSA 34 Oct 8 1998 Mildred (Cox) Large DHE 33

June 20 1998 Roger Larson BComm 86 Feb 19 1998 Robert Lawson BSA 49 June 6 1998

bull Doug Ramsey BA 91 and PhD 98 received U of Gs highshyest graduate student award shythe Forster Medal- at June convocation for his academic and community involvement while enrolled in Guelphs new

graduate program in geography He spent the summer as a visitshying research scholar at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College in Truro before assuming his curshyrent position as assistant professhysor at Mount Allison University

David Leach BSc(Agr) 74

July 18 1998

Ian Leask DVM 74 Sept 5 1998

Sheryl Lee BSc 95 June 8 1998 Ruby Janet MacAuley DHE 30

Aug 19 1998 Parker MacKenzie DVM 38

September 1994

Jeanice MacLaren DHE 28 March 1 1997

Campbell MacMaster DVM42

Oct 8 1998

Rex McCallum DVM 43 July 71998 Jean (Dunn) McMahon DHE 31

Nov 41998

Margaret Oones) McTaggart DHE 35 Aug 81998

Patrick McTaggart-Cowan HDSc 81

Oct 21997

Malcolm McWhinnie ADA 39

July 16 1998 Mary (Townsend) Mitchell BHSc

60 Sept 281998

Marjory Monaghan DHE 29

December 1997 Charles Monk BSA 44 Aug 7 1998

Heather Neilsen BHSc 59

Oct 30 1998 Jerry Niwa DVM 62 Aug 5 1998 Henry Harry OReilly BSA 42

October 1997

James Parr BSc(Agr) 81 June 19 1998 Charles Rammage DVM 45

Oct 17 1996 Howard Rapson HDSc 90

March 1997 Clement Reeds DVM 42 Oct 16 1998

William Robinson BSA 38

Aug 23 1998

Donald Sager ADA 73 Oct 141997

Austin Schaefer DVM 37 in 1997

Sandra (Mackenzie) Schmidt DHE 59

Aug 16 1997 Margaret (Harvey) Seaborn DHE 28

July 221998

Larry Seguin DVM 47 June 12 1998

Leah Shedden DHE 31 December 1998

Edward Shuh BSA 40 July 2 1998

Ted Shutsa BSc(Agr) 66

Sept 18 1998 Jim Sinclair DVM 49 Oct 4 1998

Margaret (Brown) Sinclair DHE 20

September 1998 Eldon Smith BSA 42 Sept 9 1998

Derek Somers DVM 96 Sept 25 1998

Cheryl Lynn Sopha BA 95 Sept 20 1998

Leona (Bartlett) Stewart DHE 35

June 27 1998 Alex Thomson BSc(Agr) 69

October 1996

William Whittick DVM 55

Aug 15 1998 Joseph Wilson BSA 23 Sept 11 1998

Lloyd Woolsey DVM41 June 24 1998

Winifred Yeates DHE 28 June 11998

Faculty John Carpenter BSA 43 and MSA 48

Microbiology Dec 10 1998

David Gaskin Zoology Sept 14 1998

Gordon Macleod BSA 50 Animal and

Poultry Science Nov 26 1998 Roman Retman Languages and

Literatures Sept 28 1998

Caesar Sen off Chemistry and

Biochemistry Aug 14 1998

Percy Smith Drama Dec 10 1998

Friends Robert Clark Aug 21 1998

Ethel Hammond August 1998

Thomas Hillers Sept 28 1998 Marguerite Holbrook Aug 26 1998

Catherine Kelly Sept 27 1998

James A McKenzie May 13 1998

Kenneth McIssac Oct 23 1998

William Mutlock September 1998 Roena Patterson Sept 16 1998

Donald Priddle Aug 25 1998

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bull Karl Reimer BSe 94 comshypleted a one-year intensive

MSc in mining engineering at

Queens University and is now

a project engineer a t Enpar

Technologies Ine in Guelph

He can be contacted at reimerbservcom

bull Nancy Nauta Rowland BA 90 and her husband Dan celshy

ebrated their first wedding

anniversary in March 1998 with

the birth of their first child

Connor who beat their March

8 anniversary by two days Nanshy

cy teaches junior-grade stushy

dents and junior special ed ucashy

tion for the Peel District School

Board The Rowlands live in

Caledon Ont

bull Fraser Stables MFA 98 was heralded by Toronto Globe 6shyMail critic Betty Jordan as a

formidable new talent followshy

ing the openi ng of his debut

gallery exh ibition in July The

Scottish artists work includes

sculpture video and mixed

media that explore notions of

flu x by interrupting the moveshy

ment of forms in space

bull Erin (Smith) Scott BSe(HK) 92 and Brad

Scott BSc(Agr) 91 of Lucan

O nt were married in 1993 and

had their first child Lucas in

August Erin works for Shopshy

pers Home Health Ca re in

London Brad is with New Life

Mills in Dunfield

bull Abby Simons BSc 95 and Martin Piche BSc(Agr) 95 were married in Mont-Tremshy

blant Quebec in 1997 She is a

customer service representative

with Kantech Systems he is

superintendent of Club de golf

vallee des forts They say theyd

love to hear from anyone headshy

ing to Montreal and can be

reached at 450-348-3860

bull Sylvia Tesori BSc 95 has been doing wildlife rehabilitashy

tion for the OSPCA Wildlife

Rehabilitation Centre in Midshy

land Ont since 1996

bull Chuck Thibeault BComm 94 is general manager of the

Putting Edge Corpora tion

which has two glow-in- theshy

dark mini-golf courses in

Ontario one in Bramp ton and

one in Richmond Hill He can

be reached in Richmond Hill at

chu ckttotalnet

bull Karen Thirlwall BA 93 is a

si ngersongwriter and guitarist

who began her stage career and

released her first album The Voice Inside Me while studying

languages at U of G She has

lived and performed in

11i stler BC for three years

and recently released a second

album called Wide-Eyed She

remembers many special

fr iends m ade at Guelph and

welcomes e-mail messages to

karenthirlwallhotmailcom

bull Christie (Johnson) and Steve

Tyler both BComm 91 live in

Cambridge Ont where

Christie is a personal banking

representative for the Royal

Bank Steve works with their

third-year design professor

Nelson Hofer in Mississauga as

a design consultan t Steves proshy

jects include the Windsor Casishy

no and U of Gs Creelman Hall

They have two children Jason

5 and Marcus 1

bull Julia White BA 91 lives in Guelph and is a small-business

accountant at Taves amp Co She

recently finished courses

towards a CGA designation and

would like to hea r from other

alumni who lived in Lambton

Hall in 198788 Send e-mail to

juliawhitesympaticoca

bull Andre-Denis Wright MSc 93 and PhD 98 is doing postshy

docto ral work in Perth Westshy

ern Australia He wants his

Guelph friends and Halifax

family to know he was thinking

of them at Christmas when it

was 40 C in Australia

bull Dave Yellen BComm 90 was recently promoted at the Gordon

Food Service to new-accounts

sales specialist for Metro Toronshy

to Having been in Ottawa for

the past few years Im hoping

to reacquaint myself with old

friend s from U of G in the Metro

area he says He lives in Scarborshy

ough and can be reached at 416shy615-2745 or davidysprintca

bull Halina Zaleski PhD 92 is a tenured professor in the

departm ent of animal sciences

at the Un iversity of Hawaii in

Honolulu She is a swine speshy

cialist involved in extension

programs for an area th at covshy

ers all of Hawai i and the PacifIC

basin She can be reached by

e-mail at halinahawaiiedu

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IF THERE ARE LIVESTOCK IN THE HOCKEY ARENA and

theyre not wearing skates its College Royal If there

are students sawing logs throwing pies baking cookies

and square dancing its College Royal When the entire

University of Guelph is displayed - from arts to zooloshy

gy - March 13 and 14 1999 youll know its definitely

College Royan

Since its inception in 1925 as an agricultural and liveshy

stock show run by the Ontario Agricultural College

College Royal has grown to be a celebrated U of G trashy

dition involving all the colleges

The event is famou s in the University community

and beyond for its open-house showcase of displays and

activities The largest student-run open house in Canashy

da College Royal attracts more than 20000 visitors to

campus over one weekend

College Royal is an event of tradition that reaches

into tomorrow Agriculture and livestock shows are still

highlighted events but College Royal activities have

grown to include dog and cat shows a photography conshy

test a chemistry magic show and demonstrations on

human health and fitness The open house gives people

an opportunity to see what happens in the Universitys

leading-edge research laboratories to observe veterinary

medicine in practice to tour a sculpture studio or to

watch a theatrical performance

To celebrate the 75th anniversary of College Royal

1998 president Joe TrakaJo lnvites alumni to get involved

again by joining one of the planning comm ittees or by

participating in a favourite event Call him for more

information at 824-4120 Ext 8366 or send e-mail to

jtrakalouoguelphca

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RESEARCH UNCOVERS KEY

TO AGING RESEARCHERS may have found modern sc iences answer to th e mythica l Fountain of Youth

U of G professors John Phillips and Arthur Hilliker Department of Molecular Biolshyogy and Genetics and Gabrielle Boulianne of the University of Toronto and th e Hospital fo r Sick Children appear to have identified a critical weakness in the common fruit fl ys defence against aging

The researchers from the College of Biologica l Science di scovered that a specific cell type - th e motor neuron - is the major target for oxidative damage known for several years to be a key factor affecti ng aging and lifespa n They were able to boost a fruit flys defence against the damage by inserting th e human gene SOD1 which is known to protect against oxidashy

tive damage into the fly s DNA As a result the ave ra ge lifespa n of the fli es (us uall y about 80

days) was increased 40 per cent

PROFESSOR SURVEYS CANADIANS ON POLITICS ETHICS

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Inside Playwright Judith Thompson

BEHIND THE MASK

JUDITH THOMPSON A DRAMA PROFESSOR at the University of Guelph

since 1992 is one of Canadas finest playwrights Her complex and

sometimes disturbing plays give voice to human failings and accomshy

plishments A two-time winner of the Governor Generals Literary

Award she has received wide acclaim for her work

On the following pages the Guelph Alumnus profiles an artist

whose creativity finds expression through dialogue by offering a

faithful rendition of the dialogue between Thompson and Comshy

munications and Public Affairs writer Andrew Vowles Much like

the characters she unmasks on stage Thompson reveals both comshy

plicated and unexpected images of herself

PHOTOGRAPHY BY D EAN PALMER

20 GU ELPH A LUMNUS

NO The scene is the rehearsal space in Lower Massey Hall at the University of Guelph

Monday mid-morning Outside the warped-glass windows the first wet snow of the year

drops like pebbles Drama professor Judith Thompson is leading some 20 students in her

Acting I class through their warm-ups The students stand in a circle and take turns aiming

a mock blow as they shout the word No More she says to the less assertive To others

whose No sounds shredded over the top she holds up a hand More control Thompson

gestures to her diaphragm It has to come from here

SCENE THOMPSONS OFFICE MASSEY H ALL

On one wal l hang pictures of actors engaged

in a drama mingled with childrens sc hool

drawings The desktop is practically bare A

black purse occupies one chai r A scarf has

landed on the back of another This is where

the playw rig ht hangs her hat during her

classes and meets with studen ts She wri tes

at home in Torontos Annex neighbourhood

where she li ves with her husband Gregor

Campbell a sessional English inst ruc tor at

Guelph and their five children Ariane 13

Eli 10 Grace 8 Felicity 4 and Sophia J

SCENE U OF G LI BRARY ARCHIVES

Guelph Alumnus writer (readil1g from draft of Epilepsy and Snakes Fear as the Genesis of Theatre a talk given by Thompson to the Epilepsy Association of Metro Toronto ill 1997 The script for the ta lk is included among boxes ofcorrespo nde11ce numerous drafts of plays various newspaper and magazine artishycles and reviews ahout the playwright and her work that Thompson recently donated to the U of G Library archives)

1have known real fear only a few times

in my relatively sheltered life But 1

believe these moments of fear are

directly connected to the so urce of creshy

ativi ty within me

SCENE J UST ABOUT ANYWHERE YOU CAN

REA D A PLAY

GA writer (reading from introduction to Tho mpsons play Sled wh ich was first pro shyduced hy Torontos Tarragon Theatre in 1997)

Judith Thompson was born in 1954 in

Montreal She graduated from Queens

University in 1976 then graduated from

the act ing program of the National Theshy

22 GU ELPH ALUMNUS

I seem to give voice to people who

have no voice

atre Schoo l in 1979 Alth ough she

worked briefl y as a profess ional actor

she became more interested in writing

and at th e age of 25 a workshop of her

first scrip t The Crack walker was proshy

duced by Theatre Passe MuraiHe Her

work which includes both radio and

tel evisio n writing has enjoyed great

internationa l success

Other plays includ e The Crackshywalker White Biting Dog Pink Tornado - radio Am Yours Lion ill the Streets White Sand Perfect Pie and Stop Talking Like That- radio She is the recipient

of the Floyd S Chalmers Canadian Play

Award for Lion in the Streets in 199 1 and

Am Yours in 1987 and the Governor

Generals Literary Award for Drama for

The Other Side of the Dark in 1989 and

White Biti11g Dog in 1984

S CENE LUNCHTIME

U OF G UNIVERSITY CLUB

Thompson Im so grateful to have this job

beca use it allows me to do the work that s

important and the plays that will be my legashy

cy and tha t are what 1 feel I have to conshy

tribute to Canadian culture If I didnt have

thi s job Id ha ve to keep compromising

because my plays dont make money Theyre

always in sma ller houses I take chances

theyre not commercial They play all over

th e world but aha)s in sma ller places 1

would just have to pursue life as a screenshy

writer to make a living Thi s job gives

me the great privilege of doing my research

which is the plays that I write and the edishy

torial work that I some times do and screenshy

plays that are worthy and good projects

GA writer Audi ences and reviewers have

described your plays as dark disturbing full

of angry people full of profanity

Thompson At the risk of sounding

grandiosel seem to give voice to people who

have no voice or very little in the culture

whom people dont li sten to Liol1 in the Streets the handicapped wo man living in

the basement all on her own the yo ung girl

Iso bel The secretary stuck in this abu sive

relationship with the actor The middle-class

housewife dumped by her husband because

be doesnt like her sweatsuits and on and on

I give voice to them because I dont know

because I care abo ut them because I like to

represent them Im a lawyer Some of them

use profanity because they have really good

reason to be angry a nd most of th em are

powerless And unfortunately profanity has

a little charge Its a little source of baby powshy

er It upsets me I dont use it myself Im very

se nsitive to it

SCENE ARCHIVES

GA writer (reading essay by Thompson comshymissio ned by Toronto literary Journal Brick

in 995)

If I were not a writer 1 think 1 would

wear a riding hat With a stee l lining

Because I would be baving many more

epi leptic seizures than 1 do presentl y

Because any of the non-writer real jobs I have had caused me sleepless nights self-disgust swoll en eyes cystic acne and hearin g di sorde rs all of which increased electrical activity in my brain which I believe increases the frequenshycy of seizu res

SCENE UNI VER SITY CLUB

Thompson (discussing the critical and pubshylic reaction to her first play The Crackwalkshyer) It was slaughtered at first as all my plays have been Very bad reviews at first and then somehow they catch fi re and theres one grea t review and the others start to see something GA writer Why the bad reviews Thompson I think people might say that theyre shock ing but I dont think so not

with the movies we see and whatnot Theyre not shocking compared with Quentin Taranshytino But theyre not like anything else they dont know where to put them And when they dont know where to put them theyre dismayed I think and hostile and they feel challenged I just write as I see Im not tryshying to shock or challenge anyone I hope they do challenge - me too all of us I often feel li ke the little boy in The Emperors New

Clothes Look this is what I see

SCENE LOWER MASSEY HALL

Two Acting I students perform a scene on th e stage Their fellow stud ents sit on th e Aoo r watching Thompson sits forward on a plasti c chair forearms propped on her knees hands clasped before her Her eyes her bod y are intent on the action Later Amberley Buxton (fi rst-year student il1 Actshyil1g I who is pursuing a psychology major and a drama minor)

Its a really in tense class In one of our first classes we were to share something that had changed our perspective on li fe or how we thought every day Later during improvisashytion or scene work she had us draw on the emotional context fro m those stories to add to our acting experiences Its really intense in that way A lot of people share a lot of personal things and we use each others experiences

SCENE UNIVER SIT Y CLUll

Thompson Ea ch se meste r students go through an intensive transition In order to find your creative centre or trigger yo u need

to know yourself in an intell ectual context They reach that pl ace and find their genius My philosophy is that every stu dent has genius and its my job to uncover it My relationshi p is so intense with st udents The classes are very psychoanalyt ic It seems to tra nsform their life

SCENE LO WER MA SSEY

Buxton Even if we haven t encountered a similar situat ion in real life she has us draw on somethi ng similar For ollr exa m Im doing a monologue My character has been abused I havent been abused myself but I have to draw on a si tuation where I had sim shy

itar feel ings draw on some experi ence Like being teased at schoo l Even so mething as small as tha t if you find a way to get back to that

SCENE UNIVERSITY CLUll

Thompso n I llsed to be terrified In high school Id spend half my time in the nurses room because the idea of having a se izu re in front of yo ur peers at that age was just petrifying I did finall y have a seizure but luckil y no one was around at the time So I

think all of that puts me in touch with a lot in life I might not have been in touch with being fairly privileged not rich but eno ugh to be middle class A lot of my work is about class abo ut the class differentiation in Canashyda Ive somehow felt more all ied to a less adva ntaged class My gra ndfather once sat as prime minister of Australia My grandshyfa ther on the other side was a member of the Royal Society an entomologist but his mother died in childbirth and he was brought up as a cousin on the farm outside of London And my Australian grandfath er was one of 1I siblings in a shack by the side of the railroad His father had di ed He walked barefoot to school so I th ink because its just two generations away I feel it in my bones and my blood GA writer How did you get to writing Thompson Through ac ting Ive been involved in thea tre since I was II years old I was Helen Keller for a university show my mother directed She had an [vIA in th eatre and she taught it at Queens I was in TILe Crushycible when I was 12 in Kingston and Jean Brodie and on and on and on I would just lisshyten to aU these wonderful lines and words and it all kind of enrered me And acting is where I reaU y found my niche as a person The theshyatre became my home Then I went to theatre schoo l as an actress but I started to create mask characters through improvisation Thats where I really took off in a big way and where I found myse lf very very excited GA writer VVhat we re you excited abo ut Thompson I was doing the writing And I felt frankly that I did it much better than most of the texts I was working with Not Shakespeare but and its not a matter of better it s thats where I belonged So I would go home and write down the charshyacters that r crea ted that day in class and make th em talk to each odler and thats how The Craekwalker happened

I spent a summer in Toronto looking for acting work and I go t a few jobs But every day for a co uple of hours I would write at a typewri ter and I found these voices comshying At the end of it I sa id to someone You know I think this isnt bad I think this might eve n be a play At the Na tional Theatre shySchool they said to me Youre pretty handy with these monologues but dont ever think you could write a play (Pause) I enjoy telling th at tale on them

WINTER 1999 23

SCENE LOWER MASSEY

Buxton It was my fint time doing mask work She had us sit with the masks on and just sta re at ou rselves in the mirror We did it for an hour staring at the mask feelin g the mask It was a phenomenal eilVer ience the Wily youre able to transform yourself It was almost as if you werent look ing at you That helped yo u to walk differently You were able to shed your

own movements and personality

SCEN E UNIVfRSITY CLU B

Thompson I think thil t seizures can transshylate into creativity are part of me as a cre shyltltive artist Peop le in the medical busin ess are very skeptical of ltll1ything like this But I fee l it s because I have fewer inhibitors in my bra in You have these inhibitors and thats what medication helps But if youre epi leptic your inhibitors Ment working as well to put out the electrical fire so it spreads I think the door to my un conscious is kind of flapping around so J think that helps creatively

SCENE MA SSEY HALL

Student (steppingforwmd) NO I Thompson (quietly) Good

SCENE ARCHIVES

GA writer ( reading fiom Epilepsy and Sna kes)

I have no doubt that my experience with epi lepsy has con tributed to my creative wo rk partly because it hE Jped me to understand what it is to be marginalized to be isolated to be feJ rful and to be out of control and eve n to be mortal

SCENE U NIVERS IT Y CLU B

Thompson Unchecked id can mean scrawlshying on the walls crazy things muttering in stree t corne rs beca use th ey re all id no su perego But I had the luck to be born into a theatrical famiJy my mother havin g the theatrical experience so I was exposed to it Lots of books I was taken to 1 lor of plays Having ep il epsy my first seizure when I was nin e J was able to link with that If I hadnt had those advantages who knows the se izur es migh t have ju st made me a depressed person an angr y person And you re touched with mortality you always live und er siege a slight fear of having a se izure Its much less so now with me

24 GUELPH ALUM NUS

SCENE UNIVERSITY CLUB

Thompson Ive always been a mimic in a cheap way I could always mimic we ll I would raLk to someone on a bus and I could do them exactly Thats kind of dangerous because it can be pretty shallow But it showed me ltl way into the person throu gh voice And once J could do that like a pupshypet something would click and I cou ld get

in in a deeper way J need to get so thoroughly into the charshy

acte rs and their state of mind and especialshyly tapping repressed el11orion which gets you in touch with your id or unconscious li fe If

I take little sections of

myself and grow them in a petri dish of the play

one character is about rage I have to tap into my own rage and that s why the monoshylogues so things can just flow and then I can retrieve things from the past and remember things So its not working from here (gesshytures to midriff) it s wo rking fro l11 here (gesshytures to head)

Mo nologues for me are always the key to findin g out who th e character is because if you cant make them rant for fi ve minutes you dont know th em Tha ts what I tell my

playwriting students I want to see r-wo pages of this characters mouth In other words to speak for five minutes we have to have

so mething to say We have to have something we feel passionately about something were angry about and if we dont have something to say for fi ve minutes who are we

SCENE UN IVERSTTY CLUB

GA writer Vhere do you see what eventushyally becomes a play such as Sled 1110mpson I was at a lodge and saw a moose that s one thin g And that made me think about winter and how the country is always with us as Ca nadians Even in the urban censhytres we ca rr y it wi th us Theres always this

see ming division between the country the wilderness and civilized centres but its the same The wildness of the moose and the

hunt and the bear is in our neighbourhoods I guess its like Lion in the Streets it must be a thing with me And also the exquisite beaushyty and thats how most of the world thinks of Canada as the wilderness Its not quite how we think of ourselves but it is partly So that made me want to do something abo ut the Nor th violence in the North

As far as th e old mans stories that was my neighbour and he told me all those stoshyries they were all true except mltlyb e one or so and I thought Theyre amazing They teilus what our neighbourhoods Me really about and Toro nto what the city is how its const ru cted Toronto is our stories and in th ese neighbourhoods you have an urbane entertainer li ving nex t to an 80-year-old Italia n man and thats the beauty ofToronshyto ltllld its the way th e world is chan ging The stric t class divis ions and culture divishysions th eyre no longer as defin ed as they we re espec ially in th ese neighbourhoods the great pioneering experimen t GA writer Do your chi ld ren see your work Thompson No None of my children can see my plays Ariane saw f Am Yours in New York when she was about nin e I do cl eal with the dark and whats tru e and my chilshydren aren t ready for that Im probab ly more protective th an mos t mothers Walk them

to school till theyre 13 that ki nd of thin g GA writer Yo u we re intervi ewed in the Globe alld Mail recently in a story about motherh ood dnd th e muse How do yo u handle th e demand s of motherh ood and writing

Thompson If Im in the situation where I have 15 or so hours of child care a week Im OK because when Im with them I wa nt to be with them and when ]m doing my work

th ats what I clo But if I do something like a worko ut thell a black cloud descends The guilt and the black cl oud th at descend as I take off on my bike it s huge Then once the workout s finished I know it was d good

thing to do although it s also cut into my

work time J do feel guilty about the nilture of my work too in that my kids cant see it Am I drawing on a part of me thats not good as a mother The oth er part of me is th at I make up bedtime stories and bake coo kies and all thlt stuff ]m probably a

rather operatic mother I cry at movies laugh too hard __

SCENE ARCI-I[VES

GA writer (reading fiom Epilepsy and Snakes)

1

Although being a dramatic writer has

given me a reputation in my cou ntr y

and a strong identity the actof writin g

or creating character leaves me SOJlle shy

times feeling that I have no id entity at

all Every once in a while when I am not

writing or tending to my four children

I feel I 1m falling again down th e terrishy1 ble hole with nothing to hold on to

And I believe this falling this identity

pain is a result of me using the very

essence of Ill yself to create character in

a dramatic wo rk r wonder so metimes

if J illl1 betraying my soul in a way by

using its essence However J have found

some comfo rt in the words ofWilliall1

Blake Essence is not Identity but from

Essence proceeds Identity and from one

Essence may proceed many Identities

as from one Affection Jlla y proceed

many thoughts If the Essence was

the sa me as the Identit y there could be

but one Identity which is fal se Heaven

wo uld upon this plan be but a clock

but one and the sa me Essence is th ereshy

fore Essence and not Identity

SCENE UNIVER SIT Y CLUB

Thompson I always put myself in a play and

never In other words I take little sections of

myself and grow them in a petri dish of th e

play So if Ive found a moment where Im a

bit lazy ]11 grow it and milke the character

very lazy o r impatient or whatever So I take

these moments because we all have all of

them grow th em and create this Frankenshy

steins monste r a character right out of parts

body parts and psychological parts often of

myself and then observe things in other peoshy

ple but I have to find it in myself to make it

work

SCENE AR C H1V ES

GA writer (reading from Epilepsy al1d Snakes)

My self asserted itself as a kind of quishy

et Lucille Ball c1ulllsy and absent-mindshy

ed At least this gave me an identity and

was a small aCI of slbo tage The next

assertion was an act of unconscio us rev shy

olution th e grand mal seizure that

almost killed me And the next one was

The Crackwalker my first play And this

is how I raged against the machine and

took space in the world And now not

surprisin gly I am seizure-free

SCENE LOWER MASSEY

After another pair of acto rs rUllS through

their scene Thompson directs them to begi n

again She interrupts frequently to question

the students about actions feelings motishy

vations At one point 8S the students pause

to consider her words Thompson turns to

the rest of the class erect in her cha ir

Thompson Isolate the mom ent The great

thing about the stage is th at it isolates the

moments that just race by us_

SCENE UNIVERSITY CLUB

Thompson Ive just written my next play

which is not ca lled Pefeet Pie but thats its

working title because it came from a mon oshy

logue called Perfect Pie But now its a full

two- haul play in which the second wom3n

comes back and tben I have them as yo ung

girls too It goes back ~nd forth and its very

exciting I worksbopped it in the spring and

in December at tbe Tarragon and it will go

on in o ne year At the sa me time lm wr itshy

ing a feature film for Rho mbus based on the

play Pe feet Pie

SCEN E UNlV ERSITY CLUIl

Thompson My pIalS are Illusically written

And if somebody doesnt get the music they

dont feel it and go with the rhythm s it

throws the whole thing off I hear the plays

I hea r them I write with my ear They

change 1 lo t but it s according to rhythm

I ll be sitting in rehea rsal listening and if it

does nt so und ri ght I change it so that its

rhythmic

SCIi -JE J UST AllOUT ANYWHERE YOU CA N

READ A PLAY

GA writer (readmg ji-olll the script ofvVbite

Biting Dog first produced at the Tarragon Th eatre in 1984)

Beciluse of the ex treme and deliberate

lllu sica lity of this play any allempts to

go aga inst the tex tual rhythms such as

th e breaking up of an unbroken senshy

tence the tlking of a pause where none

is written in are DISASTROUS The

effect is like beil1g in a small plane and

suddenly turning off the ignition It all

falls down This play III list SPIN not

just turn around

SCfN e LOWER MASSEY

Her students listen as Thompson stands to

complete a so liloq uy abo ut cap turing the

rhythm of the language on the stage The

wide sleeves of her ank le-length dress slide

down her forea rm s as she ges tures

Thompson Listen to the music of the

scene Each playwright writes their own

symphony

SCENE U NIVERSlTY CLUB

Thompson Ive been pretty directed to this

ii-om an carly age although if I had done anyshy

thing else it probab ly wou ld have been some

form of social work I would have been smokshy

ing three packs of cigarettes a day and workshy

ing il1 an office somewhere up in Scarborough

SC EN E AfltCHIVES

GA write r (reading from Brick interview of Thompson by Eleanor Wachtel ]99] )

In th e thea tre I think what one mllst

do is co nfront the truth confront the

emot ional truth of our li ves which is

mired in the swamp of minuriae

everyday minutiae Maybe it has to be -tl111 way because we couldnt confront

it every day But I think the th eatre

IllllSt Im not interested ill th eatre that

doesnt ga

W1NTER 1999 25

Never mind fish wars pitting countries against one another - here in Canada scientists and policy makers cant agree on who should control the preservation and management ofour own fishery resources BY ANDREW VOWLES

Ca

as

ollapsed cod stocks to the east

On the West Coast laquofish wars

_ rlTDT Pacific salmon enmesh

Canada and the United States

At various points in between fisheries scishy

entists and managers grapple with everyshy

thing from overfishing of freshwater

stocks to invasion by exotic molluscs

What is to be done about Canadian fishshy

eries And what role is being p layed by

fisheries and aquatic scientists at the Unishy

versity of Guelph

-

dock pollock red fish and flatfish made up just under half of Canadas total landings on the Atlantic coast (720000 tonnes of fish and shellfish were caught in 1994 represhysenting a total landed value of $11 billion) Two year~ later that proportion had dropped to 21 per cent with shellfish and open ocean fish specie~ notably Atlantic

Begin in the Atlantic The crisis on the East Coast has become a disaster So says laquoWE NEED TO TRY TO SEPARATE OUTGuelph zo ology professor John Roff enushymerating the litany of woes that have surshy

THE FISHERIES MANAGEMENT DECISIONSfaced from Ca nadas marine fishery in the past decade Although some fish and shellshy

FROM THE POLITICAL DECISIONSfi sh are holding their own stocks of other species have experienced declines raquo

ASSOCIATED WITH THE FISHE RY

down that fishery in 1992 Over fishing and under which it has been buying up fishers

Even when stocks do rebound rarely do we fully und erstand why he says Theres a complex of problems to be disshy more for cod stocks to rebound says Roff entangled involving overflshing long- and co-editor with colleague Prof Moira Fergushyshort-term climate change and changes in son of the respected Canadian Journal ofFishshyocean current systems and productivity eries and Aquatic Sciences A wise course of

And of course the once-thriving northshy action for a fisherman in Newfoundland ern cod that first drew Europeans with their would be to seU his licence and do something nets to the Grand Banks 500 years ago have else he says (Last fall the federal governshycoUapsed to the point that Ottawa had to shut ment announced its final retirement program

the failure of federal fisheries managers to heed the warnings of scientists have been blamed for the coUapse Even with the lllorashytoriulll in place it may take two decades or

licences in Atlantic Ca nada and Quebec) In 1992 - the year Ottawa imposed its

moratorium on the northern cod fisheryshylandings of groundfish including cod had-

salmon making up the difference [n 1995 the total groLlndfish catch reached its lowshyest level in two decades

Unlike the Ea st Coast fi shery which relies most ly on ocea n-living fish the Pacifshyic fishery is dominated b) migratory species Some 300000 tonnes of fish and shellfish were harvested along the west coast in 1994 worth a landed value of $550 million (Arcshytic marine fisheries and their management differ from those on the coasts although cOl11mercial and recreational fisheri es are small here food fisheries are important to

U OF G AQUATIC SCIENCES EXPERTISE CATCHES WORLD ATTENTION

Landlocked in the middle of the courltry U ofG nevertheless boasts fish pathology and diseases including farmed fish diseases fish an enviable record and range ofexpertise in aquatic sciencesshy hormones and reproductive physiology including the effects of marine and freshwater - dating back to the late 1960s Thats when environmental contaminants early life history and behaviour Prof Keith Ronald thell chair of the Department ofZoology (and of fi shes and biology of tuna later dean of the College ofBiological Science) began a marine biolshyogy program at the University Today Guelph has the largest Partnered with the A-erod Institute of Ichthyology in U of group of ichthyologists - scientists who study fish - in Gs Aquatic Sciences Facility the r[agen Aqualab is an North America investigating a wide variety ojIre~hshy aquatic research and teaching facililY for studying water alld marine fisheries and aquatics topics aquatic organisms Environmentally controlled

rooms in the Aqualab allow faculty and students to U of Gs Axelrod Institute of Ichthyology houses simulate habitats as diverse as the Arctic Ocean and one of the worlds largest collections of museumshy tropical rainforest pools The facility is named for quality fish fossils donated to the University by its principal benefactor Rolf Hagen founding presshy

ident of Canadas largest pet store 5llpplier J 989 The institute which provides space for fisheries research and visiting scientists brings together 12 core U of G U of G faculty edit four internationally recognized journals researchers in fisheries and aquatic sciences whose interests and in ichthyology fisheries and aquatic science Awarded to U of G by expertise span environmental contaminants and parasitic disshy the National Research Council in 1997 the Canadian Journal of eases evolutionary genetics of marine and freshwater fishes Fisheries al1dAquatic Sciellces is co-edited by zoology professors

US ichthyologist and author Herbert Axelrod in

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northerners including shrimp Atlantic salmon and arctic char) Accountin g fOI almost half of that total were Pacific salmon which ret urn from the ocean to spawn in home streams and rivers up and down the coast of Alaska British Columbia and Washshyington There are actually five main spec ies of sa lmon that run down the BC coast shysockeye (t he most va luable commercial species) chinook coho chum and pinkshyfrom spring to December

Its a very complex jurisdictional and multi-user problem says Roff Bes ides degradation of freshwater spawning habishytats and ocean climate effects of El Nill0 the West Coast fishery is a cauldron of ten shysions between various groups perennial fish wars between Ca nada and the United States disputes that pit sport fishers against native fishing rights Recognizing the problems of low ocean productivity habitat damage overfishing and indiscriminate fishing pracshytices that take weak and strong stocks alike Ottawa is developing a new policy to guide Canadas Pacific salmon fisheries focusing on conservation sustainable use and improved decision-making

That potent mix of overfishing and habishytat degrada tion is also a problem for Canashydas freshwater fisheries A report tabled last fall by the federal standing committee on

fisheries and oceans called for more federal funding for research and fisheries programs in central and arctic regions of Canada Accord ing to that report the Grea t Lakes commercial fishery is one of the largest freshwater fisheri es in the world worth an average landed value of more than $40 milshylion a year and an eco nomic impact of at least $250 million Some 90 per cent of that catch is exported The neck lace of lakes threading its way to the St Lawrence River also supports the largest fres hwater sports fishery in the world 800000 Ontarians fish on the Great Lakes eve ry year contributing $850 million to the economy

In Manitoba managers are concerned about the long-term susta inability of freshshywater fish stocks particularly declines in Lake Winnipeg and the northern part of the province caused by overfishing environshymental degradation loss of prime spawning habitat and predators The province has seen stocks rise and fall particularly of pickerel Manitobas highest-priced fish In an attempt to manage the fishery in a sustained fashion the province recently introduced a qu ota entitlement system for anglers Joe OConshynor director of the fisheries branch of Manshyitobas Department of Na tural Resources says his department is wrestling with the environmental threats on fish habitat posed

by farming and hydroelectric development In Ontario fisheries are genera lly in

pretty good shape says Evan Thomas fishshyeries section manager of the fish and wildlife branch of the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (OM NR) Ontario supports almost half of all recreational fishing in Canada with more than two million adult anglers and more than $2 billion a year spent on recreational fishing in the province Onta ri o is also home to Canadas larges t commercial freshwater fishery worth abo ut $40 million a Yfar in land ed value

Thomas says over fishing is still the numshyber one problem Others include habitat loss the potential effects of climate change and contin ued invasion by exotic species Among the management opt ions his minshyistry is exploring are more effective fisheries regulation more rapid inventory and assessshyment techniques fish culture for rehabilishytating populations and controlling nutrient inputs into lakes and rivers

We are clearly looking for federal supshyport for the sea lamprey control program he says referring to recommendations in the recent federal fisheries committee report as well as changes to the federal Fishshyeries Act to hand the province more authorshyity over fish habitat protection

Concerns continue in Ontario over

Moira Ferguson and John Roff Fish Physiology and Biochemistry the top-ranked journal in its field is edited by Prof John Leathershyland chair of the Department of Biomedical Sciences in the Ontario Veterinary College University professor emeritus Eugene Balon has served as editor-in-chief of Environmental Biology ofFishes since he founded the publication in 1976 Zoology professor David Noakes edits Guelph Ichthyology Reviews whose articles synthesize and review all aspects of fish science Both of the latter

Under the Canadian contribution to the project - furided by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council - about 80 federal government and university researchers are trying to learn more about how bioshylogical and physical processes in the oceans affect fish stocks

Zoologychair Prof Paul Hebert has led a Guelph initiative to develshyop multimedia learning resources d1at teach student~ from

are published in the Axelrod Institute of Ichthyology

Based on data from geographic information sysshytems zoology professor John Roff has mapped types of habitat associated with various species of fish and other organisms around Canadas coasts and throughout tl1C Great Lakes the first time such

e1ementaIy grades to university about Canadas aquatshyic environments His department has developed a series of CD-ROMs that provide information on all the major animal groups in the Great Lakes Already available are educational CD-ROMs on Canadas aquatic environments (also available on

d1e World Wide Web) Great Lakes biodiversity and a marine classification system has been developed in this country His report was commissioned by World Wildlife Fund Canada for its Endangered Spaces Campaign and contributes to RoWs work as chair of the scienrillc committee of Globec (Globshyal Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics) a two-year-old international research program intended to better understand ocean ecosystems

birds of the Great Lakes The latter is the first disc in a series called the Great Lakes Faunal Atlas which will eventually cover mammals amphibians reptiles fish and crustaceans

The Alma Aquaculture Research Station es tablished in 1989 and funded through a 20-year development grant by the Ontario

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various invas ive species that have turned up

in the Great Lakes - notably sea lampreys

zebra mussels and quagga mussels - many

of which arrive in ballast water of ocea nshy

going vessels (Many have also found their

way into Manitoba says OConnor who

points to the effects of sm elt on whitefish

the main commercial species in Lake Winshy

nipeg) Among o ther meas ures the federal

fish eries committee report called for guarshy

anteed funding for sea lamprey control and

for scienti fic research

I think more money will come says

Prof Bill Beamish Zoology a commissionshy

er on the Great Lakes Fisheries Commission

the 40-year-old governing body that co-ordishy

nates resea rch programs between Canada

and the United States and advises both govshy

ernments It was a review led by Beamish

more than a decade ago on the sta te of

Canadas freshwater fi sheries that provided

the scientific underpinnings for a landmark

report published in 1988 that spelled ou t a

way in freshwater fisheries is a lon g-te rm

project fund ed by the OMNR and the

Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO)

to re-establish native species in their origishy

nal habitats a round Lake Ontario iVlari e

Clement a graduate student of zoology proshy

fe sso r David Noakes is studying Atlantic

sa lmo n which was wiped out of the lake

CONSIDERING WE HAVE THE

BEST FISHERY SCIENCES COMMUNITY

IN THE WORLD WE OUGHT TO

BE DOING BETTER

national strategy for freshwater fisheries

Beamish who has studied sea lampreys

for several decades at Guelph and also invesshy

tigates fish habitat loss says money is need shy

ed to help researchers investigate biological

controls as an alternative to chemical lamshy

pricides The recen t repo rt also notes the

need to address the effects of other nonshy

native exotic species on n ative fish stocks

and water quality and calls on Ottawa to

stem the funding decline in freshwater scishy

ence over the last two decades

One example of the kind of work under

and its tribu ta ry streams near the beginning

o f this century by overflshing and habitat

destruction and alteration Last fall Clement

placed eggs into a site in the Credit River

she has been monito ring oxygen availab il shy

ity durin g their incu ba tion to gau ge sedishy

mentation rates in the river This spring and

summer she wili study how newborn fi sh

interact with other species in th e r ive r

C lement says her docto ral research proshy

ject is but one piece of a larger project aimed

at re-establishing the heritage species Othshy

er researchers hop e to learn whe ther th e

Ministry of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs brings together

researchers for interdisciplinary studies of protein requirements

of arctic char improving fish semen and egg management proshy

cedures and understanding hormone activity in fish The station

acts as a quarantine unit for new fish varieties entering Ontario

and serves as a base for parts of certificate courses and a masters

program in aquaculture

farms in Canada He and fellow Guelph zoologists Eugene Balon

(co- founder of the Coelaca nth Conservat ion Council) and Jim

Bogart also identified and characterized the coelacanth which

had been thought extinct until a specimen was landed off Africa

in the la te 1930s Noakes confirmed the identity of ano ther of

these living fossils discovered in 1997 it appears to belong to a

second popula tion living in the Indian Ocean about 10000 kilo-

metres away from tha t first find

Zoology professors Moira Ferguson and Roy Danzshy

mann use molecular genetics techniques to identishy Zoology chair Paul Hebert was the first scientist to

fy DNA markers used to pinpoint the location of identify the presence in the Great Lakes of zebra

genes associated with growth spawning times mussels a prolific invader that has wreaked havoc

rates of development maturity and temperature in many ways from clogging water-intake pipes to

tolerance in rainbow trout Isolating and identifyshy consuming plankto n thus allowing light to reach

ing genetic markers fo r desirable traits will help fish bottom-dwelling organisms that may displace native

farmers and breeders cross-breed more effectively species The first researcher to report on the biology

conservationists will be better able to manage and preserve and impact of the zebra mussel on the Grea t Lakes was

genetic variability among wild fish stocks Guelph zoology professor Gerald Mackie whose studies showed

that the organisms faster growth rate and higher fecundity and

Zoology professor David Noakes has stuclied varieties of arctic population density will probably enable it to displace many native

char native to Iceland to find ones suited to being raised on fish bivalves and disrupt entire lake ecosystems

30 GUELPH ALUMNUS

LEADING RESEARCH

The University of Guelph has one orthe largest and most active groups of aquatic biologists in the world

bull More than 50 faculty and 100

graduate students research

assocrates and postdoctoral

fellows

bull Over 1000 published scientific

articles books monographs

films and videos in the past

decade

bull Interdisciplinary programs

involving more than a dozen

academic departments

bull The largest group ofichthyoloshy

gists (scientists who study

fish) in North America

bull Collaborative research with

government environrriental

organizations and academic

institutions worldwide

bull Expertise covering the entire

aquatic food chain from plankshy

ton to whales

bull Leading developments in comshy

puter-based educational mate-

rials in aquatic sciences

bull A new $6-million Aquatic

Sciences Facility

bull Research support from national

and international agencies

business and industry

adults will be able to return from the open

lake to their stream spawning grounds If

they come back will the eggs survive she

says If were able to show the eggs can surshy

vive that will be very encouraging for

Atlant ic salmon restoration

What is to be done to ensure the survival

not just of Atlantic salmon in Lake Ontario

but also of the co untrys freshwater and

m ar ine fisheries We need to try to sepashy

rate o ut the fisheries management decisions

from the political decisions associated with

the fi shery says zoology professor Glen Van

Der Kraak director of U of Gs Axelrod

Institute of Ichthyology Van Der Kraak who

studies the effects of toxic contaminants on

fi sh populations says policy mltkers need

to rely on the advice of fisheries sc ientis ts

making conservative harvest ing estimates

So often scientists make decisions and then

are overrun by the politics he says (Never

mind fish wars pitting co untries against one

another - here in Ca nada scientists and

policy makers wres tle over the question of

who should be respo nsible for what aspects

of the countrys fisheries as witnessed in a

war of words played out in the Canadian Journal ofFisheries and Aquatic Sciences over

the past 18 months between biologists at

several Canadian univers ities and the DFO

over the relationship between fishery sc ishy

ence and fishery policy)

Roff says theres nothing unique about

Canadas fish problems Its not really a

Canadian problem its a worldwide probshy

lem The only fisheries worldwide that are

not over fished appear to be some not yet

fully exploited in the Indian Ocean

After nearly four decades of growth the

worldwide marine ca tch levelled off in the

1990s to some 90 million tons a year The

m ain problems coastal pollution habitat

destruction and particula rly overfishing

Noakes editor of the journal Guelph Ichthyology Reviews contrasts the few hunshy

dred people who might have made th eir

livelihood aboard small wood en boats on

the Grand Banks several centuries ago with

the massive factory trawlers that now scour

todays coast People are much too efficient

in terms of catching fish he says Noakes

concurs with fellow Guelph researchers that

conservation of fish stocks has to reach the

top of fishery managers agendas

hat does set Canada apart is the breadth

and depth of expertise in fisheries and aquatshy

ic sciences in this country - rather a parashy

dox when you consider that Canadas record

in fisheries preservation is apparently no betshy

ter than that of many other nations

Considering we have the best fishery scishy

ences community in the world we ought to

be doing better says Roff Within the last

decade th e federal government withdrawal

o f support from the Department of Fishshy

eries and Oceans and university researchers

has been massive At the very time when the

resources were gett ing into severe problems

and when the federal government ought to

have been funding research theyve been

substantially withdrawing resources ga

DONT WAIT UNTIL SPRING The opportunity to double the impact of your gift to the University of Guelph ends on March 31 1999 Until that date all gifts designated to endowed student financial aid at Guelph will be matched by the Ontario Student Opportunity Trust Fund (OSOTF) That means that every dollar you commit will contribute two dollars to financial aid for Guelph students

If you would like to support our students throug h OSOTF you still have a w indow of oppor nishyty to have your do l1a rs doubled But only until March 31 1999

If you have already made a pled ge to OSOTf through U of Gs ACCESS Fund thank you [or your ge nerous support Please comp lete your payme nts by March 31 1999 to e nsure that your gi ft is matched

For more information contact Rudy Putns in Guelphs office of Development and Public Affairs at -519-824-4120 Ext 6384 Fax 519-822-2670 E-mail alumniuoguelphca

WINTER 1999 31

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

n ALUMNI PROF IL E

LETS LOOK AT THE OPPORTUNITIES

WHEN I-IE BECA ME president of the Unishy

versity of Guelph Alumni Association

(UGM) in June Jim Weeden brought new

enthusiasm and ideas for encouraging alumshy

ni to stay in volved with their alma mater

And he wants to start with students

Weeden reca ll s his own ex perience at

U of G where he fo und a sense of commushy

nity by living in residence and ge tting

involved in college activiti es But when he

graduated with an engin ee ring degree in

197 1 he left to begin a caree r and says he

didnt think much about the University until

he needed it again in the 1980s to pursue a

graduate degree in agricultural enginee ring

He spent his early career working as an

agricultural extensi o n engineer for the

Ontario Department o f Agriculture and is

stiU with its successo r the Ontario Ministry

of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs

(OMAFRA) Weed en completed the masshy

ters degree in 1986 when he was head of the

agricultural engineering program and extenshy

sion services a t Centralia College of Ag rishy

cultural Technology

In 1987 he moved to the ministrys plant

industry branch as program m anager and

later held the same position in th e resources

manage m ent branch Sin ce then he has

worked for OMAFRA in Woodstock and

now Stratfo rd He is technical adviser fo r

Ontarios Enviro nmental Farm Planning

Program is respo nsible for o ther environshy

m ental programs and consults with the Minshy

istry o f th e Environment on local agriculshy

tural pollution problems

w Weed en got involved with the Universishy sect tys a]u111ni programs by serving on the first g z board of the Engineering Alumni Associashy

~ tion when it was established in 1990 From

~ 1991 to 1994 he sat on the University Senshy

~ ate and its Research Board and for the pas t

~ four years) hels been on the UGAA executive

32 GUELPH A LU MNUS

From the presidents chair Weeden looks

at the bro ad picture o f UG AA se rvice and

recognizes that the associa tio n owes a debt

o f gratitude to hundreds of alumni volunshy

teers who ha ve helped to build the organishy

za tion over the yea rs and to University staff

in Development and Public Affairs (DampPA)

who support UGAA initiatives and alumni

programs Thro ugh their efforts he says the

a lulllni associati o n is rea ching out to all

U of G alumni Graduates who have mainshy

tained a close relationship with the Univershy

sity thro ugh their college or academic disshy

cipline those who feel an affiliation because

o f their participation in a thletics residence

life o r extracurricular activiti es and even

HIGHLIGHTSmiddot GRAD NEWSmiddot OBITUARIES bull CALENDER

those who have not kept in touch are part of the constituency served by UGAA

Weed en says the alumni association needs to strengthen its relationship with all alumni and he believes the effor t must start on campus with students Hed like to proshymote the idea of alumni involvement as ear shyly as a students second year We need to give students some reason to be con nected and an efficient vehicle for maintaining that connection he says

For many students and new graduates the social functions supported by UGAA and the opportunities for professional networking will be important says Weeden but greater rewards are there for those who join the effort to enhance the Universitys acade mic goals

In todays economic and political envi shyronme nt individual financial support and the advocacy of post-secon dary education are important roles for alumni he says How many people ac tively get involved with the debate on whether universities are job-trainshy

ing centres or centres of education Yet some of our alumni are extremely adept in such roles Weeden would like to cultivate past and current stud ent ac tivists as supporters of public education after they graduate

As Weeden leads UGAA into a new year he says he will work with other UGAA volshyunteers and DampPA staff to find new ways for the association to interact with students and alumni One id ea is to expand UGAAs Intershynet presence by adding a Web message board that will encourage alumni to discuss career and campus issues online and a reply form that will allow them to quickly update addressshyes employment status and other information

Weeden says its important to stay focused on UGAAs key prioriti es but he welcomes any and all new ideas on how to accomplish them All it takes to share your ideas with the UGAA executive is a stamp or a push of the send button when youre clicked on alumniuoguelphca

HKHB SPIRIT RISES

ENCOURAGED BY THE SPIRIT

shown by fellow alumni at last

summers reunion the executive

of the Human Kinetics Human Biology

Alumni Association is moving ahead

with more opportunities for alumni to

stay in touch The association plans to

launch a Web site that will be accessed

through the U of G site

A wine-and-cheese reception already

planned for June 19 1999 wiil try to

build on the success of the 1998 event

which attracted alumni from as far away

as Chicago and as far apart as the 19605

and 1990s Guests had a chance to tour

U of Gs new Health and Performance

Centre and performance testing

labs The program was co-ordinated wiLh

A REFLECTION OF PRIDE

Members of the OAC

Class of 52 join Arboshy

retum staff on the front patio

of the Arboretu m Centre

beside a new reflecting pool

that was built last summer

as a class project Pictured

from left are Murray Parker

Ann Smith George Smith

Jack Sargent Catherine Gibb

Robin Shaw-Rummington

Marilyn Swaby BA 69

Bev Healy B5e(Agr) 72

Norm Watson Una Venerus

Ron Costen Henry Kock

BSe (Agr) 77 and Ric

Jordan BA 75

Prof Jack Barclay chair of the Departshy

ment of Human Biology and Nutritional

Sciences and Prof Susan Pfeiffer Memshy

bers of the Human KineticsHuman

Biology Alumni Association executive arc

Janet Leonhard 82 president Carolyn

Moore 83 vice-president Alison Locker

97 secretary Mark Mulholland 79

lreasurer and t-iary Ann Crape 76

These officers are also spea rheading a

new initiative to benefit students - an

undergraduate award that will provide

$250 and lifetime mem bership in the

association To commcnt on these and

other initiatives contact Leonard by

e-mail at Janel_Leonhardinwrbsb

eduonca or Moore at cturveyagec

uoguelphca

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alumni

Multimedia lab buzzes

THE DONALD FORSTER RoOiv

has become one of the

busiest spots in th e Unishy

versity of Guelph Liblary since the

addition of 70 state-of-the-art

computer workstations that were

supported by alumni do nations

to the Alma Mater Fund (AM F)

U of G president Mordechai

Roza nski officia ll y o pened th e

Alma Mater Fund Multimedia

Lab D ec 2 an d celebrated th e

event with members of the AMF

Adv isory Counc iL [n 1996 a nd

1997 the AMF contributed

$240000 to th e project which

increased the number of student

workstations o n campus by 50 per

cent Students use the m ult imeshy

~ dia lab to conduct research on the

~ Internet access scholarly publicashyr u VI tions on CD-ROM and use COll1shyz ~ puter software mod ules tbat lt

~ strengthen the teaching provided lD

o in co urse lectures labs and tcxtshybii books

middotMatters

Alumnus of many interests

I NTERES TING P EOPLE always have eclect ic interests and U of G

alumnus and honorary degree recipient Ken Murray BSA 50 and

HDLA 96 is a good example H e is known by most people on camshy

pus for his distinguished career in the Canadian meat packing indusshy

try and his volunteer service to U of G He was a member and chair

of Board of Governors from 1973 to 1978 and chair of the Regionshy

al Corporate Committee during U of Gs last capital campaign and

is currently chair of the Heritage Fund Enhancement Committee

Murray is also a strong supporter of community soc ial services

In August he addressed the World Congress of Social Ps)chiatry

held in British Columbia - the only non-psychiatrist on the proshy

gram He spoke about his role in establishing an Alzheimers research

project a t the University ofWaterioo which was recently named in

his honour the Ken Murray Alzheimer Research and Education Proshy

gra m At the gc conference he al so participated in a panel dis shy

cussion that outlined services offered by Guelphs Homewood Health

Cent re Murray bas been actively involved in the governance of the

centre since 1977 and has been a major player in the development

of a charitable foundatio n bearing the Homewood name

WHEN THE PUCK DROPPED More than 30 teams including two

womens teams were entered in the

Dec 6 University of Guelph Alumni Hockey

Tournament Organizers for the 1998 event

were from left Brian Finniss B5c 88

Brad Stephenson BA 86 Terry Carr

BComm 87 Todd Bryant BA 86 and

undergraduate student Brian Melnick

Ken Murray centre with his wife Marilyn Robinson Murray and U of G president Mordechai Rozanski

34 GU ELPH ALUMNU S

RESTORING A JEWEL IN THE CROWN

DONALD RUTHERFORD BSA 5 stands in fron t

of the 1931 conservatory greenhouse that will

be restored to match the splendour of the ga rdens

now growi ng up around it His $256000 leadershy

ship gift to the Conservatory and Gardens Project

was inspired by hi s m emo ries of being a student

at OAC

On behalf of fellow alumni I hope this gift will

commemorate the experiences and educat ion we

acquired while at Guelph says Rutherford When

fully restored to its previous glory the conservatoshy

ry greenhouse will be an ideal greeting and welcome

spot for visitors and newcomers to the University

as well as old friend s renewing their acquaintance

Rutherfords professional career spans the agrishy

foo d industr y beginning as an agricu ltural repshy

resentative with the provincial minist ry I-Ie was

later vice-president of the Fertilizer Institute of

Ontario executive secreta ry of the Canadian Seed

Trade Association director of information w ith

the Ca nadian Livestock Feed Board and Canadishy

an sa les manager for Sylvite of Can ad a Retired

since 1986 he now owns his own sma ll investment

company and manages to golf throughout the yea r

The conserva tory isnt the first ca mpus project

to attract Rutherford s attention - as a student

he helped dig out the base ment of Massey H al l to

build a student lo unge - but his recent gift has

been a tremendous boost to those who have been

working since the ea rly 1990s to save the glass and

cypress structure from demo lition

A committee of alumni facult y sta ff stu dents

and fri en ds of the University has moved the proshy

ject along to th e point w here most of the surshy

rounding garden complex is now complete It fea shy

tures six gardens named in honour of the ir chie f

supporters Autumn Garden - OAC 5 1 Spring

Ga rden - OAC 53 Su mmer Garden - OAC 55

Winter Gard en - OAC 65 Water Gard en shy

OAC 49 and the Woo dland Garden named in

honour of the late Doug Rob inson BSA 53

Alumni have been in strumental in raising

funds for the $ l-million project Students and fa cshy

ulty have provided mudl of the h1l1ds-on Idbour

and friends in the nursery and landscape materishy

als supply industries have given $250000 ill donashy

tions and gifts-in-kind of plan ts and landsca ping

materials Rutherford s generous gift has pushed

th e conservato ry fund-ra ising effort in to the fin 81

stretch Th e ga rden complex and restored g reenshy

110use are sc heduled to officially open during

Alumni Weekend in June 1999

1999 Coming Events

Jan 29 - Aggie Goodshy

Times Banquet call the OAC Student Federation at Ext 8321 for ticket injemnrltion Feb 13 - Norm McCo llulll

D iploma Hockey Tournashy

m ent call Jack Bakker at 519-837-0132 to register a team

Feb 21 - Ottawa Chapter

annual curling bonspiel

Richmond C urling Club in

Richmond Ont For informashytiol1 call Alan Bentley BSA 61 at 6 13-829-6598 or John DVit[ 54 mId Margaret McGowml BHSc 54 at

613-828-7038

March 3 - Florida alumni

reunion a t Maple Leaf

Estates Port Charlo tte Fla

call Ext 6533 0 register

March 13 and 14 - ollcge

Royal 75th o pen house

March 19 and 20 - OAC

Alumni Association curling

bonspiel G uelph Curling

Club register at Ext 6657

May 5 - Chicago All Canashy

dian Universities Night hostecl

by U of G at the University

Club of Chicago 76 East Monshy

roe Sr call Exl 6533 for details May 5 - OAC Alumni

Foundation annual meeting

730 pm Arboretum Centre

May 12 - Alumni-inshy

Action annual meeting and

luncheo n 1130 3m

Arboretum Centre ((11 Ext 6657for tickets

June 18 to 20 - Alumni

Veekend call Ext 6657 to plall a reun io n

-0 r shya -IFor more infon-nation on any a

eVC1l1listed ailove call the oJ -lt oU of G extension listed at en raquo

519-824-4120 or send e-mail z

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alumni Matters

MEMORIES OF COLLEGE ROYAL Grant MacEwan ADA 23 and

BSA 26 is one of the few OAC

alumni who c~n still remember

the first College Royal held Jan

14 1925 MacEwan bad just

entered the degree program in

animal husbandry and may have

been a participant in the liveshy

stock showmanship classes Latshy

er in life he was widely known Grant MacEwan

across Western Canada as 3 liveshy

stock judge and an advocate of

agricultural fairs and exhibitions

MacEwan is bes t known

however for his 23-year C3reer

as a university professor in Manshy

itoba and Saskatchewan and Ilis

political career which included

12 years as alderman and mayshy John Kenneth Galbraith

or of C31gary four years as an

Alberta MLA and eight as lieushy birthday in August

tenant -governor of the province The year after Ma cEwan

He s till lives in Calgary graduated John Kenneth Galshy

where he celebrated his 96th braith ADA 29 and BSA 31

HOMECOMING 98

enrolled at OAC and devoted

some of his energy to organizshy

ing College Royal Show records

indicate it was Galbraith who

first proposed the college event

be publicized so that people

from the farm community

could attend He also suggestshy

ed that OAC invite students

from American agricultural colshy

legesl n th e early 1930s Colshy

lege Royal took its fir s t steps

towards becoming the comshy

munity open house it is today

Galbraith later moved to the

United States where he enjoyed

a distinguished caree r as a proshy

fessor of economics at Harvard

Universi ty Known for his

humanit~rian approach to ecoshy

nomic and political thinking

he was awarded the Order of

Canada in 1997 He celebr3ted

his 90th birthday in October

IT REALLY WAS a homecoming reunion when and Arnott who is head coach of the York

former Gryphon teammates Ralph Shapiro University Yeomen came from the visitors

S5c(HK) 74 and Tom Amott S5c(HK) 80 dreSSing room to hold the ball Shapiro is

met on the field at Alumni Stadium Oct 3 the controller at Huntsman Chemical Inc

Shapiro had the honour of kicking off in Guelph and a longtime United Way volshy

the Universitys 1998 United Way campaign unteer who chaired this years Guelph and

Wellington fund-raising drive The Univershy

sity campaign is the largest in the county

with U of G staff and faculty contributing

over $200000 in 1998

Prior to the game a number of recent

alumni - all U of G scholarship and award

winners - met for a reunion luncheon The UJ

1948 and 1949 dominion championship i5f 3

football teams were also honoured guests z 5 o at the 2 pm game that saw the Gryphons gtshy a defeat York f shya I a

Ralph Shapiro

36 G UELPH ALUMNUS

LEADING THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY FOR 1974 GRADS The 25th-anniversary reunion givshy

i ng program for the Class of 1974

is under way with Bill Laidlaw BA

74 as cbair A public affairs proshy

fessional he has been director of

government relations for the

Canadian operations of Glaxo

vVelJcome Inc for more th an 10

years He also acts as a senior conshy

sultant to support the governshy

ment relations function in other

regions of Canada

Laidlaw began his career in

teaching after earning a history

degree from Guelph and education

degrees (rom Queens University

and the University of Toronto He

also holds the certified human

resources professional designation

and worked in that field for sevshy

eral years before concen trating on

government relations at Glaxo

Welkome He lives in Burlington

Ont and is an act ive community

volunteer having se rved on the

boards of severa l professional

organizations the Queensway

General Hospital and the Metroshy

politan Toronto Lung Association

He is currently completing a oneshy

year term as chair of the Ontario

Chamber of Commerce

Anniversa ry preparations will

culminate with a class gathering

a nd reunion gift at Alumni

Weekend in June 1999

ALUMNI MAKE THE CONNECTION Students who moved into

Maids and Mills halls in Sepshy

tember can take full advanshy

tage of the Universitys highshy

speed computer network

thanks to the OAC Class of

71 whose 25 th-reunion proshy

ject provided wiring upgrades

in the 84- and 77-year-old

residence buildin gs

GRAD NEWS

Marathon survivors inspire us all to appreciate everyday life

W HEN ROBINSON SIIlLJNGS Jane BSe(Agr)

85 Heather BASe 83 Peter BSe(Agr)

86 Scott and Marnie rigwood BA 84 get

together they talk about marathons and the hope

and determination it takes to reach the finish line

Hea ther walked a marathon in San Diego

Calif in June to raise money for leukemia

research then joined Peter for a Toronto marathon

in October that benefi ted the Leukemia Research

Fund of Canada They were inspired by Janes pershy

sonal marathon of survival that foUowed her 1992

diagnosis of leukemia Chemotherapy radiation

remission relapse and finally a bone marrow

transplant [TOm her brother Scott took more than

three years out of her life but gave her the detershy

mination to keep fighting

Many families can understand the marathon

of hope maintained by the Robinsons during

Janes struggle and the commitment they have to

help others who are stricken with the disease Jane

is finally well enough to work again as a writer

and marketing consultant and to join her fami shy

ly in volunteer work She helped recruit for the

Toronto marathon fund -raiser and continues to

be involved with the Leukemia Research Funds

Team in Training She also says that her expeshy

rience has taught her to appreciate more the pleashy

sures of everyday life and the love of famil y

Jan es parents are th e late Doug Rob inson

BSA 53 and Marilyn (Inglis) Robinson Murray

BH Sc 55

19305

bull Grant Misener ADA 32 BSA 35 and DVM 38 received the

prest igious George F Hixso n Felshy

lowship Award from the Kiwanis

International Foundation in May The retired Illinois veter ishy

narian was hono ured for his subshystantial contribution to the

Kiwanis wo rldwide service proshy

ject aimed at eliminating iodine

deficiency disorders the leading

cause of preventable mental retardation in children Over the

years Misener has shown a simishylar commitment to his al ma

mater an d its students through

his close association with OVC

and his support of scho larship

programs

19405

bull Russell McDonaldDVM 45 was named an honorary life direcshytor of the Royal Agricultural Winshy

ter Fair Association in March

McDonald formerly general manshy

ager of Western Ontario Breeders

Ine and executive director of the Canadian Association of Animal

Breeders served as a director of the Royal Winter Fair for 20 years

representing the Canadian artifishycial insemination industry He

lives in Woodstock Ont

bull Ian Taylor DVM43 was recently honoured by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to

Animals of Illinois Taylor ran a small-animal veterinary clinic in

the Chicago area for many years

and says he gained ll1uch experishyence during his first three years in

Illinois as clinic veterinarian for

the anti -cruelty society

19505

bull Charles Chuck Broadwell BSA 54 was elected a Mel

Osborne Fellow by the Kiwanis

Club of Forest City in London Ont in recognition of a dedicatshy -ed and distinguished career in

Kiwanis

19605

bull Constantine Campbell BSA 60 and MSA 61 was named to the

WINTER 1999 37

Order of Canada in January He

received the award in recogni shy

tion of his many contributions

to science and the Canadian

agricultural industry After grad shy

uating from OAC he went on to

do his PhD at the University of

Saskatchewan then joined Agri shy

culture and Agri-food Canada

as a research scientist at the Swift

Current research station Campshy

bell and his family now live in

Ottawa where he is scientist

emeritus with Agriculture and

Agri-food Canada

bull John Casselman BSA 64 is

a research scientist with the

Ontario Ministry of Natural

Resources He Jives in Bath

Ont with his wife Lois

bull Jane Fuller RRSc 65 and

her husband George who both

taught at the Macdonald Instishy

tute from 1966 to 1969 have

moved from Winnipeg to

Utopia Ont following

Georges retirement from the

University of Manitoba

bull Fred Gilbert MSc 66 and

P hD 68 is in his first term as

president of Lakehead Univer shy

sity in Thunder Bay Ont He

taught at U of G in the Departshy

ment of Zoology from 1972 to

1981 and has enjoyed a dive rse

academic career that has also

included teaching at the Unishy

versity of Maine and posi tions

as director of wildlife biology at

Washington State University

and founding dean of the Facshy

ulty of Natural Reso urces and

Environmenta l Studies at the

University of Northern British

Columbia He moved to Lakeshy

head from a position as viceshy

pro vost at Colorado State Unishy

versity A respected wildlife

biologist he has conducted

ex tensive resea rch in s Ll ch areas

as the behaviour and physioloshy

gy of wildlife species and the

effects of environmental

change on wildlife populations

bull Terry Goodyear BSc 67 of

Mont Tremblant Quebec is an

early retiree from Agriculture

and Agri-Food Canada in Ottawa He is now working on

va lue-added products from

industrial wastes particularly

cellulose sludge from pulp and

pa per mills

bull Gary Hearn BA 68 was

named an Ontario provincial

judge in October For the last

25 years he has been a lawyer

with the firm Kearns McKinshy

non in Guelph where he lives

with his wife Irene and three

teenage children

bull Allan Knight BSA 66 of Corunna Ont has retired

from Dow Chemical after 30

years On retirement he was a

laboratory director for indusshy

trial chemicals He is now

working with his son in a famishy

ly-owned and -operated busishy

ness Knight Funeral Home

bull Keith McFarlane BSc(Agr)

68 works for the Department

of Foreign Affairs and Internashy

tional Trade and began a fourshy

year assignment last summer as

head of the commercial divishy

sion of the Canadian Embassy

in Lisbon Portugal The

division promotes the sa le of

Canadian goods and services

to Portugal

bull Ian Newbould MA 68 has

travelled far from his Ontario

roots through an academic and

administrative career that has

taken him to Europe Asia and

Western Canada A noted hisshy

torian he moved into adm inisshy

tration at the University of

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Lethbridge in 1981 and spent

10 years there as director of

research dean of a rts and scishy

ence and vice-presiden t (acadeshy

mic) before crossing the counshy

try to become president of

Mount Allison University in

New Brunswick He is now in

his second term as president of

Mount AUison

bull Indra Deo Singh MSc 68 is

a tea scientist international

consultant and joint director of

the Tea Research Association at

the Nagrakata substation in

India His responsibilities

include co-ordinating research

and development in the Indian

tea industry and developing tea

cultivars and agrotechnology

for tea Singh is married with

two sons aged 27 and 23

19705

bull Don Ambler BSe 71 retired in March as manager of

water programs with Environshy

ment Canada in Dartmouth

NS after 25 years of public

service He has now registered

the company Aquashed Co nshy

sulting to continue in the water

resources field when hes not

gardening beekeeping do ing

aerobics or vo lunteering in the

community and chu rch E-mail

contact is welcome a t

donambl erns sympaticoca

bull Jim Bond BSe 75 is managshy

ing a new processing facility at

the Chalk River Nuclear Laborashy

to ry in Chalk River Ont

bull Terri (Monks) Bulman BSc(Agr) 78 and MSe 81

and her husband Vincent

MSe 8 1 live in Australia with

their th ree children Catherine

7 Peter 4 and baby Christoshy

pher Terri is senior principal

environmental auditor vith

Coffey Geosciences Pty Ltd Vinshy

cent afte r many years as a geoloshy

gist travelling around Australia

and abroad has taken the year

off to study and look after the

children Their e-mail address is

tbulmanbigpondco m

bull Marie David BA 78 of

Hanover Ont has been in the

n ewspaper business for 20

years She started in the mailshy

room moved to advertising

sales then became advert ising

manager She is now gene ral

manager o f three So utham

weekly newspapers and pubshy

lish er of the Hanover Post

bull Janice Harrower and her husshy

band Jerome Billett both

DVM 76 operate a joint veterishy

nary practice in Prescott Ont

Billett says practising together

has allowed them some flexibilishy

ty in their family life and given

their four children a good took

at the rigours of veterinary

medicine Says Billett Not one

of our kid s has the slightest

interest in being a veterinarian

and isnt that just fine Their

o ldest son Jesse attends Harshy

va rd University and is a memshy

ber of its prestigious a cappella

choir Lucas is studying

mechanical engineering at the

University of Waterloo Casey is

planning a career in computer

engineering and Lindsay is a

high school athle te

bull Clair Heinbuch BSe 74 is a

sales manager with Baye r Corp

in Kansas H e and his wife

Caroline (Koscik) BASc 75

returned to the Kansas City

area after spending four years in

Denver They have three chilshy

dren Lisa 20 Scott 18 and

Ryan [5

bull Beverly Lee BASe 72 is an

elem entary school principal in

Unionville Ont She lives with

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her husband Grant Egan in

Collingwood and is looking

forward to retirement in severshy

al years Life on Georgian Bay

is wonderful she says Lee

would love to hear from fellow

grads by e-mail at

leebYrbeeduonca or by

phone at 705 -444 -092l

bull Won-Jai Maeng MSc 71 took office Sept 1 as president

of Kon-Kuk University in Seoul

Korea where his academic

career began He completed an

undergraduate degree at Kon

Kuk in 1965 then studied at

Mailing Agricultural College in Denmark and at U of G before

doing doctoral work at the Unishy

versity of California Davis

Maeng has held research and

teaching positions at the Unishy

versity of illinois at Chung-Ang

University and at Kon-Kuk

where he has been a professor of

animal science since 1984 His

appointment as president folshy

lows years of administrative

experience as a department

head dean and chair of various

research committees and proshy

fessional organizations An

expert in ruminant nutrition

Maeng was instrumental in

developing the livestock feed

industry in Korea He has also

been active in working with

alumni groups and in writing

for the Kon-Kuk Tribune

bull Bill MarshaU ADA 75 of Proton Station Ont moved

from Clarksburg in June to

work in Dundalk for the Grey

County Roads Department on

its road management crew

bull Bernie Matte BSc(Agr) 70 of Moncton NB retired

in March after 28 years with

Fisheries and Oceans Canada

and the Canadian Food

Inspection Agency He plans to

travel to Belize and Honduras

with his wife Diane and will

be available anywhere in the

Caribbean for seafood HACCP

consulting work

bull Margaret McClain BA 70 lives in Arkansas where she is

highJy involved in the issue of

40 GUELPH ALUMNUS

missing children and internashy

tional abductions McClain who

believes her own six-year-old

daughter was taken out of the

United States more than a year

ago by her second husband is

reaching out to parents with

similar experiences through an

organization that is lobbying the

US government for tougher

international abduction laws

She invites interested fr iends

and alumni to contact her

through her Web site at

wwwinsolwwbnet-dmcclain

bull Robert (Chuck) Miller BA 77 is the park superintendent

of Killarney French River and

Maskinonje provincial parks in

Ontario He moved to Killarney

from Quetico Provincial Park

last May

bull Gordon Nicol BA 72 and MSc(Agr) 74 teaches math

and science in a bilingual prishy

vate school in Guatemala A

BEd graduate of Laurentian

he first taught in Guatemala in

the late 1970s then spent 12

years in northern Alberta as a

teacher and principal He

returned to Guatemala in 1989

A widower with three teenage

children Nicol would like to

hear from U of G friends and

acquaintances especially anyshy

one who is was or will be in

Central America He says he

could also use middle-schoolshy

level science projects Send eshy

mail to gnicoll guatenet or

write to PO Box 661447 Miami

Springs Florida 33266-1447

bull Chris Schulte BSc 71 and MSc 73 lives in Nassau

Bahamas with his wife

Andrya After graduation he

stayed in the Department of

Physics as a research associate

with Prof lain Campbell then

joined Ontario Hydro in the

early 1980s He moved to the

Bahamas in 1995 He can be

reached bye-mail at

schultebahamasnetbs

bull Sandra (Pickford) Webster BA 75 has retired from U of

Gs Co mmunications and Pubshy

lic Affairs and is living in Parry

Sound Ont where she is

doing volunteer work and

communications consulting

for the municipality Guelph

friends ca n contact her by

e-mail atswebsterzeutercom

19805

bull Sharon (Courneya) Angus BA 8 I of Surrey BC comshy

pleted a BSW at the University

of British Columbia in 1988

and has been working for the

BC government for 13 years

- first in probation and now

in the family justice division

She and her husband Ron

have three children Jason

Carly and Colin

bull Karen Beazley BLA 86 is an assistant professor and acadeshy

mic program co-ordinator at

the School for Reso urce and

Environmental Studies at Dalshy

housie University in Halifax

She is currently doing research

for a book on endangered

species initiatives and is orgashy

nizing a Nova Scotia wildlands

workshop with the Wildlands

Project for 1999 Her e-mail

address is kbeazleyisdalca

bull Caroline (Van Deudekom) and Marc Brooks both ADA 87

recently moved from Strathroy

to Owen Sound Ont where

they run a 50-acre organic farm

with their two sons

bull Virginia Burt BLA 85 startshyed her own landscape architecshy

ture firm Visionscapes in

Hamilton Ont in ] 996 She

specializes in the design of thershy

apeutic healing gardens spirit

gardens sacred spaces and

la byrin ths and recen tly designed the first healing garden

in Canada specificalJy for peoshy

ple living with HIV and AIDS

bull Joanne (Branson) Carver BA 80 earned a BEd from Brock

University in 1981 and recently

started working as a probashy

tionparole officer She Jives in

Ajax Ont and has two daughshy

ters Julie4 and Sarah 8

bull Heather Champ BA 86 is a Web-site designer in New York

City She began her work in

computer design in 1990 Her

personal site can be Found at

wwwjezebelcom

bull Laurie Gough BA 87 has become a world traveller who

writes about her experiences for

the benefit of others Her most

recent book Island of the

Human Heart A tfornans Travshyel Odyssey is now in its second

printing in Canada and will be

released next year in the United

States and overseas She has also

published Travellers Tales A

Womans World which won the

US-based Lowell Thomas

Gold Award for best travel book

of the year When not travelling

or writing she teaches English

and ESL in Guelph

bull Susan (Coles) Goulden BASc 84 and her husband

Ian are th rilled wi th their

recent adoption of Jennifer Lee

Yu who was born in June near

Leping Jiangxi Peoples Repubshy

lic of China The Gouldens

who Jive in vVaterloo Ont

thank classmate Andrea

(Kovits) Henderson for her

support throughout the adopshy

tion process Susan is currently

on leave from her position with

McCormick Canada

bull Judy (Bodendistel) Gregg BA 82 moved to Melbourne Ausshy

tralia in 1997 with her husband

and two children Carly 6 and

Adam 3 We are enjoying the

friendly people and the great

weather here she says We are

especially enjoying winter in a

place where it never gets below

zero Celsius

bull Nigel GumJey DVM 85 has been a partner in the Alta Vista

Animal Hospital in Ottawa

since 1990 was president of the bull Garry Millage AMPHI 86 bull Heidi Stephenson BA 88 is now ISO 9000 manager at

Ontario Veterinary Medical left a position as vice-president was awarded her professional Carpenter Ca nada Ltd in

Association in 1997 and recent- of national operations for acco untants designation of Wood br idge Ont He lives in

ly served on the Canadian Vetshy Scotts Restaurants KFC Divishy certified general accountant in Miss issa uga Classma tes are

erilw() Medical Associations sion to open his own consult- March 1998 She has been invited to contact him at

national issues committee He ing company Future Food employed for the last 10 years avon listarca

lives in Osgoode with his wife Equipment Ine specializes in with Dan Ball Chartered bull Michelle (Pilon) Bacon BA rvlaurecn and children Laura providing new and used restau- Acco un tant in Parry Sound 90 moved to England to study

and Matthew rant equipment and reducing O nt where she lives with her and work after graduating from

bull Muneer Hirji BComm 82 restaurant construction costs hu sband Brad two dogs and a Guelph She recently left a posishy

lives in Toronto and is vice- He also operates a restaurant horse tion with the British Ministry of

president of marke ting at SAP called Nikkos in Woodbridge bull Dawn Stetsko BSe 81 lives Agriculture and Food in York to

Canada He has three chil- Ont and is planning to open a in Langhorne Pa with her husshy become an at-home mom She

drcl1 Nadia 8 Alyssa 6 and second location band Paul and children Mark now lives in London with her

Sarah I bull Tosh Noseworthy BSe 83 is and Keith and is a research husband Tim and one-year-old

bull Brenda irwin BSe 88 is a cardiovascular ICU nurse in scientist with Bristol-Myers daughter Juliette She sends love

studying at Hong Kong Unishy sunny Tuscon Arizona After Squibb Previously she worked to Sue Heather and Sheila and

vers ity of Science and Technolshy grad uation she lived in Paris at McMaster University in can be reached bye-mail at

ogy to complete the final France for a yea r s tudied nurs- Hamilton Ont for 17 yea rs michellebacondialpipexcom

sem ester of an MBA program ing in O ttawa then lived in Saushy bull Teresa Tummillo-Goy BA bull Jeff Barlow BComm 90 is

through the University of di Arabia for two yea rs She still 86 has a law practice in Water- the training and quality manag-

British Columbia She taught loves to travel and would like to 100 Ont foc Li sing primaril y on er for two five-star luxury boushy

science for the North York hea r from fellow alumni She family law civi l litiga tion and tique h o tels in Prague - Hotel

Board of Education for five can be reached at 520-299-8344 real estate She and her hus- Palace Praha and the Hotel

years before enrolling in the bull Cecilia (Wleugel) Parkes band John Goy live in Guelph Savoy Previo usly he was execu -

MBA program BComm 85 is a graphic and have three sons John 4 tive housekeeper at the five-star

bull Jagwant Kanwar PhD 80 is designer in Toronto and says Tony 3 and Shayne 2 Renaissance Pragu e Hotel

a senior scientist in the depart- she st ill uses ber marketing bull Peter Van der Borch DVM bull Margaret Burnes-Souria BA ment of vegetable crops at Pun- background to help her busishy 88 retired in the fa ll of 1997 94 is a team leader with [011 shy

jab Agricultural University in ness succeed She specia lizes in after several years of practising don Magazin e in London Ont

India He is also director of the logo design lNith hand-drawn physiotherapy and ve terinary She married David Souria in

regional vegetable research stashy illustrations medicine and surgery He Jives July 1997 and is pursuing an tion at Usman (TaranTarn) bull Jim Parr BSc(Agr) 81 and in Pictou NS ]VlBA at the University of West-

Amritsar His and his wife MSe 89 died of cancer in bull MartyWilLiams BA 85 is ern Ontario

Sanyogita have a son Mohit June 1998 but hes being co-ordinator of student activishy bull Janine Byers BASe 95 is a and a daughter Dipika who are remembered by his university ties at University College Unishy public health dietitian at the

both studying engineering friends through the establish - versity of Toronto where he Kingston Frontenac and

Friends can write to Kanwar at ment of a mem orial fund for advises student organizations Iennox amp Addington Health

Punjab Agricultural Un ivers ity his wife Denise and children 1Ie is also chair of the U of T Unit in Kingston O nt She is Ludhiana 141 004 India Shannon and Eric Anyone Staff Association a member of getting married to Ca rl Stewart

bull Larissa Larsen BSe 89 and who would like more informa - the steering committee of the on May 29 j 999 MLA 92 received a PhD in tion can ca ll Brian Tapscott at staffs unionization drive and a bull Lisa Cherry BSe 9 1 is a urban and regional planning 519-767-3566 staff member with the student science journalist and executive

from the University of Illinois bull Cheryl (Dunlop) Reid newspaper The Varsity He can director of Artists Against

at Urbana Champaign in May BSe(Agr) 89 sta rted a new be reached bye-mail at marty Racism an international organi-

She has accepted a position at job in September as ingredient wi lliamsutorontoca za tion She is based in Toronto

Thompson Dyke and Associshy sales manager for RA bull Bonnie (Byma) BASe 96 ales a landscape architecture Chisholm o f Toronto She will 19905 and Gil Clelland BA 95 were

and urban planning firm in continue to work from her bull Claire Allison BA 94 grad- married in December 1996 and

Chicago Her husband Ernie remote offke in Fergus Reid uated from the elementary are living in Chatham On t

Poortinga DVM 89 is in his and her husband Jeff BSe teacher ed ucation program at Bo nnie works at a day-care

third yea r of an MD program (Agr) 89 have two children the University of British centre G il teaches art and

at Rush University Chicago lVlega n 4 and Elizabeth 2 Columbia in 1996 and now phys ical education They ca n -Hes looking forward to joining bull Chee Sie BA 83 is a zone teaches in Va ncou ver be reached bye-ma il at gclelshy

his wife in the ranks of the manager for the Malaysian bull JohnAvon BSdHK) 94 lan ciaccesscom employed They would both Assurance Alliance Berhad in earned an M Se in industr ial bull Kate Corn ell BA 95 of enjoy hearing from fellow Sarawak Malaysia He and his operations from Lawrence Markham Ont earned her

alumni and can be reached at wife Jesterine have a two-year- Technological University in masters in dance history from epoor tin garushurushedu old daughter Letitia Southfleld Mich in 1997 and York University in May and

WINTER 1999 41

co-authored a book titled

Toronto Dance Theatre 1968shy1998 Stages in a Journey

bull Mary Jill (McClure) Culliton BASe 90 earned

her BEd from Brock University

and her M Ed from the Univershy

sity of Western Ontario and

teaches Grade 1 in Mitchell

Ont She and her husband

Tim live in Stratford

bull Kathleen (McNutt) Daniels BASe 9 1 is a teacher and was

married on New Years Eve

1994 to Gord Daniels They live

in North Bay Ont and have a

daughter Lauren born in Febshy

ruary 1997 They are expecting

their second child in February

bull Simon Deakin BA 95 studshyied in Florence Italy for a year

then earned a master of fine art

from the Slade School of Fine

Art at the University of London

England He lives in London

bull Christie Dunbar BLA 97 spent a year after graduation

working for Niagara College in

St Catharines Ont on the

vision and design of a new

campus to be built in Niagarashy

on-the- Lake Last April she

joined the landscape architecshy

ture firm of Pollack Design

Associates in Ann Arbor Mich

bull Trina Edmonds BA 94 and

Joel Hinderle became the

proud parents of a little girl

Jordan Ashley in january 1998

and moved to a new home in

Oakville Ont in September

Edmonds works in Mississauga

as a desktop publisher with a

publishingprinting company

bull Wendy Garinther BSc 93 and Steve Decker BSe 94

were married in May Joining

them in the wedding celebrashy

tions were Cheri (Coulter)

42 GUELPH ALUMNUS

Ascroft BSe 93 Karen Leinshy

gartner BSe 94 and Barb

(Moore) Johnson BSe 94

Best man was Jeff Bond BSe

93 and MSe 96 The Deckers

live in Edmonton where Steve

is doing a PhD in chemistry at

the University of Alberta and

Wendy is working in a research

laboratory at a biopharmaceushy

tical company

bull Donna Gross BA 97 is purshysu ing a master of divinity at

Emmanuel College at the Unishy

versity of Toronto and hopes to

become an ordained minister by

2002 She lives in Guelph and

can be reached bye-mail at

donnajulietalbedonet

bull Robert Gruber BA 92 is a child-care supervisor for the

YMCA-YWCA of Guelph and

manages the Jean Little Y

Child- Care Centre He recently

developed the anti -bias proshy

gramming policy for the

Guelph Y and sits on both the

Jean Little Public School Counshy

cil and the Guelph AIDS Wall

Committee He can be reached

bye-mail at rgrubernet

comca

bull Susan Harder BSe 91 grad shyuated from the University of

Toronto Medical School in June

and has started a residency at

Santa Clara Valley Medical Censhy

tre in San jose Calif She will

follow that up with an anestheshy

sia residency at Stanford Univershy

sity Hospital in 1999

bull Marko Harjupanula BASc 93 travelled in Australia for

two months after graduating

from Guelph then returned to

his home town of South Porshy

cupine Ont where he worked

in a gold mine for four years

He entered police college in

September and started as an

opp constable in Cochrane in

December

bull Nancy Holman MA 94 moved to Vancouver soon after

graduation and initially worked

as a project co-ordinator for an

ophthalmologist In 1996 she

began working full time for the

BC Liberal Caucus I would

enjoy hearing from and catchshy

ing up with the friends I made

while studying at U of G and

working at the Brass Taps she

says Her e-mail address is nan shy

cyholmanlassgovbeca

bull Ruth Johnson BA 91 is an investment banking associate

with the mergers and acquisishy

tions group of JP Morgan in

Lond on England responsible

for financial reporting and

administration She has been in

England with her partner Alex Campbell since graduation

bull Stephen Johnson BA 94 of London Ont was a lab technishy

cian at Lenscrafters for three

yea rs and is now a full-time

student at Fanshawe College

studying air conditioning and

refrigeration He was married

in Jun e to Jennifer Fox BSc

95 a chemist at 3M Their

wedding party included Dee Popat BSe (Eng) 94 and

Patrick Wulhes BSc 95

bull Sarah (Davis) Kelly BASe 90 married Robert Kelly in

July and teaches primary

grades at an inner-city school

in Toronto

bull Cassidy Klowak BComm 97 lives in Allisshy

ton Onl and is a personal

banking account manager

with ClBC in Tottenham

bull Stephanie Lopes BSc 96 completed her MSc in repro shy

ductive biology at the Universishy

ty of Toronto and worked as

patient-care director for the

College of Family Physicians

for almost a year In September

she enrolled in medical school

at the University of Toronto

She is happy to announce that

she is engaged to be married

next summer Lopes can be

reached at slopesidirectcom

bull Natalie (Parker) MacKenzie BSc 96 earned her BEd from

the University of Western

Ontario in 1997 She married

ASLt Andy MacKenzie June 27

in Sault Ste Marie Ont and

now lives in Halifax

bull Susan MacKinnon DVM 91 is a veterinarian with HUls

Science Diet She lives in

Guelph with her husband

Brandon Wiley and gave birth

to their first child Adrianna

Nicole june 26 at home

bull Waheed Mian BA 9 1 of Cambridge Ont is a store

director with PetSmart Canada

He helped the company launch

its new retail concept in Cana da

bull Alex Mitchell BA 91 was appointed clerkdeputy treasurshy

er of the Ontario township of

Mildmay-Carrick in 1998 and

will be the clerkadministrator

of the new municipality of

Mildmay-Carrick -TeesWatershy

Culross in 1999 He was married

in january 1997 and lives vith

his wife and daughter in Mild shy

may In his spare time Mitchell

is a professional scout for the

Toronto Maple Leafs covering

southwestern Ontario

bull Sherry Morland BASc 93 of Kitchener Ont ea rned her

BEd from Brock University in

J995 and is a part-time specia l

educa tion teacher and an occashy

sional teacher with the Watershy

loo County Board of Ed ucashy

tion She married Ivan LeBlanc

in 1997

bull Gary Page BSe 91 wo rks for the Nottawasaga Valley Conshy

servation Authority where he is

able to combine his knowledge

of wildlife biology with his

artistic skills as resident graphic

designer and outdoor centre

interpreter He Jives with his

wife Di and their son judah in

CreemoreOnt

bull Elaine Pammenter BA 96 is an inventory clerk with the

Royal Collection at Windsor

Castle in England She holds a

museum management and

curatorship grad uate certificate

diploma from Sir Sandford

Fleming College and did her

internship at the Royal Albert

Memorial Museum in Exeter

England

bull Brent Raymond BSe(Env) 96 of Brantford Ont has

been working with Outward

Bound since graduation He

leads wilderness trips in Northshy

ern Ontario Horida Australia and Sabah (Malaysian Borneo) Most recently he designed and implemented a new introducshytory mountaineering course for Outward Bound Sabah on the summit plateau of Mt Kinashy

balu Those of you who know me as plate licker from U of G get in touch he says Where are you Star I miss you He can be reached by e-mail at globarwchatonca or by

phone at 519-756-1697

Alumni Patrick Abbott BSA 40 July 7 1998

Albert Allen BSA 33 Jan 161994 Agris Ansmits BA 70 and MA 73

February 1998 Barbara (Quartermain) Babcock DHE

53 June 17 1998

Wray Bond BSA 34 Sept 25 1998

Kenneth Bone DVM 38 Dec 29 1998 Evelyn (Stevenson) Buhr DHE 39

May 251998 Philip Burke BSA 43 June 21 1998

Grant Carman BSA 49 Oct 221998 Frederick Chambers BSA 41

June 1998 Wilmot Conley ADA4 7 April 7 1998 Lloyd Crewson BSA 49 Aug 261998

Jacqueline Dimock DHE 47

Aug 20 1998 John Dingwall DVM 52

April 18 1998

Lloyd Dorsey BSA 38 June 9 1998 George Duncan BSA 37

Sept 19 1998

David Dyson BSA 53 Aug 31 1998

Norma (Shannon) Edwards DHE 39

November 1997 Vincent Bud Ellis DVM 41

July 15 1998 John Jack George BSA 48

Sept 24 1998

Donald Haight BSA 33 January 1997 William Hamlyn BSA 33 Dec I 1997

Gordon Harkness BSA 49

November 1997

Charles Hollister DVM 38 June 1996 Donald Hope BSA 54 June 28 1998

Lawrence Jefferson BSA 38

Sept 3 1998

James Kelso DVM 56 July 27 1998

Dorima Lalonde BSA 34 Oct 8 1998 Mildred (Cox) Large DHE 33

June 20 1998 Roger Larson BComm 86 Feb 19 1998 Robert Lawson BSA 49 June 6 1998

bull Doug Ramsey BA 91 and PhD 98 received U of Gs highshyest graduate student award shythe Forster Medal- at June convocation for his academic and community involvement while enrolled in Guelphs new

graduate program in geography He spent the summer as a visitshying research scholar at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College in Truro before assuming his curshyrent position as assistant professhysor at Mount Allison University

David Leach BSc(Agr) 74

July 18 1998

Ian Leask DVM 74 Sept 5 1998

Sheryl Lee BSc 95 June 8 1998 Ruby Janet MacAuley DHE 30

Aug 19 1998 Parker MacKenzie DVM 38

September 1994

Jeanice MacLaren DHE 28 March 1 1997

Campbell MacMaster DVM42

Oct 8 1998

Rex McCallum DVM 43 July 71998 Jean (Dunn) McMahon DHE 31

Nov 41998

Margaret Oones) McTaggart DHE 35 Aug 81998

Patrick McTaggart-Cowan HDSc 81

Oct 21997

Malcolm McWhinnie ADA 39

July 16 1998 Mary (Townsend) Mitchell BHSc

60 Sept 281998

Marjory Monaghan DHE 29

December 1997 Charles Monk BSA 44 Aug 7 1998

Heather Neilsen BHSc 59

Oct 30 1998 Jerry Niwa DVM 62 Aug 5 1998 Henry Harry OReilly BSA 42

October 1997

James Parr BSc(Agr) 81 June 19 1998 Charles Rammage DVM 45

Oct 17 1996 Howard Rapson HDSc 90

March 1997 Clement Reeds DVM 42 Oct 16 1998

William Robinson BSA 38

Aug 23 1998

Donald Sager ADA 73 Oct 141997

Austin Schaefer DVM 37 in 1997

Sandra (Mackenzie) Schmidt DHE 59

Aug 16 1997 Margaret (Harvey) Seaborn DHE 28

July 221998

Larry Seguin DVM 47 June 12 1998

Leah Shedden DHE 31 December 1998

Edward Shuh BSA 40 July 2 1998

Ted Shutsa BSc(Agr) 66

Sept 18 1998 Jim Sinclair DVM 49 Oct 4 1998

Margaret (Brown) Sinclair DHE 20

September 1998 Eldon Smith BSA 42 Sept 9 1998

Derek Somers DVM 96 Sept 25 1998

Cheryl Lynn Sopha BA 95 Sept 20 1998

Leona (Bartlett) Stewart DHE 35

June 27 1998 Alex Thomson BSc(Agr) 69

October 1996

William Whittick DVM 55

Aug 15 1998 Joseph Wilson BSA 23 Sept 11 1998

Lloyd Woolsey DVM41 June 24 1998

Winifred Yeates DHE 28 June 11998

Faculty John Carpenter BSA 43 and MSA 48

Microbiology Dec 10 1998

David Gaskin Zoology Sept 14 1998

Gordon Macleod BSA 50 Animal and

Poultry Science Nov 26 1998 Roman Retman Languages and

Literatures Sept 28 1998

Caesar Sen off Chemistry and

Biochemistry Aug 14 1998

Percy Smith Drama Dec 10 1998

Friends Robert Clark Aug 21 1998

Ethel Hammond August 1998

Thomas Hillers Sept 28 1998 Marguerite Holbrook Aug 26 1998

Catherine Kelly Sept 27 1998

James A McKenzie May 13 1998

Kenneth McIssac Oct 23 1998

William Mutlock September 1998 Roena Patterson Sept 16 1998

Donald Priddle Aug 25 1998

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bull Karl Reimer BSe 94 comshypleted a one-year intensive

MSc in mining engineering at

Queens University and is now

a project engineer a t Enpar

Technologies Ine in Guelph

He can be contacted at reimerbservcom

bull Nancy Nauta Rowland BA 90 and her husband Dan celshy

ebrated their first wedding

anniversary in March 1998 with

the birth of their first child

Connor who beat their March

8 anniversary by two days Nanshy

cy teaches junior-grade stushy

dents and junior special ed ucashy

tion for the Peel District School

Board The Rowlands live in

Caledon Ont

bull Fraser Stables MFA 98 was heralded by Toronto Globe 6shyMail critic Betty Jordan as a

formidable new talent followshy

ing the openi ng of his debut

gallery exh ibition in July The

Scottish artists work includes

sculpture video and mixed

media that explore notions of

flu x by interrupting the moveshy

ment of forms in space

bull Erin (Smith) Scott BSe(HK) 92 and Brad

Scott BSc(Agr) 91 of Lucan

O nt were married in 1993 and

had their first child Lucas in

August Erin works for Shopshy

pers Home Health Ca re in

London Brad is with New Life

Mills in Dunfield

bull Abby Simons BSc 95 and Martin Piche BSc(Agr) 95 were married in Mont-Tremshy

blant Quebec in 1997 She is a

customer service representative

with Kantech Systems he is

superintendent of Club de golf

vallee des forts They say theyd

love to hear from anyone headshy

ing to Montreal and can be

reached at 450-348-3860

bull Sylvia Tesori BSc 95 has been doing wildlife rehabilitashy

tion for the OSPCA Wildlife

Rehabilitation Centre in Midshy

land Ont since 1996

bull Chuck Thibeault BComm 94 is general manager of the

Putting Edge Corpora tion

which has two glow-in- theshy

dark mini-golf courses in

Ontario one in Bramp ton and

one in Richmond Hill He can

be reached in Richmond Hill at

chu ckttotalnet

bull Karen Thirlwall BA 93 is a

si ngersongwriter and guitarist

who began her stage career and

released her first album The Voice Inside Me while studying

languages at U of G She has

lived and performed in

11i stler BC for three years

and recently released a second

album called Wide-Eyed She

remembers many special

fr iends m ade at Guelph and

welcomes e-mail messages to

karenthirlwallhotmailcom

bull Christie (Johnson) and Steve

Tyler both BComm 91 live in

Cambridge Ont where

Christie is a personal banking

representative for the Royal

Bank Steve works with their

third-year design professor

Nelson Hofer in Mississauga as

a design consultan t Steves proshy

jects include the Windsor Casishy

no and U of Gs Creelman Hall

They have two children Jason

5 and Marcus 1

bull Julia White BA 91 lives in Guelph and is a small-business

accountant at Taves amp Co She

recently finished courses

towards a CGA designation and

would like to hea r from other

alumni who lived in Lambton

Hall in 198788 Send e-mail to

juliawhitesympaticoca

bull Andre-Denis Wright MSc 93 and PhD 98 is doing postshy

docto ral work in Perth Westshy

ern Australia He wants his

Guelph friends and Halifax

family to know he was thinking

of them at Christmas when it

was 40 C in Australia

bull Dave Yellen BComm 90 was recently promoted at the Gordon

Food Service to new-accounts

sales specialist for Metro Toronshy

to Having been in Ottawa for

the past few years Im hoping

to reacquaint myself with old

friend s from U of G in the Metro

area he says He lives in Scarborshy

ough and can be reached at 416shy615-2745 or davidysprintca

bull Halina Zaleski PhD 92 is a tenured professor in the

departm ent of animal sciences

at the Un iversity of Hawaii in

Honolulu She is a swine speshy

cialist involved in extension

programs for an area th at covshy

ers all of Hawai i and the PacifIC

basin She can be reached by

e-mail at halinahawaiiedu

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and square dancing its College Royal When the entire

University of Guelph is displayed - from arts to zooloshy

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Since its inception in 1925 as an agricultural and liveshy

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College Royal has grown to be a celebrated U of G trashy

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The event is famou s in the University community

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activities The largest student-run open house in Canashy

da College Royal attracts more than 20000 visitors to

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College Royal is an event of tradition that reaches

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highlighted events but College Royal activities have

grown to include dog and cat shows a photography conshy

test a chemistry magic show and demonstrations on

human health and fitness The open house gives people

an opportunity to see what happens in the Universitys

leading-edge research laboratories to observe veterinary

medicine in practice to tour a sculpture studio or to

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Inside Playwright Judith Thompson

BEHIND THE MASK

JUDITH THOMPSON A DRAMA PROFESSOR at the University of Guelph

since 1992 is one of Canadas finest playwrights Her complex and

sometimes disturbing plays give voice to human failings and accomshy

plishments A two-time winner of the Governor Generals Literary

Award she has received wide acclaim for her work

On the following pages the Guelph Alumnus profiles an artist

whose creativity finds expression through dialogue by offering a

faithful rendition of the dialogue between Thompson and Comshy

munications and Public Affairs writer Andrew Vowles Much like

the characters she unmasks on stage Thompson reveals both comshy

plicated and unexpected images of herself

PHOTOGRAPHY BY D EAN PALMER

20 GU ELPH A LUMNUS

NO The scene is the rehearsal space in Lower Massey Hall at the University of Guelph

Monday mid-morning Outside the warped-glass windows the first wet snow of the year

drops like pebbles Drama professor Judith Thompson is leading some 20 students in her

Acting I class through their warm-ups The students stand in a circle and take turns aiming

a mock blow as they shout the word No More she says to the less assertive To others

whose No sounds shredded over the top she holds up a hand More control Thompson

gestures to her diaphragm It has to come from here

SCENE THOMPSONS OFFICE MASSEY H ALL

On one wal l hang pictures of actors engaged

in a drama mingled with childrens sc hool

drawings The desktop is practically bare A

black purse occupies one chai r A scarf has

landed on the back of another This is where

the playw rig ht hangs her hat during her

classes and meets with studen ts She wri tes

at home in Torontos Annex neighbourhood

where she li ves with her husband Gregor

Campbell a sessional English inst ruc tor at

Guelph and their five children Ariane 13

Eli 10 Grace 8 Felicity 4 and Sophia J

SCENE U OF G LI BRARY ARCHIVES

Guelph Alumnus writer (readil1g from draft of Epilepsy and Snakes Fear as the Genesis of Theatre a talk given by Thompson to the Epilepsy Association of Metro Toronto ill 1997 The script for the ta lk is included among boxes ofcorrespo nde11ce numerous drafts of plays various newspaper and magazine artishycles and reviews ahout the playwright and her work that Thompson recently donated to the U of G Library archives)

1have known real fear only a few times

in my relatively sheltered life But 1

believe these moments of fear are

directly connected to the so urce of creshy

ativi ty within me

SCENE J UST ABOUT ANYWHERE YOU CAN

REA D A PLAY

GA writer (reading from introduction to Tho mpsons play Sled wh ich was first pro shyduced hy Torontos Tarragon Theatre in 1997)

Judith Thompson was born in 1954 in

Montreal She graduated from Queens

University in 1976 then graduated from

the act ing program of the National Theshy

22 GU ELPH ALUMNUS

I seem to give voice to people who

have no voice

atre Schoo l in 1979 Alth ough she

worked briefl y as a profess ional actor

she became more interested in writing

and at th e age of 25 a workshop of her

first scrip t The Crack walker was proshy

duced by Theatre Passe MuraiHe Her

work which includes both radio and

tel evisio n writing has enjoyed great

internationa l success

Other plays includ e The Crackshywalker White Biting Dog Pink Tornado - radio Am Yours Lion ill the Streets White Sand Perfect Pie and Stop Talking Like That- radio She is the recipient

of the Floyd S Chalmers Canadian Play

Award for Lion in the Streets in 199 1 and

Am Yours in 1987 and the Governor

Generals Literary Award for Drama for

The Other Side of the Dark in 1989 and

White Biti11g Dog in 1984

S CENE LUNCHTIME

U OF G UNIVERSITY CLUB

Thompson Im so grateful to have this job

beca use it allows me to do the work that s

important and the plays that will be my legashy

cy and tha t are what 1 feel I have to conshy

tribute to Canadian culture If I didnt have

thi s job Id ha ve to keep compromising

because my plays dont make money Theyre

always in sma ller houses I take chances

theyre not commercial They play all over

th e world but aha)s in sma ller places 1

would just have to pursue life as a screenshy

writer to make a living Thi s job gives

me the great privilege of doing my research

which is the plays that I write and the edishy

torial work that I some times do and screenshy

plays that are worthy and good projects

GA writer Audi ences and reviewers have

described your plays as dark disturbing full

of angry people full of profanity

Thompson At the risk of sounding

grandiosel seem to give voice to people who

have no voice or very little in the culture

whom people dont li sten to Liol1 in the Streets the handicapped wo man living in

the basement all on her own the yo ung girl

Iso bel The secretary stuck in this abu sive

relationship with the actor The middle-class

housewife dumped by her husband because

be doesnt like her sweatsuits and on and on

I give voice to them because I dont know

because I care abo ut them because I like to

represent them Im a lawyer Some of them

use profanity because they have really good

reason to be angry a nd most of th em are

powerless And unfortunately profanity has

a little charge Its a little source of baby powshy

er It upsets me I dont use it myself Im very

se nsitive to it

SCENE ARCHIVES

GA writer (reading essay by Thompson comshymissio ned by Toronto literary Journal Brick

in 995)

If I were not a writer 1 think 1 would

wear a riding hat With a stee l lining

Because I would be baving many more

epi leptic seizures than 1 do presentl y

Because any of the non-writer real jobs I have had caused me sleepless nights self-disgust swoll en eyes cystic acne and hearin g di sorde rs all of which increased electrical activity in my brain which I believe increases the frequenshycy of seizu res

SCENE UNI VER SITY CLUB

Thompson (discussing the critical and pubshylic reaction to her first play The Crackwalkshyer) It was slaughtered at first as all my plays have been Very bad reviews at first and then somehow they catch fi re and theres one grea t review and the others start to see something GA writer Why the bad reviews Thompson I think people might say that theyre shock ing but I dont think so not

with the movies we see and whatnot Theyre not shocking compared with Quentin Taranshytino But theyre not like anything else they dont know where to put them And when they dont know where to put them theyre dismayed I think and hostile and they feel challenged I just write as I see Im not tryshying to shock or challenge anyone I hope they do challenge - me too all of us I often feel li ke the little boy in The Emperors New

Clothes Look this is what I see

SCENE LOWER MASSEY HALL

Two Acting I students perform a scene on th e stage Their fellow stud ents sit on th e Aoo r watching Thompson sits forward on a plasti c chair forearms propped on her knees hands clasped before her Her eyes her bod y are intent on the action Later Amberley Buxton (fi rst-year student il1 Actshyil1g I who is pursuing a psychology major and a drama minor)

Its a really in tense class In one of our first classes we were to share something that had changed our perspective on li fe or how we thought every day Later during improvisashytion or scene work she had us draw on the emotional context fro m those stories to add to our acting experiences Its really intense in that way A lot of people share a lot of personal things and we use each others experiences

SCENE UNIVER SIT Y CLUll

Thompson Ea ch se meste r students go through an intensive transition In order to find your creative centre or trigger yo u need

to know yourself in an intell ectual context They reach that pl ace and find their genius My philosophy is that every stu dent has genius and its my job to uncover it My relationshi p is so intense with st udents The classes are very psychoanalyt ic It seems to tra nsform their life

SCENE LO WER MA SSEY

Buxton Even if we haven t encountered a similar situat ion in real life she has us draw on somethi ng similar For ollr exa m Im doing a monologue My character has been abused I havent been abused myself but I have to draw on a si tuation where I had sim shy

itar feel ings draw on some experi ence Like being teased at schoo l Even so mething as small as tha t if you find a way to get back to that

SCENE UNIVERSITY CLUll

Thompso n I llsed to be terrified In high school Id spend half my time in the nurses room because the idea of having a se izu re in front of yo ur peers at that age was just petrifying I did finall y have a seizure but luckil y no one was around at the time So I

think all of that puts me in touch with a lot in life I might not have been in touch with being fairly privileged not rich but eno ugh to be middle class A lot of my work is about class abo ut the class differentiation in Canashyda Ive somehow felt more all ied to a less adva ntaged class My gra ndfather once sat as prime minister of Australia My grandshyfa ther on the other side was a member of the Royal Society an entomologist but his mother died in childbirth and he was brought up as a cousin on the farm outside of London And my Australian grandfath er was one of 1I siblings in a shack by the side of the railroad His father had di ed He walked barefoot to school so I th ink because its just two generations away I feel it in my bones and my blood GA writer How did you get to writing Thompson Through ac ting Ive been involved in thea tre since I was II years old I was Helen Keller for a university show my mother directed She had an [vIA in th eatre and she taught it at Queens I was in TILe Crushycible when I was 12 in Kingston and Jean Brodie and on and on and on I would just lisshyten to aU these wonderful lines and words and it all kind of enrered me And acting is where I reaU y found my niche as a person The theshyatre became my home Then I went to theatre schoo l as an actress but I started to create mask characters through improvisation Thats where I really took off in a big way and where I found myse lf very very excited GA writer VVhat we re you excited abo ut Thompson I was doing the writing And I felt frankly that I did it much better than most of the texts I was working with Not Shakespeare but and its not a matter of better it s thats where I belonged So I would go home and write down the charshyacters that r crea ted that day in class and make th em talk to each odler and thats how The Craekwalker happened

I spent a summer in Toronto looking for acting work and I go t a few jobs But every day for a co uple of hours I would write at a typewri ter and I found these voices comshying At the end of it I sa id to someone You know I think this isnt bad I think this might eve n be a play At the Na tional Theatre shySchool they said to me Youre pretty handy with these monologues but dont ever think you could write a play (Pause) I enjoy telling th at tale on them

WINTER 1999 23

SCENE LOWER MASSEY

Buxton It was my fint time doing mask work She had us sit with the masks on and just sta re at ou rselves in the mirror We did it for an hour staring at the mask feelin g the mask It was a phenomenal eilVer ience the Wily youre able to transform yourself It was almost as if you werent look ing at you That helped yo u to walk differently You were able to shed your

own movements and personality

SCEN E UNIVfRSITY CLU B

Thompson I think thil t seizures can transshylate into creativity are part of me as a cre shyltltive artist Peop le in the medical busin ess are very skeptical of ltll1ything like this But I fee l it s because I have fewer inhibitors in my bra in You have these inhibitors and thats what medication helps But if youre epi leptic your inhibitors Ment working as well to put out the electrical fire so it spreads I think the door to my un conscious is kind of flapping around so J think that helps creatively

SCENE MA SSEY HALL

Student (steppingforwmd) NO I Thompson (quietly) Good

SCENE ARCHIVES

GA writer ( reading fiom Epilepsy and Sna kes)

I have no doubt that my experience with epi lepsy has con tributed to my creative wo rk partly because it hE Jped me to understand what it is to be marginalized to be isolated to be feJ rful and to be out of control and eve n to be mortal

SCENE U NIVERS IT Y CLU B

Thompson Unchecked id can mean scrawlshying on the walls crazy things muttering in stree t corne rs beca use th ey re all id no su perego But I had the luck to be born into a theatrical famiJy my mother havin g the theatrical experience so I was exposed to it Lots of books I was taken to 1 lor of plays Having ep il epsy my first seizure when I was nin e J was able to link with that If I hadnt had those advantages who knows the se izur es migh t have ju st made me a depressed person an angr y person And you re touched with mortality you always live und er siege a slight fear of having a se izure Its much less so now with me

24 GUELPH ALUM NUS

SCENE UNIVERSITY CLUB

Thompson Ive always been a mimic in a cheap way I could always mimic we ll I would raLk to someone on a bus and I could do them exactly Thats kind of dangerous because it can be pretty shallow But it showed me ltl way into the person throu gh voice And once J could do that like a pupshypet something would click and I cou ld get

in in a deeper way J need to get so thoroughly into the charshy

acte rs and their state of mind and especialshyly tapping repressed el11orion which gets you in touch with your id or unconscious li fe If

I take little sections of

myself and grow them in a petri dish of the play

one character is about rage I have to tap into my own rage and that s why the monoshylogues so things can just flow and then I can retrieve things from the past and remember things So its not working from here (gesshytures to midriff) it s wo rking fro l11 here (gesshytures to head)

Mo nologues for me are always the key to findin g out who th e character is because if you cant make them rant for fi ve minutes you dont know th em Tha ts what I tell my

playwriting students I want to see r-wo pages of this characters mouth In other words to speak for five minutes we have to have

so mething to say We have to have something we feel passionately about something were angry about and if we dont have something to say for fi ve minutes who are we

SCENE UN IVERSTTY CLUB

GA writer Vhere do you see what eventushyally becomes a play such as Sled 1110mpson I was at a lodge and saw a moose that s one thin g And that made me think about winter and how the country is always with us as Ca nadians Even in the urban censhytres we ca rr y it wi th us Theres always this

see ming division between the country the wilderness and civilized centres but its the same The wildness of the moose and the

hunt and the bear is in our neighbourhoods I guess its like Lion in the Streets it must be a thing with me And also the exquisite beaushyty and thats how most of the world thinks of Canada as the wilderness Its not quite how we think of ourselves but it is partly So that made me want to do something abo ut the Nor th violence in the North

As far as th e old mans stories that was my neighbour and he told me all those stoshyries they were all true except mltlyb e one or so and I thought Theyre amazing They teilus what our neighbourhoods Me really about and Toro nto what the city is how its const ru cted Toronto is our stories and in th ese neighbourhoods you have an urbane entertainer li ving nex t to an 80-year-old Italia n man and thats the beauty ofToronshyto ltllld its the way th e world is chan ging The stric t class divis ions and culture divishysions th eyre no longer as defin ed as they we re espec ially in th ese neighbourhoods the great pioneering experimen t GA writer Do your chi ld ren see your work Thompson No None of my children can see my plays Ariane saw f Am Yours in New York when she was about nin e I do cl eal with the dark and whats tru e and my chilshydren aren t ready for that Im probab ly more protective th an mos t mothers Walk them

to school till theyre 13 that ki nd of thin g GA writer Yo u we re intervi ewed in the Globe alld Mail recently in a story about motherh ood dnd th e muse How do yo u handle th e demand s of motherh ood and writing

Thompson If Im in the situation where I have 15 or so hours of child care a week Im OK because when Im with them I wa nt to be with them and when ]m doing my work

th ats what I clo But if I do something like a worko ut thell a black cloud descends The guilt and the black cl oud th at descend as I take off on my bike it s huge Then once the workout s finished I know it was d good

thing to do although it s also cut into my

work time J do feel guilty about the nilture of my work too in that my kids cant see it Am I drawing on a part of me thats not good as a mother The oth er part of me is th at I make up bedtime stories and bake coo kies and all thlt stuff ]m probably a

rather operatic mother I cry at movies laugh too hard __

SCENE ARCI-I[VES

GA writer (reading fiom Epilepsy and Snakes)

1

Although being a dramatic writer has

given me a reputation in my cou ntr y

and a strong identity the actof writin g

or creating character leaves me SOJlle shy

times feeling that I have no id entity at

all Every once in a while when I am not

writing or tending to my four children

I feel I 1m falling again down th e terrishy1 ble hole with nothing to hold on to

And I believe this falling this identity

pain is a result of me using the very

essence of Ill yself to create character in

a dramatic wo rk r wonder so metimes

if J illl1 betraying my soul in a way by

using its essence However J have found

some comfo rt in the words ofWilliall1

Blake Essence is not Identity but from

Essence proceeds Identity and from one

Essence may proceed many Identities

as from one Affection Jlla y proceed

many thoughts If the Essence was

the sa me as the Identit y there could be

but one Identity which is fal se Heaven

wo uld upon this plan be but a clock

but one and the sa me Essence is th ereshy

fore Essence and not Identity

SCENE UNIVER SIT Y CLUB

Thompson I always put myself in a play and

never In other words I take little sections of

myself and grow them in a petri dish of th e

play So if Ive found a moment where Im a

bit lazy ]11 grow it and milke the character

very lazy o r impatient or whatever So I take

these moments because we all have all of

them grow th em and create this Frankenshy

steins monste r a character right out of parts

body parts and psychological parts often of

myself and then observe things in other peoshy

ple but I have to find it in myself to make it

work

SCENE AR C H1V ES

GA writer (reading from Epilepsy al1d Snakes)

My self asserted itself as a kind of quishy

et Lucille Ball c1ulllsy and absent-mindshy

ed At least this gave me an identity and

was a small aCI of slbo tage The next

assertion was an act of unconscio us rev shy

olution th e grand mal seizure that

almost killed me And the next one was

The Crackwalker my first play And this

is how I raged against the machine and

took space in the world And now not

surprisin gly I am seizure-free

SCENE LOWER MASSEY

After another pair of acto rs rUllS through

their scene Thompson directs them to begi n

again She interrupts frequently to question

the students about actions feelings motishy

vations At one point 8S the students pause

to consider her words Thompson turns to

the rest of the class erect in her cha ir

Thompson Isolate the mom ent The great

thing about the stage is th at it isolates the

moments that just race by us_

SCENE UNIVERSITY CLUB

Thompson Ive just written my next play

which is not ca lled Pefeet Pie but thats its

working title because it came from a mon oshy

logue called Perfect Pie But now its a full

two- haul play in which the second wom3n

comes back and tben I have them as yo ung

girls too It goes back ~nd forth and its very

exciting I worksbopped it in the spring and

in December at tbe Tarragon and it will go

on in o ne year At the sa me time lm wr itshy

ing a feature film for Rho mbus based on the

play Pe feet Pie

SCEN E UNlV ERSITY CLUIl

Thompson My pIalS are Illusically written

And if somebody doesnt get the music they

dont feel it and go with the rhythm s it

throws the whole thing off I hear the plays

I hea r them I write with my ear They

change 1 lo t but it s according to rhythm

I ll be sitting in rehea rsal listening and if it

does nt so und ri ght I change it so that its

rhythmic

SCIi -JE J UST AllOUT ANYWHERE YOU CA N

READ A PLAY

GA writer (readmg ji-olll the script ofvVbite

Biting Dog first produced at the Tarragon Th eatre in 1984)

Beciluse of the ex treme and deliberate

lllu sica lity of this play any allempts to

go aga inst the tex tual rhythms such as

th e breaking up of an unbroken senshy

tence the tlking of a pause where none

is written in are DISASTROUS The

effect is like beil1g in a small plane and

suddenly turning off the ignition It all

falls down This play III list SPIN not

just turn around

SCfN e LOWER MASSEY

Her students listen as Thompson stands to

complete a so liloq uy abo ut cap turing the

rhythm of the language on the stage The

wide sleeves of her ank le-length dress slide

down her forea rm s as she ges tures

Thompson Listen to the music of the

scene Each playwright writes their own

symphony

SCENE U NIVERSlTY CLUB

Thompson Ive been pretty directed to this

ii-om an carly age although if I had done anyshy

thing else it probab ly wou ld have been some

form of social work I would have been smokshy

ing three packs of cigarettes a day and workshy

ing il1 an office somewhere up in Scarborough

SC EN E AfltCHIVES

GA write r (reading from Brick interview of Thompson by Eleanor Wachtel ]99] )

In th e thea tre I think what one mllst

do is co nfront the truth confront the

emot ional truth of our li ves which is

mired in the swamp of minuriae

everyday minutiae Maybe it has to be -tl111 way because we couldnt confront

it every day But I think the th eatre

IllllSt Im not interested ill th eatre that

doesnt ga

W1NTER 1999 25

Never mind fish wars pitting countries against one another - here in Canada scientists and policy makers cant agree on who should control the preservation and management ofour own fishery resources BY ANDREW VOWLES

Ca

as

ollapsed cod stocks to the east

On the West Coast laquofish wars

_ rlTDT Pacific salmon enmesh

Canada and the United States

At various points in between fisheries scishy

entists and managers grapple with everyshy

thing from overfishing of freshwater

stocks to invasion by exotic molluscs

What is to be done about Canadian fishshy

eries And what role is being p layed by

fisheries and aquatic scientists at the Unishy

versity of Guelph

-

dock pollock red fish and flatfish made up just under half of Canadas total landings on the Atlantic coast (720000 tonnes of fish and shellfish were caught in 1994 represhysenting a total landed value of $11 billion) Two year~ later that proportion had dropped to 21 per cent with shellfish and open ocean fish specie~ notably Atlantic

Begin in the Atlantic The crisis on the East Coast has become a disaster So says laquoWE NEED TO TRY TO SEPARATE OUTGuelph zo ology professor John Roff enushymerating the litany of woes that have surshy

THE FISHERIES MANAGEMENT DECISIONSfaced from Ca nadas marine fishery in the past decade Although some fish and shellshy

FROM THE POLITICAL DECISIONSfi sh are holding their own stocks of other species have experienced declines raquo

ASSOCIATED WITH THE FISHE RY

down that fishery in 1992 Over fishing and under which it has been buying up fishers

Even when stocks do rebound rarely do we fully und erstand why he says Theres a complex of problems to be disshy more for cod stocks to rebound says Roff entangled involving overflshing long- and co-editor with colleague Prof Moira Fergushyshort-term climate change and changes in son of the respected Canadian Journal ofFishshyocean current systems and productivity eries and Aquatic Sciences A wise course of

And of course the once-thriving northshy action for a fisherman in Newfoundland ern cod that first drew Europeans with their would be to seU his licence and do something nets to the Grand Banks 500 years ago have else he says (Last fall the federal governshycoUapsed to the point that Ottawa had to shut ment announced its final retirement program

the failure of federal fisheries managers to heed the warnings of scientists have been blamed for the coUapse Even with the lllorashytoriulll in place it may take two decades or

licences in Atlantic Ca nada and Quebec) In 1992 - the year Ottawa imposed its

moratorium on the northern cod fisheryshylandings of groundfish including cod had-

salmon making up the difference [n 1995 the total groLlndfish catch reached its lowshyest level in two decades

Unlike the Ea st Coast fi shery which relies most ly on ocea n-living fish the Pacifshyic fishery is dominated b) migratory species Some 300000 tonnes of fish and shellfish were harvested along the west coast in 1994 worth a landed value of $550 million (Arcshytic marine fisheries and their management differ from those on the coasts although cOl11mercial and recreational fisheri es are small here food fisheries are important to

U OF G AQUATIC SCIENCES EXPERTISE CATCHES WORLD ATTENTION

Landlocked in the middle of the courltry U ofG nevertheless boasts fish pathology and diseases including farmed fish diseases fish an enviable record and range ofexpertise in aquatic sciencesshy hormones and reproductive physiology including the effects of marine and freshwater - dating back to the late 1960s Thats when environmental contaminants early life history and behaviour Prof Keith Ronald thell chair of the Department ofZoology (and of fi shes and biology of tuna later dean of the College ofBiological Science) began a marine biolshyogy program at the University Today Guelph has the largest Partnered with the A-erod Institute of Ichthyology in U of group of ichthyologists - scientists who study fish - in Gs Aquatic Sciences Facility the r[agen Aqualab is an North America investigating a wide variety ojIre~hshy aquatic research and teaching facililY for studying water alld marine fisheries and aquatics topics aquatic organisms Environmentally controlled

rooms in the Aqualab allow faculty and students to U of Gs Axelrod Institute of Ichthyology houses simulate habitats as diverse as the Arctic Ocean and one of the worlds largest collections of museumshy tropical rainforest pools The facility is named for quality fish fossils donated to the University by its principal benefactor Rolf Hagen founding presshy

ident of Canadas largest pet store 5llpplier J 989 The institute which provides space for fisheries research and visiting scientists brings together 12 core U of G U of G faculty edit four internationally recognized journals researchers in fisheries and aquatic sciences whose interests and in ichthyology fisheries and aquatic science Awarded to U of G by expertise span environmental contaminants and parasitic disshy the National Research Council in 1997 the Canadian Journal of eases evolutionary genetics of marine and freshwater fishes Fisheries al1dAquatic Sciellces is co-edited by zoology professors

US ichthyologist and author Herbert Axelrod in

28 GUELPH ALUMNUS

northerners including shrimp Atlantic salmon and arctic char) Accountin g fOI almost half of that total were Pacific salmon which ret urn from the ocean to spawn in home streams and rivers up and down the coast of Alaska British Columbia and Washshyington There are actually five main spec ies of sa lmon that run down the BC coast shysockeye (t he most va luable commercial species) chinook coho chum and pinkshyfrom spring to December

Its a very complex jurisdictional and multi-user problem says Roff Bes ides degradation of freshwater spawning habishytats and ocean climate effects of El Nill0 the West Coast fishery is a cauldron of ten shysions between various groups perennial fish wars between Ca nada and the United States disputes that pit sport fishers against native fishing rights Recognizing the problems of low ocean productivity habitat damage overfishing and indiscriminate fishing pracshytices that take weak and strong stocks alike Ottawa is developing a new policy to guide Canadas Pacific salmon fisheries focusing on conservation sustainable use and improved decision-making

That potent mix of overfishing and habishytat degrada tion is also a problem for Canashydas freshwater fisheries A report tabled last fall by the federal standing committee on

fisheries and oceans called for more federal funding for research and fisheries programs in central and arctic regions of Canada Accord ing to that report the Grea t Lakes commercial fishery is one of the largest freshwater fisheri es in the world worth an average landed value of more than $40 milshylion a year and an eco nomic impact of at least $250 million Some 90 per cent of that catch is exported The neck lace of lakes threading its way to the St Lawrence River also supports the largest fres hwater sports fishery in the world 800000 Ontarians fish on the Great Lakes eve ry year contributing $850 million to the economy

In Manitoba managers are concerned about the long-term susta inability of freshshywater fish stocks particularly declines in Lake Winnipeg and the northern part of the province caused by overfishing environshymental degradation loss of prime spawning habitat and predators The province has seen stocks rise and fall particularly of pickerel Manitobas highest-priced fish In an attempt to manage the fishery in a sustained fashion the province recently introduced a qu ota entitlement system for anglers Joe OConshynor director of the fisheries branch of Manshyitobas Department of Na tural Resources says his department is wrestling with the environmental threats on fish habitat posed

by farming and hydroelectric development In Ontario fisheries are genera lly in

pretty good shape says Evan Thomas fishshyeries section manager of the fish and wildlife branch of the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (OM NR) Ontario supports almost half of all recreational fishing in Canada with more than two million adult anglers and more than $2 billion a year spent on recreational fishing in the province Onta ri o is also home to Canadas larges t commercial freshwater fishery worth abo ut $40 million a Yfar in land ed value

Thomas says over fishing is still the numshyber one problem Others include habitat loss the potential effects of climate change and contin ued invasion by exotic species Among the management opt ions his minshyistry is exploring are more effective fisheries regulation more rapid inventory and assessshyment techniques fish culture for rehabilishytating populations and controlling nutrient inputs into lakes and rivers

We are clearly looking for federal supshyport for the sea lamprey control program he says referring to recommendations in the recent federal fisheries committee report as well as changes to the federal Fishshyeries Act to hand the province more authorshyity over fish habitat protection

Concerns continue in Ontario over

Moira Ferguson and John Roff Fish Physiology and Biochemistry the top-ranked journal in its field is edited by Prof John Leathershyland chair of the Department of Biomedical Sciences in the Ontario Veterinary College University professor emeritus Eugene Balon has served as editor-in-chief of Environmental Biology ofFishes since he founded the publication in 1976 Zoology professor David Noakes edits Guelph Ichthyology Reviews whose articles synthesize and review all aspects of fish science Both of the latter

Under the Canadian contribution to the project - furided by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council - about 80 federal government and university researchers are trying to learn more about how bioshylogical and physical processes in the oceans affect fish stocks

Zoologychair Prof Paul Hebert has led a Guelph initiative to develshyop multimedia learning resources d1at teach student~ from

are published in the Axelrod Institute of Ichthyology

Based on data from geographic information sysshytems zoology professor John Roff has mapped types of habitat associated with various species of fish and other organisms around Canadas coasts and throughout tl1C Great Lakes the first time such

e1ementaIy grades to university about Canadas aquatshyic environments His department has developed a series of CD-ROMs that provide information on all the major animal groups in the Great Lakes Already available are educational CD-ROMs on Canadas aquatic environments (also available on

d1e World Wide Web) Great Lakes biodiversity and a marine classification system has been developed in this country His report was commissioned by World Wildlife Fund Canada for its Endangered Spaces Campaign and contributes to RoWs work as chair of the scienrillc committee of Globec (Globshyal Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics) a two-year-old international research program intended to better understand ocean ecosystems

birds of the Great Lakes The latter is the first disc in a series called the Great Lakes Faunal Atlas which will eventually cover mammals amphibians reptiles fish and crustaceans

The Alma Aquaculture Research Station es tablished in 1989 and funded through a 20-year development grant by the Ontario

WI NTER 1999 29

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various invas ive species that have turned up

in the Great Lakes - notably sea lampreys

zebra mussels and quagga mussels - many

of which arrive in ballast water of ocea nshy

going vessels (Many have also found their

way into Manitoba says OConnor who

points to the effects of sm elt on whitefish

the main commercial species in Lake Winshy

nipeg) Among o ther meas ures the federal

fish eries committee report called for guarshy

anteed funding for sea lamprey control and

for scienti fic research

I think more money will come says

Prof Bill Beamish Zoology a commissionshy

er on the Great Lakes Fisheries Commission

the 40-year-old governing body that co-ordishy

nates resea rch programs between Canada

and the United States and advises both govshy

ernments It was a review led by Beamish

more than a decade ago on the sta te of

Canadas freshwater fi sheries that provided

the scientific underpinnings for a landmark

report published in 1988 that spelled ou t a

way in freshwater fisheries is a lon g-te rm

project fund ed by the OMNR and the

Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO)

to re-establish native species in their origishy

nal habitats a round Lake Ontario iVlari e

Clement a graduate student of zoology proshy

fe sso r David Noakes is studying Atlantic

sa lmo n which was wiped out of the lake

CONSIDERING WE HAVE THE

BEST FISHERY SCIENCES COMMUNITY

IN THE WORLD WE OUGHT TO

BE DOING BETTER

national strategy for freshwater fisheries

Beamish who has studied sea lampreys

for several decades at Guelph and also invesshy

tigates fish habitat loss says money is need shy

ed to help researchers investigate biological

controls as an alternative to chemical lamshy

pricides The recen t repo rt also notes the

need to address the effects of other nonshy

native exotic species on n ative fish stocks

and water quality and calls on Ottawa to

stem the funding decline in freshwater scishy

ence over the last two decades

One example of the kind of work under

and its tribu ta ry streams near the beginning

o f this century by overflshing and habitat

destruction and alteration Last fall Clement

placed eggs into a site in the Credit River

she has been monito ring oxygen availab il shy

ity durin g their incu ba tion to gau ge sedishy

mentation rates in the river This spring and

summer she wili study how newborn fi sh

interact with other species in th e r ive r

C lement says her docto ral research proshy

ject is but one piece of a larger project aimed

at re-establishing the heritage species Othshy

er researchers hop e to learn whe ther th e

Ministry of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs brings together

researchers for interdisciplinary studies of protein requirements

of arctic char improving fish semen and egg management proshy

cedures and understanding hormone activity in fish The station

acts as a quarantine unit for new fish varieties entering Ontario

and serves as a base for parts of certificate courses and a masters

program in aquaculture

farms in Canada He and fellow Guelph zoologists Eugene Balon

(co- founder of the Coelaca nth Conservat ion Council) and Jim

Bogart also identified and characterized the coelacanth which

had been thought extinct until a specimen was landed off Africa

in the la te 1930s Noakes confirmed the identity of ano ther of

these living fossils discovered in 1997 it appears to belong to a

second popula tion living in the Indian Ocean about 10000 kilo-

metres away from tha t first find

Zoology professors Moira Ferguson and Roy Danzshy

mann use molecular genetics techniques to identishy Zoology chair Paul Hebert was the first scientist to

fy DNA markers used to pinpoint the location of identify the presence in the Great Lakes of zebra

genes associated with growth spawning times mussels a prolific invader that has wreaked havoc

rates of development maturity and temperature in many ways from clogging water-intake pipes to

tolerance in rainbow trout Isolating and identifyshy consuming plankto n thus allowing light to reach

ing genetic markers fo r desirable traits will help fish bottom-dwelling organisms that may displace native

farmers and breeders cross-breed more effectively species The first researcher to report on the biology

conservationists will be better able to manage and preserve and impact of the zebra mussel on the Grea t Lakes was

genetic variability among wild fish stocks Guelph zoology professor Gerald Mackie whose studies showed

that the organisms faster growth rate and higher fecundity and

Zoology professor David Noakes has stuclied varieties of arctic population density will probably enable it to displace many native

char native to Iceland to find ones suited to being raised on fish bivalves and disrupt entire lake ecosystems

30 GUELPH ALUMNUS

LEADING RESEARCH

The University of Guelph has one orthe largest and most active groups of aquatic biologists in the world

bull More than 50 faculty and 100

graduate students research

assocrates and postdoctoral

fellows

bull Over 1000 published scientific

articles books monographs

films and videos in the past

decade

bull Interdisciplinary programs

involving more than a dozen

academic departments

bull The largest group ofichthyoloshy

gists (scientists who study

fish) in North America

bull Collaborative research with

government environrriental

organizations and academic

institutions worldwide

bull Expertise covering the entire

aquatic food chain from plankshy

ton to whales

bull Leading developments in comshy

puter-based educational mate-

rials in aquatic sciences

bull A new $6-million Aquatic

Sciences Facility

bull Research support from national

and international agencies

business and industry

adults will be able to return from the open

lake to their stream spawning grounds If

they come back will the eggs survive she

says If were able to show the eggs can surshy

vive that will be very encouraging for

Atlant ic salmon restoration

What is to be done to ensure the survival

not just of Atlantic salmon in Lake Ontario

but also of the co untrys freshwater and

m ar ine fisheries We need to try to sepashy

rate o ut the fisheries management decisions

from the political decisions associated with

the fi shery says zoology professor Glen Van

Der Kraak director of U of Gs Axelrod

Institute of Ichthyology Van Der Kraak who

studies the effects of toxic contaminants on

fi sh populations says policy mltkers need

to rely on the advice of fisheries sc ientis ts

making conservative harvest ing estimates

So often scientists make decisions and then

are overrun by the politics he says (Never

mind fish wars pitting co untries against one

another - here in Ca nada scientists and

policy makers wres tle over the question of

who should be respo nsible for what aspects

of the countrys fisheries as witnessed in a

war of words played out in the Canadian Journal ofFisheries and Aquatic Sciences over

the past 18 months between biologists at

several Canadian univers ities and the DFO

over the relationship between fishery sc ishy

ence and fishery policy)

Roff says theres nothing unique about

Canadas fish problems Its not really a

Canadian problem its a worldwide probshy

lem The only fisheries worldwide that are

not over fished appear to be some not yet

fully exploited in the Indian Ocean

After nearly four decades of growth the

worldwide marine ca tch levelled off in the

1990s to some 90 million tons a year The

m ain problems coastal pollution habitat

destruction and particula rly overfishing

Noakes editor of the journal Guelph Ichthyology Reviews contrasts the few hunshy

dred people who might have made th eir

livelihood aboard small wood en boats on

the Grand Banks several centuries ago with

the massive factory trawlers that now scour

todays coast People are much too efficient

in terms of catching fish he says Noakes

concurs with fellow Guelph researchers that

conservation of fish stocks has to reach the

top of fishery managers agendas

hat does set Canada apart is the breadth

and depth of expertise in fisheries and aquatshy

ic sciences in this country - rather a parashy

dox when you consider that Canadas record

in fisheries preservation is apparently no betshy

ter than that of many other nations

Considering we have the best fishery scishy

ences community in the world we ought to

be doing better says Roff Within the last

decade th e federal government withdrawal

o f support from the Department of Fishshy

eries and Oceans and university researchers

has been massive At the very time when the

resources were gett ing into severe problems

and when the federal government ought to

have been funding research theyve been

substantially withdrawing resources ga

DONT WAIT UNTIL SPRING The opportunity to double the impact of your gift to the University of Guelph ends on March 31 1999 Until that date all gifts designated to endowed student financial aid at Guelph will be matched by the Ontario Student Opportunity Trust Fund (OSOTF) That means that every dollar you commit will contribute two dollars to financial aid for Guelph students

If you would like to support our students throug h OSOTF you still have a w indow of oppor nishyty to have your do l1a rs doubled But only until March 31 1999

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WINTER 1999 31

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

n ALUMNI PROF IL E

LETS LOOK AT THE OPPORTUNITIES

WHEN I-IE BECA ME president of the Unishy

versity of Guelph Alumni Association

(UGM) in June Jim Weeden brought new

enthusiasm and ideas for encouraging alumshy

ni to stay in volved with their alma mater

And he wants to start with students

Weeden reca ll s his own ex perience at

U of G where he fo und a sense of commushy

nity by living in residence and ge tting

involved in college activiti es But when he

graduated with an engin ee ring degree in

197 1 he left to begin a caree r and says he

didnt think much about the University until

he needed it again in the 1980s to pursue a

graduate degree in agricultural enginee ring

He spent his early career working as an

agricultural extensi o n engineer for the

Ontario Department o f Agriculture and is

stiU with its successo r the Ontario Ministry

of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs

(OMAFRA) Weed en completed the masshy

ters degree in 1986 when he was head of the

agricultural engineering program and extenshy

sion services a t Centralia College of Ag rishy

cultural Technology

In 1987 he moved to the ministrys plant

industry branch as program m anager and

later held the same position in th e resources

manage m ent branch Sin ce then he has

worked for OMAFRA in Woodstock and

now Stratfo rd He is technical adviser fo r

Ontarios Enviro nmental Farm Planning

Program is respo nsible for o ther environshy

m ental programs and consults with the Minshy

istry o f th e Environment on local agriculshy

tural pollution problems

w Weed en got involved with the Universishy sect tys a]u111ni programs by serving on the first g z board of the Engineering Alumni Associashy

~ tion when it was established in 1990 From

~ 1991 to 1994 he sat on the University Senshy

~ ate and its Research Board and for the pas t

~ four years) hels been on the UGAA executive

32 GUELPH A LU MNUS

From the presidents chair Weeden looks

at the bro ad picture o f UG AA se rvice and

recognizes that the associa tio n owes a debt

o f gratitude to hundreds of alumni volunshy

teers who ha ve helped to build the organishy

za tion over the yea rs and to University staff

in Development and Public Affairs (DampPA)

who support UGAA initiatives and alumni

programs Thro ugh their efforts he says the

a lulllni associati o n is rea ching out to all

U of G alumni Graduates who have mainshy

tained a close relationship with the Univershy

sity thro ugh their college or academic disshy

cipline those who feel an affiliation because

o f their participation in a thletics residence

life o r extracurricular activiti es and even

HIGHLIGHTSmiddot GRAD NEWSmiddot OBITUARIES bull CALENDER

those who have not kept in touch are part of the constituency served by UGAA

Weed en says the alumni association needs to strengthen its relationship with all alumni and he believes the effor t must start on campus with students Hed like to proshymote the idea of alumni involvement as ear shyly as a students second year We need to give students some reason to be con nected and an efficient vehicle for maintaining that connection he says

For many students and new graduates the social functions supported by UGAA and the opportunities for professional networking will be important says Weeden but greater rewards are there for those who join the effort to enhance the Universitys acade mic goals

In todays economic and political envi shyronme nt individual financial support and the advocacy of post-secon dary education are important roles for alumni he says How many people ac tively get involved with the debate on whether universities are job-trainshy

ing centres or centres of education Yet some of our alumni are extremely adept in such roles Weeden would like to cultivate past and current stud ent ac tivists as supporters of public education after they graduate

As Weeden leads UGAA into a new year he says he will work with other UGAA volshyunteers and DampPA staff to find new ways for the association to interact with students and alumni One id ea is to expand UGAAs Intershynet presence by adding a Web message board that will encourage alumni to discuss career and campus issues online and a reply form that will allow them to quickly update addressshyes employment status and other information

Weeden says its important to stay focused on UGAAs key prioriti es but he welcomes any and all new ideas on how to accomplish them All it takes to share your ideas with the UGAA executive is a stamp or a push of the send button when youre clicked on alumniuoguelphca

HKHB SPIRIT RISES

ENCOURAGED BY THE SPIRIT

shown by fellow alumni at last

summers reunion the executive

of the Human Kinetics Human Biology

Alumni Association is moving ahead

with more opportunities for alumni to

stay in touch The association plans to

launch a Web site that will be accessed

through the U of G site

A wine-and-cheese reception already

planned for June 19 1999 wiil try to

build on the success of the 1998 event

which attracted alumni from as far away

as Chicago and as far apart as the 19605

and 1990s Guests had a chance to tour

U of Gs new Health and Performance

Centre and performance testing

labs The program was co-ordinated wiLh

A REFLECTION OF PRIDE

Members of the OAC

Class of 52 join Arboshy

retum staff on the front patio

of the Arboretu m Centre

beside a new reflecting pool

that was built last summer

as a class project Pictured

from left are Murray Parker

Ann Smith George Smith

Jack Sargent Catherine Gibb

Robin Shaw-Rummington

Marilyn Swaby BA 69

Bev Healy B5e(Agr) 72

Norm Watson Una Venerus

Ron Costen Henry Kock

BSe (Agr) 77 and Ric

Jordan BA 75

Prof Jack Barclay chair of the Departshy

ment of Human Biology and Nutritional

Sciences and Prof Susan Pfeiffer Memshy

bers of the Human KineticsHuman

Biology Alumni Association executive arc

Janet Leonhard 82 president Carolyn

Moore 83 vice-president Alison Locker

97 secretary Mark Mulholland 79

lreasurer and t-iary Ann Crape 76

These officers are also spea rheading a

new initiative to benefit students - an

undergraduate award that will provide

$250 and lifetime mem bership in the

association To commcnt on these and

other initiatives contact Leonard by

e-mail at Janel_Leonhardinwrbsb

eduonca or Moore at cturveyagec

uoguelphca

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alumni

Multimedia lab buzzes

THE DONALD FORSTER RoOiv

has become one of the

busiest spots in th e Unishy

versity of Guelph Liblary since the

addition of 70 state-of-the-art

computer workstations that were

supported by alumni do nations

to the Alma Mater Fund (AM F)

U of G president Mordechai

Roza nski officia ll y o pened th e

Alma Mater Fund Multimedia

Lab D ec 2 an d celebrated th e

event with members of the AMF

Adv isory Counc iL [n 1996 a nd

1997 the AMF contributed

$240000 to th e project which

increased the number of student

workstations o n campus by 50 per

cent Students use the m ult imeshy

~ dia lab to conduct research on the

~ Internet access scholarly publicashyr u VI tions on CD-ROM and use COll1shyz ~ puter software mod ules tbat lt

~ strengthen the teaching provided lD

o in co urse lectures labs and tcxtshybii books

middotMatters

Alumnus of many interests

I NTERES TING P EOPLE always have eclect ic interests and U of G

alumnus and honorary degree recipient Ken Murray BSA 50 and

HDLA 96 is a good example H e is known by most people on camshy

pus for his distinguished career in the Canadian meat packing indusshy

try and his volunteer service to U of G He was a member and chair

of Board of Governors from 1973 to 1978 and chair of the Regionshy

al Corporate Committee during U of Gs last capital campaign and

is currently chair of the Heritage Fund Enhancement Committee

Murray is also a strong supporter of community soc ial services

In August he addressed the World Congress of Social Ps)chiatry

held in British Columbia - the only non-psychiatrist on the proshy

gram He spoke about his role in establishing an Alzheimers research

project a t the University ofWaterioo which was recently named in

his honour the Ken Murray Alzheimer Research and Education Proshy

gra m At the gc conference he al so participated in a panel dis shy

cussion that outlined services offered by Guelphs Homewood Health

Cent re Murray bas been actively involved in the governance of the

centre since 1977 and has been a major player in the development

of a charitable foundatio n bearing the Homewood name

WHEN THE PUCK DROPPED More than 30 teams including two

womens teams were entered in the

Dec 6 University of Guelph Alumni Hockey

Tournament Organizers for the 1998 event

were from left Brian Finniss B5c 88

Brad Stephenson BA 86 Terry Carr

BComm 87 Todd Bryant BA 86 and

undergraduate student Brian Melnick

Ken Murray centre with his wife Marilyn Robinson Murray and U of G president Mordechai Rozanski

34 GU ELPH ALUMNU S

RESTORING A JEWEL IN THE CROWN

DONALD RUTHERFORD BSA 5 stands in fron t

of the 1931 conservatory greenhouse that will

be restored to match the splendour of the ga rdens

now growi ng up around it His $256000 leadershy

ship gift to the Conservatory and Gardens Project

was inspired by hi s m emo ries of being a student

at OAC

On behalf of fellow alumni I hope this gift will

commemorate the experiences and educat ion we

acquired while at Guelph says Rutherford When

fully restored to its previous glory the conservatoshy

ry greenhouse will be an ideal greeting and welcome

spot for visitors and newcomers to the University

as well as old friend s renewing their acquaintance

Rutherfords professional career spans the agrishy

foo d industr y beginning as an agricu ltural repshy

resentative with the provincial minist ry I-Ie was

later vice-president of the Fertilizer Institute of

Ontario executive secreta ry of the Canadian Seed

Trade Association director of information w ith

the Ca nadian Livestock Feed Board and Canadishy

an sa les manager for Sylvite of Can ad a Retired

since 1986 he now owns his own sma ll investment

company and manages to golf throughout the yea r

The conserva tory isnt the first ca mpus project

to attract Rutherford s attention - as a student

he helped dig out the base ment of Massey H al l to

build a student lo unge - but his recent gift has

been a tremendous boost to those who have been

working since the ea rly 1990s to save the glass and

cypress structure from demo lition

A committee of alumni facult y sta ff stu dents

and fri en ds of the University has moved the proshy

ject along to th e point w here most of the surshy

rounding garden complex is now complete It fea shy

tures six gardens named in honour of the ir chie f

supporters Autumn Garden - OAC 5 1 Spring

Ga rden - OAC 53 Su mmer Garden - OAC 55

Winter Gard en - OAC 65 Water Gard en shy

OAC 49 and the Woo dland Garden named in

honour of the late Doug Rob inson BSA 53

Alumni have been in strumental in raising

funds for the $ l-million project Students and fa cshy

ulty have provided mudl of the h1l1ds-on Idbour

and friends in the nursery and landscape materishy

als supply industries have given $250000 ill donashy

tions and gifts-in-kind of plan ts and landsca ping

materials Rutherford s generous gift has pushed

th e conservato ry fund-ra ising effort in to the fin 81

stretch Th e ga rden complex and restored g reenshy

110use are sc heduled to officially open during

Alumni Weekend in June 1999

1999 Coming Events

Jan 29 - Aggie Goodshy

Times Banquet call the OAC Student Federation at Ext 8321 for ticket injemnrltion Feb 13 - Norm McCo llulll

D iploma Hockey Tournashy

m ent call Jack Bakker at 519-837-0132 to register a team

Feb 21 - Ottawa Chapter

annual curling bonspiel

Richmond C urling Club in

Richmond Ont For informashytiol1 call Alan Bentley BSA 61 at 6 13-829-6598 or John DVit[ 54 mId Margaret McGowml BHSc 54 at

613-828-7038

March 3 - Florida alumni

reunion a t Maple Leaf

Estates Port Charlo tte Fla

call Ext 6533 0 register

March 13 and 14 - ollcge

Royal 75th o pen house

March 19 and 20 - OAC

Alumni Association curling

bonspiel G uelph Curling

Club register at Ext 6657

May 5 - Chicago All Canashy

dian Universities Night hostecl

by U of G at the University

Club of Chicago 76 East Monshy

roe Sr call Exl 6533 for details May 5 - OAC Alumni

Foundation annual meeting

730 pm Arboretum Centre

May 12 - Alumni-inshy

Action annual meeting and

luncheo n 1130 3m

Arboretum Centre ((11 Ext 6657for tickets

June 18 to 20 - Alumni

Veekend call Ext 6657 to plall a reun io n

-0 r shya -IFor more infon-nation on any a

eVC1l1listed ailove call the oJ -lt oU of G extension listed at en raquo

519-824-4120 or send e-mail z

10 alunznilIoguelphca ~

WINTER 1999 35

alumni Matters

MEMORIES OF COLLEGE ROYAL Grant MacEwan ADA 23 and

BSA 26 is one of the few OAC

alumni who c~n still remember

the first College Royal held Jan

14 1925 MacEwan bad just

entered the degree program in

animal husbandry and may have

been a participant in the liveshy

stock showmanship classes Latshy

er in life he was widely known Grant MacEwan

across Western Canada as 3 liveshy

stock judge and an advocate of

agricultural fairs and exhibitions

MacEwan is bes t known

however for his 23-year C3reer

as a university professor in Manshy

itoba and Saskatchewan and Ilis

political career which included

12 years as alderman and mayshy John Kenneth Galbraith

or of C31gary four years as an

Alberta MLA and eight as lieushy birthday in August

tenant -governor of the province The year after Ma cEwan

He s till lives in Calgary graduated John Kenneth Galshy

where he celebrated his 96th braith ADA 29 and BSA 31

HOMECOMING 98

enrolled at OAC and devoted

some of his energy to organizshy

ing College Royal Show records

indicate it was Galbraith who

first proposed the college event

be publicized so that people

from the farm community

could attend He also suggestshy

ed that OAC invite students

from American agricultural colshy

legesl n th e early 1930s Colshy

lege Royal took its fir s t steps

towards becoming the comshy

munity open house it is today

Galbraith later moved to the

United States where he enjoyed

a distinguished caree r as a proshy

fessor of economics at Harvard

Universi ty Known for his

humanit~rian approach to ecoshy

nomic and political thinking

he was awarded the Order of

Canada in 1997 He celebr3ted

his 90th birthday in October

IT REALLY WAS a homecoming reunion when and Arnott who is head coach of the York

former Gryphon teammates Ralph Shapiro University Yeomen came from the visitors

S5c(HK) 74 and Tom Amott S5c(HK) 80 dreSSing room to hold the ball Shapiro is

met on the field at Alumni Stadium Oct 3 the controller at Huntsman Chemical Inc

Shapiro had the honour of kicking off in Guelph and a longtime United Way volshy

the Universitys 1998 United Way campaign unteer who chaired this years Guelph and

Wellington fund-raising drive The Univershy

sity campaign is the largest in the county

with U of G staff and faculty contributing

over $200000 in 1998

Prior to the game a number of recent

alumni - all U of G scholarship and award

winners - met for a reunion luncheon The UJ

1948 and 1949 dominion championship i5f 3

football teams were also honoured guests z 5 o at the 2 pm game that saw the Gryphons gtshy a defeat York f shya I a

Ralph Shapiro

36 G UELPH ALUMNUS

LEADING THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY FOR 1974 GRADS The 25th-anniversary reunion givshy

i ng program for the Class of 1974

is under way with Bill Laidlaw BA

74 as cbair A public affairs proshy

fessional he has been director of

government relations for the

Canadian operations of Glaxo

vVelJcome Inc for more th an 10

years He also acts as a senior conshy

sultant to support the governshy

ment relations function in other

regions of Canada

Laidlaw began his career in

teaching after earning a history

degree from Guelph and education

degrees (rom Queens University

and the University of Toronto He

also holds the certified human

resources professional designation

and worked in that field for sevshy

eral years before concen trating on

government relations at Glaxo

Welkome He lives in Burlington

Ont and is an act ive community

volunteer having se rved on the

boards of severa l professional

organizations the Queensway

General Hospital and the Metroshy

politan Toronto Lung Association

He is currently completing a oneshy

year term as chair of the Ontario

Chamber of Commerce

Anniversa ry preparations will

culminate with a class gathering

a nd reunion gift at Alumni

Weekend in June 1999

ALUMNI MAKE THE CONNECTION Students who moved into

Maids and Mills halls in Sepshy

tember can take full advanshy

tage of the Universitys highshy

speed computer network

thanks to the OAC Class of

71 whose 25 th-reunion proshy

ject provided wiring upgrades

in the 84- and 77-year-old

residence buildin gs

GRAD NEWS

Marathon survivors inspire us all to appreciate everyday life

W HEN ROBINSON SIIlLJNGS Jane BSe(Agr)

85 Heather BASe 83 Peter BSe(Agr)

86 Scott and Marnie rigwood BA 84 get

together they talk about marathons and the hope

and determination it takes to reach the finish line

Hea ther walked a marathon in San Diego

Calif in June to raise money for leukemia

research then joined Peter for a Toronto marathon

in October that benefi ted the Leukemia Research

Fund of Canada They were inspired by Janes pershy

sonal marathon of survival that foUowed her 1992

diagnosis of leukemia Chemotherapy radiation

remission relapse and finally a bone marrow

transplant [TOm her brother Scott took more than

three years out of her life but gave her the detershy

mination to keep fighting

Many families can understand the marathon

of hope maintained by the Robinsons during

Janes struggle and the commitment they have to

help others who are stricken with the disease Jane

is finally well enough to work again as a writer

and marketing consultant and to join her fami shy

ly in volunteer work She helped recruit for the

Toronto marathon fund -raiser and continues to

be involved with the Leukemia Research Funds

Team in Training She also says that her expeshy

rience has taught her to appreciate more the pleashy

sures of everyday life and the love of famil y

Jan es parents are th e late Doug Rob inson

BSA 53 and Marilyn (Inglis) Robinson Murray

BH Sc 55

19305

bull Grant Misener ADA 32 BSA 35 and DVM 38 received the

prest igious George F Hixso n Felshy

lowship Award from the Kiwanis

International Foundation in May The retired Illinois veter ishy

narian was hono ured for his subshystantial contribution to the

Kiwanis wo rldwide service proshy

ject aimed at eliminating iodine

deficiency disorders the leading

cause of preventable mental retardation in children Over the

years Misener has shown a simishylar commitment to his al ma

mater an d its students through

his close association with OVC

and his support of scho larship

programs

19405

bull Russell McDonaldDVM 45 was named an honorary life direcshytor of the Royal Agricultural Winshy

ter Fair Association in March

McDonald formerly general manshy

ager of Western Ontario Breeders

Ine and executive director of the Canadian Association of Animal

Breeders served as a director of the Royal Winter Fair for 20 years

representing the Canadian artifishycial insemination industry He

lives in Woodstock Ont

bull Ian Taylor DVM43 was recently honoured by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to

Animals of Illinois Taylor ran a small-animal veterinary clinic in

the Chicago area for many years

and says he gained ll1uch experishyence during his first three years in

Illinois as clinic veterinarian for

the anti -cruelty society

19505

bull Charles Chuck Broadwell BSA 54 was elected a Mel

Osborne Fellow by the Kiwanis

Club of Forest City in London Ont in recognition of a dedicatshy -ed and distinguished career in

Kiwanis

19605

bull Constantine Campbell BSA 60 and MSA 61 was named to the

WINTER 1999 37

Order of Canada in January He

received the award in recogni shy

tion of his many contributions

to science and the Canadian

agricultural industry After grad shy

uating from OAC he went on to

do his PhD at the University of

Saskatchewan then joined Agri shy

culture and Agri-food Canada

as a research scientist at the Swift

Current research station Campshy

bell and his family now live in

Ottawa where he is scientist

emeritus with Agriculture and

Agri-food Canada

bull John Casselman BSA 64 is

a research scientist with the

Ontario Ministry of Natural

Resources He Jives in Bath

Ont with his wife Lois

bull Jane Fuller RRSc 65 and

her husband George who both

taught at the Macdonald Instishy

tute from 1966 to 1969 have

moved from Winnipeg to

Utopia Ont following

Georges retirement from the

University of Manitoba

bull Fred Gilbert MSc 66 and

P hD 68 is in his first term as

president of Lakehead Univer shy

sity in Thunder Bay Ont He

taught at U of G in the Departshy

ment of Zoology from 1972 to

1981 and has enjoyed a dive rse

academic career that has also

included teaching at the Unishy

versity of Maine and posi tions

as director of wildlife biology at

Washington State University

and founding dean of the Facshy

ulty of Natural Reso urces and

Environmenta l Studies at the

University of Northern British

Columbia He moved to Lakeshy

head from a position as viceshy

pro vost at Colorado State Unishy

versity A respected wildlife

biologist he has conducted

ex tensive resea rch in s Ll ch areas

as the behaviour and physioloshy

gy of wildlife species and the

effects of environmental

change on wildlife populations

bull Terry Goodyear BSc 67 of

Mont Tremblant Quebec is an

early retiree from Agriculture

and Agri-Food Canada in Ottawa He is now working on

va lue-added products from

industrial wastes particularly

cellulose sludge from pulp and

pa per mills

bull Gary Hearn BA 68 was

named an Ontario provincial

judge in October For the last

25 years he has been a lawyer

with the firm Kearns McKinshy

non in Guelph where he lives

with his wife Irene and three

teenage children

bull Allan Knight BSA 66 of Corunna Ont has retired

from Dow Chemical after 30

years On retirement he was a

laboratory director for indusshy

trial chemicals He is now

working with his son in a famishy

ly-owned and -operated busishy

ness Knight Funeral Home

bull Keith McFarlane BSc(Agr)

68 works for the Department

of Foreign Affairs and Internashy

tional Trade and began a fourshy

year assignment last summer as

head of the commercial divishy

sion of the Canadian Embassy

in Lisbon Portugal The

division promotes the sa le of

Canadian goods and services

to Portugal

bull Ian Newbould MA 68 has

travelled far from his Ontario

roots through an academic and

administrative career that has

taken him to Europe Asia and

Western Canada A noted hisshy

torian he moved into adm inisshy

tration at the University of

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Lethbridge in 1981 and spent

10 years there as director of

research dean of a rts and scishy

ence and vice-presiden t (acadeshy

mic) before crossing the counshy

try to become president of

Mount Allison University in

New Brunswick He is now in

his second term as president of

Mount AUison

bull Indra Deo Singh MSc 68 is

a tea scientist international

consultant and joint director of

the Tea Research Association at

the Nagrakata substation in

India His responsibilities

include co-ordinating research

and development in the Indian

tea industry and developing tea

cultivars and agrotechnology

for tea Singh is married with

two sons aged 27 and 23

19705

bull Don Ambler BSe 71 retired in March as manager of

water programs with Environshy

ment Canada in Dartmouth

NS after 25 years of public

service He has now registered

the company Aquashed Co nshy

sulting to continue in the water

resources field when hes not

gardening beekeeping do ing

aerobics or vo lunteering in the

community and chu rch E-mail

contact is welcome a t

donambl erns sympaticoca

bull Jim Bond BSe 75 is managshy

ing a new processing facility at

the Chalk River Nuclear Laborashy

to ry in Chalk River Ont

bull Terri (Monks) Bulman BSc(Agr) 78 and MSe 81

and her husband Vincent

MSe 8 1 live in Australia with

their th ree children Catherine

7 Peter 4 and baby Christoshy

pher Terri is senior principal

environmental auditor vith

Coffey Geosciences Pty Ltd Vinshy

cent afte r many years as a geoloshy

gist travelling around Australia

and abroad has taken the year

off to study and look after the

children Their e-mail address is

tbulmanbigpondco m

bull Marie David BA 78 of

Hanover Ont has been in the

n ewspaper business for 20

years She started in the mailshy

room moved to advertising

sales then became advert ising

manager She is now gene ral

manager o f three So utham

weekly newspapers and pubshy

lish er of the Hanover Post

bull Janice Harrower and her husshy

band Jerome Billett both

DVM 76 operate a joint veterishy

nary practice in Prescott Ont

Billett says practising together

has allowed them some flexibilishy

ty in their family life and given

their four children a good took

at the rigours of veterinary

medicine Says Billett Not one

of our kid s has the slightest

interest in being a veterinarian

and isnt that just fine Their

o ldest son Jesse attends Harshy

va rd University and is a memshy

ber of its prestigious a cappella

choir Lucas is studying

mechanical engineering at the

University of Waterloo Casey is

planning a career in computer

engineering and Lindsay is a

high school athle te

bull Clair Heinbuch BSe 74 is a

sales manager with Baye r Corp

in Kansas H e and his wife

Caroline (Koscik) BASc 75

returned to the Kansas City

area after spending four years in

Denver They have three chilshy

dren Lisa 20 Scott 18 and

Ryan [5

bull Beverly Lee BASe 72 is an

elem entary school principal in

Unionville Ont She lives with

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her husband Grant Egan in

Collingwood and is looking

forward to retirement in severshy

al years Life on Georgian Bay

is wonderful she says Lee

would love to hear from fellow

grads by e-mail at

leebYrbeeduonca or by

phone at 705 -444 -092l

bull Won-Jai Maeng MSc 71 took office Sept 1 as president

of Kon-Kuk University in Seoul

Korea where his academic

career began He completed an

undergraduate degree at Kon

Kuk in 1965 then studied at

Mailing Agricultural College in Denmark and at U of G before

doing doctoral work at the Unishy

versity of California Davis

Maeng has held research and

teaching positions at the Unishy

versity of illinois at Chung-Ang

University and at Kon-Kuk

where he has been a professor of

animal science since 1984 His

appointment as president folshy

lows years of administrative

experience as a department

head dean and chair of various

research committees and proshy

fessional organizations An

expert in ruminant nutrition

Maeng was instrumental in

developing the livestock feed

industry in Korea He has also

been active in working with

alumni groups and in writing

for the Kon-Kuk Tribune

bull Bill MarshaU ADA 75 of Proton Station Ont moved

from Clarksburg in June to

work in Dundalk for the Grey

County Roads Department on

its road management crew

bull Bernie Matte BSc(Agr) 70 of Moncton NB retired

in March after 28 years with

Fisheries and Oceans Canada

and the Canadian Food

Inspection Agency He plans to

travel to Belize and Honduras

with his wife Diane and will

be available anywhere in the

Caribbean for seafood HACCP

consulting work

bull Margaret McClain BA 70 lives in Arkansas where she is

highJy involved in the issue of

40 GUELPH ALUMNUS

missing children and internashy

tional abductions McClain who

believes her own six-year-old

daughter was taken out of the

United States more than a year

ago by her second husband is

reaching out to parents with

similar experiences through an

organization that is lobbying the

US government for tougher

international abduction laws

She invites interested fr iends

and alumni to contact her

through her Web site at

wwwinsolwwbnet-dmcclain

bull Robert (Chuck) Miller BA 77 is the park superintendent

of Killarney French River and

Maskinonje provincial parks in

Ontario He moved to Killarney

from Quetico Provincial Park

last May

bull Gordon Nicol BA 72 and MSc(Agr) 74 teaches math

and science in a bilingual prishy

vate school in Guatemala A

BEd graduate of Laurentian

he first taught in Guatemala in

the late 1970s then spent 12

years in northern Alberta as a

teacher and principal He

returned to Guatemala in 1989

A widower with three teenage

children Nicol would like to

hear from U of G friends and

acquaintances especially anyshy

one who is was or will be in

Central America He says he

could also use middle-schoolshy

level science projects Send eshy

mail to gnicoll guatenet or

write to PO Box 661447 Miami

Springs Florida 33266-1447

bull Chris Schulte BSc 71 and MSc 73 lives in Nassau

Bahamas with his wife

Andrya After graduation he

stayed in the Department of

Physics as a research associate

with Prof lain Campbell then

joined Ontario Hydro in the

early 1980s He moved to the

Bahamas in 1995 He can be

reached bye-mail at

schultebahamasnetbs

bull Sandra (Pickford) Webster BA 75 has retired from U of

Gs Co mmunications and Pubshy

lic Affairs and is living in Parry

Sound Ont where she is

doing volunteer work and

communications consulting

for the municipality Guelph

friends ca n contact her by

e-mail atswebsterzeutercom

19805

bull Sharon (Courneya) Angus BA 8 I of Surrey BC comshy

pleted a BSW at the University

of British Columbia in 1988

and has been working for the

BC government for 13 years

- first in probation and now

in the family justice division

She and her husband Ron

have three children Jason

Carly and Colin

bull Karen Beazley BLA 86 is an assistant professor and acadeshy

mic program co-ordinator at

the School for Reso urce and

Environmental Studies at Dalshy

housie University in Halifax

She is currently doing research

for a book on endangered

species initiatives and is orgashy

nizing a Nova Scotia wildlands

workshop with the Wildlands

Project for 1999 Her e-mail

address is kbeazleyisdalca

bull Caroline (Van Deudekom) and Marc Brooks both ADA 87

recently moved from Strathroy

to Owen Sound Ont where

they run a 50-acre organic farm

with their two sons

bull Virginia Burt BLA 85 startshyed her own landscape architecshy

ture firm Visionscapes in

Hamilton Ont in ] 996 She

specializes in the design of thershy

apeutic healing gardens spirit

gardens sacred spaces and

la byrin ths and recen tly designed the first healing garden

in Canada specificalJy for peoshy

ple living with HIV and AIDS

bull Joanne (Branson) Carver BA 80 earned a BEd from Brock

University in 1981 and recently

started working as a probashy

tionparole officer She Jives in

Ajax Ont and has two daughshy

ters Julie4 and Sarah 8

bull Heather Champ BA 86 is a Web-site designer in New York

City She began her work in

computer design in 1990 Her

personal site can be Found at

wwwjezebelcom

bull Laurie Gough BA 87 has become a world traveller who

writes about her experiences for

the benefit of others Her most

recent book Island of the

Human Heart A tfornans Travshyel Odyssey is now in its second

printing in Canada and will be

released next year in the United

States and overseas She has also

published Travellers Tales A

Womans World which won the

US-based Lowell Thomas

Gold Award for best travel book

of the year When not travelling

or writing she teaches English

and ESL in Guelph

bull Susan (Coles) Goulden BASc 84 and her husband

Ian are th rilled wi th their

recent adoption of Jennifer Lee

Yu who was born in June near

Leping Jiangxi Peoples Repubshy

lic of China The Gouldens

who Jive in vVaterloo Ont

thank classmate Andrea

(Kovits) Henderson for her

support throughout the adopshy

tion process Susan is currently

on leave from her position with

McCormick Canada

bull Judy (Bodendistel) Gregg BA 82 moved to Melbourne Ausshy

tralia in 1997 with her husband

and two children Carly 6 and

Adam 3 We are enjoying the

friendly people and the great

weather here she says We are

especially enjoying winter in a

place where it never gets below

zero Celsius

bull Nigel GumJey DVM 85 has been a partner in the Alta Vista

Animal Hospital in Ottawa

since 1990 was president of the bull Garry Millage AMPHI 86 bull Heidi Stephenson BA 88 is now ISO 9000 manager at

Ontario Veterinary Medical left a position as vice-president was awarded her professional Carpenter Ca nada Ltd in

Association in 1997 and recent- of national operations for acco untants designation of Wood br idge Ont He lives in

ly served on the Canadian Vetshy Scotts Restaurants KFC Divishy certified general accountant in Miss issa uga Classma tes are

erilw() Medical Associations sion to open his own consult- March 1998 She has been invited to contact him at

national issues committee He ing company Future Food employed for the last 10 years avon listarca

lives in Osgoode with his wife Equipment Ine specializes in with Dan Ball Chartered bull Michelle (Pilon) Bacon BA rvlaurecn and children Laura providing new and used restau- Acco un tant in Parry Sound 90 moved to England to study

and Matthew rant equipment and reducing O nt where she lives with her and work after graduating from

bull Muneer Hirji BComm 82 restaurant construction costs hu sband Brad two dogs and a Guelph She recently left a posishy

lives in Toronto and is vice- He also operates a restaurant horse tion with the British Ministry of

president of marke ting at SAP called Nikkos in Woodbridge bull Dawn Stetsko BSe 81 lives Agriculture and Food in York to

Canada He has three chil- Ont and is planning to open a in Langhorne Pa with her husshy become an at-home mom She

drcl1 Nadia 8 Alyssa 6 and second location band Paul and children Mark now lives in London with her

Sarah I bull Tosh Noseworthy BSe 83 is and Keith and is a research husband Tim and one-year-old

bull Brenda irwin BSe 88 is a cardiovascular ICU nurse in scientist with Bristol-Myers daughter Juliette She sends love

studying at Hong Kong Unishy sunny Tuscon Arizona After Squibb Previously she worked to Sue Heather and Sheila and

vers ity of Science and Technolshy grad uation she lived in Paris at McMaster University in can be reached bye-mail at

ogy to complete the final France for a yea r s tudied nurs- Hamilton Ont for 17 yea rs michellebacondialpipexcom

sem ester of an MBA program ing in O ttawa then lived in Saushy bull Teresa Tummillo-Goy BA bull Jeff Barlow BComm 90 is

through the University of di Arabia for two yea rs She still 86 has a law practice in Water- the training and quality manag-

British Columbia She taught loves to travel and would like to 100 Ont foc Li sing primaril y on er for two five-star luxury boushy

science for the North York hea r from fellow alumni She family law civi l litiga tion and tique h o tels in Prague - Hotel

Board of Education for five can be reached at 520-299-8344 real estate She and her hus- Palace Praha and the Hotel

years before enrolling in the bull Cecilia (Wleugel) Parkes band John Goy live in Guelph Savoy Previo usly he was execu -

MBA program BComm 85 is a graphic and have three sons John 4 tive housekeeper at the five-star

bull Jagwant Kanwar PhD 80 is designer in Toronto and says Tony 3 and Shayne 2 Renaissance Pragu e Hotel

a senior scientist in the depart- she st ill uses ber marketing bull Peter Van der Borch DVM bull Margaret Burnes-Souria BA ment of vegetable crops at Pun- background to help her busishy 88 retired in the fa ll of 1997 94 is a team leader with [011 shy

jab Agricultural University in ness succeed She specia lizes in after several years of practising don Magazin e in London Ont

India He is also director of the logo design lNith hand-drawn physiotherapy and ve terinary She married David Souria in

regional vegetable research stashy illustrations medicine and surgery He Jives July 1997 and is pursuing an tion at Usman (TaranTarn) bull Jim Parr BSc(Agr) 81 and in Pictou NS ]VlBA at the University of West-

Amritsar His and his wife MSe 89 died of cancer in bull MartyWilLiams BA 85 is ern Ontario

Sanyogita have a son Mohit June 1998 but hes being co-ordinator of student activishy bull Janine Byers BASe 95 is a and a daughter Dipika who are remembered by his university ties at University College Unishy public health dietitian at the

both studying engineering friends through the establish - versity of Toronto where he Kingston Frontenac and

Friends can write to Kanwar at ment of a mem orial fund for advises student organizations Iennox amp Addington Health

Punjab Agricultural Un ivers ity his wife Denise and children 1Ie is also chair of the U of T Unit in Kingston O nt She is Ludhiana 141 004 India Shannon and Eric Anyone Staff Association a member of getting married to Ca rl Stewart

bull Larissa Larsen BSe 89 and who would like more informa - the steering committee of the on May 29 j 999 MLA 92 received a PhD in tion can ca ll Brian Tapscott at staffs unionization drive and a bull Lisa Cherry BSe 9 1 is a urban and regional planning 519-767-3566 staff member with the student science journalist and executive

from the University of Illinois bull Cheryl (Dunlop) Reid newspaper The Varsity He can director of Artists Against

at Urbana Champaign in May BSe(Agr) 89 sta rted a new be reached bye-mail at marty Racism an international organi-

She has accepted a position at job in September as ingredient wi lliamsutorontoca za tion She is based in Toronto

Thompson Dyke and Associshy sales manager for RA bull Bonnie (Byma) BASe 96 ales a landscape architecture Chisholm o f Toronto She will 19905 and Gil Clelland BA 95 were

and urban planning firm in continue to work from her bull Claire Allison BA 94 grad- married in December 1996 and

Chicago Her husband Ernie remote offke in Fergus Reid uated from the elementary are living in Chatham On t

Poortinga DVM 89 is in his and her husband Jeff BSe teacher ed ucation program at Bo nnie works at a day-care

third yea r of an MD program (Agr) 89 have two children the University of British centre G il teaches art and

at Rush University Chicago lVlega n 4 and Elizabeth 2 Columbia in 1996 and now phys ical education They ca n -Hes looking forward to joining bull Chee Sie BA 83 is a zone teaches in Va ncou ver be reached bye-ma il at gclelshy

his wife in the ranks of the manager for the Malaysian bull JohnAvon BSdHK) 94 lan ciaccesscom employed They would both Assurance Alliance Berhad in earned an M Se in industr ial bull Kate Corn ell BA 95 of enjoy hearing from fellow Sarawak Malaysia He and his operations from Lawrence Markham Ont earned her

alumni and can be reached at wife Jesterine have a two-year- Technological University in masters in dance history from epoor tin garushurushedu old daughter Letitia Southfleld Mich in 1997 and York University in May and

WINTER 1999 41

co-authored a book titled

Toronto Dance Theatre 1968shy1998 Stages in a Journey

bull Mary Jill (McClure) Culliton BASe 90 earned

her BEd from Brock University

and her M Ed from the Univershy

sity of Western Ontario and

teaches Grade 1 in Mitchell

Ont She and her husband

Tim live in Stratford

bull Kathleen (McNutt) Daniels BASe 9 1 is a teacher and was

married on New Years Eve

1994 to Gord Daniels They live

in North Bay Ont and have a

daughter Lauren born in Febshy

ruary 1997 They are expecting

their second child in February

bull Simon Deakin BA 95 studshyied in Florence Italy for a year

then earned a master of fine art

from the Slade School of Fine

Art at the University of London

England He lives in London

bull Christie Dunbar BLA 97 spent a year after graduation

working for Niagara College in

St Catharines Ont on the

vision and design of a new

campus to be built in Niagarashy

on-the- Lake Last April she

joined the landscape architecshy

ture firm of Pollack Design

Associates in Ann Arbor Mich

bull Trina Edmonds BA 94 and

Joel Hinderle became the

proud parents of a little girl

Jordan Ashley in january 1998

and moved to a new home in

Oakville Ont in September

Edmonds works in Mississauga

as a desktop publisher with a

publishingprinting company

bull Wendy Garinther BSc 93 and Steve Decker BSe 94

were married in May Joining

them in the wedding celebrashy

tions were Cheri (Coulter)

42 GUELPH ALUMNUS

Ascroft BSe 93 Karen Leinshy

gartner BSe 94 and Barb

(Moore) Johnson BSe 94

Best man was Jeff Bond BSe

93 and MSe 96 The Deckers

live in Edmonton where Steve

is doing a PhD in chemistry at

the University of Alberta and

Wendy is working in a research

laboratory at a biopharmaceushy

tical company

bull Donna Gross BA 97 is purshysu ing a master of divinity at

Emmanuel College at the Unishy

versity of Toronto and hopes to

become an ordained minister by

2002 She lives in Guelph and

can be reached bye-mail at

donnajulietalbedonet

bull Robert Gruber BA 92 is a child-care supervisor for the

YMCA-YWCA of Guelph and

manages the Jean Little Y

Child- Care Centre He recently

developed the anti -bias proshy

gramming policy for the

Guelph Y and sits on both the

Jean Little Public School Counshy

cil and the Guelph AIDS Wall

Committee He can be reached

bye-mail at rgrubernet

comca

bull Susan Harder BSe 91 grad shyuated from the University of

Toronto Medical School in June

and has started a residency at

Santa Clara Valley Medical Censhy

tre in San jose Calif She will

follow that up with an anestheshy

sia residency at Stanford Univershy

sity Hospital in 1999

bull Marko Harjupanula BASc 93 travelled in Australia for

two months after graduating

from Guelph then returned to

his home town of South Porshy

cupine Ont where he worked

in a gold mine for four years

He entered police college in

September and started as an

opp constable in Cochrane in

December

bull Nancy Holman MA 94 moved to Vancouver soon after

graduation and initially worked

as a project co-ordinator for an

ophthalmologist In 1996 she

began working full time for the

BC Liberal Caucus I would

enjoy hearing from and catchshy

ing up with the friends I made

while studying at U of G and

working at the Brass Taps she

says Her e-mail address is nan shy

cyholmanlassgovbeca

bull Ruth Johnson BA 91 is an investment banking associate

with the mergers and acquisishy

tions group of JP Morgan in

Lond on England responsible

for financial reporting and

administration She has been in

England with her partner Alex Campbell since graduation

bull Stephen Johnson BA 94 of London Ont was a lab technishy

cian at Lenscrafters for three

yea rs and is now a full-time

student at Fanshawe College

studying air conditioning and

refrigeration He was married

in Jun e to Jennifer Fox BSc

95 a chemist at 3M Their

wedding party included Dee Popat BSe (Eng) 94 and

Patrick Wulhes BSc 95

bull Sarah (Davis) Kelly BASe 90 married Robert Kelly in

July and teaches primary

grades at an inner-city school

in Toronto

bull Cassidy Klowak BComm 97 lives in Allisshy

ton Onl and is a personal

banking account manager

with ClBC in Tottenham

bull Stephanie Lopes BSc 96 completed her MSc in repro shy

ductive biology at the Universishy

ty of Toronto and worked as

patient-care director for the

College of Family Physicians

for almost a year In September

she enrolled in medical school

at the University of Toronto

She is happy to announce that

she is engaged to be married

next summer Lopes can be

reached at slopesidirectcom

bull Natalie (Parker) MacKenzie BSc 96 earned her BEd from

the University of Western

Ontario in 1997 She married

ASLt Andy MacKenzie June 27

in Sault Ste Marie Ont and

now lives in Halifax

bull Susan MacKinnon DVM 91 is a veterinarian with HUls

Science Diet She lives in

Guelph with her husband

Brandon Wiley and gave birth

to their first child Adrianna

Nicole june 26 at home

bull Waheed Mian BA 9 1 of Cambridge Ont is a store

director with PetSmart Canada

He helped the company launch

its new retail concept in Cana da

bull Alex Mitchell BA 91 was appointed clerkdeputy treasurshy

er of the Ontario township of

Mildmay-Carrick in 1998 and

will be the clerkadministrator

of the new municipality of

Mildmay-Carrick -TeesWatershy

Culross in 1999 He was married

in january 1997 and lives vith

his wife and daughter in Mild shy

may In his spare time Mitchell

is a professional scout for the

Toronto Maple Leafs covering

southwestern Ontario

bull Sherry Morland BASc 93 of Kitchener Ont ea rned her

BEd from Brock University in

J995 and is a part-time specia l

educa tion teacher and an occashy

sional teacher with the Watershy

loo County Board of Ed ucashy

tion She married Ivan LeBlanc

in 1997

bull Gary Page BSe 91 wo rks for the Nottawasaga Valley Conshy

servation Authority where he is

able to combine his knowledge

of wildlife biology with his

artistic skills as resident graphic

designer and outdoor centre

interpreter He Jives with his

wife Di and their son judah in

CreemoreOnt

bull Elaine Pammenter BA 96 is an inventory clerk with the

Royal Collection at Windsor

Castle in England She holds a

museum management and

curatorship grad uate certificate

diploma from Sir Sandford

Fleming College and did her

internship at the Royal Albert

Memorial Museum in Exeter

England

bull Brent Raymond BSe(Env) 96 of Brantford Ont has

been working with Outward

Bound since graduation He

leads wilderness trips in Northshy

ern Ontario Horida Australia and Sabah (Malaysian Borneo) Most recently he designed and implemented a new introducshytory mountaineering course for Outward Bound Sabah on the summit plateau of Mt Kinashy

balu Those of you who know me as plate licker from U of G get in touch he says Where are you Star I miss you He can be reached by e-mail at globarwchatonca or by

phone at 519-756-1697

Alumni Patrick Abbott BSA 40 July 7 1998

Albert Allen BSA 33 Jan 161994 Agris Ansmits BA 70 and MA 73

February 1998 Barbara (Quartermain) Babcock DHE

53 June 17 1998

Wray Bond BSA 34 Sept 25 1998

Kenneth Bone DVM 38 Dec 29 1998 Evelyn (Stevenson) Buhr DHE 39

May 251998 Philip Burke BSA 43 June 21 1998

Grant Carman BSA 49 Oct 221998 Frederick Chambers BSA 41

June 1998 Wilmot Conley ADA4 7 April 7 1998 Lloyd Crewson BSA 49 Aug 261998

Jacqueline Dimock DHE 47

Aug 20 1998 John Dingwall DVM 52

April 18 1998

Lloyd Dorsey BSA 38 June 9 1998 George Duncan BSA 37

Sept 19 1998

David Dyson BSA 53 Aug 31 1998

Norma (Shannon) Edwards DHE 39

November 1997 Vincent Bud Ellis DVM 41

July 15 1998 John Jack George BSA 48

Sept 24 1998

Donald Haight BSA 33 January 1997 William Hamlyn BSA 33 Dec I 1997

Gordon Harkness BSA 49

November 1997

Charles Hollister DVM 38 June 1996 Donald Hope BSA 54 June 28 1998

Lawrence Jefferson BSA 38

Sept 3 1998

James Kelso DVM 56 July 27 1998

Dorima Lalonde BSA 34 Oct 8 1998 Mildred (Cox) Large DHE 33

June 20 1998 Roger Larson BComm 86 Feb 19 1998 Robert Lawson BSA 49 June 6 1998

bull Doug Ramsey BA 91 and PhD 98 received U of Gs highshyest graduate student award shythe Forster Medal- at June convocation for his academic and community involvement while enrolled in Guelphs new

graduate program in geography He spent the summer as a visitshying research scholar at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College in Truro before assuming his curshyrent position as assistant professhysor at Mount Allison University

