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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
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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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
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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
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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
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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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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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
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
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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
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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
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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
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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WINT ER 1999 33
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
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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
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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
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
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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
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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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
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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
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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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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
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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But most res ponden ts were cOllriers to deliver antibiotics surpri sin gly tolera nt wh en it proved effec tive agai nst one type came to protecting politicia ns of pathogenic orga nism that can private lives More than half for elude normal drug treatment example said politicians should and th e bod ys own infectionshynot have to answer perso nal fighting defences They are ques ti ons invest iga ting use of th e system
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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
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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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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
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
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
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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
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
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
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
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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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
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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)
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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
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
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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
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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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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
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A new venture beginning this year is the Agrishy thinking that says consolidate cluster and work Farm Plan
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members and has predicted that potential projects mitmen t to leadership in agri-food research edushybull Transgenic plants
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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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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
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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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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
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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
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information at 824-4120 Ext 8366 or send e-mail to
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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
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
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The challenge for fam ilies is alternatives to medicine but few Saxena says
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TO AGING RESEARCHERS may have found modern sc iences answer to th e mythica l Fountain of Youth
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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
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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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WINT ER 1999 33
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
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
Question of Ethics Canadians
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But most res ponden ts were cOllriers to deliver antibiotics surpri sin gly tolera nt wh en it proved effec tive agai nst one type came to protecting politicia ns of pathogenic orga nism that can private lives More than half for elude normal drug treatment example said politicians should and th e bod ys own infectionshynot have to answer perso nal fighting defences They are ques ti ons invest iga ting use of th e system
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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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
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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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
Speak Out Mancllso the lead author says the image problem of politicians is worse than that
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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
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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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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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1998 president Joe TrakaJo lnvites alumni to get involved
again by joining one of the planning comm ittees or by
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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
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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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
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The challenge for fam ilies is alternatives to medicine but few Saxena says
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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
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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
-0 r 0 -lt 0 co -lt s gt 0
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WINT ER 1999 33
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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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
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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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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
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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
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
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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
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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 ~
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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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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
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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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
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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
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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
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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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Genetic Improvement 1874 - 1999middotance or to improve production characterisshyof Livestock june 7 amp 10 - Spring Convocation for tics including the deposition of medically
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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
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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
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members and has predicted that potential projects mitmen t to leadership in agri-food research edushybull Transgenic plants
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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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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
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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
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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
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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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)
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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
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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
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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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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
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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
10 alunznilIoguelphca ~
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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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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
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
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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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
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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
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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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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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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1998 president Joe TrakaJo lnvites alumni to get involved
again by joining one of the planning comm ittees or by
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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
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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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highlighted events but College Royal activities have
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leading-edge research laboratories to observe veterinary
medicine in practice to tour a sculpture studio or to
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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
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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
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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
10 alunznilIoguelphca ~
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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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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
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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
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
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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
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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
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
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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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
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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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 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 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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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 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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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
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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
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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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
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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
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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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WINT ER 1999 33
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 ~
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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
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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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The event is famou s in the University community
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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
watch a theatrical performance
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1998 president Joe TrakaJo lnvites alumni to get involved
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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
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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
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
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Thomas Hillers Sept 28 1998 Marguerite Holbrook Aug 26 1998
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William Mutlock September 1998 Roena Patterson Sept 16 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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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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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
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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
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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
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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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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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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
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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 ~
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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
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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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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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 ~
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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
and beyond for its open-house showcase of displays and
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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
again by joining one of the planning comm ittees or by
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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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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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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
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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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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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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
10 alunznilIoguelphca ~
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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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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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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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medicine in practice to tour a sculpture studio or to
watch a theatrical performance
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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
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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)
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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College Royal is an event of tradition that reaches
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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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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)
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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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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)
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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 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
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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
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
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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
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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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
GRAD NEWS UPDATE FORM
Name
Address
ProvState
Home Phone _ _______ _
Business Phone __________
Fax
Fax
Degree amp Year ________ _
City
Postal Code _ _______
Emiddotmail
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
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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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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
GRAD NEWS UPDATE FORM
Name
Address
ProvState
Home Phone _ _______ _
Business Phone __________
Fax
Fax
Degree amp Year ________ _
City
Postal Code _ _______
Emiddotmail
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
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
GRAD NEWS UPDATE FORM
Name
Address
ProvState
Home Phone _ _______ _
Business Phone __________
Fax
Fax
Degree amp Year ________ _
City
Postal Code _ _______
Emiddotmail
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
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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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GUELPH TOYOTA YOUR HASSLE FREE DEALERSHIP
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Phone
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
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
-------- ----
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GUELPH TOYOTA YOUR HASSLE FREE DEALERSHIP
86 DAWSON ROAD GUELPH 837-3340
Phone
-
- - -- -
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
- - -- -
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
-------- ----
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GUELPH TOYOTA YOUR HASSLE FREE DEALERSHIP
86 DAWSON ROAD GUELPH 837-3340
Phone
Seek the co fort and warmth of our ensurance solutions
not anome ftt nstaatIO antshytneft
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(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
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GUELPH TOYOTA YOUR HASSLE FREE DEALERSHIP
86 DAWSON ROAD GUELPH 837-3340
Phone
-------- ----
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GUELPH TOYOTA YOUR HASSLE FREE DEALERSHIP
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Phone