David Leach BSc(Agr) 74

July 18 1998

Ian Leask DVM 74 Sept 5 1998

Sheryl Lee BSc 95 June 8 1998 Ruby Janet MacAuley DHE 30

Aug 19 1998 Parker MacKenzie DVM 38

September 1994

Jeanice MacLaren DHE 28 March 1 1997

Campbell MacMaster DVM42

Oct 8 1998

Rex McCallum DVM 43 July 71998 Jean (Dunn) McMahon DHE 31

Nov 41998

Margaret Oones) McTaggart DHE 35 Aug 81998

Patrick McTaggart-Cowan HDSc 81

Oct 21997

Malcolm McWhinnie ADA 39

July 16 1998 Mary (Townsend) Mitchell BHSc

60 Sept 281998

Marjory Monaghan DHE 29

December 1997 Charles Monk BSA 44 Aug 7 1998

Heather Neilsen BHSc 59

Oct 30 1998 Jerry Niwa DVM 62 Aug 5 1998 Henry Harry OReilly BSA 42

October 1997

James Parr BSc(Agr) 81 June 19 1998 Charles Rammage DVM 45

Oct 17 1996 Howard Rapson HDSc 90

March 1997 Clement Reeds DVM 42 Oct 16 1998

William Robinson BSA 38

Aug 23 1998

Donald Sager ADA 73 Oct 141997

Austin Schaefer DVM 37 in 1997

Sandra (Mackenzie) Schmidt DHE 59

Aug 16 1997 Margaret (Harvey) Seaborn DHE 28

July 221998

Larry Seguin DVM 47 June 12 1998

Leah Shedden DHE 31 December 1998

Edward Shuh BSA 40 July 2 1998

Ted Shutsa BSc(Agr) 66

Sept 18 1998 Jim Sinclair DVM 49 Oct 4 1998

Margaret (Brown) Sinclair DHE 20

September 1998 Eldon Smith BSA 42 Sept 9 1998

Derek Somers DVM 96 Sept 25 1998

Cheryl Lynn Sopha BA 95 Sept 20 1998

Leona (Bartlett) Stewart DHE 35

June 27 1998 Alex Thomson BSc(Agr) 69

October 1996

William Whittick DVM 55

Aug 15 1998 Joseph Wilson BSA 23 Sept 11 1998

Lloyd Woolsey DVM41 June 24 1998

Winifred Yeates DHE 28 June 11998

Faculty John Carpenter BSA 43 and MSA 48

Microbiology Dec 10 1998

David Gaskin Zoology Sept 14 1998

Gordon Macleod BSA 50 Animal and

Poultry Science Nov 26 1998 Roman Retman Languages and

Literatures Sept 28 1998

Caesar Sen off Chemistry and

Biochemistry Aug 14 1998

Percy Smith Drama Dec 10 1998

Friends Robert Clark Aug 21 1998

Ethel Hammond August 1998

Thomas Hillers Sept 28 1998 Marguerite Holbrook Aug 26 1998

Catherine Kelly Sept 27 1998

James A McKenzie May 13 1998

Kenneth McIssac Oct 23 1998

William Mutlock September 1998 Roena Patterson Sept 16 1998

Donald Priddle Aug 25 1998

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bull Karl Reimer BSe 94 comshypleted a one-year intensive

MSc in mining engineering at

Queens University and is now

a project engineer a t Enpar

Technologies Ine in Guelph

He can be contacted at reimerbservcom

bull Nancy Nauta Rowland BA 90 and her husband Dan celshy

ebrated their first wedding

anniversary in March 1998 with

the birth of their first child

Connor who beat their March

8 anniversary by two days Nanshy

cy teaches junior-grade stushy

dents and junior special ed ucashy

tion for the Peel District School

Board The Rowlands live in

Caledon Ont

bull Fraser Stables MFA 98 was heralded by Toronto Globe 6shyMail critic Betty Jordan as a

formidable new talent followshy

ing the openi ng of his debut

gallery exh ibition in July The

Scottish artists work includes

sculpture video and mixed

media that explore notions of

flu x by interrupting the moveshy

ment of forms in space

bull Erin (Smith) Scott BSe(HK) 92 and Brad

Scott BSc(Agr) 91 of Lucan

O nt were married in 1993 and

had their first child Lucas in

August Erin works for Shopshy

pers Home Health Ca re in

London Brad is with New Life

Mills in Dunfield

bull Abby Simons BSc 95 and Martin Piche BSc(Agr) 95 were married in Mont-Tremshy

blant Quebec in 1997 She is a

customer service representative

with Kantech Systems he is

superintendent of Club de golf

vallee des forts They say theyd

love to hear from anyone headshy

ing to Montreal and can be

reached at 450-348-3860

bull Sylvia Tesori BSc 95 has been doing wildlife rehabilitashy

tion for the OSPCA Wildlife

Rehabilitation Centre in Midshy

land Ont since 1996

bull Chuck Thibeault BComm 94 is general manager of the

Putting Edge Corpora tion

which has two glow-in- theshy

dark mini-golf courses in

Ontario one in Bramp ton and

one in Richmond Hill He can

be reached in Richmond Hill at

chu ckttotalnet

bull Karen Thirlwall BA 93 is a

si ngersongwriter and guitarist

who began her stage career and

released her first album The Voice Inside Me while studying

languages at U of G She has

lived and performed in

11i stler BC for three years

and recently released a second

album called Wide-Eyed She

remembers many special

fr iends m ade at Guelph and

welcomes e-mail messages to

karenthirlwallhotmailcom

bull Christie (Johnson) and Steve

Tyler both BComm 91 live in

Cambridge Ont where

Christie is a personal banking

representative for the Royal

Bank Steve works with their

third-year design professor

Nelson Hofer in Mississauga as

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Page 19: Guelph Alumnus Magazine, Winter 1999

Inside Playwright Judith Thompson

BEHIND THE MASK

JUDITH THOMPSON A DRAMA PROFESSOR at the University of Guelph

since 1992 is one of Canadas finest playwrights Her complex and

sometimes disturbing plays give voice to human failings and accomshy

plishments A two-time winner of the Governor Generals Literary

Award she has received wide acclaim for her work

On the following pages the Guelph Alumnus profiles an artist

whose creativity finds expression through dialogue by offering a

faithful rendition of the dialogue between Thompson and Comshy

munications and Public Affairs writer Andrew Vowles Much like

the characters she unmasks on stage Thompson reveals both comshy

plicated and unexpected images of herself

PHOTOGRAPHY BY D EAN PALMER

20 GU ELPH A LUMNUS

NO The scene is the rehearsal space in Lower Massey Hall at the University of Guelph

Monday mid-morning Outside the warped-glass windows the first wet snow of the year

drops like pebbles Drama professor Judith Thompson is leading some 20 students in her

Acting I class through their warm-ups The students stand in a circle and take turns aiming

a mock blow as they shout the word No More she says to the less assertive To others

whose No sounds shredded over the top she holds up a hand More control Thompson

gestures to her diaphragm It has to come from here

SCENE THOMPSONS OFFICE MASSEY H ALL

On one wal l hang pictures of actors engaged

in a drama mingled with childrens sc hool

drawings The desktop is practically bare A

black purse occupies one chai r A scarf has

landed on the back of another This is where

the playw rig ht hangs her hat during her

classes and meets with studen ts She wri tes

at home in Torontos Annex neighbourhood

where she li ves with her husband Gregor

Campbell a sessional English inst ruc tor at

Guelph and their five children Ariane 13

Eli 10 Grace 8 Felicity 4 and Sophia J

SCENE U OF G LI BRARY ARCHIVES

Guelph Alumnus writer (readil1g from draft of Epilepsy and Snakes Fear as the Genesis of Theatre a talk given by Thompson to the Epilepsy Association of Metro Toronto ill 1997 The script for the ta lk is included among boxes ofcorrespo nde11ce numerous drafts of plays various newspaper and magazine artishycles and reviews ahout the playwright and her work that Thompson recently donated to the U of G Library archives)

1have known real fear only a few times

in my relatively sheltered life But 1

believe these moments of fear are

directly connected to the so urce of creshy

ativi ty within me

SCENE J UST ABOUT ANYWHERE YOU CAN

REA D A PLAY

GA writer (reading from introduction to Tho mpsons play Sled wh ich was first pro shyduced hy Torontos Tarragon Theatre in 1997)

Judith Thompson was born in 1954 in

Montreal She graduated from Queens

University in 1976 then graduated from

the act ing program of the National Theshy

22 GU ELPH ALUMNUS

I seem to give voice to people who

have no voice

atre Schoo l in 1979 Alth ough she

worked briefl y as a profess ional actor

she became more interested in writing

and at th e age of 25 a workshop of her

first scrip t The Crack walker was proshy

duced by Theatre Passe MuraiHe Her

work which includes both radio and

tel evisio n writing has enjoyed great

internationa l success

Other plays includ e The Crackshywalker White Biting Dog Pink Tornado - radio Am Yours Lion ill the Streets White Sand Perfect Pie and Stop Talking Like That- radio She is the recipient

of the Floyd S Chalmers Canadian Play

Award for Lion in the Streets in 199 1 and

Am Yours in 1987 and the Governor

Generals Literary Award for Drama for

The Other Side of the Dark in 1989 and

White Biti11g Dog in 1984

S CENE LUNCHTIME

U OF G UNIVERSITY CLUB

Thompson Im so grateful to have this job

beca use it allows me to do the work that s

important and the plays that will be my legashy

cy and tha t are what 1 feel I have to conshy

tribute to Canadian culture If I didnt have

thi s job Id ha ve to keep compromising

because my plays dont make money Theyre

always in sma ller houses I take chances

theyre not commercial They play all over

th e world but aha)s in sma ller places 1

would just have to pursue life as a screenshy

writer to make a living Thi s job gives

me the great privilege of doing my research

which is the plays that I write and the edishy

torial work that I some times do and screenshy

plays that are worthy and good projects

GA writer Audi ences and reviewers have

described your plays as dark disturbing full

of angry people full of profanity

Thompson At the risk of sounding

grandiosel seem to give voice to people who

have no voice or very little in the culture

whom people dont li sten to Liol1 in the Streets the handicapped wo man living in

the basement all on her own the yo ung girl

Iso bel The secretary stuck in this abu sive

relationship with the actor The middle-class

housewife dumped by her husband because

be doesnt like her sweatsuits and on and on

I give voice to them because I dont know

because I care abo ut them because I like to

represent them Im a lawyer Some of them

use profanity because they have really good

reason to be angry a nd most of th em are

powerless And unfortunately profanity has

a little charge Its a little source of baby powshy

er It upsets me I dont use it myself Im very

se nsitive to it

SCENE ARCHIVES

GA writer (reading essay by Thompson comshymissio ned by Toronto literary Journal Brick

in 995)

If I were not a writer 1 think 1 would

wear a riding hat With a stee l lining

Because I would be baving many more

epi leptic seizures than 1 do presentl y

Because any of the non-writer real jobs I have had caused me sleepless nights self-disgust swoll en eyes cystic acne and hearin g di sorde rs all of which increased electrical activity in my brain which I believe increases the frequenshycy of seizu res

SCENE UNI VER SITY CLUB

Thompson (discussing the critical and pubshylic reaction to her first play The Crackwalkshyer) It was slaughtered at first as all my plays have been Very bad reviews at first and then somehow they catch fi re and theres one grea t review and the others start to see something GA writer Why the bad reviews Thompson I think people might say that theyre shock ing but I dont think so not

with the movies we see and whatnot Theyre not shocking compared with Quentin Taranshytino But theyre not like anything else they dont know where to put them And when they dont know where to put them theyre dismayed I think and hostile and they feel challenged I just write as I see Im not tryshying to shock or challenge anyone I hope they do challenge - me too all of us I often feel li ke the little boy in The Emperors New

Clothes Look this is what I see

SCENE LOWER MASSEY HALL

Two Acting I students perform a scene on th e stage Their fellow stud ents sit on th e Aoo r watching Thompson sits forward on a plasti c chair forearms propped on her knees hands clasped before her Her eyes her bod y are intent on the action Later Amberley Buxton (fi rst-year student il1 Actshyil1g I who is pursuing a psychology major and a drama minor)

Its a really in tense class In one of our first classes we were to share something that had changed our perspective on li fe or how we thought every day Later during improvisashytion or scene work she had us draw on the emotional context fro m those stories to add to our acting experiences Its really intense in that way A lot of people share a lot of personal things and we use each others experiences

SCENE UNIVER SIT Y CLUll

Thompson Ea ch se meste r students go through an intensive transition In order to find your creative centre or trigger yo u need

to know yourself in an intell ectual context They reach that pl ace and find their genius My philosophy is that every stu dent has genius and its my job to uncover it My relationshi p is so intense with st udents The classes are very psychoanalyt ic It seems to tra nsform their life

SCENE LO WER MA SSEY

Buxton Even if we haven t encountered a similar situat ion in real life she has us draw on somethi ng similar For ollr exa m Im doing a monologue My character has been abused I havent been abused myself but I have to draw on a si tuation where I had sim shy

itar feel ings draw on some experi ence Like being teased at schoo l Even so mething as small as tha t if you find a way to get back to that

SCENE UNIVERSITY CLUll

Thompso n I llsed to be terrified In high school Id spend half my time in the nurses room because the idea of having a se izu re in front of yo ur peers at that age was just petrifying I did finall y have a seizure but luckil y no one was around at the time So I

think all of that puts me in touch with a lot in life I might not have been in touch with being fairly privileged not rich but eno ugh to be middle class A lot of my work is about class abo ut the class differentiation in Canashyda Ive somehow felt more all ied to a less adva ntaged class My gra ndfather once sat as prime minister of Australia My grandshyfa ther on the other side was a member of the Royal Society an entomologist but his mother died in childbirth and he was brought up as a cousin on the farm outside of London And my Australian grandfath er was one of 1I siblings in a shack by the side of the railroad His father had di ed He walked barefoot to school so I th ink because its just two generations away I feel it in my bones and my blood GA writer How did you get to writing Thompson Through ac ting Ive been involved in thea tre since I was II years old I was Helen Keller for a university show my mother directed She had an [vIA in th eatre and she taught it at Queens I was in TILe Crushycible when I was 12 in Kingston and Jean Brodie and on and on and on I would just lisshyten to aU these wonderful lines and words and it all kind of enrered me And acting is where I reaU y found my niche as a person The theshyatre became my home Then I went to theatre schoo l as an actress but I started to create mask characters through improvisation Thats where I really took off in a big way and where I found myse lf very very excited GA writer VVhat we re you excited abo ut Thompson I was doing the writing And I felt frankly that I did it much better than most of the texts I was working with Not Shakespeare but and its not a matter of better it s thats where I belonged So I would go home and write down the charshyacters that r crea ted that day in class and make th em talk to each odler and thats how The Craekwalker happened

I spent a summer in Toronto looking for acting work and I go t a few jobs But every day for a co uple of hours I would write at a typewri ter and I found these voices comshying At the end of it I sa id to someone You know I think this isnt bad I think this might eve n be a play At the Na tional Theatre shySchool they said to me Youre pretty handy with these monologues but dont ever think you could write a play (Pause) I enjoy telling th at tale on them

WINTER 1999 23

SCENE LOWER MASSEY

Buxton It was my fint time doing mask work She had us sit with the masks on and just sta re at ou rselves in the mirror We did it for an hour staring at the mask feelin g the mask It was a phenomenal eilVer ience the Wily youre able to transform yourself It was almost as if you werent look ing at you That helped yo u to walk differently You were able to shed your

own movements and personality

SCEN E UNIVfRSITY CLU B

Thompson I think thil t seizures can transshylate into creativity are part of me as a cre shyltltive artist Peop le in the medical busin ess are very skeptical of ltll1ything like this But I fee l it s because I have fewer inhibitors in my bra in You have these inhibitors and thats what medication helps But if youre epi leptic your inhibitors Ment working as well to put out the electrical fire so it spreads I think the door to my un conscious is kind of flapping around so J think that helps creatively

SCENE MA SSEY HALL

Student (steppingforwmd) NO I Thompson (quietly) Good

SCENE ARCHIVES

GA writer ( reading fiom Epilepsy and Sna kes)

I have no doubt that my experience with epi lepsy has con tributed to my creative wo rk partly because it hE Jped me to understand what it is to be marginalized to be isolated to be feJ rful and to be out of control and eve n to be mortal

SCENE U NIVERS IT Y CLU B

Thompson Unchecked id can mean scrawlshying on the walls crazy things muttering in stree t corne rs beca use th ey re all id no su perego But I had the luck to be born into a theatrical famiJy my mother havin g the theatrical experience so I was exposed to it Lots of books I was taken to 1 lor of plays Having ep il epsy my first seizure when I was nin e J was able to link with that If I hadnt had those advantages who knows the se izur es migh t have ju st made me a depressed person an angr y person And you re touched with mortality you always live und er siege a slight fear of having a se izure Its much less so now with me

24 GUELPH ALUM NUS

SCENE UNIVERSITY CLUB

Thompson Ive always been a mimic in a cheap way I could always mimic we ll I would raLk to someone on a bus and I could do them exactly Thats kind of dangerous because it can be pretty shallow But it showed me ltl way into the person throu gh voice And once J could do that like a pupshypet something would click and I cou ld get

in in a deeper way J need to get so thoroughly into the charshy

acte rs and their state of mind and especialshyly tapping repressed el11orion which gets you in touch with your id or unconscious li fe If

I take little sections of

myself and grow them in a petri dish of the play

one character is about rage I have to tap into my own rage and that s why the monoshylogues so things can just flow and then I can retrieve things from the past and remember things So its not working from here (gesshytures to midriff) it s wo rking fro l11 here (gesshytures to head)

Mo nologues for me are always the key to findin g out who th e character is because if you cant make them rant for fi ve minutes you dont know th em Tha ts what I tell my

playwriting students I want to see r-wo pages of this characters mouth In other words to speak for five minutes we have to have

so mething to say We have to have something we feel passionately about something were angry about and if we dont have something to say for fi ve minutes who are we

SCENE UN IVERSTTY CLUB

GA writer Vhere do you see what eventushyally becomes a play such as Sled 1110mpson I was at a lodge and saw a moose that s one thin g And that made me think about winter and how the country is always with us as Ca nadians Even in the urban censhytres we ca rr y it wi th us Theres always this

see ming division between the country the wilderness and civilized centres but its the same The wildness of the moose and the

hunt and the bear is in our neighbourhoods I guess its like Lion in the Streets it must be a thing with me And also the exquisite beaushyty and thats how most of the world thinks of Canada as the wilderness Its not quite how we think of ourselves but it is partly So that made me want to do something abo ut the Nor th violence in the North

As far as th e old mans stories that was my neighbour and he told me all those stoshyries they were all true except mltlyb e one or so and I thought Theyre amazing They teilus what our neighbourhoods Me really about and Toro nto what the city is how its const ru cted Toronto is our stories and in th ese neighbourhoods you have an urbane entertainer li ving nex t to an 80-year-old Italia n man and thats the beauty ofToronshyto ltllld its the way th e world is chan ging The stric t class divis ions and culture divishysions th eyre no longer as defin ed as they we re espec ially in th ese neighbourhoods the great pioneering experimen t GA writer Do your chi ld ren see your work Thompson No None of my children can see my plays Ariane saw f Am Yours in New York when she was about nin e I do cl eal with the dark and whats tru e and my chilshydren aren t ready for that Im probab ly more protective th an mos t mothers Walk them

to school till theyre 13 that ki nd of thin g GA writer Yo u we re intervi ewed in the Globe alld Mail recently in a story about motherh ood dnd th e muse How do yo u handle th e demand s of motherh ood and writing

Thompson If Im in the situation where I have 15 or so hours of child care a week Im OK because when Im with them I wa nt to be with them and when ]m doing my work

th ats what I clo But if I do something like a worko ut thell a black cloud descends The guilt and the black cl oud th at descend as I take off on my bike it s huge Then once the workout s finished I know it was d good

thing to do although it s also cut into my

work time J do feel guilty about the nilture of my work too in that my kids cant see it Am I drawing on a part of me thats not good as a mother The oth er part of me is th at I make up bedtime stories and bake coo kies and all thlt stuff ]m probably a

rather operatic mother I cry at movies laugh too hard __

SCENE ARCI-I[VES

GA writer (reading fiom Epilepsy and Snakes)

1

Although being a dramatic writer has

given me a reputation in my cou ntr y

and a strong identity the actof writin g

or creating character leaves me SOJlle shy

times feeling that I have no id entity at

all Every once in a while when I am not

writing or tending to my four children

I feel I 1m falling again down th e terrishy1 ble hole with nothing to hold on to

And I believe this falling this identity

pain is a result of me using the very

essence of Ill yself to create character in

a dramatic wo rk r wonder so metimes

if J illl1 betraying my soul in a way by

using its essence However J have found

some comfo rt in the words ofWilliall1

Blake Essence is not Identity but from

Essence proceeds Identity and from one

Essence may proceed many Identities

as from one Affection Jlla y proceed

many thoughts If the Essence was

the sa me as the Identit y there could be

but one Identity which is fal se Heaven

wo uld upon this plan be but a clock

but one and the sa me Essence is th ereshy

fore Essence and not Identity

SCENE UNIVER SIT Y CLUB

Thompson I always put myself in a play and

never In other words I take little sections of

myself and grow them in a petri dish of th e

play So if Ive found a moment where Im a

bit lazy ]11 grow it and milke the character

very lazy o r impatient or whatever So I take

these moments because we all have all of

them grow th em and create this Frankenshy

steins monste r a character right out of parts

body parts and psychological parts often of

myself and then observe things in other peoshy

ple but I have to find it in myself to make it

work

SCENE AR C H1V ES

GA writer (reading from Epilepsy al1d Snakes)

My self asserted itself as a kind of quishy

et Lucille Ball c1ulllsy and absent-mindshy

ed At least this gave me an identity and

was a small aCI of slbo tage The next

assertion was an act of unconscio us rev shy

olution th e grand mal seizure that

almost killed me And the next one was

The Crackwalker my first play And this

is how I raged against the machine and

took space in the world And now not

surprisin gly I am seizure-free

SCENE LOWER MASSEY

After another pair of acto rs rUllS through

their scene Thompson directs them to begi n

again She interrupts frequently to question

the students about actions feelings motishy

vations At one point 8S the students pause

to consider her words Thompson turns to

the rest of the class erect in her cha ir

Thompson Isolate the mom ent The great

thing about the stage is th at it isolates the

moments that just race by us_

SCENE UNIVERSITY CLUB

Thompson Ive just written my next play

which is not ca lled Pefeet Pie but thats its

working title because it came from a mon oshy

logue called Perfect Pie But now its a full

two- haul play in which the second wom3n

comes back and tben I have them as yo ung

girls too It goes back ~nd forth and its very

exciting I worksbopped it in the spring and

in December at tbe Tarragon and it will go

on in o ne year At the sa me time lm wr itshy

ing a feature film for Rho mbus based on the

play Pe feet Pie

SCEN E UNlV ERSITY CLUIl

Thompson My pIalS are Illusically written

And if somebody doesnt get the music they

dont feel it and go with the rhythm s it

throws the whole thing off I hear the plays

I hea r them I write with my ear They

change 1 lo t but it s according to rhythm

I ll be sitting in rehea rsal listening and if it

does nt so und ri ght I change it so that its

rhythmic

SCIi -JE J UST AllOUT ANYWHERE YOU CA N

READ A PLAY

GA writer (readmg ji-olll the script ofvVbite

Biting Dog first produced at the Tarragon Th eatre in 1984)

Beciluse of the ex treme and deliberate

lllu sica lity of this play any allempts to

go aga inst the tex tual rhythms such as

th e breaking up of an unbroken senshy

tence the tlking of a pause where none

is written in are DISASTROUS The

effect is like beil1g in a small plane and

suddenly turning off the ignition It all

falls down This play III list SPIN not

just turn around

SCfN e LOWER MASSEY

Her students listen as Thompson stands to

complete a so liloq uy abo ut cap turing the

rhythm of the language on the stage The

wide sleeves of her ank le-length dress slide

down her forea rm s as she ges tures

Thompson Listen to the music of the

scene Each playwright writes their own

symphony

SCENE U NIVERSlTY CLUB

Thompson Ive been pretty directed to this

ii-om an carly age although if I had done anyshy

thing else it probab ly wou ld have been some

form of social work I would have been smokshy

ing three packs of cigarettes a day and workshy

ing il1 an office somewhere up in Scarborough

SC EN E AfltCHIVES

GA write r (reading from Brick interview of Thompson by Eleanor Wachtel ]99] )

In th e thea tre I think what one mllst

do is co nfront the truth confront the

emot ional truth of our li ves which is

mired in the swamp of minuriae

everyday minutiae Maybe it has to be -tl111 way because we couldnt confront

it every day But I think the th eatre

IllllSt Im not interested ill th eatre that

doesnt ga

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Never mind fish wars pitting countries against one another - here in Canada scientists and policy makers cant agree on who should control the preservation and management ofour own fishery resources BY ANDREW VOWLES

Ca

as

ollapsed cod stocks to the east

On the West Coast laquofish wars

_ rlTDT Pacific salmon enmesh

Canada and the United States

At various points in between fisheries scishy

entists and managers grapple with everyshy

thing from overfishing of freshwater

stocks to invasion by exotic molluscs

What is to be done about Canadian fishshy

eries And what role is being p layed by

fisheries and aquatic scientists at the Unishy

versity of Guelph

-

dock pollock red fish and flatfish made up just under half of Canadas total landings on the Atlantic coast (720000 tonnes of fish and shellfish were caught in 1994 represhysenting a total landed value of $11 billion) Two year~ later that proportion had dropped to 21 per cent with shellfish and open ocean fish specie~ notably Atlantic

Begin in the Atlantic The crisis on the East Coast has become a disaster So says laquoWE NEED TO TRY TO SEPARATE OUTGuelph zo ology professor John Roff enushymerating the litany of woes that have surshy

THE FISHERIES MANAGEMENT DECISIONSfaced from Ca nadas marine fishery in the past decade Although some fish and shellshy

FROM THE POLITICAL DECISIONSfi sh are holding their own stocks of other species have experienced declines raquo

ASSOCIATED WITH THE FISHE RY

down that fishery in 1992 Over fishing and under which it has been buying up fishers

Even when stocks do rebound rarely do we fully und erstand why he says Theres a complex of problems to be disshy more for cod stocks to rebound says Roff entangled involving overflshing long- and co-editor with colleague Prof Moira Fergushyshort-term climate change and changes in son of the respected Canadian Journal ofFishshyocean current systems and productivity eries and Aquatic Sciences A wise course of

And of course the once-thriving northshy action for a fisherman in Newfoundland ern cod that first drew Europeans with their would be to seU his licence and do something nets to the Grand Banks 500 years ago have else he says (Last fall the federal governshycoUapsed to the point that Ottawa had to shut ment announced its final retirement program

the failure of federal fisheries managers to heed the warnings of scientists have been blamed for the coUapse Even with the lllorashytoriulll in place it may take two decades or

licences in Atlantic Ca nada and Quebec) In 1992 - the year Ottawa imposed its

moratorium on the northern cod fisheryshylandings of groundfish including cod had-

salmon making up the difference [n 1995 the total groLlndfish catch reached its lowshyest level in two decades

Unlike the Ea st Coast fi shery which relies most ly on ocea n-living fish the Pacifshyic fishery is dominated b) migratory species Some 300000 tonnes of fish and shellfish were harvested along the west coast in 1994 worth a landed value of $550 million (Arcshytic marine fisheries and their management differ from those on the coasts although cOl11mercial and recreational fisheri es are small here food fisheries are important to

U OF G AQUATIC SCIENCES EXPERTISE CATCHES WORLD ATTENTION

Landlocked in the middle of the courltry U ofG nevertheless boasts fish pathology and diseases including farmed fish diseases fish an enviable record and range ofexpertise in aquatic sciencesshy hormones and reproductive physiology including the effects of marine and freshwater - dating back to the late 1960s Thats when environmental contaminants early life history and behaviour Prof Keith Ronald thell chair of the Department ofZoology (and of fi shes and biology of tuna later dean of the College ofBiological Science) began a marine biolshyogy program at the University Today Guelph has the largest Partnered with the A-erod Institute of Ichthyology in U of group of ichthyologists - scientists who study fish - in Gs Aquatic Sciences Facility the r[agen Aqualab is an North America investigating a wide variety ojIre~hshy aquatic research and teaching facililY for studying water alld marine fisheries and aquatics topics aquatic organisms Environmentally controlled

rooms in the Aqualab allow faculty and students to U of Gs Axelrod Institute of Ichthyology houses simulate habitats as diverse as the Arctic Ocean and one of the worlds largest collections of museumshy tropical rainforest pools The facility is named for quality fish fossils donated to the University by its principal benefactor Rolf Hagen founding presshy

ident of Canadas largest pet store 5llpplier J 989 The institute which provides space for fisheries research and visiting scientists brings together 12 core U of G U of G faculty edit four internationally recognized journals researchers in fisheries and aquatic sciences whose interests and in ichthyology fisheries and aquatic science Awarded to U of G by expertise span environmental contaminants and parasitic disshy the National Research Council in 1997 the Canadian Journal of eases evolutionary genetics of marine and freshwater fishes Fisheries al1dAquatic Sciellces is co-edited by zoology professors

US ichthyologist and author Herbert Axelrod in

28 GUELPH ALUMNUS

northerners including shrimp Atlantic salmon and arctic char) Accountin g fOI almost half of that total were Pacific salmon which ret urn from the ocean to spawn in home streams and rivers up and down the coast of Alaska British Columbia and Washshyington There are actually five main spec ies of sa lmon that run down the BC coast shysockeye (t he most va luable commercial species) chinook coho chum and pinkshyfrom spring to December

Its a very complex jurisdictional and multi-user problem says Roff Bes ides degradation of freshwater spawning habishytats and ocean climate effects of El Nill0 the West Coast fishery is a cauldron of ten shysions between various groups perennial fish wars between Ca nada and the United States disputes that pit sport fishers against native fishing rights Recognizing the problems of low ocean productivity habitat damage overfishing and indiscriminate fishing pracshytices that take weak and strong stocks alike Ottawa is developing a new policy to guide Canadas Pacific salmon fisheries focusing on conservation sustainable use and improved decision-making

That potent mix of overfishing and habishytat degrada tion is also a problem for Canashydas freshwater fisheries A report tabled last fall by the federal standing committee on

fisheries and oceans called for more federal funding for research and fisheries programs in central and arctic regions of Canada Accord ing to that report the Grea t Lakes commercial fishery is one of the largest freshwater fisheri es in the world worth an average landed value of more than $40 milshylion a year and an eco nomic impact of at least $250 million Some 90 per cent of that catch is exported The neck lace of lakes threading its way to the St Lawrence River also supports the largest fres hwater sports fishery in the world 800000 Ontarians fish on the Great Lakes eve ry year contributing $850 million to the economy

In Manitoba managers are concerned about the long-term susta inability of freshshywater fish stocks particularly declines in Lake Winnipeg and the northern part of the province caused by overfishing environshymental degradation loss of prime spawning habitat and predators The province has seen stocks rise and fall particularly of pickerel Manitobas highest-priced fish In an attempt to manage the fishery in a sustained fashion the province recently introduced a qu ota entitlement system for anglers Joe OConshynor director of the fisheries branch of Manshyitobas Department of Na tural Resources says his department is wrestling with the environmental threats on fish habitat posed

by farming and hydroelectric development In Ontario fisheries are genera lly in

pretty good shape says Evan Thomas fishshyeries section manager of the fish and wildlife branch of the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (OM NR) Ontario supports almost half of all recreational fishing in Canada with more than two million adult anglers and more than $2 billion a year spent on recreational fishing in the province Onta ri o is also home to Canadas larges t commercial freshwater fishery worth abo ut $40 million a Yfar in land ed value

Thomas says over fishing is still the numshyber one problem Others include habitat loss the potential effects of climate change and contin ued invasion by exotic species Among the management opt ions his minshyistry is exploring are more effective fisheries regulation more rapid inventory and assessshyment techniques fish culture for rehabilishytating populations and controlling nutrient inputs into lakes and rivers

We are clearly looking for federal supshyport for the sea lamprey control program he says referring to recommendations in the recent federal fisheries committee report as well as changes to the federal Fishshyeries Act to hand the province more authorshyity over fish habitat protection

Concerns continue in Ontario over

Moira Ferguson and John Roff Fish Physiology and Biochemistry the top-ranked journal in its field is edited by Prof John Leathershyland chair of the Department of Biomedical Sciences in the Ontario Veterinary College University professor emeritus Eugene Balon has served as editor-in-chief of Environmental Biology ofFishes since he founded the publication in 1976 Zoology professor David Noakes edits Guelph Ichthyology Reviews whose articles synthesize and review all aspects of fish science Both of the latter

Under the Canadian contribution to the project - furided by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council - about 80 federal government and university researchers are trying to learn more about how bioshylogical and physical processes in the oceans affect fish stocks

Zoologychair Prof Paul Hebert has led a Guelph initiative to develshyop multimedia learning resources d1at teach student~ from

are published in the Axelrod Institute of Ichthyology

Based on data from geographic information sysshytems zoology professor John Roff has mapped types of habitat associated with various species of fish and other organisms around Canadas coasts and throughout tl1C Great Lakes the first time such

e1ementaIy grades to university about Canadas aquatshyic environments His department has developed a series of CD-ROMs that provide information on all the major animal groups in the Great Lakes Already available are educational CD-ROMs on Canadas aquatic environments (also available on

d1e World Wide Web) Great Lakes biodiversity and a marine classification system has been developed in this country His report was commissioned by World Wildlife Fund Canada for its Endangered Spaces Campaign and contributes to RoWs work as chair of the scienrillc committee of Globec (Globshyal Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics) a two-year-old international research program intended to better understand ocean ecosystems

birds of the Great Lakes The latter is the first disc in a series called the Great Lakes Faunal Atlas which will eventually cover mammals amphibians reptiles fish and crustaceans

The Alma Aquaculture Research Station es tablished in 1989 and funded through a 20-year development grant by the Ontario

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various invas ive species that have turned up

in the Great Lakes - notably sea lampreys

zebra mussels and quagga mussels - many

of which arrive in ballast water of ocea nshy

going vessels (Many have also found their

way into Manitoba says OConnor who

points to the effects of sm elt on whitefish

the main commercial species in Lake Winshy

nipeg) Among o ther meas ures the federal

fish eries committee report called for guarshy

anteed funding for sea lamprey control and

for scienti fic research

I think more money will come says

Prof Bill Beamish Zoology a commissionshy

er on the Great Lakes Fisheries Commission

the 40-year-old governing body that co-ordishy

nates resea rch programs between Canada

and the United States and advises both govshy

ernments It was a review led by Beamish

more than a decade ago on the sta te of

Canadas freshwater fi sheries that provided

the scientific underpinnings for a landmark

report published in 1988 that spelled ou t a

way in freshwater fisheries is a lon g-te rm

project fund ed by the OMNR and the

Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO)

to re-establish native species in their origishy

nal habitats a round Lake Ontario iVlari e

Clement a graduate student of zoology proshy

fe sso r David Noakes is studying Atlantic

sa lmo n which was wiped out of the lake

CONSIDERING WE HAVE THE

BEST FISHERY SCIENCES COMMUNITY

IN THE WORLD WE OUGHT TO

BE DOING BETTER

national strategy for freshwater fisheries

Beamish who has studied sea lampreys

for several decades at Guelph and also invesshy

tigates fish habitat loss says money is need shy

ed to help researchers investigate biological

controls as an alternative to chemical lamshy

pricides The recen t repo rt also notes the

need to address the effects of other nonshy

native exotic species on n ative fish stocks

and water quality and calls on Ottawa to

stem the funding decline in freshwater scishy

ence over the last two decades

One example of the kind of work under

and its tribu ta ry streams near the beginning

o f this century by overflshing and habitat

destruction and alteration Last fall Clement

placed eggs into a site in the Credit River

she has been monito ring oxygen availab il shy

ity durin g their incu ba tion to gau ge sedishy

mentation rates in the river This spring and

summer she wili study how newborn fi sh

interact with other species in th e r ive r

C lement says her docto ral research proshy

ject is but one piece of a larger project aimed

at re-establishing the heritage species Othshy

er researchers hop e to learn whe ther th e

Ministry of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs brings together

researchers for interdisciplinary studies of protein requirements

of arctic char improving fish semen and egg management proshy

cedures and understanding hormone activity in fish The station

acts as a quarantine unit for new fish varieties entering Ontario

and serves as a base for parts of certificate courses and a masters

program in aquaculture

farms in Canada He and fellow Guelph zoologists Eugene Balon

(co- founder of the Coelaca nth Conservat ion Council) and Jim

Bogart also identified and characterized the coelacanth which

had been thought extinct until a specimen was landed off Africa

in the la te 1930s Noakes confirmed the identity of ano ther of

these living fossils discovered in 1997 it appears to belong to a

second popula tion living in the Indian Ocean about 10000 kilo-

metres away from tha t first find

Zoology professors Moira Ferguson and Roy Danzshy

mann use molecular genetics techniques to identishy Zoology chair Paul Hebert was the first scientist to

fy DNA markers used to pinpoint the location of identify the presence in the Great Lakes of zebra

genes associated with growth spawning times mussels a prolific invader that has wreaked havoc

rates of development maturity and temperature in many ways from clogging water-intake pipes to

tolerance in rainbow trout Isolating and identifyshy consuming plankto n thus allowing light to reach

ing genetic markers fo r desirable traits will help fish bottom-dwelling organisms that may displace native

farmers and breeders cross-breed more effectively species The first researcher to report on the biology

conservationists will be better able to manage and preserve and impact of the zebra mussel on the Grea t Lakes was

genetic variability among wild fish stocks Guelph zoology professor Gerald Mackie whose studies showed

that the organisms faster growth rate and higher fecundity and

Zoology professor David Noakes has stuclied varieties of arctic population density will probably enable it to displace many native

char native to Iceland to find ones suited to being raised on fish bivalves and disrupt entire lake ecosystems

30 GUELPH ALUMNUS

LEADING RESEARCH

The University of Guelph has one orthe largest and most active groups of aquatic biologists in the world

bull More than 50 faculty and 100

graduate students research

assocrates and postdoctoral

fellows

bull Over 1000 published scientific

articles books monographs

films and videos in the past

decade

bull Interdisciplinary programs

involving more than a dozen

academic departments

bull The largest group ofichthyoloshy

gists (scientists who study

fish) in North America

bull Collaborative research with

government environrriental

organizations and academic

institutions worldwide

bull Expertise covering the entire

aquatic food chain from plankshy

ton to whales

bull Leading developments in comshy

puter-based educational mate-

rials in aquatic sciences

bull A new $6-million Aquatic

Sciences Facility

bull Research support from national

and international agencies

business and industry

adults will be able to return from the open

lake to their stream spawning grounds If

they come back will the eggs survive she

says If were able to show the eggs can surshy

vive that will be very encouraging for

Atlant ic salmon restoration

What is to be done to ensure the survival

not just of Atlantic salmon in Lake Ontario

but also of the co untrys freshwater and

m ar ine fisheries We need to try to sepashy

rate o ut the fisheries management decisions

from the political decisions associated with

the fi shery says zoology professor Glen Van

Der Kraak director of U of Gs Axelrod

Institute of Ichthyology Van Der Kraak who

studies the effects of toxic contaminants on

fi sh populations says policy mltkers need

to rely on the advice of fisheries sc ientis ts

making conservative harvest ing estimates

So often scientists make decisions and then

are overrun by the politics he says (Never

mind fish wars pitting co untries against one

another - here in Ca nada scientists and

policy makers wres tle over the question of

who should be respo nsible for what aspects

of the countrys fisheries as witnessed in a

war of words played out in the Canadian Journal ofFisheries and Aquatic Sciences over

the past 18 months between biologists at

several Canadian univers ities and the DFO

over the relationship between fishery sc ishy

ence and fishery policy)

Roff says theres nothing unique about

Canadas fish problems Its not really a

Canadian problem its a worldwide probshy

lem The only fisheries worldwide that are

not over fished appear to be some not yet

fully exploited in the Indian Ocean

After nearly four decades of growth the

worldwide marine ca tch levelled off in the

1990s to some 90 million tons a year The

m ain problems coastal pollution habitat

destruction and particula rly overfishing

Noakes editor of the journal Guelph Ichthyology Reviews contrasts the few hunshy

dred people who might have made th eir

livelihood aboard small wood en boats on

the Grand Banks several centuries ago with

the massive factory trawlers that now scour

todays coast People are much too efficient

in terms of catching fish he says Noakes

concurs with fellow Guelph researchers that

conservation of fish stocks has to reach the

top of fishery managers agendas

hat does set Canada apart is the breadth

and depth of expertise in fisheries and aquatshy

ic sciences in this country - rather a parashy

dox when you consider that Canadas record

in fisheries preservation is apparently no betshy

ter than that of many other nations

Considering we have the best fishery scishy

ences community in the world we ought to

be doing better says Roff Within the last

decade th e federal government withdrawal

o f support from the Department of Fishshy

eries and Oceans and university researchers

has been massive At the very time when the

resources were gett ing into severe problems

and when the federal government ought to

have been funding research theyve been

substantially withdrawing resources ga

DONT WAIT UNTIL SPRING The opportunity to double the impact of your gift to the University of Guelph ends on March 31 1999 Until that date all gifts designated to endowed student financial aid at Guelph will be matched by the Ontario Student Opportunity Trust Fund (OSOTF) That means that every dollar you commit will contribute two dollars to financial aid for Guelph students

If you would like to support our students throug h OSOTF you still have a w indow of oppor nishyty to have your do l1a rs doubled But only until March 31 1999

If you have already made a pled ge to OSOTf through U of Gs ACCESS Fund thank you [or your ge nerous support Please comp lete your payme nts by March 31 1999 to e nsure that your gi ft is matched

For more information contact Rudy Putns in Guelphs office of Development and Public Affairs at -519-824-4120 Ext 6384 Fax 519-822-2670 E-mail alumniuoguelphca

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UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

n ALUMNI PROF IL E

LETS LOOK AT THE OPPORTUNITIES

WHEN I-IE BECA ME president of the Unishy

versity of Guelph Alumni Association

(UGM) in June Jim Weeden brought new

enthusiasm and ideas for encouraging alumshy

ni to stay in volved with their alma mater

And he wants to start with students

Weeden reca ll s his own ex perience at

U of G where he fo und a sense of commushy

nity by living in residence and ge tting

involved in college activiti es But when he

graduated with an engin ee ring degree in

197 1 he left to begin a caree r and says he

didnt think much about the University until

he needed it again in the 1980s to pursue a

graduate degree in agricultural enginee ring

He spent his early career working as an

agricultural extensi o n engineer for the

Ontario Department o f Agriculture and is

stiU with its successo r the Ontario Ministry

of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs

(OMAFRA) Weed en completed the masshy

ters degree in 1986 when he was head of the

agricultural engineering program and extenshy

sion services a t Centralia College of Ag rishy

cultural Technology

In 1987 he moved to the ministrys plant

industry branch as program m anager and

later held the same position in th e resources

manage m ent branch Sin ce then he has

worked for OMAFRA in Woodstock and

now Stratfo rd He is technical adviser fo r

Ontarios Enviro nmental Farm Planning

Program is respo nsible for o ther environshy

m ental programs and consults with the Minshy

istry o f th e Environment on local agriculshy

tural pollution problems

w Weed en got involved with the Universishy sect tys a]u111ni programs by serving on the first g z board of the Engineering Alumni Associashy

~ tion when it was established in 1990 From

~ 1991 to 1994 he sat on the University Senshy

~ ate and its Research Board and for the pas t

~ four years) hels been on the UGAA executive

32 GUELPH A LU MNUS

From the presidents chair Weeden looks

at the bro ad picture o f UG AA se rvice and

recognizes that the associa tio n owes a debt

o f gratitude to hundreds of alumni volunshy

teers who ha ve helped to build the organishy

za tion over the yea rs and to University staff

in Development and Public Affairs (DampPA)

who support UGAA initiatives and alumni

programs Thro ugh their efforts he says the

a lulllni associati o n is rea ching out to all

U of G alumni Graduates who have mainshy

tained a close relationship with the Univershy

sity thro ugh their college or academic disshy

cipline those who feel an affiliation because

o f their participation in a thletics residence

life o r extracurricular activiti es and even

HIGHLIGHTSmiddot GRAD NEWSmiddot OBITUARIES bull CALENDER

those who have not kept in touch are part of the constituency served by UGAA

Weed en says the alumni association needs to strengthen its relationship with all alumni and he believes the effor t must start on campus with students Hed like to proshymote the idea of alumni involvement as ear shyly as a students second year We need to give students some reason to be con nected and an efficient vehicle for maintaining that connection he says

For many students and new graduates the social functions supported by UGAA and the opportunities for professional networking will be important says Weeden but greater rewards are there for those who join the effort to enhance the Universitys acade mic goals

In todays economic and political envi shyronme nt individual financial support and the advocacy of post-secon dary education are important roles for alumni he says How many people ac tively get involved with the debate on whether universities are job-trainshy

ing centres or centres of education Yet some of our alumni are extremely adept in such roles Weeden would like to cultivate past and current stud ent ac tivists as supporters of public education after they graduate

As Weeden leads UGAA into a new year he says he will work with other UGAA volshyunteers and DampPA staff to find new ways for the association to interact with students and alumni One id ea is to expand UGAAs Intershynet presence by adding a Web message board that will encourage alumni to discuss career and campus issues online and a reply form that will allow them to quickly update addressshyes employment status and other information

Weeden says its important to stay focused on UGAAs key prioriti es but he welcomes any and all new ideas on how to accomplish them All it takes to share your ideas with the UGAA executive is a stamp or a push of the send button when youre clicked on alumniuoguelphca

HKHB SPIRIT RISES

ENCOURAGED BY THE SPIRIT

shown by fellow alumni at last

summers reunion the executive

of the Human Kinetics Human Biology

Alumni Association is moving ahead

with more opportunities for alumni to

stay in touch The association plans to

launch a Web site that will be accessed

through the U of G site

A wine-and-cheese reception already

planned for June 19 1999 wiil try to

build on the success of the 1998 event

which attracted alumni from as far away

as Chicago and as far apart as the 19605

and 1990s Guests had a chance to tour

U of Gs new Health and Performance

Centre and performance testing

labs The program was co-ordinated wiLh

A REFLECTION OF PRIDE

Members of the OAC

Class of 52 join Arboshy

retum staff on the front patio

of the Arboretu m Centre

beside a new reflecting pool

that was built last summer

as a class project Pictured

from left are Murray Parker

Ann Smith George Smith

Jack Sargent Catherine Gibb

Robin Shaw-Rummington

Marilyn Swaby BA 69

Bev Healy B5e(Agr) 72

Norm Watson Una Venerus

Ron Costen Henry Kock

BSe (Agr) 77 and Ric

Jordan BA 75

Prof Jack Barclay chair of the Departshy

ment of Human Biology and Nutritional

Sciences and Prof Susan Pfeiffer Memshy

bers of the Human KineticsHuman

Biology Alumni Association executive arc

Janet Leonhard 82 president Carolyn

Moore 83 vice-president Alison Locker

97 secretary Mark Mulholland 79

lreasurer and t-iary Ann Crape 76

These officers are also spea rheading a

new initiative to benefit students - an

undergraduate award that will provide

$250 and lifetime mem bership in the

association To commcnt on these and

other initiatives contact Leonard by

e-mail at Janel_Leonhardinwrbsb

eduonca or Moore at cturveyagec

uoguelphca

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alumni

Multimedia lab buzzes

THE DONALD FORSTER RoOiv

has become one of the

busiest spots in th e Unishy

versity of Guelph Liblary since the

addition of 70 state-of-the-art

computer workstations that were

supported by alumni do nations

to the Alma Mater Fund (AM F)

U of G president Mordechai

Roza nski officia ll y o pened th e

Alma Mater Fund Multimedia

Lab D ec 2 an d celebrated th e

event with members of the AMF

Adv isory Counc iL [n 1996 a nd

1997 the AMF contributed

$240000 to th e project which

increased the number of student

workstations o n campus by 50 per

cent Students use the m ult imeshy

~ dia lab to conduct research on the

~ Internet access scholarly publicashyr u VI tions on CD-ROM and use COll1shyz ~ puter software mod ules tbat lt

~ strengthen the teaching provided lD

o in co urse lectures labs and tcxtshybii books

middotMatters

Alumnus of many interests

I NTERES TING P EOPLE always have eclect ic interests and U of G

alumnus and honorary degree recipient Ken Murray BSA 50 and

HDLA 96 is a good example H e is known by most people on camshy

pus for his distinguished career in the Canadian meat packing indusshy

try and his volunteer service to U of G He was a member and chair

of Board of Governors from 1973 to 1978 and chair of the Regionshy

al Corporate Committee during U of Gs last capital campaign and

is currently chair of the Heritage Fund Enhancement Committee

Murray is also a strong supporter of community soc ial services

In August he addressed the World Congress of Social Ps)chiatry

held in British Columbia - the only non-psychiatrist on the proshy

gram He spoke about his role in establishing an Alzheimers research

project a t the University ofWaterioo which was recently named in

his honour the Ken Murray Alzheimer Research and Education Proshy

gra m At the gc conference he al so participated in a panel dis shy

cussion that outlined services offered by Guelphs Homewood Health

Cent re Murray bas been actively involved in the governance of the

centre since 1977 and has been a major player in the development

of a charitable foundatio n bearing the Homewood name

WHEN THE PUCK DROPPED More than 30 teams including two

womens teams were entered in the

Dec 6 University of Guelph Alumni Hockey

Tournament Organizers for the 1998 event

were from left Brian Finniss B5c 88

Brad Stephenson BA 86 Terry Carr

BComm 87 Todd Bryant BA 86 and

undergraduate student Brian Melnick

Ken Murray centre with his wife Marilyn Robinson Murray and U of G president Mordechai Rozanski

34 GU ELPH ALUMNU S

RESTORING A JEWEL IN THE CROWN

DONALD RUTHERFORD BSA 5 stands in fron t

of the 1931 conservatory greenhouse that will

be restored to match the splendour of the ga rdens

now growi ng up around it His $256000 leadershy

ship gift to the Conservatory and Gardens Project

was inspired by hi s m emo ries of being a student

at OAC

On behalf of fellow alumni I hope this gift will

commemorate the experiences and educat ion we

acquired while at Guelph says Rutherford When

fully restored to its previous glory the conservatoshy

ry greenhouse will be an ideal greeting and welcome

spot for visitors and newcomers to the University

as well as old friend s renewing their acquaintance

Rutherfords professional career spans the agrishy

foo d industr y beginning as an agricu ltural repshy

resentative with the provincial minist ry I-Ie was

later vice-president of the Fertilizer Institute of

Ontario executive secreta ry of the Canadian Seed

Trade Association director of information w ith

the Ca nadian Livestock Feed Board and Canadishy

an sa les manager for Sylvite of Can ad a Retired

since 1986 he now owns his own sma ll investment

company and manages to golf throughout the yea r

The conserva tory isnt the first ca mpus project

to attract Rutherford s attention - as a student

he helped dig out the base ment of Massey H al l to

build a student lo unge - but his recent gift has

been a tremendous boost to those who have been

working since the ea rly 1990s to save the glass and

cypress structure from demo lition

A committee of alumni facult y sta ff stu dents

and fri en ds of the University has moved the proshy

ject along to th e point w here most of the surshy

rounding garden complex is now complete It fea shy

tures six gardens named in honour of the ir chie f

supporters Autumn Garden - OAC 5 1 Spring

Ga rden - OAC 53 Su mmer Garden - OAC 55

Winter Gard en - OAC 65 Water Gard en shy

OAC 49 and the Woo dland Garden named in

honour of the late Doug Rob inson BSA 53

Alumni have been in strumental in raising

funds for the $ l-million project Students and fa cshy

ulty have provided mudl of the h1l1ds-on Idbour

and friends in the nursery and landscape materishy

als supply industries have given $250000 ill donashy

tions and gifts-in-kind of plan ts and landsca ping

materials Rutherford s generous gift has pushed

th e conservato ry fund-ra ising effort in to the fin 81

stretch Th e ga rden complex and restored g reenshy

110use are sc heduled to officially open during

Alumni Weekend in June 1999

1999 Coming Events

Jan 29 - Aggie Goodshy

Times Banquet call the OAC Student Federation at Ext 8321 for ticket injemnrltion Feb 13 - Norm McCo llulll

D iploma Hockey Tournashy

m ent call Jack Bakker at 519-837-0132 to register a team

Feb 21 - Ottawa Chapter

annual curling bonspiel

Richmond C urling Club in

Richmond Ont For informashytiol1 call Alan Bentley BSA 61 at 6 13-829-6598 or John DVit[ 54 mId Margaret McGowml BHSc 54 at

613-828-7038

March 3 - Florida alumni

reunion a t Maple Leaf

Estates Port Charlo tte Fla

call Ext 6533 0 register

March 13 and 14 - ollcge

Royal 75th o pen house

March 19 and 20 - OAC

Alumni Association curling

bonspiel G uelph Curling

Club register at Ext 6657

May 5 - Chicago All Canashy

dian Universities Night hostecl

by U of G at the University

Club of Chicago 76 East Monshy

roe Sr call Exl 6533 for details May 5 - OAC Alumni

Foundation annual meeting

730 pm Arboretum Centre

May 12 - Alumni-inshy

Action annual meeting and

luncheo n 1130 3m

Arboretum Centre ((11 Ext 6657for tickets

June 18 to 20 - Alumni

Veekend call Ext 6657 to plall a reun io n

-0 r shya -IFor more infon-nation on any a

eVC1l1listed ailove call the oJ -lt oU of G extension listed at en raquo

519-824-4120 or send e-mail z

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alumni Matters

MEMORIES OF COLLEGE ROYAL Grant MacEwan ADA 23 and

BSA 26 is one of the few OAC

alumni who c~n still remember

the first College Royal held Jan

14 1925 MacEwan bad just

entered the degree program in

animal husbandry and may have

been a participant in the liveshy

stock showmanship classes Latshy

er in life he was widely known Grant MacEwan

across Western Canada as 3 liveshy

stock judge and an advocate of

agricultural fairs and exhibitions

MacEwan is bes t known

however for his 23-year C3reer

as a university professor in Manshy

itoba and Saskatchewan and Ilis

political career which included

12 years as alderman and mayshy John Kenneth Galbraith

or of C31gary four years as an

Alberta MLA and eight as lieushy birthday in August

tenant -governor of the province The year after Ma cEwan

He s till lives in Calgary graduated John Kenneth Galshy

where he celebrated his 96th braith ADA 29 and BSA 31

HOMECOMING 98

enrolled at OAC and devoted

some of his energy to organizshy

ing College Royal Show records

indicate it was Galbraith who

first proposed the college event

be publicized so that people

from the farm community

could attend He also suggestshy

ed that OAC invite students

from American agricultural colshy

legesl n th e early 1930s Colshy

lege Royal took its fir s t steps

towards becoming the comshy

munity open house it is today

Galbraith later moved to the

United States where he enjoyed

a distinguished caree r as a proshy

fessor of economics at Harvard

Universi ty Known for his

humanit~rian approach to ecoshy

nomic and political thinking

he was awarded the Order of

Canada in 1997 He celebr3ted

his 90th birthday in October

IT REALLY WAS a homecoming reunion when and Arnott who is head coach of the York

former Gryphon teammates Ralph Shapiro University Yeomen came from the visitors

S5c(HK) 74 and Tom Amott S5c(HK) 80 dreSSing room to hold the ball Shapiro is

met on the field at Alumni Stadium Oct 3 the controller at Huntsman Chemical Inc

Shapiro had the honour of kicking off in Guelph and a longtime United Way volshy

the Universitys 1998 United Way campaign unteer who chaired this years Guelph and

Wellington fund-raising drive The Univershy

sity campaign is the largest in the county

with U of G staff and faculty contributing

over $200000 in 1998

Prior to the game a number of recent

alumni - all U of G scholarship and award

winners - met for a reunion luncheon The UJ

1948 and 1949 dominion championship i5f 3

football teams were also honoured guests z 5 o at the 2 pm game that saw the Gryphons gtshy a defeat York f shya I a

Ralph Shapiro

36 G UELPH ALUMNUS

LEADING THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY FOR 1974 GRADS The 25th-anniversary reunion givshy

i ng program for the Class of 1974

is under way with Bill Laidlaw BA

74 as cbair A public affairs proshy

fessional he has been director of

government relations for the

Canadian operations of Glaxo

vVelJcome Inc for more th an 10

years He also acts as a senior conshy

sultant to support the governshy

ment relations function in other

regions of Canada

Laidlaw began his career in

teaching after earning a history

degree from Guelph and education

degrees (rom Queens University

and the University of Toronto He

also holds the certified human

resources professional designation

and worked in that field for sevshy

eral years before concen trating on

government relations at Glaxo

Welkome He lives in Burlington

Ont and is an act ive community

volunteer having se rved on the

boards of severa l professional

organizations the Queensway

General Hospital and the Metroshy

politan Toronto Lung Association

He is currently completing a oneshy

year term as chair of the Ontario

Chamber of Commerce

Anniversa ry preparations will

culminate with a class gathering

a nd reunion gift at Alumni

Weekend in June 1999

ALUMNI MAKE THE CONNECTION Students who moved into

Maids and Mills halls in Sepshy

tember can take full advanshy

tage of the Universitys highshy

speed computer network

thanks to the OAC Class of

71 whose 25 th-reunion proshy

ject provided wiring upgrades

in the 84- and 77-year-old

residence buildin gs

GRAD NEWS

Marathon survivors inspire us all to appreciate everyday life

W HEN ROBINSON SIIlLJNGS Jane BSe(Agr)

85 Heather BASe 83 Peter BSe(Agr)

86 Scott and Marnie rigwood BA 84 get

together they talk about marathons and the hope

and determination it takes to reach the finish line

Hea ther walked a marathon in San Diego

Calif in June to raise money for leukemia

research then joined Peter for a Toronto marathon

in October that benefi ted the Leukemia Research

Fund of Canada They were inspired by Janes pershy

sonal marathon of survival that foUowed her 1992

diagnosis of leukemia Chemotherapy radiation

remission relapse and finally a bone marrow

transplant [TOm her brother Scott took more than

three years out of her life but gave her the detershy

mination to keep fighting

Many families can understand the marathon

of hope maintained by the Robinsons during

Janes struggle and the commitment they have to

help others who are stricken with the disease Jane

is finally well enough to work again as a writer

and marketing consultant and to join her fami shy

ly in volunteer work She helped recruit for the

Toronto marathon fund -raiser and continues to

be involved with the Leukemia Research Funds

Team in Training She also says that her expeshy

rience has taught her to appreciate more the pleashy

sures of everyday life and the love of famil y

Jan es parents are th e late Doug Rob inson

BSA 53 and Marilyn (Inglis) Robinson Murray

BH Sc 55

19305

bull Grant Misener ADA 32 BSA 35 and DVM 38 received the

prest igious George F Hixso n Felshy

lowship Award from the Kiwanis

International Foundation in May The retired Illinois veter ishy

narian was hono ured for his subshystantial contribution to the

Kiwanis wo rldwide service proshy

ject aimed at eliminating iodine

deficiency disorders the leading

cause of preventable mental retardation in children Over the

years Misener has shown a simishylar commitment to his al ma

mater an d its students through

his close association with OVC

and his support of scho larship

programs

19405

bull Russell McDonaldDVM 45 was named an honorary life direcshytor of the Royal Agricultural Winshy

ter Fair Association in March

McDonald formerly general manshy

ager of Western Ontario Breeders

Ine and executive director of the Canadian Association of Animal

Breeders served as a director of the Royal Winter Fair for 20 years

representing the Canadian artifishycial insemination industry He

lives in Woodstock Ont

bull Ian Taylor DVM43 was recently honoured by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to

Animals of Illinois Taylor ran a small-animal veterinary clinic in

the Chicago area for many years

and says he gained ll1uch experishyence during his first three years in

Illinois as clinic veterinarian for

the anti -cruelty society

19505

bull Charles Chuck Broadwell BSA 54 was elected a Mel

Osborne Fellow by the Kiwanis

Club of Forest City in London Ont in recognition of a dedicatshy -ed and distinguished career in

Kiwanis

19605

bull Constantine Campbell BSA 60 and MSA 61 was named to the

WINTER 1999 37

Order of Canada in January He

received the award in recogni shy

tion of his many contributions

to science and the Canadian

agricultural industry After grad shy

uating from OAC he went on to

do his PhD at the University of

Saskatchewan then joined Agri shy

culture and Agri-food Canada

as a research scientist at the Swift

Current research station Campshy

bell and his family now live in

Ottawa where he is scientist

emeritus with Agriculture and

Agri-food Canada

bull John Casselman BSA 64 is

a research scientist with the

Ontario Ministry of Natural

Resources He Jives in Bath

Ont with his wife Lois

bull Jane Fuller RRSc 65 and

her husband George who both

taught at the Macdonald Instishy

tute from 1966 to 1969 have

moved from Winnipeg to

Utopia Ont following

Georges retirement from the

University of Manitoba

bull Fred Gilbert MSc 66 and

P hD 68 is in his first term as

president of Lakehead Univer shy

sity in Thunder Bay Ont He

taught at U of G in the Departshy

ment of Zoology from 1972 to

1981 and has enjoyed a dive rse

academic career that has also

included teaching at the Unishy

versity of Maine and posi tions

as director of wildlife biology at

Washington State University

and founding dean of the Facshy

ulty of Natural Reso urces and

Environmenta l Studies at the

University of Northern British

Columbia He moved to Lakeshy

head from a position as viceshy

pro vost at Colorado State Unishy

versity A respected wildlife

biologist he has conducted

ex tensive resea rch in s Ll ch areas

as the behaviour and physioloshy

gy of wildlife species and the

effects of environmental

change on wildlife populations

bull Terry Goodyear BSc 67 of

Mont Tremblant Quebec is an

early retiree from Agriculture

and Agri-Food Canada in Ottawa He is now working on

va lue-added products from

industrial wastes particularly

cellulose sludge from pulp and

pa per mills

bull Gary Hearn BA 68 was

named an Ontario provincial

judge in October For the last

25 years he has been a lawyer

with the firm Kearns McKinshy

non in Guelph where he lives

with his wife Irene and three

teenage children

bull Allan Knight BSA 66 of Corunna Ont has retired

from Dow Chemical after 30

years On retirement he was a

laboratory director for indusshy

trial chemicals He is now

working with his son in a famishy

ly-owned and -operated busishy

ness Knight Funeral Home

bull Keith McFarlane BSc(Agr)

68 works for the Department

of Foreign Affairs and Internashy

tional Trade and began a fourshy

year assignment last summer as

head of the commercial divishy

sion of the Canadian Embassy

in Lisbon Portugal The

division promotes the sa le of

Canadian goods and services

to Portugal

bull Ian Newbould MA 68 has

travelled far from his Ontario

roots through an academic and

administrative career that has

taken him to Europe Asia and

Western Canada A noted hisshy

torian he moved into adm inisshy

tration at the University of

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Lethbridge in 1981 and spent

10 years there as director of

research dean of a rts and scishy

ence and vice-presiden t (acadeshy

mic) before crossing the counshy

try to become president of

Mount Allison University in

New Brunswick He is now in

his second term as president of

Mount AUison

bull Indra Deo Singh MSc 68 is

a tea scientist international

consultant and joint director of

the Tea Research Association at

the Nagrakata substation in

India His responsibilities

include co-ordinating research

and development in the Indian

tea industry and developing tea

cultivars and agrotechnology

for tea Singh is married with

two sons aged 27 and 23

19705

bull Don Ambler BSe 71 retired in March as manager of

water programs with Environshy

ment Canada in Dartmouth

NS after 25 years of public

service He has now registered

the company Aquashed Co nshy

sulting to continue in the water

resources field when hes not

gardening beekeeping do ing

aerobics or vo lunteering in the

community and chu rch E-mail

contact is welcome a t

donambl erns sympaticoca

bull Jim Bond BSe 75 is managshy

ing a new processing facility at

the Chalk River Nuclear Laborashy

to ry in Chalk River Ont

bull Terri (Monks) Bulman BSc(Agr) 78 and MSe 81

and her husband Vincent

MSe 8 1 live in Australia with

their th ree children Catherine

7 Peter 4 and baby Christoshy

pher Terri is senior principal

environmental auditor vith

Coffey Geosciences Pty Ltd Vinshy

cent afte r many years as a geoloshy

gist travelling around Australia

and abroad has taken the year

off to study and look after the

children Their e-mail address is

tbulmanbigpondco m

bull Marie David BA 78 of

Hanover Ont has been in the

n ewspaper business for 20

years She started in the mailshy

room moved to advertising

sales then became advert ising

manager She is now gene ral

manager o f three So utham

weekly newspapers and pubshy

lish er of the Hanover Post

bull Janice Harrower and her husshy

band Jerome Billett both

DVM 76 operate a joint veterishy

nary practice in Prescott Ont

Billett says practising together

has allowed them some flexibilishy

ty in their family life and given

their four children a good took

at the rigours of veterinary

medicine Says Billett Not one

of our kid s has the slightest

interest in being a veterinarian

and isnt that just fine Their

o ldest son Jesse attends Harshy

va rd University and is a memshy

ber of its prestigious a cappella

choir Lucas is studying

mechanical engineering at the

University of Waterloo Casey is

planning a career in computer

engineering and Lindsay is a

high school athle te

bull Clair Heinbuch BSe 74 is a

sales manager with Baye r Corp

in Kansas H e and his wife

Caroline (Koscik) BASc 75

returned to the Kansas City

area after spending four years in

Denver They have three chilshy

dren Lisa 20 Scott 18 and

Ryan [5

bull Beverly Lee BASe 72 is an

elem entary school principal in

Unionville Ont She lives with

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her husband Grant Egan in

Collingwood and is looking

forward to retirement in severshy

al years Life on Georgian Bay

is wonderful she says Lee

would love to hear from fellow

grads by e-mail at

leebYrbeeduonca or by

phone at 705 -444 -092l

bull Won-Jai Maeng MSc 71 took office Sept 1 as president

of Kon-Kuk University in Seoul

Korea where his academic

career began He completed an

undergraduate degree at Kon

Kuk in 1965 then studied at

Mailing Agricultural College in Denmark and at U of G before

doing doctoral work at the Unishy

versity of California Davis

Maeng has held research and

teaching positions at the Unishy

versity of illinois at Chung-Ang

University and at Kon-Kuk

where he has been a professor of

animal science since 1984 His

appointment as president folshy

lows years of administrative

experience as a department

head dean and chair of various

research committees and proshy

fessional organizations An

expert in ruminant nutrition

Maeng was instrumental in

developing the livestock feed

industry in Korea He has also

been active in working with

alumni groups and in writing

for the Kon-Kuk Tribune

bull Bill MarshaU ADA 75 of Proton Station Ont moved

from Clarksburg in June to

work in Dundalk for the Grey

County Roads Department on

its road management crew

bull Bernie Matte BSc(Agr) 70 of Moncton NB retired

in March after 28 years with

Fisheries and Oceans Canada

and the Canadian Food

Inspection Agency He plans to

travel to Belize and Honduras

with his wife Diane and will

be available anywhere in the

Caribbean for seafood HACCP

consulting work

bull Margaret McClain BA 70 lives in Arkansas where she is

highJy involved in the issue of

40 GUELPH ALUMNUS

missing children and internashy

tional abductions McClain who

believes her own six-year-old

daughter was taken out of the

United States more than a year

ago by her second husband is

reaching out to parents with

similar experiences through an

organization that is lobbying the

US government for tougher

international abduction laws

She invites interested fr iends

and alumni to contact her

through her Web site at

wwwinsolwwbnet-dmcclain

bull Robert (Chuck) Miller BA 77 is the park superintendent

of Killarney French River and

Maskinonje provincial parks in

Ontario He moved to Killarney

from Quetico Provincial Park

last May

bull Gordon Nicol BA 72 and MSc(Agr) 74 teaches math

and science in a bilingual prishy

vate school in Guatemala A

BEd graduate of Laurentian

he first taught in Guatemala in

the late 1970s then spent 12

years in northern Alberta as a

teacher and principal He

returned to Guatemala in 1989

A widower with three teenage

children Nicol would like to

hear from U of G friends and

acquaintances especially anyshy

one who is was or will be in

Central America He says he

could also use middle-schoolshy

level science projects Send eshy

mail to gnicoll guatenet or

write to PO Box 661447 Miami

Springs Florida 33266-1447

bull Chris Schulte BSc 71 and MSc 73 lives in Nassau

Bahamas with his wife

Andrya After graduation he

stayed in the Department of

Physics as a research associate

with Prof lain Campbell then

joined Ontario Hydro in the

early 1980s He moved to the

Bahamas in 1995 He can be

reached bye-mail at

schultebahamasnetbs

bull Sandra (Pickford) Webster BA 75 has retired from U of

Gs Co mmunications and Pubshy

lic Affairs and is living in Parry

Sound Ont where she is

doing volunteer work and

communications consulting

for the municipality Guelph

friends ca n contact her by

e-mail atswebsterzeutercom

19805

bull Sharon (Courneya) Angus BA 8 I of Surrey BC comshy

pleted a BSW at the University

of British Columbia in 1988

and has been working for the

BC government for 13 years

- first in probation and now

in the family justice division

She and her husband Ron

have three children Jason

Carly and Colin

bull Karen Beazley BLA 86 is an assistant professor and acadeshy

mic program co-ordinator at

the School for Reso urce and

Environmental Studies at Dalshy

housie University in Halifax

She is currently doing research

for a book on endangered

species initiatives and is orgashy

nizing a Nova Scotia wildlands

workshop with the Wildlands

Project for 1999 Her e-mail

address is kbeazleyisdalca

bull Caroline (Van Deudekom) and Marc Brooks both ADA 87

recently moved from Strathroy

to Owen Sound Ont where

they run a 50-acre organic farm

with their two sons

bull Virginia Burt BLA 85 startshyed her own landscape architecshy

ture firm Visionscapes in

Hamilton Ont in ] 996 She

specializes in the design of thershy

apeutic healing gardens spirit

gardens sacred spaces and

la byrin ths and recen tly designed the first healing garden

in Canada specificalJy for peoshy

ple living with HIV and AIDS

bull Joanne (Branson) Carver BA 80 earned a BEd from Brock

University in 1981 and recently

started working as a probashy

tionparole officer She Jives in

Ajax Ont and has two daughshy

ters Julie4 and Sarah 8

bull Heather Champ BA 86 is a Web-site designer in New York

City She began her work in

computer design in 1990 Her

personal site can be Found at

wwwjezebelcom

bull Laurie Gough BA 87 has become a world traveller who

writes about her experiences for

the benefit of others Her most

recent book Island of the

Human Heart A tfornans Travshyel Odyssey is now in its second

printing in Canada and will be

released next year in the United

States and overseas She has also

published Travellers Tales A

Womans World which won the

US-based Lowell Thomas

Gold Award for best travel book

of the year When not travelling

or writing she teaches English

and ESL in Guelph

bull Susan (Coles) Goulden BASc 84 and her husband

Ian are th rilled wi th their

recent adoption of Jennifer Lee

Yu who was born in June near

Leping Jiangxi Peoples Repubshy

lic of China The Gouldens

who Jive in vVaterloo Ont

thank classmate Andrea

(Kovits) Henderson for her

support throughout the adopshy

tion process Susan is currently

on leave from her position with

McCormick Canada

bull Judy (Bodendistel) Gregg BA 82 moved to Melbourne Ausshy

tralia in 1997 with her husband

and two children Carly 6 and

Adam 3 We are enjoying the

friendly people and the great

weather here she says We are

especially enjoying winter in a

place where it never gets below

zero Celsius

bull Nigel GumJey DVM 85 has been a partner in the Alta Vista

Animal Hospital in Ottawa

since 1990 was president of the bull Garry Millage AMPHI 86 bull Heidi Stephenson BA 88 is now ISO 9000 manager at

Ontario Veterinary Medical left a position as vice-president was awarded her professional Carpenter Ca nada Ltd in

Association in 1997 and recent- of national operations for acco untants designation of Wood br idge Ont He lives in

ly served on the Canadian Vetshy Scotts Restaurants KFC Divishy certified general accountant in Miss issa uga Classma tes are

erilw() Medical Associations sion to open his own consult- March 1998 She has been invited to contact him at

national issues committee He ing company Future Food employed for the last 10 years avon listarca

lives in Osgoode with his wife Equipment Ine specializes in with Dan Ball Chartered bull Michelle (Pilon) Bacon BA rvlaurecn and children Laura providing new and used restau- Acco un tant in Parry Sound 90 moved to England to study

and Matthew rant equipment and reducing O nt where she lives with her and work after graduating from

bull Muneer Hirji BComm 82 restaurant construction costs hu sband Brad two dogs and a Guelph She recently left a posishy

lives in Toronto and is vice- He also operates a restaurant horse tion with the British Ministry of

president of marke ting at SAP called Nikkos in Woodbridge bull Dawn Stetsko BSe 81 lives Agriculture and Food in York to

Canada He has three chil- Ont and is planning to open a in Langhorne Pa with her husshy become an at-home mom She

drcl1 Nadia 8 Alyssa 6 and second location band Paul and children Mark now lives in London with her

Sarah I bull Tosh Noseworthy BSe 83 is and Keith and is a research husband Tim and one-year-old

bull Brenda irwin BSe 88 is a cardiovascular ICU nurse in scientist with Bristol-Myers daughter Juliette She sends love

studying at Hong Kong Unishy sunny Tuscon Arizona After Squibb Previously she worked to Sue Heather and Sheila and

vers ity of Science and Technolshy grad uation she lived in Paris at McMaster University in can be reached bye-mail at

ogy to complete the final France for a yea r s tudied nurs- Hamilton Ont for 17 yea rs michellebacondialpipexcom

sem ester of an MBA program ing in O ttawa then lived in Saushy bull Teresa Tummillo-Goy BA bull Jeff Barlow BComm 90 is

through the University of di Arabia for two yea rs She still 86 has a law practice in Water- the training and quality manag-

British Columbia She taught loves to travel and would like to 100 Ont foc Li sing primaril y on er for two five-star luxury boushy

science for the North York hea r from fellow alumni She family law civi l litiga tion and tique h o tels in Prague - Hotel

Board of Education for five can be reached at 520-299-8344 real estate She and her hus- Palace Praha and the Hotel

years before enrolling in the bull Cecilia (Wleugel) Parkes band John Goy live in Guelph Savoy Previo usly he was execu -

MBA program BComm 85 is a graphic and have three sons John 4 tive housekeeper at the five-star

bull Jagwant Kanwar PhD 80 is designer in Toronto and says Tony 3 and Shayne 2 Renaissance Pragu e Hotel

a senior scientist in the depart- she st ill uses ber marketing bull Peter Van der Borch DVM bull Margaret Burnes-Souria BA ment of vegetable crops at Pun- background to help her busishy 88 retired in the fa ll of 1997 94 is a team leader with [011 shy

jab Agricultural University in ness succeed She specia lizes in after several years of practising don Magazin e in London Ont

India He is also director of the logo design lNith hand-drawn physiotherapy and ve terinary She married David Souria in

regional vegetable research stashy illustrations medicine and surgery He Jives July 1997 and is pursuing an tion at Usman (TaranTarn) bull Jim Parr BSc(Agr) 81 and in Pictou NS ]VlBA at the University of West-

Amritsar His and his wife MSe 89 died of cancer in bull MartyWilLiams BA 85 is ern Ontario

Sanyogita have a son Mohit June 1998 but hes being co-ordinator of student activishy bull Janine Byers BASe 95 is a and a daughter Dipika who are remembered by his university ties at University College Unishy public health dietitian at the

both studying engineering friends through the establish - versity of Toronto where he Kingston Frontenac and

Friends can write to Kanwar at ment of a mem orial fund for advises student organizations Iennox amp Addington Health

Punjab Agricultural Un ivers ity his wife Denise and children 1Ie is also chair of the U of T Unit in Kingston O nt She is Ludhiana 141 004 India Shannon and Eric Anyone Staff Association a member of getting married to Ca rl Stewart

bull Larissa Larsen BSe 89 and who would like more informa - the steering committee of the on May 29 j 999 MLA 92 received a PhD in tion can ca ll Brian Tapscott at staffs unionization drive and a bull Lisa Cherry BSe 9 1 is a urban and regional planning 519-767-3566 staff member with the student science journalist and executive

from the University of Illinois bull Cheryl (Dunlop) Reid newspaper The Varsity He can director of Artists Against

at Urbana Champaign in May BSe(Agr) 89 sta rted a new be reached bye-mail at marty Racism an international organi-

She has accepted a position at job in September as ingredient wi lliamsutorontoca za tion She is based in Toronto

Thompson Dyke and Associshy sales manager for RA bull Bonnie (Byma) BASe 96 ales a landscape architecture Chisholm o f Toronto She will 19905 and Gil Clelland BA 95 were

and urban planning firm in continue to work from her bull Claire Allison BA 94 grad- married in December 1996 and

Chicago Her husband Ernie remote offke in Fergus Reid uated from the elementary are living in Chatham On t

Poortinga DVM 89 is in his and her husband Jeff BSe teacher ed ucation program at Bo nnie works at a day-care

third yea r of an MD program (Agr) 89 have two children the University of British centre G il teaches art and

at Rush University Chicago lVlega n 4 and Elizabeth 2 Columbia in 1996 and now phys ical education They ca n -Hes looking forward to joining bull Chee Sie BA 83 is a zone teaches in Va ncou ver be reached bye-ma il at gclelshy

his wife in the ranks of the manager for the Malaysian bull JohnAvon BSdHK) 94 lan ciaccesscom employed They would both Assurance Alliance Berhad in earned an M Se in industr ial bull Kate Corn ell BA 95 of enjoy hearing from fellow Sarawak Malaysia He and his operations from Lawrence Markham Ont earned her

alumni and can be reached at wife Jesterine have a two-year- Technological University in masters in dance history from epoor tin garushurushedu old daughter Letitia Southfleld Mich in 1997 and York University in May and

WINTER 1999 41

co-authored a book titled

Toronto Dance Theatre 1968shy1998 Stages in a Journey

bull Mary Jill (McClure) Culliton BASe 90 earned

her BEd from Brock University

and her M Ed from the Univershy

sity of Western Ontario and

teaches Grade 1 in Mitchell

Ont She and her husband

Tim live in Stratford

bull Kathleen (McNutt) Daniels BASe 9 1 is a teacher and was

married on New Years Eve

1994 to Gord Daniels They live

in North Bay Ont and have a

daughter Lauren born in Febshy

ruary 1997 They are expecting

their second child in February

bull Simon Deakin BA 95 studshyied in Florence Italy for a year

then earned a master of fine art

from the Slade School of Fine

Art at the University of London

England He lives in London

bull Christie Dunbar BLA 97 spent a year after graduation

working for Niagara College in

St Catharines Ont on the

vision and design of a new

campus to be built in Niagarashy

on-the- Lake Last April she

joined the landscape architecshy

ture firm of Pollack Design

Associates in Ann Arbor Mich

bull Trina Edmonds BA 94 and

Joel Hinderle became the

proud parents of a little girl

Jordan Ashley in january 1998

and moved to a new home in

Oakville Ont in September

Edmonds works in Mississauga

as a desktop publisher with a

publishingprinting company

bull Wendy Garinther BSc 93 and Steve Decker BSe 94

were married in May Joining

them in the wedding celebrashy

tions were Cheri (Coulter)

42 GUELPH ALUMNUS

Ascroft BSe 93 Karen Leinshy

gartner BSe 94 and Barb

(Moore) Johnson BSe 94

Best man was Jeff Bond BSe

93 and MSe 96 The Deckers

live in Edmonton where Steve

is doing a PhD in chemistry at

the University of Alberta and

Wendy is working in a research

laboratory at a biopharmaceushy

tical company

bull Donna Gross BA 97 is purshysu ing a master of divinity at

Emmanuel College at the Unishy

versity of Toronto and hopes to

become an ordained minister by

2002 She lives in Guelph and

can be reached bye-mail at

donnajulietalbedonet

bull Robert Gruber BA 92 is a child-care supervisor for the

YMCA-YWCA of Guelph and

manages the Jean Little Y

Child- Care Centre He recently

developed the anti -bias proshy

gramming policy for the

Guelph Y and sits on both the

Jean Little Public School Counshy

cil and the Guelph AIDS Wall

Committee He can be reached

bye-mail at rgrubernet

comca

bull Susan Harder BSe 91 grad shyuated from the University of

Toronto Medical School in June

and has started a residency at

Santa Clara Valley Medical Censhy

tre in San jose Calif She will

follow that up with an anestheshy

sia residency at Stanford Univershy

sity Hospital in 1999

bull Marko Harjupanula BASc 93 travelled in Australia for

two months after graduating

from Guelph then returned to

his home town of South Porshy

cupine Ont where he worked

in a gold mine for four years

He entered police college in

September and started as an

opp constable in Cochrane in

December

bull Nancy Holman MA 94 moved to Vancouver soon after

graduation and initially worked

as a project co-ordinator for an

ophthalmologist In 1996 she

began working full time for the

BC Liberal Caucus I would

enjoy hearing from and catchshy

ing up with the friends I made

while studying at U of G and

working at the Brass Taps she

says Her e-mail address is nan shy

cyholmanlassgovbeca

bull Ruth Johnson BA 91 is an investment banking associate

with the mergers and acquisishy

tions group of JP Morgan in

Lond on England responsible

for financial reporting and

administration She has been in

England with her partner Alex Campbell since graduation

bull Stephen Johnson BA 94 of London Ont was a lab technishy

cian at Lenscrafters for three

yea rs and is now a full-time

student at Fanshawe College

studying air conditioning and

refrigeration He was married

in Jun e to Jennifer Fox BSc

95 a chemist at 3M Their

wedding party included Dee Popat BSe (Eng) 94 and

Patrick Wulhes BSc 95

bull Sarah (Davis) Kelly BASe 90 married Robert Kelly in

July and teaches primary

grades at an inner-city school

in Toronto

bull Cassidy Klowak BComm 97 lives in Allisshy

ton Onl and is a personal

banking account manager

with ClBC in Tottenham

bull Stephanie Lopes BSc 96 completed her MSc in repro shy

ductive biology at the Universishy

ty of Toronto and worked as

patient-care director for the

College of Family Physicians

for almost a year In September

she enrolled in medical school

at the University of Toronto

She is happy to announce that

she is engaged to be married

next summer Lopes can be

reached at slopesidirectcom

bull Natalie (Parker) MacKenzie BSc 96 earned her BEd from

the University of Western

Ontario in 1997 She married

ASLt Andy MacKenzie June 27

in Sault Ste Marie Ont and

now lives in Halifax

bull Susan MacKinnon DVM 91 is a veterinarian with HUls

Science Diet She lives in

Guelph with her husband

Brandon Wiley and gave birth

to their first child Adrianna

Nicole june 26 at home

bull Waheed Mian BA 9 1 of Cambridge Ont is a store

director with PetSmart Canada

He helped the company launch

its new retail concept in Cana da

bull Alex Mitchell BA 91 was appointed clerkdeputy treasurshy

er of the Ontario township of

Mildmay-Carrick in 1998 and

will be the clerkadministrator

of the new municipality of

Mildmay-Carrick -TeesWatershy

Culross in 1999 He was married

in january 1997 and lives vith

his wife and daughter in Mild shy

may In his spare time Mitchell

is a professional scout for the

Toronto Maple Leafs covering

southwestern Ontario

bull Sherry Morland BASc 93 of Kitchener Ont ea rned her

BEd from Brock University in

J995 and is a part-time specia l

educa tion teacher and an occashy

sional teacher with the Watershy

loo County Board of Ed ucashy

tion She married Ivan LeBlanc

in 1997

bull Gary Page BSe 91 wo rks for the Nottawasaga Valley Conshy

servation Authority where he is

able to combine his knowledge

of wildlife biology with his

artistic skills as resident graphic

designer and outdoor centre

interpreter He Jives with his

wife Di and their son judah in

CreemoreOnt

bull Elaine Pammenter BA 96 is an inventory clerk with the

Royal Collection at Windsor

Castle in England She holds a

museum management and

curatorship grad uate certificate

diploma from Sir Sandford

Fleming College and did her

internship at the Royal Albert

Memorial Museum in Exeter

England

bull Brent Raymond BSe(Env) 96 of Brantford Ont has

been working with Outward

Bound since graduation He

leads wilderness trips in Northshy

ern Ontario Horida Australia and Sabah (Malaysian Borneo) Most recently he designed and implemented a new introducshytory mountaineering course for Outward Bound Sabah on the summit plateau of Mt Kinashy

balu Those of you who know me as plate licker from U of G get in touch he says Where are you Star I miss you He can be reached by e-mail at globarwchatonca or by

phone at 519-756-1697

Alumni Patrick Abbott BSA 40 July 7 1998

Albert Allen BSA 33 Jan 161994 Agris Ansmits BA 70 and MA 73

February 1998 Barbara (Quartermain) Babcock DHE

53 June 17 1998

Wray Bond BSA 34 Sept 25 1998

Kenneth Bone DVM 38 Dec 29 1998 Evelyn (Stevenson) Buhr DHE 39

May 251998 Philip Burke BSA 43 June 21 1998

Grant Carman BSA 49 Oct 221998 Frederick Chambers BSA 41

June 1998 Wilmot Conley ADA4 7 April 7 1998 Lloyd Crewson BSA 49 Aug 261998

Jacqueline Dimock DHE 47

Aug 20 1998 John Dingwall DVM 52

April 18 1998

Lloyd Dorsey BSA 38 June 9 1998 George Duncan BSA 37

Sept 19 1998

David Dyson BSA 53 Aug 31 1998

Norma (Shannon) Edwards DHE 39

November 1997 Vincent Bud Ellis DVM 41

July 15 1998 John Jack George BSA 48

Sept 24 1998

Donald Haight BSA 33 January 1997 William Hamlyn BSA 33 Dec I 1997

Gordon Harkness BSA 49

November 1997

Charles Hollister DVM 38 June 1996 Donald Hope BSA 54 June 28 1998

Lawrence Jefferson BSA 38

Sept 3 1998

James Kelso DVM 56 July 27 1998

Dorima Lalonde BSA 34 Oct 8 1998 Mildred (Cox) Large DHE 33

June 20 1998 Roger Larson BComm 86 Feb 19 1998 Robert Lawson BSA 49 June 6 1998

bull Doug Ramsey BA 91 and PhD 98 received U of Gs highshyest graduate student award shythe Forster Medal- at June convocation for his academic and community involvement while enrolled in Guelphs new

graduate program in geography He spent the summer as a visitshying research scholar at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College in Truro before assuming his curshyrent position as assistant professhysor at Mount Allison University

David Leach BSc(Agr) 74

July 18 1998

Ian Leask DVM 74 Sept 5 1998

Sheryl Lee BSc 95 June 8 1998 Ruby Janet MacAuley DHE 30

Aug 19 1998 Parker MacKenzie DVM 38

September 1994

Jeanice MacLaren DHE 28 March 1 1997

Campbell MacMaster DVM42

Oct 8 1998

Rex McCallum DVM 43 July 71998 Jean (Dunn) McMahon DHE 31

Nov 41998

Margaret Oones) McTaggart DHE 35 Aug 81998

Patrick McTaggart-Cowan HDSc 81

Oct 21997

Malcolm McWhinnie ADA 39

July 16 1998 Mary (Townsend) Mitchell BHSc

60 Sept 281998

Marjory Monaghan DHE 29

December 1997 Charles Monk BSA 44 Aug 7 1998

Heather Neilsen BHSc 59

Oct 30 1998 Jerry Niwa DVM 62 Aug 5 1998 Henry Harry OReilly BSA 42

October 1997

James Parr BSc(Agr) 81 June 19 1998 Charles Rammage DVM 45

Oct 17 1996 Howard Rapson HDSc 90

March 1997 Clement Reeds DVM 42 Oct 16 1998

William Robinson BSA 38

Aug 23 1998

Donald Sager ADA 73 Oct 141997

Austin Schaefer DVM 37 in 1997

Sandra (Mackenzie) Schmidt DHE 59

Aug 16 1997 Margaret (Harvey) Seaborn DHE 28

July 221998

Larry Seguin DVM 47 June 12 1998

Leah Shedden DHE 31 December 1998

Edward Shuh BSA 40 July 2 1998

Ted Shutsa BSc(Agr) 66

Sept 18 1998 Jim Sinclair DVM 49 Oct 4 1998

Margaret (Brown) Sinclair DHE 20

September 1998 Eldon Smith BSA 42 Sept 9 1998

Derek Somers DVM 96 Sept 25 1998

Cheryl Lynn Sopha BA 95 Sept 20 1998

Leona (Bartlett) Stewart DHE 35

June 27 1998 Alex Thomson BSc(Agr) 69

October 1996

William Whittick DVM 55

Aug 15 1998 Joseph Wilson BSA 23 Sept 11 1998

Lloyd Woolsey DVM41 June 24 1998

Winifred Yeates DHE 28 June 11998

Faculty John Carpenter BSA 43 and MSA 48

Microbiology Dec 10 1998

David Gaskin Zoology Sept 14 1998

Gordon Macleod BSA 50 Animal and

Poultry Science Nov 26 1998 Roman Retman Languages and

Literatures Sept 28 1998

Caesar Sen off Chemistry and

Biochemistry Aug 14 1998

Percy Smith Drama Dec 10 1998

Friends Robert Clark Aug 21 1998

Ethel Hammond August 1998

Thomas Hillers Sept 28 1998 Marguerite Holbrook Aug 26 1998

Catherine Kelly Sept 27 1998

James A McKenzie May 13 1998

Kenneth McIssac Oct 23 1998

William Mutlock September 1998 Roena Patterson Sept 16 1998

Donald Priddle Aug 25 1998

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bull Karl Reimer BSe 94 comshypleted a one-year intensive

MSc in mining engineering at

Queens University and is now

a project engineer a t Enpar

Technologies Ine in Guelph

He can be contacted at reimerbservcom

bull Nancy Nauta Rowland BA 90 and her husband Dan celshy

ebrated their first wedding

anniversary in March 1998 with

the birth of their first child

Connor who beat their March

8 anniversary by two days Nanshy

cy teaches junior-grade stushy

dents and junior special ed ucashy

tion for the Peel District School

Board The Rowlands live in

Caledon Ont

bull Fraser Stables MFA 98 was heralded by Toronto Globe 6shyMail critic Betty Jordan as a

formidable new talent followshy

ing the openi ng of his debut

gallery exh ibition in July The

Scottish artists work includes

sculpture video and mixed

media that explore notions of

flu x by interrupting the moveshy

ment of forms in space

bull Erin (Smith) Scott BSe(HK) 92 and Brad

Scott BSc(Agr) 91 of Lucan

O nt were married in 1993 and

had their first child Lucas in

August Erin works for Shopshy

pers Home Health Ca re in

London Brad is with New Life

Mills in Dunfield

bull Abby Simons BSc 95 and Martin Piche BSc(Agr) 95 were married in Mont-Tremshy

blant Quebec in 1997 She is a

customer service representative

with Kantech Systems he is

superintendent of Club de golf

vallee des forts They say theyd

love to hear from anyone headshy

ing to Montreal and can be

reached at 450-348-3860

bull Sylvia Tesori BSc 95 has been doing wildlife rehabilitashy

tion for the OSPCA Wildlife

Rehabilitation Centre in Midshy

land Ont since 1996

bull Chuck Thibeault BComm 94 is general manager of the

Putting Edge Corpora tion

which has two glow-in- theshy

dark mini-golf courses in

Ontario one in Bramp ton and

one in Richmond Hill He can

be reached in Richmond Hill at

chu ckttotalnet

bull Karen Thirlwall BA 93 is a

si ngersongwriter and guitarist

who began her stage career and

released her first album The Voice Inside Me while studying

languages at U of G She has

lived and performed in

11i stler BC for three years

and recently released a second

album called Wide-Eyed She

remembers many special

fr iends m ade at Guelph and

welcomes e-mail messages to

karenthirlwallhotmailcom

bull Christie (Johnson) and Steve

Tyler both BComm 91 live in

Cambridge Ont where

Christie is a personal banking

representative for the Royal

Bank Steve works with their

third-year design professor

Nelson Hofer in Mississauga as

a design consultan t Steves proshy

jects include the Windsor Casishy

no and U of Gs Creelman Hall

They have two children Jason

5 and Marcus 1

bull Julia White BA 91 lives in Guelph and is a small-business

accountant at Taves amp Co She

recently finished courses

towards a CGA designation and

would like to hea r from other

alumni who lived in Lambton

Hall in 198788 Send e-mail to

juliawhitesympaticoca

bull Andre-Denis Wright MSc 93 and PhD 98 is doing postshy

docto ral work in Perth Westshy

ern Australia He wants his

Guelph friends and Halifax

family to know he was thinking

of them at Christmas when it

was 40 C in Australia

bull Dave Yellen BComm 90 was recently promoted at the Gordon

Food Service to new-accounts

sales specialist for Metro Toronshy

to Having been in Ottawa for

the past few years Im hoping

to reacquaint myself with old

friend s from U of G in the Metro

area he says He lives in Scarborshy

ough and can be reached at 416shy615-2745 or davidysprintca

bull Halina Zaleski PhD 92 is a tenured professor in the

departm ent of animal sciences

at the Un iversity of Hawaii in

Honolulu She is a swine speshy

cialist involved in extension

programs for an area th at covshy

ers all of Hawai i and the PacifIC

basin She can be reached by

e-mail at halinahawaiiedu

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NO The scene is the rehearsal space in Lower Massey Hall at the University of Guelph

Monday mid-morning Outside the warped-glass windows the first wet snow of the year

drops like pebbles Drama professor Judith Thompson is leading some 20 students in her

Acting I class through their warm-ups The students stand in a circle and take turns aiming

a mock blow as they shout the word No More she says to the less assertive To others

whose No sounds shredded over the top she holds up a hand More control Thompson

gestures to her diaphragm It has to come from here

SCENE THOMPSONS OFFICE MASSEY H ALL

On one wal l hang pictures of actors engaged

in a drama mingled with childrens sc hool

drawings The desktop is practically bare A

black purse occupies one chai r A scarf has

landed on the back of another This is where

the playw rig ht hangs her hat during her

classes and meets with studen ts She wri tes

at home in Torontos Annex neighbourhood

where she li ves with her husband Gregor

Campbell a sessional English inst ruc tor at

Guelph and their five children Ariane 13

Eli 10 Grace 8 Felicity 4 and Sophia J

SCENE U OF G LI BRARY ARCHIVES

Guelph Alumnus writer (readil1g from draft of Epilepsy and Snakes Fear as the Genesis of Theatre a talk given by Thompson to the Epilepsy Association of Metro Toronto ill 1997 The script for the ta lk is included among boxes ofcorrespo nde11ce numerous drafts of plays various newspaper and magazine artishycles and reviews ahout the playwright and her work that Thompson recently donated to the U of G Library archives)

1have known real fear only a few times

in my relatively sheltered life But 1

believe these moments of fear are

directly connected to the so urce of creshy

ativi ty within me

SCENE J UST ABOUT ANYWHERE YOU CAN

REA D A PLAY

GA writer (reading from introduction to Tho mpsons play Sled wh ich was first pro shyduced hy Torontos Tarragon Theatre in 1997)

Judith Thompson was born in 1954 in

Montreal She graduated from Queens

University in 1976 then graduated from

the act ing program of the National Theshy

22 GU ELPH ALUMNUS

I seem to give voice to people who

have no voice

atre Schoo l in 1979 Alth ough she

worked briefl y as a profess ional actor

she became more interested in writing

and at th e age of 25 a workshop of her

first scrip t The Crack walker was proshy

duced by Theatre Passe MuraiHe Her

work which includes both radio and

tel evisio n writing has enjoyed great

internationa l success

Other plays includ e The Crackshywalker White Biting Dog Pink Tornado - radio Am Yours Lion ill the Streets White Sand Perfect Pie and Stop Talking Like That- radio She is the recipient

of the Floyd S Chalmers Canadian Play

Award for Lion in the Streets in 199 1 and

Am Yours in 1987 and the Governor

Generals Literary Award for Drama for

The Other Side of the Dark in 1989 and

White Biti11g Dog in 1984

S CENE LUNCHTIME

U OF G UNIVERSITY CLUB

Thompson Im so grateful to have this job

beca use it allows me to do the work that s

important and the plays that will be my legashy

cy and tha t are what 1 feel I have to conshy

tribute to Canadian culture If I didnt have

thi s job Id ha ve to keep compromising

because my plays dont make money Theyre

always in sma ller houses I take chances

theyre not commercial They play all over

th e world but aha)s in sma ller places 1

would just have to pursue life as a screenshy

writer to make a living Thi s job gives

me the great privilege of doing my research

which is the plays that I write and the edishy

torial work that I some times do and screenshy

plays that are worthy and good projects

GA writer Audi ences and reviewers have

described your plays as dark disturbing full

of angry people full of profanity

Thompson At the risk of sounding

grandiosel seem to give voice to people who

have no voice or very little in the culture

whom people dont li sten to Liol1 in the Streets the handicapped wo man living in

the basement all on her own the yo ung girl

Iso bel The secretary stuck in this abu sive

relationship with the actor The middle-class

housewife dumped by her husband because

be doesnt like her sweatsuits and on and on

I give voice to them because I dont know

because I care abo ut them because I like to

represent them Im a lawyer Some of them

use profanity because they have really good

reason to be angry a nd most of th em are

powerless And unfortunately profanity has

a little charge Its a little source of baby powshy

er It upsets me I dont use it myself Im very

se nsitive to it

SCENE ARCHIVES

GA writer (reading essay by Thompson comshymissio ned by Toronto literary Journal Brick

in 995)

If I were not a writer 1 think 1 would

wear a riding hat With a stee l lining

Because I would be baving many more

epi leptic seizures than 1 do presentl y

Because any of the non-writer real jobs I have had caused me sleepless nights self-disgust swoll en eyes cystic acne and hearin g di sorde rs all of which increased electrical activity in my brain which I believe increases the frequenshycy of seizu res

SCENE UNI VER SITY CLUB

Thompson (discussing the critical and pubshylic reaction to her first play The Crackwalkshyer) It was slaughtered at first as all my plays have been Very bad reviews at first and then somehow they catch fi re and theres one grea t review and the others start to see something GA writer Why the bad reviews Thompson I think people might say that theyre shock ing but I dont think so not

with the movies we see and whatnot Theyre not shocking compared with Quentin Taranshytino But theyre not like anything else they dont know where to put them And when they dont know where to put them theyre dismayed I think and hostile and they feel challenged I just write as I see Im not tryshying to shock or challenge anyone I hope they do challenge - me too all of us I often feel li ke the little boy in The Emperors New

Clothes Look this is what I see

SCENE LOWER MASSEY HALL

Two Acting I students perform a scene on th e stage Their fellow stud ents sit on th e Aoo r watching Thompson sits forward on a plasti c chair forearms propped on her knees hands clasped before her Her eyes her bod y are intent on the action Later Amberley Buxton (fi rst-year student il1 Actshyil1g I who is pursuing a psychology major and a drama minor)

Its a really in tense class In one of our first classes we were to share something that had changed our perspective on li fe or how we thought every day Later during improvisashytion or scene work she had us draw on the emotional context fro m those stories to add to our acting experiences Its really intense in that way A lot of people share a lot of personal things and we use each others experiences

SCENE UNIVER SIT Y CLUll

Thompson Ea ch se meste r students go through an intensive transition In order to find your creative centre or trigger yo u need

to know yourself in an intell ectual context They reach that pl ace and find their genius My philosophy is that every stu dent has genius and its my job to uncover it My relationshi p is so intense with st udents The classes are very psychoanalyt ic It seems to tra nsform their life

SCENE LO WER MA SSEY

Buxton Even if we haven t encountered a similar situat ion in real life she has us draw on somethi ng similar For ollr exa m Im doing a monologue My character has been abused I havent been abused myself but I have to draw on a si tuation where I had sim shy

itar feel ings draw on some experi ence Like being teased at schoo l Even so mething as small as tha t if you find a way to get back to that

SCENE UNIVERSITY CLUll

Thompso n I llsed to be terrified In high school Id spend half my time in the nurses room because the idea of having a se izu re in front of yo ur peers at that age was just petrifying I did finall y have a seizure but luckil y no one was around at the time So I

think all of that puts me in touch with a lot in life I might not have been in touch with being fairly privileged not rich but eno ugh to be middle class A lot of my work is about class abo ut the class differentiation in Canashyda Ive somehow felt more all ied to a less adva ntaged class My gra ndfather once sat as prime minister of Australia My grandshyfa ther on the other side was a member of the Royal Society an entomologist but his mother died in childbirth and he was brought up as a cousin on the farm outside of London And my Australian grandfath er was one of 1I siblings in a shack by the side of the railroad His father had di ed He walked barefoot to school so I th ink because its just two generations away I feel it in my bones and my blood GA writer How did you get to writing Thompson Through ac ting Ive been involved in thea tre since I was II years old I was Helen Keller for a university show my mother directed She had an [vIA in th eatre and she taught it at Queens I was in TILe Crushycible when I was 12 in Kingston and Jean Brodie and on and on and on I would just lisshyten to aU these wonderful lines and words and it all kind of enrered me And acting is where I reaU y found my niche as a person The theshyatre became my home Then I went to theatre schoo l as an actress but I started to create mask characters through improvisation Thats where I really took off in a big way and where I found myse lf very very excited GA writer VVhat we re you excited abo ut Thompson I was doing the writing And I felt frankly that I did it much better than most of the texts I was working with Not Shakespeare but and its not a matter of better it s thats where I belonged So I would go home and write down the charshyacters that r crea ted that day in class and make th em talk to each odler and thats how The Craekwalker happened

I spent a summer in Toronto looking for acting work and I go t a few jobs But every day for a co uple of hours I would write at a typewri ter and I found these voices comshying At the end of it I sa id to someone You know I think this isnt bad I think this might eve n be a play At the Na tional Theatre shySchool they said to me Youre pretty handy with these monologues but dont ever think you could write a play (Pause) I enjoy telling th at tale on them

WINTER 1999 23

SCENE LOWER MASSEY

Buxton It was my fint time doing mask work She had us sit with the masks on and just sta re at ou rselves in the mirror We did it for an hour staring at the mask feelin g the mask It was a phenomenal eilVer ience the Wily youre able to transform yourself It was almost as if you werent look ing at you That helped yo u to walk differently You were able to shed your

own movements and personality

SCEN E UNIVfRSITY CLU B

Thompson I think thil t seizures can transshylate into creativity are part of me as a cre shyltltive artist Peop le in the medical busin ess are very skeptical of ltll1ything like this But I fee l it s because I have fewer inhibitors in my bra in You have these inhibitors and thats what medication helps But if youre epi leptic your inhibitors Ment working as well to put out the electrical fire so it spreads I think the door to my un conscious is kind of flapping around so J think that helps creatively

SCENE MA SSEY HALL

Student (steppingforwmd) NO I Thompson (quietly) Good

SCENE ARCHIVES

GA writer ( reading fiom Epilepsy and Sna kes)

I have no doubt that my experience with epi lepsy has con tributed to my creative wo rk partly because it hE Jped me to understand what it is to be marginalized to be isolated to be feJ rful and to be out of control and eve n to be mortal

SCENE U NIVERS IT Y CLU B

Thompson Unchecked id can mean scrawlshying on the walls crazy things muttering in stree t corne rs beca use th ey re all id no su perego But I had the luck to be born into a theatrical famiJy my mother havin g the theatrical experience so I was exposed to it Lots of books I was taken to 1 lor of plays Having ep il epsy my first seizure when I was nin e J was able to link with that If I hadnt had those advantages who knows the se izur es migh t have ju st made me a depressed person an angr y person And you re touched with mortality you always live und er siege a slight fear of having a se izure Its much less so now with me

24 GUELPH ALUM NUS

SCENE UNIVERSITY CLUB

Thompson Ive always been a mimic in a cheap way I could always mimic we ll I would raLk to someone on a bus and I could do them exactly Thats kind of dangerous because it can be pretty shallow But it showed me ltl way into the person throu gh voice And once J could do that like a pupshypet something would click and I cou ld get

in in a deeper way J need to get so thoroughly into the charshy

acte rs and their state of mind and especialshyly tapping repressed el11orion which gets you in touch with your id or unconscious li fe If

I take little sections of

myself and grow them in a petri dish of the play

one character is about rage I have to tap into my own rage and that s why the monoshylogues so things can just flow and then I can retrieve things from the past and remember things So its not working from here (gesshytures to midriff) it s wo rking fro l11 here (gesshytures to head)

Mo nologues for me are always the key to findin g out who th e character is because if you cant make them rant for fi ve minutes you dont know th em Tha ts what I tell my

playwriting students I want to see r-wo pages of this characters mouth In other words to speak for five minutes we have to have

so mething to say We have to have something we feel passionately about something were angry about and if we dont have something to say for fi ve minutes who are we

SCENE UN IVERSTTY CLUB

GA writer Vhere do you see what eventushyally becomes a play such as Sled 1110mpson I was at a lodge and saw a moose that s one thin g And that made me think about winter and how the country is always with us as Ca nadians Even in the urban censhytres we ca rr y it wi th us Theres always this

see ming division between the country the wilderness and civilized centres but its the same The wildness of the moose and the

hunt and the bear is in our neighbourhoods I guess its like Lion in the Streets it must be a thing with me And also the exquisite beaushyty and thats how most of the world thinks of Canada as the wilderness Its not quite how we think of ourselves but it is partly So that made me want to do something abo ut the Nor th violence in the North

As far as th e old mans stories that was my neighbour and he told me all those stoshyries they were all true except mltlyb e one or so and I thought Theyre amazing They teilus what our neighbourhoods Me really about and Toro nto what the city is how its const ru cted Toronto is our stories and in th ese neighbourhoods you have an urbane entertainer li ving nex t to an 80-year-old Italia n man and thats the beauty ofToronshyto ltllld its the way th e world is chan ging The stric t class divis ions and culture divishysions th eyre no longer as defin ed as they we re espec ially in th ese neighbourhoods the great pioneering experimen t GA writer Do your chi ld ren see your work Thompson No None of my children can see my plays Ariane saw f Am Yours in New York when she was about nin e I do cl eal with the dark and whats tru e and my chilshydren aren t ready for that Im probab ly more protective th an mos t mothers Walk them

to school till theyre 13 that ki nd of thin g GA writer Yo u we re intervi ewed in the Globe alld Mail recently in a story about motherh ood dnd th e muse How do yo u handle th e demand s of motherh ood and writing

Thompson If Im in the situation where I have 15 or so hours of child care a week Im OK because when Im with them I wa nt to be with them and when ]m doing my work

th ats what I clo But if I do something like a worko ut thell a black cloud descends The guilt and the black cl oud th at descend as I take off on my bike it s huge Then once the workout s finished I know it was d good

thing to do although it s also cut into my

work time J do feel guilty about the nilture of my work too in that my kids cant see it Am I drawing on a part of me thats not good as a mother The oth er part of me is th at I make up bedtime stories and bake coo kies and all thlt stuff ]m probably a

rather operatic mother I cry at movies laugh too hard __

SCENE ARCI-I[VES

GA writer (reading fiom Epilepsy and Snakes)

1

Although being a dramatic writer has

given me a reputation in my cou ntr y

and a strong identity the actof writin g

or creating character leaves me SOJlle shy

times feeling that I have no id entity at

all Every once in a while when I am not

writing or tending to my four children

I feel I 1m falling again down th e terrishy1 ble hole with nothing to hold on to

And I believe this falling this identity

pain is a result of me using the very

essence of Ill yself to create character in

a dramatic wo rk r wonder so metimes

if J illl1 betraying my soul in a way by

using its essence However J have found

some comfo rt in the words ofWilliall1

Blake Essence is not Identity but from

Essence proceeds Identity and from one

Essence may proceed many Identities

as from one Affection Jlla y proceed

many thoughts If the Essence was

the sa me as the Identit y there could be

but one Identity which is fal se Heaven

wo uld upon this plan be but a clock

but one and the sa me Essence is th ereshy

fore Essence and not Identity

SCENE UNIVER SIT Y CLUB

Thompson I always put myself in a play and

never In other words I take little sections of

myself and grow them in a petri dish of th e

play So if Ive found a moment where Im a

bit lazy ]11 grow it and milke the character

very lazy o r impatient or whatever So I take

these moments because we all have all of

them grow th em and create this Frankenshy

steins monste r a character right out of parts

body parts and psychological parts often of

myself and then observe things in other peoshy

ple but I have to find it in myself to make it

work

SCENE AR C H1V ES

GA writer (reading from Epilepsy al1d Snakes)

My self asserted itself as a kind of quishy

et Lucille Ball c1ulllsy and absent-mindshy

ed At least this gave me an identity and

was a small aCI of slbo tage The next

assertion was an act of unconscio us rev shy

olution th e grand mal seizure that

almost killed me And the next one was

The Crackwalker my first play And this

is how I raged against the machine and

took space in the world And now not

surprisin gly I am seizure-free

SCENE LOWER MASSEY

After another pair of acto rs rUllS through

their scene Thompson directs them to begi n

again She interrupts frequently to question

the students about actions feelings motishy

vations At one point 8S the students pause

to consider her words Thompson turns to

the rest of the class erect in her cha ir

Thompson Isolate the mom ent The great

thing about the stage is th at it isolates the

moments that just race by us_

SCENE UNIVERSITY CLUB

Thompson Ive just written my next play

which is not ca lled Pefeet Pie but thats its

working title because it came from a mon oshy

logue called Perfect Pie But now its a full

two- haul play in which the second wom3n

comes back and tben I have them as yo ung

girls too It goes back ~nd forth and its very

exciting I worksbopped it in the spring and

in December at tbe Tarragon and it will go

on in o ne year At the sa me time lm wr itshy

ing a feature film for Rho mbus based on the

play Pe feet Pie

SCEN E UNlV ERSITY CLUIl

Thompson My pIalS are Illusically written

And if somebody doesnt get the music they

dont feel it and go with the rhythm s it

throws the whole thing off I hear the plays

I hea r them I write with my ear They

change 1 lo t but it s according to rhythm

I ll be sitting in rehea rsal listening and if it

does nt so und ri ght I change it so that its

rhythmic

SCIi -JE J UST AllOUT ANYWHERE YOU CA N

READ A PLAY

GA writer (readmg ji-olll the script ofvVbite

Biting Dog first produced at the Tarragon Th eatre in 1984)

Beciluse of the ex treme and deliberate

lllu sica lity of this play any allempts to

go aga inst the tex tual rhythms such as

th e breaking up of an unbroken senshy

tence the tlking of a pause where none

is written in are DISASTROUS The

effect is like beil1g in a small plane and

suddenly turning off the ignition It all

falls down This play III list SPIN not

just turn around

SCfN e LOWER MASSEY

Her students listen as Thompson stands to

complete a so liloq uy abo ut cap turing the

rhythm of the language on the stage The

wide sleeves of her ank le-length dress slide

down her forea rm s as she ges tures

Thompson Listen to the music of the

scene Each playwright writes their own

symphony

SCENE U NIVERSlTY CLUB

Thompson Ive been pretty directed to this

ii-om an carly age although if I had done anyshy

thing else it probab ly wou ld have been some

form of social work I would have been smokshy

ing three packs of cigarettes a day and workshy

ing il1 an office somewhere up in Scarborough

SC EN E AfltCHIVES

GA write r (reading from Brick interview of Thompson by Eleanor Wachtel ]99] )

In th e thea tre I think what one mllst

do is co nfront the truth confront the

emot ional truth of our li ves which is

mired in the swamp of minuriae

everyday minutiae Maybe it has to be -tl111 way because we couldnt confront

it every day But I think the th eatre

IllllSt Im not interested ill th eatre that

doesnt ga

W1NTER 1999 25

Never mind fish wars pitting countries against one another - here in Canada scientists and policy makers cant agree on who should control the preservation and management ofour own fishery resources BY ANDREW VOWLES

Ca

as

ollapsed cod stocks to the east

On the West Coast laquofish wars

_ rlTDT Pacific salmon enmesh

Canada and the United States

At various points in between fisheries scishy

entists and managers grapple with everyshy

thing from overfishing of freshwater

stocks to invasion by exotic molluscs

What is to be done about Canadian fishshy

eries And what role is being p layed by

fisheries and aquatic scientists at the Unishy

versity of Guelph

-

dock pollock red fish and flatfish made up just under half of Canadas total landings on the Atlantic coast (720000 tonnes of fish and shellfish were caught in 1994 represhysenting a total landed value of $11 billion) Two year~ later that proportion had dropped to 21 per cent with shellfish and open ocean fish specie~ notably Atlantic

Begin in the Atlantic The crisis on the East Coast has become a disaster So says laquoWE NEED TO TRY TO SEPARATE OUTGuelph zo ology professor John Roff enushymerating the litany of woes that have surshy

THE FISHERIES MANAGEMENT DECISIONSfaced from Ca nadas marine fishery in the past decade Although some fish and shellshy

FROM THE POLITICAL DECISIONSfi sh are holding their own stocks of other species have experienced declines raquo

ASSOCIATED WITH THE FISHE RY

down that fishery in 1992 Over fishing and under which it has been buying up fishers

Even when stocks do rebound rarely do we fully und erstand why he says Theres a complex of problems to be disshy more for cod stocks to rebound says Roff entangled involving overflshing long- and co-editor with colleague Prof Moira Fergushyshort-term climate change and changes in son of the respected Canadian Journal ofFishshyocean current systems and productivity eries and Aquatic Sciences A wise course of

And of course the once-thriving northshy action for a fisherman in Newfoundland ern cod that first drew Europeans with their would be to seU his licence and do something nets to the Grand Banks 500 years ago have else he says (Last fall the federal governshycoUapsed to the point that Ottawa had to shut ment announced its final retirement program

the failure of federal fisheries managers to heed the warnings of scientists have been blamed for the coUapse Even with the lllorashytoriulll in place it may take two decades or

licences in Atlantic Ca nada and Quebec) In 1992 - the year Ottawa imposed its

moratorium on the northern cod fisheryshylandings of groundfish including cod had-

salmon making up the difference [n 1995 the total groLlndfish catch reached its lowshyest level in two decades

Unlike the Ea st Coast fi shery which relies most ly on ocea n-living fish the Pacifshyic fishery is dominated b) migratory species Some 300000 tonnes of fish and shellfish were harvested along the west coast in 1994 worth a landed value of $550 million (Arcshytic marine fisheries and their management differ from those on the coasts although cOl11mercial and recreational fisheri es are small here food fisheries are important to

U OF G AQUATIC SCIENCES EXPERTISE CATCHES WORLD ATTENTION

Landlocked in the middle of the courltry U ofG nevertheless boasts fish pathology and diseases including farmed fish diseases fish an enviable record and range ofexpertise in aquatic sciencesshy hormones and reproductive physiology including the effects of marine and freshwater - dating back to the late 1960s Thats when environmental contaminants early life history and behaviour Prof Keith Ronald thell chair of the Department ofZoology (and of fi shes and biology of tuna later dean of the College ofBiological Science) began a marine biolshyogy program at the University Today Guelph has the largest Partnered with the A-erod Institute of Ichthyology in U of group of ichthyologists - scientists who study fish - in Gs Aquatic Sciences Facility the r[agen Aqualab is an North America investigating a wide variety ojIre~hshy aquatic research and teaching facililY for studying water alld marine fisheries and aquatics topics aquatic organisms Environmentally controlled

rooms in the Aqualab allow faculty and students to U of Gs Axelrod Institute of Ichthyology houses simulate habitats as diverse as the Arctic Ocean and one of the worlds largest collections of museumshy tropical rainforest pools The facility is named for quality fish fossils donated to the University by its principal benefactor Rolf Hagen founding presshy

ident of Canadas largest pet store 5llpplier J 989 The institute which provides space for fisheries research and visiting scientists brings together 12 core U of G U of G faculty edit four internationally recognized journals researchers in fisheries and aquatic sciences whose interests and in ichthyology fisheries and aquatic science Awarded to U of G by expertise span environmental contaminants and parasitic disshy the National Research Council in 1997 the Canadian Journal of eases evolutionary genetics of marine and freshwater fishes Fisheries al1dAquatic Sciellces is co-edited by zoology professors

US ichthyologist and author Herbert Axelrod in

28 GUELPH ALUMNUS

northerners including shrimp Atlantic salmon and arctic char) Accountin g fOI almost half of that total were Pacific salmon which ret urn from the ocean to spawn in home streams and rivers up and down the coast of Alaska British Columbia and Washshyington There are actually five main spec ies of sa lmon that run down the BC coast shysockeye (t he most va luable commercial species) chinook coho chum and pinkshyfrom spring to December

Its a very complex jurisdictional and multi-user problem says Roff Bes ides degradation of freshwater spawning habishytats and ocean climate effects of El Nill0 the West Coast fishery is a cauldron of ten shysions between various groups perennial fish wars between Ca nada and the United States disputes that pit sport fishers against native fishing rights Recognizing the problems of low ocean productivity habitat damage overfishing and indiscriminate fishing pracshytices that take weak and strong stocks alike Ottawa is developing a new policy to guide Canadas Pacific salmon fisheries focusing on conservation sustainable use and improved decision-making

That potent mix of overfishing and habishytat degrada tion is also a problem for Canashydas freshwater fisheries A report tabled last fall by the federal standing committee on

fisheries and oceans called for more federal funding for research and fisheries programs in central and arctic regions of Canada Accord ing to that report the Grea t Lakes commercial fishery is one of the largest freshwater fisheri es in the world worth an average landed value of more than $40 milshylion a year and an eco nomic impact of at least $250 million Some 90 per cent of that catch is exported The neck lace of lakes threading its way to the St Lawrence River also supports the largest fres hwater sports fishery in the world 800000 Ontarians fish on the Great Lakes eve ry year contributing $850 million to the economy

In Manitoba managers are concerned about the long-term susta inability of freshshywater fish stocks particularly declines in Lake Winnipeg and the northern part of the province caused by overfishing environshymental degradation loss of prime spawning habitat and predators The province has seen stocks rise and fall particularly of pickerel Manitobas highest-priced fish In an attempt to manage the fishery in a sustained fashion the province recently introduced a qu ota entitlement system for anglers Joe OConshynor director of the fisheries branch of Manshyitobas Department of Na tural Resources says his department is wrestling with the environmental threats on fish habitat posed

by farming and hydroelectric development In Ontario fisheries are genera lly in

pretty good shape says Evan Thomas fishshyeries section manager of the fish and wildlife branch of the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (OM NR) Ontario supports almost half of all recreational fishing in Canada with more than two million adult anglers and more than $2 billion a year spent on recreational fishing in the province Onta ri o is also home to Canadas larges t commercial freshwater fishery worth abo ut $40 million a Yfar in land ed value

Thomas says over fishing is still the numshyber one problem Others include habitat loss the potential effects of climate change and contin ued invasion by exotic species Among the management opt ions his minshyistry is exploring are more effective fisheries regulation more rapid inventory and assessshyment techniques fish culture for rehabilishytating populations and controlling nutrient inputs into lakes and rivers

We are clearly looking for federal supshyport for the sea lamprey control program he says referring to recommendations in the recent federal fisheries committee report as well as changes to the federal Fishshyeries Act to hand the province more authorshyity over fish habitat protection

Concerns continue in Ontario over

Moira Ferguson and John Roff Fish Physiology and Biochemistry the top-ranked journal in its field is edited by Prof John Leathershyland chair of the Department of Biomedical Sciences in the Ontario Veterinary College University professor emeritus Eugene Balon has served as editor-in-chief of Environmental Biology ofFishes since he founded the publication in 1976 Zoology professor David Noakes edits Guelph Ichthyology Reviews whose articles synthesize and review all aspects of fish science Both of the latter

Under the Canadian contribution to the project - furided by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council - about 80 federal government and university researchers are trying to learn more about how bioshylogical and physical processes in the oceans affect fish stocks

Zoologychair Prof Paul Hebert has led a Guelph initiative to develshyop multimedia learning resources d1at teach student~ from

are published in the Axelrod Institute of Ichthyology

Based on data from geographic information sysshytems zoology professor John Roff has mapped types of habitat associated with various species of fish and other organisms around Canadas coasts and throughout tl1C Great Lakes the first time such

e1ementaIy grades to university about Canadas aquatshyic environments His department has developed a series of CD-ROMs that provide information on all the major animal groups in the Great Lakes Already available are educational CD-ROMs on Canadas aquatic environments (also available on

d1e World Wide Web) Great Lakes biodiversity and a marine classification system has been developed in this country His report was commissioned by World Wildlife Fund Canada for its Endangered Spaces Campaign and contributes to RoWs work as chair of the scienrillc committee of Globec (Globshyal Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics) a two-year-old international research program intended to better understand ocean ecosystems

birds of the Great Lakes The latter is the first disc in a series called the Great Lakes Faunal Atlas which will eventually cover mammals amphibians reptiles fish and crustaceans

The Alma Aquaculture Research Station es tablished in 1989 and funded through a 20-year development grant by the Ontario

WI NTER 1999 29

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various invas ive species that have turned up

in the Great Lakes - notably sea lampreys

zebra mussels and quagga mussels - many

of which arrive in ballast water of ocea nshy

going vessels (Many have also found their

way into Manitoba says OConnor who

points to the effects of sm elt on whitefish

the main commercial species in Lake Winshy

nipeg) Among o ther meas ures the federal

fish eries committee report called for guarshy

anteed funding for sea lamprey control and

for scienti fic research

I think more money will come says

Prof Bill Beamish Zoology a commissionshy

er on the Great Lakes Fisheries Commission

the 40-year-old governing body that co-ordishy

nates resea rch programs between Canada

and the United States and advises both govshy

ernments It was a review led by Beamish

more than a decade ago on the sta te of

Canadas freshwater fi sheries that provided

the scientific underpinnings for a landmark

report published in 1988 that spelled ou t a

way in freshwater fisheries is a lon g-te rm

project fund ed by the OMNR and the

Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO)

to re-establish native species in their origishy

nal habitats a round Lake Ontario iVlari e

Clement a graduate student of zoology proshy

fe sso r David Noakes is studying Atlantic

sa lmo n which was wiped out of the lake

CONSIDERING WE HAVE THE

BEST FISHERY SCIENCES COMMUNITY

IN THE WORLD WE OUGHT TO

BE DOING BETTER

national strategy for freshwater fisheries

Beamish who has studied sea lampreys

for several decades at Guelph and also invesshy

tigates fish habitat loss says money is need shy

ed to help researchers investigate biological

controls as an alternative to chemical lamshy

pricides The recen t repo rt also notes the

need to address the effects of other nonshy

native exotic species on n ative fish stocks

and water quality and calls on Ottawa to

stem the funding decline in freshwater scishy

ence over the last two decades

One example of the kind of work under

and its tribu ta ry streams near the beginning

o f this century by overflshing and habitat

destruction and alteration Last fall Clement

placed eggs into a site in the Credit River

she has been monito ring oxygen availab il shy

ity durin g their incu ba tion to gau ge sedishy

mentation rates in the river This spring and

summer she wili study how newborn fi sh

interact with other species in th e r ive r

C lement says her docto ral research proshy

ject is but one piece of a larger project aimed

at re-establishing the heritage species Othshy

er researchers hop e to learn whe ther th e

Ministry of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs brings together

researchers for interdisciplinary studies of protein requirements

of arctic char improving fish semen and egg management proshy

cedures and understanding hormone activity in fish The station

acts as a quarantine unit for new fish varieties entering Ontario

and serves as a base for parts of certificate courses and a masters

program in aquaculture

farms in Canada He and fellow Guelph zoologists Eugene Balon

(co- founder of the Coelaca nth Conservat ion Council) and Jim

Bogart also identified and characterized the coelacanth which

had been thought extinct until a specimen was landed off Africa

in the la te 1930s Noakes confirmed the identity of ano ther of

these living fossils discovered in 1997 it appears to belong to a

second popula tion living in the Indian Ocean about 10000 kilo-

metres away from tha t first find

Zoology professors Moira Ferguson and Roy Danzshy

mann use molecular genetics techniques to identishy Zoology chair Paul Hebert was the first scientist to

fy DNA markers used to pinpoint the location of identify the presence in the Great Lakes of zebra

genes associated with growth spawning times mussels a prolific invader that has wreaked havoc

rates of development maturity and temperature in many ways from clogging water-intake pipes to

tolerance in rainbow trout Isolating and identifyshy consuming plankto n thus allowing light to reach

ing genetic markers fo r desirable traits will help fish bottom-dwelling organisms that may displace native

farmers and breeders cross-breed more effectively species The first researcher to report on the biology

conservationists will be better able to manage and preserve and impact of the zebra mussel on the Grea t Lakes was

genetic variability among wild fish stocks Guelph zoology professor Gerald Mackie whose studies showed

that the organisms faster growth rate and higher fecundity and

Zoology professor David Noakes has stuclied varieties of arctic population density will probably enable it to displace many native

char native to Iceland to find ones suited to being raised on fish bivalves and disrupt entire lake ecosystems

30 GUELPH ALUMNUS

LEADING RESEARCH

The University of Guelph has one orthe largest and most active groups of aquatic biologists in the world

bull More than 50 faculty and 100

graduate students research

assocrates and postdoctoral

fellows

bull Over 1000 published scientific

articles books monographs

films and videos in the past

decade

bull Interdisciplinary programs

involving more than a dozen

academic departments

bull The largest group ofichthyoloshy

gists (scientists who study

fish) in North America

bull Collaborative research with

government environrriental

organizations and academic

institutions worldwide

bull Expertise covering the entire

aquatic food chain from plankshy

ton to whales

bull Leading developments in comshy

puter-based educational mate-

rials in aquatic sciences

bull A new $6-million Aquatic

Sciences Facility

bull Research support from national

and international agencies

business and industry

adults will be able to return from the open

lake to their stream spawning grounds If

they come back will the eggs survive she

says If were able to show the eggs can surshy

vive that will be very encouraging for

Atlant ic salmon restoration

What is to be done to ensure the survival

not just of Atlantic salmon in Lake Ontario

but also of the co untrys freshwater and

m ar ine fisheries We need to try to sepashy

rate o ut the fisheries management decisions

from the political decisions associated with

the fi shery says zoology professor Glen Van

Der Kraak director of U of Gs Axelrod

Institute of Ichthyology Van Der Kraak who

studies the effects of toxic contaminants on

fi sh populations says policy mltkers need

to rely on the advice of fisheries sc ientis ts

making conservative harvest ing estimates

So often scientists make decisions and then

are overrun by the politics he says (Never

mind fish wars pitting co untries against one

another - here in Ca nada scientists and

policy makers wres tle over the question of

who should be respo nsible for what aspects

of the countrys fisheries as witnessed in a

war of words played out in the Canadian Journal ofFisheries and Aquatic Sciences over

the past 18 months between biologists at

several Canadian univers ities and the DFO

over the relationship between fishery sc ishy

ence and fishery policy)

Roff says theres nothing unique about

Canadas fish problems Its not really a

Canadian problem its a worldwide probshy

lem The only fisheries worldwide that are

not over fished appear to be some not yet

fully exploited in the Indian Ocean

After nearly four decades of growth the

worldwide marine ca tch levelled off in the

1990s to some 90 million tons a year The

m ain problems coastal pollution habitat

destruction and particula rly overfishing

Noakes editor of the journal Guelph Ichthyology Reviews contrasts the few hunshy

dred people who might have made th eir

livelihood aboard small wood en boats on

the Grand Banks several centuries ago with

the massive factory trawlers that now scour

todays coast People are much too efficient

in terms of catching fish he says Noakes

concurs with fellow Guelph researchers that

conservation of fish stocks has to reach the

top of fishery managers agendas

hat does set Canada apart is the breadth

and depth of expertise in fisheries and aquatshy

ic sciences in this country - rather a parashy

dox when you consider that Canadas record

in fisheries preservation is apparently no betshy

ter than that of many other nations

Considering we have the best fishery scishy

ences community in the world we ought to

be doing better says Roff Within the last

decade th e federal government withdrawal

o f support from the Department of Fishshy

eries and Oceans and university researchers

has been massive At the very time when the

resources were gett ing into severe problems

and when the federal government ought to

have been funding research theyve been

substantially withdrawing resources ga

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UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

n ALUMNI PROF IL E

LETS LOOK AT THE OPPORTUNITIES

WHEN I-IE BECA ME president of the Unishy

versity of Guelph Alumni Association

(UGM) in June Jim Weeden brought new

enthusiasm and ideas for encouraging alumshy

ni to stay in volved with their alma mater

And he wants to start with students

Weeden reca ll s his own ex perience at

U of G where he fo und a sense of commushy

nity by living in residence and ge tting

involved in college activiti es But when he

graduated with an engin ee ring degree in

197 1 he left to begin a caree r and says he

didnt think much about the University until

he needed it again in the 1980s to pursue a

graduate degree in agricultural enginee ring

He spent his early career working as an

agricultural extensi o n engineer for the

Ontario Department o f Agriculture and is

stiU with its successo r the Ontario Ministry

of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs

(OMAFRA) Weed en completed the masshy

ters degree in 1986 when he was head of the

agricultural engineering program and extenshy

sion services a t Centralia College of Ag rishy

cultural Technology

In 1987 he moved to the ministrys plant

industry branch as program m anager and

later held the same position in th e resources

manage m ent branch Sin ce then he has

worked for OMAFRA in Woodstock and

now Stratfo rd He is technical adviser fo r

Ontarios Enviro nmental Farm Planning

Program is respo nsible for o ther environshy

m ental programs and consults with the Minshy

istry o f th e Environment on local agriculshy

tural pollution problems

w Weed en got involved with the Universishy sect tys a]u111ni programs by serving on the first g z board of the Engineering Alumni Associashy

~ tion when it was established in 1990 From

~ 1991 to 1994 he sat on the University Senshy

~ ate and its Research Board and for the pas t

~ four years) hels been on the UGAA executive

32 GUELPH A LU MNUS

From the presidents chair Weeden looks

at the bro ad picture o f UG AA se rvice and

recognizes that the associa tio n owes a debt

o f gratitude to hundreds of alumni volunshy

teers who ha ve helped to build the organishy

za tion over the yea rs and to University staff

in Development and Public Affairs (DampPA)

who support UGAA initiatives and alumni

programs Thro ugh their efforts he says the

a lulllni associati o n is rea ching out to all

U of G alumni Graduates who have mainshy

tained a close relationship with the Univershy

sity thro ugh their college or academic disshy

cipline those who feel an affiliation because

o f their participation in a thletics residence

life o r extracurricular activiti es and even

HIGHLIGHTSmiddot GRAD NEWSmiddot OBITUARIES bull CALENDER

those who have not kept in touch are part of the constituency served by UGAA

Weed en says the alumni association needs to strengthen its relationship with all alumni and he believes the effor t must start on campus with students Hed like to proshymote the idea of alumni involvement as ear shyly as a students second year We need to give students some reason to be con nected and an efficient vehicle for maintaining that connection he says

For many students and new graduates the social functions supported by UGAA and the opportunities for professional networking will be important says Weeden but greater rewards are there for those who join the effort to enhance the Universitys acade mic goals

In todays economic and political envi shyronme nt individual financial support and the advocacy of post-secon dary education are important roles for alumni he says How many people ac tively get involved with the debate on whether universities are job-trainshy

ing centres or centres of education Yet some of our alumni are extremely adept in such roles Weeden would like to cultivate past and current stud ent ac tivists as supporters of public education after they graduate

As Weeden leads UGAA into a new year he says he will work with other UGAA volshyunteers and DampPA staff to find new ways for the association to interact with students and alumni One id ea is to expand UGAAs Intershynet presence by adding a Web message board that will encourage alumni to discuss career and campus issues online and a reply form that will allow them to quickly update addressshyes employment status and other information

Weeden says its important to stay focused on UGAAs key prioriti es but he welcomes any and all new ideas on how to accomplish them All it takes to share your ideas with the UGAA executive is a stamp or a push of the send button when youre clicked on alumniuoguelphca

HKHB SPIRIT RISES

ENCOURAGED BY THE SPIRIT

shown by fellow alumni at last

summers reunion the executive

of the Human Kinetics Human Biology

Alumni Association is moving ahead

with more opportunities for alumni to

stay in touch The association plans to

launch a Web site that will be accessed

through the U of G site

A wine-and-cheese reception already

planned for June 19 1999 wiil try to

build on the success of the 1998 event

which attracted alumni from as far away

as Chicago and as far apart as the 19605

and 1990s Guests had a chance to tour

U of Gs new Health and Performance

Centre and performance testing

labs The program was co-ordinated wiLh

A REFLECTION OF PRIDE

Members of the OAC

Class of 52 join Arboshy

retum staff on the front patio

of the Arboretu m Centre

beside a new reflecting pool

that was built last summer

as a class project Pictured

from left are Murray Parker

Ann Smith George Smith

Jack Sargent Catherine Gibb

Robin Shaw-Rummington

Marilyn Swaby BA 69

Bev Healy B5e(Agr) 72

Norm Watson Una Venerus

Ron Costen Henry Kock

BSe (Agr) 77 and Ric

Jordan BA 75

Prof Jack Barclay chair of the Departshy

ment of Human Biology and Nutritional

Sciences and Prof Susan Pfeiffer Memshy

bers of the Human KineticsHuman

Biology Alumni Association executive arc

Janet Leonhard 82 president Carolyn

Moore 83 vice-president Alison Locker

97 secretary Mark Mulholland 79

lreasurer and t-iary Ann Crape 76

These officers are also spea rheading a

new initiative to benefit students - an

undergraduate award that will provide

$250 and lifetime mem bership in the

association To commcnt on these and

other initiatives contact Leonard by

e-mail at Janel_Leonhardinwrbsb

eduonca or Moore at cturveyagec

uoguelphca

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alumni

Multimedia lab buzzes

THE DONALD FORSTER RoOiv

has become one of the

busiest spots in th e Unishy

versity of Guelph Liblary since the

addition of 70 state-of-the-art

computer workstations that were

supported by alumni do nations

to the Alma Mater Fund (AM F)

U of G president Mordechai

Roza nski officia ll y o pened th e

Alma Mater Fund Multimedia

Lab D ec 2 an d celebrated th e

event with members of the AMF

Adv isory Counc iL [n 1996 a nd

1997 the AMF contributed

$240000 to th e project which

increased the number of student

workstations o n campus by 50 per

cent Students use the m ult imeshy

~ dia lab to conduct research on the

~ Internet access scholarly publicashyr u VI tions on CD-ROM and use COll1shyz ~ puter software mod ules tbat lt

~ strengthen the teaching provided lD

o in co urse lectures labs and tcxtshybii books

middotMatters

Alumnus of many interests

I NTERES TING P EOPLE always have eclect ic interests and U of G

alumnus and honorary degree recipient Ken Murray BSA 50 and

HDLA 96 is a good example H e is known by most people on camshy

pus for his distinguished career in the Canadian meat packing indusshy

try and his volunteer service to U of G He was a member and chair

of Board of Governors from 1973 to 1978 and chair of the Regionshy

al Corporate Committee during U of Gs last capital campaign and

is currently chair of the Heritage Fund Enhancement Committee

Murray is also a strong supporter of community soc ial services

In August he addressed the World Congress of Social Ps)chiatry

held in British Columbia - the only non-psychiatrist on the proshy

gram He spoke about his role in establishing an Alzheimers research

project a t the University ofWaterioo which was recently named in

his honour the Ken Murray Alzheimer Research and Education Proshy

gra m At the gc conference he al so participated in a panel dis shy

cussion that outlined services offered by Guelphs Homewood Health

Cent re Murray bas been actively involved in the governance of the

centre since 1977 and has been a major player in the development

of a charitable foundatio n bearing the Homewood name

WHEN THE PUCK DROPPED More than 30 teams including two

womens teams were entered in the

Dec 6 University of Guelph Alumni Hockey

Tournament Organizers for the 1998 event

were from left Brian Finniss B5c 88

Brad Stephenson BA 86 Terry Carr

BComm 87 Todd Bryant BA 86 and

undergraduate student Brian Melnick

Ken Murray centre with his wife Marilyn Robinson Murray and U of G president Mordechai Rozanski

34 GU ELPH ALUMNU S

RESTORING A JEWEL IN THE CROWN

DONALD RUTHERFORD BSA 5 stands in fron t

of the 1931 conservatory greenhouse that will

be restored to match the splendour of the ga rdens

now growi ng up around it His $256000 leadershy

ship gift to the Conservatory and Gardens Project

was inspired by hi s m emo ries of being a student

at OAC

On behalf of fellow alumni I hope this gift will

commemorate the experiences and educat ion we

acquired while at Guelph says Rutherford When

fully restored to its previous glory the conservatoshy

ry greenhouse will be an ideal greeting and welcome

spot for visitors and newcomers to the University

as well as old friend s renewing their acquaintance

Rutherfords professional career spans the agrishy

foo d industr y beginning as an agricu ltural repshy

resentative with the provincial minist ry I-Ie was

later vice-president of the Fertilizer Institute of

Ontario executive secreta ry of the Canadian Seed

Trade Association director of information w ith

the Ca nadian Livestock Feed Board and Canadishy

an sa les manager for Sylvite of Can ad a Retired

since 1986 he now owns his own sma ll investment

company and manages to golf throughout the yea r

The conserva tory isnt the first ca mpus project

to attract Rutherford s attention - as a student

he helped dig out the base ment of Massey H al l to

build a student lo unge - but his recent gift has

been a tremendous boost to those who have been

working since the ea rly 1990s to save the glass and

cypress structure from demo lition

A committee of alumni facult y sta ff stu dents

and fri en ds of the University has moved the proshy

ject along to th e point w here most of the surshy

rounding garden complex is now complete It fea shy

tures six gardens named in honour of the ir chie f

supporters Autumn Garden - OAC 5 1 Spring

Ga rden - OAC 53 Su mmer Garden - OAC 55

Winter Gard en - OAC 65 Water Gard en shy

OAC 49 and the Woo dland Garden named in

honour of the late Doug Rob inson BSA 53

Alumni have been in strumental in raising

funds for the $ l-million project Students and fa cshy

ulty have provided mudl of the h1l1ds-on Idbour

and friends in the nursery and landscape materishy

als supply industries have given $250000 ill donashy

tions and gifts-in-kind of plan ts and landsca ping

materials Rutherford s generous gift has pushed

th e conservato ry fund-ra ising effort in to the fin 81

stretch Th e ga rden complex and restored g reenshy

110use are sc heduled to officially open during

Alumni Weekend in June 1999

1999 Coming Events

Jan 29 - Aggie Goodshy

Times Banquet call the OAC Student Federation at Ext 8321 for ticket injemnrltion Feb 13 - Norm McCo llulll

D iploma Hockey Tournashy

m ent call Jack Bakker at 519-837-0132 to register a team

Feb 21 - Ottawa Chapter

annual curling bonspiel

Richmond C urling Club in

Richmond Ont For informashytiol1 call Alan Bentley BSA 61 at 6 13-829-6598 or John DVit[ 54 mId Margaret McGowml BHSc 54 at

613-828-7038

March 3 - Florida alumni

reunion a t Maple Leaf

Estates Port Charlo tte Fla

call Ext 6533 0 register

March 13 and 14 - ollcge

Royal 75th o pen house

March 19 and 20 - OAC

Alumni Association curling

bonspiel G uelph Curling

Club register at Ext 6657

May 5 - Chicago All Canashy

dian Universities Night hostecl

by U of G at the University

Club of Chicago 76 East Monshy

roe Sr call Exl 6533 for details May 5 - OAC Alumni

Foundation annual meeting

730 pm Arboretum Centre

May 12 - Alumni-inshy

Action annual meeting and

luncheo n 1130 3m

Arboretum Centre ((11 Ext 6657for tickets

June 18 to 20 - Alumni

Veekend call Ext 6657 to plall a reun io n

-0 r shya -IFor more infon-nation on any a

eVC1l1listed ailove call the oJ -lt oU of G extension listed at en raquo

519-824-4120 or send e-mail z

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alumni Matters

MEMORIES OF COLLEGE ROYAL Grant MacEwan ADA 23 and

BSA 26 is one of the few OAC

alumni who c~n still remember

the first College Royal held Jan

14 1925 MacEwan bad just

entered the degree program in

animal husbandry and may have

been a participant in the liveshy

stock showmanship classes Latshy

er in life he was widely known Grant MacEwan

across Western Canada as 3 liveshy

stock judge and an advocate of

agricultural fairs and exhibitions

MacEwan is bes t known

however for his 23-year C3reer

as a university professor in Manshy

itoba and Saskatchewan and Ilis

political career which included

12 years as alderman and mayshy John Kenneth Galbraith

or of C31gary four years as an

Alberta MLA and eight as lieushy birthday in August

tenant -governor of the province The year after Ma cEwan

He s till lives in Calgary graduated John Kenneth Galshy

where he celebrated his 96th braith ADA 29 and BSA 31

HOMECOMING 98

enrolled at OAC and devoted

some of his energy to organizshy

ing College Royal Show records

indicate it was Galbraith who

first proposed the college event

be publicized so that people

from the farm community

could attend He also suggestshy

ed that OAC invite students

from American agricultural colshy

legesl n th e early 1930s Colshy

lege Royal took its fir s t steps

towards becoming the comshy

munity open house it is today

Galbraith later moved to the

United States where he enjoyed

a distinguished caree r as a proshy

fessor of economics at Harvard

Universi ty Known for his

humanit~rian approach to ecoshy

nomic and political thinking

he was awarded the Order of

Canada in 1997 He celebr3ted

his 90th birthday in October

IT REALLY WAS a homecoming reunion when and Arnott who is head coach of the York

former Gryphon teammates Ralph Shapiro University Yeomen came from the visitors

S5c(HK) 74 and Tom Amott S5c(HK) 80 dreSSing room to hold the ball Shapiro is

met on the field at Alumni Stadium Oct 3 the controller at Huntsman Chemical Inc

Shapiro had the honour of kicking off in Guelph and a longtime United Way volshy

the Universitys 1998 United Way campaign unteer who chaired this years Guelph and

Wellington fund-raising drive The Univershy

sity campaign is the largest in the county

with U of G staff and faculty contributing

over $200000 in 1998

Prior to the game a number of recent

alumni - all U of G scholarship and award

winners - met for a reunion luncheon The UJ

1948 and 1949 dominion championship i5f 3

football teams were also honoured guests z 5 o at the 2 pm game that saw the Gryphons gtshy a defeat York f shya I a

Ralph Shapiro

36 G UELPH ALUMNUS

LEADING THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY FOR 1974 GRADS The 25th-anniversary reunion givshy

i ng program for the Class of 1974

is under way with Bill Laidlaw BA

74 as cbair A public affairs proshy

fessional he has been director of

government relations for the

Canadian operations of Glaxo

vVelJcome Inc for more th an 10

years He also acts as a senior conshy

sultant to support the governshy

ment relations function in other

regions of Canada

Laidlaw began his career in

teaching after earning a history

degree from Guelph and education

degrees (rom Queens University

and the University of Toronto He

also holds the certified human

resources professional designation

and worked in that field for sevshy

eral years before concen trating on

government relations at Glaxo

Welkome He lives in Burlington

Ont and is an act ive community

volunteer having se rved on the

boards of severa l professional

organizations the Queensway

General Hospital and the Metroshy

politan Toronto Lung Association

He is currently completing a oneshy

year term as chair of the Ontario

Chamber of Commerce

Anniversa ry preparations will

culminate with a class gathering

a nd reunion gift at Alumni

Weekend in June 1999

ALUMNI MAKE THE CONNECTION Students who moved into

Maids and Mills halls in Sepshy

tember can take full advanshy

tage of the Universitys highshy

speed computer network

thanks to the OAC Class of

71 whose 25 th-reunion proshy

ject provided wiring upgrades

in the 84- and 77-year-old

residence buildin gs

GRAD NEWS

Marathon survivors inspire us all to appreciate everyday life

W HEN ROBINSON SIIlLJNGS Jane BSe(Agr)

85 Heather BASe 83 Peter BSe(Agr)

86 Scott and Marnie rigwood BA 84 get

together they talk about marathons and the hope

and determination it takes to reach the finish line

Hea ther walked a marathon in San Diego

Calif in June to raise money for leukemia

research then joined Peter for a Toronto marathon

in October that benefi ted the Leukemia Research

Fund of Canada They were inspired by Janes pershy

sonal marathon of survival that foUowed her 1992

diagnosis of leukemia Chemotherapy radiation

remission relapse and finally a bone marrow

transplant [TOm her brother Scott took more than

three years out of her life but gave her the detershy

mination to keep fighting

Many families can understand the marathon

of hope maintained by the Robinsons during

Janes struggle and the commitment they have to

help others who are stricken with the disease Jane

is finally well enough to work again as a writer

and marketing consultant and to join her fami shy

ly in volunteer work She helped recruit for the

Toronto marathon fund -raiser and continues to

be involved with the Leukemia Research Funds

Team in Training She also says that her expeshy

rience has taught her to appreciate more the pleashy

sures of everyday life and the love of famil y

Jan es parents are th e late Doug Rob inson

BSA 53 and Marilyn (Inglis) Robinson Murray

BH Sc 55

19305

bull Grant Misener ADA 32 BSA 35 and DVM 38 received the

prest igious George F Hixso n Felshy

lowship Award from the Kiwanis

International Foundation in May The retired Illinois veter ishy

narian was hono ured for his subshystantial contribution to the

Kiwanis wo rldwide service proshy

ject aimed at eliminating iodine

deficiency disorders the leading

cause of preventable mental retardation in children Over the

years Misener has shown a simishylar commitment to his al ma

mater an d its students through

his close association with OVC

and his support of scho larship

programs

19405

bull Russell McDonaldDVM 45 was named an honorary life direcshytor of the Royal Agricultural Winshy

ter Fair Association in March

McDonald formerly general manshy

ager of Western Ontario Breeders

Ine and executive director of the Canadian Association of Animal

Breeders served as a director of the Royal Winter Fair for 20 years

representing the Canadian artifishycial insemination industry He

lives in Woodstock Ont

bull Ian Taylor DVM43 was recently honoured by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to

Animals of Illinois Taylor ran a small-animal veterinary clinic in

the Chicago area for many years

and says he gained ll1uch experishyence during his first three years in

Illinois as clinic veterinarian for

the anti -cruelty society

19505

bull Charles Chuck Broadwell BSA 54 was elected a Mel

Osborne Fellow by the Kiwanis

Club of Forest City in London Ont in recognition of a dedicatshy -ed and distinguished career in

Kiwanis

19605

bull Constantine Campbell BSA 60 and MSA 61 was named to the

WINTER 1999 37

Order of Canada in January He

received the award in recogni shy

tion of his many contributions

to science and the Canadian

agricultural industry After grad shy

uating from OAC he went on to

do his PhD at the University of

Saskatchewan then joined Agri shy

culture and Agri-food Canada

as a research scientist at the Swift

Current research station Campshy

bell and his family now live in

Ottawa where he is scientist

emeritus with Agriculture and

Agri-food Canada

bull John Casselman BSA 64 is

a research scientist with the

Ontario Ministry of Natural

Resources He Jives in Bath

Ont with his wife Lois

bull Jane Fuller RRSc 65 and

her husband George who both

taught at the Macdonald Instishy

tute from 1966 to 1969 have

moved from Winnipeg to

Utopia Ont following

Georges retirement from the

University of Manitoba

bull Fred Gilbert MSc 66 and

P hD 68 is in his first term as

president of Lakehead Univer shy

sity in Thunder Bay Ont He

taught at U of G in the Departshy

ment of Zoology from 1972 to

1981 and has enjoyed a dive rse

academic career that has also

included teaching at the Unishy

versity of Maine and posi tions

as director of wildlife biology at

Washington State University

and founding dean of the Facshy

ulty of Natural Reso urces and

Environmenta l Studies at the

University of Northern British

Columbia He moved to Lakeshy

head from a position as viceshy

pro vost at Colorado State Unishy

versity A respected wildlife

biologist he has conducted

ex tensive resea rch in s Ll ch areas

as the behaviour and physioloshy

gy of wildlife species and the

effects of environmental

change on wildlife populations

bull Terry Goodyear BSc 67 of

Mont Tremblant Quebec is an

early retiree from Agriculture

and Agri-Food Canada in Ottawa He is now working on

va lue-added products from

industrial wastes particularly

cellulose sludge from pulp and

pa per mills

bull Gary Hearn BA 68 was

named an Ontario provincial

judge in October For the last

25 years he has been a lawyer

with the firm Kearns McKinshy

non in Guelph where he lives

with his wife Irene and three

teenage children

bull Allan Knight BSA 66 of Corunna Ont has retired

from Dow Chemical after 30

years On retirement he was a

laboratory director for indusshy

trial chemicals He is now

working with his son in a famishy

ly-owned and -operated busishy

ness Knight Funeral Home

bull Keith McFarlane BSc(Agr)

68 works for the Department

of Foreign Affairs and Internashy

tional Trade and began a fourshy

year assignment last summer as

head of the commercial divishy

sion of the Canadian Embassy

in Lisbon Portugal The

division promotes the sa le of

Canadian goods and services

to Portugal

bull Ian Newbould MA 68 has

travelled far from his Ontario

roots through an academic and

administrative career that has

taken him to Europe Asia and

Western Canada A noted hisshy

torian he moved into adm inisshy

tration at the University of

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38 GUELPH ALUMNUS

Lethbridge in 1981 and spent

10 years there as director of

research dean of a rts and scishy

ence and vice-presiden t (acadeshy

mic) before crossing the counshy

try to become president of

Mount Allison University in

New Brunswick He is now in

his second term as president of

Mount AUison

bull Indra Deo Singh MSc 68 is

a tea scientist international

consultant and joint director of

the Tea Research Association at

the Nagrakata substation in

India His responsibilities

include co-ordinating research

and development in the Indian

tea industry and developing tea

cultivars and agrotechnology

for tea Singh is married with

two sons aged 27 and 23

19705

bull Don Ambler BSe 71 retired in March as manager of

water programs with Environshy

ment Canada in Dartmouth

NS after 25 years of public

service He has now registered

the company Aquashed Co nshy

sulting to continue in the water

resources field when hes not

gardening beekeeping do ing

aerobics or vo lunteering in the

community and chu rch E-mail

contact is welcome a t

donambl erns sympaticoca

bull Jim Bond BSe 75 is managshy

ing a new processing facility at

the Chalk River Nuclear Laborashy

to ry in Chalk River Ont

bull Terri (Monks) Bulman BSc(Agr) 78 and MSe 81

and her husband Vincent

MSe 8 1 live in Australia with

their th ree children Catherine

7 Peter 4 and baby Christoshy

pher Terri is senior principal

environmental auditor vith

Coffey Geosciences Pty Ltd Vinshy

cent afte r many years as a geoloshy

gist travelling around Australia

and abroad has taken the year

off to study and look after the

children Their e-mail address is

tbulmanbigpondco m

bull Marie David BA 78 of

Hanover Ont has been in the

n ewspaper business for 20

years She started in the mailshy

room moved to advertising

sales then became advert ising

manager She is now gene ral

manager o f three So utham

weekly newspapers and pubshy

lish er of the Hanover Post

bull Janice Harrower and her husshy

band Jerome Billett both

DVM 76 operate a joint veterishy

nary practice in Prescott Ont

Billett says practising together

has allowed them some flexibilishy

ty in their family life and given

their four children a good took

at the rigours of veterinary

medicine Says Billett Not one

of our kid s has the slightest

interest in being a veterinarian

and isnt that just fine Their

o ldest son Jesse attends Harshy

va rd University and is a memshy

ber of its prestigious a cappella

choir Lucas is studying

mechanical engineering at the

University of Waterloo Casey is

planning a career in computer

engineering and Lindsay is a

high school athle te

bull Clair Heinbuch BSe 74 is a

sales manager with Baye r Corp

in Kansas H e and his wife

Caroline (Koscik) BASc 75

returned to the Kansas City

area after spending four years in

Denver They have three chilshy

dren Lisa 20 Scott 18 and

Ryan [5

bull Beverly Lee BASe 72 is an

elem entary school principal in

Unionville Ont She lives with

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her husband Grant Egan in

Collingwood and is looking

forward to retirement in severshy

al years Life on Georgian Bay

is wonderful she says Lee

would love to hear from fellow

grads by e-mail at

leebYrbeeduonca or by

phone at 705 -444 -092l

bull Won-Jai Maeng MSc 71 took office Sept 1 as president

of Kon-Kuk University in Seoul

Korea where his academic

career began He completed an

undergraduate degree at Kon

Kuk in 1965 then studied at

Mailing Agricultural College in Denmark and at U of G before

doing doctoral work at the Unishy

versity of California Davis

Maeng has held research and

teaching positions at the Unishy

versity of illinois at Chung-Ang

University and at Kon-Kuk

where he has been a professor of

animal science since 1984 His

appointment as president folshy

lows years of administrative

experience as a department

head dean and chair of various

research committees and proshy

fessional organizations An

expert in ruminant nutrition

Maeng was instrumental in

developing the livestock feed

industry in Korea He has also

been active in working with

alumni groups and in writing

for the Kon-Kuk Tribune

bull Bill MarshaU ADA 75 of Proton Station Ont moved

from Clarksburg in June to

work in Dundalk for the Grey

County Roads Department on

its road management crew

bull Bernie Matte BSc(Agr) 70 of Moncton NB retired

in March after 28 years with

Fisheries and Oceans Canada

and the Canadian Food

Inspection Agency He plans to

travel to Belize and Honduras

with his wife Diane and will

be available anywhere in the

Caribbean for seafood HACCP

consulting work

bull Margaret McClain BA 70 lives in Arkansas where she is

highJy involved in the issue of

40 GUELPH ALUMNUS

missing children and internashy

tional abductions McClain who

believes her own six-year-old

daughter was taken out of the

United States more than a year

ago by her second husband is

reaching out to parents with

similar experiences through an

organization that is lobbying the

US government for tougher

international abduction laws

She invites interested fr iends

and alumni to contact her

through her Web site at

wwwinsolwwbnet-dmcclain

bull Robert (Chuck) Miller BA 77 is the park superintendent

of Killarney French River and

Maskinonje provincial parks in

Ontario He moved to Killarney

from Quetico Provincial Park

last May

bull Gordon Nicol BA 72 and MSc(Agr) 74 teaches math

and science in a bilingual prishy

vate school in Guatemala A

BEd graduate of Laurentian

he first taught in Guatemala in

the late 1970s then spent 12

years in northern Alberta as a

teacher and principal He

returned to Guatemala in 1989

A widower with three teenage

children Nicol would like to

hear from U of G friends and

acquaintances especially anyshy

one who is was or will be in

Central America He says he

could also use middle-schoolshy

level science projects Send eshy

mail to gnicoll guatenet or

write to PO Box 661447 Miami

Springs Florida 33266-1447

bull Chris Schulte BSc 71 and MSc 73 lives in Nassau

Bahamas with his wife

Andrya After graduation he

stayed in the Department of

Physics as a research associate

with Prof lain Campbell then

joined Ontario Hydro in the

early 1980s He moved to the

Bahamas in 1995 He can be

reached bye-mail at

schultebahamasnetbs

bull Sandra (Pickford) Webster BA 75 has retired from U of

Gs Co mmunications and Pubshy

lic Affairs and is living in Parry

Sound Ont where she is

doing volunteer work and

communications consulting

for the municipality Guelph

friends ca n contact her by

e-mail atswebsterzeutercom

19805

bull Sharon (Courneya) Angus BA 8 I of Surrey BC comshy

pleted a BSW at the University

of British Columbia in 1988

and has been working for the

BC government for 13 years

- first in probation and now

in the family justice division

She and her husband Ron

have three children Jason

Carly and Colin

bull Karen Beazley BLA 86 is an assistant professor and acadeshy

mic program co-ordinator at

the School for Reso urce and

Environmental Studies at Dalshy

housie University in Halifax

She is currently doing research

for a book on endangered

species initiatives and is orgashy

nizing a Nova Scotia wildlands

workshop with the Wildlands

Project for 1999 Her e-mail

address is kbeazleyisdalca

bull Caroline (Van Deudekom) and Marc Brooks both ADA 87

recently moved from Strathroy

to Owen Sound Ont where

they run a 50-acre organic farm

with their two sons

bull Virginia Burt BLA 85 startshyed her own landscape architecshy

ture firm Visionscapes in

Hamilton Ont in ] 996 She

specializes in the design of thershy

apeutic healing gardens spirit

gardens sacred spaces and

la byrin ths and recen tly designed the first healing garden

in Canada specificalJy for peoshy

ple living with HIV and AIDS

bull Joanne (Branson) Carver BA 80 earned a BEd from Brock

University in 1981 and recently

started working as a probashy

tionparole officer She Jives in

Ajax Ont and has two daughshy

ters Julie4 and Sarah 8

bull Heather Champ BA 86 is a Web-site designer in New York

City She began her work in

computer design in 1990 Her

personal site can be Found at

wwwjezebelcom

bull Laurie Gough BA 87 has become a world traveller who

writes about her experiences for

the benefit of others Her most

recent book Island of the

Human Heart A tfornans Travshyel Odyssey is now in its second

printing in Canada and will be

released next year in the United

States and overseas She has also

published Travellers Tales A

Womans World which won the

US-based Lowell Thomas

Gold Award for best travel book

of the year When not travelling

or writing she teaches English

and ESL in Guelph

bull Susan (Coles) Goulden BASc 84 and her husband

Ian are th rilled wi th their

recent adoption of Jennifer Lee

Yu who was born in June near

Leping Jiangxi Peoples Repubshy

lic of China The Gouldens

who Jive in vVaterloo Ont

thank classmate Andrea

(Kovits) Henderson for her

support throughout the adopshy

tion process Susan is currently

on leave from her position with

McCormick Canada

bull Judy (Bodendistel) Gregg BA 82 moved to Melbourne Ausshy

tralia in 1997 with her husband

and two children Carly 6 and

Adam 3 We are enjoying the

friendly people and the great

weather here she says We are

especially enjoying winter in a

place where it never gets below

zero Celsius

bull Nigel GumJey DVM 85 has been a partner in the Alta Vista

Animal Hospital in Ottawa

since 1990 was president of the bull Garry Millage AMPHI 86 bull Heidi Stephenson BA 88 is now ISO 9000 manager at

Ontario Veterinary Medical left a position as vice-president was awarded her professional Carpenter Ca nada Ltd in

Association in 1997 and recent- of national operations for acco untants designation of Wood br idge Ont He lives in

ly served on the Canadian Vetshy Scotts Restaurants KFC Divishy certified general accountant in Miss issa uga Classma tes are

erilw() Medical Associations sion to open his own consult- March 1998 She has been invited to contact him at

national issues committee He ing company Future Food employed for the last 10 years avon listarca

lives in Osgoode with his wife Equipment Ine specializes in with Dan Ball Chartered bull Michelle (Pilon) Bacon BA rvlaurecn and children Laura providing new and used restau- Acco un tant in Parry Sound 90 moved to England to study

and Matthew rant equipment and reducing O nt where she lives with her and work after graduating from

bull Muneer Hirji BComm 82 restaurant construction costs hu sband Brad two dogs and a Guelph She recently left a posishy

lives in Toronto and is vice- He also operates a restaurant horse tion with the British Ministry of

president of marke ting at SAP called Nikkos in Woodbridge bull Dawn Stetsko BSe 81 lives Agriculture and Food in York to

Canada He has three chil- Ont and is planning to open a in Langhorne Pa with her husshy become an at-home mom She

drcl1 Nadia 8 Alyssa 6 and second location band Paul and children Mark now lives in London with her

Sarah I bull Tosh Noseworthy BSe 83 is and Keith and is a research husband Tim and one-year-old

bull Brenda irwin BSe 88 is a cardiovascular ICU nurse in scientist with Bristol-Myers daughter Juliette She sends love

studying at Hong Kong Unishy sunny Tuscon Arizona After Squibb Previously she worked to Sue Heather and Sheila and

vers ity of Science and Technolshy grad uation she lived in Paris at McMaster University in can be reached bye-mail at

ogy to complete the final France for a yea r s tudied nurs- Hamilton Ont for 17 yea rs michellebacondialpipexcom

sem ester of an MBA program ing in O ttawa then lived in Saushy bull Teresa Tummillo-Goy BA bull Jeff Barlow BComm 90 is

through the University of di Arabia for two yea rs She still 86 has a law practice in Water- the training and quality manag-

British Columbia She taught loves to travel and would like to 100 Ont foc Li sing primaril y on er for two five-star luxury boushy

science for the North York hea r from fellow alumni She family law civi l litiga tion and tique h o tels in Prague - Hotel

Board of Education for five can be reached at 520-299-8344 real estate She and her hus- Palace Praha and the Hotel

years before enrolling in the bull Cecilia (Wleugel) Parkes band John Goy live in Guelph Savoy Previo usly he was execu -

MBA program BComm 85 is a graphic and have three sons John 4 tive housekeeper at the five-star

bull Jagwant Kanwar PhD 80 is designer in Toronto and says Tony 3 and Shayne 2 Renaissance Pragu e Hotel

a senior scientist in the depart- she st ill uses ber marketing bull Peter Van der Borch DVM bull Margaret Burnes-Souria BA ment of vegetable crops at Pun- background to help her busishy 88 retired in the fa ll of 1997 94 is a team leader with [011 shy

jab Agricultural University in ness succeed She specia lizes in after several years of practising don Magazin e in London Ont

India He is also director of the logo design lNith hand-drawn physiotherapy and ve terinary She married David Souria in

regional vegetable research stashy illustrations medicine and surgery He Jives July 1997 and is pursuing an tion at Usman (TaranTarn) bull Jim Parr BSc(Agr) 81 and in Pictou NS ]VlBA at the University of West-

Amritsar His and his wife MSe 89 died of cancer in bull MartyWilLiams BA 85 is ern Ontario

Sanyogita have a son Mohit June 1998 but hes being co-ordinator of student activishy bull Janine Byers BASe 95 is a and a daughter Dipika who are remembered by his university ties at University College Unishy public health dietitian at the

both studying engineering friends through the establish - versity of Toronto where he Kingston Frontenac and

Friends can write to Kanwar at ment of a mem orial fund for advises student organizations Iennox amp Addington Health

Punjab Agricultural Un ivers ity his wife Denise and children 1Ie is also chair of the U of T Unit in Kingston O nt She is Ludhiana 141 004 India Shannon and Eric Anyone Staff Association a member of getting married to Ca rl Stewart

bull Larissa Larsen BSe 89 and who would like more informa - the steering committee of the on May 29 j 999 MLA 92 received a PhD in tion can ca ll Brian Tapscott at staffs unionization drive and a bull Lisa Cherry BSe 9 1 is a urban and regional planning 519-767-3566 staff member with the student science journalist and executive

from the University of Illinois bull Cheryl (Dunlop) Reid newspaper The Varsity He can director of Artists Against

at Urbana Champaign in May BSe(Agr) 89 sta rted a new be reached bye-mail at marty Racism an international organi-

She has accepted a position at job in September as ingredient wi lliamsutorontoca za tion She is based in Toronto

Thompson Dyke and Associshy sales manager for RA bull Bonnie (Byma) BASe 96 ales a landscape architecture Chisholm o f Toronto She will 19905 and Gil Clelland BA 95 were

and urban planning firm in continue to work from her bull Claire Allison BA 94 grad- married in December 1996 and

Chicago Her husband Ernie remote offke in Fergus Reid uated from the elementary are living in Chatham On t

Poortinga DVM 89 is in his and her husband Jeff BSe teacher ed ucation program at Bo nnie works at a day-care

third yea r of an MD program (Agr) 89 have two children the University of British centre G il teaches art and

at Rush University Chicago lVlega n 4 and Elizabeth 2 Columbia in 1996 and now phys ical education They ca n -Hes looking forward to joining bull Chee Sie BA 83 is a zone teaches in Va ncou ver be reached bye-ma il at gclelshy

his wife in the ranks of the manager for the Malaysian bull JohnAvon BSdHK) 94 lan ciaccesscom employed They would both Assurance Alliance Berhad in earned an M Se in industr ial bull Kate Corn ell BA 95 of enjoy hearing from fellow Sarawak Malaysia He and his operations from Lawrence Markham Ont earned her

alumni and can be reached at wife Jesterine have a two-year- Technological University in masters in dance history from epoor tin garushurushedu old daughter Letitia Southfleld Mich in 1997 and York University in May and

WINTER 1999 41

co-authored a book titled

Toronto Dance Theatre 1968shy1998 Stages in a Journey

bull Mary Jill (McClure) Culliton BASe 90 earned

her BEd from Brock University

and her M Ed from the Univershy

sity of Western Ontario and

teaches Grade 1 in Mitchell

Ont She and her husband

Tim live in Stratford

bull Kathleen (McNutt) Daniels BASe 9 1 is a teacher and was

married on New Years Eve

1994 to Gord Daniels They live

in North Bay Ont and have a

daughter Lauren born in Febshy

ruary 1997 They are expecting

their second child in February

bull Simon Deakin BA 95 studshyied in Florence Italy for a year

then earned a master of fine art

from the Slade School of Fine

Art at the University of London

England He lives in London

bull Christie Dunbar BLA 97 spent a year after graduation

working for Niagara College in

St Catharines Ont on the

vision and design of a new

campus to be built in Niagarashy

on-the- Lake Last April she

joined the landscape architecshy

ture firm of Pollack Design

Associates in Ann Arbor Mich

bull Trina Edmonds BA 94 and

Joel Hinderle became the

proud parents of a little girl

Jordan Ashley in january 1998

and moved to a new home in

Oakville Ont in September

Edmonds works in Mississauga

as a desktop publisher with a

publishingprinting company

bull Wendy Garinther BSc 93 and Steve Decker BSe 94

were married in May Joining

them in the wedding celebrashy

tions were Cheri (Coulter)

42 GUELPH ALUMNUS

Ascroft BSe 93 Karen Leinshy

gartner BSe 94 and Barb

(Moore) Johnson BSe 94

Best man was Jeff Bond BSe

93 and MSe 96 The Deckers

live in Edmonton where Steve

is doing a PhD in chemistry at

the University of Alberta and

Wendy is working in a research

laboratory at a biopharmaceushy

tical company

bull Donna Gross BA 97 is purshysu ing a master of divinity at

Emmanuel College at the Unishy

versity of Toronto and hopes to

become an ordained minister by

2002 She lives in Guelph and

can be reached bye-mail at

donnajulietalbedonet

bull Robert Gruber BA 92 is a child-care supervisor for the

YMCA-YWCA of Guelph and

manages the Jean Little Y

Child- Care Centre He recently

developed the anti -bias proshy

gramming policy for the

Guelph Y and sits on both the

Jean Little Public School Counshy

cil and the Guelph AIDS Wall

Committee He can be reached

bye-mail at rgrubernet

comca

bull Susan Harder BSe 91 grad shyuated from the University of

Toronto Medical School in June

and has started a residency at

Santa Clara Valley Medical Censhy

tre in San jose Calif She will

follow that up with an anestheshy

sia residency at Stanford Univershy

sity Hospital in 1999

bull Marko Harjupanula BASc 93 travelled in Australia for

two months after graduating

from Guelph then returned to

his home town of South Porshy

cupine Ont where he worked

in a gold mine for four years

He entered police college in

September and started as an

opp constable in Cochrane in

December

bull Nancy Holman MA 94 moved to Vancouver soon after

graduation and initially worked

as a project co-ordinator for an

ophthalmologist In 1996 she

began working full time for the

BC Liberal Caucus I would

enjoy hearing from and catchshy

ing up with the friends I made

while studying at U of G and

working at the Brass Taps she

says Her e-mail address is nan shy

cyholmanlassgovbeca

bull Ruth Johnson BA 91 is an investment banking associate

with the mergers and acquisishy

tions group of JP Morgan in

Lond on England responsible

for financial reporting and

administration She has been in

England with her partner Alex Campbell since graduation

bull Stephen Johnson BA 94 of London Ont was a lab technishy

cian at Lenscrafters for three

yea rs and is now a full-time

student at Fanshawe College

studying air conditioning and

refrigeration He was married

in Jun e to Jennifer Fox BSc

95 a chemist at 3M Their

wedding party included Dee Popat BSe (Eng) 94 and

Patrick Wulhes BSc 95

bull Sarah (Davis) Kelly BASe 90 married Robert Kelly in

July and teaches primary

grades at an inner-city school

in Toronto

bull Cassidy Klowak BComm 97 lives in Allisshy

ton Onl and is a personal

banking account manager

with ClBC in Tottenham

bull Stephanie Lopes BSc 96 completed her MSc in repro shy

ductive biology at the Universishy

ty of Toronto and worked as

patient-care director for the

College of Family Physicians

for almost a year In September

she enrolled in medical school

at the University of Toronto

She is happy to announce that

she is engaged to be married

next summer Lopes can be

reached at slopesidirectcom

bull Natalie (Parker) MacKenzie BSc 96 earned her BEd from

the University of Western

Ontario in 1997 She married

ASLt Andy MacKenzie June 27

in Sault Ste Marie Ont and

now lives in Halifax

bull Susan MacKinnon DVM 91 is a veterinarian with HUls

Science Diet She lives in

Guelph with her husband

Brandon Wiley and gave birth

to their first child Adrianna

Nicole june 26 at home

bull Waheed Mian BA 9 1 of Cambridge Ont is a store

director with PetSmart Canada

He helped the company launch

its new retail concept in Cana da

bull Alex Mitchell BA 91 was appointed clerkdeputy treasurshy

er of the Ontario township of

Mildmay-Carrick in 1998 and

will be the clerkadministrator

of the new municipality of

Mildmay-Carrick -TeesWatershy

Culross in 1999 He was married

in january 1997 and lives vith

his wife and daughter in Mild shy

may In his spare time Mitchell

is a professional scout for the

Toronto Maple Leafs covering

southwestern Ontario

bull Sherry Morland BASc 93 of Kitchener Ont ea rned her

BEd from Brock University in

J995 and is a part-time specia l

educa tion teacher and an occashy

sional teacher with the Watershy

loo County Board of Ed ucashy

tion She married Ivan LeBlanc

in 1997

bull Gary Page BSe 91 wo rks for the Nottawasaga Valley Conshy

servation Authority where he is

able to combine his knowledge

of wildlife biology with his

artistic skills as resident graphic

designer and outdoor centre

interpreter He Jives with his

wife Di and their son judah in

CreemoreOnt

bull Elaine Pammenter BA 96 is an inventory clerk with the

Royal Collection at Windsor

Castle in England She holds a

museum management and

curatorship grad uate certificate

diploma from Sir Sandford

Fleming College and did her

internship at the Royal Albert

Memorial Museum in Exeter

England

bull Brent Raymond BSe(Env) 96 of Brantford Ont has

been working with Outward

Bound since graduation He

leads wilderness trips in Northshy

ern Ontario Horida Australia and Sabah (Malaysian Borneo) Most recently he designed and implemented a new introducshytory mountaineering course for Outward Bound Sabah on the summit plateau of Mt Kinashy

balu Those of you who know me as plate licker from U of G get in touch he says Where are you Star I miss you He can be reached by e-mail at globarwchatonca or by

phone at 519-756-1697

Alumni Patrick Abbott BSA 40 July 7 1998

Albert Allen BSA 33 Jan 161994 Agris Ansmits BA 70 and MA 73

February 1998 Barbara (Quartermain) Babcock DHE

53 June 17 1998

Wray Bond BSA 34 Sept 25 1998

Kenneth Bone DVM 38 Dec 29 1998 Evelyn (Stevenson) Buhr DHE 39

May 251998 Philip Burke BSA 43 June 21 1998

Grant Carman BSA 49 Oct 221998 Frederick Chambers BSA 41

June 1998 Wilmot Conley ADA4 7 April 7 1998 Lloyd Crewson BSA 49 Aug 261998

Jacqueline Dimock DHE 47

Aug 20 1998 John Dingwall DVM 52

April 18 1998

Lloyd Dorsey BSA 38 June 9 1998 George Duncan BSA 37

Sept 19 1998

David Dyson BSA 53 Aug 31 1998

Norma (Shannon) Edwards DHE 39

November 1997 Vincent Bud Ellis DVM 41

July 15 1998 John Jack George BSA 48

Sept 24 1998

Donald Haight BSA 33 January 1997 William Hamlyn BSA 33 Dec I 1997

Gordon Harkness BSA 49

November 1997

Charles Hollister DVM 38 June 1996 Donald Hope BSA 54 June 28 1998

Lawrence Jefferson BSA 38

Sept 3 1998

James Kelso DVM 56 July 27 1998

Dorima Lalonde BSA 34 Oct 8 1998 Mildred (Cox) Large DHE 33

June 20 1998 Roger Larson BComm 86 Feb 19 1998 Robert Lawson BSA 49 June 6 1998

bull Doug Ramsey BA 91 and PhD 98 received U of Gs highshyest graduate student award shythe Forster Medal- at June convocation for his academic and community involvement while enrolled in Guelphs new

graduate program in geography He spent the summer as a visitshying research scholar at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College in Truro before assuming his curshyrent position as assistant professhysor at Mount Allison University

David Leach BSc(Agr) 74

July 18 1998

Ian Leask DVM 74 Sept 5 1998

Sheryl Lee BSc 95 June 8 1998 Ruby Janet MacAuley DHE 30

Aug 19 1998 Parker MacKenzie DVM 38

September 1994

Jeanice MacLaren DHE 28 March 1 1997

Campbell MacMaster DVM42

Oct 8 1998

Rex McCallum DVM 43 July 71998 Jean (Dunn) McMahon DHE 31

Nov 41998

Margaret Oones) McTaggart DHE 35 Aug 81998

Patrick McTaggart-Cowan HDSc 81

Oct 21997

Malcolm McWhinnie ADA 39

July 16 1998 Mary (Townsend) Mitchell BHSc

60 Sept 281998

Marjory Monaghan DHE 29

December 1997 Charles Monk BSA 44 Aug 7 1998

Heather Neilsen BHSc 59

Oct 30 1998 Jerry Niwa DVM 62 Aug 5 1998 Henry Harry OReilly BSA 42

October 1997

James Parr BSc(Agr) 81 June 19 1998 Charles Rammage DVM 45

Oct 17 1996 Howard Rapson HDSc 90

March 1997 Clement Reeds DVM 42 Oct 16 1998

William Robinson BSA 38

Aug 23 1998

Donald Sager ADA 73 Oct 141997

Austin Schaefer DVM 37 in 1997

Sandra (Mackenzie) Schmidt DHE 59

Aug 16 1997 Margaret (Harvey) Seaborn DHE 28

July 221998

Larry Seguin DVM 47 June 12 1998

Leah Shedden DHE 31 December 1998

Edward Shuh BSA 40 July 2 1998

Ted Shutsa BSc(Agr) 66

Sept 18 1998 Jim Sinclair DVM 49 Oct 4 1998

Margaret (Brown) Sinclair DHE 20

September 1998 Eldon Smith BSA 42 Sept 9 1998

Derek Somers DVM 96 Sept 25 1998

Cheryl Lynn Sopha BA 95 Sept 20 1998

Leona (Bartlett) Stewart DHE 35

June 27 1998 Alex Thomson BSc(Agr) 69

October 1996

William Whittick DVM 55

Aug 15 1998 Joseph Wilson BSA 23 Sept 11 1998

Lloyd Woolsey DVM41 June 24 1998

Winifred Yeates DHE 28 June 11998

Faculty John Carpenter BSA 43 and MSA 48

Microbiology Dec 10 1998

David Gaskin Zoology Sept 14 1998

Gordon Macleod BSA 50 Animal and

Poultry Science Nov 26 1998 Roman Retman Languages and

Literatures Sept 28 1998

Caesar Sen off Chemistry and

Biochemistry Aug 14 1998

Percy Smith Drama Dec 10 1998

Friends Robert Clark Aug 21 1998

Ethel Hammond August 1998

Thomas Hillers Sept 28 1998 Marguerite Holbrook Aug 26 1998

Catherine Kelly Sept 27 1998

James A McKenzie May 13 1998

Kenneth McIssac Oct 23 1998

William Mutlock September 1998 Roena Patterson Sept 16 1998

Donald Priddle Aug 25 1998

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bull Karl Reimer BSe 94 comshypleted a one-year intensive

MSc in mining engineering at

Queens University and is now

a project engineer a t Enpar

Technologies Ine in Guelph

He can be contacted at reimerbservcom

bull Nancy Nauta Rowland BA 90 and her husband Dan celshy

ebrated their first wedding

anniversary in March 1998 with

the birth of their first child

Connor who beat their March

8 anniversary by two days Nanshy

cy teaches junior-grade stushy

dents and junior special ed ucashy

tion for the Peel District School

Board The Rowlands live in

Caledon Ont

bull Fraser Stables MFA 98 was heralded by Toronto Globe 6shyMail critic Betty Jordan as a

formidable new talent followshy

ing the openi ng of his debut

gallery exh ibition in July The

Scottish artists work includes

sculpture video and mixed

media that explore notions of

flu x by interrupting the moveshy

ment of forms in space

bull Erin (Smith) Scott BSe(HK) 92 and Brad

Scott BSc(Agr) 91 of Lucan

O nt were married in 1993 and

had their first child Lucas in

August Erin works for Shopshy

pers Home Health Ca re in

London Brad is with New Life

Mills in Dunfield

bull Abby Simons BSc 95 and Martin Piche BSc(Agr) 95 were married in Mont-Tremshy

blant Quebec in 1997 She is a

customer service representative

with Kantech Systems he is

superintendent of Club de golf

vallee des forts They say theyd

love to hear from anyone headshy

ing to Montreal and can be

reached at 450-348-3860

bull Sylvia Tesori BSc 95 has been doing wildlife rehabilitashy

tion for the OSPCA Wildlife

Rehabilitation Centre in Midshy

land Ont since 1996

bull Chuck Thibeault BComm 94 is general manager of the

Putting Edge Corpora tion

which has two glow-in- theshy

dark mini-golf courses in

Ontario one in Bramp ton and

one in Richmond Hill He can

be reached in Richmond Hill at

chu ckttotalnet

bull Karen Thirlwall BA 93 is a

si ngersongwriter and guitarist

who began her stage career and

released her first album The Voice Inside Me while studying

languages at U of G She has

lived and performed in

11i stler BC for three years

and recently released a second

album called Wide-Eyed She

remembers many special

fr iends m ade at Guelph and

welcomes e-mail messages to

karenthirlwallhotmailcom

bull Christie (Johnson) and Steve

Tyler both BComm 91 live in

Cambridge Ont where

Christie is a personal banking

representative for the Royal

Bank Steve works with their

third-year design professor

Nelson Hofer in Mississauga as

a design consultan t Steves proshy

jects include the Windsor Casishy

no and U of Gs Creelman Hall

They have two children Jason

5 and Marcus 1

bull Julia White BA 91 lives in Guelph and is a small-business

accountant at Taves amp Co She

recently finished courses

towards a CGA designation and

would like to hea r from other

alumni who lived in Lambton

Hall in 198788 Send e-mail to

juliawhitesympaticoca

bull Andre-Denis Wright MSc 93 and PhD 98 is doing postshy

docto ral work in Perth Westshy

ern Australia He wants his

Guelph friends and Halifax

family to know he was thinking

of them at Christmas when it

was 40 C in Australia

bull Dave Yellen BComm 90 was recently promoted at the Gordon

Food Service to new-accounts

sales specialist for Metro Toronshy

to Having been in Ottawa for

the past few years Im hoping

to reacquaint myself with old

friend s from U of G in the Metro

area he says He lives in Scarborshy

ough and can be reached at 416shy615-2745 or davidysprintca

bull Halina Zaleski PhD 92 is a tenured professor in the

departm ent of animal sciences

at the Un iversity of Hawaii in

Honolulu She is a swine speshy

cialist involved in extension

programs for an area th at covshy

ers all of Hawai i and the PacifIC

basin She can be reached by

e-mail at halinahawaiiedu

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IF THERE ARE LIVESTOCK IN THE HOCKEY ARENA and

theyre not wearing skates its College Royal If there

are students sawing logs throwing pies baking cookies

and square dancing its College Royal When the entire

University of Guelph is displayed - from arts to zooloshy

gy - March 13 and 14 1999 youll know its definitely

College Royan

Since its inception in 1925 as an agricultural and liveshy

stock show run by the Ontario Agricultural College

College Royal has grown to be a celebrated U of G trashy

dition involving all the colleges

The event is famou s in the University community

and beyond for its open-house showcase of displays and

activities The largest student-run open house in Canashy

da College Royal attracts more than 20000 visitors to

campus over one weekend

College Royal is an event of tradition that reaches

into tomorrow Agriculture and livestock shows are still

highlighted events but College Royal activities have

grown to include dog and cat shows a photography conshy

test a chemistry magic show and demonstrations on

human health and fitness The open house gives people

an opportunity to see what happens in the Universitys

leading-edge research laboratories to observe veterinary

medicine in practice to tour a sculpture studio or to

watch a theatrical performance

To celebrate the 75th anniversary of College Royal

1998 president Joe TrakaJo lnvites alumni to get involved

again by joining one of the planning comm ittees or by

participating in a favourite event Call him for more

information at 824-4120 Ext 8366 or send e-mail to

jtrakalouoguelphca

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SCENE UNI VER SITY CLUB

Thompson (discussing the critical and pubshylic reaction to her first play The Crackwalkshyer) It was slaughtered at first as all my plays have been Very bad reviews at first and then somehow they catch fi re and theres one grea t review and the others start to see something GA writer Why the bad reviews Thompson I think people might say that theyre shock ing but I dont think so not

with the movies we see and whatnot Theyre not shocking compared with Quentin Taranshytino But theyre not like anything else they dont know where to put them And when they dont know where to put them theyre dismayed I think and hostile and they feel challenged I just write as I see Im not tryshying to shock or challenge anyone I hope they do challenge - me too all of us I often feel li ke the little boy in The Emperors New

Clothes Look this is what I see

SCENE LOWER MASSEY HALL

Two Acting I students perform a scene on th e stage Their fellow stud ents sit on th e Aoo r watching Thompson sits forward on a plasti c chair forearms propped on her knees hands clasped before her Her eyes her bod y are intent on the action Later Amberley Buxton (fi rst-year student il1 Actshyil1g I who is pursuing a psychology major and a drama minor)

Its a really in tense class In one of our first classes we were to share something that had changed our perspective on li fe or how we thought every day Later during improvisashytion or scene work she had us draw on the emotional context fro m those stories to add to our acting experiences Its really intense in that way A lot of people share a lot of personal things and we use each others experiences

SCENE UNIVER SIT Y CLUll

Thompson Ea ch se meste r students go through an intensive transition In order to find your creative centre or trigger yo u need

to know yourself in an intell ectual context They reach that pl ace and find their genius My philosophy is that every stu dent has genius and its my job to uncover it My relationshi p is so intense with st udents The classes are very psychoanalyt ic It seems to tra nsform their life

SCENE LO WER MA SSEY

Buxton Even if we haven t encountered a similar situat ion in real life she has us draw on somethi ng similar For ollr exa m Im doing a monologue My character has been abused I havent been abused myself but I have to draw on a si tuation where I had sim shy

itar feel ings draw on some experi ence Like being teased at schoo l Even so mething as small as tha t if you find a way to get back to that

SCENE UNIVERSITY CLUll

Thompso n I llsed to be terrified In high school Id spend half my time in the nurses room because the idea of having a se izu re in front of yo ur peers at that age was just petrifying I did finall y have a seizure but luckil y no one was around at the time So I

think all of that puts me in touch with a lot in life I might not have been in touch with being fairly privileged not rich but eno ugh to be middle class A lot of my work is about class abo ut the class differentiation in Canashyda Ive somehow felt more all ied to a less adva ntaged class My gra ndfather once sat as prime minister of Australia My grandshyfa ther on the other side was a member of the Royal Society an entomologist but his mother died in childbirth and he was brought up as a cousin on the farm outside of London And my Australian grandfath er was one of 1I siblings in a shack by the side of the railroad His father had di ed He walked barefoot to school so I th ink because its just two generations away I feel it in my bones and my blood GA writer How did you get to writing Thompson Through ac ting Ive been involved in thea tre since I was II years old I was Helen Keller for a university show my mother directed She had an [vIA in th eatre and she taught it at Queens I was in TILe Crushycible when I was 12 in Kingston and Jean Brodie and on and on and on I would just lisshyten to aU these wonderful lines and words and it all kind of enrered me And acting is where I reaU y found my niche as a person The theshyatre became my home Then I went to theatre schoo l as an actress but I started to create mask characters through improvisation Thats where I really took off in a big way and where I found myse lf very very excited GA writer VVhat we re you excited abo ut Thompson I was doing the writing And I felt frankly that I did it much better than most of the texts I was working with Not Shakespeare but and its not a matter of better it s thats where I belonged So I would go home and write down the charshyacters that r crea ted that day in class and make th em talk to each odler and thats how The Craekwalker happened

I spent a summer in Toronto looking for acting work and I go t a few jobs But every day for a co uple of hours I would write at a typewri ter and I found these voices comshying At the end of it I sa id to someone You know I think this isnt bad I think this might eve n be a play At the Na tional Theatre shySchool they said to me Youre pretty handy with these monologues but dont ever think you could write a play (Pause) I enjoy telling th at tale on them

WINTER 1999 23

SCENE LOWER MASSEY

Buxton It was my fint time doing mask work She had us sit with the masks on and just sta re at ou rselves in the mirror We did it for an hour staring at the mask feelin g the mask It was a phenomenal eilVer ience the Wily youre able to transform yourself It was almost as if you werent look ing at you That helped yo u to walk differently You were able to shed your

own movements and personality

SCEN E UNIVfRSITY CLU B

Thompson I think thil t seizures can transshylate into creativity are part of me as a cre shyltltive artist Peop le in the medical busin ess are very skeptical of ltll1ything like this But I fee l it s because I have fewer inhibitors in my bra in You have these inhibitors and thats what medication helps But if youre epi leptic your inhibitors Ment working as well to put out the electrical fire so it spreads I think the door to my un conscious is kind of flapping around so J think that helps creatively

SCENE MA SSEY HALL

Student (steppingforwmd) NO I Thompson (quietly) Good

SCENE ARCHIVES

GA writer ( reading fiom Epilepsy and Sna kes)

I have no doubt that my experience with epi lepsy has con tributed to my creative wo rk partly because it hE Jped me to understand what it is to be marginalized to be isolated to be feJ rful and to be out of control and eve n to be mortal

SCENE U NIVERS IT Y CLU B

Thompson Unchecked id can mean scrawlshying on the walls crazy things muttering in stree t corne rs beca use th ey re all id no su perego But I had the luck to be born into a theatrical famiJy my mother havin g the theatrical experience so I was exposed to it Lots of books I was taken to 1 lor of plays Having ep il epsy my first seizure when I was nin e J was able to link with that If I hadnt had those advantages who knows the se izur es migh t have ju st made me a depressed person an angr y person And you re touched with mortality you always live und er siege a slight fear of having a se izure Its much less so now with me

24 GUELPH ALUM NUS

SCENE UNIVERSITY CLUB

Thompson Ive always been a mimic in a cheap way I could always mimic we ll I would raLk to someone on a bus and I could do them exactly Thats kind of dangerous because it can be pretty shallow But it showed me ltl way into the person throu gh voice And once J could do that like a pupshypet something would click and I cou ld get

in in a deeper way J need to get so thoroughly into the charshy

acte rs and their state of mind and especialshyly tapping repressed el11orion which gets you in touch with your id or unconscious li fe If

I take little sections of

myself and grow them in a petri dish of the play

one character is about rage I have to tap into my own rage and that s why the monoshylogues so things can just flow and then I can retrieve things from the past and remember things So its not working from here (gesshytures to midriff) it s wo rking fro l11 here (gesshytures to head)

Mo nologues for me are always the key to findin g out who th e character is because if you cant make them rant for fi ve minutes you dont know th em Tha ts what I tell my

playwriting students I want to see r-wo pages of this characters mouth In other words to speak for five minutes we have to have

so mething to say We have to have something we feel passionately about something were angry about and if we dont have something to say for fi ve minutes who are we

SCENE UN IVERSTTY CLUB

GA writer Vhere do you see what eventushyally becomes a play such as Sled 1110mpson I was at a lodge and saw a moose that s one thin g And that made me think about winter and how the country is always with us as Ca nadians Even in the urban censhytres we ca rr y it wi th us Theres always this

see ming division between the country the wilderness and civilized centres but its the same The wildness of the moose and the

hunt and the bear is in our neighbourhoods I guess its like Lion in the Streets it must be a thing with me And also the exquisite beaushyty and thats how most of the world thinks of Canada as the wilderness Its not quite how we think of ourselves but it is partly So that made me want to do something abo ut the Nor th violence in the North

As far as th e old mans stories that was my neighbour and he told me all those stoshyries they were all true except mltlyb e one or so and I thought Theyre amazing They teilus what our neighbourhoods Me really about and Toro nto what the city is how its const ru cted Toronto is our stories and in th ese neighbourhoods you have an urbane entertainer li ving nex t to an 80-year-old Italia n man and thats the beauty ofToronshyto ltllld its the way th e world is chan ging The stric t class divis ions and culture divishysions th eyre no longer as defin ed as they we re espec ially in th ese neighbourhoods the great pioneering experimen t GA writer Do your chi ld ren see your work Thompson No None of my children can see my plays Ariane saw f Am Yours in New York when she was about nin e I do cl eal with the dark and whats tru e and my chilshydren aren t ready for that Im probab ly more protective th an mos t mothers Walk them

to school till theyre 13 that ki nd of thin g GA writer Yo u we re intervi ewed in the Globe alld Mail recently in a story about motherh ood dnd th e muse How do yo u handle th e demand s of motherh ood and writing

Thompson If Im in the situation where I have 15 or so hours of child care a week Im OK because when Im with them I wa nt to be with them and when ]m doing my work

th ats what I clo But if I do something like a worko ut thell a black cloud descends The guilt and the black cl oud th at descend as I take off on my bike it s huge Then once the workout s finished I know it was d good

thing to do although it s also cut into my

work time J do feel guilty about the nilture of my work too in that my kids cant see it Am I drawing on a part of me thats not good as a mother The oth er part of me is th at I make up bedtime stories and bake coo kies and all thlt stuff ]m probably a

rather operatic mother I cry at movies laugh too hard __

SCENE ARCI-I[VES

GA writer (reading fiom Epilepsy and Snakes)

1

Although being a dramatic writer has

given me a reputation in my cou ntr y

and a strong identity the actof writin g

or creating character leaves me SOJlle shy

times feeling that I have no id entity at

all Every once in a while when I am not

writing or tending to my four children

I feel I 1m falling again down th e terrishy1 ble hole with nothing to hold on to

And I believe this falling this identity

pain is a result of me using the very

essence of Ill yself to create character in

a dramatic wo rk r wonder so metimes

if J illl1 betraying my soul in a way by

using its essence However J have found

some comfo rt in the words ofWilliall1

Blake Essence is not Identity but from

Essence proceeds Identity and from one

Essence may proceed many Identities

as from one Affection Jlla y proceed

many thoughts If the Essence was

the sa me as the Identit y there could be

but one Identity which is fal se Heaven

wo uld upon this plan be but a clock

but one and the sa me Essence is th ereshy

fore Essence and not Identity

SCENE UNIVER SIT Y CLUB

Thompson I always put myself in a play and

never In other words I take little sections of

myself and grow them in a petri dish of th e

play So if Ive found a moment where Im a

bit lazy ]11 grow it and milke the character

very lazy o r impatient or whatever So I take

these moments because we all have all of

them grow th em and create this Frankenshy

steins monste r a character right out of parts

body parts and psychological parts often of

myself and then observe things in other peoshy

ple but I have to find it in myself to make it

work

SCENE AR C H1V ES

GA writer (reading from Epilepsy al1d Snakes)

My self asserted itself as a kind of quishy

et Lucille Ball c1ulllsy and absent-mindshy

ed At least this gave me an identity and

was a small aCI of slbo tage The next

assertion was an act of unconscio us rev shy

olution th e grand mal seizure that

almost killed me And the next one was

The Crackwalker my first play And this

is how I raged against the machine and

took space in the world And now not

surprisin gly I am seizure-free

SCENE LOWER MASSEY

After another pair of acto rs rUllS through

their scene Thompson directs them to begi n

again She interrupts frequently to question

the students about actions feelings motishy

vations At one point 8S the students pause

to consider her words Thompson turns to

the rest of the class erect in her cha ir

Thompson Isolate the mom ent The great

thing about the stage is th at it isolates the

moments that just race by us_

SCENE UNIVERSITY CLUB

Thompson Ive just written my next play

which is not ca lled Pefeet Pie but thats its

working title because it came from a mon oshy

logue called Perfect Pie But now its a full

two- haul play in which the second wom3n

comes back and tben I have them as yo ung

girls too It goes back ~nd forth and its very

exciting I worksbopped it in the spring and

in December at tbe Tarragon and it will go

on in o ne year At the sa me time lm wr itshy

ing a feature film for Rho mbus based on the

play Pe feet Pie

SCEN E UNlV ERSITY CLUIl

Thompson My pIalS are Illusically written

And if somebody doesnt get the music they

dont feel it and go with the rhythm s it

throws the whole thing off I hear the plays

I hea r them I write with my ear They

change 1 lo t but it s according to rhythm

I ll be sitting in rehea rsal listening and if it

does nt so und ri ght I change it so that its

rhythmic

SCIi -JE J UST AllOUT ANYWHERE YOU CA N

READ A PLAY

GA writer (readmg ji-olll the script ofvVbite

Biting Dog first produced at the Tarragon Th eatre in 1984)

Beciluse of the ex treme and deliberate

lllu sica lity of this play any allempts to

go aga inst the tex tual rhythms such as

th e breaking up of an unbroken senshy

tence the tlking of a pause where none

is written in are DISASTROUS The

effect is like beil1g in a small plane and

suddenly turning off the ignition It all

falls down This play III list SPIN not

just turn around

SCfN e LOWER MASSEY

Her students listen as Thompson stands to

complete a so liloq uy abo ut cap turing the

rhythm of the language on the stage The

wide sleeves of her ank le-length dress slide

down her forea rm s as she ges tures

Thompson Listen to the music of the

scene Each playwright writes their own

symphony

SCENE U NIVERSlTY CLUB

Thompson Ive been pretty directed to this

ii-om an carly age although if I had done anyshy

thing else it probab ly wou ld have been some

form of social work I would have been smokshy

ing three packs of cigarettes a day and workshy

ing il1 an office somewhere up in Scarborough

SC EN E AfltCHIVES

GA write r (reading from Brick interview of Thompson by Eleanor Wachtel ]99] )

In th e thea tre I think what one mllst

do is co nfront the truth confront the

emot ional truth of our li ves which is

mired in the swamp of minuriae

everyday minutiae Maybe it has to be -tl111 way because we couldnt confront

it every day But I think the th eatre

IllllSt Im not interested ill th eatre that

doesnt ga

W1NTER 1999 25

Never mind fish wars pitting countries against one another - here in Canada scientists and policy makers cant agree on who should control the preservation and management ofour own fishery resources BY ANDREW VOWLES

Ca

as

ollapsed cod stocks to the east

On the West Coast laquofish wars

_ rlTDT Pacific salmon enmesh

Canada and the United States

At various points in between fisheries scishy

entists and managers grapple with everyshy

thing from overfishing of freshwater

stocks to invasion by exotic molluscs

What is to be done about Canadian fishshy

eries And what role is being p layed by

fisheries and aquatic scientists at the Unishy

versity of Guelph

-

dock pollock red fish and flatfish made up just under half of Canadas total landings on the Atlantic coast (720000 tonnes of fish and shellfish were caught in 1994 represhysenting a total landed value of $11 billion) Two year~ later that proportion had dropped to 21 per cent with shellfish and open ocean fish specie~ notably Atlantic

Begin in the Atlantic The crisis on the East Coast has become a disaster So says laquoWE NEED TO TRY TO SEPARATE OUTGuelph zo ology professor John Roff enushymerating the litany of woes that have surshy

THE FISHERIES MANAGEMENT DECISIONSfaced from Ca nadas marine fishery in the past decade Although some fish and shellshy

FROM THE POLITICAL DECISIONSfi sh are holding their own stocks of other species have experienced declines raquo

ASSOCIATED WITH THE FISHE RY

down that fishery in 1992 Over fishing and under which it has been buying up fishers

Even when stocks do rebound rarely do we fully und erstand why he says Theres a complex of problems to be disshy more for cod stocks to rebound says Roff entangled involving overflshing long- and co-editor with colleague Prof Moira Fergushyshort-term climate change and changes in son of the respected Canadian Journal ofFishshyocean current systems and productivity eries and Aquatic Sciences A wise course of

And of course the once-thriving northshy action for a fisherman in Newfoundland ern cod that first drew Europeans with their would be to seU his licence and do something nets to the Grand Banks 500 years ago have else he says (Last fall the federal governshycoUapsed to the point that Ottawa had to shut ment announced its final retirement program

the failure of federal fisheries managers to heed the warnings of scientists have been blamed for the coUapse Even with the lllorashytoriulll in place it may take two decades or

licences in Atlantic Ca nada and Quebec) In 1992 - the year Ottawa imposed its

moratorium on the northern cod fisheryshylandings of groundfish including cod had-

salmon making up the difference [n 1995 the total groLlndfish catch reached its lowshyest level in two decades

Unlike the Ea st Coast fi shery which relies most ly on ocea n-living fish the Pacifshyic fishery is dominated b) migratory species Some 300000 tonnes of fish and shellfish were harvested along the west coast in 1994 worth a landed value of $550 million (Arcshytic marine fisheries and their management differ from those on the coasts although cOl11mercial and recreational fisheri es are small here food fisheries are important to

U OF G AQUATIC SCIENCES EXPERTISE CATCHES WORLD ATTENTION

Landlocked in the middle of the courltry U ofG nevertheless boasts fish pathology and diseases including farmed fish diseases fish an enviable record and range ofexpertise in aquatic sciencesshy hormones and reproductive physiology including the effects of marine and freshwater - dating back to the late 1960s Thats when environmental contaminants early life history and behaviour Prof Keith Ronald thell chair of the Department ofZoology (and of fi shes and biology of tuna later dean of the College ofBiological Science) began a marine biolshyogy program at the University Today Guelph has the largest Partnered with the A-erod Institute of Ichthyology in U of group of ichthyologists - scientists who study fish - in Gs Aquatic Sciences Facility the r[agen Aqualab is an North America investigating a wide variety ojIre~hshy aquatic research and teaching facililY for studying water alld marine fisheries and aquatics topics aquatic organisms Environmentally controlled

rooms in the Aqualab allow faculty and students to U of Gs Axelrod Institute of Ichthyology houses simulate habitats as diverse as the Arctic Ocean and one of the worlds largest collections of museumshy tropical rainforest pools The facility is named for quality fish fossils donated to the University by its principal benefactor Rolf Hagen founding presshy

ident of Canadas largest pet store 5llpplier J 989 The institute which provides space for fisheries research and visiting scientists brings together 12 core U of G U of G faculty edit four internationally recognized journals researchers in fisheries and aquatic sciences whose interests and in ichthyology fisheries and aquatic science Awarded to U of G by expertise span environmental contaminants and parasitic disshy the National Research Council in 1997 the Canadian Journal of eases evolutionary genetics of marine and freshwater fishes Fisheries al1dAquatic Sciellces is co-edited by zoology professors

US ichthyologist and author Herbert Axelrod in

28 GUELPH ALUMNUS

northerners including shrimp Atlantic salmon and arctic char) Accountin g fOI almost half of that total were Pacific salmon which ret urn from the ocean to spawn in home streams and rivers up and down the coast of Alaska British Columbia and Washshyington There are actually five main spec ies of sa lmon that run down the BC coast shysockeye (t he most va luable commercial species) chinook coho chum and pinkshyfrom spring to December

Its a very complex jurisdictional and multi-user problem says Roff Bes ides degradation of freshwater spawning habishytats and ocean climate effects of El Nill0 the West Coast fishery is a cauldron of ten shysions between various groups perennial fish wars between Ca nada and the United States disputes that pit sport fishers against native fishing rights Recognizing the problems of low ocean productivity habitat damage overfishing and indiscriminate fishing pracshytices that take weak and strong stocks alike Ottawa is developing a new policy to guide Canadas Pacific salmon fisheries focusing on conservation sustainable use and improved decision-making

That potent mix of overfishing and habishytat degrada tion is also a problem for Canashydas freshwater fisheries A report tabled last fall by the federal standing committee on

fisheries and oceans called for more federal funding for research and fisheries programs in central and arctic regions of Canada Accord ing to that report the Grea t Lakes commercial fishery is one of the largest freshwater fisheri es in the world worth an average landed value of more than $40 milshylion a year and an eco nomic impact of at least $250 million Some 90 per cent of that catch is exported The neck lace of lakes threading its way to the St Lawrence River also supports the largest fres hwater sports fishery in the world 800000 Ontarians fish on the Great Lakes eve ry year contributing $850 million to the economy

In Manitoba managers are concerned about the long-term susta inability of freshshywater fish stocks particularly declines in Lake Winnipeg and the northern part of the province caused by overfishing environshymental degradation loss of prime spawning habitat and predators The province has seen stocks rise and fall particularly of pickerel Manitobas highest-priced fish In an attempt to manage the fishery in a sustained fashion the province recently introduced a qu ota entitlement system for anglers Joe OConshynor director of the fisheries branch of Manshyitobas Department of Na tural Resources says his department is wrestling with the environmental threats on fish habitat posed

by farming and hydroelectric development In Ontario fisheries are genera lly in

pretty good shape says Evan Thomas fishshyeries section manager of the fish and wildlife branch of the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (OM NR) Ontario supports almost half of all recreational fishing in Canada with more than two million adult anglers and more than $2 billion a year spent on recreational fishing in the province Onta ri o is also home to Canadas larges t commercial freshwater fishery worth abo ut $40 million a Yfar in land ed value

Thomas says over fishing is still the numshyber one problem Others include habitat loss the potential effects of climate change and contin ued invasion by exotic species Among the management opt ions his minshyistry is exploring are more effective fisheries regulation more rapid inventory and assessshyment techniques fish culture for rehabilishytating populations and controlling nutrient inputs into lakes and rivers

We are clearly looking for federal supshyport for the sea lamprey control program he says referring to recommendations in the recent federal fisheries committee report as well as changes to the federal Fishshyeries Act to hand the province more authorshyity over fish habitat protection

Concerns continue in Ontario over

Moira Ferguson and John Roff Fish Physiology and Biochemistry the top-ranked journal in its field is edited by Prof John Leathershyland chair of the Department of Biomedical Sciences in the Ontario Veterinary College University professor emeritus Eugene Balon has served as editor-in-chief of Environmental Biology ofFishes since he founded the publication in 1976 Zoology professor David Noakes edits Guelph Ichthyology Reviews whose articles synthesize and review all aspects of fish science Both of the latter

Under the Canadian contribution to the project - furided by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council - about 80 federal government and university researchers are trying to learn more about how bioshylogical and physical processes in the oceans affect fish stocks

Zoologychair Prof Paul Hebert has led a Guelph initiative to develshyop multimedia learning resources d1at teach student~ from

are published in the Axelrod Institute of Ichthyology

Based on data from geographic information sysshytems zoology professor John Roff has mapped types of habitat associated with various species of fish and other organisms around Canadas coasts and throughout tl1C Great Lakes the first time such

e1ementaIy grades to university about Canadas aquatshyic environments His department has developed a series of CD-ROMs that provide information on all the major animal groups in the Great Lakes Already available are educational CD-ROMs on Canadas aquatic environments (also available on

d1e World Wide Web) Great Lakes biodiversity and a marine classification system has been developed in this country His report was commissioned by World Wildlife Fund Canada for its Endangered Spaces Campaign and contributes to RoWs work as chair of the scienrillc committee of Globec (Globshyal Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics) a two-year-old international research program intended to better understand ocean ecosystems

birds of the Great Lakes The latter is the first disc in a series called the Great Lakes Faunal Atlas which will eventually cover mammals amphibians reptiles fish and crustaceans

The Alma Aquaculture Research Station es tablished in 1989 and funded through a 20-year development grant by the Ontario

WI NTER 1999 29

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various invas ive species that have turned up

in the Great Lakes - notably sea lampreys

zebra mussels and quagga mussels - many

of which arrive in ballast water of ocea nshy

going vessels (Many have also found their

way into Manitoba says OConnor who

points to the effects of sm elt on whitefish

the main commercial species in Lake Winshy

nipeg) Among o ther meas ures the federal

fish eries committee report called for guarshy

anteed funding for sea lamprey control and

for scienti fic research

I think more money will come says

Prof Bill Beamish Zoology a commissionshy

er on the Great Lakes Fisheries Commission

the 40-year-old governing body that co-ordishy

nates resea rch programs between Canada

and the United States and advises both govshy

ernments It was a review led by Beamish

more than a decade ago on the sta te of

Canadas freshwater fi sheries that provided

the scientific underpinnings for a landmark

report published in 1988 that spelled ou t a

way in freshwater fisheries is a lon g-te rm

project fund ed by the OMNR and the

Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO)

to re-establish native species in their origishy

nal habitats a round Lake Ontario iVlari e

Clement a graduate student of zoology proshy

fe sso r David Noakes is studying Atlantic

sa lmo n which was wiped out of the lake

CONSIDERING WE HAVE THE

BEST FISHERY SCIENCES COMMUNITY

IN THE WORLD WE OUGHT TO

BE DOING BETTER

national strategy for freshwater fisheries

Beamish who has studied sea lampreys

for several decades at Guelph and also invesshy

tigates fish habitat loss says money is need shy

ed to help researchers investigate biological

controls as an alternative to chemical lamshy

pricides The recen t repo rt also notes the

need to address the effects of other nonshy

native exotic species on n ative fish stocks

and water quality and calls on Ottawa to

stem the funding decline in freshwater scishy

ence over the last two decades

One example of the kind of work under

and its tribu ta ry streams near the beginning

o f this century by overflshing and habitat

destruction and alteration Last fall Clement

placed eggs into a site in the Credit River

she has been monito ring oxygen availab il shy

ity durin g their incu ba tion to gau ge sedishy

mentation rates in the river This spring and

summer she wili study how newborn fi sh

interact with other species in th e r ive r

C lement says her docto ral research proshy

ject is but one piece of a larger project aimed

at re-establishing the heritage species Othshy

er researchers hop e to learn whe ther th e

Ministry of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs brings together

researchers for interdisciplinary studies of protein requirements

of arctic char improving fish semen and egg management proshy

cedures and understanding hormone activity in fish The station

acts as a quarantine unit for new fish varieties entering Ontario

and serves as a base for parts of certificate courses and a masters

program in aquaculture

farms in Canada He and fellow Guelph zoologists Eugene Balon

(co- founder of the Coelaca nth Conservat ion Council) and Jim

Bogart also identified and characterized the coelacanth which

had been thought extinct until a specimen was landed off Africa

in the la te 1930s Noakes confirmed the identity of ano ther of

these living fossils discovered in 1997 it appears to belong to a

second popula tion living in the Indian Ocean about 10000 kilo-

metres away from tha t first find

Zoology professors Moira Ferguson and Roy Danzshy

mann use molecular genetics techniques to identishy Zoology chair Paul Hebert was the first scientist to

fy DNA markers used to pinpoint the location of identify the presence in the Great Lakes of zebra

genes associated with growth spawning times mussels a prolific invader that has wreaked havoc

rates of development maturity and temperature in many ways from clogging water-intake pipes to

tolerance in rainbow trout Isolating and identifyshy consuming plankto n thus allowing light to reach

ing genetic markers fo r desirable traits will help fish bottom-dwelling organisms that may displace native

farmers and breeders cross-breed more effectively species The first researcher to report on the biology

conservationists will be better able to manage and preserve and impact of the zebra mussel on the Grea t Lakes was

genetic variability among wild fish stocks Guelph zoology professor Gerald Mackie whose studies showed

that the organisms faster growth rate and higher fecundity and

Zoology professor David Noakes has stuclied varieties of arctic population density will probably enable it to displace many native

char native to Iceland to find ones suited to being raised on fish bivalves and disrupt entire lake ecosystems

30 GUELPH ALUMNUS

LEADING RESEARCH

The University of Guelph has one orthe largest and most active groups of aquatic biologists in the world

bull More than 50 faculty and 100

graduate students research

assocrates and postdoctoral

fellows

bull Over 1000 published scientific

articles books monographs

films and videos in the past

decade

bull Interdisciplinary programs

involving more than a dozen

academic departments

bull The largest group ofichthyoloshy

gists (scientists who study

fish) in North America

bull Collaborative research with

government environrriental

organizations and academic

institutions worldwide

bull Expertise covering the entire

aquatic food chain from plankshy

ton to whales

bull Leading developments in comshy

puter-based educational mate-

rials in aquatic sciences

bull A new $6-million Aquatic

Sciences Facility

bull Research support from national

and international agencies

business and industry

adults will be able to return from the open

lake to their stream spawning grounds If

they come back will the eggs survive she

says If were able to show the eggs can surshy

vive that will be very encouraging for

Atlant ic salmon restoration

What is to be done to ensure the survival

not just of Atlantic salmon in Lake Ontario

but also of the co untrys freshwater and

m ar ine fisheries We need to try to sepashy

rate o ut the fisheries management decisions

from the political decisions associated with

the fi shery says zoology professor Glen Van

Der Kraak director of U of Gs Axelrod

Institute of Ichthyology Van Der Kraak who

studies the effects of toxic contaminants on

fi sh populations says policy mltkers need

to rely on the advice of fisheries sc ientis ts

making conservative harvest ing estimates

So often scientists make decisions and then

are overrun by the politics he says (Never

mind fish wars pitting co untries against one

another - here in Ca nada scientists and

policy makers wres tle over the question of

who should be respo nsible for what aspects

of the countrys fisheries as witnessed in a

war of words played out in the Canadian Journal ofFisheries and Aquatic Sciences over

the past 18 months between biologists at

several Canadian univers ities and the DFO

over the relationship between fishery sc ishy

ence and fishery policy)

Roff says theres nothing unique about

Canadas fish problems Its not really a

Canadian problem its a worldwide probshy

lem The only fisheries worldwide that are

not over fished appear to be some not yet

fully exploited in the Indian Ocean

After nearly four decades of growth the

worldwide marine ca tch levelled off in the

1990s to some 90 million tons a year The

m ain problems coastal pollution habitat

destruction and particula rly overfishing

Noakes editor of the journal Guelph Ichthyology Reviews contrasts the few hunshy

dred people who might have made th eir

livelihood aboard small wood en boats on

the Grand Banks several centuries ago with

the massive factory trawlers that now scour

todays coast People are much too efficient

in terms of catching fish he says Noakes

concurs with fellow Guelph researchers that

conservation of fish stocks has to reach the

top of fishery managers agendas

hat does set Canada apart is the breadth

and depth of expertise in fisheries and aquatshy

ic sciences in this country - rather a parashy

dox when you consider that Canadas record

in fisheries preservation is apparently no betshy

ter than that of many other nations

Considering we have the best fishery scishy

ences community in the world we ought to

be doing better says Roff Within the last

decade th e federal government withdrawal

o f support from the Department of Fishshy

eries and Oceans and university researchers

has been massive At the very time when the

resources were gett ing into severe problems

and when the federal government ought to

have been funding research theyve been

substantially withdrawing resources ga

DONT WAIT UNTIL SPRING The opportunity to double the impact of your gift to the University of Guelph ends on March 31 1999 Until that date all gifts designated to endowed student financial aid at Guelph will be matched by the Ontario Student Opportunity Trust Fund (OSOTF) That means that every dollar you commit will contribute two dollars to financial aid for Guelph students

If you would like to support our students throug h OSOTF you still have a w indow of oppor nishyty to have your do l1a rs doubled But only until March 31 1999

If you have already made a pled ge to OSOTf through U of Gs ACCESS Fund thank you [or your ge nerous support Please comp lete your payme nts by March 31 1999 to e nsure that your gi ft is matched

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WINTER 1999 31

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

n ALUMNI PROF IL E

LETS LOOK AT THE OPPORTUNITIES

WHEN I-IE BECA ME president of the Unishy

versity of Guelph Alumni Association

(UGM) in June Jim Weeden brought new

enthusiasm and ideas for encouraging alumshy

ni to stay in volved with their alma mater

And he wants to start with students

Weeden reca ll s his own ex perience at

U of G where he fo und a sense of commushy

nity by living in residence and ge tting

involved in college activiti es But when he

graduated with an engin ee ring degree in

197 1 he left to begin a caree r and says he

didnt think much about the University until

he needed it again in the 1980s to pursue a

graduate degree in agricultural enginee ring

He spent his early career working as an

agricultural extensi o n engineer for the

Ontario Department o f Agriculture and is

stiU with its successo r the Ontario Ministry

of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs

(OMAFRA) Weed en completed the masshy

ters degree in 1986 when he was head of the

agricultural engineering program and extenshy

sion services a t Centralia College of Ag rishy

cultural Technology

In 1987 he moved to the ministrys plant

industry branch as program m anager and

later held the same position in th e resources

manage m ent branch Sin ce then he has

worked for OMAFRA in Woodstock and

now Stratfo rd He is technical adviser fo r

Ontarios Enviro nmental Farm Planning

Program is respo nsible for o ther environshy

m ental programs and consults with the Minshy

istry o f th e Environment on local agriculshy

tural pollution problems

w Weed en got involved with the Universishy sect tys a]u111ni programs by serving on the first g z board of the Engineering Alumni Associashy

~ tion when it was established in 1990 From

~ 1991 to 1994 he sat on the University Senshy

~ ate and its Research Board and for the pas t

~ four years) hels been on the UGAA executive

32 GUELPH A LU MNUS

From the presidents chair Weeden looks

at the bro ad picture o f UG AA se rvice and

recognizes that the associa tio n owes a debt

o f gratitude to hundreds of alumni volunshy

teers who ha ve helped to build the organishy

za tion over the yea rs and to University staff

in Development and Public Affairs (DampPA)

who support UGAA initiatives and alumni

programs Thro ugh their efforts he says the

a lulllni associati o n is rea ching out to all

U of G alumni Graduates who have mainshy

tained a close relationship with the Univershy

sity thro ugh their college or academic disshy

cipline those who feel an affiliation because

o f their participation in a thletics residence

life o r extracurricular activiti es and even

HIGHLIGHTSmiddot GRAD NEWSmiddot OBITUARIES bull CALENDER

those who have not kept in touch are part of the constituency served by UGAA

Weed en says the alumni association needs to strengthen its relationship with all alumni and he believes the effor t must start on campus with students Hed like to proshymote the idea of alumni involvement as ear shyly as a students second year We need to give students some reason to be con nected and an efficient vehicle for maintaining that connection he says

For many students and new graduates the social functions supported by UGAA and the opportunities for professional networking will be important says Weeden but greater rewards are there for those who join the effort to enhance the Universitys acade mic goals

In todays economic and political envi shyronme nt individual financial support and the advocacy of post-secon dary education are important roles for alumni he says How many people ac tively get involved with the debate on whether universities are job-trainshy

ing centres or centres of education Yet some of our alumni are extremely adept in such roles Weeden would like to cultivate past and current stud ent ac tivists as supporters of public education after they graduate

As Weeden leads UGAA into a new year he says he will work with other UGAA volshyunteers and DampPA staff to find new ways for the association to interact with students and alumni One id ea is to expand UGAAs Intershynet presence by adding a Web message board that will encourage alumni to discuss career and campus issues online and a reply form that will allow them to quickly update addressshyes employment status and other information

Weeden says its important to stay focused on UGAAs key prioriti es but he welcomes any and all new ideas on how to accomplish them All it takes to share your ideas with the UGAA executive is a stamp or a push of the send button when youre clicked on alumniuoguelphca

HKHB SPIRIT RISES

ENCOURAGED BY THE SPIRIT

shown by fellow alumni at last

summers reunion the executive

of the Human Kinetics Human Biology

Alumni Association is moving ahead

with more opportunities for alumni to

stay in touch The association plans to

launch a Web site that will be accessed

through the U of G site

A wine-and-cheese reception already

planned for June 19 1999 wiil try to

build on the success of the 1998 event

which attracted alumni from as far away

as Chicago and as far apart as the 19605

and 1990s Guests had a chance to tour

U of Gs new Health and Performance

Centre and performance testing

labs The program was co-ordinated wiLh

A REFLECTION OF PRIDE

Members of the OAC

Class of 52 join Arboshy

retum staff on the front patio

of the Arboretu m Centre

beside a new reflecting pool

that was built last summer

as a class project Pictured

from left are Murray Parker

Ann Smith George Smith

Jack Sargent Catherine Gibb

Robin Shaw-Rummington

Marilyn Swaby BA 69

Bev Healy B5e(Agr) 72

Norm Watson Una Venerus

Ron Costen Henry Kock

BSe (Agr) 77 and Ric

Jordan BA 75

Prof Jack Barclay chair of the Departshy

ment of Human Biology and Nutritional

Sciences and Prof Susan Pfeiffer Memshy

bers of the Human KineticsHuman

Biology Alumni Association executive arc

Janet Leonhard 82 president Carolyn

Moore 83 vice-president Alison Locker

97 secretary Mark Mulholland 79

lreasurer and t-iary Ann Crape 76

These officers are also spea rheading a

new initiative to benefit students - an

undergraduate award that will provide

$250 and lifetime mem bership in the

association To commcnt on these and

other initiatives contact Leonard by

e-mail at Janel_Leonhardinwrbsb

eduonca or Moore at cturveyagec

uoguelphca

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alumni

Multimedia lab buzzes

THE DONALD FORSTER RoOiv

has become one of the

busiest spots in th e Unishy

versity of Guelph Liblary since the

addition of 70 state-of-the-art

computer workstations that were

supported by alumni do nations

to the Alma Mater Fund (AM F)

U of G president Mordechai

Roza nski officia ll y o pened th e

Alma Mater Fund Multimedia

Lab D ec 2 an d celebrated th e

event with members of the AMF

Adv isory Counc iL [n 1996 a nd

1997 the AMF contributed

$240000 to th e project which

increased the number of student

workstations o n campus by 50 per

cent Students use the m ult imeshy

~ dia lab to conduct research on the

~ Internet access scholarly publicashyr u VI tions on CD-ROM and use COll1shyz ~ puter software mod ules tbat lt

~ strengthen the teaching provided lD

o in co urse lectures labs and tcxtshybii books

middotMatters

Alumnus of many interests

I NTERES TING P EOPLE always have eclect ic interests and U of G

alumnus and honorary degree recipient Ken Murray BSA 50 and

HDLA 96 is a good example H e is known by most people on camshy

pus for his distinguished career in the Canadian meat packing indusshy

try and his volunteer service to U of G He was a member and chair

of Board of Governors from 1973 to 1978 and chair of the Regionshy

al Corporate Committee during U of Gs last capital campaign and

is currently chair of the Heritage Fund Enhancement Committee

Murray is also a strong supporter of community soc ial services

In August he addressed the World Congress of Social Ps)chiatry

held in British Columbia - the only non-psychiatrist on the proshy

gram He spoke about his role in establishing an Alzheimers research

project a t the University ofWaterioo which was recently named in

his honour the Ken Murray Alzheimer Research and Education Proshy

gra m At the gc conference he al so participated in a panel dis shy

cussion that outlined services offered by Guelphs Homewood Health

Cent re Murray bas been actively involved in the governance of the

centre since 1977 and has been a major player in the development

of a charitable foundatio n bearing the Homewood name

WHEN THE PUCK DROPPED More than 30 teams including two

womens teams were entered in the

Dec 6 University of Guelph Alumni Hockey

Tournament Organizers for the 1998 event

were from left Brian Finniss B5c 88

Brad Stephenson BA 86 Terry Carr

BComm 87 Todd Bryant BA 86 and

undergraduate student Brian Melnick

Ken Murray centre with his wife Marilyn Robinson Murray and U of G president Mordechai Rozanski

34 GU ELPH ALUMNU S

RESTORING A JEWEL IN THE CROWN

DONALD RUTHERFORD BSA 5 stands in fron t

of the 1931 conservatory greenhouse that will

be restored to match the splendour of the ga rdens

now growi ng up around it His $256000 leadershy

ship gift to the Conservatory and Gardens Project

was inspired by hi s m emo ries of being a student

at OAC

On behalf of fellow alumni I hope this gift will

commemorate the experiences and educat ion we

acquired while at Guelph says Rutherford When

fully restored to its previous glory the conservatoshy

ry greenhouse will be an ideal greeting and welcome

spot for visitors and newcomers to the University

as well as old friend s renewing their acquaintance

Rutherfords professional career spans the agrishy

foo d industr y beginning as an agricu ltural repshy

resentative with the provincial minist ry I-Ie was

later vice-president of the Fertilizer Institute of

Ontario executive secreta ry of the Canadian Seed

Trade Association director of information w ith

the Ca nadian Livestock Feed Board and Canadishy

an sa les manager for Sylvite of Can ad a Retired

since 1986 he now owns his own sma ll investment

company and manages to golf throughout the yea r

The conserva tory isnt the first ca mpus project

to attract Rutherford s attention - as a student

he helped dig out the base ment of Massey H al l to

build a student lo unge - but his recent gift has

been a tremendous boost to those who have been

working since the ea rly 1990s to save the glass and

cypress structure from demo lition

A committee of alumni facult y sta ff stu dents

and fri en ds of the University has moved the proshy

ject along to th e point w here most of the surshy

rounding garden complex is now complete It fea shy

tures six gardens named in honour of the ir chie f

supporters Autumn Garden - OAC 5 1 Spring

Ga rden - OAC 53 Su mmer Garden - OAC 55

Winter Gard en - OAC 65 Water Gard en shy

OAC 49 and the Woo dland Garden named in

honour of the late Doug Rob inson BSA 53

Alumni have been in strumental in raising

funds for the $ l-million project Students and fa cshy

ulty have provided mudl of the h1l1ds-on Idbour

and friends in the nursery and landscape materishy

als supply industries have given $250000 ill donashy

tions and gifts-in-kind of plan ts and landsca ping

materials Rutherford s generous gift has pushed

th e conservato ry fund-ra ising effort in to the fin 81

stretch Th e ga rden complex and restored g reenshy

110use are sc heduled to officially open during

Alumni Weekend in June 1999

1999 Coming Events

Jan 29 - Aggie Goodshy

Times Banquet call the OAC Student Federation at Ext 8321 for ticket injemnrltion Feb 13 - Norm McCo llulll

D iploma Hockey Tournashy

m ent call Jack Bakker at 519-837-0132 to register a team

Feb 21 - Ottawa Chapter

annual curling bonspiel

Richmond C urling Club in

Richmond Ont For informashytiol1 call Alan Bentley BSA 61 at 6 13-829-6598 or John DVit[ 54 mId Margaret McGowml BHSc 54 at

613-828-7038

March 3 - Florida alumni

reunion a t Maple Leaf

Estates Port Charlo tte Fla

call Ext 6533 0 register

March 13 and 14 - ollcge

Royal 75th o pen house

March 19 and 20 - OAC

Alumni Association curling

bonspiel G uelph Curling

Club register at Ext 6657

May 5 - Chicago All Canashy

dian Universities Night hostecl

by U of G at the University

Club of Chicago 76 East Monshy

roe Sr call Exl 6533 for details May 5 - OAC Alumni

Foundation annual meeting

730 pm Arboretum Centre

May 12 - Alumni-inshy

Action annual meeting and

luncheo n 1130 3m

Arboretum Centre ((11 Ext 6657for tickets

June 18 to 20 - Alumni

Veekend call Ext 6657 to plall a reun io n

-0 r shya -IFor more infon-nation on any a

eVC1l1listed ailove call the oJ -lt oU of G extension listed at en raquo

519-824-4120 or send e-mail z

10 alunznilIoguelphca ~

WINTER 1999 35

alumni Matters

MEMORIES OF COLLEGE ROYAL Grant MacEwan ADA 23 and

BSA 26 is one of the few OAC

alumni who c~n still remember

the first College Royal held Jan

14 1925 MacEwan bad just

entered the degree program in

animal husbandry and may have

been a participant in the liveshy

stock showmanship classes Latshy

er in life he was widely known Grant MacEwan

across Western Canada as 3 liveshy

stock judge and an advocate of

agricultural fairs and exhibitions

MacEwan is bes t known

however for his 23-year C3reer

as a university professor in Manshy

itoba and Saskatchewan and Ilis

political career which included

12 years as alderman and mayshy John Kenneth Galbraith

or of C31gary four years as an

Alberta MLA and eight as lieushy birthday in August

tenant -governor of the province The year after Ma cEwan

He s till lives in Calgary graduated John Kenneth Galshy

where he celebrated his 96th braith ADA 29 and BSA 31

HOMECOMING 98

enrolled at OAC and devoted

some of his energy to organizshy

ing College Royal Show records

indicate it was Galbraith who

first proposed the college event

be publicized so that people

from the farm community

could attend He also suggestshy

ed that OAC invite students

from American agricultural colshy

legesl n th e early 1930s Colshy

lege Royal took its fir s t steps

towards becoming the comshy

munity open house it is today

Galbraith later moved to the

United States where he enjoyed

a distinguished caree r as a proshy

fessor of economics at Harvard

Universi ty Known for his

humanit~rian approach to ecoshy

nomic and political thinking

he was awarded the Order of

Canada in 1997 He celebr3ted

his 90th birthday in October

IT REALLY WAS a homecoming reunion when and Arnott who is head coach of the York

former Gryphon teammates Ralph Shapiro University Yeomen came from the visitors

S5c(HK) 74 and Tom Amott S5c(HK) 80 dreSSing room to hold the ball Shapiro is

met on the field at Alumni Stadium Oct 3 the controller at Huntsman Chemical Inc

Shapiro had the honour of kicking off in Guelph and a longtime United Way volshy

the Universitys 1998 United Way campaign unteer who chaired this years Guelph and

Wellington fund-raising drive The Univershy

sity campaign is the largest in the county

with U of G staff and faculty contributing

over $200000 in 1998

Prior to the game a number of recent

alumni - all U of G scholarship and award

winners - met for a reunion luncheon The UJ

1948 and 1949 dominion championship i5f 3

football teams were also honoured guests z 5 o at the 2 pm game that saw the Gryphons gtshy a defeat York f shya I a

Ralph Shapiro

36 G UELPH ALUMNUS

LEADING THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY FOR 1974 GRADS The 25th-anniversary reunion givshy

i ng program for the Class of 1974

is under way with Bill Laidlaw BA

74 as cbair A public affairs proshy

fessional he has been director of

government relations for the

Canadian operations of Glaxo

vVelJcome Inc for more th an 10

years He also acts as a senior conshy

sultant to support the governshy

ment relations function in other

regions of Canada

Laidlaw began his career in

teaching after earning a history

degree from Guelph and education

degrees (rom Queens University

and the University of Toronto He

also holds the certified human

resources professional designation

and worked in that field for sevshy

eral years before concen trating on

government relations at Glaxo

Welkome He lives in Burlington

Ont and is an act ive community

volunteer having se rved on the

boards of severa l professional

organizations the Queensway

General Hospital and the Metroshy

politan Toronto Lung Association

He is currently completing a oneshy

year term as chair of the Ontario

Chamber of Commerce

Anniversa ry preparations will

culminate with a class gathering

a nd reunion gift at Alumni

Weekend in June 1999

ALUMNI MAKE THE CONNECTION Students who moved into

Maids and Mills halls in Sepshy

tember can take full advanshy

tage of the Universitys highshy

speed computer network

thanks to the OAC Class of

71 whose 25 th-reunion proshy

ject provided wiring upgrades

in the 84- and 77-year-old

residence buildin gs

GRAD NEWS

Marathon survivors inspire us all to appreciate everyday life

W HEN ROBINSON SIIlLJNGS Jane BSe(Agr)

85 Heather BASe 83 Peter BSe(Agr)

86 Scott and Marnie rigwood BA 84 get

together they talk about marathons and the hope

and determination it takes to reach the finish line

Hea ther walked a marathon in San Diego

Calif in June to raise money for leukemia

research then joined Peter for a Toronto marathon

in October that benefi ted the Leukemia Research

Fund of Canada They were inspired by Janes pershy

sonal marathon of survival that foUowed her 1992

diagnosis of leukemia Chemotherapy radiation

remission relapse and finally a bone marrow

transplant [TOm her brother Scott took more than

three years out of her life but gave her the detershy

mination to keep fighting

Many families can understand the marathon

of hope maintained by the Robinsons during

Janes struggle and the commitment they have to

help others who are stricken with the disease Jane

is finally well enough to work again as a writer

and marketing consultant and to join her fami shy

ly in volunteer work She helped recruit for the

Toronto marathon fund -raiser and continues to

be involved with the Leukemia Research Funds

Team in Training She also says that her expeshy

rience has taught her to appreciate more the pleashy

sures of everyday life and the love of famil y

Jan es parents are th e late Doug Rob inson

BSA 53 and Marilyn (Inglis) Robinson Murray

BH Sc 55

19305

bull Grant Misener ADA 32 BSA 35 and DVM 38 received the

prest igious George F Hixso n Felshy

lowship Award from the Kiwanis

International Foundation in May The retired Illinois veter ishy

narian was hono ured for his subshystantial contribution to the

Kiwanis wo rldwide service proshy

ject aimed at eliminating iodine

deficiency disorders the leading

cause of preventable mental retardation in children Over the

years Misener has shown a simishylar commitment to his al ma

mater an d its students through

his close association with OVC

and his support of scho larship

programs

19405

bull Russell McDonaldDVM 45 was named an honorary life direcshytor of the Royal Agricultural Winshy

ter Fair Association in March

McDonald formerly general manshy

ager of Western Ontario Breeders

Ine and executive director of the Canadian Association of Animal

Breeders served as a director of the Royal Winter Fair for 20 years

representing the Canadian artifishycial insemination industry He

lives in Woodstock Ont

bull Ian Taylor DVM43 was recently honoured by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to

Animals of Illinois Taylor ran a small-animal veterinary clinic in

the Chicago area for many years

and says he gained ll1uch experishyence during his first three years in

Illinois as clinic veterinarian for

the anti -cruelty society

19505

bull Charles Chuck Broadwell BSA 54 was elected a Mel

Osborne Fellow by the Kiwanis

Club of Forest City in London Ont in recognition of a dedicatshy -ed and distinguished career in

Kiwanis

19605

bull Constantine Campbell BSA 60 and MSA 61 was named to the

WINTER 1999 37

Order of Canada in January He

received the award in recogni shy

tion of his many contributions

to science and the Canadian

agricultural industry After grad shy

uating from OAC he went on to

do his PhD at the University of

Saskatchewan then joined Agri shy

culture and Agri-food Canada

as a research scientist at the Swift

Current research station Campshy

bell and his family now live in

Ottawa where he is scientist

emeritus with Agriculture and

Agri-food Canada

bull John Casselman BSA 64 is

a research scientist with the

Ontario Ministry of Natural

Resources He Jives in Bath

Ont with his wife Lois

bull Jane Fuller RRSc 65 and

her husband George who both

taught at the Macdonald Instishy

tute from 1966 to 1969 have

moved from Winnipeg to

Utopia Ont following

Georges retirement from the

University of Manitoba

bull Fred Gilbert MSc 66 and

P hD 68 is in his first term as

president of Lakehead Univer shy

sity in Thunder Bay Ont He

taught at U of G in the Departshy

ment of Zoology from 1972 to

1981 and has enjoyed a dive rse

academic career that has also

included teaching at the Unishy

versity of Maine and posi tions

as director of wildlife biology at

Washington State University

and founding dean of the Facshy

ulty of Natural Reso urces and

Environmenta l Studies at the

University of Northern British

Columbia He moved to Lakeshy

head from a position as viceshy

pro vost at Colorado State Unishy

versity A respected wildlife

biologist he has conducted

ex tensive resea rch in s Ll ch areas

as the behaviour and physioloshy

gy of wildlife species and the

effects of environmental

change on wildlife populations

bull Terry Goodyear BSc 67 of

Mont Tremblant Quebec is an

early retiree from Agriculture

and Agri-Food Canada in Ottawa He is now working on

va lue-added products from

industrial wastes particularly

cellulose sludge from pulp and

pa per mills

bull Gary Hearn BA 68 was

named an Ontario provincial

judge in October For the last

25 years he has been a lawyer

with the firm Kearns McKinshy

non in Guelph where he lives

with his wife Irene and three

teenage children

bull Allan Knight BSA 66 of Corunna Ont has retired

from Dow Chemical after 30

years On retirement he was a

laboratory director for indusshy

trial chemicals He is now

working with his son in a famishy

ly-owned and -operated busishy

ness Knight Funeral Home

bull Keith McFarlane BSc(Agr)

68 works for the Department

of Foreign Affairs and Internashy

tional Trade and began a fourshy

year assignment last summer as

head of the commercial divishy

sion of the Canadian Embassy

in Lisbon Portugal The

division promotes the sa le of

Canadian goods and services

to Portugal

bull Ian Newbould MA 68 has

travelled far from his Ontario

roots through an academic and

administrative career that has

taken him to Europe Asia and

Western Canada A noted hisshy

torian he moved into adm inisshy

tration at the University of

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Lethbridge in 1981 and spent

10 years there as director of

research dean of a rts and scishy

ence and vice-presiden t (acadeshy

mic) before crossing the counshy

try to become president of

Mount Allison University in

New Brunswick He is now in

his second term as president of

Mount AUison

bull Indra Deo Singh MSc 68 is

a tea scientist international

consultant and joint director of

the Tea Research Association at

the Nagrakata substation in

India His responsibilities

include co-ordinating research

and development in the Indian

tea industry and developing tea

cultivars and agrotechnology

for tea Singh is married with

two sons aged 27 and 23

19705

bull Don Ambler BSe 71 retired in March as manager of

water programs with Environshy

ment Canada in Dartmouth

NS after 25 years of public

service He has now registered

the company Aquashed Co nshy

sulting to continue in the water

resources field when hes not

gardening beekeeping do ing

aerobics or vo lunteering in the

community and chu rch E-mail

contact is welcome a t

donambl erns sympaticoca

bull Jim Bond BSe 75 is managshy

ing a new processing facility at

the Chalk River Nuclear Laborashy

to ry in Chalk River Ont

bull Terri (Monks) Bulman BSc(Agr) 78 and MSe 81

and her husband Vincent

MSe 8 1 live in Australia with

their th ree children Catherine

7 Peter 4 and baby Christoshy

pher Terri is senior principal

environmental auditor vith

Coffey Geosciences Pty Ltd Vinshy

cent afte r many years as a geoloshy

gist travelling around Australia

and abroad has taken the year

off to study and look after the

children Their e-mail address is

tbulmanbigpondco m

bull Marie David BA 78 of

Hanover Ont has been in the

n ewspaper business for 20

years She started in the mailshy

room moved to advertising

sales then became advert ising

manager She is now gene ral

manager o f three So utham

weekly newspapers and pubshy

lish er of the Hanover Post

bull Janice Harrower and her husshy

band Jerome Billett both

DVM 76 operate a joint veterishy

nary practice in Prescott Ont

Billett says practising together

has allowed them some flexibilishy

ty in their family life and given

their four children a good took

at the rigours of veterinary

medicine Says Billett Not one

of our kid s has the slightest

interest in being a veterinarian

and isnt that just fine Their

o ldest son Jesse attends Harshy

va rd University and is a memshy

ber of its prestigious a cappella

choir Lucas is studying

mechanical engineering at the

University of Waterloo Casey is

planning a career in computer

engineering and Lindsay is a

high school athle te

bull Clair Heinbuch BSe 74 is a

sales manager with Baye r Corp

in Kansas H e and his wife

Caroline (Koscik) BASc 75

returned to the Kansas City

area after spending four years in

Denver They have three chilshy

dren Lisa 20 Scott 18 and

Ryan [5

bull Beverly Lee BASe 72 is an

elem entary school principal in

Unionville Ont She lives with

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her husband Grant Egan in

Collingwood and is looking

forward to retirement in severshy

al years Life on Georgian Bay

is wonderful she says Lee

would love to hear from fellow

grads by e-mail at

leebYrbeeduonca or by

phone at 705 -444 -092l

bull Won-Jai Maeng MSc 71 took office Sept 1 as president

of Kon-Kuk University in Seoul

Korea where his academic

career began He completed an

undergraduate degree at Kon

Kuk in 1965 then studied at

Mailing Agricultural College in Denmark and at U of G before

doing doctoral work at the Unishy

versity of California Davis

Maeng has held research and

teaching positions at the Unishy

versity of illinois at Chung-Ang

University and at Kon-Kuk

where he has been a professor of

animal science since 1984 His

appointment as president folshy

lows years of administrative

experience as a department

head dean and chair of various

research committees and proshy

fessional organizations An

expert in ruminant nutrition

Maeng was instrumental in

developing the livestock feed

industry in Korea He has also

been active in working with

alumni groups and in writing

for the Kon-Kuk Tribune

bull Bill MarshaU ADA 75 of Proton Station Ont moved

from Clarksburg in June to

work in Dundalk for the Grey

County Roads Department on

its road management crew

bull Bernie Matte BSc(Agr) 70 of Moncton NB retired

in March after 28 years with

Fisheries and Oceans Canada

and the Canadian Food

Inspection Agency He plans to

travel to Belize and Honduras

with his wife Diane and will

be available anywhere in the

Caribbean for seafood HACCP

consulting work

bull Margaret McClain BA 70 lives in Arkansas where she is

highJy involved in the issue of

40 GUELPH ALUMNUS

missing children and internashy

tional abductions McClain who

believes her own six-year-old

daughter was taken out of the

United States more than a year

ago by her second husband is

reaching out to parents with

similar experiences through an

organization that is lobbying the

US government for tougher

international abduction laws

She invites interested fr iends

and alumni to contact her

through her Web site at

wwwinsolwwbnet-dmcclain

bull Robert (Chuck) Miller BA 77 is the park superintendent

of Killarney French River and

Maskinonje provincial parks in

Ontario He moved to Killarney

from Quetico Provincial Park

last May

bull Gordon Nicol BA 72 and MSc(Agr) 74 teaches math

and science in a bilingual prishy

vate school in Guatemala A

BEd graduate of Laurentian

he first taught in Guatemala in

the late 1970s then spent 12

years in northern Alberta as a

teacher and principal He

returned to Guatemala in 1989

A widower with three teenage

children Nicol would like to

hear from U of G friends and

acquaintances especially anyshy

one who is was or will be in

Central America He says he

could also use middle-schoolshy

level science projects Send eshy

mail to gnicoll guatenet or

write to PO Box 661447 Miami

Springs Florida 33266-1447

bull Chris Schulte BSc 71 and MSc 73 lives in Nassau

Bahamas with his wife

Andrya After graduation he

stayed in the Department of

Physics as a research associate

with Prof lain Campbell then

joined Ontario Hydro in the

early 1980s He moved to the

Bahamas in 1995 He can be

reached bye-mail at

schultebahamasnetbs

bull Sandra (Pickford) Webster BA 75 has retired from U of

Gs Co mmunications and Pubshy

lic Affairs and is living in Parry

Sound Ont where she is

doing volunteer work and

communications consulting

for the municipality Guelph

friends ca n contact her by

e-mail atswebsterzeutercom

19805

bull Sharon (Courneya) Angus BA 8 I of Surrey BC comshy

pleted a BSW at the University

of British Columbia in 1988

and has been working for the

BC government for 13 years

- first in probation and now

in the family justice division

She and her husband Ron

have three children Jason

Carly and Colin

bull Karen Beazley BLA 86 is an assistant professor and acadeshy

mic program co-ordinator at

the School for Reso urce and

Environmental Studies at Dalshy

housie University in Halifax

She is currently doing research

for a book on endangered

species initiatives and is orgashy

nizing a Nova Scotia wildlands

workshop with the Wildlands

Project for 1999 Her e-mail

address is kbeazleyisdalca

bull Caroline (Van Deudekom) and Marc Brooks both ADA 87

recently moved from Strathroy

to Owen Sound Ont where

they run a 50-acre organic farm

with their two sons

bull Virginia Burt BLA 85 startshyed her own landscape architecshy

ture firm Visionscapes in

Hamilton Ont in ] 996 She

specializes in the design of thershy

apeutic healing gardens spirit

gardens sacred spaces and

la byrin ths and recen tly designed the first healing garden

in Canada specificalJy for peoshy

ple living with HIV and AIDS

bull Joanne (Branson) Carver BA 80 earned a BEd from Brock

University in 1981 and recently

started working as a probashy

tionparole officer She Jives in

Ajax Ont and has two daughshy

ters Julie4 and Sarah 8

bull Heather Champ BA 86 is a Web-site designer in New York

City She began her work in

computer design in 1990 Her

personal site can be Found at

wwwjezebelcom

bull Laurie Gough BA 87 has become a world traveller who

writes about her experiences for

the benefit of others Her most

recent book Island of the

Human Heart A tfornans Travshyel Odyssey is now in its second

printing in Canada and will be

released next year in the United

States and overseas She has also

published Travellers Tales A

Womans World which won the

US-based Lowell Thomas

Gold Award for best travel book

of the year When not travelling

or writing she teaches English

and ESL in Guelph

bull Susan (Coles) Goulden BASc 84 and her husband

Ian are th rilled wi th their

recent adoption of Jennifer Lee

Yu who was born in June near

Leping Jiangxi Peoples Repubshy

lic of China The Gouldens

who Jive in vVaterloo Ont

thank classmate Andrea

(Kovits) Henderson for her

support throughout the adopshy

tion process Susan is currently

on leave from her position with

McCormick Canada

bull Judy (Bodendistel) Gregg BA 82 moved to Melbourne Ausshy

tralia in 1997 with her husband

and two children Carly 6 and

Adam 3 We are enjoying the

friendly people and the great

weather here she says We are

especially enjoying winter in a

place where it never gets below

zero Celsius

bull Nigel GumJey DVM 85 has been a partner in the Alta Vista

Animal Hospital in Ottawa

since 1990 was president of the bull Garry Millage AMPHI 86 bull Heidi Stephenson BA 88 is now ISO 9000 manager at

Ontario Veterinary Medical left a position as vice-president was awarded her professional Carpenter Ca nada Ltd in

Association in 1997 and recent- of national operations for acco untants designation of Wood br idge Ont He lives in

ly served on the Canadian Vetshy Scotts Restaurants KFC Divishy certified general accountant in Miss issa uga Classma tes are

erilw() Medical Associations sion to open his own consult- March 1998 She has been invited to contact him at

national issues committee He ing company Future Food employed for the last 10 years avon listarca

lives in Osgoode with his wife Equipment Ine specializes in with Dan Ball Chartered bull Michelle (Pilon) Bacon BA rvlaurecn and children Laura providing new and used restau- Acco un tant in Parry Sound 90 moved to England to study

and Matthew rant equipment and reducing O nt where she lives with her and work after graduating from

bull Muneer Hirji BComm 82 restaurant construction costs hu sband Brad two dogs and a Guelph She recently left a posishy

lives in Toronto and is vice- He also operates a restaurant horse tion with the British Ministry of

president of marke ting at SAP called Nikkos in Woodbridge bull Dawn Stetsko BSe 81 lives Agriculture and Food in York to

Canada He has three chil- Ont and is planning to open a in Langhorne Pa with her husshy become an at-home mom She

drcl1 Nadia 8 Alyssa 6 and second location band Paul and children Mark now lives in London with her

Sarah I bull Tosh Noseworthy BSe 83 is and Keith and is a research husband Tim and one-year-old

bull Brenda irwin BSe 88 is a cardiovascular ICU nurse in scientist with Bristol-Myers daughter Juliette She sends love

studying at Hong Kong Unishy sunny Tuscon Arizona After Squibb Previously she worked to Sue Heather and Sheila and

vers ity of Science and Technolshy grad uation she lived in Paris at McMaster University in can be reached bye-mail at

ogy to complete the final France for a yea r s tudied nurs- Hamilton Ont for 17 yea rs michellebacondialpipexcom

sem ester of an MBA program ing in O ttawa then lived in Saushy bull Teresa Tummillo-Goy BA bull Jeff Barlow BComm 90 is

through the University of di Arabia for two yea rs She still 86 has a law practice in Water- the training and quality manag-

British Columbia She taught loves to travel and would like to 100 Ont foc Li sing primaril y on er for two five-star luxury boushy

science for the North York hea r from fellow alumni She family law civi l litiga tion and tique h o tels in Prague - Hotel

Board of Education for five can be reached at 520-299-8344 real estate She and her hus- Palace Praha and the Hotel

years before enrolling in the bull Cecilia (Wleugel) Parkes band John Goy live in Guelph Savoy Previo usly he was execu -

MBA program BComm 85 is a graphic and have three sons John 4 tive housekeeper at the five-star

bull Jagwant Kanwar PhD 80 is designer in Toronto and says Tony 3 and Shayne 2 Renaissance Pragu e Hotel

a senior scientist in the depart- she st ill uses ber marketing bull Peter Van der Borch DVM bull Margaret Burnes-Souria BA ment of vegetable crops at Pun- background to help her busishy 88 retired in the fa ll of 1997 94 is a team leader with [011 shy

jab Agricultural University in ness succeed She specia lizes in after several years of practising don Magazin e in London Ont

India He is also director of the logo design lNith hand-drawn physiotherapy and ve terinary She married David Souria in

regional vegetable research stashy illustrations medicine and surgery He Jives July 1997 and is pursuing an tion at Usman (TaranTarn) bull Jim Parr BSc(Agr) 81 and in Pictou NS ]VlBA at the University of West-

Amritsar His and his wife MSe 89 died of cancer in bull MartyWilLiams BA 85 is ern Ontario

Sanyogita have a son Mohit June 1998 but hes being co-ordinator of student activishy bull Janine Byers BASe 95 is a and a daughter Dipika who are remembered by his university ties at University College Unishy public health dietitian at the

both studying engineering friends through the establish - versity of Toronto where he Kingston Frontenac and

Friends can write to Kanwar at ment of a mem orial fund for advises student organizations Iennox amp Addington Health

Punjab Agricultural Un ivers ity his wife Denise and children 1Ie is also chair of the U of T Unit in Kingston O nt She is Ludhiana 141 004 India Shannon and Eric Anyone Staff Association a member of getting married to Ca rl Stewart

bull Larissa Larsen BSe 89 and who would like more informa - the steering committee of the on May 29 j 999 MLA 92 received a PhD in tion can ca ll Brian Tapscott at staffs unionization drive and a bull Lisa Cherry BSe 9 1 is a urban and regional planning 519-767-3566 staff member with the student science journalist and executive

from the University of Illinois bull Cheryl (Dunlop) Reid newspaper The Varsity He can director of Artists Against

at Urbana Champaign in May BSe(Agr) 89 sta rted a new be reached bye-mail at marty Racism an international organi-

She has accepted a position at job in September as ingredient wi lliamsutorontoca za tion She is based in Toronto

Thompson Dyke and Associshy sales manager for RA bull Bonnie (Byma) BASe 96 ales a landscape architecture Chisholm o f Toronto She will 19905 and Gil Clelland BA 95 were

and urban planning firm in continue to work from her bull Claire Allison BA 94 grad- married in December 1996 and

Chicago Her husband Ernie remote offke in Fergus Reid uated from the elementary are living in Chatham On t

Poortinga DVM 89 is in his and her husband Jeff BSe teacher ed ucation program at Bo nnie works at a day-care

third yea r of an MD program (Agr) 89 have two children the University of British centre G il teaches art and

at Rush University Chicago lVlega n 4 and Elizabeth 2 Columbia in 1996 and now phys ical education They ca n -Hes looking forward to joining bull Chee Sie BA 83 is a zone teaches in Va ncou ver be reached bye-ma il at gclelshy

his wife in the ranks of the manager for the Malaysian bull JohnAvon BSdHK) 94 lan ciaccesscom employed They would both Assurance Alliance Berhad in earned an M Se in industr ial bull Kate Corn ell BA 95 of enjoy hearing from fellow Sarawak Malaysia He and his operations from Lawrence Markham Ont earned her

alumni and can be reached at wife Jesterine have a two-year- Technological University in masters in dance history from epoor tin garushurushedu old daughter Letitia Southfleld Mich in 1997 and York University in May and

WINTER 1999 41

co-authored a book titled

Toronto Dance Theatre 1968shy1998 Stages in a Journey

bull Mary Jill (McClure) Culliton BASe 90 earned

her BEd from Brock University

and her M Ed from the Univershy

sity of Western Ontario and

teaches Grade 1 in Mitchell

Ont She and her husband

Tim live in Stratford

bull Kathleen (McNutt) Daniels BASe 9 1 is a teacher and was

married on New Years Eve

1994 to Gord Daniels They live

in North Bay Ont and have a

daughter Lauren born in Febshy

ruary 1997 They are expecting

their second child in February

bull Simon Deakin BA 95 studshyied in Florence Italy for a year

then earned a master of fine art

from the Slade School of Fine

Art at the University of London

England He lives in London

bull Christie Dunbar BLA 97 spent a year after graduation

working for Niagara College in

St Catharines Ont on the

vision and design of a new

campus to be built in Niagarashy

on-the- Lake Last April she

joined the landscape architecshy

ture firm of Pollack Design

Associates in Ann Arbor Mich

bull Trina Edmonds BA 94 and

Joel Hinderle became the

proud parents of a little girl

Jordan Ashley in january 1998

and moved to a new home in

Oakville Ont in September

Edmonds works in Mississauga

as a desktop publisher with a

publishingprinting company

bull Wendy Garinther BSc 93 and Steve Decker BSe 94

were married in May Joining

them in the wedding celebrashy

tions were Cheri (Coulter)

42 GUELPH ALUMNUS

Ascroft BSe 93 Karen Leinshy

gartner BSe 94 and Barb

(Moore) Johnson BSe 94

Best man was Jeff Bond BSe

93 and MSe 96 The Deckers

live in Edmonton where Steve

is doing a PhD in chemistry at

the University of Alberta and

Wendy is working in a research

laboratory at a biopharmaceushy

tical company

bull Donna Gross BA 97 is purshysu ing a master of divinity at

Emmanuel College at the Unishy

versity of Toronto and hopes to

become an ordained minister by

2002 She lives in Guelph and

can be reached bye-mail at

donnajulietalbedonet

bull Robert Gruber BA 92 is a child-care supervisor for the

YMCA-YWCA of Guelph and

manages the Jean Little Y

Child- Care Centre He recently

developed the anti -bias proshy

gramming policy for the

Guelph Y and sits on both the

Jean Little Public School Counshy

cil and the Guelph AIDS Wall

Committee He can be reached

bye-mail at rgrubernet

comca

bull Susan Harder BSe 91 grad shyuated from the University of

Toronto Medical School in June

and has started a residency at

Santa Clara Valley Medical Censhy

tre in San jose Calif She will

follow that up with an anestheshy

sia residency at Stanford Univershy

sity Hospital in 1999

bull Marko Harjupanula BASc 93 travelled in Australia for

two months after graduating

from Guelph then returned to

his home town of South Porshy

cupine Ont where he worked

in a gold mine for four years

He entered police college in

September and started as an

opp constable in Cochrane in

December

bull Nancy Holman MA 94 moved to Vancouver soon after

graduation and initially worked

as a project co-ordinator for an

ophthalmologist In 1996 she

began working full time for the

BC Liberal Caucus I would

enjoy hearing from and catchshy

ing up with the friends I made

while studying at U of G and

working at the Brass Taps she

says Her e-mail address is nan shy

cyholmanlassgovbeca

bull Ruth Johnson BA 91 is an investment banking associate

with the mergers and acquisishy

tions group of JP Morgan in

Lond on England responsible

for financial reporting and

administration She has been in

England with her partner Alex Campbell since graduation

bull Stephen Johnson BA 94 of London Ont was a lab technishy

cian at Lenscrafters for three

yea rs and is now a full-time

student at Fanshawe College

studying air conditioning and

refrigeration He was married

in Jun e to Jennifer Fox BSc

95 a chemist at 3M Their

wedding party included Dee Popat BSe (Eng) 94 and

Patrick Wulhes BSc 95

bull Sarah (Davis) Kelly BASe 90 married Robert Kelly in

July and teaches primary

grades at an inner-city school

in Toronto

bull Cassidy Klowak BComm 97 lives in Allisshy

ton Onl and is a personal

banking account manager

with ClBC in Tottenham

bull Stephanie Lopes BSc 96 completed her MSc in repro shy

ductive biology at the Universishy

ty of Toronto and worked as

patient-care director for the

College of Family Physicians

for almost a year In September

she enrolled in medical school

at the University of Toronto

She is happy to announce that

she is engaged to be married

next summer Lopes can be

reached at slopesidirectcom

bull Natalie (Parker) MacKenzie BSc 96 earned her BEd from

the University of Western

Ontario in 1997 She married

ASLt Andy MacKenzie June 27

in Sault Ste Marie Ont and

now lives in Halifax

bull Susan MacKinnon DVM 91 is a veterinarian with HUls

Science Diet She lives in

Guelph with her husband

Brandon Wiley and gave birth

to their first child Adrianna

Nicole june 26 at home

bull Waheed Mian BA 9 1 of Cambridge Ont is a store

director with PetSmart Canada

He helped the company launch

its new retail concept in Cana da

bull Alex Mitchell BA 91 was appointed clerkdeputy treasurshy

er of the Ontario township of

Mildmay-Carrick in 1998 and

will be the clerkadministrator

of the new municipality of

Mildmay-Carrick -TeesWatershy

Culross in 1999 He was married

in january 1997 and lives vith

his wife and daughter in Mild shy

may In his spare time Mitchell

is a professional scout for the

Toronto Maple Leafs covering

southwestern Ontario

bull Sherry Morland BASc 93 of Kitchener Ont ea rned her

BEd from Brock University in

J995 and is a part-time specia l

educa tion teacher and an occashy

sional teacher with the Watershy

loo County Board of Ed ucashy

tion She married Ivan LeBlanc

in 1997

bull Gary Page BSe 91 wo rks for the Nottawasaga Valley Conshy

servation Authority where he is

able to combine his knowledge

of wildlife biology with his

artistic skills as resident graphic

designer and outdoor centre

interpreter He Jives with his

wife Di and their son judah in

CreemoreOnt

bull Elaine Pammenter BA 96 is an inventory clerk with the

Royal Collection at Windsor

Castle in England She holds a

museum management and

curatorship grad uate certificate

diploma from Sir Sandford

Fleming College and did her

internship at the Royal Albert

Memorial Museum in Exeter

England

bull Brent Raymond BSe(Env) 96 of Brantford Ont has

been working with Outward

Bound since graduation He

leads wilderness trips in Northshy

ern Ontario Horida Australia and Sabah (Malaysian Borneo) Most recently he designed and implemented a new introducshytory mountaineering course for Outward Bound Sabah on the summit plateau of Mt Kinashy

balu Those of you who know me as plate licker from U of G get in touch he says Where are you Star I miss you He can be reached by e-mail at globarwchatonca or by

phone at 519-756-1697

Alumni Patrick Abbott BSA 40 July 7 1998

Albert Allen BSA 33 Jan 161994 Agris Ansmits BA 70 and MA 73

February 1998 Barbara (Quartermain) Babcock DHE

53 June 17 1998

Wray Bond BSA 34 Sept 25 1998

Kenneth Bone DVM 38 Dec 29 1998 Evelyn (Stevenson) Buhr DHE 39

May 251998 Philip Burke BSA 43 June 21 1998

Grant Carman BSA 49 Oct 221998 Frederick Chambers BSA 41

June 1998 Wilmot Conley ADA4 7 April 7 1998 Lloyd Crewson BSA 49 Aug 261998

Jacqueline Dimock DHE 47

Aug 20 1998 John Dingwall DVM 52

April 18 1998

Lloyd Dorsey BSA 38 June 9 1998 George Duncan BSA 37

Sept 19 1998

David Dyson BSA 53 Aug 31 1998

Norma (Shannon) Edwards DHE 39

November 1997 Vincent Bud Ellis DVM 41

July 15 1998 John Jack George BSA 48

Sept 24 1998

Donald Haight BSA 33 January 1997 William Hamlyn BSA 33 Dec I 1997

Gordon Harkness BSA 49

November 1997

Charles Hollister DVM 38 June 1996 Donald Hope BSA 54 June 28 1998

Lawrence Jefferson BSA 38

Sept 3 1998

James Kelso DVM 56 July 27 1998

Dorima Lalonde BSA 34 Oct 8 1998 Mildred (Cox) Large DHE 33

June 20 1998 Roger Larson BComm 86 Feb 19 1998 Robert Lawson BSA 49 June 6 1998

bull Doug Ramsey BA 91 and PhD 98 received U of Gs highshyest graduate student award shythe Forster Medal- at June convocation for his academic and community involvement while enrolled in Guelphs new

graduate program in geography He spent the summer as a visitshying research scholar at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College in Truro before assuming his curshyrent position as assistant professhysor at Mount Allison University

David Leach BSc(Agr) 74

July 18 1998

Ian Leask DVM 74 Sept 5 1998

Sheryl Lee BSc 95 June 8 1998 Ruby Janet MacAuley DHE 30

Aug 19 1998 Parker MacKenzie DVM 38

September 1994

Jeanice MacLaren DHE 28 March 1 1997

Campbell MacMaster DVM42

Oct 8 1998

Rex McCallum DVM 43 July 71998 Jean (Dunn) McMahon DHE 31

Nov 41998

Margaret Oones) McTaggart DHE 35 Aug 81998

Patrick McTaggart-Cowan HDSc 81

Oct 21997

Malcolm McWhinnie ADA 39

July 16 1998 Mary (Townsend) Mitchell BHSc

60 Sept 281998

Marjory Monaghan DHE 29

December 1997 Charles Monk BSA 44 Aug 7 1998

Heather Neilsen BHSc 59

Oct 30 1998 Jerry Niwa DVM 62 Aug 5 1998 Henry Harry OReilly BSA 42

October 1997

James Parr BSc(Agr) 81 June 19 1998 Charles Rammage DVM 45

Oct 17 1996 Howard Rapson HDSc 90

March 1997 Clement Reeds DVM 42 Oct 16 1998

William Robinson BSA 38

Aug 23 1998

Donald Sager ADA 73 Oct 141997

Austin Schaefer DVM 37 in 1997

Sandra (Mackenzie) Schmidt DHE 59

Aug 16 1997 Margaret (Harvey) Seaborn DHE 28

July 221998

Larry Seguin DVM 47 June 12 1998

Leah Shedden DHE 31 December 1998

Edward Shuh BSA 40 July 2 1998

Ted Shutsa BSc(Agr) 66

Sept 18 1998 Jim Sinclair DVM 49 Oct 4 1998

Margaret (Brown) Sinclair DHE 20

September 1998 Eldon Smith BSA 42 Sept 9 1998

Derek Somers DVM 96 Sept 25 1998

Cheryl Lynn Sopha BA 95 Sept 20 1998

Leona (Bartlett) Stewart DHE 35

June 27 1998 Alex Thomson BSc(Agr) 69

October 1996

William Whittick DVM 55

Aug 15 1998 Joseph Wilson BSA 23 Sept 11 1998

Lloyd Woolsey DVM41 June 24 1998

Winifred Yeates DHE 28 June 11998

Faculty John Carpenter BSA 43 and MSA 48

Microbiology Dec 10 1998

David Gaskin Zoology Sept 14 1998

Gordon Macleod BSA 50 Animal and

Poultry Science Nov 26 1998 Roman Retman Languages and

Literatures Sept 28 1998

Caesar Sen off Chemistry and

Biochemistry Aug 14 1998

Percy Smith Drama Dec 10 1998

Friends Robert Clark Aug 21 1998

Ethel Hammond August 1998

Thomas Hillers Sept 28 1998 Marguerite Holbrook Aug 26 1998

Catherine Kelly Sept 27 1998

James A McKenzie May 13 1998

Kenneth McIssac Oct 23 1998

William Mutlock September 1998 Roena Patterson Sept 16 1998

Donald Priddle Aug 25 1998

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bull Karl Reimer BSe 94 comshypleted a one-year intensive

MSc in mining engineering at

Queens University and is now

a project engineer a t Enpar

Technologies Ine in Guelph

He can be contacted at reimerbservcom

bull Nancy Nauta Rowland BA 90 and her husband Dan celshy

ebrated their first wedding

anniversary in March 1998 with

the birth of their first child

Connor who beat their March

8 anniversary by two days Nanshy

cy teaches junior-grade stushy

dents and junior special ed ucashy

tion for the Peel District School

Board The Rowlands live in

Caledon Ont

bull Fraser Stables MFA 98 was heralded by Toronto Globe 6shyMail critic Betty Jordan as a

formidable new talent followshy

ing the openi ng of his debut

gallery exh ibition in July The

Scottish artists work includes

sculpture video and mixed

media that explore notions of

flu x by interrupting the moveshy

ment of forms in space

bull Erin (Smith) Scott BSe(HK) 92 and Brad

Scott BSc(Agr) 91 of Lucan

O nt were married in 1993 and

had their first child Lucas in

August Erin works for Shopshy

pers Home Health Ca re in

London Brad is with New Life

Mills in Dunfield

bull Abby Simons BSc 95 and Martin Piche BSc(Agr) 95 were married in Mont-Tremshy

blant Quebec in 1997 She is a

customer service representative

with Kantech Systems he is

superintendent of Club de golf

vallee des forts They say theyd

love to hear from anyone headshy

ing to Montreal and can be

reached at 450-348-3860

bull Sylvia Tesori BSc 95 has been doing wildlife rehabilitashy

tion for the OSPCA Wildlife

Rehabilitation Centre in Midshy

land Ont since 1996

bull Chuck Thibeault BComm 94 is general manager of the

Putting Edge Corpora tion

which has two glow-in- theshy

dark mini-golf courses in

Ontario one in Bramp ton and

one in Richmond Hill He can

be reached in Richmond Hill at

chu ckttotalnet

bull Karen Thirlwall BA 93 is a

si ngersongwriter and guitarist

who began her stage career and

released her first album The Voice Inside Me while studying

languages at U of G She has

lived and performed in

11i stler BC for three years

and recently released a second

album called Wide-Eyed She

remembers many special

fr iends m ade at Guelph and

welcomes e-mail messages to

karenthirlwallhotmailcom

bull Christie (Johnson) and Steve

Tyler both BComm 91 live in

Cambridge Ont where

Christie is a personal banking

representative for the Royal

Bank Steve works with their

third-year design professor

Nelson Hofer in Mississauga as

a design consultan t Steves proshy

jects include the Windsor Casishy

no and U of Gs Creelman Hall

They have two children Jason

5 and Marcus 1

bull Julia White BA 91 lives in Guelph and is a small-business

accountant at Taves amp Co She

recently finished courses

towards a CGA designation and

would like to hea r from other

alumni who lived in Lambton

Hall in 198788 Send e-mail to

juliawhitesympaticoca

bull Andre-Denis Wright MSc 93 and PhD 98 is doing postshy

docto ral work in Perth Westshy

ern Australia He wants his

Guelph friends and Halifax

family to know he was thinking

of them at Christmas when it

was 40 C in Australia

bull Dave Yellen BComm 90 was recently promoted at the Gordon

Food Service to new-accounts

sales specialist for Metro Toronshy

to Having been in Ottawa for

the past few years Im hoping

to reacquaint myself with old

friend s from U of G in the Metro

area he says He lives in Scarborshy

ough and can be reached at 416shy615-2745 or davidysprintca

bull Halina Zaleski PhD 92 is a tenured professor in the

departm ent of animal sciences

at the Un iversity of Hawaii in

Honolulu She is a swine speshy

cialist involved in extension

programs for an area th at covshy

ers all of Hawai i and the PacifIC

basin She can be reached by

e-mail at halinahawaiiedu

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theyre not wearing skates its College Royal If there

are students sawing logs throwing pies baking cookies

and square dancing its College Royal When the entire

University of Guelph is displayed - from arts to zooloshy

gy - March 13 and 14 1999 youll know its definitely

College Royan

Since its inception in 1925 as an agricultural and liveshy

stock show run by the Ontario Agricultural College

College Royal has grown to be a celebrated U of G trashy

dition involving all the colleges

The event is famou s in the University community

and beyond for its open-house showcase of displays and

activities The largest student-run open house in Canashy

da College Royal attracts more than 20000 visitors to

campus over one weekend

College Royal is an event of tradition that reaches

into tomorrow Agriculture and livestock shows are still

highlighted events but College Royal activities have

grown to include dog and cat shows a photography conshy

test a chemistry magic show and demonstrations on

human health and fitness The open house gives people

an opportunity to see what happens in the Universitys

leading-edge research laboratories to observe veterinary

medicine in practice to tour a sculpture studio or to

watch a theatrical performance

To celebrate the 75th anniversary of College Royal

1998 president Joe TrakaJo lnvites alumni to get involved

again by joining one of the planning comm ittees or by

participating in a favourite event Call him for more

information at 824-4120 Ext 8366 or send e-mail to

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SCENE LOWER MASSEY

Buxton It was my fint time doing mask work She had us sit with the masks on and just sta re at ou rselves in the mirror We did it for an hour staring at the mask feelin g the mask It was a phenomenal eilVer ience the Wily youre able to transform yourself It was almost as if you werent look ing at you That helped yo u to walk differently You were able to shed your

own movements and personality

SCEN E UNIVfRSITY CLU B

Thompson I think thil t seizures can transshylate into creativity are part of me as a cre shyltltive artist Peop le in the medical busin ess are very skeptical of ltll1ything like this But I fee l it s because I have fewer inhibitors in my bra in You have these inhibitors and thats what medication helps But if youre epi leptic your inhibitors Ment working as well to put out the electrical fire so it spreads I think the door to my un conscious is kind of flapping around so J think that helps creatively

SCENE MA SSEY HALL

Student (steppingforwmd) NO I Thompson (quietly) Good

SCENE ARCHIVES

GA writer ( reading fiom Epilepsy and Sna kes)

I have no doubt that my experience with epi lepsy has con tributed to my creative wo rk partly because it hE Jped me to understand what it is to be marginalized to be isolated to be feJ rful and to be out of control and eve n to be mortal

SCENE U NIVERS IT Y CLU B

Thompson Unchecked id can mean scrawlshying on the walls crazy things muttering in stree t corne rs beca use th ey re all id no su perego But I had the luck to be born into a theatrical famiJy my mother havin g the theatrical experience so I was exposed to it Lots of books I was taken to 1 lor of plays Having ep il epsy my first seizure when I was nin e J was able to link with that If I hadnt had those advantages who knows the se izur es migh t have ju st made me a depressed person an angr y person And you re touched with mortality you always live und er siege a slight fear of having a se izure Its much less so now with me

24 GUELPH ALUM NUS

SCENE UNIVERSITY CLUB

Thompson Ive always been a mimic in a cheap way I could always mimic we ll I would raLk to someone on a bus and I could do them exactly Thats kind of dangerous because it can be pretty shallow But it showed me ltl way into the person throu gh voice And once J could do that like a pupshypet something would click and I cou ld get

in in a deeper way J need to get so thoroughly into the charshy

acte rs and their state of mind and especialshyly tapping repressed el11orion which gets you in touch with your id or unconscious li fe If

I take little sections of

myself and grow them in a petri dish of the play

one character is about rage I have to tap into my own rage and that s why the monoshylogues so things can just flow and then I can retrieve things from the past and remember things So its not working from here (gesshytures to midriff) it s wo rking fro l11 here (gesshytures to head)

Mo nologues for me are always the key to findin g out who th e character is because if you cant make them rant for fi ve minutes you dont know th em Tha ts what I tell my

playwriting students I want to see r-wo pages of this characters mouth In other words to speak for five minutes we have to have

so mething to say We have to have something we feel passionately about something were angry about and if we dont have something to say for fi ve minutes who are we

SCENE UN IVERSTTY CLUB

GA writer Vhere do you see what eventushyally becomes a play such as Sled 1110mpson I was at a lodge and saw a moose that s one thin g And that made me think about winter and how the country is always with us as Ca nadians Even in the urban censhytres we ca rr y it wi th us Theres always this

see ming division between the country the wilderness and civilized centres but its the same The wildness of the moose and the

hunt and the bear is in our neighbourhoods I guess its like Lion in the Streets it must be a thing with me And also the exquisite beaushyty and thats how most of the world thinks of Canada as the wilderness Its not quite how we think of ourselves but it is partly So that made me want to do something abo ut the Nor th violence in the North

As far as th e old mans stories that was my neighbour and he told me all those stoshyries they were all true except mltlyb e one or so and I thought Theyre amazing They teilus what our neighbourhoods Me really about and Toro nto what the city is how its const ru cted Toronto is our stories and in th ese neighbourhoods you have an urbane entertainer li ving nex t to an 80-year-old Italia n man and thats the beauty ofToronshyto ltllld its the way th e world is chan ging The stric t class divis ions and culture divishysions th eyre no longer as defin ed as they we re espec ially in th ese neighbourhoods the great pioneering experimen t GA writer Do your chi ld ren see your work Thompson No None of my children can see my plays Ariane saw f Am Yours in New York when she was about nin e I do cl eal with the dark and whats tru e and my chilshydren aren t ready for that Im probab ly more protective th an mos t mothers Walk them

to school till theyre 13 that ki nd of thin g GA writer Yo u we re intervi ewed in the Globe alld Mail recently in a story about motherh ood dnd th e muse How do yo u handle th e demand s of motherh ood and writing

Thompson If Im in the situation where I have 15 or so hours of child care a week Im OK because when Im with them I wa nt to be with them and when ]m doing my work

th ats what I clo But if I do something like a worko ut thell a black cloud descends The guilt and the black cl oud th at descend as I take off on my bike it s huge Then once the workout s finished I know it was d good

thing to do although it s also cut into my

work time J do feel guilty about the nilture of my work too in that my kids cant see it Am I drawing on a part of me thats not good as a mother The oth er part of me is th at I make up bedtime stories and bake coo kies and all thlt stuff ]m probably a

rather operatic mother I cry at movies laugh too hard __

SCENE ARCI-I[VES

GA writer (reading fiom Epilepsy and Snakes)

1

Although being a dramatic writer has

given me a reputation in my cou ntr y

and a strong identity the actof writin g

or creating character leaves me SOJlle shy

times feeling that I have no id entity at

all Every once in a while when I am not

writing or tending to my four children

I feel I 1m falling again down th e terrishy1 ble hole with nothing to hold on to

And I believe this falling this identity

pain is a result of me using the very

essence of Ill yself to create character in

a dramatic wo rk r wonder so metimes

if J illl1 betraying my soul in a way by

using its essence However J have found

some comfo rt in the words ofWilliall1

Blake Essence is not Identity but from

Essence proceeds Identity and from one

Essence may proceed many Identities

as from one Affection Jlla y proceed

many thoughts If the Essence was

the sa me as the Identit y there could be

but one Identity which is fal se Heaven

wo uld upon this plan be but a clock

but one and the sa me Essence is th ereshy

fore Essence and not Identity

SCENE UNIVER SIT Y CLUB

Thompson I always put myself in a play and

never In other words I take little sections of

myself and grow them in a petri dish of th e

play So if Ive found a moment where Im a

bit lazy ]11 grow it and milke the character

very lazy o r impatient or whatever So I take

these moments because we all have all of

them grow th em and create this Frankenshy

steins monste r a character right out of parts

body parts and psychological parts often of

myself and then observe things in other peoshy

ple but I have to find it in myself to make it

work

SCENE AR C H1V ES

GA writer (reading from Epilepsy al1d Snakes)

My self asserted itself as a kind of quishy

et Lucille Ball c1ulllsy and absent-mindshy

ed At least this gave me an identity and

was a small aCI of slbo tage The next

assertion was an act of unconscio us rev shy

olution th e grand mal seizure that

almost killed me And the next one was

The Crackwalker my first play And this

is how I raged against the machine and

took space in the world And now not

surprisin gly I am seizure-free

SCENE LOWER MASSEY

After another pair of acto rs rUllS through

their scene Thompson directs them to begi n

again She interrupts frequently to question

the students about actions feelings motishy

vations At one point 8S the students pause

to consider her words Thompson turns to

the rest of the class erect in her cha ir

Thompson Isolate the mom ent The great

thing about the stage is th at it isolates the

moments that just race by us_

SCENE UNIVERSITY CLUB

Thompson Ive just written my next play

which is not ca lled Pefeet Pie but thats its

working title because it came from a mon oshy

logue called Perfect Pie But now its a full

two- haul play in which the second wom3n

comes back and tben I have them as yo ung

girls too It goes back ~nd forth and its very

exciting I worksbopped it in the spring and

in December at tbe Tarragon and it will go

on in o ne year At the sa me time lm wr itshy

ing a feature film for Rho mbus based on the

play Pe feet Pie

SCEN E UNlV ERSITY CLUIl

Thompson My pIalS are Illusically written

And if somebody doesnt get the music they

dont feel it and go with the rhythm s it

throws the whole thing off I hear the plays

I hea r them I write with my ear They

change 1 lo t but it s according to rhythm

I ll be sitting in rehea rsal listening and if it

does nt so und ri ght I change it so that its

rhythmic

SCIi -JE J UST AllOUT ANYWHERE YOU CA N

READ A PLAY

GA writer (readmg ji-olll the script ofvVbite

Biting Dog first produced at the Tarragon Th eatre in 1984)

Beciluse of the ex treme and deliberate

lllu sica lity of this play any allempts to

go aga inst the tex tual rhythms such as

th e breaking up of an unbroken senshy

tence the tlking of a pause where none

is written in are DISASTROUS The

effect is like beil1g in a small plane and

suddenly turning off the ignition It all

falls down This play III list SPIN not

just turn around

SCfN e LOWER MASSEY

Her students listen as Thompson stands to

complete a so liloq uy abo ut cap turing the

rhythm of the language on the stage The

wide sleeves of her ank le-length dress slide

down her forea rm s as she ges tures

Thompson Listen to the music of the

scene Each playwright writes their own

symphony

SCENE U NIVERSlTY CLUB

Thompson Ive been pretty directed to this

ii-om an carly age although if I had done anyshy

thing else it probab ly wou ld have been some

form of social work I would have been smokshy

ing three packs of cigarettes a day and workshy

ing il1 an office somewhere up in Scarborough

SC EN E AfltCHIVES

GA write r (reading from Brick interview of Thompson by Eleanor Wachtel ]99] )

In th e thea tre I think what one mllst

do is co nfront the truth confront the

emot ional truth of our li ves which is

mired in the swamp of minuriae

everyday minutiae Maybe it has to be -tl111 way because we couldnt confront

it every day But I think the th eatre

IllllSt Im not interested ill th eatre that

doesnt ga

W1NTER 1999 25

Never mind fish wars pitting countries against one another - here in Canada scientists and policy makers cant agree on who should control the preservation and management ofour own fishery resources BY ANDREW VOWLES

Ca

as

ollapsed cod stocks to the east

On the West Coast laquofish wars

_ rlTDT Pacific salmon enmesh

Canada and the United States

At various points in between fisheries scishy

entists and managers grapple with everyshy

thing from overfishing of freshwater

stocks to invasion by exotic molluscs

What is to be done about Canadian fishshy

eries And what role is being p layed by

fisheries and aquatic scientists at the Unishy

versity of Guelph

-

dock pollock red fish and flatfish made up just under half of Canadas total landings on the Atlantic coast (720000 tonnes of fish and shellfish were caught in 1994 represhysenting a total landed value of $11 billion) Two year~ later that proportion had dropped to 21 per cent with shellfish and open ocean fish specie~ notably Atlantic

Begin in the Atlantic The crisis on the East Coast has become a disaster So says laquoWE NEED TO TRY TO SEPARATE OUTGuelph zo ology professor John Roff enushymerating the litany of woes that have surshy

THE FISHERIES MANAGEMENT DECISIONSfaced from Ca nadas marine fishery in the past decade Although some fish and shellshy

FROM THE POLITICAL DECISIONSfi sh are holding their own stocks of other species have experienced declines raquo

ASSOCIATED WITH THE FISHE RY

down that fishery in 1992 Over fishing and under which it has been buying up fishers

Even when stocks do rebound rarely do we fully und erstand why he says Theres a complex of problems to be disshy more for cod stocks to rebound says Roff entangled involving overflshing long- and co-editor with colleague Prof Moira Fergushyshort-term climate change and changes in son of the respected Canadian Journal ofFishshyocean current systems and productivity eries and Aquatic Sciences A wise course of

And of course the once-thriving northshy action for a fisherman in Newfoundland ern cod that first drew Europeans with their would be to seU his licence and do something nets to the Grand Banks 500 years ago have else he says (Last fall the federal governshycoUapsed to the point that Ottawa had to shut ment announced its final retirement program

the failure of federal fisheries managers to heed the warnings of scientists have been blamed for the coUapse Even with the lllorashytoriulll in place it may take two decades or

licences in Atlantic Ca nada and Quebec) In 1992 - the year Ottawa imposed its

moratorium on the northern cod fisheryshylandings of groundfish including cod had-

salmon making up the difference [n 1995 the total groLlndfish catch reached its lowshyest level in two decades

Unlike the Ea st Coast fi shery which relies most ly on ocea n-living fish the Pacifshyic fishery is dominated b) migratory species Some 300000 tonnes of fish and shellfish were harvested along the west coast in 1994 worth a landed value of $550 million (Arcshytic marine fisheries and their management differ from those on the coasts although cOl11mercial and recreational fisheri es are small here food fisheries are important to

U OF G AQUATIC SCIENCES EXPERTISE CATCHES WORLD ATTENTION

Landlocked in the middle of the courltry U ofG nevertheless boasts fish pathology and diseases including farmed fish diseases fish an enviable record and range ofexpertise in aquatic sciencesshy hormones and reproductive physiology including the effects of marine and freshwater - dating back to the late 1960s Thats when environmental contaminants early life history and behaviour Prof Keith Ronald thell chair of the Department ofZoology (and of fi shes and biology of tuna later dean of the College ofBiological Science) began a marine biolshyogy program at the University Today Guelph has the largest Partnered with the A-erod Institute of Ichthyology in U of group of ichthyologists - scientists who study fish - in Gs Aquatic Sciences Facility the r[agen Aqualab is an North America investigating a wide variety ojIre~hshy aquatic research and teaching facililY for studying water alld marine fisheries and aquatics topics aquatic organisms Environmentally controlled

rooms in the Aqualab allow faculty and students to U of Gs Axelrod Institute of Ichthyology houses simulate habitats as diverse as the Arctic Ocean and one of the worlds largest collections of museumshy tropical rainforest pools The facility is named for quality fish fossils donated to the University by its principal benefactor Rolf Hagen founding presshy

ident of Canadas largest pet store 5llpplier J 989 The institute which provides space for fisheries research and visiting scientists brings together 12 core U of G U of G faculty edit four internationally recognized journals researchers in fisheries and aquatic sciences whose interests and in ichthyology fisheries and aquatic science Awarded to U of G by expertise span environmental contaminants and parasitic disshy the National Research Council in 1997 the Canadian Journal of eases evolutionary genetics of marine and freshwater fishes Fisheries al1dAquatic Sciellces is co-edited by zoology professors

US ichthyologist and author Herbert Axelrod in

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northerners including shrimp Atlantic salmon and arctic char) Accountin g fOI almost half of that total were Pacific salmon which ret urn from the ocean to spawn in home streams and rivers up and down the coast of Alaska British Columbia and Washshyington There are actually five main spec ies of sa lmon that run down the BC coast shysockeye (t he most va luable commercial species) chinook coho chum and pinkshyfrom spring to December

Its a very complex jurisdictional and multi-user problem says Roff Bes ides degradation of freshwater spawning habishytats and ocean climate effects of El Nill0 the West Coast fishery is a cauldron of ten shysions between various groups perennial fish wars between Ca nada and the United States disputes that pit sport fishers against native fishing rights Recognizing the problems of low ocean productivity habitat damage overfishing and indiscriminate fishing pracshytices that take weak and strong stocks alike Ottawa is developing a new policy to guide Canadas Pacific salmon fisheries focusing on conservation sustainable use and improved decision-making

That potent mix of overfishing and habishytat degrada tion is also a problem for Canashydas freshwater fisheries A report tabled last fall by the federal standing committee on

fisheries and oceans called for more federal funding for research and fisheries programs in central and arctic regions of Canada Accord ing to that report the Grea t Lakes commercial fishery is one of the largest freshwater fisheri es in the world worth an average landed value of more than $40 milshylion a year and an eco nomic impact of at least $250 million Some 90 per cent of that catch is exported The neck lace of lakes threading its way to the St Lawrence River also supports the largest fres hwater sports fishery in the world 800000 Ontarians fish on the Great Lakes eve ry year contributing $850 million to the economy

In Manitoba managers are concerned about the long-term susta inability of freshshywater fish stocks particularly declines in Lake Winnipeg and the northern part of the province caused by overfishing environshymental degradation loss of prime spawning habitat and predators The province has seen stocks rise and fall particularly of pickerel Manitobas highest-priced fish In an attempt to manage the fishery in a sustained fashion the province recently introduced a qu ota entitlement system for anglers Joe OConshynor director of the fisheries branch of Manshyitobas Department of Na tural Resources says his department is wrestling with the environmental threats on fish habitat posed

by farming and hydroelectric development In Ontario fisheries are genera lly in

pretty good shape says Evan Thomas fishshyeries section manager of the fish and wildlife branch of the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (OM NR) Ontario supports almost half of all recreational fishing in Canada with more than two million adult anglers and more than $2 billion a year spent on recreational fishing in the province Onta ri o is also home to Canadas larges t commercial freshwater fishery worth abo ut $40 million a Yfar in land ed value

Thomas says over fishing is still the numshyber one problem Others include habitat loss the potential effects of climate change and contin ued invasion by exotic species Among the management opt ions his minshyistry is exploring are more effective fisheries regulation more rapid inventory and assessshyment techniques fish culture for rehabilishytating populations and controlling nutrient inputs into lakes and rivers

We are clearly looking for federal supshyport for the sea lamprey control program he says referring to recommendations in the recent federal fisheries committee report as well as changes to the federal Fishshyeries Act to hand the province more authorshyity over fish habitat protection

Concerns continue in Ontario over

Moira Ferguson and John Roff Fish Physiology and Biochemistry the top-ranked journal in its field is edited by Prof John Leathershyland chair of the Department of Biomedical Sciences in the Ontario Veterinary College University professor emeritus Eugene Balon has served as editor-in-chief of Environmental Biology ofFishes since he founded the publication in 1976 Zoology professor David Noakes edits Guelph Ichthyology Reviews whose articles synthesize and review all aspects of fish science Both of the latter

Under the Canadian contribution to the project - furided by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council - about 80 federal government and university researchers are trying to learn more about how bioshylogical and physical processes in the oceans affect fish stocks

Zoologychair Prof Paul Hebert has led a Guelph initiative to develshyop multimedia learning resources d1at teach student~ from

are published in the Axelrod Institute of Ichthyology

Based on data from geographic information sysshytems zoology professor John Roff has mapped types of habitat associated with various species of fish and other organisms around Canadas coasts and throughout tl1C Great Lakes the first time such

e1ementaIy grades to university about Canadas aquatshyic environments His department has developed a series of CD-ROMs that provide information on all the major animal groups in the Great Lakes Already available are educational CD-ROMs on Canadas aquatic environments (also available on

d1e World Wide Web) Great Lakes biodiversity and a marine classification system has been developed in this country His report was commissioned by World Wildlife Fund Canada for its Endangered Spaces Campaign and contributes to RoWs work as chair of the scienrillc committee of Globec (Globshyal Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics) a two-year-old international research program intended to better understand ocean ecosystems

birds of the Great Lakes The latter is the first disc in a series called the Great Lakes Faunal Atlas which will eventually cover mammals amphibians reptiles fish and crustaceans

The Alma Aquaculture Research Station es tablished in 1989 and funded through a 20-year development grant by the Ontario

WI NTER 1999 29

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various invas ive species that have turned up

in the Great Lakes - notably sea lampreys

zebra mussels and quagga mussels - many

of which arrive in ballast water of ocea nshy

going vessels (Many have also found their

way into Manitoba says OConnor who

points to the effects of sm elt on whitefish

the main commercial species in Lake Winshy

nipeg) Among o ther meas ures the federal

fish eries committee report called for guarshy

anteed funding for sea lamprey control and

for scienti fic research

I think more money will come says

Prof Bill Beamish Zoology a commissionshy

er on the Great Lakes Fisheries Commission

the 40-year-old governing body that co-ordishy

nates resea rch programs between Canada

and the United States and advises both govshy

ernments It was a review led by Beamish

more than a decade ago on the sta te of

Canadas freshwater fi sheries that provided

the scientific underpinnings for a landmark

report published in 1988 that spelled ou t a

way in freshwater fisheries is a lon g-te rm

project fund ed by the OMNR and the

Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO)

to re-establish native species in their origishy

nal habitats a round Lake Ontario iVlari e

Clement a graduate student of zoology proshy

fe sso r David Noakes is studying Atlantic

sa lmo n which was wiped out of the lake

CONSIDERING WE HAVE THE

BEST FISHERY SCIENCES COMMUNITY

IN THE WORLD WE OUGHT TO

BE DOING BETTER

national strategy for freshwater fisheries

Beamish who has studied sea lampreys

for several decades at Guelph and also invesshy

tigates fish habitat loss says money is need shy

ed to help researchers investigate biological

controls as an alternative to chemical lamshy

pricides The recen t repo rt also notes the

need to address the effects of other nonshy

native exotic species on n ative fish stocks

and water quality and calls on Ottawa to

stem the funding decline in freshwater scishy

ence over the last two decades

One example of the kind of work under

and its tribu ta ry streams near the beginning

o f this century by overflshing and habitat

destruction and alteration Last fall Clement

placed eggs into a site in the Credit River

she has been monito ring oxygen availab il shy

ity durin g their incu ba tion to gau ge sedishy

mentation rates in the river This spring and

summer she wili study how newborn fi sh

interact with other species in th e r ive r

C lement says her docto ral research proshy

ject is but one piece of a larger project aimed

at re-establishing the heritage species Othshy

er researchers hop e to learn whe ther th e

Ministry of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs brings together

researchers for interdisciplinary studies of protein requirements

of arctic char improving fish semen and egg management proshy

cedures and understanding hormone activity in fish The station

acts as a quarantine unit for new fish varieties entering Ontario

and serves as a base for parts of certificate courses and a masters

program in aquaculture

farms in Canada He and fellow Guelph zoologists Eugene Balon

(co- founder of the Coelaca nth Conservat ion Council) and Jim

Bogart also identified and characterized the coelacanth which

had been thought extinct until a specimen was landed off Africa

in the la te 1930s Noakes confirmed the identity of ano ther of

these living fossils discovered in 1997 it appears to belong to a

second popula tion living in the Indian Ocean about 10000 kilo-

metres away from tha t first find

Zoology professors Moira Ferguson and Roy Danzshy

mann use molecular genetics techniques to identishy Zoology chair Paul Hebert was the first scientist to

fy DNA markers used to pinpoint the location of identify the presence in the Great Lakes of zebra

genes associated with growth spawning times mussels a prolific invader that has wreaked havoc

rates of development maturity and temperature in many ways from clogging water-intake pipes to

tolerance in rainbow trout Isolating and identifyshy consuming plankto n thus allowing light to reach

ing genetic markers fo r desirable traits will help fish bottom-dwelling organisms that may displace native

farmers and breeders cross-breed more effectively species The first researcher to report on the biology

conservationists will be better able to manage and preserve and impact of the zebra mussel on the Grea t Lakes was

genetic variability among wild fish stocks Guelph zoology professor Gerald Mackie whose studies showed

that the organisms faster growth rate and higher fecundity and

Zoology professor David Noakes has stuclied varieties of arctic population density will probably enable it to displace many native

char native to Iceland to find ones suited to being raised on fish bivalves and disrupt entire lake ecosystems

30 GUELPH ALUMNUS

LEADING RESEARCH

The University of Guelph has one orthe largest and most active groups of aquatic biologists in the world

bull More than 50 faculty and 100

graduate students research

assocrates and postdoctoral

fellows

bull Over 1000 published scientific

articles books monographs

films and videos in the past

decade

bull Interdisciplinary programs

involving more than a dozen

academic departments

bull The largest group ofichthyoloshy

gists (scientists who study

fish) in North America

bull Collaborative research with

government environrriental

organizations and academic

institutions worldwide

bull Expertise covering the entire

aquatic food chain from plankshy

ton to whales

bull Leading developments in comshy

puter-based educational mate-

rials in aquatic sciences

bull A new $6-million Aquatic

Sciences Facility

bull Research support from national

and international agencies

business and industry

adults will be able to return from the open

lake to their stream spawning grounds If

they come back will the eggs survive she

says If were able to show the eggs can surshy

vive that will be very encouraging for

Atlant ic salmon restoration

What is to be done to ensure the survival

not just of Atlantic salmon in Lake Ontario

but also of the co untrys freshwater and

m ar ine fisheries We need to try to sepashy

rate o ut the fisheries management decisions

from the political decisions associated with

the fi shery says zoology professor Glen Van

Der Kraak director of U of Gs Axelrod

Institute of Ichthyology Van Der Kraak who

studies the effects of toxic contaminants on

fi sh populations says policy mltkers need

to rely on the advice of fisheries sc ientis ts

making conservative harvest ing estimates

So often scientists make decisions and then

are overrun by the politics he says (Never

mind fish wars pitting co untries against one

another - here in Ca nada scientists and

policy makers wres tle over the question of

who should be respo nsible for what aspects

of the countrys fisheries as witnessed in a

war of words played out in the Canadian Journal ofFisheries and Aquatic Sciences over

the past 18 months between biologists at

several Canadian univers ities and the DFO

over the relationship between fishery sc ishy

ence and fishery policy)

Roff says theres nothing unique about

Canadas fish problems Its not really a

Canadian problem its a worldwide probshy

lem The only fisheries worldwide that are

not over fished appear to be some not yet

fully exploited in the Indian Ocean

After nearly four decades of growth the

worldwide marine ca tch levelled off in the

1990s to some 90 million tons a year The

m ain problems coastal pollution habitat

destruction and particula rly overfishing

Noakes editor of the journal Guelph Ichthyology Reviews contrasts the few hunshy

dred people who might have made th eir

livelihood aboard small wood en boats on

the Grand Banks several centuries ago with

the massive factory trawlers that now scour

todays coast People are much too efficient

in terms of catching fish he says Noakes

concurs with fellow Guelph researchers that

conservation of fish stocks has to reach the

top of fishery managers agendas

hat does set Canada apart is the breadth

and depth of expertise in fisheries and aquatshy

ic sciences in this country - rather a parashy

dox when you consider that Canadas record

in fisheries preservation is apparently no betshy

ter than that of many other nations

Considering we have the best fishery scishy

ences community in the world we ought to

be doing better says Roff Within the last

decade th e federal government withdrawal

o f support from the Department of Fishshy

eries and Oceans and university researchers

has been massive At the very time when the

resources were gett ing into severe problems

and when the federal government ought to

have been funding research theyve been

substantially withdrawing resources ga

DONT WAIT UNTIL SPRING The opportunity to double the impact of your gift to the University of Guelph ends on March 31 1999 Until that date all gifts designated to endowed student financial aid at Guelph will be matched by the Ontario Student Opportunity Trust Fund (OSOTF) That means that every dollar you commit will contribute two dollars to financial aid for Guelph students

If you would like to support our students throug h OSOTF you still have a w indow of oppor nishyty to have your do l1a rs doubled But only until March 31 1999

If you have already made a pled ge to OSOTf through U of Gs ACCESS Fund thank you [or your ge nerous support Please comp lete your payme nts by March 31 1999 to e nsure that your gi ft is matched

For more information contact Rudy Putns in Guelphs office of Development and Public Affairs at -519-824-4120 Ext 6384 Fax 519-822-2670 E-mail alumniuoguelphca

WINTER 1999 31

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

n ALUMNI PROF IL E

LETS LOOK AT THE OPPORTUNITIES

WHEN I-IE BECA ME president of the Unishy

versity of Guelph Alumni Association

(UGM) in June Jim Weeden brought new

enthusiasm and ideas for encouraging alumshy

ni to stay in volved with their alma mater

And he wants to start with students

Weeden reca ll s his own ex perience at

U of G where he fo und a sense of commushy

nity by living in residence and ge tting

involved in college activiti es But when he

graduated with an engin ee ring degree in

197 1 he left to begin a caree r and says he

didnt think much about the University until

he needed it again in the 1980s to pursue a

graduate degree in agricultural enginee ring

He spent his early career working as an

agricultural extensi o n engineer for the

Ontario Department o f Agriculture and is

stiU with its successo r the Ontario Ministry

of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs

(OMAFRA) Weed en completed the masshy

ters degree in 1986 when he was head of the

agricultural engineering program and extenshy

sion services a t Centralia College of Ag rishy

cultural Technology

In 1987 he moved to the ministrys plant

industry branch as program m anager and

later held the same position in th e resources

manage m ent branch Sin ce then he has

worked for OMAFRA in Woodstock and

now Stratfo rd He is technical adviser fo r

Ontarios Enviro nmental Farm Planning

Program is respo nsible for o ther environshy

m ental programs and consults with the Minshy

istry o f th e Environment on local agriculshy

tural pollution problems

w Weed en got involved with the Universishy sect tys a]u111ni programs by serving on the first g z board of the Engineering Alumni Associashy

~ tion when it was established in 1990 From

~ 1991 to 1994 he sat on the University Senshy

~ ate and its Research Board and for the pas t

~ four years) hels been on the UGAA executive

32 GUELPH A LU MNUS

From the presidents chair Weeden looks

at the bro ad picture o f UG AA se rvice and

recognizes that the associa tio n owes a debt

o f gratitude to hundreds of alumni volunshy

teers who ha ve helped to build the organishy

za tion over the yea rs and to University staff

in Development and Public Affairs (DampPA)

who support UGAA initiatives and alumni

programs Thro ugh their efforts he says the

a lulllni associati o n is rea ching out to all

U of G alumni Graduates who have mainshy

tained a close relationship with the Univershy

sity thro ugh their college or academic disshy

cipline those who feel an affiliation because

o f their participation in a thletics residence

life o r extracurricular activiti es and even

HIGHLIGHTSmiddot GRAD NEWSmiddot OBITUARIES bull CALENDER

those who have not kept in touch are part of the constituency served by UGAA

Weed en says the alumni association needs to strengthen its relationship with all alumni and he believes the effor t must start on campus with students Hed like to proshymote the idea of alumni involvement as ear shyly as a students second year We need to give students some reason to be con nected and an efficient vehicle for maintaining that connection he says

For many students and new graduates the social functions supported by UGAA and the opportunities for professional networking will be important says Weeden but greater rewards are there for those who join the effort to enhance the Universitys acade mic goals

In todays economic and political envi shyronme nt individual financial support and the advocacy of post-secon dary education are important roles for alumni he says How many people ac tively get involved with the debate on whether universities are job-trainshy

ing centres or centres of education Yet some of our alumni are extremely adept in such roles Weeden would like to cultivate past and current stud ent ac tivists as supporters of public education after they graduate

As Weeden leads UGAA into a new year he says he will work with other UGAA volshyunteers and DampPA staff to find new ways for the association to interact with students and alumni One id ea is to expand UGAAs Intershynet presence by adding a Web message board that will encourage alumni to discuss career and campus issues online and a reply form that will allow them to quickly update addressshyes employment status and other information

Weeden says its important to stay focused on UGAAs key prioriti es but he welcomes any and all new ideas on how to accomplish them All it takes to share your ideas with the UGAA executive is a stamp or a push of the send button when youre clicked on alumniuoguelphca

HKHB SPIRIT RISES

ENCOURAGED BY THE SPIRIT

shown by fellow alumni at last

summers reunion the executive

of the Human Kinetics Human Biology

Alumni Association is moving ahead

with more opportunities for alumni to

stay in touch The association plans to

launch a Web site that will be accessed

through the U of G site

A wine-and-cheese reception already

planned for June 19 1999 wiil try to

build on the success of the 1998 event

which attracted alumni from as far away

as Chicago and as far apart as the 19605

and 1990s Guests had a chance to tour

U of Gs new Health and Performance

Centre and performance testing

labs The program was co-ordinated wiLh

A REFLECTION OF PRIDE

Members of the OAC

Class of 52 join Arboshy

retum staff on the front patio

of the Arboretu m Centre

beside a new reflecting pool

that was built last summer

as a class project Pictured

from left are Murray Parker

Ann Smith George Smith

Jack Sargent Catherine Gibb

Robin Shaw-Rummington

Marilyn Swaby BA 69

Bev Healy B5e(Agr) 72

Norm Watson Una Venerus

Ron Costen Henry Kock

BSe (Agr) 77 and Ric

Jordan BA 75

Prof Jack Barclay chair of the Departshy

ment of Human Biology and Nutritional

Sciences and Prof Susan Pfeiffer Memshy

bers of the Human KineticsHuman

Biology Alumni Association executive arc

Janet Leonhard 82 president Carolyn

Moore 83 vice-president Alison Locker

97 secretary Mark Mulholland 79

lreasurer and t-iary Ann Crape 76

These officers are also spea rheading a

new initiative to benefit students - an

undergraduate award that will provide

$250 and lifetime mem bership in the

association To commcnt on these and

other initiatives contact Leonard by

e-mail at Janel_Leonhardinwrbsb

eduonca or Moore at cturveyagec

uoguelphca

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alumni

Multimedia lab buzzes

THE DONALD FORSTER RoOiv

has become one of the

busiest spots in th e Unishy

versity of Guelph Liblary since the

addition of 70 state-of-the-art

computer workstations that were

supported by alumni do nations

to the Alma Mater Fund (AM F)

U of G president Mordechai

Roza nski officia ll y o pened th e

Alma Mater Fund Multimedia

Lab D ec 2 an d celebrated th e

event with members of the AMF

Adv isory Counc iL [n 1996 a nd

1997 the AMF contributed

$240000 to th e project which

increased the number of student

workstations o n campus by 50 per

cent Students use the m ult imeshy

~ dia lab to conduct research on the

~ Internet access scholarly publicashyr u VI tions on CD-ROM and use COll1shyz ~ puter software mod ules tbat lt

~ strengthen the teaching provided lD

o in co urse lectures labs and tcxtshybii books

middotMatters

Alumnus of many interests

I NTERES TING P EOPLE always have eclect ic interests and U of G

alumnus and honorary degree recipient Ken Murray BSA 50 and

HDLA 96 is a good example H e is known by most people on camshy

pus for his distinguished career in the Canadian meat packing indusshy

try and his volunteer service to U of G He was a member and chair

of Board of Governors from 1973 to 1978 and chair of the Regionshy

al Corporate Committee during U of Gs last capital campaign and

is currently chair of the Heritage Fund Enhancement Committee

Murray is also a strong supporter of community soc ial services

In August he addressed the World Congress of Social Ps)chiatry

held in British Columbia - the only non-psychiatrist on the proshy

gram He spoke about his role in establishing an Alzheimers research

project a t the University ofWaterioo which was recently named in

his honour the Ken Murray Alzheimer Research and Education Proshy

gra m At the gc conference he al so participated in a panel dis shy

cussion that outlined services offered by Guelphs Homewood Health

Cent re Murray bas been actively involved in the governance of the

centre since 1977 and has been a major player in the development

of a charitable foundatio n bearing the Homewood name

WHEN THE PUCK DROPPED More than 30 teams including two

womens teams were entered in the

Dec 6 University of Guelph Alumni Hockey

Tournament Organizers for the 1998 event

were from left Brian Finniss B5c 88

Brad Stephenson BA 86 Terry Carr

BComm 87 Todd Bryant BA 86 and

undergraduate student Brian Melnick

Ken Murray centre with his wife Marilyn Robinson Murray and U of G president Mordechai Rozanski

34 GU ELPH ALUMNU S

RESTORING A JEWEL IN THE CROWN

DONALD RUTHERFORD BSA 5 stands in fron t

of the 1931 conservatory greenhouse that will

be restored to match the splendour of the ga rdens

now growi ng up around it His $256000 leadershy

ship gift to the Conservatory and Gardens Project

was inspired by hi s m emo ries of being a student

at OAC

On behalf of fellow alumni I hope this gift will

commemorate the experiences and educat ion we

acquired while at Guelph says Rutherford When

fully restored to its previous glory the conservatoshy

ry greenhouse will be an ideal greeting and welcome

spot for visitors and newcomers to the University

as well as old friend s renewing their acquaintance

Rutherfords professional career spans the agrishy

foo d industr y beginning as an agricu ltural repshy

resentative with the provincial minist ry I-Ie was

later vice-president of the Fertilizer Institute of

Ontario executive secreta ry of the Canadian Seed

Trade Association director of information w ith

the Ca nadian Livestock Feed Board and Canadishy

an sa les manager for Sylvite of Can ad a Retired

since 1986 he now owns his own sma ll investment

company and manages to golf throughout the yea r

The conserva tory isnt the first ca mpus project

to attract Rutherford s attention - as a student

he helped dig out the base ment of Massey H al l to

build a student lo unge - but his recent gift has

been a tremendous boost to those who have been

working since the ea rly 1990s to save the glass and

cypress structure from demo lition

A committee of alumni facult y sta ff stu dents

and fri en ds of the University has moved the proshy

ject along to th e point w here most of the surshy

rounding garden complex is now complete It fea shy

tures six gardens named in honour of the ir chie f

supporters Autumn Garden - OAC 5 1 Spring

Ga rden - OAC 53 Su mmer Garden - OAC 55

Winter Gard en - OAC 65 Water Gard en shy

OAC 49 and the Woo dland Garden named in

honour of the late Doug Rob inson BSA 53

Alumni have been in strumental in raising

funds for the $ l-million project Students and fa cshy

ulty have provided mudl of the h1l1ds-on Idbour

and friends in the nursery and landscape materishy

als supply industries have given $250000 ill donashy

tions and gifts-in-kind of plan ts and landsca ping

materials Rutherford s generous gift has pushed

th e conservato ry fund-ra ising effort in to the fin 81

stretch Th e ga rden complex and restored g reenshy

110use are sc heduled to officially open during

Alumni Weekend in June 1999

1999 Coming Events

Jan 29 - Aggie Goodshy

Times Banquet call the OAC Student Federation at Ext 8321 for ticket injemnrltion Feb 13 - Norm McCo llulll

D iploma Hockey Tournashy

m ent call Jack Bakker at 519-837-0132 to register a team

Feb 21 - Ottawa Chapter

annual curling bonspiel

Richmond C urling Club in

Richmond Ont For informashytiol1 call Alan Bentley BSA 61 at 6 13-829-6598 or John DVit[ 54 mId Margaret McGowml BHSc 54 at

613-828-7038

March 3 - Florida alumni

reunion a t Maple Leaf

Estates Port Charlo tte Fla

call Ext 6533 0 register

March 13 and 14 - ollcge

Royal 75th o pen house

March 19 and 20 - OAC

Alumni Association curling

bonspiel G uelph Curling

Club register at Ext 6657

May 5 - Chicago All Canashy

dian Universities Night hostecl

by U of G at the University

Club of Chicago 76 East Monshy

roe Sr call Exl 6533 for details May 5 - OAC Alumni

Foundation annual meeting

730 pm Arboretum Centre

May 12 - Alumni-inshy

Action annual meeting and

luncheo n 1130 3m

Arboretum Centre ((11 Ext 6657for tickets

June 18 to 20 - Alumni

Veekend call Ext 6657 to plall a reun io n

-0 r shya -IFor more infon-nation on any a

eVC1l1listed ailove call the oJ -lt oU of G extension listed at en raquo

519-824-4120 or send e-mail z

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WINTER 1999 35

alumni Matters

MEMORIES OF COLLEGE ROYAL Grant MacEwan ADA 23 and

BSA 26 is one of the few OAC

alumni who c~n still remember

the first College Royal held Jan

14 1925 MacEwan bad just

entered the degree program in

animal husbandry and may have

been a participant in the liveshy

stock showmanship classes Latshy

er in life he was widely known Grant MacEwan

across Western Canada as 3 liveshy

stock judge and an advocate of

agricultural fairs and exhibitions

MacEwan is bes t known

however for his 23-year C3reer

as a university professor in Manshy

itoba and Saskatchewan and Ilis

political career which included

12 years as alderman and mayshy John Kenneth Galbraith

or of C31gary four years as an

Alberta MLA and eight as lieushy birthday in August

tenant -governor of the province The year after Ma cEwan

He s till lives in Calgary graduated John Kenneth Galshy

where he celebrated his 96th braith ADA 29 and BSA 31

HOMECOMING 98

enrolled at OAC and devoted

some of his energy to organizshy

ing College Royal Show records

indicate it was Galbraith who

first proposed the college event

be publicized so that people

from the farm community

could attend He also suggestshy

ed that OAC invite students

from American agricultural colshy

legesl n th e early 1930s Colshy

lege Royal took its fir s t steps

towards becoming the comshy

munity open house it is today

Galbraith later moved to the

United States where he enjoyed

a distinguished caree r as a proshy

fessor of economics at Harvard

Universi ty Known for his

humanit~rian approach to ecoshy

nomic and political thinking

he was awarded the Order of

Canada in 1997 He celebr3ted

his 90th birthday in October

IT REALLY WAS a homecoming reunion when and Arnott who is head coach of the York

former Gryphon teammates Ralph Shapiro University Yeomen came from the visitors

S5c(HK) 74 and Tom Amott S5c(HK) 80 dreSSing room to hold the ball Shapiro is

met on the field at Alumni Stadium Oct 3 the controller at Huntsman Chemical Inc

Shapiro had the honour of kicking off in Guelph and a longtime United Way volshy

the Universitys 1998 United Way campaign unteer who chaired this years Guelph and

Wellington fund-raising drive The Univershy

sity campaign is the largest in the county

with U of G staff and faculty contributing

over $200000 in 1998

Prior to the game a number of recent

alumni - all U of G scholarship and award

winners - met for a reunion luncheon The UJ

1948 and 1949 dominion championship i5f 3

football teams were also honoured guests z 5 o at the 2 pm game that saw the Gryphons gtshy a defeat York f shya I a

Ralph Shapiro

36 G UELPH ALUMNUS

LEADING THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY FOR 1974 GRADS The 25th-anniversary reunion givshy

i ng program for the Class of 1974

is under way with Bill Laidlaw BA

74 as cbair A public affairs proshy

fessional he has been director of

government relations for the

Canadian operations of Glaxo

vVelJcome Inc for more th an 10

years He also acts as a senior conshy

sultant to support the governshy

ment relations function in other

regions of Canada

Laidlaw began his career in

teaching after earning a history

degree from Guelph and education

degrees (rom Queens University

and the University of Toronto He

also holds the certified human

resources professional designation

and worked in that field for sevshy

eral years before concen trating on

government relations at Glaxo

Welkome He lives in Burlington

Ont and is an act ive community

volunteer having se rved on the

boards of severa l professional

organizations the Queensway

General Hospital and the Metroshy

politan Toronto Lung Association

He is currently completing a oneshy

year term as chair of the Ontario

Chamber of Commerce

Anniversa ry preparations will

culminate with a class gathering

a nd reunion gift at Alumni

Weekend in June 1999

ALUMNI MAKE THE CONNECTION Students who moved into

Maids and Mills halls in Sepshy

tember can take full advanshy

tage of the Universitys highshy

speed computer network

thanks to the OAC Class of

71 whose 25 th-reunion proshy

ject provided wiring upgrades

in the 84- and 77-year-old

residence buildin gs

GRAD NEWS

Marathon survivors inspire us all to appreciate everyday life

W HEN ROBINSON SIIlLJNGS Jane BSe(Agr)

85 Heather BASe 83 Peter BSe(Agr)

86 Scott and Marnie rigwood BA 84 get

together they talk about marathons and the hope

and determination it takes to reach the finish line

Hea ther walked a marathon in San Diego

Calif in June to raise money for leukemia

research then joined Peter for a Toronto marathon

in October that benefi ted the Leukemia Research

Fund of Canada They were inspired by Janes pershy

sonal marathon of survival that foUowed her 1992

diagnosis of leukemia Chemotherapy radiation

remission relapse and finally a bone marrow

transplant [TOm her brother Scott took more than

three years out of her life but gave her the detershy

mination to keep fighting

Many families can understand the marathon

of hope maintained by the Robinsons during

Janes struggle and the commitment they have to

help others who are stricken with the disease Jane

is finally well enough to work again as a writer

and marketing consultant and to join her fami shy

ly in volunteer work She helped recruit for the

Toronto marathon fund -raiser and continues to

be involved with the Leukemia Research Funds

Team in Training She also says that her expeshy

rience has taught her to appreciate more the pleashy

sures of everyday life and the love of famil y

Jan es parents are th e late Doug Rob inson

BSA 53 and Marilyn (Inglis) Robinson Murray

BH Sc 55

19305

bull Grant Misener ADA 32 BSA 35 and DVM 38 received the

prest igious George F Hixso n Felshy

lowship Award from the Kiwanis

International Foundation in May The retired Illinois veter ishy

narian was hono ured for his subshystantial contribution to the

Kiwanis wo rldwide service proshy

ject aimed at eliminating iodine

deficiency disorders the leading

cause of preventable mental retardation in children Over the

years Misener has shown a simishylar commitment to his al ma

mater an d its students through

his close association with OVC

and his support of scho larship

programs

19405

bull Russell McDonaldDVM 45 was named an honorary life direcshytor of the Royal Agricultural Winshy

ter Fair Association in March

McDonald formerly general manshy

ager of Western Ontario Breeders

Ine and executive director of the Canadian Association of Animal

Breeders served as a director of the Royal Winter Fair for 20 years

representing the Canadian artifishycial insemination industry He

lives in Woodstock Ont

bull Ian Taylor DVM43 was recently honoured by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to

Animals of Illinois Taylor ran a small-animal veterinary clinic in

the Chicago area for many years

and says he gained ll1uch experishyence during his first three years in

Illinois as clinic veterinarian for

the anti -cruelty society

19505

bull Charles Chuck Broadwell BSA 54 was elected a Mel

Osborne Fellow by the Kiwanis

Club of Forest City in London Ont in recognition of a dedicatshy -ed and distinguished career in

Kiwanis

19605

bull Constantine Campbell BSA 60 and MSA 61 was named to the

WINTER 1999 37

Order of Canada in January He

received the award in recogni shy

tion of his many contributions

to science and the Canadian

agricultural industry After grad shy

uating from OAC he went on to

do his PhD at the University of

Saskatchewan then joined Agri shy

culture and Agri-food Canada

as a research scientist at the Swift

Current research station Campshy

bell and his family now live in

Ottawa where he is scientist

emeritus with Agriculture and

Agri-food Canada

bull John Casselman BSA 64 is

a research scientist with the

Ontario Ministry of Natural

Resources He Jives in Bath

Ont with his wife Lois

bull Jane Fuller RRSc 65 and

her husband George who both

taught at the Macdonald Instishy

tute from 1966 to 1969 have

moved from Winnipeg to

Utopia Ont following

Georges retirement from the

University of Manitoba

bull Fred Gilbert MSc 66 and

P hD 68 is in his first term as

president of Lakehead Univer shy

sity in Thunder Bay Ont He

taught at U of G in the Departshy

ment of Zoology from 1972 to

1981 and has enjoyed a dive rse

academic career that has also

included teaching at the Unishy

versity of Maine and posi tions

as director of wildlife biology at

Washington State University

and founding dean of the Facshy

ulty of Natural Reso urces and

Environmenta l Studies at the

University of Northern British

Columbia He moved to Lakeshy

head from a position as viceshy

pro vost at Colorado State Unishy

versity A respected wildlife

biologist he has conducted

ex tensive resea rch in s Ll ch areas

as the behaviour and physioloshy

gy of wildlife species and the

effects of environmental

change on wildlife populations

bull Terry Goodyear BSc 67 of

Mont Tremblant Quebec is an

early retiree from Agriculture

and Agri-Food Canada in Ottawa He is now working on

va lue-added products from

industrial wastes particularly

cellulose sludge from pulp and

pa per mills

bull Gary Hearn BA 68 was

named an Ontario provincial

judge in October For the last

25 years he has been a lawyer

with the firm Kearns McKinshy

non in Guelph where he lives

with his wife Irene and three

teenage children

bull Allan Knight BSA 66 of Corunna Ont has retired

from Dow Chemical after 30

years On retirement he was a

laboratory director for indusshy

trial chemicals He is now

working with his son in a famishy

ly-owned and -operated busishy

ness Knight Funeral Home

bull Keith McFarlane BSc(Agr)

68 works for the Department

of Foreign Affairs and Internashy

tional Trade and began a fourshy

year assignment last summer as

head of the commercial divishy

sion of the Canadian Embassy

in Lisbon Portugal The

division promotes the sa le of

Canadian goods and services

to Portugal

bull Ian Newbould MA 68 has

travelled far from his Ontario

roots through an academic and

administrative career that has

taken him to Europe Asia and

Western Canada A noted hisshy

torian he moved into adm inisshy

tration at the University of

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Lethbridge in 1981 and spent

10 years there as director of

research dean of a rts and scishy

ence and vice-presiden t (acadeshy

mic) before crossing the counshy

try to become president of

Mount Allison University in

New Brunswick He is now in

his second term as president of

Mount AUison

bull Indra Deo Singh MSc 68 is

a tea scientist international

consultant and joint director of

the Tea Research Association at

the Nagrakata substation in

India His responsibilities

include co-ordinating research

and development in the Indian

tea industry and developing tea

cultivars and agrotechnology

for tea Singh is married with

two sons aged 27 and 23

19705

bull Don Ambler BSe 71 retired in March as manager of

water programs with Environshy

ment Canada in Dartmouth

NS after 25 years of public

service He has now registered

the company Aquashed Co nshy

sulting to continue in the water

resources field when hes not

gardening beekeeping do ing

aerobics or vo lunteering in the

community and chu rch E-mail

contact is welcome a t

donambl erns sympaticoca

bull Jim Bond BSe 75 is managshy

ing a new processing facility at

the Chalk River Nuclear Laborashy

to ry in Chalk River Ont

bull Terri (Monks) Bulman BSc(Agr) 78 and MSe 81

and her husband Vincent

MSe 8 1 live in Australia with

their th ree children Catherine

7 Peter 4 and baby Christoshy

pher Terri is senior principal

environmental auditor vith

Coffey Geosciences Pty Ltd Vinshy

cent afte r many years as a geoloshy

gist travelling around Australia

and abroad has taken the year

off to study and look after the

children Their e-mail address is

tbulmanbigpondco m

bull Marie David BA 78 of

Hanover Ont has been in the

n ewspaper business for 20

years She started in the mailshy

room moved to advertising

sales then became advert ising

manager She is now gene ral

manager o f three So utham

weekly newspapers and pubshy

lish er of the Hanover Post

bull Janice Harrower and her husshy

band Jerome Billett both

DVM 76 operate a joint veterishy

nary practice in Prescott Ont

Billett says practising together

has allowed them some flexibilishy

ty in their family life and given

their four children a good took

at the rigours of veterinary

medicine Says Billett Not one

of our kid s has the slightest

interest in being a veterinarian

and isnt that just fine Their

o ldest son Jesse attends Harshy

va rd University and is a memshy

ber of its prestigious a cappella

choir Lucas is studying

mechanical engineering at the

University of Waterloo Casey is

planning a career in computer

engineering and Lindsay is a

high school athle te

bull Clair Heinbuch BSe 74 is a

sales manager with Baye r Corp

in Kansas H e and his wife

Caroline (Koscik) BASc 75

returned to the Kansas City

area after spending four years in

Denver They have three chilshy

dren Lisa 20 Scott 18 and

Ryan [5

bull Beverly Lee BASe 72 is an

elem entary school principal in

Unionville Ont She lives with

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her husband Grant Egan in

Collingwood and is looking

forward to retirement in severshy

al years Life on Georgian Bay

is wonderful she says Lee

would love to hear from fellow

grads by e-mail at

leebYrbeeduonca or by

phone at 705 -444 -092l

bull Won-Jai Maeng MSc 71 took office Sept 1 as president

of Kon-Kuk University in Seoul

Korea where his academic

career began He completed an

undergraduate degree at Kon

Kuk in 1965 then studied at

Mailing Agricultural College in Denmark and at U of G before

doing doctoral work at the Unishy

versity of California Davis

Maeng has held research and

teaching positions at the Unishy

versity of illinois at Chung-Ang

University and at Kon-Kuk

where he has been a professor of

animal science since 1984 His

appointment as president folshy

lows years of administrative

experience as a department

head dean and chair of various

research committees and proshy

fessional organizations An

expert in ruminant nutrition

Maeng was instrumental in

developing the livestock feed

industry in Korea He has also

been active in working with

alumni groups and in writing

for the Kon-Kuk Tribune

bull Bill MarshaU ADA 75 of Proton Station Ont moved

from Clarksburg in June to

work in Dundalk for the Grey

County Roads Department on

its road management crew

bull Bernie Matte BSc(Agr) 70 of Moncton NB retired

in March after 28 years with

Fisheries and Oceans Canada

and the Canadian Food

Inspection Agency He plans to

travel to Belize and Honduras

with his wife Diane and will

be available anywhere in the

Caribbean for seafood HACCP

consulting work

bull Margaret McClain BA 70 lives in Arkansas where she is

highJy involved in the issue of

40 GUELPH ALUMNUS

missing children and internashy

tional abductions McClain who

believes her own six-year-old

daughter was taken out of the

United States more than a year

ago by her second husband is

reaching out to parents with

similar experiences through an

organization that is lobbying the

US government for tougher

international abduction laws

She invites interested fr iends

and alumni to contact her

through her Web site at

wwwinsolwwbnet-dmcclain

bull Robert (Chuck) Miller BA 77 is the park superintendent

of Killarney French River and

Maskinonje provincial parks in

Ontario He moved to Killarney

from Quetico Provincial Park

last May

bull Gordon Nicol BA 72 and MSc(Agr) 74 teaches math

and science in a bilingual prishy

vate school in Guatemala A

BEd graduate of Laurentian

he first taught in Guatemala in

the late 1970s then spent 12

years in northern Alberta as a

teacher and principal He

returned to Guatemala in 1989

A widower with three teenage

children Nicol would like to

hear from U of G friends and

acquaintances especially anyshy

one who is was or will be in

Central America He says he

could also use middle-schoolshy

level science projects Send eshy

mail to gnicoll guatenet or

write to PO Box 661447 Miami

Springs Florida 33266-1447

bull Chris Schulte BSc 71 and MSc 73 lives in Nassau

Bahamas with his wife

Andrya After graduation he

stayed in the Department of

Physics as a research associate

with Prof lain Campbell then

joined Ontario Hydro in the

early 1980s He moved to the

Bahamas in 1995 He can be

reached bye-mail at

schultebahamasnetbs

bull Sandra (Pickford) Webster BA 75 has retired from U of

Gs Co mmunications and Pubshy

lic Affairs and is living in Parry

Sound Ont where she is

doing volunteer work and

communications consulting

for the municipality Guelph

friends ca n contact her by

e-mail atswebsterzeutercom

19805

bull Sharon (Courneya) Angus BA 8 I of Surrey BC comshy

pleted a BSW at the University

of British Columbia in 1988

and has been working for the

BC government for 13 years

- first in probation and now

in the family justice division

She and her husband Ron

have three children Jason

Carly and Colin

bull Karen Beazley BLA 86 is an assistant professor and acadeshy

mic program co-ordinator at

the School for Reso urce and

Environmental Studies at Dalshy

housie University in Halifax

She is currently doing research

for a book on endangered

species initiatives and is orgashy

nizing a Nova Scotia wildlands

workshop with the Wildlands

Project for 1999 Her e-mail

address is kbeazleyisdalca

bull Caroline (Van Deudekom) and Marc Brooks both ADA 87

recently moved from Strathroy

to Owen Sound Ont where

they run a 50-acre organic farm

with their two sons

bull Virginia Burt BLA 85 startshyed her own landscape architecshy

ture firm Visionscapes in

Hamilton Ont in ] 996 She

specializes in the design of thershy

apeutic healing gardens spirit

gardens sacred spaces and

la byrin ths and recen tly designed the first healing garden

in Canada specificalJy for peoshy

ple living with HIV and AIDS

bull Joanne (Branson) Carver BA 80 earned a BEd from Brock

University in 1981 and recently

started working as a probashy

tionparole officer She Jives in

Ajax Ont and has two daughshy

ters Julie4 and Sarah 8

bull Heather Champ BA 86 is a Web-site designer in New York

City She began her work in

computer design in 1990 Her

personal site can be Found at

wwwjezebelcom

bull Laurie Gough BA 87 has become a world traveller who

writes about her experiences for

the benefit of others Her most

recent book Island of the

Human Heart A tfornans Travshyel Odyssey is now in its second

printing in Canada and will be

released next year in the United

States and overseas She has also

published Travellers Tales A

Womans World which won the

US-based Lowell Thomas

Gold Award for best travel book

of the year When not travelling

or writing she teaches English

and ESL in Guelph

bull Susan (Coles) Goulden BASc 84 and her husband

Ian are th rilled wi th their

recent adoption of Jennifer Lee

Yu who was born in June near

Leping Jiangxi Peoples Repubshy

lic of China The Gouldens

who Jive in vVaterloo Ont

thank classmate Andrea

(Kovits) Henderson for her

support throughout the adopshy

tion process Susan is currently

on leave from her position with

McCormick Canada

bull Judy (Bodendistel) Gregg BA 82 moved to Melbourne Ausshy

tralia in 1997 with her husband

and two children Carly 6 and

Adam 3 We are enjoying the

friendly people and the great

weather here she says We are

especially enjoying winter in a

place where it never gets below

zero Celsius

bull Nigel GumJey DVM 85 has been a partner in the Alta Vista

Animal Hospital in Ottawa

since 1990 was president of the bull Garry Millage AMPHI 86 bull Heidi Stephenson BA 88 is now ISO 9000 manager at

Ontario Veterinary Medical left a position as vice-president was awarded her professional Carpenter Ca nada Ltd in

Association in 1997 and recent- of national operations for acco untants designation of Wood br idge Ont He lives in

ly served on the Canadian Vetshy Scotts Restaurants KFC Divishy certified general accountant in Miss issa uga Classma tes are

erilw() Medical Associations sion to open his own consult- March 1998 She has been invited to contact him at

national issues committee He ing company Future Food employed for the last 10 years avon listarca

lives in Osgoode with his wife Equipment Ine specializes in with Dan Ball Chartered bull Michelle (Pilon) Bacon BA rvlaurecn and children Laura providing new and used restau- Acco un tant in Parry Sound 90 moved to England to study

and Matthew rant equipment and reducing O nt where she lives with her and work after graduating from

bull Muneer Hirji BComm 82 restaurant construction costs hu sband Brad two dogs and a Guelph She recently left a posishy

lives in Toronto and is vice- He also operates a restaurant horse tion with the British Ministry of

president of marke ting at SAP called Nikkos in Woodbridge bull Dawn Stetsko BSe 81 lives Agriculture and Food in York to

Canada He has three chil- Ont and is planning to open a in Langhorne Pa with her husshy become an at-home mom She

drcl1 Nadia 8 Alyssa 6 and second location band Paul and children Mark now lives in London with her

Sarah I bull Tosh Noseworthy BSe 83 is and Keith and is a research husband Tim and one-year-old

bull Brenda irwin BSe 88 is a cardiovascular ICU nurse in scientist with Bristol-Myers daughter Juliette She sends love

studying at Hong Kong Unishy sunny Tuscon Arizona After Squibb Previously she worked to Sue Heather and Sheila and

vers ity of Science and Technolshy grad uation she lived in Paris at McMaster University in can be reached bye-mail at

ogy to complete the final France for a yea r s tudied nurs- Hamilton Ont for 17 yea rs michellebacondialpipexcom

sem ester of an MBA program ing in O ttawa then lived in Saushy bull Teresa Tummillo-Goy BA bull Jeff Barlow BComm 90 is

through the University of di Arabia for two yea rs She still 86 has a law practice in Water- the training and quality manag-

British Columbia She taught loves to travel and would like to 100 Ont foc Li sing primaril y on er for two five-star luxury boushy

science for the North York hea r from fellow alumni She family law civi l litiga tion and tique h o tels in Prague - Hotel

Board of Education for five can be reached at 520-299-8344 real estate She and her hus- Palace Praha and the Hotel

years before enrolling in the bull Cecilia (Wleugel) Parkes band John Goy live in Guelph Savoy Previo usly he was execu -

MBA program BComm 85 is a graphic and have three sons John 4 tive housekeeper at the five-star

bull Jagwant Kanwar PhD 80 is designer in Toronto and says Tony 3 and Shayne 2 Renaissance Pragu e Hotel

a senior scientist in the depart- she st ill uses ber marketing bull Peter Van der Borch DVM bull Margaret Burnes-Souria BA ment of vegetable crops at Pun- background to help her busishy 88 retired in the fa ll of 1997 94 is a team leader with [011 shy

jab Agricultural University in ness succeed She specia lizes in after several years of practising don Magazin e in London Ont

India He is also director of the logo design lNith hand-drawn physiotherapy and ve terinary She married David Souria in

regional vegetable research stashy illustrations medicine and surgery He Jives July 1997 and is pursuing an tion at Usman (TaranTarn) bull Jim Parr BSc(Agr) 81 and in Pictou NS ]VlBA at the University of West-

Amritsar His and his wife MSe 89 died of cancer in bull MartyWilLiams BA 85 is ern Ontario

Sanyogita have a son Mohit June 1998 but hes being co-ordinator of student activishy bull Janine Byers BASe 95 is a and a daughter Dipika who are remembered by his university ties at University College Unishy public health dietitian at the

both studying engineering friends through the establish - versity of Toronto where he Kingston Frontenac and

Friends can write to Kanwar at ment of a mem orial fund for advises student organizations Iennox amp Addington Health

Punjab Agricultural Un ivers ity his wife Denise and children 1Ie is also chair of the U of T Unit in Kingston O nt She is Ludhiana 141 004 India Shannon and Eric Anyone Staff Association a member of getting married to Ca rl Stewart

bull Larissa Larsen BSe 89 and who would like more informa - the steering committee of the on May 29 j 999 MLA 92 received a PhD in tion can ca ll Brian Tapscott at staffs unionization drive and a bull Lisa Cherry BSe 9 1 is a urban and regional planning 519-767-3566 staff member with the student science journalist and executive

from the University of Illinois bull Cheryl (Dunlop) Reid newspaper The Varsity He can director of Artists Against

at Urbana Champaign in May BSe(Agr) 89 sta rted a new be reached bye-mail at marty Racism an international organi-

She has accepted a position at job in September as ingredient wi lliamsutorontoca za tion She is based in Toronto

Thompson Dyke and Associshy sales manager for RA bull Bonnie (Byma) BASe 96 ales a landscape architecture Chisholm o f Toronto She will 19905 and Gil Clelland BA 95 were

and urban planning firm in continue to work from her bull Claire Allison BA 94 grad- married in December 1996 and

Chicago Her husband Ernie remote offke in Fergus Reid uated from the elementary are living in Chatham On t

Poortinga DVM 89 is in his and her husband Jeff BSe teacher ed ucation program at Bo nnie works at a day-care

third yea r of an MD program (Agr) 89 have two children the University of British centre G il teaches art and

at Rush University Chicago lVlega n 4 and Elizabeth 2 Columbia in 1996 and now phys ical education They ca n -Hes looking forward to joining bull Chee Sie BA 83 is a zone teaches in Va ncou ver be reached bye-ma il at gclelshy

his wife in the ranks of the manager for the Malaysian bull JohnAvon BSdHK) 94 lan ciaccesscom employed They would both Assurance Alliance Berhad in earned an M Se in industr ial bull Kate Corn ell BA 95 of enjoy hearing from fellow Sarawak Malaysia He and his operations from Lawrence Markham Ont earned her

alumni and can be reached at wife Jesterine have a two-year- Technological University in masters in dance history from epoor tin garushurushedu old daughter Letitia Southfleld Mich in 1997 and York University in May and

WINTER 1999 41

co-authored a book titled

Toronto Dance Theatre 1968shy1998 Stages in a Journey

bull Mary Jill (McClure) Culliton BASe 90 earned

her BEd from Brock University

and her M Ed from the Univershy

sity of Western Ontario and

teaches Grade 1 in Mitchell

Ont She and her husband

Tim live in Stratford

bull Kathleen (McNutt) Daniels BASe 9 1 is a teacher and was

married on New Years Eve

1994 to Gord Daniels They live

in North Bay Ont and have a

daughter Lauren born in Febshy

ruary 1997 They are expecting

their second child in February

bull Simon Deakin BA 95 studshyied in Florence Italy for a year

then earned a master of fine art

from the Slade School of Fine

Art at the University of London

England He lives in London

bull Christie Dunbar BLA 97 spent a year after graduation

working for Niagara College in

St Catharines Ont on the

vision and design of a new

campus to be built in Niagarashy

on-the- Lake Last April she

joined the landscape architecshy

ture firm of Pollack Design

Associates in Ann Arbor Mich

bull Trina Edmonds BA 94 and

Joel Hinderle became the

proud parents of a little girl

Jordan Ashley in january 1998

and moved to a new home in

Oakville Ont in September

Edmonds works in Mississauga

as a desktop publisher with a

publishingprinting company

bull Wendy Garinther BSc 93 and Steve Decker BSe 94

were married in May Joining

them in the wedding celebrashy

tions were Cheri (Coulter)

42 GUELPH ALUMNUS

Ascroft BSe 93 Karen Leinshy

gartner BSe 94 and Barb

(Moore) Johnson BSe 94

Best man was Jeff Bond BSe

93 and MSe 96 The Deckers

live in Edmonton where Steve

is doing a PhD in chemistry at

the University of Alberta and

Wendy is working in a research

laboratory at a biopharmaceushy

tical company

bull Donna Gross BA 97 is purshysu ing a master of divinity at

Emmanuel College at the Unishy

versity of Toronto and hopes to

become an ordained minister by

2002 She lives in Guelph and

can be reached bye-mail at

donnajulietalbedonet

bull Robert Gruber BA 92 is a child-care supervisor for the

YMCA-YWCA of Guelph and

manages the Jean Little Y

Child- Care Centre He recently

developed the anti -bias proshy

gramming policy for the

Guelph Y and sits on both the

Jean Little Public School Counshy

cil and the Guelph AIDS Wall

Committee He can be reached

bye-mail at rgrubernet

comca

bull Susan Harder BSe 91 grad shyuated from the University of

Toronto Medical School in June

and has started a residency at

Santa Clara Valley Medical Censhy

tre in San jose Calif She will

follow that up with an anestheshy

sia residency at Stanford Univershy

sity Hospital in 1999

bull Marko Harjupanula BASc 93 travelled in Australia for

two months after graduating

from Guelph then returned to

his home town of South Porshy

cupine Ont where he worked

in a gold mine for four years

He entered police college in

September and started as an

opp constable in Cochrane in

December

bull Nancy Holman MA 94 moved to Vancouver soon after

graduation and initially worked

as a project co-ordinator for an

ophthalmologist In 1996 she

began working full time for the

BC Liberal Caucus I would

enjoy hearing from and catchshy

ing up with the friends I made

while studying at U of G and

working at the Brass Taps she

says Her e-mail address is nan shy

cyholmanlassgovbeca

bull Ruth Johnson BA 91 is an investment banking associate

with the mergers and acquisishy

tions group of JP Morgan in

Lond on England responsible

for financial reporting and

administration She has been in

England with her partner Alex Campbell since graduation

bull Stephen Johnson BA 94 of London Ont was a lab technishy

cian at Lenscrafters for three

yea rs and is now a full-time

student at Fanshawe College

studying air conditioning and

refrigeration He was married

in Jun e to Jennifer Fox BSc

95 a chemist at 3M Their

wedding party included Dee Popat BSe (Eng) 94 and

Patrick Wulhes BSc 95

bull Sarah (Davis) Kelly BASe 90 married Robert Kelly in

July and teaches primary

grades at an inner-city school

in Toronto

bull Cassidy Klowak BComm 97 lives in Allisshy

ton Onl and is a personal

banking account manager

with ClBC in Tottenham

bull Stephanie Lopes BSc 96 completed her MSc in repro shy

ductive biology at the Universishy

ty of Toronto and worked as

patient-care director for the

College of Family Physicians

for almost a year In September

she enrolled in medical school

at the University of Toronto

She is happy to announce that

she is engaged to be married

next summer Lopes can be

reached at slopesidirectcom

bull Natalie (Parker) MacKenzie BSc 96 earned her BEd from

the University of Western

Ontario in 1997 She married

ASLt Andy MacKenzie June 27

in Sault Ste Marie Ont and

now lives in Halifax

bull Susan MacKinnon DVM 91 is a veterinarian with HUls

Science Diet She lives in

Guelph with her husband

Brandon Wiley and gave birth

to their first child Adrianna

Nicole june 26 at home

bull Waheed Mian BA 9 1 of Cambridge Ont is a store

director with PetSmart Canada

He helped the company launch

its new retail concept in Cana da

bull Alex Mitchell BA 91 was appointed clerkdeputy treasurshy

er of the Ontario township of

Mildmay-Carrick in 1998 and

will be the clerkadministrator

of the new municipality of

Mildmay-Carrick -TeesWatershy

Culross in 1999 He was married

in january 1997 and lives vith

his wife and daughter in Mild shy

may In his spare time Mitchell

is a professional scout for the

Toronto Maple Leafs covering

southwestern Ontario

bull Sherry Morland BASc 93 of Kitchener Ont ea rned her

BEd from Brock University in

J995 and is a part-time specia l

educa tion teacher and an occashy

sional teacher with the Watershy

loo County Board of Ed ucashy

tion She married Ivan LeBlanc

in 1997

bull Gary Page BSe 91 wo rks for the Nottawasaga Valley Conshy

servation Authority where he is

able to combine his knowledge

of wildlife biology with his

artistic skills as resident graphic

designer and outdoor centre

interpreter He Jives with his

wife Di and their son judah in

CreemoreOnt

bull Elaine Pammenter BA 96 is an inventory clerk with the

Royal Collection at Windsor

Castle in England She holds a

museum management and

curatorship grad uate certificate

diploma from Sir Sandford

Fleming College and did her

internship at the Royal Albert

Memorial Museum in Exeter

England

bull Brent Raymond BSe(Env) 96 of Brantford Ont has

been working with Outward

Bound since graduation He

leads wilderness trips in Northshy

ern Ontario Horida Australia and Sabah (Malaysian Borneo) Most recently he designed and implemented a new introducshytory mountaineering course for Outward Bound Sabah on the summit plateau of Mt Kinashy

balu Those of you who know me as plate licker from U of G get in touch he says Where are you Star I miss you He can be reached by e-mail at globarwchatonca or by

phone at 519-756-1697

Alumni Patrick Abbott BSA 40 July 7 1998

Albert Allen BSA 33 Jan 161994 Agris Ansmits BA 70 and MA 73

February 1998 Barbara (Quartermain) Babcock DHE

53 June 17 1998

Wray Bond BSA 34 Sept 25 1998

Kenneth Bone DVM 38 Dec 29 1998 Evelyn (Stevenson) Buhr DHE 39

May 251998 Philip Burke BSA 43 June 21 1998

Grant Carman BSA 49 Oct 221998 Frederick Chambers BSA 41

June 1998 Wilmot Conley ADA4 7 April 7 1998 Lloyd Crewson BSA 49 Aug 261998

Jacqueline Dimock DHE 47

Aug 20 1998 John Dingwall DVM 52

April 18 1998

Lloyd Dorsey BSA 38 June 9 1998 George Duncan BSA 37

Sept 19 1998

David Dyson BSA 53 Aug 31 1998

Norma (Shannon) Edwards DHE 39

November 1997 Vincent Bud Ellis DVM 41

July 15 1998 John Jack George BSA 48

Sept 24 1998

Donald Haight BSA 33 January 1997 William Hamlyn BSA 33 Dec I 1997

Gordon Harkness BSA 49

November 1997

Charles Hollister DVM 38 June 1996 Donald Hope BSA 54 June 28 1998

Lawrence Jefferson BSA 38

Sept 3 1998

James Kelso DVM 56 July 27 1998

Dorima Lalonde BSA 34 Oct 8 1998 Mildred (Cox) Large DHE 33

June 20 1998 Roger Larson BComm 86 Feb 19 1998 Robert Lawson BSA 49 June 6 1998

bull Doug Ramsey BA 91 and PhD 98 received U of Gs highshyest graduate student award shythe Forster Medal- at June convocation for his academic and community involvement while enrolled in Guelphs new

graduate program in geography He spent the summer as a visitshying research scholar at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College in Truro before assuming his curshyrent position as assistant professhysor at Mount Allison University

David Leach BSc(Agr) 74

July 18 1998

Ian Leask DVM 74 Sept 5 1998

Sheryl Lee BSc 95 June 8 1998 Ruby Janet MacAuley DHE 30

Aug 19 1998 Parker MacKenzie DVM 38

September 1994

Jeanice MacLaren DHE 28 March 1 1997

Campbell MacMaster DVM42

Oct 8 1998

Rex McCallum DVM 43 July 71998 Jean (Dunn) McMahon DHE 31

Nov 41998

Margaret Oones) McTaggart DHE 35 Aug 81998

Patrick McTaggart-Cowan HDSc 81

Oct 21997

Malcolm McWhinnie ADA 39

July 16 1998 Mary (Townsend) Mitchell BHSc

60 Sept 281998

Marjory Monaghan DHE 29

December 1997 Charles Monk BSA 44 Aug 7 1998

Heather Neilsen BHSc 59

Oct 30 1998 Jerry Niwa DVM 62 Aug 5 1998 Henry Harry OReilly BSA 42

October 1997

James Parr BSc(Agr) 81 June 19 1998 Charles Rammage DVM 45

Oct 17 1996 Howard Rapson HDSc 90

March 1997 Clement Reeds DVM 42 Oct 16 1998

William Robinson BSA 38

Aug 23 1998

Donald Sager ADA 73 Oct 141997

Austin Schaefer DVM 37 in 1997

Sandra (Mackenzie) Schmidt DHE 59

Aug 16 1997 Margaret (Harvey) Seaborn DHE 28

July 221998

Larry Seguin DVM 47 June 12 1998

Leah Shedden DHE 31 December 1998

Edward Shuh BSA 40 July 2 1998

Ted Shutsa BSc(Agr) 66

Sept 18 1998 Jim Sinclair DVM 49 Oct 4 1998

Margaret (Brown) Sinclair DHE 20

September 1998 Eldon Smith BSA 42 Sept 9 1998

Derek Somers DVM 96 Sept 25 1998

Cheryl Lynn Sopha BA 95 Sept 20 1998

Leona (Bartlett) Stewart DHE 35

June 27 1998 Alex Thomson BSc(Agr) 69

October 1996

William Whittick DVM 55

Aug 15 1998 Joseph Wilson BSA 23 Sept 11 1998

Lloyd Woolsey DVM41 June 24 1998

Winifred Yeates DHE 28 June 11998

Faculty John Carpenter BSA 43 and MSA 48

Microbiology Dec 10 1998

David Gaskin Zoology Sept 14 1998

Gordon Macleod BSA 50 Animal and

Poultry Science Nov 26 1998 Roman Retman Languages and

Literatures Sept 28 1998

Caesar Sen off Chemistry and

Biochemistry Aug 14 1998

Percy Smith Drama Dec 10 1998

Friends Robert Clark Aug 21 1998

Ethel Hammond August 1998

Thomas Hillers Sept 28 1998 Marguerite Holbrook Aug 26 1998

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bull Karl Reimer BSe 94 comshypleted a one-year intensive

MSc in mining engineering at

Queens University and is now

a project engineer a t Enpar

Technologies Ine in Guelph

He can be contacted at reimerbservcom

bull Nancy Nauta Rowland BA 90 and her husband Dan celshy

ebrated their first wedding

anniversary in March 1998 with

the birth of their first child

Connor who beat their March

8 anniversary by two days Nanshy

cy teaches junior-grade stushy

dents and junior special ed ucashy

tion for the Peel District School

Board The Rowlands live in

Caledon Ont

bull Fraser Stables MFA 98 was heralded by Toronto Globe 6shyMail critic Betty Jordan as a

formidable new talent followshy

ing the openi ng of his debut

gallery exh ibition in July The

Scottish artists work includes

sculpture video and mixed

media that explore notions of

flu x by interrupting the moveshy

ment of forms in space

bull Erin (Smith) Scott BSe(HK) 92 and Brad

Scott BSc(Agr) 91 of Lucan

O nt were married in 1993 and

had their first child Lucas in

August Erin works for Shopshy

pers Home Health Ca re in

London Brad is with New Life

Mills in Dunfield

bull Abby Simons BSc 95 and Martin Piche BSc(Agr) 95 were married in Mont-Tremshy

blant Quebec in 1997 She is a

customer service representative

with Kantech Systems he is

superintendent of Club de golf

vallee des forts They say theyd

love to hear from anyone headshy

ing to Montreal and can be

reached at 450-348-3860

bull Sylvia Tesori BSc 95 has been doing wildlife rehabilitashy

tion for the OSPCA Wildlife

Rehabilitation Centre in Midshy

land Ont since 1996

bull Chuck Thibeault BComm 94 is general manager of the

Putting Edge Corpora tion

which has two glow-in- theshy

dark mini-golf courses in

Ontario one in Bramp ton and

one in Richmond Hill He can

be reached in Richmond Hill at

chu ckttotalnet

bull Karen Thirlwall BA 93 is a

si ngersongwriter and guitarist

who began her stage career and

released her first album The Voice Inside Me while studying

languages at U of G She has

lived and performed in

11i stler BC for three years

and recently released a second

album called Wide-Eyed She

remembers many special

fr iends m ade at Guelph and

welcomes e-mail messages to

karenthirlwallhotmailcom

bull Christie (Johnson) and Steve

Tyler both BComm 91 live in

Cambridge Ont where

Christie is a personal banking

representative for the Royal

Bank Steve works with their

third-year design professor

Nelson Hofer in Mississauga as

a design consultan t Steves proshy

jects include the Windsor Casishy

no and U of Gs Creelman Hall

They have two children Jason

5 and Marcus 1

bull Julia White BA 91 lives in Guelph and is a small-business

accountant at Taves amp Co She

recently finished courses

towards a CGA designation and

would like to hea r from other

alumni who lived in Lambton

Hall in 198788 Send e-mail to

juliawhitesympaticoca

bull Andre-Denis Wright MSc 93 and PhD 98 is doing postshy

docto ral work in Perth Westshy

ern Australia He wants his

Guelph friends and Halifax

family to know he was thinking

of them at Christmas when it

was 40 C in Australia

bull Dave Yellen BComm 90 was recently promoted at the Gordon

Food Service to new-accounts

sales specialist for Metro Toronshy

to Having been in Ottawa for

the past few years Im hoping

to reacquaint myself with old

friend s from U of G in the Metro

area he says He lives in Scarborshy

ough and can be reached at 416shy615-2745 or davidysprintca

bull Halina Zaleski PhD 92 is a tenured professor in the

departm ent of animal sciences

at the Un iversity of Hawaii in

Honolulu She is a swine speshy

cialist involved in extension

programs for an area th at covshy

ers all of Hawai i and the PacifIC

basin She can be reached by

e-mail at halinahawaiiedu

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are students sawing logs throwing pies baking cookies

and square dancing its College Royal When the entire

University of Guelph is displayed - from arts to zooloshy

gy - March 13 and 14 1999 youll know its definitely

College Royan

Since its inception in 1925 as an agricultural and liveshy

stock show run by the Ontario Agricultural College

College Royal has grown to be a celebrated U of G trashy

dition involving all the colleges

The event is famou s in the University community

and beyond for its open-house showcase of displays and

activities The largest student-run open house in Canashy

da College Royal attracts more than 20000 visitors to

campus over one weekend

College Royal is an event of tradition that reaches

into tomorrow Agriculture and livestock shows are still

highlighted events but College Royal activities have

grown to include dog and cat shows a photography conshy

test a chemistry magic show and demonstrations on

human health and fitness The open house gives people

an opportunity to see what happens in the Universitys

leading-edge research laboratories to observe veterinary

medicine in practice to tour a sculpture studio or to

watch a theatrical performance

To celebrate the 75th anniversary of College Royal

1998 president Joe TrakaJo lnvites alumni to get involved

again by joining one of the planning comm ittees or by

participating in a favourite event Call him for more

information at 824-4120 Ext 8366 or send e-mail to

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rather operatic mother I cry at movies laugh too hard __

SCENE ARCI-I[VES

GA writer (reading fiom Epilepsy and Snakes)

1

Although being a dramatic writer has

given me a reputation in my cou ntr y

and a strong identity the actof writin g

or creating character leaves me SOJlle shy

times feeling that I have no id entity at

all Every once in a while when I am not

writing or tending to my four children

I feel I 1m falling again down th e terrishy1 ble hole with nothing to hold on to

And I believe this falling this identity

pain is a result of me using the very

essence of Ill yself to create character in

a dramatic wo rk r wonder so metimes

if J illl1 betraying my soul in a way by

using its essence However J have found

some comfo rt in the words ofWilliall1

Blake Essence is not Identity but from

Essence proceeds Identity and from one

Essence may proceed many Identities

as from one Affection Jlla y proceed

many thoughts If the Essence was

the sa me as the Identit y there could be

but one Identity which is fal se Heaven

wo uld upon this plan be but a clock

but one and the sa me Essence is th ereshy

fore Essence and not Identity

SCENE UNIVER SIT Y CLUB

Thompson I always put myself in a play and

never In other words I take little sections of

myself and grow them in a petri dish of th e

play So if Ive found a moment where Im a

bit lazy ]11 grow it and milke the character

very lazy o r impatient or whatever So I take

these moments because we all have all of

them grow th em and create this Frankenshy

steins monste r a character right out of parts

body parts and psychological parts often of

myself and then observe things in other peoshy

ple but I have to find it in myself to make it

work

SCENE AR C H1V ES

GA writer (reading from Epilepsy al1d Snakes)

My self asserted itself as a kind of quishy

et Lucille Ball c1ulllsy and absent-mindshy

ed At least this gave me an identity and

was a small aCI of slbo tage The next

assertion was an act of unconscio us rev shy

olution th e grand mal seizure that

almost killed me And the next one was

The Crackwalker my first play And this

is how I raged against the machine and

took space in the world And now not

surprisin gly I am seizure-free

SCENE LOWER MASSEY

After another pair of acto rs rUllS through

their scene Thompson directs them to begi n

again She interrupts frequently to question

the students about actions feelings motishy

vations At one point 8S the students pause

to consider her words Thompson turns to

the rest of the class erect in her cha ir

Thompson Isolate the mom ent The great

thing about the stage is th at it isolates the

moments that just race by us_

SCENE UNIVERSITY CLUB

Thompson Ive just written my next play

which is not ca lled Pefeet Pie but thats its

working title because it came from a mon oshy

logue called Perfect Pie But now its a full

two- haul play in which the second wom3n

comes back and tben I have them as yo ung

girls too It goes back ~nd forth and its very

exciting I worksbopped it in the spring and

in December at tbe Tarragon and it will go

on in o ne year At the sa me time lm wr itshy

ing a feature film for Rho mbus based on the

play Pe feet Pie

SCEN E UNlV ERSITY CLUIl

Thompson My pIalS are Illusically written

And if somebody doesnt get the music they

dont feel it and go with the rhythm s it

throws the whole thing off I hear the plays

I hea r them I write with my ear They

change 1 lo t but it s according to rhythm

I ll be sitting in rehea rsal listening and if it

does nt so und ri ght I change it so that its

rhythmic

SCIi -JE J UST AllOUT ANYWHERE YOU CA N

READ A PLAY

GA writer (readmg ji-olll the script ofvVbite

Biting Dog first produced at the Tarragon Th eatre in 1984)

Beciluse of the ex treme and deliberate

lllu sica lity of this play any allempts to

go aga inst the tex tual rhythms such as

th e breaking up of an unbroken senshy

tence the tlking of a pause where none

is written in are DISASTROUS The

effect is like beil1g in a small plane and

suddenly turning off the ignition It all

falls down This play III list SPIN not

just turn around

SCfN e LOWER MASSEY

Her students listen as Thompson stands to

complete a so liloq uy abo ut cap turing the

rhythm of the language on the stage The

wide sleeves of her ank le-length dress slide

down her forea rm s as she ges tures

Thompson Listen to the music of the

scene Each playwright writes their own

symphony

SCENE U NIVERSlTY CLUB

Thompson Ive been pretty directed to this

ii-om an carly age although if I had done anyshy

thing else it probab ly wou ld have been some

form of social work I would have been smokshy

ing three packs of cigarettes a day and workshy

ing il1 an office somewhere up in Scarborough

SC EN E AfltCHIVES

GA write r (reading from Brick interview of Thompson by Eleanor Wachtel ]99] )

In th e thea tre I think what one mllst

do is co nfront the truth confront the

emot ional truth of our li ves which is

mired in the swamp of minuriae

everyday minutiae Maybe it has to be -tl111 way because we couldnt confront

it every day But I think the th eatre

IllllSt Im not interested ill th eatre that

doesnt ga

W1NTER 1999 25

Never mind fish wars pitting countries against one another - here in Canada scientists and policy makers cant agree on who should control the preservation and management ofour own fishery resources BY ANDREW VOWLES

Ca

as

ollapsed cod stocks to the east

On the West Coast laquofish wars

_ rlTDT Pacific salmon enmesh

Canada and the United States

At various points in between fisheries scishy

entists and managers grapple with everyshy

thing from overfishing of freshwater

stocks to invasion by exotic molluscs

What is to be done about Canadian fishshy

eries And what role is being p layed by

fisheries and aquatic scientists at the Unishy

versity of Guelph

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dock pollock red fish and flatfish made up just under half of Canadas total landings on the Atlantic coast (720000 tonnes of fish and shellfish were caught in 1994 represhysenting a total landed value of $11 billion) Two year~ later that proportion had dropped to 21 per cent with shellfish and open ocean fish specie~ notably Atlantic

Begin in the Atlantic The crisis on the East Coast has become a disaster So says laquoWE NEED TO TRY TO SEPARATE OUTGuelph zo ology professor John Roff enushymerating the litany of woes that have surshy

THE FISHERIES MANAGEMENT DECISIONSfaced from Ca nadas marine fishery in the past decade Although some fish and shellshy

FROM THE POLITICAL DECISIONSfi sh are holding their own stocks of other species have experienced declines raquo

ASSOCIATED WITH THE FISHE RY

down that fishery in 1992 Over fishing and under which it has been buying up fishers

Even when stocks do rebound rarely do we fully und erstand why he says Theres a complex of problems to be disshy more for cod stocks to rebound says Roff entangled involving overflshing long- and co-editor with colleague Prof Moira Fergushyshort-term climate change and changes in son of the respected Canadian Journal ofFishshyocean current systems and productivity eries and Aquatic Sciences A wise course of

And of course the once-thriving northshy action for a fisherman in Newfoundland ern cod that first drew Europeans with their would be to seU his licence and do something nets to the Grand Banks 500 years ago have else he says (Last fall the federal governshycoUapsed to the point that Ottawa had to shut ment announced its final retirement program

the failure of federal fisheries managers to heed the warnings of scientists have been blamed for the coUapse Even with the lllorashytoriulll in place it may take two decades or

licences in Atlantic Ca nada and Quebec) In 1992 - the year Ottawa imposed its

moratorium on the northern cod fisheryshylandings of groundfish including cod had-

salmon making up the difference [n 1995 the total groLlndfish catch reached its lowshyest level in two decades

Unlike the Ea st Coast fi shery which relies most ly on ocea n-living fish the Pacifshyic fishery is dominated b) migratory species Some 300000 tonnes of fish and shellfish were harvested along the west coast in 1994 worth a landed value of $550 million (Arcshytic marine fisheries and their management differ from those on the coasts although cOl11mercial and recreational fisheri es are small here food fisheries are important to

U OF G AQUATIC SCIENCES EXPERTISE CATCHES WORLD ATTENTION

Landlocked in the middle of the courltry U ofG nevertheless boasts fish pathology and diseases including farmed fish diseases fish an enviable record and range ofexpertise in aquatic sciencesshy hormones and reproductive physiology including the effects of marine and freshwater - dating back to the late 1960s Thats when environmental contaminants early life history and behaviour Prof Keith Ronald thell chair of the Department ofZoology (and of fi shes and biology of tuna later dean of the College ofBiological Science) began a marine biolshyogy program at the University Today Guelph has the largest Partnered with the A-erod Institute of Ichthyology in U of group of ichthyologists - scientists who study fish - in Gs Aquatic Sciences Facility the r[agen Aqualab is an North America investigating a wide variety ojIre~hshy aquatic research and teaching facililY for studying water alld marine fisheries and aquatics topics aquatic organisms Environmentally controlled

rooms in the Aqualab allow faculty and students to U of Gs Axelrod Institute of Ichthyology houses simulate habitats as diverse as the Arctic Ocean and one of the worlds largest collections of museumshy tropical rainforest pools The facility is named for quality fish fossils donated to the University by its principal benefactor Rolf Hagen founding presshy

ident of Canadas largest pet store 5llpplier J 989 The institute which provides space for fisheries research and visiting scientists brings together 12 core U of G U of G faculty edit four internationally recognized journals researchers in fisheries and aquatic sciences whose interests and in ichthyology fisheries and aquatic science Awarded to U of G by expertise span environmental contaminants and parasitic disshy the National Research Council in 1997 the Canadian Journal of eases evolutionary genetics of marine and freshwater fishes Fisheries al1dAquatic Sciellces is co-edited by zoology professors

US ichthyologist and author Herbert Axelrod in

28 GUELPH ALUMNUS

northerners including shrimp Atlantic salmon and arctic char) Accountin g fOI almost half of that total were Pacific salmon which ret urn from the ocean to spawn in home streams and rivers up and down the coast of Alaska British Columbia and Washshyington There are actually five main spec ies of sa lmon that run down the BC coast shysockeye (t he most va luable commercial species) chinook coho chum and pinkshyfrom spring to December

Its a very complex jurisdictional and multi-user problem says Roff Bes ides degradation of freshwater spawning habishytats and ocean climate effects of El Nill0 the West Coast fishery is a cauldron of ten shysions between various groups perennial fish wars between Ca nada and the United States disputes that pit sport fishers against native fishing rights Recognizing the problems of low ocean productivity habitat damage overfishing and indiscriminate fishing pracshytices that take weak and strong stocks alike Ottawa is developing a new policy to guide Canadas Pacific salmon fisheries focusing on conservation sustainable use and improved decision-making

That potent mix of overfishing and habishytat degrada tion is also a problem for Canashydas freshwater fisheries A report tabled last fall by the federal standing committee on

fisheries and oceans called for more federal funding for research and fisheries programs in central and arctic regions of Canada Accord ing to that report the Grea t Lakes commercial fishery is one of the largest freshwater fisheri es in the world worth an average landed value of more than $40 milshylion a year and an eco nomic impact of at least $250 million Some 90 per cent of that catch is exported The neck lace of lakes threading its way to the St Lawrence River also supports the largest fres hwater sports fishery in the world 800000 Ontarians fish on the Great Lakes eve ry year contributing $850 million to the economy

In Manitoba managers are concerned about the long-term susta inability of freshshywater fish stocks particularly declines in Lake Winnipeg and the northern part of the province caused by overfishing environshymental degradation loss of prime spawning habitat and predators The province has seen stocks rise and fall particularly of pickerel Manitobas highest-priced fish In an attempt to manage the fishery in a sustained fashion the province recently introduced a qu ota entitlement system for anglers Joe OConshynor director of the fisheries branch of Manshyitobas Department of Na tural Resources says his department is wrestling with the environmental threats on fish habitat posed

by farming and hydroelectric development In Ontario fisheries are genera lly in

pretty good shape says Evan Thomas fishshyeries section manager of the fish and wildlife branch of the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (OM NR) Ontario supports almost half of all recreational fishing in Canada with more than two million adult anglers and more than $2 billion a year spent on recreational fishing in the province Onta ri o is also home to Canadas larges t commercial freshwater fishery worth abo ut $40 million a Yfar in land ed value

Thomas says over fishing is still the numshyber one problem Others include habitat loss the potential effects of climate change and contin ued invasion by exotic species Among the management opt ions his minshyistry is exploring are more effective fisheries regulation more rapid inventory and assessshyment techniques fish culture for rehabilishytating populations and controlling nutrient inputs into lakes and rivers

We are clearly looking for federal supshyport for the sea lamprey control program he says referring to recommendations in the recent federal fisheries committee report as well as changes to the federal Fishshyeries Act to hand the province more authorshyity over fish habitat protection

Concerns continue in Ontario over

Moira Ferguson and John Roff Fish Physiology and Biochemistry the top-ranked journal in its field is edited by Prof John Leathershyland chair of the Department of Biomedical Sciences in the Ontario Veterinary College University professor emeritus Eugene Balon has served as editor-in-chief of Environmental Biology ofFishes since he founded the publication in 1976 Zoology professor David Noakes edits Guelph Ichthyology Reviews whose articles synthesize and review all aspects of fish science Both of the latter

Under the Canadian contribution to the project - furided by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council - about 80 federal government and university researchers are trying to learn more about how bioshylogical and physical processes in the oceans affect fish stocks

Zoologychair Prof Paul Hebert has led a Guelph initiative to develshyop multimedia learning resources d1at teach student~ from

are published in the Axelrod Institute of Ichthyology

Based on data from geographic information sysshytems zoology professor John Roff has mapped types of habitat associated with various species of fish and other organisms around Canadas coasts and throughout tl1C Great Lakes the first time such

e1ementaIy grades to university about Canadas aquatshyic environments His department has developed a series of CD-ROMs that provide information on all the major animal groups in the Great Lakes Already available are educational CD-ROMs on Canadas aquatic environments (also available on

d1e World Wide Web) Great Lakes biodiversity and a marine classification system has been developed in this country His report was commissioned by World Wildlife Fund Canada for its Endangered Spaces Campaign and contributes to RoWs work as chair of the scienrillc committee of Globec (Globshyal Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics) a two-year-old international research program intended to better understand ocean ecosystems

birds of the Great Lakes The latter is the first disc in a series called the Great Lakes Faunal Atlas which will eventually cover mammals amphibians reptiles fish and crustaceans

The Alma Aquaculture Research Station es tablished in 1989 and funded through a 20-year development grant by the Ontario

WI NTER 1999 29

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various invas ive species that have turned up

in the Great Lakes - notably sea lampreys

zebra mussels and quagga mussels - many

of which arrive in ballast water of ocea nshy

going vessels (Many have also found their

way into Manitoba says OConnor who

points to the effects of sm elt on whitefish

the main commercial species in Lake Winshy

nipeg) Among o ther meas ures the federal

fish eries committee report called for guarshy

anteed funding for sea lamprey control and

for scienti fic research

I think more money will come says

Prof Bill Beamish Zoology a commissionshy

er on the Great Lakes Fisheries Commission

the 40-year-old governing body that co-ordishy

nates resea rch programs between Canada

and the United States and advises both govshy

ernments It was a review led by Beamish

more than a decade ago on the sta te of

Canadas freshwater fi sheries that provided

the scientific underpinnings for a landmark

report published in 1988 that spelled ou t a

way in freshwater fisheries is a lon g-te rm

project fund ed by the OMNR and the

Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO)

to re-establish native species in their origishy

nal habitats a round Lake Ontario iVlari e

Clement a graduate student of zoology proshy

fe sso r David Noakes is studying Atlantic

sa lmo n which was wiped out of the lake

CONSIDERING WE HAVE THE

BEST FISHERY SCIENCES COMMUNITY

IN THE WORLD WE OUGHT TO

BE DOING BETTER

national strategy for freshwater fisheries

Beamish who has studied sea lampreys

for several decades at Guelph and also invesshy

tigates fish habitat loss says money is need shy

ed to help researchers investigate biological

controls as an alternative to chemical lamshy

pricides The recen t repo rt also notes the

need to address the effects of other nonshy

native exotic species on n ative fish stocks

and water quality and calls on Ottawa to

stem the funding decline in freshwater scishy

ence over the last two decades

One example of the kind of work under

and its tribu ta ry streams near the beginning

o f this century by overflshing and habitat

destruction and alteration Last fall Clement

placed eggs into a site in the Credit River

she has been monito ring oxygen availab il shy

ity durin g their incu ba tion to gau ge sedishy

mentation rates in the river This spring and

summer she wili study how newborn fi sh

interact with other species in th e r ive r

C lement says her docto ral research proshy

ject is but one piece of a larger project aimed

at re-establishing the heritage species Othshy

er researchers hop e to learn whe ther th e

Ministry of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs brings together

researchers for interdisciplinary studies of protein requirements

of arctic char improving fish semen and egg management proshy

cedures and understanding hormone activity in fish The station

acts as a quarantine unit for new fish varieties entering Ontario

and serves as a base for parts of certificate courses and a masters

program in aquaculture

farms in Canada He and fellow Guelph zoologists Eugene Balon

(co- founder of the Coelaca nth Conservat ion Council) and Jim

Bogart also identified and characterized the coelacanth which

had been thought extinct until a specimen was landed off Africa

in the la te 1930s Noakes confirmed the identity of ano ther of

these living fossils discovered in 1997 it appears to belong to a

second popula tion living in the Indian Ocean about 10000 kilo-

metres away from tha t first find

Zoology professors Moira Ferguson and Roy Danzshy

mann use molecular genetics techniques to identishy Zoology chair Paul Hebert was the first scientist to

fy DNA markers used to pinpoint the location of identify the presence in the Great Lakes of zebra

genes associated with growth spawning times mussels a prolific invader that has wreaked havoc

rates of development maturity and temperature in many ways from clogging water-intake pipes to

tolerance in rainbow trout Isolating and identifyshy consuming plankto n thus allowing light to reach

ing genetic markers fo r desirable traits will help fish bottom-dwelling organisms that may displace native

farmers and breeders cross-breed more effectively species The first researcher to report on the biology

conservationists will be better able to manage and preserve and impact of the zebra mussel on the Grea t Lakes was

genetic variability among wild fish stocks Guelph zoology professor Gerald Mackie whose studies showed

that the organisms faster growth rate and higher fecundity and

Zoology professor David Noakes has stuclied varieties of arctic population density will probably enable it to displace many native

char native to Iceland to find ones suited to being raised on fish bivalves and disrupt entire lake ecosystems

30 GUELPH ALUMNUS

LEADING RESEARCH

The University of Guelph has one orthe largest and most active groups of aquatic biologists in the world

bull More than 50 faculty and 100

graduate students research

assocrates and postdoctoral

fellows

bull Over 1000 published scientific

articles books monographs

films and videos in the past

decade

bull Interdisciplinary programs

involving more than a dozen

academic departments

bull The largest group ofichthyoloshy

gists (scientists who study

fish) in North America

bull Collaborative research with

government environrriental

organizations and academic

institutions worldwide

bull Expertise covering the entire

aquatic food chain from plankshy

ton to whales

bull Leading developments in comshy

puter-based educational mate-

rials in aquatic sciences

bull A new $6-million Aquatic

Sciences Facility

bull Research support from national

and international agencies

business and industry

adults will be able to return from the open

lake to their stream spawning grounds If

they come back will the eggs survive she

says If were able to show the eggs can surshy

vive that will be very encouraging for

Atlant ic salmon restoration

What is to be done to ensure the survival

not just of Atlantic salmon in Lake Ontario

but also of the co untrys freshwater and

m ar ine fisheries We need to try to sepashy

rate o ut the fisheries management decisions

from the political decisions associated with

the fi shery says zoology professor Glen Van

Der Kraak director of U of Gs Axelrod

Institute of Ichthyology Van Der Kraak who

studies the effects of toxic contaminants on

fi sh populations says policy mltkers need

to rely on the advice of fisheries sc ientis ts

making conservative harvest ing estimates

So often scientists make decisions and then

are overrun by the politics he says (Never

mind fish wars pitting co untries against one

another - here in Ca nada scientists and

policy makers wres tle over the question of

who should be respo nsible for what aspects

of the countrys fisheries as witnessed in a

war of words played out in the Canadian Journal ofFisheries and Aquatic Sciences over

the past 18 months between biologists at

several Canadian univers ities and the DFO

over the relationship between fishery sc ishy

ence and fishery policy)

Roff says theres nothing unique about

Canadas fish problems Its not really a

Canadian problem its a worldwide probshy

lem The only fisheries worldwide that are

not over fished appear to be some not yet

fully exploited in the Indian Ocean

After nearly four decades of growth the

worldwide marine ca tch levelled off in the

1990s to some 90 million tons a year The

m ain problems coastal pollution habitat

destruction and particula rly overfishing

Noakes editor of the journal Guelph Ichthyology Reviews contrasts the few hunshy

dred people who might have made th eir

livelihood aboard small wood en boats on

the Grand Banks several centuries ago with

the massive factory trawlers that now scour

todays coast People are much too efficient

in terms of catching fish he says Noakes

concurs with fellow Guelph researchers that

conservation of fish stocks has to reach the

top of fishery managers agendas

hat does set Canada apart is the breadth

and depth of expertise in fisheries and aquatshy

ic sciences in this country - rather a parashy

dox when you consider that Canadas record

in fisheries preservation is apparently no betshy

ter than that of many other nations

Considering we have the best fishery scishy

ences community in the world we ought to

be doing better says Roff Within the last

decade th e federal government withdrawal

o f support from the Department of Fishshy

eries and Oceans and university researchers

has been massive At the very time when the

resources were gett ing into severe problems

and when the federal government ought to

have been funding research theyve been

substantially withdrawing resources ga

DONT WAIT UNTIL SPRING The opportunity to double the impact of your gift to the University of Guelph ends on March 31 1999 Until that date all gifts designated to endowed student financial aid at Guelph will be matched by the Ontario Student Opportunity Trust Fund (OSOTF) That means that every dollar you commit will contribute two dollars to financial aid for Guelph students

If you would like to support our students throug h OSOTF you still have a w indow of oppor nishyty to have your do l1a rs doubled But only until March 31 1999

If you have already made a pled ge to OSOTf through U of Gs ACCESS Fund thank you [or your ge nerous support Please comp lete your payme nts by March 31 1999 to e nsure that your gi ft is matched

For more information contact Rudy Putns in Guelphs office of Development and Public Affairs at -519-824-4120 Ext 6384 Fax 519-822-2670 E-mail alumniuoguelphca

WINTER 1999 31

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

n ALUMNI PROF IL E

LETS LOOK AT THE OPPORTUNITIES

WHEN I-IE BECA ME president of the Unishy

versity of Guelph Alumni Association

(UGM) in June Jim Weeden brought new

enthusiasm and ideas for encouraging alumshy

ni to stay in volved with their alma mater

And he wants to start with students

Weeden reca ll s his own ex perience at

U of G where he fo und a sense of commushy

nity by living in residence and ge tting

involved in college activiti es But when he

graduated with an engin ee ring degree in

197 1 he left to begin a caree r and says he

didnt think much about the University until

he needed it again in the 1980s to pursue a

graduate degree in agricultural enginee ring

He spent his early career working as an

agricultural extensi o n engineer for the

Ontario Department o f Agriculture and is

stiU with its successo r the Ontario Ministry

of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs

(OMAFRA) Weed en completed the masshy

ters degree in 1986 when he was head of the

agricultural engineering program and extenshy

sion services a t Centralia College of Ag rishy

cultural Technology

In 1987 he moved to the ministrys plant

industry branch as program m anager and

later held the same position in th e resources

manage m ent branch Sin ce then he has

worked for OMAFRA in Woodstock and

now Stratfo rd He is technical adviser fo r

Ontarios Enviro nmental Farm Planning

Program is respo nsible for o ther environshy

m ental programs and consults with the Minshy

istry o f th e Environment on local agriculshy

tural pollution problems

w Weed en got involved with the Universishy sect tys a]u111ni programs by serving on the first g z board of the Engineering Alumni Associashy

~ tion when it was established in 1990 From

~ 1991 to 1994 he sat on the University Senshy

~ ate and its Research Board and for the pas t

~ four years) hels been on the UGAA executive

32 GUELPH A LU MNUS

From the presidents chair Weeden looks

at the bro ad picture o f UG AA se rvice and

recognizes that the associa tio n owes a debt

o f gratitude to hundreds of alumni volunshy

teers who ha ve helped to build the organishy

za tion over the yea rs and to University staff

in Development and Public Affairs (DampPA)

who support UGAA initiatives and alumni

programs Thro ugh their efforts he says the

a lulllni associati o n is rea ching out to all

U of G alumni Graduates who have mainshy

tained a close relationship with the Univershy

sity thro ugh their college or academic disshy

cipline those who feel an affiliation because

o f their participation in a thletics residence

life o r extracurricular activiti es and even

HIGHLIGHTSmiddot GRAD NEWSmiddot OBITUARIES bull CALENDER

those who have not kept in touch are part of the constituency served by UGAA

Weed en says the alumni association needs to strengthen its relationship with all alumni and he believes the effor t must start on campus with students Hed like to proshymote the idea of alumni involvement as ear shyly as a students second year We need to give students some reason to be con nected and an efficient vehicle for maintaining that connection he says

For many students and new graduates the social functions supported by UGAA and the opportunities for professional networking will be important says Weeden but greater rewards are there for those who join the effort to enhance the Universitys acade mic goals

In todays economic and political envi shyronme nt individual financial support and the advocacy of post-secon dary education are important roles for alumni he says How many people ac tively get involved with the debate on whether universities are job-trainshy

ing centres or centres of education Yet some of our alumni are extremely adept in such roles Weeden would like to cultivate past and current stud ent ac tivists as supporters of public education after they graduate

As Weeden leads UGAA into a new year he says he will work with other UGAA volshyunteers and DampPA staff to find new ways for the association to interact with students and alumni One id ea is to expand UGAAs Intershynet presence by adding a Web message board that will encourage alumni to discuss career and campus issues online and a reply form that will allow them to quickly update addressshyes employment status and other information

Weeden says its important to stay focused on UGAAs key prioriti es but he welcomes any and all new ideas on how to accomplish them All it takes to share your ideas with the UGAA executive is a stamp or a push of the send button when youre clicked on alumniuoguelphca

HKHB SPIRIT RISES

ENCOURAGED BY THE SPIRIT

shown by fellow alumni at last

summers reunion the executive

of the Human Kinetics Human Biology

Alumni Association is moving ahead

with more opportunities for alumni to

stay in touch The association plans to

launch a Web site that will be accessed

through the U of G site

A wine-and-cheese reception already

planned for June 19 1999 wiil try to

build on the success of the 1998 event

which attracted alumni from as far away

as Chicago and as far apart as the 19605

and 1990s Guests had a chance to tour

U of Gs new Health and Performance

Centre and performance testing

labs The program was co-ordinated wiLh

A REFLECTION OF PRIDE

Members of the OAC

Class of 52 join Arboshy

retum staff on the front patio

of the Arboretu m Centre

beside a new reflecting pool

that was built last summer

as a class project Pictured

from left are Murray Parker

Ann Smith George Smith

Jack Sargent Catherine Gibb

Robin Shaw-Rummington

Marilyn Swaby BA 69

Bev Healy B5e(Agr) 72

Norm Watson Una Venerus

Ron Costen Henry Kock

BSe (Agr) 77 and Ric

Jordan BA 75

Prof Jack Barclay chair of the Departshy

ment of Human Biology and Nutritional

Sciences and Prof Susan Pfeiffer Memshy

bers of the Human KineticsHuman

Biology Alumni Association executive arc

Janet Leonhard 82 president Carolyn

Moore 83 vice-president Alison Locker

97 secretary Mark Mulholland 79

lreasurer and t-iary Ann Crape 76

These officers are also spea rheading a

new initiative to benefit students - an

undergraduate award that will provide

$250 and lifetime mem bership in the

association To commcnt on these and

other initiatives contact Leonard by

e-mail at Janel_Leonhardinwrbsb

eduonca or Moore at cturveyagec

uoguelphca

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alumni

Multimedia lab buzzes

THE DONALD FORSTER RoOiv

has become one of the

busiest spots in th e Unishy

versity of Guelph Liblary since the

addition of 70 state-of-the-art

computer workstations that were

supported by alumni do nations

to the Alma Mater Fund (AM F)

U of G president Mordechai

Roza nski officia ll y o pened th e

Alma Mater Fund Multimedia

Lab D ec 2 an d celebrated th e

event with members of the AMF

Adv isory Counc iL [n 1996 a nd

1997 the AMF contributed

$240000 to th e project which

increased the number of student

workstations o n campus by 50 per

cent Students use the m ult imeshy

~ dia lab to conduct research on the

~ Internet access scholarly publicashyr u VI tions on CD-ROM and use COll1shyz ~ puter software mod ules tbat lt

~ strengthen the teaching provided lD

o in co urse lectures labs and tcxtshybii books

middotMatters

Alumnus of many interests

I NTERES TING P EOPLE always have eclect ic interests and U of G

alumnus and honorary degree recipient Ken Murray BSA 50 and

HDLA 96 is a good example H e is known by most people on camshy

pus for his distinguished career in the Canadian meat packing indusshy

try and his volunteer service to U of G He was a member and chair

of Board of Governors from 1973 to 1978 and chair of the Regionshy

al Corporate Committee during U of Gs last capital campaign and

is currently chair of the Heritage Fund Enhancement Committee

Murray is also a strong supporter of community soc ial services

In August he addressed the World Congress of Social Ps)chiatry

held in British Columbia - the only non-psychiatrist on the proshy

gram He spoke about his role in establishing an Alzheimers research

project a t the University ofWaterioo which was recently named in

his honour the Ken Murray Alzheimer Research and Education Proshy

gra m At the gc conference he al so participated in a panel dis shy

cussion that outlined services offered by Guelphs Homewood Health

Cent re Murray bas been actively involved in the governance of the

centre since 1977 and has been a major player in the development

of a charitable foundatio n bearing the Homewood name

WHEN THE PUCK DROPPED More than 30 teams including two

womens teams were entered in the

Dec 6 University of Guelph Alumni Hockey

Tournament Organizers for the 1998 event

were from left Brian Finniss B5c 88

Brad Stephenson BA 86 Terry Carr

BComm 87 Todd Bryant BA 86 and

undergraduate student Brian Melnick

Ken Murray centre with his wife Marilyn Robinson Murray and U of G president Mordechai Rozanski

34 GU ELPH ALUMNU S

RESTORING A JEWEL IN THE CROWN

DONALD RUTHERFORD BSA 5 stands in fron t

of the 1931 conservatory greenhouse that will

be restored to match the splendour of the ga rdens

now growi ng up around it His $256000 leadershy

ship gift to the Conservatory and Gardens Project

was inspired by hi s m emo ries of being a student

at OAC

On behalf of fellow alumni I hope this gift will

commemorate the experiences and educat ion we

acquired while at Guelph says Rutherford When

fully restored to its previous glory the conservatoshy

ry greenhouse will be an ideal greeting and welcome

spot for visitors and newcomers to the University

as well as old friend s renewing their acquaintance

Rutherfords professional career spans the agrishy

foo d industr y beginning as an agricu ltural repshy

resentative with the provincial minist ry I-Ie was

later vice-president of the Fertilizer Institute of

Ontario executive secreta ry of the Canadian Seed

Trade Association director of information w ith

the Ca nadian Livestock Feed Board and Canadishy

an sa les manager for Sylvite of Can ad a Retired

since 1986 he now owns his own sma ll investment

company and manages to golf throughout the yea r

The conserva tory isnt the first ca mpus project

to attract Rutherford s attention - as a student

he helped dig out the base ment of Massey H al l to

build a student lo unge - but his recent gift has

been a tremendous boost to those who have been

working since the ea rly 1990s to save the glass and

cypress structure from demo lition

A committee of alumni facult y sta ff stu dents

and fri en ds of the University has moved the proshy

ject along to th e point w here most of the surshy

rounding garden complex is now complete It fea shy

tures six gardens named in honour of the ir chie f

supporters Autumn Garden - OAC 5 1 Spring

Ga rden - OAC 53 Su mmer Garden - OAC 55

Winter Gard en - OAC 65 Water Gard en shy

OAC 49 and the Woo dland Garden named in

honour of the late Doug Rob inson BSA 53

Alumni have been in strumental in raising

funds for the $ l-million project Students and fa cshy

ulty have provided mudl of the h1l1ds-on Idbour

and friends in the nursery and landscape materishy

als supply industries have given $250000 ill donashy

tions and gifts-in-kind of plan ts and landsca ping

materials Rutherford s generous gift has pushed

th e conservato ry fund-ra ising effort in to the fin 81

stretch Th e ga rden complex and restored g reenshy

110use are sc heduled to officially open during

Alumni Weekend in June 1999

1999 Coming Events

Jan 29 - Aggie Goodshy

Times Banquet call the OAC Student Federation at Ext 8321 for ticket injemnrltion Feb 13 - Norm McCo llulll

D iploma Hockey Tournashy

m ent call Jack Bakker at 519-837-0132 to register a team

Feb 21 - Ottawa Chapter

annual curling bonspiel

Richmond C urling Club in

Richmond Ont For informashytiol1 call Alan Bentley BSA 61 at 6 13-829-6598 or John DVit[ 54 mId Margaret McGowml BHSc 54 at

613-828-7038

March 3 - Florida alumni

reunion a t Maple Leaf

Estates Port Charlo tte Fla

call Ext 6533 0 register

March 13 and 14 - ollcge

Royal 75th o pen house

March 19 and 20 - OAC

Alumni Association curling

bonspiel G uelph Curling

Club register at Ext 6657

May 5 - Chicago All Canashy

dian Universities Night hostecl

by U of G at the University

Club of Chicago 76 East Monshy

roe Sr call Exl 6533 for details May 5 - OAC Alumni

Foundation annual meeting

730 pm Arboretum Centre

May 12 - Alumni-inshy

Action annual meeting and

luncheo n 1130 3m

Arboretum Centre ((11 Ext 6657for tickets

June 18 to 20 - Alumni

Veekend call Ext 6657 to plall a reun io n

-0 r shya -IFor more infon-nation on any a

eVC1l1listed ailove call the oJ -lt oU of G extension listed at en raquo

519-824-4120 or send e-mail z

10 alunznilIoguelphca ~

WINTER 1999 35

alumni Matters

MEMORIES OF COLLEGE ROYAL Grant MacEwan ADA 23 and

BSA 26 is one of the few OAC

alumni who c~n still remember

the first College Royal held Jan

14 1925 MacEwan bad just

entered the degree program in

animal husbandry and may have

been a participant in the liveshy

stock showmanship classes Latshy

er in life he was widely known Grant MacEwan

across Western Canada as 3 liveshy

stock judge and an advocate of

agricultural fairs and exhibitions

MacEwan is bes t known

however for his 23-year C3reer

as a university professor in Manshy

itoba and Saskatchewan and Ilis

political career which included

12 years as alderman and mayshy John Kenneth Galbraith

or of C31gary four years as an

Alberta MLA and eight as lieushy birthday in August

tenant -governor of the province The year after Ma cEwan

He s till lives in Calgary graduated John Kenneth Galshy

where he celebrated his 96th braith ADA 29 and BSA 31

HOMECOMING 98

enrolled at OAC and devoted

some of his energy to organizshy

ing College Royal Show records

indicate it was Galbraith who

first proposed the college event

be publicized so that people

from the farm community

could attend He also suggestshy

ed that OAC invite students

from American agricultural colshy

legesl n th e early 1930s Colshy

lege Royal took its fir s t steps

towards becoming the comshy

munity open house it is today

Galbraith later moved to the

United States where he enjoyed

a distinguished caree r as a proshy

fessor of economics at Harvard

Universi ty Known for his

humanit~rian approach to ecoshy

nomic and political thinking

he was awarded the Order of

Canada in 1997 He celebr3ted

his 90th birthday in October

IT REALLY WAS a homecoming reunion when and Arnott who is head coach of the York

former Gryphon teammates Ralph Shapiro University Yeomen came from the visitors

S5c(HK) 74 and Tom Amott S5c(HK) 80 dreSSing room to hold the ball Shapiro is

met on the field at Alumni Stadium Oct 3 the controller at Huntsman Chemical Inc

Shapiro had the honour of kicking off in Guelph and a longtime United Way volshy

the Universitys 1998 United Way campaign unteer who chaired this years Guelph and

Wellington fund-raising drive The Univershy

sity campaign is the largest in the county

with U of G staff and faculty contributing

over $200000 in 1998

Prior to the game a number of recent

alumni - all U of G scholarship and award

winners - met for a reunion luncheon The UJ

1948 and 1949 dominion championship i5f 3

football teams were also honoured guests z 5 o at the 2 pm game that saw the Gryphons gtshy a defeat York f shya I a

Ralph Shapiro

36 G UELPH ALUMNUS

LEADING THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY FOR 1974 GRADS The 25th-anniversary reunion givshy

i ng program for the Class of 1974

is under way with Bill Laidlaw BA

74 as cbair A public affairs proshy

fessional he has been director of

government relations for the

Canadian operations of Glaxo

vVelJcome Inc for more th an 10

years He also acts as a senior conshy

sultant to support the governshy

ment relations function in other

regions of Canada

Laidlaw began his career in

teaching after earning a history

degree from Guelph and education

degrees (rom Queens University

and the University of Toronto He

also holds the certified human

resources professional designation

and worked in that field for sevshy

eral years before concen trating on

government relations at Glaxo

Welkome He lives in Burlington

Ont and is an act ive community

volunteer having se rved on the

boards of severa l professional

organizations the Queensway

General Hospital and the Metroshy

politan Toronto Lung Association

He is currently completing a oneshy

year term as chair of the Ontario

Chamber of Commerce

Anniversa ry preparations will

culminate with a class gathering

a nd reunion gift at Alumni

Weekend in June 1999

ALUMNI MAKE THE CONNECTION Students who moved into

Maids and Mills halls in Sepshy

tember can take full advanshy

tage of the Universitys highshy

speed computer network

thanks to the OAC Class of

71 whose 25 th-reunion proshy

ject provided wiring upgrades

in the 84- and 77-year-old

residence buildin gs

GRAD NEWS

Marathon survivors inspire us all to appreciate everyday life

W HEN ROBINSON SIIlLJNGS Jane BSe(Agr)

85 Heather BASe 83 Peter BSe(Agr)

86 Scott and Marnie rigwood BA 84 get

together they talk about marathons and the hope

and determination it takes to reach the finish line

Hea ther walked a marathon in San Diego

Calif in June to raise money for leukemia

research then joined Peter for a Toronto marathon

in October that benefi ted the Leukemia Research

Fund of Canada They were inspired by Janes pershy

sonal marathon of survival that foUowed her 1992

diagnosis of leukemia Chemotherapy radiation

remission relapse and finally a bone marrow

transplant [TOm her brother Scott took more than

three years out of her life but gave her the detershy

mination to keep fighting

Many families can understand the marathon

of hope maintained by the Robinsons during

Janes struggle and the commitment they have to

help others who are stricken with the disease Jane

is finally well enough to work again as a writer

and marketing consultant and to join her fami shy

ly in volunteer work She helped recruit for the

Toronto marathon fund -raiser and continues to

be involved with the Leukemia Research Funds

Team in Training She also says that her expeshy

rience has taught her to appreciate more the pleashy

sures of everyday life and the love of famil y

Jan es parents are th e late Doug Rob inson

BSA 53 and Marilyn (Inglis) Robinson Murray

BH Sc 55

19305

bull Grant Misener ADA 32 BSA 35 and DVM 38 received the

prest igious George F Hixso n Felshy

lowship Award from the Kiwanis

International Foundation in May The retired Illinois veter ishy

narian was hono ured for his subshystantial contribution to the

Kiwanis wo rldwide service proshy

ject aimed at eliminating iodine

deficiency disorders the leading

cause of preventable mental retardation in children Over the

years Misener has shown a simishylar commitment to his al ma

mater an d its students through

his close association with OVC

and his support of scho larship

programs

19405

bull Russell McDonaldDVM 45 was named an honorary life direcshytor of the Royal Agricultural Winshy

ter Fair Association in March

McDonald formerly general manshy

ager of Western Ontario Breeders

Ine and executive director of the Canadian Association of Animal

Breeders served as a director of the Royal Winter Fair for 20 years

representing the Canadian artifishycial insemination industry He

lives in Woodstock Ont

bull Ian Taylor DVM43 was recently honoured by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to

Animals of Illinois Taylor ran a small-animal veterinary clinic in

the Chicago area for many years

and says he gained ll1uch experishyence during his first three years in

Illinois as clinic veterinarian for

the anti -cruelty society

19505

bull Charles Chuck Broadwell BSA 54 was elected a Mel

Osborne Fellow by the Kiwanis

Club of Forest City in London Ont in recognition of a dedicatshy -ed and distinguished career in

Kiwanis

19605

bull Constantine Campbell BSA 60 and MSA 61 was named to the

WINTER 1999 37

Order of Canada in January He

received the award in recogni shy

tion of his many contributions

to science and the Canadian

agricultural industry After grad shy

uating from OAC he went on to

do his PhD at the University of

Saskatchewan then joined Agri shy

culture and Agri-food Canada

as a research scientist at the Swift

Current research station Campshy

bell and his family now live in

Ottawa where he is scientist

emeritus with Agriculture and

Agri-food Canada

bull John Casselman BSA 64 is

a research scientist with the

Ontario Ministry of Natural

Resources He Jives in Bath

Ont with his wife Lois

bull Jane Fuller RRSc 65 and

her husband George who both

taught at the Macdonald Instishy

tute from 1966 to 1969 have

moved from Winnipeg to

Utopia Ont following

Georges retirement from the

University of Manitoba

bull Fred Gilbert MSc 66 and

P hD 68 is in his first term as

president of Lakehead Univer shy

sity in Thunder Bay Ont He

taught at U of G in the Departshy

ment of Zoology from 1972 to

1981 and has enjoyed a dive rse

academic career that has also

included teaching at the Unishy

versity of Maine and posi tions

as director of wildlife biology at

Washington State University

and founding dean of the Facshy

ulty of Natural Reso urces and

Environmenta l Studies at the

University of Northern British

Columbia He moved to Lakeshy

head from a position as viceshy

pro vost at Colorado State Unishy

versity A respected wildlife

biologist he has conducted

ex tensive resea rch in s Ll ch areas

as the behaviour and physioloshy

gy of wildlife species and the

effects of environmental

change on wildlife populations

bull Terry Goodyear BSc 67 of

Mont Tremblant Quebec is an

early retiree from Agriculture

and Agri-Food Canada in Ottawa He is now working on

va lue-added products from

industrial wastes particularly

cellulose sludge from pulp and

pa per mills

bull Gary Hearn BA 68 was

named an Ontario provincial

judge in October For the last

25 years he has been a lawyer

with the firm Kearns McKinshy

non in Guelph where he lives

with his wife Irene and three

teenage children

bull Allan Knight BSA 66 of Corunna Ont has retired

from Dow Chemical after 30

years On retirement he was a

laboratory director for indusshy

trial chemicals He is now

working with his son in a famishy

ly-owned and -operated busishy

ness Knight Funeral Home

bull Keith McFarlane BSc(Agr)

68 works for the Department

of Foreign Affairs and Internashy

tional Trade and began a fourshy

year assignment last summer as

head of the commercial divishy

sion of the Canadian Embassy

in Lisbon Portugal The

division promotes the sa le of

Canadian goods and services

to Portugal

bull Ian Newbould MA 68 has

travelled far from his Ontario

roots through an academic and

administrative career that has

taken him to Europe Asia and

Western Canada A noted hisshy

torian he moved into adm inisshy

tration at the University of

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Lethbridge in 1981 and spent

10 years there as director of

research dean of a rts and scishy

ence and vice-presiden t (acadeshy

mic) before crossing the counshy

try to become president of

Mount Allison University in

New Brunswick He is now in

his second term as president of

Mount AUison

bull Indra Deo Singh MSc 68 is

a tea scientist international

consultant and joint director of

the Tea Research Association at

the Nagrakata substation in

India His responsibilities

include co-ordinating research

and development in the Indian

tea industry and developing tea

cultivars and agrotechnology

for tea Singh is married with

two sons aged 27 and 23

19705

bull Don Ambler BSe 71 retired in March as manager of

water programs with Environshy

ment Canada in Dartmouth

NS after 25 years of public

service He has now registered

the company Aquashed Co nshy

sulting to continue in the water

resources field when hes not

gardening beekeeping do ing

aerobics or vo lunteering in the

community and chu rch E-mail

contact is welcome a t

donambl erns sympaticoca

bull Jim Bond BSe 75 is managshy

ing a new processing facility at

the Chalk River Nuclear Laborashy

to ry in Chalk River Ont

bull Terri (Monks) Bulman BSc(Agr) 78 and MSe 81

and her husband Vincent

MSe 8 1 live in Australia with

their th ree children Catherine

7 Peter 4 and baby Christoshy

pher Terri is senior principal

environmental auditor vith

Coffey Geosciences Pty Ltd Vinshy

cent afte r many years as a geoloshy

gist travelling around Australia

and abroad has taken the year

off to study and look after the

children Their e-mail address is

tbulmanbigpondco m

bull Marie David BA 78 of

Hanover Ont has been in the

n ewspaper business for 20

years She started in the mailshy

room moved to advertising

sales then became advert ising

manager She is now gene ral

manager o f three So utham

weekly newspapers and pubshy

lish er of the Hanover Post

bull Janice Harrower and her husshy

band Jerome Billett both

DVM 76 operate a joint veterishy

nary practice in Prescott Ont

Billett says practising together

has allowed them some flexibilishy

ty in their family life and given

their four children a good took

at the rigours of veterinary

medicine Says Billett Not one

of our kid s has the slightest

interest in being a veterinarian

and isnt that just fine Their

o ldest son Jesse attends Harshy

va rd University and is a memshy

ber of its prestigious a cappella

choir Lucas is studying

mechanical engineering at the

University of Waterloo Casey is

planning a career in computer

engineering and Lindsay is a

high school athle te

bull Clair Heinbuch BSe 74 is a

sales manager with Baye r Corp

in Kansas H e and his wife

Caroline (Koscik) BASc 75

returned to the Kansas City

area after spending four years in

Denver They have three chilshy

dren Lisa 20 Scott 18 and

Ryan [5

bull Beverly Lee BASe 72 is an

elem entary school principal in

Unionville Ont She lives with

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her husband Grant Egan in

Collingwood and is looking

forward to retirement in severshy

al years Life on Georgian Bay

is wonderful she says Lee

would love to hear from fellow

grads by e-mail at

leebYrbeeduonca or by

phone at 705 -444 -092l

bull Won-Jai Maeng MSc 71 took office Sept 1 as president

of Kon-Kuk University in Seoul

Korea where his academic

career began He completed an

undergraduate degree at Kon

Kuk in 1965 then studied at

Mailing Agricultural College in Denmark and at U of G before

doing doctoral work at the Unishy

versity of California Davis

Maeng has held research and

teaching positions at the Unishy

versity of illinois at Chung-Ang

University and at Kon-Kuk

where he has been a professor of

animal science since 1984 His

appointment as president folshy

lows years of administrative

experience as a department

head dean and chair of various

research committees and proshy

fessional organizations An

expert in ruminant nutrition

Maeng was instrumental in

developing the livestock feed

industry in Korea He has also

been active in working with

alumni groups and in writing

for the Kon-Kuk Tribune

bull Bill MarshaU ADA 75 of Proton Station Ont moved

from Clarksburg in June to

work in Dundalk for the Grey

County Roads Department on

its road management crew

bull Bernie Matte BSc(Agr) 70 of Moncton NB retired

in March after 28 years with

Fisheries and Oceans Canada

and the Canadian Food

Inspection Agency He plans to

travel to Belize and Honduras

with his wife Diane and will

be available anywhere in the

Caribbean for seafood HACCP

consulting work

bull Margaret McClain BA 70 lives in Arkansas where she is

highJy involved in the issue of

40 GUELPH ALUMNUS

missing children and internashy

tional abductions McClain who

believes her own six-year-old

daughter was taken out of the

United States more than a year

ago by her second husband is

reaching out to parents with

similar experiences through an

organization that is lobbying the

US government for tougher

international abduction laws

She invites interested fr iends

and alumni to contact her

through her Web site at

wwwinsolwwbnet-dmcclain

bull Robert (Chuck) Miller BA 77 is the park superintendent

of Killarney French River and

Maskinonje provincial parks in

Ontario He moved to Killarney

from Quetico Provincial Park

last May

bull Gordon Nicol BA 72 and MSc(Agr) 74 teaches math

and science in a bilingual prishy

vate school in Guatemala A

BEd graduate of Laurentian

he first taught in Guatemala in

the late 1970s then spent 12

years in northern Alberta as a

teacher and principal He

returned to Guatemala in 1989

A widower with three teenage

children Nicol would like to

hear from U of G friends and

acquaintances especially anyshy

one who is was or will be in

Central America He says he

could also use middle-schoolshy

level science projects Send eshy

mail to gnicoll guatenet or

write to PO Box 661447 Miami

Springs Florida 33266-1447

bull Chris Schulte BSc 71 and MSc 73 lives in Nassau

Bahamas with his wife

Andrya After graduation he

stayed in the Department of

Physics as a research associate

with Prof lain Campbell then

joined Ontario Hydro in the

early 1980s He moved to the

Bahamas in 1995 He can be

reached bye-mail at

schultebahamasnetbs

bull Sandra (Pickford) Webster BA 75 has retired from U of

Gs Co mmunications and Pubshy

lic Affairs and is living in Parry

Sound Ont where she is

doing volunteer work and

communications consulting

for the municipality Guelph

friends ca n contact her by

e-mail atswebsterzeutercom

19805

bull Sharon (Courneya) Angus BA 8 I of Surrey BC comshy

pleted a BSW at the University

of British Columbia in 1988

and has been working for the

BC government for 13 years

- first in probation and now

in the family justice division

She and her husband Ron

have three children Jason

Carly and Colin

bull Karen Beazley BLA 86 is an assistant professor and acadeshy

mic program co-ordinator at

the School for Reso urce and

Environmental Studies at Dalshy

housie University in Halifax

She is currently doing research

for a book on endangered

species initiatives and is orgashy

nizing a Nova Scotia wildlands

workshop with the Wildlands

Project for 1999 Her e-mail

address is kbeazleyisdalca

bull Caroline (Van Deudekom) and Marc Brooks both ADA 87

recently moved from Strathroy

to Owen Sound Ont where

they run a 50-acre organic farm

with their two sons

bull Virginia Burt BLA 85 startshyed her own landscape architecshy

ture firm Visionscapes in

Hamilton Ont in ] 996 She

specializes in the design of thershy

apeutic healing gardens spirit

gardens sacred spaces and

la byrin ths and recen tly designed the first healing garden

in Canada specificalJy for peoshy

ple living with HIV and AIDS

bull Joanne (Branson) Carver BA 80 earned a BEd from Brock

University in 1981 and recently

started working as a probashy

tionparole officer She Jives in

Ajax Ont and has two daughshy

ters Julie4 and Sarah 8

bull Heather Champ BA 86 is a Web-site designer in New York

City She began her work in

computer design in 1990 Her

personal site can be Found at

wwwjezebelcom

bull Laurie Gough BA 87 has become a world traveller who

writes about her experiences for

the benefit of others Her most

recent book Island of the

Human Heart A tfornans Travshyel Odyssey is now in its second

printing in Canada and will be

released next year in the United

States and overseas She has also

published Travellers Tales A

Womans World which won the

US-based Lowell Thomas

Gold Award for best travel book

of the year When not travelling

or writing she teaches English

and ESL in Guelph

bull Susan (Coles) Goulden BASc 84 and her husband

Ian are th rilled wi th their

recent adoption of Jennifer Lee

Yu who was born in June near

Leping Jiangxi Peoples Repubshy

lic of China The Gouldens

who Jive in vVaterloo Ont

thank classmate Andrea

(Kovits) Henderson for her

support throughout the adopshy

tion process Susan is currently

on leave from her position with

McCormick Canada

bull Judy (Bodendistel) Gregg BA 82 moved to Melbourne Ausshy

tralia in 1997 with her husband

and two children Carly 6 and

Adam 3 We are enjoying the

friendly people and the great

weather here she says We are

especially enjoying winter in a

place where it never gets below

zero Celsius

bull Nigel GumJey DVM 85 has been a partner in the Alta Vista

Animal Hospital in Ottawa

since 1990 was president of the bull Garry Millage AMPHI 86 bull Heidi Stephenson BA 88 is now ISO 9000 manager at

Ontario Veterinary Medical left a position as vice-president was awarded her professional Carpenter Ca nada Ltd in

Association in 1997 and recent- of national operations for acco untants designation of Wood br idge Ont He lives in

ly served on the Canadian Vetshy Scotts Restaurants KFC Divishy certified general accountant in Miss issa uga Classma tes are

erilw() Medical Associations sion to open his own consult- March 1998 She has been invited to contact him at

national issues committee He ing company Future Food employed for the last 10 years avon listarca

lives in Osgoode with his wife Equipment Ine specializes in with Dan Ball Chartered bull Michelle (Pilon) Bacon BA rvlaurecn and children Laura providing new and used restau- Acco un tant in Parry Sound 90 moved to England to study

and Matthew rant equipment and reducing O nt where she lives with her and work after graduating from

bull Muneer Hirji BComm 82 restaurant construction costs hu sband Brad two dogs and a Guelph She recently left a posishy

lives in Toronto and is vice- He also operates a restaurant horse tion with the British Ministry of

president of marke ting at SAP called Nikkos in Woodbridge bull Dawn Stetsko BSe 81 lives Agriculture and Food in York to

Canada He has three chil- Ont and is planning to open a in Langhorne Pa with her husshy become an at-home mom She

drcl1 Nadia 8 Alyssa 6 and second location band Paul and children Mark now lives in London with her

Sarah I bull Tosh Noseworthy BSe 83 is and Keith and is a research husband Tim and one-year-old

bull Brenda irwin BSe 88 is a cardiovascular ICU nurse in scientist with Bristol-Myers daughter Juliette She sends love

studying at Hong Kong Unishy sunny Tuscon Arizona After Squibb Previously she worked to Sue Heather and Sheila and

vers ity of Science and Technolshy grad uation she lived in Paris at McMaster University in can be reached bye-mail at

ogy to complete the final France for a yea r s tudied nurs- Hamilton Ont for 17 yea rs michellebacondialpipexcom

sem ester of an MBA program ing in O ttawa then lived in Saushy bull Teresa Tummillo-Goy BA bull Jeff Barlow BComm 90 is

through the University of di Arabia for two yea rs She still 86 has a law practice in Water- the training and quality manag-

British Columbia She taught loves to travel and would like to 100 Ont foc Li sing primaril y on er for two five-star luxury boushy

science for the North York hea r from fellow alumni She family law civi l litiga tion and tique h o tels in Prague - Hotel

Board of Education for five can be reached at 520-299-8344 real estate She and her hus- Palace Praha and the Hotel

years before enrolling in the bull Cecilia (Wleugel) Parkes band John Goy live in Guelph Savoy Previo usly he was execu -

MBA program BComm 85 is a graphic and have three sons John 4 tive housekeeper at the five-star

bull Jagwant Kanwar PhD 80 is designer in Toronto and says Tony 3 and Shayne 2 Renaissance Pragu e Hotel

a senior scientist in the depart- she st ill uses ber marketing bull Peter Van der Borch DVM bull Margaret Burnes-Souria BA ment of vegetable crops at Pun- background to help her busishy 88 retired in the fa ll of 1997 94 is a team leader with [011 shy

jab Agricultural University in ness succeed She specia lizes in after several years of practising don Magazin e in London Ont

India He is also director of the logo design lNith hand-drawn physiotherapy and ve terinary She married David Souria in

regional vegetable research stashy illustrations medicine and surgery He Jives July 1997 and is pursuing an tion at Usman (TaranTarn) bull Jim Parr BSc(Agr) 81 and in Pictou NS ]VlBA at the University of West-

Amritsar His and his wife MSe 89 died of cancer in bull MartyWilLiams BA 85 is ern Ontario

Sanyogita have a son Mohit June 1998 but hes being co-ordinator of student activishy bull Janine Byers BASe 95 is a and a daughter Dipika who are remembered by his university ties at University College Unishy public health dietitian at the

both studying engineering friends through the establish - versity of Toronto where he Kingston Frontenac and

Friends can write to Kanwar at ment of a mem orial fund for advises student organizations Iennox amp Addington Health

Punjab Agricultural Un ivers ity his wife Denise and children 1Ie is also chair of the U of T Unit in Kingston O nt She is Ludhiana 141 004 India Shannon and Eric Anyone Staff Association a member of getting married to Ca rl Stewart

bull Larissa Larsen BSe 89 and who would like more informa - the steering committee of the on May 29 j 999 MLA 92 received a PhD in tion can ca ll Brian Tapscott at staffs unionization drive and a bull Lisa Cherry BSe 9 1 is a urban and regional planning 519-767-3566 staff member with the student science journalist and executive

from the University of Illinois bull Cheryl (Dunlop) Reid newspaper The Varsity He can director of Artists Against

at Urbana Champaign in May BSe(Agr) 89 sta rted a new be reached bye-mail at marty Racism an international organi-

She has accepted a position at job in September as ingredient wi lliamsutorontoca za tion She is based in Toronto

Thompson Dyke and Associshy sales manager for RA bull Bonnie (Byma) BASe 96 ales a landscape architecture Chisholm o f Toronto She will 19905 and Gil Clelland BA 95 were

and urban planning firm in continue to work from her bull Claire Allison BA 94 grad- married in December 1996 and

Chicago Her husband Ernie remote offke in Fergus Reid uated from the elementary are living in Chatham On t

Poortinga DVM 89 is in his and her husband Jeff BSe teacher ed ucation program at Bo nnie works at a day-care

third yea r of an MD program (Agr) 89 have two children the University of British centre G il teaches art and

at Rush University Chicago lVlega n 4 and Elizabeth 2 Columbia in 1996 and now phys ical education They ca n -Hes looking forward to joining bull Chee Sie BA 83 is a zone teaches in Va ncou ver be reached bye-ma il at gclelshy

his wife in the ranks of the manager for the Malaysian bull JohnAvon BSdHK) 94 lan ciaccesscom employed They would both Assurance Alliance Berhad in earned an M Se in industr ial bull Kate Corn ell BA 95 of enjoy hearing from fellow Sarawak Malaysia He and his operations from Lawrence Markham Ont earned her

alumni and can be reached at wife Jesterine have a two-year- Technological University in masters in dance history from epoor tin garushurushedu old daughter Letitia Southfleld Mich in 1997 and York University in May and

WINTER 1999 41

co-authored a book titled

Toronto Dance Theatre 1968shy1998 Stages in a Journey

bull Mary Jill (McClure) Culliton BASe 90 earned

her BEd from Brock University

and her M Ed from the Univershy

sity of Western Ontario and

teaches Grade 1 in Mitchell

Ont She and her husband

Tim live in Stratford

bull Kathleen (McNutt) Daniels BASe 9 1 is a teacher and was

married on New Years Eve

1994 to Gord Daniels They live

in North Bay Ont and have a

daughter Lauren born in Febshy

ruary 1997 They are expecting

their second child in February

bull Simon Deakin BA 95 studshyied in Florence Italy for a year

then earned a master of fine art

from the Slade School of Fine

Art at the University of London

England He lives in London

bull Christie Dunbar BLA 97 spent a year after graduation

working for Niagara College in

St Catharines Ont on the

vision and design of a new

campus to be built in Niagarashy

on-the- Lake Last April she

joined the landscape architecshy

ture firm of Pollack Design

Associates in Ann Arbor Mich

bull Trina Edmonds BA 94 and

Joel Hinderle became the

proud parents of a little girl

Jordan Ashley in january 1998

and moved to a new home in

Oakville Ont in September

Edmonds works in Mississauga

as a desktop publisher with a

publishingprinting company

bull Wendy Garinther BSc 93 and Steve Decker BSe 94

were married in May Joining

them in the wedding celebrashy

tions were Cheri (Coulter)

42 GUELPH ALUMNUS

Ascroft BSe 93 Karen Leinshy

gartner BSe 94 and Barb

(Moore) Johnson BSe 94

Best man was Jeff Bond BSe

93 and MSe 96 The Deckers

live in Edmonton where Steve

is doing a PhD in chemistry at

the University of Alberta and

Wendy is working in a research

laboratory at a biopharmaceushy

tical company

bull Donna Gross BA 97 is purshysu ing a master of divinity at

Emmanuel College at the Unishy

versity of Toronto and hopes to

become an ordained minister by

2002 She lives in Guelph and

can be reached bye-mail at

donnajulietalbedonet

bull Robert Gruber BA 92 is a child-care supervisor for the

YMCA-YWCA of Guelph and

manages the Jean Little Y

Child- Care Centre He recently

developed the anti -bias proshy

gramming policy for the

Guelph Y and sits on both the

Jean Little Public School Counshy

cil and the Guelph AIDS Wall

Committee He can be reached

bye-mail at rgrubernet

comca

bull Susan Harder BSe 91 grad shyuated from the University of

Toronto Medical School in June

and has started a residency at

Santa Clara Valley Medical Censhy

tre in San jose Calif She will

follow that up with an anestheshy

sia residency at Stanford Univershy

sity Hospital in 1999

bull Marko Harjupanula BASc 93 travelled in Australia for

two months after graduating

from Guelph then returned to

his home town of South Porshy

cupine Ont where he worked

in a gold mine for four years

He entered police college in

September and started as an

opp constable in Cochrane in

December

bull Nancy Holman MA 94 moved to Vancouver soon after

graduation and initially worked

as a project co-ordinator for an

ophthalmologist In 1996 she

began working full time for the

BC Liberal Caucus I would

enjoy hearing from and catchshy

ing up with the friends I made

while studying at U of G and

working at the Brass Taps she

says Her e-mail address is nan shy

cyholmanlassgovbeca

bull Ruth Johnson BA 91 is an investment banking associate

with the mergers and acquisishy

tions group of JP Morgan in

Lond on England responsible

for financial reporting and

administration She has been in

England with her partner Alex Campbell since graduation

bull Stephen Johnson BA 94 of London Ont was a lab technishy

cian at Lenscrafters for three

yea rs and is now a full-time

student at Fanshawe College

studying air conditioning and

refrigeration He was married

in Jun e to Jennifer Fox BSc

95 a chemist at 3M Their

wedding party included Dee Popat BSe (Eng) 94 and

Patrick Wulhes BSc 95

bull Sarah (Davis) Kelly BASe 90 married Robert Kelly in

July and teaches primary

grades at an inner-city school

in Toronto

bull Cassidy Klowak BComm 97 lives in Allisshy

ton Onl and is a personal

banking account manager

with ClBC in Tottenham

bull Stephanie Lopes BSc 96 completed her MSc in repro shy

ductive biology at the Universishy

ty of Toronto and worked as

patient-care director for the

College of Family Physicians

for almost a year In September

she enrolled in medical school

at the University of Toronto

She is happy to announce that

she is engaged to be married

next summer Lopes can be

reached at slopesidirectcom

bull Natalie (Parker) MacKenzie BSc 96 earned her BEd from

the University of Western

Ontario in 1997 She married

ASLt Andy MacKenzie June 27

in Sault Ste Marie Ont and

now lives in Halifax

bull Susan MacKinnon DVM 91 is a veterinarian with HUls

Science Diet She lives in

Guelph with her husband

Brandon Wiley and gave birth

to their first child Adrianna

Nicole june 26 at home

bull Waheed Mian BA 9 1 of Cambridge Ont is a store

director with PetSmart Canada

He helped the company launch

its new retail concept in Cana da

bull Alex Mitchell BA 91 was appointed clerkdeputy treasurshy

er of the Ontario township of

Mildmay-Carrick in 1998 and

will be the clerkadministrator

of the new municipality of

Mildmay-Carrick -TeesWatershy

Culross in 1999 He was married

in january 1997 and lives vith

his wife and daughter in Mild shy

may In his spare time Mitchell

is a professional scout for the

Toronto Maple Leafs covering

southwestern Ontario

bull Sherry Morland BASc 93 of Kitchener Ont ea rned her

BEd from Brock University in

J995 and is a part-time specia l

educa tion teacher and an occashy

sional teacher with the Watershy

loo County Board of Ed ucashy

tion She married Ivan LeBlanc

in 1997

bull Gary Page BSe 91 wo rks for the Nottawasaga Valley Conshy

servation Authority where he is

able to combine his knowledge

of wildlife biology with his

artistic skills as resident graphic

designer and outdoor centre

interpreter He Jives with his

wife Di and their son judah in

CreemoreOnt

bull Elaine Pammenter BA 96 is an inventory clerk with the

Royal Collection at Windsor

Castle in England She holds a

museum management and

curatorship grad uate certificate

diploma from Sir Sandford

Fleming College and did her

internship at the Royal Albert

Memorial Museum in Exeter

England

bull Brent Raymond BSe(Env) 96 of Brantford Ont has

been working with Outward

Bound since graduation He

leads wilderness trips in Northshy

ern Ontario Horida Australia and Sabah (Malaysian Borneo) Most recently he designed and implemented a new introducshytory mountaineering course for Outward Bound Sabah on the summit plateau of Mt Kinashy

balu Those of you who know me as plate licker from U of G get in touch he says Where are you Star I miss you He can be reached by e-mail at globarwchatonca or by

phone at 519-756-1697

Alumni Patrick Abbott BSA 40 July 7 1998

Albert Allen BSA 33 Jan 161994 Agris Ansmits BA 70 and MA 73

February 1998 Barbara (Quartermain) Babcock DHE

53 June 17 1998

Wray Bond BSA 34 Sept 25 1998

Kenneth Bone DVM 38 Dec 29 1998 Evelyn (Stevenson) Buhr DHE 39

May 251998 Philip Burke BSA 43 June 21 1998

Grant Carman BSA 49 Oct 221998 Frederick Chambers BSA 41

June 1998 Wilmot Conley ADA4 7 April 7 1998 Lloyd Crewson BSA 49 Aug 261998

Jacqueline Dimock DHE 47

Aug 20 1998 John Dingwall DVM 52

April 18 1998

Lloyd Dorsey BSA 38 June 9 1998 George Duncan BSA 37

Sept 19 1998

David Dyson BSA 53 Aug 31 1998

Norma (Shannon) Edwards DHE 39

November 1997 Vincent Bud Ellis DVM 41

July 15 1998 John Jack George BSA 48

Sept 24 1998

Donald Haight BSA 33 January 1997 William Hamlyn BSA 33 Dec I 1997

Gordon Harkness BSA 49

November 1997

Charles Hollister DVM 38 June 1996 Donald Hope BSA 54 June 28 1998

Lawrence Jefferson BSA 38

Sept 3 1998

James Kelso DVM 56 July 27 1998

Dorima Lalonde BSA 34 Oct 8 1998 Mildred (Cox) Large DHE 33

June 20 1998 Roger Larson BComm 86 Feb 19 1998 Robert Lawson BSA 49 June 6 1998

bull Doug Ramsey BA 91 and PhD 98 received U of Gs highshyest graduate student award shythe Forster Medal- at June convocation for his academic and community involvement while enrolled in Guelphs new

graduate program in geography He spent the summer as a visitshying research scholar at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College in Truro before assuming his curshyrent position as assistant professhysor at Mount Allison University

David Leach BSc(Agr) 74

July 18 1998

Ian Leask DVM 74 Sept 5 1998

Sheryl Lee BSc 95 June 8 1998 Ruby Janet MacAuley DHE 30

Aug 19 1998 Parker MacKenzie DVM 38

September 1994

Jeanice MacLaren DHE 28 March 1 1997

Campbell MacMaster DVM42

Oct 8 1998

Rex McCallum DVM 43 July 71998 Jean (Dunn) McMahon DHE 31

Nov 41998

Margaret Oones) McTaggart DHE 35 Aug 81998

Patrick McTaggart-Cowan HDSc 81

Oct 21997

Malcolm McWhinnie ADA 39

July 16 1998 Mary (Townsend) Mitchell BHSc

60 Sept 281998

Marjory Monaghan DHE 29

December 1997 Charles Monk BSA 44 Aug 7 1998

Heather Neilsen BHSc 59

Oct 30 1998 Jerry Niwa DVM 62 Aug 5 1998 Henry Harry OReilly BSA 42

October 1997

James Parr BSc(Agr) 81 June 19 1998 Charles Rammage DVM 45

Oct 17 1996 Howard Rapson HDSc 90

March 1997 Clement Reeds DVM 42 Oct 16 1998

William Robinson BSA 38

Aug 23 1998

Donald Sager ADA 73 Oct 141997

Austin Schaefer DVM 37 in 1997

Sandra (Mackenzie) Schmidt DHE 59

Aug 16 1997 Margaret (Harvey) Seaborn DHE 28

July 221998

Larry Seguin DVM 47 June 12 1998

Leah Shedden DHE 31 December 1998

Edward Shuh BSA 40 July 2 1998

Ted Shutsa BSc(Agr) 66

Sept 18 1998 Jim Sinclair DVM 49 Oct 4 1998

Margaret (Brown) Sinclair DHE 20

September 1998 Eldon Smith BSA 42 Sept 9 1998

Derek Somers DVM 96 Sept 25 1998

Cheryl Lynn Sopha BA 95 Sept 20 1998

Leona (Bartlett) Stewart DHE 35

June 27 1998 Alex Thomson BSc(Agr) 69

October 1996

William Whittick DVM 55

Aug 15 1998 Joseph Wilson BSA 23 Sept 11 1998

Lloyd Woolsey DVM41 June 24 1998

Winifred Yeates DHE 28 June 11998

Faculty John Carpenter BSA 43 and MSA 48

Microbiology Dec 10 1998

David Gaskin Zoology Sept 14 1998

Gordon Macleod BSA 50 Animal and

Poultry Science Nov 26 1998 Roman Retman Languages and

Literatures Sept 28 1998

Caesar Sen off Chemistry and

Biochemistry Aug 14 1998

Percy Smith Drama Dec 10 1998

Friends Robert Clark Aug 21 1998

Ethel Hammond August 1998

Thomas Hillers Sept 28 1998 Marguerite Holbrook Aug 26 1998

Catherine Kelly Sept 27 1998

James A McKenzie May 13 1998

Kenneth McIssac Oct 23 1998

William Mutlock September 1998 Roena Patterson Sept 16 1998

Donald Priddle Aug 25 1998

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bull Karl Reimer BSe 94 comshypleted a one-year intensive

MSc in mining engineering at

Queens University and is now

a project engineer a t Enpar

Technologies Ine in Guelph

He can be contacted at reimerbservcom

bull Nancy Nauta Rowland BA 90 and her husband Dan celshy

ebrated their first wedding

anniversary in March 1998 with

the birth of their first child

Connor who beat their March

8 anniversary by two days Nanshy

cy teaches junior-grade stushy

dents and junior special ed ucashy

tion for the Peel District School

Board The Rowlands live in

Caledon Ont

bull Fraser Stables MFA 98 was heralded by Toronto Globe 6shyMail critic Betty Jordan as a

formidable new talent followshy

ing the openi ng of his debut

gallery exh ibition in July The

Scottish artists work includes

sculpture video and mixed

media that explore notions of

flu x by interrupting the moveshy

ment of forms in space

bull Erin (Smith) Scott BSe(HK) 92 and Brad

Scott BSc(Agr) 91 of Lucan

O nt were married in 1993 and

had their first child Lucas in

August Erin works for Shopshy

pers Home Health Ca re in

London Brad is with New Life

Mills in Dunfield

bull Abby Simons BSc 95 and Martin Piche BSc(Agr) 95 were married in Mont-Tremshy

blant Quebec in 1997 She is a

customer service representative

with Kantech Systems he is

superintendent of Club de golf

vallee des forts They say theyd

love to hear from anyone headshy

ing to Montreal and can be

reached at 450-348-3860

bull Sylvia Tesori BSc 95 has been doing wildlife rehabilitashy

tion for the OSPCA Wildlife

Rehabilitation Centre in Midshy

land Ont since 1996

bull Chuck Thibeault BComm 94 is general manager of the

Putting Edge Corpora tion

which has two glow-in- theshy

dark mini-golf courses in

Ontario one in Bramp ton and

one in Richmond Hill He can

be reached in Richmond Hill at

chu ckttotalnet

bull Karen Thirlwall BA 93 is a

si ngersongwriter and guitarist

who began her stage career and

released her first album The Voice Inside Me while studying

languages at U of G She has

lived and performed in

11i stler BC for three years

and recently released a second

album called Wide-Eyed She

remembers many special

fr iends m ade at Guelph and

welcomes e-mail messages to

karenthirlwallhotmailcom

bull Christie (Johnson) and Steve

Tyler both BComm 91 live in

Cambridge Ont where

Christie is a personal banking

representative for the Royal

Bank Steve works with their

third-year design professor

Nelson Hofer in Mississauga as

a design consultan t Steves proshy

jects include the Windsor Casishy

no and U of Gs Creelman Hall

They have two children Jason

5 and Marcus 1

bull Julia White BA 91 lives in Guelph and is a small-business

accountant at Taves amp Co She

recently finished courses

towards a CGA designation and

would like to hea r from other

alumni who lived in Lambton

Hall in 198788 Send e-mail to

juliawhitesympaticoca

bull Andre-Denis Wright MSc 93 and PhD 98 is doing postshy

docto ral work in Perth Westshy

ern Australia He wants his

Guelph friends and Halifax

family to know he was thinking

of them at Christmas when it

was 40 C in Australia

bull Dave Yellen BComm 90 was recently promoted at the Gordon

Food Service to new-accounts

sales specialist for Metro Toronshy

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Never mind fish wars pitting countries against one another - here in Canada scientists and policy makers cant agree on who should control the preservation and management ofour own fishery resources BY ANDREW VOWLES

Ca

as

ollapsed cod stocks to the east

On the West Coast laquofish wars

_ rlTDT Pacific salmon enmesh

Canada and the United States

At various points in between fisheries scishy

entists and managers grapple with everyshy

thing from overfishing of freshwater

stocks to invasion by exotic molluscs

What is to be done about Canadian fishshy

eries And what role is being p layed by

fisheries and aquatic scientists at the Unishy

versity of Guelph

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dock pollock red fish and flatfish made up just under half of Canadas total landings on the Atlantic coast (720000 tonnes of fish and shellfish were caught in 1994 represhysenting a total landed value of $11 billion) Two year~ later that proportion had dropped to 21 per cent with shellfish and open ocean fish specie~ notably Atlantic

Begin in the Atlantic The crisis on the East Coast has become a disaster So says laquoWE NEED TO TRY TO SEPARATE OUTGuelph zo ology professor John Roff enushymerating the litany of woes that have surshy

THE FISHERIES MANAGEMENT DECISIONSfaced from Ca nadas marine fishery in the past decade Although some fish and shellshy

FROM THE POLITICAL DECISIONSfi sh are holding their own stocks of other species have experienced declines raquo

ASSOCIATED WITH THE FISHE RY

down that fishery in 1992 Over fishing and under which it has been buying up fishers

Even when stocks do rebound rarely do we fully und erstand why he says Theres a complex of problems to be disshy more for cod stocks to rebound says Roff entangled involving overflshing long- and co-editor with colleague Prof Moira Fergushyshort-term climate change and changes in son of the respected Canadian Journal ofFishshyocean current systems and productivity eries and Aquatic Sciences A wise course of

And of course the once-thriving northshy action for a fisherman in Newfoundland ern cod that first drew Europeans with their would be to seU his licence and do something nets to the Grand Banks 500 years ago have else he says (Last fall the federal governshycoUapsed to the point that Ottawa had to shut ment announced its final retirement program

the failure of federal fisheries managers to heed the warnings of scientists have been blamed for the coUapse Even with the lllorashytoriulll in place it may take two decades or

licences in Atlantic Ca nada and Quebec) In 1992 - the year Ottawa imposed its

moratorium on the northern cod fisheryshylandings of groundfish including cod had-

salmon making up the difference [n 1995 the total groLlndfish catch reached its lowshyest level in two decades

Unlike the Ea st Coast fi shery which relies most ly on ocea n-living fish the Pacifshyic fishery is dominated b) migratory species Some 300000 tonnes of fish and shellfish were harvested along the west coast in 1994 worth a landed value of $550 million (Arcshytic marine fisheries and their management differ from those on the coasts although cOl11mercial and recreational fisheri es are small here food fisheries are important to

U OF G AQUATIC SCIENCES EXPERTISE CATCHES WORLD ATTENTION

Landlocked in the middle of the courltry U ofG nevertheless boasts fish pathology and diseases including farmed fish diseases fish an enviable record and range ofexpertise in aquatic sciencesshy hormones and reproductive physiology including the effects of marine and freshwater - dating back to the late 1960s Thats when environmental contaminants early life history and behaviour Prof Keith Ronald thell chair of the Department ofZoology (and of fi shes and biology of tuna later dean of the College ofBiological Science) began a marine biolshyogy program at the University Today Guelph has the largest Partnered with the A-erod Institute of Ichthyology in U of group of ichthyologists - scientists who study fish - in Gs Aquatic Sciences Facility the r[agen Aqualab is an North America investigating a wide variety ojIre~hshy aquatic research and teaching facililY for studying water alld marine fisheries and aquatics topics aquatic organisms Environmentally controlled

rooms in the Aqualab allow faculty and students to U of Gs Axelrod Institute of Ichthyology houses simulate habitats as diverse as the Arctic Ocean and one of the worlds largest collections of museumshy tropical rainforest pools The facility is named for quality fish fossils donated to the University by its principal benefactor Rolf Hagen founding presshy

ident of Canadas largest pet store 5llpplier J 989 The institute which provides space for fisheries research and visiting scientists brings together 12 core U of G U of G faculty edit four internationally recognized journals researchers in fisheries and aquatic sciences whose interests and in ichthyology fisheries and aquatic science Awarded to U of G by expertise span environmental contaminants and parasitic disshy the National Research Council in 1997 the Canadian Journal of eases evolutionary genetics of marine and freshwater fishes Fisheries al1dAquatic Sciellces is co-edited by zoology professors

US ichthyologist and author Herbert Axelrod in

28 GUELPH ALUMNUS

northerners including shrimp Atlantic salmon and arctic char) Accountin g fOI almost half of that total were Pacific salmon which ret urn from the ocean to spawn in home streams and rivers up and down the coast of Alaska British Columbia and Washshyington There are actually five main spec ies of sa lmon that run down the BC coast shysockeye (t he most va luable commercial species) chinook coho chum and pinkshyfrom spring to December

Its a very complex jurisdictional and multi-user problem says Roff Bes ides degradation of freshwater spawning habishytats and ocean climate effects of El Nill0 the West Coast fishery is a cauldron of ten shysions between various groups perennial fish wars between Ca nada and the United States disputes that pit sport fishers against native fishing rights Recognizing the problems of low ocean productivity habitat damage overfishing and indiscriminate fishing pracshytices that take weak and strong stocks alike Ottawa is developing a new policy to guide Canadas Pacific salmon fisheries focusing on conservation sustainable use and improved decision-making

That potent mix of overfishing and habishytat degrada tion is also a problem for Canashydas freshwater fisheries A report tabled last fall by the federal standing committee on

fisheries and oceans called for more federal funding for research and fisheries programs in central and arctic regions of Canada Accord ing to that report the Grea t Lakes commercial fishery is one of the largest freshwater fisheri es in the world worth an average landed value of more than $40 milshylion a year and an eco nomic impact of at least $250 million Some 90 per cent of that catch is exported The neck lace of lakes threading its way to the St Lawrence River also supports the largest fres hwater sports fishery in the world 800000 Ontarians fish on the Great Lakes eve ry year contributing $850 million to the economy

In Manitoba managers are concerned about the long-term susta inability of freshshywater fish stocks particularly declines in Lake Winnipeg and the northern part of the province caused by overfishing environshymental degradation loss of prime spawning habitat and predators The province has seen stocks rise and fall particularly of pickerel Manitobas highest-priced fish In an attempt to manage the fishery in a sustained fashion the province recently introduced a qu ota entitlement system for anglers Joe OConshynor director of the fisheries branch of Manshyitobas Department of Na tural Resources says his department is wrestling with the environmental threats on fish habitat posed

by farming and hydroelectric development In Ontario fisheries are genera lly in

pretty good shape says Evan Thomas fishshyeries section manager of the fish and wildlife branch of the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (OM NR) Ontario supports almost half of all recreational fishing in Canada with more than two million adult anglers and more than $2 billion a year spent on recreational fishing in the province Onta ri o is also home to Canadas larges t commercial freshwater fishery worth abo ut $40 million a Yfar in land ed value

Thomas says over fishing is still the numshyber one problem Others include habitat loss the potential effects of climate change and contin ued invasion by exotic species Among the management opt ions his minshyistry is exploring are more effective fisheries regulation more rapid inventory and assessshyment techniques fish culture for rehabilishytating populations and controlling nutrient inputs into lakes and rivers

We are clearly looking for federal supshyport for the sea lamprey control program he says referring to recommendations in the recent federal fisheries committee report as well as changes to the federal Fishshyeries Act to hand the province more authorshyity over fish habitat protection

Concerns continue in Ontario over

Moira Ferguson and John Roff Fish Physiology and Biochemistry the top-ranked journal in its field is edited by Prof John Leathershyland chair of the Department of Biomedical Sciences in the Ontario Veterinary College University professor emeritus Eugene Balon has served as editor-in-chief of Environmental Biology ofFishes since he founded the publication in 1976 Zoology professor David Noakes edits Guelph Ichthyology Reviews whose articles synthesize and review all aspects of fish science Both of the latter

Under the Canadian contribution to the project - furided by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council - about 80 federal government and university researchers are trying to learn more about how bioshylogical and physical processes in the oceans affect fish stocks

Zoologychair Prof Paul Hebert has led a Guelph initiative to develshyop multimedia learning resources d1at teach student~ from

are published in the Axelrod Institute of Ichthyology

Based on data from geographic information sysshytems zoology professor John Roff has mapped types of habitat associated with various species of fish and other organisms around Canadas coasts and throughout tl1C Great Lakes the first time such

e1ementaIy grades to university about Canadas aquatshyic environments His department has developed a series of CD-ROMs that provide information on all the major animal groups in the Great Lakes Already available are educational CD-ROMs on Canadas aquatic environments (also available on

d1e World Wide Web) Great Lakes biodiversity and a marine classification system has been developed in this country His report was commissioned by World Wildlife Fund Canada for its Endangered Spaces Campaign and contributes to RoWs work as chair of the scienrillc committee of Globec (Globshyal Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics) a two-year-old international research program intended to better understand ocean ecosystems

birds of the Great Lakes The latter is the first disc in a series called the Great Lakes Faunal Atlas which will eventually cover mammals amphibians reptiles fish and crustaceans

The Alma Aquaculture Research Station es tablished in 1989 and funded through a 20-year development grant by the Ontario

WI NTER 1999 29

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various invas ive species that have turned up

in the Great Lakes - notably sea lampreys

zebra mussels and quagga mussels - many

of which arrive in ballast water of ocea nshy

going vessels (Many have also found their

way into Manitoba says OConnor who

points to the effects of sm elt on whitefish

the main commercial species in Lake Winshy

nipeg) Among o ther meas ures the federal

fish eries committee report called for guarshy

anteed funding for sea lamprey control and

for scienti fic research

I think more money will come says

Prof Bill Beamish Zoology a commissionshy

er on the Great Lakes Fisheries Commission

the 40-year-old governing body that co-ordishy

nates resea rch programs between Canada

and the United States and advises both govshy

ernments It was a review led by Beamish

more than a decade ago on the sta te of

Canadas freshwater fi sheries that provided

the scientific underpinnings for a landmark

report published in 1988 that spelled ou t a

way in freshwater fisheries is a lon g-te rm

project fund ed by the OMNR and the

Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO)

to re-establish native species in their origishy

nal habitats a round Lake Ontario iVlari e

Clement a graduate student of zoology proshy

fe sso r David Noakes is studying Atlantic

sa lmo n which was wiped out of the lake

CONSIDERING WE HAVE THE

BEST FISHERY SCIENCES COMMUNITY

IN THE WORLD WE OUGHT TO

BE DOING BETTER

national strategy for freshwater fisheries

Beamish who has studied sea lampreys

for several decades at Guelph and also invesshy

tigates fish habitat loss says money is need shy

ed to help researchers investigate biological

controls as an alternative to chemical lamshy

pricides The recen t repo rt also notes the

need to address the effects of other nonshy

native exotic species on n ative fish stocks

and water quality and calls on Ottawa to

stem the funding decline in freshwater scishy

ence over the last two decades

One example of the kind of work under

and its tribu ta ry streams near the beginning

o f this century by overflshing and habitat

destruction and alteration Last fall Clement

placed eggs into a site in the Credit River

she has been monito ring oxygen availab il shy

ity durin g their incu ba tion to gau ge sedishy

mentation rates in the river This spring and

summer she wili study how newborn fi sh

interact with other species in th e r ive r

C lement says her docto ral research proshy

ject is but one piece of a larger project aimed

at re-establishing the heritage species Othshy

er researchers hop e to learn whe ther th e

Ministry of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs brings together

researchers for interdisciplinary studies of protein requirements

of arctic char improving fish semen and egg management proshy

cedures and understanding hormone activity in fish The station

acts as a quarantine unit for new fish varieties entering Ontario

and serves as a base for parts of certificate courses and a masters

program in aquaculture

farms in Canada He and fellow Guelph zoologists Eugene Balon

(co- founder of the Coelaca nth Conservat ion Council) and Jim

Bogart also identified and characterized the coelacanth which

had been thought extinct until a specimen was landed off Africa

in the la te 1930s Noakes confirmed the identity of ano ther of

these living fossils discovered in 1997 it appears to belong to a

second popula tion living in the Indian Ocean about 10000 kilo-

metres away from tha t first find

Zoology professors Moira Ferguson and Roy Danzshy

mann use molecular genetics techniques to identishy Zoology chair Paul Hebert was the first scientist to

fy DNA markers used to pinpoint the location of identify the presence in the Great Lakes of zebra

genes associated with growth spawning times mussels a prolific invader that has wreaked havoc

rates of development maturity and temperature in many ways from clogging water-intake pipes to

tolerance in rainbow trout Isolating and identifyshy consuming plankto n thus allowing light to reach

ing genetic markers fo r desirable traits will help fish bottom-dwelling organisms that may displace native

farmers and breeders cross-breed more effectively species The first researcher to report on the biology

conservationists will be better able to manage and preserve and impact of the zebra mussel on the Grea t Lakes was

genetic variability among wild fish stocks Guelph zoology professor Gerald Mackie whose studies showed

that the organisms faster growth rate and higher fecundity and

Zoology professor David Noakes has stuclied varieties of arctic population density will probably enable it to displace many native

char native to Iceland to find ones suited to being raised on fish bivalves and disrupt entire lake ecosystems

30 GUELPH ALUMNUS

LEADING RESEARCH

The University of Guelph has one orthe largest and most active groups of aquatic biologists in the world

bull More than 50 faculty and 100

graduate students research

assocrates and postdoctoral

fellows

bull Over 1000 published scientific

articles books monographs

films and videos in the past

decade

bull Interdisciplinary programs

involving more than a dozen

academic departments

bull The largest group ofichthyoloshy

gists (scientists who study

fish) in North America

bull Collaborative research with

government environrriental

organizations and academic

institutions worldwide

bull Expertise covering the entire

aquatic food chain from plankshy

ton to whales

bull Leading developments in comshy

puter-based educational mate-

rials in aquatic sciences

bull A new $6-million Aquatic

Sciences Facility

bull Research support from national

and international agencies

business and industry

adults will be able to return from the open

lake to their stream spawning grounds If

they come back will the eggs survive she

says If were able to show the eggs can surshy

vive that will be very encouraging for

Atlant ic salmon restoration

What is to be done to ensure the survival

not just of Atlantic salmon in Lake Ontario

but also of the co untrys freshwater and

m ar ine fisheries We need to try to sepashy

rate o ut the fisheries management decisions

from the political decisions associated with

the fi shery says zoology professor Glen Van

Der Kraak director of U of Gs Axelrod

Institute of Ichthyology Van Der Kraak who

studies the effects of toxic contaminants on

fi sh populations says policy mltkers need

to rely on the advice of fisheries sc ientis ts

making conservative harvest ing estimates

So often scientists make decisions and then

are overrun by the politics he says (Never

mind fish wars pitting co untries against one

another - here in Ca nada scientists and

policy makers wres tle over the question of

who should be respo nsible for what aspects

of the countrys fisheries as witnessed in a

war of words played out in the Canadian Journal ofFisheries and Aquatic Sciences over

the past 18 months between biologists at

several Canadian univers ities and the DFO

over the relationship between fishery sc ishy

ence and fishery policy)

Roff says theres nothing unique about

Canadas fish problems Its not really a

Canadian problem its a worldwide probshy

lem The only fisheries worldwide that are

not over fished appear to be some not yet

fully exploited in the Indian Ocean

After nearly four decades of growth the

worldwide marine ca tch levelled off in the

1990s to some 90 million tons a year The

m ain problems coastal pollution habitat

destruction and particula rly overfishing

Noakes editor of the journal Guelph Ichthyology Reviews contrasts the few hunshy

dred people who might have made th eir

livelihood aboard small wood en boats on

the Grand Banks several centuries ago with

the massive factory trawlers that now scour

todays coast People are much too efficient

in terms of catching fish he says Noakes

concurs with fellow Guelph researchers that

conservation of fish stocks has to reach the

top of fishery managers agendas

hat does set Canada apart is the breadth

and depth of expertise in fisheries and aquatshy

ic sciences in this country - rather a parashy

dox when you consider that Canadas record

in fisheries preservation is apparently no betshy

ter than that of many other nations

Considering we have the best fishery scishy

ences community in the world we ought to

be doing better says Roff Within the last

decade th e federal government withdrawal

o f support from the Department of Fishshy

eries and Oceans and university researchers

has been massive At the very time when the

resources were gett ing into severe problems

and when the federal government ought to

have been funding research theyve been

substantially withdrawing resources ga

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UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

n ALUMNI PROF IL E

LETS LOOK AT THE OPPORTUNITIES

WHEN I-IE BECA ME president of the Unishy

versity of Guelph Alumni Association

(UGM) in June Jim Weeden brought new

enthusiasm and ideas for encouraging alumshy

ni to stay in volved with their alma mater

And he wants to start with students

Weeden reca ll s his own ex perience at

U of G where he fo und a sense of commushy

nity by living in residence and ge tting

involved in college activiti es But when he

graduated with an engin ee ring degree in

197 1 he left to begin a caree r and says he

didnt think much about the University until

he needed it again in the 1980s to pursue a

graduate degree in agricultural enginee ring

He spent his early career working as an

agricultural extensi o n engineer for the

Ontario Department o f Agriculture and is

stiU with its successo r the Ontario Ministry

of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs

(OMAFRA) Weed en completed the masshy

ters degree in 1986 when he was head of the

agricultural engineering program and extenshy

sion services a t Centralia College of Ag rishy

cultural Technology

In 1987 he moved to the ministrys plant

industry branch as program m anager and

later held the same position in th e resources

manage m ent branch Sin ce then he has

worked for OMAFRA in Woodstock and

now Stratfo rd He is technical adviser fo r

Ontarios Enviro nmental Farm Planning

Program is respo nsible for o ther environshy

m ental programs and consults with the Minshy

istry o f th e Environment on local agriculshy

tural pollution problems

w Weed en got involved with the Universishy sect tys a]u111ni programs by serving on the first g z board of the Engineering Alumni Associashy

~ tion when it was established in 1990 From

~ 1991 to 1994 he sat on the University Senshy

~ ate and its Research Board and for the pas t

~ four years) hels been on the UGAA executive

32 GUELPH A LU MNUS

From the presidents chair Weeden looks

at the bro ad picture o f UG AA se rvice and

recognizes that the associa tio n owes a debt

o f gratitude to hundreds of alumni volunshy

teers who ha ve helped to build the organishy

za tion over the yea rs and to University staff

in Development and Public Affairs (DampPA)

who support UGAA initiatives and alumni

programs Thro ugh their efforts he says the

a lulllni associati o n is rea ching out to all

U of G alumni Graduates who have mainshy

tained a close relationship with the Univershy

sity thro ugh their college or academic disshy

cipline those who feel an affiliation because

o f their participation in a thletics residence

life o r extracurricular activiti es and even

HIGHLIGHTSmiddot GRAD NEWSmiddot OBITUARIES bull CALENDER

those who have not kept in touch are part of the constituency served by UGAA

Weed en says the alumni association needs to strengthen its relationship with all alumni and he believes the effor t must start on campus with students Hed like to proshymote the idea of alumni involvement as ear shyly as a students second year We need to give students some reason to be con nected and an efficient vehicle for maintaining that connection he says

For many students and new graduates the social functions supported by UGAA and the opportunities for professional networking will be important says Weeden but greater rewards are there for those who join the effort to enhance the Universitys acade mic goals

In todays economic and political envi shyronme nt individual financial support and the advocacy of post-secon dary education are important roles for alumni he says How many people ac tively get involved with the debate on whether universities are job-trainshy

ing centres or centres of education Yet some of our alumni are extremely adept in such roles Weeden would like to cultivate past and current stud ent ac tivists as supporters of public education after they graduate

As Weeden leads UGAA into a new year he says he will work with other UGAA volshyunteers and DampPA staff to find new ways for the association to interact with students and alumni One id ea is to expand UGAAs Intershynet presence by adding a Web message board that will encourage alumni to discuss career and campus issues online and a reply form that will allow them to quickly update addressshyes employment status and other information

Weeden says its important to stay focused on UGAAs key prioriti es but he welcomes any and all new ideas on how to accomplish them All it takes to share your ideas with the UGAA executive is a stamp or a push of the send button when youre clicked on alumniuoguelphca

HKHB SPIRIT RISES

ENCOURAGED BY THE SPIRIT

shown by fellow alumni at last

summers reunion the executive

of the Human Kinetics Human Biology

Alumni Association is moving ahead

with more opportunities for alumni to

stay in touch The association plans to

launch a Web site that will be accessed

through the U of G site

A wine-and-cheese reception already

planned for June 19 1999 wiil try to

build on the success of the 1998 event

which attracted alumni from as far away

as Chicago and as far apart as the 19605

and 1990s Guests had a chance to tour

U of Gs new Health and Performance

Centre and performance testing

labs The program was co-ordinated wiLh

A REFLECTION OF PRIDE

Members of the OAC

Class of 52 join Arboshy

retum staff on the front patio

of the Arboretu m Centre

beside a new reflecting pool

that was built last summer

as a class project Pictured

from left are Murray Parker

Ann Smith George Smith

Jack Sargent Catherine Gibb

Robin Shaw-Rummington

Marilyn Swaby BA 69

Bev Healy B5e(Agr) 72

Norm Watson Una Venerus

Ron Costen Henry Kock

BSe (Agr) 77 and Ric

Jordan BA 75

Prof Jack Barclay chair of the Departshy

ment of Human Biology and Nutritional

Sciences and Prof Susan Pfeiffer Memshy

bers of the Human KineticsHuman

Biology Alumni Association executive arc

Janet Leonhard 82 president Carolyn

Moore 83 vice-president Alison Locker

97 secretary Mark Mulholland 79

lreasurer and t-iary Ann Crape 76

These officers are also spea rheading a

new initiative to benefit students - an

undergraduate award that will provide

$250 and lifetime mem bership in the

association To commcnt on these and

other initiatives contact Leonard by

e-mail at Janel_Leonhardinwrbsb

eduonca or Moore at cturveyagec

uoguelphca

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alumni

Multimedia lab buzzes

THE DONALD FORSTER RoOiv

has become one of the

busiest spots in th e Unishy

versity of Guelph Liblary since the

addition of 70 state-of-the-art

computer workstations that were

supported by alumni do nations

to the Alma Mater Fund (AM F)

U of G president Mordechai

Roza nski officia ll y o pened th e

Alma Mater Fund Multimedia

Lab D ec 2 an d celebrated th e

event with members of the AMF

Adv isory Counc iL [n 1996 a nd

1997 the AMF contributed

$240000 to th e project which

increased the number of student

workstations o n campus by 50 per

cent Students use the m ult imeshy

~ dia lab to conduct research on the

~ Internet access scholarly publicashyr u VI tions on CD-ROM and use COll1shyz ~ puter software mod ules tbat lt

~ strengthen the teaching provided lD

o in co urse lectures labs and tcxtshybii books

middotMatters

Alumnus of many interests

I NTERES TING P EOPLE always have eclect ic interests and U of G

alumnus and honorary degree recipient Ken Murray BSA 50 and

HDLA 96 is a good example H e is known by most people on camshy

pus for his distinguished career in the Canadian meat packing indusshy

try and his volunteer service to U of G He was a member and chair

of Board of Governors from 1973 to 1978 and chair of the Regionshy

al Corporate Committee during U of Gs last capital campaign and

is currently chair of the Heritage Fund Enhancement Committee

Murray is also a strong supporter of community soc ial services

In August he addressed the World Congress of Social Ps)chiatry

held in British Columbia - the only non-psychiatrist on the proshy

gram He spoke about his role in establishing an Alzheimers research

project a t the University ofWaterioo which was recently named in

his honour the Ken Murray Alzheimer Research and Education Proshy

gra m At the gc conference he al so participated in a panel dis shy

cussion that outlined services offered by Guelphs Homewood Health

Cent re Murray bas been actively involved in the governance of the

centre since 1977 and has been a major player in the development

of a charitable foundatio n bearing the Homewood name

WHEN THE PUCK DROPPED More than 30 teams including two

womens teams were entered in the

Dec 6 University of Guelph Alumni Hockey

Tournament Organizers for the 1998 event

were from left Brian Finniss B5c 88

Brad Stephenson BA 86 Terry Carr

BComm 87 Todd Bryant BA 86 and

undergraduate student Brian Melnick

Ken Murray centre with his wife Marilyn Robinson Murray and U of G president Mordechai Rozanski

34 GU ELPH ALUMNU S

RESTORING A JEWEL IN THE CROWN

DONALD RUTHERFORD BSA 5 stands in fron t

of the 1931 conservatory greenhouse that will

be restored to match the splendour of the ga rdens

now growi ng up around it His $256000 leadershy

ship gift to the Conservatory and Gardens Project

was inspired by hi s m emo ries of being a student

at OAC

On behalf of fellow alumni I hope this gift will

commemorate the experiences and educat ion we

acquired while at Guelph says Rutherford When

fully restored to its previous glory the conservatoshy

ry greenhouse will be an ideal greeting and welcome

spot for visitors and newcomers to the University

as well as old friend s renewing their acquaintance

Rutherfords professional career spans the agrishy

foo d industr y beginning as an agricu ltural repshy

resentative with the provincial minist ry I-Ie was

later vice-president of the Fertilizer Institute of

Ontario executive secreta ry of the Canadian Seed

Trade Association director of information w ith

the Ca nadian Livestock Feed Board and Canadishy

an sa les manager for Sylvite of Can ad a Retired

since 1986 he now owns his own sma ll investment

company and manages to golf throughout the yea r

The conserva tory isnt the first ca mpus project

to attract Rutherford s attention - as a student

he helped dig out the base ment of Massey H al l to

build a student lo unge - but his recent gift has

been a tremendous boost to those who have been

working since the ea rly 1990s to save the glass and

cypress structure from demo lition

A committee of alumni facult y sta ff stu dents

and fri en ds of the University has moved the proshy

ject along to th e point w here most of the surshy

rounding garden complex is now complete It fea shy

tures six gardens named in honour of the ir chie f

supporters Autumn Garden - OAC 5 1 Spring

Ga rden - OAC 53 Su mmer Garden - OAC 55

Winter Gard en - OAC 65 Water Gard en shy

OAC 49 and the Woo dland Garden named in

honour of the late Doug Rob inson BSA 53

Alumni have been in strumental in raising

funds for the $ l-million project Students and fa cshy

ulty have provided mudl of the h1l1ds-on Idbour

and friends in the nursery and landscape materishy

als supply industries have given $250000 ill donashy

tions and gifts-in-kind of plan ts and landsca ping

materials Rutherford s generous gift has pushed

th e conservato ry fund-ra ising effort in to the fin 81

stretch Th e ga rden complex and restored g reenshy

110use are sc heduled to officially open during

Alumni Weekend in June 1999

1999 Coming Events

Jan 29 - Aggie Goodshy

Times Banquet call the OAC Student Federation at Ext 8321 for ticket injemnrltion Feb 13 - Norm McCo llulll

D iploma Hockey Tournashy

m ent call Jack Bakker at 519-837-0132 to register a team

Feb 21 - Ottawa Chapter

annual curling bonspiel

Richmond C urling Club in

Richmond Ont For informashytiol1 call Alan Bentley BSA 61 at 6 13-829-6598 or John DVit[ 54 mId Margaret McGowml BHSc 54 at

613-828-7038

March 3 - Florida alumni

reunion a t Maple Leaf

Estates Port Charlo tte Fla

call Ext 6533 0 register

March 13 and 14 - ollcge

Royal 75th o pen house

March 19 and 20 - OAC

Alumni Association curling

bonspiel G uelph Curling

Club register at Ext 6657

May 5 - Chicago All Canashy

dian Universities Night hostecl

by U of G at the University

Club of Chicago 76 East Monshy

roe Sr call Exl 6533 for details May 5 - OAC Alumni

Foundation annual meeting

730 pm Arboretum Centre

May 12 - Alumni-inshy

Action annual meeting and

luncheo n 1130 3m

Arboretum Centre ((11 Ext 6657for tickets

June 18 to 20 - Alumni

Veekend call Ext 6657 to plall a reun io n

-0 r shya -IFor more infon-nation on any a

eVC1l1listed ailove call the oJ -lt oU of G extension listed at en raquo

519-824-4120 or send e-mail z

10 alunznilIoguelphca ~

WINTER 1999 35

alumni Matters

MEMORIES OF COLLEGE ROYAL Grant MacEwan ADA 23 and

BSA 26 is one of the few OAC

alumni who c~n still remember

the first College Royal held Jan

14 1925 MacEwan bad just

entered the degree program in

animal husbandry and may have

been a participant in the liveshy

stock showmanship classes Latshy

er in life he was widely known Grant MacEwan

across Western Canada as 3 liveshy

stock judge and an advocate of

agricultural fairs and exhibitions

MacEwan is bes t known

however for his 23-year C3reer

as a university professor in Manshy

itoba and Saskatchewan and Ilis

political career which included

12 years as alderman and mayshy John Kenneth Galbraith

or of C31gary four years as an

Alberta MLA and eight as lieushy birthday in August

tenant -governor of the province The year after Ma cEwan

He s till lives in Calgary graduated John Kenneth Galshy

where he celebrated his 96th braith ADA 29 and BSA 31

HOMECOMING 98

enrolled at OAC and devoted

some of his energy to organizshy

ing College Royal Show records

indicate it was Galbraith who

first proposed the college event

be publicized so that people

from the farm community

could attend He also suggestshy

ed that OAC invite students

from American agricultural colshy

legesl n th e early 1930s Colshy

lege Royal took its fir s t steps

towards becoming the comshy

munity open house it is today

Galbraith later moved to the

United States where he enjoyed

a distinguished caree r as a proshy

fessor of economics at Harvard

Universi ty Known for his

humanit~rian approach to ecoshy

nomic and political thinking

he was awarded the Order of

Canada in 1997 He celebr3ted

his 90th birthday in October

IT REALLY WAS a homecoming reunion when and Arnott who is head coach of the York

former Gryphon teammates Ralph Shapiro University Yeomen came from the visitors

S5c(HK) 74 and Tom Amott S5c(HK) 80 dreSSing room to hold the ball Shapiro is

met on the field at Alumni Stadium Oct 3 the controller at Huntsman Chemical Inc

Shapiro had the honour of kicking off in Guelph and a longtime United Way volshy

the Universitys 1998 United Way campaign unteer who chaired this years Guelph and

Wellington fund-raising drive The Univershy

sity campaign is the largest in the county

with U of G staff and faculty contributing

over $200000 in 1998

Prior to the game a number of recent

alumni - all U of G scholarship and award

winners - met for a reunion luncheon The UJ

1948 and 1949 dominion championship i5f 3

football teams were also honoured guests z 5 o at the 2 pm game that saw the Gryphons gtshy a defeat York f shya I a

Ralph Shapiro

36 G UELPH ALUMNUS

LEADING THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY FOR 1974 GRADS The 25th-anniversary reunion givshy

i ng program for the Class of 1974

is under way with Bill Laidlaw BA

74 as cbair A public affairs proshy

fessional he has been director of

government relations for the

Canadian operations of Glaxo

vVelJcome Inc for more th an 10

years He also acts as a senior conshy

sultant to support the governshy

ment relations function in other

regions of Canada

Laidlaw began his career in

teaching after earning a history

degree from Guelph and education

degrees (rom Queens University

and the University of Toronto He

also holds the certified human

resources professional designation

and worked in that field for sevshy

eral years before concen trating on

government relations at Glaxo

Welkome He lives in Burlington

Ont and is an act ive community

volunteer having se rved on the

boards of severa l professional

organizations the Queensway

General Hospital and the Metroshy

politan Toronto Lung Association

He is currently completing a oneshy

year term as chair of the Ontario

Chamber of Commerce

Anniversa ry preparations will

culminate with a class gathering

a nd reunion gift at Alumni

Weekend in June 1999

ALUMNI MAKE THE CONNECTION Students who moved into

Maids and Mills halls in Sepshy

tember can take full advanshy

tage of the Universitys highshy

speed computer network

thanks to the OAC Class of

71 whose 25 th-reunion proshy

ject provided wiring upgrades

in the 84- and 77-year-old

residence buildin gs

GRAD NEWS

Marathon survivors inspire us all to appreciate everyday life

W HEN ROBINSON SIIlLJNGS Jane BSe(Agr)

85 Heather BASe 83 Peter BSe(Agr)

86 Scott and Marnie rigwood BA 84 get

together they talk about marathons and the hope

and determination it takes to reach the finish line

Hea ther walked a marathon in San Diego

Calif in June to raise money for leukemia

research then joined Peter for a Toronto marathon

in October that benefi ted the Leukemia Research

Fund of Canada They were inspired by Janes pershy

sonal marathon of survival that foUowed her 1992

diagnosis of leukemia Chemotherapy radiation

remission relapse and finally a bone marrow

transplant [TOm her brother Scott took more than

three years out of her life but gave her the detershy

mination to keep fighting

Many families can understand the marathon

of hope maintained by the Robinsons during

Janes struggle and the commitment they have to

help others who are stricken with the disease Jane

is finally well enough to work again as a writer

and marketing consultant and to join her fami shy

ly in volunteer work She helped recruit for the

Toronto marathon fund -raiser and continues to

be involved with the Leukemia Research Funds

Team in Training She also says that her expeshy

rience has taught her to appreciate more the pleashy

sures of everyday life and the love of famil y

Jan es parents are th e late Doug Rob inson

BSA 53 and Marilyn (Inglis) Robinson Murray

BH Sc 55

19305

bull Grant Misener ADA 32 BSA 35 and DVM 38 received the

prest igious George F Hixso n Felshy

lowship Award from the Kiwanis

International Foundation in May The retired Illinois veter ishy

narian was hono ured for his subshystantial contribution to the

Kiwanis wo rldwide service proshy

ject aimed at eliminating iodine

deficiency disorders the leading

cause of preventable mental retardation in children Over the

years Misener has shown a simishylar commitment to his al ma

mater an d its students through

his close association with OVC

and his support of scho larship

programs

19405

bull Russell McDonaldDVM 45 was named an honorary life direcshytor of the Royal Agricultural Winshy

ter Fair Association in March

McDonald formerly general manshy

ager of Western Ontario Breeders

Ine and executive director of the Canadian Association of Animal

Breeders served as a director of the Royal Winter Fair for 20 years

representing the Canadian artifishycial insemination industry He

lives in Woodstock Ont

bull Ian Taylor DVM43 was recently honoured by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to

Animals of Illinois Taylor ran a small-animal veterinary clinic in

the Chicago area for many years

and says he gained ll1uch experishyence during his first three years in

Illinois as clinic veterinarian for

the anti -cruelty society

19505

bull Charles Chuck Broadwell BSA 54 was elected a Mel

Osborne Fellow by the Kiwanis

Club of Forest City in London Ont in recognition of a dedicatshy -ed and distinguished career in

Kiwanis

19605

bull Constantine Campbell BSA 60 and MSA 61 was named to the

WINTER 1999 37

Order of Canada in January He

received the award in recogni shy

tion of his many contributions

to science and the Canadian

agricultural industry After grad shy

uating from OAC he went on to

do his PhD at the University of

Saskatchewan then joined Agri shy

culture and Agri-food Canada

as a research scientist at the Swift

Current research station Campshy

bell and his family now live in

Ottawa where he is scientist

emeritus with Agriculture and

Agri-food Canada

bull John Casselman BSA 64 is

a research scientist with the

Ontario Ministry of Natural

Resources He Jives in Bath

Ont with his wife Lois

bull Jane Fuller RRSc 65 and

her husband George who both

taught at the Macdonald Instishy

tute from 1966 to 1969 have

moved from Winnipeg to

Utopia Ont following

Georges retirement from the

University of Manitoba

bull Fred Gilbert MSc 66 and

P hD 68 is in his first term as

president of Lakehead Univer shy

sity in Thunder Bay Ont He

taught at U of G in the Departshy

ment of Zoology from 1972 to

1981 and has enjoyed a dive rse

academic career that has also

included teaching at the Unishy

versity of Maine and posi tions

as director of wildlife biology at

Washington State University

and founding dean of the Facshy

ulty of Natural Reso urces and

Environmenta l Studies at the

University of Northern British

Columbia He moved to Lakeshy

head from a position as viceshy

pro vost at Colorado State Unishy

versity A respected wildlife

biologist he has conducted

ex tensive resea rch in s Ll ch areas

as the behaviour and physioloshy

gy of wildlife species and the

effects of environmental

change on wildlife populations

bull Terry Goodyear BSc 67 of

Mont Tremblant Quebec is an

early retiree from Agriculture

and Agri-Food Canada in Ottawa He is now working on

va lue-added products from

industrial wastes particularly

cellulose sludge from pulp and

pa per mills

bull Gary Hearn BA 68 was

named an Ontario provincial

judge in October For the last

25 years he has been a lawyer

with the firm Kearns McKinshy

non in Guelph where he lives

with his wife Irene and three

teenage children

bull Allan Knight BSA 66 of Corunna Ont has retired

from Dow Chemical after 30

years On retirement he was a

laboratory director for indusshy

trial chemicals He is now

working with his son in a famishy

ly-owned and -operated busishy

ness Knight Funeral Home

bull Keith McFarlane BSc(Agr)

68 works for the Department

of Foreign Affairs and Internashy

tional Trade and began a fourshy

year assignment last summer as

head of the commercial divishy

sion of the Canadian Embassy

in Lisbon Portugal The

division promotes the sa le of

Canadian goods and services

to Portugal

bull Ian Newbould MA 68 has

travelled far from his Ontario

roots through an academic and

administrative career that has

taken him to Europe Asia and

Western Canada A noted hisshy

torian he moved into adm inisshy

tration at the University of

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Lethbridge in 1981 and spent

10 years there as director of

research dean of a rts and scishy

ence and vice-presiden t (acadeshy

mic) before crossing the counshy

try to become president of

Mount Allison University in

New Brunswick He is now in

his second term as president of

Mount AUison

bull Indra Deo Singh MSc 68 is

a tea scientist international

consultant and joint director of

the Tea Research Association at

the Nagrakata substation in

India His responsibilities

include co-ordinating research

and development in the Indian

tea industry and developing tea

cultivars and agrotechnology

for tea Singh is married with

two sons aged 27 and 23

19705

bull Don Ambler BSe 71 retired in March as manager of

water programs with Environshy

ment Canada in Dartmouth

NS after 25 years of public

service He has now registered

the company Aquashed Co nshy

sulting to continue in the water

resources field when hes not

gardening beekeeping do ing

aerobics or vo lunteering in the

community and chu rch E-mail

contact is welcome a t

donambl erns sympaticoca

bull Jim Bond BSe 75 is managshy

ing a new processing facility at

the Chalk River Nuclear Laborashy

to ry in Chalk River Ont

bull Terri (Monks) Bulman BSc(Agr) 78 and MSe 81

and her husband Vincent

MSe 8 1 live in Australia with

their th ree children Catherine

7 Peter 4 and baby Christoshy

pher Terri is senior principal

environmental auditor vith

Coffey Geosciences Pty Ltd Vinshy

cent afte r many years as a geoloshy

gist travelling around Australia

and abroad has taken the year

off to study and look after the

children Their e-mail address is

tbulmanbigpondco m

bull Marie David BA 78 of

Hanover Ont has been in the

n ewspaper business for 20

years She started in the mailshy

room moved to advertising

sales then became advert ising

manager She is now gene ral

manager o f three So utham

weekly newspapers and pubshy

lish er of the Hanover Post

bull Janice Harrower and her husshy

band Jerome Billett both

DVM 76 operate a joint veterishy

nary practice in Prescott Ont

Billett says practising together

has allowed them some flexibilishy

ty in their family life and given

their four children a good took

at the rigours of veterinary

medicine Says Billett Not one

of our kid s has the slightest

interest in being a veterinarian

and isnt that just fine Their

o ldest son Jesse attends Harshy

va rd University and is a memshy

ber of its prestigious a cappella

choir Lucas is studying

mechanical engineering at the

University of Waterloo Casey is

planning a career in computer

engineering and Lindsay is a

high school athle te

bull Clair Heinbuch BSe 74 is a

sales manager with Baye r Corp

in Kansas H e and his wife

Caroline (Koscik) BASc 75

returned to the Kansas City

area after spending four years in

Denver They have three chilshy

dren Lisa 20 Scott 18 and

Ryan [5

bull Beverly Lee BASe 72 is an

elem entary school principal in

Unionville Ont She lives with

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her husband Grant Egan in

Collingwood and is looking

forward to retirement in severshy

al years Life on Georgian Bay

is wonderful she says Lee

would love to hear from fellow

grads by e-mail at

leebYrbeeduonca or by

phone at 705 -444 -092l

bull Won-Jai Maeng MSc 71 took office Sept 1 as president

of Kon-Kuk University in Seoul

Korea where his academic

career began He completed an

undergraduate degree at Kon

Kuk in 1965 then studied at

Mailing Agricultural College in Denmark and at U of G before

doing doctoral work at the Unishy

versity of California Davis

Maeng has held research and

teaching positions at the Unishy

versity of illinois at Chung-Ang

University and at Kon-Kuk

where he has been a professor of

animal science since 1984 His

appointment as president folshy

lows years of administrative

experience as a department

head dean and chair of various

research committees and proshy

fessional organizations An

expert in ruminant nutrition

Maeng was instrumental in

developing the livestock feed

industry in Korea He has also

been active in working with

alumni groups and in writing

for the Kon-Kuk Tribune

bull Bill MarshaU ADA 75 of Proton Station Ont moved

from Clarksburg in June to

work in Dundalk for the Grey

County Roads Department on

its road management crew

bull Bernie Matte BSc(Agr) 70 of Moncton NB retired

in March after 28 years with

Fisheries and Oceans Canada

and the Canadian Food

Inspection Agency He plans to

travel to Belize and Honduras

with his wife Diane and will

be available anywhere in the

Caribbean for seafood HACCP

consulting work

bull Margaret McClain BA 70 lives in Arkansas where she is

highJy involved in the issue of

40 GUELPH ALUMNUS

missing children and internashy

tional abductions McClain who

believes her own six-year-old

daughter was taken out of the

United States more than a year

ago by her second husband is

reaching out to parents with

similar experiences through an

organization that is lobbying the

US government for tougher

international abduction laws

She invites interested fr iends

and alumni to contact her

through her Web site at

wwwinsolwwbnet-dmcclain

bull Robert (Chuck) Miller BA 77 is the park superintendent

of Killarney French River and

Maskinonje provincial parks in

Ontario He moved to Killarney

from Quetico Provincial Park

last May

bull Gordon Nicol BA 72 and MSc(Agr) 74 teaches math

and science in a bilingual prishy

vate school in Guatemala A

BEd graduate of Laurentian

he first taught in Guatemala in

the late 1970s then spent 12

years in northern Alberta as a

teacher and principal He

returned to Guatemala in 1989

A widower with three teenage

children Nicol would like to

hear from U of G friends and

acquaintances especially anyshy

one who is was or will be in

Central America He says he

could also use middle-schoolshy

level science projects Send eshy

mail to gnicoll guatenet or

write to PO Box 661447 Miami

Springs Florida 33266-1447

bull Chris Schulte BSc 71 and MSc 73 lives in Nassau

Bahamas with his wife

Andrya After graduation he

stayed in the Department of

Physics as a research associate

with Prof lain Campbell then

joined Ontario Hydro in the

early 1980s He moved to the

Bahamas in 1995 He can be

reached bye-mail at

schultebahamasnetbs

bull Sandra (Pickford) Webster BA 75 has retired from U of

Gs Co mmunications and Pubshy

lic Affairs and is living in Parry

Sound Ont where she is

doing volunteer work and

communications consulting

for the municipality Guelph

friends ca n contact her by

e-mail atswebsterzeutercom

19805

bull Sharon (Courneya) Angus BA 8 I of Surrey BC comshy

pleted a BSW at the University

of British Columbia in 1988

and has been working for the

BC government for 13 years

- first in probation and now

in the family justice division

She and her husband Ron

have three children Jason

Carly and Colin

bull Karen Beazley BLA 86 is an assistant professor and acadeshy

mic program co-ordinator at

the School for Reso urce and

Environmental Studies at Dalshy

housie University in Halifax

She is currently doing research

for a book on endangered

species initiatives and is orgashy

nizing a Nova Scotia wildlands

workshop with the Wildlands

Project for 1999 Her e-mail

address is kbeazleyisdalca

bull Caroline (Van Deudekom) and Marc Brooks both ADA 87

recently moved from Strathroy

to Owen Sound Ont where

they run a 50-acre organic farm

with their two sons

bull Virginia Burt BLA 85 startshyed her own landscape architecshy

ture firm Visionscapes in

Hamilton Ont in ] 996 She

specializes in the design of thershy

apeutic healing gardens spirit

gardens sacred spaces and

la byrin ths and recen tly designed the first healing garden

in Canada specificalJy for peoshy

ple living with HIV and AIDS

bull Joanne (Branson) Carver BA 80 earned a BEd from Brock

University in 1981 and recently

started working as a probashy

tionparole officer She Jives in

Ajax Ont and has two daughshy

ters Julie4 and Sarah 8

bull Heather Champ BA 86 is a Web-site designer in New York

City She began her work in

computer design in 1990 Her

personal site can be Found at

wwwjezebelcom

bull Laurie Gough BA 87 has become a world traveller who

writes about her experiences for

the benefit of others Her most

recent book Island of the

Human Heart A tfornans Travshyel Odyssey is now in its second

printing in Canada and will be

released next year in the United

States and overseas She has also

published Travellers Tales A

Womans World which won the

US-based Lowell Thomas

Gold Award for best travel book

of the year When not travelling

or writing she teaches English

and ESL in Guelph

bull Susan (Coles) Goulden BASc 84 and her husband

Ian are th rilled wi th their

recent adoption of Jennifer Lee

Yu who was born in June near

Leping Jiangxi Peoples Repubshy

lic of China The Gouldens

who Jive in vVaterloo Ont

thank classmate Andrea

(Kovits) Henderson for her

support throughout the adopshy

tion process Susan is currently

on leave from her position with

McCormick Canada

bull Judy (Bodendistel) Gregg BA 82 moved to Melbourne Ausshy

tralia in 1997 with her husband

and two children Carly 6 and

Adam 3 We are enjoying the

friendly people and the great

weather here she says We are

especially enjoying winter in a

place where it never gets below

zero Celsius

bull Nigel GumJey DVM 85 has been a partner in the Alta Vista

Animal Hospital in Ottawa

since 1990 was president of the bull Garry Millage AMPHI 86 bull Heidi Stephenson BA 88 is now ISO 9000 manager at

Ontario Veterinary Medical left a position as vice-president was awarded her professional Carpenter Ca nada Ltd in

Association in 1997 and recent- of national operations for acco untants designation of Wood br idge Ont He lives in

ly served on the Canadian Vetshy Scotts Restaurants KFC Divishy certified general accountant in Miss issa uga Classma tes are

erilw() Medical Associations sion to open his own consult- March 1998 She has been invited to contact him at

national issues committee He ing company Future Food employed for the last 10 years avon listarca

lives in Osgoode with his wife Equipment Ine specializes in with Dan Ball Chartered bull Michelle (Pilon) Bacon BA rvlaurecn and children Laura providing new and used restau- Acco un tant in Parry Sound 90 moved to England to study

and Matthew rant equipment and reducing O nt where she lives with her and work after graduating from

bull Muneer Hirji BComm 82 restaurant construction costs hu sband Brad two dogs and a Guelph She recently left a posishy

lives in Toronto and is vice- He also operates a restaurant horse tion with the British Ministry of

president of marke ting at SAP called Nikkos in Woodbridge bull Dawn Stetsko BSe 81 lives Agriculture and Food in York to

Canada He has three chil- Ont and is planning to open a in Langhorne Pa with her husshy become an at-home mom She

drcl1 Nadia 8 Alyssa 6 and second location band Paul and children Mark now lives in London with her

Sarah I bull Tosh Noseworthy BSe 83 is and Keith and is a research husband Tim and one-year-old

bull Brenda irwin BSe 88 is a cardiovascular ICU nurse in scientist with Bristol-Myers daughter Juliette She sends love

studying at Hong Kong Unishy sunny Tuscon Arizona After Squibb Previously she worked to Sue Heather and Sheila and

vers ity of Science and Technolshy grad uation she lived in Paris at McMaster University in can be reached bye-mail at

ogy to complete the final France for a yea r s tudied nurs- Hamilton Ont for 17 yea rs michellebacondialpipexcom

sem ester of an MBA program ing in O ttawa then lived in Saushy bull Teresa Tummillo-Goy BA bull Jeff Barlow BComm 90 is

through the University of di Arabia for two yea rs She still 86 has a law practice in Water- the training and quality manag-

British Columbia She taught loves to travel and would like to 100 Ont foc Li sing primaril y on er for two five-star luxury boushy

science for the North York hea r from fellow alumni She family law civi l litiga tion and tique h o tels in Prague - Hotel

Board of Education for five can be reached at 520-299-8344 real estate She and her hus- Palace Praha and the Hotel

years before enrolling in the bull Cecilia (Wleugel) Parkes band John Goy live in Guelph Savoy Previo usly he was execu -

MBA program BComm 85 is a graphic and have three sons John 4 tive housekeeper at the five-star

bull Jagwant Kanwar PhD 80 is designer in Toronto and says Tony 3 and Shayne 2 Renaissance Pragu e Hotel

a senior scientist in the depart- she st ill uses ber marketing bull Peter Van der Borch DVM bull Margaret Burnes-Souria BA ment of vegetable crops at Pun- background to help her busishy 88 retired in the fa ll of 1997 94 is a team leader with [011 shy

jab Agricultural University in ness succeed She specia lizes in after several years of practising don Magazin e in London Ont

India He is also director of the logo design lNith hand-drawn physiotherapy and ve terinary She married David Souria in

regional vegetable research stashy illustrations medicine and surgery He Jives July 1997 and is pursuing an tion at Usman (TaranTarn) bull Jim Parr BSc(Agr) 81 and in Pictou NS ]VlBA at the University of West-

Amritsar His and his wife MSe 89 died of cancer in bull MartyWilLiams BA 85 is ern Ontario

Sanyogita have a son Mohit June 1998 but hes being co-ordinator of student activishy bull Janine Byers BASe 95 is a and a daughter Dipika who are remembered by his university ties at University College Unishy public health dietitian at the

both studying engineering friends through the establish - versity of Toronto where he Kingston Frontenac and

Friends can write to Kanwar at ment of a mem orial fund for advises student organizations Iennox amp Addington Health

Punjab Agricultural Un ivers ity his wife Denise and children 1Ie is also chair of the U of T Unit in Kingston O nt She is Ludhiana 141 004 India Shannon and Eric Anyone Staff Association a member of getting married to Ca rl Stewart

bull Larissa Larsen BSe 89 and who would like more informa - the steering committee of the on May 29 j 999 MLA 92 received a PhD in tion can ca ll Brian Tapscott at staffs unionization drive and a bull Lisa Cherry BSe 9 1 is a urban and regional planning 519-767-3566 staff member with the student science journalist and executive

from the University of Illinois bull Cheryl (Dunlop) Reid newspaper The Varsity He can director of Artists Against

at Urbana Champaign in May BSe(Agr) 89 sta rted a new be reached bye-mail at marty Racism an international organi-

She has accepted a position at job in September as ingredient wi lliamsutorontoca za tion She is based in Toronto

Thompson Dyke and Associshy sales manager for RA bull Bonnie (Byma) BASe 96 ales a landscape architecture Chisholm o f Toronto She will 19905 and Gil Clelland BA 95 were

and urban planning firm in continue to work from her bull Claire Allison BA 94 grad- married in December 1996 and

Chicago Her husband Ernie remote offke in Fergus Reid uated from the elementary are living in Chatham On t

Poortinga DVM 89 is in his and her husband Jeff BSe teacher ed ucation program at Bo nnie works at a day-care

third yea r of an MD program (Agr) 89 have two children the University of British centre G il teaches art and

at Rush University Chicago lVlega n 4 and Elizabeth 2 Columbia in 1996 and now phys ical education They ca n -Hes looking forward to joining bull Chee Sie BA 83 is a zone teaches in Va ncou ver be reached bye-ma il at gclelshy

his wife in the ranks of the manager for the Malaysian bull JohnAvon BSdHK) 94 lan ciaccesscom employed They would both Assurance Alliance Berhad in earned an M Se in industr ial bull Kate Corn ell BA 95 of enjoy hearing from fellow Sarawak Malaysia He and his operations from Lawrence Markham Ont earned her

alumni and can be reached at wife Jesterine have a two-year- Technological University in masters in dance history from epoor tin garushurushedu old daughter Letitia Southfleld Mich in 1997 and York University in May and

WINTER 1999 41

co-authored a book titled

Toronto Dance Theatre 1968shy1998 Stages in a Journey

bull Mary Jill (McClure) Culliton BASe 90 earned

her BEd from Brock University

and her M Ed from the Univershy

sity of Western Ontario and

teaches Grade 1 in Mitchell

Ont She and her husband

Tim live in Stratford

bull Kathleen (McNutt) Daniels BASe 9 1 is a teacher and was

married on New Years Eve

1994 to Gord Daniels They live

in North Bay Ont and have a

daughter Lauren born in Febshy

ruary 1997 They are expecting

their second child in February

bull Simon Deakin BA 95 studshyied in Florence Italy for a year

then earned a master of fine art

from the Slade School of Fine

Art at the University of London

England He lives in London

bull Christie Dunbar BLA 97 spent a year after graduation

working for Niagara College in

St Catharines Ont on the

vision and design of a new

campus to be built in Niagarashy

on-the- Lake Last April she

joined the landscape architecshy

ture firm of Pollack Design

Associates in Ann Arbor Mich

bull Trina Edmonds BA 94 and

Joel Hinderle became the

proud parents of a little girl

Jordan Ashley in january 1998

and moved to a new home in

Oakville Ont in September

Edmonds works in Mississauga

as a desktop publisher with a

publishingprinting company

bull Wendy Garinther BSc 93 and Steve Decker BSe 94

were married in May Joining

them in the wedding celebrashy

tions were Cheri (Coulter)

42 GUELPH ALUMNUS

Ascroft BSe 93 Karen Leinshy

gartner BSe 94 and Barb

(Moore) Johnson BSe 94

Best man was Jeff Bond BSe

93 and MSe 96 The Deckers

live in Edmonton where Steve

is doing a PhD in chemistry at

the University of Alberta and

Wendy is working in a research

laboratory at a biopharmaceushy

tical company

bull Donna Gross BA 97 is purshysu ing a master of divinity at

Emmanuel College at the Unishy

versity of Toronto and hopes to

become an ordained minister by

2002 She lives in Guelph and

can be reached bye-mail at

donnajulietalbedonet

bull Robert Gruber BA 92 is a child-care supervisor for the

YMCA-YWCA of Guelph and

manages the Jean Little Y

Child- Care Centre He recently

developed the anti -bias proshy

gramming policy for the

Guelph Y and sits on both the

Jean Little Public School Counshy

cil and the Guelph AIDS Wall

Committee He can be reached

bye-mail at rgrubernet

comca

bull Susan Harder BSe 91 grad shyuated from the University of

Toronto Medical School in June

and has started a residency at

Santa Clara Valley Medical Censhy

tre in San jose Calif She will

follow that up with an anestheshy

sia residency at Stanford Univershy

sity Hospital in 1999

bull Marko Harjupanula BASc 93 travelled in Australia for

two months after graduating

from Guelph then returned to

his home town of South Porshy

cupine Ont where he worked

in a gold mine for four years

He entered police college in

September and started as an

opp constable in Cochrane in

December

bull Nancy Holman MA 94 moved to Vancouver soon after

graduation and initially worked

as a project co-ordinator for an

ophthalmologist In 1996 she

began working full time for the

BC Liberal Caucus I would

enjoy hearing from and catchshy

ing up with the friends I made

while studying at U of G and

working at the Brass Taps she

says Her e-mail address is nan shy

cyholmanlassgovbeca

bull Ruth Johnson BA 91 is an investment banking associate

with the mergers and acquisishy

tions group of JP Morgan in

Lond on England responsible

for financial reporting and

administration She has been in

England with her partner Alex Campbell since graduation

bull Stephen Johnson BA 94 of London Ont was a lab technishy

cian at Lenscrafters for three

yea rs and is now a full-time

student at Fanshawe College

studying air conditioning and

refrigeration He was married

in Jun e to Jennifer Fox BSc

95 a chemist at 3M Their

wedding party included Dee Popat BSe (Eng) 94 and

Patrick Wulhes BSc 95

bull Sarah (Davis) Kelly BASe 90 married Robert Kelly in

July and teaches primary

grades at an inner-city school

in Toronto

bull Cassidy Klowak BComm 97 lives in Allisshy

ton Onl and is a personal

banking account manager

with ClBC in Tottenham

bull Stephanie Lopes BSc 96 completed her MSc in repro shy

ductive biology at the Universishy

ty of Toronto and worked as

patient-care director for the

College of Family Physicians

for almost a year In September

she enrolled in medical school

at the University of Toronto

She is happy to announce that

she is engaged to be married

next summer Lopes can be

reached at slopesidirectcom

bull Natalie (Parker) MacKenzie BSc 96 earned her BEd from

the University of Western

Ontario in 1997 She married

ASLt Andy MacKenzie June 27

in Sault Ste Marie Ont and

now lives in Halifax

bull Susan MacKinnon DVM 91 is a veterinarian with HUls

Science Diet She lives in

Guelph with her husband

Brandon Wiley and gave birth

to their first child Adrianna

Nicole june 26 at home

bull Waheed Mian BA 9 1 of Cambridge Ont is a store

director with PetSmart Canada

He helped the company launch

its new retail concept in Cana da

bull Alex Mitchell BA 91 was appointed clerkdeputy treasurshy

er of the Ontario township of

Mildmay-Carrick in 1998 and

will be the clerkadministrator

of the new municipality of

Mildmay-Carrick -TeesWatershy

Culross in 1999 He was married

in january 1997 and lives vith

his wife and daughter in Mild shy

may In his spare time Mitchell

is a professional scout for the

Toronto Maple Leafs covering

southwestern Ontario

bull Sherry Morland BASc 93 of Kitchener Ont ea rned her

BEd from Brock University in

J995 and is a part-time specia l

educa tion teacher and an occashy

sional teacher with the Watershy

loo County Board of Ed ucashy

tion She married Ivan LeBlanc

in 1997

bull Gary Page BSe 91 wo rks for the Nottawasaga Valley Conshy

servation Authority where he is

able to combine his knowledge

of wildlife biology with his

artistic skills as resident graphic

designer and outdoor centre

interpreter He Jives with his

wife Di and their son judah in

CreemoreOnt

bull Elaine Pammenter BA 96 is an inventory clerk with the

Royal Collection at Windsor

Castle in England She holds a

museum management and

curatorship grad uate certificate

diploma from Sir Sandford

Fleming College and did her

internship at the Royal Albert

Memorial Museum in Exeter

England

bull Brent Raymond BSe(Env) 96 of Brantford Ont has

been working with Outward

Bound since graduation He

leads wilderness trips in Northshy

ern Ontario Horida Australia and Sabah (Malaysian Borneo) Most recently he designed and implemented a new introducshytory mountaineering course for Outward Bound Sabah on the summit plateau of Mt Kinashy

balu Those of you who know me as plate licker from U of G get in touch he says Where are you Star I miss you He can be reached by e-mail at globarwchatonca or by

phone at 519-756-1697

Alumni Patrick Abbott BSA 40 July 7 1998

Albert Allen BSA 33 Jan 161994 Agris Ansmits BA 70 and MA 73

February 1998 Barbara (Quartermain) Babcock DHE

53 June 17 1998

Wray Bond BSA 34 Sept 25 1998

Kenneth Bone DVM 38 Dec 29 1998 Evelyn (Stevenson) Buhr DHE 39

May 251998 Philip Burke BSA 43 June 21 1998

Grant Carman BSA 49 Oct 221998 Frederick Chambers BSA 41

June 1998 Wilmot Conley ADA4 7 April 7 1998 Lloyd Crewson BSA 49 Aug 261998

Jacqueline Dimock DHE 47

Aug 20 1998 John Dingwall DVM 52

April 18 1998

Lloyd Dorsey BSA 38 June 9 1998 George Duncan BSA 37

Sept 19 1998

David Dyson BSA 53 Aug 31 1998

Norma (Shannon) Edwards DHE 39

November 1997 Vincent Bud Ellis DVM 41

July 15 1998 John Jack George BSA 48

Sept 24 1998

Donald Haight BSA 33 January 1997 William Hamlyn BSA 33 Dec I 1997

Gordon Harkness BSA 49

November 1997

Charles Hollister DVM 38 June 1996 Donald Hope BSA 54 June 28 1998

Lawrence Jefferson BSA 38

Sept 3 1998

James Kelso DVM 56 July 27 1998

Dorima Lalonde BSA 34 Oct 8 1998 Mildred (Cox) Large DHE 33

June 20 1998 Roger Larson BComm 86 Feb 19 1998 Robert Lawson BSA 49 June 6 1998

bull Doug Ramsey BA 91 and PhD 98 received U of Gs highshyest graduate student award shythe Forster Medal- at June convocation for his academic and community involvement while enrolled in Guelphs new

graduate program in geography He spent the summer as a visitshying research scholar at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College in Truro before assuming his curshyrent position as assistant professhysor at Mount Allison University

David Leach BSc(Agr) 74

July 18 1998

Ian Leask DVM 74 Sept 5 1998

Sheryl Lee BSc 95 June 8 1998 Ruby Janet MacAuley DHE 30

Aug 19 1998 Parker MacKenzie DVM 38

September 1994

Jeanice MacLaren DHE 28 March 1 1997

Campbell MacMaster DVM42

Oct 8 1998

Rex McCallum DVM 43 July 71998 Jean (Dunn) McMahon DHE 31

Nov 41998

Margaret Oones) McTaggart DHE 35 Aug 81998

Patrick McTaggart-Cowan HDSc 81

Oct 21997

Malcolm McWhinnie ADA 39

July 16 1998 Mary (Townsend) Mitchell BHSc

60 Sept 281998

Marjory Monaghan DHE 29

December 1997 Charles Monk BSA 44 Aug 7 1998

Heather Neilsen BHSc 59

Oct 30 1998 Jerry Niwa DVM 62 Aug 5 1998 Henry Harry OReilly BSA 42

October 1997

James Parr BSc(Agr) 81 June 19 1998 Charles Rammage DVM 45

Oct 17 1996 Howard Rapson HDSc 90

March 1997 Clement Reeds DVM 42 Oct 16 1998

William Robinson BSA 38

Aug 23 1998

Donald Sager ADA 73 Oct 141997

Austin Schaefer DVM 37 in 1997

Sandra (Mackenzie) Schmidt DHE 59

Aug 16 1997 Margaret (Harvey) Seaborn DHE 28

July 221998

Larry Seguin DVM 47 June 12 1998

Leah Shedden DHE 31 December 1998

Edward Shuh BSA 40 July 2 1998

Ted Shutsa BSc(Agr) 66

Sept 18 1998 Jim Sinclair DVM 49 Oct 4 1998

Margaret (Brown) Sinclair DHE 20

September 1998 Eldon Smith BSA 42 Sept 9 1998

Derek Somers DVM 96 Sept 25 1998

Cheryl Lynn Sopha BA 95 Sept 20 1998

Leona (Bartlett) Stewart DHE 35

June 27 1998 Alex Thomson BSc(Agr) 69

October 1996

William Whittick DVM 55

Aug 15 1998 Joseph Wilson BSA 23 Sept 11 1998

Lloyd Woolsey DVM41 June 24 1998

Winifred Yeates DHE 28 June 11998

Faculty John Carpenter BSA 43 and MSA 48

Microbiology Dec 10 1998

David Gaskin Zoology Sept 14 1998

Gordon Macleod BSA 50 Animal and

Poultry Science Nov 26 1998 Roman Retman Languages and

Literatures Sept 28 1998

Caesar Sen off Chemistry and

Biochemistry Aug 14 1998

Percy Smith Drama Dec 10 1998

Friends Robert Clark Aug 21 1998

Ethel Hammond August 1998

Thomas Hillers Sept 28 1998 Marguerite Holbrook Aug 26 1998

Catherine Kelly Sept 27 1998

James A McKenzie May 13 1998

Kenneth McIssac Oct 23 1998

William Mutlock September 1998 Roena Patterson Sept 16 1998

Donald Priddle Aug 25 1998

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bull Karl Reimer BSe 94 comshypleted a one-year intensive

MSc in mining engineering at

Queens University and is now

a project engineer a t Enpar

Technologies Ine in Guelph

He can be contacted at reimerbservcom

bull Nancy Nauta Rowland BA 90 and her husband Dan celshy

ebrated their first wedding

anniversary in March 1998 with

the birth of their first child

Connor who beat their March

8 anniversary by two days Nanshy

cy teaches junior-grade stushy

dents and junior special ed ucashy

tion for the Peel District School

Board The Rowlands live in

Caledon Ont

bull Fraser Stables MFA 98 was heralded by Toronto Globe 6shyMail critic Betty Jordan as a

formidable new talent followshy

ing the openi ng of his debut

gallery exh ibition in July The

Scottish artists work includes

sculpture video and mixed

media that explore notions of

flu x by interrupting the moveshy

ment of forms in space

bull Erin (Smith) Scott BSe(HK) 92 and Brad

Scott BSc(Agr) 91 of Lucan

O nt were married in 1993 and

had their first child Lucas in

August Erin works for Shopshy

pers Home Health Ca re in

London Brad is with New Life

Mills in Dunfield

bull Abby Simons BSc 95 and Martin Piche BSc(Agr) 95 were married in Mont-Tremshy

blant Quebec in 1997 She is a

customer service representative

with Kantech Systems he is

superintendent of Club de golf

vallee des forts They say theyd

love to hear from anyone headshy

ing to Montreal and can be

reached at 450-348-3860

bull Sylvia Tesori BSc 95 has been doing wildlife rehabilitashy

tion for the OSPCA Wildlife

Rehabilitation Centre in Midshy

land Ont since 1996

bull Chuck Thibeault BComm 94 is general manager of the

Putting Edge Corpora tion

which has two glow-in- theshy

dark mini-golf courses in

Ontario one in Bramp ton and

one in Richmond Hill He can

be reached in Richmond Hill at

chu ckttotalnet

bull Karen Thirlwall BA 93 is a

si ngersongwriter and guitarist

who began her stage career and

released her first album The Voice Inside Me while studying

languages at U of G She has

lived and performed in

11i stler BC for three years

and recently released a second

album called Wide-Eyed She

remembers many special

fr iends m ade at Guelph and

welcomes e-mail messages to

karenthirlwallhotmailcom

bull Christie (Johnson) and Steve

Tyler both BComm 91 live in

Cambridge Ont where

Christie is a personal banking

representative for the Royal

Bank Steve works with their

third-year design professor

Nelson Hofer in Mississauga as

a design consultan t Steves proshy

jects include the Windsor Casishy

no and U of Gs Creelman Hall

They have two children Jason

5 and Marcus 1

bull Julia White BA 91 lives in Guelph and is a small-business

accountant at Taves amp Co She

recently finished courses

towards a CGA designation and

would like to hea r from other

alumni who lived in Lambton

Hall in 198788 Send e-mail to

juliawhitesympaticoca

bull Andre-Denis Wright MSc 93 and PhD 98 is doing postshy

docto ral work in Perth Westshy

ern Australia He wants his

Guelph friends and Halifax

family to know he was thinking

of them at Christmas when it

was 40 C in Australia

bull Dave Yellen BComm 90 was recently promoted at the Gordon

Food Service to new-accounts

sales specialist for Metro Toronshy

to Having been in Ottawa for

the past few years Im hoping

to reacquaint myself with old

friend s from U of G in the Metro

area he says He lives in Scarborshy

ough and can be reached at 416shy615-2745 or davidysprintca

bull Halina Zaleski PhD 92 is a tenured professor in the

departm ent of animal sciences

at the Un iversity of Hawaii in

Honolulu She is a swine speshy

cialist involved in extension

programs for an area th at covshy

ers all of Hawai i and the PacifIC

basin She can be reached by

e-mail at halinahawaiiedu

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theyre not wearing skates its College Royal If there

are students sawing logs throwing pies baking cookies

and square dancing its College Royal When the entire

University of Guelph is displayed - from arts to zooloshy

gy - March 13 and 14 1999 youll know its definitely

College Royan

Since its inception in 1925 as an agricultural and liveshy

stock show run by the Ontario Agricultural College

College Royal has grown to be a celebrated U of G trashy

dition involving all the colleges

The event is famou s in the University community

and beyond for its open-house showcase of displays and

activities The largest student-run open house in Canashy

da College Royal attracts more than 20000 visitors to

campus over one weekend

College Royal is an event of tradition that reaches

into tomorrow Agriculture and livestock shows are still

highlighted events but College Royal activities have

grown to include dog and cat shows a photography conshy

test a chemistry magic show and demonstrations on

human health and fitness The open house gives people

an opportunity to see what happens in the Universitys

leading-edge research laboratories to observe veterinary

medicine in practice to tour a sculpture studio or to

watch a theatrical performance

To celebrate the 75th anniversary of College Royal

1998 president Joe TrakaJo lnvites alumni to get involved

again by joining one of the planning comm ittees or by

participating in a favourite event Call him for more

information at 824-4120 Ext 8366 or send e-mail to

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Ca

as

ollapsed cod stocks to the east

On the West Coast laquofish wars

_ rlTDT Pacific salmon enmesh

Canada and the United States

At various points in between fisheries scishy

entists and managers grapple with everyshy

thing from overfishing of freshwater

stocks to invasion by exotic molluscs

What is to be done about Canadian fishshy

eries And what role is being p layed by

fisheries and aquatic scientists at the Unishy

versity of Guelph

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dock pollock red fish and flatfish made up just under half of Canadas total landings on the Atlantic coast (720000 tonnes of fish and shellfish were caught in 1994 represhysenting a total landed value of $11 billion) Two year~ later that proportion had dropped to 21 per cent with shellfish and open ocean fish specie~ notably Atlantic

Begin in the Atlantic The crisis on the East Coast has become a disaster So says laquoWE NEED TO TRY TO SEPARATE OUTGuelph zo ology professor John Roff enushymerating the litany of woes that have surshy

THE FISHERIES MANAGEMENT DECISIONSfaced from Ca nadas marine fishery in the past decade Although some fish and shellshy

FROM THE POLITICAL DECISIONSfi sh are holding their own stocks of other species have experienced declines raquo

ASSOCIATED WITH THE FISHE RY

down that fishery in 1992 Over fishing and under which it has been buying up fishers

Even when stocks do rebound rarely do we fully und erstand why he says Theres a complex of problems to be disshy more for cod stocks to rebound says Roff entangled involving overflshing long- and co-editor with colleague Prof Moira Fergushyshort-term climate change and changes in son of the respected Canadian Journal ofFishshyocean current systems and productivity eries and Aquatic Sciences A wise course of

And of course the once-thriving northshy action for a fisherman in Newfoundland ern cod that first drew Europeans with their would be to seU his licence and do something nets to the Grand Banks 500 years ago have else he says (Last fall the federal governshycoUapsed to the point that Ottawa had to shut ment announced its final retirement program

the failure of federal fisheries managers to heed the warnings of scientists have been blamed for the coUapse Even with the lllorashytoriulll in place it may take two decades or

licences in Atlantic Ca nada and Quebec) In 1992 - the year Ottawa imposed its

moratorium on the northern cod fisheryshylandings of groundfish including cod had-

salmon making up the difference [n 1995 the total groLlndfish catch reached its lowshyest level in two decades

Unlike the Ea st Coast fi shery which relies most ly on ocea n-living fish the Pacifshyic fishery is dominated b) migratory species Some 300000 tonnes of fish and shellfish were harvested along the west coast in 1994 worth a landed value of $550 million (Arcshytic marine fisheries and their management differ from those on the coasts although cOl11mercial and recreational fisheri es are small here food fisheries are important to

U OF G AQUATIC SCIENCES EXPERTISE CATCHES WORLD ATTENTION

Landlocked in the middle of the courltry U ofG nevertheless boasts fish pathology and diseases including farmed fish diseases fish an enviable record and range ofexpertise in aquatic sciencesshy hormones and reproductive physiology including the effects of marine and freshwater - dating back to the late 1960s Thats when environmental contaminants early life history and behaviour Prof Keith Ronald thell chair of the Department ofZoology (and of fi shes and biology of tuna later dean of the College ofBiological Science) began a marine biolshyogy program at the University Today Guelph has the largest Partnered with the A-erod Institute of Ichthyology in U of group of ichthyologists - scientists who study fish - in Gs Aquatic Sciences Facility the r[agen Aqualab is an North America investigating a wide variety ojIre~hshy aquatic research and teaching facililY for studying water alld marine fisheries and aquatics topics aquatic organisms Environmentally controlled

rooms in the Aqualab allow faculty and students to U of Gs Axelrod Institute of Ichthyology houses simulate habitats as diverse as the Arctic Ocean and one of the worlds largest collections of museumshy tropical rainforest pools The facility is named for quality fish fossils donated to the University by its principal benefactor Rolf Hagen founding presshy

ident of Canadas largest pet store 5llpplier J 989 The institute which provides space for fisheries research and visiting scientists brings together 12 core U of G U of G faculty edit four internationally recognized journals researchers in fisheries and aquatic sciences whose interests and in ichthyology fisheries and aquatic science Awarded to U of G by expertise span environmental contaminants and parasitic disshy the National Research Council in 1997 the Canadian Journal of eases evolutionary genetics of marine and freshwater fishes Fisheries al1dAquatic Sciellces is co-edited by zoology professors

US ichthyologist and author Herbert Axelrod in

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northerners including shrimp Atlantic salmon and arctic char) Accountin g fOI almost half of that total were Pacific salmon which ret urn from the ocean to spawn in home streams and rivers up and down the coast of Alaska British Columbia and Washshyington There are actually five main spec ies of sa lmon that run down the BC coast shysockeye (t he most va luable commercial species) chinook coho chum and pinkshyfrom spring to December

Its a very complex jurisdictional and multi-user problem says Roff Bes ides degradation of freshwater spawning habishytats and ocean climate effects of El Nill0 the West Coast fishery is a cauldron of ten shysions between various groups perennial fish wars between Ca nada and the United States disputes that pit sport fishers against native fishing rights Recognizing the problems of low ocean productivity habitat damage overfishing and indiscriminate fishing pracshytices that take weak and strong stocks alike Ottawa is developing a new policy to guide Canadas Pacific salmon fisheries focusing on conservation sustainable use and improved decision-making

That potent mix of overfishing and habishytat degrada tion is also a problem for Canashydas freshwater fisheries A report tabled last fall by the federal standing committee on

fisheries and oceans called for more federal funding for research and fisheries programs in central and arctic regions of Canada Accord ing to that report the Grea t Lakes commercial fishery is one of the largest freshwater fisheri es in the world worth an average landed value of more than $40 milshylion a year and an eco nomic impact of at least $250 million Some 90 per cent of that catch is exported The neck lace of lakes threading its way to the St Lawrence River also supports the largest fres hwater sports fishery in the world 800000 Ontarians fish on the Great Lakes eve ry year contributing $850 million to the economy

In Manitoba managers are concerned about the long-term susta inability of freshshywater fish stocks particularly declines in Lake Winnipeg and the northern part of the province caused by overfishing environshymental degradation loss of prime spawning habitat and predators The province has seen stocks rise and fall particularly of pickerel Manitobas highest-priced fish In an attempt to manage the fishery in a sustained fashion the province recently introduced a qu ota entitlement system for anglers Joe OConshynor director of the fisheries branch of Manshyitobas Department of Na tural Resources says his department is wrestling with the environmental threats on fish habitat posed

by farming and hydroelectric development In Ontario fisheries are genera lly in

pretty good shape says Evan Thomas fishshyeries section manager of the fish and wildlife branch of the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (OM NR) Ontario supports almost half of all recreational fishing in Canada with more than two million adult anglers and more than $2 billion a year spent on recreational fishing in the province Onta ri o is also home to Canadas larges t commercial freshwater fishery worth abo ut $40 million a Yfar in land ed value

Thomas says over fishing is still the numshyber one problem Others include habitat loss the potential effects of climate change and contin ued invasion by exotic species Among the management opt ions his minshyistry is exploring are more effective fisheries regulation more rapid inventory and assessshyment techniques fish culture for rehabilishytating populations and controlling nutrient inputs into lakes and rivers

We are clearly looking for federal supshyport for the sea lamprey control program he says referring to recommendations in the recent federal fisheries committee report as well as changes to the federal Fishshyeries Act to hand the province more authorshyity over fish habitat protection

Concerns continue in Ontario over

Moira Ferguson and John Roff Fish Physiology and Biochemistry the top-ranked journal in its field is edited by Prof John Leathershyland chair of the Department of Biomedical Sciences in the Ontario Veterinary College University professor emeritus Eugene Balon has served as editor-in-chief of Environmental Biology ofFishes since he founded the publication in 1976 Zoology professor David Noakes edits Guelph Ichthyology Reviews whose articles synthesize and review all aspects of fish science Both of the latter

Under the Canadian contribution to the project - furided by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council - about 80 federal government and university researchers are trying to learn more about how bioshylogical and physical processes in the oceans affect fish stocks

Zoologychair Prof Paul Hebert has led a Guelph initiative to develshyop multimedia learning resources d1at teach student~ from

are published in the Axelrod Institute of Ichthyology

Based on data from geographic information sysshytems zoology professor John Roff has mapped types of habitat associated with various species of fish and other organisms around Canadas coasts and throughout tl1C Great Lakes the first time such

e1ementaIy grades to university about Canadas aquatshyic environments His department has developed a series of CD-ROMs that provide information on all the major animal groups in the Great Lakes Already available are educational CD-ROMs on Canadas aquatic environments (also available on

d1e World Wide Web) Great Lakes biodiversity and a marine classification system has been developed in this country His report was commissioned by World Wildlife Fund Canada for its Endangered Spaces Campaign and contributes to RoWs work as chair of the scienrillc committee of Globec (Globshyal Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics) a two-year-old international research program intended to better understand ocean ecosystems

birds of the Great Lakes The latter is the first disc in a series called the Great Lakes Faunal Atlas which will eventually cover mammals amphibians reptiles fish and crustaceans

The Alma Aquaculture Research Station es tablished in 1989 and funded through a 20-year development grant by the Ontario

WI NTER 1999 29

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various invas ive species that have turned up

in the Great Lakes - notably sea lampreys

zebra mussels and quagga mussels - many

of which arrive in ballast water of ocea nshy

going vessels (Many have also found their

way into Manitoba says OConnor who

points to the effects of sm elt on whitefish

the main commercial species in Lake Winshy

nipeg) Among o ther meas ures the federal

fish eries committee report called for guarshy

anteed funding for sea lamprey control and

for scienti fic research

I think more money will come says

Prof Bill Beamish Zoology a commissionshy

er on the Great Lakes Fisheries Commission

the 40-year-old governing body that co-ordishy

nates resea rch programs between Canada

and the United States and advises both govshy

ernments It was a review led by Beamish

more than a decade ago on the sta te of

Canadas freshwater fi sheries that provided

the scientific underpinnings for a landmark

report published in 1988 that spelled ou t a

way in freshwater fisheries is a lon g-te rm

project fund ed by the OMNR and the

Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO)

to re-establish native species in their origishy

nal habitats a round Lake Ontario iVlari e

Clement a graduate student of zoology proshy

fe sso r David Noakes is studying Atlantic

sa lmo n which was wiped out of the lake

CONSIDERING WE HAVE THE

BEST FISHERY SCIENCES COMMUNITY

IN THE WORLD WE OUGHT TO

BE DOING BETTER

national strategy for freshwater fisheries

Beamish who has studied sea lampreys

for several decades at Guelph and also invesshy

tigates fish habitat loss says money is need shy

ed to help researchers investigate biological

controls as an alternative to chemical lamshy

pricides The recen t repo rt also notes the

need to address the effects of other nonshy

native exotic species on n ative fish stocks

and water quality and calls on Ottawa to

stem the funding decline in freshwater scishy

ence over the last two decades

One example of the kind of work under

and its tribu ta ry streams near the beginning

o f this century by overflshing and habitat

destruction and alteration Last fall Clement

placed eggs into a site in the Credit River

she has been monito ring oxygen availab il shy

ity durin g their incu ba tion to gau ge sedishy

mentation rates in the river This spring and

summer she wili study how newborn fi sh

interact with other species in th e r ive r

C lement says her docto ral research proshy

ject is but one piece of a larger project aimed

at re-establishing the heritage species Othshy

er researchers hop e to learn whe ther th e

Ministry of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs brings together

researchers for interdisciplinary studies of protein requirements

of arctic char improving fish semen and egg management proshy

cedures and understanding hormone activity in fish The station

acts as a quarantine unit for new fish varieties entering Ontario

and serves as a base for parts of certificate courses and a masters

program in aquaculture

farms in Canada He and fellow Guelph zoologists Eugene Balon

(co- founder of the Coelaca nth Conservat ion Council) and Jim

Bogart also identified and characterized the coelacanth which

had been thought extinct until a specimen was landed off Africa

in the la te 1930s Noakes confirmed the identity of ano ther of

these living fossils discovered in 1997 it appears to belong to a

second popula tion living in the Indian Ocean about 10000 kilo-

metres away from tha t first find

Zoology professors Moira Ferguson and Roy Danzshy

mann use molecular genetics techniques to identishy Zoology chair Paul Hebert was the first scientist to

fy DNA markers used to pinpoint the location of identify the presence in the Great Lakes of zebra

genes associated with growth spawning times mussels a prolific invader that has wreaked havoc

rates of development maturity and temperature in many ways from clogging water-intake pipes to

tolerance in rainbow trout Isolating and identifyshy consuming plankto n thus allowing light to reach

ing genetic markers fo r desirable traits will help fish bottom-dwelling organisms that may displace native

farmers and breeders cross-breed more effectively species The first researcher to report on the biology

conservationists will be better able to manage and preserve and impact of the zebra mussel on the Grea t Lakes was

genetic variability among wild fish stocks Guelph zoology professor Gerald Mackie whose studies showed

that the organisms faster growth rate and higher fecundity and

Zoology professor David Noakes has stuclied varieties of arctic population density will probably enable it to displace many native

char native to Iceland to find ones suited to being raised on fish bivalves and disrupt entire lake ecosystems

30 GUELPH ALUMNUS

LEADING RESEARCH

The University of Guelph has one orthe largest and most active groups of aquatic biologists in the world

bull More than 50 faculty and 100

graduate students research

assocrates and postdoctoral

fellows

bull Over 1000 published scientific

articles books monographs

films and videos in the past

decade

bull Interdisciplinary programs

involving more than a dozen

academic departments

bull The largest group ofichthyoloshy

gists (scientists who study

fish) in North America

bull Collaborative research with

government environrriental

organizations and academic

institutions worldwide

bull Expertise covering the entire

aquatic food chain from plankshy

ton to whales

bull Leading developments in comshy

puter-based educational mate-

rials in aquatic sciences

bull A new $6-million Aquatic

Sciences Facility

bull Research support from national

and international agencies

business and industry

adults will be able to return from the open

lake to their stream spawning grounds If

they come back will the eggs survive she

says If were able to show the eggs can surshy

vive that will be very encouraging for

Atlant ic salmon restoration

What is to be done to ensure the survival

not just of Atlantic salmon in Lake Ontario

but also of the co untrys freshwater and

m ar ine fisheries We need to try to sepashy

rate o ut the fisheries management decisions

from the political decisions associated with

the fi shery says zoology professor Glen Van

Der Kraak director of U of Gs Axelrod

Institute of Ichthyology Van Der Kraak who

studies the effects of toxic contaminants on

fi sh populations says policy mltkers need

to rely on the advice of fisheries sc ientis ts

making conservative harvest ing estimates

So often scientists make decisions and then

are overrun by the politics he says (Never

mind fish wars pitting co untries against one

another - here in Ca nada scientists and

policy makers wres tle over the question of

who should be respo nsible for what aspects

of the countrys fisheries as witnessed in a

war of words played out in the Canadian Journal ofFisheries and Aquatic Sciences over

the past 18 months between biologists at

several Canadian univers ities and the DFO

over the relationship between fishery sc ishy

ence and fishery policy)

Roff says theres nothing unique about

Canadas fish problems Its not really a

Canadian problem its a worldwide probshy

lem The only fisheries worldwide that are

not over fished appear to be some not yet

fully exploited in the Indian Ocean

After nearly four decades of growth the

worldwide marine ca tch levelled off in the

1990s to some 90 million tons a year The

m ain problems coastal pollution habitat

destruction and particula rly overfishing

Noakes editor of the journal Guelph Ichthyology Reviews contrasts the few hunshy

dred people who might have made th eir

livelihood aboard small wood en boats on

the Grand Banks several centuries ago with

the massive factory trawlers that now scour

todays coast People are much too efficient

in terms of catching fish he says Noakes

concurs with fellow Guelph researchers that

conservation of fish stocks has to reach the

top of fishery managers agendas

hat does set Canada apart is the breadth

and depth of expertise in fisheries and aquatshy

ic sciences in this country - rather a parashy

dox when you consider that Canadas record

in fisheries preservation is apparently no betshy

ter than that of many other nations

Considering we have the best fishery scishy

ences community in the world we ought to

be doing better says Roff Within the last

decade th e federal government withdrawal

o f support from the Department of Fishshy

eries and Oceans and university researchers

has been massive At the very time when the

resources were gett ing into severe problems

and when the federal government ought to

have been funding research theyve been

substantially withdrawing resources ga

DONT WAIT UNTIL SPRING The opportunity to double the impact of your gift to the University of Guelph ends on March 31 1999 Until that date all gifts designated to endowed student financial aid at Guelph will be matched by the Ontario Student Opportunity Trust Fund (OSOTF) That means that every dollar you commit will contribute two dollars to financial aid for Guelph students

If you would like to support our students throug h OSOTF you still have a w indow of oppor nishyty to have your do l1a rs doubled But only until March 31 1999

If you have already made a pled ge to OSOTf through U of Gs ACCESS Fund thank you [or your ge nerous support Please comp lete your payme nts by March 31 1999 to e nsure that your gi ft is matched

For more information contact Rudy Putns in Guelphs office of Development and Public Affairs at -519-824-4120 Ext 6384 Fax 519-822-2670 E-mail alumniuoguelphca

WINTER 1999 31

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

n ALUMNI PROF IL E

LETS LOOK AT THE OPPORTUNITIES

WHEN I-IE BECA ME president of the Unishy

versity of Guelph Alumni Association

(UGM) in June Jim Weeden brought new

enthusiasm and ideas for encouraging alumshy

ni to stay in volved with their alma mater

And he wants to start with students

Weeden reca ll s his own ex perience at

U of G where he fo und a sense of commushy

nity by living in residence and ge tting

involved in college activiti es But when he

graduated with an engin ee ring degree in

197 1 he left to begin a caree r and says he

didnt think much about the University until

he needed it again in the 1980s to pursue a

graduate degree in agricultural enginee ring

He spent his early career working as an

agricultural extensi o n engineer for the

Ontario Department o f Agriculture and is

stiU with its successo r the Ontario Ministry

of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs

(OMAFRA) Weed en completed the masshy

ters degree in 1986 when he was head of the

agricultural engineering program and extenshy

sion services a t Centralia College of Ag rishy

cultural Technology

In 1987 he moved to the ministrys plant

industry branch as program m anager and

later held the same position in th e resources

manage m ent branch Sin ce then he has

worked for OMAFRA in Woodstock and

now Stratfo rd He is technical adviser fo r

Ontarios Enviro nmental Farm Planning

Program is respo nsible for o ther environshy

m ental programs and consults with the Minshy

istry o f th e Environment on local agriculshy

tural pollution problems

w Weed en got involved with the Universishy sect tys a]u111ni programs by serving on the first g z board of the Engineering Alumni Associashy

~ tion when it was established in 1990 From

~ 1991 to 1994 he sat on the University Senshy

~ ate and its Research Board and for the pas t

~ four years) hels been on the UGAA executive

32 GUELPH A LU MNUS

From the presidents chair Weeden looks

at the bro ad picture o f UG AA se rvice and

recognizes that the associa tio n owes a debt

o f gratitude to hundreds of alumni volunshy

teers who ha ve helped to build the organishy

za tion over the yea rs and to University staff

in Development and Public Affairs (DampPA)

who support UGAA initiatives and alumni

programs Thro ugh their efforts he says the

a lulllni associati o n is rea ching out to all

U of G alumni Graduates who have mainshy

tained a close relationship with the Univershy

sity thro ugh their college or academic disshy

cipline those who feel an affiliation because

o f their participation in a thletics residence

life o r extracurricular activiti es and even

HIGHLIGHTSmiddot GRAD NEWSmiddot OBITUARIES bull CALENDER

those who have not kept in touch are part of the constituency served by UGAA

Weed en says the alumni association needs to strengthen its relationship with all alumni and he believes the effor t must start on campus with students Hed like to proshymote the idea of alumni involvement as ear shyly as a students second year We need to give students some reason to be con nected and an efficient vehicle for maintaining that connection he says

For many students and new graduates the social functions supported by UGAA and the opportunities for professional networking will be important says Weeden but greater rewards are there for those who join the effort to enhance the Universitys acade mic goals

In todays economic and political envi shyronme nt individual financial support and the advocacy of post-secon dary education are important roles for alumni he says How many people ac tively get involved with the debate on whether universities are job-trainshy

ing centres or centres of education Yet some of our alumni are extremely adept in such roles Weeden would like to cultivate past and current stud ent ac tivists as supporters of public education after they graduate

As Weeden leads UGAA into a new year he says he will work with other UGAA volshyunteers and DampPA staff to find new ways for the association to interact with students and alumni One id ea is to expand UGAAs Intershynet presence by adding a Web message board that will encourage alumni to discuss career and campus issues online and a reply form that will allow them to quickly update addressshyes employment status and other information

Weeden says its important to stay focused on UGAAs key prioriti es but he welcomes any and all new ideas on how to accomplish them All it takes to share your ideas with the UGAA executive is a stamp or a push of the send button when youre clicked on alumniuoguelphca

HKHB SPIRIT RISES

ENCOURAGED BY THE SPIRIT

shown by fellow alumni at last

summers reunion the executive

of the Human Kinetics Human Biology

Alumni Association is moving ahead

with more opportunities for alumni to

stay in touch The association plans to

launch a Web site that will be accessed

through the U of G site

A wine-and-cheese reception already

planned for June 19 1999 wiil try to

build on the success of the 1998 event

which attracted alumni from as far away

as Chicago and as far apart as the 19605

and 1990s Guests had a chance to tour

U of Gs new Health and Performance

Centre and performance testing

labs The program was co-ordinated wiLh

A REFLECTION OF PRIDE

Members of the OAC

Class of 52 join Arboshy

retum staff on the front patio

of the Arboretu m Centre

beside a new reflecting pool

that was built last summer

as a class project Pictured

from left are Murray Parker

Ann Smith George Smith

Jack Sargent Catherine Gibb

Robin Shaw-Rummington

Marilyn Swaby BA 69

Bev Healy B5e(Agr) 72

Norm Watson Una Venerus

Ron Costen Henry Kock

BSe (Agr) 77 and Ric

Jordan BA 75

Prof Jack Barclay chair of the Departshy

ment of Human Biology and Nutritional

Sciences and Prof Susan Pfeiffer Memshy

bers of the Human KineticsHuman

Biology Alumni Association executive arc

Janet Leonhard 82 president Carolyn

Moore 83 vice-president Alison Locker

97 secretary Mark Mulholland 79

lreasurer and t-iary Ann Crape 76

These officers are also spea rheading a

new initiative to benefit students - an

undergraduate award that will provide

$250 and lifetime mem bership in the

association To commcnt on these and

other initiatives contact Leonard by

e-mail at Janel_Leonhardinwrbsb

eduonca or Moore at cturveyagec

uoguelphca

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alumni

Multimedia lab buzzes

THE DONALD FORSTER RoOiv

has become one of the

busiest spots in th e Unishy

versity of Guelph Liblary since the

addition of 70 state-of-the-art

computer workstations that were

supported by alumni do nations

to the Alma Mater Fund (AM F)

U of G president Mordechai

Roza nski officia ll y o pened th e

Alma Mater Fund Multimedia

Lab D ec 2 an d celebrated th e

event with members of the AMF

Adv isory Counc iL [n 1996 a nd

1997 the AMF contributed

$240000 to th e project which

increased the number of student

workstations o n campus by 50 per

cent Students use the m ult imeshy

~ dia lab to conduct research on the

~ Internet access scholarly publicashyr u VI tions on CD-ROM and use COll1shyz ~ puter software mod ules tbat lt

~ strengthen the teaching provided lD

o in co urse lectures labs and tcxtshybii books

middotMatters

Alumnus of many interests

I NTERES TING P EOPLE always have eclect ic interests and U of G

alumnus and honorary degree recipient Ken Murray BSA 50 and

HDLA 96 is a good example H e is known by most people on camshy

pus for his distinguished career in the Canadian meat packing indusshy

try and his volunteer service to U of G He was a member and chair

of Board of Governors from 1973 to 1978 and chair of the Regionshy

al Corporate Committee during U of Gs last capital campaign and

is currently chair of the Heritage Fund Enhancement Committee

Murray is also a strong supporter of community soc ial services

In August he addressed the World Congress of Social Ps)chiatry

held in British Columbia - the only non-psychiatrist on the proshy

gram He spoke about his role in establishing an Alzheimers research

project a t the University ofWaterioo which was recently named in

his honour the Ken Murray Alzheimer Research and Education Proshy

gra m At the gc conference he al so participated in a panel dis shy

cussion that outlined services offered by Guelphs Homewood Health

Cent re Murray bas been actively involved in the governance of the

centre since 1977 and has been a major player in the development

of a charitable foundatio n bearing the Homewood name

WHEN THE PUCK DROPPED More than 30 teams including two

womens teams were entered in the

Dec 6 University of Guelph Alumni Hockey

Tournament Organizers for the 1998 event

were from left Brian Finniss B5c 88

Brad Stephenson BA 86 Terry Carr

BComm 87 Todd Bryant BA 86 and

undergraduate student Brian Melnick

Ken Murray centre with his wife Marilyn Robinson Murray and U of G president Mordechai Rozanski

34 GU ELPH ALUMNU S

RESTORING A JEWEL IN THE CROWN

DONALD RUTHERFORD BSA 5 stands in fron t

of the 1931 conservatory greenhouse that will

be restored to match the splendour of the ga rdens

now growi ng up around it His $256000 leadershy

ship gift to the Conservatory and Gardens Project

was inspired by hi s m emo ries of being a student

at OAC

On behalf of fellow alumni I hope this gift will

commemorate the experiences and educat ion we

acquired while at Guelph says Rutherford When

fully restored to its previous glory the conservatoshy

ry greenhouse will be an ideal greeting and welcome

spot for visitors and newcomers to the University

as well as old friend s renewing their acquaintance

Rutherfords professional career spans the agrishy

foo d industr y beginning as an agricu ltural repshy

resentative with the provincial minist ry I-Ie was

later vice-president of the Fertilizer Institute of

Ontario executive secreta ry of the Canadian Seed

Trade Association director of information w ith

the Ca nadian Livestock Feed Board and Canadishy

an sa les manager for Sylvite of Can ad a Retired

since 1986 he now owns his own sma ll investment

company and manages to golf throughout the yea r

The conserva tory isnt the first ca mpus project

to attract Rutherford s attention - as a student

he helped dig out the base ment of Massey H al l to

build a student lo unge - but his recent gift has

been a tremendous boost to those who have been

working since the ea rly 1990s to save the glass and

cypress structure from demo lition

A committee of alumni facult y sta ff stu dents

and fri en ds of the University has moved the proshy

ject along to th e point w here most of the surshy

rounding garden complex is now complete It fea shy

tures six gardens named in honour of the ir chie f

supporters Autumn Garden - OAC 5 1 Spring

Ga rden - OAC 53 Su mmer Garden - OAC 55

Winter Gard en - OAC 65 Water Gard en shy

OAC 49 and the Woo dland Garden named in

honour of the late Doug Rob inson BSA 53

Alumni have been in strumental in raising

funds for the $ l-million project Students and fa cshy

ulty have provided mudl of the h1l1ds-on Idbour

and friends in the nursery and landscape materishy

als supply industries have given $250000 ill donashy

tions and gifts-in-kind of plan ts and landsca ping

materials Rutherford s generous gift has pushed

th e conservato ry fund-ra ising effort in to the fin 81

stretch Th e ga rden complex and restored g reenshy

110use are sc heduled to officially open during

Alumni Weekend in June 1999

1999 Coming Events

Jan 29 - Aggie Goodshy

Times Banquet call the OAC Student Federation at Ext 8321 for ticket injemnrltion Feb 13 - Norm McCo llulll

D iploma Hockey Tournashy

m ent call Jack Bakker at 519-837-0132 to register a team

Feb 21 - Ottawa Chapter

annual curling bonspiel

Richmond C urling Club in

Richmond Ont For informashytiol1 call Alan Bentley BSA 61 at 6 13-829-6598 or John DVit[ 54 mId Margaret McGowml BHSc 54 at

613-828-7038

March 3 - Florida alumni

reunion a t Maple Leaf

Estates Port Charlo tte Fla

call Ext 6533 0 register

March 13 and 14 - ollcge

Royal 75th o pen house

March 19 and 20 - OAC

Alumni Association curling

bonspiel G uelph Curling

Club register at Ext 6657

May 5 - Chicago All Canashy

dian Universities Night hostecl

by U of G at the University

Club of Chicago 76 East Monshy

roe Sr call Exl 6533 for details May 5 - OAC Alumni

Foundation annual meeting

730 pm Arboretum Centre

May 12 - Alumni-inshy

Action annual meeting and

luncheo n 1130 3m

Arboretum Centre ((11 Ext 6657for tickets

June 18 to 20 - Alumni

Veekend call Ext 6657 to plall a reun io n

-0 r shya -IFor more infon-nation on any a

eVC1l1listed ailove call the oJ -lt oU of G extension listed at en raquo

519-824-4120 or send e-mail z

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WINTER 1999 35

alumni Matters

MEMORIES OF COLLEGE ROYAL Grant MacEwan ADA 23 and

BSA 26 is one of the few OAC

alumni who c~n still remember

the first College Royal held Jan

14 1925 MacEwan bad just

entered the degree program in

animal husbandry and may have

been a participant in the liveshy

stock showmanship classes Latshy

er in life he was widely known Grant MacEwan

across Western Canada as 3 liveshy

stock judge and an advocate of

agricultural fairs and exhibitions

MacEwan is bes t known

however for his 23-year C3reer

as a university professor in Manshy

itoba and Saskatchewan and Ilis

political career which included

12 years as alderman and mayshy John Kenneth Galbraith

or of C31gary four years as an

Alberta MLA and eight as lieushy birthday in August

tenant -governor of the province The year after Ma cEwan

He s till lives in Calgary graduated John Kenneth Galshy

where he celebrated his 96th braith ADA 29 and BSA 31

HOMECOMING 98

enrolled at OAC and devoted

some of his energy to organizshy

ing College Royal Show records

indicate it was Galbraith who

first proposed the college event

be publicized so that people

from the farm community

could attend He also suggestshy

ed that OAC invite students

from American agricultural colshy

legesl n th e early 1930s Colshy

lege Royal took its fir s t steps

towards becoming the comshy

munity open house it is today

Galbraith later moved to the

United States where he enjoyed

a distinguished caree r as a proshy

fessor of economics at Harvard

Universi ty Known for his

humanit~rian approach to ecoshy

nomic and political thinking

he was awarded the Order of

Canada in 1997 He celebr3ted

his 90th birthday in October

IT REALLY WAS a homecoming reunion when and Arnott who is head coach of the York

former Gryphon teammates Ralph Shapiro University Yeomen came from the visitors

S5c(HK) 74 and Tom Amott S5c(HK) 80 dreSSing room to hold the ball Shapiro is

met on the field at Alumni Stadium Oct 3 the controller at Huntsman Chemical Inc

Shapiro had the honour of kicking off in Guelph and a longtime United Way volshy

the Universitys 1998 United Way campaign unteer who chaired this years Guelph and

Wellington fund-raising drive The Univershy

sity campaign is the largest in the county

with U of G staff and faculty contributing

over $200000 in 1998

Prior to the game a number of recent

alumni - all U of G scholarship and award

winners - met for a reunion luncheon The UJ

1948 and 1949 dominion championship i5f 3

football teams were also honoured guests z 5 o at the 2 pm game that saw the Gryphons gtshy a defeat York f shya I a

Ralph Shapiro

36 G UELPH ALUMNUS

LEADING THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY FOR 1974 GRADS The 25th-anniversary reunion givshy

i ng program for the Class of 1974

is under way with Bill Laidlaw BA

74 as cbair A public affairs proshy

fessional he has been director of

government relations for the

Canadian operations of Glaxo

vVelJcome Inc for more th an 10

years He also acts as a senior conshy

sultant to support the governshy

ment relations function in other

regions of Canada

Laidlaw began his career in

teaching after earning a history

degree from Guelph and education

degrees (rom Queens University

and the University of Toronto He

also holds the certified human

resources professional designation

and worked in that field for sevshy

eral years before concen trating on

government relations at Glaxo

Welkome He lives in Burlington

Ont and is an act ive community

volunteer having se rved on the

boards of severa l professional

organizations the Queensway

General Hospital and the Metroshy

politan Toronto Lung Association

He is currently completing a oneshy

year term as chair of the Ontario

Chamber of Commerce

Anniversa ry preparations will

culminate with a class gathering

a nd reunion gift at Alumni

Weekend in June 1999

ALUMNI MAKE THE CONNECTION Students who moved into

Maids and Mills halls in Sepshy

tember can take full advanshy

tage of the Universitys highshy

speed computer network

thanks to the OAC Class of

71 whose 25 th-reunion proshy

ject provided wiring upgrades

in the 84- and 77-year-old

residence buildin gs

GRAD NEWS

Marathon survivors inspire us all to appreciate everyday life

W HEN ROBINSON SIIlLJNGS Jane BSe(Agr)

85 Heather BASe 83 Peter BSe(Agr)

86 Scott and Marnie rigwood BA 84 get

together they talk about marathons and the hope

and determination it takes to reach the finish line

Hea ther walked a marathon in San Diego

Calif in June to raise money for leukemia

research then joined Peter for a Toronto marathon

in October that benefi ted the Leukemia Research

Fund of Canada They were inspired by Janes pershy

sonal marathon of survival that foUowed her 1992

diagnosis of leukemia Chemotherapy radiation

remission relapse and finally a bone marrow

transplant [TOm her brother Scott took more than

three years out of her life but gave her the detershy

mination to keep fighting

Many families can understand the marathon

of hope maintained by the Robinsons during

Janes struggle and the commitment they have to

help others who are stricken with the disease Jane

is finally well enough to work again as a writer

and marketing consultant and to join her fami shy

ly in volunteer work She helped recruit for the

Toronto marathon fund -raiser and continues to

be involved with the Leukemia Research Funds

Team in Training She also says that her expeshy

rience has taught her to appreciate more the pleashy

sures of everyday life and the love of famil y

Jan es parents are th e late Doug Rob inson

BSA 53 and Marilyn (Inglis) Robinson Murray

BH Sc 55

19305

bull Grant Misener ADA 32 BSA 35 and DVM 38 received the

prest igious George F Hixso n Felshy

lowship Award from the Kiwanis

International Foundation in May The retired Illinois veter ishy

narian was hono ured for his subshystantial contribution to the

Kiwanis wo rldwide service proshy

ject aimed at eliminating iodine

deficiency disorders the leading

cause of preventable mental retardation in children Over the

years Misener has shown a simishylar commitment to his al ma

mater an d its students through

his close association with OVC

and his support of scho larship

programs

19405

bull Russell McDonaldDVM 45 was named an honorary life direcshytor of the Royal Agricultural Winshy

ter Fair Association in March

McDonald formerly general manshy

ager of Western Ontario Breeders

Ine and executive director of the Canadian Association of Animal

Breeders served as a director of the Royal Winter Fair for 20 years

representing the Canadian artifishycial insemination industry He

lives in Woodstock Ont

bull Ian Taylor DVM43 was recently honoured by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to

Animals of Illinois Taylor ran a small-animal veterinary clinic in

the Chicago area for many years

and says he gained ll1uch experishyence during his first three years in

Illinois as clinic veterinarian for

the anti -cruelty society

19505

bull Charles Chuck Broadwell BSA 54 was elected a Mel

Osborne Fellow by the Kiwanis

Club of Forest City in London Ont in recognition of a dedicatshy -ed and distinguished career in

Kiwanis

19605

bull Constantine Campbell BSA 60 and MSA 61 was named to the

WINTER 1999 37

Order of Canada in January He

received the award in recogni shy

tion of his many contributions

to science and the Canadian

agricultural industry After grad shy

uating from OAC he went on to

do his PhD at the University of

Saskatchewan then joined Agri shy

culture and Agri-food Canada

as a research scientist at the Swift

Current research station Campshy

bell and his family now live in

Ottawa where he is scientist

emeritus with Agriculture and

Agri-food Canada

bull John Casselman BSA 64 is

a research scientist with the

Ontario Ministry of Natural

Resources He Jives in Bath

Ont with his wife Lois

bull Jane Fuller RRSc 65 and

her husband George who both

taught at the Macdonald Instishy

tute from 1966 to 1969 have

moved from Winnipeg to

Utopia Ont following

Georges retirement from the

University of Manitoba

bull Fred Gilbert MSc 66 and

P hD 68 is in his first term as

president of Lakehead Univer shy

sity in Thunder Bay Ont He

taught at U of G in the Departshy

ment of Zoology from 1972 to

1981 and has enjoyed a dive rse

academic career that has also

included teaching at the Unishy

versity of Maine and posi tions

as director of wildlife biology at

Washington State University

and founding dean of the Facshy

ulty of Natural Reso urces and

Environmenta l Studies at the

University of Northern British

Columbia He moved to Lakeshy

head from a position as viceshy

pro vost at Colorado State Unishy

versity A respected wildlife

biologist he has conducted

ex tensive resea rch in s Ll ch areas

as the behaviour and physioloshy

gy of wildlife species and the

effects of environmental

change on wildlife populations

bull Terry Goodyear BSc 67 of

Mont Tremblant Quebec is an

early retiree from Agriculture

and Agri-Food Canada in Ottawa He is now working on

va lue-added products from

industrial wastes particularly

cellulose sludge from pulp and

pa per mills

bull Gary Hearn BA 68 was

named an Ontario provincial

judge in October For the last

25 years he has been a lawyer

with the firm Kearns McKinshy

non in Guelph where he lives

with his wife Irene and three

teenage children

bull Allan Knight BSA 66 of Corunna Ont has retired

from Dow Chemical after 30

years On retirement he was a

laboratory director for indusshy

trial chemicals He is now

working with his son in a famishy

ly-owned and -operated busishy

ness Knight Funeral Home

bull Keith McFarlane BSc(Agr)

68 works for the Department

of Foreign Affairs and Internashy

tional Trade and began a fourshy

year assignment last summer as

head of the commercial divishy

sion of the Canadian Embassy

in Lisbon Portugal The

division promotes the sa le of

Canadian goods and services

to Portugal

bull Ian Newbould MA 68 has

travelled far from his Ontario

roots through an academic and

administrative career that has

taken him to Europe Asia and

Western Canada A noted hisshy

torian he moved into adm inisshy

tration at the University of

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Lethbridge in 1981 and spent

10 years there as director of

research dean of a rts and scishy

ence and vice-presiden t (acadeshy

mic) before crossing the counshy

try to become president of

Mount Allison University in

New Brunswick He is now in

his second term as president of

Mount AUison

bull Indra Deo Singh MSc 68 is

a tea scientist international

consultant and joint director of

the Tea Research Association at

the Nagrakata substation in

India His responsibilities

include co-ordinating research

and development in the Indian

tea industry and developing tea

cultivars and agrotechnology

for tea Singh is married with

two sons aged 27 and 23

19705

bull Don Ambler BSe 71 retired in March as manager of

water programs with Environshy

ment Canada in Dartmouth

NS after 25 years of public

service He has now registered

the company Aquashed Co nshy

sulting to continue in the water

resources field when hes not

gardening beekeeping do ing

aerobics or vo lunteering in the

community and chu rch E-mail

contact is welcome a t

donambl erns sympaticoca

bull Jim Bond BSe 75 is managshy

ing a new processing facility at

the Chalk River Nuclear Laborashy

to ry in Chalk River Ont

bull Terri (Monks) Bulman BSc(Agr) 78 and MSe 81

and her husband Vincent

MSe 8 1 live in Australia with

their th ree children Catherine

7 Peter 4 and baby Christoshy

pher Terri is senior principal

environmental auditor vith

Coffey Geosciences Pty Ltd Vinshy

cent afte r many years as a geoloshy

gist travelling around Australia

and abroad has taken the year

off to study and look after the

children Their e-mail address is

tbulmanbigpondco m

bull Marie David BA 78 of

Hanover Ont has been in the

n ewspaper business for 20

years She started in the mailshy

room moved to advertising

sales then became advert ising

manager She is now gene ral

manager o f three So utham

weekly newspapers and pubshy

lish er of the Hanover Post

bull Janice Harrower and her husshy

band Jerome Billett both

DVM 76 operate a joint veterishy

nary practice in Prescott Ont

Billett says practising together

has allowed them some flexibilishy

ty in their family life and given

their four children a good took

at the rigours of veterinary

medicine Says Billett Not one

of our kid s has the slightest

interest in being a veterinarian

and isnt that just fine Their

o ldest son Jesse attends Harshy

va rd University and is a memshy

ber of its prestigious a cappella

choir Lucas is studying

mechanical engineering at the

University of Waterloo Casey is

planning a career in computer

engineering and Lindsay is a

high school athle te

bull Clair Heinbuch BSe 74 is a

sales manager with Baye r Corp

in Kansas H e and his wife

Caroline (Koscik) BASc 75

returned to the Kansas City

area after spending four years in

Denver They have three chilshy

dren Lisa 20 Scott 18 and

Ryan [5

bull Beverly Lee BASe 72 is an

elem entary school principal in

Unionville Ont She lives with

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her husband Grant Egan in

Collingwood and is looking

forward to retirement in severshy

al years Life on Georgian Bay

is wonderful she says Lee

would love to hear from fellow

grads by e-mail at

leebYrbeeduonca or by

phone at 705 -444 -092l

bull Won-Jai Maeng MSc 71 took office Sept 1 as president

of Kon-Kuk University in Seoul

Korea where his academic

career began He completed an

undergraduate degree at Kon

Kuk in 1965 then studied at

Mailing Agricultural College in Denmark and at U of G before

doing doctoral work at the Unishy

versity of California Davis

Maeng has held research and

teaching positions at the Unishy

versity of illinois at Chung-Ang

University and at Kon-Kuk

where he has been a professor of

animal science since 1984 His

appointment as president folshy

lows years of administrative

experience as a department

head dean and chair of various

research committees and proshy

fessional organizations An

expert in ruminant nutrition

Maeng was instrumental in

developing the livestock feed

industry in Korea He has also

been active in working with

alumni groups and in writing

for the Kon-Kuk Tribune

bull Bill MarshaU ADA 75 of Proton Station Ont moved

from Clarksburg in June to

work in Dundalk for the Grey

County Roads Department on

its road management crew

bull Bernie Matte BSc(Agr) 70 of Moncton NB retired

in March after 28 years with

Fisheries and Oceans Canada

and the Canadian Food

Inspection Agency He plans to

travel to Belize and Honduras

with his wife Diane and will

be available anywhere in the

Caribbean for seafood HACCP

consulting work

bull Margaret McClain BA 70 lives in Arkansas where she is

highJy involved in the issue of

40 GUELPH ALUMNUS

missing children and internashy

tional abductions McClain who

believes her own six-year-old

daughter was taken out of the

United States more than a year

ago by her second husband is

reaching out to parents with

similar experiences through an

organization that is lobbying the

US government for tougher

international abduction laws

She invites interested fr iends

and alumni to contact her

through her Web site at

wwwinsolwwbnet-dmcclain

bull Robert (Chuck) Miller BA 77 is the park superintendent

of Killarney French River and

Maskinonje provincial parks in

Ontario He moved to Killarney

from Quetico Provincial Park

last May

bull Gordon Nicol BA 72 and MSc(Agr) 74 teaches math

and science in a bilingual prishy

vate school in Guatemala A

BEd graduate of Laurentian

he first taught in Guatemala in

the late 1970s then spent 12

years in northern Alberta as a

teacher and principal He

returned to Guatemala in 1989

A widower with three teenage

children Nicol would like to

hear from U of G friends and

acquaintances especially anyshy

one who is was or will be in

Central America He says he

could also use middle-schoolshy

level science projects Send eshy

mail to gnicoll guatenet or

write to PO Box 661447 Miami

Springs Florida 33266-1447

bull Chris Schulte BSc 71 and MSc 73 lives in Nassau

Bahamas with his wife

Andrya After graduation he

stayed in the Department of

Physics as a research associate

with Prof lain Campbell then

joined Ontario Hydro in the

early 1980s He moved to the

Bahamas in 1995 He can be

reached bye-mail at

schultebahamasnetbs

bull Sandra (Pickford) Webster BA 75 has retired from U of

Gs Co mmunications and Pubshy

lic Affairs and is living in Parry

Sound Ont where she is

doing volunteer work and

communications consulting

for the municipality Guelph

friends ca n contact her by

e-mail atswebsterzeutercom

19805

bull Sharon (Courneya) Angus BA 8 I of Surrey BC comshy

pleted a BSW at the University

of British Columbia in 1988

and has been working for the

BC government for 13 years

- first in probation and now

in the family justice division

She and her husband Ron

have three children Jason

Carly and Colin

bull Karen Beazley BLA 86 is an assistant professor and acadeshy

mic program co-ordinator at

the School for Reso urce and

Environmental Studies at Dalshy

housie University in Halifax

She is currently doing research

for a book on endangered

species initiatives and is orgashy

nizing a Nova Scotia wildlands

workshop with the Wildlands

Project for 1999 Her e-mail

address is kbeazleyisdalca

bull Caroline (Van Deudekom) and Marc Brooks both ADA 87

recently moved from Strathroy

to Owen Sound Ont where

they run a 50-acre organic farm

with their two sons

bull Virginia Burt BLA 85 startshyed her own landscape architecshy

ture firm Visionscapes in

Hamilton Ont in ] 996 She

specializes in the design of thershy

apeutic healing gardens spirit

gardens sacred spaces and

la byrin ths and recen tly designed the first healing garden

in Canada specificalJy for peoshy

ple living with HIV and AIDS

bull Joanne (Branson) Carver BA 80 earned a BEd from Brock

University in 1981 and recently

started working as a probashy

tionparole officer She Jives in

Ajax Ont and has two daughshy

ters Julie4 and Sarah 8

bull Heather Champ BA 86 is a Web-site designer in New York

City She began her work in

computer design in 1990 Her

personal site can be Found at

wwwjezebelcom

bull Laurie Gough BA 87 has become a world traveller who

writes about her experiences for

the benefit of others Her most

recent book Island of the

Human Heart A tfornans Travshyel Odyssey is now in its second

printing in Canada and will be

released next year in the United

States and overseas She has also

published Travellers Tales A

Womans World which won the

US-based Lowell Thomas

Gold Award for best travel book

of the year When not travelling

or writing she teaches English

and ESL in Guelph

bull Susan (Coles) Goulden BASc 84 and her husband

Ian are th rilled wi th their

recent adoption of Jennifer Lee

Yu who was born in June near

Leping Jiangxi Peoples Repubshy

lic of China The Gouldens

who Jive in vVaterloo Ont

thank classmate Andrea

(Kovits) Henderson for her

support throughout the adopshy

tion process Susan is currently

on leave from her position with

McCormick Canada

bull Judy (Bodendistel) Gregg BA 82 moved to Melbourne Ausshy

tralia in 1997 with her husband

and two children Carly 6 and

Adam 3 We are enjoying the

friendly people and the great

weather here she says We are

especially enjoying winter in a

place where it never gets below

zero Celsius

bull Nigel GumJey DVM 85 has been a partner in the Alta Vista

Animal Hospital in Ottawa

since 1990 was president of the bull Garry Millage AMPHI 86 bull Heidi Stephenson BA 88 is now ISO 9000 manager at

Ontario Veterinary Medical left a position as vice-president was awarded her professional Carpenter Ca nada Ltd in

Association in 1997 and recent- of national operations for acco untants designation of Wood br idge Ont He lives in

ly served on the Canadian Vetshy Scotts Restaurants KFC Divishy certified general accountant in Miss issa uga Classma tes are

erilw() Medical Associations sion to open his own consult- March 1998 She has been invited to contact him at

national issues committee He ing company Future Food employed for the last 10 years avon listarca

lives in Osgoode with his wife Equipment Ine specializes in with Dan Ball Chartered bull Michelle (Pilon) Bacon BA rvlaurecn and children Laura providing new and used restau- Acco un tant in Parry Sound 90 moved to England to study

and Matthew rant equipment and reducing O nt where she lives with her and work after graduating from

bull Muneer Hirji BComm 82 restaurant construction costs hu sband Brad two dogs and a Guelph She recently left a posishy

lives in Toronto and is vice- He also operates a restaurant horse tion with the British Ministry of

president of marke ting at SAP called Nikkos in Woodbridge bull Dawn Stetsko BSe 81 lives Agriculture and Food in York to

Canada He has three chil- Ont and is planning to open a in Langhorne Pa with her husshy become an at-home mom She

drcl1 Nadia 8 Alyssa 6 and second location band Paul and children Mark now lives in London with her

Sarah I bull Tosh Noseworthy BSe 83 is and Keith and is a research husband Tim and one-year-old

bull Brenda irwin BSe 88 is a cardiovascular ICU nurse in scientist with Bristol-Myers daughter Juliette She sends love

studying at Hong Kong Unishy sunny Tuscon Arizona After Squibb Previously she worked to Sue Heather and Sheila and

vers ity of Science and Technolshy grad uation she lived in Paris at McMaster University in can be reached bye-mail at

ogy to complete the final France for a yea r s tudied nurs- Hamilton Ont for 17 yea rs michellebacondialpipexcom

sem ester of an MBA program ing in O ttawa then lived in Saushy bull Teresa Tummillo-Goy BA bull Jeff Barlow BComm 90 is

through the University of di Arabia for two yea rs She still 86 has a law practice in Water- the training and quality manag-

British Columbia She taught loves to travel and would like to 100 Ont foc Li sing primaril y on er for two five-star luxury boushy

science for the North York hea r from fellow alumni She family law civi l litiga tion and tique h o tels in Prague - Hotel

Board of Education for five can be reached at 520-299-8344 real estate She and her hus- Palace Praha and the Hotel

years before enrolling in the bull Cecilia (Wleugel) Parkes band John Goy live in Guelph Savoy Previo usly he was execu -

MBA program BComm 85 is a graphic and have three sons John 4 tive housekeeper at the five-star

bull Jagwant Kanwar PhD 80 is designer in Toronto and says Tony 3 and Shayne 2 Renaissance Pragu e Hotel

a senior scientist in the depart- she st ill uses ber marketing bull Peter Van der Borch DVM bull Margaret Burnes-Souria BA ment of vegetable crops at Pun- background to help her busishy 88 retired in the fa ll of 1997 94 is a team leader with [011 shy

jab Agricultural University in ness succeed She specia lizes in after several years of practising don Magazin e in London Ont

India He is also director of the logo design lNith hand-drawn physiotherapy and ve terinary She married David Souria in

regional vegetable research stashy illustrations medicine and surgery He Jives July 1997 and is pursuing an tion at Usman (TaranTarn) bull Jim Parr BSc(Agr) 81 and in Pictou NS ]VlBA at the University of West-

Amritsar His and his wife MSe 89 died of cancer in bull MartyWilLiams BA 85 is ern Ontario

Sanyogita have a son Mohit June 1998 but hes being co-ordinator of student activishy bull Janine Byers BASe 95 is a and a daughter Dipika who are remembered by his university ties at University College Unishy public health dietitian at the

both studying engineering friends through the establish - versity of Toronto where he Kingston Frontenac and

Friends can write to Kanwar at ment of a mem orial fund for advises student organizations Iennox amp Addington Health

Punjab Agricultural Un ivers ity his wife Denise and children 1Ie is also chair of the U of T Unit in Kingston O nt She is Ludhiana 141 004 India Shannon and Eric Anyone Staff Association a member of getting married to Ca rl Stewart

bull Larissa Larsen BSe 89 and who would like more informa - the steering committee of the on May 29 j 999 MLA 92 received a PhD in tion can ca ll Brian Tapscott at staffs unionization drive and a bull Lisa Cherry BSe 9 1 is a urban and regional planning 519-767-3566 staff member with the student science journalist and executive

from the University of Illinois bull Cheryl (Dunlop) Reid newspaper The Varsity He can director of Artists Against

at Urbana Champaign in May BSe(Agr) 89 sta rted a new be reached bye-mail at marty Racism an international organi-

She has accepted a position at job in September as ingredient wi lliamsutorontoca za tion She is based in Toronto

Thompson Dyke and Associshy sales manager for RA bull Bonnie (Byma) BASe 96 ales a landscape architecture Chisholm o f Toronto She will 19905 and Gil Clelland BA 95 were

and urban planning firm in continue to work from her bull Claire Allison BA 94 grad- married in December 1996 and

Chicago Her husband Ernie remote offke in Fergus Reid uated from the elementary are living in Chatham On t

Poortinga DVM 89 is in his and her husband Jeff BSe teacher ed ucation program at Bo nnie works at a day-care

third yea r of an MD program (Agr) 89 have two children the University of British centre G il teaches art and

at Rush University Chicago lVlega n 4 and Elizabeth 2 Columbia in 1996 and now phys ical education They ca n -Hes looking forward to joining bull Chee Sie BA 83 is a zone teaches in Va ncou ver be reached bye-ma il at gclelshy

his wife in the ranks of the manager for the Malaysian bull JohnAvon BSdHK) 94 lan ciaccesscom employed They would both Assurance Alliance Berhad in earned an M Se in industr ial bull Kate Corn ell BA 95 of enjoy hearing from fellow Sarawak Malaysia He and his operations from Lawrence Markham Ont earned her

alumni and can be reached at wife Jesterine have a two-year- Technological University in masters in dance history from epoor tin garushurushedu old daughter Letitia Southfleld Mich in 1997 and York University in May and

WINTER 1999 41

co-authored a book titled

Toronto Dance Theatre 1968shy1998 Stages in a Journey

bull Mary Jill (McClure) Culliton BASe 90 earned

her BEd from Brock University

and her M Ed from the Univershy

sity of Western Ontario and

teaches Grade 1 in Mitchell

Ont She and her husband

Tim live in Stratford

bull Kathleen (McNutt) Daniels BASe 9 1 is a teacher and was

married on New Years Eve

1994 to Gord Daniels They live

in North Bay Ont and have a

daughter Lauren born in Febshy

ruary 1997 They are expecting

their second child in February

bull Simon Deakin BA 95 studshyied in Florence Italy for a year

then earned a master of fine art

from the Slade School of Fine

Art at the University of London

England He lives in London

bull Christie Dunbar BLA 97 spent a year after graduation

working for Niagara College in

St Catharines Ont on the

vision and design of a new

campus to be built in Niagarashy

on-the- Lake Last April she

joined the landscape architecshy

ture firm of Pollack Design

Associates in Ann Arbor Mich

bull Trina Edmonds BA 94 and

Joel Hinderle became the

proud parents of a little girl

Jordan Ashley in january 1998

and moved to a new home in

Oakville Ont in September

Edmonds works in Mississauga

as a desktop publisher with a

publishingprinting company

bull Wendy Garinther BSc 93 and Steve Decker BSe 94

were married in May Joining

them in the wedding celebrashy

tions were Cheri (Coulter)

42 GUELPH ALUMNUS

Ascroft BSe 93 Karen Leinshy

gartner BSe 94 and Barb

(Moore) Johnson BSe 94

Best man was Jeff Bond BSe

93 and MSe 96 The Deckers

live in Edmonton where Steve

is doing a PhD in chemistry at

the University of Alberta and

Wendy is working in a research

laboratory at a biopharmaceushy

tical company

bull Donna Gross BA 97 is purshysu ing a master of divinity at

Emmanuel College at the Unishy

versity of Toronto and hopes to

become an ordained minister by

2002 She lives in Guelph and

can be reached bye-mail at

donnajulietalbedonet

bull Robert Gruber BA 92 is a child-care supervisor for the

YMCA-YWCA of Guelph and

manages the Jean Little Y

Child- Care Centre He recently

developed the anti -bias proshy

gramming policy for the

Guelph Y and sits on both the

Jean Little Public School Counshy

cil and the Guelph AIDS Wall

Committee He can be reached

bye-mail at rgrubernet

comca

bull Susan Harder BSe 91 grad shyuated from the University of

Toronto Medical School in June

and has started a residency at

Santa Clara Valley Medical Censhy

tre in San jose Calif She will

follow that up with an anestheshy

sia residency at Stanford Univershy

sity Hospital in 1999

bull Marko Harjupanula BASc 93 travelled in Australia for

two months after graduating

from Guelph then returned to

his home town of South Porshy

cupine Ont where he worked

in a gold mine for four years

He entered police college in

September and started as an

opp constable in Cochrane in

December

bull Nancy Holman MA 94 moved to Vancouver soon after

graduation and initially worked

as a project co-ordinator for an

ophthalmologist In 1996 she

began working full time for the

BC Liberal Caucus I would

enjoy hearing from and catchshy

ing up with the friends I made

while studying at U of G and

working at the Brass Taps she

says Her e-mail address is nan shy

cyholmanlassgovbeca

bull Ruth Johnson BA 91 is an investment banking associate

with the mergers and acquisishy

tions group of JP Morgan in

Lond on England responsible

for financial reporting and

administration She has been in

England with her partner Alex Campbell since graduation

bull Stephen Johnson BA 94 of London Ont was a lab technishy

cian at Lenscrafters for three

yea rs and is now a full-time

student at Fanshawe College

studying air conditioning and

refrigeration He was married

in Jun e to Jennifer Fox BSc

95 a chemist at 3M Their

wedding party included Dee Popat BSe (Eng) 94 and

Patrick Wulhes BSc 95

bull Sarah (Davis) Kelly BASe 90 married Robert Kelly in

July and teaches primary

grades at an inner-city school

in Toronto

bull Cassidy Klowak BComm 97 lives in Allisshy

ton Onl and is a personal

banking account manager

with ClBC in Tottenham

bull Stephanie Lopes BSc 96 completed her MSc in repro shy

ductive biology at the Universishy

ty of Toronto and worked as

patient-care director for the

College of Family Physicians

for almost a year In September

she enrolled in medical school

at the University of Toronto

She is happy to announce that

she is engaged to be married

next summer Lopes can be

reached at slopesidirectcom

bull Natalie (Parker) MacKenzie BSc 96 earned her BEd from

the University of Western

Ontario in 1997 She married

ASLt Andy MacKenzie June 27

in Sault Ste Marie Ont and

now lives in Halifax

bull Susan MacKinnon DVM 91 is a veterinarian with HUls

Science Diet She lives in

Guelph with her husband

Brandon Wiley and gave birth

to their first child Adrianna

Nicole june 26 at home

bull Waheed Mian BA 9 1 of Cambridge Ont is a store

director with PetSmart Canada

He helped the company launch

its new retail concept in Cana da

bull Alex Mitchell BA 91 was appointed clerkdeputy treasurshy

er of the Ontario township of

Mildmay-Carrick in 1998 and

will be the clerkadministrator

of the new municipality of

Mildmay-Carrick -TeesWatershy

Culross in 1999 He was married

in january 1997 and lives vith

his wife and daughter in Mild shy

may In his spare time Mitchell

is a professional scout for the

Toronto Maple Leafs covering

southwestern Ontario

bull Sherry Morland BASc 93 of Kitchener Ont ea rned her

BEd from Brock University in

J995 and is a part-time specia l

educa tion teacher and an occashy

sional teacher with the Watershy

loo County Board of Ed ucashy

tion She married Ivan LeBlanc

in 1997

bull Gary Page BSe 91 wo rks for the Nottawasaga Valley Conshy

servation Authority where he is

able to combine his knowledge

of wildlife biology with his

artistic skills as resident graphic

designer and outdoor centre

interpreter He Jives with his

wife Di and their son judah in

CreemoreOnt

bull Elaine Pammenter BA 96 is an inventory clerk with the

Royal Collection at Windsor

Castle in England She holds a

museum management and

curatorship grad uate certificate

diploma from Sir Sandford

Fleming College and did her

internship at the Royal Albert

Memorial Museum in Exeter

England

bull Brent Raymond BSe(Env) 96 of Brantford Ont has

been working with Outward

Bound since graduation He

leads wilderness trips in Northshy

ern Ontario Horida Australia and Sabah (Malaysian Borneo) Most recently he designed and implemented a new introducshytory mountaineering course for Outward Bound Sabah on the summit plateau of Mt Kinashy

balu Those of you who know me as plate licker from U of G get in touch he says Where are you Star I miss you He can be reached by e-mail at globarwchatonca or by

phone at 519-756-1697

Alumni Patrick Abbott BSA 40 July 7 1998

Albert Allen BSA 33 Jan 161994 Agris Ansmits BA 70 and MA 73

February 1998 Barbara (Quartermain) Babcock DHE

53 June 17 1998

Wray Bond BSA 34 Sept 25 1998

Kenneth Bone DVM 38 Dec 29 1998 Evelyn (Stevenson) Buhr DHE 39

May 251998 Philip Burke BSA 43 June 21 1998

Grant Carman BSA 49 Oct 221998 Frederick Chambers BSA 41

June 1998 Wilmot Conley ADA4 7 April 7 1998 Lloyd Crewson BSA 49 Aug 261998

Jacqueline Dimock DHE 47

Aug 20 1998 John Dingwall DVM 52

April 18 1998

Lloyd Dorsey BSA 38 June 9 1998 George Duncan BSA 37

Sept 19 1998

David Dyson BSA 53 Aug 31 1998

Norma (Shannon) Edwards DHE 39

November 1997 Vincent Bud Ellis DVM 41

July 15 1998 John Jack George BSA 48

Sept 24 1998

Donald Haight BSA 33 January 1997 William Hamlyn BSA 33 Dec I 1997

Gordon Harkness BSA 49

November 1997

Charles Hollister DVM 38 June 1996 Donald Hope BSA 54 June 28 1998

Lawrence Jefferson BSA 38

Sept 3 1998

James Kelso DVM 56 July 27 1998

Dorima Lalonde BSA 34 Oct 8 1998 Mildred (Cox) Large DHE 33

June 20 1998 Roger Larson BComm 86 Feb 19 1998 Robert Lawson BSA 49 June 6 1998

bull Doug Ramsey BA 91 and PhD 98 received U of Gs highshyest graduate student award shythe Forster Medal- at June convocation for his academic and community involvement while enrolled in Guelphs new

graduate program in geography He spent the summer as a visitshying research scholar at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College in Truro before assuming his curshyrent position as assistant professhysor at Mount Allison University

David Leach BSc(Agr) 74

July 18 1998

Ian Leask DVM 74 Sept 5 1998

Sheryl Lee BSc 95 June 8 1998 Ruby Janet MacAuley DHE 30

Aug 19 1998 Parker MacKenzie DVM 38

September 1994

Jeanice MacLaren DHE 28 March 1 1997

Campbell MacMaster DVM42

Oct 8 1998

Rex McCallum DVM 43 July 71998 Jean (Dunn) McMahon DHE 31

Nov 41998

Margaret Oones) McTaggart DHE 35 Aug 81998

Patrick McTaggart-Cowan HDSc 81

Oct 21997

Malcolm McWhinnie ADA 39

July 16 1998 Mary (Townsend) Mitchell BHSc

60 Sept 281998

Marjory Monaghan DHE 29

December 1997 Charles Monk BSA 44 Aug 7 1998

Heather Neilsen BHSc 59

Oct 30 1998 Jerry Niwa DVM 62 Aug 5 1998 Henry Harry OReilly BSA 42

October 1997

James Parr BSc(Agr) 81 June 19 1998 Charles Rammage DVM 45

Oct 17 1996 Howard Rapson HDSc 90

March 1997 Clement Reeds DVM 42 Oct 16 1998

William Robinson BSA 38

Aug 23 1998

Donald Sager ADA 73 Oct 141997

Austin Schaefer DVM 37 in 1997

Sandra (Mackenzie) Schmidt DHE 59

Aug 16 1997 Margaret (Harvey) Seaborn DHE 28

July 221998

Larry Seguin DVM 47 June 12 1998

Leah Shedden DHE 31 December 1998

Edward Shuh BSA 40 July 2 1998

Ted Shutsa BSc(Agr) 66

Sept 18 1998 Jim Sinclair DVM 49 Oct 4 1998

Margaret (Brown) Sinclair DHE 20

September 1998 Eldon Smith BSA 42 Sept 9 1998

Derek Somers DVM 96 Sept 25 1998

Cheryl Lynn Sopha BA 95 Sept 20 1998

Leona (Bartlett) Stewart DHE 35

June 27 1998 Alex Thomson BSc(Agr) 69

October 1996

William Whittick DVM 55

Aug 15 1998 Joseph Wilson BSA 23 Sept 11 1998

Lloyd Woolsey DVM41 June 24 1998

Winifred Yeates DHE 28 June 11998

Faculty John Carpenter BSA 43 and MSA 48

Microbiology Dec 10 1998

David Gaskin Zoology Sept 14 1998

Gordon Macleod BSA 50 Animal and

Poultry Science Nov 26 1998 Roman Retman Languages and

Literatures Sept 28 1998

Caesar Sen off Chemistry and

Biochemistry Aug 14 1998

Percy Smith Drama Dec 10 1998

Friends Robert Clark Aug 21 1998

Ethel Hammond August 1998

Thomas Hillers Sept 28 1998 Marguerite Holbrook Aug 26 1998

Catherine Kelly Sept 27 1998

James A McKenzie May 13 1998

Kenneth McIssac Oct 23 1998

William Mutlock September 1998 Roena Patterson Sept 16 1998

Donald Priddle Aug 25 1998

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bull Karl Reimer BSe 94 comshypleted a one-year intensive

MSc in mining engineering at

Queens University and is now

a project engineer a t Enpar

Technologies Ine in Guelph

He can be contacted at reimerbservcom

bull Nancy Nauta Rowland BA 90 and her husband Dan celshy

ebrated their first wedding

anniversary in March 1998 with

the birth of their first child

Connor who beat their March

8 anniversary by two days Nanshy

cy teaches junior-grade stushy

dents and junior special ed ucashy

tion for the Peel District School

Board The Rowlands live in

Caledon Ont

bull Fraser Stables MFA 98 was heralded by Toronto Globe 6shyMail critic Betty Jordan as a

formidable new talent followshy

ing the openi ng of his debut

gallery exh ibition in July The

Scottish artists work includes

sculpture video and mixed

media that explore notions of

flu x by interrupting the moveshy

ment of forms in space

bull Erin (Smith) Scott BSe(HK) 92 and Brad

Scott BSc(Agr) 91 of Lucan

O nt were married in 1993 and

had their first child Lucas in

August Erin works for Shopshy

pers Home Health Ca re in

London Brad is with New Life

Mills in Dunfield

bull Abby Simons BSc 95 and Martin Piche BSc(Agr) 95 were married in Mont-Tremshy

blant Quebec in 1997 She is a

customer service representative

with Kantech Systems he is

superintendent of Club de golf

vallee des forts They say theyd

love to hear from anyone headshy

ing to Montreal and can be

reached at 450-348-3860

bull Sylvia Tesori BSc 95 has been doing wildlife rehabilitashy

tion for the OSPCA Wildlife

Rehabilitation Centre in Midshy

land Ont since 1996

bull Chuck Thibeault BComm 94 is general manager of the

Putting Edge Corpora tion

which has two glow-in- theshy

dark mini-golf courses in

Ontario one in Bramp ton and

one in Richmond Hill He can

be reached in Richmond Hill at

chu ckttotalnet

bull Karen Thirlwall BA 93 is a

si ngersongwriter and guitarist

who began her stage career and

released her first album The Voice Inside Me while studying

languages at U of G She has

lived and performed in

11i stler BC for three years

and recently released a second

album called Wide-Eyed She

remembers many special

fr iends m ade at Guelph and

welcomes e-mail messages to

karenthirlwallhotmailcom

bull Christie (Johnson) and Steve

Tyler both BComm 91 live in

Cambridge Ont where

Christie is a personal banking

representative for the Royal

Bank Steve works with their

third-year design professor

Nelson Hofer in Mississauga as

a design consultan t Steves proshy

jects include the Windsor Casishy

no and U of Gs Creelman Hall

They have two children Jason

5 and Marcus 1

bull Julia White BA 91 lives in Guelph and is a small-business

accountant at Taves amp Co She

recently finished courses

towards a CGA designation and

would like to hea r from other

alumni who lived in Lambton

Hall in 198788 Send e-mail to

juliawhitesympaticoca

bull Andre-Denis Wright MSc 93 and PhD 98 is doing postshy

docto ral work in Perth Westshy

ern Australia He wants his

Guelph friends and Halifax

family to know he was thinking

of them at Christmas when it

was 40 C in Australia

bull Dave Yellen BComm 90 was recently promoted at the Gordon

Food Service to new-accounts

sales specialist for Metro Toronshy

to Having been in Ottawa for

the past few years Im hoping

to reacquaint myself with old

friend s from U of G in the Metro

area he says He lives in Scarborshy

ough and can be reached at 416shy615-2745 or davidysprintca

bull Halina Zaleski PhD 92 is a tenured professor in the

departm ent of animal sciences

at the Un iversity of Hawaii in

Honolulu She is a swine speshy

cialist involved in extension

programs for an area th at covshy

ers all of Hawai i and the PacifIC

basin She can be reached by

e-mail at halinahawaiiedu

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are students sawing logs throwing pies baking cookies

and square dancing its College Royal When the entire

University of Guelph is displayed - from arts to zooloshy

gy - March 13 and 14 1999 youll know its definitely

College Royan

Since its inception in 1925 as an agricultural and liveshy

stock show run by the Ontario Agricultural College

College Royal has grown to be a celebrated U of G trashy

dition involving all the colleges

The event is famou s in the University community

and beyond for its open-house showcase of displays and

activities The largest student-run open house in Canashy

da College Royal attracts more than 20000 visitors to

campus over one weekend

College Royal is an event of tradition that reaches

into tomorrow Agriculture and livestock shows are still

highlighted events but College Royal activities have

grown to include dog and cat shows a photography conshy

test a chemistry magic show and demonstrations on

human health and fitness The open house gives people

an opportunity to see what happens in the Universitys

leading-edge research laboratories to observe veterinary

medicine in practice to tour a sculpture studio or to

watch a theatrical performance

To celebrate the 75th anniversary of College Royal

1998 president Joe TrakaJo lnvites alumni to get involved

again by joining one of the planning comm ittees or by

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dock pollock red fish and flatfish made up just under half of Canadas total landings on the Atlantic coast (720000 tonnes of fish and shellfish were caught in 1994 represhysenting a total landed value of $11 billion) Two year~ later that proportion had dropped to 21 per cent with shellfish and open ocean fish specie~ notably Atlantic

Begin in the Atlantic The crisis on the East Coast has become a disaster So says laquoWE NEED TO TRY TO SEPARATE OUTGuelph zo ology professor John Roff enushymerating the litany of woes that have surshy

THE FISHERIES MANAGEMENT DECISIONSfaced from Ca nadas marine fishery in the past decade Although some fish and shellshy

FROM THE POLITICAL DECISIONSfi sh are holding their own stocks of other species have experienced declines raquo

ASSOCIATED WITH THE FISHE RY

down that fishery in 1992 Over fishing and under which it has been buying up fishers

Even when stocks do rebound rarely do we fully und erstand why he says Theres a complex of problems to be disshy more for cod stocks to rebound says Roff entangled involving overflshing long- and co-editor with colleague Prof Moira Fergushyshort-term climate change and changes in son of the respected Canadian Journal ofFishshyocean current systems and productivity eries and Aquatic Sciences A wise course of

And of course the once-thriving northshy action for a fisherman in Newfoundland ern cod that first drew Europeans with their would be to seU his licence and do something nets to the Grand Banks 500 years ago have else he says (Last fall the federal governshycoUapsed to the point that Ottawa had to shut ment announced its final retirement program

the failure of federal fisheries managers to heed the warnings of scientists have been blamed for the coUapse Even with the lllorashytoriulll in place it may take two decades or

licences in Atlantic Ca nada and Quebec) In 1992 - the year Ottawa imposed its

moratorium on the northern cod fisheryshylandings of groundfish including cod had-

salmon making up the difference [n 1995 the total groLlndfish catch reached its lowshyest level in two decades

Unlike the Ea st Coast fi shery which relies most ly on ocea n-living fish the Pacifshyic fishery is dominated b) migratory species Some 300000 tonnes of fish and shellfish were harvested along the west coast in 1994 worth a landed value of $550 million (Arcshytic marine fisheries and their management differ from those on the coasts although cOl11mercial and recreational fisheri es are small here food fisheries are important to

U OF G AQUATIC SCIENCES EXPERTISE CATCHES WORLD ATTENTION

Landlocked in the middle of the courltry U ofG nevertheless boasts fish pathology and diseases including farmed fish diseases fish an enviable record and range ofexpertise in aquatic sciencesshy hormones and reproductive physiology including the effects of marine and freshwater - dating back to the late 1960s Thats when environmental contaminants early life history and behaviour Prof Keith Ronald thell chair of the Department ofZoology (and of fi shes and biology of tuna later dean of the College ofBiological Science) began a marine biolshyogy program at the University Today Guelph has the largest Partnered with the A-erod Institute of Ichthyology in U of group of ichthyologists - scientists who study fish - in Gs Aquatic Sciences Facility the r[agen Aqualab is an North America investigating a wide variety ojIre~hshy aquatic research and teaching facililY for studying water alld marine fisheries and aquatics topics aquatic organisms Environmentally controlled

rooms in the Aqualab allow faculty and students to U of Gs Axelrod Institute of Ichthyology houses simulate habitats as diverse as the Arctic Ocean and one of the worlds largest collections of museumshy tropical rainforest pools The facility is named for quality fish fossils donated to the University by its principal benefactor Rolf Hagen founding presshy

ident of Canadas largest pet store 5llpplier J 989 The institute which provides space for fisheries research and visiting scientists brings together 12 core U of G U of G faculty edit four internationally recognized journals researchers in fisheries and aquatic sciences whose interests and in ichthyology fisheries and aquatic science Awarded to U of G by expertise span environmental contaminants and parasitic disshy the National Research Council in 1997 the Canadian Journal of eases evolutionary genetics of marine and freshwater fishes Fisheries al1dAquatic Sciellces is co-edited by zoology professors

US ichthyologist and author Herbert Axelrod in

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northerners including shrimp Atlantic salmon and arctic char) Accountin g fOI almost half of that total were Pacific salmon which ret urn from the ocean to spawn in home streams and rivers up and down the coast of Alaska British Columbia and Washshyington There are actually five main spec ies of sa lmon that run down the BC coast shysockeye (t he most va luable commercial species) chinook coho chum and pinkshyfrom spring to December

Its a very complex jurisdictional and multi-user problem says Roff Bes ides degradation of freshwater spawning habishytats and ocean climate effects of El Nill0 the West Coast fishery is a cauldron of ten shysions between various groups perennial fish wars between Ca nada and the United States disputes that pit sport fishers against native fishing rights Recognizing the problems of low ocean productivity habitat damage overfishing and indiscriminate fishing pracshytices that take weak and strong stocks alike Ottawa is developing a new policy to guide Canadas Pacific salmon fisheries focusing on conservation sustainable use and improved decision-making

That potent mix of overfishing and habishytat degrada tion is also a problem for Canashydas freshwater fisheries A report tabled last fall by the federal standing committee on

fisheries and oceans called for more federal funding for research and fisheries programs in central and arctic regions of Canada Accord ing to that report the Grea t Lakes commercial fishery is one of the largest freshwater fisheri es in the world worth an average landed value of more than $40 milshylion a year and an eco nomic impact of at least $250 million Some 90 per cent of that catch is exported The neck lace of lakes threading its way to the St Lawrence River also supports the largest fres hwater sports fishery in the world 800000 Ontarians fish on the Great Lakes eve ry year contributing $850 million to the economy

In Manitoba managers are concerned about the long-term susta inability of freshshywater fish stocks particularly declines in Lake Winnipeg and the northern part of the province caused by overfishing environshymental degradation loss of prime spawning habitat and predators The province has seen stocks rise and fall particularly of pickerel Manitobas highest-priced fish In an attempt to manage the fishery in a sustained fashion the province recently introduced a qu ota entitlement system for anglers Joe OConshynor director of the fisheries branch of Manshyitobas Department of Na tural Resources says his department is wrestling with the environmental threats on fish habitat posed

by farming and hydroelectric development In Ontario fisheries are genera lly in

pretty good shape says Evan Thomas fishshyeries section manager of the fish and wildlife branch of the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (OM NR) Ontario supports almost half of all recreational fishing in Canada with more than two million adult anglers and more than $2 billion a year spent on recreational fishing in the province Onta ri o is also home to Canadas larges t commercial freshwater fishery worth abo ut $40 million a Yfar in land ed value

Thomas says over fishing is still the numshyber one problem Others include habitat loss the potential effects of climate change and contin ued invasion by exotic species Among the management opt ions his minshyistry is exploring are more effective fisheries regulation more rapid inventory and assessshyment techniques fish culture for rehabilishytating populations and controlling nutrient inputs into lakes and rivers

We are clearly looking for federal supshyport for the sea lamprey control program he says referring to recommendations in the recent federal fisheries committee report as well as changes to the federal Fishshyeries Act to hand the province more authorshyity over fish habitat protection

Concerns continue in Ontario over

Moira Ferguson and John Roff Fish Physiology and Biochemistry the top-ranked journal in its field is edited by Prof John Leathershyland chair of the Department of Biomedical Sciences in the Ontario Veterinary College University professor emeritus Eugene Balon has served as editor-in-chief of Environmental Biology ofFishes since he founded the publication in 1976 Zoology professor David Noakes edits Guelph Ichthyology Reviews whose articles synthesize and review all aspects of fish science Both of the latter

Under the Canadian contribution to the project - furided by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council - about 80 federal government and university researchers are trying to learn more about how bioshylogical and physical processes in the oceans affect fish stocks

Zoologychair Prof Paul Hebert has led a Guelph initiative to develshyop multimedia learning resources d1at teach student~ from

are published in the Axelrod Institute of Ichthyology

Based on data from geographic information sysshytems zoology professor John Roff has mapped types of habitat associated with various species of fish and other organisms around Canadas coasts and throughout tl1C Great Lakes the first time such

e1ementaIy grades to university about Canadas aquatshyic environments His department has developed a series of CD-ROMs that provide information on all the major animal groups in the Great Lakes Already available are educational CD-ROMs on Canadas aquatic environments (also available on

d1e World Wide Web) Great Lakes biodiversity and a marine classification system has been developed in this country His report was commissioned by World Wildlife Fund Canada for its Endangered Spaces Campaign and contributes to RoWs work as chair of the scienrillc committee of Globec (Globshyal Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics) a two-year-old international research program intended to better understand ocean ecosystems

birds of the Great Lakes The latter is the first disc in a series called the Great Lakes Faunal Atlas which will eventually cover mammals amphibians reptiles fish and crustaceans

The Alma Aquaculture Research Station es tablished in 1989 and funded through a 20-year development grant by the Ontario

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various invas ive species that have turned up

in the Great Lakes - notably sea lampreys

zebra mussels and quagga mussels - many

of which arrive in ballast water of ocea nshy

going vessels (Many have also found their

way into Manitoba says OConnor who

points to the effects of sm elt on whitefish

the main commercial species in Lake Winshy

nipeg) Among o ther meas ures the federal

fish eries committee report called for guarshy

anteed funding for sea lamprey control and

for scienti fic research

I think more money will come says

Prof Bill Beamish Zoology a commissionshy

er on the Great Lakes Fisheries Commission

the 40-year-old governing body that co-ordishy

nates resea rch programs between Canada

and the United States and advises both govshy

ernments It was a review led by Beamish

more than a decade ago on the sta te of

Canadas freshwater fi sheries that provided

the scientific underpinnings for a landmark

report published in 1988 that spelled ou t a

way in freshwater fisheries is a lon g-te rm

project fund ed by the OMNR and the

Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO)

to re-establish native species in their origishy

nal habitats a round Lake Ontario iVlari e

Clement a graduate student of zoology proshy

fe sso r David Noakes is studying Atlantic

sa lmo n which was wiped out of the lake

CONSIDERING WE HAVE THE

BEST FISHERY SCIENCES COMMUNITY

IN THE WORLD WE OUGHT TO

BE DOING BETTER

national strategy for freshwater fisheries

Beamish who has studied sea lampreys

for several decades at Guelph and also invesshy

tigates fish habitat loss says money is need shy

ed to help researchers investigate biological

controls as an alternative to chemical lamshy

pricides The recen t repo rt also notes the

need to address the effects of other nonshy

native exotic species on n ative fish stocks

and water quality and calls on Ottawa to

stem the funding decline in freshwater scishy

ence over the last two decades

One example of the kind of work under

and its tribu ta ry streams near the beginning

o f this century by overflshing and habitat

destruction and alteration Last fall Clement

placed eggs into a site in the Credit River

she has been monito ring oxygen availab il shy

ity durin g their incu ba tion to gau ge sedishy

mentation rates in the river This spring and

summer she wili study how newborn fi sh

interact with other species in th e r ive r

C lement says her docto ral research proshy

ject is but one piece of a larger project aimed

at re-establishing the heritage species Othshy

er researchers hop e to learn whe ther th e

Ministry of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs brings together

researchers for interdisciplinary studies of protein requirements

of arctic char improving fish semen and egg management proshy

cedures and understanding hormone activity in fish The station

acts as a quarantine unit for new fish varieties entering Ontario

and serves as a base for parts of certificate courses and a masters

program in aquaculture

farms in Canada He and fellow Guelph zoologists Eugene Balon

(co- founder of the Coelaca nth Conservat ion Council) and Jim

Bogart also identified and characterized the coelacanth which

had been thought extinct until a specimen was landed off Africa

in the la te 1930s Noakes confirmed the identity of ano ther of

these living fossils discovered in 1997 it appears to belong to a

second popula tion living in the Indian Ocean about 10000 kilo-

metres away from tha t first find

Zoology professors Moira Ferguson and Roy Danzshy

mann use molecular genetics techniques to identishy Zoology chair Paul Hebert was the first scientist to

fy DNA markers used to pinpoint the location of identify the presence in the Great Lakes of zebra

genes associated with growth spawning times mussels a prolific invader that has wreaked havoc

rates of development maturity and temperature in many ways from clogging water-intake pipes to

tolerance in rainbow trout Isolating and identifyshy consuming plankto n thus allowing light to reach

ing genetic markers fo r desirable traits will help fish bottom-dwelling organisms that may displace native

farmers and breeders cross-breed more effectively species The first researcher to report on the biology

conservationists will be better able to manage and preserve and impact of the zebra mussel on the Grea t Lakes was

genetic variability among wild fish stocks Guelph zoology professor Gerald Mackie whose studies showed

that the organisms faster growth rate and higher fecundity and

Zoology professor David Noakes has stuclied varieties of arctic population density will probably enable it to displace many native

char native to Iceland to find ones suited to being raised on fish bivalves and disrupt entire lake ecosystems

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LEADING RESEARCH

The University of Guelph has one orthe largest and most active groups of aquatic biologists in the world

bull More than 50 faculty and 100

graduate students research

assocrates and postdoctoral

fellows

bull Over 1000 published scientific

articles books monographs

films and videos in the past

decade

bull Interdisciplinary programs

involving more than a dozen

academic departments

bull The largest group ofichthyoloshy

gists (scientists who study

fish) in North America

bull Collaborative research with

government environrriental

organizations and academic

institutions worldwide

bull Expertise covering the entire

aquatic food chain from plankshy

ton to whales

bull Leading developments in comshy

puter-based educational mate-

rials in aquatic sciences

bull A new $6-million Aquatic

Sciences Facility

bull Research support from national

and international agencies

business and industry

adults will be able to return from the open

lake to their stream spawning grounds If

they come back will the eggs survive she

says If were able to show the eggs can surshy

vive that will be very encouraging for

Atlant ic salmon restoration

What is to be done to ensure the survival

not just of Atlantic salmon in Lake Ontario

but also of the co untrys freshwater and

m ar ine fisheries We need to try to sepashy

rate o ut the fisheries management decisions

from the political decisions associated with

the fi shery says zoology professor Glen Van

Der Kraak director of U of Gs Axelrod

Institute of Ichthyology Van Der Kraak who

studies the effects of toxic contaminants on

fi sh populations says policy mltkers need

to rely on the advice of fisheries sc ientis ts

making conservative harvest ing estimates

So often scientists make decisions and then

are overrun by the politics he says (Never

mind fish wars pitting co untries against one

another - here in Ca nada scientists and

policy makers wres tle over the question of

who should be respo nsible for what aspects

of the countrys fisheries as witnessed in a

war of words played out in the Canadian Journal ofFisheries and Aquatic Sciences over

the past 18 months between biologists at

several Canadian univers ities and the DFO

over the relationship between fishery sc ishy

ence and fishery policy)

Roff says theres nothing unique about

Canadas fish problems Its not really a

Canadian problem its a worldwide probshy

lem The only fisheries worldwide that are

not over fished appear to be some not yet

fully exploited in the Indian Ocean

After nearly four decades of growth the

worldwide marine ca tch levelled off in the

1990s to some 90 million tons a year The

m ain problems coastal pollution habitat

destruction and particula rly overfishing

Noakes editor of the journal Guelph Ichthyology Reviews contrasts the few hunshy

dred people who might have made th eir

livelihood aboard small wood en boats on

the Grand Banks several centuries ago with

the massive factory trawlers that now scour

todays coast People are much too efficient

in terms of catching fish he says Noakes

concurs with fellow Guelph researchers that

conservation of fish stocks has to reach the

top of fishery managers agendas

hat does set Canada apart is the breadth

and depth of expertise in fisheries and aquatshy

ic sciences in this country - rather a parashy

dox when you consider that Canadas record

in fisheries preservation is apparently no betshy

ter than that of many other nations

Considering we have the best fishery scishy

ences community in the world we ought to

be doing better says Roff Within the last

decade th e federal government withdrawal

o f support from the Department of Fishshy

eries and Oceans and university researchers

has been massive At the very time when the

resources were gett ing into severe problems

and when the federal government ought to

have been funding research theyve been

substantially withdrawing resources ga

DONT WAIT UNTIL SPRING The opportunity to double the impact of your gift to the University of Guelph ends on March 31 1999 Until that date all gifts designated to endowed student financial aid at Guelph will be matched by the Ontario Student Opportunity Trust Fund (OSOTF) That means that every dollar you commit will contribute two dollars to financial aid for Guelph students

If you would like to support our students throug h OSOTF you still have a w indow of oppor nishyty to have your do l1a rs doubled But only until March 31 1999

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WINTER 1999 31

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

n ALUMNI PROF IL E

LETS LOOK AT THE OPPORTUNITIES

WHEN I-IE BECA ME president of the Unishy

versity of Guelph Alumni Association

(UGM) in June Jim Weeden brought new

enthusiasm and ideas for encouraging alumshy

ni to stay in volved with their alma mater

And he wants to start with students

Weeden reca ll s his own ex perience at

U of G where he fo und a sense of commushy

nity by living in residence and ge tting

involved in college activiti es But when he

graduated with an engin ee ring degree in

197 1 he left to begin a caree r and says he

didnt think much about the University until

he needed it again in the 1980s to pursue a

graduate degree in agricultural enginee ring

He spent his early career working as an

agricultural extensi o n engineer for the

Ontario Department o f Agriculture and is

stiU with its successo r the Ontario Ministry

of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs

(OMAFRA) Weed en completed the masshy

ters degree in 1986 when he was head of the

agricultural engineering program and extenshy

sion services a t Centralia College of Ag rishy

cultural Technology

In 1987 he moved to the ministrys plant

industry branch as program m anager and

later held the same position in th e resources

manage m ent branch Sin ce then he has

worked for OMAFRA in Woodstock and

now Stratfo rd He is technical adviser fo r

Ontarios Enviro nmental Farm Planning

Program is respo nsible for o ther environshy

m ental programs and consults with the Minshy

istry o f th e Environment on local agriculshy

tural pollution problems

w Weed en got involved with the Universishy sect tys a]u111ni programs by serving on the first g z board of the Engineering Alumni Associashy

~ tion when it was established in 1990 From

~ 1991 to 1994 he sat on the University Senshy

~ ate and its Research Board and for the pas t

~ four years) hels been on the UGAA executive

32 GUELPH A LU MNUS

From the presidents chair Weeden looks

at the bro ad picture o f UG AA se rvice and

recognizes that the associa tio n owes a debt

o f gratitude to hundreds of alumni volunshy

teers who ha ve helped to build the organishy

za tion over the yea rs and to University staff

in Development and Public Affairs (DampPA)

who support UGAA initiatives and alumni

programs Thro ugh their efforts he says the

a lulllni associati o n is rea ching out to all

U of G alumni Graduates who have mainshy

tained a close relationship with the Univershy

sity thro ugh their college or academic disshy

cipline those who feel an affiliation because

o f their participation in a thletics residence

life o r extracurricular activiti es and even

HIGHLIGHTSmiddot GRAD NEWSmiddot OBITUARIES bull CALENDER

those who have not kept in touch are part of the constituency served by UGAA

Weed en says the alumni association needs to strengthen its relationship with all alumni and he believes the effor t must start on campus with students Hed like to proshymote the idea of alumni involvement as ear shyly as a students second year We need to give students some reason to be con nected and an efficient vehicle for maintaining that connection he says

For many students and new graduates the social functions supported by UGAA and the opportunities for professional networking will be important says Weeden but greater rewards are there for those who join the effort to enhance the Universitys acade mic goals

In todays economic and political envi shyronme nt individual financial support and the advocacy of post-secon dary education are important roles for alumni he says How many people ac tively get involved with the debate on whether universities are job-trainshy

ing centres or centres of education Yet some of our alumni are extremely adept in such roles Weeden would like to cultivate past and current stud ent ac tivists as supporters of public education after they graduate

As Weeden leads UGAA into a new year he says he will work with other UGAA volshyunteers and DampPA staff to find new ways for the association to interact with students and alumni One id ea is to expand UGAAs Intershynet presence by adding a Web message board that will encourage alumni to discuss career and campus issues online and a reply form that will allow them to quickly update addressshyes employment status and other information

Weeden says its important to stay focused on UGAAs key prioriti es but he welcomes any and all new ideas on how to accomplish them All it takes to share your ideas with the UGAA executive is a stamp or a push of the send button when youre clicked on alumniuoguelphca

HKHB SPIRIT RISES

ENCOURAGED BY THE SPIRIT

shown by fellow alumni at last

summers reunion the executive

of the Human Kinetics Human Biology

Alumni Association is moving ahead

with more opportunities for alumni to

stay in touch The association plans to

launch a Web site that will be accessed

through the U of G site

A wine-and-cheese reception already

planned for June 19 1999 wiil try to

build on the success of the 1998 event

which attracted alumni from as far away

as Chicago and as far apart as the 19605

and 1990s Guests had a chance to tour

U of Gs new Health and Performance

Centre and performance testing

labs The program was co-ordinated wiLh

A REFLECTION OF PRIDE

Members of the OAC

Class of 52 join Arboshy

retum staff on the front patio

of the Arboretu m Centre

beside a new reflecting pool

that was built last summer

as a class project Pictured

from left are Murray Parker

Ann Smith George Smith

Jack Sargent Catherine Gibb

Robin Shaw-Rummington

Marilyn Swaby BA 69

Bev Healy B5e(Agr) 72

Norm Watson Una Venerus

Ron Costen Henry Kock

BSe (Agr) 77 and Ric

Jordan BA 75

Prof Jack Barclay chair of the Departshy

ment of Human Biology and Nutritional

Sciences and Prof Susan Pfeiffer Memshy

bers of the Human KineticsHuman

Biology Alumni Association executive arc

Janet Leonhard 82 president Carolyn

Moore 83 vice-president Alison Locker

97 secretary Mark Mulholland 79

lreasurer and t-iary Ann Crape 76

These officers are also spea rheading a

new initiative to benefit students - an

undergraduate award that will provide

$250 and lifetime mem bership in the

association To commcnt on these and

other initiatives contact Leonard by

e-mail at Janel_Leonhardinwrbsb

eduonca or Moore at cturveyagec

uoguelphca

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alumni

Multimedia lab buzzes

THE DONALD FORSTER RoOiv

has become one of the

busiest spots in th e Unishy

versity of Guelph Liblary since the

addition of 70 state-of-the-art

computer workstations that were

supported by alumni do nations

to the Alma Mater Fund (AM F)

U of G president Mordechai

Roza nski officia ll y o pened th e

Alma Mater Fund Multimedia

Lab D ec 2 an d celebrated th e

event with members of the AMF

Adv isory Counc iL [n 1996 a nd

1997 the AMF contributed

$240000 to th e project which

increased the number of student

workstations o n campus by 50 per

cent Students use the m ult imeshy

~ dia lab to conduct research on the

~ Internet access scholarly publicashyr u VI tions on CD-ROM and use COll1shyz ~ puter software mod ules tbat lt

~ strengthen the teaching provided lD

o in co urse lectures labs and tcxtshybii books

middotMatters

Alumnus of many interests

I NTERES TING P EOPLE always have eclect ic interests and U of G

alumnus and honorary degree recipient Ken Murray BSA 50 and

HDLA 96 is a good example H e is known by most people on camshy

pus for his distinguished career in the Canadian meat packing indusshy

try and his volunteer service to U of G He was a member and chair

of Board of Governors from 1973 to 1978 and chair of the Regionshy

al Corporate Committee during U of Gs last capital campaign and

is currently chair of the Heritage Fund Enhancement Committee

Murray is also a strong supporter of community soc ial services

In August he addressed the World Congress of Social Ps)chiatry

held in British Columbia - the only non-psychiatrist on the proshy

gram He spoke about his role in establishing an Alzheimers research

project a t the University ofWaterioo which was recently named in

his honour the Ken Murray Alzheimer Research and Education Proshy

gra m At the gc conference he al so participated in a panel dis shy

cussion that outlined services offered by Guelphs Homewood Health

Cent re Murray bas been actively involved in the governance of the

centre since 1977 and has been a major player in the development

of a charitable foundatio n bearing the Homewood name

WHEN THE PUCK DROPPED More than 30 teams including two

womens teams were entered in the

Dec 6 University of Guelph Alumni Hockey

Tournament Organizers for the 1998 event

were from left Brian Finniss B5c 88

Brad Stephenson BA 86 Terry Carr

BComm 87 Todd Bryant BA 86 and

undergraduate student Brian Melnick

Ken Murray centre with his wife Marilyn Robinson Murray and U of G president Mordechai Rozanski

34 GU ELPH ALUMNU S

RESTORING A JEWEL IN THE CROWN

DONALD RUTHERFORD BSA 5 stands in fron t

of the 1931 conservatory greenhouse that will

be restored to match the splendour of the ga rdens

now growi ng up around it His $256000 leadershy

ship gift to the Conservatory and Gardens Project

was inspired by hi s m emo ries of being a student

at OAC

On behalf of fellow alumni I hope this gift will

commemorate the experiences and educat ion we

acquired while at Guelph says Rutherford When

fully restored to its previous glory the conservatoshy

ry greenhouse will be an ideal greeting and welcome

spot for visitors and newcomers to the University

as well as old friend s renewing their acquaintance

Rutherfords professional career spans the agrishy

foo d industr y beginning as an agricu ltural repshy

resentative with the provincial minist ry I-Ie was

later vice-president of the Fertilizer Institute of

Ontario executive secreta ry of the Canadian Seed

Trade Association director of information w ith

the Ca nadian Livestock Feed Board and Canadishy

an sa les manager for Sylvite of Can ad a Retired

since 1986 he now owns his own sma ll investment

company and manages to golf throughout the yea r

The conserva tory isnt the first ca mpus project

to attract Rutherford s attention - as a student

he helped dig out the base ment of Massey H al l to

build a student lo unge - but his recent gift has

been a tremendous boost to those who have been

working since the ea rly 1990s to save the glass and

cypress structure from demo lition

A committee of alumni facult y sta ff stu dents

and fri en ds of the University has moved the proshy

ject along to th e point w here most of the surshy

rounding garden complex is now complete It fea shy

tures six gardens named in honour of the ir chie f

supporters Autumn Garden - OAC 5 1 Spring

Ga rden - OAC 53 Su mmer Garden - OAC 55

Winter Gard en - OAC 65 Water Gard en shy

OAC 49 and the Woo dland Garden named in

honour of the late Doug Rob inson BSA 53

Alumni have been in strumental in raising

funds for the $ l-million project Students and fa cshy

ulty have provided mudl of the h1l1ds-on Idbour

and friends in the nursery and landscape materishy

als supply industries have given $250000 ill donashy

tions and gifts-in-kind of plan ts and landsca ping

materials Rutherford s generous gift has pushed

th e conservato ry fund-ra ising effort in to the fin 81

stretch Th e ga rden complex and restored g reenshy

110use are sc heduled to officially open during

Alumni Weekend in June 1999

1999 Coming Events

Jan 29 - Aggie Goodshy

Times Banquet call the OAC Student Federation at Ext 8321 for ticket injemnrltion Feb 13 - Norm McCo llulll

D iploma Hockey Tournashy

m ent call Jack Bakker at 519-837-0132 to register a team

Feb 21 - Ottawa Chapter

annual curling bonspiel

Richmond C urling Club in

Richmond Ont For informashytiol1 call Alan Bentley BSA 61 at 6 13-829-6598 or John DVit[ 54 mId Margaret McGowml BHSc 54 at

613-828-7038

March 3 - Florida alumni

reunion a t Maple Leaf

Estates Port Charlo tte Fla

call Ext 6533 0 register

March 13 and 14 - ollcge

Royal 75th o pen house

March 19 and 20 - OAC

Alumni Association curling

bonspiel G uelph Curling

Club register at Ext 6657

May 5 - Chicago All Canashy

dian Universities Night hostecl

by U of G at the University

Club of Chicago 76 East Monshy

roe Sr call Exl 6533 for details May 5 - OAC Alumni

Foundation annual meeting

730 pm Arboretum Centre

May 12 - Alumni-inshy

Action annual meeting and

luncheo n 1130 3m

Arboretum Centre ((11 Ext 6657for tickets

June 18 to 20 - Alumni

Veekend call Ext 6657 to plall a reun io n

-0 r shya -IFor more infon-nation on any a

eVC1l1listed ailove call the oJ -lt oU of G extension listed at en raquo

519-824-4120 or send e-mail z

10 alunznilIoguelphca ~

WINTER 1999 35

alumni Matters

MEMORIES OF COLLEGE ROYAL Grant MacEwan ADA 23 and

BSA 26 is one of the few OAC

alumni who c~n still remember

the first College Royal held Jan

14 1925 MacEwan bad just

entered the degree program in

animal husbandry and may have

been a participant in the liveshy

stock showmanship classes Latshy

er in life he was widely known Grant MacEwan

across Western Canada as 3 liveshy

stock judge and an advocate of

agricultural fairs and exhibitions

MacEwan is bes t known

however for his 23-year C3reer

as a university professor in Manshy

itoba and Saskatchewan and Ilis

political career which included

12 years as alderman and mayshy John Kenneth Galbraith

or of C31gary four years as an

Alberta MLA and eight as lieushy birthday in August

tenant -governor of the province The year after Ma cEwan

He s till lives in Calgary graduated John Kenneth Galshy

where he celebrated his 96th braith ADA 29 and BSA 31

HOMECOMING 98

enrolled at OAC and devoted

some of his energy to organizshy

ing College Royal Show records

indicate it was Galbraith who

first proposed the college event

be publicized so that people

from the farm community

could attend He also suggestshy

ed that OAC invite students

from American agricultural colshy

legesl n th e early 1930s Colshy

lege Royal took its fir s t steps

towards becoming the comshy

munity open house it is today

Galbraith later moved to the

United States where he enjoyed

a distinguished caree r as a proshy

fessor of economics at Harvard

Universi ty Known for his

humanit~rian approach to ecoshy

nomic and political thinking

he was awarded the Order of

Canada in 1997 He celebr3ted

his 90th birthday in October

IT REALLY WAS a homecoming reunion when and Arnott who is head coach of the York

former Gryphon teammates Ralph Shapiro University Yeomen came from the visitors

S5c(HK) 74 and Tom Amott S5c(HK) 80 dreSSing room to hold the ball Shapiro is

met on the field at Alumni Stadium Oct 3 the controller at Huntsman Chemical Inc

Shapiro had the honour of kicking off in Guelph and a longtime United Way volshy

the Universitys 1998 United Way campaign unteer who chaired this years Guelph and

Wellington fund-raising drive The Univershy

sity campaign is the largest in the county

with U of G staff and faculty contributing

over $200000 in 1998

Prior to the game a number of recent

alumni - all U of G scholarship and award

winners - met for a reunion luncheon The UJ

1948 and 1949 dominion championship i5f 3

football teams were also honoured guests z 5 o at the 2 pm game that saw the Gryphons gtshy a defeat York f shya I a

Ralph Shapiro

36 G UELPH ALUMNUS

LEADING THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY FOR 1974 GRADS The 25th-anniversary reunion givshy

i ng program for the Class of 1974

is under way with Bill Laidlaw BA

74 as cbair A public affairs proshy

fessional he has been director of

government relations for the

Canadian operations of Glaxo

vVelJcome Inc for more th an 10

years He also acts as a senior conshy

sultant to support the governshy

ment relations function in other

regions of Canada

Laidlaw began his career in

teaching after earning a history

degree from Guelph and education

degrees (rom Queens University

and the University of Toronto He

also holds the certified human

resources professional designation

and worked in that field for sevshy

eral years before concen trating on

government relations at Glaxo

Welkome He lives in Burlington

Ont and is an act ive community

volunteer having se rved on the

boards of severa l professional

organizations the Queensway

General Hospital and the Metroshy

politan Toronto Lung Association

He is currently completing a oneshy

year term as chair of the Ontario

Chamber of Commerce

Anniversa ry preparations will

culminate with a class gathering

a nd reunion gift at Alumni

Weekend in June 1999

ALUMNI MAKE THE CONNECTION Students who moved into

Maids and Mills halls in Sepshy

tember can take full advanshy

tage of the Universitys highshy

speed computer network

thanks to the OAC Class of

71 whose 25 th-reunion proshy

ject provided wiring upgrades

in the 84- and 77-year-old

residence buildin gs

GRAD NEWS

Marathon survivors inspire us all to appreciate everyday life

W HEN ROBINSON SIIlLJNGS Jane BSe(Agr)

85 Heather BASe 83 Peter BSe(Agr)

86 Scott and Marnie rigwood BA 84 get

together they talk about marathons and the hope

and determination it takes to reach the finish line

Hea ther walked a marathon in San Diego

Calif in June to raise money for leukemia

research then joined Peter for a Toronto marathon

in October that benefi ted the Leukemia Research

Fund of Canada They were inspired by Janes pershy

sonal marathon of survival that foUowed her 1992

diagnosis of leukemia Chemotherapy radiation

remission relapse and finally a bone marrow

transplant [TOm her brother Scott took more than

three years out of her life but gave her the detershy

mination to keep fighting

Many families can understand the marathon

of hope maintained by the Robinsons during

Janes struggle and the commitment they have to

help others who are stricken with the disease Jane

is finally well enough to work again as a writer

and marketing consultant and to join her fami shy

ly in volunteer work She helped recruit for the

Toronto marathon fund -raiser and continues to

be involved with the Leukemia Research Funds

Team in Training She also says that her expeshy

rience has taught her to appreciate more the pleashy

sures of everyday life and the love of famil y

Jan es parents are th e late Doug Rob inson

BSA 53 and Marilyn (Inglis) Robinson Murray

BH Sc 55

19305

bull Grant Misener ADA 32 BSA 35 and DVM 38 received the

prest igious George F Hixso n Felshy

lowship Award from the Kiwanis

International Foundation in May The retired Illinois veter ishy

narian was hono ured for his subshystantial contribution to the

Kiwanis wo rldwide service proshy

ject aimed at eliminating iodine

deficiency disorders the leading

cause of preventable mental retardation in children Over the

years Misener has shown a simishylar commitment to his al ma

mater an d its students through

his close association with OVC

and his support of scho larship

programs

19405

bull Russell McDonaldDVM 45 was named an honorary life direcshytor of the Royal Agricultural Winshy

ter Fair Association in March

McDonald formerly general manshy

ager of Western Ontario Breeders

Ine and executive director of the Canadian Association of Animal

Breeders served as a director of the Royal Winter Fair for 20 years

representing the Canadian artifishycial insemination industry He

lives in Woodstock Ont

bull Ian Taylor DVM43 was recently honoured by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to

Animals of Illinois Taylor ran a small-animal veterinary clinic in

the Chicago area for many years

and says he gained ll1uch experishyence during his first three years in

Illinois as clinic veterinarian for

the anti -cruelty society

19505

bull Charles Chuck Broadwell BSA 54 was elected a Mel

Osborne Fellow by the Kiwanis

Club of Forest City in London Ont in recognition of a dedicatshy -ed and distinguished career in

Kiwanis

19605

bull Constantine Campbell BSA 60 and MSA 61 was named to the

WINTER 1999 37

Order of Canada in January He

received the award in recogni shy

tion of his many contributions

to science and the Canadian

agricultural industry After grad shy

uating from OAC he went on to

do his PhD at the University of

Saskatchewan then joined Agri shy

culture and Agri-food Canada

as a research scientist at the Swift

Current research station Campshy

bell and his family now live in

Ottawa where he is scientist

emeritus with Agriculture and

Agri-food Canada

bull John Casselman BSA 64 is

a research scientist with the

Ontario Ministry of Natural

Resources He Jives in Bath

Ont with his wife Lois

bull Jane Fuller RRSc 65 and

her husband George who both

taught at the Macdonald Instishy

tute from 1966 to 1969 have

moved from Winnipeg to

Utopia Ont following

Georges retirement from the

University of Manitoba

bull Fred Gilbert MSc 66 and

P hD 68 is in his first term as

president of Lakehead Univer shy

sity in Thunder Bay Ont He

taught at U of G in the Departshy

ment of Zoology from 1972 to

1981 and has enjoyed a dive rse

academic career that has also

included teaching at the Unishy

versity of Maine and posi tions

as director of wildlife biology at

Washington State University

and founding dean of the Facshy

ulty of Natural Reso urces and

Environmenta l Studies at the

University of Northern British

Columbia He moved to Lakeshy

head from a position as viceshy

pro vost at Colorado State Unishy

versity A respected wildlife

biologist he has conducted

ex tensive resea rch in s Ll ch areas

as the behaviour and physioloshy

gy of wildlife species and the

effects of environmental

change on wildlife populations

bull Terry Goodyear BSc 67 of

Mont Tremblant Quebec is an

early retiree from Agriculture

and Agri-Food Canada in Ottawa He is now working on

va lue-added products from

industrial wastes particularly

cellulose sludge from pulp and

pa per mills

bull Gary Hearn BA 68 was

named an Ontario provincial

judge in October For the last

25 years he has been a lawyer

with the firm Kearns McKinshy

non in Guelph where he lives

with his wife Irene and three

teenage children

bull Allan Knight BSA 66 of Corunna Ont has retired

from Dow Chemical after 30

years On retirement he was a

laboratory director for indusshy

trial chemicals He is now

working with his son in a famishy

ly-owned and -operated busishy

ness Knight Funeral Home

bull Keith McFarlane BSc(Agr)

68 works for the Department

of Foreign Affairs and Internashy

tional Trade and began a fourshy

year assignment last summer as

head of the commercial divishy

sion of the Canadian Embassy

in Lisbon Portugal The

division promotes the sa le of

Canadian goods and services

to Portugal

bull Ian Newbould MA 68 has

travelled far from his Ontario

roots through an academic and

administrative career that has

taken him to Europe Asia and

Western Canada A noted hisshy

torian he moved into adm inisshy

tration at the University of

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Lethbridge in 1981 and spent

10 years there as director of

research dean of a rts and scishy

ence and vice-presiden t (acadeshy

mic) before crossing the counshy

try to become president of

Mount Allison University in

New Brunswick He is now in

his second term as president of

Mount AUison

bull Indra Deo Singh MSc 68 is

a tea scientist international

consultant and joint director of

the Tea Research Association at

the Nagrakata substation in

India His responsibilities

include co-ordinating research

and development in the Indian

tea industry and developing tea

cultivars and agrotechnology

for tea Singh is married with

two sons aged 27 and 23

19705

bull Don Ambler BSe 71 retired in March as manager of

water programs with Environshy

ment Canada in Dartmouth

NS after 25 years of public

service He has now registered

the company Aquashed Co nshy

sulting to continue in the water

resources field when hes not

gardening beekeeping do ing

aerobics or vo lunteering in the

community and chu rch E-mail

contact is welcome a t

donambl erns sympaticoca

bull Jim Bond BSe 75 is managshy

ing a new processing facility at

the Chalk River Nuclear Laborashy

to ry in Chalk River Ont

bull Terri (Monks) Bulman BSc(Agr) 78 and MSe 81

and her husband Vincent

MSe 8 1 live in Australia with

their th ree children Catherine

7 Peter 4 and baby Christoshy

pher Terri is senior principal

environmental auditor vith

Coffey Geosciences Pty Ltd Vinshy

cent afte r many years as a geoloshy

gist travelling around Australia

and abroad has taken the year

off to study and look after the

children Their e-mail address is

tbulmanbigpondco m

bull Marie David BA 78 of

Hanover Ont has been in the

n ewspaper business for 20

years She started in the mailshy

room moved to advertising

sales then became advert ising

manager She is now gene ral

manager o f three So utham

weekly newspapers and pubshy

lish er of the Hanover Post

bull Janice Harrower and her husshy

band Jerome Billett both

DVM 76 operate a joint veterishy

nary practice in Prescott Ont

Billett says practising together

has allowed them some flexibilishy

ty in their family life and given

their four children a good took

at the rigours of veterinary

medicine Says Billett Not one

of our kid s has the slightest

interest in being a veterinarian

and isnt that just fine Their

o ldest son Jesse attends Harshy

va rd University and is a memshy

ber of its prestigious a cappella

choir Lucas is studying

mechanical engineering at the

University of Waterloo Casey is

planning a career in computer

engineering and Lindsay is a

high school athle te

bull Clair Heinbuch BSe 74 is a

sales manager with Baye r Corp

in Kansas H e and his wife

Caroline (Koscik) BASc 75

returned to the Kansas City

area after spending four years in

Denver They have three chilshy

dren Lisa 20 Scott 18 and

Ryan [5

bull Beverly Lee BASe 72 is an

elem entary school principal in

Unionville Ont She lives with

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her husband Grant Egan in

Collingwood and is looking

forward to retirement in severshy

al years Life on Georgian Bay

is wonderful she says Lee

would love to hear from fellow

grads by e-mail at

leebYrbeeduonca or by

phone at 705 -444 -092l

bull Won-Jai Maeng MSc 71 took office Sept 1 as president

of Kon-Kuk University in Seoul

Korea where his academic

career began He completed an

undergraduate degree at Kon

Kuk in 1965 then studied at

Mailing Agricultural College in Denmark and at U of G before

doing doctoral work at the Unishy

versity of California Davis

Maeng has held research and

teaching positions at the Unishy

versity of illinois at Chung-Ang

University and at Kon-Kuk

where he has been a professor of

animal science since 1984 His

appointment as president folshy

lows years of administrative

experience as a department

head dean and chair of various

research committees and proshy

fessional organizations An

expert in ruminant nutrition

Maeng was instrumental in

developing the livestock feed

industry in Korea He has also

been active in working with

alumni groups and in writing

for the Kon-Kuk Tribune

bull Bill MarshaU ADA 75 of Proton Station Ont moved

from Clarksburg in June to

work in Dundalk for the Grey

County Roads Department on

its road management crew

bull Bernie Matte BSc(Agr) 70 of Moncton NB retired

in March after 28 years with

Fisheries and Oceans Canada

and the Canadian Food

Inspection Agency He plans to

travel to Belize and Honduras

with his wife Diane and will

be available anywhere in the

Caribbean for seafood HACCP

consulting work

bull Margaret McClain BA 70 lives in Arkansas where she is

highJy involved in the issue of

40 GUELPH ALUMNUS

missing children and internashy

tional abductions McClain who

believes her own six-year-old

daughter was taken out of the

United States more than a year

ago by her second husband is

reaching out to parents with

similar experiences through an

organization that is lobbying the

US government for tougher

international abduction laws

She invites interested fr iends

and alumni to contact her

through her Web site at

wwwinsolwwbnet-dmcclain

bull Robert (Chuck) Miller BA 77 is the park superintendent

of Killarney French River and

Maskinonje provincial parks in

Ontario He moved to Killarney

from Quetico Provincial Park

last May

bull Gordon Nicol BA 72 and MSc(Agr) 74 teaches math

and science in a bilingual prishy

vate school in Guatemala A

BEd graduate of Laurentian

he first taught in Guatemala in

the late 1970s then spent 12

years in northern Alberta as a

teacher and principal He

returned to Guatemala in 1989

A widower with three teenage

children Nicol would like to

hear from U of G friends and

acquaintances especially anyshy

one who is was or will be in

Central America He says he

could also use middle-schoolshy

level science projects Send eshy

mail to gnicoll guatenet or

write to PO Box 661447 Miami

Springs Florida 33266-1447

bull Chris Schulte BSc 71 and MSc 73 lives in Nassau

Bahamas with his wife

Andrya After graduation he

stayed in the Department of

Physics as a research associate

with Prof lain Campbell then

joined Ontario Hydro in the

early 1980s He moved to the

Bahamas in 1995 He can be

reached bye-mail at

schultebahamasnetbs

bull Sandra (Pickford) Webster BA 75 has retired from U of

Gs Co mmunications and Pubshy

lic Affairs and is living in Parry

Sound Ont where she is

doing volunteer work and

communications consulting

for the municipality Guelph

friends ca n contact her by

e-mail atswebsterzeutercom

19805

bull Sharon (Courneya) Angus BA 8 I of Surrey BC comshy

pleted a BSW at the University

of British Columbia in 1988

and has been working for the

BC government for 13 years

- first in probation and now

in the family justice division

She and her husband Ron

have three children Jason

Carly and Colin

bull Karen Beazley BLA 86 is an assistant professor and acadeshy

mic program co-ordinator at

the School for Reso urce and

Environmental Studies at Dalshy

housie University in Halifax

She is currently doing research

for a book on endangered

species initiatives and is orgashy

nizing a Nova Scotia wildlands

workshop with the Wildlands

Project for 1999 Her e-mail

address is kbeazleyisdalca

bull Caroline (Van Deudekom) and Marc Brooks both ADA 87

recently moved from Strathroy

to Owen Sound Ont where

they run a 50-acre organic farm

with their two sons

bull Virginia Burt BLA 85 startshyed her own landscape architecshy

ture firm Visionscapes in

Hamilton Ont in ] 996 She

specializes in the design of thershy

apeutic healing gardens spirit

gardens sacred spaces and

la byrin ths and recen tly designed the first healing garden

in Canada specificalJy for peoshy

ple living with HIV and AIDS

bull Joanne (Branson) Carver BA 80 earned a BEd from Brock

University in 1981 and recently

started working as a probashy

tionparole officer She Jives in

Ajax Ont and has two daughshy

ters Julie4 and Sarah 8

bull Heather Champ BA 86 is a Web-site designer in New York

City She began her work in

computer design in 1990 Her

personal site can be Found at

wwwjezebelcom

bull Laurie Gough BA 87 has become a world traveller who

writes about her experiences for

the benefit of others Her most

recent book Island of the

Human Heart A tfornans Travshyel Odyssey is now in its second

printing in Canada and will be

released next year in the United

States and overseas She has also

published Travellers Tales A

Womans World which won the

US-based Lowell Thomas

Gold Award for best travel book

of the year When not travelling

or writing she teaches English

and ESL in Guelph

bull Susan (Coles) Goulden BASc 84 and her husband

Ian are th rilled wi th their

recent adoption of Jennifer Lee

Yu who was born in June near

Leping Jiangxi Peoples Repubshy

lic of China The Gouldens

who Jive in vVaterloo Ont

thank classmate Andrea

(Kovits) Henderson for her

support throughout the adopshy

tion process Susan is currently

on leave from her position with

McCormick Canada

bull Judy (Bodendistel) Gregg BA 82 moved to Melbourne Ausshy

tralia in 1997 with her husband

and two children Carly 6 and

Adam 3 We are enjoying the

friendly people and the great

weather here she says We are

especially enjoying winter in a

place where it never gets below

zero Celsius

bull Nigel GumJey DVM 85 has been a partner in the Alta Vista

Animal Hospital in Ottawa

since 1990 was president of the bull Garry Millage AMPHI 86 bull Heidi Stephenson BA 88 is now ISO 9000 manager at

Ontario Veterinary Medical left a position as vice-president was awarded her professional Carpenter Ca nada Ltd in

Association in 1997 and recent- of national operations for acco untants designation of Wood br idge Ont He lives in

ly served on the Canadian Vetshy Scotts Restaurants KFC Divishy certified general accountant in Miss issa uga Classma tes are

erilw() Medical Associations sion to open his own consult- March 1998 She has been invited to contact him at

national issues committee He ing company Future Food employed for the last 10 years avon listarca

lives in Osgoode with his wife Equipment Ine specializes in with Dan Ball Chartered bull Michelle (Pilon) Bacon BA rvlaurecn and children Laura providing new and used restau- Acco un tant in Parry Sound 90 moved to England to study

and Matthew rant equipment and reducing O nt where she lives with her and work after graduating from

bull Muneer Hirji BComm 82 restaurant construction costs hu sband Brad two dogs and a Guelph She recently left a posishy

lives in Toronto and is vice- He also operates a restaurant horse tion with the British Ministry of

president of marke ting at SAP called Nikkos in Woodbridge bull Dawn Stetsko BSe 81 lives Agriculture and Food in York to

Canada He has three chil- Ont and is planning to open a in Langhorne Pa with her husshy become an at-home mom She

drcl1 Nadia 8 Alyssa 6 and second location band Paul and children Mark now lives in London with her

Sarah I bull Tosh Noseworthy BSe 83 is and Keith and is a research husband Tim and one-year-old

bull Brenda irwin BSe 88 is a cardiovascular ICU nurse in scientist with Bristol-Myers daughter Juliette She sends love

studying at Hong Kong Unishy sunny Tuscon Arizona After Squibb Previously she worked to Sue Heather and Sheila and

vers ity of Science and Technolshy grad uation she lived in Paris at McMaster University in can be reached bye-mail at

ogy to complete the final France for a yea r s tudied nurs- Hamilton Ont for 17 yea rs michellebacondialpipexcom

sem ester of an MBA program ing in O ttawa then lived in Saushy bull Teresa Tummillo-Goy BA bull Jeff Barlow BComm 90 is

through the University of di Arabia for two yea rs She still 86 has a law practice in Water- the training and quality manag-

British Columbia She taught loves to travel and would like to 100 Ont foc Li sing primaril y on er for two five-star luxury boushy

science for the North York hea r from fellow alumni She family law civi l litiga tion and tique h o tels in Prague - Hotel

Board of Education for five can be reached at 520-299-8344 real estate She and her hus- Palace Praha and the Hotel

years before enrolling in the bull Cecilia (Wleugel) Parkes band John Goy live in Guelph Savoy Previo usly he was execu -

MBA program BComm 85 is a graphic and have three sons John 4 tive housekeeper at the five-star

bull Jagwant Kanwar PhD 80 is designer in Toronto and says Tony 3 and Shayne 2 Renaissance Pragu e Hotel

a senior scientist in the depart- she st ill uses ber marketing bull Peter Van der Borch DVM bull Margaret Burnes-Souria BA ment of vegetable crops at Pun- background to help her busishy 88 retired in the fa ll of 1997 94 is a team leader with [011 shy

jab Agricultural University in ness succeed She specia lizes in after several years of practising don Magazin e in London Ont

India He is also director of the logo design lNith hand-drawn physiotherapy and ve terinary She married David Souria in

regional vegetable research stashy illustrations medicine and surgery He Jives July 1997 and is pursuing an tion at Usman (TaranTarn) bull Jim Parr BSc(Agr) 81 and in Pictou NS ]VlBA at the University of West-

Amritsar His and his wife MSe 89 died of cancer in bull MartyWilLiams BA 85 is ern Ontario

Sanyogita have a son Mohit June 1998 but hes being co-ordinator of student activishy bull Janine Byers BASe 95 is a and a daughter Dipika who are remembered by his university ties at University College Unishy public health dietitian at the

both studying engineering friends through the establish - versity of Toronto where he Kingston Frontenac and

Friends can write to Kanwar at ment of a mem orial fund for advises student organizations Iennox amp Addington Health

Punjab Agricultural Un ivers ity his wife Denise and children 1Ie is also chair of the U of T Unit in Kingston O nt She is Ludhiana 141 004 India Shannon and Eric Anyone Staff Association a member of getting married to Ca rl Stewart

bull Larissa Larsen BSe 89 and who would like more informa - the steering committee of the on May 29 j 999 MLA 92 received a PhD in tion can ca ll Brian Tapscott at staffs unionization drive and a bull Lisa Cherry BSe 9 1 is a urban and regional planning 519-767-3566 staff member with the student science journalist and executive

from the University of Illinois bull Cheryl (Dunlop) Reid newspaper The Varsity He can director of Artists Against

at Urbana Champaign in May BSe(Agr) 89 sta rted a new be reached bye-mail at marty Racism an international organi-

She has accepted a position at job in September as ingredient wi lliamsutorontoca za tion She is based in Toronto

Thompson Dyke and Associshy sales manager for RA bull Bonnie (Byma) BASe 96 ales a landscape architecture Chisholm o f Toronto She will 19905 and Gil Clelland BA 95 were

and urban planning firm in continue to work from her bull Claire Allison BA 94 grad- married in December 1996 and

Chicago Her husband Ernie remote offke in Fergus Reid uated from the elementary are living in Chatham On t

Poortinga DVM 89 is in his and her husband Jeff BSe teacher ed ucation program at Bo nnie works at a day-care

third yea r of an MD program (Agr) 89 have two children the University of British centre G il teaches art and

at Rush University Chicago lVlega n 4 and Elizabeth 2 Columbia in 1996 and now phys ical education They ca n -Hes looking forward to joining bull Chee Sie BA 83 is a zone teaches in Va ncou ver be reached bye-ma il at gclelshy

his wife in the ranks of the manager for the Malaysian bull JohnAvon BSdHK) 94 lan ciaccesscom employed They would both Assurance Alliance Berhad in earned an M Se in industr ial bull Kate Corn ell BA 95 of enjoy hearing from fellow Sarawak Malaysia He and his operations from Lawrence Markham Ont earned her

alumni and can be reached at wife Jesterine have a two-year- Technological University in masters in dance history from epoor tin garushurushedu old daughter Letitia Southfleld Mich in 1997 and York University in May and

WINTER 1999 41

co-authored a book titled

Toronto Dance Theatre 1968shy1998 Stages in a Journey

bull Mary Jill (McClure) Culliton BASe 90 earned

her BEd from Brock University

and her M Ed from the Univershy

sity of Western Ontario and

teaches Grade 1 in Mitchell

Ont She and her husband

Tim live in Stratford

bull Kathleen (McNutt) Daniels BASe 9 1 is a teacher and was

married on New Years Eve

1994 to Gord Daniels They live

in North Bay Ont and have a

daughter Lauren born in Febshy

ruary 1997 They are expecting

their second child in February

bull Simon Deakin BA 95 studshyied in Florence Italy for a year

then earned a master of fine art

from the Slade School of Fine

Art at the University of London

England He lives in London

bull Christie Dunbar BLA 97 spent a year after graduation

working for Niagara College in

St Catharines Ont on the

vision and design of a new

campus to be built in Niagarashy

on-the- Lake Last April she

joined the landscape architecshy

ture firm of Pollack Design

Associates in Ann Arbor Mich

bull Trina Edmonds BA 94 and

Joel Hinderle became the

proud parents of a little girl

Jordan Ashley in january 1998

and moved to a new home in

Oakville Ont in September

Edmonds works in Mississauga

as a desktop publisher with a

publishingprinting company

bull Wendy Garinther BSc 93 and Steve Decker BSe 94

were married in May Joining

them in the wedding celebrashy

tions were Cheri (Coulter)

42 GUELPH ALUMNUS

Ascroft BSe 93 Karen Leinshy

gartner BSe 94 and Barb

(Moore) Johnson BSe 94

Best man was Jeff Bond BSe

93 and MSe 96 The Deckers

live in Edmonton where Steve

is doing a PhD in chemistry at

the University of Alberta and

Wendy is working in a research

laboratory at a biopharmaceushy

tical company

bull Donna Gross BA 97 is purshysu ing a master of divinity at

Emmanuel College at the Unishy

versity of Toronto and hopes to

become an ordained minister by

2002 She lives in Guelph and

can be reached bye-mail at

donnajulietalbedonet

bull Robert Gruber BA 92 is a child-care supervisor for the

YMCA-YWCA of Guelph and

manages the Jean Little Y

Child- Care Centre He recently

developed the anti -bias proshy

gramming policy for the

Guelph Y and sits on both the

Jean Little Public School Counshy

cil and the Guelph AIDS Wall

Committee He can be reached

bye-mail at rgrubernet

comca

bull Susan Harder BSe 91 grad shyuated from the University of

Toronto Medical School in June

and has started a residency at

Santa Clara Valley Medical Censhy

tre in San jose Calif She will

follow that up with an anestheshy

sia residency at Stanford Univershy

sity Hospital in 1999

bull Marko Harjupanula BASc 93 travelled in Australia for

two months after graduating

from Guelph then returned to

his home town of South Porshy

cupine Ont where he worked

in a gold mine for four years

He entered police college in

September and started as an

opp constable in Cochrane in

December

bull Nancy Holman MA 94 moved to Vancouver soon after

graduation and initially worked

as a project co-ordinator for an

ophthalmologist In 1996 she

began working full time for the

BC Liberal Caucus I would

enjoy hearing from and catchshy

ing up with the friends I made

while studying at U of G and

working at the Brass Taps she

says Her e-mail address is nan shy

cyholmanlassgovbeca

bull Ruth Johnson BA 91 is an investment banking associate

with the mergers and acquisishy

tions group of JP Morgan in

Lond on England responsible

for financial reporting and

administration She has been in

England with her partner Alex Campbell since graduation

bull Stephen Johnson BA 94 of London Ont was a lab technishy

cian at Lenscrafters for three

yea rs and is now a full-time

student at Fanshawe College

studying air conditioning and

refrigeration He was married

in Jun e to Jennifer Fox BSc

95 a chemist at 3M Their

wedding party included Dee Popat BSe (Eng) 94 and

Patrick Wulhes BSc 95

bull Sarah (Davis) Kelly BASe 90 married Robert Kelly in

July and teaches primary

grades at an inner-city school

in Toronto

bull Cassidy Klowak BComm 97 lives in Allisshy

ton Onl and is a personal

banking account manager

with ClBC in Tottenham

bull Stephanie Lopes BSc 96 completed her MSc in repro shy

ductive biology at the Universishy

ty of Toronto and worked as

patient-care director for the

College of Family Physicians

for almost a year In September

she enrolled in medical school

at the University of Toronto

She is happy to announce that

she is engaged to be married

next summer Lopes can be

reached at slopesidirectcom

bull Natalie (Parker) MacKenzie BSc 96 earned her BEd from

the University of Western

Ontario in 1997 She married

ASLt Andy MacKenzie June 27

in Sault Ste Marie Ont and

now lives in Halifax

bull Susan MacKinnon DVM 91 is a veterinarian with HUls

Science Diet She lives in

Guelph with her husband

Brandon Wiley and gave birth

to their first child Adrianna

Nicole june 26 at home

bull Waheed Mian BA 9 1 of Cambridge Ont is a store

director with PetSmart Canada

He helped the company launch

its new retail concept in Cana da

bull Alex Mitchell BA 91 was appointed clerkdeputy treasurshy

er of the Ontario township of

Mildmay-Carrick in 1998 and

will be the clerkadministrator

of the new municipality of

Mildmay-Carrick -TeesWatershy

Culross in 1999 He was married

in january 1997 and lives vith

his wife and daughter in Mild shy

may In his spare time Mitchell

is a professional scout for the

Toronto Maple Leafs covering

southwestern Ontario

bull Sherry Morland BASc 93 of Kitchener Ont ea rned her

BEd from Brock University in

J995 and is a part-time specia l

educa tion teacher and an occashy

sional teacher with the Watershy

loo County Board of Ed ucashy

tion She married Ivan LeBlanc

in 1997

bull Gary Page BSe 91 wo rks for the Nottawasaga Valley Conshy

servation Authority where he is

able to combine his knowledge

of wildlife biology with his

artistic skills as resident graphic

designer and outdoor centre

interpreter He Jives with his

wife Di and their son judah in

CreemoreOnt

bull Elaine Pammenter BA 96 is an inventory clerk with the

Royal Collection at Windsor

Castle in England She holds a

museum management and

curatorship grad uate certificate

diploma from Sir Sandford

Fleming College and did her

internship at the Royal Albert

Memorial Museum in Exeter

England

bull Brent Raymond BSe(Env) 96 of Brantford Ont has

been working with Outward

Bound since graduation He

leads wilderness trips in Northshy

ern Ontario Horida Australia and Sabah (Malaysian Borneo) Most recently he designed and implemented a new introducshytory mountaineering course for Outward Bound Sabah on the summit plateau of Mt Kinashy

balu Those of you who know me as plate licker from U of G get in touch he says Where are you Star I miss you He can be reached by e-mail at globarwchatonca or by

phone at 519-756-1697

Alumni Patrick Abbott BSA 40 July 7 1998

Albert Allen BSA 33 Jan 161994 Agris Ansmits BA 70 and MA 73

February 1998 Barbara (Quartermain) Babcock DHE

53 June 17 1998

Wray Bond BSA 34 Sept 25 1998

Kenneth Bone DVM 38 Dec 29 1998 Evelyn (Stevenson) Buhr DHE 39

May 251998 Philip Burke BSA 43 June 21 1998

Grant Carman BSA 49 Oct 221998 Frederick Chambers BSA 41

June 1998 Wilmot Conley ADA4 7 April 7 1998 Lloyd Crewson BSA 49 Aug 261998

Jacqueline Dimock DHE 47

Aug 20 1998 John Dingwall DVM 52

April 18 1998

Lloyd Dorsey BSA 38 June 9 1998 George Duncan BSA 37

Sept 19 1998

David Dyson BSA 53 Aug 31 1998

Norma (Shannon) Edwards DHE 39

November 1997 Vincent Bud Ellis DVM 41

July 15 1998 John Jack George BSA 48

Sept 24 1998

Donald Haight BSA 33 January 1997 William Hamlyn BSA 33 Dec I 1997

Gordon Harkness BSA 49

November 1997

Charles Hollister DVM 38 June 1996 Donald Hope BSA 54 June 28 1998

Lawrence Jefferson BSA 38

Sept 3 1998

James Kelso DVM 56 July 27 1998

Dorima Lalonde BSA 34 Oct 8 1998 Mildred (Cox) Large DHE 33

June 20 1998 Roger Larson BComm 86 Feb 19 1998 Robert Lawson BSA 49 June 6 1998

bull Doug Ramsey BA 91 and PhD 98 received U of Gs highshyest graduate student award shythe Forster Medal- at June convocation for his academic and community involvement while enrolled in Guelphs new

graduate program in geography He spent the summer as a visitshying research scholar at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College in Truro before assuming his curshyrent position as assistant professhysor at Mount Allison University

David Leach BSc(Agr) 74

July 18 1998

Ian Leask DVM 74 Sept 5 1998

Sheryl Lee BSc 95 June 8 1998 Ruby Janet MacAuley DHE 30

Aug 19 1998 Parker MacKenzie DVM 38

September 1994

Jeanice MacLaren DHE 28 March 1 1997

Campbell MacMaster DVM42

Oct 8 1998

Rex McCallum DVM 43 July 71998 Jean (Dunn) McMahon DHE 31

Nov 41998

Margaret Oones) McTaggart DHE 35 Aug 81998

Patrick McTaggart-Cowan HDSc 81

Oct 21997

Malcolm McWhinnie ADA 39

July 16 1998 Mary (Townsend) Mitchell BHSc

60 Sept 281998

Marjory Monaghan DHE 29

December 1997 Charles Monk BSA 44 Aug 7 1998

Heather Neilsen BHSc 59

Oct 30 1998 Jerry Niwa DVM 62 Aug 5 1998 Henry Harry OReilly BSA 42

October 1997

James Parr BSc(Agr) 81 June 19 1998 Charles Rammage DVM 45

Oct 17 1996 Howard Rapson HDSc 90

March 1997 Clement Reeds DVM 42 Oct 16 1998

William Robinson BSA 38

Aug 23 1998

Donald Sager ADA 73 Oct 141997

Austin Schaefer DVM 37 in 1997

Sandra (Mackenzie) Schmidt DHE 59

Aug 16 1997 Margaret (Harvey) Seaborn DHE 28

July 221998

Larry Seguin DVM 47 June 12 1998

Leah Shedden DHE 31 December 1998

Edward Shuh BSA 40 July 2 1998

Ted Shutsa BSc(Agr) 66

Sept 18 1998 Jim Sinclair DVM 49 Oct 4 1998

Margaret (Brown) Sinclair DHE 20

September 1998 Eldon Smith BSA 42 Sept 9 1998

Derek Somers DVM 96 Sept 25 1998

Cheryl Lynn Sopha BA 95 Sept 20 1998

Leona (Bartlett) Stewart DHE 35

June 27 1998 Alex Thomson BSc(Agr) 69

October 1996

William Whittick DVM 55

Aug 15 1998 Joseph Wilson BSA 23 Sept 11 1998

Lloyd Woolsey DVM41 June 24 1998

Winifred Yeates DHE 28 June 11998

Faculty John Carpenter BSA 43 and MSA 48

Microbiology Dec 10 1998

David Gaskin Zoology Sept 14 1998

Gordon Macleod BSA 50 Animal and

Poultry Science Nov 26 1998 Roman Retman Languages and

Literatures Sept 28 1998

Caesar Sen off Chemistry and

Biochemistry Aug 14 1998

Percy Smith Drama Dec 10 1998

Friends Robert Clark Aug 21 1998

Ethel Hammond August 1998

Thomas Hillers Sept 28 1998 Marguerite Holbrook Aug 26 1998

Catherine Kelly Sept 27 1998

James A McKenzie May 13 1998

Kenneth McIssac Oct 23 1998

William Mutlock September 1998 Roena Patterson Sept 16 1998

Donald Priddle Aug 25 1998

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bull Karl Reimer BSe 94 comshypleted a one-year intensive

MSc in mining engineering at

Queens University and is now

a project engineer a t Enpar

Technologies Ine in Guelph

He can be contacted at reimerbservcom

bull Nancy Nauta Rowland BA 90 and her husband Dan celshy

ebrated their first wedding

anniversary in March 1998 with

the birth of their first child

Connor who beat their March

8 anniversary by two days Nanshy

cy teaches junior-grade stushy

dents and junior special ed ucashy

tion for the Peel District School

Board The Rowlands live in

Caledon Ont

bull Fraser Stables MFA 98 was heralded by Toronto Globe 6shyMail critic Betty Jordan as a

formidable new talent followshy

ing the openi ng of his debut

gallery exh ibition in July The

Scottish artists work includes

sculpture video and mixed

media that explore notions of

flu x by interrupting the moveshy

ment of forms in space

bull Erin (Smith) Scott BSe(HK) 92 and Brad

Scott BSc(Agr) 91 of Lucan

O nt were married in 1993 and

had their first child Lucas in

August Erin works for Shopshy

pers Home Health Ca re in

London Brad is with New Life

Mills in Dunfield

bull Abby Simons BSc 95 and Martin Piche BSc(Agr) 95 were married in Mont-Tremshy

blant Quebec in 1997 She is a

customer service representative

with Kantech Systems he is

superintendent of Club de golf

vallee des forts They say theyd

love to hear from anyone headshy

ing to Montreal and can be

reached at 450-348-3860

bull Sylvia Tesori BSc 95 has been doing wildlife rehabilitashy

tion for the OSPCA Wildlife

Rehabilitation Centre in Midshy

land Ont since 1996

bull Chuck Thibeault BComm 94 is general manager of the

Putting Edge Corpora tion

which has two glow-in- theshy

dark mini-golf courses in

Ontario one in Bramp ton and

one in Richmond Hill He can

be reached in Richmond Hill at

chu ckttotalnet

bull Karen Thirlwall BA 93 is a

si ngersongwriter and guitarist

who began her stage career and

released her first album The Voice Inside Me while studying

languages at U of G She has

lived and performed in

11i stler BC for three years

and recently released a second

album called Wide-Eyed She

remembers many special

fr iends m ade at Guelph and

welcomes e-mail messages to

karenthirlwallhotmailcom

bull Christie (Johnson) and Steve

Tyler both BComm 91 live in

Cambridge Ont where

Christie is a personal banking

representative for the Royal

Bank Steve works with their

third-year design professor

Nelson Hofer in Mississauga as

a design consultan t Steves proshy

jects include the Windsor Casishy

no and U of Gs Creelman Hall

They have two children Jason

5 and Marcus 1

bull Julia White BA 91 lives in Guelph and is a small-business

accountant at Taves amp Co She

recently finished courses

towards a CGA designation and

would like to hea r from other

alumni who lived in Lambton

Hall in 198788 Send e-mail to

juliawhitesympaticoca

bull Andre-Denis Wright MSc 93 and PhD 98 is doing postshy

docto ral work in Perth Westshy

ern Australia He wants his

Guelph friends and Halifax

family to know he was thinking

of them at Christmas when it

was 40 C in Australia

bull Dave Yellen BComm 90 was recently promoted at the Gordon

Food Service to new-accounts

sales specialist for Metro Toronshy

to Having been in Ottawa for

the past few years Im hoping

to reacquaint myself with old

friend s from U of G in the Metro

area he says He lives in Scarborshy

ough and can be reached at 416shy615-2745 or davidysprintca

bull Halina Zaleski PhD 92 is a tenured professor in the

departm ent of animal sciences

at the Un iversity of Hawaii in

Honolulu She is a swine speshy

cialist involved in extension

programs for an area th at covshy

ers all of Hawai i and the PacifIC

basin She can be reached by

e-mail at halinahawaiiedu

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IF THERE ARE LIVESTOCK IN THE HOCKEY ARENA and

theyre not wearing skates its College Royal If there

are students sawing logs throwing pies baking cookies

and square dancing its College Royal When the entire

University of Guelph is displayed - from arts to zooloshy

gy - March 13 and 14 1999 youll know its definitely

College Royan

Since its inception in 1925 as an agricultural and liveshy

stock show run by the Ontario Agricultural College

College Royal has grown to be a celebrated U of G trashy

dition involving all the colleges

The event is famou s in the University community

and beyond for its open-house showcase of displays and

activities The largest student-run open house in Canashy

da College Royal attracts more than 20000 visitors to

campus over one weekend

College Royal is an event of tradition that reaches

into tomorrow Agriculture and livestock shows are still

highlighted events but College Royal activities have

grown to include dog and cat shows a photography conshy

test a chemistry magic show and demonstrations on

human health and fitness The open house gives people

an opportunity to see what happens in the Universitys

leading-edge research laboratories to observe veterinary

medicine in practice to tour a sculpture studio or to

watch a theatrical performance

To celebrate the 75th anniversary of College Royal

1998 president Joe TrakaJo lnvites alumni to get involved

again by joining one of the planning comm ittees or by

participating in a favourite event Call him for more

information at 824-4120 Ext 8366 or send e-mail to

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northerners including shrimp Atlantic salmon and arctic char) Accountin g fOI almost half of that total were Pacific salmon which ret urn from the ocean to spawn in home streams and rivers up and down the coast of Alaska British Columbia and Washshyington There are actually five main spec ies of sa lmon that run down the BC coast shysockeye (t he most va luable commercial species) chinook coho chum and pinkshyfrom spring to December

Its a very complex jurisdictional and multi-user problem says Roff Bes ides degradation of freshwater spawning habishytats and ocean climate effects of El Nill0 the West Coast fishery is a cauldron of ten shysions between various groups perennial fish wars between Ca nada and the United States disputes that pit sport fishers against native fishing rights Recognizing the problems of low ocean productivity habitat damage overfishing and indiscriminate fishing pracshytices that take weak and strong stocks alike Ottawa is developing a new policy to guide Canadas Pacific salmon fisheries focusing on conservation sustainable use and improved decision-making

That potent mix of overfishing and habishytat degrada tion is also a problem for Canashydas freshwater fisheries A report tabled last fall by the federal standing committee on

fisheries and oceans called for more federal funding for research and fisheries programs in central and arctic regions of Canada Accord ing to that report the Grea t Lakes commercial fishery is one of the largest freshwater fisheri es in the world worth an average landed value of more than $40 milshylion a year and an eco nomic impact of at least $250 million Some 90 per cent of that catch is exported The neck lace of lakes threading its way to the St Lawrence River also supports the largest fres hwater sports fishery in the world 800000 Ontarians fish on the Great Lakes eve ry year contributing $850 million to the economy

In Manitoba managers are concerned about the long-term susta inability of freshshywater fish stocks particularly declines in Lake Winnipeg and the northern part of the province caused by overfishing environshymental degradation loss of prime spawning habitat and predators The province has seen stocks rise and fall particularly of pickerel Manitobas highest-priced fish In an attempt to manage the fishery in a sustained fashion the province recently introduced a qu ota entitlement system for anglers Joe OConshynor director of the fisheries branch of Manshyitobas Department of Na tural Resources says his department is wrestling with the environmental threats on fish habitat posed

by farming and hydroelectric development In Ontario fisheries are genera lly in

pretty good shape says Evan Thomas fishshyeries section manager of the fish and wildlife branch of the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (OM NR) Ontario supports almost half of all recreational fishing in Canada with more than two million adult anglers and more than $2 billion a year spent on recreational fishing in the province Onta ri o is also home to Canadas larges t commercial freshwater fishery worth abo ut $40 million a Yfar in land ed value

Thomas says over fishing is still the numshyber one problem Others include habitat loss the potential effects of climate change and contin ued invasion by exotic species Among the management opt ions his minshyistry is exploring are more effective fisheries regulation more rapid inventory and assessshyment techniques fish culture for rehabilishytating populations and controlling nutrient inputs into lakes and rivers

We are clearly looking for federal supshyport for the sea lamprey control program he says referring to recommendations in the recent federal fisheries committee report as well as changes to the federal Fishshyeries Act to hand the province more authorshyity over fish habitat protection

Concerns continue in Ontario over

Moira Ferguson and John Roff Fish Physiology and Biochemistry the top-ranked journal in its field is edited by Prof John Leathershyland chair of the Department of Biomedical Sciences in the Ontario Veterinary College University professor emeritus Eugene Balon has served as editor-in-chief of Environmental Biology ofFishes since he founded the publication in 1976 Zoology professor David Noakes edits Guelph Ichthyology Reviews whose articles synthesize and review all aspects of fish science Both of the latter

Under the Canadian contribution to the project - furided by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council - about 80 federal government and university researchers are trying to learn more about how bioshylogical and physical processes in the oceans affect fish stocks

Zoologychair Prof Paul Hebert has led a Guelph initiative to develshyop multimedia learning resources d1at teach student~ from

are published in the Axelrod Institute of Ichthyology

Based on data from geographic information sysshytems zoology professor John Roff has mapped types of habitat associated with various species of fish and other organisms around Canadas coasts and throughout tl1C Great Lakes the first time such

e1ementaIy grades to university about Canadas aquatshyic environments His department has developed a series of CD-ROMs that provide information on all the major animal groups in the Great Lakes Already available are educational CD-ROMs on Canadas aquatic environments (also available on

d1e World Wide Web) Great Lakes biodiversity and a marine classification system has been developed in this country His report was commissioned by World Wildlife Fund Canada for its Endangered Spaces Campaign and contributes to RoWs work as chair of the scienrillc committee of Globec (Globshyal Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics) a two-year-old international research program intended to better understand ocean ecosystems

birds of the Great Lakes The latter is the first disc in a series called the Great Lakes Faunal Atlas which will eventually cover mammals amphibians reptiles fish and crustaceans

The Alma Aquaculture Research Station es tablished in 1989 and funded through a 20-year development grant by the Ontario

WI NTER 1999 29

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various invas ive species that have turned up

in the Great Lakes - notably sea lampreys

zebra mussels and quagga mussels - many

of which arrive in ballast water of ocea nshy

going vessels (Many have also found their

way into Manitoba says OConnor who

points to the effects of sm elt on whitefish

the main commercial species in Lake Winshy

nipeg) Among o ther meas ures the federal

fish eries committee report called for guarshy

anteed funding for sea lamprey control and

for scienti fic research

I think more money will come says

Prof Bill Beamish Zoology a commissionshy

er on the Great Lakes Fisheries Commission

the 40-year-old governing body that co-ordishy

nates resea rch programs between Canada

and the United States and advises both govshy

ernments It was a review led by Beamish

more than a decade ago on the sta te of

Canadas freshwater fi sheries that provided

the scientific underpinnings for a landmark

report published in 1988 that spelled ou t a

way in freshwater fisheries is a lon g-te rm

project fund ed by the OMNR and the

Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO)

to re-establish native species in their origishy

nal habitats a round Lake Ontario iVlari e

Clement a graduate student of zoology proshy

fe sso r David Noakes is studying Atlantic

sa lmo n which was wiped out of the lake

CONSIDERING WE HAVE THE

BEST FISHERY SCIENCES COMMUNITY

IN THE WORLD WE OUGHT TO

BE DOING BETTER

national strategy for freshwater fisheries

Beamish who has studied sea lampreys

for several decades at Guelph and also invesshy

tigates fish habitat loss says money is need shy

ed to help researchers investigate biological

controls as an alternative to chemical lamshy

pricides The recen t repo rt also notes the

need to address the effects of other nonshy

native exotic species on n ative fish stocks

and water quality and calls on Ottawa to

stem the funding decline in freshwater scishy

ence over the last two decades

One example of the kind of work under

and its tribu ta ry streams near the beginning

o f this century by overflshing and habitat

destruction and alteration Last fall Clement

placed eggs into a site in the Credit River

she has been monito ring oxygen availab il shy

ity durin g their incu ba tion to gau ge sedishy

mentation rates in the river This spring and

summer she wili study how newborn fi sh

interact with other species in th e r ive r

C lement says her docto ral research proshy

ject is but one piece of a larger project aimed

at re-establishing the heritage species Othshy

er researchers hop e to learn whe ther th e

Ministry of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs brings together

researchers for interdisciplinary studies of protein requirements

of arctic char improving fish semen and egg management proshy

cedures and understanding hormone activity in fish The station

acts as a quarantine unit for new fish varieties entering Ontario

and serves as a base for parts of certificate courses and a masters

program in aquaculture

farms in Canada He and fellow Guelph zoologists Eugene Balon

(co- founder of the Coelaca nth Conservat ion Council) and Jim

Bogart also identified and characterized the coelacanth which

had been thought extinct until a specimen was landed off Africa

in the la te 1930s Noakes confirmed the identity of ano ther of

these living fossils discovered in 1997 it appears to belong to a

second popula tion living in the Indian Ocean about 10000 kilo-

metres away from tha t first find

Zoology professors Moira Ferguson and Roy Danzshy

mann use molecular genetics techniques to identishy Zoology chair Paul Hebert was the first scientist to

fy DNA markers used to pinpoint the location of identify the presence in the Great Lakes of zebra

genes associated with growth spawning times mussels a prolific invader that has wreaked havoc

rates of development maturity and temperature in many ways from clogging water-intake pipes to

tolerance in rainbow trout Isolating and identifyshy consuming plankto n thus allowing light to reach

ing genetic markers fo r desirable traits will help fish bottom-dwelling organisms that may displace native

farmers and breeders cross-breed more effectively species The first researcher to report on the biology

conservationists will be better able to manage and preserve and impact of the zebra mussel on the Grea t Lakes was

genetic variability among wild fish stocks Guelph zoology professor Gerald Mackie whose studies showed

that the organisms faster growth rate and higher fecundity and

Zoology professor David Noakes has stuclied varieties of arctic population density will probably enable it to displace many native

char native to Iceland to find ones suited to being raised on fish bivalves and disrupt entire lake ecosystems

30 GUELPH ALUMNUS

LEADING RESEARCH

The University of Guelph has one orthe largest and most active groups of aquatic biologists in the world

bull More than 50 faculty and 100

graduate students research

assocrates and postdoctoral

fellows

bull Over 1000 published scientific

articles books monographs

films and videos in the past

decade

bull Interdisciplinary programs

involving more than a dozen

academic departments

bull The largest group ofichthyoloshy

gists (scientists who study

fish) in North America

bull Collaborative research with

government environrriental

organizations and academic

institutions worldwide

bull Expertise covering the entire

aquatic food chain from plankshy

ton to whales

bull Leading developments in comshy

puter-based educational mate-

rials in aquatic sciences

bull A new $6-million Aquatic

Sciences Facility

bull Research support from national

and international agencies

business and industry

adults will be able to return from the open

lake to their stream spawning grounds If

they come back will the eggs survive she

says If were able to show the eggs can surshy

vive that will be very encouraging for

Atlant ic salmon restoration

What is to be done to ensure the survival

not just of Atlantic salmon in Lake Ontario

but also of the co untrys freshwater and

m ar ine fisheries We need to try to sepashy

rate o ut the fisheries management decisions

from the political decisions associated with

the fi shery says zoology professor Glen Van

Der Kraak director of U of Gs Axelrod

Institute of Ichthyology Van Der Kraak who

studies the effects of toxic contaminants on

fi sh populations says policy mltkers need

to rely on the advice of fisheries sc ientis ts

making conservative harvest ing estimates

So often scientists make decisions and then

are overrun by the politics he says (Never

mind fish wars pitting co untries against one

another - here in Ca nada scientists and

policy makers wres tle over the question of

who should be respo nsible for what aspects

of the countrys fisheries as witnessed in a

war of words played out in the Canadian Journal ofFisheries and Aquatic Sciences over

the past 18 months between biologists at

several Canadian univers ities and the DFO

over the relationship between fishery sc ishy

ence and fishery policy)

Roff says theres nothing unique about

Canadas fish problems Its not really a

Canadian problem its a worldwide probshy

lem The only fisheries worldwide that are

not over fished appear to be some not yet

fully exploited in the Indian Ocean

After nearly four decades of growth the

worldwide marine ca tch levelled off in the

1990s to some 90 million tons a year The

m ain problems coastal pollution habitat

destruction and particula rly overfishing

Noakes editor of the journal Guelph Ichthyology Reviews contrasts the few hunshy

dred people who might have made th eir

livelihood aboard small wood en boats on

the Grand Banks several centuries ago with

the massive factory trawlers that now scour

todays coast People are much too efficient

in terms of catching fish he says Noakes

concurs with fellow Guelph researchers that

conservation of fish stocks has to reach the

top of fishery managers agendas

hat does set Canada apart is the breadth

and depth of expertise in fisheries and aquatshy

ic sciences in this country - rather a parashy

dox when you consider that Canadas record

in fisheries preservation is apparently no betshy

ter than that of many other nations

Considering we have the best fishery scishy

ences community in the world we ought to

be doing better says Roff Within the last

decade th e federal government withdrawal

o f support from the Department of Fishshy

eries and Oceans and university researchers

has been massive At the very time when the

resources were gett ing into severe problems

and when the federal government ought to

have been funding research theyve been

substantially withdrawing resources ga

DONT WAIT UNTIL SPRING The opportunity to double the impact of your gift to the University of Guelph ends on March 31 1999 Until that date all gifts designated to endowed student financial aid at Guelph will be matched by the Ontario Student Opportunity Trust Fund (OSOTF) That means that every dollar you commit will contribute two dollars to financial aid for Guelph students

If you would like to support our students throug h OSOTF you still have a w indow of oppor nishyty to have your do l1a rs doubled But only until March 31 1999

If you have already made a pled ge to OSOTf through U of Gs ACCESS Fund thank you [or your ge nerous support Please comp lete your payme nts by March 31 1999 to e nsure that your gi ft is matched

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WINTER 1999 31

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

n ALUMNI PROF IL E

LETS LOOK AT THE OPPORTUNITIES

WHEN I-IE BECA ME president of the Unishy

versity of Guelph Alumni Association

(UGM) in June Jim Weeden brought new

enthusiasm and ideas for encouraging alumshy

ni to stay in volved with their alma mater

And he wants to start with students

Weeden reca ll s his own ex perience at

U of G where he fo und a sense of commushy

nity by living in residence and ge tting

involved in college activiti es But when he

graduated with an engin ee ring degree in

197 1 he left to begin a caree r and says he

didnt think much about the University until

he needed it again in the 1980s to pursue a

graduate degree in agricultural enginee ring

He spent his early career working as an

agricultural extensi o n engineer for the

Ontario Department o f Agriculture and is

stiU with its successo r the Ontario Ministry

of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs

(OMAFRA) Weed en completed the masshy

ters degree in 1986 when he was head of the

agricultural engineering program and extenshy

sion services a t Centralia College of Ag rishy

cultural Technology

In 1987 he moved to the ministrys plant

industry branch as program m anager and

later held the same position in th e resources

manage m ent branch Sin ce then he has

worked for OMAFRA in Woodstock and

now Stratfo rd He is technical adviser fo r

Ontarios Enviro nmental Farm Planning

Program is respo nsible for o ther environshy

m ental programs and consults with the Minshy

istry o f th e Environment on local agriculshy

tural pollution problems

w Weed en got involved with the Universishy sect tys a]u111ni programs by serving on the first g z board of the Engineering Alumni Associashy

~ tion when it was established in 1990 From

~ 1991 to 1994 he sat on the University Senshy

~ ate and its Research Board and for the pas t

~ four years) hels been on the UGAA executive

32 GUELPH A LU MNUS

From the presidents chair Weeden looks

at the bro ad picture o f UG AA se rvice and

recognizes that the associa tio n owes a debt

o f gratitude to hundreds of alumni volunshy

teers who ha ve helped to build the organishy

za tion over the yea rs and to University staff

in Development and Public Affairs (DampPA)

who support UGAA initiatives and alumni

programs Thro ugh their efforts he says the

a lulllni associati o n is rea ching out to all

U of G alumni Graduates who have mainshy

tained a close relationship with the Univershy

sity thro ugh their college or academic disshy

cipline those who feel an affiliation because

o f their participation in a thletics residence

life o r extracurricular activiti es and even

HIGHLIGHTSmiddot GRAD NEWSmiddot OBITUARIES bull CALENDER

those who have not kept in touch are part of the constituency served by UGAA

Weed en says the alumni association needs to strengthen its relationship with all alumni and he believes the effor t must start on campus with students Hed like to proshymote the idea of alumni involvement as ear shyly as a students second year We need to give students some reason to be con nected and an efficient vehicle for maintaining that connection he says

For many students and new graduates the social functions supported by UGAA and the opportunities for professional networking will be important says Weeden but greater rewards are there for those who join the effort to enhance the Universitys acade mic goals

In todays economic and political envi shyronme nt individual financial support and the advocacy of post-secon dary education are important roles for alumni he says How many people ac tively get involved with the debate on whether universities are job-trainshy

ing centres or centres of education Yet some of our alumni are extremely adept in such roles Weeden would like to cultivate past and current stud ent ac tivists as supporters of public education after they graduate

As Weeden leads UGAA into a new year he says he will work with other UGAA volshyunteers and DampPA staff to find new ways for the association to interact with students and alumni One id ea is to expand UGAAs Intershynet presence by adding a Web message board that will encourage alumni to discuss career and campus issues online and a reply form that will allow them to quickly update addressshyes employment status and other information

Weeden says its important to stay focused on UGAAs key prioriti es but he welcomes any and all new ideas on how to accomplish them All it takes to share your ideas with the UGAA executive is a stamp or a push of the send button when youre clicked on alumniuoguelphca

HKHB SPIRIT RISES

ENCOURAGED BY THE SPIRIT

shown by fellow alumni at last

summers reunion the executive

of the Human Kinetics Human Biology

Alumni Association is moving ahead

with more opportunities for alumni to

stay in touch The association plans to

launch a Web site that will be accessed

through the U of G site

A wine-and-cheese reception already

planned for June 19 1999 wiil try to

build on the success of the 1998 event

which attracted alumni from as far away

as Chicago and as far apart as the 19605

and 1990s Guests had a chance to tour

U of Gs new Health and Performance

Centre and performance testing

labs The program was co-ordinated wiLh

A REFLECTION OF PRIDE

Members of the OAC

Class of 52 join Arboshy

retum staff on the front patio

of the Arboretu m Centre

beside a new reflecting pool

that was built last summer

as a class project Pictured

from left are Murray Parker

Ann Smith George Smith

Jack Sargent Catherine Gibb

Robin Shaw-Rummington

Marilyn Swaby BA 69

Bev Healy B5e(Agr) 72

Norm Watson Una Venerus

Ron Costen Henry Kock

BSe (Agr) 77 and Ric

Jordan BA 75

Prof Jack Barclay chair of the Departshy

ment of Human Biology and Nutritional

Sciences and Prof Susan Pfeiffer Memshy

bers of the Human KineticsHuman

Biology Alumni Association executive arc

Janet Leonhard 82 president Carolyn

Moore 83 vice-president Alison Locker

97 secretary Mark Mulholland 79

lreasurer and t-iary Ann Crape 76

These officers are also spea rheading a

new initiative to benefit students - an

undergraduate award that will provide

$250 and lifetime mem bership in the

association To commcnt on these and

other initiatives contact Leonard by

e-mail at Janel_Leonhardinwrbsb

eduonca or Moore at cturveyagec

uoguelphca

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alumni

Multimedia lab buzzes

THE DONALD FORSTER RoOiv

has become one of the

busiest spots in th e Unishy

versity of Guelph Liblary since the

addition of 70 state-of-the-art

computer workstations that were

supported by alumni do nations

to the Alma Mater Fund (AM F)

U of G president Mordechai

Roza nski officia ll y o pened th e

Alma Mater Fund Multimedia

Lab D ec 2 an d celebrated th e

event with members of the AMF

Adv isory Counc iL [n 1996 a nd

1997 the AMF contributed

$240000 to th e project which

increased the number of student

workstations o n campus by 50 per

cent Students use the m ult imeshy

~ dia lab to conduct research on the

~ Internet access scholarly publicashyr u VI tions on CD-ROM and use COll1shyz ~ puter software mod ules tbat lt

~ strengthen the teaching provided lD

o in co urse lectures labs and tcxtshybii books

middotMatters

Alumnus of many interests

I NTERES TING P EOPLE always have eclect ic interests and U of G

alumnus and honorary degree recipient Ken Murray BSA 50 and

HDLA 96 is a good example H e is known by most people on camshy

pus for his distinguished career in the Canadian meat packing indusshy

try and his volunteer service to U of G He was a member and chair

of Board of Governors from 1973 to 1978 and chair of the Regionshy

al Corporate Committee during U of Gs last capital campaign and

is currently chair of the Heritage Fund Enhancement Committee

Murray is also a strong supporter of community soc ial services

In August he addressed the World Congress of Social Ps)chiatry

held in British Columbia - the only non-psychiatrist on the proshy

gram He spoke about his role in establishing an Alzheimers research

project a t the University ofWaterioo which was recently named in

his honour the Ken Murray Alzheimer Research and Education Proshy

gra m At the gc conference he al so participated in a panel dis shy

cussion that outlined services offered by Guelphs Homewood Health

Cent re Murray bas been actively involved in the governance of the

centre since 1977 and has been a major player in the development

of a charitable foundatio n bearing the Homewood name

WHEN THE PUCK DROPPED More than 30 teams including two

womens teams were entered in the

Dec 6 University of Guelph Alumni Hockey

Tournament Organizers for the 1998 event

were from left Brian Finniss B5c 88

Brad Stephenson BA 86 Terry Carr

BComm 87 Todd Bryant BA 86 and

undergraduate student Brian Melnick

Ken Murray centre with his wife Marilyn Robinson Murray and U of G president Mordechai Rozanski

34 GU ELPH ALUMNU S

RESTORING A JEWEL IN THE CROWN

DONALD RUTHERFORD BSA 5 stands in fron t

of the 1931 conservatory greenhouse that will

be restored to match the splendour of the ga rdens

now growi ng up around it His $256000 leadershy

ship gift to the Conservatory and Gardens Project

was inspired by hi s m emo ries of being a student

at OAC

On behalf of fellow alumni I hope this gift will

commemorate the experiences and educat ion we

acquired while at Guelph says Rutherford When

fully restored to its previous glory the conservatoshy

ry greenhouse will be an ideal greeting and welcome

spot for visitors and newcomers to the University

as well as old friend s renewing their acquaintance

Rutherfords professional career spans the agrishy

foo d industr y beginning as an agricu ltural repshy

resentative with the provincial minist ry I-Ie was

later vice-president of the Fertilizer Institute of

Ontario executive secreta ry of the Canadian Seed

Trade Association director of information w ith

the Ca nadian Livestock Feed Board and Canadishy

an sa les manager for Sylvite of Can ad a Retired

since 1986 he now owns his own sma ll investment

company and manages to golf throughout the yea r

The conserva tory isnt the first ca mpus project

to attract Rutherford s attention - as a student

he helped dig out the base ment of Massey H al l to

build a student lo unge - but his recent gift has

been a tremendous boost to those who have been

working since the ea rly 1990s to save the glass and

cypress structure from demo lition

A committee of alumni facult y sta ff stu dents

and fri en ds of the University has moved the proshy

ject along to th e point w here most of the surshy

rounding garden complex is now complete It fea shy

tures six gardens named in honour of the ir chie f

supporters Autumn Garden - OAC 5 1 Spring

Ga rden - OAC 53 Su mmer Garden - OAC 55

Winter Gard en - OAC 65 Water Gard en shy

OAC 49 and the Woo dland Garden named in

honour of the late Doug Rob inson BSA 53

Alumni have been in strumental in raising

funds for the $ l-million project Students and fa cshy

ulty have provided mudl of the h1l1ds-on Idbour

and friends in the nursery and landscape materishy

als supply industries have given $250000 ill donashy

tions and gifts-in-kind of plan ts and landsca ping

materials Rutherford s generous gift has pushed

th e conservato ry fund-ra ising effort in to the fin 81

stretch Th e ga rden complex and restored g reenshy

110use are sc heduled to officially open during

Alumni Weekend in June 1999

1999 Coming Events

Jan 29 - Aggie Goodshy

Times Banquet call the OAC Student Federation at Ext 8321 for ticket injemnrltion Feb 13 - Norm McCo llulll

D iploma Hockey Tournashy

m ent call Jack Bakker at 519-837-0132 to register a team

Feb 21 - Ottawa Chapter

annual curling bonspiel

Richmond C urling Club in

Richmond Ont For informashytiol1 call Alan Bentley BSA 61 at 6 13-829-6598 or John DVit[ 54 mId Margaret McGowml BHSc 54 at

613-828-7038

March 3 - Florida alumni

reunion a t Maple Leaf

Estates Port Charlo tte Fla

call Ext 6533 0 register

March 13 and 14 - ollcge

Royal 75th o pen house

March 19 and 20 - OAC

Alumni Association curling

bonspiel G uelph Curling

Club register at Ext 6657

May 5 - Chicago All Canashy

dian Universities Night hostecl

by U of G at the University

Club of Chicago 76 East Monshy

roe Sr call Exl 6533 for details May 5 - OAC Alumni

Foundation annual meeting

730 pm Arboretum Centre

May 12 - Alumni-inshy

Action annual meeting and

luncheo n 1130 3m

Arboretum Centre ((11 Ext 6657for tickets

June 18 to 20 - Alumni

Veekend call Ext 6657 to plall a reun io n

-0 r shya -IFor more infon-nation on any a

eVC1l1listed ailove call the oJ -lt oU of G extension listed at en raquo

519-824-4120 or send e-mail z

10 alunznilIoguelphca ~

WINTER 1999 35

alumni Matters

MEMORIES OF COLLEGE ROYAL Grant MacEwan ADA 23 and

BSA 26 is one of the few OAC

alumni who c~n still remember

the first College Royal held Jan

14 1925 MacEwan bad just

entered the degree program in

animal husbandry and may have

been a participant in the liveshy

stock showmanship classes Latshy

er in life he was widely known Grant MacEwan

across Western Canada as 3 liveshy

stock judge and an advocate of

agricultural fairs and exhibitions

MacEwan is bes t known

however for his 23-year C3reer

as a university professor in Manshy

itoba and Saskatchewan and Ilis

political career which included

12 years as alderman and mayshy John Kenneth Galbraith

or of C31gary four years as an

Alberta MLA and eight as lieushy birthday in August

tenant -governor of the province The year after Ma cEwan

He s till lives in Calgary graduated John Kenneth Galshy

where he celebrated his 96th braith ADA 29 and BSA 31

HOMECOMING 98

enrolled at OAC and devoted

some of his energy to organizshy

ing College Royal Show records

indicate it was Galbraith who

first proposed the college event

be publicized so that people

from the farm community

could attend He also suggestshy

ed that OAC invite students

from American agricultural colshy

legesl n th e early 1930s Colshy

lege Royal took its fir s t steps

towards becoming the comshy

munity open house it is today

Galbraith later moved to the

United States where he enjoyed

a distinguished caree r as a proshy

fessor of economics at Harvard

Universi ty Known for his

humanit~rian approach to ecoshy

nomic and political thinking

he was awarded the Order of

Canada in 1997 He celebr3ted

his 90th birthday in October

IT REALLY WAS a homecoming reunion when and Arnott who is head coach of the York

former Gryphon teammates Ralph Shapiro University Yeomen came from the visitors

S5c(HK) 74 and Tom Amott S5c(HK) 80 dreSSing room to hold the ball Shapiro is

met on the field at Alumni Stadium Oct 3 the controller at Huntsman Chemical Inc

Shapiro had the honour of kicking off in Guelph and a longtime United Way volshy

the Universitys 1998 United Way campaign unteer who chaired this years Guelph and

Wellington fund-raising drive The Univershy

sity campaign is the largest in the county

with U of G staff and faculty contributing

over $200000 in 1998

Prior to the game a number of recent

alumni - all U of G scholarship and award

winners - met for a reunion luncheon The UJ

1948 and 1949 dominion championship i5f 3

football teams were also honoured guests z 5 o at the 2 pm game that saw the Gryphons gtshy a defeat York f shya I a

Ralph Shapiro

36 G UELPH ALUMNUS

LEADING THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY FOR 1974 GRADS The 25th-anniversary reunion givshy

i ng program for the Class of 1974

is under way with Bill Laidlaw BA

74 as cbair A public affairs proshy

fessional he has been director of

government relations for the

Canadian operations of Glaxo

vVelJcome Inc for more th an 10

years He also acts as a senior conshy

sultant to support the governshy

ment relations function in other

regions of Canada

Laidlaw began his career in

teaching after earning a history

degree from Guelph and education

degrees (rom Queens University

and the University of Toronto He

also holds the certified human

resources professional designation

and worked in that field for sevshy

eral years before concen trating on

government relations at Glaxo

Welkome He lives in Burlington

Ont and is an act ive community

volunteer having se rved on the

boards of severa l professional

organizations the Queensway

General Hospital and the Metroshy

politan Toronto Lung Association

He is currently completing a oneshy

year term as chair of the Ontario

Chamber of Commerce

Anniversa ry preparations will

culminate with a class gathering

a nd reunion gift at Alumni

Weekend in June 1999

ALUMNI MAKE THE CONNECTION Students who moved into

Maids and Mills halls in Sepshy

tember can take full advanshy

tage of the Universitys highshy

speed computer network

thanks to the OAC Class of

71 whose 25 th-reunion proshy

ject provided wiring upgrades

in the 84- and 77-year-old

residence buildin gs

GRAD NEWS

Marathon survivors inspire us all to appreciate everyday life

W HEN ROBINSON SIIlLJNGS Jane BSe(Agr)

85 Heather BASe 83 Peter BSe(Agr)

86 Scott and Marnie rigwood BA 84 get

together they talk about marathons and the hope

and determination it takes to reach the finish line

Hea ther walked a marathon in San Diego

Calif in June to raise money for leukemia

research then joined Peter for a Toronto marathon

in October that benefi ted the Leukemia Research

Fund of Canada They were inspired by Janes pershy

sonal marathon of survival that foUowed her 1992

diagnosis of leukemia Chemotherapy radiation

remission relapse and finally a bone marrow

transplant [TOm her brother Scott took more than

three years out of her life but gave her the detershy

mination to keep fighting

Many families can understand the marathon

of hope maintained by the Robinsons during

Janes struggle and the commitment they have to

help others who are stricken with the disease Jane

is finally well enough to work again as a writer

and marketing consultant and to join her fami shy

ly in volunteer work She helped recruit for the

Toronto marathon fund -raiser and continues to

be involved with the Leukemia Research Funds

Team in Training She also says that her expeshy

rience has taught her to appreciate more the pleashy

sures of everyday life and the love of famil y

Jan es parents are th e late Doug Rob inson

BSA 53 and Marilyn (Inglis) Robinson Murray

BH Sc 55

19305

bull Grant Misener ADA 32 BSA 35 and DVM 38 received the

prest igious George F Hixso n Felshy

lowship Award from the Kiwanis

International Foundation in May The retired Illinois veter ishy

narian was hono ured for his subshystantial contribution to the

Kiwanis wo rldwide service proshy

ject aimed at eliminating iodine

deficiency disorders the leading

cause of preventable mental retardation in children Over the

years Misener has shown a simishylar commitment to his al ma

mater an d its students through

his close association with OVC

and his support of scho larship

programs

19405

bull Russell McDonaldDVM 45 was named an honorary life direcshytor of the Royal Agricultural Winshy

ter Fair Association in March

McDonald formerly general manshy

ager of Western Ontario Breeders

Ine and executive director of the Canadian Association of Animal

Breeders served as a director of the Royal Winter Fair for 20 years

representing the Canadian artifishycial insemination industry He

lives in Woodstock Ont

bull Ian Taylor DVM43 was recently honoured by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to

Animals of Illinois Taylor ran a small-animal veterinary clinic in

the Chicago area for many years

and says he gained ll1uch experishyence during his first three years in

Illinois as clinic veterinarian for

the anti -cruelty society

19505

bull Charles Chuck Broadwell BSA 54 was elected a Mel

Osborne Fellow by the Kiwanis

Club of Forest City in London Ont in recognition of a dedicatshy -ed and distinguished career in

Kiwanis

19605

bull Constantine Campbell BSA 60 and MSA 61 was named to the

WINTER 1999 37

Order of Canada in January He

received the award in recogni shy

tion of his many contributions

to science and the Canadian

agricultural industry After grad shy

uating from OAC he went on to

do his PhD at the University of

Saskatchewan then joined Agri shy

culture and Agri-food Canada

as a research scientist at the Swift

Current research station Campshy

bell and his family now live in

Ottawa where he is scientist

emeritus with Agriculture and

Agri-food Canada

bull John Casselman BSA 64 is

a research scientist with the

Ontario Ministry of Natural

Resources He Jives in Bath

Ont with his wife Lois

bull Jane Fuller RRSc 65 and

her husband George who both

taught at the Macdonald Instishy

tute from 1966 to 1969 have

moved from Winnipeg to

Utopia Ont following

Georges retirement from the

University of Manitoba

bull Fred Gilbert MSc 66 and

P hD 68 is in his first term as

president of Lakehead Univer shy

sity in Thunder Bay Ont He

taught at U of G in the Departshy

ment of Zoology from 1972 to

1981 and has enjoyed a dive rse

academic career that has also

included teaching at the Unishy

versity of Maine and posi tions

as director of wildlife biology at

Washington State University

and founding dean of the Facshy

ulty of Natural Reso urces and

Environmenta l Studies at the

University of Northern British

Columbia He moved to Lakeshy

head from a position as viceshy

pro vost at Colorado State Unishy

versity A respected wildlife

biologist he has conducted

ex tensive resea rch in s Ll ch areas

as the behaviour and physioloshy

gy of wildlife species and the

effects of environmental

change on wildlife populations

bull Terry Goodyear BSc 67 of

Mont Tremblant Quebec is an

early retiree from Agriculture

and Agri-Food Canada in Ottawa He is now working on

va lue-added products from

industrial wastes particularly

cellulose sludge from pulp and

pa per mills

bull Gary Hearn BA 68 was

named an Ontario provincial

judge in October For the last

25 years he has been a lawyer

with the firm Kearns McKinshy

non in Guelph where he lives

with his wife Irene and three

teenage children

bull Allan Knight BSA 66 of Corunna Ont has retired

from Dow Chemical after 30

years On retirement he was a

laboratory director for indusshy

trial chemicals He is now

working with his son in a famishy

ly-owned and -operated busishy

ness Knight Funeral Home

bull Keith McFarlane BSc(Agr)

68 works for the Department

of Foreign Affairs and Internashy

tional Trade and began a fourshy

year assignment last summer as

head of the commercial divishy

sion of the Canadian Embassy

in Lisbon Portugal The

division promotes the sa le of

Canadian goods and services

to Portugal

bull Ian Newbould MA 68 has

travelled far from his Ontario

roots through an academic and

administrative career that has

taken him to Europe Asia and

Western Canada A noted hisshy

torian he moved into adm inisshy

tration at the University of

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Lethbridge in 1981 and spent

10 years there as director of

research dean of a rts and scishy

ence and vice-presiden t (acadeshy

mic) before crossing the counshy

try to become president of

Mount Allison University in

New Brunswick He is now in

his second term as president of

Mount AUison

bull Indra Deo Singh MSc 68 is

a tea scientist international

consultant and joint director of

the Tea Research Association at

the Nagrakata substation in

India His responsibilities

include co-ordinating research

and development in the Indian

tea industry and developing tea

cultivars and agrotechnology

for tea Singh is married with

two sons aged 27 and 23

19705

bull Don Ambler BSe 71 retired in March as manager of

water programs with Environshy

ment Canada in Dartmouth

NS after 25 years of public

service He has now registered

the company Aquashed Co nshy

sulting to continue in the water

resources field when hes not

gardening beekeeping do ing

aerobics or vo lunteering in the

community and chu rch E-mail

contact is welcome a t

donambl erns sympaticoca

bull Jim Bond BSe 75 is managshy

ing a new processing facility at

the Chalk River Nuclear Laborashy

to ry in Chalk River Ont

bull Terri (Monks) Bulman BSc(Agr) 78 and MSe 81

and her husband Vincent

MSe 8 1 live in Australia with

their th ree children Catherine

7 Peter 4 and baby Christoshy

pher Terri is senior principal

environmental auditor vith

Coffey Geosciences Pty Ltd Vinshy

cent afte r many years as a geoloshy

gist travelling around Australia

and abroad has taken the year

off to study and look after the

children Their e-mail address is

tbulmanbigpondco m

bull Marie David BA 78 of

Hanover Ont has been in the

n ewspaper business for 20

years She started in the mailshy

room moved to advertising

sales then became advert ising

manager She is now gene ral

manager o f three So utham

weekly newspapers and pubshy

lish er of the Hanover Post

bull Janice Harrower and her husshy

band Jerome Billett both

DVM 76 operate a joint veterishy

nary practice in Prescott Ont

Billett says practising together

has allowed them some flexibilishy

ty in their family life and given

their four children a good took

at the rigours of veterinary

medicine Says Billett Not one

of our kid s has the slightest

interest in being a veterinarian

and isnt that just fine Their

o ldest son Jesse attends Harshy

va rd University and is a memshy

ber of its prestigious a cappella

choir Lucas is studying

mechanical engineering at the

University of Waterloo Casey is

planning a career in computer

engineering and Lindsay is a

high school athle te

bull Clair Heinbuch BSe 74 is a

sales manager with Baye r Corp

in Kansas H e and his wife

Caroline (Koscik) BASc 75

returned to the Kansas City

area after spending four years in

Denver They have three chilshy

dren Lisa 20 Scott 18 and

Ryan [5

bull Beverly Lee BASe 72 is an

elem entary school principal in

Unionville Ont She lives with

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her husband Grant Egan in

Collingwood and is looking

forward to retirement in severshy

al years Life on Georgian Bay

is wonderful she says Lee

would love to hear from fellow

grads by e-mail at

leebYrbeeduonca or by

phone at 705 -444 -092l

bull Won-Jai Maeng MSc 71 took office Sept 1 as president

of Kon-Kuk University in Seoul

Korea where his academic

career began He completed an

undergraduate degree at Kon

Kuk in 1965 then studied at

Mailing Agricultural College in Denmark and at U of G before

doing doctoral work at the Unishy

versity of California Davis

Maeng has held research and

teaching positions at the Unishy

versity of illinois at Chung-Ang

University and at Kon-Kuk

where he has been a professor of

animal science since 1984 His

appointment as president folshy

lows years of administrative

experience as a department

head dean and chair of various

research committees and proshy

fessional organizations An

expert in ruminant nutrition

Maeng was instrumental in

developing the livestock feed

industry in Korea He has also

been active in working with

alumni groups and in writing

for the Kon-Kuk Tribune

bull Bill MarshaU ADA 75 of Proton Station Ont moved

from Clarksburg in June to

work in Dundalk for the Grey

County Roads Department on

its road management crew

bull Bernie Matte BSc(Agr) 70 of Moncton NB retired

in March after 28 years with

Fisheries and Oceans Canada

and the Canadian Food

Inspection Agency He plans to

travel to Belize and Honduras

with his wife Diane and will

be available anywhere in the

Caribbean for seafood HACCP

consulting work

bull Margaret McClain BA 70 lives in Arkansas where she is

highJy involved in the issue of

40 GUELPH ALUMNUS

missing children and internashy

tional abductions McClain who

believes her own six-year-old

daughter was taken out of the

United States more than a year

ago by her second husband is

reaching out to parents with

similar experiences through an

organization that is lobbying the

US government for tougher

international abduction laws

She invites interested fr iends

and alumni to contact her

through her Web site at

wwwinsolwwbnet-dmcclain

bull Robert (Chuck) Miller BA 77 is the park superintendent

of Killarney French River and

Maskinonje provincial parks in

Ontario He moved to Killarney

from Quetico Provincial Park

last May

bull Gordon Nicol BA 72 and MSc(Agr) 74 teaches math

and science in a bilingual prishy

vate school in Guatemala A

BEd graduate of Laurentian

he first taught in Guatemala in

the late 1970s then spent 12

years in northern Alberta as a

teacher and principal He

returned to Guatemala in 1989

A widower with three teenage

children Nicol would like to

hear from U of G friends and

acquaintances especially anyshy

one who is was or will be in

Central America He says he

could also use middle-schoolshy

level science projects Send eshy

mail to gnicoll guatenet or

write to PO Box 661447 Miami

Springs Florida 33266-1447

bull Chris Schulte BSc 71 and MSc 73 lives in Nassau

Bahamas with his wife

Andrya After graduation he

stayed in the Department of

Physics as a research associate

with Prof lain Campbell then

joined Ontario Hydro in the

early 1980s He moved to the

Bahamas in 1995 He can be

reached bye-mail at

schultebahamasnetbs

bull Sandra (Pickford) Webster BA 75 has retired from U of

Gs Co mmunications and Pubshy

lic Affairs and is living in Parry

Sound Ont where she is

doing volunteer work and

communications consulting

for the municipality Guelph

friends ca n contact her by

e-mail atswebsterzeutercom

19805

bull Sharon (Courneya) Angus BA 8 I of Surrey BC comshy

pleted a BSW at the University

of British Columbia in 1988

and has been working for the

BC government for 13 years

- first in probation and now

in the family justice division

She and her husband Ron

have three children Jason

Carly and Colin

bull Karen Beazley BLA 86 is an assistant professor and acadeshy

mic program co-ordinator at

the School for Reso urce and

Environmental Studies at Dalshy

housie University in Halifax

She is currently doing research

for a book on endangered

species initiatives and is orgashy

nizing a Nova Scotia wildlands

workshop with the Wildlands

Project for 1999 Her e-mail

address is kbeazleyisdalca

bull Caroline (Van Deudekom) and Marc Brooks both ADA 87

recently moved from Strathroy

to Owen Sound Ont where

they run a 50-acre organic farm

with their two sons

bull Virginia Burt BLA 85 startshyed her own landscape architecshy

ture firm Visionscapes in

Hamilton Ont in ] 996 She

specializes in the design of thershy

apeutic healing gardens spirit

gardens sacred spaces and

la byrin ths and recen tly designed the first healing garden

in Canada specificalJy for peoshy

ple living with HIV and AIDS

bull Joanne (Branson) Carver BA 80 earned a BEd from Brock

University in 1981 and recently

started working as a probashy

tionparole officer She Jives in

Ajax Ont and has two daughshy

ters Julie4 and Sarah 8

bull Heather Champ BA 86 is a Web-site designer in New York

City She began her work in

computer design in 1990 Her

personal site can be Found at

wwwjezebelcom

bull Laurie Gough BA 87 has become a world traveller who

writes about her experiences for

the benefit of others Her most

recent book Island of the

Human Heart A tfornans Travshyel Odyssey is now in its second

printing in Canada and will be

released next year in the United

States and overseas She has also

published Travellers Tales A

Womans World which won the

US-based Lowell Thomas

Gold Award for best travel book

of the year When not travelling

or writing she teaches English

and ESL in Guelph

bull Susan (Coles) Goulden BASc 84 and her husband

Ian are th rilled wi th their

recent adoption of Jennifer Lee

Yu who was born in June near

Leping Jiangxi Peoples Repubshy

lic of China The Gouldens

who Jive in vVaterloo Ont

thank classmate Andrea

(Kovits) Henderson for her

support throughout the adopshy

tion process Susan is currently

on leave from her position with

McCormick Canada

bull Judy (Bodendistel) Gregg BA 82 moved to Melbourne Ausshy

tralia in 1997 with her husband

and two children Carly 6 and

Adam 3 We are enjoying the

friendly people and the great

weather here she says We are

especially enjoying winter in a

place where it never gets below

zero Celsius

bull Nigel GumJey DVM 85 has been a partner in the Alta Vista

Animal Hospital in Ottawa

since 1990 was president of the bull Garry Millage AMPHI 86 bull Heidi Stephenson BA 88 is now ISO 9000 manager at

Ontario Veterinary Medical left a position as vice-president was awarded her professional Carpenter Ca nada Ltd in

Association in 1997 and recent- of national operations for acco untants designation of Wood br idge Ont He lives in

ly served on the Canadian Vetshy Scotts Restaurants KFC Divishy certified general accountant in Miss issa uga Classma tes are

erilw() Medical Associations sion to open his own consult- March 1998 She has been invited to contact him at

national issues committee He ing company Future Food employed for the last 10 years avon listarca

lives in Osgoode with his wife Equipment Ine specializes in with Dan Ball Chartered bull Michelle (Pilon) Bacon BA rvlaurecn and children Laura providing new and used restau- Acco un tant in Parry Sound 90 moved to England to study

and Matthew rant equipment and reducing O nt where she lives with her and work after graduating from

bull Muneer Hirji BComm 82 restaurant construction costs hu sband Brad two dogs and a Guelph She recently left a posishy

lives in Toronto and is vice- He also operates a restaurant horse tion with the British Ministry of

president of marke ting at SAP called Nikkos in Woodbridge bull Dawn Stetsko BSe 81 lives Agriculture and Food in York to

Canada He has three chil- Ont and is planning to open a in Langhorne Pa with her husshy become an at-home mom She

drcl1 Nadia 8 Alyssa 6 and second location band Paul and children Mark now lives in London with her

Sarah I bull Tosh Noseworthy BSe 83 is and Keith and is a research husband Tim and one-year-old

bull Brenda irwin BSe 88 is a cardiovascular ICU nurse in scientist with Bristol-Myers daughter Juliette She sends love

studying at Hong Kong Unishy sunny Tuscon Arizona After Squibb Previously she worked to Sue Heather and Sheila and

vers ity of Science and Technolshy grad uation she lived in Paris at McMaster University in can be reached bye-mail at

ogy to complete the final France for a yea r s tudied nurs- Hamilton Ont for 17 yea rs michellebacondialpipexcom

sem ester of an MBA program ing in O ttawa then lived in Saushy bull Teresa Tummillo-Goy BA bull Jeff Barlow BComm 90 is

through the University of di Arabia for two yea rs She still 86 has a law practice in Water- the training and quality manag-

British Columbia She taught loves to travel and would like to 100 Ont foc Li sing primaril y on er for two five-star luxury boushy

science for the North York hea r from fellow alumni She family law civi l litiga tion and tique h o tels in Prague - Hotel

Board of Education for five can be reached at 520-299-8344 real estate She and her hus- Palace Praha and the Hotel

years before enrolling in the bull Cecilia (Wleugel) Parkes band John Goy live in Guelph Savoy Previo usly he was execu -

MBA program BComm 85 is a graphic and have three sons John 4 tive housekeeper at the five-star

bull Jagwant Kanwar PhD 80 is designer in Toronto and says Tony 3 and Shayne 2 Renaissance Pragu e Hotel

a senior scientist in the depart- she st ill uses ber marketing bull Peter Van der Borch DVM bull Margaret Burnes-Souria BA ment of vegetable crops at Pun- background to help her busishy 88 retired in the fa ll of 1997 94 is a team leader with [011 shy

jab Agricultural University in ness succeed She specia lizes in after several years of practising don Magazin e in London Ont

India He is also director of the logo design lNith hand-drawn physiotherapy and ve terinary She married David Souria in

regional vegetable research stashy illustrations medicine and surgery He Jives July 1997 and is pursuing an tion at Usman (TaranTarn) bull Jim Parr BSc(Agr) 81 and in Pictou NS ]VlBA at the University of West-

Amritsar His and his wife MSe 89 died of cancer in bull MartyWilLiams BA 85 is ern Ontario

Sanyogita have a son Mohit June 1998 but hes being co-ordinator of student activishy bull Janine Byers BASe 95 is a and a daughter Dipika who are remembered by his university ties at University College Unishy public health dietitian at the

both studying engineering friends through the establish - versity of Toronto where he Kingston Frontenac and

Friends can write to Kanwar at ment of a mem orial fund for advises student organizations Iennox amp Addington Health

Punjab Agricultural Un ivers ity his wife Denise and children 1Ie is also chair of the U of T Unit in Kingston O nt She is Ludhiana 141 004 India Shannon and Eric Anyone Staff Association a member of getting married to Ca rl Stewart

bull Larissa Larsen BSe 89 and who would like more informa - the steering committee of the on May 29 j 999 MLA 92 received a PhD in tion can ca ll Brian Tapscott at staffs unionization drive and a bull Lisa Cherry BSe 9 1 is a urban and regional planning 519-767-3566 staff member with the student science journalist and executive

from the University of Illinois bull Cheryl (Dunlop) Reid newspaper The Varsity He can director of Artists Against

at Urbana Champaign in May BSe(Agr) 89 sta rted a new be reached bye-mail at marty Racism an international organi-

She has accepted a position at job in September as ingredient wi lliamsutorontoca za tion She is based in Toronto

Thompson Dyke and Associshy sales manager for RA bull Bonnie (Byma) BASe 96 ales a landscape architecture Chisholm o f Toronto She will 19905 and Gil Clelland BA 95 were

and urban planning firm in continue to work from her bull Claire Allison BA 94 grad- married in December 1996 and

Chicago Her husband Ernie remote offke in Fergus Reid uated from the elementary are living in Chatham On t

Poortinga DVM 89 is in his and her husband Jeff BSe teacher ed ucation program at Bo nnie works at a day-care

third yea r of an MD program (Agr) 89 have two children the University of British centre G il teaches art and

at Rush University Chicago lVlega n 4 and Elizabeth 2 Columbia in 1996 and now phys ical education They ca n -Hes looking forward to joining bull Chee Sie BA 83 is a zone teaches in Va ncou ver be reached bye-ma il at gclelshy

his wife in the ranks of the manager for the Malaysian bull JohnAvon BSdHK) 94 lan ciaccesscom employed They would both Assurance Alliance Berhad in earned an M Se in industr ial bull Kate Corn ell BA 95 of enjoy hearing from fellow Sarawak Malaysia He and his operations from Lawrence Markham Ont earned her

alumni and can be reached at wife Jesterine have a two-year- Technological University in masters in dance history from epoor tin garushurushedu old daughter Letitia Southfleld Mich in 1997 and York University in May and

WINTER 1999 41

co-authored a book titled

Toronto Dance Theatre 1968shy1998 Stages in a Journey

bull Mary Jill (McClure) Culliton BASe 90 earned

her BEd from Brock University

and her M Ed from the Univershy

sity of Western Ontario and

teaches Grade 1 in Mitchell

Ont She and her husband

Tim live in Stratford

bull Kathleen (McNutt) Daniels BASe 9 1 is a teacher and was

married on New Years Eve

1994 to Gord Daniels They live

in North Bay Ont and have a

daughter Lauren born in Febshy

ruary 1997 They are expecting

their second child in February

bull Simon Deakin BA 95 studshyied in Florence Italy for a year

then earned a master of fine art

from the Slade School of Fine

Art at the University of London

England He lives in London

bull Christie Dunbar BLA 97 spent a year after graduation

working for Niagara College in

St Catharines Ont on the

vision and design of a new

campus to be built in Niagarashy

on-the- Lake Last April she

joined the landscape architecshy

ture firm of Pollack Design

Associates in Ann Arbor Mich

bull Trina Edmonds BA 94 and

Joel Hinderle became the

proud parents of a little girl

Jordan Ashley in january 1998

and moved to a new home in

Oakville Ont in September

Edmonds works in Mississauga

as a desktop publisher with a

publishingprinting company

bull Wendy Garinther BSc 93 and Steve Decker BSe 94

were married in May Joining

them in the wedding celebrashy

tions were Cheri (Coulter)

42 GUELPH ALUMNUS

Ascroft BSe 93 Karen Leinshy

gartner BSe 94 and Barb

(Moore) Johnson BSe 94

Best man was Jeff Bond BSe

93 and MSe 96 The Deckers

live in Edmonton where Steve

is doing a PhD in chemistry at

the University of Alberta and

Wendy is working in a research

laboratory at a biopharmaceushy

tical company

bull Donna Gross BA 97 is purshysu ing a master of divinity at

Emmanuel College at the Unishy

versity of Toronto and hopes to

become an ordained minister by

2002 She lives in Guelph and

can be reached bye-mail at

donnajulietalbedonet

bull Robert Gruber BA 92 is a child-care supervisor for the

YMCA-YWCA of Guelph and

manages the Jean Little Y

Child- Care Centre He recently

developed the anti -bias proshy

gramming policy for the

Guelph Y and sits on both the

Jean Little Public School Counshy

cil and the Guelph AIDS Wall

Committee He can be reached

bye-mail at rgrubernet

comca

bull Susan Harder BSe 91 grad shyuated from the University of

Toronto Medical School in June

and has started a residency at

Santa Clara Valley Medical Censhy

tre in San jose Calif She will

follow that up with an anestheshy

sia residency at Stanford Univershy

sity Hospital in 1999

bull Marko Harjupanula BASc 93 travelled in Australia for

two months after graduating

from Guelph then returned to

his home town of South Porshy

cupine Ont where he worked

in a gold mine for four years

He entered police college in

September and started as an

opp constable in Cochrane in

December

bull Nancy Holman MA 94 moved to Vancouver soon after

graduation and initially worked

as a project co-ordinator for an

ophthalmologist In 1996 she

began working full time for the

BC Liberal Caucus I would

enjoy hearing from and catchshy

ing up with the friends I made

while studying at U of G and

working at the Brass Taps she

says Her e-mail address is nan shy

cyholmanlassgovbeca

bull Ruth Johnson BA 91 is an investment banking associate

with the mergers and acquisishy

tions group of JP Morgan in

Lond on England responsible

for financial reporting and

administration She has been in

England with her partner Alex Campbell since graduation

bull Stephen Johnson BA 94 of London Ont was a lab technishy

cian at Lenscrafters for three

yea rs and is now a full-time

student at Fanshawe College

studying air conditioning and

refrigeration He was married

in Jun e to Jennifer Fox BSc

95 a chemist at 3M Their

wedding party included Dee Popat BSe (Eng) 94 and

Patrick Wulhes BSc 95

bull Sarah (Davis) Kelly BASe 90 married Robert Kelly in

July and teaches primary

grades at an inner-city school

in Toronto

bull Cassidy Klowak BComm 97 lives in Allisshy

ton Onl and is a personal

banking account manager

with ClBC in Tottenham

bull Stephanie Lopes BSc 96 completed her MSc in repro shy

ductive biology at the Universishy

ty of Toronto and worked as

patient-care director for the

College of Family Physicians

for almost a year In September

she enrolled in medical school

at the University of Toronto

She is happy to announce that

she is engaged to be married

next summer Lopes can be

reached at slopesidirectcom

bull Natalie (Parker) MacKenzie BSc 96 earned her BEd from

the University of Western

Ontario in 1997 She married

ASLt Andy MacKenzie June 27

in Sault Ste Marie Ont and

now lives in Halifax

bull Susan MacKinnon DVM 91 is a veterinarian with HUls

Science Diet She lives in

Guelph with her husband

Brandon Wiley and gave birth

to their first child Adrianna

Nicole june 26 at home

bull Waheed Mian BA 9 1 of Cambridge Ont is a store

director with PetSmart Canada

He helped the company launch

its new retail concept in Cana da

bull Alex Mitchell BA 91 was appointed clerkdeputy treasurshy

er of the Ontario township of

Mildmay-Carrick in 1998 and

will be the clerkadministrator

of the new municipality of

Mildmay-Carrick -TeesWatershy

Culross in 1999 He was married

in january 1997 and lives vith

his wife and daughter in Mild shy

may In his spare time Mitchell

is a professional scout for the

Toronto Maple Leafs covering

southwestern Ontario

bull Sherry Morland BASc 93 of Kitchener Ont ea rned her

BEd from Brock University in

J995 and is a part-time specia l

educa tion teacher and an occashy

sional teacher with the Watershy

loo County Board of Ed ucashy

tion She married Ivan LeBlanc

in 1997

bull Gary Page BSe 91 wo rks for the Nottawasaga Valley Conshy

servation Authority where he is

able to combine his knowledge

of wildlife biology with his

artistic skills as resident graphic

designer and outdoor centre

interpreter He Jives with his

wife Di and their son judah in

CreemoreOnt

bull Elaine Pammenter BA 96 is an inventory clerk with the

Royal Collection at Windsor

Castle in England She holds a

museum management and

curatorship grad uate certificate

diploma from Sir Sandford

Fleming College and did her

internship at the Royal Albert

Memorial Museum in Exeter

England

bull Brent Raymond BSe(Env) 96 of Brantford Ont has

been working with Outward

Bound since graduation He

leads wilderness trips in Northshy

ern Ontario Horida Australia and Sabah (Malaysian Borneo) Most recently he designed and implemented a new introducshytory mountaineering course for Outward Bound Sabah on the summit plateau of Mt Kinashy

balu Those of you who know me as plate licker from U of G get in touch he says Where are you Star I miss you He can be reached by e-mail at globarwchatonca or by

phone at 519-756-1697

Alumni Patrick Abbott BSA 40 July 7 1998

Albert Allen BSA 33 Jan 161994 Agris Ansmits BA 70 and MA 73

February 1998 Barbara (Quartermain) Babcock DHE

53 June 17 1998

Wray Bond BSA 34 Sept 25 1998

Kenneth Bone DVM 38 Dec 29 1998 Evelyn (Stevenson) Buhr DHE 39

May 251998 Philip Burke BSA 43 June 21 1998

Grant Carman BSA 49 Oct 221998 Frederick Chambers BSA 41

June 1998 Wilmot Conley ADA4 7 April 7 1998 Lloyd Crewson BSA 49 Aug 261998

Jacqueline Dimock DHE 47

Aug 20 1998 John Dingwall DVM 52

April 18 1998

Lloyd Dorsey BSA 38 June 9 1998 George Duncan BSA 37

Sept 19 1998

David Dyson BSA 53 Aug 31 1998

Norma (Shannon) Edwards DHE 39

November 1997 Vincent Bud Ellis DVM 41

July 15 1998 John Jack George BSA 48

Sept 24 1998

Donald Haight BSA 33 January 1997 William Hamlyn BSA 33 Dec I 1997

Gordon Harkness BSA 49

November 1997

Charles Hollister DVM 38 June 1996 Donald Hope BSA 54 June 28 1998

Lawrence Jefferson BSA 38

Sept 3 1998

James Kelso DVM 56 July 27 1998

Dorima Lalonde BSA 34 Oct 8 1998 Mildred (Cox) Large DHE 33

June 20 1998 Roger Larson BComm 86 Feb 19 1998 Robert Lawson BSA 49 June 6 1998

bull Doug Ramsey BA 91 and PhD 98 received U of Gs highshyest graduate student award shythe Forster Medal- at June convocation for his academic and community involvement while enrolled in Guelphs new

graduate program in geography He spent the summer as a visitshying research scholar at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College in Truro before assuming his curshyrent position as assistant professhysor at Mount Allison University

David Leach BSc(Agr) 74

July 18 1998

Ian Leask DVM 74 Sept 5 1998

Sheryl Lee BSc 95 June 8 1998 Ruby Janet MacAuley DHE 30

Aug 19 1998 Parker MacKenzie DVM 38

September 1994

Jeanice MacLaren DHE 28 March 1 1997

Campbell MacMaster DVM42

Oct 8 1998

Rex McCallum DVM 43 July 71998 Jean (Dunn) McMahon DHE 31

Nov 41998

Margaret Oones) McTaggart DHE 35 Aug 81998

Patrick McTaggart-Cowan HDSc 81

Oct 21997

Malcolm McWhinnie ADA 39

July 16 1998 Mary (Townsend) Mitchell BHSc

60 Sept 281998

Marjory Monaghan DHE 29

December 1997 Charles Monk BSA 44 Aug 7 1998

Heather Neilsen BHSc 59

Oct 30 1998 Jerry Niwa DVM 62 Aug 5 1998 Henry Harry OReilly BSA 42

October 1997

James Parr BSc(Agr) 81 June 19 1998 Charles Rammage DVM 45

Oct 17 1996 Howard Rapson HDSc 90

March 1997 Clement Reeds DVM 42 Oct 16 1998

William Robinson BSA 38

Aug 23 1998

Donald Sager ADA 73 Oct 141997

Austin Schaefer DVM 37 in 1997

Sandra (Mackenzie) Schmidt DHE 59

Aug 16 1997 Margaret (Harvey) Seaborn DHE 28

July 221998

Larry Seguin DVM 47 June 12 1998

Leah Shedden DHE 31 December 1998

Edward Shuh BSA 40 July 2 1998

Ted Shutsa BSc(Agr) 66

Sept 18 1998 Jim Sinclair DVM 49 Oct 4 1998

Margaret (Brown) Sinclair DHE 20

September 1998 Eldon Smith BSA 42 Sept 9 1998

Derek Somers DVM 96 Sept 25 1998

Cheryl Lynn Sopha BA 95 Sept 20 1998

Leona (Bartlett) Stewart DHE 35

June 27 1998 Alex Thomson BSc(Agr) 69

October 1996

William Whittick DVM 55

Aug 15 1998 Joseph Wilson BSA 23 Sept 11 1998

Lloyd Woolsey DVM41 June 24 1998

Winifred Yeates DHE 28 June 11998

Faculty John Carpenter BSA 43 and MSA 48

Microbiology Dec 10 1998

David Gaskin Zoology Sept 14 1998

Gordon Macleod BSA 50 Animal and

Poultry Science Nov 26 1998 Roman Retman Languages and

Literatures Sept 28 1998

Caesar Sen off Chemistry and

Biochemistry Aug 14 1998

Percy Smith Drama Dec 10 1998

Friends Robert Clark Aug 21 1998

Ethel Hammond August 1998

Thomas Hillers Sept 28 1998 Marguerite Holbrook Aug 26 1998

Catherine Kelly Sept 27 1998

James A McKenzie May 13 1998

Kenneth McIssac Oct 23 1998

William Mutlock September 1998 Roena Patterson Sept 16 1998

Donald Priddle Aug 25 1998

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bull Karl Reimer BSe 94 comshypleted a one-year intensive

MSc in mining engineering at

Queens University and is now

a project engineer a t Enpar

Technologies Ine in Guelph

He can be contacted at reimerbservcom

bull Nancy Nauta Rowland BA 90 and her husband Dan celshy

ebrated their first wedding

anniversary in March 1998 with

the birth of their first child

Connor who beat their March

8 anniversary by two days Nanshy

cy teaches junior-grade stushy

dents and junior special ed ucashy

tion for the Peel District School

Board The Rowlands live in

Caledon Ont

bull Fraser Stables MFA 98 was heralded by Toronto Globe 6shyMail critic Betty Jordan as a

formidable new talent followshy

ing the openi ng of his debut

gallery exh ibition in July The

Scottish artists work includes

sculpture video and mixed

media that explore notions of

flu x by interrupting the moveshy

ment of forms in space

bull Erin (Smith) Scott BSe(HK) 92 and Brad

Scott BSc(Agr) 91 of Lucan

O nt were married in 1993 and

had their first child Lucas in

August Erin works for Shopshy

pers Home Health Ca re in

London Brad is with New Life

Mills in Dunfield

bull Abby Simons BSc 95 and Martin Piche BSc(Agr) 95 were married in Mont-Tremshy

blant Quebec in 1997 She is a

customer service representative

with Kantech Systems he is

superintendent of Club de golf

vallee des forts They say theyd

love to hear from anyone headshy

ing to Montreal and can be

reached at 450-348-3860

bull Sylvia Tesori BSc 95 has been doing wildlife rehabilitashy

tion for the OSPCA Wildlife

Rehabilitation Centre in Midshy

land Ont since 1996

bull Chuck Thibeault BComm 94 is general manager of the

Putting Edge Corpora tion

which has two glow-in- theshy

dark mini-golf courses in

Ontario one in Bramp ton and

one in Richmond Hill He can

be reached in Richmond Hill at

chu ckttotalnet

bull Karen Thirlwall BA 93 is a

si ngersongwriter and guitarist

who began her stage career and

released her first album The Voice Inside Me while studying

languages at U of G She has

lived and performed in

11i stler BC for three years

and recently released a second

album called Wide-Eyed She

remembers many special

fr iends m ade at Guelph and

welcomes e-mail messages to

karenthirlwallhotmailcom

bull Christie (Johnson) and Steve

Tyler both BComm 91 live in

Cambridge Ont where

Christie is a personal banking

representative for the Royal

Bank Steve works with their

third-year design professor

Nelson Hofer in Mississauga as

a design consultan t Steves proshy

jects include the Windsor Casishy

no and U of Gs Creelman Hall

They have two children Jason

5 and Marcus 1

bull Julia White BA 91 lives in Guelph and is a small-business

accountant at Taves amp Co She

recently finished courses

towards a CGA designation and

would like to hea r from other

alumni who lived in Lambton

Hall in 198788 Send e-mail to

juliawhitesympaticoca

bull Andre-Denis Wright MSc 93 and PhD 98 is doing postshy

docto ral work in Perth Westshy

ern Australia He wants his

Guelph friends and Halifax

family to know he was thinking

of them at Christmas when it

was 40 C in Australia

bull Dave Yellen BComm 90 was recently promoted at the Gordon

Food Service to new-accounts

sales specialist for Metro Toronshy

to Having been in Ottawa for

the past few years Im hoping

to reacquaint myself with old

friend s from U of G in the Metro

area he says He lives in Scarborshy

ough and can be reached at 416shy615-2745 or davidysprintca

bull Halina Zaleski PhD 92 is a tenured professor in the

departm ent of animal sciences

at the Un iversity of Hawaii in

Honolulu She is a swine speshy

cialist involved in extension

programs for an area th at covshy

ers all of Hawai i and the PacifIC

basin She can be reached by

e-mail at halinahawaiiedu

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Since its inception in 1925 as an agricultural and liveshy

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College Royal has grown to be a celebrated U of G trashy

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The event is famou s in the University community

and beyond for its open-house showcase of displays and

activities The largest student-run open house in Canashy

da College Royal attracts more than 20000 visitors to

campus over one weekend

College Royal is an event of tradition that reaches

into tomorrow Agriculture and livestock shows are still

highlighted events but College Royal activities have

grown to include dog and cat shows a photography conshy

test a chemistry magic show and demonstrations on

human health and fitness The open house gives people

an opportunity to see what happens in the Universitys

leading-edge research laboratories to observe veterinary

medicine in practice to tour a sculpture studio or to

watch a theatrical performance

To celebrate the 75th anniversary of College Royal

1998 president Joe TrakaJo lnvites alumni to get involved

again by joining one of the planning comm ittees or by

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various invas ive species that have turned up

in the Great Lakes - notably sea lampreys

zebra mussels and quagga mussels - many

of which arrive in ballast water of ocea nshy

going vessels (Many have also found their

way into Manitoba says OConnor who

points to the effects of sm elt on whitefish

the main commercial species in Lake Winshy

nipeg) Among o ther meas ures the federal

fish eries committee report called for guarshy

anteed funding for sea lamprey control and

for scienti fic research

I think more money will come says

Prof Bill Beamish Zoology a commissionshy

er on the Great Lakes Fisheries Commission

the 40-year-old governing body that co-ordishy

nates resea rch programs between Canada

and the United States and advises both govshy

ernments It was a review led by Beamish

more than a decade ago on the sta te of

Canadas freshwater fi sheries that provided

the scientific underpinnings for a landmark

report published in 1988 that spelled ou t a

way in freshwater fisheries is a lon g-te rm

project fund ed by the OMNR and the

Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO)

to re-establish native species in their origishy

nal habitats a round Lake Ontario iVlari e

Clement a graduate student of zoology proshy

fe sso r David Noakes is studying Atlantic

sa lmo n which was wiped out of the lake

CONSIDERING WE HAVE THE

BEST FISHERY SCIENCES COMMUNITY

IN THE WORLD WE OUGHT TO

BE DOING BETTER

national strategy for freshwater fisheries

Beamish who has studied sea lampreys

for several decades at Guelph and also invesshy

tigates fish habitat loss says money is need shy

ed to help researchers investigate biological

controls as an alternative to chemical lamshy

pricides The recen t repo rt also notes the

need to address the effects of other nonshy

native exotic species on n ative fish stocks

and water quality and calls on Ottawa to

stem the funding decline in freshwater scishy

ence over the last two decades

One example of the kind of work under

and its tribu ta ry streams near the beginning

o f this century by overflshing and habitat

destruction and alteration Last fall Clement

placed eggs into a site in the Credit River

she has been monito ring oxygen availab il shy

ity durin g their incu ba tion to gau ge sedishy

mentation rates in the river This spring and

summer she wili study how newborn fi sh

interact with other species in th e r ive r

C lement says her docto ral research proshy

ject is but one piece of a larger project aimed

at re-establishing the heritage species Othshy

er researchers hop e to learn whe ther th e

Ministry of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs brings together

researchers for interdisciplinary studies of protein requirements

of arctic char improving fish semen and egg management proshy

cedures and understanding hormone activity in fish The station

acts as a quarantine unit for new fish varieties entering Ontario

and serves as a base for parts of certificate courses and a masters

program in aquaculture

farms in Canada He and fellow Guelph zoologists Eugene Balon

(co- founder of the Coelaca nth Conservat ion Council) and Jim

Bogart also identified and characterized the coelacanth which

had been thought extinct until a specimen was landed off Africa

in the la te 1930s Noakes confirmed the identity of ano ther of

these living fossils discovered in 1997 it appears to belong to a

second popula tion living in the Indian Ocean about 10000 kilo-

metres away from tha t first find

Zoology professors Moira Ferguson and Roy Danzshy

mann use molecular genetics techniques to identishy Zoology chair Paul Hebert was the first scientist to

fy DNA markers used to pinpoint the location of identify the presence in the Great Lakes of zebra

genes associated with growth spawning times mussels a prolific invader that has wreaked havoc

rates of development maturity and temperature in many ways from clogging water-intake pipes to

tolerance in rainbow trout Isolating and identifyshy consuming plankto n thus allowing light to reach

ing genetic markers fo r desirable traits will help fish bottom-dwelling organisms that may displace native

farmers and breeders cross-breed more effectively species The first researcher to report on the biology

conservationists will be better able to manage and preserve and impact of the zebra mussel on the Grea t Lakes was

genetic variability among wild fish stocks Guelph zoology professor Gerald Mackie whose studies showed

that the organisms faster growth rate and higher fecundity and

Zoology professor David Noakes has stuclied varieties of arctic population density will probably enable it to displace many native

char native to Iceland to find ones suited to being raised on fish bivalves and disrupt entire lake ecosystems

30 GUELPH ALUMNUS

LEADING RESEARCH

The University of Guelph has one orthe largest and most active groups of aquatic biologists in the world

bull More than 50 faculty and 100

graduate students research

assocrates and postdoctoral

fellows

bull Over 1000 published scientific

articles books monographs

films and videos in the past

decade

bull Interdisciplinary programs

involving more than a dozen

academic departments

bull The largest group ofichthyoloshy

gists (scientists who study

fish) in North America

bull Collaborative research with

government environrriental

organizations and academic

institutions worldwide

bull Expertise covering the entire

aquatic food chain from plankshy

ton to whales

bull Leading developments in comshy

puter-based educational mate-

rials in aquatic sciences

bull A new $6-million Aquatic

Sciences Facility

bull Research support from national

and international agencies

business and industry

adults will be able to return from the open

lake to their stream spawning grounds If

they come back will the eggs survive she

says If were able to show the eggs can surshy

vive that will be very encouraging for

Atlant ic salmon restoration

What is to be done to ensure the survival

not just of Atlantic salmon in Lake Ontario

but also of the co untrys freshwater and

m ar ine fisheries We need to try to sepashy

rate o ut the fisheries management decisions

from the political decisions associated with

the fi shery says zoology professor Glen Van

Der Kraak director of U of Gs Axelrod

Institute of Ichthyology Van Der Kraak who

studies the effects of toxic contaminants on

fi sh populations says policy mltkers need

to rely on the advice of fisheries sc ientis ts

making conservative harvest ing estimates

So often scientists make decisions and then

are overrun by the politics he says (Never

mind fish wars pitting co untries against one

another - here in Ca nada scientists and

policy makers wres tle over the question of

who should be respo nsible for what aspects

of the countrys fisheries as witnessed in a

war of words played out in the Canadian Journal ofFisheries and Aquatic Sciences over

the past 18 months between biologists at

several Canadian univers ities and the DFO

over the relationship between fishery sc ishy

ence and fishery policy)

Roff says theres nothing unique about

Canadas fish problems Its not really a

Canadian problem its a worldwide probshy

lem The only fisheries worldwide that are

not over fished appear to be some not yet

fully exploited in the Indian Ocean

After nearly four decades of growth the

worldwide marine ca tch levelled off in the

1990s to some 90 million tons a year The

m ain problems coastal pollution habitat

destruction and particula rly overfishing

Noakes editor of the journal Guelph Ichthyology Reviews contrasts the few hunshy

dred people who might have made th eir

livelihood aboard small wood en boats on

the Grand Banks several centuries ago with

the massive factory trawlers that now scour

todays coast People are much too efficient

in terms of catching fish he says Noakes

concurs with fellow Guelph researchers that

conservation of fish stocks has to reach the

top of fishery managers agendas

hat does set Canada apart is the breadth

and depth of expertise in fisheries and aquatshy

ic sciences in this country - rather a parashy

dox when you consider that Canadas record

in fisheries preservation is apparently no betshy

ter than that of many other nations

Considering we have the best fishery scishy

ences community in the world we ought to

be doing better says Roff Within the last

decade th e federal government withdrawal

o f support from the Department of Fishshy

eries and Oceans and university researchers

has been massive At the very time when the

resources were gett ing into severe problems

and when the federal government ought to

have been funding research theyve been

substantially withdrawing resources ga

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If you would like to support our students throug h OSOTF you still have a w indow of oppor nishyty to have your do l1a rs doubled But only until March 31 1999

If you have already made a pled ge to OSOTf through U of Gs ACCESS Fund thank you [or your ge nerous support Please comp lete your payme nts by March 31 1999 to e nsure that your gi ft is matched

For more information contact Rudy Putns in Guelphs office of Development and Public Affairs at -519-824-4120 Ext 6384 Fax 519-822-2670 E-mail alumniuoguelphca

WINTER 1999 31

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

n ALUMNI PROF IL E

LETS LOOK AT THE OPPORTUNITIES

WHEN I-IE BECA ME president of the Unishy

versity of Guelph Alumni Association

(UGM) in June Jim Weeden brought new

enthusiasm and ideas for encouraging alumshy

ni to stay in volved with their alma mater

And he wants to start with students

Weeden reca ll s his own ex perience at

U of G where he fo und a sense of commushy

nity by living in residence and ge tting

involved in college activiti es But when he

graduated with an engin ee ring degree in

197 1 he left to begin a caree r and says he

didnt think much about the University until

he needed it again in the 1980s to pursue a

graduate degree in agricultural enginee ring

He spent his early career working as an

agricultural extensi o n engineer for the

Ontario Department o f Agriculture and is

stiU with its successo r the Ontario Ministry

of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs

(OMAFRA) Weed en completed the masshy

ters degree in 1986 when he was head of the

agricultural engineering program and extenshy

sion services a t Centralia College of Ag rishy

cultural Technology

In 1987 he moved to the ministrys plant

industry branch as program m anager and

later held the same position in th e resources

manage m ent branch Sin ce then he has

worked for OMAFRA in Woodstock and

now Stratfo rd He is technical adviser fo r

Ontarios Enviro nmental Farm Planning

Program is respo nsible for o ther environshy

m ental programs and consults with the Minshy

istry o f th e Environment on local agriculshy

tural pollution problems

w Weed en got involved with the Universishy sect tys a]u111ni programs by serving on the first g z board of the Engineering Alumni Associashy

~ tion when it was established in 1990 From

~ 1991 to 1994 he sat on the University Senshy

~ ate and its Research Board and for the pas t

~ four years) hels been on the UGAA executive

32 GUELPH A LU MNUS

From the presidents chair Weeden looks

at the bro ad picture o f UG AA se rvice and

recognizes that the associa tio n owes a debt

o f gratitude to hundreds of alumni volunshy

teers who ha ve helped to build the organishy

za tion over the yea rs and to University staff

in Development and Public Affairs (DampPA)

who support UGAA initiatives and alumni

programs Thro ugh their efforts he says the

a lulllni associati o n is rea ching out to all

U of G alumni Graduates who have mainshy

tained a close relationship with the Univershy

sity thro ugh their college or academic disshy

cipline those who feel an affiliation because

o f their participation in a thletics residence

life o r extracurricular activiti es and even

HIGHLIGHTSmiddot GRAD NEWSmiddot OBITUARIES bull CALENDER

those who have not kept in touch are part of the constituency served by UGAA

Weed en says the alumni association needs to strengthen its relationship with all alumni and he believes the effor t must start on campus with students Hed like to proshymote the idea of alumni involvement as ear shyly as a students second year We need to give students some reason to be con nected and an efficient vehicle for maintaining that connection he says

For many students and new graduates the social functions supported by UGAA and the opportunities for professional networking will be important says Weeden but greater rewards are there for those who join the effort to enhance the Universitys acade mic goals

In todays economic and political envi shyronme nt individual financial support and the advocacy of post-secon dary education are important roles for alumni he says How many people ac tively get involved with the debate on whether universities are job-trainshy

ing centres or centres of education Yet some of our alumni are extremely adept in such roles Weeden would like to cultivate past and current stud ent ac tivists as supporters of public education after they graduate

As Weeden leads UGAA into a new year he says he will work with other UGAA volshyunteers and DampPA staff to find new ways for the association to interact with students and alumni One id ea is to expand UGAAs Intershynet presence by adding a Web message board that will encourage alumni to discuss career and campus issues online and a reply form that will allow them to quickly update addressshyes employment status and other information

Weeden says its important to stay focused on UGAAs key prioriti es but he welcomes any and all new ideas on how to accomplish them All it takes to share your ideas with the UGAA executive is a stamp or a push of the send button when youre clicked on alumniuoguelphca

HKHB SPIRIT RISES

ENCOURAGED BY THE SPIRIT

shown by fellow alumni at last

summers reunion the executive

of the Human Kinetics Human Biology

Alumni Association is moving ahead

with more opportunities for alumni to

stay in touch The association plans to

launch a Web site that will be accessed

through the U of G site

A wine-and-cheese reception already

planned for June 19 1999 wiil try to

build on the success of the 1998 event

which attracted alumni from as far away

as Chicago and as far apart as the 19605

and 1990s Guests had a chance to tour

U of Gs new Health and Performance

Centre and performance testing

labs The program was co-ordinated wiLh

A REFLECTION OF PRIDE

Members of the OAC

Class of 52 join Arboshy

retum staff on the front patio

of the Arboretu m Centre

beside a new reflecting pool

that was built last summer

as a class project Pictured

from left are Murray Parker

Ann Smith George Smith

Jack Sargent Catherine Gibb

Robin Shaw-Rummington

Marilyn Swaby BA 69

Bev Healy B5e(Agr) 72

Norm Watson Una Venerus

Ron Costen Henry Kock

BSe (Agr) 77 and Ric

Jordan BA 75

Prof Jack Barclay chair of the Departshy

ment of Human Biology and Nutritional

Sciences and Prof Susan Pfeiffer Memshy

bers of the Human KineticsHuman

Biology Alumni Association executive arc

Janet Leonhard 82 president Carolyn

Moore 83 vice-president Alison Locker

97 secretary Mark Mulholland 79

lreasurer and t-iary Ann Crape 76

These officers are also spea rheading a

new initiative to benefit students - an

undergraduate award that will provide

$250 and lifetime mem bership in the

association To commcnt on these and

other initiatives contact Leonard by

e-mail at Janel_Leonhardinwrbsb

eduonca or Moore at cturveyagec

uoguelphca

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alumni

Multimedia lab buzzes

THE DONALD FORSTER RoOiv

has become one of the

busiest spots in th e Unishy

versity of Guelph Liblary since the

addition of 70 state-of-the-art

computer workstations that were

supported by alumni do nations

to the Alma Mater Fund (AM F)

U of G president Mordechai

Roza nski officia ll y o pened th e

Alma Mater Fund Multimedia

Lab D ec 2 an d celebrated th e

event with members of the AMF

Adv isory Counc iL [n 1996 a nd

1997 the AMF contributed

$240000 to th e project which

increased the number of student

workstations o n campus by 50 per

cent Students use the m ult imeshy

~ dia lab to conduct research on the

~ Internet access scholarly publicashyr u VI tions on CD-ROM and use COll1shyz ~ puter software mod ules tbat lt

~ strengthen the teaching provided lD

o in co urse lectures labs and tcxtshybii books

middotMatters

Alumnus of many interests

I NTERES TING P EOPLE always have eclect ic interests and U of G

alumnus and honorary degree recipient Ken Murray BSA 50 and

HDLA 96 is a good example H e is known by most people on camshy

pus for his distinguished career in the Canadian meat packing indusshy

try and his volunteer service to U of G He was a member and chair

of Board of Governors from 1973 to 1978 and chair of the Regionshy

al Corporate Committee during U of Gs last capital campaign and

is currently chair of the Heritage Fund Enhancement Committee

Murray is also a strong supporter of community soc ial services

In August he addressed the World Congress of Social Ps)chiatry

held in British Columbia - the only non-psychiatrist on the proshy

gram He spoke about his role in establishing an Alzheimers research

project a t the University ofWaterioo which was recently named in

his honour the Ken Murray Alzheimer Research and Education Proshy

gra m At the gc conference he al so participated in a panel dis shy

cussion that outlined services offered by Guelphs Homewood Health

Cent re Murray bas been actively involved in the governance of the

centre since 1977 and has been a major player in the development

of a charitable foundatio n bearing the Homewood name

WHEN THE PUCK DROPPED More than 30 teams including two

womens teams were entered in the

Dec 6 University of Guelph Alumni Hockey

Tournament Organizers for the 1998 event

were from left Brian Finniss B5c 88

Brad Stephenson BA 86 Terry Carr

BComm 87 Todd Bryant BA 86 and

undergraduate student Brian Melnick

Ken Murray centre with his wife Marilyn Robinson Murray and U of G president Mordechai Rozanski

34 GU ELPH ALUMNU S

RESTORING A JEWEL IN THE CROWN

DONALD RUTHERFORD BSA 5 stands in fron t

of the 1931 conservatory greenhouse that will

be restored to match the splendour of the ga rdens

now growi ng up around it His $256000 leadershy

ship gift to the Conservatory and Gardens Project

was inspired by hi s m emo ries of being a student

at OAC

On behalf of fellow alumni I hope this gift will

commemorate the experiences and educat ion we

acquired while at Guelph says Rutherford When

fully restored to its previous glory the conservatoshy

ry greenhouse will be an ideal greeting and welcome

spot for visitors and newcomers to the University

as well as old friend s renewing their acquaintance

Rutherfords professional career spans the agrishy

foo d industr y beginning as an agricu ltural repshy

resentative with the provincial minist ry I-Ie was

later vice-president of the Fertilizer Institute of

Ontario executive secreta ry of the Canadian Seed

Trade Association director of information w ith

the Ca nadian Livestock Feed Board and Canadishy

an sa les manager for Sylvite of Can ad a Retired

since 1986 he now owns his own sma ll investment

company and manages to golf throughout the yea r

The conserva tory isnt the first ca mpus project

to attract Rutherford s attention - as a student

he helped dig out the base ment of Massey H al l to

build a student lo unge - but his recent gift has

been a tremendous boost to those who have been

working since the ea rly 1990s to save the glass and

cypress structure from demo lition

A committee of alumni facult y sta ff stu dents

and fri en ds of the University has moved the proshy

ject along to th e point w here most of the surshy

rounding garden complex is now complete It fea shy

tures six gardens named in honour of the ir chie f

supporters Autumn Garden - OAC 5 1 Spring

Ga rden - OAC 53 Su mmer Garden - OAC 55

Winter Gard en - OAC 65 Water Gard en shy

OAC 49 and the Woo dland Garden named in

honour of the late Doug Rob inson BSA 53

Alumni have been in strumental in raising

funds for the $ l-million project Students and fa cshy

ulty have provided mudl of the h1l1ds-on Idbour

and friends in the nursery and landscape materishy

als supply industries have given $250000 ill donashy

tions and gifts-in-kind of plan ts and landsca ping

materials Rutherford s generous gift has pushed

th e conservato ry fund-ra ising effort in to the fin 81

stretch Th e ga rden complex and restored g reenshy

110use are sc heduled to officially open during

Alumni Weekend in June 1999

1999 Coming Events

Jan 29 - Aggie Goodshy

Times Banquet call the OAC Student Federation at Ext 8321 for ticket injemnrltion Feb 13 - Norm McCo llulll

D iploma Hockey Tournashy

m ent call Jack Bakker at 519-837-0132 to register a team

Feb 21 - Ottawa Chapter

annual curling bonspiel

Richmond C urling Club in

Richmond Ont For informashytiol1 call Alan Bentley BSA 61 at 6 13-829-6598 or John DVit[ 54 mId Margaret McGowml BHSc 54 at

613-828-7038

March 3 - Florida alumni

reunion a t Maple Leaf

Estates Port Charlo tte Fla

call Ext 6533 0 register

March 13 and 14 - ollcge

Royal 75th o pen house

March 19 and 20 - OAC

Alumni Association curling

bonspiel G uelph Curling

Club register at Ext 6657

May 5 - Chicago All Canashy

dian Universities Night hostecl

by U of G at the University

Club of Chicago 76 East Monshy

roe Sr call Exl 6533 for details May 5 - OAC Alumni

Foundation annual meeting

730 pm Arboretum Centre

May 12 - Alumni-inshy

Action annual meeting and

luncheo n 1130 3m

Arboretum Centre ((11 Ext 6657for tickets

June 18 to 20 - Alumni

Veekend call Ext 6657 to plall a reun io n

-0 r shya -IFor more infon-nation on any a

eVC1l1listed ailove call the oJ -lt oU of G extension listed at en raquo

519-824-4120 or send e-mail z

10 alunznilIoguelphca ~

WINTER 1999 35

alumni Matters

MEMORIES OF COLLEGE ROYAL Grant MacEwan ADA 23 and

BSA 26 is one of the few OAC

alumni who c~n still remember

the first College Royal held Jan

14 1925 MacEwan bad just

entered the degree program in

animal husbandry and may have

been a participant in the liveshy

stock showmanship classes Latshy

er in life he was widely known Grant MacEwan

across Western Canada as 3 liveshy

stock judge and an advocate of

agricultural fairs and exhibitions

MacEwan is bes t known

however for his 23-year C3reer

as a university professor in Manshy

itoba and Saskatchewan and Ilis

political career which included

12 years as alderman and mayshy John Kenneth Galbraith

or of C31gary four years as an

Alberta MLA and eight as lieushy birthday in August

tenant -governor of the province The year after Ma cEwan

He s till lives in Calgary graduated John Kenneth Galshy

where he celebrated his 96th braith ADA 29 and BSA 31

HOMECOMING 98

enrolled at OAC and devoted

some of his energy to organizshy

ing College Royal Show records

indicate it was Galbraith who

first proposed the college event

be publicized so that people

from the farm community

could attend He also suggestshy

ed that OAC invite students

from American agricultural colshy

legesl n th e early 1930s Colshy

lege Royal took its fir s t steps

towards becoming the comshy

munity open house it is today

Galbraith later moved to the

United States where he enjoyed

a distinguished caree r as a proshy

fessor of economics at Harvard

Universi ty Known for his

humanit~rian approach to ecoshy

nomic and political thinking

he was awarded the Order of

Canada in 1997 He celebr3ted

his 90th birthday in October

IT REALLY WAS a homecoming reunion when and Arnott who is head coach of the York

former Gryphon teammates Ralph Shapiro University Yeomen came from the visitors

S5c(HK) 74 and Tom Amott S5c(HK) 80 dreSSing room to hold the ball Shapiro is

met on the field at Alumni Stadium Oct 3 the controller at Huntsman Chemical Inc

Shapiro had the honour of kicking off in Guelph and a longtime United Way volshy

the Universitys 1998 United Way campaign unteer who chaired this years Guelph and

Wellington fund-raising drive The Univershy

sity campaign is the largest in the county

with U of G staff and faculty contributing

over $200000 in 1998

Prior to the game a number of recent

alumni - all U of G scholarship and award

winners - met for a reunion luncheon The UJ

1948 and 1949 dominion championship i5f 3

football teams were also honoured guests z 5 o at the 2 pm game that saw the Gryphons gtshy a defeat York f shya I a

Ralph Shapiro

36 G UELPH ALUMNUS

LEADING THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY FOR 1974 GRADS The 25th-anniversary reunion givshy

i ng program for the Class of 1974

is under way with Bill Laidlaw BA

74 as cbair A public affairs proshy

fessional he has been director of

government relations for the

Canadian operations of Glaxo

vVelJcome Inc for more th an 10

years He also acts as a senior conshy

sultant to support the governshy

ment relations function in other

regions of Canada

Laidlaw began his career in

teaching after earning a history

degree from Guelph and education

degrees (rom Queens University

and the University of Toronto He

also holds the certified human

resources professional designation

and worked in that field for sevshy

eral years before concen trating on

government relations at Glaxo

Welkome He lives in Burlington

Ont and is an act ive community

volunteer having se rved on the

boards of severa l professional

organizations the Queensway

General Hospital and the Metroshy

politan Toronto Lung Association

He is currently completing a oneshy

year term as chair of the Ontario

Chamber of Commerce

Anniversa ry preparations will

culminate with a class gathering

a nd reunion gift at Alumni

Weekend in June 1999

ALUMNI MAKE THE CONNECTION Students who moved into

Maids and Mills halls in Sepshy

tember can take full advanshy

tage of the Universitys highshy

speed computer network

thanks to the OAC Class of

71 whose 25 th-reunion proshy

ject provided wiring upgrades

in the 84- and 77-year-old

residence buildin gs

GRAD NEWS

Marathon survivors inspire us all to appreciate everyday life

W HEN ROBINSON SIIlLJNGS Jane BSe(Agr)

85 Heather BASe 83 Peter BSe(Agr)

86 Scott and Marnie rigwood BA 84 get

together they talk about marathons and the hope

and determination it takes to reach the finish line

Hea ther walked a marathon in San Diego

Calif in June to raise money for leukemia

research then joined Peter for a Toronto marathon

in October that benefi ted the Leukemia Research

Fund of Canada They were inspired by Janes pershy

sonal marathon of survival that foUowed her 1992

diagnosis of leukemia Chemotherapy radiation

remission relapse and finally a bone marrow

transplant [TOm her brother Scott took more than

three years out of her life but gave her the detershy

mination to keep fighting

Many families can understand the marathon

of hope maintained by the Robinsons during

Janes struggle and the commitment they have to

help others who are stricken with the disease Jane

is finally well enough to work again as a writer

and marketing consultant and to join her fami shy

ly in volunteer work She helped recruit for the

Toronto marathon fund -raiser and continues to

be involved with the Leukemia Research Funds

Team in Training She also says that her expeshy

rience has taught her to appreciate more the pleashy

sures of everyday life and the love of famil y

Jan es parents are th e late Doug Rob inson

BSA 53 and Marilyn (Inglis) Robinson Murray

BH Sc 55

19305

bull Grant Misener ADA 32 BSA 35 and DVM 38 received the

prest igious George F Hixso n Felshy

lowship Award from the Kiwanis

International Foundation in May The retired Illinois veter ishy

narian was hono ured for his subshystantial contribution to the

Kiwanis wo rldwide service proshy

ject aimed at eliminating iodine

deficiency disorders the leading

cause of preventable mental retardation in children Over the

years Misener has shown a simishylar commitment to his al ma

mater an d its students through

his close association with OVC

and his support of scho larship

programs

19405

bull Russell McDonaldDVM 45 was named an honorary life direcshytor of the Royal Agricultural Winshy

ter Fair Association in March

McDonald formerly general manshy

ager of Western Ontario Breeders

Ine and executive director of the Canadian Association of Animal

Breeders served as a director of the Royal Winter Fair for 20 years

representing the Canadian artifishycial insemination industry He

lives in Woodstock Ont

bull Ian Taylor DVM43 was recently honoured by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to

Animals of Illinois Taylor ran a small-animal veterinary clinic in

the Chicago area for many years

and says he gained ll1uch experishyence during his first three years in

Illinois as clinic veterinarian for

the anti -cruelty society

19505

bull Charles Chuck Broadwell BSA 54 was elected a Mel

Osborne Fellow by the Kiwanis

Club of Forest City in London Ont in recognition of a dedicatshy -ed and distinguished career in

Kiwanis

19605

bull Constantine Campbell BSA 60 and MSA 61 was named to the

WINTER 1999 37

Order of Canada in January He

received the award in recogni shy

tion of his many contributions

to science and the Canadian

agricultural industry After grad shy

uating from OAC he went on to

do his PhD at the University of

Saskatchewan then joined Agri shy

culture and Agri-food Canada

as a research scientist at the Swift

Current research station Campshy

bell and his family now live in

Ottawa where he is scientist

emeritus with Agriculture and

Agri-food Canada

bull John Casselman BSA 64 is

a research scientist with the

Ontario Ministry of Natural

Resources He Jives in Bath

Ont with his wife Lois

bull Jane Fuller RRSc 65 and

her husband George who both

taught at the Macdonald Instishy

tute from 1966 to 1969 have

moved from Winnipeg to

Utopia Ont following

Georges retirement from the

University of Manitoba

bull Fred Gilbert MSc 66 and

P hD 68 is in his first term as

president of Lakehead Univer shy

sity in Thunder Bay Ont He

taught at U of G in the Departshy

ment of Zoology from 1972 to

1981 and has enjoyed a dive rse

academic career that has also

included teaching at the Unishy

versity of Maine and posi tions

as director of wildlife biology at

Washington State University

and founding dean of the Facshy

ulty of Natural Reso urces and

Environmenta l Studies at the

University of Northern British

Columbia He moved to Lakeshy

head from a position as viceshy

pro vost at Colorado State Unishy

versity A respected wildlife

biologist he has conducted

ex tensive resea rch in s Ll ch areas

as the behaviour and physioloshy

gy of wildlife species and the

effects of environmental

change on wildlife populations

bull Terry Goodyear BSc 67 of

Mont Tremblant Quebec is an

early retiree from Agriculture

and Agri-Food Canada in Ottawa He is now working on

va lue-added products from

industrial wastes particularly

cellulose sludge from pulp and

pa per mills

bull Gary Hearn BA 68 was

named an Ontario provincial

judge in October For the last

25 years he has been a lawyer

with the firm Kearns McKinshy

non in Guelph where he lives

with his wife Irene and three

teenage children

bull Allan Knight BSA 66 of Corunna Ont has retired

from Dow Chemical after 30

years On retirement he was a

laboratory director for indusshy

trial chemicals He is now

working with his son in a famishy

ly-owned and -operated busishy

ness Knight Funeral Home

bull Keith McFarlane BSc(Agr)

68 works for the Department

of Foreign Affairs and Internashy

tional Trade and began a fourshy

year assignment last summer as

head of the commercial divishy

sion of the Canadian Embassy

in Lisbon Portugal The

division promotes the sa le of

Canadian goods and services

to Portugal

bull Ian Newbould MA 68 has

travelled far from his Ontario

roots through an academic and

administrative career that has

taken him to Europe Asia and

Western Canada A noted hisshy

torian he moved into adm inisshy

tration at the University of

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Lethbridge in 1981 and spent

10 years there as director of

research dean of a rts and scishy

ence and vice-presiden t (acadeshy

mic) before crossing the counshy

try to become president of

Mount Allison University in

New Brunswick He is now in

his second term as president of

Mount AUison

bull Indra Deo Singh MSc 68 is

a tea scientist international

consultant and joint director of

the Tea Research Association at

the Nagrakata substation in

India His responsibilities

include co-ordinating research

and development in the Indian

tea industry and developing tea

cultivars and agrotechnology

for tea Singh is married with

two sons aged 27 and 23

19705

bull Don Ambler BSe 71 retired in March as manager of

water programs with Environshy

ment Canada in Dartmouth

NS after 25 years of public

service He has now registered

the company Aquashed Co nshy

sulting to continue in the water

resources field when hes not

gardening beekeeping do ing

aerobics or vo lunteering in the

community and chu rch E-mail

contact is welcome a t

donambl erns sympaticoca

bull Jim Bond BSe 75 is managshy

ing a new processing facility at

the Chalk River Nuclear Laborashy

to ry in Chalk River Ont

bull Terri (Monks) Bulman BSc(Agr) 78 and MSe 81

and her husband Vincent

MSe 8 1 live in Australia with

their th ree children Catherine

7 Peter 4 and baby Christoshy

pher Terri is senior principal

environmental auditor vith

Coffey Geosciences Pty Ltd Vinshy

cent afte r many years as a geoloshy

gist travelling around Australia

and abroad has taken the year

off to study and look after the

children Their e-mail address is

tbulmanbigpondco m

bull Marie David BA 78 of

Hanover Ont has been in the

n ewspaper business for 20

years She started in the mailshy

room moved to advertising

sales then became advert ising

manager She is now gene ral

manager o f three So utham

weekly newspapers and pubshy

lish er of the Hanover Post

bull Janice Harrower and her husshy

band Jerome Billett both

DVM 76 operate a joint veterishy

nary practice in Prescott Ont

Billett says practising together

has allowed them some flexibilishy

ty in their family life and given

their four children a good took

at the rigours of veterinary

medicine Says Billett Not one

of our kid s has the slightest

interest in being a veterinarian

and isnt that just fine Their

o ldest son Jesse attends Harshy

va rd University and is a memshy

ber of its prestigious a cappella

choir Lucas is studying

mechanical engineering at the

University of Waterloo Casey is

planning a career in computer

engineering and Lindsay is a

high school athle te

bull Clair Heinbuch BSe 74 is a

sales manager with Baye r Corp

in Kansas H e and his wife

Caroline (Koscik) BASc 75

returned to the Kansas City

area after spending four years in

Denver They have three chilshy

dren Lisa 20 Scott 18 and

Ryan [5

bull Beverly Lee BASe 72 is an

elem entary school principal in

Unionville Ont She lives with

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her husband Grant Egan in

Collingwood and is looking

forward to retirement in severshy

al years Life on Georgian Bay

is wonderful she says Lee

would love to hear from fellow

grads by e-mail at

leebYrbeeduonca or by

phone at 705 -444 -092l

bull Won-Jai Maeng MSc 71 took office Sept 1 as president

of Kon-Kuk University in Seoul

Korea where his academic

career began He completed an

undergraduate degree at Kon

Kuk in 1965 then studied at

Mailing Agricultural College in Denmark and at U of G before

doing doctoral work at the Unishy

versity of California Davis

Maeng has held research and

teaching positions at the Unishy

versity of illinois at Chung-Ang

University and at Kon-Kuk

where he has been a professor of

animal science since 1984 His

appointment as president folshy

lows years of administrative

experience as a department

head dean and chair of various

research committees and proshy

fessional organizations An

expert in ruminant nutrition

Maeng was instrumental in

developing the livestock feed

industry in Korea He has also

been active in working with

alumni groups and in writing

for the Kon-Kuk Tribune

bull Bill MarshaU ADA 75 of Proton Station Ont moved

from Clarksburg in June to

work in Dundalk for the Grey

County Roads Department on

its road management crew

bull Bernie Matte BSc(Agr) 70 of Moncton NB retired

in March after 28 years with

Fisheries and Oceans Canada

and the Canadian Food

Inspection Agency He plans to

travel to Belize and Honduras

with his wife Diane and will

be available anywhere in the

Caribbean for seafood HACCP

consulting work

bull Margaret McClain BA 70 lives in Arkansas where she is

highJy involved in the issue of

40 GUELPH ALUMNUS

missing children and internashy

tional abductions McClain who

believes her own six-year-old

daughter was taken out of the

United States more than a year

ago by her second husband is

reaching out to parents with

similar experiences through an

organization that is lobbying the

US government for tougher

international abduction laws

She invites interested fr iends

and alumni to contact her

through her Web site at

wwwinsolwwbnet-dmcclain

bull Robert (Chuck) Miller BA 77 is the park superintendent

of Killarney French River and

Maskinonje provincial parks in

Ontario He moved to Killarney

from Quetico Provincial Park

last May

bull Gordon Nicol BA 72 and MSc(Agr) 74 teaches math

and science in a bilingual prishy

vate school in Guatemala A

BEd graduate of Laurentian

he first taught in Guatemala in

the late 1970s then spent 12

years in northern Alberta as a

teacher and principal He

returned to Guatemala in 1989

A widower with three teenage

children Nicol would like to

hear from U of G friends and

acquaintances especially anyshy

one who is was or will be in

Central America He says he

could also use middle-schoolshy

level science projects Send eshy

mail to gnicoll guatenet or

write to PO Box 661447 Miami

Springs Florida 33266-1447

bull Chris Schulte BSc 71 and MSc 73 lives in Nassau

Bahamas with his wife

Andrya After graduation he

stayed in the Department of

Physics as a research associate

with Prof lain Campbell then

joined Ontario Hydro in the

early 1980s He moved to the

Bahamas in 1995 He can be

reached bye-mail at

schultebahamasnetbs

bull Sandra (Pickford) Webster BA 75 has retired from U of

Gs Co mmunications and Pubshy

lic Affairs and is living in Parry

Sound Ont where she is

doing volunteer work and

communications consulting

for the municipality Guelph

friends ca n contact her by

e-mail atswebsterzeutercom

19805

bull Sharon (Courneya) Angus BA 8 I of Surrey BC comshy

pleted a BSW at the University

of British Columbia in 1988

and has been working for the

BC government for 13 years

- first in probation and now

in the family justice division

She and her husband Ron

have three children Jason

Carly and Colin

bull Karen Beazley BLA 86 is an assistant professor and acadeshy

mic program co-ordinator at

the School for Reso urce and

Environmental Studies at Dalshy

housie University in Halifax

She is currently doing research

for a book on endangered

species initiatives and is orgashy

nizing a Nova Scotia wildlands

workshop with the Wildlands

Project for 1999 Her e-mail

address is kbeazleyisdalca

bull Caroline (Van Deudekom) and Marc Brooks both ADA 87

recently moved from Strathroy

to Owen Sound Ont where

they run a 50-acre organic farm

with their two sons

bull Virginia Burt BLA 85 startshyed her own landscape architecshy

ture firm Visionscapes in

Hamilton Ont in ] 996 She

specializes in the design of thershy

apeutic healing gardens spirit

gardens sacred spaces and

la byrin ths and recen tly designed the first healing garden

in Canada specificalJy for peoshy

ple living with HIV and AIDS

bull Joanne (Branson) Carver BA 80 earned a BEd from Brock

University in 1981 and recently

started working as a probashy

tionparole officer She Jives in

Ajax Ont and has two daughshy

ters Julie4 and Sarah 8

bull Heather Champ BA 86 is a Web-site designer in New York

City She began her work in

computer design in 1990 Her

personal site can be Found at

wwwjezebelcom

bull Laurie Gough BA 87 has become a world traveller who

writes about her experiences for

the benefit of others Her most

recent book Island of the

Human Heart A tfornans Travshyel Odyssey is now in its second

printing in Canada and will be

released next year in the United

States and overseas She has also

published Travellers Tales A

Womans World which won the

US-based Lowell Thomas

Gold Award for best travel book

of the year When not travelling

or writing she teaches English

and ESL in Guelph

bull Susan (Coles) Goulden BASc 84 and her husband

Ian are th rilled wi th their

recent adoption of Jennifer Lee

Yu who was born in June near

Leping Jiangxi Peoples Repubshy

lic of China The Gouldens

who Jive in vVaterloo Ont

thank classmate Andrea

(Kovits) Henderson for her

support throughout the adopshy

tion process Susan is currently

on leave from her position with

McCormick Canada

bull Judy (Bodendistel) Gregg BA 82 moved to Melbourne Ausshy

tralia in 1997 with her husband

and two children Carly 6 and

Adam 3 We are enjoying the

friendly people and the great

weather here she says We are

especially enjoying winter in a

place where it never gets below

zero Celsius

bull Nigel GumJey DVM 85 has been a partner in the Alta Vista

Animal Hospital in Ottawa

since 1990 was president of the bull Garry Millage AMPHI 86 bull Heidi Stephenson BA 88 is now ISO 9000 manager at

Ontario Veterinary Medical left a position as vice-president was awarded her professional Carpenter Ca nada Ltd in

Association in 1997 and recent- of national operations for acco untants designation of Wood br idge Ont He lives in

ly served on the Canadian Vetshy Scotts Restaurants KFC Divishy certified general accountant in Miss issa uga Classma tes are

erilw() Medical Associations sion to open his own consult- March 1998 She has been invited to contact him at

national issues committee He ing company Future Food employed for the last 10 years avon listarca

lives in Osgoode with his wife Equipment Ine specializes in with Dan Ball Chartered bull Michelle (Pilon) Bacon BA rvlaurecn and children Laura providing new and used restau- Acco un tant in Parry Sound 90 moved to England to study

and Matthew rant equipment and reducing O nt where she lives with her and work after graduating from

bull Muneer Hirji BComm 82 restaurant construction costs hu sband Brad two dogs and a Guelph She recently left a posishy

lives in Toronto and is vice- He also operates a restaurant horse tion with the British Ministry of

president of marke ting at SAP called Nikkos in Woodbridge bull Dawn Stetsko BSe 81 lives Agriculture and Food in York to

Canada He has three chil- Ont and is planning to open a in Langhorne Pa with her husshy become an at-home mom She

drcl1 Nadia 8 Alyssa 6 and second location band Paul and children Mark now lives in London with her

Sarah I bull Tosh Noseworthy BSe 83 is and Keith and is a research husband Tim and one-year-old

bull Brenda irwin BSe 88 is a cardiovascular ICU nurse in scientist with Bristol-Myers daughter Juliette She sends love

studying at Hong Kong Unishy sunny Tuscon Arizona After Squibb Previously she worked to Sue Heather and Sheila and

vers ity of Science and Technolshy grad uation she lived in Paris at McMaster University in can be reached bye-mail at

ogy to complete the final France for a yea r s tudied nurs- Hamilton Ont for 17 yea rs michellebacondialpipexcom

sem ester of an MBA program ing in O ttawa then lived in Saushy bull Teresa Tummillo-Goy BA bull Jeff Barlow BComm 90 is

through the University of di Arabia for two yea rs She still 86 has a law practice in Water- the training and quality manag-

British Columbia She taught loves to travel and would like to 100 Ont foc Li sing primaril y on er for two five-star luxury boushy

science for the North York hea r from fellow alumni She family law civi l litiga tion and tique h o tels in Prague - Hotel

Board of Education for five can be reached at 520-299-8344 real estate She and her hus- Palace Praha and the Hotel

years before enrolling in the bull Cecilia (Wleugel) Parkes band John Goy live in Guelph Savoy Previo usly he was execu -

MBA program BComm 85 is a graphic and have three sons John 4 tive housekeeper at the five-star

bull Jagwant Kanwar PhD 80 is designer in Toronto and says Tony 3 and Shayne 2 Renaissance Pragu e Hotel

a senior scientist in the depart- she st ill uses ber marketing bull Peter Van der Borch DVM bull Margaret Burnes-Souria BA ment of vegetable crops at Pun- background to help her busishy 88 retired in the fa ll of 1997 94 is a team leader with [011 shy

jab Agricultural University in ness succeed She specia lizes in after several years of practising don Magazin e in London Ont

India He is also director of the logo design lNith hand-drawn physiotherapy and ve terinary She married David Souria in

regional vegetable research stashy illustrations medicine and surgery He Jives July 1997 and is pursuing an tion at Usman (TaranTarn) bull Jim Parr BSc(Agr) 81 and in Pictou NS ]VlBA at the University of West-

Amritsar His and his wife MSe 89 died of cancer in bull MartyWilLiams BA 85 is ern Ontario

Sanyogita have a son Mohit June 1998 but hes being co-ordinator of student activishy bull Janine Byers BASe 95 is a and a daughter Dipika who are remembered by his university ties at University College Unishy public health dietitian at the

both studying engineering friends through the establish - versity of Toronto where he Kingston Frontenac and

Friends can write to Kanwar at ment of a mem orial fund for advises student organizations Iennox amp Addington Health

Punjab Agricultural Un ivers ity his wife Denise and children 1Ie is also chair of the U of T Unit in Kingston O nt She is Ludhiana 141 004 India Shannon and Eric Anyone Staff Association a member of getting married to Ca rl Stewart

bull Larissa Larsen BSe 89 and who would like more informa - the steering committee of the on May 29 j 999 MLA 92 received a PhD in tion can ca ll Brian Tapscott at staffs unionization drive and a bull Lisa Cherry BSe 9 1 is a urban and regional planning 519-767-3566 staff member with the student science journalist and executive

from the University of Illinois bull Cheryl (Dunlop) Reid newspaper The Varsity He can director of Artists Against

at Urbana Champaign in May BSe(Agr) 89 sta rted a new be reached bye-mail at marty Racism an international organi-

She has accepted a position at job in September as ingredient wi lliamsutorontoca za tion She is based in Toronto

Thompson Dyke and Associshy sales manager for RA bull Bonnie (Byma) BASe 96 ales a landscape architecture Chisholm o f Toronto She will 19905 and Gil Clelland BA 95 were

and urban planning firm in continue to work from her bull Claire Allison BA 94 grad- married in December 1996 and

Chicago Her husband Ernie remote offke in Fergus Reid uated from the elementary are living in Chatham On t

Poortinga DVM 89 is in his and her husband Jeff BSe teacher ed ucation program at Bo nnie works at a day-care

third yea r of an MD program (Agr) 89 have two children the University of British centre G il teaches art and

at Rush University Chicago lVlega n 4 and Elizabeth 2 Columbia in 1996 and now phys ical education They ca n -Hes looking forward to joining bull Chee Sie BA 83 is a zone teaches in Va ncou ver be reached bye-ma il at gclelshy

his wife in the ranks of the manager for the Malaysian bull JohnAvon BSdHK) 94 lan ciaccesscom employed They would both Assurance Alliance Berhad in earned an M Se in industr ial bull Kate Corn ell BA 95 of enjoy hearing from fellow Sarawak Malaysia He and his operations from Lawrence Markham Ont earned her

alumni and can be reached at wife Jesterine have a two-year- Technological University in masters in dance history from epoor tin garushurushedu old daughter Letitia Southfleld Mich in 1997 and York University in May and

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co-authored a book titled

Toronto Dance Theatre 1968shy1998 Stages in a Journey

bull Mary Jill (McClure) Culliton BASe 90 earned

her BEd from Brock University

and her M Ed from the Univershy

sity of Western Ontario and

teaches Grade 1 in Mitchell

Ont She and her husband

Tim live in Stratford

bull Kathleen (McNutt) Daniels BASe 9 1 is a teacher and was

married on New Years Eve

1994 to Gord Daniels They live

in North Bay Ont and have a

daughter Lauren born in Febshy

ruary 1997 They are expecting

their second child in February

bull Simon Deakin BA 95 studshyied in Florence Italy for a year

then earned a master of fine art

from the Slade School of Fine

Art at the University of London

England He lives in London

bull Christie Dunbar BLA 97 spent a year after graduation

working for Niagara College in

St Catharines Ont on the

vision and design of a new

campus to be built in Niagarashy

on-the- Lake Last April she

joined the landscape architecshy

ture firm of Pollack Design

Associates in Ann Arbor Mich

bull Trina Edmonds BA 94 and

Joel Hinderle became the

proud parents of a little girl

Jordan Ashley in january 1998

and moved to a new home in

Oakville Ont in September

Edmonds works in Mississauga

as a desktop publisher with a

publishingprinting company

bull Wendy Garinther BSc 93 and Steve Decker BSe 94

were married in May Joining

them in the wedding celebrashy

tions were Cheri (Coulter)

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Ascroft BSe 93 Karen Leinshy

gartner BSe 94 and Barb

(Moore) Johnson BSe 94

Best man was Jeff Bond BSe

93 and MSe 96 The Deckers

live in Edmonton where Steve

is doing a PhD in chemistry at

the University of Alberta and

Wendy is working in a research

laboratory at a biopharmaceushy

tical company

bull Donna Gross BA 97 is purshysu ing a master of divinity at

Emmanuel College at the Unishy

versity of Toronto and hopes to

become an ordained minister by

2002 She lives in Guelph and

can be reached bye-mail at

donnajulietalbedonet

bull Robert Gruber BA 92 is a child-care supervisor for the

YMCA-YWCA of Guelph and

manages the Jean Little Y

Child- Care Centre He recently

developed the anti -bias proshy

gramming policy for the

Guelph Y and sits on both the

Jean Little Public School Counshy

cil and the Guelph AIDS Wall

Committee He can be reached

bye-mail at rgrubernet

comca

bull Susan Harder BSe 91 grad shyuated from the University of

Toronto Medical School in June

and has started a residency at

Santa Clara Valley Medical Censhy

tre in San jose Calif She will

follow that up with an anestheshy

sia residency at Stanford Univershy

sity Hospital in 1999

bull Marko Harjupanula BASc 93 travelled in Australia for

two months after graduating

from Guelph then returned to

his home town of South Porshy

cupine Ont where he worked

in a gold mine for four years

He entered police college in

September and started as an

opp constable in Cochrane in

December

bull Nancy Holman MA 94 moved to Vancouver soon after

graduation and initially worked

as a project co-ordinator for an

ophthalmologist In 1996 she

began working full time for the

BC Liberal Caucus I would

enjoy hearing from and catchshy

ing up with the friends I made

while studying at U of G and

working at the Brass Taps she

says Her e-mail address is nan shy

cyholmanlassgovbeca

bull Ruth Johnson BA 91 is an investment banking associate

with the mergers and acquisishy

tions group of JP Morgan in

Lond on England responsible

for financial reporting and

administration She has been in

England with her partner Alex Campbell since graduation

bull Stephen Johnson BA 94 of London Ont was a lab technishy

cian at Lenscrafters for three

yea rs and is now a full-time

student at Fanshawe College

studying air conditioning and

refrigeration He was married

in Jun e to Jennifer Fox BSc

95 a chemist at 3M Their

wedding party included Dee Popat BSe (Eng) 94 and

Patrick Wulhes BSc 95

bull Sarah (Davis) Kelly BASe 90 married Robert Kelly in

July and teaches primary

grades at an inner-city school

in Toronto

bull Cassidy Klowak BComm 97 lives in Allisshy

ton Onl and is a personal

banking account manager

with ClBC in Tottenham

bull Stephanie Lopes BSc 96 completed her MSc in repro shy

ductive biology at the Universishy

ty of Toronto and worked as

patient-care director for the

College of Family Physicians

for almost a year In September

she enrolled in medical school

at the University of Toronto

She is happy to announce that

she is engaged to be married

next summer Lopes can be

reached at slopesidirectcom

bull Natalie (Parker) MacKenzie BSc 96 earned her BEd from

the University of Western

Ontario in 1997 She married

ASLt Andy MacKenzie June 27

in Sault Ste Marie Ont and

now lives in Halifax

bull Susan MacKinnon DVM 91 is a veterinarian with HUls

Science Diet She lives in

Guelph with her husband

Brandon Wiley and gave birth

to their first child Adrianna

Nicole june 26 at home

bull Waheed Mian BA 9 1 of Cambridge Ont is a store

director with PetSmart Canada

He helped the company launch

its new retail concept in Cana da

bull Alex Mitchell BA 91 was appointed clerkdeputy treasurshy

er of the Ontario township of

Mildmay-Carrick in 1998 and

will be the clerkadministrator

of the new municipality of

Mildmay-Carrick -TeesWatershy

Culross in 1999 He was married

in january 1997 and lives vith

his wife and daughter in Mild shy

may In his spare time Mitchell

is a professional scout for the

Toronto Maple Leafs covering

southwestern Ontario

bull Sherry Morland BASc 93 of Kitchener Ont ea rned her

BEd from Brock University in

J995 and is a part-time specia l

educa tion teacher and an occashy

sional teacher with the Watershy

loo County Board of Ed ucashy

tion She married Ivan LeBlanc

in 1997

bull Gary Page BSe 91 wo rks for the Nottawasaga Valley Conshy

servation Authority where he is

able to combine his knowledge

of wildlife biology with his

artistic skills as resident graphic

designer and outdoor centre

interpreter He Jives with his

wife Di and their son judah in

CreemoreOnt

bull Elaine Pammenter BA 96 is an inventory clerk with the

Royal Collection at Windsor

Castle in England She holds a

museum management and

curatorship grad uate certificate

diploma from Sir Sandford

Fleming College and did her

internship at the Royal Albert

Memorial Museum in Exeter

England

bull Brent Raymond BSe(Env) 96 of Brantford Ont has

been working with Outward

Bound since graduation He

leads wilderness trips in Northshy

ern Ontario Horida Australia and Sabah (Malaysian Borneo) Most recently he designed and implemented a new introducshytory mountaineering course for Outward Bound Sabah on the summit plateau of Mt Kinashy

balu Those of you who know me as plate licker from U of G get in touch he says Where are you Star I miss you He can be reached by e-mail at globarwchatonca or by

phone at 519-756-1697

Alumni Patrick Abbott BSA 40 July 7 1998

Albert Allen BSA 33 Jan 161994 Agris Ansmits BA 70 and MA 73

February 1998 Barbara (Quartermain) Babcock DHE

53 June 17 1998

Wray Bond BSA 34 Sept 25 1998

Kenneth Bone DVM 38 Dec 29 1998 Evelyn (Stevenson) Buhr DHE 39

May 251998 Philip Burke BSA 43 June 21 1998

Grant Carman BSA 49 Oct 221998 Frederick Chambers BSA 41

June 1998 Wilmot Conley ADA4 7 April 7 1998 Lloyd Crewson BSA 49 Aug 261998

Jacqueline Dimock DHE 47

Aug 20 1998 John Dingwall DVM 52

April 18 1998

Lloyd Dorsey BSA 38 June 9 1998 George Duncan BSA 37

Sept 19 1998

David Dyson BSA 53 Aug 31 1998

Norma (Shannon) Edwards DHE 39

November 1997 Vincent Bud Ellis DVM 41

July 15 1998 John Jack George BSA 48

Sept 24 1998

Donald Haight BSA 33 January 1997 William Hamlyn BSA 33 Dec I 1997

Gordon Harkness BSA 49

November 1997

Charles Hollister DVM 38 June 1996 Donald Hope BSA 54 June 28 1998

Lawrence Jefferson BSA 38

Sept 3 1998

James Kelso DVM 56 July 27 1998

Dorima Lalonde BSA 34 Oct 8 1998 Mildred (Cox) Large DHE 33

June 20 1998 Roger Larson BComm 86 Feb 19 1998 Robert Lawson BSA 49 June 6 1998

bull Doug Ramsey BA 91 and PhD 98 received U of Gs highshyest graduate student award shythe Forster Medal- at June convocation for his academic and community involvement while enrolled in Guelphs new

graduate program in geography He spent the summer as a visitshying research scholar at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College in Truro before assuming his curshyrent position as assistant professhysor at Mount Allison University

David Leach BSc(Agr) 74

July 18 1998

Ian Leask DVM 74 Sept 5 1998

Sheryl Lee BSc 95 June 8 1998 Ruby Janet MacAuley DHE 30

Aug 19 1998 Parker MacKenzie DVM 38

September 1994

Jeanice MacLaren DHE 28 March 1 1997

Campbell MacMaster DVM42

Oct 8 1998

Rex McCallum DVM 43 July 71998 Jean (Dunn) McMahon DHE 31

Nov 41998

Margaret Oones) McTaggart DHE 35 Aug 81998

Patrick McTaggart-Cowan HDSc 81

Oct 21997

Malcolm McWhinnie ADA 39

July 16 1998 Mary (Townsend) Mitchell BHSc

60 Sept 281998

Marjory Monaghan DHE 29

December 1997 Charles Monk BSA 44 Aug 7 1998

Heather Neilsen BHSc 59

Oct 30 1998 Jerry Niwa DVM 62 Aug 5 1998 Henry Harry OReilly BSA 42

October 1997

James Parr BSc(Agr) 81 June 19 1998 Charles Rammage DVM 45

Oct 17 1996 Howard Rapson HDSc 90

March 1997 Clement Reeds DVM 42 Oct 16 1998

William Robinson BSA 38

Aug 23 1998

Donald Sager ADA 73 Oct 141997

Austin Schaefer DVM 37 in 1997

Sandra (Mackenzie) Schmidt DHE 59

Aug 16 1997 Margaret (Harvey) Seaborn DHE 28

July 221998

Larry Seguin DVM 47 June 12 1998

Leah Shedden DHE 31 December 1998

Edward Shuh BSA 40 July 2 1998

Ted Shutsa BSc(Agr) 66

Sept 18 1998 Jim Sinclair DVM 49 Oct 4 1998

Margaret (Brown) Sinclair DHE 20

September 1998 Eldon Smith BSA 42 Sept 9 1998

Derek Somers DVM 96 Sept 25 1998

Cheryl Lynn Sopha BA 95 Sept 20 1998

Leona (Bartlett) Stewart DHE 35

June 27 1998 Alex Thomson BSc(Agr) 69

October 1996

William Whittick DVM 55

Aug 15 1998 Joseph Wilson BSA 23 Sept 11 1998

Lloyd Woolsey DVM41 June 24 1998

Winifred Yeates DHE 28 June 11998

Faculty John Carpenter BSA 43 and MSA 48

Microbiology Dec 10 1998

David Gaskin Zoology Sept 14 1998

Gordon Macleod BSA 50 Animal and

Poultry Science Nov 26 1998 Roman Retman Languages and

Literatures Sept 28 1998

Caesar Sen off Chemistry and

Biochemistry Aug 14 1998

Percy Smith Drama Dec 10 1998

Friends Robert Clark Aug 21 1998

Ethel Hammond August 1998

Thomas Hillers Sept 28 1998 Marguerite Holbrook Aug 26 1998

Catherine Kelly Sept 27 1998

James A McKenzie May 13 1998

Kenneth McIssac Oct 23 1998

William Mutlock September 1998 Roena Patterson Sept 16 1998

Donald Priddle Aug 25 1998

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bull Karl Reimer BSe 94 comshypleted a one-year intensive

MSc in mining engineering at

Queens University and is now

a project engineer a t Enpar

Technologies Ine in Guelph

He can be contacted at reimerbservcom

bull Nancy Nauta Rowland BA 90 and her husband Dan celshy

ebrated their first wedding

anniversary in March 1998 with

the birth of their first child

Connor who beat their March

8 anniversary by two days Nanshy

cy teaches junior-grade stushy

dents and junior special ed ucashy

tion for the Peel District School

Board The Rowlands live in

Caledon Ont

bull Fraser Stables MFA 98 was heralded by Toronto Globe 6shyMail critic Betty Jordan as a

formidable new talent followshy

ing the openi ng of his debut

gallery exh ibition in July The

Scottish artists work includes

sculpture video and mixed

media that explore notions of

flu x by interrupting the moveshy

ment of forms in space

bull Erin (Smith) Scott BSe(HK) 92 and Brad

Scott BSc(Agr) 91 of Lucan

O nt were married in 1993 and

had their first child Lucas in

August Erin works for Shopshy

pers Home Health Ca re in

London Brad is with New Life

Mills in Dunfield

bull Abby Simons BSc 95 and Martin Piche BSc(Agr) 95 were married in Mont-Tremshy

blant Quebec in 1997 She is a

customer service representative

with Kantech Systems he is

superintendent of Club de golf

vallee des forts They say theyd

love to hear from anyone headshy

ing to Montreal and can be

reached at 450-348-3860

bull Sylvia Tesori BSc 95 has been doing wildlife rehabilitashy

tion for the OSPCA Wildlife

Rehabilitation Centre in Midshy

land Ont since 1996

bull Chuck Thibeault BComm 94 is general manager of the

Putting Edge Corpora tion

which has two glow-in- theshy

dark mini-golf courses in

Ontario one in Bramp ton and

one in Richmond Hill He can

be reached in Richmond Hill at

chu ckttotalnet

bull Karen Thirlwall BA 93 is a

si ngersongwriter and guitarist

who began her stage career and

released her first album The Voice Inside Me while studying

languages at U of G She has

lived and performed in

11i stler BC for three years

and recently released a second

album called Wide-Eyed She

remembers many special

fr iends m ade at Guelph and

welcomes e-mail messages to

karenthirlwallhotmailcom

bull Christie (Johnson) and Steve

Tyler both BComm 91 live in

Cambridge Ont where

Christie is a personal banking

representative for the Royal

Bank Steve works with their

third-year design professor

Nelson Hofer in Mississauga as

a design consultan t Steves proshy

jects include the Windsor Casishy

no and U of Gs Creelman Hall

They have two children Jason

5 and Marcus 1

bull Julia White BA 91 lives in Guelph and is a small-business

accountant at Taves amp Co She

recently finished courses

towards a CGA designation and

would like to hea r from other

alumni who lived in Lambton

Hall in 198788 Send e-mail to

juliawhitesympaticoca

bull Andre-Denis Wright MSc 93 and PhD 98 is doing postshy

docto ral work in Perth Westshy

ern Australia He wants his

Guelph friends and Halifax

family to know he was thinking

of them at Christmas when it

was 40 C in Australia

bull Dave Yellen BComm 90 was recently promoted at the Gordon

Food Service to new-accounts

sales specialist for Metro Toronshy

to Having been in Ottawa for

the past few years Im hoping

to reacquaint myself with old

friend s from U of G in the Metro

area he says He lives in Scarborshy

ough and can be reached at 416shy615-2745 or davidysprintca

bull Halina Zaleski PhD 92 is a tenured professor in the

departm ent of animal sciences

at the Un iversity of Hawaii in

Honolulu She is a swine speshy

cialist involved in extension

programs for an area th at covshy

ers all of Hawai i and the PacifIC

basin She can be reached by

e-mail at halinahawaiiedu

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IF THERE ARE LIVESTOCK IN THE HOCKEY ARENA and

theyre not wearing skates its College Royal If there

are students sawing logs throwing pies baking cookies

and square dancing its College Royal When the entire

University of Guelph is displayed - from arts to zooloshy

gy - March 13 and 14 1999 youll know its definitely

College Royan

Since its inception in 1925 as an agricultural and liveshy

stock show run by the Ontario Agricultural College

College Royal has grown to be a celebrated U of G trashy

dition involving all the colleges

The event is famou s in the University community

and beyond for its open-house showcase of displays and

activities The largest student-run open house in Canashy

da College Royal attracts more than 20000 visitors to

campus over one weekend

College Royal is an event of tradition that reaches

into tomorrow Agriculture and livestock shows are still

highlighted events but College Royal activities have

grown to include dog and cat shows a photography conshy

test a chemistry magic show and demonstrations on

human health and fitness The open house gives people

an opportunity to see what happens in the Universitys

leading-edge research laboratories to observe veterinary

medicine in practice to tour a sculpture studio or to

watch a theatrical performance

To celebrate the 75th anniversary of College Royal

1998 president Joe TrakaJo lnvites alumni to get involved

again by joining one of the planning comm ittees or by

participating in a favourite event Call him for more

information at 824-4120 Ext 8366 or send e-mail to

jtrakalouoguelphca

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LEADING RESEARCH

The University of Guelph has one orthe largest and most active groups of aquatic biologists in the world

bull More than 50 faculty and 100

graduate students research

assocrates and postdoctoral

fellows

bull Over 1000 published scientific

articles books monographs

films and videos in the past

decade

bull Interdisciplinary programs

involving more than a dozen

academic departments

bull The largest group ofichthyoloshy

gists (scientists who study

fish) in North America

bull Collaborative research with

government environrriental

organizations and academic

institutions worldwide

bull Expertise covering the entire

aquatic food chain from plankshy

ton to whales

bull Leading developments in comshy

puter-based educational mate-

rials in aquatic sciences

bull A new $6-million Aquatic

Sciences Facility

bull Research support from national

and international agencies

business and industry

adults will be able to return from the open

lake to their stream spawning grounds If

they come back will the eggs survive she

says If were able to show the eggs can surshy

vive that will be very encouraging for

Atlant ic salmon restoration

What is to be done to ensure the survival

not just of Atlantic salmon in Lake Ontario

but also of the co untrys freshwater and

m ar ine fisheries We need to try to sepashy

rate o ut the fisheries management decisions

from the political decisions associated with

the fi shery says zoology professor Glen Van

Der Kraak director of U of Gs Axelrod

Institute of Ichthyology Van Der Kraak who

studies the effects of toxic contaminants on

fi sh populations says policy mltkers need

to rely on the advice of fisheries sc ientis ts

making conservative harvest ing estimates

So often scientists make decisions and then

are overrun by the politics he says (Never

mind fish wars pitting co untries against one

another - here in Ca nada scientists and

policy makers wres tle over the question of

who should be respo nsible for what aspects

of the countrys fisheries as witnessed in a

war of words played out in the Canadian Journal ofFisheries and Aquatic Sciences over

the past 18 months between biologists at

several Canadian univers ities and the DFO

over the relationship between fishery sc ishy

ence and fishery policy)

Roff says theres nothing unique about

Canadas fish problems Its not really a

Canadian problem its a worldwide probshy

lem The only fisheries worldwide that are

not over fished appear to be some not yet

fully exploited in the Indian Ocean

After nearly four decades of growth the

worldwide marine ca tch levelled off in the

1990s to some 90 million tons a year The

m ain problems coastal pollution habitat

destruction and particula rly overfishing

Noakes editor of the journal Guelph Ichthyology Reviews contrasts the few hunshy

dred people who might have made th eir

livelihood aboard small wood en boats on

the Grand Banks several centuries ago with

the massive factory trawlers that now scour

todays coast People are much too efficient

in terms of catching fish he says Noakes

concurs with fellow Guelph researchers that

conservation of fish stocks has to reach the

top of fishery managers agendas

hat does set Canada apart is the breadth

and depth of expertise in fisheries and aquatshy

ic sciences in this country - rather a parashy

dox when you consider that Canadas record

in fisheries preservation is apparently no betshy

ter than that of many other nations

Considering we have the best fishery scishy

ences community in the world we ought to

be doing better says Roff Within the last

decade th e federal government withdrawal

o f support from the Department of Fishshy

eries and Oceans and university researchers

has been massive At the very time when the

resources were gett ing into severe problems

and when the federal government ought to

have been funding research theyve been

substantially withdrawing resources ga

DONT WAIT UNTIL SPRING The opportunity to double the impact of your gift to the University of Guelph ends on March 31 1999 Until that date all gifts designated to endowed student financial aid at Guelph will be matched by the Ontario Student Opportunity Trust Fund (OSOTF) That means that every dollar you commit will contribute two dollars to financial aid for Guelph students

If you would like to support our students throug h OSOTF you still have a w indow of oppor nishyty to have your do l1a rs doubled But only until March 31 1999

If you have already made a pled ge to OSOTf through U of Gs ACCESS Fund thank you [or your ge nerous support Please comp lete your payme nts by March 31 1999 to e nsure that your gi ft is matched

For more information contact Rudy Putns in Guelphs office of Development and Public Affairs at -519-824-4120 Ext 6384 Fax 519-822-2670 E-mail alumniuoguelphca

WINTER 1999 31

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

n ALUMNI PROF IL E

LETS LOOK AT THE OPPORTUNITIES

WHEN I-IE BECA ME president of the Unishy

versity of Guelph Alumni Association

(UGM) in June Jim Weeden brought new

enthusiasm and ideas for encouraging alumshy

ni to stay in volved with their alma mater

And he wants to start with students

Weeden reca ll s his own ex perience at

U of G where he fo und a sense of commushy

nity by living in residence and ge tting

involved in college activiti es But when he

graduated with an engin ee ring degree in

197 1 he left to begin a caree r and says he

didnt think much about the University until

he needed it again in the 1980s to pursue a

graduate degree in agricultural enginee ring

He spent his early career working as an

agricultural extensi o n engineer for the

Ontario Department o f Agriculture and is

stiU with its successo r the Ontario Ministry

of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs

(OMAFRA) Weed en completed the masshy

ters degree in 1986 when he was head of the

agricultural engineering program and extenshy

sion services a t Centralia College of Ag rishy

cultural Technology

In 1987 he moved to the ministrys plant

industry branch as program m anager and

later held the same position in th e resources

manage m ent branch Sin ce then he has

worked for OMAFRA in Woodstock and

now Stratfo rd He is technical adviser fo r

Ontarios Enviro nmental Farm Planning

Program is respo nsible for o ther environshy

m ental programs and consults with the Minshy

istry o f th e Environment on local agriculshy

tural pollution problems

w Weed en got involved with the Universishy sect tys a]u111ni programs by serving on the first g z board of the Engineering Alumni Associashy

~ tion when it was established in 1990 From

~ 1991 to 1994 he sat on the University Senshy

~ ate and its Research Board and for the pas t

~ four years) hels been on the UGAA executive

32 GUELPH A LU MNUS

From the presidents chair Weeden looks

at the bro ad picture o f UG AA se rvice and

recognizes that the associa tio n owes a debt

o f gratitude to hundreds of alumni volunshy

teers who ha ve helped to build the organishy

za tion over the yea rs and to University staff

in Development and Public Affairs (DampPA)

who support UGAA initiatives and alumni

programs Thro ugh their efforts he says the

a lulllni associati o n is rea ching out to all

U of G alumni Graduates who have mainshy

tained a close relationship with the Univershy

sity thro ugh their college or academic disshy

cipline those who feel an affiliation because

o f their participation in a thletics residence

life o r extracurricular activiti es and even

HIGHLIGHTSmiddot GRAD NEWSmiddot OBITUARIES bull CALENDER

those who have not kept in touch are part of the constituency served by UGAA

Weed en says the alumni association needs to strengthen its relationship with all alumni and he believes the effor t must start on campus with students Hed like to proshymote the idea of alumni involvement as ear shyly as a students second year We need to give students some reason to be con nected and an efficient vehicle for maintaining that connection he says

For many students and new graduates the social functions supported by UGAA and the opportunities for professional networking will be important says Weeden but greater rewards are there for those who join the effort to enhance the Universitys acade mic goals

In todays economic and political envi shyronme nt individual financial support and the advocacy of post-secon dary education are important roles for alumni he says How many people ac tively get involved with the debate on whether universities are job-trainshy

ing centres or centres of education Yet some of our alumni are extremely adept in such roles Weeden would like to cultivate past and current stud ent ac tivists as supporters of public education after they graduate

As Weeden leads UGAA into a new year he says he will work with other UGAA volshyunteers and DampPA staff to find new ways for the association to interact with students and alumni One id ea is to expand UGAAs Intershynet presence by adding a Web message board that will encourage alumni to discuss career and campus issues online and a reply form that will allow them to quickly update addressshyes employment status and other information

Weeden says its important to stay focused on UGAAs key prioriti es but he welcomes any and all new ideas on how to accomplish them All it takes to share your ideas with the UGAA executive is a stamp or a push of the send button when youre clicked on alumniuoguelphca

HKHB SPIRIT RISES

ENCOURAGED BY THE SPIRIT

shown by fellow alumni at last

summers reunion the executive

of the Human Kinetics Human Biology

Alumni Association is moving ahead

with more opportunities for alumni to

stay in touch The association plans to

launch a Web site that will be accessed

through the U of G site

A wine-and-cheese reception already

planned for June 19 1999 wiil try to

build on the success of the 1998 event

which attracted alumni from as far away

as Chicago and as far apart as the 19605

and 1990s Guests had a chance to tour

U of Gs new Health and Performance

Centre and performance testing

labs The program was co-ordinated wiLh

A REFLECTION OF PRIDE

Members of the OAC

Class of 52 join Arboshy

retum staff on the front patio

of the Arboretu m Centre

beside a new reflecting pool

that was built last summer

as a class project Pictured

from left are Murray Parker

Ann Smith George Smith

Jack Sargent Catherine Gibb

Robin Shaw-Rummington

Marilyn Swaby BA 69

Bev Healy B5e(Agr) 72

Norm Watson Una Venerus

Ron Costen Henry Kock

BSe (Agr) 77 and Ric

Jordan BA 75

Prof Jack Barclay chair of the Departshy

ment of Human Biology and Nutritional

Sciences and Prof Susan Pfeiffer Memshy

bers of the Human KineticsHuman

Biology Alumni Association executive arc

Janet Leonhard 82 president Carolyn

Moore 83 vice-president Alison Locker

97 secretary Mark Mulholland 79

lreasurer and t-iary Ann Crape 76

These officers are also spea rheading a

new initiative to benefit students - an

undergraduate award that will provide

$250 and lifetime mem bership in the

association To commcnt on these and

other initiatives contact Leonard by

e-mail at Janel_Leonhardinwrbsb

eduonca or Moore at cturveyagec

uoguelphca

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alumni

Multimedia lab buzzes

THE DONALD FORSTER RoOiv

has become one of the

busiest spots in th e Unishy

versity of Guelph Liblary since the

addition of 70 state-of-the-art

computer workstations that were

supported by alumni do nations

to the Alma Mater Fund (AM F)

U of G president Mordechai

Roza nski officia ll y o pened th e

Alma Mater Fund Multimedia

Lab D ec 2 an d celebrated th e

event with members of the AMF

Adv isory Counc iL [n 1996 a nd

1997 the AMF contributed

$240000 to th e project which

increased the number of student

workstations o n campus by 50 per

cent Students use the m ult imeshy

~ dia lab to conduct research on the

~ Internet access scholarly publicashyr u VI tions on CD-ROM and use COll1shyz ~ puter software mod ules tbat lt

~ strengthen the teaching provided lD

o in co urse lectures labs and tcxtshybii books

middotMatters

Alumnus of many interests

I NTERES TING P EOPLE always have eclect ic interests and U of G

alumnus and honorary degree recipient Ken Murray BSA 50 and

HDLA 96 is a good example H e is known by most people on camshy

pus for his distinguished career in the Canadian meat packing indusshy

try and his volunteer service to U of G He was a member and chair

of Board of Governors from 1973 to 1978 and chair of the Regionshy

al Corporate Committee during U of Gs last capital campaign and

is currently chair of the Heritage Fund Enhancement Committee

Murray is also a strong supporter of community soc ial services

In August he addressed the World Congress of Social Ps)chiatry

held in British Columbia - the only non-psychiatrist on the proshy

gram He spoke about his role in establishing an Alzheimers research

project a t the University ofWaterioo which was recently named in

his honour the Ken Murray Alzheimer Research and Education Proshy

gra m At the gc conference he al so participated in a panel dis shy

cussion that outlined services offered by Guelphs Homewood Health

Cent re Murray bas been actively involved in the governance of the

centre since 1977 and has been a major player in the development

of a charitable foundatio n bearing the Homewood name

WHEN THE PUCK DROPPED More than 30 teams including two

womens teams were entered in the

Dec 6 University of Guelph Alumni Hockey

Tournament Organizers for the 1998 event

were from left Brian Finniss B5c 88

Brad Stephenson BA 86 Terry Carr

BComm 87 Todd Bryant BA 86 and

undergraduate student Brian Melnick

Ken Murray centre with his wife Marilyn Robinson Murray and U of G president Mordechai Rozanski

34 GU ELPH ALUMNU S

RESTORING A JEWEL IN THE CROWN

DONALD RUTHERFORD BSA 5 stands in fron t

of the 1931 conservatory greenhouse that will

be restored to match the splendour of the ga rdens

now growi ng up around it His $256000 leadershy

ship gift to the Conservatory and Gardens Project

was inspired by hi s m emo ries of being a student

at OAC

On behalf of fellow alumni I hope this gift will

commemorate the experiences and educat ion we

acquired while at Guelph says Rutherford When

fully restored to its previous glory the conservatoshy

ry greenhouse will be an ideal greeting and welcome

spot for visitors and newcomers to the University

as well as old friend s renewing their acquaintance

Rutherfords professional career spans the agrishy

foo d industr y beginning as an agricu ltural repshy

resentative with the provincial minist ry I-Ie was

later vice-president of the Fertilizer Institute of

Ontario executive secreta ry of the Canadian Seed

Trade Association director of information w ith

the Ca nadian Livestock Feed Board and Canadishy

an sa les manager for Sylvite of Can ad a Retired

since 1986 he now owns his own sma ll investment

company and manages to golf throughout the yea r

The conserva tory isnt the first ca mpus project

to attract Rutherford s attention - as a student

he helped dig out the base ment of Massey H al l to

build a student lo unge - but his recent gift has

been a tremendous boost to those who have been

working since the ea rly 1990s to save the glass and

cypress structure from demo lition

A committee of alumni facult y sta ff stu dents

and fri en ds of the University has moved the proshy

ject along to th e point w here most of the surshy

rounding garden complex is now complete It fea shy

tures six gardens named in honour of the ir chie f

supporters Autumn Garden - OAC 5 1 Spring

Ga rden - OAC 53 Su mmer Garden - OAC 55

Winter Gard en - OAC 65 Water Gard en shy

OAC 49 and the Woo dland Garden named in

honour of the late Doug Rob inson BSA 53

Alumni have been in strumental in raising

funds for the $ l-million project Students and fa cshy

ulty have provided mudl of the h1l1ds-on Idbour

and friends in the nursery and landscape materishy

als supply industries have given $250000 ill donashy

tions and gifts-in-kind of plan ts and landsca ping

materials Rutherford s generous gift has pushed

th e conservato ry fund-ra ising effort in to the fin 81

stretch Th e ga rden complex and restored g reenshy

110use are sc heduled to officially open during

Alumni Weekend in June 1999

1999 Coming Events

Jan 29 - Aggie Goodshy

Times Banquet call the OAC Student Federation at Ext 8321 for ticket injemnrltion Feb 13 - Norm McCo llulll

D iploma Hockey Tournashy

m ent call Jack Bakker at 519-837-0132 to register a team

Feb 21 - Ottawa Chapter

annual curling bonspiel

Richmond C urling Club in

Richmond Ont For informashytiol1 call Alan Bentley BSA 61 at 6 13-829-6598 or John DVit[ 54 mId Margaret McGowml BHSc 54 at

613-828-7038

March 3 - Florida alumni

reunion a t Maple Leaf

Estates Port Charlo tte Fla

call Ext 6533 0 register

March 13 and 14 - ollcge

Royal 75th o pen house

March 19 and 20 - OAC

Alumni Association curling

bonspiel G uelph Curling

Club register at Ext 6657

May 5 - Chicago All Canashy

dian Universities Night hostecl

by U of G at the University

Club of Chicago 76 East Monshy

roe Sr call Exl 6533 for details May 5 - OAC Alumni

Foundation annual meeting

730 pm Arboretum Centre

May 12 - Alumni-inshy

Action annual meeting and

luncheo n 1130 3m

Arboretum Centre ((11 Ext 6657for tickets

June 18 to 20 - Alumni

Veekend call Ext 6657 to plall a reun io n

-0 r shya -IFor more infon-nation on any a

eVC1l1listed ailove call the oJ -lt oU of G extension listed at en raquo

519-824-4120 or send e-mail z

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WINTER 1999 35

alumni Matters

MEMORIES OF COLLEGE ROYAL Grant MacEwan ADA 23 and

BSA 26 is one of the few OAC

alumni who c~n still remember

the first College Royal held Jan

14 1925 MacEwan bad just

entered the degree program in

animal husbandry and may have

been a participant in the liveshy

stock showmanship classes Latshy

er in life he was widely known Grant MacEwan

across Western Canada as 3 liveshy

stock judge and an advocate of

agricultural fairs and exhibitions

MacEwan is bes t known

however for his 23-year C3reer

as a university professor in Manshy

itoba and Saskatchewan and Ilis

political career which included

12 years as alderman and mayshy John Kenneth Galbraith

or of C31gary four years as an

Alberta MLA and eight as lieushy birthday in August

tenant -governor of the province The year after Ma cEwan

He s till lives in Calgary graduated John Kenneth Galshy

where he celebrated his 96th braith ADA 29 and BSA 31

HOMECOMING 98

enrolled at OAC and devoted

some of his energy to organizshy

ing College Royal Show records

indicate it was Galbraith who

first proposed the college event

be publicized so that people

from the farm community

could attend He also suggestshy

ed that OAC invite students

from American agricultural colshy

legesl n th e early 1930s Colshy

lege Royal took its fir s t steps

towards becoming the comshy

munity open house it is today

Galbraith later moved to the

United States where he enjoyed

a distinguished caree r as a proshy

fessor of economics at Harvard

Universi ty Known for his

humanit~rian approach to ecoshy

nomic and political thinking

he was awarded the Order of

Canada in 1997 He celebr3ted

his 90th birthday in October

IT REALLY WAS a homecoming reunion when and Arnott who is head coach of the York

former Gryphon teammates Ralph Shapiro University Yeomen came from the visitors

S5c(HK) 74 and Tom Amott S5c(HK) 80 dreSSing room to hold the ball Shapiro is

met on the field at Alumni Stadium Oct 3 the controller at Huntsman Chemical Inc

Shapiro had the honour of kicking off in Guelph and a longtime United Way volshy

the Universitys 1998 United Way campaign unteer who chaired this years Guelph and

Wellington fund-raising drive The Univershy

sity campaign is the largest in the county

with U of G staff and faculty contributing

over $200000 in 1998

Prior to the game a number of recent

alumni - all U of G scholarship and award

winners - met for a reunion luncheon The UJ

1948 and 1949 dominion championship i5f 3

football teams were also honoured guests z 5 o at the 2 pm game that saw the Gryphons gtshy a defeat York f shya I a

Ralph Shapiro

36 G UELPH ALUMNUS

LEADING THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY FOR 1974 GRADS The 25th-anniversary reunion givshy

i ng program for the Class of 1974

is under way with Bill Laidlaw BA

74 as cbair A public affairs proshy

fessional he has been director of

government relations for the

Canadian operations of Glaxo

vVelJcome Inc for more th an 10

years He also acts as a senior conshy

sultant to support the governshy

ment relations function in other

regions of Canada

Laidlaw began his career in

teaching after earning a history

degree from Guelph and education

degrees (rom Queens University

and the University of Toronto He

also holds the certified human

resources professional designation

and worked in that field for sevshy

eral years before concen trating on

government relations at Glaxo

Welkome He lives in Burlington

Ont and is an act ive community

volunteer having se rved on the

boards of severa l professional

organizations the Queensway

General Hospital and the Metroshy

politan Toronto Lung Association

He is currently completing a oneshy

year term as chair of the Ontario

Chamber of Commerce

Anniversa ry preparations will

culminate with a class gathering

a nd reunion gift at Alumni

Weekend in June 1999

ALUMNI MAKE THE CONNECTION Students who moved into

Maids and Mills halls in Sepshy

tember can take full advanshy

tage of the Universitys highshy

speed computer network

thanks to the OAC Class of

71 whose 25 th-reunion proshy

ject provided wiring upgrades

in the 84- and 77-year-old

residence buildin gs

GRAD NEWS

Marathon survivors inspire us all to appreciate everyday life

W HEN ROBINSON SIIlLJNGS Jane BSe(Agr)

85 Heather BASe 83 Peter BSe(Agr)

86 Scott and Marnie rigwood BA 84 get

together they talk about marathons and the hope

and determination it takes to reach the finish line

Hea ther walked a marathon in San Diego

Calif in June to raise money for leukemia

research then joined Peter for a Toronto marathon

in October that benefi ted the Leukemia Research

Fund of Canada They were inspired by Janes pershy

sonal marathon of survival that foUowed her 1992

diagnosis of leukemia Chemotherapy radiation

remission relapse and finally a bone marrow

transplant [TOm her brother Scott took more than

three years out of her life but gave her the detershy

mination to keep fighting

Many families can understand the marathon

of hope maintained by the Robinsons during

Janes struggle and the commitment they have to

help others who are stricken with the disease Jane

is finally well enough to work again as a writer

and marketing consultant and to join her fami shy

ly in volunteer work She helped recruit for the

Toronto marathon fund -raiser and continues to

be involved with the Leukemia Research Funds

Team in Training She also says that her expeshy

rience has taught her to appreciate more the pleashy

sures of everyday life and the love of famil y

Jan es parents are th e late Doug Rob inson

BSA 53 and Marilyn (Inglis) Robinson Murray

BH Sc 55

19305

bull Grant Misener ADA 32 BSA 35 and DVM 38 received the

prest igious George F Hixso n Felshy

lowship Award from the Kiwanis

International Foundation in May The retired Illinois veter ishy

narian was hono ured for his subshystantial contribution to the

Kiwanis wo rldwide service proshy

ject aimed at eliminating iodine

deficiency disorders the leading

cause of preventable mental retardation in children Over the

years Misener has shown a simishylar commitment to his al ma

mater an d its students through

his close association with OVC

and his support of scho larship

programs

19405

bull Russell McDonaldDVM 45 was named an honorary life direcshytor of the Royal Agricultural Winshy

ter Fair Association in March

McDonald formerly general manshy

ager of Western Ontario Breeders

Ine and executive director of the Canadian Association of Animal

Breeders served as a director of the Royal Winter Fair for 20 years

representing the Canadian artifishycial insemination industry He

lives in Woodstock Ont

bull Ian Taylor DVM43 was recently honoured by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to

Animals of Illinois Taylor ran a small-animal veterinary clinic in

the Chicago area for many years

and says he gained ll1uch experishyence during his first three years in

Illinois as clinic veterinarian for

the anti -cruelty society

19505

bull Charles Chuck Broadwell BSA 54 was elected a Mel

Osborne Fellow by the Kiwanis

Club of Forest City in London Ont in recognition of a dedicatshy -ed and distinguished career in

Kiwanis

19605

bull Constantine Campbell BSA 60 and MSA 61 was named to the

WINTER 1999 37

Order of Canada in January He

received the award in recogni shy

tion of his many contributions

to science and the Canadian

agricultural industry After grad shy

uating from OAC he went on to

do his PhD at the University of

Saskatchewan then joined Agri shy

culture and Agri-food Canada

as a research scientist at the Swift

Current research station Campshy

bell and his family now live in

Ottawa where he is scientist

emeritus with Agriculture and

Agri-food Canada

bull John Casselman BSA 64 is

a research scientist with the

Ontario Ministry of Natural

Resources He Jives in Bath

Ont with his wife Lois

bull Jane Fuller RRSc 65 and

her husband George who both

taught at the Macdonald Instishy

tute from 1966 to 1969 have

moved from Winnipeg to

Utopia Ont following

Georges retirement from the

University of Manitoba

bull Fred Gilbert MSc 66 and

P hD 68 is in his first term as

president of Lakehead Univer shy

sity in Thunder Bay Ont He

taught at U of G in the Departshy

ment of Zoology from 1972 to

1981 and has enjoyed a dive rse

academic career that has also

included teaching at the Unishy

versity of Maine and posi tions

as director of wildlife biology at

Washington State University

and founding dean of the Facshy

ulty of Natural Reso urces and

Environmenta l Studies at the

University of Northern British

Columbia He moved to Lakeshy

head from a position as viceshy

pro vost at Colorado State Unishy

versity A respected wildlife

biologist he has conducted

ex tensive resea rch in s Ll ch areas

as the behaviour and physioloshy

gy of wildlife species and the

effects of environmental

change on wildlife populations

bull Terry Goodyear BSc 67 of

Mont Tremblant Quebec is an

early retiree from Agriculture

and Agri-Food Canada in Ottawa He is now working on

va lue-added products from

industrial wastes particularly

cellulose sludge from pulp and

pa per mills

bull Gary Hearn BA 68 was

named an Ontario provincial

judge in October For the last

25 years he has been a lawyer

with the firm Kearns McKinshy

non in Guelph where he lives

with his wife Irene and three

teenage children

bull Allan Knight BSA 66 of Corunna Ont has retired

from Dow Chemical after 30

years On retirement he was a

laboratory director for indusshy

trial chemicals He is now

working with his son in a famishy

ly-owned and -operated busishy

ness Knight Funeral Home

bull Keith McFarlane BSc(Agr)

68 works for the Department

of Foreign Affairs and Internashy

tional Trade and began a fourshy

year assignment last summer as

head of the commercial divishy

sion of the Canadian Embassy

in Lisbon Portugal The

division promotes the sa le of

Canadian goods and services

to Portugal

bull Ian Newbould MA 68 has

travelled far from his Ontario

roots through an academic and

administrative career that has

taken him to Europe Asia and

Western Canada A noted hisshy

torian he moved into adm inisshy

tration at the University of

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Lethbridge in 1981 and spent

10 years there as director of

research dean of a rts and scishy

ence and vice-presiden t (acadeshy

mic) before crossing the counshy

try to become president of

Mount Allison University in

New Brunswick He is now in

his second term as president of

Mount AUison

bull Indra Deo Singh MSc 68 is

a tea scientist international

consultant and joint director of

the Tea Research Association at

the Nagrakata substation in

India His responsibilities

include co-ordinating research

and development in the Indian

tea industry and developing tea

cultivars and agrotechnology

for tea Singh is married with

two sons aged 27 and 23

19705

bull Don Ambler BSe 71 retired in March as manager of

water programs with Environshy

ment Canada in Dartmouth

NS after 25 years of public

service He has now registered

the company Aquashed Co nshy

sulting to continue in the water

resources field when hes not

gardening beekeeping do ing

aerobics or vo lunteering in the

community and chu rch E-mail

contact is welcome a t

donambl erns sympaticoca

bull Jim Bond BSe 75 is managshy

ing a new processing facility at

the Chalk River Nuclear Laborashy

to ry in Chalk River Ont

bull Terri (Monks) Bulman BSc(Agr) 78 and MSe 81

and her husband Vincent

MSe 8 1 live in Australia with

their th ree children Catherine

7 Peter 4 and baby Christoshy

pher Terri is senior principal

environmental auditor vith

Coffey Geosciences Pty Ltd Vinshy

cent afte r many years as a geoloshy

gist travelling around Australia

and abroad has taken the year

off to study and look after the

children Their e-mail address is

tbulmanbigpondco m

bull Marie David BA 78 of

Hanover Ont has been in the

n ewspaper business for 20

years She started in the mailshy

room moved to advertising

sales then became advert ising

manager She is now gene ral

manager o f three So utham

weekly newspapers and pubshy

lish er of the Hanover Post

bull Janice Harrower and her husshy

band Jerome Billett both

DVM 76 operate a joint veterishy

nary practice in Prescott Ont

Billett says practising together

has allowed them some flexibilishy

ty in their family life and given

their four children a good took

at the rigours of veterinary

medicine Says Billett Not one

of our kid s has the slightest

interest in being a veterinarian

and isnt that just fine Their

o ldest son Jesse attends Harshy

va rd University and is a memshy

ber of its prestigious a cappella

choir Lucas is studying

mechanical engineering at the

University of Waterloo Casey is

planning a career in computer

engineering and Lindsay is a

high school athle te

bull Clair Heinbuch BSe 74 is a

sales manager with Baye r Corp

in Kansas H e and his wife

Caroline (Koscik) BASc 75

returned to the Kansas City

area after spending four years in

Denver They have three chilshy

dren Lisa 20 Scott 18 and

Ryan [5

bull Beverly Lee BASe 72 is an

elem entary school principal in

Unionville Ont She lives with

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her husband Grant Egan in

Collingwood and is looking

forward to retirement in severshy

al years Life on Georgian Bay

is wonderful she says Lee

would love to hear from fellow

grads by e-mail at

leebYrbeeduonca or by

phone at 705 -444 -092l

bull Won-Jai Maeng MSc 71 took office Sept 1 as president

of Kon-Kuk University in Seoul

Korea where his academic

career began He completed an

undergraduate degree at Kon

Kuk in 1965 then studied at

Mailing Agricultural College in Denmark and at U of G before

doing doctoral work at the Unishy

versity of California Davis

Maeng has held research and

teaching positions at the Unishy

versity of illinois at Chung-Ang

University and at Kon-Kuk

where he has been a professor of

animal science since 1984 His

appointment as president folshy

lows years of administrative

experience as a department

head dean and chair of various

research committees and proshy

fessional organizations An

expert in ruminant nutrition

Maeng was instrumental in

developing the livestock feed

industry in Korea He has also

been active in working with

alumni groups and in writing

for the Kon-Kuk Tribune

bull Bill MarshaU ADA 75 of Proton Station Ont moved

from Clarksburg in June to

work in Dundalk for the Grey

County Roads Department on

its road management crew

bull Bernie Matte BSc(Agr) 70 of Moncton NB retired

in March after 28 years with

Fisheries and Oceans Canada

and the Canadian Food

Inspection Agency He plans to

travel to Belize and Honduras

with his wife Diane and will

be available anywhere in the

Caribbean for seafood HACCP

consulting work

bull Margaret McClain BA 70 lives in Arkansas where she is

highJy involved in the issue of

40 GUELPH ALUMNUS

missing children and internashy

tional abductions McClain who

believes her own six-year-old

daughter was taken out of the

United States more than a year

ago by her second husband is

reaching out to parents with

similar experiences through an

organization that is lobbying the

US government for tougher

international abduction laws

She invites interested fr iends

and alumni to contact her

through her Web site at

wwwinsolwwbnet-dmcclain

bull Robert (Chuck) Miller BA 77 is the park superintendent

of Killarney French River and

Maskinonje provincial parks in

Ontario He moved to Killarney

from Quetico Provincial Park

last May

bull Gordon Nicol BA 72 and MSc(Agr) 74 teaches math

and science in a bilingual prishy

vate school in Guatemala A

BEd graduate of Laurentian

he first taught in Guatemala in

the late 1970s then spent 12

years in northern Alberta as a

teacher and principal He

returned to Guatemala in 1989

A widower with three teenage

children Nicol would like to

hear from U of G friends and

acquaintances especially anyshy

one who is was or will be in

Central America He says he

could also use middle-schoolshy

level science projects Send eshy

mail to gnicoll guatenet or

write to PO Box 661447 Miami

Springs Florida 33266-1447

bull Chris Schulte BSc 71 and MSc 73 lives in Nassau

Bahamas with his wife

Andrya After graduation he

stayed in the Department of

Physics as a research associate

with Prof lain Campbell then

joined Ontario Hydro in the

early 1980s He moved to the

Bahamas in 1995 He can be

reached bye-mail at

schultebahamasnetbs

bull Sandra (Pickford) Webster BA 75 has retired from U of

Gs Co mmunications and Pubshy

lic Affairs and is living in Parry

Sound Ont where she is

doing volunteer work and

communications consulting

for the municipality Guelph

friends ca n contact her by

e-mail atswebsterzeutercom

19805

bull Sharon (Courneya) Angus BA 8 I of Surrey BC comshy

pleted a BSW at the University

of British Columbia in 1988

and has been working for the

BC government for 13 years

- first in probation and now

in the family justice division

She and her husband Ron

have three children Jason

Carly and Colin

bull Karen Beazley BLA 86 is an assistant professor and acadeshy

mic program co-ordinator at

the School for Reso urce and

Environmental Studies at Dalshy

housie University in Halifax

She is currently doing research

for a book on endangered

species initiatives and is orgashy

nizing a Nova Scotia wildlands

workshop with the Wildlands

Project for 1999 Her e-mail

address is kbeazleyisdalca

bull Caroline (Van Deudekom) and Marc Brooks both ADA 87

recently moved from Strathroy

to Owen Sound Ont where

they run a 50-acre organic farm

with their two sons

bull Virginia Burt BLA 85 startshyed her own landscape architecshy

ture firm Visionscapes in

Hamilton Ont in ] 996 She

specializes in the design of thershy

apeutic healing gardens spirit

gardens sacred spaces and

la byrin ths and recen tly designed the first healing garden

in Canada specificalJy for peoshy

ple living with HIV and AIDS

bull Joanne (Branson) Carver BA 80 earned a BEd from Brock

University in 1981 and recently

started working as a probashy

tionparole officer She Jives in

Ajax Ont and has two daughshy

ters Julie4 and Sarah 8

bull Heather Champ BA 86 is a Web-site designer in New York

City She began her work in

computer design in 1990 Her

personal site can be Found at

wwwjezebelcom

bull Laurie Gough BA 87 has become a world traveller who

writes about her experiences for

the benefit of others Her most

recent book Island of the

Human Heart A tfornans Travshyel Odyssey is now in its second

printing in Canada and will be

released next year in the United

States and overseas She has also

published Travellers Tales A

Womans World which won the

US-based Lowell Thomas

Gold Award for best travel book

of the year When not travelling

or writing she teaches English

and ESL in Guelph

bull Susan (Coles) Goulden BASc 84 and her husband

Ian are th rilled wi th their

recent adoption of Jennifer Lee

Yu who was born in June near

Leping Jiangxi Peoples Repubshy

lic of China The Gouldens

who Jive in vVaterloo Ont

thank classmate Andrea

(Kovits) Henderson for her

support throughout the adopshy

tion process Susan is currently

on leave from her position with

McCormick Canada

bull Judy (Bodendistel) Gregg BA 82 moved to Melbourne Ausshy

tralia in 1997 with her husband

and two children Carly 6 and

Adam 3 We are enjoying the

friendly people and the great

weather here she says We are

especially enjoying winter in a

place where it never gets below

zero Celsius

bull Nigel GumJey DVM 85 has been a partner in the Alta Vista

Animal Hospital in Ottawa

since 1990 was president of the bull Garry Millage AMPHI 86 bull Heidi Stephenson BA 88 is now ISO 9000 manager at

Ontario Veterinary Medical left a position as vice-president was awarded her professional Carpenter Ca nada Ltd in

Association in 1997 and recent- of national operations for acco untants designation of Wood br idge Ont He lives in

ly served on the Canadian Vetshy Scotts Restaurants KFC Divishy certified general accountant in Miss issa uga Classma tes are

erilw() Medical Associations sion to open his own consult- March 1998 She has been invited to contact him at

national issues committee He ing company Future Food employed for the last 10 years avon listarca

lives in Osgoode with his wife Equipment Ine specializes in with Dan Ball Chartered bull Michelle (Pilon) Bacon BA rvlaurecn and children Laura providing new and used restau- Acco un tant in Parry Sound 90 moved to England to study

and Matthew rant equipment and reducing O nt where she lives with her and work after graduating from

bull Muneer Hirji BComm 82 restaurant construction costs hu sband Brad two dogs and a Guelph She recently left a posishy

lives in Toronto and is vice- He also operates a restaurant horse tion with the British Ministry of

president of marke ting at SAP called Nikkos in Woodbridge bull Dawn Stetsko BSe 81 lives Agriculture and Food in York to

Canada He has three chil- Ont and is planning to open a in Langhorne Pa with her husshy become an at-home mom She

drcl1 Nadia 8 Alyssa 6 and second location band Paul and children Mark now lives in London with her

Sarah I bull Tosh Noseworthy BSe 83 is and Keith and is a research husband Tim and one-year-old

bull Brenda irwin BSe 88 is a cardiovascular ICU nurse in scientist with Bristol-Myers daughter Juliette She sends love

studying at Hong Kong Unishy sunny Tuscon Arizona After Squibb Previously she worked to Sue Heather and Sheila and

vers ity of Science and Technolshy grad uation she lived in Paris at McMaster University in can be reached bye-mail at

ogy to complete the final France for a yea r s tudied nurs- Hamilton Ont for 17 yea rs michellebacondialpipexcom

sem ester of an MBA program ing in O ttawa then lived in Saushy bull Teresa Tummillo-Goy BA bull Jeff Barlow BComm 90 is

through the University of di Arabia for two yea rs She still 86 has a law practice in Water- the training and quality manag-

British Columbia She taught loves to travel and would like to 100 Ont foc Li sing primaril y on er for two five-star luxury boushy

science for the North York hea r from fellow alumni She family law civi l litiga tion and tique h o tels in Prague - Hotel

Board of Education for five can be reached at 520-299-8344 real estate She and her hus- Palace Praha and the Hotel

years before enrolling in the bull Cecilia (Wleugel) Parkes band John Goy live in Guelph Savoy Previo usly he was execu -

MBA program BComm 85 is a graphic and have three sons John 4 tive housekeeper at the five-star

bull Jagwant Kanwar PhD 80 is designer in Toronto and says Tony 3 and Shayne 2 Renaissance Pragu e Hotel

a senior scientist in the depart- she st ill uses ber marketing bull Peter Van der Borch DVM bull Margaret Burnes-Souria BA ment of vegetable crops at Pun- background to help her busishy 88 retired in the fa ll of 1997 94 is a team leader with [011 shy

jab Agricultural University in ness succeed She specia lizes in after several years of practising don Magazin e in London Ont

India He is also director of the logo design lNith hand-drawn physiotherapy and ve terinary She married David Souria in

regional vegetable research stashy illustrations medicine and surgery He Jives July 1997 and is pursuing an tion at Usman (TaranTarn) bull Jim Parr BSc(Agr) 81 and in Pictou NS ]VlBA at the University of West-

Amritsar His and his wife MSe 89 died of cancer in bull MartyWilLiams BA 85 is ern Ontario

Sanyogita have a son Mohit June 1998 but hes being co-ordinator of student activishy bull Janine Byers BASe 95 is a and a daughter Dipika who are remembered by his university ties at University College Unishy public health dietitian at the

both studying engineering friends through the establish - versity of Toronto where he Kingston Frontenac and

Friends can write to Kanwar at ment of a mem orial fund for advises student organizations Iennox amp Addington Health

Punjab Agricultural Un ivers ity his wife Denise and children 1Ie is also chair of the U of T Unit in Kingston O nt She is Ludhiana 141 004 India Shannon and Eric Anyone Staff Association a member of getting married to Ca rl Stewart

bull Larissa Larsen BSe 89 and who would like more informa - the steering committee of the on May 29 j 999 MLA 92 received a PhD in tion can ca ll Brian Tapscott at staffs unionization drive and a bull Lisa Cherry BSe 9 1 is a urban and regional planning 519-767-3566 staff member with the student science journalist and executive

from the University of Illinois bull Cheryl (Dunlop) Reid newspaper The Varsity He can director of Artists Against

at Urbana Champaign in May BSe(Agr) 89 sta rted a new be reached bye-mail at marty Racism an international organi-

She has accepted a position at job in September as ingredient wi lliamsutorontoca za tion She is based in Toronto

Thompson Dyke and Associshy sales manager for RA bull Bonnie (Byma) BASe 96 ales a landscape architecture Chisholm o f Toronto She will 19905 and Gil Clelland BA 95 were

and urban planning firm in continue to work from her bull Claire Allison BA 94 grad- married in December 1996 and

Chicago Her husband Ernie remote offke in Fergus Reid uated from the elementary are living in Chatham On t

Poortinga DVM 89 is in his and her husband Jeff BSe teacher ed ucation program at Bo nnie works at a day-care

third yea r of an MD program (Agr) 89 have two children the University of British centre G il teaches art and

at Rush University Chicago lVlega n 4 and Elizabeth 2 Columbia in 1996 and now phys ical education They ca n -Hes looking forward to joining bull Chee Sie BA 83 is a zone teaches in Va ncou ver be reached bye-ma il at gclelshy

his wife in the ranks of the manager for the Malaysian bull JohnAvon BSdHK) 94 lan ciaccesscom employed They would both Assurance Alliance Berhad in earned an M Se in industr ial bull Kate Corn ell BA 95 of enjoy hearing from fellow Sarawak Malaysia He and his operations from Lawrence Markham Ont earned her

alumni and can be reached at wife Jesterine have a two-year- Technological University in masters in dance history from epoor tin garushurushedu old daughter Letitia Southfleld Mich in 1997 and York University in May and

WINTER 1999 41

co-authored a book titled

Toronto Dance Theatre 1968shy1998 Stages in a Journey

bull Mary Jill (McClure) Culliton BASe 90 earned

her BEd from Brock University

and her M Ed from the Univershy

sity of Western Ontario and

teaches Grade 1 in Mitchell

Ont She and her husband

Tim live in Stratford

bull Kathleen (McNutt) Daniels BASe 9 1 is a teacher and was

married on New Years Eve

1994 to Gord Daniels They live

in North Bay Ont and have a

daughter Lauren born in Febshy

ruary 1997 They are expecting

their second child in February

bull Simon Deakin BA 95 studshyied in Florence Italy for a year

then earned a master of fine art

from the Slade School of Fine

Art at the University of London

England He lives in London

bull Christie Dunbar BLA 97 spent a year after graduation

working for Niagara College in

St Catharines Ont on the

vision and design of a new

campus to be built in Niagarashy

on-the- Lake Last April she

joined the landscape architecshy

ture firm of Pollack Design

Associates in Ann Arbor Mich

bull Trina Edmonds BA 94 and

Joel Hinderle became the

proud parents of a little girl

Jordan Ashley in january 1998

and moved to a new home in

Oakville Ont in September

Edmonds works in Mississauga

as a desktop publisher with a

publishingprinting company

bull Wendy Garinther BSc 93 and Steve Decker BSe 94

were married in May Joining

them in the wedding celebrashy

tions were Cheri (Coulter)

42 GUELPH ALUMNUS

Ascroft BSe 93 Karen Leinshy

gartner BSe 94 and Barb

(Moore) Johnson BSe 94

Best man was Jeff Bond BSe

93 and MSe 96 The Deckers

live in Edmonton where Steve

is doing a PhD in chemistry at

the University of Alberta and

Wendy is working in a research

laboratory at a biopharmaceushy

tical company

bull Donna Gross BA 97 is purshysu ing a master of divinity at

Emmanuel College at the Unishy

versity of Toronto and hopes to

become an ordained minister by

2002 She lives in Guelph and

can be reached bye-mail at

donnajulietalbedonet

bull Robert Gruber BA 92 is a child-care supervisor for the

YMCA-YWCA of Guelph and

manages the Jean Little Y

Child- Care Centre He recently

developed the anti -bias proshy

gramming policy for the

Guelph Y and sits on both the

Jean Little Public School Counshy

cil and the Guelph AIDS Wall

Committee He can be reached

bye-mail at rgrubernet

comca

bull Susan Harder BSe 91 grad shyuated from the University of

Toronto Medical School in June

and has started a residency at

Santa Clara Valley Medical Censhy

tre in San jose Calif She will

follow that up with an anestheshy

sia residency at Stanford Univershy

sity Hospital in 1999

bull Marko Harjupanula BASc 93 travelled in Australia for

two months after graduating

from Guelph then returned to

his home town of South Porshy

cupine Ont where he worked

in a gold mine for four years

He entered police college in

September and started as an

opp constable in Cochrane in

December

bull Nancy Holman MA 94 moved to Vancouver soon after

graduation and initially worked

as a project co-ordinator for an

ophthalmologist In 1996 she

began working full time for the

BC Liberal Caucus I would

enjoy hearing from and catchshy

ing up with the friends I made

while studying at U of G and

working at the Brass Taps she

says Her e-mail address is nan shy

cyholmanlassgovbeca

bull Ruth Johnson BA 91 is an investment banking associate

with the mergers and acquisishy

tions group of JP Morgan in

Lond on England responsible

for financial reporting and

administration She has been in

England with her partner Alex Campbell since graduation

bull Stephen Johnson BA 94 of London Ont was a lab technishy

cian at Lenscrafters for three

yea rs and is now a full-time

student at Fanshawe College

studying air conditioning and

refrigeration He was married

in Jun e to Jennifer Fox BSc

95 a chemist at 3M Their

wedding party included Dee Popat BSe (Eng) 94 and

Patrick Wulhes BSc 95

bull Sarah (Davis) Kelly BASe 90 married Robert Kelly in

July and teaches primary

grades at an inner-city school

in Toronto

bull Cassidy Klowak BComm 97 lives in Allisshy

ton Onl and is a personal

banking account manager

with ClBC in Tottenham

bull Stephanie Lopes BSc 96 completed her MSc in repro shy

ductive biology at the Universishy

ty of Toronto and worked as

patient-care director for the

College of Family Physicians

for almost a year In September

she enrolled in medical school

at the University of Toronto

She is happy to announce that

she is engaged to be married

next summer Lopes can be

reached at slopesidirectcom

bull Natalie (Parker) MacKenzie BSc 96 earned her BEd from

the University of Western

Ontario in 1997 She married

ASLt Andy MacKenzie June 27

in Sault Ste Marie Ont and

now lives in Halifax

bull Susan MacKinnon DVM 91 is a veterinarian with HUls

Science Diet She lives in

Guelph with her husband

Brandon Wiley and gave birth

to their first child Adrianna

Nicole june 26 at home

bull Waheed Mian BA 9 1 of Cambridge Ont is a store

director with PetSmart Canada

He helped the company launch

its new retail concept in Cana da

bull Alex Mitchell BA 91 was appointed clerkdeputy treasurshy

er of the Ontario township of

Mildmay-Carrick in 1998 and

will be the clerkadministrator

of the new municipality of

Mildmay-Carrick -TeesWatershy

Culross in 1999 He was married

in january 1997 and lives vith

his wife and daughter in Mild shy

may In his spare time Mitchell

is a professional scout for the

Toronto Maple Leafs covering

southwestern Ontario

bull Sherry Morland BASc 93 of Kitchener Ont ea rned her

BEd from Brock University in

J995 and is a part-time specia l

educa tion teacher and an occashy

sional teacher with the Watershy

loo County Board of Ed ucashy

tion She married Ivan LeBlanc

in 1997

bull Gary Page BSe 91 wo rks for the Nottawasaga Valley Conshy

servation Authority where he is

able to combine his knowledge

of wildlife biology with his

artistic skills as resident graphic

designer and outdoor centre

interpreter He Jives with his

wife Di and their son judah in

CreemoreOnt

bull Elaine Pammenter BA 96 is an inventory clerk with the

Royal Collection at Windsor

Castle in England She holds a

museum management and

curatorship grad uate certificate

diploma from Sir Sandford

Fleming College and did her

internship at the Royal Albert

Memorial Museum in Exeter

England

bull Brent Raymond BSe(Env) 96 of Brantford Ont has

been working with Outward

Bound since graduation He

leads wilderness trips in Northshy

ern Ontario Horida Australia and Sabah (Malaysian Borneo) Most recently he designed and implemented a new introducshytory mountaineering course for Outward Bound Sabah on the summit plateau of Mt Kinashy

balu Those of you who know me as plate licker from U of G get in touch he says Where are you Star I miss you He can be reached by e-mail at globarwchatonca or by

phone at 519-756-1697

Alumni Patrick Abbott BSA 40 July 7 1998

Albert Allen BSA 33 Jan 161994 Agris Ansmits BA 70 and MA 73

February 1998 Barbara (Quartermain) Babcock DHE

53 June 17 1998

Wray Bond BSA 34 Sept 25 1998

Kenneth Bone DVM 38 Dec 29 1998 Evelyn (Stevenson) Buhr DHE 39

May 251998 Philip Burke BSA 43 June 21 1998

Grant Carman BSA 49 Oct 221998 Frederick Chambers BSA 41

June 1998 Wilmot Conley ADA4 7 April 7 1998 Lloyd Crewson BSA 49 Aug 261998

Jacqueline Dimock DHE 47

Aug 20 1998 John Dingwall DVM 52

April 18 1998

Lloyd Dorsey BSA 38 June 9 1998 George Duncan BSA 37

Sept 19 1998

David Dyson BSA 53 Aug 31 1998

Norma (Shannon) Edwards DHE 39

November 1997 Vincent Bud Ellis DVM 41

July 15 1998 John Jack George BSA 48

Sept 24 1998

Donald Haight BSA 33 January 1997 William Hamlyn BSA 33 Dec I 1997

Gordon Harkness BSA 49

November 1997

Charles Hollister DVM 38 June 1996 Donald Hope BSA 54 June 28 1998

Lawrence Jefferson BSA 38

Sept 3 1998

James Kelso DVM 56 July 27 1998

Dorima Lalonde BSA 34 Oct 8 1998 Mildred (Cox) Large DHE 33

June 20 1998 Roger Larson BComm 86 Feb 19 1998 Robert Lawson BSA 49 June 6 1998

bull Doug Ramsey BA 91 and PhD 98 received U of Gs highshyest graduate student award shythe Forster Medal- at June convocation for his academic and community involvement while enrolled in Guelphs new

graduate program in geography He spent the summer as a visitshying research scholar at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College in Truro before assuming his curshyrent position as assistant professhysor at Mount Allison University

David Leach BSc(Agr) 74

July 18 1998

Ian Leask DVM 74 Sept 5 1998

Sheryl Lee BSc 95 June 8 1998 Ruby Janet MacAuley DHE 30

Aug 19 1998 Parker MacKenzie DVM 38

September 1994

Jeanice MacLaren DHE 28 March 1 1997

Campbell MacMaster DVM42

Oct 8 1998

Rex McCallum DVM 43 July 71998 Jean (Dunn) McMahon DHE 31

Nov 41998

Margaret Oones) McTaggart DHE 35 Aug 81998

Patrick McTaggart-Cowan HDSc 81

Oct 21997

Malcolm McWhinnie ADA 39

July 16 1998 Mary (Townsend) Mitchell BHSc

60 Sept 281998

Marjory Monaghan DHE 29

December 1997 Charles Monk BSA 44 Aug 7 1998

Heather Neilsen BHSc 59

Oct 30 1998 Jerry Niwa DVM 62 Aug 5 1998 Henry Harry OReilly BSA 42

October 1997

James Parr BSc(Agr) 81 June 19 1998 Charles Rammage DVM 45

Oct 17 1996 Howard Rapson HDSc 90

March 1997 Clement Reeds DVM 42 Oct 16 1998

William Robinson BSA 38

Aug 23 1998

Donald Sager ADA 73 Oct 141997

Austin Schaefer DVM 37 in 1997

Sandra (Mackenzie) Schmidt DHE 59

Aug 16 1997 Margaret (Harvey) Seaborn DHE 28

July 221998

Larry Seguin DVM 47 June 12 1998

Leah Shedden DHE 31 December 1998

Edward Shuh BSA 40 July 2 1998

Ted Shutsa BSc(Agr) 66

Sept 18 1998 Jim Sinclair DVM 49 Oct 4 1998

Margaret (Brown) Sinclair DHE 20

September 1998 Eldon Smith BSA 42 Sept 9 1998

Derek Somers DVM 96 Sept 25 1998

Cheryl Lynn Sopha BA 95 Sept 20 1998

Leona (Bartlett) Stewart DHE 35

June 27 1998 Alex Thomson BSc(Agr) 69

October 1996

William Whittick DVM 55

Aug 15 1998 Joseph Wilson BSA 23 Sept 11 1998

Lloyd Woolsey DVM41 June 24 1998

Winifred Yeates DHE 28 June 11998

Faculty John Carpenter BSA 43 and MSA 48

Microbiology Dec 10 1998

David Gaskin Zoology Sept 14 1998

Gordon Macleod BSA 50 Animal and

Poultry Science Nov 26 1998 Roman Retman Languages and

Literatures Sept 28 1998

Caesar Sen off Chemistry and

Biochemistry Aug 14 1998

Percy Smith Drama Dec 10 1998

Friends Robert Clark Aug 21 1998

Ethel Hammond August 1998

Thomas Hillers Sept 28 1998 Marguerite Holbrook Aug 26 1998

Catherine Kelly Sept 27 1998

James A McKenzie May 13 1998

Kenneth McIssac Oct 23 1998

William Mutlock September 1998 Roena Patterson Sept 16 1998

Donald Priddle Aug 25 1998

WINTER 1999 43

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bull Karl Reimer BSe 94 comshypleted a one-year intensive

MSc in mining engineering at

Queens University and is now

a project engineer a t Enpar

Technologies Ine in Guelph

He can be contacted at reimerbservcom

bull Nancy Nauta Rowland BA 90 and her husband Dan celshy

ebrated their first wedding

anniversary in March 1998 with

the birth of their first child

Connor who beat their March

8 anniversary by two days Nanshy

cy teaches junior-grade stushy

dents and junior special ed ucashy

tion for the Peel District School

Board The Rowlands live in

Caledon Ont

bull Fraser Stables MFA 98 was heralded by Toronto Globe 6shyMail critic Betty Jordan as a

formidable new talent followshy

ing the openi ng of his debut

gallery exh ibition in July The

Scottish artists work includes

sculpture video and mixed

media that explore notions of

flu x by interrupting the moveshy

ment of forms in space

bull Erin (Smith) Scott BSe(HK) 92 and Brad

Scott BSc(Agr) 91 of Lucan

O nt were married in 1993 and

had their first child Lucas in

August Erin works for Shopshy

pers Home Health Ca re in

London Brad is with New Life

Mills in Dunfield

bull Abby Simons BSc 95 and Martin Piche BSc(Agr) 95 were married in Mont-Tremshy

blant Quebec in 1997 She is a

customer service representative

with Kantech Systems he is

superintendent of Club de golf

vallee des forts They say theyd

love to hear from anyone headshy

ing to Montreal and can be

reached at 450-348-3860

bull Sylvia Tesori BSc 95 has been doing wildlife rehabilitashy

tion for the OSPCA Wildlife

Rehabilitation Centre in Midshy

land Ont since 1996

bull Chuck Thibeault BComm 94 is general manager of the

Putting Edge Corpora tion

which has two glow-in- theshy

dark mini-golf courses in

Ontario one in Bramp ton and

one in Richmond Hill He can

be reached in Richmond Hill at

chu ckttotalnet

bull Karen Thirlwall BA 93 is a

si ngersongwriter and guitarist

who began her stage career and

released her first album The Voice Inside Me while studying

languages at U of G She has

lived and performed in

11i stler BC for three years

and recently released a second

album called Wide-Eyed She

remembers many special

fr iends m ade at Guelph and

welcomes e-mail messages to

karenthirlwallhotmailcom

bull Christie (Johnson) and Steve

Tyler both BComm 91 live in

Cambridge Ont where

Christie is a personal banking

representative for the Royal

Bank Steve works with their

third-year design professor

Nelson Hofer in Mississauga as

a design consultan t Steves proshy

jects include the Windsor Casishy

no and U of Gs Creelman Hall

They have two children Jason

5 and Marcus 1

bull Julia White BA 91 lives in Guelph and is a small-business

accountant at Taves amp Co She

recently finished courses

towards a CGA designation and

would like to hea r from other

alumni who lived in Lambton

Hall in 198788 Send e-mail to

juliawhitesympaticoca

bull Andre-Denis Wright MSc 93 and PhD 98 is doing postshy

docto ral work in Perth Westshy

ern Australia He wants his

Guelph friends and Halifax

family to know he was thinking

of them at Christmas when it

was 40 C in Australia

bull Dave Yellen BComm 90 was recently promoted at the Gordon

Food Service to new-accounts

sales specialist for Metro Toronshy

to Having been in Ottawa for

the past few years Im hoping

to reacquaint myself with old

friend s from U of G in the Metro

area he says He lives in Scarborshy

ough and can be reached at 416shy615-2745 or davidysprintca

bull Halina Zaleski PhD 92 is a tenured professor in the

departm ent of animal sciences

at the Un iversity of Hawaii in

Honolulu She is a swine speshy

cialist involved in extension

programs for an area th at covshy

ers all of Hawai i and the PacifIC

basin She can be reached by

e-mail at halinahawaiiedu

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IF THERE ARE LIVESTOCK IN THE HOCKEY ARENA and

theyre not wearing skates its College Royal If there

are students sawing logs throwing pies baking cookies

and square dancing its College Royal When the entire

University of Guelph is displayed - from arts to zooloshy

gy - March 13 and 14 1999 youll know its definitely

College Royan

Since its inception in 1925 as an agricultural and liveshy

stock show run by the Ontario Agricultural College

College Royal has grown to be a celebrated U of G trashy

dition involving all the colleges

The event is famou s in the University community

and beyond for its open-house showcase of displays and

activities The largest student-run open house in Canashy

da College Royal attracts more than 20000 visitors to

campus over one weekend

College Royal is an event of tradition that reaches

into tomorrow Agriculture and livestock shows are still

highlighted events but College Royal activities have

grown to include dog and cat shows a photography conshy

test a chemistry magic show and demonstrations on

human health and fitness The open house gives people

an opportunity to see what happens in the Universitys

leading-edge research laboratories to observe veterinary

medicine in practice to tour a sculpture studio or to

watch a theatrical performance

To celebrate the 75th anniversary of College Royal

1998 president Joe TrakaJo lnvites alumni to get involved

again by joining one of the planning comm ittees or by

participating in a favourite event Call him for more

information at 824-4120 Ext 8366 or send e-mail to

jtrakalouoguelphca

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UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

n ALUMNI PROF IL E

LETS LOOK AT THE OPPORTUNITIES

WHEN I-IE BECA ME president of the Unishy

versity of Guelph Alumni Association

(UGM) in June Jim Weeden brought new

enthusiasm and ideas for encouraging alumshy

ni to stay in volved with their alma mater

And he wants to start with students

Weeden reca ll s his own ex perience at

U of G where he fo und a sense of commushy

nity by living in residence and ge tting

involved in college activiti es But when he

graduated with an engin ee ring degree in

197 1 he left to begin a caree r and says he

didnt think much about the University until

he needed it again in the 1980s to pursue a

graduate degree in agricultural enginee ring

He spent his early career working as an

agricultural extensi o n engineer for the

Ontario Department o f Agriculture and is

stiU with its successo r the Ontario Ministry

of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs

(OMAFRA) Weed en completed the masshy

ters degree in 1986 when he was head of the

agricultural engineering program and extenshy

sion services a t Centralia College of Ag rishy

cultural Technology

In 1987 he moved to the ministrys plant

industry branch as program m anager and

later held the same position in th e resources

manage m ent branch Sin ce then he has

worked for OMAFRA in Woodstock and

now Stratfo rd He is technical adviser fo r

Ontarios Enviro nmental Farm Planning

Program is respo nsible for o ther environshy

m ental programs and consults with the Minshy

istry o f th e Environment on local agriculshy

tural pollution problems

w Weed en got involved with the Universishy sect tys a]u111ni programs by serving on the first g z board of the Engineering Alumni Associashy

~ tion when it was established in 1990 From

~ 1991 to 1994 he sat on the University Senshy

~ ate and its Research Board and for the pas t

~ four years) hels been on the UGAA executive

32 GUELPH A LU MNUS

From the presidents chair Weeden looks

at the bro ad picture o f UG AA se rvice and

recognizes that the associa tio n owes a debt

o f gratitude to hundreds of alumni volunshy

teers who ha ve helped to build the organishy

za tion over the yea rs and to University staff

in Development and Public Affairs (DampPA)

who support UGAA initiatives and alumni

programs Thro ugh their efforts he says the

a lulllni associati o n is rea ching out to all

U of G alumni Graduates who have mainshy

tained a close relationship with the Univershy

sity thro ugh their college or academic disshy

cipline those who feel an affiliation because

o f their participation in a thletics residence

life o r extracurricular activiti es and even

HIGHLIGHTSmiddot GRAD NEWSmiddot OBITUARIES bull CALENDER

those who have not kept in touch are part of the constituency served by UGAA

Weed en says the alumni association needs to strengthen its relationship with all alumni and he believes the effor t must start on campus with students Hed like to proshymote the idea of alumni involvement as ear shyly as a students second year We need to give students some reason to be con nected and an efficient vehicle for maintaining that connection he says

For many students and new graduates the social functions supported by UGAA and the opportunities for professional networking will be important says Weeden but greater rewards are there for those who join the effort to enhance the Universitys acade mic goals

In todays economic and political envi shyronme nt individual financial support and the advocacy of post-secon dary education are important roles for alumni he says How many people ac tively get involved with the debate on whether universities are job-trainshy

ing centres or centres of education Yet some of our alumni are extremely adept in such roles Weeden would like to cultivate past and current stud ent ac tivists as supporters of public education after they graduate

As Weeden leads UGAA into a new year he says he will work with other UGAA volshyunteers and DampPA staff to find new ways for the association to interact with students and alumni One id ea is to expand UGAAs Intershynet presence by adding a Web message board that will encourage alumni to discuss career and campus issues online and a reply form that will allow them to quickly update addressshyes employment status and other information

Weeden says its important to stay focused on UGAAs key prioriti es but he welcomes any and all new ideas on how to accomplish them All it takes to share your ideas with the UGAA executive is a stamp or a push of the send button when youre clicked on alumniuoguelphca

HKHB SPIRIT RISES

ENCOURAGED BY THE SPIRIT

shown by fellow alumni at last

summers reunion the executive

of the Human Kinetics Human Biology

Alumni Association is moving ahead

with more opportunities for alumni to

stay in touch The association plans to

launch a Web site that will be accessed

through the U of G site

A wine-and-cheese reception already

planned for June 19 1999 wiil try to

build on the success of the 1998 event

which attracted alumni from as far away

as Chicago and as far apart as the 19605

and 1990s Guests had a chance to tour

U of Gs new Health and Performance

Centre and performance testing

labs The program was co-ordinated wiLh

A REFLECTION OF PRIDE

Members of the OAC

Class of 52 join Arboshy

retum staff on the front patio

of the Arboretu m Centre

beside a new reflecting pool

that was built last summer

as a class project Pictured

from left are Murray Parker

Ann Smith George Smith

Jack Sargent Catherine Gibb

Robin Shaw-Rummington

Marilyn Swaby BA 69

Bev Healy B5e(Agr) 72

Norm Watson Una Venerus

Ron Costen Henry Kock

BSe (Agr) 77 and Ric

Jordan BA 75

Prof Jack Barclay chair of the Departshy

ment of Human Biology and Nutritional

Sciences and Prof Susan Pfeiffer Memshy

bers of the Human KineticsHuman

Biology Alumni Association executive arc

Janet Leonhard 82 president Carolyn

Moore 83 vice-president Alison Locker

97 secretary Mark Mulholland 79

lreasurer and t-iary Ann Crape 76

These officers are also spea rheading a

new initiative to benefit students - an

undergraduate award that will provide

$250 and lifetime mem bership in the

association To commcnt on these and

other initiatives contact Leonard by

e-mail at Janel_Leonhardinwrbsb

eduonca or Moore at cturveyagec

uoguelphca

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alumni

Multimedia lab buzzes

THE DONALD FORSTER RoOiv

has become one of the

busiest spots in th e Unishy

versity of Guelph Liblary since the

addition of 70 state-of-the-art

computer workstations that were

supported by alumni do nations

to the Alma Mater Fund (AM F)

U of G president Mordechai

Roza nski officia ll y o pened th e

Alma Mater Fund Multimedia

Lab D ec 2 an d celebrated th e

event with members of the AMF

Adv isory Counc iL [n 1996 a nd

1997 the AMF contributed

$240000 to th e project which

increased the number of student

workstations o n campus by 50 per

cent Students use the m ult imeshy

~ dia lab to conduct research on the

~ Internet access scholarly publicashyr u VI tions on CD-ROM and use COll1shyz ~ puter software mod ules tbat lt

~ strengthen the teaching provided lD

o in co urse lectures labs and tcxtshybii books

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Alumnus of many interests

I NTERES TING P EOPLE always have eclect ic interests and U of G

alumnus and honorary degree recipient Ken Murray BSA 50 and

HDLA 96 is a good example H e is known by most people on camshy

pus for his distinguished career in the Canadian meat packing indusshy

try and his volunteer service to U of G He was a member and chair

of Board of Governors from 1973 to 1978 and chair of the Regionshy

al Corporate Committee during U of Gs last capital campaign and

is currently chair of the Heritage Fund Enhancement Committee

Murray is also a strong supporter of community soc ial services

In August he addressed the World Congress of Social Ps)chiatry

held in British Columbia - the only non-psychiatrist on the proshy

gram He spoke about his role in establishing an Alzheimers research

project a t the University ofWaterioo which was recently named in

his honour the Ken Murray Alzheimer Research and Education Proshy

gra m At the gc conference he al so participated in a panel dis shy

cussion that outlined services offered by Guelphs Homewood Health

Cent re Murray bas been actively involved in the governance of the

centre since 1977 and has been a major player in the development

of a charitable foundatio n bearing the Homewood name

WHEN THE PUCK DROPPED More than 30 teams including two

womens teams were entered in the

Dec 6 University of Guelph Alumni Hockey

Tournament Organizers for the 1998 event

were from left Brian Finniss B5c 88

Brad Stephenson BA 86 Terry Carr

BComm 87 Todd Bryant BA 86 and

undergraduate student Brian Melnick

Ken Murray centre with his wife Marilyn Robinson Murray and U of G president Mordechai Rozanski

34 GU ELPH ALUMNU S

RESTORING A JEWEL IN THE CROWN

DONALD RUTHERFORD BSA 5 stands in fron t

of the 1931 conservatory greenhouse that will

be restored to match the splendour of the ga rdens

now growi ng up around it His $256000 leadershy

ship gift to the Conservatory and Gardens Project

was inspired by hi s m emo ries of being a student

at OAC

On behalf of fellow alumni I hope this gift will

commemorate the experiences and educat ion we

acquired while at Guelph says Rutherford When

fully restored to its previous glory the conservatoshy

ry greenhouse will be an ideal greeting and welcome

spot for visitors and newcomers to the University

as well as old friend s renewing their acquaintance

Rutherfords professional career spans the agrishy

foo d industr y beginning as an agricu ltural repshy

resentative with the provincial minist ry I-Ie was

later vice-president of the Fertilizer Institute of

Ontario executive secreta ry of the Canadian Seed

Trade Association director of information w ith

the Ca nadian Livestock Feed Board and Canadishy

an sa les manager for Sylvite of Can ad a Retired

since 1986 he now owns his own sma ll investment

company and manages to golf throughout the yea r

The conserva tory isnt the first ca mpus project

to attract Rutherford s attention - as a student

he helped dig out the base ment of Massey H al l to

build a student lo unge - but his recent gift has

been a tremendous boost to those who have been

working since the ea rly 1990s to save the glass and

cypress structure from demo lition

A committee of alumni facult y sta ff stu dents

and fri en ds of the University has moved the proshy

ject along to th e point w here most of the surshy

rounding garden complex is now complete It fea shy

tures six gardens named in honour of the ir chie f

supporters Autumn Garden - OAC 5 1 Spring

Ga rden - OAC 53 Su mmer Garden - OAC 55

Winter Gard en - OAC 65 Water Gard en shy

OAC 49 and the Woo dland Garden named in

honour of the late Doug Rob inson BSA 53

Alumni have been in strumental in raising

funds for the $ l-million project Students and fa cshy

ulty have provided mudl of the h1l1ds-on Idbour

and friends in the nursery and landscape materishy

als supply industries have given $250000 ill donashy

tions and gifts-in-kind of plan ts and landsca ping

materials Rutherford s generous gift has pushed

th e conservato ry fund-ra ising effort in to the fin 81

stretch Th e ga rden complex and restored g reenshy

110use are sc heduled to officially open during

Alumni Weekend in June 1999

1999 Coming Events

Jan 29 - Aggie Goodshy

Times Banquet call the OAC Student Federation at Ext 8321 for ticket injemnrltion Feb 13 - Norm McCo llulll

D iploma Hockey Tournashy

m ent call Jack Bakker at 519-837-0132 to register a team

Feb 21 - Ottawa Chapter

annual curling bonspiel

Richmond C urling Club in

Richmond Ont For informashytiol1 call Alan Bentley BSA 61 at 6 13-829-6598 or John DVit[ 54 mId Margaret McGowml BHSc 54 at

613-828-7038

March 3 - Florida alumni

reunion a t Maple Leaf

Estates Port Charlo tte Fla

call Ext 6533 0 register

March 13 and 14 - ollcge

Royal 75th o pen house

March 19 and 20 - OAC

Alumni Association curling

bonspiel G uelph Curling

Club register at Ext 6657

May 5 - Chicago All Canashy

dian Universities Night hostecl

by U of G at the University

Club of Chicago 76 East Monshy

roe Sr call Exl 6533 for details May 5 - OAC Alumni

Foundation annual meeting

730 pm Arboretum Centre

May 12 - Alumni-inshy

Action annual meeting and

luncheo n 1130 3m

Arboretum Centre ((11 Ext 6657for tickets

June 18 to 20 - Alumni

Veekend call Ext 6657 to plall a reun io n

-0 r shya -IFor more infon-nation on any a

eVC1l1listed ailove call the oJ -lt oU of G extension listed at en raquo

519-824-4120 or send e-mail z

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WINTER 1999 35

alumni Matters

MEMORIES OF COLLEGE ROYAL Grant MacEwan ADA 23 and

BSA 26 is one of the few OAC

alumni who c~n still remember

the first College Royal held Jan

14 1925 MacEwan bad just

entered the degree program in

animal husbandry and may have

been a participant in the liveshy

stock showmanship classes Latshy

er in life he was widely known Grant MacEwan

across Western Canada as 3 liveshy

stock judge and an advocate of

agricultural fairs and exhibitions

MacEwan is bes t known

however for his 23-year C3reer

as a university professor in Manshy

itoba and Saskatchewan and Ilis

political career which included

12 years as alderman and mayshy John Kenneth Galbraith

or of C31gary four years as an

Alberta MLA and eight as lieushy birthday in August

tenant -governor of the province The year after Ma cEwan

He s till lives in Calgary graduated John Kenneth Galshy

where he celebrated his 96th braith ADA 29 and BSA 31

HOMECOMING 98

enrolled at OAC and devoted

some of his energy to organizshy

ing College Royal Show records

indicate it was Galbraith who

first proposed the college event

be publicized so that people

from the farm community

could attend He also suggestshy

ed that OAC invite students

from American agricultural colshy

legesl n th e early 1930s Colshy

lege Royal took its fir s t steps

towards becoming the comshy

munity open house it is today

Galbraith later moved to the

United States where he enjoyed

a distinguished caree r as a proshy

fessor of economics at Harvard

Universi ty Known for his

humanit~rian approach to ecoshy

nomic and political thinking

he was awarded the Order of

Canada in 1997 He celebr3ted

his 90th birthday in October

IT REALLY WAS a homecoming reunion when and Arnott who is head coach of the York

former Gryphon teammates Ralph Shapiro University Yeomen came from the visitors

S5c(HK) 74 and Tom Amott S5c(HK) 80 dreSSing room to hold the ball Shapiro is

met on the field at Alumni Stadium Oct 3 the controller at Huntsman Chemical Inc

Shapiro had the honour of kicking off in Guelph and a longtime United Way volshy

the Universitys 1998 United Way campaign unteer who chaired this years Guelph and

Wellington fund-raising drive The Univershy

sity campaign is the largest in the county

with U of G staff and faculty contributing

over $200000 in 1998

Prior to the game a number of recent

alumni - all U of G scholarship and award

winners - met for a reunion luncheon The UJ

1948 and 1949 dominion championship i5f 3

football teams were also honoured guests z 5 o at the 2 pm game that saw the Gryphons gtshy a defeat York f shya I a

Ralph Shapiro

36 G UELPH ALUMNUS

LEADING THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY FOR 1974 GRADS The 25th-anniversary reunion givshy

i ng program for the Class of 1974

is under way with Bill Laidlaw BA

74 as cbair A public affairs proshy

fessional he has been director of

government relations for the

Canadian operations of Glaxo

vVelJcome Inc for more th an 10

years He also acts as a senior conshy

sultant to support the governshy

ment relations function in other

regions of Canada

Laidlaw began his career in

teaching after earning a history

degree from Guelph and education

degrees (rom Queens University

and the University of Toronto He

also holds the certified human

resources professional designation

and worked in that field for sevshy

eral years before concen trating on

government relations at Glaxo

Welkome He lives in Burlington

Ont and is an act ive community

volunteer having se rved on the

boards of severa l professional

organizations the Queensway

General Hospital and the Metroshy

politan Toronto Lung Association

He is currently completing a oneshy

year term as chair of the Ontario

Chamber of Commerce

Anniversa ry preparations will

culminate with a class gathering

a nd reunion gift at Alumni

Weekend in June 1999

ALUMNI MAKE THE CONNECTION Students who moved into

Maids and Mills halls in Sepshy

tember can take full advanshy

tage of the Universitys highshy

speed computer network

thanks to the OAC Class of

71 whose 25 th-reunion proshy

ject provided wiring upgrades

in the 84- and 77-year-old

residence buildin gs

GRAD NEWS

Marathon survivors inspire us all to appreciate everyday life

W HEN ROBINSON SIIlLJNGS Jane BSe(Agr)

85 Heather BASe 83 Peter BSe(Agr)

86 Scott and Marnie rigwood BA 84 get

together they talk about marathons and the hope

and determination it takes to reach the finish line

Hea ther walked a marathon in San Diego

Calif in June to raise money for leukemia

research then joined Peter for a Toronto marathon

in October that benefi ted the Leukemia Research

Fund of Canada They were inspired by Janes pershy

sonal marathon of survival that foUowed her 1992

diagnosis of leukemia Chemotherapy radiation

remission relapse and finally a bone marrow

transplant [TOm her brother Scott took more than

three years out of her life but gave her the detershy

mination to keep fighting

Many families can understand the marathon

of hope maintained by the Robinsons during

Janes struggle and the commitment they have to

help others who are stricken with the disease Jane

is finally well enough to work again as a writer

and marketing consultant and to join her fami shy

ly in volunteer work She helped recruit for the

Toronto marathon fund -raiser and continues to

be involved with the Leukemia Research Funds

Team in Training She also says that her expeshy

rience has taught her to appreciate more the pleashy

sures of everyday life and the love of famil y

Jan es parents are th e late Doug Rob inson

BSA 53 and Marilyn (Inglis) Robinson Murray

BH Sc 55

19305

bull Grant Misener ADA 32 BSA 35 and DVM 38 received the

prest igious George F Hixso n Felshy

lowship Award from the Kiwanis

International Foundation in May The retired Illinois veter ishy

narian was hono ured for his subshystantial contribution to the

Kiwanis wo rldwide service proshy

ject aimed at eliminating iodine

deficiency disorders the leading

cause of preventable mental retardation in children Over the

years Misener has shown a simishylar commitment to his al ma

mater an d its students through

his close association with OVC

and his support of scho larship

programs

19405

bull Russell McDonaldDVM 45 was named an honorary life direcshytor of the Royal Agricultural Winshy

ter Fair Association in March

McDonald formerly general manshy

ager of Western Ontario Breeders

Ine and executive director of the Canadian Association of Animal

Breeders served as a director of the Royal Winter Fair for 20 years

representing the Canadian artifishycial insemination industry He

lives in Woodstock Ont

bull Ian Taylor DVM43 was recently honoured by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to

Animals of Illinois Taylor ran a small-animal veterinary clinic in

the Chicago area for many years

and says he gained ll1uch experishyence during his first three years in

Illinois as clinic veterinarian for

the anti -cruelty society

19505

bull Charles Chuck Broadwell BSA 54 was elected a Mel

Osborne Fellow by the Kiwanis

Club of Forest City in London Ont in recognition of a dedicatshy -ed and distinguished career in

Kiwanis

19605

bull Constantine Campbell BSA 60 and MSA 61 was named to the

WINTER 1999 37

Order of Canada in January He

received the award in recogni shy

tion of his many contributions

to science and the Canadian

agricultural industry After grad shy

uating from OAC he went on to

do his PhD at the University of

Saskatchewan then joined Agri shy

culture and Agri-food Canada

as a research scientist at the Swift

Current research station Campshy

bell and his family now live in

Ottawa where he is scientist

emeritus with Agriculture and

Agri-food Canada

bull John Casselman BSA 64 is

a research scientist with the

Ontario Ministry of Natural

Resources He Jives in Bath

Ont with his wife Lois

bull Jane Fuller RRSc 65 and

her husband George who both

taught at the Macdonald Instishy

tute from 1966 to 1969 have

moved from Winnipeg to

Utopia Ont following

Georges retirement from the

University of Manitoba

bull Fred Gilbert MSc 66 and

P hD 68 is in his first term as

president of Lakehead Univer shy

sity in Thunder Bay Ont He

taught at U of G in the Departshy

ment of Zoology from 1972 to

1981 and has enjoyed a dive rse

academic career that has also

included teaching at the Unishy

versity of Maine and posi tions

as director of wildlife biology at

Washington State University

and founding dean of the Facshy

ulty of Natural Reso urces and

Environmenta l Studies at the

University of Northern British

Columbia He moved to Lakeshy

head from a position as viceshy

pro vost at Colorado State Unishy

versity A respected wildlife

biologist he has conducted

ex tensive resea rch in s Ll ch areas

as the behaviour and physioloshy

gy of wildlife species and the

effects of environmental

change on wildlife populations

bull Terry Goodyear BSc 67 of

Mont Tremblant Quebec is an

early retiree from Agriculture

and Agri-Food Canada in Ottawa He is now working on

va lue-added products from

industrial wastes particularly

cellulose sludge from pulp and

pa per mills

bull Gary Hearn BA 68 was

named an Ontario provincial

judge in October For the last

25 years he has been a lawyer

with the firm Kearns McKinshy

non in Guelph where he lives

with his wife Irene and three

teenage children

bull Allan Knight BSA 66 of Corunna Ont has retired

from Dow Chemical after 30

years On retirement he was a

laboratory director for indusshy

trial chemicals He is now

working with his son in a famishy

ly-owned and -operated busishy

ness Knight Funeral Home

bull Keith McFarlane BSc(Agr)

68 works for the Department

of Foreign Affairs and Internashy

tional Trade and began a fourshy

year assignment last summer as

head of the commercial divishy

sion of the Canadian Embassy

in Lisbon Portugal The

division promotes the sa le of

Canadian goods and services

to Portugal

bull Ian Newbould MA 68 has

travelled far from his Ontario

roots through an academic and

administrative career that has

taken him to Europe Asia and

Western Canada A noted hisshy

torian he moved into adm inisshy

tration at the University of

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Lethbridge in 1981 and spent

10 years there as director of

research dean of a rts and scishy

ence and vice-presiden t (acadeshy

mic) before crossing the counshy

try to become president of

Mount Allison University in

New Brunswick He is now in

his second term as president of

Mount AUison

bull Indra Deo Singh MSc 68 is

a tea scientist international

consultant and joint director of

the Tea Research Association at

the Nagrakata substation in

India His responsibilities

include co-ordinating research

and development in the Indian

tea industry and developing tea

cultivars and agrotechnology

for tea Singh is married with

two sons aged 27 and 23

19705

bull Don Ambler BSe 71 retired in March as manager of

water programs with Environshy

ment Canada in Dartmouth

NS after 25 years of public

service He has now registered

the company Aquashed Co nshy

sulting to continue in the water

resources field when hes not

gardening beekeeping do ing

aerobics or vo lunteering in the

community and chu rch E-mail

contact is welcome a t

donambl erns sympaticoca

bull Jim Bond BSe 75 is managshy

ing a new processing facility at

the Chalk River Nuclear Laborashy

to ry in Chalk River Ont

bull Terri (Monks) Bulman BSc(Agr) 78 and MSe 81

and her husband Vincent

MSe 8 1 live in Australia with

their th ree children Catherine

7 Peter 4 and baby Christoshy

pher Terri is senior principal

environmental auditor vith

Coffey Geosciences Pty Ltd Vinshy

cent afte r many years as a geoloshy

gist travelling around Australia

and abroad has taken the year

off to study and look after the

children Their e-mail address is

tbulmanbigpondco m

bull Marie David BA 78 of

Hanover Ont has been in the

n ewspaper business for 20

years She started in the mailshy

room moved to advertising

sales then became advert ising

manager She is now gene ral

manager o f three So utham

weekly newspapers and pubshy

lish er of the Hanover Post

bull Janice Harrower and her husshy

band Jerome Billett both

DVM 76 operate a joint veterishy

nary practice in Prescott Ont

Billett says practising together

has allowed them some flexibilishy

ty in their family life and given

their four children a good took

at the rigours of veterinary

medicine Says Billett Not one

of our kid s has the slightest

interest in being a veterinarian

and isnt that just fine Their

o ldest son Jesse attends Harshy

va rd University and is a memshy

ber of its prestigious a cappella

choir Lucas is studying

mechanical engineering at the

University of Waterloo Casey is

planning a career in computer

engineering and Lindsay is a

high school athle te

bull Clair Heinbuch BSe 74 is a

sales manager with Baye r Corp

in Kansas H e and his wife

Caroline (Koscik) BASc 75

returned to the Kansas City

area after spending four years in

Denver They have three chilshy

dren Lisa 20 Scott 18 and

Ryan [5

bull Beverly Lee BASe 72 is an

elem entary school principal in

Unionville Ont She lives with

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her husband Grant Egan in

Collingwood and is looking

forward to retirement in severshy

al years Life on Georgian Bay

is wonderful she says Lee

would love to hear from fellow

grads by e-mail at

leebYrbeeduonca or by

phone at 705 -444 -092l

bull Won-Jai Maeng MSc 71 took office Sept 1 as president

of Kon-Kuk University in Seoul

Korea where his academic

career began He completed an

undergraduate degree at Kon

Kuk in 1965 then studied at

Mailing Agricultural College in Denmark and at U of G before

doing doctoral work at the Unishy

versity of California Davis

Maeng has held research and

teaching positions at the Unishy

versity of illinois at Chung-Ang

University and at Kon-Kuk

where he has been a professor of

animal science since 1984 His

appointment as president folshy

lows years of administrative

experience as a department

head dean and chair of various

research committees and proshy

fessional organizations An

expert in ruminant nutrition

Maeng was instrumental in

developing the livestock feed

industry in Korea He has also

been active in working with

alumni groups and in writing

for the Kon-Kuk Tribune

bull Bill MarshaU ADA 75 of Proton Station Ont moved

from Clarksburg in June to

work in Dundalk for the Grey

County Roads Department on

its road management crew

bull Bernie Matte BSc(Agr) 70 of Moncton NB retired

in March after 28 years with

Fisheries and Oceans Canada

and the Canadian Food

Inspection Agency He plans to

travel to Belize and Honduras

with his wife Diane and will

be available anywhere in the

Caribbean for seafood HACCP

consulting work

bull Margaret McClain BA 70 lives in Arkansas where she is

highJy involved in the issue of

40 GUELPH ALUMNUS

missing children and internashy

tional abductions McClain who

believes her own six-year-old

daughter was taken out of the

United States more than a year

ago by her second husband is

reaching out to parents with

similar experiences through an

organization that is lobbying the

US government for tougher

international abduction laws

She invites interested fr iends

and alumni to contact her

through her Web site at

wwwinsolwwbnet-dmcclain

bull Robert (Chuck) Miller BA 77 is the park superintendent

of Killarney French River and

Maskinonje provincial parks in

Ontario He moved to Killarney

from Quetico Provincial Park

last May

bull Gordon Nicol BA 72 and MSc(Agr) 74 teaches math

and science in a bilingual prishy

vate school in Guatemala A

BEd graduate of Laurentian

he first taught in Guatemala in

the late 1970s then spent 12

years in northern Alberta as a

teacher and principal He

returned to Guatemala in 1989

A widower with three teenage

children Nicol would like to

hear from U of G friends and

acquaintances especially anyshy

one who is was or will be in

Central America He says he

could also use middle-schoolshy

level science projects Send eshy

mail to gnicoll guatenet or

write to PO Box 661447 Miami

Springs Florida 33266-1447

bull Chris Schulte BSc 71 and MSc 73 lives in Nassau

Bahamas with his wife

Andrya After graduation he

stayed in the Department of

Physics as a research associate

with Prof lain Campbell then

joined Ontario Hydro in the

early 1980s He moved to the

Bahamas in 1995 He can be

reached bye-mail at

schultebahamasnetbs

bull Sandra (Pickford) Webster BA 75 has retired from U of

Gs Co mmunications and Pubshy

lic Affairs and is living in Parry

Sound Ont where she is

doing volunteer work and

communications consulting

for the municipality Guelph

friends ca n contact her by

e-mail atswebsterzeutercom

19805

bull Sharon (Courneya) Angus BA 8 I of Surrey BC comshy

pleted a BSW at the University

of British Columbia in 1988

and has been working for the

BC government for 13 years

- first in probation and now

in the family justice division

She and her husband Ron

have three children Jason

Carly and Colin

bull Karen Beazley BLA 86 is an assistant professor and acadeshy

mic program co-ordinator at

the School for Reso urce and

Environmental Studies at Dalshy

housie University in Halifax

She is currently doing research

for a book on endangered

species initiatives and is orgashy

nizing a Nova Scotia wildlands

workshop with the Wildlands

Project for 1999 Her e-mail

address is kbeazleyisdalca

bull Caroline (Van Deudekom) and Marc Brooks both ADA 87

recently moved from Strathroy

to Owen Sound Ont where

they run a 50-acre organic farm

with their two sons

bull Virginia Burt BLA 85 startshyed her own landscape architecshy

ture firm Visionscapes in

Hamilton Ont in ] 996 She

specializes in the design of thershy

apeutic healing gardens spirit

gardens sacred spaces and

la byrin ths and recen tly designed the first healing garden

in Canada specificalJy for peoshy

ple living with HIV and AIDS

bull Joanne (Branson) Carver BA 80 earned a BEd from Brock

University in 1981 and recently

started working as a probashy

tionparole officer She Jives in

Ajax Ont and has two daughshy

ters Julie4 and Sarah 8

bull Heather Champ BA 86 is a Web-site designer in New York

City She began her work in

computer design in 1990 Her

personal site can be Found at

wwwjezebelcom

bull Laurie Gough BA 87 has become a world traveller who

writes about her experiences for

the benefit of others Her most

recent book Island of the

Human Heart A tfornans Travshyel Odyssey is now in its second

printing in Canada and will be

released next year in the United

States and overseas She has also

published Travellers Tales A

Womans World which won the

US-based Lowell Thomas

Gold Award for best travel book

of the year When not travelling

or writing she teaches English

and ESL in Guelph

bull Susan (Coles) Goulden BASc 84 and her husband

Ian are th rilled wi th their

recent adoption of Jennifer Lee

Yu who was born in June near

Leping Jiangxi Peoples Repubshy

lic of China The Gouldens

who Jive in vVaterloo Ont

thank classmate Andrea

(Kovits) Henderson for her

support throughout the adopshy

tion process Susan is currently

on leave from her position with

McCormick Canada

bull Judy (Bodendistel) Gregg BA 82 moved to Melbourne Ausshy

tralia in 1997 with her husband

and two children Carly 6 and

Adam 3 We are enjoying the

friendly people and the great

weather here she says We are

especially enjoying winter in a

place where it never gets below

zero Celsius

bull Nigel GumJey DVM 85 has been a partner in the Alta Vista

Animal Hospital in Ottawa

since 1990 was president of the bull Garry Millage AMPHI 86 bull Heidi Stephenson BA 88 is now ISO 9000 manager at

Ontario Veterinary Medical left a position as vice-president was awarded her professional Carpenter Ca nada Ltd in

Association in 1997 and recent- of national operations for acco untants designation of Wood br idge Ont He lives in

ly served on the Canadian Vetshy Scotts Restaurants KFC Divishy certified general accountant in Miss issa uga Classma tes are

erilw() Medical Associations sion to open his own consult- March 1998 She has been invited to contact him at

national issues committee He ing company Future Food employed for the last 10 years avon listarca

lives in Osgoode with his wife Equipment Ine specializes in with Dan Ball Chartered bull Michelle (Pilon) Bacon BA rvlaurecn and children Laura providing new and used restau- Acco un tant in Parry Sound 90 moved to England to study

and Matthew rant equipment and reducing O nt where she lives with her and work after graduating from

bull Muneer Hirji BComm 82 restaurant construction costs hu sband Brad two dogs and a Guelph She recently left a posishy

lives in Toronto and is vice- He also operates a restaurant horse tion with the British Ministry of

president of marke ting at SAP called Nikkos in Woodbridge bull Dawn Stetsko BSe 81 lives Agriculture and Food in York to

Canada He has three chil- Ont and is planning to open a in Langhorne Pa with her husshy become an at-home mom She

drcl1 Nadia 8 Alyssa 6 and second location band Paul and children Mark now lives in London with her

Sarah I bull Tosh Noseworthy BSe 83 is and Keith and is a research husband Tim and one-year-old

bull Brenda irwin BSe 88 is a cardiovascular ICU nurse in scientist with Bristol-Myers daughter Juliette She sends love

studying at Hong Kong Unishy sunny Tuscon Arizona After Squibb Previously she worked to Sue Heather and Sheila and

vers ity of Science and Technolshy grad uation she lived in Paris at McMaster University in can be reached bye-mail at

ogy to complete the final France for a yea r s tudied nurs- Hamilton Ont for 17 yea rs michellebacondialpipexcom

sem ester of an MBA program ing in O ttawa then lived in Saushy bull Teresa Tummillo-Goy BA bull Jeff Barlow BComm 90 is

through the University of di Arabia for two yea rs She still 86 has a law practice in Water- the training and quality manag-

British Columbia She taught loves to travel and would like to 100 Ont foc Li sing primaril y on er for two five-star luxury boushy

science for the North York hea r from fellow alumni She family law civi l litiga tion and tique h o tels in Prague - Hotel

Board of Education for five can be reached at 520-299-8344 real estate She and her hus- Palace Praha and the Hotel

years before enrolling in the bull Cecilia (Wleugel) Parkes band John Goy live in Guelph Savoy Previo usly he was execu -

MBA program BComm 85 is a graphic and have three sons John 4 tive housekeeper at the five-star

bull Jagwant Kanwar PhD 80 is designer in Toronto and says Tony 3 and Shayne 2 Renaissance Pragu e Hotel

a senior scientist in the depart- she st ill uses ber marketing bull Peter Van der Borch DVM bull Margaret Burnes-Souria BA ment of vegetable crops at Pun- background to help her busishy 88 retired in the fa ll of 1997 94 is a team leader with [011 shy

jab Agricultural University in ness succeed She specia lizes in after several years of practising don Magazin e in London Ont

India He is also director of the logo design lNith hand-drawn physiotherapy and ve terinary She married David Souria in

regional vegetable research stashy illustrations medicine and surgery He Jives July 1997 and is pursuing an tion at Usman (TaranTarn) bull Jim Parr BSc(Agr) 81 and in Pictou NS ]VlBA at the University of West-

Amritsar His and his wife MSe 89 died of cancer in bull MartyWilLiams BA 85 is ern Ontario

Sanyogita have a son Mohit June 1998 but hes being co-ordinator of student activishy bull Janine Byers BASe 95 is a and a daughter Dipika who are remembered by his university ties at University College Unishy public health dietitian at the

both studying engineering friends through the establish - versity of Toronto where he Kingston Frontenac and

Friends can write to Kanwar at ment of a mem orial fund for advises student organizations Iennox amp Addington Health

Punjab Agricultural Un ivers ity his wife Denise and children 1Ie is also chair of the U of T Unit in Kingston O nt She is Ludhiana 141 004 India Shannon and Eric Anyone Staff Association a member of getting married to Ca rl Stewart

bull Larissa Larsen BSe 89 and who would like more informa - the steering committee of the on May 29 j 999 MLA 92 received a PhD in tion can ca ll Brian Tapscott at staffs unionization drive and a bull Lisa Cherry BSe 9 1 is a urban and regional planning 519-767-3566 staff member with the student science journalist and executive

from the University of Illinois bull Cheryl (Dunlop) Reid newspaper The Varsity He can director of Artists Against

at Urbana Champaign in May BSe(Agr) 89 sta rted a new be reached bye-mail at marty Racism an international organi-

She has accepted a position at job in September as ingredient wi lliamsutorontoca za tion She is based in Toronto

Thompson Dyke and Associshy sales manager for RA bull Bonnie (Byma) BASe 96 ales a landscape architecture Chisholm o f Toronto She will 19905 and Gil Clelland BA 95 were

and urban planning firm in continue to work from her bull Claire Allison BA 94 grad- married in December 1996 and

Chicago Her husband Ernie remote offke in Fergus Reid uated from the elementary are living in Chatham On t

Poortinga DVM 89 is in his and her husband Jeff BSe teacher ed ucation program at Bo nnie works at a day-care

third yea r of an MD program (Agr) 89 have two children the University of British centre G il teaches art and

at Rush University Chicago lVlega n 4 and Elizabeth 2 Columbia in 1996 and now phys ical education They ca n -Hes looking forward to joining bull Chee Sie BA 83 is a zone teaches in Va ncou ver be reached bye-ma il at gclelshy

his wife in the ranks of the manager for the Malaysian bull JohnAvon BSdHK) 94 lan ciaccesscom employed They would both Assurance Alliance Berhad in earned an M Se in industr ial bull Kate Corn ell BA 95 of enjoy hearing from fellow Sarawak Malaysia He and his operations from Lawrence Markham Ont earned her

alumni and can be reached at wife Jesterine have a two-year- Technological University in masters in dance history from epoor tin garushurushedu old daughter Letitia Southfleld Mich in 1997 and York University in May and

WINTER 1999 41

co-authored a book titled

Toronto Dance Theatre 1968shy1998 Stages in a Journey

bull Mary Jill (McClure) Culliton BASe 90 earned

her BEd from Brock University

and her M Ed from the Univershy

sity of Western Ontario and

teaches Grade 1 in Mitchell

Ont She and her husband

Tim live in Stratford

bull Kathleen (McNutt) Daniels BASe 9 1 is a teacher and was

married on New Years Eve

1994 to Gord Daniels They live

in North Bay Ont and have a

daughter Lauren born in Febshy

ruary 1997 They are expecting

their second child in February

bull Simon Deakin BA 95 studshyied in Florence Italy for a year

then earned a master of fine art

from the Slade School of Fine

Art at the University of London

England He lives in London

bull Christie Dunbar BLA 97 spent a year after graduation

working for Niagara College in

St Catharines Ont on the

vision and design of a new

campus to be built in Niagarashy

on-the- Lake Last April she

joined the landscape architecshy

ture firm of Pollack Design

Associates in Ann Arbor Mich

bull Trina Edmonds BA 94 and

Joel Hinderle became the

proud parents of a little girl

Jordan Ashley in january 1998

and moved to a new home in

Oakville Ont in September

Edmonds works in Mississauga

as a desktop publisher with a

publishingprinting company

bull Wendy Garinther BSc 93 and Steve Decker BSe 94

were married in May Joining

them in the wedding celebrashy

tions were Cheri (Coulter)

42 GUELPH ALUMNUS

Ascroft BSe 93 Karen Leinshy

gartner BSe 94 and Barb

(Moore) Johnson BSe 94

Best man was Jeff Bond BSe

93 and MSe 96 The Deckers

live in Edmonton where Steve

is doing a PhD in chemistry at

the University of Alberta and

Wendy is working in a research

laboratory at a biopharmaceushy

tical company

bull Donna Gross BA 97 is purshysu ing a master of divinity at

Emmanuel College at the Unishy

versity of Toronto and hopes to

become an ordained minister by

2002 She lives in Guelph and

can be reached bye-mail at

donnajulietalbedonet

bull Robert Gruber BA 92 is a child-care supervisor for the

YMCA-YWCA of Guelph and

manages the Jean Little Y

Child- Care Centre He recently

developed the anti -bias proshy

gramming policy for the

Guelph Y and sits on both the

Jean Little Public School Counshy

cil and the Guelph AIDS Wall

Committee He can be reached

bye-mail at rgrubernet

comca

bull Susan Harder BSe 91 grad shyuated from the University of

Toronto Medical School in June

and has started a residency at

Santa Clara Valley Medical Censhy

tre in San jose Calif She will

follow that up with an anestheshy

sia residency at Stanford Univershy

sity Hospital in 1999

bull Marko Harjupanula BASc 93 travelled in Australia for

two months after graduating

from Guelph then returned to

his home town of South Porshy

cupine Ont where he worked

in a gold mine for four years

He entered police college in

September and started as an

opp constable in Cochrane in

December

bull Nancy Holman MA 94 moved to Vancouver soon after

graduation and initially worked

as a project co-ordinator for an

ophthalmologist In 1996 she

began working full time for the

BC Liberal Caucus I would

enjoy hearing from and catchshy

ing up with the friends I made

while studying at U of G and

working at the Brass Taps she

says Her e-mail address is nan shy

cyholmanlassgovbeca

bull Ruth Johnson BA 91 is an investment banking associate

with the mergers and acquisishy

tions group of JP Morgan in

Lond on England responsible

for financial reporting and

administration She has been in

England with her partner Alex Campbell since graduation

bull Stephen Johnson BA 94 of London Ont was a lab technishy

cian at Lenscrafters for three

yea rs and is now a full-time

student at Fanshawe College

studying air conditioning and

refrigeration He was married

in Jun e to Jennifer Fox BSc

95 a chemist at 3M Their

wedding party included Dee Popat BSe (Eng) 94 and

Patrick Wulhes BSc 95

bull Sarah (Davis) Kelly BASe 90 married Robert Kelly in

July and teaches primary

grades at an inner-city school

in Toronto

bull Cassidy Klowak BComm 97 lives in Allisshy

ton Onl and is a personal

banking account manager

with ClBC in Tottenham

bull Stephanie Lopes BSc 96 completed her MSc in repro shy

ductive biology at the Universishy

ty of Toronto and worked as

patient-care director for the

College of Family Physicians

for almost a year In September

she enrolled in medical school

at the University of Toronto

She is happy to announce that

she is engaged to be married

next summer Lopes can be

reached at slopesidirectcom

bull Natalie (Parker) MacKenzie BSc 96 earned her BEd from

the University of Western

Ontario in 1997 She married

ASLt Andy MacKenzie June 27

in Sault Ste Marie Ont and

now lives in Halifax

bull Susan MacKinnon DVM 91 is a veterinarian with HUls

Science Diet She lives in

Guelph with her husband

Brandon Wiley and gave birth

to their first child Adrianna

Nicole june 26 at home

bull Waheed Mian BA 9 1 of Cambridge Ont is a store

director with PetSmart Canada

He helped the company launch

its new retail concept in Cana da

bull Alex Mitchell BA 91 was appointed clerkdeputy treasurshy

er of the Ontario township of

Mildmay-Carrick in 1998 and

will be the clerkadministrator

of the new municipality of

Mildmay-Carrick -TeesWatershy

Culross in 1999 He was married

in january 1997 and lives vith

his wife and daughter in Mild shy

may In his spare time Mitchell

is a professional scout for the

Toronto Maple Leafs covering

southwestern Ontario

bull Sherry Morland BASc 93 of Kitchener Ont ea rned her

BEd from Brock University in

J995 and is a part-time specia l

educa tion teacher and an occashy

sional teacher with the Watershy

loo County Board of Ed ucashy

tion She married Ivan LeBlanc

in 1997

bull Gary Page BSe 91 wo rks for the Nottawasaga Valley Conshy

servation Authority where he is

able to combine his knowledge

of wildlife biology with his

artistic skills as resident graphic

designer and outdoor centre

interpreter He Jives with his

wife Di and their son judah in

CreemoreOnt

bull Elaine Pammenter BA 96 is an inventory clerk with the

Royal Collection at Windsor

Castle in England She holds a

museum management and

curatorship grad uate certificate

diploma from Sir Sandford

Fleming College and did her

internship at the Royal Albert

Memorial Museum in Exeter

England

bull Brent Raymond BSe(Env) 96 of Brantford Ont has

been working with Outward

Bound since graduation He

leads wilderness trips in Northshy

ern Ontario Horida Australia and Sabah (Malaysian Borneo) Most recently he designed and implemented a new introducshytory mountaineering course for Outward Bound Sabah on the summit plateau of Mt Kinashy

balu Those of you who know me as plate licker from U of G get in touch he says Where are you Star I miss you He can be reached by e-mail at globarwchatonca or by

phone at 519-756-1697

Alumni Patrick Abbott BSA 40 July 7 1998

Albert Allen BSA 33 Jan 161994 Agris Ansmits BA 70 and MA 73

February 1998 Barbara (Quartermain) Babcock DHE

53 June 17 1998

Wray Bond BSA 34 Sept 25 1998

Kenneth Bone DVM 38 Dec 29 1998 Evelyn (Stevenson) Buhr DHE 39

May 251998 Philip Burke BSA 43 June 21 1998

Grant Carman BSA 49 Oct 221998 Frederick Chambers BSA 41

June 1998 Wilmot Conley ADA4 7 April 7 1998 Lloyd Crewson BSA 49 Aug 261998

Jacqueline Dimock DHE 47

Aug 20 1998 John Dingwall DVM 52

April 18 1998

Lloyd Dorsey BSA 38 June 9 1998 George Duncan BSA 37

Sept 19 1998

David Dyson BSA 53 Aug 31 1998

Norma (Shannon) Edwards DHE 39

November 1997 Vincent Bud Ellis DVM 41

July 15 1998 John Jack George BSA 48

Sept 24 1998

Donald Haight BSA 33 January 1997 William Hamlyn BSA 33 Dec I 1997

Gordon Harkness BSA 49

November 1997

Charles Hollister DVM 38 June 1996 Donald Hope BSA 54 June 28 1998

Lawrence Jefferson BSA 38

Sept 3 1998

James Kelso DVM 56 July 27 1998

Dorima Lalonde BSA 34 Oct 8 1998 Mildred (Cox) Large DHE 33

June 20 1998 Roger Larson BComm 86 Feb 19 1998 Robert Lawson BSA 49 June 6 1998

bull Doug Ramsey BA 91 and PhD 98 received U of Gs highshyest graduate student award shythe Forster Medal- at June convocation for his academic and community involvement while enrolled in Guelphs new

graduate program in geography He spent the summer as a visitshying research scholar at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College in Truro before assuming his curshyrent position as assistant professhysor at Mount Allison University

David Leach BSc(Agr) 74

July 18 1998

Ian Leask DVM 74 Sept 5 1998

Sheryl Lee BSc 95 June 8 1998 Ruby Janet MacAuley DHE 30

Aug 19 1998 Parker MacKenzie DVM 38

September 1994

Jeanice MacLaren DHE 28 March 1 1997

Campbell MacMaster DVM42

Oct 8 1998

Rex McCallum DVM 43 July 71998 Jean (Dunn) McMahon DHE 31

Nov 41998

Margaret Oones) McTaggart DHE 35 Aug 81998

Patrick McTaggart-Cowan HDSc 81

Oct 21997

Malcolm McWhinnie ADA 39

July 16 1998 Mary (Townsend) Mitchell BHSc

60 Sept 281998

Marjory Monaghan DHE 29

December 1997 Charles Monk BSA 44 Aug 7 1998

Heather Neilsen BHSc 59

Oct 30 1998 Jerry Niwa DVM 62 Aug 5 1998 Henry Harry OReilly BSA 42

October 1997

James Parr BSc(Agr) 81 June 19 1998 Charles Rammage DVM 45

Oct 17 1996 Howard Rapson HDSc 90

March 1997 Clement Reeds DVM 42 Oct 16 1998

William Robinson BSA 38

Aug 23 1998

Donald Sager ADA 73 Oct 141997

Austin Schaefer DVM 37 in 1997

Sandra (Mackenzie) Schmidt DHE 59

Aug 16 1997 Margaret (Harvey) Seaborn DHE 28

July 221998

Larry Seguin DVM 47 June 12 1998

Leah Shedden DHE 31 December 1998

Edward Shuh BSA 40 July 2 1998

Ted Shutsa BSc(Agr) 66

Sept 18 1998 Jim Sinclair DVM 49 Oct 4 1998

Margaret (Brown) Sinclair DHE 20

September 1998 Eldon Smith BSA 42 Sept 9 1998

Derek Somers DVM 96 Sept 25 1998

Cheryl Lynn Sopha BA 95 Sept 20 1998

Leona (Bartlett) Stewart DHE 35

June 27 1998 Alex Thomson BSc(Agr) 69

October 1996

William Whittick DVM 55

Aug 15 1998 Joseph Wilson BSA 23 Sept 11 1998

Lloyd Woolsey DVM41 June 24 1998

Winifred Yeates DHE 28 June 11998

Faculty John Carpenter BSA 43 and MSA 48

Microbiology Dec 10 1998

David Gaskin Zoology Sept 14 1998

Gordon Macleod BSA 50 Animal and

Poultry Science Nov 26 1998 Roman Retman Languages and

Literatures Sept 28 1998

Caesar Sen off Chemistry and

Biochemistry Aug 14 1998

Percy Smith Drama Dec 10 1998

Friends Robert Clark Aug 21 1998

Ethel Hammond August 1998

Thomas Hillers Sept 28 1998 Marguerite Holbrook Aug 26 1998

Catherine Kelly Sept 27 1998

James A McKenzie May 13 1998

Kenneth McIssac Oct 23 1998

William Mutlock September 1998 Roena Patterson Sept 16 1998

Donald Priddle Aug 25 1998

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bull Karl Reimer BSe 94 comshypleted a one-year intensive

MSc in mining engineering at

Queens University and is now

a project engineer a t Enpar

Technologies Ine in Guelph

He can be contacted at reimerbservcom

bull Nancy Nauta Rowland BA 90 and her husband Dan celshy

ebrated their first wedding

anniversary in March 1998 with

the birth of their first child

Connor who beat their March

8 anniversary by two days Nanshy

cy teaches junior-grade stushy

dents and junior special ed ucashy

tion for the Peel District School

Board The Rowlands live in

Caledon Ont

bull Fraser Stables MFA 98 was heralded by Toronto Globe 6shyMail critic Betty Jordan as a

formidable new talent followshy

ing the openi ng of his debut

gallery exh ibition in July The

Scottish artists work includes

sculpture video and mixed

media that explore notions of

flu x by interrupting the moveshy

ment of forms in space

bull Erin (Smith) Scott BSe(HK) 92 and Brad

Scott BSc(Agr) 91 of Lucan

O nt were married in 1993 and

had their first child Lucas in

August Erin works for Shopshy

pers Home Health Ca re in

London Brad is with New Life

Mills in Dunfield

bull Abby Simons BSc 95 and Martin Piche BSc(Agr) 95 were married in Mont-Tremshy

blant Quebec in 1997 She is a

customer service representative

with Kantech Systems he is

superintendent of Club de golf

vallee des forts They say theyd

love to hear from anyone headshy

ing to Montreal and can be

reached at 450-348-3860

bull Sylvia Tesori BSc 95 has been doing wildlife rehabilitashy

tion for the OSPCA Wildlife

Rehabilitation Centre in Midshy

land Ont since 1996

bull Chuck Thibeault BComm 94 is general manager of the

Putting Edge Corpora tion

which has two glow-in- theshy

dark mini-golf courses in

Ontario one in Bramp ton and

one in Richmond Hill He can

be reached in Richmond Hill at

chu ckttotalnet

bull Karen Thirlwall BA 93 is a

si ngersongwriter and guitarist

who began her stage career and

released her first album The Voice Inside Me while studying

languages at U of G She has

lived and performed in

11i stler BC for three years

and recently released a second

album called Wide-Eyed She

remembers many special

fr iends m ade at Guelph and

welcomes e-mail messages to

karenthirlwallhotmailcom

bull Christie (Johnson) and Steve

Tyler both BComm 91 live in

Cambridge Ont where

Christie is a personal banking

representative for the Royal

Bank Steve works with their

third-year design professor

Nelson Hofer in Mississauga as

a design consultan t Steves proshy

jects include the Windsor Casishy

no and U of Gs Creelman Hall

They have two children Jason

5 and Marcus 1

bull Julia White BA 91 lives in Guelph and is a small-business

accountant at Taves amp Co She

recently finished courses

towards a CGA designation and

would like to hea r from other

alumni who lived in Lambton

Hall in 198788 Send e-mail to

juliawhitesympaticoca

bull Andre-Denis Wright MSc 93 and PhD 98 is doing postshy

docto ral work in Perth Westshy

ern Australia He wants his

Guelph friends and Halifax

family to know he was thinking

of them at Christmas when it

was 40 C in Australia

bull Dave Yellen BComm 90 was recently promoted at the Gordon

Food Service to new-accounts

sales specialist for Metro Toronshy

to Having been in Ottawa for

the past few years Im hoping

to reacquaint myself with old

friend s from U of G in the Metro

area he says He lives in Scarborshy

ough and can be reached at 416shy615-2745 or davidysprintca

bull Halina Zaleski PhD 92 is a tenured professor in the

departm ent of animal sciences

at the Un iversity of Hawaii in

Honolulu She is a swine speshy

cialist involved in extension

programs for an area th at covshy

ers all of Hawai i and the PacifIC

basin She can be reached by

e-mail at halinahawaiiedu

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IF THERE ARE LIVESTOCK IN THE HOCKEY ARENA and

theyre not wearing skates its College Royal If there

are students sawing logs throwing pies baking cookies

and square dancing its College Royal When the entire

University of Guelph is displayed - from arts to zooloshy

gy - March 13 and 14 1999 youll know its definitely

College Royan

Since its inception in 1925 as an agricultural and liveshy

stock show run by the Ontario Agricultural College

College Royal has grown to be a celebrated U of G trashy

dition involving all the colleges

The event is famou s in the University community

and beyond for its open-house showcase of displays and

activities The largest student-run open house in Canashy

da College Royal attracts more than 20000 visitors to

campus over one weekend

College Royal is an event of tradition that reaches

into tomorrow Agriculture and livestock shows are still

highlighted events but College Royal activities have

grown to include dog and cat shows a photography conshy

test a chemistry magic show and demonstrations on

human health and fitness The open house gives people

an opportunity to see what happens in the Universitys

leading-edge research laboratories to observe veterinary

medicine in practice to tour a sculpture studio or to

watch a theatrical performance

To celebrate the 75th anniversary of College Royal

1998 president Joe TrakaJo lnvites alumni to get involved

again by joining one of the planning comm ittees or by

participating in a favourite event Call him for more

information at 824-4120 Ext 8366 or send e-mail to

jtrakalouoguelphca

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HIGHLIGHTSmiddot GRAD NEWSmiddot OBITUARIES bull CALENDER

those who have not kept in touch are part of the constituency served by UGAA

Weed en says the alumni association needs to strengthen its relationship with all alumni and he believes the effor t must start on campus with students Hed like to proshymote the idea of alumni involvement as ear shyly as a students second year We need to give students some reason to be con nected and an efficient vehicle for maintaining that connection he says

For many students and new graduates the social functions supported by UGAA and the opportunities for professional networking will be important says Weeden but greater rewards are there for those who join the effort to enhance the Universitys acade mic goals

In todays economic and political envi shyronme nt individual financial support and the advocacy of post-secon dary education are important roles for alumni he says How many people ac tively get involved with the debate on whether universities are job-trainshy

ing centres or centres of education Yet some of our alumni are extremely adept in such roles Weeden would like to cultivate past and current stud ent ac tivists as supporters of public education after they graduate

As Weeden leads UGAA into a new year he says he will work with other UGAA volshyunteers and DampPA staff to find new ways for the association to interact with students and alumni One id ea is to expand UGAAs Intershynet presence by adding a Web message board that will encourage alumni to discuss career and campus issues online and a reply form that will allow them to quickly update addressshyes employment status and other information

Weeden says its important to stay focused on UGAAs key prioriti es but he welcomes any and all new ideas on how to accomplish them All it takes to share your ideas with the UGAA executive is a stamp or a push of the send button when youre clicked on alumniuoguelphca

HKHB SPIRIT RISES

ENCOURAGED BY THE SPIRIT

shown by fellow alumni at last

summers reunion the executive

of the Human Kinetics Human Biology

Alumni Association is moving ahead

with more opportunities for alumni to

stay in touch The association plans to

launch a Web site that will be accessed

through the U of G site

A wine-and-cheese reception already

planned for June 19 1999 wiil try to

build on the success of the 1998 event

which attracted alumni from as far away

as Chicago and as far apart as the 19605

and 1990s Guests had a chance to tour

U of Gs new Health and Performance

Centre and performance testing

labs The program was co-ordinated wiLh

A REFLECTION OF PRIDE

Members of the OAC

Class of 52 join Arboshy

retum staff on the front patio

of the Arboretu m Centre

beside a new reflecting pool

that was built last summer

as a class project Pictured

from left are Murray Parker

Ann Smith George Smith

Jack Sargent Catherine Gibb

Robin Shaw-Rummington

Marilyn Swaby BA 69

Bev Healy B5e(Agr) 72

Norm Watson Una Venerus

Ron Costen Henry Kock

BSe (Agr) 77 and Ric

Jordan BA 75

Prof Jack Barclay chair of the Departshy

ment of Human Biology and Nutritional

Sciences and Prof Susan Pfeiffer Memshy

bers of the Human KineticsHuman

Biology Alumni Association executive arc

Janet Leonhard 82 president Carolyn

Moore 83 vice-president Alison Locker

97 secretary Mark Mulholland 79

lreasurer and t-iary Ann Crape 76

These officers are also spea rheading a

new initiative to benefit students - an

undergraduate award that will provide

$250 and lifetime mem bership in the

association To commcnt on these and

other initiatives contact Leonard by

e-mail at Janel_Leonhardinwrbsb

eduonca or Moore at cturveyagec

uoguelphca

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alumni

Multimedia lab buzzes

THE DONALD FORSTER RoOiv

has become one of the

busiest spots in th e Unishy

versity of Guelph Liblary since the

addition of 70 state-of-the-art

computer workstations that were

supported by alumni do nations

to the Alma Mater Fund (AM F)

U of G president Mordechai

Roza nski officia ll y o pened th e

Alma Mater Fund Multimedia

Lab D ec 2 an d celebrated th e

event with members of the AMF

Adv isory Counc iL [n 1996 a nd

1997 the AMF contributed

$240000 to th e project which

increased the number of student

workstations o n campus by 50 per

cent Students use the m ult imeshy

~ dia lab to conduct research on the

~ Internet access scholarly publicashyr u VI tions on CD-ROM and use COll1shyz ~ puter software mod ules tbat lt

~ strengthen the teaching provided lD

o in co urse lectures labs and tcxtshybii books

middotMatters

Alumnus of many interests

I NTERES TING P EOPLE always have eclect ic interests and U of G

alumnus and honorary degree recipient Ken Murray BSA 50 and

HDLA 96 is a good example H e is known by most people on camshy

pus for his distinguished career in the Canadian meat packing indusshy

try and his volunteer service to U of G He was a member and chair

of Board of Governors from 1973 to 1978 and chair of the Regionshy

al Corporate Committee during U of Gs last capital campaign and

is currently chair of the Heritage Fund Enhancement Committee

Murray is also a strong supporter of community soc ial services

In August he addressed the World Congress of Social Ps)chiatry

held in British Columbia - the only non-psychiatrist on the proshy

gram He spoke about his role in establishing an Alzheimers research

project a t the University ofWaterioo which was recently named in

his honour the Ken Murray Alzheimer Research and Education Proshy

gra m At the gc conference he al so participated in a panel dis shy

cussion that outlined services offered by Guelphs Homewood Health

Cent re Murray bas been actively involved in the governance of the

centre since 1977 and has been a major player in the development

of a charitable foundatio n bearing the Homewood name

WHEN THE PUCK DROPPED More than 30 teams including two

womens teams were entered in the

Dec 6 University of Guelph Alumni Hockey

Tournament Organizers for the 1998 event

were from left Brian Finniss B5c 88

Brad Stephenson BA 86 Terry Carr

BComm 87 Todd Bryant BA 86 and

undergraduate student Brian Melnick

Ken Murray centre with his wife Marilyn Robinson Murray and U of G president Mordechai Rozanski

34 GU ELPH ALUMNU S

RESTORING A JEWEL IN THE CROWN

DONALD RUTHERFORD BSA 5 stands in fron t

of the 1931 conservatory greenhouse that will

be restored to match the splendour of the ga rdens

now growi ng up around it His $256000 leadershy

ship gift to the Conservatory and Gardens Project

was inspired by hi s m emo ries of being a student

at OAC

On behalf of fellow alumni I hope this gift will

commemorate the experiences and educat ion we

acquired while at Guelph says Rutherford When

fully restored to its previous glory the conservatoshy

ry greenhouse will be an ideal greeting and welcome

spot for visitors and newcomers to the University

as well as old friend s renewing their acquaintance

Rutherfords professional career spans the agrishy

foo d industr y beginning as an agricu ltural repshy

resentative with the provincial minist ry I-Ie was

later vice-president of the Fertilizer Institute of

Ontario executive secreta ry of the Canadian Seed

Trade Association director of information w ith

the Ca nadian Livestock Feed Board and Canadishy

an sa les manager for Sylvite of Can ad a Retired

since 1986 he now owns his own sma ll investment

company and manages to golf throughout the yea r

The conserva tory isnt the first ca mpus project

to attract Rutherford s attention - as a student

he helped dig out the base ment of Massey H al l to

build a student lo unge - but his recent gift has

been a tremendous boost to those who have been

working since the ea rly 1990s to save the glass and

cypress structure from demo lition

A committee of alumni facult y sta ff stu dents

and fri en ds of the University has moved the proshy

ject along to th e point w here most of the surshy

rounding garden complex is now complete It fea shy

tures six gardens named in honour of the ir chie f

supporters Autumn Garden - OAC 5 1 Spring

Ga rden - OAC 53 Su mmer Garden - OAC 55

Winter Gard en - OAC 65 Water Gard en shy

OAC 49 and the Woo dland Garden named in

honour of the late Doug Rob inson BSA 53

Alumni have been in strumental in raising

funds for the $ l-million project Students and fa cshy

ulty have provided mudl of the h1l1ds-on Idbour

and friends in the nursery and landscape materishy

als supply industries have given $250000 ill donashy

tions and gifts-in-kind of plan ts and landsca ping

materials Rutherford s generous gift has pushed

th e conservato ry fund-ra ising effort in to the fin 81

stretch Th e ga rden complex and restored g reenshy

110use are sc heduled to officially open during

Alumni Weekend in June 1999

1999 Coming Events

Jan 29 - Aggie Goodshy

Times Banquet call the OAC Student Federation at Ext 8321 for ticket injemnrltion Feb 13 - Norm McCo llulll

D iploma Hockey Tournashy

m ent call Jack Bakker at 519-837-0132 to register a team

Feb 21 - Ottawa Chapter

annual curling bonspiel

Richmond C urling Club in

Richmond Ont For informashytiol1 call Alan Bentley BSA 61 at 6 13-829-6598 or John DVit[ 54 mId Margaret McGowml BHSc 54 at

613-828-7038

March 3 - Florida alumni

reunion a t Maple Leaf

Estates Port Charlo tte Fla

call Ext 6533 0 register

March 13 and 14 - ollcge

Royal 75th o pen house

March 19 and 20 - OAC

Alumni Association curling

bonspiel G uelph Curling

Club register at Ext 6657

May 5 - Chicago All Canashy

dian Universities Night hostecl

by U of G at the University

Club of Chicago 76 East Monshy

roe Sr call Exl 6533 for details May 5 - OAC Alumni

Foundation annual meeting

730 pm Arboretum Centre

May 12 - Alumni-inshy

Action annual meeting and

luncheo n 1130 3m

Arboretum Centre ((11 Ext 6657for tickets

June 18 to 20 - Alumni

Veekend call Ext 6657 to plall a reun io n

-0 r shya -IFor more infon-nation on any a

eVC1l1listed ailove call the oJ -lt oU of G extension listed at en raquo

519-824-4120 or send e-mail z

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alumni Matters

MEMORIES OF COLLEGE ROYAL Grant MacEwan ADA 23 and

BSA 26 is one of the few OAC

alumni who c~n still remember

the first College Royal held Jan

14 1925 MacEwan bad just

entered the degree program in

animal husbandry and may have

been a participant in the liveshy

stock showmanship classes Latshy

er in life he was widely known Grant MacEwan

across Western Canada as 3 liveshy

stock judge and an advocate of

agricultural fairs and exhibitions

MacEwan is bes t known

however for his 23-year C3reer

as a university professor in Manshy

itoba and Saskatchewan and Ilis

political career which included

12 years as alderman and mayshy John Kenneth Galbraith

or of C31gary four years as an

Alberta MLA and eight as lieushy birthday in August

tenant -governor of the province The year after Ma cEwan

He s till lives in Calgary graduated John Kenneth Galshy

where he celebrated his 96th braith ADA 29 and BSA 31

HOMECOMING 98

enrolled at OAC and devoted

some of his energy to organizshy

ing College Royal Show records

indicate it was Galbraith who

first proposed the college event

be publicized so that people

from the farm community

could attend He also suggestshy

ed that OAC invite students

from American agricultural colshy

legesl n th e early 1930s Colshy

lege Royal took its fir s t steps

towards becoming the comshy

munity open house it is today

Galbraith later moved to the

United States where he enjoyed

a distinguished caree r as a proshy

fessor of economics at Harvard

Universi ty Known for his

humanit~rian approach to ecoshy

nomic and political thinking

he was awarded the Order of

Canada in 1997 He celebr3ted

his 90th birthday in October

IT REALLY WAS a homecoming reunion when and Arnott who is head coach of the York

former Gryphon teammates Ralph Shapiro University Yeomen came from the visitors

S5c(HK) 74 and Tom Amott S5c(HK) 80 dreSSing room to hold the ball Shapiro is

met on the field at Alumni Stadium Oct 3 the controller at Huntsman Chemical Inc

Shapiro had the honour of kicking off in Guelph and a longtime United Way volshy

the Universitys 1998 United Way campaign unteer who chaired this years Guelph and

Wellington fund-raising drive The Univershy

sity campaign is the largest in the county

with U of G staff and faculty contributing

over $200000 in 1998

Prior to the game a number of recent

alumni - all U of G scholarship and award

winners - met for a reunion luncheon The UJ

1948 and 1949 dominion championship i5f 3

football teams were also honoured guests z 5 o at the 2 pm game that saw the Gryphons gtshy a defeat York f shya I a

Ralph Shapiro

36 G UELPH ALUMNUS

LEADING THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY FOR 1974 GRADS The 25th-anniversary reunion givshy

i ng program for the Class of 1974

is under way with Bill Laidlaw BA

74 as cbair A public affairs proshy

fessional he has been director of

government relations for the

Canadian operations of Glaxo

vVelJcome Inc for more th an 10

years He also acts as a senior conshy

sultant to support the governshy

ment relations function in other

regions of Canada

Laidlaw began his career in

teaching after earning a history

degree from Guelph and education

degrees (rom Queens University

and the University of Toronto He

also holds the certified human

resources professional designation

and worked in that field for sevshy

eral years before concen trating on

government relations at Glaxo

Welkome He lives in Burlington

Ont and is an act ive community

volunteer having se rved on the

boards of severa l professional

organizations the Queensway

General Hospital and the Metroshy

politan Toronto Lung Association

He is currently completing a oneshy

year term as chair of the Ontario

Chamber of Commerce

Anniversa ry preparations will

culminate with a class gathering

a nd reunion gift at Alumni

Weekend in June 1999

ALUMNI MAKE THE CONNECTION Students who moved into

Maids and Mills halls in Sepshy

tember can take full advanshy

tage of the Universitys highshy

speed computer network

thanks to the OAC Class of

71 whose 25 th-reunion proshy

ject provided wiring upgrades

in the 84- and 77-year-old

residence buildin gs

GRAD NEWS

Marathon survivors inspire us all to appreciate everyday life

W HEN ROBINSON SIIlLJNGS Jane BSe(Agr)

85 Heather BASe 83 Peter BSe(Agr)

86 Scott and Marnie rigwood BA 84 get

together they talk about marathons and the hope

and determination it takes to reach the finish line

Hea ther walked a marathon in San Diego

Calif in June to raise money for leukemia

research then joined Peter for a Toronto marathon

in October that benefi ted the Leukemia Research

Fund of Canada They were inspired by Janes pershy

sonal marathon of survival that foUowed her 1992

diagnosis of leukemia Chemotherapy radiation

remission relapse and finally a bone marrow

transplant [TOm her brother Scott took more than

three years out of her life but gave her the detershy

mination to keep fighting

Many families can understand the marathon

of hope maintained by the Robinsons during

Janes struggle and the commitment they have to

help others who are stricken with the disease Jane

is finally well enough to work again as a writer

and marketing consultant and to join her fami shy

ly in volunteer work She helped recruit for the

Toronto marathon fund -raiser and continues to

be involved with the Leukemia Research Funds

Team in Training She also says that her expeshy

rience has taught her to appreciate more the pleashy

sures of everyday life and the love of famil y

Jan es parents are th e late Doug Rob inson

BSA 53 and Marilyn (Inglis) Robinson Murray

BH Sc 55

19305

bull Grant Misener ADA 32 BSA 35 and DVM 38 received the

prest igious George F Hixso n Felshy

lowship Award from the Kiwanis

International Foundation in May The retired Illinois veter ishy

narian was hono ured for his subshystantial contribution to the

Kiwanis wo rldwide service proshy

ject aimed at eliminating iodine

deficiency disorders the leading

cause of preventable mental retardation in children Over the

years Misener has shown a simishylar commitment to his al ma

mater an d its students through

his close association with OVC

and his support of scho larship

programs

19405

bull Russell McDonaldDVM 45 was named an honorary life direcshytor of the Royal Agricultural Winshy

ter Fair Association in March

McDonald formerly general manshy

ager of Western Ontario Breeders

Ine and executive director of the Canadian Association of Animal

Breeders served as a director of the Royal Winter Fair for 20 years

representing the Canadian artifishycial insemination industry He

lives in Woodstock Ont

bull Ian Taylor DVM43 was recently honoured by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to

Animals of Illinois Taylor ran a small-animal veterinary clinic in

the Chicago area for many years

and says he gained ll1uch experishyence during his first three years in

Illinois as clinic veterinarian for

the anti -cruelty society

19505

bull Charles Chuck Broadwell BSA 54 was elected a Mel

Osborne Fellow by the Kiwanis

Club of Forest City in London Ont in recognition of a dedicatshy -ed and distinguished career in

Kiwanis

19605

bull Constantine Campbell BSA 60 and MSA 61 was named to the

WINTER 1999 37

Order of Canada in January He

received the award in recogni shy

tion of his many contributions

to science and the Canadian

agricultural industry After grad shy

uating from OAC he went on to

do his PhD at the University of

Saskatchewan then joined Agri shy

culture and Agri-food Canada

as a research scientist at the Swift

Current research station Campshy

bell and his family now live in

Ottawa where he is scientist

emeritus with Agriculture and

Agri-food Canada

bull John Casselman BSA 64 is

a research scientist with the

Ontario Ministry of Natural

Resources He Jives in Bath

Ont with his wife Lois

bull Jane Fuller RRSc 65 and

her husband George who both

taught at the Macdonald Instishy

tute from 1966 to 1969 have

moved from Winnipeg to

Utopia Ont following

Georges retirement from the

University of Manitoba

bull Fred Gilbert MSc 66 and

P hD 68 is in his first term as

president of Lakehead Univer shy

sity in Thunder Bay Ont He

taught at U of G in the Departshy

ment of Zoology from 1972 to

1981 and has enjoyed a dive rse

academic career that has also

included teaching at the Unishy

versity of Maine and posi tions

as director of wildlife biology at

Washington State University

and founding dean of the Facshy

ulty of Natural Reso urces and

Environmenta l Studies at the

University of Northern British

Columbia He moved to Lakeshy

head from a position as viceshy

pro vost at Colorado State Unishy

versity A respected wildlife

biologist he has conducted

ex tensive resea rch in s Ll ch areas

as the behaviour and physioloshy

gy of wildlife species and the

effects of environmental

change on wildlife populations

bull Terry Goodyear BSc 67 of

Mont Tremblant Quebec is an

early retiree from Agriculture

and Agri-Food Canada in Ottawa He is now working on

va lue-added products from

industrial wastes particularly

cellulose sludge from pulp and

pa per mills

bull Gary Hearn BA 68 was

named an Ontario provincial

judge in October For the last

25 years he has been a lawyer

with the firm Kearns McKinshy

non in Guelph where he lives

with his wife Irene and three

teenage children

bull Allan Knight BSA 66 of Corunna Ont has retired

from Dow Chemical after 30

years On retirement he was a

laboratory director for indusshy

trial chemicals He is now

working with his son in a famishy

ly-owned and -operated busishy

ness Knight Funeral Home

bull Keith McFarlane BSc(Agr)

68 works for the Department

of Foreign Affairs and Internashy

tional Trade and began a fourshy

year assignment last summer as

head of the commercial divishy

sion of the Canadian Embassy

in Lisbon Portugal The

division promotes the sa le of

Canadian goods and services

to Portugal

bull Ian Newbould MA 68 has

travelled far from his Ontario

roots through an academic and

administrative career that has

taken him to Europe Asia and

Western Canada A noted hisshy

torian he moved into adm inisshy

tration at the University of

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Lethbridge in 1981 and spent

10 years there as director of

research dean of a rts and scishy

ence and vice-presiden t (acadeshy

mic) before crossing the counshy

try to become president of

Mount Allison University in

New Brunswick He is now in

his second term as president of

Mount AUison

bull Indra Deo Singh MSc 68 is

a tea scientist international

consultant and joint director of

the Tea Research Association at

the Nagrakata substation in

India His responsibilities

include co-ordinating research

and development in the Indian

tea industry and developing tea

cultivars and agrotechnology

for tea Singh is married with

two sons aged 27 and 23

19705

bull Don Ambler BSe 71 retired in March as manager of

water programs with Environshy

ment Canada in Dartmouth

NS after 25 years of public

service He has now registered

the company Aquashed Co nshy

sulting to continue in the water

resources field when hes not

gardening beekeeping do ing

aerobics or vo lunteering in the

community and chu rch E-mail

contact is welcome a t

donambl erns sympaticoca

bull Jim Bond BSe 75 is managshy

ing a new processing facility at

the Chalk River Nuclear Laborashy

to ry in Chalk River Ont

bull Terri (Monks) Bulman BSc(Agr) 78 and MSe 81

and her husband Vincent

MSe 8 1 live in Australia with

their th ree children Catherine

7 Peter 4 and baby Christoshy

pher Terri is senior principal

environmental auditor vith

Coffey Geosciences Pty Ltd Vinshy

cent afte r many years as a geoloshy

gist travelling around Australia

and abroad has taken the year

off to study and look after the

children Their e-mail address is

tbulmanbigpondco m

bull Marie David BA 78 of

Hanover Ont has been in the

n ewspaper business for 20

years She started in the mailshy

room moved to advertising

sales then became advert ising

manager She is now gene ral

manager o f three So utham

weekly newspapers and pubshy

lish er of the Hanover Post

bull Janice Harrower and her husshy

band Jerome Billett both

DVM 76 operate a joint veterishy

nary practice in Prescott Ont

Billett says practising together

has allowed them some flexibilishy

ty in their family life and given

their four children a good took

at the rigours of veterinary

medicine Says Billett Not one

of our kid s has the slightest

interest in being a veterinarian

and isnt that just fine Their

o ldest son Jesse attends Harshy

va rd University and is a memshy

ber of its prestigious a cappella

choir Lucas is studying

mechanical engineering at the

University of Waterloo Casey is

planning a career in computer

engineering and Lindsay is a

high school athle te

bull Clair Heinbuch BSe 74 is a

sales manager with Baye r Corp

in Kansas H e and his wife

Caroline (Koscik) BASc 75

returned to the Kansas City

area after spending four years in

Denver They have three chilshy

dren Lisa 20 Scott 18 and

Ryan [5

bull Beverly Lee BASe 72 is an

elem entary school principal in

Unionville Ont She lives with

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her husband Grant Egan in

Collingwood and is looking

forward to retirement in severshy

al years Life on Georgian Bay

is wonderful she says Lee

would love to hear from fellow

grads by e-mail at

leebYrbeeduonca or by

phone at 705 -444 -092l

bull Won-Jai Maeng MSc 71 took office Sept 1 as president

of Kon-Kuk University in Seoul

Korea where his academic

career began He completed an

undergraduate degree at Kon

Kuk in 1965 then studied at

Mailing Agricultural College in Denmark and at U of G before

doing doctoral work at the Unishy

versity of California Davis

Maeng has held research and

teaching positions at the Unishy

versity of illinois at Chung-Ang

University and at Kon-Kuk

where he has been a professor of

animal science since 1984 His

appointment as president folshy

lows years of administrative

experience as a department

head dean and chair of various

research committees and proshy

fessional organizations An

expert in ruminant nutrition

Maeng was instrumental in

developing the livestock feed

industry in Korea He has also

been active in working with

alumni groups and in writing

for the Kon-Kuk Tribune

bull Bill MarshaU ADA 75 of Proton Station Ont moved

from Clarksburg in June to

work in Dundalk for the Grey

County Roads Department on

its road management crew

bull Bernie Matte BSc(Agr) 70 of Moncton NB retired

in March after 28 years with

Fisheries and Oceans Canada

and the Canadian Food

Inspection Agency He plans to

travel to Belize and Honduras

with his wife Diane and will

be available anywhere in the

Caribbean for seafood HACCP

consulting work

bull Margaret McClain BA 70 lives in Arkansas where she is

highJy involved in the issue of

40 GUELPH ALUMNUS

missing children and internashy

tional abductions McClain who

believes her own six-year-old

daughter was taken out of the

United States more than a year

ago by her second husband is

reaching out to parents with

similar experiences through an

organization that is lobbying the

US government for tougher

international abduction laws

She invites interested fr iends

and alumni to contact her

through her Web site at

wwwinsolwwbnet-dmcclain

bull Robert (Chuck) Miller BA 77 is the park superintendent

of Killarney French River and

Maskinonje provincial parks in

Ontario He moved to Killarney

from Quetico Provincial Park

last May

bull Gordon Nicol BA 72 and MSc(Agr) 74 teaches math

and science in a bilingual prishy

vate school in Guatemala A

BEd graduate of Laurentian

he first taught in Guatemala in

the late 1970s then spent 12

years in northern Alberta as a

teacher and principal He

returned to Guatemala in 1989

A widower with three teenage

children Nicol would like to

hear from U of G friends and

acquaintances especially anyshy

one who is was or will be in

Central America He says he

could also use middle-schoolshy

level science projects Send eshy

mail to gnicoll guatenet or

write to PO Box 661447 Miami

Springs Florida 33266-1447

bull Chris Schulte BSc 71 and MSc 73 lives in Nassau

Bahamas with his wife

Andrya After graduation he

stayed in the Department of

Physics as a research associate

with Prof lain Campbell then

joined Ontario Hydro in the

early 1980s He moved to the

Bahamas in 1995 He can be

reached bye-mail at

schultebahamasnetbs

bull Sandra (Pickford) Webster BA 75 has retired from U of

Gs Co mmunications and Pubshy

lic Affairs and is living in Parry

Sound Ont where she is

doing volunteer work and

communications consulting

for the municipality Guelph

friends ca n contact her by

e-mail atswebsterzeutercom

19805

bull Sharon (Courneya) Angus BA 8 I of Surrey BC comshy

pleted a BSW at the University

of British Columbia in 1988

and has been working for the

BC government for 13 years

- first in probation and now

in the family justice division

She and her husband Ron

have three children Jason

Carly and Colin

bull Karen Beazley BLA 86 is an assistant professor and acadeshy

mic program co-ordinator at

the School for Reso urce and

Environmental Studies at Dalshy

housie University in Halifax

She is currently doing research

for a book on endangered

species initiatives and is orgashy

nizing a Nova Scotia wildlands

workshop with the Wildlands

Project for 1999 Her e-mail

address is kbeazleyisdalca

bull Caroline (Van Deudekom) and Marc Brooks both ADA 87

recently moved from Strathroy

to Owen Sound Ont where

they run a 50-acre organic farm

with their two sons

bull Virginia Burt BLA 85 startshyed her own landscape architecshy

ture firm Visionscapes in

Hamilton Ont in ] 996 She

specializes in the design of thershy

apeutic healing gardens spirit

gardens sacred spaces and

la byrin ths and recen tly designed the first healing garden

in Canada specificalJy for peoshy

ple living with HIV and AIDS

bull Joanne (Branson) Carver BA 80 earned a BEd from Brock

University in 1981 and recently

started working as a probashy

tionparole officer She Jives in

Ajax Ont and has two daughshy

ters Julie4 and Sarah 8

bull Heather Champ BA 86 is a Web-site designer in New York

City She began her work in

computer design in 1990 Her

personal site can be Found at

wwwjezebelcom

bull Laurie Gough BA 87 has become a world traveller who

writes about her experiences for

the benefit of others Her most

recent book Island of the

Human Heart A tfornans Travshyel Odyssey is now in its second

printing in Canada and will be

released next year in the United

States and overseas She has also

published Travellers Tales A

Womans World which won the

US-based Lowell Thomas

Gold Award for best travel book

of the year When not travelling

or writing she teaches English

and ESL in Guelph

bull Susan (Coles) Goulden BASc 84 and her husband

Ian are th rilled wi th their

recent adoption of Jennifer Lee

Yu who was born in June near

Leping Jiangxi Peoples Repubshy

lic of China The Gouldens

who Jive in vVaterloo Ont

thank classmate Andrea

(Kovits) Henderson for her

support throughout the adopshy

tion process Susan is currently

on leave from her position with

McCormick Canada

bull Judy (Bodendistel) Gregg BA 82 moved to Melbourne Ausshy

tralia in 1997 with her husband

and two children Carly 6 and

Adam 3 We are enjoying the

friendly people and the great

weather here she says We are

especially enjoying winter in a

place where it never gets below

zero Celsius

bull Nigel GumJey DVM 85 has been a partner in the Alta Vista

Animal Hospital in Ottawa

since 1990 was president of the bull Garry Millage AMPHI 86 bull Heidi Stephenson BA 88 is now ISO 9000 manager at

Ontario Veterinary Medical left a position as vice-president was awarded her professional Carpenter Ca nada Ltd in

Association in 1997 and recent- of national operations for acco untants designation of Wood br idge Ont He lives in

ly served on the Canadian Vetshy Scotts Restaurants KFC Divishy certified general accountant in Miss issa uga Classma tes are

erilw() Medical Associations sion to open his own consult- March 1998 She has been invited to contact him at

national issues committee He ing company Future Food employed for the last 10 years avon listarca

lives in Osgoode with his wife Equipment Ine specializes in with Dan Ball Chartered bull Michelle (Pilon) Bacon BA rvlaurecn and children Laura providing new and used restau- Acco un tant in Parry Sound 90 moved to England to study

and Matthew rant equipment and reducing O nt where she lives with her and work after graduating from

bull Muneer Hirji BComm 82 restaurant construction costs hu sband Brad two dogs and a Guelph She recently left a posishy

lives in Toronto and is vice- He also operates a restaurant horse tion with the British Ministry of

president of marke ting at SAP called Nikkos in Woodbridge bull Dawn Stetsko BSe 81 lives Agriculture and Food in York to

Canada He has three chil- Ont and is planning to open a in Langhorne Pa with her husshy become an at-home mom She

drcl1 Nadia 8 Alyssa 6 and second location band Paul and children Mark now lives in London with her

Sarah I bull Tosh Noseworthy BSe 83 is and Keith and is a research husband Tim and one-year-old

bull Brenda irwin BSe 88 is a cardiovascular ICU nurse in scientist with Bristol-Myers daughter Juliette She sends love

studying at Hong Kong Unishy sunny Tuscon Arizona After Squibb Previously she worked to Sue Heather and Sheila and

vers ity of Science and Technolshy grad uation she lived in Paris at McMaster University in can be reached bye-mail at

ogy to complete the final France for a yea r s tudied nurs- Hamilton Ont for 17 yea rs michellebacondialpipexcom

sem ester of an MBA program ing in O ttawa then lived in Saushy bull Teresa Tummillo-Goy BA bull Jeff Barlow BComm 90 is

through the University of di Arabia for two yea rs She still 86 has a law practice in Water- the training and quality manag-

British Columbia She taught loves to travel and would like to 100 Ont foc Li sing primaril y on er for two five-star luxury boushy

science for the North York hea r from fellow alumni She family law civi l litiga tion and tique h o tels in Prague - Hotel

Board of Education for five can be reached at 520-299-8344 real estate She and her hus- Palace Praha and the Hotel

years before enrolling in the bull Cecilia (Wleugel) Parkes band John Goy live in Guelph Savoy Previo usly he was execu -

MBA program BComm 85 is a graphic and have three sons John 4 tive housekeeper at the five-star

bull Jagwant Kanwar PhD 80 is designer in Toronto and says Tony 3 and Shayne 2 Renaissance Pragu e Hotel

a senior scientist in the depart- she st ill uses ber marketing bull Peter Van der Borch DVM bull Margaret Burnes-Souria BA ment of vegetable crops at Pun- background to help her busishy 88 retired in the fa ll of 1997 94 is a team leader with [011 shy

jab Agricultural University in ness succeed She specia lizes in after several years of practising don Magazin e in London Ont

India He is also director of the logo design lNith hand-drawn physiotherapy and ve terinary She married David Souria in

regional vegetable research stashy illustrations medicine and surgery He Jives July 1997 and is pursuing an tion at Usman (TaranTarn) bull Jim Parr BSc(Agr) 81 and in Pictou NS ]VlBA at the University of West-

Amritsar His and his wife MSe 89 died of cancer in bull MartyWilLiams BA 85 is ern Ontario

Sanyogita have a son Mohit June 1998 but hes being co-ordinator of student activishy bull Janine Byers BASe 95 is a and a daughter Dipika who are remembered by his university ties at University College Unishy public health dietitian at the

both studying engineering friends through the establish - versity of Toronto where he Kingston Frontenac and

Friends can write to Kanwar at ment of a mem orial fund for advises student organizations Iennox amp Addington Health

Punjab Agricultural Un ivers ity his wife Denise and children 1Ie is also chair of the U of T Unit in Kingston O nt She is Ludhiana 141 004 India Shannon and Eric Anyone Staff Association a member of getting married to Ca rl Stewart

bull Larissa Larsen BSe 89 and who would like more informa - the steering committee of the on May 29 j 999 MLA 92 received a PhD in tion can ca ll Brian Tapscott at staffs unionization drive and a bull Lisa Cherry BSe 9 1 is a urban and regional planning 519-767-3566 staff member with the student science journalist and executive

from the University of Illinois bull Cheryl (Dunlop) Reid newspaper The Varsity He can director of Artists Against

at Urbana Champaign in May BSe(Agr) 89 sta rted a new be reached bye-mail at marty Racism an international organi-

She has accepted a position at job in September as ingredient wi lliamsutorontoca za tion She is based in Toronto

Thompson Dyke and Associshy sales manager for RA bull Bonnie (Byma) BASe 96 ales a landscape architecture Chisholm o f Toronto She will 19905 and Gil Clelland BA 95 were

and urban planning firm in continue to work from her bull Claire Allison BA 94 grad- married in December 1996 and

Chicago Her husband Ernie remote offke in Fergus Reid uated from the elementary are living in Chatham On t

Poortinga DVM 89 is in his and her husband Jeff BSe teacher ed ucation program at Bo nnie works at a day-care

third yea r of an MD program (Agr) 89 have two children the University of British centre G il teaches art and

at Rush University Chicago lVlega n 4 and Elizabeth 2 Columbia in 1996 and now phys ical education They ca n -Hes looking forward to joining bull Chee Sie BA 83 is a zone teaches in Va ncou ver be reached bye-ma il at gclelshy

his wife in the ranks of the manager for the Malaysian bull JohnAvon BSdHK) 94 lan ciaccesscom employed They would both Assurance Alliance Berhad in earned an M Se in industr ial bull Kate Corn ell BA 95 of enjoy hearing from fellow Sarawak Malaysia He and his operations from Lawrence Markham Ont earned her

alumni and can be reached at wife Jesterine have a two-year- Technological University in masters in dance history from epoor tin garushurushedu old daughter Letitia Southfleld Mich in 1997 and York University in May and

WINTER 1999 41

co-authored a book titled

Toronto Dance Theatre 1968shy1998 Stages in a Journey

bull Mary Jill (McClure) Culliton BASe 90 earned

her BEd from Brock University

and her M Ed from the Univershy

sity of Western Ontario and

teaches Grade 1 in Mitchell

Ont She and her husband

Tim live in Stratford

bull Kathleen (McNutt) Daniels BASe 9 1 is a teacher and was

married on New Years Eve

1994 to Gord Daniels They live

in North Bay Ont and have a

daughter Lauren born in Febshy

ruary 1997 They are expecting

their second child in February

bull Simon Deakin BA 95 studshyied in Florence Italy for a year

then earned a master of fine art

from the Slade School of Fine

Art at the University of London

England He lives in London

bull Christie Dunbar BLA 97 spent a year after graduation

working for Niagara College in

St Catharines Ont on the

vision and design of a new

campus to be built in Niagarashy

on-the- Lake Last April she

joined the landscape architecshy

ture firm of Pollack Design

Associates in Ann Arbor Mich

bull Trina Edmonds BA 94 and

Joel Hinderle became the

proud parents of a little girl

Jordan Ashley in january 1998

and moved to a new home in

Oakville Ont in September

Edmonds works in Mississauga

as a desktop publisher with a

publishingprinting company

bull Wendy Garinther BSc 93 and Steve Decker BSe 94

were married in May Joining

them in the wedding celebrashy

tions were Cheri (Coulter)

42 GUELPH ALUMNUS

Ascroft BSe 93 Karen Leinshy

gartner BSe 94 and Barb

(Moore) Johnson BSe 94

Best man was Jeff Bond BSe

93 and MSe 96 The Deckers

live in Edmonton where Steve

is doing a PhD in chemistry at

the University of Alberta and

Wendy is working in a research

laboratory at a biopharmaceushy

tical company

bull Donna Gross BA 97 is purshysu ing a master of divinity at

Emmanuel College at the Unishy

versity of Toronto and hopes to

become an ordained minister by

2002 She lives in Guelph and

can be reached bye-mail at

donnajulietalbedonet

bull Robert Gruber BA 92 is a child-care supervisor for the

YMCA-YWCA of Guelph and

manages the Jean Little Y

Child- Care Centre He recently

developed the anti -bias proshy

gramming policy for the

Guelph Y and sits on both the

Jean Little Public School Counshy

cil and the Guelph AIDS Wall

Committee He can be reached

bye-mail at rgrubernet

comca

bull Susan Harder BSe 91 grad shyuated from the University of

Toronto Medical School in June

and has started a residency at

Santa Clara Valley Medical Censhy

tre in San jose Calif She will

follow that up with an anestheshy

sia residency at Stanford Univershy

sity Hospital in 1999

bull Marko Harjupanula BASc 93 travelled in Australia for

two months after graduating

from Guelph then returned to

his home town of South Porshy

cupine Ont where he worked

in a gold mine for four years

He entered police college in

September and started as an

opp constable in Cochrane in

December

bull Nancy Holman MA 94 moved to Vancouver soon after

graduation and initially worked

as a project co-ordinator for an

ophthalmologist In 1996 she

began working full time for the

BC Liberal Caucus I would

enjoy hearing from and catchshy

ing up with the friends I made

while studying at U of G and

working at the Brass Taps she

says Her e-mail address is nan shy

cyholmanlassgovbeca

bull Ruth Johnson BA 91 is an investment banking associate

with the mergers and acquisishy

tions group of JP Morgan in

Lond on England responsible

for financial reporting and

administration She has been in

England with her partner Alex Campbell since graduation

bull Stephen Johnson BA 94 of London Ont was a lab technishy

cian at Lenscrafters for three

yea rs and is now a full-time

student at Fanshawe College

studying air conditioning and

refrigeration He was married

in Jun e to Jennifer Fox BSc

95 a chemist at 3M Their

wedding party included Dee Popat BSe (Eng) 94 and

Patrick Wulhes BSc 95

bull Sarah (Davis) Kelly BASe 90 married Robert Kelly in

July and teaches primary

grades at an inner-city school

in Toronto

bull Cassidy Klowak BComm 97 lives in Allisshy

ton Onl and is a personal

banking account manager

with ClBC in Tottenham

bull Stephanie Lopes BSc 96 completed her MSc in repro shy

ductive biology at the Universishy

ty of Toronto and worked as

patient-care director for the

College of Family Physicians

for almost a year In September

she enrolled in medical school

at the University of Toronto

She is happy to announce that

she is engaged to be married

next summer Lopes can be

reached at slopesidirectcom

bull Natalie (Parker) MacKenzie BSc 96 earned her BEd from

the University of Western

Ontario in 1997 She married

ASLt Andy MacKenzie June 27

in Sault Ste Marie Ont and

now lives in Halifax

bull Susan MacKinnon DVM 91 is a veterinarian with HUls

Science Diet She lives in

Guelph with her husband

Brandon Wiley and gave birth

to their first child Adrianna

Nicole june 26 at home

bull Waheed Mian BA 9 1 of Cambridge Ont is a store

director with PetSmart Canada

He helped the company launch

its new retail concept in Cana da

bull Alex Mitchell BA 91 was appointed clerkdeputy treasurshy

er of the Ontario township of

Mildmay-Carrick in 1998 and

will be the clerkadministrator

of the new municipality of

Mildmay-Carrick -TeesWatershy

Culross in 1999 He was married

in january 1997 and lives vith

his wife and daughter in Mild shy

may In his spare time Mitchell

is a professional scout for the

Toronto Maple Leafs covering

southwestern Ontario

bull Sherry Morland BASc 93 of Kitchener Ont ea rned her

BEd from Brock University in

J995 and is a part-time specia l

educa tion teacher and an occashy

sional teacher with the Watershy

loo County Board of Ed ucashy

tion She married Ivan LeBlanc

in 1997

bull Gary Page BSe 91 wo rks for the Nottawasaga Valley Conshy

servation Authority where he is

able to combine his knowledge

of wildlife biology with his

artistic skills as resident graphic

designer and outdoor centre

interpreter He Jives with his

wife Di and their son judah in

CreemoreOnt

bull Elaine Pammenter BA 96 is an inventory clerk with the

Royal Collection at Windsor

Castle in England She holds a

museum management and

curatorship grad uate certificate

diploma from Sir Sandford

Fleming College and did her

internship at the Royal Albert

Memorial Museum in Exeter

England

bull Brent Raymond BSe(Env) 96 of Brantford Ont has

been working with Outward

Bound since graduation He

leads wilderness trips in Northshy

ern Ontario Horida Australia and Sabah (Malaysian Borneo) Most recently he designed and implemented a new introducshytory mountaineering course for Outward Bound Sabah on the summit plateau of Mt Kinashy

balu Those of you who know me as plate licker from U of G get in touch he says Where are you Star I miss you He can be reached by e-mail at globarwchatonca or by

phone at 519-756-1697

Alumni Patrick Abbott BSA 40 July 7 1998

Albert Allen BSA 33 Jan 161994 Agris Ansmits BA 70 and MA 73

February 1998 Barbara (Quartermain) Babcock DHE

53 June 17 1998

Wray Bond BSA 34 Sept 25 1998

Kenneth Bone DVM 38 Dec 29 1998 Evelyn (Stevenson) Buhr DHE 39

May 251998 Philip Burke BSA 43 June 21 1998

Grant Carman BSA 49 Oct 221998 Frederick Chambers BSA 41

June 1998 Wilmot Conley ADA4 7 April 7 1998 Lloyd Crewson BSA 49 Aug 261998

Jacqueline Dimock DHE 47

Aug 20 1998 John Dingwall DVM 52

April 18 1998

Lloyd Dorsey BSA 38 June 9 1998 George Duncan BSA 37

Sept 19 1998

David Dyson BSA 53 Aug 31 1998

Norma (Shannon) Edwards DHE 39

November 1997 Vincent Bud Ellis DVM 41

July 15 1998 John Jack George BSA 48

Sept 24 1998

Donald Haight BSA 33 January 1997 William Hamlyn BSA 33 Dec I 1997

Gordon Harkness BSA 49

November 1997

Charles Hollister DVM 38 June 1996 Donald Hope BSA 54 June 28 1998

Lawrence Jefferson BSA 38

Sept 3 1998

James Kelso DVM 56 July 27 1998

Dorima Lalonde BSA 34 Oct 8 1998 Mildred (Cox) Large DHE 33

June 20 1998 Roger Larson BComm 86 Feb 19 1998 Robert Lawson BSA 49 June 6 1998

bull Doug Ramsey BA 91 and PhD 98 received U of Gs highshyest graduate student award shythe Forster Medal- at June convocation for his academic and community involvement while enrolled in Guelphs new

graduate program in geography He spent the summer as a visitshying research scholar at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College in Truro before assuming his curshyrent position as assistant professhysor at Mount Allison University

David Leach BSc(Agr) 74

July 18 1998

Ian Leask DVM 74 Sept 5 1998

Sheryl Lee BSc 95 June 8 1998 Ruby Janet MacAuley DHE 30

Aug 19 1998 Parker MacKenzie DVM 38

September 1994

Jeanice MacLaren DHE 28 March 1 1997

Campbell MacMaster DVM42

Oct 8 1998

Rex McCallum DVM 43 July 71998 Jean (Dunn) McMahon DHE 31

Nov 41998

Margaret Oones) McTaggart DHE 35 Aug 81998

Patrick McTaggart-Cowan HDSc 81

Oct 21997

Malcolm McWhinnie ADA 39

July 16 1998 Mary (Townsend) Mitchell BHSc

60 Sept 281998

Marjory Monaghan DHE 29

December 1997 Charles Monk BSA 44 Aug 7 1998

Heather Neilsen BHSc 59

Oct 30 1998 Jerry Niwa DVM 62 Aug 5 1998 Henry Harry OReilly BSA 42

October 1997

James Parr BSc(Agr) 81 June 19 1998 Charles Rammage DVM 45

Oct 17 1996 Howard Rapson HDSc 90

March 1997 Clement Reeds DVM 42 Oct 16 1998

William Robinson BSA 38

Aug 23 1998

Donald Sager ADA 73 Oct 141997

Austin Schaefer DVM 37 in 1997

Sandra (Mackenzie) Schmidt DHE 59

Aug 16 1997 Margaret (Harvey) Seaborn DHE 28

July 221998

Larry Seguin DVM 47 June 12 1998

Leah Shedden DHE 31 December 1998

Edward Shuh BSA 40 July 2 1998

Ted Shutsa BSc(Agr) 66

Sept 18 1998 Jim Sinclair DVM 49 Oct 4 1998

Margaret (Brown) Sinclair DHE 20

September 1998 Eldon Smith BSA 42 Sept 9 1998

Derek Somers DVM 96 Sept 25 1998

Cheryl Lynn Sopha BA 95 Sept 20 1998

Leona (Bartlett) Stewart DHE 35

June 27 1998 Alex Thomson BSc(Agr) 69

October 1996

William Whittick DVM 55

Aug 15 1998 Joseph Wilson BSA 23 Sept 11 1998

Lloyd Woolsey DVM41 June 24 1998

Winifred Yeates DHE 28 June 11998

Faculty John Carpenter BSA 43 and MSA 48

Microbiology Dec 10 1998

David Gaskin Zoology Sept 14 1998

Gordon Macleod BSA 50 Animal and

Poultry Science Nov 26 1998 Roman Retman Languages and

Literatures Sept 28 1998

Caesar Sen off Chemistry and

Biochemistry Aug 14 1998

Percy Smith Drama Dec 10 1998

Friends Robert Clark Aug 21 1998

Ethel Hammond August 1998

Thomas Hillers Sept 28 1998 Marguerite Holbrook Aug 26 1998

Catherine Kelly Sept 27 1998

James A McKenzie May 13 1998

Kenneth McIssac Oct 23 1998

William Mutlock September 1998 Roena Patterson Sept 16 1998

Donald Priddle Aug 25 1998

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bull Karl Reimer BSe 94 comshypleted a one-year intensive

MSc in mining engineering at

Queens University and is now

a project engineer a t Enpar

Technologies Ine in Guelph

He can be contacted at reimerbservcom

bull Nancy Nauta Rowland BA 90 and her husband Dan celshy

ebrated their first wedding

anniversary in March 1998 with

the birth of their first child

Connor who beat their March

8 anniversary by two days Nanshy

cy teaches junior-grade stushy

dents and junior special ed ucashy

tion for the Peel District School

Board The Rowlands live in

Caledon Ont

bull Fraser Stables MFA 98 was heralded by Toronto Globe 6shyMail critic Betty Jordan as a

formidable new talent followshy

ing the openi ng of his debut

gallery exh ibition in July The

Scottish artists work includes

sculpture video and mixed

media that explore notions of

flu x by interrupting the moveshy

ment of forms in space

bull Erin (Smith) Scott BSe(HK) 92 and Brad

Scott BSc(Agr) 91 of Lucan

O nt were married in 1993 and

had their first child Lucas in

August Erin works for Shopshy

pers Home Health Ca re in

London Brad is with New Life

Mills in Dunfield

bull Abby Simons BSc 95 and Martin Piche BSc(Agr) 95 were married in Mont-Tremshy

blant Quebec in 1997 She is a

customer service representative

with Kantech Systems he is

superintendent of Club de golf

vallee des forts They say theyd

love to hear from anyone headshy

ing to Montreal and can be

reached at 450-348-3860

bull Sylvia Tesori BSc 95 has been doing wildlife rehabilitashy

tion for the OSPCA Wildlife

Rehabilitation Centre in Midshy

land Ont since 1996

bull Chuck Thibeault BComm 94 is general manager of the

Putting Edge Corpora tion

which has two glow-in- theshy

dark mini-golf courses in

Ontario one in Bramp ton and

one in Richmond Hill He can

be reached in Richmond Hill at

chu ckttotalnet

bull Karen Thirlwall BA 93 is a

si ngersongwriter and guitarist

who began her stage career and

released her first album The Voice Inside Me while studying

languages at U of G She has

lived and performed in

11i stler BC for three years

and recently released a second

album called Wide-Eyed She

remembers many special

fr iends m ade at Guelph and

welcomes e-mail messages to

karenthirlwallhotmailcom

bull Christie (Johnson) and Steve

Tyler both BComm 91 live in

Cambridge Ont where

Christie is a personal banking

representative for the Royal

Bank Steve works with their

third-year design professor

Nelson Hofer in Mississauga as

a design consultan t Steves proshy

jects include the Windsor Casishy

no and U of Gs Creelman Hall

They have two children Jason

5 and Marcus 1

bull Julia White BA 91 lives in Guelph and is a small-business

accountant at Taves amp Co She

recently finished courses

towards a CGA designation and

would like to hea r from other

alumni who lived in Lambton

Hall in 198788 Send e-mail to

juliawhitesympaticoca

bull Andre-Denis Wright MSc 93 and PhD 98 is doing postshy

docto ral work in Perth Westshy

ern Australia He wants his

Guelph friends and Halifax

family to know he was thinking

of them at Christmas when it

was 40 C in Australia

bull Dave Yellen BComm 90 was recently promoted at the Gordon

Food Service to new-accounts

sales specialist for Metro Toronshy

to Having been in Ottawa for

the past few years Im hoping

to reacquaint myself with old

friend s from U of G in the Metro

area he says He lives in Scarborshy

ough and can be reached at 416shy615-2745 or davidysprintca

bull Halina Zaleski PhD 92 is a tenured professor in the

departm ent of animal sciences

at the Un iversity of Hawaii in

Honolulu She is a swine speshy

cialist involved in extension

programs for an area th at covshy

ers all of Hawai i and the PacifIC

basin She can be reached by

e-mail at halinahawaiiedu

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IF THERE ARE LIVESTOCK IN THE HOCKEY ARENA and

theyre not wearing skates its College Royal If there

are students sawing logs throwing pies baking cookies

and square dancing its College Royal When the entire

University of Guelph is displayed - from arts to zooloshy

gy - March 13 and 14 1999 youll know its definitely

College Royan

Since its inception in 1925 as an agricultural and liveshy

stock show run by the Ontario Agricultural College

College Royal has grown to be a celebrated U of G trashy

dition involving all the colleges

The event is famou s in the University community

and beyond for its open-house showcase of displays and

activities The largest student-run open house in Canashy

da College Royal attracts more than 20000 visitors to

campus over one weekend

College Royal is an event of tradition that reaches

into tomorrow Agriculture and livestock shows are still

highlighted events but College Royal activities have

grown to include dog and cat shows a photography conshy

test a chemistry magic show and demonstrations on

human health and fitness The open house gives people

an opportunity to see what happens in the Universitys

leading-edge research laboratories to observe veterinary

medicine in practice to tour a sculpture studio or to

watch a theatrical performance

To celebrate the 75th anniversary of College Royal

1998 president Joe TrakaJo lnvites alumni to get involved

again by joining one of the planning comm ittees or by

participating in a favourite event Call him for more

information at 824-4120 Ext 8366 or send e-mail to

jtrakalouoguelphca

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alumni

Multimedia lab buzzes

THE DONALD FORSTER RoOiv

has become one of the

busiest spots in th e Unishy

versity of Guelph Liblary since the

addition of 70 state-of-the-art

computer workstations that were

supported by alumni do nations

to the Alma Mater Fund (AM F)

U of G president Mordechai

Roza nski officia ll y o pened th e

Alma Mater Fund Multimedia

Lab D ec 2 an d celebrated th e

event with members of the AMF

Adv isory Counc iL [n 1996 a nd

1997 the AMF contributed

$240000 to th e project which

increased the number of student

workstations o n campus by 50 per

cent Students use the m ult imeshy

~ dia lab to conduct research on the

~ Internet access scholarly publicashyr u VI tions on CD-ROM and use COll1shyz ~ puter software mod ules tbat lt

~ strengthen the teaching provided lD

o in co urse lectures labs and tcxtshybii books

middotMatters

Alumnus of many interests

I NTERES TING P EOPLE always have eclect ic interests and U of G

alumnus and honorary degree recipient Ken Murray BSA 50 and

HDLA 96 is a good example H e is known by most people on camshy

pus for his distinguished career in the Canadian meat packing indusshy

try and his volunteer service to U of G He was a member and chair

of Board of Governors from 1973 to 1978 and chair of the Regionshy

al Corporate Committee during U of Gs last capital campaign and

is currently chair of the Heritage Fund Enhancement Committee

Murray is also a strong supporter of community soc ial services

In August he addressed the World Congress of Social Ps)chiatry

held in British Columbia - the only non-psychiatrist on the proshy

gram He spoke about his role in establishing an Alzheimers research

project a t the University ofWaterioo which was recently named in

his honour the Ken Murray Alzheimer Research and Education Proshy

gra m At the gc conference he al so participated in a panel dis shy

cussion that outlined services offered by Guelphs Homewood Health

Cent re Murray bas been actively involved in the governance of the

centre since 1977 and has been a major player in the development

of a charitable foundatio n bearing the Homewood name

WHEN THE PUCK DROPPED More than 30 teams including two

womens teams were entered in the

Dec 6 University of Guelph Alumni Hockey

Tournament Organizers for the 1998 event

were from left Brian Finniss B5c 88

Brad Stephenson BA 86 Terry Carr

BComm 87 Todd Bryant BA 86 and

undergraduate student Brian Melnick

Ken Murray centre with his wife Marilyn Robinson Murray and U of G president Mordechai Rozanski

34 GU ELPH ALUMNU S

RESTORING A JEWEL IN THE CROWN

DONALD RUTHERFORD BSA 5 stands in fron t

of the 1931 conservatory greenhouse that will

be restored to match the splendour of the ga rdens

now growi ng up around it His $256000 leadershy

ship gift to the Conservatory and Gardens Project

was inspired by hi s m emo ries of being a student

at OAC

On behalf of fellow alumni I hope this gift will

commemorate the experiences and educat ion we

acquired while at Guelph says Rutherford When

fully restored to its previous glory the conservatoshy

ry greenhouse will be an ideal greeting and welcome

spot for visitors and newcomers to the University

as well as old friend s renewing their acquaintance

Rutherfords professional career spans the agrishy

foo d industr y beginning as an agricu ltural repshy

resentative with the provincial minist ry I-Ie was

later vice-president of the Fertilizer Institute of

Ontario executive secreta ry of the Canadian Seed

Trade Association director of information w ith

the Ca nadian Livestock Feed Board and Canadishy

an sa les manager for Sylvite of Can ad a Retired

since 1986 he now owns his own sma ll investment

company and manages to golf throughout the yea r

The conserva tory isnt the first ca mpus project

to attract Rutherford s attention - as a student

he helped dig out the base ment of Massey H al l to

build a student lo unge - but his recent gift has

been a tremendous boost to those who have been

working since the ea rly 1990s to save the glass and

cypress structure from demo lition

A committee of alumni facult y sta ff stu dents

and fri en ds of the University has moved the proshy

ject along to th e point w here most of the surshy

rounding garden complex is now complete It fea shy

tures six gardens named in honour of the ir chie f

supporters Autumn Garden - OAC 5 1 Spring

Ga rden - OAC 53 Su mmer Garden - OAC 55

Winter Gard en - OAC 65 Water Gard en shy

OAC 49 and the Woo dland Garden named in

honour of the late Doug Rob inson BSA 53

Alumni have been in strumental in raising

funds for the $ l-million project Students and fa cshy

ulty have provided mudl of the h1l1ds-on Idbour

and friends in the nursery and landscape materishy

als supply industries have given $250000 ill donashy

tions and gifts-in-kind of plan ts and landsca ping

materials Rutherford s generous gift has pushed

th e conservato ry fund-ra ising effort in to the fin 81

stretch Th e ga rden complex and restored g reenshy

110use are sc heduled to officially open during

Alumni Weekend in June 1999

1999 Coming Events

Jan 29 - Aggie Goodshy

Times Banquet call the OAC Student Federation at Ext 8321 for ticket injemnrltion Feb 13 - Norm McCo llulll

D iploma Hockey Tournashy

m ent call Jack Bakker at 519-837-0132 to register a team

Feb 21 - Ottawa Chapter

annual curling bonspiel

Richmond C urling Club in

Richmond Ont For informashytiol1 call Alan Bentley BSA 61 at 6 13-829-6598 or John DVit[ 54 mId Margaret McGowml BHSc 54 at

613-828-7038

March 3 - Florida alumni

reunion a t Maple Leaf

Estates Port Charlo tte Fla

call Ext 6533 0 register

March 13 and 14 - ollcge

Royal 75th o pen house

March 19 and 20 - OAC

Alumni Association curling

bonspiel G uelph Curling

Club register at Ext 6657

May 5 - Chicago All Canashy

dian Universities Night hostecl

by U of G at the University

Club of Chicago 76 East Monshy

roe Sr call Exl 6533 for details May 5 - OAC Alumni

Foundation annual meeting

730 pm Arboretum Centre

May 12 - Alumni-inshy

Action annual meeting and

luncheo n 1130 3m

Arboretum Centre ((11 Ext 6657for tickets

June 18 to 20 - Alumni

Veekend call Ext 6657 to plall a reun io n

-0 r shya -IFor more infon-nation on any a

eVC1l1listed ailove call the oJ -lt oU of G extension listed at en raquo

519-824-4120 or send e-mail z

10 alunznilIoguelphca ~

WINTER 1999 35

alumni Matters

MEMORIES OF COLLEGE ROYAL Grant MacEwan ADA 23 and

BSA 26 is one of the few OAC

alumni who c~n still remember

the first College Royal held Jan

14 1925 MacEwan bad just

entered the degree program in

animal husbandry and may have

been a participant in the liveshy

stock showmanship classes Latshy

er in life he was widely known Grant MacEwan

across Western Canada as 3 liveshy

stock judge and an advocate of

agricultural fairs and exhibitions

MacEwan is bes t known

however for his 23-year C3reer

as a university professor in Manshy

itoba and Saskatchewan and Ilis

political career which included

12 years as alderman and mayshy John Kenneth Galbraith

or of C31gary four years as an

Alberta MLA and eight as lieushy birthday in August

tenant -governor of the province The year after Ma cEwan

He s till lives in Calgary graduated John Kenneth Galshy

where he celebrated his 96th braith ADA 29 and BSA 31

HOMECOMING 98

enrolled at OAC and devoted

some of his energy to organizshy

ing College Royal Show records

indicate it was Galbraith who

first proposed the college event

be publicized so that people

from the farm community

could attend He also suggestshy

ed that OAC invite students

from American agricultural colshy

legesl n th e early 1930s Colshy

lege Royal took its fir s t steps

towards becoming the comshy

munity open house it is today

Galbraith later moved to the

United States where he enjoyed

a distinguished caree r as a proshy

fessor of economics at Harvard

Universi ty Known for his

humanit~rian approach to ecoshy

nomic and political thinking

he was awarded the Order of

Canada in 1997 He celebr3ted

his 90th birthday in October

IT REALLY WAS a homecoming reunion when and Arnott who is head coach of the York

former Gryphon teammates Ralph Shapiro University Yeomen came from the visitors

S5c(HK) 74 and Tom Amott S5c(HK) 80 dreSSing room to hold the ball Shapiro is

met on the field at Alumni Stadium Oct 3 the controller at Huntsman Chemical Inc

Shapiro had the honour of kicking off in Guelph and a longtime United Way volshy

the Universitys 1998 United Way campaign unteer who chaired this years Guelph and

Wellington fund-raising drive The Univershy

sity campaign is the largest in the county

with U of G staff and faculty contributing

over $200000 in 1998

Prior to the game a number of recent

alumni - all U of G scholarship and award

winners - met for a reunion luncheon The UJ

1948 and 1949 dominion championship i5f 3

football teams were also honoured guests z 5 o at the 2 pm game that saw the Gryphons gtshy a defeat York f shya I a

Ralph Shapiro

36 G UELPH ALUMNUS

LEADING THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY FOR 1974 GRADS The 25th-anniversary reunion givshy

i ng program for the Class of 1974

is under way with Bill Laidlaw BA

74 as cbair A public affairs proshy

fessional he has been director of

government relations for the

Canadian operations of Glaxo

vVelJcome Inc for more th an 10

years He also acts as a senior conshy

sultant to support the governshy

ment relations function in other

regions of Canada

Laidlaw began his career in

teaching after earning a history

degree from Guelph and education

degrees (rom Queens University

and the University of Toronto He

also holds the certified human

resources professional designation

and worked in that field for sevshy

eral years before concen trating on

government relations at Glaxo

Welkome He lives in Burlington

Ont and is an act ive community

volunteer having se rved on the

boards of severa l professional

organizations the Queensway

General Hospital and the Metroshy

politan Toronto Lung Association

He is currently completing a oneshy

year term as chair of the Ontario

Chamber of Commerce

Anniversa ry preparations will

culminate with a class gathering

a nd reunion gift at Alumni

Weekend in June 1999

ALUMNI MAKE THE CONNECTION Students who moved into

Maids and Mills halls in Sepshy

tember can take full advanshy

tage of the Universitys highshy

speed computer network

thanks to the OAC Class of

71 whose 25 th-reunion proshy

ject provided wiring upgrades

in the 84- and 77-year-old

residence buildin gs

GRAD NEWS

Marathon survivors inspire us all to appreciate everyday life

W HEN ROBINSON SIIlLJNGS Jane BSe(Agr)

85 Heather BASe 83 Peter BSe(Agr)

86 Scott and Marnie rigwood BA 84 get

together they talk about marathons and the hope

and determination it takes to reach the finish line

Hea ther walked a marathon in San Diego

Calif in June to raise money for leukemia

research then joined Peter for a Toronto marathon

in October that benefi ted the Leukemia Research

Fund of Canada They were inspired by Janes pershy

sonal marathon of survival that foUowed her 1992

diagnosis of leukemia Chemotherapy radiation

remission relapse and finally a bone marrow

transplant [TOm her brother Scott took more than

three years out of her life but gave her the detershy

mination to keep fighting

Many families can understand the marathon

of hope maintained by the Robinsons during

Janes struggle and the commitment they have to

help others who are stricken with the disease Jane

is finally well enough to work again as a writer

and marketing consultant and to join her fami shy

ly in volunteer work She helped recruit for the

Toronto marathon fund -raiser and continues to

be involved with the Leukemia Research Funds

Team in Training She also says that her expeshy

rience has taught her to appreciate more the pleashy

sures of everyday life and the love of famil y

Jan es parents are th e late Doug Rob inson

BSA 53 and Marilyn (Inglis) Robinson Murray

BH Sc 55

19305

bull Grant Misener ADA 32 BSA 35 and DVM 38 received the

prest igious George F Hixso n Felshy

lowship Award from the Kiwanis

International Foundation in May The retired Illinois veter ishy

narian was hono ured for his subshystantial contribution to the

Kiwanis wo rldwide service proshy

ject aimed at eliminating iodine

deficiency disorders the leading

cause of preventable mental retardation in children Over the

years Misener has shown a simishylar commitment to his al ma

mater an d its students through

his close association with OVC

and his support of scho larship

programs

19405

bull Russell McDonaldDVM 45 was named an honorary life direcshytor of the Royal Agricultural Winshy

ter Fair Association in March

McDonald formerly general manshy

ager of Western Ontario Breeders

Ine and executive director of the Canadian Association of Animal

Breeders served as a director of the Royal Winter Fair for 20 years

representing the Canadian artifishycial insemination industry He

lives in Woodstock Ont

bull Ian Taylor DVM43 was recently honoured by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to

Animals of Illinois Taylor ran a small-animal veterinary clinic in

the Chicago area for many years

and says he gained ll1uch experishyence during his first three years in

Illinois as clinic veterinarian for

the anti -cruelty society

19505

bull Charles Chuck Broadwell BSA 54 was elected a Mel

Osborne Fellow by the Kiwanis

Club of Forest City in London Ont in recognition of a dedicatshy -ed and distinguished career in

Kiwanis

19605

bull Constantine Campbell BSA 60 and MSA 61 was named to the

WINTER 1999 37

Order of Canada in January He

received the award in recogni shy

tion of his many contributions

to science and the Canadian

agricultural industry After grad shy

uating from OAC he went on to

do his PhD at the University of

Saskatchewan then joined Agri shy

culture and Agri-food Canada

as a research scientist at the Swift

Current research station Campshy

bell and his family now live in

Ottawa where he is scientist

emeritus with Agriculture and

Agri-food Canada

bull John Casselman BSA 64 is

a research scientist with the

Ontario Ministry of Natural

Resources He Jives in Bath

Ont with his wife Lois

bull Jane Fuller RRSc 65 and

her husband George who both

taught at the Macdonald Instishy

tute from 1966 to 1969 have

moved from Winnipeg to

Utopia Ont following

Georges retirement from the

University of Manitoba

bull Fred Gilbert MSc 66 and

P hD 68 is in his first term as

president of Lakehead Univer shy

sity in Thunder Bay Ont He

taught at U of G in the Departshy

ment of Zoology from 1972 to

1981 and has enjoyed a dive rse

academic career that has also

included teaching at the Unishy

versity of Maine and posi tions

as director of wildlife biology at

Washington State University

and founding dean of the Facshy

ulty of Natural Reso urces and

Environmenta l Studies at the

University of Northern British

Columbia He moved to Lakeshy

head from a position as viceshy

pro vost at Colorado State Unishy

versity A respected wildlife

biologist he has conducted

ex tensive resea rch in s Ll ch areas

as the behaviour and physioloshy

gy of wildlife species and the

effects of environmental

change on wildlife populations

bull Terry Goodyear BSc 67 of

Mont Tremblant Quebec is an

early retiree from Agriculture

and Agri-Food Canada in Ottawa He is now working on

va lue-added products from

industrial wastes particularly

cellulose sludge from pulp and

pa per mills

bull Gary Hearn BA 68 was

named an Ontario provincial

judge in October For the last

25 years he has been a lawyer

with the firm Kearns McKinshy

non in Guelph where he lives

with his wife Irene and three

teenage children

bull Allan Knight BSA 66 of Corunna Ont has retired

from Dow Chemical after 30

years On retirement he was a

laboratory director for indusshy

trial chemicals He is now

working with his son in a famishy

ly-owned and -operated busishy

ness Knight Funeral Home

bull Keith McFarlane BSc(Agr)

68 works for the Department

of Foreign Affairs and Internashy

tional Trade and began a fourshy

year assignment last summer as

head of the commercial divishy

sion of the Canadian Embassy

in Lisbon Portugal The

division promotes the sa le of

Canadian goods and services

to Portugal

bull Ian Newbould MA 68 has

travelled far from his Ontario

roots through an academic and

administrative career that has

taken him to Europe Asia and

Western Canada A noted hisshy

torian he moved into adm inisshy

tration at the University of

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Lethbridge in 1981 and spent

10 years there as director of

research dean of a rts and scishy

ence and vice-presiden t (acadeshy

mic) before crossing the counshy

try to become president of

Mount Allison University in

New Brunswick He is now in

his second term as president of

Mount AUison

bull Indra Deo Singh MSc 68 is

a tea scientist international

consultant and joint director of

the Tea Research Association at

the Nagrakata substation in

India His responsibilities

include co-ordinating research

and development in the Indian

tea industry and developing tea

cultivars and agrotechnology

for tea Singh is married with

two sons aged 27 and 23

19705

bull Don Ambler BSe 71 retired in March as manager of

water programs with Environshy

ment Canada in Dartmouth

NS after 25 years of public

service He has now registered

the company Aquashed Co nshy

sulting to continue in the water

resources field when hes not

gardening beekeeping do ing

aerobics or vo lunteering in the

community and chu rch E-mail

contact is welcome a t

donambl erns sympaticoca

bull Jim Bond BSe 75 is managshy

ing a new processing facility at

the Chalk River Nuclear Laborashy

to ry in Chalk River Ont

bull Terri (Monks) Bulman BSc(Agr) 78 and MSe 81

and her husband Vincent

MSe 8 1 live in Australia with

their th ree children Catherine

7 Peter 4 and baby Christoshy

pher Terri is senior principal

environmental auditor vith

Coffey Geosciences Pty Ltd Vinshy

cent afte r many years as a geoloshy

gist travelling around Australia

and abroad has taken the year

off to study and look after the

children Their e-mail address is

tbulmanbigpondco m

bull Marie David BA 78 of

Hanover Ont has been in the

n ewspaper business for 20

years She started in the mailshy

room moved to advertising

sales then became advert ising

manager She is now gene ral

manager o f three So utham

weekly newspapers and pubshy

lish er of the Hanover Post

bull Janice Harrower and her husshy

band Jerome Billett both

DVM 76 operate a joint veterishy

nary practice in Prescott Ont

Billett says practising together

has allowed them some flexibilishy

ty in their family life and given

their four children a good took

at the rigours of veterinary

medicine Says Billett Not one

of our kid s has the slightest

interest in being a veterinarian

and isnt that just fine Their

o ldest son Jesse attends Harshy

va rd University and is a memshy

ber of its prestigious a cappella

choir Lucas is studying

mechanical engineering at the

University of Waterloo Casey is

planning a career in computer

engineering and Lindsay is a

high school athle te

bull Clair Heinbuch BSe 74 is a

sales manager with Baye r Corp

in Kansas H e and his wife

Caroline (Koscik) BASc 75

returned to the Kansas City

area after spending four years in

Denver They have three chilshy

dren Lisa 20 Scott 18 and

Ryan [5

bull Beverly Lee BASe 72 is an

elem entary school principal in

Unionville Ont She lives with

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her husband Grant Egan in

Collingwood and is looking

forward to retirement in severshy

al years Life on Georgian Bay

is wonderful she says Lee

would love to hear from fellow

grads by e-mail at

leebYrbeeduonca or by

phone at 705 -444 -092l

bull Won-Jai Maeng MSc 71 took office Sept 1 as president

of Kon-Kuk University in Seoul

Korea where his academic

career began He completed an

undergraduate degree at Kon

Kuk in 1965 then studied at

Mailing Agricultural College in Denmark and at U of G before

doing doctoral work at the Unishy

versity of California Davis

Maeng has held research and

teaching positions at the Unishy

versity of illinois at Chung-Ang

University and at Kon-Kuk

where he has been a professor of

animal science since 1984 His

appointment as president folshy

lows years of administrative

experience as a department

head dean and chair of various

research committees and proshy

fessional organizations An

expert in ruminant nutrition

Maeng was instrumental in

developing the livestock feed

industry in Korea He has also

been active in working with

alumni groups and in writing

for the Kon-Kuk Tribune

bull Bill MarshaU ADA 75 of Proton Station Ont moved

from Clarksburg in June to

work in Dundalk for the Grey

County Roads Department on

its road management crew

bull Bernie Matte BSc(Agr) 70 of Moncton NB retired

in March after 28 years with

Fisheries and Oceans Canada

and the Canadian Food

Inspection Agency He plans to

travel to Belize and Honduras

with his wife Diane and will

be available anywhere in the

Caribbean for seafood HACCP

consulting work

bull Margaret McClain BA 70 lives in Arkansas where she is

highJy involved in the issue of

40 GUELPH ALUMNUS

missing children and internashy

tional abductions McClain who

believes her own six-year-old

daughter was taken out of the

United States more than a year

ago by her second husband is

reaching out to parents with

similar experiences through an

organization that is lobbying the

US government for tougher

international abduction laws

She invites interested fr iends

and alumni to contact her

through her Web site at

wwwinsolwwbnet-dmcclain

bull Robert (Chuck) Miller BA 77 is the park superintendent

of Killarney French River and

Maskinonje provincial parks in

Ontario He moved to Killarney

from Quetico Provincial Park

last May

bull Gordon Nicol BA 72 and MSc(Agr) 74 teaches math

and science in a bilingual prishy

vate school in Guatemala A

BEd graduate of Laurentian

he first taught in Guatemala in

the late 1970s then spent 12

years in northern Alberta as a

teacher and principal He

returned to Guatemala in 1989

A widower with three teenage

children Nicol would like to

hear from U of G friends and

acquaintances especially anyshy

one who is was or will be in

Central America He says he

could also use middle-schoolshy

level science projects Send eshy

mail to gnicoll guatenet or

write to PO Box 661447 Miami

Springs Florida 33266-1447

bull Chris Schulte BSc 71 and MSc 73 lives in Nassau

Bahamas with his wife

Andrya After graduation he

stayed in the Department of

Physics as a research associate

with Prof lain Campbell then

joined Ontario Hydro in the

early 1980s He moved to the

Bahamas in 1995 He can be

reached bye-mail at

schultebahamasnetbs

bull Sandra (Pickford) Webster BA 75 has retired from U of

Gs Co mmunications and Pubshy

lic Affairs and is living in Parry

Sound Ont where she is

doing volunteer work and

communications consulting

for the municipality Guelph

friends ca n contact her by

e-mail atswebsterzeutercom

19805

bull Sharon (Courneya) Angus BA 8 I of Surrey BC comshy

pleted a BSW at the University

of British Columbia in 1988

and has been working for the

BC government for 13 years

- first in probation and now

in the family justice division

She and her husband Ron

have three children Jason

Carly and Colin

bull Karen Beazley BLA 86 is an assistant professor and acadeshy

mic program co-ordinator at

the School for Reso urce and

Environmental Studies at Dalshy

housie University in Halifax

She is currently doing research

for a book on endangered

species initiatives and is orgashy

nizing a Nova Scotia wildlands

workshop with the Wildlands

Project for 1999 Her e-mail

address is kbeazleyisdalca

bull Caroline (Van Deudekom) and Marc Brooks both ADA 87

recently moved from Strathroy

to Owen Sound Ont where

they run a 50-acre organic farm

with their two sons

bull Virginia Burt BLA 85 startshyed her own landscape architecshy

ture firm Visionscapes in

Hamilton Ont in ] 996 She

specializes in the design of thershy

apeutic healing gardens spirit

gardens sacred spaces and

la byrin ths and recen tly designed the first healing garden

in Canada specificalJy for peoshy

ple living with HIV and AIDS

bull Joanne (Branson) Carver BA 80 earned a BEd from Brock

University in 1981 and recently

started working as a probashy

tionparole officer She Jives in

Ajax Ont and has two daughshy

ters Julie4 and Sarah 8

bull Heather Champ BA 86 is a Web-site designer in New York

City She began her work in

computer design in 1990 Her

personal site can be Found at

wwwjezebelcom

bull Laurie Gough BA 87 has become a world traveller who

writes about her experiences for

the benefit of others Her most

recent book Island of the

Human Heart A tfornans Travshyel Odyssey is now in its second

printing in Canada and will be

released next year in the United

States and overseas She has also

published Travellers Tales A

Womans World which won the

US-based Lowell Thomas

Gold Award for best travel book

of the year When not travelling

or writing she teaches English

and ESL in Guelph

bull Susan (Coles) Goulden BASc 84 and her husband

Ian are th rilled wi th their

recent adoption of Jennifer Lee

Yu who was born in June near

Leping Jiangxi Peoples Repubshy

lic of China The Gouldens

who Jive in vVaterloo Ont

thank classmate Andrea

(Kovits) Henderson for her

support throughout the adopshy

tion process Susan is currently

on leave from her position with

McCormick Canada

bull Judy (Bodendistel) Gregg BA 82 moved to Melbourne Ausshy

tralia in 1997 with her husband

and two children Carly 6 and

Adam 3 We are enjoying the

friendly people and the great

weather here she says We are

especially enjoying winter in a

place where it never gets below

zero Celsius

bull Nigel GumJey DVM 85 has been a partner in the Alta Vista

Animal Hospital in Ottawa

since 1990 was president of the bull Garry Millage AMPHI 86 bull Heidi Stephenson BA 88 is now ISO 9000 manager at

Ontario Veterinary Medical left a position as vice-president was awarded her professional Carpenter Ca nada Ltd in

Association in 1997 and recent- of national operations for acco untants designation of Wood br idge Ont He lives in

ly served on the Canadian Vetshy Scotts Restaurants KFC Divishy certified general accountant in Miss issa uga Classma tes are

erilw() Medical Associations sion to open his own consult- March 1998 She has been invited to contact him at

national issues committee He ing company Future Food employed for the last 10 years avon listarca

lives in Osgoode with his wife Equipment Ine specializes in with Dan Ball Chartered bull Michelle (Pilon) Bacon BA rvlaurecn and children Laura providing new and used restau- Acco un tant in Parry Sound 90 moved to England to study

and Matthew rant equipment and reducing O nt where she lives with her and work after graduating from

bull Muneer Hirji BComm 82 restaurant construction costs hu sband Brad two dogs and a Guelph She recently left a posishy

lives in Toronto and is vice- He also operates a restaurant horse tion with the British Ministry of

president of marke ting at SAP called Nikkos in Woodbridge bull Dawn Stetsko BSe 81 lives Agriculture and Food in York to

Canada He has three chil- Ont and is planning to open a in Langhorne Pa with her husshy become an at-home mom She

drcl1 Nadia 8 Alyssa 6 and second location band Paul and children Mark now lives in London with her

Sarah I bull Tosh Noseworthy BSe 83 is and Keith and is a research husband Tim and one-year-old

bull Brenda irwin BSe 88 is a cardiovascular ICU nurse in scientist with Bristol-Myers daughter Juliette She sends love

studying at Hong Kong Unishy sunny Tuscon Arizona After Squibb Previously she worked to Sue Heather and Sheila and

vers ity of Science and Technolshy grad uation she lived in Paris at McMaster University in can be reached bye-mail at

ogy to complete the final France for a yea r s tudied nurs- Hamilton Ont for 17 yea rs michellebacondialpipexcom

sem ester of an MBA program ing in O ttawa then lived in Saushy bull Teresa Tummillo-Goy BA bull Jeff Barlow BComm 90 is

through the University of di Arabia for two yea rs She still 86 has a law practice in Water- the training and quality manag-

British Columbia She taught loves to travel and would like to 100 Ont foc Li sing primaril y on er for two five-star luxury boushy

science for the North York hea r from fellow alumni She family law civi l litiga tion and tique h o tels in Prague - Hotel

Board of Education for five can be reached at 520-299-8344 real estate She and her hus- Palace Praha and the Hotel

years before enrolling in the bull Cecilia (Wleugel) Parkes band John Goy live in Guelph Savoy Previo usly he was execu -

MBA program BComm 85 is a graphic and have three sons John 4 tive housekeeper at the five-star

bull Jagwant Kanwar PhD 80 is designer in Toronto and says Tony 3 and Shayne 2 Renaissance Pragu e Hotel

a senior scientist in the depart- she st ill uses ber marketing bull Peter Van der Borch DVM bull Margaret Burnes-Souria BA ment of vegetable crops at Pun- background to help her busishy 88 retired in the fa ll of 1997 94 is a team leader with [011 shy

jab Agricultural University in ness succeed She specia lizes in after several years of practising don Magazin e in London Ont

India He is also director of the logo design lNith hand-drawn physiotherapy and ve terinary She married David Souria in

regional vegetable research stashy illustrations medicine and surgery He Jives July 1997 and is pursuing an tion at Usman (TaranTarn) bull Jim Parr BSc(Agr) 81 and in Pictou NS ]VlBA at the University of West-

Amritsar His and his wife MSe 89 died of cancer in bull MartyWilLiams BA 85 is ern Ontario

Sanyogita have a son Mohit June 1998 but hes being co-ordinator of student activishy bull Janine Byers BASe 95 is a and a daughter Dipika who are remembered by his university ties at University College Unishy public health dietitian at the

both studying engineering friends through the establish - versity of Toronto where he Kingston Frontenac and

Friends can write to Kanwar at ment of a mem orial fund for advises student organizations Iennox amp Addington Health

Punjab Agricultural Un ivers ity his wife Denise and children 1Ie is also chair of the U of T Unit in Kingston O nt She is Ludhiana 141 004 India Shannon and Eric Anyone Staff Association a member of getting married to Ca rl Stewart

bull Larissa Larsen BSe 89 and who would like more informa - the steering committee of the on May 29 j 999 MLA 92 received a PhD in tion can ca ll Brian Tapscott at staffs unionization drive and a bull Lisa Cherry BSe 9 1 is a urban and regional planning 519-767-3566 staff member with the student science journalist and executive

from the University of Illinois bull Cheryl (Dunlop) Reid newspaper The Varsity He can director of Artists Against

at Urbana Champaign in May BSe(Agr) 89 sta rted a new be reached bye-mail at marty Racism an international organi-

She has accepted a position at job in September as ingredient wi lliamsutorontoca za tion She is based in Toronto

Thompson Dyke and Associshy sales manager for RA bull Bonnie (Byma) BASe 96 ales a landscape architecture Chisholm o f Toronto She will 19905 and Gil Clelland BA 95 were

and urban planning firm in continue to work from her bull Claire Allison BA 94 grad- married in December 1996 and

Chicago Her husband Ernie remote offke in Fergus Reid uated from the elementary are living in Chatham On t

Poortinga DVM 89 is in his and her husband Jeff BSe teacher ed ucation program at Bo nnie works at a day-care

third yea r of an MD program (Agr) 89 have two children the University of British centre G il teaches art and

at Rush University Chicago lVlega n 4 and Elizabeth 2 Columbia in 1996 and now phys ical education They ca n -Hes looking forward to joining bull Chee Sie BA 83 is a zone teaches in Va ncou ver be reached bye-ma il at gclelshy

his wife in the ranks of the manager for the Malaysian bull JohnAvon BSdHK) 94 lan ciaccesscom employed They would both Assurance Alliance Berhad in earned an M Se in industr ial bull Kate Corn ell BA 95 of enjoy hearing from fellow Sarawak Malaysia He and his operations from Lawrence Markham Ont earned her

alumni and can be reached at wife Jesterine have a two-year- Technological University in masters in dance history from epoor tin garushurushedu old daughter Letitia Southfleld Mich in 1997 and York University in May and

WINTER 1999 41

co-authored a book titled

Toronto Dance Theatre 1968shy1998 Stages in a Journey

bull Mary Jill (McClure) Culliton BASe 90 earned

her BEd from Brock University

and her M Ed from the Univershy

sity of Western Ontario and

teaches Grade 1 in Mitchell

Ont She and her husband

Tim live in Stratford

bull Kathleen (McNutt) Daniels BASe 9 1 is a teacher and was

married on New Years Eve

1994 to Gord Daniels They live

in North Bay Ont and have a

daughter Lauren born in Febshy

ruary 1997 They are expecting

their second child in February

bull Simon Deakin BA 95 studshyied in Florence Italy for a year

then earned a master of fine art

from the Slade School of Fine

Art at the University of London

England He lives in London

bull Christie Dunbar BLA 97 spent a year after graduation

working for Niagara College in

St Catharines Ont on the

vision and design of a new

campus to be built in Niagarashy

on-the- Lake Last April she

joined the landscape architecshy

ture firm of Pollack Design

Associates in Ann Arbor Mich

bull Trina Edmonds BA 94 and

Joel Hinderle became the

proud parents of a little girl

Jordan Ashley in january 1998

and moved to a new home in

Oakville Ont in September

Edmonds works in Mississauga

as a desktop publisher with a

publishingprinting company

bull Wendy Garinther BSc 93 and Steve Decker BSe 94

were married in May Joining

them in the wedding celebrashy

tions were Cheri (Coulter)

42 GUELPH ALUMNUS

Ascroft BSe 93 Karen Leinshy

gartner BSe 94 and Barb

(Moore) Johnson BSe 94

Best man was Jeff Bond BSe

93 and MSe 96 The Deckers

live in Edmonton where Steve

is doing a PhD in chemistry at

the University of Alberta and

Wendy is working in a research

laboratory at a biopharmaceushy

tical company

bull Donna Gross BA 97 is purshysu ing a master of divinity at

Emmanuel College at the Unishy

versity of Toronto and hopes to

become an ordained minister by

2002 She lives in Guelph and

can be reached bye-mail at

donnajulietalbedonet

bull Robert Gruber BA 92 is a child-care supervisor for the

YMCA-YWCA of Guelph and

manages the Jean Little Y

Child- Care Centre He recently

developed the anti -bias proshy

gramming policy for the

Guelph Y and sits on both the

Jean Little Public School Counshy

cil and the Guelph AIDS Wall

Committee He can be reached

bye-mail at rgrubernet

comca

bull Susan Harder BSe 91 grad shyuated from the University of

Toronto Medical School in June

and has started a residency at

Santa Clara Valley Medical Censhy

tre in San jose Calif She will

follow that up with an anestheshy

sia residency at Stanford Univershy

sity Hospital in 1999

bull Marko Harjupanula BASc 93 travelled in Australia for

two months after graduating

from Guelph then returned to

his home town of South Porshy

cupine Ont where he worked

in a gold mine for four years

He entered police college in

September and started as an

opp constable in Cochrane in

December

bull Nancy Holman MA 94 moved to Vancouver soon after

graduation and initially worked

as a project co-ordinator for an

ophthalmologist In 1996 she

began working full time for the

BC Liberal Caucus I would

enjoy hearing from and catchshy

ing up with the friends I made

while studying at U of G and

working at the Brass Taps she

says Her e-mail address is nan shy

cyholmanlassgovbeca

bull Ruth Johnson BA 91 is an investment banking associate

with the mergers and acquisishy

tions group of JP Morgan in

Lond on England responsible

for financial reporting and

administration She has been in

England with her partner Alex Campbell since graduation

bull Stephen Johnson BA 94 of London Ont was a lab technishy

cian at Lenscrafters for three

yea rs and is now a full-time

student at Fanshawe College

studying air conditioning and

refrigeration He was married

in Jun e to Jennifer Fox BSc

95 a chemist at 3M Their

wedding party included Dee Popat BSe (Eng) 94 and

Patrick Wulhes BSc 95

bull Sarah (Davis) Kelly BASe 90 married Robert Kelly in

July and teaches primary

grades at an inner-city school

in Toronto

bull Cassidy Klowak BComm 97 lives in Allisshy

ton Onl and is a personal

banking account manager

with ClBC in Tottenham

bull Stephanie Lopes BSc 96 completed her MSc in repro shy

ductive biology at the Universishy

ty of Toronto and worked as

patient-care director for the

College of Family Physicians

for almost a year In September

she enrolled in medical school

at the University of Toronto

She is happy to announce that

she is engaged to be married

next summer Lopes can be

reached at slopesidirectcom

bull Natalie (Parker) MacKenzie BSc 96 earned her BEd from

the University of Western

Ontario in 1997 She married

ASLt Andy MacKenzie June 27

in Sault Ste Marie Ont and

now lives in Halifax

bull Susan MacKinnon DVM 91 is a veterinarian with HUls

Science Diet She lives in

Guelph with her husband

Brandon Wiley and gave birth

to their first child Adrianna

Nicole june 26 at home

bull Waheed Mian BA 9 1 of Cambridge Ont is a store

director with PetSmart Canada

He helped the company launch

its new retail concept in Cana da

bull Alex Mitchell BA 91 was appointed clerkdeputy treasurshy

er of the Ontario township of

Mildmay-Carrick in 1998 and

will be the clerkadministrator

of the new municipality of

Mildmay-Carrick -TeesWatershy

Culross in 1999 He was married

in january 1997 and lives vith

his wife and daughter in Mild shy

may In his spare time Mitchell

is a professional scout for the

Toronto Maple Leafs covering

southwestern Ontario

bull Sherry Morland BASc 93 of Kitchener Ont ea rned her

BEd from Brock University in

J995 and is a part-time specia l

educa tion teacher and an occashy

sional teacher with the Watershy

loo County Board of Ed ucashy

tion She married Ivan LeBlanc

in 1997

bull Gary Page BSe 91 wo rks for the Nottawasaga Valley Conshy

servation Authority where he is

able to combine his knowledge

of wildlife biology with his

artistic skills as resident graphic

designer and outdoor centre

interpreter He Jives with his

wife Di and their son judah in

CreemoreOnt

bull Elaine Pammenter BA 96 is an inventory clerk with the

Royal Collection at Windsor

Castle in England She holds a

museum management and

curatorship grad uate certificate

diploma from Sir Sandford

Fleming College and did her

internship at the Royal Albert

Memorial Museum in Exeter

England

bull Brent Raymond BSe(Env) 96 of Brantford Ont has

been working with Outward

Bound since graduation He

leads wilderness trips in Northshy

ern Ontario Horida Australia and Sabah (Malaysian Borneo) Most recently he designed and implemented a new introducshytory mountaineering course for Outward Bound Sabah on the summit plateau of Mt Kinashy

balu Those of you who know me as plate licker from U of G get in touch he says Where are you Star I miss you He can be reached by e-mail at globarwchatonca or by

phone at 519-756-1697

Alumni Patrick Abbott BSA 40 July 7 1998

Albert Allen BSA 33 Jan 161994 Agris Ansmits BA 70 and MA 73

February 1998 Barbara (Quartermain) Babcock DHE

53 June 17 1998

Wray Bond BSA 34 Sept 25 1998

Kenneth Bone DVM 38 Dec 29 1998 Evelyn (Stevenson) Buhr DHE 39

May 251998 Philip Burke BSA 43 June 21 1998

Grant Carman BSA 49 Oct 221998 Frederick Chambers BSA 41

June 1998 Wilmot Conley ADA4 7 April 7 1998 Lloyd Crewson BSA 49 Aug 261998

Jacqueline Dimock DHE 47

Aug 20 1998 John Dingwall DVM 52

April 18 1998

Lloyd Dorsey BSA 38 June 9 1998 George Duncan BSA 37

Sept 19 1998

David Dyson BSA 53 Aug 31 1998

Norma (Shannon) Edwards DHE 39

November 1997 Vincent Bud Ellis DVM 41

July 15 1998 John Jack George BSA 48

Sept 24 1998

Donald Haight BSA 33 January 1997 William Hamlyn BSA 33 Dec I 1997

Gordon Harkness BSA 49

November 1997

Charles Hollister DVM 38 June 1996 Donald Hope BSA 54 June 28 1998

Lawrence Jefferson BSA 38

Sept 3 1998

James Kelso DVM 56 July 27 1998

Dorima Lalonde BSA 34 Oct 8 1998 Mildred (Cox) Large DHE 33

June 20 1998 Roger Larson BComm 86 Feb 19 1998 Robert Lawson BSA 49 June 6 1998

bull Doug Ramsey BA 91 and PhD 98 received U of Gs highshyest graduate student award shythe Forster Medal- at June convocation for his academic and community involvement while enrolled in Guelphs new

graduate program in geography He spent the summer as a visitshying research scholar at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College in Truro before assuming his curshyrent position as assistant professhysor at Mount Allison University

David Leach BSc(Agr) 74

July 18 1998

Ian Leask DVM 74 Sept 5 1998

Sheryl Lee BSc 95 June 8 1998 Ruby Janet MacAuley DHE 30

Aug 19 1998 Parker MacKenzie DVM 38

September 1994

Jeanice MacLaren DHE 28 March 1 1997

Campbell MacMaster DVM42

Oct 8 1998

Rex McCallum DVM 43 July 71998 Jean (Dunn) McMahon DHE 31

Nov 41998

Margaret Oones) McTaggart DHE 35 Aug 81998

Patrick McTaggart-Cowan HDSc 81

Oct 21997

Malcolm McWhinnie ADA 39

July 16 1998 Mary (Townsend) Mitchell BHSc

60 Sept 281998

Marjory Monaghan DHE 29

December 1997 Charles Monk BSA 44 Aug 7 1998

Heather Neilsen BHSc 59

Oct 30 1998 Jerry Niwa DVM 62 Aug 5 1998 Henry Harry OReilly BSA 42

October 1997

James Parr BSc(Agr) 81 June 19 1998 Charles Rammage DVM 45

Oct 17 1996 Howard Rapson HDSc 90

March 1997 Clement Reeds DVM 42 Oct 16 1998

William Robinson BSA 38

Aug 23 1998

Donald Sager ADA 73 Oct 141997

Austin Schaefer DVM 37 in 1997

Sandra (Mackenzie) Schmidt DHE 59

Aug 16 1997 Margaret (Harvey) Seaborn DHE 28

July 221998

Larry Seguin DVM 47 June 12 1998

Leah Shedden DHE 31 December 1998

Edward Shuh BSA 40 July 2 1998

Ted Shutsa BSc(Agr) 66

Sept 18 1998 Jim Sinclair DVM 49 Oct 4 1998

Margaret (Brown) Sinclair DHE 20

September 1998 Eldon Smith BSA 42 Sept 9 1998

Derek Somers DVM 96 Sept 25 1998

Cheryl Lynn Sopha BA 95 Sept 20 1998

Leona (Bartlett) Stewart DHE 35

June 27 1998 Alex Thomson BSc(Agr) 69

October 1996

William Whittick DVM 55

Aug 15 1998 Joseph Wilson BSA 23 Sept 11 1998

Lloyd Woolsey DVM41 June 24 1998

Winifred Yeates DHE 28 June 11998

Faculty John Carpenter BSA 43 and MSA 48

Microbiology Dec 10 1998

David Gaskin Zoology Sept 14 1998

Gordon Macleod BSA 50 Animal and

Poultry Science Nov 26 1998 Roman Retman Languages and

Literatures Sept 28 1998

Caesar Sen off Chemistry and

Biochemistry Aug 14 1998

Percy Smith Drama Dec 10 1998

Friends Robert Clark Aug 21 1998

Ethel Hammond August 1998

Thomas Hillers Sept 28 1998 Marguerite Holbrook Aug 26 1998

Catherine Kelly Sept 27 1998

James A McKenzie May 13 1998

Kenneth McIssac Oct 23 1998

William Mutlock September 1998 Roena Patterson Sept 16 1998

Donald Priddle Aug 25 1998

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bull Karl Reimer BSe 94 comshypleted a one-year intensive

MSc in mining engineering at

Queens University and is now

a project engineer a t Enpar

Technologies Ine in Guelph

He can be contacted at reimerbservcom

bull Nancy Nauta Rowland BA 90 and her husband Dan celshy

ebrated their first wedding

anniversary in March 1998 with

the birth of their first child

Connor who beat their March

8 anniversary by two days Nanshy

cy teaches junior-grade stushy

dents and junior special ed ucashy

tion for the Peel District School

Board The Rowlands live in

Caledon Ont

bull Fraser Stables MFA 98 was heralded by Toronto Globe 6shyMail critic Betty Jordan as a

formidable new talent followshy

ing the openi ng of his debut

gallery exh ibition in July The

Scottish artists work includes

sculpture video and mixed

media that explore notions of

flu x by interrupting the moveshy

ment of forms in space

bull Erin (Smith) Scott BSe(HK) 92 and Brad

Scott BSc(Agr) 91 of Lucan

O nt were married in 1993 and

had their first child Lucas in

August Erin works for Shopshy

pers Home Health Ca re in

London Brad is with New Life

Mills in Dunfield

bull Abby Simons BSc 95 and Martin Piche BSc(Agr) 95 were married in Mont-Tremshy

blant Quebec in 1997 She is a

customer service representative

with Kantech Systems he is

superintendent of Club de golf

vallee des forts They say theyd

love to hear from anyone headshy

ing to Montreal and can be

reached at 450-348-3860

bull Sylvia Tesori BSc 95 has been doing wildlife rehabilitashy

tion for the OSPCA Wildlife

Rehabilitation Centre in Midshy

land Ont since 1996

bull Chuck Thibeault BComm 94 is general manager of the

Putting Edge Corpora tion

which has two glow-in- theshy

dark mini-golf courses in

Ontario one in Bramp ton and

one in Richmond Hill He can

be reached in Richmond Hill at

chu ckttotalnet

bull Karen Thirlwall BA 93 is a

si ngersongwriter and guitarist

who began her stage career and

released her first album The Voice Inside Me while studying

languages at U of G She has

lived and performed in

11i stler BC for three years

and recently released a second

album called Wide-Eyed She

remembers many special

fr iends m ade at Guelph and

welcomes e-mail messages to

karenthirlwallhotmailcom

bull Christie (Johnson) and Steve

Tyler both BComm 91 live in

Cambridge Ont where

Christie is a personal banking

representative for the Royal

Bank Steve works with their

third-year design professor

Nelson Hofer in Mississauga as

a design consultan t Steves proshy

jects include the Windsor Casishy

no and U of Gs Creelman Hall

They have two children Jason

5 and Marcus 1

bull Julia White BA 91 lives in Guelph and is a small-business

accountant at Taves amp Co She

recently finished courses

towards a CGA designation and

would like to hea r from other

alumni who lived in Lambton

Hall in 198788 Send e-mail to

juliawhitesympaticoca

bull Andre-Denis Wright MSc 93 and PhD 98 is doing postshy

docto ral work in Perth Westshy

ern Australia He wants his

Guelph friends and Halifax

family to know he was thinking

of them at Christmas when it

was 40 C in Australia

bull Dave Yellen BComm 90 was recently promoted at the Gordon

Food Service to new-accounts

sales specialist for Metro Toronshy

to Having been in Ottawa for

the past few years Im hoping

to reacquaint myself with old

friend s from U of G in the Metro

area he says He lives in Scarborshy

ough and can be reached at 416shy615-2745 or davidysprintca

bull Halina Zaleski PhD 92 is a tenured professor in the

departm ent of animal sciences

at the Un iversity of Hawaii in

Honolulu She is a swine speshy

cialist involved in extension

programs for an area th at covshy

ers all of Hawai i and the PacifIC

basin She can be reached by

e-mail at halinahawaiiedu

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IF THERE ARE LIVESTOCK IN THE HOCKEY ARENA and

theyre not wearing skates its College Royal If there

are students sawing logs throwing pies baking cookies

and square dancing its College Royal When the entire

University of Guelph is displayed - from arts to zooloshy

gy - March 13 and 14 1999 youll know its definitely

College Royan

Since its inception in 1925 as an agricultural and liveshy

stock show run by the Ontario Agricultural College

College Royal has grown to be a celebrated U of G trashy

dition involving all the colleges

The event is famou s in the University community

and beyond for its open-house showcase of displays and

activities The largest student-run open house in Canashy

da College Royal attracts more than 20000 visitors to

campus over one weekend

College Royal is an event of tradition that reaches

into tomorrow Agriculture and livestock shows are still

highlighted events but College Royal activities have

grown to include dog and cat shows a photography conshy

test a chemistry magic show and demonstrations on

human health and fitness The open house gives people

an opportunity to see what happens in the Universitys

leading-edge research laboratories to observe veterinary

medicine in practice to tour a sculpture studio or to

watch a theatrical performance

To celebrate the 75th anniversary of College Royal

1998 president Joe TrakaJo lnvites alumni to get involved

again by joining one of the planning comm ittees or by

participating in a favourite event Call him for more

information at 824-4120 Ext 8366 or send e-mail to

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RESTORING A JEWEL IN THE CROWN

DONALD RUTHERFORD BSA 5 stands in fron t

of the 1931 conservatory greenhouse that will

be restored to match the splendour of the ga rdens

now growi ng up around it His $256000 leadershy

ship gift to the Conservatory and Gardens Project

was inspired by hi s m emo ries of being a student

at OAC

On behalf of fellow alumni I hope this gift will

commemorate the experiences and educat ion we

acquired while at Guelph says Rutherford When

fully restored to its previous glory the conservatoshy

ry greenhouse will be an ideal greeting and welcome

spot for visitors and newcomers to the University

as well as old friend s renewing their acquaintance

Rutherfords professional career spans the agrishy

foo d industr y beginning as an agricu ltural repshy

resentative with the provincial minist ry I-Ie was

later vice-president of the Fertilizer Institute of

Ontario executive secreta ry of the Canadian Seed

Trade Association director of information w ith

the Ca nadian Livestock Feed Board and Canadishy

an sa les manager for Sylvite of Can ad a Retired

since 1986 he now owns his own sma ll investment

company and manages to golf throughout the yea r

The conserva tory isnt the first ca mpus project

to attract Rutherford s attention - as a student

he helped dig out the base ment of Massey H al l to

build a student lo unge - but his recent gift has

been a tremendous boost to those who have been

working since the ea rly 1990s to save the glass and

cypress structure from demo lition

A committee of alumni facult y sta ff stu dents

and fri en ds of the University has moved the proshy

ject along to th e point w here most of the surshy

rounding garden complex is now complete It fea shy

tures six gardens named in honour of the ir chie f

supporters Autumn Garden - OAC 5 1 Spring

Ga rden - OAC 53 Su mmer Garden - OAC 55

Winter Gard en - OAC 65 Water Gard en shy

OAC 49 and the Woo dland Garden named in

honour of the late Doug Rob inson BSA 53

Alumni have been in strumental in raising

funds for the $ l-million project Students and fa cshy

ulty have provided mudl of the h1l1ds-on Idbour

and friends in the nursery and landscape materishy

als supply industries have given $250000 ill donashy

tions and gifts-in-kind of plan ts and landsca ping

materials Rutherford s generous gift has pushed

th e conservato ry fund-ra ising effort in to the fin 81

stretch Th e ga rden complex and restored g reenshy

110use are sc heduled to officially open during

Alumni Weekend in June 1999

1999 Coming Events

Jan 29 - Aggie Goodshy

Times Banquet call the OAC Student Federation at Ext 8321 for ticket injemnrltion Feb 13 - Norm McCo llulll

D iploma Hockey Tournashy

m ent call Jack Bakker at 519-837-0132 to register a team

Feb 21 - Ottawa Chapter

annual curling bonspiel

Richmond C urling Club in

Richmond Ont For informashytiol1 call Alan Bentley BSA 61 at 6 13-829-6598 or John DVit[ 54 mId Margaret McGowml BHSc 54 at

613-828-7038

March 3 - Florida alumni

reunion a t Maple Leaf

Estates Port Charlo tte Fla

call Ext 6533 0 register

March 13 and 14 - ollcge

Royal 75th o pen house

March 19 and 20 - OAC

Alumni Association curling

bonspiel G uelph Curling

Club register at Ext 6657

May 5 - Chicago All Canashy

dian Universities Night hostecl

by U of G at the University

Club of Chicago 76 East Monshy

roe Sr call Exl 6533 for details May 5 - OAC Alumni

Foundation annual meeting

730 pm Arboretum Centre

May 12 - Alumni-inshy

Action annual meeting and

luncheo n 1130 3m

Arboretum Centre ((11 Ext 6657for tickets

June 18 to 20 - Alumni

Veekend call Ext 6657 to plall a reun io n

-0 r shya -IFor more infon-nation on any a

eVC1l1listed ailove call the oJ -lt oU of G extension listed at en raquo

519-824-4120 or send e-mail z

10 alunznilIoguelphca ~

WINTER 1999 35

alumni Matters

MEMORIES OF COLLEGE ROYAL Grant MacEwan ADA 23 and

BSA 26 is one of the few OAC

alumni who c~n still remember

the first College Royal held Jan

14 1925 MacEwan bad just

entered the degree program in

animal husbandry and may have

been a participant in the liveshy

stock showmanship classes Latshy

er in life he was widely known Grant MacEwan

across Western Canada as 3 liveshy

stock judge and an advocate of

agricultural fairs and exhibitions

MacEwan is bes t known

however for his 23-year C3reer

as a university professor in Manshy

itoba and Saskatchewan and Ilis

political career which included

12 years as alderman and mayshy John Kenneth Galbraith

or of C31gary four years as an

Alberta MLA and eight as lieushy birthday in August

tenant -governor of the province The year after Ma cEwan

He s till lives in Calgary graduated John Kenneth Galshy

where he celebrated his 96th braith ADA 29 and BSA 31

HOMECOMING 98

enrolled at OAC and devoted

some of his energy to organizshy

ing College Royal Show records

indicate it was Galbraith who

first proposed the college event

be publicized so that people

from the farm community

could attend He also suggestshy

ed that OAC invite students

from American agricultural colshy

legesl n th e early 1930s Colshy

lege Royal took its fir s t steps

towards becoming the comshy

munity open house it is today

Galbraith later moved to the

United States where he enjoyed

a distinguished caree r as a proshy

fessor of economics at Harvard

Universi ty Known for his

humanit~rian approach to ecoshy

nomic and political thinking

he was awarded the Order of

Canada in 1997 He celebr3ted

his 90th birthday in October

IT REALLY WAS a homecoming reunion when and Arnott who is head coach of the York

former Gryphon teammates Ralph Shapiro University Yeomen came from the visitors

S5c(HK) 74 and Tom Amott S5c(HK) 80 dreSSing room to hold the ball Shapiro is

met on the field at Alumni Stadium Oct 3 the controller at Huntsman Chemical Inc

Shapiro had the honour of kicking off in Guelph and a longtime United Way volshy

the Universitys 1998 United Way campaign unteer who chaired this years Guelph and

Wellington fund-raising drive The Univershy

sity campaign is the largest in the county

with U of G staff and faculty contributing

over $200000 in 1998

Prior to the game a number of recent

alumni - all U of G scholarship and award

winners - met for a reunion luncheon The UJ

1948 and 1949 dominion championship i5f 3

football teams were also honoured guests z 5 o at the 2 pm game that saw the Gryphons gtshy a defeat York f shya I a

Ralph Shapiro

36 G UELPH ALUMNUS

LEADING THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY FOR 1974 GRADS The 25th-anniversary reunion givshy

i ng program for the Class of 1974

is under way with Bill Laidlaw BA

74 as cbair A public affairs proshy

fessional he has been director of

government relations for the

Canadian operations of Glaxo

vVelJcome Inc for more th an 10

years He also acts as a senior conshy

sultant to support the governshy

ment relations function in other

regions of Canada

Laidlaw began his career in

teaching after earning a history

degree from Guelph and education

degrees (rom Queens University

and the University of Toronto He

also holds the certified human

resources professional designation

and worked in that field for sevshy

eral years before concen trating on

government relations at Glaxo

Welkome He lives in Burlington

Ont and is an act ive community

volunteer having se rved on the

boards of severa l professional

organizations the Queensway

General Hospital and the Metroshy

politan Toronto Lung Association

He is currently completing a oneshy

year term as chair of the Ontario

Chamber of Commerce

Anniversa ry preparations will

culminate with a class gathering

a nd reunion gift at Alumni

Weekend in June 1999

ALUMNI MAKE THE CONNECTION Students who moved into

Maids and Mills halls in Sepshy

tember can take full advanshy

tage of the Universitys highshy

speed computer network

thanks to the OAC Class of

71 whose 25 th-reunion proshy

ject provided wiring upgrades

in the 84- and 77-year-old

residence buildin gs

GRAD NEWS

Marathon survivors inspire us all to appreciate everyday life

W HEN ROBINSON SIIlLJNGS Jane BSe(Agr)

85 Heather BASe 83 Peter BSe(Agr)

86 Scott and Marnie rigwood BA 84 get

together they talk about marathons and the hope

and determination it takes to reach the finish line

Hea ther walked a marathon in San Diego

Calif in June to raise money for leukemia

research then joined Peter for a Toronto marathon

in October that benefi ted the Leukemia Research

Fund of Canada They were inspired by Janes pershy

sonal marathon of survival that foUowed her 1992

diagnosis of leukemia Chemotherapy radiation

remission relapse and finally a bone marrow

transplant [TOm her brother Scott took more than

three years out of her life but gave her the detershy

mination to keep fighting

Many families can understand the marathon

of hope maintained by the Robinsons during

Janes struggle and the commitment they have to

help others who are stricken with the disease Jane

is finally well enough to work again as a writer

and marketing consultant and to join her fami shy

ly in volunteer work She helped recruit for the

Toronto marathon fund -raiser and continues to

be involved with the Leukemia Research Funds

Team in Training She also says that her expeshy

rience has taught her to appreciate more the pleashy

sures of everyday life and the love of famil y

Jan es parents are th e late Doug Rob inson

BSA 53 and Marilyn (Inglis) Robinson Murray

BH Sc 55

19305

bull Grant Misener ADA 32 BSA 35 and DVM 38 received the

prest igious George F Hixso n Felshy

lowship Award from the Kiwanis

International Foundation in May The retired Illinois veter ishy

narian was hono ured for his subshystantial contribution to the

Kiwanis wo rldwide service proshy

ject aimed at eliminating iodine

deficiency disorders the leading

cause of preventable mental retardation in children Over the

years Misener has shown a simishylar commitment to his al ma

mater an d its students through

his close association with OVC

and his support of scho larship

programs

19405

bull Russell McDonaldDVM 45 was named an honorary life direcshytor of the Royal Agricultural Winshy

ter Fair Association in March

McDonald formerly general manshy

ager of Western Ontario Breeders

Ine and executive director of the Canadian Association of Animal

Breeders served as a director of the Royal Winter Fair for 20 years

representing the Canadian artifishycial insemination industry He

lives in Woodstock Ont

bull Ian Taylor DVM43 was recently honoured by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to

Animals of Illinois Taylor ran a small-animal veterinary clinic in

the Chicago area for many years

and says he gained ll1uch experishyence during his first three years in

Illinois as clinic veterinarian for

the anti -cruelty society

19505

bull Charles Chuck Broadwell BSA 54 was elected a Mel

Osborne Fellow by the Kiwanis

Club of Forest City in London Ont in recognition of a dedicatshy -ed and distinguished career in

Kiwanis

19605

bull Constantine Campbell BSA 60 and MSA 61 was named to the

WINTER 1999 37

Order of Canada in January He

received the award in recogni shy

tion of his many contributions

to science and the Canadian

agricultural industry After grad shy

uating from OAC he went on to

do his PhD at the University of

Saskatchewan then joined Agri shy

culture and Agri-food Canada

as a research scientist at the Swift

Current research station Campshy

bell and his family now live in

Ottawa where he is scientist

emeritus with Agriculture and

Agri-food Canada

bull John Casselman BSA 64 is

a research scientist with the

Ontario Ministry of Natural

Resources He Jives in Bath

Ont with his wife Lois

bull Jane Fuller RRSc 65 and

her husband George who both

taught at the Macdonald Instishy

tute from 1966 to 1969 have

moved from Winnipeg to

Utopia Ont following

Georges retirement from the

University of Manitoba

bull Fred Gilbert MSc 66 and

P hD 68 is in his first term as

president of Lakehead Univer shy

sity in Thunder Bay Ont He

taught at U of G in the Departshy

ment of Zoology from 1972 to

1981 and has enjoyed a dive rse

academic career that has also

included teaching at the Unishy

versity of Maine and posi tions

as director of wildlife biology at

Washington State University

and founding dean of the Facshy

ulty of Natural Reso urces and

Environmenta l Studies at the

University of Northern British

Columbia He moved to Lakeshy

head from a position as viceshy

pro vost at Colorado State Unishy

versity A respected wildlife

biologist he has conducted

ex tensive resea rch in s Ll ch areas

as the behaviour and physioloshy

gy of wildlife species and the

effects of environmental

change on wildlife populations

bull Terry Goodyear BSc 67 of

Mont Tremblant Quebec is an

early retiree from Agriculture

and Agri-Food Canada in Ottawa He is now working on

va lue-added products from

industrial wastes particularly

cellulose sludge from pulp and

pa per mills

bull Gary Hearn BA 68 was

named an Ontario provincial

judge in October For the last

25 years he has been a lawyer

with the firm Kearns McKinshy

non in Guelph where he lives

with his wife Irene and three

teenage children

bull Allan Knight BSA 66 of Corunna Ont has retired

from Dow Chemical after 30

years On retirement he was a

laboratory director for indusshy

trial chemicals He is now

working with his son in a famishy

ly-owned and -operated busishy

ness Knight Funeral Home

bull Keith McFarlane BSc(Agr)

68 works for the Department

of Foreign Affairs and Internashy

tional Trade and began a fourshy

year assignment last summer as

head of the commercial divishy

sion of the Canadian Embassy

in Lisbon Portugal The

division promotes the sa le of

Canadian goods and services

to Portugal

bull Ian Newbould MA 68 has

travelled far from his Ontario

roots through an academic and

administrative career that has

taken him to Europe Asia and

Western Canada A noted hisshy

torian he moved into adm inisshy

tration at the University of

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Lethbridge in 1981 and spent

10 years there as director of

research dean of a rts and scishy

ence and vice-presiden t (acadeshy

mic) before crossing the counshy

try to become president of

Mount Allison University in

New Brunswick He is now in

his second term as president of

Mount AUison

bull Indra Deo Singh MSc 68 is

a tea scientist international

consultant and joint director of

the Tea Research Association at

the Nagrakata substation in

India His responsibilities

include co-ordinating research

and development in the Indian

tea industry and developing tea

cultivars and agrotechnology

for tea Singh is married with

two sons aged 27 and 23

19705

bull Don Ambler BSe 71 retired in March as manager of

water programs with Environshy

ment Canada in Dartmouth

NS after 25 years of public

service He has now registered

the company Aquashed Co nshy

sulting to continue in the water

resources field when hes not

gardening beekeeping do ing

aerobics or vo lunteering in the

community and chu rch E-mail

contact is welcome a t

donambl erns sympaticoca

bull Jim Bond BSe 75 is managshy

ing a new processing facility at

the Chalk River Nuclear Laborashy

to ry in Chalk River Ont

bull Terri (Monks) Bulman BSc(Agr) 78 and MSe 81

and her husband Vincent

MSe 8 1 live in Australia with

their th ree children Catherine

7 Peter 4 and baby Christoshy

pher Terri is senior principal

environmental auditor vith

Coffey Geosciences Pty Ltd Vinshy

cent afte r many years as a geoloshy

gist travelling around Australia

and abroad has taken the year

off to study and look after the

children Their e-mail address is

tbulmanbigpondco m

bull Marie David BA 78 of

Hanover Ont has been in the

n ewspaper business for 20

years She started in the mailshy

room moved to advertising

sales then became advert ising

manager She is now gene ral

manager o f three So utham

weekly newspapers and pubshy

lish er of the Hanover Post

bull Janice Harrower and her husshy

band Jerome Billett both

DVM 76 operate a joint veterishy

nary practice in Prescott Ont

Billett says practising together

has allowed them some flexibilishy

ty in their family life and given

their four children a good took

at the rigours of veterinary

medicine Says Billett Not one

of our kid s has the slightest

interest in being a veterinarian

and isnt that just fine Their

o ldest son Jesse attends Harshy

va rd University and is a memshy

ber of its prestigious a cappella

choir Lucas is studying

mechanical engineering at the

University of Waterloo Casey is

planning a career in computer

engineering and Lindsay is a

high school athle te

bull Clair Heinbuch BSe 74 is a

sales manager with Baye r Corp

in Kansas H e and his wife

Caroline (Koscik) BASc 75

returned to the Kansas City

area after spending four years in

Denver They have three chilshy

dren Lisa 20 Scott 18 and

Ryan [5

bull Beverly Lee BASe 72 is an

elem entary school principal in

Unionville Ont She lives with

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her husband Grant Egan in

Collingwood and is looking

forward to retirement in severshy

al years Life on Georgian Bay

is wonderful she says Lee

would love to hear from fellow

grads by e-mail at

leebYrbeeduonca or by

phone at 705 -444 -092l

bull Won-Jai Maeng MSc 71 took office Sept 1 as president

of Kon-Kuk University in Seoul

Korea where his academic

career began He completed an

undergraduate degree at Kon

Kuk in 1965 then studied at

Mailing Agricultural College in Denmark and at U of G before

doing doctoral work at the Unishy

versity of California Davis

Maeng has held research and

teaching positions at the Unishy

versity of illinois at Chung-Ang

University and at Kon-Kuk

where he has been a professor of

animal science since 1984 His

appointment as president folshy

lows years of administrative

experience as a department

head dean and chair of various

research committees and proshy

fessional organizations An

expert in ruminant nutrition

Maeng was instrumental in

developing the livestock feed

industry in Korea He has also

been active in working with

alumni groups and in writing

for the Kon-Kuk Tribune

bull Bill MarshaU ADA 75 of Proton Station Ont moved

from Clarksburg in June to

work in Dundalk for the Grey

County Roads Department on

its road management crew

bull Bernie Matte BSc(Agr) 70 of Moncton NB retired

in March after 28 years with

Fisheries and Oceans Canada

and the Canadian Food

Inspection Agency He plans to

travel to Belize and Honduras

with his wife Diane and will

be available anywhere in the

Caribbean for seafood HACCP

consulting work

bull Margaret McClain BA 70 lives in Arkansas where she is

highJy involved in the issue of

40 GUELPH ALUMNUS

missing children and internashy

tional abductions McClain who

believes her own six-year-old

daughter was taken out of the

United States more than a year

ago by her second husband is

reaching out to parents with

similar experiences through an

organization that is lobbying the

US government for tougher

international abduction laws

She invites interested fr iends

and alumni to contact her

through her Web site at

wwwinsolwwbnet-dmcclain

bull Robert (Chuck) Miller BA 77 is the park superintendent

of Killarney French River and

Maskinonje provincial parks in

Ontario He moved to Killarney

from Quetico Provincial Park

last May

bull Gordon Nicol BA 72 and MSc(Agr) 74 teaches math

and science in a bilingual prishy

vate school in Guatemala A

BEd graduate of Laurentian

he first taught in Guatemala in

the late 1970s then spent 12

years in northern Alberta as a

teacher and principal He

returned to Guatemala in 1989

A widower with three teenage

children Nicol would like to

hear from U of G friends and

acquaintances especially anyshy

one who is was or will be in

Central America He says he

could also use middle-schoolshy

level science projects Send eshy

mail to gnicoll guatenet or

write to PO Box 661447 Miami

Springs Florida 33266-1447

bull Chris Schulte BSc 71 and MSc 73 lives in Nassau

Bahamas with his wife

Andrya After graduation he

stayed in the Department of

Physics as a research associate

with Prof lain Campbell then

joined Ontario Hydro in the

early 1980s He moved to the

Bahamas in 1995 He can be

reached bye-mail at

schultebahamasnetbs

bull Sandra (Pickford) Webster BA 75 has retired from U of

Gs Co mmunications and Pubshy

lic Affairs and is living in Parry

Sound Ont where she is

doing volunteer work and

communications consulting

for the municipality Guelph

friends ca n contact her by

e-mail atswebsterzeutercom

19805

bull Sharon (Courneya) Angus BA 8 I of Surrey BC comshy

pleted a BSW at the University

of British Columbia in 1988

and has been working for the

BC government for 13 years

- first in probation and now

in the family justice division

She and her husband Ron

have three children Jason

Carly and Colin

bull Karen Beazley BLA 86 is an assistant professor and acadeshy

mic program co-ordinator at

the School for Reso urce and

Environmental Studies at Dalshy

housie University in Halifax

She is currently doing research

for a book on endangered

species initiatives and is orgashy

nizing a Nova Scotia wildlands

workshop with the Wildlands

Project for 1999 Her e-mail

address is kbeazleyisdalca

bull Caroline (Van Deudekom) and Marc Brooks both ADA 87

recently moved from Strathroy

to Owen Sound Ont where

they run a 50-acre organic farm

with their two sons

bull Virginia Burt BLA 85 startshyed her own landscape architecshy

ture firm Visionscapes in

Hamilton Ont in ] 996 She

specializes in the design of thershy

apeutic healing gardens spirit

gardens sacred spaces and

la byrin ths and recen tly designed the first healing garden

in Canada specificalJy for peoshy

ple living with HIV and AIDS

bull Joanne (Branson) Carver BA 80 earned a BEd from Brock

University in 1981 and recently

started working as a probashy

tionparole officer She Jives in

Ajax Ont and has two daughshy

ters Julie4 and Sarah 8

bull Heather Champ BA 86 is a Web-site designer in New York

City She began her work in

computer design in 1990 Her

personal site can be Found at

wwwjezebelcom

bull Laurie Gough BA 87 has become a world traveller who

writes about her experiences for

the benefit of others Her most

recent book Island of the

Human Heart A tfornans Travshyel Odyssey is now in its second

printing in Canada and will be

released next year in the United

States and overseas She has also

published Travellers Tales A

Womans World which won the

US-based Lowell Thomas

Gold Award for best travel book

of the year When not travelling

or writing she teaches English

and ESL in Guelph

bull Susan (Coles) Goulden BASc 84 and her husband

Ian are th rilled wi th their

recent adoption of Jennifer Lee

Yu who was born in June near

Leping Jiangxi Peoples Repubshy

lic of China The Gouldens

who Jive in vVaterloo Ont

thank classmate Andrea

(Kovits) Henderson for her

support throughout the adopshy

tion process Susan is currently

on leave from her position with

McCormick Canada

bull Judy (Bodendistel) Gregg BA 82 moved to Melbourne Ausshy

tralia in 1997 with her husband

and two children Carly 6 and

Adam 3 We are enjoying the

friendly people and the great

weather here she says We are

especially enjoying winter in a

place where it never gets below

zero Celsius

bull Nigel GumJey DVM 85 has been a partner in the Alta Vista

Animal Hospital in Ottawa

since 1990 was president of the bull Garry Millage AMPHI 86 bull Heidi Stephenson BA 88 is now ISO 9000 manager at

Ontario Veterinary Medical left a position as vice-president was awarded her professional Carpenter Ca nada Ltd in

Association in 1997 and recent- of national operations for acco untants designation of Wood br idge Ont He lives in

ly served on the Canadian Vetshy Scotts Restaurants KFC Divishy certified general accountant in Miss issa uga Classma tes are

erilw() Medical Associations sion to open his own consult- March 1998 She has been invited to contact him at

national issues committee He ing company Future Food employed for the last 10 years avon listarca

lives in Osgoode with his wife Equipment Ine specializes in with Dan Ball Chartered bull Michelle (Pilon) Bacon BA rvlaurecn and children Laura providing new and used restau- Acco un tant in Parry Sound 90 moved to England to study

and Matthew rant equipment and reducing O nt where she lives with her and work after graduating from

bull Muneer Hirji BComm 82 restaurant construction costs hu sband Brad two dogs and a Guelph She recently left a posishy

lives in Toronto and is vice- He also operates a restaurant horse tion with the British Ministry of

president of marke ting at SAP called Nikkos in Woodbridge bull Dawn Stetsko BSe 81 lives Agriculture and Food in York to

Canada He has three chil- Ont and is planning to open a in Langhorne Pa with her husshy become an at-home mom She

drcl1 Nadia 8 Alyssa 6 and second location band Paul and children Mark now lives in London with her

Sarah I bull Tosh Noseworthy BSe 83 is and Keith and is a research husband Tim and one-year-old

bull Brenda irwin BSe 88 is a cardiovascular ICU nurse in scientist with Bristol-Myers daughter Juliette She sends love

studying at Hong Kong Unishy sunny Tuscon Arizona After Squibb Previously she worked to Sue Heather and Sheila and

vers ity of Science and Technolshy grad uation she lived in Paris at McMaster University in can be reached bye-mail at

ogy to complete the final France for a yea r s tudied nurs- Hamilton Ont for 17 yea rs michellebacondialpipexcom

sem ester of an MBA program ing in O ttawa then lived in Saushy bull Teresa Tummillo-Goy BA bull Jeff Barlow BComm 90 is

through the University of di Arabia for two yea rs She still 86 has a law practice in Water- the training and quality manag-

British Columbia She taught loves to travel and would like to 100 Ont foc Li sing primaril y on er for two five-star luxury boushy

science for the North York hea r from fellow alumni She family law civi l litiga tion and tique h o tels in Prague - Hotel

Board of Education for five can be reached at 520-299-8344 real estate She and her hus- Palace Praha and the Hotel

years before enrolling in the bull Cecilia (Wleugel) Parkes band John Goy live in Guelph Savoy Previo usly he was execu -

MBA program BComm 85 is a graphic and have three sons John 4 tive housekeeper at the five-star

bull Jagwant Kanwar PhD 80 is designer in Toronto and says Tony 3 and Shayne 2 Renaissance Pragu e Hotel

a senior scientist in the depart- she st ill uses ber marketing bull Peter Van der Borch DVM bull Margaret Burnes-Souria BA ment of vegetable crops at Pun- background to help her busishy 88 retired in the fa ll of 1997 94 is a team leader with [011 shy

jab Agricultural University in ness succeed She specia lizes in after several years of practising don Magazin e in London Ont

India He is also director of the logo design lNith hand-drawn physiotherapy and ve terinary She married David Souria in

regional vegetable research stashy illustrations medicine and surgery He Jives July 1997 and is pursuing an tion at Usman (TaranTarn) bull Jim Parr BSc(Agr) 81 and in Pictou NS ]VlBA at the University of West-

Amritsar His and his wife MSe 89 died of cancer in bull MartyWilLiams BA 85 is ern Ontario

Sanyogita have a son Mohit June 1998 but hes being co-ordinator of student activishy bull Janine Byers BASe 95 is a and a daughter Dipika who are remembered by his university ties at University College Unishy public health dietitian at the

both studying engineering friends through the establish - versity of Toronto where he Kingston Frontenac and

Friends can write to Kanwar at ment of a mem orial fund for advises student organizations Iennox amp Addington Health

Punjab Agricultural Un ivers ity his wife Denise and children 1Ie is also chair of the U of T Unit in Kingston O nt She is Ludhiana 141 004 India Shannon and Eric Anyone Staff Association a member of getting married to Ca rl Stewart

bull Larissa Larsen BSe 89 and who would like more informa - the steering committee of the on May 29 j 999 MLA 92 received a PhD in tion can ca ll Brian Tapscott at staffs unionization drive and a bull Lisa Cherry BSe 9 1 is a urban and regional planning 519-767-3566 staff member with the student science journalist and executive

from the University of Illinois bull Cheryl (Dunlop) Reid newspaper The Varsity He can director of Artists Against

at Urbana Champaign in May BSe(Agr) 89 sta rted a new be reached bye-mail at marty Racism an international organi-

She has accepted a position at job in September as ingredient wi lliamsutorontoca za tion She is based in Toronto

Thompson Dyke and Associshy sales manager for RA bull Bonnie (Byma) BASe 96 ales a landscape architecture Chisholm o f Toronto She will 19905 and Gil Clelland BA 95 were

and urban planning firm in continue to work from her bull Claire Allison BA 94 grad- married in December 1996 and

Chicago Her husband Ernie remote offke in Fergus Reid uated from the elementary are living in Chatham On t

Poortinga DVM 89 is in his and her husband Jeff BSe teacher ed ucation program at Bo nnie works at a day-care

third yea r of an MD program (Agr) 89 have two children the University of British centre G il teaches art and

at Rush University Chicago lVlega n 4 and Elizabeth 2 Columbia in 1996 and now phys ical education They ca n -Hes looking forward to joining bull Chee Sie BA 83 is a zone teaches in Va ncou ver be reached bye-ma il at gclelshy

his wife in the ranks of the manager for the Malaysian bull JohnAvon BSdHK) 94 lan ciaccesscom employed They would both Assurance Alliance Berhad in earned an M Se in industr ial bull Kate Corn ell BA 95 of enjoy hearing from fellow Sarawak Malaysia He and his operations from Lawrence Markham Ont earned her

alumni and can be reached at wife Jesterine have a two-year- Technological University in masters in dance history from epoor tin garushurushedu old daughter Letitia Southfleld Mich in 1997 and York University in May and

WINTER 1999 41

co-authored a book titled

Toronto Dance Theatre 1968shy1998 Stages in a Journey

bull Mary Jill (McClure) Culliton BASe 90 earned

her BEd from Brock University

and her M Ed from the Univershy

sity of Western Ontario and

teaches Grade 1 in Mitchell

Ont She and her husband

Tim live in Stratford

bull Kathleen (McNutt) Daniels BASe 9 1 is a teacher and was

married on New Years Eve

1994 to Gord Daniels They live

in North Bay Ont and have a

daughter Lauren born in Febshy

ruary 1997 They are expecting

their second child in February

bull Simon Deakin BA 95 studshyied in Florence Italy for a year

then earned a master of fine art

from the Slade School of Fine

Art at the University of London

England He lives in London

bull Christie Dunbar BLA 97 spent a year after graduation

working for Niagara College in

St Catharines Ont on the

vision and design of a new

campus to be built in Niagarashy

on-the- Lake Last April she

joined the landscape architecshy

ture firm of Pollack Design

Associates in Ann Arbor Mich

bull Trina Edmonds BA 94 and

Joel Hinderle became the

proud parents of a little girl

Jordan Ashley in january 1998

and moved to a new home in

Oakville Ont in September

Edmonds works in Mississauga

as a desktop publisher with a

publishingprinting company

bull Wendy Garinther BSc 93 and Steve Decker BSe 94

were married in May Joining

them in the wedding celebrashy

tions were Cheri (Coulter)

42 GUELPH ALUMNUS

Ascroft BSe 93 Karen Leinshy

gartner BSe 94 and Barb

(Moore) Johnson BSe 94

Best man was Jeff Bond BSe

93 and MSe 96 The Deckers

live in Edmonton where Steve

is doing a PhD in chemistry at

the University of Alberta and

Wendy is working in a research

laboratory at a biopharmaceushy

tical company

bull Donna Gross BA 97 is purshysu ing a master of divinity at

Emmanuel College at the Unishy

versity of Toronto and hopes to

become an ordained minister by

2002 She lives in Guelph and

can be reached bye-mail at

donnajulietalbedonet

bull Robert Gruber BA 92 is a child-care supervisor for the

YMCA-YWCA of Guelph and

manages the Jean Little Y

Child- Care Centre He recently

developed the anti -bias proshy

gramming policy for the

Guelph Y and sits on both the

Jean Little Public School Counshy

cil and the Guelph AIDS Wall

Committee He can be reached

bye-mail at rgrubernet

comca

bull Susan Harder BSe 91 grad shyuated from the University of

Toronto Medical School in June

and has started a residency at

Santa Clara Valley Medical Censhy

tre in San jose Calif She will

follow that up with an anestheshy

sia residency at Stanford Univershy

sity Hospital in 1999

bull Marko Harjupanula BASc 93 travelled in Australia for

two months after graduating

from Guelph then returned to

his home town of South Porshy

cupine Ont where he worked

in a gold mine for four years

He entered police college in

September and started as an

opp constable in Cochrane in

December

bull Nancy Holman MA 94 moved to Vancouver soon after

graduation and initially worked

as a project co-ordinator for an

ophthalmologist In 1996 she

began working full time for the

BC Liberal Caucus I would

enjoy hearing from and catchshy

ing up with the friends I made

while studying at U of G and

working at the Brass Taps she

says Her e-mail address is nan shy

cyholmanlassgovbeca

bull Ruth Johnson BA 91 is an investment banking associate

with the mergers and acquisishy

tions group of JP Morgan in

Lond on England responsible

for financial reporting and

administration She has been in

England with her partner Alex Campbell since graduation

bull Stephen Johnson BA 94 of London Ont was a lab technishy

cian at Lenscrafters for three

yea rs and is now a full-time

student at Fanshawe College

studying air conditioning and

refrigeration He was married

in Jun e to Jennifer Fox BSc

95 a chemist at 3M Their

wedding party included Dee Popat BSe (Eng) 94 and

Patrick Wulhes BSc 95

bull Sarah (Davis) Kelly BASe 90 married Robert Kelly in

July and teaches primary

grades at an inner-city school

in Toronto

bull Cassidy Klowak BComm 97 lives in Allisshy

ton Onl and is a personal

banking account manager

with ClBC in Tottenham

bull Stephanie Lopes BSc 96 completed her MSc in repro shy

ductive biology at the Universishy

ty of Toronto and worked as

patient-care director for the

College of Family Physicians

for almost a year In September

she enrolled in medical school

at the University of Toronto

She is happy to announce that

she is engaged to be married

next summer Lopes can be

reached at slopesidirectcom

bull Natalie (Parker) MacKenzie BSc 96 earned her BEd from

the University of Western

Ontario in 1997 She married

ASLt Andy MacKenzie June 27

in Sault Ste Marie Ont and

now lives in Halifax

bull Susan MacKinnon DVM 91 is a veterinarian with HUls

Science Diet She lives in

Guelph with her husband

Brandon Wiley and gave birth

to their first child Adrianna

Nicole june 26 at home

bull Waheed Mian BA 9 1 of Cambridge Ont is a store

director with PetSmart Canada

He helped the company launch

its new retail concept in Cana da

bull Alex Mitchell BA 91 was appointed clerkdeputy treasurshy

er of the Ontario township of

Mildmay-Carrick in 1998 and

will be the clerkadministrator

of the new municipality of

Mildmay-Carrick -TeesWatershy

Culross in 1999 He was married

in january 1997 and lives vith

his wife and daughter in Mild shy

may In his spare time Mitchell

is a professional scout for the

Toronto Maple Leafs covering

southwestern Ontario

bull Sherry Morland BASc 93 of Kitchener Ont ea rned her

BEd from Brock University in

J995 and is a part-time specia l

educa tion teacher and an occashy

sional teacher with the Watershy

loo County Board of Ed ucashy

tion She married Ivan LeBlanc

in 1997

bull Gary Page BSe 91 wo rks for the Nottawasaga Valley Conshy

servation Authority where he is

able to combine his knowledge

of wildlife biology with his

artistic skills as resident graphic

designer and outdoor centre

interpreter He Jives with his

wife Di and their son judah in

CreemoreOnt

bull Elaine Pammenter BA 96 is an inventory clerk with the

Royal Collection at Windsor

Castle in England She holds a

museum management and

curatorship grad uate certificate

diploma from Sir Sandford

Fleming College and did her

internship at the Royal Albert

Memorial Museum in Exeter

England

bull Brent Raymond BSe(Env) 96 of Brantford Ont has

been working with Outward

Bound since graduation He

leads wilderness trips in Northshy

ern Ontario Horida Australia and Sabah (Malaysian Borneo) Most recently he designed and implemented a new introducshytory mountaineering course for Outward Bound Sabah on the summit plateau of Mt Kinashy

balu Those of you who know me as plate licker from U of G get in touch he says Where are you Star I miss you He can be reached by e-mail at globarwchatonca or by

phone at 519-756-1697

Alumni Patrick Abbott BSA 40 July 7 1998

Albert Allen BSA 33 Jan 161994 Agris Ansmits BA 70 and MA 73

February 1998 Barbara (Quartermain) Babcock DHE

53 June 17 1998

Wray Bond BSA 34 Sept 25 1998

Kenneth Bone DVM 38 Dec 29 1998 Evelyn (Stevenson) Buhr DHE 39

May 251998 Philip Burke BSA 43 June 21 1998

Grant Carman BSA 49 Oct 221998 Frederick Chambers BSA 41

June 1998 Wilmot Conley ADA4 7 April 7 1998 Lloyd Crewson BSA 49 Aug 261998

Jacqueline Dimock DHE 47

Aug 20 1998 John Dingwall DVM 52

April 18 1998

Lloyd Dorsey BSA 38 June 9 1998 George Duncan BSA 37

Sept 19 1998

David Dyson BSA 53 Aug 31 1998

Norma (Shannon) Edwards DHE 39

November 1997 Vincent Bud Ellis DVM 41

July 15 1998 John Jack George BSA 48

Sept 24 1998

Donald Haight BSA 33 January 1997 William Hamlyn BSA 33 Dec I 1997

Gordon Harkness BSA 49

November 1997

Charles Hollister DVM 38 June 1996 Donald Hope BSA 54 June 28 1998

Lawrence Jefferson BSA 38

Sept 3 1998

James Kelso DVM 56 July 27 1998

Dorima Lalonde BSA 34 Oct 8 1998 Mildred (Cox) Large DHE 33

June 20 1998 Roger Larson BComm 86 Feb 19 1998 Robert Lawson BSA 49 June 6 1998

bull Doug Ramsey BA 91 and PhD 98 received U of Gs highshyest graduate student award shythe Forster Medal- at June convocation for his academic and community involvement while enrolled in Guelphs new

graduate program in geography He spent the summer as a visitshying research scholar at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College in Truro before assuming his curshyrent position as assistant professhysor at Mount Allison University

David Leach BSc(Agr) 74

July 18 1998

Ian Leask DVM 74 Sept 5 1998

Sheryl Lee BSc 95 June 8 1998 Ruby Janet MacAuley DHE 30

Aug 19 1998 Parker MacKenzie DVM 38

September 1994

Jeanice MacLaren DHE 28 March 1 1997

Campbell MacMaster DVM42

Oct 8 1998

Rex McCallum DVM 43 July 71998 Jean (Dunn) McMahon DHE 31

Nov 41998

Margaret Oones) McTaggart DHE 35 Aug 81998

Patrick McTaggart-Cowan HDSc 81

Oct 21997

Malcolm McWhinnie ADA 39

July 16 1998 Mary (Townsend) Mitchell BHSc

60 Sept 281998

Marjory Monaghan DHE 29

December 1997 Charles Monk BSA 44 Aug 7 1998

Heather Neilsen BHSc 59

Oct 30 1998 Jerry Niwa DVM 62 Aug 5 1998 Henry Harry OReilly BSA 42

October 1997

James Parr BSc(Agr) 81 June 19 1998 Charles Rammage DVM 45

Oct 17 1996 Howard Rapson HDSc 90

March 1997 Clement Reeds DVM 42 Oct 16 1998

William Robinson BSA 38

Aug 23 1998

Donald Sager ADA 73 Oct 141997

Austin Schaefer DVM 37 in 1997

Sandra (Mackenzie) Schmidt DHE 59

Aug 16 1997 Margaret (Harvey) Seaborn DHE 28

July 221998

Larry Seguin DVM 47 June 12 1998

Leah Shedden DHE 31 December 1998

Edward Shuh BSA 40 July 2 1998

Ted Shutsa BSc(Agr) 66

Sept 18 1998 Jim Sinclair DVM 49 Oct 4 1998

Margaret (Brown) Sinclair DHE 20

September 1998 Eldon Smith BSA 42 Sept 9 1998

Derek Somers DVM 96 Sept 25 1998

Cheryl Lynn Sopha BA 95 Sept 20 1998

Leona (Bartlett) Stewart DHE 35

June 27 1998 Alex Thomson BSc(Agr) 69

October 1996

William Whittick DVM 55

Aug 15 1998 Joseph Wilson BSA 23 Sept 11 1998

Lloyd Woolsey DVM41 June 24 1998

Winifred Yeates DHE 28 June 11998

Faculty John Carpenter BSA 43 and MSA 48

Microbiology Dec 10 1998

David Gaskin Zoology Sept 14 1998

Gordon Macleod BSA 50 Animal and

Poultry Science Nov 26 1998 Roman Retman Languages and

Literatures Sept 28 1998

Caesar Sen off Chemistry and

Biochemistry Aug 14 1998

Percy Smith Drama Dec 10 1998

Friends Robert Clark Aug 21 1998

Ethel Hammond August 1998

Thomas Hillers Sept 28 1998 Marguerite Holbrook Aug 26 1998

Catherine Kelly Sept 27 1998

James A McKenzie May 13 1998

Kenneth McIssac Oct 23 1998

William Mutlock September 1998 Roena Patterson Sept 16 1998

Donald Priddle Aug 25 1998

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bull Karl Reimer BSe 94 comshypleted a one-year intensive

MSc in mining engineering at

Queens University and is now

a project engineer a t Enpar

Technologies Ine in Guelph

He can be contacted at reimerbservcom

bull Nancy Nauta Rowland BA 90 and her husband Dan celshy

ebrated their first wedding

anniversary in March 1998 with

the birth of their first child

Connor who beat their March

8 anniversary by two days Nanshy

cy teaches junior-grade stushy

dents and junior special ed ucashy

tion for the Peel District School

Board The Rowlands live in

Caledon Ont

bull Fraser Stables MFA 98 was heralded by Toronto Globe 6shyMail critic Betty Jordan as a

formidable new talent followshy

ing the openi ng of his debut

gallery exh ibition in July The

Scottish artists work includes

sculpture video and mixed

media that explore notions of

flu x by interrupting the moveshy

ment of forms in space

bull Erin (Smith) Scott BSe(HK) 92 and Brad

Scott BSc(Agr) 91 of Lucan

O nt were married in 1993 and

had their first child Lucas in

August Erin works for Shopshy

pers Home Health Ca re in

London Brad is with New Life

Mills in Dunfield

bull Abby Simons BSc 95 and Martin Piche BSc(Agr) 95 were married in Mont-Tremshy

blant Quebec in 1997 She is a

customer service representative

with Kantech Systems he is

superintendent of Club de golf

vallee des forts They say theyd

love to hear from anyone headshy

ing to Montreal and can be

reached at 450-348-3860

bull Sylvia Tesori BSc 95 has been doing wildlife rehabilitashy

tion for the OSPCA Wildlife

Rehabilitation Centre in Midshy

land Ont since 1996

bull Chuck Thibeault BComm 94 is general manager of the

Putting Edge Corpora tion

which has two glow-in- theshy

dark mini-golf courses in

Ontario one in Bramp ton and

one in Richmond Hill He can

be reached in Richmond Hill at

chu ckttotalnet

bull Karen Thirlwall BA 93 is a

si ngersongwriter and guitarist

who began her stage career and

released her first album The Voice Inside Me while studying

languages at U of G She has

lived and performed in

11i stler BC for three years

and recently released a second

album called Wide-Eyed She

remembers many special

fr iends m ade at Guelph and

welcomes e-mail messages to

karenthirlwallhotmailcom

bull Christie (Johnson) and Steve

Tyler both BComm 91 live in

Cambridge Ont where

Christie is a personal banking

representative for the Royal

Bank Steve works with their

third-year design professor

Nelson Hofer in Mississauga as

a design consultan t Steves proshy

jects include the Windsor Casishy

no and U of Gs Creelman Hall

They have two children Jason

5 and Marcus 1

bull Julia White BA 91 lives in Guelph and is a small-business

accountant at Taves amp Co She

recently finished courses

towards a CGA designation and

would like to hea r from other

alumni who lived in Lambton

Hall in 198788 Send e-mail to

juliawhitesympaticoca

bull Andre-Denis Wright MSc 93 and PhD 98 is doing postshy

docto ral work in Perth Westshy

ern Australia He wants his

Guelph friends and Halifax

family to know he was thinking

of them at Christmas when it

was 40 C in Australia

bull Dave Yellen BComm 90 was recently promoted at the Gordon

Food Service to new-accounts

sales specialist for Metro Toronshy

to Having been in Ottawa for

the past few years Im hoping

to reacquaint myself with old

friend s from U of G in the Metro

area he says He lives in Scarborshy

ough and can be reached at 416shy615-2745 or davidysprintca

bull Halina Zaleski PhD 92 is a tenured professor in the

departm ent of animal sciences

at the Un iversity of Hawaii in

Honolulu She is a swine speshy

cialist involved in extension

programs for an area th at covshy

ers all of Hawai i and the PacifIC

basin She can be reached by

e-mail at halinahawaiiedu

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IF THERE ARE LIVESTOCK IN THE HOCKEY ARENA and

theyre not wearing skates its College Royal If there

are students sawing logs throwing pies baking cookies

and square dancing its College Royal When the entire

University of Guelph is displayed - from arts to zooloshy

gy - March 13 and 14 1999 youll know its definitely

College Royan

Since its inception in 1925 as an agricultural and liveshy

stock show run by the Ontario Agricultural College

College Royal has grown to be a celebrated U of G trashy

dition involving all the colleges

The event is famou s in the University community

and beyond for its open-house showcase of displays and

activities The largest student-run open house in Canashy

da College Royal attracts more than 20000 visitors to

campus over one weekend

College Royal is an event of tradition that reaches

into tomorrow Agriculture and livestock shows are still

highlighted events but College Royal activities have

grown to include dog and cat shows a photography conshy

test a chemistry magic show and demonstrations on

human health and fitness The open house gives people

an opportunity to see what happens in the Universitys

leading-edge research laboratories to observe veterinary

medicine in practice to tour a sculpture studio or to

watch a theatrical performance

To celebrate the 75th anniversary of College Royal

1998 president Joe TrakaJo lnvites alumni to get involved

again by joining one of the planning comm ittees or by

participating in a favourite event Call him for more

information at 824-4120 Ext 8366 or send e-mail to

jtrakalouoguelphca

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alumni Matters

MEMORIES OF COLLEGE ROYAL Grant MacEwan ADA 23 and

BSA 26 is one of the few OAC

alumni who c~n still remember

the first College Royal held Jan

14 1925 MacEwan bad just

entered the degree program in

animal husbandry and may have

been a participant in the liveshy

stock showmanship classes Latshy

er in life he was widely known Grant MacEwan

across Western Canada as 3 liveshy

stock judge and an advocate of

agricultural fairs and exhibitions

MacEwan is bes t known

however for his 23-year C3reer

as a university professor in Manshy

itoba and Saskatchewan and Ilis

political career which included

12 years as alderman and mayshy John Kenneth Galbraith

or of C31gary four years as an

Alberta MLA and eight as lieushy birthday in August

tenant -governor of the province The year after Ma cEwan

He s till lives in Calgary graduated John Kenneth Galshy

where he celebrated his 96th braith ADA 29 and BSA 31

HOMECOMING 98

enrolled at OAC and devoted

some of his energy to organizshy

ing College Royal Show records

indicate it was Galbraith who

first proposed the college event

be publicized so that people

from the farm community

could attend He also suggestshy

ed that OAC invite students

from American agricultural colshy

legesl n th e early 1930s Colshy

lege Royal took its fir s t steps

towards becoming the comshy

munity open house it is today

Galbraith later moved to the

United States where he enjoyed

a distinguished caree r as a proshy

fessor of economics at Harvard

Universi ty Known for his

humanit~rian approach to ecoshy

nomic and political thinking

he was awarded the Order of

Canada in 1997 He celebr3ted

his 90th birthday in October

IT REALLY WAS a homecoming reunion when and Arnott who is head coach of the York

former Gryphon teammates Ralph Shapiro University Yeomen came from the visitors

S5c(HK) 74 and Tom Amott S5c(HK) 80 dreSSing room to hold the ball Shapiro is

met on the field at Alumni Stadium Oct 3 the controller at Huntsman Chemical Inc

Shapiro had the honour of kicking off in Guelph and a longtime United Way volshy

the Universitys 1998 United Way campaign unteer who chaired this years Guelph and

Wellington fund-raising drive The Univershy

sity campaign is the largest in the county

with U of G staff and faculty contributing

over $200000 in 1998

Prior to the game a number of recent

alumni - all U of G scholarship and award

winners - met for a reunion luncheon The UJ

1948 and 1949 dominion championship i5f 3

football teams were also honoured guests z 5 o at the 2 pm game that saw the Gryphons gtshy a defeat York f shya I a

Ralph Shapiro

36 G UELPH ALUMNUS

LEADING THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY FOR 1974 GRADS The 25th-anniversary reunion givshy

i ng program for the Class of 1974

is under way with Bill Laidlaw BA

74 as cbair A public affairs proshy

fessional he has been director of

government relations for the

Canadian operations of Glaxo

vVelJcome Inc for more th an 10

years He also acts as a senior conshy

sultant to support the governshy

ment relations function in other

regions of Canada

Laidlaw began his career in

teaching after earning a history

degree from Guelph and education

degrees (rom Queens University

and the University of Toronto He

also holds the certified human

resources professional designation

and worked in that field for sevshy

eral years before concen trating on

government relations at Glaxo

Welkome He lives in Burlington

Ont and is an act ive community

volunteer having se rved on the

boards of severa l professional

organizations the Queensway

General Hospital and the Metroshy

politan Toronto Lung Association

He is currently completing a oneshy

year term as chair of the Ontario

Chamber of Commerce

Anniversa ry preparations will

culminate with a class gathering

a nd reunion gift at Alumni

Weekend in June 1999

ALUMNI MAKE THE CONNECTION Students who moved into

Maids and Mills halls in Sepshy

tember can take full advanshy

tage of the Universitys highshy

speed computer network

thanks to the OAC Class of

71 whose 25 th-reunion proshy

ject provided wiring upgrades

in the 84- and 77-year-old

residence buildin gs

GRAD NEWS

Marathon survivors inspire us all to appreciate everyday life

W HEN ROBINSON SIIlLJNGS Jane BSe(Agr)

85 Heather BASe 83 Peter BSe(Agr)

86 Scott and Marnie rigwood BA 84 get

together they talk about marathons and the hope

and determination it takes to reach the finish line

Hea ther walked a marathon in San Diego

Calif in June to raise money for leukemia

research then joined Peter for a Toronto marathon

in October that benefi ted the Leukemia Research

Fund of Canada They were inspired by Janes pershy

sonal marathon of survival that foUowed her 1992

diagnosis of leukemia Chemotherapy radiation

remission relapse and finally a bone marrow

transplant [TOm her brother Scott took more than

three years out of her life but gave her the detershy

mination to keep fighting

Many families can understand the marathon

of hope maintained by the Robinsons during

Janes struggle and the commitment they have to

help others who are stricken with the disease Jane

is finally well enough to work again as a writer

and marketing consultant and to join her fami shy

ly in volunteer work She helped recruit for the

Toronto marathon fund -raiser and continues to

be involved with the Leukemia Research Funds

Team in Training She also says that her expeshy

rience has taught her to appreciate more the pleashy

sures of everyday life and the love of famil y

Jan es parents are th e late Doug Rob inson

BSA 53 and Marilyn (Inglis) Robinson Murray

BH Sc 55

19305

bull Grant Misener ADA 32 BSA 35 and DVM 38 received the

prest igious George F Hixso n Felshy

lowship Award from the Kiwanis

International Foundation in May The retired Illinois veter ishy

narian was hono ured for his subshystantial contribution to the

Kiwanis wo rldwide service proshy

ject aimed at eliminating iodine

deficiency disorders the leading

cause of preventable mental retardation in children Over the

years Misener has shown a simishylar commitment to his al ma

mater an d its students through

his close association with OVC

and his support of scho larship

programs

19405

bull Russell McDonaldDVM 45 was named an honorary life direcshytor of the Royal Agricultural Winshy

ter Fair Association in March

McDonald formerly general manshy

ager of Western Ontario Breeders

Ine and executive director of the Canadian Association of Animal

Breeders served as a director of the Royal Winter Fair for 20 years

representing the Canadian artifishycial insemination industry He

lives in Woodstock Ont

bull Ian Taylor DVM43 was recently honoured by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to

Animals of Illinois Taylor ran a small-animal veterinary clinic in

the Chicago area for many years

and says he gained ll1uch experishyence during his first three years in

Illinois as clinic veterinarian for

the anti -cruelty society

19505

bull Charles Chuck Broadwell BSA 54 was elected a Mel

Osborne Fellow by the Kiwanis

Club of Forest City in London Ont in recognition of a dedicatshy -ed and distinguished career in

Kiwanis

19605

bull Constantine Campbell BSA 60 and MSA 61 was named to the

WINTER 1999 37

Order of Canada in January He

received the award in recogni shy

tion of his many contributions

to science and the Canadian

agricultural industry After grad shy

uating from OAC he went on to

do his PhD at the University of

Saskatchewan then joined Agri shy

culture and Agri-food Canada

as a research scientist at the Swift

Current research station Campshy

bell and his family now live in

Ottawa where he is scientist

emeritus with Agriculture and

Agri-food Canada

bull John Casselman BSA 64 is

a research scientist with the

Ontario Ministry of Natural

Resources He Jives in Bath

Ont with his wife Lois

bull Jane Fuller RRSc 65 and

her husband George who both

taught at the Macdonald Instishy

tute from 1966 to 1969 have

moved from Winnipeg to

Utopia Ont following

Georges retirement from the

University of Manitoba

bull Fred Gilbert MSc 66 and

P hD 68 is in his first term as

president of Lakehead Univer shy

sity in Thunder Bay Ont He

taught at U of G in the Departshy

ment of Zoology from 1972 to

1981 and has enjoyed a dive rse

academic career that has also

included teaching at the Unishy

versity of Maine and posi tions

as director of wildlife biology at

Washington State University

and founding dean of the Facshy

ulty of Natural Reso urces and

Environmenta l Studies at the

University of Northern British

Columbia He moved to Lakeshy

head from a position as viceshy

pro vost at Colorado State Unishy

versity A respected wildlife

biologist he has conducted

ex tensive resea rch in s Ll ch areas

as the behaviour and physioloshy

gy of wildlife species and the

effects of environmental

change on wildlife populations

bull Terry Goodyear BSc 67 of

Mont Tremblant Quebec is an

early retiree from Agriculture

and Agri-Food Canada in Ottawa He is now working on

va lue-added products from

industrial wastes particularly

cellulose sludge from pulp and

pa per mills

bull Gary Hearn BA 68 was

named an Ontario provincial

judge in October For the last

25 years he has been a lawyer

with the firm Kearns McKinshy

non in Guelph where he lives

with his wife Irene and three

teenage children

bull Allan Knight BSA 66 of Corunna Ont has retired

from Dow Chemical after 30

years On retirement he was a

laboratory director for indusshy

trial chemicals He is now

working with his son in a famishy

ly-owned and -operated busishy

ness Knight Funeral Home

bull Keith McFarlane BSc(Agr)

68 works for the Department

of Foreign Affairs and Internashy

tional Trade and began a fourshy

year assignment last summer as

head of the commercial divishy

sion of the Canadian Embassy

in Lisbon Portugal The

division promotes the sa le of

Canadian goods and services

to Portugal

bull Ian Newbould MA 68 has

travelled far from his Ontario

roots through an academic and

administrative career that has

taken him to Europe Asia and

Western Canada A noted hisshy

torian he moved into adm inisshy

tration at the University of

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Lethbridge in 1981 and spent

10 years there as director of

research dean of a rts and scishy

ence and vice-presiden t (acadeshy

mic) before crossing the counshy

try to become president of

Mount Allison University in

New Brunswick He is now in

his second term as president of

Mount AUison

bull Indra Deo Singh MSc 68 is

a tea scientist international

consultant and joint director of

the Tea Research Association at

the Nagrakata substation in

India His responsibilities

include co-ordinating research

and development in the Indian

tea industry and developing tea

cultivars and agrotechnology

for tea Singh is married with

two sons aged 27 and 23

19705

bull Don Ambler BSe 71 retired in March as manager of

water programs with Environshy

ment Canada in Dartmouth

NS after 25 years of public

service He has now registered

the company Aquashed Co nshy

sulting to continue in the water

resources field when hes not

gardening beekeeping do ing

aerobics or vo lunteering in the

community and chu rch E-mail

contact is welcome a t

donambl erns sympaticoca

bull Jim Bond BSe 75 is managshy

ing a new processing facility at

the Chalk River Nuclear Laborashy

to ry in Chalk River Ont

bull Terri (Monks) Bulman BSc(Agr) 78 and MSe 81

and her husband Vincent

MSe 8 1 live in Australia with

their th ree children Catherine

7 Peter 4 and baby Christoshy

pher Terri is senior principal

environmental auditor vith

Coffey Geosciences Pty Ltd Vinshy

cent afte r many years as a geoloshy

gist travelling around Australia

and abroad has taken the year

off to study and look after the

children Their e-mail address is

tbulmanbigpondco m

bull Marie David BA 78 of

Hanover Ont has been in the

n ewspaper business for 20

years She started in the mailshy

room moved to advertising

sales then became advert ising

manager She is now gene ral

manager o f three So utham

weekly newspapers and pubshy

lish er of the Hanover Post

bull Janice Harrower and her husshy

band Jerome Billett both

DVM 76 operate a joint veterishy

nary practice in Prescott Ont

Billett says practising together

has allowed them some flexibilishy

ty in their family life and given

their four children a good took

at the rigours of veterinary

medicine Says Billett Not one

of our kid s has the slightest

interest in being a veterinarian

and isnt that just fine Their

o ldest son Jesse attends Harshy

va rd University and is a memshy

ber of its prestigious a cappella

choir Lucas is studying

mechanical engineering at the

University of Waterloo Casey is

planning a career in computer

engineering and Lindsay is a

high school athle te

bull Clair Heinbuch BSe 74 is a

sales manager with Baye r Corp

in Kansas H e and his wife

Caroline (Koscik) BASc 75

returned to the Kansas City

area after spending four years in

Denver They have three chilshy

dren Lisa 20 Scott 18 and

Ryan [5

bull Beverly Lee BASe 72 is an

elem entary school principal in

Unionville Ont She lives with

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her husband Grant Egan in

Collingwood and is looking

forward to retirement in severshy

al years Life on Georgian Bay

is wonderful she says Lee

would love to hear from fellow

grads by e-mail at

leebYrbeeduonca or by

phone at 705 -444 -092l

bull Won-Jai Maeng MSc 71 took office Sept 1 as president

of Kon-Kuk University in Seoul

Korea where his academic

career began He completed an

undergraduate degree at Kon

Kuk in 1965 then studied at

Mailing Agricultural College in Denmark and at U of G before

doing doctoral work at the Unishy

versity of California Davis

Maeng has held research and

teaching positions at the Unishy

versity of illinois at Chung-Ang

University and at Kon-Kuk

where he has been a professor of

animal science since 1984 His

appointment as president folshy

lows years of administrative

experience as a department

head dean and chair of various

research committees and proshy

fessional organizations An

expert in ruminant nutrition

Maeng was instrumental in

developing the livestock feed

industry in Korea He has also

been active in working with

alumni groups and in writing

for the Kon-Kuk Tribune

bull Bill MarshaU ADA 75 of Proton Station Ont moved

from Clarksburg in June to

work in Dundalk for the Grey

County Roads Department on

its road management crew

bull Bernie Matte BSc(Agr) 70 of Moncton NB retired

in March after 28 years with

Fisheries and Oceans Canada

and the Canadian Food

Inspection Agency He plans to

travel to Belize and Honduras

with his wife Diane and will

be available anywhere in the

Caribbean for seafood HACCP

consulting work

bull Margaret McClain BA 70 lives in Arkansas where she is

highJy involved in the issue of

40 GUELPH ALUMNUS

missing children and internashy

tional abductions McClain who

believes her own six-year-old

daughter was taken out of the

United States more than a year

ago by her second husband is

reaching out to parents with

similar experiences through an

organization that is lobbying the

US government for tougher

international abduction laws

She invites interested fr iends

and alumni to contact her

through her Web site at

wwwinsolwwbnet-dmcclain

bull Robert (Chuck) Miller BA 77 is the park superintendent

of Killarney French River and

Maskinonje provincial parks in

Ontario He moved to Killarney

from Quetico Provincial Park

last May

bull Gordon Nicol BA 72 and MSc(Agr) 74 teaches math

and science in a bilingual prishy

vate school in Guatemala A

BEd graduate of Laurentian

he first taught in Guatemala in

the late 1970s then spent 12

years in northern Alberta as a

teacher and principal He

returned to Guatemala in 1989

A widower with three teenage

children Nicol would like to

hear from U of G friends and

acquaintances especially anyshy

one who is was or will be in

Central America He says he

could also use middle-schoolshy

level science projects Send eshy

mail to gnicoll guatenet or

write to PO Box 661447 Miami

Springs Florida 33266-1447

bull Chris Schulte BSc 71 and MSc 73 lives in Nassau

Bahamas with his wife

Andrya After graduation he

stayed in the Department of

Physics as a research associate

with Prof lain Campbell then

joined Ontario Hydro in the

early 1980s He moved to the

Bahamas in 1995 He can be

reached bye-mail at

schultebahamasnetbs

bull Sandra (Pickford) Webster BA 75 has retired from U of

Gs Co mmunications and Pubshy

lic Affairs and is living in Parry

Sound Ont where she is

doing volunteer work and

communications consulting

for the municipality Guelph

friends ca n contact her by

e-mail atswebsterzeutercom

19805

bull Sharon (Courneya) Angus BA 8 I of Surrey BC comshy

pleted a BSW at the University

of British Columbia in 1988

and has been working for the

BC government for 13 years

- first in probation and now

in the family justice division

She and her husband Ron

have three children Jason

Carly and Colin

bull Karen Beazley BLA 86 is an assistant professor and acadeshy

mic program co-ordinator at

the School for Reso urce and

Environmental Studies at Dalshy

housie University in Halifax

She is currently doing research

for a book on endangered

species initiatives and is orgashy

nizing a Nova Scotia wildlands

workshop with the Wildlands

Project for 1999 Her e-mail

address is kbeazleyisdalca

bull Caroline (Van Deudekom) and Marc Brooks both ADA 87

recently moved from Strathroy

to Owen Sound Ont where

they run a 50-acre organic farm

with their two sons

bull Virginia Burt BLA 85 startshyed her own landscape architecshy

ture firm Visionscapes in

Hamilton Ont in ] 996 She

specializes in the design of thershy

apeutic healing gardens spirit

gardens sacred spaces and

la byrin ths and recen tly designed the first healing garden

in Canada specificalJy for peoshy

ple living with HIV and AIDS

bull Joanne (Branson) Carver BA 80 earned a BEd from Brock

University in 1981 and recently

started working as a probashy

tionparole officer She Jives in

Ajax Ont and has two daughshy

ters Julie4 and Sarah 8

bull Heather Champ BA 86 is a Web-site designer in New York

City She began her work in

computer design in 1990 Her

personal site can be Found at

wwwjezebelcom

bull Laurie Gough BA 87 has become a world traveller who

writes about her experiences for

the benefit of others Her most

recent book Island of the

Human Heart A tfornans Travshyel Odyssey is now in its second

printing in Canada and will be

released next year in the United

States and overseas She has also

published Travellers Tales A

Womans World which won the

US-based Lowell Thomas

Gold Award for best travel book

of the year When not travelling

or writing she teaches English

and ESL in Guelph

bull Susan (Coles) Goulden BASc 84 and her husband

Ian are th rilled wi th their

recent adoption of Jennifer Lee

Yu who was born in June near

Leping Jiangxi Peoples Repubshy

lic of China The Gouldens

who Jive in vVaterloo Ont

thank classmate Andrea

(Kovits) Henderson for her

support throughout the adopshy

tion process Susan is currently

on leave from her position with

McCormick Canada

bull Judy (Bodendistel) Gregg BA 82 moved to Melbourne Ausshy

tralia in 1997 with her husband

and two children Carly 6 and

Adam 3 We are enjoying the

friendly people and the great

weather here she says We are

especially enjoying winter in a

place where it never gets below

zero Celsius

bull Nigel GumJey DVM 85 has been a partner in the Alta Vista

Animal Hospital in Ottawa

since 1990 was president of the bull Garry Millage AMPHI 86 bull Heidi Stephenson BA 88 is now ISO 9000 manager at

Ontario Veterinary Medical left a position as vice-president was awarded her professional Carpenter Ca nada Ltd in

Association in 1997 and recent- of national operations for acco untants designation of Wood br idge Ont He lives in

ly served on the Canadian Vetshy Scotts Restaurants KFC Divishy certified general accountant in Miss issa uga Classma tes are

erilw() Medical Associations sion to open his own consult- March 1998 She has been invited to contact him at

national issues committee He ing company Future Food employed for the last 10 years avon listarca

lives in Osgoode with his wife Equipment Ine specializes in with Dan Ball Chartered bull Michelle (Pilon) Bacon BA rvlaurecn and children Laura providing new and used restau- Acco un tant in Parry Sound 90 moved to England to study

and Matthew rant equipment and reducing O nt where she lives with her and work after graduating from

bull Muneer Hirji BComm 82 restaurant construction costs hu sband Brad two dogs and a Guelph She recently left a posishy

lives in Toronto and is vice- He also operates a restaurant horse tion with the British Ministry of

president of marke ting at SAP called Nikkos in Woodbridge bull Dawn Stetsko BSe 81 lives Agriculture and Food in York to

Canada He has three chil- Ont and is planning to open a in Langhorne Pa with her husshy become an at-home mom She

drcl1 Nadia 8 Alyssa 6 and second location band Paul and children Mark now lives in London with her

Sarah I bull Tosh Noseworthy BSe 83 is and Keith and is a research husband Tim and one-year-old

bull Brenda irwin BSe 88 is a cardiovascular ICU nurse in scientist with Bristol-Myers daughter Juliette She sends love

studying at Hong Kong Unishy sunny Tuscon Arizona After Squibb Previously she worked to Sue Heather and Sheila and

vers ity of Science and Technolshy grad uation she lived in Paris at McMaster University in can be reached bye-mail at

ogy to complete the final France for a yea r s tudied nurs- Hamilton Ont for 17 yea rs michellebacondialpipexcom

sem ester of an MBA program ing in O ttawa then lived in Saushy bull Teresa Tummillo-Goy BA bull Jeff Barlow BComm 90 is

through the University of di Arabia for two yea rs She still 86 has a law practice in Water- the training and quality manag-

British Columbia She taught loves to travel and would like to 100 Ont foc Li sing primaril y on er for two five-star luxury boushy

science for the North York hea r from fellow alumni She family law civi l litiga tion and tique h o tels in Prague - Hotel

Board of Education for five can be reached at 520-299-8344 real estate She and her hus- Palace Praha and the Hotel

years before enrolling in the bull Cecilia (Wleugel) Parkes band John Goy live in Guelph Savoy Previo usly he was execu -

MBA program BComm 85 is a graphic and have three sons John 4 tive housekeeper at the five-star

bull Jagwant Kanwar PhD 80 is designer in Toronto and says Tony 3 and Shayne 2 Renaissance Pragu e Hotel

a senior scientist in the depart- she st ill uses ber marketing bull Peter Van der Borch DVM bull Margaret Burnes-Souria BA ment of vegetable crops at Pun- background to help her busishy 88 retired in the fa ll of 1997 94 is a team leader with [011 shy

jab Agricultural University in ness succeed She specia lizes in after several years of practising don Magazin e in London Ont

India He is also director of the logo design lNith hand-drawn physiotherapy and ve terinary She married David Souria in

regional vegetable research stashy illustrations medicine and surgery He Jives July 1997 and is pursuing an tion at Usman (TaranTarn) bull Jim Parr BSc(Agr) 81 and in Pictou NS ]VlBA at the University of West-

Amritsar His and his wife MSe 89 died of cancer in bull MartyWilLiams BA 85 is ern Ontario

Sanyogita have a son Mohit June 1998 but hes being co-ordinator of student activishy bull Janine Byers BASe 95 is a and a daughter Dipika who are remembered by his university ties at University College Unishy public health dietitian at the

both studying engineering friends through the establish - versity of Toronto where he Kingston Frontenac and

Friends can write to Kanwar at ment of a mem orial fund for advises student organizations Iennox amp Addington Health

Punjab Agricultural Un ivers ity his wife Denise and children 1Ie is also chair of the U of T Unit in Kingston O nt She is Ludhiana 141 004 India Shannon and Eric Anyone Staff Association a member of getting married to Ca rl Stewart

bull Larissa Larsen BSe 89 and who would like more informa - the steering committee of the on May 29 j 999 MLA 92 received a PhD in tion can ca ll Brian Tapscott at staffs unionization drive and a bull Lisa Cherry BSe 9 1 is a urban and regional planning 519-767-3566 staff member with the student science journalist and executive

from the University of Illinois bull Cheryl (Dunlop) Reid newspaper The Varsity He can director of Artists Against

at Urbana Champaign in May BSe(Agr) 89 sta rted a new be reached bye-mail at marty Racism an international organi-

She has accepted a position at job in September as ingredient wi lliamsutorontoca za tion She is based in Toronto

Thompson Dyke and Associshy sales manager for RA bull Bonnie (Byma) BASe 96 ales a landscape architecture Chisholm o f Toronto She will 19905 and Gil Clelland BA 95 were

and urban planning firm in continue to work from her bull Claire Allison BA 94 grad- married in December 1996 and

Chicago Her husband Ernie remote offke in Fergus Reid uated from the elementary are living in Chatham On t

Poortinga DVM 89 is in his and her husband Jeff BSe teacher ed ucation program at Bo nnie works at a day-care

third yea r of an MD program (Agr) 89 have two children the University of British centre G il teaches art and

at Rush University Chicago lVlega n 4 and Elizabeth 2 Columbia in 1996 and now phys ical education They ca n -Hes looking forward to joining bull Chee Sie BA 83 is a zone teaches in Va ncou ver be reached bye-ma il at gclelshy

his wife in the ranks of the manager for the Malaysian bull JohnAvon BSdHK) 94 lan ciaccesscom employed They would both Assurance Alliance Berhad in earned an M Se in industr ial bull Kate Corn ell BA 95 of enjoy hearing from fellow Sarawak Malaysia He and his operations from Lawrence Markham Ont earned her

alumni and can be reached at wife Jesterine have a two-year- Technological University in masters in dance history from epoor tin garushurushedu old daughter Letitia Southfleld Mich in 1997 and York University in May and

WINTER 1999 41

co-authored a book titled

Toronto Dance Theatre 1968shy1998 Stages in a Journey

bull Mary Jill (McClure) Culliton BASe 90 earned

her BEd from Brock University

and her M Ed from the Univershy

sity of Western Ontario and

teaches Grade 1 in Mitchell

Ont She and her husband

Tim live in Stratford

bull Kathleen (McNutt) Daniels BASe 9 1 is a teacher and was

married on New Years Eve

1994 to Gord Daniels They live

in North Bay Ont and have a

daughter Lauren born in Febshy

ruary 1997 They are expecting

their second child in February

bull Simon Deakin BA 95 studshyied in Florence Italy for a year

then earned a master of fine art

from the Slade School of Fine

Art at the University of London

England He lives in London

bull Christie Dunbar BLA 97 spent a year after graduation

working for Niagara College in

St Catharines Ont on the

vision and design of a new

campus to be built in Niagarashy

on-the- Lake Last April she

joined the landscape architecshy

ture firm of Pollack Design

Associates in Ann Arbor Mich

bull Trina Edmonds BA 94 and

Joel Hinderle became the

proud parents of a little girl

Jordan Ashley in january 1998

and moved to a new home in

Oakville Ont in September

Edmonds works in Mississauga

as a desktop publisher with a

publishingprinting company

bull Wendy Garinther BSc 93 and Steve Decker BSe 94

were married in May Joining

them in the wedding celebrashy

tions were Cheri (Coulter)

42 GUELPH ALUMNUS

Ascroft BSe 93 Karen Leinshy

gartner BSe 94 and Barb

(Moore) Johnson BSe 94

Best man was Jeff Bond BSe

93 and MSe 96 The Deckers

live in Edmonton where Steve

is doing a PhD in chemistry at

the University of Alberta and

Wendy is working in a research

laboratory at a biopharmaceushy

tical company

bull Donna Gross BA 97 is purshysu ing a master of divinity at

Emmanuel College at the Unishy

versity of Toronto and hopes to

become an ordained minister by

2002 She lives in Guelph and

can be reached bye-mail at

donnajulietalbedonet

bull Robert Gruber BA 92 is a child-care supervisor for the

YMCA-YWCA of Guelph and

manages the Jean Little Y

Child- Care Centre He recently

developed the anti -bias proshy

gramming policy for the

Guelph Y and sits on both the

Jean Little Public School Counshy

cil and the Guelph AIDS Wall

Committee He can be reached

bye-mail at rgrubernet

comca

bull Susan Harder BSe 91 grad shyuated from the University of

Toronto Medical School in June

and has started a residency at

Santa Clara Valley Medical Censhy

tre in San jose Calif She will

follow that up with an anestheshy

sia residency at Stanford Univershy

sity Hospital in 1999

bull Marko Harjupanula BASc 93 travelled in Australia for

two months after graduating

from Guelph then returned to

his home town of South Porshy

cupine Ont where he worked

in a gold mine for four years

He entered police college in

September and started as an

opp constable in Cochrane in

December

bull Nancy Holman MA 94 moved to Vancouver soon after

graduation and initially worked

as a project co-ordinator for an

ophthalmologist In 1996 she

began working full time for the

BC Liberal Caucus I would

enjoy hearing from and catchshy

ing up with the friends I made

while studying at U of G and

working at the Brass Taps she

says Her e-mail address is nan shy

cyholmanlassgovbeca

bull Ruth Johnson BA 91 is an investment banking associate

with the mergers and acquisishy

tions group of JP Morgan in

Lond on England responsible

for financial reporting and

administration She has been in

England with her partner Alex Campbell since graduation

bull Stephen Johnson BA 94 of London Ont was a lab technishy

cian at Lenscrafters for three

yea rs and is now a full-time

student at Fanshawe College

studying air conditioning and

refrigeration He was married

in Jun e to Jennifer Fox BSc

95 a chemist at 3M Their

wedding party included Dee Popat BSe (Eng) 94 and

Patrick Wulhes BSc 95

bull Sarah (Davis) Kelly BASe 90 married Robert Kelly in

July and teaches primary

grades at an inner-city school

in Toronto

bull Cassidy Klowak BComm 97 lives in Allisshy

ton Onl and is a personal

banking account manager

with ClBC in Tottenham

bull Stephanie Lopes BSc 96 completed her MSc in repro shy

ductive biology at the Universishy

ty of Toronto and worked as

patient-care director for the

College of Family Physicians

for almost a year In September

she enrolled in medical school

at the University of Toronto

She is happy to announce that

she is engaged to be married

next summer Lopes can be

reached at slopesidirectcom

bull Natalie (Parker) MacKenzie BSc 96 earned her BEd from

the University of Western

Ontario in 1997 She married

ASLt Andy MacKenzie June 27

in Sault Ste Marie Ont and

now lives in Halifax

bull Susan MacKinnon DVM 91 is a veterinarian with HUls

Science Diet She lives in

Guelph with her husband

Brandon Wiley and gave birth

to their first child Adrianna

Nicole june 26 at home

bull Waheed Mian BA 9 1 of Cambridge Ont is a store

director with PetSmart Canada

He helped the company launch

its new retail concept in Cana da

bull Alex Mitchell BA 91 was appointed clerkdeputy treasurshy

er of the Ontario township of

Mildmay-Carrick in 1998 and

will be the clerkadministrator

of the new municipality of

Mildmay-Carrick -TeesWatershy

Culross in 1999 He was married

in january 1997 and lives vith

his wife and daughter in Mild shy

may In his spare time Mitchell

is a professional scout for the

Toronto Maple Leafs covering

southwestern Ontario

bull Sherry Morland BASc 93 of Kitchener Ont ea rned her

BEd from Brock University in

J995 and is a part-time specia l

educa tion teacher and an occashy

sional teacher with the Watershy

loo County Board of Ed ucashy

tion She married Ivan LeBlanc

in 1997

bull Gary Page BSe 91 wo rks for the Nottawasaga Valley Conshy

servation Authority where he is

able to combine his knowledge

of wildlife biology with his

artistic skills as resident graphic

designer and outdoor centre

interpreter He Jives with his

wife Di and their son judah in

CreemoreOnt

bull Elaine Pammenter BA 96 is an inventory clerk with the

Royal Collection at Windsor

Castle in England She holds a

museum management and

curatorship grad uate certificate

diploma from Sir Sandford

Fleming College and did her

internship at the Royal Albert

Memorial Museum in Exeter

England

bull Brent Raymond BSe(Env) 96 of Brantford Ont has

been working with Outward

Bound since graduation He

leads wilderness trips in Northshy

ern Ontario Horida Australia and Sabah (Malaysian Borneo) Most recently he designed and implemented a new introducshytory mountaineering course for Outward Bound Sabah on the summit plateau of Mt Kinashy

balu Those of you who know me as plate licker from U of G get in touch he says Where are you Star I miss you He can be reached by e-mail at globarwchatonca or by

phone at 519-756-1697

Alumni Patrick Abbott BSA 40 July 7 1998

Albert Allen BSA 33 Jan 161994 Agris Ansmits BA 70 and MA 73

February 1998 Barbara (Quartermain) Babcock DHE

53 June 17 1998

Wray Bond BSA 34 Sept 25 1998

Kenneth Bone DVM 38 Dec 29 1998 Evelyn (Stevenson) Buhr DHE 39

May 251998 Philip Burke BSA 43 June 21 1998

Grant Carman BSA 49 Oct 221998 Frederick Chambers BSA 41

June 1998 Wilmot Conley ADA4 7 April 7 1998 Lloyd Crewson BSA 49 Aug 261998

Jacqueline Dimock DHE 47

Aug 20 1998 John Dingwall DVM 52

April 18 1998

Lloyd Dorsey BSA 38 June 9 1998 George Duncan BSA 37

Sept 19 1998

David Dyson BSA 53 Aug 31 1998

Norma (Shannon) Edwards DHE 39

November 1997 Vincent Bud Ellis DVM 41

July 15 1998 John Jack George BSA 48

Sept 24 1998

Donald Haight BSA 33 January 1997 William Hamlyn BSA 33 Dec I 1997

Gordon Harkness BSA 49

November 1997

Charles Hollister DVM 38 June 1996 Donald Hope BSA 54 June 28 1998

Lawrence Jefferson BSA 38

Sept 3 1998

James Kelso DVM 56 July 27 1998

Dorima Lalonde BSA 34 Oct 8 1998 Mildred (Cox) Large DHE 33

June 20 1998 Roger Larson BComm 86 Feb 19 1998 Robert Lawson BSA 49 June 6 1998

bull Doug Ramsey BA 91 and PhD 98 received U of Gs highshyest graduate student award shythe Forster Medal- at June convocation for his academic and community involvement while enrolled in Guelphs new

graduate program in geography He spent the summer as a visitshying research scholar at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College in Truro before assuming his curshyrent position as assistant professhysor at Mount Allison University

David Leach BSc(Agr) 74

July 18 1998

Ian Leask DVM 74 Sept 5 1998

Sheryl Lee BSc 95 June 8 1998 Ruby Janet MacAuley DHE 30

Aug 19 1998 Parker MacKenzie DVM 38

September 1994

Jeanice MacLaren DHE 28 March 1 1997

Campbell MacMaster DVM42

Oct 8 1998

Rex McCallum DVM 43 July 71998 Jean (Dunn) McMahon DHE 31

Nov 41998

Margaret Oones) McTaggart DHE 35 Aug 81998

Patrick McTaggart-Cowan HDSc 81

Oct 21997

Malcolm McWhinnie ADA 39

July 16 1998 Mary (Townsend) Mitchell BHSc

60 Sept 281998

Marjory Monaghan DHE 29

December 1997 Charles Monk BSA 44 Aug 7 1998

Heather Neilsen BHSc 59

Oct 30 1998 Jerry Niwa DVM 62 Aug 5 1998 Henry Harry OReilly BSA 42

October 1997

James Parr BSc(Agr) 81 June 19 1998 Charles Rammage DVM 45

Oct 17 1996 Howard Rapson HDSc 90

March 1997 Clement Reeds DVM 42 Oct 16 1998

William Robinson BSA 38

Aug 23 1998

Donald Sager ADA 73 Oct 141997

Austin Schaefer DVM 37 in 1997

Sandra (Mackenzie) Schmidt DHE 59

Aug 16 1997 Margaret (Harvey) Seaborn DHE 28

July 221998

Larry Seguin DVM 47 June 12 1998

Leah Shedden DHE 31 December 1998

Edward Shuh BSA 40 July 2 1998

Ted Shutsa BSc(Agr) 66

Sept 18 1998 Jim Sinclair DVM 49 Oct 4 1998

Margaret (Brown) Sinclair DHE 20

September 1998 Eldon Smith BSA 42 Sept 9 1998

Derek Somers DVM 96 Sept 25 1998

Cheryl Lynn Sopha BA 95 Sept 20 1998

Leona (Bartlett) Stewart DHE 35

June 27 1998 Alex Thomson BSc(Agr) 69

October 1996

William Whittick DVM 55

Aug 15 1998 Joseph Wilson BSA 23 Sept 11 1998

Lloyd Woolsey DVM41 June 24 1998

Winifred Yeates DHE 28 June 11998

Faculty John Carpenter BSA 43 and MSA 48

Microbiology Dec 10 1998

David Gaskin Zoology Sept 14 1998

Gordon Macleod BSA 50 Animal and

Poultry Science Nov 26 1998 Roman Retman Languages and

Literatures Sept 28 1998

Caesar Sen off Chemistry and

Biochemistry Aug 14 1998

Percy Smith Drama Dec 10 1998

Friends Robert Clark Aug 21 1998

Ethel Hammond August 1998

Thomas Hillers Sept 28 1998 Marguerite Holbrook Aug 26 1998

Catherine Kelly Sept 27 1998

James A McKenzie May 13 1998

Kenneth McIssac Oct 23 1998

William Mutlock September 1998 Roena Patterson Sept 16 1998

Donald Priddle Aug 25 1998

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bull Karl Reimer BSe 94 comshypleted a one-year intensive

MSc in mining engineering at

Queens University and is now

a project engineer a t Enpar

Technologies Ine in Guelph

He can be contacted at reimerbservcom

bull Nancy Nauta Rowland BA 90 and her husband Dan celshy

ebrated their first wedding

anniversary in March 1998 with

the birth of their first child

Connor who beat their March

8 anniversary by two days Nanshy

cy teaches junior-grade stushy

dents and junior special ed ucashy

tion for the Peel District School

Board The Rowlands live in

Caledon Ont

bull Fraser Stables MFA 98 was heralded by Toronto Globe 6shyMail critic Betty Jordan as a

formidable new talent followshy

ing the openi ng of his debut

gallery exh ibition in July The

Scottish artists work includes

sculpture video and mixed

media that explore notions of

flu x by interrupting the moveshy

ment of forms in space

bull Erin (Smith) Scott BSe(HK) 92 and Brad

Scott BSc(Agr) 91 of Lucan

O nt were married in 1993 and

had their first child Lucas in

August Erin works for Shopshy

pers Home Health Ca re in

London Brad is with New Life

Mills in Dunfield

bull Abby Simons BSc 95 and Martin Piche BSc(Agr) 95 were married in Mont-Tremshy

blant Quebec in 1997 She is a

customer service representative

with Kantech Systems he is

superintendent of Club de golf

vallee des forts They say theyd

love to hear from anyone headshy

ing to Montreal and can be

reached at 450-348-3860

bull Sylvia Tesori BSc 95 has been doing wildlife rehabilitashy

tion for the OSPCA Wildlife

Rehabilitation Centre in Midshy

land Ont since 1996

bull Chuck Thibeault BComm 94 is general manager of the

Putting Edge Corpora tion

which has two glow-in- theshy

dark mini-golf courses in

Ontario one in Bramp ton and

one in Richmond Hill He can

be reached in Richmond Hill at

chu ckttotalnet

bull Karen Thirlwall BA 93 is a

si ngersongwriter and guitarist

who began her stage career and

released her first album The Voice Inside Me while studying

languages at U of G She has

lived and performed in

11i stler BC for three years

and recently released a second

album called Wide-Eyed She

remembers many special

fr iends m ade at Guelph and

welcomes e-mail messages to

karenthirlwallhotmailcom

bull Christie (Johnson) and Steve

Tyler both BComm 91 live in

Cambridge Ont where

Christie is a personal banking

representative for the Royal

Bank Steve works with their

third-year design professor

Nelson Hofer in Mississauga as

a design consultan t Steves proshy

jects include the Windsor Casishy

no and U of Gs Creelman Hall

They have two children Jason

5 and Marcus 1

bull Julia White BA 91 lives in Guelph and is a small-business

accountant at Taves amp Co She

recently finished courses

towards a CGA designation and

would like to hea r from other

alumni who lived in Lambton

Hall in 198788 Send e-mail to

juliawhitesympaticoca

bull Andre-Denis Wright MSc 93 and PhD 98 is doing postshy

docto ral work in Perth Westshy

ern Australia He wants his

Guelph friends and Halifax

family to know he was thinking

of them at Christmas when it

was 40 C in Australia

bull Dave Yellen BComm 90 was recently promoted at the Gordon

Food Service to new-accounts

sales specialist for Metro Toronshy

to Having been in Ottawa for

the past few years Im hoping

to reacquaint myself with old

friend s from U of G in the Metro

area he says He lives in Scarborshy

ough and can be reached at 416shy615-2745 or davidysprintca

bull Halina Zaleski PhD 92 is a tenured professor in the

departm ent of animal sciences

at the Un iversity of Hawaii in

Honolulu She is a swine speshy

cialist involved in extension

programs for an area th at covshy

ers all of Hawai i and the PacifIC

basin She can be reached by

e-mail at halinahawaiiedu

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The event is famou s in the University community

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activities The largest student-run open house in Canashy

da College Royal attracts more than 20000 visitors to

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College Royal is an event of tradition that reaches

into tomorrow Agriculture and livestock shows are still

highlighted events but College Royal activities have

grown to include dog and cat shows a photography conshy

test a chemistry magic show and demonstrations on

human health and fitness The open house gives people

an opportunity to see what happens in the Universitys

leading-edge research laboratories to observe veterinary

medicine in practice to tour a sculpture studio or to

watch a theatrical performance

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1998 president Joe TrakaJo lnvites alumni to get involved

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Marathon survivors inspire us all to appreciate everyday life

W HEN ROBINSON SIIlLJNGS Jane BSe(Agr)

85 Heather BASe 83 Peter BSe(Agr)

86 Scott and Marnie rigwood BA 84 get

together they talk about marathons and the hope

and determination it takes to reach the finish line

Hea ther walked a marathon in San Diego

Calif in June to raise money for leukemia

research then joined Peter for a Toronto marathon

in October that benefi ted the Leukemia Research

Fund of Canada They were inspired by Janes pershy

sonal marathon of survival that foUowed her 1992

diagnosis of leukemia Chemotherapy radiation

remission relapse and finally a bone marrow

transplant [TOm her brother Scott took more than

three years out of her life but gave her the detershy

mination to keep fighting

Many families can understand the marathon

of hope maintained by the Robinsons during

Janes struggle and the commitment they have to

help others who are stricken with the disease Jane

is finally well enough to work again as a writer

and marketing consultant and to join her fami shy

ly in volunteer work She helped recruit for the

Toronto marathon fund -raiser and continues to

be involved with the Leukemia Research Funds

Team in Training She also says that her expeshy

rience has taught her to appreciate more the pleashy

sures of everyday life and the love of famil y

Jan es parents are th e late Doug Rob inson

BSA 53 and Marilyn (Inglis) Robinson Murray

BH Sc 55

19305

bull Grant Misener ADA 32 BSA 35 and DVM 38 received the

prest igious George F Hixso n Felshy

lowship Award from the Kiwanis

International Foundation in May The retired Illinois veter ishy

narian was hono ured for his subshystantial contribution to the

Kiwanis wo rldwide service proshy

ject aimed at eliminating iodine

deficiency disorders the leading

cause of preventable mental retardation in children Over the

years Misener has shown a simishylar commitment to his al ma

mater an d its students through

his close association with OVC

and his support of scho larship

programs

19405

bull Russell McDonaldDVM 45 was named an honorary life direcshytor of the Royal Agricultural Winshy

ter Fair Association in March

McDonald formerly general manshy

ager of Western Ontario Breeders

Ine and executive director of the Canadian Association of Animal

Breeders served as a director of the Royal Winter Fair for 20 years

representing the Canadian artifishycial insemination industry He

lives in Woodstock Ont

bull Ian Taylor DVM43 was recently honoured by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to

Animals of Illinois Taylor ran a small-animal veterinary clinic in

the Chicago area for many years

and says he gained ll1uch experishyence during his first three years in

Illinois as clinic veterinarian for

the anti -cruelty society

19505

bull Charles Chuck Broadwell BSA 54 was elected a Mel

Osborne Fellow by the Kiwanis

Club of Forest City in London Ont in recognition of a dedicatshy -ed and distinguished career in

Kiwanis

19605

bull Constantine Campbell BSA 60 and MSA 61 was named to the

WINTER 1999 37

Order of Canada in January He

received the award in recogni shy

tion of his many contributions

to science and the Canadian

agricultural industry After grad shy

uating from OAC he went on to

do his PhD at the University of

Saskatchewan then joined Agri shy

culture and Agri-food Canada

as a research scientist at the Swift

Current research station Campshy

bell and his family now live in

Ottawa where he is scientist

emeritus with Agriculture and

Agri-food Canada

bull John Casselman BSA 64 is

a research scientist with the

Ontario Ministry of Natural

Resources He Jives in Bath

Ont with his wife Lois

bull Jane Fuller RRSc 65 and

her husband George who both

taught at the Macdonald Instishy

tute from 1966 to 1969 have

moved from Winnipeg to

Utopia Ont following

Georges retirement from the

University of Manitoba

bull Fred Gilbert MSc 66 and

P hD 68 is in his first term as

president of Lakehead Univer shy

sity in Thunder Bay Ont He

taught at U of G in the Departshy

ment of Zoology from 1972 to

1981 and has enjoyed a dive rse

academic career that has also

included teaching at the Unishy

versity of Maine and posi tions

as director of wildlife biology at

Washington State University

and founding dean of the Facshy

ulty of Natural Reso urces and

Environmenta l Studies at the

University of Northern British

Columbia He moved to Lakeshy

head from a position as viceshy

pro vost at Colorado State Unishy

versity A respected wildlife

biologist he has conducted

ex tensive resea rch in s Ll ch areas

as the behaviour and physioloshy

gy of wildlife species and the

effects of environmental

change on wildlife populations

bull Terry Goodyear BSc 67 of

Mont Tremblant Quebec is an

early retiree from Agriculture

and Agri-Food Canada in Ottawa He is now working on

va lue-added products from

industrial wastes particularly

cellulose sludge from pulp and

pa per mills

bull Gary Hearn BA 68 was

named an Ontario provincial

judge in October For the last

25 years he has been a lawyer

with the firm Kearns McKinshy

non in Guelph where he lives

with his wife Irene and three

teenage children

bull Allan Knight BSA 66 of Corunna Ont has retired

from Dow Chemical after 30

years On retirement he was a

laboratory director for indusshy

trial chemicals He is now

working with his son in a famishy

ly-owned and -operated busishy

ness Knight Funeral Home

bull Keith McFarlane BSc(Agr)

68 works for the Department

of Foreign Affairs and Internashy

tional Trade and began a fourshy

year assignment last summer as

head of the commercial divishy

sion of the Canadian Embassy

in Lisbon Portugal The

division promotes the sa le of

Canadian goods and services

to Portugal

bull Ian Newbould MA 68 has

travelled far from his Ontario

roots through an academic and

administrative career that has

taken him to Europe Asia and

Western Canada A noted hisshy

torian he moved into adm inisshy

tration at the University of

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Lethbridge in 1981 and spent

10 years there as director of

research dean of a rts and scishy

ence and vice-presiden t (acadeshy

mic) before crossing the counshy

try to become president of

Mount Allison University in

New Brunswick He is now in

his second term as president of

Mount AUison

bull Indra Deo Singh MSc 68 is

a tea scientist international

consultant and joint director of

the Tea Research Association at

the Nagrakata substation in

India His responsibilities

include co-ordinating research

and development in the Indian

tea industry and developing tea

cultivars and agrotechnology

for tea Singh is married with

two sons aged 27 and 23

19705

bull Don Ambler BSe 71 retired in March as manager of

water programs with Environshy

ment Canada in Dartmouth

NS after 25 years of public

service He has now registered

the company Aquashed Co nshy

sulting to continue in the water

resources field when hes not

gardening beekeeping do ing

aerobics or vo lunteering in the

community and chu rch E-mail

contact is welcome a t

donambl erns sympaticoca

bull Jim Bond BSe 75 is managshy

ing a new processing facility at

the Chalk River Nuclear Laborashy

to ry in Chalk River Ont

bull Terri (Monks) Bulman BSc(Agr) 78 and MSe 81

and her husband Vincent

MSe 8 1 live in Australia with

their th ree children Catherine

7 Peter 4 and baby Christoshy

pher Terri is senior principal

environmental auditor vith

Coffey Geosciences Pty Ltd Vinshy

cent afte r many years as a geoloshy

gist travelling around Australia

and abroad has taken the year

off to study and look after the

children Their e-mail address is

tbulmanbigpondco m

bull Marie David BA 78 of

Hanover Ont has been in the

n ewspaper business for 20

years She started in the mailshy

room moved to advertising

sales then became advert ising

manager She is now gene ral

manager o f three So utham

weekly newspapers and pubshy

lish er of the Hanover Post

bull Janice Harrower and her husshy

band Jerome Billett both

DVM 76 operate a joint veterishy

nary practice in Prescott Ont

Billett says practising together

has allowed them some flexibilishy

ty in their family life and given

their four children a good took

at the rigours of veterinary

medicine Says Billett Not one

of our kid s has the slightest

interest in being a veterinarian

and isnt that just fine Their

o ldest son Jesse attends Harshy

va rd University and is a memshy

ber of its prestigious a cappella

choir Lucas is studying

mechanical engineering at the

University of Waterloo Casey is

planning a career in computer

engineering and Lindsay is a

high school athle te

bull Clair Heinbuch BSe 74 is a

sales manager with Baye r Corp

in Kansas H e and his wife

Caroline (Koscik) BASc 75

returned to the Kansas City

area after spending four years in

Denver They have three chilshy

dren Lisa 20 Scott 18 and

Ryan [5

bull Beverly Lee BASe 72 is an

elem entary school principal in

Unionville Ont She lives with

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her husband Grant Egan in

Collingwood and is looking

forward to retirement in severshy

al years Life on Georgian Bay

is wonderful she says Lee

would love to hear from fellow

grads by e-mail at

leebYrbeeduonca or by

phone at 705 -444 -092l

bull Won-Jai Maeng MSc 71 took office Sept 1 as president

of Kon-Kuk University in Seoul

Korea where his academic

career began He completed an

undergraduate degree at Kon

Kuk in 1965 then studied at

Mailing Agricultural College in Denmark and at U of G before

doing doctoral work at the Unishy

versity of California Davis

Maeng has held research and

teaching positions at the Unishy

versity of illinois at Chung-Ang

University and at Kon-Kuk

where he has been a professor of

animal science since 1984 His

appointment as president folshy

lows years of administrative

experience as a department

head dean and chair of various

research committees and proshy

fessional organizations An

expert in ruminant nutrition

Maeng was instrumental in

developing the livestock feed

industry in Korea He has also

been active in working with

alumni groups and in writing

for the Kon-Kuk Tribune

bull Bill MarshaU ADA 75 of Proton Station Ont moved

from Clarksburg in June to

work in Dundalk for the Grey

County Roads Department on

its road management crew

bull Bernie Matte BSc(Agr) 70 of Moncton NB retired

in March after 28 years with

Fisheries and Oceans Canada

and the Canadian Food

Inspection Agency He plans to

travel to Belize and Honduras

with his wife Diane and will

be available anywhere in the

Caribbean for seafood HACCP

consulting work

bull Margaret McClain BA 70 lives in Arkansas where she is

highJy involved in the issue of

40 GUELPH ALUMNUS

missing children and internashy

tional abductions McClain who

believes her own six-year-old

daughter was taken out of the

United States more than a year

ago by her second husband is

reaching out to parents with

similar experiences through an

organization that is lobbying the

US government for tougher

international abduction laws

She invites interested fr iends

and alumni to contact her

through her Web site at

wwwinsolwwbnet-dmcclain

bull Robert (Chuck) Miller BA 77 is the park superintendent

of Killarney French River and

Maskinonje provincial parks in

Ontario He moved to Killarney

from Quetico Provincial Park

last May

bull Gordon Nicol BA 72 and MSc(Agr) 74 teaches math

and science in a bilingual prishy

vate school in Guatemala A

BEd graduate of Laurentian

he first taught in Guatemala in

the late 1970s then spent 12

years in northern Alberta as a

teacher and principal He

returned to Guatemala in 1989

A widower with three teenage

children Nicol would like to

hear from U of G friends and

acquaintances especially anyshy

one who is was or will be in

Central America He says he

could also use middle-schoolshy

level science projects Send eshy

mail to gnicoll guatenet or

write to PO Box 661447 Miami

Springs Florida 33266-1447

bull Chris Schulte BSc 71 and MSc 73 lives in Nassau

Bahamas with his wife

Andrya After graduation he

stayed in the Department of

Physics as a research associate

with Prof lain Campbell then

joined Ontario Hydro in the

early 1980s He moved to the

Bahamas in 1995 He can be

reached bye-mail at

schultebahamasnetbs

bull Sandra (Pickford) Webster BA 75 has retired from U of

Gs Co mmunications and Pubshy

lic Affairs and is living in Parry

Sound Ont where she is

doing volunteer work and

communications consulting

for the municipality Guelph

friends ca n contact her by

e-mail atswebsterzeutercom

19805

bull Sharon (Courneya) Angus BA 8 I of Surrey BC comshy

pleted a BSW at the University

of British Columbia in 1988

and has been working for the

BC government for 13 years

- first in probation and now

in the family justice division

She and her husband Ron

have three children Jason

Carly and Colin

bull Karen Beazley BLA 86 is an assistant professor and acadeshy

mic program co-ordinator at

the School for Reso urce and

Environmental Studies at Dalshy

housie University in Halifax

She is currently doing research

for a book on endangered

species initiatives and is orgashy

nizing a Nova Scotia wildlands

workshop with the Wildlands

Project for 1999 Her e-mail

address is kbeazleyisdalca

bull Caroline (Van Deudekom) and Marc Brooks both ADA 87

recently moved from Strathroy

to Owen Sound Ont where

they run a 50-acre organic farm

with their two sons

bull Virginia Burt BLA 85 startshyed her own landscape architecshy

ture firm Visionscapes in

Hamilton Ont in ] 996 She

specializes in the design of thershy

apeutic healing gardens spirit

gardens sacred spaces and

la byrin ths and recen tly designed the first healing garden

in Canada specificalJy for peoshy

ple living with HIV and AIDS

bull Joanne (Branson) Carver BA 80 earned a BEd from Brock

University in 1981 and recently

started working as a probashy

tionparole officer She Jives in

Ajax Ont and has two daughshy

ters Julie4 and Sarah 8

bull Heather Champ BA 86 is a Web-site designer in New York

City She began her work in

computer design in 1990 Her

personal site can be Found at

wwwjezebelcom

bull Laurie Gough BA 87 has become a world traveller who

writes about her experiences for

the benefit of others Her most

recent book Island of the

Human Heart A tfornans Travshyel Odyssey is now in its second

printing in Canada and will be

released next year in the United

States and overseas She has also

published Travellers Tales A

Womans World which won the

US-based Lowell Thomas

Gold Award for best travel book

of the year When not travelling

or writing she teaches English

and ESL in Guelph

bull Susan (Coles) Goulden BASc 84 and her husband

Ian are th rilled wi th their

recent adoption of Jennifer Lee

Yu who was born in June near

Leping Jiangxi Peoples Repubshy

lic of China The Gouldens

who Jive in vVaterloo Ont

thank classmate Andrea

(Kovits) Henderson for her

support throughout the adopshy

tion process Susan is currently

on leave from her position with

McCormick Canada

bull Judy (Bodendistel) Gregg BA 82 moved to Melbourne Ausshy

tralia in 1997 with her husband

and two children Carly 6 and

Adam 3 We are enjoying the

friendly people and the great

weather here she says We are

especially enjoying winter in a

place where it never gets below

zero Celsius

bull Nigel GumJey DVM 85 has been a partner in the Alta Vista

Animal Hospital in Ottawa

since 1990 was president of the bull Garry Millage AMPHI 86 bull Heidi Stephenson BA 88 is now ISO 9000 manager at

Ontario Veterinary Medical left a position as vice-president was awarded her professional Carpenter Ca nada Ltd in

Association in 1997 and recent- of national operations for acco untants designation of Wood br idge Ont He lives in

ly served on the Canadian Vetshy Scotts Restaurants KFC Divishy certified general accountant in Miss issa uga Classma tes are

erilw() Medical Associations sion to open his own consult- March 1998 She has been invited to contact him at

national issues committee He ing company Future Food employed for the last 10 years avon listarca

lives in Osgoode with his wife Equipment Ine specializes in with Dan Ball Chartered bull Michelle (Pilon) Bacon BA rvlaurecn and children Laura providing new and used restau- Acco un tant in Parry Sound 90 moved to England to study

and Matthew rant equipment and reducing O nt where she lives with her and work after graduating from

bull Muneer Hirji BComm 82 restaurant construction costs hu sband Brad two dogs and a Guelph She recently left a posishy

lives in Toronto and is vice- He also operates a restaurant horse tion with the British Ministry of

president of marke ting at SAP called Nikkos in Woodbridge bull Dawn Stetsko BSe 81 lives Agriculture and Food in York to

Canada He has three chil- Ont and is planning to open a in Langhorne Pa with her husshy become an at-home mom She

drcl1 Nadia 8 Alyssa 6 and second location band Paul and children Mark now lives in London with her

Sarah I bull Tosh Noseworthy BSe 83 is and Keith and is a research husband Tim and one-year-old

bull Brenda irwin BSe 88 is a cardiovascular ICU nurse in scientist with Bristol-Myers daughter Juliette She sends love

studying at Hong Kong Unishy sunny Tuscon Arizona After Squibb Previously she worked to Sue Heather and Sheila and

vers ity of Science and Technolshy grad uation she lived in Paris at McMaster University in can be reached bye-mail at

ogy to complete the final France for a yea r s tudied nurs- Hamilton Ont for 17 yea rs michellebacondialpipexcom

sem ester of an MBA program ing in O ttawa then lived in Saushy bull Teresa Tummillo-Goy BA bull Jeff Barlow BComm 90 is

through the University of di Arabia for two yea rs She still 86 has a law practice in Water- the training and quality manag-

British Columbia She taught loves to travel and would like to 100 Ont foc Li sing primaril y on er for two five-star luxury boushy

science for the North York hea r from fellow alumni She family law civi l litiga tion and tique h o tels in Prague - Hotel

Board of Education for five can be reached at 520-299-8344 real estate She and her hus- Palace Praha and the Hotel

years before enrolling in the bull Cecilia (Wleugel) Parkes band John Goy live in Guelph Savoy Previo usly he was execu -

MBA program BComm 85 is a graphic and have three sons John 4 tive housekeeper at the five-star

bull Jagwant Kanwar PhD 80 is designer in Toronto and says Tony 3 and Shayne 2 Renaissance Pragu e Hotel

a senior scientist in the depart- she st ill uses ber marketing bull Peter Van der Borch DVM bull Margaret Burnes-Souria BA ment of vegetable crops at Pun- background to help her busishy 88 retired in the fa ll of 1997 94 is a team leader with [011 shy

jab Agricultural University in ness succeed She specia lizes in after several years of practising don Magazin e in London Ont

India He is also director of the logo design lNith hand-drawn physiotherapy and ve terinary She married David Souria in

regional vegetable research stashy illustrations medicine and surgery He Jives July 1997 and is pursuing an tion at Usman (TaranTarn) bull Jim Parr BSc(Agr) 81 and in Pictou NS ]VlBA at the University of West-

Amritsar His and his wife MSe 89 died of cancer in bull MartyWilLiams BA 85 is ern Ontario

Sanyogita have a son Mohit June 1998 but hes being co-ordinator of student activishy bull Janine Byers BASe 95 is a and a daughter Dipika who are remembered by his university ties at University College Unishy public health dietitian at the

both studying engineering friends through the establish - versity of Toronto where he Kingston Frontenac and

Friends can write to Kanwar at ment of a mem orial fund for advises student organizations Iennox amp Addington Health

Punjab Agricultural Un ivers ity his wife Denise and children 1Ie is also chair of the U of T Unit in Kingston O nt She is Ludhiana 141 004 India Shannon and Eric Anyone Staff Association a member of getting married to Ca rl Stewart

bull Larissa Larsen BSe 89 and who would like more informa - the steering committee of the on May 29 j 999 MLA 92 received a PhD in tion can ca ll Brian Tapscott at staffs unionization drive and a bull Lisa Cherry BSe 9 1 is a urban and regional planning 519-767-3566 staff member with the student science journalist and executive

from the University of Illinois bull Cheryl (Dunlop) Reid newspaper The Varsity He can director of Artists Against

at Urbana Champaign in May BSe(Agr) 89 sta rted a new be reached bye-mail at marty Racism an international organi-

She has accepted a position at job in September as ingredient wi lliamsutorontoca za tion She is based in Toronto

Thompson Dyke and Associshy sales manager for RA bull Bonnie (Byma) BASe 96 ales a landscape architecture Chisholm o f Toronto She will 19905 and Gil Clelland BA 95 were

and urban planning firm in continue to work from her bull Claire Allison BA 94 grad- married in December 1996 and

Chicago Her husband Ernie remote offke in Fergus Reid uated from the elementary are living in Chatham On t

Poortinga DVM 89 is in his and her husband Jeff BSe teacher ed ucation program at Bo nnie works at a day-care

third yea r of an MD program (Agr) 89 have two children the University of British centre G il teaches art and

at Rush University Chicago lVlega n 4 and Elizabeth 2 Columbia in 1996 and now phys ical education They ca n -Hes looking forward to joining bull Chee Sie BA 83 is a zone teaches in Va ncou ver be reached bye-ma il at gclelshy

his wife in the ranks of the manager for the Malaysian bull JohnAvon BSdHK) 94 lan ciaccesscom employed They would both Assurance Alliance Berhad in earned an M Se in industr ial bull Kate Corn ell BA 95 of enjoy hearing from fellow Sarawak Malaysia He and his operations from Lawrence Markham Ont earned her

alumni and can be reached at wife Jesterine have a two-year- Technological University in masters in dance history from epoor tin garushurushedu old daughter Letitia Southfleld Mich in 1997 and York University in May and

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co-authored a book titled

Toronto Dance Theatre 1968shy1998 Stages in a Journey

bull Mary Jill (McClure) Culliton BASe 90 earned

her BEd from Brock University

and her M Ed from the Univershy

sity of Western Ontario and

teaches Grade 1 in Mitchell

Ont She and her husband

Tim live in Stratford

bull Kathleen (McNutt) Daniels BASe 9 1 is a teacher and was

married on New Years Eve

1994 to Gord Daniels They live

in North Bay Ont and have a

daughter Lauren born in Febshy

ruary 1997 They are expecting

their second child in February

bull Simon Deakin BA 95 studshyied in Florence Italy for a year

then earned a master of fine art

from the Slade School of Fine

Art at the University of London

England He lives in London

bull Christie Dunbar BLA 97 spent a year after graduation

working for Niagara College in

St Catharines Ont on the

vision and design of a new

campus to be built in Niagarashy

on-the- Lake Last April she

joined the landscape architecshy

ture firm of Pollack Design

Associates in Ann Arbor Mich

bull Trina Edmonds BA 94 and

Joel Hinderle became the

proud parents of a little girl

Jordan Ashley in january 1998

and moved to a new home in

Oakville Ont in September

Edmonds works in Mississauga

as a desktop publisher with a

publishingprinting company

bull Wendy Garinther BSc 93 and Steve Decker BSe 94

were married in May Joining

them in the wedding celebrashy

tions were Cheri (Coulter)

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Ascroft BSe 93 Karen Leinshy

gartner BSe 94 and Barb

(Moore) Johnson BSe 94

Best man was Jeff Bond BSe

93 and MSe 96 The Deckers

live in Edmonton where Steve

is doing a PhD in chemistry at

the University of Alberta and

Wendy is working in a research

laboratory at a biopharmaceushy

tical company

bull Donna Gross BA 97 is purshysu ing a master of divinity at

Emmanuel College at the Unishy

versity of Toronto and hopes to

become an ordained minister by

2002 She lives in Guelph and

can be reached bye-mail at

donnajulietalbedonet

bull Robert Gruber BA 92 is a child-care supervisor for the

YMCA-YWCA of Guelph and

manages the Jean Little Y

Child- Care Centre He recently

developed the anti -bias proshy

gramming policy for the

Guelph Y and sits on both the

Jean Little Public School Counshy

cil and the Guelph AIDS Wall

Committee He can be reached

bye-mail at rgrubernet

comca

bull Susan Harder BSe 91 grad shyuated from the University of

Toronto Medical School in June

and has started a residency at

Santa Clara Valley Medical Censhy

tre in San jose Calif She will

follow that up with an anestheshy

sia residency at Stanford Univershy

sity Hospital in 1999

bull Marko Harjupanula BASc 93 travelled in Australia for

two months after graduating

from Guelph then returned to

his home town of South Porshy

cupine Ont where he worked

in a gold mine for four years

He entered police college in

September and started as an

opp constable in Cochrane in

December

bull Nancy Holman MA 94 moved to Vancouver soon after

graduation and initially worked

as a project co-ordinator for an

ophthalmologist In 1996 she

began working full time for the

BC Liberal Caucus I would

enjoy hearing from and catchshy

ing up with the friends I made

while studying at U of G and

working at the Brass Taps she

says Her e-mail address is nan shy

cyholmanlassgovbeca

bull Ruth Johnson BA 91 is an investment banking associate

with the mergers and acquisishy

tions group of JP Morgan in

Lond on England responsible

for financial reporting and

administration She has been in

England with her partner Alex Campbell since graduation

bull Stephen Johnson BA 94 of London Ont was a lab technishy

cian at Lenscrafters for three

yea rs and is now a full-time

student at Fanshawe College

studying air conditioning and

refrigeration He was married

in Jun e to Jennifer Fox BSc

95 a chemist at 3M Their

wedding party included Dee Popat BSe (Eng) 94 and

Patrick Wulhes BSc 95

bull Sarah (Davis) Kelly BASe 90 married Robert Kelly in

July and teaches primary

grades at an inner-city school

in Toronto

bull Cassidy Klowak BComm 97 lives in Allisshy

ton Onl and is a personal

banking account manager

with ClBC in Tottenham

bull Stephanie Lopes BSc 96 completed her MSc in repro shy

ductive biology at the Universishy

ty of Toronto and worked as

patient-care director for the

College of Family Physicians

for almost a year In September

she enrolled in medical school

at the University of Toronto

She is happy to announce that

she is engaged to be married

next summer Lopes can be

reached at slopesidirectcom

bull Natalie (Parker) MacKenzie BSc 96 earned her BEd from

the University of Western

Ontario in 1997 She married

ASLt Andy MacKenzie June 27

in Sault Ste Marie Ont and

now lives in Halifax

bull Susan MacKinnon DVM 91 is a veterinarian with HUls

Science Diet She lives in

Guelph with her husband

Brandon Wiley and gave birth

to their first child Adrianna

Nicole june 26 at home

bull Waheed Mian BA 9 1 of Cambridge Ont is a store

director with PetSmart Canada

He helped the company launch

its new retail concept in Cana da

bull Alex Mitchell BA 91 was appointed clerkdeputy treasurshy

er of the Ontario township of

Mildmay-Carrick in 1998 and

will be the clerkadministrator

of the new municipality of

Mildmay-Carrick -TeesWatershy

Culross in 1999 He was married

in january 1997 and lives vith

his wife and daughter in Mild shy

may In his spare time Mitchell

is a professional scout for the

Toronto Maple Leafs covering

southwestern Ontario

bull Sherry Morland BASc 93 of Kitchener Ont ea rned her

BEd from Brock University in

J995 and is a part-time specia l

educa tion teacher and an occashy

sional teacher with the Watershy

loo County Board of Ed ucashy

tion She married Ivan LeBlanc

in 1997

bull Gary Page BSe 91 wo rks for the Nottawasaga Valley Conshy

servation Authority where he is

able to combine his knowledge

of wildlife biology with his

artistic skills as resident graphic

designer and outdoor centre

interpreter He Jives with his

wife Di and their son judah in

CreemoreOnt

bull Elaine Pammenter BA 96 is an inventory clerk with the

Royal Collection at Windsor

Castle in England She holds a

museum management and

curatorship grad uate certificate

diploma from Sir Sandford

Fleming College and did her

internship at the Royal Albert

Memorial Museum in Exeter

England

bull Brent Raymond BSe(Env) 96 of Brantford Ont has

been working with Outward

Bound since graduation He

leads wilderness trips in Northshy

ern Ontario Horida Australia and Sabah (Malaysian Borneo) Most recently he designed and implemented a new introducshytory mountaineering course for Outward Bound Sabah on the summit plateau of Mt Kinashy

balu Those of you who know me as plate licker from U of G get in touch he says Where are you Star I miss you He can be reached by e-mail at globarwchatonca or by

phone at 519-756-1697

Alumni Patrick Abbott BSA 40 July 7 1998

Albert Allen BSA 33 Jan 161994 Agris Ansmits BA 70 and MA 73

February 1998 Barbara (Quartermain) Babcock DHE

53 June 17 1998

Wray Bond BSA 34 Sept 25 1998

Kenneth Bone DVM 38 Dec 29 1998 Evelyn (Stevenson) Buhr DHE 39

May 251998 Philip Burke BSA 43 June 21 1998

Grant Carman BSA 49 Oct 221998 Frederick Chambers BSA 41

June 1998 Wilmot Conley ADA4 7 April 7 1998 Lloyd Crewson BSA 49 Aug 261998

Jacqueline Dimock DHE 47

Aug 20 1998 John Dingwall DVM 52

April 18 1998

Lloyd Dorsey BSA 38 June 9 1998 George Duncan BSA 37

Sept 19 1998

David Dyson BSA 53 Aug 31 1998

Norma (Shannon) Edwards DHE 39

November 1997 Vincent Bud Ellis DVM 41

July 15 1998 John Jack George BSA 48

Sept 24 1998

Donald Haight BSA 33 January 1997 William Hamlyn BSA 33 Dec I 1997

Gordon Harkness BSA 49

November 1997

Charles Hollister DVM 38 June 1996 Donald Hope BSA 54 June 28 1998

Lawrence Jefferson BSA 38

Sept 3 1998

James Kelso DVM 56 July 27 1998

Dorima Lalonde BSA 34 Oct 8 1998 Mildred (Cox) Large DHE 33

June 20 1998 Roger Larson BComm 86 Feb 19 1998 Robert Lawson BSA 49 June 6 1998

bull Doug Ramsey BA 91 and PhD 98 received U of Gs highshyest graduate student award shythe Forster Medal- at June convocation for his academic and community involvement while enrolled in Guelphs new

graduate program in geography He spent the summer as a visitshying research scholar at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College in Truro before assuming his curshyrent position as assistant professhysor at Mount Allison University

David Leach BSc(Agr) 74

July 18 1998

Ian Leask DVM 74 Sept 5 1998

Sheryl Lee BSc 95 June 8 1998 Ruby Janet MacAuley DHE 30

Aug 19 1998 Parker MacKenzie DVM 38

September 1994

Jeanice MacLaren DHE 28 March 1 1997

Campbell MacMaster DVM42

Oct 8 1998

Rex McCallum DVM 43 July 71998 Jean (Dunn) McMahon DHE 31

Nov 41998

Margaret Oones) McTaggart DHE 35 Aug 81998

Patrick McTaggart-Cowan HDSc 81

Oct 21997

Malcolm McWhinnie ADA 39

July 16 1998 Mary (Townsend) Mitchell BHSc

60 Sept 281998

Marjory Monaghan DHE 29

December 1997 Charles Monk BSA 44 Aug 7 1998

Heather Neilsen BHSc 59

Oct 30 1998 Jerry Niwa DVM 62 Aug 5 1998 Henry Harry OReilly BSA 42

October 1997

James Parr BSc(Agr) 81 June 19 1998 Charles Rammage DVM 45

Oct 17 1996 Howard Rapson HDSc 90

March 1997 Clement Reeds DVM 42 Oct 16 1998

William Robinson BSA 38

Aug 23 1998

Donald Sager ADA 73 Oct 141997

Austin Schaefer DVM 37 in 1997

Sandra (Mackenzie) Schmidt DHE 59

Aug 16 1997 Margaret (Harvey) Seaborn DHE 28

July 221998

Larry Seguin DVM 47 June 12 1998

Leah Shedden DHE 31 December 1998

Edward Shuh BSA 40 July 2 1998

Ted Shutsa BSc(Agr) 66

Sept 18 1998 Jim Sinclair DVM 49 Oct 4 1998

Margaret (Brown) Sinclair DHE 20

September 1998 Eldon Smith BSA 42 Sept 9 1998

Derek Somers DVM 96 Sept 25 1998

Cheryl Lynn Sopha BA 95 Sept 20 1998

Leona (Bartlett) Stewart DHE 35

June 27 1998 Alex Thomson BSc(Agr) 69

October 1996

William Whittick DVM 55

Aug 15 1998 Joseph Wilson BSA 23 Sept 11 1998

Lloyd Woolsey DVM41 June 24 1998

Winifred Yeates DHE 28 June 11998

Faculty John Carpenter BSA 43 and MSA 48

Microbiology Dec 10 1998

David Gaskin Zoology Sept 14 1998

Gordon Macleod BSA 50 Animal and

Poultry Science Nov 26 1998 Roman Retman Languages and

Literatures Sept 28 1998

Caesar Sen off Chemistry and

Biochemistry Aug 14 1998

Percy Smith Drama Dec 10 1998

Friends Robert Clark Aug 21 1998

Ethel Hammond August 1998

Thomas Hillers Sept 28 1998 Marguerite Holbrook Aug 26 1998

Catherine Kelly Sept 27 1998

James A McKenzie May 13 1998

Kenneth McIssac Oct 23 1998

William Mutlock September 1998 Roena Patterson Sept 16 1998

Donald Priddle Aug 25 1998

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bull Karl Reimer BSe 94 comshypleted a one-year intensive

MSc in mining engineering at

Queens University and is now

a project engineer a t Enpar

Technologies Ine in Guelph

He can be contacted at reimerbservcom

bull Nancy Nauta Rowland BA 90 and her husband Dan celshy

ebrated their first wedding

anniversary in March 1998 with

the birth of their first child

Connor who beat their March

8 anniversary by two days Nanshy

cy teaches junior-grade stushy

dents and junior special ed ucashy

tion for the Peel District School

Board The Rowlands live in

Caledon Ont

bull Fraser Stables MFA 98 was heralded by Toronto Globe 6shyMail critic Betty Jordan as a

formidable new talent followshy

ing the openi ng of his debut

gallery exh ibition in July The

Scottish artists work includes

sculpture video and mixed

media that explore notions of

flu x by interrupting the moveshy

ment of forms in space

bull Erin (Smith) Scott BSe(HK) 92 and Brad

Scott BSc(Agr) 91 of Lucan

O nt were married in 1993 and

had their first child Lucas in

August Erin works for Shopshy

pers Home Health Ca re in

London Brad is with New Life

Mills in Dunfield

bull Abby Simons BSc 95 and Martin Piche BSc(Agr) 95 were married in Mont-Tremshy

blant Quebec in 1997 She is a

customer service representative

with Kantech Systems he is

superintendent of Club de golf

vallee des forts They say theyd

love to hear from anyone headshy

ing to Montreal and can be

reached at 450-348-3860

bull Sylvia Tesori BSc 95 has been doing wildlife rehabilitashy

tion for the OSPCA Wildlife

Rehabilitation Centre in Midshy

land Ont since 1996

bull Chuck Thibeault BComm 94 is general manager of the

Putting Edge Corpora tion

which has two glow-in- theshy

dark mini-golf courses in

Ontario one in Bramp ton and

one in Richmond Hill He can

be reached in Richmond Hill at

chu ckttotalnet

bull Karen Thirlwall BA 93 is a

si ngersongwriter and guitarist

who began her stage career and

released her first album The Voice Inside Me while studying

languages at U of G She has

lived and performed in

11i stler BC for three years

and recently released a second

album called Wide-Eyed She

remembers many special

fr iends m ade at Guelph and

welcomes e-mail messages to

karenthirlwallhotmailcom

bull Christie (Johnson) and Steve

Tyler both BComm 91 live in

Cambridge Ont where

Christie is a personal banking

representative for the Royal

Bank Steve works with their

third-year design professor

Nelson Hofer in Mississauga as

a design consultan t Steves proshy

jects include the Windsor Casishy

no and U of Gs Creelman Hall

They have two children Jason

5 and Marcus 1

bull Julia White BA 91 lives in Guelph and is a small-business

accountant at Taves amp Co She

recently finished courses

towards a CGA designation and

would like to hea r from other

alumni who lived in Lambton

Hall in 198788 Send e-mail to

juliawhitesympaticoca

bull Andre-Denis Wright MSc 93 and PhD 98 is doing postshy

docto ral work in Perth Westshy

ern Australia He wants his

Guelph friends and Halifax

family to know he was thinking

of them at Christmas when it

was 40 C in Australia

bull Dave Yellen BComm 90 was recently promoted at the Gordon

Food Service to new-accounts

sales specialist for Metro Toronshy

to Having been in Ottawa for

the past few years Im hoping

to reacquaint myself with old

friend s from U of G in the Metro

area he says He lives in Scarborshy

ough and can be reached at 416shy615-2745 or davidysprintca

bull Halina Zaleski PhD 92 is a tenured professor in the

departm ent of animal sciences

at the Un iversity of Hawaii in

Honolulu She is a swine speshy

cialist involved in extension

programs for an area th at covshy

ers all of Hawai i and the PacifIC

basin She can be reached by

e-mail at halinahawaiiedu

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the Way We Were r (() M Til FARC III V E S

IF THERE ARE LIVESTOCK IN THE HOCKEY ARENA and

theyre not wearing skates its College Royal If there

are students sawing logs throwing pies baking cookies

and square dancing its College Royal When the entire

University of Guelph is displayed - from arts to zooloshy

gy - March 13 and 14 1999 youll know its definitely

College Royan

Since its inception in 1925 as an agricultural and liveshy

stock show run by the Ontario Agricultural College

College Royal has grown to be a celebrated U of G trashy

dition involving all the colleges

The event is famou s in the University community

and beyond for its open-house showcase of displays and

activities The largest student-run open house in Canashy

da College Royal attracts more than 20000 visitors to

campus over one weekend

College Royal is an event of tradition that reaches

into tomorrow Agriculture and livestock shows are still

highlighted events but College Royal activities have

grown to include dog and cat shows a photography conshy

test a chemistry magic show and demonstrations on

human health and fitness The open house gives people

an opportunity to see what happens in the Universitys

leading-edge research laboratories to observe veterinary

medicine in practice to tour a sculpture studio or to

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Order of Canada in January He

received the award in recogni shy

tion of his many contributions

to science and the Canadian

agricultural industry After grad shy

uating from OAC he went on to

do his PhD at the University of

Saskatchewan then joined Agri shy

culture and Agri-food Canada

as a research scientist at the Swift

Current research station Campshy

bell and his family now live in

Ottawa where he is scientist

emeritus with Agriculture and

Agri-food Canada

bull John Casselman BSA 64 is

a research scientist with the

Ontario Ministry of Natural

Resources He Jives in Bath

Ont with his wife Lois

bull Jane Fuller RRSc 65 and

her husband George who both

taught at the Macdonald Instishy

tute from 1966 to 1969 have

moved from Winnipeg to

Utopia Ont following

Georges retirement from the

University of Manitoba

bull Fred Gilbert MSc 66 and

P hD 68 is in his first term as

president of Lakehead Univer shy

sity in Thunder Bay Ont He

taught at U of G in the Departshy

ment of Zoology from 1972 to

1981 and has enjoyed a dive rse

academic career that has also

included teaching at the Unishy

versity of Maine and posi tions

as director of wildlife biology at

Washington State University

and founding dean of the Facshy

ulty of Natural Reso urces and

Environmenta l Studies at the

University of Northern British

Columbia He moved to Lakeshy

head from a position as viceshy

pro vost at Colorado State Unishy

versity A respected wildlife

biologist he has conducted

ex tensive resea rch in s Ll ch areas

as the behaviour and physioloshy

gy of wildlife species and the

effects of environmental

change on wildlife populations

bull Terry Goodyear BSc 67 of

Mont Tremblant Quebec is an

early retiree from Agriculture

and Agri-Food Canada in Ottawa He is now working on

va lue-added products from

industrial wastes particularly

cellulose sludge from pulp and

pa per mills

bull Gary Hearn BA 68 was

named an Ontario provincial

judge in October For the last

25 years he has been a lawyer

with the firm Kearns McKinshy

non in Guelph where he lives

with his wife Irene and three

teenage children

bull Allan Knight BSA 66 of Corunna Ont has retired

from Dow Chemical after 30

years On retirement he was a

laboratory director for indusshy

trial chemicals He is now

working with his son in a famishy

ly-owned and -operated busishy

ness Knight Funeral Home

bull Keith McFarlane BSc(Agr)

68 works for the Department

of Foreign Affairs and Internashy

tional Trade and began a fourshy

year assignment last summer as

head of the commercial divishy

sion of the Canadian Embassy

in Lisbon Portugal The

division promotes the sa le of

Canadian goods and services

to Portugal

bull Ian Newbould MA 68 has

travelled far from his Ontario

roots through an academic and

administrative career that has

taken him to Europe Asia and

Western Canada A noted hisshy

torian he moved into adm inisshy

tration at the University of

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Lethbridge in 1981 and spent

10 years there as director of

research dean of a rts and scishy

ence and vice-presiden t (acadeshy

mic) before crossing the counshy

try to become president of

Mount Allison University in

New Brunswick He is now in

his second term as president of

Mount AUison

bull Indra Deo Singh MSc 68 is

a tea scientist international

consultant and joint director of

the Tea Research Association at

the Nagrakata substation in

India His responsibilities

include co-ordinating research

and development in the Indian

tea industry and developing tea

cultivars and agrotechnology

for tea Singh is married with

two sons aged 27 and 23

19705

bull Don Ambler BSe 71 retired in March as manager of

water programs with Environshy

ment Canada in Dartmouth

NS after 25 years of public

service He has now registered

the company Aquashed Co nshy

sulting to continue in the water

resources field when hes not

gardening beekeeping do ing

aerobics or vo lunteering in the

community and chu rch E-mail

contact is welcome a t

donambl erns sympaticoca

bull Jim Bond BSe 75 is managshy

ing a new processing facility at

the Chalk River Nuclear Laborashy

to ry in Chalk River Ont

bull Terri (Monks) Bulman BSc(Agr) 78 and MSe 81

and her husband Vincent

MSe 8 1 live in Australia with

their th ree children Catherine

7 Peter 4 and baby Christoshy

pher Terri is senior principal

environmental auditor vith

Coffey Geosciences Pty Ltd Vinshy

cent afte r many years as a geoloshy

gist travelling around Australia

and abroad has taken the year

off to study and look after the

children Their e-mail address is

tbulmanbigpondco m

bull Marie David BA 78 of

Hanover Ont has been in the

n ewspaper business for 20

years She started in the mailshy

room moved to advertising

sales then became advert ising

manager She is now gene ral

manager o f three So utham

weekly newspapers and pubshy

lish er of the Hanover Post

bull Janice Harrower and her husshy

band Jerome Billett both

DVM 76 operate a joint veterishy

nary practice in Prescott Ont

Billett says practising together

has allowed them some flexibilishy

ty in their family life and given

their four children a good took

at the rigours of veterinary

medicine Says Billett Not one

of our kid s has the slightest

interest in being a veterinarian

and isnt that just fine Their

o ldest son Jesse attends Harshy

va rd University and is a memshy

ber of its prestigious a cappella

choir Lucas is studying

mechanical engineering at the

University of Waterloo Casey is

planning a career in computer

engineering and Lindsay is a

high school athle te

bull Clair Heinbuch BSe 74 is a

sales manager with Baye r Corp

in Kansas H e and his wife

Caroline (Koscik) BASc 75

returned to the Kansas City

area after spending four years in

Denver They have three chilshy

dren Lisa 20 Scott 18 and

Ryan [5

bull Beverly Lee BASe 72 is an

elem entary school principal in

Unionville Ont She lives with

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her husband Grant Egan in

Collingwood and is looking

forward to retirement in severshy

al years Life on Georgian Bay

is wonderful she says Lee

would love to hear from fellow

grads by e-mail at

leebYrbeeduonca or by

phone at 705 -444 -092l

bull Won-Jai Maeng MSc 71 took office Sept 1 as president

of Kon-Kuk University in Seoul

Korea where his academic

career began He completed an

undergraduate degree at Kon

Kuk in 1965 then studied at

Mailing Agricultural College in Denmark and at U of G before

doing doctoral work at the Unishy

versity of California Davis

Maeng has held research and

teaching positions at the Unishy

versity of illinois at Chung-Ang

University and at Kon-Kuk

where he has been a professor of

animal science since 1984 His

appointment as president folshy

lows years of administrative

experience as a department

head dean and chair of various

research committees and proshy

fessional organizations An

expert in ruminant nutrition

Maeng was instrumental in

developing the livestock feed

industry in Korea He has also

been active in working with

alumni groups and in writing

for the Kon-Kuk Tribune

bull Bill MarshaU ADA 75 of Proton Station Ont moved

from Clarksburg in June to

work in Dundalk for the Grey

County Roads Department on

its road management crew

bull Bernie Matte BSc(Agr) 70 of Moncton NB retired

in March after 28 years with

Fisheries and Oceans Canada

and the Canadian Food

Inspection Agency He plans to

travel to Belize and Honduras

with his wife Diane and will

be available anywhere in the

Caribbean for seafood HACCP

consulting work

bull Margaret McClain BA 70 lives in Arkansas where she is

highJy involved in the issue of

40 GUELPH ALUMNUS

missing children and internashy

tional abductions McClain who

believes her own six-year-old

daughter was taken out of the

United States more than a year

ago by her second husband is

reaching out to parents with

similar experiences through an

organization that is lobbying the

US government for tougher

international abduction laws

She invites interested fr iends

and alumni to contact her

through her Web site at

wwwinsolwwbnet-dmcclain

bull Robert (Chuck) Miller BA 77 is the park superintendent

of Killarney French River and

Maskinonje provincial parks in

Ontario He moved to Killarney

from Quetico Provincial Park

last May

bull Gordon Nicol BA 72 and MSc(Agr) 74 teaches math

and science in a bilingual prishy

vate school in Guatemala A

BEd graduate of Laurentian

he first taught in Guatemala in

the late 1970s then spent 12

years in northern Alberta as a

teacher and principal He

returned to Guatemala in 1989

A widower with three teenage

children Nicol would like to

hear from U of G friends and

acquaintances especially anyshy

one who is was or will be in

Central America He says he

could also use middle-schoolshy

level science projects Send eshy

mail to gnicoll guatenet or

write to PO Box 661447 Miami

Springs Florida 33266-1447

bull Chris Schulte BSc 71 and MSc 73 lives in Nassau

Bahamas with his wife

Andrya After graduation he

stayed in the Department of

Physics as a research associate

with Prof lain Campbell then

joined Ontario Hydro in the

early 1980s He moved to the

Bahamas in 1995 He can be

reached bye-mail at

schultebahamasnetbs

bull Sandra (Pickford) Webster BA 75 has retired from U of

Gs Co mmunications and Pubshy

lic Affairs and is living in Parry

Sound Ont where she is

doing volunteer work and

communications consulting

for the municipality Guelph

friends ca n contact her by

e-mail atswebsterzeutercom

19805

bull Sharon (Courneya) Angus BA 8 I of Surrey BC comshy

pleted a BSW at the University

of British Columbia in 1988

and has been working for the

BC government for 13 years

- first in probation and now

in the family justice division

She and her husband Ron

have three children Jason

Carly and Colin

bull Karen Beazley BLA 86 is an assistant professor and acadeshy

mic program co-ordinator at

the School for Reso urce and

Environmental Studies at Dalshy

housie University in Halifax

She is currently doing research

for a book on endangered

species initiatives and is orgashy

nizing a Nova Scotia wildlands

workshop with the Wildlands

Project for 1999 Her e-mail

address is kbeazleyisdalca

bull Caroline (Van Deudekom) and Marc Brooks both ADA 87

recently moved from Strathroy

to Owen Sound Ont where

they run a 50-acre organic farm

with their two sons

bull Virginia Burt BLA 85 startshyed her own landscape architecshy

ture firm Visionscapes in

Hamilton Ont in ] 996 She

specializes in the design of thershy

apeutic healing gardens spirit

gardens sacred spaces and

la byrin ths and recen tly designed the first healing garden

in Canada specificalJy for peoshy

ple living with HIV and AIDS

bull Joanne (Branson) Carver BA 80 earned a BEd from Brock

University in 1981 and recently

started working as a probashy

tionparole officer She Jives in

Ajax Ont and has two daughshy

ters Julie4 and Sarah 8

bull Heather Champ BA 86 is a Web-site designer in New York

City She began her work in

computer design in 1990 Her

personal site can be Found at

wwwjezebelcom

bull Laurie Gough BA 87 has become a world traveller who

writes about her experiences for

the benefit of others Her most

recent book Island of the

Human Heart A tfornans Travshyel Odyssey is now in its second

printing in Canada and will be

released next year in the United

States and overseas She has also

published Travellers Tales A

Womans World which won the

US-based Lowell Thomas

Gold Award for best travel book

of the year When not travelling

or writing she teaches English

and ESL in Guelph

bull Susan (Coles) Goulden BASc 84 and her husband

Ian are th rilled wi th their

recent adoption of Jennifer Lee

Yu who was born in June near

Leping Jiangxi Peoples Repubshy

lic of China The Gouldens

who Jive in vVaterloo Ont

thank classmate Andrea

(Kovits) Henderson for her

support throughout the adopshy

tion process Susan is currently

on leave from her position with

McCormick Canada

bull Judy (Bodendistel) Gregg BA 82 moved to Melbourne Ausshy

tralia in 1997 with her husband

and two children Carly 6 and

Adam 3 We are enjoying the

friendly people and the great

weather here she says We are

especially enjoying winter in a

place where it never gets below

zero Celsius

bull Nigel GumJey DVM 85 has been a partner in the Alta Vista

Animal Hospital in Ottawa

since 1990 was president of the bull Garry Millage AMPHI 86 bull Heidi Stephenson BA 88 is now ISO 9000 manager at

Ontario Veterinary Medical left a position as vice-president was awarded her professional Carpenter Ca nada Ltd in

Association in 1997 and recent- of national operations for acco untants designation of Wood br idge Ont He lives in

ly served on the Canadian Vetshy Scotts Restaurants KFC Divishy certified general accountant in Miss issa uga Classma tes are

erilw() Medical Associations sion to open his own consult- March 1998 She has been invited to contact him at

national issues committee He ing company Future Food employed for the last 10 years avon listarca

lives in Osgoode with his wife Equipment Ine specializes in with Dan Ball Chartered bull Michelle (Pilon) Bacon BA rvlaurecn and children Laura providing new and used restau- Acco un tant in Parry Sound 90 moved to England to study

and Matthew rant equipment and reducing O nt where she lives with her and work after graduating from

bull Muneer Hirji BComm 82 restaurant construction costs hu sband Brad two dogs and a Guelph She recently left a posishy

lives in Toronto and is vice- He also operates a restaurant horse tion with the British Ministry of

president of marke ting at SAP called Nikkos in Woodbridge bull Dawn Stetsko BSe 81 lives Agriculture and Food in York to

Canada He has three chil- Ont and is planning to open a in Langhorne Pa with her husshy become an at-home mom She

drcl1 Nadia 8 Alyssa 6 and second location band Paul and children Mark now lives in London with her

Sarah I bull Tosh Noseworthy BSe 83 is and Keith and is a research husband Tim and one-year-old

bull Brenda irwin BSe 88 is a cardiovascular ICU nurse in scientist with Bristol-Myers daughter Juliette She sends love

studying at Hong Kong Unishy sunny Tuscon Arizona After Squibb Previously she worked to Sue Heather and Sheila and

vers ity of Science and Technolshy grad uation she lived in Paris at McMaster University in can be reached bye-mail at

ogy to complete the final France for a yea r s tudied nurs- Hamilton Ont for 17 yea rs michellebacondialpipexcom

sem ester of an MBA program ing in O ttawa then lived in Saushy bull Teresa Tummillo-Goy BA bull Jeff Barlow BComm 90 is

through the University of di Arabia for two yea rs She still 86 has a law practice in Water- the training and quality manag-

British Columbia She taught loves to travel and would like to 100 Ont foc Li sing primaril y on er for two five-star luxury boushy

science for the North York hea r from fellow alumni She family law civi l litiga tion and tique h o tels in Prague - Hotel

Board of Education for five can be reached at 520-299-8344 real estate She and her hus- Palace Praha and the Hotel

years before enrolling in the bull Cecilia (Wleugel) Parkes band John Goy live in Guelph Savoy Previo usly he was execu -

MBA program BComm 85 is a graphic and have three sons John 4 tive housekeeper at the five-star

bull Jagwant Kanwar PhD 80 is designer in Toronto and says Tony 3 and Shayne 2 Renaissance Pragu e Hotel

a senior scientist in the depart- she st ill uses ber marketing bull Peter Van der Borch DVM bull Margaret Burnes-Souria BA ment of vegetable crops at Pun- background to help her busishy 88 retired in the fa ll of 1997 94 is a team leader with [011 shy

jab Agricultural University in ness succeed She specia lizes in after several years of practising don Magazin e in London Ont

India He is also director of the logo design lNith hand-drawn physiotherapy and ve terinary She married David Souria in

regional vegetable research stashy illustrations medicine and surgery He Jives July 1997 and is pursuing an tion at Usman (TaranTarn) bull Jim Parr BSc(Agr) 81 and in Pictou NS ]VlBA at the University of West-

Amritsar His and his wife MSe 89 died of cancer in bull MartyWilLiams BA 85 is ern Ontario

Sanyogita have a son Mohit June 1998 but hes being co-ordinator of student activishy bull Janine Byers BASe 95 is a and a daughter Dipika who are remembered by his university ties at University College Unishy public health dietitian at the

both studying engineering friends through the establish - versity of Toronto where he Kingston Frontenac and

Friends can write to Kanwar at ment of a mem orial fund for advises student organizations Iennox amp Addington Health

Punjab Agricultural Un ivers ity his wife Denise and children 1Ie is also chair of the U of T Unit in Kingston O nt She is Ludhiana 141 004 India Shannon and Eric Anyone Staff Association a member of getting married to Ca rl Stewart

bull Larissa Larsen BSe 89 and who would like more informa - the steering committee of the on May 29 j 999 MLA 92 received a PhD in tion can ca ll Brian Tapscott at staffs unionization drive and a bull Lisa Cherry BSe 9 1 is a urban and regional planning 519-767-3566 staff member with the student science journalist and executive

from the University of Illinois bull Cheryl (Dunlop) Reid newspaper The Varsity He can director of Artists Against

at Urbana Champaign in May BSe(Agr) 89 sta rted a new be reached bye-mail at marty Racism an international organi-

She has accepted a position at job in September as ingredient wi lliamsutorontoca za tion She is based in Toronto

Thompson Dyke and Associshy sales manager for RA bull Bonnie (Byma) BASe 96 ales a landscape architecture Chisholm o f Toronto She will 19905 and Gil Clelland BA 95 were

and urban planning firm in continue to work from her bull Claire Allison BA 94 grad- married in December 1996 and

Chicago Her husband Ernie remote offke in Fergus Reid uated from the elementary are living in Chatham On t

Poortinga DVM 89 is in his and her husband Jeff BSe teacher ed ucation program at Bo nnie works at a day-care

third yea r of an MD program (Agr) 89 have two children the University of British centre G il teaches art and

at Rush University Chicago lVlega n 4 and Elizabeth 2 Columbia in 1996 and now phys ical education They ca n -Hes looking forward to joining bull Chee Sie BA 83 is a zone teaches in Va ncou ver be reached bye-ma il at gclelshy

his wife in the ranks of the manager for the Malaysian bull JohnAvon BSdHK) 94 lan ciaccesscom employed They would both Assurance Alliance Berhad in earned an M Se in industr ial bull Kate Corn ell BA 95 of enjoy hearing from fellow Sarawak Malaysia He and his operations from Lawrence Markham Ont earned her

alumni and can be reached at wife Jesterine have a two-year- Technological University in masters in dance history from epoor tin garushurushedu old daughter Letitia Southfleld Mich in 1997 and York University in May and

WINTER 1999 41

co-authored a book titled

Toronto Dance Theatre 1968shy1998 Stages in a Journey

bull Mary Jill (McClure) Culliton BASe 90 earned

her BEd from Brock University

and her M Ed from the Univershy

sity of Western Ontario and

teaches Grade 1 in Mitchell

Ont She and her husband

Tim live in Stratford

bull Kathleen (McNutt) Daniels BASe 9 1 is a teacher and was

married on New Years Eve

1994 to Gord Daniels They live

in North Bay Ont and have a

daughter Lauren born in Febshy

ruary 1997 They are expecting

their second child in February

bull Simon Deakin BA 95 studshyied in Florence Italy for a year

then earned a master of fine art

from the Slade School of Fine

Art at the University of London

England He lives in London

bull Christie Dunbar BLA 97 spent a year after graduation

working for Niagara College in

St Catharines Ont on the

vision and design of a new

campus to be built in Niagarashy

on-the- Lake Last April she

joined the landscape architecshy

ture firm of Pollack Design

Associates in Ann Arbor Mich

bull Trina Edmonds BA 94 and

Joel Hinderle became the

proud parents of a little girl

Jordan Ashley in january 1998

and moved to a new home in

Oakville Ont in September

Edmonds works in Mississauga

as a desktop publisher with a

publishingprinting company

bull Wendy Garinther BSc 93 and Steve Decker BSe 94

were married in May Joining

them in the wedding celebrashy

tions were Cheri (Coulter)

42 GUELPH ALUMNUS

Ascroft BSe 93 Karen Leinshy

gartner BSe 94 and Barb

(Moore) Johnson BSe 94

Best man was Jeff Bond BSe

93 and MSe 96 The Deckers

live in Edmonton where Steve

is doing a PhD in chemistry at

the University of Alberta and

Wendy is working in a research

laboratory at a biopharmaceushy

tical company

bull Donna Gross BA 97 is purshysu ing a master of divinity at

Emmanuel College at the Unishy

versity of Toronto and hopes to

become an ordained minister by

2002 She lives in Guelph and

can be reached bye-mail at

donnajulietalbedonet

bull Robert Gruber BA 92 is a child-care supervisor for the

YMCA-YWCA of Guelph and

manages the Jean Little Y

Child- Care Centre He recently

developed the anti -bias proshy

gramming policy for the

Guelph Y and sits on both the

Jean Little Public School Counshy

cil and the Guelph AIDS Wall

Committee He can be reached

bye-mail at rgrubernet

comca

bull Susan Harder BSe 91 grad shyuated from the University of

Toronto Medical School in June

and has started a residency at

Santa Clara Valley Medical Censhy

tre in San jose Calif She will

follow that up with an anestheshy

sia residency at Stanford Univershy

sity Hospital in 1999

bull Marko Harjupanula BASc 93 travelled in Australia for

two months after graduating

from Guelph then returned to

his home town of South Porshy

cupine Ont where he worked

in a gold mine for four years

He entered police college in

September and started as an

opp constable in Cochrane in

December

bull Nancy Holman MA 94 moved to Vancouver soon after

graduation and initially worked

as a project co-ordinator for an

ophthalmologist In 1996 she

began working full time for the

BC Liberal Caucus I would

enjoy hearing from and catchshy

ing up with the friends I made

while studying at U of G and

working at the Brass Taps she

says Her e-mail address is nan shy

cyholmanlassgovbeca

bull Ruth Johnson BA 91 is an investment banking associate

with the mergers and acquisishy

tions group of JP Morgan in

Lond on England responsible

for financial reporting and

administration She has been in

England with her partner Alex Campbell since graduation

bull Stephen Johnson BA 94 of London Ont was a lab technishy

cian at Lenscrafters for three

yea rs and is now a full-time

student at Fanshawe College

studying air conditioning and

refrigeration He was married

in Jun e to Jennifer Fox BSc

95 a chemist at 3M Their

wedding party included Dee Popat BSe (Eng) 94 and

Patrick Wulhes BSc 95

bull Sarah (Davis) Kelly BASe 90 married Robert Kelly in

July and teaches primary

grades at an inner-city school

in Toronto

bull Cassidy Klowak BComm 97 lives in Allisshy

ton Onl and is a personal

banking account manager

with ClBC in Tottenham

bull Stephanie Lopes BSc 96 completed her MSc in repro shy

ductive biology at the Universishy

ty of Toronto and worked as

patient-care director for the

College of Family Physicians

for almost a year In September

she enrolled in medical school

at the University of Toronto

She is happy to announce that

she is engaged to be married

next summer Lopes can be

reached at slopesidirectcom

bull Natalie (Parker) MacKenzie BSc 96 earned her BEd from

the University of Western

Ontario in 1997 She married

ASLt Andy MacKenzie June 27

in Sault Ste Marie Ont and

now lives in Halifax

bull Susan MacKinnon DVM 91 is a veterinarian with HUls

Science Diet She lives in

Guelph with her husband

Brandon Wiley and gave birth

to their first child Adrianna

Nicole june 26 at home

bull Waheed Mian BA 9 1 of Cambridge Ont is a store

director with PetSmart Canada

He helped the company launch

its new retail concept in Cana da

bull Alex Mitchell BA 91 was appointed clerkdeputy treasurshy

er of the Ontario township of

Mildmay-Carrick in 1998 and

will be the clerkadministrator

of the new municipality of

Mildmay-Carrick -TeesWatershy

Culross in 1999 He was married

in january 1997 and lives vith

his wife and daughter in Mild shy

may In his spare time Mitchell

is a professional scout for the

Toronto Maple Leafs covering

southwestern Ontario

bull Sherry Morland BASc 93 of Kitchener Ont ea rned her

BEd from Brock University in

J995 and is a part-time specia l

educa tion teacher and an occashy

sional teacher with the Watershy

loo County Board of Ed ucashy

tion She married Ivan LeBlanc

in 1997

bull Gary Page BSe 91 wo rks for the Nottawasaga Valley Conshy

servation Authority where he is

able to combine his knowledge

of wildlife biology with his

artistic skills as resident graphic

designer and outdoor centre

interpreter He Jives with his

wife Di and their son judah in

CreemoreOnt

bull Elaine Pammenter BA 96 is an inventory clerk with the

Royal Collection at Windsor

Castle in England She holds a

museum management and

curatorship grad uate certificate

diploma from Sir Sandford

Fleming College and did her

internship at the Royal Albert

Memorial Museum in Exeter

England

bull Brent Raymond BSe(Env) 96 of Brantford Ont has

been working with Outward

Bound since graduation He

leads wilderness trips in Northshy

ern Ontario Horida Australia and Sabah (Malaysian Borneo) Most recently he designed and implemented a new introducshytory mountaineering course for Outward Bound Sabah on the summit plateau of Mt Kinashy

balu Those of you who know me as plate licker from U of G get in touch he says Where are you Star I miss you He can be reached by e-mail at globarwchatonca or by

phone at 519-756-1697

Alumni Patrick Abbott BSA 40 July 7 1998

Albert Allen BSA 33 Jan 161994 Agris Ansmits BA 70 and MA 73

February 1998 Barbara (Quartermain) Babcock DHE

53 June 17 1998

Wray Bond BSA 34 Sept 25 1998

Kenneth Bone DVM 38 Dec 29 1998 Evelyn (Stevenson) Buhr DHE 39

May 251998 Philip Burke BSA 43 June 21 1998

Grant Carman BSA 49 Oct 221998 Frederick Chambers BSA 41

June 1998 Wilmot Conley ADA4 7 April 7 1998 Lloyd Crewson BSA 49 Aug 261998

Jacqueline Dimock DHE 47

Aug 20 1998 John Dingwall DVM 52

April 18 1998

Lloyd Dorsey BSA 38 June 9 1998 George Duncan BSA 37

Sept 19 1998

David Dyson BSA 53 Aug 31 1998

Norma (Shannon) Edwards DHE 39

November 1997 Vincent Bud Ellis DVM 41

July 15 1998 John Jack George BSA 48

Sept 24 1998

Donald Haight BSA 33 January 1997 William Hamlyn BSA 33 Dec I 1997

Gordon Harkness BSA 49

November 1997

Charles Hollister DVM 38 June 1996 Donald Hope BSA 54 June 28 1998

Lawrence Jefferson BSA 38

Sept 3 1998

James Kelso DVM 56 July 27 1998

Dorima Lalonde BSA 34 Oct 8 1998 Mildred (Cox) Large DHE 33

June 20 1998 Roger Larson BComm 86 Feb 19 1998 Robert Lawson BSA 49 June 6 1998

bull Doug Ramsey BA 91 and PhD 98 received U of Gs highshyest graduate student award shythe Forster Medal- at June convocation for his academic and community involvement while enrolled in Guelphs new

graduate program in geography He spent the summer as a visitshying research scholar at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College in Truro before assuming his curshyrent position as assistant professhysor at Mount Allison University

David Leach BSc(Agr) 74

July 18 1998

Ian Leask DVM 74 Sept 5 1998

Sheryl Lee BSc 95 June 8 1998 Ruby Janet MacAuley DHE 30

Aug 19 1998 Parker MacKenzie DVM 38

September 1994

Jeanice MacLaren DHE 28 March 1 1997

Campbell MacMaster DVM42

Oct 8 1998

Rex McCallum DVM 43 July 71998 Jean (Dunn) McMahon DHE 31

Nov 41998

Margaret Oones) McTaggart DHE 35 Aug 81998

Patrick McTaggart-Cowan HDSc 81

Oct 21997

Malcolm McWhinnie ADA 39

July 16 1998 Mary (Townsend) Mitchell BHSc

60 Sept 281998

Marjory Monaghan DHE 29

December 1997 Charles Monk BSA 44 Aug 7 1998

Heather Neilsen BHSc 59

Oct 30 1998 Jerry Niwa DVM 62 Aug 5 1998 Henry Harry OReilly BSA 42

October 1997

James Parr BSc(Agr) 81 June 19 1998 Charles Rammage DVM 45

Oct 17 1996 Howard Rapson HDSc 90

March 1997 Clement Reeds DVM 42 Oct 16 1998

William Robinson BSA 38

Aug 23 1998

Donald Sager ADA 73 Oct 141997

Austin Schaefer DVM 37 in 1997

Sandra (Mackenzie) Schmidt DHE 59

Aug 16 1997 Margaret (Harvey) Seaborn DHE 28

July 221998

Larry Seguin DVM 47 June 12 1998

Leah Shedden DHE 31 December 1998

Edward Shuh BSA 40 July 2 1998

Ted Shutsa BSc(Agr) 66

Sept 18 1998 Jim Sinclair DVM 49 Oct 4 1998

Margaret (Brown) Sinclair DHE 20

September 1998 Eldon Smith BSA 42 Sept 9 1998

Derek Somers DVM 96 Sept 25 1998

Cheryl Lynn Sopha BA 95 Sept 20 1998

Leona (Bartlett) Stewart DHE 35

June 27 1998 Alex Thomson BSc(Agr) 69

October 1996

William Whittick DVM 55

Aug 15 1998 Joseph Wilson BSA 23 Sept 11 1998

Lloyd Woolsey DVM41 June 24 1998

Winifred Yeates DHE 28 June 11998

Faculty John Carpenter BSA 43 and MSA 48

Microbiology Dec 10 1998

David Gaskin Zoology Sept 14 1998

Gordon Macleod BSA 50 Animal and

Poultry Science Nov 26 1998 Roman Retman Languages and

Literatures Sept 28 1998

Caesar Sen off Chemistry and

Biochemistry Aug 14 1998

Percy Smith Drama Dec 10 1998

Friends Robert Clark Aug 21 1998

Ethel Hammond August 1998

Thomas Hillers Sept 28 1998 Marguerite Holbrook Aug 26 1998

Catherine Kelly Sept 27 1998

James A McKenzie May 13 1998

Kenneth McIssac Oct 23 1998

William Mutlock September 1998 Roena Patterson Sept 16 1998

Donald Priddle Aug 25 1998

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bull Karl Reimer BSe 94 comshypleted a one-year intensive

MSc in mining engineering at

Queens University and is now

a project engineer a t Enpar

Technologies Ine in Guelph

He can be contacted at reimerbservcom

bull Nancy Nauta Rowland BA 90 and her husband Dan celshy

ebrated their first wedding

anniversary in March 1998 with

the birth of their first child

Connor who beat their March

8 anniversary by two days Nanshy

cy teaches junior-grade stushy

dents and junior special ed ucashy

tion for the Peel District School

Board The Rowlands live in

Caledon Ont

bull Fraser Stables MFA 98 was heralded by Toronto Globe 6shyMail critic Betty Jordan as a

formidable new talent followshy

ing the openi ng of his debut

gallery exh ibition in July The

Scottish artists work includes

sculpture video and mixed

media that explore notions of

flu x by interrupting the moveshy

ment of forms in space

bull Erin (Smith) Scott BSe(HK) 92 and Brad

Scott BSc(Agr) 91 of Lucan

O nt were married in 1993 and

had their first child Lucas in

August Erin works for Shopshy

pers Home Health Ca re in

London Brad is with New Life

Mills in Dunfield

bull Abby Simons BSc 95 and Martin Piche BSc(Agr) 95 were married in Mont-Tremshy

blant Quebec in 1997 She is a

customer service representative

with Kantech Systems he is

superintendent of Club de golf

vallee des forts They say theyd

love to hear from anyone headshy

ing to Montreal and can be

reached at 450-348-3860

bull Sylvia Tesori BSc 95 has been doing wildlife rehabilitashy

tion for the OSPCA Wildlife

Rehabilitation Centre in Midshy

land Ont since 1996

bull Chuck Thibeault BComm 94 is general manager of the

Putting Edge Corpora tion

which has two glow-in- theshy

dark mini-golf courses in

Ontario one in Bramp ton and

one in Richmond Hill He can

be reached in Richmond Hill at

chu ckttotalnet

bull Karen Thirlwall BA 93 is a

si ngersongwriter and guitarist

who began her stage career and

released her first album The Voice Inside Me while studying

languages at U of G She has

lived and performed in

11i stler BC for three years

and recently released a second

album called Wide-Eyed She

remembers many special

fr iends m ade at Guelph and

welcomes e-mail messages to

karenthirlwallhotmailcom

bull Christie (Johnson) and Steve

Tyler both BComm 91 live in

Cambridge Ont where

Christie is a personal banking

representative for the Royal

Bank Steve works with their

third-year design professor

Nelson Hofer in Mississauga as

a design consultan t Steves proshy

jects include the Windsor Casishy

no and U of Gs Creelman Hall

They have two children Jason

5 and Marcus 1

bull Julia White BA 91 lives in Guelph and is a small-business

accountant at Taves amp Co She

recently finished courses

towards a CGA designation and

would like to hea r from other

alumni who lived in Lambton

Hall in 198788 Send e-mail to

juliawhitesympaticoca

bull Andre-Denis Wright MSc 93 and PhD 98 is doing postshy

docto ral work in Perth Westshy

ern Australia He wants his

Guelph friends and Halifax

family to know he was thinking

of them at Christmas when it

was 40 C in Australia

bull Dave Yellen BComm 90 was recently promoted at the Gordon

Food Service to new-accounts

sales specialist for Metro Toronshy

to Having been in Ottawa for

the past few years Im hoping

to reacquaint myself with old

friend s from U of G in the Metro

area he says He lives in Scarborshy

ough and can be reached at 416shy615-2745 or davidysprintca

bull Halina Zaleski PhD 92 is a tenured professor in the

departm ent of animal sciences

at the Un iversity of Hawaii in

Honolulu She is a swine speshy

cialist involved in extension

programs for an area th at covshy

ers all of Hawai i and the PacifIC

basin She can be reached by

e-mail at halinahawaiiedu

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human health and fitness The open house gives people

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leading-edge research laboratories to observe veterinary

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Lethbridge in 1981 and spent

10 years there as director of

research dean of a rts and scishy

ence and vice-presiden t (acadeshy

mic) before crossing the counshy

try to become president of

Mount Allison University in

New Brunswick He is now in

his second term as president of

Mount AUison

bull Indra Deo Singh MSc 68 is

a tea scientist international

consultant and joint director of

the Tea Research Association at

the Nagrakata substation in

India His responsibilities

include co-ordinating research

and development in the Indian

tea industry and developing tea

cultivars and agrotechnology

for tea Singh is married with

two sons aged 27 and 23

19705

bull Don Ambler BSe 71 retired in March as manager of

water programs with Environshy

ment Canada in Dartmouth

NS after 25 years of public

service He has now registered

the company Aquashed Co nshy

sulting to continue in the water

resources field when hes not

gardening beekeeping do ing

aerobics or vo lunteering in the

community and chu rch E-mail

contact is welcome a t

donambl erns sympaticoca

bull Jim Bond BSe 75 is managshy

ing a new processing facility at

the Chalk River Nuclear Laborashy

to ry in Chalk River Ont

bull Terri (Monks) Bulman BSc(Agr) 78 and MSe 81

and her husband Vincent

MSe 8 1 live in Australia with

their th ree children Catherine

7 Peter 4 and baby Christoshy

pher Terri is senior principal

environmental auditor vith

Coffey Geosciences Pty Ltd Vinshy

cent afte r many years as a geoloshy

gist travelling around Australia

and abroad has taken the year

off to study and look after the

children Their e-mail address is

tbulmanbigpondco m

bull Marie David BA 78 of

Hanover Ont has been in the

n ewspaper business for 20

years She started in the mailshy

room moved to advertising

sales then became advert ising

manager She is now gene ral

manager o f three So utham

weekly newspapers and pubshy

lish er of the Hanover Post

bull Janice Harrower and her husshy

band Jerome Billett both

DVM 76 operate a joint veterishy

nary practice in Prescott Ont

Billett says practising together

has allowed them some flexibilishy

ty in their family life and given

their four children a good took

at the rigours of veterinary

medicine Says Billett Not one

of our kid s has the slightest

interest in being a veterinarian

and isnt that just fine Their

o ldest son Jesse attends Harshy

va rd University and is a memshy

ber of its prestigious a cappella

choir Lucas is studying

mechanical engineering at the

University of Waterloo Casey is

planning a career in computer

engineering and Lindsay is a

high school athle te

bull Clair Heinbuch BSe 74 is a

sales manager with Baye r Corp

in Kansas H e and his wife

Caroline (Koscik) BASc 75

returned to the Kansas City

area after spending four years in

Denver They have three chilshy

dren Lisa 20 Scott 18 and

Ryan [5

bull Beverly Lee BASe 72 is an

elem entary school principal in

Unionville Ont She lives with

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her husband Grant Egan in

Collingwood and is looking

forward to retirement in severshy

al years Life on Georgian Bay

is wonderful she says Lee

would love to hear from fellow

grads by e-mail at

leebYrbeeduonca or by

phone at 705 -444 -092l

bull Won-Jai Maeng MSc 71 took office Sept 1 as president

of Kon-Kuk University in Seoul

Korea where his academic

career began He completed an

undergraduate degree at Kon

Kuk in 1965 then studied at

Mailing Agricultural College in Denmark and at U of G before

doing doctoral work at the Unishy

versity of California Davis

Maeng has held research and

teaching positions at the Unishy

versity of illinois at Chung-Ang

University and at Kon-Kuk

where he has been a professor of

animal science since 1984 His

appointment as president folshy

lows years of administrative

experience as a department

head dean and chair of various

research committees and proshy

fessional organizations An

expert in ruminant nutrition

Maeng was instrumental in

developing the livestock feed

industry in Korea He has also

been active in working with

alumni groups and in writing

for the Kon-Kuk Tribune

bull Bill MarshaU ADA 75 of Proton Station Ont moved

from Clarksburg in June to

work in Dundalk for the Grey

County Roads Department on

its road management crew

bull Bernie Matte BSc(Agr) 70 of Moncton NB retired

in March after 28 years with

Fisheries and Oceans Canada

and the Canadian Food

Inspection Agency He plans to

travel to Belize and Honduras

with his wife Diane and will

be available anywhere in the

Caribbean for seafood HACCP

consulting work

bull Margaret McClain BA 70 lives in Arkansas where she is

highJy involved in the issue of

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missing children and internashy

tional abductions McClain who

believes her own six-year-old

daughter was taken out of the

United States more than a year

ago by her second husband is

reaching out to parents with

similar experiences through an

organization that is lobbying the

US government for tougher

international abduction laws

She invites interested fr iends

and alumni to contact her

through her Web site at

wwwinsolwwbnet-dmcclain

bull Robert (Chuck) Miller BA 77 is the park superintendent

of Killarney French River and

Maskinonje provincial parks in

Ontario He moved to Killarney

from Quetico Provincial Park

last May

bull Gordon Nicol BA 72 and MSc(Agr) 74 teaches math

and science in a bilingual prishy

vate school in Guatemala A

BEd graduate of Laurentian

he first taught in Guatemala in

the late 1970s then spent 12

years in northern Alberta as a

teacher and principal He

returned to Guatemala in 1989

A widower with three teenage

children Nicol would like to

hear from U of G friends and

acquaintances especially anyshy

one who is was or will be in

Central America He says he

could also use middle-schoolshy

level science projects Send eshy

mail to gnicoll guatenet or

write to PO Box 661447 Miami

Springs Florida 33266-1447

bull Chris Schulte BSc 71 and MSc 73 lives in Nassau

Bahamas with his wife

Andrya After graduation he

stayed in the Department of

Physics as a research associate

with Prof lain Campbell then

joined Ontario Hydro in the

early 1980s He moved to the

Bahamas in 1995 He can be

reached bye-mail at

schultebahamasnetbs

bull Sandra (Pickford) Webster BA 75 has retired from U of

Gs Co mmunications and Pubshy

lic Affairs and is living in Parry

Sound Ont where she is

doing volunteer work and

communications consulting

for the municipality Guelph

friends ca n contact her by

e-mail atswebsterzeutercom

19805

bull Sharon (Courneya) Angus BA 8 I of Surrey BC comshy

pleted a BSW at the University

of British Columbia in 1988

and has been working for the

BC government for 13 years

- first in probation and now

in the family justice division

She and her husband Ron

have three children Jason

Carly and Colin

bull Karen Beazley BLA 86 is an assistant professor and acadeshy

mic program co-ordinator at

the School for Reso urce and

Environmental Studies at Dalshy

housie University in Halifax

She is currently doing research

for a book on endangered

species initiatives and is orgashy

nizing a Nova Scotia wildlands

workshop with the Wildlands

Project for 1999 Her e-mail

address is kbeazleyisdalca

bull Caroline (Van Deudekom) and Marc Brooks both ADA 87

recently moved from Strathroy

to Owen Sound Ont where

they run a 50-acre organic farm

with their two sons

bull Virginia Burt BLA 85 startshyed her own landscape architecshy

ture firm Visionscapes in

Hamilton Ont in ] 996 She

specializes in the design of thershy

apeutic healing gardens spirit

gardens sacred spaces and

la byrin ths and recen tly designed the first healing garden

in Canada specificalJy for peoshy

ple living with HIV and AIDS

bull Joanne (Branson) Carver BA 80 earned a BEd from Brock

University in 1981 and recently

started working as a probashy

tionparole officer She Jives in

Ajax Ont and has two daughshy

ters Julie4 and Sarah 8

bull Heather Champ BA 86 is a Web-site designer in New York

City She began her work in

computer design in 1990 Her

personal site can be Found at

wwwjezebelcom

bull Laurie Gough BA 87 has become a world traveller who

writes about her experiences for

the benefit of others Her most

recent book Island of the

Human Heart A tfornans Travshyel Odyssey is now in its second

printing in Canada and will be

released next year in the United

States and overseas She has also

published Travellers Tales A

Womans World which won the

US-based Lowell Thomas

Gold Award for best travel book

of the year When not travelling

or writing she teaches English

and ESL in Guelph

bull Susan (Coles) Goulden BASc 84 and her husband

Ian are th rilled wi th their

recent adoption of Jennifer Lee

Yu who was born in June near

Leping Jiangxi Peoples Repubshy

lic of China The Gouldens

who Jive in vVaterloo Ont

thank classmate Andrea

(Kovits) Henderson for her

support throughout the adopshy

tion process Susan is currently

on leave from her position with

McCormick Canada

bull Judy (Bodendistel) Gregg BA 82 moved to Melbourne Ausshy

tralia in 1997 with her husband

and two children Carly 6 and

Adam 3 We are enjoying the

friendly people and the great

weather here she says We are

especially enjoying winter in a

place where it never gets below

zero Celsius

bull Nigel GumJey DVM 85 has been a partner in the Alta Vista

Animal Hospital in Ottawa

since 1990 was president of the bull Garry Millage AMPHI 86 bull Heidi Stephenson BA 88 is now ISO 9000 manager at

Ontario Veterinary Medical left a position as vice-president was awarded her professional Carpenter Ca nada Ltd in

Association in 1997 and recent- of national operations for acco untants designation of Wood br idge Ont He lives in

ly served on the Canadian Vetshy Scotts Restaurants KFC Divishy certified general accountant in Miss issa uga Classma tes are

erilw() Medical Associations sion to open his own consult- March 1998 She has been invited to contact him at

national issues committee He ing company Future Food employed for the last 10 years avon listarca

lives in Osgoode with his wife Equipment Ine specializes in with Dan Ball Chartered bull Michelle (Pilon) Bacon BA rvlaurecn and children Laura providing new and used restau- Acco un tant in Parry Sound 90 moved to England to study

and Matthew rant equipment and reducing O nt where she lives with her and work after graduating from

bull Muneer Hirji BComm 82 restaurant construction costs hu sband Brad two dogs and a Guelph She recently left a posishy

lives in Toronto and is vice- He also operates a restaurant horse tion with the British Ministry of

president of marke ting at SAP called Nikkos in Woodbridge bull Dawn Stetsko BSe 81 lives Agriculture and Food in York to

Canada He has three chil- Ont and is planning to open a in Langhorne Pa with her husshy become an at-home mom She

drcl1 Nadia 8 Alyssa 6 and second location band Paul and children Mark now lives in London with her

Sarah I bull Tosh Noseworthy BSe 83 is and Keith and is a research husband Tim and one-year-old

bull Brenda irwin BSe 88 is a cardiovascular ICU nurse in scientist with Bristol-Myers daughter Juliette She sends love

studying at Hong Kong Unishy sunny Tuscon Arizona After Squibb Previously she worked to Sue Heather and Sheila and

vers ity of Science and Technolshy grad uation she lived in Paris at McMaster University in can be reached bye-mail at

ogy to complete the final France for a yea r s tudied nurs- Hamilton Ont for 17 yea rs michellebacondialpipexcom

sem ester of an MBA program ing in O ttawa then lived in Saushy bull Teresa Tummillo-Goy BA bull Jeff Barlow BComm 90 is

through the University of di Arabia for two yea rs She still 86 has a law practice in Water- the training and quality manag-

British Columbia She taught loves to travel and would like to 100 Ont foc Li sing primaril y on er for two five-star luxury boushy

science for the North York hea r from fellow alumni She family law civi l litiga tion and tique h o tels in Prague - Hotel

Board of Education for five can be reached at 520-299-8344 real estate She and her hus- Palace Praha and the Hotel

years before enrolling in the bull Cecilia (Wleugel) Parkes band John Goy live in Guelph Savoy Previo usly he was execu -

MBA program BComm 85 is a graphic and have three sons John 4 tive housekeeper at the five-star

bull Jagwant Kanwar PhD 80 is designer in Toronto and says Tony 3 and Shayne 2 Renaissance Pragu e Hotel

a senior scientist in the depart- she st ill uses ber marketing bull Peter Van der Borch DVM bull Margaret Burnes-Souria BA ment of vegetable crops at Pun- background to help her busishy 88 retired in the fa ll of 1997 94 is a team leader with [011 shy

jab Agricultural University in ness succeed She specia lizes in after several years of practising don Magazin e in London Ont

India He is also director of the logo design lNith hand-drawn physiotherapy and ve terinary She married David Souria in

regional vegetable research stashy illustrations medicine and surgery He Jives July 1997 and is pursuing an tion at Usman (TaranTarn) bull Jim Parr BSc(Agr) 81 and in Pictou NS ]VlBA at the University of West-

Amritsar His and his wife MSe 89 died of cancer in bull MartyWilLiams BA 85 is ern Ontario

Sanyogita have a son Mohit June 1998 but hes being co-ordinator of student activishy bull Janine Byers BASe 95 is a and a daughter Dipika who are remembered by his university ties at University College Unishy public health dietitian at the

both studying engineering friends through the establish - versity of Toronto where he Kingston Frontenac and

Friends can write to Kanwar at ment of a mem orial fund for advises student organizations Iennox amp Addington Health

Punjab Agricultural Un ivers ity his wife Denise and children 1Ie is also chair of the U of T Unit in Kingston O nt She is Ludhiana 141 004 India Shannon and Eric Anyone Staff Association a member of getting married to Ca rl Stewart

bull Larissa Larsen BSe 89 and who would like more informa - the steering committee of the on May 29 j 999 MLA 92 received a PhD in tion can ca ll Brian Tapscott at staffs unionization drive and a bull Lisa Cherry BSe 9 1 is a urban and regional planning 519-767-3566 staff member with the student science journalist and executive

from the University of Illinois bull Cheryl (Dunlop) Reid newspaper The Varsity He can director of Artists Against

at Urbana Champaign in May BSe(Agr) 89 sta rted a new be reached bye-mail at marty Racism an international organi-

She has accepted a position at job in September as ingredient wi lliamsutorontoca za tion She is based in Toronto

Thompson Dyke and Associshy sales manager for RA bull Bonnie (Byma) BASe 96 ales a landscape architecture Chisholm o f Toronto She will 19905 and Gil Clelland BA 95 were

and urban planning firm in continue to work from her bull Claire Allison BA 94 grad- married in December 1996 and

Chicago Her husband Ernie remote offke in Fergus Reid uated from the elementary are living in Chatham On t

Poortinga DVM 89 is in his and her husband Jeff BSe teacher ed ucation program at Bo nnie works at a day-care

third yea r of an MD program (Agr) 89 have two children the University of British centre G il teaches art and

at Rush University Chicago lVlega n 4 and Elizabeth 2 Columbia in 1996 and now phys ical education They ca n -Hes looking forward to joining bull Chee Sie BA 83 is a zone teaches in Va ncou ver be reached bye-ma il at gclelshy

his wife in the ranks of the manager for the Malaysian bull JohnAvon BSdHK) 94 lan ciaccesscom employed They would both Assurance Alliance Berhad in earned an M Se in industr ial bull Kate Corn ell BA 95 of enjoy hearing from fellow Sarawak Malaysia He and his operations from Lawrence Markham Ont earned her

alumni and can be reached at wife Jesterine have a two-year- Technological University in masters in dance history from epoor tin garushurushedu old daughter Letitia Southfleld Mich in 1997 and York University in May and

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co-authored a book titled

Toronto Dance Theatre 1968shy1998 Stages in a Journey

bull Mary Jill (McClure) Culliton BASe 90 earned

her BEd from Brock University

and her M Ed from the Univershy

sity of Western Ontario and

teaches Grade 1 in Mitchell

Ont She and her husband

Tim live in Stratford

bull Kathleen (McNutt) Daniels BASe 9 1 is a teacher and was

married on New Years Eve

1994 to Gord Daniels They live

in North Bay Ont and have a

daughter Lauren born in Febshy

ruary 1997 They are expecting

their second child in February

bull Simon Deakin BA 95 studshyied in Florence Italy for a year

then earned a master of fine art

from the Slade School of Fine

Art at the University of London

England He lives in London

bull Christie Dunbar BLA 97 spent a year after graduation

working for Niagara College in

St Catharines Ont on the

vision and design of a new

campus to be built in Niagarashy

on-the- Lake Last April she

joined the landscape architecshy

ture firm of Pollack Design

Associates in Ann Arbor Mich

bull Trina Edmonds BA 94 and

Joel Hinderle became the

proud parents of a little girl

Jordan Ashley in january 1998

and moved to a new home in

Oakville Ont in September

Edmonds works in Mississauga

as a desktop publisher with a

publishingprinting company

bull Wendy Garinther BSc 93 and Steve Decker BSe 94

were married in May Joining

them in the wedding celebrashy

tions were Cheri (Coulter)

42 GUELPH ALUMNUS

Ascroft BSe 93 Karen Leinshy

gartner BSe 94 and Barb

(Moore) Johnson BSe 94

Best man was Jeff Bond BSe

93 and MSe 96 The Deckers

live in Edmonton where Steve

is doing a PhD in chemistry at

the University of Alberta and

Wendy is working in a research

laboratory at a biopharmaceushy

tical company

bull Donna Gross BA 97 is purshysu ing a master of divinity at

Emmanuel College at the Unishy

versity of Toronto and hopes to

become an ordained minister by

2002 She lives in Guelph and

can be reached bye-mail at

donnajulietalbedonet

bull Robert Gruber BA 92 is a child-care supervisor for the

YMCA-YWCA of Guelph and

manages the Jean Little Y

Child- Care Centre He recently

developed the anti -bias proshy

gramming policy for the

Guelph Y and sits on both the

Jean Little Public School Counshy

cil and the Guelph AIDS Wall

Committee He can be reached

bye-mail at rgrubernet

comca

bull Susan Harder BSe 91 grad shyuated from the University of

Toronto Medical School in June

and has started a residency at

Santa Clara Valley Medical Censhy

tre in San jose Calif She will

follow that up with an anestheshy

sia residency at Stanford Univershy

sity Hospital in 1999

bull Marko Harjupanula BASc 93 travelled in Australia for

two months after graduating

from Guelph then returned to

his home town of South Porshy

cupine Ont where he worked

in a gold mine for four years

He entered police college in

September and started as an

opp constable in Cochrane in

December

bull Nancy Holman MA 94 moved to Vancouver soon after

graduation and initially worked

as a project co-ordinator for an

ophthalmologist In 1996 she

began working full time for the

BC Liberal Caucus I would

enjoy hearing from and catchshy

ing up with the friends I made

while studying at U of G and

working at the Brass Taps she

says Her e-mail address is nan shy

cyholmanlassgovbeca

bull Ruth Johnson BA 91 is an investment banking associate

with the mergers and acquisishy

tions group of JP Morgan in

Lond on England responsible

for financial reporting and

administration She has been in

England with her partner Alex Campbell since graduation

bull Stephen Johnson BA 94 of London Ont was a lab technishy

cian at Lenscrafters for three

yea rs and is now a full-time

student at Fanshawe College

studying air conditioning and

refrigeration He was married

in Jun e to Jennifer Fox BSc

95 a chemist at 3M Their

wedding party included Dee Popat BSe (Eng) 94 and

Patrick Wulhes BSc 95

bull Sarah (Davis) Kelly BASe 90 married Robert Kelly in

July and teaches primary

grades at an inner-city school

in Toronto

bull Cassidy Klowak BComm 97 lives in Allisshy

ton Onl and is a personal

banking account manager

with ClBC in Tottenham

bull Stephanie Lopes BSc 96 completed her MSc in repro shy

ductive biology at the Universishy

ty of Toronto and worked as

patient-care director for the

College of Family Physicians

for almost a year In September

she enrolled in medical school

at the University of Toronto

She is happy to announce that

she is engaged to be married

next summer Lopes can be

reached at slopesidirectcom

bull Natalie (Parker) MacKenzie BSc 96 earned her BEd from

the University of Western

Ontario in 1997 She married

ASLt Andy MacKenzie June 27

in Sault Ste Marie Ont and

now lives in Halifax

bull Susan MacKinnon DVM 91 is a veterinarian with HUls

Science Diet She lives in

Guelph with her husband

Brandon Wiley and gave birth

to their first child Adrianna

Nicole june 26 at home

bull Waheed Mian BA 9 1 of Cambridge Ont is a store

director with PetSmart Canada

He helped the company launch

its new retail concept in Cana da

bull Alex Mitchell BA 91 was appointed clerkdeputy treasurshy

er of the Ontario township of

Mildmay-Carrick in 1998 and

will be the clerkadministrator

of the new municipality of

Mildmay-Carrick -TeesWatershy

Culross in 1999 He was married

in january 1997 and lives vith

his wife and daughter in Mild shy

may In his spare time Mitchell

is a professional scout for the

Toronto Maple Leafs covering

southwestern Ontario

bull Sherry Morland BASc 93 of Kitchener Ont ea rned her

BEd from Brock University in

J995 and is a part-time specia l

educa tion teacher and an occashy

sional teacher with the Watershy

loo County Board of Ed ucashy

tion She married Ivan LeBlanc

in 1997

bull Gary Page BSe 91 wo rks for the Nottawasaga Valley Conshy

servation Authority where he is

able to combine his knowledge

of wildlife biology with his

artistic skills as resident graphic

designer and outdoor centre

interpreter He Jives with his

wife Di and their son judah in

CreemoreOnt

bull Elaine Pammenter BA 96 is an inventory clerk with the

Royal Collection at Windsor

Castle in England She holds a

museum management and

curatorship grad uate certificate

diploma from Sir Sandford

Fleming College and did her

internship at the Royal Albert

Memorial Museum in Exeter

England

bull Brent Raymond BSe(Env) 96 of Brantford Ont has

been working with Outward

Bound since graduation He

leads wilderness trips in Northshy

ern Ontario Horida Australia and Sabah (Malaysian Borneo) Most recently he designed and implemented a new introducshytory mountaineering course for Outward Bound Sabah on the summit plateau of Mt Kinashy

balu Those of you who know me as plate licker from U of G get in touch he says Where are you Star I miss you He can be reached by e-mail at globarwchatonca or by

phone at 519-756-1697

Alumni Patrick Abbott BSA 40 July 7 1998

Albert Allen BSA 33 Jan 161994 Agris Ansmits BA 70 and MA 73

February 1998 Barbara (Quartermain) Babcock DHE

53 June 17 1998

Wray Bond BSA 34 Sept 25 1998

Kenneth Bone DVM 38 Dec 29 1998 Evelyn (Stevenson) Buhr DHE 39

May 251998 Philip Burke BSA 43 June 21 1998

Grant Carman BSA 49 Oct 221998 Frederick Chambers BSA 41

June 1998 Wilmot Conley ADA4 7 April 7 1998 Lloyd Crewson BSA 49 Aug 261998

Jacqueline Dimock DHE 47

Aug 20 1998 John Dingwall DVM 52

April 18 1998

Lloyd Dorsey BSA 38 June 9 1998 George Duncan BSA 37

Sept 19 1998

David Dyson BSA 53 Aug 31 1998

Norma (Shannon) Edwards DHE 39

November 1997 Vincent Bud Ellis DVM 41

July 15 1998 John Jack George BSA 48

Sept 24 1998

Donald Haight BSA 33 January 1997 William Hamlyn BSA 33 Dec I 1997

Gordon Harkness BSA 49

November 1997

Charles Hollister DVM 38 June 1996 Donald Hope BSA 54 June 28 1998

Lawrence Jefferson BSA 38

Sept 3 1998

James Kelso DVM 56 July 27 1998

Dorima Lalonde BSA 34 Oct 8 1998 Mildred (Cox) Large DHE 33

June 20 1998 Roger Larson BComm 86 Feb 19 1998 Robert Lawson BSA 49 June 6 1998

bull Doug Ramsey BA 91 and PhD 98 received U of Gs highshyest graduate student award shythe Forster Medal- at June convocation for his academic and community involvement while enrolled in Guelphs new

graduate program in geography He spent the summer as a visitshying research scholar at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College in Truro before assuming his curshyrent position as assistant professhysor at Mount Allison University

David Leach BSc(Agr) 74

July 18 1998

Ian Leask DVM 74 Sept 5 1998

Sheryl Lee BSc 95 June 8 1998 Ruby Janet MacAuley DHE 30

Aug 19 1998 Parker MacKenzie DVM 38

September 1994

Jeanice MacLaren DHE 28 March 1 1997

Campbell MacMaster DVM42

Oct 8 1998

Rex McCallum DVM 43 July 71998 Jean (Dunn) McMahon DHE 31

Nov 41998

Margaret Oones) McTaggart DHE 35 Aug 81998

Patrick McTaggart-Cowan HDSc 81

Oct 21997

Malcolm McWhinnie ADA 39

July 16 1998 Mary (Townsend) Mitchell BHSc

60 Sept 281998

Marjory Monaghan DHE 29

December 1997 Charles Monk BSA 44 Aug 7 1998

Heather Neilsen BHSc 59

Oct 30 1998 Jerry Niwa DVM 62 Aug 5 1998 Henry Harry OReilly BSA 42

October 1997

James Parr BSc(Agr) 81 June 19 1998 Charles Rammage DVM 45

Oct 17 1996 Howard Rapson HDSc 90

March 1997 Clement Reeds DVM 42 Oct 16 1998

William Robinson BSA 38

Aug 23 1998

Donald Sager ADA 73 Oct 141997

Austin Schaefer DVM 37 in 1997

Sandra (Mackenzie) Schmidt DHE 59

Aug 16 1997 Margaret (Harvey) Seaborn DHE 28

July 221998

Larry Seguin DVM 47 June 12 1998

Leah Shedden DHE 31 December 1998

Edward Shuh BSA 40 July 2 1998

Ted Shutsa BSc(Agr) 66

Sept 18 1998 Jim Sinclair DVM 49 Oct 4 1998

Margaret (Brown) Sinclair DHE 20

September 1998 Eldon Smith BSA 42 Sept 9 1998

Derek Somers DVM 96 Sept 25 1998

Cheryl Lynn Sopha BA 95 Sept 20 1998

Leona (Bartlett) Stewart DHE 35

June 27 1998 Alex Thomson BSc(Agr) 69

October 1996

William Whittick DVM 55

Aug 15 1998 Joseph Wilson BSA 23 Sept 11 1998

Lloyd Woolsey DVM41 June 24 1998

Winifred Yeates DHE 28 June 11998

Faculty John Carpenter BSA 43 and MSA 48

Microbiology Dec 10 1998

David Gaskin Zoology Sept 14 1998

Gordon Macleod BSA 50 Animal and

Poultry Science Nov 26 1998 Roman Retman Languages and

Literatures Sept 28 1998

Caesar Sen off Chemistry and

Biochemistry Aug 14 1998

Percy Smith Drama Dec 10 1998

Friends Robert Clark Aug 21 1998

Ethel Hammond August 1998

Thomas Hillers Sept 28 1998 Marguerite Holbrook Aug 26 1998

Catherine Kelly Sept 27 1998

James A McKenzie May 13 1998

Kenneth McIssac Oct 23 1998

William Mutlock September 1998 Roena Patterson Sept 16 1998

Donald Priddle Aug 25 1998

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bull Karl Reimer BSe 94 comshypleted a one-year intensive

MSc in mining engineering at

Queens University and is now

a project engineer a t Enpar

Technologies Ine in Guelph

He can be contacted at reimerbservcom

bull Nancy Nauta Rowland BA 90 and her husband Dan celshy

ebrated their first wedding

anniversary in March 1998 with

the birth of their first child

Connor who beat their March

8 anniversary by two days Nanshy

cy teaches junior-grade stushy

dents and junior special ed ucashy

tion for the Peel District School

Board The Rowlands live in

Caledon Ont

bull Fraser Stables MFA 98 was heralded by Toronto Globe 6shyMail critic Betty Jordan as a

formidable new talent followshy

ing the openi ng of his debut

gallery exh ibition in July The

Scottish artists work includes

sculpture video and mixed

media that explore notions of

flu x by interrupting the moveshy

ment of forms in space

bull Erin (Smith) Scott BSe(HK) 92 and Brad

Scott BSc(Agr) 91 of Lucan

O nt were married in 1993 and

had their first child Lucas in

August Erin works for Shopshy

pers Home Health Ca re in

London Brad is with New Life

Mills in Dunfield

bull Abby Simons BSc 95 and Martin Piche BSc(Agr) 95 were married in Mont-Tremshy

blant Quebec in 1997 She is a

customer service representative

with Kantech Systems he is

superintendent of Club de golf

vallee des forts They say theyd

love to hear from anyone headshy

ing to Montreal and can be

reached at 450-348-3860

bull Sylvia Tesori BSc 95 has been doing wildlife rehabilitashy

tion for the OSPCA Wildlife

Rehabilitation Centre in Midshy

land Ont since 1996

bull Chuck Thibeault BComm 94 is general manager of the

Putting Edge Corpora tion

which has two glow-in- theshy

dark mini-golf courses in

Ontario one in Bramp ton and

one in Richmond Hill He can

be reached in Richmond Hill at

chu ckttotalnet

bull Karen Thirlwall BA 93 is a

si ngersongwriter and guitarist

who began her stage career and

released her first album The Voice Inside Me while studying

languages at U of G She has

lived and performed in

11i stler BC for three years

and recently released a second

album called Wide-Eyed She

remembers many special

fr iends m ade at Guelph and

welcomes e-mail messages to

karenthirlwallhotmailcom

bull Christie (Johnson) and Steve

Tyler both BComm 91 live in

Cambridge Ont where

Christie is a personal banking

representative for the Royal

Bank Steve works with their

third-year design professor

Nelson Hofer in Mississauga as

a design consultan t Steves proshy

jects include the Windsor Casishy

no and U of Gs Creelman Hall

They have two children Jason

5 and Marcus 1

bull Julia White BA 91 lives in Guelph and is a small-business

accountant at Taves amp Co She

recently finished courses

towards a CGA designation and

would like to hea r from other

alumni who lived in Lambton

Hall in 198788 Send e-mail to

juliawhitesympaticoca

bull Andre-Denis Wright MSc 93 and PhD 98 is doing postshy

docto ral work in Perth Westshy

ern Australia He wants his

Guelph friends and Halifax

family to know he was thinking

of them at Christmas when it

was 40 C in Australia

bull Dave Yellen BComm 90 was recently promoted at the Gordon

Food Service to new-accounts

sales specialist for Metro Toronshy

to Having been in Ottawa for

the past few years Im hoping

to reacquaint myself with old

friend s from U of G in the Metro

area he says He lives in Scarborshy

ough and can be reached at 416shy615-2745 or davidysprintca

bull Halina Zaleski PhD 92 is a tenured professor in the

departm ent of animal sciences

at the Un iversity of Hawaii in

Honolulu She is a swine speshy

cialist involved in extension

programs for an area th at covshy

ers all of Hawai i and the PacifIC

basin She can be reached by

e-mail at halinahawaiiedu

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and square dancing its College Royal When the entire

University of Guelph is displayed - from arts to zooloshy

gy - March 13 and 14 1999 youll know its definitely

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Since its inception in 1925 as an agricultural and liveshy

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College Royal has grown to be a celebrated U of G trashy

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The event is famou s in the University community

and beyond for its open-house showcase of displays and

activities The largest student-run open house in Canashy

da College Royal attracts more than 20000 visitors to

campus over one weekend

College Royal is an event of tradition that reaches

into tomorrow Agriculture and livestock shows are still

highlighted events but College Royal activities have

grown to include dog and cat shows a photography conshy

test a chemistry magic show and demonstrations on

human health and fitness The open house gives people

an opportunity to see what happens in the Universitys

leading-edge research laboratories to observe veterinary

medicine in practice to tour a sculpture studio or to

watch a theatrical performance

To celebrate the 75th anniversary of College Royal

1998 president Joe TrakaJo lnvites alumni to get involved

again by joining one of the planning comm ittees or by

participating in a favourite event Call him for more

information at 824-4120 Ext 8366 or send e-mail to

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her husband Grant Egan in

Collingwood and is looking

forward to retirement in severshy

al years Life on Georgian Bay

is wonderful she says Lee

would love to hear from fellow

grads by e-mail at

leebYrbeeduonca or by

phone at 705 -444 -092l

bull Won-Jai Maeng MSc 71 took office Sept 1 as president

of Kon-Kuk University in Seoul

Korea where his academic

career began He completed an

undergraduate degree at Kon

Kuk in 1965 then studied at

Mailing Agricultural College in Denmark and at U of G before

doing doctoral work at the Unishy

versity of California Davis

Maeng has held research and

teaching positions at the Unishy

versity of illinois at Chung-Ang

University and at Kon-Kuk

where he has been a professor of

animal science since 1984 His

appointment as president folshy

lows years of administrative

experience as a department

head dean and chair of various

research committees and proshy

fessional organizations An

expert in ruminant nutrition

Maeng was instrumental in

developing the livestock feed

industry in Korea He has also

been active in working with

alumni groups and in writing

for the Kon-Kuk Tribune

bull Bill MarshaU ADA 75 of Proton Station Ont moved

from Clarksburg in June to

work in Dundalk for the Grey

County Roads Department on

its road management crew

bull Bernie Matte BSc(Agr) 70 of Moncton NB retired

in March after 28 years with

Fisheries and Oceans Canada

and the Canadian Food

Inspection Agency He plans to

travel to Belize and Honduras

with his wife Diane and will

be available anywhere in the

Caribbean for seafood HACCP

consulting work

bull Margaret McClain BA 70 lives in Arkansas where she is

highJy involved in the issue of

40 GUELPH ALUMNUS

missing children and internashy

tional abductions McClain who

believes her own six-year-old

daughter was taken out of the

United States more than a year

ago by her second husband is

reaching out to parents with

similar experiences through an

organization that is lobbying the

US government for tougher

international abduction laws

She invites interested fr iends

and alumni to contact her

through her Web site at

wwwinsolwwbnet-dmcclain

bull Robert (Chuck) Miller BA 77 is the park superintendent

of Killarney French River and

Maskinonje provincial parks in

Ontario He moved to Killarney

from Quetico Provincial Park

last May

bull Gordon Nicol BA 72 and MSc(Agr) 74 teaches math

and science in a bilingual prishy

vate school in Guatemala A

BEd graduate of Laurentian

he first taught in Guatemala in

the late 1970s then spent 12

years in northern Alberta as a

teacher and principal He

returned to Guatemala in 1989

A widower with three teenage

children Nicol would like to

hear from U of G friends and

acquaintances especially anyshy

one who is was or will be in

Central America He says he

could also use middle-schoolshy

level science projects Send eshy

mail to gnicoll guatenet or

write to PO Box 661447 Miami

Springs Florida 33266-1447

bull Chris Schulte BSc 71 and MSc 73 lives in Nassau

Bahamas with his wife

Andrya After graduation he

stayed in the Department of

Physics as a research associate

with Prof lain Campbell then

joined Ontario Hydro in the

early 1980s He moved to the

Bahamas in 1995 He can be

reached bye-mail at

schultebahamasnetbs

bull Sandra (Pickford) Webster BA 75 has retired from U of

Gs Co mmunications and Pubshy

lic Affairs and is living in Parry

Sound Ont where she is

doing volunteer work and

communications consulting

for the municipality Guelph

friends ca n contact her by

e-mail atswebsterzeutercom

19805

bull Sharon (Courneya) Angus BA 8 I of Surrey BC comshy

pleted a BSW at the University

of British Columbia in 1988

and has been working for the

BC government for 13 years

- first in probation and now

in the family justice division

She and her husband Ron

have three children Jason

Carly and Colin

bull Karen Beazley BLA 86 is an assistant professor and acadeshy

mic program co-ordinator at

the School for Reso urce and

Environmental Studies at Dalshy

housie University in Halifax

She is currently doing research

for a book on endangered

species initiatives and is orgashy

nizing a Nova Scotia wildlands

workshop with the Wildlands

Project for 1999 Her e-mail

address is kbeazleyisdalca

bull Caroline (Van Deudekom) and Marc Brooks both ADA 87

recently moved from Strathroy

to Owen Sound Ont where

they run a 50-acre organic farm

with their two sons

bull Virginia Burt BLA 85 startshyed her own landscape architecshy

ture firm Visionscapes in

Hamilton Ont in ] 996 She

specializes in the design of thershy

apeutic healing gardens spirit

gardens sacred spaces and

la byrin ths and recen tly designed the first healing garden

in Canada specificalJy for peoshy

ple living with HIV and AIDS

bull Joanne (Branson) Carver BA 80 earned a BEd from Brock

University in 1981 and recently

started working as a probashy

tionparole officer She Jives in

Ajax Ont and has two daughshy

ters Julie4 and Sarah 8

bull Heather Champ BA 86 is a Web-site designer in New York

City She began her work in

computer design in 1990 Her

personal site can be Found at

wwwjezebelcom

bull Laurie Gough BA 87 has become a world traveller who

writes about her experiences for

the benefit of others Her most

recent book Island of the

Human Heart A tfornans Travshyel Odyssey is now in its second

printing in Canada and will be

released next year in the United

States and overseas She has also

published Travellers Tales A

Womans World which won the

US-based Lowell Thomas

Gold Award for best travel book

of the year When not travelling

or writing she teaches English

and ESL in Guelph

bull Susan (Coles) Goulden BASc 84 and her husband

Ian are th rilled wi th their

recent adoption of Jennifer Lee

Yu who was born in June near

Leping Jiangxi Peoples Repubshy

lic of China The Gouldens

who Jive in vVaterloo Ont

thank classmate Andrea

(Kovits) Henderson for her

support throughout the adopshy

tion process Susan is currently

on leave from her position with

McCormick Canada

bull Judy (Bodendistel) Gregg BA 82 moved to Melbourne Ausshy

tralia in 1997 with her husband

and two children Carly 6 and

Adam 3 We are enjoying the

friendly people and the great

weather here she says We are

especially enjoying winter in a

place where it never gets below

zero Celsius

bull Nigel GumJey DVM 85 has been a partner in the Alta Vista

Animal Hospital in Ottawa

since 1990 was president of the bull Garry Millage AMPHI 86 bull Heidi Stephenson BA 88 is now ISO 9000 manager at

Ontario Veterinary Medical left a position as vice-president was awarded her professional Carpenter Ca nada Ltd in

Association in 1997 and recent- of national operations for acco untants designation of Wood br idge Ont He lives in

ly served on the Canadian Vetshy Scotts Restaurants KFC Divishy certified general accountant in Miss issa uga Classma tes are

erilw() Medical Associations sion to open his own consult- March 1998 She has been invited to contact him at

national issues committee He ing company Future Food employed for the last 10 years avon listarca

lives in Osgoode with his wife Equipment Ine specializes in with Dan Ball Chartered bull Michelle (Pilon) Bacon BA rvlaurecn and children Laura providing new and used restau- Acco un tant in Parry Sound 90 moved to England to study

and Matthew rant equipment and reducing O nt where she lives with her and work after graduating from

bull Muneer Hirji BComm 82 restaurant construction costs hu sband Brad two dogs and a Guelph She recently left a posishy

lives in Toronto and is vice- He also operates a restaurant horse tion with the British Ministry of

president of marke ting at SAP called Nikkos in Woodbridge bull Dawn Stetsko BSe 81 lives Agriculture and Food in York to

Canada He has three chil- Ont and is planning to open a in Langhorne Pa with her husshy become an at-home mom She

drcl1 Nadia 8 Alyssa 6 and second location band Paul and children Mark now lives in London with her

Sarah I bull Tosh Noseworthy BSe 83 is and Keith and is a research husband Tim and one-year-old

bull Brenda irwin BSe 88 is a cardiovascular ICU nurse in scientist with Bristol-Myers daughter Juliette She sends love

studying at Hong Kong Unishy sunny Tuscon Arizona After Squibb Previously she worked to Sue Heather and Sheila and

vers ity of Science and Technolshy grad uation she lived in Paris at McMaster University in can be reached bye-mail at

ogy to complete the final France for a yea r s tudied nurs- Hamilton Ont for 17 yea rs michellebacondialpipexcom

sem ester of an MBA program ing in O ttawa then lived in Saushy bull Teresa Tummillo-Goy BA bull Jeff Barlow BComm 90 is

through the University of di Arabia for two yea rs She still 86 has a law practice in Water- the training and quality manag-

British Columbia She taught loves to travel and would like to 100 Ont foc Li sing primaril y on er for two five-star luxury boushy

science for the North York hea r from fellow alumni She family law civi l litiga tion and tique h o tels in Prague - Hotel

Board of Education for five can be reached at 520-299-8344 real estate She and her hus- Palace Praha and the Hotel

years before enrolling in the bull Cecilia (Wleugel) Parkes band John Goy live in Guelph Savoy Previo usly he was execu -

MBA program BComm 85 is a graphic and have three sons John 4 tive housekeeper at the five-star

bull Jagwant Kanwar PhD 80 is designer in Toronto and says Tony 3 and Shayne 2 Renaissance Pragu e Hotel

a senior scientist in the depart- she st ill uses ber marketing bull Peter Van der Borch DVM bull Margaret Burnes-Souria BA ment of vegetable crops at Pun- background to help her busishy 88 retired in the fa ll of 1997 94 is a team leader with [011 shy

jab Agricultural University in ness succeed She specia lizes in after several years of practising don Magazin e in London Ont

India He is also director of the logo design lNith hand-drawn physiotherapy and ve terinary She married David Souria in

regional vegetable research stashy illustrations medicine and surgery He Jives July 1997 and is pursuing an tion at Usman (TaranTarn) bull Jim Parr BSc(Agr) 81 and in Pictou NS ]VlBA at the University of West-

Amritsar His and his wife MSe 89 died of cancer in bull MartyWilLiams BA 85 is ern Ontario

Sanyogita have a son Mohit June 1998 but hes being co-ordinator of student activishy bull Janine Byers BASe 95 is a and a daughter Dipika who are remembered by his university ties at University College Unishy public health dietitian at the

both studying engineering friends through the establish - versity of Toronto where he Kingston Frontenac and

Friends can write to Kanwar at ment of a mem orial fund for advises student organizations Iennox amp Addington Health

Punjab Agricultural Un ivers ity his wife Denise and children 1Ie is also chair of the U of T Unit in Kingston O nt She is Ludhiana 141 004 India Shannon and Eric Anyone Staff Association a member of getting married to Ca rl Stewart

bull Larissa Larsen BSe 89 and who would like more informa - the steering committee of the on May 29 j 999 MLA 92 received a PhD in tion can ca ll Brian Tapscott at staffs unionization drive and a bull Lisa Cherry BSe 9 1 is a urban and regional planning 519-767-3566 staff member with the student science journalist and executive

from the University of Illinois bull Cheryl (Dunlop) Reid newspaper The Varsity He can director of Artists Against

at Urbana Champaign in May BSe(Agr) 89 sta rted a new be reached bye-mail at marty Racism an international organi-

She has accepted a position at job in September as ingredient wi lliamsutorontoca za tion She is based in Toronto

Thompson Dyke and Associshy sales manager for RA bull Bonnie (Byma) BASe 96 ales a landscape architecture Chisholm o f Toronto She will 19905 and Gil Clelland BA 95 were

and urban planning firm in continue to work from her bull Claire Allison BA 94 grad- married in December 1996 and

Chicago Her husband Ernie remote offke in Fergus Reid uated from the elementary are living in Chatham On t

Poortinga DVM 89 is in his and her husband Jeff BSe teacher ed ucation program at Bo nnie works at a day-care

third yea r of an MD program (Agr) 89 have two children the University of British centre G il teaches art and

at Rush University Chicago lVlega n 4 and Elizabeth 2 Columbia in 1996 and now phys ical education They ca n -Hes looking forward to joining bull Chee Sie BA 83 is a zone teaches in Va ncou ver be reached bye-ma il at gclelshy

his wife in the ranks of the manager for the Malaysian bull JohnAvon BSdHK) 94 lan ciaccesscom employed They would both Assurance Alliance Berhad in earned an M Se in industr ial bull Kate Corn ell BA 95 of enjoy hearing from fellow Sarawak Malaysia He and his operations from Lawrence Markham Ont earned her

alumni and can be reached at wife Jesterine have a two-year- Technological University in masters in dance history from epoor tin garushurushedu old daughter Letitia Southfleld Mich in 1997 and York University in May and

WINTER 1999 41

co-authored a book titled

Toronto Dance Theatre 1968shy1998 Stages in a Journey

bull Mary Jill (McClure) Culliton BASe 90 earned

her BEd from Brock University

and her M Ed from the Univershy

sity of Western Ontario and

teaches Grade 1 in Mitchell

Ont She and her husband

Tim live in Stratford

bull Kathleen (McNutt) Daniels BASe 9 1 is a teacher and was

married on New Years Eve

1994 to Gord Daniels They live

in North Bay Ont and have a

daughter Lauren born in Febshy

ruary 1997 They are expecting

their second child in February

bull Simon Deakin BA 95 studshyied in Florence Italy for a year

then earned a master of fine art

from the Slade School of Fine

Art at the University of London

England He lives in London

bull Christie Dunbar BLA 97 spent a year after graduation

working for Niagara College in

St Catharines Ont on the

vision and design of a new

campus to be built in Niagarashy

on-the- Lake Last April she

joined the landscape architecshy

ture firm of Pollack Design

Associates in Ann Arbor Mich

bull Trina Edmonds BA 94 and

Joel Hinderle became the

proud parents of a little girl

Jordan Ashley in january 1998

and moved to a new home in

Oakville Ont in September

Edmonds works in Mississauga

as a desktop publisher with a

publishingprinting company

bull Wendy Garinther BSc 93 and Steve Decker BSe 94

were married in May Joining

them in the wedding celebrashy

tions were Cheri (Coulter)

42 GUELPH ALUMNUS

Ascroft BSe 93 Karen Leinshy

gartner BSe 94 and Barb

(Moore) Johnson BSe 94

Best man was Jeff Bond BSe

93 and MSe 96 The Deckers

live in Edmonton where Steve

is doing a PhD in chemistry at

the University of Alberta and

Wendy is working in a research

laboratory at a biopharmaceushy

tical company

bull Donna Gross BA 97 is purshysu ing a master of divinity at

Emmanuel College at the Unishy

versity of Toronto and hopes to

become an ordained minister by

2002 She lives in Guelph and

can be reached bye-mail at

donnajulietalbedonet

bull Robert Gruber BA 92 is a child-care supervisor for the

YMCA-YWCA of Guelph and

manages the Jean Little Y

Child- Care Centre He recently

developed the anti -bias proshy

gramming policy for the

Guelph Y and sits on both the

Jean Little Public School Counshy

cil and the Guelph AIDS Wall

Committee He can be reached

bye-mail at rgrubernet

comca

bull Susan Harder BSe 91 grad shyuated from the University of

Toronto Medical School in June

and has started a residency at

Santa Clara Valley Medical Censhy

tre in San jose Calif She will

follow that up with an anestheshy

sia residency at Stanford Univershy

sity Hospital in 1999

bull Marko Harjupanula BASc 93 travelled in Australia for

two months after graduating

from Guelph then returned to

his home town of South Porshy

cupine Ont where he worked

in a gold mine for four years

He entered police college in

September and started as an

opp constable in Cochrane in

December

bull Nancy Holman MA 94 moved to Vancouver soon after

graduation and initially worked

as a project co-ordinator for an

ophthalmologist In 1996 she

began working full time for the

BC Liberal Caucus I would

enjoy hearing from and catchshy

ing up with the friends I made

while studying at U of G and

working at the Brass Taps she

says Her e-mail address is nan shy

cyholmanlassgovbeca

bull Ruth Johnson BA 91 is an investment banking associate

with the mergers and acquisishy

tions group of JP Morgan in

Lond on England responsible

for financial reporting and

administration She has been in

England with her partner Alex Campbell since graduation

bull Stephen Johnson BA 94 of London Ont was a lab technishy

cian at Lenscrafters for three

yea rs and is now a full-time

student at Fanshawe College

studying air conditioning and

refrigeration He was married

in Jun e to Jennifer Fox BSc

95 a chemist at 3M Their

wedding party included Dee Popat BSe (Eng) 94 and

Patrick Wulhes BSc 95

bull Sarah (Davis) Kelly BASe 90 married Robert Kelly in

July and teaches primary

grades at an inner-city school

in Toronto

bull Cassidy Klowak BComm 97 lives in Allisshy

ton Onl and is a personal

banking account manager

with ClBC in Tottenham

bull Stephanie Lopes BSc 96 completed her MSc in repro shy

ductive biology at the Universishy

ty of Toronto and worked as

patient-care director for the

College of Family Physicians

for almost a year In September

she enrolled in medical school

at the University of Toronto

She is happy to announce that

she is engaged to be married

next summer Lopes can be

reached at slopesidirectcom

bull Natalie (Parker) MacKenzie BSc 96 earned her BEd from

the University of Western

Ontario in 1997 She married

ASLt Andy MacKenzie June 27

in Sault Ste Marie Ont and

now lives in Halifax

bull Susan MacKinnon DVM 91 is a veterinarian with HUls

Science Diet She lives in

Guelph with her husband

Brandon Wiley and gave birth

to their first child Adrianna

Nicole june 26 at home

bull Waheed Mian BA 9 1 of Cambridge Ont is a store

director with PetSmart Canada

He helped the company launch

its new retail concept in Cana da

bull Alex Mitchell BA 91 was appointed clerkdeputy treasurshy

er of the Ontario township of

Mildmay-Carrick in 1998 and

will be the clerkadministrator

of the new municipality of

Mildmay-Carrick -TeesWatershy

Culross in 1999 He was married

in january 1997 and lives vith

his wife and daughter in Mild shy

may In his spare time Mitchell

is a professional scout for the

Toronto Maple Leafs covering

southwestern Ontario

bull Sherry Morland BASc 93 of Kitchener Ont ea rned her

BEd from Brock University in

J995 and is a part-time specia l

educa tion teacher and an occashy

sional teacher with the Watershy

loo County Board of Ed ucashy

tion She married Ivan LeBlanc

in 1997

bull Gary Page BSe 91 wo rks for the Nottawasaga Valley Conshy

servation Authority where he is

able to combine his knowledge

of wildlife biology with his

artistic skills as resident graphic

designer and outdoor centre

interpreter He Jives with his

wife Di and their son judah in

CreemoreOnt

bull Elaine Pammenter BA 96 is an inventory clerk with the

Royal Collection at Windsor

Castle in England She holds a

museum management and

curatorship grad uate certificate

diploma from Sir Sandford

Fleming College and did her

internship at the Royal Albert

Memorial Museum in Exeter

England

bull Brent Raymond BSe(Env) 96 of Brantford Ont has

been working with Outward

Bound since graduation He

leads wilderness trips in Northshy

ern Ontario Horida Australia and Sabah (Malaysian Borneo) Most recently he designed and implemented a new introducshytory mountaineering course for Outward Bound Sabah on the summit plateau of Mt Kinashy

balu Those of you who know me as plate licker from U of G get in touch he says Where are you Star I miss you He can be reached by e-mail at globarwchatonca or by

phone at 519-756-1697

Alumni Patrick Abbott BSA 40 July 7 1998

Albert Allen BSA 33 Jan 161994 Agris Ansmits BA 70 and MA 73

February 1998 Barbara (Quartermain) Babcock DHE

53 June 17 1998

Wray Bond BSA 34 Sept 25 1998

Kenneth Bone DVM 38 Dec 29 1998 Evelyn (Stevenson) Buhr DHE 39

May 251998 Philip Burke BSA 43 June 21 1998

Grant Carman BSA 49 Oct 221998 Frederick Chambers BSA 41

June 1998 Wilmot Conley ADA4 7 April 7 1998 Lloyd Crewson BSA 49 Aug 261998

Jacqueline Dimock DHE 47

Aug 20 1998 John Dingwall DVM 52

April 18 1998

Lloyd Dorsey BSA 38 June 9 1998 George Duncan BSA 37

Sept 19 1998

David Dyson BSA 53 Aug 31 1998

Norma (Shannon) Edwards DHE 39

November 1997 Vincent Bud Ellis DVM 41

July 15 1998 John Jack George BSA 48

Sept 24 1998

Donald Haight BSA 33 January 1997 William Hamlyn BSA 33 Dec I 1997

Gordon Harkness BSA 49

November 1997

Charles Hollister DVM 38 June 1996 Donald Hope BSA 54 June 28 1998

Lawrence Jefferson BSA 38

Sept 3 1998

James Kelso DVM 56 July 27 1998

Dorima Lalonde BSA 34 Oct 8 1998 Mildred (Cox) Large DHE 33

June 20 1998 Roger Larson BComm 86 Feb 19 1998 Robert Lawson BSA 49 June 6 1998

bull Doug Ramsey BA 91 and PhD 98 received U of Gs highshyest graduate student award shythe Forster Medal- at June convocation for his academic and community involvement while enrolled in Guelphs new

graduate program in geography He spent the summer as a visitshying research scholar at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College in Truro before assuming his curshyrent position as assistant professhysor at Mount Allison University

David Leach BSc(Agr) 74

July 18 1998

Ian Leask DVM 74 Sept 5 1998

Sheryl Lee BSc 95 June 8 1998 Ruby Janet MacAuley DHE 30

Aug 19 1998 Parker MacKenzie DVM 38

September 1994

Jeanice MacLaren DHE 28 March 1 1997

Campbell MacMaster DVM42

Oct 8 1998

Rex McCallum DVM 43 July 71998 Jean (Dunn) McMahon DHE 31

Nov 41998

Margaret Oones) McTaggart DHE 35 Aug 81998

Patrick McTaggart-Cowan HDSc 81

Oct 21997

Malcolm McWhinnie ADA 39

July 16 1998 Mary (Townsend) Mitchell BHSc

60 Sept 281998

Marjory Monaghan DHE 29

December 1997 Charles Monk BSA 44 Aug 7 1998

Heather Neilsen BHSc 59

Oct 30 1998 Jerry Niwa DVM 62 Aug 5 1998 Henry Harry OReilly BSA 42

October 1997

James Parr BSc(Agr) 81 June 19 1998 Charles Rammage DVM 45

Oct 17 1996 Howard Rapson HDSc 90

March 1997 Clement Reeds DVM 42 Oct 16 1998

William Robinson BSA 38

Aug 23 1998

Donald Sager ADA 73 Oct 141997

Austin Schaefer DVM 37 in 1997

Sandra (Mackenzie) Schmidt DHE 59

Aug 16 1997 Margaret (Harvey) Seaborn DHE 28

July 221998

Larry Seguin DVM 47 June 12 1998

Leah Shedden DHE 31 December 1998

Edward Shuh BSA 40 July 2 1998

Ted Shutsa BSc(Agr) 66

Sept 18 1998 Jim Sinclair DVM 49 Oct 4 1998

Margaret (Brown) Sinclair DHE 20

September 1998 Eldon Smith BSA 42 Sept 9 1998

Derek Somers DVM 96 Sept 25 1998

Cheryl Lynn Sopha BA 95 Sept 20 1998

Leona (Bartlett) Stewart DHE 35

June 27 1998 Alex Thomson BSc(Agr) 69

October 1996

William Whittick DVM 55

Aug 15 1998 Joseph Wilson BSA 23 Sept 11 1998

Lloyd Woolsey DVM41 June 24 1998

Winifred Yeates DHE 28 June 11998

Faculty John Carpenter BSA 43 and MSA 48

Microbiology Dec 10 1998

David Gaskin Zoology Sept 14 1998

Gordon Macleod BSA 50 Animal and

Poultry Science Nov 26 1998 Roman Retman Languages and

Literatures Sept 28 1998

Caesar Sen off Chemistry and

Biochemistry Aug 14 1998

Percy Smith Drama Dec 10 1998

Friends Robert Clark Aug 21 1998

Ethel Hammond August 1998

Thomas Hillers Sept 28 1998 Marguerite Holbrook Aug 26 1998

Catherine Kelly Sept 27 1998

James A McKenzie May 13 1998

Kenneth McIssac Oct 23 1998

William Mutlock September 1998 Roena Patterson Sept 16 1998

Donald Priddle Aug 25 1998

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bull Karl Reimer BSe 94 comshypleted a one-year intensive

MSc in mining engineering at

Queens University and is now

a project engineer a t Enpar

Technologies Ine in Guelph

He can be contacted at reimerbservcom

bull Nancy Nauta Rowland BA 90 and her husband Dan celshy

ebrated their first wedding

anniversary in March 1998 with

the birth of their first child

Connor who beat their March

8 anniversary by two days Nanshy

cy teaches junior-grade stushy

dents and junior special ed ucashy

tion for the Peel District School

Board The Rowlands live in

Caledon Ont

bull Fraser Stables MFA 98 was heralded by Toronto Globe 6shyMail critic Betty Jordan as a

formidable new talent followshy

ing the openi ng of his debut

gallery exh ibition in July The

Scottish artists work includes

sculpture video and mixed

media that explore notions of

flu x by interrupting the moveshy

ment of forms in space

bull Erin (Smith) Scott BSe(HK) 92 and Brad

Scott BSc(Agr) 91 of Lucan

O nt were married in 1993 and

had their first child Lucas in

August Erin works for Shopshy

pers Home Health Ca re in

London Brad is with New Life

Mills in Dunfield

bull Abby Simons BSc 95 and Martin Piche BSc(Agr) 95 were married in Mont-Tremshy

blant Quebec in 1997 She is a

customer service representative

with Kantech Systems he is

superintendent of Club de golf

vallee des forts They say theyd

love to hear from anyone headshy

ing to Montreal and can be

reached at 450-348-3860

bull Sylvia Tesori BSc 95 has been doing wildlife rehabilitashy

tion for the OSPCA Wildlife

Rehabilitation Centre in Midshy

land Ont since 1996

bull Chuck Thibeault BComm 94 is general manager of the

Putting Edge Corpora tion

which has two glow-in- theshy

dark mini-golf courses in

Ontario one in Bramp ton and

one in Richmond Hill He can

be reached in Richmond Hill at

chu ckttotalnet

bull Karen Thirlwall BA 93 is a

si ngersongwriter and guitarist

who began her stage career and

released her first album The Voice Inside Me while studying

languages at U of G She has

lived and performed in

11i stler BC for three years

and recently released a second

album called Wide-Eyed She

remembers many special

fr iends m ade at Guelph and

welcomes e-mail messages to

karenthirlwallhotmailcom

bull Christie (Johnson) and Steve

Tyler both BComm 91 live in

Cambridge Ont where

Christie is a personal banking

representative for the Royal

Bank Steve works with their

third-year design professor

Nelson Hofer in Mississauga as

a design consultan t Steves proshy

jects include the Windsor Casishy

no and U of Gs Creelman Hall

They have two children Jason

5 and Marcus 1

bull Julia White BA 91 lives in Guelph and is a small-business

accountant at Taves amp Co She

recently finished courses

towards a CGA designation and

would like to hea r from other

alumni who lived in Lambton

Hall in 198788 Send e-mail to

juliawhitesympaticoca

bull Andre-Denis Wright MSc 93 and PhD 98 is doing postshy

docto ral work in Perth Westshy

ern Australia He wants his

Guelph friends and Halifax

family to know he was thinking

of them at Christmas when it

was 40 C in Australia

bull Dave Yellen BComm 90 was recently promoted at the Gordon

Food Service to new-accounts

sales specialist for Metro Toronshy

to Having been in Ottawa for

the past few years Im hoping

to reacquaint myself with old

friend s from U of G in the Metro

area he says He lives in Scarborshy

ough and can be reached at 416shy615-2745 or davidysprintca

bull Halina Zaleski PhD 92 is a tenured professor in the

departm ent of animal sciences

at the Un iversity of Hawaii in

Honolulu She is a swine speshy

cialist involved in extension

programs for an area th at covshy

ers all of Hawai i and the PacifIC

basin She can be reached by

e-mail at halinahawaiiedu

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theyre not wearing skates its College Royal If there

are students sawing logs throwing pies baking cookies

and square dancing its College Royal When the entire

University of Guelph is displayed - from arts to zooloshy

gy - March 13 and 14 1999 youll know its definitely

College Royan

Since its inception in 1925 as an agricultural and liveshy

stock show run by the Ontario Agricultural College

College Royal has grown to be a celebrated U of G trashy

dition involving all the colleges

The event is famou s in the University community

and beyond for its open-house showcase of displays and

activities The largest student-run open house in Canashy

da College Royal attracts more than 20000 visitors to

campus over one weekend

College Royal is an event of tradition that reaches

into tomorrow Agriculture and livestock shows are still

highlighted events but College Royal activities have

grown to include dog and cat shows a photography conshy

test a chemistry magic show and demonstrations on

human health and fitness The open house gives people

an opportunity to see what happens in the Universitys

leading-edge research laboratories to observe veterinary

medicine in practice to tour a sculpture studio or to

watch a theatrical performance

To celebrate the 75th anniversary of College Royal

1998 president Joe TrakaJo lnvites alumni to get involved

again by joining one of the planning comm ittees or by

participating in a favourite event Call him for more

information at 824-4120 Ext 8366 or send e-mail to

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since 1990 was president of the bull Garry Millage AMPHI 86 bull Heidi Stephenson BA 88 is now ISO 9000 manager at

Ontario Veterinary Medical left a position as vice-president was awarded her professional Carpenter Ca nada Ltd in

Association in 1997 and recent- of national operations for acco untants designation of Wood br idge Ont He lives in

ly served on the Canadian Vetshy Scotts Restaurants KFC Divishy certified general accountant in Miss issa uga Classma tes are

erilw() Medical Associations sion to open his own consult- March 1998 She has been invited to contact him at

national issues committee He ing company Future Food employed for the last 10 years avon listarca

lives in Osgoode with his wife Equipment Ine specializes in with Dan Ball Chartered bull Michelle (Pilon) Bacon BA rvlaurecn and children Laura providing new and used restau- Acco un tant in Parry Sound 90 moved to England to study

and Matthew rant equipment and reducing O nt where she lives with her and work after graduating from

bull Muneer Hirji BComm 82 restaurant construction costs hu sband Brad two dogs and a Guelph She recently left a posishy

lives in Toronto and is vice- He also operates a restaurant horse tion with the British Ministry of

president of marke ting at SAP called Nikkos in Woodbridge bull Dawn Stetsko BSe 81 lives Agriculture and Food in York to

Canada He has three chil- Ont and is planning to open a in Langhorne Pa with her husshy become an at-home mom She

drcl1 Nadia 8 Alyssa 6 and second location band Paul and children Mark now lives in London with her

Sarah I bull Tosh Noseworthy BSe 83 is and Keith and is a research husband Tim and one-year-old

bull Brenda irwin BSe 88 is a cardiovascular ICU nurse in scientist with Bristol-Myers daughter Juliette She sends love

studying at Hong Kong Unishy sunny Tuscon Arizona After Squibb Previously she worked to Sue Heather and Sheila and

vers ity of Science and Technolshy grad uation she lived in Paris at McMaster University in can be reached bye-mail at

ogy to complete the final France for a yea r s tudied nurs- Hamilton Ont for 17 yea rs michellebacondialpipexcom

sem ester of an MBA program ing in O ttawa then lived in Saushy bull Teresa Tummillo-Goy BA bull Jeff Barlow BComm 90 is

through the University of di Arabia for two yea rs She still 86 has a law practice in Water- the training and quality manag-

British Columbia She taught loves to travel and would like to 100 Ont foc Li sing primaril y on er for two five-star luxury boushy

science for the North York hea r from fellow alumni She family law civi l litiga tion and tique h o tels in Prague - Hotel

Board of Education for five can be reached at 520-299-8344 real estate She and her hus- Palace Praha and the Hotel

years before enrolling in the bull Cecilia (Wleugel) Parkes band John Goy live in Guelph Savoy Previo usly he was execu -

MBA program BComm 85 is a graphic and have three sons John 4 tive housekeeper at the five-star

bull Jagwant Kanwar PhD 80 is designer in Toronto and says Tony 3 and Shayne 2 Renaissance Pragu e Hotel

a senior scientist in the depart- she st ill uses ber marketing bull Peter Van der Borch DVM bull Margaret Burnes-Souria BA ment of vegetable crops at Pun- background to help her busishy 88 retired in the fa ll of 1997 94 is a team leader with [011 shy

jab Agricultural University in ness succeed She specia lizes in after several years of practising don Magazin e in London Ont

India He is also director of the logo design lNith hand-drawn physiotherapy and ve terinary She married David Souria in

regional vegetable research stashy illustrations medicine and surgery He Jives July 1997 and is pursuing an tion at Usman (TaranTarn) bull Jim Parr BSc(Agr) 81 and in Pictou NS ]VlBA at the University of West-

Amritsar His and his wife MSe 89 died of cancer in bull MartyWilLiams BA 85 is ern Ontario

Sanyogita have a son Mohit June 1998 but hes being co-ordinator of student activishy bull Janine Byers BASe 95 is a and a daughter Dipika who are remembered by his university ties at University College Unishy public health dietitian at the

both studying engineering friends through the establish - versity of Toronto where he Kingston Frontenac and

Friends can write to Kanwar at ment of a mem orial fund for advises student organizations Iennox amp Addington Health

Punjab Agricultural Un ivers ity his wife Denise and children 1Ie is also chair of the U of T Unit in Kingston O nt She is Ludhiana 141 004 India Shannon and Eric Anyone Staff Association a member of getting married to Ca rl Stewart

bull Larissa Larsen BSe 89 and who would like more informa - the steering committee of the on May 29 j 999 MLA 92 received a PhD in tion can ca ll Brian Tapscott at staffs unionization drive and a bull Lisa Cherry BSe 9 1 is a urban and regional planning 519-767-3566 staff member with the student science journalist and executive

from the University of Illinois bull Cheryl (Dunlop) Reid newspaper The Varsity He can director of Artists Against

at Urbana Champaign in May BSe(Agr) 89 sta rted a new be reached bye-mail at marty Racism an international organi-

She has accepted a position at job in September as ingredient wi lliamsutorontoca za tion She is based in Toronto

Thompson Dyke and Associshy sales manager for RA bull Bonnie (Byma) BASe 96 ales a landscape architecture Chisholm o f Toronto She will 19905 and Gil Clelland BA 95 were

and urban planning firm in continue to work from her bull Claire Allison BA 94 grad- married in December 1996 and

Chicago Her husband Ernie remote offke in Fergus Reid uated from the elementary are living in Chatham On t

Poortinga DVM 89 is in his and her husband Jeff BSe teacher ed ucation program at Bo nnie works at a day-care

third yea r of an MD program (Agr) 89 have two children the University of British centre G il teaches art and

at Rush University Chicago lVlega n 4 and Elizabeth 2 Columbia in 1996 and now phys ical education They ca n -Hes looking forward to joining bull Chee Sie BA 83 is a zone teaches in Va ncou ver be reached bye-ma il at gclelshy

his wife in the ranks of the manager for the Malaysian bull JohnAvon BSdHK) 94 lan ciaccesscom employed They would both Assurance Alliance Berhad in earned an M Se in industr ial bull Kate Corn ell BA 95 of enjoy hearing from fellow Sarawak Malaysia He and his operations from Lawrence Markham Ont earned her

alumni and can be reached at wife Jesterine have a two-year- Technological University in masters in dance history from epoor tin garushurushedu old daughter Letitia Southfleld Mich in 1997 and York University in May and

WINTER 1999 41

co-authored a book titled

Toronto Dance Theatre 1968shy1998 Stages in a Journey

bull Mary Jill (McClure) Culliton BASe 90 earned

her BEd from Brock University

and her M Ed from the Univershy

sity of Western Ontario and

teaches Grade 1 in Mitchell

Ont She and her husband

Tim live in Stratford

bull Kathleen (McNutt) Daniels BASe 9 1 is a teacher and was

married on New Years Eve

1994 to Gord Daniels They live

in North Bay Ont and have a

daughter Lauren born in Febshy

ruary 1997 They are expecting

their second child in February

bull Simon Deakin BA 95 studshyied in Florence Italy for a year

then earned a master of fine art

from the Slade School of Fine

Art at the University of London

England He lives in London

bull Christie Dunbar BLA 97 spent a year after graduation

working for Niagara College in

St Catharines Ont on the

vision and design of a new

campus to be built in Niagarashy

on-the- Lake Last April she

joined the landscape architecshy

ture firm of Pollack Design

Associates in Ann Arbor Mich

bull Trina Edmonds BA 94 and

Joel Hinderle became the

proud parents of a little girl

Jordan Ashley in january 1998

and moved to a new home in

Oakville Ont in September

Edmonds works in Mississauga

as a desktop publisher with a

publishingprinting company

bull Wendy Garinther BSc 93 and Steve Decker BSe 94

were married in May Joining

them in the wedding celebrashy

tions were Cheri (Coulter)

42 GUELPH ALUMNUS

Ascroft BSe 93 Karen Leinshy

gartner BSe 94 and Barb

(Moore) Johnson BSe 94

Best man was Jeff Bond BSe

93 and MSe 96 The Deckers

live in Edmonton where Steve

is doing a PhD in chemistry at

the University of Alberta and

Wendy is working in a research

laboratory at a biopharmaceushy

tical company

bull Donna Gross BA 97 is purshysu ing a master of divinity at

Emmanuel College at the Unishy

versity of Toronto and hopes to

become an ordained minister by

2002 She lives in Guelph and

can be reached bye-mail at

donnajulietalbedonet

bull Robert Gruber BA 92 is a child-care supervisor for the

YMCA-YWCA of Guelph and

manages the Jean Little Y

Child- Care Centre He recently

developed the anti -bias proshy

gramming policy for the

Guelph Y and sits on both the

Jean Little Public School Counshy

cil and the Guelph AIDS Wall

Committee He can be reached

bye-mail at rgrubernet

comca

bull Susan Harder BSe 91 grad shyuated from the University of

Toronto Medical School in June

and has started a residency at

Santa Clara Valley Medical Censhy

tre in San jose Calif She will

follow that up with an anestheshy

sia residency at Stanford Univershy

sity Hospital in 1999

bull Marko Harjupanula BASc 93 travelled in Australia for

two months after graduating

from Guelph then returned to

his home town of South Porshy

cupine Ont where he worked

in a gold mine for four years

He entered police college in

September and started as an

opp constable in Cochrane in

December

bull Nancy Holman MA 94 moved to Vancouver soon after

graduation and initially worked

as a project co-ordinator for an

ophthalmologist In 1996 she

began working full time for the

BC Liberal Caucus I would

enjoy hearing from and catchshy

ing up with the friends I made

while studying at U of G and

working at the Brass Taps she

says Her e-mail address is nan shy

cyholmanlassgovbeca

bull Ruth Johnson BA 91 is an investment banking associate

with the mergers and acquisishy

tions group of JP Morgan in

Lond on England responsible

for financial reporting and

administration She has been in

England with her partner Alex Campbell since graduation

bull Stephen Johnson BA 94 of London Ont was a lab technishy

cian at Lenscrafters for three

yea rs and is now a full-time

student at Fanshawe College

studying air conditioning and

refrigeration He was married

in Jun e to Jennifer Fox BSc

95 a chemist at 3M Their

wedding party included Dee Popat BSe (Eng) 94 and

Patrick Wulhes BSc 95

bull Sarah (Davis) Kelly BASe 90 married Robert Kelly in

July and teaches primary

grades at an inner-city school

in Toronto

bull Cassidy Klowak BComm 97 lives in Allisshy

ton Onl and is a personal

banking account manager

with ClBC in Tottenham

bull Stephanie Lopes BSc 96 completed her MSc in repro shy

ductive biology at the Universishy

ty of Toronto and worked as

patient-care director for the

College of Family Physicians

for almost a year In September

she enrolled in medical school

at the University of Toronto

She is happy to announce that

she is engaged to be married

next summer Lopes can be

reached at slopesidirectcom

bull Natalie (Parker) MacKenzie BSc 96 earned her BEd from

the University of Western

Ontario in 1997 She married

ASLt Andy MacKenzie June 27

in Sault Ste Marie Ont and

now lives in Halifax

bull Susan MacKinnon DVM 91 is a veterinarian with HUls

Science Diet She lives in

Guelph with her husband

Brandon Wiley and gave birth

to their first child Adrianna

Nicole june 26 at home

bull Waheed Mian BA 9 1 of Cambridge Ont is a store

director with PetSmart Canada

He helped the company launch

its new retail concept in Cana da

bull Alex Mitchell BA 91 was appointed clerkdeputy treasurshy

er of the Ontario township of

Mildmay-Carrick in 1998 and

will be the clerkadministrator

of the new municipality of

Mildmay-Carrick -TeesWatershy

Culross in 1999 He was married

in january 1997 and lives vith

his wife and daughter in Mild shy

may In his spare time Mitchell

is a professional scout for the

Toronto Maple Leafs covering

southwestern Ontario

bull Sherry Morland BASc 93 of Kitchener Ont ea rned her

BEd from Brock University in

J995 and is a part-time specia l

educa tion teacher and an occashy

sional teacher with the Watershy

loo County Board of Ed ucashy

tion She married Ivan LeBlanc

in 1997

bull Gary Page BSe 91 wo rks for the Nottawasaga Valley Conshy

servation Authority where he is

able to combine his knowledge

of wildlife biology with his

artistic skills as resident graphic

designer and outdoor centre

interpreter He Jives with his

wife Di and their son judah in

CreemoreOnt

bull Elaine Pammenter BA 96 is an inventory clerk with the

Royal Collection at Windsor

Castle in England She holds a

museum management and

curatorship grad uate certificate

diploma from Sir Sandford

Fleming College and did her

internship at the Royal Albert

Memorial Museum in Exeter

England

bull Brent Raymond BSe(Env) 96 of Brantford Ont has

been working with Outward

Bound since graduation He

leads wilderness trips in Northshy

ern Ontario Horida Australia and Sabah (Malaysian Borneo) Most recently he designed and implemented a new introducshytory mountaineering course for Outward Bound Sabah on the summit plateau of Mt Kinashy

balu Those of you who know me as plate licker from U of G get in touch he says Where are you Star I miss you He can be reached by e-mail at globarwchatonca or by

phone at 519-756-1697

Alumni Patrick Abbott BSA 40 July 7 1998

Albert Allen BSA 33 Jan 161994 Agris Ansmits BA 70 and MA 73

February 1998 Barbara (Quartermain) Babcock DHE

53 June 17 1998

Wray Bond BSA 34 Sept 25 1998

Kenneth Bone DVM 38 Dec 29 1998 Evelyn (Stevenson) Buhr DHE 39

May 251998 Philip Burke BSA 43 June 21 1998

Grant Carman BSA 49 Oct 221998 Frederick Chambers BSA 41

June 1998 Wilmot Conley ADA4 7 April 7 1998 Lloyd Crewson BSA 49 Aug 261998

Jacqueline Dimock DHE 47

Aug 20 1998 John Dingwall DVM 52

April 18 1998

Lloyd Dorsey BSA 38 June 9 1998 George Duncan BSA 37

Sept 19 1998

David Dyson BSA 53 Aug 31 1998

Norma (Shannon) Edwards DHE 39

November 1997 Vincent Bud Ellis DVM 41

July 15 1998 John Jack George BSA 48

Sept 24 1998

Donald Haight BSA 33 January 1997 William Hamlyn BSA 33 Dec I 1997

Gordon Harkness BSA 49

November 1997

Charles Hollister DVM 38 June 1996 Donald Hope BSA 54 June 28 1998

Lawrence Jefferson BSA 38

Sept 3 1998

James Kelso DVM 56 July 27 1998

Dorima Lalonde BSA 34 Oct 8 1998 Mildred (Cox) Large DHE 33

June 20 1998 Roger Larson BComm 86 Feb 19 1998 Robert Lawson BSA 49 June 6 1998

bull Doug Ramsey BA 91 and PhD 98 received U of Gs highshyest graduate student award shythe Forster Medal- at June convocation for his academic and community involvement while enrolled in Guelphs new

graduate program in geography He spent the summer as a visitshying research scholar at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College in Truro before assuming his curshyrent position as assistant professhysor at Mount Allison University

David Leach BSc(Agr) 74

July 18 1998

Ian Leask DVM 74 Sept 5 1998

Sheryl Lee BSc 95 June 8 1998 Ruby Janet MacAuley DHE 30

Aug 19 1998 Parker MacKenzie DVM 38

September 1994

Jeanice MacLaren DHE 28 March 1 1997

Campbell MacMaster DVM42

Oct 8 1998

Rex McCallum DVM 43 July 71998 Jean (Dunn) McMahon DHE 31

Nov 41998

Margaret Oones) McTaggart DHE 35 Aug 81998

Patrick McTaggart-Cowan HDSc 81

Oct 21997

Malcolm McWhinnie ADA 39

July 16 1998 Mary (Townsend) Mitchell BHSc

60 Sept 281998

Marjory Monaghan DHE 29

December 1997 Charles Monk BSA 44 Aug 7 1998

Heather Neilsen BHSc 59

Oct 30 1998 Jerry Niwa DVM 62 Aug 5 1998 Henry Harry OReilly BSA 42

October 1997

James Parr BSc(Agr) 81 June 19 1998 Charles Rammage DVM 45

Oct 17 1996 Howard Rapson HDSc 90

March 1997 Clement Reeds DVM 42 Oct 16 1998

William Robinson BSA 38

Aug 23 1998

Donald Sager ADA 73 Oct 141997

Austin Schaefer DVM 37 in 1997

Sandra (Mackenzie) Schmidt DHE 59

Aug 16 1997 Margaret (Harvey) Seaborn DHE 28

July 221998

Larry Seguin DVM 47 June 12 1998

Leah Shedden DHE 31 December 1998

Edward Shuh BSA 40 July 2 1998

Ted Shutsa BSc(Agr) 66

Sept 18 1998 Jim Sinclair DVM 49 Oct 4 1998

Margaret (Brown) Sinclair DHE 20

September 1998 Eldon Smith BSA 42 Sept 9 1998

Derek Somers DVM 96 Sept 25 1998

Cheryl Lynn Sopha BA 95 Sept 20 1998

Leona (Bartlett) Stewart DHE 35

June 27 1998 Alex Thomson BSc(Agr) 69

October 1996

William Whittick DVM 55

Aug 15 1998 Joseph Wilson BSA 23 Sept 11 1998

Lloyd Woolsey DVM41 June 24 1998

Winifred Yeates DHE 28 June 11998

Faculty John Carpenter BSA 43 and MSA 48

Microbiology Dec 10 1998

David Gaskin Zoology Sept 14 1998

Gordon Macleod BSA 50 Animal and

Poultry Science Nov 26 1998 Roman Retman Languages and

Literatures Sept 28 1998

Caesar Sen off Chemistry and

Biochemistry Aug 14 1998

Percy Smith Drama Dec 10 1998

Friends Robert Clark Aug 21 1998

Ethel Hammond August 1998

Thomas Hillers Sept 28 1998 Marguerite Holbrook Aug 26 1998

Catherine Kelly Sept 27 1998

James A McKenzie May 13 1998

Kenneth McIssac Oct 23 1998

William Mutlock September 1998 Roena Patterson Sept 16 1998

Donald Priddle Aug 25 1998

WINTER 1999 43

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bull Karl Reimer BSe 94 comshypleted a one-year intensive

MSc in mining engineering at

Queens University and is now

a project engineer a t Enpar

Technologies Ine in Guelph

He can be contacted at reimerbservcom

bull Nancy Nauta Rowland BA 90 and her husband Dan celshy

ebrated their first wedding

anniversary in March 1998 with

the birth of their first child

Connor who beat their March

8 anniversary by two days Nanshy

cy teaches junior-grade stushy

dents and junior special ed ucashy

tion for the Peel District School

Board The Rowlands live in

Caledon Ont

bull Fraser Stables MFA 98 was heralded by Toronto Globe 6shyMail critic Betty Jordan as a

formidable new talent followshy

ing the openi ng of his debut

gallery exh ibition in July The

Scottish artists work includes

sculpture video and mixed

media that explore notions of

flu x by interrupting the moveshy

ment of forms in space

bull Erin (Smith) Scott BSe(HK) 92 and Brad

Scott BSc(Agr) 91 of Lucan

O nt were married in 1993 and

had their first child Lucas in

August Erin works for Shopshy

pers Home Health Ca re in

London Brad is with New Life

Mills in Dunfield

bull Abby Simons BSc 95 and Martin Piche BSc(Agr) 95 were married in Mont-Tremshy

blant Quebec in 1997 She is a

customer service representative

with Kantech Systems he is

superintendent of Club de golf

vallee des forts They say theyd

love to hear from anyone headshy

ing to Montreal and can be

reached at 450-348-3860

bull Sylvia Tesori BSc 95 has been doing wildlife rehabilitashy

tion for the OSPCA Wildlife

Rehabilitation Centre in Midshy

land Ont since 1996

bull Chuck Thibeault BComm 94 is general manager of the

Putting Edge Corpora tion

which has two glow-in- theshy

dark mini-golf courses in

Ontario one in Bramp ton and

one in Richmond Hill He can

be reached in Richmond Hill at

chu ckttotalnet

bull Karen Thirlwall BA 93 is a

si ngersongwriter and guitarist

who began her stage career and

released her first album The Voice Inside Me while studying

languages at U of G She has

lived and performed in

11i stler BC for three years

and recently released a second

album called Wide-Eyed She

remembers many special

fr iends m ade at Guelph and

welcomes e-mail messages to

karenthirlwallhotmailcom

bull Christie (Johnson) and Steve

Tyler both BComm 91 live in

Cambridge Ont where

Christie is a personal banking

representative for the Royal

Bank Steve works with their

third-year design professor

Nelson Hofer in Mississauga as

a design consultan t Steves proshy

jects include the Windsor Casishy

no and U of Gs Creelman Hall

They have two children Jason

5 and Marcus 1

bull Julia White BA 91 lives in Guelph and is a small-business

accountant at Taves amp Co She

recently finished courses

towards a CGA designation and

would like to hea r from other

alumni who lived in Lambton

Hall in 198788 Send e-mail to

juliawhitesympaticoca

bull Andre-Denis Wright MSc 93 and PhD 98 is doing postshy

docto ral work in Perth Westshy

ern Australia He wants his

Guelph friends and Halifax

family to know he was thinking

of them at Christmas when it

was 40 C in Australia

bull Dave Yellen BComm 90 was recently promoted at the Gordon

Food Service to new-accounts

sales specialist for Metro Toronshy

to Having been in Ottawa for

the past few years Im hoping

to reacquaint myself with old

friend s from U of G in the Metro

area he says He lives in Scarborshy

ough and can be reached at 416shy615-2745 or davidysprintca

bull Halina Zaleski PhD 92 is a tenured professor in the

departm ent of animal sciences

at the Un iversity of Hawaii in

Honolulu She is a swine speshy

cialist involved in extension

programs for an area th at covshy

ers all of Hawai i and the PacifIC

basin She can be reached by

e-mail at halinahawaiiedu

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theyre not wearing skates its College Royal If there

are students sawing logs throwing pies baking cookies

and square dancing its College Royal When the entire

University of Guelph is displayed - from arts to zooloshy

gy - March 13 and 14 1999 youll know its definitely

College Royan

Since its inception in 1925 as an agricultural and liveshy

stock show run by the Ontario Agricultural College

College Royal has grown to be a celebrated U of G trashy

dition involving all the colleges

The event is famou s in the University community

and beyond for its open-house showcase of displays and

activities The largest student-run open house in Canashy

da College Royal attracts more than 20000 visitors to

campus over one weekend

College Royal is an event of tradition that reaches

into tomorrow Agriculture and livestock shows are still

highlighted events but College Royal activities have

grown to include dog and cat shows a photography conshy

test a chemistry magic show and demonstrations on

human health and fitness The open house gives people

an opportunity to see what happens in the Universitys

leading-edge research laboratories to observe veterinary

medicine in practice to tour a sculpture studio or to

watch a theatrical performance

To celebrate the 75th anniversary of College Royal

1998 president Joe TrakaJo lnvites alumni to get involved

again by joining one of the planning comm ittees or by

participating in a favourite event Call him for more

information at 824-4120 Ext 8366 or send e-mail to

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co-authored a book titled

Toronto Dance Theatre 1968shy1998 Stages in a Journey

bull Mary Jill (McClure) Culliton BASe 90 earned

her BEd from Brock University

and her M Ed from the Univershy

sity of Western Ontario and

teaches Grade 1 in Mitchell

Ont She and her husband

Tim live in Stratford

bull Kathleen (McNutt) Daniels BASe 9 1 is a teacher and was

married on New Years Eve

1994 to Gord Daniels They live

in North Bay Ont and have a

daughter Lauren born in Febshy

ruary 1997 They are expecting

their second child in February

bull Simon Deakin BA 95 studshyied in Florence Italy for a year

then earned a master of fine art

from the Slade School of Fine

Art at the University of London

England He lives in London

bull Christie Dunbar BLA 97 spent a year after graduation

working for Niagara College in

St Catharines Ont on the

vision and design of a new

campus to be built in Niagarashy

on-the- Lake Last April she

joined the landscape architecshy

ture firm of Pollack Design

Associates in Ann Arbor Mich

bull Trina Edmonds BA 94 and

Joel Hinderle became the

proud parents of a little girl

Jordan Ashley in january 1998

and moved to a new home in

Oakville Ont in September

Edmonds works in Mississauga

as a desktop publisher with a

publishingprinting company

bull Wendy Garinther BSc 93 and Steve Decker BSe 94

were married in May Joining

them in the wedding celebrashy

tions were Cheri (Coulter)

42 GUELPH ALUMNUS

Ascroft BSe 93 Karen Leinshy

gartner BSe 94 and Barb

(Moore) Johnson BSe 94

Best man was Jeff Bond BSe

93 and MSe 96 The Deckers

live in Edmonton where Steve

is doing a PhD in chemistry at

the University of Alberta and

Wendy is working in a research

laboratory at a biopharmaceushy

tical company

bull Donna Gross BA 97 is purshysu ing a master of divinity at

Emmanuel College at the Unishy

versity of Toronto and hopes to

become an ordained minister by

2002 She lives in Guelph and

can be reached bye-mail at

donnajulietalbedonet

bull Robert Gruber BA 92 is a child-care supervisor for the

YMCA-YWCA of Guelph and

manages the Jean Little Y

Child- Care Centre He recently

developed the anti -bias proshy

gramming policy for the

Guelph Y and sits on both the

Jean Little Public School Counshy

cil and the Guelph AIDS Wall

Committee He can be reached

bye-mail at rgrubernet

comca

bull Susan Harder BSe 91 grad shyuated from the University of

Toronto Medical School in June

and has started a residency at

Santa Clara Valley Medical Censhy

tre in San jose Calif She will

follow that up with an anestheshy

sia residency at Stanford Univershy

sity Hospital in 1999

bull Marko Harjupanula BASc 93 travelled in Australia for

two months after graduating

from Guelph then returned to

his home town of South Porshy

cupine Ont where he worked

in a gold mine for four years

He entered police college in

September and started as an

opp constable in Cochrane in

December

bull Nancy Holman MA 94 moved to Vancouver soon after

graduation and initially worked

as a project co-ordinator for an

ophthalmologist In 1996 she

began working full time for the

BC Liberal Caucus I would

enjoy hearing from and catchshy

ing up with the friends I made

while studying at U of G and

working at the Brass Taps she

says Her e-mail address is nan shy

cyholmanlassgovbeca

bull Ruth Johnson BA 91 is an investment banking associate

with the mergers and acquisishy

tions group of JP Morgan in

Lond on England responsible

for financial reporting and

administration She has been in

England with her partner Alex Campbell since graduation

bull Stephen Johnson BA 94 of London Ont was a lab technishy

cian at Lenscrafters for three

yea rs and is now a full-time

student at Fanshawe College

studying air conditioning and

refrigeration He was married

in Jun e to Jennifer Fox BSc

95 a chemist at 3M Their

wedding party included Dee Popat BSe (Eng) 94 and

Patrick Wulhes BSc 95

bull Sarah (Davis) Kelly BASe 90 married Robert Kelly in

July and teaches primary

grades at an inner-city school

in Toronto

bull Cassidy Klowak BComm 97 lives in Allisshy

ton Onl and is a personal

banking account manager

with ClBC in Tottenham

bull Stephanie Lopes BSc 96 completed her MSc in repro shy

ductive biology at the Universishy

ty of Toronto and worked as

patient-care director for the

College of Family Physicians

for almost a year In September

she enrolled in medical school

at the University of Toronto

She is happy to announce that

she is engaged to be married

next summer Lopes can be

reached at slopesidirectcom

bull Natalie (Parker) MacKenzie BSc 96 earned her BEd from

the University of Western

Ontario in 1997 She married

ASLt Andy MacKenzie June 27

in Sault Ste Marie Ont and

now lives in Halifax

bull Susan MacKinnon DVM 91 is a veterinarian with HUls

Science Diet She lives in

Guelph with her husband

Brandon Wiley and gave birth

to their first child Adrianna

Nicole june 26 at home

bull Waheed Mian BA 9 1 of Cambridge Ont is a store

director with PetSmart Canada

He helped the company launch

its new retail concept in Cana da

bull Alex Mitchell BA 91 was appointed clerkdeputy treasurshy

er of the Ontario township of

Mildmay-Carrick in 1998 and

will be the clerkadministrator

of the new municipality of

Mildmay-Carrick -TeesWatershy

Culross in 1999 He was married

in january 1997 and lives vith

his wife and daughter in Mild shy

may In his spare time Mitchell

is a professional scout for the

Toronto Maple Leafs covering

southwestern Ontario

bull Sherry Morland BASc 93 of Kitchener Ont ea rned her

BEd from Brock University in

J995 and is a part-time specia l

educa tion teacher and an occashy

sional teacher with the Watershy

loo County Board of Ed ucashy

tion She married Ivan LeBlanc

in 1997

bull Gary Page BSe 91 wo rks for the Nottawasaga Valley Conshy

servation Authority where he is

able to combine his knowledge

of wildlife biology with his

artistic skills as resident graphic

designer and outdoor centre

interpreter He Jives with his

wife Di and their son judah in

CreemoreOnt

bull Elaine Pammenter BA 96 is an inventory clerk with the

Royal Collection at Windsor

Castle in England She holds a

museum management and

curatorship grad uate certificate

diploma from Sir Sandford

Fleming College and did her

internship at the Royal Albert

Memorial Museum in Exeter

England

bull Brent Raymond BSe(Env) 96 of Brantford Ont has

been working with Outward

Bound since graduation He

leads wilderness trips in Northshy

ern Ontario Horida Australia and Sabah (Malaysian Borneo) Most recently he designed and implemented a new introducshytory mountaineering course for Outward Bound Sabah on the summit plateau of Mt Kinashy

balu Those of you who know me as plate licker from U of G get in touch he says Where are you Star I miss you He can be reached by e-mail at globarwchatonca or by

phone at 519-756-1697

Alumni Patrick Abbott BSA 40 July 7 1998

Albert Allen BSA 33 Jan 161994 Agris Ansmits BA 70 and MA 73

February 1998 Barbara (Quartermain) Babcock DHE

53 June 17 1998

Wray Bond BSA 34 Sept 25 1998

Kenneth Bone DVM 38 Dec 29 1998 Evelyn (Stevenson) Buhr DHE 39

May 251998 Philip Burke BSA 43 June 21 1998

Grant Carman BSA 49 Oct 221998 Frederick Chambers BSA 41

June 1998 Wilmot Conley ADA4 7 April 7 1998 Lloyd Crewson BSA 49 Aug 261998

Jacqueline Dimock DHE 47

Aug 20 1998 John Dingwall DVM 52

April 18 1998

Lloyd Dorsey BSA 38 June 9 1998 George Duncan BSA 37

Sept 19 1998

David Dyson BSA 53 Aug 31 1998

Norma (Shannon) Edwards DHE 39

November 1997 Vincent Bud Ellis DVM 41

July 15 1998 John Jack George BSA 48

Sept 24 1998

Donald Haight BSA 33 January 1997 William Hamlyn BSA 33 Dec I 1997

Gordon Harkness BSA 49

November 1997

Charles Hollister DVM 38 June 1996 Donald Hope BSA 54 June 28 1998

Lawrence Jefferson BSA 38

Sept 3 1998

James Kelso DVM 56 July 27 1998

Dorima Lalonde BSA 34 Oct 8 1998 Mildred (Cox) Large DHE 33

June 20 1998 Roger Larson BComm 86 Feb 19 1998 Robert Lawson BSA 49 June 6 1998

bull Doug Ramsey BA 91 and PhD 98 received U of Gs highshyest graduate student award shythe Forster Medal- at June convocation for his academic and community involvement while enrolled in Guelphs new

graduate program in geography He spent the summer as a visitshying research scholar at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College in Truro before assuming his curshyrent position as assistant professhysor at Mount Allison University

David Leach BSc(Agr) 74

July 18 1998

Ian Leask DVM 74 Sept 5 1998

Sheryl Lee BSc 95 June 8 1998 Ruby Janet MacAuley DHE 30

Aug 19 1998 Parker MacKenzie DVM 38

September 1994

Jeanice MacLaren DHE 28 March 1 1997

Campbell MacMaster DVM42

Oct 8 1998

Rex McCallum DVM 43 July 71998 Jean (Dunn) McMahon DHE 31

Nov 41998

Margaret Oones) McTaggart DHE 35 Aug 81998

Patrick McTaggart-Cowan HDSc 81

Oct 21997

Malcolm McWhinnie ADA 39

July 16 1998 Mary (Townsend) Mitchell BHSc

60 Sept 281998

Marjory Monaghan DHE 29

December 1997 Charles Monk BSA 44 Aug 7 1998

Heather Neilsen BHSc 59

Oct 30 1998 Jerry Niwa DVM 62 Aug 5 1998 Henry Harry OReilly BSA 42

October 1997

James Parr BSc(Agr) 81 June 19 1998 Charles Rammage DVM 45

Oct 17 1996 Howard Rapson HDSc 90

March 1997 Clement Reeds DVM 42 Oct 16 1998

William Robinson BSA 38

Aug 23 1998

Donald Sager ADA 73 Oct 141997

Austin Schaefer DVM 37 in 1997

Sandra (Mackenzie) Schmidt DHE 59

Aug 16 1997 Margaret (Harvey) Seaborn DHE 28

July 221998

Larry Seguin DVM 47 June 12 1998

Leah Shedden DHE 31 December 1998

Edward Shuh BSA 40 July 2 1998

Ted Shutsa BSc(Agr) 66

Sept 18 1998 Jim Sinclair DVM 49 Oct 4 1998

Margaret (Brown) Sinclair DHE 20

September 1998 Eldon Smith BSA 42 Sept 9 1998

Derek Somers DVM 96 Sept 25 1998

Cheryl Lynn Sopha BA 95 Sept 20 1998

Leona (Bartlett) Stewart DHE 35

June 27 1998 Alex Thomson BSc(Agr) 69

October 1996

William Whittick DVM 55

Aug 15 1998 Joseph Wilson BSA 23 Sept 11 1998

Lloyd Woolsey DVM41 June 24 1998

Winifred Yeates DHE 28 June 11998

Faculty John Carpenter BSA 43 and MSA 48

Microbiology Dec 10 1998

David Gaskin Zoology Sept 14 1998

Gordon Macleod BSA 50 Animal and

Poultry Science Nov 26 1998 Roman Retman Languages and

Literatures Sept 28 1998

Caesar Sen off Chemistry and

Biochemistry Aug 14 1998

Percy Smith Drama Dec 10 1998

Friends Robert Clark Aug 21 1998

Ethel Hammond August 1998

Thomas Hillers Sept 28 1998 Marguerite Holbrook Aug 26 1998

Catherine Kelly Sept 27 1998

James A McKenzie May 13 1998

Kenneth McIssac Oct 23 1998

William Mutlock September 1998 Roena Patterson Sept 16 1998

Donald Priddle Aug 25 1998

WINTER 1999 43

-

bull Karl Reimer BSe 94 comshypleted a one-year intensive

MSc in mining engineering at

Queens University and is now

a project engineer a t Enpar

Technologies Ine in Guelph

He can be contacted at reimerbservcom

bull Nancy Nauta Rowland BA 90 and her husband Dan celshy

ebrated their first wedding

anniversary in March 1998 with

the birth of their first child

Connor who beat their March

8 anniversary by two days Nanshy

cy teaches junior-grade stushy

dents and junior special ed ucashy

tion for the Peel District School

Board The Rowlands live in

Caledon Ont

bull Fraser Stables MFA 98 was heralded by Toronto Globe 6shyMail critic Betty Jordan as a

formidable new talent followshy

ing the openi ng of his debut

gallery exh ibition in July The

Scottish artists work includes

sculpture video and mixed

media that explore notions of

flu x by interrupting the moveshy

ment of forms in space

bull Erin (Smith) Scott BSe(HK) 92 and Brad

Scott BSc(Agr) 91 of Lucan

O nt were married in 1993 and

had their first child Lucas in

August Erin works for Shopshy

pers Home Health Ca re in

London Brad is with New Life

Mills in Dunfield

bull Abby Simons BSc 95 and Martin Piche BSc(Agr) 95 were married in Mont-Tremshy

blant Quebec in 1997 She is a

customer service representative

with Kantech Systems he is

superintendent of Club de golf

vallee des forts They say theyd

love to hear from anyone headshy

ing to Montreal and can be

reached at 450-348-3860

bull Sylvia Tesori BSc 95 has been doing wildlife rehabilitashy

tion for the OSPCA Wildlife

Rehabilitation Centre in Midshy

land Ont since 1996

bull Chuck Thibeault BComm 94 is general manager of the

Putting Edge Corpora tion

which has two glow-in- theshy

dark mini-golf courses in

Ontario one in Bramp ton and

one in Richmond Hill He can

be reached in Richmond Hill at

chu ckttotalnet

bull Karen Thirlwall BA 93 is a

si ngersongwriter and guitarist

who began her stage career and

released her first album The Voice Inside Me while studying

languages at U of G She has

lived and performed in

11i stler BC for three years

and recently released a second

album called Wide-Eyed She

remembers many special

fr iends m ade at Guelph and

welcomes e-mail messages to

karenthirlwallhotmailcom

bull Christie (Johnson) and Steve

Tyler both BComm 91 live in

Cambridge Ont where

Christie is a personal banking

representative for the Royal

Bank Steve works with their

third-year design professor

Nelson Hofer in Mississauga as

a design consultan t Steves proshy

jects include the Windsor Casishy

no and U of Gs Creelman Hall

They have two children Jason

5 and Marcus 1

bull Julia White BA 91 lives in Guelph and is a small-business

accountant at Taves amp Co She

recently finished courses

towards a CGA designation and

would like to hea r from other

alumni who lived in Lambton

Hall in 198788 Send e-mail to

juliawhitesympaticoca

bull Andre-Denis Wright MSc 93 and PhD 98 is doing postshy

docto ral work in Perth Westshy

ern Australia He wants his

Guelph friends and Halifax

family to know he was thinking

of them at Christmas when it

was 40 C in Australia

bull Dave Yellen BComm 90 was recently promoted at the Gordon

Food Service to new-accounts

sales specialist for Metro Toronshy

to Having been in Ottawa for

the past few years Im hoping

to reacquaint myself with old

friend s from U of G in the Metro

area he says He lives in Scarborshy

ough and can be reached at 416shy615-2745 or davidysprintca

bull Halina Zaleski PhD 92 is a tenured professor in the

departm ent of animal sciences

at the Un iversity of Hawaii in

Honolulu She is a swine speshy

cialist involved in extension

programs for an area th at covshy

ers all of Hawai i and the PacifIC

basin She can be reached by

e-mail at halinahawaiiedu

GRAD NEWS UPDATE FORM

Name

Address

ProvState

Home Phone _ _______ _

Business Phone __________

Fax

Fax

Degree amp Year ________ _

City

Postal Code _ _______

Emiddotmail

E-mail

Occupation ______________________________________________________________

Grad News Update _____________________________________ _

Send address changes and Grad News to

Alumni Records University of Guelph Guelph ON NIG 2Wl

Phone 519-824-4120 Ext 6550 Fax 519-822-2670 E-mail jeanwalumnilIoguelphca

44 GUELPH ALUMNUS

-

- - -- -

UN I V F RSIT yOmiddot ( u rmiddot L PII

the Way We Were r (() M Til FARC III V E S

IF THERE ARE LIVESTOCK IN THE HOCKEY ARENA and

theyre not wearing skates its College Royal If there

are students sawing logs throwing pies baking cookies

and square dancing its College Royal When the entire

University of Guelph is displayed - from arts to zooloshy

gy - March 13 and 14 1999 youll know its definitely

College Royan

Since its inception in 1925 as an agricultural and liveshy

stock show run by the Ontario Agricultural College

College Royal has grown to be a celebrated U of G trashy

dition involving all the colleges

The event is famou s in the University community

and beyond for its open-house showcase of displays and

activities The largest student-run open house in Canashy

da College Royal attracts more than 20000 visitors to

campus over one weekend

College Royal is an event of tradition that reaches

into tomorrow Agriculture and livestock shows are still

highlighted events but College Royal activities have

grown to include dog and cat shows a photography conshy

test a chemistry magic show and demonstrations on

human health and fitness The open house gives people

an opportunity to see what happens in the Universitys

leading-edge research laboratories to observe veterinary

medicine in practice to tour a sculpture studio or to

watch a theatrical performance

To celebrate the 75th anniversary of College Royal

1998 president Joe TrakaJo lnvites alumni to get involved

again by joining one of the planning comm ittees or by

participating in a favourite event Call him for more

information at 824-4120 Ext 8366 or send e-mail to

jtrakalouoguelphca

46 GUELPH ALUMNUS

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bull Automobile insurance solution bull Home insurance solution bull Wide Horizons Solution for travelmiddot Micro-enterprise Solution for business -

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ern Ontario Horida Australia and Sabah (Malaysian Borneo) Most recently he designed and implemented a new introducshytory mountaineering course for Outward Bound Sabah on the summit plateau of Mt Kinashy

balu Those of you who know me as plate licker from U of G get in touch he says Where are you Star I miss you He can be reached by e-mail at globarwchatonca or by

phone at 519-756-1697

Alumni Patrick Abbott BSA 40 July 7 1998

Albert Allen BSA 33 Jan 161994 Agris Ansmits BA 70 and MA 73

February 1998 Barbara (Quartermain) Babcock DHE

53 June 17 1998

Wray Bond BSA 34 Sept 25 1998

Kenneth Bone DVM 38 Dec 29 1998 Evelyn (Stevenson) Buhr DHE 39

May 251998 Philip Burke BSA 43 June 21 1998

Grant Carman BSA 49 Oct 221998 Frederick Chambers BSA 41

June 1998 Wilmot Conley ADA4 7 April 7 1998 Lloyd Crewson BSA 49 Aug 261998

Jacqueline Dimock DHE 47

Aug 20 1998 John Dingwall DVM 52

April 18 1998

Lloyd Dorsey BSA 38 June 9 1998 George Duncan BSA 37

Sept 19 1998

David Dyson BSA 53 Aug 31 1998

Norma (Shannon) Edwards DHE 39

November 1997 Vincent Bud Ellis DVM 41

July 15 1998 John Jack George BSA 48

Sept 24 1998

Donald Haight BSA 33 January 1997 William Hamlyn BSA 33 Dec I 1997

Gordon Harkness BSA 49

November 1997

Charles Hollister DVM 38 June 1996 Donald Hope BSA 54 June 28 1998

Lawrence Jefferson BSA 38

Sept 3 1998

James Kelso DVM 56 July 27 1998

Dorima Lalonde BSA 34 Oct 8 1998 Mildred (Cox) Large DHE 33

June 20 1998 Roger Larson BComm 86 Feb 19 1998 Robert Lawson BSA 49 June 6 1998

bull Doug Ramsey BA 91 and PhD 98 received U of Gs highshyest graduate student award shythe Forster Medal- at June convocation for his academic and community involvement while enrolled in Guelphs new

graduate program in geography He spent the summer as a visitshying research scholar at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College in Truro before assuming his curshyrent position as assistant professhysor at Mount Allison University

David Leach BSc(Agr) 74

July 18 1998

Ian Leask DVM 74 Sept 5 1998

Sheryl Lee BSc 95 June 8 1998 Ruby Janet MacAuley DHE 30

Aug 19 1998 Parker MacKenzie DVM 38

September 1994

Jeanice MacLaren DHE 28 March 1 1997

Campbell MacMaster DVM42

Oct 8 1998

Rex McCallum DVM 43 July 71998 Jean (Dunn) McMahon DHE 31

Nov 41998

Margaret Oones) McTaggart DHE 35 Aug 81998

Patrick McTaggart-Cowan HDSc 81

Oct 21997

Malcolm McWhinnie ADA 39

July 16 1998 Mary (Townsend) Mitchell BHSc

60 Sept 281998

Marjory Monaghan DHE 29

December 1997 Charles Monk BSA 44 Aug 7 1998

Heather Neilsen BHSc 59

Oct 30 1998 Jerry Niwa DVM 62 Aug 5 1998 Henry Harry OReilly BSA 42

October 1997

James Parr BSc(Agr) 81 June 19 1998 Charles Rammage DVM 45

Oct 17 1996 Howard Rapson HDSc 90

March 1997 Clement Reeds DVM 42 Oct 16 1998

William Robinson BSA 38

Aug 23 1998

Donald Sager ADA 73 Oct 141997

Austin Schaefer DVM 37 in 1997

Sandra (Mackenzie) Schmidt DHE 59

Aug 16 1997 Margaret (Harvey) Seaborn DHE 28

July 221998

Larry Seguin DVM 47 June 12 1998

Leah Shedden DHE 31 December 1998

Edward Shuh BSA 40 July 2 1998

Ted Shutsa BSc(Agr) 66

Sept 18 1998 Jim Sinclair DVM 49 Oct 4 1998

Margaret (Brown) Sinclair DHE 20

September 1998 Eldon Smith BSA 42 Sept 9 1998

Derek Somers DVM 96 Sept 25 1998

Cheryl Lynn Sopha BA 95 Sept 20 1998

Leona (Bartlett) Stewart DHE 35

June 27 1998 Alex Thomson BSc(Agr) 69

October 1996

William Whittick DVM 55

Aug 15 1998 Joseph Wilson BSA 23 Sept 11 1998

Lloyd Woolsey DVM41 June 24 1998

Winifred Yeates DHE 28 June 11998

Faculty John Carpenter BSA 43 and MSA 48

Microbiology Dec 10 1998

David Gaskin Zoology Sept 14 1998

Gordon Macleod BSA 50 Animal and

Poultry Science Nov 26 1998 Roman Retman Languages and

Literatures Sept 28 1998

Caesar Sen off Chemistry and

Biochemistry Aug 14 1998

Percy Smith Drama Dec 10 1998

Friends Robert Clark Aug 21 1998

Ethel Hammond August 1998

Thomas Hillers Sept 28 1998 Marguerite Holbrook Aug 26 1998

Catherine Kelly Sept 27 1998

James A McKenzie May 13 1998

Kenneth McIssac Oct 23 1998

William Mutlock September 1998 Roena Patterson Sept 16 1998

Donald Priddle Aug 25 1998

WINTER 1999 43

-

bull Karl Reimer BSe 94 comshypleted a one-year intensive

MSc in mining engineering at

Queens University and is now

a project engineer a t Enpar

Technologies Ine in Guelph

He can be contacted at reimerbservcom

bull Nancy Nauta Rowland BA 90 and her husband Dan celshy

ebrated their first wedding

anniversary in March 1998 with

the birth of their first child

Connor who beat their March

8 anniversary by two days Nanshy

cy teaches junior-grade stushy

dents and junior special ed ucashy

tion for the Peel District School

Board The Rowlands live in

Caledon Ont

bull Fraser Stables MFA 98 was heralded by Toronto Globe 6shyMail critic Betty Jordan as a

formidable new talent followshy

ing the openi ng of his debut

gallery exh ibition in July The

Scottish artists work includes

sculpture video and mixed

media that explore notions of

flu x by interrupting the moveshy

ment of forms in space

bull Erin (Smith) Scott BSe(HK) 92 and Brad

Scott BSc(Agr) 91 of Lucan

O nt were married in 1993 and

had their first child Lucas in

August Erin works for Shopshy

pers Home Health Ca re in

London Brad is with New Life

Mills in Dunfield

bull Abby Simons BSc 95 and Martin Piche BSc(Agr) 95 were married in Mont-Tremshy

blant Quebec in 1997 She is a

customer service representative

with Kantech Systems he is

superintendent of Club de golf

vallee des forts They say theyd

love to hear from anyone headshy

ing to Montreal and can be

reached at 450-348-3860

bull Sylvia Tesori BSc 95 has been doing wildlife rehabilitashy

tion for the OSPCA Wildlife

Rehabilitation Centre in Midshy

land Ont since 1996

bull Chuck Thibeault BComm 94 is general manager of the

Putting Edge Corpora tion

which has two glow-in- theshy

dark mini-golf courses in

Ontario one in Bramp ton and

one in Richmond Hill He can

be reached in Richmond Hill at

chu ckttotalnet

bull Karen Thirlwall BA 93 is a

si ngersongwriter and guitarist

who began her stage career and

released her first album The Voice Inside Me while studying

languages at U of G She has

lived and performed in

11i stler BC for three years

and recently released a second

album called Wide-Eyed She

remembers many special

fr iends m ade at Guelph and

welcomes e-mail messages to

karenthirlwallhotmailcom

bull Christie (Johnson) and Steve

Tyler both BComm 91 live in

Cambridge Ont where

Christie is a personal banking

representative for the Royal

Bank Steve works with their

third-year design professor

Nelson Hofer in Mississauga as

a design consultan t Steves proshy

jects include the Windsor Casishy

no and U of Gs Creelman Hall

They have two children Jason

5 and Marcus 1

bull Julia White BA 91 lives in Guelph and is a small-business

accountant at Taves amp Co She

recently finished courses

towards a CGA designation and

would like to hea r from other

alumni who lived in Lambton

Hall in 198788 Send e-mail to

juliawhitesympaticoca

bull Andre-Denis Wright MSc 93 and PhD 98 is doing postshy

docto ral work in Perth Westshy

ern Australia He wants his

Guelph friends and Halifax

family to know he was thinking

of them at Christmas when it

was 40 C in Australia

bull Dave Yellen BComm 90 was recently promoted at the Gordon

Food Service to new-accounts

sales specialist for Metro Toronshy

to Having been in Ottawa for

the past few years Im hoping

to reacquaint myself with old

friend s from U of G in the Metro

area he says He lives in Scarborshy

ough and can be reached at 416shy615-2745 or davidysprintca

bull Halina Zaleski PhD 92 is a tenured professor in the

departm ent of animal sciences

at the Un iversity of Hawaii in

Honolulu She is a swine speshy

cialist involved in extension

programs for an area th at covshy

ers all of Hawai i and the PacifIC

basin She can be reached by

e-mail at halinahawaiiedu

GRAD NEWS UPDATE FORM

Name

Address

ProvState

Home Phone _ _______ _

Business Phone __________

Fax

Fax

Degree amp Year ________ _

City

Postal Code _ _______

Emiddotmail

E-mail

Occupation ______________________________________________________________

Grad News Update _____________________________________ _

Send address changes and Grad News to

Alumni Records University of Guelph Guelph ON NIG 2Wl

Phone 519-824-4120 Ext 6550 Fax 519-822-2670 E-mail jeanwalumnilIoguelphca

44 GUELPH ALUMNUS

-

- - -- -

UN I V F RSIT yOmiddot ( u rmiddot L PII

the Way We Were r (() M Til FARC III V E S

IF THERE ARE LIVESTOCK IN THE HOCKEY ARENA and

theyre not wearing skates its College Royal If there

are students sawing logs throwing pies baking cookies

and square dancing its College Royal When the entire

University of Guelph is displayed - from arts to zooloshy

gy - March 13 and 14 1999 youll know its definitely

College Royan

Since its inception in 1925 as an agricultural and liveshy

stock show run by the Ontario Agricultural College

College Royal has grown to be a celebrated U of G trashy

dition involving all the colleges

The event is famou s in the University community

and beyond for its open-house showcase of displays and

activities The largest student-run open house in Canashy

da College Royal attracts more than 20000 visitors to

campus over one weekend

College Royal is an event of tradition that reaches

into tomorrow Agriculture and livestock shows are still

highlighted events but College Royal activities have

grown to include dog and cat shows a photography conshy

test a chemistry magic show and demonstrations on

human health and fitness The open house gives people

an opportunity to see what happens in the Universitys

leading-edge research laboratories to observe veterinary

medicine in practice to tour a sculpture studio or to

watch a theatrical performance

To celebrate the 75th anniversary of College Royal

1998 president Joe TrakaJo lnvites alumni to get involved

again by joining one of the planning comm ittees or by

participating in a favourite event Call him for more

information at 824-4120 Ext 8366 or send e-mail to

jtrakalouoguelphca

46 GUELPH ALUMNUS

Seek the co fort and warmth of our ensurance solutions

not anome ftt nstaatIO antshytneft

mot an aalm s~ste duceo ITce

ata Ie cat s~stem conotons

(a uS 01

The Meloche Monnex Insurance Program recommended by

UNIVERSITY grGUELPH

Youll sleep better at night knowing Meloche Monnex is taking care of your insurance needs - the solution recommended by University of Guelph Alumni Association Weve been around a long time providing superior service and fastefficient claims processing to people like you Look into our range of insurance solutions - including an international service for the whole family via your free personalized card

bull Automobile insurance solution bull Home insurance solution bull Wide Horizons Solution for travelmiddot Micro-enterprise Solution for business -

Visit our website wwwmelochemonnexcom Meloche Monnex 1-800-268-8955 Where insurance is a science

and service an artQuebec only

1-800-361-3821 A Canada Trust Company

-------- ----

middotSI Llvl9 Yo Dreabullbull

GUELPH TOYOTA YOUR HASSLE FREE DEALERSHIP

86 DAWSON ROAD GUELPH 837-3340

Phone

Page 42: Guelph Alumnus Magazine, Winter 1999

bull Karl Reimer BSe 94 comshypleted a one-year intensive

MSc in mining engineering at

Queens University and is now

a project engineer a t Enpar

Technologies Ine in Guelph

He can be contacted at reimerbservcom

bull Nancy Nauta Rowland BA 90 and her husband Dan celshy

ebrated their first wedding

anniversary in March 1998 with

the birth of their first child

Connor who beat their March

8 anniversary by two days Nanshy

cy teaches junior-grade stushy

dents and junior special ed ucashy

tion for the Peel District School

Board The Rowlands live in

Caledon Ont

bull Fraser Stables MFA 98 was heralded by Toronto Globe 6shyMail critic Betty Jordan as a

formidable new talent followshy

ing the openi ng of his debut

gallery exh ibition in July The

Scottish artists work includes

sculpture video and mixed

media that explore notions of

flu x by interrupting the moveshy

ment of forms in space

bull Erin (Smith) Scott BSe(HK) 92 and Brad

Scott BSc(Agr) 91 of Lucan

O nt were married in 1993 and

had their first child Lucas in

August Erin works for Shopshy

pers Home Health Ca re in

London Brad is with New Life

Mills in Dunfield

bull Abby Simons BSc 95 and Martin Piche BSc(Agr) 95 were married in Mont-Tremshy

blant Quebec in 1997 She is a

customer service representative

with Kantech Systems he is

superintendent of Club de golf

vallee des forts They say theyd

love to hear from anyone headshy

ing to Montreal and can be

reached at 450-348-3860

bull Sylvia Tesori BSc 95 has been doing wildlife rehabilitashy

tion for the OSPCA Wildlife

Rehabilitation Centre in Midshy

land Ont since 1996

bull Chuck Thibeault BComm 94 is general manager of the

Putting Edge Corpora tion

which has two glow-in- theshy

dark mini-golf courses in

Ontario one in Bramp ton and

one in Richmond Hill He can

be reached in Richmond Hill at

chu ckttotalnet

bull Karen Thirlwall BA 93 is a

si ngersongwriter and guitarist

who began her stage career and

released her first album The Voice Inside Me while studying

languages at U of G She has

lived and performed in

11i stler BC for three years

and recently released a second

album called Wide-Eyed She

remembers many special

fr iends m ade at Guelph and

welcomes e-mail messages to

karenthirlwallhotmailcom

bull Christie (Johnson) and Steve

Tyler both BComm 91 live in

Cambridge Ont where

Christie is a personal banking

representative for the Royal

Bank Steve works with their

third-year design professor

Nelson Hofer in Mississauga as

a design consultan t Steves proshy

jects include the Windsor Casishy

no and U of Gs Creelman Hall

They have two children Jason

5 and Marcus 1

bull Julia White BA 91 lives in Guelph and is a small-business

accountant at Taves amp Co She

recently finished courses

towards a CGA designation and

would like to hea r from other

alumni who lived in Lambton

Hall in 198788 Send e-mail to

juliawhitesympaticoca

bull Andre-Denis Wright MSc 93 and PhD 98 is doing postshy

docto ral work in Perth Westshy

ern Australia He wants his

Guelph friends and Halifax

family to know he was thinking

of them at Christmas when it

was 40 C in Australia

bull Dave Yellen BComm 90 was recently promoted at the Gordon

Food Service to new-accounts

sales specialist for Metro Toronshy

to Having been in Ottawa for

the past few years Im hoping

to reacquaint myself with old

friend s from U of G in the Metro

area he says He lives in Scarborshy

ough and can be reached at 416shy615-2745 or davidysprintca

bull Halina Zaleski PhD 92 is a tenured professor in the

departm ent of animal sciences

at the Un iversity of Hawaii in

Honolulu She is a swine speshy

cialist involved in extension

programs for an area th at covshy

ers all of Hawai i and the PacifIC

basin She can be reached by

e-mail at halinahawaiiedu

GRAD NEWS UPDATE FORM

Name

Address

ProvState

Home Phone _ _______ _

Business Phone __________

Fax

Fax

Degree amp Year ________ _

City

Postal Code _ _______

Emiddotmail

E-mail

Occupation ______________________________________________________________

Grad News Update _____________________________________ _

Send address changes and Grad News to

Alumni Records University of Guelph Guelph ON NIG 2Wl

Phone 519-824-4120 Ext 6550 Fax 519-822-2670 E-mail jeanwalumnilIoguelphca

44 GUELPH ALUMNUS

-

- - -- -

UN I V F RSIT yOmiddot ( u rmiddot L PII

the Way We Were r (() M Til FARC III V E S

IF THERE ARE LIVESTOCK IN THE HOCKEY ARENA and

theyre not wearing skates its College Royal If there

are students sawing logs throwing pies baking cookies

and square dancing its College Royal When the entire

University of Guelph is displayed - from arts to zooloshy

gy - March 13 and 14 1999 youll know its definitely

College Royan

Since its inception in 1925 as an agricultural and liveshy

stock show run by the Ontario Agricultural College

College Royal has grown to be a celebrated U of G trashy

dition involving all the colleges

The event is famou s in the University community

and beyond for its open-house showcase of displays and

activities The largest student-run open house in Canashy

da College Royal attracts more than 20000 visitors to

campus over one weekend

College Royal is an event of tradition that reaches

into tomorrow Agriculture and livestock shows are still

highlighted events but College Royal activities have

grown to include dog and cat shows a photography conshy

test a chemistry magic show and demonstrations on

human health and fitness The open house gives people

an opportunity to see what happens in the Universitys

leading-edge research laboratories to observe veterinary

medicine in practice to tour a sculpture studio or to

watch a theatrical performance

To celebrate the 75th anniversary of College Royal

1998 president Joe TrakaJo lnvites alumni to get involved

again by joining one of the planning comm ittees or by

participating in a favourite event Call him for more

information at 824-4120 Ext 8366 or send e-mail to

jtrakalouoguelphca

46 GUELPH ALUMNUS

Seek the co fort and warmth of our ensurance solutions

not anome ftt nstaatIO antshytneft

mot an aalm s~ste duceo ITce

ata Ie cat s~stem conotons

(a uS 01

The Meloche Monnex Insurance Program recommended by

UNIVERSITY grGUELPH

Youll sleep better at night knowing Meloche Monnex is taking care of your insurance needs - the solution recommended by University of Guelph Alumni Association Weve been around a long time providing superior service and fastefficient claims processing to people like you Look into our range of insurance solutions - including an international service for the whole family via your free personalized card

bull Automobile insurance solution bull Home insurance solution bull Wide Horizons Solution for travelmiddot Micro-enterprise Solution for business -

Visit our website wwwmelochemonnexcom Meloche Monnex 1-800-268-8955 Where insurance is a science

and service an artQuebec only

1-800-361-3821 A Canada Trust Company

-------- ----

middotSI Llvl9 Yo Dreabullbull

GUELPH TOYOTA YOUR HASSLE FREE DEALERSHIP

86 DAWSON ROAD GUELPH 837-3340

Phone

Page 43: Guelph Alumnus Magazine, Winter 1999

-

- - -- -

UN I V F RSIT yOmiddot ( u rmiddot L PII

the Way We Were r (() M Til FARC III V E S

IF THERE ARE LIVESTOCK IN THE HOCKEY ARENA and

theyre not wearing skates its College Royal If there

are students sawing logs throwing pies baking cookies

and square dancing its College Royal When the entire

University of Guelph is displayed - from arts to zooloshy

gy - March 13 and 14 1999 youll know its definitely

College Royan

Since its inception in 1925 as an agricultural and liveshy

stock show run by the Ontario Agricultural College

College Royal has grown to be a celebrated U of G trashy

dition involving all the colleges

The event is famou s in the University community

and beyond for its open-house showcase of displays and

activities The largest student-run open house in Canashy

da College Royal attracts more than 20000 visitors to

campus over one weekend

College Royal is an event of tradition that reaches

into tomorrow Agriculture and livestock shows are still

highlighted events but College Royal activities have

grown to include dog and cat shows a photography conshy

test a chemistry magic show and demonstrations on

human health and fitness The open house gives people

an opportunity to see what happens in the Universitys

leading-edge research laboratories to observe veterinary

medicine in practice to tour a sculpture studio or to

watch a theatrical performance

To celebrate the 75th anniversary of College Royal

1998 president Joe TrakaJo lnvites alumni to get involved

again by joining one of the planning comm ittees or by

participating in a favourite event Call him for more

information at 824-4120 Ext 8366 or send e-mail to

jtrakalouoguelphca

46 GUELPH ALUMNUS

Seek the co fort and warmth of our ensurance solutions

not anome ftt nstaatIO antshytneft

mot an aalm s~ste duceo ITce

ata Ie cat s~stem conotons

(a uS 01

The Meloche Monnex Insurance Program recommended by

UNIVERSITY grGUELPH

Youll sleep better at night knowing Meloche Monnex is taking care of your insurance needs - the solution recommended by University of Guelph Alumni Association Weve been around a long time providing superior service and fastefficient claims processing to people like you Look into our range of insurance solutions - including an international service for the whole family via your free personalized card

bull Automobile insurance solution bull Home insurance solution bull Wide Horizons Solution for travelmiddot Micro-enterprise Solution for business -

Visit our website wwwmelochemonnexcom Meloche Monnex 1-800-268-8955 Where insurance is a science

and service an artQuebec only

1-800-361-3821 A Canada Trust Company

-------- ----

middotSI Llvl9 Yo Dreabullbull

GUELPH TOYOTA YOUR HASSLE FREE DEALERSHIP

86 DAWSON ROAD GUELPH 837-3340

Phone

Page 44: Guelph Alumnus Magazine, Winter 1999

- - -- -

UN I V F RSIT yOmiddot ( u rmiddot L PII

the Way We Were r (() M Til FARC III V E S

IF THERE ARE LIVESTOCK IN THE HOCKEY ARENA and

theyre not wearing skates its College Royal If there

are students sawing logs throwing pies baking cookies

and square dancing its College Royal When the entire

University of Guelph is displayed - from arts to zooloshy

gy - March 13 and 14 1999 youll know its definitely

College Royan

Since its inception in 1925 as an agricultural and liveshy

stock show run by the Ontario Agricultural College

College Royal has grown to be a celebrated U of G trashy

dition involving all the colleges

The event is famou s in the University community

and beyond for its open-house showcase of displays and

activities The largest student-run open house in Canashy

da College Royal attracts more than 20000 visitors to

campus over one weekend

College Royal is an event of tradition that reaches

into tomorrow Agriculture and livestock shows are still

highlighted events but College Royal activities have

grown to include dog and cat shows a photography conshy

test a chemistry magic show and demonstrations on

human health and fitness The open house gives people

an opportunity to see what happens in the Universitys

leading-edge research laboratories to observe veterinary

medicine in practice to tour a sculpture studio or to

watch a theatrical performance

To celebrate the 75th anniversary of College Royal

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